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My band sounds like a bit of an eclectic mix of styles and sounds. You can definitely hear my jazz roots in my writing, however my band and I experiment pretty openly with sounds and effects at live performances. Keeping Busy Keeping busy is my natural 2. state of living these days… the same for any independent musician I guess! The past two months has all been about prep for my new album release, Paper Mache City, and the nine-date national tour we have just started. It’s been quite an adventure piecing it all together and now it’s finally here.

What Do You Look For in a Band? 1 . The type of band members I look for are: great listeners, creative and open-minded, willing to share their

ideas, positive and encouraging. I particularly love musicians who like stepping outside the box and experimenting, so that each performance feels new and different.

Just before the tour I jetted off to South Korea in August with my six-piece band to perform at the Chilpo International Jazz Festival. I also spent two weeks touring Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Cambodia in June this year with a new multimedia arts project I am involved in called The Wires Project

BLUESFEST SIDESHOWS

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That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh, we like it, uhhuh uh-huh. A slew of Bluesfest sideshows have been announced, starting with KC & The Sunshine Band – and we are shake-shakeshaking in anticipation. The Sunshine Band has been around for 40 years, and their ‘Sunshine Sound’ is still brightening up dancefloors around the world. They play the Enmore Theatre on Thursday April 17. Likewise, the long and winding Copperhead Road is bringing Steve Earle our way, with support from homegrown heroine Kasey Chambers. They’ll be at the Enmore on Wednesday April 23. Elsewhere, Aaron Neville and Dr John & The Night Trippers are locking horns for a huge headline show at the State Theatre on Thursday April 24. Meanwhile, after a sold-out Australian tour earlier this year, Allen Stone will be making a swift return – this time, the Metro Theatre on Sunday April 13. And finally, one of the world’s most respected players, Jimmie Vaughan – the older brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan – will appear at the Metro Theatre on Wednesday April 16.

THE STANDARD

As always, The Standard lives up to its rep by providing you with a great lineup of gigs. On

(thewiresproject.com). It’s been quite a year so far! Best Gig Ever The best gig I’ve ever 3. done was definitely our headline performance at the Chilpo International Jazz Festival in Pohang, South Korea. We were the only international act and played on the main stage to 5,000 people – both terrifying and exhilarating! The biggest gig I had done prior to this was to a few hundred people, so this was a really new and exciting experience for me. Apart from the amazing sound crew, and the fact that we were playing on a beachfront in the beautiful summer weather, the Korean audience was the most enthusiastic and warm crowd I have ever played to. Quite amazing actually. I’d die to go back there and perform on that stage again.

Current Playlist I’m binge listening to some great Aussie artists at the moment

Time to don your best threads and shake it like a Polaroid picture with The Perch Creek Family Jugband. The Dressin’ Up and Shakin’ Down Tour follows the release of their new single ‘Big Things Calling’. Made up of four siblings and one stray partner, the troupe strikes a perfect balance between raging and relentless, and placid and haunting. They perform a highenergy, harmony-driven sound drawing from folk, roots and gospel. Throw a banjo, washboard and a musical saw into the mix and you have yourself a killer live performance. They’ve featured on Spicks and Specks, are regulars on the Australian festival circuit, and have two successful tours of Europe and the UK under their belt. Catch them at The Vanguard on Thursday October 24 and Sunday October 27, with support from Papa Pilko & The Bin Rats and Bob Harrow.

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Where: Blue Beat, Double Bay When: Thursday October 24 And: Paper Mache City out now

Eleanor Dunlop

ELEANOR DUNLOP

Gwyneth Paltrow once said, “Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.” If you’ve heard Eleanor Dunlop’s new single ‘Disguise’, it’s quite clear she agrees. The former Cameras vocalist has kicked off her solo career with this beautifully melodic track about having fun and losing yourself in the moment. ‘Disguise’ is the first single from her self-titled debut EP, set for release in early 2014. But for now, you can catch her at Brighton Up Bar on Friday November 1 and The Newsagency on Friday November 15.

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In celebration of the end of the month – because that’s always a good enough reason to celebrate – Frankie’s Pizza is holding their Bleedin’ Gums Bluesfest. Featuring on the night will be locals Little Big Wolf, Anchors Of Tortuga and Big Blind Ray; Melbourne’s The Spitfires and Cherrywood; plus Queenslanders Barefoot Alley and Transvaal Diamond Syndicate. Afterwards, Bleedin’ Gums DJs will be rockin’ the house until breakfast time. Mark it down: Saturday October 27.

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Friday October 25, US rockers Lightning Bolt are set to take the stage by storm. With heavy bass lines, violent beats and the sound of fury, these guys will leave you deaf (in a good way). And on Saturday October 26, Hiatus Kaiyote will grace your eardrums with soul. With inspiration from Stevie Wonder, Tupac and Flying Lotus, it’s a show to see.

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– Ngaiire, Vance Joy and The Falls. I am also absolutely addicted to Gregory Porter, an American singer and composer living in New York who just has the most hypnotising, soulful voice I have ever heard. My most recent gig highlight was going to watch The Falls, a Sydney-based singersongwriter duo, at Hibernian House in Surry Hills. They write simple but beautiful and unique melodies and songs.

THE MURLOCS

The Murlocs have unveiled a tour to promote their boisterous new single, ‘Space Cadet’. Loud and abrasive, the local boys have become known for their distorted brand of R&B and frontman Ambrose Kenny-Smith’s distinct screeching vocals. Get rowdy with The Murlocs at Bondi’s Beach Road Hotel on Thursday November 14 and Goodgod Small Club on Friday November 15.

You know him as the frontman of our national treasures Grinspoon, but this November, Phil Jamieson will be embarking on a solo tour of NSW and Tasmania. Just off the back of his band’s tour of their seventh studio album Black Rabbits, Jamieson will hit the stage to deliver a stripped-back acoustic performance. In these intimate sets, he’ll be performing the hits that have kept him in the spotlight for over two decades. Jackson McLaren will be supporting Jamieson for the shows at Lizotte’s Dee Why on Thursday December 5; Lizotte’s Newcastle on Wednesday November 6; and The Brass Monkey on Friday November 8. thebrag.com

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ALEX GIBSON music, and later found out he had a studio. He is a musical genius. The Music You Make I write my songs on the acoustic guitar. 4. The music I write is varied in terms of musical styles, and is about all sorts of different topics. I guess if I was to describe it I would say it is soul/folk/pop…

Growing Up I grew up in a household that loved music 1. but [it had] no musical background. One day when I was a kid I just started singing and I didn’t stop. I loved it so much that my parents decided to put me in a choir and organise piano lessons. The biggest shift in my musical education came at our holiday shack in the Snowy Mountains. We didn’t have a television so we entertained ourselves with an old record player and a big box of old records including Thriller by Michael Jackson, Pipes Of Peace by Paul McCartney and an old French record that I can still recite to this day. These records changed my life. When I was at school I discovered The 2. Inspirations

Beatles. I used to sit in my room and listen to every one of their albums back to back for hours on end. They inspired me to write songs that could impact on people’s lives. This connection is the most important thing and I only knew this because I was so moved by the music. Within a second of listening to music my mood could alter, my life could change. Your Band I met most of my band around the 3. traps in Sydney. They come from completely different musical backgrounds but it’s their influences that have helped create a sound that I am very proud of. The producer that I worked with for my debut record This Is Life was James Englund. It happened by fluke, I saw him play at The Basement and loved his

This Is Life is my debut record and is a collection of songs chronicling my life journey so far. I recorded it live at Studios 301 in Sydney with my band, and had it mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in New York. It has 13 tracks and was a lot of fun to write and record. It is available on iTunes. At my live shows you can expect a lot of intensity, and a lot of fun. We have a laugh, but take the music very seriously and try our best to inspire people. Music, Right Here, Right Now I love the music in Sydney, especially the 5. busking scene and the mates I have met while I’ve been busking like Mark Wilkinson, Patrick James and Taj Ralph – there is so much talent out there. The obstacles of the industry are just creating more spaces that respect original music, like The Brass Monkey in Cronulla or Lizotte’s. With: Hannah & Josh, Them Dreamers Where: Factory Floor, the Factory Theatre When: Thursday October 24 And: This Is Life out now

MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA

The more the merrier, right? Considering the success of the up-to-30-piece Melbourne Ska Orchestra, it must be true. Led by former John Butler Trio drummer and percussionist Nicky Bomba, MSO has taken Australia by storm with their flavour of contemporary ska. Now, off the back of a decade of sold-out shows, MSO have come together to produce a self-titled debut album, showcasing the versatility of the genre with influences from acts as diverse as Bob Marley and Gwen Stefani. We’re right behind them: the BRAG presents Melbourne Ska Orchestra at the Factory Theatre on Saturday November 9, with support sets from Foreigndub Sound System and DJ Kilmarnock Steve. For your chance to win one of two double passes, email freestuff@thebrag.com and answer this question: If you had an orchestra to soundtrack your life, what song would it play?

FBI SOCIAL

If you need some fun to fill your week, FBi Social has definitely got you covered. Kicking it off is FBi’s Lunchbreak at 1pm on Wednesday October 23 featuring psych rockers Zeahorse. On Thursday October 24, catch electro-pop acts Kaibe/Suiix, Camden, Lanterns and Pilbu. Then get set for a pumping Friday night when Sleepwalkers Club present psych and garage rockers Black Springs accompanied by Sleepwalkers DJs, The Electric Vogues and Hank Haint on Friday October 25. And finish off your weekly rampage with electronic duo Audego, supported by Friendships, Nakagin and East To West DJs on Saturday October 26.

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SEABELLIES

Seabellies’ sophomore album Fever Belle is out now via Permanent/Shock Records, and boy – was it worth the wait! This “monster of an album to create” has been a global expedition with many new influences, being written in Melbourne and Berlin, and recorded in Sydney and Berlin. Following the release of the critically acclaimed debut LP By Limbo Lake in 2010, Fever Belle is an ambitiously melodic and textured work. The Newcastle five-piece will be embarking on their largest national tour to date in celebration of the new release and forthcoming single ‘Berlin Horses’. You can catch the quintet at Goodgod Small Club on Saturday December 14.

SUPERCHUNK

Visionary US indie rockers Superchunk have announced a one-off Sydney headlining show at the Annandale Hotel. Across a 20-somethingyear career, Mac McCaughan and co. have produced a consistently adventurous output, right up to most recent release I Hate Music. (Don’t hold it against them.) Having already announced November shows alongside Neutral Milk Hotel and M. Ward, Superchunk’s one-off Sydney date will be their only headline billing on the Australian tour. Catch them on Wednesday November 13.

IN THEIR SHOES

They say you don’t truly understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes… ain’t nobody got time for that. But this month, you do have the opportunity to understand your favourite musicians a little better with the In Their Shoes initiative. Put together by Warner Music Australia, this mammoth creative project has seen musicians from across the globe get creative with their own sneaker designs. Armed with a pair of white Converse and Sharpie fabric markers, the likes of Macklemore, Kimbra, Grouplove, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Black Keys (pictured) have added their own personal touch to these sneakers – and a pair could be yours! These two-ofa-kind sneakers (two in a pair, yeah? OK…) will be auctioned off on eBay from Thursday October 24, with all proceeds going to the National Breast Cancer Foundation or a charity of the artist’s choice. You can view all 70 sneaker designs at The Standard from midday to 7pm on Sunday October 27. It’ll probably be the closest you get to your favourite artists’ doodles.

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WOODFORD FOLK FESTIVAL

The Woodford Folk Festival is back for its 28th year, with a stellar program to match. The “festival of festivals” will feature over 500 acts in 28 venues across six days and nights. Among a number of notable national and international musicians, Beth Orton, The Basics, Clare Bowditch, Julian Marley, Blue King Brown, Matt Corby and Tim Finn will be gracing the stage. Between sets you can head to the Talks Programme and hear former Prime Minister Bob Hawke chat current affairs. Or for the environmentally minded, the GREENhouse venue will be a hive of activity to expand your knowledge with workshops from academics, farmers and innovators. It all goes down from Friday December 27 to Wednesday January 1.

CARUS THOMPSON BY REQUEST

“Do you take requests?” may be the most hated phrase in the DJ world, but Carus Thompson is receiving it with open arms. Over two sets the folk rock singer-songwriter will only play songs chosen by the crowd, following their selections upon entry. The concept began in 2011 and was a huge hit for audience involvement, so Thompson is back in the game. He’ll be playing his only NSW request show at The Brass Monkey on Sunday October 27.

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LYNYRD SKYNYRD

Sweet Home Alabama! Lynyard Skynyrd have announced their first-ever tour of Australia. The Southern rock legends are playing two exclusive shows Down Under in February 2014, with a lineup including core members Gary Rossington, Johnny Van Zant and Rickey Medlocke. They play the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Thursday February 13. Grab a ticket at livenation.com.au – but don’t dare go to the show just to ask for ‘Free Bird’.

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THINGS WE HEAR * Lars Ulrich admitted that two years ago, Metallica, U2 and Green Day planned to tour together after they met up and got drunk in San Francisco. * Noel Gallagher ticked off BBC Radio 1 for not playing younger acts, citing Sydney electro duo Jagwar Ma. * Rising rapper Future got booted off Drakeâ€™s US tour after Future mouthed off in an interview that his music was better than everyone elseâ€™s. * Deadmau5 lashed out at Justin Bieber on Twitter

as a â€œspoiled bitchâ€? after an incident in Singapore when Bieber arrived at a club where British DJ Michael Woods was spinning. Bieber asked him to play more rap, at which Woods told him to â€œfuck off and put more clothes onâ€?. Biebs said something snotty to Woodsâ€™ tour manager and then disappeared behind his security. Woods complained about the incident on Twitter. * MTV Australia is moving most of its broadcasting operations to London, as the global channel centralises most roles in the UK. These include programming, production, creative,

FLUME LEADS BETTING FOR ARIAS After demolishing the indie awards this month, itâ€™s a cert Flume will do a similar crunch at the ARIAs at The Star on Sunday December 1. He had eight nominations including Album of the Year, Breakthrough Artist â€“ Release, Best Male Artist, Best Dance Release and Best Australian Live Act, with â€˜Holdin Onâ€™ in the running for Song of the Year. Sportsbet has him at $1.40 to win Best Male, $1.44 for Breakthrough (down from $1.65 when first announced) and $1.50 to win the Album category. Matt Corby is his nearest competition. Tame Impala had seven nominations, Birds Of Tokyo and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds six each, and Guy Sebastian five. The nominations event at the Art Gallery of NSW also saw the announcement of the Fine Arts and Artisan Awards. The winners were Sally Whitwellâ€™s All Imperfect Things: Solo Piano Music Of Michael Nyman (classical), The Idea Of Northâ€™s Smile (jazz), Paul Kelly, James Ledger, Genevieve Lacey and ANAM Musiciansâ€™ Conversations With Ghosts (soundtrack) and Joseph Tawadrosâ€™ Chameleons Of The White Shadow (world

production management, research, operations and acquisitions. 15 people will lose their jobs in Sydney. The sales, marketing and talent/ artist management divisions remain in Australia. * South Australiaâ€™s The Beards had to cancel their US tour after immigration refused to give them performance visas. In the meantime, Brisbaneâ€™s Dead Letter Circus had to axe some of the early shows of their American visit due to the US Governmentâ€™s budget lockdown, during which many government offices closed. DLCâ€™s passports remained in the US Embassy unprocessed.

music). Tawadros said to the crowd, â€œIt is the first time a couple of Arabs have addressed a room full of people without it being a hostage situation.â€? Of the Artisans, Flume took Producer of the Year, Virginia Read won Engineer (for Whitwellâ€™s All Imperfect Things), and Aaron Hayward and David Homer from Debaser were recognised for the cover art on Empire Of The Sunâ€™s Ice On The Dune.

SIX AUSSIES PICKED FOR SXSW Six Australian acts were among the first 150 names picked to showcase at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas next March. They were Sydneyâ€™s The Swiss, London-based Sydney singer-songwriter Josef Salvat, Melbourneâ€™s Vance Joy, Money For Rope and People Of Letters, and Perthâ€™s The Chevelles. Almost 8,000 acts applied from 55 countries.

NINTH COOPERS AMP REVEALS JUDGES With entries for the Coopers AMP closing on Friday November 1, organisers have unveiled the judging panel. Chaired by Dave Faulkner of the Hoodoo Gurus, they are: Renee Geyer,

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Backstage riders can be ridiculous of course: boa constrictors, chauffeurs wearing 100% cotton (Kanye West in Australia), a framed picture of Princess Di (Britney Spears) a masseuse (Eminem), rose petals in the loo (Babs Streisand) or a lifesized cutout of himself (David Hasselhoff). So it was refreshing to read a leaked rider at Beyonceâ€™s recent video shoot. Her dressing room had to be furnished all in white, enough for eight people, babyproofed and set to 72 degrees Fahrenheit to create a â€œsitting roomâ€? atmosphere.

AMPLIFY GRANTS FOR ARTISTS WITH DISABILITY The Amplify Your Art grants program for NSW artists and musicians with a disability offers between $5,000 and $10,000 towards developing an artistâ€™s practice. This can include training, mentoring, travel and skills development. Applications close Wednesday December 18, head to aarts.net.au/amplify.

Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club (USA) Sat 16 Nov: All Ages

Hits & Pits 2.0 feat Black Flag (USA )

Kylesa (USA)

Looptroop Rockers (SWE) & Sage Francis (USA)

Rotting Christ (GRE)

Kerser

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HOW DIVA IS BEYONCE?

MĂşsica Copa is a new five-a-side football tournament where dance musicâ€™s Stereosonic, Modular, Future Classic, Ministry of Sound and Sweat It Out kick off against Channel [V], FBi Radio, inthemix and Mushroom Group. Itâ€™s on Thursday December 5 at Marrickvilleâ€™s industrial KIKOFF complex as part of ARIA Week and the Electronic Music Conference (EMC). Already confirmed are Van She, Canyons, What So Not, RĂźFĂźS, Movement, Dan Single, Yolanda Be Cool and Danny Clayton (captaining the Channel [V] team). Tyrone from RĂźFĂźS wailed, â€œLast time I played indoor soccer was when I was 12 in Sweden â€Ś now Iâ€™m twice the age â€Ś with half the skill. So probably triple the entertainment.â€? The cash prize will go to the winning teamâ€™s chosen charity.

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David Bowie was named best dressed Brit in history in a poll in BBC History Magazine. The Thin White Duke beat other aristocrats as Queen Elizabeth I, Henry II, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, infamous dandy Beau Brummell who took six hours to get ready, and 17th Century diarist Samuel Pepys. Fashion designer Wayne Hemingway explained of Bowie: â€œHere was a creative genius who understood art and design, looked cool, inspired us and upset the establishment. All these attributes lead to things that drive humankind forwardâ€Ś change.â€? 4,067 people voted.

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Waka Flocka Flame (USA)

Crystal Fighters (UK) Thu 9 Jan

Fri 20 Dec

Sat 8 Feb: All Ages

Dark Tranquillity (SWE) Sat 29 Mar

Due â€œsignificantlyâ€? to Adele, British indie XL Recordings had a turnover of ÂŁ78.6 million (A$131.82 million) and a pre-tax profit of ÂŁ25.4 million (A$42.59 million) in 2012. The year started off 30% down from 2011 until Adeleâ€™s 21 went to #1 in over 30 countries.

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NIRVANA, KISS, CHIC NOMINATED FOR R&R HALL OF FAME

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Among those in the second announcement for Decemberâ€™s Electronic Music Conference are global DJ superstar Armin van Buuren, Skrillexâ€™s manager Tim Smith, Clark Warner of Beatport, Future Classic founder Nathan McLay, Q-Dance Australiaâ€™s Simon Coffey, Moshtix CEO Harley Evans, Will Sparks, theAudienceâ€™s Oliver Luckett and Vicious Vinylâ€™s John Course.

Mushroom Group executive director Matt Gudinski has launched online music and mobile app Purifier (purifier.com). It identifies news, videos and social media updates from thousands of websites, blogs and social networks and delivers it to a userâ€™s personalised feed. Now with a freeto-download iPhone app, iPad and Android versions are on the way.

