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TOURING
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METRIC, AUSTRA, BABYLON CIRCUS
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KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
This New Year’s Eve, get rowdy with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard as they bring in 2014 at the Ding Dong Lounge. Psychedelic collective King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have been rapidly making a name for themselves with their distinctive garage punk sound. The night will also see support from The Murlocs, Bad// Dreems and the Love Junkies. It all goes down on Tuesday December 31 at the Ding Dong Lounge.
PUSH OVER 2014
Push Over, the fully supervised all ages drug/alcohol/ smoke-free event managed by non-profit youth music organisation The Push, have unveiled their 2014 lineup. The 2014 lineup features All Day, Bam Bam, Buried in Verona, Chance Waters, Citizen Kay, Cub Sport, Deez Nuts, Dream On Dreamer, In Hearts Wake, Johnny Third, Lucianblomkamp, Make Them Suffer, Outright, PEZ, Remi, Saviour, Sierra, The Bennies and The Smith Street Band. It goes down on Labour Day, Monday March 10 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
KIM CHURCHILL
Australian singer/songwriter Kim Churchill will hit the road for a string of tour dates in support of his new single Window to the Sky. At only 23-years-old, Churchill has already released three full-length albums, with his fourth on the way. The highly-anticipated project showcases the musician’s melodic, contemporary, blues and folk sides. Churchill’s mesmerising live show sees the performer focus on his guitar work while also playing bass drum, percussion, tambourine, harmonica and vocals. Check out Kim Churchill at The Workers Club on Friday January 31.
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St Kilda Festival have announced their first lineup for the 2014 festival. The 34th St Kilda Festival will open with Yalukit Wilum Ngargee: People Place Gathering in O’Donnell Gardens on Saturday February 1 featuring a host of artists including Yirrmal and the Yolngu Boys, Crystal Mercy and singer/songwriter Benny Walker. For the next six days Live N Local will host upcoming artists including Baberaham Lincoln, Bella and the Mellows, Riot in Toytown, Sunday Chairs and White Summer. Festival Sunday will see internationally acclaimed music acts take to the main stage, plus a variety of activities and events across the festival site including handball workshops with St Kilda football players and the annual Children’s Fishing Workshop with the Elwood Angling Club. The festival has also unveiled the first round of homegrown music acts for the 2014 New Music stage which includes Tully on Tully, The Dandens, House of Laurence, Lester the Fierce, Artist Proof, Ten Thousand, Boys Boys Boys, Private Life and Brow Horn Orchestra. The full program for the 34th St Kilda Festival will be announced on Monday January 6 and will include more than 150 artists across seven stages, and more than 40 St Kilda venues. St Kilda Festival 2014 takes place between Saturday February 1 and Sunday February 9 around St Kilda.
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Things are about to get a lot heavier in Melbourne, as metal band Fozzy have announced an intimate sideshow. The outfit consists of professional wrestler Chris Jericho and Rick Ward of Struck Mojo fame, in addition to a slew of other musicians, with their music characterized as a hybrid of Metallica and Journey. Catch Fozzy at the Espy on Friday December 13. Tickets go on sale Friday November 29 at 9am on Oztix.
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PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL
Port Fairy Folk Festival has tacked on 25 more acts to the coastal festival’s 38th incarnation. The new international acts hail from across the globe, with headliners including Ireland’s Damien Dempsey, Mongolia’s Hanggai, and the United States’ Love Over Gold leading the charge. Port Fairy Folk Festival will go down from Friday March 7 to Monday March 10, 2014. More information and tickets are available from portfairyfolkfestival.com
NEW YEAR’S EVIE COMES TO BRUZZY’S FARM Get ready to let your hair hang down this summer at Bruzzy’s Farm New Year’s Evie this December. Named after famed Australian singer/songwriter, and former frontman of The Easybeats, Steve Wright’s acclaimed single Evie, New Year’s Evie will be a New Year’s celebration full of homegrown talent, including Stax Records (Otis Redding, Johnnie Taylor) tribute band Stax On Soul Revue Band, Toga Rock, Harmony, psych-voodoo force Stella Angelico, The Electric Guitars, Little Desert, Jemma & Her Wise Young Ambitious Men, IO, Blown Cones, LA Pocock, Sweet Jelly Roll, Sabo, Roller One and Melbourne badass blues band Three Kings. There will be high quality food and booze available throughout the festival, including free camping. New Year’s Evie will be hosted at Bruzzy’s Farm (210 Pyalong Road, Tallarook) from Tuesday December 31 – Thursday January 2.
UK indie-rockers Bastille have announced that they will be returning to Australia in 2014. The band played two shows, in Melbourne and Sydney, this August that sold out in less than 24 hours. Now they are returning for arena shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Their debut album, Bad Blood, was released in the UK in March and went straight to the top of the charts, becoming the biggest selling album of the year. In Australia their single, Pompeii went three times platinum, reaching #5 on the ARIA singles chart. Bastille will be playing Festival Hall on Sunday June 15, 2014.
KEITH URBAN
Keith Urban is returning home with his Light The Fuse tour. Keith Urban will be returning to his day job, performing country classics, after wrapping up his American Idol duties next year. Urban’s tour earlier this year sold out completely. Held at Rod Laver Arena of Wednesday June 25, tickets will be on sale through Ticketek from 9am Monday December 9, with advanced tickets available through Visa Entertainment from 12pm Tuesday December 3 until 5pm Thursday December 5.
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Define your genre in five words or less: PoCoFoCa: Porno Country Folk Cabaret. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? We had to make up our own genre, because we couldn’t figure out what pigeonhole we’d fit into – so I hope they’d say that we sound like nothing they’ve ever heard before. There are eight of us on stage, dressed up to the nines, so hopefully we look like nothing they’ve ever seen before either. How long have you been gigging and writing? As 2013 draws to a close, the crew of The Good Ship will celebrate five years together, being tossed and turned (mostly tossed) on the stormy seas off the coast of the Australian contemporary music landscape. What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? That depends a lot on your definition of success. If we can write music that resonates with enough people that we could sustain ourselves as full-time musicians, I reckon that’d be worth raising our glasses to toast. We don’t aspire to be rich or famous – but if it happens we will certainly have a red-hot go at getting used to it. THE GOOD SHIP launch The Seven Seas at The Toff In Town on Sunday December 8.
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PANAMA FESTIVAL
After an impressive initial lineup for its inaugural year, Panama Festival has divulged the second string of artists that will grace the forest of Tasmania this March. Saskwatch, Super Wild Horses, The Babe Rainbow, Holy Holy, Mckisco and Tiger Choir round out the new additions, with more to be announced. Panama Festival will take place in the north-eastern forests of Tassie from Saturday March 8 to Sunday March 9, 2014.
Define your genre in five words or less: Australian garage. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? They’d probably just say something about Rowland S. Howard. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? We have an album called The Girls of Paradise available at Polyester and on Bandcamp. When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/single/etc? We’re playing The Evelyn Monday night residency in December and we’re also recording a couple of tracks with Marcus from East Brunswick All Girls Choir. Those recordings should be available some time early next year. Tell us about the last song you wrote. I wrote a song about a missing person for my solo collection. I took the inspiration from a house I had seen last year near the West Gate bridge below these power-lines. I found it had an eerie sentiment and it felt like such a good setting for a story. So I decided I’d think about this place for the inspiration for a song, one which was something more like a short story which you could follow as it unfolds. It’s basically about a couple who are trying to have a baby and one night the man hears her talking in her sleep then in the morning she’s gone. Where would you like to be in five years? Living in an art deco apartment with a motorbike and a cool cat.
CAT POWER
NAI PALM
Nai Palm has announced she will play Tuesdays at The Workers Club next January. The Workers Club is quite possibly the venue that made it all happen for her band Hiatus Kaiyote. Having only just returned from tours of the US, UK and Europe and capping of 2013 by winning The Age Music Victoria Award for Best Breakthrough Artist for HK, the residency provides a chance to get up close and personal with Nai Palm. Throughout January she will be joined by Paris MC, beatboxer and singer Spleen. Nai Palm’s residency at The Worker’s Club begins Tuesday January 7. She will play the venue every week until January 28.
Cat Power will return to Australia this January for an intimate solo tour. Cat Power AKA Chan Marshall will perform two shows for Sydney Festival and appear as a guest vocalist at Sydney Festival’s Big Star’s Third, a live orchestrated performance of the classic album. She will also perform in Melbourne, Fremantle, Canberra, Gippsland and Milton. Her ninth record, Sun, was released August 2013 and her full band tour earlier this year saw sold out shows in Perth and Melbourne as well as a headline spot at Golden Plains. Cat Power will play the Thornbury Theatre on Friday January 31 and Saturday February 1. She will be joined by Mick Turner's band.
DAN SULTAN
After erupting back onto the scene with bold soul-rock shot Under Your Skin – his first release in over four years – Dan Sultan and band are thrilled to announce a capital city tour in February and March 2014. His league of dedicated fans have been waiting for this moment, and now, with this first taste of his upcoming album, Dan is about to prove that the wait was definitely worth it. With another single due out before the album’s early April release, we get a chance to hear yet another example of the rock melodies and snarling, sultry vocals which made the young songwriter a household name. Dan Sultan performs at the Corner Hotel on Saturday March 1.
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LURCH & CHIEF
The pieces are in place for Melbourne’s Lurch & Chief to have one mighty fine 2014, after experiencing what can only be described as a very formative 2013. Having released their exceptional new EP earlier in the year, radio play of first single We Are The Same just keeps going from strength to strength resulting in a building live demand and culminating in December with some of their finest shows to date. To finish up the year, Lurch & Chief will hit up NYE On The Hill Festival on Monday December 30 and The Espy on Tuesday December 31. Check out their website for full regional dates. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 22
American rockers Clutch have announced a string of headlining tour dates that will coincide with their appearances at Soundwave Festival. The band’s 10th studio LP, Earth Rocker, has been hailed the best record of Clutch’s 23-year career, leading them to celebrate by releasing Earth Rocker Live, a limited edition, double vinyl picture disk set with one LP of studio recording and one LP of live tracks that will hit stores Friday January 17, 2014. Before they hit Soundwave on Friday February 28, Clutch will headline the Prince Bandroom on Thursday February 27.
ARCTIC MONKEYS
Arctic Monkeys will return to Australian shores midnext year. Last visiting for the 2011 incarnation of Falls Festival, the 2014 tour follows the recent release of the Sheffield four-piece’s fifth studio album AM. All shows on the tour will be all ages. Arctic Monkeys will hit Rod Laver Arena on Friday May 9.
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ILLY
Illy’s fourth studio album, Cinematic, landed loud and proud at #4 on the ARIA album chart last week. The triple j feature album is the Melbourne artist’s first top 10 debut and the second highest first week sales by an Australian hip hop artist in 2013. To celebrate the release, Illy has announced The Cinematic National Tour for March 2014. Fans will be treated to the best of Illy’s catalogue including new singles Youngbloods featuring Ahren Stringer and On & On. Illy plays The Hi-Fi on Friday March 7.
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METZ Since their beginning in 2010 from a shared love of hardcore acts on labels like Dischord, noisy Ontario trio METZ have garnered a reputation for intense live performances. The group has been touring off their first LP for roughly ten months now, playing basements, clubs and festivals everywhere from their native Toronto to all over the US and Europe, and sparking crowd responses equally as intense and visceral as their own performances everywhere they go. METZ play Howler on Thursday December 5 alongside Batpiss and Deep Heat, and we have a double pass to give away.
SUNNYBOYS
LEONARD COHEN
The remarkable rise of the Sunnyboys continues with the news that the band’s show at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre has sold-out – in just nine days. Not wanting to disappoint the fans that missed out on tickets for that show, Sunnyboys have announced a second and final show, once again at The Forum, and this time featuring special guests Huxton Creepers. Tickets for the new Forum show on Saturday March 22 are on sale Monday December 9 from Ticketmaster.
There is nothing we need to say about Leonard Cohen – you already know he’s a legend. Cohen’s iconic 2010 performance at the beautiful Hanging Rock earned him the Helpmann Award for Best International Contemporary Concert and overwhelming acclaim. He’s playing The Hill Winery in Geelong on Saturday December 7. We have two double passes to give away.
SUMMER OF SOUL
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PORT ROYAL STREET PART Y
Next January will see the first incarnation of the Port Royal Street Party - a killer day of live music, food, booze and side-show shenanigans. Featuring a spectacular local lineup all performing on a single stage, Cosmic Psychos, The Meanies, The Murlocs, Harmony, Straight Arrows, Batpiss, Bits Of Shit, The Spinning Rooms, Ausmuteants and Yo Grito DJs will keep the tunes flowing all day while Matilda Bay Brewery will be literally rolling out the kegs with the Salford Lads Club cooking up tasty treats. It goes down on Saturday January 18.
Dolly Parton returns to Australia after her widely successful 2011 tour. Dolly’s latest studio album of all new material, Blue Smoke, will be released worldwide on Dolly Records, distributed through Sony Music Australia, on January 31, 2014. Due to a huge demand for tickets, iconic singer/songwriter Dolly Parton will perform two extra shows on the Australian leg of her Blue Smoke World Tour, adding one at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday February 12. Tickets for this final Melbourne show goes on sale at 9am Friday December 13. My Live Nation members can be among the first to access tickets during the exclusive pre-sale beginning 2pm Tuesday December 10. Head to livenation.com.au to register.
In the majestic surrounds of Mossvale Park, South Gippsland, amongst the grand old trees lives a single stage awaiting its friends to come and join the search for soul. This setting is the home of the 2014 Summer of Soul, starring soul phenomenon Lee Fields and his band The Expressions, with Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, The Basics, The Bombay Royale, Hiatus Kaiyote and Pony Face also joining in the party. This one day, one stage, BYO event in the picturesque surrounds of a heritage park is on Saturday January 4, and we have some double passes to give away. Head to beat.com.au/freeshit to win.
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TOURING
WHO'S ON TOUR, WHERE AND WHEN
PROUDLY PRESENTS
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INTERNATIONAL PASSENGER Palais Theatre December 4 METZ Howler December 5 IRIS DEMENT Thornbury Theatre December 5 INSANE CLOWN POSSE The Hi-Fi December 6 CAVE Kelvin Club December 6 MUSE Laver Arena December 6, 7 BON JOVI Etihad Stadium December 7 VANS WARPED TOUR Birrarung Marr December 7 LEONARD COHEN The Hill Winery December 7, Palais Theatre December 9 ALICIA KEYS Rochford Winery December 7, Rod Laver Arena December 8 STEEL PANTHER Sidney Myer Music Bowl December 8 KELPE Boney December 8 METRIC The Forum December 9 DEERHUNTER The Hi-Fi December 11 MAC DEMARCO Corner Hotel December 11, Shadow Electric December 16 HOPSIN The Espy December 12 PETER MURPHY Corner Hotel December 12 THE KVB Boney December 12 NILE RODGERS Billboard December 13 FOZZY The Espy 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 THE PLOT FESTIVAL Palace Theatre, Ding Dong Lounge December 15 JOHN LEGEND The Forum December 16 MELVINS The Hi-Fi December 17 HELMET The Hi-Fi December 18 WAKA FLOCKA FLAME Billboard December 18 THE WAR ON DRUGS Northcote Social Club December 28 THE ROOTS Festival Hall December 28 TOM ODELL Corner Hotel December 28 FALLS FESTIVAL Lorne December 28 - January 1, Marion Bay December 29 - January 1, Byron Bay December 31 January 3
FUTURE OF THE LEFT Corner Hotel January 2 BEN CAPLAN Northcote Social Club January 3 THE CORRESPONDENTS Prince Bandroom January 3 JOHNNY MARR Corner Hotel January 4 WIZ KHALIFIA, A$AP ROCKY Festival Hall January 4 HANNI EL KHATIB January 5 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Festival Hall January 6 SOLANGE Prince Bandroom January 7 MOUNTAIN MOCHA KILIMANJARO Corner Hotel January 9 LONDON GRAMMAR Prince Bandroom January 9, 10 PARAMORE Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 12 SO FRENCHY SO CHIC Werribee Park January 12 THE JULIE RUIN Corner Hotel January 15 MONA FOMA FESTIVAL TBA January 15-19 JOHN GRANT Corner Hotel January 18 HALF MOON RUN Corner Hotel January 19 MAJOR LAZER AND FLOSSTRADAMUS The Palace January 21 THE 1975 Northcote Social Club January 22 MUDHONEY Corner Hotel January 22 SNOOP DOGG The Palace January 22 ARCADE FIRE Sidney Myer Music Bowl January 22 TORO Y MOI/PORTUGAL. THE MAN The Hi-Fi January 23 THE LUMINEERS The Palace Thursday January 23 GROUPLOVE AND CSS The Hi-Fi January 23 BIG DAY OUT Flemington Racecourse January 24 MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS Melbourne Zoo January 24 - March 8 WE ARE SCIENTISTS Corner Hotel January 25 KING KRULE Corner Hotel January 28 PARQUET COURTS Corner Hotel January 29 CHVRCHES The Forum January 29 MOUNT KIMBIE Corner Hotel January 30 CASS MCCOMBS Northcote Social Club January 30 SAVAGES The Hi-Fi January 30 CAT POWER Thornbury Theatre January 31, February 1 ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre February 1 PERIPHERY, ANIMALS AS LEADERS Billboard February 2 AUTRE NE VEUT Northcote Social Club February 4 DRENGE The Tote February 5
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FRIGHTENED RABBIT The Palace February 5 YOUTH LAGOON Prince Bandroom February 5 KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS Corner Hotel, February 5, 6 THE NATIONAL Sidney Myer Music Bowl February 9 DAUGHTER St Michael’s Uniting Church February 10 LYNYRD SKYNYRD The Plenary February 11 DOLLY PARTON Rod Laver Arena February 11, 12 JULIA HOLTER Northcote Social Club February 14 AUSTRA Corner Hotel February 15 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AAMI Park February 15 EMINEM, KENDRICK LAMAR, J. COLE Etihad Stadium February 19 BEASTIE BOYS Prince Bandroom February 21 OKKERVIL RIVER Corner Hotel February 22 MANGO GROOVE Forum Theatre February 23 CLUTCH Prince Bandroom February 27 SOUNDWAVE Flemington Racecourse February 28 NEKO CASE Corner Hotel March 2 PUBLIC ENEMY Corner Hotel March 4 BRIAN MCKNIGHT Palais Theatre March 5 CHARLES BRADLEY Corner Hotel March 6 PHOENIX Festival Hall March 6 MIKHAEL PASKALEV Howler March 7 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy March 7 – 10 FAT FREDDY’S DROP Melbourne Zoo Twilights March 8 PANAMA FESTIVAL March 8, 9 FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL Flemington Racecourse March 9 YO LA TENGO Corner Hotel March 9 POKEY LAFARGE Corner Hotel March 12 NEIL FINN Hamer Hall March 12 BILLY BRAGG Palais Theatre March 13 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, NINE INCH NAILS Rod Laver Arena March 14, 15 BILL MEDLEY Palais Theatre March 15 LIONEL RICHIE AND JOHN FARNHAM Rod Laver Arena March 16 SEBADOH Corner Hotel March 21 KODALINE Prince Bandroom April 4 ALLEN STONE Corner Hotel April 12 ERYKAH BADU Palais April 15 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Palace Theatre April 15 BLUESFEST Byron Bay April 17 – 21 JIMMIE VAUGHAN Corner Hotel April 17 DEVENDRA BANHART Prince Bandroom April 17 JAKE BUGG Palace Theatre April 17 KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND Palace Theatre April 18 IRON AND WINE The Forum Theatre April 22 STEVE EARLE Forum Theatre April 24 ARCTIC MONKEYS Rod Laver Arena May 9 ELLIE GOULDING Festival Hall May 31 JAMES BLUNT The Plenary June 8 BASTILLE Festival Hall June 15
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BELLE ROSCOE Bella Union December 5 THE GIN CLUB John Curtin Bandroom December 6 CATHERINE TRAICOS Spotted Mallard December 6, Pure Pop Records December 8 SASKWATCH Corner Hotel December 7 ROCKWIZ Palais Theatre December 8 BONJAH Espy Hotel December 14 CORRINA STEEL The Post Office Hotel December 12, Pure Pop Records December 14, Flying Saucer Club December 15 MIAMI HORROR Corner Hotel February 14 PIERCE BROTHERS Northcote Social Club December 15 POND Corner Hotel December 19
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WAXHEAD Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday December 19 KINGFISHA at The Workers Club December 21 DARREN HANLON Northcote Social Club December 22 SEABELLIES Northcote Social Club December 27 MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS Prince Bandroom December 31 NYE ON THE HILL TBA December 30 - January 1 NEW YEAR’S EVIE Tallarook December 31 – January 2 NYE AT THE ESPY The Espy December 31 NAI PALM Workers Club, January 7, 14, 21, 28 KARNIVOOL January 8, 9 DAVEY LANE Worker’s Club January 10 JAGWAR MA The Hi-Fi January 16 LITTLE BASTARDS The Workers Club January 17 SARAH BLASKO St. Michael Uniting Church January 22 KIM CHURCHILL Workers Club January 31 ST KILDA FESTIVAL St Kilda February 1 – 9 RIVERBOATS FESTIVAL Echuca February 14 - 16 IMMY BARNES Rochford Winery Yarra Valley February 15 JOSH PYKE Melbourne Zoo February 28 DAN SULTAN Corner Hotel March 1 ILLY The Hi-Fi March 7 PANAMA FESTIVAL March 8, 9 PUSH OVER Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 10 PETE MURRAY Forum Theatre March 15 MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD Prince Bandroom April 16
RUMOURS R. KELLY, THE OLSEN TWINS = NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
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We need your help to make an action sports video with a music soundtrack which shows that you don’t need to get smashed to have a great time!
The winning songwriter will win a Macbook Pro, their song will be professionally recorded and they will receive mentorship from music industry experts.
If you have an original song or 30 seconds of amateur sports footage which has a positive feel, send it to us - your submissions may be used to create this action packed music video.
The 10 winning amateur action sports footage entrants will each receive a handheld action camera and their footage will be edited together and set to the winning song.
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FRI DECEMBER 6 KELVIN CLUB, MELBOURNE with special guests Love of Diagrams and Cocks Arquette. Tickets on sale now from lifeisnoise.com, oztix and the venue.
SUN DECEMBER 8 BONEY, MELBOURNE WITH KELPE Plus Woody (Primary Colours/RRR) and Dan Dare (How High the Moon/RRR). Tickets on sale now from lifeisnoise.com and venue.
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THE OFFSPRING By Krissi Weiss
The Offspring have never pretended to be anything more or less than what they are – and they’ve had fun along the way. For those of you just joining us here’s a quick recap – they’re rocking nine studio albums and one seemingly pre-emptive greatest hits album. They’ve had modest success with some awesome tracks (Self Esteem, Come Out & Play) and massive chart success with some shaky tracks - need we mention Pretty Fly (For A White Guy). They’re a party-starting punk-rock band dripping with ‘90s shout outs and they do it well without perfect hair. Whispers of the band returning to the studio have been around for months and months but The Offspring are still busy taking their latest album, Days Go By, around the world. With a massive back catalogue that is heavily weighted with singles, riff-man Noodles (Kevin John Wasserman) admits that the setlist is becoming a mammoth task. “We’ve been playing stuff as far back as Smash and moving forward to Days Gone By,” Wasserman says of the recent tours. “It’s not so much audience expectation, but we know there are certain deep cuts, you know ones that never got played on the radio, that certain fans in certain countries have come to expect to hear. I feel like it’s more frustrating when I think about what we don’t get to play. I’ve been putting our entire playlist on shuffle and certain songs come on and I think, ‘Why don’t we ever play that song?’” They’re not flogging a dead setlist horse though – thankfully – and for their upcoming tour Wasserman assures that there’ll be a few surprises. Those deep cuts – the songs that had no machine behind them, no radio push or MTV pull and yet still resonated with the audience – are a unique reminder to a band like The Offspring that sometimes it still can be just about the music. “It can be so surprising you know? We still will bust out a song, the audience will go off and we’ll be surprised at an audience’s reaction,” he teases. “We just played South America, that’s where you get some of the craziest audiences in the world – they’re passionate and loud and moving. How we feel about the song though, that doesn’t change. How we feel about it now is how we felt about it when we wrote it. I probably feel differently about some songs than what Dexter does or what Greg does though, you know? But when we give it to the world, we let them feel how they want about it, we don’t have any control over how the audience relates to it and we don’t try to. Well unless they greatly misinterpret the lyrics.” The most notorious example for The Offspring would BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26
have to be their breakthrough single. “Yeah, like with Come Out & Play people thought the ‘You gotta keep ‘em separated’ line was about separating races and we were like, ‘Whoa no, no no. That is wrong!’” While it may seem laughable that The Offspring’s lyrics were misinterpreted as some white power bullshit now, racial tensions were at an all-time high in their backyard of Southern California around the time Smash was released. The fires of the Rodney King riots were still smouldering and SoCal was on edge. Around that time The Offspring were pushing forward with their music, trying to fit into the hardcore scene but existing on the fringe with the like of Sublime and Bad Religion. Wasserman is transported back to that time and place when I suggest that the release of Pretty Fly was a tenacious and hilarious but potentially disastrous move.
“HAVING PLAYED FOR YEARS AS A BAND IN A HARDCORE PUNK ROCK SCENE WHERE WE REALLY DIDN’T FIT ... WE FIGURED WE NEVER FITTED IN IN THE FIRST PLACE SO WHY EVER BOTHER YOU KNOW?” “Ha yeah,” he begins with a laugh. “I think having played for years as a band in a hardcore punk rock scene where we really didn’t fit, trying to do songs that were melodic when that just wasn’t the scene we figured we never fitted in in the first place so why ever bother you know?” Fast forward to 2013, they’re still here, still making music and still trying to get just a little bit better at
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what they do. “When we’re working on songs we’ll notice if we’re repeating patterns,” he says. “I might say to Dexter, ‘Hey that’s like a song we did on Ignition’ but if we love it we keep going. We do try new styles, we try to take what’s good about The Offspring and mix it with other styles of music that we really enjoy and use that to occasionally try and break those habits. But we just love playing music, we really do, we travel the world and play music for crazy fans for a living. “I think when we start to over-intellectualise it then that’s when you have to step away and listen to it with fresh ears. Sometimes you write something and in two days it’s done but with other things you labour over things and change it and change it and something can get lost when things all start to sound the same.” While Bob Rock’s production credits are long and distinguished, they are heavily littered with metal albums with his most famous crafting the self-titled Metallica album (yes, yes, The Black Album). So what did he bring specifically to The Offspring fold with his second round in the studio? “Once we met with him, he and Dexter just started bouncing songs off of each other and Bob would give him his feedback. Bob would say, ‘This could be a really great song now go fix it’, you know?” he breaks laughing. “They would discuss it and somehow he could do that without making it sting….That’s not to say that there weren’t times where we didn’t disagree. We would sometimes have to give it some thought to come ‘round and realise something needed to be better.” With Pete Parada having joined the band many years ago, Days Go By is the first full studio album he’s played on. Not much changed for the band in the studio but the energy and happiness of the band has increased. They’re doing what they have done, and will always do. “Pete’s awesome,” he says. “He lives just outside of Nashville so it’s hard to get him out sometimes but he’s super easy to work with and he’s a great guy. He’s helped us move our game up in a lot of different ways. Pete’s been with us for a long time even though this is the first full album he’s been on. We’ve done tonnes of touring with Pete and played with him in on the radio so it wasn’t really new to have him on this record for us. It’s the second time we’ve worked with Bob and really there wasn’t anything we did drastically different except maybe take a little more time to get the songs right. “We’re not prolific writers, we’re really not, we don’t labour over this stuff for a long time. We just kinda get in there and do it.”
THE OFFSPRING are at Vans Warped Tour on Saturday December 7 at Birrarung Marr with Parkway Drive, Simple Plan, The Used and many more. Days Go By is out now on Columbia.
