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Please Do Not Litter November 14, 2018 Issue N o 1652

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Contents News Arts Guide Beat Eats, Electronic, Punk Melbourne Music Week Straight Arrows, The Little Songs of the Mutilated Melbourne Underground Thando, Julia Holter Mo Gilligan, The Betoota Advocate Red Spice Road, Sounds of Africa Barton Fink, Whole Lotta Love Quality Records +, Lords of Chaos Profiles Singles, Album of the Week Albums Gig Guide

Editor’s note With Tom Parker

250 acts. 85 events. 1 music city. That’s a prologue in writing but only a teaser, just a preamble to whet the appetite without creating any climax. The climax begins in two days with the launch of Melbourne Music Week, this city’s premier celebration of a culture that’s rooted in the veins of the metropolis.

Music is Melbourne and Melbourne is music – there’s so much opportunity that an aimless late-night mooch can lead to gold in the form of a bar and a bandroom unanticipated. Garage rock is the theme of the night and Straight Arrows take to the stage with Rice Is Nice’s 10th anniversary the amiable shadow.

For it is Melbourne Music Week – a time to rejoice milestones.

Before that, Kira Puru headlines a huge opening night Heaps Gay Reverie.

For Various Asses, MARIBELLE, Brooke Powers and more join her side-by-side.

The Little Songs of the Mutilated will twist our minds with Exquisite Corpse, a conceptual jungle gym and then we’re left with the wisdom of Thando, Julia Holter and Mo Gilligan unpacking their cerebral minds.

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News Melbourne Music Week Have you covered with a bunch of free events

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Laura Jean

The Bennies

Laura Jean has backed up her acclaimed mid-year release Devotion – which spawned tracks such as ‘Press Play’ and ‘Girls on the TV’ – with the announcement that she’ll be taking it around the country in early 2019. The five-stop tour will come amongst a stack of other exciting slots for the singer-songwriter, who is also slated to appear at Meredith and Bendigo Autumn Festivals as well as support Courtney Barnett and Marlon Williams in the coming months. As part of her headline run, Laura Jean will stop by The Corner Hotel on Friday February 22.

With a fresh band member – AKA long time collaborator and touring member DJ Snes Mega – in tow and imminent new music, The Bennies have announced that they’ll be taking on a bunch of dates across the country throughout summer. Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Fremantle and Melbourne will be privy to The Bennies’ raucous energy throughout the tour, before Europe get a freshly announced crop of shows for the fourth time in three years.

Melbourne can catch The Bennies on Friday January 18 at Geddes Lane Ballroom, and tickets are available through the band’s website.

Announces 2019 Australian tour

Mr Simple X Melbourne Bitter Are throwing an epic launch party

Iconic brands Mr Simple and Melbourne Bitter have joined forces to create the ultimate summer uniform, and to celebrate, they’re throwing a launch party. The clothing line – which celebrates the old artwork and logos of Melbourne Bitter – will be stocked at Mr Simple’s Smith Street, Chapel Street and Brunswick Street stores as well as online, with an extremely limited stock for each of the four items. Meanwhile you can catch the launch party at The Standard, Fitzroy on Thursday November 15 from 6pm, with music from Eaten By Dogs. Entry is free.

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From a smattering of free industry panels, to free shows thanks to the the MMW Busking Program and the acclaimed Live Music Safari, Melbourne Music Week has got a stellar stack of free events lined up for their nine day course. Elsewhere on the free lineup the MSO will also take over the NGV on Sunday November 18, while on the same afternoon Triple j Unearthed National Indigenous Music Award-winner Alice Skye will perform at the MPavillion to showcase her debut album Friends With Feelings. Melbourne Music Week goes down from Friday November 16 until Saturday November 24 and you can check out the full program via the City of Melbourne website.

Reveal Australian summer tour dates

Bachelors From Prague

Announce duo of December shows

After a successful reformation in 2016 and a stack of sold-out shows in 2017, Melbourne institution Bachelors From Prague have announced a duo of hometown shows for next month. From the mid ‘80s to early ‘90s Bachelors From Prague were heavyweights of the local live music scene, slinging their brand of jazz, R&B, funk and salsa. To round out 2018 the band will take to The Night Cat on Friday December 14 and Caravan Music Club on Sunday December 16 and tickets are available via the venues.

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Brunswick Music Festival Drop first lineup announcement for 2019

Brunswick Music Festival has announced none other than Baltimore-native teenage sensation Snail Mail as the first act to grace their 2019 bill. The solo project of Lindsay Jordan, Snail Mail melted listeners with their earnest, ‘90s indie-rock-inspired EP Lush which dropped in June. BMF Music programmer Emily Ulman said this was just a preview of the quality of the yetto-be-announced complete bill, which will come in January. Snail Mail will play Estonian House on Friday March 8 as part of the festival, which will run from Sunday March 3 to Sunday March 17.

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After a change of hands in late 2017, Quality Records + has emerged as one of the city’s finest haunts for a spot of vinyl. Aside from housing one of the country’s largest selections of Audiophiles, the shop also offers one of Melbourne’s most extensive jazz collections. They also stock plenty in rock, funk, soul, Motown, world, blues, easy listening, orchestral, classical, hip hop and R&B and have cuts from sought-after labels including Mobile Fidelity, Analogue Productions and Speakers Corner. Find Quality Records + at 269 Glenferrie Road, Malvern and check out their website for more details.

For the first time since 2015, Melbourne Asian food institution, Red Spice Road are gracing the iconic Melbourne Night Noodle Market. Joined by over twenty other Asian food stores at Birrarung Marr, the Red Spice Road team are dishing up a mouth watering menu of Chiang Mai chicken noodle curry, Five-spice pork belly with herb salad and chilli caramel, tofu paired with tomato, peanuts, herbs and sesame, as well as a Korean pork corn dog with apple kimchi and ssamjang mayo. You can find Red Spice Road at the Melbourne Night Noodle Market at Birrarung Marr until Sunday November 25.

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Lord of the Strings

Matthew Fagan will bring his acclaimed show to Melbourne Direct from the Edinburgh Fringe stage, prolific guitarist Matthew Fagan will bring his Lord of the Strings show to Melbourne for its Australian premiere this month. The show sees Fagan perform 20 of the greatest guitar solos of all time across the rock, metal, classical, flamenco and Celtic genres, with highlights from ELO, Pink Floyd and War of the Worlds to feature. Performing on a range of guitar incarnations including a custom electric, ukulele and a handmade 10 string Spanish acoustic, Fagan will bring his instrumental mastery to Deakin Edge, Federation Square on Friday November 30. Tickets via Eventopia.

The In The Out

Are launching their debut LP this month

Melbourne-based alternative pop, rock and psych-infused outfit The In The Out are slated to launch their debut full-length offering this month. The long-awaited release comes after a hefty few years of shows for the four-piece, who are staples on the lcoal scene and recently supported the likes of Kim Salmon & The Surrealists as part of Darebin Music Feast. You can catch The In The Out performing their 10-track effort in full on Saturday November 24 at Thornbury’s Swamplands.

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The Teskey Brothers

Will help re-open The Espy with a special gig Adored soul and blues outfit The Teskey Brothers have announced they’ll be offering a special performance at St Kilda’s Hotel Esplanade as the venue re-opens its doors this month. Off the back of the release of their recent single ‘I Get Up’, the performance will christen The Gershwin Room of the hotel, before the whole beloved venue opens anew. Powerhouse singer-songwriter Emilee South will join the festivities as support, when it all goes down on Thursday November 22 from 8pm. Follow The Espy on Facebook for more details on its re-opening.

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Deafheaven

Lock in 2019 Australian tour

Following the release of their album Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, Deafheaven have announced that they’re set to grace Australian shores next year. The San Fran-born five-piece will follow up from their 2016 tour, which saw them become the first black metal band to perform at the Sydney Opera House. Following on from their highly acclaimed second album Sunbather and subsequent release New Bermuda, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love presents layered psychedelic vocals, jazz-inspired percussion and intricate piano melodies. As part of their 2019 Australian tour, Deafheaven will play the Corner Hotel on Wednesday February 27.

Waterparks

Announce Good Things sideshow

Alongside their appearance at Good Things Festival, Houston trio Waterparks have announced that they’ll be taking on an all ages sideshow in Melbourne. Off the back of their debut album Double Dare, the alt-rock and pop outfit garnered a stack of praise, including being announced as Rock Sound’s ‘Best International Newcomer’ and collecting a near five million streams for their single ‘Stupid For You’. Waterparks will take to Wrangler Studios on Thursday December 6 for their sideshow, with Maefire and The Playbook as support. Tickets through Destroy All Lines.

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Audrey Powne

The Melbourne trumpet master has locked in a residency Prolific Melbourne trumpeter and vocalist Audrey Powne has announced that she’ll perform weekly at Tokyo-meets-Melbourne venue, Horse Bazaar. Known for fronting outfits including Leisure Centre and Au Dré, Powne will now offer her talents to Horse Bazaar every Wednesday. Coming in trio form alongside James Bowers (Sex On Toast, The Vaudeville Smash) on keys and Myka Wallace (MKO Sun, Bastard Amber) on drums, the three-piece will deep-dive into pockets of soul, funk, hip hop and modern jazz. Kicks off this Wednesday November 14 from 8pm with free entry.

Julia Jacklin

Reveals new album and national tour details Adored indie folk-rock singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin has announced that she’ll be unleashing her new album Crushing in the new year, and will be embarking on her biggest national tour to date to celebrate. Jacklin’s latest offering comes in the form of her electrifying anthem ‘Head Alone’ – the second single to be taken from the forthcoming release after ‘Body’. Alongside special guests Olympia and Robert Muinos, Julia Jacklin will take over The Forum on Thursday March 14. Crushing will be released on Friday February 22 through Liberation Records.

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The Hamlet Apocalypse

A spine-tingling dose of Shakespeare Brisbane-based theatre company The Danger Ensemble have recently made the move to Melbourne, and their inaugural production in our fine city comes in the form of The Hamlet Apocalypse. A not-so-typical rendition of the classic Shaksepeare tale, the play dissects the power of death and the value of life.

At any moment a frenzied, troubling and challenging piece of theatre, this is a downright bold debut Melbourne offering that is sure to excite. You can see The Hamlet Apocalypse at Theatre Works nightly until Sunday November 18 at 8pm, and tickets are available via Eventfinda.

Gather Round Amigos – There’s a Latin Film Festival in Melbourne The Melbourne leg of the national Cine Latino Film Festival is set to roll into Palace Cinemas across the city from this week, bringing with it the best in new South American film fare. On the lighter side comes romantic comedies An Unexpected Love (Argentina) and How To Break Up With Your Douchebag (Mexico), while the program also features a hefty batch of dark, dramatic and thought-provoking features. The life and crimes of teenage Argentine serial killer Carlos Robledo Puch are interpreted in the exhilarating biopic El Ángel, while combined Spanish and Argentinian effort Animal also appears. The Cine Latino Film Festival will close on Wednesday November 28 with heart warming road trip comedy Y Tu Mamá También and you can find more details on the full program via the festival website.

Comedy

If your mid-week nights are looking a little dull, why not spice them up with a cheeky bit of comedy? The Catfish in Fitzroy sling a comedy night every Tuesday, and names such as Tommy Little, Joel Creasey, Nazeem Hussain and Claire Hooper have all taken to their stage. So grab a bev, a famous Catfish Philly cheesesteak and dig in from 8pm. There’s a new crop of comics up every week and it’s only $12 on the door. Beauty.

Les Misérables

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Following on from a sell-out season of Wicked in 2017, the talented young crop at the Young Australian Broadway Chorus have announced that they’ll now be taking on the epic tale of Les Misérables. In nineteenth century France, amid a city rapidly succumbing to rebellion, ex-convict Jean Valjean seeks redemption while being relentlessly tracked down by police inspector Javert. Coming as the YABC’s most ambitious project to date, the performance will feature a full orchestra, spectacular sets and costumes and over 100 performers when it plays at the National Theatre from Friday January 18 until Saturday January 26. Visit www.lesmiz.com.au for more details.

A screening of Australian-directed Syrian refugee documentary Watan (Homeland) is set to go down in Melbourne this week, followed by a discussion with a panel of guest speakers. A joint effort from James L. Brown and Bill Irving, the film hones in on the human cost of the Syrian refugee crisis, which has seen over six million people displaced in seven years. The film goes inside two of the bigget camps in Jordan, observing daily life and sharing the deeply powerful stories of those inside. You can catch the screening on Wednesday November 14 at the Kathleen Syme Libray and Community Centre, Carlton from 6pm. Tickets are $25 through Humantix.

Offering a raw time capsule of our city, its culture and its people, 24 Hours in Melbourne is the latest exhibition from adored Melbourne photographer Chris Cincotta. The brains behind the @melbourneiloveyou Instagram and the Humans In Melbourne Facebook page, Cincotta has a palpable passion for Melbourne, which is showcased all the more in his exhibition. On April 6 this year, Cincotta caught 24 hours of people, places and details around the city. From the sunrise at 6.37am that day, to interviewing and capturing upwards of seventy people throughout the day, to the next sunrise at 6.38am the next morning, this storyteller was there for it all. You can view the free exhibition at Emporium Melbourne until Sunday November 18.

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The human cost of the Syrian refugee crisis

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A DEDICATION TO PELLEGRINI’S SISTO MALASPINA

This week I’m dedicating my column to Sisto Malaspina, after the heart-wrenching news of his death last Friday. Malaspina was part-owner of Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar on Bourke Street, and was possibly one of the most adorable and adored restaurateurs in Melbourne. Once the news had hit me, tears couldn’t help but pour completely down my cheeks. My mind immediately honed back to my memories of Malaspina. He was a kind, caring soul, and most times could be spotted hands rested on his chest behind the bar, simply waiting for his guests to order. He was patient, never loud, and I can truly say that Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar is the only restaurant in Melbourne where I really feel like I’m in my own Nonna’s kitchen. That’s the kind of warmth Malaspina crafted. So let’s celebrate Malaspina and Pelligrini’s in this column.

Melbourne Music Week launches on Friday, and there’s a pretty solid list of names on the electronic music tip taking part this year. At the all ages launch party at Federation Square, you can catch Ara Koufax, Sui Zhen, ALTA and DRMNGNOW. Then later in the evening legendary Detroit techno weirdo Jeff Mills will be performing his live score to to the 1929 film Women in the Moon at the MMW Hub at ACMI. On Sunday November 18, London-based producer Rival Consoles brings his cinematic beats to the hub with Leon Vynehall (DJ set) and Kate Miller.The following day Leon Vynehall plays live in the Melbourne Recital Centre with the Impossible Orchestra - a ten piece string ensemble.

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At first welcome, you feel more like you’ve stepped into Italy than simply a restaurant, and that in itself has made the sweet pocket of the city what it is today. A bar wraps almost all of the restaurant, where guests are welcome to dine facing the loving staff, impressive coffee machine, and delicious cabinets filled with Italian treats. They can also dine against the mirrors right opposite, or, in the kitchen with the chefs – AKA family – as they bake lasagna and cannelloni. I will miss dear Sisto sitting at the end of the table some nights, drinking coffee, and smiling.

My favourite times at Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar were the unexpected visits, which were most common. If it was drinking wine at Siglo near-by, post gig at the Palace Theatre, or simply walking through the city, the thought, “Oh, how about Pelligirini’s!” was common for the way it offered a comforting end to any evening. My favourite dish was the lasagna – generous mounds of bolognese sugo, Parmigiano cheese and layered pasta would completely fill a bowl until it couldn’t hold any more.

Portions at Pelligirini’s are on the fuller side, as they always should be, while all dishes are accompanied with slices of bread and butter, optimal for soaking up the sugo that’s left over. Other standout dishes are the spaghetti marinara and, their most widely-celebrated dish, spaghetti and meatballs.

Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar represents so much more than an Italian restaurant. They pride themselves on their family tradition and the wonderful Italian culture that migrated here in 1950. Sisto Malaspina was a huge part our city, and he will be forever remembered, admired and missed.

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Heading into next week, on Wednesday November 21 at the MMW Hub you can catch a DJ set from jazz, funk, tropocália (and everything in between) aficionado Gilles Peterson - BBC1 Wordwide’s prolific programmer, alongside locals Swooping Duck, Mandarin Dreams All Stars, Crown Ruler Sound System and Lori. On Friday at the Hub you can catch Swedish lo-fi house poster boy DJ Seinfeld, set to party with a who’s who of the Melbourne DJ scene - Roza Terenzi, Andras, Fantastic Man and Andy Garvey. On Saturday and Sunday, the Melbourne Synth Festival is happening at the Meat Market, with a massive launch party happening on the Friday night featuring Luke Million, Beatrice, Honeysmack and Emah Fox. On the Saturday and Sunday, in between tinkering with all the latest synthesisers, you’ll also be able to catch performances from ACM, Chiara Kickdrum, Sadiva and more. I hope you’re all ready for a hectic week!

Giant Swan

In other news, Adelaide experimental music festival Unsound has once again returned as a standalone festival - out from under the umbrella of the Adelaide Festival. Last week saw them announce the final additions to the 2018 lineup; Nicolas Jaar, Giant Swan, Mun Sing, Bliss Signal and DJ Lag. They join Ben Frost with the MFO, Eartheater, Ciel, Lanark Artefax, Matmos and plenty more. From all accounts this festival has been very much worth heading to Adelaide for in the past and this year won’t likely be an exception. It goes down on Friday December 14 and Saturday December 15 at the Queen’s Theatre and Sugar Nightclub.

