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NICK BARKER, ROLLINGS STONES TRIBUTE

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THE PRICE IS RIGHT TULLY ON TULLY Tully on Tully are hitting the road to celebrate the release of their debut EP Weightless. The group are renowned for their impressive live performances and have played support slots for the likes of Whitley, The Temper Trap, Neon Trees and Nada Surf. The lead single Stay from the new EP is currently the 22nd most played track on triple j Unearthed. We have some double passes to give away for their show at The Toff in Town on Saturday September 7.

SNARSKI VS SNARSKI It’s on again! The showdown that puts brother to brother, face to face with their musical past, present and future: Snarski vs Snarski. Quickly becoming something of an annual event the Snarski brothers will once again take to the stage at the Northcote Social Club. Testing their musical memory banks as they delve into the back catalogue of Chad’s Tree, Jackson Code and Blackeyed Susans classics along with new material - swapping and re-interpreting each other’s songs and carrying on like family do. It goes down on Sunday September 8 and we have some double passes to give away.

RIVER OF SNAKES Local three piece scuzz-noise-rockers River Of Snakes are set to launch their limited edition EP and single Aurora at The Public Bar this Friday 30th August with support from their friends The Sinking Teeth, White Devil and Ohms. We have some double passes to give away.

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SOUNDWAVE 2014 MAC DEMARCO Mac DeMarco produces a ‘60s garage rock feel, layered with a baritone voice, which evokes ‘80s new romanticism as much as it does a ‘50s rockabilly croon. The ex-Makeout Videotape front man’s first release Rock n Roll Night Club contained a contradiction of music styles. Since, he has dropped his first, proper full-length; 2, to critical acclaim. 2 is a concerted effort of cohesive work which showcases Mac’s natural ability as a songwriter, singer and producer. Catch DeMarco with Twerps on Wednesday December 11 at the Corner Hotel.

THE TIMBERS The Timbers, an alternative folk band from the bellows of Adelaide, will be touring this October in promotion of their new single, Gallantry.With comparisons to Mumford and Sons and Graveyard Train because of their mystic arrangements and flowing storytelling, it’s not hard to understand why The Timbers have had a successful year touring at Mount Beauty Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Yackandandah Festival and many more. You can catch The Timbers at The Espy on Tuesday October 22. Tickets can be purchased through The Espy website.

Soundwave have just dropped a gargantuan lineup for their 2014 incarnation. The 2014 Soundwave will be headlined by American punk rock icons Green Day and Avenged Sevenfold. The first announcement also features Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, Rob Zombie, Megadeth, Placebo, AFI, Korn, Alterbridge, Trivium, Down, Devildriver, Newsted, Biffy Clyro, Rocket From The Crypt, Asking Alexandria, Clutch, Alkaline Trio, Baroness, Five Finger Death Punch, August Burns Red, Testament, Living Colour, Letlive, Motionless In White, Gwar, Black Dahlia Murder, Mushroomhead, Finch, Pulled Apart By Horses, Nancy Vandal, Bowling For Soup, Trash Talk, Skindred, Volbeat, Amon Amarth, Terror, Whitechapel, Tesseract, The Story So Far, 10 Years, Ill Nino, Hardcore Superstar, Walking Papers, Coliseum, Your Demise, Heaven’s Basement and Real Friends. Soundwave 2014 takes place on Friday February 28 at Flemington Racecourse. Tickets go on sale on Thursday September 5.

DEERHUNTER This summer will see the triumphant return of Atlanta’s untouchable indie-rock quintet Deerhunter to Australian shores. Riding high on the success of their latest album Monomania released earlier this year, the band has levitated to new heights, given the esteemed honour of curating the last ever All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in the UK. Alongside playing the 2013 Meredith, they’ll also play a headline show in Melbourne. Catch them at The Hi-Fi on Wednesday December 11.

CREEPSHOW On Saturday October 26 The Espy will transform into a haunted mansion to host Creepshow Halloween Festival – Melbourne’s biggest Halloween party. Now in its fourth year, Creepshow features DJs, burlesque dancers and bands performing in full costume. The first announcement of acts are Sydonia, Engine, Gay Paris, Chaos Divine, Anna Salen vs Mario Bros, Death Audio, The Killgirls plus heaps more to be announced. Prizes for best dressed will be given out on the night. Visit creepshowfestival.com for more information.

THE ORBWEAVERS Much loved Melbourne band The Orbweavers will launch their new single Match Factory/ Ceiling Rose with a full band this September. Match Factory is a dedication to the suburbs of Cremorne, Richmond and Abbotsford, written while walking through Melbourne streets under the ‘super moon’. Ceiling Rose is a song about secrets and dreams and wakeful nights of worrying. A limited edition illustrated CD single will be complimentary with entry. The Orbweavers will be joined by Sydney solo artist Shiver Like Timber for a matinee show on Sunday September 15 at The Northcote Social Club. Doors open at 1.30pm and tickets are available through the Corner box office.

SEABELLIES Newcastle six-piece Seabellies have announced a national tour in promotion of their new single, It’s Alright. Known for their experimental blend of rock that uses multi-layered percussion, strings, and obscure instruments to create solid, textured sounds, this will be the band’s first major tour for months and a chance to showcase new material following their new record deal agreement with Shock Records earlier this year. It’s Alright is the first single from their sophomore album due for release later this year, a follow-up to their 2010 debut, By Limbo Lake. Seabellies will hit up the Workers Club on Friday September 27. Beat Magazine Page 14

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LACHY DOLEY Lachy Doley’s keyboard has powered acts as diverse as Bernard Fanning, Jimmy Barnes, Powderfinger, The Beautiful Girls, Jimmy Little, and The Widowbirds. Now he has a second album with his own band – The Lachy Doley Group. Singer Organ Soul is a tasty slice of what the band sounds like live – pumping with energy and good times, and featuring both Lachy’s 1957 Hammond C3 organ and his custom-modified Hohner Whammy Clavinet – the only such machine in the country. Catch him at Bar 303 on Thursday October 17.

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NILE RODGERS Nile Rodgers and Chic have locked in a Melbourne sideshow to accompany their appearance at Meredith. Rodgers was last in Australia when he played alongside Chic at the 2012 Golden Plains festival, of which our reviewer stated, “Chic’s own hits were impressive enough, but Nile busted out a string of tracks that he laid his Midas touch upon over the years – Original Sin, Like A Virgin, Let’s Dance, I mean, goddamn. Then of course we were told to freak out during Le Freak. Everyone obliged.” They’ll hit Billboard on Friday December 13. Tickets go on sale on Monday August 26 through Ticketek.

BLUESFEST Byron Bay’s Bluesfest have revealed the first announcement for their 25th anniversary. The 2014 incarnation will be headlined by John Mayer and Dave Matthews Band, and will also feature performances from the John Butler Trio, Erykah Badu, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Iron & Wine, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Devendra Banhart, Morcheeba, Gary Clark Jr, KT Tunstall, Allen Stone, Valerie June and Nikki Hill. Bluesfest 2014 takes place over the Easter long weekend, Thursday April 17 - Monday April 21 at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm.

Edendale, a small community farm located in Eltham, will see in another day of good music, fancy market stalls and delicious food at Practically Green Festival this October. Taking to the stage will be local acts The Quolls, Neatly Folded Goat and Matt Walker and The Lost Ragas; headlining will be Jen Cloher, an independent artist known for her smokey blend of rock and blues. Closing the festival on a blues fanfare will be Collard Greens and Gravy. Since its genesis in 2007, Practically Green Festival has established itself as a popular family event, featuring great Australian music and a chance to become more educated about environmentally-friendly living — this year you can ‘speed date’ with a sustainability expert. Practically Green Festival will be held at Edendale, Gastons Rd, Eltham on Sunday October 20.

DEEP SEA ARCADE Having spent the majority of the last year in the UK, absorbing all of its culture as they lay down their sophomore record and building buzz in the temporary home, Deep Sea Arcade have just released their new single, Black Cat. The track comes as a follow up from their 2012 debut, and it’s set to be the first offering from their new album due for release in 2014. To celebrate the release, they’re playing a string of homecoming shows around the country this September and October. Having spent the last 12 months playing a bunch of UK festivals including The Great Escape, Live At Leeds and Liverpool Sound City along with hitting the road with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Girls, Kaiser Chiefs, Cloud Control and Modest Mouse, you do not want to miss out on their return back to the country. They bring indie group Hey Geronimo along for main support. Catch them playing at the Corner Hotel on Saturday October 12. Tickets $15 +bf via deepseaarcade. com and chuggentertainment.com.

THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS It’s been a long time between drinks for Brisbane’s The John Steel Singers. There had been whispers surrounding the quintet’s blessed return; a make-shift studio on the Sunshine Coast, late night dazed recording sessions and the courageous rescue of an abandoned organ. Now, the jubilant Singers have confirmed a sophomore release in 2013, unveiling a sneak peak of what’s to come with track State Of Unrest. Catch ‘em at the Northcote Social Club on Thursday September 26.

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CherryFest 2013 has gotten even bigger. Joining in on the AC/DC Lane extravaganza are The Powder Monkeys, Blue Pills, Money For Rope, The Sweethearts, Dead River and Sheriff, alongside The BellRays, Chris Wilson’s Crown Of Thorns, Kadavar, HOSS, The Legends of Motorsport, The Mercy Kills and The Deep End who were all announced earlier this month. CherryFest will take place on Sunday November 24 from midday. Head to the website for more details.

Following the release of her much-anticipated second solo album, All Day Venus, Adalita will headline an Australian East Coast tour this October. The tour will be the first chance for fans to hear the new material with the support of a full band. All Day Venus promises to be an honest, brooding and energetic record and will no doubt pack a lot of punch live. Catch her on Sunday October 13 at the Corner Hotel. Tickets go on sale Monday September 2 through Oztix.

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Melbourne’s contemporary music conference Face The Music – which last year drew a record crowd – is back at The Arts Centre. It will include forums, presentations, networking, facilitated meetings, practical music workshops and the ever populate debate. The full announcement of the 150 music business speakers and themes of the panels is due on Wednesday September 11. But a sneak preview of the 150 includes ARIA’s Dan Rosen, Peter Karpin of Universal Music Australia, John Watson of Eleven / John Watson Management, Dr Ianto Ware of the National Live Music OďŹƒce, Ross Knight of Cosmic Psychos, Jess Beston of Tiny Monster, entrepreneur Bruce Milne, Cash Savage, Sophie Miles of Mistletone Records, Kim Carter of Rockstar Management, Darren Levin (Faster Louder/Mess+Noise), Marcus Teague (The Vine), Tim Morrison of Trial Kennedy, Nic Warnock of RIP Society / Repressed Records and Markus Popp of Oval. The conference will look at new strategies in marketing, releases, artist management, booking gigs, recording techniques, and taking your music to a global music market. Obviously the new opportunities and growing importance of the digital realm plays a major role. This year, Face The Music partners with Arts Centre Melbourne’s Digital Learning Hub to expand the creativedevelopment workshops and masterclasses. The sessions will include hands-on music making, songwriting, beat-making and interactive recording studio skills. Go to facethemusic.org.au for more information and to buy tickets.

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KING PARROT King Parrot have released a new video for their track Bozo and will be playing some shows to celebrate. It’s the ďŹ rst video to follow the release of their debut album Bite Your Head O. Shot at the last Cherry Rock Festival in AC/DC Lane, it features the band in their natural habitat at one of their raucous live shows. King Parrot have already played alongside Thy Art is Murder, Cattle Decapitation and Psycroptic and been on a self-funded tour of South East Asia. Catch them at Bang at the Royal Melbourne Hotel on Saturday August 31. Check out the website for more details.

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VIOLENT SOHO As the release of their highly anticipated third LP Hungry Ghost quickly approaches, Violent Soho have announced an Australian headline album tour. Having exploded back on to the scene around August last year with the release of their much-loved single Tinderbox, which was then followed up by an equally well received single Neighbour Neighbour, Violent Soho have now surfaced with 11 brand new tracks which make up Hungry Ghost, a record that is drenched in the sweat of Brisbane and one that all who are involved with are incredibly proud of. Catch ‘em at the Corner Hotel on Monday November 4. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES... BEAT.COM.AU/TV

Casey Tutungi’s heartbreaking story has been heard and felt across the country. Fundraising eorts are still crucial to support the 28 year old in receiving the care required after his horriďŹ c football accident and resulting spinal injury. Casey and his partner, Bridget, are also preparing for the arrival of their ďŹ rst baby. Some of Australia’s top acts have thrown their weight and musical prowess behind Casey’s cause and will be performing at this special one-o event in Geelong, headlined with a vintage set of classics from You Am I, who will be joined on stage by some very special guests to form an ‘Allstars’ super group. Playing alongside You Am I are Something for Kate’s Paul Dempsey, Regurgitator, Lisa Mitchell, Magic Dirt’s Adalita, The Bamboos, Dan Sultan and Yacht Club DJs. It takes place on Sunday September 29 at Simonds Stadium.

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BITCH PREFECT Bitch Prefect are planning to launch their first new single since last year’s debut LP Big Time this September. The new single from the Adelaide to Melbourne migrants explores events from life in their former hometown and thus is aptly titled Adelaide. It is the first peep from their upcoming LP Bird Nerds and will be available digitally and as a 7” single with B-side Better Next Time from Friday September 6. Join them for the launch at The Curtin on Saturday September 14.

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THE NATIONAL Having recently visited for a Splendour exclusive performance, The National have announced an extensive Australian tour for early 2014. Earlier this year The National released their sixth studio album Trouble Will Find Me, of which our reviewer stated, “From the opening moments where Matt Berninger morosely wonders if he should be living in salt for leaving his lover, you know this album is going to tick all the boxes that make this, unmistakably, an album by The National.” The National last visited Melbourne in 2011 as part of the Harvest Festival. The National will hit the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday February 9. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday September 3 through Handsome.

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In support of their new single and clip for Big Things Calling, The Perch Creek Family Jugband are hitting the road on their Dressin’ Up & Shakin’ Down Tour. Originally from Perch Creek in the North coast on NSW, the band made up of four siblings and one stray partner, have been developing their sound and performing for the better part of 10 years. This’ll be your first chance to have a taste of what’s to come from their forthcoming new album. They play the Northcote Social Club on Saturday November 16.

Mississippi singer-songwriter Cory Branan has announced an Australian tour to follow his sold out Poison City Weekender performance. The now Nashville-based ‘itinerant road warrior’ released his third album Mutt through Bloodshot Records (Justin Townes Earle, Murder By Death) last year. Branan cites diverse influences from Motown to Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He has spent years touring and honing his unique self made sound, accompanying the likes of Tim Barry and The Gaslight Anthem on the road. If you haven’t secured your tickets to the Poison City Weekender, you can catch Branan at the Reverence Hotel on Friday September 20.

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LIGHTNING BOLT Corner Hotel October 30 HARVEST November 10 Werribee Park LEONARD COHEN Rod Laver Arena November 20, Bimbadgen Winery November 23 BLACK FLAG Palace Theatre November 22 FLEETWOOD MAC Rod Laver Arena November 26, A Day On The Green November 30 JUSTIN BIEBER Rod Laver Arena December 2,3 PASSENGER The Palais December 4 MUSE Laver Arena December 6, 7 BON JOVI Etihad Stadium December 7 VAN’S WARPED TOUR TBA December 7 DEERHUNTER The Hi-Fi December 11 MAC DEMARCO Corner Hotel December 11 NILE RODGERS Billboard December 13 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre December 13 - 15 TAYLOR SWIFT Etihad Stadium December 14 CITY AND COLOUR Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 14 FALLS FESTIVAL from December 28 - January 1, Marion Bay December 29 - January 1, Byron Bay December 31 January 3 PARAMORE Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 12 BIG DAY OUT Flemington Racecourse January 24 THE NATIONAL Sidney Myer Music Bowl February 9 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AAMI Park February 15 SOUNDWAVE 2014 Flemington Racecourse February 28 BLUESFEST April 17 - 21

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HAIL TO THE KING BY PATRICK EMERY

Almost two weeks ago, an anniversary passed with barely a murmur of public reference, save for the ongoing fascination and reverence that exists in certain communities of interest. The date was August 16, the 46th anniversary of the death of Elvis Aaron Presley. By the time of his death, Elvis had mutated from rock’n’roll’s great progenitor to pop culture’s first genuine self-parody: overweight, malnourished, drug-addicted and unreliable, a bloated shadow of the sexy, swivel-hipped kid who’d emerged from the South in the 1950s to lead the charge of rock’n’roll’s original golden era. But with the 50th anniversary of his death rapidly approaching, the cult and influence of Elvis remains as strong as ever: the rhythm and blues riffs, the sensitive crooner, the erotic stage performer, the flamboyant singer, the iconographic public figure. In his 1991 book, Dead Elvis, American rock writer and cultural commentator explores the appropriation of Elvis’ image in the years following his death: from beautiful to ugly, from comic to tragic, from reverential to offensive. “[T]he shade of Elvis Presley is now an anarchy of possibilities,” Marcus writes, “a strain of freedom less clear, but no less suggestive, than the man ever was.” It’s arguable that Elvis’ ongoing attraction can be pinned, in part, to the variability of his career. From the release of his first single, Love Me Tender, in 1954, to his enlistment in the United States army in 1960, and consequently his temporary retirement from music, Elvis was the picturesque personification of the elegant beauty and danger of rock’n’roll. Presley was famously filmed from the waist up, lest the sight of his writhing groin region incite a generation of teenagers to overthrow the dominant social order; yet on the Ed Sullivan show, the legendary television host described Presley as a “good kid”, a nice Southern boy whom the mothers of middle-America could learn to trust. Upon his return to the United States, Presley was cajoled into a series of cheesy Hollywood films; the film’s artistic merit was generally dubious, and perversely amusing, albeit with the benefit of a pop fan’s nostalgic eye. The 1968 Comeback Special heralded Elvis’ return to live performance, his slick black leather aesthetic an intriguing contrast to the denim bell-bottoms, flowers and beads of the hippie movement who’d taken up the mantle of social revolution. But by the early 1970s, Elvis had shed the black leather in favour of the sequined white jumpsuit (during a visit to Graceland some years ago, the guide explained to us that Elvis had made this shift in couture “because it was easy to move around on stage”). Surrounded by hustlers and sycophants, and with his marriage eroding, Elvis was reduced to playing cheesy shows in Las Vegas, feted by the same demographic that had once interpreted his music as a sign of apocalyptic social and political upheaval. Yet, as Marcus attests, Elvis remains with us. “I think the thing about Elvis is that there were so many eras, so there’s so much to choose from, and so much to like,” comments singer Mojo JuJu. JuJu is one of a number of local female performers who are lending their talents to a Melbourne production of Hail To The King, a vibrant musical performance that pays tribute to Elvis’ music. JuJu grew up listening to Elvis’ Beat Magazine Page 20

music, as well as sitting down on Sunday afternoon to watch his various cinematic performances. “He was very much a staple of my early musical diet,” JuJu says. “I remember when I was about six years old, and I had a picture of Elvis on my dresser, and I’d stand there combing my hair so it looked like his,” JuJu laughs. Elvis’ attraction can be separated into two aspects: his music and voice, and his public image. For JuJu, the power, range and agility of Elvis’ voice remains something to behold. “People don’t realise just how amazing he is as a singer,” JuJu says. “You tend to measure singers by their range, how many octaves they can cover. And Elvis had a great range, from falsetto, through to deep. But more so with Elvis, he had control in so many different volumes: he could do whispers, tender and soft, but he could also scream and shout. And he also had an amazing vibrato – he could croon, but he could also scream.”

“ELVIS HAD THIS GREAT FEMININE ENERGY – MEN AND WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS FOUND HIS MUSIC COMPELLING, AND HIS SEXUAL ENERGY IS STRONG ACROSS THE BOARD.” As for his image, JuJu cites his humility as a key element of Elvis the person, “I love that he was a gentleman,” JuJu says. “As eccentric and outrageous as he became later in his career, he remained humble, and that was authentic. There were all sorts of rumours about his social and political attitudes, but he understood where the music was coming from. He was a genuine character, even through the Las Vegas years.” While she’s remained a fan of Elvis since childhood, JuJu has steered clear of covering any of Elvis’ songs. “I’ve always appreciated his music, but as an entertainer and a performer, I don’t tend to do a lot of covers.” When she was approached to participate in Hail To The King, JuJu admits to some trepidation. “When I was asked to do the show, it daunted me,” JuJu says. “I’d never paid homage to Elvis, even though he’s been so hugely influential to me.” Hail To The King was first performed in Sydney

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earlier this year, featuring a diverse cast comprising JuJu, Kira Piru (Kira Piru and the Bruise), Holiday Sidewinder (Bridezilla), Twincest, Stella Angelico and Cash Savage. The initial success of the show led to a subsequent run in the same city; now, as part of the Darebin Music Festival, the show is coming to Melbourne (Savage and Sidewinder, both unavailable for this show, are being replaced by Abby Cardwell and Simone Page Jones). “It’s not a regular tribute show,” JuJu explains. “No-one’s impersonating Elvis, but everyone is interpreting his music, and bringing their own twist to his songs. It’s great that there’s so many diverse artists – that shows just how influential he’s been.” The fact that Hail To The King features an all-female cast provides the show with a unique artistic angle. “It’s interesting to have all females doing the show,” JuJu says. “Elvis had this great feminine energy – men and women have always found his music compelling, and his sexual energy is strong across the board.” JuJu refers specifically to Stella Angelico as capturing and exploring the potent sexuality at the heart of much of Elvis’ music. “Stella Angelico is so fucking sex-on-legs,” JuJu enthuses. “You really get a sense of the Elvis-thepelvis hip shaking thing – you can really feel it. And then you’ve got Kira Piru singing a few of Elvis’ ballads – and the way she delivers them is so emotional that you really get to see that tender side of him. I think the show is very cleverly put together, and I’m just flattered to be part of it.” With such a vast array of material to choose from, JuJu was given the opportunity to decide which Elvis songs she’d perform. “I’m doing a mix-up of different styles. I’ll be doing a duet with Kira, which is really stripped back, with an early country-box feel to it.” JuJu will also be performing One Night, the track recorded in released by Elvis in the late 1950s – JuJu’s version, however, will use the original, and more suggestive, One Night (Of Sin) version recorded originally, but never released due to concerns from Elvis’ publicity-wary management and record company. “The original lyrics are much more explicit,” JuJu says. “Although it’s quite tame by contemporary standards, it was quite naughty and cheeky at the time, and there’s something really quite raw about it. And it’s fun vocally to do it.” JuJu says the show was well received in its Sydney performances, indicating that the production must have struck the right chord with Elvis fans. “The audience really responded, and people were coming back, so obviously we haven’t been massacring the songs,” she laughs. So if Elvis had managed to overcome his demons, what would have become of him? Would he have come to reinvent himself in the wake of punk-rock, or become a father figure to a new generation of Memphis musicans, including Tav Falco, Greg Cartwright and Jay Reatard. “I’m not a hundred percent sure, but I have no doubt it would have been fantastic,” JuJu says. “I imagine in the ‘80s he would’ve gone further down the cheesy track, but hopefully after that he would’ve stripped back, maybe like Johnny Cash and worked with different producers. But who really knows.” HAIL TO THE KING kicks off the opening celebrations of the 2013 Darebin Music Feast and plays for two shows on Wednesday September 18 and Thursday September 19 in the Main Hall of the iconic Northcote Town Hall. Darebin Music Feast will be taking place at various venues across the Darebin region from Wednesday September 18 to Sunday September 29.

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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN This week former Melbourne International Film Festival Director Richard More will take the helm and help Bayside Film Festival celebrate its tenth anniversary in style. The festival will open with the world première of An Iceberger With The Lot – From Bury to Brighton, a documentary that will explore the perils and adrenaline-rush behind cold-water swimming. Other highlights of the festival include the Australian premières of Romero & Juliet: A Love Song and Regilaul – Songs of the Ancient Sea, an immersion into ancient Estonian song cycles; Victorian premières Balkan Melodie and Harry Dean Stanton – Partly Fiction starring David Lynch and Sam Shepherd, and closing night French drama On My Way. The 2013 Bayside Film Festival will run from Wednesday August 28 – Saturday August 31.

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ON STAGE The Australian Ballet will recapture the magnificence of the Romantic period this week with two classic masterpieces, La Sylphide and Paquita. Translated to ‘sylph’ (a slim, graceful woman or girl, or a class of imaginary beings whose element is air), La Sylphide details the story of a man who becomes enamoured by a sylph the night before his wedding. Deluded by desire, the man consults a deceitful witch who teaches him the downfall of obsession. Paquita is one of the many ballets created by FrenchRussian dancer, teacher and choreographer Marius Petipa (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker). Petipa’s work is known for its grandeur, capturing the ethereal aspect of ballet through pointe, meticulous footwork and spectacular leaps. La Sylphide and Paquita is a classical ballet bill that will be performed at the State Theatre from Thursday August 29 – Saturday September 7.

ON DISPLAY Cambridge Studio Gallery will host a geologically orientated exhibition this week called A Journey In Stone. Created by artist Jim Roberts, A Journey In Stone explores the typography of the Flinders Ranges and Lake Eyre, creating stone pieces that mimic the dry and ancient environment of the region. A Journey In Stone is Jim Robert’s second solo exhibition at Cambridge Studio Gallery following the success of last year’s. You can view A Journey In Stone at Cambridge Studio Gallery from Wednesday August 28 – Saturday September 14. Admission is free.

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Heide Museum of Modern Art are known for their events that immerse people in contemporary arts through engaging activies, and Art By Twilight is no different. Hosted towards the end of this month, Art By Twilight will help attendees understand the artistry within Stephen Benwell’s collection of works that combine beauty, anarchy and desire together. Accompanying Benwell will be Heide Director and CEO, Jason Smith and historian Janine Burke. If this doesn’t tickle your fancy, then maybe the BBQ and drinks will, or the chance to play detective with Heide Museum’s search for ceramic clues. It’s like Cluedo, except with ceramic artwork. For the sonically inclined, Afterwhite will combine a session of painting with rock music, while Ad Hoc Music Collective will provide the underground music. Art By Twilight will be held at Heide Museum of Modern Art on Thursday August 29 from 6pm – 9pm.