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Urthboy, Chris Johnston (The Age), Mikey Cahill (Herald Sun), Bernard Zuel (Sydney Morning Herald) and retailers Mike Glynn (JB Hi Fi), Christopher Powell (Blackwood Sounds, Adelaide), Shannon Logan (Jet Black Cat Music, Brisbane), Chris Berkley (Red Eye Records, Sydney) and Nate Nott (Polyester Records, Melbourne). Response from social media: â€˜Ummm, just two women?â€™

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* Melbourne nightclub Brown Alley was fined $15,000 for sending marketing text messages to patrons with no opt-out information. * In between battling Jamaican performer Ernest Ranklin over his no-show at Bluesfest 2014, promoter Peter Noble had another hot potato on his hands. Heâ€™s forbidden patrons from taking folding chairs into the Mojo and Crossroads marquees. Some ticket holders say they have a right to see acts in comfort. Others grizzle the chairs take up too much space. Some of Bluesfestâ€™s older patrons have threatened not to return as a result.

SURVEY: 2SER INCREASES LISTENERS 2SER 107.3 FM increased its audience over the past year, according to the latest McNair Ingenuity survey results. Weekly listening has doubled from 66,000 people last year to 132,000 this year (or 4% of all Sydneysiders aged 15 and over) and monthly listening from 5% of the Sydney audience to 12% (or 461,000 people). Program Director Anthony Dockrill attributed it to their revamped 2013 program grid.

Nirvana, KISS and Chic are among the acts nominated for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Itâ€™s a first nomination for Nirvana, Yes, Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Link Wray, The Zombies and The Replacements.

Lifelines Split: The bitter parting between Jai Brookes of Melbourneâ€™s Janoskians and US singer Ariana Grande hit Twitter. He called her a cheat for dumping him to be withÂ Nathan Sykes of The Wanted. She blasted that heâ€™d threatened to make her look bad on social media: â€œIâ€™m no longer afraid of you or your lies.â€? Hospitalised: Original Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward was operated on in California for a perforated diverticulitis and will make a full recovery. Arrested: A raunchy tweet by Rihanna about a sex show she saw in Phuket during her Thai tour saw the manager of the bar she named nicked, as he had no licence to feature naked dancers and faces a year in the clink. Earlier her posting a pic of herself with a slow loris (a squirrel-like animal with big eyes) on Instagram led local police to arrest a 20-year-old man and a 16-yearold boy for possession of protected animals. They face up to four years in prison. In Court: Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy was sentenced to three yearsâ€™ probation for a hit and run incident in Glendale, California, and for possessing crystal meth. He crashed into another car on a LA freeway and fled. Suing: Alex Van Halen of Van Halen divorced his wife, Kelly, 20 years ago. But she kept the name, and launched two companies using it. The bandâ€™s business people are taking action, claiming fans would be confused. Kelly deals with childrenâ€™s blankets, furniture, construction services and interior design so itâ€™s not easy to see where the confusion lies. Died: Rod Craig, Sydney-based co-founder of professional audiovisual and digital company Audio Telex Communications, after a four-year battle with brain cancer. Died: Maxine Powell, Motownâ€™s â€œcharm coachâ€?, 98. She taught the labelâ€™s signings â€“ including The Supremes, The Jackson 5 and Smokey Robinson â€“ charm, grace, style and manners.

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t’s easy to get steamrolled by the Bluejuice train of debauched humour and bodyslamming funk – theirs is a party-starting kinda music. They’ve never appeared to take themselves too seriously, either through their uninhibited performances or no-holds-barred media presence – but all the while we have been hypnotised by their master plan. They’ve managed to sneak skilfully crafted, funk-infused pop gems onto the iPods of the otherwise unaware while simultaneously appeasing music lovers seeking out a rock steady beat. In short, these boys are good: don’t let their self-deprecating tweets or in-yourface nipple hair fool you. Their latest single, ‘S.O.S’, has been released to an audience eager to hear how Bluejuice will find their feet after the departure of keyboardist Jerry Craib. Recorded in the UK, the song was helped along in the studio by an impressive roster – Blue May and Alex Burnett tackled production duties while session players Sam Best and Ade Omotayo, formerly of Amy Winehouse’s band, joined seminal vocalist Vula Malinga of Basement Jaxx ‘Oh My Gosh’ fame.

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toes tapping, and Stone explains that while they have enjoyed warmth from the industry, they’ve worked damn hard to get it. “There’s an affection for the band which I’m really grateful for,” he says. “We’ve worked to market the band in that way; we really felt like we had to do everything we could. I was writing for the BRAG for a long time, I was bartending at the Hopetoun and the Annandale and most of my friends were in bands – but we were never the cool band. We needed something to push us out there. The performative style of the band was different to what was going on at the time so that helped, and our ability to do media really helped too.” Is Bluejuice’s musical skill ever washed out by the general onstage theatrics? “I think the real player would know there’s some good playing in there, bro. If [people are] distracted by that then I hope they’re distracted in a good way and enjoying the show, and I hope other people can just chill and listen to the rhythm section – I think all of that comes across. We’re such a dance-orientated band that I think if you’re coming to see us and we haven’t made an impression, then we’re not doing our jobs right – and we’ve spent a long time trying to do

our jobs right. Rationally and risk-assessment wise I think we’re doing OK.” A risk the band wasn’t in a position to assess was the departure of keyboard player Craib. “It was scary because he is so talented and he was such a big part of what the band do. But we knew there was a way to overcome it. Bands have replaced people before, you know; it’s happened.” If AC/DC could go on then anybody can. “Definitely,” Stone agrees. “When you think about that, if you have to replace a vocalist, that’s a big ask. Luckily AC/DC were primarily a rhythm section and even though Bon Scott was almost definitely one of the greatest rock’n’roll frontmen in history, Brian Johnson came in and does a great job. We’ve got a lot of songs there and I knew we could get past it and make them work. Our front of house engineer strangely enough said, ‘I’ll give it a go,’ and we were like, ‘But you’re our front of house guy,’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, but I can play keys’ – and suddenly he was playing our whole set and we were like, ‘Whoahhh’. He’s been the biggest surprise because he wasn’t even playing with us before and now he’s

With Craib having left the group many months ago and the single only just being released, I ask Stone whether it feels like when you’ve just gotten over a break-up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and then you run into someone and have to tell the story all over again. “Strangely, there are people coming [to shows] who’ve been coming for a long time, who’ll be like, ‘Where’s Jerry?’ but they already know he’s left because I’m sure they’ve already been on the Facebook page and got Jamie’s [Cibej, bass] very funny letter,” Stone chuckles. “The relationship analogy is a good one – because it is like that, which is a shame because I don’t get to see Jerry that much anymore. But he’s doing the law school thing and working at APRA and has a lot of stuff going on, which is a good thing.” Alongside ex-sound guy Alex Gooden, session muso Cameron Bruce is also replacing Craib for live shows. “I understand that people want to know whether we’re still the same band. We won’t be the same band; Jerry was a completely different player to the other two guys although Cameron is probably closer to Jerry; he’s not as interested in funk. Alex is great and they’re both, well – Cameron can do the set and make it sound like Jerry, and [Alex] does a different thing … At the moment, we kind of have two touring bands – one with Ivan [Jordan] and Cameron … and [in the other band] we have Alex and James [Hauptmann], our original drummer. There’s a degree of everyone having a go here and it seems to be really working. I know which one I’m most comfortable with and I’m not going to say. At the same time there’s a workable format with both setups. If you know the band, you’ll know some patches are different and some parts are being played differently but it’s essentially the same.” What: Fat As Butter featuring Bluejuice, The Rubens, Cosmo Jarvis, Bliss N Eso, Boy & Bear, Owl Eyes, The Holidays, Matt Corby and more Where: The Foreshore, Newcastle When: Saturday October 26 And: Bluejuice headline the Metro Theatre on Friday November 8

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Despite the daunting talent surrounding Jake Stone in that east London studio, he felt at ease steering the song towards its final sound. “They’re all a tight-knit group of musicians and while they’re busy, they’re not necessarily working for any more money than what people would be working for here, and were quite easy to get in to do this,” Stone says. But were there any feelings of intimidation? “Yes, absolutely; there is some of that. We already had a demo of the song done and they basically played to that. They always ask if that’s what you want, but it’s more that they’re like a steam train and you can’t change direction too much once they get going. Luckily, what they were doing was generally what I wanted. They’re fairly confident in their abilities, so once they get an idea that they like they’re gonna drive that idea, and you’d have to be very musically onto it to even keep up with the musical process of the band. I had so much trust in the band and was confident in what they were going to do.”

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nailing our set. So yeah, I feel good about everything.”

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Veronica Falls Step By Step By Krissi Weiss ondon indie rock and quasipop band Veronica Falls released their self-titled debut album to a mumble of enthusiasm and a muttering of favourable reviews. Their follow-up album, Waiting For Something To Happen, released this year, saw the mutters and mumbles grow louder. The four-piece is doing things the right way – slowly building a fan base, touring relentlessly to both increase their presence and improve their abilities, and clocking up their hours as a full-time band. In the days of the rotating 15 minutes of fame, Veronica Falls are playing their instruments and the game well.

actually does feel like we’ve been doing it for quite a long time now. I think we’re settling into it and getting better at what we do, and I also think it kinda feels like we’re just a lot more comfortable with it. There hasn’t been a whole heap of new challenges recently, like there were a while ago. You have to keep pushing yourself to keep it interesting, so we have to do that more ourselves. I think things can’t really help but change; you kind of have peaks and troughs really. You drive each other crazy when you’re around each other too much, and yet then when you have a break you can’t wait to get out and tour again.”

Venturing to our shores with their newest album in tow, vocalist Roxanne Clifford is enjoying an endless summer of sorts – once they’ve left Russia, at least. “That’s a nice way to look at it, kind of turning back to clock on it again. This album really does have a summery vibe to it,” she says. “Russia is the furthest we’ve ever been away. Everywhere else is really quite similar to the UK really. Europe doesn’t feel that far from home.”

The spotlight is slowly getting brighter for Veronica Falls but with that comes a greater level of criticism and categorising. “I think that in the beginning it was all strange, but we were never really the sort of band that Googled ourselves or anything,” Clifford says. “You do have to try and work out what people think of you in the beginning, though, and often you don’t really know what sort of band you are straight away so it’s a journey. I try to not read anything, I just can’t do it. With the last record, though the reviews were quite good but still – it seems strange to go and seek out those things.”

But the journey they’ve been on since forming in 2009 has taken them across a different kind of distance, and Clifford has been reflecting on the changes the band has undergone in that time. “I was just thinking about this and for us it

The greatest challenges have also turned out to be the precipice for some of the band’s most

enduring experiences and it is these experiences that have propelled them ever forward. “In the beginning, when we were bringing out lots of 7-inches, things were a little easier, but as we started to branch out it can be so much harder trying to win over audiences when they’ve never heard of you or heard anything you do. That was our biggest

challenge so far, but it seemed that after our first record came out things got slowly easier. Seeing people actually knowing the words to our music was a real shock and I think that was when we started to realise that people actually like our music. That also came when we toured America and we saw people on the other side of the world who knew our music; that

was so rewarding. It’s all tiny steps but they keep moving forward and so do we.” What: Goodgod Small Club When: Wednesday October 30 And: Waiting For Something To Happen out now through Slumberland

The Offspring Empty Nest By Krissi Weiss

he Offspring have never pretended to be anything more or less than what they are – and they’ve had fun along the way. For those of you just joining us, here’s a quick recap: they’re rocking nine studio albums and one seemingly pre-emptive ‘greatest hits’ album. They’ve had modest success with some awesome tracks (‘Self Esteem’, ‘Come Out And Play’) and massive chart success with some shaky tracks (need we mention ‘Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)’?). They’re a partystarting punk rock band dripping with ’90s shout outs and they do it well – without perfect hair. Whispers of the band returning to the studio have been around for months and months, but The Offspring are still busy taking their latest album, Days Go By, around the world. With a massive back catalogue that is heavily weighted with singles, riff-man Noodles (Kevin John Wasserman) admits the setlist is becoming a mammoth task. “We’ve been playing stuff as far back as Smash and moving forward to Days Gone By,” Wasserman says of the recent tours. “It’s not so much audience expectation, but we know there are certain deep cuts, you know – ones that never got played on the radio, that certain fans in certain countries have come to expect to hear. It’s more frustrating in what we don’t get to play. I’ve been putting our entire playlist on shuffle and certain songs come on and I think, ‘Why don’t we ever play that song?’” Nonetheless, Noodles says there’ll be a few surprises on the band’s upcoming tour. “We still will bust out a song, they’ll go off and we’ll be surprised at an audience’s reaction. We just played South America – that’s where you get some of the craziest audiences in the world, they’re passionate and loud and moving. How we feel about the song, though, that doesn’t change; how we feel about it now is how we felt about it when we wrote it. I probably feel differently about some songs than what Dexter [Holland] does or 14 :: BRAG :: 535 :: 21:10:13

what Greg [Kriesel] does, though, you know? But when we give it to the world, we don’t have any control over how the audience relates to it and we don’t try to. Well, unless they greatly misinterpret the lyrics.” The most notorious example for The Offspring would have to be their breakthrough single. “Yeah, like with ‘Come Out And Play’ people thought the ‘You gotta keep ’em separated’ line was about separating races and we were like, ‘Whoah no, no no. That is wrong!’” While it may seem laughable that The Offspring’s lyrics were misinterpreted as some white power bullshit now, racial tensions were at an all-time high in their backyard of southern California around the time Smash was released. The fires of the Rodney King riots were still smouldering and SoCal was

on edge. Around that time The Offspring were pushing forward with their music, trying to fit into to the hardcore scene but existing on the fringe with the like of Sublime and Bad Religion. Noodles is transported back to that time and place when I suggest the release of ‘Pretty Fly’ was a tenacious, hilarious but potentially disastrous move. “Ha, yeah,” he begins with a laugh. “I think having played for years as a band in a hardcore punk rock scene where we really didn’t fit, trying to do songs that were melodic when that just wasn’t the scene we figured we never fitted [into] in the first place – why ever bother, you know?” Fast forward to 2013 and they’re still here, still making music and still trying to get just a little bit better at what they do. “When we’re working on songs we’ll notice if we’re repeating patterns. I might say to

Dexter, ‘Hey, that’s like a song we did on Ignition’, but if we love it we keep going. We do try new styles, we try to take what’s good about The Offspring and mix it with other styles of music that we really enjoy, and use that to occasionally try and break those habits. But we just love playing music, we really do; we travel the world and play music for crazy fans for a living. “I think when we start to overintellectualise it then that’s when you have to step away and listen to it with fresh ears. Sometimes you write something and in two days it’s done, but with other things you labour over things and change it and change it and something can get lost when things all start to sound the same.” With drummer Pete Parada having joined the band many years ago, Days Go By is the first full studio album he’s played on. Nothing

much changed for the band in the studio – prolific producer Bob Rock returned a second time as well – but the energy and happiness of the band has increased. They’re doing what they have done and will always do. “Pete’s awesome,” he says. “He lives just outside of Nashville so it’s hard to get him out sometimes but he’s super easy to work with and he’s a great guy. He’s helped us move our game up in a lot of different ways … We’re not prolific writers, we’re really not, we don’t labour over this stuff for a long time, we just kinda get in there and do it.” What: Vans Warped Tour With: Parkway Drive, Simple Plan, The Used, New Found Glory, We Came As Romans and more Where: Barangaroo, Sydney When: Sunday December 1 thebrag.com

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“By the time we’d finished Ghosts Of The Past, it was almost too easy to make an Eskimo Joe record. We could churn it out. And we didn’t wanna do that again.” rewarding part of going independent. Since parting ways with their major label Warner, Eskimo Joe have consciously kept it all about the music and the fans. The most obvious example of this is the highly successful, and highly publicised crowdfunding campaign that made the new record possible. “I hope more bands do it. It’s very positive. Taking the power back. We had ‘experiences’ as part of [the pledge]. They’ve been great; having people over at our studios, us playing live for eight to ten people, playing the new songs to them face to face. They were great nights.”

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acts, with the triple-platinum albums to back it up. But despite their history, you can hear the enjoyment on this new album more than ever.

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fter 16 years, eight ARIAs, six albums, two new members and countless shows around the world, Eskimo Joe are still having fun. And you can hear it on the new album, Wastelands, which takes the Eskies into an unfamiliar territory – electronica. But this isn’t a cash in, this is the sound of three guys – who have been doing one thing for a long time – playing around with some new gear, new beats per minute, and a newfound energy. “We just got to the point where we’d pushed a certain sound as far as we could push it,” explains guitarist, backup singer, studio drummer and all-round good dude Joel Quartermain. “By the time we’d finished Ghosts Of The Past, it was almost too easy to make an Eskimo Joe record. We could churn it out. And we didn’t wanna do that again.” That “certain sound” can best be described as the dark stadium pop of the three-album cycle beginning with Black Fingernails, Red Wine and ending with the aforementioned Ghosts.

But if you can remember back to 2006, the phrase ‘brand new sound’ was being used to describe Black Fingernails, and previously on 2004’s A Song Is A City – and even before that their debut album was being contrasted to earlier pop-punk singles. The Eskies, it seems, are a band as well known for their chameleon-like changes as for their hits. “Yeah, we’ve changed direction a few times,” Quartermain laughs. “In our very early days we were producing music that felt like a comedy act or something.” At this point, it’s difficult not to break out into a verse of their 1998 debut effort, ‘Sweater’. That one was a tongue-in-cheek bubblegum punk mockery of hipsterism that still holds relevance with the consciously cool Gen Y. Quartermain continues, “Eventually we sat down and said, ‘Alright, if we’re going to make albums now, we might wanna play music that we actually enjoy’.” And there has been much for the band to enjoy. They’ve gone from the smirking punks on ABC’s Recovery in the late ’90s to one of the country’s most solid live

And it’s taken a lot of work to have this much fun. With this their first independent record, Joel cautiously discusses the “machine” that drives any major label recordings: “You feel like if you don’t get it right, innocent people might lose their jobs.” And how does it feel to be out on their own? “I think a pressure valve was released,” he says. “We felt that we could do whatever we want, have a laugh, and make a record that sounds like the albums we love. You know, LCD Soundsystem, Frank Ocean… Music that grooves.” Did you ever think the ‘Black Fingernails’ guys would reference dance-punk DJs or polysexual R&B crooners? But a few tracks into the Burke Reid-produced record, you’ll be surprised you never saw it coming. They slip into mirror ball disco surprisingly smoothly, and if their run of shows in WA is anything to go by, audiences are getting into it just as easily. “We weren’t sure how crowds would react to the new songs, but then the girls started busting out the dance moves. It was very cool,” Quartermain says. It’s this close relationship with the fan base that Quartermain says has been the most

Crowdfunding isn’t a new method of making art possible, but it’s still a rarity for groups of Eskimo Joe’s stature to utilise it. Quartermain insists the decision was borne out of a desire to engage with the “actual people buying the record”, but he can see that with more artists such as Kate MillerHeidke and Amanda Palmer having success, this direction is where the industry might be headed. “You can already see it happening. My hope is that the profi le our story got will allow other bands to see that as an option, and that it makes it possible for them to make a record”. So, a lot has changed for the three-piece from Fremantle. At 16 years into their relationship, they’ve worked their way through the pubs, they’ve topped charts, and have now found themselves as role models to indie bands across the country. How has the Eskimo Joe mission changed? “I think it changed in the mid-2000s when everything got more serious – planning world domination, hatching evil plans,” Quartermain laughs. “And now I think it’s back to where we started, trying to make music that we enjoy, and playing heaps of shows and having a laugh. I think we’ve come full circle”. What: Wastelands out now through Dirt Diamonds/Intertia Where: Metro Theatre When: Friday October 25

Brendan Canning This Is The Place By Augustus Welby

rendan Canning spent the first decade of this century co-leading (with vocalist Kevin Drew) Toronto’s gargantuan pop-rock collective Broken Social Scene. The group is presently on an indefinite hiatus but the 20-odd associated members (including Leslie Feist, Metric’s Emily Haines and The Dears’ Murray Lightburn, to name a few) continue to exercise their skills with a number of other projects. Canning has just released his second solo album, You Gots 2 Chill, and it’s no surprise to hear that he called on some friends to help him record it. “I recorded the bulk of it with a guy I went to high school with actually, Steve Singh. He’s got lots of guitar and keyboard credits on the record,” says Canning. Toronto evidently houses a widely interactive musical community and Canning runs through some other locals who make an appearance on the album. “I also did a couple of songs with Ohad Benchetrit, who’s from Do Make Say Think, and he’s done lots of stuff with Broken Social Scene in the past. I don’t know if an album by a group called Snowblink made it to Oz but she [Daniela Gesundheit] takes the lead vocal on a tune called ‘Bullied Days’.” Though You Gots 2 Chill features these guest performers, it’s primarily a stripped-back affair. As the title presages, the album is very relaxed and subdued, and Canning says he consciously set out to make an acoustic-oriented album. “Every tune starts out with acoustic guitar, so I think that alone is enough to give the album a theme, because my acoustic guitar playing is definitely a certain style. It’s always going to be slightly uplifting, slightly melancholic and sort of introspective, for lack of a better word. I’ve been playing a lot of acoustic guitar for a lot of years but I never really explored that avenue trying to make a record. It was always little bits of acoustic guitar here and there.” Crafting a solo record obviously differs vastly from

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Canning’s past work alongside a lengthy list of band members. He says being the project’s sole director enabled him to hone in on what chiefly characterises his artistic practice. “I think it’s good just to try to figure out where you’re at as an artist and what your strengths are and what your weaknesses are.” Even though he has been involved with music for more than 20 years, Canning reveals that making this album brought some ingrained facets of his creative method into focus. “I guess maybe a strength and a weakness is I’m very, very methodical. I like to take a long time in processing ideas. I think it may be a lesson in just deciding on something, committing to something quickly. I think that’s maybe the best lesson to be learned.” Despite this realisation, he indicates that the best route to securing a durable idea isn’t calculable. “There’s certain pieces that take a long time to come together and when they finally do, you go, ‘Yeah, glad I took the time with this one.’ It’s a slippery slope.” Ultimately, the album is a demonstration of Canning’s confi dent personality and – in a further assertion of his solo identity – You Gots 2 Chill is out on his own label, Draper Street Records. The label takes its name from the downtown Toronto street where Canning lives, and he voices unashamed pride for his hometown and the community of musicians that continues to prosper there. “I was sitting down for breakfast with someone today and we just said, ‘Come on, let’s face it; where else are you going to live in Canada?’ This is the place.” What: You Gots 2 Chill out now through Draper Street Records/Stop Start

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New Found Glory Glorious Momentum By David James Young t simply wasn’t supposed to be like this. Following the release of their seventh studio album Radiosurgery in September 2011, and the ten-year anniversary tour of the Sticks And Stones album last year, the evergreen pop-punks New Found Glory were supposed to be taking it easy this year, eventually coming back to work on album number eight sometime in 2014. No sooner had they announced the break, however, were they back at it – touring internationally, preparing the release of their first-ever live album and, yes, recording brand new songs. It seems reasonable enough, then, to ask straight up: Why the sudden change?