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN Get ready to see the best film-making talent from Melbourne at the return of Made in Melbourne Film Festival this week. Dedicated to the best independent cinematography that Melbourne can offer, MIM will screen the award-winning surreal horror noir from Jordan Prosser, Hungry Man, The Joe Manifesto, a candid tale about conformity, David Hawkins’ biggest short film Bound by Blue, and many more. Other highlights include the High School Showcase, which will feature the best shorts created by year 12 students and under, including Catriona Warren’s Abracadabra!, which won the Award of Excellence as Indie Fest USA among many others. Made in Melbourne Film Festival is currently running until Friday December 6 at Revolt Artspace.
With Tyson Wray. Got thoughts, news, gossip, complaints or cat photos? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by carrier pigeon before Friday 12pm.
ON STAGE A stage adaptation of Guus Kuijer’s classic The Book of Everything has come to Melbourne for the first time this holiday season. An enchanting family tale about facing fears and finding happiness, the production will be directed by David Armfield and will star Matthew Whittet. The Book of Everything is currently playing at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner.
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THE HANGING OF JEAN LEE By Patrick Emery Were it now for her involvement in one of Australia’s most celebrated murder trials, Jean Lee might have become another anonymous statistical casualty of domestic and sexual abuse and social marginalisation. Born in Sydney 1919, Lee’s life was remarkable for its tragedy: pregnant at a young age, abused and then abandoned by her first husband, Lee drifted into prostitution and petty crime.
Understand the etymology and art behind the word ‘primitive’ at the Heide Museum of Modern Art with their current exhibition Future Primitive. Future Primitive brings a visual to Michael’s statement, through the eyes of Sydney artist Sarah Contos, Dylan Martorell, Alasdair McLuckie, Mikala Dwyer, Rohan Wealleans, Narelle Jubelin, Michelle Nikou, Sanné Mestrom and others. This Sunday December 7, Heide Museum of Modern Art will host an Art Talk with curator Linda Michael at 2pm. Future Primitive is on exhibition until Sunday March 2. Admission is free.
PICK OF THE WEEK
Opening this week, Rooftop Cinema will be showing an array of films from recent releases to classic favourites, all summer long. They are kicking off the program on Thursday December 5 with Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and space-thriller Gravity on Saturday December 7. The first half of the season focuses on ‘90s cinema classics including Pulp Fiction and Reality Bites and also features essentials such as Casablanca and Labyrinth. Tickets are available for December and January’s screenings. Pick them up through Rooftop Cinema’s website.
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In 1949, Lee, her lover Robert Clayton and Clayton’s criminal associate Norman Andrews, met a Melbourne bookie, William ‘Pop’ Kent, and returned to Kent’s Carlton residence with the objective of robbing Kent. Unable to find any money, the trio’s petty thievery mutated into murder, with Kent first tortured, then stabbed to death. Lee, Clayton and Andrews were found a short time afterwards, with both Lee and Clayton’s clothes still bearing the bloodstains occasioned by the murder. Lee initially confessed to the crime, claiming that her lover Clayton was not involved, before subsequently retracting her confession. Charged under the doctrine of ‘common purpose’, Lee, Clayton and Andrews were all charged with murder: despite pleas for mercy, and allegations of a mistrial – with the tabloid press fanning the fires of community outrage on 19 February 1951, Lee became the last woman in Australia to be executed. 50 years after she was sent to the gallows, the story of Jean Lee continues to attract attention. In 1998, poet Jordie Albiston published a verse biography of Jean Lee’s life, The Hanging of Jean Lee. With a focus on Lee’s life leading up to the murder, rather than the murder itself, Albiston’s biography explored the broader social and personal tragedy of Lee as a young woman in socially conservative Australia. In 2006, Albiston’s biographical verse was brought to the Sydney Opera House stage, supplemented by an
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evocative soundtrack scored by Andree Greenwell and Abe Pogos. This weekend, Melbourne post-punk musician Hugo Race reprises his role in the original stage performance in the Arts House production of The Hanging of Jean Lee. “I didn’t know anything about the story of Jean Lee when I was first asked to audition,” Race admits. “After I became involved in the production I read a biography of Jean Lee as preparation. At the time I was living in an area of Sydney where she grew up, so that was a fairly haunting introduction to her story.” The Hanging of Jean Lee features four performers: Max Sharam (who plays Jean Lee both as a young and older woman), Race, Australian prog-punk musician Jeff Deff and Simon Maiden (Underbelly). While the narrative of Lee’s life is central to the story, Race says it’s the music that brings the story to life. “The music in the show is very spectacular,” Race says. “While it’s a very tragic story, the way it’s conveyed musically uses very different musical forms, from very upbeat numbers, very childlike songs, dramatic moments and tender and poignant moments. So in a way it’s very uplifting, with this very weird dark humour.” Jean Lee’s story has been explored by other artists in recent years. In addition to Albiston’s verse, in 2008 Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective released the Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog album, on which Kuepper
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and his wife Judi Dransfield-Kuepper created a musical and lyrical soundtrack for Lee’s life. Race suggests that the ongoing interest in Jean Lee reflects more than a morbid fascination for Lee’s final days. “Jean Lee is a very sympathetic character, which is probably why she’s been so fascinating to writers, including Jordie Albiston,” Race says. “She’s a symbol of betrayal and a tragic figure, but she’s also very resilient given what happened to her over the course of her life. The show explores all of this, and I think the audience as well do feel sympathy for her.” While it’s tempting to see Jean Lee’s life as reflecting an archaic sociological environment – where women were seen and not heard, and where social progression was restricted by socio-economic constructs – Race says the world of Jean Lee still exists today, even if we don’t always want to admit it. “The world from which Jean Lee came was full of abuse, and that still happens today,” Race says. “I think the statistic is that one in five women will experience sexual abuse of some kind. And if everyone doesn’t know these things, then they should.” Jean Lee’s gender played its part in the drama as well. “At that time, the idea of a woman being involved in torture and murder was repugnant to a lot of people,” Race says. “And that’s part of the weird nature of the story. She didn’t actually murder Pop Kent – her boyfriend did. But she confessed to the murder in order to protect Bobby Clayton. On that level, she’s both heroic, but also a tragic caricature.” Race also points to the tabloid feeding frenzy that accompanied the original trial. The original court proceedings were challenged, and a mistrial alleged. The Victorian Premier at the time, Sir John McDonald, was alerted to the possible contravention of court rules, but chose not to take any action. “The Victorian Premier didn’t want to back track, and that was because of the tabloid coverage,” Race says. “And that still type of reaction – especially the media coverage – still happens today.”
The Hanging of Jean Lee will be performed at the Arts House on Saturday December 7 and Sunday December 8.
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Performed by ARIA award winner Max Sharam, Bad Seeds co-founder Hugo Race, Australian rock icon Jeff Duff and Underbelly’s Simon Maiden; backed by a seven-piece band.
Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall Sat 7 & Sun 8 December Tickets on sale now $20–$25 artshouse.com.au or (03) 9322 3713
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If you like getting lost in Melbourne’s laneways like the television ads would make you believe, then come get lost at Crab Lab, 16 Corrs Lane CBD. There’s nothing more Melbourne than your MC this week, Aaron Gocs, who is from Brisbane. They’ve also got, Danny McGinlay, Anne Edmonds, Tegan Higginbotham, Simon Taylor and way more. Doors at 7.30pm.
LOL COMEDY LOL Comedy this week presents Claire Hooper and Michael Chamberlin at the Portland Hotel on Wednesday December 4 and at the Provincial Hotel on Thursday December 5. At The Local on Tuesday December 10 it’s another ultra special guest, one of the finest stand ups in the country, on an extremely rare working trip down to Melbourne – Peter Berner. Tickets from: lolcomedy. com.au or at the door.
PUBLIC BAR COMEDY BATTLE OF THE SEXES
Opening at the start of Midsumma next year, ACMI will screen Battle of the Sexes, a documentary about the most-watched tennis match in history. Directed by James Erskine (I Shouldn’t Be Alive, Waterloo Road) and Zara Hayes, Battle of the Sexes will delve into the series of events that accumulated to one of the greatest tennis matches in history between Bobbie Riggs, a tennis great from the ‘30s and ‘40s known for his chauvinistic views of women, and Billie Jean King, an advocate and founder of the Women’s Tennis Association. Regarded as the match that marked the turning point of gender inequality in tennis, and fueled the equality that pervades tennis today, Battle of the Sexes will combine feminism and tennis together in an evocative documentary. Battle of the Sexes will be screened at ACMI from Monday January 13 – Thursday February 13.
NOT MADE IN SOMALIA
Change is imminent, and Blak Dot Gallery’s newest exhibition, NOT Made In Somalia, will explore how change can still maintain cultural relevancy. Cultural integration can, at first, seem like an unattainable milestone for many ethnicities, whether they’re moving from a Middle Eastern country to a European one, or a European country to an Africa one. NOT Made In Somalia will delve into this cultural assimilation and how practical items can emulate a culture through the transposition of Somalian patterns, textures and shapes on everyday objects. NOT Made In Somalia will be on display at Blak Dot Gallery from Thursday December 5 – Sunday December 22. Admission is free.
WANDERING ARCHIVE
Beam Contemporary has announced the gallery’s participation in the 2013 SCOPE Miami art fair, as part of the SCOPE Breeder program, which introduces emerging galleries and artists to the global contemporary art market. Breeder galleries are selected by a rotating panel of independent curators for each edition of the SCOPE Art Show. For its contribution to SCOPE Miami 2013, Beam Contemporary will present a curated group exhibition, Wandering Archive, which brings together work by three represented artists: Karla Marchesi, Clare Rae and Melanie Jayne Taylor. Each artist’s work presented here engages with the concept of the archive in personal, and often playful, ways. Eschewing austerity and authority, these artists have produced idiosyncratic archives, or interactions with institutional archives, that emphasise the archive as a process, defined by transience, malleability and re-interpretation. It’ll take place from Thursday December 3 - Wednesday December 8. Visit beamcontemporary.com.au for more information.
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RENT
As part of Midsumma next year, Chapel Off Chapel will present one of Broadway’s favourite musicals: Rent. Based off Puccini’s opera, La Boheme, Rent depicts the tale of a group of young penniless artists and musicians who struggle to create art in New York’s Lower East Side. Imbued with a strong theme of HIV/AIDS, Cameron MacDonald (Jersey Boys, Godspell), Melanie Ott (Grease 2, Timewarp: A Rocky Horror Tribute), Ashley Rousetty (Hair), and Gemma Purdy (X Factor Australia, Shane Warne: the Musical) will breathe life into this unforgettable tale. In association with Midsumma, Chapel Off Chapel will donate money to Vic Aids in an effort to raise money for the education, prevention and research of HIV/AIDS in Victoria. Rent will be performed at Chapel Off Chapel from Thursday January 9 – Sunday January 18.
FALLS FESTIVAL ARTS PROGRAM
Falls Music & Arts Festival has (finally!) announced its full arts program for next month. This year, The Village will be transformed into a hub full of laughter, biscuit readings, dance parties, carnival games, magic shows, karaoke tournaments and other activities to keep you entertained between sets. In no particular order, the following artists and performers will grace Lorne next month: A Moment In Time, DJ NIGHTWRK, Karaoke Falls, The Red Brigade, Thina Del Twist, Coral Lee and the Silver Scream, The Biscuit Readings, Bike Powered Games, Larry Bang Bang, Feed Your Family: A pop-up playground game, The Harpoons and many more. A full arts program can be found on their website.
BACKYARD ASHES
Less than a fortnight after its release, Backyard Ashes, the newest film from Umbrella Entertainment, grossed over $100,000 in the box office over four regional NSW screens. Following this lucrative success, Umbrella Entertainment are bringing Backyard Ashes to Melbourne. Starring great Australian talent — including Gold Logie winner John Wood (Blue Heelers), Andrew S Gilbert (Kiss or Kill), Felix Williamson (The Great Gatsby), comedian Damian Callinan (Spicks and Specks), and cinematographer Damian Wyvill (The Great Gatsby Goddess) — Backyard Ashes illustrates the tale of Dougie Waters and his vehement love for a snag on the barbie and some cricket with his mates. However, Dougie’s paradise is quickly destroyed when his pompous English boss, Edward Lords, moves in next door. Full of hilarious anecdotes, Backyard Ashes will place a literal meaning to Louis Nowra’s famous retort in Così (1992): “Go burn a cat!” Backyard Ashes will be screened at Waverley Cinema, Mt Waverley from Thursday December 5. Visit backyardashes.com.au for more information
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NEXMAS FUNDRAISER EXHIBITION
Gallery ONE Three will be giving back to the community this weekend with a fundraiser exhibition for the 2014 Nextwave Festival entitled NeXmas Fundraiser Exhibition. The exhibition will feature the work of artists, past and present, who have contributed to Nextwave’s catalogue of work; including Phuong Ngo (currently on exhibition at NGV’s Melbourne Now) and twice shortlisted for the Archibald Prize artist Abdul Abdullah. NeXmas will also be an event to celebrate the end of 2013 and socialise with other art-appreciators. Nextwave Festival is a biennial festival focused on exhibition new and emerging artists nationally and internationally. Nextwave Festival will be in Melbourne from Thursday April 17 – Sunday May 11. To help raise funds for Nextwave, head along to NeXmas Fundraiser Exhibition at Gallery ONE Three (13 Somerset Place, CBD) from Thursday December 5 – Saturday December 7. Admission is free.
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Get down to Public Bar Comedy for everyone’s favourite purple puppet, Randy. He absolutely destroyed last time he was down so this is not a night to miss. Joining Randy is a top shelf support crew featuring the likes of Harley Breen, Anne Edmonds, Jack Druce & Lily Slade. It’s only $5 and packed out every week.
FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDY Dave Hughes headlines Five Boroughs Comedy this Thursday. He’s the biggest name in comedy and he’s coming to one of the best comedy rooms in town. Plus there’s an almighty lineup including Karl Chandler, Anne Edmonds, Aaron Gocs and special guests. It’s all happening this Thursday December 5 from 8.30pm at Five Boroughs Comedy, 68 Hardware Lane (upstairs), all for only $13.
COMMEDIA DELL PARTE Geraldine Hickey hosts a fantastic lineup at Commedia Dell Parte this Thursday. Featuring Michael Connell, Anthony Jeannot, Stef Jaric, Suren Jayemanne, Peter Jones and John Potter. The room still runs on a ‘pay as you like’ basis, so come along and have a great laugh, then pay what you believe the show is worth on the way out. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday from 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda.
COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays at Spleen are always a full house and a great night. This week looks like another cracker with Luke McGregor hosting. There’s a surprise guest plus Danny McGinlay, Ben Lomas, Karl Chandler, Tommy Dassalo, Steele Saunders, Tegan Higginbotham and heaps more. It’s this Monday December 9, 41 Bourke St in the city at 8.30pm. It may be free, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.
GREAT GIFTS FOR ANYONE YOU HAVE EVER MET! BIG BOOK OF BODE TATTOOS - $39.95
A massive collection of tattoo flash sketches from Mark and Vaughn Bode. The Big Book of Bode Tattoos features over 400 images spanning more than a decade of creation. Contained within this chunky brick of a book you’ll find: voluptuous “Bode Broads,” beloved characters from the Cheech Wizard comix, and Mark Bode’s particular take on classic tattoo motifs, including dragons, fairies, demons, lions, butterflies and more. Bode’s distinct style draws influence from the worlds of comic art, graffiti, and traditional tattooing. This confluence is often marked by bold, curvy outlines and clear shapes and forms. Mark Bode has been doing custom tattoo work on the human body for over 13 years, in addition to his phenomenal artwork on inanimate media. Bode’s father is the late legendary cartoonist Vaughn Bode. Mark has inherited and kept alive his father’s many characters, the most famous of which is Cheech Wizard.
CUT AND FOLD SUBWAY SKETCH BOOK - $19.95
Paint your own graffiti whole car on the New York Subway or create a new colorway for the London Tube. The cut and fold subway sketchbook is 8 different subway car paper models from 8 of the worlds metropolis’. Cut, fold, glue and bam! You have created your own miniature subway model car. From the late 70s until today, these subway car models have served as the canvases for the most explosive art movement of our times. While the kings of graffiti go through great trouble putting their art on trains, these formats are now available to everyone. Fun for train enthusiasts and graffiti fans of all ages. Cut and fold your own little subways, perfect your sketches, re-color the subway designs . Only the imagination sets the limits. Models included are New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Toronto, Rome and Stockholm.
TATTOO EXTREMITIES - $59.95
Tattoo Extremities features 170 Tattoo Artists with over 800 photos! Placement of tattoo art is an important facet of each design and has the power to turn each piece into an extraordinary aesthetic experience. Throughout the years, the extremities of the body have been utilized to tell stories, depict ritualistic significance, and serve as the canvas for exhibiting grand artistic projects. Though not all tattoo collectors choose to decorate their hands, heads, and feet, many of those who do expose the world to some of the tattoo industry’s finest accomplishments — proudly displaying their artwork for all to see.
SCOTT CAMPBELL IF YOU DON’T BELONG DON’T BE LONG - $49.95
Adored by celebrity patrons and admired by his peers in the industry, Scott Campbell is known not only for his amazing technique and vision as a tattoo artist, but also as a respected fine artist on the contemporary scene. Both Campbell’s artwork and tattoo work are informed by timeless trends of “new antiquarian” style, nineteenth-century hand-lettering, kitsch, and classic tattoo flash. Campbell is considered the tattoo artist of both the trendsetter and the daring celebrity. However, though Campbell has tattooed celebrities from the late Heath Ledger to visionaries like Marc Jacobs, it is through his distinctive aesthetic that he has become a celebrity in his own right. Campbell renders fleeting trends into timeless masterpieces not only on canvas and in sculpture, but also on skin. This book captures both, exemplifying how his tattoo work informs his artwork and vice versa.
TEACH YOURSELF HENNA TATTOO $24.95
Colour your world with the fabulous art of henna tattoo. Mehndi, also known as henna tattoo, is a traditional Middle Eastern art used to adorn the body for weddings and other special celebrations. Today, readers everywhere can join in the beauty and fun of mendhi with this simple book of patterns and instructions for the body and even home decor objects! Inside, readers will find a variety of original henna tattoo patterns that can be applied to the hands, feet, belly and back. Readers interested in creating their own designs can follow he simple instructions for the 5 basic henna shapes and learn how to combine them in a variety of ways to create exotic mendhi designs of their own .Filled with stunning photographs of beautiful henna tattoo, this book is sure to inspire
RICHARD KERN CONTACT HIGH - $34.95
This book harkens back to the halcyon days of photographer and filmmaker Richard Kern’s youth. Edited by Jesse Pearson, editor of Nudity Today and Apology Magazine, Contact High couldn’t have a simpler premise - it’s all about naked girls smoking weed. This cheeky and playful collection of portraits recalls a time in Kern’s life when, he says, “I spent a lot of time with my friends smoking pot, listening to music, running around in the woods and sometimes swimming naked. Back then, when I was around a naked girl, weed was either about to be smoked or had been smoked.” This carefree and sexy series of images from 1999 to the present is charged with an atmosphere of free-wheeling, optimistic hedonism. Readers will undoubtedly get a real buzz from the beauty and sensuality of the images - perhaps tinged with a bitter-sweet hint of nostalgia for the sexy abandon of their own carefree youth.
HENNA SOURCEBOOK - $29.95
No one knows for sure when henna was first used for skin decorating, but traces of henna have been found on mummies in Egypt and in cave painting in India dating back thousands of years. While this tradition is still widely used in India, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, it is now gaining popularity throughout the Western world as well. It is increasingly common for henna parties to be held in the United States, sometimes at weddings, birthday parties, and baby showers-and sometimes just for fun. Henna patterns are seen adorning pop icons like Madonna, Demi Moore, and Prince, and henna artists are becoming an increasingly common sight at street fairs and shops as a temporary and painless alternative to tattoos.
MOMMY’S NEW TATTOO: A BEDTIME STORY FOR PEOPLE - $22.95
Mommy’s New Tattoo is the story of a young girl who visits a tattoo shop for the first time with her mother, who is getting a tattoo. The story examines the mother’s reason for getting tattooed and the lasting consequences of wearing and displaying body art. This wisdom helps the young girl later in life when she goes to a tattoo shop for her own tattoo. Written in rhyming verse and crisply illustrated with vibrant colors, here is an excellent conversation starting piece for tattooed parents and their children. Complete with a bonus coloring page that can also be used as a tattoo-ready stencil. All ages.
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METRIC By Graham Blackley Globetrotting Canadian purveyors of indie electro-rock and post-punk synth pop, Metric, are about to hit Australian shores. With their fifth studio album Synthetica attracting critical and popular acclaim and the band notching up the miles as they traverse the globe, it seemed an opportune moment to catch up with the band’s dynamic and talented frontwoman Emily Haines. Haines, who proved to be an engaging, generous and wonderfully down-to-Earth conversationalist, spoke about the band’s response to winning the 2013 Juno Awards for Alternative Album of the Year for Synthetica and Producer of the Year for James Shaw. “It’s always funny when people say they don’t care [about awards] as I think that’s not true,” she says. “For bands like us we are nose to the grindstone. We’ve built our company; we’ve built everything really from the bottom up over ten years…it’s really nice when someone takes a second to say ‘well done’…we really appreciate it when people take a second to recognise that you are contributing something.” One of Metric’s greatest artistic contributions to the music scene is the quality of their lyrics. On Synthetica the band ponder the distinction between the real and the artificial. This is a band that is clearly not interested in pumping out throw-away pop. “I’m not going to make records about being a
musician,” Haines says. “Looking around and taking stock as we all rush to adapt to every new bit of technology that might possibly come our way, [I] took a look at what we might be losing in the meantime…it’s been really interesting touring the record as a lot of themes take a minute for people to absorb, particularly the lyrics. It doesn’t seem that lyrics are getting much love in the popular realm these days…but I feel it’s clicking. It’s helping people out the stuff we are addressing and questioning because a lot of people are feeling a bit disoriented in terms of, ‘What’s my real life?’” One of the many highlights of Synthetica is the track The Wanderlust which features the much-missed Lou Reed. Haines, deeply saddened by Reed’s recent passing, says, “I feel so honoured that [the collaboration] happened. We really clicked. I was really straightforward with him. I wasn’t afraid [of him] and I think that’s part of why we hit it off. Whatever he saw in me I really felt
he saw the best part of me. He saw the brave part of me, the one with integrity.” Metric also exercise their creativity in a variety of interesting ways. For example, they contributed music to the soundtrack of David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis and to the Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack. “Working with [composer] Howard Shore was just so interesting - especially on Twilight,” Haines enthuses. “It was an incredible experience. He has a special amazing chamber with a fireplace, beautiful piano and library. He still writes with pencils…he gave us a little bit of direction and then Jimmy [Metric’s guitarist] and I just wrote this thing. [Shore] loved it and took that melody and wove it through the whole score which was so interesting.” To explain her passion for taking on these types of projects, Haines says, “I don’t want to be a cut-out cardboard synth player, [so] it’s cool that these things come our way!” With many years of rich and varied touring experiences under their belts, Metric are guaranteed to excite Aussie
audiences when they hit our shores in December. “[Performing live] is our greatest pride. It’s where the music really lives…basically it’s four people that have been playing together for ten years pouring every single ounce of energy they have into the music.” Haines, discussing the important connection that is forged between band and audience in the live realm, says, “When the crowd is into it and they match us I don’t think there is any better live experience to be had. It’s not bells and whistles – it’s rock’n’roll and it’s really fun! We put a lot of thought and care into curating the set list…we really put together a whole experience. “If you are willing to give yourself over to us for an hour and a half you will be happy and you might cry. People do. It’s a beautiful thing. It takes so much heart to keep going and to get up there and to put our hearts on our sleeves as we do every night. The people who get it and are into it they feel the same thing. It’s very cathartic!”
introspective and a lot darker. We wanted to put this energy into the new record and into the new songs. So now we have a balance of the old, more ethereal material and the new songs, which I think are a little bit more direct,” Stelmanis says. Olympia’s dance-focused uplift is paired with emotionally driven lyrics, looking at themes such as relationship decay and social adversity. Placing personal revelations in front of an extroverted musical backdrop is a duality Stelmanis was interested in exploring. “We made a conscious effort to make this album a lot lighter musically; it’s a lot more rhythm based rather than big dramatic sweeping vocals and harmonies. The lyrics on this album deal with some pretty dark subject matter and it’s a very personal record,” she says. The extended Feel It Break touring cycle saw Austra progress from playing small clubs to being festival drawcards and selling out theatres. Stelmanis says that Austra’s updated habitat encouraged her to write more immediately affecting lyrics. “I had an intention to make lyrics that were very direct
and narrative and cohesive and would have obvious interpretations. I’m writing it for a live stage; I want to write songs that will translate on a live stage.” Upon the release of Olympia, Austra downsized to a four-piece, parting ways with their two backing vocalists, Romy and Sari Lightman (who are working on their own project Tasseomancy). Austra will make their anticipated return to Australia next February and, despite the reduced personnel, Stelmanis indicates the live show still provides plenty of stimulation. “It’s cool with less people onstage because we’ve also been able to expand in other ways. We have a DIY light show now that somebody made for us, which adds a different element. Then of course we can also bring [in] other musicians. We’ve been touring for a while with a trombone player and we had a flute player at a couple of shows. It’s nice to have flexibility.”
is like a Gameboy. It’s so open and there’s so many opportunities to do things you can’t do on stage. It’s more precise. Stage is about energy and rock’n’roll”. From Balkan music to reggae, ska to rock, David explains, “we don’t want to play music from the past – they’re just influences. It’s just something that is real”. From 1995 to now, the temptation to adhere to musical trends has not played a part in influencing their music. It’s the countries they get to visit and tour and the people they meet that has helped them grow and really figure out who Babylon Circus is. Their worldly-sound, energy on stage and French-cross-English songs have wowed audiences and captured a legion of fans around the globe in their 20 odd years together and sees them heading back to Australia for the fourth time. Since I’m chatting to Baruchel on a cold winter’s day in
France, he admits the weather is a definite good reason to be heading down to play a string of shows over the Australian summer. “December/January is summertime. In France it’s wintertime. We love Australia because it’s a different culture and I can find common ground with Europe. We are very glad to come to Australia for the fourth time. We played our first gig in 2007 at Woodford Folk Festival so it’s like a new cycle.”
METRIC play The Forum on Monday December 9.
AUSTRA
By Augustus Welby
In June this year Canadian darkwave electro outfit Austra released their second album, Olympia. The pulsating record demonstrates a group rich in confidence thanks to the global pervasion of 2011 debut LP Feel It Break. The cleverly immediate and dance-heavy record is a considerable progression from frontwoman Katie Stelmanis’ instigating recording experiments. “When I first started making music as a solo artist I really would sing gibberish. I was OK with that because those were songs that I was writing for myself in my bedroom,” she reveals. Indeed, Austra has long stretched beyond its humble origins in Stelmanis’ Toronto bedroom, but the city’s influence still remains. “I feel like I shaped my identity, my formative musical years, in Toronto,” Stelmanis explains. Over the past few decades Toronto has fostered the pop-music innovation of artists such as Broken Social Scene, Peaches and Feist. Stelmanis describes how artistically inspiring the city has been for her. “I spent my early twenties in Toronto and it was a pretty exciting time for the city. Blocks Recording Club was putting out artists like Fucked Up and Owen Pallett and a lot of other really experimental music. It was a totally DIY artist-run collective that was actually pretty successful. I feel lucky to have grown up in this really vibrant scene.”
Unfortunately, like many other artist-metropolises (e.g. Manhattan, San Francisco), Stelmanis reports that big business has begun to besmirch Toronto’s bohemian core. “It’s kind of sad when I go home now because it feels like Toronto’s changed a lot. Toronto’s had the biggest Condo boom in all of North America. It’s made rent skyrocket. It used to be this cheap place to live where lots of artists lived, now you really have to work three jobs to have an apartment in Toronto.” However, this increasing gentrification has not quelled Stelmanis’ creative motivation. Austra expanded into a six-piece band to perform Feel It Break live and the group quickly developed a lively chemistry. Olympia is a collaborative effort, which widely incorporates the band’s onstage energy. “The live show had become something so different than [what] the album was. [It] had become this really high energy dance party and the album is a lot more
AUSTRA play the Corner Hotel on Saturday February 15.
