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TALES IN SPACE Electro-disco rockers Tales in Space have unveiled a string of tour dates in support of their new dance floor-ready single All Messed Up. The single comes on the heels of their infectious award-winning hit Shades, which became triple j’s 16th most played Aussie track in 2013. Indie heavyweights Stillwater Giants and The Pierce Brothers will join the duo on their upcoming tour. Catch Tales in Space on Friday March 14 at Ding Dong Lounge.

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CALLING ALL CARS Having recently announced their highly anticipated new album Raise The People set for release on March 7, Melbourne based rockers Calling All Cars are very proud to announce an extensive 22 date national tour across Australia. Two radio singles - Werewolves and Standing In The Ocean - from the album are already saturating the airwave and these are only a small taste of what’s to come on the band’s most accessible and arguably best offering yet. Completing the scorching bill is a killer hat-trick of power-trios including Perth-based indie rockers The Love Junkies and post-punk heroes in the making The Sinking Teeth. They'll be playing the Corner Hotel on Thursday April 24, as well as a string of regional dates.

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With a debut single Planets currently setting Soundcloud alight, Sydney newcomers Little Earthquake are taking to the stage to introduce audiences to their sound. One of the standout tracks from the forthcoming EP Universal Mind is Planets which has gone on to become the band’s first single which attracted accolades on a few dozen blogs after being posted on Soundcloud for just 24 hours. You can see what all the fuss is about at Wesley Anne on Sunday April 13.

The Waifs’ Donna Simpson and Vikki Thorn have announced that they will hit the road for a series of dates together as The Stray Sisters. Touring the nation for the first time as a duo, the sisters will treat fans to both new material as well as reworked Waifs favourites at some of Australia’s most intimate venues. The Stray Sisters come to the Corner Hotel on Thursday March 13. Grab tickets from the venue’s website.

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LISA MITCHELL GROOVIN’ THE MOO Groovin’ The Moo have just dropped a huge lineup for their 2014 edition. The 2014 incarnation of the regional festival will feature Action Bronson, Andy Bull, Architecture In Helsinki, Cults, Disclosure, Dizzee Rascal, Holy Fuck, Illy, The Jezabels, The Jungle Giants, Karnivool, Kingswood, The Kite String Tangle, Loon Lake, The Naked And Famous, Parkway Drive, Peking Duk, The Presets, Robert Delong, Thundamentals, Vance Joy, Violent Soho, Wave Racer and What So Not. The Victoria Groovin’ The Moo takes place on Saturday May 3 at the Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Bendigo. Head to their Facebook for more details.

Lisa Mitchell will perform a free concert supported by Melbourne guitar duo Georgia Fair, at QV Melbourne, as part of Luma Vibes. This special one night only performance will see Mitchell playing music from her new album as well as crowd favourites. Mitchell’s dreamy indie folk sound will be illuminated by a state of the art light installation by internationally renowned new media artists Kit Webster and Pierre Proske.

Luma Vibes will transform QV Melbourne into a world of colour and animation, as a custom-engineered multidimensional cubic sculpture comes to life through interactive light projections and sound. It all kicks off at 5pm at QV square on the corner of Lonsdale and Swanston Street on Saturday February 22.

MONSTER MAGNET New Jersey’s Monster Magnet have revealed that they will be bringing cuts from their latest album Last Patrol as well as their biggest hits back to Australia this April. Over the span of nine albums, the outfit has taken its metal, space rock and psychedelic influences and transformed them into its signature sludgy, feedback heavy hard rock sound. Monster Magnet hit 170 Russell on Sunday April 6. Tickets go on sale on Monday February 3 on the venue’s website.

BLISS N ESO Local hip hop giants Bliss N Eso aren’t pulling any punches after a massive 2013 with the announcement of their biggest tour to date. The Sydney trio will be heading off on a 15-stop outdoor tour through April and May in support of their latest offering Circus In The Sky. The tour will see the trio travelling through regional cities as well as stopping off in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane- swapping large venues for the unique confines of outdoor locations. They will be joined on all shows by Sydney powerhouse Horrorshow and Melbourne’s own Seth Sentry. Bliss N Eso will be taking over Flemington Racecourse on Friday May 16. Tickets go on sale Monday February 10 through Moshtix.

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JIMMY EAT WORLD AND PANIC! AT THE DISCO Three of the biggest names on the 2014 Soundwave bill are joining forces for a huge sideshow. Emerging out of the mid-’90s scene, Jimmy Eat World have gone on to release seven studio albums. They’ll be joined by the emo, pop punk and vaudeville stylings of Panic! At The Disco and Alkaline Trio. It goes down at The Forum on Tuesday February 25. Tickets through Ticketmaster.

ILLY ARIA Award Winner Illy landed two entries in the triple j hottest 100 on Australia Day, with his triple j like a version mega medley arriving at #66, following Youngbloods featuring Ahren Stringer at #77. This is Illy’s fifth consecutive year in the coveted countdown.

Illy told his fans on Facebook from New York, “I grew up on the j’s with my mates, and have no shame in saying how much this shit means to me… You turned a kid writing rhymes in his bedroom, to a boy writing songs a whole country gets behind. Can’t tell you how much it means.” Illy has been announced on the Groovin’ The Moo 2014 line up and due to popular demand Illy has added a second show in Melbourne on the Cinematic National Tour on Saturday March 8.

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Biffy Clyro have announced a Soundwave sideshow.

Formed in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1995, Biffy Clyro have firmly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with. They hold a number of awards under their belt, including a 2010 nomination for the Mercury Music Prize for their 2009 album Only Revolutions and two Kerrang Awards for Best Music Video and Classic Songwriter. Last year, their current LP, Opposites, earned them an NME Award as Best British Band, a Kerrang Award for Best Live Band and Best Album, and a Q Award for Best Album. Biffy Clyro will hit The Corner Hotel on Wednesday February 26.

Tickets are available through the venue website.

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THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN The Soundwave sideshows keep flooding in. The Dillinger Escape Plan are one of the most revered acts in the metal world. Having recently unveiled their latest record One of Us Is The Killer, expect a career-spanning set list when they touch down on Australian shores. They’ll be joined by New York’s Glassjaw and Japan’s gods of extremism, Dir En Grey. Catch ‘em at The Hi-Fi on Thursday February 27.

Thrash hardcore legends Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, better known as D.R.I., have announced that they will hit our shores this May. With 30 years and seven albums to their name, D.R.I. are known for revolutionizing the crossover thrash sound that has served as a model for iconic bands like Suicidal Tendencies and Corrosion of Conformity. D.R.I. will play at The Hi-Fi on Saturday May 3. Tickets are available from the venue’s website.

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Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch have locked in a Soundwave sideshow. One of the biggest names in modern day metal, this summer will see Avenged Sevenfold play at Rock im Park and Rock am Ring in Germany, the PinkPop Festival in Holland, Donington Park in the UK, and two nights at Summersonic alongside their appearances at Soundwave. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be joined by one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most explosive live acts, Five Finger Death Punch. Catch â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em at Festival Hall on Thursday February 27. Tickets through Ticketmaster.

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AFI AFI are returning to Australian stages for the first time in four years. The tour follows the release of their ninth studio album Burials last October, which received rave reviews worldwide. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be joined by the musical side project of Deftones singer Chino Moreno, â&#x20AC; â&#x20AC; â&#x20AC; . Catch â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em at the Prince Bandroom on Wednesday February 26.

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Culture cats, music lovers, honorary and wannabe Melbournians: stretch out those languid holiday limbs of yours and reach for the full Brunswick Music Festival program because it is dressed to impress. Come March, one of this cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most deliciously vibrant precincts will for the 26th year pulse with creative energy for two weeks, starting with the Sydney Road Street Party on Sunday March 2. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got double passes to give away for Scottish outfit Breabach (Tuesday March 11 at Brunswick Town Hall), ARIA nominee Mama Kin (Friday March 7, Brunswick Town Hall) and UK trio The Tiger Lillies (Saturday March 15 at Brunswick Town Hall).

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LESS THAN JAKE The Soundwave sideshows just keep on coming. This time, Less Than Jake will headline a huge triple bill that also features pop-punk perfectionists Bowling For Sup and punk inspired rock outfit Zebrahead, who released their tenth studio album Call Your Friends last year to worldwide acclaim. It goes down at The Hi-Fi on Wednesday February 26.

EDEN MULHOLLAND Eden Mulholland is the latest Kiwi transplant that we have made our own. The former front-man of much loved New Zealand pop outfit Motorcade had a stunning 2013 with the release of his debut solo album Feed The Beast. Eden recently made Australia home and has since signed high profile management and agency deals and has confirmed he will be recording his second album with legendary New York based producer Victor Van Vugt (PJ Harvey, Beth Orton).

He is launching his new single Beside Itself at Shebeen on Friday February 28.

ELVIS COSTELLO Elvis Costello and The Imposters have announced a Melbourne show. Costello is no stranger to our shores, having toured here a dozen times since the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s, this time returning to also perform at the Deni Blues and Roots in Deniliquin, Byron Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bluesfest and the West Coast Blues & Roots Festival. He will be bringing with him the work of a career spanning almost four decades and a back catalogue of over 40 albums. Elvis and The Imposters will play Hamer Hall on Thursday April 17 with special guest Thelma Plum. Tickets are available through The Arts Centre or Ticketmaster.

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EAGLES OF DEATH METAL, ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT AND MUTEMATH Eagles Of Death Metal, Rocket From The Crypt and Mutemath are the latest announcement in what is an aural assault of triple-bill sideshows by Soundwave.

It will be the first time in seven years that Eagles of Death Metal bring their unique blend of doubleâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;entendre boogie to Australian stages, with Rocket From The Crypt and Mutemath lending support. Catch 'em at The Hi-Fi on Monday February 24.

GAY PARIS After touring around the country in 2013 to promote their sophomore album, The Last Good Party, the boys of Gay Paris are back at it again for one last tour before heading over to the USA to record LP number three. Channeling bands like Clutch and The Hives, the four-piece are celebrated for their head smashing party of a live show. Gay Paris will hit Cherry Bar on Saturday March 15.

VAUDEVILLE SMASH Following on from an absolutely monster 2013, Vaudeville Smash return with a string of shows from February through to May in both Sydney and Melbourne. With their unique blend of disco and pop, Vaudeville Smash have wowed audiences all over the globe with their massive stage presence, huge vocals and a live show that ignites any dance floor. This is a band that knows how to have fun! Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss out when they play the Espy this Sunday February 9 as part of the St Kilda Festival. They are also playing the Melbourne Grand Prix on Thursday March 13.

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Formed in 1978, the Canadian outfitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s album Hardcore â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;81 is largely considered to be the first efforts to signal in the new wave of hardcore punk. Maintaining a strong leftist stance, the band has promoted various causes and issues through their music. D.O.A. will hit The Evelyn on Thursday April 24.

Troubadour Songwriter Liam Gerner has just announced month-long residency dates in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. He will play The Labour In Vain every Thursday in March and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s free entry. His new album Land Of No Roads is available now.

JEFF BECK BAND Legendary guitarist and songwriter Jeff Beck brings his legendary musicianship to Australia with headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth following a headlining Bluesfest performance. Jeff will be accompanied by his exceptional band: violinist Lizzie Ball, bassist Rhonda Smith, drummer Jonathan Joseph and guitarist Nicholas Meier. Beck will appear in Melbourne at Hamer Hall on Tuesday April 22.

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JAKE BUGG After selling out his April 17 show at the Palace Theatre, Jake Bugg has generously added a second show at the Palace for Wednesday April 16. Tickets are on sale today via the venue website and support will come from The Creases and The Growl.

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INTERNATIONAL MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS Melbourne Zoo January 24 - March 8 DRENGE The Tote February 5 FRIGHTENED RABBIT The Palace February 5 YOUTH LAGOON Ding Dong Lounge February 5 KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS Corner Hotel, February 5, 6 GROUNDATION The Hi-Fi February 6 THE NATIONAL Sidney Myer Music Bowl February 9 AMINE EDGE & DANCE Prince Bandroom February 9 DAUGHTER St Michael’s Uniting Church February 10 LYNYRD SKYNYRD The Plenary February 11 DOLLY PARTON Rod Laver Arena February 11, 12 DJ SHADOW Prince Bandroom February 13 TY The Espy February 13 JULIA HOLTER Northcote Social Club February 14 BLAK TWANG The Espy February 14 AUSTRA Corner Hotel February 15 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AAMI Park February 15 EDDIE VEDDER Palais Theatre February 16, 18, 19 EMINEM, KENDRICK LAMAR, J. COLE Etihad Stadium February 19 THE NECKS The Corner Hotel February 17-19 DJ FOOD, DJ CHEEBA, DJ MONEYSHOT Prince Bandroom February 21 OKKERVIL RIVER Corner Hotel February 22 MANGO GROOVE Forum Theatre February 23 MASTODON, BARONESS AND GOJIRA The Palace February 25 JIMMY EAT WORLD, PANIC! AT THE DISCO The Forum February 25 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Palais Theatre February 26 LESS THAN JAKE The Hi-Fi February 26 AFI Prince Bandroom February 26 BIFFY CLYRO Corner Hotel February 26 CLUTCH Prince Bandroom February 27 PLACEBO Palais Theatre February 27 MEGADETH Forum Theatre February 27 GRANDMASTER FLASH The Espy February 27

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN The Hi-Fi February 27 AVENGED SEVENFOLD Festival Hall February 27 SOUNDWAVE Flemington Racecourse February 28 EDEN MULHOLLAND Shebeen February 28 SIX60 The Hi-Fi March 1 NEKO CASE Corner Hotel March 2 PUBLIC ENEMY Corner Hotel March 3, 4 BRIAN MCKNIGHT Palais Theatre March 5 CHARLES BRADLEY Corner Hotel March 6 JON CLEARY AND THE ABSOLUTE MONSTER GENTLEMEN Northcote Social Club March 6 PHOENIX Festival Hall March 6 ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Forum Theatre March 7 QUANTIC Boney March 7 MIKHAEL PASKALEV Howler March 7 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy March 7 – 10 FAT FREDDY’S DROP Melbourne Zoo Twilights March 8 THE GROWLERS The Tote 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 BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL Various Venues March 13 - 24 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, NINE INCH NAILS Rod Laver Arena March 14, 15 LOS CORONAS Corner Hotel March 14 DAMIEN DEMPSEY Prince Bandroom March 14 GLEN HANSARD Melbourne Recital Centre March 14 BILL MEDLEY Palais Theatre March 15 MARTHA DAVIS AND THE MOTELS Thornbury Theatre March 15 LIONEL RICHIE AND JOHN FARNHAM Rod Laver Arena March 16 GANG OF FOUR Corner Hotel March 19 JURASSIC 5 Palace Theatre March 20 SEBADOH Corner Hotel March 21 CHICKS ON SPEED Howler March 21 BOBBY KEYS AND THE SUFFERING BASTARDS Thornbury Theatre March 27 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS Hisense Arena March 28

THE ROLLING STONES Rod Laver Arena March 28, Hanging Rock March 30 ROYAL HUNT Northcote Social Club April 2 KODALINE Prince Bandroom April 5 MONSTER MAGNET 170 Russell April 6 ALLEN STONE Corner Hotel April 12 ERYKAH BADU Palais April 15 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Palace Theatre April 15 BETH HART Corner Hotel April 15 JASON ISBEL Northcote Social Club April 16, 17 BLUESFEST Byron Bay April 17 – 21 JIMMIE VAUGHAN Corner Hotel April 17 DEVENDRA BANHART Prince Bandroom April 17 INDIA.ARIE & JOSS STONE Palais Theatre April 17 JAKE BUGG Palace Theatre April 16,17 THE ALMOST Brown Alley April 17 ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS Hamer Hall April 17 KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND Palace Theatre April 18 SETH LAKEMAN Thornbury Theatre April 19 TRIXIE WHITLEY Northcote Social Club April 20 IRON AND WINE Forum Theatre April 22 JEFF BECK Hamer Hall April 22 THE WAILERS 170 Russell April 23 GREGG ALLMAN, GOV’T MULE Forum Theatre April 23 STEVE EARLE Forum Theatre April 24 D.O.A The Evelyn April 24 SKID ROW, UGLY KID JOE Palace Theatre April 25 OZOMATLI Corner Hotel April 26 D.R.I The Hi-Fi May 3 GROOVIN’ THE MOO Prince of Wales Showgrounds May 3 ARCTIC MONKEYS Rod Laver Arena May 9 JONNY CRAIG The Corner Hotel May 17 POISON IDEA The Bendigo Hotel May 17 WE ARE SCIENTISTS Corner Hotel May 28 ELLIE GOULDING Festival Hall May 31 JAMES BLUNT The Plenary June 8 BASTILLE Festival Hall June 15 THE CRIMSON PROJEKCT The Hi-Fi June 26

NATIONAL ST KILDA FESTIVAL St Kilda February 1 – 9 THE BENNIES Reverence Hotel February 7 BRITISH INDIA The Espy February 9 VAUDEVILLE SMASH The Espy February 9, Melbourne Grand Prix March 13 MIAMI HORROR Corner Hotel February 14 RIVERBOATS FESTIVAL Echuca February 14 - 16 IMMY BARNES Rochford Winery Yarra Valley February 15 MAJOR LEAGUES The Workers Club February 15 THE KITE STRING TANGLE Northcote Social Club February 15, 17 ROCK THE BAY FESTIVAL The Espy February 15 THE DEAD DAISIES Day On The Green February 15, The Espy February 16 FEEDTIME The Tote February 15, 16 LISA MITCHELL QV Melbourne February 22 NGAIIRE Northcote Social Club February 27 PIGEON Boney February 27 WORLDS END PRESS NGV February 28 JOSH PYKE Melbourne Zoo February 28 SHANNON NOLL The Espy February 28 THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS Northcote Social Club February 28, March 1 DAN SULTAN Corner Hotel March 1 SAMPOLOGY Brown Alley March 1

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THE NATIONAL

By Chris Martin

The National’s Trouble Will Find Me is a lot of things to a lot of people. To the Brooklyn band, it’s a sixth LP; another slice of brooding, caramel alt-rock that’s mimicked the chart success of its predecessor, 2011’s High Violet. For fans, it’s yet another private masterpiece – a soundtrack to dark bedrooms and long, lonely afternoons. Because despite The National’s success, their music remains necessarily intimate. To borrow a lyric – when National listeners pass on the street in public – they mistake each other for strangers. Instead, they’re the types who populate internet forums to heartily debate the literary references and allegorical meanings in Matt Berninger’s lyrics. Private, yet public in their privacy.

“Most of those forums are just me under different aliases, and they’re all correct,” jokes Berninger. He’s speaking down a phone line from his backyard in Los Angeles, where he’s put his feet up over the fire and, temporarily at least, is giving as much thought to reinterpreting his own lyrics as the fans do. “I do find it fun to have the lyrics being interpreted in a lot of different ways. The songs aren’t riddles and there isn’t a right answer. The discussion about what the songs are about – I’m in the middle of that, too.”

It may come as a surprise to hear such indecisiveness from a lyricist and vocalist who deliberately dots his songs with images lifted from the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Bob Dylan. Yet Berninger says the malleability is a key part of his creative process. “All my favourite songwriters, whether it’s Leonard Cohen or Cat Power or Nick Cave or Tom Waits – you can listen to their stuff over and over and over again, and it changes; it changes with you in a weird way. It allows you in. Wherever you are in your life, in your moment, it allows you in and it can be whatever it is that you’re going through.

“So there isn’t a right answer to what our songs are about – some of them have specifics, but generally they’re more amidic than that, and it’s not by strategy, it’s just words in a song can only be so queer. A good song can only approximate ideas. If you try to connect all the dots, it’s probably not going to be very close to the truth.”

If it sounds like a lot to digest, that’s because it is. The National’s music isn’t suited to a summer fling. None of their records serve being picked up, hurriedly consumed and discarded in one listen. Indeed, the Brooklyn fivepiece’s gradual rise to fame only mirrors the slow burn of nearly every song on each of its six albums. To the outsider, writing such dense material sounds like an exhausting process.

“It used to be,” says Berninger, “because I used to think that songs were supposed to be about something specific, and they were supposed to tell a specific thought or a specific story, but we’ve been a band for a long time, and I think once I started realising that a good song is probably about five different blurry things at the same time, I just relaxed with my writing and stopped trying to be too clever, and I stopped trying to connect the dots, and I stopped trying to make a point, because I realised that’s not what I liked about writing songs. It wasn’t about expressing an opinion or a specific BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24

narrative story or an image, it was about getting a lot of complicated, blurry stuff out of my head and into a song, and to make something beautiful or try to make something fun and cool about the mess in my brain.”

Around the time of the Trouble Will Find Me release early last year came a documentary, Mistaken For Strangers, shot by Berninger’s younger brother Tom. After premiering at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Mistaken For Strangers is set for wide theatrical release this year, beginning in Australia to coincide with the band’s six live dates. Alongside behind-the-scenes footage of The National on tour for High Violet – some of it literally so invasive that it contributed to

“WHEN WE WERE FIRST STARTING OUT, I CAN’T SAY WE WERE EVER MELLOW; WE WERE TENSED-UP, ANXIETY-FILLED YOUNG MEN, AND STILL ARE, I GUESS – JUST SLIGHTLY OLDER.” Tom being fired from his role as a roadie – is film of the band onstage in its earliest days, with a shouty lead singer in an empty club doing his best to be heard over the top of clunky, distorted guitars. It’s as close to amateur pub rock as The National have ever been. However, Berninger doesn’t think his band has mellowed over the years.

“I think probably the opposite. When we were first starting out, I can’t say we were ever mellow; we were tensed-up, anxiety-filled young men, and still are, I guess – just slightly older. It’s weird, the first shows we did, the small shows that we did when no-one was there, were as exciting and terror-filled as the big giant Opera House shows, the arenas and the festivals that we’re doing now. They are just different versions of the same kind of euphoric fear, you know – and I’m just happy that our band is still together and we’ve managed to keep doing this thing until the point where we’re five adults travelling the world on a bus together and we don’t hate each other yet.”

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The closeness of Berninger’s relationship with his bandmates – the Dessner twins, Aaron and Bryce, and the Devendorf brothers, Scott and Bryan – explains why their recording activities tend to take place within a tight circle. Four of their albums have been self-produced, with occasional assistance from outside producers, albeit to limited extents.

“We have a pretty open idea of making records, meaning we have a lot of our friends and a lot of really talented musicians and even producers and mixers and people come in – but we’ve never given over, we’ve never had somebody come in as the conductor, the impresario or the producer of the record in that kind of uber way that sometimes people do,” Berninger explains. “And I’m not saying that’s a bad way to do it, but for us we’ve got five guys that are all really talented and very stubborn and have huge egos and have big ideas, and all those things conflict all the time, so to bring even another person into that – we’ve never been able to ... The whole dynamic of our band is a weird alchemy of a bunch of people pulling in sometimes different directions but ultimately ending up in the same place.”

Berningers’ mother Nancy, an artist who now paints from her cottage in Cincinnati, Ohio, also paid a visit in Mistaken For Strangers. The film conveys the memories of an artistic and supportive family household and Matt acknowledges the influence it had for a young man who eventually decided to give up his career at a new media company and give rock music a go – even if he was no rock’n’roll rebel as a child.

“Where I grew up was more of a sort of cookie-cutter suburban area. My parents were loving and supportive of whatever weirdness their kids were into … it was a healthy place, on all levels, in terms of warmth and love and support and creativity. So I never had anything to rebel against too much. I think finding fascination and finding my heart and my guts being drawn into rock’n’roll music wasn’t because I lived in this weird, sheltered or constrained world in any way. I’m not a rebel at all. But my parents were very supportive of whatever weirdness was in my gut and in my heart.

They weren’t too judgemental, so it allowed me, over time, just to have confidence and dive into that stuff.

My mum was always like, ‘Just do whatever you want.’

And I had a job, and I was a professional, but all along she was like, ‘If you want to quit that and do something else…’ she would totally be behind it, and that’s ultimately what I did.”

It’s a heartening confession which reveals the one thing that keeps The National going today, for all the assumptions of moodiness and pessimism that are so easy to project upon artists who make a certain brand of introverted, mature rock.

“You just have to have the confidence to fail a hundred times in a row, and then maybe that one hundred and one-th time you don’t. That’s the stuff that you latch onto and that’s your stepping stone to the next thing.

I think fear of failure stops people from reaching happiness, when the truth is, failing over and over is just part of the process.”

THE NATIONAL will play Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday February 9. A Mistaken For Strangers screening and Q&A with Matt Berninger will also be held at Cinema Nova on Sunday February 9. Trouble Will Find Me is out now through 4AD/Remote Control.

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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN Human Rights Arts & Film Festival will be hosting a special preview screening of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Based on his autobiography of the same name, this epic motion picture spans Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary life, from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected President of South Africa. This eagerly awaited Hollywood blockbuster has received rave reviews, and Idris Elba, who plays Mandela, is an early Oscar tip. Its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival wowed audiences and ended with an eight minute standing ovation.

The preview screening of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom will take place at Cinema Nova, Carlton on Wednesday February 5.

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ON STAGE Chapel Off Chapel, in conjunction with Ellis Productions, are currently premiering the internationally lauded play Standing On Ceremony — The Gay Marriage Plays. Consisting of nine short plays focused on the moments before and after ‘I do’, Standing On Ceremony features contributions from acclaimed playwrights Jordan Harrison, Wendy MacLeod, Paul Rudnick, Doug Wright, Neil LaBute, Mo Gaffney, Moisés Kaufman and José Rivera. The production will also include a live wedding band to complement the stories of Facebook arguments, lesbianism in Iowa and gay marriage. Standing On Ceremony The Gay Marriage Plays will be performed until Sunday February 9.

ON DISPL AY Brunswick Street Gallery recently opened its newest series of exhibitions: Heart Anatomic by Fiona Barbetti, Colours of Life for Sura Mille by Lesley Novy, Dream Scapes by Maria Richardson, Brave New World from Neil Wyatt, Famous Faces

by Lynne Farrell, and Freezing the Interface by Tansy McNally and Sarah Rhiannon. Featuring all new up-and-coming artists, these six collections will delve into the imagination through Barbetti’s heart-shaped machines, McNally and Rhiannon’s technicolour dialogue of technology and information, Richardson’s nostalgia scenes of the Otway and Wyatt’s meticulously detailed analysis of one’s self. Heart Anatomic, Colours of Life for Sura Mille, Dream Scapes, Brave New World, Famous Faces, and Freezing the Interface are currently on exhibition at the Brunswick Street Gallery until Thursday February 13.

PICK OF THE WEEK

After receiving outpourings of praise from both sides of the Atlantic, Mike Barlett’s Cock will make its Australian premiere this week. Cock is the story of John, who shares his life with his male partner but upon taking a break falls in love with a woman, positioning himself in a vicious love triangle. The tale of self-discovery features original music by Missy Higgins. Cock runs at The Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio from Friday February 7 to Saturday March 22.

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FLICKERFEST

about things, films that go a bit deep, that really engage with the viewer. I love stories that surprise me, different takes on stories. Confident creativity.”

What does Kidd make of comparisons between Flickerfest and Tropfest? “They are very different festivals,” she answers. “Ours is a different level of competition. We are Australia's only Academy and BAFTA accredited short film festival, which means our films are eligible to be considered for an Academy award. Flickerfest doesn't have a theme involved.

We're exploring longer pieces, finding new voices, seeing films that are made out of love, where a film maker has a burning desire to tell that story.”

One thing Kidd loves about her work is picking the strong voices of independent cinema and seeing film makers who have had early films screened in her festival go on to forge strong national and international careers. “You are there discovering the next generation.

So many film makers in Flickerfest have gone on to have feature film success,” she says. Notably, David Michod of Animal Kingdom fame had three short films screened at Flickerfest. Early work by Joel and Nathan Edgerton has also appeared in the festival. “You can see the impact of Flickerfest on film makers' careers,” Kidd adds. “We see great collaborations. People are still all working together years later.”

An aspect of the Made in Melbourne presentation that

By Liza Dezfouli Want to know how to impress a film festival director? Be yourself. “Stay true to your passion,” says Bronwyn Kidd, director of Flickerfest, the festival of short film. “Don't replicate what others have done. Tell the stories that are individual to you, tell the story you want to tell. Don't try to be the next Quentin Tarantino.”

This year's Flickerfest attracted a huge number of entries, nearly 2,500 of them. Of these, 120 films have been handpicked by the festival for competition.

23 years on, the documentary maker turned festival director is thrilled with the enormous growth of Flickerfest's profile since its inception. “It's wonderful that Flickerfest has attracted so many entries,” Kidd says. “I ended up creating Flickerfest because as a film maker myself I'm incredibly passionate about independent cinema.”

The touring programme of Flickerfest, described as ‘Spectacular Short Films With Soul’ opens with a special Made in Melbourne programme. This programme, Kidd says, is a showcase of exactly the sort of thing she means by the advice she offers to would-be film makers. Made in Melbourne is as fine a set of films you'll see anywhere.

