Twilight Concert Series, Xavier Rudd, Aus Rocks US, : August 01 2013

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Table of contents

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From Down Under with love With a common love for beaches, wine and travel, every year Australia Rocks the Pier

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Map

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This Aussie can rock Xavier Rudd mixes modern sounds with traditional sensibilities

Twilight Concerts insider’s guide

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TCS lineup page 15

The 411 on this year’s shows

Say cheese!

Last week’s show in pictures

Twilight Concert Series Schedule

Aug. 22

Nick Waterhouse with Boogaloo Assassins

Aug. 1

Xavier Rudd

Aug. 29

with Aus Rocks Us

Trombone Shorty with The Dustbowl Revival

Aug. 8

Hanni El Khatib and Bombino

Sept. 5

Aug. 15

The English Beat

Sept. 12

with Maxwell Smart & troup

with The Delirians

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Xavier Rudd

This Aussie can rock Xavier Rudd mixes modern sounds with traditional sensibilities A

ustralian-born singer/songwriter Xavier Rudd has performed all over all over the world during his decade-long music career, but this year’s Twilight Concert Series show will be his first in Santa Monica.

“It’ll be cool ... something different,” Rudd said about playing in the city by the sea.

Rudd grew up in a small town in Australia near Bell’s Beach, teaching himself several instruments.

“I always wrote music ever since I was little kid, before I ever knew what I was doing,” Rudd said. “Whatever was around, I would play.”

That early passion for music eventually turned into a career that is still going strong today. Since 2002, Rudd has recorded seven studio albums and two live collections His latest album, “Spirit Bird,” is an exam-

ple of what can be done when pop melodies are mixed with worldly instruments, giving listeners the feeling of being cast away to a faroff place while hearing sounds that are close to home.

The record is not without its quirks, such as the tribal-sounding song “3 Roads” and bird calls which migrate their way into each track, exemplifying just how talented and eclectic a musician Rudd is.

The name of the album, which is sprinkled with different bird sounds throughout, came about through Rudd’s “powerful” experience of writing and recording it.

“It’s a bit of a blur sometimes,” he said.

“When spirit comes through, it’s like a dream.

It’s almost like you become lightheaded and you surrender to what’s happening.”

Rudd sees the success he has had in his career as a “blessing.”

“I come from a small town in Australia, I play all over the world ... I never really expected that and I’ve never taken that for granted,” he said. “Every day, I give thanks.”

Although he has seen many places and things in his travels, Rudd is not one to play favorites or set one experience aside from another.

“I’m not really a favorite kind of guy,” he said. “I like to not be attached to things.

When we’re attached to something, we can’t be free.”

While he may not have a preference in terms of the places he’s been or even what instruments he plays, Rudd has a very clear idea of what music means to him.

“Music’s groovy,” Rudd said. “Music’s been connecting people and culture and energy and spirit since the beginning of time. That’s why people are so drawn to it” Rudd hopes to bring out a “really vibey and really fun” energy from the audience when he plays his date at the pier.

“That’s the biggest blessing about what I do is the people who come,” Rudd said.

“Everywhere I go all over the world is good, conscious, cool people that come along and it’s always a good vibe.”

Rudd is going to be touring for the rest of this year, and said that a new record may be in the works for 2014. He is slated to perform at the Santa Monica Pier on Aug. 1.

“Spirit Bird” is available on iTunes, Amazon and Rudd’s website, xavierrudd.com.

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WATCHING THE SHOW from the beach tonight?

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Twilight Concerts insider’s guide Tickets

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No tickets necessary, this is pure free summer fun (remember that?) all thanks to our partners and sponsors who have brought us another season of awesome free concerts at the beach. Make sure to show them some love.

Don’t even think about it, it’s a 100-year-old wooden Pier, and we really like it.

Pets Dogs are welcome, but must be on a leash.

Time 7 p.m. — 10 p.m., but those in the know stake out a good spot early.

Parking Parking is available in the 1550 Pacific Coast Highway Lot next to the Santa Monica Pier on a first-come, first-served basis. Those wanting to avoid long waits should try one of the municipal lots around Second Street and Colorado Avenue or grab the ParkMe app for live data of parking availability and prices.

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Weather & attire It never gets too cold, but sometimes it gets a little chilly once the sun goes down. So bring something or head up to the Pier Tent on the deck to grab this year’s limited-edition sweatshirt or T-shirt!

Seating Seating is not provided, so feel free to bring your own chairs, blankets, etc ...

Food & drinks Bike & skateboard valet Park your wheels at the free bike and skateboard valet located next to the beach bike path just south of the Pier.

