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TOURING

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ART OF THE CITY, THE COMIC STRIP, CALENDAR

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FREE $HIT HARD-ONS CUP EVE PART Y

Sydney’s uncles of punk Hard-Ons are abandoning their city to ride on the glory of the Melbourne Cup’s public holiday, throwing a show at The Bendigo Hotel to celebrate. Featuring a killer supporting lineup of Sherriff, JoinTheAmish and Rise of the Rat, the show runs on the eve of Cup night, meaning attendees can bone up on their punk, chug some beers, and sleep it off on the next day. Make sure you catch Hard-Ons on Monday, November 3 at The Bendigo Hotel. Pop on over to The Bendigo’s website for more information.

MATT CORBY LAUNCHES COMEBACK SINGLE, TOUR

It’s been two years since singer/ songwriter sweetheart Matt Corby has released any music, and now Corby has announced plans to tour across Australia with the release of his new single, Monday. During his hiatus, Corby has taken extra time to build his talent up from scratch as he learnt how to play every instrument to complement what he was hearing in his head. With a national run of dates locked in for his upcoming tour, the platinum achieving Corby will head down to the Forum on Tuesday November 6. Shoot on over to the venue’s website for tickets and more details.

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Well known for their high energy live shows, French 10-piece Babylon Circus channel everything from reggae and punk to big band jazz during their rambunctious ska filled sets, fusing together bouncing brass sections and manic guitar licks.

They’ve played over 1500 gigs over their 20 year career, so they must be doing a couple things right. Babylon Circus plays this Saturday night as part of Melbourne Festival. Get yourself a free double pass on us beat. com.au/freeshit.

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MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK LAUNCHES SIXTH PROGRAM

Melbourne Music week is prying open basement doors, activating laneways, lighting up the silver screen and shaking up the dance floor of some of Melbourne’s most iconic music venues over eight dynamic days of programming in its sixth year. Last week, the flagship venue at the former Royal Women’s Hospital in Carlton was unveiled. Artists performing at the venue will include Gypsy & The Cat, Monolake (Germany), Banoffee, Eric Duncan (USA) aka Dr Drunks, Public Opinion Six, PVT (10 year anniversary), Kenton Slash Demon (Denmark), The Harpoons, Cobblestone Jazz (Canada), DZ Deathrays and many more. Above ground will feature a beer garden, a food truck featuring weekday Lunch Box Sessions from 1-2pm, and a swarm of afternoon DJ sets from 5-8pm, featuring the likes of Rat & Co DJs, Edd Fisher, Jim Lawrie, Ella Thompson, Woodes, CC:Disco, a Saturday Roller Jam and Mz Rizk’s Block Party and many more. Live Music Safari will open Melbourne’s live music venues for a night of free gigs and parties, with over 50 artists joining the bill. Mesa Cosa, Terrible Truths, Oddisee, Quarter Street, Sleep D, Dan White, Friendships, Kylie Auldist and Wax’o Paradiso are only some of the names added to the massive bill. Kenton Slash Demon (Denmark) will also play a free show at the Royal Women’s Hospital. MMW’s Self Made series is also returning, with an eclectic mix of independently-produced events throughout the city. Interwoven will feature an interactive sculpture installation at a city church that becomes a stage for an all-female line up, Gamer 3D involves a sensory distortion from behind 3D glasses with atmospheric synth tunes, Mop and Glow will celebrate the niche dance scene while Breakout will host a two stage party at Old Melbourne Gaol with several emerging artists added to their bill including The Great Melbourne Bike Ride, New Orleans Street Party, Brunch Gigs and A Club Called Trish. ACMI will once again partner up with MMW to deliver live film and music performances on the Friday night, featuring The Orbweavers & Liam Finn. And of course, let’s not forget the number of unique concerts have previously been announced, including Brian Jonestown Massacer and Robert Henke's Lumiere II shows. This also ties in with artistic collaborations at locations such as ACCA, MPavillion, Docklands Library, The Hellenic Museum, Rooftop Cinema and The Press Club along with many more.

Face The Music also partners up once again with Melbourne Music Week to bring an annual two-day industry conference to the event. As always, there’s things for the whole family to do as Club Kids hosts a DJ set from JD Samson, Morning Gloryville hosts a morning party and Learn to DJ! kicks off at ArtPlay. It’s a big old event, so if you can’t cram all that information into your brain-hole, make sure you hit up melbourne.vic.gov.au/mmw for more details. Melbourne Music Week goes down on Friday November 13 to Friday November 20.

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YOU ARE HERE UNVEILS SECOND LINEUP

The second instalment of Melbourne’s rowdy music party You Are Here is, well, here. Headlining Thursday October 8’s bill are lively garage rockers Magic Bones as they come hot off a tour with Stonefield after the release of their new single Danger I Am. Support for the show comes from ruckus bringin’ surfpunks Going Swimming and alt-rock troupe IV League. The party goes down at The Shadow Electric Bandroom on Thursday October 8. Shoot on over to the venue’s website for tickets and more details.

KING KAHUNA KARAOKE COMES TO LUWOW

A delight for participants and audiences alike, King Kahuna’s Rockin’ Karaoke is being launched at LuWoW for a night focused on the cream of the pop crop. The song selection is handpicked from the best of soul, funk, disco, pop, punk, rock’n’roll and many more as professionals rock up to practice their cover tracks and give participants their five minutes of stardom. The LuWoW will be welcoming singers of all calibres to the stage every Thursday from 9pm onwards. Entry is free, so pop in for the opening party this Thursday October 8 and give those windpipes a workout.

If you don’t know who Clapton is then put down the magazine there buddy. This is Beat, not Uncultured Swine Weekly. Eric Clapton celebrated his 70th birthday and 50th year in the music business earlier this year with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall and filmed the whole damn thing. Eric Clapton: Live at the Royal Albert Hall plays in Australian cinemas for one day only, Wednesday October 14. If you wanna be there, shoot for a double pass over at beat.com.au/ freeshit.

THE WHO LIVE IN HYDE PARK

In case you haven’t heard, The Who have been touring all year long as part of their 50th anniversary playing together.

When they played Hyde Park back in June, The Who pulled a Clapton and filmed it all. The culmination of their efforts, The Who: Live in Hyde Park features the band’s definitive hits such as Baba O’Riley, Pinball Wizard and My Generation, woven with interviews from the band members as well as the artists they influenced. The Who: Live in Hyde Park comes to our cinemas for just one day on Wednesday October 21, hit up beat.com.au/freeshit to win a double pass.

APES DROP NEW SINGLE AND MELBOURNE SHOW DATE

Apes have recently emerged from hibernation, releasing a new single along with a gorillian shows over the summer including a support slot for The Darkness’ upcoming tour. The band have been kicking goals since their inception in 2012, earning international and local recognition for their singles with their new release of Dimension set to continue the trend. They’ve got a show locked in for Melbourne at The Workers Club on Saturday December 5. Quit monkeying around and grab your tickets from the venues’ websites.

N I N T H A R T I S T F O R S O U N D WAV E 2016 REVEALED

Soundwave just keeps on getting bigger and better. Pop-punk outfit Moose Blood are the last act to join the already announced mega bunch of acts Know, Bring Me The Horizon, Lordi, Northlane, Refused, Bullet For My Valentine, Dead Letter Circus and Failure. Moose Blood recently played at Reading and Leeds Festivals and Vans Warped Tour USA, and have just released their new album I’ll Keep You In Mind From Time To Time. Soundwave 2016 will be held on Tuesday January 26 in Melbourne, returning to a one day format as opposed to the two day format adopted in previous years. Visit Soundwave website for tickets and more information.

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PA R A D I S E M U S I C F E S T I VA L R E V E A L 2015 SECOND LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT

Paradise Music Festival have announced the second round of acts that will perform at their 2015 incarnation. Completing the 2015 lineup will be Roland Tings, Flyying Colours, The Infants, Leisure Suite, Deer, Alta, Neighbourhood Youth, Misty Nights, Nutrition and IO. They join the already announced acts, which include My Disco, Lurch & Chief, Black Cab, Black Vanilla, Tired Lion, Kirkis, Cassius Select, The Harpoons, Smile, Dorsal Fins, Darts, Friendships, Totally Mild, Catlips, Oslow, Jaala, Null, Habits, Strict Face, Cale Sexton, Tiny Little Houses, Broadway Sounds, Andrei Eremin, 0.1, Marcus Whale, Amateur Dance, Good Morning, Asdasfr Bawd, Post Percy, The Completely Boys and Thomas Touché plus more to be announced. The BYO festival will once again be held at the Lake Mountain Alpine Resort, a unique site with views of the Victorian Alps and Great Dividing Range. Paradise Music Festival 2015 goes down from Friday November 27 to Sunday November 29.

AIR AWARDS

The Australian Independent Record Labels Association has announced the list of nominees up for Best Independent Label 2015 at this year’s Carlton Dry Independent Music Award. The Best Independent Label award was introduced in 2012 to recognize the contribution of indie labels to the Australian music scene.

The full list of this year’s nominees includes; Elefant Traks, Future Classic, Ivy League Records, Liberation Music and Milk! Records. The winner will be announced at the Air Awards, Thursday October 22 at Meat Market, North Melbourne. For tickets and more details, visit www.air.org.au.

WALKEN

Brisbane bros Matt Jamez and Joe Daley are set to become your next favourite punk duo as Walken, with this week’s release of film clip and single Even If It Kills Me dropping alongside news of an upcoming east coast tour. Since releasing 2014’s The Great Noise single, Walken have been invited on Violent Soho’s No Sleep Til Mansfield tour, supported local legends Clowns, The Hard-Ons and The Peep Temple, and played this year’s I LOVE LIFE festival with The Smith Street Band and Andrew Jackson Jihad.

Walken’s Skate With A Mate east coast tour hits The Tote on Friday October 23.

Head to the venue’s website for tickets and more information.

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In what is set to be their first return to Australian shores since 2010, The Charlatans are heading back to Melbourne to promote the release of one of their finest albums, Modern Nature. The album features a cacophony of contributors from their three temporary drummers - Pete Salisbury of The Verve, Stephen Morris of New Order and Gabriel Gurnsey of DFA’s avant-discogroup Factory Floor, to Kate Bush’s backing singers Melanie Marshall and Sandra Marvin, strings

by Sean O’ Hagan and brass courtesy of Dexys’ Big Jim Paterson. They’ve locked in a show for Sunday March 13 at 170

CITY OF MELBOURNE ANNOUNCES MELBOURNE MUSIC SYMPOSIUM

In an attempt to explore the status of Melbourne as one of the greatest music cities in the world (don’t deny it), the inaugural one-day Melbourne Music Symposium will be kicking off Thursday November 12 at the Melbourne Town Hall, the City of Melbourne announced last week. The speakers include Canada’s Amy Terrill, Vice President of Public Affairs at the Music Canada association, Professor Robert Kronenburg, (Roscoe Chair of Architecture) from the University of Liverpool, Melbourne musician and producer James Black, City of Melbourne Arts and Culture chair Councillor Rohan Leppert along with other key players from Melbourne’s music industry, academics, economics, journalists, planners and music makers.

Full details at melbourne.vic.gov.au.

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BEN WRIGHT SMITH AND ALI BARTER

After collaborating in 2013 on Ben’s single Sinners In Bloom, teaming up again on breakout track No One earlier this year, Ben Wright Smith and Ali Barter have announced a series of coheadline live shows going down this October. The shows will give Ali Barter a platform to officially launch her new EP, AB-EP, as well as Ben Wright Smith to launch

BANK OF MELBOURNE REVEAL FINAL FOUR COMPETITORS

The competition is kicking up a notch, as a public vote cuts the 12 finalists of the 2015 Melbourne Music Bank down to an outstanding four. Leading the charge this year is DL from Narre Warren with his track Until Today, Napier from Essendon with their track Shake! Shake! Shake!, Sam O’Connell from Mt Martha with his track I’m Not Okay and Jade Alice from Viewbank with her track Kick Drum. The talented final four will perform live on stage on Thursday October 8 at the Arts Centre’s State Theatre in front of a panel of industry experts who will then choose the winner. This year’s super impressive prize pack includes studio recording time, a film clip, printed CDs, and deals with industry leaders such as On The Map PR, Chris Robinson, Varasso PR and 123 Agency. Head to the Melbourne Music Bank website to re-listen or check out all of the tracks.

MSO TO RELEASE 177 EXTRA TICKETS FOR BACK TO THE FUTURE CONCERTS

Great Scott. This is your last chance to score tickets for Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming performance of Back To The Future Live In Concert.

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future movie, the MSO will perform Alan Silvestri’s entire score from the classic film live as the movie is projected on a large screen above the musicians. Back To The Future Live In Concert will take place at Plenary, Melbourne Exhibition Centre on Friday November 6 - and Saturday November 7. The remaining 177 tickets are available through the MSO until sold out.

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SPACE JUNK ALBUM L AUNCH AT THE OLD BAR

Get onto some new punk from Spacejunk. Since their inception, Spacejunk have been gigging relentlessly around Melbourne and regional Victoria, sharing stages Tumbleweed, Hard-Ons, Six Ft Hick and The Peep Tempel. This Friday October 9, Spacejunk are coming down to The Old Bar to launch Bite Your Tongue, with Grim Rhythm, Shit Sex and Uptown Ace. Tickets and more details through the venue’s website.

THIRSTY MERC RESCHEDULE THEIR TOUR

Thirsty Merc’s tour was sadly cancelled last week after a tragic road accident.

Fans rallied around the band, and Thirsty Merc have since confirmed their return to The Good Life tour. Thirsty Merc will be donating a portion of each ticket sold from The Good Life tour to assist the grief-stricken families, with a benefit concert expected to be announced soon.

Once again, Thirsty Merc play Northcote Social Club on Wednesday October 28.

T W E LV E F O O T N I N J A P L A Y I N G M E L B C U P EVE AT THE CROXTON

Twelve Foot Ninja are returning to home shores to play a massive show on Melbourne Cup Eve. Winners of Best New Talent at last year’s Golden Gods Awards in the US, in 2014 the band also broke a world record for crowd funding a music video, and went on to play some of America’s biggest rock festivals including Rock On The Range, Carolina Rebellion, Welcome To Rockville and Rocklahoma. Catch ‘em on Monday November 2 at The Croxton. Grab your tickets through Oztix.

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INTERNATIONAL JJ GREY & MOFRO Northcote Social Club October 7 SILENT KNIGHT The Bendigo October 8 KISS Rod Laver Arena October 8, October 10 JAAKKO EINO KALEVI National Gallery of Victoria October 9 SICK OF IT ALL Corner Hotel October 9 KIASMOS Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 9 CLINT MANSELL Melbourne Recital Centre October 10, 11 BABYLON CIRCUS Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 10 HAMMERFALL 170 Russell October 13 LIFEHOUSE The Forum October 15 HELLOWEEN Metro Theatre October 16 COLM MAC CON IOMAIRE Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 16, 17 BRANDT BRAUER FRICK Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 17 OUT ON THE WEEKEND Seaworks, Williamstown October 17 SNOT Corner Hotel October 17 SAM OUTLAW Northcote Social Club October 18, 25 MEGADETH Festival Hall October 19 DAWES Northcote Social Club October 20 – 21 JAMESTOWN REVIVAL Northcote Social Club October 21 – 22 BIGBANG Rod Laver Arena October 21 RHYE Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 21, 22 THE EXPERIMENT Merlyn Theatre October 21-24 JAI WOLF Howler October 22 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Rod Laver Arena October 22 – 24 ELDER AND EARTHLESS The Corner October 23 THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH Max Watt’s October 23 THE RIPTIDE MOVEMENT Max Watt’s October 24 THE FIELD Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 23 THE FALL Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 23 – 25 DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT 170 Russell October 25 SOULFEST Sidney Myer Music Bowl October 25 DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT 170 Russell October 25, 26 NEIL DIAMOND Rod Laver Arena October 27 CANNED HEAT Corner Hotel October 29 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Palais Theatre October 29 10CC The Palms at Crown October 30 HOZIER Palais Theatre October 30 AT THE GATES Friday October 30 PULLED APART BY HORSES Ding Dong Lounge October 30, 31 ANATHEMA Corner Hotel October 31 AUDRA MCDONALD Hamer Hall October 31 DAY OF THE DEAD TBA October 31 HIGHLANDS FESTIVAL Yea October 31 – November 2 DAVID GUETTA Hisense Arena November 2 FLEETWOOD MAC Rod Laver Arena November 2, 4, Mt Dundeed Estate November 7 THE RUBBERBANDITS Max Watt’s November 6 NAUGHTY BY NATURE Trak Lounge November 6 THE DARKNESS Forum Theatre November 7 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Forum Theatre November 7 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 10, 11 NICO & VINZ Prince Bandroom November 11 AUSTRALASIAN WORLD MUSIC EXPO Various Venues November 12 – 15 THE TEA PARTY Palais Theatre November 13 MUMFORD & SONS Sidney Myer Music Bowl November 13 THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE Melbourne Town Hall November 15 POKÉMON SYMPHONIC EVOLUTIONS Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre November 13 HAUSCHKA Melbourne Recital Centre November 17 DEF LEPPARD Rod Laver Arena November 18 THE BEACH BOYS Palais Theatre November 18 LIVE The Forum November 19 ROBERT HENKE Melbourne Recital Centre, November 19 NILE Corner Hotel November 21 HANK MARVIN MEMO Music Hall November 21, 22 JON TOOGOOD Cherry Bar November 22 UB40 The Forum November 24 CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS Caravan Music Club November 25, Northcote Social Club November 26 EARTHCORE Pyalong, Victoria November 26 – 30 MARLON WILLIAMS Prince Bandroom November 27 RON SEXSMITH MEMO Music Hall November 27, Northcote Social Club November 28 RISE AGAINST Margaret Court Arena December 2 GOAT + KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD The Croxton December 4 LAGWAGON Max Watt’s December 4 CHRIS CORNELL The Palais December 4 THE CORONAS Corner Hotel December 4 THE HOTELIER The Reverence Hotel December 4 MONO Corner Hotel December 5

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ED SHEERAN AAMI Park December 5 STEREOSONIC Melbourne Showgrounds December 5 RATATAT 170 Russell December 6 UNWRITTEN LAW The Corner Hotel December 6 MERCURY REV Max Watt’s December 8 SAM SMITH Rod Laver Arena December 8 HALESTORM 170 Russell December 8 YELAWOLF Max Watt’s December 9 SHELLAC Corner Hotel December 9, 10 THURSTON MOORE Prince Bandroom December 10 JESSICA PRATT Northcote Social Club December 10 FATHER JOHN MISTY The Forum December 10 BULLY Howler December 10 JULIA HOLTER Howler December 11 THE MISFITS Max Watt’s December 11 TAYLOR SWIFT AAMI Park December 11 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre December 11-13 ELTON JOHN Rod Laver Arena December 11, Mt Duneed Estate December 12 THE EXPLOITED Max Watt’s December 12 UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS Corner Hotel December 13 A DAY TO REMEMBER + THE AMITY AFFLICTION Rod Laver Arena December 17 FALLS FESTIVAL Lorne December 28 – January 1 BEYOND THE VALLEY Lardner, Victoria December 29 – January 1 GROUNDSWELL FESTIVAL Lake Tyers Beach January 2 KURT VILE The Forum January 3 WEIRD AL YANKOVIC The Palais Theatre January 3 MAC DEMARCO 170 Russel January 3 – 5 YUNG LEAN Prince Bandroom January 5 BØRNS The Corner January 5 BLOC PARTY The Forum January 5 DISCLOSURE Festival Hall January 6 TORO Y MOI Max Watt’s January 6 SOAK Northcote Social Club January 6 HALSEY The Forum January 6 FOALS Festival Hall January 7 ELLIPHANT Howler January 7 GARY CLARK JR The Forum January 7 OH WONDER Northcote Social Club January 7 DJANGO DJANGO 170 Russell January 8 SO FRENCHY SO CHIC IN THE PARK Werribee Park January 11 NIGHTWISH The Forum Monday January 11 UNIFY South Gippsland January 16 – 17 THE 1975 Festival Hall January 20 SOUNDWAVE 2016 TBA January 26 JAMES BAY Festival Hall February 3 LANEWAY Footscray Community Arts Centre February 13 SOILWORK 170 Russell February 16 REGGAE ROYALTY Palais Theatre February 18 JD MCPHERSON Corner Hotel February 19 FAT FREDDY’S DROP The Forum February 19 SUFJAN STEVENS Hamer Hall February 26 CLUTCH The Forum March 5 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Port Fairy March 11 – 14 MADONNA Rod Laver Arena March 12, 13 THE CHARLATONS 170 Russell March 13 BRYAN ADAMS Rod Laver Arena March 18 BLUESFEST Byron Bay March 24 – 28 BLACK SABBATH Rod Laver Arena April 19 JOSH GROBAN Palais Theatre April 25 IRON MAIDEN Rod Laver Arena May 9

NATIONAL BEN LEE The Corner October 7 THE HARLOTS Ding Dong Lounge October 7, 14, 21, 28 BEN WRIGHT SMITH & ALI BARTER Howler October 8 KING KAHUNA’S KARAOKE The LuWoW October 8 YOU ARE HERE Shadow Electric October 8 THE BEARDS The Corner October 8 SPACEJUNK Old Bar October 9 COLUMBUS Reverence Hotel October 9 HANDS LIKE HOUSES Northcote Social Club October 9 ÁINE TYRRELL Shadow Electric October 9 PORT FAIRY SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL Port Fairy October 9 - 11 THE RUBENS The Forum October 9 MAGIC AMERICA The Curtin October 9 AT THE DAKOTA Grace Darling October 9 GOLD CLASS The Tote October 9 HEAVY AND HAMMERED The Tote October 10 GAY PARIS Cherry Bar October 10 BASENJI Howler October 10 OUTLAND BROTHERS The Thornbury Local October 10 KISSCHASY The Corner October 10 VALLIS ALPS Northcote Social Club October 10 KIRIN J CALLINAN Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 11 2015 SEED FUNDRAISER CONCERT Athenaeum Theatre October 12 THE BASICS Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne Festival October 13, 14 LOON LAKE The Corner October 14 POSTBLUE Shebeen October 15 JAY POWER The Toff in Town October 15 THE BOMBAY ROYALE Foxtel Festival Hub,

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CIT Y AND COLOUR BEFORE AND AF TER

By David James Young

Up until quite recently, speaking with Dallas Green meant you were effectively talking to City and Colour. The project began as a solo outlet for the Alexisonfire guitarist just over a decade ago. In contrast to Alexisonfire’s aggressive post hardcore sound, City and Colour gave Green a chance to explore his gentler, acoustic-oriented side. Speaking to Green currently, however, is a different matter.

He still heads City and Colour, but for the last two years he’s been joined by four other musicians, both on the road and in the studio – bassist Jack Lawrence, drummer Doug MacGregor, organist/pianist/pedal steel player Matthew Kelly and lead guitarist Dante Schwebel. This five-piece lineup is responsible for the latest two City and Colour albums, including If I Should Go Before You, which is released this weekend.

“When I put this band together, I wasn’t looking for friends, to be completely honest with you,” Green says. “I was looking for something specific. I had been through a band with my friends, Alexisonfire, for so many years. When City and Colour was evolving I got my friends involved. Then I made a decision to make The Hurry and the Harm [2013] with people that I’d never met. I decided to try it – I got a bunch of players that were really good and hoped that it would work. I ended up with four people that, while also remarkable players, are also four people that I would happily call some of my best friends.

“Over the last two years, playing with them and getting to know them personally has been something I’ve really valued. I think we connect because we’re older guys that have been doing this forever. We’ve all done this on so many different levels. We’ve all toured in the van, slept on the floor, played to no one. We’re still here. We’re still doing it. It’s a testament to what we’ve been through.”

If I Should Go Before You marks some notable changes for City and Colour. Along with being the first album made since solidifying the lineup, it’s also the first album that Green himself produced. Although Green has always at least assisted with production – most prominently on his 2005 debut, Sometimes – he decided to take complete control this time around.

“I had a vision of what I wanted the album to sound like,” he says. “Having my friend Karl [Bareham] on hand to engineer was a big help – he’s been a friend of mine for something like 12 years now. I think that if we had brought in anyone else to produce this album it wouldn’t have reflected what we wanted to do. This was about building our confidence. Having this band and having Karl around really gave me hope that I would be able to achieve what I wanted out of this record.”

Having a fully invested band by his side also made the composition side of things much easier for Green.

“With the older records, I played a lot of it myself and had people coming in and out,” he says. “This time I had a specific guy for each thing that I wanted to do. I approached the songwriting and recording that way – I could get Matt to cycle through organ sounds, or improvise a bit of pedal steel, I could get Doug to go between brushes and sticks. I had roles set out and everything at my disposal.”

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Fans’ first taste of the album came via its opening number, the colossal nine-minute suite Woman. It’s the longest City and Colour song to date, as well as the song that perhaps stretches the furthest away from the project’s original aesthetic.