WHY

HARD-ONS

ARE

STILL

UNRELENTING PUNK ROCK BAND

AUSTRALIA’S

MOST

Nostalgia is a funny thing. On one hand, seeing a band that has been playing for decades and still delivering a solid show can be fantastic, yet there often remains certain concessions and allowances for some bands to rely on past-glory and nostalgia to fill in the gaps of an otherwise past-their-prime operation.

In terms of raw business and ticket sales, the reliance on past glory and reliving the days of yore is a prime money-maker in today’s live music scene. The amount of reunions, revivals and reminiscence of “the good old days” brought into the promotion of live performances continues to stagnate the evolution and natural progression of the art. Even beyond the obvious Barnesy/ Farnesy never ending careers of playing the same songs Gold 104 have been flogging for the past 30 years, every week there seems to be an old punk rock band trying to profit off the aimless attempt to revive the mythology of old music being better music. Since forming in Sydney in 1984, Hard-Ons have toured almost every year since, and have no such concerns or ambitions of the sort.

I first saw Hard-Ons in 2011 at a free show at The Espy front bar. The band were operating as a three-piece (since original vocalist/drummer Keish De Silva’s departure in 2000), and largely tore through a hardcore-verging-on-grindcore style set, playing little, if any, of their early hits. Although many of the songs in the set were either unreleased or from the band’s newer and under-appreciated albums, the set was raw and confident, and the band were completely comfortable and content playing exactly what they wanted to be playing. While such a description seems like a simple and straightforward premise on paper, the overarching “expectations” and “demands” of regular punters would paint a different story. At least in Melbourne, as HardOns shows at this time were not particularly well attended, while other older Australian punk bands of the same era such as Cosmic Psychos were gaining a strong resurgence and revived attention. While the musical differences between Hard-Ons and other bands at the time are a matter of personal taste and opinion, the unrelenting ambition of a band that only cares about doing exactly what they wanted to do meant far more to me as a fan than seeing another band play nothing but their old songs.

Hard-Ons have since reunited with their original member and continued producing new music.

Yes, they’ve added some older fan-favourites back into their set, yet the drive and focus of the band has not changed at all. I can’t think of any other band, Australian or otherwise, that has so confidently transitioned from pop-skate punk/thrash metal/ grindcore and everything in between and stayed completely true to their established ethos of playing what they happened to think is good and playing it damn well. Every time I see the band I’m given a refreshing reminder that there are still long-running bands that have not, and will not fall into the death trap of relying on past hype and nostalgia to maintain ticket sales and popularity.

Key Albums: Dickcheese (1988) Love Is a Battlefield Of Broken Hearts (1989) Yummy (1990) Very Exciting! (2003) Peel Me Like a Egg (2014)

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Kira Puru

By Greta Brereton

Making a breakthrough in the music industry is difficult for any performer. More often than not, the artists we attribute as having ‘overnight success’ have actually been knuckling down and working hard for years behind the scenes, before eventually erupting onto airwaves, hitlists and music festival lineups.

This is the story for many artists, including none other than the genre-defying Kira Puru.

Over the past year or so, Puru has kind of exploded on the Australian music scene. She’s been penning and singing songs as a solo artist since 2015, but it’s only really now that she’s started to gain traction. She released her first, self-titled EP in September, and is relishing the response it’s had.

“I’m feeling great,” she says happily. “I’ve been working hard in this industry for a long time so, you know, I’m aware that this has been a process and I feel like this year’s been really good, tactile and proof of that.”

A New South Wales native, Puru made the move to Melbourne some seven years ago, when she found her passion for music dwindling. She’d been playing in a band for some time, and while they were well received in her home state, she didn’t feel like she was reaping the rewards of her efforts. On top of that, her bandmates were having kids and pursuing other interests, and it left her feeling like she needed a different direction.

“I actually moved because I was feeling a little burnt out,” Puru admits. “I had a lot of friends in Melbourne who were doing various amazing things and I just felt like I needed a bit of a change up.”

“In the back of my mind I thought ‘I’m going to give up music and just get a boring job’. But yeah, then I got a couple of phone calls from some good mates who are well connected, and a bunch of really great opportunities came through to me. Before I knew it, I was like, back.”

While moving to Melbourne opened a lot of doors for Puru, paving her way in the industry

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wasn’t necessarily easy. Being a woman in the music scene can be difficult enough, but as a queer woman of colour, Puru faced her fair share of challenges, particularly in regard to the way she and her work were contextualised.

“It’s kind of hard to be a member of different intersectional communities and not have that define the way that people look at you,” she says thoughtfully.

“Overall, there wasn’t as many opportunities afforded to me that I saw other people be afforded, but that’s not a huge issue. It’s been great creating regardless, and like creating space for yourself in the context where there wouldn’t normally be space afforded to you is like a really radical, political thing to do.”

While she embraces being a queer, woman of colour as part of her identity, she doesn’t like the idea of that pigeonholing her work as an artist.

“I worry sometimes about letting that define me too much,” she explains. “I don’t want to use that idea of ‘not all people are created equal’ to contextualise my work, because I make pop music and the context of a lot of my songs is just, life, you know and love, and disco, and very universal themes that don’t necessarily pertain to my experience.

“The fact that I am who I am certainly like gives a broader context to that or redefines it in a way, but I don’t create art because of that and I wouldn’t want my art to be defined specifically by that. It’s just another ingredient in the recipe.”

The Kira Puru recipe of catchy lyrics, poppy beats and dance-worthy tunes has seen the artist achieve some pretty awesome benchmarks in the last year. She’s toured with Vera Blue, played festivals

such as Listen Out and Groovin the Moo, and even performed at the Commonwealth Games.

With only two months left of the year, she shows no signs of slowing down, and is about to embark on her first headline tour. But, before that, she’ll be helping kick off Melbourne Music Week, performing at the Heaps Gay opening night party, alongside MzRizk, Whiskey Houston, Xanthe and more.

“I think Melbourne Music Week always has really great programming,” says Puru. “I’ve done several things with them in the past and I’ve always had a really positive time. The people at Heaps Gay are notorious for throwing amazing parties, so I’m looking forward to being part of one in a performative sense.”

It’ll be the perfect start to her ‘Fly’ tour too, with her first show happening in Brisbane just a mere eight days later.

“I’m super pumped. I’m really, really pumped,” says Puru excitedly. “I’ve got a fantastic band and I really believe in the EP and these are going to be the biggest shows that we’ve played in a headline sense.

Melbourne’s already sold out the first show, and the second show looks like it’ll sell out as well, as well as Sydney and Brisbane. I think it’s going to be pretty well a sold-out tour.”

After all her hard work on the EP, Puru is looking forward to sharing it live with the people who’ve received it so well. The five-track record feels like her baby in a way, and, as she says herself, “it’s such a cute baby.”

“It’s kind of hard to be a member of different intersectional communities and not have that, in some way, define the way that people look at you.”

Catch Kira Puru at the Heaps Gay Reverie: Opening Night on Friday November 16 at ACMI. Head to the MMW website to snag yourself a ticket.

Melbourne Music Week 2018 Melbourne’s adored music extravaganza is upon us once again; a celebration of diversity and intellect, of exploration and discovery. Friday marks the start of Melbourne Music Week, a massive nine days of live shows, wild parties, workshops and artist collaborations. From African beats and synth sets, to ‘90s pub-rock and disco divas, this year’s program is overflowing with goodies. With so much going on it can seem kind of overwhelming, so we’ve picked out some highlights to help you start planning.

By Greta Brereton

Blue Black Beatz

Civic Sounds Laneway Party

Blue Black Beatz is a celebration of Melbourne’s African musicians, and the influence that culture has on their sound. The lineup is pretty huge, featuring a mix of artists across different genres. REMI, triple j’s Unearthed winner from 2013, will be representing the rap sector, joined by some fiery female MCs, like Sophie Grophy and P-UniQue. West African/Nigerian band Alárìíyá are bound to get some hips shaking with their Afro-jazz tunes, while reggae outfit Sonik Beats will provide that quintessential Caribbean soundtrack. Blue Black Beatz takes place at the Immigration Museum on Saturday November 17.

It doesn’t really get more Melbourne than a laneway party. This one goes down in AC/DC Lane on Sunday November 18 and is packed with some pretty awesome local acts. Kicking off in the afternoon and running ‘til late, the party will see rockers like Regurgitator, The Bennies, RVG and Batz belting it out, as well as performances by Bec Sandridge, Nai Palm and IV League. There’ll be DJs pumping out tunes too, so the dancing won’t have to stop when the live music does. No invite needed for this party – just grab a ticket online and rock up.

Beat’s Top Free MMW Events MMW Opening Night What better way to kick off MMW than heading down to Fed Square for the free and all ages opening party? Friday November 16 will see the CBD space come alive with the sounds of live music and the sights of people shaking off their working week, boogying down to an allVictorian lineup. Electronic duo Ara Koufax will get the party started, joined by fellow dance-music-makers Sui Zhen and ALTA, as well as Yorta Yorta rapper DRMNGNOW.

Rice Is Nice 10th Birthday The team from Rice Is Nice are throwing a party to celebrate the record label’s tenth birthday, and they want you to come along. Taking place at ACMI on Thursday November 22, the Sydney-based company have curated a lineup featuring some of their best indie artists. Headlining the event are garage rockers Straight Arrows, alongside Stephanie Crase AKA Summer Flake, and multi-instrumentalist Sarah Mary Chadwick.The event is totally free, so come along and help the team celebrate this awesome milestone.

MMW Busking Program: Night Noodle Markets

You Am I + Gareth Liddiard + Clowns

Bad Girls Disco x Roller Jam

The lineup says it all. Aussie rockers You Am I will be joining forces with Gareth Liddiard, frontman of both Tropical Fuck Storm and The Drones, as well as punk outfit Clowns and post-punk fourpiece New War, to bring you a night of noise at Melbourne’s Town Hall. However, there’s a twist to this event. Rather than thrashing guitars being the centrepiece of the show, the sets will be built around the hall’s Grand Organ, which can produce anything from a slight whisper, to the sounds of booming thunder. Head along on Sunday November 18 and see the spectacle for yourself.

Strap on your skates and dust off your flares for a night of disco at ACMI. The Hub will be transformed into a glittery roller-rinkslash-night-club, complete with mirror balls and some iconic vocalists. Led by legendary jazz, blues and soul singer Renee Geyer, the night will celebrate four decades of dance music, paying homage to everything from the disco-style tunes of 1975, through to the mixed musical landscape of 2018. Geyer will be accompanied by Kylie Auldist, of The Bamboos and Cookin’ on 3 Burners, as well as jazz-pop singer Chelsea Wilson, and local DJ JNETT. The event kicks off on Tuesday November 20, so clear your calendar.

Live music is great, but live music accompanied by awesome food is even better. This year, MMW are providing a platform to support Melbourne’s buskers, hosting a range of daily performances throughout the city. Since Birrarung Marr’s Night Noodle Markets will be on at the same time, they’ve decided to join forces, so you can check out some emerging local talent, while tucking into a feed. The program starts on Saturday November 17 and finishes up the following weekend. Check out the website for more details.

Push Over – The Push’s 30th Anniversary Melbourne Star’s Music Menagerie

Melbourne Synth Festival

This year, for the first time ever, MMW are joining forces with the iconic Melbourne Star Observation wheel to bring you pod parties in the sky. Ten of the 21 cabins will play host to a local act, treating a small audience to an intimate and stripped back performance. Artists on the program include Gambian kora player Amadou Suso, Indigenous musician Neil Morris AKA DRMNGNOW and electronic act Blasko, to name a few.

Guests on the night won’t actually get to choose who they see on either of their two ticketed trips, but with such a good lineup, no one will be going home disappointed. Get down to Docklands on Friday November 23 to be a part of MMW history.

Attention all DJs, producers and lovers of synth; this one’s for you. Melbourne Synth Festival is a three-day electronic extravaganza that will take over North Melbourne’s Meat Market. Attendees will be able to try and buy the latest in electronic music equipment and mixing software, as well as chat to experts on the craft. There will also be live performances from producers and DJs like Emah Fox, Luke Million, Honeysmack, Beatrice, Sadiva and loads more. The event starts on Friday November 23 and wraps up on Sunday November 25, with a different program for each day. Check out the website for a full rundown of what’s on offer.

Melbourne music organisation The Push are celebrating their 13th birthday and throwing a mad party to celebrate. The organisation has been putting youth at the forefront of the industry since their inception, providing guidance and support for artists and audiences of the future. The program for this one is pretty awesome, featuring performances from fresh, young musicians like Allday, Ali Barter, Ruby Fields and Kian, as well as old favourites such as Spiderbait, Jebediah and Something For Kate. Fed Square on Saturday November 24.

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Straight Arrows Sydney band Straight Arrows live and breathe garage rock. When Owen Penglis is not pursuant of his duties as lead guitarist, singer and primary songwriter for the band, he is recording bands like The Living Eyes and The Grates at Goliath Professional Recording Studio while DJing at night.

With the Straight Arrows in their 11th year having just released third studio album, ON TOP!, one could infer that Penglis is familiar with the vicissitudes inherent of a rock’n’roll life. However, when the band was last in Melbourne they got a shock no upand-coming band could have anticipated.

“On our single tour at the start of the year at our show in Collingwood Henry Rollins showed up.” Penglis’ voice shudders into laughter of joyful disbelief, as he grapples with the reality that one of the most important figures in alternative music just ‘showed up’ at his show.

“I went over to say ‘hi’ to him and he was kind of strange so I just left him alone, he was probably getting punished by everyone at the show when he just wanted to check out some rock’n’roll,” says Penglis.

Penglis now reveals that while the former singer of Black Flag wasn’t up for chit chat, he most certainly had Penglis’ back when shit went down: “Just as we were starting a kid threw a beer can at me and it hit me in the head. Apparently, just after it happened Henry turned to the kid and said ‘that’s not cool man’ and the kid went and hid for the rest of the night.”

To add further intrigue to the story and possibly a bit of fuel to the Sydney/Melbourne rivalry, the ‘kid’ was Jake Doyle, guitarist and co-vocalist of local garage rock band Drunk Mums. Doyle said the can was empty and Penglis saw the funny side.

Throughout the retelling of this tale, Penglis’ doit-yourself ethos, one which proved the cornerstone to the Washington D.C. punk scene during the 1980s and continues to personify the garage genre to this day, was easily apparent.

“I’m just ironing some prints onto merch ahead of the album tour.” The album that Penglis speaks of is a tight 11-track, 28-minute-long document of contemporary garage rock.

ON TOP! is the followup up to their sophomore release, 2014’s Rising, and comes eight years on from their stellar debut, It’s Happening.

It’s Happening was also the first release to be put out on the then recently-established Rice Is Nice record label. Penglis explains that the twin emergence was no coincidence.

“I’d known Jules [Wilson] for a little while through mutual friend Patrick Matthews and I had a bunch of songs I’d recorded in the spare room at my house with Al and we had decided to put out a 45,” Penglis explains.

The ‘Al’ Penglis refers to is Straight Arrows guitarist and backing vocalist Al Grigg.

“So me and Al had these songs that we were going to release and when I told Jules, she told me

that she was planning on starting a label. Everyone had said it would be too hard but I was like ‘fuck it, let’s do it’.”

Rice Is Nice, established in 2008 by Julia Wilson and Ben Shackleton, is now in it’s tenth year. The label identified, then released, the music of a multitude of highly-regarded Australian artists including the likes of Seekae, The Frowning Clouds, The Laurels, Summer Flake and more.

That’s why there’s added sentiment to Straight Arrows’ headline slot at The Hub for Melbourne Music Week.

“We love Melbourne and have so many friends down there that we always feel at home. To be headlining a night Melbourne Music Week is great but to combine that with celebrating ten years of Rice Is Nice with Jules and Ben is what makes it really special.”

Audiences at Melbourne Music Week can choose between jazz, funk, pop and classical – or they can swing by Exquisite Corpse, a show combining all of these genres and more in a 12-piece improvisational performance.

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“It’s about bringing together a whole bunch of people who are unique artists in their own right, but with a similar passion for trying things and putting them together in ways that are challenging or unexpected,” says Ashworth “The keywords around it would be: community, play, experimentation.”

Processing at the Exquisite Corpse show will be done

by Mat Blackwell, also known as A Demon Sheen, the artist behind the collective’s surrealist album cover art.

The collective will also be premiering what they call “speed dating”: a performance that has an ensemble strive to improvise music on-the-fly while also swapping out members, one by one. For Ashworth, this type of improvisational game is more engaging than the most polished and technically accurate performance of a scripted piece.

After two Exquisite Corpse-style musical games, the show will close with a performance of Cobra, an improvisational musical work created by Downtown music pioneer John Zorn. Since Zorn has never published a comprehensive explanation of the rules for playing Cobra, Ashworth had to sift through hours of YouTube performances of the piece to reconstruct a usable set of rules.

Straight Arrows headline The Hub at ACMI on Thursday November 22 for Melbourne Music Week. Head to the MMW website for tickets and information.

