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THE MEANIES

Before knuckling down to make their first album in 21 years, The Meanies have announced they will be playing a short run of shows in March. The tour will see the four-piece play across Victoria and Sydney, including their very first Golden Plains. You can catch 'em at Northcote Social Club alongside Bad Vision and AD Skinner on Saturday March 28.

COURTNEY BARNETT

Local legend Courtney Barnett has announced her biggest Australian tour to date. Solid move CB, solid move. Her gargantuan tour will follow the release of Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, her longawaited and seriously-slick debut album, which’ll be released on Friday March 20 via Milk! Records/Remote Control Records. Catch ‘em on Friday May 15 at The Forum. Tickets via Ticketmaster.

BRARSEY SUNDAYS

Shake your tookus to the tempo and get your booty to the bar for Brarsey Sundays at The Spotted Mallard. Featuring a rotating cast of the most ‘kick-brarse’ big bands bohemian Melbourne has to offer, this weekly celebration of swing culture runs every Sunday through March and April. With delectable edibles and big booze for small coin, this free entry event is the hot ticket back to a bygone era of hot-jazz. Kickin’ it off on Sunday March 1 as part of the Sydney Rd Street Party celebrations are The Esstee Big Band. Rounding out the lineup during March and April are The Jack Earle Big Band, Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra and Funk Buddies. Free entry with two sets from 4.30pm. For more details head to the venue’s website.

COME TOGETHER FESTIVAL

Come Together Music and Arts festival is an awesome day for an awesome cause. Packed full of diverse world music, visual and creative arts, global food, local wine and more it is all put together to raise money for Beyond Blue and RedKite. The 2015 lineup features Ganga Giri, The Cactus Channel, Afro Orchestra, Kylie Auldist, The Seven Ups, Cakeboy, The Cumbia Cosmonauts and heaps, heaps more. Come Together Music and Arts will take place at Edendale Farm in Eltham on Saturday March 14. Tickets are $48 through Oztix with all proceeds going to BeyondBlue & RedKite. For more info and the full lineup head to www.cometogether.org.au.

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Backstreet Boys are coming back, awright. After reuniting with original member Kevin Richardson in 2013, all five original members of the group will return to Australian shores following the recording of a new album, In A World Like This and filming of a revealing documentary Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of. Catch ‘em at Rod Laver Arena on Friday May 8. Tickets through Live Nation.

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Why is it that shitty family get-togethers always fall on a Sunday? The only thing worse than a killer hangover and the prospect of Monday looming over your head is a room full of distant relatives whose attention you can only avoid by locking yourself outside with the dog. Want a reason to ditch? How about the soothing sounds of Clare Bowditch with special guest Harry Brown? Clare Bowditch plays the final show of her three week residency at The Flying Saucer Club this Sunday February 22. Hit us up at beat.com.au/freeshit to snap up a free double pass.

BENNY WALKER

Victorian singer/songwriter Benny Walker has certainly been busy, announcing a national tour throughout March, April and May in support of his Through The Forest’s release. Through The Forest is the follow-up to 2012’s acclaimed Sinners & Saints. Blues, Americana, folk and gritty rock ‘n’ roll all play a part, but they come together to form a whole, sounds that can’t be mistaken for anything but a Benny Walker album. He performs in Melbourne Friday April 10 at Thornbury Theatre. Tickets are available through Oztix.

ROY AYERS

There’s Lou Reed; the Godfather of punk, Don Corleone; the Godfather, and God; the father of Jesus but coolest of them all is Roy Ayers; the Godfather of Neo-soul. Among the best-known, most-loved and highly-respected jazz/R&B artists on the world stage today, Roy Ayers is better than Ayers Rock and he could be rockin’ your world at Bennetts Lane this weekend. We’ve got a bunch of double passes to giveaway for his shows this Sunday and Monday night. Groove on over to beat.com.au/freeshit to win.

DAVID BOWIE TRIBUTE SHOW

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Young Americans and the 41st anniversary of Diamond Dogs, a oneoff, all-star local lineup will tackle some of the Thin White Duke’s biggest hits. The night will be directed by Ashley Naylor, of EVEN fame, and performed by The Underlings, featuring Bruce Haymes (Renee Geyer), Peter Luscombe (RockWiz Orchestra), Steven Hadley (Tex Perkins), Anton Ruddick and Ben Marsland. Guest vocalists include Tim Rogers (You Am I), Kat Spazzy (The Spazzys), Ron S Peno (Died Pretty), Ross McLennan (Snout), Gemma Sharard (Skyscraper Stan and The Commission Flats) and Davey Lane. It all goes down on Saturday March 21 at The Yarravillle Club. Visit yarravillelive.com for tickets and more information.

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Late bloomer Larissa Tandy hit the Australian scene as a songwriting force in 2014. After reaching the final few in the Telstra Road to Discovery, she emigrated to Canada to develop her career in film composition. Strine Singers – Tandy, her brother, her best friend and her best friend’s brother have been hard at work in Canada with Neko Case’s Grammy-nominated co-producer Darryl Neudorf, capturing the brooding guitars, soaring harmonies, and sophisticated songcraft they’ve become known for. This March, they land back in Australia with their first single, Shut Down and a slew of tour dates. Catch them in Melbourne at Northcote Social Club on Friday March 6 with Tobias Hengeveld and Amarillo.

Ashley Davies is taking over Shadow Electric Bandroom for two very special nights in February and March for a musical journey through live music, visuals and theatre. Set to tracks off Muscle Drum Music Volumes 1 and 2: Throttle is a foot stomping ride put together with images from car racing, rocket launches, rollercoasters, dance footage, a touch of comedy and anything in between. Get down on Saturday February 28 and Saturday March 7 for a high-octane thrilling rhythmic musical adventure built on driving drum grooves and a visual kaleidoscopic extravaganza. Tickets are $22.50+BF available through the venue.

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Ashley Naylor, known to most as the amazingly talented guitarist and singer/songwriter of musical group Even, is busting out a week full of kickarse shows at The Yarra Hotel this March. Naylor currently wields the axe for the likes of Paul Kelly and Dan Sultan, and has shared the stage with Tex Perkins and Clare Bowditch to name a few. Kicking off from Monday March 9, Naylor will be playing shows with The Marshmallow Overcoat, The Underlings, The Grapes, Even and more. You’ve gotta be in it to win it. Tickets for The Grapes and Even shows are available thru trybooking.com and all the other shows are free entry. Check out the full lineup at www.theyarrahotel.com.au.

How fucked up could you get at Fucked Up if at Fucked Up you could get fucked up? Canada’s most fucked up hardcore punk band, Fucked Up, are getting fucked up at Ding Dong Lounge on the most fucked up day of the week, Monday February 23. Pop-punk duo This Wild Life will also be hitting the Ding Dong Lounge stage on Thursday February 26. Wild. If you wanna get fucked up and totally wild on sweet free gigs get the fuck over to beat.com.au/freeshit to win a free double pass to either of these shows.

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Fresh from making his triple j Hottest 100 debut as guest vocalist on Japanese Wallpaper’s Between Friends, Jesse Davidson has announced a string of shows in support of his sophomore EP Laika, dropping in May. It’s been just ten months since his debut EP Ocean, yet Davidson has already been making a name for himself, with his Laneway appearance mesmerizing audiences. Davidson performs in Melbourne on Friday March 6 at the Shebeen Bandroom, featuring special guests Tom Lark & Edward R. Tickets are available through the venue’s website.

HARTS

Off the back of recent successful singles Red & Blue and When A Man’s A Fool, Harts have just announced their new single Breakthrough dropping in February, along with a series of shows. The new single comes off the back of a highly acclaimed Australian tour, which saw Harts sell out small venues across the country with his high energy, unique blend of funk and bluesy rock. Harts performs in Melbourne at the Espy on Saturday March 7. For tickets and more information, visit hartsmusic.com.

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There has been an influx of great tours coming to Australia in the last few years, but there has rarely been a bill featuring melodic death metal’s finest on a double bill package. This May sees Sweden’s The Haunted and Finland’s Insomnium teaming up for three very special shows across Australia. These two giants of the scene are ready to show Australian audiences who the big dogs of melodic death metal truly are. The Haunted and Insomnium perform at The Hi-Fi on Friday May 15. Tickets are available through the venue.

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Get the fuck outta here. The boutique festival Boogie has just announced another wave of artists for their 9th annual festival, running from Friday April 3 to Sunday April 5, and it’s all shaping up to be pretty goddamn tasty. The recently announced acts are Scotdrakula, Strand Of Oaks, The Murlocs, Dorsal Fins, Darren Hanlon, Pearls, Parking Lot Experiments, The Finks and Goatpiss Gasoline. They join the already amazing bill, which includes The Peep Tempel, Drunk Mums, Broads and Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene to name a few. For tickets and more information, visit boogie.net.au.

Maroon 5 have added two Australian shows to their upcoming world tour. The tour is in support of the band’s fifth album V, which was released mid last year. The band will stop in Melbourne and Sydney, bringing Swedish trio Dirty Loops along for their first trip to Australia. Maroon 5 will hit Melbourne on Saturday September 26 for a show at Rod Laver Arena. Tickets go on sale Monday February 23 through Live Nation.

TIMBERWOLF

Rising Australian indie-folk artist Timberwolf has announced a national tour across February and March, promoting the release of new single Fallen Sun. Following on from the release of his last single It Burns, which produced sell-out launch shows across the country in late 2014, the release of the new single shows the year ahead looks very bright for the 23-yearold singer/songwriter from Adelaide. Timberwolf performs in Melbourne on Friday March 27 at the Shebeen Bandroom. Tickets available through the venue’s website.

VICTORIAN HARBOR SUMMERFEST

Gather ‘round at the Victoria Harbour Promenade on Saturday February 28 as they celebrate everything that’s great about summer on the water. There’ll be live entertainment all afternoon, including super special guests Sneaky Sound System and Ruby Rose. Enjoy a drink at one of the two outdoor popup bars or head into one of the bars and restaurants along the water. With free entry and a variety of food and entertainment, it’s the perfect place to celebrate the end of summer. From 12pm onwards. Visit victoriaharbour.com.au for more information.

TOUMANI & SIDIKI

Toumani Diabaté and his eldest son Sidiki have announced a rare one night only performance in Melbourne this March. The Grammy Award winning kora (21-string Malian harp) virtuoso and his son, a griot (a member of a West African musical hereditary caste), master kora player and hip hop star are part of a family line made up of 71 continuous generations of kora players. Diabaté wowed WOMADelaide audiences in 2008, performing with his Symmetric Orchestra, but this year will be joined by his eldest son Sidiki. Toumani Diabaté’s influences are sourced from many cultures including Indian classical music, Spanish flamenco, and radical free jazz. He has played with Bjork, Gorillaz/Blur frontman Damon Albarn, bluesman Taj Mahal, and guitar wizard Ali Farka Touré. Diabaté received a Grammy award for best traditional world music album in 2011 for his joint album with Ali Farka Toure’s. The duo’s first album together, also won a Grammy following its 2005 release. In 2008 Toumani was appointed UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador in for using his music to spread awareness on HIV and AIDS. Toumani & Sidiki Diabate will perform at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne on Thursday March 5. Tickets are available through the venue.

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SLIPKNOT NINE SHADES OF GRAY By Cara Williams

In October of 2014, metal heavyweights Slipknot unleashed their fifth studio album .5 The Gray Chapter, just four years after the death of Slipknot’s founding member and bass player Paul Gray, and a mere nine months after the departure of core member and drummer Joey Jordison. The record, which seethes with irrepressible anguish and emotional unrest, exploded onto Slipknot fans like an aural grenade and skyrocketed to #1 in the metal charts. For many, the release of the album was entirely unpredicted, and for the band, the record embodied one of the most tempestuous and tragic eras in the 15 years since the release of their blistering self-titled record. Yet according to Slipknot’s vocalist Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root, while .5 The Gray Chapter magnified the deeply lugubrious grieving process each band member had faced, the record united the band in a way no one could’ve anticipated.

“There were some intense days in the studio,” Taylor recalls. “There were times I was so in the moment I was either breaking down or throwing up, and a lot of times doing both at the same time. “There was something intuitively different about this album,” he articulates. “Not only because of what we’d gone through, but because of the circumstances with which we were trying to make this album. It was very important that I tear the lid off everything and just let it go. I hadn’t done that in a long time ± you try to, and sometimes you get close and sometimes you don’t ± but the story we were telling was so personal and so intense that you couldn’t half-arse it. For us it was about ripping the lid off and screaming bloody murder.” Indeed, the past five years have been one of the most challenging times in Slipknot’s long history. On May 24 2010, Paul Gray was found dead in his room at the TownePlace Suites Hotel in his hometown of Iowa. In the 911-phone call, hotel staff detailed the scene in which they discovered Gray; hunched over in the corner of the room, his hands and feet purple. A syringe was reportedly located next to his bed, while an assortment of pills was littered throughout the room. Toxicology reports later indicated that Gray had overdosed on a lethal cocktail of morphine and fentanyl. Then, in December 2013, Slipknot’s drummer Joey Jordison controversially departed the band. While the reasons for Jordison’s departure are unclear (the band remain tight-lipped about it), once thing’s for certain; Jordison didn’t quit the band on his own will. Taking to Facebook in January 2014, Jordison announced, “I want to make it very clear that I did not quit Slipknot... This news has shocked and blindsided me as much as it has all of you.” According to Root, the impetus to commence writing material for the record was born from impatience with delays in getting the album started, and once the decision was made that Jordison would no longer be part of Slipknot, he and Clown started writing new material. “We fucking waited way too long to start this album, and it kept getting pushed back,” he explains. “I was having conversations with Clown and Joey about starting the writing process ± we were going to start in January. But when events unfolded the way they unfolded and we’d come to the conclusion that Joey wasn’t going to be with us anymore, it became apparent to me that I needed to sit my fucking arse down, plant my head in my computer with a guitar in my lap and go to work. It was very obvious to me that it was time for Slipknot to start.” BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 24

For Taylor, the process of writing and recording the album was a deeply therapeutic experience, signifying a step forward in his personal grieving process, and an evolution in the band’s sound and interpersonal dynamics. His lyrics and performance for .5 The Gray Chapter were cathartically crafted and executed, embracing the residues of his heightened emotional turmoil and transforming them into art. He says the overall experience saw the band unite in their shared grief and evolve as a cohesive, and stronger, collective. “One of the ways we did reconnect was while some of the guys were hearing the lyrics for the first time,”

“I’ve come TO fINd That NO maTter hOw darK SOme ThINgS are There Seems TO be a goOd reaSON for The way everyThINg wOrKS OuT..yOu caN bOTtLe Off, become a recLuSe aNd dISaPpear INTO obLIviON – Or you caN fIghT bacK aNd do yOur beST tO PuLl yOur head abOve The waTer.” he says. “We started talking about everything we had been going through for the last four years and how we were all dealing with the loss of Paul. We slowly realised we were all on the same wavelength as far as what we had gone through. That sense of loss, that deep depression, missing him and missing what he meant to this band, the guilt that comes along with it… We’re talking about the grieving process on so many different levels ± not just the romantic side of it, but the nittygritty of it ± because there’s an anger that nobody wants to talk about. It comes from anger at yourself and anger at the person who you love and miss.” “I guess the record is pretty dark,” Root contemplates. “That could be the content of Corey’s vocals and it could be the state of mind I was in when I started putting the arrangements together. But we took a different approach to this album. I wrote most of the arrangements, so it sounds a little bit different. It’s a

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Slipknot record mainly written by a guitar player, but it was important for me that we remained what Slipknot is, and that’s a very percussive band. You don’t want to keep putting the same record out over and over again and for me, it’s very important that we evolve as a band. “I had an epiphany while writing the demo music for this album,” Root confides. “I realised I was approaching writing songs the way Paul would have, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I had to put my guitar down for a while and think about it. Essentially, I realised Paul was here helping me through the process of putting these demos together. That might sound fucking hippy or spiritual, but to me it was a logical thing ± I had spent a lot of time with this guy in the trenches, we had a lot of blood in the game together and it’s only obvious that certain traits of this person are going to rub off on you.” Looking back, given the circumstances the band had faced over the past five years, are Taylor and Root surprised at the collective strength of the band, and their innate ability to persevere during times of profound hardship? “I’m never surprised by anything that we do,” Taylor hesitates, “but I am surprised by how quickly it all came together. People are amazed by the quality of what we were able to put together from scratch, and I think that’s the best compliment we could have as a band; the fact that we can still blow people away this late in the game, especially after everything that we’ve been through. I’m not surprised by it, I’m proud,” he adds. “I’m proud of the fact this band came together the way it did, in lieu of detractors, in lieu of doubters, in lieu of a whole generation of bands that have come in the wake of what we did fifteen years ago. The fact that we were able to stand our ground, evolve, and yet tell our story the way we wanted to tell it is fantastic.” “We’ve been through a lot as a band and this was just another hurdle that we had to overcome,” Root reflects. “We had an opportunity to rise above it all or let it fucking beat us, and I’ve worked way too fucking hard for many years and sacrificed too much in my life to let any of that shit beat me. I’ve come to find that no matter how dark some things are there seems to be a good reason for the way everything works out,” he continues. “You can bottle off, become a recluse and disappear into oblivion ± or you can fight back and do your best to pull your head above the water. I think the latter is more fun and interesting.” Catch the inimitable SLIPKNOT at Soundwave over Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22. .5 The Gray Chapter is out now through Roadrunner.

MARILYN MANSON By Tyson Wray

marilyn manson /mar-eh-lin man-sun/ noun 1. A psychotic human being, the self proclaimed ‘God of Fuck’ and ‘Antichrist’. synonyms: disturbed, unbalanced, demented. Indeed, Marilyn Manson (birth name Brian Warner) is the textbook definition of a deranged specimen. Case in point: three of his most cherished household possessions: a canister of Zyklon B (the gas used to exterminate the Jews by Hitler during The Holocaust), an eerie painting of a clown by serial killer and child rapist John Wayne Gacy Jr., and an old abortionist’s chair (covered in a beaver rug which was given to him by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt). He once told Rolling Stone it was a place “where I had sex with certain individuals that may or may not have resulted in my divorce.” Then there are his fabled ‘eccentric’ antics, such as the story of the deaf groupie who he and his bandmates urinated all over, covered in pig’s feet and fucked, his inclination to dig up dead bodies in graveyards and pick out bones “like strawberries” so he could smoke them like methamphetamine, or his torso that reflects a hashtag of scars following years of self-mutilation on stage. “A lot of people don’t realise, but with the amount of stories out there about me, there’s still so much shit that I’ve done that they don’t know about which is a lot worse. Mainly because a lot of it is illegal and shouldn’t be told,” he laughs wryly. Manson is speaking calmly but with an energised undertone. An hour before our call, he was on stage at the 5000-capacity Fillmore Auditorium in Denver. “I don’t think that I lead a completely unreasonable life. I like repetition to a certain degree, while being chaotic and spontaneous at times. I don’t seek out trouble specifically, but it does seem to find me. I’m a magnet for broken women, bad people and crazy relationships. Some people think it’s because of drugs. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it’s just my own stupidity. It’s just how my brain works.” Last month, for his 46th birthday, Manson’s father gave him a report card that he had kept from his early school years. It read that “Brian shows an enthusiasm for the Bible and is very considerate of his fellow classmates.” It also noted that he was “a very courteous, sensitive and serious young man.” What the fuck happened? “I began changing in 1984 when the world didn’t come to an end as I was being told at my Christian school. That’s when I realised it was all bullshit,” he details. “I wanted to find more answers. The Bible is basically a horror film, really. If you look at it carefully you’ll see it’s got pretty much every horror film ever within it from top to bottom. You’ve got the devil, you’ve got God, you’ve got demons, angels, ghosts, killing giants, etc. It’s all in there.” It may come as a shock to many that Manson has always maintained a very loving and stable relationship with his father, which is somewhat ironic, considering the amount of parents who have blamed him for causing their children’s rebellion. “My father recently told me that he was once going to become a priest, which I didn’t know. But instead he went to Vietnam and shot a lot of people,” he laughs. “I’ve learnt a lot about my father recently after my mother passing last year. He’s currently on tour with me, which is something that’s never happened before. I actually brought him out on stage the other night. We’ve bonded a lot more this year. I think he’s currently feeling a lot like me, like a kid again. Maybe that’s why he gave me my report card.” Manson began 2015 with release of his ninth studio album The Pale Emperor, of which the title refers to Constantius Chlorus, the first Roman ruler to deny BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 26

God. A departure from his signature industrial and electronically-influenced heavy metal, the record draws influence from blues and sparse hard-rock. However, lyrically, the record highlights Manson’s malevolence in career-best form, with his sinful depictions of religion, violence and mortality painting his most macabre record since 1998’s Mechanical Animals. “Music has always had evil in it. There was evil when Mozart came up with the tritone,” he notes, referring to the infamous augmented fourth (or diminished fifth) known as the “chord of evil” that was banned in Renaissance church music. “There has to be something in music that stops us from thinking stupid things, like there’s a god who created us which puts us in an eternal loop of foolishness, like a fucking snake eating its own tail.” Having taken on a role as a white supremacist in Sons of Anarchy, in recent times Manson’s hallowed nocturnal tendencies have been impeded for the need of 6am starts. “In Hollywood people recognise you because you’re famous,” he notes of his despise of daytime ventures. “Especially when you look the way that I do - which I intentionally do. I think I started to look more masculine this year. I’ve begun wearing this suit with a gold switchblade hanging off the pocket. So now people don’t just look at me because I’m 6”1 and wearing makeup, but now they look at me and know that they don’t want to start a conversation with me. Because they know there’s a chance I’ll bring out the switchblade, which has happened. “I was in a bar one night and this guy says something to me - who ironically was also an Australian, which is of no fault of Australia,” he laughs. “I was with two guy friends, a director and a producer, just having a beer. A guy stumbles in with a bunch of paid-for escorts and goes, ‘Get the fuck out of my way,’ in some sort of macho sadistic way. I wasn’t even close to him, I was like five feet away. I went, ‘Do we have a problem? Are you looking for a problem?’ He slurred back to me, ‘What’d you say?’ ‘I said, do we have a problem?’ ‘Are you looking for one?’ he says very aggressively. ‘Look down.’ He left the bar.” This month Manson returns to Australian shores on his Hell Not Hallelujah world tour, which will see him at the 2015 incarnation of Soundwave alongside a run of headline shows. “I’m really bad at parties, and I’m really bad around people that I don’t know,” he laughs. “It’s an utter phenomenon that I’m able to go on stage in front of thousands of strangers and do what I do. I guess it’s a trade off. A gift, a curse? I don’t know. People ask me, ‘What’s the difference between you on stage and off stage?’ It’s really easy to explain. Off stage, I’m around people I know, on stage, I’m in front of people I’ve never met.” “Oh shit,” he exclaims just before I end our call. “I’ve got something really important to tell you. Please make sure your readers know that the newly single Marilyn Manson will be coming to Australia.” Catch MARILYN MANSON at the gargantuan Soundwave 2015 which will take place in Melbourne on Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 at Melbourne Showgrounds. The Pale Emperor is out now via Cooking Vinyl.

ANTEMASQUE

By Tom Clift

For a musician with such remarkable longevity, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is notoriously hard to pin down. Making music for more than 20 years, he first toured Australia with At The Drive-In back in 2001. Since then, the chameleonic rocker has been Down Under almost every year ± sometimes at the head of Mars Volta, other times as a solo artist, and still other times as part of various side acts, be it Bosnian Rainbows, Le Butcherettes, or whatever else he happened to be tinkering with at the time. “Boredom moves you forward,” Rodriguez-Lopez tells us, ahead of his most recent Australian visit. “I think there’s this mystique behind bands, and behind the creative process. Music and creativity is always happening; it’s always in the air if you want to tap into it. But the other thing is that people are just looking for something to do. Some people get a career. Some people want to have sex all the time, or get fucked up. For some people it’s helping others. We’re all looking for projects to dedicate our lives to. But then usually, at some point, you get bored. “Starting a new band is a great unknown,” he continues. “You don’t know if it’s going to work, you don’t know if people are going to like it. It’s easy to go to the thing that you know is going to pay your bills, but it’s way more exciting to be a part of life.” Rodriquez-Lopez’s most recent project is Antemasque, who’ll take to the stage in February and March as part of Soundwave 2015. The band sees him reunite with his best friend and frequent collaborator Cedric Bixler-Zavala, after creative differences during their time as Mars Volta caused a temporary split. “It was really one of only two arguments we’ve ever had in our life,” says Rodriguez-Lopez of Volta’s breakup. “What brought us back together was the fact that there’s probably nothing that could actually split us up as people. It was just in terms of playing under that name. Cedric and I have been best friends since 1989, and playing in a band together came from our friendship, not the other way around. We didn’t have shit to do out here in El Paso, and eventually out of boredom we were like, ‘Let’s make a band.’ “It was interesting to see how it played out in the media, where it’s like, ‘They broke up. There was an argument.’ But on the inside, the astonishing thing is that we’ve only argued twice in our entire friendship.” Once the two had healed the rift, the most obvious question was why they didn’t just go back to being Mars Volta. Again, the answer comes down to boredom. “We did At the Drive-In for eight years, and it sounded a certain way,” says Rodriguez-Lopez. “Then when we did something new, we were like, ‘Okay, let’s not do this, this or this. Let’s explore this area, let’s explore that area.’ We did Volta for 13 years and same thing. You get bored of 12-minute songs, 30 minute songs. So we’re like, ‘Okay, let’s make really short songs, like we did when we were kids.’

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- Q&A from Todd Hanson. If you could possess any super power, what would it be? Some kind of laser that shot out my dick. If you could be a superhero, what you be called and what would your outfit look like? Dickman, considering my power was in there. And I’d wear some kind of armoured suit, similar to Mr Squiggle’s rocket ship, but the hole for the pencil would be about halfway down, if ya know what I mean. What’s the most interesting thing in your house and how did it get there? The Chuck Norris Total Gym. It’s amazing. My girlfriend owns it. If Batman was in a band, what would it sound like?

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“For me personally, [music] cures violence,” RodriguezLopez continues. “I was one of those guys who would get mad and do a stupid thing, like break something in my house that I really like. This sort of backwards way of thinking; punching your fist against the wall and spraining your wrist. So for me, music alleviates that. I go in and I write something that expresses that same feeling, and it’s much more constructive. Everyone wants to punch a wall at some point, but if you can express that in a more abstract way, chances are you’re gonna connect not only with yourself, but with your fellow human beings. So it’s a really nice thing to have in your corner.” While it’s still relatively early days for Antemasque, Rodriguez-Lopez has been pleased by the bands reception. “We’ve only been a band for a couple of months and we’ve toured the whole world and had sold out shows,” he says. “Especially in this day and age with how fickle the industry and people are in general, and how dumbed down everything is, we’re really lucky to have an actual fan base who are interested in different ideas and what we’re doing. We’ve known groups all throughout these two decades who cannot get people to be interested. The fact that people even care about us punching the wall is really pretty cool.” In terms of what the band has in store for Soundwave, Rodriguez-Lopez believes the performance depends on the audience. “We’re gonna go up there, plug into our amps and play,” he laughs. “The really cool thing about touring is that you don’t know what you’re gonna get ‘til you get there. As a band, you can rehearse all you want, but the biggest element comes down to the energy in the room, and that you can’t plan for. It really is a collaboration with the audience. You go in with a crowd like the ones in Mexico, that are so over the top and passionate, and you play a certain way. You go in to a crowd like Japan that’s passionate but very reserved, and you play a certain way. So it all comes down to when you’re there. I can’t wait.” ANTEMASQUE are playing at Soundwave over Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 at Melbourne Showgrounds. They’re playing their Sidewave with Incubus and Le Butcherettes at The Forum on Wednesday February 25. Their self-titled album is out now through Nadie Sound. It’d probably be pretty good. I’d say he’d be a tuba player in an orchestra playing dramatic music. On tour, which of your band members is the most embarrassing to eat out in public with? It depends on a) who’s farting the most and b) who’s laughing the loudest. If you were awarded a small island off the coast of Australia, what would you name it and what would you use it for? I’d name it Pen Island and build a sexy amusement park on it. Which superhero would you most like to collaborate with and why? Probably Spiderman. If the rumours are true and he can shoot web out of his dick, we could be the dynamic dick duo. Describe your most regrettable haircut. One time I shaved off all my pubes. It was fine for a day or so, but when they started growing back it was so damn itchy and prickly. Never again.

