Megascene issue 10

. . . featuring music, lifestyle and fashion in Adelaide

Issue 10 2017

Interview with Louise Pearson

Gig photos of Deep Throat

Gig photos of Dino Jag

Gig photos of Phil Emannuel

Gig photos of Full Tilt Janis

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IN THIS ISSUE

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Articles

Louise Pearson My Bowie Pilgrimage Blood Sweat & Beers Joplin’s Reunion

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Gig Photos

Full Tilt Janis @ The Gov Deep Throat Propane Candy Phil Emannuel The Screaming Jets Baby Animals Blood Sweat & Beers Bon But Not Forgotten Dino Jag Gail Page & Dino Jag

Regular Columns MEGAlocal Live Sound Advice SA Paranormal Markets in Adelaide

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Editor: Sue Hedley

Another issue of MEGAscene. It has been a very cold winter but that hasn’t stopped people from checking out some bands and events in Adelaide.

Deputy Editor: David Powell Editor’s Assistant: Maria Szczerba Contributors this issue: Allen Tiller Frank Lang Carina Bonney Michelle McGoldrick

Keep supporting the Adelaide music scene.

Regards, The Editor

Sue

Front Cover Photo: Louise Pearson Photo: Sue Hedley

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Louise Pearson

Words by Deb Brunotte Over the years you come across many people in the industry but every now and then, we meet someone that we feel a special connection with that you just can’t explain. Those kinds of friendships can last forever. You share good times together, laughs, tears, life changes and music. One such person is Louise Pearson. She has a magical voice and is a special soul so this edition I would like to introduce you to a great singer and a dear friend. Meet Louise …

What age were you when you found your voice?

Louise: Unlike a lot of singers I didn’t start singing until I was 23. I always wanted to be in a band but wasn’t sure in what capacity as I was dabbling with guitar and drums. I listened to the radio since I was born and sung along to all the songs but I just assumed I would never be a singer as I’m just too shy. Then one night my brother had a party & there was a microphone and PA set up and anyone that wanted to sing to the records could get up and sing. (Actually it was Adelaide singer Craig Csongrady’s PA. He happened to live next door to my brother, so he had a role in starting me off.) After a couple of drinks (for courage) I got up and grabbed the mic. After hearing my voice come back at me for the first time I had this incredible feeling I can’t explain … it was like the energy of my ‘singer self’ emerged and I immediately had a massive realisation sweep over me that this was what I was born to do. I just ‘knew’ this was my destiny. The next day I went and bought a microphone & I began to record myself on my tape deck on my stereo, singing to my Cold Chisel records and then play it back. I taught myself this way.

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first sang at that party?

Louise: It was James Taylor, “You’ve got a friend”.

Did you have any singing lessons back then?

Louise: I went to a singer teacher for maybe 3 visits when I was about 18 years old, but something in me knew he wasn’t teaching me what I wanted.

How do you mean? Do you mean as in style of music?

Louise: Don’t mean to sound at all arrogant please, but wanted to teach myself my way that was good for me.

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Louise Pearson Photo: Sue Hedley

Can you recall your first professional Force because shift work got in the way, and they were going to post me at Port Pirie. performance and were you nervous?

Hmmm, I thought, a life in music or a life in Louise: I was a Police Woman at the time, a the Force … no brainer. The rest is history. colleague was a muso & had muso friends in a little 60/40 band called The Cruisers & he When you perform, you sing with intense soul introduced me to them. It was around 1979. and passion. You take the punters through a They auditioned me & liked what I did. They musical journey with your voice, songs and had a gig at Gawler Race Course and they witty (naughty) sense of humour. Where do asked me to do a guest spot to dip my toe you think that special talent comes from? Do in the water, so to speak. As I was waiting you think it’s something people are born with, to get up to sing, the guitarist announced or something to do with life experiences, or over the microphone: “We have a very special all of the above? guest singer all the way from Sydney with us tonight”. I looked around wondering who that Louise: Most definitely ‘born with’. You can could be, and then he said “Louise Pearson”. just hear the difference. Some can be brilliant Thinking he was speaking about somebody musicians/singers technically, but with no else (as I am from Adelaide) I realised he was feel. Then you have those who may not be as introducing me … as a joke. I thought “you brilliant but have all the passion in their hearts bugger”. I was so nervous the first time in pour out in just one note. As for humour, I front of a crowd & the place was packed, that used to sing a Robyn Archer song called “Dicks I sang the same verse three times but the don’t grow on Trees” at a gay bar we had a audience didn’t even notice. The song was “Da residency at (which is on Youtube, recorded Doo Ron Ron”. That first time singing was the ‘live’). We couldn’t sing it anywhere else, lol! most exciting, nervous, fantastic, exhilarating, Sometimes words just come out of my mouth heart thumping, beautiful moment of my life. I without warning, a muso mate has written knew this is where I belonged. I quit the Police down some of my funny comments and calls 7

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them “Louise-isms”. As for the passion, it comes from many things. Life, pain, fear, loss, truth, all the emotions you hold within that you cannot express any other way but through music. Music helps us ‘release’, it is a healing powerful force within us, whether performing it or being the listener of it. It takes you on an internal journey no human words can describe. And the pure love and joy of ‘performing’ music, there is just nothing like it, once that first note of a song begins you’re taken away in another world. What grips me first is always the melody & the rhythm, the feel, the sound of instruments. Harmonies send me to a place I can’t explain. If I could bottle it I’d be rich. It is the best feeling in the world. So many suffer from the stress of the world & when you begin that first song of a gig it all goes away for a while. Music is Healing, music is powerful beyond words.