In March, coinciding with work commencing on a new LP, the band booked two nights at Chain Reaction, an all-ages venue in Anaheim in California’s Orange County, to record Kill It Live. “It’s a really cool, really intimate venue that we’ve played numerous times over our career,” Klein says of the 250-capacity room. “We just know that every time that we play a show there, it’s going to be a lot of fun. It was the perfect environment to record a live album. We took a picture of everybody that came to the shows, so the whole layout of the booklet is a collage of those people along with photos of us and the show itself – it looks really cool.”

“Taking a break for us is kind of like not really planning anything,” says Steve Klein, the band’s rhythm guitarist. “We just wanted to go away for a while, do our own personal things, wait a little while longer between releasing records. Then we got the offer to co-headline a tour with Alkaline Trio, and we had wanted to put out a live record for a really long time. All these things started coming up again. We’re never really on a break, I guess. We’re always working.”

Kill It Live includes tracks from all of the band’s albums in a career-spanning setlist, as well as adding on three brand new studio tracks at the end to tide fans over between albums. It all comes at the exact right time for the band, working as a substantial stopover release. “People have been asking about us releasing a live record for so long now, and we’re kind of in transition between labels right now,” explains Klein. “Chad [Gilbert, guitar] has an imprint on Bridge Nine, so it was a cool opportunity to not only get something out on Bridge Nine but to also do something that we haven’t done before.” The live recordings themselves turned out pristine in quality – it’s essentially as close as one can get to a New Found Glory show without actually buying a ticket. The first night of recording, however, didn’t quite go as planned – early on in the set, Gilbert copped an electric shock from a poorly wired microphone, knocking him out cold and temporarily cutting the show. Klein says it was one of the flat-out scariest moments the band has ever collectively experienced, onstage or off.

“We had wanted to put out a live record for a really long time ... We’re never really on a break, I guess. We’re always working.” “It was maybe in the third or fourth song on the first night,” he says. “He passed out onstage and had to get carried off in an ambulance. We had to do the rest of the show without him as a four-piece. That was kind of shitty, as we were all really worried about our brother. We made a point of finishing the show, though, because those people that came wanted to hear music – we didn’t want them to get even more upset or go home disappointed. Thankfully, Chad ended up being completely fine and we were able to get it together for the next show.” If Kill It Live isn’t enough to quench your thirst for all things New Found Glory, then you’re in luck – the band will be back in Australia this December as a part of the recently revived Vans Warped Tour. NFG will be taking to the stage across the country alongside international names like The Offspring, The Used, Simple Plan and Hatebreed, as well as a local contingent including Parkway Drive and Tonight Alive. Last here in April 2012 alongside fellow stalwarts Taking Back Sunday, NFG have been visiting for over a decade – and there’s a reason the band always makes the effort to come and perform here. “The environment and the people there are just so nice,” gushes Klein. “We have so many friends down there. We did the last Warped Tour that happened in Australia back in 2001. There were a lot of fond memories on that tour. We all travelled on Greyhound buses – it was us, All, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Vandals and all these other bands. It was a lot of fun – that tour was an experience in itself. “Over the years, we’ve come back and done things like Soundwave, which is always a lot of fun. We get the opportunity to tour with bands we never thought we’d get to tour with, like Nine Inch Nails and Alice In Chains. The headliners are always memorable, and there always seems to be a lot of love coming from Australia. That’s why we keep coming back.” What: Vans Warped Tour With: The Offspring, Parkway Drive, Simple Plan, The Used, We Came As Romans and more Where: Barangaroo, Sydney When: Sunday December 1 And: Kill It Live out Friday October 25 through Violently Happy/Bridge Nine/3Wise Records 18 :: BRAG :: 535 :: 21:10:13

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Clave Contra Clave Arriba! By Olivia Kadir

elbourne and Sydney-based Latin musicians are polishing their congas, tuning their bongos and restringing their guitars for Clave Contra Clave 2013. Putting a little South American spice into your spring, the band competition will showcase the very best of the local Latin scene, from salsa to Afro-Cuban jazz and more. Alongside the Aussie acts, which include Madre Monte, Nativosoul and Chango, are internationals Grupo Niche and SalSalvador. The Sydney heat takes place at the Enmore Theatre on Thursday October 31. The best of the best will then go head to head at the Melbourne Convention & Entertainment Centre for the Grand Finale on Sunday November 3.

Nativosoul What cultural backgrounds do you draw from in your music? Juan Mulet: Our main influences come from South America and the Caribbean, as the rhythms of salsa, cumbia and Afro-Andean are fused together with rock, reggae and jazz to create a cosmopolitan blend with no regards for genre boundaries.

Madre Monte What cultural backgrounds do you draw from in your music? Henry Pena-Salinas: Mainly from Colombia, the country I was born in. But having lived in Australia for over ten years I have been exposed to many different cultures that have influenced my inspiration, mainly Jamaican and Caribbean styles. Do you get a good reception playing Colombian-style sounds to an Australian audience? Yes! It has been great since the beginning. Your band is ten members strong. Is it a challenge to manage such a large group? Yes it is. Madre Monte is lucky that all of the

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Is it a challenge for the band or the audience when you’re singing multilingual lyrics? Angelo Francalanci: It can be challenging mixing English with Spanish, Portuguese or even Quechua when composing – however, it allows us to connect with the whole crowd and not just the Latin audience by using catchy choruses and chants that everyone can sing along to.

What instrument is most important to the identity of your music? JM: One of the key components of our music, and most Latin-influenced music, is the percussion. Together, the congas, timbales and the cajon form a vital part in the rhythms of South America and the Caribbean, and when mixed with funky bass lines and spicy guitar riffs you get an addictive shot of energy.

What does it take to successfully mix rock with traditional Latin sounds? JM: It takes an understanding of both types of music in a way that allows a successful fusion of rhythms using all types of instruments. Rock can be modified and worked with in a number of ways, and we use rock quite substantially in our musical blend because of the great energetic foundation it provides.

Is there a story behind your band name? AF: The name comes from the Spanish word nativo [it translates to ‘native’ in English], the nickname I got in one of my first bands in Peru – and the word ‘soul’ was added as a symbol of our roots and how we use those influences to represent our cultural background in our music.

What cultural backgrounds do you draw from in your music? Gemma Tamock: Our music comes from a number of salsa-producing nations, primarily Cuba, Colombia, Puerto Rico and the large Spanish communities in the US … we tend to play songs in the category ‘salsa dura’ which means ‘hard salsa’. What’s special about salsa? I danced a little salsa in the past for fun, but it wasn’t until the 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club that I really listened to the music. One of the reviewers described the film as something like “sunshine for the soul”, and I think that describes this music and dance perfectly. Do you have any heroes or major influences in salsa? I’ve personally got a lot to learn in this genre, but I think the first singer I really resonated with was the great Celia Cruz … I think Ibrahim Ferrer is an amazing singer and I love his particular style of improvising. We’re also really looking forward to seeing Grupo Niche… I can’t believe we’re on the same bill! What has been your best gig to date? We played at the Northern Beaches Music Festival and had a mostly non-salsa audience. We really didn’t know what to expect. [Bandmate] Joe saw a woman in the audience who he knew through the salsa scene and started dancing with her.

band members are really into the band and the music, so everyone is up for any gig or opportunity we get. Who are you looking forward to seeing at this year’s Clave Contra Clave? Besides Grupo Niche, who are from Cali, my city, we are excited about seeing all of the bands. We are from Melbourne and this will be only our second time in Sydney, so it will be nice to see what the bands over there are doing and start building relationships with them. Are there any particular stories you enjoy telling through your music? We like to talk about mythological stories from South America, but recreating them through our own experiences and ideas.

Chango

There was a group of young special needs kids there who decided they wanted to dance too … the rest of the audience took a look at the ‘proper’ dancers on one side, and the kids on the other, and thought to themselves, ‘Let’s do it’ … That’s what it’s all about, as far as we are concerned.

What: Clave Contra Clave With: Grupo Niche, SalSalvador All Stars and more Where: Enmore Theatre When: Thursday October 31

Are you a very active band onstage? Describe the energy of a typical Chango gig. Yes, we’re pretty active, especially the front line – singers and horns. Up front, Luis and I pretty much dance the whole time … [We] sometimes teach a dance class mid-gig, if we think the audience would like to learn a few of the basics.

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LUKE WALKER

of the world where no-one had ever seen the show and started again. I started making docos and found it far more rewarding. I now can’t think of a more stimulating existence than to spend the rest of my life picking things that fascinate me and having an excuse to find out about them. My first doco, Beyond Our Ken, got nominated for two AFIs and was played around the world. Lasseter’s Bones has already been nominated for an FCCA award. I’m doing much better as a filmmaker than I ever did as an actor!

ocumentary maker Luke Walker became fascinated with the story of Harold Lasseter, a man whose body was found in Central Australia’s deserts in 1930. Lasseter’s diary revealed that he’d discovered a seven mile seam of gold worth millions. Despite several expeditions since, the gold has never been found. This mysterious tale of one man’s quest is brought to life in Walker’s Lasseter’s Bones, which hits selected cinemas nationally on Thursday October 31. We caught five with the filmmaker ahead of the documentary’s release to learn more. Tell us about your background in documentary making. I used to be an actor in a terrible UK soap called Crossroads; I played the gay handyman Bradley Clarke. I was the first gay kiss on British daytime television! Aside from this, very little of consequence was achieved during my acting career. After Crossroads I fled to the other side

WOOLLAHRA SMALL SCULPTURE PRIZE

The work of 43 finalists in the national Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize will be on display at the Woollahra Council Chambers from Saturday October 26 through Sunday November 10. The prize’s 43 finalists were selected by guest judges Nick Mitzevich, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia and Porfessor Ian Howard from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. Finalists’ works span a range of styles from the delicately crafted to the chunky and abject. Established artists such as Tim Silver, Stephen Bird, Dani Marti and Joan Ross will represent alongside emerging names including Troy Emery, Julia deVille and Kirsteen Pieterse. “We are seeing innovation amongst this year’s finalists in the various ways in which the form is being represented and a move towards more figurative rather than abstract sculptures compared with previous years,” said Howard. The winner of the 13th Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize will be announced on Friday October 25, so best watch this space for forthcoming announcements. Visit

What attracted you to Harold Lasseter’s story? Lasseter perished in Central Australia in 1931 trying to relocate a rich seam of gold worth billions. When they found his body they discovered in his diary he’d actually found the gold again, worth millions, but that he’d “give it all for a loaf of bread”. The gold is still lost. Initially, I was fascinated by the prospect of a billion dollars in gold being lost in the desert. I could imagine it twinkling away, waiting to be discovered. But as the film progressed it just became about solving the mystery, I became obsessed and I’ve followed every possible Lasseter clue. It’s been an exhausting process, but I’m proud of what we’ve achieved in the film. I’ve put everything into this film so the audience can decipher the Lasseter riddle for themselves. What I’m most proud of though is that this story is being reawakened for a whole new generation.

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BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL

Palace Cinemas are proud as punch to announce the inaugural British Film Festival in Australia running from November 21 through December 1.The festival will be bookended by opening night film One Chance directed by David Frankel and closing night gem Philomena directed by Stephen Frears; the former telling the hilarious story of Britain’s Got Talent season one winner Paul Potts, and the latter starring Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan. “The British film industry is on the verge of a new wave with film production on the increase and major international festivals screening more British films than ever before. Australian audiences have always felt a close affinity to British cinema so we are incredibly excited to coordinate the inaugural British Film Festival in Australia where we can showcase some of Britain’s emerging talents and respected auteurs,” said programming director Kim Petalas. Head to britishfilmfestival.com. au for the full program and tickets.

Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving in STC’s Waiting For Godot

What was it like collaborating with Harold’s son Bob, and how did this enrich the creative process? Bob and I have become great friends and I’m probably closer to him than a filmmaker should be to remain impartial. However the film would be weaker without this relationship. The relationship allowed me to see the story through Bob’s eyes and understand the nature of this obsession. Understanding this helped me find the root of what makes this story endure. What are the greater lessons we learn from the documentary and how will Lasseter’s Bones be received by audiences? All the evidence you need to understand what truly happened to Lasseter and his gold is in this film. For all the myth and mystery, this film gets closer to the gold than any man has been in 80 years, and the truth is in there, whichever version you care to see. Exciting future projects we should know about? I’m interested in a group who conduct cyborg experiments on themselves to try and create the next wave of humanity. I might get them to put cameras in my eyes, it’ll save a lot of time.

The cast of Sydney Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot – Hugo Weaving, Richard Roxburgh, Luke Mullins and Phillip Quast – found themselves in an ironic situation during week one of rehearsals. Director Tamas Ascher’s arrival in Sydney would be delayed due to injury – so just like the characters they would bring to life on stage, the play’s actors were left waiting for a man who would never arrive. What a strangely appropriate dilemma; something about life imitating art, right? STC Artistic Director Andrew Upton has now taken over the production before the play’s season launches on Tuesday November 12. Waiting For Godot’s existential musings on life’s meaning will confront audiences by revisiting a text fuelled by high culture, complex philosophy and vaudevillian slapstick. Head to sydneytheatre.com.au for more information and tickets.

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Need a good laugh to get you through hump day? The Workers in Balmain has got you sorted with live comedy nights every Wednesday throughout October and November. This Wednesday October 23, professional jokesters Justin Hamilton and Mikey Robins will take to the stage to bring the LOLz. Most will know stand-up guy, writer and director Hamilton for his gig as co-host of Triple M’s weekend breakfast team Toast alongside Charlie Pickering and Terri Psiakis. And Robins really doesn’t need any introduction – triple j’s national breakfast show, Good News Week and all that jazz. For your chance to catch the stooges in action with a $100 bar tab for food and beverages, just email freestuff@thebrag. com with your best joke.

What: Lasseter’s Bones Where: Palace Opera Quays / Hayden Orpheum When: From Thursday October 31 More: lassetersbones.com.au

GRAHAM BLONDEL AT 107 PROJECTS

Contemporary art maestro Graham Blondel is set to awash the 107 Project (107 Redfern Street, Redfern) walls with sculptural assemblages, paintings and collages based on the three themes of ‘Voodoo’, ‘Flowers’ and ‘Paris’ from Thursday November 12 through Sunday December 1. In this three-part solo exhibition, Blondel presents 60 tribal sculptures, paintings of flowers focusing on the geometric and optical structures of composition as well as mixed media collages inspired by everyday objects collected while in Paris. Head to 107projects.org for further details.

AMERICA: PAINTING A NATION

Sydney International Art Series is presenting the most expansive survey of American painting to have been hosted in Australia. America: Painting A Nation, presenting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from Friday November 8 through Sunday February 9, will showcase over 80 works ranging from 1750 to 1966 to cover more than two centuries of American art, history and experience. Works by art history glitterati such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Georgia O’Keeffe, James McNeil Whistler, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent will provide a comprehensive overview of the cultural, personal and political informers of the American social landscape spanning 200 years. “I know this exhibition will both open a window on the grand narrative of American painting and hold up a mirror against which we can further explore our own art history,” said AGNSW Director, Michael Brand. Visit artgallery.nsw.gov.au for further details.

KATE MURPHY’S LIFT

WAITING FOR GODOT

COMEDY AT THE WORKERS!

Digital artist Kate Murphy will present her new work Lift at Breenspace from Friday November 29 through Saturday December 21. A singlechannel video installation that questions notions of the ageing body, Lift confronts viewers with themes of newness, youth and what it means to be human in a world where we’re all what she calls ‘accidental performers’. The video itself? A lithesome dancer’s body sits in a patient lifter, which activates its robotic arm before lifting her into the air. She navigates a slow, awkward turn before singing into the black abyss of the frame. Focusing on the relationship between the cognitive and subconscious self, Murphy draws on ideas of time past, present and the uncertain future. Yeah, we thought so too. Eerie to the max, but strangely beautiful. Head to breenspace.com for further details.

TINY STADIUMS

PACT Centre for Emerging Artists is gearing up for this year’s Tiny Stadiums – a two weeks lineup of theatre and visual arts running from November 13-23. Program highlights include a double-billed performances of Friend Ship by Kenzie Larsen and Blue Wizard by Nick

HANNAH GADSBY

Funny gal Hannah Gadsby’s got a massive crush on bedroom paraphernalia. Yes you heard right and oddly enough the joy she finds in furniture has formed the basis of her new show, Happiness In A Bedside Table. Gadsby’s reasoning for why an everyday object can provide so much delight? It’s always stable, holds you most precious things, is there next to you when you go to sleep at night and doesn’t hit you when you snore. And with some serious cred in the biz after recent sold-out shows at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and London’s Soho Theatre, we reckon you should pen these dates in your diary. The comic brings her dry wit to Sydney for four shows only at the Sydney Comedy Store from November 21-24. Visit comedystore.com.au for further details. Tickets via ticketek.com.au.