BABYLON CIRCUS By Mimi Velevska Close to celebrating 20 years together as a band, performing the world over and living and creatively being influenced by the gypsy life are French ten-piece reggae/ska/rock group Babylon Circus. Their fifth release fittingly titled Never Stop explores their love of rock’n’roll and displays their appreciation of an array of genres, which they have picked up along their travels around the world. Their latest single delves into the consumerism of today’s modern jungle, which lead singer David Baruchel translates and explains the double meaning to their single Never Stop, from their new album of the same name. “There are two meanings to Never Stop. A song saying, ‘Dad, you never take a break’ or a father to his son ‘take your time’. This is modern life, liberal capitalism. I’m not critising, it’s just a point of view.” The clip accompanying the song features the busy streets of Tokyo and New York, the hustle and bustle of nine-to-five life, which Baruchel is grateful that he is living the gypsy life that he admits he craved from the age of five. “It’s the life we’ve chosen. Dreaming of this thing, travelling.” The band, too, has not stopped. Since getting together in high school and officially forming in 1995, the band took their first official break of six months to record, which Baruchel feels they “needed to do for a long time”. On approaching their fifth album, Baruchel says, “We really wanted it to sound as perfect as BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 32
we could. We wanted to concrete all our ideas and find new ideas. It was the first time we worked this way, in our own studio.” Initially starting out as a ska group, Babylon Circus is an act hard to define or catergorise, but Baruchel admits it’s all a tribute to “rock’n’roll as a performance” regardless of genre. “Perpetually evolving” album to album, influenced by the many cultures they experience on their tours, Baruchel explains their decisions to record an album that captures their onstage energy and is yet a studio album. “The studio is another playground. Since our previous album, we got the tools that we couldn’t get on stage. We do play the songs faster on stage but there’s less instruments. It’s like a game, I don’t like the internet or video games, but the studio
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BABYLON CIRCUS play Woodford Folk Festival from Saturday December 28 – Wednesday January 1. They also play the Corner Hotel on Saturday January 11 and So Frenchy So Chic on Sunday January 12. Never Stop is available on iTunes.
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Last time we spoke, Bam Bam was tying up a few loose ends as he prepared for the epic Sprung Festival – which he remembers fondly. “That festival was insane,” he chimes. “When we chatted then, I was looking forward to getting out there and really pushing the boundaries at the shows. I’d like to think that we did that and it has always been crazy, the times I’ve done it.” And while he admits the gigs weren’t as massive as they had been previously, the vibe was amazing – and everyone had a great time. “Regardless of the number of people, it’s great to see so many peeps coming out for hip hop. Unfortunately the Melbourne gig got cancelled and a lot of the artists were pretty shattered – everyone on the tour pretty much knows each other and they all wanted to get down and rock it for Melbourne but as it turns out, it didn’t go ahead.” For shame - but Melbourne fans can rejoice once more because Bam Bam is firing up for his next round of shows in the city – and this time, cancellations are not on the radar. Perhaps somewhat modestly too, he claims the shows will maintain the same energy and vibe – with a twist. “I would expect the shows to be the
same as usual actually; I really enjoy putting basically 110% into everything that I do. I’m known for putting on the odd crazy live show – it’s not my angle or what people expect but I like to do something like that. Especially this time, because I have a new live show and while I’ll be playing some stuff that people know, I’ve also got plenty of new material that people haven’t heard before.” Indeed, the lad has spent some down time working on finishing a new EP that he expects will be out in March or April next year. The new single, Bags Packed featuring Allday is already doing great things and is on high rotation on triple j. “I was stoked when they picked it; it’s been getting great airplay and it has really helped promote my sound.” No less, half way through the current and aptly named Singles Tour, Bam Bam has just arrived in Brisbane and again, is looking forward to hitting the stage in Queensland. “Music is just an extension of what I do; I don’t like to pigeon hole myself as an artist and that means you never really know what you’ll get at one of my shows. I wouldn’t say that I’m just a rapper. I make music – and while my new EP has a hip hop
influence without necessarily dub or electro anymore, I feel that it is still fresh and innovative.” Doubtless then, staying up to date and relevant is a key driver for Bam Bam, as he reflects on just how transient and fickle the business can be. “I don’t want to do something for the sake of it; if it’s a phase, I’ll explore it and make some tracks and move on. Some of my older dub focused tracks are still my favourites and when I do my live show I want people to recognise what I’ve done in the past. The two mixtapes I did, the EPs, it’s all about doing good music – that’s it. Bags Packed is probably the most hip hop focused work I’ve done actually.” What that means for his future musically though, is anyone’s guess. With that, he talks briefly about his other studio work – which he ultimately hopes will lead to an LP. “I’m really looking forward to doing something like that,” he explains. “Right now though, we’ve made the decision to do the EP and work on the album after that. There are a lot of tracks that I’ve done that will make it to the album, but I’ve been really busy and haven’t had the chance to finish it all off. It’s really just a case of recording and mastering
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the album so with a lot of the tracks laid down, I’d say it’s well on the way.” And the direction of the LP? Well he doesn’t forget his roots – or where the local scene emanated from - so gives praise to guys like Bliss N Eso and Hilltop Hoods, claiming they opened the door to a local market that has benefited everyone. “All of us are better off,” he says. “The artists, the fans – all the people that had dreams of doing music and stuck it out; their dreams have come true and it no longer has to be something that we just do on the side. So much so, that even with no real guidelines, it comes naturally. I have never wanted to conform and right now, I’m feeling like I don’t have to.”
Bam Bam plays at The Workers Club on Friday December 13. Bags Packed is out now. facebook.com/bambammusic
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on tour SHPONGLE [UK], RAJA RAM [UK] PERFECT STRANGER [ISR] + MORE Friday December 6, Brown Alley INSANE CLOWN POSSE [USA] Friday December 6, The Hi-Fi AMIR ALEXANDER [USA] Friday December 6, The Liberty Social LE1F [USA] Friday December 6, Roxanne Parlour STEREOSONIC: DAVID GUETTA [FRA], ARMIN VAN BUUREN [NED], CALVIN HARRIS [UK] + MORE Saturday December 7 - Sunday December 8, Royal Melbourne Showgrounds PSYCHEMAGIK [UK] Saturday December 7, New Guernica JON HOPKINS [UK] Thursday December 12, The Hi-Fi RØDHÅD [GER] Friday December 13, Mercat Basement MEREDITH: TIM SWEENEY [USA], DERRICK MAY [USA] + MORE Friday December 13 - Sunday December 15, Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre DERRICK MAY [USA] Saturday December 14, Howler MIDLAND [UK] Sunday December 22, Revolver Upstairs STANTON WARRIORS [UK], S.P.Y [UK], MC LOWQUI [UK] Friday December 27, Brown Alley ?UESTLOVE [USA] Saturday December 28, Roxanne Parlour LET THEM EAT CAKE: JAMES HOLDEN [UK], FLOATING POINTS [UK] + MORE Wednesday January 1, Werribee Mansion DANNY TENAGLIA [USA], MORGAN PAGE [USA] Wednesday January 1, Shed 14 SWINDLE [UK], MARIBOU STATE [UK] Saturday January 11, Globe Alley KOLOMBO [BEL] Sunday January 19, Revolver Upstairs MAJOR LAZER [USA], FLOSSTRADAMUS [USA] Tuesday January 21, The Palace SNOOP DOGG [USA], MAC MILLER [USA] Wednesday January 22, The Palace BIG DAY OUT: SNOOP DOGG [USA], MAJOR LAZER [USA] + MORE Friday January 24, Flemington Racecourse RAINBOW SERPENT: DONATO DOZZY [ITA], MICHAEL MAYER [GER] + MORE Friday January 24 - Monday January 27, Lexton HENRIK SCHWARZ [GER], DANNY DAZE [USA] Friday January 24, Brown Alley AVICII [SWE] Sunday January 26, Melbourne Showgrounds MOUNT KIMBIE [UK] Thursday January 30, Corner Hotel ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL: XXYYXX [USA], MOUNT KIMBIE [UK] + MORE Saturday February 1, Footscray Community Arts Centre XXYYXX [USA] Tuesday February 4, Corner Hotel. YOUTH LAGOON [USA] Wednesday February 5, Prince Bandroom EARL SWEATSHIRT [USA], DANNY BROWN [USA] Thursday February 6, The Palace MK [USA] Sunday February 9, Revolver Upstairs DJ SHADOW [UK] Thursday February 13, Prince Bandroom EMINEM [USA], KENDRICK LAMAR [USA] + MORE Wednesday February 19, Etihad Stadium FLYING LOTUS [USA] Friday February 28, The Forum BRUNO MARS [USA], MIGUEL [USA] Tuesday March 4 & Wednesday March 5, Rod Laver Arena GOLD PANDA [UK] Friday March 7, Corner Hotel GOOD LIFE: DEADMAU5 [UK], KNIFE PARTY [UK] + MORE Friday March 7, Flemington Racecourse MAITREYA: DICK TREVOR [UK], YAHEL [ISR] Friday March 7 - Monday March 10, Sealake GOLDEN PLAINS: PUBLIC ENEMY [USA], FLYING LOTUS [USA] + MORE Saturday March 8 - Monday March 10, Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: DEADMAU5 [UK], KNIFE PARTY [UK] + MORE Sunday March 9, Flemington Racecourse BATHS [USA] Saturday March 22, Corner Hotel DARKSIDE [USA] Friday April 4, The Palace
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Marcus Worgul, Marcel Dettmann, Cassy, DVS1, Mario Basanov, Legowelt, Redshape, Will Saul, Rustie, Jacques Greene, Kito, Reija Lee, Marcel Vogel, Andrew Weatherall, Skudge, Roman Flügel, Silicone Soul
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word d s / llaa c h hlllaa n k a n o ni niuk One of the most prominent artists in a new vanguard of alternative New York rap, Le1f has experienced a rapid ascension into the global eye since the mid-2012 release of his debut mixtape, Dark York. With two more lauded, and stylistically diverse, mixtapes released this year, Le1f looks primed to elevate into a higher level sometime in the imminent future. “I think it’s been exponential,” Le1f says, charting his rapid musical growth since the release of Dark York. “In some ways I do still feel amateur, which is nice. I’ve had a lot of room to explore, being an unsigned artist. I feel like I’ve been able to find more voices and get more confident in terms of songwriting. It’s exciting, I’ve been able to play within a lot of worlds and styles in rap, R&B and electronic music. I can take out the things I like from what I’ve already experimented with at this point.” Though Le1f has more than established himself as an idiosyncratic solo artist in his own right, there has been some sense of community surrounding his rise last year, working working alongside Das Racist and their Greedhead label. As Le1f’s style has grown and developed, so has his range of collaborators. “I definitely have my friends here, and they’re doing cool things around me. But it’s beyond just working with friends now, sometimes I don’t even know the people I’m collaborating with – finding a beat on Soundcloud, or people seeing my show and handing a CD of beats. Sometimes the collaborations and
sense of community comes from that place as well, it’s digitised.” After gaining prominence with the mostly self-produced Dark York mixtape, as well as producing for others, Le1f sourced beats from a range of different, but likeminded, rising producers. [“I guess Dark York was me trying to create a formation of everything I like – other people produced things, I produced, just all the beats that I thought would be good enough that I made for myself that no one else had used yet.] After that, I just wanted to push myself as a vocalist by working with other people’s beats. I can be versatile, but at that time all my beats were C minor, E minor songs with arpeggios and I would respond in a similar way each time, or have a writers’ block because I was so attached to the production side of it,” he says. “I started to make Tree House just after Fly Zone because I wanted to make love songs. Or at least attempt to, because that was a daunting and scary thing for me to do. Trying to find these warm, luxurious voices was really frustrating. I had five good songs and like 12 annoying ones, so I had to make Fly Zone out of those songs that didn’t fit the concept of a romantic album, that were too aggressive, or too airy and not sexualised. That’s what Fly Zone came out of, my frustration at trying to make Tree House last year. It’s a whole trilogy of experimentation.” While sex has been intrinsic to pop music throughout its history, it’s often treated with a large degree of humour to allay
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a semblance of confrontation with the listener. Tree House is overflowing with sex, compounding lush R&B production with no-nonsense bedroom-ready slow jams. “For Tree House, that was the entire goal. I was very inspired by Jeremih’s Late Nights mixtape last year. The fact that he captured this ’90s sex R&B vibe, all that music that I loved but isn’t necessarily rap – like Aaliyah, SWV, TLC. Talking about sexuality blatantly, in the same way as a R Kelly record that you might have sex to, but at the same time, the production and the mixing and the vocals were so futuristic, so progressive. Like the song [Jeremih’s] Fuck You All The Time, I’ve never heard a song like that, even if the words weren’t about sex,” he states. “That’s where I was coming from with Tree House. I wanted it to be heady and conceptual in production, but all songs to make love to, or songs that are love songs in some regard.”
Le1f will hit Roxanne Parlour on Friday December 6. He’ll also play at the Meredith Music Festival which takes place over Friday December 13 - Sunday December 15. facebook.com/le1fny
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Last week I saw a Juggalo use the term “two scoops of whoop!” and it was so beautiful I wanted to cry.
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Amir Alexander will bring his raw and modern spin on classic Detroit, Chicago and NYC house to Melbourne early this December. The founder of Vanguard Sound, Alexander’s re-emergence onto the club scene has seen him more possessed, determined and driven than ever, as he spins from an arsenal of his own and his crew’s tracks. Catch Amir Alexander at The Liberty Social on Friday December 6.
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Marking the opening of Midsumma 2014, CONFETTI is the official Midsumma Dance Party and will bring together some of the biggest performing artists and DJs from around the world. CONFETTI is Melbourne’s first queer summer festival bill and is taking place next January. Heading the lineup for this one night party are Australia’s biggest dance music act, The Presets. They will be joined by acts including NYC’s Zebra Katz, World’s End Press, Raf Daddy of The 2 Bears, Stereogamous, Sveta and more. The event is curated by local party starters Grouse Party, John Homosocial and Flawless Queer Salon. CONFETTI is taking place at The Palace Theatre on Sunday January 12.
The Roots’ rare appearances Down Under just got bigger as the band’s leader, ?uestlove, has announced that he will throw down an exclusive DJ set in Melbourne late this December. This will mark the iconic producer and tastemaker’s first appearance in Melbourne since 2007, which saw him treat fans to an unforgettable five hour DJ set. Catch ?uestlove spin at the Roxanne Parlour on Saturday December 28.
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Kerser has announced that he will embark on his S.C.O.T tour next February and March. The wordsmith’s third album S.C.O.T flew up the iTunes and ARIA Charts upon release, with its content reflecting upon his achievements set to the tune of Nebs killer beats. Kerser will play The Hi-Fi on Saturday February 15.
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Canberra house duo, The Aston Shuffle, have revealed Tear it Down, the second single from their upcoming sophomore album in addition to a string of tour dates in support of the release. Due out on Friday December 6, Tear it Down is a feel good house jam with soulful vocals and a brooding, building beat. To promote the new single, The Aston Shuffle will be unveiling their new live show, with support from synthpop newcomer, Thief. Get down with The Aston Shuffle on Saturday February 22 at the Northcote Social Club.
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DJ Koze has been making his eclectic brand of electronica since 1988, and considered now to be an institution for purveyors of dance music. It’s easy to think of the German native as an enigma but his warm and refreshingly honest and organic approach to music makes him the guy-next-door. Walking this fine line of mystery and transparency sets Stefan Kozalla apart from the crowd, and even he is surprised that what he’s doing is working. Amygdala is definitely one of the best albums of 2013 and it was a very long, nine-year wait in between albums for DJ Koze fans. And it could well be another nine; “This is my cycle now, nine years. Maybe I can shorten it to eight years or eight and a half years.” Koze “didn’t expect” the success of Amygdala“ because it isn’t straight, obvious, pop up in your head record. It’s just, I don’t know, just not so obvious and not strong enough to get attention”. His own perception of his music is a stark contrast to my own, but as a man who says he’s “full of fear” it is not so surprising that his success continues to surprise him.
[to] happen and if you don’t deny that it’s possible there are many open doors for you”. Koze isn’t by any means a spiritual person and insists “you don’t have to be an esoteric, goa, yoga bitch, selling chains and smoking weed, it’s just a way of thinking”. While it is hard to imagine the producer being phased by much, he is a self confessed hypochondriac living with “fear everyday and a fear of people”. A revitalising bout of confidence is unfettered when it comes to his record label, Pampa Records that he runs with his friend, Marcus Fink. “We have a small roster but we’re all friends like Isolee, Robag Wrhume and Ada”. Once again his unrelenting need to seek a point of difference in an industry where “there are so many releases everyday” is a feature of his record label. “We’re some kind of bored from much of electronic and dance music and we really think [Pampa Records] has something uncommon. It’s special… with much love for detail and sound and architecture and it’s always warm, soulful and never random. This is what we are all searching for.” It’s really what we’re all searching for in music, isn’t it?
Making a point to not “work with clichés so much and rather classic ideas” in his lyrics and production as well as “always trying to provide shades in music in an organic way” is a huge part of Koze’s signature style. While he continues to push boundaries he holds on to the sobering reality that “it is not so easy to make something new and fresh which is also tenable”. His thirst for introspection is obvious as a man who is “always interested in the invisible energies, instincts and feeling and following impulses.” He credits his career, if not wholly at least parts of it to “just being aware and [allowing] many magical things
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Catch DJ Koze at Let Them Eat Cake. It all goes down on Wednesday January 1 at Werribee Mansion facebook.com/djkoze
Young DJ, Safire (aka Ben Finocchiaro) began playing music when he was a kid, one who enjoyed sifting through his brother’s jungle records. “I grew up in a house with four pairs of turntables,” he chimes. “So I guess it was inevitable that I’d end up being immersed within the music scene.” So after a few years of playing music, he wanted to learn more behind the craft and began studying audio. “I’ve always been interested in the technical side of production,” he explains. “Previously, I had worked in sound design and film post production and then decided to focus on music. When I was growing up I was always thinking about ways to be totally content – happy. I guess, that meant working in a creative environment. I like meeting new people that resonate on the same frequency - and with that, I enjoy exploring the creative possibilities that music brings me.” Indeed, he admits that music is his life, his everything, right now. And he continues: “we’re just about to launch a new art and music collective called ‘Plasma Collaborative’ - it includes our label, a studio facility, apparel as well as digital media. We’ve been working on this project for most of the year and there hasn’t been much time for much else really. We’re really excited about the coming months and hope that we can continue to build even more creative energy in our city with it.” Musically, Safire explains that his influences stem from atmospheric styles of electronic music, given he has always liked the emotive sounds of the spectrum, although he admits that when he is playing live, his sets are usually a little more high energy. “I like intelligent music that’s well produced,” he says. “I always believe we need to come up with something unique and
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represent our era,” he explains. Because without that, music is simply a rehash of what has been done in the past. “I’ve always tried to create music that has energy but still maintains depth and feeling; for me music is expression so I try to roll with the vibration of that current moment in life. With that, his debut EP is coming out on the Dispatch imprint in late January 2014. “My Subtitles release just came out a couple of months back too and there is quite a lot brewing up; there’s also a really exciting release coming for us on Plasma Audio called 001. It’s a remix of one of my tracks by one of the favorite artists we’ve worked with over the years.” Otherwise, he is spend his full week in the studio nowadays, writing music for most of the week and beginning to provide audio services in a new space he’s just finished building this year. Also keeping him busy though, will be Burn Down Babylon – a night created by partner-in-crime Sean. “It’s something new that he’s been working on for most the year,” says Safire. “We’re all really looking forward to the launch actually. It’s at a new venue which we’ve hardly partied at before so its going to be exciting to check it out. Burn Down Bablyon are also doing apparel and have got some other quality stuff coming up - keep locked.” They’re calling it a music and arts collaboration - I’d like to call it a festivus of drum and bass, hip hop, reggae, dub and glitch. You call it whatever you want. Safire plays at Burn Down Babylon which launches at Level 2, Northcote on Saturday December 14. Head to burndownbabylon.co for more information soundcloud.com/safirebba soundcloud.com/safirebba
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wednesday december 4 COQ ROQ - FEAT: AGENT 86 + DJS LADY NOIR + JOYBOT + KITI + MR THOM Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm. NEW GUERNICA WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. THE DINNER SET - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. 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 december 5 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + JESSE YOUNG + JOHN DOE + MATTHEW BUTTERS + SAM GUDGE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 5:00pm. BILLBOARD THURSDAYS FEAT: MATT DEAN + MATTY GRANT + PHIL ROSS Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10. CHI BEATS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. CQ SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Cq, Melbourne. 8:00pm. DO DROP IN - FEAT: DJ KITI + DJ LADY NOIR THE CARLTON HOTEL, MELBOURNE CBD. 8:00PM. FREE RANGE FUNK - FEAT: AGENT 86 + LEWIS CANCUT + WHO Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. GOOD EVENING - FEAT: DJ PEOPLE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: DJS PREQUEL & EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. MOOD - FEAT: NUBODY Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. RADIONICA - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. VARSITY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 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 december 6 ANYTIME - FEAT: FRIDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 8:30pm. BADABOOM FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ ROWIE European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. CANT SAY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Platform One, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. CHI FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Chi Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CQ FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Cq, Melbourne. 3:06pm. DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: ELANA MUSTO + GREG SARA + SCOTT T Match Bar & Grill, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. FUSION FRIDAY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm. GET LIT - FEAT: D’FRO + HANS DC + YO M.A.F.I.A LOUNGE, MELBOURNE CBD. 9:00PM. I LOVE OLD SCHOOL - FEAT: SHAGGZ & PUPPET + DJ TEY + MERV MAC Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $10. INCREMENTALIST + BREAKFAST + GABRIEL GILMOUR + SEEDY JAZZ Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 7:00pm. LATIN QUARTER - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. MEET YOUR MATES FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. PANORAMA - FEAT: DJS MATT RAD + MR GEORGE + PHATO A MANO Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ LEWIE DAY + DJ MIKE CALLANDER + DJ KATIE DROVER Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: DJ SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00am. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 10:00pm. SNATCH - FEAT: DJ ARSONAUT + DJ PAUL + DJ ROD S Kama Bar, South Yarra. 7:00pm. THE FOX FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. TUNES BY SABO Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. WEEKENDER! Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SHUFFLE FRIDAY NIGHTS Bridie O’reilly’s Brunswick, Brunswick. 11:00pm. THE FOX FRIDAYS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. UPTOWN GROOVE Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. saturday december 7 BILLBOARD SATURDAYS -
COMPRESSION SESSION - FEAT: CASSAWARRIOR + DD + RICKA E55, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. SOUL ENSEMBLE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
thursday december 5 PENNIES Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $6.
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CHAISE FRIDAYS - FEAT: SOULCLAP + DJ CLAZ + DJ DIRX + DJ PERIL + DJ SEF Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm. CREW LOVE - FEAT: DJ TONY SUNSHINE Sub Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $15. DJ THADDEUS DOE The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. FAKTORY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 2:55pm. FAKTORY - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA
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TUNES BY RALPH GRANADILLA Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:00pm. WHY NOT? - FEAT: SATURDAY Pretty Please, St Kilda. 3:21pm. WHAT’S DOING? - FEAT: DJ CITIZEN.COM Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. sunday december 8 CAN I KICK IT Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 12:00am. DANGER - FEAT: GEORGE HYSTERIC & ROHAN BELLTOWERS The Carlton Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. MASHTAG - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: DJ BOOGS + DJ SPACEY SPACE + DJ RADIATOR + DJ SILVERSIX + DJ T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm. SOUTH SIDE HUSTLE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm. 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. 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.
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monday december 9 CLUB NIGHTS IBIMBO - FEAT: LADY NOIR & KITI BIMBO DELUXE, FITZROY. 6:00PM. 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. TWERKERS CLUB - FEAT: DJ FLETCH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. tuesday december 10 COSMIC PIZZA - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:00pm. CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. dj jaguar E55, MELBOURNE CBD. 8:00PM. NEVER CHEER BEFORE YOU KNOW WHO’S WINNING - FEAT: REPETER FONDA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. TRUST - FEAT: ANDY UKHTHOMOSKY + BADDUMS + DISRUTE Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.
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FEAT: FRAZER ADNAM SCOTT MCMAHON + JAMIE VLAHOS + MR MAGOO + ZIGGY Billboard, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. CLUB FICTION - FEAT: KITTY ROCK & THE BAD LADIES Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. CONCRETE JUNGLE ROCKERS - FEAT: NAHUATL SOUNDSYSTEM + BACHU + PAPACHANGO Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $15. DJ DAVE THE SCOT Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:00pm. FIRST FLOOR SATURDAYS - FEAT: BILLY HOYLE + DJS DUCHESZ + MZRIZK + WASABI First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. GLITCH THIS - FEAT: SATURDAY Workshop, Melbourne. 7:00pm. GLORY - FEAT: DJ BECSTA Kama Bar, South Yarra. 7:00pm. HOT STEP - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. LAB 22 Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MIXED DRINKS SATURDAYS FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Libation, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. NEO SACRILEGE - FEAT: DJ NERO Abode, St Kilda. 8:00pm. NEW GUERNICA SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. POISON APPLE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 7:00pm. RAZZMATAZZ INDIE DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: DJ CAITY K + TED C Exford Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SATURDAYS - FEAT: ACTION SAM + DJ ROWIE EUROPEAN Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. SATURDAYS AT ONE TWENTY BAR - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS One Twenty Bar, Fitzroy. 1:49pm. SOUND EMPIRE - FEAT: DJ TATE STRAUSS + DJ JOE SOFO + DJ MATTY + DJ MISS SARAH + DJ PHIL ROSS Fusion, Southbank. 9:30pm. $25. SOUTH SIDE SHOW - FEAT: EDD FISHER + KNAVE KNIXX Red Bennies, South Yarra. 8:00pm. $15. STAR SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Star Bar, South Melbourne. 3:02pm. STRUT SATURDAYS - FEAT: TIMOMATIC 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. SUPER GRANDE - FEAT: ARKS + MR MOONSHINE + NORTH POLLAND Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. TEMPERANCE SATURDAYS FEAT: DJ MARCUS KNIGHT + DJ XANDER JAMES Temperance Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm. TEXTILE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. THE FOX SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: DJ ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: MAT CANT + NICK THAYER + RANSOM + BOOSHANK + LEWIS CANCUT + PAZ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm.
+ 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.
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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.
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LAUNDRY SATURDAYS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. SATURDAY NIGHTS - FEAT: DJ DAMION DE SILVA + DJ JAY SIN + DJ K DEE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne. 9:30pm. THE DOJO Order Of Melbourne, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. THE HIGH SOCIETY Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
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FREEDOM PASS - FEAT: PHIL ROSS + B-BOOGIE + CHRIS MAC + DOZZA Co., Southbank. 10:30pm. HIP HOP OPEN MIC First Floor, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
tuesday december 10 CAN I KICK IT? Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.
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THE GIN CLUB By James Nicoli Ten years is a long time to do anything. In musical terms, playing in the same band for ten years is equivalent to a lifetime. Brisbane natives The Gin Club have just reached this milestone and to celebrate they’re doing what they do best – performing around the country. Multiinstrumentalist Brad Pickersgill was kind enough to take the time to answer a couple of questions and reflect on his band’s journey over the past decade. So ten years! Did you ever think you would be celebrating your 10th anniversary? Speaking personally, my original goal for being in a band was to have fun, play some shows around town, and be respected, if not liked. After six months of that, I had to seriously re-evaluate said goals. I think that we’re all a little surprised by how fast it’s flown by, but not surprised that we’re still together. In the end, we are a bunch of best friends all having a lot of fun. What have been some of the major highlights over the past decade? I’m sure everyone has their own, but one of the most memorable for us early on was landing a support for Tim Rogers at The Troubadour. The funny thing about that show was that it was a showcase for Tim’s upcoming solo album so he was on first, to let the record industry boffins get to bed early… we were to go on afterwards and keep things chugging. I remember we were all nervous as hell, particularly Ben and Scott as they grew up idolising Tim. It was one of those nights where everything went right.
