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FRINGE FREAK-OUT Last year we had a sweet taste of what to expect with the Spiegeltent and Urban Orchard programming dazzling all, but now Perth’s Fringe World Festival is set to explode in 2012 with upwards of 150 shows happening from Thursday 26 January ‘til Sunday 19 February. On top of these venues returning, Fringe will see Pop-Up Caravans around the city, the Old Treasury Buildings on St Georges Terrace opening to the public, and Comedy Central around the Northbridge Piazza. There’ll be stacks on including cabaret, circus, comedy, dance, theatre, visual arts and, of course, music. Highlights of the latter include music and graphic duet 1000 People Band (Jan 28), UK pop-punker Axe Girl, Rachael Dease from Schvendes’ City Of Shadows (Feb 16-18), a capella vocal band Hong Kong Melody Makers (Feb 8), brassblasting big band Junkadelic celebrating their 10th Anniversary (Jan 27), Sydney reggae outfit King Tide’s Caribbean Carnival (Jan 27), 14-piece Mace Francis Orchestra, classic soundtrack re-work Metropolis Audio Redux (Feb 6-8), nu-disco wizard Prins Thomas (Jan 25), acclaimed UK electronica acts The Orb and Bomb The Bass (Feb 17), art-pop duo The Twoks (Feb 10) and heaps more. Some other variety acts include crazy and bare-skinned airplane hostesses The Wau Wau Sisters (Feb 2-9), organ-playing maestro Barry Morgan (Jan 27-30, Feb 1-11), cataclysmic cabaret sideshow The Freak & The Showgirl (Feb 10, 12-18), Polish furniture-beaters The Table (Feb 7), the homojesus-inspired The Year of Magical Wanking (Jan 31- Feb 11), South African theatre duo …miskien (Feb 14-19), squabbling siblings and mother-smashing jammers Die Roten Punkte (Jan 27-Feb 1) and kamikaze cabaret wonder Meow Meow (Feb 2-12). This is just the tip of a massive iceberg, so head to fringeworld.com.au for more info and tickets.
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METRO MANSON Very rarely does an artist come along that defies the boundaries of convention and remains relevant in a storied career spanning over two decades selling in excess of 50 million albums. Marilyn Manson has successfully re-introduced ‘shock rock’ whilst redefining alternative music, blazing a trail of controversy and originality. Already announced as headed our way for Soundwave (Monday 5 March, Claremont Showgrounds), Manson now also appears Tuesday 6 March at Metro City. Tickets through Oztix.
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Whilst their east coast dates remain, UK gothpunks The Damned will no longer play their Sunday 22 January show at Capitol.
DATE ROME Featuring founding members of Sublime along with new frontman Rome, Sublime With Rome will introduce themselves and Sublime’s classic hits when they play Metropolis Fremantle Wednesday 11 April. One of the most successful ska-punk bands of all time, Sublime has sold over 17 million albums and their last show was in 1996 following the death of original singer Bradley Nowell. In 2008 the remaining members met Rome, and have worked together since. The Beautiful Girls’ Mat McHugh supports. Tickets via Oztix and Heatseeker.
LIMELUKE Limelite has been bringing the party to the Metropolis Fremantle people since 2007, breaking new names, delivering buzz acts and fostering fresh talent week in, week out. They delivered, you danced, and now they’re punching their fifth birthday in the face with a massive party featuring last year’s Australia Day killer Laidback Luke, plus countryman Rogerseventytwo and local support from Zelimir, Mel B and Jus Haus?. $35 first release through Heatseeker, $45 thereafter. Friday 3 February at Metropolis Fremantle.
On Wednesdays 11 & 18 January WA soundman Rik van der Velde presents a Live Sound Seminar at Fly By Night. Flybynight.org for tickets.
The Yallingup Surfilm Festival is on the lookout for volunteers for its upcoming event Friday 20-Sunday 22 January. yallingupsurfilm. com.au for more info. This New Year’s, Peats Ridge Festival is broadcasting their entire three-day event live and for free at Youtube.com/ peatsridge, a first for any fest in Australia. The remaining members of The Beach Boys will officially reunite for their 50th anniversary next year, with a new album (which they’ve already started recording), a world tour and a reissue campaign.
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A second Olivia NewtonJohn/Jon English with WASO concert has been added, Saturday 25 February at the Burswood Theatre.
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The Business Review Weekly’s Entertainment Rich List saw The Wiggles at number two with $28.3 million, Michael Gudinski/ Frontier Touring at four with $19 million and Kylie Minogue back in the top ten with $15 million.