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THE CONFIDENCE MAN

genre, that’s action-driven and people understand the mechanics of. So in terms of knowing where you fit in, in the world it’s quite clear for audience members who are playing the part.” Pepper says the play explores the notion of suspense that’s intrinsic to the thriller genre by allowing the audience greater insight into the characters motivations. “The degree of suspense comes from the fact that the audience members who watch have the upper hand in terms of understanding the story, because they have the ability to change channels to listen to the audio of the different characters,” says Pepper. “So [the audience] can see what’s going to happen much clearer than the members of the audience who’re on stage, who are in a bubble to some extent. So I think there’s a degree of suspense in seeing story threads play out and watching them come together.” While the plot has now solidified into its current form, the original idea was even more radical. “The original idea was to have a funeral set on a suburban oval, with the 24 characters of the Guess Who game board in attendance,” Pepper says. “We shifted that a long way since then, which is a lot to do with getting a better understanding of what people want to do when they’re in the masks, and how people want to participate, and what gives them the most enjoyable experience, as well as understanding the immensity of the project, and how many characters is an achievable number.” Pepper says there will be an element of self-selection in choosing which audience members will perform each night. “If you arrive early, and you’re willing, then we’ll put a mask on you and you’ll become a character,” she says. While the plot and audio soundtrack is the same each night, Pepper says the allure of the concept is seeing how different audience members react to the same instructions. “It’s unique in the playing, but the mechanics of the plot will remain the same each time the show is performed, because it’s a pre-recorded audio track. We’re hoping we haven’t got too many rogue performers who want to mess with the story too much – but it will be essentially the same plotline each time,” she says.

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For much of the last 500 years, live drama has followed the same common, and wellworn performance paradigm adopted in Shakespeare’s time: the acting ensemble, armed with a script, act out character roles in front of an audience. The divide between audience and performer, symbolised by the space between stage and seating, provides the distance through which the audience can observe and contemplate the dramatic. The Confidence Man, however, challenges and in some ways subverts that classic approach to dramatic performance. Directed by Zoe Pepper, The Confidence Man has no regular actors as such: the six roles in the play are performed by ordinary audience members chosen before the show, with their actions and dialogue in the play are directed by an audio track that plays through headphones inside of the enormous masks each audience-performer dons at the beginning of the show. Audience members are provided with headphones, which can be tuned to different channels that convey the different characters’ inner thoughts. “It’s an interactive audio work where the mechanics of the piece are as important as the plot line,” Pepper explains. “It’s performed by audience members who play out the action of the play within the floor plan of a house, which is marked-up on the floor of the stage. They hear a mixture of dialogue and instructions and inner monologue as a way for them to play the role and perform it for the audience, rather than watching from the outside.” Pepper says the idea was to allow the audience to become immersed in the play, beyond the standard observer audience role. “It was wanting to make a

truly immersive experience for audience members,” Pepper says. “I’m hoping it’s a lot of fun for them, for them to get involved in the joy of the dress-ups, which is our regular job.” Cultural and media observers cite the interactive aspect that pervades online entertainment as differentiating modern media from traditional, oneway media such as broadcasting. Pepper, however, sees the interactive aspect of The Confidence Man in slightly more nuanced terms. “I think it’s interactive in the sense that you’re playing the part, but you do surrender a lot of your autonomy and follow instructions, which seems to allow people to surrender their inhibitions and not really care about the fact that other people are watching them.” The plot of The Confidence Man builds on the tried and true genre of the thriller, married with a family drama that unfolds before the audience’s eyes, and ears. “It’s a crime thriller. It’s a family drama that meets crime thriller – there’s a family, and an old family member who’s come to stay, and on the way to visiting them he finds a big bag of cash at the park, which brings untold catastrophe to the family, and to him,” says Pepper. “So we see that play out over the course of the play. We chose a thriller, because it’s a well-known

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And while there is necessarily an element of risk when you’re directly involving members of the audience, Pepper sees that as a chaotic factor that will only contribute to the excitement of each performance. “Oh, yes, plenty of things can go wrong. But I guess that’s the risk they’re running. But also seeing how different audience members deal with particular situations, and how they carry out instructions that can be carried out in a thousand different ways, is part of the joy of the project. And seeing what’s unique is special about each performance and each set of audience members who are essentially the cast.”

The Confidence Man will be performed at the Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall from Wednesday August 28 – Sunday September 1.

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MELBOURNE NOW

Melbourne Now is the largest exhibition that the National Gallery of Victoria has ever undertaken. Set for release in November, Melbourne Now saw NGV Director Tony Ellwood commission over 200 contemporary artists, bringing together what will be the largest combination of design, architecture, performance and innovative works that are taking the arts sphere by storm. To document their process so far, NGV created a detailed blog that allows readers behind-the-scenes insight into the production of the series. Melbourne Now will be on display at both the NGV International and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from Friday November 22 – Sunday March 23. More information can be found at ngv.vic.gov.au.

LOL COMEDY LOL Comedy at the Portland Hotel on Wednesday August 28 and the Provincial in Fitzroy on Thursday August 29 will be headlined by superďŹ ne comedian and writer for more television shows than are actually on: Adam Rozenbachs along with one of the best musical headline acts in the country – Elbowskin. On Tuesday September 3 at The Local in Port Melbourne they have Peter Helliar. Tickets from: lolcomedy.com.au or at the door.

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CINDERELLA

This September, The Australian Ballet will be tackling Alexei Ratmansky’s classical masterpiece Cinderella. This ethereal production will feature the work of award-winning costume designer JÊrôme Kaplan and the choreography of Golden Mask Award winner, Alexei Ratmansky. The pair has previously collaborated to create Het National Ballet’s Don Quixote and the world premiere of Lost Illusions at the Bolshi Ballet. This will be the second time Ratmansky has worked with The Australian Ballet. Cinderella will feature over 250 costumes, 40 costume designs, 68 dancers, six wigs that took around 30 hours to make each, and much, much more. This decadent adaption of Cinderella will be performed at the Arts Centre from Tuesday September 17 –Saturday September 28.

AORTA

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Award-winning choreographer and dancer Stephanie Lake returns with her latest production, AORTA, at Chunky Move Studios this November. Notably, Lake choreographed the stark movements of Missy Higgin’s Unashamed Desire video clip last year and was commissioned by the Sydney Dance Company, last year, to produce and create Dream Lucid for Contemporary Women, Spring Dance Festival. AORTA will be dierent to Lake’s other compositions. It will be a dance that turns the body inside out, exploring the time limits within our bodies and the metronomic nature of our heart. AORTA will be performed at Chunky Move Studios from Friday November 22 – Saturday November 30.

ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL In conjunction with Kino Cinemas, Environmental Film Festival Melbourne will return for another year of environmental documentaries, live music and canapĂŠs. Taking place during the ďŹ rst fortnight of September, EFFM will see selected patron former Greens Leader Bob Brown attend the opening night and launch party hosted at basement bar, Strange Wolf. Attending the launch will also be a selection of environmentalists, academics, activists and other environmentally passionate people. Feature ďŹ lms this year include The Fruit Hunters, a documentary exploring the Australia’s gas industry invasion called Heritage Fight, Sand Wars, Lost Rivers, the bee disappearance epidemic More Than Honey And Fuck For Forests, a ďŹ lm that explores if sex can save the planet. Environmental Film Festival Melbourne will be hosted across Melbourne from Thursday September 5 – Friday September 13. Tickets are available through em.org.au.

MELBOURNE FILMOTECA

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Martin is a web designer recovering from a recent bout of phobia. Little by little he emerges from his virtual reality and ventures out of his apartment, back into the real world. Mariana is rebuilding her life after a divorce, settling into her new place and trying out a new job. The two souls seem perfect for each other but despite being neighbours, the chance of them meeting in a city of three million people is slim to none.

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This Tuesday September 3 Melbourne Filmoteca celebrates Latin American and Spanish Cinema once again by launching their 2013 second-semester program with Gustavo Taretto’s opera prima; Medianeras. The ďŹ lm is a fantastic, inspiring, creative and fun love story that takes place between the buildings, streets and sidewalls of Buenos Aires. Melbourne Filmoteca’s 2013 program also includes titles such as Burros, Celda 211 and Son of the Clouds: The last colony. More information is available at melbourneďŹ lmoteca.org.

This September, Tinning Street Gallery will host a special music exhibition entitled Songlines, a new collaboration between visual artist Kallie Turner and composer Joel Ritchie. Songlines will be an exhibition that focuses on the interconnection between visual art and musical art, honing onto the details of earth, symbology of life and the wisdom and law that are passed through these innate connections. Songlines will be exhibited at Tinning Street Gallery from Thursday September 5 – Sunday September 15

This October, Chapel O Chapel will host AFI and Logie-nominated actor Daniel Frederiksen’s newest production, Fat Pig, a play about the stigma of being fat. Fat Pig illustrates the tale of Tom, a handsome and charismatic man who falls for plus-sized woman, Helen. Taking cues from Shallow Hal, the couple face trouble when Tom realises that his friends may not be so accepting of Helen’s gargantuan size. Written by Neil LaBute (Death at a Funeral, Possession), Fat Pig will delve into the ostracism and criticism of being fat in a thin-obsessed world. Fat Pig will be landing at Chapel O Chapel from Thursday October 10 – Sunday October 20.

FELIX BAR COMEDY It’s the very ďŹ nal Felix Bar Comedy tonight. The bar is changing hands, so it’s your last chance to come along to what’s brought the biggest names in the country down to St Kilda every Wednesday night. They’ve got a proper cracker lineup to say goodbye with. Plenty of our favorites and big names. It’s happening this Wednesday August 28 at 8.30pm for only $12 at Felix Bar, St Kilda.

FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDY This Thursday Tommy Little headlines another amazing lineup at Five Boroughs Comedy. Plus they’ve got Michael Chamberlin, Karl Chandler, Josh Earl, Anne Edmonds and more. It’s all happening Thursday August 29 at 8.30pm, for only $12 at Five Boroughs (upstairs), 68 Hardware Lane, CBD.

COMMEDIA DELL PARTE Commedia Dell Parte is still running every Thursday in St Kilda. This week Murphy McLachlan hosts a great lineup of comics featuring Tommy Dassalo, Andy Matthews, Mark Conway, Hayman Kent, Gamze Kirik, Katie Castles and Ben Vernel. 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 at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN They’ve got another bumper lineup of Melbourne’s best acts and best up-and-comers at Spleen this Monday. They’ve got Geraldine Hickey hosting plus Steele Saunders, Greg Larsen, Gerard McCulloch, Mark Trenwith, Chris Leben and heaps more. It’s this Monday September 2, 41 Bourke St, CBD at 8.30pm. It may be free, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

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After a packed launch last Wednesday, Public Bar Comedy is back tonight with Australian comedy legend, the hilarious Brad Oakes. Add to that an all killer no ďŹ ller lineup including; Jimmy James Eaton, Anne Edmonds, Dilruk Jayasinha, Michael Connell and Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall. All this for only $5.

LUCKY COQ COMEDY From 9pm each Tuesday get down to Lucky Coq for one of Melbourne’s best free comedy shows. Each week hosting a mixture of side-splitting local and interstate guests. With eight new acts each week you will need to get there early to get your bum on a seat and laugh your coq o.

NEWS FLASHER: ELECTION SYNDROME This September, you’re invited to La Mama to witness News Flasher: Election Syndrome, a musical noir that delves into the dramas of the political world. Running for approximately an hour, Election Syndrome is Ella Filar’s newest production set in post-war Eastern Europe. It’s quirky, eccentric and makes politics funny with its honest opinion on the state of Parliamentary aairs and laws. News Flasher: Election Syndrome will be performed at La Mama Theatre from Thursday September 5 – Sunday September 15.

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TABLEAUX This September, the CATC Design School of Melbourne will host and exhibition showcasing their photography students’ newest works entitled, Tableaux. Inspired by the deďŹ nition of Tableaux — a group of models or motionless ďŹ gures that represent a scene from a story or history — the exhibition will showcase each photographer’s narrative as they tackle the themes of ‘The Portrait’, ‘The Land’, ‘The Object’ and ‘Dreams & Vision’. Held at The Rialto, CATC consider this an opportunity for their budding photographers to exhibit their work in a sophisticated, luxurious environment. Tableaux will be exhibited at The Rialto from Wednesday September 11 – Wednesday September 18.

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TRANCE Danny Boyle’s Trance is a frenzied psychological thriller about the mind and its mysteries. Story goes: Franck (Vincent Cassel) is a crook who plans to steal Goya’s Witches In The Air from a London auction house, but his inside man Simon (James McAvoy) suffers from fatal head injuries and forgets where he’s hidden the painting. Next, sexed-up hypnotherapist Dr Elizabeth Lam (Rosario Dawson), is brought in to extract critical memories from Simon’s unconscious mind while he is in a trance. Thereafter unfolds a disorienting, non-linear narrative that questions reality and illusion, truths and untruths. Trance is a complex, visual film best explained in more depth by Boyle himself. Why did you want to make Trance? It was a couple of things, really. One, I had never really made a film with a woman in the engine room. And of course it doesn’t look like that at the beginning of the film because Elizabeth [Rosario Dawson] enters the film late and she appears to be a kind of innocent, professional bystander. The other reason was to be able to make a film that was a series of trances. Once Elizabeth enters the film, that’s what it is. I love that in cinema because there’s something utterly bewitching about it if it’s done well – everything passes for present time. It doesn’t matter whether it’s past time, future, time imagined, time illusionary. You believe it as being now. Film is a unique art form like that. Were there any other films that influenced you? A huge influence on Trance was Nick Roeg whose work seems to have stylistically informed films like Memento, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Inception, which all have the idea that present time is an illusion. So to be able to make a film that was like that, based on a series of trances, was one of the main reasons for wanting to make Trance. Art stuff is great. It’s fun to do that, but that’s all incidental to this other idea. Why did you choose the Goya painting Witches In The Air? The Goya is obviously the first and only choice really. We tried to say in the film that he is the first great painter of the human mind. He is the great originator of the psychological painting. Prior to Goya, there were portraits and they may have been psychologically incisive or informative, but Goya went inside the bullring. He went inside the mind and painted what’s inside the mind, so for a film like this that was a wonderful place to begin. Also that particular painting Witches In The Air subtly introduces a slightly surreal element into the film. You don’t realise it because you just think it’s a painting that has been auctioned and has been stolen, but what you’re actually seeing is that Simon is like that guy in the painting underneath, who is hidden and can’t quite see what is above him

and around him. And another reason for choosing the Goya work was because he was a great depicter of the nude female form. Does the nudity in the film have a function? It does for Rosario’s character, Elizabeth Lamb, because it’s a plot device. It’s a completely integral plot device, so it was non-negotiable, which is great because nudity is always difficult with actors. They will always sign on and then try to negotiate their way out of it, understandably, but it was obviously absolutely integral to the plot and the film. So we had to reassure Rosario a bit about the way it was going to be shot. Then I just had to try and persuade the men to get their kit off as well because it would only be fair in a film like this. They were all good for it. It’s quite full-on nudity for a mainstream film. It’s interesting. When I was a kid growing up in the ’70s, nudity was everywhere and now it’s gone. They all have these theories in Hollywood about why it’s like this now and they say that because porn has become so ubiquitous and so available that Hollywood has tried to separate itself from the porn industry by going the other way. So there are fewer adult scenes in films. But films from the ’70s were full of sex. Sex was a big part of our lives and a big part of our cinema and it was dealt with in many, many different ways. Some was controversial and casual. Things are much more coy now. Maybe coy is the wrong word, but there’s certainly a lot less of it so that’s what we’re trying to do. Was directing the opening ceremony of London’s 2012 Olympic Games in the middle of postproduction helpful when making Trance? It was certainly helpful in a way that surprised me because normally when you shoot a film you are saturated with knowledge of all that you have shot. So when I came back to the film after doing the Olympics I assumed I would remember it all, but I didn’t. Your brain is filled up with other stuff and it was weird watching it all again. It was like reading the script for the first time

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and you don’t normally get a chance to revisit that innocence when you aren’t quite sure what’s coming next and it’s actually very helpful. But even more important was realising that when you’re making films like this, you shouldn’t give too many clues. It was a real boon being able to come back to it with fresh eyes. Could you say that there is a typical Danny Boyle film? There is something that virtually all my films conform to the quest movie. There’s usually a character who faces insurmountable odds and overcomes them. This also applies to Trance. But the difference with Trance is that you don’t know who that character is, and even people who finish it may not be sure who

that character is. But if you saw it in chronological order: a guy meets a woman, they have an affair, the guy is incredibly violent and possessive of the woman and therefore she erases him. He returns, as the woman knows he will, but this time he returns with four other violent men. This woman versus five violent men and in fact she overcomes them. So there are the insurmountable odds for you. Trance is released on digitalHD on Wednesday August 28 and Blu-ray and DVD on Wednesday September 4.

STRAIGHT BY LIZA DEFOULI

Actor Ben Prendergast is rehearsing the role of a character he describes as a “weird guy”, Waldorf, for Red Stitch’s next production, Straight, penned by UK playwright DC Moore after the 2009 film, Humpday. Waldorf’s not too straight, then? “He’s been travelling in South East Asia,” explains Prendergast. “Trying to find himself. Then he interrupts the lives of an erstwhile happily married couple, Lewis and Morgan. Waldorf is the best mate of Lewis. Lewis and Morgan are attempting to make a child when Waldorf rudely interrupts their happy existence. Lewis has a crisis of his own, questioning where he is in life, Waldorf has his own journey, and they agree to do this big crazy categoryshattering thing.” Lewis and Waldorf make a bet and, as the story goes, nothing is ever the same again. According to the playwright, Waldorf shakes things up for Lewis and Morgan by bringing his much more hectic, frenetic life into theirs and they undergo ‘an experience that allows them to return to normality unfettered’. No-one will be returning to the normality of conventional nuclear family life, we gather. Without giving anything away, Prendergast says that Straight is an absolute blast. “It’s fucking funny,” he enthuses. “The set is a character in itself. Lewis and Waldorf do ‘the thing’ for different reasons. They’ve reached a part of life where they’ve lost a bit of excitement. They’re not reliving their youth or anything – there are lots of socio-economic and cultural reasons why they do this ‘thing’.” Preparing for the role of Waldorf has involved a change of accent for the actor: he’s been playing a Scot in Midsummer and now needs to develop a northern lilt. Accents aren’t the biggest challenge, he reckons, that comes from performing for laughs. “Comedy is hard to get right. It’s hard rehearsing without an audience present. It’s a big challenge, comedy. We’re playing with the moment. It’s the hardest thing in the world to make the comic moments good and funny without an audience in front.” How then does an actor prepare for a comic role while still unsure as to where the laughs will come from? “You find a truth in it,” answers Prendergast. “Maybe a painful, essential truth. We see them in Lewis; there are some laughs in his discomfort. If our director finds it funny then between him and our own kind of experiences, we find our way.” Performing comedy in front of an audience, on the other hand, is a two-way thing. “We play with their energy,” notes the actor. “It’s up to the audience how we play as they give back to us, we play according to how responsive they are, finding the lighter moments or the truth in the moment. You can’t play comedy without the truth. You have to find the light within the darkness, the darkness within the light.” Straight is naturalistic in style, something Prendergast is comfortable with in terms of his own acting approach, having a healthy film and television career alongside

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his stage work. He has appeared in a film with Ethan Hawke (Predestination) and Australian audiences will recognise him from television – The Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries and The Doctor Blake series. “My passion is film and filmic representations in theatre,” he continues. “Film usually has a strong story structure, a dramatic structure. I’m not a guy who seeks out overstylised theatre, which can be quite popular in some circles.” The actor is rapt to have recently joined the Red Stitch ensemble. “I’m pretty flattered to have been invited in. There’s lots going on in terms of how we build the company, maintain relevance. We’ve just started accepting government funding but it isn’t much. Otherwise we depend on membership and subscriptions.” Red Stitch is unique in that the actors get to choose the plays the company produces. Outside of Red Stitch, notes Prendergast, actors are never given the power to ‘cherry-pick’ the plays they want to perform in, whereas Red Stitch Actors Theatre choose their own scripts. “We read 30 or 40 plays a season,” he explains. “Everyone attempts to read all of the plays then we have a meeting; 16 of us choose the plays we fall in love with, what we want to share the madness with.” What if someone desperately wants to do a work and the others disagree? “A play has got to have the support,” he answers. “One person often isn’t enough to get something up. The process is democratised in that way.” There has to be real passion for the play in question. “We don’t choose plays on the basis of popularity or their economic prospects. It’s whether it can sustain our passion.” The collective nature of Red Stitch means that the group also gets to handpick directors for their productions, resulting in, amongst many things, says Prendergast, a built-in and ongoing education for the actors. Straight will be performed at the Red Stitch Actors Theatre from Friday August 30 Saturday September 28

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on tour SIGMA [UK] Friday August 30, Brown Alley STICKYBUDS [CAN] Friday August 30, Howler TYREE COOPER [USA] Saturday August 31, New Guernica JUS-ED [USA] Saturday August 31, The Liberty Social MACHINE GUN KELLY [USA] Thursday September 5, The Hi-Fi JOHN “00” FLEMING [UK] Friday September 6, Prince Bandroom MO KOLOURS [UK] Saturday September 7, Revolver Upstairs MARCOS CABRAL [USA] Friday September 13, Mercat Basement TERRY FRANCIS [UK] Friday September 13, OneSixOne ZOMBY [UK] Friday September 13, The Liberty Social GHOSTPOET [UK] Saturday September 14, Corner Hotel R.A THE RUGGED MAN [USA] Thursday September 19, The Espy HERNAN CATTANEO [ARG] Friday September 20, Prince Bandroom KENNY LARKIN [USA], STIMMING [GER] Friday September 20, Brown Alley SNAKEHIPS [UK] Friday September 20, The Liberty Social ERIC CLOUTIER [GER] Friday September 20, Mercat Basement DJ FRICTION [UK] Saturday September 21, Brown Alley RUDIMENTAL [UK] Saturday September 21, Festival Hall ROBERT HOOD [USA] Saturday September 21, The Liberty Social PETER VAN HOESEN [BEL] Friday September 27, New Guernica LAUREL HALO [USA], OBJEKT [GER] Saturday September 28, The Liberty Social TALIB KWELI [USA], HOMEBOY SANDMAN [USA] Thursday October 3, The Hi-Fi HUNTER/GAME [ITA] Friday October 4, New Guernica SANDER VAN DOORN [NED] Friday October 4, The Palace LISTEN OUT: DISCLOSURE [UK], TNGHT [UK], AZEALIA BANKS [USA] + MORE Saturday October 5, Observatory Precinct, Royal Botanic Gardens ROGERSEVENTYTWO [NED] Saturday October 5, Brown Alley MICKEY AVALON [USA] Friday October 18, Corner Hotel PORTER ROBINSON [USA] Sunday October 20, Billboard BOOKA SHADE [GER] Thursday October 24, Prince Bandroom CHOPSTICK & JOHNJON [GER] Sunday November 3, Revolver Upstairs AME [GER], MATTHIAS TANZMANN [GER] Sunday November 3, Brown Alley SALT N PEPA [USA] Saturday November 16, Palais Theatre STRAWBERRY FIELDS: CARL CRAIG [USA], MOODYMANN [USA] Friday November 22 - Sunday November 24 , TBA EARTHCORE: ANGY KORE [ITA], PERFECT STRANGER [ISR] + MORE Friday November 29 - Sunday December 2, TBA STEREOSONIC: DAVID GUETTA [FRA], ARMIN VAN BUUREN [NED], CALVIN HARRIS [UK] + MORE Saturday December 7 - Sunday December 8, Royal Melbourne Showgrounds RAINBOW SERPENT: DONATO DOZZY [ITA], MICHAEL MAYER [GER] + MORE Friday January 24 - Monday January 27, Lexton BRUNO MARS [USA], MIGUEL [USA] Tuesday March 4 & Wednesday March 5, Rod Laver Arena

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After spending the past few years ascending to the ranks as one of Australia’s most prominent party-starting DJs, Alison Wonderland switched it up last month with the first original track released under the moniker. Get Ready, featuring Blue Mountains rap-electronica duo, showcases Wonderland’s production chops which have been developing concurrent to her rising DJ career. Speaking in the midst of the single’s launch tour dates, Wonderland renumerates on what looks set to be a defining crossroads in her musical career. “It’s awesome,” she says on her current hefty touring schedule. “When I looked at all those dates I thought it would be quite daunting and tiring, but I don’t feel tired at all. I’m just excited to tour.” In terms of original compositions, it’s not just Get Ready that’s being thrown into the mix. “I guess I’m playing a few more of my own tracks, ones I haven’t released yet, and putting them into the set. I’m still playing stuff I like, it’s just a set is always changing,” she reasons. Though both acts had been well established in their respective Sydney base, Wonderland’s team-up with Fishing was a result of a happenstance festival meet-up. “Well I’d already made the track and I wanted it to be an instrumental, but people suggested I should get someone to rap on it. I sent it to friends in New York to have a go at it, but to me it wasn’t right. I didn’t want to put anything out that I thought was good but not amazing. I bumped into the Fishing guys at Groovin’ The Moo and I showed them the track and asked if they were interested in rapping, because I heard they ruled at that. Two days later they sent me an amazing vocal back, reminding me a little bit of Beastie Boys, a little bit of Das Racist. I knew that was probably the right fit.” Alison Wonderland’s shift from solely DJ work to a production output was a natural move, she explains. “Well funnily enough, I’ve been producing as long as I’ve been DJing, just never under the name Alison Wonderland. I would put stuff out and no one knew who it was, and if they liked the music, they liked the music.