“I THINK WE CONNECT BECAUSE WE’RE OLDER GUYS THAT HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOREVER. WE’VE ALL DONE THIS ON SO MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS. WE’VE ALL TOURED IN THE VAN, SLEPT ON THE FLOOR, PLAYED TO NO ONE. WE’RE STILL HERE. WE’RE STILL DOING IT. IT’S A TESTAMENT TO WHAT WE’VE BEEN THROUGH.”

“That one built out of a huge jam session,” says Green, who takes a comparison to Neil Young and Crazy Horse with the utmost grace. “Basically, the only rule that we set out was that if I motioned toward the mic it meant I was going to sing. As soon as I moved away, all bets were off. We must have jammed that for like 30, maybe 40 minutes. I’m pretty sure I still have a halfhour demo version lying around somewhere. We just knew that we were onto something really special with that song.”

Despite cutting it back to a relatively modest nine minutes, there’s always the option of extending it live.

“Exactly,” laughs Green. “I’ve called it ‘the festival killer.’ If a set’s ever going badly at a festival, we’re just going to play Woman for however much time we have left. We could be one song in. It hasn’t happened yet, but we’ve got it in the back pocket should it arise.”

In terms of technical nuts-and-bolts, Green mentions that going out and buying new gear is part and parcel of an album’s creation for him. Each time he enters the studio to make a City and Colour record, he brings in a whole lot of new toys to play around with.

“I’m on an endless search for tone,” he says. “I always

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go out and get new amps, new guitars, things like that.

I love finding new ways to produce sound. I tend to have the same few guitars that I write music with, but the great thing about recording is that it gives you the freedom to explore what each song can sound like.”

To illustrate, a recent off-hand purchase was key to realising one of If I Should Go Before You’s eleven songs.

“I bought this weird old 12-string electric guitar. I’d never used one before in the studio, and I didn’t even think I’d use it. I just thought it looked neat – it wasn’t a particular brand or model or anything like that. It was just something that I came across second-hand.

That guitar ended up being used in the song Wasted Love – I played the guitar solo on that track with this 12-string. I don’t even know why, but for some reason it just felt right. You never know where that search is going to take you next.”

Having experienced an eclectic array of Australian festivals in the past – including Soundwave, Splendour in the Grass and Groovin the Moo – Green and co. will return to Australia next Easter for the Byron Bay Bluesfest. Green himself is greatly intrigued by the lineup and excited to take in a different aspect of Australian festival culture.

“I’m always interested in playing new festivals. There’s so many now, and they’re always run differently.

There’s different people who attend. I’ve played just before Metallica with Alexisonfire and I’ve played just before Neil Young with City and Colour. I feel really welcome at all of these places. It’s really exciting to play with a band like The National as well as a guy like Joe Bonamassa and a bunch of those blues veterans.

It’s another challenge in order to adapt to a new environment. I can’t wait to experience it. Anyone who knows me knows that, if I could, I’d be on the plane to Australia tomorrow.”

CITY AND COLOUR will appear at Bluesfest 2016, which goes down from Thursday March 24 – Monday March 28 at the Tyagarah Tea Farm. The lineup includes The National, Tom Jones, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Jackson Browne and roughly three zillion more. If I Should Go Before You is out Friday October 9 via Dine Alone Records/ Cooking Vinyl.

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The Australian Movie and Comic Expo

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Saturday October 17 - Sunday October 18 Melbourne Showgrounds

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Friday October 30 - Saturday October 31 Theatre Works

Russian Resurrection Film Festival Thursday November 5 - Sunday November 15 ACMI

Jimmy Carr will return to Australian shores early next year. A TV regular on the likes of 10 O’Clock Live, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Big Fat Quiz, Carr will bring his Funny Business tour Down Under, on which he’s currently performed over 200 dates around the United Kingdom. Over the course of his stand-up career he’s scored the British Comedy Award for ‘Best Live Stand-Up Tour’ and a Perrier Award nomination. Catch him at Hamer Hall on Monday January 25.

THURSDAY COMEDY This Thursday, Tony Martin headlines another massive show. He’s a legend within Australian comedy, having been part of The Late Show, Martin/Molloy, Get This and more, and he’s just completely sold out his run at the Melbourne Fringe Festival. So here’s your chance if you missed out on tickets. Plus there’s a great support lineup in the shape of Mike Goldstein, Karl Chandler, Demi Lardner and a special guest or two. Last week Stephen K Amos dropped in, so you never know who you’re going to see there.

There’s been massive audiences the last few weeks, so get down early to get a good seat. It’s all happening this Thursday October 8 at 8.30pm, at the European Bier Café, 120 Exhibition Street, CBD, all for only $12.

COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays at Comedy at Spleen are always full, and this week will be no different. The only place to be on Mondays will be chockers full of laughs with guests and it’s the place where big names drop in. This Monday there are guests like Lehmo, Mike Goldstein, Anne Edmonds, Mick Neven, Cameron James, Linda Beatty, some special guests and more. It’s this Monday October 12, at 41 Bourke Street, CBD, at 8.30pm. It’s free to get in, but they appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

COMEDY AT THE WILDE Tuesdays at The Wilde some of Melbourne’s best young comedians join with ‘sign up on the night’ open mic acts for one of the loosest nights in town. Daniel Connell joins 2015 Golden Gibbo nominee Clara Cupcakes, Jess Perkins and more this week for another big, fun night of comedy.

It’s this Tuesday October 13 at 153 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy at 8pm. And, it’s totally free.

KINGS OF COMEDY Kings of Comedy are back for another massive week with Brett Blake, Mark McConnell, Anthony Jeannot, Marc Oszhka, Miles Milson, Gabe Hogan, Greg Duffield, Mark Pengilly, Michael Shafar, Russell Wigginton and headliner Kirsty Webeck. It goes down on Friday October 9 at La Di Da.

Provocateur Presented by Grrl Fest and MAX FREAK, each of instalment in the Provocateur series sees collaboration from some of Melbourne’s finest performance, music, art and women who challenge the status quo. To cap it off, all proceeds are given to a women-oriented charity.

Featuring at the next event will be Stella Fauna, Rachel By The Stream, Br00klyn Queenz, DJ Deja Vudu and cabaret from Mama Alto, Sarhys Paige, Fox Pflueger, Penn and Joh’s Booty Academy. Hosting the the night is Sha Gazey & Jimay, with more acts to be announced. It all goes down on Saturday October 10 at 24 Moons, with funds raised going to Sisters and Brothers NT.

A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence ACMI will screen A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, the final chapter in the award-winning Living Trilogy from acclaimed Swedish director, Roy Andersson, this October and November. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence plays out in a series of linked and stand-alone vignettes. Andersson’s film loosely follows two narrative threads. Sweden’s warring King Charles XII returns unexpectedly from the 18th century to gallop about in cafes and recruit unsuspecting modern men for his impending war with Russia. Meanwhile, two hapless salesmen travel in and out of the frame selling vampire fangs, laugh bags and fright masks. Andersson’s reoccurring examinations of colonialism, the Holocaust, beauty and absurdity fill each scene. The other parts of the trilogy, Songs From The Second Floor (2000), which won the Jury Prize at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and marked Andersson’s return to filmmaking after a 25 year hiatus, and 2007’s You, The Living will also screen at ACMI. Roy Andersson’s Living Trilogy will screen at ACMI from Monday October 26 to Sunday November 15.

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Monday November 9 Hamer Hall

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Wednesday November 11 - Sunday December 13 Various Venues

Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei

Friday December 11 - Sunday April 24 National Gallery of Victoria

Cracked Mirrors The Last Man Standing Steve Vizard and Paul Grabowsky (Fast Forward) will team up with renowned director Roger Hodgman (Frost/Nixon, Blithe Spirit) to bring the world premiere of The Last Man Standing to Melbourne. Featuring an all-star cast including Peter Carroll and William McInnes, the show offers a night of comedy, music and storytelling. Billed as social satire, The Last Man Standing tells the tale of Colonel Raymond Hope, appointed to take the reins of the biggest television event of the year. When he meets Clarry Flint, the last surviving digger, he hopes for gravitas but instead finds a genuine curmudgeon, challenging the blurred boundaries between larrikin and legend. The Last Man Standing premieres at Southbank, The Sumner from Friday November 6 – Saturday December 12.

BBC First British Film Festival Returning for its third year, the BBC First British Film Festival will showcase a handpicked selction of films from the British Isles. Featuring 31 titles, the program aims to capture the unique humour, romance and traditions of British culture. The festival is book-ended by two critically acclaimed films, opening with Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth, and closing with The Man Who Knew Infinity – the retelling of mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan’s life. Featuring Dev Petal (Slumdog Millionaire) as Ramanujan and Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons as Cambridge University Professor G.H Hardy, the film charts the Indian mathematician’s vital contributions to his field while dealing with the ignorance and prejudice that surrounds him. Further program highlights include Spooks: The Greater Good, where the BBC spy thriller series Spooks makes its long awaited big screen debut, Kill Your Friends, in which a young record label rep (Nicholas Hoult) does whatever it takes to get ahead in his cutthroat industry and The Program, delving into the controversy surrounding cyclist Lance Armstrong.

Starring Chris O’Dowd as Irish sports journalist David Walsh, the film is a complex exploration of a scandal and the ultimate downfall of Armstrong. This year also sees a number of films focusing on courageous and inspirational women. From director Sarah Gavron (London Road) comes Suffragette, an intense drama tracking the fight for women’s voting rights, starring an ensemble cast including Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep. Queen of the Desert, from legendary director Werner Herzog, tells the adventures of traveller, writer, archaeologist and political attaché for the British Secret Service, Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman). Rounding it out comes Dare to be Wild, the true story of Irish heroine Mary Reynolds (Emma Greenwell), who was a prodigy in the field of landscape design. The British Film Festival will run from Wednesday October 28 - Wednesday November 18 at venues across the city.

Child sexual abuse is a frightening reality in the Philippines as it is in many countries around the world. Written

by Monica Ray from the Stairway Foundation, Cracked Mirrors has proven effective in stirring up emotions and challenging the audience’s views and perceptions on this issue. Stairway Foundation is Scuba for Change’s non-profit partner based in the Philippines promoting children’s rights. Scuba for Change is a world first social enterprise in the scuba diving industry, with 100% of our profits are reinvested into local communities. They’ll bring Cracked Mirrors to the Shirley Burke Theatre from Monday October 19 - Tuesday October 20 and Star of The Sea College from Wednesday October 21 - Friday October 22.

BE LOVE NOW: THE PATH OF THE HEART – RAM DASS ($26.95)

Ram Dass’s long-awaited Be Love Now is the transformational teaching of a forty year journey to the heart.

The author of the two-million-copy classic Remember, Be Here Now and its influential sequel Still Here, Dass is joined once more by Rameshwar Das - a collaborator from the Love Serve Remember audio recordings - to offer this intimate and inspiring exploration of the human soul. Like Deepak Chopra’s Book of Secrets, the Dalai Lama’s Art of Happiness, and Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Coming to Our Senses, Ram Dass’s Be Love Now will serve as a lodestar for anyone seeking to enhance their spiritual awareness and improve their capacity to serve - and love - the world around them.

GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY, HOLLYWOOD & THE PRISON OF BELIEF – LAWRENCE WRIGHT ($24.95)

Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence Wright armed with his investigative talents, years of archival research, and more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists uncovers the inner workings of the church. We meet founder L. Ron Hubbard, the highly imaginative but mentally troubled science-fiction writer, and his tough, driven successor, David Miscavige. We go inside their specialized cosmology and language. We learn about the church’s legal attacks on the IRS, its vindictive treatment of critics, and its phenomenal wealth. We see the church court celebrities such as Tom Cruise while consigning its clergy to hard labour under billion-year contracts. Through it all, Wright asks what fundamentally comprises a religion, and if Scientology in fact merits this constitutionally-protected label.

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From the food we eat and the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by our modern devices, and brutal police tactics. All a coincidence? Think again. In Population Control, acclaimed journalist Jim Marrs lays out a stunning case for his most audacious conspiracy yet: the scheme concocted by a handful of global elites to reduce the world’s population to 500 million by whatever means necessary and make a profit from it. Marrs, the bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy and The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, pulls no punches in exposing this evil and chillingly effective plan.

He explains how a small group of tremendously wealthy and powerful people controls virtually every important industry guns, oil, pharmaceuticals, food, and of course the media and how it uses this vast network of conglomerates to take actions that lead to the deaths of men and women all over the world.

LIBER NULL & PSYCHONAUT: AN INTRODUCTION TO CHAOS MAGIC – PETER J CARROLL ($24.95)

The practice of chaos magic is clearly outlined by Peter Carroll in this double-volume containing Liber Null and Psychonaut. Liber Null contains a selection of extremely powerful rituals and exercises for committed occultists who are aware of their own being. Practical instructions lead the reader through new concepts.

Psychonaut is a manual comprising the theory and practice of magic aimed at those seeking to perform group magic, or who work as shamanic priests to the community. Carroll has taken methods from Austin Osman Spare, shamanism, paganism and Chaos science and synthesized them into a new system of practice.

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An incredible, meticulous reference documenting the massive musical output by the pioneering reggae legend, inventor of dub, and Marley collaborator who Keith Richards calls “the Salvador Dali of music”. With more than 1000 releases to Lee “Scratch” Perry’s name in some form or other, there is a wealth of material for fans and collectors to immerse themselves in, and here is the essential reference - an extensive, detailed, heavily illustrated guide to the records produced by Perry and those that hailed from his legendary Black Ark Studio. Instantly recognizable, both in appearance and musical approach, he has become a legend in his own lifetime and earned himself an international army of admirers. His resume is beyond compare in the worlds of reggae and dub; two genres which he has helped create and define since the 1950s. Perry is a classic maverick who helped create today’s musical landscape by pushing himself, and studio technology, to the point of destruction.

JOHNNY WOULD YOU LOVE ME IF… - BRONTEZ PURNELL ($19.95)

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The Bacchae

By Liza Dezfouli Fraught Outfit’s theatre co-creators Aaron Orzech and Adena Jacobs found there was something left unexpressed from their 2013 production The Bodily Education of Young Girls. That something demanded its own show which became The Bacchae, a Fraught Outfits co-production with Theatre Works. Beat talks to Orzech about how The Bacchae came about. “On the Bodily Education of Young Girls was a very focused, silent, sad piece,” the theatre maker says. “After that show we found we were left with an amazing energy – vibrancy, violence, intensity, interesting things that didn’t have a place in the performance. Where it came from, was somewhere epic and tragic, really the other end of spectrum from the first show. We felt that this energy really had potential.”

The Bacchae (also known as The Bacchantes) is a Greek tragedy by Euripides presenting human nature in terms of a duality, the rational and civilized versus the instinctive, symbolized by the god Dionysus. The original play tells the story of a city where the women, following Dionysus, the god of drunkenness, disinhibition, excess and mayhem, have all ‘upped stumps’ and retreated to a mountain side in a frenzy that becomes murderous.

Orzech says that there’s very little of the original in Fraught Outfit’s production, apart from some key images and ideas. “Motifs, stories and figures are woven together to create a new order,” he explains. “There is the playing out of mutual destruction and desolation that we wanted to retain from the original, even though this is not a production of the play. In the original play of The Bacchae it opens when Dionysus has sent all the women mad and they’ve all left their homes, their families, their work. We’ve taken the figures of women on the mountain. The city setting is something that oc-

curs in Greek tragedies, they often start with a state of crisis. With Oedipus for example, the city is suffering great plague. The women have gone – we’ve worked on a lateral interpretation of that. Our set isn’t a city; it’s a metaphor, the idea of a place becoming soulless, with its heart ripped out. The stage becomes void except for acts of divine power. And violence.”

Much of what audiences will see on stage at Theatre Works comes from collaboration with the young cast, adolescent girls in theatre training at Saint Martin’s Youth Theatre. Orzech reckons keeping up with their energy has been a challenge in itself. “The collaboration has been amazing,” he continues. “A huge part of the material comes out of the girls’ responses to it, both in the performance sense and in their physical and emotional responses. They’re an intellectual, intelligent bunch, so articulate, and it’s been exciting keeping up with their wonderful offers.. One challenge has been matching the amount of joy and vivacity these young

women naturally have. They’re all at school, and fortunately we’ve had a longish time in development, so there’s been time to do a bunch of work – as an ensemble they have a lot of autonomy. There’s a real sense of collaboration and dialogue.”

We ask Orzech about the structure of the piece. Does the play involve a narrative? “It’s not a story with characters or with a beginning middle and end,” he answers.

“It coheres in terms of watching a group we feel we know mutate and transform into something different before our eyes. Dionysus represents breaking down borders, mutation, hallucination, violence, and that’s the track we follow as audience.”

There’s some danger in portraying young women as crazy or hysterical, diagnoses that have been used to oppress women from time immemorial. Orzech elaborates. “Our interpretation of the play didn’t fall into clichés of crazy women. We spoke to ideas the girls fed back to us. We negotiated the notion of ‘the hormonal or hysterical female’ – we talked about that a lot. When you tell people about the show there is this notion of teenage girls running around in hysterics screaming.

We are playing against that. On a fundamental level, with an ensemble of teenage women, we looked at how to create a sense of terror and chaos, using their own experiences of hysteria with the design elements of the play coming together. We talked about trying to stage any kind of chaos. We’ve been integrating music and drama, we used the energy that is there and channeled it into more distilled psychotic images and sound to

explore how these women are given divine power by the god which becomes emanation of quite the worst aspects of masculine violence. It’s a poisoned chalice.

The other element that is central to the work is music – we wanted to create sense of Dionysus as also being the god of theatre who sustains that life force of music.”

In the original play the king of the city loses his life by daring to disguise himself and spy on the women.

Orzech says Fraught Outfits’ version of The Bacchae offers no answers to any tricky questions about the male gaze, questions about who’s watching who. “I definitely don’t think there’s a polemic or a message,” he says. “We want audiences to be intrigued and excited. A lot of ideas are deeply embedded in the play – there is a relation to how the gaze works in daily life to a piece of theatre; in a lot of ways what you’re doing is voyeurism, wanting to watch the girls yet you’re ‘not allowed to’. This ensemble of young women, we gaze on them.

These are aware and articulate girls who we watch and they watch us back. We’re confronted by a group of women who look back. There is a bleaker vision thrown back to us as a question as to how we construct young women. How we see women in terms of notions of violence, how we see insane women – this production does speak against the conventional images of mad women.”

The Bacchae will be performed at Theatre Works from Thursday October 8 - Saturday November 24 as part of Melbourne Festival.

Jurassica

By Liza Dezfouli A new Australian play coming up at Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Jurassica, by Dan Giovannoni, deals with the experience of migration and how the impact of that resonates through the generations. Beat asks director Bridget Balodis how the play came to be called Jurassica. “A couple of reasons,” she answers. “There are dinosaurs in the play. It’s about personal histories and inheritance; the reference to dinosaurs is about how far back we go. Without giving too much away, the dinosaur element belongs to a story that’s passed down through a family coping with isolation. It’s part of a comforting family narrative that’s passed down through the generations; it’s not a fictional character. Dinosaurs are about the grandparents’ own story from their own imagination; it’s a mechanism to cope with the experience of migrating, part of the mythology that they pass the story on as a childhood story.

“The play comes from the writer Dan’s own experience, about going back and relating to his father and his grandfather,” Balodis continues. “It’s a male-centred story but there is a strong female character – the interpreter at the hospital. She’s from Yugoslavia, which of course doesn’t exist now. So she has experienced that loss of belonging, that loss of cultural identity in terms of place; she experiences not only geographical changes but she also embodies the kind of story when a label for a people changes. She makes Luka – the main character – understand what his grandfather did, understand the reality of his grandfather’s life and the decisions he made.”

Playwright Dan Giovannoni tells us a bit more about the play’s beginnings: “It comes from a couple of things: my dad is an interpreter, he acts as a conduit, as a link between family members who don’t share the same language. He’s been working in nursing homes and in hospitals with migrants who came out in the ‘50s. He’s interpreting between old migrants and their children who don’t necessarily share the language of their own parents. They can’t talk about the big stuff. He hears a lot of interesting stories. There’s a parallel there with my own experience with my grandparents. And that thought lodged itself in my mind. So the story is of that experience: I was getting older and my grandparents don’t know how to speak to me of their stories. So it’s about how sad I was about that – if I had felt that when I was younger I would have stuck with high school Italian. I still regret not learning it, but it’s not too late, I suppose.” When Beat speaks to him, Giovannoni has just watched a run-through of his play. “There were some real truth bombs for me. Although it’s a fictional version of the characters, it rings true. And it will ring true for a lot of children of migrants.”

Balodis describes Jurassica as a ‘beautiful play’. “I love it,” she says. “It’s got a very European feel to it. It’s heart-rending and darkly funny, much funnier than

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you’d expect from its themes.

Jurassica spans three generations of Italian men, the grandfather, father, and grandson. How is the play structured? “The play moves backwards and forwards in time,” answers the director. “We have those two stories happening at two separate times. There’s an overlap of two separate worlds. We’re going back, to tell multigenerational stories of Italian immigrants. It’s about distances, about how the third generation feels far away from the immigrant generation. The grandchildren of post WWII migrants are now 20 – 30 years old. Their grandparents don’t necessarily speak the same language as their grandparents. So their grandchildren don’t understand the heritage. The second generation had a strong desire to distance themselves from the home culture, to assimilate, which renders the next generation isolated. We need to hear more of those voices.”

Boladis says she has a deep personal connection with the subject matter of Jurassica. “The story resonated with me. I have a Latvian background. My grandparents were WWII migrants and gave up speaking Latvian. They wanted to be Australian, they wanted to fit in. They’re both dead now. I know in theory the things that my grandparents did. But I can’t understand their experience of the Second World War, of being in a prison camp, of moving to far north Queensland which was completely foreign to them. Personal narrative mythology loses something in translation. You can understand something in theory but you don’t understand the deeper aspects. You don’t realise what a sacrifice your grandparents made for the future generation. I’m turning 30 soon and I wonder – what would it be like to move my entire life? To make my life in an entirely alien culture, to try and live in a foreign language?”

Jurassica will premiere at Red Stitch Actors Theatre from Friday October 9 - Saturday November 7.

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wednesday oct 7 •COQ ROQ WEDNESDAY - FEAT: JENS

BEAMIN + AGENT 86 + MR THOM + JOYBOT + BLABERUNNER Lucky Coq, Windsor. 8:30pm.

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

• REVOLVER WEDNESDAYS - FEAT: RAMBLE + DANIELSAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00pm.

thursday oct 8 •3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: AGENT 86 +

POST PERCY + JOEY & YANNI + JAMES STEETH Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

6:00pm.

• A LOTTA BIT TOPSY TURVY - FEAT: TRENDYFRIENDS CREW Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

• CC (DISCO) - FEAT: CC:DISCO + SEN POLO + COLETTE R Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

• DISCO VOLANTE - FEAT: FABRIS + TIM KOREN + SAMMY SWAYN + ALEX CRAM + JACK NELSON + PETER FOTOP + RYAN KEARY + MITCH BAIN + MANNY BUBOS + DAN BENTLEY + YASKI + RHYS BYNON + KHANH ONG + GEORGE KARA Onesixone, Prahran.

8:00pm.

• THE WALL - FEAT: AYWY + MITSUNAMI + EGGMAN + SHEDBUG + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm.

• UPTOWN Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak.

10:00pm.

• VARSITY - FEAT: PAZ + MATT RAD + PYZ Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

• WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

friday oct 9 •#MASHTAG - FEAT: NU-GEN +

faktory

MALPRACTICE + FLAGRANT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• CAN’T SAY Platform One, Melbourne.

9:00pm.

• CIROQ FRIDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• DANCE MISSION CLUB - FEAT: LIGHT FORCE + RAPID ACQUISITION + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $5.00.

• DANCE MISSION CLUB - FEAT: LIGHT FORCE + LIQUIVISION + DECIBEL + RAPID ACQUISITION + SPRINKLES + PHYSIKAL Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $5.00.

• FABULOUS FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.00.

• FAKE TITS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + SUNSHINE + SAMMY LA MARCA + BUTTERS + ADAM BARTAS + JUNGLE JIM Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $15.00.

• 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.

• KIASMOS The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank. 9:00pm. $45.00.

• LUCK TRUCK FRIDAY DOWNSTAIRS FEAT: 99 PRBLMZ + CONGO TARDIS #1 + LITTLE LEAGUE BOUNCE CLUB Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

• PANORAMA FRIDAYS UPSTAIRS -

wi t h FEAT: PHATO A MANO + MR.GEORGE + MATT RADD + ASH-LEE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

• PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS - FEAT: AMIN PAYNE + WINTERS + JACKSON MILES Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

• PHAT DOLLOPS - FEAT: DUSTY FUNGUS + CIRCUIT BENT + LYSDEXIC + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 9:00pm. $10.00.

• PHIL GOOD FRIDAYS - FEAT: PHIL K Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

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

• REBOURNE (HARD KANDY SWEET 16 BDAY CELEBRATIONS) 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $50.00.