There are plenty of great food and beverage options on the deck and at the various restaurants on the Pier. Most even have to-go options perfect for munching during the show. As a reminder, alcohol consumption is not permitted in public spaces, but there are several full-service bars in the area.

Friends & family

The Concert Garden

Bring them, the more the merrier. You will not regret it. This is one epic summer tradition.

There is a 21-and-over Concert Garden featuring Barefoot Wines, an assortment of cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages.

Do not miss this view.

First aid/lost & found If you need first aid or assistance, please visit the Pier Tent or flag down a security officer. If it is an emergency, please call 911.

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From Down Under with love With a common love for beaches, wine and travel, every year Australia Rocks the Pier T

here’s just something about beach people: their wave worship, strict adherence to the code of the surfer, and the required relaxed attitude. No, we’re not talking about Santa Monicans. Not quite. We’re talking about Australians.

There is a definite camaraderie between the West Coast/Westside and the Land Down Under. We both have the same appreciation for good food and wine, the same sense of adventure, the same love of the outdoors, and the same fascination with the Pacific Ocean.

That must be why we’ve teamed up with the Australian Consulate for the Twilight Concert Series for a decade now, and why they remain one of our most valued and valuable partners.

And it must be why so many Australian tourists love L.A. In 2011, over a million Australians touched down in the United States on holiday, and over half ended up in California. Most of them made Los Angeles their ultimate destination.

And in 2012?

“About 1.2 million of us visited the U.S.,” said Karen Lanyon, the Australian ConsulGeneral of Los Angeles. “That’s the eighth consecutive record year of Australians coming to the U.S.”

Typically, Australians were more likely than other tourist groups to go shopping, sightseeing, dine out or hit up amusement parks.

“We travel a lot. Australians travel all the time,” Lanyon said. “And we spend a lot while we’re here. $4.5 billion in the U.S. as tourists last year.”

There must be something in the water.

“Australians love coming to the West Coast,” Lanyon said. “Parts of West L.A., Santa Monica, reminds of home: the beach culture, the laid back attitude. And that’s exactly what Australia Rocks the Pier is about.”

Australia Rocks the Pier is our way of celebrating this trans-Pacific partnership. It’s a night of festive fun from Down Under. This year, the headliner is Xavier Rudd, whose globetrotting sounds ground energetic rock with traditional Australian music. Joining him on stage is Nikki Jensen, a folk-pop singer-songwriter and winner of the social media contest that selected Australia Rocks the Pier’s opening act.

And there’s even more than who’s on stage.

“It’s about promoting fantastic Aussie music, but we also do film, food and wine,” Lanyon said.

This year, the Consulate has gathered together an invincible squad of Australian companies to present the best of their country for

American eyes. Clothing concession Cotton On and surf store Mambo will have pop-up stores at the Pier. And who doesn’t like free stuff? Mambo will be giving away one custom surfboard, and Quantas Airlines will be sending one lucky audience member to Australia.

And to make things truly larger than life, the Australian surfing film “Drift” will be playing in the background the entire time.

With this kind of attention Australia gives the Pier, is it any wonder Americans love vacationing in Australia, too?

“I think Americans feel very at home in Australia,” Lanyon said.

Almost half a million Americans made the trek to Australia last year. America is considered one of the most important travel markets for Australia. After all, it’s only an ocean away.

Any Americans interested in Australian culture should be counting down the days until 2014. G’Day USA’s traditional Australia Week is expanding to an Australia Year, Lanyon said.

“It’s gotten bigger and bigger. It’s going to be all year round.”

Over the past 10 years, the event has brought Australian and American companies together to swap innovations and encourage business, as well as the standbys of food,

wine and tourism. It’s also been a celebration of Aussie talent and trade. Expect even more in 2014, with events in L.A. and spread out across the entire country. Keep posted at www.australia-week.com.

Of course, there’s nothing like the real thing. And with beach culture, wine culture and coast culture so close to home, there’s no excuse not to head over to Australia itself.

“Americans always have a great time when they come to Oz,” Lanyon said.

For a wealth of resources about visiting Australia, head over to www.australia.com.

See you on the other side of the ocean!

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2013 Twilight Concert Series

Hanni El Khatib

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Hanni El Khatib and Bombino When Hanni El Khatib started out, he was just a skater kid playing the world’s worst guitar and singing by himself. Inspired by a long line of determined do-it-for-themselves musicians winding back through punk and psychedelia to rock ‘n’ roll and early R&B and finally the first scratchy years of the blues, he’d record song after bare-bones song — in between day jobs and night life — just because he had things he wanted to sing about. Then in 2010 from a chance meeting, up-and-coming indie label Innovative Leisure recognized that there was something huge hiding in those little songs. And so El Khatib made his official fullpower debut (on vinyl too) in 2010.