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The mega Future Music Festival will be expanding into Asia next year, with full details announced soon.
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A Middle East concert promoter is looking to sue the Summadayze-bound Snoop Dogg after the rapper released footage of him smoking cannabis at a concert after-party in Beirut, damaging the company’s reputation.
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ST MERCY Going from strength to strength since the release of her internationally-acclaimed Strange Mercy album, Annie Clark aka St Vincent brings the album to Australia to give us a taste of it live, playing Rosemount Hotel Thursday 8 March, tickets through Heatseeker, Mills, Planet and 78’s. The album scored a 9.0 from Pitchfork and has featured in the year-end top 10 lists of the likes of NME, Q, Time and The Sunday Times, thanks to its indelible hooks and ingenious rhythms, not to mention debonair solos and a couple of glorious Frippy freakouts.
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ALL WE KNOW Imagine Eagle & The Worm’s 2010 breakout All I Know taking off as the overheads bulge with extra brass and the stewards spit bad-ass flows. Got your head ‘round that? Then you’re flying Intermashional First Class. You’ve by now heard the eight-and-a-half minute jam that is Eagle & The Worm smashed-up by Chicago’s Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Milwaukee’s Juiceboxx – an all-out inescapable summer monster. So we are offering you a free download of the radio edit version. Get your Internetz on at theMusic.com.au right about now.
A TO ZED One of dubstep’s most promising new acts, Zeds Dead bring their hard-hitting mix of electronic/ dubstep/progressive beats to The Overflow (carpark next to The Court Hotel) for a mega Grizzled Australia Day party, Thursday 26 January. Zeds Dead’s productions can be heard in sets from artists like Diplo, Rusko, Skrillex and Bassnectar, with Kissy Sellout calling Zeds Dead “the future of genres... flipping genius.” It gets bigger with the return of former Perth lass Kito, plus locals Dr Space and Gran Calavara.
WALKER, VAN RANGER Melbourne’s best kept roots secret Van Walker hits the road to launch his latest album Underneath The Radar, already announced to play Settlers Tavern Thursday 23 February and The Fly Trap Sunday 26. He’s added a new date to that little run, supporting Dave Mann Friday 24 at the Indi Bar.
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FOREWORD LINE HEATING UP There’s a new hip hop festival in town, originating in South Australia and called HeatWave. On board to fill Challenge Stadium with some diverse hip hop sounds will be Grammy-winner Chamillionaire, Eminem’s boys D12, Detroit bad-man Obie Trice and Kansas City King TechN9ne. Oh, and remember that classic Butterfly by CrazyTown? That’s coming too, along with the dudes responsible. Friday 20 January this caravan of courage raps its way in to WA for $99 plus BF through Ticketmaster from tomorrow.
EARLE OF BLUES Young guitar-wielding, globetrotting Americana exponent Justin Townes Earle may well be one of the hardest working troubadours on the world stage today, and the son of Steve returns for West Coast Blues’N’Roots (April 1, Fremantle Oval), but also plays Fly By Night Saturday 14 April and the Rosemount Hotel Sunday 15. Tickets via lovepolice. com.au/tours to catch the man that drips charisma and authenticity, channelling long-forgotten country and blues icons while filtering them through a modern sensibility.
VIVA LAS VEGAS Best known for hosting her weekly show, House Party on triple j, Nina Las Vegas has also performed some cracking DJ sets on our side of country, along with plenty of festival appearances. She returns in the new year for some bangin’ nights, spinning tracks Thursday January at the Newport Hotel, Friday 6 at Bar 120 in Hillary’s Boat Harbour, and the following night at Capitol as part of Death Disco. Tickets to the Friday show through Heatseeker, Moshtix and Star Surf Hillary’s, door sales the latter.
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There’s some mighty fine happenings going down right now in WA, and we don’t just mean **!**HOLIDAYS**!**… Amidst the rock bands of the old Hyde Park Hotel there were plenty of DJs spinning wax, and they return for Precision: Reunion featuring some of the ol’ names that used to lay down the d’n’b and liquid rollers back yore, including Pendulum’s El Hornet vs Muller vs Dan Lucas, Sardi vs Mike L and General Justice vs Jo 19, Tuesday 17 January from 8pm. Shangara Jive have been exciting audiences since 2002 with their selection of African music styles, and they’re releasing their debut album Melody at Mojo’s on the Saturday 14 January with special guests Zarm, DJ Flex and DJ Rontings, $15 from 8pm. The inaugural Summer Swing Smackdown will be the swing music event of the season, featuring The Lucky Seven, The Harry Deluxe Swing Band, Libby Hammer Quintet and The Darling Buds Of May, Saturday 14 January, The Courtyard, State Theatre Centre Of WA.