BY DAN WATT

Little Songs of the Mutilated

Little Songs of the Mutilated, the music collective behind the show, hopes to bring strange and genrebending avant-garde sounds to a wider audience with a show that’s both challenging and fun.

Emerging from the French surrealist scene, Exquisite Corpse is a game in which artists collaborate to write a sentence or draw a picture, none of them aware of what the full work looks like until all have contributed.

The resulting pieces can be absurd or sinister, amusing or simply confusing. Justin Ashworth, curator of the Exquisite Corpse show, is perhaps the first to successfully apply the game to music, using online file-sharing.

“You never really get the full context of what the piece you’re working on is,” explains Ashworth. “The end result is sometimes beautifully consistent, and sometimes it’s a mega genre collage, with people chopping and changing really quickly.”

Ashworth’s live version of musical Exquisite Corpse works only with electronic musicians – headphones allow the performers to hear select pieces of the work in progress while remaining unaware of its full structure.

Little Songs of the Mutilated brings together performers from all walks – from jazz trumpeter Gemma Horbury to keyboardist Adam Rudegeair of funk group Lake Minnetonka – and compels them to collaborate.

The collective’s raison d’être, says Ashworth, is to unite the noisecore artists, avant-garde jazz composers and other experimental musicians, usually isolated in their own musical subcultures, under one tent.

“Just as we were starting, a kid threw a beer can at me and it hit me in the head.

Apparently, just after it happened Henry Rollins turned to the kid and said ‘that’s not cool man’.”

Produced without Zorn’s oversight, this will be a “renegade” performance of Cobra, Ashworth explains: “It’s our Cobra, not his,” he says. “We’re not trying to recreate a ‘Downtown New York in the ‘80s’ sound. We’re trying to express the local community’s personality and make our version of Cobra. The rules are the same, but the personalities and the playing style are completely different.”

Ashworth began the Little Songs of the Mutilated collective as an antidote to the stiflingly academic atmosphere of his honours year. Now, he hopes that Exquisite Corpse will show Melbourne that experimental music can be as fun and entertaining as standard rock and pop.

“Music and sound art can be so serious and, at times, academic,” says Ashworth. “But it can be really hilarious watching musicians replace other musicians in a band, and there’s definitely a sense of engagement that I think anyone can be entertained by. You get to see the raw fuck-ups happen, when people have to adapt … The playfulness of it makes it quite a spectacle to watch.”

BY ZACHARY SNOWDON SMITH

“Music and sound art can be so serious and, at times, academic …

But it can be really hilarious watching musicians replace other musicians in a band, and there’s definitely a sense of engagement that I think anyone can be entertained by.”

Catch Little Songs of the Mutilated perform Exquisite Corpse at The Toff In Town on Friday November 23 as part of Melbourne Music Week (November 16-24). Head to the MMW website for tickets.

GOTHIC A journey through Gothicism in Music

ABC

From Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights to the Cure’s A Forest with original compositions by Andrée Greenwell

“Eclectic and, at times, chilling”

Feat. Ad Hoc Collective

Moving Image Design by Michaela French

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25 November Playhouse

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Melbourne Underground

By Jacob Nazroo

High On Hope: Piers Sanderson

It’s a bit counter-intuitive to think that going backwards in design – reverting to old technique and style – can appeal to consumers. But this makes more sense in the arts than anywhere else.

Where aesthetic and taste are factors, there’s an inextricable desire for authenticity. That’s why Melbourne Underground, an incoming techno group, want to throw parties born of similar values to those that started techno on its path to global prominence around 30 years ago: discreet locations, parties that go from one night into the next, wordof-mouth biz and relentless high-energy music.

From the outside looking in, scepticism could be forgiven. Aren’t many trying desperately to emulate the authenticity of earlier days? Isn’t underground the new overground? In the house and techno scene, there’s certainly a growing admiration for and pursuit of the discreet, the most exciting TBA location and that rare gig that wasn’t spruiked online but still got a decent turn out.

So what does it take to host a good techno party? Whatever your answer is, chances are it’s hard to imagine there’s a group better poised to fill the brief than Melbourne Underground.

Why? Not just because of the name, but because from the little we know about them, they’ve been doing this for a long, long time. The longest time, in fact. The man who started the group, who asked to remain anonymous, put on acid-house parties in the UK in the late ‘80s and techno parties thereafter. According to DJ Dave Pham, who is one of three confirmed DJs set to play for Melbourne Underground, “he’s come from the roots of where it all began.”

And Pham is no newbie either. He reckons he was one of maybe 15 to 20 DJs in Melbourne during the early noughties “doing non-stop DJing from Thursday to Sunday,” amounting to about nine or ten gigs over the weekend. “You’d go from one venue 22 BEAT.COM.AU

to another … with a half-hour pocket just to get to the other venue,” Pham recalled.

Bear in mind, this is back when techno was, in some more indisputable sense, underground. These guys were doing it when it wasn’t lucrative or even trendy (at least outside a very niche sub-culture). So what do they mean when they say they want to put on shows by “going back to the old school ways,” as Pham put it? Just doing what they always did, it seems.

Melbourne Underground wants to become Melbourne’s premier group for all things techno: an events group, a booking agency and a record store and label. Some of those branches are more developed than others, but their event-planning seems to be coming along nicely.

This is what they’ll look like, according to the mysterious head of the group: weekly nights called ‘Sessions with’ at an underground club in North Melbourne, followed immediately by a day party, ‘In bed with’, which will “always will be at a different location”. The North Melbourne spot will be rigged up with a Funktion One soundsystem, which is more often than not a reliable indicator of good sound.

“It’s less going to be about a whole tonne of social media, advertising and those sorts of things,” Pham explained. “The only [info] you might get from it is the DJs who are playing … but then everything else is left up to the imagination. That’s the really alluring part of this concept: you need to go and check it out for yourself.”

Along with Pham, the other two thus-far confirmed Melbourne Underground DJs are Rainbow Serpent veteran, Dean Benson, and longtime Melbourne DJ, Lucca Tan. “It will be all shades of techno,” Dave said.

“Lucca will be playing more of the deeper style of techno – it will be a touch slower. Dean will play super hard, super fast, pretty banging. For me, I love lots of different flavours of techno … depending on how I wake up that day and what I feel you’ll get a different set from me not just the next day, but the next hour.”

But they’ll be plenty others, too. A strong focus of the brand, it seems, is pushing local techno artists closer to the fore and Pham said there was a good chance live electronic musicians would be getting some healthy representation. This can’t be a bad thing, given Melbourne’s house and techno scene is packed with DJs. “I always say to anyone who’s putting on parties in Melbourne, ‘if you have four DJs, at least have one live act in there’.”

“The fact that you’re hearing something that hasn’t been recorded before, that no one has heard at all … that experience itself is pretty special.”

The group’s lead man also said he was open to occasionally hosting international artists at special locations if good opportunities came up. “Maybe on a Monday night,” he added to the end of a text.

As organised as they seem, Melbourne Underground isn’t rigid on how they’ll go about doing what they do. But what they want to do seems pretty sured up: putting on long parties with good sound systems and top quality local artists at seldom-used venues. If this sounds like your thing, you could safely bet you’ll find some like-minded folk at their events, because it’ll be tough to find yourself there by accident.

“The only [info] you might get from it is the DJs who are playing … but then everything else is left up to the imagination.

That’s the really alluring part of this concept: you need to go and check it out for yourself.”

Melbourne Underground is set to make their debut with back-to-back parties on Saturday December 8 and Sunday December 9 at a secret location. Stay tuned to beat.com.au for more information.

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Thando Progressively climbing her way up to the larger text on Australian festival posters comes Thando Sikwila, AKA Thando, the boisterous alternative R&B artist with a voice that’s both soothed and riled ears from here to the United States.

Discussing her appearance at the upcoming Queenscliff Music Festival, Sikwila speaks on an unexpected tribute to an idol, her family’s influence on her musical upbringing and the idea of foreshadowing a next big step in her career.

“The 24th of November marks the 27th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s passing,” begins Sikwila. “I just want to have a nice moment with the audience. I won’t say what song I’m going to sing – it’s a sing-along – but I’m really excited to do it.

“It’s not even because I just watched [the film] Bohemian Rhapsody, but it’s definitely made me realise how much of an influence the music my father listened to had on me. With the date – I felt like here’s an opportunity to pay homage to somebody who’s had such an incredible influence on not just audiences but musicians.”

There isn’t a right or a wrong way to develop music taste, absorb influences or performing styles. However, you could make the argument that what your parents listen to or put in front of you has an effect on the way you perceive or absorb music later in life.

Sikwila admits as the only performer in her immediate family, that she never found her parent’s music taste as the sole driving force of her career, yet the importance of having a house filled with music definitely shaped her performances in hidden ways.

“We used to do really long drives between Bulawayo and Harare back in Zimbabwe,” she explains.

“My dad would constantly be putting on albums for the

whole drive – he’s playing Tupac albums, he’s playing Ladysmith Black Mambazo, he’s playing a collection of Louie records or Ella Fitzgerald – there was a lot of different music I was constantly exposed to when I was that age.

“As I’ve gotten older, the way that I write and perform stems from these artists without realising it until I’m exposed to them again. All that stuff is buried in my subconscious, so I definitely feel like people are influenced by things that are around them whether they’re aware of it or not.

“It’s not necessarily about having a musical family – but maybe there’s a part of that whole connection to family that lets you hold on to music or anything visual that reminds you of your family or your loved ones without even realising it, which then manifests in your music.”

Those who’ve been following Thando’s career may know of her recent performance in the US, seemingly coming out of nowhere. Scoring a win through an online competition held by website design company Wix and Live Nation, Sikwila and her band performed at an international showcase. Noting this could be another big break for her career, she discusses the driving force behind her last big rise – people.

“Bigsound got me on the radar,” she says. “A management and agency deal only came around a year-and-a-half after our showcase. I’m not managing myself anymore, so I’m now focused on making the best quality content I can while my manager does all the schmoozing for me. It takes a lot of trust in someone to help them manage your career where it needs to go.

“For me there’s never been any other option than music,” Thando says. “The results I’m trying to achieve with my music are not going to have an opportunity to manifest if I’m not putting 100% of my focus into it. It’s this or nothing.

“There’s certain steps I have to take, such as sacrificing administrative or marketing or management control so I can focus on my art – it’s all for the art. I just want to actually be able to make music people care about and I’m lucky I’m able to do that and focus on my personal growth without stressing about ticket numbers for gigs or what my marketing strategy will be.”

Thando will perform at Queenscliff Music Festival, happening from Friday November 23 until Sunday November 25. Head to the festival website for tickets.

Julia Holter’s music has always straddled the line between high and low art; between popular music and art music. But none of the Los Angeles musician’s earlier output was as wide-ranging as her new LP, Aviary.

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“There’s a track called ‘Colligere’ [on Aviary] and that means to collect. My approach to art-making is collecting things; borrowed things, things by other people. It’s like translation of art leads to new art.

I think that’s the way art works in a lot of ways, whether it’s a translation of energy or a translation of physical material.”

This preference for collecting and borrowing ideas has been a mainstay of Holter’s working practice throughout her career. Her earlier albums gathered inspiration from a curious mixture of art forms, including film, literature, poetry and Ancient Greek tragedy, and Aviary is no different.

The new album finds Holter incorporating multi-lingual vocals, creating poetry out of an Anne Carson translation of the Greek poet Sappho and utilising the medieval practice of hocketing, where vocal melodies are distributed to a range of overdubbed voices.

“To me what’s fun about that, it’s not just an empty reference to something,” Holter says. “When you’re working with mystery in that way with something, you don’t really know where it’s coming from and then there’s a meaning that emerges.”

Thando will perform at Queenscliff Music Festival, happening from Friday November 23 until Sunday November 25. Head to the festival website for tickets.

BY TOM BRAND

Julia Holter

Holter’s fifth album is a mighty proposition. Most tracks are more accurately described as compositions or movements rather than songs – few of the 15 tracks fall below six-minutes and they tend to evade conventional structure or clearly marked choruses.

Aviary follows 2015’s Have You In My Wilderness, which was Holter’s most concise and sophisticated release and the only album in her catalogue that suits the indie tag often attached to her work. That album’s mellifluous consistency stands in sharp contrast to the magnitude of Aviary.

“I think of each record as a different project and I don’t think of it as a progression, even though I know it is,” Holter says. “A lot of the stuff on [Aviary], the imagery and a lot of that stuff, was coming from stuff I’ve been thinking about for ten years. So in ways it reminds me of stuff I was working on ten years ago, but the work is different.”

In the period since Have You In My Wilderness, Holter provided the score for the boxing film Bleed for This, worked on an operatic adaptation of her first album Tragedy and performed with the experimental ensemble, Dog Star Orchestra. The experience gained from these various endeavours informed the sound of Aviary.

“People wonder is there politics in someone’s music or is there personal life in someone’s music? It’s all there,” Holter says. “Everything that I’ve learned from playing other people’s music or working with other people comes through.

“For me there’s never been any other option than music … The results I’m trying to achieve with my music are not going to have an opportunity to manifest if I’m not putting 100% of my focus into it. It’s this or nothing.”

Aviary’s final track, ‘Why Sad Song’, features an English-language phonetic translation of a song

by Nepalese Buddhist nun and musician, Choying Drolma. It’s a leading example of the translation of art stimulating new ideas and meanings.

“Ten years ago I did this phonetic translation of the song ‘Kyema Mimin’. I just did it based on the sound of the words, turned them into English and I called it ‘Why Sad Song’. Then I found out that kyema means sadness, but I didn’t know that. That stuff is so beautiful.

“I used this device to come up with this poem and then I worked with the poem to make it my own. But there are all these unexpected elements and I suddenly find that these words have this beautiful meaning that I didn’t feel like I put there. On this record, the moments when things would just happen would be the most meaningful.”

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“It’s like translation of art leads to new art. I think that’s the way art works in a lot of ways, whether it’s a translation of energy or a translation of physical material.”

Julia Holter’s new album, Aviary, is out now via Domino Recordings. Holter comes to Australia for a slot at Mona Foma on Friday January 18 and will also perform at Melbourne Recital Centre on Monday January 21.

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Mo Gilligan Mo Gilligan’s imminent Australian debut will cap off an enormous 18 months for the British comic.

The ‘Coupla Cans’ tour has been selling out venues in the UK for over a year, beginning in a 1000-capacity room in Birmingham and wrapping up with 14-straight nights in London’s esteemed West End. “It’s quite cool doing what I’ve always dreamt to do,” says Gilligan. “When we do the shows, we start off with a room that might have 200, then we have a room that’s got 400. Now we’re in a room that’s got 700. Been doing this a long time, I can see my fanbase growing and more people coming out and more people want to come to the shows.”

Gilligan’s been grinding away for the better part of a decade, but the London comedian’s major breakthrough didn’t come until early 2017. Sharing satirical videos on his social media accounts, Gilligan was able to appeal to a whole new audience including musicians Drake and Stormzy.

The low-budget sketches see Gilligan embodying a host of characters including guys at the gym, people out clubbing, rappers and typical English lads. Character comedy is a feature of Gilligan’s live show too, but it’s not the sole focus.

“We give them some of the characters that they might see online,” he says. “But at the same time, sometimes you’ve got to give them something they didn’t even expect. That’s the cool thing with the show – they see parts of the characters or sometimes the inspiration behind the characters, but I can’t replicate what I do online for a live show because it’s a different experience.

“I think because it is my first tour that’s quite a cool concept to have. Normally you see a comedian on a big show or you see them on some panel shows and you know what to expect. But with my audience, some people have come from online

stuff, some people come from TV, some have heard reviews. So they’re all coming and nobody knows what to expect.”

Going from relative obscurity to performing in big theatres – including a spot at London’s 5000seat Royal Albert Hall in May – Gilligan had to quickly grow accustomed to the new environment.

“I always like an intimate room, I like a small room of 200 people,” he says. “So if we play to 3000 people we need to give them that same feeling.

Even though there’s 3000, you still need to make it intimate. That’s when I start looking at things like the lighting, the sound, how I talk, how I do all my timings. Moving into bigger rooms, we were just trying to replicate the feeling I always had in smaller rooms.”

Gilligan’s physical versatility was evident during his performances on The Russell Howard Hour and Comedy Central’s Stand Up Central. His command of the stage is an integral part of his comedy.

“When I tell certain jokes I go to certain places on the stage because I know the rhythms and beats to hit,” says Gilligan. “It is a little bit like dancing at times.

“When I was at uni I used to do performing arts and theatre production. So I’d always use the

skills that I learnt from that for comedy. A lot of things you learn when you’re doing performing arts, like not blocking yourself and being centre stage, I just put those things into my comedy. Using your body to tell a story rather than speech, being really animated or saying something softly spoken; they’re all techniques I learned from performing arts.”

A lot of Gilligan’s best-known characters are based on quintessentially British personality types and subcultures. The cultural specificity will remain for the Australian tour.

“I think if I change it up it wouldn’t be true to me. So it is keeping the essence of what it is. Hopefully it gets people understanding where I’m from.”

Chances are your social media feed – whether it be Facebook, Instagram or Twitter – has been graced with the witty and cunning headlines from Australia’s favourite news resource, The Betoota Advocate.

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Despite the media industry undergoing significant changes with the age of technological advancements and instant-gratification, Parker insists that Betoota has adapted to a point where he believes the publication can sustain its position as the premier news outlet in Australia.