We knew if played some Stones covers we might have a chance of getting him to join in, and sure enough the night culminated in Tim joining us onstage for Sweet Virginia and Shine A Light. There have been many other highlights over the years, but to me that night was a turning point for the band. Do you guys have anything special planned for the tour? We’ve just this week discussed trying to get some special guests to join us. Ben (Salter) is currently at the selection table and running the ruler over all the candidates to assess match fitness and availability. I don’t want to give anything away but we’re really looking forward to re-connecting with all our friends interstate. With Ben, Adrian and Angus in Melbourne these days, it really is a second home to us now. There will be an obvious emphasis on playing stuff from the first album, plus the usual diatribe. I understand you’ll also be re-releasing your debut album on vinyl? I’m a bit of vinyl heathen, but we’ve done it with the last couple of releases, and we’ve been really surprised at how
it’s been received. There’s a lot of retrospection in The Gin Club, so re-releasing the first album on vinyl to celebrate seemed to be a natural thing, and a shameless attempt at profiteering, a bit like when Marvel released five variant covers of X-Men No.1 back in 1992. Can’t believe I fell for that one. With seven permanent members and two part-timers, I’m guessing there’s been some memorable moments over the years? Touring is great. Basically you get to travel around and do what it is you love. We’re all a little older and more…stable these days, but in the early days, it was full on. Each night would be somebody’s turn to have a meltdown of some description. We have a saying in The Gin Club though ‘Never two in a row’. And perhaps some trying ones as well? Dale Peachey playing classical guitar in a six-bunk hostel
room at 6.30am the morning after a gig comes to mind. The good thing is, we all know each well enough to know when to let each person have their ‘alone time’. Even if that means forced solitary confinement. So, I have to ask, do you guys still drink as much gin as you did when you first started out? No we don’t. It was never a deliberate thing, but at that time we were all going through our own funks, and it just so happened we ended up consuming a lot of the stuff. These days, we’re a much more…diverse and discerning group. And finally, where do you see the band in another ten years? Hopefully still together, still making music and having fun. The best days are ahead!
WA,” states a humbled Avery. Avery’s unique singing voice is something not previously heard in the Australian rock scene so it is interesting to hear who his inspirations are. “When I was a kid I listened to a lot of Elvis Presley and a lot of soul stuff too like Aretha Franklin. Then I got into Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf – it all kind of came from there. Old sort of black music – that was the way it came. I have been singing the same way for years.” Another part of The Growl’s music that is also in line with classic blues is the way they tune their guitars. “Some of the tunings are just purely for playing one song, it just came from me not being able to write music. The unique tunings come from me singing a melody and trying to find the funnest, most sonically pleasing way to play it on guitar so I tune the guitar to that to try and find that melody. So with some of the tunings, you can only play one song on them.” When Avery is pushed on a specific example of his unique tuning, he is more than obliging and explains, “The way I
tune the guitar on Hey Judy was to try and play the open notes so they rang in between the riffs, it’s the bit where it does this ‘der der der der DER DER DERRRRR’. To get that, I tune the bottom strings to minor ninths and the upper strings are open so it’s really weird and disjointed sounding. We don’t have a guitar tech so I have to either keep talking while Clint mucks around with it or sometimes we have a second guitar.” Currently performing as a five piece, Avery says he and the rest of The Growl – Clinton Oliver on guitar; James Ireland on keyboard, accordion and samples; Marc Earley on double bass; Samuel Kuzich on drums and percussion – are really looking forward to the tour. “We’re really excited at seeing how we go on our first full national tour!”
Wood says The KVB’s live imagery “fluctuates between quite seductive, slow 3D rendered tactile images and flicker-film-esque, digital glitch based works”. The overall objective is to establish a connection between the music and the imagery displayed. “I am really interested in the haptic and how the brain can create a conscious connection to the screen to really ‘feel’, stroke and be immersed in the imagery,” Wood says. In this context, there is, Wood says, a symbiotic relationship between the music that’s played and the colours and textures displayed. “Both components relate in the intent of the affect,” Wood says. “The textured synths mirror the slower, immersive imagery and almost ‘lulls’ the audience, whereas, the aggressive guitars mirror the glitch, which are quite jarring and simulate the affect of flicker film on the audiences’ perception of consciousness.” This month, The KVB will make its first trip to Australia as guests of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, having come to the attention of the BJM’s L’enfant terrible genius, Anton
Newcombe earlier this year. “We met Anton through our manager Dr Kiko, who played our last LP Immaterial Visions to him whilst we were in Berlin early this year,” Wood explains. The relationship between Newcombe and The KVB is more than a temporary marriage of convenience, with Wood and Day planning to head to Newcombe’s studio next year to transform more of Wood’s original material into rich KVB product. “I’ve still got lots of material I’ve already recorded,” Wood says. “Hopefully they will also get rereleased in the future, although we have been recording some new songs at Anton’s studio in Berlin, which should be out sometime next year.”
THE GIN CLUB play The John Curtin Hotel on Friday December 6.
THE GROWL Dan Watt The Growl play earthy, crunchy and damn good blues rock. Frontman and primary songwriter Cameron Avery comes from Western Australia’s new wave of old-school rock bands, most notably Tame Impala and Pond. The Growl’s debut album What Would Christ Do is uncompromising and crusty rock’n’roll that has garnered the band many fans, both here and abroad. “The other day I got an email from a fan-club in Brazil with 500 members and I had a good little chuckle about how the fuck they even know about us. Maybe it was through Pond?” laughs Avery. Additionally, most press outlets have embraced the band but as Avery explains, not everyone in the media dug their sound. “Someone called it like ‘bland derivative blues rocky rubbish’, but I love getting roasted, I get more of a kick out of that than getting accolades. Someone else called us a bland derivative as well – they’re the ones who are derivative. It’s most interesting for us to hear what people don’t like but, of course, we love all the positive feedback this album has got.” The most positive feedback or qualified head-nod the band received was probably when they were asked to support Kings Of Leon at the megastars’ only Australian show at The Enmore on November 20. Before disclosing how his band ended up on the bill, Avery, now 25, explains that as a teenager he was a huge fan of the band. “When I was a teenager I used to run around with flares
and a fringe. I was obsessed with Youth And Manhood, Aha Shake Heartbreak and even Because of The Times – I was still listening to them then.” But how exactly did The Growl end up on the bill? “We played a big Festival in Portugal and it was Tame, Phoenix and Kings Of Leon on our stage. They came and watched our set from side of stage and they were really into it and that’s how this show came about. They knew Tame were probably too busy to do the Sydney show but asked if The Growl wanted to do the support slot,” contends a mellow, yet secretly enthused Avery. Another occurrence that reconfirmed to Avery that The Growl were on the right track was when he won Best Male Vocalist at this year’s Western Australian Music Industry awards (WAMis). The award went to Avery and a second trophy went to Birds Of Tokyo’s Ian Kenny – a split award that represented the handing of the baton from Western Australia’s musical past to its future. It appears that Avery was not expecting the award, so much so that he didn’t believe he’d even won. “I didn’t even know it had happened. My friend messaged me and said ‘you have one Best Male Vocalist tied with Kenny’ and I was like ‘yeah good on you,’ and then in an interview they asked ‘what was it like winning the WAMi?’ and I was like ‘oh cool.’ There are a lot of good singers in
THE GROWL are playing Laneway Festival on Saturday February 1 at Footscray Community Arts Festival with Chvrches, Savages, Frightened Rabbit, Earl Sweatshirt, Fourtet, Jamie XX and many more.
THE KVB By Patrick Emery The KVB. It sounds secretive, and slightly sinister – possibly a clandestine police force from the halcyon days of Eastern European communist dictatorships, staffed by ashen-faced operatives with a fanatical dedication to the cause of the State. Working behind heavy iron doors, and in the shadows of society, The KVB seeks out insurrection, identifies agitators and punishes opposition. In reality, it’s nothing of the sort. The KVB is the nom de plume of Nick Wood and his partner Kat Day, a two-piece outfit from the UK who combine an electronic-shoegaze-industrial garage musical aesthetic with an intense visual live show. In the beginning The KVB was Wood’s bedroom project, an opportunity for him to explore different sonic textures outside of the confines of his ‘regular’ musical projects. “I had been playing guitar in a few bands and recording my own material under different guises for a few years before I started making music as The KVB,” Wood explains. “All the music we have released so far has been recorded by ourselves at our home studio.” The name KVB is an abbreviation of Klaus Van Barrel, an alias suggested by a friend of Wood when he started creating his own music. “It’s an alias my friend and I created when we started making music together,” Wood explains. “We wanted it to sound slightly absurd.” In the beginning Wood says there wasn’t a particular musical idea that was
flowing through his head: it was about experimentation and exploration. “There wasn’t a plan as such,” Wood says. “It’s more a combination of both musical and nonmusical influences, and the mood and instruments that are available to me. I think there is something really beautiful about the texture our old 16 tracks creates.” After committing various musical ideas to recorded form, Wood invited Kat Day to join the band on keyboards and synthesiser. It was to be the beginning of the transformation of The KVB from pet studio project to living, breathing and live performing creature. Day’s involvement in the band also introduced the striking visual background imagery now intrinsic to The KVB’s live show. “Kat brought in the visual aspect of the band’s live performance,” Wood says. “The KVB did not play live before Kat joined. Now we consider [the visual imagery] a key part of our performance – it heightens the immersive atmosphere we wish our audiences to experience”.
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14 MORE FOR AMP LONGLIST th
The 9 Coopers AMP announced 14 more albums on its Longlist, bringing the total to 33. The latest 14 are All Day Venus by Adalita; Dream Cave by Cloud Control; Step Brothers by The Palms; Harlequin Dream by Boy & Bear; Flu Season by Fluent Form; Howlin’ by Jagwar Ma; The Beginning And The End Of Everything by Josh Pyke; The Bright Door by Machine Translations; Conversations With Ghosts by Paul Kelly, James Ledger, Genevieve Lacey and ANAMlly; The Still And The Steep by Heath Cullen; Phoenix by Jimblah; Golden by Jimmy Tatt; Beloved by New Gods and The Night Deeds Are Vapour by Ross McClennan. With Spotify on board as an Industry Sponsor, the website thecoopersamp.com.au now features Spotify playlists for Longlisted artists and previous winners.
3 AM LOCKOUT TESTED IN COURT The legality of the 3 am lockout is being tested out in Adelaide. Lawyers for the Palace Gallery and Woolshed On Hindley nightclubs want the Full Court of the Supreme Court to declare South Australia’s new liquor code of conduct (introduced September) invalid because it “borders on prohibition.” Dick Whitington, QC, argued a property owner had the right to benefit from their premises. “If you say ‘you cannot be open any longer, you cannot permit entry to customers’, then you are denying the explicit rights of trade and property ownership,” he said. Adelaide club owners say they’ll lose “millions” of dollars and have upped their door prices since. The hearing continues.
MELBOURNE SCORES ARIA WINS Melbourne’s winners at the Flume/Tame Impala dominated ARIAs were Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds who took Best Independent Release and Best Adult Contemporary Album for Push The Sky Away; Illy’s Bring It Back for Best Urban Album; Russell Morris’ platinum comeback Sharkmouth for Best Blues and Roots Album; Victorian-born Tom Ballard and triple j cohort Alex Dyson who took Best Comedy Release for The Bits We’re Least Ashamed Of; while the inaugural ARIA Industry Icon Award went to Michael Gudinski. Full report in Industrial Strength Online at beat.com.au, all winners listed on aria.com.au
HEY DAT’S MY SONG #1: TRUCE OVER BEASTIE BOYS SONG Californian toy company GoldieBlox is fighting for its right to party. It’s over The Beastie Boys’ 1986 spoof rap Girls. It told girls to “do the dishes ... do the laundry ... clean up my room”. GoldieBlox, to market its engineering toys for girls, made a spoof video in which three girls sing about building spaceships and coding software. It went viral, with 8 million views on YouTube, and applause from women’s groups. The surviving Beasties sent a stern open letter saying that while they support the message of empowering girls, they have a blanket ban on their songs used in ads. GoldieBlox sued saying their video was covered by “fair use”. But they then said they’d drop the song if the Beasties promised not to sue. The Beasties themselves are in a legal stoush over alleged illegal sampling on their Paul’s Boutique album.
HEY DAT’S MY SONG #2: THE XX SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE The xx have issued a statement in support of same-sex marriage following the unpermitted use of their music
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on an anti-gay marriage ad. Their Intro was used by a Croatian anti-gay marriage lobby group U ime obitelji (Name Of The Family) who collected 700,000 signatures for a legislative event in Croatia on December 1 which would define marriage as only between a man and woman. The xx got the track pulled and released a statement, “We wish to state that we didn’t, and would never, approve the use of our music by this organisation. To be clear, we unconditionally support the equal right to marriage regardless of sexuality. xx The xx."
THE BENDIGO, CITY OF YARRA, IN TALKS The Bendigo in Collingwood and City of Yarra are in talks, planning to advise over the 12 months to soundproof the venue. Venue owner Guy Palermo told Industrial Strength that plans are for lawyers on both sides to jointly send a letter to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) that they no longer need to appear as they’re mediating, and for City of Yarra to withdraw its interim order to stop live music at the Bendigo until an acoustic expert carried out tests. Palermo says, “It’s a loaded gun at our heads” because one unwitting breach of volume would see The Bendigo back at the VCAT. Meantime, the serial complainer who moved into the neighbourhood in March and started complaining, has now moved away! Full report on beat.com.au.
FATE OF SYDNEY’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL The fate of Sydney’s Laneway Festival’s bid to expand its crowd capacity is decided this week when Leichhardt discusses a dispute on Tuesday December 3. Laneway is held on February 2 at the Sydney College of the Arts within Callan Park in Rozelle. Organisers applied to Leichhardt Council to expand the crowd from 8,000 to 12,500. The Friends of Callan Park associated objected, saying that while it has no problems with the festival, the park would not cope with that many people. Leichhardt mayor and live music enthusiast Darcy Byrne said Laneway’s bid was supported by Council, acoustic experts and police.
THINGS WE HEAR • How will Blur’s pull-out of Big Day Out affect the festival? The NZ Herald did a survey: 25% said they wouldn’t go now, 15% were “disappointed but will still go”, 12% “don’t mind, I’m there for the other acts” and a blinding 48% sniffed, “Wasn’t planning to go anyway.” • Internet radio and music-streaming Pandora is introducing ads to Australian users so it can continue to offer a free service and increase royalties to artists. • Former Powderfinger guitarist Ian Haug will join The Church for their next album and round of touring after Marty Willson-Piper “was/is unavailable,” Steve Kilbey posted. He said the decision was not made lightly. “If you can’t dig it I’m sorry. This is my fucking band after all and it has existed at times without Peter (Koppes) and in the beginning without Marty.” • If that was terse, how about Black Flag sacking singer Ron Reyes at the tail end of their last Australian show in Perth. With two songs to go, leader Greg Ginn told Mike V(allely) to tell Reyes, "You’re done, party’s over, get off it’s over"and took vocals for the last two songs. • After six years and two albums, Brisbane’s Hungry Kids of Hungary have split after band member Kane decided he didn’t want to tour any more. • US producer Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins, a last minute addition to the weekend’s ARIAs, is in
Australia to work with various acts. • Kanye West has left Nike after a dispute (they refused to let him take royalties on his products) for a lucrative deal with rival Adidas which he says will make him “bigger than Walmart”. • Green Day announced they’ll go on a long hiatus after their Oz tour. Phil Collins wants to reform Genesis and take them to Australia and South America where the British band never toured. • Kylie Minogue and will. I am will coach on The Voice Australia in 2014 alongside Ricky Martin and Joel Madden. Seal’s gone, Delta Goodrem moves to the new The Voice Kids which is open to wannabes aged 8 to 14. • The E! Online blubbered apologies to Steps singer Ian H Watkins for using his photo in a report about the sexual deviancy of Lostprophets’ Ian Watkins. • From now until X’mas Day, promoter Chugg Entertainment is each day giving away a pack of goodies including signed posters, concert tickets, limited edition merch and money-can’t-buy prizes. Go to their Facebook page to get the daily question. • While triple j will this week reveal its new breakfast co-host for 2014, Tom Ballard’s final show with Alex Dyson is broadcast live from The Metro on Friday December 13. • See what happens when you’re rich and famous? Ozzy Osbourne went to an Italian restaurant – and then demanded to be served curry. He sent a waiter to a nearby Indian takeaway to get it … A pilot who crashed at Nashville airport and died, listed Taylor Swift as next of kin and left his money to her. The singer had no idea who he was … But it’s not all fun and games. One time pop singer Aaron Carter, younger brudder of Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter declared himself bankrupt with debts of $2.2 million, a tax bill of $1.3 million and just $8,000 in the bank. • Kid Mac’s reality doco style series The Crew returns on the GO! Channel this week. He’s just back from a North American visit where he toured with Mickey Avalon, played the LA Playboy Mansion and during a session with Black Eyed Peas producer Printz Board wrote a song together. • UK police are cracking down on “hugger muggers”, clubland’s latest trend. Crims mostly from Eastern Europe hug clubbers E-style, while relieving them of their mobiles, and wallets. An average 20 mobiles are nicked a week. • One of the highlights of Mullum Music Festival was festival patron Mama Kin’s set featuring musicians from the Cape Byron Rudolph Steiner School.
BDO CHOOSES FOUR FOR HEADSPACE STAGE Four bands from the state have won a place on the new headspace stage at Big Day Out in Melbourne on January 24. They are Arcane Saints (Glenroy), Let’s Not Pretend (Bundoora), Altitude (Geelong) and Audemia (Clifton Springs). Nearly 500 acts entered, there were 25,000 votes. Headspace focuses on 12-25 year olds going through a hard time. See headspace. org. Full report at Industrial Strength Online at beat. com.au.
FINAL FIVE FOR ‘FIRST BREAK’ Five finalists for “First Break”, the search for Aussie music talent run by the commercial radio industry and Mushroom Group, were whittled down from 128 entries. The five are 19-year-old Melbourne pop singer/songwriter Alexandra Jae, Sydney pop band Castlecome, four-piece Mandurah indie rock band
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LIFELINES Dating: Aussie-born US-based rapper Iggy Azalea posted a photo of herself in bed with new boyfriend, LA Lakers player Nick Young. She was formerly with A$AP Rocky for two years until rumours of infidelity circulated. Hospitalised: three of Willie Nelson’s band after a bus crash in Texas. Ill: US singer/songwriter John Prine, 67, was diagnosed with an operable form of lung cancer. He says doctors caught it early. Hospitalised: King’s X frontman Doug Pinnick rushed to hospital after a show for further surgery to the hernia operation he had in July. Married (sort of ): Maroon 5 manager Jordan Feldstein tied the knot with Clint Eastwood’s 20-year-old daughter Francesca before an Elvis impersonator after a boozy night. But within days, they wanted an annulment. In Court: Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, and two women, pleaded guilty to 13 sexual offences including two of attempting to rape a baby. The cop in charge said, “This investigation has uncovered the most shocking and harrowing child abuse evidence I’ve ever seen.” A former girlfriend claims he was a prolific paedophile for years. Died: US country singer Wayne Mills, 44, was shot dead in a Nashville bar after reportedly arguing with the owner over his smoking in a no-smoke area. The owner claims self-defence.
Indigo, Newcastle brother/sister duo Nova And The Experience, and Brisbane trio The Royales. Full details at commercialradio.com.au
NEW COMPANY ALPHABETICS LAUNCHES Stu McCullough of Brisbane-based management company Amplifire (Last Dinosaurs, Jungle Giants) and Lucy Collier and Ben Collier of events services company Treats Collective have formed Alphabetics. It covers management (new signing is Melbourne’s Muscles) and widen Treats Collective’s corporate clients list. Alphabetics is set up as a one-stop including venue booking (Brisbane’s Arena club, and Treats Collective club nights) as well as design, media and marketing. See alphabetics.com.au
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REEL BIG FISH By Krissi Weiss
In the late ’80s and early ’90s there was something in the water along the California coastline, just south of L.A. Bands like Reel Big Fish came crashing onto the scene with rage-filled lyrics, punk-inspired rhythms and contagious horn sections, and from this stew of sounds, ska punk reached the mainstream. While the Huntington and Long Beach crews owe a massive debt to the likes of Fishbone and The Specials, everyone else can trace their success to Reel Big Fish, Sublime and company. Somehow Reel Big Fish are still kicking it with the best of them – albeit after many lineup changes and a dizzying turnover of horn players. But the heart and soul of the band, frontman Aaron Barrett, has always managed to find kick-arse players willing to follow him to the ends of musical sanity and ever-deeper into rhythms that will blow the mind. Drummer Ryland Steen is excited to be doing Vans Warped Tour as it makes its triumphant return to Australia. No stranger to gigging on this scale, Steen has been manning the skins for over a decade and notes that the audience on Warped is comfortingly familiar. “It’s all the same, in a way – though after all these years, the only thing that changes is the fashion,” Steen says. “Kids are angry and confused and excited for life, and that hasn’t changed at all since we were kids. They’re kinda pissed off at life too, so I guess we’re just there to tell them that everything’s OK, at least for an afternoon.” A Reel Big Fish gig can easily have an audience of two generations sharing the pit and dancing in communal
joy. Despite this, Steen reckons the biggest change he’s noticed over the past ten or so years has been the growing connectedness between youth cultures. “There’s no more division between people who live in the big city and people who live in the country; it’s almost like everyone is a part of this one giant culture whether you live in Australia or America or Europe,” he says. “I think there seems to be this unification within youth culture in particular that makes playing shows around the world very interesting. There is something exciting about the connectedness between culture that’s so different to how things were a decade or so ago. It’s like everyone knows what’s going on and it’s an even playing field. “That natural progression that people take as they grow up, that is the one constant, though – that has never changed. You see a crowd of kids when everything seems possible to them, and as a band that’s been around for 20 years we’ve seen that a lot.” Steen says the era of instant communication means there is an increased expectation on the band to speed up their
output, but there are no immediate plans for new material. “It seems like we’re always trying to cook up new project ideas, but right now we’re still so focused on touring. Even if it’s just haviang a jam and not consciously working on new things, there’s always stuff being created in a way. Most of it all reverts back to Aaron, who’s the musical mastermind of Reel Big Fish. Once the stew has been brewing enough and is ready for consumption, then he lets us in on what he’s wanting to do. I’m just as anxious to find out what’s next. It’s good; it keeps you on your toes, being in this band.” “I think the natural progression of a band when you first start is just to create music, to get it out there and to start building a fan base, and I think what happens is that if you’re
lucky enough to tick all those boxes like we were, you can get comfortable. “Some bands end up taking their situation for granted, and I think what then ends up happening is that you reach this point where feel like you need to prove yourself to your fans again. I think we reached that point a little while ago, where we wanted to show our fans that we’re just as excited as we ever were, and that we want to bring that fun and chaotic live show to our fans.
think it was just that we had no idea how to write music,” McCall says. “It’s really only been recently that we’ve gone through that change. Literally the last album, or even in writing newer stuff, we’ve finally realised that certain instruments have to fulfill certain roles at certain times. You can’t just be this free-flowing, creative spirit all the time or you just have everyone smashing noise at once. The biggest learning curve for us has been to learn when to restrain yourself, and it’s only been recently that we’ve really learned that.” After ten years, does Parkway Drive have a future? “We
hope so. We still love making music and we’re talking about writing a new album really soon. Having said that, you never know when we’re all gonna just crack the shits with each other and bail – but it seems to be going really well for now.”
people as possible happy.” That latest album, Perils of the Deep Blue, has been out since June. As a band in the usually quite maligned subgenre of metal, especially amongst ‘true’ metalheads, Veland is quite used to seeing negative reviews of his, and other female fronted gothic metal albums. This time however, he has been pleasantly surprised by the general reaction the new album has received, and this helped make them feel like all the hard work they put into its creation was worthwhile. “As far as I’ve seen, all the reviews I’ve read on the internet have been mainly very positive,” he says, “I’m always prepared for getting mixed reviews, like most bands I would guess, but something I’ve really noticed this time is that
almost everything I’ve come across is very positive. So that’s a really cool thing to see. “We put so many hours and so much hard work into it, and after having the album complete, and looking at the final product, I really felt great. I thought we did a really great job, and we were able to take it to the next level. I think we grew a lot as a band on this album.”
REEL BIG FISH play the Vans Warped Tour alongside The Offspring, Parkway Drive, We Came As Romans and more at Birrarung Marr on Saturday December 7.
PARKWAY DRIVE By Krissi Weiss
Those rambunctious lads collectively known as Parkway Drive are celebrating ten years together – they grow up fast don’t they? To celebrate they’re throwing the obligatory anniversary tour and a DVD has appeared as well, but more importantly it’s a time of reflection; a time when frontman Winston McCall is finding himself filled with the wisdom of hindsight and the nostalgia of time. First things first, though, the band actually has to relearn a whole heap of songs they haven’t played in a very long time. “It’s actually going really well,” McCall says. “We have plans for the shows but we need to jam and learn songs again initially. We’re playing a pretty strong retrospective tour so we’re literally learning songs we haven’t played in eight years – that’s what is the most interesting part. There are only about three songs that we’ve ever written that never made it to a live set. There are gonna be songs that people haven’t heard just because they weren’t around when we were playing them, but other than that there’s nothing completely un-done before.” McCall is honest about the growth the band has undergone in their time together – and never has that been as obvious to him as it is now. “Generally bands get big off a few songs and then they put out albums and nothing lives up to those first songs,” he says. “For us the old songs created a lot of passion but the band has grown and grown and the newer
the song the better it is. It’s really good for us to go back and do this but at the same time we don’t know if people actually wanna hear this music or if there’ll be an awkward hour of songs with people tuning out.” So has there been a slight cringe at some of Parkway’s older catalogue? “There’s more than a slight cringe,” he laughs. “Some of the stuff I’m so stoked on and I really enjoy, and then there are other songs where we’re like, ‘What the fuck were we on when we wrote this piece of shit?’ There’s a few songs that we’ve played and after three minutes it’s like, ‘What, another riff ? Nothing’s repeated and there’s been 30 riffs in this song.’ We literally wrote songs starting with a riff and then the next part was another riff and another riff and once a riff was done we never went back to it. We listen to it now and it’s the most boring thing on the planet. The songs that are fantastic are a hell of a lot shorter.” The reason for the obtuse playing was less about arrogance and more about ignorance. “It wasn’t really an ego thing – I
PARKWAY DRIVE play Vans Warped Tour alongside The Offspring, Reel Big Fish, The Amity Affliction and more at Birrarung Marr on Saturday December 7.