ONE MAN’S PRAM For the past few years, one-man-band Lewis Floyd Henry has pitched up on street corners around London gradually spreading the word of the blues and rock to passers by and the oddly curious. He arrives armed with a pram carrying a batteryoperated amplifier and a custom-made drum kit bashing out covers of Jimi Hendrix, T-Rex, The Stooges and more: Mojo’s Thursday 12 January with Sonpsilo Circus; Prince Of Wales Friday 13; Ya Ya’s Saturday 14 with Dux & Downtown; and Sunday 15 back at Mojo’s with Abbe May. Hootenanny also support every show. Tickets via Moshtix/door.
STICKY DATES Dub psych speccys Sticky Fingers are stoked to announce their second EP, Happy Endings, has wrapped recording and comes out early next year. It’s the first EP since the their debut in late 2010, and in that time they’ve supported Donovan Frankenreiter, toured up and down the east coast, tripped to New Caledonia to make a film clip and played numerous WA gigs. They return, playing Indi Bar Thursday 1 March; Settlers Tavern Friday 2; and Ya Ya’s Saturday 3.
JUST THE TWO OF US Having spent the second half of 2011 playing soldout shows to rave reviews around the country in support of second album The Two Of Us, Australia’s Italian son of song Alfredo Malabello and band bring the show “back home” to WA for a very special night of romance and music in the outdoor courtyard of Rigby’s Bar, Saturday 25 February.
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PARTY PARTY PARTY Frontman of genre-bending Aus’ hip hop collaboration 1200 Techniques, N’Fa is back with a new EP Babylondon. Already announced to play Countdown To NYE at Salt On The Beach Saturday 31 December with Lyrics Born, Russ Dewbury and co., the following day catch him at Marquee New Year’s Day at the South Perth Yacht Club, and then Saturday 7 January supporting Pete Rock at Villa alongside Charlie Bucket.
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Known for his gritty southern-rock twangs and poetic refrains, Alabama native Jason Isbell will join Ryan Adams when he plays as part of the Perth International Arts Festival, Saturday 25 February at the Perth Concert Hall, tickets through BOCs. A former member of Drive-By Truckers, Isbell made his solo debut Sirens Of The Ditch in 2007 and has since released two further albums, the latest Here We Rest receiving much critical acclaim.
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BARTLEBEATS Join Dutch remix master Bart B More and a stable of local beat-driven heroes for some midweek rioting at Ambar Australia Day Eve, Wednesday 25 January. Known for crafting dancefloor destroyers, Bart B More has been receiving massive props all over by combining his love for beat-driven and looped techno music with big room house and electro. After the huge international support for So It Goes and his Freak remix for Sandy Rivera, the buzz don’t stop. Supported by Jus Haus?, FTW, Mr Of and The Tapeheads. $30 plus BF through Moshtix.
There’s been some mighty fine releases in the last few weeks and we’ve been given a few from various sources that we’ve thought it best to bundle up in some ultimate CD prize packs just in time for Christmas. We have THREE CD PACKS, each containing a copy of: Stephane Pompougnac’s stylish Hotel Costes 15 compilation; Gorillaz ultimate The Singles Collection 2001-2011; R&B Classics (including tracks by House Of Pain, Gang Starr, Arrested Development); Cass McCombs (described by John Peel as “unobtrusively brilliant”); and the much-lauded 50 Words For Snow by Kate Bush. Just enter at our Facebook page.
Their multiple instrument skills, audio engineering and an ear for precision production was always going to lay the foundation for UK duo Bare Noize to quickly become a formidable contender in the electronic producer scene. It didn’t take long before they were sharing music and production tips (and a trans-Atlantic friendship with Skrillex), and you can see the fruits of their sessions Friday 20 January at Shape, supported by Killafoe, Dr Space, Jus Haus? and Bezzerka. $25 plus BF through shapebar.com.au.
Auditorium. In 2009 Justin ‘Bon Iver’ Vernon named her New Buffalo album Somewhere, Anywhere as the most important album to him of the last few years.