“I think as long as you don’t publish anything that’s untrue about people, most people tend to respect the space you occupy in the media landscape. Just as long as you play by the rules and you play hard.”

However, becoming a shining beacon of journalistic integrity in the Australian industry wasn’t enough; Betoota has pushed its envelope to the international level, even earning attention from The New York Times.

As much of a satire as it may be, The Betoota Advocate has done what many news outlets can only dream of; the online presence has captured the coveted demographic of 18-30 year olds, and is subversively keeping them updated on the country’s happenings. The placement of headlines such as “Large Long Black Fails to Soothe Post-Bender Anxiousness” beside political commentary such as “Pauline Hanson Tells Great Barrier Reef It’s OK To Be White” informs and normalises political conversation amongst younger readers.

Mo Gilligan brings his ‘Coupla Cans’ tour to the Athenaeum Theatre on Friday November 23. Grab your ticks via Ticketek.

BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

The Betoota Advocate

If engaging with the social, economic and political spheres of Australian society via satirical articles and generally just taking the piss is wrong, then nobody in Australia wants to be right.

Betoota’s Archer Hamilton and Charles Single, who swank the pen names Clancy Overell and Errol Parker respectively, are the publication’s editor and editor-at-large, hailing from the bustling metropolis of Betoota, Queensland, which Parker describes as “a good cross-section of Australian life”. When asked to define the difference in his and Overell’s roles, Parker gave insight into the outlet’s coveted inner workings.

“Me, as the editor-at-large, basically means I’m a senior journalist who has his own office and I get paid five to six times more than every other journalist. This is thanks to my immense power and influence over the general community here in Betoota. It’s a business model that was very popular with Fairfax, which ultimately led to their demise.”

According to the cult website, The Betoota Advocate is the oldest newspaper in Australia, having run solely in print until recent years.

“We didn’t take the newspaper online until about 2014, because we had an intern come in who asked why she wasn’t able to find the newspaper on websites like Instagram and Facebook and whatnot. We basically didn’t have an answer for her, so we gave her the task of creating our pages on the internet and it’s gone gangbusters ever since, I suppose.”

Even though there’s 3000 [people], you still need to make it intimate. That’s when I start looking at things like the lighting, the sound, how I talk, how I do all my timings.

Therefore, it’s only logical that Overell and Parker are touring around Australia to bestow their wisdom upon crowds of fans and sceptics alike. The duo are planning to kick off the lineup of dates in Townsville, and eventually roll down through Sydney and Melbourne.

“Obviously, we have to be on the ball down there in Melbourne considering that you guys are under the impression that you’re the cultural heart of this country.

Things are a bit more relaxed up our way, so when we head down to do the show at bloody Hamer Hall of all places we’re going to have to spend some time getting to know the town.”

Rumour has it that a certain journalistic celebrity will be joining Overell and Parker on stage at various locations, however Parker remains tight-lipped regarding the unidentified special guest.

“We’re covered by a non-disclosure agreement about his appearance in the show. To keep it short, he’s probably one of the largest names in journalism; not only in Australia, but around the world.”

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“We didn’t take the newspaper online until about 2014, because we had an intern come in who asked why she wasn’t able to find the newspaper online. We gave her the task of creating our pages on the internet and it’s gone gangbusters ever since.”

The Betoota Advocate bring their Roadshow to Hamer Hall on Saturday November 17. Tickets via the Arts Centre website.

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Red Spice Road After three years of setting aside time to grow their Asian dining empire, Red Spice Road have returned to the Melbourne Night Noodle Markets with a classic yet eclectic menu that pays homage to the traditional experience of travelling through Asia.

Every year Melbourne comes alight with the smells, sights and sounds of the Night Market, featuring a vibrant showcase of Asian food stalls with menus crafted from some of Australia’s most talented chefs and restaurant owners.

Amongst the busy hands who work tirelessly to bring the festival to life every year is Christian Price, General Manager of Red Spice Road and Asian Brands, who is one of the masterminds behind curating the Red Spice Road market menu.

“The markets are so important because you get a true indication of what people want,” Price said.

With Red Spice Road well acquainted with the Melbourne food calendar, the restaurant franchise has been continuously involved with events like The Age Good Food Month, Melbourne Food & Wine Festival as well as the Bank Of Melbourne’s World Longest Lunch. “[Melbourne] is so diverse in people and culture, and they offer real-time feedback as they interact with the menu and enjoy the food,” he explains.

Red Spice Road’s mission focuses on delivering Asian flavours using local, fresh produce to the hustle and bustle of the night markets. With vegan and halal options available, people from all walks of life have the ability to come together to eat, drink and enjoy the live entertainment on offer.

“Our pork belly is a signature dish; it’s well known, and the recipe hasn’t been touched since we opened 11

“Our pork belly is a signature dish; it’s well known, and the recipe hasn’t been touched since we opened 11 years ago.” years ago,” Price says.

“People line up just for our pork belly and come back for seconds, you could say it is a foundation of Red Spice Road. Though I think this year we have some new contenders to the menu that will give our pork a run for its money.”

Alongside the five-spice pork belly with chilli caramel sauce and herb salad, there’s also a Chiang Mai chicken noodle curry; a fragrant and flavoursome solution for the unpredictable Melbourne weather.

Theres also a Korean pork corn dog, served with ssamjang mayo and apple kimchi; a unique combination of market-style street food and an authentic Red Spice Road dish you’d explore during one of their ala carte, lunch or dinner sessions.

Above all, Price believes the Night Noodle Market remains an integral part of the food experience in Melbourne as it gives food fanatics an authentic opportunity to try cuisines from all around Asia under the one roof, or one market stall.

“People don’t want just once cuisine, they want to try all different types of flavours,” Price says.

“That’s why our menu has Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai influences; you have a showcase that resembles

the journey of basically travelling through Asia. You order lots of dishes, nibble on everything and make a few friends along the way.”

This concept of communal dining under the stars resembles the culture of night markets all over Asia, which many consider a key part of Asian culture and a must-do activity when travelling to Asian countries.

“People attending the festival aren’t the only people sharing, so do the stalls. This year we are lucky enough to be next to Diana Chan’s Golden Wok, run

by Diana from Masterchef, Price explains. “We are constantly sharing meals and ideas amongst ourselves and with other stalls; that’s what this whole exciting experience is about.”

Alongside Red Spice Road’s exciting Night Noodle Market, you can find many of these dishes at the Red Spice Road McKillop Street restaurant, which has now been serving Asian fusion food over 10 years, as well as Red Spice QV and Burma Lane on Little Collins Street.

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Sounds of Africa Turn on the television tonight and inflict on yourself an hour or so of mainstream news. Before long, you’ll catch a soundbite or two from federal parliament about the so-called African crime gangs rampaging through Melbourne.

The cartoonish simplicity, and jabs for cheap political points would be laughable, were the narrative not so pervasive.

For Peres Zapfack, co-founder of the Sounds of Africa Festival [SOA], the antidote is simple, and he’s not afraid to bet large on our curiosity, desire to understand, and abundant capacity for kindness.

“Events like SOA, are here to make it easy for everyone to discover each other’s ways of life. To promote an efficient transfer of culture that can help us live better together in our diversity. Understanding and recognising each other’s ways of life is key to this process. Cultural festivals are an efficient way to achieve this, and that is what SOA is all about.

“Unfortunately, there has been negative media coverage of the African community recently, fuelled by what seems to be a political agenda,” says Zapfack. “This increasingly bad representation from the mainstream media is dangerous. It is wrong. It must change.”

When Zapfack first came to Melbourne back in 2011 from Cameroon, a nation wedged between Central and West Africa, he couldn’t help but notice a stark disconnect.

“I was surprised by the limited representation of African culture here,” says Zapfack. “It was very hard to listen to African music outside of my bedroom. I couldn’t find many restaurants or shops selling African food products. Even to drink an African beer was a struggle. I remember telling myself, ‘oh my god, this city is missing out on something really unique and amazing, we need to do something about this’.”

Things started small – the first effort being a fortnightly Afrobeat session in 2015. But it managed to tap into some early enthusiasm, a sign to Zapfack and company that they were on the right track.

“From the start, the vision has always been to increase the representation of African culture in Melbourne and Australia,” says Zapfack. “So, we quickly realised that the nights were limited because we could only reach a specific audience. We also realised by going to many other cultural events [other festivals especially] that Melbourne is so cosmopolitan and people here are really eager to discover other cultures. At that point, we realised organising the SOA Festival was the next step.

And though the event has grown largely from these early nightclub days, the passion hasn’t waned, with Zapfack still taking delight in organising the event. A particularly gratifying challenge has been capturing the sheer breadth and diversity of African culture in one day.

“It tests us to create experiences that are as inclusive as possible. People love it,” he says. “It’s really fun to see people enjoying West African music while eating injera from East Africa, for example. And that’s our way of bringing African Culture as a whole to Melbourne.”

Red Spice Road are serving up as part of Melbourne’s Night Noodle Markets from now until November 25. Head to the Red Spice Road website for more information.

And though he can’t declare any favourites, there are things Zapfack says you’d be a fool to skip. “I wouldn’t miss the drumming and storytelling workshops. The drumming workshop is so much fun and interactive while the storytelling really transports you to an African village. It is done by a traditional storyteller from South Africa this year. It’s educational and relaxing at the same time. In terms of music, I wouldn’t leave the festival without listening to Ausecuma Beats.”

In the end, Zapfack is on a mission to help us discover the African way of living. For him, it’s the event’s most important aspect.

“Seeing people smile when they listen and dance to new African rhythms, when they taste delicious African food, feel or try some African clothing, when they touch handmade African sculptures and participate in traditional workshops.”

As for what to bring, Zapfack keeps the instruction light. “I would say an open mind, good vibes and your dancing shoes.”

“I was surprised by the limited representation of African culture here … It was very hard to listen to African music outside of my bedroom.

I couldn’t find many restaurants or shops selling African food products.”

Sounds of Africa comes to CERES Environment Park on Saturday December 15.

Grab your tickets via the festival website.

BY MATTHEW TOOHEY

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Barton Fink For three years, Barton Fink has been quietly building a loyal following around Thornbury, with a combination of cocktails, craft beers and live music served up in a relaxed and casual environment.

“We all have that Barton Fink feeling,” declares a bright blue neon inscription dominating the wall behind the bar. But what is the Barton Fink feeling, exactly?

“People are always asking us,” says manager Matt Hill. “It’s a talking point. You can interpret it however you want to interpret it.”

The venue takes its name from the 1991 Coen brothers film following Barton Fink, a playwright hired to produce screenplays during the Golden Age of Hollywood. The studio, one overbearing executive declares, wants Fink to give their films “that Barton Fink feeling”.

The Thornbury venue’s decor incorporates touches of low-key nostalgia, from the vintage Titan movie projector on display behind the bar to the velvet divan and the quirky gold-upholstered swivel chairs crowded around a wall-mounted fireplace.

Here and there are nods to the venue’s cinematic namesake, from a larger-than-life mural of Mr. Fink’s dismayed face to an autographed photo of actor John Turturro, who portrayed Fink in the film, hanging over the bar.

In a city glutted with faux-quirky and faux-cozy bars and cafes, Hill has spent the last two years hard at work making Barton Fink a place where people can feel at home – where service is authentically personal. Founder Joanna Gerantidis thinks of Barton Fink as the “Cheers of Thornbury”, says Hill.

“It’s almost like an old-school pub vibe in the sense that, when you walk in, everyone knows your name,” says Hill. “We see a lot of the same faces

“It’s almost like an old-school pub vibe in the sense that, when you walk in, everyone knows your name.” coming through after work, having a few drinks to take the edge off the day.”

On weekends, the bar’s nonchalant atmosphere livens up, with DJs playing until 1am on Saturdays.

Sundays however, as Hill explains, are quickly becoming the “it” day for Barton Fink, with threehour jazz, soul and rock jam sessions. Meanwhile, the bar has extended their license to 3am for a New Year’s Eve party which will feature the return of DJ Zorbs, a favourite among Barton Fink veterans.

“For us, it’s quite a sentimental thing, because [Zorbs] was here from the start with us,” says Hill.

“A lot of our regulars that have been with us from when we opened know that he was synonymous with us on a Saturday night.”

Among Hill’s best evenings at the bar was the night of the 2017 AFL Grand Final, when the Richmond Tigers defeated the Adelaide Crows.

“We’re not a sports bar, but it was an iconic sort of moment for everyone,” recalls Hill. “Our DJ was in the middle of a song, and he mixed in the Richmond Tigers theme song. The place just erupted. It was absolutely mental. Behind the bar, we’re flat out making drinks, and we had to take a step back and think, ‘Wow, this place is going off ’.”

The espresso martini, Toblerone, strawberries

and cream – comprised of vodka, cranberry and butterscotch and peach liqueurs, garnished with strawberries – and other sweet cocktails are among the venue’s most popular. But the bar’s signature cocktail is of course, The Fink. Comprising Midori, vodka, lemon juice and lemonade, a layer of Angostura bitters and a lime wheel garnish, it tastes like a fruitier version of a lemon, lime and bitters.

Barton Fink is a bar first and foremost, but some of their food offerings have gained popularity too. The chicken parmigiana has had its recipe refined over months according to customer feedback – switching from cheddar to mozzarella cheese and adding a layer of ham – becoming one of Barton Fink’s most popular food dishes.

“We’ve got a great core group of locals that come through, and it’s a very friendly vibe,” says Hill. “We know their names. We know what they like to drink. We know what they do for a living.

We can tell when they walk through if they’ve had a great day or a bad day. It’s definitely something that stands us aside from a lot of places around here.”

BY ZACHARY SNOWDON SMITH

Whole Lotta Love Meet Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East’s Led Zeppelininspired live music venue and bar which has affirmed itself as a must-visit Melbourne haunt.

Whole Lotta Love, as it is today, was a case of two impulsive friends deciding to take over a bar out of the blue; these two friends being Dillan Burchall and Sash Janssen.

“We both always thought about getting a bar, so we casually started looking,” says Burchall. “Sash got an email about Whole Lotta Love. We came in to check it out and thought we would just give it a go. We’ve both been in plenty of bars, and been to plenty of gigs, and thought we would try to run our own for a while.”

They kept the theme mainly the same as the previous owner had had it, but now they just want it to be the best version of itself that it possibly can be, being a solid live music venue and a great place to hang out with friends. The bar may be small and only licensed to hold 80 people, but what it lacks in size it makes up in other areas. They have a large selection of reasonably priced drinks, a beer garden, friendly staff and a great area for live music.

“If you like to go to a place where you can sit at the bar with reasonably priced craft beer and have a chat or terrible banter with the bartenders and locals, then we are for you,” Janssen comments.

With live music at the fore, Whole Lotta Love hosts events nearly every night between Wednesday and Sunday. Janssen says that she sees the bar as a place for all bands great and small – those playing their first-ever gig to a packed room of mates or those who have been around for a long time, who sell out the venue and put on an intimate show for their biggest fans.

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“It’s about the bands and the fans.” says Janssen.

“We love supporting launches [for] EPs and albums or even fundraising events for the bands.”

While Whole Lotta Love strive to support bands with regular gigs, they also like to host small festivals and parties throughout the year, creating the feel of a big house party in the bar.

The bar just had their second annual Whole Lotta Helloween festival, organised by frontman from Melbourne hardcore band Hailgun, Pat Simkin. It featured members from over a dozen local bands playing a few original sets and then doing covers of classics from Guns N’ Roses and The Misfits, among others.

With the success of Whole Lotta Helloween, Janssen sees more potential for future festivals being held at Whole Lotta Love.

“I’m a huge fan of two-piece bands, so I’ve started a two-piece festival called UTAH! Get Me Two. I book some two-piece bands I want to see, or have seen before and want to see again, and then

Barton Fink is open late Tuesday to Sunday at 816 High St, Thornbury.

Visit their website, www. bartonfink.com.au, for more details on their upcoming events.

build a huge day of it for everyone else to enjoy with me. The next one will be early-ish next year, so make sure you watch out for announcements,” she says.

So why should you head down to Whole Lotta Love? Is it that you’re a Led Zep fan and are taken by the Zeppelin-inspired name? Want to have a cold one with your friends and trying to find a new venue? Or maybe you just want to witness some of the greatest live and local talent Melbourne has to offer? No matter the motivation, Whole Lotta Love has it all for music lovers, keen drinkers, mad chatters alike, even those after a simple knock-off or two.

“If you want to experience Melbourne’s live music scene, and really actually want to see some local talent, then we are definitely for you,” says Janssen.

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“If you like to go to a place where you can sit at the bar with reasonably priced craft beer and have a chat or terrible banter with the bartenders and locals, then we are for you.”

Check out Whole Lotta Love at 524 Lygon St, Brunswick East, open late Wednesday to Sunday.

Find more details on their upcoming gigs via their website.

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Quality Records +

“I think it’s about being a place that’s non-pretentious and really open for anyone that loves music and not just feel like it matters what type of music they like.”

In 2018, it’s not particularly difficult to find a record in Melbourne. Every JB Hi-Fi stocks a range of pop, indie, hip hop and dance and most major streets are dotted with vinyl stores filled with second-hand classics.