• RESONANCE (BRAIN SHAKER) - FEAT: DJ KEVIN FAXT + DJ ARKOHM + SIGNAL LOOP + OLI EASTWOOD Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• REVOLVER FRIDAYS & MAMA SAID - FEAT: MIKE CALLANDER + SAFARI + DYLAN GRIFFIN + JOSH PAOLA + SUNSHINE + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm.

• THE EMERSON CLUB FRIDAYS The Emerson, South Yarra. 3:00pm.

• UNIVERSAL TRIBE - FEAT: LEGACY + EARTHEOGEN + ZONE TEMPEST + ZIBELL + MORE Railway Hotel, Brunswick.

8:00pm. $10.00.

saturday oct 10 •ANDY PADULA Railway Hotel, Brunswick.

10:00pm.

• ANYWAY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Bottom End, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

• AUDIOPORN SATURDAYS - FEAT: LE ZOK + JAMES WARE + GREG SARA + JACOB MALMO + TOM EVANS + ROWIE Onesixone, Prahran. 9:00pm. $15.00.

• BASENJI Howler, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $17.00.

• CHAMPAGNE INTERNET Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 10:30pm.

• CQ SATURDAYS Cq, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• CRXZY SXXY CXXL - FEAT: DJ MIMI + DJ JADE ZOE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.

10:00pm. $10.00.

• CUSHION SATURDAYS - FEAT: COURTNEY MILLS + JESSE JAMES + J HEASY + MITCH COEN + BIG MAC + TOP DECK + MORE Cushion, St Kilda.

9:00pm.

• DAVEYS SATURDAYS - FEAT: HURLEY + CRAIG MOORE + ASTERIX Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 9:00pm.

• DJ JNETT + NICK JAMIESON Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

• ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:00pm. $20.00.

• HOT STEP - FEAT: 99 PROBLEMS + TIGER FUNK + SILVER FOX + ASKEW Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy. 6:00pm.

• JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 12:05am.

• LOST WEEKEND - FEAT: TOM MOORE + CHICO G + HYSTERIC + LAIKA + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• PHACE + OKULI + MONKEE + LICKWEED + CALIBRATE + ZERO1 Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $20.00.

• PLATFORM ONE SATURDAY NIGHTS Platform One, Melbourne. 9:00pm.

• PONY SATURDAYS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• PROVOCATEUR (MAX FREAK) - FEAT: STELLAFAUNA + RACHEL BY THE

STREAM + MAMA ALTOM + SARHYS PAIGE + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote.

8:30pm.

• RETROTASTIC 2015 - FEAT: ALLIGATOR WILLIAMS + CALAVERA + PSELODUXCTRIX + DIASU Catfish, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• ROUTE 808 III - FEAT: RYAN WELLS + STM + BLACKSON + COOLEY + THE OLD MATE ACID SHOW Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

• SEVEN SATURDAY DISCOTHEQUE Seven Nightclub, South Melbourne. 10:00pm. $20.00.

• TEXTILE SATURDAYS - FEAT: KODIAK KID + D’FRO + JENS BEAMIN Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9:00pm.

• THE EMERSON CLUB SATURDAYS FEAT: FAMILIAR STRANGERS + JOHN COURSE + SARAH ROBERTS + JESUS + TOMEVANS + JOLYONPETCH The Emerson, South Yarra. 9:00pm.

• THE HOUSE DEFROST - FEAT: ANDEE FROST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11:00pm.

• THE LATE SHOW - FEAT: BOOSHANK + DANIELSAN + DAVID BASS & FLIP3K + MAT CANT + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10:00pm.

• TRAMP SATURDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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espionage The Operatives are returning with another evening of cutting edge electronic artists from across the globe. For the final Espionage event of the year The Operatives will host dark-side collaboration SHADES, featuring San Francisco’s EPROM and UK drum and bass heavy weight Perez. They’ll be joined by the Brainfeeder and Ninja Tune signed Lapalux on the back of his new album Lustmore, and the UK born and Shanghai-based Conrank. Filling out the bill with an all-star Australian lineup, the night will also feature Dizz1, Zeke Beats, SilentJay, Kirkis, JPS X HOOVES, Beatrice, A13, Lotus Moonchild, Lady Banton and DJ NSFW alongside visuals by Brendan Harwood and Chronic Sans. It’s going down on Saturday November 14 at Roxanne.

sunday oct 11 •BOP ART - FEAT: HAWAII + WHO +

TIGERFUNK + MATT RADOVICH + LEWIS CANCUT Bimbo Deluxe, Fitzroy.

7:00pm.

• DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE - FEAT: DJ NIGEL LAST Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• GOOD TIMES - FEAT: MATT RADOVICH Railway Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

• 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 + SILVERSIX + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:00am.

• ROOFTOP SUNDAYS - FEAT: KHANH + KEN WALKER + LUKE BOWDITCH The Emerson, South Yarra. 12:00pm.

• SPITROAST SUNDAYS Cushion, St Kilda.

10:00pm.

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

• WAX ON WAX OFF Lucky Coq, Windsor.

7:00pm.

monday oct 12

disclosure UK electronic visionaries Disclosure have locked in a Melbourne show. The duo behind 2013’s hits Latch, You & Me and Holding On have just released their brand new record Caracal. Along with their appearance at Falls Festival, they will perform their only Australian sideshow in Melbourne. They’ll hit Festival Hall on Wednesday January 6.

•CALL IT IN - FEAT: INSTANT PETERSON

+ DYLAN MICHAEL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• MADDAWG MONDAYS - FEAT: T-REK Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• MONDAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: TIGER FUNK Lucky Coq, Windsor. 6:00pm.

tuesday oct 13 •SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY Bimbo Deluxe,

Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• TRAMP TUESDAYS Tramp, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

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urban club guide ANGEL JAY Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• FAKTORY FRIDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + K DEE + DURMY Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. friday 9 oct • PARTY & BULLSHIT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.

• APOLLO BROWN (GRANDEUR LAUNCH) 9:00pm.

Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $20.00.

• BRIGGS & TRIALS + PHILLY + BIRDZ saturday 10 oct + NOOKY Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

• BIG DANCING SATURDAYS Laundry Bar, $15.00.

Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

• BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY - FEAT: DJ • KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS RCEE + KAHLUA + DJ SHOOK + DJ wednesday 7 oct • MEALS + EKKLE + KARYME Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $6.00.

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

• RHYTHM NATION SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ TIMOS + DJ KAHLUA + DJ ANGE M & ANDY PALA Chaise Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $10.00.

• ROD PAINE & THE FULLTIME LOVERS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

Elliphant will follow up her visit to Australia for this year’s Splendour In The Grass, with a Melbourne headline show to accompany her appearance at Falls Festival next January. The Swedish hip hop maverick will have her much anticipated debut album Live Life Golden out at the end of January, so Australian audiences are sure to hear cuts from that record at these shows. The record follows up her two previously released EPs, which featured the likes of Diplo, Skrillex, and TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek. Catch Elliphant at Howler on Thursday January 7.

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DON’T ASK HIM WHY

By Adam Norris

When Jaakko Eino Kalevi answers the phone, he has just woken up and his voice is still addled with sleep. His timbre is naturally sonorous, somewhat lethargic, and the longer our conversation unfolds, the more he resembles a figure encountered in a dream. His sentences tend to drift unanchored around their meanings, and his laughter comes at unexpected intervals. For a man whose breakthrough EP was entitled Dreamzone, I suppose I should have anticipated such an enigmatic exchange.

With the release of his eponymous debut LP back in June, Kalevi’s particular blend of baroque pop has begun to enchant an international listenership. Yet regardless of the audience, the Finnish performer’s primary hope is that listeners aren’t distracted by his own intentions behind his songs. His music is a soundscape that each person should chart on their own.

“I kind of like [listeners] to be ignorant in a way,” he says. “Not to be 100 per cent. I don’t like to explain too much. I don’t like to put quotes to my music, or other music as well. I kind of want [the songs] to be away from me – not so much me as them.”

Kalevi would ideally see most music stripped of biography. The background clutter – the real world genesis of lyrics, the process of recording, the artist’s

aspirations for what comes next – shouldn’t influence a listener’s appreciation of a song. While he takes great time and care crafting each dream-dappled track, it is the preoccupations of an unknown audience that will ultimately decide their fate.

“Sometimes it’s interesting [to know more], but usually it’s more fun to have your own meaning,” Kalevi says.

“I usually say that my music is experimental pop. Well, I think it’s a good start. It would interest me to check something like that out, and I guess eventually people would just hear the music and make up their own minds.”

It is a fine sentiment – after all, if we happen to not like a song, learning about the composer’s childhood is unlikely to change that. Still, Kalevi’s background is of

interest, if only because of the unusual day job he found himself in while his music career was still fledgling. As a tram driver in Helsinki, he was in an enviable position to chart the demographic of the city; situated among the bustle of unknown lives, he sat at the intersection of multifarious characters and stories.

“I noticed the same thing,” he agrees. “I haven’t been doing it in a while, I had a break from the job around two years ago. It’s nice, and it gives you a good view into the city, into the people. So many different kinds. But there is nothing directly in my music that comes from there. No tram songs.

“It wasn’t at all an anxious job, just the opposite really.

Quiet and easy. I could put on music and listen while I drive around. I was making music before as well. But, you know, you have to work sometimes.”

Music and work is now one and the same thing for Kalevi, which brings us to his imminent Australian tour. “[I’m] looking forward to Australia. I don’t really

know. It seems like such a big and different world. I think it might be very English.”

Not only will local audiences get to hear songs from Jaakko Eino Kalevi come to life on-stage, but there is also the promise of his earliest musical love, the saxophone. “I played it and thought it was quite easy – easy to get started, but to be very good at it takes time. It’s very hard. Often it’s very cheesy, and I like more… well sometimes I like that cheesy sound too, but I usually like more raw sound. Sometimes if you can play saxophone too well, it doesn’t sound as good. But most people seem to enjoy that, but me not so much. I like sound that is raw.”

JAAKKO EINO KALEVI plays at NGV International on Friday October 9 as part of the Friday Nights at NGV series. Jaakko Eino Kalevi is out now via Domino/EMI.

KIRIN J CALLINAN

EMBRACING THE WEIRDO WITHIN

By Augustus Welby

The music of Kirin J Callinan is idiosyncratic enough to be almost peerless. Varyingly humorous, violent, industrial or romantic, there aren’t many suitable analogues for his songwriting style. Likewise, as a live performer he shows no inclination to deviate from delivering a uniquely absurd and somewhat risqué experience.

Any artist of this ilk is liable to scare away audiences who are used to things they can straightaway understand.

Meanwhile, Callinan’s 2013 debut, Embracism, contained a select number of songs (such as Victoria M. and Landslide) that were reasonably immediate. It’s a quality shared by his brand new single The Teacher – the first taste of his forthcoming second album. The Teacher is a slinky jazz ballad that unfurls a mournful, if slightly perverse, narrative. Although hardly a recipe for pop superstardom, the single seems certain to expand Callinan’s burgeoning global following.

“I’m not trying to ever alienate people,” he says. “I understand, though, that I do do that. In an ideal world I’d love for everybody to love me and to be the biggest artist in the universe. But I guess I don’t want to compromise. I want to like my music as well, and for me to like it I feel like it does need to be singular.

I can’t help it. It’s not like I’m trying to be difficult or challenging or weird, or even trying to be original.

I’ve tried to do the opposite – I’ve tried to make really

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straight dance music, just for my own entertainment.

But whatever I do it always just comes off a little bit weird. I’m not entirely sure why.”

It’s over two years since Embracism was released.

While plenty of people were familiar Callinan prior to the album – if not through his notorious solo shows, then courtesy of his central role in Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders and earlier work in Mercy Arms – since its release listeners have developed a clearer understanding of his artistic personality. He’s well positioned to make a bigger impact with his second album, but he didn’t feel pressure to appeal to a broader demographic.

“As far as record labels go, they want to sell records. If they don’t start selling records then they’ll stop giving me money,” he says. “For me it doesn’t really matter. I just want to keep making music that excites me and confuses me – and excites and confuses other people as well.

“This record feels, in many ways, to be the exact same

record as Embracism. I don’t think anyone else thinks that, but for me it feels like the same record, just a more extreme version. And that’s all I’m trying to do – be the most heightened, exciting and confusing version of myself.”

Deeming the forthcoming record – which is due in the early months of 2016 – the same as Embracism shouldn’t suggest Callinan felt so satisfied with the first record he’s simply copied and pasted its core ideas into a follow-up.

“I guess I had a clearer idea of what I wanted to make, so I’ve done it with a bit more focus,” he says. “Embracism was really making it up as it went along, with Kim [Moyes, producer]. That said, this one’s the same thing in that regard. I mean, it’s the same record; it comes

from the same place. But it also stylistically has nothing to do with Embracism. Music’s about the process for me, it’s not about the style or genre or anything like that. It’s about personality and it’s expressive. One comment about Embracism was that it jumped around stylistically, and I felt it was a strength that it could do that and still retain a flow and a world. So I’m trying to do that again.”

As part of this year’s Melbourne Festival, KIRIN J CALLINAN plays the Foxtel Festival Hub on Sunday October 11.

CHRIS LIEBING

Currently doing shows in Ibiza, Chris Liebing is set to come to our sunny shores later this year for the Earthcore festival. While it’s a quick trip, he wishes he could stay in Australia for a little longer.

Hi Chris, thanks for taking the time to chat with Beat. Looks like we’ve caught you in the midst of a pretty busy schedule, how are the performances going?

I always feel the busier my schedule gets, the better the performances get. Sometimes if you play six gigs in one week, the sixth gig is one of the best ones you play. I believe that´s mostly due to the fact that you tend to do rather than to think what you need to do.

For making music this always helps – less thinking always helps.

We’ve always heard about Tomorrowland being such an incredible show, what’s the vibe like when performing? Is it quite an intense experience?

Tomorrowland does have a great production, but due to the fact that the stages are so big and always get filmed for some reason or another, you are usually very alone on the stage, and that is a little downside of Tomorrowland. I like to be close to the people and even have a party behind the stage, but of course it is an amazing experience to play in front of such a diverse crowd and to people who come from all over

the planet to this one festival.

You’re no stranger to the festival scene and you’ve been announced as one of the artists performing at Earthcore in Australia. Is this your first time at the festival? Looking forward to it?

It is definitely my first time at the Earthcore festival.

I have rarely played any festivals in Australia. So far I have only played clubs, so I am very happy that I finally get to experience more of the festival scene of Australia. I am very much looking forward to that.

Given you’ve performed all over the world, how do us Aussies compare? Do we know how to party?

Oh yes, the Aussies know how to party. Australia is such an interesting place, such a beautiful country on this planet, and you really feel disconnected from the rest of the world in a good way – which I think makes Australia this nice, odd people’s place, where I sometimes wish I could spend more time at.

Out of everywhere you’ve performed, who has been the craziest crowd?

I would say people are crazy everywhere, but the Italians are probably the craziest. I think Italians are experienced party people from over 2000 years and they pop up everywhere in the world. So wherever you are, you can count on some really friendly, crazy

Italians that make every party more alive. I really love Italy and I really love the Italian crowds too.

Have there ever been moments where things have gotten too crazy, or do you thrive off that?

Well, yes I do thrive off it and it has never gotten too crazy. It just sometimes gets crazy because of the schedule and the travelling, but as I said, the more travelling I do and the more gigs I play, I always feel that it even gets better. So yes, I probably thrive off the craziness.

Thanks again for the chat, any last words of wisdom

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you’d like to share with our readers?

Stay open-minded and listen to any new music that comes out. Try to find out what you like yourself and don´t be told what you have to listen to or what others listen to, and that this is what you have to listen to as well. Develop your own style and don´t be afraid to show it. I am learning that too

CHRIS LIEBING plays Earthcore 2015, in Pyalong, VIC from Thursday November 26 – Monday November 30.

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JOSH RENNIE-HYNES

SOMETHING REAL

By James Di Fabrizio

Americana songsmith Josh Rennie-Hynes has been steadily chipping away at his music career, putting in relentless effort that has seen him go from strength to strength over the past three years. Just over a year after the release of his debut album, February, he’s performed his arresting, intimate music to audiences right around the world, from rural Australian festivals to American backyards. When Beat speaks with Rennie-Hynes, he’s in between shows in one of the world’s live music capitals, Austin, Texas.

“There’s so much music over here. It’s insane,” says Rennie-Hynes, who recently returned from Nashville’s five-day Americana Music Festival and Conference.

“That was amazing, so much good music. I’ve kind of been based in Austin, and there’s so much good music here as well. You can walk into any bar and there’s some ridiculous band playing. It’s pretty incredible.”

With such a strong connection to American roots music, heading Stateside was always on the cards. With nothing but his acoustic guitar, Rennie-Hynes jetted off to play a series of gigs, making new connections along the way. “It’s kind of worked out weird,” he says.

“This guy I’d met through Facebook, he’s in a band over here and they were coming to tour Australia and I was supposed to support them. Basically, I met him and he’s lent us his tour van over here and they’re borrowing my tour van. We kind of traded countries.”

Originally from Woodford, Queensland, Rennie-

Hynes’ US visit was a long time coming. In many ways, he’s bringing his music back to the heartland that provided so much of its inspiration. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot the last six months,” he says.

“Australia is a large part of my identity; growing up in the bush. It’s kind of like figuring out where I sit and trying to dissect those two worlds. It was really good to be in front of those kind of audiences, where you don’t have to battle, and people like that kind of music from the get-go. In Australia, the Americana scene is growing, but it’s not as big as over here. This is where it all came from and all stems from.”

While he’s comfortable in the States, Rennie-Hynes isn’t going to abandon his homeland. “This is a trip to see where it’s all at. It’s been everything I thought it would be and more,” he says. “The thing was, I didn’t get the proper artist visa that I was supposed to get, so I couldn’t do publicity and things like that for the tour

campaign. Basically it’s just word of mouth.

“They really get into this music over here. It’s the heart and soul of what I’m into in a lot of ways. It’s strange, because over here it’s the cool and hip thing to play country music. It’s just basically all young people over here who listen to you, which is a bit of an anomaly compared to Brisbane where there’s so much cover music. I think original music tends to get a bit more respect over here.”

With a focus on storytelling and a live show consisting of gently fingerpicked gems, it makes sense RennieHynes has built a fanbase through playing house concerts. In his opinion, this approach provides an opportunity to connect with people that is becoming increasingly rare.

“It’s far more personal,” he says. “It’s far more intense

as well. You definitely don’t have that separation where you just go to a gig, plug in and say, ‘Thanks a lot, see you later,’ and that’s it. It’s like, you go to a gig an hour or two early and they give you a cup of tea and feed you.

You sit down with their family and talk, then you play and they give you alcohol afterwards. A lot of the time you stay there as well. It’s changing the game a bit.”

Having a few irons in the fire is the perfect way to keep the income flowing. From playing solo, duo and band gigs to producing albums for other artists, Thomas always has a project on the horizon.

“We did some music for an ABC documentary that my brother did called Death or Liberty about radicalised prisoners coming to Australia, and Billy Bragg, Lisa O’Neil, and myself wrote a few songs. And we did a show at the Theatre Royal in Hobart. That’ll be coming out as an album and a concert DVD, as well as the film that’ll be shown on ABC.” As well as spearheading an assignment involving the Darebin Film Archive, Thomas is working on a best of

(post-Weddings) project, archiving stories from many years of touring. “It’ll put a nice little hyphen in my career after the Weddos. I’ve just hit that point where it’s been longer out of the band than in it. I can’t judge everything on the success of the Weddings, I have to just keep on going.”

music. It means fans ¤ they can be kids, parents or even grandparents ¤ still have the energy. Stranger Cole is 75 and even I had trouble keep up with him.”

Connecting with Stranger Cole meant the band were invited to provide three tracks for a short film, Beverly, which tells the story of a young rude-girl growing up amongst the volatility of the Thatcher era. For the Melbourne Ska Orchestra it’s a veritable coup, and a nice culmination of the hard work they’ve put in.

However, it’s also a stark reminder to Bomba of how the music scene has changed.

“My first release was on vinyl, because that’s all there was. Now you can just press a button and you’ve downloaded your song in seconds. Somewhere along the way the music was cheapened. We’re trying to highlight the value of music as it’s perceived. There are a lot of processes involved; recording, rehearsal writing.

“It’s gotten to the point where the only source of revenue is playing live. It means our music is political in some ways, but also it’s motivational. You figure out ways to survive. If your trajectory is about making the best art you can and being positive about it you’ll manage.”

He seems confident, but a band of their size is difficult to manage without the help of government grants, and he laments that the Arts Council had its funding reduced. “Our human race is a creative species. We have the technology to live quite comfortably, but we don’t have that balance right yet.”

JOSH RENNIE-HYNES joins the likes of Timberwolf, Archer and Benny Walker at Swagger Music Festival on Saturday October 24 and Sunday October 25 in Wandiligong, VIC. He’s also performing at The Westernport Hotel, San Remo on Friday October 30 before bunkering down at Queenscliff Music Festival on Friday November 27.

MICK THOMAS

LIFE AF TER THE WEDDING

By John Kendall

Being one of Australia’s premier “front-bar troubadours” has its ups and downs. On one hand, you’re touring for months on end, but then you have a few weeks at home with your loved ones. Daytime hours tend to be spent in the studio, but there’s also time for a home-cooked meal at night. Mick Thomas knows this lifestyle all too well. He speaks to Beat magazine while packing for a weeklong Fijian holiday.

“I’m doing a wedding,” laughs Thomas. “The gig is on the first couple of days, then I just hang around.”

After the island stint, the former Weddings Parties Anything leader will be joined by long-time friend and music cohort Mark ‘Squeezebox Wally’ Wallace for a lap around the country, stopping in at the eighth annual Australasian World Music Expo.

“You know I look at that lineup and go, ‘Well, it’s Archer and Jess Ribeiro on the night that I’m playing’,” says Thomas. “That’s a really good couple of people for me to be associated with. Sometimes when you’re putting together a show you can’t afford the people that you want. So this is a great way for me to get in front of some people, as well as for the associations you make.”

For any singer/songwriter, filling the setlist with the right mix of songs is always of the upmost importance.

“It’s a quandary that most performers find themselves

in. Sooner or later the people always want the sense of the familiar,” says Thomas. “You know, sometimes someone will yell out a request and I’ll go, ‘Yep, your request has been registered and we are processing it now.’ There’s really no perfect way to handle requests, unless you say ‘All requests via email.’ But occasionally you get someone that just yells out a song, and I think to myself, ‘What a fucking great idea’.”

Balancing time on the road and time at home has become an art form for many musicians, and it’s a practice Thomas has all but mastered. “I just love spending time at home now days, and having a young family, I obviously don’t tour as much as I used to. But as a performer I have to keep generating income. Sadly I can’t live off some big fat bank account or royalty cheque. But guess what? That’s where everybody else is at.”

MICK THOMAS will close AWME on Saturday November 14, with Jess Ribeiro and Archer by his side. He’ll also play at The Spotted Mallard on Friday December 18 and MEMO Music Hall on Saturday December 19.

MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA

WEARING THEIR OWN COLOURS

By James Ross

Nicky Bomba is the effervescent frontman of the Melbourne Ska Orchestra. Boasting a total of 26 members, Bomba’s previously referred to the band as a musical church. “In a way all small bands are like a belief system,” he says. “Your group has a philosophy on life, and this band represents that for me. You want your team to be doing good stuff. We’re constantly challenging ourselves to make something better. If you think the same way about us, join us, because we think we’re doing good work.

“I want to move away from the church thing though.

We’re more like a soccer team.”

This inclusive sentiment characterises the band’s approach to ska music. In the same way the upbeat rhythms of Jamaican ska fused with aggressive English punk to form two tone, the Melbourne Ska Orchestra are proud of their strong multicultural roots.

“We’re big fans of funk, rocksteady and South American vibes, and we’re developing hybrids with calypso that are uniquely our own,” says Bomba, who is of Maltese heritage. “We’re wearing our own colours now.”

Bomba is acutely aware of the Orchestra’s place in the history of the genre and is resoundingly enthusiastic about the video clip for their latest single Satellite, and the upcoming album Sierra-Kilo-Alpha.

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represented in the music we play today. It’s not perfect, but there’s a sense of adventure to it.

“The first album was a collection of all the things we’d been doing over the years. We weren’t really a serious entity until 2009, so that was really a statement about everything that had come before. This new album is more a sense of, ‘This is our voice.’ We’ll always harp towards the old stuff because of our love for ska, but this new clip is moving towards the future.”

A recent tour overseas saw them brushing shoulders with the likes of original rude-boy Stranger Cole and two tone legend Rhoda Dakar of the Body Snatchers.

They were also met with an overwhelming response from ska aficionados in Turkey.

“It was a real honour to be playing with the people there,” Bomba says. “The thing about ska is, and it’s why the Orchestra works, there is a real love for the

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MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA play the Prince Bandroom on Friday October 16. Satellite is out now via FourFourMusic.