Soon his music would overtake him completely. By the time his first album “Will the Guns Come Out” was released in 2011, he clawed out a space of his own musically and left his job as creative director at streetwear label HUF as well as his hometown of San Francisco to become part-owner of Innovative Leisure in Los Angeles. It had been the kind of year where anything that could happen would happen.

Bombino Omara “Bombino” Moctar, whose given name is Goumar Almoctar, was born on Jan. 1, 1980 in Tidene, Niger, an encampment of nomadic Tuaregs located about 80 kilometers to the northeast of Agadez. He is a member of the Ifoghas tribe, which belongs to the Kel Air Tuareg federation. His father is a car mechanic

Bombino

and his mother takes care of the home, as is the Tuareg tradition. Bombino was raised as a Muslim and taught to consider honor, dignity and generosity as principal tenets of life.

Bombino spent his early childhood between the encampment and the town of Agadez, the largest city in northern Niger (population about 90,000) and long a key part of the ancient Sahara trade routes connecting North Africa and the Mediterranean with West Africa. One of 17 brothers and sisters (including half brothers and half sisters from both his mother and father), Bombino was enrolled in school in Agadez, but he demonstrated his rebellious spirit early on and refused to go. Bombino’s grandmother took him in to keep his father from forcing him to go to school, and, like most Tuareg children, he grew up living with his grandmother.

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The English Beat with Maxwell Smart & Rusty’s EAC Dave Wakeling is a hell of a nice guy!

Dave loves to tell you the stories behind his songs, either from stage or after the show. Ask any one of the thousands of fans who have met him over the years and that’s what you’ll hear. Never mind that Dave is the singer/songwriter from two of the most popular bands of the end of the millennium, The English Beat and General Public, he’s a stand up man from Brum. Whether it’s the personal as political in “How Can You Stand There,” making politics personal in “Stand Down Margaret,” taking a stand against global

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LINE-UP FROM PAGE 10 warming as he did making Greepeace’s Alternative NRG, or helping little kids stand tall with “Smile Train,” Dave has always stood for something.

And like the mighty Redwoods of his adopted home of California (dude!), it’s easy for Dave to take a stand because of his strong roots.

Hailing from working-class Birmingham, England, Dave and The English Beat entered the music scene in the troubled times of 1979.

When The English Beat rushed on to the music scene it was a time of social, political and musical upheaval. Into this storm they came, trying to calm the waters with their simple message of love and unity set to a great dance beat.

Over the course of three albums, The English Beat achieved great success in their home country, charting several singles into the top 10. In addition to their UK chart success, in America the band found a solid base of young fans eager to dance to the their hypnotic rhythms and absorb their message of peace, love and unity.

Their constant touring with iconic bands such as The Clash and The Police helped to boost their popularity in the States.

Despite his huge success, Dave didn’t stop singing and acting on the problems caused by what he called the “noise in this world.” The band donated all the profits from their highly successful single version of “Stand Down Margaret” to the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament.

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Nick Waterhouse with Boogaloo Assassins Nick Waterhouse is the new breed — an R&B fanatic who combines an uncanny oldschool sensibility with a charged, contemporary style. At just 25, he joins the ranks of a growing cabal of similar acts and producers of recent times — Mark Ronson, Mayer Hawthorne, the Daptone Crew et al — that are all moving forward into the past, yet all quite different. For Waterhouse, his muse is the over-modulated sound of vintage R&B, and his take on such a time-honored tradition evokes the back-alley thrill of New Orleans, Detroit and Memphis in their heyday. He combines an astute attention to detail with an honest desire to match the emotional impact of the music that inspires him.

When asked to pinpoint the sound or style he strives for, Nick Waterhouse simply shrugs

and responds, “American music. And I know that’s pretty general, but it is what it is. I have spent so much of my life immersed in this stuff, because I wanted to figure it out, [yet] all I figured out was that there was no plan.”

In other words, whatever musical style Nick may choose to espouse, it’s not done because someone else did it, but done for the same reason someone else did it.

Growing up in the Southern California, Waterhouse eschewed his surroundings and found emotional authenticity in the vintage wax of Ray Charles, Roy Head, Little Willie John and the whole panoply of American music, where feel so often trumps technique.