Coyle alongside an impressive slew of free live performances by artists such as Natalie Abbott, Ella Barclay, Hossein Ghaemi, Jen Hamilton & Craig Johnson among others. Want more? How about a couple of Tiny Talks? On Wednesday November 6 you can drop into Newtown Library to join Tiny Stadiums curators Groundwork and participating artists for slides, discussion and more. And there’s something we here at BRAG are particularly excited about – Cats Of Erskineville. Tiny Stadiums artist Imogen Semmier has teamed up with cat experts from Sydney University in a project to investigate and document the nightlife of urban cats in the inner west by attaching tiny GPS devices our furry felines’ collars. A selection of these stories will be showcased as part of Tiny Stadiums. Visit pact. net.au for the full program and further details. thebrag.com

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[DANCE] Finding Euphoria By Alasdair Duncan he Australian Ballet’s Bodytorque is unique in the world of dance. It’s a showcase allowing dancers and emerging choreographers to try out all new ideas, and experiment with all new forms. Richard House, a 22-year-old Australian Ballet dancer, will make his choreographic debut at this year’s season, Bodytorque. Technique. House’s work is called Finding The Calm and attempts to merge the classical and contemporary styles that he has loved since his first days as a dancer. “I went through Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School,” he explains, “and we did the same number of ballet classes as contemporary ones. It was really interesting going from ballet, where the rules are set in stone, to contemporary, which is more creative and has a lot more room for improvisation.”

Thomas Campbell as Laertes in Belvoir’s Hamlet

Hamlet [THEATRE] Finding The Essentials By Alasdair Duncan he story of Hamlet has been told many times before, in the mediums of theatre and film. The tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, a brooding young man who exacts revenge following the murder of his father, is one of the most familiar tales in the literary canon. Director Simon Stone has chosen to stage the play at Belvoir, and when his name is attached, you know that you’re in for something new and fresh. Thomas Campbell, who plays Laertes in this new version, promises a unique and essential take on the Shakespeare classic.

“Simon is always excited to discover the potential in a text,” Campbell says. “Since the start of this whole process, he’s been focused on the idea that Hamlet is the story of a young man grieving for his father.” While he says he doesn’t want to give too much away ahead of time, he says that Stone’s pared-back version of the play turns the focus inward. “It’s very family-based,” he says, “a lot of the war stuff has been cut. It’s very much about internal family relationships, and about the idea of what might drive Hamlet to do what he does.”

The character of Laertes is one of the more physical roles in Hamlet – he spends much of his time jumping into graves, storming into

Finding The Calm engages with the idea of euphoria, and attempts to express happiness through movement. Dancers, he says, experience euphoria when their bodies move in tune with music – dance, therefore, is the ideal medium through which to explore such questions. “No matter who you are in life, your constant search is to find euphoria,” he says. “Everyone wants that ultimate high, even if you only get it for a second, a minute, an hour … I wanted to create a piece that shows the search.” The work has been choreographed for four dancers – it’s abstract rather than narrative, and is therefore open to any sort of interpretation. “There’s no wrong way to view my piece,” House says, “you can see whatever story you want. I just want to evoke a sense of searching for happiness.” To accompany the work, House has chosen a piece by Gabriel Fauré, and a piano and cello work by Johann Christian Bach. “I feel there’s a lot of common ground between the Bach piece and my style of choreography,” he explains. “The piano dictates the technical side of things, it keeps the tempo, and the cello represents the fluidity, and brings the piece into harmony. I really wanted music that had that sort of structure.” On a personal level for House, participating in Bodytorque. Technique has been a learning experience, an opportunity to step outside his usual role in the Australian Ballet. “It’s been an interesting experience,” he laughs, “one minute I’m dancing alongside my friends on stage and the next you’re telling them what to do. I’m one of the youngest people choreographing the Bodytorque.Technique season, so it feels a bit daunting working with some of the older dancers. It’s been good, though. Bodytoque.Technique will be my debut into the world of professional choreography – it means getting my name out there in a professional way. It’s a big thing to be able to start with this company of dancers. I’m really excited, and it’s hopefully the first of many.”

“I don’t think of him as angry,” Campbell says. “A lot of people compare Hamlet and Laertes by saying that they’re both young men dealing with family tragedies – the difference between them is that Hamlet stands around talking about it, whereas Laertes jumps in and takes action to try and resolve it quickly. He’s a guy who has lost his family and wants to seek revenge. I let those feelings drive my performance. He comes in at times yelling and being very demanding, but he’s really just a man grieving a loss, and we all have our own parallels for things like that.” A lot of actors say it can be difficult to get into the right headspace for Shakespearian dialogue, but Campbell has no such concern. He has performed a good deal of Shakespeare before, working with Bell and even playing the role of Richard III several years ago. Also, and perhaps crucially, he is not as precious about Shakespeare as some. “I don’t know if I have quite the reverence for his texts that some do,” he says. “His dialogue is beautiful and it’s poetic, and it also has emotional truth, so it has that double whammy, but you approach it like any other text.” What: Hamlet Where: Belvoir St Theatre When: Until Sunday December 1 More: belvoir.com.au

What: Bodytorque. Technique Where: Sydney Theatre When: Thursday October 31 – Sunday November 3 More: australianballet.com. au / sydneytheatre.org.au

Brett Chynoweth and Karen Nanasca for Bodytorque.Technique

Machete Kills [FILM] Man Of Action By Alasdair Duncan

Danny Trejo in Machete Kills

he world got its first glimpse of Machete Cortez when the trailer for the bloodsplattered b-movie Machete was shown as part of the Grindhouse double bill, but the character’s origins go back a lot further than that. Star Danny Trejo and director Robert Rodriguez had discussed the possibility of a Mexican action hero for years prior to Grindhouse. The initial trailer was a joke, a tongue-in-cheek parody that ran alongside others for fake films like Werewolf Women Of The SS, but it proved so popular 24 :: BRAG :: 535 :: 21:10:13

that it turned into an actual film, and then another. Machete Kills arrives in cinemas this week. Trejo returns as the title character, who this time is facing off against brutal drug cartels, and a mad villain with a weapon pointed at Washington. Machete is the strong, silent type, letting his actions speak for him, and Trejo revels in the role. “Machete is a really old school kind of guy,” he says. “He’s like a Clint Eastwood or a Charles Bronson, and I love

that about him. He doesn’t say a lot, but when he does, it’s to the point. The bottom line for him is that he’s a murderer. He doesn’t read the bad guys their rights, he just kills them.”

was no way, because she was too young,” Trejo laughs. “He finally gave her the part of KillJoy, and she took it and kicked the role in the ass … literally.”

Danny Trejo and Robert Rodriguez have a relationship that goes all the way back to 1995’s Desperado – they’ve made numerous films together, including four films in the Spy Kids series. As Trejo tells it, they revel in each other’s sense of mischief. “I love his style,” he says of Rodriguez. “I love the fact that he is a fan of action movies, just like I am.” Life on one of his film sets is about as anarchic as you would expect, with lots of toys to play with and bad guys to beat up. “Making movies with Robert is a lot of fun,” he says. “It’s action all the time. It’s a real down home kind of atmosphere on set, because we’re all really good friends.”

Working with Amber Heard, who played the role of a deranged beauty queen, was one of the main highlights for Trejo. “I got to kiss her!” he says of their scenes together, which clearly made a big impression. “It’s funny, because when Robert yelled ‘action’, Amber was laughing. He asked her why, and she said ‘it’s because Danny won’t stop whispering ‘thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus!’”

Alongside an all-star cast, which also includes the likes of Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Jessica Alba, Mel Gibson and even Lady Gaga, Machete Kills features Alexa Vega, recognisable from her roles in the Spy Kids films. Suffice to say, Vega is now grown up, and in Machete Kills, she plays the role of a scantily-clad assassin. For Trejo and Rodriguez, who have known her since the age of 11, it was odd to see this transition. “When she initially approached him, Robert said there

Machete Kills opens with the trailer for a third instalment in the franchise, a rollicking adventure entitled Machete Kills Again: In Space. It seems a little far-fetched, but in Machete’s world, anything is possible. I ask Trejo if it’s likely Machete will make another appearance, and he says we’ll have to be patient. “The first two films came out of audience response,” he says, “so we’re going to wait and see how this one goes before we make any decisions, but we’ve definitely already hinted at another one.” What: Machete Kills opens in cinemas on Thursday October 24. thebrag.com

Bodytorque photo by Georges Antoni

Ahead of Hamlet’s Belvoir season, one critic suggested, perhaps playfully or perhaps not, that Stone’s version had ‘ruthlessly attacked’ the original text. Campbell laughs at this suggestion. “The script is definitely pared back,” he says. “It’s all about the essentials of the text, Hamlet’s relationships with his mother and his uncle. In this version, the ghost of his father is a little more present than in most productions. A lot of the periphery characters are gone, too. It hasn’t been done in a way that’s going to offend people. It’s just about the essentials.”

rooms, and fighting with swords. He is the son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia, for whose deaths he blames Hamlet, and seeks revenge. I’ve always thought of him as a very angry and pent-up character, but when I put this to Campbell, he disagrees. For him, the essential component of Laertes is his duality with Hamlet – he sees them as two similar characters with fundamentally different approaches to their grief.

For House, this year’s theme ‘Technique’ represents the ideal opportunity to explore the merging of styles even further. “I thought about the kind of work I’d like to create,” he says, “and I decided I wanted to explore the idea of ballet technique in the 21st century, to create something new and fresh. It’s been really interesting, because I’m working with classically trained dancers, and so the lines they create are balletic, even though the movements in the piece are fluid and rounded. It’s all about breaking out from a classical ballet step into a contemporary step,

and then bring it back again to something more classical, with the lines of the legs and the shapes that you can create. The challenge has been in making a distinct style.”

Belvoir’s Hamlet photo by Brett Broadman

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Film & Poetry Reviews Hits and misses on the silver screen and bareboards around town

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THE BUTLER In cinemas October 31 Lee Daniel’s The Butler is the fictional story of Cecil Gaines, a house butler who served tirelessly through seven White House administrations. A historical film by nature, The Butler profiles repression, conflict and protest from 1957 through to today’s Obama Presidency. A view through one man’s eyes, the film chronicles Cecil’s life through America’s Civil War, documented political unrest and presidential assassinations to illustrate the toll this took on the protagonist’s relationships with his wife and family. Judged solely as a houseman of colour, and somewhat lesser than his white counterparts, the film takes Cecil’s character and brings to life his loyalty to

himself, his family, colleagues and an obvious love of his vocation. Academy award winner Forest Whitaker makes this lead role look effortless. At times narrating his experiences, Whitaker’s performance allows us to witness human frailty, both emotional and physical. A stellar cast inclusive of Oprah Winfrey, Lenny Kravitz, John Cusack and Robin Williams, Daniels clearly has the support of a blue chip cast to pull this ambitious work off. The Butler delights and amuses with humour – not something viewers wouldn’t expect from a film as emotionally affecting as this. Keeping viewers involved for two hours, the feature is a poignant account of one man’s amazing life – a life of violent beginnings and peaceful endings.

AN EVENING WITH URSULA RUCKER Friday October 12 As part of the Word Travels Festival, the newly crowned home of the Australian Poetry Slam, stand out voices Ursula Rucker and Candy Royalle took to the Sydney Theatre Company stage. Having released five solo albums since 1994 as well as collaborating with The Roots, 4Hero and Jazzanova, Miss Rucker, a Philadelphia poet, is a unique talent and seeing her on Aussie soil sure was an experience. Sydney-based poet Candy Royalle opened the show and although having previously seen some of her pieces, this performance brought new life and meaning to her words. Her passionate, fierce yet vulnerable creations had the audience involuntarily nodding and gasping as she struck tender nerves and boldly articulated complex ideas and emotions. The sexuality and rawness of some pieces was made even more extraordinary considering her mum

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was in the audience – evidence alone that Candy is unafraid to challenge anyone and everyone who hears her perform. Next up Ursula graced a well-warmed stage just moments after stepping off a flight from Melbourne where she was surrounded by a touring football team. “You all know what I’m talking about there,” she exclaimed to a roar of laughter. After such trauma she understandably took a piece or two to find her groove. Hers were more musical pieces that focus on the plights so intrinsic to her hometown of Philadelphia. Still, the themes of inequality, race, feminism, war, love, peace and struggle easily crossing cultural boundaries. Her passion, confidence and distinctive style were so intoxicating that by the end of her forty minute set the audience were on their feet wanting more. She rounded things up with once final piece and left the stage to another standing ovation. Walking away it was hard to come back to earth after such a fast paced and eye-opening evening that not only shook the foundations of what poetry can be, but also reinforced the power of spoken words. Lee Hutchison

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MCA ARTBAR ALASKA Projects Halloween TV Party Friday October 25 This month, MCA ARTBAR is throwing a Halloween-inspired bash in celebration of the living rather than dead. The ALASKA Projects Halloween TV Party takes its cue from the seminal late ’70s New York public access television series TV PARTY to create a glamorous terrace shindig with zombies, Warhol-like silver material TV Static and dancing girls aplenty. There’ll be a whole bunch of lectures, screenings, bands and performances to keep punters entertained. Program highlights include Rochelle Hayley and Monika Behrens’ collaboration with academic Prue Gibson, which will see participants design their own love potion to take away and use on an unwitting victim. The tunes? They’ll come courtesy of ALASKA’s orchestra, Musical Alaska, who’ll perform in the Primavera Galleries. Head to mca.com.au for further details and tickets. 26 :: BRAG :: 535 :: 21:10:13

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PATRICK

Cuba Gooding Jr., Lenny Kravitz and Forest Whitaker in The Butler

■ Poetry

Jackson Gallagher in Patrick

In cinemas now Remaking one of Tarantino’s favourite Australian films is a big call. The original slugline says it all: “Patrick is nearly dead... And he still kills!” These few words sum up the cheesy, schlocky glory of the ’70s and ’80s era of Australian genre movies, now bannered ‘Ozploitation’. This lowbudget wave exploited generous government tax incentives and cinematic stereotypes, smashing together car crashes, full-frontal nudity, over-the-top foley and ridiculous gunfights into unabashed pieces of filmic fun. Director Mark Hartley’s doco Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008) conveyed the guts of this lost era with mega-energy. But his remake of 1978 horror classic Patrick (which was a truly awesome Psycho ripoff) doesn’t quite get there. Patrick’s a comatose vegetable using telekinesis to communicate (using social media of course because it’s 2013 after all) and control Sharni Vinson’s spooked nurse. The film’s best moments of lo-fi horror gore

and laugh-out-loud sexual freakiness motion to Ozploitation’s glory days with great affection, but Hartley seems to have settled for a B-grade thriller that will appeal to a wide mass. In the meantime, he’s missed the out-there adventurousness and winking, mocking selfawareness that could’ve made his Patrick a new cult obsession. As Patrick, Jackson Gallagher is oddly beautiful: pristine and eerie with flying saucer eyes. Rachel Griffiths fully commits to a wonderfully theatrical, Nicolas Cage-style performance as the pasty, watery-eyed nurse who could be either a total villain or a total trauma victim. Her murderous red lippy also lights up the film’s lovely, Gothic monochrome design. But the script never gives her the chance to truly let loose a la Cage’s now immortal “Not the beeeees!” line in 2006’s The Wicker Man. Patrick is crying out to go off the Richter scale – less irritating ex-soapie stars and more weird nudity and fake blood. But although Hartley plays it safe, it’s pretty fun and a must-see for horror fans. Lauren Carroll Harris

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Ash St Cellar 1 Ash St, Sydney CBD (02) 9240 3000 Mon – Fri 8.30am-11pm Assembly 488 Kent St, Sydney CBD (02) 9283 8808 Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight The Australian Heritage Hotel 100 Cumberland St, The Rocks (02) 9247 2229 Mon – Sun 10.30am-midnight BAR100 100 George St, The Rocks (02) 8070 9311 Mon – Thu noon-late; Fri – Sat noon-3am; Sun noon-midnight Bar Eleven Lvl 11, 161 Sussex St, Sydney CBD (02) 9290 4712 Thu 4-10pm; Fri 4-11pm; Sat 3-11pm

The Barber Shop 89 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9299 9699 Mon – Fri 2pm-midnight; Sat 4pm-midnight The Baxter Inn Basement 152-156 Clarence St, Sydney CBD Mon – Sat 4pm-1am

The Glenmore 96 Cumberland St, The Rocks (02) 9247 4794 Mon – Thu, Sun 11am-midnight; Fri – Sat 11am-1am

Bulletin Place First Floor, 10-14 Bulletin Place, Circular Quay Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight

Goodgod Small Club 53-55 Liverpool St, Sydney CBD (02) 8084 0587 Wed 5pm-1am; Thu 5pm-2am; Fri 5pm-5am; Sat 6pm-5am

deVine 32 Market St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 6906 Mon – Fri 11.30am-11.30pm; Sat 5.30-11.30pm

Grain Bar 199 George St, Sydney CBD (02) 9250 3118 Mon – Fri 4pm-1am; Sat noon-1am; Sun noonmidnight

Frankie’s Pizza 50 Hunter St, Sydney CBD Mon – Sun 4pm-4am

Grandma’s Basement 275 Clarence St, Sydney CBD (02) 9264 3004 Mon – Fri 3pm-late; Sat 5pm-late

Gilt Lounge 49 Market St, Sydney CBD (02) 8262 0000 Tue – Wed 6pm-midnight; Thu & Sat 6pm-2am; Fri 5pm-2am

The Fox Hole 68A Erskine St, Sydney CBD (02) 9279 4369 Tue – Fri 5pm-midnight

The Grasshopper 1 Temperance Ln, Sydney CBD (02) 9947 9025 Mon – Wed & Sat 4pm-late; Thu – Fri noonlate The Lobo Plantation Basement Lot 1, 209 Clarence St, Sydney CBD 0415 554 908 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri 2pm-midnight; Sat 4pm-midnight Mojo Record Bar Basement 73 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 4999 Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight The Morrison 225 George St, Sydney CBD (02) 9247 6744 Mon – Wed 7.30am-midnight; Thu 7.30-1am; Fri 7.302am; Sat 11.30-2am; Sun11.30am-10pm Palmer & Co. Abercrombie Ln, Sydney CBD (02) 9240 3172 Mon – Wed 5pm-late; Thu – Fri noon-late; Sat – Sun 5pm-late

Shirt Bar 7 Sussex Ln, Sydney CBD (02) 8068 8222 Mon –Wed 8am-6pm; Thu – Fri 8am-10pm Small Bar 48 Erskine St, Sydney CBD (02) 9279 0782 Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight The Spice Cellar Basement 58 Elizabeth St, Sydney CBD (02) 9223 5585 Mon – Sun 4pm-late Spooning Goats 32 York St, Sydney CBD 0402 813 035 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight Stitch Bar 61 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9279 0380 Mon –Wed 4pm-midnight; Thu – Fri noon-2am; Sat 4pm-2am Tapavino 6 Bulletin Place, Circular Quay (02) 9247 3221 Mon – Fri 11am-11.30pm

Rockpool Bar & Grill 66 Hunter St, Sydney CBD (02) 8078 1900 Mon – Sat lunch & dinner

Uncle Ming’s 55 York St, Sydney CBD Mon – Fri 11am-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight

The Rook 56-58 Level 7, 56 58 York St,

York Lane York Lane, Sydney CBD (02) 9299 1676 Mon – Wed 6.30am-10pm; Thu – Fri 6.30pm-midnight; Sat 6pm-midnight

SPRING STREET SOCIAL OF

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110 SPRING ST, BONDI JUNCTION WED – SUN 4PM-3AM

Sydney CBD (02) 9262 2505 Mon – Fri 4pm-late; Sat 4pm-late

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The Abercrombie 100 Broadway, Chippendale (02) 9280 2178 Mon – Wed noon-1am; Thu noon-3am; Fri – Sat noon-5am; Sun noonmidnight Bar-racuda 105 Enmore Rd, Newtown (02) 9519 1121 Mon – Sat 6-midnight

Spring Street Social The basics: Spring Street Social is Bondi Junction’s newest kid on the small bar block. Tucked below street level, this joint’s inspired by the Golden Age of cure-all elixirs and takes you back to a time of rustic chemists and homespun apothecaries. The discrete door amidst a hive of shop fronts will lead you down to a transformed laboratory of live music, inventive cocktails, craft beers and tasty grub. Who’s banging about the pans? Katya Arzhanaya (ex sous chef The Carrington) heads up the kitchen team. Moscow born and raised, Arzhanaya utilises her experience with European food to the table to deliver “simple, sexy looking stuff”. Who’s pouring? Ruari Maginn is Spring Street Social’s booze hound. Maginn’s worked the New York small bar scene for the past three years and has some serious cred in the biz; this guy worked under the consultation of Greg Seider who’s one the Big Apple’s top mixologists. Chase The Dragon