“These are great stories over a range of subjects,” Kidd enthuses. “There's a lot of very individual styles and unique storytelling, of mature stories.”

Along with the local films, a US effort also features in the Melbourne screening list, an award-winning

documentary called Slomo, where a neurologist throws in his career and moves to the beach, exchanging stethoscope for rollerblades. Slomo is included as an extra treat as it's been named the Festival's Best Short documentary, an award newly qualified for Academy award nomination. Kidd is proud of Flickerfest's three other Academy qualifying live action and animation awards across the festival's competition component; Flickerfest is the only short film festival in Australia to enjoy this status.

One highlight of Made in Melbourne this year is a debut short film about a suburban cult, Kingdom of Doug, by actor turned director Victoria Thaine. Kingdom of Doug won the Best Australian Short Film award in Sydney.

“Victoria Thaine's moving from being in front of the camera to behind it,” notes Kidd. “It's an interestingly, darkly humorous film.” Other local films include The Hunter directed by Margaret Harvey, the story of an indigenous youth in love and at odds with country. Does Kidd have a liking herself for any particular style or approach to cinema? “I like films that make you think

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We Keep On Dancing Kidd especially enjoys is the engagement between film makers and audiences. “Being able to bring these films to audiences, to show them such great talent and to have the film makers present at the event and engaging with the audiences about the films, telling audiences about the films – it's great.” Kidd talks about the Flickerfest festival as being a 'pure place'. “People aren't bothered about money,” she says, meaning that films entered into Flickerfest aren't initially motivated by potential commercial success. “It's a platform for developing talent. These are short films purely about storytelling, they're remaining true to the passion of cinema, pure cinema. It's great to have the opportunity to engage with film makers, for people to come along and create; film makers making the stories they love.” One thing Kidd has noticed is a steady increase in the number of female directors and film makers. “Ours is a supportive festival,” she adds. “We're discovering and supporting talent, fresh new voices in independent cinema.”

Has Kidd identified any trends in Melbourne short film making, either in theme or style or similarities in subject matter? Not a whit, it seems. “That's just it,” says Kidd, clearly truly excited by the originality of the films.

“It's such an eclectic programme, a collection of unique voices, quite an exceptional range of short films that are really independent and unique.” Bet she says that to all the cities. We'll have to see these films for ourselves.

Flickerfest 2014 takes place on Wednesday February 12 at The Kino Cinemas, 45 Collins St. Visit flickerfest.com.au for more information.

Celebrate William S. Burroughs’ 100th Birthday by reading some mind-opening literature from the man who wrote like he shot – with extreme precision and no fear.

NAKED SCIENTOLOGY/ALI’S SMILE ($26.95) Naked Scientology contains articles and letters by Burroughs critiquing Scientology, a religion with which he was involved for some time and toward which he maintains a reserved curiosity. According to Burroughs, some of the techniques are highly valuable and warrant further study and experimentation, while on the other hand he is in flat disagreement with the organizational policy. Ali’s Smile is a hallucinatory dream-tale that loosely takes as its subject the negative effects of Scientology. Bilingual, in English and German.

THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS ($24.95) This surreal fable, set in America’s Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America. Fantastical and humorous, ‘The Place of Dead Roads’ continues William Burroughs’ exploration of society’s controlling forces–the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs– with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.

NAKED LUNCH ($22.95) An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and–ultimately–a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, its formal innovation, formerly taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted their influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J.G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship between art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally. This restored text includes editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs’ notes on the text, several essays he wrote about the book, an appendix of new material, and alternate drafts of the original manuscript.

JUNKY ($14.95) Burroughs’ first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, `Junky` is a field report (by a writer trained in anthropology at Harvard) from the American post-war drug underground. A cult classic, it has influenced generations of writers with its raw, sparse and unapologetic tone. This definitive edition painstakingly recreates the author’s original text word for word.

QUEER ($19.95) For more than three decades, while its writer’s world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee’s outrageous “routines”–brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch–yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding. In his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work.

GHOST OF CHANCE ($14.95) Burroughs continues to topple literary, social, and cosmological walls in this short but bittersweet version of the rise and fall of a unique settlement on Madagascar in the late 17th century. Captain Mission “threatened to demonstrate for all to see that three hundred souls can coexist in relative harmony with each of their neighbours, and with the ecosphere of flora and fauna.” Burroughs vividly depicts a variety of horrifying plagues and both the wonders and horrors of drugs as only he can. He traces the roots of the environmental crisis to the replacement of Pantheism with Christianity, deconstructs language, and concocts some powerful moral brew in one of his most accessible and finest books.

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN (DVD) ($22.95) A probing, yet loving look at the man whose works savaged conservative ideals, spawned countercultural movements, and reconfigured 20th century culture. Burroughs was one of the first writers to break the boundaries of queer and drug culture in the 1950s. His novel Naked Lunch is one of the most recognized and respected literary works of the 20th century and has influenced generations of artists. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage of Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with colleagues and confidants including John Waters, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Jello Biafra and David Cronenberg.

THE FINAL ACADEMY DOCUMENTS (DVD) ($39.95) In 1982 David Dawson, Roger Ely and Genesis P-Orridge organised a showcase tour of Britain, The Final Academy, based on and featuring works of and inspired by, William Burroughs. On 4th October The Final Academy came to Manchester and the famous Hacienda club, run by innovative record label Factory Records. There were screenings of the writer’s collaborative films including Ghosts at No. 9 and Towers Open Fire, along with the much anticipated appearance by the Literary Outlaw himself. His performance was spellbinding, his unmistakeable drawl adding so much depth of character to the written word. The excepts he chose were full of satirical observation and deadpan wit, confirming that until you hear Burroughs read you never really appreciate just why he is heralded a genius.

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FESTIVAL OF LIVE ART

WHITE NIGHT MEBOURNE

White Night Melbourne have added 50 more events to the 2014 incarnation. Some of the highlights within the additions include the multifaceted choral installation VOICES, performances from Client Liaison, Teeth & Tongue, Fraser A. Gorman, Baptism Of Uzi, Black Cab, Beaches, Lost Animal and The Cactus Channel and The Murlocs, one of the most popular works of Paris’ Nuit Blanche, the visual and sound installation Purple Rain, and much, much more.

White Night Melbourne goes down on Saturday February 22 from 7pm to 7am.

What happens when you ask three exceptional arts centres to create a festival? You get the Festival of Live Art. The festival is a three-week, arts-based festival featuring works from Theatre Works, Arts House and Footscray Community Arts Centre. Consisting of six venues spread over four suburbs, it will feature over 35 contemporary and community events.

Some highlights include Tristan Meecham & Aphids’ Game Show, Nicola Gunn’s Person of Interest, Yana Alana & Tha Parana’s Tears Before Bedtime, Sarah Rodigari’s A Filibuster of Dreams and the gargatuan 24 Hour Experience - which comprises 24 live works that take place on the hour, every hour, over 24 hours. The Festival of Live Art will run from Friday March 14 – Sunday March 30.

SUPANOVA

Supanova Pop Culture Expo will return this year for a Pokémon and Adventure Time filled bill. Full of a ‘Mathematical!’ line-up — including Finn the Human, Jeremy Shada, Jake the Dog, John DiMaggio, and Princess Hynden Walch Bubblegum — Supanova will be full of rad opportunities to gain insight into your favourite shows, movies and comics, as well as purchase awesome paraphernalia. Highlight guests include: voice Pokémon actors Veronica Taylor (Ash Ketchum) and Eric Stuart (Brock and James), voice actor Neil Kaplan (Power Rangers, Transformers), Ser Lora Tyrell impersonator Finn Jones, Gethin Anthony (Renly Baratheon in Game of Thrones), Eoin Macken (Sir Gwaine from Merlin), Harry Potter royalty Jessie Cave (Lavender Brown), comic book legend Tom Taylor (Earth 2, Injustice: Gods Amongst Us), Sandman artist Jill Thompson, New York Times-bestselling author of The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher, and many more.

Supanova will be held at Melbourne Showgrounds on Saturday April 12 and Sunday April 13.

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The next location of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Secret Symphony series has been unveiled-and it’s a little fishy. The free concert series has announced that it will take place with the backdrop of the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium’s 2.2 million litre Oceanarium, complete with stingrays, sharks and every colour of sea life you can imagine. Secret Symphony has been hitting unorthodox locations around the Melbourne CBD to perform an eclectic repertoire in exciting settings. Secret Symphony will go down tonight, Wednesday February 5 at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium. Performances start at 9pm and 10pm.

RIENZI

Due to overwhelming demand, Melbourne Opera are set to present a return performance of Wagner’s Rienzi, which premiered last December as part of the Melbourne Ring Festival. Rienzi was Wagner’s first big operatic success; this return performance features leading stars Rosamund Illing, Jason Wasley, Joanna Cole and Roger Howell with the augmented Melbourne Opera Chorus and orchestra conducted

by Greg Hocking. Wagner’s Rienzi will be performed at the Athenaeum Theatre on Wednesday February 5.

CRAB L AB There’s another killer lineup tonight at Crab Lab with Daniel Townes from Sydney headlining, Steele Saunders as your MC and a bunch of great acts including Jonathan Schuster, Laura Dunemann and Jon Bennett! Doors at 7.30pm for just $5.

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LAUGHING WILD

This year promises to be a prolific year for a group of 2013’s Graduating Actors and Production Designers from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne; who are bringing to the stage characters living on the fringes of our society, in Christopher Durang’s Laughing Wild. Rani Pramesti, Daniel Last, Samuel Duncan, Holly May and Oliver Coleman are passionate about telling stories that are ignored by broader society. They are banding together to recount one such story, in Laughing Wild: a play set in 1980s New York city about two socially marginalised people struggling valiantly to survive in the modern world- the two characters, The Woman and The Man, are quintessential examples of people left on the fringes of Australian society: the long-term mentally unwell and the struggling queer. Laughing Wild opens at the Mechanics Institute on Wednesday February 26 for the first of five shows.

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ART BY TWILIGHT

The first Art By Twilight series will return to Heide Museum of Modern Art this February with an indepth exploration of Future Primitive. Hosted for one night only, Art By Twilight: Future Primitive will treat guests to a live performance by artist Dylan Martorell, Breaking and Entering, and a chance to get crafty with artist Siri Hayes. Other visual artists featured in their current exhibition Future Primitive — Graham Fletcher, Daniel Byod, and Alasdair McLuckie — will discuss their inspiration and ideas with those willing to listen throughout the night. Art By Twilight: Future Primitive will happen at Heide Museum of Modern Art on Thursday February 13 from 6pm – 9pm.

Veteran stand up comedian Mike Epps will be heading to Australia for the first time this May. Epps has steadily climbed his way up the stand up comedy ranks since 1995. After appearing on the US Def Comedy Jam tour and HBO’s TV’s Def Comedy Jam, Epps gained national recognition and subsequently caught the attention of Ice Cube in 2000 at the LA Comedy Store. Since that time he has starred in over 30 feature films and won a NAACP Image Award for his role in the Sony Pictures film, Jumping the Broom. Mike Epps will take over The Athenaeum Theatre on Thursday May 22.

WHONIVERSE

Recently Matt Smith regenerated into Peter Capaldi the Christmas Special of Doctor Who, finalising his run as the 11th incarnation of the famed Doctor. Now that the rising star has some free time, he will be joining his Doctor Who comrades Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill for their trip Down Under this March. In association with Hub Productions, Whoniverse, a convention dedicated to all things Doctor Who, will be bringing the much-loved trio to Melbourne for what fans might call ‘the most incredible reunion in time and space’. Smith, who portrayed the 11th incarnation of the Doctor, and Gillan and Darvill, who played companions Amy ‘The-Girl-Who-Waited’ Pond and Rory ‘Pond’ Williams, will talk all things Doctor Who with renowned Australian artist Stewart Mckenny.

Whoniverse with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill will be held at Melbourne Park Function Centre on Sunday March 9.

THE WHEELER CENTRE 2014 PROGRAM

The Wheeler Centre is considered the central hub for all aspiring writers and established writers in Melbourne, and this week they announced the first part of the 2014 program.

Chockablock full of exciting events for all bibliophiles and writers alike, highlights of the program include: a night with Eleanor Catton, famed author of The Luminaries and The Rehearsal and the youngest writer to ever win the Man Booker Prize at the age of 28; White Night Melbourne event, The Book of the Night, an event which will see audiences spend 12 hours inspiring 12 writers to write 12 chapters each for an anthology that will be published by The Wheeler Centre afterward; an in-depth discussion and birthday celebration with internationally revered author David Malouf (Remembering Babylon, A First Place), a talk with controversial literary writer Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin and Big Brother, and an In Conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert, who recently published her first novel in over a decade, The Signature of All Things. This is only the beginning of The Wheeler Centre’s 2014 Program. To uncover more exciting events you can pick up a program at The Wheeler Centre; conversely, you can view their program online.

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LOL Comedy is back for 2014 with more venues, more comedians and top shelf laughs so high that you need a special extension ladder and several permits just to reach them. Or just turn up to a comedy night.

That’s probably easier. This Wednesday February 5 at the Portland Hotel, Thursday February 6 at their new night at the College Lawn and new weekly night at the Hawthorn Hotel, they have Australia’s biggest bogan Chris Franklin, complete with mullet, tattoos and a criminal record. MC Xavier Toby will then be telling jokes, but mostly spruiking his new book Mining My Own Business. Next week at the Local in Port Melbourne on Tuesday February 11 it’s the loudmouthed, foulmouthed but wonderfully eloquent Catherine Deven, with MC Micah D Higbed. Then don’t forget the now monthly brilliance of the Provincial Hotel, with Thursday February 6 with comedy royalty including Joel Creasey. LOL Comedy is back for 2014!

PUBLIC BAR COMEDY What do you get when you get one of the country’s most on fire new comedians with one of the country’s most on fire new comedy rooms? A must see night of comedy at the Public Bar tonight headlined by Ronny Chieng! As seen on It’s A Date, Problems, Dirty Laundry Live and a sold out comedy festival run Ronny never fails to destroy when he sets foot on the Public Bar stage, along with an A1 lineup including some of Melbourne’s finest comedians for just $5.

FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDY Ronny Chieng headlines Five Boroughs Comedy this Thursday. Plus there’s a super special guest dropping in, plus Daniel Townes, Ben Lomas, Simon Keck and more. It’s all happening this Thursday February 6 at 8.30pm, at Five Boroughs Comedy, 68 Hardware Lane (upstairs), all for only $12.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays at Spleen are more packed than ever (and that’s pretty damned packed). This Monday, Celia Pacquola hosts, plus there’s some great surprise guests, plus Demi Lardner, Steele Saunders, Greg Larsen, Adam Francis, Nat Harris and heaps more. It’s this Monday, February 10, 41 Bourke St at 8.30pm. It may be free, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS

By Josh Fergeus

After an EP, consistent gigging, excellent reviews on Triple J Unearthed, crowd-funding, blogging, blood, sweat and probably a few tears, Melbourne pop-funk outfit Better Than The Wizards have completed their self-titled debut album. I chatted to singer and bassist Daniel Farthing about how the six-piece were feeling ahead of the release.

“We’re just really happy that it doesn’t all sound the same,” laughs Farthing. “Each track has its nuances and different style. There’s a tune on there our keyboard player wrote which is basically a tango. It’s still a pop song but it bops along and changes and that’s the kind of thing we want people to listen to and then come along and dance when we play it. We’ve gone through ballads, rockier tracks – it’s good. We think people will enjoy listening to it.

We hope it won’t be for just the one audience, as there’s something on there for everyone.”

When I ask Farthing if he has a favourite among the diverse tunes they’re offering up to ears in Melbourne and beyond, he tells me that last week it was the ballad Waiting. “It sort of hits power ballad territory,” he says.

“But I think this week it’s Up All Night. I was listening to that last night – it really chops and changes to be honest.

“It’s just an exciting time I think. We’re super keen to work really hard, put it out there and hope that we get a good response. We’ve been getting that so far in the short time we’ve been showing it to people and giving them a bit of a listen. It’s just super exciting. We’re pretty proud about getting it done. It seems like a long time in the making, but we’re finally there which is good.”

Farthing tells me that the band has grown through making the commitment to record the album and following through as professionally as they could. To this end, the band engaged the ARIA-nominated Robin Mai, whose work with Nicky Bomba has been broadly recognised. “We started at Sing Sing then moved over to Woodstock Studios to go over a few of the tracks. We found it a really good process to have Robin pushing the bar, making us a bit more professional going through everything. All the sounds, even the way

we’ve constructed songs, asking why we’d done this or why that was there. He took us through the use of microphones inside and out, it was pretty good. At Woodstock with John Butler’s silver record on one wall and the Augie March one on the wall on the other side, it gives you a bit of a buzz.

“There were a couple of times when we had the songs done, then went into the studio and thought that we needed an extra bit tacked on there, or something a little different. It was good to have that bit of freedom and inspiration from Robin.”

The band are launching the album on Valentine’s Day at the Hi-Fi, ahead of an official album release in March.

But before they get to do the fun stuff, they’re working hard trying to build on the buzz the album has already generated through the crowd-funding campaign and

their strong social media presence. “We’ve already done a heap of the community radio interviews,” Farthing tells me. “They’re always really supportive of independent musicians which is really cool.” The busy times continue as they head up the East Coast to Sydney at the end of March, then off to Adelaide and Byron a little later.

“We’ve gotta keep pushing it out there. The internet is a big launching pad for anyone, and we’ve been trying to push through the blogs. Hopefully it continues to roll on.”

titled Be the Influence, explored the notion of subjective enjoyment, free from peer pressure.

While the presence and influence of alcohol is omnipresent in any Australian country town, Park concedes that binge drinking isn’t something that he’s surrounded by.

“Everybody loves music, so in any celebratory event you’ll find music, and probably alcohol as well,” Park says. “I think the message of The Be Project is awesome – as well as the other things they’re doing, like giving away free water at festivals. When you’re off your face, it’s pretty hard to take in the music, so you’re really missing out.”

Against stiff competition, Park’s song was chosen as the successful entrant in The Be Project. Park’s prizes included a MacBook Pro, and a mentoring session with Pez. “I had my session with Pez last weekend,” Park says. “We spent Friday doing the vocals, and on Saturday we mixed the

track.” As well as getting some hands-on experience in a studio, Park was able to explore song writing techniques and influence with Pez. “It was great working with some real heavyweights,” Park says. “And it was great talking with Pez, and seeing where he gets his lyrical influences from.”

Park’s song is due to be released in February, though Park isn’t sure what the future holds for him, or his music. “I’d probably like to put out some mix tapes – I’m about halfway through one, but I need to do a bit of work on it,” he says. “I’m not sure what will happen with my music in the future – I just want to have fun with it, and see where it goes.”

BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS launch their debut album at the Hi-Fi on Friday February 14. Tickets are available via the venue website. They will also be playing St Kilda Festival this week on Thursday February 6 at The Espy, and Saturday February 8 at Prince Bandroom.

THE BE PROJECT

By Patrick Emery

Barely a week passes without the appearance in the media of a story describing in emotive and pictorial detail the permeation of excessive alcohol consumption in youth culture. Images of teenagers slumped against the wall of a nightclub, police officers escorting an inebriated youth into a van and tell-tale splashes of vomit and blood on drunken punters. It is, statistics inform us, a disturbing plague with occasionally tragic consequences.

It’s these sensational events that ‘Be the Influence – Tackling Binge Drinking’ aims to curb. ‘Be the Influence – Tackling Binge Drinking’ is an initiative supported and promoted by the Australian National Preventative Health Agency, the Commonwealth Government statutory agency established in 2011 to promote healthy living.

An important aspect of the Government’s preventative health strategy is to raise awareness in particularly demographic groups of the immediate and longer-term dangers occasioned by excessive alcohol consumption – or to use tabloid media discourse on binge drinking.

In addition to targeting binge drinking in the younger demographic by encouraging responsible behaviour – such as encouraging punters at festivals to balance their alcohol intake with water to maintain hydration levels and promoting positive self-esteem, Be the Influence invited young songwriters and aspiring film makers to create songs and video clips consistent with the themes of the

responsible drinking campaign.

Liam Park began writing songs at the age of 16. Living in a small country town “about 300 kilometres inland from Brisbane” meant that Park had to retreat to his bedroom to experiment with his song writing and production techniques. “Like a lot of people, I started off listening to people like Eminem, and then I got into Tribe Called Quest and Hilltop Hoods,” Park says.

Park came across The Be Project when a friend referred him to the Facebook page advertising the song writing competition. With local hip hop artist Pez acting as ambassador for The Be Project, Park was immediately interested. “I’m a massive fan of Pez, so when he put it up on his Facebook page, a mate of mine told me about it,” Park says.

Park already had what he describes as a “good vibe sort of melody” kicking around in his head, but wasn’t sure what lyrics to put to the song to complete it. Park’s song, aptly

Over 100 songs were submitted to THE BE PROJECT between October 2013 and January 2014, you can listen to them at tacklingbingedrinking.gov.au.

SHERIFF VS THE PEEP TEMPEL The Peep Tempel question Sheriff: So, what are you wearing?

Jocks that I received free from a local bottle shop promotion and a vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle t-shirt.

You guys recently toured Tasmania, did you meet David Boon? Boony strikes me as a Sheriff fanatic.

Unfortunately we did not run into Boony this time however he did send his regards. Boony LOVES a bit of Sheriff. Sometimes rock bands get a lot of girls attending their shows. Most of the time Sheriff ’s audience mainly consists of older gentlemen with impressive facial hair.

We’re cool with that.

You guys have an album in the works, when will this beast be unleashed? Will there be a sequel to Simon Young?

At the end of the first one Simon marries band member Tom, and then it ends, maybe the sequel could start with Tom giving birth to an SG on the family warship?

If all goes well we’ll be unleashing our debut long player on your ass later this year. That does sound like an incredible idea! There may very well be a sequel to Simon Young but we can’t reveal anything just yet. When the time comes we’ll do our best to incorporate your idea sir.

So this is your first show in Melbourne this year, a rather big one. What can be expected from the mighty Sheriff as they bring How Ya Garn, Yeah Not Bad! to its explosive end?

A bag load of shenanigans! By the time we play we will have been in that band room for almost 12 hours. With all the excitement of so many killer acts playing before us we may find it difficult to contain ourselves. Anything could happen. We’ll be debuting a couple of new Sheriff tunes too.

Among the lineup for How Ya Garn are there any secret gems that people should know about, and who are you guys looking forward to seeing?

We’re looking forward to every single act on the bill. Have you seen the lineup? It’s fucking incredible! People should be there from the beginning to catch all acts but if you want in on a few little secrets, make sure you check out Made For Chickens By Robots. He’s a half man, half chicken who plays weird one man band lo-fi cartoon blues. You should also catch Japanese blues legend George Kamikawa.

While you’re at it don’t miss Leopard Slugg, Spacejunk, Tom Dockray, Cotangent, Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood, Seedy

Jeezus, The Strange, The Little Sisters, Skyscraper Stan, Kaleidoscope, I Am Duckeye, Legends Of Motorsport, Batpiss, Sun God Replica, Sheriff and of course you blokes.

It’s gonna be one hell of a hootenanny!

do that one day! How do European audiences differ from Australian audiences?

You’ll love it! European audiences didn’t yell “cunts” at us as much.

Sheriff question The Peep Tempel: Are you pumped for How Ya Garn? Yeah Not Bad! music festival? It’s going to be a fucking corker of a day. It’s you’re first Melbourne show for a while. Looking forward to seeing you blokes again!

We sure are! Can’t wait to get back into it and what better way to kick off 2014 than playing a show with some of the best bands in the country.

Are there any bands in particular that you’re looking forward to seeing at How Ya Garn? Yeah Not Bad!’?

Well Sheriff of course, Legends of Motorsport, Sun God Replica, Batpiss, Spacejunk and that’s just off the top of my head. So many great bands. Also looking forward to checking out the bands we don’t know too much about, it’s always nice to be surprised by what Melbourne bands have up their sleeves.

We heard there is a new Peep Tempel album on the cards.

You beauty! When can we expect that?

We’re heading into the studio early April to lay it down and looking to drop it in the second half of the year.

Can you further stress to the readers the importance of attending How Ya Garn? Yeah Not Bad! this weekend and give them an extra reason why they’d be mad to be anywhere else?

An entire day of bands, booze and bloody good times for $20, ya can’t get that anywhere else. See ya there!

You did a European tour a while back. Shit we’d love to

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JOHN BUTLER TRIO

By Peter Hodgson

A new John Butler Trio album is always an entrancing blend of head and heart: lyrical themes that dwell on the interconnectedness of the planet and the people who inhabit it, and music that explores the pure humanity and emotion of real instruments being played by real calloused fingertips. Due February 7, Flesh & Blood was recorded in Fremantle, WA in the aftermath of the Trio’s biggest tour yet of the US. “Every album is a sum of the last few years and everything I’ve done or written in between albums,” Butler says. “But two songs from this album came from a really deliberate writing session that I had with Nicky (Bomba, drums) and Byron (Luiters, bass) where we got together and I didn’t bring my songs in.

We just jammed. Because we all have so many great flavours, and a lot of times when I write a song, the song dictates quite a lot of the flavours right away, so we wanted to see what we could create without any input. And working with (producer) Jan Skubiszewski, he was instrumental, a fourth member of the band. He was a great conduit for all of us: me as an employer, a band leader, a co-producer and songwriter I can get a bit heady and probably a bit confusing, kind of this multiple personality that understands itself but I’m starting to understand that not everybody understands

what I mean by ‘funky, dirty and angry!’ So Jan was amazing; a great producer and a great engineer.”

One of the tracks cuts particularly deep for Butler: “Wings Are Wide is about my grandmother Phillipa passing away,” Butler says. “She is the matriarch of my family, the one who, when I was 16, passed me down the Dobro guitar which once belonged to my grandfather John, whom I’m named after. She’s the reason why I play music; the cornerstone. It’s about her going to see her man again, after all this time.” The delivery is especially goosebump-raising.

At this point it’s pretty damn firmly established that people are going to buy John Butler Trio records: it’s going to have to take a pretty monumental clanger for that to ever change and it certainly won’t happen with Flesh & Blood. With that in mind, does Butler feel pressure from listeners, knowing that his music will be

heard and that people are waiting to attach their own resonance to it? “There’s a bit of that, I think. I don’t think people listen to me because I write for them. I write strictly for my ears and for the Trio’s ears and what we want to hear and what we want to express.

And we trust what we do enough to say ‘This is what we’ve done and this is all we know how to do.’ I’m sure there are some people who would like me to play more funky reggae all the time because that’s what Zebra was but I just can’t do that because then I’d become a parody of myself. So all I can keep on doing is to do what’s in the moment and hope for the best. I’ll

be the first to say I hope people like the album, but if they don’t I don’t think I’d have written it any other way. I don’t think I’d know how to! I hope I’m never in that position where I have to write something to keep someone else happy.”

difficult, Eastern-influenced music that we’re playing, I need to have it in my pocket for a couple of weeks before committing to a solo,” Beck reasons.

The match of Brian Wilson’s impeccable pop acumen and Jeff ’s at-times aggressive guitar style may seem incongruous on paper, but the fusion of musical minds reaches beyond the sum of its parts. “The texture, the style is predetermined, the melody is just suggested.

Who knows how Brian’s organisation works, he doesn’t say a lot in the sessions. It’s a bit of a guessing game, but there’s always a map to guide you. It’s not an easy task. You obviously wouldn’t play an aggressive solo over a pretty ballad. There was one track with an aggressive riff, and he explained to his people that he wanted me to be me on it, but it’s still in the making, as far as I know.”

With a career spanning many epochs of evolution in terms of guitar technology, Jeff still feels the need to

adhere to the gold standard set in simpler times. “I don’t want to hear about new gizmos that are safety nets in any way. You give me an amp and a guitar and if I can’t do anything impressive with that, then something’s wrong.

Can you imagine if Django Reinhardt started playing with a wah-wah pedal? Or flanging with a chorus? It’s not necessary. If the melody is good and you’re playing well, and you have your craft under control, then I’m not really interested in what’s there that wasn’t invented in the ‘50s with the electric guitar. I don’t like the sound of digital records. We had it right, why mess with it?”

rhythms she uses. So I got hold of her back catalogue and listened to it extensively.”

While Howard’s interest in PJ Harvey is probably unsurprising, even Howard was surprised when he found himself listening to Queens of the Stone Age. “PJ Harvey did a Desert Sessions record with them,” Howard says.

“Before I listened to that, I thought Queens of the Stone Age were a bit lame-brained, but I suddenly realised that Josh Homme is really, really smart. I was fascinated how he used a very broad expanse of influences, and a lot of European musicians.”