KING PARROT are playing Soundwave this weekend: Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 at The Melbourne Showgrounds.

INCUBUS By Augustus Welby

We’re now several sub-cultural seachanges beyond when Incubus emerged out of the heavy rock underground to become modern rock heavyweights. To be exact, it was 1999’s Make Yourself that launched the Californian quintet onto festival main stages, arena tours and into the record collections of a hefty portion of the population. No matter what the prevalent trends are, major global success is only ever reserved for a rare few, and there’s an even smaller percentage that can make it last.

But since Make Yourself, Incubus have come up with four more LPs, all the while maintaining their headliner status. Should we put this down to good luck? Or perhaps creative sorcery? Of course, thanks must go to the fans. “Our fans don’t give up on us very quickly,” says bass player Ben Kenney. “In other situations, I imagine it’s harder to keep everyone’s attention, but for some odd reason we’ve been gifted with fans that come back after two years. However long we go away, no one holds it against us.” Having previously played guitar for The Roots, Kenney wasn’t a member of Incubus when Make Yourself and its multi-platinum successor Morning View were made. His initiation came in the lead up to 2004’s A Crow Left of the Murder..., following the exit of founding bassist Dirk Lance. Being asked to join a hugely successful band would be a lip-smacking temptation, but Kenney’s entrance wasn’t purely based on commerce. “I’m happy to be able to eat, I’m happy to be able to pay my mortgage,” he says “Those things are great, but if I didn’t respect it, it would be miserable. I’m a bit of a snob and I don’t like a bunch of music; I’m very, very picky. So the fact that these dudes are as talented and as legit as they are and the fact that these dudes can push me to want to be better, that’s a big motivating factor. “Being somewhere you like to be with people you like being around is way better than being successful and being in a place you don’t want to be,” he adds.

“That’s why Porsche sales in the United States are so high, because people freak out, have a mid-life crisis and they’re like, ‘I’m not in the right place, I’m going to divorce my wife and buy a convertible.’ When I look around at the dudes I work with, although we’re all human and all have our shortcomings, I’m like ‘Man, this is alright’.” Incubus’ most recent album, If Not Now, When? came out in 2011. Since that time the band’s toured occasionally, but kept quiet on the new music front. However, at the start of this month they dropped the single Absolution Calling, which is lifted from the forthcoming four-track EP Trust Fall (Side A). “Those four songs are in the bag, completely ready to roll,” Kenney boasts. “We’ve been spending the last few months together just writing music every day. We’re all interested in figuring out what we are. I don’t think anybody feels like it’s a done deal yet.” The (Side A) appendix is there to denote that a companion release will follow later in the year. The band haven’t recorded an album’s worth of material and cut it in half, though. In fact, the nature of the second instalment is still up in the air. “We’ve got a bunch of other songs that we’re working on,” Kenney says. “[There’s] everything from a riff to a lyric to songs that have two different demoed versions and arrangements that need to be figured out. There’s a big mess in the studio of all this stuff happening. We’re going to come back in April and then pick up the

pieces, figure out what the next four, five, six ± however many songs there are we need to put out.” When If Not Now, When? came out, guitarist Mike Einziger explained the album was written with simplicity and a preference for leaner, less aggressive arrangements in mind. Absolution Calling foreshadows the alternate path taken on Trust Fall (Side A). “We did very intentionally not want to come out and play a bunch of mellow stuff for this first EP, because of the last record,” Kenney says. “We felt we were missing some rockers, so we were like, ‘Let’s rock out a little bit.’ We did that mellow shit and we explored that side. I think that record’s going to take a long time for the dust to settle and for it to find its place in our catalogue. But in the meantime we’ve got to get back on it, and we’re all in the mood to make something loud.” “Now, in April after this tour,” he adds, “we could want to come back and play Eastern Russia polka music over

trap beats with Lil’ Wayne. I don’t know, it could be anything. We’re going to try to let the inspiration lead.” The tour Kenney refers to will see Incubus head back to Australia after a three-year absence for the upcoming Soundwave tour. Having been out here multiple times before, and won the favour of innumerable Aussie punters, Kenney looks forward to the visit. “The flight’s going to be miserable but I know that you guys have better ice cream down there and it’s warm and there’s tonnes of pretty girls. All the stuff that makes life fun.”

INCUBUS are playing at Soundwave over Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22. They’re also playing with Antemasque at The Forum on Wednesday February 25.

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SOUNDGARDEN

FALLING IN REVERSE

By Krissi Weiss

There are so few dead-set, clichéd rock stars in our generation that you almost have to give some credit to Falling In Reverse’s Ronnie Radke for keeping the ‘70s and ‘80s dream alive. I’m sure he wouldn’t see it that way though. After all, the guy has to live this life and while one half of it seems like a dream, the other half has been somewhat of a nightmare. Beat caught Radke in Las Vegas, his former hometown, while he’s a radio junket. The über-inked heart-throb has nailed his musical craft fusing metal, rap and punk into a furious Radke brew, but that has come together only after a lot of turmoil. Firstly, his inglorious booting from the bourgeoning post-hardcore group, Escape The Fate, (due to “personal issues,” but his imprisonment for not adhering to his probation requirements after being charged with battery that resulted in a guy being shot and killed probably didn’t help either). The zygote of Falling In Reverse was created during Radke’s jail time and, not surprisingly, hasn’t been without its upheavals (including lineup rotations aplenty). Still, the fans have eaten up his unique cacophony of sound and he has continued to work on his musicianship, taking his job seriously despite all else. The third release from Falling In Reverse ± Just Like You ± is likely to be as divisive and impactful as ever. His warmth and openness defies his tumultuous biography ± the dude is really, really nice. “I lived here for so many years but it’s like a bad relationship,” Radke says. “When you’re living here, it all seems normal and then when you escape it for a while and look at it from a different perspective you think, ‘What the fuck was I doing there for so long? I need to get the fuck out.’ I’m in a good place with this album. No one ever tells me anything like, ‘It’s your year’, but people are saying that to me. Everyone ± my label ± they’re all saying this is my year. It’s really good to hear that, especially from your label, because they’re the ones putting the money into you. I feel this will be our biggest record for sure.” Vocally, Radke has tried his hand at most every style on the past two albums. The diversity has been a blessing and a curse from the perspective of their audience ± proving to be at once unique and jarring ± but for Radke, it has allowed him to literally find his voice. This time around, he’s reigned himself in. “I wanted to test on the older albums and test my horizons,” he says. “I wanted to make things a rollercoaster ride going from metal to gangster rap and into hardcore. It was a bit much at first but now kids love that album. With this album, I wanted to strip that back and make sure I was writing the best song I knew how to write. The songs are genuine and the lyrics are genuine and I hope that people can relate to that.” For many songwriters, their art is created once the storm has passed but for Radke, the songs are always

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- Q&A from Patrick Stump If you could possess any super power, what would it be? I’d go with something useless like the power to instantly make food 3/4 its original size, just for the comedy of trying to join the X-Men with a power like that. “We’re all set for the lunch reduction powers. Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” If you could be a superhero, what you be called and what would your outfit look like? Going off the above useless power, I’d be Portion Controller and my costume would be that oversized suit David Byrne wore in the ‘80s. What’s the most interesting thing in your house and how did it get there? BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 28

written while the ship is sinking. “I write the best songs when I’m in the face of adversity or when I feel like my back’s against the wall,” he says. “Some people crumble when they get on stage if they’ve messed up, but if I’ve messed up I get on stage and I try to make up for all of that. My best writing is when I feel like people don’t believe in me.” So does touring an album for years beyond that initial emotion trigger recreate those emotions? “It does. The songs are so diverse and so I feel kinda’ bipolar, it’s like a whole spectrum of emotion when I play shows but I’m proud to show who I am,” he says. Through expressing these emotions, he’s to deal with another bipolar factor ± the love/hate nature of stardom. “I feel that I have tougher skin than a lot of people, even than ‘80s rock stars,” he says. “They didn’t have the Internet and they didn’t see everything. It makes you wiser and able to analyse human nature. Humans, when they’re hurting or when they’re afraid, they project all of that onto people that they don’t know. Some guy from London will tweet, ‘You’re a piece of shit why would you put out a fucking clothing line?’ You see that and you’re like, ‘OK this dude is not where he wants to be in life. He has literally admitted this and he’s attacking me because I have a clothing line.’ It’s all psychology.” While Radke may not be the guy you want to bring home to your mum, countless kids do ± in a way. How does he reconcile the role of role model? “People who look up to me know where my heart is and they know that some of it has been impulsive and that I know it was stupid,” he says. “People all make their own choices. I’ve had parents come to my shows and tell me, ‘You saved my daughter’. We all make mistakes but as opposed to another rock star who’s proud to post pictures of themselves doing cocaine or whatever to 13-year old fans, I’m not that person. I’ve messed up posting some pictures just to be funny, that have been taken the wrong way, just jokes, but it is what it is.” FALLING IN REVERSE will be playing at Soundwave which takes place over Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22. They’re playing their Sidewave with Escape The Fate and The Color Morale at 170 Russell on Wednesday February 25. Just Like You is out this month through Epitaph. My wife and I just had a baby. He’s pretty interesting. I’d rather not explain how he got there. If you were awarded a small island off the coast of Australia, what would you name it and what would you use it for? I’d call it Snuggle Adorable Chipmunk Island and it would be full of rabid panthers and super-venomous snakes. No chipmunks. The chipmunks are all dead. The panthers and snakes got them all. Obviously. Which superhero would you most like to collaborate with and why? I’d love to record an album with Banshee from the X-Men, just because I imagine that would be pretty difficult and I like a challenge. Which song motivated you to pursue music? My dad was a folk singer and used to play a lot of different kinds of music. It’s hard to say just one, but I’ll arbitrarily pick Steve Goodman’s City of New Orleans. Describe your most regrettable haircut. I dyed it green with Kool Aid one time. For those trivia fans out there, Kool Aid is not actually meant to be hair dye. Ever. FALL OUT BOY will be playing at Soundwave this weekend, Saturday February 21 and Sunday February.

- Q&A from Kim Thayil. If you could possess any super power, what would it be? Omnipotence. If you could be a superhero, what would you be called and what would your outfit look like? God. No wait, Jehovah #1. Yeah, that sounds cooler. And the outfit would look like everything. What’s the most interesting thing in your house and how did it get there? My relationship with my girlfriend, and God only knows. If Batman was in a band, what would it sound like? The Birthday Party or Bauhaus. If you were awarded a small island off the coast of

Australia, what would you name it and what would you use it for? The Soundgarden. I would use it for a sanctuary for endangered wildlife and vegetation. Which superhero would you most like to collaborate with and why? Batman, because he would probably write cool songs like The Birthday Party and Bauhaus. Which superheros would make the greatest musical supergroup and why? The Doom Patrol, The Metal Men or the Fantastic Four. These are obviously great names for a rock band and most of the other superhero groups have too many members. Which song motivated you to pursue music? There are too many to name here, but if I had to pick one or two it would be Day Tripper by The Beatles and Rock n Roll All Night by KISS. Describe your most regrettable haircut. I regret any haircut I’ve had. SOUNDGARDEN are playing Soundwave this weekend: Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 at The Melbourne Showgrounds. They’re also playing at Festival Hall on Tuesday February 24.

MONUMENTS

By Peter Hodgson

Six months ago, UK progressive metallers Monuments were one of the first bands to be announced for the Soundwave 2015 festival. The band’s progressive, virtuosic song structures recall acts like Periphery, Animals As Leaders and Scale The Summit, but with an enhanced focus on rhythm and groove, largely propelled by the guitar skills of John Browne. And now with Chris Barretto (ex-Periphery, Ever Forthright) on vocals, Monuments pushed their sound to further levels of originality and power. We caught up with Browne to talk about what’s in store this week at Soundwave. So, Soundwave is pretty huge. What are your expectations? It’s gonna be amazing. It’s crazy. It’s one of the most iconic festivals, and to come over to Australia for the first time to play such a prestigious festival is going to be amazing. D’know what else is crazy? All my favourite bands are Australian. I’m a really big fan of Karnivool, Dead Letter Circus, Birds of Tokyo, the list goes on. Where does Monuments’ sense of rhythm and groove come from? Michael Jackson. When you listen to Off The Wall and especially songs like Working Day And Night, with everything going on, it’s actually a really complicated song. There are some crazy jazz chords in there with some crazy inversions and if someone can write music that accessible but that complicated at the same time, it’s genius. And it grooves as well. Since I was a kid, I think I was about three years old, maybe two when I remember first listening to Michael Jackson. Mum used to play all that stuff when I was a kid and ever since then it’s been in the back of my mind, that groove thing. So I have to thank my mother for introducing me to all that great music when I was a child. How do you apply that to the guitar? I see it like a drum kit. I do quite a lot of scratching on the guitar and I associate those with ghost notes on a snare, so I like a really full guitar tone that can still get quite tight. You have to get quite tight to get that kind of range, so a drum kit is probably the thing I most closely associate with the guitar sound I go for.

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- Q&A from Greg Puciato. If you could possess any super power, what would it be? Teleportation. If you could be a superhero, what you be called and what would your outfit look like? I would be called Terminavid Lee Roth and I would look like the machine version of The Terminator except I would do crazy high kicks and shit.

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What’s your approach to improvising? I think back to [bass player] Victor Wooten’s Groove Workshop, which is one of the most interesting DVDs I’ve ever watched. He says that when you’re improvising, you’re only ever a semitone away from the right note, by theory, so it’s the execution of that note. If you play it like you know it’s wrong, it’s going to sound wrong, but if you play it like it’s meant to go there it’s not wrong. That’s a really important lesson right there: if a note sounds wrong, play it so it sounds right. It’s like what Van Halen calls ‘falling down the stairs and landing on your feet.’ That’s exactly what it is. Do you remember that thing they did with words where the first and the last letters were right but if you jumbled up the middle section your brain would automatically associate it with the word that you know? It’s the same thing, if you think about it. If you start and end on notes associated with the scale that you’re playing in, as long as all the notes lead to that then technically it’s not wrong. And that’s also to do with playing with conviction, isn’t it? And how confidently you go from one note to the next. I think the space between each note is very important too. And that’s where Michael Jackson comes in again. Catch MONUMENTS at Soundwave this weekend: Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 at the Melbourne Showgrounds. What’s the most interesting thing in your house and how did it get there? I recently had every single thing I own stolen so right now the most interesting things I own, and the only things I own, are the few items of clothing I’ve bought in the last couple of weeks. On tour, which of your band members is the most embarrassing to eat out in public with? I don’t eat any of my band members out in public. Which superhero would you most like to collaborate with and why? Nicki Minaj because that arse. And you spelt fornicate wrong.

Catch KILLER BE KILLED at Soundwave this weekend, Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22 at The Melbourne Showgrounds. They’re also playing with Lamb Of God on Tuesday February 24 at 170 Russel.

FAITH NO MORE By Adam Norris

If we’re lucky, our lives will be studded with those folk somewhat left-of-centre: the strange people, the useless heroes and Raoul Duke aspirants who churn through your days like a dervish and leave madness in their wake. Sometimes, those people form bands. It’s not much of a stretch to assume you’re already familiar with Faith No More. One of the biggest sounds of the ‘90s, when they disbanded 11 years ago ± retreating into a dormant volcano in Missouri to practice the Dark Arts, or so it is said ± their global fanbase was devastated. Individually, the band began following their own beguiling pursuits: Mike Patton continued Mr Bungle and myriad other ventures, Mike Bordin joined Ozzy Osbourne, Roddy Bottum toured Imperial Teen, and so on. When the reformation began back in 2009, the band had tentacles everywhere. Yet stepping back into the studio, it was a return to basics that shaped the core of new album, Sol Invictus. “We had to,” Bottum explains. “We made the record alone in a room, behind closed doors so to speak. Our inspiration was really just ourselves and what we are as a band, what our roots are. What we’ve all been doing the past ten years; that comes into what we’re doing now as individuals, sure. But mostly we addressed us as a band, our core sound. That was the place of our inspiration. But in that there are these crazy personalities, these very distinct people. We all have some pretty crazy ways. Mike Patton’s solo stuff over the last ten years or so is wacka-doodle crazy, this over-the-top, boundary pushing, weird collage stuff. Billy makes a lot of records that are mostly for people who don’t speak English, these worldly kinds of records. All of us keep trying to push things in different areas. I live in New York and I’m writing an opera about Sasquatch. What I like most about here is that people take culture, specifically really strange culture, very seriously. And that’s super inspirational for me, I love being in a place where people applaud avant-garde, and I would like to think I bring a little bit of that to what we’re doing. It doesn’t hurt that it also sounds really good on the record, too,” he laughs. Bottum was once in a group called Faith No Man. When the band finally settled on a lasting name by replacing ‘Man’ with ‘More’, they cobbled together enough money to cut an EP without any label influence, striking out on their own with limited technologies and resources. The music industry has changed dramatically since then, but for Sol Invictus, reclaiming that youthful core was vital. “The way we used to make records was necessarily and unequivocally in a room together making music. Those times have changed for sure,” Bottum says wistfully. “It’s super convenient to make a record these days, but at the same time, we chose to go the analogue route. All of the pianos you hear on the record are real pianos done from our studio. So it did take all of us being there in the same room, but not always at the same time. It’s a convenient age in which we live, it’s easy to get certain stuff done. More in terms of different electronic sounds, or finding different realms of music. But for a band like Faith No More, I feel like we’ve pretty much stuck to the roots. Making music in the band, we’re all really good friends and we respect each other, and we’re all going for a common goal. Stuck there in a room in Oakland.” The reception to the band returning after such a hiatus has been batshit crazy. Those who grew up craving each new album release are now mostly saddled with real world responsibilities. But Faith No More brings them back in droves, and what’s most satisfying for Bottum is witnessing the Ainflux of new fans; people for who the band are nothing but a YouTube memory. “The expectation from those people who hadn’t seen us before is really exciting. I think we have a reputation for some element of surprise... It’s a neat place to be, and feels very comfortable for us as artists.” But, he adds, one thing he really hates is people with their phones in the air. “That is really sad and cheap to me. But I’m actually seeing less and less of it now. I think it’s waning a little bit, people are starting to realise that that experience of music, the YouTube video or camera-held footage, just isn’t all that great. “We ask people in the audience [if they have] seen us before. Not that many have, and that’s really, really cool. We have this kind of legacy that people respect and want to explore. Whether it was because they’d heard bootlegs or seen videos, whatever the reason, it’s all good. To be a thing that people want to take time out to see is an amazing feeling.”

FAITH NO MORE will be playing at Soundwave which takes place over Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22. Sol Invictus will be released in May via Reclamation Recordings/PIAS. WATCH INTERVIEWS, CHATS & AWKWARD SILENCES..... WWW.BEAT.COM.AU/TV

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This Week: Celebrating 24 years of short film excellence Flickerfest remains Australia’s leading short film festival. This year Flickerfest brings its ‘Short Films Licensed To Thrill’ to 50 different venues around the country, screening in every state and territory. Tonight the festival will come to Melbourne to shine a spotlight on local filmmakers with a special Made in Melbourne programme, at The Kino Cinemas, 45 Collins Street. Some other highlights include the thrillingly scary Waterborne, the very funny time travel film I’m You Dickhead and intimately engaging Rabbit plus many more. Flickerfest in Melbourne will kick off with the screening of Made in Melbourne shorts and will be followed by an after-party with delicious food from misschu and drinks from Little Creatures, Crystal Head Vodka, Rosnay Wines and Phoenix Organic Juices.

Sexercise The Musical

Button Eye Productions are currently presenting the premiere of The Orchid & The Crow - a tragi-comedy about faith, sex, identity, ritual and Lance Armstrong. The solo performance follows playwright Daniel Tobias’ real life experience and features original songs from the award-winning writers of Die Roten Punkte. At 29, a Jewishborn Tobias is an atheist and single, living the life of a bohemian artist in Carlton. Appalled with his lifestyle choices, God makes an example of him and strikes him with stage three testicular cancer. As he prepares for his upcoming treatment, he finds salvation in testicular cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, who has recently fallen from grace. The Orchid & The Crow is playing at the Malthouse Theatre, Tower Theatre until Sunday February 22. In the lead up to the 2015 Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (VAMFF), ACMI will present a season of fashion-focused films. Fashion on Film will offer a unique look at the evolution of fashion ± from the house of Balmain, to the streets of Naples and the trends of the ‘90s. The season will kick off in February with the Australian premiere of And Then There is Naples, which follows a Neapolitan trouser maker Salvatore Ambrosi as he guides audiences through the city and meets other local designers. To complement the premiere, ACMI film programmer James Nolen will host a two-hour walking tour of Melbourne that uncovers many of the products featured in the documentary. The season will also feature the Australian premiere of Fashion in the 1990s, The Balmain Style, Pop Models and Dressed up for Summer 2015. The documentaries will also be complemented by a number of short films from the VAMFF Film 2015 competition. Fashion On Film will screen from Saturday February 21 to Sunday March 8.

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Melbourne Theatre Company will present the world premiere of a unique new collaboration between You Am I’s Tim Rogers and playwright Aidan Fennessy. What Rhymes With Cars and Girls weaves together songs from Rogers’ debut solo album with words by Fennessy to create a contemporary Australian story of love across the class divide ± complete with a three-piece band led by Rogers himself. The show tells the story of Tash (Sophie Ross) and Johnno ( Johnny Carr) who fall in love despite their different backgrounds and lifestyles. What Rhymes With Cars and Girls will open on Thursday February 19 and run until Saturday March 28 at Arts Centre Melbourne, Fairfax Studio.

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By Liza Dezfouli A musical inspired by a novelty joke book called Sexercise? Yup ± it’s called Sexercise - The Musical and it’s coming soon (nudge nudge) at a brand new theatre near you ± the soonto-be-opened Alex Theatre in the George Hotel on St Kilda’s Fitzroy St. How rude is the show then? Beat spoke to performers Kristin Holland (who plays Shane) and Fem Belling (Rhonda) about the adult content. “It’s raunchy,” says Holland. “It might even be quite racy but it’s really about relationships.” In case you’re wondering how a cartoon book becomes a musical, the original novelty book was written by Aleksander Vass back in the ‘90s. Producer Malcolm Cooke was inspired by the title and commissioned writer and composer Derek Rowe to create a musical with a story and characters based on the subject. Sara Grenfell directs. Touted as ‘fresh, fun and fabulously flirty’, the show is placed in the fast-paced world of a professional married couple in their mid-30s, Joe (Lyall Brooks) and Sam (Nicole Melloy). There’s no space for seduction amid juggling school runs, work schedules and their personal exercise regimes. “It’s a new musical for the Friends generation,” says Belling. “They’re all having kids now. They’re dealing with exactly these things in their lives. This life didn’t come with instructions. There’ll be a lot of nodding and squirming in the audience. On top of that there’s the music ± t he songs are great.” Belling reckons she was instantly charmed by the script. “I came for the audition and giggled the whole way through. It’s a very funny show. It’s thoughtful. I’m thrilled I’m doing it. It’s exactly what we need

right now ± there’s so much shit in the world. In this show you’re a little bit confronted by reality but not really. Stop watching reality TV. Come and challenge reality.” Both performers are convinced that Sexercise - The Musical will have broad appeal. “Audiences won’t just be traditional theatre goers,” says Holland. “People will laugh and people will blush but no-one will be uncomfortable. It’s got everything - it would make a great hens’ night out.” Beat raises an eyebrow here ± this mightn’t be such a recommendation. But the show avoids charges of cheesiness according to the actors. How so? “Because these are real things and real people,” says Belling. “Everyone out there has a story ± it’s real. There will always be couples going through shit. We all love to know that someone else is going through it too. It’s a musical for those who don’t like musicals. Couples. From tradies to actors, people will come in and find something in these characters. It’s a perfect first date movie.” Holland takes up the theme: “The subject matter portrayed is rife for cheesiness and stereotype but one of the joys of this musical is that the audience can share the characters’ journeys.”

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With Tyson Wray. Got thoughts, news, gossip, complaints or cat photos? Email tyson@beat.com.au or send by carrier pigeon before Friday 12pm. The two actors say they feel kinship with the authenticity of their characters. “We’re playing people the same age as us,” adds Holland. “Mid to late-30’s. My character is a great example of one who could be played as a stereotype; he’s a player in the truest sense of the word, but he’s ageing, he’s 36 now, and his heart’s no longer in the game of chasing 23 year old girls. We meet him at a point of crisis. But there’s enormous potential for him to become a better person. It deals with that issue, and much more, but playfully.” “He’s a cad,” says Belling. “But he defies expectations.” “Despite his failings there’s something inherently likeable about him,” adds Holland. So is Holland a player himself ? “I have an understanding of him! I’ve been playing in bands for many years now. As an older person, I’m out of place amongst younger people. I know that experience. Shane is so dedicated to remaining youthful, he primps and preens, wanting to pursue his quarry ± it almost defines his character. I hope I embody the character to the extent that I can find that within myself as well. And he’s got great fashion sense.” “The casting is sublime,” says Belling.

“The subject matter portrayed is rife for cheesiness and stereotype but one of the joys of this musical is that the audience can share the characters’ journeys.” “We’ve been laughing at how everyone is exactly like their character.” What do these two actors especially like about their roles? “Each character is going through a crisis re relationships,” answers Holland. “The fun of it is watching the characters grapple with their problems. Everyone can relate to these Melbourne, inner-urban mid to late 30s, first kid ± the pressure.” “People do things out of their comfort zone,” Belling adds. “Kristin’s character, Shane, is a player, he’s an introvert, and he’s self-loathing. My character, Rhonda, is an extravert and she has an intriguing past. A lot of men would shy away from her ± she’s formidable. That’s why she does internet dating. She sees a lot of guys; she likes some, some she discards. I too have an intriguing past. I’m having a lot of fun playing Rhonda. She’s very forceful. In my later years of being an actor, I’m more fearless with my choices now. My sense of self ± t hat’s Rhonda.” The joke book, Sexercise, will be on sale at the theatre so patrons can go home and practice what they’ve seen on stage. The last word’s with Belling: “If everyone took the book home and did it, there’d be a lot more love.” Sexercise - The Musical will take place at The Alex Theatre from Thursday February 19 - Sunday March 15.

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Melbourne International Comedy Festival With just over a month till kick-off, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has revealed its full program for 2015. Now its 29th incarnation, this year’s festival will feature a record number of shows and comedians from around Australia and the world. There will be more than 400 Australian comics gracing the stage during the festival, including Judith Lucy, Wil Anderson, Ronnie Chieng, Fiona O’Loughlin, Dave Hughes, Nazeem Hussain, Adam Hills, Celia Pacquola, Meshel Laurie, Effie, Jim Jefferies, Em Rusciano, Joel Creasey and Tripod with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. There will also be plenty of international talent, with Ruby Wax, Arj Barker, Miranda Sings, Jen Kirkman, Michael Che, Rich Hall, Stephen K Amos, Noel Fielding and Jason Byrne all making the trip to Melbourne. Melbourne International Comedy Festival will take place from Wednesday March 25 to Sunday April 19 at various venues around Melbourne.

The Wheeler Centre Fresh from their fifth birthday celebrations, The Wheeler Centre have revealed their first program for the year. The centre will play host to some of Australia’s best writers and thinkers, including Richard Flanagan, James Patterson, Clementine Ford, Simran Sethi, Anna Bligh, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Helen Garner, Hannie Rayson, Kate Grenville, Michel Faber and Elizabeth Gilbert. Visit the Wheeler Centre website for the full program.