Eye-candy: Spring Street Social is the creation of pharmacist-cum-truffle farmer-cum proprietor, Peter Wright. Formerly Kong Tiki Lounge and BJ’s Nightclub, the venue’s been completely transformed over a sixmonth period. Think antique furniture and fittings, vinyl and live music. Something to start with: Get social with some buns (one for $6 or three for $15). Flavours include: Jam Mi (chicken liver parfait, jamón Serrano, spicy carrots and mint), Crab (with celery, Japanese mayo and brown butter), Hot Chick (spicy chicken, chilli, mayonnaise and red cabbage), BBQ Pork (with fennel and white cabbage), and Shroom (roasted mushrooms, goats cheese and dukkah). The main course: Lobster macaroni bake with sun-dried tomatoes and fresh herbs ($28). Care for a drink? Tipple of choice: Chase The Dragon cocktail. This concoction is made from apple pie-infused Bulleit rye whisky, Martell VSOP cognac, whisky barrel-aged bitters, apple bitters, cinnamon-infused agave and Applewood smoke. It’ll set you back $17. Room for dessert: Muscovado sugar mousse topped with sea buckthorn jelly, carrot chips and sorbet ($12). Cannot be missed. The bill comes to: $63 for three courses and a cocktail. facebook.com/SpringStreetSocial

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Bloodwood 416 King St, Newtown (02) 9557 7699 Mon, Wed –Thu 5pm-late; Fri – Sat noon-late; Sun noon-10pm Cornerstone Bar & Food 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh (02) 8571 9004 Sun – Wed 10am-5pm; Thu – Sat 10am-late Corridor 153A King St, Newtown 0422 873 879 Tue – Fri 3pm-midnight; Sat 1pm-midnight; Sun 1-10pm Cottage Bar & Kitchen 342 Darling St, Balmain (02) 8084 8185 Mon – Wed 5pm-midnight; Thu – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Different Drummer 185 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9552 3406 Mon – Sat 4.30pm-late Earl’s Juke Joint 407 King St, Newtown Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Freda’s 107-109 Regent St, Chippendale (02) 8971 7336 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri noon-midnight; Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm

The Green Room Lounge 156 Enmore Rd, Enmore (02) 8021 8451 Wed 5pm-late; Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 5pm-1am; Sun 5-10pm

Tue – Thu 5-11pm; Fri – Sat 5pm-midnight

Hive Bar 93 Erskineville Rd, Erskineville (02) 9519 9911 Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 10am-midnight; Sun 10am-10pm

Backroom 2A Roslyn St, Potts Point (02) 9361 5000

Kelly’s On King 285 King St, Newtown (02) 9565 2288 Mon – Fri 10am-3am; Sat 10am-4am; Sun 10am-midnight Kuleto’s 157 King St, Newtown (02) 9519 6369 Mon – Wed 4pm-late; Thu – Sat 4pm-3am; Sun 4pm-midnight The Little Guy 87 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9200 0000 Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 1pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm Mary’s 6 Mary St, Newtown Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm The Midnight Special 44 Enmore Road, Newtown (02) 9516 2345 Mon – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Miss Peaches 201 Missenden Rd, Newtown (02) 9557 7280 Wed – Sun 5pm-midnight The Moose Newtown 530 King St, Newtown (02) 9557 0072 Wed – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 5-10pm Mr Falcon’s 92 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9029 6626 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sat noon-midnight; Sun 2-10pm Newtown Social Club 387 King St, Newtown (02) 9550 3974 Mon – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm The Record Crate 34 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9660 1075 Tue – Wed 11am-10pm; Thu – Fri 11am-midnight; Sat 10am-midnight; Sun 11am-10pm The Royal 156 Norton St, Leichhardt (02) 9569 2638 Mon – Thu 10am-1am; Fri – Sat 10am-3am; Sun 10am-midnight Timbah 375 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9571 7005 Tue – Thu 4-9pm; Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 2pm-midnight; Sun 2-8pm The Workers Lvl 1, 292 Darling St, Balmain (02) 9555 8410 Wed – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 5pm-3am; Sun 2-10pm ZanziBar 323 King St, Newtown (02) 9519 1511 Mon – Thu 10am-4am; Fri 10am-6am; Sat 10am-5am; Sun 10am-12am

121BC 4/50 Holt St, Surry Hills (02) 9699 1582

Absinthe Salon 87 Albion St, Surry Hills (02) 9211 6632 Wed – Sat 4-10pm

Bar H 80 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9280 1980 Tue – Sat 6pm-late The Beresford 354 Bourke St, Surry Hills (02) 8313 5000 Mon – Sun noon-1am Black Penny 648 Bourke St, Redfern (02) 9319 5061 Tue – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-11pm Button Bar 65 Foveaux St, Surry Hills (02) 9211 1544 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight Café Lounge 277 Goulburn St, Surry Hills (02) 9016 3951 Mon – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sunday 4-10pm The Carrington 565 Bourke St, Surry Hills (02) 9360 4714 Mon – Sun noonmidnight; Sun noon10pm The Commons 32 Burton St, Darlinghurst (02) 9358 1487 Tue – Sun noon-late Darlo Bar 306 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst (02) 9331 3672 Mon – Sun 10am-midnight Darlie Laundromatic 304 Palmer St, Darlinghurst (02) 8095 0129 Wed – Sun 5-11pm Eau De Vie 229 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst 0422 263 226 Mon – Sat 6pm-1am; Sun 6pm-midnight The Flinders 63-65 Flinders St, Surry Hills (02) 9356 3622 Tue – Thu 5pm-3am; Fri – Sat 5pm-5am The Forresters 336 Riley St, Surry Hills (02) 9212 3035 Mon – Wed noonmidnight; Thu – Sat noon-1am; Sun noon10pm Foley Lane 371-373 Bourke St, Darlinghurst Mon, Wed – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat 10am-3pm & 5pm-midnight; Sun 10am-10pm Gazebo 2 Elizabeth Bay Rd, Elizabeth Bay (02) 9357 5333 Mon – Thu 3pm-midnight; Fri – Sun noon-midnight The Hazy Rose 1/83 Stanley St, Darlinghurst (02) 9357 5036 Tue 3-11pm; Wed – Sat 3pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm Hello Sailor 96 Oxford St, Darlinghurst (02) 9332 2442 Tue – Sun 5pm-1am

Hinky Dinks 185 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst (02) 8084 6379 Mon – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 3pm-midnight; Sun 1-10pm Hollywood Hotel 2 Foster St, Surry Hills (02) 9281 2765 Mon – Wed 10am-midnight; Thu – Sat 10am-3am Hustle & Flow Bar 105 Regent St, Redfern (02) 9310 5593 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight Jekyll & Hyde 332 Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 9360 5568 Wed – Fri 4pm-late; Sat 8.30am-late; Sun 8.30am-evening Li’l Darlin Darlinghurst 235 Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 8084 6100 Mon – Sat 5pmmidnight Li’l Darlin Surry Hills 420 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills (02) 9698 5488 Mon – Thu noon-3pm & 5-11pm; Fri – Sun noon11pm Lo-Fi 2/383 Bourke St, Darlinghurst (02) 9318 1547 Wed – Sat 6pm-late The Local Tap House 122 Flinders St, Surry Hills (02) 9360 0088 Mon – Wed noon-2am; Thu – Sat noon-1am; Sun noon-11pm Love, Tilly Devine 91 Crown Ln, Darlinghurst (02) 9326 9297 Mon – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Low 302 302 Crown St, Surry Hills (02) 9368 1548 Tue – Sat 5pm-2am; Sun 6pm-2am Mr Fox 557 Crown St, Surry Hills 0414 691 811 Mon –Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Name This Bar 197 Oxford St, Darlinghurst (02) 9356 2123 Thu – 5pm-2am The Norfolk 305 Cleveland St, Surry Hills (02) 9699 3177 Mon – Wed noonmidnight; Thu – Sat noon-1am; Sun noon10pm The Passage 231A Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 9358 6116 Mon – Thu 5pm-late; Fri – Sun noon-late Play Bar 72 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9280 0885 Wed – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm Pocket Bar 13 Burton St, Darlinghurst (02) 9380 7002 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 4pm-1am; Sun 4pm-midnight Queenie’s Upstairs Forresters Cnr Foveaux and Riley St, Surry Hills (02) 9212 3035 Tue – Sat 6pm-late thebrag.com

Roosevelt 32 Orwell St, Potts Point 0423 203 119 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight Santa Barbara 1 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross (02) 9357 7882 Wed 6pm-1am; Thu & Sat 6pm-2am; Fri noon2am

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Shady Pines Saloon Shop 4, 256 Crown St, Darlinghurst Mon – Sun 4pm-midnight The Soda Factory 16 Wentworth Ave, Surry Hills (02) 8096 9120 Mon – Wed 5pm-late; Thu 5pm-2am; Fri – Sat 5pm-5am Sweethearts Rooftop 33/37Darlinghurst Rd, Potts Point (02) 9368 7333 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sun noon-midnight Tio’s Cerveceria 4/14 Foster St, Surry Hills Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Unicorn Cellar Basement, 106 Oxford St, Paddington (02) 9360 7994 Tue – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Vasco 421 Cleveland St, Redfern 0406 775 436 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 5-10pm The Victoria Room Lvl 1, 235 Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 9357 4488 Tue – Fri 6pm-midnight; Sat noon-2am; Sun noon-midnight The Wild Rover 75 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9280 2235 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun noon-10pm The Winery 285A Crown St, Surry Hills (02) 9331 0833 Mon – Sun noonmidnight

Anchor Bar 8 Campbell Pde, Bondi (02) 8084 3145 Tue – Fri 4.30pm-late; Sat – Sun 12.30pm-late Bondi Hardware 39 Hall St, Bondi (02) 9365 7176 Mon – Wed 5-11pm; Thu 5pm-midnight; Sat 10am-midnight; Sun 10am-10pm The Bucket List Shop 1, Bondi Pavilion, Queen Elizabeth Drive (02) 9365 4122 Mon – Sun 11am-late The Corner House 281 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 8020 6698 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm Flying Squirrel 249 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 9130 1033 Mon – Fri 6pm-late; Sat 4pm-late; Sun 4-10pm The Rum Diaries 288 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 9300 0440 Tue – Sat 6pm-midnight; Sun 6-10pm

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Speakeasy 83 Curlewis St, Bondi (02) 9130 2020 Mon – Fri 3pm-late; Sat – Sun noon-late Stuffed Beaver 271 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 9130 3002 Mon – Sat noonmidnight; Sun noon10pm

The Bay Jam Bar 2A Waters Rd, Neutral Bay 0407 454 0815 Tue – Fri 11am-midnight; Sat – Sun 7am-midnight Firefly 24 Young St, Neutral Bay (02) 9909 0193 Mon – Wed 5-10pm; Thu 4-11pm; Fri – Sat noon-11pm; Sun noon9.30pm

Mon – Sat 8am-midnight; Sun 8am-10pm Honey Rider 230 Military Rd, Neutral Bay (02) 9953 8880 Tue – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm In Situ 1/18 Sydney Rd, Manly (02) 9977 0669 Mon 9am-6pm; Wed – Sun 9am-midnight The Hunter 5 Myahgah Rd, Mosman Mon – Tue 5pm-midnight; Wed – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Jah Ba Shop 7, 9-15 Central Ave, Manly (02) 9977 4449 Tue – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm

The Foxtrot 28 Falcon St, Crows Nest Tue – Sat 5pm-3am; Sun 5-10pm

The Local Bar 8 Young Ln, Neutral Bay (02) 9953 0027 Mon 5-10pm; Tue – Wed 8am-10pm; Thu – Sat 8am-midnight; Sun 8am-10pm

Harlem On Central Shop 4,9-15 Central Ave, Manly (02) 9976 6737 Tue – Sun 5pm-midnight

Manly Wine 8-13 South Steyne, Manly (02) 8966 9000 Mon – Sun 7am-late

Hemingway’s 48 North Steyne, Manly (02) 9976 3030

The Mayor 400 Military Rd, Cremorne

(02) 8969 6060 Tue – Fri 10am-late; Sat 8am-late; Sun 8am-10pm Miss Marley’s Tequila Bar 32 Belgrave St, Manly (02) 8065 4805 Mon – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 5-10pm Moonshine Lvl 2, Hotel Steyne, 75 The Corso, Manly (02) 9977 4977 Thu – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 3-11pm The Pickled Possum 254 Military Rd, Neutral Bay (02) 9909 2091 Thu – Sat 9pm-1am The Stoned Crow 39 Willoughby Rd, Crows Nest (02) 9439 5477 Mon – Sun noon-late White Hart 19-21 Grosvenor St, Neutral Bay (02) 8021 2115 Tue – Thu 5pm-late; Fri 4pm-late; Sat 2pm-late; Sun noon-8pm

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Album Reviews What's been crossing our ears this week...

ALBUM OF THE WEEK JONATHAN WILSON

to wipe the smile from your face or stop your foot tapping when listening.

Fanfare Bella Union/[PIAS]

Each song on the album is an immensely enjoyable listen, from beginning to end; there isn’t a single song that doesn’t enthrall.

Normally reviews are restrained and reserved, but with Jonathan Wilson’s second album Fanfare, it’s difficult to maintain such composure; the album is such an enjoyable listen that it’s impossible not to fall for it. From the loving organ and piano notes to the insistent strings of the guitar and beat of the drums and Jonathan’s own comforting and warm lyrics and vocals, there is not a single sour note to be found. Xxxx A truly great release, a definite contender for Album of the Year, and a sound that overwhelms the listener with the adulation of fanfare.

The album opener (and title track) immediately sets the tone and scale of the album, unfolding like the curtains being pulled back at the opera; ‘Dear Friend’ feels like riding a merry-go-round on LSD (in a good way); ‘Love To Love’ provides such a feel-good atmosphere it’s almost impossible

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In the dark and spacey reality of World’s End Press, it is 1986. Or 2004. Or 2050. Whatever the year, it’s clear that this is a reality unto itself. A place where romance exists on the dancefloor. And fights are resolved on the dancefloor. And universal answers are found on the dancefloor. It’s a very dancefloororiented reality, and I’ll be honest, I want to move there. This Melbourne four-piece have been kicking arse around the local scene for years, gaining a near flawless reputation as a live act, and building an arsenal of songs for a debut album worthy of the hype. And on this selftitled record, they deliver. Opener ‘To Send Our Love’ sets the tone with a thudding disco stomp and shimmering vocal harmonies. It’s dark, soaring and groovy. And in the alternate reality of World’s End Press, it is played over the end credits of every John Hughes movie. Also, John Hughes is still alive and directs every film. DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy gives the record the type of new-new wave sheen we’ve heard on tracks from Cut Copy, Massive Attack, and just about every other indie-dance band worth mentioning. But it’s the songwriting from WEP that lifts this album above most other debuts. The record is diverse in scope, as it snakes from bouncy disco tracks like single ‘Reformation Age’, through spacey jams (‘Deadbeat Sweetheart’), to iPhonewaving ballads (‘Chewing Gum Prayer’) with the ease of a teen rebel played by Judd Nelson winning over the heart of Molly Ringwald. OK, I’m still thinking about the John Hughes thing. In a genre that prides itself on chewing up and spitting out references, this record sounds refreshingly original. I’m looking forward to hearing more from these guys.

It’s crazy to think it’s been three whole years since Best Coast’s surf’n’sundrenched pop had everyone twisting and swaying longingly at summer festivals around the country. Fade Away is a “mini-album” (or a generous seven-track EP) with professed influences ranging from sleeping tablets to Patsy Cline and all the way to ’90s TV reruns. Best Coast are tweaking their sound with every release, and although at a first glance Fade Away is missing their characteristic surf/’60s blend of cheekiness, they are most certainly moving forward. ‘This Lonely Morning’ lifts the Californian duo off the ground to a pleasantly catchy start and is the track that feels most like it belongs on a TV series of the Freaks And Geeks era. That and the infectious ‘Who Have I Become’. ‘Fade Away’, an album highlight, is reminiscent of Best Coast’s earlier songs with its finger on the pulse of teen angst and confusion. It has a little more lyrical depth and shows that the pair can pull the plug on their lo-fi fuzziness and make a hit just as easily as they can with hidden, distorted vocals. ‘Baby I’m Crying’ has Bethany Cosentino’s vocals front and centre and leaves a nostalgically alt-country aftertaste that is actually more aurally pleasing than it sounds. The yearning to be country goes a bit too far in ‘I Don’t Know How’, where the build-up takes far too long and is ultimately dissatisfying. Not nearly as sunny as last year’s The Only Place or their hugely successful debut Crazy For You, Fade Away is a solid move towards a more varied spectrum of pop. Katie Davern

Jonathan Wilson’s second record is one of immaculate beauty and brilliant creativity, and an excellent follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album Gentle Spirit. A must listen. Daniel Prior

GEORGIA FAIR

PARQUET COURTS

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Fanfare’s scope and grandeur is never overdone; every time the album begins to get too big for its own boots it immediately holds back and turns from an epic sound into a ’60s strut that wouldn’t feel out of place on a Rolling Stones or Bob Dylan record. The album is just that good.

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The equation is simple; if you enjoyed Parquet Courts’ Light Up Gold from the start of this year, then you’ll also enjoy their new EP. The group has smartly decided not to change their winning formula too much; the rhythm section still plays fast and tight, they’re still one of the only bands going that are playing guitars how they’re meant to sound, and they still remind you of your favourite indie bands from times past. With all that in mind, it’s interesting to note what it is they have actually tweaked. For starters, they’ve decided to stretch out their songs a bit. The five songs here run almost as long as their 11-track debut album American Specialties. But they’re also experimenting with song form and structure. Opener ‘You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now’ is a standard, great Parquet Courts track, which actually designates time in the track for an honest to goodness guitar solo. ‘The More It Works’ sees the band’s penchant for jamming come through, previously only really heard on ‘Stoned And Starving’, which not coincidently was widely seen as Light Up Gold’s highlight. It’s no coincidence that this track is the best song here either. That, or whatever it is ‘He’s Seeing Paths’ is exactly. For seven minutes the band gets crazy with the cheese whiz, using an assemblage of thrift shop synthesisers and drum machines, held down once again by a steady bassline. It’s a similar move that Sonic Youth made with Master=Dik. They followed that up with Daydream Nation. Could a similar masterstroke be next for Parquet Courts? Whatever it is, it’ll no doubt be worth your time.