ROCK STEADY EDDI Back in 2010 Eddi Reader performed for the first time in WA, captivating and enchanting audiences, and in 2012 she makes a return for one night only in quartet mode. From the heady days in the ‘80s with Fairground Attraction and the worldwide hit Perfect, to her interpretations of the Songs Of Robert Burns for which she was awarded an MBE, Reader continues to shine. Joined by Boo Hewedine, Alan Kelly and Ian Car, she plays Saturday 31 March at The Fly By Night, tickets via venue.
Get ‘set’ for an overload of fashion, music and beach volleyball at this year’s SLAM Summer Beach Volleyball Festival. Created as a platform to introduce people to the sport and foster new talent, now it’s turned into a must-go-to event for anyone that loves fun in the sun. SLAM brings the good times to Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre Sunday 15 January, featuring bangin’ beats from The Potbelleez, Timmy Trumpet and Kaz James, plus rockin’ locals Boom! Bap! Pow! and DJs. Tickets through slamvolleyball.com.au, or enter for your chance to win TWO DOUBLE PASSES by clicking on the giveaways tab on the left side at facebook.com/drumperth.
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BIG BRONX OUT It’s been a tumultuous time for Big Day Out 2012, but the fog is clearing, the line-up times have been released and the final acts have been added to the bill: Mariachi El Bronx and their father band The Bronx, plus the BDO Show N Shine Muscle Car Competition and newly added locals Pond, Chaos Divine, San Cisco, Boom Bap Pow!, The Ghost Hotel, Stereoflower, The Love Junkies, MC Red, Q-Bik & Seeka MC, Ekko & Sidetrack, Deadvents, Mumma Says Yes, The Brow Horn Orchestra, Sonpsilo Circus and 44th Sunset. Bigdayout.com for tickets and times, Sunday 5 February at Brownes Park, Lathlain.
Hard to believe it’s already time for the Fairbridge Festival Of World & Folk Music first announcement, but here it is, taking place at Fairbridge Village from 13-15 April. The full line-up can be found at fairbridgefestival.com.au, but here’s a few acts to whet the appetite: Popular Irishman Paul Brady, UK singer/songwriter Seth Lakeman, ARIA-winners My Friend The Chocolate Cake, the Chipolatas, Shooglenifty, Chris While & Julie Matthews, Kavisha, Tjupurru, Stiff Gins, The Woohoo Revue, Linsey Pollack, Mal Web, Fred Smith & Liz Frencham, April Verch Band, Blu Guru, Dry Bones, Totally Gourdgeous and many, many more.
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SUMMER SUN DAY RTRFM presents a tripped-out summer Sunday session of freak folk, indietronica and beat-heavy soundscapes, Sunday 22 January at The Bird from 4 til 10pm. Golden Apples Of The Sun will feature Erasers, Andrew Sinclair & The Ritual Band, Salamander, Ermine Coat, Rabbit Island, Elk Bell and Mei Swan. Plus, spinning tunes between acts will be Golden Apples regulars Claude Mono, Diger Rokwell and Tristan Gibbs. Door sales $10 for RTRFM subscribers and $15 for non-subscribers.
No summer ‘round these parts would be complete without a show from The Cat Empire. Never ones to disappoint, they play Fremantle Arts Centre Friday 10 February. Bringing their world, electronic, Latin, reggae and soul-infused sounds before hitting the studio, the feline fellas have invited world-electro lads Tijuana Cartel plus heir apparents The Brow Horn Orchestra and turntable wizard DJ Jump. Tickets through FAC, Heatseeker, Mills, 78’s, Planet and Star.
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Fresh from Europe, 2-tone Brit punkers Bad Manners are back in WA to help us bring in the New Year, playing the Civic Backroom Saturday 31 December and Newport Hotel Sunday 1 January, tickets for both via Moshtix. After sell-out shows earlier in 2011, the larger-than-life frontman Buster Bloodvessel and his band bring back their exciting and fast paced live show with its unique blend of bawdy brass-infused ska, including hits My Lollipop Girl, Lip Up Fatty and Walking On Sunshine.