Boogaloo Assassins The Boogaloo Assassins’ name might hint at homicide, but their efforts are strictly life-saving. Dedicated to re-creating and re-interpreting the boogaloo craze that swept East Harlem, the Latin Caribbean and South America from 1965 to 1969, the Los Angeles nine-piece band attempts to do to R&B, doowop, Afro-Caribbean jazz and salsa fusion what the Dap Kings do to classic Stax soul.

Aug. 29

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with The Dustbowl Revival Since the release of their Grammy-nominated 2010 debut album, “Backatown,” Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have grown creatively while winning hordes of new fans performing nonstop on five continents.

Their latest album, “For True,” offers substantive proof of their explosive growth, further refining the signature sound Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews has dubbed “Supafunkrock.”

“There was excitement from everywhere,” said Andrews of the experience on the road and how it fed into the creation of “For True.”

“We did over 200 shows in the last year and a half, and every night we allowed the music to take us over. Musically and creatively, we wanted to shoot for some different things.”

The band — Mike Ballard on bass, Pete Murano on guitar, Joey Peebles on drums, Dan Oestreicher on baritone sax and Tim McFatter on tenor sax — stirs together old-school jazz, funk and soul, laced with hard-rock power chords and hip-hop beats, and they’ve added some tangy new ingredients on “For True” as they keep pushing the envelope, exploring new musical territory.

“We never sat down and really thought about concepts and what we wanted our

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue music to sound like,” Andrews explained. “It’s just that, over the years, we allowed each one of the band members to bring their influences and taste in music into our music. Anything we hear or are influenced by, it naturally comes out in what we’re trying to do. It’s just our sound, and it happened naturally.”

Andrews wrote or co-wrote all 14 tracks on the new album, including collaborating with the legendary Lamont Dozier on “Encore,” while this time playing as much trumpet as trombone, as well as organ, drums, piano, keys, synth bass and percussion. Indeed, he played every part on the swaying, Latin-tinged “Unc.” He’s also come into his own as a singer, honoring the hallowed legacy of the great soul men of the 1960s and ‘70s. Like its predecessor, the new album turns on a rare combination of virtuosity and high-energy, party-down intensity.

The Dustbowl Revival The Dustbowl Revival is a Venice, Calif.based collective that merges old school bluegrass, gospel, jug-band, swamp blues and the hot swing of the 1930s to form a spicy roots cocktail. Known for their inspired live sets, The Dustbowl Revival boldly brings together many styles of traditional American music. Imagine Old Crow Medicine Show meeting Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven Band in New Orleans or Bob Dylan and Fats Waller jamming with Mumford & Sons on a front porch in 1938.

Growing steadily from a small string band playing up and down the West Coast (hundreds of shows in the last two years), DBR has blossomed into a traveling collective featuring instrumentation that often includes fiddle, mandolin, trombone, clarinet, trumpet, banjo, accordion, tuba, pedal steel, drums, guitars, a bass made from a canoe oar, harmonica and plenty of washboard and kazoo for good luck.

With an enthusiastic and growing national following, DBR released their first LP “You Can’t Go Back To The Garden of Eden” to rave reviews. Their tune “Dan’s Jam,” received Americana Song Of The Year honors by the Independent Music Awards (Tom Waits, Ozzy Osbourne judging). The group has placed songs in several independent films and TV projects including “Made In China” (IFC) which won SXSW, and in an upcoming episode of “American Idol.” National radio play includes L.A.’s KCRW and KCSN, Austin’s KGSR, San Francisco’s KPFA and Seattle’s taste-making KEXP.

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Gardens & Villa and Mr. Little Jeans

Gardens & Villa is the project of five college friends from Santa Barbara, formed following the collapse of a noisier post-punk band and a hitch-hiking journey up the West Coast.

Members Chris Lynch, Adam Rasmussen, Levi Hayden and Shane McKillop began playing in earnest as Gardens & Villa in 2008.

The name is pulled from the location of their house on Villa Street, and the property’s lovely garden to which they tend. The music they make is very much connected to the coastal city they call home — the stoney bike rides, dance parties and a scene free of judgment.

For two weeks in the summer of 2010, the band camped behind visionary and now-labelmate Richard Swift’s Oregon studio. No shower, no kitchen, but all the magic you could ask for. After taking a band oath to always play all parts live — a la Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense” — the band added member Dusty Ineman to supremely execute the live incarnation of the band.

Mr. Little Jeans Meet Mr. Little Jeans, a.k.a. Monica Birkenes. She is small and Norwegian and she makes music that will leave you reeling.