THE FLATLINERS

Trapped Flame Sony Music Trapped Flame seems an appropriate title for the second album from Sydney-bred and Melbourne-based duo Georgia Fair; an album which sees them deliver an impossibly well engineered and mastered recording, but one which fails to see the band’s personality come through. Aside from the rather dull opening song ‘Gloria’, you cannot find a song on Trapped Flame that sounds bad. ‘Fiery Night’ is filled with hypnotic drums, powerful vocals and a wonderfully energetic guitar; while the album’s first single ‘Love Free Me’ is a true standout – beautifully restrained instruments accentuate the smooth vocals, creating an almighty cry to the void. There is nothing wrong with this record in a purely aesthetic sense. However, the album lacks spirit. It lacks the heart which has been so predominantly affluent throughout the band’s previous releases. Trapped Flame seems less like the second album by Georgia Fair and more like a band paying homage to the idols of their upbringing. An album like this works when it lays out the band’s various musical inspirations like a jigsaw puzzle, showing what parts make up and create their sound. Instead, this feels like the band was simply trying to impress their heroes, eagerly seeking vindication rather than proving they possess a sound which is of equal standing as those they hold in such high regard. Trapped Flame isn’t a bad listen, but it also isn’t a Georgia Fair album. It’s a highly polished tribute, one which echoes the band’s potential but fails to realise it. Daniel Prior

Dead Language New Damage Records/Cooking Vinyl

After starting a band when they were in their mid-teens and playing together for a decade or so, you could forgive The Flatliners for wanting to deviate from their recognised sound. They did it once before, leaving their ska roots behind a couple of albums back. Who could blame them for writing a pop tune or maybe adding some keys to the mix? On their latest LP Dead Language, the Toronto fourpiece does nothing of the sort – and thank fuck for that. With non-stop touring over the last few years for their previous album Cavalcade, there was no time to hole themselves up in a remote cabin and give themselves to the songwriting process. This album was written on the road and tested on the stage, and it shows in the recording. The guitars are raw, the production is minimal, and singer Chris Cresswell’s voice is at its larynx-shredding best. Following the path trodden on Cavalcade, the band has taken their foot off the accelerator a little compared to their past work. The redlining punk cuts are still there with the stand-out being opener ‘Resuscitation Of The Year’, but it’s the mid-tempo songs that showcase a maturing song craft. ‘Tail Feathers’ and ‘Birds Of England’ venture into earthy, blue-collar territory; ‘Hounds’ wouldn’t sound out of place in an arena rock show; while ‘Dead Hands’ swings like a Misfits record and has a sing-along chorus that will be a live staple for years to come. Don’t expect anything groundbreaking on Dead Language, but who cares? This is a damn fine punk rock album. Rick Warner

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INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK SEABELLIES Fever Belle Permanent/Shock Records Seabellies write songs that make you want to alternatively dance with and hug someone. Maybe at the same time. Maybe their frontman, Trent Grenell, who sounds here like he’s torn between heartbroken nostalgia and the joy of starting over. The band have been crafting a sound over the past three releases that is undoubtedly theirs – yearning vocals, swirling synthesisers, staccato strings, dancefloor grooves. They arrived almost

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fully formed with their debut EP Wave Your Fingers To Make The Winters, yet their latest offering doesn’t rely on old tricks. Fever Belle pushes the blend of electronica and indie rock into an expansive new sonic territory for the Newcastle five-piece. And it is exciting. This is a band that isn’t afraid of risk. In that regard, the pairing with producers Berkfinger (Philadelphia Grand Jury) and Tim Whitten (The Go-Betweens) makes for a stirringly bizarre blend of textures that come together like jigsaw pieces. Oh, and it helps that the songwriting is in top form. Thematically, the record seems to be about falling apart and picking up the pieces (I’m

sure there’s another jigsaw reference to be made here...), and this feeling grows throughout the album. It all starts off warm and relaxed, with title track ‘Fever Belle’ and single ‘It’s Alright’ lulling us into security. By the time the stomp of ‘Berlin Horses’ hits, we are thrown into a more urgent second half that holds all the way to bubbling, spacey jam of ‘Dark Echoes’. Seabellies have always been unashamedly romantic, but they ain’t soft. Fever Belle dirties up their pretty sound in a way that feels genuinely dangerous and beautiful. Put on the album, and hug-dance someone till it ends.

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BRING ME THE HORIZON, OF MICE & MEN, CROSSFAITH Hordern Pavilion Sunday October 6 There are few times, if any, when I have feared for my life. The cavernous surroundings of the Hordern were swarming with an assortment of coloured hair, metalfaced tweens, slogan tees and merchflaunting 50-something-year-olds, and I was still only just processing all this when Crossfaith’s Kenta Koie hunched over his microphone and demanded, “EVERYBODY JUMP THE FUCK UP!” The Japanese deathcore band belted out tracks that arrested the crowd, delivering savage tracks from their latest album Apocalyze, and putting a stake through the ‘first support act’ stigma with sweat dripping across the room. Three songs in and a circlepit had already devoured the crowd, tattoos flying acroos the room as Koie’s screamo theatrics echoed throughout. The night marked the second round of touring Down Under for Yorkshire-based headliners Bring Me The Horizon, following two consecutive number one albums; their latest record Sempiternal teaching everyone a new word and growing their legion of fans internationally. So being sandwiched in between the impending apocalypse and a fantastically catastrophic opener, one would expect Of Mice & Men to fall into the mousetrap. Wrong. The star-spangled fivepiece launched into their set with the most epic Star Wars intro conceivable, leadman Austin Carlile declaring “I’m coming in hot

MATT CORBY, BEAR’S DEN, BREE TRANTER Hordern Pavilion Friday October 11 Pitched somewhere in between the screaming hordes of girls and, well, more hordes of screaming girls, I moped disdainfully as Matt Corby crooned out his intricately crafted songs, moments of ruminating pause violated by squeals and one particularly heartbreaking demand of “Just fucking sing, brother!” from a drunken concertgoer who was, unfortunately, twice my size and therefore safe from my wrath. Bree Tranter is the first victim of the tween army. Having once lent her vocals to indie outfit The Middle East, her solo efforts are received with ambivalence and blank gazes. With lush vocals filling the room and the ambient accompaniment of her band resonating throughout each song, Tranter proves an enchanting performer. Her EP Jaws has the earnest glow of Ellie Goulding with the bite of Florence Welch. Tranter’s vocal technique is eerie at times, but always flawless, and pierces the dreamy pop soundscapes in a way that most pop artists fall far short of, and most audiences would be in awe of. “We were told it would be warmer,” muses Andrew Davies in a thick cockney accent. The frontman of London-based three-piece Bear’s Den tries to add warmth to the cold audience, leading his outfit into tracks from

/ I’m coming in fast” before bellowing out “WIDER!”, using his mic to part the nowred sea of people into a Wall Of Death. Succeeding, he propelled the mic into the air and tilted his head so the cord swung violently and wrapped itself around his neck. Therein, it was fist pumps, emphatic singalongs and more enthused formations in the crowd. An incredible sight. Then the lights dimmed, the crowd silently regaining strength for the show’s heroes: Bring Me The Horizon. Sheer curtains went up and the silhouette of each member was projected with beaming strobes onto the surface. The sheet fell, glitter confetti poured down from the heavens and Oli Sykes cried out the opening lines to ‘Can You Feel My Heart?’ Everyone absolutely lost their shit; the speakers were cranked up by a hundred and the lighting show drowned the crowds who were trying to outsing each other. ‘Shadow Moses’ saw a moving (literally) calland-response exchange with the audience, who yelled, “We’re going nowhere”. A few spins off past records snuck in, ‘Chelsea Smile’ still proving a highlight, but the majority of the set was a showcase of the new album, undoubtedly converting many to consider it their best one yet.

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their new EP, Agape, a collection of didactic folk ditties with lush harmonies that sound like a mix of Passenger and Mumford & Sons. Notably, Bear’s Den member Kevin Jones co-founded the Communion label with Mumford’s Ben Lovett, so we can excuse some of the similarities there. ‘Mother’ is a stand-out track, with the banjo being assaulted and foot-tapping all round. A light, pure a capella rings through the Hordern, and everyone is momentarily brought to a standstill as three spotlights illuminate the demigod seated at a keyboard in the centre of the stage. Suddenly, primal cries of affection and pleas for marriage echo across the crowd, hundreds of iPhones synonymously thrust into the air. Matt Corby leaves his post and mounts a guitar; ‘Runaway’ and the soul-shedding “She don’t give a shit about me” hook tormenting dry eyes. ‘Resolution’ is unleashed early in the set, closely behind ‘Brother’, Corby’s bandmates manning extra drums to breathe out thunderous soundscapes. But the standout is ‘Trick Of The Light’, the funky blues number that opens with Corby beatboxing (quite impressively) and looping that beneath layers of vocal mastery. It took an hour to exit the venue because my best friend bears an uncanny resemblance to Corby himself, a fate equal parts hilarious and sad. And also the final nail in the ‘all ages gig’ coffin. Still, you did great, Matt. Mina Kitsos

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Songs On Stage - feat: Helmut Uhlmann + Chris Brookes + Massimo Presti + Rick Taylor Kelly’s On King, Newtown. 7pm. free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Reggae Monday Civic Underground, Sydney. 10pm. free.

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Brackets And Jam Happy Mondays Session Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. free. Caravana Sun - feat: The Barefoot Band Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm. free. Frankie’s World Famous House Band Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney. 9pm. free. Steve Tonge Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 8:30pm. free.

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Rob Henry Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 8:30pm. free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Old School Funk & Groove Night - feat: DJs Elchino And Jon Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. free.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Marosi Di Buriana - feat: Tessitura + Olajuwan + The Captains Of Industries Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 7pm. $10. Mike Nock Trio + Casey Golden Trio Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. $15.

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Chris Stretton Stamford Grand, North Ryde. 5:45pm. free. Musos Club Jam Night Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichardt. 8pm. free. Pulp Kitchen And Folk Club - feat: Live Rotating Folk Bands Soda Factory, Surry Hills. 5pm. free. Songs On Stage - feat: Angelene Harris + Confession & Denial + Vincent Pham

Andy Mammers Duo Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney. 9pm. free. Carl Fidler Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 9:30pm. free. Dan Sultan Lizotte’s Newcastle, Newcastle. 7pm. $39. Hitseekers Three Wise Monkeys, Sydney. 10pm. free. Joe Echo Duo O’Malleys Hotel, Kings Cross. 9:30pm. free. Lunchbreak - feat: Zeahorse FBi Social, Kings Cross. 1pm. free. Shining Bird + I Am Apollo + Jimmy Tait Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 7pm. $12. Tim Chaisson The Vanguard, Newtown. 6:30pm. $18. Uni Bar100 Bar100, The Rocks. 9pm. free. Victoria Avenue Hillside Hotel, Castle Hill. 6:30pm. free.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 24 ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

Live Music Thursdays Bar100, The Rocks. 5pm. free. Musos Club Jam Night Carousel Inn Hotel, Rooty Hill. 8pm. free. Songs On Stage - feat: Peach Montgomery & Guests Forest Lodge Hotel, Forest Lodge. 7:30pm. free. Songs On Stage - feat: Chris Raicevich + Stuart Jammin + Paul Ackroyd + Freya And Alex + Olivia Jane + Pat O’Connor + Jaimie Deakin Ruby L’otel, Rozelle. 7:30pm. free. Songwriter Sessions - feat: John Chesher + Vincent Pham Mars Hill Cafe, Parramatta. 7pm. $15.

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Andy Mammers Dee Why Hotel, Dee Why. 7pm. free. Anthems Of Oz Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 9:30pm. free. Bec Sandridge Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst. 7pm. $12. Dan Sultan The Basement, Circular Quay. 7:30pm. $34.80. Dave White Duo Maloney’s Hotel, Sydney. 9:30pm. free. Doc Holiday Takes The Shotgun Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $10. Electroshock 3 - feat: Cubridian + Snuff + Machina + Noveaux + Ar12 + The Arbitrary Method Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 7pm. $10. Gary Johns Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 9:30pm. free. Geoff Rana Australian Hotel And Brewery, Rouse Hill. 9:30pm. free. Kaibe/Suiix + Camden + Lanterns + Pilbu FBi Social, Kings Cross. 8pm. $10. Kate Winchester Bexley North Hotel, Bexley North. 6:30pm. free. Cosmo Jarvis + Lime Cordiale The Annandale Hotel, Annandale. 8pm. $35.20. Matt Jones Hillside Hotel, Castle Hill. 7:30pm. free. Paul Greene - feat: Jodi Martin Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 7pm. $15. Redlight Ruby O’Malleys Hotel, Kings Cross. 9:30pm. free. Sarah Blasko Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. $25. Sarah Paton Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 8:30pm. free. The Barons Of Tang Hotel Steyne, Manly. 9pm. free. Wildcatz Three Wise Monkeys, Sydney. 10pm. free. Wilson/Diesel + Tim Chaisson Lizotte’s Dee Why, Dee Why. 8pm. $50.

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Live Music Fridays Bar100, The Rocks. 5pm. free. Pete Hunt Cock N’ Bull, Bondi Junction. 7pm. free. Renae Stone Customs House Bar, Sydney. 7pm. free. Sammy Baker The Eastern, Bondi Junction. 10pm. free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Feel Good Friday Jazz Session - feat: Mike Rivett + Greg Coffin + Cameron Undy & Andrew Gander Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. free. The Shuffle Demons Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 9pm. $20.

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A-Team Duo Town Hall Hotel, Balmain. 9pm. free. Bounce Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 10:30pm. free. Boy & Bear + Battleships + Dustin Tebbutt Enmore Theatre, Newtown. 7:30pm. $44.80. Brendan Deehan O’Malleys Hotel, Kings Cross. 8pm. free. Carl Fidler Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 8:30pm. free. Castlecomer Kirribilli Hotel, Milsons Point. 8pm. free. David McMaster Mona Vale Hotel, Mona Vale. 5:30pm. free. Dead Dieties - feat: Na Maza + Temtris + Vintage Vulva + Unrest + Torch The Village Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 7pm. $10. Dora D Duo Hillside Hotel, Castle Hill. 8pm. free. Duelling Pianos + Flux The Star, Pyrmont. 10:30pm. free. East Coast Band Crows Nest Hotel, Crows Nest. 10:30pm. free. Ebony Black + The Hot Potato Band + Jorja Carroll Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 7pm. $23. Eskimo Joe Metro Theatre, Sydney. 8pm. $47.90. Evie Dean Novotel, Darling Harbour. 5:30pm. free. Fall Out Boy + British India Sydney Entertainment Centre, Darling Harbour. 8pm. $91.70. Fatt Lipp Vineyard Hotel, Vineyard. 9pm. free. Greg Agar Crows Nest Hotel, Crows Nest. 7pm. free. Greg Agar Duo Kings Cross Hotel, Kings Cross. 12am. free. Halloween, A Ska Punk Party - feat: Chris Duke And The Royals + Kujo Kings + Ebolagoldfish + Hanball Deathmatch + General Pants & The Privates + Laura Palmer Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 9pm. $15. Heath Burdell Northies Cronulla Hotel, Cronulla. 9pm. free. Hue Williams Club Ashfield, Sydney. 7:30pm. free. Jamie Lindsay Kings Cross Hotel, Kings Cross. 7pm. free. Joe Echo + Mark Oats Duo PJ Gallagher’s, Leichhardt. 8pm. free. Jonny Rock Australian Hotel And Brewery, Rouse Hill. 9pm. free. Korpiklaani Manning Bar, Camperdown. 8pm. $59. Lenka + Amali Ward The Vanguard, Newtown. 8pm. $23.80. Lightning Bolt The Standard, Surry Hills. 8pm. $44. Live Music At The Royal The Royal, Leichhardt. 9:30pm. free. Luke & Ben Duo Mona Vale Hotel, Mona Vale. 9pm. free. Matt Jones Harbord Beach Hotel, Freshwater. 8pm. free. Nathan Cole + Will Teague St George Leagues Club, Kogarah. 9pm. free. Pat O’Grady Chatswood RSL, Chatswood. 5:30pm. free. Rock Solid Duo North Sydney Leagues Club,

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Collector Hotel, Parramatta. 7pm. free. Songs On Stage - feat: Peach Montgomery + Bradley Primmer Sackville Hotel, Rozelle. 7:30pm. free. Songs On Stage - feat: Helmut Uhlmann + Anthony Silvestrini + Carla Burke The Loft (UTS Loft), Ultimo. 6pm. free.

g g guide gig g send your listings to : gigguide@thebrag.com Cammeray. 7:30pm. free. Screamfeeder - feat: Guests Smudge + Sounds Like Sunset & The Majestic Horses The Annandale Hotel, Annandale. 7:30pm. $23.50. Southerly Busters Engadine Tavern, Engadine. 9:30pm. free. Stratovarius + Eyefear + Darker Half The Hi-Fi, Moore Park. 8pm. $65. The Lonely Boys Malborough Hotel, 10:30pm. free. The Music Maker’s Club feat: New Regulars + Adam George + Beautiful Fools + Leura + Wires Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 8pm. free. The Sleepwalkers Club Volume IV: feat - Black Springs + The Electric Vogues + Hank Haint FBi Social, Kings Cross. 8pm. $10. Thunderstruck AC/DC Show Bull & Bush Hotel, Baulkham Hills. 10pm. free. Van Sereno Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 10:30pm. free. Violent Soho + Straight Arrows Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 9pm. $18. Zoltan Cronulla RSL, Cronulla. 7:30pm. free.

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Live Music Saturdays Bar100, The Rocks. 4pm. free. Paul Hayward And Friends Town & Country Hotel, St Peters. 4pm. free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Afro Moses Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. $15. Bakoomba + Berias Maseque Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 7:30pm. $20. Hiatus Kaiyote The Standard, Surry Hills. 8pm. $25.

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3 Way Split Moorebank Sports Club, Hammondville. 9pm. free. 80s Rock Revival Bull & Bush Hotel, Baulkham Hills. 9:30pm. free. Alex Hopkins Kirribilli Hotel, Milsons Point. 8pm. free. Altitude

Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 10:30pm. free. Am 2 Pm North Sydney Leagues Club, Cammeray. 7:30pm. free. Andy Mammers Duo Hillside Hotel, Castle Hill. 7pm. free. As You Were Engadine Tavern, Engadine. 9:30pm. free. Audego + Friendships + Nakagin + East To West DJs FBi Social, Kings Cross. 8pm. free. Behemoth + Hour Of Penance Manning Bar, Camperdown. 8pm. $63.25. Blaming Vegas Riverwood Inn, Riverwood. 8pm. free. Bounce PJ’s, Parramatta. 9pm. free. Brendan Deehan Harbord Beach Hotel, Freshwater. 8pm. free. Cam Nacson Crows Nest Hotel, Crows Nest. 7pm. free. Carl Fidler Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 4:20pm. free. Charlie Horse The Vanguard, Newtown. 6pm. $15.80. Electric Anthems Trio Paragon Hotel, Sydney. 9:30pm. free. Fatt Lipp Carousel Inn Hotel, Rooty Hill. 8pm. free. Gemma Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 10:30pm. free. Ignition Three Wise Monkeys, Sydney. 10pm. free. Joe Echo PJ Gallagher’s, Moore Park, 7:30pm. free. KP Australian Hotel And Brewery, Rouse Hill. 10pm. free. Last Stand Cold Chisel Show South Hurstville RSL Club, South Hurstville. 9pm. free. Leon Fallon Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 3:30pm. free. Mark Da Costa Crows Nest Hotel, Crows Nest. 10:30pm. free. Mark Oats + Cara Kavanagh Duo PJ Gallagher’s, Leichhardt. 9pm. free. Matt Jones Duo Town Hall Hotel, Balmain. 10pm. free. Rob Henry Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 8:30pm. free. Sarah Paton Duo Northies Cronulla Hotel, Cronulla. 9pm. free. The Black Cherry Halloween Fiesta - feat: El Vez The Mexican Elvis + The Barons Of Tang + Mariachi Trio + The Art + Mesa Cosa + Our Last Enemy + The Drey Rollan Band + Mad Charlie The Factory Theatre, Marrickville. 8pm. $35. The Brewster Brothers Hiatus Kaiyote

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SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Jan Preston Seymour Centre, Chippendale. 3pm. $19. Jef Neve Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. $25.

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Charlie Parr + Andrew Morris Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 6:30pm. $29.70. Finn Ruby L’otel, Rozelle. 6pm. free. Intimate Sessions Paragon Hotel, Sydney. 6pm. free. Live Music Sundays Bar100, The Rocks. 1pm. free. Songs On Stage - feat: Andrew Denniston Garry Owen Hotel, Rozelle. 3pm. free.

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Benjalu Hotel Steyne, Manly. 7pm. free. Boy & Bear + Battleships + Dustin Tebbutt Enmore Theatre, Newtown. 7:30pm. $44.80. Carus Thompson Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 7pm. $20. David Agius Harbord Beach Hotel, Freshwater. 6pm. free. Heath Burdell Mill Hill Hotel, Bondi Junction. 3pm. free. Helpful Kitchen Gods, Forenzics Curb & Mystery Guest Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale. 5pm. free. Lily Dior’s Big Funky Farewall Party Blue Beat, Sydney. 8pm. $20. Matt Jones Band Three Wise Monkeys, Sydney. 10pm. free. Nathan Cole Peachtree Hotel, Penrith. 1pm. free. Nicky Kurta Duo Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel, Woolloomooloo. 3pm. free. Psychic Sun - feat: The Plasmon Resonance Band + Leslie Speaker Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 5pm. $10. Redlight Ruby Northies Cronulla Hotel, Cronulla. 6pm. free. Rob Henry Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 8pm. free. Rockchick Ent Presents Metal Show - feat: Oakseer + Tomorrow Never Comes + Harmony Of Hate + Facing Zero + Kunvuk + A Vengeance Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 12pm. $10. Sleep Manning Bar, Camperdown. 7pm. $41.65. Sydney Blues Society Botany View Hotel, Newtown. 7pm. free. Three Wise Men Observer Hotel, The Rocks. 4pm. free. BRAG :: 535 :: 21:10:13 :: 35

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Fall Out Boy + British India Sydney Entertainment Centre, Darling Harbour. 8pm. $91.70.