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AUDIO, VIDEO, VOX The Justice machine loves a bit of guest vox action. Here are some of their lovers: Audio, Video, Disco ALI LOVE: Producing infectious disco/pop tunes, Ali has previously worked with The Chemical Brothers on their track Do It Again. Justice collab Civilisation was picked up for Adidas’ biggest ad campaign to date, and was the first taste we had of the album. VINCENT VENDETTA: Justice came across Melbourne darlings Midnight Juggernauts on an Institubes Christmas compilation that they both appeared on, prompting them to declare the band their new favourite act. He’s got a rad name, they’ve got rad sounds – game, set, match made in heaven. MORGAN PHALEN: Vocalist for New Yorkers Diamond Nights. The band cites their influences as Thin Lizzy and Queen. You can hear the rocker’s influence most loud on track Newlands with its stadium rock sound. Oh yeeeeaaaahhhhh, rawk! †: UFFIE: This Florida born, Paris-based dynamo has a track record of working with fellow label mates off Ed Banger, and Justice is no exception. Tthhee Ppaarrttyy probably influenced Ke$ha’s Tik Tok, but don’t hold that against her. Instead, hold her disappointingly lackluster album of this year against Uffie.
THE WORLD’S BEEN WAITING FOR QUITE SOME TIME FOR ALBUM NUMBER DEUX FROM JUSTICE. THOUGH, AS AAROM WILSON DISCOVERS, AT LEAST WE WON’T HAVE TO WAIT LONG TO BE THE FIRST IN THE WORLD TO SEE THEIR NEW REIGN OF RELIGIOUS DANCE SERMONS TAKING PLACE.
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f music is a religion, Justice have amassed a cult-like following of devoted worshippers to their church of noise. Bursting the world’s eardrums with the distortion-heavy, intensely crunchy beats of Waters Of Nazareth in 2005, Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay’s Justice project was soon a leading force in the heavy electro surge that saw disco being deconstructed and destructed. Signed to Ed Banger, their Grammy-nominated 2007 debut album † (aka Cross) saw a constant firing of tunes that were practically unavoidable on dancefloors for a few years running, from the punch-in-the-face power of Waters, Genesis and Phantom (and Pt. II) to the upbeat feel-goodness of D.A.N.C.E and DVNO (feat. Mehdi, R.I.P.), all while their track with Simian, We Are Your Friends, saw seething moshpits still shouting along in unison. Yet it wasn’t just their music that made an impact, it was their whole appearance. Yes, there was something unfathomably cool about the leather-jacketed Frenchmen; something permeating all aspects of their produce from Grammysinning videos to Marshall speaker-stacked stage shows. “We are fascinated with the visual aspect of music and we are just trying to enter that ourselves by making it as we would like to see it from another band for our pleasure,” responds Gaspard Augé in slightly broken English on a quiet sounding Friday night in Paris. “Obviously it’s a marketing thing. Everything you do, from the way you dress to the way that you choose your record artwork or your videos, obviously it’s marketing. But for us it’s just different to be involved in the whole process of making images. For example, we are so happy to hear the record without our name on it, without even the title, and just the pure image we find beautiful, and it is the same for the videos.” Augé is speaking of the artwork for their recently released sophomore album Audio, Video, Disco; simply an image of a cross, deplete of any of the usual album signage. Casting
off the Christian chains, the powerful symbol now has enough people relating it to Justice for the record company to deem the wordless cover economically viable. “It just came naturally when we released our first EP,” he explains of Justice’s cross symbol genesis. “We wanted to draw a parallel between the energy you can feel in a church - the feeling you can experience in a mass or something - and the energy you can sense in a club, because it is like a gathering feeling… Also, the cross is visually deep in the middle of the world of Justice. It was just perfect for us just like a pop symbol; just like Madonna or George Michael.” While Madge and Georgie might seem unusual icons for Justice to refer to, Augé and de Rosnay spend much of their media time seemingly trying to dissuade interviewers from thinking their music is inspired by, and for, dancefloors, but rather by their “extremely wide range of music tastes.” Their latest album unquestionably moves away from an electronic product to a more organic, ‘70s rock-influenced sound, surprising many. While expectations were high for the long-awaited second album, Augé was apparently oblivious. “In the end we were really kind of freed from any style or pressure as we didn’t really know what people expected from us, and I guess it’s a good thing in the sense that we were just able to do the music we wanted to do at the time. And for us we are just making music that provides very simple emotions without caring too much about being electro or rock or… For us it’s just like modern pop music that we did not have to stick too much to a specific genre.” Whilst it would be a disappointing evolution if Justice just put out more of the same, so far the critical reaction to Audio, Video, Disco’s new direction has been mixed. It’s certainly more of an actual album than, as Augé puts it, a collection of tracks that were “from one extreme to another,” and perhaps this has also played a part in leaving some of their devoted following scratching their heads