Back to the Future Live in Concert Great Scott! The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra are set to perform the score from the legendary film Back To The Future. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the Back to the Future movie, the MSO will be taking the speed to 88mph by performing Alan Silvestri’s entire score from the classic film live, as the movie is projected on a large screen above the orchestra. Silvestri is also writing and arranging approximately 15 minutes of brand new music for this special film-with-orchestra presentation. Conductor Nicholas Buc said he was beyond excited to be performing the score to one of his all-time favourite films. “The music is so recognisable and familiar. This concert will certainly take many members of the audience back in time,” said Mr Buc. “This is a dream concert to be working on. I grew up with the Back to the Future trilogy, hoping for a real hoverboard to be released.” It will be performed on Friday November 6 and Saturday November 7 at the Plenary, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Visit mso.com. au/88mph for further information and to sign up to access early tickets before they go on general sale on Wednesday March 4.

Le Noir - The Dark Side of Cirque Following on from a world tour, Le Noir-The Dark Side of Cirque has announced it is coming to Melbourne this April. Audiences will be given an exhilarating 360 degree view of the show. A once in a lifetime experience has been created that puts the audience on stage and in the centre of the action, with the heartpounding acts only inches away. Le Noir-The Dark Side of Cirque features 24 of the world’s greatest circus acts, many of whom are former stars of Cirque du Soleil. It boasts mind-blowing displays of balance, contortion, stamina, aerial artistry and acts such as the death defying Colombian Wheel of Death that challenges gravity itself, and the Aerial Cradle, the only act of its kind in the world. Le Noir will come to Art Centre Melbourne for a ten day season, beginning Thursday April 9.

A special doggy movie night will take place at ACCA later this month. The night is co-presented by ACCA alongside Farnsworth’s Republic for Dogs, an offleash world for Melbourne’s much-loved four-legged friends created by acclaimed artist Anastasia Klose. Screening on the night will be one of the most batshit films ever made, the crazy canine cult film DOGGIEWOGGIEZ! POOCHIE-WOOCHIEZ! for humans outdoors in the ACCA forecourt. Classic doggie films will be screened for your four-legged visitors inside the Farnsworth kennels. It takes place on Thursday February 26.

Table for one Art and dining come together in a unique experience at the Jewish Museum of Australia. In celebration of the Jewish Museum of Australia’s blockbuster exhibition, Andy Warhol’s Jewish Geniuses, and contemporary art response, Warhol Now, the Jewish Museum is hosting an Andy Warhol-inspired dining experience and exclusive exhibition viewing, entitled Table For One. This solo dining experience will include an exclusive viewing of the Andy Warhol’s Jewish Geniuses exhibition as well as an enlightening conversation between the director of the Jewish Museum of Australia and the co-curator of Andy Warhol’s Jewish Geniuses. Table For One is taking place on Wednesday March 11 and Thursday March 12 at the Jewish Museum of Australia in St Kilda.

Supanova Pop Culture Expo Supanova Pop Culture Expo has announced more guests for its Melbourne event, adding Christopher Lloyd, Martin Klebba and Kevin McNally to the lineup. That’s right, Supanova is going Back To The Future to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the trilogy, bringing Christopher Lloyd back to Australia. Although flying cars, hoverboards, and self-lacing kicks aren’t all the rage in 2015 like they predicted, the film’s have maintained their popularity. As well as playing ‘Doc’ Brown in the Back To The Future trilogy, Lloyd is well known for his portrayal of Uncle Fester in The Addams Family, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and as the eccentric inventor, ‘Doc’ Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy. Martin Klebba and Kevin McNally are in Australia to film the fifth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean- Dead Men Tell No Tales, which is about to begin production in Queensland. Martin, an actor and stunt professional since the ‘90s, has appeared in dozens of feature films including Mirror Mirror and Hancock, and television shows The Cape, and Scrubs. However Martin is probably most recognised as Marty in the Pirates films: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, and At World’s End. McNally starred in the 1984 series Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma. While his film career started with The Spy Who Loved Me it is his role as Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates films that he is best known for. Kevin is one of only three actors in the franchise to star in all four films. Unfortunately Merlin star, Eoin Macken has been called away to complete the filming of the new television series The Night Shift and will be unable to attend the April expos. Supanova Pop Culture Expo will take over Melbourne Showgrounds on Saturday April 11 and Sunday April 12.

The red hot limited run of Saturday afternoon Public Bar Comedy shows continue this week with Charlie Pickering. Catch the former host of The Project before his new ABC program launches on the Public Bar band room stage with a wall to wall A1 lineup. With this week’s host Brad Oakes bringing up killers like David Quirk, Nellie White, Nick Sun and Karl Woodberry this is going to be another ripper. Plus who knows who might jump up? Last Saturday arvo Lawrence Mooney and Dave Thornton made surprise appearances and destroyed. The show kicks off at 4pm this Saturday February 21 at the Public Bar.

PORtLAND HOtEL COMEDY Mick Molloy headlines Portland Hotel Comedy this Thursday. You’ve seen him on The Late Show, Before The Game and heard him on Martin/Molloy and Triple M’s Hot Breakfast, now see him live. It’s an absolute killer lineup, because as well as Mick, they’ve got Lehmo, Adam Rozenbachs, Tommy Dassalo and a special guest. (They’ve had Wil Anderson, Dave Hughes and Ronny Chieng as special guests in the last month.) It’s all happening this Thursday February 19 at 8.30pm, at Portland Hotel Comedy, 127 Russell Street (upstairs), CBD, all for only $12.

24 MOONS COMEDY Greg Larson (Dirty Laundry Live and Fancy Boy Variety Hour) headlines Northcote’s newest comedy room this Sunday February 22. 24 Moons, located at 2 Arthurton Road just off High Street, hosts some of the best comics in Australia every Sunday afternoon at 5.30pm. Fiona O’Loughlin, Nick Cody and Jeff Green have all headlined since the room began in January and at only $8 a ticket Northcote now has the best medicine to cure your Saturday night hangover.

COMEDY At SPLEEN Monday nights in the city are chockers full of comedy yet again, thanks to Comedy at Spleen. Another full house is expected, as Spleen hosts a bunch of surprise acts, plus Ben Lomas, Khaled Khalafalla, Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall, Sean Bedlam and more. It’s this Monday February 23, at 41 Bourke Street in the city, at 8.30pm. It’s free to get in, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

Coming Up Depth of Field

Friday March 6 - Saturday March 14 Malthouse Theatre

Dance Massive

Tuesday March 10 - Sunday March 22 Various Venues

The Ocean Film Festival Australia Wednesday March 11 - Thursday March 12 Village Crown Cinemas & Village Rivoli

Giselle

Friday March 13 - Monday March 23 Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre

MSO: The Damnation of Faust Friday March 20 - Saturday March 21 Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

The Golden Age of China: Qianlong Emperor Friday March 27 - Sunday June 21 National Gallery of Victoria

A Moon Safari By Steam Bicycle

Tuesday April 7 - Sunday April 1 ACMI

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MOODYMANN [USA], DJ TENNIS [ITA] Friday February 20, Brown Alley TINASHE [USA] Friday February 20, The Hi-Fi DETROIT SWINDLE [NED] Sunday February 22, Revolver Upstairs

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Growing Up I grew up on a mixture of queen, Neil Diamond, Abba and various other metal bands from my sister and parents. I definitely think music being played all the time in the house helped me have a love of music full stop. I still rock out to ABBA on occasion.

Friday February 27, Rod Laver Arena MARCELLUS PITTMAN [USA] Friday February 27, Mercat Basement THEO PARRISH [USA] Saturday February 28, Revolt Artspace FREDDIE GIBBS [USA] Saturday February 28, Corner Hotel DIE ANTWOORD [RSA] Wednesday March 4, Trak Live Lounge Bar

Inspirations That’s easy. The whole tech revolution that was lead by Edrush and Optical back in 1996 and 1997 had been the

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catalyst for my direction. I was into jungle from about 1994 but I remember going to a full cycle party at The End club and Edrush played a guest set at 4am; that was the moment when I heard all those twisted beats for the first time and life changed for me. The Music You Make My sound is uncompromising drum and bass. I’m currently working on my fifth studio for Ram Records. Previous LPs had been released by Tech Freak and Virus Recordings.

At the end of last year I released an EP called Nil by Mouth and this year I have mixed the latest instalment of the RAMlife mix CD. Music, Right Here, Right Now The scene is amazingly healthy right now and there seems to be lots of very talented producers making some great music. Audio and Teddy Killerz will hit Brown Alley on Friday February 20.

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A live art performance piece where I get drunk on stage and call every Mr. Wolf in the phonebook and ask them what the time is.

Supernatural Amphitheatre TAMA SUMO [GER] Sunday March 8, Lounge FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: DRAKE [USA], THE

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FOREST SWORDS [UK]

US hip hop duo Mobb Deep will return to Australian shores this year. The pair are set to embark on their biggest Australian tour to date, stopping in Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. The tour marks the 20th anniversary of the New York duo’s second album The Infamous. To celebrate, the rappers will play the album in its entirety. Catch Mobb Deep at The Espy on Saturday April 11.

Saturday March 15, Howler KELE [UK] Wednesday March 18, Corner Hotel BONOBO [UK] Thursday March 19, Prince Bandroom

outfield

JURASSIC 5 [USA] Wednesday April 1, Festival Hall

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MOBB DEEP [USA] Saturday April 11, The Espy JAMES ZABIELA [UK] Friday April 17, Brown Alley

tour rumours Bicep, Hieroglyphic Being, Container, The Bug, Motor City Drum Ensemble

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One of the biggest names in house and techno, James Zabiela, has locked in Australian return. He runs the revered Born Electric label (who he has released the music from of Hot Chip, Midland, FaltyDL, Cloud Boat and Tin Man, just to name a few) and has just celebrated his 12th season as a resident at the global institution We Love... Space. Catch the living legend at Brown Alley on Friday April 17.

One of the co-founders of the infamous Dirtybird day parties, Worthy, has announced an Australian tour. Best buds with the likes of Claude Von Stroke alongside Justin and Christian March, he also runs the Anabatic Records imprint and creates a meticulous blend of break beats, techno booty bass and house. His track So Delicious is already one of the highlights of 2015. Catch him on Friday February 27 at Revolver Upstairs.

February 13

The Operatives have announced a huge lineup for Outfield’s latest outside exercise taking place this month. The event features a world-class lineup of acts including Brainfeeder’s lightning fast emcee Azizi Gibson in his debut Australian performance and New Zealand producer Kamandi and UK DJ, producer and MC Chimpo. Joining the three internationals will be a fleet of local support including Able8 ft Elf Transporter, Visuals from Brendan Harwood, Bee Ampersand, The Foreign Brothers Crew, Outside Inn, Jamie Now, Lady Banton and more. Outfield will come to the Railway Hotel on Saturday February 28.

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piknic électronik After losing Old Melbourne Gaol as a venue, Piknic Électronik have now locked in two new venues to call home. The first venue, known as The Paddock, is a never-before-used space located behind Federation Square and Birrarung Marr. The second venue, known as Testing Grounds, is located behind the Arts Centre and played host to Piknic’s Australia Day celebrations last month. Piknic will alternate between the two venues for the rest of the summer, with the remaining February shows to be held at Testing Grounds and the first show at The Paddock taking place on Sunday March 1. Piknic Électronik Melbourne will be held every Sunday until March 29.

next week: February 21

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The first Prognosis for 2015, and whilst that’s pretty monumental in itself it also happens to be the date of Melbourne’s White Night spectacular.

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FLiP3K, Damir Smith, Jade May, J-Slyde and Aaron Static Visuals by Kstati.

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wednesday feb 18 CLOSET STRAIGHTS + BLUE BOTTLES + GREVIOUS ANGELS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00. CURIOUS TALES - FEAT: DJ WHO + TIGERFUNK + TOM SHOWTIME + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: DAN SAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. thursday feb 19 3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC WITH GET BU$Y + JESSE YOUNG + WHO & SAM GUDGE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:00pm. DANCE TECHNIQUE - FEAT: POST PERCY + GROOVE CONTROL + BEN RYAN New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DJ MANTOOTH Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. FLANAGANS THURSDAYS FEAT: DJ ONTIME + COLONEL Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. SUMMER NIGHTS Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 4:30pm. THE BEAT RAFFLE - FEAT: DJ BUICK Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. THE RITZ - FEAT: KEN WALKER + ANDO + JOSHUA GILLILAND Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 10:00pm. $20.00. VARSITY - FEAT: KITI + FOOFARAW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. XS DISCO - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. friday feb 20 #MASHTAG - FEAT: MALPRACTICE + AGENT 86 + BENZO + ANDRE LE VOGUE + SILVERFOX + AHAB + OLLIE Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DIGGIN THE SLOWNESS FEAT: MISS GOLDIE + DANIEL HARVEY + DAVE WICKERSON Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DISCO ABYSS - FEAT: GRAVES + GIACOMO MARRONE + BROKE POWERS + THURSGAY DJS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 9:00pm. $10.00. FABULOUS FRIDAYS Co., Southbank. 8:00pm. FAKE TITS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + SUNSHINE + SAMMY LA MARCA + BUTTERS + ADAM BARTAS + JUNGLE JIM Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00. FLAWLESS QUEER PARTY - FEAT: WHISKEY HOUSTON + YO! MAFIA + MS BUTT + BEY DANCE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $12.00. FRIDAYS @ ONESIXONE - FEAT: JEN TUTTY +

LUKE MCD + LEWIE DAY + PREQUEL + KATIE DROVER + MITCH KURZ + MIC NEWMAN + TOM EVANS + JOEL ALPHA + LIAM WALLER + AARON TROTTMAN + NICK JONES + JESSE YOUNG + ANDRAS FOX + JAC OSCAR WILKINS Onesixone, Prahran. 8:00pm. HAPPY PEOPLE - FEAT: DJ SUSAN + LEO + WINTERS + JIMMY LEGS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. KANGAROO SKULL + JAKE BLOOD + ELISABETH + ASSAD + CALE SEXTON + JAMAL AMIR Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00. LUCK TRUCK FRIDAYS DOWNSTAIRS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. MAARS + SAM MCEWIN + KODIAK KID Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. MAT.JOE + SILVERSIX + JAMES STEETH + DOAKES Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. OMG FRIDAYS Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. POPROCKS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: ARKS + RICHARD KELLY + HYSTERIC + K HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. SMALLTOWN - FEAT: MOODYMAN + DJ TENNIS Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $44.00. TABU - FEAT: TBC + SAB C + MANNY + LALO + ALBERTO La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. TEAM INDIA SUPPORTERS PARTY - FEAT: DJ NASH Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. $30.00. THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm. THERAPY FRIDAYS - FEAT: STEVIE MINX + MATTY G + APAX + CHRIS MAC Level 3 @ Crown, Southbank. 8:00pm. $20.00. TUNES BY DAVE GRAY Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. TWISTED AUDIO 5TH BIRTHDAY + AUDIO + TEDDY KILLERZ Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. TWISTED AUDIO 5TH BIRTHDAY + AUDIO + TEDDY KILLERZ Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00. saturday feb 21 ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: DR. ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA +

JACOB MALMO + TOM EVANS + ROWIE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00. BIG DANCING - FEAT: GET BUSY + MAFIA + MAT CANT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. BONEY SATURDAYS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. $10.00. C GRADE (ENJOY YOUR LIVE WITHOUT US) - FEAT: TORNADO WALLACE + OTOLOGIC The Mercat, Melbourne. 10:00pm. CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ELECTRIC DREAMS Co., Southbank. 8:00pm. $20.00. FAMILIAR STRANGERS The Emerson, South Yarra. 10:00pm. $20.00. GARDEN BEATS - FEAT: AARON ARTHUR + WILJAM LAGERBLOHM The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. GRUMP UP THE JAM Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. HOT STEP - FEAT: ADAM ASKEW + GRAYSKULL + KELTEC + MYLES MAC + PETER BAKER + REV. THORN + SAM MCEWIN + SHANE COPAL + TOM EVANS Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. JOEL FLETCHER Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 9:00pm. $23.50. MIDNIGHT RUN Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. $7.00. OBLIVEUS + MR LOB + B-TWO Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:00pm. PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm. PROGNOSIS - FEAT: LUKE PORTER Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. ROSE Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:00pm. SATURDAY MORNING - FEAT: SUNSHINE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am. SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00. SIMONA KAPITOLINA + KT SPIT + FELICITY YANG + DJ FLETCH + EATON MESS + THIILII Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.00. T-REK + MIKE CALLANDER + NICK COLEMAN + BOOGS + SILVERSIX The Hi-fi, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $19.40. TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDY FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDY FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm. THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: PREQUEL + PAZ + MOONSHINE + LA POCOCK + BOOGS + RANSOM + MAT

CANT + GET BU$Y + SAMMY THE BULLET Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm. THERAPY Level 3 @ Crown, Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00. TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. TUNES BY DJ FEE FEE STAR Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. sunday feb 22 BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO + TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - FEAT: NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. EASY NOW - FEAT: AGENT 86 + TOM SHOWTIME + DJ MAARS Penny Black, Brunswick. 3:00pm. ENCORE - FEAT: DAN SLATER + ADAM LOVE The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm. JUNGLE - FEAT: HANDS DOWN + ZAC DEPETRO + PETE LASKIS + TRAVLOS + JOHN DOE Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00am. $15.00. REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + T-REK + RADIATOR Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. SPITROAST SUNDAYS Cushion, St Kilda. 10:00pm. SUMMER SERIES - FEAT: DETROIT SWINDLE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. SUNDAY DJ SESSIONS @ JARDIN TAN - FEAT: MIMI Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. 2:00pm. THE SUNDAY SET - FEAT: DJ ANDYBLACK & HAGGIS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 4:00pm. WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

CROWNED CARTEL (STRAIGHT TO THE POOL ROOM) + CODA CONDUCT + DAZED + LUCAS MILLER + SEEKA + DJ DLECT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00. NO MONEY NO PROBLEMS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

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BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. FRIDAY NIGHT RHYTHM - FEAT: DJ ANDRE LE VOGUE + MAX VEGAS The

Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. FUNKIN’ GONUTS Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. J ROCC + KANO + ARKS + DANIELSAN The Mercat, Melbourne. 9:00pm. LEVA + KURK KOKANE + ALEX JONES + GMC + SON OF SAM + MIDNIGHT GREEN CREW Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. NICO GHOST Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. PARTY & BULLSHIT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

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KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY + TIMOS Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

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monday feb 23 CALL IT IN - FEAT: JAMES TOM & DYLAN MICHEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. FRONTIERS + GREAT JOHN HIMSELF + BLOOD ORANGE Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $5.00. MADDAWG MONDAYS - FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm. tuesday feb 24 OASIS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. TWERKSHOP Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $15.00. UNCLE BOBBY + LOUISE LOVE + KARLI WHITE Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. $5.00.

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RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00. SPAWBREEZIE + ALO KEYS + NIKO + DJ KAHLUA Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $38.00. THE ALKOHOLIKS + DTACH + ZU NINJAS + SOLOMON CHILDS + PAUL MARZ Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $52.00.

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BE. SUNDAYS Co., Southbank. 10:00pm. $15.00. OC + DJ BOOGIE BLIND + BRAD STRUT + MAU POWER + MITUS WITH DJ MAC DA VILLAIN + KING EXCEL + DJ PERIL Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $56.00.

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THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS

By Isabelle Oderberg

Hamish and Lachie Davidson have been making music since they were eight and six years old respectively, so they’re used to performing to an older crowd. But with the release of their new album, Wanderlust, and the resurgence of all things country, the Tamworth regulars have been branching out and diversifying their audience. After years of hard work on the Australian country music scene, Hamish and Lachlan, now 31 and 30, are finally riding a new wave of success as bluegrass and American roots music continue their push into the mainstream. Beat spoke to Lachie ahead of two major festival appearances. “We spoke to the director of the Deering Banjo Company in California and he mentioned a huge increase in banjo sales for them,” says Lachie. “He put it down to Mumford & Sons being one of the major contributors as to why banjo sales have increased, because they’ve had so much mainstream airplay and the instruments have been brought to the forefront. “You’ve even got Keith Urban adding banjo loops. At least the use of the instrument is become more prominent.” Learning to self-promote and book the right kind of gigs has been a steep learning curve after a small-town upbringing in Yinnar, Gippsland, but Lachie reckons the boys have finally turned the corner. “A lot of our stuff is self-promoted,” he says. “We play bluegrass, we don’t promote concerts. It’s harder to cover all bases without spending a fortune... There’s a lot to compete with in the city. If you’re doing a gig in the country, you put a poster in the butcher shop or milk bar and the whole town knows about it. We’re slowly getting a handle on the competition in the city and what’s available on people’s plates. “Before we didn’t know how it all worked, but now we’re getting text messages about gigs on a weekly basis and we can play in bars around town every single week of the year, if we want to. “I feel like we’re on the correct path that we’ve been looking for now. That’s really what this album has done for us.” Wanderlust, released in June last year and made with the help of an Arts Victoria grant, was the start of the boys’ push to connect with the younger, more urban set, but still popular with the original fans. Tamworth gave

it four finalist nominations in the 43rd Country Music Awards. Now it’s time to get out there, play festivals and attract some new fans, without isolating the originals who continue to support the band, and it’s a challenge Lachie’s looking forward to. “We grew up going to Tamworth for a long time and they’re all retirees,” he laughs. “We’re pretty conscious of getting to play a younger crowd over the past two years, so it’ll be interesting to see how we go this year [at Port Fairy Folk Festival]. I remember at Port Fairy, particularly in the street and in some of the street stages, there was always a lot of young people around. “It’s always great because the crowd is attentive and responsive. That’s something we’ve always loved – being in front of a crowd that loves music. It’s definitely an educated crowd.” There’s no doubt that for music lovers, the standout aspect of watching the Davidson Brothers live is the technical proficiency on display. Lachie’s mandolin is some of the best on these shores, sometimes his hands move so fast, you wonder if his strings are going to start smoking. Hamish on the banjo reminds you just how much joy the instrument can be, rather than just a marketing ploy to attract the bolo-tie wearing East Brunswick set. He also plays a mean fiddle. Top it off with Jacob McGuffie on acoustic guitar and Louis Gill on upright bass and you got yourself a pretty dang hot bluegrass operation, with some hilarious stage banter, lampooning small-town living and mercilessly taking the piss out of each other on stage thrown in for good measure. But when there are some sensitive souls

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in attendance, the jokes do risk going a little bit awry. “We got letters of complaint in Tamworth. Hamish usually writes back a nice response,” Lachie giggles. “There was one woman who left my brother’s banjo workshop upset when he was referring to his banjo as a woman, she obviously didn’t appreciate that at all. Just cracked it and left.” Anyone who’s headed to Port Fair Folk or the Great Australian Beer Festival doesn’t have to panic though, that’s not changing any time soon. “We grew up in a small country town where everyone’s making fun of each other and always having a good

time,” Lachie says. “We grew up on the old entertainers that our parents would listen to, so it was a whole show in that before recorded music was around. “That’s what it’s come back to for us and I guess that’s why we get booked on many things, because we make a show out of it. We don’t just play songs. We stir people up.”

way I did and I just didn’t know what to think of that. It took me a while and then I started to just take it as such an incredible compliment that people who I have never met, people from different kinds of music than I’ve ever played were recording my songs and it was a real thrill. It’s a great compliment when anybody else does your song. It’s good.” Discussing her upcoming gigs in Australia, SainteMarie says, “The program that we will be doing in Australia this time is very diverse. Depending on the length of the show, I will usually throw in the songs that I think everyone is hoping that I will do like Until It’s Time For You To Go, Up Where We Belong which won me my Academy Award, Universal Soldier, some Native American things like Starwalker, some that you have

never heard before that are from the new album. It’s always a mix of what I think people are hoping we will do and things that will surprise them. I don’t just do a greatest hits show because that would get boring for me so I always throw in some new ones. It keeps the band fresh too.”

Check out THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS at the Great Australian Beer Festival on Saturday February 21, and Port Fairy Folk Festival from Friday March 6 to Monday March 9. Wanderlust is out now.

By Graham Blackley

Groundbreaking Native American singer/songwriter and philanthropist Buffy SainteMarie has been writing, recording and performing since the early ‘60s. She was ‘punk’ in the truest sense of the word, long before the term had been applied to any narrow musical subculture as she toured everywhere from colleges to reservations, delivered her songs with unbridled energy, defied conventions and maintained a firm commitment to political activism. The good news is she’s still the deeply committed activist and musical renegade she always was. She also seems to be phenomenally busy. For instance, not only has she’s just recorded her 20th album, which will be released in May, but she recently played a gig at The Bootleg Theatre in LA to an audience that featured such luminaries as Jackson Browne and Morrissey. Despite often being labelled a “folk singer”, SainteMarie has pursued an eclectic musical path. When discussing what has shaped this approach to music she says, “It’s my own interest [in music]. I really do love pop music. I really do love the music of the 1600’s in Scotland. I like music from China, India and the Middle East and I always have. I didn’t know enough to do it one way only. [Also] I guess I get bored easily.” When I raise the idea that Sainte-Marie was punk long before the movement’s ‘70s heyday, she bursts out laughing and says, “Thank you. You are the only person who ever noticed that. Because I don’t know any better, haven’t been to musical school and I’m not one of the guys, it has kept me unique. Sometimes I try things. My doing punk before punk came along was a lucky coincidence.” With protest songs such as Universal Soldier, in which the futility and madness of war is laid bare, SainteMarie demonstrates music can achieve a whole lot more than mere entertainment: it can provoke thought, inspire reflection and perhaps even change minds. Speaking about the benefits of using music to convey political messages, she says, “In my heart what it’s all about is the art of the three-minute song. If you can say something in three minutes, I think you can have more impact than as if you had written a 400-page book that

sits on the shelf too heavy to lift. It’s a real people’s way of saying something concisely. [With] the world being what it is, [I] think maybe I can make my little contribution through the three minute song. ” Her belief in the power of brevity was confirmed when she got to mingle with the denizens of a rather famous fictional street. “For five and a half years, I was on Sesame Street and that brought that home to me again,” she explains. “The idea of short attention spans and being able to make a point in three and a half minutes is something to aim for.” The durability of song is also important to Sainte-Marie. “Great music is not only diverse and comes from everywhere but it lasts,” she exclaims. “A great song doesn’t stop being great just because another song comes along.” A song’s durability and currency is guaranteed when it’s kept alive not only by the originator but by other musicians who imbue it with their own style. It’s testament to the quality of Sainte-Marie’s songwriting that so much of her work has been covered by a staggering and diverse range of artists. Sainte-Marie’s dark tale of addiction Cod’ine, for instance, seems to have been covered by everyone from Donovan, Janis Joplin, The Charlatans and Quicksilver Messenger Service to Dave Graney and Courtney Love. Discussing her response to other people covering her material she says, “I wrote a song called Until It’s Time For You To Go which is a real pop song and I didn’t even tell people that I wrote it as it’s such a pop song. The ‘folk police’ used to get after you if you strayed into pop music. But then Bobby Darin recorded it and he didn’t do it the

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CUSTARD

By Augustus Welby

1990s Brisbane band Custard are an idiosyncratic entry in the great Australian songbook. The band’s distinction stems from frontman Dave McCormack’s ironic and amusingly self-deprecating lyrics, as well as their unconventional approach to pop songwriting. They’ve been appropriately compared to such contemporaneous acts as Pulp, Pavement, Guided By Voices and The Fauves, but it’s always been tough to pin down what spawned Custard’s unique outlook. Ahead of the band’s appearance at Between the Bays festival – their first live performance since 2013 – McCormack happily discusses the foundations of his songwriting approach. “It’d be equal parts country and Western music, Beatles and Go-Betweens and then probably the Pixies or Pere Ubu or Jonathan Richmond,” he says. “Especially Robert Forster from The Go-Betweens, he’s got that great balance of heartfelt and also distant and ironic, same with Jonathan Richmond. Morrissey does that as well, humour and emotion. Morrissey’s one of the funniest lyric writers ever, but he also occasionally really nails a true emotion. The stereotype of The Smiths and Morrissey is that they’re misery guts. But they’re hilarious.” Custard formed in 1990 and came up with five fulllength releases before calling it quits in 2000. When the band was at its peak, writing killer tunes came easy. At least that’s the impression given by records such as 1995’s Wisenheimer and ‘97’s We Have the Technology, which both feature 16-plus tracks rich in melodic immediacy and comical insight. Custard never crossed over to a mainstream audience, but they achieved a decent amount of Australian success during their heyday. This was greatly influenced by years of heavy triple j rotation (during the era of triple j that everyone moans about having disappeared), which led to several Hottest 100 entries, including Girls Like That coming at Number Three in 1998. In spite of this, McCormack’s major goals were artistically motivated. “When I was in the band in the ‘90s and that was all I was doing, whenever I’d hear a good song it’d make me anxious again because I’d want to do something that had a bit of that element in it,” he says. “There’d be like some chorus and then I’d try to write a song and steal that bit. Definitely if I heard a Pavement song or a Pixies song or a Blur song you’d go, ‘Wow that’s good,

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what have they done? Can we do that’?” As mentioned, McCormack’s lyrics are a definitive feature of the band’s work. Even just the titles of seminal hits Music Is Crap, Girls Like That (Don’t Go For Guys Like Us) and Anatomically Correct are amusing. Still, it isn’t goofy joke-rock, and a closer look at Custard’s repertoire shows that McCormack’s lyrics often contain an emotional undercurrent. “The whole quirky comedy thing comes from a fear of being too sincere and open in front of people,” he says. “If you just sort of make a joke of it then you can get away with stuff. If it’s too close to the bone, you can say, ‘Yeah I was only joking. See, it’s funny.’ I think there was genuine emotion in those songs, then you try to hide it a little bit.” At various moments throughout the Custard catalogue, McCormack’s lyrics appear to be a collage of randomly selected observations or else just plain absurd. He singles his primary mentor for writing in this manner. “One of my favourite bands is Pere Ubu and I’ve always felt David Thomas the singer from that band… It’s almost just like a sound poem. The words have a meaning if you want to interpret them, but they can also just work as a sound. That’s always fascinated me.” Custard started playing shows again in 2009. Unlike most reformed acts, they’re yet to stage a triumphant large-scale reunion tour. Rather, all of their gigs during the last five years have been one-off appearances. There’s no doubt the band’s catalogue still stands on its own two feet, and fans new and old are more than willing to head along to see them play. However, the idea of a lengthy slog on the road holds no sway for McCormack. “We certainly don’t chase gigs,” he says. “So it’s just whenever someone has an inkling to organise something then we’ll play. It’s a great relief doing this compared to 20 years ago when the band was in full

flight and you’d be having meetings to talk about tours and promo. It’s really not a pleasant part of the business, trying to make people like your music. It’s a really horrible sort of thing, trying to convince people that this tour’s going to be great and this album’s incredible. I’d much rather play a gig every two years when people want us to play. And then not play. “I used to do lots of gigs in my 30s,” he adds. “With my band The Polaroids, we’d put out albums and we used to tour heaps. Then as you just get a bit older, the idea

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of sharing a hotel room in St Kilda and hiring a van to drive to Geelong to do a gig becomes less, I don’t know. Something about when you’re younger and it’s all beer and ciggies and hanging out, that’s fun. But now once every two years feels like the right amount of gigs for me.” CUSTARD are playing at Between The Bays Festival on Saturday February 28.