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Wonderland’s creative output is shaped by a refined palate, encompassing a broad and passionate musical intake from across the globe. “I’m always a big fan of hip hop, so I’ve been playing that for a long time. There’s a lot of bad trap music out there, but there’s

also some good stuff that doesn’t have those bad fuzzy synths,” Alison assesses, pausing to let out a sigh of disgust. “I’m very open minded in what I choose. If I really like the track, I’ll play it and find a way to work it into my set. I’m really liking Ryan Hemsworth a lot. Then again, at SXSW I was exposed to more music than if I was just checking blogs and Soundclouds. I really got into Rat King. They’re amazing. I went and saw them at Glass Lounge a few weeks later because I loved them so much.” With Get Ready gaining plenty of traction, Wonderland has a renewed focus when it comes to the next evolutionary step. “There’s an album in the future, so that’s a big goal of mine. Then there’s the plan to do a live show after the album, so hopefully people like it. They’re my short term goals. But my goals are to learn as much as I can about my craft, just keep working every day. Finding out new things, to me, is a big achievement because there are so many things you can learn along the way when you’re producing. I just want to get these songs out there,” she declares. “It’s like waiting for an egg to hatch, and now it feels like I’ve been waiting too long.”

Alison Wonderland brings the Get Ready Tour to the Corner Hotel on Wednesday September 18 and Thursday September 19. Get Ready is out now. facebook.com/awonderdj soundcloud.com/alisonwonderland

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There was nothing there to influence their opinion on it. [DJing and production] are very different. When you’re writing music, it’s very selfish. I go crazy, everyone goes crazy, but in a good way. You need to be that way to bring out the stuff inside you that wouldn’t normally come out. Then you have to hyper-focus on things like snares and kicks, that drives you a little mental. But in terms of what I select to DJ, that’s the stuff I love and makes me want to dance. I’ve always thought that if I’m excited about a track, then maybe other people will be.”

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tour rumours Marcel Vogel, Anthony Naples, Adana Twins, Claptone, Finnesbassen, Kolombo, Midland, Shed, Moderat, Psychemagik, Sigha & Shifted, Smallpeople, Dave Clarke, Skudge, Roman Flügel, Jam City, Silicone Soul

Snakehips are the enigmatic outfit hailing from the UK. With little information on the internet (where else am I supposed to look?) Snakehips are impossibly mysterious. They’ve been together since the end of 2012, and their track On & On, featuring tipped Australian singer George Maple, alerted Clash to their potential. The pair’s fluency in crafting contemporary music informed by times gone by really struck a chord. They describe their sound as “inspired by goldenera hip-hop and R&B mixed with more modern production techniques”. Snakehips’ slick compositions, encompassing disparate eras and sounds, reflect the result of a fine meeting of minds. If you want to be one of the few people on Earth who know what they look like, go to The Liberty Social on Friday September 20.

sander van doorn

Sander van Doorn will be returning to Australia this October following his festival tour with Stereosonic last year. With two full length albums, numerous hits, remixes of the world’s biggest artists, sold out gigs in all major venues and festivals worldwide, his own successful record label Doorn Records and a weekly radio show Identity, Sander has done it all. Don’t miss him play at the Palace Theatre on Friday October 4.

chopstick & johnjon

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mo kolours

Percussionist and singer Mo Kolours will be making his debut appearance in Australia. Bringing together the rhythmic intensity of his Mauritian roots and the forward-thinking beats of London’s thriving music scene, Mo Kolours is able to make music relevant to the now with smokey influences from the past. Support will come from Adelaide’s Oisima as well as Galapagoose and DJs Ransom and Simon Winkler. Head down to Revolver on Saturday September 7.

dj friction

Friction is one of the most revered and recognised names in bass music today. Having risen steadily through the ranks since the early ‘00s, Friction now holds a spot in the D&B Hall Of Fame thanks to his inauguration at the 2011 Drum & Bass Arena Awards. Friction has a vast catalogue behind him and naturally, has worked with most of the major labels in D&B including Hospital and Metalheadz. Described by Pete Tong as ‘one of the big dogs’ Friction looks set to hit dizzying new heights in his career this year as he continues to trailblaze his way through the ever-evolving musical landscape. It’s all happening on Saturday September 21 at Brown Alley.

Chi-Thien Nguyen aka Chopstick and John Muder aka Johnjon don’t only produce together but have become inseparable friends over the years. Founders of the SUOL label, Chopstick & Johnjon are exciting producers, weaving in and out of electro, techno and house. Make sure to get down to Revolver on Sunday November 3 for their gig as part of Summer Series.

circoloco

After landing in Australia in Easter with David Squillace and the Apollonia collective, Circoloco are back for another round of high caliber acts. Berlin duo and founders of the Innerversions imprint, Âme aka Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann are the first act on the bill. Their ability to pen tracks that exist just outside the minds of club goers imaginations allow them to keep ever so ahead of the curve. They will be joined by Matthias Tanzmann, a man who started building his career in the mid 90s. Tanzmann is the founder of two successful labels with Moon Harbour Recordings and Carbo Edition and an international Circoloco resident. To round up the stellar lineup is Francesa Lombardo. You may have heard of her under the moniker Jackie Misfit but as Francesa her supporters include the likes of Marco Carola, Radio Slave and Loco Dice. Make sure to head down to Brown Alley on Sunday November 3.

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hunter/game

Italian duo Hunter/Game are starting the Australian summer with their debut tour on our shores. Their residency at the Never Say Never party at Ushuaia in Ibiza is a result of their hard work and amazing production released on Jamie Jones’ Hot Creations label and Sasha’s Last Night On Earth imprint. Their unique sound has a deep groove as a result of electronic and indie influences alongside techno. Hungry to explore every crevice electronic music has to offer, the guys have evolved their sound with breakbeats, ambient influences while never straying from their techno base. It’s all happening at New Guernica on Friday October 4.

club guide wednesday august 28 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 DADA LIFE Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. DUBSTEP GRIME DRUM & BASS - FEAT: DJ BADDUMS + DJ CARMEX Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HALFWAYS Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. HOODRAPZ - FEAT: WEDNESDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. LOST & FOUND - FEAT: DJ SPIDEY + DJ RUBY FROST Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. MO’ SOUL - FEAT: DJ VINCE PEACH & MISS GOLDIE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA WEDNESDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SOUL ARMY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE DINNER SET Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.

thursday august 29 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + JAKE JUDD + NIKKI SARAFIAN + HEY SAM + JESSE YOUNG + JOHN DOE + SEAN RAULT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 5:00pm. BANG N MASH Word Events Warehouse & Lounge, Melbourne. 8:00pm. BILLBOARD THURSDAYS - FEAT: MATT DEAN + MATTY GRANT + PHIL ROSS Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10. CHI BEATS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. DJ KRONIC + MS BUTT Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DO DROP IN - FEAT: DJ KITI + DJ LADY NOIR The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DON’T THINK I’M ALIVE THURSDAYS The Vineyard, St Kilda. 7:00pm. FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: AGENT 86 + LEWIS CANCUT + WHO LUCKY COQ, WINDSOR. 6:00PM. GOOD EVENING - FEAT: DJ PEOPLE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. GRAD PARTY THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. LE DISCO TECH Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. LOVE STORY Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: DJS PREQUEL & EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. MOOD - FEAT: NUBODY Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. NEW GUERNICA THURSDAYS - FEAT: CONDUCTORS + JAMES KANE + NEGATIV MAGICK + NU BALANCE + POST PERCY New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. RADIONICA Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE RITZ THURSDAYS - FEAT: NARI & MILANI + CARRICK DALTON & SAM COHEN + CAUC-ASIAN DJ’S + ED WILKS + JOSHUA GILILAND + KEN WALKER + LUCILLE CROFT + MAX KRUSE + TIM LIGHT + ZACK ROSE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $20. TIGER FUNK LIVE - FEAT: DJ MOONSHINE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TROCADERO Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

friday august 30 ANYTIME Workshop, Melbourne. 8:30pm. BADABOOM FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. CANT SAY Platform One, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. CHI FRIDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne. 8:00pm. CRUCIAL SOCIAL ACADEMY - FEAT: DJ A13 + DJ JELLYFISHWORKSHOP, MELBOURNE. 8:00PM. discotheque - feat: elana musto + greg sara + scott t MATCH BAR & GRILL, MELBOURNE CBD. 7:00PM. FRIDAY NIGHT COMMERCIAL HOUSE DJS - FEAT: HIJACK + LIVNBEYNG + MAGIC HOUSE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:30pm. I LOVE OLD SCHOOL - FEAT: SHAGGZ & PUPPET + DJ TEY + MERV MAC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $10. JUICY - FEAT: CHAIRMAIN MEOW + COBURG MARKET + MR. FOX + TIGERFUNK + WHO Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MEET YOUR MATES FRIDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MR VEGAS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. PANORAMA - FEAT: DJS MATT RAD + MR GEORGE + PHATO A MANO + TOM MEAGHER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. REMEMBER ME The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. RETRO SEXUAL One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS (ANTARCTICA REMIX LAUNCH) - FEAT: DJ LEWIE DAY + DJ MIKE CALLANDER + DJ ALEX THOMAS + DJ KATIE DROVER + DJ WHO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: DJ SUNSHINE + DJ BUTTERS + DJ HEY SAM Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00am. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 10:00pm. SVELT + BISCOTTI + MANGELWURZEL 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10. THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. WEEKENDER! Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 11:00pm.

THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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saturday august 31 VENICE MUSIC - FEAT: DJ ALI E Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. BILLBOARD SATURDAYS - FEAT: FRAZER ADNAM SCOTT MCMAHON + JAMIE VLAHOS + MR MAGOO + ZIGGY Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. CHI SATURDAYS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm CLUB FICTION - FEAT: KITTY ROCK & THE BAD LADIES Red Bennies, South Yarra. 2:00am. DJ PLAZMA Idgaff Bar & Venue, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE + DJS DUCHESZ + MZRIZK + WASABI First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. GLITCH THIS - FEAT: SATURDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. HOT STEP Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. LAB 22 Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MIXED DRINKS SATURDAYS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. MOTEL SATURDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. NEO SACRILEGE - FEAT: DJ NERO Abode, St Kilda. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA SATURDAYS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. ONESIXFIVE - FEAT: DJ COURTNEY MILLS + DJ HOOPS + DJ OLLIE HOLMES + DJ JOSH PAOLA + DJ WILL CUMMINGS Onesixone, Prahran. 3:00am. POISON APPLE Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8:00pm. SATURDAY CONFIDENTIAL Galley Room, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SATURDAYS - FEAT: ACTION SAM + DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SATURDAYS @ LEVEL 2 - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ CHESTWIG + DJ LUKE MCD + DJ MIKE HUNT + DJ ROWIE + DJ SPECIAL K Level 2 The Club, Northcote. 9:00pm. SATURDAYS AT ONE TWENTY BAR One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SOUND EMPIRE - FEAT: DJ TATE STRAUSS + DJ JOE SOFO + DJ MATTY + DJ MISS SARAH + DJ PHIL ROSS Fusion, Southbank. 9:30pm. $25. SOUTH SIDE SHOW - FEAT: EDD FISHER + KNAVE KNIXX Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $15. STAR SATURDAYS Star Bar, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. STRUT SATURDAYS - FEAT: COLLECTIVE + ANDREAS + DANNY MERX + HENRIQUE + JASON SERINI + MARK PELLEGRINI + MC JUNIOR + NICK VAN WILDER Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $22. SUNDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY J + DJ KEN WALKER + DJ LIGHTING Co., Southbank. 8:30pm. TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ MARCUS KNIGHT + DJ XANDER JAMES Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm. TEXTILE - FEAT: DJS PACMAN + JEAN PAUL + MOONSHINE + TAH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. THE FOX SATURDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: DJ ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. TOO MUCH 4TH BIRTHDAY - FEAT: MOSCA + DAVID BASS + NAISE + SAME O + WOZ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. WHAT’S DOING? - FEAT: DJ CITIZEN.COM Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. WHY NOT? - FEAT: SATURDAY Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

sunday september 1 COSMIC TONIC Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm. DANGER - FEAT: GEORGE HYSTERIC & ROHAN BELL-TOWERS The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. GUILTY PLEASURES Pretty Please, St Kilda. 8:00pm. MOTEL SUNDAYS The Motel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. NO MORE-BANG-FOR-BUCK BURLESQUE SHOW! Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ SPACEY SPACE + DJ RADIATOR + DJ SILVERSIX + DJ T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm. SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE - FEAT: ASKEW + BOOSHANK + DISCO HARRY + JUNJI + MISS BUTT + PAZ + PETER BAKER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. SUNDAE SHAKE - FEAT: AGENT 86 + PHATO-A-MANO + TIGERFUNK Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOWDENA ND MAYFIELD + FOUNKSHUI Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 4:30pm. SURRENDER - FEAT: DJ SERGEANT SLICK + DJ ADAM TRACE + DJ ADRIAN CHESSARI + DJ CHRIS OSTROM + DJ SEF Fusion, Southbank. 8:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJS ANDYBLACK + HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

monday september 2 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 september 3 BIMBO TUESDAYS - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. COSMIC PIZZA Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. DJ JAGUAR E55, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. NEVER CHEER BEFORE YOU KNOW WHO’S WINNING - FEAT: REPETER FONDA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

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wo rd s / la c h la n k a n o n i u k

It’s Tuesday morning when Solo, the MC half of Sydney hip hop outfit Horrorshow, answers the phone from a quiet nook in his home city. The preceding weekend brought the news that King Amongst Many, their first album since 2009’s Inside Story, had debuted at number two on the ARIA charts. As he speaks down the line, Solo projects a mix of pride and relief – not so much in regards to the albums chart positioning, but in regards to the tremendous response from the duo’s ever-growing fanbase after such a long wait. “These things don’t always have a clear start date, but we started thinking about the record as soon as we finished the last one – which was back in October 2009,” Solo states on when he and beatmaker Adit began piecing together King Amongst Many. “That was the early stages of throwing ideas around about the kind of record that we wanted to make. But there are a couple of tracks that date back to that time, when there was an original sketch of a beat kicking around. That’s when some of the early ideas started to take shape. We’ve been bunkered down pretty hard in the past year or so working on it in amongst touring, then doubly hard in the past six months. That was the end of a process that kicked off a few years ago.” That three and a half year-long process imbued the record with tremendous variety and depth – qualities that didn’t always come easy for Solo and Adit. “We’ve definitely ran the gamut, been through plenty of ups and downs in the process of getting this record ready. There were times when we were really on a roll, and there were times when the writing process wasn’t coming to me as quickly as I wanted. The last month or two, having wrapped up the record – which was itself a pretty crazy race to the finish which ended with our mixing engineer and us staying up for 30 hours straight or something. It was pretty hectic. Then the month since then, we’ve been trying to channel the energy that’s out there. There’s certainly been a crazy amount of anticipation from our listeners, and from us. We just got to the point where we really needed to get it out there in the world to see what people make of it. There were all sorts of emotions involved in the process.” King Amongst Many lands in yet another purple patch for local hip hop, with 2013 set to be one of the finest years yet in terms of the reigning genre’s history. “It’s definitely an interesting time for the music, people are pushing it in different directions,” Solo edicts. “The last however many years, we’ve seen an explosion of the hip hop scene that keeps on getting bigger and bigger. Artists are getting more opportunities to be heard on the radio, or to get on festivals. We’ve seen the emergence of local hip hop festivals like Sprung, and Raise The Roof in Melbourne, things like that. With that growth of the scene, there’s more food on the table, so to speak, and there are more people getting a seat at that table. There are more voices emerging, which is great. Artists like Jimblah have an important voice in Australian hip hop, and it’s great that he’s gotten on board with Elefant Traks,” he says, referencing Horrorshow’s current stable. “I think what we’re starting to see happen is that our predecessors were people that grew up on classic American rap. That was their staple, their first reference point, and where they found the ingredients to go on to use to forge their own style. Whereas people of my generation and the younger artists coming through grew up on that diet of American stuff, but also following from a long history of strong Australian releases. I’ve been listening to this music for 12 or 13 years now, that’s such a strong back catalogue of Australian releases, and for us as younger dudes listening to that stuff, it gives us more tradition to build upon and a greater sense of fluency. There’s not that many barriers to overcome to feel comfortable being Australian and making hip hop. We’re in an environment where we are beyond that, and that makes younger artists more comfortable in what they’re doing. That’s what’s gonna elevate the genre to the next level.” As for the high charting of King Amongst Many, Solo is philosophical when it comes to what it means for Horrorshow and the broader hip hop community. “It’s a funny thing. Me and Adit were chatting about it last week, where we might land on the chart and how we could be as proactive as we could getting people to buy the album. We had a pretty funny moment where we realised it was such a strange conversation to be having. It was a different dimension to releasing music, one we never really anticipated. It’s great, obviously we’re stoked to have charted in such a high position. But it’s like Urthy said in one of his tweets, a number is just a number and it’s never going to capture the full worth of what we have going on here. Definitely the most rewarding things that I’ve encountered in the last week are the messages and tweets that I’m getting from people all over Australia and the world, how people are digesting the album, how they’re feeling it and what songs they’re connecting with. Just how excited they are that we’ve finally brought something out, because they’ve been waiting there patiently. That’s the stuff that really means the most to me.”

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Horrorshow will play at the Sprung hip hop festival alongside 360, Drapht, Seth Sentry, Diafrix, Urthboy and many more at the Kevin Bartlett Sports Complex on Saturday October 19. King Amongst Many is out now on Elefant Traks. You can also catch them at the Corner Hotel on Thursday September 26 and Ding Dong Lounge on Sunday September 29. facebook.com/horrorshowcrew

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urban club guide snaps khokolat koated

wednesday august 28 Compression Session - Feat: Cassawarrior + Dd + Ricka E55, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. Soul Ensemble Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

thursday august 29 Pennies Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $6.

friday august 30 Chaise Fridays - Feat: Soulclap + DJ Claz + DJ Dirx + DJ Peril + DJ Sef Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm. Crew Love - Feat: DJ Tony Sunshine Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $15. DJ Thaddeus Doe The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. Faktory Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 2:55pm. Faktory - Feat: DJ Damion De Silva + DJ Durmy + DJ K Dee + DJ Yaths Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 9:30pm. Get Lit Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. Like Fridays - Feat: Broz + Dir-X + DJs Dinesh + Nyd + Sef + Shaggz + Shaun D La Di Da, Melbourne. 8:00pm. Rnb Superclub - Feat: Young Men Society Rnb Superclub, Southbank. 8:00pm. Studio Chasers, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $20. Sweet Nothing Fridays - Feat: DJ Marcus Knight + DJ Xander

James Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 9:00pm.

saturday august 31 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.

snaps faktory @ khokolat bar

monday september 2 Freedom Pass - Feat: Phil Ross + B-Boogie + Chris Mac + Dozza Co., Southbank. 10:30pm. Hip Hop Open Mic First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

tuesday september 3 Can I Kick It? Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

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be. @ co. level 3 crown

rhythm-al-ism @ eden

demarco Define your genre in five words or less: Reggae/dancehall/alternative. What do you hate about the music industry? Too many poorly produced records and too many people without any real musical skills that are trying to be artists. I think the industry should be reserved for persons with real talent, I know that I may be stepping on a few toes by saying this but whoever cries out is a no talent. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? I’ve had many releases, namely Fallen Soldiers, True Friends I Love My Life, Love A Come Down, among many others. They’re available on iTunes and many other online stores. Why should everyone come and see your band? Versatile music for all people, great fun music that they could all dance to and have a good time plus music that addresses social issues and the harsh realities of life. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Being able to please my audience and make music that inspire people in one way or another.

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What’s your favourite song, and why? I would have to say I Love My Life because it’s a personal song that I wrote and then decided to share it with the world. It eventually got over 25 million views on YouTube in the first year and helped me to sell out stadiums in Africa and several venues in over 60 cities worldwide. I’ve been to most of these venues before with previous hits but the responses intensified after this song and it made me feel real good that the world could relate that well to how I felt. Where would you like to be in five years? In the mainstream of course! Australian pop charts, etc. What advice would you give to bands that are new on the scene? Don’t be delusional, check to make sure that you have real talent, practice hard and promote your talent. If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be? Maroon Five. When are you playing live? Saturday September 7 at The Espy.

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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP

with Christie Eliezer * Stuff for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm BUSINESS ADVICE PROGRAM FOR INDIE LABEL OWNERS Release is a new five-stage program that will give practical advice on business models and alternatives to owners of indie labels. It includes two residential labs. The first, Tuesday November 26 to Friday November 29 in Sydney, will be hosted by music industry lawyer David Vodicka with business advisers including MGM’s Sebastian Chase, Vicious’ Colin Daniels and APRA’s Nicole Duckworth. Release is run by AMIN (the Australian Music Industry Network) through state organisations and funded by the Fed Government. See amin.org.au or air.org.au.

NO SAMBORA FOR JOVI TOUR AFTER ALL? It looks like Richie Sambora won’t be making it to Bon Jovi’s Australian dates. He originally speculated he’d be back on stage with them in September, but US gossip sites cite a source from within the BJ camp as saying he’s been sacked from the rest of the tour. Why Sambora left the tour is still a matter of speculation. Either he’s gone back to rehab or it’s a clash over money.

CHISEL FORM OWN LABEL, HEAD TO UNIVERSAL After 25 years with Warner Music, Cold Chisel are forming their own label Cold Chisel Music which will be distributed by Universal Music. It will only to release Chisel’s back catalogue which they got back from Warner (they’ve sold six million albums in total) and future releases.

iTUNES RADIO NEXT MONTH? The juice is that the long awaited iTunes launches next month in America. It will be an ad model with brands such as McDonald’s, Pepsi, Nissan and Procter & Gamble already signed on. Users will get an ad display every 15 minutes and a video ad every hour. They’ll access it via all iTunes-compliant devices including PCs, tablets, iPads, iPods, iPhones and Apple TVs.

LIVE NATION AND MIXITUP JOINT VENTURE Promoter Live Nation Australasia and Sydney brand entertainment agency mixitup Enterprises have formed a joint venture called mixitup Australia to create music and entertainment brand partnerships across Australia and New Zealand. Live Nation president Michael Coppel worked with mixitup back when he ran his promoter and events company Michael Coppel Presents on projects as V Festival and tours from Daft Punk and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

LAWSUIT OF THE WEEK US company Hewlett-Packard feels it’s getting stiffed by a lawsuit over its mobile phone app which allows men to measure the size of their penis. It launched in February with a great pun of a name, the Chubby Checker. Not chortling was ‘60s singer Chubby Checker, whose Let’s Twist Again launched the twist phenomenon of the time. (Born Ernest Evans, his own stage name was a pun on ‘50s rocker Fats Domino). Hewlett-Packard argues it didn’t create or name the app which has limply only sold 88 downloads.

THINGS WE HEAR * How did Isabella Manfredi celebrate as the $50,000 winner of the Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition for her This How You Feel? by The Preatures? She spent the afternoon in rehearsals with the band. That morning she’d made a t-shirt boldly declaring Fuck Tony Abbott’s Sex Appeal after his sex appeal gaffe. It was what she was photographed in by the media through the morning of the win. Manfredi was “amused and upset” the media whiteinked the message. Robert Conley took out the $10,000 second prize while Thelma Plum and Jasmine Nelson got $5,000 each. * Not celebrating his #1 ratings win was Kyle Sandiland, who blubbered to listeners that his dog Astro had been run over in front of girlfriend Imogen. * The Beatles split 43 years ago and two of ‘em are dead, but their music, DVD and merchandising sales made £43.5 million (A$74.94 million) last year. * Coolio is selling off his music catalogue rights including the giant hit Gangsta’s Paradise and 122 other songs. He hopes to make up to $225,000 to fund his new career as a chef for a cookbook series and online show. * Shihad took to Facebook to dispute a report in a Sunday newspaper that they were flying to war-torn Cairo to record a new album. Apparently they had intended to do so a month ago before Egypt exploded. “Given the recent events Shihad cancelled plans and wholeheartedly support the Egyptian people in their pursuit of a peaceful and lasting solution to the current unrest.”

* Ticketek’s pre-sale tickets exclusively for Bruce Springsteen fans ended with the sale of concerts being delayed as the system collapsed. But fans were more enraged that scalpers managed to infiltrate the event and are advertising $227.90 tickets for $499. Some even got eight-seat blocks. * Hottest photo on social media last week: a schoolgirl performing a sex act on a man at Eminem’s UK concert at Slane Castle in broad daylight front of other fans. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram moved to block the posted photos while cops spoke to the girl and her family. * It was an awesome week for Sydney indie dance trio RÜFÜS. Their Atlas debuted at #1 on the ARIA chart and they had to add more shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane due to popular demand. It’s the first time an album with the title Atlas went to #1. It is the 163rd #1 by an Australian act and the 323rd by a group. RÜFÜS are the 86th Australian act to go #1 since The Seekers in 1968 and the 51st Australian group. * New signings: ABC Music inked Adam Brand and singer / harpist Alana Conway, Alberts will represent Abbe May’s catalogue and new releases.

VA MUSIC LAUNCHES WITH THREE ACTS Australian/Asian company Valleyarm digital music distribution has set up its own VA Records which it launched last week at the Evelyn with sets from Melbourne hard rock act The House Of Honeys (currently in the studio with producer Steve James) and Sydney’s This Sanctuary. Their third signing is Adelaide boy band At Sunset which has a strong social media presence. Valleyarm CEO Gary Mackenzie told us that VA will focus on breaking the acts in Australia as well as in Asia where it has media assets and label and festival partners. This Sanctuary has just released from playing Jakarta with Suicidal Tendencies and Gossip and last year played Music Matters in Singapore. At Sunset, which this month finished recording an album, also signed a record deal in the Philippines with the RGMA division of the GMA media network.

SIMON CHRISTIAN SETS UP SULTAN MUSIC After ten years as a tour manager and working on festivals such as Soundwave Simon ‘Shrimp’ Christian has set up band management, booking and tour company Sultan Music. He says being on the road taught him where some managers let their clients down – bad communication, failed campaigns and poor planning. Sultan’s first signing is Melbourne metal six-piece Electrik Dynamite. “I’ve been a fan of theirs for a long time,” he told us. “We got to talking and realised we had mutual goals.” The band releases new music this year. Christian is contactable at management@ sultanmusic.com.au.