and wondering how to dance to the less instantaneously effective tunes. So does he feel that, once the initial dust of surprise settles down, people will get the album? “Yeah, I really hope so,” Augé pensively contemplates. “Maybe the new record is a bit less straightforward than the first one. But we really hope that it’s a record that can grow on people, and I really hope it has some more substance and that it can be listened to a few times to get into it. So, time will tell, hopefully. “It’s because we have just a very romantic and ‘nice’ vision of music,” Augé adds, beginning to sell his new baby as still a natural evolution. “In a way it’s just like your emotion for aggression - it’s still the same emotional concern, like it goes from epic mess to a melancholy. And it’s always the thing we try to achieve; it’s always in-between powerful feelings and also this idea of making more romanticism it’s just like when you’re kissing your girl.” If the new album is like a kiss, Cross was more like a break-up slap followed by a promiscuous party. Artists like Skrillex and Bloody Beetroots were undoubtedly influenced by Justice’s earlier productions on their own highly successful templates of distortion, thumping bass and chopped up samples. And, with this becoming a blueprint for popular success as well as the increasing influence of dubstep in the electronic world, surely this progression must likewise have been tempting for Justice. Not so. “We just wanted to move forward and not care too much about making the same recipe again and again. It’s a bit of a trap, this electro tag, because we just started as an electronic band but it’s not our aim to make people dance or to be aggressive,” he explains. “We are just making music, without caring that much…and at the moment we are working on the live session of the album, so we are obviously making some more club-oriented sessions of the tracks.”
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Remixed Vox Love: Britney Spears – Me Against The Music; N*E*R*D – She Wants To Move; Fatboy Slim – Don’t Let The Man Get You Down; Daft Punk – Human After All; Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen; Mystery Jets – You Can’t Fool Me Dennis; Soulwax – Phantom; Mr Ozio – Nazis; Simian – Never Be Alone (aka We Are You Friends, which lead to Justice being signed); MGMT – Electric Feel (Which won them a Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording) Augé’s enthusiasm moves up a notch when talking of the live experience, however he plays his cards close to his chest as to what we can expect when they let Australians be the first to see Justice’s new live shows. With Augé and de Rosnay having honed their trad-instrument skills whilst creating Audio, Video, Disco, can we expect some shredding on stage? “Uhhhh, no, I’m not sure if we are going to play guitar on stage because we are not confident enough nor instrumentally skilled, but we are just rehearsing at the moment so time will tell if we can just try and slip it in maybe,” Augé laughs. “We are just gonna do a kind of upgraded version of the first one because we specifically like the role of the visual side of it, in terms of lights and everything… It’s just very theatrical… We just want to give them what they are expecting, which is more or less like blood, sweat and tears.” WHO: Justice WHAT: Audio, Video, Disco (Ed Banger/Warner) WHEN & WHERE: Summadayze, Tuesday 3 January, Sir James Mitchell Park, South Perth
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THROWING SHAPES WYNTER IN SUMMER The Shapeshifters are back in Perth to bring their smooth house beats to the third annual Club Paradiso, a New Year’s Day filled with beats by the beach. The other headliner is Queens, New Yorkborn dance-popstress Wynter Gordon.
Her less-than-orthodox beginnings as a singer began at the age of six, singing at funerals and in churches around her neighbourhood, her parents forcing a stringent gospel choironly music policy – one that, as any precocious youngster should, was ignored. Gordon wouldn’t hit mainstream circles until 2004, writing music for the likes of Mary J. Blige, David Guetta and Jennifer Lopez, making her one of the most in-demand songwriters in mainstream US music today.
HOUSE MUSIC DUO THE UK SHAPESHIFTERS ARE NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH ANY OTHER DANCE ACTS, AS TROY MUTTON FINDS OUT. NOR ARE THEY CAPABLE OF NOT BRINGING THE PARTY, AS LENNY KRAVITZ IS ABOUT TO FIND OUT.