THE COURTNEYS

By Adam Norris

The Courtneys have had one hell of an unexpected ride. From casually bashing out an album over the course of a weekend, to finding themselves featured on MTV, Rage, and selling out venues, their trajectory has been enviable, to put it mildly. But drummer and vocalist Jen Twynn Payne is not only equally surprised by their success, but comes across as a ridiculously charming, entertaining person as well. Their tone is upbeat, warm and infectious, a very East Coast sound, which is only unusual when you realise they each hail from the frozen Canadian north. “I have always found it pretty strange that we’re labelled so much as a summer band,” Payne laughs. “People always mistake us as being from California, and we do have a song called 90210, but whatever. I know our songs sound very happy and summery, but I think one of the words I’ve lyrically re-used the most has been ‘winter.’ I talk about snow a lot. So I think it’s fun that sonically we come across as a happy, summer band, but that’s not often the topic of the songs at all. Even when we try and write a ‘sad’ song it ends up sounding like, ‘Oh, the beach. Let’s drive with the top down’.” Payne laughs loudly, and it’s easy to imagine how entertaining this chat would be face-to-face; shooting pool and drinking Moosehead in some Vancouver speak-easy, for instance. She’s a friendly, colourful conversationalist, whose sentences tend to scatter all over the place like a box of overturned cats. Given her exuberance, the bright and cheerful ‘90s pop-rock tone that infuses The Courtneys’ songs isn’t too surprising. It certainly seems more valid than any overriding fondness or nostalgia for the decade that gave us both Pearl Jam and Captain Planet. “Musically, I think the three of us are all extremely different in a lot of ways, and that the whole ‘90s aesthetic is where we cross over. Other bands that are looking back to earlier music; I wonder about that myself,” she reflects. “Maybe it’s always that way. I feel like when you’re living in a certain time period, it’s hard for you to tell what’s going on. When we look at the ‘80s, it has a specific style and a specific sound. We look at it now and it’s like, ‘Yeah, that’s the ‘80s.’ But I feel like when you’re living in it, you can’t tell what is standing out. Maybe it seems like we’re all doing this nostalgia thing, but when I look back at the early 2000s, that has a very specific sound and aesthetic. But when

I was in it, I didn’t think that anything was going on at all.” Some would say we’re all products of our environments, and if this is the case, then perhaps that sense of cultural ambiguity Payne speaks of is precisely what led to developing music that is reminiscent of an earlier era. On the one hand, you can see a certain truth in this; after all, we tend to define ourselves in contrast to what precedes and informs our contemporary lives. On the other, this causality seems a little too neat and besides, in the face of Payne’s extra musical occupations, you would certainly hope these influences remain only skin deep. “I worked with this true-crime documentary series,” she says. “I still do, but my role has changed now. But it was my job to research all of the police documents and photos, all of these serial killer crime scene images, and work out what ones to pass along that they could use on screen. It was actually pretty full on. I’d get in touch with these people and they’d just send along everything they had, all of these really intense, gory photos, and I’d always try to not look too closely at first, but you had to know what was there. And then I’d select them and show them to my boss, who was always like, ‘These photos are terrible.’ And I’d be like, ‘Those aren’t even the bad ones. You should see the shit that I’ve left behind’.” Shortly they will touch down in Australia for their first experience of the land of snakes and sunstroke, with gigs dotting the east coast. For a band still relatively fresh on the scene, Payne can barely believe the road their music has led them down thus far, especially when so much of it seems almost divinely, absurdly arranged. “Before the album came out, we’d be making jokes about things we’d like to do, but it was all very delusional: just

these ridiculous things that it would be awesome to do or play at, but never anything we took seriously,” Payne muses. “But now, we’ve started to do all these things. We played this island the other day, and as we were on the ferry going over our bassist Sydney was like, ‘You guys, seriously, if there’s only one more thing that can happen in this band before we die, I really want to make a choreographed dance music video.’ And it’s so ridiculous and so funny, but we’ll totally do something

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like that now. I just feel like we keep on coming up with more and more ridiculous things that somehow end up happening.”

THE COURTNEYS are playing The John Curtin Hotel on Thursday February 26 and Camp Casual from Friday February 27 to Sunday March 1.

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DONAVON FRANKENREITER

By Tom Clift

California-native Donavon Frankenreiter divides his time between two great loves. The first is his music, be it live or laid down in the studio. Since the release of his self-titled debut album just over a decade ago, the famously moustachioed singer-songwriter has earned himself plenty of fans with his folksy, easy-going tunes, embarking on several international tours, including multiple sojourns to Australia. His second great passion is one he’s had since he was a child, growing up near the beach in Downey, just south of LA. “I remember at the age of ten, when I got my very first surfboard,” Frankenreiter reminisces. “I remember how fast I went. I’ll never forget the sensation of going down the face of a wave, fast, and knowing that this piece of equipment was exactly what I’d been looking for. The moment I stood up, I was addicted.” From then on, the young Frankenreiter was barely away from the water. After competing in some amateur junior surfing contests, he officially went pro at the age of 16, aided by a sponsorship deal courtesy of Aussie surfwear company, Billabong. It was around that same time Frankenreiter picked up his first guitar, and soon thereafter discovered his second great passion. After some time spent jumping between bands, he decided to pursue a solo career. His first album was released through Brushfire Records, owned by friend and fellow surfer-turned-musician, Jack Johnson. The record was a success, and Frankenreiter has been splitting his time between the surf and the studio ever since. “To me, they both enhance each other,” he says. “There have been some times when music’s come to me while surfing. There have also been times on music tours when I haven’t been expecting to get any good waves, and it ends up being the best day ever. They both definitely enhance each other, because I love doing both so much that when I’m surfing a lot, while I’m in such a great mood and I love it, I can’t wait to get back to playing music. And also the same thing, when I’m on tour playing music, I can’t wait to get back in the water… I think it’s great to put one down for a little bit and then you go back to it with a fresh approach.” Interestingly, it seems the same thing that attracted Frankenreiter to surfing is also what attracts him

to music – particularly live performance. “[It’s] the magical feeling of knowing you can never surf out and get that exact wave again,” he explains. “There’s this elusiveness. I think that’s why I became addicted to it, because there’s that element of wanting to get good, and then there’s the element of wanting to find the best waves you can. It’s not always perfect, and it’s forever changing. I think that’s what every surfer loves. They fall in love with not knowing if they’re going to get the best barrel of their life tomorrow or if they’re going to wait ten more years to find that day where it all comes together. “I had the same exact feeling when I picked up the guitar for the first time,” Frankenreiter continues. “It’s never ever the same. I don’t know if it’s the way I think, but things happen in a split second when you play live, and I just love that feeling of not knowing. I love that sensation of playing live… Every night I go onstage, and whether we play the same songs or not, they’re always a little bit different. There’s always that element of, ‘Am I going to break a string? Is it going to be in tune? What’s this crowd going to be like? What’s this PA sound like?’ And I love that.” Frankenreiter’s latest tour will bring him back to Australia, where he’ll play 18 locations in less than four weeks, including multiple sets at Bluesfest in Byron Bay. Unsurprisingly, his travels will take him past several major surfing hotspots, where he’s hoping he’ll get the chance to catch some waves. “Australia’s always been that place, especially in the surfing world, where every surfer has always wanted to get to,” says Frankenreiter. “It’s one of the Meccas, being able to catch some of the waves that break in Australia. “I think the first time I went down I was 13 or 14,

PETER HOOK

for a big huge world juniors amateur surfing contest. So then when I started to go back to play music, I felt comfortable there because I’d been there with the surfing.” “One of the things I’ll be looking at every day will be where I’m going to be tomorrow, and who I know in that town with an extra board,” he says with a laugh. “Maybe I’ll trade a board for a ticket – that always works out good.” While the surfing keeps him entertained, Frankenreiter says the biggest downside to the touring is being away from his wife and two sons. “It’s the most difficult thing

in my life,” he says. “I try to bring them as much as I possibly can, but when I’m away it’s heartbreaking. It’s one of those things that I’ve never really been able to figure out, how to make it make sense and how to make it work. They’re always intertwined in everything that I sing about – you’ve got to take the good with the bad.”

1980. It was still a huge, influential band and we weren’t doing anything to celebrate it.” Live performance isn’t the only medium through which Hook has been revisiting the past. In 2009 he released a written account of his time co-owning Manchester’s legendary Haçienda venue, called How Not To Run A Club. Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division followed in 2013, and at present he’s working on a book covering his time in New Order. A release date is yet to be named, but Hook guarantees the book will illuminate the band’s uglier side. “I can tell the truth, because I’m not with them,” he says. “If you look at Bernard’s book – although I wouldn’t recommend it – he can’t really call anything on Stephen [Morris, drums] and Gillian [Gilbert,

synthesisers] because he’s still working with them. The best way to write a book about a group is when you’re no longer in the group. “Justice in this world is very hard to come by,” he adds. “We see bullies and we see powerful people taking advantage of nicer people all the way through. I’m just not going to have it. I’m not standing down; no chance, mate.”

DONAVON FRANKENREITER is appearing at Bluesfest from Thursday April 2 to Monday April 6 alongside The Black Keys, Zac Brown Band, Jurassic 5 and more. He’s also playing at The Corner Hotel on Friday April 10.

By Augustus Welby

Over the last half-decade, Peter Hook has been the subject of much scrutiny. To be sure, the former New Order and Joy Division bass player never postured as an innocuous character, but in recent years it’s his actions with the bass in hand that have stirred controversy. First, a bit of background: after Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis took his own life in 1980, the quartet’s remaining members ended the band and re-emerged as New Order. Then, after two and a half decades spent pushing the boundaries of new wave, synthpop and dance rock, New Order called it a day in 2006. Four years later, Hook kicked off a global tour that saw him perform Joy Division’s debut album Unknown Pleasures in full. This move provoked expressions of cynicism, not least of all from his ex-bandmates. However, Hook claims his intentions were neither malicious nor mercenary. “2010 was the 30th anniversary of the very sad demise of Ian and I felt that I wanted to celebrate his life,” he says. “I didn’t want to play a greatest hits set, because you felt that you were emulating the band. I am not Joy Division and I am not New Order. I’m just a member celebrating the music.” While it’s fair to say nostalgia helped out with ticket sales, what the tour made clear was that Hook and his band The Light had adeptly recaptured the spirit of the original songs. Inevitably, Hook’s success dismayed his erstwhile comrades, who soon rebooted New Order without him. “I started celebrating Joy Division,” says Hook, “which Bernard [Sumner, vocals] said was the reason that he reformed New Order – because I’d stolen Joy Division from him. Which isn’t true, because they’d already played Joy Division numbers in Bad Lieutenant. “The thing is, when they reformed as New Order without asking me, without telling me, without my permission – and put all the business ramifications in place – it was like being thrown out the marital home. They aren’t New Order, in my opinion. They’re masquerading as New Order and I think it’s a lie they’re living and it’s an insult to the fans.” The battle is ongoing. In fact, if you ask Hook, they “literally are at war.” Still, this hasn’t convinced him to BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 38

cease with the retro-activating world tours. After the success of the Unknown Pleasures retrospective, Hook moved along to Joy Division’s second and final album Closer. By 2013, he’d built enough momentum that he saw fit to grab hold of New Order’s first two LPs, Movement and Power, Corruption & Lies. This month, Hook returns to Australia, this time to showcase New Order’s third and fourth records, Low-Life and Brotherhood. “It was wonderful to get the New Order songs back again and treat them with the respect that they deserved,” he says. “It was interesting, because a lot of the songs you’ve not played for years, and I get these songs back and all of them are wonderful.” For the entirety of the band’s initial 13-year run (from 1980 until 1993), New Order didn’t touch anything from the Joy Division catalogue. Given its massively influential stature, this might’ve seemed an imprudent move. The centrepieces of Hook’s forthcoming tour – Low Life and Brotherhood – prove it wasn’t a detrimental decision, but one does wonder why such legendary material was left alone. “We had a meeting as Joy Division,” says Hook, “where, in true musketeer fashion, we said, ‘All for one, one for all; if any of us leave, we’ll split the band,’ which is what we did as Joy Division. We actually did make that same promise as New Order [laughs], but we seem to have forgotten that one. “That 100 per cent focus on the new material, on the new group, made New Order a huge international success,” he adds. “If we’d have been flirting with Joy Division, it would’ve confused it. It wouldn’t have worked. “[But] when New Order split in 2006, and I was on the outside looking in, I thought, ‘Hang on a minute, why did we never celebrate anything to do with Joy Division?’ Joy Division’s legacy and heritage was even more important in 2006 than when the band split up in

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PETER HOOK & The Light will be performing New Order’s Lowlife and Brotherhood albums on Friday February 20 at Melbourne Recital Centre’s Testing Grounds, as part of SummerSalt Outdoor Arts Festival. He’ll also play at the Corner Hotel on Saturday February 21.

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By Emily Kelly: ek1984@gmail.com So this weekend’s Soundwave has been made more confusing by recent revelations that there’ll be no public transport available in Melbourne. Apparently the Melbourne City Council are utilising all the PT they can to direct people into the city for the annual White Night Festival. The White Night Festival was rather massive last year, so resources are dedicated to getting everyone in and out of the city right throughout the night as the CBD-based funsies take place right until the sun rises. That’s shitty news for those needing to get to the Showgrounds. Pop Uber on your phone, or maybe pump up those bike tyres. There have been a couple of last minute withdrawals from Soundwave this week. UK rovers Rival Sons have withdrawn because one of the members has just had a kid and “We’ve found that taking our brother away from his wife and newborn so soon ultimately defies our personal ethics as a band.” Cute. Earlier last week, Evergreen Terrace withdrew due to injury. Drummer Brad Moxey had a 25ft fall from a ladder and busted his elbow real good. Unfortunately the drummer has no job prospects, no insurance, and a baby on the way, so you’re welcome to throw him a bone on a GoFundMe page the band’s set up. A Wilhelm Scream are coming back and they’re doing small headlining shows. One of the finest live punk acts of our time will arrive in May and play at The Evelyn Hotel on Friday May 1. Tickets are available now. Let’s fill this venue up and get rowdy. Luca Brasi have announced they’ll drop a sneaky 7” this March before their big ol’ Loose Threads tour with Gnarwolves and Tired Lion. The release contains three songs originally recorded for the By A Thread album and an acoustic reworking of Borders and Statelines featuring Craig from The Bennies. Naice. Don’t forget you can see the guys at Northcote Social Club on Saturday March 14 with the aforementioned supports as well as The Union Pacific. Wrangler Studios will also host an All Ages show with Rockenspiele on Sunday March 15. Miles Away have announced that Iron Mind, Apart From This, The Others and Sundial will support when they hit The Reverence on Saturday March 7. You can get to Wrangler Studios to catch an all ages gig with The Others, Born Free and Sundial. Guaranteed to be a nice time. Squeals of joy were heard country-wide last week when American Football announced their very first Australian tour for this July. SQUEEEE! See them with Birthmark at The Hi-Fi in Melbourne on Friday July 3. Tickets are available now and a recent reissue of their 1999 self-titled release is available now through Polyvinyl Records. Erica Freas (of RVIVR) will be coming back to the country next month to perform acoustically and bringing Hot Tears along for the ride (for the first time in Australia). Rad lineup and tidy little venues. See ‘em at Dane Certificate’s Magic Shop with Fear Like Us on Wednesday March 4.

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CORE GIG GUIDE Wednesday February 18: Slates, Speech Patterns, Initials at The Old Bar The Smith Street Band, Pup, Great Cynics, Apart From This at The Bridge Hotel Thursday February 19: Sydonia, Burn The Valley, Enemy Throttle at Next Slates, Ride The Tiger, Pitt The Elder at The Public Bar The Smith Street Band, Pup, Great Cynics, Apart From This at The Hi-Fi Dystopian, Headlopper, Kollaps, The Deathbed Playboy, Older Men, Employment at The Bendigo Sydonia, Between The Valleys, Enemy Throttle at Next Friday February 20: Lizard Punch, Strathmore, Brodown, Bulldog Radio at Bendigo Foley, Ebonie Hyland, Max Goes To Hollywood, Sun God Replica at The Loft, Warrnambool Lizzard Punch, Strathmore, Brodown, Bulldog Radio at The Bendigo Saturday February 21: Soundwave at Melbourne Showgrounds Daybreak, Del Lago, Coffin Wolf at The Old Bar Kings + Queens, Static Revenue, One Kingdom, Tears Of The Son, Circle Neptune, Avenues End at The Bendigo No! Not The Bees, Coastline, Autumn In Alaska at Bang Sunday February 22: Soundwave Festival at Melbourne Showgrounds Laura Palmer, Summerhill, Too Soon at The Old Bar The Ramshackle Army, Buck Jnr, Wolf Whistler at The Reverence Monday February 23: The Smashing Pumpkins at Festival Hall Millencolin, The Vandals, The Interrupters at The Hi-Fi Fear Factory, Exodus, Terror Universal at 170 Russel The Treatment at Cherry Bar Fucked Up at Ding Dong Lounge Of Mice and Men, Atreyu, The Devil Wears Prada at The Corner Hotel Tuesday February 24: Lamb Of God, Killer Be Killed at 170 Russel New Found Glory, Bayside, The Wonder Years at The Hi-Fi Soundgarden at Festival Hall Godsmack, Papa Roach, Nonpoint at The Forum Animals As Leaders at Ding Dong Lounge Derek Grant, Dan Cribb, Georgia Maq, Lincoln Le Fevre, Craig Coburn at The Bendigo Hotel Ministry, Godflesh at The Corner Hotel Mineral, Garret Klahn, Arrows at The Reverence Hotel

CHIHUAHUA ROCK

Chihuahua Rock is a benefit gig for Chihuahua Rescue Australia so they can save and re-home more little dogs with big personalities. The event takes place on Saturday February 21 at Mr Boogie Man Bar. Bands playing are Kill TV, Agents of Rock, Snark and MisSsta. 7pm start and $10 entry with all proceeds going to Chi rescue.

THE RETURN OF URIAH HEEP

Legendary rockers Uriah Heep return to Australia next month. They’re considered one of the ‘Big Four’ pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s along with Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, and guitarist Mick Box is a man of many talents and even more road stories. They’ve sold over 40 million albums to date and they were last here for their 40th Anniversary tour in 2011. Catch them at Shoppingtown Hotel on Saturday March 21 and Chelsea Heights on Sunday March 22. Tickets available now from metropolistouring.com.

CALIGUL A’S HORSE ADDED TO THE OCEAN TOUR

Caligula’s Horse have been added as national support for the Australian tour of Germany’s premier postmetal act, The Ocean this April. Brisbanites Caligula’s Horse completed a hugely successful Australian headline tour last month with their new video A Gift To Afterthought premiering with Revolver Magazine. They’ve also signed with Josh Kline from The Agency Group (Trivium, Bring Me The Horizon) for North America bookings, confirming an appearance at Prog Power Europe Festival in the Netherlands this October. They’re also releasing a new record later this year. Catch this tour at The Evelyn Hotel on Saturday April 18.

THE RADIO SUN RECORD FOOT Y ANTHEM

Melodic rockers The Radio Sun have recorded an anthem titled Never Knock A Believer inspired by their favourite AFL team, the Brisbane Lions. You can find the full story and song at lions.com.au. The Radio Sun will release a four-song mini EP on CD and digital in the coming weeks titled SpaceMan before releasing their second full-length album (currently being mixed by Paul Laine – ex. Danger Danger) due mid 2015.

THE HAUNTED & INSOMNIUM TOUR

There’s been a sharp influx of great tours coming to Australia in the last few years, but there has rarely been a bill featuring some of Melodic Death Metal’s finest on a double bill package. Patience has been greatly rewarded as two of the best in the genre - Sweden’s The Haunted and Finland’s Insomnium are teaming up for three very special shows in May. The Haunted (featuring Ola Englund, who also divides his time between Six Feet Under and Feared) is considered one of the benchmarks of the genre with a highly successful career spanning close to 20 years playing in front of millions all over the world. Insomnium have made themselves a household name among the melodic death metal legions, having redefined and reset the boundaries of the genre, and evolving constantly throughout their 18-year career. They are finally making their very first (and highly awaited) visit to Australia. They’ll be at The Hi-Fi on Friday May 15. Tickets are on sale now and VIP meet and greet tickets are also available for each band (separately).

GOATWHORE & PSYCROPTIC

The national Goatwhore/Psycroptic tour is rapidly approaching and tickets are still available. They’ll be supported by Aversion’s Crown on Friday March 13 at The Hi-Fi and at Karova Lounge in Ballarat on Sunday March 15, and then Whoretopsy at The Barwon Clyb in Geelong on Wednesday March 18 and at Wrangler Studios in Melbourne on Saturday March 21. Attendees to the latter two shows would be forgiven for screaming “Psychropticgoatwhoretopsy!” on public transport for the duration of their journey to the venues. Tickets available now, and Psyhcroptic will be released on Friday March 13 via EVP Recordings. They’ve also just released Cold, the second video from the album.

NEW NIGHTWISH SINGLE OUT NOW

Nightwish have just released Élan, the first single from their new album Endless Forms Most Beautiful, which will be out in late March. The video for Élan was shot in Finland at various locations between September and November 2014, directed by Ville Lipiäinen. Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen says “Inspired by the untold stories of abandoned places around Finland, the video was nearly a year in the making and features some of the most loved Finnish actors and actresses. The album is the first to feature new vocalist Floor Jansen (Revamp, ex-After Forever).

HARMONY

By Augustus Welby

Analogies are often made between bands and families or gangs. As is the case with both families and gangs, intra-band relationships aren’t always a bed of roses. Such cases of discord don’t necessarily mean total ruin is afoot, but it’s always comforting when the members of your favourite band appear to be a group of tight-knit comrades that share a special language. Melbourne band Harmony is the meeting of six musicians from a number of separate projects that cover myriad stylistic backgrounds. Accordingly, the band’s music involves an unlikely confluence of austere guitar, bass, drums, and lead vocals with three female backing vocalists singing in beautiful harmony. These contrasts could easily give way to toxic imbalance, but one of the band’s vocalists Amanda Roff (also of The Ukeladies and Time For Dreams) confirms that no such malaise afflicts them. “We actually love each other and love hanging out,” she says. “I don’t mean to brag for all those bands out there who hate each other’s guts, but we actually do adore each other’s company. I think there’s room for all sorts of relationships within bands. I’m sure there’s great music made by people who can’t fucking stand each other. It’s a different kind of relationship, but for quality of life it is great to love the company of the other people in your band. I certainly feel like I’m really lucky in that my best mates are my band mates. “Bands are never without tension and issues,” she adds, “but for Harmony, it works great. That makes touring really fun, recording really fun, playing shows really fun.”

It was bang on 12 months ago that Harmony released their second album Carpetbombing. The sextet kept busy through much of last year supporting the release, and now 2015 is set to be a quiet one. But before retreating from public view, there’s an appearance at Kyneton Music Festival penciled in. “I remember reading [the lineup] going, ‘Oh my God, it’s like the whole of Brunswick and Collingwood have moved to Kyneton’,” Roff says. “You’ll just be walking around in the streets of Kyneton seeing all these people you’re used to seeing down the pub in Melbourne.” Like cigarettes and ice cream, or a beer in the shower, on both Carpetbombing and 2011’s self-titled LP, the band’s various elements combine to masterful effect. It’s a fairly delicate balance, though, so in a live setting there’s a risk of things getting lost in the mix. The festival stage works as a buffer against this danger. “One thing about the sound is it’s expansive,” Roff says, “so it does have the capacity to really spread out and that works in a festival setting. Our mixer John Watson is a bit of a wizard and it’s great to see him get on a really big PA.” The bigger-than-usual stage size is also beneficial:

“[With] six people in the band, it’s nice for the backup singers to be away from the drums and bass. On your Tote-size stage with the band all crammed together, it’s kind of a war between the loud atonal instruments of the band and the precise harmonies of the backing singers. When you’re trying to hear each other and sing harmonies and there’s this crazy massive cymbal behind you and John [Chapple] leaping around doing his athletic bass-playing, it can be a bit of a squeeze.” Harmony’s records have a markedly tragic air and at times the songs start to resemble elegiac hymns. With this in mind, performing while the sun shines could provide a curious complement to the band’s music. Roff ponders what Harmony’s ideal gig location might be. “I’d like Harmony to be in some sort of epic outdoor setting,” she says. “If you’re familiar with Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, that would be probably my ideal sort of vibe. But not Pompeii, somewhere in Greece. Probably Crete, and maybe the Minoan ruins at Knossos or somewhere like that. Some sort of epic ancient amphitheatre on an island.” Crete might have to wait, because after Kyneton the band’s various digits will move their energies elsewhere. Letting Harmony slip down the list of priorities for a time is healthy, says Roff. “It’s working out well that everybody has different things to concentrate on. I feel like, with music, the

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more you play the more inspired you are. I don’t get burnt out by being in a bunch of bands, I get more inspiration and more energy.” However, as a vocalist, Roff takes a unique pleasure out of performing with Harmony: “It is great when Harmony’s in form and playing a lot of shows, I notice that my lungs are in incredible shape, because I’m wailing. Whereas in my other bands I sing quite softly, Harmony’s all about actual diaphragm exercising – power singing. It’s so cathartic to sing like that. I get a bit of a high from it. I get an endorphin high from singing really hard.” Roff ’s endorphins mightn’t be lying dormant for too long, as a third Harmony album is already being discussed. In fact, it looks like songwriting may have just commenced. “I believe the seed has been planted,” she says. “I’m not sure, neither am I at liberty to say what has occurred so far. Tom [Lyngcoln, guitar/vocals] and Alex [Kastaniotis, drums] – who are the cornerstones of the band musically – I think there’s starting to be bubbling sounds from the cauldron.” HARMONY are playing the Kyneton Music Festival on Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22. Harmony is out through Casadeldisco Records. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 39

Q&A

Bushido

What’s been happening with you guys, musically speaking? The band has been in hibernation for five years. We’re just getting things back to a point where we’re ready to play shows again. Lots of new music on the go with hopes to record an EP soon. Rock The Bay 2015 is shaping up to be pretty damn impressive. Who should punters check out on the day? I don’t think there’s a bad band on the bill so all of them. Rook and Hinge will be fantastic to see again and Silt would have to be an exciting new prospect. Rook and Hinge have unexpectedly reformed for Rock The Bay. Got any crazy tour stories about these guys you can share? I always remember one of our crew, let’s call him ’Donny’, driving bushido and rook to Adelaide as high as a kite and the Rook lads terrified in the back of the van. That same trip we stopped for a wiz in the middle of nowhere, as I began to pee I realised I was pissing on a $50 note. Tell us why we should get down to Rock The Bay 2015. Awesome bands all day long at the best venue in the country. Where else can you watch a band, go for a skinny dip and a kebab and be back in time for the next band? Catch BUSHIDO at Rock The Bay on Saturday March 21 at The Espy.