MAGIC AMERICA

GROOVE AND MELODY

By Patrick Emery

When it came to choosing a name for their fledgling band, the members of Magic America did what so many bands have done before them: worked through a long list. They eventually settled on Magic America, which is the title of a song from Blur’s 1994 album Parklife. “I think there’s many layers to the name,” says guitarist Andrew Stapleton. “It’s kind of how American culture is bleeding into the rest of the world, and sort of like a counterculture as well. And it has a magical connotation, so it works on different layers.

We liked the ring of it and obviously it confuses the shit out of people when they realise we’re from Melbourne.”

The genesis of Magic America can be found in the household jams between Stapleton’s younger brother Matty Magic America’s vocalist and principal songwriter and drummer Ben O’Sullivan. “Matty used to play in the back room with the drummer, jamming,” Stapleton says. “I’d be sitting in the front room trying to watch TV and I used to find that annoying. So I decided to join in and start playing.”

It took the best part of five years before Magic America’s current four-piece lineup solidified. Along the way the Stapleton brothers experienced a musical epiphany at the Meredith Music Festival, with live sets from Spiritualized, Primal Scream and Tame Impala providing the inspiration for Magic America’s musical direction.

“We were already keen on those sort of bands before we

went to Meredith,” Stapleton says. “We had a massive weekend there and thought that was the sort of stuff we wanted to play. We liked the live show they all put on, so we decided that was the music we wanted to make, so we started working towards that.”

Stapleton admits that the concept of psychedelia has, to some degree, lost its precision due to excessive application in recent years “Every band with a phaser pedal seems to be described as psychedelic,” he says. For that reason, he’s loath to describe Magic America in the discourse of psychedelia.

“I think we’re much more interested in the music and what the sound of the music does to a listener or a punter, rather than putting on a show and being psychedelic and that sort of stuff,” he says. “Even the term psychedelic I think gets bandied around a lot I

think a lot of it is more straight rock’n’roll than psych.”

Magic America are more concerned with the principles of songcraft than the ability to lock into a 15 minute improvised jam, or the presence of lava lamp imagery.

“Although we do jam out quite a bit when we play together, for us the song always starts with a groove or melody,” Stapleton says. “We feel that a song needs to have one or both of those things to be worthwhile for us. We do jam about it a bit, but that’s more for fun. When we try and construct songs it’s more about the groove and the melody. So on our EP you’ll have a lot of guitar and melody that’s something that we’ve always been really strong on.”

This week Magic America will launch their new selftitled EP on a double bill with fellow locals White Bleaches, who are launching their new single, New Age. The EP was recorded this year with producer Dave

Turner, whom the band had been introduced to by mutual acquaintances. Turner’s empathy with Magic America’s desired sound proved significant.

“We had a couple of beers with Dave and we talked about some bands that we liked and he was straight onto it. He had these awesome techniques, including with the drums. He knew exactly what we wanted.

So [the recording] was a mix of us knowing what we wanted and Dave already being on top of it. He knew a lot of the bands that we liked, and it was fun talking about those bands and going through the process.”

be described as short, fast and loud. “I like to come up with riffs at home, take them to the band and see what happens. Our songs are short and to the point. If you keep it simple you make every note or every cord count a nd we love to jam and just shoot the shit.”

Other local bands are lining up to shoot the shit with Spacejunk. Their support acts are a who’s who of the Melbourne thrash punk scene: Weedy Gonzales, Uptown Ace and Shit Sex. Weedy Gonzales are a last minute replacement for Grim Rhythm, who had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts.

“Two of the guys are from Clowns and they have a heavy, doomy stoner sound they’re awesome. Uptown Ace feature a friend of mine Johnno [Walker]. He’s also our record label guy he’s High Kick Records.

They’re like Hellacopters meets The Replacements and The Gaslight Anthem. They’re fist pumping stadium rock. They’re a good time and nice dudes, and they write awesome anthem y rock songs.

“I went to see Shit Sex last night because they have a residency in the Tote,” he adds. “They’re lovely people with a kick arse thrash rock band. They’re similar in style to the Meanies and Cosmic Psychos. There’s definitely an Aussie ocker vibe, but they’re full meat and potatoes rock’n’roll. They’re definitely worth a look.”

I can keep the working title as the final title. It’s not like I have a big scrapbook of heartfelt lyrics I want to put into song. That’s the fun part of it, just writing little ditties.”

A quick glance over Deadtime Stories’ tracklist reveals a selection of creative and funny song titles; an indication of Leggatt’s sense of humour.

“Yoko, Oh No! was a tough one as it’s an instrumental,” he says. “That song has changed titles a million times.

At some stage it was called something like ‘YOLO’, but we decided we can’t have that. Cosmonauts and Crosses was a riff on the original title, which was something about being a cosmonaut. The lyrics are a bit messed up and all over the place. We almost wrote it as we

recorded and I couldn’t get the lyrics right. We got really drunk one night and I just spat out the verses.”

A national tour is locked in for October and November, and there’s sure to be plenty of onstage frivolity. “We’re pretty loose on stage. We try not to be loose musically, but sometimes that works its way in. Our songs are short and sharp, we smash them out and pack as many songs as we can into a half-hour set. We want to leave them wanting more, so hopefully they’ll come to another show.”

MAGIC AMERICA play the John Curtin Bandroom on Friday October 9 alongside White Bleaches and Dreamin’ Wild. Magic America is available now via Bandcamp.

S PA C E J U N K

OUT OF THIS WORLD

By Natalie Rogers

If local band Spacejunk hasn’t entered your orbit yet, with the release of their second LP Bite Your Tongue they very soon will. “We spend a lot of time dicking around with the riffs,” says guitarist and co-vocalist Mark E Moon. “Our songs are pretty simple and that’s how we like it. We write songs so that even when we have a couple of beers we can still remember how to play them. We don’t want to make them too tricky so that at certain levels of inebriation we can no longer play them [laughs].”

Moon and his cohorts Betty Righteous, Speed Cam and Eugenius will perform the entirety of Bite Your Tongue at the official album launch this Friday at The Old Bar. “We had a rehearsal last night and everyone is sounding really good,” says Moon. “Everything is coming together. We worked out our set list for the launch we’re going to play the whole album and a few of our older classic hits. You’ve got to give the punters what they want.”

Bite Your Tongue came to life in familiar surroundings.

“We recorded the album in our rehearsal room above a bar in North Melbourne. It’s a room we share with the Peep Tempel and Tankerville and few other local bands.

Everything we’ve released so far has been recorded in that room because we’re on a pretty tight budget as a band. We pay to rehearse in there, so we figure we may as well record in there.”

Spacejunk are a completely self-funded punk band,

and they get by with a little help from their friends.

“Bite Your Tongue was mastered by Mikey Young [of Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control]. He is reasonably well known in the garage rock’n’roll scene in Melbourne and around the world. He mastered a couple of re-issues of some Melbourne bands of the ‘90s, like Bored and the Powder Monkeys. They are bands that I was a fan of, so when I saw that he remastered them, and they sounded so good, I thought I’d like to get him on board. And his rates are really reasonable as well, which is always handy when you’re in an indie rock band.

“It was recorded by Matt Duffy, he’s a bass player in the Graveyard Train. He’s a mate of ours. He’s got good taste and good ears, and we’re pretty relaxed pretty relaxed and so is he.”

The laid-back four-piece like to keep things simple both on and off the stage. Accordingly, their music can

SPACEJUNK play Friday October 9 at The Old Bar with support from Weedy Gonzales, Uptown Ace and Shit Sex. Bite Your Tongue is available that same day via High Kick Records.

GOING SWIMMING

TA K I N G T H E P I S S

By Paul McBride

Melbourne punk rock upstarts Going Swimming are on a mission. Bolstered by a heavy helping of the F word, the band have just released their excellent debut album, Deadtime Stories, and they’re gearing up for a national tour. Hold the language warning, though, as singer Nick Leggatt explains exactly what makes his band tick.

“If you’re having fun, people have fun with you,” he says. “We don’t take ourselves too seriously. We try to play shows that we think are going to be fun, with bands we like shows we think we would want to go to. And I can’t see us [writing about] any subjects too hard-hitting or anything. One of the guys tracked a demo the other day that was about three-and-a-half minutes and we accused him of writing an epic.”

Leggatt and guitarist Aswin Lakshman met in high school and have since played in several bands together.

Wanting to make music that better reflected the tunes they listened to, they formed Going Swimming a few years ago with bassist Callan Trewenack and drummer Ben Barclay. The quartet have spent three years writing and gigging in the lead up to their debut album. Here at last, Deadtime Stories is a 12-track collection of raucous garage, surf and punk tracks, with a healthy dose of piss taking.

“The four of us have all been in a lot more serious bands

longer songs, a bit more wanky,” says Leggatt. “We thought it was time to put all our new songs into an album and thought it wouldn’t take us very long, being a very no-fuss, lo-fi recording. We thought it would come together quicker than it did, but we got there in the end and we’re stoked to put it out and move on to play the newer stuff. Progressing as a band has felt pretty natural; we’re still enjoying it and having fun.”

Not quite garage and not quite punk, the band might’ve invented a genre of their own: monster-punk. It’s a fitting description for not only the Goosebumps-inspired album cover and title, but the ramshackle way they attack their music.

“When you think of the word punk, I don’t think we fit that bill,” Leggatt says. “And we’ve played with a bunch of garage punk bands, and sometimes we don’t fit that bill either. So we’re kind of our own little niche, and I think part of that is my vocals; I yell and do weird stuff. I like to try to riff on a working title and see if

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GOING SWIMMING play The Workers Club on Friday November 13. Deadtime Stories is out now via Bandcamp.

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ELDER

CARRYING A BIG STICK

By Dan Watt Regarding foreign policy, former American President Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt once said that in order to be effective, one needs to “speak softly, and carry a big stick”.

Expanding this metaphor somewhat, US three-piece Elder have established themselves as a global force through speaking softly and carrying a formidable stick – which, in their case, takes the form of a huge doom metal sound.

“I would like to say [the band’s] a democracy but I think all of us know that I definitely take the director’s seat,” says guitarist, keyboard player and vocalist, Nick DiSalvo. Yet, while he is at the forefront, DiSalvo couldn’t do it without drummer Matt Couto and bassist Jack Donovan. DiSalvo began laying the foundations for what would become Elder when he was 14-years old, inspired by such metal acts as Sleep, Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath and Church of Misery.

Like most people who delve into metal subgenres, DiSalvo’s fascination with doom metal wasn’t fuelled by a need to look cool or fashionable. However, the everchanging zeitgeist has led to his chosen style being in the spotlight in 2015. The recent swing in popularity hasn’t escaped the frontman’s gaze.

“Yeah definitely [it has changed],” he says. “We’re not long-time doom metallers. We’ve been a band since 2007, which is now eight years, but we weren’t around in the ‘90s like the founders of the genre. During our

lifetime it has changed. Depending on where you are – there are some places we’ve played down in Maryland where the doom metal genre started, and there it’s very much old guard. But what we picked up as a style, I totally attribute that to stoner rock becoming popular and the second wave of rock’n’roll that’s going on.”

Indeed, many believe doom metal originated in Maryland, and ‘Maryland doom’ is a sub-genre all to itself – with acts like Wino and Spirit Caravan some its notable alumni. But, despite admitting Elder are reasonably new to the doom scene, DiSalvo finds certain aspects of the current movement somewhat disheartening.

“I feel myself getting jaded sometimes when I see the kind of bands that are just coming out hot and making it big all of a sudden,” he says. “And I think a lot of it comes down to selling yourself and your image, rather than how genuine they are as a band. There’s definitely regions when we play out on the West Coast

in California and there are kids at the shows wearing fringe jackets and cool boots and motorcycle shit. You can tell it’s become very in vogue.”

In February this year, Elder released their third LP Lore, which heralds a truly devastating maturation of the band’s sound. It’s an intricately textured work that exposes the deft interplay between guitar, bass and drums.

“Once we have the songs locked down and have played them a bunch it becomes somewhat of a mechanical

process,” says DiSalvo, before clarifying, “Mechanical is not the right word, because it is very much about feeling.

There’s a lot of ways you can cue the other person or not cue them and just keep jamming as much as you want.

I want to say it’s hypnotic because that sounds so cool, but for us it’s not because we have to focus a little bit more than that to nail some of the parts.”

interested in reviving a certain strain of guitar music.

“We’re really riffy,” says Cuthbert. “We’ve kind of brought back the guitar riff. For a lot of Aussie bands, there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of guitar riffs going on. [You’ll like us] if you’re into guitar riffs and that Sabbath-y sound, and Alice in Chains type of thing. So it’s not full on metal, our influences are everyone – Metallica, Slayer, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age. We’ve all listened to all types of music, but our favourite is the heavy stuff. Basically it’s just rock n roll.”

The band are currently carrying out a national tour in support of the new album, which includes their Melbourne launch next week. “We’ve already done

Geelong, Canberra and Sydney. We do Adelaide then we’re back for our Melbourne launch on Saturday October 17. The lineups we’ve put together to play with us are really cool.

“We’ve got pretty much a month to five weeks of touring, which is pretty good for an independent band without a booker or anything. We deal with the venues and all that ourselves.”

people, as well as pleasing people that are already fans.

I think it’s got something for everyone.”

Indeed, while Caligula’s Horse haven’t distanced themselves from the integration of progressive metal and classic rock that gained them attention in the first place, Bloom contains gentler textures and ruminative moods, evoking thoughts of A Perfect Circle, Smashing Pumpkins and Foo Fighters.

“When we were writing one of the singles, Sam and I deliberately sat and listened to a whole bunch of Coldplay for a while,” Grey says. “Those guys write amazing choruses and really nice textured softer music, and we were going for that approach for one of these tracks. That was pretty much all we listened to for that week.”

Despite the brooding atmospheres and increased accessibility, Bloom still contains moments of metallic heft and technical prowess. As Grey explains, the band’s wide and varied influences are what produce the

Caligula’s Horse signature.

“Sam’s a big fan of stuff like Steely Dan, I studied classical and jazz voice as well – all of this stuff that we’ve been working on and performing over all the years is pretty well set in our minds. So if we take an approach, say for example on the song ‘Rust’, which is probably the most straightforward heavy song on the disc, it’s never going to come out sounding like Metallica. But we’ll take the approach, ‘Yeah we’re going to write this heavy thing,’ but it’s always going to have those parts of us that are so quintessentially Caligula’s Horse attached, because that’s what we do without thinking.”

ELDER are playing with Earthless at the Corner Hotel on Friday October 23.

THE CHARGE

C R I S I S S U RV I VA L

By Rod Whitf ield

The Charge are a heavy rock band with a massive sound and plenty to say about the world.

Their second long player, Order Of the Owl, has just been unleashed. The Melbourne foursome don’t consider themselves an overtly political protest band, nor are they a pack of conspiracy theorists, but their songs aren’t just about partying hard and picking up girls. Their lyrics, attitude and imagery are more socially aware than that, which explains the title of the new album.

“Basically the whole premise of the album is about what’s going on in the world,” says drummer Ben Cuthbert. “We’re not a political band, but the things we’re writing about, what we’re seeing and hearing about, we’re saying, ‘What the hell are governments doing?’ What food are we eating? We’re taking things from documentaries that we’ve seen, and we read books and look into all these sorts of things.”

The title actually springs from a fictional story the band themselves conceived, but one they feel may also shine a light on some of the more insidious things happening in our world. “The story and film clip [is about] the collapse of governments and corporations,” Cuthbert says. “The wealthy people go underground, and your normal people like us are surviving above the ground.

“It’s basically a metaphor for the order of the owl; we become a tribe of people in order to survive when the

whole banking system and capitalism collapses. It’s kind of like, ‘Where will you be when it all falls down?’

That type of thing.”

The album has been in the works for quite some time.

The creation of the concept and the deep thinking behind the lyrics and imagery has contributed to the drawn out process, as well as the money and time constraints that virtually all independent bands face.

But it is finally out there, and Cuthbert couldn’t be happier.

“As all musos know, when you put something out it’s a little bit scary at first. You wait for the critics to come in, but you’ve basically got to go, ‘It is what it is. It’s there, it’s live and out there in the world.’ However it’s received, it’s received and you just take it. If people like it, they like it. If they don’t, they don’t.

Along with their thematic distinction, The Charge are

THE CHARGE’s new album Order of the Owl is out now via Angorilla Records. They’re playing The Workers Club on Saturday October 17, The Elephant and Wheelbarrow on Friday October 30 and Whole Lotta Love on Saturday November 27.

CALIGUL A’S HORSE

POSITIVITY IN BLOOM

By Augustus Welby

When Caligula’s Horse released their debut LP Moments From Ephemeral City in April 2011, the band were basically an unknown quantity. Not only were they yet to play a gig, but the project had been in existence for just three or four months. Initially a union between guitarist/producer Sam Vallen and vocalist Jim Grey, the band’s expansion into a fully fledged five-piece was showcased on their second LP, The Tide, The Thief & River’s End, which arrived in October 2013.

River’s End was a complex and somewhat sinister concept album that attracted international attention towards the Brisbane alt-prog outfit. As a result they’ve recently supported the likes of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Opeth and The Ocean, and they’re now ready to unleash album number three, Bloom.

Vallen and Grey remain the band’s driving creative forces, and this time around they looked to brighten their stylistic outlook and produce something with more of a celebratory air. “Sam and I have a really specific approach,” says Grey. “When we did sit down, we wanted to have a very specific vision for what the band was going to do next and what kind of sound we were going to put together. River’s End, just because it was a concept album, it was quite dark, it ended up quite dark-sounding, and we wanted to take a step forward from that. We wanted to be part of something BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 34

that was a little more to do with sharing positivity and being part of a positive change.”

Along with significantly boosting the band’s profile, River’s End was hailed as an accomplished artistic statement. In spite of this, Vallen and Grey weren’t hesitant about steering the band in a different direction.

“We’re always going to be making the music that we make,” Grey says. “We’re a band in the present, if you will. I don’t particularly want to dwell on things that we’ve already done. That’s not to say that we’re going to be bizarrely chopping and changing and like, ‘Next album’s just nothing but saxophones.’ We’re just writing the music that reflects where we’re at right now.

“I’m really proud of River’s End – I like that album and obviously there’s a lot of fan favourites on that record as well. I feel that this time around there’s an opportunity to step into a completely different world and meet new

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CALIGULA’S HORSE play Max Watt’s on Friday October 16 with TesseracT. Friday October 16 is also when you can get your hands on Bloom, courtesy of InsideOut Music.

Perth three-piece Pat Chow will play six headline shows this November to coincide with their first album Are You Okay? Tickets for their gig at The Old Bar on Saturday November 14 are available from Pozible where you can also grab pre-sale copies of the album.

Sydney has been gifted the second annual instalment of the punk rock oriented Gingerfest this December.

Organisers have locked in Gay Paris, The Porkers, Irrelevant, The Sinking Teeth, The Hard Aches, The Stiffys, Ramshackle Army and heaps more for their fundraiser which delivers profits to Vision Australia in memory of the Ginger Ninja.

Awesome Brissie duo Walken are heading down to Melbourne to celebrate the release of their spiffy new single Even If It Kills Me. They play with Sydney mates Kaleidoscope on Friday October 23 at The Tote. Or you can catch them at Musicman Megastore in Bendigo on the Saturday October 24. Make sure you check out the new track for further convincing.

Metal heavy hitters Ne Obliviscaris will tour nationally this December, delivering their unique brand of progressive metal that saw their new album Citadel debut at number 42 on the ARIA charts. See them headline Max Watt’s on Thursday December 10.

You can nab tickets now.

Melbourne four-piece Apes have had their hooky rock splashed all over triple j lately, and their new song Dimension is no exception. They’re going to tour in support of the track and you can catch them at The Workers Club on Saturday December 5, or down in Geelong at the Workers on Friday December 18, Warrnambool’s The Loft of Saturday December 19 or Karova Lounge in Ballarat on Thursday the 24th (Christmas Eve). Plenty of options.

Maricopa Wells have announced the details of their album launch party. Places To Land has been around for a couple weeks now but you need to hear it live. Catch them at The Old Bar on Saturday October 17 with Uptown Ace, Jemma Nicole and Band, Hey Lady! and Self Talk .

New Zealand band Villainy will join local legends Jericco and Sydonia on an East Coast Australian tour this November. The Prince Bandroom will host the party on Friday November 20 and they’ll have extra help from locals Majora and Gatherer. Tickets are available now.

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Day.” At each of the band’s seven Australian concerts, Legacy Australia has selected a woman for this oncein-a-lifetime experience. They’ll get to prep and build the area at each venue, meet and host the VIP fans who attend a special afternoon acoustic session, and help manage the VIP band photo opportunities. And of course, after all that hard work, sit back and enjoy the show. See KISS on Thursday October 8 and Friday October 9.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7:

• Dead Letter Circus, Guards Of May at Karova Lounge, Ballarat

THURSDAY OCTOBER 8: • • • •

Kisschasy, Luca Brasi at Barwon Club, Geelong Gay Paris at The Workers Club, Geelong The Beards, Dallas Frasca at Corner Hotel Atlantic, Alpha Wolf, Justice For The Damned, To The Grave, Dregg at The Reverence Hotel • Whoretopsy, Enemy Throttle, Acheron at Next • Society Of Beggars, John Citizen, Vulgar Born at Shebeen • Dead Letter Circus, 10 Years, Guards Of May at Black Swan Hotel, Bendigo

FRIDAY OCTOBER 9:

• Kisschasy, Luca Brasi at Spirit Bar, Traralgon • Sick Of It All at Corner Hotel • People Problem, Internal Rot, Split Teeth, Dead Mate, Faceless Burial, Cop Date at The Tote • Born Lion at Cherry Bar • Toxic Holocaust, Bulletbelt at The Bendigo • Hands Like Houses, Lower Than Atlantis, Far Away Stables at Northcote Social Club • The Sand Dollars at Ding Dong Lounge • Columbus, Strickland, Fresh Nelson at The Reverence Hotel • The Beards, Dallas Frasca at Pelly Bar, Frankston • Gay Paris at The Eastern, Ballarat • Told Class, Deep Heat, Mollusc, The Shifters at The Tote • Dead Letter Circus, 10 Years, Guards Of May at Barwon Club • Drunk Mums at Karova Lounge

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10:

• Dead Letter Circus, 10 Years, Guards Of May at The Forum • Camp Cope, Shiny Coin, The World At A Glance, Endult Hoch Hech, Kurdaitcha at The Reverence • Tape/Off, Hotel Wrecking City Traders, Sailormouth at The Old Bar • Barbarion, Mammoth Mammoth, Pissbolt, Cosmic Psychos and more at Heavy and Hammered at The Tote • Cards After Midnight, Satellites and Stereos at Bang • Daybreak, Ganbaru, Pit The Elder, Sweet Gold at The Reverence Hotel • Gay Paris at Cherry Bar • The Beards, Dallas Frasca at The Village Green • In-A-Palooza at The Brunswick Hotel • Kisschasy, Luca Brasi at The Corner Hotel

SUNDAY OCTOBER 11:

• Kisschasy, Luca Brasi at The Corner Hotel • Inventions, Ame Tourmentee, Windwalker, No! Not The Bees at The Toff In Town

NEW MEGADETH SONG TWELVE FOOT NINJA FOR CUP EVE

Winners of Best New Talent at last year’s Golden Gods Awards in the US, purveyors of heavy fusion Twelve Foot Ninja are returning to their home city to play a one off show at the Croxton Park Hotel on Monday November 2 (Melbourne Cup Eve). The band is stepping out of their ninja cave to road test some fresh material off their second album set for release in 2016. Supports to be announced. Tickets are $25 plus booking fee from Oztix or thecroxton.com.au

THREE BIG ONES AT THE BENDIGO

This Thursday October 8, Perth metal powerhouses Silent Knight will stop by The Bendigo ontheir massive Conquer & Command Australasian Tour.

Joining them will be a host of local Melbourne talent, including Horizons Edge, Espionage, Sudden State and Rum Runners. Then on Friday October 9 Portland metal punk assailants Toxic Holocaust will be joined by New Zealand’s Bullet Belt and local thrashers In Malices Wake and Sewercide. Finally on Saturday October 10, Megaton Music and MetalRoos proudly present Metal United Downunder with Dreadnaught, Malakyte, Decimatus, Hadal Maw, Demonhead, Alkira, Toecutter, Trigger and Requiem. Doors at 4pm. Presale tickets are $20 from moshtix.com.au or $25 at the door.

KISS AND LEGACY AUSTRALIA JOIN FOR UNIQUE TOUR PARTNERSHIP

For more than a decade, KISS have worked passionately with several programs in the US assisting returned servicemen and women. KISS are keen to continue this very valuable work whilst in Australia, and will be doing so on their national tour courtesy of Legacy Australia. As Legacy’s main priority is the welfare of the widows and families of servicemen and women, widows around the country will be given the unique opportunity to become a “KISS Roadie For A

Head over to megadeth.com to hear Fatal Illusion, the first track taken from Megadeth’s forthcoming album Dystopia, which features Chris Adler from Lamb of God on drums and Kiko Loureiro of Angra on lead guitar.