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imon Marlin and Max Reich, better known to most as The Shapeshifters, don’t make drum’n’bass, or hip hop for that matter. They just happened to select a fairly common combination of words to be their moniker as the UK house music duo the world has come to know and love. Not only do they change their name to Shape:UK when traveling in the states (due to LA hip hoppers Shape Shifters), but the same goes for here – where they’ll be known as The UK Shapeshifters ahead of their New Year’s Day set at Club Paradiso. In a sign of mutual respect, it works both ways. “There is a drum’n’bass act in New Zealand called Shapeshifter and we’ve come to the agreement that when we are in Australia, NZ and Asia we tour as The UK Shapeshifters. When Shapeshifter are in Europe they tour as NZ Shapeshifter. The name may be new to some of our regular fans but that is the only thing that has changed – we’ll still be delivering what we do best on the dancefloor,” says the duo. And what they do best is soulful four/four house music in a career that kicked off with their breakout hit Lola’s Theme in 2004, a track inspired by Marlin’s wife of the same name. Since that track went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart in 2004, it’s been a steady stream of releases for the twosome, including artist and mix albums, along with production and remixes for the likes of Natalie Imbruglia, Faithless and George Michael. While it took them ‘til 2004 to really hit the world at large, the duo have been kicking around together for a lot longer. When it’s proposed that there surely must have been some times where they’d been sick of each other or even come to blows, it turns out it’s been all smooth sailing. “Even though we’ve been working together for about 15 years now, we’ve never had any major arguments. We have quite different personalities and work really well together, so we don’t really collide on that front. Our strengths in the studio lie in directions, so we always compliment each other in that respect also.” Adding ‘strain’ to their pain-free partnership has been the development of their own label, Nocturnal Groove, along with various side projects and other activities. Keeping their heads above water is pretty simple though. “It’s all about having a good sense of multi-tasking! After doing this for so many years we know how to be time efficient. We, ideally, like to have a Monday to Friday 14 • INPRESS
routine working on new material and label-related stuff in the studio, with the majority of traveling and DJing going on at the weekends. We also have a small but dedicated network of guys working with us who really help things run as smoothly as possible.” Nocturnal Groove has also developed into its own radio show, another challenge the duo enjoy tackling in whatever spare time they can find in between producing and DJing. “We have guest-hosted a few radio shows in the past and always had great fun doing them and got good feedback from them, so we decided to do one of our own on a regular basis. “It’s a great way to reach out to new territories, keep our profile high and support the artists and music that we love. The show features a lot of up-front house music and everything that we release on Nocturnal Groove. It is a great way to keep everyone around the world updated on what we are playing and releasing.” This year that includes a remix of Chicago house legend Frankie Knuckles (Frankie Knuckles presents Director’s
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you need to have a flexible model in order to adapt to the ever-changing digital landscape. The plans for Nocturnal Groove are to keep releasing the records we personally love to hear on the dancefloors and to work with both established and young producers. Also, watch out for some great album projects on the label in 2012.” Pushing artists and music you believe in does sound like a pretty good start. In fact, it’s pretty clear that there’s a couple of smart brains on top of the The Shapeshifters’ heads, who both put an important emphasis on networking. In addition to now running Nocturnal Groove records, the duo has managed to stay at the top of the house music heap over the past almost-decade. According to them though, it’s actually rather simple. “Maintaining a regular and consistent release schedule and a busy tour diary are the key factors to our current success. Maintaining and developing up good relationships with people in all areas of the industry is also a really important aspect for us.” Their simple, yet effective approach to dance music
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Cut feat. Jamie Principle – I’ll Take You There), and also their new track released on the Defected label, The Shapeshifters & C-Dock – Nothing But Love For You, which is already doing good things. “The response has been really good so far. Every time we play the track we get a great reaction from the crowd.” Their impressive remix credentials are also set to be extended with a re-do of a returning rocker, and some more of their own gear. “We are currently working on a remix for one of Lenny Kravitz’s forthcoming singles (I Can’t Be Without You) which will be released next year. We are also working towards our own artist album to be released sometime in 2012, and maintaining our international touring commitments.” The record industry has notoriously been a fickle one, but even more so in today’s current climate of digital downloads and dreaded music piracy, so why even bother trying to start one? “Generally it is a tough environment for record labels at the moment, and
extends into their DJ sets as well, one that we’ll get to experience on a most-likely bleary New Year’s Day. “Expect nothing but a great atmosphere and great music! We always bring a good party vibe with us and we especially love going to Australia when it’s so bloody cold here in London!” And it’s pretty much written in stone that if you feel a bit average on New Year’s Day, you don’t want to think about the following one. “Yep, that’s a guarantee for sure! Every time we have come to Perth we have always had a great experience, so we’re not expecting anything less this time round. We’ve heard great things about this party and we’re really excited to be finishing our tour there. We aim to go out with a bang!” WHO: The Shapeshifters WHEN & WHERE: Club Paradiso, Sunday 1 January, Salt On The Beach, Fremantle
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Obviously Gordon hasn’t spent all her time helping out others, and over the years since the midnoughties Gordon had been steadily working on getting her debut album out, which mid this year she did with the release of With The Music I Die. It features popular hit Dirty Talk, a perfect example of Gordon’s willingness to delve into the cheekier side of pop, all the while keeping the dance-beat theme that’s been a feature of her music over her previous EP, The First Dance. For some idea of what we mean, here’s a little excerpt from the track: “Latex, champagne, bubble bath, whipped cream/Cheery pop, tag team can you make me scream?” At this year’s International Dance Music Awards, Gordon scored nods for Best Solo Breakthrough Artist and Best Pop Dance Track (Dirty Talk), and she’s already begun working on a follow-up album, which interestingly would be her first full LP release in America, as With The Music I Die was only released as a six-track EP in the States.