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all three genres is obvious. Timeless jazz and blues standards are transformed by dynamic solos, warm soulful vocals and foot-tapping, hip-swingin’ rhythms. They make you want to get out of your seat, pour your inhibitions into a whiskey and soda, and swing your hips to some soul shaking. Catch them this Wednesday February 18 at Ruby’s Music Room from 8.30pm.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18

BONEY TRIVIA NIGHT

Melbourne’s zaniest, most irreverent mid week trivia night is back this Wednesday February 18 from 6pm at Boney. Falling behind? You can still buy Hot Shots to get you back into the game. Feel like a bonus point? Just yell at him until he gives in. Think he got something wrong? Sorry ’bout that but what Max Factoid says, goes. Test your knowledge against friends, co-workers and strangers and win vouchers, prizes, and bragging rights. Did we mention that its free?

MELBOURNE FOLK CLUB

Gracing the Melbourne Folk Club stage this week is Machine Translations, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist J.Walker. Machine Translations’ music falls happily between the musical chairs of pop and art, incorporates guitar rock, eastern instruments, fragmented loops and sing-along choruses. Having previously toured America and Europe, and supporting acts such as Spoon, Mogwai and Cat Power, Machine Translations have been recognized as one of Australia’s most original acts. This week sees them at the Bella Union in Carlton, Wednesday February 18. Support comes from Broads. Tickets are $20 at the door, doors open 7.30pm.

KASHMERE CLUB

Melbourne indie rockers Kashmere Club are continuing their residency at Cherry Bar this week, playing every Wednesday throughout February. Support this week comes from Dr Collossus and The Fire Alive, with DJ Mermaid playing it out ’til 3am. Doors open 6pm with $5 entry. Music from 8.30pm.

ZOE K

Who said the holidays were over? They’re still kicking as long as you get your arse down to The Retreat every Wednesday in February. Zoe K and her full band featuring Will Gijsbers, Tim Burnham and David Adams will be playing with your ear holes and guess what, for free. Catch Zoe K and her band along with special guests every Wednesday night in Februaury at The Retreat Hotel. Entry is free, show starts at 8pm.

SLATES

Canada’s finest downstroke warlords, Slates, bring the party to Melbourne this February for two shows only. Wednesday night at The Old Bar with Speech Patterns and Initials and Thursday at The Public Bar with Ride The Tiger and Pitt The Elder. Both shows start at 8.30pm and both are $10. You don’t want to miss this.

RUBY AND THE CRYSTAL SET

Fronted by soulful blues and jazz singer, Melinda Traves, Ruby and the Crystal Set describe themselves as a band who “find the blues in jazz, the jazz in soul and the soul in blues”. It’s hard to disagree with this when you hear them performing – their deep connection to

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19

AIMEE VOLKOFSKY THE MOLOTOVS

Aimee Volkofsky & The Molotovs are taking over Yah Yah’s every Thursday night this February. Hailing from Bourke, Broken Hill, Bendigo, Melbourne and Newborough, Aimee Volkofsky & the Molotovs sing tales of murder and magic and cannibal love. Support comes from Griya and Stellafauna. Music kicks off from 8.30pm to 11pm, and Cherry DJ’s till 3am. Free fucking entry.

CODA CONDUCT

After the release of their cheeky cover of Seth Sentry’s The Waitress Song, hip hop duo Coda Conduct are making their debut appearance at Laundry Bar on Thursday February 19 with their Straight To The Pool Room show. Playing with them on the night are Crowned Cartel, Dazed, Lucas Miller, Seeka and DJ Dlect. Doors open from 6pm, with $10 entry.

TOM DOCKRAY

Tom Dockray, the greatest old-time picker from Tasmania via Brunswick in the world, took his blues and traditional stylings across the big Pacific in 2014, successfully touring his spiritual home in the American Deep South. Closer to home he’s been mesmerising crowds across the nation with his swagger, syrupy vocals and picking aesthetic of a true purist. With critically-acclaimed EP Iron Suit under his belt, strong radio airplay, and a growing base of dedicated fans, Dockray is surely one to keep an eye on. He performs a free entry show this Thursday February 19 at the Retreat Hotel, 8.30pm onwards.

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THE SMITH STREET BAND

Making their debut into the triple j’s Hottest 100 on Australia Day at #69 with much loved single Surrender, The Smith Street Band have followed up with the announcement of a third and final Melbourne show to their Get High, See Everyone tour. Melbourne will see the addition of another Hi-Fi show on Thursday, February 19 in what will serve as the band’s last Melbourne show before heading to North America and Europe. Tickets are $35.50 available through the venue’s website.

LANIE LANE

MANDY CONNELL

In whats set to be her finest live show, stunning songwriter Lanie Lane is playing at The Gasometer on Thursday 19 February as part of Collingwood Open, a brand new summer music series that will see some huge acts playing to a reduced capacity in The Gaso’s unique, open-air space. With Lane set to go on at dusk, punters will have the opportunity to watch her up close and personal, with the open sky as a ceiling. It’s the perfect way to spend a summer’s evening. Tickets are $22+bf or $26 on the door.

Mandy Connell’s presence springs from her love of folk. Now fronting the Stray Hens, she’s an award-winning songwriter and revered for her interpretations of other artist’s compositions as well as her own. One of Australia’s finest, she’s a solo performer you need to see. Support comes from singer/songwriter Tom Ciccone on his first solo tour in Australia. Catch both performers at The Drunken Poet on Thursday February 19 from 8pm.

HOLY LOTUS AND MAGIC HANDS

DIGGIN THE SLOWNESS

A slow dance party for lovers of rocksteady and sweet soul. Resident DJ’s Miss Goldie, Daniel Harvey and Dave Wickerson are serving up rare 45 platters, guaranteed to make you glide, sway or slow dance across the floor. Dimly lit with projections on the wall, in the cozy back room at Loop Bar. Small, intimate and all about the music. Free entry, 8pm ’till late. It all goes down Friday February 20.

Holy Lotus and Magic Hands team up for a double headliner at The Catfish this Thursday February 19. Easy-going electronic pop from Magic Hands matched with lo-fi dreamy jams from Holy Lotus makes for a beautiful time. Free entry 8pm upstairs with visual art. Bliss bro, bliss.

BEC GORING AND THE ELWOOD WINTERS

Somewhere wandering the streets of Brunswick is a jazz guitar student with a baby face, a ’what you lookin’ at mate’ haircut and chops any young muso would die for. She hails from the Surf Coast, but her recent migration has seen her popping up on bills around Melbourne and overseas. Soulful vocals backed by a never-ending bag of blues infused riffery, eloquent harmonies whilst maintaining a striking contrast among songs. Backed by The Elwood Winters, a trio with equally as much grunt and talent, Bec swings between songs alluding to relationships, adversity, and all the important stuff that keeps the world going round. Check ’em out, 9.20pm at The Retreat Hotel this Thursday February 19.

LITTLE BASTARD

Little Bastard have hit the road this summer for a run of headline shows in support of their new single and video clip, Desert Roller. The single is taken from their critically acclaimed selftitled debut, which also picked up a nomination at the 2014 AIR Awards for Best Independent Blues and Roots Album. The series of shows will mark their last jaunt before they head back into the studio to work on their next record. Catch ’em this Thursday February 19 at Northcote Social Club. Doors open 7.30pm, tickets are $12+BF from the venue’s website or on door if available.

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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20

LIZARD PUNCH The boys from Lizard Punch are hitting up The Bendigo Hotel for their Space Junk single launch. Space Junk is the first single from Lizard Punch’s forthcoming sophomore album, telling the tale of a lonely astronaut pining for the touch of a woman while on a solo mission. Exploring zero gravity, self satisfaction and Star Wars, Space Junk is fast, humorous and melodic, a perfect introduction to Lizard Punch. Joining the boys at The Bendigo this Friday are Strathmore, Brodown and Bulldog Radio. Doors open 8.30pm, $10 entry.

SOUL CUPCAKE

Melbourne-based soul-funk tenpiece Soul Cupcake are releasing their brand spankin’ debut album entitled Now! To celebrate, they’re playing a set full of songs from the album which features smokin’ originals as well as your favourite soul-funk covers at The Spotted Mallard on Friday February 20. Tickets are $7.50+BF presale or $10 on the door if available. Punters can buy the album for $20 and be granted free entry to the launch. Support comes from The Immortal Horns. Get set to dance and enjoy a night to remember.

PUGSLEY BUZZARD TRIO

Pugsley Buzzard is a piano player and singer with a distinctive sound. His shows are exciting and captivating, his mesmerizing voice and dazzling piano playing all delivered with a vaudevillian nuance and humour. Pugsley’s music spans the entire spectrum from dark hoodoo blues musings to good time rollicking boogie fuelled piano romps that never fail to get people stompin’ and shakin’ that thang. Catch the Trio this Friday February 20 at Ruby’s Music Room from 7pm.

60 Seconds with…

Psychic Sun

So then, what’s the band name and what do you ’do’ in the band? Psychic Sun. I’m Mitch and I play guitar and sing. What do you reckon people will say you sound like? I’ve heard some say a cross between Queens Of The Stone Age and The Velvet Underground. Probably the best description though has been a mix of psych, ’60s garage and stoner rock. What do you love about making music? Freedom. Volume. Continually pushing yourself to be better at what you do. What do you hate about the music industry? That you either have to be a novelty or a disaster. Anything to make talk around the water coolers. It’s a pity you just can’t have a good song and that’s it. What can a punter expect from your live show? Big grooves mixed with great tunes, trippy jams and a lot of fuzz. We have fun. PSYCHIC SUN are playing at The Brunswick Hotel on Saturday February 21 with Triumph Over Logic, Fast Handsome and Automatic, Everywhere.

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You & Your Friends

Define your genre in five words or less: Salt and pepper garage. So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? I have this sensation in the side of my face, as if it were slapped with a huge fish. An exotic, evocative, musically magnificent fish, if such a fish could exist. What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? At a single launch last year we had a packed house and a pretty loose crowd. I got to literally kick this dude off the stage into his mates which was kind of a tick on the gigging bucket list. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? Watching incredible musicians. When you see something that just blows your mind it inspires to push yourself and lift as a musician and as a group. Why should everyone come and see your band? Because we’re really, really good. No shit. YOU & YOUR FRIENDS are playing at The Brunswick Hotel on Thursday February 26.

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KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL

The third annual Kyneton Music Festival goes down this Friday February 20 and Saturday February 21, blending its relaxed country town setting with an amazingly talented and diverse lineup of artists. The lineup boasts a huge list of acts, including Harmony, Laura Jean, Money for Rope, Little Bastard, Tully on Tully and Cherrywood. You can use your internet wizardry and check the full lineup online.

FLAWLESS QUEER PARTY

On Friday night we will fall in love and lose our senses. Spinning through the town in what we can only imagine is some kind of fluorescent spandex, there will be a fever burning between us honey, that burns and burns and burns, hot enough to last. And when that night falls. No lonely-hearts call, because together we stand underneath the moonlight, with the flyest queer honeyz this city has to call home. This is the last time they’ll be hosting Flawless on the regular, so this is a formal invitation to take full advantage of The Gasometer on Saturday February 20, with Whiskey Houston, Yo! M.A.F.I.A. and Ms Butt plus Bey Dance. $12 on the door, doors from 8pm.

Juke Box Racket are a niche three-piece ’50s and ’60s rock’n’roll band putting their own stamp on the classics, with all the energy and enthusiasm from the heydays of The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and so much more. With this trio you can expect an energetic, crowd-engaging performance always ensuring the entire room of all ages is up singing, dancing and twisting the night away. Don’t miss Juke Box Racket performing at The Catfish this Friday February 20. Free entry.

and District Champion, FSB rip through a 13-song explosion on the new album that gives meaning to the term pop-stirrers. They’re playing The Yarra Hotel on Friday February 20 with Ted Stroker and The Scouts and The Post Office Hotel on Saturday February 21.

headlining this week are Midnight Woolf and The Kave Inns. Come down for the Kraken cocktails, stay for the great music. Tickets are $5, music from 8pm.

JULES SHELDON

While bandmate Meg Butler is on maternity leave, Laura Macfarlane and Cameron Potts from Ninetynine will be playing a rare show as a duo this Friday February 20 at The Retreat Hotel. There’ll be some new tracks played, along with songs taken from their extensive ten year back catalogue. Don’t miss your chance to see Ninetynine in this unique duo performance. They hit the stage 10.30pm, entry is free.

NINETYNINE

DANNY FERNANDES

Canadian pop sensation Danny Fernandes will be performing live for the first time in Australia this Friday February 20, exclusively at The Prince Bandroom. The platinum selling artist who has shared the stage with the likes of Bruno Mars, Flo Rida, and Akon will bring his repertoire of high-energy, chart topping singles for his #GOtour performance in Melbourne. Supporting him will be local diva Dominique. Doors open 9pm, tickets are $23.50+BF.

FOREVER SINCE BREAKFAST

Forever Since Breakfast play their first two gigs in Melbourne this weekend to launch and promote their new album Right Time Burning. From NSW and featuring members from Muzzy Pep, The Great Dividing Range, The Stiffies

Bursting onto the live scene in very late 2007, Primary frontman Jules Sheldon has decided to do some solo gigs after almost a year away from the acoustic. Currently grumbling about how he hates folk music, the washed up exchild star extraordinaire played his first gigs when he was 15 years old and was soon taken under the wings of Spencer P. Jones (Beasts Of Bourbon, Johnny’s) and Brian Henry Hooper (Beasts Of Bourbon, Rowland S. Howard), leading to the 2010 Jules Sheldon LP. Since then Jules has played on bills with the likes of Tim Rogers, Abbe May, Conway Savage and Charles Jenkins. Catch his free entry show from 9.30pm, this Friday February 20 at The Retreat Hotel.

LUWOW KRAKEN STOMP SERIES

The LuWow’s Kraken Stomp series is back for 2015, making Fridays in February worthwhile. Already featuring the much talked about talents of The Tarantinos and The Reprobettes,

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NICO GHOST

Fresh from his appearance at Beyond The Valley, local hip hop artist Nico Ghost is two shows down so far in his month-long residency at Laundry Bar. The residency follows the release of Ghost’s debut single Coolin, produced by LA native GXNXVS. Born in South Africa and currently residing in Melbourne, Ghost states he is inspired by the “intergalactic tunes from Kid Cudi, storytelling of Snoop Dogg, and the smooth jams of Lionel Richie.” Nico Ghost will perform at Laundry Bar each Friday in February. Free entry, music from 9pm.

VINCE PEACH

Every Friday night throughout February PBS legends Vince Peach, Jack Sparrow & Joel Hamlin will be DJ’ing in the Front Bar of The Reverence Hotel from 8.30pm till midnight. You’re in for a real treat and best of all it’s free. Get down to The Rev for a delicious meal and even more delicious cold beverages and soak up the last warm nights of summer.

DISCO ABYSS

Disco Abyss is a decadent, surreal adventure into the depths of your wildest dreams. On stage you’ll find some of Melbourne’s finest in subversive, gender bent performance, including Agent Cleave, Dandrogyny, Jess Daly and Raven. All the while the dance floor is yours, set to banging sounds from local DJs including Graves, Giacomo Marrone, Broke Powers and the Thursgay DJs. Hosted by Karen from Finance, Disco Abyss is an open space for all kooks, where the dress code is inhibited only by your imagination. Entry is $10 from 9pm, $15 after midnight.

THE SUNDAY REEDS

The Sunday Reeds launch their video for Jean-Luc at Old Bar on Friday February 20. They will be debuting a new lineup ( John Birrell on snare and tom) and new material along with tracks from their EP Amour Tragique before they head off to play some interstate shows. Joining them will be very special guests Luna Ghost, The Bleeding Flares and Girl Crazy. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21

BISCOTTI

Melbourne-based beat producer Biscotti is launching her second self-produced EP in The Grace Darling Basement this Friday the February 20. Displaying her prowess and expanding skills as a composer producer she unfolds rich dark sounds with themes that explore gender, identity and other worldly places. Supports for the evening include Neon Radio and Orlando Furious and Mollusc. $8 on the door, doors from 9pm.

The triumphant live return of everybody’s fave voodoo-spy rollers, The Stu Thomas Paradox in full 3D, and on fire. Yes, it’s the glorious full band back in the limelight at the ever-smokin’ Tago Mago. Featuring the Reclining Rocker himself Stu Thomas in person! Plus the golden tones of Billy Miller, the delicious beats of Phil Collings, and the slippery genius that is Eduardo Miller on bass. There’s also a fine support in Winter Sun, featuring Angela Howard and Rob Wellington. 9pm start. Free entry. Miss this at your own peril.

Local tunesmith Andrew Swift is performing a host of shows across Melbourne and Adelaide throughout February and March, alongside the release of his new single Sound The Alarm. Swift has already hit the ground running in 2015, performing at Tamworth Country Music Festival. Now, he continues what should be a year of impressive shows. Andrew Swift plays at The Reverence Hotel Saturday February 21. Entry is $6, doors open 8pm.

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French solo musician Saphy Vong is bringing his LAFIDKI brainchild of abstract electronics, noise and sequenced multi-layered rhythms to The Retreat Hotel for a huge night out this Saturday February 21. Playing live for him is always an experiment within the situation of spontaneous thinking and decision-making through the energy of people and space. As a sound and visual artist, LAFIDKI has played alone and in collaboration at Seoul, Helsinki, Bangkok and St Petersburg, and is finally bringing the show to Melbourne audiences. He hits the stage at 8.30pm, entry is free.

It’s a power pop explosion as two great guitar bands with pop overtones take over the coolest little club in the South. Little Murders are still gathering great reviews for their latest album GO and The Stoneage Hearts are about to drop their album onto the public. Get down to the Lyrebird Lounge this Saturday February 21 from 9pm. $5 entry.

PAPA G & THE STARCATS

After dropping their debut single only, Melbourne funk and neo-soul legends Papa G & The Starcats locked in a launch party at Ding Dong this Saturday February 21 for their debut EP. Get ready to dance like nobody’s watching, drink like hangovers don’t exist, and go wild on one of the craziest night of the year in the Melbourne CBD: White Night. Joining them on the night are The Fabric and instrumental hip hop mash-up artist 30/70. Doors open 9pm, get your presale tickets for $8+BF from the venue or on the door if available.

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Papa G and the Starcats

Hey! Who are we chatting with and what do you do in Papa G and The Starcats? I’m Giorgio, and I’m Papa G/the band-leader/ guitarist. Can you tell us about the music you make? What makes you stand out from the crowd? We’re influenced by old-school soul, Marvin Gaye, Melbourne dudes Hiatus Kaiyote and Saskwatch, Latin music, and bands off the Daptone label from New York. Tell us about your debut EP Smooth Lovin’ and your launch party at Ding Dong. Why should we get there? Smooth Lovin’ has been our baby for around eight months, now. We recorded it in June last year, but university got really hectic every time we went to start organising a launch. It’s gonna be one hell of a party, and we’re gonna make sure you boogie like you’ve never boogied before. PAPA G AND THE STARCATS launch their EP at Ding Dong on Saturday February 21.

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PSYCHIC SUN

MADELEINE DUKE

Local singer/songwriter Madeleine Duke is launching her first single A Drunken Bee at Some Velvet Morning, this Saturday February 21. Madeleine has quickly made a name for herself, winning the 2014 Darebin Music Fest Songwriters’ Award and touring with the likes of The Finks, Courtney Barnett and Merri Creek Pickers. Now with her first single almost here, Duke is celebrating with a free gig at Some Velvet Morning, supported by Oliver Mestitz of The Finks. 8pm start.

MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB

The Natural Culture is an Australian seven-piece original funk, reggae and world music band with an infectious energy and passion. Founded in 2010, TNC aims to excite and inspire listeners nationally and internationally with their high-energy, funky and soulful performances. They perform a vibrant set of original funk, soul, reggae and world music tunes for both young and old, in the hope to plant a musical and social seed of sustainability and compassion for our Planet Earth. With funky horn riffs, soulful vocals and a mixture of reggae and jazz beats, TNC have a vibrant, infectious sound that defies even the stiffest of hips to stay still. Don’t miss them at Ruby’s Music Room this Sunday February 21 from 8.30pm. $20 entry.

EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR

Laura Palmer finish up their Sunday evening residency at The Old Bar with Summerhill and Too Soon on February 22. Free entry, Sunday at 7pm, $10 jugs of Unicorn Lager all night. What more do you want?

Moosejaw Rifle Club are a four-piece folk/country/ bluegrass band from Melbourne, with layered four part harmonies and hooks galore. Inspired by the likes of the Old Crow Medicine Show, the Moosejaw Rifle Club have firmly set their reputation for fun loving, good time music on their own terms. Their set moves between country ballads and rollicking foot stompers. Their sound starts at country, but stops all stations including blues, bluegrass, folk, gospel and rock. They play a free show at The Drunken Poet this Saturday February 21 from 9pm.

This Saturday night is White Night in the CBD and shit’s happening everywhere at all times. So Public Bar thought they’d jump on board and put on a dynamite late night show for all you wanderers and night owls. Starting at 10pm and going until 4am East Brunswick All Girls Choir, Golden Girls, Orlando Furious and Plyers all for $5.

TED STROKER

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22

Born to enormous wealth and sophistication from a very early age, Stroker’s father wanted him to go to the wars, like he and his father before him. His mother wanted him to be a Priest, a man of the cloth. But no. Ted Stroker: International playboy, the masked bedroom bandit, man of the trunk, whose loins are screaming for satisfaction chose another weapon – the guitar. He’s hitting up The Post Office Hotel on Saturday February 21.

PROGNOSIS

This Saturday February 21, Prognosis at Loop will be a safe haven for all you prog and tech heads. Headlining are genre kingpins Luke Porter and Soulfire – previously both UK-based, the boys now call Melbourne home – which is kind of lucky for us because it means we get to see them a whole heap more. Support comes in the form of three hugely talented and in demand local artists FLIP3K, Damir Smith and Jade May. Each bringing their unique styles to the decks, audiences are sure to be in for a treat. Rounding things off is J-Slyde and Aaron Static, with screen handling of Loop’s two 30ft screens by our resident visual maestro, vdmo Kstati. Doors open 8pm ’til late, with free entry.

HOLY MOSES HEARTACHE

Holy Moses Heartache are a bunch of drinking buddies that decided to write songs, a perfect fit for Rainbow Hotel’s stage. They describe their music as awesome - others would most likely say it’s folksy. They like Pina Coladas, getting caught in the rain and long walks on the beach. The members of Holy Moses Heartache are relatively unhealthy but generally good company. Supporting them are friends The Bastard Children. They perform this Saturday February 21 at the Rainbow Hotel from 9pm. Free entry.

THE NATURAL CULTURE

Sydney fuzz rockers Psychic Sun have just released their long-awaited debut album Rising Suns And Fallen Angels. Recorded over the past year, the band embodied the DIY ethic by engineering, producing and mixing the record themselves. The result is 12 powerful tracks that blend supercharged grit and dirt with ambient, psychedelic textures. So far the album featured on a variety of Australian radio stations, and has been well received on blogs such as Deadwrong in Germany and Recyclable Sounds in Russia, leading to a worldwide digital distribution deal with Scandinavian rock label Transubstans Records. Don’t miss Psychic Sun when they take over the Brunswick Hotel on Saturday February 21 with Triumph Over Logic, Fast Handsome and Automatic, Everywhere.

HINDS

Making their first visit outside of Europe, Hinds (formerly Deers) are here for their debut Australian tour, playing shows in Brisbane and Sydney before settling down to Melbourne’s John Curtin Hotel this Sunday February 22. Gone are the days of releasing lo-fi demos through Soundcloud, Hinds are now busy making raw garage pop spiced with sickly sweet sounds, obsessing over young lust and teenage mischief. $18+BF. John Curtin. 8pm.

MARCH

S:BAHN

Melbourne ex-boy band S:BAHN take to the Northcote Social Club stage for the last time ever to perform a selection of the indie rock anthems that they made their name with in the ’90s. S:BAHN promise strings will be broken and blood will be shed, and there is no doubt that at the end of the night the band will once again go its separate ways. Joining them on Monday February 23 for a special Monday Night Mass presentation will be Freak Wave and Kids of Zoo. Doors open 6pm with free entry.

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THE LOVE BOMBS

The Love Bombs will be bringing their fiery brand of rock’n’roll back to Cherry Bar this Saturday February 21. Kickin’ off the night is garage rock trio Honeybone, followed by River of Snakes, who recently took out The Mermaid Award at this year’s Cherry Awards. DJ Mermaid will also be keeping the place spinnin’ till 5am. It’s going to be a massive night, so make sure head down. It’s an easy $13, with doors from 8pm. BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 44

The Retreat and Collingwood Draft are combining to bring you The Retreat Sundays Summer Of Soul. It all kicks off with DJ Vince Peach in Brunswick’s favourite beer garden at The Retreat. As the sun slips from the sky, Melbourne’s soul siren Kylie Auldist & The Glenroy Allstars will take to the main stage. There’ll also be a smoking BBQ and Collingwood Draft giveaways. Get down this Sunday February 22. Free entry from 2pm onwards.

KINGSWOOD

Those wild kids over in the Kingswood camp sure know how to rock the fuck out of a venue. This time around, they’ll be hitting up The Forum on Friday March 13, showcasing tracks off their massive debut album, Microscopic Wars. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.

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THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY

The band will play two Melbourne shows, including an all ages show on Labour Day. Catch Clowns at The Bendigo Hotel on Friday March 6 and Monday March 9. Joining them for the tour will be special guests American Sharks.

FEBRUARY

Staples of the local music scene The Ramshackle Army are heading down to one of their favourite venues, The Reverence Hotel for a series of sunny Sunday sessions across February. Joining them are a never-ending rotating door of Melbourne musos and singer/ songwriters. Music starts 3pm with free entry. Support this week comes from Buck Jnr and Wolf Whistler.