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Behemoth + Hour Of Penance Manning Bar, Camperdown. 8pm. $63.25.

Korpiklaani Manning Bar, Camperdown. 8pm. $59.

Stratovarius + Eyefear + Darker Half The Hi-Fi, Moore Park. 8pm. $65.

Charlie Horse The Vanguard, Newtown. 6pm. $15.80.

Lenka + Amali Ward The Vanguard, Newtown. 8pm. $23.80.

Violent Soho + Straight Arrows Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 9pm. $18.

Lightning Bolt The Standard, Surry Hills. 8pm. $44.

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The Black Cherry Halloween Fiesta - Feat: El Vez The Mexican Elvis + The Barons Of Tang + Mariachi Trio + The Art + Mesa Cosa + Our Last Enemy + The Drey Rollan Band + Mad Charlie The Factory Theatre, Marrickville. 8pm. $35.

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Hiatus Kaiyote The Standard, Surry Hills. 8pm. $25.

Yellowcard + Toy Boats Enmore Theatre, Newtown. 8pm. $67.60.

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Sarah Blasko Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. $25.

Dan Sultan Lizotte’s Newcastle, Newcastle. 7pm. $39.

The Barons Of Tang Hotel Steyne, Manly. 9pm. Free. Wilson/Diesel + Tim Chaisson Lizotte’s Dee Why, Dee Why. 8pm. $50.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 24 Kaibe/Suiix + Camden + Lanterns + Pilbu FBi Social, Kings Cross. 8pm. $10. Cosmo Jarvis + Lime Cordiale The Annandale Hotel, Annandale. 8pm. $35.20.

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MØ stage dived two times during the show, and that was the first time I’ve ever stage dived! That was magical. Current Playlist I haven’t been to that many 4. concerts these past months, ’cause when we’re on the road, we almost never have time to stay and we have to mingle, or we are too tired. But the greatest gigs I’ve seen recently [were] MS MR (Reading Festival) and Reptile Youth (Dcode Festival) – I’m a big fan of both bands, and an even bigger fan of the Reptile Youths stage show! Actually I’m a little boring when it comes to listening to music in my ‘free time’ – ’cause the fact is, I don’t really listen to music when I wander around at home. It [interferes] too much with the music in my head, so I try not to be overstimulated. But to name a few – I’m really into Major Lazer, Twin Shadow, Nirvana and Cat Power at the moment.

What Do You Look For In A Band/Producer? In a band, I look for people who are not afraid to let go when they are onstage. It’s very important for me that the band is being true to the audience, and not try to play a role, but just stay themselves but in an ecstatic and focused mindset. In a producer I look for somewhat similar – a guy or girl who’s not afraid to let go and take chances, and by all means stay true to their art – not trying to sound like the

trend of the month like everybody else. Keeping Busy The last four months I’ve 2. been busy finishing an EP and my debut album – alongside that, I’ve been touring like a lion; loads of European festivals. I can’t wait to play Australia for the first time soon! Best Gig Ever When you ask me this, 3. I actually feel very privileged, ’cause when I come to think

IVY NYE FT DANNY TENAGLIA

Celebrated New York DJ Danny Tenaglia will play a five-hour set at the Ivy on New Year’s Eve, with support from Irish duo Bicep, Cyril Hahn and English producer Will B. An irrepressible force behind the decks, Tenaglia’s discography features the classic album Tourism, which spawned the classic cuts ‘Elements’ and ‘Music Is The Answer’, his Global Underground mix Athens and remixes of Madonna, Green Velvet, Faithless and a refashioning of Depeche Mode’s ‘I Feel Loved’ that received a Grammy nomination. He’s also released under the moniker of Code 718 and collaborated with Celada on many occasions; while ‘Music Is The Answer’ climbed the charts, it’s the Tenaglia-produced cut ‘Be Yourself’ from ’99 that still does the business in the clubs today. A veteran who has remained on the cutting edge of club music since starting out in the ’70s, Tenaglia integrates his own edits into his DJ sets, which showcase the fruits of many, many hours of crate-digging (or the digital equivalent). “I simply live for the element of surprise and shock value of all sorts,” Tenaglia stated recently. Presales go on sale Tuesday October 22, with first release tickets coming in at slightly under $100.

FUNKINEVEN VS DRO CAREY

Eglo Records’ FunkinEven will make his second appearance Down Under and play side-byside with Sydney’s own Dro Carey for the next instalment of the Resident Advisor ‘VS’ series, which is slotted for Friday November 29 at The Civic Underground. FunkinEven first made his mark through his output on Eglo Records, and has subsequently collaborated with Fatima and Kyle Hall under the name FunkinEvil, accumulating a body of work that traverses funk, R&B and electro soundscapes. Meanwhile, local producer Eugene Hector, AKA Dro Carey, makes music that incorporates everything from techno and house to R&B, rap, juke and grime, with his ‘Journey With The Heavy’ EP attracting comparisons to “myriad 38 :: BRAG :: 535 :: 21:10:13

about it, I think I’ve played a lot [of gigs] where the crowd has been overwhelmingly good to me. But if I should put one in the spotlight, the best gig I’ve played [to] this day was only three weeks back at a university party here in Denmark. The crowd was crazy and in good spirits, and me and my band had been waiting for six hours to get onstage, so when we finally were there and the atmosphere in the tent was enchanting, we just – without speaking – decided to give them a hell of a ride, and we did. I

Your Ultimate Rider I would have generous 5. goodie bags for all in the band. A fancy waiter who can [do] tricks and shit, and make splendid cocktails and delicious drinks for all of us. Unlimited amounts of sushi. A massage stand and a hot massage dude for me, and some dirty massage chicks for the boys. Healthy wonder soup and a big cosy couch to chill out on. With: Kilter Where: Goodgod Small Club When: Tuesday October 29

ARMIN VAN BUUREN: INTENSE

Here’s one for the diary: Dutch DJ megastar Armin van Buuren has announced that he’ll bring his Armin Only: Intense spectacular to Sydney on Sunday June 8, 2014. Armin released his album Intense earlier this year, which he described to Pete Tong as comprising “more house-y electro stuff and of course trance, some rock influence, even a little bit of dubstep and classical music”. A law graduate and all-round nice guy, Armin’s marathon live performances take clubbers on a six-hour journey into his music, backed by state of the art production and visuals.

Moodymann B-sides” from Resident Advisor. With both headliners possessing a penchant for experimentation and exploration, the night will cover a broad spectrum of sounds. Presale tickets can be bought online for $25.

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Strange Fruit will team up with the Mantra Collective crew for a collaborative party on Saturday November 9 at The Abercrombie headlined by German DJ and producer Santé. The man behind the Avotre record label, Santé started out as a composer for TV commercials. He has since established himself as a key figure in the club realm, releasing on labels like Cocoon, Desolat and Souvenir and remixing Terranova and Piemont. Santé will be supported by Whitecat, Aboutjack, Space Junk, Antoine Vice and Strange Fruit head honcho Jordan ‘all hands on’ Deck. Presale tickets on sale through Pulse Radio.

2SER FUNK FUNDRAISER BLOCK PARTY

Soul of Sydney and 2SER’s Groove Therapy Radio are hosting a ‘Funk Fundraiser’ Block Party at a ‘Secret Funk Oasis’ this Sunday, with the location to be emailed to those who purchase tickets. Running from 1-8pm, the party will be headlined by Brooklyn’s DP ONE, an active member of the Heavy Hitters and Turntable Anihilists who has toured internationally with the likes of Lauryn Hill, Estelle and John Legend. The “kid friendly” fiesta doubles as a fundraiser for 2SER, the community radio station that has flown the flag for soul, funk, disco, hip hop, house and Afrobeat sounds over the years. Local DJs Shan Frenzie and Paris Groovescooter, both renowned for their roles on 2SER, will also be DJing along with Phil Toke, Michael Zac, Eadie Ramia and DJ Say Whut. The Block Party will also comprise a live Sydney street art project showcase featuring Billy Kid, with tickets a mere $5.

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SPICE CELLAR BIRTHDAY WITH CARL CRAIG

The Spice Cellar will celebrate its second birthday on Thursday November 21 with a headline set from Detroit luminary Carl Craig. The man behind Planet E Records, Craig has remixed the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Australia’s own Cut Copy and Theo Parrish, with Craig’s rework of ‘Falling Up’ surely among the best reworks of the past ten years. Like any techno producers worth his salt, the Detroit kingpin has released material under an array of different aliases. Craig’s approved ‘nom de booms’ include early pseudonym BFC, the jazz-indebted Innerzone Orchestra, his more laid-back Fat Freddy’s Drop moniker – just kidding – his experimental ‘69’ project and of course Paperclip People, responsible for classics such as ‘Throw’. The Spice Cellar’s second birthday will be a themed ‘Harajuku Neon’, with a ‘no effort, no entry’ door policy. The big question is, will Craig himself turn up as a Harajuku school girl? Doors open 11pm, with first release $25 tickets available online.

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MINX been a mixture of work and personal activities, really. After moving into a new place, I have been back in the studio with my buddy Chris Arnott as we’ve been working on another single together. I’ve been touring a bit but also made time to squeeze in a little holiday.

What Do You Look For In A DJ/Producer? 1. My Minx sound is a fairly large sound! I love to play main room progressive house. I love breakdowns and big builds and you will always hear a house element to my sets. Whether I incorporate tracks with piano, sax or a beautiful vocal, that’s my little signature really. Some real feeling in amongst the craziness…

I don’t like to be too predictable and that shines back to me through the crowd, I think. The surprise and excitement on their faces followed by some hands in the air action lets me know they’re digging what I’m doing. Definitely don’t plan on coming to one of my gigs and standing in the corner. Busy The past few months have 2. Keeping

JUSTIN VAN DER VOLGEN

New York producer Justin Van Der Volgen, formerly part of disco punk outfits !!! (Chk Chk Chk) and Out Hud, will perform at Soft & Slow on Friday November 15 at The Spice Cellar. Van Der Volgen has dropped remixes on Golf Channel, Warp Records and Blackdisco, while his 2009 mix CD, Try To Find Me Vol. 2, garnered praise from many a discerning critic and distilled Van Der Volgen’s DJ sensibility, traversing cuts from the likes of Eric Duncan, Francois K and DJ Shadow. Since leaving the groups he founded, Van Der Volgen has focused on disco edits and remixes on labels such as ESP Institute. He’s also released under the moniker of TBD with Lee Douglas. “I started in those bands a little bit before I turned 20 and I met most of them in the punk scene when I was a teenager, so they were some of the people I grew up with,” Van Der Volgen told BRAG’s sister publication Beat. “Out Hud ended when it was time, and I left !!! (Chk Chk Chk) when I felt it was right.” Local producer

I’ve had a few Asian gigs and trips this year, so the past few months I’ve mainly been gigging around Oz. The main focus has really been on rolling this new single out though. ‘Heaven’ was released early this month and so I’ve been putting all my energy into promo and touring for that. I’m so happy how it’s all turning out and we’ve had a great response from the industry so far. It’s available on iTunes and Beatport, just in case you were wondering. Best Gig Ever I’ve been thinking hard about 3. this – not because I can’t think of my best gig ever, but I’m trying to narrow it down to just one. My main stage opportunities at festivals in Australia have been the best time of my life. I felt nerves and excitement I’ve never felt before… however, I will never forget my Ibiza

Jamie Lloyd, who has been remixed by Matthew Herbert, Mark E and Jazzanova’s Alex Barck, heads up the support DJs.

BOOM BOOM FT DJ QU

The next Boom Boom bash is scheduled for this Saturday October 26 at Tatler, and shouldn’t be overlooked among the panoply of club events going down on the same night because headliner Ramon Lisandro Quezada, AKA DJ Qu, can more than hold his own against anybody. Qu dropped his debut LP Gymnastics a few years back, which established the New Jersey producer as a supreme proponent of house music. With a discography that also includes releases and remixes of Nina Kraviz and Sascha Dive on labels such as Rekids, Desolat and Synchroph, Qu is rightly rated extremely highly by dancers and fellow DJs alike. Local DJs Anthony Napoli, Tom Witheridge, Daniel Lupica and Boom Boom main man Karim will all be spinning in support. Presale tickets online for $15.

shows. The show that stands out for me has to be playing alongside Diplo, Paul Oakenfold, Disclosure, David Guetta, Carl Cox, Pete Tong and Loco Dice over two days at IMS at Dalt Vila at the opening of the 2012 season. I will never forget seeing my name on the posters and billboards around the island and the feeling that gave me. No words. Current Playlist I have a real mixed bag 4. taste in music. I love and listen to everything from The Doors and The Beatles, to Disclosure and Lorde, to Maya Jane Coles, Will Saul, Tini and Eelke Kleijn, to RüFüS and of course my main room progressive house that I play – Eric Prydz, Jerome IsmaAe, Kryder, and the list goes on. Your Ultimate Rider Yikes! I just hate being 5. difficult and putting people out, so I normally don’t ask for much. Some champagne or vodka usually does the job for me. What: ‘Heaven’ single launch party at Pacha Where: Ivy Bar/Lounge When: Saturday October 26

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GARDEN PARTY FT BOOKA SHADE & DIGITALISM The Chinese Laundry crew’s takeovers of Ivy have been going off recently, and they’re back at the George Street venue on Saturday October 26 for a Halloween Garden Party featuring DJ sets from Booka Shade and Digitalism, plus a host of partystarters including Mark Dynamix, Matt Nugent, Jace Disgrace, Matt Ferriera, Tim Galvin, Brenden Fing, Sushi, Acaddamy and Badmouth. “Halloween costumes encouraged”, reads the poster, which in our eyes means they’re compulsory. The headlining German house duo, Booka Shade, consists of veteran spinners Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, and have a new album ready to drop this November: Eve.

We’ve got some Halloween love to give away, of course, with a double pass to the Ivy party up for grabs. Email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us the name of Digitalism’s debut album for the chance to win.

NYE AT THE HOUSE FT SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM

Sneaky Sound System will headline New Year’s Eve at the Sydney Opera House, with support from all gal DJ duo The Faders and DJ RobKay. Sneaky Sound System is the glamorous two-piece of Black Angus and Miss Connie Mitchell, who’ve released charttopping singles such as ‘We Love’ on Modular Records after initially making their mark as a DJ collective at Hugo’s Lounge many moons ago. For a mere $495 (champagne and food included) you’ll be privy to the pair’s NYE performance, which will be complemented by visuals designed by Mambo artist and Mental As Anything musician Reg Mombassa. Oh and a few fireworks too, of course.

Sneaky Sound System photo by Ben Sullivan

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BONOBO

Following the recent announcement that Simon Green, AKA Bonobo, will be performing at the Sydney Opera House on Monday January 6, we’ve further good news for Bonobophiles. The 33rd edition in the Late Night Tales series will be mixed by the man himself, a musician well suited to soundtracking an evening spent reclining to some parallel beats. Exploring soul, jazz, classical, pop, funk, leftfield and rock pieces, Bonobo’s Late Night Tales features cuts from the likes of Bill Evans, Matthew Bourne, Dustin O’Halloran, Menahan Street Band and the Hypnotic Brass Band. Keeping with the tradition of the Late Night Tales series, Bonobo has contributed an exclusive cover of Donovan’s ‘Get Thy Bearings’. You can wrap your ears around the compilation when it’s released on Monday November 18 through Balance Music.

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Sub Focus The Production Line By Augustus Welby

t’s often necessary for dance music festivals to specify on their lineups which acts will actually be performing live, as opposed to just DJing. Fans of UK electronic producer Sub Focus (AKA Nick Douwma) will be pleased to observe the “live” tag next to his name on the poster for next year’s Future Music Festival. Speaking from his London studio, Douwma emphasises that his shows are certainly an active undertaking. “The show’s me playing all of my own songs on a fully electronic setup. I guess the best way to describe it would be live remixing,” he says. “I’m taking elements of my tracks and doing different things with them on the sly.” The brand new Sub Focus LP Torus features collaborations with a number of guest vocalists, including Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke on the chart hit ‘Turn It Around’. Douwma won’t be joined on tour by the record’s vocal contributors but he says the Sub Focus live show provides plenty to stimulate.

What So Not The Dream Team By Mina Kitsos

hree years of gigging and two EPs now stud the crowns of Sydney’s electro magnates, What So Not. Sitting comfortably upon the throne of a genre they’ve reworked entirely, the duo has plunged the local music scene into a menagerie of quirky soundscapes, causing ripples behind decks internationally. Chris ‘Emoh Instead’ Emerson, the wunderkind counterpart to production wizard Harley ‘Flume’ Streten, has just unveiled his first official solo track, ‘Out To Dry’, on the prestigious dance label Sweat It Out – and with Flume’s single-handed debut going platinum and fuelling two national sell-out tours, we all oughta pay attention.

“I was talking to A-Trak earlier this year and he said, ‘It’s like you guys have this sample pack of the weirdest sounds in the world and you only use those to make your songs, and it’s freakin’ amazing.’ Yeah, that was pretty cool.”

What So Not’s latest output, The Quack EP, has garnered praise from the likes of Flosstradamus, Boys Noize and Diplo. Emerson says their approach has remained simple. “When we started, we weren’t trying to do anything. We were just doing what we loved and what we thought the scene was missing. I really don’t think you can do anything better than that; just draw from the best elements of the best elements around. You just bring it all together in your own way and I think people really like that.” He admits the A-list attention is still frazzling, though.

So how did the dream team come about? “I was DJing around Australia and Harley had just turned 18, and he saw me play at Chinese Laundry. At the time – we discussed it later, but we both felt the music at the time was headed quite mainstream. He was like, ‘Hey man, do you want to get in the studio and write music? I like what you’re playing.’ It was really a sort of way of me breaking him into the industry, and him breaking me into production.”

The new solo material, however, isn’t the first time Emoh’s had to set himself apart. The former accountant was thrust into a legal battle when he began DJing at 19 as Elmo Is Dead. “Sesame Street had to take me to court. It was pretty tormenting and cost me a lot of money to just nullify it. We ended up doing a settlement agreement, but it was really bad for someone so young to go through something like that.”

In between sets, tours and recording, Emoh says the two don’t have a set formula for creating a track. “We’ve definitely got a very good working relationship and process. At the start, it was very much trial and error. It’s always changing. We’re at a point now where we don’t get a whole lot of time in the studio together, but we just send each other project files and almost remix each others tracks to develop them into what eventually becomes a What So Not finished product.” The Quack, out through Skrillex’s OWSLA label, vaunts collaborations with the crème de la crop of international beatmasters. Spiking oriental mixes with signature warped soundscapes and thundering bass, the record had its world premiere on Mark Ronson’s Authentic Sh*t radio show and has since infected the masses at packed-out music festivals. Emoh seems pretty chuffed. “We’ve got Action Bronson, DMAC, Deize

Tigrona, Blood Diamonds… it was really good working with a bunch of vocalists on that EP. I honestly just love getting in studios with anyone, finding out how they work, finding out little tricks. I just spent this week in the studio with Crookers. He’s really given me some insight into things I haven’t really thought about. A lot of the guys coming through Oz are international and often want to meet up, catch up, share some tracks. It’s really cool like that.” While there are hints of the grimy pulses of his work in Fake Bratpack, Emoh says songwriting alone is still a whole different mindset. “Because I’m writing it myself, it heads in a different direction at different points in time. So where Harley might say, ‘Let’s do this’, I’ll say, ‘No, let’s head in this direction’ … It’s like the middle ground between What So Not and Flume; it’s got similar elements but I think I focus a lot more on drums because I was a drummer all through my childhood, and also brass and horn are something I’ve always loved – more ghetto booty kind of music,” he laughs.