Quality Records + is a faithful amalgamation of these two concepts. Sitting just off the corner of Glenferrie Road and High Street, Malvern, the store has a familiar feeling to it, left over from its unchanged 1970s architecture from when it was called Pet Sounds. The store’s stocked records don’t really have a theme either, ranging from classical to opera, all the way to Miles Davis to The Beatles to Kendrick Lamar and Arctic Monkeys.

Kelly Griffiths, who co-manages the store with her husband Tom, has a key part in what labels and artists Quality Records+ sell, and she says this is an important draw for the store’s resurging community.

“It’s very different,” Griffiths says. “We don’t have any Top 40; it’s all about that old, jazz, classic, old-school tunes.”

The “old-school” vibe that Quality Records+ had before the Griffiths took over has remained consistent throughout their year-or-so-long management. You can still find second-hand Blu-rays and DVDs lining the back of the store, not to mention a seemingly endless supply of CDs, classic and modern.

But one subtle change that Kelly and Matt brought to the store was an adjustment to the genres they stock.

Both having an adoration for New Orleans and its endemic sound of music, the pair endeavoured to provide a range of genres that reflected their own love for music, to positive results with customers.

“At home, we’ve probably got four to five thousand records, I wouldn’t know. We’ve got a lot. But it’s very,

very diverse,” Griffiths says. “We love our classics. We love everything from classical jazz to funk, soul, everything.

As far as classics go, I’m a big Paul McCartney fan.”

Siphoning their own music tastes into what they sell has had an interesting effect on their best-selling records.

A self-compiled top-ten sellers list personifies their love for classics and jazz with Kamasi Washington leading the pack.

To this date in 2018, the store’s more popular records for the year have been: Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth (Deluxe 5xLP) Paul McCartney - Egypt Station (Deluxe 2xLP) John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Deluxe 2xLP) Kamaal Williams - The Return (LP) Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (2xLP Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Ultra Disc Special Edition) Chris Bowden - Time Capsule (2xLP) Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (LP) Various Artists - Boombox (Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro & Disco Rap) Kiefer - Happysad (LP) Aretha Franklin - Aretha’s Gold (2xLP Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Special Edition)

There’s seemingly no specific correlation between the best-sellers, but Kamasi Washington’s most recent album, the five LP-long, Heaven & Earth, was a favourite of Kelly’s which seems to have rubbed off onto customers.

“People come in and they’re like, ‘thank you so much for introducing me to Kamasi. You’ve changed my life’. It’s really interesting how that flowed on to our customers, our own tastes.”

The kind of customers you can find rummaging through the store’s centuries of music is diverse too.

“Younger, up to 80, 90-year-olds come in every week. That’s what I think is different [about Quality Records+] – the one point of difference to me has been the people that come in. I think it’s about being a place that’s non-pretentious and really open for anyone that loves music and not just feel like it matters what type of music they like,” Kelly says.

“The customers that we’ve got are just amazing.

They literally just come and sit and listen to records. It’s just something really special and we feel proud of being able to build it like that and turn it into somewhere that’s more unique.”

Quality Records + is open seven days at 269 Glenferrie Rd, Malvern.

Check out their website for more info.

BY JULIA SANSONE

Lords of Chaos Suicide, church burnings, and murder – true Norwegian black metal – the real life story behind Lords of Chaos is one that is almost too intense and bizarre to be true.

Following the ultimately tragic life of Øystein Aarseth [stage name Euronymous, portrayed by Rory Culkin], and the destructive rise to infamy of Varg Vikernes [stage name Count Grishnackh, and an outspoken white supremacist juicily portrayed by Jewish actor Emory Cohen], the film is a spectacularly accurate, and at times shockingly violent recreation of the underground in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.

Almost miraculously, it captures the cold grit and naive spirit of Aarseth’s band Mayhem and Vikernes’ solo project Burzum, while providing some refreshing, at times comedic, and ultimately disturbingly human insights into the surrounding group of troubled youths that spawned an extreme new sound, embraced evil, and changed not only heavy metal, but the greater world forever.

“I did some test screenings of people that didn’t know anything about it already in the editing, and it’s actually amazing to see how the reactions are,” says Swedish-born writer/director Jonas Åkerlund of the film’s initial impact on non-metalheads.

A film grabbing those beyond the metalhead cavalcade, it explores a small group of teenagers and young men that got so caught up in forming their own musical ideology and/or appearances, that not only did they start bands and record stores, but killed themselves, strangers, and each other, all while kicking off a large wave of mostly-successful arsons against dozens of Christian churches.

Though these days Åkerlund has made a name for himself directing Grammy award-winning music videos for the likes of Lady Gaga, Madonna and Paul

“Even though I left Bathory for filmmaking, and filmmaking kind of took over my life, I never left metal” McCartney – he is “always metal”, having played drums for the highly influential proto-black metal group Bathory in the mid-‘80s.

“Even though I left Bathory for filmmaking, and filmmaking kind of took over my life, I never left metal – I never stopped listening to it, I never stopped reading about it, I never stopped hanging with my friends. I am very deep into the scene, and it has been a big part of my life always.”

In fact, his urge to tell this story has been growing since the events began unfolding.

“I remember one moment, when I saw the church burnings on CNN in America when I was there working, thinking that ‘this story is so interesting’,” Åkerlund says. “That was step one – before the books, and the documentaries, and everything came out. I was fascinated by this story, just following it in the news and hearing about it from my friends.

“It kept growing on me over the years. I remember being … in Los Angeles trying to pitch this idea to different agencies, and not getting anywhere. But then about six years ago I took a serious petition to really try and make it happen, starting with writing the script myself.”

While there was initial controversy in the press over whether or not the ongoing members of Mayhem supported the film or not – particularly from bassist Necrobutcher – Åkerlund is calm in his reassurance that it wasn’t quite what the media made it out to be – confirming that Mayhem vocalist Attila Csihar was even portrayed in the film by his own son.

“I’ve been in contact with [Necrobutcher], and he’s seen the movie twice now. I’ve been in contact with Euronymous’ parents, Dead’s brother, I’ve been in contact with the people that I feel I needed to treat with respect, and that I needed to make this movie,” Åkerlund says.

“I am not in contact with Varg, and as you say, he’s always going to have his firm opinion about it, so there is no reason for me to try and contact him to get him to tell me “no”, you know? But all the other people, I have been in contact with, they gave me the rights to the music very early on, and they read the script before we shot it. For me as a filmmaker, I have to find the balance between involving them, but not too much, because it’s not their movie, it’s my movie – but it’s their story.”

Lords of Chaos will be premiered as part of Monster Fest at Cinema Nova on Sunday November 25. Check out the Monster Fest website for more information.

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PROFILES

Brooke Taylor

MUSIC

Tell us about your new single ‘Your Side of Our Bed’. What is the story behind it? What inspired it?

I wrote it while house-sitting for mates of mine that were at the tail-end of their relationship.

I was in their lounge room and the energy of the place was off. But I thought ‘what if they had an honest conversation with one another, admitted their faults, had an airing of the grievances and came good. That’d be nice’.

Your husky voice adds real charm to your music. How would you describe your unique pop sound and how did you come to it?

My ‘sound’ is a product of listening to a lot of ‘50s and ‘60s pop tracks growing up and finally allowing myself to go ‘full country’ in my vocal tone and expression, which, I’d kind of been holding back from for many years now cause of the stigma. I suppose every genre’s got a stigma; you’ve just got to go with what you connect with and what works for you.

Since releasing ‘Love One’ you’ve had a few busy years playing tours all over Australia.

How has your music developed over this time?

Musically now I just try and write with integrity, not that I didn’t before, but I realise that now it’s of paramount importance. Tell it like it is with an open mind and an open heart and be honest. Catchy hooks and chords progressions are also key.

What can we expect from your single launch at the Memo Music Hall?

For me, I’m just so excited to play with a full band – a five-piece all up. We had rehearsal last week and I literally jumped up and down on the spot and cried I was so happy. To have my music [particularly new music] come to life like that, I’m very excited to play and for people to hear it.

Is there any other news or any releases that fans should keep an eye out for?

Craig [Delsinki] and I are dabbling with some new tracks, but my main focus for the next six months or so is to play more band shows; I’ve got the taste for it now.

Brooke Taylor will launch her new single ‘Your Side of Our Bed’ at Memo Music Hall on Thursday November 15. Tickets via the venue website.

Johnny Hunter

MUSIC

How did you guys come together in the first place?

Kicking around and wasting time between Sydney and Wollongong. Nothing much of a cool origin story, we had all shared the stage in various projects and the personalities/direction all clicked, the rest is history.

Tell us about your new single ‘Cult Classic’. What is the story behind it? What inspired it?

The track is something of a commentary, just trying to represent the begrudging two cents worth a lot of people our age have with some of the nonsense that really shone out in 2017.

How would you describe your sound and how did you come to it?

At the moment, if you put on any of our tracks, it sounds like fresh but familiar punk with a bit of a poppier spin as the tracks play out. We came to it because being loud sounds best in punk, and pop makes the world go round.

I’m hearing a bit of Gold Class to a bit of Siouxsie and the Banshees to a bit of The Smiths in your music. Are there any bands that have been of particular influence to you guys?

The Smiths and Siouxsie, yes. Gold Class, can definitely understand it, we’ll definitely have to spend more time checking them out.

What can we expect from your upcoming show at The Tote?

We are driving all the way down from Sydney. Not something we would do unless we wanted to put on our Sunday best for a Saturday night. Get on down for it and if it’s anything short of your expectations, please humiliate us to our faces and send polite but angry emails to our team.

Is there any new music in the works that Johnny Hunter fans should be keeping an eye out for?

Definitely, yes, 100%. February is going to be fun.

Johnny Hunter will play The Tote (upstairs) on Saturday November 24. Their ‘1995’ / ‘Cult Classic’ 7” is out now on Break Even Recordings.

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James Hickey

MUSIC

What have you learnt from busking and how do such performances differ from a regular bandroom show?

Busking is a chance for me to keep the live skills ticking over between official shows as well as connecting with an audience that doesn’t necessarily get to pubs and cafes.

You’ve had a busy year playing festivals all over the country. How has your music evolved in this time?

I’ve met and jammed with lots of great people this year and there are always new stories and different ways of looking at life to be gained through these experiences. One person might urge me to get the mailing list going (still floundering) and another says that song should be my next single, or just encourage me to keep going.

You’ve just moved to country Victoria after living in Adelaide for the last 20 years.

What was the reason behind your move and how has this move affected your music?

I’ve decided to support my musical career with a day job essentially, which has led me to rural Victoria. I have many interests and I’m often in the middle of a mental tug-of-war as to what to focus on.

What’s in store for your upcoming show at the Wesley Anne?

The Wesley Anne show is my last show for the year so I’ll be telling a few stories amongst new songs I have written throughout 2018. I’ll be playing songs from my album Moon Gravity, released late last year as well as several from my new album Cons of Mod Cons.

What can we expect from Cons of Mod Cons, your new album in 2019?

I’ve been working with Mic Hubbard (Ben Mastwyk, Blue Bottles) on the new album and we’ve managed to get a mix of raw bluesy tracks as well as some upbeat tunes with a fourpiece band.

James Hickey performs at the Wesley Anne on Friday November 16. Tickets are $10 on the door.

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ALBUM REVIEWS

Album of the Week (Mosy Recordings)

Singles With Augustus Welby

Upsidedownhead

Upsidedownhead feat. Dave Jenkins Jr.

My Cave (Liberation)

You’d have to assume Upsidedownhead’s Ross James spent many hours experimenting with synth sounds and drum patterns before arriving at this spellbinding IDM concoction. ‘My Cave’ is pop music of the future – computerised and inscrutable but steeped in carnal rhythms. It’s also desperately sad thanks in part to Jenkins Jr.’s lead vocal, which supplies an image of deprived solitude to complement James’ arrangement. The track is so well put together that I implore them to release an instrumental mix.

Nilüfer Yanya

Heavyweight Champion Of The Year (ATO Records/PIAS)

‘Heavyweight Champion’ shows off Yanya’s signature sound, which revolves around her voice and gain-soaked electric guitar playing.

The UK songwriter’s regal vocal register and penchant for anthemic chord changes invokes Florence and the Machine, but don’t let that be a turn off. Although it’s difficult to discern the lyrical specifics, meaningful connection comes largely via the movement of Yanya’s voice. Here her bearing is underscored by a sullen steadiness but prone to outbreaks of peak velocity. Enormous emotional release comes courtesy of the song’s hot-blooded bridge section.

Harvey Sutherland

I Can See (Clarity Recordings) Witnessing Harvey Sutherland reroute into fluid electro-jazz territory is like grazing on a generously proportioned buffet – there’s just so much to like. Working with live drummer Kahlil Memphis, ‘I Can See’ is more Charles Mingus than Charles Murdoch.

Sutherland lets loose on the keys, but as busy as the track gets, it’s ultimately a soothing journey capable of removing you from your immediate surroundings.

Gang of Youths

Gang of Youths – MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne) Set in the illustrious surrounds of Melbourne’s Cobblestone Pavilion, an adapted version of the ever-famous music series MTV Unplugged is brought to life.

The Orielles

Bobbi’s Second World (Heavenly Recordings)

UK foursome The Orielles channel the freaky spirit of the B-52’s and the Tom Tom Club on this garage-y dance number. The swivel-eyed bass groove and prominent retro-organ sounds generate a beatific atmosphere. It’s not a complex piece; the band’s more interested in inducing a sense of communal revelry than wooing you with their chops. And ‘Bobbi’s Second World’ delivers accordingly.

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9.5 And who better to mark this momentous occasion than Sydney rock troubadours Gang of Youths?

Oozing with charisma and audible confidence, an excited Le’aupepe is joined by an orchestra to start ‘Let Me Down Easy’ and then ‘Fear and Trembling’.

‘Keep Me In The Open’ is the first of multiple beautiful ballads performed. Joji Malani’s ethereal guitars take the reins, while Le’aupepe’s vocals combine forces with Jung Kim’s out of this world keys operation to create an unimaginably perfect sound. Le’aupepe doesn’t need a band. The power of his vocals alone, combined with (mostly) his own songwriting has won them award after award, and understandably so.

A highlight of the live recording is ‘Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane’, a captivating ballad that delves into heartbreak territory. Le’aupepe speaks of a recurring dream, and the concept of not wasting your life. Instrumentation is at its best with the percussion being a focal point here.

Moments of pain and trauma can be heard all throughout this album, as can moments of bliss and a sense of self. The talent of Le’aupepe, Malani, Kim, Max Dunn, and Donnie Borzestowski is unfathomable. Nothing can match this. I’m calling it. Gang of Youths are a perfect band.

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Albums

Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadgnino film)

7.5

Teenage Dads

Potpourri Lake

(Caldo Verde Records)

(Independent)

(XL Recordings)

Thom Yorke

Sun Kil Moon

8.0

Dario Argento’s 1977 cult Italian horror film Suspiria is a bizarre blip in film history – its Jungian nightmare of witches, ballet and a hallucinatory predilection for the colour red is so influential it even earnt a mention in Hollywood quirkathon Juno (2007). Remade by new-age Italian-American wunderkind Luca Guadagnino this year, Thom Yorke has replaced the original’s demonic prog-rock soundtrack by Goblin, a huge part of its original success.

Those hoping for a free-wheeling Yorke record will be disappointed – the soundtrack appears to have been remade similar to how Guadagnino remade the film; with a modern sheen, bloated and mostly, untouched. The 80-minute record has a surgical sparseness to its production, hinged upon an atmospheric propulsion only Yorke is able to conjure.

Much of the music here, unlike Goblin’s sound FXsplatterfest, feels built for sensory deprivation – somewhat jarring, considering Suspiria is sensory overload. Warbling synths melt into solemn incantations before morphing into droning slide guitar, only to dissipate into heinous feedback. Though many of the record’s ‘songs’ are wedged between icy slabs of film score, moments like the witch-fascist conflation blues of ‘Has Ended’ remind us Yorke is never an imitator of anyone but himself.

On Potpourri Lake Teenage Dads present a wolf in lambs clothing. Or to put it another way: a jacked-as-fuck wrestler wearing an Hawaiian shirt.

The four-piece from Mt Eliza’s sound rhetorically references a period in the early 1980s when songs were heavily informed by stringent rhythm of punk minus the ostensible non-conformity i.e. A Certain Ration, The Jam and The Smiths.

Contemporaneously Potpourri Lake positions Teenage Dads somewhere between King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and post-punk revivalists These New South Wales.

Opening song ‘Alrighty’ sees the proverbial Hawaiian shirt popping a fair few buttons as a staunch rhythm creates an invasive urgency that permeates throughout the song.

Likewise, the Theremin-heavy ‘Bees’ borders on dystopian, with the five-minute song featuring a shearing guitar solo and a synth breakdown.

Preceding single ‘Sunburnt’ almost sounds out of place with its sunny disposition, such is the overriding sense of otherness possessed by the majority of this release. Although it sounds cynical, ‘Sunburnt’ is the album’s ‘triple j’ song.

On Potpourri Lake Teenage Dads successfully combine the familiar embrace of dream-pop with a hard and uncompromising instrumental execution.

BY JOSHUA MARTIN

BY DAN WATT

6.5

Picture this: Strikingly colourful and bold wildlife, scintillating Melisa Bester, AKA E^ST, has been providing us with sassy pop tunes for the last four years, but it’s only now that she’s hit us with an album.