DEEZER SENDS SPENDER MUSIC TO 48 COUNTRIES Music streaming service Deezer gave Melbourne multiinstrumentalist and songwriter Spender a tremendous boost for his debut EP Modern Pest. Deezer’s global editors chose the record to be promoted in 48 countries. Deezer has also given him a “digital map” which told him which countries streamed him the most (Mexico, Russia and UK). The act from Northcote has Gotye, Clairy Browne and Mama Kin guesting on Modern Pest.

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Daft Punk’s Get Lucky has got over 100 million streams on Spotify since its April release. It got lucky on other platforms. The Official YouTube video hit 111,617,013 plays with 500,000 a day. It was receiving 1.5 million daily plays at its peak.

MATTHEW EVANS HEADS VILLAGE SOUNDS GROUP Matthew Evans, former Chief Financial Officer of EMI Music Australasia, has become the CEO of promoter Jessica Ducrou’s Byron Bay-based Village Sounds Group. This includes Village Sounds Agency, Splendour in the Grass, Homebake, Falls Festival, Secret Sounds Touring, Secret Sounds Connect and North Byron Parklands the purposebuilt home of Splendour and Falls.

SHOCK SIGNS SEABELLIES Shock Records signed Newcastle’s Seabellies, and will release its next album through its imprint Permanent Records. The album was made in Melbourne, Sydney and Berlin and a departure from By Limbo Lake from 2011. The act is also signed to 123 Red Booking and Alberts Publishing.

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News of Super Best Friends’ video for new single Round And Round got a run on political and current affairs TV and radio. The song is not only a timely groan about political spin and

24-hour media but the Melbourne indie-punks got the likes of PM Kevin Rudd, Opposition leader Tony Abbott, deputy PM Anthony Albanese, MPs Rob Oakeshott and Bob Katter, Greens leader Christine Milne and senator Nick Xenophon to appear in it. “Our bass player Matt Roberts spent a lot of his free time hanging around Parliament House and with his wit and charm managed to convince several federal politicians and well-known media personalities to be in our new film clip,” they said. Rudd tweeted a link to the video and said, “Good thing this election isn’t determined on our ability to dance.” How the thundering of an approaching election makes pollies available. Some also ended up guestprogramming rage.

ORMOND HALL EXPANDING MUSIC BOOKINGS The 750-capacity Ormond Hall in Prahran, one of the spaces in Village Melbourne (villagemelbourne.com.au), is expanding bookings for musical acts. Booker Suzy Dingle already programs regular comedy nights and cabaret shows. Ormond Hall has its place in music history especially in the ‘70s when it showcased underground acts and psychedelic light shows and hosted everyone from Dame Nelly Melba and AC/DC (but not the same show we presume). At this point, Dingle is booking through promoters and agents and can be contacted at suzy@villagemelbourne.com.au.

WANNA BE HEARD ON JOY 94.9? Thanks to funding from the City of Yarra, JOY 94.9 offers 10 fee-free scholarships to its Taste of Radio course. Over eight weeks (one x three hour class per week) from late October graduates obtain the skills and knowledge to create and deliver community radio. You have to live, work or play in the City of Yarra. Applications close 5pm, Friday September 20. See joy.org.au for more information.

POZIBLE LAUNCHES POP UP SHOP IN MELBOURNE Crowd-sourcing site Pozible gets its first physical presence in Melbourne with a Pop Up Shop Thursday October 3 Saturday October 19 at Fort Delta Gallery. It will feature the work of past crowdfunders and crowdfunding activities as artist talks, workshops, crafternoons and live music. It wants to raise $3,000 through crowd-funding to cover the cost of the gallery. See pozible.com/pozpopup for more details.

TANYA BATT GETS GLOBAL AIRPLAY Melbourne’s Tanya Batt scored global airplay for her first two singles, Secret Doors And Passageways as well as the new Atlas which is being aired on triple j and community radio. Ollie Winiberg of England’s BBC Radio 1 said she’s “better than Florence and The Machine.” Batt’s music is also aired on Typo outlets worldwide and in all international and domestic Qantas and Jetstar flights. She launches her Atlas EP at Toff In Town on Wednesday September 4.

PALACE THEATRE UPDATE Plans for the proposed plans for the hotel/apartment complex on the site of the Palace Theatre are deemed to be too high (100 metres when the limit for the area is 23) and does not retain the heritage listed facade of the theatre. Reports are that Melbourne City Council may discuss this matter next month, before passing recommendations onto Planning Minister Matthew Guy.

LIFELINES Engaged: One Direction’s Zayn Malik proposed to girlfriend Perrie Edwards during the premiere of the band’s new movie in London. Although rocked by the scandal that he cheated on her with an Australian waitress in London in January, he says he took four flights in 48 hours to spend time with Perrie. Split: singer Samantha Jade and Swedish music producer Christian Nilsson (Westlife, Backstreet Boys, Glee). They met when she was recording in Sweden then became a live-in couple in LA and Sydney. Divorcing: Black Keys singer Dan Auerbach’s marriage-unravel from wife Stephanie Gonis is not only increasingly bitter but weird. One of the assets she gets is a lock of Bob Dylan’s hair, a memorabilia beloved by Auerbach. Ill: Linda Ronstadt revealed she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease eight months ago and now can’t hold a note. Injured: The Calling singer Alex Band was kidnapped, beaten and left by train tracks after a gig in Michigan. He was walking to the local supermarket when a van pulled up alongside and he was dragged inside. Recovering: Beady Eye guitarist Gem Archer is set to “make a full recovery over the next few weeks” after his accident, the band said on their website. In Court: Kanye West won’t face charges over an attack on a photographer last month at LA airport. A video showed the man asking him questions and West ignoring him. He loses his cool, a row begins, he seizes the camera and a scuffle begins during which the photographer falls to the ground. After being told to stop by an onlooker he put up his hands and walked away. Suing: Lester Chambers, 73, of The Chamber Bros, is taking action of $5 million against Dinalynn Andrews-Potter, 43, who pushed him against the band’s amplifiers during a show. The verdict of black shooting victim Trayvon Martin had come in, and all around the world, rock musicians were expressing their anger or their sadness. Chambers dedicated the peace anthem People Get Ready to the victim and asked the audience to pray for him when attacked. Died: US promoter Sid Bernstein, 95, who brought The Beatles to Shea Stadium in 1965, the first rock act at the venue, and arranged The Rolling Stones’ first five US gigs. “The first dozen groups of the British Invasion were my imports,” he said. “But look, it was no stroke of genius. I was just doing my homework at the time.” Died: Joey Lacaze, drummer and co-founder of US act Eyehategod, 42, said metal blogs on weekend. They played CherryFest last November.

ANDY MATTHERS NEW GM IN GEELONG Andy Matthers starts as GM of Grant Broadcasters stations K-Rock and Bay-FM in Geelong on Monday September 30. He was once Promotion Manager there before he worked as sales manager at dmg Radio and GM of Star 104.5 on the NSW Central Coast. He replaces Dean Anglin who quit last month.

ARTWORK PROGRAM FUNDS ARTISTS WITH DISABILITY Victorian Coalition Government’s new ArtWORK program funds Victorian artists with disability to build their careers through tailored mentoring programs, coaching and training. Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria said, “Whether you’re an artist, an arts worker or an audience member, an inclusive arts sector benefits people of all ages, all backgrounds and all abilities.” It will be delivered through Arts Access Victoria (artsaccess.com.au).

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CHIEF Define your genre in five words or less: It depends on the song. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? People come over and tell me I sound like different specific artists all the time. I truly believe most people form their idea on who I sound like depending on what song they heard me play first. I don’t stand in the one spot for very long, it could be many different artists. From my experience, if you ask most people what sort of music they like they will tell you they like a bit of everything. I feel that way too and my albums and performances reflect that. What do you love about making music? You can use it to make people happy. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? I’d rather sit and have a drink with them and ask them some stuff. What can a punter expect from your live show? Great songs and variety of songs and a performance you will remember and most likely enjoy. 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? “You gotta check this guy out he’s

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awesome”. I overhear people say this from time to time. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? Two albums, Polyester Records, Thornbury Records, Missing Link, iTunes and chiefsongs.com What’s your favourite song, and why? Of my own? At the moment, Down because of the chorus and guitar solo, it will make your body release endorphins, every time, I promise. What advice would you give to bands that are new on the Melbourne music scene? Network. Talk and listen to people and find people that you like and like you and don’t think about the scene as a competition. Think about it as a family. Sometimes your sister or brother gets all the attention and sometimes you do. CHIEF plays at The Retreat Hotel on Wednesday September 4.

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GOATS HEAD SOUP TRIBUTE

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

The Rolling Stones’ 11th studio album, Goats Head Soup, was released 40 years ago this month. Featuring the well-known single Angie, the album was a commercial success upon release, but since then has somewhat faded from recognition. This Saturday evening, Melbourne rock’n’roll luminary (and admitted Rolling Stones tragic), Nick Barker, hits the Cherry Bar stage with some dexterous companions to perform the album in its entirety. Barker explains he was introduced to Goats Head Soup at a very young age and the album continues to hold special significance for him. “I’ve always been a really big fan of that particular record. I was probably nine or ten and my older sister bought it when it came out. I’ve still got that vinyl she bought in 1973.” Unlike the string of Stones albums that immediately preceded it (Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile On Main St.) Goats Head Soup isn’t readily deemed a classic. However, Barker thinks the album ought not be tossed aside. “When anybody has a body of work like the Stones do people are going to obviously have favourites. They had such a purple patch, I guess a lot of people see Goats Head Soup as the end of The Rolling Stones’ golden-age. I personally disagree because I love Some Girls and I love Black and Blue. I just reckon Goats Head Soup is one that slipped under the radar.” Given the album’s relative obscurity, the onstage re-enactment is likely to attract especially devoted fans and Barker acknowledges they’ll have to be cautious to not blaspheme against the songs. “It’s not one that’s got all the hits on it really. Hopefully it will get the real hardcore Stones fans out there, which adds its own pressure.” Having been a lifelong fan, The Rolling Stones form a major part of Barker’s musical DNA. Despite this he says preparations for the gig have revealed some surprising features within the songs. “You tend to think Stones records pretty much play themselves because you know them so well. Goat’s Head Soup, there’s a lot more to it than meets the initial eye, which I’ve discovered much to my anxiety. They went in to the studio and just set up for weeks and kind of wrote the songs in the studio so a lot of it’s really jammy, with these really nutty pieces in the arrangements.” At a glance, Goats Head Soup does appear to be a rather jam-based affair, which disguises many song writing intricacies. Barker admits that certain songs proved quite difficult to learn, but they were determined not to deviate too far from the album versions. “We’ve had things where we’ve sat there, all of us fairly seasoned musicians, going ‘what is that? That doesn’t make any sense at all.’ There’s that challenge where you go ‘we don’t need to do that, people won’t notice,’ but then there’s that part of you that’s nagging ‘well come on, take up the challenge and do it.’” People can sometimes neglect that the first couple of decades of The Rolling Stones’ career were characterised by consistent innovation that vastly broadened the parameters of rock music. Barker relates his belief that the band existed on their own terms, evading the prevalent movements of the time. “They make daring records. I just finished reading a book about the early-mid ‘70s and things were changing a lot. There was all these big supergroups, like The Eagles, in America at the time and I like the way the Stones didn’t get sucked into any of that.”

“GOAT’S HEAD SOUP, THERE’S A LOT MORE TO IT THAN MEETS THE INITIAL EYE, WHICH I’VE DISCOVERED MUCH TO MY ANXIETY.” Barker has assembled a classy band to perform at the tribute show, including drummer Ash Davies and guitarist Shane O’Mara. Rather than being a revolving door of musicians, the collective will seamlessly present the album from start to finish and Barker has opted to sing the whole record himself. “Because it was so close to my heart, and so close to Shane O’Mara’s heart, I really pushed to actually put a band together and do the whole record myself, which was probably pretty greedy. I’m singing everything, very egotistical of me I know. For some reason I tend to be able to sing Stones songs pretty good. I don’t know what it is, there’s something I get about Mick Jagger’s phrasing,” he says. Unsurprisingly, Barker indicates that readying themselves for the show by becoming immersed in Goats Head Soup’s diverse textures has proved an enlightening endeavour. “Whenever you dissect anything, you take something out of it. Shane never does this kind of thing and he’s been raving about how much he’s learnt, just by sitting down and learning Keith Richards and Mick Taylor’s guitar parts. He’s almost got a PhD on Keith Richards in his head at the moment,” he enthuses. The night will no doubt gather many Stones-lovers together to bask in the music’s enduring relevance and Barker describes the thrill it will be to perform the record. “If you’re a musician, these sorts of things are too tempting to not do. You always say ‘I don’t want to play covers,’ but when you get an opportunity to do a Stones record you jump at it. Basically they’re just good fun these nights, we’re not trying to do anything monumental. It’s just a bit of a hoot really.” Nick Barker performs THE ROLLING STONE’S GOATS HEAD SOUP 40TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE at Cherry Bar on Saturday August 31. Beat Magazine Page 32

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BEASTS OF BOURBON BY JODY MACGREGOR

This year, the Beasts of Bourbon turn 30. However, as guitarist Spencer P. Jones is quick to remind me, “half the band are over 50 now.” They were much younger back in August of 1983 of course, when their frontman Tex Perkins first put the group together. He’d booked a run of shows for his then band Tex Deadly and the Dum-Dums but been left high and dry, forced to find replacements at the last minute. He did pretty well, rounding up Jones as well as James Baker from the Hoodoo Gurus and two members of The Scientists, Kim Salmon and Boris Sudjovic. That version of the Beasts had their debut album, The Axeman’s Jazz, in the can by October of the same year, a swampy Australian take on American blues and country tropes that’s still among the best records ever to come out of Australia. Although they’ve been through plenty of changes in the years since, two things have remained constant: Tex Perkins growling the words and Spencer P. Jones making his guitar churn. “We’ve had our ups and downs over the years, like everyone else,” Jones says with a little understatement. “I think I was gonna quit the band one time and then I thought about it and I rang everyone up a few days later, said, ‘Look, uh, I’m not gonna quit the band.’ I had my moment but I didn’t stick to my guns, I decided to go back to the group and I’m glad I did because there were more adventures to be had.” Nowadays there are no thoughts of quitting, however. “Everyone’s getting along, everyone’s pretty healthy. It’s cool.” Jones puts their longevity down to the fact that though there’s a lot of years between now and their formation, in between there were plenty of side projects and gaps. “We didn’t exist for any long period of time. We always, when we got together and played, it was always very briefly and that’s kept it all interesting for everybody. Each time we got together there’d be fresh ideas, new material, that kind of thing.” It also made every time they managed to come together again feel like an event. “Not being in people’s face that whole time, it gives people a chance to miss us.” To celebrate their 30th birthday, over three nights, three different incarnations of Beasts of Bourbon will play songs from different eras – the original crew, the version of the band who recorded The Low Road in 1991, and the current lineup. That original version got together earlier this year for their re-formation gig at All Tomorrow’s Parties, a well-received set overall, though it did include one surprise in the middle. Their thudding, discordant song Playground, according to Jones, had people “cringing and white-knuckle gripping the chairs” as he relates with glee. “It’s our big industrial number. People were like, ‘That was a really great set but there was one song in the middle I really hated,’” he says, barely able to keep himself from laughing at the memory. “And I’m thinking, ‘this is great, this one tune that has this effect on people. They really dislike it!’ We’ve always enjoyed confronting people like that, so that song stays in. I’m looking forward to playing that one in fact, looking forward to seeing the disappointment and annoyance on people’s faces.”

“I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO PLAYING THAT [SONG] IN FACT, LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE DISAPPOINTMENT AND ANNOYANCE ON PEOPLE’S FACES.” But there are also songs from various points in their catalogue that even the bloody-minded Spencer P. Jones isn’t looking forward to hearing again. “I’ve always had a couple of songs I didn’t like playing,” he says, “and they weren’t always in the set so it didn’t bother me, but there’s gonna be one in one of the sets, one of the lineups, that I’m not keen on playing. But you don’t need to know what song that is!” As part of the birthday celebration, the Beasts picked out three live recordings representing each era and packaged them together as the compilation 30 Years of Borrowed Time. A recording from All Tomorrow’s Parties is joined by one from Festival Hall and one from the Byron Bay Blues Festival. “When you do a festival, your first song is gonna suffer because that’s when the sound guy is getting his shit together,” Jones says, “so I think we dropped the version of Chase The Dragon from the Byron Bay gig, which was the first song on the day. But it’s on the Festival Hall show so it doesn’t matter that’s not on there. We tried to get as many tracks on as possible so there are songs that are in common, like there’s two versions of Let’s Get Funky for example. I think that will be of some interest to some people, some guitar nerds I know.” The ATP gig was originally planned as a one-off reunion but, seven months later, the Beasts are still together. Jones says that there’s no plan to stop now, although it’s just the current lineup that will carry on. But whether or not they’ll record again is another matter. “That depends how creative everyone gets, you know? I’ve always been able to pull a couple of new songs out of the hat. If you give me a date that the Beasts are supposed to be in the recording studio I assure you that I will turn up with six songs, no problem.” BEASTS OF BOURBON’s three-disc live album, 30 Years of Borrowed Time, will be available at their St Kilda Memo concerts, Thursday August 29 (original lineup), Friday August 30 (Low Road lineup) and Saturday August 31 (current lineup). DISCUSS WHAT? BEAT.COM.AU/DISCUSSION

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THE NAKED AND FAMOUS BY AUGUSTUS WELBY It’s been three years since The Naked and Famous released their debut record, Passive Me, Aggressive You. After seeing through a comprehensive global touring schedule, the New Zealand five-piece relocated to Los Angeles to record their second album, In Rolling Waves. The new record is out early September, and guitarist Thom Powers explains that while on tour the band were consistently working on new ideas. “We definitely had stuff to start working on. We’d had a couple of really cool studio sessions while we were touring, just different little periods where we had two weeks off here and there, and I’d always been working on my laptop.” A major issue bands face when recording their second album, particularly following an album as successful as Passive Me, Aggressive You, is meeting the public and industry expectations for an extension of the first release. However, Powers explains that his personal projections for the album were actually more demanding than outside pressures. “I think maybe the hardest thing about doing the second record was my own expectations of myself; the things that I wanted to do, the things that I wanted to achieve for me. I didn’t want to repeat myself, I wanted to feel like I’d done something decent the second time.” The obvious path to follow up Passive Me, Aggressive You could have either been rehashing the same formula or hiring several pop producers to make an album full of radio-oriented singles. However, In Rolling Waves is selfproduced and Powers gives details of the band’s artistic determination. “We definitely had this drive and this plan and this energy, we’re very much in control of everything that’s happening with us, then eight months later we were like ‘ok, here you go record label this is what we’ve got, this is where we’re going’.”

Considering the chart success The Naked and Famous experienced with their debut, they might alternatively have looked to shun the mainstream affiliation, but Powers states they’re completely at peace with the position their first record launched them into. “I didn’t feel at any point like abandoning anything that I’ve achieved, either did we as a band. The aesthetic appeal that we’ve created, we’re very proud of it. The idea of building on that takes more conscious thought than simply saying ‘oh I hate everything on the first record,’ which is a temperamental and volatile thing for musicians to say.” Powers elaborates that he has no inclination to dismiss anything they’ve created and hopes to maintain a positive relationship with their fans, while also expanding the band’s palette. “I feel privileged and grateful to all the fans that love our first record and I hope that this record is exciting for them and also new to them like it is for me. There’s definitely no sense of abandoning anything, it was definitely about building-on and going forwards, which is more challenging I think.” It could be hard to get away from comparing the fortunes of the second album to the first album. Powers admits that he gives thought to sales figures, but says they aren’t really a relevant concern when composing music. “I think if I had the

formula for how to write the perfect commercial pop song then I would have just cashed in, but I make music that I feel challenges me and excites me and I think that we’ve made a record that people will connect with.” Rather than shying away from commercial appeal, Powers explains that gathering and maintaining a widespread fanbase is actually a paramount intention.“I don’t believe when artists say they just do it for themselves, because if they were doing it for themselves then they wouldn’t be on a record label and they wouldn’t have management and they wouldn’t be looking for an audience. I love the idea of having an audience. It’s more exciting than sitting in a room and making music for my own pleasure.” Something else artists tend to get rather precious about is the genre labels that are projected onto them. Pigeonholing bands in certain categories can strongly influence who pays attention to the music. Powers acknowledges this potential side-effect of being labelled but he doesn’t

get seriously offended by how the Naked and Famous are classified. “We get thrown in the synth-pop barrel and electro-pop and these kinds of very now terms. One side of me is like ‘oh that’s a bummer,’ because we’re really an alternative rock band and we do lots of heavy stuff and lots of quite emotionally driven stuff. At the same time it’s pretty cool to be included in a sub-culture of something that’s happening right now. To me, that’s kind of flattering, because the alternative was me back working my day job, living in New Zealand.”

peak of our renown.” The song Dogs Are The Best People is arguably The Fauves most well-known song and its playful chorus was sung far and wide across festivals and bedrooms from 1996 to 1998. The chorus’ lyrics are, “Now there’s a church, there is a steeple/ Dogs are the best people.” Personally, I interpreted these lyrics as stating that girlfriends will want to get married one day but dogs are happy just being dogs. Cox is quick to dismiss my intellectualisation by explaining, “We were always quite surprised how it connected with people. I always really saw it as a statement on the nature of people – mistrust and betrayal and I guess dogs don’t do that so the underlying sentiment was ‘if dogs are the best people what are people?’ But no one ever picked up on that they were always like ‘you must like dogs’ and it took on this life of being about dogs whereas I always intended it to have a much darker sentiment.”

Finally, Cox delights over the support band for the Corner show, Doctor’s Orders that are in fact a Fauves cover band featuring young(ish) Melbourne musicians Jarred Kennedy, Jarred Long, Sam Spurgeon and Jon-Lee Farrell. “Doctor’s Orders just really appealed to us on a perverse level that there was this band who a) covered Fauves songs and b) only played Phil’s songs. It just seemed bizarre; we just had to get them. Beyond that, Phil, he is terrible at remembering his own songs, so that means a lot of songs we don’t do anymore because he can’t remember how to play them. We’re also interested in what songs they might dig up that we don’t do anymore.”

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS have been announced to play the 2014 Big Day Out festival on Friday January 24 at Flemington Racecourse, joining headliners Blur, Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire. In Rolling Waves will be released on September 13 through Fiction Records/ Universal.

THE FAUVES

BY DAN WATT

It is very easy as city dwelling indie cunts to disregard the importance of the Essendon drugs fiasco because in the scheme of your Artist/Entertainer P3 USA Visa it means very little. But if you’re a kid from the suburbs, Hird and Co.’s subjugation of the game’s core principles – mateship and integrity - cuts to the bone of any person who has held a Sherrin. When your correspondent was 15, I had two things in my life: footy and masturbation. I remember running a warm-up lap for Mt Eliza Redlegs at the Wooralla Drive ground quietly singing a pretty cool song at the time called Self-Abuser that featured the lyrics “Hey hey hey hey self abuser, beating off used to make me feel like loser.” It was by a band called The Fauves and the song offered a whimsical insight into a paradox of manhood. Now as a 31 year old I ask myself, ‘why does this moment resonate with me?’ Is it because I could relate to it and it was delivered in an Australian accent over Seattle style grunge? In the lead up to The Fauves’ 25th Anniversary gig at the Corner Hotel this Saturday, singer and guitarist Andrew “Coxy” Cox took some time to discuss why his band resonated so strongly with ‘90s Australia. “Our music really reflected our lives and what we were going through and people in similar situations really related with our songs.” He now relates directly to my personal anecdote, “You talk about going to training down at Wooralla Drive. Me and Doctor both played footy for Mt Eliza and now Doctor’s son plays for Mt Eliza. I suppose our music really reflected who we were. We all grew up in the outer-suburbs and our music has always spoken of that, we’ve never tried to sing

about city-centric themes like buying drugs off the streets New York, we’d be more likely to sing about playing cricket in your backyard,” he laughs warmly. The Fauves formed at Mt Eliza High School in 1988 as Coxy, Philip “Doctor” Leonard (guitar/vocals) and Adam “Doug” Newey (drums). In 1993 the band signed to the now defunct major label Polydor and put out two albums that performed poorly sales wise, Drive Through Charisma (1993) and The Young Need Discipline (1994). However, in 1996 The Fauves released Future Spa that featured the aforementioned song Self-Abuser as well as Dogs Are The Best People. The album was a hit with both singles racking up plenty of airtime on triple j and seeing the band going from playing The Punter’s Club to selling-out the Corner. Coxy, now in an incredibly self-critical manner, talks about The Fauves rise to notoriety, ““We got signed to Polydor in 1993 and put out two very, very unsuccessful albums on Polydor and that’s probably a luxury that bands don’t get these days. I mean we released two albums that only sold about 1000 copies each and most bands probably would’ve been dumped at that point. So Future Spa came out in ’96 and had three singles that got a fair bit of play on triple j. So ’96 to ’98 was when we pulled our biggest crowds and the

THE FAUVES 25th anniversary gig takes place at the Corner Hotel on Saturday August 31.