METALOCALYPSE NOW

By the time you read this, the countdown clock at metalocalypsenow.com should have about a day left to go before a big Metalocalype announcement. So, you know, gets ready for the brutals.

THE RETURN OF SUICIETY

Having ridden the crest of the almighty powerful Australian alternative rock wave in the mi-‘90s, Melbourne band Suiciety have reformed after a nineteen year hiatus. They’re releasing the EP Crawling Machine Edition via indie record label Desert Highways. Crawling Machine Edition was recorded back in 1996, but was never released.

DREAM ON DREAMER ANNOUNCE THIRD ALBUM

After the huge worldwide success of Heartbound (2011) and Loveless (2013), Dream On Dreamer will release their much anticipated third album Songs Of Soulitude on Friday November 13. The first single lifted off the record is Vertigo. This will be Dream On Dreamer’s first independent release, and they recently announced that they would write and record a song on behalf of a fan who pre-ordered the album in the first week. Last week the band surprised all the people who pre-ordered the album from their hometown of Melbourne with an invitation to attend an exclusive acoustic show where fans were able to hear a preview of the entire album. To top it off, the band will be contacting a fan from each city who pre-orders the album this week to play an acoustic show at their house.

HA M M E R FA L L WISH FULFILMENT

BY PETER HODGSON Australian rock and metal fans all carry around a list naming the bands that have yet to tour Australia. Slowly the list has been whittled down, as more and more bands finally make the long journey. However, a few titans still remain, such as Rush, The Scorpions and Manowar. It’s rare that we get to cross one of these elites off the list, but this month we can take out the crayons and scrub off HammerFall.

The legendary Swedish metal band have helped to shape an entire genre. Although HammerFall veer more towards power metal, they’ve had an indelible influence on the Gothenburg sound; the strain of melodic death metal from their hometown. Despite forming way back in 1993, HammerFall have never touched down on Australian soil. That’s about to change with one – yes, just one – show in Australia, at 170 Russell on Tuesday October 13.

“It’s a real honour to finally be able to visit Australia, both to visit Melbourne and also to play there,” says vocalist Joacim Cans. “Over the years we’ve gotten so much mail from angry metal heads saying, ‘Hey guys, you really need to drag your lazy arse down here, because there’s a great metal movement going on’.”

The tyranny of distance has been a critical factor in keeping the band away for so long. “It’s so far away,” says Cans. “We’ve never been anywhere close. And also, getting there is so damn expensive. But now we’re going to be in Japan and we thought, ‘Let ’s just do this.’ Hopefully people will show up and make this a memorable show and give us a reason to come back and tour the whole country.”

Australian fans are so excited about this rare opportunity that they’re travelling from all over the country for the Melbourne gig. “I feel very honoured that they really want to see it and go through all

that hassle to travel,” Cans says. “I think everyone attending the show has seen us play live on YouTube or on a DVD, so they know that HammerFall is a very energetic live band. And if people come there to have fun, it ’s going to be even more fun because it ’s always contagious. The reactions from the fans are huge and it reflects the way we are performing on stage. It’s a lot of give-and-take, and a HammerFall show is like a big sing-along karaoke sort of show.

We always invite the audience to be a part of our show.

“Now, for many reasons we can’t come with the drawbridge and the big stage set, but this is just the first show, and if this works out then hopefully we’ll be able to return some day.”

Cans’ vocals are powerful yet controlled, and still crystal clear after two decades of wailing metal anthems. It’s no accident that his voice has endured, mind you. In his early 20s, he spent a year studying vocal technique at Musicians Institute in Hollywood.

“What it gave me was the tools to be as good as I wanted to be,” he says. “You really need to invest a lot of time and effort yourself, because even if you have a good teacher, it ’s your own hard work that will make a difference in the end. So I think I did over 100 live performances at school that year, and that gave me so much experience when it was time

for HammerFall to go on that first tour. We’d never played outside of Gothenburg, but at least I had over 100 performances in my backbone so I knew how to take on the crowd, how to talk in between the songs a little bit, and also how to keep my voice in shape.

“That was the really important thing when it was time to do these bigger tours, festivals with 11 dates in a row and things like that. I met so many singers who had to cancel shows because the voice was worn out. And luckily, knock on wood, I’ve never had to cancel shows because of that.”

Schools like Musicians Institute have a cuts-bothways kind of reputation: they teach valuable technical skills to musicians, but it ’s up to the student to go out there and make the most of what they’ve learned. In the ‘80s, the Institute churned out a lot of soundalike shredders, but also players like Paul Gilbert, Rivers Cuomo and Jeff Buckley.

“The better you are as a musician, there’s a danger that you will become really boring. You know, ‘You can’t play it like that, you have to play it like this.’

‘Why?’ ‘Because it ’s supposed to be that way.’ Be

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unique. Find your own style. I mean, 97 or 98 per cent of everyone going there is not going to work with music. That’s the way it is, but going there should be its own adventure anyway. It shouldn’t be about making money or becoming a rock star or whatever you want to call it. For me it was a big adventure, to leave Sweden as a 23 year old, meeting so many great people and making friends for life. So just go there. Go there. Fly today.”

HAMMERFALL will play a one-off show at 170 Russell on Tuesday October 13.

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MOJO JUJU will appear alongside Jess Ribeiro, The Seven Ups, Emma Donovan & The Putbacks and many more at AWME 2015, which runs Thursday November 12 – Saturday November 14.

THE OLD BAR

The Old Bar is set to rock this Wednesday as Paperhearts headlines a night of Melbourne’s finest up and coming rock bands. Joining them on the night are friends from Once Were Lost and Three Quarter Beast. Make sure you bring an extra pair of socks as Paperhearts and friends gear up to rock them off at The Old Bar this Wednesday October 7.

Doors open at 8pm, entry is $5.

MOJO JUJU Hello Mojo Juju. What are you doing at AWME 2015?

My band and I will be playing a set at Max Watt’s on Thursday November 12 for the opening night of AWME. There is an absolutely killer line up that night too. Emma Donovan & The Putbacks will be there, and they’re one of my favourite bands right now.

What do you think is unique about AWME and its role in cultivating Australian music?

It’s important for staying up to date with what is happening locally and globally. It’s such a great event that facilitates contact between like minded people who often live on opposite sides of the country if not the world.

What can punters expect from the atmosphere of AWME and from your show?

I’m thinking it might be a bit of an emotional journey.

You know, I love dynamics. There’s going to be a lot of high-energy, fun tunes but there will definitely be a few power ballads thrown in the mix too.

Who are some artists that we should definitely be catching this year?

Well as I said before, I’m super excited about Emma Donovan & The Putbacks, but it’s an epic lineup this year. There’s so much on that I am really into. The Meltdown’s single Better Days has me hooked; Archer has long been one of my favourite local acts; and I’m pretty keen to check out Ngaiire.

I’ll be seeing as much as I possibly can. Oh yeah, but you should definitely check out Mojo Juju.

PAPERHEARTS

THE HARLOTS

DING DONG LOUNGE

The Harlots have just announced a month long October residency at Ding Dong Lounge with the expectation of turning the joint into a sexy mess. Expect blood, sweat and tears (in no particular order) as well as the dreaded hip shake fever that has been going around the band for a while. Said fever is infectious and there are no known vaccinations going around – boost your immunity by popping into Ding Dong Lounge every Wednesday in October after 9pm.

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SILENT KNIGHT

THE BENDIGO HOTEL

Silent Knight are embarking to The Bendigo as part of their massive Conquer & Command Australasian tour this Thursday. The band harness the melodic powers of metal legends Helloween, Iron Maiden and Gamma Ray, all the while crossing with the aggressive speed of Iced Earth, Megadeth and Stormwarrior. Make sure you catch the savagery as Silent Knight play their third Melbourne show this Thursday October 8 at The Bendigo Hotel. Doors open at 7pm, entry is $15

RICHIE1250 & THE BRIDES OF CHRIST THE PUBLIC BAR

Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ have promised to run away to the woods in November to record some new tunes, but before that, they’ve locked in for a residency at The Public Bar, playing every Wednesday this month. They’ve got a special treat in store for fans too, with the band set to showcase their new material on the night. Shoot on down to The Public Bar this Wednesday October 7 for the first in a series of weird nights with Richie1250 & The Brides Of Christ.

Doors open at 7.30pm, entry is $6.

TASH SULTANA

THE WORKERS CLUB

Melbourne artist Tash Sultana is generating some massive buzz, already playing to sold out crowds at just 20 years of age. It wouldn’t surprise fans to know she picked up the guitar when she was three years old and hasn’t put it down since. With a real ear for melody and vocals that truly shine, Tash Sultana is sliding into The Workers every Wednesday in October. Catch the first gig tonight from 7pm, tickets are $15.

Atlantic are taking to The Reverence Hotel this week, bringing a night of breakdowns, moshpits and sing-alongs to scratch your hardcore itch. Along for the ride are Dregg performing their first ever debut show and New South Welshmen To The Grave set to throw down some serious brutality, while Justice For The Damned back them up with some serious riffwork. Come chuck a mosh as Atlantic hit The Reverence Hotel this Thursday October 8. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10.

THE BEAR HUNT THE OLD BAR

The Bear Hunt are currently heading round the nation on their To Be Honest tour, set to play at their home away from home The Old Bar this week.

The Brisbane misfits of garage rock are debuting their first monster album on the night, bringing champions from Claws & Organs and Chores down for a noise and a half. Catch this beastly sound with The Bear Hunt this Thursday October 8 at The Old Bar. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $8.

TRAINWRECK TRIO

SOCIETY OF BEGGARS

Trainwreck Trio played nearly 200 shows up and down the east coast last year, with members Janis the Wreck, Billy Ray Simon and Give Stefan Hedberg forced to go full time on the project. Now with international offers on the table, and a soon to be announced world tour, Trainwreck Trio are heading to the Retreat Hotel this Thursday October 8. Catch them live before they catch on overseas, Thursday night from 8.30pm. Entry is free.

Alternative rockers Society of Beggars are hitting Shebeen this Thursday to launch their brand new single Terrible Rain, following on from their previous success with last single Hyena back in April. They’re so happy to be launching Terrible Rain that Society of Beggars are giving punters a free gift upon entry.

Can’t say no to free shit. Their guests for the night will be Melbourne indie rockers John Citizen and alternative duo Vulgar Born. Come get social as

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Vikings have finally yielded for a very special show this Thursday at Public Bar. Celebrating the unexpected but very welcomed reunion are psychgrunge dudes Niandra along with Melbourne’s most darling troubadour Danvers coming along for the ride and the glories of the well stocked bar. Raid Public Bar this Thursday October 8 with Lemongrass Vikings. Doors open at 7.30pm, entry is $8.

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NORTH CITY

THE SAND DOLLARS

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Eight-piece funk/groove/neo-soul outfit North City are heading down to The Retreat Hotel, riding on a wave of high energy dance tracks for your hip-shaking pleasure. North City’s arrival to the Melbourne music scene continues to draw increasing audiences as their high energy grooves and soulful explorations take the band through the realms of reggae, jazz and hard funk to cultivate dancing on floors everywhere. Shake your arse over to The Retreat Hotel and catch North City bust a groove this Friday October 9. Doors open from 7pm, entry is free.

TOMMY LEE-RICHARDS THE WORKERS CLUB

Tom Lee-Richards debut single The Wearing Kind may well be the first song ever premiered in Melbourne via choreographed dance/street art installations, check out the music video on YouTube. The single hit the triple j and PBS airways hard to critical acclaim, proving that there’s always a market for finely crafted alternative pop and soul.

Catch Tommy Lee-Richards belt out some bangers this Thursday October 8 at The Workers, with Dreamcoat and Allysha Joy supporting. $8 entry from 8pm.

DING DONG LOUNGE

PUGLSEY BUZZARD

THE DRUNKEN POET

BONEYARD

THE LUWOW

The carnival of lost souls is sweeping into LuWoW this week for Boneyard, a spectacular, eclectic and slightly macabre night of excess. There’ll be strange DJs playing creepy cuts, alternative classics to chill your bones and electrifying performances from Scarlett The Snake Charmer, Miguel The Amazing Bottle Man, Gore-Gore Dancers and more.

Get spooky at the LuWoW this Friday October 9 with Boneyard. Doors open at 9pm.

LEMONGRASS VIKINGS THE PUBLIC BAR

After several years of knocking back lucrative reunion offers, Lemongrass

Piano thumpin’ blues tunist Pugsley Buzzard is hitting The Drunken Poet for a night of raucous, toe tapping songs to help you kickstart your weekend.

He’s delighted audiences from Berlin to New Orleans with his unique and characteristic blend of jazz, blues, R&B and soul. His shows are exciting and captivating with his huge mesmerizing voice and dazzling piano playing at the centre of every venue he plays. Get those ecstatic vibes running through your old bones as Pugsley Buzzard takes over The Drunken Poet this Friday October 9. Doors open at 8pm, entry is free.

Melbourne’s own indie rock four-piece The Sand Dollars are packing up the van for a band bonding experience, hitting shores along the east coast in September and October to bring you their brand new single, Holster. The four of them are determined to have you on their side, and they make it hard not to feel that way. Their live shows are nothing if not charming, and they’ll have your booty shaking and your feet stomping the whole way through. Get charmed by The Sand Dollars this Friday October 9 at Ding Dong Lounge. Doors open 9pm, tickets are $10 on the door.

TOXIC HOLOCAUST

THE BENDIGO HOTEL

Portland metal punk assailants Toxic Holocaust are getting ready to blast the crap out of The Bendigo this Friday on their Nuke The Southern Cross Tour.

The band, formed by Joel Grind in 1999, pays homage to the raw days of metal and punk. Influenced by bands like Discharge, Venom, Slayer and G.B.H. - Toxic Holocaust create the

Hello. Who are we speaking with and what’s your band doing at AWME 2015?

This is Trent from The Seven Ups and we’re playing the opening night at Max Watt’s on Thursday November 12.

What do you think is unique about AWME and its role in cultivating Australian music?

AWME puts local artists under the spotlight and garners industry attention that’s really hard to get otherwise (particularly for independent artists like ourselves). It also brings together lineups that you wouldn’t usually get to see in the one night.

What can punters expect from the atmosphere of AWME and from your show?

Well it’s going to be a huge show for us. We’ve been lucky to get on a bill with some really great artists, so we’re going to have to turn it on if we’re going to keep up. We play our own version of Afro-funk, with choppy drums, lots of percussion, horns and hypnotic grooves.

What’s been the best ever set that you’ve experienced, or played in, at the festival in past years?

One of the most memorable AWME gigs I’ve seen would have to be Femi Kuti back in 2010. I was into Fela in a big way but hadn’t listened to Femi much.

It was one of the first times I’d seen afrobeat live and it was amazing.

Who are some artists that we should definitely be catching this year?

Emma Donovan and the Putbacks are amazing. I saw them live a few months ago and they were out of sight.

THE SEVEN UPS will appear alongside Jess Ribeiro, Mojo Juju, Emma Donovan & The Putbacks and many more at AWME 2015, which runs Thursday November 12 – Saturday November 14.

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For all the latest news check out beat.com.au perfect marriage of punk angst and metal aggression. Slap on your biosuit and shoot on down to the Bendigo Hotel for Toxic Holocaust this Friday October 9. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $40.

settling in for a show at The Reverence Hotel this Friday. They’ve made waves through their energetic performances whilst supporting Trophy Eyes and Endless Heights last year, along with releasing their ever-popular Home Remedy EP at the start of 2015. Catch Columbus as they swing through the Reverence Hotel this Friday October 9.

Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10.

as part of Gunn Music’s Kings and Queens night. The band, known for their powerhouse live shows, have just received an outstanding response to the clip for their first single Descend with an official launch scheduled on the night.

Feel free to check out their debut Atsu on their Bandcamp, then catch Crying Sirens at Public Bar on Friday October 9. Doors open at 8pm.

DL Tell us a little about the song you entered into Melbourne Music Bank.

The development of my song Until Today began way back in 2008. In short, it’s about having doubts about being successful in the industry. I turn it around at the end and pronounce that I’m going to make it, and I’ve been nothing up “until today.”

How would winning Melbourne Music Bank assist in your music career?

Winning the Melbourne Music Bank would be the perfect response to me knocking on the door for nearly ten years. This would give me all the tools to finally get a single off the ground with a strong execution and a dedicated team to support it.

Tell us about your songwriting method and style.

I grew up loving poetry in songwriting, hence why I veered toward hip hop, which allows the opportunity to get deeper into the meanings. I grew up writing to beat breaks within songs I’d hear on the radio and pretend I was the featuring artist.

What kind of qualities do you think make up a great musician?

I’m a sucker for a great singer. A tone in a singers voice and capabilities of what they can do with their voice will get me every time. But as for a musician in general: dedication and perseverance are the most attractive features to me.

Who is your greatest source of musical inspiration?

I have to go back to what made me want to become an artist on the big stage, and that’s Peter Andre.

Nah I’m kidding. It has to be Snoop Dogg.

BORN LION

CHERRY BAR

WILDEORNES

W H O L E L O T TA L O V E

CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK M A X WAT T ’ S

Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk is heading over to Max Watt’s in an attempt to turn the venue into a hypnotic mess of hip shaking, head nodding boogies. For two and a half years, Chicken Walk was just Russell playing solo with just an open tuned sea foam green Danelectro and a Goldentone reverbmaster for company on stage as he made annual pilgrimages to the Mississippi Delta with his wife.

By December of 2011, Dean Muller of Cosmic Psychos fame joined Russell on drums and thus, the walk was born in all it’s boot stomping glory. Get the cluck on down to Max Watt’s this Friday October 9 and catch Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $30.

DL performs at the Melbourne Music Bank final, which goes down on Thursday October 8 at the State Theatre.

Sludge stoner rock at its finest is on offer this Friday at Whole Lotta Love.

Black and bluesy stoner metal dudes Wildeornes headline the night, united under the banner of tasty riffage, large beats and a love of HBO’s Deadwood with Swigden, filling the night like a pale ale, and Olmeg, opening the night with their never ending search for the big riff and the heaviest curly groove. Get some riffs into you down at Whole Lotta Love this Friday from 8pm. Entry is just $10.

BRAIN SHAKER LOOP PROJECT S PA C E & B A R

Spring is here and Loop Bar are hosting a techno night with DJs Kevin Faxt and Arkohm hitting the decks, providing you with some good noises to match the even better weather. Loop aren’t ready to just stop there, Signal Loop and Oli Eastwood are following up with extra beats as Pa-Light rounds off the night with some stunning visuals to treat your eyes. If you don’t mind, shake on down to Loop Bar for Brain Shaker this Friday October 9. Doors open at 10pm, entry is free.

NAPIER Tell us a little about the song you entered into Melbourne Music Bank.

Shake! Shake! Shake! is an uplifting track with a healthy dose of modern groove. We were inspired by the vintage rhythms and soul of the ‘60s, and the song was fleshed out from the guitar riff.

How would winning Melbourne Music Bank assist your music career?

What is most exciting is being able to get our music out there and have access to the right avenues to do so and support along the way. It’s a rare opportunity to get our foot in the door and meet incredible people and audiences.

What prize are you most excited about?

Having the opportunity to work with some of the best industry professionals would be incredible.

Also, having a mentor and support would be invaluable.

Tell us about your songwriting method and style.

Most of the time I start with an idea, be it a guitar riff, piano line, a lyric or even a beat. Then I’ll flesh out a structure for the composition before writing and re-writing lyrics until I feel comfortable with them.

Who is your greatest source of musical inspiration?

Whenever I’m suffering from writer’s block or lacking confidence in my own music I like to throw on a Jimi Hendrix record and just listen in awe of the pure talent, not only in his guitar playing but the songwriting and composition. There’s always something new to take away from every rotation.

NAPIER performs at the Melbourne Music Bank final, which goes down on Thursday October 8 at the State Theatre.

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IV LEAGUE

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Feel good groovers IV League spit out gritty pop that firmly sits somewhere between washy lo-fi Wavves and the tighter Alabama Shakes. The high energy tunes won’t be stopping anytime soon when IV League takes on the Darling this Friday night to launch their debut single, Varsity. With Gangz and Floyd Cox in tow, make sure you catch this launch; Friday October 9 at The Grace Darling. Doors open 9pm with $10 entry.

ARIELS

YA H YA H ’ S

Brisbane’s indie electro trio Ariels are heading into town this week to launch their latest EP, Restless. Fresh back from supporting the immensely popular Dead Letter Circus, Ariels enlisted their producer Forrester Savell to help craft the sounds they wanted.

If you wanna know how it all sounds, head to Yah Yah’s this Friday October 9. The Soulenikoes and Starr Gunn and Myyth lend their support. Doors open 5pm, tickets are $13.

COLUMBUS

THE REVERENCE HOTEL

After recently announcing their regional tour in September through October with Vans Warped Tour returnees Hands Like Houses, Columbus are now

HAYDEN CALNIN HOWLER

Hayden Calnin has garnered a small band and a large fanbase, both of which are expected to grace Howler this week when he takes his White Night launch tour to the stage. On his first two EPs, Calnin explored the realms of everything from folk through to downbeat, melting together powerful melodies with understated electronic production. Now, catch Hayden Calnin at Howler on Friday October 9 as he unveils a taste of things to come. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $20.

Cherry Bar are hosting one of the most hyped rock act from this year’s BIG SOUND, Born Lion, this Friday night.

Born Lion are four fiercely dedicated gentlemen who save their best kicking and screaming for the live stage, a spirited display which has earned them the right to join bills with The Hives, The Bronx, Royal Blood and many more. Born Lion are touring to support their recent LP Final Words, and bring along some mad support in the form of Party Vibez and The Controllers. Better head to Cherry early, doors open 5pm with $13 tickets on the door.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10

WHITE BLEACHES THE JOHN CURTIN

The John Curtin is hosting a double launch party this Friday for local acts White Bleaches and Magic America, and it’s set to be a psychedelic garage rock ‘n’ roll showdown to end them all.

White Bleaches have been making some serious noise on the music scene with their surf/garage inspired rock. They’ll release heir latest single Innocence while Magic America will be launching their recently released and self-titled debut EP. With added support on the night coming from Dreamin’ Wild, clean yourself up and catch White Bleaches and Magic America on Friday October 9 at The Curtin. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $12.

BASENJI HOWLER

Sydney club loverboy Basenji is celebrating after the end of a sold out national tour with Hermitude by running a headliner of his own at Howler. Taking Australia by the paws with perpetually blissed-out sounds, Basenji’s beats have lit up clubs from Sydney to Norway. His new single, Petals, is the latest in a string of successes including the Future Classic released Heirloom and debut hit Dawn, which became one of triple j’s most played songs of 2014. Let Basenji throw some club glitter in your face when he hits Howler this Saturday October 10.

Doors open at 9pm, entry is $20.

SKÄRLET

W H O L E L O T TA L O V E

THE BADLOVES

T H E F LY I N G S AU C E R C L U B

The legendary Badloves are hitting The Flying Saucer club this week in celebration of their spectacular, hit riddled career. The Badloves debut album Get On Board spent a massive 69 weeks in the charts, peaked at #5 and went double platinum. Their follow-up album Holy Roadside, ended up earning them further acclaim with more ARIA nominations, establishing them as one of Australia’s premiere acts. Have a good time and catch some bad lovin’ when The Badloves hit The Flying Saucer Club this Friday October 9. Doors open at 6pm, entry is $35.

CRYING SIRENS

PRINCE PUBLIC BAR

Described as a mix of Quicksand and The Cure, Melbourne four-piece Crying Sirens are hitting the Prince of Wales

BRIGGS & TRIALS

THE WORKERS CLUB

Victorian rural rapper Briggs is one of Australia’s finest and fiercest MCs, proving his worth after taking out Album of the Year at the National Indigenous Music Awards for his 2014 LP Sheplife, and Best Video for Bad Apples. At the top of his game, Briggs now heads down to The Workers this Friday, teaming up with MC Trials (Funkoars) to launch their project A. B. Original. Philly, Birdz and Nooky support on the night. Catch the launch of A. B. Original with Briggs and Trials, Friday October 9 at The Workers Club. Doors open 8.30pm with $15 tickets.

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Come on down and witness rock history in the making this Saturday as Skärlet host their official launch show at Whole Lotta Love Bar. High energy, in your face, full throttle quality rock’n’roll is what Skärlet are all about. Aussie rock chicks Diva Demolition join in as part of their Australian tour, celebrating their return after spending five months in Europe. Hard rockers Vintage Ruin and face melters The Last Dreg fill the rest of the night with balls to the wall noise. Skärlet plays Whole Lotta Love this Saturday October 10 from 7pm.

Entry is $12.