SIRENIA By Rod Whitfield
This long running Norwegian metal act are about to bring their epic, symphonic heavy sounds to our shores for the very first time in a 12 year, six album career. But it’s not the great distances that they will have to travel to get here from the frozen Scandinavian North that is causing them the greatest trepidation, although that is hard enough to handle. It is something else altogether, according to lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Morten Veland, speaking from sub zero temperatures at the start of the frigid northern winter in Norway. “It’s something that we’ve wanted for a very long time,” he begins, “but it’s been difficult to make it happen in the past. It’s on the complete opposite side of the planet, it’s as far as we can possibly travel. It’s a long journey, and it’s a very expensive journey, that’s one of the reasons it hasn’t happened in the past. “It’s snowing here now, and it’s a few degrees below zero,” he laughs. “It will be good to leave this winter and feel some heat in our bones. As soon as it gets above about 25 degrees, I’m starting to get out of my comfort zone!” And despite the warmer temperatures he is likely to experience here, and the relative brevity of their trip, Veland still has very high expectations of our country. “I’ve seen a lot of Australia on television,” he says. “I know that it’s an absolutely beautiful country. Quite unique and different from the rest of the world. Something I have great expectations for. I know that while we’re down there our time schedule will be pretty tight, but I hope that we have a little
bit of free time on our hands to be able to see some of the country when we are finally down there.” The band have waited a very long time to get here, and have only two shows in which to leave an impression on Aussie fans, in Melbourne and Sydney, so Veland tells us that they will be going all out to make those two shows memorable ones. This includes playing an extended set and covering as much ground as they can from their extensive back catalogue. “We will definitely give everything we have, give everything in our power to make these two shows great ones for our Australian fans. We have a long set, so we will play a long show. We will play songs from all of our six albums. It will be a great event, and we aim to make all our fans happy, whether they like the old stuff, or prefer the new stuff, we will play it all. “Of course we will have more of a focus on the new album, but it’s always been important for us to play material from all our albums, and try to make as many
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FOZZY By Shane Pinnegar
Fozzy lead singer Chris Jericho may be a dedicated family man and father of three, but he has no qualms about sharing a backstage area with notorious advocates of the “groupies & blow” lifestyle, Steel Panther. “Well I’ve been on the road since 1990, so I’m no stranger to all that stuff,” he admits candidly. “And I think at certain times I’m probably the worst of all of them when it comes to certain things – especially when it comes to the straight vodka. The groupies and blow are all fine and dandy but the straight Grey Goose... that’s where my expertise lays!” Shenanigans aside, Jericho is amped to be heading back to Australia for the second time this year, having played Soundwave Festival in February and March. “Absolutely... we like Australia and we think Australia likes us, which was really apparent at Soundwave this year when the crowds that we had for our set early in the day really blew me away. I mean, thousands of people... to get that sort of a crowd at 2.30 in the afternoon, it’s like, ‘You know what? I think we’re doing something right here!’” As assertive as ever, Jericho quickly debunks the theory that it might have been surprising to have been asked
to come back so soon. “Well I dunno if it was a surprise, I think it was more warranted,” he counters. “It shows that the people who organise Soundwave were paying attention. Like, we were like a destination band at Soundwave – people grabbed their programs at the beginning of the day, looked at the set times, said, ‘We’re gonna go see Fozzy at this time.’ Like I said, the response we got was off the charts. So for me it’s kind of a no brainer to bring us back again because we obviously did our part at Soundwave.” This time round Fozzy’s old school heavy metal grooves are standing shoulder to shoulder with the sleaze-dripping party rock anthems of headliners Steel Panther and Buckcherry. “In some ways it makes perfect sense,” Jericho says of the lineup, “cause I think all three bands are very entertaining live bands and all very exciting live bands, and all very much have the same kind of motto – which
is; have a great time! “We’re making sure that people have a blast at these shows, and it’s good time metal. That’s one of the reasons Fozzy has been so successful over the past few years, because we’re very versatile. We could open for Slayer, Shinedown, Steel Panther and get great reactions with all of those fans. “So it’s kinda cool for me, because as I said, it’s a perfect match for that reason. Sometimes fun is almost a dirty word in rock’n’roll and this is gonna be a fun show. I think everybody knows that. And when you do shows
like this it really works ‘cause you’re getting new fans for all the bands. So I think it’s actually a really good mix.” All that’s left is to ask is – how much fun will be had? “One HELLUVA party, man!”
crowd responses equally as intense and visceral as their own performances everywhere they go. “We try and have as much fun as possible when we play and that tends to rub off on the crowd. We played some pretty manic ones in Spain where you really just can’t believe what you’re seeing, people were going crazy.” For their part, though, Metz want you to connect with their music however you see fit; be it limbs flying or a more observational approach. “We’re cool with whatever. Sometimes people respond physically and that’s awesome; we love that, because it’s a direct and
immediate correlation when people are moving and dancing. Some people see it more academically and like to hang back and chill. Either works for us. Live music for me is all about having some kind of back and forth with the audience, hopefully giving something to them they can be excited about. It’s all about how people react in an honest way.”
Drink’s got “nothing from our [first] tape, which we’re quite embarrassed by,” Stainsby sheepishly chuckles. “We chose a couple from our mini-album Any Way You Can and our EP Bodgy Tatts to show where we were at and what we were doing,” Stainsby reveals. “We chose a lot of tracks from the Rum Rebellion period, as we had a sound we were happy with.” Back in ‘91, the music scene was a totally unrecognisable beast compared to today. Different suburbs had their own niche. For example, Richmond was the metalhead’s haunt. The clubs and pubs this generation’s grown to love didn’t yet exist. If a handful of moaners get their way, these venues could sadly return from whence they came. But is today any different than when Mutiny grew up? “It is pretty bad now that this keeps happening,”
Stainsby says on threats to live venues. “We were lucky that we saw an expansion of opportunity, with venues growing in the mid-‘90s, in suburbs like Fitzroy. It became a cultural hub. It is pretty annoying when someone moves in and complains when the venue has been around for a long time. Even so, compared to then, there’s still a lot more going on now.”
FOZZY play Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday December 8 alongside Steel Panther and Buckcherry, then hit The Espy on Friday December 13.
METZ By Blake Gallagher
Since their 2010 inception, birthed from a shared love of hardcore acts on labels like Dischord, noisy Ontario trio Metz have garnered a reputation for intense live performances. “Unfortunately, you can’t really chill out and look cool when you’re playing this kind of music,” laughs guitarist/vocalist Alex Edkins down the phone line. Edkins is currently in the studio with his bandmates recording for a follow-up to their brilliant, self-titled 2012 debut. Brimming with punk and noise rock ferocity while lathered in eccentric pop sensibilities and post-punk undertones, the album was met with widespread acclaim following its release late last year. Influences ranged from the punk acts they grew up on to more left-field acts like This Heat and The Birthday Party, striking a balance between exuberance and experimentation that makes the Metz sound incredibly difficult to pigeonhole. “I think we all had a pretty distinct idea of what we wanted to get down on tape,” Edkins says. “We love noise and ugly stuff but we also love pop music, so we tried to mix the two in a way that felt natural to all three of us. We’re pretty happy with how it turned out in the end.” Organic songwriting and delivery have been at the band’s cornerstone since the start, reveals Edkins. “I
think it’s just that we play honest music,” he replies when I ask about creating the sort of wild atmosphere that Metz shows frequently foster. “We try to beat the hell out of our instruments. I think these songs, if you play them any other way they don’t sound right, so it becomes almost necessary – we want it to come across the way it’s supposed to sound. It’s full on.” Australian crowds will get their first taste of the live Metz experience come December, with the trio playing a pair of headline club shows in Sydney and Melbourne respectively before capping off the brief run with a slot at the inaugural edition of new Perth festival Slanted and Enchanted. Joining them will be the likes of TV Colours, Batpiss and Deep Heat, supports hand-picked by the headliners themselves. The group has been touring off the back of the first LP for roughly ten months now, playing basements, clubs and festivals everywhere from their native Toronto to all over the US and Europe, and sparking
METZ play Howler on Thursday December 5 alongside Batpiss and Deep Heat. Metz is out now on Sub Pop/Inertia.
MUTINY By Tom Valcanis Mutiny are like living pieces of Melbourne’s underground history. They pioneered a unique folk-punk sound, decades ahead of acts like Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello, or The Go-Set. Now they’re looking back on a 22-year career. Mutiny definitely were very punk before getting very folk. “We were sort of a punk scene offshoot,” begins guitarist and founding member Greg Stainsby. “We were at the tail end of the ‘80s thrash scene. We hung out with some political ‘80s thrash bands. But we took to acoustic guitars and medieval themes. We were the folk band on the thrash bill,” Stainsby laughs. “We found ourselves in Fitzroy in about ‘92. A whole new music scene was taking off at that time. It was there where bands did what they wanted. We went from the thrash/punk thing and went in our own direction.” Within two years, Stainsby with his “folk punk for punk folk” octet ventured to Eastern Europe. Through exploring this newly-freed continent, arcane Balkan melodies began to trickle through a very Aussie Mutiny. “What people liked about us was how Australian we were,” Stainsby recollects. “Why emulate overseas bands? Why not embrace our own sound? We did get more deliberately Australian, but we were also influenced by Eastern European gypsy sounds as well. We got two things: an Australian theme and an Eastern European vibe.” Today, Eastern Europe is a playground for the wealthy BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 42
and famous. Contrasted to ‘94, die-hards built their musical cities on a punk-style DIY philosophy. “There were these bars that were run by squatters,” Stainsby recalls. “People had taken over the empty buildings, especially in places like Berlin. They were just running these great venues and living in these buildings. There was a whole circuit of these throughout Europe where you could play. It was quite amazing. We went to Croatia in ‘97, after their civil war. We went to the Czech Republic, Slovenia. When we were going off the beaten track a bit, people really appreciated us making the effort.” On paper, their release schedule looks scarce: three long-players and three EPs. Mutiny’s tunes soaked the walls of pubs and beer halls instead. Their 22nd anniversary record, Drink to Better Days, commemorates a career lived confidently on the road. Naturally, some of their musical “babies” didn’t fit between those flat polymer walls. “[Tracks] were chosen from over five releases,” Stainsby explains. “We tried to get the best tracks of each one. It was hard, but some songs stuck out because they sounded better.” Stainsby and the band carefully plucked tracks wholly representing their double decade career, though
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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com It’s tempting not to dignify all last week’s Black Flag nonsense with any kind of coverage or response, but the discussion on bands ceremoniously destroying the considerable reputations they once had in a bid for fast cash or fame deserves to be had. So many friends of mine (far bigger Black Flag fans than I saw them play earlier in the year at Groezrock and got a little bored of it all, truth be told) were painfully apprehensive, bordering on completely dismissive of “Black Flag’s dubious ‘reformation” and return to Australia with Hits & Pits. It seems they weren’t the only ones, as almost all reports I received from Hits & Pits suggested crowds thinned considerably each night prior to the band’s set. Rumours of behind the scenes unrest arose so thick and fast that it hardly required verifying when punters attending the band’s final performance in Perth suggested the band seemed to totally implode onstage mid-set. Ron Reyes, it had seemed, was promptly kicked out of the band halfway through their performance. “With two songs left in the set Mike V comes on stage, stares me down, takes my mic and says, ‘You’re done, party’s over get off it’s over’,” Reyes recalled publically. “So with a sense of great relief that it was finally over I left the stage and walked to the hotel room. They finished the set with Mike V on vocals. There is much more that can and perhaps should be said. But for now I will spare you the gory details”. Perhaps they should have spared us the inevitable gore of attempting to replicate/revive one of the most important punk rock bands in history? Perhaps these fiery, ego-driven rampages of insufferable ineptitude could have never been aired in public in the first instance and Black Flag could have remained relevant and firmly in retrospect? So funny how only after pissing on a musical legacy, does the concept of being graceful and dignified even arise. New York’s Backtrack have announced a very tidy little Australia tour this January. They’ll release their second album Lost In Life through Bridge 9 midway through the month and then promptly smash out half a dozen Aussie shows with Iron Mind and Perth’s The Others. See them play at The Reverence Hotel on Thursday January 30 or head to Wrangler Studios on Friday January 31. The organisers of the annual Australia Day punk rock celebrations have set up an events page and warned punters to clear their Aus Day weekends in 2014 to
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CORE GIG GUIDE THURSDAY DECEMBER 5: Ceres, Initials, Have/Hold, Collapse at The Reverence FRIDAY DECEMBER 6: Kataklysm, Gotsu Tsou Kotsu at Northcote Social Club Outright, Urns, Caged Grave, Regrets, Yachtburner, Feverteeth, Midwife at The Reverence Scar The Surface at Newmarket Hotel Bombshells, Teen Kong, The Transitions at Brunswick Hotel Cave, Love Of Diagrams, Cocks Arquette at The Kelvin Club Muse, Birds Of Tokyo at Rod Laver Arena The Sinking Teeth, Damn Terran, Ceres at Ding Dong Lounge SATURDAY DECEMBER 7: Vans Warped Tour at Birrarung Mar Mutiny, Fear Like Us, James Brook at Northcote Social Club Muse, Birds Of Tokyo at Rod Laver Arena SUNDAY DECEMBER 8: Steel Panther, Buck Cherry, Fozzy at Myer Music Bowl Kylesa, King Of The North, Sun Gold Replica, Child at Corner Hotel Kelpe, Cave, Dan Dare, Woody McDonald at Boney Luke Thomas, Nathan Seeckts, Dimitri Hondroudakis at The Reverence make way for some great bands and fundraising activities. Saturday January 25 and Sunday January 26 will be spread out over two days at Footscray’s Reverence Hotel. Keep an eye on their website for further announcements. Not content to just support Steel Panther and Buckcherry on their upcoming Australian tour dates, Fozzy have decided they’ll chuck a headlining show of their own while they’re in the country. See them kick of some quality jams at The Espy on Friday December 13. Meanwhile, while we’re on rock’n’roll power anthems, tickets to the upcoming Bon Jovi gig at Etihad Stadium are (at time of print) selling for a ludicrous $35 online. Wouldn’t be the WORST Sunday night out now, would it?
MINISTRY DVD GIVEAWAY
There’s been a great response to the giveaway of Fix: The Ministry Movie so far! Entries close on Saturday December 7 and the winners will be announced in this column on Wednesday December 11. I’ve got three copies of the DVD/CD set to give away. To win, answer this question: which Black Sabbath song did Jourgensen’s 1000 Homo DJs side project perform on the 1994 Black Sabbath tribute album Nativity In Black? Email crunchcolumn@gmail.com with your answer for your chance to win.
METAL GENESIS CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY.
PBS 106.7 FM’s Metal Genesis is celebrating five glorious years on air with a birthday bash to rival all others. The lineup includes Mason, Demonhead, Seppuku, Party Vibez, Atomic Death Squad and NSW guests Disintergrator, all at The Reverence on Saturday December 7. If you’re a PBS member, don’t forget to flash your card at the door for a special member’s price of $10. Doors from 6pm til late.
GIG ALERT: KATAKLYSM
After more than two decades as one of the spearheads of the extreme metal scene and Canada’s leading export concerning all things blasting and brutal, Montrealbased masters Kataklysm are far from slowing down. With their overwhelmingly positive reputation of being truly fan-friendly, keen, relentless, blastbeatish and so forth, they are entitled as the Northern Kings of Hyperblast, deservedly. And they’ll be at Northcote Social Club on Friday December 6 with Japan’s Gotsu Totsu Kotsu! Tickets are available now from metropolistouring.com, and a VIP package is also available which includes a ticket, VIP entry, exclusive meet and greet, official laminate, limited edition A3 thick card stock tour poster and three items signed by the band for $159.
METAL AT THE BENDIGO
Show your support for the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood and have yourself a great night out this Saturday December 7 with a solid-ass lineup featuring Clagg, Adrift For Days, Broozer and Horsehunter.
MY GUITAR TALE
If you’ve seen my personal blog I Heart Guitar (iheartguitarblog.com) you’d know I’m a huge guitar nerd. I’m currently running a promotion with the fine folks from James Squire as part of their ‘Rogue Tales’ campaign where various dudes with various passions talk about why they do what they do. So I’ve told my little story on my site, and am running a giveaway for a $100 BWS voucher for one commenter (must be over 18). Check it out here: http://bit.ly/Iyi9Am
HEAVY MAGAZINE 2ND BIRTHDAY BASH
Heavy Magazine has announced the full lineup for their second birthday shows taking place at The HiFi on January 18! Headlined by Greek extreme metal gods Rotting Christ, the lineup features extreme sonic terrorists The Amenta playing their final ever shows, Melbourne’s blackened horde Terra Australis, and Sydney’s progressive Doom masters Rise Of Avernus. Blackened death metal warriors Denouncement Pyre will conquer Melbourne, while the Sydney bash on January 17 will feature Bane Of Isildur instead.
SLEEP PARADE ALBUM LAUNCH
Hitting the ground running after their wildly successful tours supporting Dead Letter Circus and The Butterfly Effect nationally, local heroes Sleep Parade are very pleased to announce their official album launch at the Corner Hotel on Saturday December 14, previewing tracks from their superb sophomore album Inside/Out for the very first time. The band then play album launch dates up the east coast. Also on the bill are awesome Melbourne progressive rock act Glass Empire, who will also be launching their brand new, debut EP Cognitive Dissonance. Plus the ever catchy Holliava bring their own astounding sounds to the lineup. Rounding out the night is the powerful High Side Driver. It goes down Saturday December 14, tickets from the Corner Hotel.
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THE WELLINGTONS
The Wellingtons return to Whole Lotta Love for a 3 week residency to deliver everything that’s fun, smart and sweet about indie guitar pop – sunshine hooks, big choruses and girl-boy harmonies. For those who lap up tight, riffy guitars and retro-style saccharine harmonies. Support comes from Pop Hooks To Tear Your Shirt Off. 8pm, free entry.
BOB EVANS
Bob Evans returns to the Northcote Social Club this December for three unique ‘Good Evans It’s Xmas’ shows. Each Wednesday in December, Bob Evans, the charming alter-ego and solo project of Australian recording artist Kevin Mitchell will be joined onstage by special guest performers, guest comedians and supports from outstanding local talent in Ella Hooper (Wednesday December 4), Ali Barter (Wednesday December 11) and Hayden Calnin (Wednesday December 18). Join Kev and friends over three special nights for a festive Christmas celebration of music, meat trays and comedy.
PAL ACE OF THE KING
BEN SALTER
Acclaimed singer/songwriter Ben Salter (The Gin Club, Giants Of Science, The Wilson Pickers) returns with his brand new single Tremulous. It’s the follow up to the atmospheric lead single Semi-Pro Gamer which was released earlier this year, lifted from the European Vacation EP, out now. Ben Salter will be playing Wednesday nights in December at The Spotted Mallard from 8:30pm. This week Ben is supported by Justin Cusack (Monty Sparrow & Black Pony Express). Free entry.
STEVIE & THE SLEEPERS
Sleeping Sound on rockin’ ground: Stevie & The Sleepers takeover Wednesday nights Mo’Soul in December at Ding Dong Lounge. Part soul, part wandering roots, front woman Stevie Grumont leads a distinct assembly of artistic collaborators. The Sleepers play rock and soul and there’s a strain of blues heartbreak behind the riffs, with the storytelling genius of a good ‘70s folk tune. They are joined by Alone with Tiger, serving up a tasty feast of soul and groove, guaranteed to make you boogie. Legendary Northern Soul Kind, DJ Vince Peach plays the music he loves and wants the world to know about, from the cool sound of James Brown to the Temptations and everything in between. Be at Ding Dong Wednesday December 4, doors at 8pm. Best part of all – free entry.
LECHEROUS GAZE
Lecherous Gaze from Oakland, CA bring their blistering, scuzzy, rock n roll to The Bendigo on Wednesday December 4. If you took your record collection and your dad’s record collection, combined them, weeded out the shitty ones you he bought to impress some chick, then played all the sweet ones at the same time on some epic ass stereo, it might sound half as badass and balls deep as the Lecherous Gaze. Combined with the punk ferocity of local punks Kromosom, Zond and Gentlemen, there is probably no cooler show on anywhere. 8pm.
CHERRY’S BEST BANDS OF 2013
It’s hard to believe that 2013 is coming to a close, and in celebration of what has been an amazing year, the beloved Cherry Bar are putting on a Best Bands of 2013 party with some of their favourites every Wednesday throughout December. Kicking off the celebrations is Palace of the King, opening for James Young-managed act Drunk Mums. Kicks off at 8pm with Cherry DJs till 3am.
Rock lives! Many doomsayers are writing rock’s obituary. But if you’re under the impression that rock is dead, just wait till you hear Palace Of The King’s second EP – Palace Of The King II: Moon & Mountain. Nominated as one of ‘the very best live bands of 2013’ at the inaugural Cherry Awards, this December will see Palace Of The King performing Wednesday night’s at the Cherry Bar Residency, celebrating their new single Black Heart. Catch them this Wednesday December 4. 8pm, free entry.
BRESSA VOE
After a year of writing, honing and rehearsing Melbourne four-piece Bressa Voe have spent the last weeks playing their first show and are unfeasibly excited about playing their first residency. The first three Wednesdays in December see the Tote bandroom transformed into a vortex that simultaneously exists in Laurel Canyon in 1976, Manchester in 1986 and a house party in Reykjavik in 1996. While looking and behaving like a Melbourne indie band, Bressa Voe are actually channeling other spaces and times and causing unpredictable disruptions to a reality so fragile that only a venue as strong as the Tote can withstand the outcomes. Only an incredibly boring person with an uncommonly stolid faith in tomorrow being the same as today could miss such events. 8pm.
SAL AD DAYS
Salad Days, a born and bred Melbourne based rock outfit, are coming straight from the garages to you with their massive concussion of rock and roll. Salad Days are sweet enough for the girls to swoon over and hard enough for the boys to love. Come get a taste. Bringing up the rear in the support slot are Auranix, an alternative rock band based in Melbourne blending the sounds of stadium rock, brit-pop, funk and pop. With key influences including Radiohead, Oasis, Death Cab for Cutie, Muse and Mutemath, this is a new Australian band with their sights aimed at the big league. Catch both of these at Richmond’s Great Britain Hotel this Thursday December 5 from 8pm. Free entry.
EMPAT LIMA
Empat Lima, with their silky Japanese pop, psychedelic Thai, and Indonesian Dangdut inspired music have scored a residency at the Tote on Thursdays in December. In conjunction with the dream team ‘The Pink Tiles’ they have organised 4 nights of sounds to party to. The loveable bands are; Them Nights, Wonderboy, Chookrace, Bill Posters and the Prosecutors, Gorsha, The Night Party and more. The nights are likely to be a fun mix of colourful, upbeat, loud, gentle, tight, loose, steamy, sleazy, inspiring, adventurous and satisfying sounds and visions all in the homely setting of the famous Tote band room. Every Thursday in December 8pm.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 5
THE DEAD HEIR
PHEASANT PLUCKERS
Original country bluegrass that’s been growing in Melbourne for over 20 years and when Matt Campbell and Keith Ludekins sing it’s a feel good sound that’s rich, real and full of love and grit. Take this and back it with an amazing acoustic band and you get that Pheasant Plucker sound that keeps punters throughout Melbourne coming back for more. Dan Kerr is an amazing talent. His acoustic lead guitar is simply riveting. Peter Somerville and his banjo - now there is a love affair! Great banjo that’s nothing short of intense. Upright bass is Rod Boothroyd. He lives for his music and his experience on the world stage is evident in every show. The band’s latest album, Cookin’ Oil is what the Pheasant Pluckers are today: a great acoustic sound that’s fast, mellow and everywhere in between. Playing The Retreat this Thursday December 5.
METZ
Mistletone is amped to announce Toronto power trio METZ are making their maiden tour to Australia. Metz play like one brutally heavy instrument with three heads, slashing heavy-gauge strings, bending guitar and bass necks in weird unison, along with what is probably the loudest drumming you’ve ever heard. It’s a return to everything that’s good about loud, ecstatic live music; a frantic nod to Nation of Ulysses, Shellac, The Pixies, The Jesus Lizard, and Public Image Ltd. at their most vicious, while still carving out some heavy new business. METZ’s debut album, produced by Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck) and released last year on Sub Pop via Inertia, articulated the unrelenting live force of the band with deafening clarity. It’s a hell of an experience, listening to METZ; stand back, and watch jaws drop within the first four measures of their set. This is posthardcore sludge-punk, distilled into pure, but artfully rendered chaos by one of the most brutalising bands in the world today. They play at Howler on Thursday December 5 with support from Baptiss and Deep Heat. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 44
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Following the release of their debut self-titled EP, The Dead Heir are having a preview show of sorts at the Evelyn for their forthcoming residency in February. Playing old and new material they will be showcasing their vibrant garage sound as well as sharing the stage with good friends and awesome local talent Breve, Lioness Eye and Oli Dead Band. Come down to The Evelyn on Thursday December 5 to witness the rhythmic madness!
KAL ACOMA
Experimental five piece trip-rock band Kalacoma have just announced a string of summer East Coast shows to coincide with the launch of their single Waves with a spectacular accompanying film clip. Hailing from the depths of the Melbourne underground and writing music which draws on their love of vintage to avantgarde, they’ve quickly gained momentum and captured the imagination of the alternative music scene, along with praise from Hiatus Kayote. They play Ding Dong Lounge on Thursday December 5. Tickets $8+bf via Oztix. Doors at 8pm.
SOUL IN THE BASEMENT
The Cherry Bar’s infamous stage is about to be tested to capacity limits as 27 piece girl soul gang from the Motor City of Geetroit, The Sweethearts perform on Thursday’s Cherry Soul in the Basement. Having toured the globe and recently performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival, The Sweethearts bring the good times this week from 8pm. Entry is $10 and DJs Vince Peach and Pierre Baroni spin classics till 5am.
THE PEEKS
The Peeks bring their blissful indie fuzz to the Espy front bar Thursday December 5 with locals The Elliotts, The Ugly Kings (playing Espy NYE) and The Zanes solo performance by JP Klipspringer. After a packed launch earlier in the year, the Peeks have made a name for themselves on the gigging circuit and return to the southside to perform songs off their recent EP. Expect a night of indie pop tunes, glittering guitars and south side jams. Free entry.
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UNITY FLOORS
MICHAEL BADGER
The Telstra Road to Discovery finalists who scooped the prize to tour with Bon Jovi at their forthcoming Because We Can Australian Tour will be performing at the Vic Hotel. The two singer songwriters, Hobart’s Jesse Teinaki and Melbourne’s Angie McMahon will be performing their original pop, soul and folk material across two sets. Michael Badger, lead singer from The Demon Parade will also play an acoustic set to close the night. Bands from 10pm, right after Anna’s Go-Go Academy. Free entry.
ZOE RYAN & THE DANDY LION
Zoë Ryan & the Dandy Lion play catchy songs that wander into the realms of the alternative and somehow seem to combine multiple genres, as if pop, indie, roots, folk and even country were thrown in a blender, with the end result tasting fresh and intriguing. The band formed over the course of 2013, after Zoë successfully crowdfunded the debut EP Our Patchwork Hearts (planned for release in early 2014), and the debut single off the record, Your Ghost will be their first release, out Thursday December 5 and consecutively launched with the music video airing live to YouTube at the event. It all happens at The John Curtin on Thursday December 5, $8 presale + bf or $10 on the door.
FOOD COURT
Food Court, Sydney’s finest purveyors of sunny, punk fuzz return with their debut EP Smile At Your Shoes. Written and recorded after a five-month break drinking and eating irresponsibly around the world, Smile At Your Shoes is six glorious tracks of 90s grunge with a couple of dirty layers washed away by 60s scuzzy surf-pop. With debut single Not Enough, played on triple j and FBI, the new single and title track Smile At Your Shoes is a slice of fun destined for car stereos all summer long. The EP was recorded to tape in Melbourne by Mark Doman and mixed and mastered by Mikey Young. And following off being made featured artists on triple j Unearthed last week, Foodies are following up with a launch show in Melbourne and are a guaranteed good time. Doors 9pm, $5.
THE DEANS
The Deans (formerly The Grenadines) are a critically acclaimed original band who were nominated for “Band of the Year” in the prestigious Deadly Awards in 2007. The Deans are the sound of modern, original Soul who bring classic sounds and grooves into the gritty modern metropolis of Melbourne’s Rock City. The Deans self–titled album introduces a post-Hendrix modern soul sound. With velvet smooth vocals, sweet harmonies, soaring heartbreak guitar, deep Motown bass grooves and hip-shaking rhythms, The Deans combine soul with cool rock influences to create urban songs about a future Australia. Thursday December 5 at Yah Yahs. Doors at 7pm, free entry.