The songs on Pretty reflect Howard’s blunt and evocative lyrical style: tales of love, death, hope and forgiveness are delivered with an endearing directness that reflects both Howard’s personality, and the pragmatic mindset that comes with a brush with mortality. “I’m largely straight forward as a person – even though I beat around the bush a bit,” Howard laughs. “I think in the way I play

music, and my words, I’m quite direct. I don’t disguise lyrics in mystery, unless I’m creating an atmosphere.

There’s nothing better than having something real to write about – once you’ve got the idea and work out what it is, then you can keep throwing things at it, and expand it.”

Howard hopes to take the band over to Europe later this year for what would be his first European sojourn since returning to Australia in the 1990s. Howard also hopes to have more opportunities to showcase the work of his late brother. “Mick Harvey has always got his feelers out for more shows,” Howard says. “We’ve really enjoyed doing those shows, and it’s such an honour to be able to play Rowland’s songs.”

JOHN BUTLER TRIO will grace the Palais Theatre on Tuesday April 1 and Wednesday April 2. They also play the Bluesfest in Byron Bay which takes place from Thursday April 17-Monday April 21. Flesh & Blood will be released this Friday February 7 through Jarrah/MGM.

JEFF BECK

By Lachlan Kanoniuk

He’s one of the most revered lead guitarists in rock history, going on to forge a steady and formidable standing as a virtuoso since his mid-‘60s stint with The Yardbirds. Even after half a century of performing, Jeff Beck is still exploring the possibilities of the electric guitar, pursuing a varied array of worldly musical styles – including an upcoming fulllength collaboration with Brian Wilson. Ahead of his arrival in Australia for this year’s Bluesfest, Jeff speaks about the album, the difficulties in constructing a setlist and a worship for a purity of guitar tone.

“It’s fairly new,” Jeff says on the band he will be bringing to Australia this year. “We just did a short tour with Brian Wilson a few months ago. We have a new drummer, we have violin, and rhythm guitar.”

Armed with decades of back catalogue jams, including the eclectic 2010 album Emotion & Commotion, compiling a setlist for the Australian tour is a challenge in itself. “It’s always a tricky one, when you have a new album you need to decide how much of it to put in the show before people start looking at each other wondering what they’re thinking too. It’s a worry, not wanting to baffle people with new material. But if you don’t leave the old stuff behind, you’re going to be stuck with it. So you have to choose a song you have absolute belief in that it will rock the place. But there is no way of testing the stuff. People come with a pre-conceived notion of what you’re going to play, so you don’t want to bombard them with weird music

they’ve never heard before. I just hope I make the right choices when I come down there,” he laughs.

Following on from a collaborative US tour last year, Beck is set to put the finishing touches on a full-length team-up with Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson. “The album is finished without me, I’ve got all the backing tracks done and mixed as close as we can get without the guitar. So I can take that in the car and imagine what I’m going to play. So I can play 14 songs in the car without me playing features. There are riffs, but the solo sections are left empty so I can dial into what I want to play, instead of just blindly playing at the time of recording. That’s been my problem, thinking that the live performance is the be-all. But it’s not necessarily so. If you want to really deliver the best solo, you need to think about what you’re doing first. Unless it comes out naturally, that one-off genius. But for me, with the

JEFF BECK will perform at Bluesfest 2014, Thursday April 17 - Monday April 21 at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm NSW alongside Erykah Badu, John Butler Trio, Jack Johnson, Buddy Guy plus many more. He also plays a Melbourne sideshow at Hamer Hall on Tuesday April 22.

HARRY HOWARD AND THE NDE

By Patrick Emery

“Obviously being so close to death, in different ways, has an effect – I just feel so mortal these days,” muses Harry Howard, titular leader of Harry Howard and the Near Death Experience.

Only a few years ago Howard’s health was in a perilous state, with even his doctor fearing the worst. Scroll forward to 2014, and Howard has recovered, released two albums and reinvented himself as a post-punk singer-songwriter.

In the early 1980s Howard had moved to Europe, following a path beaten by his contemporaries in the Melbourne punk scene, including his elder brother, Young Charlatans and Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S Howard. Howard went on to join Simon Bonney’s Crime and the City Solution (which also featured at one time Mick Harvey), as well as teaming up with his brother a few years later in These Immortal Souls. After 13 years, Howard returned to Melbourne, where he transferred his musical energy into Pink Stainless Tail. It wasn’t long after – having pushed music into the background while he went to university and started a family – when Howard’s health began to falter. Howard’s black sense of humour led him to call his new band the Near Death Experience. Howard’s partner Edwina Preston was drafted to play keyboards, before Dave Graney – whom Howard had known since Graney BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 30

moved across to Melbourne with The Sputniks (later to morph into The Moodists) – rang Howard up to ask if he could play bass. When Graney’s wife and long-time collaborator Clare Moore volunteered to play drums, The NDE was born. “That’s what you really want – to have your friends in your band,” Howard says.

Released in 2012, Howard’s first solo record was heavily influenced by The Modern Lovers and the progenitors of the 1970s New York punk scene. While Howard’s second album, Pretty, suggests more of a Richard Hell influence, Howard says it was PJ Harvey and Queens of the Stone Age who provided the musical backdrop to the writing and recording of the album. “I went and saw PJ Harvey and really loved the show,” Howard says.

“I’d always liked her music, but I’d never investigated her that much. I really like her directness, and I relate to the

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HARRY HOWARD AND THE NDE play the PBS Drive Live this Thursday February 6 in Studio 5, along with Cherrywood and Bad Vision.

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The well worn path of writing an album, rehearsing songs, booking studio time with a producer, laying down those tracks, mixing, mastering and having an album in a few months is tried and tested. However there’s a new bread of artists and producers who are turning their back on this successful pathway to releasing an album.

Andy Bull is one of a raft of artists who, instead of recording music the traditional way, is helping pioneer a new way thanks to technology and the sharing possibilities the internet provides musicians.

“When digital technology started becoming available, people started doing things on the cheap, using MP3s and that’s blossomed, now you can get any beat, percussion sample, synthesizers, any kind of plug-in and you don’t have to pay for it. You just kind of share it.

“There’s this whole class of electronic musicians, like Flume, who are the rock stars now, but they just did their records on their laptops.” Andy points out that not only has this new approach to writing music been birthed out of the pure cost benefits of the ‘bedroom record’, but that not all creative types work best in the typical writing songs, then going to a studio to record them blueprint.

“I still think of myself as a song writer but I’m not doing the old traditional route of song writing.” He acknowledges that it may not be an overly efficient process, however it certainly seems to be working for him. Both songs he released in 2013 placed in the triple j Hottest 100 despite

delivering no album. Baby I Am Nobody Now’s brilliantly original video clip, which sees Andy portray the main character in a fake film trailer, was voted in rage’s Top 50 most popular videos of 2013.

Earlier single Keep On Running and Baby I Am Nobody Now should both feature on the new album despite being released several months ago. While in earnest the forthcoming album is a follow up to his 2009 debut We’re Too Young and the first release other than singles since The Phantom Pains EP in 2010, he doesn’t see it that way. “I don’t even really think of it as a follow up album, it kind of feels like the first thing I’ve ever done really.” It’s obvious that the person he was then feels like a lifetime ago, and the themes of youth and young love are a distant memory.

His recent singles have garnered a whole host of new fans, and the buzz he’s created has been rewarded with a spot on Australia’s favourite regional touring festival; Groovin’ The Moo alongside acts like Dizzee Rascal, The Naked & Famous, The Presets and Vance Joy. The festival will be the biggest Andy has played so far, and after attending the Canberra leg as a punter last year, he says he’s looking forward to being involved on the other side of the fence this year.

“I thought it had a really good vibe and it [always] gets a great line up, last year they had Tame Impala, so this year I’m pretty happy to be on it. My [live] guitarist played last

year with Hungary Kids of Hungry and he said it was a really fun festival to play and that they treat you really well, so I think it’s going to be another good one [this year].”

If you do catch Bull at Groovin’ The Moo, St Kilda Festival or any other show this year, something that may strike you aside from his obvious musical talent is his irreverent humour between songs. When prompted about this, Andy is clearly aware that while he wants to make a show enjoyable for everyone involved, he doesn’t want it “turning into a vaudeville show”. “I used to play solo shows a long time ago, and it’s just you and a keyboard and a lot of silence in between songs, it can be a bit boring and one dimensional, so you end up telling stories and playing the role of a kind of troubadour and telling jokes.” He’s careful of maintaining a balance and wary of detracting from his music on any given night, “this isn’t variety hour”.

“I think you’re trying to give some sort of experience if you go see a show, I think to ideal outcome is to be affected.”

Bull’s main reason for storytelling and jokes he says is that having several hundred people in a room together and no one saying anything is a strange thing in itself. “The only other time it’s like that is when you’re on a train,” he suggests, and at a gig, people aren’t wearing headphones and scrolling through their newsfeeds, so giving them something to focus on while tuning instruments or getting a sip of beer is all the more important.

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Bull’s collaboration with Lisa Mitchell on the song Dog on his last EP was a huge success and brought him to a wider audience. When pressed about the prospect of having any special guests appearing in songs on the new record Andy says there’s a possibility but is keeping mum on the exact details. “You put the feelers out there, but it’s sort of just providence what ends up coming out of that, I always put the feelers out and sometimes you get a vibe and other times not. The Phantom Pains EP I did had a lot of collaborators on it and that happened really easily, almost by accident, so I figure that’s a good way to do it.”

While nothing concrete so far, Andy has plans to tour internationally in the not so distant future, building off the back of solid domestic shows. And while the album may not yet have a release date, and the recording of whatever it evolves into has certainly not been straightforward, judging by his recent releases and his obvious passion and painstaking work ethic, it’s sure to be something special.

Catch Andy Bull on Sunday February 9 at The Espy as part of their St Kilda Festival celebrations, with DJ Yoda and more. He also plays at Groovin’ The Moo which takes place on Saturday May 3 at the Prince of Wales Showgrounds, Bendigo.

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on tour YOUTH LAGOON [USA] Wednesday February 5, Prince Bandroom CASHMERE CAT [NOR] Thursday February 6, The Liberty Social EARL SWEATSHIRT [USA], DANNY BROWN [USA] Thursday February 6, The Palace DVS1 [USA] Friday February 7, The Liberty Social BEN PEARCE [UK] Friday February 7, New Guernica DJEMBA DJEMBA [USA] Saturday February 8, Laundry Bar DJ FETT BURGER [NOR], MR. TIES [ITA] Saturday February 8, The Liberty Social MK [USA] Sunday February 9, Revolver Upstairs DJ SHADOW [UK] Thursday February 13, Prince Bandroom ADAM FREELAND [UK] Friday February 14, The Liberty Social KINGDOM [UK] Friday February 14, Boney JUS DEELAX [ESP] Friday February 14, RMH The Venue SKREAM [UK] Friday February 14, Brown Alley JOEY NEGRO [UK] Saturday February 15, Victoria Star PAUL DEVRO [USA], DIRTY SOUTH JOE [USA] Saturday February 15, The Vic Bar EMINEM [USA], KENDRICK LAMAR [USA] + MORE Wednesday February 19, Etihad Stadium MARCELL DETTMANN [GER] Friday February 21, Brown Alley TERRENCE PARKER [USA], SAN SODA [BEL] DAMIANO VON ERCKERT [GER] Friday February 21, The Liberty Social MIGUEL MIGS [USA] Saturday February 22, New Guernica REDSHAPE [GER] Friday February 28, RMH The Venue MARIO BASANOV [LIT], CASSY [UK] Sunday February 23, TBA FLYING LOTUS [USA] Friday February 28, The Forum DJ HARVEY [UK] Saturday March 1, The Toff In Town 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 MOVE D [GER] Sunday March 16, Revolver Upstairs BATHS [USA] Saturday March 22, Corner Hotel DETROIT SWINDLE [USA] Friday February 28, Circus A$AP FERG [USA] Wednesday April 2, Corner Hotel DARKSIDE [USA] Friday April 4, The Palace

tour rumours Lexx, Len Faki, Legowelt, Total Eclipse, Slow Magic, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Moritz von Oswald, Joe Claussell

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Israeli jazz musician and metal drummer-turned dubstep king, Borgore aka Asaf Borger has never let himself be tied down in any one genre. Finding a love of dubstep and electronic music in mid-2000, Borger set up his own label, Buygore Records and created the self-described subgenre of ‘gorestep’ comprised of “triplet drum patterns with heavy metal influences”.

He’s had to rebound from dubstep’s decline and incorporate more of his favourite genres into the mix.

“Dubstep is kind of dead right now, it’s not happening,” he says. “I think the Skrillex-inspired boom helped things get really big, really fast and like many things that happen quickly, it went away just as quickly.

“Skrillex brought such a high quality product that everyone else wanted to emulate, so there were a lot of copies and unoriginal material coming out, new things weren’t being explored and the genre got tired.”

A multi-faceted trained musician always takes an interest in different genres, so Borger was able to tweak his electronic sound with trap and house music influences. He performed in LA for New Year’s Eve, a fair stretch from his beginnings as a jazz musician entertaining some less than energetic crowds. “New Year’s Eve was unreal,” he says.

“We did a show in the (Hollywood) Palladium, one of the most iconic places in LA with 1300 people there, so it was really a night to remember.

“I used to play jazz for years, where you go crazy improvising and playing complicated things at 300BPM

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to my show to have a good time and I’m there to entertain them more than anything.

“Everything is very party orientated, but I like to throw in a few tunes I personally like regardless of that.”

With his EP and latest influences the cornerstone for his upcoming visit to Perth, Borger says his sets need to be improvised on the night to maintain freshness and keep the crowd interested and liking what they hear. “You have to know what music suits what crowd,” he says. “Songs that might be huge in the US might not be the same in Australia for example, so I always like to ask local people what they listen to and I try to relate to them in their language.

“Being a small club tour this time, it will just be me and my music; maybe a few dancers coming up on stage for some songs that are really exciting me at the moment.”

With releases planned on Spinnin’, Buygore and Dim Mak in 2014 along with the added pressures of constant touring, he likes to think of time spent at home recording as the only chance he gets for a holiday. “For me recording is time off,” he laughs. “I like to be in the studio and spend some free time playing video games; I’m a pretty simple person.”

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with a few hand claps from older people in the crowd,’ he says. “Then you go and play electronic music with a few notes over a crazy bass line and everyone’s going mental, so I’d say I like that experience better.”

Mostly renowned for his heavy electro sounds and big room style, Borger says outside of show time he’s always listening to new things and coming up with ideas not solely designed to be electronically produced.

“I’ve always loved writing music in general, spending most of the day in front of the piano writing songs and not for any particular genre,” he explains. “My passion for electronic music has come from how much I enjoy playing live and having such a huge crowd response.”

The party’s well and truly charging on with the release of the Wild Out EP last November, featuring Waka Flocka Flame and up and coming producer Victor Niglio. “I had really good times working with Waka Flocka and I think we made a really good track together combining trap and that big room sound. I think the whole EP is really eclectic, with Wild Out being quite commercial and Booty Monsta (featuring Niglio) being unlike anything else out there.”

A key inspirational factor for Borger going forward is drawing upon like-minded producers and labels like Spinnin’ Records and Dim Mak, combined with his personal taste coming through in his sets. “I’ve really been into what Spinnin’ Records are doing – deep house and trap are really cool and I still like putting on a few dubstep tracks,” he says. “I always remind myself that people come

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terrence parker, san soda and damiano von erckert Body Contact, Melbourne’s next biggest party are throwing holding their first night with San Soda, Terrence Parker and Damiano Von Erckert. Returning to Melbourne after a year or so ago, Terrence Parker is set to set crowds alight with his uncommon yet unparalleled turntabalism style of playing house music. San Soda star has risen exponentially in the past year with his remix of FCL’s It’s You sending chills down everyone’s spines wherever it was played. Set to close Body Contact’s first party with the best house and disco gems, San Soda will be sure to keep you entranced until the sun comes up. Cologne’s ava. Records boss has been the talk of the town since released his Love Based Music LP last year. His 90s reminiscent hit Housem is due for a follow up this year and it would be best to head down and try and catch him before he blows up. Head to The Liberty Social on Friday February 21.

jus deelax Spanish native, Jus Deelax, has been announced as Just Minimal 2.0. guest this February. With summer in full fledge, Higher Entertainment have taken it upon themselves to make sure the minimalists are catered to. Make sure to head down to the Royal Melbourne Hotel on Friday February 14.

Kerser has announced that he will embark on his S.C.O.T tour this 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. We have a double pass to give away. Head to beat.com.au/free shit to win.

t’n’t Hard Kandy and Masif are coming together and bringing down Technoboy and Tuneboy to play together as T’N’T. The project began back in 2002 when Technoboy and Tuneboy decided to try coproducing. They are two of Hardstyle’s greatest producers and together they go beyond the realms of their individual imaginations, opening their minds to fresh possibilities that can take even themselves by surprise. It’s all happening at Roxanne on Friday February 14.

park st party Get ready to get your groove on as Park St Party returns to The Vic Bar this February. Hosted in conjunction with The Aviary Hotel, Park Street Party boasts a wicked line-up for its third birthday, including international acts Paul Devro, Dirty South Joe, Missil, Mayavanya, as well as local acts Swick, Mat Cant, Tomderson, Little League Bounce Club and Aspartame. Running for 13 hours, the party will feature three main stages, a BBQ and an indoor and outdoor bar. Graffiti royalty SimpleSime, DVATE, Puzzle, Mayo and many more will also have free reign to paint the 250m Park Str exterior during the party as well. Park St Party will return to The Vic Bar on Saturday February 15 from 12pm.

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dj fett burger and mr. ties Two incredibly individual artists who ultimately only answer to themselves when it comes to what, when, and how to mix and present their now almost legendary sets are coming to Melbourne. Born and grown in Moss, Norway, DJ Fett Burger equates to one half of the brains-trust behind one of the most competitively uninterested, digitally elusive and consistently diverse labels of the last decade, Sex Tags Mania. Originally from Italy and now residing in Istanbul after settling in Berlin, Mr.Ties has never bought into or succumbed to audience expectations, instead choosing to sway crowds with and through a strikingly diverse selection of music. Catch ‘em at The Liberty Social on Saturday February 8.

dj harvey Get your hips into gear as near-mythical godfather of disco and pioneer of Balearic sound DJ Harvey when he returns after his sold out 2010 tour that featured three Melbourne shows and a closing set at Meredith.

Fresh from Coachella and Rolling Stone’s ‘Top 25 DJs That Rule the Earth’ list, it’s not an A-List party if the libertine Englishman isn’t on the decks. He’ll hit The Toff In Town on Saturday March 1.

all girl vinyl at rubix This week at Rubix Funhouse Fridays, they are paying special attention to the ladies of the bass scene who spin nothing but best drum and bass, jungle and hip hop vinyl. DJs C:1, SK, Fee and Asylum will be dropping the phatness from 8pm – 1am this Friday at Rubix Funhouse. Free entry.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like Rainbow because everybody is always positive and happy and not down,â&#x20AC;? announced a bright eyed Isabella, a little girl who has been attending Lextonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rainbow Serpent Festival since she was three years old.

As the sun began to duck behind the sepia toned hills at Saturday eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening ceremony, it was evident that Isabellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s observation resonated with the expansive crowd scattered with fairies, pirates, bohemian beauties and camo clad festival goers. A few hours later, the now solemn main stage would transform into a wonderland that could only exist inside of Aliceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mind with its psychedelic art installations and array of beaming lasers.

From the iconic rainbow arch that stood at the top of the hill to the lights decorating a mountain in the distance, Rainbow Serpentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sold-out 17th incarnation was a long weekend of musical, visual and emotional bliss.

While many chose to arrive on Thursday to secure the prime spot that they would call home for the next five days, the festival didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t officially kick off until Friday when Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Banco de Gaia welcomed in Rainbow 2014 at the Market Stage with his special brand of electronic baroque. The smooth, horn tinged beats warmed up the eager crowd who had been anxiously awaiting the moment when they could ditch their camping chairs and finally cut loose. As day turned into night, the music followed suit, turning from lighthearted techno to dark fiery psytrance. Hypnagog and Staunch managed the

transition, delivering what best could be described as glitched out psychedelic progstep before psy titan Avalon pumped out an hour and a half of foot stomping beats.

With four days to go, Rainbow was an endurance test of sorts, causing many to retire to their camps early with dreams of Main Stage madness dancing in their heads.

As Friday offered festival goers an opportunity to warm up their moves, Saturday was viewed by many as the main event with the fire breathing Main Stage opening up for 24 hours of pure showmanship. Following an opening ceremony that encompassed Aboriginal dances, speeches and moments of reflection, psy dubber Ott took the decks to deliver a velvety soundtrack for the masses of people flooding the now opened stage. If there was a performance that you wanted to catch, it would be ambient house pioneers The Orb, who celebrated their 25th anniversary at Rainbow. With stunning visuals flying out of the LED screen behind the duo, their show was an eclectic, cinematic, and purely captivating journey. As the night pushed on and the inevitable Rainbow polar vortex forced the shivering to cover up with furry coats and animal print jumpsuits, progressive trance became the name of the game as Interpulse and Manifestor injected their high energy sounds into a swell of progfaced dancers. Following was Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Terrafractyl with a chaotic, yet nearly perfect hour of psy. As the rest of the night continued on at a hectic

pace, Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tristan set himself apart from the pack with an unrivaled stage presence that saw him pointing, jumping, and grinning like it was the first time that the modern goa legend had ever stepped onstage. After he was joined by Avalon for their side project Killerwatts, the two fed off of each other and the hungry crowd, glowing with an excitement that channeled the blissful vibes of the early morning warriors.

Even as Sunday marked the closing of the Main Stage, there was plenty more fun to be had with techno treats offering a welcomed break from the previous nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s psytrance marathon. With the temperatures soaring and the sun cooking the Rainbow farm, Sunday evening provided much needed relief with standout performances

by Michael Mayer and Donato Dozzy. Dark Nebula beckoned those who were still longing for more psy into the forest for a turbulent late night performance with the ominous â&#x20AC;&#x153;bun da ba bun dun da bunâ&#x20AC;? bass line echoing throughout the festival.

While until this point the very best of Rainbow had come out at night, the arrival of Mad Monday signaled a changing of the guard with a day party that gave everyone one last chance to dance it out before reality set in. At noon, Max Cooper blasted off, taking the raucous crowd on a hypnotic journey through a lush expanse of electronica and techno. Whether festival goers were embracing, boogying, covering themselves in

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club guide wednesday feb 5

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CLAUDYKNIGHT + ARGUS THE LIAR + EDD FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.

CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + FLAGRANT + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

DJ FLIPSIDE KARL Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North.

7:30pm.

HUMP DAY JAM - FEAT: MZRISK + ELIZE + MR LOB Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

THE DINNER SET - FEAT: WOOSHIE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

thursday feb 6

first floor

lucky coq

3121 THURSDAYS - FEAT: JESSE YOUNG + JOHN DOE + MATTHEW BUTTERS + SAM GUDGE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm.

CLUB COCO - FEAT: CC:DISCO + PASTIZZI + THIS IS DISCO Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

CQ SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

GOOD EVENING - FEAT: PRINCIPAL BLACKMAN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

LOVE STORY - FEAT: INDIAN SUMMER DJS + MEGAWUOTI + MICKEY P + SLEEVES + SUPREMES + TRANTER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm.

LUCKY THURSDAYS - FEAT: WILL SPARKS + JAMIE VLAHOS + JOEL FLETCHER + KEESH + MATT WATKINS + ORKESTRATED + SLICE N DICE + ZOOLANDA 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: EDD FISHER + PREQUEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

NOIZY NEIGHBOURS Orange Whip, Ringwood. 9:00pm.

RARE CANDY Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

THE RITZ - FEAT: ANDO + HARRY ROWSTHORN + JOSHUA GILLILAND + KEN WALKER + ALEX YASKI + EDDY D + JACK HOWELL + JAMES ROSS + JARREN RYAN + JESSE PERKINS + LUCILLE CROFT + MATT HANNA + TIM LIGHT + TOM

rubix funhouse

BEDFORD Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm.

TIGER FUNK LIVE - FEAT: DJ MOONSHINE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

VARSITY - FEAT: DJ FOOFARAW + KITI Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

friday feb 7

#MASHTAG - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. #MASHTAG - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy.

8:00pm.

ALL GOOD IN THE HOOD Efiftyfive, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

CAN’T SAY Vault 8, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

DJ ECLECTIC MIX Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North.

10:00pm.

DROP FRIDAYS Sorry Grandma, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

FLASH - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Boutique, Prahran. 9:00pm.

FUSION FRIDAYS Fusion, Southbank. 10:00pm. $20.

GET LIT - FEAT: D’FRO + HANS DC + TWERKSHOP Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

KHOKOLAT KOATED - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

MUSIC FOR SPORT - FEAT: FRANCIS INFERNO ORCHESTRA + JEZ + PROXYCONTIN + SLEEP D Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.

PLUR UNDERGROUND FEAT: IAIN CROSS + VTHEKID + XDREAM Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $28.

POPROCKS - FEAT: DR PHIL SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

REMINISCE CLASSIC HOUSE - FEAT: JOHN COURSE + AARON TROTMAN + BRAD SASSMAN + JARROD MORAN + TOM EVANS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $29.

REVOLVER FRIDAYS - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + LEWIE DAY Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

saturday feb 8

AN AWFUL LOT OF VAUDEVILLE - FEAT: DJ KNAVE KNIXX Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:00pm. $10.

BOPEEPS FUN HOUSE FEAT: MOONSHINE + KITI +

OOHEE + PAZ + SMILE ON IMPACT + ZANNA First Floor, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

CLOUD NINE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Inflation, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

CUSHION SATURDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

DASH BERLIN + AARON CAMZ + MARLO + PAPA SMURF + SENSUALISE Hisense Arena, Melbourne.

9:00pm. $100.

DJ JACK SPARROW The B.east, Brunswick East.

8:00pm.

DJ SATURDAY KNIGHTZ Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North.

10:00pm.

DJ SOUL LOCO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

FAMILIAR STRANGERS The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm.

GROOVALICIOUS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.

HAZE - FEAT: FOREIGN STATE DJS Shim Sham, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

NO PULP Orange Whip, Ringwood. 9:00pm.

RAZZMATAZZ INDIE DISCOTHEQUE - FEAT: CAITY K AND TED C Exford Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $5.

SATURDAY DJ SESSIONS - FEAT: JO SYME + DJ MANTOOTH Howler, Brunswick.

2:00pm.

STRUT STURDAYS - FEAT: ANDREAS + DANNY MERX + HENRIQUE + JASON SERINI + MARK PELLEGRINI Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm.

SUPER GRANDE - FEAT: HARVEY SUTHERLAND + ANDRAS FOX + EDD FISHER + THOMAS POLLARD Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

SURVIVOR Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

THE BIMBO HOT STEP FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

THE HOUSE DE FROST FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: DAVID SPACE & FLIP3K + RANSOM + DANIELSAN + LEWIS CANCUT + MAT CANT + MOONSHINE + PAZ + WHO & BOOGS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

THERAPY Fusion, Southbank.

10:00pm. $20.

TOO HOT TO HANDLE FEAT: SUGAR PLUMP FAIR-

IES + WHISKEY HOUSTON Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.

TRAMP SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ROTATING DJS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

sunday feb 9

AMINE EDGE & DANCE + BENSON + BUTTERS + TORREN FOOT Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 2:00pm. $40.

BOP ART - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy.

12:00pm.

DJ BARNEY Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

MAGIC NIGHT Red Bennies, South Yarra. 7:00pm. $39.

NO BRAINS NO HEADACHE - FEAT: LES LEVEL + BODY MELT + GORDY ZOLA + JAMES TOM + LIEGE JANSEN + SALVADOR Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + RADIATOR + SILVERSIX + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

SPITROAST Cushion, St Kilda.

9:00pm.

STAR BAR SUNDAYS - FEAT: JONO EARLE + KEN WALKER + MORGAN Star Bar, South Melbourne. 9:00pm. $10.

THE ART OF SUNDAYS FEAT: MATTY D + MITCH KURZ The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm.

THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDY BLACK & HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm.

GOT SKILLZ - FEAT: DJ DAILY Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 10:00pm.

thursday feb 6

workshop

EARL SWEATSHIRT + CITIZEN KAY + DANNY BROWN + RUN THE JEWELS Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $72.

HEADS DOWN, THUMBS UP SHOWCASE - FEAT: BAM BAM + DYLAN JOEL + JAKUBI + SOLILOQUY Northcote Social Club, Northcote.

8:30pm. $12.

friday feb 7

BUMP - FEAT: DJ GEROGE BIG SAAD Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

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DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

RNB SUPERCLUB Co., Southbank.

9:30pm. $30.

RUBIX FUNHOUSE FRIDAYS - FEAT: DJ SK + DJ SNAREOPHOBE + DJ TITUS 12 Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick.

5:00pm.

saturday feb 8

BIG DANCING Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $25.

DJEMBA DJEMBA - FEAT: TRIPPY TURTLE & DJ HOODBOI + ASPARTAME + DEER + ROBIHUSSLIN Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $25.

KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE

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monday feb 10

BORED GAMES - FEAT: IBIMBO Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy.

7:00pm.

MIXTAPE MONDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

STIFF DRINK - FEAT: DJ MICHAEL OZONE + DJ ROMAN WAFERS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

tuesday feb 11

SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

TASTEMAKERS - FEAT: WARPAINT + ABLE 8 + SENSI WARRIORS Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

urban club guide wednesday feb 5

snaps

faktory Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

POPPIN’ BOTTLES - FEAT: DJ FAUX REAL Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

REMI + N’FA JONES Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 9:30pm. $15.

RHYTHM NATION - FEAT: DJ ANDY PALA + DJ GEORGE BIG SAAD + DJ KAHLUE Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

sunday feb 9

BE. SUNDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + JAY J + KEN WALKER Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.

tuesday feb 11

SPLEEN + DJ SAMETZ 303, Northcote.

9:00pm.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

By Thomas Bailey With North America in the icy grasp of the second “polar vortex” to hit this winter, the city of Atlanta, Georgia – completely unprepared to deal with unprecedented cold and snowy conditions – is suffering from massive traffic jams, power outages, and freezing temperatures. It’s turned into a bloody train wreck, and MC Speech – founder and vocalist of the ground-breaking Southern hiphop collective Arrested Development – is in the thick of it all.

“I hear you’re having heatwaves in Australia!” he says with friendly gusto when we touch base with him on a 36 degree Melbourne afternoon. “We just had a huge snowstorm, and it’s a little crazy. You know, Atlanta doesn’t have all that equipment, like snow trucks and snowblowers and all that stuff – the streets are covered with ice, and there’s no way you can drive on them! It’s just a mess!”

When they last visited our shores two years ago, the group were celebrating 20 years since Arrested Development burst on the scene with their landmark debut record, 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days In The Life Of ….

That album – and the group that created it – signalled a seismic shift in the paradigm of hiphop that continued with the release of six more LPs. With its themes of homelessness, black-on-black violence, racial identity, brotherhood, and spirituality, 3 Years … was a watershed moment in pop culture. Still hailed as a masterpiece and consistently placed in best-of lists around the world, this debut LP was a gamechanger. It also provided a positive alternative to a largely negative gangsta rap culture that celebrated and glorified gang violence, hustling, degradation of women, and drugs.

When Arrested Development burst onto the scene in 1992, they offered a breath of fresh air with singles such as Tennessee, Mr Wendal, and Give A Man A Fish.

There was intellectualism and curiosity exhibited, and all told, the album helped raise the consciousness of what it meant to be an African American in the waning years of the 20th Century.

“I think we were made for that moment,” Speech replies when asked if there was a conscious decision to be an alternative to the status quo. “You know, when you make a flashlight, the flashlight’s purpose is to shine in the darkness.”

“IT’S LIKE, MY WHOLE PURPOSE FOR LIFE STARTED TO COME CLEAR WITH THAT RECORD.” And there it is in his speaking voice – that free-flowing lyricism that has helped establish Speech as one of the most gifted MCs in modern hiphop. “I mean, I didn’t know it to the extent I would learn about it when we started to blow up as a group, but me growing up around my mom and dad, who were both activists – and me being around them … And now I get older and all [the lessons I took from my parents] start to resonate with me in a bigger way than they did when I was a kid and was just after girls and stuff !

“It’s like, my whole purpose for life started to come clear with that record, and I honestly think it was divine intervention for us to come out in that time period and be a voice for the alternative – we just needed to be there at that time!”

As one of the major themes Arrested Development explore in their music is the state of the African American community, naturally, I ask him how he felt when Barack Obama got elected. Did he ever see that coming, a black President in America?

Speech thinks for a moment. “It’s really exciting; a lot of black people would be talking about this, would be like, ‘There won’t be a black President in our lifetime’, even when he started running for President.

“I voted for him, but I didn’t think he could win – just because the racism in America is so thick over the years; but it has gotten a lot better,” he explains. “But we just felt like there was no way that this country was going to let a black dude become President! And the night he got elected, my kids and I and my wife were all just bawling and crying – and to see that type of change in the country was very inspiring, very inspiring.”

Luckily for the forces of good, Speech and his mates have been busy as late in the studio, applying the finishing touches to their new LP. I have to ask, What’s it like? When does he reckon we’ll get a listen?

“Well, it’s cool stuff, all-over-the-place music,” he says excitedly. “We have an album called Splash that we’ll drop in about a month, and by the time we get to Australia, it will be out, so we’re going to perform it!”

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT will be performing at WOMADelaide: The World’s Festival from Friday March 7 until Monday March 10. It will take place at Botanic Park in Adelaide, and will also feature performances from Ngaiire, Billy Bragg, and many more fine acts from around the world. For more information and for tickets, please visit www.womadelaide.com.au.

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BROKEN BELLS

By Augustus Welby Since starting The Shins in the mid-’90s, James Mercer has conducted the majority of his songwriting in enclosed solitude. In fact, Mercer proved that The Shins is essentially a channel for his creations by recruiting an entirely new lineup to play on the band’s latest record Port Of Morrow. Thus it was most unexpected when he teamed up with super-hip producer Brian Burton (AKA Danger Mouse) to form Broken Bells in 2010.

Thankfully the experiment with creative partnership didn’t upset Mercer’s songwriting flow and Broken Bells return with their second LP After the Disco this week. Ahead of its release Mercer explains the perks of sharing responsibility with someone you respect.

“It’s easy to collaborate and submit to the idea that you’re not going to be in charge of everything when you know that the other person has terrific taste and has succeeded in implementing that taste,” he says. “It’s a lot easier and in certain ways more fun, so I can sit back and I don’t feel so precious about it.”

Much like their self-titled debut, After the Disco finds Mercer and Burton stretching into a variety of genres. For instance, the falsetto-heavy R&B of lead single Holding On To Life sits alongside the acoustic grandeur of Leave It Alone and the title track’s upbeat gleam. Mercer says the songs largely developed out of unstructured experimentation.

“We just start with trying to put together anything that’s attractive. There’s no agenda and no real architecture that we’ve set up about ‘What kind of record should

this be?’. It’s just: try to figure out something that sounds cool and then build on it, make a song and then move on to the next one.”

Despite jumping in a number of stylistic directions, Broken Bells is notably a more pop-focused band than The Shins. The group’s assertive tilt could be perceived as Burton adding a positive kick to Mercer’s customary introspection. “The easiest thing to think would be that I’m going to bring these Shins songs to the table and he’s going to modernise them or something,” Mercer acknowledges. “But it’s kind of the opposite. When I’m working with Brian I’m like, ‘Let’s do the shit that Brian really does well.’ Of course Brian is wanting to do something different, so we battle it out and find Broken Bells.”

Burton has a reputation for commandeering the

studio environment, which might conflict with Mercer’s preference for having complete control over the songwriting scenario. Yet, joining forces wasn’t such a violent adjustment.

“Maybe there was small moments when I had to let go of things, [but] once you resign yourself and you know that ‘This is a collaboration’, it wasn’t really difficult,” says Mercer. “It makes me look back and feel like a bit of an idiot for having it so hard in the past.”

After relinquishing his habitual songwriting stronghold, Mercer says he greatly appreciated the interactive writing format.

“Brian’s got tonnes of input and is very comfortable expressing what he thinks. I do have a certain freedom to experiment and alter my persona, in a weird way. If I just go for it Brian will tell me when it’s too far.”

Lyrically, After the Disco is centred around the ambiguities of human relationships, which is indubitably Mercer’s bread and butter. However, he reveals the collaboration extends to the lyrics as well.

“A lot on this record has to do with Brian and the world that he lives in down there in LA, being a single guy and therefore searching for something,” Mercer explains. “I’m married so I just have a very different lifestyle. When you’re single there’s a huge element of your future that hasn’t been sorted out yet, like, ‘Who this person is going to be.’ It’s like a big flux. There’s a lot of talk about that type of stuff [on the album]; dealing with relationships and so on.”

be able to get through to him that way!”

Goulding’s ethereal vocals would certainly mesh well with a Disclosure beat, and I ask how likely it is that this could happen on her next album. At this point, though, she remains unsure. “I literally have no idea what direction my new music is going to take just yet,” she says. “I’d tell you, but I don’t know myself where it’s going. I’m just going to wait and see. I haven’t started working on the album.”

Before I let Goulding go, there’s one more question I have to ask. She has spoken before about her friendship with Taylor Swift, and I’m genuinely cu-

rious to know if the two of them ever get together to trade tips on writing the perfect pop song. “Not really, no!” she laughs. “When we see each other, we don’t really talk about music. We do sometimes, but making music is kind of our job, so when we’re together, we just hang out, we don’t really share tips or anything like that. I mean, we’re big fans of each other’s songs, but generally we don’t talk about that.”

written 34 years ago. Lewis explains this complex situation that almost sounds a bit science fiction – past future present. “A lot of the material on this album is over 30 years old so for me to write lyrics, or more accurately re-write lyrics, was a very interesting process because a lot has changed personally and in general since then. It was almost like opening a time capsule that contained only abstract thoughts.”

A song from Change Becomes Us that has resonated with both new fans and old is Adore Your Island, which has a very challenging musical structure; beginning with a spacey and expansive intro the song breaks at about the 90 second mark into a driving punk track. Lewis discusses the interesting song writing process behind recording a song that was, for the most part, written in the late seventies.

“Say for this album we have a scale of songs that have

hardly been altered to been altered greatly Adore Your Island sits somewhere in the middle. Something like Doubles & Troubles is hardly changed at all from ’79.

With Adore Your Island there weren’t enough words from the original to fit the new arrangement that we had done.

I wrote around the central subject matter of unrequited love – a black white moment frozen in time but it is a peculiar thing. Writing things creatively in hindsight does throw up some extremely odd challenges”, states Lewis. He now succinctly encapsulates the experience into one sentence, “It’s a bit like having record and erase at the same time.”

BROKEN BELLS’ After The Disco is available now through Sony.

ELLIE GOULDING

By Alasdair Duncan

The past several years have been huge for Ellie Goulding. The singer-songwriter released two phenomenally successful albums, lent her highly distinctive vocals to Calvin Harris’ club bangers, and even performed at a royal wedding reception.

Everything has changed for the young woman from Hertfordshire, and at the same time, she insists, very little has.

“I travel a lot these days, and I have a lot of busy, crazy, unpredictable days,” says Goulding, who is spending some rare time at home before setting off on another tour. “It’s very tense and high-energy, but I still have the same people around me, and I don’t think I’ve changed that much. I’m a bit more efficient these days, because I want to fit more stuff in, but I’d say I’m still much the same person as before.”

Goulding’s music strikes a fine balance between folk-y ballads and dramatic electronic sounds, a product of the rave scene that she immersed herself in from her late teens. “I was born in ’86 and I went through a lot of musical phases growing up,” she explains. “I guess I started out listening to a lot of pop music from the early ‘90s, before getting more into indie, and then starting to immerse myself in the electronic music scene a bit more. I don’t go out clubbing that much anymore, but where I grew up, there was a very big rave scene – there were a lot

of dubstep nights and drum’n’bass nights, so it was a big thing for me growing up, for sure. I was very lucky to grow up though all these different phases of great music.”

Since the success of her Calvin Harris track I Need Your Love, it’s natural to assume that Goulding gets approached by a lot of producers keen to collaborate.

Right now, however, she’s in the fortunate position of being able to choose her musical hook-ups very carefully. “Usually I reach out to people if I really want to collaborate,” she says. “At the moment, I’m very focused on my own stuff, but there are a few people I’d like to collaborate with. I’d like to collaborate with Disclosure, I’d really like to do a song with Drake.” I put it to Goulding that, for most people, collaborating with an artist like Drake would be a pipe dream, but she could quite easily make it happen if she so chose. “Yeah definitely,” she says, “because he sampled my song on his record, so I’d

The lovely ELLIE GOULDING will play an all ages show at Festival Hall on Saturday May 31.

WIRE

By Dan Watt The term ‘post-punk’ is bandied about so widely and inappropriately that in many cases, where this nomenclature is used, it has lost meaning and relevance. The term ‘post-punk’ was coined in the early eighties after most of its proponents had flourished and in the case of the genre’s pin-up boy, Joy Division, had been and gone. Other British bands that started in the early 1970s as a response to the jarring and in-your-face aesthetic of the burgeoning punk scene, hence described as post-punk, include Gang Of Four and Wire – both of which are still releasing and touring today.

Interestingly, Wire’s latest album Change Becomes Us is made up of songs that were initially conceived back in 1980 as the band was touring (and also capitulating) after releasing, arguably their most celebrated album, 154. Due to the demise of the band during this period these songs never saw the light of day until now! With one foot in the past and the other in the present Change Becomes Us has been critically lauded and seen the band touring the world for the past 12 months – with their last stop Australia.

“We did quite a lot of touring last year having toured the UK, Continental Europe, America twice, The Middle East, so that’s quite a lot of touring. In a way this tour of Australia and New Zealand is like the end of that cycle. For our previous album [Red Barked Tree] you got us at the start of a 12 month world tour, now you are getting us at the end,” explains a forthright Newman.

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He now enthuses about how a tour-worn Wire will be the band at their best. “Our live sets are a constantly evolving thing, it changes all the time what’s in it, one of the things that is interesting about where we are at right now is that it has a lot of new things in the set – that’s four or five pieces that are not on any record yet,” explains Colin Newman.

Beat was gifted the rare opportunity to catch up with both Newman (vocals, guitar) and Graham Lewis (bass, vocals) from Wire. Newman is an in your face Londoner, who spits fire from the mic in the style of Joe Strummer whereas Lewis is a bookish lyricist who has lived in Sweden since the mid nineties.

This explorative mode that Newman touches upon above surely must have been inspired by the unique circumstance surrounding Change Becomes Us in that a band gets to record for the first time songs that were

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WIRE play The Corner Hotel on Friday February 21 with Constant Mongrel and The Stevens. Tickets are still available via the venue website. Change Becomes Us is out now on Popfrenzy Records.

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GWAR

By Jesse Hayward Listen up monkey scum! Your lords and masters Gwar are bringing their unique combination of metal and ultraviolence to Australia. Pay attention – beastlord Oderus Urungus has mighty words of power for you all. Show your gratitude, pathetic humans.

Do you know the best thing about humans?

“Nothing! There’s nothing good, except maybe some of your movies and of course Motörhead,” snaps Urungus.

“If there are some good things about humans, I take credit of course. A lot of people are like, ‘Oderus, heavy metal was around long before you guys were – like, we had Motörhead and AC/DC! You can go fuck yourselves!’ I say, ‘Woah! Where is all this hostility coming from? Don’t you know that we were manipulating your minds from our Antarctic tomb?

Everything cool you ever did is ’cause we thought of it first. It just took a while for us to thaw out.”

In 1997, Gwar deigned to appear on The Jerry Springer Show to mock the petty concerns of the human audience. The video of that episode is a bizarre gem of American culture – soccer moms and shock rockers discussing parental responsibility and moral obligation.

This conflict between metal and the moralising of naïve cultural commentators is not new, but it may be the first time a man clad in Styrofoam armour and

carrying a big pretend axe has claimed, “You can tell we are for real.”

Springer made an appearance onstage at a Gwar concert shortly before the show was filmed. “As soon as he was onstage everyone started throwing crap at him,” remembers Urungus. “A lighter came flying and knocked his glasses completely off his face and as he picked them up I heard him mutter under his breath, ‘They don’t pay me enough for this shit.’ But he got up there and faced that crowd and he even got fed to [Gwar’s old onstage enemy] the World Maggot, so if that wasn’t a significant cultural cataclysm I don’t know what is.”

Gwar’s intention is to corrupt your minds with their awesome musical power, but their plans are often interrupted by stage invasion from mighty demons.

“We’re trying to play a heavy metal show, and all of a sudden I’ve got some gigantic cyborg mutant with a giant spinning buzz-saw chopping my fucking head off and trying to eat my brains. I don’t think that Sammy

Davis, Jr. ever had to deal with that kinda bullshit!” Yep, it’s a show like no other: a wild smorgasbord of metal, monsters and gore.

Previous Gwar audiences have been privileged to witness the onstage slaughter of Lady Gaga, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Who’s next? “I don’t wanna spoil it, but there’s one victim in particular who I think is going to win over Australia forever. When this person dies onstage, it’s basically going to make the entire country enter Gwar’s thralls for all eternity. So we’re very much looking forward to coming to Australia and killing Tony Abbott. Oh shit, did I just say that?”

Gwar’s latest album, Battle Maximus, brings word of a new threat to Gwar’s dominance of this disgusting planet. “Mr. Perfect – he’s a weak motherfucker.

Basically representing the megalithic corporate elite

that runs your world.” Why does he threaten us still?

“Only because we haven’t resorted to using more modern weapons. We could wipe that fucker out in an afternoon if we were pussies about it and used drones or nuclear weapons. But we believe in doing it with our hands using medieval weapons. It’s much more painful and satisfying. Dropping a nuke is one thing, but to see someone drawn and quartered and eaten by pigs; well, I just find that a whole lot funnier.”

So laugh, you filthy dirtpigs! Rejoice! Gwar’s arrival is nigh.

clips, the way you write the lyrics and everything. I definitely would like to do something again of a similar sort,” he says.

In Hearts Wake’s drive to distribute a proactive message shows they uphold the peace, love and understanding attitude that permeates their hometown. However, their aggressive metalcore sound seems like an incongruous way to express this.

“You can’t have light without dark and I feel that the metal/ hardcore scene has got a lot of darkness, a lot of what people hear as angst, [but there’s] constructive criticism involved,” reasons Taylor. “If you were to tell someone to wake up and change their ways of doing something in life you wouldn’t whisper it to them, you would most probably tell them very loudly and sternly, or shout it. It’s got a powerful feeling to it, the music that we play. To spread messages of awareness and change, it’s a

fitting genre that we’ve found that works for us.”

The Skydancer Project proves that this stated intention to generate positive change isn’t simply a clever marketing strategy. Similarly, In Hearts Wake value a hands-on relationship with their audience.

“We always push ourselves to be the best role models we can be,” says Taylor. “There’s no on-stage persona; we don’t put on our make-up and get on stage. We’re the same people on and off. It’s all about helping people to realise that we are the same people as them.”

people who don’t enjoy the music – and to be able to get some sort of criticism off of something that you’ve done. That’s a special thing.”

Musically, the band’s performance hasn’t been suffering without drummer Spencer Smith but of course, his absence casts an emotional shadow over the band.

Right now though, the decent thing seems to be to simply ask how he’s going and when he might be back.

“He’s still at home but he’s getting really well and doing really good,” he says. “At the point when it was decided he’d take time off, it was so tough, when your personal life and business collide and you make these weird decisions that don’t feel like they’re the best thing but really they are; it has ended up being the best thing.

Our friend filling in has been really great, it’s a different dynamic but the shows have still been awesome and the absolute best part of all this is that the fans have been especially supportive of the whole situation. I really love seeing that; that’s made it all so much easier.”

Urie is excited for the tour, he seems relentlessly enthusiastic about his band’s future work and yet you

can’t help but wonder – is Panic! At The Disco just a one-man-band? Is Urie forever dragging this sled up a long hill on his own while everyone else just comes and goes? “Honestly I haven’t felt that way,” he says. “I have a great support group of friends – Spencer definitely included – and they’ve always believed in my vision for this band and my musical direction and they’ve helped me make this happen. You can get down and it is really hard but for the most part I really enjoy being able to take a creative lead. This is something I have so much love and adoration for and yet despite all the times we’ve nearly split up or I haven’t wanted to go on or things have looked too hard, we’ve all been there for each other.

In the short ten years we’ve been together we’ve been through a lot and we have a lot more to give.”

GWAR will wreak unearthly havoc at Soundwave Festival on Friday February 28 at Flemington Racecourse. Battle Maximus is out now through Metal Blade.

IN HEARTS WAKE

By Augustus Welby

Byron Bay is perhaps chiefly thought of as a hub for laidback hippies and sunbrowned surfers, but in recent years it’s also become a breeding ground for some of the country’s most formidable metalcore music. Following the world-conquering lead of hometown heroes Parkway Drive, Byron five-piece In Hearts Wake have set their sights high with latest single Skydancer.

“The lyrics and the imagery are all about reconnecting man with nature,” says lead singer Jake Taylor and the focus on restoring unity with our surroundings doesn’t end there. The single (and associated national tour) are intertwined in the broader Skydancer Project. Taylor explains the project’s philanthropic motivation.

“It was releasing a song for free but people could pay something for it if they wanted to and they knew that 100 per cent of their donation would go towards non-profit organisations that helped out indigenous communities across the world.”

The project proved quite successful, collecting over $3000 during October’s fund-raising period, which was split evenly between three charities (aiding Native Americans, Kenyans and Indigenous Australians respectively). Taylor is proud of the fund-raising results but he underlines the most important feature of the initiative.

“Money’s 50 per cent of what’s being given to these organisations, but the other 50 per cent of it is raising the awareness. If anything, that counts for more than the

money itself. It obviously makes a difference knowing that there’s people that are giving a shit,” he says.

Striving to generate awareness about concrete human struggles is a departure from the concept behind the band’s debut record, Divination. Each track on the 2012 release interpreted a different card from the Major Arcana Tarot deck (for e.g. song titles include Death, Strength, and Judgement). Looking ahead, Taylor suggests that album number two will elaborate on the Skydancer sentiment.

“I want to take the Skydancer bigger-picture aspect to the next level – being more than just about tarot cards or being more than about people working 9-5. We still want to have fun, but [also] be a part of the solution and not the problem.”

It’s likely that the band’s next work will also be a concept album, as Taylor clearly prefers working with a thematic agenda.

“I just know that when you do a concept it’s got a stronger voice and a stronger focus in terms of the video

IN HEARTS WAKE will perform at this year’s Soundwave Festival with Thy Art Is Murder, Placebo, A Day To Remember and more on Friday February 28 at Flemington Racecourse. They are also on the 2014 Push Over Festival lineup, at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Monday March 10.

PANIC! AT THE DISCO

By Krissi Weiss

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas and occasionally seeps out in the form of a surprisingly persistent rock band. Panic! At The Disco’s front man Brendon Urie has forged ahead with his band despite an onslaught of adversity. Musically they’ve ticked all the boxes, their audience has grown in a steady, exponential way but behind the scenes things have seemed in a constant state of flux – members have come and gone, often release dates have come and gone and on one occasion, an entire album was simply shelved. His one rock was best mate and fellow founding member drummer Spencer Smith who has sadly been forced into hiatus while he tackles health issues and his own struggle with addiction. Still, Urie and the entity that is Panic! At The Disco are tirelessly soldiering on with last year’s release Too Weird To Live, To Rare To Die! giving them the momentum they needed to circle the world on yet another tour.

Fresh from a Christmas break, Urie is just as excited to resume touring the album as he was when it was released last year. “Ha, well there is an energy change between Christmas and now,” he says. “Once the record’s out I get so excited to play the shows because the songs have been inside my head for so long and trapped in this personal space. To actually share that with people is always an exciting moment. It’s true that the songs really take on a new life when the audience starts singing things back to you; it gives a whole new BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 40

life to this thing that you’ve created. There’s no hatred or frustration on tour; it’s all love and excitement.”

So does he mind seeing the thing he’s worked on for so long suddenly appropriated by a hungry audience?

“There’s always that connection you have to the thing you’ve created but similar to having a kid, you raise this thing and then it’s 18 years old,” he says. “With a song, you put it on an album and then it gets all this experience and grows up. It’s such a validating feeling as well to hear from people who enjoy the music – and

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PANIC! AT THE DISCO will be at Soundwave Festival on Friday February 28 at Flemington Racecourse. They are also playing a sideshow with Jimmy Eat World and Alkaline Trio at The Forum on Tuesday February 25.

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PUNK, SKA, HARDCORE NEWS, REVIEWS & GOSSIP

By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com I went to Laneway Festival for the first time on the weekend and was dealt a refreshing new perspective on music festivals. More power to the smaller circuits that embrace more modest set ups with niché bands.

It certainly feels like the future of festivals, where the careful curating of the lineup is paid more attention than the desire to draw huge headliners and shift as many tickets as possible. It made me look at the recently announced Groovin The Moo lineup with fresh eyes. Festivals that specifically target an audience who aren’t catered too often are sure to be winners in the years to come. Groovin’ The Moo’s 2014 lineup is incredibly strong. Action Bronson will headline and such quality bands as Disclosure, Dizzee Rascal, The Jezabels, The Naked and Famous, Parkway Drive and Violent Soho will appear. The festival arrives in Bendigo on Saturday May 3. Get your gumboots ready.

The Smith Street Band have announced support acts for their upcoming lap of the country with The Menzingers and Perth’s Grim Fandango. Freak Wave will support on their sold out Corner Hotel show and Regrets will jump aboard the fast selling follow up gig at the Corner on March 16.

If you want all the live music without having to endure a festival then once again Soundwave Festival is catering for you, you old bastard. You can see one of the UK’s best rock acts Biffy Clyro take on The Corner Hotel on February 26.

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CORE GIG GUIDE THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6: The Bennies, Apart From This at Barwon Club, Geelong Lincoln Le Fevre, Maricopa Wells at The Reverence Warbrain, Imprisoned, Born Free at Next FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7: The Bennies, Apart From This, Rise Of The Rat, Wet Pensioner at The Reverence Hotel Bad Vision at Yah Yahs Laura Palmer, Angry Seas, Jaynes Fighting Ships, Battletaco at Bar 303 Riff Fist, Swigden, Borrachero, Kaleidoscope at The Tote SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8: Lemuria, Kissing Booth, The Leap Year, Freak Wave, Have/Hold at The Reverence

HOME SWEET HOME

Hey Crunchers. Well, I’m back from my trip to California and more than a little jetlaggin’. Glad to be home but had lots of great adventures. One that stands out is getting to check out Keith Merrow’s new signature KM-7 guitar by Schecter. Keith’s new band with Jeff Loomis, Conquering Dystopia, have finished their album and it’s in the final stages of preparation for release. Expect to have your ass kicked by that one soon. Other random memories from my time in California: spotting David Vincent of Morbid Angel walking around The NAMM Show with a name tag that read ‘Evil D’, testing and providing feedback on a bunch of secret Seymour Duncan prototypes, dining at Billy Gibbons’ favourite Santa Barbara taqueria La Super-Rica (seriously if you’re ever in town you have to go), and bumping into plenty of Aussies like Teramaze guitarist Dean Wells (who has some killer new music out soon).

GRINDCORE AT THE BENDIGO In the mood for some brutal fucking grindcore on a Wednesday evening? Me too. Head along to The Bendigo Hotel on Wednesday February 19 for Confusing Anal Mess, Terror Strike, Stoning and Diplod. Doors at 8:30pm and 8 bucks will get you thoroughly ground and cored.

Whitehorse, Old Love, Hop Drone, Gurner at Bendigo Hotel Tilian Pearson, Who Invited The Wolf, The SPinset, Phil Wolfendale at Bang SUNDAY FEBRURARY 9: Lemuria, Kissing Booth, Lucy Wilson at The

KILL TV ALBUM LAUNCH Kill TV are launching their debut single Never Gonna Change on Friday February 21 at Yah Yah’s.

ALICE IN CHAINS/DOWN/ WALKING PAPERS I’m calling it as one of the gigs of the year already: Alice In Chains, Down and Walking Papers playing a Soundwave sideshow at The Palace on Thursday February 27. Alice In Chains are, of course, basking in the afterglow of their critically acclaimed latest album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, while Down are the legendary Louisiana supergroup led by one Mr. Phil Anselmo and with a family tree that includes Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar and EyeHateGod. And Walking Papers is a blues-rock band featuring former Screaming Trees/Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin, ex-Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan and vocalist/guitarist Jeff Angell and keyboardist Ben Anderson, both formerly of Seattle favourites The Missionary Position.

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tour. The Dirty Rotten Imbeciles have been touring and recording solidly throughout the years and now they’re coming to Australia to play three dates down the East Coast. See them at The Hi-Fi on May 3.

Tickets will be available ‘soon’.

Eagles Of Death Metal will be headlining one AMAZING lineup with Rocket From The Crypt and Mutemath at the Hi-Fi on February 24.

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Davey Havok and AFI will bring Crosses along for their sideshows at The Prince Of Wales in St Kilda.

AFI at the prince of wales you guys. Buy now!

If you never got over the days when Goldfinger reigned supreme you can go celebrate Less Than Jake’s substantial ska catalogue at The Hi-Fi when they play with Bowling For Soup and the new and improved Zebrahead.

ROYAL HUNT TO TOUR AUSTRALIA Acclaimed melodic metal legends Royal Hunt will tour Australia in April for the very first time in their history, performing tracks from their new release A Life To Die For as well as tracks from their back catalog. They’ll be at the Northcote Social Club on Wednesday April 2. Support is from the mighty Vanishing Point. There will be a strictly limited VIP meet and greet fan pack pass available which includes Australian-only exclusive items, available from metalmassacre.com.au Tickets are on sale now at metalmassacre.com.au or from other ticketing outlets.