LADY VOODOO & THE RITUALS THE LUWOW

Head down to The LuWoW this Saturday for some mighty fine soul and R&B as Adelaide’s Lady Voodoo & The Rituals take on the stage to launch their debut EP, Love Struck. This

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Vivisect, Stoning, Intercranial, Tremors, Drain Life, Colostomy Baguette and Dystopian. Sounds delicious. Come plane your face down to a bloody nub with Facegrinder at The Bendigo this Sunday October 11. Doors open at 4pm, entry is $15.

JON STEVENS

LONG HOLIDAY & TWO HEADED DOG

T H E F LY I N G S AU C E R C L U B

YA H YA H S

DAN LETHBRIDGE

SHADOW ELECTRIC

Singer/songwriter Dan Lethbridge is celebrating the release of his highly anticipated new album Inner Western at Shadow Electric this weekend.

Since the 2012 release of his album Oh Hawke, Lethbridge has released 10 new songs for Inner Western that seamlessly hop between genres, establishing him as one of Australia’s most versatile and idiosyncratic singer songwriters.

Find your inner western with Dan Lethbridge at the Shadow Electric this Saturday October 10. Doors open at 7pm, tickets are $15.

STM

LOOP PROJECT S PA C E & B A R

It’s a big two bill lineup at Yah Yah’s this Saturday as Long Holiday and Two Headed Dog join forces to cause some Melbourne mayhem on this leg of their national tour. Expect a perfect coupling of in-your-face frenetic energy and high octane shows jams as Long Holiday rip out heavy punk fuzz while Two Headed Dog play some fuzz laden 1970s inspired jams. Catch the good boys in action as Long Holiday and Two Headed Dog hit Yah Yahs this Saturday October 10.

Doors open at 7.30pm, entry is $10.

GRAND WAZOO

T H E F LY I N G S AU C E R C L U B

Grand WaZoo are bringing their Springtime Soul Fever show to the Flying Saucer this week and you’re invited.

After Grand WaZoo’s previous packed show in July, marking over 34 years of ongoing soul music entertainment, the dynamic and legendary 13 piece outfit is returning to get infectious much to the delight of soul lovers everywhere. Get ready to get soulful with Grand WaZoo this Saturday October 10 at The Flying Saucer Club. Doors open at 6pm, entry is $28.

Loop Bar is hosting another night of techno, this time featuring the Serbianborn stylings of Melbourne selector STM. He creates an inventive and wellinformed atmosphere when compelling a crowd, creating perfect harmony between enchantment and elation on one hand and gentle emotion and elegance on the other. His enigmatic talents have also earned him several stints in Berlin over the years. Have a boogie with STM at Loop Bar this Saturday October 10. Doors open at 9pm, entry is free.

YA R R A H O T E L

Get ready to shiver the timbers of Adelaide’s greatest party anthem folkers as The Timbers head to the Yarra Hotel in support of their new single, All I’ve Got Time For. The new single is the first taste from their upcoming album, following on from their 2014 debut Lawless. Catch The Timbers when they play Yarra Hotel on Saturday October 10. Doors open at 8.30pm, entry is free.

CHERRY BAR

Country influenced indie rock fourpiece Western Stars are getting central tonight, as they venture out from their rehearsal rooms and into to Cherry Bar for some dazzling jams. They’ve been congregating amongst pizza, beers and guitars for the past few months, crossing fingers and noises in the hopes that they might somehow end up sounding like the mongrel stepchild of Steve Earle, Whiskeytown, Wilco, or any of their favourites. Catch this musical constellation as Western Stars hit Cherry Bar this Sunday October 11.

Doors open at 6pm, entry is free.

THE OLD BAR

Naked Bodies are hitting The Old Bar for part two of their Sunday residency, as they premiere new material from their forthcoming album. Expect fire, ice, cannibalism and the view to the top of the mountain as they hit the stage with New Pollution and Bobby Downie.

Show a bit of skin with Naked Bodies every Sunday in October at The Old Bar. Doors open at 8pm, entry is free.

JOE GUITON

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ARIA chart-topping frontman Jon Stevens of legendary Australian bands such as Noiseworks and INXS showcases his musical journey this Sunday October 11 with a very special show at The Flying Saucer. With a career spanning over 30 years, Stevens is keen to perform some of his favourite songs from the amazing rock journey that has taken him all over the world.

From Noiseworks classics to songs that have influenced and inspired him, Jon Stevens will delight all his fans with his laid-back yet empowered performance. See the legend Jon Stevens in the flesh when he hits The Flying Saucer Club this Sunday October 11.

Doors open at 3pm, tickets are $35.

NAKED BODIES

METAL UNITED DOWNUNDER

There’s a running theme at The Bendigo Hotel this weekend, as back to back heavy festivals take over the venue for a series set to punish you from your head to your toes. This afternoon’s proceedings are graced by the carnage of Dreadnaught, Malaykte, Decimatus, Hadal Maw, Demonhead, Alkira, Toecutter, Trigger and Requiem. Get heavy with Metal United Downunder at The Bendigo Hotel this Saturday October 10. Doors open at 7pm, tickets are $25 on the door.

has announced plans to present his new 16 track compilation Big Hearted Lovin Man – A Retrospective 1999-2014, making this show that much more special. Come catch the lovin’ as Dan Brodie hits The Gasometer this Sunday October 11. Doors open at 4.30pm, tickets are $15 on the door.

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Exactly ten years and one day after Kinematic launched their acclaimed debut album Time & Place at The Corner Hotel, Kinematic are celebrating the album’s 10th anniversary. Not many independent bands last ten years, but Kinematic has lasted longer than that, with a smattering of EPs and singles as well as four albums under their belts.

Joining Kinematic on the night will be The Mansions, featuring Mark Sinton who also played the Time & Place launch with The Maps, and Mornington Peninsula rising stars MiddleMarch in what will be one of their biggest Melbourne shows to date. Stop by The Grace Darling this Saturday October 10 to celebrate this milestone. $10 entry from 8pm.

Footscray punk troubadour Joe Guiton is heading to The Reverence Hotel this weekend, chucking some tunes out for your anti-anything sensibilities.

He’s been covering ground quickly in Melbourne, and now he’s settling into the ‘scray for a night with some friends in the Front Bar as Jo Neugebauer and The Krunchy Omlette Experience add some extra jams to the night. Grab a side of punk to go with that sweet Reverence Mexican food as Joe Guiton plays this Sunday October 11. Doors open at 3pm, entry is free.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 11

FACEGRINDER

THE BENDIGO HOTEL

WA grind warriors Facegrinder have headed across the Nullarbor to decimate the east coast after the release of their latest EP Beyond The Black Sun, locking in a show at The Bendigo Hotel. Savage and merciless, the band are joined by an equally evil lineup of Iconic

DAN BRODIE

THE GASOMETER HOTEL

After returning from a three month solo acoustic European tour with back to back shows in France, Spain, Copenhagen and Switzerland, Dan Brodie has unpacked his bags as he gears up for a show at The Gasometer Hotel.

Upon his return to the country, Brodie

JEMMA NICOLE

THE DRUNKEN POET

Jemma Nicole is taking to The Drunken Poet this week for a vulnerable performance full of husky tones and careful lyrics. With a tendency to acquire inspiration during the colder months, she has penned songs about longing, loneliness, anger and heartache with a no fluff attitude that comes naturally for her. Let the emotion flood you as Jemma Nicole takes to The Drunken Poet this Sunday October 11 from 4pm onwards. Entry is free.

A CONCERT FOR DAVID MARAMA AKA MR CLEAN HOWLER

Howler is celebrating Davad Marama’s illustrious career by hosting a very special show to commemorate his achievements this Sunday. With work spanning over more than three decades, David Marama’s multi-award winning guitar playing style can be heard on many fine African recordings. As the

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JADE ALICE Tell us a little about the song you entered into Melbourne Music Bank.

The idea for the melody of my song Kick Drum actually came to me in a weird dream I was having. Kick Drum projects this feeling of effervescence and uncontrollable happiness; a feeling that I hope becomes contagious for listeners. I was 15 when I wrote the song and have received incredible support and positive responses about it ever since.

How would winning Melbourne Music Bank assist your music career? What prize are you most excited about?

Being a part of Melbourne Music Bank has already helped me in so many ways with how to promote myself and has provided opportunities to meet incredible people in the industry. Winning Melbourne Music Bank would be an invaluable experience, with a prize that covers so many areas of the industry and the opportunity to record at Sing Sing Studios, who wouldn’t be pumped for that?

Tell us about your songwriting method and style.

My process of writing songs is different every time, which makes them so unique from each other.

I might be in the middle of a conversation with someone about how great pugs are and then mid sentence will say “Wait one second I have to write something down, I’ll be right back, no time to explain.”

What kind of qualities do you think make up a great musician?

I think that musicians are natural storytellers and the great ones can make you see yourself in their music and even learn things about yourself through how it affects you.

JADE ALICE performs at the Melbourne Music Bank final, which goes down on Thursday October 8 at the State Theatre.

SAM O’CONNELL Tell us a little about the song you entered into Melbourne Music Bank.

I’m Not Okay was the very first song I wrote. At the time of writing, I was just left heartbroken from a very meaningful relationship and I was in a dark place. My emotions were getting the better of me.

I decided to just write what was on my mind and what I felt inside. Not only did it make me feel a lot better getting it out of my system, but I managed to create a song that I’m stoked with.

How would winning Melbourne Music Bank assist your music career? What prize are you most excited about?

As soon as I turned 18 at the start of the year I knew this is what I want to do, and a part of me feels like my purpose is to entertain. I am massively excited at the prospect of having a single launch at The Worker’s Club.

Tell us about your songwriting method and style.

The best way to describe my music would be indiefolk. I write very emotionally driven songs and my influences all mash into one act. I listen to lots and lots of different artists and I write and play what I feel is true to myself.

Who is your greatest source of musical inspiration?

I have quite a few musical inspirations which I like to base my style off. Mainly there is Passenger, Mumford & Sons, Matt Corby, Ziggy Alberts, John Butler Trio and Sticky Fingers to name a few.

SAM O’CONNELL performs at the Melbourne Music Bank final, which goes down on Thursday October 8 at the State Theatre.

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night is hosted by journalist Santilla Chingaipe (SBS News), the Concert for David Marama will commence with an Afro-Lankan drumming performance led by percussion maestro Ray Pereira, followed by the laid back township jazz flavoured sound of Royal Swazi Spa. The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra will occupy the stage for a grand performance to conclude the evening, and some of Melbourne’s best-known DJs will keep the dance floor going throughout the night. All proceeds from the night will be donated to Marama as he recovers from a recent illness. Catch a taste of African music as David Marama is celebrated at Howler this Sunday October 11. Doors open at 4pm, tickets are $18.

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Melbourne has a reputation for producing world-class soul bands, and Mayfield is no exception. This bombastic six-piece soul outfit draw influence from classics like Curtis Mayfield and Al Green, while fusing with the likes of contemporary artists such as D’Angelo and Angie Stone. Catch Mayfield in all their soul-tastic glory at The Retreat Hotel on Sunday October 11. It’s free, so you’ve got no excuse.

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MONDAY OCTOBER 12

CHERRY JAM CHERRY BAR

Monday nights at Cherry Bar can only mean one thing – Cherry Jam. That mean’s the mic’s open all night. Contact Red at red@cherrybar.com.au if you want a shot on the famous Cherry stage, they even supply the full back line and an in-house expert with Dave ‘Red’ Whip.

There’s free entry all night, doors open 6.30pm with music till 11.30pm.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 13

TASTE OF INDIE COLLECTIVE

PRINCE PUBLIC BAR

Taste of Indie Tuesday is back once again at Prince Public Bar, with tonight’s selection featuring new talent for their Aspiring Songwriters Invitational Night.

This week’s splendid lineup is curated by songwriter and performer Greg Farquhar as Jane Cameron, Lauren Boomgarden, Josh Mills and Jane Sea take to the stage to perform original tunes. Check out the flavours of talent on offer as Taste of Indie Tuesday takes over Prince Public Bar this Tuesday October 13. Music starts at 7.30pm, and entry is free.

LOOKING FORWARD

BYRNE & KELLY

Cellar Bar Monday October 19

JAI WOLF

Howler Thursday October 22

SUZE DEMARCHI

LOON LAKE

Memo Music Hall Friday October 23

LOREN KATE

Howler Saturday October 24

THE HARLOTS

Shadow Electric Saturday October 24

Corner Hotel Sat October 14

The Toff In Town Friday October 14

Ding Dong Lounge Wednesday October 14

MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA

Prince Bandroom Friday October 16

ROB SNARSKI & SHANE O’MARA

The Spotted Mallard Friday October 16

THE CHARGE

Whole Lotta Love Bar Saturday October 17

JAMAICA JUMP UP

The Gasometer Hotel Saturday October 17

E.S.E.S.E

The Toff In Town Saturday October 17

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DRUNK MUMS

DAN PARSONS

A TRIBUTE TO VASSILIS TSITSANIS

Northcote Town Hall Saturday October 24

PONY FACE PRESENT NEBRASKA

Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre Wednesday October 28

THE NINTH WAVE: 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF HOUNDS OF LOVE Howler Thursday October 29

PULLED APART BY HORSES

Ding Dong Lounge Friday October 30, Saturday October 31

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RECORD PARADISE TOP TEN

1. B’lieve Me I’m Goin Down... KURT VILE 2. Rush To Relax EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING 3. No No No BEIRUT 4. Depression Cherry BEACH HOUSE 5. Illegals In Heaven BLANK REALM 6. Dodge And Burn THE DEAD WEATHER 7. Kintsugi DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 8. Edition 1 KING MIDAS SOUND/FENNESZ 9. Ones And Sixes LOW 10. Savage Hills Ballroom YOUTH LAGOON

PBS FM TOP TEN

D AN KELLY Leisure Panic (ABC/Universal) Dan Kelly has always taken his time. Whether it be his highly melodic speak-sing vocal manner, the bleary eyed absurdity of his lyrical observations or the frequency of his album releases; not lazy, nor necessarily lackadaisical, Kelly simply moves at a different pace. With this in mind, the title of his new LP (his second since parting with the Alpha Males and fourth overall) comes as no surprise. Accordingly, on Leisure Panic, Kelly sounds more willing to sit back and let it ride than ever before.

Along with his zen rhythm, Kelly’s known for his friendly, yet pointed lyrical satire. The phrase Leisure Panic could be interpreted as a comment on affluent Westerners fearing an intrusion into our surplus relaxation time. But, rather than focusing on social commentary, Kelly’s in an introspective mood.

The album narrative is implicit of a breakup reflecting on time spent in blissful harmony and the crushing, though ultimately inevitable, fall back to imbalance and discontent.

This is a Dan Kelly album though, so a collection of woe-isme confessionals it ain’t. In line with his meditative demeanour, Kelly is accepting of his fate. For instance, on the album’s opening song, On The Run a nine minute foray into luxuriating krautrock Kelly speaks of inter-personal turmoil, while also acknowledging he should, “Just let it go.”

Backed by the stellar Dream Band drummer Dave Williams (Augie March), bassist Indra Adams (Ground Components),

backing vocalists Madeleine and Memphis Kelly (C.W. Stoneking, Wishful) and keys player Joe Cope (Magic Mountain Band) Kelly’s reflections on the good, the bad and the phantasmic tend to be housed within playful and tonally uplifting arrangements. Hydra Ferry is a sweet slice of dream pop, while the falsetto-heavy Haters has a slinky and subtly sensual groove. Throughout, Kelly’s vocals are centrally positioned. Although tinted with melancholy, his lyrics are often amusing in Hydra Ferry he’s “Dribbling calamari on [her] H&M skirt,” while in Crème de la Crème de la Crème, he quips that “She could turn shit into sunshine.”

Broader political connotations do crop up here and there. The downhome, acoustic plucked Baby Bonus is a tale of financial insecurity and physical affliction, with the narrator extending a request to various political parties and deities for a redemptive payout. On the album’s loosest and most infectious song, Never Stop The Rot, Kelly contemplates how gratuitously traversing the globe won’t fix terminal relationship decay.

The album’s overall demeanour is best summed up by its penultimate track, Everything’s Amazing. As Madeleine and Memphis chirp the title phrase in sprightly harmony, Kelly rationalises, “Nothing lasts forever. Change is unavoidable.”

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

SINGLES

BY LACHLAN The boys try to give me shit because they reckon I’m too povo for Aesop hand soap but I’m like, “Mate, Thank You brand hand soap does the job and to top it all off some of the coin goes towards charity.” Ripper call. #boysnight KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Trapdoor (Flightless/Remote Control) One of the country’s finest jazz troupes change the pace with the giddy and skittish Trapdoor, indulging their flautist whims yet again. The smooth and minimal track could be the soundtrack for a gritty CGI reboot of claymation classic The Trap Door. I’m hungry for more.

L-FRESH THE LION FEAT. PARVYN KAUR SINGH Get Mine (Elefant Traks) L-Fresh flips between a binary of flows, one seemingly restrained, one a rapid fire rush of syllables. Neither are aggressive in their delivery, but still impactful as political bars are spun with resolve, often giving space to hooks from Bombay Royale vocalist Parvyn Kaur Singh. It’s hip hop hustle contextualised for new Australians, with hope reigning supreme.

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HEARTLAND RECORDS TOP TEN 1. Entangled In Chaos LP MORBID ANGEL 2. Crosseyed Heart LP KEITH RICHARDS 3. Secret Alphabets LP GREENLEAF 4. Flash The Leather LP THE BONES 5. Big Calm LP MORCHEEBA 6. Pills ‘N’ Thrills LP HAPPY MONDAYS 7. Keep The Village LP STEREOPHONICS 8. Y Dydd Olaf LP GWENNO 9. Sun coming Down LP OUGHT 10. Self Titled LP THE SCIENTISTS

AIR TOP TEN SINGLES

1. Searchlight HERMITUDE FEAT. YEO 2. Never Be MEG MAC 3. Elastic Heart SIA 4. My Love SIA 5. The Buzz HERMITUDE FEAT. MATAYA & YOUNG TAPZ 6. Chandelier SIA 7. Roll Up Your Sleeves MEG MAC 8. Sirens WOODLUCK 9. Geronimo SHEPPARD 10. Big Girls Cry SIA

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1. Hope In My Pocket BERARDI FORAN KARLEN 2. B’lieve I’m Goin Down.... KURT VILE 3. Into Forever MATTHEW HALSALL & THE GONDWANA ORCHESTRA 4. Rub PEACHES 5. Forn One To Love CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT 6. Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival MACK AVENUE SUPERBAND 7. Lay Low LOU DOILLON 8. For The Company LITTLE MAY 9. Self Titled SQUIRREL PANCAKE 10. New Bermuda DEAFHEAVEN

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1. Red Eyes THE WAR ON DRUGS 2. Orange Blossom DESTINY 4. Old Yellow Bricks ARCTIC MONKEYS 5. Green River CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 6. Blue (Da Ba Dee) EIFFEL 65 7. Mood Indigo LOUIS ARMSTRONG 8. Violet Nude Woman THE INTERNET 9. No Grey THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 10. Pink Matter FRANK OCEAN

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PEACHES

CHRIS CORNELL

Rub

BIG GRAMS

Higher Truth

(Kartel Music Group/ Rocket Distribution)

Big Grams

(Universal Music Australia)

Peaches has been paving the way for vocal feminists for over a decade, and Rub is nothing short of a manifesto. The Canadian provocateur’s first release in six years comes replete with guest spots from Kim Gordon, Leslie Feist and visual artist Simonne Jones.

Lyrics such as, “We’re sick of ‘hands in the air/ And shake our arses like we don’t care’/ We’ve been shaking our tits for years/ So let’s switch positions, no inhibitions, fears,” tickle you in your happy place. While equivalent lyrics sung by a man would cause a worldwide feminist uproar, there is something strangely empowering about a 46-year old woman commanding a man to put his dick in the air. The title track is confronting, as expected, stating, “Circle jerk girls who spray/ We’ve got a male in the middle and we bukkake.” The who-gives-a-fuck attitude evokes an instant sexual high while also making you slightly uncomfortable.

In terms of musicality, Rub is strikingly similar to previous Peaches releases.

However, the significant difference is that it’s even more aggressive. It also gives you a whole new vocabulary for vagina: pussy, Lucy Liu or cut are just some alternatives. In fact, Vaginoplasty (feat. Jones) and How You Like My Cut are both anthems to the humble vagina.

There is an entire sexual awakening and education lying within this 11-track album and Peaches expresses no shame about it. This probably isn’t the ideal entry point if you’re new to the gender-bending trisexual realm, but if you’re willing to jump in the deep end, give it a spin.

BY TEGAN LOUISE

Chris Cornell’s back, unplugged and in good form. A long way from the angst of 1999’s Euphoria Morning, he’s feeling comfortable in his own skin as a solo artist.

He’s in an altogether different headspace to his previous solo album, adopting more of a pop rock format. Higher Truth features Elton John style piano numbers (the title track), nods to British folk (the melodic mandolins in Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart) and some classic country licks (Worried Moon).

Right off the bat, Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart and Worried Moon are immediately appealing. Cornell’s no longer the abstract lyricist with the operatic outbursts that it hurt your throat just to think about. In Josephine, he reminisces about proposing to his wife over the phone, while the Cat Stevens-esque lullaby Only These Words is a song you can imagine him singing to his daughter.

He no longer feeds the dark beast within by fiddling with obscure tunings, transcendental riffs and existentialism, but there’s a lot more optimism in his outlook right now. He’s tempered that beast and this album depicts where Chris Cornell’s at in life at the moment.

Diehard Chris Cornell fans won’t be disappointed, but regardless of your tastes, your tolerance to poppy tunes and surprisingly mundane lyrics will be put to the test.

(Sony Music Australia)

Big Boi discovered Phantogram’s Mouthful of Diamonds online, which instigated the unlikely collaborative project Big Grams. The group’s seven track minialbum, Big Grams, is an intersection of Phantogram’s whirling guitars and ethereal vocals and Big Boi’s dance friendly, Southern flavoured rhymes.

This record is enjoyable but nowhere near as groundbreaking as Big Boi’s previous work as one half of Outkast. Offering a range of fun, danceable, genre-bending tunes, the material on Big Grams is well suited to a festival slot.

The record starts out by demonstrating what Phantogram can do, with the synth heavy, psych-pop influenced tracks, Run For Your Life, Goldmine Junkie and Lights On. It then moves on to display what Big Boi can do, with the Golden-era hip hop inspired Born To Shine, horn heavy Fell In The Sun and the smoother, neo-soul flavoured Put It On Her. The final track, Drum Machine, is a Skrillex collaboration that draws on trap-influenced beats. Initially sounding like a Hudson Mohawke track, it relies too heavily on a staccato chorus laced with auto-tuned vocals. The generic composition will have you desensitised after two listens.

All in all, this is a likable release, but for those hoping for innovation between the two, it falls short.

BY TAMARA VOGL

BY NASH PETROPOULOS

CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK

GAY PARIS

CRAYON FIELDS

Ladies And Gentlemen, May We Present To You: The Dark Arts

Drive

(Independent)

No One Deserves You (Chapter Music)

(MGM)

For those who like their Southern-styled music and know little of Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk, you’re in for a bit of a treat with their latest release, Drive. These guys have built quite a following in recent times playing Chrississippi Music § basically their own take on Southern blues rock. Don’t let the playful name lead you astray, there’s nothing gimmicky here. These guys execute seriously raw, grimy metallic sounds that are worlds away from new-age sleekness. This is outdoorsy music at its best, complemented by the wolf-like howling of the man at the centre of the picture, Chris Russell.

Key to the album’s success are the dark, evocative lyrics that have the power to transplant the listener to another world. Travel to a roadhouse diner courtesy of the album’s second track, Drive All Night, or follow the trail of the femme fatale in Snub Nose .38. Drive contains a mixture of uptempo tracks and slow, brooding tracks. But as with any true Southern blues number, the subject matter is always on the grim side and laced with a touch of the surreal. Particular favourites include Blackwater and Mermaids, both of which have a timeless quality to them.

It takes a few listens to really get to the heart of some tracks § the lyrical genius can get lost as the gritty instrumentals clash with Russell’s howling.

However, even purely as background noise, this album gives you some seriously stimulating listening. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard a band produce sounds quite like this, and I like it.

Remember this proverb? “Metalheads don’t dance, it’s why they head bang.” Not true, not any more. With a deep focus on arse-shaking grooves, Gay Paris play burlesque metal. It’s not without precedent; think of bands like Danko Jones, Diablo Swing Orchestra, and Queens of the Stone Age to a degree. But I’ll be damned if anyone does it better than Gay Paris.

From beginning to end, The Dark Arts embodies rock’n’roll black magic.

Riffs sizzle, bludgeon and inspire the most damnable of lewd acts. Guitars wail like dangerous beasts set loose. A Lemmy and Tom Waits shaped spirit takes hold of frontman Wailin’ H Monks, and the band sound like they’ve returned from Hell’s most nefarious cabaret.