WALK OFF THE EARTH BY JOSHUA KLOKE

It will be the first trip to Australia for Gianni Luminati, and he’s already preparing to answer questions on one subject: how his band’s eclectic cover of Somebody I Used To Know by local hero Gotye garnered over 150 million YouTube views and how the band’s popularity was subsequently affected. And while Walk Off The Earth, the reggae-infused pop fivepiece have been making music together for seven years, they saw their popularity skyrocket almost immediately after the band posted a video of the song, in which all five members cover the 2011 hit by only playing one guitar. Their take does justice to the song’s intoxicating sway, but as Luminati speaks at length about his band’s history and approach, it becomes clear there’s much more to Walk Off The Earth than that cover. “We had no idea whatsoever,” says Luminati of the video’s ascent into the viral video Hall of Fame. “We knew that we wanted to make cool videos and we had a few thousand views on YouTube with our older videos, which was pretty awesome of course. “So we knew we were going in that direction,” he continues from his home in Burlington, Ontario, just under an hour West of Toronto. “But I had no idea that we were going to end up doing what we actually did. I actually wasn’t that happy with the finished product when we finished recording. So we definitely had no idea.” For all the surprise Luminati and the band feel towards the initial success of the video, the band is now preparing to play the song live Beat Magazine Page 34

for crowds that have become as inundated with the track as clubbers in Seoul have been with Gangnam Style. As I press Luminati more about the cover and how it will affect the band moving forward into their first Australian tour, he remains resilient. With the release of their third fulllength R.E.V.O (Which contains Somebody I Used To Know), Luminati doesn’t believe they’ve become pigeon-holed by the song. “Not at all,” he forcefully maintains, “Sure, we get asked about it by interviewers all the time, but never once at one of our shows have we had one of our fans shout out, ‘Please play the Gotye song!’ or anything like that. Our fans have a lot of respect for our original material and we don’t have any shame in doing covers, we just like putting our own twists on good songs.” For Luminati and Walk Off The Earth, they’re simply following in the time-honoured tradition of paying homage to their favourite artists with a well-arranged cover. “It’s something that’s been done by original artists for many years now; Elvis played a ton of covers, Dolly Parton did covers, what we’re doing is nothing new. It’s nothing we’re ashamed of. [Somebody I Used To Know] is always going to be a part of us and we’ll play it at our live shows. I don’t think

we’re pigeon-holed by it at all.” R.E.V.O doesn’t represent a huge departure in terms of approach and sonic language for the band. They’re still employing simplistic, light-hearted rhythms that attempt to give weight to their lazy, summertime state of mind. Yet R.E.V.O is the band’s first album on a major label and will likely lead to even greater exposure for the band. Luminati might not concede that R.E.V.O isn’t a huge jump for the band, but he does believe that in time, changes in the band’s sound could be afoot. “The more opportunities we have, the more comfortable we feel stretching our legs out and trying new, different things,” he admits. “It’s not too weird for us to do anything really, and I’m glad we’ve set ourselves up like that.” The unique approach Walk Off The Earth took on their

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cover of the Gotye classic may then be a sign of things to come. For Gianni Luminati, blending a visual element to the music they make is only part of his larger vision. “I’ve always wanted to make music more visual. It was hard to find people that were down with trying new stuff and taking risks,” he says. “When we first started playing, we tried to employ a level of the visual experience in our early shows, and things have steadily progressed. So we ran with it.”

WALK OFF THE EARTH are appearing at this year’s Harvest festival, which will be held at Werribee Park on Sunday November 10. R.E.V.O is out now through Sony.

XAVIER RUDD BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

Prior to his forthcoming Australian tour this September, Xavier Rudd completed a run of sold-out dates across Europe and North America in support of his seventh album, Spirit Bird. Profiting from the overseas market can require constant work, however Rudd indicates that maintaining relevance in both Europe and America hasn’t been a painful conquest. “I do really good [there]. I’ve been lucky all over the place really, I’ve got a good following that comes to see me everywhere I go.” The wide-spread appreciation for Rudd’s music can be attributed to much more than good luck. Upholding a distinct artistic identity through many years of touring has led to amassing a considerable following worldwide. “I’ve been touring internationally now for about 13 years, so I’ve built up my fanbase as I’ve gone. It’s all been through live touring and doing what I do and keeping it real, not really changing anything for any reason, just doing shows. People seem to dig it,” he says. After 13 years of being a travelling troubadour, Rudd knows how to optimally manage life out on the road but he explains that living such an unsteady existence did take time to get used to. “It’s a bit of trial and error on the road. Especially the overseas thing, it’s a different beast to travelling in Australia. I’m lucky enough to be doing the numbers that we can make it pretty comfortable, in a tour bus. If you’ve got to fly or you’re in a van that’s a whole other ball of wax. Doing it in a bus is pretty groovy, you just go to bed in the bus and wake up in the next city.” Rudd’s comfortable position positively impacts on the quality of his performances, however he underlines that a prosperous approach to tour-life isn’t simply achieved. “Learning how to get your rest is a craft and it’s not as easy as it sounds. It always makes for better shows. And also making sure you’ve got the right energy around you, the right people on the road, because if

you’ve got the wrong people around they can drain you pretty quickly.” The irregularity of the touring lifestyle is also infamous for hindering the creative impulse, however Rudd indicates that a full-on schedule doesn’t greatly interfere with his writing habits. “Music just comes for me, it doesn’t matter where it is. It just comes when it’s ready. That can be surfing, it can be going for a run, it can be sitting around under a tree on tour.” Rudd elaborates that, in relation to his unplanned method of song construction, he doesn’t set out with specific aims for the direction of his albums. “They always change, even unintentionally. I’m not sure why that is, it just happens. I’ve never really had that moment where I’m thinking ‘I need to do this differently’. It’s sort of been fresh ideas all the time so I don’t have to really consider that.” Rather than adhering to a detailed brief of what he’d like to achieve musically, Rudd’s organic approach to song writing allows his life experiences to intertwine with his music. “With the song writing it’s more about what’s going on in my life, as opposed to what’s going on musically. The spirit that’s with me, the emotion, the journey that I’m on is what shapes the music and it’s always changing. It seems like the music always changes with it. Or maybe the music changes ahead of it and I learn from that. It’s a hard one to pinpoint,” he considers. Rudd refrains from making self-important claims of ownership over what he creates and posits the belief

“I SEE MY MUSIC A LITTLE BIT LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER. I WOULDN’T TELL MY GRANDMOTHER WHAT TO WEAR TO CHURCH. I RESPECT MY MUSIC THE SAME WAY.

that his music exists separately from him. “I see my music a little bit like my grandmother. I wouldn’t tell my grandmother what to wear to church. I respect my music the same way. I understand that it comes through and I’m a bit of a vessel for it and often times I feel like I can’t really be responsible for it. It comes from another place. I try not to involve my mind in it, try not to involve my ego; just letting it be what it is when it comes through in its raw form and leaving it that way.” Donovan Frankenreiter and Nahko and Medicine for the People will be joining Rudd on the September tour of Australia. A recent update to Rudd’s live show is the addition of drummer Bobby Alu and Rudd speaks enthusiastically about introducing his new onstage partner to Australian audiences. “I’m playing with Bobby Alu on the drums. We’re doing a duo thing which is really cool – he’s an amazing drummer.”

The large-capacity venues in all major cities are quickly selling out, which is evidence of Rudd’s enduring significance. He explains that it’s become apparent he’s outlasted many of his former peers. “I used to feel like I was the young guy coming up, but when you’ve done post-10 years on the circuit, not a lot of acts last that long. There’s more stories of bands getting successful then petering away, than people doing the long haul. I feel like there’s a real element of respect for me out on the road. I have young bands coming up and saying they used to listen to me when they were kids. It makes me feel a bit older.” XAVIER RUDD plays two shows at the Forum, Wednesday October 2 and Thursday October 3 (sold-out). Spirit Bird is out now through Universal.

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ALL TIME LOW BY JOSHUA KLOKE When Alex Gaskarth, vocalist and rhythm guitarist for All Time Low answers the phone and fills me in on where he’s doing the interview, I’m a little surprised. “I’m at home in Maryland,” says the 25 year old. It’s surprising that I was able to catch Gaskarth at home, given the poppunk act’s recent touring schedule. Between the months of July and September, All Time Low will perform in nine different countries – including Brazil, China and Australia – across five different continents. Sounding relaxed and refreshed, Gaskarth is completely upfront about how important this intense globetrotting is to the band. “To be completely honest, I think that’s what keeps this band going. It’s the primary way of keeping this band going and spreading the word. It’s what we do, and we do it as best as we can.” Ultimately for Gaskarth and All Time Low, who’ve been together since 2003 yet first emerged in 2005 with their debut full-length The Party Scene, touring has become a necessity for their survival. “We haven’t had a ton of support from mainstream radio,” he says, “So the best way we can go about things with this band is by travelling to these places and playing these concerts and making sure people leave having had a good time.” The band’s jet-setting pace has become a way of life for the four members. Not many bands are able to count three Australian tours in their first ten years of existence. The members of All Time Low, who’ve played Soundwave twice, now consider the festival to be one of the better ones they’ve played. “I give Australia a lot of props for that festival,” he notes, undoubtedly smiling on the other end of the line. “It’s one of the best run and most comfortable festivals to be a part of. They do a great job at taking care of all the bands, especially those who aren’t from Australia and who’ve travelled a long way to be there. It can be a bit rattling when

everyone travels together, all the bands. But there ends up being a great sense of camaraderie between all the bands, despite the long distances we have to travel. I’ve always had a really good time.” Every time All Time Low visit a new country, it seems, according to Gaskarth at least, that they play different and very often larger venues. Consider their most recent performance in London, during which the band opened for Green Day, playing the massive 60,000-capacity Emirates Stadium. As Gaskarth tells it, intimidation regarding playing new venues occurs, but it quickly gives way to a more comfortable emotion. “It’s less intimidation and more excitement. We’ve never had an experience where we’ve been booed offstage, or where we’ve been too worried to go tour a new place. We really just get excited when we have the opportunity to go to a new place; for us that means making new fans.” “From our experience, when we encounter a new place we just have to continue to nurture it and keep coming back to have any kind of presence there,” he continues, employing a surprisingly DIY-approach to their aesthetic. Now ten years into their career, All Time Low has also experienced the benefit of being able to pick and choose which venues they’d like to perform at. With five albums

under their belt, including their latest, 2012’s incredibly upbeat Don’t Panic, All Time Low has reached an enviable position: ensuring their fans receive the most intimate show possible, while still experimenting with different stages while they can. “There’s two that I prefer,” says Gaskarth when asked if there was now a certain type of venue he prefers. “Anywhere that’s got a capacity of 1,000-5,000 because you don’t have that feeling of separation from the crowd. You can still really see all the faces and a big part of our band is crowd interaction. When we play massive festivals, and recently, when we’ve been opening for Green Day, we have to alter the dynamic of our show a bit to cater to these larger audiences. Sometimes I think that takes away from what we do best, which is carry on with the crowd on a personal level, be it with banter between us and the crowd, whatever.” “At the same time though, playing in front of 60,000 people is a very incredible experience,” he continues, sounding genuinely amazed. “The more it happens, the more we

grow into it. If we continue to play shows that size, we’ll eventually find our comfort zone I’m sure.” If anything, finding a comfort zone within a lifestyle that requires constant change has remained the easiest part of the job for All Time Low. Video interviews with band members allude to a closeness and camaraderie between band members that can often become strained when spending long periods of time together travelling. Yet as Gaskarth tells it, the band wouldn’t be able to see the world if it weren’t for that very closeness. “We grew up together; we met in high school. Now, more than ever, we’re having more fun on the road because it feels like family. It’s very easy to tolerate people when they’re as close to you as they are. It’s important to have that dynamic.”

artwork that Payne describes as something that “coincides with the whole album concept. Something timeless and something that makes you feel reminiscent. We wanted to make an album that might’ve come out ten years ago or 20 years ago and still be relevant.” The cover is a sunset hued image of a hand holding a lit firework and just as easily seems like an old dug up Polaroid as it does a filtered Instagram snap. As they gear up to take part in the return of the Australian Vans Warped Tour, The Dangerous Summer will be joined by the likes of Simple Plan, The Offspring and Parkway Drive. Promising to regale the audience with some old-

fashioned punk stylings, Cody admits “We’re probably going to be playing a fair amount of our new record… we’re going to keep it as fast and hard as possible for everyone. I doubt we’ll be playing any of our slower ballads.” The Dangerous Summer just found their voice.

our side shows were better than the festival shows. We did some really good shows with Gojira and Mastadon, and just had a lot of fun.” Vidar also feels that the band have improved as a live unit markedly since their last visit, so Aussie punters coming to the shows can expect an even greater live experience than last time. “People will get a pretty good mix of the two records that we’ve done,” he reveals, “and I think they’ll see a better band than they saw the last time. Also, when we came over last time, our drummer went to surgery, so he couldn’t do the tour. So we had a session drummer, and he did a great job, but you’ll kind of see the real deal this time around.” At this stage, after only five or six months since the release

of the latest album, the band are focusing virtually all of their efforts on touring the world, and so not a great deal of writing is going on for the next Kvelertak album. But Vidar assures us that when the time comes, they will get stuck into writing their next opus. “We haven’t done much writing,” he says. “We have been working on one new song, but it’s far from done. We’re just focused on touring right now. Whenever it’s time to sit down and do something, I’m sure it’ll happen pretty fast this time.”

ALL TIME LOW hit up Billboard on Saturday August 31 for an 18+ show, followed by an all-ages performance on Sunday September 1.

THE DANGEROUS SUMMER BY ISABELLA UBALDI

“Everyone who thinks I’ve been wearing out my voice obviously hasn’t seen me live; I just got my voice.” In case you missed it, The Dangerous Summer is all grown up now, and frontman AJ Perdomo is using Twitter to cement it. Three albums down, The Dangerous Summer has evolved into a courageous, audibly passionate band. Guitarist, Cody Payne is one half of the band’s founding members and is gearing up for a show in Utah as we chat about new records, new directions, old times and that voice. It’s no secret the band have had a shake up over the past year. Having replaced two of its former members with Matt Kennedy (former The Graduate guitarist) and 1994’s drummer, Ben Cato, the boys revisit our headphones with an incarnation of The Dangerous Summer that is decidedly more intense with the aptly named Golden Record. It’s all encompassing with energetic drum rolls and pensive melodies. Payne explains it’s a collection of songs that “a few years ago I never would’ve expected us to write, so I guess it’s cool to show some people that I guess didn’t listen to us before that might be turned onto us now because of the direction we’ve taken with some of the songs.” Having just been given the number one New Alternative Artist, it’s clear that people are certainly sitting up and listening. Despite the records early successes, many a seasoned band member will attest that new directions equate to new criticisms. With many confusing Perdomo’s vocal intensity

for aggressive shouting it’s little wonder he took to Twitter for a little venting. This delivery, both live and on the record is something that Payne explains was entirely deliberate. “I mean that was kind of what we were aiming for. We wanted for it to be a little more punk rock, a little more raw. Something that made you kind of feel the passion in the vocals.” Indeed the album is all passion. This is a band that puts its heart on its tattooed sleeves and probably explains their dedicated and involved fans, most of which feel as if they’ve grown up with the boys. The Dangerous Summer was spawned in Cody and AJ’s final years of high school nearly ten years ago in Ellicott City, Maryland. Payne explains it’s not a particularly rock ‘n’ roll destination but it was the inspiration behind one of the album’s highlight tracks, Catholic Girls. “For us, we’ve mentioned a lot of people who have been supporting us along the way. It’s just kind of like remembering what it was like back then when we first started and all that.” The Golden Record is the ultimate reflection of where the band currently stands: hopeful and ambitious, grateful and renewed. It’s evident in everything from lyrical themes about past regrets and life mistakes to the dreamy album

THE DANGEROUS SUMMER will be jumping aboard the Australian Vans Warped Tour 2013, which will be stopping off in Melbourne on Saturday December 7 at a yet to be disclosed venue. Golden Record is available now through Hopeless Records.

KVELERTAK BY ROD WHITFIELD

For the uninitiated, the word ‘kvelertak’ is a Norwegian one, meaning ‘chokehold’, and it’s a highly appropriate one for this six-piece from Stavanger in that frozen Scandinavian country. An irresistible fusion of rock, metal, hardcore and most of all punk, this band have exploded out of the great white North in the last five years. They’ve certainly gained a stronghold over heavy music fans in such a relatively short span of time. Guitarist and keyboardist Vidar Landa, speaking from his home in Norway, agrees that it has indeed been a very steady rise for them, but is quick to point out that there is a limit to that – even in their homeland, where their last album Meir went to number one. “Yeah, things have happened pretty quickly,” he says, “but we’ve also been tour after tour after tour. It’s been good for us to see that after every tour it’s been building up to what it is now. It’s been steady, pretty fast compared to maybe a lot of other bands.” So are you guys rock stars in Norway now? “Yeah, we’re not Justin Bieber,” he laughs, “but it’s definitely changed a little bit in the last couple of years.” This is at least partly due to that broad appeal, as previously mentioned. Fans of many different genres of heavy music can appreciate the music of Kvelertak, and they deliver their music with an exuberance that is truly infectious. Again, Vidar agrees. “Yeah, I would definitely say that,” he states, “that’s been our goal the whole time. Within the band we listen to a lot of different genres, so if we can please everyone in the band we can please a lot of other people I think. “We did spend a lot of time before recording anything, Beat Magazine Page 36

we started out in 2006 and instead of doing a record and then finding a sound, we spent those first years getting everything together before we released anything, which I think was pretty smart for us.” The band have visited our shores once before, which was for last year’s Soundwave Festival. Come mid September, the band will be here again, this time for their own run of headline shows. The tour pulls into Melbourne on Tuesday September 17, when they play the Corner Hotel, and Vidar is very happy that the band is coming to do their own shows this time around. “We’re really excited,” he replies, when asked how he feels about coming back to Australia, “last time was Soundwave, so we’re stoked to be coming back! We’ve only been to Australia that one time.” Any memories of the Soundwave trip? “It was pretty much just one big party,” he chuckles, “and a lot of good shows. It was awesome, Soundwave was really good, I would say that

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Catch KVELERTAK when they play the Corner Hotel on Tuesday September 17.

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Poison City Records have revealed somewhat of an all-star band will join their already killer roster this year. Freak Wave consists of members of Kill Whitey, MYC, Blueline Medic and A Death In The Family and they’re putting out their debut 12” via PCR on Monday October 14.

Pop-punkers Hit The Lights are rescheduling their hotly anticipated Aussie tour. They sound a bit bummed about it too, “This cancellation is not by choice. We’re going to try our best to reschedule this tour with State Champs and Heroes For Hire for sometime in the near future. Again, a million apologies”.

Dance Gavin Dance are coming to Australia this November with ex Tides Of Man frontman Tilian Pearson taking vocal duties. The band release their fifth album Acceptance Speech in October. It all goes down at the Evelyn Hotel on Friday November 15 and at all ages venue Phoenix Youth Centre in Footscray on Sunday November 17.

Brian Jonestown Massacre are on their way back to our shores again. This December will see them play Meredith as well as perform a stack of headlining gigs with UK band The KVB. The Melbourne show takes place on Friday December 20 at The Palace.

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Chicago’s Oceano will tour in October in support of new release Incisions. Aversions Crown and Feed Her To The Sharks will be there too. Lock in Saturday October 5 at Bang and Sunday October 6 at Phoenix Youth Centre.

Soundwave is here! As always it was joyous experience hearing the lineup announced and then seeing the internet explode into vast seas of righteous little dickholes who felt that it was their formal duty to criticize and analyse the festival to within an inch of its life. It’s odd that Australians have become so complacent and spoiled in their live music offerings that they can feel personally outraged that a festival lineup has not satisfied their own personal requisites for a good time. That it doesn’t occur to so many people that they can close their browser tab, save $180 and just not bloody well attend said festival, is quietly baffling. Anyway, Soundwave 2014 will see Green Day firmly grip the headlining reigns with Avenged Sevenfold riding shotgun. Stone Temple Pilots will come along for the ride but Scott Weiland hasn’t been invited. Instead, Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington will front the band…which is awkward. Poor Scotty. AFI are making a return, Finch will also come back, and can’t wait to see how many different parts of their stage Trash Talk can disassemble and throw into the crowd. Alkaline Trio, Pulled Apart By Horses and Terror are also exciting choices, and look I’m not going to lie - I will be watching KoRn.

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GIG ALERT: MICHAEL PLATER, MIDNIGHT SCAVENGERS & FRAUDBAND Local proponents of feedback-laced lyrical artnoir Michael Plater and the Exit Keys will be bringing their finely-honed act to Tago Mago (744 High Street, Thornbury,) on Saturday August 31. Joining them will be Midnight Scavengers and Fraudband. The action kicks off at 8pm and it’s free.

ROCK AND METAL AT THE BENDIGO Getteth thee to the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood on Saturday August 31 to catch Swidgen, Grim Rhythm, Watchtower, Chaingun and City Of Cool.

CORE GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28: Japandroids, The Frowning Clouds, Black Night Crash DJs at Corner Hotel The Real McKenzies, The Go Set, The Alamo at The Loft THURSDAY AUGUST 29: The Getaway Plan at Karova Lounge, Ballarat Aitches, Laura Palmer, Maricopa Wells, Limits at The Old Bar Heroes For Hire, The Spinset at Next Apart From This, Damn Hearts, Tigers, Flowermouth, Life Of My Own at The Bendigo FRIDAY AUGUST 30: Bloods, Major Leagues at The Workers Club Being As An Ocean, Sierra at Wyndham Youth Center, Hoppers Crossing The Getaway Plan at Mooroolbark Community Center Twelve Foot Ninja, Engine at Ferntree Gully Hotel Japandroids, Drunk Mums at Corner Hotel Hug Therapist, On Sierra, Elcaset, The Pirates at The Reverence River Of Snakes, The Sinking Teeth White Devil, Ohms at The Public Bar The Naysayers, The Alamo, Murdena, Louside Adams at The Bendigo SATURDAY AUGUST 31: All Time Low, Built On Secrets at Billboards The Real McKenzies, The GO Set, The Ramshackle Army, Between The Wars at The Espy The Getaway Plan at The Wool Exchange, Geelong Crowned Kings, Declaration, Mark My Words, Proclaim, Bloodwolves at The Reverence Dead Letter Circus, Closure In Moscow at The Hi-Fi The Fauves, Doctor’s Orders at The Corner Hotel Marching Orders, Plan Of Attack, The Hard Targets, Stranglehold, Razorcut at The Reverence King Parrot, Electrik Dynamite, Death By Six, Decimatus at Bang Swigden, Grim Rhythm, CHaingun, Watchtower, City Of Cool at The Bendigo

BABY ANIMALS TO FILM LIVE DVD

Hot off the success of their first studio album release in 20 years, This Is Not The End (and its Top 20 ARIA Album Chart debut), iconic Aussie rockers Baby Animals are hitting the road for the Feed The Birds tour, which begins in Newcastle on Saturday October 12, followed by dates in Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Geelong, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The tour will be filmed for the band’s first ever live DVD, to be called Feed the Birds (Live). Fans can pre-order the DVD, or grab a limited release bundle that includes a ticket to the show and a signed copy of the DVD upon its release for Christmas, from thebabyanimals.com. They’ll be at The Wool Exchange in Geelong on Wednesday October 30 and the Corner Hotel on Thursday October 31. Tickets for the Feed The Birds tour, exclusive fan bundles and copies of This Is Not The End and Feed the Birds (Live) are available from thebabyanimals.com.

SOUNDWAVE 2014 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Okay, so by now you’ve surely heard the first line-up announcement for Soundwave 2014. My personal “Eeek!’ bands are Living Colour, DevilDriver, Clutch, Megadeth, Letlive, Baroness, Testament, Megadeth, Korn, Alter Bridge, Trivium, Black Dahlia Murder, Skindred, Volbeat, Alice In Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, AFI…then of course there’s Green Day, Rob Zombie, Down, Newsted, Rocket From The Crypt, Biffy Clyro, Five Finger Death Punch, Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington, Alkaline Trio, Bowling For Soup, Nancy Vandal, August Burns Red, Asking Alexandria, Motionless in White, Mushroomhead, Pulled Apart By Horses and many, many more. The Melbourne event is on Friday February 28 at Flemington Racecourse. Tickets on sale Thursday September 5.

THE WINERY DOGS OUT THIS WEEK

Speaking of Dream Theater and its associated acts, the Australian release date for the debut album by The Winery Dogs (featuring former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy along with Richie Kotzen and Billy Sheehan) is Friday August 30. You can preorder it on iTunes now.

GIG ALERT: KILL TV

Kill TV are a brand new power-pop/punk/grunge three-piece from Melbourne who are bringing back the best of singer/songwriter Kat’s old songs from previous bands Kill Krush Destroy, KTV and Kathematics as well as new songs written by Kat and bass player Lauren. Kill TV play their debut gig Thursday August 29 at The Vineyard on Acland St in St Kilda at 11pm. Free entry.

NEW DEVILDRIVER MAKES LIFE WORTH LIVING

Holy crap. Have you heard the new DevilDriver album yet? These guys have always been awesome but I’ve always felt they were one particularly monstrous album away from really charging up a few levels, and they’ve totally done it with Winter Kills. It’s so real next-level stuff - aggressive and diverse with killer production.

DREAM THEATER PREORDERS NOW OPEN

The new self-titled Dream Theater album is releasers on Friday September 20 but you can pre-order it now. Plenty of links for various versions at roadrunnerrecords.com. I’ve heard a preview and it’s amazing - layers and layers of awesomeness just waiting to be discovered on each new listen. CHECK OUT ALL THE LATEST NEWS, REVIEWS AND FREE SHIT AT BEAT.COM.AU

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DARTS The five-piece indie-punk band Darts burst into the music scene in 2009, winning triple j Unearthed and releasing their debut album, Habitual Slack, in 2012. These kids have been busy sharing their music across Melbourne and are now bringing their fractured song structures and unpredictable live shows to The Cobra Bar upstairs at The Tote every Thursday in August. This week will be their final residency, with epic support from 8 Bit Love and Going Swimming. Doors open at 8pm and tickets are just $7.

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INCRYPT Thrash metal heavyweights Incrypt are in the midst of recording their sophomore LP, which will be set for release next year. In the meantime, you can catch them at the John Curtin Hotel this Saturday August 31. Doors 8pm, $10.