D.R.I. TO TOUR Crossover thrash/hardcore legends D.R.I will tour Australia in May. They’ll be at The Hi-Fi in Melbourne on Saturday May 3, with tickets on sale from thedrunkpromoter.com soon.

Jimmy Eat World

Mastodon, Baroness and Gojira are joining forces for a huge show at Melbourne’s Forum on February 25, while Megadeth, Volbeat and Newstead will fill the Forum on February 27.

Avenged Sevenfold

Meanwhile, Soundwave Festival suffered a rather brutal loss to the lineup when Stone Temple Pilots pulled out of the festival. They insist the recording of their album went over time so they won’t be able to play their scheduled sets alongside Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington. Thankfully The Living End have stepped up to fill their shoes. No one was really sure what was next for TLE after their huge run of album shows last year. It seemed like the band might retire, but clearly headlining Soundwave is the better option.

After the last tour was cancelled at the last minute, Monster Magnet have arranged a return visit to the country in April. These legends will play the newly renamed 170 Russell (formerly Billboard The Venue) on April 6. Tickets are on sale now.

Fans of the Forum will be delighted to see Jimmy Eat World tear the sky up with Panic! At The Disco (sightly odd choice) and Alkaline Trio on February 25.

D.R.I are hoping to restore the reputation of old school underground punk rock legends after Black Flag disappointed everyone on the last Hits and Pits

Iwrestledabearonce return for yet another Australian tour. This time completing a bunch of club shows with Caulfield. You can see them at Bang on March 29, or if you’re not ‘of age’ go check them out on March 30 at OLP.

THE RETURN OF THE ALMOST After three long years The Almost will be returning to our shores this April. Led by former Underoath drummer and backing vocalist Aaron Gillespie, their third album Fear Inside Our Bones is earning rave reviews. Joining them on the road will be Brisbane’s Young Lions, featuring members from The Dream The Chase, plus Canberra’s Drawing North. They’re at Wrangler Studios (all ages, tickets from oztix.com. au) on Wednesday April 16 and Plastic on Thursday April 17th (tickets at the door).

SOUNDWAVE SIDESHOWS Aaah, that magical time of year again when Soundwave starts announcing the Sidewaves. Two biggies just unveiled at press time are The Dillinger Escape Plan, Glassjaw and Dir En Grey at The Hi Fi on Thursday February 27 (tickets on sale 9am February 5 from thehifi.com.au) and Avenged Sevenfold with Five Finger Death Punch at Festival Hall (tickets on sale 9am February 6 via Ticketmaster) on the same night. That’s the awesome thing about Soundwave and the Sidewaves: you can catch some bands at their Sidewaves and others at Soundwave to avoid clashes and get your fix of brutality.

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PERIPHERY & ANIMALS AS LEADERS - WHOA Holy crap, who caught Animals As Leaders and Periphery last Sunday? What a killer gig. A great showcase of some true instrumental virtuosity and, in Periphery’s case, plenty of energy. Periphery’s new mini-album Clear is out now, with songs written by each of the six band members.

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WEDNESDAY FEB 5 SWEETS

Sweets are doing an Evelyn residency every Wednesday night in February with a whole stack of really amazing bands supporting them. They’ll be pumping it up, pumping it out and generally being totally pumped. You should go it’s gonna be heaps good. Supports from Manny Fox and Phia.

The Pretty Littles have decided to camp out at Cherry throughout February for a Wednesday residency with old mates Ships Piano. What a bloody hoot this will be! There will be awkward shuffling, shitty chat and poorly executed rock and roll songs. If that’s not selling it, well its free entry and its all taking place at the historic Cherry Bar! Yes! Come get silly with us e’ry Wednesday of February.

TASH SULTANTA

Every now and again you walk into a bar, and there’s a young player on stage doing things with their instrument that simply don’t make sense. How is it possible for one so young to know so much about their instrument? Damn prodigies. Tash Sultana is one who has likely caused this reaction in many a stunned punter. Precociously talented and with a swag of songs written from a place well beyond experience, Tash is one of the most exciting young talents in town and is playing at the Drunken Poet’s ‘Wine, Whiskey, Women’ this Wednesday, February 5 at 9pm.

YOUTH LAGOON

Heartfelt, spiritual, and with a cherubic, limitless sound: Youth Lagoon is truly one of a kind. Secret Sounds are delighted to announce the return of one of music’s most innovative minds to Australia in January – Youth Lagoon. Better known to his family and friends as Trevor Powers, the Idaho-raised native burst onto the scene back in 2010 with his wondrous, forward-thinking sound – think sweet, hazy numbers like July or Cannons. With everything from 4/4 marching drums to poetic keys and a hushed, joyous intimacy, from his bedroom in Boise’s fledgling music scene the gifted singer/songwriter offered up his early downloads for free – which were quickly pounced upon by influential music blogs, such as Pitchfork, Stereogum and many more across the globe. You can catch Youth Lagoon on Wednesday February 5 at Ding Dong Lounge.

THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL’S OPEN MIC

Whether you play a comedian, poet, musician or dancer, you are welcome here at the Brunny every Wednesday! Register from 7pm onwards. Timeslot Raffle is drawn out at 7.30pm. Get in early to ensure you get a spot! $10 Jugs of Boags Draught all night (for those needing liquid courage...). This Wednesday February 5.

THURSDAY FEB 6 FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOCOPIER

Sticky Institute presents the launch party for Festival Of The Photocopier 2014, a four-day celebration of zines, zine-making and photocopy culture. Our kick-off shindig will feature live music sets from: The Cult .45s (they’re Sydney-based Seinfeldcore punks), Boatbuilder (they do sweet pop with noisy bits), The Girl Fridas (they’re Melbourne’s premier shoegrunk combo), The Newport Dolls (they’re a zine-improv noise unit) We’ll do some further dancing together after the bands are finished too. Plus the gallery upstairs at the Old Bar will host the opening of an exhibition by Gore Journal, featuring work from their first three issues. $7 entry, 8.30pm at ye Old Bar.

THE BROKEN NEEDLES

Freshly transplanted North Queensland sludge-soul cane-train The Broken Needles play The Public Bar this Thursday February 6, ahead of the release of their second full-length album, Holy Coast, out May 2014. Joining them in support are no-frills, sadbastard rock & rollers Mightiest Of Guns and the dreamy loops, textures and prose of Melbourne’s own poet laureate guitar virtuoso Soda Eaves (a.k.a. Jake Core). 8.30pm $7.

Cat Power’s full band tour of Feb / March 2013 saw sold out shows at Perth International Arts Festival and Melbourne’s Forum in addition to a headline spot Meredith’s Golden Plains Festival and a double bill with George Clinton for MONA in Hobart. This time though, Cat Power is going it alone. She’ll be performing at the Thornbury Theatre on Friday January 31, Saturday February 1 and Thursday February 6. Tickets available through thornburytheatre.oztix.com.au.

ONE UP, TWO DOWN & OH PEP!

Two bands of good friends, six musicians, three weeks of touring, 10 different instruments, 15 gigs and 1000s of kilometres…Way back in 2012 NZ fiddler George Jackson was at a fiddle camp in Florida where he met US bassist Andrew Small. A plan was hatched for these two friends from opposite sides of the globe to start a band and get touring. George & Andrew hit the road headed for California where they stumbled across Melbourne fiddler Pepi Emmerichs of Oh Pep! A year and a half later we have One Up, Two Down, George and Andrew’s band with Australian singer and guitarist Daniel Watkins joining forces with Melbourne-based Oh Pep! for a grand tour of the East Coast this February. It all begins on Thursday February 6 at the Retreat Hotel Brunswick, at 8.30pm. Free Entry

WILLOW DARLING

Willow Darling will be holding a month long stand at Yah Yah’s on Thursdays in February. This week, Thursday February 7, come down to see em hit the stage alongside I/O and the Stephen Bowtell Band.

Doors at 7pm and its free entry ya’ll.

ALISON FERRIER & BAND

Full of dreamily melodic waltzes, heartsick ballads and haunted blues that are evocative of the timeless, romantic music of years gone by, Alison Ferrier & Band perform at The Spotted Mallard every Wednesday evening in February. Catch them this Wednesday with Rich Davies from 8.30pm.

Free entry.

DEAD RIVER

Dead River are launching their self titled at the Bendigo Thursday February 6. Sinewy, noise guitar creeping through big, incessant riffing over thumping rhythms and tough vocals, they are a perfect melding of fuzzed up noise-rock pedigree. Dead River’s debut self-titled EP is now available. With support from Halt Ever, Arctic Dune & Orange it will be a killer night of local radness at The Bendigo.

CINEMA 6 CAT POWER

The enigmatic Cat Power returns to Australia this January to perform in solo, intimate and up close.

Cat Power‘s own album of last year, Sun, featuring the singles Ruin & Cherokee, was the most successful of Cat Power’s career debuting at no.10 on the US mainstream Billboard charts and no. 2 in Billboard’s Alternative and Independent charts. In Australia

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ALISON FERRIER & BAND + RICH DAVIES (SOLO) FREE ENTRY, 8:30PM

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Cinema 6 are rocking the Brunny this Thursday February 6 with a little help from friends The Drooling Mouths, Diamonds of Neptune and the immensely talented song writer Lloyd Bosch. Come along, there will be robots and information ‘sharing’. Who knows, Vince Vaughn night even be there to promote his advertisement for Skynet/Google that he recently made after acquiring shares in Skynet/Google. It is free and there will be drink specials. Yay!

60 SECONDS with UP UP AWAY Define your genre in five words or less: Futuristic Neo-Soul/OldSchool Funk Where and what time will you be playing at the St Kilda Festival? Veludo at 9.30 on Thursday February 6.

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

The two main pools from which we draw our inspiration are the golden era of Soul in the ‘60s, and the Hip-Hop and Jazz influenced Neo-Soul movement of recent times. Our music explores the meshing of raw Funk rhythms and soulful vocals with laid back drum grooves, lush Jazz piano voicings and textural guitar delay sounds.

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

We’ll be releasing our debut EP Good Advice in February 2014. You’ll be able to pick up a copy from a show or our Facebook or Bandcamp pages.

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

Go to every gig you possibly can! Find the bands you love and connect with, and strike up a conversation. Melbourne venues are teaming with incredible musicians who are always down to help each other out. That’s, for the most

part, how we got our start; supporting bands like Echo Drama, Kooyeh, El Moth and the Seven-Ups If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be?

Hiatus Kaiyote, Erykah Badu, any Daptone band. We’re planning on embarking on a tour or two in 2014, and we’re heading down the coast to play Apollo Bay Music Festival in February/ March. For us, travelling as a band is a golden opportunity to spend quality band time, write new tunes and be inspired by new places.

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FRIDAY FEB 7

form having just released their debut album 3057 in January. Friday February 7 will be a great chance to see them if you missed the album launch. This show continues an unbroken run of Brunswick shows that started in July of last year. They look forward to seeing you at The Retreat Hotel; Brunswick’s first pub!

titled release. Co-produced by Casey Rice (Dirty three, Tortoise, Liz Phair, Pony Face) Salvation is a triumphant anthem encompassing victorious guitars, jubilant choirs, pounding rhythms and rich textural layers of violin which have become synonymous with the Empire of Poets sound. Straddling the divide between blissful and brooding, Empire of Poets take listeners on an aural journey down a surreal highway with accompanying b-side El Topo, foreshadowing the release of their mid 2014 debut album on independent label Hawkmoth Records. Empire of Poets will be launching the single on Friday February 7 at The Old Bar with Melbourne stalwarts Junk Horses, Bulls and Waywardbreed.

N’FA

IMMIGRANT UNION

Australian psych folk/country supergroup Immigrant Union forged in the fires of Melbourne’s iconic Cherry Bar through a chance meeting between Brent DeBoer (The Dandy Warhols) and Bob Harrow (The Lazy Sons). Comprised of DeBoer, Harrow, Courtney Barnett, Bones Sloan, Dave Mudie and Peter Lubulawa, Immigrant Union bring enviable class and rawness to the burgeoning Australian psych folk scene.

Royston Vasie, with their highly anticipated debut record Tanah Merah out to the public, return from the US and have been busy recording their second LP. The four-piece has previously sold out iconic venues in the Northcote Social Club and the Oxford Art Factory in Melbourne and Sydney, followed by successful gigs alongside the likes of Ben Kweller, Manchester Orchestra, British India, Vasco Era and Wolf & Cub. Playing alongside will be Hayley Couper. All of these fine artists will be playing at Ding Dong Lounge on Friday February 7.

A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS

Rock, chilly, and party are just a few words to describe what the sound of A Gazillion Angry Mexicans is all about. A gazillion angry Mexicans are playing at the retreat with The Bits (ex Bodyjar) who are in fine

The first taste for 2014 of N’fa Jones forthcoming album Black + White Noise is his ‘Money Better Come’ tour with support from Remi. Summing up the way N’fa Jones often feels the life of an artist plays out, the track comes with a fun and clever video clip which premiered on Channel [V] this week.

While reflecting on the fragility of life, N’fa still manages to poke a bit of fun at himself while singing (yep singing) melodies. Get a taste for it while N’fa is on national tour with fellow House of Beige family member and Triple J Unearthed winner Remi and is playing Melbourne on February 7 at the Northcote Social Club. Black + White Noise is set for release April 4 on The Ayems.

DANNY WALSH

Dane Certificate has a new magic theatre in Brunswick showcasing weekly magicians, bands and variety acts down a laneway behind a computer shop. This Friday February 8 late show includes Dan Oldaker, Danny Walsh and of course unusual magic and music by Dane.

There will be popcorn, strange occurrences and a bar.

Doors at 9pm.

GENERAL PANTS AND THE PRIVATES

It turns out General Pants and The Privates still haven’t had enough of pints, Lord of the Fries, and spastic weather, so head down to The Bendigo this Friday February 7 for a night of beers, bad-assery, and more brass than you can shake a tuning fork at! Featuring both local and interstate acts, this night’s sure to be Ska-ndelous. Playing alongside Kujo Kings, Taking Berlin and James Crow. 8.30pm with free entry.

NO ZU

NO ZU are throwing a going-away party before they manifest their South Preston Heat Beat™ in Mexico and the U.S. of A all through March. The place to be is Howler on Friday February 7 for this party will be a non-stop rhythm is a dancer, rhythm is gonna getcha, this is the rhythm of the night boogie meltdown with a line-up of Melbourne’s best rhythm-human-machines, Michael Ozone, Tornado Wallace and Home Travel to help see them off. Nao Anzai will be at the desk dubbing the whole thing out all night. Live, mutating Heat Beat visuals will be provided by Loving You Overtime director, Jason Heller. There’s even more to be announced later. For now, mark Friday February 7 in your diary.

THE REBELLES

The Rebelles, Melbourne’s very own girl group sensation, are tearing into 2014 with a quadruple bill of double dates – hooking up with some of their favourite fellow Melbournites at The Spotted Mallard this Friday February 7. Support from Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men. Doors 8.30pm, entry $5.

EMPIRE OF POETS

Melbourne’s Empire Of Poets are launcing Salvation, the epic debut single from their forthcoming self

SEXY/HEAVY

Melbourne sludge'n'rollers Sexy/Heavy have just released their brutal debut album Battlesushi on vinyl and download and are throwing a release party. The album features Shihad drummer Tom Larkin who was also at the helm of mixing duties to help deliver a heavy record that’s full of groove and swagger.

Featuring killer artwork, the album is available on vinyl in local record stores and the download comes bundled with extra goodies such as a music video, artwork and remix by glitch steppers Circuit Bent.

Get yourself a copy at sexyheavy.com. Check ‘em live for their vinyl release party at Cherry Bar on Friday February 7.

ROLLING BLACKOUTS

Rolling Blackouts play the dangerous 2.30am slot at The Public Bar this Friday February 7! Rolling Blackouts are a pop group that go for the jagular.

Influenced by Scandinavian post-office-pop and golden age Australian guitar music, they sing odes to unintended solo holidays, and teenage girls leaving their dead-end chicken shops to be Gold Coast movie stars. Some of them also play in Graveyard Train, and Cash Savage & The Last Drinks, but this is something different. The aim is not to reinvent the wheel, but to make a few really nice round ones. Free!

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For all the latest news check out beat.com.au their debut LP. Gravity Wins Again, was mixed by Tim Whitten (The Go Betweens, Augie March, Art of Fighting), and mastered in the US by Roger Siebel at SAE mastering and is due for release in March 2014.

The Melbourne four-piece will be back on the live scene in early 2014, showcasing cuts from their debut record. They play the Luscombe Street Community Gardens on Saturday February 8. Doors from 5pm and tickets $8 +bf via OzTix.

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If February in Melbourne wasn’t hot enough already, Lung are teaming up with some amazing local talent at The Evelyn hotel, following the release of their outstanding debut EP Parasympathy! On the back of a massive 2013 for the hard Rock five piece, head along on Saturday February 8 because this show will no doubt be a huge night!

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RIFF FIST

Forged in the fires of Mount Dandenong, this unlikely Victorian trio have emerged to unleash sonic doom on all non believers! Riff Fist have spent the last two years building a solid live reputation around Melbourne’s finest rock venues with their energetic, booze fuelled, fuzz laden sonic attack. Drawing influence from the great riff lords of ‘70s heavy rock right through to the modern day legends of stoner rock, doom and sludge, Riff Fist bring a unique and fun energy that is undeniably all their own. Following on from their debut EP Fistful of Riffs last year, Riff Fist are set to release their new 7” For a Few Riffs More on Friday February 7. It features the meaty Riff Stew and the as yet unreleased Master Of The Grove. Head on down to The Tote on Friday February 7 to catch them play alongside Swidgen, Borrachero, Kaleidoscopeand DJ’s Hand Of Doom and Pilot The Dune. Tix are $10 on the door.

REMINISCE CLASSIC HOUSE PARTY

The Annual Reminisce Classic House Countdown Party is back at The Prince Bandroom in February.

Have you ever wished you could jump in a time machine and propel yourself back to that perfect place in your life? That place where all that mattered was the weekend, the next festival or the next banging house music party? That place where all that mattered was the music? Think about this stage in your life, when it was, the places you went, the people you met and most importantly, the songs you danced to. Imagine being able to catch up with all of your friends from this perfect place. Then collectively choosing your top 50 songs from the time and have it culminate in a huge party with the most iconic DJ’s from that era in that city playing your choices live down from 50 to number 1? Imagine no more, because Reminisce makes this dream a reality. Reminisce is back with John Course once again counting down Melbourne’s Top 50 Classic House Tracks of all time at The Prince Bandroom, Friday February 7th. Doors at 9pm.

Hailing from Buffalo, NY, indie-pop trio Lemuria will be hitting our shores this coming January / February for their first Australian tour, It wouldn’t be wrong to believe that melodic, sugary, indie-pop anthems would be out of place at a punk rock show. In fact, they would obviously stand out like a sore thumb. However, having seamlessly managed to blur the lines between the soft and melodic and the fast and tough by mixing all the right ingredients, catchy hooks, sweetheart vocals, odd time signatures and discordant notes; are all cleverly beat together leaving the listener asking politely for more.

Along for the ride will be Melbourne’s own Kissing Booth. They hit the Reverence Hotel on Saturday February 8 .Tickets on sale now through Oztix.

The Late Show is every Saturday night at Revolver Upstairs over two rooms from 7pm until 7am. Expect anything and everything across genres and tempos from soul to footwork, from afro to techno, from soca to house, from boogie to bounce. The back bar takes it easy in the dining hours and gather momentum from 10pm, front room gets going from 1am with upfront club. Residents Ransom, Mat Cant, Paz, Lewis Cancut, Booshank and guests plus Boogs from 7am Sunday.

The Late Shoe features Ransom, Nick Thayer, Get Busy, Sammy The Bullet, Danielsan, Booshank, Paz, Lewis Cancut, Who & Boogs at Revolvers back bar from 7pm-10am and front room 1am-7am. Free until 11pm.

FLORELIE ESCANO

DAMN THE TORPEDOES

Florelie Escano will be back at The Spotted Mallard with her ridiculously good-looking band. Prepare yourself to dance to a super soulful and extra funky 90 minute set of original tunes as well as a selection of classics, served up as a tribute to the legends like James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder.

Saturday night will be a celebration of world class funky music starting with a stripped back set from the very talented singer and songwriter, A-Rowe. Free entry, from 8.30pm.

Damn The Torpedoes return from self-imposed exile to release their 4th EP and first 7”, entitled IV. 4 brand new tracks full of melody and noise. After spending most of 2013 moonlighting in other bands (La Bastard, Lake Palmer, Little Desert, et al), Wally Rankin, Leeroy French, Dick Straight and Ando Varone are ready to turn up and tune down. Damn The Torpedoes will be launching the record downstairs at the Grace Darling Saturday February 8 with Kids Of Zoo, Levitating Churches and Alysia Manceau.

I, A MAN

DAN AND AMY

I, A Man spent most of 2013 locked away in The Alamo Studio working with long-time production team Tim O’Halloran and David Williamson crafting

After the launch of their debut single Talk in 2013 and subsequent radio play on ABC 774, RRR and PBS, Dan and Amy are releasing their second single, Pretend

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THE TIGER AND ME

The Flying Saucer Club is pleased to announce Melbourne quintet, The Tiger & Me, will be performing on Saturday February 7 for one night only. Releasing their debut album, From a Liar to a Thief in 2010, the five-piece is gradually working their way onto the local music scene, weaving a rare mixture of styles and sounds with three lead vocalists oscillating between whispered ballads to fevered maelstrom. As a result of their breakthrough album, they scored sets at both Port Fairy Folk Festival and Apollo Bay Music Festival, delivering a sound driven by piano, bass and drums while also drawing on guitars, ukulele, accordion and violin. Come check em out when they play it.The Flying Saucer Club alongside The Bearded Gypsy Band. Doors open at 6.30pm and tickets are $28+BF.

Where and what time will you be playing at the St Kilda Festival?

10pm on Wednesday February 5, at The Elephant and Wheelbarrow St. Kilda Why should everyone come and see your band?

In our opinion, there is nothing better than getting out there and supporting local musicians. We work hard at our music and feel it’s pretty awesome. PLUS we breathe fire and juggle chainsaws. AND there’s a free kitten! But don’t take our word for it; here are some totally legit quotes from “reputable” people.

“Trash Palace ruined me. Real talk.” - Britney Spears.

“I wish I could twerk like Trash Palace…” – Miley Cyrus When are you playing live/releasing your album/ EP/single/etc?

We will be starting to record our debut EP early this year and are planning for its release around May, we hope to have a single released prior to that so keep an ear to the ground. We can’t wait to bring our music to life and share with everyone what we have been working on.

What makes you happiest about what you’re doing?

Our favourite part of what we do would have to be when we can see that the crowd is really getting into it, nothing beats that!

When are you doing your thing next?

After our St Kilda Festival show we are playing a mini festival with 30+ other local bands run by the rad crew of House Party On Wheels at Bar 291 in Brunswick on Saturday February 8. We’re also playing an awesome gig with our friends Sex St and Lieutenant Jam at The Vineyard, St. Kilda on Thursday February 20.

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For all the latest news check out beat.com.au on Saturday February 8 at The Wesley Anne. This release is sombre and reflective, and combines baroque harmonies with contemporary indie influences. It is rich with texture, maturity and complexity. You will discover more things about this song the more you listen. Dan and Amy â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s performances are honest, vivid and engaging. Joining Dan and Amy for the launch are Melbourne songwriter favourites Al Parkinson and Gus Rigby. Doors at 8pm.

performance of ecstatically original material by one of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most creative bands. Warped saxophone solos, slapping, popping, funking virtuosic bass, soaring vocals, epic guitar-ing, and driving dance rhythms eliciting the primal-boogie response from audiences nationwide. See it for real this Saturday February 8 at The Brunswick Hotel, support ed by Future Zoos, Lasers Underwater and Grand Cru. 9pm.

PLAGUE DOCTOR

Plague Doctor and pals Bayou, Les Minijupes, and Lone Giant will be making an emergency landing onto The Old Bar stage for a night of wild, stupid sexy abandon on Saturday February 8. Imagine being devilishly salubrious after imbibing satanic neck oil, dancing your ass off on the MOON and having a confetti cannon go off in your face. Well, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a lot like that. OK! 8.30pm $10.

SUNDAY FEB 9 STEVE PURCELL AND THE PERLY SHELLS

LOWTIDE

On Saturday February 8,Yahs Yahs present a night of fine assed psychedelia and objects that move without explanation with an oriental flavour. Lowtide will be joined by Alpine Decline who are on tour from China and Orange. Lowtide are a local shoegaze dream band who released their debut 12â&#x20AC;? EP, You Are My Good Light in 2010 and a 7â&#x20AC;? single Underneath Tonight 7 in 2011 through the Departed Sounds label and are currently working on a full album. Doors at 7pm with Andy Young playing tunes deep into the night.

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Your very own backyard music festivalâ&#x20AC;Śalt-country, swampy blues, righteous babes, swing, jazz, country blues, rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pop, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all in the mix at Summer Sounds.

Bring a picnic, rug, or a deckchair and enjoy with your friends and family. This Sunday February 9 will be a swinging Sunday in Altona when Steve Purcell and the Pearly Shells; a colourful, ten-piece outfit, will effortlessly reawaken the sounds of the Golden Age of jazz and swing. Show starts at 2pm.

GODWOLF AND SAFIA

Ding Dong Lounge and Tone Deaf present a special co-headline show featuring GodWolf and Safia this Saturday February 8. The name GodWolf best encapsulates what their sound is all about. The Melbourne-based duo uses elements of indie, electro and a dash of dubstep with smooth vocals, packing a surprise punch when they drop in heavy dance music beats just when you least expect it. The suggestion of God conjures up ideas of peace and beauty, and the ethereal quality of GodWolf â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tracks captures this vibe perfectly. Juxtapose this with the nightmare of a savage wolf that is hunting you down in the dead of the night and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got nowhere to run. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GodWolf.

Hailing from our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital is upcoming threepiece electro-indie outfit Safia. Friends since childhood, the Safia boys create original tunes as well as remixing other excellent tracks and giving them the Safia flair.

Be sure to check out these fresh young acts before they explode! 8pm. Tickets $10+bf online/$15 door

WHITEHORSE DRONES

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Whitehorse return to Destroy the Bendigo this Saturday February 8. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a while and they are in fine form from a trip to NZ and as they gear up to destroy Europe and the USA. To celebrate the release of Brisbaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hope Drones debut LP on OSCL.

UNGUS UNGUS UNGUS

The psychedelic gypsy prog-rock band is so radical they named it thrice. Referencing Klezmer and Balkan music and travelling from epic rock to jazz, this is party music for the creatively inclined. An unbridled

THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY

Writing, playing, recording time in the studio, hours on the road up and down the Hume and finally, the point has been reached where The Ramshackle Army are ready to release Letters From the Road Less Travelled. Be sure to check em out when they hit up the Live and Local Stage at St Kilda Festival this Sunday February 9.

ALBARE

ABC Music jazz recording artist, Albare has just announced his first two concerts for 2014, performing for the first time in Hobart at MONA, as part of the Jazz at MONA series of free afternoon concerts ( JAM) on Sunday February 2, and in his home town at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday February 9. Tickets to the Melbourne Recital Centre concert are $55 each, available now through melbournerecital. com.au and Ticketmaster.

IAN COLLARD

Ian Collard is a name that needs no introduction to blues fans in this country. Providing the voice and harp to much loved trio Collard, Greens, and Gravy, (amongst various other outfits) Ian combines the spirit of the delta with sounds of country blues creating a mood of menace and desire. Catch Ian in solo mode one Sunday February 9 at the Drunken Poet from 4pm.

HANDS LIKE HOUSES

FReeZA Maribyrnong are presenting Hands Like Houses, in their only Victorian all ages performance at Phoenix Youth Centre, Footscray on Saturday February 8. The six piece group from Canberra will captivate with their electric blend of technical, effects â&#x20AC;&#x201C; heavy song writing with post-hardcore passion and stage presence. The event marks the bands final performance of their first Australian headline tour.

Joining Hands Like Houses are bands Drawing North, Atlantis Awaits, Brighter at Night and Ocean Grove. The event will also feature a BBQ and an outdoor chill out space. Doors at 2pm. Tickets through oztix.com.au.

AMINE EDGE & DANCE

Arguably, the hottest duet in house music at the moment - Amine Edge & Dance touch down for an action packed day party at Prince bandroom during St Kilda festival on Sunday February 9.

From the south of France, Amine Edge & Dance have conquered the world. Made famous for their great tracks and remixes, the duet was able to inject a stream of cool in the middle of the house music by creating their own style, â&#x20AC;&#x153;G-Houseâ&#x20AC;? for Gangsta House, an explosive style that combines the big bass of Funk and inspirations of Hip-House in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s. Starting on the balcony at 2PM, it will gradually move inside until 2am. Tickets available through oztix.com.au.