Music is the/my breath of life.

Adelaide band Counterfeit fame). We agreed to the one gig and called ourselves ‘LOUISE LUST & THE LUBRICANTS’ (cos they were promoting a new lubricant condom). It would have to be the best time I have had gigging. With such colourful people and just funny funny times … the shenanigans, the characters and the most amazing people I have met. I was always getting hit on though, but had to gently tell them I was straight. The drag queens wanted to know where I got my breasts done, but I told them “they’re real”.

They wanted to touch them all the time & Doobie, who has very long hair, attained the nickname ‘Debbie’. They all loved every song we did and were so appreciative. They loved us so much we had a residency there for a year. It was definitely ‘MEMORABLE’.

Who are your favourite artists and influences?

Louise: Ah, The Beatles. They would be my greatest influence, though there are so many.

I love most genres but I lean towards soul and blues & funk. Renee Geyer would have to be at the top of my list, and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Rickie Lee Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Delbert McClinton just to name a few. There are just far too many. At this moment in time the sound & technique of American guitarist Derek Trucks takes me to a whole other level, he is a genius.

What are some of your highlights and most memorable moments?

Louise: I would have to say a highlight was at The Bridgeway Hotel. A colleague in the Police Force was killed so we put on a benefit gig for his family. I hadn’t been singing that long, but the place was packed, I sang When A Man Loves A Woman in a Superwoman outfit. Lol. They just wouldn’t stop clapping, & didn’t want us to stop. It was one of the most amazing gigs I’ve ever done.

There’s been quite a few memorable moments, but a keyboard player friend Peter Lloyd, who worked for the Aids Council offered me one gig at a gay bar in the city. My duo partner at the time was Doobie Whitehorn (from 8

Louise singing with John Swan

I haven’t played with many famous people. I was singing in 60/40 bands for a while and corporate bands, but one early rock band I was in was called Vanity. We supported Russell Morris Band and Ted Mulry Gang. Just in these last few years I have worked with Swanee, supported Mental As Anything in a duo ‘THELMA & LOUISE’ with Toni Clarke (from legendary band LA Maid), have worked with Steve Williams from Wa Wa Nee fame, & so many top amazing Adelaide musos I feel quite honoured to have worked with … too many to list. Even you Deb and Adam Cocca are a great influence on me, and when we sing together it becomes a trinity of sound. Lindy (Holmes) and myself also performed BV’s for the Woodstock show a few years ago with Swanee and local top who musicians, and did bv’s with Mr Funky Pants himself Dino Jag

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it. So I knew it was time to sing again, but, I was just too ill to perform in bands. Someone suggested karaoke. I thought ‘nooooooo’. But it was the best thing for me to start singing again, though it took 6 more years before I felt I was well enough to start gigging again in 2011. I didn’t know anybody in the industry anymore after having not gigged for 14years.

I had met Lindy Holmes, we hit it off and decided to form a duo and called ourselves ‘The Shanfloozies’. I later formed a duo with Toni Clarke & ‘Thelma & Louise’ was born. At 62 I’m still gigging and there’s still a lot left for me to sing.

Tell us about some fun times and mishaps that have happened along your journey.

Louise: Falling off stages … falling through stages, lol! Getting in trouble with managements of hotels for speaking my mind. quite a bit.

Oh well. You know every singer/muso can You suffer from a debilitating illness, yet you write a book of what goes on in bands. Funny, still get out there and sing like an Angel. How scary, sad, outrageous. So many happenings does living with M.S. impact on your career? will forever be locked in a vault though.

Louise singing with John Swan

Louise: The first time I felt something wrong I was clapping in time to a song as I was singing and my hands and my big toe went completely numb. The drummer mentioned it could be M.S. of which I really knew nothing about. Long story short, I couldn’t stand up for very long anymore and sometimes my speech would slur so I had to learn to sing differently to round my words correctly. I couldn’t move my arms as much so things began to change, so I had to adapt as best I could. In these latter years it is quite difficult to play guitar and it is very hard to stand up for any length of time, so sometimes I may use my walking stick, but otherwise I sit on a stool. The musos I have played with have all been quite incredible. They do not make it an issue for me and they are always there for me if I need a hand. I have been so very lucky really.

And … in 2012 you married a Broom?

Louise: Yes, well … There was a little get together one night of some of us musos, high profile I might add. Broom was leaning up against the wall, when Miss Deb decided to introduce me to Broom and said we made a nice couple. So Broom became my boyfriend.