ROCK YOUR ARSE OFF Melbourne’s The One Day Project has confirmed a new benefit gig with a lineup to rock your arses off to raise awareness and funds for Bowel Cancer Australia at The Evelyn this Friday August 30. The One Day Project are a group of devoted music industry types who create special events for the community to raise funds and awareness for disadvantaged organisations and causes. Rock Your Arse Off is the second One Day Project event and will again be held at the Evelyn Hotel with a stellar lineup of some of Melbourne’s finest rock groups. All funds raised will go to Bowel Cancer Australia. One Day is all it takes to appreciate, devote, understand, recognise and become aware.

TALES IN SPACE The current darlings of triple j, two-piece indie rockers Tales in Space will be hitting Cherry Bar tonight with support from Maeflower. Doors 6pm and it’s free!

It’s on again! Quickly becoming something of an annual event, The Snarski Brothers will once again take to the stage at The Flying Saucer Club and deliver a matinee show at the Northcote Social Club in early September. Testing their musical memory banks as they delve into the back catalogue of Chad’s Tree, Jackson Code and Blackeyed Susans’ classics, along with new material. Rarely in the same country, let alone on the same stage. Make sure you don’t miss brothers Mark and Rob Snarski going head to head. Catch the Snarski Brothers at The Flying Saucer on Saturday September 7 at 8pm, followed by a matinee show at the Northcote Social Club on Sunday September 8 at 1pm.

THE TEALEAVES Melbourne based indie-rock folk band The Tealeaves have just released their highly anticipated follow-up to their 2012 critically acclaimed self-titled album and are set to launch it at The Thornbury Theatre on Friday September 6. Entitled No More Can You Be Here, the album contains ten songs steadily crafted over time, and the band is really excited to be releasing it in September. The Tealeaves’ sound is inspired by the era of the great singer-songwriters, traversing richly-layered, harmony-filled band tracks to intimate, melancholic indie-rock. The Tealeaves are the perfect infusion to any day, so come support them as they launch their new album at The Thornbury Theatre on Friday September 6, with support from Whitaker. Tickets are $15+bf, or at the door if available.

LONE TYGER Hot off a Saturday night residency earlier in the year, hard driving blues-rock three-piece Lone Tyger hit the studio for a day and cut new songs live to tape. The sessions resulted in two raw, lo-fi rock‘n’roll numbers, Here She Comes and Mecpsycho. Lone Tyger launch their new singles this Saturday August 31 at The Spotted Mallard, before they head to the US.

MR WOO Rated one of the “Best Bands In The World” Mr Woo will be bringing their hard edged rock, melodic riffs and catchy melodies to Revolver Bandroom this Friday August 30. Supporting them will be local pop rock legends Dice, as well as Eleanor Ng and Cail Baroni. Do not miss out on this night of awesome music and high energy stage shows. Doors 8pm. $15 on the door.

THE FAUVES Triple R and Premier Artists proudly present Catch ‘Em While They’re Alive: 25 Years In Rock! The Fauves mark their 25th anniversary at the Corner Hotel on Saturday August 31 with a multimedia exploration of their two and a half decades as a band. Playing material from all 11 of their albums as well as several EPs, the band will intersperse the music with PowerPoint discussions of their history and the music industry in general. Be early for Doctor’s Orders, a Fauves cover band who play only songs written by founding member Phil ‘Doctor’ Leonard. The night will culminate with the live performance of the Fauves’ ten most popular songs as voted by the listening public – a rare concession to paying customers whom the band otherwise view as “very rarely being right”. Doors at 8.30pm. Tickets are $20 pre-order or $25 on the door.

Canadian Scottish punks The Real McKenzies return to Australia for the first time in ten years to play The Gershwin Room at The Espy this Saturday August 31. They will be joined by long-time friends The Go Set, who are celebrating their ten year anniversary. Having just released their latest album Westwinds, The McKenzies show no signs of slowing. It’s folk-punk at its wildest. Tickets on sale now at oztix.com.au.

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Sons of May are an antipodean blend of musical backgrounds. Undertones of funk driven rock and inner city grit collide with an earthy tone that is both delicate and volatile. After playing at the 2012 and 2013 Port Fairy Folk Festival weekends, touring through WA in 2012, performing on Channel 31’s ‘Tone Control’, gracing the Mountain Goat stage at Melbourne’s 2013 Sustainable Living Festival, and numerous shows around Victoria and interstate, the lads are fast garnering a strong reputation for their captivating live performances and infectious folk swagger. Catch them at the Retreat Hotel tonight August 28. Doors 7:30pm and it’s free.

Brought to you by Rooftop Bar, Watt’s On Presents and Budweiser, you will not want to miss out on Fortunate Sundays. Long time mates and indie-music aficionados Dan Watt (Watt’s on/Poncho) and Jon-Lee Farrell (Dancing Heals) bring you the grit and sexuality of rock into the green lawns of Rooftop Bar. This Sunday September 1 features DJ Slymeware (Big Scary) with DNC HLS (Dancing Heals DJs) and finishing on Sunday September 8 will be a psychedelic ripping performance from Bad News Toilet. This is the place to be on Sundays. Free entry.

A TRIBUTE TO ELVIS: RAPID CITY 1977 Bluestones Productions present A Tribute to Elvis in Concert from Friday August 23 until Saturday August 31 for eight shows only. Tony Franks, Melbourne musician and producer, has brilliantly re-created the last public performance of The King. Rapid City 1977 was one of his last public appearances before his severe health decline. Backed by an incredible 16-piece orchestra, ten backing singers and ensemble, and of course Elvis’ very own dynamic eight-piece band. It all takes place at Dallas Brooks Hall. Tickets are available through ticketek.com.au. Don’t miss out on this authentic Elvis experience.

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Ondas Alpha is a four-piece ambient rock band from Melbourne. Coming together from interstate Australia, the band was created over a cheap pint, a cold rooftop and a backwards guitar and hasn’t stopped since. Combining raw, melodic instrumentals with soft, emotive vocals, Ondas Alpha uses their unique sound to engage and excite neural oscillations to form their personal brand of musical storytelling. They will play their final set at The Tote tonight with special guests Papa Maul and Willow Darling. Doors open 8pm. $5 entry.

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MAJOR CHORD Major Chord (aka Dan Flynn) is no longer a musical hermit. He invited a whole bunch of people into his weird little world to create his new album, Transition. The album recently landed feature album at ABC Radio National, PBS and ABC DIG Radio. Major Chord will be launching Transition live with very special guest Amaya Laucirica this Saturday August 31 at the Bella Union. Tickets are $13.

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THE COUNCIL The Council return to The Tote every Saturday afternoon in August to showcase their blend of two-piece rock’n’roll. Joining them for their residency will be a lineup of legendary Melbourne musicians playing solo including Spencer P. Jones, Ruby Soho, Phil Gionfriddo, Derek Richards and Chris Russell. This will be their final week at The Tote, so head down for a beer, a good time and catch some of the best acts in Melbourne. Doors open at 4pm, bands start at 5pm.

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During the month of September Mark Moldre will head South with his band in tow to give Melbourne a taste of his new album, An Ear To The Earth. So far it has gained four star reviews, Best CD Of The Week in the Sydney Morning Herald whilst receiving airplay on triple j, ABC, 3RRR and Community Radio across Australia. Catch Mark at the Workers Club on Sunday September 15. Doors open 7.30pm. $10 entry.

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REDCOATS The very hypnotic rock-n-roll powerhouse that is Redcoats, are back at Ding Dong Lounge this Saturday August 31. Having supported heavyweight acts such as Grinspoon, Papa VS Pretty, Calling All Cars and Karnivool, be sure to witness their transcending and boundless experimental sounds up close and personal. You will not be disappointed. Support comes via Sinking Teeth and Child. Tickets via Oztix or $15 on the door. Doors at 8pm.

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FIONA LEE MAYNARD & HER HOLY MEN Musical Missionaries Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men are determined to entertain; “Deadly serious musicians with their tongues firmly planted in their cheek”. On Saturday August 31 they deliver sacred songs from their debut EP and upcoming LP, (due 2014) to whosoever shall gather in the front bar of The Retreat Hotel from 5pm until 7pm. When the spirit moves you - feel free to dance and speak in tongues! Catch them in the Front Bar of The Retreat Hotel from 5pm – 7pm on Saturday August 31.

Sonic guitars, lush harmonies and fuzzy psychedelic grooves, Flyying Colours make reverb drenched pop music that echoes sounds of shoegaze, postpunk and psychedelia. Their first single Wavygravy found a welcome home on community radio across the country and the interweb around the world. TheVine.com.au says Wavygravy “sounds like a band with the confidence of having found their sound. Loud and sharp and sounding polished (as much as shoegaze can), Wavygravy churns with absolute force.” Now that they have finally recovered from recording the new EP with Woody Annison at Red Door Studios, they’re playing one of their last shows before the EP is released in early October, giving you a perfect chance to hear the new songs live before they are released. Join them at The Rochester Castle Hotel this Friday August 30. Support comes from House of Light.

TRIVIA AT THE PUBLIC BAR On these chilly nights, nothing warms you up like fried chicken and crabs, booze and answering questions. Trivia has landed with a thud inside The Public Bar every Tuesday night and hosted by 3RRR’s Tristen Harris. Chock full of music, film and TV questions to test your brains. This is a trivia night of current affairs, but can you remember the theme tune of a TV show from your childhood? There are listening rounds, jug give aways and puzzle sheets, as well as the famous Dr. Juicy Jay’s Fried Chicken and Crab Shack serving up the most delicious food, to compliment every good fact hunt. Every Tuesday night at The Public Bar. Register from 7pm, free entry.

DIRE FATE Doomsters Dire Fate and Rote Mare bring their combined might to the unhallowed grounds of The Tote to celebrate their skull crushing spilt EP. Joining them on the stage after two years are infernal thrashers Diabolical Demon Director and Melbourne’s best new doom trip in their debut show, Eldritch Rites. Mark this ritual on your calendars, all lovers of underground doom and destruction. This is all happening Sunday September 1. Doors at 5.30pm, door charge applies.

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ALTA Singer/songwriter Hannah Lesser and producer Julius Dowson have combined their varied musical backgrounds to create Alta’s unique mix of organic vocals and electronic/sample-based beats. Julius meticulously melds smooth trip-hop beats that reference producers of the past while incorporating contemporary sounds resulting in Alta’s fresh and distinctive sound. Hannah’s voice was born and bred on blues music and its raw ability is simply soul shaking. Catch them tonight Wednesday August 28 at The Workers Club. Doors at 8pm for $8 entry.

TULLY ON TULLY Indie pop dream-weavers Tully On Tully released their debut EP Weightless on Friday August 16. With music that captures the imagination and hearts of listeners, and live shows brimming with mesmerising vocal performances and spiralling guitar work, Weightless is sure to be a release that any lover of intrinsic song writing and poetic imagery would be a fan of. Tully On Tully play Saturday September 7 at The Toff In Town. Doors open 7pm. Tickets are $12 on the door.

HUG THERAPIST Local punk favourites Hug Therapist head up a killer mixed bill at the Reverence hotel this Friday August 30 with support from prog masters On Sierra, power pop trio Elcaset and the classic rock vibes of The Pirates. Doors 8:30pm and tickets are $8.

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These last Thursdays in August at The Spotted Mallard will be an opportunity to experience the energy, spontaneity and groove of Chris Frangou’s most recent perspective on 21st Century electric jazz in a live context, a project due to be recorded for the first time in September. Featuring both local and international guests with a core trio including himself, piano player Hue Blanes and drummer Matthew Head, the project consists of Frangou’s layered odd-time compositions influenced by music from the Balkans, East Africa and the Middle East, whilst also incorporating practices from the schools of rock, funk and other improvised music. Don’t miss out on this final unique show tomorrow night August 29 at The Spotted Mallard.

THE BAUDELAIRES The Baudelaires will be taking to one of their favourite live music venues for a Monday night residency in September. They have crafted their sound from influences of ‘60s psyche bands such as The 13th Floor Elevators and The Velvet Underground, blending them with more modern tones of overdriven shoe-gaze guitars, a slap of country rhythm and the mysticism of soft tenor blues vocals. So come on down for Monday nights with The Baudelaires in September for $10 jugs and a $3 night of live music!

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River of Snakes are about to release a new fuzz-drenched single Aurora from their upcoming debut album. The scuzz-noise three-piece have also completed a new killer video for the track, and are very happy to be supporting Beasts of Bourbon on some of their upcoming shows. To launch their single/EP, which also features two previously unreleased tracks, The Snakes are teaming up with some good mates for a launch at the Public Bar this Friday August 30. Joining them will be flat sharing puke-punk trio the Sinking Teeth, psychedelic-satan-whorshipping Queenslanders White Devil and Ohms, who play short, sharp, power-punk garage songs. This promises to be a wild night of feedback, rock’n’roll, love and chaos.

KING PARROT After all the babbling about “Bonox” and having a “Good Day”, it seems the Australian underground metal community has gone mad about King Parrot. Since the release of the video for “Shit on the Liver” and their debut album Bite Your Head Off, the band have gone from strength to strength with successive national tours alongside Thy Art is Murder, Cattle Decapitation and Psycroptic and their self funded tour of South East Asia with a performance at the legendary Obscene Extreme Festival in Jakarta. Now King Parrot are back with a follow up video for the 1st track from Bite Your Head Off, simply titled... “Bozo”. Catch the lunacy when they hit the Royal Melbourne Hotel this Saturday August 31 as part of their mega Australian tour. They will then return to The Tote on Saturday October 12. Check the venue websites for more information.

M.ANTONIO Laidback and dirty, M.Antonio’s debut EP Slingshot Diaries is out now. The Slingshot Diaries tour is currently happening around major cities, and this Saturday August 31 M.Antonio is playing with a full band at Black Night Crash for the Rochester Castle, Fitzroy. Entry is $5, with support from Tooth & Tusk.

MICHAEL PLATER AND THE EXIT KEYS Local proponents of feedback-laced-lyrical art-noir Michael Plater and the Exit Keys will be bringing their finely-honed act to Tago Mago this Saturday August 31. Joining them will be evocative, intense, spooky-rock merchants Midnight Scavengers and Fraudband. It all kicks off at 8pm and it’s free!

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LUNARS The exciting release of Lunars’ new EP Happenings, is underpinned by menacing guitars, dark surf melodies, and sprinkles of off-kilter keys and vibraphones. You can catch Lunars on Friday 13th September at the Grace Darling basement for their EP launch party. Support comes from fellow noisemakers Actor Slash Model and Dane Certificate. Doors 9:30pm, $8.

BLACKEYED SUSANS The legendary Susans return for their annual winter residency at the Union to play five majestic gigs of countrified alt-rock. From Smokin’ Johnny Cash to Come Ride With Me, the Susan’s songs embed themselves in your soul. These are special shows; miss them at your own risk. Catch their final show this Saturday August 31 from 5pm at The Union Hotel.

WAY OF THE EAGLE The Way Of The Eagle Australian tour has been announced, which will see the band play at Ding Dong Lounge Friday September 27 for their Melbourne show. As one of the busiest players in the industry, Jan Skubisewski isn’t one to slow down – after all, the way of the eagle is forward and up. Expect some very special guest vocal performers on the night. Doors at 8pm, tickets $20 on the door.

Allans Billy Hyde Music Academy are re-opening their doors located in Melbourne’s CBD, at 152 Bourke Street to offer the finest in music tuition. At a perfect city central location, the Music Academy will be perfect for anyone interested in picking up an instrument or getting better at their ‘musical weapon of choice’ and incorporating it into their working week during store hours. All lessons cater for all ages and level of experience and they are currently taking bookings for guitar, violin, piano, drums and vocal lessons. For a limited time only they are also offering a no obligation free introductory lesson so prospective students can view the updated rooms, the fantastic new performance stage and meet one of the teachers to discuss their musical objectives and their Allans Billy Hyde tuition options. To book your free lesson for ABH Academy, please call (03) 9510 4455 or email your name and daytime telephone number to their coordinators at bourke.academy@allansbillyhyde.com.au. Check out their impressive staff bio’s too at allansbillyhyde. com.au/academy/melbourne.

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUE OF MUSIC INFORMATION EVENING With a reputation as one of Australia’s leading independent music, performing arts and entertainment management education providers, AIM is hosting an information evening at the Intercontinental Hotel on Collins Street 6pm - 8pm tonight August 28. The night will provide prospective students an opportunity to learn more about their cutting edge music programs, be introduced to their new course offering and brand new CBD campus. Offering Diploma and Degree courses in Composition, Music Production, Contemporary Performance and Entertainment Management, ambassadors John Foreman (GMA, Australian Idol, Vanessa Amorossi) and Brian Cadd (Tina Arena) and other relevant heads of departments and music industry figures will all be in attendance to answer your every questions on how to take the next step in cementing your professional career in the music industry. To register or for more information, visit aim. edu.au or phone 1300 301 983.

JACK ON FIRE Tapping into the melancholic and searing sombre tones of understated swamp-rock, Perth-come-Melbourne based band Jack On Fire are set to release their latest single, Easy Money, this September. Easy Money, to be released as an exclusive 7” with B-side Suzanne, is a seething and ominous offering that follows a constant steam-of-consciousness haze through veiny guitar lines, abrasive vocals and scorched bass lines. Catch Jack On Fire on Saturday September 21 at The Old Bar for the official release of Easy Money, with the group’s debut album due to drop early next year.

ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE NIGHT For all you crazy Rolling Stones fans out there, Cherry Bar will be hosting a 40th Anniversary celebration of the Goats Head Soup 1973 album this Saturday August 31. The show will be performed in full by lead singer Nick Barker and one-off special band featuring Shane Omara, Ash Davies, Bruce Haymes, Justin Garner, Grant Cummerford, Ben Marsland and Jack Howard. Breaking the ice on the evening will be a special acoustics Stones’ set from The Dear Doctors. Doors 5pm and tickets are $25 at the door or via the Cherry Bar website.

SEAN KIRKWOOD & THE RADIOSHOW Sean Kirkwood & The Radioshow have been hard at work establishing their place in the Melbourne scene since coming together earlier this year. Consisting of established New Zealand bred singer-songwriter, Sean Kirkwood, Phoebe Neilson and Andrej Morgan, the trio have focused on re-inventing Folk, Alt-Country and Roots through emotive lyrics, lush harmonies and an eclectic onstage instrumentation made up of Lap-slide style guitar, guitars, drums and both double and electric bass. After a two month hiatus The Radioshow are back for “The First Show In Ages Show!’’ at Gertrudes Brown Couch on September 6th with special guests Chris Mulhall (Vance Joy) and Chloe Schnell (WinterMoon) joining the stage to add their flavor to The Radioshow. Doors open 8.30pm, $10. Support from Chris Mulhall Band.

ANTO MACARONI A new band in Melbourne – this one features Anto Macaroni of Puta Madre Brother and BJ Morriszonkle, that weird one-manband-symphony lunatic. Bass, drums and two tenor saxophones create the sounds of self-described “splatter-jazz.” The music is semi improvised and obnoxious. A punch in the face to the conservatism of jazz inspired by spy movies and bad diets. The band will showcase their obnoxious music this Thursday August 29 at North Melbourne’s Public Bar. Entry is free.

THE STETSON FAMILY The Stetson Family are a five-piece band of local knockabouts, who bring a fresh twist to the timeless sound of bluegrass and high-lonesome country/folk with their home-made songs of snake-handlin’ preachers, shallow bush graves, love gone wrong and wandering down life’s crooked highways. Live, there is the feeling that you are in the presence of an old timey travelling family band, one who knows each other’s musical idiosyncrasies and who are entirely complementary to one another. Catch the Stetson’s this Saturday August 31 from 9pm at the Drunken Poet.

IVY FOX With the promise of the Spring-thaw looming evercloser Melbournians are readying themselves for Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, but it’s not only fashion that makes up this iconic calendar of events. Sultry songstress Ivy Fox will be lending her nostalgic vamp-pop sounds to MSFW: Curated event Southside Market Presents: ^THE ONLY WAY IS UP^ The event, which will encompass an independent designer runwayshowcase and pop-up emporium, will celebrate not only creative design but creative thinking in the form of up-cycling and incorporating vintage fashion into a modern wardrobe, something that Ivy herself feels very familiar with. You can catch Ivy’s performance at City of Melbourne Bowls Club: Flagstaff Gardens on Wednesday September 4 by purchasing a ticket through the Southside Market website (www. southsidemarket.com.au). Tickets are $15+bf.

RÜFÜS In a short 18 months, RÜFÜS have been busy. Multiple soldout tours in Australia, remixes and originals for Kitsune and Plant. Playing sold-out parties in New York City, in front of band members from LCD Soundsystem. High-rotation singles, main stage festival appearances as far away as Moscow and many hours locked in their home studio/ dungeon writing their debut album, that was released Friday August 9. RÜFÜS is performing at The Corner Hotel, and with two sold-out shows already, make sure you don’t miss out on their third show due to popular demand on Tuesday September 24. Tickets $20+bf.

THE VAGRANTS Longtime Melbourne rock scene institution The Vagrants will play their first ever acoustic gig at Whole Lotta Love this Saturday August 31. Defying all genre classifications and always being great songwriters, they will now showcase their fiery vocals and tight guitar playing in a stripped back form for fans.

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Matt Sonic & The High Times HIGGS FROM KING OF THE NORTH ON MATT SONIC: What made you want to be a musician? Dad’s record collection. It was a horde of ‘70s rock, rhythm and blues and psychedelia. It was the only thing that would pacify an eager spirit when I was a young man. A little later it was Lenny Kravitz who took it to the next level of musical need. His Are You Gonna Go My Way tour was my first live show. Mum dressed my elder brother and I up in all of her old ‘70s tie-dye and sent us to the Brisbane Entertainment Centre to see him. That was where the concept of a gig as church was found. It’s never changed from there. What song of your own are you most proud of so far and why? I would have to say a song that we are finishing at the moment as our next single. It’s called First Rays of Electric Light. It was born in a moment and is just a perfect mirror to both my life and the collective energy my band The High Times are all experiencing. I don’t think I’ve ever felt a song of mine truly answer a response to life so well. What are you most looking forward to with this show? Seeing old friends, playing a new guitar live, and meeting the audience. I’ve been living on the southern beaches of Sydney for a while now, though Melbourne is our bands spiritual home, so it’s always nice seeing everyone we work with there, from dinner with our tech and manager, to the music community we all enjoy. It’s always a buzz to see who makes up an audience at a High Times show and meeting them is the best. At a show in Tasmania I

King Of The North had a young man give me a picture of an old lady eating porridge and it said above it, “I think you’re yummy.” It’s moments like these. What are your plans for the future? Which future? Right now we’re meeting in Melbourne as often as we can to finish demo-ing and begin recording a new record. I usually sleep on Meg’s house on the floor, we rehearse for around 12 hours over two days and try to space the over-excited conversation, beer, coffee and vanilla slice into appropriate times of the day. SONIC TAKES ON HIGGS: What made you want to be a musician? Seeing Liam Cuffley of My Left Boot, The Wardens and Matt Sonic & The High Times play drums. What has been the biggest challenge with recording? Paying for it. When are you looking forward to having a full length album out? The debut King Of The North album will be out before the end of the year. What are your plans for the future? Overseas? Rocking out at Rock Your Arse Off this Friday! Catch both KING OF THE NORTH and MATT SONIC & THE HIGH TIMES at Rock Your Arse Off this Friday August 30 at The Evelyn.

It’s been a rampant nine months for The Dead Heir, since their formation in early 2013, to the production of their debut EP. Originating from scattered towns across rural Victoria, these six lads make up the energetic, noisy garage rock ensemble, delighting crowds and packing out pubs from Brunswick all the way to Fitzroy. Their self titled seven track EP is full of catchy hooks and psychedelic instrumental breakdowns capturing the eclectic nature of the bands live performance. The Dead Heir is proud to be launching their debut EP at the Workers club on Sunday September 8th. Joining them will be the awesome threesome of indie rock ‘n’ rollers The Whorls, shoegaze mind benders Luna Ghost and the psychedelic prawns Alice D. Doors 7:30pm, tickets are $8.

THE TEALEAVES Melbourne based indie-rock/folk band The Tealeaves have just released their highly anticipated follow-up to their 2010 critically acclaimed self-titled album and are set to launch it at The Thornbury Theatre on Friday 6th September. Entitled No More Can You Be Here, the album is somewhat of a departure from their previous sounds albeit a very comfortable one. Fans will notice that the lush musicianship remains but the songwriting is more developed and in depth, resulting in a more mature sound within the parameters of a very natural evolution. The Tealeaves will launch their new CD at the Thornbury Theatre on Friday September 6. Support on the night comes from Melbourne band Whitaker. Hit up OzTix for ticket information.

PURE POP’S SUMMER OF CLASSIC ALBUMS Hosted by Maddy and Crispi from PBS 106.7FM’s Breakfast Spread comes a gig not to be missed. Ashley Naylor’s solo performance of The Stone Roses’ seminal debut is mind blowing, and for this show he is assembling a band to back him, and knowing the calibre of musicians he rubs shoulders with, it could raise the mind blowing stakes to a new high. Also performing is Hamish Cowan, covering The Smiths’ album The Queen is Dead with the most amazing vocal performance of the year, and Pony Face bringing their layered, moody soundscape style to Bruce Springsteen’s classic album Nebraska. This is all happening at The Toff In Town tonight!

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ALISON WEDDING NY vocalist and adopted Australian, Alison Wedding returns to present her music with long time musical colleague, saxophonist Jamie Oehlers – head of Music at W.A.P.A.A. Alison is a powerful vocalist with an amazing career in music. Her recent performances in Melbourne were with festival standout Snarky Puppy during the Melbourne International Jazz Festival in June, but her Australian story started back in 2002 when she moved here and blew us all away. Alison moved back to the US in 2007, choosing NY as her new base to continue on her musical journey. She has performed at various venues, including Rockwood Music Hall, Cornelia St. Cafe, and The 55 Bar as both a solo artist and background singer. Her current band lineup is Snarky Puppy leader Michael League (bass), Ross Pederson (drums), and Pete McCann (guitar). Catch her and the Jamie Oehlers Quartet at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club tomorrow night August 29. Doors 8:30pm and tickets are $30. If you happen to miss out, she will also be playing the following night on Friday August 30.