THE LOVE BOMBS

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been 6 months since The Love Bombs have graced one of their favourites, The Tote. However this Saturday February 9 , The Love Bombs are back at The Tote for Modestyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much anticipated EP launch.

This is the first of what is looking to be a monster February for the Melbourne four piece, so come down and start the party this Saturday. A cool $10 bucks on the door.

JIMMY TAIT

Still reeling after the successful release of their Australian Music Prize nominated album Golden (out now through Spunk records), Melbourne band Jimmy Tait will take to the Old Bar stage for a sizzling month long residency Sundays in February. Front woman Sara Retallickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerful yet ethereal vocals will soothe you like aloe vera, while simultaneously whipping you out of your summer heat coma. The band will whisk you across dusty back roads and across long horizons before dipping you headfirst into a river of formidable arrangements with angular currents of electric guitar. Jimmy Tait will this week be joined by The Infants and Ben Mason and DJ Slugger Fontaine .

Starts 8.30pm and its $8.

ST KILDA FESTIVAL

The St Kilda Music festival is one of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest and biggest acts and as a proud live music supporter, the Espy is excited to announce a diverse and amazing lineup for Sunday February 9. British India have long been a favourite with Australian audiences. Their back catalogue of hit tracks like I Said Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Sorry, and I Can Make You Love Me have cemented them as one of the most played acts nationally on triple J and their acclaimed albums have secured their spot as one of our finest indie rock acts. 2014 is set to be a stellar year for pop-auteur Andy Bull who is currently working on a full-length album, set for release this year. In 2013, two self-written, self-performed, self-produced singles, Keep On Running and Baby I Am Nobody Now, made Bull one of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;most blogged aboutâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; artists globally.

Dallas Crane are back at the Espy after their killer comeback gig at our NYE Party. After forging a reputation as one of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest rock acts, the much-loved Dallas Crane decided thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty more in the tank and have launched back into the live scene with new single Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Sorry Darlin off their forthcoming album. As if that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough, also performing live are King Of The North, Bitter Sweer Kicks, The Pretty Littles, and Massive.

OK SURE + MANDEK PENHA

Join electronic wizard Ok Sure and the creepy cult figure of Mandek Penha on Sunday February 9 at the Evelyn for a journey though time, space, sound, life lessons, fruit toast andâ&#x20AC;Ś.nudity. Many surprises shall feature throughout the night. Support will be from Dr Jaffle and The Vainglories.

SUZANNAH ESPIE

Ever seen a Suzannah Espie gig? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d remember if you had. Because odds are that, from that moment on, you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been satisfied to stop at one. This Melbourne-based singer songwriter has been casting spells over audiences ever since she first took to the stage with her alt-country pop band, GIT, in 1997.

A woman of compelling beauty â&#x20AC;&#x201D; statuesque, with piercing blue eyes framed by golden curls â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she has a voice to match, an intoxicating mix of country, soul, blues and pop. Her voice can be a gentle, sweet trill that can move grown men to tears one moment, or an Aretha-esque hellcat belt that can raise the roof the next. However she sings it though, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still unmistakably Suzannah Espie. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing every Sunday in Feb at The Retreat with guests Alison Ferrier, Tracy McNeil, Georgia Fields and Sarah Carroll. Free Entry.

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MONDAY FEB 10 THE DEAD HEIR

Every Monday in February is set to become a Raucous, Psychedelic, Garage Rock institution as The Dead Heir, supported by the best Melbourne bands they’ve discovered over their journey, take to the stage at The Evelyn Hotel. Joining them on week on of their residency is The Naysayers and Vowel Movement.

point has been reached where the band is ready to release will Letters From the Road Less Travelled. To celebrate, they’re putting on a party down at Ding Dong Lounge with Hightime, The Resignators and The Quarters to celebrate in the loudest and most chaotic fashion possible. Be sure to check them out Friday February 21.

The band also attracted the ear of legendary Replacements producer Peter Jesperson who lent his weight as co-producer with Willsteed. To celebrate, they play The Yarra Hotel on February 28 and are also on the Apollo Bay Music Festival line up, with Nick Barker.

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NEVER CHEER BEFORE YOU KNOW WHO’S WINNING (TRIVIA)

Trivia at Revolver? Inconceivable! But here we are, entering our fifth year of Never Cheer Before You Know Who’s Winning Tuesday night tomfoolery and the crowds are bigger and more bellicose than ever.

People are actually coming to Revs to switch their brains on via facts, beer, wine and Colonel Tan’s meals.

We start the night off at 7.15pm with a visual round prepared by Kashia Kennedy, 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-summat called Peace Sign Vs Metal Sign too. Email nevercheer@revolverupstairs.com.au to book and get a three point bonus question! Every Tuesay, 7.15pm-9.30pm. Free.

LOOKING FORWARD FEBRUARY THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY

Writing, playing, recording time in the studio, hours on the road up and down the Hume and finally, the

World renowned UK rap legend, Blak Twang, will hit The Espy on Friday February 14 for a free entry show!

Twang is synonymous with the British hip hop scene and has earned international recognition, including the MOBO award, a nomination in the USA’s prestigious Source magazine awards for ‘Best International Hip Hop Act’ and a nomination for Best British Hip Hop Artist in BET’s Awards. Part of this widespread appeal is easily explained the second you see a Blak Twang show: where other rap stars may offer a desultory plod through some looping beats, live performance has always been at the heart of what Twang is about, and his records have been made with live stage shows in mind. Over the past decade, Twang’s music has taken him all around the world and has garnered him the reputation of a hard-working touring musician. Now it is Melbourne’s chance to see the British rapper live when he stops by the Espy. Support from Motley and DJ Moonshine.

HALFWAY

Critically acclaimed Brisbane band Halfway will launch their fourth LP Any Old Love on February 7. Any Old Love is a series of songs which are based around a story set in Barcaldine, Central Queensland. It tells a tale of hope and hopelessness as a young couple try to ride out the early years of their relationship in a regional town during the late 1970’s. Any Old Love sees the return of esteemed Go-Betweens founder Robert Forster as producer, having worked with Halfway on their previous record An Outpost of Promise, reuniting with new Halfway member and fellow Go-Between John Willsteed.

THE LOVE JUNKIES

After a massive 2013, The Love Junkies have just announced the release of their new single Chemical Motivation. Self-produced, recorded and mixed by the band in singer Mitch McDonald’s old bedroom at his parent’s house, the single is a taster of the band’s upcoming EP to be released on limited edition vinyl very soon and their first release since their debut album Maybelene in 2013. They celebrate by playing an Aussie tour and stop off at The Espy’s Rock The Bay on February 15.

PAUL REID

Paul Reid has just released his new single High Tide his first from the forthcoming five song EP Vines. Vines is the result of a three year story for Paul; travelling, working and meeting new people that have had a long lasting effect and influence on the song writing and lyrical makeup of the record. Paul Reid has been showcasing his lyrical compositions in Melbourne and regional Victoria for the past three years, often performing as a solo troubadour and sometimes with full band. 2013 saw the release of his debut self-titled three track EP and guest appearances on independent radio stations and street press magazines. He celebrates his latest single by playing a show at The Cornish Arms Hotel with Kiara Jack (QLD),and Chelsea Morgan pm February 22. Free entry.

What do you love about making music?

That every night is different. Playing live is what it’s all about for us; we love to make people move and feel things.

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What do you hate about the music industry?

It would be nice to see some common sense based legislation around live music, especially to keep great live venues from being sunk by noise complaints.

What can a punter expect from your live show?

A flailing violinist writhing around the stage, with bow hairs flying all over the place and a little drummer strapped in trying his best to keep up with her.

When’s the gig and with who?

St Kilda Festival on Sunday February 9 at the Prince Public Bar, with J. R Reyne, The Sweaters and heaps of others. Don't let ya Monday ruin a Sunday!

BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS

Melbourne six-piece pop, funk, rock, soul outfit Better Than The Wizards launch their debut self-titled album at The Hi-Fi on Friday February 14. A not to be missed banging live show awaits all who want to see six lads put the moves over wannabe warlocks from Melbourne to Middle Earth. With supports from Soul Safari and the Simon Wright Band I challenge you to head along to this show and try to fight the urge to dance! Better Than The Wizards punchy horn licks, gravelly vocals and a sense of fun will set your tail waggling and feet shuffling. Tickets on sale now! $14.40 from The Hi-Fi.

THE DEAD HEIR

Every Monday in February is set to become a Raucous, Psychedelic, Garage Rock institution as The Dead Heir, supported by the best Melbourne bands they’ve

FIVE THINGS you didn’t know about ALL THE COLOURS

1. We love playing at parties. We rock a serious list of cool songs. This is not something that really gets out there, but a lot of bands have fun doing it like we do so I thought it was worth mentioning.

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

Well we are a drum and violin duo so there aren’t a tonne of reference points. But the most common one is that the band sounds somewhere between Goldfrapp and the Dirty Three.

MONDO ENTERTAINMENT’S VALENTINES DAY PARTY CRUISE

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Define your genre in five words or less: Drum and Violin Art Pop.

The Major Leagues will be performing at The Workers Club for their Weird Season EP tour. Performing with them will be The Ocean Party, catch them all on Saturday, February 15.

This Valentines Day the Victoria Star will set sail for a four hour party cruise supplying soul, rock n’ roll, jazz, rhythm and blues, Latin, and funk music for happy punters. Acts like The Jackson Four Quartet, Ruby Rogers, Tazzy D (as Elvis), and DJ Ashley will be performing over two levels on the newly refurbished vessel. Tickets are $95, food and beverage inclusive, and can be obtained by calling Leo on 0431100987 or emailing leo@mondoentertainment.com.au

TUESDAY FEB 11 Seven Ups are back at their home-away-from-home, The Evelyn Hotel, to hold a Tuesday night residency in February. After releasing their debut seven inch single in 2013, the band is ready to let loose in what promises to be a crazy month. There’ll be deep afro-beat grooves, blended with heavy old-school Funk. Better still, each week will feature local supports, spanning various amalgamations of Funk. Entry’s just $3 and there’s cheap $10 jugs. Come down to get down.

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2. Our taste in music compared to the style of music we play when putting together a show is reflective of wanting to bring a party to the people, and not always parallel. When we are lounging about waiting for a long flight, or on the road, there is cut-your-wrist-open stuff; chopyour-head-off stuff; shoot-some-people stuff; and of course occasionally (if the mood and lighting are accurate) some lay-about-with-a-lover-nakedby-a-secluded-waterhole-eating-raw-tomatoesthat-feel-like-breasts-then-wake-up-you’re-atMcDonalds kind of stuff.

3. I do not believe any member has a tattoo. I cannot be 100% certain on this but the truth shall come forth eventually.

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4. All the Colours weren’t even a band until we occupied these particular bodies, did you know?

Music is an infinity within a finite boundary and yet the musicians are not, they are just humans who need to eat and sleep. You know? I guess what I’m trying to say is that there have been, and will continue to be, perhaps, key changes in our songs.

Maybe.

5. All the members of the band have a background in outer space. Meaning that all the bits that make us who we are, whether you know it or not, come from stars that have exploded. I don’t know if you’ll be able to say that of your children or your children’s parents, but we have a serious drinking problem.

ALL THE COLOURS play the Corner Hotel on Friday February 15. They'll also be playing a residency at the Workers Club every Tuesday in February.

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For all the latest news check out beat.com.au discovered over their journey, take to the stage at The Evelyn Hotel. Joining them on week on of their residency is The Naysayers and Vowel Movement

The EC Market is a cruisy Sunday Session perspective of a community market. Limited stalls available for very reasonable prices. Markets will be held over four Sundays: February 2, and 16, March 2 and 16 between 12-4pm.You can get in touch with us by emailing theecmarket3056@gmail.com.

Suzannah Espie. She’s playing every Sunday in Feb at the Retreat with guests Alison Ferrier, Tracy McNeil, Georgia Fields and Sarah Carroll. Free Entry.

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SWEETS

Sweets are doing an Evelyn residency every Wednesday nights in February with a whole stack of really amazing bands supporting them. They’ll be pumping it up, pumping it out and generally being totally pumped. You should come it’s gonna be heaps good. Supports from Manny Fox and Phia.

UZANNAH ESPIE

Ever seen a Suzannah Espie gig? You’d remember if you had. Because odds are that, from that moment on, you wouldn’t have been satisfied to stop at one. This Melbourne-based singer songwriter has been casting spells over audiences ever since she first took to the stage with her alt-country pop band, GIT, in 1997.

A woman of compelling beauty — statuesque, with piercing blue eyes framed by golden curls — she has a voice to match, an intoxicating mix of country, soul, blues and pop. Her voice can be a gentle, sweet trill that can move grown men to tears one moment, or an Aretha-esque hellcat belt that can raise the roof the next. However she sings it though, it’s still unmistakably

GRANDMASTER FLASH

There are a lot of stories about the birth of jazz and the beginning of rock n’ roll, but hip-hop has founding fathers: one of them is DJ Grandmaster Flash. He was the first DJ to physically lay his hands on the vinyl and manipulate it in a backward, forward or counterclockwise motion. He invented the Quick Mix Theory, which included techniques such as the doubleback, back-door, back-spin, and phasing. Basically, what we call a DJ today is a role that Flash invented.

The genius behind iconic party tunes like The Message, Superappin, Freedom and You Know What Time It Is. Flash is a living legend in every sense of the title.

Grandmaster Flash continues to tour the world, in festivals, clubs and venues. He now has his eyes and ears on this new craze-dance music, which he adds to his legendary repertoire. He plays The Espy Gershwin Room on Thursday February 27 with special guests.

Tickets are $45 + bf from OzTix. His live show is a must-see for any true hip hop fans!

Four of Melbourne’s hottest musical acts will take to the stage in the NGV’s Great Hall for the Friday Nights at Melbourne Now series beginning Friday February 28.

Headlining on successive Friday nights the bands include electro quartet World’s End Press, the ARIAnominated Big Scary, the ‘dreamy brilliance’ of Brighter Later and Grammy Award-nominated Hiatus Kaiyote. Celebrating the Melbourne Now exhibition, all events will be free. Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV, said, “Following 2013’s sell-out Friday Night sessions, the series will return to the NGV with a home-grown focus to celebrate Melbourne Now." The Melbourne Now gallery spaces across NGV International and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia will be activated, matching the stellar line up in the Great Hall with special ‘pop-up’ talks and performances.

THE EDINBURGH CASTLE MARKET

Do you have mad crafty skills and think you can sell your goods? Do you have quality second hand stuff ?

Do you have a service you’d like to spruik to a local community? Do you like good beer and sweet sweet Sunday sessions? Then look to The EC Market!

Hosted by The Edinburgh Castle Hotel in Brunswick,

THE DELTA RIGGS

To announce the forthcoming release of their eagerly awaited follow up to Hex.Lover.Killer, The Delta Riggs will do a special performance, playing cuts from the new record Dipz Zebazios for the first time. Inspired by adventures to bustling, international cities, The Delta Riggs channeled a different beast for their second album. Still full of swagger and fuelled with frontman Elliott Hammond’s whiskey soaked vocals, an undercurrent of experimentation, urban groove and melodies provides a more boisterous, off the cuff and tripped out party atmosphere. In line with their ethos of capturing a true moment, DZ was tracked live over three days in December, once again self-produced by the band. Joining the party are Melbourne trio Atolls, who will set the tone for the evening with a barrage of cool-as-fuzz slacker anthems and distortion drenched hooks. The Delta Riggs will perform at the Northcote Social Club on Friday February 21.

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Earl Sweatshirt

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ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL Footscray Community Arts Centre, Saturday February 1 It has been a tumultuous festival season so thank the music festival gods for Laneway. Much like the Meredith-based festivals, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival sticks to a winning formula, but it also knows when to adapt and expand.

Last year’s heaving Flume set showed the growing potential of what was once known as the ‘carpark stage’. At this year’s festival, the Dean Turner Stage expands a good deal further to contain triple j heavy-hitters like Vance Joy, Haim and Chvrches. With a boost in size comes a boost in ticket sales, so the ‘how big is too big?’ question comes into play when the walk to the main stage becomes lengthy and cumbersome. On the plus side, luring most punters to the far end of the festival space made the Moreland Street and River stages more accessible and these smaller settings offered some of the shadiest spots, as well as some of the day’s best sets.

Clashes are another Laneway staple and I got my first troubling clash of the day on arrival, between Cass McCombs and Autre Ne Veut. I opted for the emotive crooning of Autre Ne Veut, who delivered a focused, heartfelt performance at the intimate Red Bull stage.

Over on the Moreland Street Stage, Kirin J Callinan wasn’t causing as much trouble as he did at Sugar Mountain as he pounded through songs from the Embracism album in his oddly transfixing manner. He announced a slow song and cheekily added “please don’t go” but my Laneway app was buzzing and urging me to don a 36” chain for Run The Jewels. El-P was one of my favourite performers at last year’s festival and having Killer Mike on stage this time around made for double the fun.

The trek to the front of the Dean Turner Stage led to Adalita, who movingly paid tribute to Turner before “rocking

PARQUET COURTS Corner Hotel, Wednesday January 29 It’s been nothing but cream with the latest crop of bands that Mistletone have been touring lately: Metz, the Julie Ruin, Kurt Vile and tonight Parquet Courts. The Brooklyn quartet have exploded over the last 6 months despite their ‘break through’ sophomore album Light Up Gold coming out at the end of late 2012, it only reached Australian ears in late 2013. Better late than never.

The first chord rang out and the crowd shuffled forward for openers Constant Mongrel, filling the normally empty space in front of the stage that most openers attempt to serenade. Shambolic and erratic, Constant Mongrel conjure some kind of charm with their post-punk-garage-noise that manages to keep the love affair going with Melbourne punters. Tonight’s show was pretty much a double header: the crowd just as psyched to see Total Control as they were Parquet Courts. The band proceeded to unleash a wall of sound, twice as intense as the record, a sheer force of noise that was simultaneously overwhelming in its brooding intensity and welcoming in its pop nuances. There’s something brilliant about the five frontline members spitting the chorus of Retiree at you, all a similar height and build, the refrain looked and sounded almost militant in its delivery.

Parquet Courts opened with a lengthy guitar jam, a clever play that only enhanced the following track, Black and White, when they eventually ripped into it. The band’s characteristic intertwining guitar melodies sounded deceivingly loose and limber live, the nonchalant cool of guitarists Andrew Savage and Austin Brown highlighting the fact. But that’s how the consummate professionals make it look.

The perfect one second gap between Master Of My Craft and Borrowed Time on the Light Up Gold album was a kick to witness live – putting a grin on many a punters face. Tracks from their latest EP Tally All The Things That You Broke seemed more at home filled with the frantic energy that is only derived from playing live, particularly The More it Works which Savage unleashed with a manic ferocity.

A quick and succinct set from Parquet Courts, with little banter to warm the crowd, but there was no denying the enjoyment toLOVED: Not staring at the back of someone’s night’s attendees received from seeing some of the best slacker head HATED: The shortness of the set pop songs written of late come to life.

DRANK: Too much for a school night KRYSTAL MAYNARD

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out.” Having seen the intense Savages in action a couple of nights earlier, I missed the bulk of their set but couldn’t resist catching a couple of their spiky post-punk songs on the way down to the River Stage. All I wanted to do at this stage was lie on the dry grass with a beer and listen to something breezy, so Dick Diver cropped up in tropical board shorts and did all the work for me. Back on Moreland St, Unknown Mortal Orchestra delivered one of the best sets of the day, with some wonderful psychedelic guitar wig-outs on show. The following Parquet Courts set revealed the Brooklyn four-piece to be an unremarkable live act, but it didn’t make me love their album any less.

Kurt Vile played my two favourites from his latest album early in the set, so I then moved on and momentarily joined a huge crowd lapping up Haim, then witnessed Earl Sweatshirt taking the piss out of the pale, hipster crowd. Over on the Dean Turner side, Lorde chided “You’re a bit quiet, Melbourne” (which, predictably, made the crowd more rowdy). The Queen Bee of Laneway put on an effortless, slick performance and the audience embraced her quirky, intelligent pop songs. As the sun dropped, I ended the day at the stage where I started, but with more dancing, thanks to Jamie xx and Four Tet. The closing sets offered a gentle comedown to a well organised, high quality festival that just keeps going from strength to strength.

CHRIS GIRDLER

LOVED: Blacksmithing HATED: Shifty gate-jumpers DRANK: Mostly water

ZUZU ANGEL The Tote, Sunday February 2 Exhausted, delirious and drenched in sweat was not the state I expected to be in before the Zuzu Angel album launch at The Tote. However, global warming had something else in mind as I traipsed down Johnston street to see Melbourne ‘honest’ rockers’ Zuzu Angel.

Arriving at 8pm I got to see primary support Strange Love, a four headed funk machine – drums, keyboards, guitar/vox and bass – with two of the heads looking very similar with twin brothers on guitar and bass, Harley and Delaney Stewart.

The tightness of this outfit and their innate sense of rhythm was engaging with it merging into outrageous – outrageously good – as the four piece locked into their final track that included original material and a medley of Daft Punk. Additionally, they performed a new song, I Am Not Going To Leave Without You, for the first time that turned out to be killer.

I was outside in the beer garden as the sun went down so walking back into the now filling room was surreal but awesome as Zuzu Angel play music that needs an audience. To say the music that Louis Valentine (Vocals), Jules Ryan (Guitar), Thomas Dwyer (Guitar), Jordan Lockett (Drums/ Percussion) and Jimi ‘The Jester’ Allen (Bass) is ‘stirring’ is a gross understatement. Maybe it’s Valentine’s vocals combined with the riffs and leads breaks of Ryan and Dwyer, but when they hit their straps during the chorus of Serial Killer it was like Huey Lewis and The News tumbling down a hill with Cold Chisel.

Like Strange Love, Zuzu Angel debuted a previously unheard track in Take Me Back. This song captured another kind of classic rock, this time reminiscent of the profound crisp sound of Bruce Springsteen or John Cougar Mellencamp.

By the time the band swung into their last song of the night, Rio, the space in front of the stage was full of dancing bodies enjoying the good time rock’n’roll.

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KING KRULE Corner Hotel, Tuesday January 28

MOUNT KIMBIE Corner Hotel, Thursday January 30 No sold-out show ever feels as sold out as one at The Corner, and when it’s in the middle of a heatwave you definitely feel the stifling push of the crowd as the headliner takes the stage. Touring as part of the Laneway Festival and in support of their successful second LP Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, Mount Kimbie packed out the Corner, showing they’ve come a long way in terms of mass appeal since their debut EP of 2009. Their sound, too, has travelled far from their dubstep-influenced, sample-heavy Crooks and Lovers onto their current mood which favours live instrumentation and vocals.

And it is this diversity that is the defining element – and perhaps the downfall – of their live show. Live jams such as So Many Times So Many Ways, with its bass hook and swinging drum beat, allowed the crowd to get into a recognisable groove that, alas, tapered off without much development. The sampled plucks and twangs of Before I Move Off created the first hands-in-the-air moment for many punters, but the sharp, cut-up vocals that define the song – and indeed much of Mount Kimbie’s early sound – were barely present and muffled in reverb.

When the live grooves locked, they locked well, but as an electronic act presumably more used to pushing faders and pressing keys, they are not as dynamic as more focused instrumental groups. In a recent interview with Beat Dom Maker said the group would like to perform with Archy Marshall (aka King Krule, who provided vocals for two tracks on Cold Spring Fault Less Youth) as much as possible. Given Marshall’s considerable talent, this would be obvious avenue to pursue, but you also get the impression that with mixes to keep an eye on and various instruments to be played and prodded, Mount Kimbie’s vocals in a live setting must take a back seat – a pity, considering their effectiveness on the record.

The idea of what you want from a live show these days is not as straightforward as it was a decade or two ago, so perhaps such performance gripes are beside the point. Mount Kimbie’s sound is solid and unique. They’ve managed to shape some fairly experimental music into something that makes sense beyond the chin-stroking set, and by the time they abandon the guitars and the drummer for the LOVED: The encore encore – throwing material from their first early EPs into a thumping HATED: Stupid Melbourne heat. set of dancier tracks – I’m left thinking that it’s not the pretense of DRANK: The vaporised sweat of my performance that counts as much as the tunes themselves. fellow patrons in the steamy Corner PATRICK O’BRIEN

Woah. Despite looking like the unlucky in love guy from a tween movie (and I can’t remember the last time the visual and aural components of someone were so totally out of whack), King Krule is a man, you guys. His deep voice, all rounded out with its wide vowels in that Dulwich accent, is like fucking seraphim. Like his countryman Mike Skinner, he seems very confident doing his small town thing and telling his tales, but unlike Skinner he allows us to see far into the cockles of that heart of his.

Opening with Has This Hit, and then Ceiling, KK’s band clearly love the guy’s music. The jazz drummer was like some sort of skinhead baby in a floral, short sleeved shirt, staring intently at the bassist with his maw hanging open while they created a rhythm section to end all darkwave hiphop/jazz fusion rhythm sections. Meanwhile, KK isn’t afraid of the flaws and cracks in his voice, and how he knows they’re beautiful at 19 is a straight up mystery.

A Lizard State was executed perfectly – very sophisticated but with the distinct feeling of coming from the ballsack, while not denying the youth of our hero. The soul which came out of this kid who hated sports days was amazing.

When the tempo picked up his forelock fizzed with each guitar strum, killing it with a technicality steeped in the burbs.

There was very little banter but when the guy said a couple of words here and there everyone was eating them up.

Easy Easy received the crowd adulation you’d expect, and by the time we got to Neptune Estate at the end of the set I guess I realised KK pairs the sacred and the profane, in some weird LOVED: He didn’t hurry a thing. way, and it’s really working. Bloody brilliant.

HATED: Um. DRANK: Bottles o’ beer.

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SAVAGES The Hi-Fi, Thursday January 30 Melbourne’s A Dead Forest Index provided a dark low key start to the night. The duo comprised of brothers Sam and Adam Sherry dropped a set of austere dirges that created an uneasy mood designed to unsettle listeners. Their tunes revolved around a seemingly endless repetitive structure created by insistent beats and repetitive lyrical mantras that drilled deep into our subconscious. Filling what looks like a regular support slot for Savages as they tour Europe next month is sure to win these brothers plenty of new fans.

Savages eventually hit the stage with a squall of feedback and distortion that shifted the pounding I Am Here into gear. They created a flawless post punk noise that snarled and sneered at us, anxiously releasing a certain pent up rage. Coming at us with more angles than a pair of winklepickers, Savages wore their eighties post punk influences on their sleeves. They borrow from acts as diverse as Wire and Bauhaus to Gang of Four and an Joy Division but each of their tunes is a potent distillation of nothing but the very best that post punk pun has to offer. Much like ESG, the stark bare bones mix gave each instrument the opportunity to occupy occ plenty of space. Gemma Thompson’s guitar delivered a beautiful heavy noise, Faye Fa aye Milton’s thun thunderous beats sounded amazing and Ayse Hassan’s sturdy bass brought a lusciously deep d de eep p throb thr h ob to the proceedings. p The trio combined to provide a huge wall of noise. Meanwhile lead singer Jehnny ny Beth’s Bet e h’s commanding com presence ensured that she owned the stage. She projected a larger than life star persona rock sta t rp ta ersona aand clearly intimidated those in the front row when she gave them the eye. Beth’s compared often comp m ared to Siouxsie Sioux but she also comes with the unforgiving rage that a ferocious Sinead mp O’Connor displayed on her debut album. The illicit fetish fantasies of Hit Me added a certain O’Conno or once once di these girls’ brand of feminism, which eventually had sexiness to o th hese gi wrestling us wrestli ing with tthe muscular rhythms of Husbands. Labelled LOVED: Another War/ Husbands last biggest buzz bands, Savages proved that they one of la ast yyear’s as ear’s b HATED: Set times were delayed by band great substance. are also oab and of g almost an hour DRANK: More than you should on a school night THE SIDEMAN TH HE S SI IDEMAN

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The 19th century Muscovite, Fyodor Dostoyevsky had a narrow miss with a firing squad. And consequently, we received Crime and Punishment from the later stage of his authorship, post a four-year Siberian exile. Whilst The Lawrence Armsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; absence was double that deficiency since Oh! Calcutta!, they have delivered their sixth studio album, Metropole on Epitaph Records.

The listener is presented with a dulcet of cheers and a brief, lo-fi chorus before the introductory sounds of tomtoms on Chilean District. A subtle and spectral whisper is uttered prior to the upbeat back-and-forth vocal duel of Brendan Kelly and Chris McCaughan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walking on eggshells covered in fliesâ&#x20AC;?, typifies the beatnik literary high that surfaces in peaks and troughs throughout Metropole. The reoccurring themes of anguish, loneliness and drunkenness form an existential hell-broth that beckons the listener to decipher the chain of loosely connected vignettes; perhaps, a tip of the hat to The Greatest Story Ever Told.