After a few dates which included taking him to lots of gigs, he became so popular that many musos wanted a photo with him, and even photo bombed Swanee at a rehearsal we were at. I don’t know what it is about Broom but so many girls get swept off their feet when they meet him so I have to watch him constantly. He even got taken to a brothel.

I let him have one last sweep around. Then one night it was suggested “I think Broom should make an honest woman out of you, I think you and Broom should get married”.

I thought it was the best idea she’s ever In 1997 I quit gigging (with Doobie Whitehorn had, and what a good excuse to have a jam at the time). Then my brother was killed in a in the back yard. So, the Wedding Band was car accident in 2005 and I was asked to sing born, which comprised of Joe James, Ronny at his funeral. I hadn’t sung a note for eight Davidson, Mark Rose, a guitarist who wants to years so I was terrified. But again, something remain nameless, and The Broom’sMaids, you happened to me and my voice emerged and Lindy Holmes, became my bv chicks. The Celebrant was Sebastian Scott. Broom even stronger than ever before. I couldn’t believe 9

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voices, now and then and she’s also become one of my many musical sisters. I’ve also been sitting in with three of the members of legendary Adelaide rock band The Lunchcutters and legendary singer Annie Carter, and we will be out there soon. For now I will continue to go where the music leads me.

Is there anything else you would like to say or tell us about?

Louise: I have met the most amazing people and have forged the greatest friendships through music. And to have been a part of this musical journey has been the greatest gift I have ever been given, and I thank it every day.

A lot of people suffer greatly, but music is always there for us to help pull us out of this heavy world we live in.

Louise and Broom on their “wedding day”

has his own Facebook page where you can read the funniest wedding vows ever written, and lots of pics. He’s changed his looks over the past five years but he’s still my Broom.

Just recently have written a couple of love songs about Broom which can also be found on Broom’s Facebook Page … Yes this has been definitely a great highlight of my life.

If you can’t have a laugh and have a goofy crazy time with your friends you might as well be dead. I’m still waiting for a honeymoon though. What would you do?? Rose wood, Holly wood, Ron (D) wood, but I did …

What other passions do have besides music?

Louise: I am also a spiritualist/medium/ clairvoyant. It is a ‘massive’ part of my life.

What are you currently doing and with whom?

Could you ever imagine this earth without music in it … think about that. What a colourless lifeless world it would be. Just recently I felt to write these words …

MUSIC: It is like water upon a flower – it nourishes us It is a gentle breeze upon ones face – it caresses us It is the colour of air that we breathe It is the symphony of life of our soul It be all colours of life that we are Without it, we would perish in sombreness … Louise Pearson

Well there you go. Hope you enjoyed meeting Louise. What an inspiration!

Make sure you check out ‘Papa Leo and Louise’. They have a special duo going on.

Thank you Louise, for the insight into your journey.

In finishing this interview, I decided to gather Louise: At this point in time I am in a duo with a few quotes from some of the people Louise Leo Beinke, called “PAPA LEO & LOUISE’ for has worked with. nearly three years now. Leo is very special to me & I love him like a brother. Also perform Cheers Deb. with Andrea Dawson, one of Adelaide’s biggest 10

Leo Beinke - “I only met Louise less than 3 years ago. I’ve been playing in the live music scene for nearly 40 years. I love working with her. With the condition she has she really inspires me. I think she may well be the most gifted singer I’ve ever met. She’s a fun girl and I love her.”

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Toni Clark – “Working with Louise is always a complete pleasure! Her incredible voice and exciting personality always makes for a great show. Her voice touches everyone’s soul and moves people. For Louise, music is healing not only for herself but for anyone listening.”

Dino Jag - “Some of the best musical moments are the ones that are completely unrehearsed & unplanned.. I have some wonderful memories of sharing the stage with Louise and being a part of some of those magical spontaneous moments. When Louise sings everyone stands to attention! She has been gifted with a voice that penetrates your skin and tickles your soul.” :~) Adam Cocca - “Her voice still has so much to give.”

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Full Tilt Janis @ The Gov Photos by Sue Hedley - 18/06/2017

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Deep Throat @ The Old Spot Hotel Photos by Sue Hedley - 10/06/2017

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My David Bowie Pilgrimage

Words by Michelle McGoldrick Photos by Graham Campling

“I didn’t find the UK David Bowie Convention on social media - it found me.”

If something happened on the day David Bowie died, something changed in me when I realised he wasn’t coming back. As the reality of Bowie’s death pitted my psych in early 2016, life became a desolate grind trailing vale Bowie sites for solace and finding none. Bowie gatherings seemed to feed the despair as I discovered when I organised a Bowie tribute gig in my home town - the disappointment and misery in the venue was palpable. It was a gig as close to disaster as you could imagine. I knew I needed to pull out the big guns if this hole in my life was ever to close over so I decided to go to Europe on a Bowie pilgrimage.