Comprised of just seven tracks, it’s a bit more like an EP than a full-length record, but as the age-old adage goes, it’s about quality over quantity. However, Life Ain’t Always Roses just misses this mark. It’s a shame, because we’ve had some great singles from the Central Coast singer in the lead up to its release.

‘I Don’t Lack Imagination’ has been getting some good airtime lately, and it’s insidiously catchy with it’s bouncy beat and relatable lyrics, as E^ST sings about losing interest in someone once you’ve locked them down. ‘Blowjob’ is also likely to get stuck in your head, and ‘Friends’ is a lovely ode to being there for the important people in your life, but the other songs feel somewhat forced.

It’s not that they’re bad; they just don’t really stand out. And in a pop-predominant landscape with so much regurgitated material, that’s a crucial element for setting yourself, and your work, apart.

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Dustin Tebbutt

Chasing Gold

(Take Me To The Hospital/BMG)

Life Ain’t Always Roses

After Red House Painters burnt out in 2001, Mark Kozelek has been very productive in his Sun Kil Moon guise. With his band of compadres he adopts a schlock and awe approach. Do not be offput by the rather disturbing fascination with The Partridge Family.

The streets he walks are not laid out with lily pads. You realise this very quickly after listening to ‘This Is Not Possible’, a song which equates Berlin, the band not the city, with raging teenage lust and asks whether the President should be institutionalised. The answer is correct, this is possible. So take a breath, recompose and recommence trawling through various stylistic incongruities.

The Sun Kil Moon manifesto is one for angular obscurity with a certain cerebral whimsy. Delivered with such a deadpan manner, Kozelek sounds like he has lost the pan, this deeply personal record contains many challenges and disturbing elements. Somehow it also instils sparkling colour into the playful doom.

Absorbed in songs as effective and simple as ‘This Is My Dinner’ and ‘Candles’, it’s hard to correlate these with ‘David Cassidy’ and The Partridge Family’s ‘Come On Get Happy’ or ‘Rock’n’Roll Singer’

by AC/DC. But with a sense of satire, Kozelek champions life’s dark horses in the knowledge that the cash cow will never be run down.

Join Kozelek on the tour bus of This Is My Dinner for an experience like Jonathan Richman swathed in velvet.

(Narvik Records/Eleven: A Music Company Pty Ltd)

(Fueled By Ramen)

E^ST

9.0

This Is My Dinner

8.0

Dustin Tebbutt has a way of tugging on your heartstrings.

Maybe it’s his beautiful guitar playing, soft vocals or emotive lyrics, but his music tends to stir something inside you, and his latest EP is no different.

There’s not a single disappointing track on the Chasing Gold EP, which is an impressive feat for any musician. Granted, there aren’t that many, but seven songs is still a good effort for an EP, and it’s just the right amount to keep you poised and waiting for more.

Tunes like ‘Love Is Blind’ and ‘Satellite’ explore the ins and outs of human relationships, which is a dominant theme in much of Tebbutt’s work. Lyrically, they’re deceptively simple. The kind of songs where you can easily get lost in the pretty melodies and acoustics, but they still convey an emotional depth when you tune into the words.

One song will sound particularly familiar – especially for RÜFÜS DU SOL fans – as Tebbutt joined forces with Lisa Mitchell to record a very stripped back and haunting cover of ‘Innerbloom’. The popular dance track feels completely different in this folk re-imagining, but works surprisingly well as an acoustic duet.

Chasing Gold is a lot more stripped back than Tebbutt’s previous material, allowing us a very raw and vulnerable look into the songwriter and his works.

The Prodigy

No Tourists

6.0

For a group that have for the bulk of their career been innovative, popular and danced across thresholds into manic popularity and game-changing sounds, The Prodigy have done okay with their seventh studio album, No Tourists. That’s all it is though – okay.

Rammed with the traditional punk-laden vocals, booming guitars and synth melodies, The Prodigy certainly stick with a familiar high-energy sound. ‘Need Som1’ is decent as opener’s go, reminding us of The Prodigy circa 1992 only with a bit more of a polished edge. The album’s title track wouldn’t be out of place on the soundtrack to a film and perhaps that’s something The Prodigy are subconsciously working toward these days – the usual anathematic number as is present on each of their previous albums only aiming to hone a more palatable and appealing beat.

It’s a collision of the percussive and the armchair, wildly comfortable and still a lot of fun. Have we come to expect too much from the British ravers? Perhaps their days of innovation and commitment to genre-defying albums are past them because ultimately, No Tourists rings out like an upgrade to your iPhone – it’s a little different yet familiar, so you’re still going to love and stick with it.

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FEATURED GIGS

Rat Child The Evelyn Hotel Homegrown jazz, neo-soul and R&Bslinging wonder Rat Child continues her month-long residency at The Evelyn Hotel this Wednesday November 14. Every Wednesday in November Rat Child is taking to The Ev’s stage alongside a rotating roster of friends, and this week it’ll be Harrison King & The Lost Tribe bringing music and Ziimusic bringing spoken word alongside live improv from BLUME. Catch it from 8pm and grab a ticket for $10 on the door.

Bohjass Bar 303 Local experimental jazz outfit Bohjass continue their Bar 303 residency this Wednesday November 14, and joining them to warm up the night comes fellow jazz purveyors Ben Carr Trio and Shayan. Kicks off at 7.30pm and best of all, entry is free.

Ben Alter

Ben Alter Edinburgh Castle Melbourne singer-songwriter Ben Alter brings painfully honest and nostalgic lyricism alongside a honed indie-rock and pop-infused sound, and you can expect to lap it all up when he takes to Edinburgh Castle this week. Catch him on Thursday November 15 from 8pm and enjoy free entry too.

Empire State Elevators The Jazzlab Helmed by acclaimed singer-songwriter and composer Carl Pannuzzo, Empire State Elevators are are a recently-formed folk and jazz-infused five-piece from Melbourne.

They’ll take to The Jazzlab on Thursday November 15 and celebrate their debut album The Rise and Fall of... kicking off at 8pm. Tickets are $25 via the venue website.

Miff Compass Pizza Pop-infused soul singer-songwriter Miff is slated to take to Compass Pizza on Friday November 16. Expect new material alongside a full live band, as well as support from Dan Vogl from 8pm. $10 entry.

Pascal Babare Yarra Hotel Melbourne’s Pascal Babare are set to launch their brand new record Endless Room at the Yarra Hotel this Friday November 16. Leah Senior and Lucy Roleff will join as support from 8pm and you can snag a ticket for $10 on the door. Beauty.

Cyanide Thornton The Curtin Cyanide Thornton are set to celebrate the release of their debut self-titled record at The Curtin this Friday November 16. Joining them comes an all-star cast of supports including Romy Vager (RVG) and Gordon Koang and it’s all set to go down at 8pm.

Snag a ticket for $10 via the venue website.

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Gig Guide Wednesday 14 Nov INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS AMISTAT Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East.

7pm. $15.

BALE OUT - AUSSIE FARMERS FUNDRAISER TOUR - FEAT: SORDID ORDEAL + DEVIL'S KISS + THE HOLLOW MAJORS + KAKU + HAPPY MORBID Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $15.

BAREFOOT BOWLS CLUB + DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF SURF Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

CHITY SOMAPALA + BLACK MAJESTY Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm. $30.

DISCOJESUS + VIM + FACULTY Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

JAMES + NADÉAH Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

LIVE IN THE BANDROOM - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7pm.

MAJAK DOOR + VELVET BLOOM + YARA + THE FILLMORE BROTHERS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

MERUKA + THE HEMUSANS + LE PINE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

MIDDLE MANAGEMENT + TAMARA & THE DREAMS + FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10.

PAUL DEMPSEY + RO Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $63.94.

PAUL POMPHREY BAND Maori Chief Hotel, South Melbourne. 7pm.

STRANGE STAINS + DARK WATER + OV PAIN Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm.

THE KICKER + BAILEY RIVERA + BLOODY RIPPER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.

VERONICA FUSARO Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $7.

WARM NIGHTS IN BOHEMIAN HEIGHTS - FEAT: TIM ROGERS + JONNIE VON GOES Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7pm. $55.60.

YUKUMBABE + MOON CUP + ERIN WILL BE MAD Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ANDIE + GAIA SCARF Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $10.

BOHJASS + BEN CARR TRIO + SHAYAN 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.

BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $15.

CLAIRE PATTI Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.

DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND - MUSIC OF MOVIES - FEAT: THE EMILIA QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $25.

FRANK GAMBALE SOULMINE Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8pm. $39.

FREUDIAN SLEEP The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

8pm. $20.

GEOFF HUGHES TRIO Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

JAZZ BAZAAR - FEAT: AUDREY POWNE + MORE Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

LIAM BUTLER WEBB TRIO Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 8pm.

MYSTIC MOMENTS - FEAT: JOHN BAILEY + MIKE GURRIERI Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

RAT CHILD + HARRISON KING & THE LOST TRIBE + ZII + BLUME Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

STAR TIME + LAZER RAE + TORRENTIAL BRAIN Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

WANDERERS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

8:30pm.

WORLD MUSIC OPEN MIC Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK ANDREW SWANN Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

KANGAN INSTITUTE - 2018 MUSIC ALBUM LAUNCH Musicland, Fawkner.

7pm. $10.

KIM WHEELER Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9pm.

LOMOND ACOUSTICA - FEAT: BUDDY KNOX + BILL JACKSON & PETE FIDLER + DON HILLMAN'S SECRET BEACH Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8pm.

MONTHLY BLUES JAM - FEAT: JIMI COELLI + VARIOUS ARTISTS Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8pm.

MUDDY'S BLUES ROULETTE - FEAT: BENNY JAMES Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Penny Black, Brunswick.

7:30pm.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 6:30pm.

SONIA SERIN Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

8pm.

SYZYGY ENSEMBLE Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6pm. $39.

Thursday 15 Nov INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS ALPHONSO + JUICE WEBSTER + FLOOD LIGHTS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.

ALYCE PLATT & THE FISH SHOP TRIO Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 7pm. $18.

BASEMENT SPACEMAN + JEMILAH 303, Northcote. 8pm.

BEN ALTER Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8pm.

BIG MOIST & THE SMOKING DURRIES + WEAPONIZED MIND + POLITE SKELETONS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. $5.

CASH + ROWBOY + THE DEAD AMIGOS Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7pm. $10.

FRAUDBAND + AVALON BEACH Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 7:30pm.

GRINDGORE OGS - FEAT: ASBESTOSISIS + GBS + MAGGOT BATH + SPEW BALLOON Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm.

HAWKSLEY WORKMAN The Fyrefly, St Kilda.

6:30pm. $26.55.

IN MUSICLAND TONIGHT - FEAT: DELLACOMA RIO + ROCKY RAVIC + MORE Musicland, Fawkner. 7pm.

KEGGIN' + I HAVE A GOAT + THE KAT O ARMY + ALUMINIUM MONSTER + THE COMMONLY INSANE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10.

KIMBERLEY HEBERLEY + GERRY KENNEDY Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8pm. $10.

LA TANKIA + THE ONE TWOS + VOYEUR + SAPPHIRE STREET Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8pm. $8.

LIME CORDIALE + RUBY GILL + NAT VAZER Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $24.

MADELINE LEMAN & THE DESERT SWELLS + GENA ROSE BRUCE + KELLY DAY John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $15.

MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 9:30pm.

MOJO PIN + THE SWEETS + LEMON DAZE Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $5.

MS.45 + ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH + JAMES SEEDY Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6pm.

PLOTZ + FLEETING PERSUASION + DYADON The Night Heron, Footscray. 8pm.

POPE’S ASSASSINS + DAN CROSS + MIA SCHOEN Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 7:30pm.

SCAB BABY + SCRAGGERS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.

SOUTHLAND LATIN ROCK + JUSTICIERO Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8pm. $5.

THE CATHERINE TATE SHOW LIVE Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7pm. $101.79.

THE CHATS + TOTALLY UNICORN + AARON GOCS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $15.

THROWBACK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.

TINGY CELESTINO Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.

WOULDN'T MAMA BE PROUD - FEAT: PEMBO + HANNAH BLACKBURN + MORE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $5.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.

CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO + CUMBIA COSMONAUTS + GALAMBO + SONIDERO ESPERANZA + TAHNIOCA CUMBIERA Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.

EMPIRE STATE ELEVATORS The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $25.

FITZROY SOUL PARTY - FEAT: SON OF A GUNZEL Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7pm.

FRANK GAMBALE SOULMINE Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8pm. $39.

HIGH BINDER Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $8.

JACKIE BORNSTEIN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $25.

RUBY PAGE & THE JOE RUBERTO TRIO Rising Sun Hotel, South Melbourne. 6:30pm.

RUSSIA, HOI PALLOI + RUSSIA + HOI PALLOI Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.

TAMARA KULDIN + JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET The Water Rat Hotel, South Melbourne.

7pm.

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

THE SINGER’S SONG - FEAT: SUSIE GOBLE + JACINTA CARUANA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.

THE SWEETHEARTS + YOUNG HEARTS Workers Club, Geelong. 8pm. $10.

VARDOS + TIM MEYEN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6pm. $39.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK BENJAMIN TRILLADO + RILEY CATHERALL Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill.

8pm.

BROOKE TAYLOR Memo Music Hall, St Kilda.

7:30pm. $15.

BUDDY KNOX Dog's Bar, St Kilda. 9pm.

DAVE RILEY + VARIOUS ARTISTS Hume Blues Club, Coburg. 7:15pm.

GOLDNER STRING QUARTET Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7pm. $50.

HERMITAGE GREEN Prince Bandroom, St Kilda. 8pm. $43.90.

JORDY MAXWELL Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $12.50.

JULES BOULT Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

KRISTEN LEE MORRIS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.

LEON WILKS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.

MUSICLAND OPEN CHOIR REHEARSALS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Musicland, Fawkner. 7pm. $5.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 7pm.

ROBIN CASINADER & FRANCESCA MOUNTFORT + KAYE-LOUISE PATTERSON Farouk's Olive, Thornbury. 8pm. $5.

SUNSHINE WHEN I DIE + RADE + THE HANGMAN Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

TINY RUINS + EVELYN IDA MORRIS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm.

WHOLE LOTTA HONKEYTONK - FEAT: JANE & EZRA Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick.

6:30pm.

Friday 16 Nov INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS A BENEFIT FOR ASH SANTILLA - FEAT: DALLAS CRANE + THE PICTURES + IMMIGRANT UNION + SHEPPARTON AIRPLANE + MORE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $39.80.

ABBE MAY + HYCLASS + ALANA JAGT Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm. $19.

FEATURED GIGS ACTION SAM Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 11pm.

AUTO-MASH DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9pm.

BRIAN HENRY HOOPER ALBUM LAUNCH - FEAT: TENDRILS Prince Bandroom, St Kilda.

8pm. $35.

CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.

CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. 12:45pm.

CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB - FEAT: PHATO A MANO + NAMN + MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.

COUNTDOWN 80S Musicland, Fawkner.

7:30pm. $10.

CREO + EMPIRE PARK + THE AVENUE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $12.75.

CYANIDE THORNTON + ROMY VAGER + GORDON KOANG John Curtin Hotel, Carlton.

8pm. $10.

DJ LADY BLADES Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

9pm.

DREGG + BROKEN + BRAIN FREEZE + TOO BIRDS + BLACK ORCHARDS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8pm.

FRONT END LOADER + THE YARD APES + MEATHOOK Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8pm. $25.

GEORGE TRIMMER BAND Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10pm.

GIORGOS TSALIKIS Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak.

9:30pm.

GREYVIEW + SPEAKEASY + NO OATHS + WAY SHIT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 8pm. $10.

HITS + WARPED + MEATBEATERS + JULIETTE SEIZURE & THE TREMORDOLLS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $20.

HOBO MAGIC + STIFF RICHARDS + PSYCHOBABEL Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

4:30pm.

HOLLOW WORLD + AME NOIRE Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.

JUST FRIENDS BAND Platform 270, Melbourne. 5:45pm.

LIME CORDIALE + NAT VAZER + RUBY GILL Howler, Brunswick. 8pm.

LINDA Rah Bar, South Yarra. 8:40pm. $22.

LOS SCALLYWAGS + GAMJEE + TONY DORK Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 6pm. $13.30.

NEBRASKA - FEAT: PONY FACE Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 8pm. $23.

OCEAN SLEEPER + DROWN THIS CITY + HEISTS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.

ONE DAY KINGS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

7:30pm. $5.

PABLO PICCASHOLES + THE BIN NIGHT ROMEOS Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm.

PEARL BAY + THE TROPES + PISS FACTORY + SHARDS Tote Hotel, Collingwood.

8pm. $10.

POPROCKS + DR PHIL Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

PRIMAL FEAR + SINNER + HORIZON'S EDGE Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8pm. $69.40.

QUEEN KONG & THE HOMOSAPIENS + ANGIE HART + PLASTER OF PARIS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $20.

RAGNARÖK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

RESIDE + PARKWOOD + STAND TALL + BITTER LAKES Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

RIBLJA CORBA 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $89.98.

RIDLEY + JESSE SLIGER Penny Black, Brunswick. 8pm.

RINKYDINK - FEAT: THE BURNING BRIDGES + SKYLARK TRIO Thornbury Bowls Club, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $10.

S.M. JENKINS + DOM ROFF + MOON CUP Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7:30pm.