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RETREAT SUNDAYS SUMMER OF SOUL

LOOKING FORWARD

Melbourne’s only regular inner city record fair, Crate Digger Record Fair returns to its home at Brunswick Street’s Bar Open on Saturday February 28. With stalls both upstairs and down, regulars to the fair can find many of the usual suspect stallholders, as well as some new crew coming onboard for the first time. Half of the stallholders are selling from private collections, so there won’t be many John Denver, Kamahl or Jim Nabors records kicking around just stuff you actually want to buy. Plan an outing for yourself, your lover, your family and come on down to search for some new additions to your growing record collection - or make this the day that you get started – at Bar Open’s Crate Digger Record Fair. Free entry from 12pm-5pm.

BENNY C & THE ASSOCIATES

Hailing from Adelaide, Benny C & the Associates have recently returned from Nashville with their newly mixed debut album in hand, to be released later this year. To celebrate, they’ve gone out and booked in a gig at Cherry Bar. Benny C & the Associates combine the thump of true blues with an eclectic mix of influences from funk to folk. Fronted by the dynamic Benny ’C’ Cunningham who’s vocal tone is straight from the pages of BB King, Hendrix and Rick James, the vocals brings passion, lyrical honesty and intimacy to every performance. Music starts 3pm, with $10 entry.

THE HUNTED CROWS

The Hunted Crows could easily be mistaken for a 20-piece bassoon ensemble. But they’re not. They’re a two-piece straight outta Melbourne featuring heavy sweet riffs, groovin’ beats and catchy vocals to boot. The Hunted Crows will bring their musical stylings every damn Tuesday in February to Cherry Bar, this week bringing along Two Headed Dog and Evil Twin to support, with DJ Mermaid playing it out till 5am. Doors open 6pm. Free entry.

THE POST OFFICE HOTEL FIFTH BIRTHDAY

Gosh, they grow up so fast, don’t they? On Sunday March 5, the Post Office Hotel in Coburg is turning five. Naaaaw. To celebrate this milestone occasion, they’re throwing an all day bash, full of spectacular food and a range of live music. Part of Melbourne’s Food and Wine Festival, the backyard banquet promises the best produce from local butchers, with a range of tasty, seasonal side dishes for various diets. Mick Dog’s Bone Yard, La Bastard and Spoonful are ready to hit the front bar stage, with DJ’s O-Train, Oritone and SJ Christmas spinning tracks on the deck out back. All day unlimited dining for $40, kids $20. Get down there and check it out.

CLOWNS

Melbourne’s favourite flame-throwing scallywags Clowns are embarking on a national tour to celebrate their forthcoming album, Bad Blood.

Arthur Penn & The Funky Ten are embracing the new year by throwing a month long party at The Gasometer Hotel throughout February. Every Tuesday night you’ll be able to catch the 11-piece aviation-themed theatrical funk ensemble doing what they do best. They’re starting to make a name for themselves as an explosive high energy act filled with a tight rhythm section, punchy horn lines, diverse harmonies and very questionable choreography. Joining them on Tuesday February 24 are Thando and Quantum Milkshake. $7 entry, doors from 8pm.

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DEAN RAY

Melbourne’s phenomenal singer/ songwriter Dean Ray has locked in a special hometown show in March. Ray shot to fame after he placed second on X-Factor last year. Since then, he has released his self-titled debut album and has been booked as the support act for The Veronicas’ Australian tour this month. Dean Ray will perform at The Corner Hotel on Sunday March 15. Tickets are available through The Corner website.

ROCK THE BAY

Rock The Bay returns to The Espy on Saturday March 21. Now in its seventh year, the popular music festival will feature 40 bands across four stages ranging from stoner rock to prog rock. The 2015 lineup has something special in store – two popular disbanded Melbourne acts, Rook and Hinge, will both be reforming for special one-off performances. Joining Rook and Hinge are Bushido are Palace Of The King, Don Fernando, Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene, Chaos Divine (WA), Mushroom Giant, Greenthief, Arcane Saints, Hailmary and heaps more.

THE RAINBOW HOTEL’S

BEER OF THE WEEK Hargreaves Hill ESB Brewed out in the Yarra Valley at the new brewery (the old one burned down in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires) this is a New World take on a traditional English style. It has a toffee-like malt body shot through with passionfruit and a healthy whack of hop bitterness to finish. Truly an Extra Special Bitter.

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For more reviews go to beat.com.au/reviews J MASCIS Melbourne Recital Centre, Friday February 13 Photo by Emily Day

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It’s a very moody Friday evening as I pissbolt down St Kilda Road, the lightning a’smashin and the thunder a’roarin, racing towards the Melbourne Recital Centre preparing for a guitar fuelled foray with undisputed legend J Mascis. First up is the ever-talented Adalita. Her voice is powerful, reverberating around the theatre with many a track from her recent album, All Day Venus, channelling the rock atmospheric. Three songs in and Trust is Rust leaves me reeling as I’m dealt a hefty drop kick straight in the feels from her stripped back sound and passionate ballads. It’s Cat Powers sprinkled and Janis Joplin flavoured, equating to quite the tasty treat of a warm up. By the end of the interval, the audience has doubled in size and a younger crowd, the type who own socks hand tie-dyed by blind hipsters in Fitzroy, have joined the devotees. There’s a restless atmosphere and with the slightly erratic screams of “I LOVE YOU J,” from a chap in row G, one thing becomes very clear: everyone is hungry to see J Mascis. After a predictably brief introduction in his Massachusetts drawl, he picks up his Fender and launches into Listen To Me from his 2011 solo debut, Several Shades of Why. Mascis is relaxed to the point of nonchalant and it’s obvious his battered and worn guitar is more like an old friend than an instrument. He knows his way around it with his eyes closed, fingers dancing up and down the neck seamlessly. Me Again is the first venture he makes into his newest EP, Tied To A Star along with Wide Awake and Every Morning, all of which are received enthusiastically by the crowd. Showing outrageous precision and a crazed love for his distortion pedal, J Mascis and The Fog get an airing with Ammaring, channeling a wilder, more vivid version of Eddie Vedder. With some extreme excess wattage at his finger picking tips, the tempo of his songs changes quickly and violently. They flip from soft vocals and controlled strumming that draws the viewer in, to heavy distortion and phaser pedal play, creating a heavy psychedelic sound that leaves everyone in rapture. As he plays Heal The Star and Listen To Me it is apparent that the bloke in row G hasn’t taken his head out of his hands for 20 minutes now. Dinosaur Jr. fans were not left disappointed after his renditions of Not The Same and Just Like Heaven were lovingly played, LOVED: The shout of “That was a quick bong J” to which the emotionally exhausted man in row G, and when Mascis reappeared for the encore. a good few others, completely crumbled and shamelessly HATED: Being forced to make my notes on a burst into tears. paper airplane. ROSEMARY ANSTEAD

C J RAMONE The Bendigo Hotel, Sunday February 15

DRANK: Red wine in the rain.

THE TELEVISION ADDICTS The Reverence Hotel, Thursday 12 March

While a relatively minor player of The Ramones in the grand scheme of things, replacing founding bassist Dee Dee in 1989 and remaining until their 1996 retirement – long past their creative prime – CJ Ramone in 2015 is one of two former Ramones still alive to play their music with any real authority or experience (Marky Ramone also continues to tour with a full band playing Ramones classics). With an all-star band featuring two members of legendary punk rock staple The Adolescents, plus a repertoire of surprisingly good original songs, CJ’s delivery of Ramones classics coupled with originals could have been an embarrassing mess, yet ultimately became one of the best shows in recent memory. Cosmic Kahuna’s fuzzed-out blend of Australian pub rock and Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis at his noisiest and shreddiest quickly filled out the bandroom: impressive for a band new on the scene. The always killer Meanies did exactly what it is they always do: in your face, yet strangely melodic punk rock, invariably ending with frontman Link finding himself on the floor, shirtless, or both. Their short, high energy set perfectly braced the crowd for the Japanese by way of Melbourne pop-punk institution Mach Pelican. Although playing over 800 shows in Melbourne in their original tenure, almost even having a hit single with the genius Dance in Chicago, the band’s appearances these days are rare and desperately anticipated. Taking to the stage in leather jackets on a 35 degree day, the band blasted through countless bubblegum pop punk sing-a-long gems at breakneck speed, with not even a break between songs to catch their breath. A perfect set from a band Melbourne needs back more than ever. CJ Ramone and his band took the stage and immediately broke into songs from his last two solo records. Although warmly received by fans, the early introduction of Judy is a Punk kicked the set into gear and reassured every punter that they would be hearing Ramones essentials. With classics Do You Wanna Dance, Rock N Roll High School and Commando in rapid succession, CJ’s strong voice and thick New York accent reassured his position as one of the only remaining spokesmen for the music and legacy of The Ramones. Eschewing the standard encore schtick, the band finalised with Motörhead’s ode to the band R.A.M.O.N.E.S, the ideal end to a hot and sweaty punk rock show and a loving tribute to one of the most important LOVED: Coopers. bands of all time. HATED: Punk rock sweat. DRANK: Nothing. It was perfect. JOE HANSEN

Perhaps it was appropriate that The Television Addicts chose The Reverence Hotel in Footscray for the band’s only Melbourne show. The Television Addicts is the moniker chosen by Dave ‘Flick’ Faulkner and James Baker to play the songs of The Victims, the punk rock band formed by Faulkner, Baker and Dave Cardwell in Perth in 1977. Back then, with the tyranny of distance unaffected by the Internet or cheap air travel, Perth might’ve been in another geographical and cultural world. Perth was a long way to the west; similar, maybe – albeit on a smaller and more prejudicial scale – to the perceived remoteness of Melbourne’s western suburbs. But Perth still had disaffected youth and punk rock. There was Baker, the pudding-bowled rock’n’roll aficionado who’d travelled to New York and seen The Heartbreakers at CBGBs, auditioned for The Clash in London, and formed The Victims from the ashes of his previous band, The Geeks, roping in a young Faulkner as the band’s singer and guitarist, and Cardwell on bass. In true punk fashion, The Victims were a shooting star across the rock’n’roll sky, their public appearances in the dozens, and their contemporary recorded output negligible. Yet The Victims became a posthumous lightning rod for the punk rockers in Australia and across the world. Tonight, 37 years after the band’s demise, Faulkner and Baker – joined by the Hard Ons’ Ray Ahn, whose fascination with The Victims’ juvenile garage punk style would seep into the Hard Ons’ modus operandi and rock’n’roll aesthetic – were in Melbourne for a night of classic Victims tracks. The demographic profile of the crowd was befitting for a band of The Victims’ age and status. Faulkner’s smiling demeanour is at odds with the teenage angst at the heart of much of The Victims’ repertoire. Baker may wear the scars of an indulgent rock’n’roll lifestyle, but he’s lost nothing of his original garage rock drumming brilliance. And on bass, Ray Ahn grins with the excitement of a school kid whose greatest rock’n’roll dream has just come true. The songs are wild bursts of punk rock noise: most songs barely break the two-minute barrier, and you get the sense of a band that was pre-ordained to burn bright and fast. Baker’s lyrics are the classic stuff of adolescent musings: the perils of daytime television (TV Freak), high school crushes (High School Girl), ), even a rant at Perth’s annual Telethon. Faulkner stumbles over a few licks, and even jumps into I’m Flipped Out Over You to the bemusement of Baker and Ahn. Baker makes the odd mistake, but given he’d reportedly gone the technicolour yawn before the set, you can’t blame him. And since when was punk rock tightly choreographed, anyway? No one wants the set to end, but it has to eventually. Television Addict – which in some quarters pips I’m Stranded as the best punk rock song released in Australia in the ‘70s – finishes out the main set, and there’s considerable rejoicing and yobbish shouting of the song’s chorus. The band returns briefly, finishing up with the pointed socioLOVED: Hearing The Victims’ songs played live musical commentary of Disco Junkies. You don’t get many and watching the absolute legend that is James better nights than tonight, and there aren’t many more Baker on drums. important Australian punk rock bands than The Victims. HATED: Navigating the streets of Footscray on This was a privilege and an honour to witness. the bike on the way home. PATRICK EMERY

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DRANK: Coopers Pale Ale.

THE ANTLERS Melbourne Recital Centre, Saturday February 14 “Hi Melbourne, how are you doing?” asks The Antlers frontman Peter Siberman to a watchful, waiting audience in the Melbourne Recital Centre. It’s four songs in and this is their first bit of onstage banter, aside from some barely audible “thank you’s” after each round of applause. “I hope you’re enjoying The Antlers at the movies,” he adds, in reference to the formal, seated venue. The band joke that it’s supposed to be a comedy. Tonight is a night that many couples would indeed be watching romantic comedies on the big screen, with key guy Darcy Cicci asking who in the audience is here for a Valentine’s date (cue awkward formal seated venue silence) and adds that they would be the band to see if you wanted to break up with your date. Support act Lanks – named as such “because I’m lanky” Cicci says almost apologetically – was more upbeat about the gig as a romantic date option and notes all of the couples in the audience, so I’m siding with him and sticking with my choice of taking my partner to hear depressing songs about death and loss as a good one. So what if their most upbeat song of the night is called I Don’t Want Love? The plus side of hearing The Antlers in a venue like The Recital Centre is that you can enjoy the complexities

of their richly layered music through crystal clear sound. The instrumental climaxes to epic slow-burners like Doppelgänger and No Widows are spine-tingling, and the delicate, trance-like builds to these moments are perfectly suited for a tranquil sit-down show. But, halfway through, it’s clear the cinema-style set-up is holding the band back, and Siberman suggests we all stand for the remainder of the show. From here, the band–audience connection becomes more solid and the Brooklyn four-piece are visibly more comfortable; Siberman even offers the band up to be a Valentine’s to anyone in the crowd who isn’t coupled up. The set closes with Hospice’s devastating Epilogue – sure, it’s sad, but also deeply romantic. The Antlers are not shy about sharpening the lens on the darker, sadder aspects of human relationships, but that’s LOVED: My date. what makes tonight such a refreshing alternative to roses HATED: Travelling home on a tram filled with and chocolates. screaming teens from the One Direction concert. DRANK: An intermission wine. CHRIS GIRDLER

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HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN

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4. Witchcult Today 2LP ELECTRIC WIZARD It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything by Swedish indie and folk legend José González by his lonesome – seven years, in fact, since he’s gone for a full-length album release. Between In Our Nature and Vestiges & Claws, González has been busy with his other act, Junip, which is a more psychedelic but still uniquely stamped with token González sounds. But enough about his other endeavours, what about Vestiges & Claws? It’s fucking awesome. Let It Carry You is chilled, with González’s typical steady finger-picked classical guitar that just gets you, closely mimicking his earlier music. González has a winning formula and a truly unique sound. In terms of production, the album shows evolution and a much cleaner sound than Veneer or In Our Nature. It’s a more stripped down approach – maybe steering well clear of Junip’s wall-of-noise approach and jams. Recorded partially in González’s home studio and Svenska Studio in Gothenburg, and self-produced, this album is the first fully original and self-produced release by González – there are no killer covers on this album. Not that that’s a bad thing. A longer release than anything González has done by himself, it holds your attention with the same soundscapes that enchant you from the previous albums. González stated in the press release for the album that he’s steered clear of his usual, “minimalistic,” approach, and while this is true, all things are relative because I would most definitely still call it minimalistic and tranquil. Perhaps it’s not as dark as Veneer or In Our

SINGLES

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CHANCE THE RAPPER & THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

Lady Friend (Independent) Chance’s Social Experiment project is hard to pin down, but it keeps producing the goods, with shades of Andre 3000 in a pursuit of sensual emotion, hitting the mark. Chance is building something special here, pay attention.

DARLIA

I’ve Never Been To Ohio (Dew Process) ‘Has There Been A Prominent British Band To Emerge In The Past Three Years That Hasn’t Been A Complete Fucking Embarrassment? Part 1.’

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Julia (Remote Control) ‘Has There Been A Prominent British Band To Emerge In The Past Three Years That Hasn’t Been A Complete Fucking Embarrassment? Part 2.’

KENDRICK LAMAR

The Blacker The Berry (Universal) The complete fucking inverse of previous single i, K-Dot sounds scary powerful on The Blacker The Berry, spitting hard as fuck, challenging with racial reclamations, not holding back, defiant in the refrain proclamation: “I’m the biggest hypocrite of 2015.” New Kendrick, Kanye and Drizzy (on top of his just-dropped mixtape) albums due this year. We’re not worthy.

LOON LAKE

Surfin’ (UNFD/Mushroom) This is a ‘song’ about wanting to do ‘totally rad’ things like surfin’ (cowabunga dudes) and skatin’ (gnarly) and driving cool cars (oh, hell yeah baby), but the protagonist can’t pull it off because they’re too shithouse “can’t even do a 180” and they don’t have a cool car to drive (major bummer dude). You know what else is cool? Being in a band. You know what else Loon Lake are shithouse at? Writing songs that aren’t shithouse.

HOT CHIP

Huarache Lights (Domino) Well this is quite exquisite. And for Hot Chip to be exquisite this far down the road is a feat in itself. It’s a triumph from start to finish. Hot Chip run a marathon with the hi-hat tickling beat, reminiscent of defunct pals LCD Soundsystem at their peak. Not much in the way of Alexis Taylor’s trademark British cheek, but brims with character all the same.

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FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

What Kind Of Man (Universal) The first full taste of Florence And The Machine’s upcoming LP rocks harder than the likes of Jack White and Black Keys, booming around a simple little riff, Florence’s vocals a powerhouse as always. Tops.

LIGHTNING BOLT

5. Phryme PHRYME 6. Old Time Sing Song Man ARCHER 7. Falling For You THE HARPOONS 8. Instrumentals LADY 9. BASement Party ANDRE TANKER 10. Sweet Spots SUGAR FED LEOPARDS

The Metal East (Thrill Jockey) This fucking rules, straight up. Frenetic power duo Lightning Bolt go in brandishing bursts of metal acumen. It’s exhausting, in the best way, at four minutes 15. The new album Fantasy Empire is a double LP too, listening to it all the way through will probably fill my exercise quota for the year.

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CALVIN HARRIS FEAT. HAIM

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Pray To God (Sony) It starts off as some pretty tasty power-pop, exploding into disco-tinged euphoria, then doesn’t look back. There are slick grooves from Harris, the vocals from the sisters Haim hit the mark, if not as earth shattering as previous Harris collaborators Florence Welch and Riri. Looks like Harris’s latest album didn’t provide a mega-hit, but tracks like Pray To God still hold worth.

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Just Like You (Gold Standard) I dig almost everything about this, but the lyric-less, breathy vocal hook just doesn’t sit right with me. The instrumentation and verses are bang on, dripping with an airy cool, lush, soothing, washing over with a brisk calm.

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Wolves (Universal) In terms of 2015 Laneway alumni who I would’ve picked for guest spots on Yeezy’s new album, I’d have put coin on Raury, and while that still might happen, here we have Vic Mensa complementing Ye’s singing style, with a dose of Sia with a damn fine sultry reprise of the hook (plus 2k14 Laneway alumni Cashmere Cat on co-production duties). It’s relatively understated in the wake of the aural carpet bomb of Yeezus. This is great, powerful, focused. Batten down the hatches. Yeezy season approaching

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CARL BARAT AND THE JACKALS

DORSAL FINS

GRENADIERS

Summer

Mind Renovation

(Independent)

Let It Reign

(Gripless / Remote Control)

(Cooking Vinyl)

If you’re thinking an album with ‘and the Jackals’ would be a swashbuckling and debaucherous affair, then you’d be pretty much spot on. For the uninitiated, Carl Barat is best known as being the less controversial songwriting partner and fellow frontman of Pete Doherty in the now reformed The Libertines. In the numerous years since The Libertines broke up back in 2004, Barat launched his own band Dirty Pretty Things, who released two swaggering albums before breaking up in 2008, prompting Barat to release a solo album in 2010. Now he arrives back on the scene with the suffix ‘The Jackals’ and a new slew of tunes in tow on Let It Reign. The first few bars of opening track Glory Days feel slightly messy, but after a short while the haphazard style of Barat and his Jackals grows on you substantially. The track is eerily reminiscent of some of the tracks on the soundtrack to Russell Brand’s 2010 comedy flick Get Him To The Greek, in particular, the song Gang of Lust. Upon further research this is perfectly forgivable as Barat was the sole writer credited on that song. Summer In The Trenches is a frantic number that like many of the tracks has a distinctive ‘60s feel. Barat and the gang take the mood down somewhat and show off their versatility on Beginning To See, the closest thing to a ballad on the record. If early 2000’s Britpop with a bit of attitude was your thing, you’ll lap this right up. ALEXANDER CROWDEN

Summer is a hotbed of cleverly structured hard rock that manages to drag influences from post-hardcore, punk, blues, heavy rock and progressive rock creating a scorching amalgamation as fierce as the sun itself. One of the most interesting parts of Summer is also the thing that is going to leave listeners most divided. Summer takes the odd path of splitting its tracks into two subtly but still notably different song types: half of the music sets its roots in progressive rock and post-hardcore influences, while the other half goes for a classic rock’n’roll approach. On one hand, you’ll be sitting through howling vocals and unexpected hardcore riffs that cater nicely to fans of heavier music, but once this changes to the rock’n’roll parts with their easier to digest aesthetic and calmer singing sections, the fire and the staying power of the music takes a noticeable hit ± although this may be reversed depending on where the listener’s interests lie. With that said, there are several moments in Summer that bridge both influences, through the use of well-placed progressive guitar segments which have a tendency across the album to pop up, take an already enjoyable song and flesh it out past its own bonds ± the proverbial cherry on top. Summer also manages to have the collateral to back these sections up with an unfettering, crisp production to add that extra punch to the harder sections, but ultimately due to the inconsistency between the heavier and the rock tracks, Summer seems to try and be too much at once in order to reach its full potential.

THOMAS BRAND

DAMIAN COWELL’S DISCO MACHINE Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine (Love Thimble Records)

At a baseball game on July 12 1979, Chicago DJ Steve Dahl invited fans to cast their disco records into the middle of the field where Dahl would blow these musical aberrations up. Probably coincidentally, disco began to fade from popular interest. Its image ± characterised unfairly by the presence of outrageous clothing, synthesised rhythms, plastic sexuality and banal lyrics ± c ast into the dumpster of popular history. 36 years later, and Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine takes the muchmaligned disco genre and, with the help of a cast of talented co-starts, turns it into a musical medium of social and political commentary, laced with piss-taking comic genius. Tim Rogers inverts his own personal indulgences to offer guest vocals for I’m Addicted to Moderation (a contemporary successor to TISM’s I’m Interested in Apathy) and Tony Martin deconstructs the politics of children’s safety films in Don’t Hector the Safety Cat. Cowell’s talent is to find the line between political correctness and social commentary and shine a disco ball light on it. So I Hope You Get Laid for Christmas (featuring Liz Stringer) cuts straight through the bullshit of saccharine-sweetened sexuality and exposes the pork sword. On Epistemophobia Kate Miller-Heidke gives voice to our omnipresent fear of misunderstanding that nature of human knowledge; on Folk Music Turns Me Into a Fascist, Emily Jarrett exposes the dangerous side effects of dreadlocked, hessian clothed hippies moaning about progressive social causes. But maybe the danger with this record is to laugh too much and miss the currency of the message. Most of the stuff on here is actually pretty important and serious political analysis. Quick, get this stuff onto an academic curriculum, if only to see what Andrew Bolt will say. PATRICK EMERY

CLOWNS

18TH

Of late, Clowns burned bitumen with Aussie punk legends: the Hard Ons, Cosmic Psychos, Frenzal Rhomb among others. They wrote Bad Blood nestled in among a morgue, cattery and cemetery. Odds are these boys scared kibble out of kittens and fielded complaints from the recently deceased. Clowns’ thrashed-up old school hardcore is moulded by early SST Records, crowdsurfable riffs and a yearning to rearrange your insides. By welcome contrast, Clowns’ brand of noise looms so viciously it’s a ready-made moral panic. Pulling jams out of the ground fresh and unwashed, Never Enough breezes with sunny skate punk before slamming the throttle to the floor. Bad Blood gulps fresh air between blazingly intense Infected and violent and panicked These Veins. Swallow Your Dreams falls to the floor worshipping Minor Threat, vocals recalling Ian MacKaye’s sawn-off delivery, crowded by riffs sharp and bloodied. White-knuckled Dead In The Suburbs machine-guns Stevie Williams’ vocals to ribbons again, barraged by clamoured guitar. Production edges on a live show right there in your living room (train, car, dive bar; take your pick). Even so, it’s not brutality all the way down. Play Dead circles drums and bass hypnotically, exploding into a blood-curdling roar and haunting your idle moments. A complete reversal of fortune, hairy closer Human Terror spun for 11 minutes prompts stoner jammers to weep with joy, its mind expanded by wasted vocals and careening guitar, refusing feeling downtrodden for too long. Clowns’ acute sense of hardcore history isn’t played for cred or nostalgia, it’s of higher-minded design. Sure, you can drown in torrents of hardcore online and go nowhere fast. Bad Blood asks kids if they still care enough to slam into one another in punk communion. Witnessing the mass movement of bodies gives the answer. Crossing over into crust, thrash, noise and back again with veteran ease, Clowns’ second record will alert the entire world to their imminent takeover. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

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Local indie super group Dorsal Fins are noisy, at times obnoxious, yet woozily intoxicating and oh so fucking trendy. Opening song Nothing Left To Hide has Jarrad Brown ostensibly paying tribute to the courting method of ‘treat ‘em mean keep ‘em keen’: “When you left me behind / I couldn’t get enough” over the top of roughly hewn beats and ‘60s guitar riffage. However, unlike most garage ‘60s psych wannabe projects out there, this song benefits from Brown’s experience with Eagle and the Worm. Exposing Dorsal Fins’ full vocal artillery early, track two, Monday Tuesday, features Ella Thompson taking the vocal lead. This song manages to capture the inherent duality of ‘80s neo-Goth/post punk artists like The Smiths: an ostensibly upbeat style that reveals an introspection and depth through the use of the minor key and emotional yet slightly vacant vocals. On their Facebook, Dorsal Fins list ten members that encompasses a rich bastion of local talent: Sam Raines on drums (New Gods, Jim Lawrie, Bluebottles), Richard Bradbeer on bass (New Gods, Eagle and the Worm, Bluebottles), Olaf Scott on keyboards (Saskwatch), Liam McGorry on keyboards/horns (Saskwatch, Eagle and the Worm), Lachlan O’Kane on percussion (Eagle and the Worm), Ross Beaton on guitar/horns (Eagle and the Worm), Jarrad Brown, vocals (Eagle and the Worm), and Ella Thomson on vocals (GL, The Bamboos). This is a classy and sophisticated album that heralds the rise of new guard in Melbourne’s independent music fraternity.

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THE COURTNEYS (VANCOUVER BC)

So yeah, the ultra-proliferous novel Fifty Shades Of Grey - or as I like to refer to it, ‘American Psycho from the hooker’s perspective’ - has been turned into a movie. And like all major franchise films, it needed a soundtrack that will, in turn, be uploaded onto the iPods of the beige individuals that find fictionalised sexual brutality invigorating and exciting. Before we talk about the music featured on the soundtrack, I should explain my major beef with Fifty Shades. While offering a fly-on-the-wall perspective to ultra-violent sexual gratification, the book lacks the same sense of otherworldly humour that the aforementioned Ellis-Easton masterpiece contained, to remind us that hardcore sexual violence is not okay unless used as an allegory for ruthless corruptive powers of capitalism. Musically, the soundtrack has two highlights: the two songs from Canadian R&B artist The Weeknd. That includes feature single Worth It and the suitably dark and brooding Where You Belong. Music fans with taste and a highspeed Internet connection have been jizzing themselves over The Weeknd since 2011 when, as a 21-year-old, he (Canadian Abel Tesfaye) made the House Of Balloons mixtape available for free download. It’s awesome that a soundtrack for a hyper-mainstream film is highlighting this super credible and deserving artist. Now it’s time for a home truth about this soundtrack. Once you get past the sublime grit of The Weeknd, the remaining 14 songs are about as mediocre and dull as the shitty low level admin jobs most of the people who are going to see this movie have. For instance, Frank Sinatra’s Witchcraft is not a bad song, and its lyrical content is apt, but you can tell ol’ blue eyes was included to add a veneer of sophistication to the soundtrack, rather than any real tribute to the swing era. And then there’s Ellie Goulding’s super shite Love Me Like You Do. If you just asked ‘Who the fuck is Ellie Goulding?’, good, I like you. The lone star I gave for this review is for the two The Weeknd songs ± t hat is all. DENVER MAXX

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WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

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WEDNESDAY FEB 18 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••B.A.A.D.D.D. + MOLLUSC + NOTHINGE + KARLI WHITE +

DREAM DAD Public Bar, North Melbourne. 8:00pm. $8.00. ••COQ ROQ WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

7:00pm.