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I didn’t find the UK David Bowie Convention on social media - it found me. The convention was founded 20 years ago in the United Kingdom. It has been the Bowie baby of Derby gentleman and event organizer, Jimster Draper, since 2014 and the convention has been gathering pace ever since. Bowie fans only have his music and each other now.

Meanwhile, downunder: I discovered the convention online and made the instant decision to buy a ticket despite having never heard any of the bands on the bill and not knowing anyone who was going to the event aka on the other side of the world. Never mind. Fast forward to May 2017 and I was in

Froot 67 Photo: Graham Campling

Hull, UK, for four days of Yorkshire culture and pure Bowie self-indulgence. Why Hull? Hull was chosen by the convention organiser as the site for the 2017 David Bowie Convention to honour Bowie’s intrinsic Spiders from Mars who all originated from Yorkshire county.

Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Woody Woodmansey- a backing band surely made in rock and roll purgatory with Ronson’s legacy an increasingly important part of Yorkshire history.

But I’d come to Hull for the Bowie music and to party. Friday night was the opening night of the convention and I arrived at the venue looking more like I was leaving it at 3 am thanks to a brief but effective rain downpour walking to the Boom Bar. Damp clothes and dank hair were quickly shelved to the back of my mind because I had finally arrived and I was onboard for a fun time. Welcomed at the door by Jimster, the first band I heard playing were Froot 67 who were undoubtedly a result of some serious Mick Ronson channelling. These guys sounded fresh, tight, and completely immersed in the moment. If Moonage Daydream is the Bowie tribute band signature song, then Ronson’s fade out guitar break is the died-and-gone-to-heaven guitar solo. Mick Ronson ... sitting on The Froot’s lead guitarist’s shoulder without doubt.

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doesn’t enjoy a temporary foray to the dark side anyway.

My last memories of the first night of the Convention is dancing with some lovely Leeds lads - and discovering dirty dancing is easier said than done after countless pints of English ale.

Saturday was busy. Jimster organised an early risers bus trip to visit the graves of Ronson and Bolder and there was plenty of blurry romantic English countryside enroute the gothic cemetery where Bolder is buried.

For someone not particularly interested in visiting famous graves, paying respect to two of Bowie’s finest musicians proved to be a surprisingly humbling experience. Poignant was the note on Ronson’s grave from his wife Suzi and daughter Lucy which said; “We miss you today and every day. Always in all ways”.

Respects out of the way, it was early afternoon and party time again. It seemed bizarre to be in a venue at 1 pm in the afternoon when it was light outside and the crowd were relatively sober, but Bowie Contingent are in a league of their own. Confident, classy, and well-rehearsed, the Bowie Contingent took the crowd on a journey through the Bowie landscape of London and Berlin where their version of Station to Station was Bowie to the Next up was soloist Sound of Bowie, an act core. A true delight to watch, the lead singer that initially required a double take given the had many of Bowie’s moves and expressions guy’s spooky resemblance to Bowie. Singing down pat and it was hard to turn away from from the heart and making no apologies for this guy lest you missed him performing a it, Sound of Bowie entertained an increasingly sentimental move or two from your favorite well-oiled crowd with a repertoire of Bowie Bowie video or film. classics and a few surprises.

Luxury Stranger and Ming City Rockers The final band came as a surprise: Liqueur, a rocked the Boom Bar into the afternoon as Cure cover band, headlined the first night of the crowd kept the bar busy. Both bands were the convention. Trust me, it was fantastic and intense, committed, and passionate about appropriate given the increasingly obvious their performances and the diehard Bowie influence Bowie has had on The Cure’s music. crowd loved them. After a short break in the Liqueur added Bowie covers to their set to entertainment and a couple of fascinating reassure they are well entrenched in the speeches where a few lucky patrons won Bowie camp, but it was the professionalism enviable Bowie art prizes, the convention and adherence to the essence of The Cure’s cranked up the intensity considerably and the music which made this band impossible not music took off in whole new direction. to enjoy. The night seemed a bit dark and intense during Liqueur’s set such is the tone Next band up was Spizzenergi. This band isn’t of particularly early Cure songs, but Liqueur just an act, it’s a show. How to describe lead are atmospheric and so was Bowie and who singer of this band? Think godfathers of rock 17

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... think Iggy Pop, bit of Johnny Rotten: this man has been performing since the Where’s Captain Kirk days of the 1980s and the stage is clearly his second home. And the band ... whoa! Drums, and a line of three guitars featuring tattoos, leather, denim, bare chests, hot haircuts, and spinal tap moves purely as crowd pleasers - what’s not to love? Highlights of Spizzenergi’s set were a Hull-laced version of Panic in Detroit, a surprise version of Valentine’s Day, and a heavy rendition of the band’s new single “Here Come the Machines”.

what I mean.