THE NYMPHS The Nymphs work harmony like nobody’s business. A vocal quartet combining the sounds of 40’s jazz, 50’s swing, and early 60’s pop, alongside a healthy dose of vintage glamour, and you are left with something reminiscent of The Andrew’s Sisters drinking single malt with Mae West. Their voices are the only instruments they need. The Nymphs make sonic honey at the Drunken Poet this Sunday September 1 at 4pm.

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Tawk Tomahawk (Flying Buddha)

1. Calluses PIKELET

The frightening cover art on Hiatus Kaiyote’s debut LP Tawk Tomahawk, displays the ferocious oating head of a coyote. Perhaps it conveys the horror that a narrow-minded, conservative listener may experience when hearing this record for the ďŹ rst time. This LP is unsuitable for an ear obsessed with conventional music; an ear that is unable or unwilling to look beyond Genre. Highly controversial, Tawk Tomahawk, with its enigmatic lyricism and musical transcendence, will send ignorant listeners into a terrifying state of confusion, consequently resulting in a distaste that is pretty much marked by their inability to comprehend this disjointed and hardly melodic record. For the rest of us, Tawk Tomahawk is a delicious remedy to jaded ears. Inuenced by the eclectic mix of Erykah Badu, Flying Lotus, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding and pretty much anything Flamenco and Columbian-esque, Hiatus have produced a sound that dips a toe in pretty much every single groovy musical movement of our time. There’s a bit of jazz; a splash of latin; half a cup of hip-hop and a whole bunch of electronica. All of this is interconnected with the soul-drenched voice of singer-songwriter Nai Palm. An acquired taste, each track is vastly dierent to the one preceding it. Hardly hinting at any melody, Tawk Tomahawk is an incredibly random record, preferring instead to piece together a collection of eclectic tracks that have an increasing amount of syncopation and musical avours. It is polyrhythmic, weird and heterogeneous. But this is exactly why it is so brilliant. Putting aside its fantastic subversion of traditional musical form, Tawk Tomahawk is also extremely groovy and sexy. Palm’s uber sultry and sensuous tone, complemented with beautifully arranged key compositions and latin-inspired beats makes for a delectable listen. So unbelievably refreshing, Tawk Tomahawk never falls victim to monotony, due to its continual plunge into various dierent musical palettes. The album is also made up of both long and short tracks, the latter providing temporary respite from some of the heavier songs. Tracks like Ocelot, Boom Child and Rainbow Rhodes are layered with synths and hip-hop beats; electronic interludes that further validate the band’s musical dexterity. Like the instrumentals, Palm’s voice never stagnates. Where she might sing in one song; she will put her own spin on rap in another. She

2. Loud City Song JULIA HOLTER

SINGLES

4. Rhythm & Blues BUDDY GUY 5. 6 Feet Beneath The Moon KING KRULE 6. Glow JACKSON AND HIS COMPUTERBAND 7. Picture Tape EP BROTHERS HAND MIRROR 8. <3 Symbols Beat Tape OSCAR KEY SUNG 9. Electric Slave BLACK JOE LEWIS 10. Harlequin Dream BOY & BEAR also harmonises a lot, showcasing her ethereal vibrato. There is a prevalent theme of nature on the record, with a consistent use of tweeting birds. With its wildlife atmospherics and tribal drum patterns, the instrumental Leap Frog sounds like the perfect soundtrack to a muggy tropical setting. The ode to nature is reinforced in Nakamarra, a track celebrating the Australian desert. Also included on the re-mastered LP is an alternative version of Nakamarra featuring old-school rapper Q-Tip. Mr. Tip is an excellent accompaniment to Palm, harmonising beautifully with her in the bridge. His appearance is short and sweet, a wise decision on Hiatus’ part. Q-Tip lends the track an urban avour; his briefness preventing it from becoming too generic. Hiatus’ debut is groundbreaking and incredibly innovative, qualities that remind one of the old days of revolutionary musical fusion. DINA AMIN Best Track: The World It Softly Lulls If You Like These, You’ll Like This: ERYKAH BADU, FLYING LOTUS, THUNDERCAT, THE SESHEN In A Word: Delicious

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ELIZABETH ROSE

The Good Life (Independent) The seeds sown by Sydney’s fertile past few years of electronica is continuing to prove to the bountiful with a rising contingent of artists willing to take things to the next level yet again. Elizabeth Rose entraps the listener with stereo-panning dissonance before launching into an incredibly danceable throwdown of house-tinged pop.

TWIN BEASTS

Bad Love (Independent/Gaga) So The Toot Toot Toots are now Twin Beasts, which is ok I suppose because The Toot Toot Toots is a terrible name when you think about it. Most band names are. Anyway, you can imagine Tuco from The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly singing along to Bad Love, with its sun beaten balladry and Morricone touchstones. A luxurious cacophony of lurid guitars, heartbroken and whiskey-burned cries and an outro emboldened by harmonies from the damned.

LAURA MARLING

Devil’s Resting Place (Caroline/Virgin) A urry of percussion slowly builds throughout Devil’s Resting Place, compounding Laura Marling’s blunt melodic vocal-guitar one-two punch. The track’s folk purity is a welcome antidote to the arena-commanding branch of the genre that has gained dominance in the past few years. A commanding showcase of Marling’s singing talent, guitar chops and song-writing ďŹ nesse.

KATY PERRY

Roar (Sony) Katy Perry will make more money licensing this song to shitty Australian reality TV shows than I will make in my entire life. But yeah, it’s a big, simple, and overall pretty great pop anthem. Nothing groundbreaking, but it provides a refreshing respite from the current glut of molly-aected club bangerz. That’s not to say I don’t love me some mollyaected club bangerz. If (Go Wow) Is it racist to say that I can’t understand a goddamn word of this? Oh wait it just somehow morphed into a Talking Heads cover but they’re singing “road to somewhereâ€? instead of “nowhereâ€? this is the fucking worst fuck you Glasvegas that is straight up sacrilege right there you bastards.

CHVRCHES

3. The Big Dream DAVID LYNCH

BY LACHLAN

GLASVEGAS

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lack of daring and imagination that impedes what could be lofty potential. It’s far from mediocre, but the cookie cutter dynamic fails to inspire as a whole. Still, it’s a serviceable confection for the ears.

4. Split 7� THE KILL/ THE COMMUNION

OKKERVIL RIVER

7. Light Up Gold PARQUET COURTS

It Was My Season (Spunk) I’m usually pretty impervious when it comes to sentimentality regarding getting nostalgic about the soundtrack to my formative years, but even just seeing the name Okkervil River on the promo disc initiated a bout of wistful pangs. I haven’t thought about the band in a while but they’re just as I remembered them. I think. It Was My Season is a jaunty breakup number, its lyrics engaging but not overly profound.

PLACEBO

Loud Like Love (Universal/Caroline) Going all out on the production side of things with The Killers-like stadium aspirations, Placebo make their comeback-of-sorts with a cheery, uplifting anthem. It’s not necessarily a betrayal of their brooding established canon, but you get the sense that the band are settling into the comfort of nadir at this stage of their career.

PALMS

This Last Year (Spunk/Caroline) This Last Year packs the kind of blindsiding chorus that runs the risk of taking away from the rest of the track. The loud-quiet tease is incredibly rewarding, however, with the disarming verses launching into the ridiculously on-point throat-shredding chorus for tremendous eect.

FLUME

Insane (Future Classic) TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE.

5. Thy Kingdom Scum CHURCH OF MISERY 6. Wrongdoers NORMA JEAN

8. Obsidian BATHS 9. Angel Dust FAITH NO MORE 10. Black Milk BEASTS OF BOURBON

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BEAT’S TOP TEN SONGS ABOUT KINGS 1. King TUNNG

SINGLE OF THE WEEK SEEKAE

2. Requiem for the Static King Part 1 A WINGED

Another (Future Classic) +Dome, the second LP from Sydney trio Seekae, was a year or two ahead of its time. Hell, it could drop today and it would still sound fresh. The most obvious distinction between Another and any previous Seekae work is the addition of Alex Cameron’s more than capable vocals. Underneath lies an incredibly rich swathe of impeccably crafted electronic tones garnished with masterful orchestral touches. Yet again, Seekae have risen above and beyond any notion of trend. We’ve got ourselves a track of the year contender right here.

3. King Cream RUB-N-TUG

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4. King Piece In The Chess Game SLICK RICK 5. Bad Kingdom MODERAT 6. Sun Is King LAURA VEIRS 7. KingďŹ sher JOANNA NEWSOM 8. King’s Crossing ELLIOTT SMITH 9. Extra Kings THE AVALANCHES 10. Red Queen COIL

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A$AP FERG Trap Lord (RCA)

Fresh off his Australian appearances with A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg has finally unleashed the highly anticipated Trap Lord. Ferg’s full-length debut sees the Harlem native establish himself as not only a frontrunner in the A$AP Mob, but an animated and accomplished solo artist. The album kicks off with the apocalyptic swing of Let It Go, a track that’s full of violent bravado and thuggish threats, while rattling hi-hats and eerie production lace this standout cut. Similar themes appear on the testosterone-fuelled Dump Dump and Work (Remix)’ – both of which are furiously snatching at the title for club banger of the year. Features on Trap Lord include Bone Thugs-N-Harmony lending some tongue-twisting verses to Lord, while Onyx tear their way through the subtly titled Fuck Out My Face. This calibre of guests reflects Ferg’s greatest success – he’s able to deliver a sonically fresh (albeit brooding) record that pays homage to the golden years of hardcore hip hop. With this being said, the record also oozes with Southern obnoxiousness and horrorcore soundscapes. Like many of his colleagues who subscribe to the ‘trap’ mentality, Ferg’s album will be criticised for being lyrically repetitive and typical of rap’s gangster clichés. However, his possessed flow and erratic personality ensures that this is an electric affair throughout. The demonic brashness of Trap Lord means it isn’t for everybody – but it’s enough to capture a wide array of rap fans from both the old school and younger demographics. It’s an album that’s best shared over a drink (or ten), full of adrenaline anthems and smokers’ soundtracks. Trap Lord is a worthy Best Track: Dump Dump debut from A$AP Ferg that shows plenty of promise. If You Like These, You’ll Like This: A$AP ROCKY, THREE 6 MAFIA, CHIEF KEEF In A Word: Grimy CHRISTOPHER KEVIN AU

CROCODILES

Crimes of Passion (Shock) The latest album from this San Diego duo follows on from last year’s ten-track Endless Flowers and pares things back even further by averaging out the songs at three-anda-half minutes each. It’s a taut, accessible offering that drags Jesus & Mary Chain drudgery into Ravonettes-style pop trappings. Charles Rowell and Brandon Welchez continue their business of delving headlong into seedy worlds of dark sex, from the sadomasochism of Marque De Sade and the purist fantasy of Virgin to the rousing, faithless opener, I Like It In The Dark. The latter song embraces gospel and features some surprising bursts of vocal gymnastics, while the remainder of the album confidently walks a tightrope of scuzzy garage rock and classic British indie guitar music. Final cut Un Chant D’amour takes its title from Jean Genet’s highly charged film from 1950, which is savage and sordid, but also a simple, sweet story of love. Crocodiles’ fourth album has no filler, pulling together a tightly wound collection of lust-driven, loaded tunes Best Track: Heavy Metal Clouds with an undercurrent of cut-throat violence. Above all If You Like These, You’ll Like This: In Love With Oblivion CRYSTAL STILTS, Screamadelica PRIMAL SCREAM, Lust else, it’s just a great pop album. Lust Lust THE RAVONETTES In A Word: Snappy

Lovers of musical comedy across the country all got a little bit excited when Tripod announced they were banding with that nice young man Eddie Perfect to form Perfect Tripod. No-one seemed to know quite what the result would be, but hey, it sounded like a recipe for awesome. And it was. With a series of live shows showcasing a series of beautifully arranged, harmonydriven Australian songs, these four all-stars of Australian comedy showed the true scope of their musical muscle. The album, Australian Songs, captures some of the magic they created through their live shows. Although a good deal of the comedy present in those shows is lost in the recording, what is left is thirteen really beautiful interpretations of classic Australian songs such as Australian Crawl’s Errol, Men At Work’s Overkill, John Farnham’s You’re the Voice, and even Kasey Chamber’s Not Pretty Enough. Perfect’s vocal range and skill is really impressive, although Yon, Scod and Gatesy more than hold their own, demonstrating their growth as artists over the years since the coloured Best Track: You’re the Voice skivvies. A really great album put together by four men If You Like These, You’ll Like This: TRIPOD (duh), TIM with terrific musicality. MINCHIN, PAUL MCDERMOT In A Word: Impressive JOSH FERGEUS

THE XX

Innervisions Remixes (Young Turks) What happens when The xx enlist Berlin-based house/techno label Innervisions to remix cuts from their Coexist record? You get a selection of tracks that tempers some of the mournful beauty that was Coexist with a whole new landscape of sound. Given The xx’s sound is rooted in melancholic, pregnant pauses of space that manage to unnerve and comfort all at the same time, it’s fascinating to hear the spaces close and a whole new range of meaning spring to life. Innervisions labelmates and co-founders Dixon, Ame and Marcus Worgull, as well as the reigning dame of the underground, Maya Jane Coles, have undertaken remix duties here and each imparts their distinct flavour with ample respect for the original track. Tides has its sorrowful string section brought to the forefront by Dixon, who injects a crunching techno beat, and were it not for the occasional strains of the chorus it would leave the original behind almost completely. Meanwhile, Maya Jane Coles’ take on Fiction seems more cohesive than Marcus Worgull’s attempt at the same track. Coles infuses her version with a steady warmth, the gently pulsating house beat working in luscious harmony with the vocals to the point it becomes easy to forget you aren’t listening to the original. Worgull’s version is clean, crisp and punchy, with plenty of sharp percussion elements, and the melody becomes staccato and robotic, stripping away any warmth that Coles had swaddled her version with – or indeed the aching sadness of the original. However, it’s the remix of Reunion by Ame that is the standout here. His take chooses to keep a heavier focus on the vocals – it swirls the original melodies up into a dizzying, well-layered house beat that will leave you breathless. Remixes are all too often contentious territory, but luckily the Innervisions family has given these wellBest Track: Reunion loved tracks the respect they deserve, making for If You Like These, You’ll Like This: BURIAL, HENRIK compelling listening. SCHWARZ, MACEO PLEX In A Word: Deep MARISSA DEMETRIOU

CHRIS GIRDLER

HORRORSHOW

King Amongst Many (Elefant Traks)

THE PREATURES

Is This How You Feel? EP (Universal/Mercury Records) Sydney five-piece The Preatures have an ever-growing fan base, a remix by Classixx and a Vanda & Young Songwriting prize under their belts – and thankfully Is This How You Feel? justifies the growing hype. Following on from 2012’s Shaking Hands EP, The Preatures have pulled out all the stops for their second EP, and while it’s all too easy to drag out a Fleetwood Mac comparison, the sound the band have honed here is a well polished pastiche of their influences. Dipping into classic rock sensibilities, dabs of shoe-shuffling ’60s and ’70s pop and a splash of blues, The Preatures might pay obvious homage to eras bygone but their sound is wrapped in a distinctly 2013-flavoured package. Title track Is This How You Feel? is pure, infectious pop that has tinges of retro boogie stamped all over it but manages to be arrestingly current at the same time. Frontwoman Isabella Manfredi’s sultry vocals play off fellow vocalist Gideon Benson’s perfectly. Check out the stripped back slow jam All My Love – you can practically see the raindrops spitting on the window and feel the heartbreak oozing into your chest. Sophomore single Manic Baby may feature one of the more delectable guitar riffs you’re likely to sink your teeth into this year, but closer Dark Times comes up trumps. All sparkly, unashamedly upbeat ’70s pop rock, it seems The Preatures saved one of the best to close it all off with a shake of the hips and a cheeky guitar solo for good measure. Is This How You Feel? is well-balanced, retro-tinged Best Track: Is This How You Feel? indie rock but most of all, it is really, really good fun. If You Like These, You’ll Like This: DAVID BOWIE, PRINCE MARISSA DEMETRIOU In A Word: Boogie

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W/ THE DEAD HEIR, CAPCHA + THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR

KITCHEN HOURS

Hailing from Sydney’s inner west, dynamic duo Adit (production/mixing) and Solo (vocals) are back after a hiatus with a brand new album, King Amongst Many. On their latest effort, Horrorshow showcase witty wordplay, dynamic flow and engaging storytelling, all backed by smooth production which incorporates subtle influences from other genres such as trip hop, funk and electro – no doubt accredited to Adit’s diverse background producing tracks for electronic act Left. Opening track Human Era is a highlight, setting the tone for the album and showcasing Adit’s production skills as well as Solo’s flow and thoughtful lyrics. He shows off a deep understanding of lyrical composition, whether he’s musing about what it takes to inspire greatness in oneself on Free: “True kings don’t demand respect, they command it / And inspire when all hope has been abandoned / But all I ever want to do is sit on the couch, put my worries into a spliff / And blow them into the clouds”), or contemplating the transient nature of modern society while he observes the demise of a local neighbourhood on Listen Close: “Now the signs in the street say ‘for lease’ or ‘for sale’ / An invitation to dream / Reminder of those who failed”. He also tackles challenging subject matter with grace, as in Own Backyard, which deals with the human rights issues surrounding the mistreatment of Australia’s indigenous community. Despite featuring lots of heavy subject matter, the album contains light-hearted moments like the catchy Nice Guys Finish Last and the positive, upbeat Make You Proud. Doctor’s Orders and Dead Star Shine are also stellar tracks, rounding off a great album that is sure to set a new benchmark for what Aussie hip hop is capable of. King Amongst Many is not only exemplary of the Australian hip hop scene’s continued evolution and ability to produce dynamic and inspiring artists, but also proof it creates Best Track: Doctor’s Orders or Dead Star Shine hip hop that is lyrically on par with the international If You Like These, You’ll Like This: URTHBOY, heavyweights. THUNDAMENTALS In A Word: Surprising MARISA LUGOSI

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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY AUG 28

THURSDAY AUG 29

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

COLLAGE Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. FAKEPATH + BEN John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. JAPANDROIDS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $45. JUSTICE & KAOS + GMC + NATUREBOY Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6. KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD + NICK ALLBROOK Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. MIDWEEK THRASH ATTACK - FEAT: XENOS + PUTKAH + SCAB EATER + THE UNDERHANDED Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. ROOTS OF MUSIC - FEAT: WOODLOCK + AMISTAT + JORDAN WALKER Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. SHADOWS AT BAY + DOJO COLLECTION Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. SLOW CLUB - FEAT: ONDAS ALPHA + PEPPERJACK + SLEEP DECADE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $5. TALES IN SPACE + MAEFLOWER Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

A CHEEKY GRIN + CAPCHA + THE DEAD HEIR + THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. APART FROM THIS + DAMN HEARTS + FLOWERMOUTH + TIGERS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. ASH Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $59. BEARS WITH GUNS + JOE OPPENHEIMER + OLIVERS ARMY Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10. BEASTS OF BOURBON + THE CHROME NIPS St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. COLD RED MUTE + AVIRUS + TWO-HEADED DOG Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5. CRUDE + EASTLINK + TAX Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. CYNDI LAUPER Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm. DARTS + I’LL BE AN INDIAN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7. HOUSE OF LIGHT + FRAUDBAND + THE OCTOPUS RIDE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5. HUGH MCGINLAY & THE RECESSIVE GENES + FINE MOTOR SKILLS + KINCH KINSKI Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm. KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD + NICK ALLBROOK Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. LOWER SPECTRUM (LITTLE APPEAL LAUNCH) + DAIXIE + HOW LOVE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. MELANIE SMITH Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 8:00pm. MELBOURNE FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. NEXT - FEAT: HEROES FOR HIRE + THE SPINSET Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. OVERDRIVE - FEAT: SOOKY LA LA + DJS JAKE & GRACE + MINIATURES Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. SMILE + CACTUS TOUCH DJS + OUTERWAVES Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE ADELAIDE CROWS (EP LAUNCH) + BIG SMOKE + THE STRANGE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. THE ALAN LADDS + WE THE RADIO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 12:30pm. THE IMPOSSIBLE NO GOODS + THE SHABBAB The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $6. THE SAND DOLLARS + DE FREMERY + SANDGIANT + THE KNAVE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5. THE VOCAL LOTION + CHAPTER RAY + SLOWJAXX & THE KOSMIC LOVE ORKESTRA + THE BLACK ALLEYS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK CABBAGES & KINGS - FEAT: THE SCRIMSHAW FOUR + THE BAUDELAIRES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. JUSTIN BERNASCONI & PETE FIDLER Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MAMA PAJAMA + KINGSTON CROWN + PAPA G & THE STAR CATS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 7:30pm. MATTEO PRIANTE Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Ontop In Ormond, Ormond. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. SIMPLY ACOUSTIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. SUMMER OF CLASSIC ALBUMS ENCORE SHOW FEAT: ASHLEY NAYLOR + HAMISH COWAN + PONY FACE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15. THE SPOILS TRIO + RICH DAVIES Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: SELINA JENKINS + SARAH GRIMSTONE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. WORLD VISION SYRIAN REFUGEE APPEAL - FEAT: NICK WILSON + AZURE BRASS + LAUREN BRUCE + TOM MCGOWAN Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BEN CARR TRIO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. HAMMOND JAZZ CLUB + MR ANDREW SWANN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. PAUL GRABOWSKY & THE PAUL WILLIAMSON QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. SOUL ISLAND Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. SWING NIGHT First Floor, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. THE LUKE HOWARD TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. VINCS & WAKELING The Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 3:00pm. VIVE LA DIFFERENCE Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm.

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ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK BABA YAGA ORKESTAR Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. BLOW The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 8:00pm. CHRIS FRANGOU + KEWTI Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. DANNY STAIN Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. DOMINI FORSTER + LEAH SENIOR Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10. FARQUARHARSON + MISCHIEVOUS THOM + SAM HANSON Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HENRY BROOKS + SALAD DAYS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. JIMMY STEWART Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. LISA SPYKERS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 7:00pm. MARLON WILLIAMS + GEORGE HYDE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 6:00pm.

OPEN MIC Balaclava Hotel, Balaclava. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Waterside Hotel, Melbourne. 8:00pm. STEELBIRDS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. STU THOMAS + JAMES TEAGUE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ALISON WEDDING & THE JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $30. ALWAN Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. JUDE PERL BAND Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. REVEREND FUNK & THE HORNS OF SALVATION + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJ VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. SYZYGY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. THE GIANNI MARINUCCI NONET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20. THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 6:30pm. THE RE-THINK PROJECT Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. TIM NEAL TRIO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.

FRIDAY AUG 30 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS IN COLOR + ANTHONY YOUNG + ESSIE THOMAS + REXKRAMER First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS + DJ JEFF LEOPARD + JUGULAR CUTS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. BATTLE OF THE BANDS - FEAT: HELLVETICA + LOST PROPERTY OFFICE + SPARKLE MOTION John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $15. BEASTS OF BOURBON + RIVER OF SNAKES St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. BLACK NIGHT CRASH - FEAT: FLYYING COLOURS + HOUSE OF LIGHT + SHOEGAZE Rochester Castle Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. BLACK TEA HOUSE + LANE CHASER + NO ESCAPE FOR THE KING + THE DAN DANS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. BLOODS (EP LAUNCH) + MAJOR LEAGUES + PEEP TEMPEL DJS + RICHIE1250 & THE BRIDES OF CHRIST Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. CAM MINEO Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:30pm. CYNDI LAUPER Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm. DEAD LETTER CIRCUS + CLOSURE IN MOSCOW + SLEEP PARADE The Wool Exchange Entertainment Complex, Geelong. 8:00pm. DEAR PLASTIC Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. DON DRUMMOND SKA NIGHT - FEAT: SKA VENDORS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + UNDECIDED Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10. FRIDAY NIGHTS AT MONET’S GARDEN - FEAT: HARMONY National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $28. HUG THERAPIST + ELCASET + ON SIERRA + THE PIRATES Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $8. JAPANDROIDS + BLACK NIGHT CRASH DJS + THE FROWNING CLOUDS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $45. KELLIE FERNANDO BIRD Beachcomber, St Kilda. 7:00pm. KILL SHOTT + ROCKET QUEEN + SUDDEN STATE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. LITTLE DESERT + ADULTS + DAN TROLLEY + THE DARK FAIR Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $7. MIGNIGHT DRIVE Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. MOUSTACHE ANT + DREAD + OVERPROOF GROOVE + RECOIL V.O.R + SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $15. MR WOO + CAIL BARONI + DICE + ELEANOR NG Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $12. ONE DAY - FEAT: KING OF THE NORTH + BUGDUST + DON FERNANDO + MATT SONIC & THE HIGH TIMES +

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ASH Irish pop-punk trio Ash will be playing their debut album 1977 in its entirety this Thursday. Released in 1996, 1977 was the band’s debut album that heralded the era of science-fiction, punk, and cinema which influenced the band. It was an album full of brash grunge, cinema references, pubescent idealism, and booze and drugs. Regarded as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1977 is a platinum icon worldwide. After selling out their first show, a second has been announced. Ash will be performing at the Corner Hotel on Thursday August 29. THE DEEP END Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15. RIVER OF SNAKES + OHMS + THE SINKING TEETH + WHITE DEVIL The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10. SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. $10. SUN GOD REPLICA Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. THE BEER BEER BEERS - FEAT: K-MART WARRIORS + DIXON CIDER + STRAWBERRY FIST CAKE Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE BULLS + PINN’D Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm. THE DEATH RATTLES + THE SCOUTS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. THE NAYSAYERS + LOUISE ADAMS + MURDENA + THE ALAMO Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE OLIVER PATERSON BEAT PROJECT + 30/70 + BLOOM Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5. THE PRETTY LITTLES + KNITTING FOR GRAN + MAJOR LEAGUES + NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH + THE HARLOTS Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. THE ROCK DUNGEON - FEAT: PTERODACTYL + CIRCADIAN PULSE + CITRUS JAM Cbd Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15. THE WOOHOO REVUE + LAMARAMA + LILY & KING Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $20. TWELVE FOOT NINJA (SHRUNKEN TOUR) Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. $21. WALLY CORKER’S DRUNK ARSE BAND + DAVE ONG + JUNK HORSES Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. WARMTH CRASHES IN + MALADAPTOR & WALKER + THE OCTOPUS RIDE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK THE WEEPING WILLOWS Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. ANDY KENTLER & ANTHONY PETRUCCI Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8:00pm. BRONI Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. DEE VUKI The Wharf Hotel, Melbourne. 6:30pm. FEED YOUR MUNKIE + ADAM HYNES Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

INTO THE MYSTIC - FEAT: JOE CREIGHTON The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $25. KING LUCHO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MARTIN CILIA Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm. MUSTERED COURAGE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $17. REARVIEW MIRROR + FOOVANA + THE WHITE CARDS Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. RESEN PEARLS + HELLO NAKED REPUBLIC Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm. SEA SHEPHERD FUNDRAISER - FEAT: CLINKERFIELD + CHRIS RUSSELL Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $10. SHADOW LEAGUE + JESS SHULMAN + MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. SID O’NEIL Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. TANK DILEMMA Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. THE TIPPLERS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. TIM GUY Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. VANGUARDS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. VOID GLORIOUS VOID Dane Certificate’s Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC A LO HECHO PECHO Bella Union Bar (trades Hall), Carlton South. 9:30pm. $10. ALINTA & THE JAZZ EMPERORS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. ALISON WEDDING & THE JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $30. CONNIE LANSBERG QUARTET The Regent Club, 8:00pm. DEAN’S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. FIONA THORNE Stones Of The Yarra Valley, Coldstream. 7:00pm. $30. GIL ASKEY & THE ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. JAMES SHERLOCK TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MARGIE LOU’S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 9:00pm. REBECCA BARNARD & THE ROMANTICS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30. THE HORNETS DUO + CRAIG HORN & JEFF BURSTON Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 8:30pm.