ALEXANDER Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.

••RUBY & THE CRYSTAL SET + JOHNNY LOVE Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $15.00.

••SOULMATE + THE EXECUTIVES + FULTON STREET Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

••FALCONIO + WHERE WERE YOU AT LUNCH? + THE JILLS

••BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY - FEAT:

Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••GETAWAY TO THE SKY + SENTIA + MEDICINE DOG Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••KASHMERE CLUB + DR. COLLOSSUS + THE FIRE ALIVE +

DJ MERMAID Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $5.00. ••SLATES + SPEECH PATTERNS + INITIALS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

••SLIM JEFFRIES + MALADAPTOR + POCKETS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

••THE DARJEELINGS + THE SAND DOLLARS +

BIDDLEWOOD Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $5.00. ••THE DEAD HEIR + ATOLLS + DEPARTMENT + THE SHABBAB John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 7:30pm. $8.00. ••THE SMITH STREET BAND + PUP + GREAT CYNICS + APART FROM THIS Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $30.00.

••THE VENDETTAS + SIDESCROLLER + JOHNNY DANGER Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $7.00. ••THE VERONICAS Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 4:00pm. ••WACO SOCIAL CLUB + STONE DESERT Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. ••ZOE K + PHOEBE DAICOS & THE SUMMER DOWN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ••ADAM RUDEGEAIR QUINTET (THE BOWIE PROJECT) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15.00. ••BOHJASS QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. ••BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••BRECKER MECCA Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. ••ENTROPY QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00. ••MSO FREE CONCERT Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne.

HORNS OF LEROY Thunder Road Brewery, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

••JOHN FLANAGAN + LIZ FRENCHMAN Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm.

••KRISTINA EMMOTT + ALEXANDRA PYE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. ••OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:00pm. ••OPEN MIC Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.

••THE ACOUSTIC SESSIONS - FEAT: CINDY LOU KRAMME

+ AARON CREIGH Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 6:30pm.

••THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL’S OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

••THE HAMMOND ORGAN NIGHTS Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.

THURSDAY FEB 19

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••AIMEE VOLKOFSKY & THE MOLOTOVS + GRIYA +

STELLAFAUNA + DJ MERMAID Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

••BEATEN BODIES + THIRTY SEVENTY + MAHALIA

SIMPSON Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••BYO VINYL NIGHT The Bodega, West Melbourne. 7:00pm. ••CEDIE JANSON + STRAYLIGHT + PARE OHM Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

••CYCLONE DIABLO + STRAWBERRY FISTCAKE + ZUTROY

+ IN THE ESKY Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

SOUNDWAVE EXTRAVAGANZA

Worried about how you’re gettin’ to Soundwave this weekend? Listen to your old bro John So and get on ya bike, Melbourne. There’s no time to fuck around when Slipknot, Faith No More, Soundgarden, Marilyn Manson, Slash, The Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus and a shitload more are in town. You know what this means? Sidewaves everywhere, man. On Monday February 23, Fear Factory, Exodus and Terror Universal will demolish 170 Russell, while The Treatment will slay Cherry Bar and Fucked Up will fuck up Ding Dong Lounge. On Tuesday February 24 catch New Found Glory, The Wonder Years and Bayside at The Hi-Fi, Soundgarden at Festival Hall, and Lamb Of God / Killer Be Killed at 170 Russell. On Wednesday February 25 see Falling In Reverse and Escape The Fate at 170 Russell and Butcher Babies at Cherry Bar. You know what? There’s way too many shows to fucking count. For the full list of Sidewaves, hit up the Soundwave website. Soundwave 2015 goes down at Melbourne Showgrounds Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22. ••SALSA THURSDAYS - FEAT: DEL BARRIO La Chinesca,

Melbourne. 8:00pm. ••SHAMEEM Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00. ••SOUL MATE + THE JACK EARLE SEXTET Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 8:00pm. $8.00.

••THE COTTON CLUB - FEAT: JESSE VALACHE & BLUES

MOUNTAIN + SWING PATROL BLUES DANCERS + DJ MATTHEW FREDERICK Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 7:30pm. ••THE FLYING DUTCHMAN - FEAT: VICTORIAN OPERA Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. $50.00.

••DOZEYS Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. ••FOUNTAINEER + BACKYARD + CRIMSONETTES Reverence

••THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO +

••FREDDY FUDDPUCKER + JUDAS SPRINGSTEEN + LUNA

••THE MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown

Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $5.00.

DEVILLE + DRONGO & THE DRONGOS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8.00.

••GEOFF ACHINSON & BRENDAN FORWARD Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

••HEADLOPPER + DYSTOPIAN + KOLLAPS + THE

DEATHBED PLAYBOY + OLDER MEN + EMPLOYMENT

Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. ••HOLY LOTUS + MAGIC HANDS Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••HOT WINGS + COAST BUSTERS The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

••KING STAG + STRINGS FOR BELTS + COSMOS + DAMON

PERILLO + DJ BABY TONES Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick.

8:00pm.

••LANIE LANE (COLLINGWOOD OPEN SERIES) + SARAH

BELKNER + ELIZABETH BARKER Gasometer Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $22.00.

••LITTLE BASTARD + SKYSCRAPER STAN & THE

COMMISION FLATS + FIVE MILE TOWN Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $12.00.

••MY DYNAMITE + DIRT PLAYGROUND + THE COUNCIL +

JOHNNY DANGER Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. ••NEXT - FEAT: SYDONIA + ENEMY THROTTLE + BETWEEN THE VALLEYS Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. ••PATRICK WILSON & THE BARE RIVER QUEENS + BEC GORING & THE ELWOOD WINTERS + TOM DOCKRAY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

••PLUGGED IN THURSDAYS - FEAT: GREEVES +

DIAMONDS OF NEPTUNE + MILLAR DUKES Revolver

Upstairs, Prahran. 8:30pm. $7.00.

••SCHOOL DAMAGE + BARBITURATES + KARLI WHITE +

TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7:00pm.

Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

••YAMAHA PIANO SERIES (OLLIE MCGILL) - FEAT: CLEON

BARRACLOUGH Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $20.00.

+ ZII + DEEP PRUDENCE + CENTRALIA + THE GTR’S + SIFANISO Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. ••SLATES + RIDE THE TIGER + PITT THE ELDER Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10.00.

••SONGBIRD SESSIONS - FEAT: BETH BROWN + LEAH

SENIOR + SARAH ROSE + LILLY TUNLEY + TRACEY HOGUE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $15.00. ••THE SHAKE SHACK - FEAT: THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE HOUSE BAND + TROY WILSON + DJ BARRY MAXWELL Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.

••THE SMITH STREET BAND + PUP + GREAT CYNICS +

APART FROM THIS The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

EMILEE SOUTH Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

••I A MAN + NEW GOD + SLEEP DECADE Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••JUKE BOX RACKET Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. ••KILL DIRTY YOUTH + THE BLACK ALLEYS + DUMB &

BORED + COFFIN WOLF Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm.

••KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL - FEAT: LITTLE BASTARD

+ TULLY ON TULLY + YEO + CHERRYWOOD + ARCHER + LIZ STRINGER + MAGIC MOUNTAIN BAND + TRACY MCNEIL & THE GOOD LIFE + THE SEVEN UPS + ABBIE CARDWELL & THE CHICANO ROCKERS + LUNATICS ON POGOSTICKS + EATEN BY DOGS + THREE KINGS + MORE Kyneton Mechanics Institute, Kyneton. 12:00am. $70.00.

••LIZARD PUNCH + STRATHMORE + BRODOWN +

TIM WOODZ + SIMONE ALEXANDRA SPITTLE + KARL HUTTENMEISTER Carters Bar, Northcote. 7:30pm. ••AUBREY MAHER Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. ••THE BUDOS BAND + THE SEVEN UPS Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $45.90.

••MARDIS GRAS PARTY - FEAT: BAYOU TAPESTRY BAND Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $45.00. ••OPEN MIC The Wilde, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. ••ROB SNARSKI + J.P.SHILO Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. $55.00. ••SARAH MCLEOD Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.00. ••TERESA BERGMAN + PLANET FANTASTIC 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10.00. ••THE ‘JOHNNY CAN’T DANCE’ CAJUN BAND Po Boy Quarter, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. ••THE NEW SAVAGES + TOM DOCKRAY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. ••TIM CICCONE + MANDY CONNELL Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

••TOM MASON & THE BLUE BUCCANEERS + DOBE

NEWTON Fitzroy Bowls Club, Fitzroy North. 7:30pm. $15.00. ••VICTORIANA GAYE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.

FRIDAY FEB 20

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••A TRIBUTE TO BON + AC/DSHE + THE ANGLES + WILD

THING + DJ DANGER Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. ••BEAUTIFUL BEASTS + THE SCRIMCHAW FOUR The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

••BLOOD DUSTER + THE BLACKLIST + BLUNT SHOVEL Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••BON SCOTT ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE - FEAT: THE RIDE-

ONS + UPTOWN ACE + THE BLACK ACES Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••BUSY KINGDON + THE SOLICITORS + NEON QUEEN + DJ

MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

$10.00.

Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••DAMIAN COWELL’S DISCO MACHINE + FRANKY WALNUT

Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $7.00.

EASTWOOD REVINE Pier Live, Frankston. 8:00pm. $5.00.

••GHOST TOWNS OF THE MIDWEST + MORNINGFENCE +

••#MELBOURNE MUSIC - FEAT: KATE FERGUSON +

••CHERRY BOMB European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd.

••YOU & YOUR FRIENDS + SIREN SUN + DEL BOCA VISTA

8:30pm. $10.00.

••FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE - FEAT: SINGLE INCOME &

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

$35.50.

••TULALAH + MAYFAIR KYTES + KIRKIS DJ Workers Club,

••FLAMIGO & JOY + STAX OSSETT Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd.

••LIME CORDIALE + LYALL MOLONEY + BIDDLEWOOD

INFRA GHOSTS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••SHOWCASE / AUDITION NIGHT - FEAT: RED CANDY

Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12.00.

BULLDOG RADIO Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••LOST WOODS + OPEN SWIMMER + LOUIS SPOILS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm.

••MEDICINE DOG 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $8.00. ••MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: THE BUDOS BAND

+ THE BOMBAY ROYALE Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm.

$50.00.

••MIDNIGHT WOLFE + THE KAVE INN The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

••MYYTH + LEOPARD SLUGG + V-ACT + QLAYEFACE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

••NINETYNINE + JULES SHELDON + DJ MERMAID Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

••OLLY FRIEND Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. ••ROSE AVENUE + GORILLA JET PACKS + TERRA + CHUCK Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm. $12.00.

••ROXETTE + BOOM CRASH OPERA Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $101.85.

••SUN GOD REPLICA + FOLEY + MAX GOES TO

HOLLYWOOD The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm.

••THE COUGAR VOX & THE SHEEPLE Dane Certificate’s

Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $15.00.

••THE GENIE + SWOOPING DUCK + KAFKA Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $16.00.

••THE NEW POLLUTION + THE SHABBAB + THE

BAUDELAIRES + SEBASTIAN HAMMOND Evelyn Hotel,

Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

••THE SKA VENDORS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. ••THE STU THOMAS PARADOX + WINTER SUN Tago Mago, Thornbury. 9:00pm.

••THE SUNDAY REEDS + LUNA GHOST + BLEEDING

FLARES + GIRL CRAZY Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

••TINASHE The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $49.90. ••VIBRAPHONIC ORCHESTRA + RACHEL BY THE STREAM

+ THE LOST FRIDAYS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

••ZIG ZAG + HOLLOW EVERDAZE + SLEEP DECADE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $8.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

9:30pm.

••THE RANDY ANDERSON Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne

+ TIM WOODZ & THE DIRTY SHOES Corner Hotel,

••3 RING CIRCUS BAND + MICHAEL COOK Ruby’s Music

Richmond. 8:30pm. $15.00.

Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.

Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

••DANNY FERNANDEZ + DOMINIQUE Prince Bandroom, St

••BISCOTTI + NEON RADIO + ORLANDO FURIOUS Grace

••3 RING CIRCUS BAND + JOHNNY LOVE Ruby’s Music

••EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + WILD CATZ Musicland, Fawkner.

••ELLY HOYT BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

••CLONE OF SOUL IN THE BASEMENT - FEAT: THE DEANS

••ELECTRIC MARY + PALACE OF THE KING + THE DROP

••JOE RUBERTO TRIO + MIRIAM WAX Dizzy’s Jazz Club,

Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

+ DJ VINCE PEACH + DJ PIERRE BARONI Cherry Bar,

Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••KIMBA GRIFFITH & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Commune, East Melbourne. 6:00pm.

••MASQUERADE Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14.00.

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••PETER HEARNE & DIZZY’S BIG BAND WITH JANICE

••CURB + KOUKATSUNA ONANI Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $5.00.

GIG OF THE WEEK!

Kilda. 9:00pm. $23.50.

8:30pm. $10.00.

BEARS + THE HUNTED CROWS Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $8.00.

8:30pm. $40.00.

Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00.

$15.00.

••JULIARNA & THE HEARTJAZZ STATESMEN Paris Cat Jazz

GIRLS + ENDUT HOCH HECH Public Bar, North Melbourne.

••KID SIDNEY + 4TRESS + BRIEF CHEMISTRY Mr Boogie

••FEVER TEETH + THE WORLD AT A GLANCE + BLIND 8:30pm. $10.00.

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Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.00. Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:30pm. $10.00.

••LIVE JAZZ SUNDAYS Elephant & Castle Hotel, Geelong.

KYNETON MUSIC FESTIVAL

Are you missing out on precious live music because there are too many sweaty gigs cramped into sweaty city venues? Then quit your whinging and get outta town to the Kyneton Music Festival this weekend. There’ll be Little Bastard, Money For Rope, Laura Jean, Harmony, Liz Stringer, Archer and many more, plus fresh air. The Kyneton Music Festival is set to go down from Friday February 20 to Saturday February 21 at the Mechanics Institute in K-Town. Breathe it in. 3:00pm.

••ORCHESTRA MINI Luxor Bar , Brunswick East. 7:00pm. ••SAM KEEVERS QUINTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ••SEAN CONNOLLY QUINTET Farouk’s Olive, Thornbury.

PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT

The city is going to be pure mayhem this weekend with White Night and a billion other events. Not sure where to go? Follow the light to Peter Hook & The Light. They’ll be performing New Order’s third and fourth albums, Low Life and Brotherhood, for the first time ever in Melbourne. They’ll also be playing the support slot, performing a series of Joy Division classics. It goes down on Saturday February 21 at the Corner Hotel. 7:30pm. $20.00.

••KAIROI The B.east, Brunswick East. 9:00pm. ••LA BEATLES BOHEME Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 4:30pm. $34.70.

8:00pm. $5.00.

••LAFIDKI + ROBERT JAMES KIRK & THE SISTERS OF SIN

Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.

••LAKE STREET DIVE Testing Grounds, Melbourne. 5:00pm.

Tavern, Belgrave. 9:30pm.

••LAMINE SONKO & THE AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE + RAS

••SONJA HORBELT QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne ••SOUL BLUE - FEAT: MISTRESS OF CEREMONY Bell ••SOUL CUPCAKE + THE IMORTAL HORNS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00.

••THE CONNOTATIONS Carters Bar, Northcote. 9:00pm. ••TRU GROOVES - FEAT: THE EXECUTIVES 24 Moons, Northcote. 10:00pm.

••VINCE PEACH, JACK SPARROW & JOEL HAMLIN Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm.

+ DJ SHAKY MEMORIAL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

$45.00.

JAHKNOW + FUTURE ROOTS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

••MELBOURNE ZOO TWILIGHTS - FEAT: SPIDERBAIT Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. $50.00.

••PAPA G & THE STARCATS + THE FABRIC + 30/70 Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.20.

••PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $65.00.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

••PSYCHIC SUN + TRIUMPH OVER LOGIC + FAST

••SHERIDAN SMITH Humdinger, Frankston . 8:00pm. ••A GUY & A GAL FEATURING JOHN WOOD & MICHELE

••REMINISCING (A TRIBUTE TO THE SONGS OF THE

FORBES Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $48.00.

••ALEX BURNS & KEN BORLASE Big Huey’s Diner, South

HANDSOME + AUTOMATIC EVERYWHERE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

LITTLE RIVER BAND) The Spanish Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $25.00.

Melbourne. 8:00pm.

••SHENANIGANS - FEAT: RADIO CHOAS Pier Live, Frankston.

6:00pm.

••SOUNDWAVE XV - FEAT: SLIPKNOT + FAITH NO MORE +

••ANDY GRANT DUO European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. ••BLACK NIGHT CRASH (JACK WHITE SPECIAL) Ding

Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm. ••CHRIS WILSON Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. ••DOLLAR 20 BLUES BAND Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:30pm.

••FOREVER SINCE BREAKFAST + THE SCOUTS + TED

STROKER Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.

••JAKOBI KAI Open Studio, Northcote. 6:30pm. ••LESLIE AVRIL BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

8:00pm.

SOUNDGARDEN + THE SMASHING PUMPKINS + SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS + MARILYN MANSON + FALL OUT BOY + STEEL PANTHER + INCUBUS + JUDAS PRIEST + MILLENCOLIN + ALL TIME LOW + LAMB OF GOD + MINISTRY + FALLING IN REVERSE + GODSMACK + KILLER BE KILLED + EXODUS + NEW FOUND GLORY + TONIGHT ALIVE + GERARD WAY + THE VANDALS + LAGWAGON + MORE Melbourne Showgrounds, Ascot Vale. 12:00am. $132.00.

••LUKE AUSTEN Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:30pm. ••MANDY CONNELL Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm. ••PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT Melbourne Recital Centre,

••STATIC REVENUE + ONE KINGDOM + TEARS OF THE

••SPENCER P JONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm. ••THE BITS + THE BALLS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. ••THE CELTIC TENORS Ormond Hall, Ormond. 8:00pm. ••TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION - FEAT: DAN

••THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN BEER FESTIVAL - FEAT: NICKY

Southbank. 5:00pm. $45.00.

BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

SATURDAY FEB 21

SUN + CIRCLE NEPTUNE + AVENUES END Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••THE COUGAR VOX & THE SHEEPLE Dane Certificate’s

Magic Tricks, Gags & Theatre, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $15.00.

BOMBA & FRIENDS + KELLY AUTY + SPYNDRIFT + THE PIERCE BROTHERS + THE DAVIDSON BROTHERS + THE PHEASANT PLUCKERS Geelong Racecourse, Geelong. 12:00pm. $44.00.

••THE HARLOTS + KING EVIL + RED EAGLE The Loft, Warrnambool. 8:00pm.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

••THE HUNTED CROWS + OSCAR BUBLÈ & THE

••A DAY ON THE GREEN - FEAT: ROXETTE + BOOM CRASH

••THE LOST RAGAS + DEAD SALESMEN DUO Bridge Hotel,

OPERA + DRAGON + EUROGLIDERS Rochford Wines,

BUTTERBOYS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

Castlemaine. 8:30pm. $15.00.

Coldstream. 4:00pm. $215.00.

••THE LOVE BOMBS + RIVER OF SNAKES + HONEY BONE +

BEES + COASTLINE Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne

••THE NATIVE PLANTS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. ••THE UNDERHANDED + ELBRUS + ATLAS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy.

••BANGWAVE - FEAT: AUTUMN IN ALASKA + NO! NOT THE Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.

••BEN WRIGHT SMITH + REDSPENCER + BORNEO Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

••CHRIS SMITH + EXHAUSTION + MARCO FUSINATO

+ THE ELECTRIC GUITARS + FRAUDBAND Tote Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:00pm.

••DAYBREAK + DEL LAGO + COFFIN WOLF + THE

BEGGAR’S WAY + DJ ALI E Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00. ••EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR + PLYERS + ORLANDO FURIOUS + GOLDEN GIRLS Public Bar, North

DJ MERMAID Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13.00.

8:00pm. $13.00.

••THE UNKIND Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm. ••TINSLEY WATERHOUSE BAND Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••WENDY STAPLETON “THE SWINING SIXTIES & MORE” Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $33.00.

••WHITENIGHT WIPEOUT - FEAT: DJ JUMPIN’ JOSH +

DEK DRUMS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

Melbourne. 9:00pm. $5.00.

••WIREBIRD + THE VELVET ARCHERS Carters Bar,

Collingwood. 5:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Hotel, Carlton. 9:00pm.

••ANDREA KELLER QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

$91.65.

••BERNARDO SOLER & ENSEMBLE + MIRIAM WAX Dizzy’s

Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $7.00.

••BOND & BEYOND Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

••FLOUR + WICKED CITY + ACID VAIN Tote Hotel, ••GUNSLINGERS + PRETTY CITY + COVERS John Curtin ••GUY SEBASTIAN Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:30pm. ••JACK & THE KIDS + RUNNING YOUNG + LARISSA TANDY ••JACKSON FIREBIRD + SAMMY OWEN BLUES BAND +

THE HELLHOUNDS + PHIL PARA BAND Espy, St Kilda. 9:00pm.

••JOEL PARNELL + ANDREAS MCCARTHY Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm.

••JOHN SWAN + JIMMY CUPPLES Musicland, Fawkner.

Northcote. 8:00pm.

8:00pm.

Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.00. 7:30pm. $25.00.

••CAIRO CLUB ORCHESTRA Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:30pm.

••CHIHUAHUA ROCK - FEAT: KILL TV + AGENTS OF ROCK

+ SNARK + MISSSTER Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford.

7:00pm. $10.00.

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WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au ••ELTHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL - FEAT: THE STONNINGTON

YOUTH JAZZ INITIATIVE + KIMBA & RYAN + DUKESY & THE HAZZARDS + BRIDGETTE ALLEN WITH BOB SEDERGREEN + GEOFF KLUKE & SAM YOUNG + CRAIG SCHNEIDER TRIO + ULTRAFOX + LIL’ FI + ANDREW NOLTE & HIS ORCHESTRA + GRAND WAZOO + SOUL SACRIFICE + LESLIE AVRIL QUINTET + THE BLUE SOULS + THE SHUFFLE CLUB + MORE Eltham Jazz Festival Site (

••A MONTH OF SUNDAYS - FEAT: RAISED BY EAGLES +

VAN WALKER + JEMMA & THE CLIFTON HILLBILLIES Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

••BEERSOAKED SUNDAYS - FEAT: LAURA PALMER +

SUMMERHILL + TOO SOON! Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. ••DAVE HOLMS GANG Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. ••DREAM FATIGUE + JESTER + ST HENRY Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

Brunswick. 5:00pm.

CHAMBERS + ADAM BRAND Werribee Park & Mansion, Werribee. 12:00pm. $84.50. ••RON S PENO TRIO Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:30pm. ••SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4:00pm. ••SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 2:00pm. ••SWEET JEAN + AL PARKINSON + JESS REBEIRO + DJ

CASH SAVAGE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm.

$16.00.

••THE BEARDED GYPSY BAND Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••THE BLACKEYED SUSANS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.

••THE HOUSE WRECKERS + BENNY C & THE ASSOCIATES

Various Stages), Eltham. 12:00am.

••DUCK DUCK CHOP + PLY/ERS + BAYOU Evelyn Hotel,

Cbd. 9:30pm. $25.00.

••KING BELL & SOUKOUS BA CONGO + MZURI Werribee

••ESPY ARTIST SHOWDOWN Espy, St Kilda. 12:30pm. $15.00. ••HINDS + SCOTDRAKULA + KT SPIT John Curtin Hotel,

••THE MOCKINGBIRD Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm. ••THE PHEASANT PLUCKERS Sooki Lounge, Belgrave.

••LEIGH BARKER & THE NEW SHEIKS Paris Cat Jazz Club,

••LA BEATLES BOHEME Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 4:30pm.

••THE RAMSHACKLE ARMY + JIM DUGGAN + ADRIAN

••MSO FREE CONCERT Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne.

••LOWER PLENTY + THE BACKSTABBERS Tote Hotel,

••NATURAL CULTURE BAND + JOHNNY LOVE Ruby’s Music

••LUKE TOOZE + MARK GARDENER Whole Lotta Love,

••KIMBA GRIFFITH QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Open Range Zoo, Werribee. 4:30pm. $30.80. Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $25.00.

7:00pm.

Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $20.00. ••ROY AYERS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $70.00. ••SAM LINTON-SMITH + LOVERS & MADMEN Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. ••SIN FRONTERA Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

••SOUTH OF THE CITY SOUL - FEAT: JUKE BOX RACKET Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. ••STEVE SEDERGREEN Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 1:00pm. $25.00.

••SUMMER SOUNDS - FEAT: MS MURPHY + CHRIS

WILSON + ALYSON MURRAY Logan Reserve, Williamstown.

2:00pm.

••TAFELMUSIK Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $58.00.

••TÁNGALO Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:40pm. $40.00. ••THE EAMON & DUDI PROJECT Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

••TRU GROOVES - FEAT: ALONE WITH TIGER 24 Moons, Northcote. 10:00pm.

••WHITE NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA - FEAT: SEX ON TOAST

+ QUEEN MAGIC + KIRKIS + EDD FISHER + SIMON TK & BRODIE + MIGALOO + CC DISCO Boney, Melbourne Cbd.

7:00pm. $10.00.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK ••ACTION SAM European Bier Cafe, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. ••ALANNAH WEIR & THE HALF TALLS + JESSICA FAIRLIE

+ PAUL MCMANUS + JACOB THORNTON + DJ BILSBY Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••ANDREW SWIFT & THE RATTLE SNAKE CHOIR + JMS

HARRISON + JESS LOCKE BAND + ADRIAN SLATTERY Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $6.00.

••FOREVER SINCE BREAKFAST & TED STROKER Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

••GOATPISS GASOLINE + VAN WALKER + HANK ELWOOD Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

••GREG WALSH Umbrella Lounge Bar, 12:00pm. ••JOEL HAVEA + DJ SEAN WHELAN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••MADELEINE DUKE + OLIVER MESTITZ Some Velvet

Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:00pm. ••MOOSEJAW RIFLE CLUB Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. ••NICE TYPES Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:30pm. ••PORK CHOP PARTY + GORSHA Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm. ••THE BEN SMITH BAND Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. ••THE DETONATORS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ••THE MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ••TURTLE & FOX + PRAIRIE NISCHLER Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

SUNDAY FEB 22

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Fitzroy. 5:00pm. $7.00.

Carlton. 7:00pm. $18.00.

$34.70.

Collingwood. 4:00pm.

Brunswick East. 5:00pm.

••NGV SUMMER SUNDAYS - FEAT: ALPINE + KAGU +

CLUBFEET DJS National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne.

MONDAY FEB 23

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

••FRONTIERS + GREAT JOHN HIMSELF + BLOOD ORANGE

Melbourne. 4:00pm.

••SUNDAY SERENADES - FEAT: TOOT WHISTLE CREW Palace Cinema (westgarth), Northcote. 6:00pm.

••THE CONCLUSIONS + RIO GRANDE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

••THE EAGLES Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $168.17. ••THE QUOLLS + MOTHER BUCKET + THE JACKRABBITS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

••ZAN & THE GOOD THINGS + STAND & DELIVER 80’S +

SUPERSOUNDS MIXTAPE Espy, St Kilda. 6:00pm.

Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $55.00.

Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $5.00.

••FUCKED UP Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $30.00.

••HUNTLY + 30/70 + JAMIL ZACHARIA + FULL FLOWER

MOON BAND Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.00.

••MILLENCOLIN + VANDALS + THE INTERRUPTERS The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $58.30.

••MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: S-BAHN + FREAK WAVE +

KIDS OF ZOO Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 6:00pm.