So, the night and the convention eventually ended and my last memory of that great day is wandering away into the fascinating nightscape of Hull whilst holding up a very inebriated colleague. I was not in the least bit Bowie-fatigued, far from it. I felt high on life and my mind started to race just thinking about all the creative projects I had to look forward to. I felt Bowie-inspired all over again. I thought back to the day nearly twelve months earlier when I’d discovered the UK David Bowie Convention when I was looking for retribution and then how I’d ended up in Hull Yorkshire at a raging Bowie music party. I’d met many tres cool people and made sweet new friends.

No need to ask, of course I’m going back next year.

The final band to play at the convention on Saturday night was Aladdinsane. By now the venue was packed, glam fashion ruled, the dance floor suddenly didn’t seem big enough and sober patrons were rare. But for me, a band that names itself after my favourite Bowie album is in before they even start. The crowd wouldn’t let Aladdin Sane go as they Find The UK David Bowie Convention 2018 on played one timeless Bowie song after another Facebook. ... and there’s plenty of them. Accomplished and talented the band were good. You know

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Left: The Bowie Contingent Below: Paul Henderson from Aladdinsane Photos: Graham Campling

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Baby Animals @ The Gov Photos by Sue Hedley - 23/06/2017

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Blood Sweat and Beers

By Michelle McGoldrick Photos by Lisa Vincent In the 1960s music culture the phrase ‘live fast die young’ was a rite of passage more than a philosophy for youth with rock rebels like Morrison, Hendrix, Joplin and Bonham living the fatalistic dream and spinning out into orbit in tragic fashion.

High Voltage, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Let There Be Rock and ‘74 Jailbreak.

The group also includes Melbourne rocker Greg Aldridge has toured, recorded with and supported major bands such as George Thorogood, Fleetwood Mac, Skyhooks, Billy Thorpe and The Divinyls, plus the legendary guitarist Grant Walmsley, the founder and songwriter/guitarist of the legendary Screaming Jets, who has played with Soundgarden, Velvet Revolver and Kiss whist helping rake in gold and platinum awards for album sales for the various bands he played in.

In Australia, it is both affirming and adrenalin inducing that home grown rock rebels from the 60s and 70s are not just still alive but adamantly kicking arse with increasing grunt, passion and volume that made them famous This group of musicians is a culmination of not so long ago. performances for millions of people, dozens In late July South Australia was treated to of hit singles in the ARIA charts, millions of two nights of legendary rock and roll as part albums sold and an inducted into the ARIA of the “Blood Sweat and Beers” tour featuring Hall of Fame. godfathers of the Australian music scene.

In an age where rock and roll activism is a Taken from a book of the same name by Murray natural progression for the musician-withEngleheart, “Blood Sweat and Beers” features conscience model, artists like Angry Anderson the unbreakable legend Angry Anderson of manage to keep their rock and rock flame Rose Tattoo, guitarist Dai Pritchard, US born burning whilst supporting social and political bass player Jim Hilbun from The Angels, and ideals. Angry Anderson has been an enduring Mark Evans who was an early member of AC/ example of guts and determination when who DC and played on the seminal albums T.N.T., else could have fronted Rose Tattoo who

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became one of the loudest bands in Australia.

They were banned from the TV show Countdown, were regulars on the prison gig scene and were known as a band committed to brawling just to get out of a gig alive.

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beer as blood in its’ veins, and for the fans of this genre there is no other way to go.

BLOOD SWEAT and BEERS delivered a hard rock show with a survival mentality that reminds us only the good never die young. –

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LIVE SOUND ADVICE

By Frank Lang Big PA’s Can Make A Big Sound Big PA’s can make a big sound, a huge sound the same. One less guitar one less tom, these days, and with a trend to have the changed some names on the assignment strip bass drum dominate the mix, it’s too easy to and we were away. overdrive the room.

We had two gigs in a row and the first night Your best tool is balance in the mix, care with saw us in a medium size room. I set him up room equalisation, and to understand that by doing the foldback and front of house ‘there are limits’. graphics and he was away mixing up a storm, he even had the hang of the tap echo. Good I recently asked a mixer to turn up the female reports all round and my best yardstick for a vocalist a bit, she was being drowned out, good mix … it sounded good on stage!! mostly by the kik, bass and floor tom. “She is not singing very loud”, came the reply.

The next night however the circumstances were slightly different. We had a full house Seems the sound guy focused on the vocal in a much smaller venue and not long into the and in less than a minute the voice was at second bracket things got a little hairy, some last, easy to understand. standing bass waves were starting to muddy things up … the foldback was becoming less I don’t think he just boosted the vocal because effective …. whats going on here? shortly after this I noticed the bass guitar notes were easier to make out and the kik Well I guessed he had been a tad too eager less muddy. Now the remedy was as simple as to let the PA rock, so I called him over and dropping the kik, bass guitar and tom a little, suggested he calm things down, then instead or pulling back the bass frequency (I’d guess of turning up the foldback for Matt, the no more than a couple of Db) and there it was, foldback got clearer again because those an audible and easy to understand vocalist, nasty loose bass frequencies were reigned in, with the bass and bass drum still sounding big calmed down, and put into perspective. in the mix.