The foursome filter swathes of notorious traits into their jams. It Sleeps in Caves’ pounding thunder evokes the world’s strangest striptease; gang choruses kick She Haunts Every Dance Floor into gear; knives stab out from murder-ballad The Dirt Eaters; the devil comes over to party in Flintlock Barbara Goes Boom; and If Beasts Pray beats desert rock at its own decadent game.

If the Sydneysiders’ previous album The Last Good Party trashed the room, Dark Arts brings the entire house down. It’s fuelled by filthy blues, whiteknuckle licks and lines of uncut party rhythms. In the Gay Paris pit, it’s a case of get busy dancing or get busy dying.

BY EBEN ROJTER

BY TOM VALCANIS

You don’t often hear an album as elegant and beautiful as No One Deserves You, Crayon Fields’ first record in six years.

But while modern culture has rendered beauty a cheap contrivance of narcissistic obsession and digital imagery, the structure and presentation of No One Deserves You would send Kenneth Clark into paroxysms of excitement.

The album’s aesthetic owes more than a gelled nod to the synth-happy world of early-‘80s new wave. The billowing melody of Slow Magic and recalls Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark; She’s My Hero is crying out for a smoke machine and a little bit of Scritti Politti on the side; Love Won’t Save You gets your hips wiggling like some fop-fringed chemical concoction; No One Deserves You thrusts you into a synth-reggae groove; and If I Could is The Go-Betweens in a fluoro-lit London club.

Side two opens with the wandering Night Moves: has there ever been such an enjoyable nocturnal stroll with such a slick riff ? Possibly, but before you’ve had time to think about it, Give Him Nothing has you pondering the nadir of emotional estrangement. The atmosphere of So Do I is buoyant, its melodic structure pithy; Somewhere Good is everything the title suggests, and then some; and as Good Times ushers the record out with a hint of Dropbears by way of The Blow Monkeys, you’re transported to a world where everything seems a shitload better than it really is.

BY PATRICK EMERY

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GIG GUIDE

WHAT'S ON AROUND MELBOURNE THIS WEEK

For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7 INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Centre, Southbank. 2:00pm. $28.00.

• SONGS OF THE HOME FRONT Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $28.00.

• ATOMIC RIOT + STONE REVIVAL Cherry Bar, Melbourne

• TASH SULTANA Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $15.00.

• CANARY ROW + JURASSIC NARC + SAUCE SAUCE

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

Cbd. 7:00pm. $5.00.

• THE ROOKIES The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

SAUCE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

• CHELSEA BLEACH + BELOVED ELK + KT SPIT Tote

• BEN LEE + SAHARA BECK + MIA WRAY Corner Hotel,

• DEAD LETTER CIRCUS + 10 YEARS Karova Lounge,

• ISOBEL BLACKTHORN + TIDAL MOON Open Studio,

• GENGHIS CANT SWIM + THE LARSEN EFFECT +

• JJ GREY & MOFRO + SHAUN KIRK Northcote Social

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

Ballarat. 8:30pm. $35.00.

JACK WRIGHT Workers Club, Geelong. 8:00pm. $15.00.

• KIDNEY STONES + BREAKING KEBABS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

Richmond. 7:30pm. $38.50.

Northcote. 6:00pm. $10.00.

Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $55.00.

• MELBOURNE UKULELE KOLLECTIVE BEGINNER’S

CLASS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm.

• MUSKETEER + OLIVER’S ARMY + BERNIE Grace

• MORNING MELODIES - FEAT: HUGH MCDONALD:

• OPEN MIC Hidden Garden, Ascot Vale. 7:00pm.

• OPEN MIC Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 9:00pm.

• PAPER HEARTS + ONCE WERE LOST + THREE

• OPEN MIC NIGHT Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.

Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 6:00pm.

QUARTER BEAST Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

• REBECCA BARNARD & BILLY MILLER (SING-A-

LONG) Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 7:00pm. $18.00.

• RICHIE 1250 & THE BRIDES OF CHRIST + TIM HARVEY + JEALOUS HUSBAND Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.

• THE HARLOTS Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm.

BUSH/IRISH Milano’s Tavern, Brighton. 10:00am.

• OPEN MIC NIGHT Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• PETE EWING Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - FEAT: JOEY ELBOWS The Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• TOM REDWOOD Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.

• WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: GEORGIA DELVES

+ LEAH MICHE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 8

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

• BIG EASY SOUL SESSIONS Carlton Club, Melbourne

• A RIOTING MIND + OFF TO BATTLE +

Cbd. 8:00pm.

• BONNIE LEE GALEA + JAZZ IN CHEEK QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.

• BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• DIZZY’S BIG BAND WITH PETER HEARNE Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• JULIEN WILSON QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:30pm.

• SONGS OF THE HOME FRONT Melbourne Recital

GIG OF THE WEEK!

RATHAMMOCK 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. $5.00.

• ALI BARTER + BEN WRIGHT SMITH Howler, Brunswick.

7:00pm. $10.00.

• ATLANTIC + ALPHA WOLF + JUSTICE FOR THE

DAMNED + TO THE GRAVE + DREGG Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:00pm. $5.00.

• BAD PONY (LIMBO TOUR) + EVANGELINE + DALLI Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:45pm. $10.00.

• ELLERY COHEN + WALKER + WIRE BIRD Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $12.00.

• GAY PARIS Workers Club, Geelong. 8:00pm. $12.00.

• KISS Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $99.91.

• KISSCHASY (FAREWELL TOUR) + LUCA BRASI Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm. $34.70.

• LEMON GRASS VIKINGS + NIANDRA + DANVERS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $8.00.

KIASMOS

This Friday October 9, Kiasmos will play an entrancing, soaring showcase of magnificent melodious techno as part of Melbourne Festival. For the uninitiated, Kiasmos is the sublime musical collaboration between celebrated Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and cult-producer Janus Rasmussen (who just happen to be the very best of friends, FYI). Their Melbourne Festival slot at the Foxtel Festival Hub will be a delight for all the senses, and a perfect union of between Arnalds’ stark piano-led figures and the ultra-lush synth pop directed by Rasmussen.

Be sure to catch this special show at The Foxtel Festival Hub on Friday October 9.

STATE + REQUIEM + RUM RUNNERS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:00pm.

• SOCIETY OF BEGGARS + JOHN CITIZEN + VULGAR

BORN Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $7.00.

• STICK SHIFT WITCHCRAFT + THE JACKRABBITS + ALANNAH WEIR & THE HALF TALLS + CAMERON BOBBITT Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• THE BEAR HUNT + CLAWS & ORGANS + CHORES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

• THE BEARDS + DALLAS FRASCA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm. $25.00.

• THE IN & OUT + HARRY HOWARD & THE NDE +

HAYLEY COUPER Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm.

• THE MARQUIS + WE ARE LUSH + MISS MISS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• TOMMY LEE-RICHARDS + DREAMCOAT + ALLYSHA

JOY Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $8.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • ANGEL EYES Lustre Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

• DAVE REX QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $15.00.

• DIANA MAY CLARK & THE SUNNY SET +

MADELINE LEMAN & THE DESERT SWELLS Spotted

Mallard, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• HELEN RYDER Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.

• KELLIE SANTIN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00.

• KYLIE AULDIST Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $10.00.

• MAGIC BONES + GOING SWIMMING The Shadow

• MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown

• MARSHALL OKELL + CHRIS CAVILL Baha Tacos &

• MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - FEAT: PREQUEL + EDD

Electric, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. $10.00.

Tapas Bar, Rye. 7:00pm. $10.00.

• MINERS + HOLLOW EVERDAZE + LALIC +

BLOODHOUNDS ON MY TRAIL Grace Darling Hotel,

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $8.00.

• OSCAR GALT & THE EVENTUAL SOMETHINGS +

FROM OSLO + BELOVED ELK Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8:00pm.

• OWEN RABBIT + DEAR PLASTIC + NAFASI Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $15.00.

• PEA & HAM SOUP Catfish, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

• RIOT! RIOT! RIOT! Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• SHOWCASE NIGHTS Purple Emerald, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• SILENT KNIGHT (CONQUER & COMMAND TOUR)

+ HORIZON’S EDGE + ESPIONAGE + SUDDEN

Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

FISHER Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm.

• SIMON TEDESCHI Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

7:30pm. $40.00.

• SOUTHERN STARS Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• THE GOOD EGG THURSDAYS - FEAT: HENRY WHO

+ TIGERFUNK + LEWIS CANCUT Lucky Coq, Windsor.

7:00pm.

• THE GUMBO CLUB - FEAT: THE BLUES BASH Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 5:30pm.

• THE LALIBELAS + THE SENEGAMBIAN JAZZ BAND

+ LEROY JAMES & THE NEW JAZZ RENEGADES Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $8.00.

• THE VIBRAPHONIC ORKESTRA + THAT GOLD

STREET SOUND + ALLYSHA JOY Bar Open, Fitzroy.

9:00pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • ACOUSTIC WONDERLAND - FEAT: TOBY GRAHAM

+ STEPHEN BLACK + JOSH BAKER + MYKAYLA WILDE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:00pm.

• ADRIEN SIBOULET + THE NEW SAVAGES The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• BACKSTAGE BLUES NIGHT - FEAT: SOUTHBOUND

TRAM + THE SHAKE SHACK BOOGIE HOUSE BAND + DJ BARRY MAXWELL Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm.

$10.00.

• BACKWOOD CREATURES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm.

• BEN SALTER Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 8:00pm.

• CASEY BENNETTO (SPRING SETS) + GERALDINE

QUINN Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 7:00pm. $15.00.

• ISAAC DE HEER Open Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• JMS HARRISON + SERI VIDA Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.

• OPEN MIC NITE Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 7:30pm.

• THE RAILWAY GANG STRING BAND Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North. 8:30pm.

• TRAINWRECK TRIO + AUSTRALIAN DUST +

ANTHONY TAYLOR Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

• WHOLE LOTTA BLUES - FEAT: THE BLUE SOULS +

SONS OF SERENGETI + CAZZOLINE Whole Lotta Love,

Brunswick East. 7:00pm.

• WICHITA + COSMIC ASSASSINS + LITTLE THEATRE Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 9

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • A SOUL SPECTACULAR - FEAT: EMMA DONOVAN

& THE PUTBACKS + SIMON BURKE & THE MELTDOWN Secret Location, 7:30pm. $25.00.

• CRAIG SCHNEIDER TRIO Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

9:00pm. $16.00.

• DJ CECE BROWN The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

• HENRY MANETTA + THE ADAM RUDEGEAIR TRIO Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.

• JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET + PAUL GRABOWSKY Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• JMQ JAZZ ENSEMBLE + YVETTE JOHANSSON Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

• JULIEN WILSON TRIO Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm.

• LA NUIT BLANCHE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $25.00.

• LONDON HAYDN QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $25.00.

• LOUNGE ROOM DISCO Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• MAX TEAKLE Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.

• RETROMAX Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:00pm.

• SAN LAZARO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $8.00.

• SLEAZY LISTENING - FEAT: STEELE BONUS + ARKS

+ RICHARD KELLY + HYSTERIC + K HOOP Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm.

• SLOW DANCE SOCIAL - FEAT: MAMA ALTO + DJ

MISS GOLDIE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 5:30pm.

$18.00.

• THE GROOVETONES Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• THE RABBITS Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $49.00.

• THE SEVEN UPS + UP UP AWAY + THE IVORY

ELEPHANT Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00.

• TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.

• WATER PUSHES SAND Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:30pm.

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• WHAT THE FUNK FRIDAYS Purple Emerald, Northcote.

9:00pm.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • ABSOLUTELY LIVE THE DOORS SHOW Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 9:00pm. $29.95.

• ARIELS + THE SOULENIKOES + STARR GUNN +

MYYTH Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $13.00.

• AS CROWS FLY + AS CROWS FLY + DON FRANKENSTEIN + DIVA DEMOLITION + THE JOY ELEVATION + THE JACKRABBITS + ALANNAH WEIR & THE HALF TALLS + CAMERON BOBBITT Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• AT THE DAKOTA (STORIES LAUNCH) + OCEAN

BONES + SANS + RUNNING YOUNG Grace Darling

Colonial Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • AINE TYRELL - FEAT: ÁINE TYRELL Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

• ÁINE TYRRELL (QUEEN OF SWORDS LAUNCH)

- FEAT: AINE TYRRELL + SHANE HOWARD + SUZANNAH ESPIE + CHRIS WILSON + SARAH CARROLL The Shadow Electric, Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $12.00.

• AINTREE SWEET Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

• CHRIS WILSON Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 5:15pm.

• DAVEYS FRIDAYS - FEAT: ROB & TARQUIN + SUPERFLY DJS Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston.

9:00pm.

Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $11.50.

• GOATPISS GASOLINE Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

Workers Club, Geelong. 8:00pm. $12.00.

• JON STEVENS BAND + BUSY KINGDOM Chelsea

• BAD PONY (LIMBO TOUR) + EVANGELINE + C/\S • BORN LION + PARTY VIBEZ + THE CONTROLLERS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 5:00pm. $13.00.

• CAPTAIN SPALDING Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 9:30pm.

• CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK + FUCK THE

FITZROY DOOM SCENE + THE PINK TILES + DJ MAX CRAWDADDY Max Watt’s, Melbourne. 8:00pm.

$25.00.

• COLUMBUS + STRICKLAND + FRESH NELSON Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• DADA ONO 303, Northcote. 8:00pm.

• DRUNK MUMS + MAGIC BONES + POW POW KIDS Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 8:30pm. $12.00.

• JO MEARES Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9:30pm.

Heights Hotel, Chelsea Heights. 8:00pm. $32.00.

• LONG HOLIDAY & TWO HEADED DOG + RED

RODRIGUEZ & HIS INNER DEMONS + SUPER SALOON Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 7:30pm.

• MARSHALL OKELL + CHRIS CAVILL Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9:00pm.

• MISS WHISKY Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• PUGSLEY BUZZARD Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

8:30pm.

• STEVE POLTZ Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $23.00.

• GOLD CLASS + DEEP HEAT + MOLLUSC + THE

• WILDEORNES + SWIGDEN + OLMEG Whole Lotta

8:30pm.

Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne. 8:00pm.

Love, Brunswick East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

• HALCYON DRIVE + JP KLIPSPRINGER Shebeen,

• CLINT MANSELL Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

• HAYDEN CALNIN (WHITE NIGHT LAUNCH) +

• DEAN’S MARTINI Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.

Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $9.00.

HARRISON STORM + ALEXANDER BIGGS Howler,

8:00pm. $25.00.

6:00pm. $20.00.

Brunswick. 8:00pm. $17.00.

• DEDICATIONS + BENAUD TRIO Melbourne Recital

East. 9:30pm.

• DEDICATIONS + BENAUD TRIO Melbourne Recital

Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.

• DJ OILY SHOES Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 8:00pm.

• HERE HERE’S + COAST BUSTERS The B.east, Brunswick • HEY HEY IT’S FRIDAY - FEAT: ASTRO BOYS Royal • IV LEAGUE + FLOYD COX + GANGZ Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $10.00.

• KISS Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $99.91.

• LA DANSE MACABRE + BRUNSWICK MASSIVE

RESIDENT DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

• LONG HOLIDAY & TWO HEADED DOG + RED RODRIGUEZ & HIS INNER DEMONS + SUPER SALOON Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 8:00pm.

• LOUIS SPOILS + NEW BIRDS + THE MICHAEL J FUX Catfish, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10.00.

• MIDDLE STREET Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

• ORPHEUS OMEGA The Loft, Warrnambool. 7:00pm.

• PEOPLE PROBLEM + INTERNAL ROT + SPLIT

TEETH + DEAD MATE + FACELESS BURIAL + COP DATE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.

• POSTSCRIPT + DEAD JOE + LASER BRAINS + ALL WE NEED + DREXLER Public Bar, North Melbourne.

8:00pm. $10.00.

• ROKK FOKKERS Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm.

• SHUT UP JACKSON + SHE’S THE DRIVER + THEFT

+ OLD ETIQUETTES Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

• SICK OF IT ALL + CROWNED KINGS + COLD GROUND Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $42.00.

• SILVER STOMP + DEMOLITION SQUAD + WE ARE NOT AMUSED Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.

• SPACE JUNK + GRIM RHYTHM + SHIT SEX + UPTOWN ACE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• THE BADLOVES + STEVE HOY Flying Saucer Club,

Centre, Southbank. 3:00pm. $28.00.

Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $28.00.

• FRANK SINATRA (100TH ANNIVERSARY

CONCERT) - FEAT: TOMMY DORSEY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 7:30pm. $79.90.

• GALALTA EXPRESS Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

• GRAND WAZOO Flying Saucer Club, Elsternwick. 8:00pm. $25.00.

• HAMMOND COMBO - FEAT: KEIJZER + KELAART +

FERMANIS + FISCHER Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20.00.

• JAMBALAYA Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:00pm.

• JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET + PAUL GRABOWSKY Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• JASSISTERS + ROGER CLARK LITTLE BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $16.00.

• PHILA PARA Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 6:00pm.

HOUSTON + DJ MR. WEIR + CC DISCO Gasometer

Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $15.00.

• THE FURBELOWS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $25.00.

• THE RABBITS Arts Centre, Melbourne. 2:00pm. $49.00.

• THE RABBITS Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $49.00.

• THE SEVEN UPS + UP UP AWAY Sooki Lounge, Belgrave.

9:00pm.

• THE SLIPDIXIES Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

• WATER PUSHES SAND Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $45.00.

Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• AMPERSAND + VISTA Public Bar, North Melbourne.

• THE SAND DOLLARS (HOLSTER TOUR) Ding Dong

6:00pm.

8:30pm. $10.00.

• ANDREI EREMIN + FRACTURES + WOODES + ILLS Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $13.30.

Lounge, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $7.00.

• BABYLON CIRCUS The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank.

Collingwood. 8:00pm. $39.80.

• BAD PONY (LIMBO TOUR) + MOTHER CULTURE +

$12.00.

BEC SMITH Baha Tacos & Tapas Bar, Rye. 9:00pm. $10.00.

• BAREBACK TITTY SQUAD + THE BLACK ALLEYS

• TOXIC HOLOCAUST + BULLETBELT Bendigo Hotel, • ULYSSES WULF Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:30pm.

• WATT’S ON PRESENTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

8:30pm.

• WHITE BLEACHES & MAGIC AMERICA + DREAMIN’

WILD John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. $10.00.

SWEET GOLD Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10.00.

8:00pm. $43.40.

• GAY PARIS + HOLY SERPENT + BRITTLE BONES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $12.00.

• GAYLE CAVANAGH & THE MIXED COMPANY BAND Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.

• GOATPISS GASOLINE Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 2:00am. $7.00.

• HEART OF GLASS Bella Union Bar, Carlton. 9:00pm. $10.00.

• HEAVY AND HAMMERED - FEAT: BARBARION

+ VICIOUS CIRCLE + MAMMOTH MAMMOTH + ARBRYNTH + FUCK THE FITZROY DOOM SCENE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 3:00pm. $10.00.

• HORRIS GREEN + THE HUNTED CROWS +

TSUGNARLY Karova Lounge, Ballarat. 9:00pm. $8.00.

• HUNTLY + YOUNGZ + KARLI WHITE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• IN-A-PALOOZA - FEAT: COFFIN WOLF + JAY WARS

& THE HOWARD YOUTH + GLADSTONE + AGENT 37 + MIYAZAKI! BOTTLECAPS + MORE Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

• JOHN KENDALL & THE SHOT GLASSES Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8:00pm.

9:00pm. $45.00.

Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• BEYOND THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM - FEAT: HARRY

HOWARD & THE NDE + TAIPAN TIGER GIRLS St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $25.00.

SPEED DATE WITH…

Huntly

1. What Do You Look For in a Band?

We make music that Kim Beazley has described as “introspective rave-core with a melodramatic lens”. We’re not quite sure where we fit yet in Melbourne but are hoping to find our home soon somewhere comfortable where we can dance sadly and all have a bath at the end.

2. Keeping Busy For the past few months we’ve been pushing our CPU to the limit recording our debut EP. The songs have all evolved quite drastically through the process and it has come time to let them out into the world.

3. Best Gig Ever I reckon our best gig this year was the LISTEN show we played in June. I got six other female-fronted artists to play and we also collaborated with poets, zine makers and artists. Waterfall Person seriously wowed/confused the crowd in the best kind of way, and I never fail to be impressed by Allysha Joy who probably has the best pipes in this town.

4. Current Playlist Jaala obviously rule, our mates Windari always wow us with their musicianship at their gigs, and my mate Sam Cromack in Brisbane just released his debut My Own Pet Radio solo EP, which is eclectic and great.

5. Your Ultimate Rider Charlie the cute one has a delicate tummy. So if we were ever famous enough to get a rider that wasn’t just tinnies, we would demand a FODMAP feast so he would never complain again.

HUNTLY’s single Sunday Sheets is out now. The single launch is on Saturday October 10 at The Workers Club.

Supports are Karli White and Youngs.

Q&A

• KINEMATIC + THE MANSIONS + MIDDLEMARCH Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• METAL UNITED DOWN UNDER - FEAT:

DREADDNAUGHT + MALAKYTE + DECIMATUS + HADAL MAW + DAMNATIONS DAY + MORE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 4:00pm. $20.00.

• MICK PEALING BAND (THE SONGS OF ANDY

DURANT & STARS) Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh.

8:00pm. $27.00.

• MUSTERED COURAGE The Loft, Warrnambool. 7:00pm.

• NEW EMPIRE (FINAL TOUR) Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $25.00.

• NEW EMPIRE (FINAL TOUR U18) Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 1:30pm. $25.00.

• OUTLAND BROTHERS + JOSEPH SIMMS Thornbury

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.

• DAYBREAK + GANBARU + PITT THE ELDER +

• STARS IN YOUR EYES - FEAT: DJ WHISKEY

Thornbury. 3:00pm.

8:30pm. $29.00.

• THE RUBENS + SASKWATCH + WINTERBOURNE

• COLD HEART Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm.

• SHAMEEM + DANIEL REEVES Thornbury Local,

• YSK LIGHTSPEED CHAMBER Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

• THE MERCY KILLS + RIVAL FIRE Penny Black,

Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7:30pm. $10.00.

• CASTLECOMER Shebeen, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.00.

• OLD ETIQUETTES + SHRIMPWITCH + PALE TRIP

Elsternwick. 8:40pm. $33.00.

• THE BEARDS + DALLAS FRASCA Pier Live, Frankston.

GLANCE + ENDUT HOCH HECH + KURDAITCHA

• STEVE LUCAS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 5:00pm.

• WALKIN’ THE LINE (JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE) Big

9:00pm. $25.00.

• CAMP COPE + SHINY COIN + THE WORLD AT A

• DJ JOSH HODSON The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.

Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.

• GAY PARIS + THE YARD APES + 80 HUNDRED The

SHIFTERS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $11.25.

• GYPSY (THE RUMOURS OF STEVIE NICKS & FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE) Milano’s Tavern, Brighton.

Join the inimitable Kirin J Callinan as he shows Melbourne Festival who’s boss on Sunday October 11. The music of Kirin J Callinan is a peculiar and idiosyncratic beast - there’s no ifs or buts about it - and that’s precisely why he’s so adored. His 2013 release Embracism was celebrated across the country. Now, in the lead up to his imminent 2016 release, you get the chance to revel in all of Callinan’s extraordinary glory. Head down to the Foxtel Festival Hub on Sunday October 11 to see what all the fuss is about.

• ROVIANA LAGOON + 1891 + JARRED DOUEAL Yarra

• THE SHADOWCASTERS Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $12.00.

KIRIN J CALLINAN

• DEAD LETTER CIRCUS Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd.

• EINSTEINS TOYBOYS + RATTLE Musicland, Fawkner.

7:30pm. $10.00.

Q&A

• WHORETOPSY + ENEMY THROTTLE + ACHERON

John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 3:00pm.

Local, Thornbury. 9:30pm.

• RHIANNON (FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE) + THE

AUSTRALIAN EURYTHMICS TRIBUTE + ELLEN ROSE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20.00.

• SATURDAYS R COVERED - FEAT: RADIO STAR Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10:00pm.

• SKARLET + DIVA DEMOLITION + VINTAGE RUIN

+ THE LAST DREG Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

7:00pm. $12.00.

• SMOKIN’ JOKER Black Hatt, Geelong. 9:30pm.

• STEVE POLTZ Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 6:00pm. $40.00.

• TAPE/OFF + BAPTISM OF UZI Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.00.

• THE QUEEN EXTRAVAGANZA Palais Theatre, St Kilda.

7:30pm. $99.90.

• THE SPINNING ROOMS + SPACEJUNK + SHIT SEX

+ LL GOONS The Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• VALLIS ALPS + LIFE IS BETTER BLONDE +

HARBOURS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • KINGFISHA + THE CACTUS CHANNEL + ECHO

DRAMA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.00.

• AKOVA Grind N Groove, Healesville. 7:30pm. $5.00.

• DAMH THE BARD + SPIRAL DANCE 303, Northcote.

8:00pm. $35.00.

• DAN LETHBRIDGE + THE TWOKS The Shadow Electric,

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Miners

Hello. Who are we speaking with and what do you do in Miners?

My name is Blake and I write songs, sing and play guitar.

I’m Joshua, I play guitar, effects, and loops.

I’m Nick, I play bass with all my brain capacity.