SKYWAYS ARE HIGHWAYS
VOLTAIRE TWINS
Perth’s Voltaire Twins are Melbourne residents now, and to celebrate they’re throwing a party at the Grace Darling basement with I Know the Chief, D.D.Dumbo, and Geoffrey O’Connor in DJ form. Voltaire Twins crossed the Great Australian bite to finish their debut album, due out in 2014. The last couple of years has been a whirlwind of touring, travelling to the USA for SXSW, as well as a national tour with San Cisco, and supports for Mystery Jets, Maximo Park, Van She, Midnight Juggernauts, Dappled Cities, Cub Sport and Art vs Science. Their latest EP, Apollo, featured the single Solaris, the music video for which raised eyebrows when it was yanked down from YouTube within six hours for its nudity and adult content. Catch em this Thursday December 5 at the Grace Darling. Doors at 8.30pm, $9.
Having spent the last six months roaming in the USA touring, writing and just having a rad time, Skyways are Highways return to Melbourne for a few shows before returning home to Byron Bay for Christmas. They play this Thursday December 5 at Public Bar with The Mighty Boys, Max Goes To Hollywood and The Vacant Smiles. Entry is $6 for an all round good time.
THE PURPLE DENTISTS
The music of The Purple Dentists is based on the Irish tradition but also incorporates elements of Zydeco, country swing, free improvisation and contemporary compositions. A mixture of old and new, displaying the classic diversity of genre that made the bands name, this is a show that is simply too good to be missed. The Purple Dentists return to The Spotted Mallard for another star-studded night this Thursday December 5, this time joined by The Mae Trio, three of the Australian folk scene’s most talented young songwriters, singers and performers. Doors from 6:30pm, $12 on the door.
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Define your genre in five words or less: Alternative rock. When’s the gig and with who? Friday December 6 at Dane Certificate’s Magic Shop in Brunswick with Chook Race and Wet Blankets. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? We have previously put-out a 7’’ titled Womens Golf and our first LP has just come out, it’s called Exotic Goldfish Blues – you can pick it up at record stores or over the internet through the Popfrenzy shop. How long have you been gigging and writing? We started playing music together sometime around the end of 2010. Why should everyone come and see your band? Dane, who runs the magic shop we’re playing at, is apparently going to do some magic tricks between bands. Tell us about the last song you wrote? It’s about falling in love with a convicted criminal and then visiting them on day release from gaol. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Waiting around for the bus. What makes you happiest about what you’re doing? Doing it.
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FRIDAY DECEMBER 6
LITTLE BIRD
CHING ROCK (NYC), SIZZLE, D'FRO & MOONSHINE
This December, Perth-based acoustic duo Little Bird will embark on their much anticipated second tour of the east coast to promote their debut single My Lonely Mind. The group has been together now for over two years and have performed interstate as well as regionally, playing local festivals and events. The duo isn’t like most acoustic acts as Little Bird employ the use of a Boss loop station to build and layer songs with percussion and harmony. They will be performing at Yah Yah’s on Friday December 6 with guests Madison Louisa and Wesley Fuller. Little Bird is an interesting act pulling out punches you wouldn’t expect to see or hear so this summer so be sure to catch them live on their east coast tour. Doors are at 7pm and yes, it's free, as a bird.
MATT KATSIS
A relentless work/show-ethic has seen Matt Katsis take on the Australian market with the ease and quality that parallels his music. Often backed by The India Black, together they ooze the musicality of both traditional and contemporary; a roots/progressive/rock/reggae crossover. With an 80-show-plus-rate in 2012 and 100plus for 2013 as both a soloist, and the vocalist/guitarist in his three-piece, a testament to MK&TIB’s growth was the 2012 EP release, Recoil – the band's maturity and instrumental development apparent in every track, chorus and line. Catch Matt Katsis & The India Black at the Elsternwick Hotel this Friday December 6 for their first show of the summer. 8pm. Free entry.
CITRUS JAM
Citrus Jam joined by his Epic Sea Monster Orchestra - Burning Beard the Low Shredder on acoustic guitar and Scorpius Pinchius on the violin - presents Tropical Acoustic Metal with Ultimate Pirate Shred! There'll be some freshly reworked tracks alongside the usual acoustic chaos with some cheesey surprise tricks and treats too. Whole Lotta Love, 8pm, free entry.
ABBE MAY
2013 has been a watershed for Perth’s Abbe May. Her album Kiss My Apocalypse was released to critical acclaim, she signed with prestigious publisher Alberts, went viral with her cover of Ginuwine’s Pony from triple j’s Like a Version and has rounded the year off with a nomination for Best Female at the upcoming ARIA Awards. To celebrate, she’s hitting the road again and has dropped a fourth single from her album, pairing fan-favourite Perth Girls with brand new track Total Control in a double A-side. The latter is a new take on the Motels’ Aussie 80s classic and been given what May calls a “Robot Reggae” treatment. The song was the inspiration for her departure from her earlier hard rock leanings to a more melodic solo delivery of her music, so it’s a fitting bookend to the Kiss My Apocalypse project. Catch her playing Howler this Friday December 6 with a DJ Set from Bertie Blackman. Tickets via Oztix.
MENTAL AS ANY THING
D’FRO & THADDEUS DOE
Still as brilliant as ever, award winning Mental As Anything are going strong with sell-out performances. Their entertaining and timeless music will have you enjoying songs such as the classics The Nips Are Getting Bigger, Too Many Times, Mr Natural and Live it Up, to name a few. More than three decades later, their music is still highly listenable and recognisable with their identifiable brand of garage pop. With Martin Plaza’s unmistakeable voice, Greedy Smith’s keyboard prowess and anecdotal quips, joined by brilliant musicians, Zolton Budai, Mike Caen and Jacob Cook, this is a memorable event not be missed. Mental As Anything perform Friday December 6 at the Flying Saucer Club. Tickets $38+bf, GA: $28+bf, or $30 on the door. Starts at 6:30pm.
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Revolver Upstairs in collaboration with GraffixCreative present Seasons of Change, a showcase of local and international artists at Revolver’s internal and external art spaces, featuring a semi permanent mural on an outside wall and a one night only exhibition. Seasons of Change Summer brings to you three of Melbourne’s most prolific and pioneering graffiti artists: Stopem, Duke and Marine, accompanied by DJ Who’s dinner set and Colonel Tan’s tasty Thai treats. Free entry, 6-9pm.
BROTHERS HAND MIRROR
Fresh from their glittery hip hop live-to-air at 3RRR’s performance space and hot on the heels of the release of their latest EP Picture Tape, Brothers Hand Mirror will support Le1f (above) at both his Melbourne and Sydney shows. They play Roxanne with DJ Mess Kid (USA) Fletch, Melodee Maker and Larnach Jones Bros in support of Grouse Party’s 6th Birthday with superstar Le1f . Tickets $25 + bf via Moshtix.
ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE
To celebrate 45 years since the release of The Rolling Stones album Beggars Banquet, Cherry Bar is putting on a one-off band featuring Carl Treasure, Simon Aarons, Ben Curnow, Ryan Brown, Harmonica Rob and Bruce Haymes with guest vocalists Talei Wolfgramm, Pat Carmody and Dave Bowers. With opening acoustic set of other Stones’ classics from Taylor & Brown. Tickets $20 from cherrybar.com.au and on the door from 8pm. With DJ Max Crawdady. $10 after 11pm, open till 5am.
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THE WOOHOO REVUE & MUSTERED COURAGE
When the gypsies meet the hillbillies for a casual Xmas dinner and jam...all shit is guaranteed to be get crazy and hit the proverbial fan. Friday December 6 at The Thornbury Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Velvet Room sparks the momentous occasion of Gypsygrass Xmas: a slightly premature celebration of Xmas combining Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier bluegrass and gypsy bands The Woohoo Revue and Mustered Courage. For your own safety, the rednecks and bareknuckle boxing will be kept to a minimum while the room will be dressed in a badass Xmas theme. $10 Xmas cocktails and delectable treats will be available for you and all your little elves to feast upon. There will be a secret Santa giveaway and other assorted Xmas madness, including the possibility of a celebrity appearance by the big man in red and white man himself - St Nick. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the super finale featuring both bands on stage for a hillbilly gypsy jam. More info and tix via thornburytheatre.com.
THE LITTLE STEVIES
While showcasing their new 5-piece live line-up earlier this year at the Port Fairy Folk Festival, The Little Stevies reminded audiences of why the Melbourne outfit have such a strong reputation as a must-see live act. Their charming songs, unpredictable on-stage banter, unique style and overall uplifting aura continue to win hearts throughout the Australian music community. The band will be launching their new album Diamonds For Your Tea; a deeply personal album inspired by new life and death, at The Caravan Music Club this Friday December 6. Doors at 8pm, with reserved seating $25+bf, general admission $18+bf or $20 at the door.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 7
THE PHONCURVES
Brisbane two-piece The Phoncurves are getting quite the name for themselves. After supporting some of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest acts in Josh Pyke, Thelma Plum, Patrick James, ASTA, Paper Kites and more, the band are proud to announce the release of their brand new single Heartstrings. Heartstrings is the first single from the girls' second EP, which will be released early 2014. Taking influences from indie pop, electro and soul, The Phoncurves are certainly starting to scratch out a niche and with this new single and EP, will continue to grow; not just locally but across the country. Playing with Melbourne jazz-countryexperimental-folk-rock ensemble The Drooling Mouths. 10pm, free entry.
THE INFANTS
After turning one year old, The Infants bring their low rumble to The Old Bar to launch their debut EP. Joining them on the night is OHMS from 9pm, Divide and Dissolve and Simon Cotter aka Document Swell. Special guest Johnny El Pajaro. Doors 8.30pm, free entry.
THE SINKING TEETH
From the leaky roofed Brunswick pawn shop they used to rehearse in, The Sinking Teeth are set to have a change in scenery and will launch White Water  at Ding Dong Lounge on Friday December 6. Current single Temporary Living has gained justified acclaim along with their live show which Dom Alessio from triple j describes as â&#x20AC;&#x153;loud and hard with a hearty dose of melody thrown in for good measureâ&#x20AC;?. Melbournites would be crazy not to pen this one into their diaries. Tickets from Oztix.
CATHERINE TRAICOS
Known for her incredible voice and fragile yet powerful live performances, Catherine Traicos has completed four headlining tours of Australia, stunned audiences at the Opera House Concert Hall as part of the Sydney Festival, appeared at the Americana Festival in Nashville and Live at Heart Festival in Sweden plus supported international acts including Beth Orton, Dirty Projectors, The Unthanks, Simone Felice and The Mountain Goats. She now gets set to play an intimate show at the Spottard Mallard this Friday December 6 with supports Void and Single twin. Doors 9pm, free entry.
THE WORKINGHORSE IRONS
The Workinghorse Irons have been carving themselves out quite a niche in the Australian rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll scene with their unique brand of psychobilly rock n roll. With thumping double bass and catchy hooks these boys drive it home with an energetic live show and leave your ear drums moist from eargasms. This December theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking a break from writing and recording their new EP to play a show or two. This Saturday they hit The Espy Basement Bar with support from friends The Tarrantinos and The Beggars Way. This aims to be a great night of rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll mixed with some garage and punk. Bands from 9pm. Free entry.
CELINE YAP
Filipino folk singer/songwriter Celine Yap has organised a concert to raise funds in support of recovery efforts in the Phillippines, following Typhoon Kaiyan at the Thornbury Theatre on Saturday December 7. This not-for-profit event is registered with the Red Cross and all proceeds will be donated to the Australian Red Cross Typhoon Haiyan Appeal. Tickets are available online for $10 + bf via OzTix. Acts playing are King George, Ben Smith Band, Kooyeh, Charlotte Nicdao, Packwood, Noir, Les Thomas, Little Foot from 2pm10.30pm.
THE DAMES
HONEY BADGERS
Honey Badgers are releasing their debut EP on 10 inches of legit laithe cut sexy vinyl and through the zeros and ones of the cyberspace for your ears and everyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ears only. Recorded with their mate Alistair Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien and mixed by Brendan West, this opening gamete of tracks are Honey Badgers at their most raucous and ratshit. From thrashy guitar-pop to full blown riff-rawk, and even some Wicked Witch of the West vibes, the self-titled EP features cameos from Rick Parnaby (Money For Rope) and Tyson Slithers (Euphoriacs). Shitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rad. To celebrate, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having a party at the Grace Darling on Saturday December 7. Joining them for the show will be the bedroom doom-gaze psych-slop dole-wave bong-haze of The Galaxy Folk; the perfect soundtrack to a weekend at Yellowstone National Park and therefore aptly-titled Grand Prismatic; and the brand new psychedelic schnitzel of Claude. Gather round and get with the merriment. All this for only $10. Doors at 9pm.
ADRIFT FOR DAYS
Sydney psychedelic rock and post-metal doom blend Adrift for Days head down to Melbourne for their vinyl release of their sophomore album Come Midnight. Rereleased by Norwegian label Doognad, their album is an ambitious sonic journey that draws on the traditions of Earth, Neurosis, Boris, Pink Floyd and Rosetta. Recorded at 301 studios with Tim Carr (Matt Corby, Julia Stone, The Herd, Urthboy) it is now available for pre-order via doognad.com. They play The Bendigo Hotel on Saturday December 7 with Clagg, Broozer and Horsehunter.
INFINATE VOID
This Saturday December 7 head down to the Public Bar as Infinate Void, Narrow Lands, Masses and Shaking Hell put on a Saturday night not to be missed. Tickets to this epic night are $10 on the door. Narrow Lands are also launch their 12â&#x20AC;? vinyl Popular Music That Will Live Forever.
The Dames are Clare Moore on drums, songs and vocals and Kaye Louise Patterson on keys, songs and vocals. Their debut self titled album was recently released to critical acclaim, a unique brand of sci fi and west coast sounds. The record was mixed by award winning icon of UK post punk and 90s film funk music Barry Adamson, a result of a long standing friendship between Adamson and Moore that stretches back to her days in The Moodists and his in Magazine and the Bad Seeds. Catch The Dames play two glorious sets on Saturday December 7 at Richmondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Great Britain Hotel. Kicks off at 9ish, free entry.
HORSEHUNTER
Horsehunter will be opening this night at The Bendigo with some intense fuzzed out proggy, doomy, stonery sludge metal. Broozer, who recently released the album 12.04.12, will then follow with their unique tech sludge sound. Adrift for Days (NSW) will be launching their outstanding LP Come Midnight, playing a set of epic drone doom progginess. Also along for the ride is Clagg who recently released Gather Your Beasts which has received international attention. An outstanding night of Aussie stoner doom rock. Head down this Saturday December 7.
STEWART Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ARRIETTA
Well-known for his role as the musical director and co-creator with John Waters of Looking Through A Glass Onion, Stewart Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Arrietta is taking audiences on a vaudevillian journey through the songs and meanderings of the great Tom Waits this December at The Flying Saucer Club on Saturday December 7. Tickets via Trybooking.
PRIMITIVE CALCUL ATORS
Synth-punk pioneers Primitive Calculators are releasing their first studio album in their 35 year history. Prim Calcs are the coolest bunch of 50-something nihilist punks youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ever meet. Lead singer Stuart Grant is a lecturer in performance at Deakin University, so heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredibly smart and incredibly entertaining. Head down to The Toff on Saturday December 7 to get in on the action.
THE SINKING TEETH
Ten bands everyone should know about: Maids, The Mercy Beat, A Gazillion Angry Mexicans, Sheriff, Steve Cohen and The Motherfuckers, Gay Paris, Ceres, Luca Brasi, Born Lion, Captives. Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party: Bleeding little boys (cocktail franks), Mini Rat Coffins (party pies), anything with a toothpick in it, cob dip, KY Jelly, kebab meat rice paper rolls, two-minute noodles with kebab meat, carbonara with an orange juice, kebab meat (solo). Eight possessions that define you: Frankenjaguar, Ludwig van Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original drumkit, grabber bass, six hands, a head full of dad jokes, a share house full of friends, two rabbits, an oyster containing the world. Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape: Ferris Buellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Off, Game Of Thrones, Empire Records, Encino Man, Black Snake Moan, Lords Of Dogtown, The Notebook. Six bad habits you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t escape: Drinking beer, road rage, Don Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Don Tojo, putting the line â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knowâ&#x20AC;? in songs, spending all our money on this fucking band, complaining about spending all our money on this fucking band when really we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be doing anything else. Five people who inspire you: Henry Rollins, Uncle Jeff, Tim Rogers, Annie Leibovitz, Mum. Four things that turn you on: Susan Sarandon, toothless girls, girls who like guitars, Dutch rudders. Three goals for your music: Honesty, hooks, energy. Two live gigs youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never forget and why: 1. Nathan Kearney playing in a basement behind Safeway in Bairnsdale. It was the first time he played solo. It was real raw, real rad and real sweaty. 2. Frenzal Rhomb at The Gov in Adelaide. A dude climbed on stage and stole Gordyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drumsticks out of his hands mid song. Gordy parted the kit like Moses and spear tackled the dude into the crowd. Loose. One day left before the apocalypse and youâ&#x20AC;Ś Make slow, deep, sensual love to Susan Sarandon. See you on the other side baby. Whenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the gig? We are launching our EP White Water on Friday December 6 at Ding Dong Lounge.
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RIPE PRESENTS: BLOOM IV
Bloom is all about good people partying together to some of the best musical talent Australia has to offer. The night is designed for music lovers who want to party to amazing music with good vibes and a fantastic crowd. Bloom IV is a showcase of some of our favourite musical talent from Melbourne. This is, in our humble opinion, one of the best local line-ups we have seen to date, at a measley $12 – the price of a kebab with the works. Head on to The Evelyn to catch Rat&Co., Fascinator, Scotdrakula, D.D.DUmbo and Friendships this Saturday night.
PBS METAL GENESIS
DANE CERTIFICATE
Dane Certificate will be performing magic and music at his very own Magic Theatre at 859a Sydney rd, Brunswick this Saturday night at 9pm. The event will be a night of magic, music, oddities and surprises. Featuring Beware Black Holes (cover band), Dane Certificate’s very own ‘Chilli Popcorn’ and Ghosts n’ Ghouls Arcade machine. These events will be every Friday and Saturday night - a family show at 7pm and a late night variety show from 9pm.
DAN WATERS
Ready to launch his new 7” single for his Heat of December track from his critically acclaimed debut album La Vita E’ Bella, The Age Music Victoria Award winning performer Dan Waters hits the Thornbury Theatre on Saturday December 7. Recorded at Crystal Radio and produced by Mark Dawson of The Wagons, La Vita E’ Bella is the album that almost never happened. A home break-in at the beginning of the year, in which the original master recordings for all but one song were stolen, forced him to begin the entire recording process again from scratch! Show your love at his vinyl launch this December with support by Idle Hoes. Tickets $15.
Showcasing the best of our city’s metal crew, Mason, Demonhead, Seppuku, Party Vibez and Atomic Death Squad, plus special guests all the way from NSW, Disintegrator, will be blasting your eardrums for one night at the Reverence on Saturday December 7. If taut tuneage, big riffs, glam and old school sounds are your thing, then Metal Genesis is just the ticket. $15 entry. If you’re a PBS member, don’t forget to flash your card at the door for a special member’s price of $10.
OHMS
They found each other online and in February 2013 formed a band combining old pop and rock with lofi garage punk. They’ve been compared to the Kinks, the Pixies, X (USA, not Aus) and Blondie. In August they self-recorded their debut album in nine hours at Pat’s auntie’s lake-house and launched it in a hot n sweaty Collingwood basement in October. It’s available on line and on CD at all good Ohms gigs. See Ohms every Saturday in the front bar at The Tote with Bad Vision, World Cup, Tom Lyngcoln and Space Junk. Starts 4pm every Saturday in December and it’s free.
PUGSLY BUZZARD
Steeped in the sounds of that great city of New Orleans, Pugsley Buzzard’s unique brand of piano driven boogie has been causing feet to develop their own consciousness across both this country, and the world. Known to make ladies sigh, and grown men cry, Pugsley boogifies dance floors leaving a slew of dropjawed, sweated up punters in his wake. It would have to be evil if it weren’t so damn good. Catch Pugsley Buzzard and his dangerous boogie at the Drunken Poet from 9pm this Saturday December 7.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 8
RECORD PARADISE BLOCK PART Y
In conjunction with Better Block Brunswick community day Record Paradise Block Party is hosting a day of live music featruring Modesty,Carl from Money For Rope playing solo, Alie E (Damn Terran) and other surprise live guests, DJs, 7 inch lucky dip, giveaways, thousands of records to dig and the Paradise Bar. Its all happening midday-7pm Sunday December 8 at Record Paradise in Brunswick.
AL ANNA & ALICIA
Folky/jazz twins Alanna and Alicia’s last gig for the year in Melbourne is at the Clifton Hill Brew Pub on Sunday December 8 from 4 - 7 pm. Known for their sweet harmonies and fine songwriting, they’ll be playing with their amazing band, Damien Neil on guitar and Silas Palmer on violin and piano. The pub has been renovated and reopened and music on Sundays is a new initiative. Free entry. Come and have a look and a listen!
MUTINY
Raise a toast as Mutiny launch Drink to Better Days, a retrospective album containing twenty two tracks celebrating the band’s 22 years. In the 90s the band played prolifically, honing their unique style in the exciting Fitzroy scene of the day and taking the show on to Europe and the USA. The modern Mutiny players will be joined by a return of the lasses from the Bodgy Tatts line up as they crank out the folk punk at the Northcote Social Club on Saturday December 7. Joining the party are Fear Like Us and James Brook. Tickets available now from the venue website and at the door if still available.
SHIRAZZ
Shirazz plays classic trad jazz as it is meant to be played. With hot solos, driving rhythms and tight arrangements, a set from Shirazz is a step back in time, to a jumping New Orleans dance hall where fast, hot tunes intersect with swinging standards and laid-back Louisiana street beats. With the odd original tune and some re-imagined pop classics, Shirazz should be enjoyed irresponsibly, and in excess. Shirazz perform two sets at The Spotted Mallard Sunday December 8 from 4:30pm. Free entry.
SOUL-A-GO-GO
Soul-A-Go-Go is back baby! Head on down to The Workers Club on Saturday December 7 for all the very best in 45 soul stompers and funk-shakers spread over two rooms. Legendary PBS DJs will be there to kick it off; DJs Vince Peach (Soul Time), Richie 1250 (Stone Love), Miss Goldie (Boss Action),Chelsea Wilson ( Jazz Got Soul), plus very special guests Andrew Young are back on board for this month’s delivery of Melbourne’s premier soul and funk night. Get there early as it fills up pretty darn quick. $10 entry for members and $15 entry for non-members. The action kicks off at 8pm.
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PHEASANT PLUCKERS
SHAKY STILLS
Zombie anyone? Join Shaky for a Xmas drink and show at Some Velvet Morning in Clifton Hill this Saturday December 7 from 8pm with a very special guest Stephanie Zarka on violin (in town playing The Ring Cycle). There’ll also be a DJ playing some sweet tunes in between sets. See you there, cheers Shaky Still. Free entry.
GENA ROSE BRUCE
Feeling down, lonely, in need of a pick-me-up good time? Go and see the Pheasant Pluckers! This has been the cry of many a respected therapist for well over ten years now, the reason why? When the Pluckers get together and play, their enthusiasm and sheer enjoyment of music is infectious, toes start tapping, lips start smiling and all is good again in the world. Don’t fight the feeling, get involved this Sunday from 4pm at the Drunken Poet.
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Define your genre in five words or less: Alt country indie pop. Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? I get all different people but the common ones are Katy Steel, Lana Del Rey and Mazzy Star. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? Wild One Babe my new five track debut EP. 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? “Wow when this girl speaks she sounds like a child but when she sings she sounds like a full-grown woman! Or how old is she? She looks like a 16-year-old!” When, and why did you start writing music? When I was six I wanted to enter the school talent quest but I thought to enter you had to write your own song. So off I went and wrote a song about swinging your arms. Turns out you didn’t have to write your own song and that everybody else knew this and sang a cover. But hey, at least I started to be a songwriter. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? I have a set of singing warm ups on my iPhone. I have a green tea and then some lollies. I never eat a full meal before I sing which is bad because halfway through the gig I get really hungry. If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be? Lanie Lane. I think she is incredible and would be a fun person to be around. When’s the gig and with who? Sunday December 8 at The Evelyn at 8.30pm. Support from the Weeping Willows and John Lingard.
GEMMA TULLY AND THE THORNBIRDS
Gemma Tully and the Thornbirds release their debut selftitled EP at one of their favourite local venues, The Wesley Anne. This very special performance features a sparkling line up of up and coming improvising musicians: Chelsea Allen (drums), Daniel Beinke (upright/electric bass), Gemma Tully (vocals), Maximilian West (electric guitar). Coined “folk-jazz-poetry”, GT & The Thornbirds play melodies that take flight over a luscious landscape of earthy double bass, searing electric guitar and rumbling percussion. Gemma’s songs are high blue skies and open spaces, where words sit hand-in-hand with music. An organic approach to songwriting is teamed with adventurous improvisation. Starts at 7pm, $10.
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TIM HAMPSHIRE AND L ACHL AN HICKS
STRAW KING EYE
Often floating around parties, paddocks and pubs, Straw King Eye have spent the last couple of years turning up at more or less accommodating venues to deliver music that is somewhat guttural, yet intoxicatingly romantic. Nailing down their debut album The Girls of Paradise in late 2012, they have recently retreated to East Brunswick - home of Marcus Hobbs from East Brunswick All Girls Choir - to relive that experience of hearing their own voices. And tucking a couple of soon-to-be hit singles up their sleeve, they’re on the move, escaping their own visions. With their recently fashioned repertoire of new material, they plan to expose themselves to Monday-night-Evelyn-goers throughout the finalist of months: December.
With both artists putting out new releases throughout November, Solo acoustic bloke Tim Hampshire and Maricopa Wells frontman Lachlan Hicks are heading out across the bottom half of Australia in November/ December for a pretty sweet run of shows to celebrate and help promote their new wares. This Sunday arvo at The Bendigo starting at 3pm, join them along with fellow solo blokes from awesome bands Josh Mann (Paper Arms), Josh Newman (Foxtrot), Jim Duggan, Maricopa Wells and Brad Vincent.
THE SPHERES
The Spheres soundtrack the light thrown from projectors for a final time in 2013 with their distinctive brand of cadence noise & melody, wrapping up what’s been a busy year for the AV collective. Joining them will be Ollie Olsen (with projections by James Wright) whose important creative and cultural legacy spans three decades back to Melbourne’s early post punk era and includes in this time collaborations with the likes of Roland S Howard, John Murphy and Michael Hutchence. Opening proceeding will be experimental three piece Where Were You At Lunch who’s erratic compositions of corroded noise and repetition are not to be missed at the beginning of what promises to be a very special eve of sonic experimentation. This Sunday December 8, doors 8pm, tickets $10.
THE GOOD SHIP
DOWNHILLS HOME
The long awaited return of Melbourne’s much loved Downhills Home is upon us. The show they played at The Yarra a few months ago was their first in a couple of years and and was so much fun they’ve decided to take some time out again from their various other commitments to a whole raft of local acts such as Eagle And The Worm, Western Union, The Bluebottles, Jemma and Her Wise Young Ambitious Men, Nick Barker, James McCann’s Other Band etc, and play another Downhills Home show. Don’t miss them, this Sunday at the Yarra Hotel Abbotsford, on stage at 5pm. There will be a BBQ in the beer garden from 3pm and the kitchen is open all day.
THE CLITS
Coopers Presents Sunday School with the pop/punk/ low-fi The Clits. Singer Lucas Heenan possesses an uninhibited fragility, projecting a sense of charm much akin to a youthful Robert Forster. The trio play alongside Full Ugly and Chook Race at the Public Bar. Entry is only $6 and doors from 3pm.
TRIBUTE TO LOU REED
The Empress Hotel will be holding a very special musical tribute to Lou Reed on Sunday December 8. Different Colours Made of Tears: A Tribute to Lou Reed will feature a truly superb line-up of 18 local and international acts, performing many of Reed’s greatest compositions, from Waiting For the Man and Venus in Furs, to Perfect Day, Metal Machine Music, and Dirty Blvd. Performers include the Stu Thomas Paradox, the Moth Body (Sam Sejavka), Van and Callan Walker, Tim Crossey, Matt Gleeson, the Exit Keys, Ron Rude, James Masson and many more. It kicks off at 3pm and will run till 11pm; admission is $10/$7 concession.