Turns out he was having such a good time In a similar way the following also illustrates hearing what his new speakers could do, and the issue of overdriving the room, in both being prone to enjoying a big rock mix he had instances I believe the sound system still had started to overdrive the room, saturate it with plenty to give. But could the room handle it? sound till we poor muso types on stage could barely hear the fine balance we were used to, A mate had the opportunity to mix his new well that last bit is a tad exaggerated, but not pa speakers for me recently when I had the that far from the truth. opportunity to play in Matt Taylors Chain.

Pull everything back a notch and … problem I hired his PA and knew he would be eager to solved. Foldback cleared up and the players, hear it at work. He is an eager student and I happy little muso chappies, got on with things used a saved scene from a recent mix I had without having to assume the fallback position done for his band, to get us underway. (One of playing by memory. of the aspects of modern mixing I really like.)

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room, and with an IPad it’s a luxury to be able to move around in the space, but discovering the sometimes vastly different sounds in a room can also be a downside.

Different sounds around the room may suggest a different placement for the PA stack but in this instance, that is a small room, space was limited and so were placement options.

When mixing some rooms and some bands it’s a case of taking a step back, a deep breath and finding an equilibrium, a balance, a mix.

Cheers, Frank

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Five of Australia’s finest - Kevin Mitchell, Jack Jones, Wes Carr, Paul Gray, Ciaran Gribbin and the Please Please Me Band - will perform 40 songs from the Beatles first five albums in one hit-packed night called “The Beatles First Five”. It is on at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on 16th September. www.beatlesfirst5.com Iris and Dabigpig are at the Semaphore Hotel on Saturday 2nd September from 9pm.

JOPLIN’S RE-UNION (JOPLINS 1992 - 1998)

Classic bands who made their name in SA at Joplin’s will reunite to perform at The German Club on September 23rd for a Joplin’s Reunion. It is headlined by Clearway, plus Shake featuring Nikki Kosmider (aka Barbarella), Radio Gaga (with Dave Ross and original members) Acoustic Blonde featuring Deb Brunotte (Femme Fatal) and Adam Cocca (High Voltage) will kick off the night. Downstairs hosts Ian ‘Polly’ Politis in full piano bar mode in the restaurant. – SA best entertainers all in one place at one time for one price.

The Grand Finale will be all-in jam session of all members in one super-size king hit play off. Tapering off the night the crowd can rock on till to DJ music or lounge in the German Clubs lounge downstairs to carry on into the wee hours – just like the good old days!

Joplin’s Reunion is the brain child of Jopi’s founder John Pike who gave the bar its name (“even Janis Joplin a person of questionable repute can be just a door away from Heaven” was a famous quote from way back).

John is one of SA leading promoters since the 70s and a brand unto himself whose concept Heaven/Joplin’s was embraced by its owners in 1991.

Adds promoter John Pike. “Joplin’s was the official bar for the Adelaide Rams Rugby League Club while it was operational. Members of ACDC, jockeys, trainers, International and Australian cricket teams, AFL footballers of interstate teams plus Crows and Power, even a current serving senator all spent late nights there. Many stories involving major players in our sporting industry could be divulged but it would not be proper”.

John adds “I must point out it was Russell Temple and Dave Weber who installed the Lennie’s Tavern concept into Joplin’s which made it what it became (legendary)”.

It kicks off at 6pm in the restaurant and 7.30pm in the Brauhaus upstairs – bands closing at 2am - but kicking on till 3 am in the restaurant.

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SA PARANORMAL

By Allen Tiller OLD MOUNT GAMBIER GAOL

South Australia is such a vast and interesting State with so many haunted locations that it’s hard to choose just one place for every issue, but for this month’s issue of MEGAscene, I thought we might look at the south of our state, and visit the Old Mount Gambier Gaol.

The Mount Gambier Gaol operated from 1866 until 1995. In that time three men, Carl Jung (1871), William Page (1875) and William Nugent (1881) were executed. There were five suicides in the gaol and at least 4 people lost their lives inside the prison through natural causes.

The first execution in Mount Gambier Gaol happened on November 10th, 1871. Carl Jung, a shoemaker and wine merchant who had gone into debt because of poor sales. In June that year, bailiff, Thomas Garroway was sent to seize Jung’s property.

Old Mount Gambier Gaol at night

for him to return.

Jung was tried and found guilty, but not before a petition by local business people had been presented to earn him a stay of execution.

Unfortunately for Jung, the law had spoken, and on November 10, 1871, Jung was hung inside the Gaol. He held a bouquet of flowers, The two men came to an agreement, and Jung that he asked to be given to his wife upon his was to follow the Bailiff in to Mount Gambier death. the following day. When morning broke and Jung joined Galloway to leave, the bailiff 19-year-old Mary Buchan was dating William seized Jung’s horse and cart, and some farm Walker. Walker, keen on marrying the young animals to help settle his outstanding debts. lady, proposed marriage, which Mary accepted.