Her pop dances left of center, a curious thing of equal parts organic magic and buzzing electricity. She has worked hard to get to this place, traveled far to find it. On some unmarked pasture between St. Vincent’s prettiest moments and Debby Harry’s wilder inclinations, she stands fronting an army of bright ideas and sharp sounds, a shipbuilder’s daughter with a voice that could part a sea.

Monica grew up in the middle of the woods in a seaside town called Grimstad. Her dad built catamarans and her mum was a secretary whose love for music was infectious. They didn’t have much money, but put their daughter through years of piano and voice lessons which she’d attend wearing her mother’s oversized outfits from another era. There were four black cats called Missy, and some neighbors who killed a man, but otherwise it was all Nancy Drew, dancing through the trees, and singing to mum’s records.

Her first instrument has always been her voice. Monica sang in the church choir at 5, then around town wherever and whenever her mum saw fit: malls, old folks’ homes, theaters, even on local television once or twice. At 10, she recorded a cassette of children’s classics and shopped it around to gas stations mainly.

By 15, she was singing in bars, clearly underage but backed by a band of boys in their 20s. She focused on music in high school, then relocated to London to study drama.

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LINE-UP FROM PAGE 12 A year later, Monica was on her own in England, having left college to chase singing leads gleaned from the “wanted” pages.

Mostly she spent an endless string of years as a terrible waitress and, after an exploratory trip to Los Angeles, a couple more years sofa-surfing, country-hopping, and racking up credit card debt as she wrote with different producers — Peter Moren (Peter Bjorn & John), John Hill (Santigold) — and shaped her sound into that of the inimitable Mr. Little Jeans we now know.

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Jimmy Cliff Mr. Little Jeans

with The Delirians “I got one more shot at the goal/Straight from my soul/I’m in control,” sings reggae legend Jimmy Cliff on “One More,” the lead track from “Rebirth” the new Universal Music Enterprises album from the Grammy-winning musician, actor, singer, songwriter, producer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, produced by punk icon Tim Armstrong, of Rancid and Operation Ivy fame.

The release, his first studio album in seven years, is the next step in their collaboration on last year’s “Sacred Fire” EP, an effort Rolling Stone called Cliff’s “best music in decades ... [his] tenor still soars.” With the groundbreaking 1972 film “The Harder They Come” celebrating its 40th anniversary, Cliff — who starred in the movie and contributed the title cut, “You Can Get It If You Really Want,” “Many Rivers to Cross” and “Sitting in Limbo” to the soundtrack

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— is still going strong in a career that has spanned almost 50 years and includes his native Jamaica’s highest honor, the Order of Merit.

In the autobiographical “Reggae Music,” Cliff recounts going to see famed Jamaican producer Leslie Kong in 1962 to convince him to work with him, releasing Cliff’s first hit, “Hurricane Hattie,” when he was just 14.

“Jimmy is one of my musical heroes and I’ve been responding to his music my entire life,” said Armstrong, who had never met Cliff before, but was once recommended to him by mutual friend Joe Strummer of The Clash.

Gathering Armstrong’s studio band, the Engine Room (bassist/percussionist J Bonner, drum/percussionist Scott Abels, organ/percussionist Dan Boer and piano/lead guitarist Kevin Bivona), the first song they tackled was a cover of Rancid’s “Ruby Soho,” a ska- tinged number from the band’s 1995 album “... And Out Came the Wolves” about a musician having to tell his lover he’s headed for the road.

“I had no idea it was one of Tim’s songs, but I liked it and could identify with the sentiments,” said Cliff. “I never really had the opportunity to hear his music, but it was a great thing how we hit if off in the studio.”

They also worked on a cover of The Clash’s “The Guns of Brixton,” a song about the growing tension in Brixton at the time.

Ironically, Strummer’s last session ever was with Cliff on “Over the Border,” a song from Jimmy’s 2004 album, “Black Magic.” It was at that time Joe talked up Armstrong as someone who might make a good collaborator for him.

“It was inspiring working with Tim because even the sound of the album feels like we went back to the ‘60s and ‘70s,” said Cliff. “I had forgotten about a lot of the sounds and the instruments we used then, and we brought that all back.”

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Say cheese No Age brought a punk vibe to the Pier last week P

unk outfit No Age revved up the Twilight Concert Series with no shortage of energy from the crowd.

People were crowd surfing, fist pumping and rocking out to No Age’s up-tempo style.

This week brings Xavier Rudd and Australia Rocks the Pier night. It will be like the Land Down Under meets the West Coast. Sounds like a fun day at the beach.

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No Age

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