SENOR NO + RIVER OF SNAKES + BABY8 + MANNEQUIN DEATH SQUAD + JUSTICIEROS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $15.

SHIVOOSTOCK - FEAT: MORE + EMPAT LIMA + PARSNIP + THE IRONING MAIDENS + STRAIGHT ARROWS + HOT WINGS Caringal Scout Camp, Caringal. 3pm. $165.

SUGAR JACKET + WILDERGLOW + JIMMY CASS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.

8:30pm. $10.

TASHA ZAPPALA Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

6pm.

THE BALLS + RED GAZELLE + PACING THE CAGE + FUNK DANCING FOR SELF DEFENCE Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East.

8pm. $10.

THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS + IVY + BLEACH + TELESCREEN Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $10.

THE CATHERINE TATE SHOW LIVE Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7pm. $101.79.

THE CHATS + TOTALLY UNICORN + TANKERVILLE + AARON GOCS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.

THE KODAKS Hysteria Lounge, Lilydale. 6pm. $10.

THE TOMMYHAWKS + GRACEY The B.east, Brunswick East. 9pm.

THE WINDOW IN FLOYD + IN OTHER WORLDS + THE GREAT EMU WAR CASUALTIES + DANDE & THE LION Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $5.

WHAT’S ON PRESENTS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 9pm.

Y STREET + NOTICE OF EVICTION + HOADZZ 303, Northcote. 8pm.

HIP HOP & R&B AFTER HOURS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

FRESH VIOLET + LADY LASH + CARD HOUSES + ANDRE JEMAL + EZEKIEL OX + MORE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.

HAVANA FRIDAYS - FEAT: MC SEBA + MORE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

JACK VIE + VELVET SAND + ILLUSIVE + CREATION + AREVA J + GENTLEMAN K + JEZ + ZAINO Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10.

PARTY & BULLSHIT FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm.

RNB FRIDAYS CLUB - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm. $20.

TRESILLO & AFRO SOCIETIES - FEAT: KÖDA + SHELL LEY + DJ SMILEZ + SHANTAN WANTAN ICHIBAN + MAI + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.

YG + MORE Festival Hall, West Melbourne. 7pm. $96.55.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ANDIE & HER BANDIE Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.

ANEA DURATOVIC QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $32.50.

ANNALIESE & THE DOUBLE LOVERS Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.

BULLHORN + THE SCRIMS Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8pm. $14.30.

EMMA GILMARTIN QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $25.

FRANK GAMBALE SOULMINE Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8pm. $39.

FRIDAY KNOCK OFF SESSIONS - FEAT: THE HANDLE BARS Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 5pm.

GALATA EXPRESS + BABA NOIR Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. $18.

GLORY B Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.

KAMAAL WILLIAMS + 30/70 + SUNSET CITIES + DJ LADY ERICA Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm.

LA NUIT BLANCHE The Jazzlab, Brunswick.

6pm. $30.

MICHELLE NICOLLE QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $32.50.

MIFF + DAN VOGL Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 8pm. $10.

MORELAND CITY SOUL REVIEW Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.

RUFUS REID The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $35.

SARAH MACLAINE QUARTET Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.

THE MARK FITZGIBBON TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $20.

THE WOOHOO REVUE Bar Open, Fitzroy.

7pm.

TRICK GYPSY + ICKY STICKS + THE GRIMWOODS + IBIS Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 8pm. $10.

WAX POETS - FEAT: DJ LEGO + DJ HAWK I + DECKSI + T BONE Red Betty, Brunswick. 7pm.

ZEDSIX The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11pm. $10.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK BUDDY KNOX Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

8:30pm.

DANNY WALSH BANNED Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 5:30pm.

DARYL ROBERTS The Moldy Fig, 7pm.

HARMANIAX Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

9:30pm.

JAMES ELLIS & THE JEALOUS GUYS + KATIE BATES + VARIOUS DJS Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 5pm.

JAMES HICKEY TRIO + TENNYSON KING Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8pm. $10.

JODI PHILLIS Kastoria Music Club, Coburg North. 7pm. $25.

JOHN KENNEDY'S 68 COMEBACK SPECIAL Dog's Bar, St Kilda. 8:30pm.

KRISTEN LEE MORRIS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.

8pm.

MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK OPENING NIGHT - FEAT: ARA KOUFAX + SUI ZHEN + ALTA + DRMNGNOW Federation Square, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + HANA & JESSIELEE Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:30pm.

PASCAL BABARE + LEAH SENIOR + LUCY ROLEFF Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8pm. $10.

RATTLINCANE Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8pm. $10.

THE 'JOHNNY CAN'T DANCE' CAJUN BAND Farouk's Olive, Thornbury. 8pm. $5.

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

Saturday 17 Nov INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS + LEMURS IN THE SUN + PUBLIC HIGH + KHAN Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm.

ALIAS MAY + NORTH HEIGHTS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1:30pm. $10.

AMENRA + YLVA + LO! + MORE Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8pm. $45.39.

ANTAGONIST AD + HONEST CROOKS + BROKEN + CAGED EXISTENCE + EXCARNATE + BOUNDLESS Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $15.

AUSMUTEANTS + ILL GLOBO The B.east, Brunswick East. 9pm.

BACKYARD MAFIA + KITSCHEN BOY + FOOL CHILD Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.

BAKED BEANS + BITCH DIESEL + U-BAHN John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $10.

CELEBRATING WHITNEY - FEAT: TILARNI Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 8pm. $37.50.

CINEMIX - STRANGE COLOURS - FEAT: MIKEY YOUNG + VARIOUS ARTISTS Acmi, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $35.

COLOURING CATS + TROUBLE PEACH + EAGLEMONT Cactus Room, Thornbury. 8pm. $10.

CULTE + ELSIE Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy.

4pm.

DEAD CITY RUINS + TWO HEADED DOG Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 1pm.

DJ LEARNTABLES Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.

9pm.

DREAM CAN + OV PAIN + HEARTS & ROCKETS Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:30pm. $12.

DUMB PUNTS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.

GANGZ + HONEY HUNTER + PURR USUAL Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne.

2pm.

GRADUAL Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 8pm.

INDIE MIX TAPE - FEAT: BIG LEAGUE + THE WINDOW IN FLOYD + LA TANIKA + DANDE & THE LION Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 7pm. $10.

JEFFE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

JOHNSTON ST LATIN FIESTA - FEAT: THE WAMEKI + PORPOISE SPIT + SHIT SEX + TRAGIC CARPET + CAKE FIGHT + FLYING MACHINE + FRAUDBAND Old Bar, Fitzroy.

3pm. $10.

LADIES OF THE 80'S - FEAT: DJ MATT DOLL Pause Bar, Balaclava. 8pm.

LITTLEFOOT + LOS DOMINADOS + FOREVER RENTER + MATTY WHITTLE & MELWAYHOLICS ANONYMOUS + COMMISSIONER BOURBON Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10.

LIVIN PINK - THE ULTIMATE PINK TRIBUTE Hysteria Lounge, Lilydale. 6pm. $25.

NANCY COLE + EZEKIEL SNEEZED Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5pm.

NATHAN SEECKTS + LINCOLN LE FEVRE + GREAT AUNT Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 9pm. $10.

ROD STEWART TRIBUTE SHOW Musicland,

Pablo Piccasholes + Bin Night Romeos Swamplands

Local party-starting bands Bin Night Romeos and Pablo Piccasholes will come together at Swamplands this Friday November 16. Playing classic cuts from the likes of The Pixies, Blur, The Dandy Warhols, Oasis, The Smiths, INXS and more, this is shaping to be a real treat.

Music from 8.30pm and free entry. Get on it.

The Tommyhawks The B.East Perth natives The Tommyhawks will make their way down to The B.East this Friday November 16 to celebrate the release of their new track ‘Critical’. GRACEY will offer support from 9pm, and best of all, entry is free. Booyah.

König Red Betty The project of saxophonist Max Koenig, König offers a deeply personal, raw brand of jazz, alongside middle eastern and African grooves. Accompanied by Rayan El-Aridi on a myriad of percussion, König will take to Red Betty on Saturday November 17 from 8pm. $10 on the door.

Debra La Velle & Shane Ryall The Moldy Fig Melbourne jazz singer Debra La Velle and fellow local jazz guitarist Shane Ryall will join forces at The Moldy Fig this Saturday November 17. They’ll perform a slew of classics from the ‘30s to ‘50s, covering artists from Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, to Doris Day, June Christy and Blossom Dearie. Join them from 7pm and enjoy free entry too.

Cosmos Bombay Rock Melbourne three-piece heavy psych and blues outfit Cosmos will hit the Bombay Rock stage on Saturday November 17.

Expect cuts from their debut LP Coming Home as well as some new material from their upcoming sophomore effort, while support will come from Whoopie Cat, A Basket Of Mammoths and Dark Temple.

Free entry, doors from 7pm.

Nathan Seeckts

Nathan Seeckts Reverence Hotel Nathan Seeckts is geared to take over the Reverence Hotel stage this Saturday November 17. Expect a stack of new tracks from the Victorian country-folk troubadour, who is due to release his debut full-length LP in early 2019. With support slots for the likes of The Teskey Brothers, Archie Roach, Tex Perkins, Cory Branan (USA) and extensive solo touring across the States under his belt, Seeckts is rapidly commanding attention for his nostalgic and honest lyricism. Lincoln Le Fevre and Great Aunt will support from 9pm and entry is $10 on the door.

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Luke Morris Wesley Anne Off the back of an almighty run around Europe and the UK, Byron Bay indie-folk singer-songwriter Luke Morris will hit home soil at Wesley Anne this Saturday November 17. He’ll bring his acclaimed sophomore effort Maybe We’re Just Running Home to the stage from 7pm and tickets are $18 via Eventbrite.

Shewolf

Shewolf + more Whole Lotta Love A massive night of all-female rock and grunge is set to storm into Whole Lotta Love on Saturday November 17. A heaving cast of Melbourne acts are slated to appear, including CASH, The Mis-Made and Shewolf when it all goes down from 7pm.

Entry is $12 on the door.

Lucie Thorne The Merri Creek Tavern Acclaimed Australian roots songstress Lucie Thorne is slated to play an intimate gig at The Merri Creek Tavern this Saturday November 17. You can catch her playing two sets from 8pm and tickets are $20 via Trybooking.

Erik Parker Charles Weston Melbourne musician Erik Parker is set to bring his live lopping-dressed concoction of dub, soul and blues to the Charles Weston stage on Sunday November 18. Catch two sets from 4pm and enjoy free entry to boot.

23/19

23/19 The Bendigo Hotel Adelaide hardcore act 23/19 are headed to the east coast with their new record Two More Reasons To Hate Us, and they’ll hit Melbourne’s Bendigo Hotel on Sunday November 18. Fellow Adelaide metalcore outfit Mauvais have been employed as support, as well as Earth Caller, Blklst., Capital Enemy and Terminal. 5.30pm, $10 entry on the door.

Ezekiel Sneezed The Drunken Poet Dublin-born and now Melbourne-based folk act Ezekiel Sneezed will take to The Drunken Poet on Sunday November 18.

They’ll bring their haunting brand of folk doused in complex harmonies, guitar, piano and violin in what will be their final gig of the year, so you’ll want to catch them while you can. Free entry, music from 6.30pm.

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SHEWOLF + THE MIS-MADE + CASH + STACY VARNER & HARRISON JENNER Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7pm. $12.

SHIVOOSTOCK - FEAT: MORE + EMPAT LIMA + PARSNIP + THE IRONING MAIDENS + STRAIGHT ARROWS + HOT WINGS Caringal Scout Camp, Caringal. 12:00am. $165.

SMASH MOUTH + AREA 7 The Croxton, Thornbury. 8pm. $69.90.

SONS OF LEE MARVIN + THE HYBERNATORS Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8pm.

SPIRAL PERM + EASY BROWNS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 11pm.

SPORTS BRA + JUNE JONES + WAY SHIT + SHOP TALK Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 7pm.

THE BRUNGAS + THE IANS + CLEAN CUT SOCIETY Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

THE CATHERINE TATE SHOW LIVE Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7pm. $101.79.

THE DUNES + BURIED FEATHER + THE BAUDELAIRES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

THE GOLDEN RAIL + THE HIGH GEARS + MAJOR BUMMER Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

4pm.

THE HARD ACHES + BUGS + FACE FACE Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 1:30pm. $28.60.

TIGER’S JAW + JESS LOCKE + ANTONIA & THE LAZY SUSANS Corner Hotel, Richmond.

8:30pm. $35.

TINMAN + NICK LOVELL + STAV Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.

TOTE'L METAL - FEAT: ARKIVE + WAKE THE BLIND + LIFE PILOT + MOONSHIFTER + THE NUREMBERG CODE + AS I DESTRUCT + EBONIVORY + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 1pm. $20.

HOUSE, ELECTRO, TRANCE & CLUB NIGHTS AFRODELICIOUS - FEAT: MALO MALO + SUNS OF MERCURY + PRINCE BASTARD Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 2:30pm.

BLOOM Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm. $15.

BOBANDII + DJ SPELL + EL BLAT + CARLUA + PIATAŌ Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.

CUMBIA FEST - FEAT: DELACAYE + THE AMASONICS + TAHNIOCA CUMBIERA + DJ SACA LA MOIS + PRINCE BASTARD + SONIDERO ESPERANZA Night Cat, Fitzroy.

9pm. $10.

CUPIDS CUT Fox Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.

DAINA DEMILLO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

8:30pm. $10.

EAT THE BEAT - FEAT: ETWAS + MATTEO FREYRIE + CHRISS MARINETTI + GAV WHITEHOUSE + LEONARDO GONNELLI + MORE New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $20.

FRANKY RIZARDO Prince Bandroom, St Kilda.

10pm. $15.

JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 11:45pm.

JEFF MILLS + ACM + MATT RADOVICH + MONOLITH - CHIARA + LOUAY Acmi, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $53.

JIMPSTER + WHO + JULIAN CASTLES + RYAN TAYLOR Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $15.

JOHNSTON STREET FIESTA - FEAT: VARIUOS ARTISTS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 2pm.

LAIDBACK LUKE Co., Southbank. 10pm. $20.

LÂLKA + AEORA + KAIAR + DJ YOLLKS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

MANDARIN DREAMS RESIDENCY - FEAT: ALIEN + CLEVER AUSTIN + DUFRESNE + FOSSE + HORATIO LUNA + KUZICH + RAW HUMPS + THHOMAS Hugs & Kisses, Melbourne. 8pm.

MELBURNERS DECOM AFTER PARTY - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS 24 Moons, Northcote. 9pm. $25.

MILES BROWN + INFRAGHOSTS + ANNA VORTEX Nighthawks, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

MYTHOLOGY - FEAT: BONGMIST + BERTIE + LONER + PEPPERMINT DARLING + POST PERCY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

ONE PUF & TUMBLE AUDIO - FEAT: HANK LIMIT + EXIT99 + COLDPAST + GING + BUICK Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy. 7pm.

PARK DAY PARTY - FEAT: GREEN VELVET + HEIDI + PHIL KIERAN + BOOGS + INTERSTELLAR FUGITIVES Yarra Park, East

Melbourne. 2pm. $79.

PAWN SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 7pm. $20.

PONY SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS La Di Da, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.

RISE & SHINE - FEAT: SUNSHINE + VARIOUS ARTISTS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.

12:00am.

SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ KISTA + DJ BETH GRACE + DJ DEMIZE + VARIOUS DJS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

SNACK ATTACK WITH DJ 2P Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 10pm.

SOOKI SATURDAYS - FEAT: JORDAN BRANDO Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 6pm. $10.

SOUND SCHOOL 2018 SHOWCASE + SOUND SCHOOL + MZRIZK + ROMY FOX Signal, Melbourne. 4pm.

THE OZ OPEN - FEAT: DJ CONGO + BK LAWD + T GREENE + BUDDY RYAN + MIKE WANG + MERC SWAZEY + YUNGBADDIE + BANGS + MORE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $15.

TOFF CLUB - FEAT: LORD HANS DC Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE 2019 - FEAT: TETRAMETH + AIRI + FUNGOPHAGO + SMILK + SHANTARAAM Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 9pm. $30.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ANEA DURATOVIC QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $32.50.

ANJA & ZLATNA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6pm. $39.

BEN DELVES TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote.

6pm.

BRIAN EL DORADO & THE TUESDAY PEOPLE + CHLOE AMBER FOX Open Studio, Northcote. 11:00am. $5.

BULLHORN + MAYA + KUDOS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $20.

FRANK GAMBALE SOULMINE Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8pm. $39.

FUNKY KINGSTON - FEAT: MISTA SAVONA'S JACKIE MITTOO REVIEW + RICK HOWE + MOHAIR SLIM + JESSE I + STICK MAREEBO + CASSAWARRIOR 303, Northcote. 8:30pm. $20.

JULES BOULT & THE REDEEMERS Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

KÖNIG Red Betty, Brunswick. 8pm. $10.

MAD PROFESSOR + SYSTA BB + MEENA + TROUBLEMEKKA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.

8pm. $25.

PETER INGLIS Railway Hotel, Fitzroy North.

8:30pm.

QUARTER STREET Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

REBECCA MENDOZA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $32.50.

RESPECT – SONGS OF ARETHA FRANKLIN - FEAT: EMILY WILLIAMS Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $32.

RUFUS REID The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $35.

SLACKROPE Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 4pm.