Garroway then set off for Mount Gambier, expecting Jung to follow. Jung was outraged that the Bailiff had seized his property, but set off after him as agreed.

Over coming months, Walker would delay the marriage many times, angering Mary’s parents, who began to demand the wedding be called off.

July 11th, 1875, Mary Buchan did not turn up to Church as per unusual. Her worried Mother contacted police and reported her missing. Walker was questioned about her whereabouts, and told police he had saddled Jung then turned the gun on himself, but up her horse himself, and seen her off as she was unsuccessful with his suicide attempt, rode out to Casterton in Victoria to find her and instead, fled into the wild scrub lands. Father.

Eventually hunger got the better of him, and he made his way back to his home, only to be A telegram sent from a small town along the arrested by police, who were patiently waiting way confirmed that Mary had been seen riding Jung’s rage burned hot inside him, he rode up alongside the bailiff with his shotgun raised, and gave him both barrels at close range, killing him.

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Panorama of cell blocks and execution area

It was revealed during the trial that Page had pestered Buchan for sex outside the church, which she refused. An argument broke out and Page hit her with his stock whip. He then strangled her to quieten her screams.

Page was sentenced to be hung for his crimes and was executed at the old Mount Gambier Mary’s mother never felt comfortable with Gaol on 27 October 1875. the explanations for her leaving the town.

In coming days Mary’s father began to have The last execution at the gaol was that of dreams of her. In his dream Mary would come William Nugent on the 18th of November to him and lay a hand on his shoulder. She 1881. Nugent, also known as Robert Johnson, would command him to find her body, and was arrested for supplying liquor to aboriginals showed him in the dream a ploughed field with in Wellington. three trees planted in a triangle.

A Trooper named Pearce, who knew Nugent’s At the same time, a bed-ridden policeman’s identity, stopped him, and asked him to follow wife, who had recently given birth, began to him back to Kingston. Nugent agreed, and dream of Mary also. Her dreams were uncannily followed the trooper, with three horses in tow. like Mary’s father’s dreams, in which, Mary led Nugent knew the horses were stolen, and her to a field. knew he was in big trouble, so he devised a Through these dreams Mary’s body was plan. He asked the trooper if they could stop discovered at Hedley Park. She was covered and rest for a while. Trooper Pearce agreed in a shawl with strangulation marks on her they could. After a short rest, the trooper neck. She had been severely beaten with a insisted they mount their horses and get on with their journey. blunt object around the head. through their region the day before.

Evidence mounted, and soon it was revealed that William Walker was her killer. It also came to light that Walker was also known to be a married man by the name of William Page, and that he had proposed with a stolen ring!

It was revealed during the trial that Page had pestered Buchan for sex outside the church, which she refused. An argument broke out and Page hit her with his stock whip. He then strangled her to quieten her screams.

As Trooper Pearce began to mount his horse, Nugent pulled a knife from his boot and frenziedly stabbed the trooper, before riding off, leaving him to die.

A passer-by found the trooper on the side of the road and sent for help. A search party was sent out for Nugent, who swiftly caught the criminal as he tried to escape towards Victoria. 24-year-old Trooper Pearce died three days later, with his mother and father at his bedside.

Nugent was sentenced to death and spent his last few days in solitary confinement. He reported to one of his guards that he had encountered a ghost! Nugent said, during the day, he felt as if someone was sitting in the room alongside him. He then heard the voice of Trooper Pearce state “I came to tell you I hold no grudge against you Will Nugent. No doubt others will, but I do not”.

Walkway where the lady in white is seen

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forgiveness, but it was that his body was to be buried in consecrated ground.

Like all three executed prisoners, Nugent’s body was buried inside the gaol, as was the law at the time. It is not known where in the gaol grounds all three men are buried.

Trooper Pearce is not the only ghost to make itself known in the Old Mount Gambier Gaol.

Cell 4 in men’s wing is known as a hot spot for paranormal activity, with witnesses reporting being touched by unseen hands, scratching and biting by an unseen spirit, and weird sounds, noises and voices!

A lady in white is seen to walk through a courtyard between the dining room and the cellblock. This ghostly apparition is thought to be of a woman who may have died whilst giving birth inside the gaol.

Other ghostly goings on happen in the condemned man cells near the area where the three men were executed, and where other corporal punishment was dealt out. This included the whipping of 12-year-old boy John Macmaster’s who received 20 lashes in his last week of an 18 month stay in the men’s prison for forgery!

The Old Mount Gambier Gaol is now a unique accommodation facility and music venue, and states on its website that it is not haunted.

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Maybe if you are down that way you could visit the gaol, and decide for yourself if it is haunted or not. http://www.theoldmountgambiergaol.com.au/

Allen Tiller is Australia’s most recognised paranormal investigator, eminent paranormal historian, and star of the international smash hit television show “Haunting: Australia”.

Allen is also the founder of Eidolon Paranormal, South Australian Paranormal and the author of book and blog, “The Haunts of Adelaide: History, Mystery and the Paranormal”.