“I wanted to come up with a show that allows me to perform, and change, as much of the music as possible in a live setting. I use motion sensors, which are a bit like theremins – they allow me to move my hands around. We’ve also made the lighting in the show audioreactive so at points during the show the lights are actually responding to stuff I’m doing, whether it be playing the keyboard or hitting the drum pad or using these motion sensors.” Kele’s not the only impressive vocalist appearing on the album, with other guests including rising pop lass Foxes and lesser-known English performers MNEK and Jayelldee. Collaborating with vocalists on almost every song greatly distinguishes Torus from Sub Focus’ self-titled debut. Douwma explains his newfound relish for working with other musicians. “I didn’t really want to do an album with tons of features on it, but I much prefer songwriting with other people

so that’s how it ended up … The last album was basically just me in my bedroom writing tracks completely in isolation. [On this album] there’s a lot more collaboration in general, which is quite refreshing for me”. The internet makes it easy for artists to work together without being in the same room, but Douwma opted to personally seek out the acts who feature on the album, engaging in an interactive exchange of ideas. Virtual technology still played a part in the process, however, as Douwma elaborates on how he worked with Kele. “Kele is someone who I’d wanted to work with for ages; I’m a big fan of Bloc Party and I love his voice on electronic stuff. He was living in New York at the time so we were sending files to and from each other, then we got together when he moved back to London, about six months ago, to finish the track.” Joining forces with many artists from a variety of genres has evidently broadened Sub Focus’ stylistic reach. Douwma says he previously regarded composition as an introspective activity, but he’s come to embrace the unique results offered by creative conference. “I think an album gains a lot of richness from having multiple different players and people on it. I was quite interested [hearing] about the whole process behind the Daft Punk album recently. They were pretty much playing the role of the old-fashioned producer, getting the best players together in a room and recording the results. I definitely enjoyed the process of getting lots of people to contribute in small ways.” What: Future Music Festival 2014 With: Deadmau5, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Phoenix, Hardwell, Rudimental, Eric Prydz, Kaskade, Porter Robinson and more Where: Royal Randwick Racecourse When: Saturday March 8 And: Torus out now through Universal/EMI

After a snowboarding accident a year ago, the 23-year-old Emoh has made pilates and stretching a daily ritual and a pre-show routine, teaming it with “no more than three drinks before I start, and then a shot just before I go on.” In the wake of a raved-about two-part set at this year’s Splendour, What So Not are hitting up Karnevil at Luna Park’s Big Top to ring in Halloween. With luck, Emoh will remember all his gear this time. “[Splendour] was the biggest show that we’ve done thus far. Harley was really pissed off... I forgot to bring the headphones for the first half of the set while we were warming up for James Blake. That’s okay for me, but Harley can’t play without headphones. He was onstage just smiling, hands up, but he was like, ‘I’m so angry at you right now.’ It was pretty hilarious.” What: Karnevil With: Bombs Away, Nina Las Vegas, Ego (AV set) and more Where: Big Top, Luna Park When: Saturday October 26 And: The Quack out now through OWSLA

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Will Sparks Light The Fuse By Rachel Davison

hen superstar DJ David Guetta drops a track in his set, well, it’s a big deal, and it means a whole heap of DJs, producers and clubbers worldwide are taking note. The track he dropped was the catchy ‘Ah Yeah!’ from a name relatively unknown outside of Australia, Will Sparks – an all-round nice bloke and key player in pushing the Melbourne Sound or Melbourne Bounce. “‘Ah Yeah!’ was a track that charted really highly out of nowhere and I was not expecting it at all,” Sparks says from his home in Melbourne. “I don’t know how it happened but the social networks these days are just incredibly powerful – and I think because I was making track after track every week and putting it up on Soundcloud, and the more people that like it, the more people see it, and it just kept progressing. When all those followers see that a track’s out, they buy it – well some do – and it charts, and that’s how it got up there.” The bouncy take on electro house that began in Melbourne many years ago has over the past 12 months been creating a stir worldwide, and Sparks has found himself in the right place at the right time. “The big guys around the world like Laidback Luke are supporting it now, and Djuro… I’ve heard Calvin Harris and even A-Trak – guys you would never think would play anything like that, especially A-Trak – he’s more hip hop, isn’t he? I don’t even really know, because I haven’t been around that long. It’s incredible to see their support and I couldn’t ask for anything more, to be honest,” Sparks says completely genuinely. Still, he doesn’t really want to get into a discussion about the musical

characteristics that define the Melbourne Sound: “You know, I’ve tried to explain it that many times but every time I try to, I get bagged – well, not bagged, but pulled up on certain things that I say about what it compares to. So what I usually say is, ‘Just go listen to it and that’s what it is.’ Do you know what I mean?” he laughs. So if you’re not totally au fait with the Bounce, you can listen to Sparks’ DJ mix on the new OneLove release, Sound Machine 2013 (which also includes a mix from Bingo Players) and on their justreleased compilation, Melbourne Bounce. Despite his misgivings, Sparks elaborates. “I’ve got a metal background; I played guitar my whole life, like hard metal or death metal, and so I think [the Melbourne Sound] compares to it in a way because it’s really hard, headbanging … It started off to be more minimal, like kick-bassy, and now it’s kinda progressed to a big room style of minimal. So the big progressive chords and then the drop – and as people call it, a Melbourne Drop – it’s progressed a lot in the last four, five years and it’s just going to keep on progressing, I think.” The attention recently landed Sparks his first gigs in the US. “It was amazing. I had no idea what to expect and the reaction from the Americans with my new sound, I was pretty worried on it, because it’s something brand new to them – and yeah, it was just awesome every time they went crazy”. “It’s really similar [to Australia],” Sparks continues. “[But] there is a lot of bottle service and there’s hardly any in Australia and that was another big difference. It was pretty daunting at the start because

I didn’t know whether to play a more loungey kind of music style, but I still banged it out and didn’t care and they got amongst it.” Of late, Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ has been in the news courtesy Miley Cyrus and her publicity antics, and Sparks did a remix of the song himself. Inadvertently, I suggest he only did it for exposure, given he’d posted on Facebook that “what Miley’s doing at the moment is obviously planned and a genius way to get people talking about her…” “It wasn’t [for exposure] at all,” laughs Sparks. “Because I’m getting

co-managed by someone from Interscope that’s how I got the remix … I know the people that know Robin and so yeah, it’s obviously all planned – like even for him up there with [Miley], and the public don’t realise (well, most of the public) that it’s a way to get your name out and she got 60 million [online] views in a day because of the way she’s acting. I don’t think she’s really like that, it’s just her management and marketing team behind her”. And while I suggest that it’s not likely you’d actually say ‘no’ to remixing Thicke at this point in your career, Sparks assures me that’s not the case. “I’ve had to say

‘no’ to a few other big things,” he reveals. “It’s just because it’s not where I wanna go yet; I really don’t want to commercialise myself, I just wanna keep my style going and do my thing because it seems to be working so far – and yeah, just tour around and keep working on music because I’ve got lots to come out.” What: Future Music Festival 2014 With: Deadmau5, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Phoenix, Hardwell, Rudimental, Eric Prydz, Kaskade, Porter Robinson and more Where: Royal Randwick Racecourse When: Saturday March 8

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CLUB NIGHTS Booka Shade

SATURDAY OCTOBER 26

Cool For Cats - feat: Camo + Valentino + Bronx Whaat Club, Kings Cross. 9pm. free. DJ Elly K - feat: Stu Turner The Argyle, The Rocks. 6pm. free. Fuck Buttons + Kanyon + Kilter Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $30. Loopy - feat: Drty Csh + Daschwood + Generous Greed + Guest DJs The Backroom, Sydney. 9pm. $10. Ministry Tour - feat: Daniel T Ministry + Sam Outch + Anthony K Australian Hotel And Brewery, Rouse Hill. 9pm. free. Outer Bass Sound Presents Jstar + Mike Who + Rubio & Tokoloshe Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 9pm. $5. Porter Robinson + The M Machine Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7pm. $65.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 CLUB NIGHTS

Ivy Bar/Lounge

Garden Party Booka Shade + Digitalism + Mark Dynamix + Matt Nugent + Jace Disgrace + Matt Ferriera + Tim Galvin + Brenden Fing + Sushi + Acaddamy + Badmouth 12pm. $65. MONDAY OCTOBER 21

TUESDAY OCTOBER 22

CLUB NIGHTS

COMEDY

Smoke & Mirrors - feat: DJs Dan Absent + Vinnie Ward + Nocturnal + Marsden Night Whaat Club, Kings Cross. 9pm. $10.

Danny McGinlay - feat: James Colley & MC Sean Woodland Harold Park Hotel, Glebe. 7:30pm. free. Fuck Buttons

Nick Cody + Killer Local Comics Enmore Theatre, Newtown. 8pm. $15.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23 CLUB NIGHTS

Porter Robinson + The M Machine Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7pm. $65. The Supper Club - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross. 10pm. free. Whip It - feat: Sherlock Bones + Robustt + Harper Whaat Club, Kings Cross. 9pm. free.

HIP HOP & R&B

Gym Class Heroes Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 8pm. $61.50. The Wall - feat: Resident DJs World Bar, Kings Cross. 8pm. $5.

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Argyle Fridays - feat: Resident DJs The Argyle, The Rocks. 6pm. free. Boss Bass - feat: Hucci + Chenzo + Spenda C + Hydraulix + Pop The Hatch + Kemikoll + Autoclaws + Phaseone Chinese Laundry, Sydney. 9pm. $15. Dusk - feat: Bronx + Aaron & Sang + Them Again Whaat Club, Kings Cross. 9pm. $10. El’Circo - feat: Resident Circus Act Performers Slide Lounge, Darlinghurst. 7pm. $109. Factory Fridays - feat: Resident DJs Soda Factory, Surry Hills. 5pm. free. G-Wizard - feat: Grant Smillie Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 10pm. $15. Mashed Fridays - feat: DJ Ric C Oatley Hotel, Oatley. 8pm. free. The Underground Battleground DJ Comp feat: Harper + Dosage + Oh Dear Candy’s Apartment, Potts Point. 8pm. $20.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 HIP HOP & R&B

Dutty Dancing Presents Electric Punanny (Melo X & Jasmine Solano) - feat: Shantan Wantan Ichiban + Nick Toth + Basslines Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 11pm. $15.

CLUB NIGHTS

After Dark - feat: Resident DJs Whaat Club, Kings Cross. 8pm. $15. Argyle Saturdays - feat: Resident DJs The Argyle, The Rocks. 5pm. free. Ben Sims + A-Tonez + Natnoiz + Kyro & Bomber + Kerry Wallace + Defined By Rhythm + Ft Mode + Fingers + King Lee + Mike Hyper

Chinese Laundry, Sydney. 10pm. $20. FBi Hands Up! - feat: DJ Clockwerk + Special Friends With Benefits FBi Social, Kings Cross. 11:30pm. free. Garden Party - feat: Booka Shade + Digitalism + Mark Dynamix + Matt Nugent + Jace Disgrace + Matt Ferriera + Tim Galvin + Brenden Fing + Sushi + Acaddamy + Badmouth Ivy Bar/Lounge, Sydney. 12pm. $65. Girls Night Out Australian Hotel And Brewery, Rouse Hill. 7:30pm. $30. Hallow Kandi Halloween Ball - feat: Scott Pullen + Shaun Warner + Phil Hudson + Adrian Benedek + Lavida & More Goldfish, Kings Cross. 9pm. $15. Havana Brown Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 10pm. $28.60. Homemade Saturdays feat: Resident DJs Home Nightclub, Darling Harbour. 9pm. $25. Jacksons Saturdays - feat: Resident DJs Jacksons On George, Sydney. 9pm. free. Luskimze DJs And Af Clothing Presents Spooks Halloween Party - feat: Deli + Manjazz + Lsd5 + Albert Hunt + C Money + Epique + Luskimze + Carcola + Dey La Funk + Kild-G + Cory Blake + Soddy + More Agincourt Hotel, Ultimo. 3pm. $20. Masif Saturdays Space, Sydney. 10pm. Pacha Sydney - feat: Sandro Silva + Minx + Mo’Funk + Chris Fraser + Casette + Kristy Lee + Fingers + Trent Rackus + Dylan Sanders + Here’s Trouble + Pablo Calamari + Gmod Ivy Bar/Lounge, Sydney. 6:30pm. $30. Ritual - feat: SMS + 2 Busy 2 Kiss + Bronx Candy’s Apartment, Potts Point. 8pm. $20. Skybar Saturdays - feat: Resident DJ The Watershed Hotel, Sydney. 9:30pm. $20.

Smoke + Mirrors - feat: Nocturnal + House Bear + Vinnie Ward Whaat Club, Kings Cross. 9pm. $20. Soda Saturdays - feat: Resident DJs Playing Disco And Funk Soda Factory, Surry Hills. 5pm. free. Strange Fruit presents Coma - feat: Alphatown + Phil Smart + Ant Jsteep + Matt Aubusson + Yokoo + Trinity + Mesan + Jamie Lloyd + Ben Ashton + Jordan Deck The Abercrombie, Broadway. 2pm. $20. The Suite - feat: Resident DJs Sapphire Lounge, Potts Point. 8pm. free.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 CLUB NIGHTS

Beresford Sundays - feat: Resident DJs Upstairs Beresford, Surry Hills. 3pm. free. Easy Sundays - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross. 10pm. free. S.A.S.H Sundays - feat: Tim Boffa (15 Years) + Dave Slade + Telefunken + Toby Neal + Pete Nouveau + Matt Weir + Kerry Wallace + James Fazzolari The Abercrombie, Broadway. 2pm. $10. Soup Kitchen - feat: The Soup Kitchen DJs World Bar, Kings Cross. 7pm. free. Soup Kitchen World Bar, Kings Cross. 7pm. $10. Spice After Hours - feat: Steven Sullivan + Murat Kilic And Guests The Spice Cellar, Sydney. 4am. $20. Sunday @ Gay Bar - feat: Resident DJ The Gay Bar, Darlinghurst. 3pm. free. Sunday Sessions - feat: DJ Tone Oatley Hotel, Oatley. 7pm. free.

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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23

SATURDAY OCTOBER 26

Porter Robinson + The M Machine Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7pm. $65. Gym Class Heroes Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 8pm. $61.50.

Ben Sims - Feat: A-Tonez + Natnoiz + Kyro & Bomber + Kerry Wallace + Defined By Rhythm + Ft Mode + Fingers + King Lee + Mike Hyper Chinese Laundry, Sydney. 10pm. $20. Garden Party - Feat: Booka Shade + Digitalism + Mark Dynamix + Matt Nugent + Jace Disgrace + Matt Ferriera + Tim Galvin + Brenden Fing + Sushi + Acaddamy + Badmouth Ivy Bar/Lounge, Sydney. 12pm. $65. Hallow Kandi Halloween Ball - Feat: Scott Pullen + Shaun Warner + Phil Hudson + Adrian Benedek + Lavida & More Goldfish, Kings Cross. 9pm. $15. Havana Brown Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 10pm. $28.60. Pacha Sydney - Feat: Sandro Silva + Minx + Mo’funk + Chris Fraser + Casette + Kristy Lee + Fingers + Trent Rackus + Dylan Sanders + Here’s Trouble + Pablo Calamari + Gmod Ivy Bar/Lounge, Sydney. 6:30pm. $30. Ritual - Feat: Sms + 2 Busy 2 Kiss + Bronx Candy’s Apartment, Potts Point. 8pm. $20. Strange Fruit Presents Coma - Feat: Alphatown + Phil Smart + Ant Jsteep + Matt Aubusson + Yokoo + Trinity + Mesan + Jamie Lloyd + Ben Ashton + Jordan Deck The Abercrombie, Broadway. 2pm. $20.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 24 Fuck Buttons + Kanyon + Kilter Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $30. Outer Bass Sound Presents Jstar + Mike Who + Rubio & Tokoloshe Goodgod Small Club, Chinatown. 9pm. $5.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 Boss Bass - Feat: Hucci + Chenzo + Spenda C + Hydraulix + Pop The Hatch + Kemikoll + Autoclaws + Phaseone Chinese Laundry, Sydney. 9pm. $15. G-Wizard - Feat: Grant Smillie Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 10pm. $15. The Underground Battleground DJ Comp - Feat: Harper + Dosage + Oh Dear Candy’s Apartment, Potts Point. 8pm. $20.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 27

Porter Robinson

S.A.S.H Sundays - Feat: Tim Boffa (15 Years) + Dave Slade + Telefunken + Toby Neal + Pete Nouveau + Matt Weir + Kerry Wallace + James Fazzolari The Abercrombie, Broadway. 2pm. $10.

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erlin-based house proponent Kerstin Egert, AKA Tama Sumo, will headline the new weekly Sunday night bash Exit at the Spice Cellar on Sunday November 17. Tama has been DJing since the release of films such as The Last Boy Scout and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze heralded the second Hollywood Golden Age in the early ’90s. Since then, she’s held down residencies at fabled Berlin clubs such as Tresor and Berghain/ Panorama Bar, where Tama continues to spin regularly, taking to the decks both upstairs in the more house musicoriented environment of Panorama Bar and downstairs in the reverberating catacombs of Berghain. A specialist DJ, Tama’s built her vaunted reputation on her live performances rather than a significant production discography; she’s only released one commercial mix compilation, the second in Ostgut Ton’s Panorama Bar series, and has released a few EPs alongside Prosumer between 2008-2010. A varied selector whose range traverses Chicago house and Detroit techno along with European influences, Tama’s sound leans more towards the latter. She can certainly thump it out when the moment demands it, but she prefers to focus on playing tracks that exude “emotion, funk, soul, variety and dirt” rather than sticking to a particular style. This fluid approach allows Tama to change the tempo throughout her sets and seamlessly shift between genres depending on the mood, crowd, venue and other DJs on the bill. However she gauges the mood at Spice Cellar in her maiden performance in Sydney, you’d be a fool not to be a part of it. Two of the leading producers in the underground club realm, John Tejada and Moomin, will throw down at The Burdekin on Saturday November 23 courtesy of Picnic. Hailing from Austria, the LA-based Tejada has ticked plenty of boxes throughout his career, collaborating with the likes of Josh Humphrey and Takeshi Nishimoto, launching his own label Palette Recordings, remixing the likes of Claude VonStroke and Gui Boratto, completing a mix for Fabric and releasing on labels such as Poker Flat and more recently Kompakt Records. With an eclectic sound spanning Detroit-flavoured melodic techno and house along with more minimal soundscapes, Tejada will return to Australia after having previously headlined Mad Racket’s NYE bash.

The other headliner, German producer Sebastian Genz, AKA Moomin, is a longtime DJ who made a belated but hugely successful transition into production a few years ago; he’s now considered one of the finest purveyors of deep house in the biz. Coming from a hip hop and funk background, Genz first emerged as a producer with a release alongside Berlin house figurehead Oskar Offermann, the Hardmood/Joe MacDaddy EP, before garnering a profusion of accolades with the release of his debut album The Story About You on Hamburg’s Smallville Records label in 2011. Citing the likes of DJ Shadow, Theo Parrish, Diamond D, and Omar-S as influences, Genz has translated his intuition for sampling into soulful deep house productions that have captured the imagination of house music aficionados worldwide. “I think the most important thing is to make music that comes out of your heart, something you feel,” says Genz. He’s also collaborated with fellow Smallville artist Christopher Rau under the moniker of Roaming, and launched his own label Closer at the start of this year with his A Day And A Night EP. A strong local lineup of DJs will support Tejada and Moomin, headed by veteran DJ Phil Smart, a favourite among local clubbers.

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17 Tama Sumo The Spice Cellar

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23 John Tejada, Moomin The Burdekin

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It’s called: Strange Fruit Presents: COMO (Komp akt / Cologne) at The Abercrombie

It sounds like: Technicolour afternoon cloud s with an explosion of euphoria Acts: Coma, Phil Smar t, Jamie Lloyd, Trinity , Jordan Deck, Matt Aubusson, Ant J Steep, Ben Ashton, Mesan Three songs you’ll hear on the night: Coma – – ‘Primitive People’ (Tale Of Mix); The xx – ‘Reun ‘Cycle’ (Original Mix); Mano Le Tough ion’ (Ame Remix) And one you definitely won’t: Barry Manil ow – ‘I Am Your Muse’ Sell it to us: Ten artists spinning over two rooms , Coma’s first Oz tour, Proper live set up with vocals drum machines etc. 16 hours of no holes barred ercotic pleasure The bit we’ll remember in the AM: Phil Smar t taking us into the abyss and out again over two hours. Get prepared to lose your minds Wallet damage: $20 on Pulse Radio and $25 on the door (if available) Where: The Abercrombie Hotel

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