Title track, Metropole, begins with a somber McCaughan above his Sundowner acoustic narrating a story concerning distance and time. The acoustic witherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s into gain over the harsh toke of Kelly who recalls never writing his mother (not the first time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard a reference to writing his mother). The song gradually builds with each separate part until its last words, â&#x20AC;&#x153;this is the end of all things.â&#x20AC;?

Melancholy is a prominent motif but the simple hues of orange leaves, yellow lights and neon trees provide occasional feelings of euphoria. To dissect and construe this record can be just as rewarding as interpreting a

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piece of Russian literature. If Metropole were a book, October Blood would be the final chapter as the familiar sounds of the introductory lo-fi chorus comes to life, the same whisper is hurled and in the dying seconds, the cheer leads us to fruition.

MATT MARASCO BEST TRACK: The YMCA Down The Street From The Clinic IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LL LIKE THIS: ALKALINE TRIO, THE MENZINGERS, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS IN A WORD: Skip-Drunk-Tweets

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For all the latest singles check out beat.com.au A little over a century ago, photographs documented the ďŹ rst ever Australasian expedition to our last unexplored continent. On the weekend, I received an ephemeral ten-second snap, broadcast from Antarctica, of a penguin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; replete with crudely sketched dick and balls. (Read in Wernor Herzogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice for optimal effect).

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F For You (Universal) The bros from Disclosure are pretty much untouchable at this stage, six months on from the release of their solid, yet not revelatory, debut Settle. The surprise addition of Mary J. Blige to F For You is a masterstroke, kicking things up a notch with an invigorating soul injection. Still not exactly transgressive or challenging in any way, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s savvy, listenable, and most importantly, downright danceable.

THE PREATURES

Better Than It Could Ever Be (Universal) Trading the intimate cool of the irresistible Is This How You Feel? for a more expansive scope, Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Preatures invoke slight hints of Friday On My Mind in the creeping verse, before launching into a chorus that falls short of their breakthrough single. But I guess thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an impossibly high standard. Skittish drum work and an uninhibited bass keep everything out of the pedestrian lane.

HOWLER

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Wanna (Rough Trade/Remote Control) Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Wanna is an empowered sorta-slacker anthem delivered with the impassioned, throaty cry of Americana stadium stars. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a contradictory little tune, reaching for those Tom Petty heights while scowling iconoclastic self-assurance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to listen to The Smiths if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want toâ&#x20AC;?. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dense and rewarding track, unearthing richness within nothingness.

DRENGE

Nothing (Liberator) It feels like Nothing could stray into clichĂŠd rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll histrionics at any moment, but a palpable, sneering, restraint keeps the huge drum flourishes and menacing sludge-blues in levelled order. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;la-la-laâ&#x20AC;? works even if it is taken at face value, but you get the sense that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sardonic venom oozing down the microphone lead.

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BRETON

Envy (Cut Tooth/Shock) South Londoners Breton run a veritable gamut of reference points throughout Envy, starting off in a zone best described as electronica jazz-pop before heading into calypso and orchestral territories. Somehow, it works, coming together in a cohesive pastiche that defies trend, yet projects as certifiably fresh.

ADALITA

I Want Your Love (Liberation) One of the highlights from Adalitaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second solo LP All Day Venus has been given the live video treatment to stellar effect, harnessing the tense dynamic found on record and constructing something even more special.

Adalitaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice shines in the impactful loud moments and broods within the relative quiet. Top shelf.

THE PRESETS

Goodbye Future (Modular) There are a few interesting ideas on offer in Goodbye Future â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the first in a chain of so-far album-less 2014 singles for synth titans The Presets â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but it all comes together in a scrambled mess. Julian Hamiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s falsetto is pretty shit, chopped up with effects that fail to mask any of this. Rave piano revival isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly played out at this stage, but it feels a little bit out of place amongst the overly compressed sidechain pulse.

Any sense of disco charm is asphyxiated by the garish cocktail of elements. Might have worked in the context of an album; hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoping the following singles pack more of a punch.

SINGLE OF THE WEEK CLIENT LIAISON Free Of Fear (Independent) Oooh itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening. Melbourne retro-pop executives Client Liaison clock up a few more frequent flyer points on their lift-off to superstardom. Parlaying their deft hook-crafting capabilities into all-out early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s dance bliss, the duo sink into plush, euphoric rave touchstones into a richly satisfying whole. The sexed-up sax is the glacĂŠ cherry on the decadent Choc Ripple cake.

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1. Chemical Motivation THE LOVE JUNKIES 2. I Wanna Know THE GOOD MORROWS 3. Snug As Fuck LIAM FINN 4. The Phil Spector Wig Appreciation Society RAYON MOON 5. Hung On Tight (Fractures Remix) SNAKADAKTAL 6. Digital Witness ST VINCENT 7. Narcissist HUNTERS 8. Rescue, Mister TRUST 9. Run The Jewels RUN THE JEWELS 10. Talking Backwards REAL ESTATE

HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP 10 1. Back To Land CD/LP WOODEN SHJIPS 2. The Black Code CD/LP WO-FAT 3. O Brother Where Art Thou LP SOUNDTRACK 4. Hit After Hit LP SONNY & THE SUNSETS 5. Floodland 180g LP SISTERS OF MERCY 6. Give The People What They Want LP SHARON JONES 7. Sun Dogs CD/LP ROSE WINDOWS 8. Sky moves Sideways LP PORCUPINE TREE 9. Imitations CD/LP MARK LANEGAN 10. Plagues Of Babylon LP ICED EARTH

PBS TOP 10 1. Carpetbombing HARMONY 2. A Day in Nashville ROBBEN FORD 3. Mt. Royal MT. ROYAL 4. Lutherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blues WALTER TROUT AND HIS BAND 5. Greenwich Village In The 60s VARIOUS ARTISTS 6. Warpaint WARPAINT 7. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Been A Long Time Awaiting THE NYMPHS 8. Grassed Inn BLANK REALM 9. Too True DUM DUM GIRLS 10. Spirit Of Akasha (Celebrating Morning Of The Earth) VARIOUS ARTISTS

OFF THE HIP RECORDS TOP 10 1. Take It Out On You LP BORED! 2. Split 7â&#x20AC;? FROWNING CLOUDS/LIVING EYES 3. Shaw Tapes LP THE GORIES 4. Whereabouts LP/CD FROWNING CLOUDS 5. All Or Nothing LP LA LA BROOKS 6. Here Come LP/CD HIGH LEARYS 7. Rang Tang LP DING DONGS 8. Evil Eye On You LP DADDY LONG LEGS 9. Undecided 7â&#x20AC;? MASTERS APPRENTICES 10. Sex Machine LP JAMES BROWN

BEATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TOP 10 SONGS ABOUT NATIONALISM 1. American Pie DON MCLEAN 2. Anarchy In The UK SEX PISTOLS 3. Hungary Forever! HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGRY 4. Africa TOTO 5. Born in the U.S.A. BRUCE SPINGSTEEN 6. This Is England THE CLASH 7. Irish Blood, English Heart MORRISSEY 8. Scotland Shame MOGWAI 9. Land Downunder MEN AT WORK 10. True Blue JOHN WILLIAMSON

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NEW MUSIC IN REVIEW THIS WEEK

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ACTRESS

SNAKADAKTAL

Ghettoville (Werk Discs)

The Sun II (Liberation)

Sweaty, sleepless and surly, sometimes in summer you just need something fresh and sweet to sip on. Ghettoville is not an easy palate-cleanser. It is dark, relentlessly repetitive, and could well be designed with the express purpose of pissing off such feeble-minded music fans as myself.

The mood is set by the album opener Forgiven – a metallic dirge that summons visions of the bar in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – and the uneasy feeling the album gives, like it’s the soundtrack to a ferry ride down the Styx, barely abates over the course of 70 minutes.

Forgiven consists of two chords and one bar of drum beat that loop for seven minutes while a subway train thunders somewhere beneath, and this stoical repetition is the other hallmark of the album. Wonder how track two finishes? Listen to the first bar, repeat it in your head and fade out. Track three? Repeat – and there are few exceptions to this rule across the 16 songs. Repetition should be no criticism on its own, but the slowly morphing ostinatos of techno and the build of tension and release typical to much electronic music are almost absent on this release.

The uniformly dreary tone brings to mind Burial’s Untrue, but even in the depths of that record’s darkness there is always something beautiful to hold on to. Ghettoville’s palette is more consistently dark, and it might take holding out until winter before I can try again to wallow in the cold, muddy waters BEST TRACK: Daze of this record and find some mutant beauty that has IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: ZOMBY survived the apocalypse.

With Love, SHXCXCHCXSH - STRGTHS IN A WORD: Heavy PATRICK O’BRIEN

Apart from having one of the greatest band names around, Snakadaktal are actually one of the most consistently enjoyable bands to emerge from Australia’s indie music scene in some time.

Opening track The Sun II is similar to most chilled-out tracks lately, but Sean Heathcliff ’s vocals are smooth enough to keep you interested. Apart from the almost soft jazz intro, East of Here lacks the substance to warrant repeated listens.

As the band’s second EP, this one features mostly remixes. The Just Kiddin’ Remix of the title track is much more synth-heavy and the addition of female backing vocals improves the sound greatly. The Hayden James remix of Fall Under will take you by surprise, in a good way. It starts slow before breaking into a Flume-inspired, bass-heavy dance track.

Hung On Tight, remixed by talented Melbourne producer Fractures, begins like a bushfire camp song and soon develops into a melodic soundtrack for beach parties and Sunday sessions.

The Kilter remix of Fall Underneath is probably the catchiest of the lot, with an uplifting beat and the grooving vocals of Phoebe Cockburn.

BEST TRACK: Fall Underneath (Kilter Remix) IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: BRITISH CHRIS BRIGHT INDIA, SAN CISCO, BIG SCARY IN A WORD: Mixed

CIRCLES

THE BLUEGRASS FLIES

Infinitas (Basick)

Done & Dusty (Independent)

Melbourne progressive band Circles have stepped up to the plate in a big way, and produced a debut full length album that expands magnificently on the ideas presented and explored on their debut EP of 2011 The Compass. The promise displayed on that EP has been fully realised here, and Infinitas is a true winner.

Stylistically, these guys cannot lose. Their sound has such broad appeal it boggles the mind.

This album can be brutally heavy when it wants to be, it soars into the stratosphere on a regular basis and injects an electronic vibe into proceedings in a strong but subtle manner.

There’s also the occasional acoustic moment, a little middle eastern influence adding even further flavour to the mix and even a guest appearance from Kin from Twelve Foot Ninja. The musicianship on display on this album is absolutely exemplary, and the production values are right on the money. Made even more astounding by the fact that virtually the entire album is a DIY effort. Above all however, the songs are immaculate. These guys have got the delicate balance between heaviness, a progressive spirit and catchy melody down to an absolute tee. Best exemplified by stunning opener Erased, lead off single Responses, On My Way and the incredible Visions. But really, there is not a single weak link to be heard.

Infinitas is such a success that I would expect to see Circles BEST TRACK: Visions touring the entire globe on a regular basis over the next IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: year or two. In a year absolutely choc-full of magnificent PERIPHERY, TWELVE FOOT NINJA, releases, this album is a standout.

TESSETRACT IN A WORD: Magnificent

ROD WHITFIELD

Playing music that would likely accompany ol’ Huck floating down the Mississippi, The Bluegrass Flies may be thousands of miles away from thier spiritual home, but heck, on a less grand scale, Merri Creek is just a stones throw away.

This trio employ all the correct instruments. Mandolin, fiddle and double bass are front and centre. Even the absence of the obligatory five letters instrument starting with “b” is no loss.

As in banjo folks. They carry on the tradition of Australian bluegrass acts like Earl Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys and, latterly, Uncle Bill with aplomb.

They ply on the theme of life’s simple pleasures. Charlie’s Getting’ Married, My House, Mama Loves Papa. Nothing lyrically challenging but suitably enjoyable. Suzie is a beautiful early Stones or Tom Waits-Keith Richards inspired singalong zeitgeist.

My House is equally exquisite. But no travelling the dustbowl road here. At best it is just scorched asphalt. And it is difficult not to turn up the speakers to overload when listening to this as the sun beats down without mercy.

To the audience, this is a gratifying and leisurely experience. The band assumes the task of getting things done rather than the easier route of demanding things be done. My Girl is the obligatory relationship struggle song and is grand as it does not attempt to overreach itself. The Bluegrass Files are worthwhile and exist just below the radar. It fills the listener with joy knowing that such music can exist within its audience.

BEST TRACK: Suzie IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: UNCLE BRONIUS ZUMERIS BILL, DEL MCCOURY IN A WORD: Traditional

YOU ME AT SIX

BROKEN BELLS

Cavalier Youth (Cooking Vinyl)

After the Disco (Columbia/Sony)

An increased touring schedule and overcoming an almost break up culminated in the release of 2011’s Sinners Never Sleep, beefing up You Me At Six’s sound and proving the band were more than just another pop-rock act. Three years later and their latest release, Cavalier Youth has failed to capitalise on the growth and power of its predecessor. While all the vital You Me At Six elements are present; pop sensibilities, edgy rock, and their knack for crafting a great ballad, they have been executed in a way that feels too formulaic, lacking any real kick-in-the-pants-memorable-moments and stopping Cavalier Youth from making the leap from good to great.

The album isn’t without its highlights, first two singles Lived A Lie and Fresh Start Fever or the catchy Love Me Like You Used To bullseye the target, but for the most part the album is mediocre- an easy listen but without the confidence or risk taking we have come to expect from a You Me At Six release. After an album that was spiteful and dark, Cavalier Youth is anthemic, optimistic and hopeful. Tracks like Hope For The Best and Carpe Diem embody this sentiment, giving the album a youthful, carefree ambience. But expectation has a lot to do with why this album is enjoyable but only passable.

While Sinners Never Sleep was full of risks, Cavalier Youth feels a lot safer, playing on what the band does well but without any real boldness. The result is a catchy and easily digestible album, yet not the standout record we were waiting for. There is evidence of growth and a handful of impressive tracks BEST TRACK: Fresh Start Fever but overall Cavalier Youth isn’t a memorable release.

IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU’LL LIKE THIS: PARAMORE, FALL OUT BOY, MAYDAY GLORIA BRANCATISANO PARADE IN A WORD: Hopeful

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Danger Mouse man Brian Burton again teams up with Shins man James Mercer for round two of Broken Bells. The title track is very relaxed dance music. So much so it is akin to counting BPM’s as an excessive amount of anaesthetics takes effect.

It is like they are toiling doggedly to overcome some unknown lethargy. Holding On For Life is ominous until the Hall & Oates chorus. Maybe they are expanding their energies? But this Eighties schtick carries on to Leave It Alone. It is wistful MOR by some cooler than thou hipsters.

The Changing Lights with the programmed drumming is like New Order on the cusp of breaking out of the indie zone. Then the very next song is Control. This too, is like New Order, but an earlier version. Not as primitive as Joy Division, but say, Power Corruption And Lies. It sounds like the Broken Bells are unsettled by the current state of indie music and have joined the retro brigade. Once in these ranks, diversity is reined in, because an eclectic farrago is not on the agenda.

Medicine hints at the same map as After The Disco. Then, bizarrely, they give the listener a good shake by the scruff of the neck. No Matter What You’re Told, The Angel And The Fool and finally The Remains Of Rock And Roll. Are they intending to write the obituary for rock? Hardly. Broken Bells are more conciliatory then Jesus And Mary Chains’ I Hate Rock & Roll and they do not oversell their concerns for want of alienating their audience. Ultimately, this is not the peak of human accomplishment, but BEST TRACK: The Remains Of Rock And Roll is suitably likeable.

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GIG GUIDE

WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

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WEDNESDAY FEB 5 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS ST. KILDA FESTIVAL LIVE N LOCAL SHOWCASE FEAT: TRASH PALACE + THE ELECTRONIQUE BIRDS & SUB ROSA Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

ALISON FERRIER & BAND + RICH DAVIES Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

AUTUMN IN ALASKA + SEARCHING IN SILENCE + SPECTRAL FIRES + THE APPROACH Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.

COOL SOUNDS + HOWARD + TOTALLY MILD Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $7.

DRENGE + THE CREASES Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm. $28.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $57.

JAMES TEAGUE + DANVERS + LINUS WILSON Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS + EARLY WOMAN + PEARLS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $49.

MATHLETE + CLAWS & ORGANS + HYPERDRONES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

RAYON MOON + MCBAIN + SHINEY COIN Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

THE PRETTY LITTLES + SHIPS PIANO Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

TRASH PALACE + SUB ROSA + THE ELECTRIQUE BIRDS Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

YOUTH LAGOON + BROODS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $43.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $14.

HAMMOND JAZZ CLUB + MR ANDREW SWANN Claypots, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

JAZZATOMIKA Laika Bar, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

LEARN TO SWING DANCE - FEAT: SWING PATROL First Floor, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

LO-RES + BOHJASS 303, Northcote. 9:00pm.

NATHAN SLATER Open Studio, Northcote. 9:30pm.

REMCO KEIJZER QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.

THE NICK HAYWOOD QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.

VIVE LA DIFFERENCE Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 8:30pm.

GIG OF THE WEEK!

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ACOUSTIC SESSIONS - FEAT: JOHN PATRICK + SCOTT BOYD Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm.

COLLAGE Espy, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

ISSAC MAIN Captain Baxter, St Kilda . 7:00pm.

KIM SALMON Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

MY MATE JAMES Base Backpackers & Red Eye Bar, St Kilda.

8:00pm.

OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm.

REBECCA BARNARD & BILLY MEYERS SING-A-LONG 2014 Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $15.

SIMPLY ACOUSTIC Wesley Anne, Northcote. 7:30pm.

SUZIE STAPLETON + SUNDAY CHAIRS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

THE WHITETOP MOUNTAINEERS + ONE UP TWO DOWN Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.

WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: TASH SULTANA + MOZO Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.

THURSDAY FEB 6 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS 4TRESS + MOONSHIFTER + TEXAS JEDI Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

ALPINE DECLINE + BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE DJS + THE GRAND RAPIDS + WINTERPLAN + YOUNG HYSTERIA Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.

CAT JUMP ROAD + SARAH EIDA + STRUM REBELLION + THE UNHOLY RACKET Bar Open, Fitzroy.

8:30pm.

CINEMA 6 + DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE + DROOLING MOUTHS OF MEMPHIS + LLOYD BOSCH Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

DEAD RIVER + ARCTIC DUNE + HALT EVER + OR-

ST KILDA FESTIVAL 2014 The big one for StKilda Festival, the Festival Sunday is our pick for Gig Of The Week. Boasting a day of huge local acts including Alison Wonderland, Art VS Science, The Bamboos, Wave Racer, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Kingswood, Courtney Barnett, Remi, Oscar Key Sung, Lester The Fierce, Allday, Renee Geyer, Sticky Fingers and a tonne more of big local names (and all for free) make it a huge Sunday with hundreds of performers over eight festival stages. This all goes down this Sunday February 9 in St Kilda.

ANGE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.

EINSTEIN TOYBOYS + THE WISEGUYZ Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm. $10.

FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOCOPIER - FEAT: THE CULT 45S + BOATBUILDER + THE GIRL FRIDAS + THE NEWPORT DOLLS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $7.

LINCOLN LE FEVRE + MARICOPA WELLS + MAX GOES TO HOLLYWOOD + PETE AKHURST Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $8.

LIVE N COOKIN’ SESSIONS - FEAT: PETS WITH PETS The B.east, Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

LIVE N’ LOCAL - FEAT: ECHO DRAMA + ALEX WATTS & THE FOREIGN TONGUE + BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS + FULTON STREET + LIEUTENANT JAM + SEVEN YEAR ITCH + SOUL SAFARI + THE UGLY KINGS + THE VELVETS + WHITE SUMMER Espy, St Kilda. 9:30pm.

NEXT - FEAT: WARBRAIN + BORN FREE + LIFE OF MY OWN Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

ORIGINAL MUSIC NETWORKING NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 8:30pm.

PLUGGED IN THURSDAYS - FEAT: DAYRIGS + CASA ROSA Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $5.

RAKKIT DIBS + ATOLLS + HOLY LOTUS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

RIOT IN TOYTOWN + CAPTIVES + THE CANING + TRANSCIENCE Elephant & Wheelbarrow, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

THE BROKEN NEEDLES + MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + SODA EAVES Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $7.

THE MELANOMADS + HONEY BADGERS + SURFING IN HAWAII + THE GOOD CHINA Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $5.

THE MELBOURNE MIXTAPE EXCHANGE - FEAT: PRETTY CITY + COCHLEA KILL + GARDEN PARTY + SEASUNS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 9:00pm.

UP UP AWAY + PASSERINE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

WILLOW DARLING + STEPHEN BOWTELL BAND Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC ACQUATCHETA Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.

ALWAN Claypots, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

BOB MARLEY BDAY TRIBUTE Bar Oussou, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

GROUNDATION + EL MOTH + TOM FRAGER + TOP RANKING The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $46.

JAMIE OEHLERS/JULIEN WILSON QUINTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

JAZZ ON THURSDAYS - FEAT: JOE RUBERTO TRIO + GIANNI MARINUCCI + RUBY PAGE Rising Sun Hotel, South Melbourne. 6:30pm.

KAIN BORLASE TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

PIECE OF WALTER 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $10.

THE CRAIG SMITH QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

9:00pm.

THE MICHELLE NICOLLE BAND Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

THE OVEREASYS Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne.

7:30pm.

THE SWEETHEARTS + DJ VINCE PEACH + PIERRE BARONI Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.

VELVET TONGUE Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK BEN WRIGHT-SMITH Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

CAT POWER Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:45pm. $50.

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS + MONTERO + VISHNU KEYS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $49.

LEEZ LIDO + MILLAR JUKES + PLASTIC SPACEMAN Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8.

OH PEP! + ONE UP TWO DOWN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

OPEN MIC Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.

QUEEN & CONVICT Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

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9:30pm.

UNCLE JED + TAYLOR SHERIDAN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.

WEEKEND WARMUP Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North.

9:00pm.

ZINNIA BLUE & TYTO Bar Nancy, Northcote. 7:30pm.

FRIDAY FEB 7 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS 4 LETTER LIES Bells Hotel, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

CRAVEN SOULS + CHOP SQUAD + MY PIRANHA Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 9:30pm.

DEAD CANARY + CORDELL + SCHIKAIN + SHIT SEX Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

DELINSKI RECORDS Limerick Arms Hotel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.

DJ FERG Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

EMPIRE OF POETS + BULLS + DJ ALI E + JUNK HORSES + WAYWARD BREED Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $10.

HANDS LIKE HOUSES + ACRASIA + ATLANTIS AWAITS + DRAWING NORTH Workers Club, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $20.

HAVOK + KING PARROT The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $31.

HUW JOSEPH + BABERAHAM LINCOLN + RDZJB + WINSTON Cushion, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

IMMIGRANT UNION + HAYLEY COUPER + ROYSTON VASIE Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $14.

JUKE KARTEL Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $20.

KATY DUNSTALL Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

8:00pm. $15.

KUJO KINGS + GPTP + JAMES CROW + TAKING BERLIN Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.

LAKES + DEAD BOOMERS + VACUUM + VELVET WHIP Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.

LAURA PALMER + ANGRY SEAS + BATTLETACO + JAYNE’S FIGHTING SHIPS 303, Northcote. 9:00pm.

MICK TURNER + NEW WAR + THE ANCIENTS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 9:30pm. $20.

NEW DUB CITY + ALPINE DECLINE + CRYBONES + TANGRAMS + THE PRIMARY Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.

NO ZU + HOME TRAVEL + MICHAEL OZONE + TORNADO WALLACE Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $12.

PROJECT KOLKATA FUNDRAISER - FEAT: RIFLEBIRDS + CRANES AGAINST CLOUDS + PLAYWRITE + RIO GRANDE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

REVOMATIX + DAVE ADAMS SEXTET TRIO Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.

RIFF FIST + BORRACHERO + KALEIDOSCOPE + SWIDGEN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

SEXY/HEAVY + COUNCIL + HORSEHUNTER Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

SHANTY TOWN Union Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm.

SPENSER P JONES & THE ESCAPE COMITTEE Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

THE BENNIES + APART FROM THIS + RISE OF THE RAT + WET PENSIONER Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

9:00pm. $15.

THE BITS + A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS + DJ FEE FEE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 11:00pm.

THE CUBAN BROTHERS + MOSE & THE FMLY Espy, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

THE DINGALINGS Penny Black, Brunswick. 10:30pm.

THE LOCUST Corner Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. $34.

THE NIGHT PARTY + NICK MURPHY DUO + THE BRAVES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $6.

THE PASS OUTS The George, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

THE REBELLES + FIONA LEE MAYNARD & HER HOLY MEN Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

THE ROLLING BLACKOUTS Public Bar, North Melbourne.

2:30pm. $10.

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TOTTIE & THE WANDERERS Laika Bar, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

TRIUMPH OVER LOGIC + FEED MY FRANKENSTEIN + LIZARD PUNCH + SONIC MOON Espy, St Kilda.

10:00pm.

UNGUS UNGUS UNGUS + FUTURE ZOOS + GRAND CRU + LASERS UNDERWATER Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

VOX POP Shim Sham, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

VULTURES OF VENUS + DASH + I AM THE RIOT + ZEON The Vineyard, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC 30/70 Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

DEANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MARTINI & SHAKERS Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 8:30pm.

FUNK BUDDIES South Melbourne Market, South Melbourne. 6:00pm.

JULIARNA & THE HEARTJAZZ STATESMEN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.

LUCY GALE DEBUT & THE JOE RUBERTO TRIO Dizzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm.

MARGIE LOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIANO HOUR + ALYCE PLATT Claypots, St Kilda. 10:00pm.

STEVE MAGNUSSON TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

9:00pm.

THE EMMA GILMARTIN QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.

THE FURBELOWS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.

THE MICHELLE NICOLLE BAND Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

TRIO AGOGO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

TRIPLE SHOT TRIO + BEN HARMSEN + CATH CONNER + PETER KAHOUN Famous Blue Raincoat, Kingsville South. 8:30pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK ANN VRIEND Albert Park Yacht Club, Albert Park. 8:00pm. $20.

BAKERSFIELD GLEE CLUB Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

CHALOUCHE Open Studio, Northcote. 9:30pm.

DAVE GARNHAM & THE REASONS TO LIVE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:30pm.

DAVY SIMONY Sugarreef, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; RACKETTES + CHRIS RUSSELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHICKEN WALK Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm.

MY MATE JAMES Secret Garden Bar, St Kilda. 7:30pm.

PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUG BAND Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $25.

SONGWRITERS IN THE SOUND Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm.

SOPHIE ROSE DUO + NIC TATE Bar Oussou, Brunswick.

7:00pm.

SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm.

THE LOST DOGS Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm.

TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 7:00pm.

SATURDAY FEB 8 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS BANG - FEAT: TILIAN PEARSON + ACRASIA + THE SPINSET + WHO INVITED THE WOLF? Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.

BETTER THAN THE WIZARDS + THE FABRIC Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 8:00pm.

BREAK THE WALL + DJ ALI E Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:30pm. $10.

COOL SOUNDS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 2:30am. $10.

CROSSROADS + DOJO COLLECTORS + EXP + THE VAS Edwardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place, Reservoir. 8:00pm.

DAMN THE TORPEDOES (7â&#x20AC;? LAUNCH) + ALYSIA MANCEAU + KIDS OF ZOO + LEVITATING CHURCHES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

DAN AND AMY SINGLE LAUNCH + AL PARKINSON + GUS RIGBY Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $7.

ED KOWALCZYK Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

EL MOTH + BELLA & THE MELLOWS + FULTON STREET Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 5:00pm.

FEAST OF METAL II - FEAT: BARBARION + ATRA VETOSUS + BANE OF WINTERSTORM + BASTARDISER + GERM + HOBBS ANGEL OF DEATH + INTERNAL NIGHTMARE + MALICHOR + MANIAXE + MYRIDIAN + OBSIDIETH + RISE OF AVERNUS + STORMTIDE + TROLDHAUGEN + VANISHING POINT + WITCHGRINDER DESECRATOR Revolt Artspace, Kensington.

1:00pm. $40.

GODWOLF + ALBERT SALT + SAFIA Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $12.

HAMBONE & THE PROSPECTORS + GENERAL PANTS & THE PRIVATES + SPUNK MACHINE + TAKING BERLIN 303, Northcote. 9:30pm.

HOME BREW + COCOA NOIRE PLUS THE HELLHOUNDS + PHIL PARA BAND Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

HOPE DRONE + GURNER + OLD LOVE + WHITE-

HORSE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.