Allen is the winner of the 2017 “Emerging South Australian Historian of The Year Award” as presented by The History Council of South Australia.

Allen has also been employed as “Historian in Residence” in 2016/2017 with the Adelaide City Council Libraries and employed by the City of Port Adelaide Enfield Council to write the popular, “Ghosts of the Port Self-Guided Walking Tour” You can find Allen online at: www.twitter.com/Allen_Tiller www.facebook.com/AllenHauntingAustralia https://www.facebook.com/ TheHauntsOfAdelaide

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by Carina Bonney

MARKETS

Here are some of the markets on in Adelaide.

Adelaide Central Market

Bowerbird Design Market

When: Twice a year Next markets: 24th - 26th November When: Tuesday 7am - 5.30pm, Wednesday & Location: Adelaide Showgrounds Thursday 9am to 5.30pm, Friday 7am - 9pm, Entry: $5 (Children free entry) Time: Fri 4pm – 9pm, Sat & Sun 10am – 5pm and Saturday 9am - 3pm About: Adelaide design market. Talented Location: Grote Street, Adelaide Shop at the Market with First hour free parking designer makers from SA and around Australia htto://bowerbird.net.au Tuesday - Saturday About: A huge range of fresh food, all under one roof - fruit and vegetables, meat and Fisherman’s Wharf Market poultry, seafood, gourmet cheeses, bakery products, sweets, nuts and health foods.

When: Every Sunday from 9am - 5pm www.adelaidecentralmarket.com.au/ and Monday Public Holidays Location: Black Diamond Square, Port Adelaide Adelaide Showground Farmers www.fishermenswharfmarkets.com.au

Market

When: Every Sunday 9am -1pm Location: Adelaide Showground, Leader St Farmers markets are the best place to find healthy food direct from the source. You will be supporting local industry, growers and farmers as well as getting the freshest produce.

Blackwood Craft Market When: 1st Sunday of the month 10am - 4pm Location: Blackwood Memorial Hall Cormandel Parade, Blackwood Entry: Free About: handmade craft items Contact: Kerrie Gould kgould6@bigpond.com

City East Market

Location: 230 Flinders Street, Adelaide About: The market features a broad range of sellers and products from around Adelaide.

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Gawler Lions Station Market When: Every Sunday 8am - 12pm Location: Gawler Railway Station About: Arts and crafts, fresh local produce, bric-a-brac, tools and more.

Gepps Cross Treasure Market When: Sundays 7am - 1pm Sellers admitted from 5am Buyers admitted from 7am Location: Mainline Drive In @ 588 Main North Road, Gepps Cross Entry: $1.50 per buyer (under 14 years free)

Lollypop Markets Next market: 26th November Time: 10am - 3pm Location: Morphettville Racecourse About: It showcases unique, boutique and handmade, or of limited supply items for expecting parents, babies and children. http://lollipopmarkets.com.au

Gilles Street Market When: October to May the market is open on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month.

From June to September over autumn/winter the market is held on the 3rd Sunday of the month.

Next markets: 17th September, 1st October, 15th October Location: Gilles Street Primary School 91 Gilles Street, Adelaide 10am – 4pm About: a focused Fashion & Accessories market only www.gillesstreetmarket.com.au

Labels Style Market Next Market: Sunday August 27th Time: 10am - 4pm Location: Plant 4 Bowden Third Street, Bowden Entry: Free Contact: labelsbuyswapsell@outlook.com Organiser: Katelyn Gabriel http://www.labelsstylemarkets.com

Market Shed on Holland When: Sunday, 9am - 3pm every week Where: 1 Holland Street, Adelaide (behind the Gilbert St IGA) Contact: marilyn@themarketshed.com.au About: One big bustling shed is filled to the brim with local food producers selling their wares. The market focuses strongly on organically and locally produced food.

Makers and Shakers Next Market: Saturday 16th December 10am - 3pm Location: Woodville Town Hall 74 Woodville Road, Woodville Entry: $2 (Kids under 12 free) About: Homewares, furniture, food, flowers stationery and photography. Also in Melbourne and Sydney. www.themakersandshakers.com

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Adelaide Night Market

Semaphore Community Market When: 1st Sunday of the month Time: 10am - 2.30pm Location: St Bedes Anglican Church 200 Military Rd, Semaphore Location: Druid Ave, Stirling Entry: Free

Semaphore Twilight Market Friday nights during December and January each year from 6-9pm

Wild At Hart Fresh Food Market, Port Adelaide When: Open Sundays 9am - 2pm Location: The Harts Mill precinct About: A famers market with fresh food and produce http://www.wildathart.com.au

Round She Goes Market Adelaide Held in Adelaide 3 times a year Next market: Saturday 25th November check dates on website http://roundshegoes.com.au/whenwhere/ adelaide-dates/ Location: Woodville Town Hall 74 Woodville Road, Woodville Entry: $2, 10am-3pm About: Pre-loved Designer & vintage clothing, and handmade jewellery. Also in Melbourne and Sydney. http://roundshegoes.com.au 49

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