SATURDAY AUG 31 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

SWIDGEN + CHAINGUN + GRIM RHYTHM + WATCHTOWER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. TEST GIG 2 - FEAT: TEST ARTIST 2 Werribee Park Mansion, Werribee. 8:00pm. TEXAS FLOOD The Green Table, Dandenong. 8:00pm. THE ANGELS Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. $40. THE BOMBAY ROYALE + DJ CHRIS GILL + THE BLUEBOTTLES Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $15. THE DRUNKEN POACHERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. THE FAUVES + DOCTOR’S ORDERS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $20. THE PERFECTIONS + BROOKLYN QUEENZ The Public Bar, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10. THE REAL MCKENZIES + BETWEEN THE WARS + RAMSHACKLE ARMY + THE GO SET Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $22. THE ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE - FEAT: NICK BARKER & BAND + THE DEAR DOCTORS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25. THE SEVEN UPS + DJ MANCHILD Prince Public Bar, St Kilda. 8:00pm. THE STIFFYS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. THE TWOKS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE WORLD AT A GLANCE + ELEVATOR TALK + FEVERTEETH + STOCKADES + TALONS LIKE ANTLERS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:30pm. $5. UNDERGROUND LOVERS + ALPHA BETA FOX Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $18. WHERE’S GROVER? + BOM + FEARLESS ESCAPE + THE GANTHENHEILM PACT Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK BEC & SEBESTIAN IVANOV - FEAT: BEC & SEBESTIANIVANOV + ILANACHARNELLE + PRIESTESSA Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $10. BEN CARR TRIO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. CAJUN TRIO + FRUIT JAR Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. CHARLIE LANE + DORKAS MALORKAS + JOHNNY & JUNE + THE KEYTAR KIDS Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. CRAIG WOODWARD’S OL’TIMEY MUSIC JAM SESSION Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. DAMON SMITH Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. DEER HEAD APPARITION Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 4:00pm. GUESTS + NICE BOY TOM + QOBAR + THE KNAVE

VANCE JOY Vance Joy is sure to one day look back on 2013 with sentiment. He’s already signed a five album deal with powerhouse label Atlantic, had a massive hit single in Riptide, announced a tour with the legendary Bernard Fanning, and has his much hyped debut EP God Loves You When You’re Dancing under his belt. Having just smashed it at Splendour in the Grass, Joy is returning home to Melbourne to play a headline show to officially launch Riptide. It goes down on Tuesday September 3 at the Corner Hotel. Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. HORNETS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. INTO THE MYSTIC - FEAT: JOE CREIGHTON The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $25. JIMI HOCKING’S BLUES MACHINE Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 9:00pm. LONE TYGER + PETE EWING Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. MAJOR CHORD + BRIGHTER LATER Bella Union Bar (trades Hall), Carlton South. 8:00pm. $15. MAJOR CHORD + AMAYA LAUCIRICA Bella Union Bar (trades Hall), Carlton South. 8:30pm. $15. MANNY FOX + KEICHI Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm. MARLON WILLIAMS Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:30pm. MUSTERED COURAGE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. SPIRAL DANCE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $25. TANGO RUBINO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:30pm. THE BLACKEYED SUSANS TRIO Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE DAN KROCHMAL SHOWCASE Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:00pm. THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS Union Hotel, Brunswick.

ALL TIME LOW Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. BANG - FEAT: KING PARROT + DEATH BY SIX + DECIMATUS + ELECTRIK DYNAMITE Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. BEASTS OF BOURBON + RIVER OF SNAKES St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. BEING AS AN OCEAN + OUTLINES + SIERRA + SURRENDER Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $30. BELLUSIRA + DIVA DEMOLITION + SHADOWQUEEN + TEN THOUSAND Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. CANNON + CHOOK RACE + PRONG DONGS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8. CHINESE HANDCUFFS + ADRIAN WHYTE + BEAR THE MAMMOTH + BEN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. CROWNED KINGS + BLOODWOLVES + DECLARATION + MARK MY WORDS + PROCLAIM Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. DEAD LETTER CIRCUS The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 8:00pm. FAT FREDDY’S DROP Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. FIONA LEE MAYNARD & HER HOLY MEN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. GOING SWIMMING + JUGULAR CUTS + THE MIGHTY BOYS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. HANK’S JALOPY DEMONS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. JACK JACKY & THE BLACKIES + THE DEANS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. JIMMY TAIT + MIDNIGHT BOSOM + STRANGERS FROM NOW ON Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. MARCHING ORDERS + PLAN OF ATTACK + RAZORCUT + STRANGLEHOLD + THE HARD TARGETS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. MASSIVE Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 8:00pm. MICHAEL PLATER & THE EXIT KEYS + FRAUDBAND + MIDNIGHT SCAVENGERS Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm. QUAYLE FACE + INCRYPT + ONE KINGOM + WILD COMFORTS + WONDERBEAST John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm. REDCOATS + CHILD + SINKING TEETH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12. RETURN OF THE METAL GODS - FEAT: BRITISH STEEL + MADE IN PURPLE + THE FALLEN ANGELS Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $15. SHERIFF + SEEDY JESUS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $10. SPIN CYCLE + EMPRA + INSYGNIA + JERRICO + THE GETAWAY PLAN + THE GREETING METHOD + THE SOULENIKOES The Wool Exchange Entertainment Complex, Geelong. 8:00pm. STANDING TALL Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

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9:00pm. THE ESCARGO-GO’S + EYE FOR COLOUR Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. THE ORIGINAL SNAKESKINS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:03pm. THE STETSON FAMILY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. THE WHORLS + WINTERPLAN Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm. TRANSFERENCE Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 2:00pm. DAVE WARNER + MARTIN CILIA Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $37. GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. GRIND NIGHT - FEAT: THE BREADMAKERS + DJ BARBARA BLAZE + DJ SYE SAXON The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. LA MAUVAISE REPUTATION Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25. PANORAMA DO BRASIL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20. THE VINCE JONES QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $38.

SUNDAY SEP 1 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS 80’S ON THE EDGE Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 8:30pm. ASHLEIGH MANNIX + AL PARKINSON + DAN PARSONS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 2:00pm. $12. BEARS WITH GUNS Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 4:00pm. BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: LOVE MIGRATE + ELEPHANT + SAGAMORE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. DIRE FATE & ROTE MARE + DIRE FATE + ROTE MARE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:30pm. ED & I Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. JESSICA PAIGE + NICK ROY Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $12. LAYABOUTS IN LACE - FEAT: AIMEE VOLKOFSKY +

BABA YAGA ORKESTAR + THE CHIEF Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. LOCAL GROUP + ROWAN ROEBIG MUSIC Tago Mago, Thornbury. 5:30pm. LONG HOLIDAY + THE DIVINE FLUXUS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $12. MARK JOLLEY + LUCAS GEORGE + NIKITA + TOM DENTON Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. MATIN CILIA + BEN ROGERS INSTRUMENTAL ASYLUM + THE BLACK MOLLS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 1:30pm. $10. TEXTURE LIKE SUN + HUDSON + LEIGH BACCHETTI Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. $12. THE BELLWETHERS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm. $10. THE GLORIOUS + GHOST TOWNS OF THE MIDWEST Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. THE OTHERS + BORN FREE + MOOD SWING + SEARCH & DESTROY Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. $10. THE RECHORDS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:30pm. THE STORMY MONDAYS + DRIFTWOOD LOUNGE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. VANCE JOY + BIG HARVEST + FRASER A GORMAN + ROSCOE JAMES IRWIN Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $17.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK ALEX LASHLIE Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. ANDY LACY Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm. CARINO SON + KEN MAHER & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. CRISTINA SERAFY Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. FINDING ISLA + ELEPHANT EYES + SHIVER CANYON Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:00pm. FLASH COMPANY + THE NYMPHS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. JIM GREEN TRIO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. KATE WALKER Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm. KIRSTY AKERS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. MICK PORTER + JEROME KNAPPETT + SIMON WILSON + SUNSET BLUSH + ZIGGY BRITTEN 303, Northcote. 2:30pm. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. RISING TIDE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 3:30pm. TOM BUDGE + JAMES TEAGUE Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. TRACY MCNEIL BAND Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm. TROY BARRETT + JEREMY JAMES + MEL CALIA Korova Milk Bar, Melbourne . 8:20pm. TWO DOORS DOWN Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 5:00pm.

VAN WALKER Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. WENDY RULE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. WILLOW Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ALEX BURNS Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 4:00pm. BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 6:00pm. ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm. FAT FREDDY’S DROP Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. IMOGEN PEMBERTON Open Studio, Northcote. 7:00pm. MELBOURNE JAZZ COOPERATIVE (BERNIE MCGANN CELEBRATORY CONCERT) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 6:30pm. $38. THE MATT BODEN QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. VINCS & WAKELING Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 3:00pm.

MONDAY SEP 2 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ALL TIME LOW Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $25. MANDEK PENHA + CHEEKY GOOSE + DJ LOVELY CLEAR WATER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $8. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: USELESS CHILDREN + DEAF WISH + HEX ON THE BEACH Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK ACOUSTIC SESSIONS Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. DINEO & BOURNESTEIN PRESENT - FEAT: JT THE KING OF GROOVE Claypots Tavern & Fair, St Kilda. 8:30pm. MOMENTS NOTICE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:30pm. PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. SONGWRITER SESSIONS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5. VANCE JOY + FRASER A GORMAN & BIG HARVEST + ROSCOE JAMES IRWIN Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $17.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BENNETTS LANE BIG BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. LEBOWSKIS 303, Northcote. 9:00pm.

TUESDAY SEP 3 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS BULLS + TWINKLE DIGITS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. KILL SHOTT Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25. MADRE MONTE + AGUA CON SOL + LAMINE SONKO & THE AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5. THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL DISCOVERY NIGHT - FEAT: THE NARROWS + MALADAPTOR + THE UNDERHANDED Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE GROWL + MINING BOOM + PETER BIBBY & HIS BOTTLES OF CONFIDENCE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK CHARLES JENKINS & MATTY VEHL + LARISSA TANDY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:30pm. KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. MOULIN BEIGE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm. $20. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. VANCE JOY + FRASER A GORMAN & BIG HARVEST + ROSCOE JAMES IRWIN Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $17.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC DAVID ADES & ZAC HURREN QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $18. ELIZABETH BLACKTHORN 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 ALEX & VERA COLLECTION Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.

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These are exciting times at Push HQ as tickets have just been released for this year’s Face The Music Conference. The two-day conference will run on November 15 and 16 at Arts Centre Melbourne, allowing local and international music aficionados to meet, share ideas and provide advice on all things music related. Last year’s sold out conference hosted the lovely Kimbra and the bearded AJ Maddah (the dude behind Soundwave). This year will feature 150 industry pros working in a number of areas including label management, events, PR, recording, media and performance. The full list of contributors is set to be released on September 11. This years topics will include all essential music bizz info, including marketing and publicity strategies, artist management, booking gigs, recording techniques and much more. The conference is also going to feature some awesome hands-on music making sessions, covering stuff like songwriting, beat-making and recording studio skills (or skillz, as I like to say). The lovely folks behind Face The Music have included a concession price, so jump onto facethemusic.org.au to grab your tickets now. New additions to the conference are being added every week, so keep checking back for all the latest news. This is certainly an event that is not to be missed! Speaking of AJ Maddah, the 2014 Soundwave lineup has now officially been released. After months of rumours, twitter speculations and online leaks, a confirmed list is now available, names including Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In Chains, Rob Zombie and Megadeth. Whilst AJ has himself admitted the lineup doesn’t top the previous festival, which marked Soundwave’s 10th anniversary, there are no doubt some mega names on there (mega names, Megadeth, get it). General release tickets will go on sale September 5. At the start of September, we will be putting our next Artist of the Month online. This month’s section will feature the lovely Nicolette Forte, a Melbourne based singer songwriter. Nicolette released EP Rescue Me at the end of July, which featured six songs full of soulful roots goodness. She was a participant in this year’s fabulous FReeZA Mentoring Program, which concluded this month. The program matches young people keen to learn more about a specific area of the music industry with professionals in their chosen field. Applications for next year’s program will be opening in September, so if it sounds like something you’d be interested in, keep an eye on this column and the Push website for details on how to apply. Our feature on Nicolette will be able to be read at thepush.com.au, freeza.vic.gov.au and youthcentral. vic.gov.au.

All Ages Timetable Wednesday 28 August Open Mic/Jam Night, Musicland, 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 7pm, free, musiclandonline.com.au, AA. Thursday 29 August Cyndi Lauper w/ Max Opens, The Palais, Lower Esplanade, St Kilda, 7.30pm, $99.90 to $139.90, ticketmaster.com.au, AA. Friday 30 August Cyndi Lauper w/ Max Opens, The Palais, Lower Esplanade, St Kilda, 7.30pm, $99.90 to $139.90, ticketmaster.com.au, AA. Harmony w/ Edd Fisher DJ set, National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda Road, Southbank, 6.30pm, $28 Adult, $23 Member, $10 Child, ngv.vic.gov.au or 8662 1555, AA. Saturday 31 August Return to Metal Gods w/ British Steel and more, 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 8pm, $15, musiclandonline.com.au, AA. Backstage Indie Night, 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 7.30pm, $10, musiclandonline.com.au, AA. Sunday September 1 All Time Low w/ Built On Secrets, Billboards, 170 Russell st, Melbourne, 1.00pm, $60.60, ticketek. com.au, U18. Jam at Musicland Sundays, Musicland, 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 5pm, free, musiclandonline. com.au, AA.

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LIVE ED KUEPPER The Flying Saucer Club, Thursday August 22 the brilliantly titular Also Sprach King Of Euro Disco, Ill Wind, Kissin’ Cousins, Indian Reservation amongst plenty of others. But who would have expected to hear the Fifties gem by the aptly named The Diamonds, Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein Or Dracula and Runaway or Always The Woman Pays? Unexpected treats that could have been completed with someone screaming “Bingo!!!” at every given opportunity. As with any requests show, many were played, some were not, others were stored in the memory bank but evaporated by the end of the night assisted by several glasses of Top Shelf. Hello Alco Pops, but not in the context of a Pink audience down the road. By the time Ed gave in to the barrage of pleas and ended with Sundown, everyone was duly satiated by a special performance.

Ed Kuepper slips from international stages as Nick Cave’s hired gun into the more serene (machine?!) confines of a seated Thursday solo show. The Flying Saucer Club conjures images of Sixties dives filled with smoke, noise and more multi-coloured tablets than a pharmacy. Beam me up Scotty. In actual fact nothing could be further from the truth. This is the Caufield RSL, a regal Tudor style building turned into an occasional live venue, a playground for the young at heart to listen to music with all the urgency but no danger from risible interruptions. Ed takes the stage with the bare essentials of a couple of guitars, some amplification and a golden repertoire to treat a comfortably full audience with three hours of his life’s work. Every aspect of his career is represented. Brisbane (Security City) to Eternally Yours to Rue The Day, Fireman Joe and Electrical Storm. Like any Ed Kuepper performance, the show was littered with the favourites you expect to hear. What show would be complete without Collapse Board, The Way l Made You Feel or Horse Underwater. But this was no ordinary show. It was one for the fans, to receive their requests and to see whether the songs could be remembered. That is why there was

BRONIUS ZUMERIS LOVED: The couch. HATED: An entire generation missing out on something that will endure. DRANK: Apple juice to some, cider to others.

BEN WRIGHT SMITH Ding Dong Lounge, Saturday August 24 Ben Wright Smith has a couple of releases tucked into his blue belt already, but the launch of new single If Living The Good Life Is Easy (Why Is This So Hard?) provided an insight into the cherub-faced songwriter’s intention to step this game up. With less of the lapsteel and simple bluegrass of debut LP Autumn Fire but more of its blithe guitar-driven beauty, there were plenty of moments for Wright Smith’s voice and lyrical ideas to move through the mix. The man’s first track laid out the unhurried, sweet surf-blues feel which permeated his joyful set. Double woodblock clocks from the jaunty-hatted auxiliary percussionist Jorge Leiva peppered the song’s breezy warmth, while Alfi Dallaway and Ben himself on guitars created something of a Pond or Push Th’ Little Daisies fervour. That Ween comparison actually isn’t so far off for Ben’s vocals, either. At times he took the more twee elements of his voice – which is a jubilant, aerial thing that remains very intimate – and stretched them to almost a cheep. Initially audience opinion appeared to be mixed, but a few tracks in I was convinced that the experimentation

was fresh and unique. The show’s heralded single displayed Wright Smith’s skill in writing and arranging to create total affinity. It sounded like a bird coasting on the wind tides, if I may get a bit poetic. Keys, bass and guitar melded into gorgeously wavering chords with a simple but soaring, almost Gallagher-inspired lead guitar line. That benevolent monster drove the track’s narrative, with climbing drums from Evan Lineham, occasional sweet jazz thirds from keys player Jesse Williams and Leiva’s subtly spirited congas. The harmonies from Wright Smith and bassist Tyler Millott elevated the track (and the set) into incandescent stuff. Definitely looking forward to the next full-length release. ZOE RADAS LOVED: Ben cheersing bevs with Tyler mid-song. Sah happy. HATED: Girl dramas. DRANK: Eleventy-hundred beers.

CLIENT LIAISON Laundry Bar, Friday August 23 Time, they say, only exists so everything doesn’t happen at once. Melbourne duo Client Liaison have been in an ostensible status in the past year, cultivating a slowburning adoration solely through the medium of live performance – including a grandstanding primetime showing at Golden Plains earlier in 2013. The brilliant Australiana pastiche that is the End Of The Earth YouTube clip, uploaded in April 2012, remains the only instance of studio-forged output. As such, the track is placed within setlists as a greatest hit of sorts. It’s an effective salvo, as demonstrated upstairs tonight at a bustling Laundry Bar. But it wasn’t just End Of The Earth that instigated a sense of familiarity from the audience. Though unreleased in any tangible form, the Client Liaison arsenal of tracks are overwhelmingly emboldened by an innate classic pop savvy, with at least one prior live sighting proving enough to provide melodic and lyrical retention. In terms of performance from an unsigned act with scant released material, tonight was a fair triumph. In terms of a Client Liaison performance, it was perhaps the weakest I’ve seen them. Singer Monte Morgan declared he was still shaking off the dregs of a dayslong crook spell and keyboardist Harvey Miller was

only slightly successful in his requests for the house mix to be turned up to an acceptable volume. The lack of live supports gave an air of the perfunctory rather than that of ceremony. Still, everybody got their money’s worth tonight. Things in the music industry, on any level, take time. The compulsion is to wish for an alignment with the prolific end of the spectrum, capitalising on the zeitgeist for a supernova-bright burst of greatness. I have good faith that Client Liaison do encompass, or at least aspire to, a realised and levelled iteration of the executive-class acumen they lampoon within their nostalgic aesthetic. If they pull it off come album/EP/ whatever launch time, which I’m positively sure they will, greatness will ensue. Their Golden Plains debut will be the makings of lore. Tonight’s performance, however, will be but a footnote. LACHLAN KANONIUK LOVED: The deft Treaty tribute. HATED: The underwhelming mix. DRANK: A cold Fosters. Not really. But just imagine I did ok.

SEEKAE NGV, Friday August 23 I can only reach a certain level of excitement for Claude Monet and his painterly water lilies. Even a closing panorama of his inspirational garden didn’t lift me to a new emotional level. But ‘Monet’s Garden’ is, as has been the case with the recent run of touring NGV shows, an impeccably curated exhibition that did its subject matter justice. Impressionism enthusiasts would be better off finding a quieter time to enjoy the gallery space, but these end-of-week evenings are a surefire way to pull in a younger crowd and make excellent use of spaces such as the epic Great Hall. The primary art that I had ventured here for was a new set from Sydney electronica act, Seekae. Void, from the three-piece’s 2008 debut The Sound of Trees Falling on People, got the biggest crowd response, though the defining moment of the show was its starting point. New single Another was one of several new tracks showcased tonight, an atmospheric Beat Magazine Page 50

shift into Collarbones/James Blake territory that bodes extremely well for their forthcoming album. Percussionist Alex Cameron has such a gorgeous voice, it makes you wonder why he has been hiding behind the drum-kit for so long. The first in a series of shows to mark this exciting new phase foe Seekae had a two-hour lead-up of stonking dance tunes from the World’s End Press DJs (now there’s another local album I can’t wait to get my hands on). For me, this Friday night was not about the Monet. CHRIS GIRDLER

LOVED: Seekae old and new HATED: The line for drinks just prior to Seekae’s set. Should have seen that one coming. DRANK: Chardy

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MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS Corner Hotel, Saturday August 24 Okay, to start this review I am going to give you all a tip for next time you go to a sold-out show at The Corner: Walk to the far side near the toilets and set up camp just to the right of stage. It’s brilliant; you have the least busy bar and ‘facilities’ just a few short steps away. On Saturday night The Corner was sold-out for what was arguably the best lineup on offer that evening with freakfest-electro-pop act Fascinator, certified force of nature Kirin J Callinan and one of Melbourne’s music intuitions, the now regal Midnight Juggernauts. Fascinator’s set had a long intro of a hypnotherapy track for children that consisted of two squirrels being very sensible. What followed this was far from sensible. Lord Fascinator strode to the mic with his synth guitar that looked as though it had been stolen from the set of Total Recall and proceeded to brutally bash a loud drum pad overlaid with swirls from his rapturous hybrid axe. After this brash beginning Lord Fascinator was joined by a percussionist, four people dressed in Chinese monk clothing – ‘Cloud Priests’ we were told – a contortionist and a masquerade ball looking chick. Fascinator is the project of Children Collide front man Johnny McKay and the Cloud Priests included Jonny Goldcoast of Amazing Phillips Sisters and electro pop princess Chela. Even though McKay’s voice is heavily affected, it still has that familiar drawl. Aurally the performance was punishing as massive synth samples and crushing drum tracks created an enormous wall of sound. Kirin J Callinan was an intimidating sight as he strode onto stage in slick black undergarments wrapped in what looked like one of those foil things that you use to keep your dashboard cool, and his guitar, slung like highwayman’s rifle. His band, a drummer and a synth-player mimicked his Draconian style, additionally in a weird faux-futurism vibe they had ear pinned mouth pieces – to communicate with an unseen vessel or to get instructions from their leader. Victoria was a predictable highlight to the set, but it was so loud that in the packed room punters still stood a couple of feet back from the stage. Was it pleasurable? Not really, but Callinan’s stage presence is something to behold as he powerfully stalks the stage whipping his guitar from side to side and even though he wears heavy make-

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up that makes for an effeminate aesthetic, don’t think for a second he is not an alpha male. The atmosphere prior to Midnight Juggernauts coming on stage was New Year’s Eve-like. It was an older and slightly more sophisticated crowd than you would normally see out on a Saturday night at a gig. I feel this is because of Midnight Juggernauts’ nearly ten year tenure as one of Australia’s leading electronic music producers, which has seen many of those indie kids who used to see them at Shake Some Action in the ‘00s grow up to become fuckheaded advertising executives. An ethereal beginning was adjusted by the kimono clad threesome launching into Shadows from their debut album of 2007, Dystopia. The bounce initiated by this song’s incredible bassline was a site to see! Kirin J Callinan’s safety blanket/ dashboard protector had become a bizarre burkha on particularly animated crowd member. As this song began to dwindle, Vincent Vendetta, Andrew Szekeres and Daniel Stricker seamlessly steered the sound into Monument, the second single from the new LP Uncanny Valley. This song’s mesmerising beat drew a big push forward from the crowd. And the crowd just kept swelling as a ‘tweak’, ‘tweak’, ‘strum’, ‘strum’, gave way to the massive intro of Road To Recovery. At about halfway through the night there was a break as the band member’s changed into the Soviet Army uniforms worn in the amazing film clip for Ballad Of The War Machine. Before the end of the set, Andy sang a new song which made for a change of pace and mode, plus Vital Signs was adored! Then came the encore which ended with 45 And Rising, that while being a single from early on in their career, just fizzled a bit for me. That is a minor gripe on what was an enlivening night of music from the edge. DENVER MAXX

LOVED: Fascinator, Kirin J and Midnight Juggernauts. HATED: Tossers with grey streaks and thickrimmed glasses. DRANK: Mother (fuck knows why?)

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