••MOSE & THE FAMILY Espy, St Kilda. 7:00pm. ••MUNDANE MONDAYS - FEAT: PINK HARVEST + KINDER

+ GENERAL MEN + PSYCHEDELIC COVEN DJ’S Old Bar,

Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

••OF MICE & MEN + ATREYU + THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:00pm. $49.50.

••PAUL WILLIAMSON’S HAMMOND COMBO Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00.

••THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $105.75.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

••THIRD EARTH + DREAM IN COLOUR KIDZ Workers Club,

••3MBS BRAHMS MARATHON - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Hawthorn Arts Centre, Hawthorn. 9:00am. ••CHEAP FRILLS Farouk’s Olive, Thornbury. 5:30pm. $5.00. ••CORPUS MEDICORUM Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 5:00pm. $60.00.

••FAIRFIELD SUMMER SERIES - FEAT: HORNS OF LEROY

+ SWING PATROL + THE DEANS Fairfield Amphitheatre,

5:00pm.

••GROOVELATION Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine. 4:00pm. ••KEKOSON (CUBAN STREET MUSIC PARTY) The B.east, Brunswick East. 4:00pm.

••KYLIE AULDIST & THE GLENROY ALL STARS + DJ VINCE

PEACH Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. ••MATT DWYER & THE MAGNATONES Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 4:00pm.

••MEL SEARLE & THE CRAIG SMITH QUINTET Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00. ••REFLEJOS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm. ••ROY AYERS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $70.00. ••RUSSELL MORRIS + THE PARDONERS Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $42.00. ••STANDING TALL Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm. ••THE FURBELOWS Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. ••THE JAWA PITU BAND Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm. 7:00pm. $79.00.

8:30pm. $25.00.

••WINTER SUN + EMMA MCDONALD & BRONWYN

ADAMS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 4:00pm. $5.00.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

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JASON LIU SOON Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

••SOUNDWAVE XV - FEAT: SLIPKNOT + FAITH NO MORE +

••TUOMO DUO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

EMPLOYMENT WANT TO MAKE $ selling your old organs? Harry’s House of Organs is in need of all your old organs, we will take any organ you have. Refrigerated shipping available.

WHYTE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3:00pm.

••THE RECHORDS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. ••THE SIDESHOW BRIDES Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. ••THREE KINGS + IAN COLLARD + BENNY PETERS &

••CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. ••FEAR FACTORY + EXODUS + TERROR UNIVERSAL 170

KNOWLES + SHANE HOWARD Palais Theatre, St Kilda.

SERVICES SOUNDPARK REHEARSALS NORTHCOTE. From $50. Great rooms/p.a’s. Parking/Storage/Hire. Phone Andrew 0425 706 382. Soundparkstudios.com.au

3:00pm.

SOOP + SLOW FIRES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6:00pm. ••PLYMOUTH Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. ••SHIMA + PARE OHM + CEDIE JANSEN Public Bar, North

••THE REMEMBERING - FEAT: ARCHIE ROACH + KAREN

WANTED BANDS/ACTS WANTED for Espy Shows. Shoot an email through to mark@gunnmusic.com.au for more details DJ COMPANY SEEKING event managers, promoters, party organizers and djs for projects. Please text 0411 024 794 for a prompt reply.

+ DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.

3:00pm. $13.00.

1:00pm.

••PEEP SHOW - FEAT: SPLIT SECONDS + ONLY LEONIE +

••BOB HUTCHISON TRIO + HUGH THORNEYCROFT Penny Black, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

••BONA FIDE TRAVELERS + DANNY WALSH BANNED Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 4:00pm.

••BOWFINGER Carters Bar, Northcote. 5:00pm. ••CHRIS WILSON Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm. ••CLARE BOWDITCH + HARRY BROWN Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 3:00pm. $45.00.

••FLYING ENGINE STRINGBAND The Mercat, Melbourne. 12:00pm.

Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $3.00.

••DARYL MCKENZIE JAZZ ORCHESTRA + WILBUR WILDE The Apartment, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.

••JAZZ PARTY The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 6:00pm. ••LIAM KEALY + BRETT & MATT 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. ••ROY AYERS Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $70.00.

••THE ALLAN BROWNE QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $18.00.

••THEATRE OPEN MIC’ Ruby’s Music Room, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK ••THE MUTUAL APPRECIATION SOCIETY - FEAT: LUKE

AUSTEN + JAKE SINCLAIR Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

••WROKDOWN - FEAT: PHIL GOLOTTA Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm. $5.00.

TUESDAY FEB 24

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ••ANIMALS AS LEADERS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $30.00.

••GODSMACK + PAPAROACH + NONPOINT Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $67.64.

••LAMB OF GOD, KILLER BE KILLED + LAMB OF GOD +

KILLER BE KILLED 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. $77.00.

••MCBUSTED Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $61.12. ••MINISTRY + GODFLESH Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. ••NEW FOUND GLORY + BAYSIDE + THE WONDER YEARS The Hi-Fi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $56.10.

••REAL ESTATE + THE OCEAN PARTY + TOTALLY MILD Howler, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $47.00.

••THE EAGLES Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $168.17. ••THE HUNTED CROWS + DEAR THIEVES + GODS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

••TIM MOLLOY EXHIBITION OPENING - FEAT: SEAN

MOLLOY + DEAR PLASTIC + LOVERS OF THE BLACKBIRD Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $6.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

••JAM SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner. 6:00pm. ••JESS PARKER & MYVANWY MOAR Victoria Hotel,

••ARTHUR PENN & THE FUNKY TEN + THANDO +

••KEEPING TIME DUO + IAN VANDY Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot

••BAT COUNTRY Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

••KEN MAHER & AL WRIGHT & TONY HARGREAVES

••DEXTER’S ASIAN CONNECTION + OLIVIA QI Ruby’s Music

Brunswick. 5:00pm.

Vale. 4:00pm.

Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:00pm.

••KIRSTY LETTS + BRETT & MATT 303, Northcote. 3:00pm. ••LAMB BOULEVARD + JOSH PORTELLI Retreat Hotel,

THE PUSH

••LIVE ON THE LAWN - FEAT: LEE KERNAGHAN + KASEY

QUANTUM MILKSHAKE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood.

PRESENT

ACCESS ALL AGES WITH JESS ZANONI Now that we’re in the thick of February, it’s the perfect time to hound your local FReeZa group about joining their crew. And trust me; they’ll be more than stoked to have you on board. You can go to www.freeza.vic.gov.au to search the group closest to you, but we also did some investigating for you. Here are some rad groups looking for new crew that may just be in your vicinity. • Moonee Valley - The Avenue www.facebook.com/mooneevalleyfreeza • Mornington Peninsula Shire - Impact FReeZa - www.facebook.com/impaktfreeza • City of Kingston - Fuse Productions www.facebook.com/fuseproductions • Frankston - Fresh Entertainment www.facebook.com/freshentertainment.frankston • Whitehorse - Flying Pig Events www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au/Young-People.html • City of Monash - Quiksound Productions www.facebook.com/quiksound/timeline • Hobson’s Bay – KAOS www.facebook.com/KaosFreezaCrew • Maribyrnong – Phoenix www.facebook.com/PhoenixAllAges Moonee Valley’s FReeZa group The Avenue have just started their very own record label! If you’re a solo musician or are in a band, would like to have your songs professionally recorded, are between 12-25 years old and live in Moonee Valley, then this is your calling. Expressions of interest close February 20. For details, jump on www.mvcc.vic.gov.au/ avenuerecords Never has the phrase “The city never sleeps” been more relevant than this weekend. Melbourne’s annual all night festival White Night is back again this Saturday, kicking off from 7pm ‘til 7am the following morning. As always, there’ll be a lot of ruckus, a lot of people, and you may feel pretty lost and a little bit claustrophobic. However these peak time city anxieties all disappear when you see the breadth of dancing, live music, art house films, art instillations and light/visual shows that is on offer. They’re all gonna be so impressive you’ll lose your mind a little. Make sure to check out the Indie Music Stage where you’ll find Airling, Hierophants, Jonny Telafone, Remi, Jack Ladder and the Dreamlanders killing it from 7pm. There’s plenty more after the midnight hours too. But go see for yourself at www.whitenightmelbourne.com.au The Royal Melbourne Zoo started their season of Twilight Shows late January, and there are still tickets to their shows this weekend. The Budos Band and The Bombay Royale are playing this Friday, and Spiderbait are doing their thing on Saturday. If you’re over 15, tickets are $55. It’s a bit of cash, but it’s well worth it. When will you ever again get to see a band again amongst hundreds of animals? The answer is never (festivals excluded). Info is all here www.zoo.org.au/ melbourne/twilights

ALL AGES GIG GUIDE

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20

• 2015 Pools Tour w/ Valerie Avenue, The Bean Project, Lilydale Outdoor Pool, Market St, Lilydale, 4pm – 8pm, $3.80 adult, $3.00 conc, kids/pensioners $2.70, www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/youthservices, AA SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21 - SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22

• Soundwave, Flemington Racecourse, Weekend pass $188 / Single day pass $132, www.soundwavefestival.com, AA MONDAY FEBRUARY 23

• Smashing Pumpkins w/ guests, Festival Hall, $105.75, www.festivalhall.com.au, AA

+ ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 6:30pm. $14.00.

••SOUNDGARDEN Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. $95.57.

5:00pm. $7.00.

••TAFELMUSIK Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm.

8:30pm. $18.00.

ACOUSTIC, COUNTRY, BLUES & FOLK

Room, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $15.00.

••BEN SALTER + EMILY ULMAN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

••JO QUAIL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $20.00. ••RICHMOND MUSIC ACADEMY + KEVIN BLAZE COMBO

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$58.00.

7:30pm.

••DAVEY CRADDOCK Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:00pm. ••IRISH SESSIONS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:00pm.

Thursday 19th @ 8.30pm

AUBREY MAHER & FRIENDS (Cruisy-bluesy roots) Friday 20th @ 9.30 pm

SATURDAY 21ST FEBRUARY

GOATPISS GASOLINE

VAN WALKER, HANK ELWOOD & DAVE ‘SUIT’ WATKINS FROM 7PM

THREE KINGS SUNDAY 22ND FEBRUARY

IAN COLLARD BEN PETERS JASON LIU SOON FROM 5PM

DOUGY & WESTON BBQ ON THE ROOF TOP EVERY FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY ALL SUMMER

LESLIE AVRIL BAND (Way up country) Saturday 21st @ 9.30pm

SAM LINTON-SMITH WITH LOVERS & MADMEN (Chunky soul grooves)

Sunday 22nd @ 5.30 pm

REFLEJOS

(World music grooves)

Sunday 22nd @ 9pm

KEN MAHER, AL WRIGHT & TONY HARGREAVES (Acoustic roots)

Tuesday 24th @8pm

IRISH SESSION (Fancy fiddlin’)

ALL GIGS ARE FREE EXCELLENT RESTAURANT AND BAR MEALS

LOMOND HOTEL 225 NICHOLSON STREET BRUNSWICK EAST, VIC 3057 9380 1752

Wed 18th February

WINE, WHISKEY, WOMEN

Alexandra Pye Kristina Emmott Thurs 19th February 8pm - Mandy Connell 9pm - Tom Ciccone (USA) 8pm 9pm -

Fri 20th February

6pm: Traditional Irish Session 8.30pm -

Luke Austen Sat 21st February 9pm - MooseJaw Rifle Club Sun 22nd February 4pm: Danny Walsh Banned (trio) 6.30pm: Bona Fide Travelers Tues 24th February 8pm: Weekly Trivia The Drunken Poet, 65 Peel Street (directly opposite Queen Vic Market), Phone: 03 9348 9797. www.thedrunkenpoet.com.au

BURGERS-BOOZE-BANDS WEDNESDAY 18TH 7PM

MELLOW DIAS THUMP THURSDAY 19TH 7PM

CITIPOWER FRIDAY 20TH 7PM

CALYPSO OF HOUSE PAUL JAGER & FRIENDS SATURDAY 21ST 7PM

RETIREE (DJ SET)

LA POCOCK GROOVE CONTROL SUNDAY 22ND 12PM - 1AM

LOOSE JOINTS

E VE R Y T U E S D AY R O C K A N D P O P C U LT U R E T R I V I A

TUESDAYS

h o s t e d by J e s s M c G u i r e & G e o r g e H

$6 CHILLI DOGS ALL NIGHT

EVERY WEDNESDAY

GRUMPY TRIVIA WEDNESDAY FEB 18

2 FOR 1 MEALS $12 JUGS THURSDAY FEB 19

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Basket of Wings for $10 - S o u t h e r n s t y l e f r i e d s t i c ky c h i c k e n w i n g s -

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Northcote welcomes a new pizza place. Lievita specialises in pizza, Roman street food-style, i.e. pizza baked in rectangular trays and sold by weight. The process of ordering is simple: choose your pizza, decide how hungry you are, decide how much you want and off you go. The 72-hour rising time of the dough means the pizza ‘al taglio’ is lighter and healthier. Lievita is located at 289 High Street Northcote.

Beef Versus Lamb: You Decide

Meatopia returns for another year, this time at The Deck at The Prince. Now in its fourth year, the Great Southern Beef and Lamb Meat Feud is all about devouring some of the juiciest and most delicious meats there are. For six hours, attendees will get to scoff and score dishes from Meatball & Wine Bar, Fancy Hanks BBQ, Newmarket Hotel, Middle Park Hotel, Peter Bouchier Butchers of Distinction, and Gelato Messina will be providing the (bacon) ice cream. The Great Southern Beef and Lamb Meat Feud is happening on Labour Day, Monday March 9 from 12pm to 6pm. $49 includes one dish from each vendor and drinks from Baa-r by Mitchelton Wines, Chandon and Little Creatures will be available.

The Melbourne Vegan Festival

The Corner Hotel is celebrating the Melbourne Vegan Festival with a great lineup next month. Featuring appearances from Thug Kitchen (the only website dedicated to verbally abusing you into a healthier diet), Jim Morris (Lifelong Fitness), Durianrider, Lentil As Anything founder Shanaka Fernando, Scott Fry from Loving Earth, Rosemarie Walmsley from RawSatya, Daniel Crossman from Kitchen Gym and Jamie Hay. First release tickets have sold out so you need to be quick. Melbourne Vegan Festival is taking place on Saturday March 21 at The Corner Hotel.

THE RETREAT

Walk down through the slightly shabby but charming carpeted foyer, past the main bar on the left and step out into the delightful space that is The Retreat’s beer garden. Surrounded by astro-turf and decking, it’s truly magical, especially when the cherry blossom is in full bloom. An unwavering Sydney Road favourite and the home of live music on the strip, The Retreat Hotel draws a mixed bag of pleasant characters, from aged locals who’ve probably been coming here since it opened, to young hip Brunswick locals.

When the clouds dissipate, the Sunday session devotees are the most abundant and rightfully so. Pull up a pew and make your way through the taps from Carlton Draught to Guinness to Napoleone & Co. Pear Cider, because you’re probably going to be here for the

long haul. It’s a bit of a living legend, with 3AW giving it Pub of the Week in February this year. With parts of the venue having not changed much since the ‘80s, The Retreat has a real knack for combining the old and the new rather seamlessly. Food-wise, The Retreat is

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The Fitzroy North Hotel, built in 1873, has had a massive refurb, thanks for Guy David, owner of Carlton’s Markov. Since taking over the lease last July, David has totally refreshed its aesthetics, with the beer garden to open by late March. It’ll feature pub food “with a new slant:” chicken parma with mozzarella, pecorino and prosciutto, and a pork chop with a green mango salad. The new Empress is open Monday to Friday from 3pm and from midday on weekends. It’s located at 714 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy North.

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It’s a celebration of everything that’s good in this world. The inaugural Ice Cream Festival is coming to the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery next week until Sunday March 1. Ice cream lovers will be able to indulge in 12 new flavours every day for 12 days, meaning attendees be able to lick, spoon and scoop their way through 144 creamy flavours. The 2015 Ice Cream Festival will be taking place from Wednesday February 18 until Sunday March 1 at 35 Old Healesville Rd (cnr Melba Highway) Yarra Glen. Entry is free.

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WILL SPARKS GETS NOVA SHOW

Melbourne DJ Will Sparks has joined Nova radio, launching a Saturday night national show Let’s Bounce from 11pm. “My music has always had a home there,” he said. Avicii returns to Nova on Saturdays 10pm with Avicii Levels.

GENERIK LANDS CHANNEL [V] GIG

Melbourne DJ/producer Generik is one of three new presenters on Channel [V] along with The Used’s Bert McCracken and model Bambi Northwood-Blyth. [V] has rebranded, with music as focus but expanding to sports, fashion and travel. Generik will host new chart shows of different music styles.

HI-FI BARS COULD BE SOLD WITHIN A MONTH

The Hi-Fi Bar venues in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney are expected to be sold within four weeks, says administrator Simon Nelson, from Melbourne accounting firm Romanis Cant. The three went into administration last week after a dispute with a major creditor that could not be resolved. The three clubs continue to trade in the meantime for the “foreseeable future.” Kanye West

THINGS WE HEAR

• Which one-time head of one of Australia’s most powerful music associations and long-time label executive and managing director of a topmost indie label are about to launch a new initiative? • Which exec is straining media friendships by pushing for write-ups on his new young mistress? • Which music festival, which will be held among various Northern Territory areas, is discussing with authorities a major problem – how to get booze to the performers in a “dry” area?

Kanye West was most mentioned act at The Grammys on Twitter, also triggering the most tweets per minute when he rushed the stage to protest Beck winning album of the year over Beyonce. Also high on Twitterland was Madonna’s performance of Living For Love and Sam Smith’s final win of the night for record of the year. 5 Seconds of Summer got the most retweets during the awards (22,000) for a tweet that merely said, “Grammyz lol.” On Facebook, 17 million people made 45 million Grammy-related postings. Smith’s Record of the Year win had the most, followed by AC/DC’s opening, Madonna’s performance and Prince’s “black lives matter” comment.

WICK STUDIOS RECRUITS US ARTIST MANAGER TO TEAM

Melbourne’s Wick Studios has recruited Lynn Robnett as Director of Entertainment and Development. Robnett is currently working at Panacea Entertainment in LA, which manages Paul Shaffer, Todd Rundgren, David Hasselhoff, The Blues Brothers brand and Australian blues wunderkind Shaun Kirk. In fact, she signed Kirk to Panacea on the recommendation of Wick, who managed him previously. Robnett will develop Australian acts and present them with international publishing, management, and touring opportunities. “There are definitely artists in Australia that can translate to the world markets. They may not be the bands being selected for the ARIAs but they are there and I have the ear to find them.” Wick Studios is a new music industry complex in Brunswick, developed by musicians, for musicians. The two-building site includes 15 rehearsal rooms, two recording studios, a photographic and video studio, and two live music venues, opening in May. Robnett says she is so excited by the Wick model she decided, “This was the place I wanted to be based, and these were the people I wanted to work with. My every instinct said ‘This is it’.”

PARISI LEAVES RAILWAY HOTEL

Music entrepreneur Andrew Parisi tells us he is no longer working with The Railway Hotel. “I wish the venue all the best for the future,” he said.

BEK DUKE EXITS MUSIC VICTORIA

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Samsung’s free station-based internet radio service, Milk Music, has launched in Australia to take on Pandora and iTunes Radio. Milk has 200 stations that cover all styles, and includes an “Australian” angle. Sia

• Flight Facilities were in Studio 301 in Sydney collaborating with Jagwar Ma and The Preatures’ singer Izzy Manfredi and guitarist Jack Moffit. • Police were pelted with bottles as they tried to shut down a rave held in a quarry near Coffs Harbour attended by 300 people. • Grammy goss: Brian Johnson used a teleprompter during AC/DC’s opening number. A hoax tweet claimed Lady Gaga mistook Ed Sheeran for a waiter. In revenge, Ed and Gaga sent around a bullshit tweet of their own that he made Gaga get his drinks all night. Beck thanked Capitol Records for his win by delivering staff at its LA headquarters a waffle breakfast. • First Perth, is Adelaide next? The Adelaide Advertiser reported that in a Twitter tirade last month, Soundwave’s AJ Maddah warned he would drop the city in the future unless “pathetic” 2015 ticket sales picked up “in a big way.”

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• One Direction tickets were slashed to $50 in some Aussie cities. • Roxette’s A Day On The Green show at Rochford Wines in Yarra Valley this Saturday has sold out its 10,000 tickets as did their ADOTG gig in NSW. • Similarly, the Bendigo stop of Groovin’ The Moo should have sold out its 15,000 tickets by the time you read this. • Melbourne-based Milwaukee Music’s Made by Milwaukee sampler had another trump. Melbourne’s Stax Osset had Forces used in Canadian supernatural TV series Lost Girl, to broadcast this month as a result of its inclusion. Vol. 3 for the sampler is taking submissions until Tuesday March 31. • Call Collect recently became Glass Moon. They continue to play Dizzy’s Jazz Club and got a slot at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival in May. • Chance The Rapper auditioned to play Dr. Dre in the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton. • A Kylie Minogue headlined An Evening At The Races with Kaiser Chiefs at a race course in England sold out 22,000 tickets in a record 30 minutes. • Papa John’s Pizzas in America revealed it had “punished” one of its drivers after he passed over Iggy Azalea’s telephone number to a family member. • Alice Cooper, opening act on Motley Crue’s farewell tour, offered to kill all four Crues onstage at their last show, in LA on New Years Eve. Tommy Lee said, “That would be awesome. I asked him, ‘Can you make three more of those guillotines? Then you could chop off all our heads at the same time’.”

NATIVE TONGUE SIGNS PULSE

Native Tongue is sub-publisher in A/NZ for Pulse Publishing. Started five years ago by producers Josh Abraham (P!nk, 30 Seconds to Mars) Scott Cutler and Anne Preven (Madonna, Beyonce, Katy Perry), it has 70 big name songwriters, producers and artists, and its own film and TV division.

UK VENUE OPERATOR KOKO EYEING AUSSIE MARKET

UK venue operator Koko is looking at entering the Australian market. It was revealed it made two offers to buy The Palace Theatre building in Melbourne’s central business district. Similar to the way it transformed one of its London venues, Camden Palace Theatre into a multimedia hub, Koko’s plan is to turn The Palace into a music venue, an events area, a live space from which global TV and online broadcasts are made and offices for music companies.

AUSSIE EDM WIDENS GLOBAL APPEAL

Australians continue to hit global EDM. At next month’s 30th International Dance Music Awards in Miami, nominees include Sia, Iggy Azalea, Knife Party and Peking Duk. Meantime, Michigan’s Electric Forest Fest has Flume, Peking Duk, Alison Wonderland, Miami Horror and Wave Racer. M4SONIC are among EDM acts playing 42 dates of Van Warped US in June.

COOKING VINYL AUST. LAUNCHES ROCK IMPRINT

Cooking Vinyl Australia founders Stu Harvey and Leigh Gruppetta have set up an imprint Double Cross Records dedicated to rock and heavy music releases from around the world for release in Australia. First releases are by Toronto’s Cancer Bats, England’s Gallows and Melbourne’s High Tension.

CHIHUAHUA ROCK

Chihuahua Rock is a benefit for Chihuahua Rescue Australia so they can save and re-home more little dogs with big personalities. It’s on Saturday February 21 at Mr Boogie Man Bar with Kill TV, Agents of Rock, Snark and MisSsta.

NO SLEEP ‘TIL EUROVISION

Petitions for Kylie Minogue and TISM to represent Oz at the Eurovision Song Contest saw TISM shoot off at the starting post with 10,000 signatures within days. Alas, Kylie has only a 100/1 chance, according to bookies William Hill, same as AC/DC. They give Sia 8/1, Iggy Azalea 9/1, and Chet Faker, 5SOS and Dannii Minogue 14/1. Delta Goodrem is given a 25/1 chance. At 50/1 are Hugh Jackman, Olivia Newton-John, Keith Urban and The Janoskians. INXS, Natalie Imbruglia and Holly Valance have a 66/1. Alas nothing for Alan Fletcher of Neighbours fame who put his hand up for it.

SOUNDCHECK SYMPOSIUM TO ADDRESS LIVE MUSIC ISSUES

Melbourne hosts a live music symposium on Friday April 10. The live music sector will address noise issues facing inner city venues. Related topics include hearing loss for fans, new research and strategies, technology and design for venues of the future, career education and grass-roots projects to develop industries and audiences. Conveners include Dr. Jos Mulder (Lecturer in Sound, Murdoch University), Associate Prof Lawrence Harvey (SIAL Sound Studios, RMIT), Associate Prof Cat Hope (WAAPA, Edith Cowan University), sound designer Jeffrey Hannam (RMIT) and venue owner Jon Perring (Live Music Round Table, Fair Go 4 Live Music). To make a small presentation of ten to 15 minutes, submit proposal to Jos Mulder ( J.Mulder@murdoch.edu.au) by Monday March 2. Also register at the same email address.

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PBS 106.7FM is seeking an interview coordinator to work three days per week in the Music Department. The primary function is to assist with coordination of interviews across PBS programming, and support other activities of the Music Department. For a position description visit pbsfm.org.au. Email hr@ pbsfm.org.au for any enquiries. Applications close Friday February 27.

WANNA WORK AT ARTS HOUSE?

City of Melbourne is looking for a General Manager for Arts House, to engage new audiences, find new opportunities for indie artists and build its profile. Full details at melbourne.vic.gov.au/careers.

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LIFELINES Marrying: R&B singer and X Factor NZ judge Stan Walker and business graduate girlfriend Lou Tyson could be making it official after a bling was noticed on her engagement finger, according to NZ media. Marrying: Mollie McClymont of The McClymonts reveals she got engaged in December. 18 months before, she was looking for a date in Sydney after a breakup and found Aaron Blackburn on dating app Tinder. Born: son for Liv Tyler, making Aerosmith’s Steve a grandfather again. Injured: Evergreen Terrace had to axe their slot on Soundwave after drummer Brad Moxey, a contractor by trade, fell off a ladder. Hospitalised: Black Tongue’s Alex Teyen mistook the door for a toilet on their tour bus in Poland and fell on the road, resulting in face and head injuries. In Court: Justin Bieber’s lawyer told a US court he didn’t finish five days of community service (for throwing eggs at a neighbour’s house) because he sprained his ankle at a soccer game. The judge told him to finish it off by May. Suing: Taylor Swift’s lawyers are taking action against Ronnie Cremer, who taught her to play guitar, for buying the domain name ITaughtTaylorSwift.com. In Court: singer Jon Stevens faced charges of assault after an incident involving his fiancée, Jodhi Meares, at the couple’s Point Piper home. In Court: UK folkie Roy Harper found not guilty of indecently assaulting an 11year old in the ‘70s and 16-year old in the ‘80s. Banned: Vasilis Moshos, one time owner of Newcastle’s Silk Hotel, for ten years from running a licensed business, for breach of license conditions. In Court: a 19-year old charged with supplying drugs at the Harbourlife festival in Sydney where Georgina Bartter, 19, died from an overdose. Died: Peter Summers, one-time road crew member for music acts, who set up his own Brisbane firm My Production Company to supply production for entertainment venues, at 56, after a battle with cancer. Died: Joe Mauldin, of ‘50s rock pioneers Buddy Holly and the Crickets, 74. Died: Steve Strange of ‘80s New Romantic band Visage (Fade To Grey), 55, heart attack in Egypt. Died: Australian lighting operator and rigger Deborah Vincent, in Perth, after a two-month battle with cancer. Died: Danny McCulloch, guitarist with British hit makers The Animals in the late ‘60s, from heart failure, 69. Died: Sam Andrews, founding member of America’s Big Brother and the Holding Company, 73, ten weeks after a heart attack.

WANT HELP WITH CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGNS?

Creative Partnerships Australia’s MATCH is a dollarfor-dollar matched funding program for artists and artistic groups up to a total of $10,000 per project. It’s to help them identify and secure private sector support, assist their creative endeavours and build a sustainable arts practice. Applications close on Monday March 9, with funded projects to be completed by June 30, 2016.

CRATE DIGGER RECORD FAIR

Bar Open (317 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy) hosts the Crate Digger Record Fair on Saturday February 28 (12pm to 5pm). Half the stalls are from private collections. More info www.facebook.com/events/793387487403050/.