I’m Wilson, I regularly shave my head and play the drums To the completely uninitiated, tell us a little about the music you make.

It’s loud, dynamic, textural, and full of energy. While we do get grouped in with shoegazers, there’s a few other facets to our sound as well. We all love the Swirlies, Lilys, Unwound, Sonic Youth.

Can you tell us about the writing and recording process behind your debut EP, Pala?

The process was really relaxing actually. We initially spent about ten days in this beautiful house in Bowral, set up all of gear in the lounge room and then in between Mario Kart tournament battles, we tracked everything live. We took those sessions back to Miner HQ (Blake’s warehouse in Albion Park) and did thousands of layers of additional guitars.

You’re currently on tour in support of the EP, and will be hitting up the Grace Darling on Thursday October 8. What are punters in for?

We’re playing the EP start to finish plus a few newies that we plan on releasing down the road. But punters can expect everything from the faster post-punk stuff to minimal and withheld dream pop. Bring earplugs.

MINERS play the Grace Darling on Thursday October 8. Pala is out now via Strange Pursuits.

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For all the latest gigs check out beat.com.au Abbotsford. 7:00pm. $15.00.

• GOATPISS GASOLINE Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• HONK-A-TONK Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm.

• JEROME KNAPPETT Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3:00pm.

TOURMENTEE + WINDWAKER + NO! NOT THE BEES Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm. $10.00.

• KARAOKE WITH ZOE Customs House Hotel,

• JAM AT MUSICLAND SUNDAYS Musicland, Fawkner.

• LONG HOLIDAY & TWO HEADED DOG + DRIFTER

• JON STEVENS + MIKE ELRINGTON Flying Saucer Club,

Williamstown. 9:00pm.

Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.00.

• MINNIE MARKS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

• OUTLAND BROTHERS Thornbury Local, Thornbury.

7:00pm.

• PAUL MADIGAN Esu House, South Yarra. 8:00pm.

• STETSON FAMILY Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

• STEVEN CLIFFORD & LEENA THAVISIN Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 8:00pm.

• THE GROOVETONES Rose Hotel, Williamstown. 8:00pm.

• THE LAWNTON BOWLS CLUB The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 7:00pm.

• THE TIMBERS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 11

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • A CONCERT FOR DAVID MARAMA - FEAT: THE

PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA + THE ROYAL SWAZI SPA + AFRO-LANKAN + MORE Howler, Brunswick. 4:00pm. $15.00.

7:30pm.

Elsternwick. 3:30pm. $33.00.

• KEGGIN + DEAD SET LEDGER + STONED TO DEATH

+ MURDERBALLS + PALE TRIP Grace Darling Hotel,

Collingwood. 6:00pm.

• KIRIN J CALLINAN The Foxtel Festival Hub, Southbank.

9:00pm. $25.00.

• KISSCHASY + LUCA BRASI + MY ECHO Corner Hotel, Richmond. 7:30pm.

• LOVE GAMES + BARCELOS + ANDY RICHARDS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $10.00.

• MAN CITY SIRENS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

• DIECUT + FOURTEEN NIGHTS AT SEA + DIPLOID

PLEASURE Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

• OUTLAND BROTHERS Old Hepburn Hotel, Hepburn

• FRIDA Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $3.00.

• SEB MONT Big Mouth, St Kilda. 6:30pm.

• THE SEED FUND INAUGURAL FUNDRAISER - FEAT:

• NAKED BODIES + MARY GOLDSMITHS + CL

Springs. 5:00pm. $5.00.

• THE BADLOVES Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 3:00pm. $33.00.

• VALLIS ALPS + LIFE IS BETTER BLONDE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm.

• CLINT MANSELL Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK

• CORINO SON Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.

• CHRIS WILSON Big Huey’s Diner, South Melbourne.

ROGERSON Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 3:00pm. $10.00.

• ROSENSTEIN Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm.

• SUNDAY SOUL SESSIONS Purple Emerald, Northcote.

• DABID BURKE + JEMMA NICOLE Drunken Poet, West

8:00pm. $25.00.

• MCKINNON SECONDARY COLLEGE + SU

9:00pm.

• SUNDAY SOULTRAIN - FEAT: SAMMY OWN BLUES

BAND Daveys Bar & Restaurant, Frankston. 2:30pm.

• TEK TEK ENSEMBLE Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 4:30pm.

• THE GRUBS The Rooks Return, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

• THE MELBOURNE JAZZ CO-OP Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.

• THE RABBITS Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $49.00.

• THE RABBITS Arts Centre, Melbourne. 2:00pm. $49.00.

• THE WINNEBAGO LOUNGE - FEAT: THE BAND WHO

KNEW TOO MUCH + MC DEREK GUILLE St Kilda Memo, St Kilda. 5:00pm.

• UM DUO ENCANTADOR The B.east, Brunswick East.

8:00pm.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • ACID BABY JESUS + PRONTO + LL GOONS The

WITH GRACE KINDELLAN

North Melbourne. 4:00pm.

• INVENTIONS (I SAID GOODBYE LAUNCH) + AME

4:00pm.

Melbourne. 4:00pm.

• DAN BRODIE + DAMIEN LAWLER Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 4:30pm. $12.00.

• ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

8:00pm.

Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6.00.

• MASAMI KAWAGUCHI + CRAIG WESTWOOD Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

JOHN BUTLER + PAUL KELLY + MISSY HIGGINS + SAN CISCO + EMMA LOUISE + MC ZAN ROWE Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $100.00.

• WET LIPS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $5.00.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC • AQUINAS COLLEGE Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 7:00pm. $10.00.

• JOHN MCLAUGHLIN & THE 4TH DIMENSION Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8:00pm. $25.00.

• LA GUITARRA ROMANTICA - FEAT: CONTINUO

COLLECTIVE + TOMMIE ANDERSSON Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $28.00.

• ETIENNE & THE SANKAYI 303, Northcote. 4:00pm.

• MENINA FLOR + BOSSA NOVA + TIM PLEDGER Open

• GOATPISS GASOLINE + IVAN ZAR Cherry Bar,

• OSCAR FRANCE & CLAIRE WIELAND Open Studio,

• IMOGEN PEMBERTON + GRACE TURNER + JAMES

• THE RABBITS Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $49.00.

• GATHERING TIDE Littlefoot Bar, Footscray. 6:00pm.

Melbourne Cbd. 3:00pm. $5.00.

TEAGUE 303, Northcote. 7:00pm. $5.00.

• JACOB MCGUFFIE’S DUKES OF HAGGARD Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm.

• JOE GUITON + JO NEUGEBAUER + THE KRUNCHY

OMLETTE EXPERIENCE Reverence Hotel, Footscray.

3:00pm.

Studio, Northcote. 8:00pm.

Northcote. 6:00pm.

• THE SOLEMECHANICS + PANMAN + MIGUEL RIOS Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.

• WESTBOURNE CELEBRATES - FEAT: WESTBOURNE

GRAMMAR SCHOOL Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:00pm.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 13

• JULES BOULT Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4:00pm.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

• LIMELIGHT + MIKE DOG’S BONE YARD + BLUE

• ANGELA GHEORGHIU Hamer Hall (Arts Centre

• KERRYN FIELDS Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3:30pm.

Melbourne), Southbank. 8:00pm. $65.00.

• ANNA’S GO-GO ACADEMY Bella Union Bar, Carlton.

Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $20.00.

BALLS Mr Boogie Man Bar, Abbottsford. 7:00pm.

• LISA MILLER Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.

• LITTLE WISE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4:00pm.

• MICHELLE GARDINER Customs House Hotel,

Collingwood. 5:00pm.

• MISS WHISKEY Catfish, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

• MAZENOD COLLEGE Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond.

Eastern, Ballarat East. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• BANG - FEAT: SECRET HEADLINER + CARDS

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Collingwood. 4:00pm. $15.00.

• GENERAL MEN + OVERTIME + SUPER X Public Bar,

Williamstown. 3:00pm.

• OPEN MIC SUNDAY Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.

• RATTLIN’ BONES BLACKWOOD Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 4:00pm.

• RICHARD CLAPTON + DANNY SPENCER Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $69.00.

• RY + MANDY CONNELL + AMY POLLOCK + CONNOR

ROSS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 5:00pm.

7:00pm. $6.00.

• MELBOURNE POLYTECHNIC RECITALS 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

• MODIGLIANI QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:00pm. $30.00.

• THE RABBITS Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:00pm. $49.00.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

• SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS

• HAMMERFALL + TABERAH + ELM STREET 170

Prahran. 7:00pm.

Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $69.50.

• THE HOUNDLINGS Open Studio, Northcote. 5:00pm.

• SEESAW + OTHY GRAVES + RANDOLPH’S PARTY

• THE STEVE MARTINS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

• TUSK + THE DESERT EAGLES + EATER OF THE SKY

• THE TRAVIS WINTERS BLUES BAND The Water Rat

• VALLIS ALPS + LIFE IS BETTER BLONDE Northcote

• TINSLEY WATERHOUSE BAND Brunswick Hotel,

• WISE CHILD + ALICE IVY + GENERAL MEN + JAMES

• THE KRAKEN Burger Buzz, Brunswick. 3:00pm.

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Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:00pm. $28.00.

• FRESH INDUSTRY SHOWCASES Revolver Upstairs,

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6:30pm. $10.00.

• BLOWOUT + SMS Open Studio, Northcote. 6:00pm.

9:00pm.

Hotel, South Melbourne. 5:00pm. $5.00.

Brunswick. 5:00pm.

• TUNES FOR CHARITY - FEAT: MASCO SOUND

SYSTEM + AVENUES END + THE DEAD HEIR + ELBRUS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• WACO SOCIAL CLUB + SONKE + LOS NEUTRINOS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7:30pm.

• WEREWOLVES OF MELBOURNE Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm.

• WESTERN STARS + THEN HIGH SPIRITS + SAINT

HENRY Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 6:00pm.

MONDAY OCTOBER 12

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS • CHERRY JAM Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm.

Public Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $6.00.

Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm.

Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm.

SEEDY Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:00pm. $6.00.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK • DEAR THIEVES + SAM NEIL & THE SMASHED

CRABS + THE RAFFAELLAS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm.

• LEO RONDEAU Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8:30pm.

• TASTE OF INDIE TUESDAY - FEAT: ASPIRING

SONGWRITER SESSIONS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

8:00pm.

• THE BLACK HARRYS + BLAC BELLADONNA +

HARRY SMITH Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10.00.

• WOODSMITH + SLIM PICKINS + KING STAG Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $7.00.

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Interested in a career in the music industry and want to get along to this year’s epic Face The Music conference, but are strapped for spare dollars? You’re in luck because Face The Music has 25 FReeZA scholarships for young people who have participated in the FReeZA Program and are committed to developing a career in the contemporary music and entertainment sectors. Take a few minutes to apply and you could be going to the Melbourne conference for free, plus regional recipients will have their V-Line travel reimbursed.

If you’re aged under 25 and have been involved with FReeZA in any way (including as a volunteer or a musician at one of their shows), or you’ve been involved in your local community, then you’re eligible. Get more info at www.thepush.com.au and apply by Monday October 12.

For the songwriters amongst us, check out the latest round of Push Songs, where you can get free songwriting mentoring with some of our nicest and most renowned artists. Successful applicants will take part in three one-on-one songwriting workshops at our Brunswick office alongside Charles Jenkins and mentors Jess Cornelius (Teeth & Tongue), Hayden Calnin, Phoebe Baker (Alpine) and Fraser A. Gorman. You’ll also be invited to join the Tuesday Night Song Club and meet and share ideas and live performance opportunities with fellow songwriters. It kicks off in October and is open to anyone from around Victoria (it’s all ages too). Apply at www.surveymonkey. com/r/R4PS2015 For all of the creative young jazz musicians and aspiring composers out there, applications for the 2016 PBS Young Elder of Jazz Commission Award are open on October 12. In association with the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the commission aims to promote innovation and originality in young jazz composers under 35. The commission awards $10,000 to a young Victorian composer for the creation of a new work to be broadcast on PBS 106.7FM and premiered at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. For further information check out www.pbs.org.au As part of this year’s Melbourne Festival, Multicultural Arts Victoria will be showcasing new artists and collaborations from the Visible Music Mentoring Program.

This Sunday October 11 is the first of three Sunday shows at the Foxtel Festival Hub where you can expect to hear everything from Ethio-jazz to Hazara poetry to Kenyan funk soul. The show starts at 3pm with more information available at www.festival. melbourne/events. The artists performing this week include seven-piece Ethio-jazz band The Lalibellas featuring the renowned singer Nhatty Man. Interested in volunteering at a festival in the centre of Melbourne? Applications are open to volunteer at next year’s Moomba Festival.

This iconic festival is a celebration of the vibrancy and spirit of Melbourne and has been running for over 60 years on the Labour Day weekend in March. This is an opportunity to gain experience in event management in the entertainment industry and immerse yourself in the colour and fun of the festival. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old, with more information available at www.melbourne.vic. gov.au Got news you’d like to share with us? Send it to push@thepush.com.au

ALL AGES GIG GUIDE

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AIR LABEL NOMINEES

Nominees for this year’s Best Independent Label at the Carlton Dry Independent Music Award are Elefant Traks, Future Classic, Ivy League Records, Liberation Music and Milk! Records. The awards are organised

by AIR (Australian Independent Record Labels Association) and held in Melbourne on Thursday October 22. Last year’s winner was I OH YOU.

NEW OWNER FOR STEREOSONIC AS SFX SHEDS ASSETS?

Australia’s Stereosonic could be up for sale, as New York-based global EDM empire SFX Entertainment sheds some assets for “basement prices” after its awful run on the share market. These include music download site Beatport, Australia dance promoter and Stereosonic operators Totem OneLove Group, TomorrowWorld, Amsterdam promoter ID&T and ticketing company Flavorus. Business analysts say that when SFX went on a two year buying spree to become an empire, it paid too much for some and “now the value has bottomed out.” For instance it paid US$69.1 million alone for Stereosonic two years ago – while SFX’s current value is $311.1 million. It paid $130 million for ID&T.

TEN FINALISTS FOR NATIONAL JAZZ AWARDS

This year’s National Jazz Awards (2015: A Bass Odyssey), a central feature of the Wangaratta Jazz festival, has announced ten young finalists aged between 24 and 31. They are Nick Abbey (Perth), Sam Anning (Perth, living in New York), Alex Boneham (Sydney, now in LA), Thomas Botting (NZ, now in Sydney), Anna Butterss (Adelaide), Karl Dunnicliff (Sydney), David Groves (Sydney), Noel Mason (Sydney now in New York), Adam Spiegl (Melbourne) and Georgia Weber (Brisbane, living in New York).

The ten perform at the festival in the semi finals on Sat October 31 or the morning of Sunday November 1.

Three battle it out for the finals at 5pm on the Sunday.

Winner gets $12,000 plus an ABC recording session.

Runner up receives $6000 and a session at Pughouse Studios and third gets $3000.

WHO’S SINGING WITH SKYHOOKS?

Just who will be fronting Skyhooks at their (supposedly) one-off reunion at Rockwiz Live! Salutes The ARIA Hall Of Fame show at Palais Theatre tomorrow (Thursday October 8)? Everyone involved is sworn to secrecy.

The ‘Hooks first two singers Steve Hills and Shirley Strachan have passed away. Tony Williams sang with them for a year before they split in June 1980.

Shirl always maintained a female singer should have replaced him, citing Jane Clifton. Noise 11 reckons Laura Davidson, who sings in guitarist Bob Starkie’s band, “sounds remarkably like Shirl.” Rockwiz’s Brian Nankervis hinted it is “someone everyone will know”, which could mean Ross Wilson or Daryl Braithwaite who performed with them at Shirl’s memorial service.

Warner Music has just released a 40th anniversary 3CD collection Don’t You Believe What You’ve Seen Or You’ve Heard. It. It contains remastered extended versions of their first two albums with demos, and a live CD. The package was put together by bassist Greg Macainsh, Warner’s David Laing and Peter Green of the Skyhooks fan club.

VENUES CHANGE HANDS

17 Melbourne pubs, many which showcase music, have changed hands. These include Hawthorn Hotel, The Exchange in Port Melbourne, The Perseverance in Fitzroy, Geebung Polo Club in East Hawthorn, The Golden Gate in South Melbourne and the Great Britain in Richmond. Victoria-based hotel group Dixon Hospitality has bought Open Door Pub Company from owner Michael Thiele.

THINGS WE HEAR

* Is a well known Australian resort looking at running a music festival? * Which entrepreneur found out through reading an overseas newspaper that his business partner intends to move abroad to set up a studio and record label? * Kanye West headlining Soundwave? * Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford apologised for inspiring Fred Durst to form Limp Bizkit, as Durst claimed during a New York show when they did a cover of RATM’s Killing in the Name Of. He told Rolling Stone, “I do apologise for Limp Bizkit. “I really do. I feel really bad that we inspired such bullshit.” * The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced the death of Carlos Santana after someone with that name died in a car crash and it didn’t double check it was the guitar hero. * Ruby Rose’s international profile continues to rise.

She’s co-hosting the MTV EMAs in Milan on Sunday October 25 with Ed Sheeran. * After getting 15,000 signatures on an online petition, activist group GetUp! withdrew from its campaign to get Chris Brown banned in December and apologised after it seemingly tapped into a racist “keep all the blacks out” feedback from some of the public. * The latest of Foo Fighters’ on-tour guests was Jewel in Phoenix doing Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love after she nixed Dave Grohl’s original song choice to do “something nice”, he confessed. Other celebs through the tour have included Stevie Nicks, Gary Clark Jr., Jane’s Addiction duo Perry Farrell and Chris Chaney and Yes’ Jon Davison. * The video for Cosmo’s Midnight’s triple j played Walk With Me (ft Kücka) has in its first month landed over 450k plays each on Soundcloud and Spotify and 800k YouTube views. * Talking to Q magazine, US rapper Young Thug responded with a “fuck no” when asked about rumours that he and producer Birdman plotted to kill Lil Wayne. * The Eagles’ Don Henley called Kanye West “arrogant” and Frank Ocean, whom he once threatened to sue for sampling Hotel California on a track “a talentless little prick”. * Coldplay emerge as bookies’ favourites to headline Glastonbury Festival 2016. Adele, Blur, Foo Fighters and Muse are also tipped for next year’s event.

* Taylor Swift, who donated US$50,000 to a fan battling leukaemia in July, gave a similar amount to a nephew of a backing dancer who is battling cancer. * The Nights With Alice Cooper show is now on Triple M Classic Rock Digital. * Childish Gambino was booed by his audience in Newcastle for a lacklustre performance and cancelled his Canberra show due to his “busy touring schedule taking a toll.” * LGBTI community hub SameSame has been sold

by Junkee Media (previously Sound Alliance) to gay publisher Evo Media. * A 50-something Adelaide man demanded that authorities investigate that city’s Lava Club claiming a bouncer threw him out because he wasn’t drinking alcohol and it was “a business decision”. Lava said he had to go because he was making other patrons “uncomfortable.”

KISS WORK WITH AUSSIE WAR WIDOWS

KISS have done good work in the US assisting returned servicemen and women to find work through programs as Wounded Warrior and Hire Our Heroes.

They’ve raised two million dollars from getting them to work as KISS Roadies. During their current Oz tour, they team with Legacy Australia. As Legacy is focussed on widows and children, the band is “hiring” a widow at each show to work in their VIP packages area. They help set it up, host VIP fans who attend an afternoon acoustic session and manage its photo sessions before seeing the night’s show.

SOUNDWAVE COMPANY WOUND UP, FESTIVAL GOES AHEAD

Soundwave Festival Pty Ltd, the company that founder AJ Maddah used to operate the Soundwave Festival, went into voluntary administration. But that will not affect next year’s event. The company no longer operated the festival since April. According to court listings, it changed its name to Penny Denny and then ACN 127 870 866 before the Supreme Court case. Maddah, the company’s sole director, has made no secret of the festival’s fluctuating fortunes. It was wound up by Melbourne builder World Stages Pty Ltd for monies owed. In June cleaning company Spotless Facility Services made a similar bid saying it was owed $47,666. A creditor’s meeting for Soundwave Festival Pty Ltd is on Friday October 9.

CALL OUT FROM WROKDOWN RADIO

For years, Melbourne-produced Wrokdown Radio have played past hits and new tracks by baby boomer acts.

Stunned that “the songs that I thought were amazing weren’t being played on commercial radio”, producer Anita Monk contacted “almost every commercial radio station in Victoria and beyond, offering my content so that the best of Australian and International artists can be heard.” None were interested until now. But gold hits format Magic 1278 has at least responded to a proposal. Through “Wroktober” the show is posting clips of every new song it plays. It is asking music fans who think any tracks are worthy of commercial airplay to go to www.magic1278.com.au/contact and in your own words state their case. More info from www. wrokdown.com.

KAREN CONRAD OFFERS ‘SHE’ RATES

With the gender pay gap hitting a record high of 18.8% with men earning $300 more a week according to Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures, publicist and feminist Karen Conrad is doing her bit. From now until January 30, female artists and artisans “earning a female dollar” will get a 20% discount SHE rates for new female-driven arts, fashion, theatre and music PR campaigns. Conrad says, “Women have to live in the same world that men live in and pay the same prices men do for accommodation, basic essential services, food, drink, fun – everything – while earning nearly 20% less. I don’t think that’s fair.” She is at Karen@ karenconradpublicity.com.

BALLARAT TO GET FIRST LIVE MUSIC STRATEGY

Ballarat is about to get its first live music strategy to strengthen and expand its scene in the next three to five years. A ten person Live Music Advisory Committee is set up, led by Ballarat councillor Belinda Coates. It includes musician Allan Kealy, venue operator Lachie Anderson of the Karova Lounge, promoters and Rex Hardware of Federation University. The strategy will identify what current and future issues will affect the scene, how the Council can help to protect venues BEAT MAGAZINE PAGE 50

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LIFELINES Hanging Together: Rita Ora and Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker are “inseparable” since they met a month ago.

She was once linked to Wiz Khalifa.

Recovering: Guns N’ Roses/Dead Daisies guitarist Richard Fortus suffered multiple broken bones and a lacerated liver after a motorcycle crash but expects to be playing later this month.

Hospitalised: No Devotion singer Geoff Rickly posted he was robbed and poisoned in Hamburg, Germany.

In Court: a Czech court threw out Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe’s bid to be paid $640,000 damages after being accused of, and acquitted in 2013, of causing the death of a fan three years before.

In Court: Peter Jing Zu Lessnau, 34, accused of the bogus Mark Ronson gig in Perth, appeared briefly in Perth Magistrates Court last Thursday. Charged with three counts of fraud totalling $4250, he was released on a $3000 bail to appear in court again on November 16.

In Court: attacking two musicians busking at 2am in the Wollongong CBD in June, punching them and hitting one with his guitar, got a drunken tradie 200 hours community service and $400 for the guitar.

Died: US R&B singer Frankie Ford, best known for 1959’s US Top 20 hit Sea Cruise, aged 76, from natural causes.

Died: US jazz saxophonist Phil Woods, 83, once acclaimed as “the new Charlie Parker”, also played on Billy Joel’s Just The Way You Are, Paul Simon’s Have a Good Time and Steely Dan’s Doctor Wu.

and increase music events, which legislation should be changed, and what successful Australian and overseas initiatives can be introduced locally. The City of Ballarat has allocated $10,000 to the project.

Cr Coates said that Ballarat could be a major cultural hub, and that the strategy would include “live music education, production and performance.” She said similar live music strategies had begun in regional centres such as Mornington and Wollongong. Music Victoria’s Regional Victoria Live Music Census 2014 reported that 3.8 million patrons attended regional live music venues and festivals and injected $276.2 million to regional Victorian economies. Gigs also created 1000 full time and 300 EFT staff jobs in regional Victoria.

RDIO PICKS SLUM SOCIABLE

Rdio’s Artist To Watch are Melbourne ambient jazz hip hop duo Slum Sociable. This year Edward Quinn and Miller Upchurch released two singles, showcased at BigSound, gigged regularly and have an EP out this week on Liberation Music. They will create a playlist for Rdio, providing a glimpse of what influences shaped their sound.

THIRSTY MERC SETTING UP BENEFIT CONCERT

Thirsty Merc, who go back on the road today (Wednesday October 7) in Canberra after their recent tragedy, have the welfare at heart of the families of their late stage manager Shane Cooper and hospitalised drummer Mick Skelton. A percentage of the proceeds from every ticket sold for the rest of The Good Life tour will go to both families. A benefit concert is being planned. Helping donations is the news that their single The Good Life is being played on the Triple M network and Southern Cross Austereo regional stations

PATRICK JAMES SIGNS TO ALBERTS, CREATE CONTROL

NSW singer songwriter Patrick James sets up the October 16 release of debut album Outlier with two partnerships. Alberts inked James for a global publishing deal. “They have such an amazing history in Australian music and I am humbled to get to work alongside them,” he said. Create Control, who worked on his Broken Lines and All About To Change EPs, which sold 11,000 units, will do the same for the album. James said, “I have made close and important relationships at Create Control. I’m looking forward to working with the team for my album release.”

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