Beloved Brisbane band The Good Ship return in all their eight-piece glory armed with a new album and launch tour for their latest release The Seven Seas, hitting The Toff In Town this December. Kicking off 2013 with their debut tour of the US and Canada, and signing with a US booker, catch them at The Toff on Sunday December 8 at 2.30pm with special guests, before their plans for significant touring in 2014.
TUESDAY DECEMBER 10
KYLESA
Founded in 2001 and hailing from Savannah, Georgia, the same state that brought us the likes of Mastodon, Baroness, Black Tusk and Royal Thunder, the roots of Kylesa run long and deep in the great Southern Steel of North America. Originally classified as a crust sludge metal band, the current state and future sounds of Kylesa have gone far beyond the previous sounds of their earlier releases. Now incorporating elements of psychedelic rock, progressive metal and experimentation, Kylesa have pushed forward with every new release, whilst still staying true to their original vision of creativing all encompassing heavy and progressive music. Fronted by the guitarists and vocalists Laura Pleasants and Phillip Cope, who founded the band, along with long term drummer Carl McGinley, the current line up of Kylesa is by far their strongest, and the band is incredibly happy to be finally bringing this line up to Australia for their first ever headline tour. They play at Howler on Tuesday December 10. Tickets $35 + bf.
SOUTHERN LIGHTNING
Be sure to head down to Cherry Bar on Sunday December 8 as Cherry Arvo Blues delivers two sets from 3pm by Southern Lightning. Doors at 2pm, and entry is $5. DJ Max Crawdaddy spins till 6.30pm, free chilli.
GENA ROSE BRUCE
Gena Rose Bruce is a new singer-songwriter on the local alt-country scene. Gena won the 2013 Telstra Road to Discovery. Her songs of life, love and loving to live have been heard this year from stages in Nashville, Tamworth and many towns in between. Come watch the unveiling of Wild One Babe the debut EP for Gena Rose Bruce. Gena will be supported and helped by a bunch of musical mates she has gathered along the way including The Weeping Willows and John Lingard. She plays The Evelyn on Sunday December 7.
MONDAY DECEMBER 9
DEAR MONDAY
In this great music town, there is an endless flow of new talent arriving on the scene. On Mondays, The Retreat Hotel presents four acts that represent some of the most exciting new and emerging talent we’ve seen. This is no open mic, it’s a love letter to the heart of musicality that is Melbourne, and this love letter begins with Dear Monday. Performing this week is Laurence, Fiig, Sarlin and Gus Rigby.
WAN TE D
PETE REID
Singer-writer and actor-director Pete Reid comes to Dane Certificate’s for the first of three Tuesdays in December to share his Songs From The Edge Of The World. A collection of new songs and interpretations that’s a tribute to those wayward souls among us who live on the edge. Best known for music with his band The Tar Gang, as well as various stage and screen undertakings, Pete takes his audience on an intimate journey to the edge that is at times funny, dark, weird, melancholic, beautiful and even frightening. He plays the first three Tuesdays at new venue Dane Certificate Magic Shop and Theatre on Sydney Rd, Brunswick.
WE TWO KINGS
Head on down to The Old Bar this Tuesday December 10 as We Two Kings launch their art Opening from 8pm. Map Ends, Gold Gull and Adam Roche feature on the night. Free entry – rad times.
CHARLES JENKINS AND MATT Y VEHL
Charles Jenkins and Matty Vehl bring their magnificent collective talents back to the front bar of the Retreat Hotel for another series of spectacular Tuesday night concerts throughout December. You’d be mad to miss this! Free entry, two sets from 7.30pm onwards.
MARLON WILLIAMS
Marlon Williams has been wowing the crowds down at the Yarra Hotel Abbotsford every Tuesday night through November. As his residency was coming to an end, the good people of Abbotsford kicked up about it and he is back for another run of Tuesday nights through December. Having relocated from NZ to Melbourne, he has been steadily building a crowd of Marlon believers around town. Blending the mystical lyricism of writers like Townes Van Zandt and Gene Clark with an inborn flair for melody and harmony, at just 22, Williams has been nominated for two NZ Music Awards and three APRA music awards, recently winning the 2013 NZ Country Album of the year and APRA Country Song of the Year. He has supported Justin Townes Earle and Band of Horses, and been featured on an internationally released Townes Van Zandt compilation. Catch him while you can, playing Tuesdays in December at the Yarra Hotel Abbotsford. Free entry, kitchen is open.
NEVER CHEER BEFORE YOU KNOW WHO’S WINNING
Trivia. At Revolver. Inconceivable! But we are now entering the fifth year of Never Cheer Before You Know Who’s Winning. People are actually coming to Revs to switch their brains on via facts, beer, wine and Colonel Tan’s meals. Starting the night off at 7.15pm with a visual round prepared by Kashia Kennedy (who started out as a trivia contestant and now mothers one of the host’s children). And then your hosts Mikey Cahill ( Joey Lightbulb) and Kerrie Loveless (K-Lo) kick into six rounds of Topic Thunder, Naked Mooofies, Useless/ Useful Information, The Med Round, Songlines and Song Snippets. There is a lil summat called Peace Sign Vs Metal Sign too. Repeter Fonda keeps on spinning classics from 10.30pm until stumps. Email nevercheer@ revolverupstairs.com.au to book and get a three-point bonus question! Every Tuesday, 7.15pm-9.30pm. Free.
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In this modern world we are so fucking over-stimulated it takes the mind-melting sonic aesthetic of Death Grips to, paradoxically, give one some respite from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;noiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The first single released from the avantgarde-proto-punk-electro three-pieceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new album Government Plates is You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You For Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat, that this week has become an unintended tribute to Miranda Kerr and James Packerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tryst. Fuck them. Actually fuck you and fuck the guy in my office that said this shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be Album Of The Week because â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t well receivedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this album will never be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;well receivedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. For the Sacramento three-piece (Stefan Burnett â&#x20AC;&#x201C; vocals, Zach Hill â&#x20AC;&#x201C; drums, Andy Morin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; samples) this is their third LP. Last year they released two albums in relatively close succession, The Money Store and No Love Deep Web and in 2011 the act began its subversion of contemporary music with the Exmilitary mixtape, a self-titled EP then Black Google an extended manifestation of Exmilitary. The alternative mainstreamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s embrace has resulted in, I feel, Death Grips taking no prisoners on Government Plates. The album swings from bass heavy punk, uptempo dubstep, heavy electro and even phases of late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s dance cheese. The aforementioned first single from the album that features a 23 word title begins with Burnett crying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get some fucking dog in here WAH BLAH WAHHH FUCKIN GRRRR BLAHH WAHHH Fuck it donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start shit*â&#x20AC;? then a mind-slaying bottom end compressed bass synth drops in â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it will leave you out of breath. On the other hand This Is Violence Now (Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Get Me Wrong) is positively fruity with a frenetic drum and bass rhythm, chirping keys and a female vocal sample that is more 1999 than cargo pants. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Overflow pays distinct tribute to any heavy bass genreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debt to Kingston dub and features Burnett proclaiming a surprisingly discernible a cappella of â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am overflow, undertow, shots lick.â&#x20AC;? In context, this song
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Thank You (Universal) As well as getting swole as fuck (dudeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s built like Macho Man Randy Savage), Bus-A-Bus has been sporadically releasing quality tracks in the past year or two, following up the down-tempo patois of #TWERKIT with rapidfire flow over classic soulfunk samples. Bus and Q-Tip go toe-to-toe, the two veterans still at the top of their game. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the feature list fool you, this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite a posse cut. Yeezy and Weezy have blink-and-youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll-miss-it cameos, which is a bit of shame.
BEADY EYE
Soul Love (Sony) Old mate Liam and crew manage to generate an intriguing atmosphere on the unsettlingly sparse Soul Love, but everything comes undone with a string of hamfisted nursery rhyme couplets. Tune out from the near-parody lyricisms and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hear a decent tune, but it leans a little too close to something you would expect from Driveshaft (Lost reference, wassup).
WHAT SO NOT
Jaguar (Sweat It Out) Keen-eyed readers of this column might notice that this is the third goddamn week in a row that Flume has made a showing, which is testament in itself to his ability to strike hard and often while the ironâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot. Harley Streten and Emoh Instead craft a decent, but ultimately forgettable, trappy banger on Jaguar. Stretenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark moves are present, but everything else is a fairly pedestrian splash in the wake of HudMoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Satin Panthers EP.
BENI
Love On The Run (Modular) Sydney producer Beni crafts a damn fine groove on Love On The Run, something similar to Melbourne label-mate Roland Tings. Its danceable traits are immediate, sifting in deft ravey touches with ease. The vocal samples are pretty trite, feeling like a regression to the bloghouse days of yore.
SAMPHA
Too Much (Young Turks/Remote Control) We got a taste of Too Much as a sample on Drakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest LP, now SBTRKT collaborator Sampha has released the full solo track as a barebones piano ballad. Samphaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice is incredible, with the production a world away from both the Drake track and the festival commanding work with SBTRKT. Its beauty is resounding, but it still works better as a hook for a few Drizzy verses.
POND
Midnight Mass (At The Market Street Payphone) (Modular) Pond punch out the big fucken scary riffs with plenty of sonic squeals, summoning demons before bringing things back to Earth in a calming psychedelic wash. A tidy little shot of uninhibited rock majesty.
BRETON
Got Well Soon (Kartel/Shock) Got Well Soon is a weird song, pulling in a range of influences too broad to list here, coming up with something brilliant in the process. It has that endearing Hot Chip charm, swimming in gnarled DFA-style production. The ghost of dance-punk lives on in the rhythm section, transplanting it into something resembling the futuristic.
SINGLE OF THE WEEK SCOTDRAKULA
Break Me Up (Indpendent) Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that tried and true quiet-loud dynamic throughout Break Me Up, with the quiet parts still not exactly quiet and the loud segments still anchored by a sense of restraint till the cacophonous close. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a heady, last-drinks at a dive bar ramble, the air of defeat casting a certain darkness over key moments. The payoff of the eventual, huge Crazy Horse breakdown is well worthwhile.
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NEW MUSIC IN REVIEW THIS WEEK
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KIM WILDE
MIDLAKE
Wilde Winter Songbook (Public Opinion/MGM)
Antiphon (Bella Union) The departure of a lead vocalist always marks an interesting turning point for a group, but it’s rare that the change is a positive one. In the event this happens and the band pushes on with a new vocalist, there is the option of putting the emphasis squarely on the band’s core sound or taking the opportunity to change things up with a fresh new direction. Antiphon is the first release from Midlake since the departure of singer Tim Smith. Guitarist Eric Pulido has stepped forward for lead vocalist duties and is a solid replacement for Smith. The music is a backtracking to the amiable folk-rock of the band’s earlier work and, whilst there’s no Roscoe, it’s an improvement on 2010’s meandering The Courage Of Others. In re-recording a set of compositions from the original sessions with Smith, Midlake Mark 2 have opted to stay true to their sound, so there’s little that surprises or engages on Antiphon. The Old And The Young nudges you along with its singalong dadrock chorus and songs like the title track and Aurora Gone attempt to play with dynamics in their gradual build-ups. But, tellingly, the best song is the arousing instrumental, Vale. With a new lineup now established, the band should give BEST TRACK: Vale themselves some space to evolve and develop in their own IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: Poor Moon right. Pulido’s vocal fits right in with the Midlake sound, POOR MOON, A Momentary Lapse of Reason PINK FLOYD but it’s a sound that’s in danger of becoming stale. IN A WORD: Middling CHRIS GIRDLER
Naturally, I jumped at the chance to review a Christmas album by the woman who brought us Kids In America. Then I discovered the Rick Astley guests on Winter Wonderland and I knew this would be the best Christmas ever. All in all, I’m not sure I was right, or even sober, at the time. As much as I genuinely love Rick Astley, the album is pretty much the most boring thing I’ve heard all year. The arrangements are lacklustre, there’s no punch to any of Wilde’s vocals, and for some reason Wilde or her producers felt the name of the album’s version of Silent Night should be Burn
Gold. Sure. Why not. I may not be the most Christmassy guy around, but I have no issue with Christmas albums. If they’re good. Or terrible. But this is just...bland. Which I guess is fine if you want to put it on to drown out children and make your mum happy after Christmas lunch. Just don’t actually bother to listen to it. I recommend listening to Kids In America on repeat for 39 BEST TRACK: The bits Rick Astley sings minutes instead. IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: The jokes you find in those shitty crackers IN A WORD: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
JOSH FERGEUS
TRENTEMØLLER
Lost (Balance Music/EMI)
CATE LE BON
Mug Museum (Liberation Records) If there’s a pencil museum in Keswick and a fan museum in Greenwich, it’s believable that there would be a mug museum in Wales. And yet this imaginary place is just another strange pocket of the universe created by Welsh musician Cate Le Bon. This protege of Super Furry Animals singer Gruff Rhys once obsessed over dead animals, but her third album comes in the wake of the death of her maternal grandmother. Building on from last year’s CYRK, she continues to up the tempo by a couple more notches and further defines her intoning vocal alongside some intimate, charming compositions. Mug Museum is the first recording from Le Bon since her relocation from Cardiff to Los Angeles, and a crack of Californian sunshine is allowed to seep onto the moody Welsh moors. On endearing opener I Can’t Help You, off-thecuff orders like “beat me like egg yolks” and “split me like timber” are set to upbeat Velvet Underground guitar jangles and looming horns; it’s one of several tracks that reveal that she’s at her best when her deep, doom-laden vocal is contrasted with spritely garage rock. A couple of late-album ballads get lost in the psych-sludge fog, though a melancholic duet with Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas is one of the album’s highlights. Like Hadreas, Le Bon is an oddball outsider in the music BEST TRACK: I Think I Knew industry and her new album is unlikely to change this IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: The Velvet cult status. Mug Museum is a strange beast and all the Underground THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, Tramp better for it. SHARON VAN ETTEN IN A WORD: Understated CHRIS GIRDLER
ARCADE FIRE
Anders Trentemøller is a consummate producer – his music is indicative of a person who conceptualises in arrangements rather than constructing a song like a metaphorical building as most bands and musicians do. The Danish producer’s lush soundscapes first came to the attention of the masses via his 2006 debut The Last Resort that reeked of production genius but, as the album’s single Rykketid indicated, the entry barriers for those outside the serious dance music scene were high. Anders Trentemøller has now released his sophomore record, Lost, a paradoxically titled release considering on this album Trentemøller has in fact found the perfect mix of the organic and inorganic, typified by it featuring guest vocalists on seven of the album’s songs. Opening song The Dream shows off his depth as a composer and producer with its mix of alt-country, post-goth and ambient. The song features collaboration with American slowcore act Low. The first single to be released from Lost, called Never Stop Running, features a widely regarded indie vocalist in The Drums Jonny Pierce. The sonic bed created by Trentemøller for Pierce’s crisp new-romantic tones and dark lyrics is textured bass heavy post-punk arrangement that’s driven by a consuming fuzz. Other guest vocalists include Brooklyn based hyper-trendoids Ghost Society on the hypersynth proto-goth number River Of Life but this is about where the highlights end and the album descends into a very comfortable mediocrity when compared to the highpoint of the aforementioned collaboration with Low. Trentemøller is a hell of producer but as soon as he started BEST TRACK: The Dream collaborating with geniuses he set the bar so high that IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: BBlack Noise when it’s just him or a no-name guest vocalist those efforts PANTHA DU PRINCE, Kleerup NORTHERN LIGHTS, News From Nowhere DARKSTAR pale in comparison resulting in an inconsistent release. IN A WORD: Inconsistent DENVER MAXX
OSH10
Reflektor (Merge/Sonovox)
Like A Lion (Independent) After several weeks of intense hype and speculation, the fourth Arcade Fire album has finally landed. To call Reflektor ambitious is, well, an understatement of epic proportions. Let’s see: as well as being influenced by the heady spirit of Haitian Carnival, the album is produced by LCD Soundsystem main-man James Murphy, features a blink-and-you’llmiss-it cameo from David Bowie, and borrows two of the more well-known characters from Greek mythology to further extrapolate Win Butler’s by now familiar bunch of anxieties. Oh, and it’s a double album. But then again, when haven’t Arcade Fire been a band of ambition and excess? Still, as co-vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Régine Chassange sings on Reflektor track Joan Of Arc, “If you shoot you’d better hit your mark”. There are some great songs on Reflektor. The band’s recent stylistic leap into glitzy stadium-ready disco is best evidenced on the title track. Over the course of seven minutes, Reflektor shimmies and weaves, snake-like, through a dramatic brew of noir disco, all built around a pulsing, relentless beat. Here Comes The Night Time, with its Haitian rhythms and wonky calypso keyboard line, is also catchy as hell. Then there’s the subdued, psychedelic swirl of Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice), which serves as a potent reminder of the magic Arcade Fire are capable of when in full flight. But man, what’s happened to Win Butler as a lyricist? The Funeral and Neon Bible records were filled with swathes of brilliant, insightful, uplifting, shattering lyrics (The Suburbs, with its bland nostalgia, was where things started to take a down-turn). Of late, Butler too often falls back on lazy, clichéd, amateurish polarities (day/night, light/dark). It’s a habit he needs to break. Okay, so Reflektor falls quite a bit short of the band’s BEST TRACK: Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice) towering ambition. Still, it’s certainly no reason to jump IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: TALKING ship on one of the great bands of our time. HEADS, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, DAVID BOWIE IN A WORD: Bloated
WAYNE MARSHALL
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This was no doubt going to be a love or hate relationship: me versus the undefinable, unpredictable and essentially left-of-the-curve Aimee Chapman, or Osh10. What I didn’t expect however was that I would be teetering on the side of love, with the exception of but a few tracks. Bearing in mind the raw production and obvious ‘90s garage electronica influence, Osh10 produces experimental melodies that encompass femininity and walk the line between irritatingly quirky and perfectly unique. Like A Lion opens with This Lonely Room with obvious Portishead – and ‘90s influences – and slowly builds, at times reminding me of the vocal work on Royksopp track Sparks meets much of Bjork’s work, sometimes sounding almost drum and bass-esque and other times sounding completely dreamy. In terms of the ideas driving the production of Like A Lion and Aimee’s vocal work, there are some really huge potentialities here. She’s obviously a risk taker, so I do see her creating a very interesting body of work. The biggest problem with Like A Lion is that the lyrical content is not quite there, as times it can feel awfully obvious and there’s a little too much of it; the single Feline sounds like Meryl Bainbridge wrote an even quirkier borderline rap than usual and was actually my least favourite track, whilst being, well, a bit lame. Having said that, I really look forward to Osh10’s next album given of course that the production is BEST TRACK: This Lonely Room a tad cleaner and tighter and the lyrical content IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: stripped back. PORTISHEAD, BJORK IN A WORD: Dreamy HANNAH MILLAR
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GIG GUIDE
WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK
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WEDNESDAY DEC 4 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
JULIEN WILSON QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $5. SIOBHAN O’ROURKE & HUE BLANES JAZZ PARTY! Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. THE TIM STEVENS TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.
INDIE/ ROCK/ POP/ METAL/ PUNK & COVERS
BEST BANDS OF 2013 - FEAT: DRUNK MUMS + PALACE OF THE KING Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. BJ MORRISZONKLE + THE PINK TILES + THE UKELADIES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. BOB EVANS + ELLA HOOPER Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $22. BRESSA VOE + ALI E + ZONE OUT Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. COLLAGE Espy, St Kilda. 7:30pm. CONTRAST + BREVE + HIDEOUS TOWNS + MINIATURES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. FOREIGN NATIONAL + ATOLLS + MALLEE SONGS Boney, Melbourne. 7:00pm. LACE LAUNCH - FEAT: DARTS + BOBBY BOUCHET + THE FIBS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $8. LECHEROUS GAZE + GENTLEMEN + KROMOSOM + ZOND Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. SECRET GOODTIMES CLUB Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm. STEVIE & THE SLEEPERS + DJ VINCE PEACH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. THE GLORIOUS NORTH + BEN BIRCHALL + THE D ROGERS BAND Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $6. THE KARMENS + HALCYON DRIVE + WOODY PITNEY Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. THE WELLINGTONS Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick . 7:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
BEN SALTER + JUSTIN CUSACK Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. DISRUPTIONS - FEAT: OREN AMBARCHI + MARCO FUSINATO + ROBIN FOX Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $15. JASON SINGH (HUMANNEQUIN LAUNCH) Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25. MARLON WILLIAMS Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. MIKE RUDD Clifton Hill Hotel, Clifton Hill. 7:30pm. MONIQUE BRUMBY + EMMA WALL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. PASSENGER + STU LARSEN Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. ROOTS OF MUSIC - FEAT: BUFFALO TALES + SAM BUCKINGHAM Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $10. SIMPLY ACOUSTIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: JEMMA NICOLE + GENA ROSE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
THURSDAY DEC 5 INDIE/ ROCK/ POP/ METAL/ PUNK & COVERS
ANIMAUX + ALBERT SALT + TULLY ON TULLY Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $11. BEERFRIDGE + AUSTRALIAN KINGSWOOD FACTORY + CRUNTBURGERS + KODIAK THROAT + WOLFPACK Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BIRDS OF TOKYO + GUINEAFOWL The Wool Exchange Entertainment Complex, Geelong. 7:00pm. CERES + COLLAPSE + HAVE/HOLD + INITIALS
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Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $8. ELECTRIC CULTURES VI - FEAT: ABSTRACT MUTATION + A/S/L + DIRE EARS + JOEL STERN + ORANJ PUNJABI Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $5. EMPAT LIMA & PINK TILES + BILL POSTERS & THE PROSECUTERS + GORSHA + THE BEAGLES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. FIFTH FRIEND + DANIKA SMITH + LEWIS MOODY’S CAREER ADVICE + ROSENCRANTS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. GERMEIN SISTERS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. JACK RUNAWAY + PETER DICKYBIRD + THE GROVES Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. KALACOMA + BETWEEN SETS + DEAR PLASTIC + DISKS + DJ BRETT SCHEYAZER Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. METS + BATPISS + DEEP HEAT Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $33. NEXT - FEAT: STORM THE SKY + ACRASIA + DAYDREAMER + LOMAS + OCEAN’S TO ATHENA Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. SKYWAYS ARE HIGHWAYS + MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD + THE MIGHTY BOYS + THE VACANT SMILES The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6. THE DEAD HEIR + BREVE + LIONESS EYE + OLI DEAR BAND Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6. THE DEANS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. THE PEEKS + JP KLIPSPRINGER + THE ELLIOTTS + THE UGLY KINGS Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm. THE SWEETHEARTS + DJ PIERRE BARONI + DJS VINCE PEACH Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. VOLTAIRE TWINS + DD DUMBO + GEOFFREY O’CONNOR + I KNOW THE CHIEF Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $9. WARNING BIRDS + SEAN POLLARD + THE TROTSKIES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. ZOE RYAN & THE DANDY LION + AYLEEN + MURDENA John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
A CONCERT OF TOM WAITS SONGS - FEAT: STEWART D’ARRIETTA + PHIL REX + ROSS HANNAFORD Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $35. CHELSEA WILSON QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. ENTERTAINMENT EXTRAVAGANZA FOR THE PHILIPPINES Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:00pm. LET THE CAT OUT Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. THE MICHAEL TORTONI TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
ALL DAY FRITZ Northcote Town Hall, Northcote. 6:30pm. BACKWOOD CREATURES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. BELLE ROSCOE Bella Union Bar (trades Hall), Carlton South. 7:00pm. BRETT & RUSTY Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick . 7:00pm. DOGSDAY + PHEASANT PLUCKERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. HOLY MACKEREL - FEAT: KERRYN TOLHURST + MITCH CAIRNS + ROSS HANNAFORD + SCOTTY MARTIN + STEVE HOY Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:30pm. IRIS DEMENT + CATHERINE BRITT Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. MICK DALEY & TIM CROSSEY Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. SAGAMORE (EP LAUNCH) + ATOLLS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. SAM BRITTAIN + CHARLIE KELLER + NICK BALCOMBE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. SNOWY BUSKINS + LACHIE ROBERTSON Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
GIG OF THE WEEK!
LEONARD COHEN AT A DAY ON THE GREEN The legendary Leonard Cohen will return to Australia this week. Cohen - along with his incredible nine piece band featuring the likes of Sharon Robinson, the infamous Webb Sisters and musical director Roscoe Beck - are currently embarking on a gigantic national tour that includes stop over’s in both major cities and regional areas. He’ll play at A Day On The Green on Saturday November 23 at Bimbadgen Winery, Hunter Valley. Cohen will also hit Rod Laver Arena on Monday December 9.
SUZANNAH ESPIE & IAN COLLARD Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm. THE PURPLE DENTISTS + THE MAE TRIO Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $12. THE VANGUARDS Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 7:00pm.
FRIDAY DEC 6
INDIE/ ROCK/ POP/ METAL/ PUNK & COVERS
45TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF BEGGARS BANQUET - FEAT: ROLLING STONES SUPER BAND + TAYLOR & BROWN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ABBE MAY + DJ BERTIE BLACKMAN + MATHAS Howler, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $20. ABBEY STONE + JESSIE HOOPER + KEAGAN CLOTHIER Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:30pm. BITCH PREFECT + SUPER WILD HORSES + WOOLLEN KITS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. BLACK COCKATOO WAREHOUSE BENEFIT - FEAT: STRAIGHTJACKET NATION + BITS OF SHIT + DJ DRAW 4 + RATSAK The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $8. BLOOM IV - FEAT: D. D DUMBO + FASCINATO + FRIENDSHIPS + RAT & CO + SCOTDRAKULA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $12. CABBAGES & KINGS + HOWARD + SCRIMSHAW FOUR Alia Arthouse, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. CAVE The Kelvin Club, Melbourne. 7:00pm. CITRUS JAM Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick . 7:00pm. END CANCER - FEAT: OUTRIGHT + CAGED GAVE + FEVERTEETH + MIDWIDE + REGRETS + URNS + YACHTBURNERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. GHOST ORKID + UP UP AWAY Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. GOLDEN SHOWER + GRINDHOUSE + NUTSACK Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. GRACE OF SPADES BURLESQUE - FEAT: BETTY BLOOD + CATERINA VITT + MISS LOU LE’ BELLE + PEACHY DREAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. HAYDEN CALNIN + JORDAN LéSAR + TOM MILEK Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $17. I A MAN + GUINEAFOWL + THEM SWOOPS Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. KINGS & QUEENS - FEAT: KILAMAINE + ACOLYTE + GECKOTHEORY + LOW SPEED BUS CHASE + MARY WASHINGTON + THE UGLY KINGS + VULTURES OF ENERGY Espy, St Kilda. 7:30pm. LITTLE BIRD + MADISON LOUISA + WESLEY FULLER Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. MARCH IN MOSCOW + MICK CATIONS BAND + ONLY ALIENS + THE FIRING LINE Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. MATT KATSIS & THE BLACK INDIA Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. MENTAL AS ANYTHING + SPLURGE ACOUSTIC The
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Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $38. MONSTER CAT + CATCH RELEASE + STORYHORSE Bar 291, Brunswick. 7:00pm. MUSE + BIRDS OF TOKYO Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. ROAD RATZ + NMA + STREET FANGS + THE TRANSITIONS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. SOMA COMA + IDLE MINDS + METER MEN & LEATHER LICKERS + VELVET WHIP Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $7. THE BRAVES + DJ KEZBOT + THE PENSION Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm. THE GIN CLUB + CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + PLAGUE DOCTOR John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $15. THE INFANTS + DIVIDE & DISSOLVE + DJ JOHNNY EL PAJERO & SIMON COTTER + OHMS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. THE SINKING TEETH + CERES + DAMN TERRAN Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:40pm. $12. TOGA ROCK Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
MAMBO TORMENTA Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. THE JOHNNY CAN’T DANCE CAJUN TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:30pm. THE VINCE JONES QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $38.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
CATHERINE TRAICOS & THE STARRY NIGHT + SINGLE TWIN + VOID Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. FREYA BENNETT + PETE CARR 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $12. GYPSYGRASS XMAS - FEAT: THE WOOHOO REVUE + GUERILLA ZINGARI + MUSTERED COURAGE Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. $20. JAMES HAZELDEN Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. JEREMY EDWARDS & DUST RADIO Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. JOHN KENNEDY’S 68 COMEBACK SPECIAL + DJ TONY BIGGS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. SNOWIE Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. SOUND & VISION - FEAT: AUNT NANCY + APOLLO APPLES Tago Mago, Thornbury. 7:00pm. SOUNGWRITERS IN THE ROUND Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8. THE BUSHWACKERS EUREKA BIG BIRTHDAY BASH Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $25. THE LITTLE STEVIES + SAL KIMBER + THE ROLLIN’ WHEELS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20. THE STILLSONS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
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SATURDAY DEC 7 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
ANGES HOT JAZZ ORCHESTRA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm. KNAKL DUO + REKTANGO + SUMIYOSHI Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm. THE BAMBOOS Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm. THE MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. THE VINCE JONES QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $38.