HOUSE PARTY ON WHEELS FESTIVAL VOL.4 - FEAT: ANDY MCGARVIE BAND + AUSTIN BUSCH + AVANTAIR + BELOVED ELK + BRICKS + CABBAGES AND KINGS + CHRIS WARREN + CITRUS JAM + DAMN THAT RIVER + DAMN THE DAWN + DROPFRAME + EEO + ELPH + GUNSLINGERS + JUNE FLIGHTS + LIEUTENANT JAM + LOVE AND WAR + LOW FLY INCLINE + MIKE WATERS + PETER DICKYBIRD + POISON FISH - PROLETARIAN RIOT + RACHEL CLARK + SCOTT BOYD + SONIC MOON + SOPHIE OFFICER + STORM YOUR CASTLE + SUGA RUIN + TARA WALSH + THE DROOLING MOUTHS + THE HONDAS + THE MOOPS + THE WILD COMFORTS + TINA AND THE NO BOYS ARE LOUD + TRASH FAIRYS + TRASH PALACE + VISION ST Bar 291, Brunswick. 1:00pm.

HOW YA GARN? YEAH NOT BAD! - FEAT: RATTLINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; BONES BLACKWOOD + SHERIFF + SUN GOD REPLICA + THE PEEP TEMPEL + BATPISS + COTANGENT + I AM DUCKEYE + KALEIDOSCOPE + LEGENDS OF MOTORSPORT + MADE FOR CHICKENS BY ROBOTS + SEEDY JEEZUS + SKYSCRAPER STAN + THE JAPANESE BLUES COWBOY-GEORGE KAMIKAWA + THE LITTLE SISTERS + THE STRANGE John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 9:00pm.

KAISHA Golden Gate Hotel, South Melbourne. 5:00pm.

KINGS & QUEENS - FEAT: VENOMARTYR + DISGRUNTLED BRUNTLE + GECKO THEORY + INCURSIONS + LUCID PLANET + REJUVENATE + SPOOK THE BANSHEE Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $15.

LEMURIA + KISSING BOOTH Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

9:00pm.

LINCOLN LE FEVRE + MARA THREAT Old Bar, Fitzroy.

3:00pm.

LONESOME + SIB + THE SUN BLINDNESS + THE WOODLAND HUNTERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

9:00pm. $10.

LOWTIDE + ALPINE DECLINE + ORANGEE Yah Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

LUNG (EP LAUNCH) + ARAKEYE + AVENUEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S END + SHORTFALL + TEN THOUSAND Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.

8:00pm. $15.

MICK DALEY AND THE CORPORATE RAIDERS FEAT: MICK DALEY & THE CORPORATE RAIDERS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

MUSCLE MARY + DOGSDAY + SARGE & THE NUKED

YOUTH LAGOON Making his return to Australian stages is the heartfelt, spiritual, and with a cherubic, limitless sound of Youth Lagoon. Since releasing his critically acclaimed follow-up LP Wondrous Bughous, the 22-year-old Idaho-raised native has played Coachella and played across the US, UK and Europe. He plays Ding Dong Lounge on Wednesday February 5 with special guests.

Dane Certificateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre, Brunswick.

9:00pm. $5.

OSIRIS - FEAT: THE HARRY JAMES ANGUS BAND + ALI MCGREGOR + ANNA LUMB + IMAAN + MIKELANGELO + RANDY + SIMONE PAGE JONES Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $40.

PLAGUE DOCTOR + BAYOU + LES MINIJUPES + LONE GIANT Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $10.

PLASTIC KNIFE #11 (MUSIC FROM THE ZINE PLASTIC KNIFE #10) + COLOSTOMY BAGUETTE + SAILORMOUTH Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

RAW BRIT + THE SMASH Musicland, Fawkner. 9:00pm. $17.

REMZELK + MENAGE A SKA + SARGE AND THE NUKED Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

SEX ON TOAST Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm.

THE ALL STAR GUITAR SHOW The Bentleigh Club, Bentleigh. 7:30pm. $30.

THE F100S Union Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm.

TITTY TWISTER Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.

WAKEFIELD FEST - FEAT: POLICE & THIEVES + AL-

THE NATIONAL Returning to Australia for their first headline shows since their sold-out 2010 tour, Cincinnati five piece The National bring their intense and sophisticated brand of heartfelt rock to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Sunday February 9. With their latest release Trouble Will Find Me and in combination with their tireless work ethic of years gone by, their live show is now even more sought after than ever before.

EXANDRA PYE + BIDDLEWOOD + DANISH + DES CHIO + EMMA BROADY + HUSHFIRE + NEVER THE EMPRESS + THE ANTICKS + THE TRIED Espy, St Kilda.

5:00pm.

WINTER MOON + NOIR Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC FLORELIE ESCANO + A-ROWE + DJ MISS GOLDIE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

ALLIRA WILSON & THE JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.

BOB MARLEY BIRTHDAY BASH - FEAT: RASTA UNITY + T RHYTHMS + JESSE I & RAS CRUCIAL + PUPA DALTON + SISTA ITATIONS + STICK MAREEBO + ZARE DEMUS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 9:30pm. $20.

CLASSICAL PIANO Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 3:00pm.

CYCLO TIMIK Open Studio, Northcote. 9:30pm.

DARREN ARCHER SEXTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

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DRENGE English rockers Drenge are treating audiences to their powerful and visceral rock’n’roll at The Tote on Wednesday February 5 for a Laneway sideshow, in what is their first trip Down Under.

Having released their self-titled debut album last year, their somewhat cult-following has earned them international praise not only from media and fans, but also rockstars like fellow Northerners the Arctic Monkeys.

FUNKALLEROS Eclectico, St Kilda. 7:00pm.

GOYIM + ELVIS IN THE HOUSE Claypots, St Kilda.

4:30pm.

LA TRAVIATA Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:30pm. $20.

NICHAUD FITZGIBBON QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20.

PANORAMA DO BRASIL Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.

RHYTHM OF AFRICA - FEAT: AKOMA BEAT + AFRICAN STAR Werribee Open Range Zoo, Werribee. 8:00pm.

ROMANJANCO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm.

THE NEXUS PROJECT Famous Blue Raincoat, Kingsville South. 8:30pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK DAVID GARNHAM Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

DAVY SIMONY Fitzrovia, St Kilda. 4:00pm.

MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: QUEENS OF THE OUTBACK Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm.

MOONEY VALLEY DRIFTERS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

PETE DAFFY & THE FORCASTERS Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 5:00pm.

PIERCE BROTHERS + FLORENCE PARDOE + WOOD-

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LOCK Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

SANS + A MAN NAMED BRICK + YOUR OSTRICH Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

SCOTT BOYD Mavis Brown’s, St Kilda. 3:00pm.

SHANE NICHOLSON & GREGORY PAGE Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $25.

SUNDAY CHAIRS South Melbourne Market, South Melbourne. 2:00pm.

SUPERDARLING Linden, St Kilda. 2:00pm.

THE BLACKHILL RAMBLERS Puffing Billy Station, Belgrave. 7:00pm. $60.

THE GROOVETONES Blarney Stone Irish Pub, Yarraville.

8:30pm.

THE LITTLE SISTERS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

10:00pm.

THE STOPOUTS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6:00pm.

THE WINTERFRIENDS Veg Out Gardens, St Kilda. 3:00pm.

THREE KINGS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 10:30pm.

TRACY MCNEIL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

SUNDAY FEB 9 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS 80’S ON THE EDGE Sloaney Pony, Port Melbourne. 9:30pm.

BUCK JR + DEMI LOUISE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.

9:00pm.

CENTRE & THE SOUTH + ALONE WITH TIGER + THE RAY GUNS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

COOPERS PRESENTS SUNDAY SCHOOL - FEAT: MARTIN KING + DROOLING MYSTICS + EXOTIC SNAKE + HABITS + LANGLO PANIFLAX Public Bar, North Melbourne. 4:00pm.

DALE BODEN Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $12.

ED KOWALCZYK Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

HUMANS AS ANIMALS + THE BROKEN NEEDLES Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.

JESS LOCKE + ELI CASH + MOON RITUAL + NICK SMETHHURST Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 4:00pm.

LEMURIA + KISSING BOOTH The Vineyard, St Kilda.

4:00pm.

LILITH LANE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 2:30pm. $12.

MOUNTAIN GOAT BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: JIMMY TAIT + BEN MASON + DJ SLUGGER FONTAINE + THE INFANTS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

ROCK AND BLUES SATURDAYS - FEAT: BLEEDING ROSE Elsternwick Hotel, Elwood. 8:00pm.

ROSS ROYCE + JAN MARIE + SANG REAL Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

ST KILDA FESTIVAL - FEAT: AIRILEKE + ALISON WONDERLAND + ALLDAY + ART VS SCIENCE + ARTIST PROOF + BETHANY FISHER + BOB EVANS + BOYS BOYS BOYS + BROOKLYN’S FINEST + BROW HORN ORCHESTRA + BUSBY MAROU + BUSY KINGDOM + CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + COURTNEY BARNETT & THE COURTNEY BARNETTS + CUMBIA COSMONAUTS + DYLAN JOEL + GOLD FIELDS + JUDE PERL + KIM CHURCHILL + KING GIZZARD & THE WIZARD LIZARD + LESTER THE FIERCE + MAT MCHUGH + MAYFIELD + NEW DUB CITY + OSAKA + OSCAR KEY SUNG + PIERCE BROTHERS + PRIVATE LIFE + REMI + RENEE GEYER + STICKY FINGERS + TEN THOUSAND + THE BAMBOOS + THE LEGEND OF BARCELOS + THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY + TULLY ON TULLY + WAVE RACER St Kilda Festival Site (various Stages), St Kilda. 12:00pm.

ST KILDA FESTIVAL AT THE ESPY - FEAT: BRITISH INDIA + ANDY BULL + BITTER SWEET KICKS + DALLAS CRANE + DJ MU-GEN + DJ YODA + KING OF THE NORTH + MASSIVE + THE PRETTY LITTLES + VAUDEVILLE SMASH + VERY HANDSOME MEN Espy, St Kilda.

9:00pm.

SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: HARVEY CARTEL The B.east, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

THE NATIONAL (GRACELESS TOUR) Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $97.

TILIAN + ACRASIA + SWIM THROUGH SEASONS + WHO INVITED THE WOLF Bar 12, Frankston. 1:00pm. $20.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC CABBAGES & KINGS + CANARY 303, Northcote.

4:30pm. $10.

ELVIS IN THE HOUSE + DUO SEVERINI Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 2:00pm.

LADIES OF SOUL The Alibi, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

MORELAND CITY SOUL REVUE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.

SUMMER SOUNDS - FEAT: STEVE PURCELL & THE

PEARLY SHELLS Logan Reserve, Altona. 2:00pm.

THE ARCHITECTS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 5:00pm.

THE PAUL WILLIAMSON QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.

THE SEDERGREENS MEET THE SUGGS Cape Lounge, Fitzroy. 3:00pm. $12.

VINCS & WAKELING Famous Blue Raincoat, Kingsville South. 3:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK ROD PAINE & THE FULLTIME LOVERS The Clare Castle Hotel, Port Melbourne. 3:00pm.

BAREFOOT BISCUIT Open Studio, Northcote. 9:30pm.

BOB STARKIE + LAURAN DAVIDSON Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $20.

DR DUPREE LAUNCH - FEAT: THE THAMES DELTA Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

FIELDS + SEE & MASON Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North.

4:00pm.

HETTY KATE & 2020S + KEN MAHER & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 6:30pm.

IAN COLLARD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 5:00pm.

JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 6:00pm.

LOVESICK BLUES Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

MICK DALEY & THE CORPORATE RAIDERS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

OPEN MIC Rose Hotel (williamstown), Williamstown.

3:00pm.

PIECE3OF3WALTER Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North.

5:00pm.

SHIGEO FURUKAWA + LITHIUM ROSE + THE HYPNOTIC 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $5.

SOUTHERN LIGHTNING Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

SUZANNAH ESPIE + ALISON FERRIER + DJ DR LUDWIG + SLIME DIME & THE PRAIRIE KINGS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

THE LET YOUR HAIR DOWN GIRLS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 5:30pm.

THE MARGIE LOU TRIO + GIL ASKEY Claypots, St Kilda.

4:30pm.

UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA Penny Black, Brunswick.

4:00pm.

MONDAY FEB 10 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS DAUGHTER St Michael’s Uniting Church, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: REPAIRS + JONNY TELAFONE + VACUUM Northcote Social Club, Northcote.

7:00pm.

UNPAVED SESSIONS - FEAT: VAN WALKER’S HEARTBREAKERS + LIVINGSTONE DAISIES + TARA CARRAGHER Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

WHITAKER + STEELBIRDS + TIM KILNE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $8.

JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/LATIN/ WORLD MUSIC AFRICAN DRUMMING CLASSES 303, Northcote.

8:00pm.

THE ALLAN BROWNE QUINTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $15.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

DEAR MONDAY - FEAT: BETH BROWN + HANNAH ACFIELD + LITTLE FOOT + TOM LEE RICHARDS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

PASSIONATE TONGUES POETRY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

PORT PHILLIP GILGAMESH READINGS Claypots Evening Star, South Melbourne. 8:30pm.

TUESDAY FEB 11 INDIE/ROCK/POP/METAL/ PUNK/COVERS ALI E BAND Old Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $5.

FOREIGN/NATIONAL + HAYDEN CALNIN + SUNBEAM SOUND MACHINE + TOM MILEK Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.

GIRLS ON KEY - FEAT: LISA CRAWLEY + GRACE PAGEANT + SHADOWFEET Open Studio, Northcote. 9:00pm. $7.

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Into MCing? The Push have just announced a series of hip hop MC mentoring workshops and live performances! Not only will participants have the opportunity to workshop their skills, they will also get the chance to perform with MC mentors on train station platforms. The program, aptly named Backing Tracks (Backing Tracks, train tracks – see what they did there? Gets me every time) is open to all young people aged 12-25 years. Dates for Melbourne are yet to be announced, head to thepush.com.au to be amongst the first to register.

It’s been a full week since the lineup for Groovin The Moo was announced. In case you haven’t had a gander at it, names include Disclosure, Dizzee Rascal, Illy, The Jungle Giants, Karnivool, Peking Duck, The Presets and Vance Joy. With just the right amount of variety, GTM organisers have seemed to cover most genres. How generous of them. No doubt the festival will garner even more attention thanks to Vance Joy topping the Hottest 100 recently. This all ages, one day event will be taking place in May down in Bendigo.

For tickets and full line-up info, head to gtm.net.au.

Next weekend will see Yarraville Festival take place, with a heap of cool cultural/musical events.

Get down to Ballarat Street on Saturday for the Busker’s Festival, which will feature performances from musicians, clowns, street performers and more. Yarraville’s iconic film festival, Flik Fest, will be taking place at the Sun Theatre on Sunday 16, screening films made by under 21s. Not to mention live music from young local bands performing all day in Yarraville Village. Head to yarravillefestival.com.au for full program details.

Maribyrnong City Council and the Phoenix Productions FReeZA team have organised a sweet gig this Saturday. Featuring Hands like Houses, Ocean Grove, Brighter at Night and more, this is one not to be missed. To make matters even more exciting, a sweet Hands Like Houses merch bundle and a double pass to the show is up for grabs! All you have to do is follow @handslikehouses and @bluntmag on twitter, tweet your favourite Hands Like Houses lyric and tag the two accounts, then encourage your followers to retweet and favourite your tweet. ‘Pretty rad, hey’ says the website. Yes website. Yes it is rad. For full details hit up bluntmag.com.au/win/hands-likehouses-giveaway.

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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH

MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP

With Christie Eliezer * Stuff for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm

SYDNEY ALLIANCE TO FIGHT LOCKOUT LAWS

NEW SIGNINGS #1: COOKING VINYL SCORE TWO AUSSIE ACTS

A group of live music venues, associations, artists and media outlets have formed themselves into the Sydney Late Night Culture Alliance in response to the NSW Government’s 1:30am lockouts of inner city venues.

These were passed through Parliament last Thursday and will come into effect in April. Those involved in the Alliance are MusicNSW, SLAM, FBi Radio, GoodGod Small Club, Oxford Art Factory, The Music Network, theMusic.com.au and inthemix. The Alliance is calling for more venues and organisations to join. The Government’s new rules include the mandatory eight-year sentences for alcohol fuelled assaults and all serving of alcohol to stop at 3am.

Britain’s Cooking Vinyl has signed singer songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke and Melbourne trio Calling All Cars through its Australian office. Miller-Heidke’s fan-funded fourth album O Vertigo! gets a global release on Friday March 14 while Calling All Cars’ third album Raise The People gets a worldwide release on March 7. Both tour here in March before heading to the UK in April.

BIG DAY OUT HEADING FOR $15 MILLION LOSS? As the Big Day Out lurched through the country, is it heading for a loss of between $8 million and $15 million? Was CEO Adam Zammit sacked and then reinstated? Are BDO partners AJ Maddah and Texasbased C3 heading to court over these losses? Will this be the last time that C3 will be involved in BDO – and, indeed, will BDO return? These are some of the claims made by the Sydney Morning Herald. Maddah has rejected these. But some of these rumours were circulating the industry before SMH put them to print.

WANNA BE ON MUSIC SAMPLER?

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Milwaukee Music is compiling a vinyl sampler for 10 acts to distribute to the music industry. Go to soundcloud.com/milwaukeemusic/dropbox to apply.

Deadline is Saturday March 1. The label is putting together artist development packages to help indie acts with set-up, recording, rehearsing, touring and merchandising. These will be launched in April with tie-ups nationally to studios, venues and major label A&Rs but they’re asking for feedback on what acts are specifically looking for in assistance. See www. milwaukee-music.com. Milwaukee Music was set up by film producer Scott Vibier to release his Blinder soundtrack, managing director is Mandy Kane.

BRING ME THE HORIZON GO AUSSIE GOLD …

Bring Me The Horizon’s Sempiternal has gone gold in Australia, Sony Music Entertainment Australia announced. The album debuted at #1 on the ARIA charts when it was released in March last year. It’s not only the album’s first gold accreditation in the world, but also the first in the Sheffield band’s career. Said singer Oliver Sykes, “We love Australia and could not ask for more from our Australian fans – they rule!” They toured here last October.

…WHILE ARCTIC MONKEYS’ ‘AM’ GOES PLATINUM Arctic Monkeys’ fifth album AM achieved platinum sales in Australia, reported EMI. It entered the ARIA chart at #1 (and nine countries), featured two gold singles and remains in the Top 15 after 20 weeks. The British band scored two spots in the Top 10 of triple j’s Hottest 100 for 2013, an achievement rivalled only by three Lorde tracks in the Top 20. The Brit band’s last Aussie platinum was 2006’s era-defining debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. Since its September release, AM has sold in excess of one million copies globally and was named Album of The Year by NME and Q.

BIGGEST SELLING GLOBAL ACTS IN 2013 London-based IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) reports One Direction were the biggest selling record act in the world in 2013 across music downloads, streaming and physical format sales. Their Midnight Memories album sold 1 million in the US and 685,000 in the UK in its first five weeks.

In Australia where it entered the charts at #1, it hit platinum first week. Second was Eminem, followed by (3) Justin Timberlake, (4) Bruno Mars, (5) Katy Perry, (6) P!nk, (7) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (8) Rihanna, (9) Michael Bublé and Daft Punk listed at #10.

JACINTA PARSONS JOINS TRIPLE R’S BREAKFASTERS Triple R stalwart Jacinta Parsons (Local And Or General, Dynamite, Detour) this week joined its Breakfasters show alongside Stew Farrell and Lorin Clarke. More info, see Industrial Strength Online at beat.com.au.

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NEW SIGNINGS #2: FOUR | FOUR CALL OUT LITTLE BASTARD ABC Music’s progressive imprint FOUR | FOUR signed Sydney’s Little Bastard. The band fuses punk with fiddle, banjo, harmonica and mandolin. They have just finished recording their debut album at Sydney’s Jungle Studios with producer Lachlan Mitchell to be released in May.

PBS’ DAVID HEARD WINS AWARD David Heard, host of PBS’s Acid Country was named Citizen of the Year at the City of Yarra’s 2014 Australia Day Awards for his contribution to the City’s music scene through 35 years behind the mic at the station. Ror Akot, a driving force behind the Rising High Music Program and the development of Yarra’s Youth Policy and Action Plan 2013-16 was named Young Citizen of the Year. Heard’s award was his third in three months: in November the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia acknowledged his Outstanding Volunteer Contribution, and then PBS handed him the Mick Geyer award for his tireless contribution to the station.

AVICII TOUR SETS NEW ATTENDANCE RECORD Avicii’s first headline tour of Australia set a new attendance record for standalone DJ, announced Frontier Touring and Future Music. The 24-year-old Swede was at the top of his game with a huge stage production and pyrotechnics display. Over 9,000 punters caught the kick-off at Brisbane’s sold-out first show, another 50,000 in Sydney and Melbourne combined, and 10,000 in Perth. The Wake Me Up star is so huge in Oz that he landed his own radio show, the Saturday night one-hour show Avicii Levels on Nova. Meantime, Future Music expects a huge turn-out for DJ Mag’s #1 DJ, Hardwell, Eric Prydz, deadmau5, Pharrell Williams, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Phoenix, Knife Party and Rudimental.

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On the eve of their debut appearance at SXSW, RÜFÜS have been forced to change their name to RÜFÜS DU SOL for North America. This came after the exchange of strongly-worded lawyers’ letters about the fact there’s already another Rufus trademarked in those territories. Their Atlas album is to be released in the US and Canada on Columbia (which found success with Aussie acts as Men At Work, Savage Garden and Temper Trap). RÜFÜS is locked in for a 15-date tour there between Friday March 7 to Sunday April 6.

MUSIC APP REVENUES UP 77% Music app revenues on iOS and Android grew by 77% in 2013, according to analytics firm App Annie. Music is now the third biggest money-earner for apps, behind games and social networking. Pandora was the highest earning music app in the world, ahead of Magic Piano

by Smule, Apple’s GarageBand, Rdio, Ultimate Guitar Tabs, Sing! Karaoke, Deezer, Slacker Radio, Free Music Download and AmpliTube. No figures were given, but Pandora made US$85.2 million in the first three financial quarters of 2013.

SECRET SERVICE PR, TWO FISH OUT OF WATER, MERGE Music PR agencies, Paul Piticco’s Secret Service PR and Stacey Piggott’s 15-year old Two Fish Out Of Water, have merged under the Secret Services name.

Piggott will lead their staff of five publicists with offices in Sydney and Melbourne. The changes also means the departure of Secret Service PR and sister label Dew Process’s head of press and promotions for the past five years, Kathleen Hore. She is moving to a career outside the music industry.

THINGS WE HEAR • During Neil Finn’s taping of a MAX session in Sydney, the intimate crowd was stunned when Eddie Vedder walked on unexpectedly to do Throw Your Arms Around Me and then Split Enz’s History Never Repeats on which the Pearl Jammer took lead vocals. Finn exclaimed, “That was too much fun!” so they played the song all over again. It will be screened March 24 at 9 pm.

• While announcing their two-year farewell world tour at a media conference in Los Angeles, Mötley Crüe signed an official “cessation of touring agreement” where none of the four can in the future tour under that name without the others. They do 72 dates in America with Alice Cooper July 2 to November 21, with the international run (including Australia) in 2015.

• While each day brings another example of Justin Bieber’s meltdown, comes the news his partying and entourage are costing $1 million a month.

• The Grammys producer apologised to Trent Reznor after the exhilarating closing jam with Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, Dave Grohl and Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham was cut short. A furious Reznor hit Twitter: “Music’s biggest night... to be disrespected. A heartfelt FUCK YOU guys.” Executive producer Ken Ehrlich said: “I’m sorry he was upset. I was really thrilled that we were finally getting him on the Grammys. I wanted to end on a high, an up note. I did tell them we’d take it as long as we could. The number was about five, six minutes long, and we got to within a minute twenty of the end. We got as close as we could possibly get.”

• No reason for You Am I and Hunters & Collectors to get to know each other during their shared tour.

Tim Rogers told the Newcastle Herald he knows singer Mark Seymour socially, plays football with trumpeter Jack Howard, used trombone player Michael Waters as an accountant, discussed song writing with guitarist Barry Palmer and used to hire a sound system from bassist John Archer.

• Fortune teller Miss Gypsy Whitemoon who sets up during the Tamworth country music festival in the main Peel Street thoroughfare was told by a customer how she saved her life. Last year, during a reading, Gypsy warned the woman to see a doctor as she could die of a nasty illness. The woman got a check-up and a life-threatening auto-immune disorder was discovered.

• For Laura Imbruglia’s tour behind her What A Treat album, she’s brought Adam Donovan (Augie March) and James Trewenack (Split Seconds) into her band alongside Dave Rose and Chris Baker.

• Big Day Out promoter AJ Maddah tweeted it won’t play WA again.

• The move of the Kyle & Jackie O show in Sydney from 2DAY to KIIS 1065 has caused some confusion, especially to Kyle who forgets and tells listeners they’re on 2DAY. But when visiting beefcake Enrique Iglesias appeared on their show, his social media person informed Iglesias’ 6.9 million twitter followers he was about to appear on 2DAY. That got yanked off pronto!

• Jake Buggs’ Melbourne show on April 17 sold out with Sydney and Brisbane close to, Secret Service reported.

MOREMEGA HITS #4 IN THE UK Australian song writing/production duo MoreMega hit #4 in the UK with Braveheart by new UK girl group Neon Jungle. Sean Ray Mullins and Cassie Davis previously wrote Havana Brown’s multi-million selling global hit We Run The Night. Released on RCA, Braveheart had over 1.3 million YouTube views and debuted at #2 in Scotland. “The girls are incredibly talented and we feel blessed to have written and produced half of the debut album for such a promising group,” said Mullins. They’re signed to Universal Music Publishing.

INFO SESSIONS FOR ARTISTS WITH DISABILITY The Australia Council for the Arts will hold information sessions about its new funding program for its Artists With Disability program. It allocated $300,000 for artists to create, develop, present, produce, exhibit and tour their work. Individuals and groups who identify as having disability, including deafness, can apply for up to $10,000 for development and up to $20,000 for projects. Applications close on March 3, see australiacouncil.gov.au/disability. Session at Arts Access Victoria, on Wed February 5 from 2pm to 4pm.

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LIFELINES Born: son for KIIS 1065 / Mix 101.1 drive host Tim ‘Rosso’ Ross and wife Michelle, on Australia Day. Their first son Bugsy was born mid-2011.

Split: singer Ariana Grande and The Wanted’s Nathan Sykes revealed they parted last year.

Charged: a man at the Rainbow Serpent Festival with 210 counts of upskirting following an alleged incident in a public toilet. He will appear at Ballarat Magistrates Court on Thursday February 27. Also with a date at the court is a 25 year old man who drove through a security check endangering lives.

Attacked: a 23-year old woman was sexually assaulted at the Oz Rock music festival in Busselton, WA. At about 10pm, she was standing 10m from the front of the stage when a dreadlocked man sexually assaulted her.

In Court: Kanye West and the foulmouthed 18-year old man that he punched in a Beverly Hills chiropractor’s office have agreed to a civil settlement for $250,000.

The rapper hit the moron after he called his fiancée Kim Kardashian a “N lover.”

Died: songwriter Anna Gordy Gaye, exwife of Marvin Gaye and sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy, aged 92. She set up Anna Records in 1958 and co-wrote hits for other acts as well as for Gaye. Their 1977 divorce inspired his famous “break up” album Here, My Dear.

Died: US film and TV composer John Cacavas (Kojak, Hawaii Five-O, Columbo) aged 83.

Died: Aussie publicist Angela Batties, in Melbourne, after a battle with motorneurone disease. She worked at EMI Music, PolyGram and Network Ten before setting up her own AB Publicity firm.

Died: tributes were made to US folk singer Pete Seeger from everyone from Arlo Guthrie to Tom Morello to Billy Bragg after his death at 94. Seeger’s inspirational songs included the anthem We Shall Overcome; his humanity and decency epitomized everything popular music should be.

VIC FESTIVALS UPDATE A public meeting was held this week in Warrnambool for those interested in getting the Warrnambool Music Festival off the ground (The last time there was a serious attempt to run a music festival in Warrnambool was the ill-fated Summer Daze in February 2006).

Bendigo holds its inaugural Recycled Roots Festival (April 12 - Easter Saturday) where instruments are home-made from recycled, recovered and repurposed items, cigar boxes, hubcaps, kitchen drawers, suitcases and more. The second Ballarat Beat Rockabilly Festival (Feb 15, 16) is expected to draw 5000.

DAVID CHISHOLM GETS MALTHOUSE ROLE Australian experimental music pioneer David Chisholm has been made an associate in music composition at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre.

Lally Katz takes up the role of associate writer, Mark Pritchard named resident dramaturg and Matthew Lutton’s role as associate in directing renewed for the third year.

PBS WANTS TO ‘EXPOSE YOUR SOUND’ PBS is tapping musicians in its Expose Your Sound membership drive through February. Taking out a $110 per year membership puts them in the running for a prize pack that includes 50 T-shirts with your band’s name by SoundMerch, 50 tote bags with your logo from While You Sleep, CD duplication by Implant Media, your own video by Fully Sick Film Clips and 10 cases of Cooper for the shoot wrap-up party. See pbsfm.org.au.