SOUL CHIC Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $32.50.

TAMARA KULDIN QUARTET Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.

THE CORETET Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

THE JACKSON FOUR Rosebud Memorial Hall, Rosebud. 7:30pm. $20.

THE JAMES SHERLOCK TRIO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $25.

THE KING LOUIE COLLECTIVE + PPB LATE NIGHT DJS Prince Public Bar, St Kilda .

8pm.

THE MOONHOPS Open Studio, Northcote. 9pm. $10.

THE NEW MONOS TRIO Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6pm.

THE ROOKIES The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11pm.

TO MINORE TIS AVGIS - LIVE TRIBUTE CONCERT - FEAT: MELBOURNE REBETIKO ENSEMBLE MEMBERS Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 8pm. $26.

HIP HOP & R&B BAKER BOY + DALLAS WOODS + MORE Howler, Brunswick. 8pm.

BIG DANCING SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm.

BLUE BLACK BEATZ - FEAT: REMI + SOPHIE GROPHY + CONSCIOUSLY KYAH + SOLI TESEMA + IDIL ALI + MORE

Immigration Museum, Melbourne. 2pm. $20.

KHOKOLAT KOATED SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + DURMY + MORE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.

THE GET DOWN PRESENTS THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE - FEAT: STAZI + NINAH NICOLE + REUN + BLAYZIE J + PROSPA + DECS + MANUEXELLA + KMODO + MORE Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.

YKM WORLDWIDE - FEAT: NAUGHTY GUYS + AMETHYST + PANIA + GABRIEL LCR + VARIOUS DJS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK ANDRÉ RIEU Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7pm.

ANDREW SWANN Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 5pm.

BACKYARD BREW Royal Hotel, Mornington.

8pm.

BENNETT BOWTELL & URQUHART Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8:30pm. $23.77.

CRAIG WOODWARD & FRIENDS Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 2pm.

DAN PURDEY & THE STORMY SEAS + KARL HUTTENMEISTER Open Studio, Northcote. 2:30pm. $5.

DREAM BOOGIE Piping Hot Chicken & Burger Grill, Ocean Grove. 7:30pm. $20.

FLOYD THURSBY + GIRL FRIDAY + MANDY CONNELL Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 8pm. $10.

GARETH LEACH + DAVID WESTERN Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8:30pm.

HEY GRINGO Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

9pm.

JODI PHILLIS Major Tom's , 8:30pm. $20.

JOHN KENNEDYS’ 68 COMEBACK SPECIAL Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.

LUKE MORRIS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8pm. $15.

MOONEE VALLEY DRIFTERS Panton Hill Hotel, Panton Hill. 8pm.

MR ALFORD COUNTRY Union Hotel, Brunswick. 5pm.

OUT OF ABINGDON + EMILY CHEN Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm. $10.

PASSENGER Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm.

PATRICK WILSON Gem Bar, Collingwood. 9pm.

ROBIN CASINADER & FRANCESCA MOUNTFORT + CAM BUTLER Lyrebird Lounge, Ripponlea. 8pm.

SAY NOTHING Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

3pm.

TAYLOR HENDERSON + DAISY KILBOURNE + LIBBY STEEL Workers Club, Geelong. 8pm. $39.80.

TENNYSON KING Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.

THE FLEURIEU BLUESBREAKERS + KEVIN BUCKINGHAM Musicland, Fawkner. 8pm. $10.

THE TWOKS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.

UNPAINTED PROSPECTS Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 5pm.

YOUR HEART’S SO HOT O SISTER ANTIGONE REIMAGINED - FEAT: ROSE RIEBL + LILIAN GRACE STEINER + GRACE FERGUSON Church Of All Nations, Carlton. 8pm. $35.

Sunday 18 Nov INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS 23/19 + EARTH CALLER + BLKLST + CAPITAL ENEMY + MAUVAIS + TERMINAL Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 5:30pm. $10.

ALICE SKYE + MORE Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne. 4pm.

ASH Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8pm. $60.

CASTILLES + EASTBOUND BUZZ + BODY CORPORATE Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 3pm.

CIVIC SOUNDS LANEWAY PARTY FEAT: MORE + REGURGITATOR + NAI PALM + RVG + THE BENNIES + BEC SANDRIDGE + IV LEAGUE Ac/dc Lane, Melbourne. 1pm. $70.

DAN LETHBRIDGE & SHANE O'MARA Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.

DARK SPACE PROJECT + HEXTAPE + JAMES TEAGUE Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $12.

COMING SOON DR. SURE'S UNUSUAL PRACTICE + ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH + FOX Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5pm.

HOWLITE + LUNAR TIDE + THE WINDOW IN THE FLOYD + DANDE & THE LION Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1pm. $10.

JESS MAE + HUI + EMMA VOLLARD Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $12.50.

JOHNSTON ST LATIN FIESTA - FEAT: TONY DORK + SCAB BABY + PISTOL PEACHES + HORACE BONES + PUBLIC HIGH + HOMEWRECKER + EYESORES + GIRL GERMS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3pm. $10.

LIME CORDIALE + RUBY GILL + NAT VAZER Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 7pm.

OPEN/MIC JAM NIGHTS Musicland, Fawkner. 7pm.

RIFLEBIRDS + THE DELVENES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm.

RON S. PENO & CAM BUTLER Dog's Bar, St Kilda. 5pm.

SARAH EIDA + AIMEE FRANCIS + SORDID ORDEAL Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.

8:30pm. $10.

SHIVOOSTOCK - FEAT: MORE + EMPAT LIMA + PARSNIP + THE IRONING MAIDENS + STRAIGHT ARROWS + HOT WINGS Caringal Scout Camp, Caringal. 12:00am. $165.

SKILLET + TERRA Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $80.

SPONTANEOUS MUSIC - FEAT: MAGNETS + VARIOUS ARTISTS State Library Of Victoria, 3:30pm.

STEPSON + AFTER TOUCH Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 2pm. $15.30.

SUDAMERICAN ROCKERS 2018 - FEAT: COYA LEE + MAURO GOMEZ + OSCAR JIMENEZ + JOSE TORTABU + EMILIANO BELTZER + DJ PRINCE BASTARD + JUSTICIERO Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9pm.

THE SPAGHETTI STAINS + POLITE SKELETONS + NIPPLE CHAFFES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm.

TOTE'L METAL - FEAT: WORDS OF ELIZABETH + MONOLIYTH + SEDDON + COLD SLEEP + OBSIDIAN MONOLITH + SEASONS TOMB + DEVILS KISS + ATRIOX Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 3pm. $10.

VICTORY LAP + MALLEE SONGS + LOUISE TERRA Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 4pm. $5.

YOU AM I + GARETH LIDDIARD + CLOWNS + NEW WAR Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $45.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC ALEX DUNCAN QUARTET + TESS HANSEN Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm. $8.

AVENIDA SOL Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10.

BALKAN BRASS - FEAT: OPA! BATO + OPA SEKO Farouk's Olive, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $10.

DEL BARRIO Alumbra, Docklands. 4pm.

FRANK GAMBALE SOULMINE Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 8pm. $39.

JACK EARLE TRIO (WITH AMELIA EVANS) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $32.50.

JAZZ ORBIT Brunswick Green, Brunswick.

7:30pm.

JEX SAARELAHT TRIO The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $20.

MELBA BIG BAND 303, Northcote. 2pm. $15.

SANTO SONIDO - FEAT: DJ SACA LA MOIS + MORE Georges Bar, Fitzroy. 7pm.

SEAN CONNOLLY Open Studio, Northcote.

2:30pm. $5.

TAMANDUA Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $27.50.

THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar, Balaclava. 4:30pm.

THE LOWDOWN BIG BAND Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 5pm.

THE OFFTOPICS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.

4pm. $15.

TRIO AGOGO Brunswick Green, Brunswick.

4pm.

VENENO Night Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. $10.

WOMBATUQUE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 5pm.

YOLANDA INGLEY & BAND Fireflies Wine Bar, Fitzroy North. 4pm.

HOUSE, ELECTRO, TRANCE & CLUB NIGHTS BIG FISH LITTLE FISH - FAMILY RAVE FEAT: SPACEY SPACE + SCOTT ALERT + DAVE JURIC + SIMON MURPHY Acmi, Melbourne Cbd. 2pm. $19.

DISCO MULTIVERSE - FEAT: ALL CATS GO TO HEAVEN + THE RAT CAGE + DF0|BAD + MEAT LAB Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6pm.

HAZY SUNDAZE - FEAT: JORDAN + GEZFIRE + BADDUMS + D|ZRUPT + RUFFLES + GADA + MORE 303, Northcote.

5pm.

HONEY ARVO PARTY - FEAT: DJ LOGAN + DJ NATURE GIRL Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 1pm. $10.

HUMAN MANIFOLD INTERFACE - FEAT: DBR + NAT SALIH + BRETT MCDONALD + TOMSK + BAIN Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm.

JOHNSTON STREET FIESTA - FEAT: CUMBIA COSMONAUTS + LA DESCARGA + CUMBIA MASSIVE DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 2pm.

RELOAD - FEAT: SPOOKY + ZEED JULZO + MINCY + GHOST NOTES + LADY BANTON Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 2pm.

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

12:00am. $25.

RIVAL CONSOLES + LEON VYNEHALL + KATE MILLER Acmi, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $48.

SAXON SUNDAY SESSIONS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Royal Saxon, Richmond. 12pm.

SUNDAY BEATS IN THE BEER GARDEN - FEAT: DJ MALPRACTICE Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 2pm.

THE SUNDAY REVIVAL - FEAT: SUNDAY REVIVAL DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4pm.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK A DAY BY THE BAY 2 - FEAT: THE FRIDAY NIGHTS + LITTLE RITUALS + TILLERMAN PETE + JOLT + CROSSFIRE + ADAM GRIMSHAW + SUNNY MOO Merchant Lane, Mornington. 2pm. $15.

ACOUSTIC SUNDAYS - FEAT: MICHELLE GARDINER + PAIGE SPIERS + PAIGE SMITH Customs House Hotel, Williamstown.

2pm.

BRODERICK SMITH Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 2:30pm. $23.

CHRIS PICKERING Standard Hotel, Fitzroy.

7pm.

CORAL LEE Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:30pm.

DJ JESSE I Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 5pm.

ELWOOD BLUES CLUB Prince Public Bar, St Kilda . 4pm.

ERIK PARKER Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick.

4pm.

EZEKIEL SNEEZED Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm.

FOSSIL ROK Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.

4pm.

GEOFF ACHISON Royal Hotel, Mornington.

3pm.

HEY GRINGO St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews.

3pm.

JOHN KENNEDY'S 68 COMEBACK SPECIAL Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5pm.

KEVIN BUCKINGHAM BAND Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4pm.

KIERAN LARKEY + ANTHONY MASTRULLO Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 3:30pm.

LIVE MUSIC SUNDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Assaggi Italiani, Malvern. 12pm.

LONI RAE THOMSON + KATIE WIGHTON Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 7pm.

MELBOURNE TO MEMPHIS - FEAT: RHYTHM X REVIVAL + MCNAMARR PROJECT Flemington Bowls Club, Flemington.

5pm. $30.

MISS DEE Transit, Melbourne Cbd. 2pm.

MONIQUE CLARE Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 4pm. $15.

MSO AT NGV - FEAT: PLEXUS National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne. 2pm.

PAPERJANE + BEN J CARTER Wesley Anne, Northcote. 3pm. $10.

RAISED BY EAGLES Union Hotel, Brunswick.

5pm.

REBELS WITHOUT A CLUE Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.

ROSARIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.

SEAN LEE MCCOY Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 4pm.

SHATTERING SONATAS - FEAT: ANDREW DAY & TIMOTHY YOUNG Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6pm. $95.

SYMPHONIC ADIEMUS - FEAT: HEIDELBERG CHORAL SOCIETY & ORCHESTRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 4pm. $75.

THE 'JOHNNY CAN'T DANCE' CAJUN BAND Catfish, Fitzroy. 5pm.

THE JACKSON LITE DUO The Craft & Co Farm, Bangholme. 1pm.

THE NORTHERN FOLK + RILEY CATHERALL + MAJA Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $13.

YANTO & PETE SHORTIS Union Hotelx, Brunswick. 3:30pm.

ZAC SCHWARZ Dan O'connell Hotel, Carlton.

4pm.

Monday 19 Nov INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS AINSLIE WILLS + GRETTA RAY + ANGIE MCMAHON Acmi, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $43.

HI NEW LOW Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm.

MONDAY BONE MACHINE - FEAT: T-REK + VARIOUS ARTISTS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.

MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: PINCH POINTS + GIRL GERMS + JUNGLE CUFFS + ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm.

NIEUW MONDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7pm. $3.

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - LIVE SCORE - FEAT: TROPICAL FUCK STORM Arts Centre, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $45.

STAV. + NIINE + AARTI JADU Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10.

THE WOMBATS Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8pm. $89.90.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK CHARLES JENKINS Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.

8pm.

IN BLOOM - FEAT: KYLA MATSUURAMILLER & ADAM MCMILLAN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6pm. $39.

Tuesday 20 Nov JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC BAD GIRLS DISCO & ROLLER JAM FEAT: RENEE GEYER + KYLIE AULDIST + CHELSEA WILSON + DJ JNETT Acmi, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $32.

ELISION ENSEMBLE Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm.

KIRA KIRA The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $20.

NOW. HERE. THIS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.

OSAKA MONAURAIL Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 8pm. $49.60.

PAUL WILLIAMSON'S HAMMOND COMBO Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 6pm.

UNCOMFORTABLE SCIENCE - FEAT: LACHLAN MITCHELL + MORE Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.

VISIONARY-STEEL Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.

ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/ BLUES/FOLK IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.

8pm.

LUCID DREAMING 3 - FEAT: GENEVIEVE LACEY + JESSIE LLOYD + MATT LUTTON + ZOË MORRISON Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6pm. $10.

MAKE IT UP CLUB - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS + MORE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.

NICOLA BENEDETTI / LEONARD ELSCHENBROICH / ALEXEI GRYNYUK Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7pm. $85.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Swamplands Bar, Thornbury.

6:30pm.

OSCAR MORRIS + ELLIOTT BRAIN + TAHNEE OLLERTON Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 8pm.

PIANO KARAOKE WITH LISA JAYNE Compass Pizza, Brunswick East. 7:30pm.

REVOLVER RETURNS - OPEN MIC NIGHT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7pm.

TUESDAY TRIBUTE - EVA CASSIDY FEAT: THE NARDIA ROSE BAND Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8pm.

ALEX THE ASTRONAUT Corner Hotel November 22 QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL ft Courtney Barnett, Fraser A Gorman, more November 23-25 CASH SAVAGE & THE LAST DRINKS The Croxton Bandroom November 23, 24 THE GOON SAX The Tote November 24 JAMES REYNE Palais Theatre November 24 DAVID BYRNE Margaret Court Arena November 24 ALISON WONDERLAND The Forum November 24 ONE ELECTRIC DAY ft Jimmy Barnes, The Angels, more Werribee Park November 25 REGGIE WATTS Palais Theatre November 25 HARTS Corner Hotel November 29 SABA Howler November 29 ODDISEE The Prince November 29 LET THERE BE ROCK – ORCHESTRATED Palais Theatre November 30 KIRA PURU Northcote Social Club November 30 SHIHAD 170 Russell November 30 THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS Corner Hotel November 30 BON JOVI MCG December 1 THE CHURCH Palais Theatre December 1 ÓLAFUR ARNALDS Melbourne Recital Centre December 1, 3 NECK DEEP 170 Russell December 4 YAEJI The Night Cat December 5 ELIOTT Worker’s Club December 6 RICHARD MARX Palais Theatre December 7 GOOD THINGS ft The Offspring, All Time Low, Babymetal, and more Melbourne Showgrounds December 7 THE GRATES Corner Hotel December 7 MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL ft The Breeders, The Pharcyde, Sampa The Great THE PLEASURE GARDEN ft Northeast Party House, Sampa The Great, more Catani Gardens December 8 JOHN FARNHAM w/ Daryl Braithwaite, Richard Marx, more Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley December 8 THE RUBENS The Forum December 8 THE BREEDERS Corner Hotel December 8 MINISTRY OF SOUND’S ORCHESTRATED Margaret Court Arena December 9 SHANIA TWAIN Rod Laver Arena December 11, 12 TWENTY ØNE PILØTS Rod Laver Arena December 13 PANDA BEAR Melbourne Recital Centre December 13 SLOWLY SLOWLY 170 Russell December 14 RANDY HOUSER Corner Hotel December 14 ALPHA WOLF/JUSTICE FOR THE DAMNED Stay Gold December 14 JAKUBI Howler December 14 POLISH CLUB The Gasometer December 15 BRITISH INDIA The Corner December 21 DEAD LETTER CIRCUS 170 Russell December 21 THE SCREAMING JETS Corner Hotel December 22 BEYOND THE VALLEY ft The Kooks, Tash Sultana, more Lardner Park December 28-January 1 FALLS FESTIVAL ft Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Catfish and the Bottlemen, more Lorne December 28-31 LOST PARADISE ft The Kooks, Tash Sultana, M.I.A, more Glenworth Valley December 28-January 1 NYE ON THE HILL ft Smith Street Band, The Kite String Tangle, Sampa The Great, more The Farm December 30- January 1 LET THEM EAT CAKE FESTIVAL Werribee Park January 1 DVSN 170 Russell January 2 THE VACCINES The Croxton January 3

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