INDIE/ ROCK/ POP/ METAL/ PUNK & COVERS
ADRIFT FOR DAYS + BROOZER + CLAGG + HORSEHUNTER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. AIR SUPPLY Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. ALICIA KEYS Rochford Wines, Coldstream. 7:00pm. BANG - FEAT: PERFECT FIT + HOMETOWN Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. BON JOVI (BECAUSE WE CAN TOUR) + KID ROCK Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. 4:30pm. CHRISTMASSACRE - FEAT: IN MALICEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WAKE + DECIMATUS + DESECRATOR + MALIGNANT MONSTER Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. FOURTEEN NIGHTS SEA + PSALM BEACH Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. HOBART + MUSIC = YEAH! - FEAT: TERRIBLE TRUTHS + CATSUIT + HEART BEACH + IVY ST + THE NATIVE CATS + TREEHOUSE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10. HOLLYWOOD OR BUST - FEAT: FOXTROT + FOLEY + MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD + SHADOW LEAGUE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. HONEYBADGERS + CLAUDE + GALAXY FOLK + GRAND PRISMATIC Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10. INFINITE VOID + DJ LEOPARD HEAD + MASSES + NARROW LANDS + SHAKING HELL The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10. JAJU CHOIR Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. KRISTIAN MITZI & THE SIRENS Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:30pm. MUSE + BIRDS OF TOKYO Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm.
MUTINY + FEAR LIKE US + JAMES BROOK Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15. NEVERMIND THE WARPED TOUR Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 12:00pm. PANDORUM + SHADOWS OF HYENAS + VELUDO Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $15. PBS METAL GENESIS 5TH BIRTHDAY - FEAT: MASON + ATOMIC DEATH SQUAD + DEMONHEAD + DISTINTIGRATOR + PARTY VIBEZ + SEPPEKU Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 6:00pm. $15. PHILIPPINES TYPHOON FUNDRAISER - FEAT: BEN SMITH BAND + BAND NOIR + CHARLOTTE NICDAO + KING GEORGE + KOOYEH + LES THOMAS + LITTLE FOOT + PACKWOOD Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 2:00pm. PLASTIC SPACEMAN + TEQUILA MOCKINBYRD + WILLIAM SHATNAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PANTS Tago Mago, Thornbury. 8:00pm. PLUDO Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $14. POUNCE! Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick . 7:00pm. ROSS DE CHENE HURRICANES + FOOD COURT + THE DEAD HEIR Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $5. SINGLES + FLOCKS + NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:45pm. $12. SPARROWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PHILLY CHEESE STEAKS GRAND LAUNCH PARTY - FEAT: DJ SNAKEHIPS CatďŹ sh, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. STEWART KOHINGA + RACHAEL BYRNES + STEWART KOHINGA + KRISTA POLVERE & BRYAN ELIJAH SMITH Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $20. SUGAR FED LEOPARDS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. SURVIVOR - FEAT: BENI The Bottom End, Melbourne. 7:00pm. TEXAS FLOOD The Green Table, Dandenong. 8:00pm. $10. THE DOORS SHOW - FEAT: ABSOLUTELY LIVE + PHIL PARA BAN + SHED ZEPPELIN + THE HELLHOUNDS Espy, St Kilda. 6:00pm. THE MIGRATIONS + VICUNA COAT Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm. THE SAND DOLLARS (SINGLE LAUNCH) + ALTITUDE + RED X Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:30pm. THE SOLICITORS + BRESA VOE + BUSY KINGDOM + THE ELLIOTS + THE NAYSAYERS + THE WELLINGTONS Yah Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $12. THE SUPER SALOON + CATCHER KITE + THE RIFT + TITCH Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $15. THE TRIBUTE SHOW PRESENTS - FEAT: THE BEATLES WITH A TWIST Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $20.
THE WORKINGHORSE IRONS + THE BEGGERS WAY + THE TARANTINOS Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. TRASH FAIRYS + REFLEX REX Bar 291, Brunswick. 8:00pm. VANS WARPED FESTIVAL - FEAT: MILLENCOLIN + PARKWAY DRIVE + SIMPLE PLAN + THE AMITY AFFLICTION + THE OFFSPRING + ANARBOR + BURIED IN VERONA + CONFESSION + CROWN THE EMPIRE + FEED HER TO THE SHARKS + FOR ALL THOSE SLEEPING + HAND OF MERCY + HANDS LIKE HOUSES + HATEBREED + KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES + MALLORY KNOX + MAN OVERBOARD + NEW FOUND GLORY + RDGLDGRN + REEL BIG FISH + THE DANGEROUS SUMMER + THE SUMMER SET + THE USED + TONIGHT ALIVE + VEARA + WE CAME AS ROMANS Birrarung Marr, 11:00am. WILD TURKEY + CARDWELL JAMES + DJ SAHKY MEMORIAL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
THE HANGING OF JEAN LEE - FEAT: HUGO RACE + JEFF DUFF + MAX SHARAM North Melbourne Town Hall, North Melbourne. 6:30pm. $25. A CONCERT OF TOM WAITS SONGS The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $28. CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS + EATEN BY DOGS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 7:30pm. $15. CHRIS WILSON Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm. CYNDI BOSTE + JEREMY EDWARDS + THE DUST RADIO COMBO Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20. DAN WATERS (SINGLE LAUNCH) Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $15. DAREBIN SONGWRITERS GUILD 303, Northcote. 3:00pm. FLOUNDER + CIDER TREE KIDS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. JOHN DOWLERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S VANITY PROJECT + DJ JO ROBERTS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. JOHN KENNEDYSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 68 SPECIAL Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. LIVE SATURDAY SESSION Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 3:00pm. OCLIVEUS Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. OGRIN-GULINA-WHYTE TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm. PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $15. PUGSLEY BUZZARD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. SAMMY OWEN BLUES BAND + SHOESHINE + THE MONDLARKS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. SHE THE WOLF Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. SPOONFUL Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. SUGATREE Sound Bar (rosebud West), 7:00pm.
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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au THE BAKERSFIELD GLEE CLUB Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. THE CARTRIDGE FAMILY Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. THE WILD COMFORTS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. TRACY MCNEIL Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ZEPTEPI + SARA EIDA Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:30pm. $5.
SUNDAY DEC 8 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE The Horn African Music Lounge, Collingwood. 6:00pm. ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 1:00pm. FEM BELLING (CD LAUNCH) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $20. LET YOUR HAIR DOWN GIRLS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 5:00pm. LOUISA TREWARTA - FEAT: LOUISA TREWARTHA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3:00pm. THE JODIE MICHAEL TRIO + THE AUDREY BOYLE QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. VINCE JONES The Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. VINCS & WAKELING Famous Blue Raincoat, South Kingsville. 2:00pm.
INDIE/ ROCK/ POP/ METAL/ PUNK & COVERS
ALICIA KEYS Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:00pm. ANIMALIA Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. $30. BIG WORDS + JORDAN WALKER + KAITY DUNSTAN + LALA Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. BLACK CAB Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. BORED NOTHING - FEAT: BORD NOTHING + BEARHUG + DEEP SPACE SUPERGROUP + THE OCEAN PARTY Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10. BUCK JR + DEMI LOUISE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. CLOWNS + DISINTERGRATER + SUSSTANCE ABUSE Tago Mago, Thornbury. 4:00pm. DALE RYDER BAND + DJ PAZ + GARY EASTWOOD EXPRESS Espy, St Kilda. 5:30pm. DIFFERENT COLOURS MADE OF TEARS (A TRIBUTE TO LOU REED) Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:30pm. EMERGENZA FESTIVAL The Hi-fi, Melbourne. 4:00pm. KELPE + CAVE + DAN DARE + WOODY Boney, Melbourne. 7:00pm. KISSHEAD + ALEXI + SING CREATE EXPRESS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 6:30pm. $8. KYLESA + CHILD + KING OF THE NORTH + SUN GOD REPLICA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $35. MAT VIRGATO Whole Lotta Love, East Brunswick . 7:00pm. MOUNTAIN GOAT BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: DRUNKEN POACHERS + DJ STREETHOE + MODESTY + RICH DAVIES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6. NATHAN SEECKTS + DIMITRI HONDROUDAKIS + LUKE THOMAS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm. PREMIUM FANTASY + ABSTRACT MUTATION + ANGLE EYES + BADBONES + BIG YAWN + COMFORT ZONES + LEISURE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. ROCKWIZ Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. STEEL PANTHER Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne. 7:00pm. SUNDAY SCHOOL - FEAT: THE CLITS + CHOOK RACE + FULL UGLY + GRAND PRISMATIC The Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:00pm. $10. THE SPHERES + OLLIE OLSEN + WHERE WERE YOU AT LUNCH Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. THOMCORDS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 1:30pm. $12. TIM HAMPSHIRE + BRAD VINCENT + JIM DUGGAN + JOSH MANN + JOSH NEWMAN + LACHLAN HICKS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
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ALANNA & ALICIA + DAMIEN NEIL Clifton Hill Brew Pub, Clifton Hill. 3:00pm. ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS + MIGHT DUKES + THE HARPOONS + THE LORDS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15. CARINO SON + KEN MAHER & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. CARRY ON CAROLS- CARAVAN CHRISTMAS PARTY Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $20. CHERRYWOOD + EATEN BY DOGS + MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + ROLLING BLACKOUTS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 1:00pm. COLLARD GREENS & GRAVY Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. CORAL LEE & THE SILVER SCREAM + THE LITTLE SISTERS + THE RECHORDS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. CROWN OF THORNS + DAVE GRANEY Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 1:30pm. $20. DOWNHILLS HOME Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 3:00pm. GEMMA TULLY & THE THORNBIRDS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. $10. GENA ROSE BRUCE + JOHN LINGARD + THE WEEPING WILLOWS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. GROOVE PROVIDA Penny Black, Brunswick. 3:00pm. GUERILLA ZINGARI + CHRIS BROOMHEAD-TRIO Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm. HUGH MCGINLAY & THE RECESSIVE GENE Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North. 3:00pm. JOHN KENNEDY Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. JON & JAC Sound Bar (rosebud West), 7:30pm. LOT 56 Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 5:00pm. MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. PHEASANT PLUCKERS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm. SARAH CAROLL Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. SHIRAZZ Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3:30pm. SOUTHERN LIGHTNING + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. SPENCER P JONES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 2:30pm. THE GOOD SHIP Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 2:00pm. $15. THE PEEKS + JULY DAYS Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm.
MONDAY DEC 9 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
BROWNE KELLER & MURPHY TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. MWIJF Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $12.
INDIE/ ROCK/ POP/ METAL/ PUNK & COVERS
DEAR MONDAY - FEAT: LAURENCE + FIIG + GUS RIGBY + SARLIN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. LEONARD COHEN Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:00pm. METRIC Forum Theatre, Melbourne. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. LEONARD COHEN Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm. MOMENTS NOTICE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:30pm. PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, Melbourne. 7:30pm. PUSH SONGS PRESENTS - FEAT: VAN WALKER + FLY SOUTH + JANE MCARTHUR + LOUIS ROWE + SINCE WE KISSED Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. UNPAVED SONGWRITER SESSIONS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
TUESDAY DEC 10 JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/WORLD MUSIC
ENGINEERED SOUND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm.
INDIE/ ROCK/ POP/ METAL/ PUNK & COVERS
GUITAR WARS - FEAT: ANDREW CUMBO + LUONG NGUYEN Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. I’LL BE AN INDIAN + HUNTLY Workers Club, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $8. MASSIVE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. WE TWO KINGS - FEAT: MAP ENDS + GOLD GULL + ADAM ROCHE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
CHARLES JENKINS & MATTY VEHL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. CRAFTY ANNE & FRIENDS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:00pm. JULES BOULT Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm. OPEN MIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.
MUSICIANS WANTED SOLO MUSICIANS, DUO’S, BANDS WANTED to play at Acoustics Anonymous Thursday Nights at The 86. Starting with open mic from 7pm and live band sets from 9pm. Open Mic - just rock up from 6pm, gig spots email drink@the86.com.au with bio, pics and sound demo. BANDS/ACTS WANTED for Espy Shows. Shoot an email through to mark@gunnmusic.com.au for more details. BATTLE OF THE BANDS. Registration now, starts Wednesday the 28th Dec and every Wednesday after for 8 week. First prize: recording time in a studio. Call Jesse 0411 803 579 GUITARIST WANTED. For pop/rock originals band. Contact Phil: 0421 901 530. www.zeffamusic.com WANTED: NICK GIANNOPOULOS LOOKALIKES. Need 37 Nick Giannopoulos lookalikes for Greek death reggae orchestra. SERVICES FREE VENUE HIRE - Fully stocked bar - Huge capacity, whole venue or partial. Call Jesse 0411 803 579 EMPLOYMENT FLAUNT IT. Internationally acclaimed producer of pro-feminist erotica looking for confident, adult women to smash the stereotypes and earn good money ($400 and up). Don’t overlook this til you’ve found out more about it. Jessica 9495 6555 or www.feck.com. WE WANT EVERYONE Promoters, Bands, DJs - Revitalised bar, The Barley Corn, has reopened its doors 7 days a week and we want YOU. Call Jesse 0411 803 579
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Wednesday December 4 With Claire Barley If you are currently standing up, it’s probably a good idea to take a seat before you read on. The moment everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived – the lineup for Pushover 2014 has just been announced! Much like an all you can eat buffet, there is truly something for everyone, with a solid, healthy serving of all genres. Fans of Aussie hip hop will enjoy acts like All Day, Chance Waters, Bam Bam, PEZ and Citizen Kay. If hardcore bands are more your schtick, you’ll be delighted to know the likes of Dream On Dreamer and In Heart’s Wake will be appearing. Brisbane kids Cub Sport will be gracing the Pushover crowd with their joyful, tropical pop vibes, along with local acts The Bennies and The Smith Street Band. Just when you thought things couldn’t get more exciting, the FReeZA Push Start Battle of the Bands finals will be taking place. With a handful of fine young acts from all across Victoria, including The Rims, Great John Himself and Alkali Fly, be sure to get down and support your mates! As in past years, the Push Underground Hip Hop Showcase is hip hop happenin’ (too cheesy? Sorry, I had to), featuring 35 Push It! Hip Hop break dancers, MCs and artists performing in battle and showcase events. For fellow food lovers, there will of course be a food court, as well as the chance to meet your favourite bands at the artist signing area. For the full lineup, head to thepush.com.au. Tickets are on sale now! Get on it! Checking out this weekend’s gig guide is a little like looking at a cake your mum is making for a special event – it’s making you salivate but you have to a few days til the weekend before you can eat it. Mad dogs Muse will be hitting up Rod Laver this Friday and Saturday, joined by fan faves Birds of Tokyo. There are still tickets available for both shows, and if past Muse shows are anything to go by, we can expect a huge light and sound extravaganza. Also on Saturday is The Vans Warped Tour, with peeps like Simple Plan, The Offspring and Parkway Drive. The excitement scale has officially hit pantspooing stages. Full details are below.
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 4 Open Mic/Jam Night, Musicland, 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 7pm, free, musiclandonline.com.au, AA. Passenger w/ Stu Larsen, Palais Theatre, Lower Esplanade, St Kilda, 7pm, sold out, palaistheatre.net.au, AA. FRIDAY DECEMBER 6 South Melbourne Youth Festival, Sol Green Recreation Centre, Cnr Coventry and Montague Streets, South Melbourne, 4pm, free, 9209 6167 portphillip.vic.gov.au, AA. FRIDAY DECEMBER 6 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 7 Muse w/ Birds of Tokyo, Rod Laver Arena, Batman Ave, Melbourne, 6pm, $69.90-$129.30, ticketek.com.au, AA. SATURDAY DECEMBER 7 Vans Warped Tour w/ Simple Plan, The Offspring, New Found Glory, The Used, Parkway Drive and many more, Birrarung Marr, Batman Ave, Melbourne, 11am, $107.10, oztix.com.au, AA. SATURDAY DECEMBER 7 – SUNDAY DECEMBER 8 Bon Jovi w/ Kid Rock, Etihad Stadium, Docklands, 5.45pm, $35-$250, ticketmaster.com.au, AA. Phoenix Skate Park Jam w/ BMX skate comps, Davy Simony and ISO, 22 Rob Roy Rd, Malvern East, 11am, free, 8290 7025, www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/events, AA. SUNDAY DECEMBER 8 Iron Mind w/ Rort, Colossus, Born Free and Vicious Cycle, Phoenix Youth Centre, 72 Buckley St, Footscray, 1pm, $10, facebook.com/ironmindhc, AA. BackStage: All Ages Gig, Musicland, 1359A Sydney Rd, Fawkner, 7.30pm, $10, musiclandonline.com.au, AA.
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History? The Bendigo Hotel is over 100 Years old. Thats right – 101 to be exact. How long have you been operating as The Bendigo? It will be four years next February. What do you feel is your major attraction? The band room with great sound and awesome vibe, friendly staff, awesome tequilas and great drink specials, as well as a picturesque beer garden and good times guaranteed. What was your favorite show in the last six months? Municipal Waste! Could you nominate a bartender of the month? No, I can nominate two – Awesome Ally and the magnificent bar manager French Nick. How many nights of live music & entertainment are running at The Bendigo? Wednesday through to Sunday. Ways to get there? Train at Vic Park, buses, close trams, cabs, cycle etc. Be as creative as you want: jog, skate or walk! Available for functions? Only if they are cool! We definitely have a few from time to time and they have been fun. Crowd? All types welcome here all the time.
Opening hours? Tuesday – Thu 4pm till late Friday – Saturday 2pm – 3am Sunday 2pm – 11pm Cover Charge? Mostly yes. Usually up to the bands Food specials ? New York style hot dogs all the time. More food coming soon. Known for? Historic building with heaps of character, looking after all the bands who play here and having the newest local bands, to well-established local and international bands.
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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews Leonard Cohen Photo by Charles Newbury
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LEONARD COHEN Rod Laver Arena Wednesday November 20 The bevy of nubile vixens listing intently to the anaemic strains of a literary troubadour in a cafe on the French Riviera are no longer. They have been replaced by reverential hordes seated patiently, and even more intently, and basking in the presence of undoubtedly the most fashionable 70-something gent in popular music. Mid week and not a spare seat in the Arena as the expectation builds. There was no support act, but this duly allowed Mr Cohen more time within which to enchant the audience over the course of 26 songs. The ladies man of yore is now the wise Uncle Leonard. But you would not have thought so at first blush as Mr Cohen and band walked onstage looking like more sinister elements of Sinatra’s Brat Pack. These guys looked like they “know people.” But the fleeting hearts were hushed when Uncle Leonard reassured the audience that “we will give you everything we’ve got”. And for nearly three hours they did. From Dance Me To The End Of Love to I Tried To Leave You and everything in-between. Three encores later he did leave us. But not after a glorious and flawless flick through his vast repertoire. Bird On A Wire, Everybody Knows, Tower Of Song, Suzanne, The Partisan joined the likes of Darkness, Amen and Come Healing. There was no visual schmaltz detracting from Uncle Leonard and band. A few projections on the curtains was the extent of it. Rather it was flamenco, sweeping harp, angelic backing vocals and a band as tight as a vice. Every person on stage was accorded the opportunity to shine. The instrumentalists played virtuoso solos, Sharon Robinson and The Webb Sisters sang Alexandra Leaving and If It Be Your Will respectively. In a paternal manner, Uncle Leonard thanked people for “not going home” after the interval and having “some charity for the elderly”. These moments were answered in a Woody Allen like “You kidding me.” There was also a Dylan moment when Mr Cohen picked up the guitar. One got ‘Judas’, the other ‘Jesus’. A comment so apt and ironic on so many levels that only enhanced an impresario performance beyond compare by a man sharing his legacy. LOVED: Lover Lover Lover. HATED: Saying goodbye. BRONIUS ZUMERIS DRANK: Lemonade.
QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL Bellarine Peninsula, Friday November 22-Sunday November 24 Stompy and the Heat kick-started our weekend of musical feasting with a spicy mix of garage, boogie, surf and rockabilly that was impossible to resist. Scott Wilson’s mastery of the axe was a fiery shape-throwing treat. The percussive powerhouse that is Blue King Brown opened with a progressive funk juggernaut of an instrumental that set the tone for a scintillating set. The Living End, keenly anticipated and warmly welcomed by a large and appreciative audience, opened with a thunderous Second Solution which inspired spirited crowd participation and provided a great entrée to a sterling set of world class punk rock. Roll On, West End Riot and Prisoner of Society were sing-along highlights and the band rocked so hard that Chris split his pants. Ten points to the drummer for sporting a Die Toten Hosen t-shirt! Siskin River was delightfully chilled as they sparkled through a set of acoustic folk pop characterised by gentle and highly melodic vocal harmonies and enchanting guitar. “We are the Melbourne Ska Orchestra and we have more than four people in the band!” quipped Nicky Bomba before leading his giant skankin’ ensemble through a hugely entertaining performance. As if the stage wasn’t busy enough already, a clown riding a unicycle made a guest appearance during that old ska classic A Message To You Rudy. “That’s the sound of rock’n’roll,” Kram said as he cheerfully pummelled his way into the joyous onslaught that is Black Betty. Spiderbait seemed to attract about a million screaming punters to the main tent and proved that the quirky boogie punk of Old Man Sam and the molten Buy Me A Pony can still shake the joint to its shuddering foundations. Imagine if Sky Saxon had hijacked a passing flying saucer in 1967, picked up Roky Erickson along the way and launched a sonic attack on Jupiter. This is what The Murlocs sound like. Yes, they really are that good! The Murlocs blew my bleeding eardrums to smithereens with wonderful acid-drenched garage rock characterised by postapocalyptic harmonica, snotty vocals and the type of shuddering wall of sound that might just cook your brain. The Preatures delivered an exciting and attention-grabbing set that culminated in a rousing rendition of I’m Stranded while flame-haired rock god Dallas Frasca pumped out high-octane blues metal that adrenalised our Sunday afternoon. The vivacious crowd-surfing tinsel-throwing Patience Hodgson, who said that she felt “like a glamorous cave lady” sparkled in her glittering costume as The Grates delivered a mind-blowing theatrical performance that seethed with energy and vitality. After such a robustly LOVED: The Melbourne Ska Orchestra’s entertaining weekend, I’m already counting down the days until good-time vibes. next year’s festiva festival!. HATED: Nothing. DRANK: Southern Bay Draught, Bellarine GRAHAM BLACK BLACKLEY Mussel Stout and Forrest Pale Ale.
JIMMY TAIT John Curtin Bandroom, Friday November 22
HEAD APPLE C IDER HARD TUMBLEWEED Central Club, Friday November 29 With sludgy rock history oozing from its walls, Richmond ‘s Central Club appears to be experiencing something of a resurgence, so it’s fitting that Tumbleweed mount part of their comeback here. Listening back to my old dubbed cassettes before tonight’s show and then gazing around the room, what’s immediately apparent is just how well they’ve aged. This is not to say that their sound is timeless; their unique combination of bubblegum melodies over super-fuzz power chords is wholly of their time, a golden age in my premillennial memory banks when triple j was a bastion of rocking guitars and smoking pot was met with enthusiastic high-fives instead of existential paranoia. Opening with album openers Mandelbrot and Sweet Little Runaway proves a wise move, emphasising to the middle-aged wastoids that the ’Weed are no tired nostalgia act’ and can proudly promote a reunion album in this year’s Sounds From The Other Side. Early EP rarity (and stone cold classic, heh heh heh) Stoned follows, the quickfire four note riff piercing the eardrums of the burnouts setting their Melbourne Bitter’s down on the foldback. Surprisingly, older singles like Hang Around and Daddy Long Legs can’t match the cosmic excitement released of the latest stuff. Guitarist Paul Hausmeister quite rightly pushes for crown participation in Queen of Voodoo (‘Hey! Hey!’), and the last three minutes of Good and Evil utterly explodes, its riff overshadowing anything QOTSA have done in the last decade and threatening to shake the building’s foundations. And speaking of masterful closing riffs, I’d like totally forgotten that Nothin’ To Do With The Weather features a doozy, man! In closing, I really respect the fact that four-fifths LOVED: Richie’s head-shaking, fingerof the band still have their iconic long hair. Almost 20 years is a clicking dance took me back to EVs in long time to work a day job and raise rugrats with a ponytail in Croydon the hope that you can one day swing your locks across the neck HATED: It’s difficult to party in a room of a Fender Jaguar, and I just appreciate the effort. where someone has dreadlocks tucked through the back of a Jim Bean hat. Let it go NICK HILTON man, I think it might be over. DRANK: Bud and bong water.
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After taking the familiar steps up to the John Curtin Bandroom, I’m surprised to find Kieran Ryan – one half of the now defunct Kid Sam – opening the Jimmy Tait record launch to a near empty room. It’s a shame, because Ryan’s accomplished brand of storytelling stands far above the litany of singer/songwriters crowding the current music landscape. He plays single Are You A Conspirator? amongst five or six other tunes, then departs way too soon. Howl At The Moon are up next. Boasting a triple guitar attack in parts, the local quintet set about trying to arrest the attention of the swelling, but talkative crowd. Things don’t really take off until three or four songs in, when the band break from their noisy indie rock and launch into a towering stoner-rock riff. Lead guitarist Matthew Storey completely loses his shit, thrashing about like a man possessed until finally he snaps his whammy-bar. Still, as much as HATM nail the second half of their set, they’re never able to seize the full attention of the boisterous crowd. After a short break, during which all the smokers rush downstairs to Lygon St., local five-piece Jimmy Tait hit the stage to launch their excellent sophomore album Golden. Led by the tall and waifish figure of Sara Retallick, the band opens with the gloomy What Is This For? It’s an okay start, but not as great as it could be. Retallick, in particular, seems quite nervous. Admittedly, she’s not helped by a few nasty jolts of feedback from her microphone as the band tries out a new song. But then, around halfway through the set, as the band unleashes the abrasive title track from Golden, everything changes. It happens in an instant. Inspired by Sam Johnstone’s thunderous drums and Sunny Leunig’s howling guitar, Retallick steps to the microphone and just completely lets go. Her vocals soar in the gaps left by the band’s stop-start bursts. In the split-second before the band crashes back into the bruising riff, Retallick just completely and utterly commits to the one pained note she’s holding and every light in the place seems to focus on the passion and the hurt writ large and unapologetic across her face. It’s a decisive moment and the band doesn’t look back. After airing a song that didn’t make Golden (which speaks to the quality of the album), they perform a rousing, albeit suitably melancholic rendition of lead single and crowd favourite All My Friends. But it’s the raw and plaintive No Reason that rivals Golden for gig highlight. Joined by Howl At The Moon singer Katie Scott for the first of a two song encore, Retallick stands, without her guitar, with only a piano at her side, and delivers an incredibly moving version of the album’s closing track. It’s enough, at long last, to stun the LOVED: The moment when everything raucous Friday night crowd into silence. clicked during Jimmy Tait’s Golden HATED: Being nagged by my two WAYNE MARSHALL drunken friends to drive them through the city post-gig in search of a 24-hour KFC. DRANK: Cascade.
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