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WONDERFUL, he is AUDIO VISUAL DISC JOCKEY EXTRAORDINAIRE DJ YODA BRINGS HIS NEW SHOW BACK TO SOUTHBOUND, AND CYCLONE GETS SOME IDEA OF WHAT TO EXPECT, INCLUDING MAYBE, DEFINITELY, CATS.
DAYDREAM BELIEVER EVER SINCE HIS TEENS, BEIRUT FRONTMAN ZACH CONDON HAS BEEN A DAYDREAMER WITH A DISTRUST OF AUTHORITY. BUT, AS HE TELLS DAVE DRAYTON, HIS NEWFOUND SUCCESS IS GIVING HIM THE CHANCE TO RELEASE MUSIC HE BELIEVES IN.
“At first it was just a vehicle for Beirut but I’ve actually been looking into – it’s just an idea, it’s not really off the ground yet – but there’s some beautiful Brazilian records that we found when we were down in Brazil and I know they’ve been unreleased or out of print for decades and it would be nice to kind of use the David Byrne model and re-release some things and expose people to something that’s been overlooked,” Condon explains.
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he UK’s DJ Yoda (aka Duncan Beiny) has developed the latent eccentricity in turntablism, once pitching himself as ‘DJ Shadow with a sense of humour’. In fact, he has Dexter’s party spirit, Z-Trip’s eclecticism, and Kid Koala’s artistry – but, beyond that, Beiny is in his own league. The in-demand Londoner, down for Southbound 2012, has enjoyed another memorable year of travel experiences. “The stuff that always stands out is the crazy places that I get to go to and DJ – I can just never believe it sometimes.” After several visits to Japan, Beiny eventually played Tokyo. He also DJ’d at Kenya’s Rift Valley Festival. In 2011 Beiny progressed, too, on the sequel to 2006’s ‘artist’ album, The Amazing Adventures Of DJ Yoda. He admits that Chop Suey, due early next year, has taken “way too long” – mainly because of “non-stop” tour commitments. The album will be in the same mould as its predecessor with different vocalists on every track, he says. “I’m finally 95 percent there with it now.” Beiny is coy about disclosing guests. “Some of them are people who I grew up listening to when I was a kid, so they’re almost for nostalgic reasons, others are people who I think are really gonna blow up next year, and other people are in between.” Beiny adds, “Part of the reason that it’s taken so long is that I’ve been a perfectionist about it, so I’m really happy with the work I’ve done.” Not that the creatively restless Beiny has been unproductive. Since The Amazing Adventures… he’s presented the widely covered FabricLive39 and an award-winning “avant-garde classical” project, G Prokofiev Concerto For Turntables & Orchestra, with the Heritage Orchestra. Then, some months ago, he offered the EP DJ Yoda & Friends on A-Skillz’ Jam City (one of those ‘friends’ being Aussie Nick Thayer). Beiny taught himself to scratch on his dad’s record player and DJ’d at a student night while reading literature at the University Of Warwick. The maverick circulated protomash-up style mixtapes that proved so popular that he was approached to assemble one officially for Antidote Records – 2001’s How To Cut & Paste Mix Tape Vol 1. No music genre is off-limits to Beiny. Though he was apparently formerly a hip hop purist, Beiny has put his quirky b-boy stamp on everything from cheesy ‘80s pop to country to big-band swing. He’ll even drop dubstep. Is there any music he’s just not feeling? “Well, I would never say that there’s a zone that I couldn’t use because the philosophy that I try to go by when I’m DJing is that I could use anything – I could try to make something good out of anything. But, that said, there are definitely a few types of music that I don’t gravitate towards. “I don’t really know anything about trance music – or even techno particularly. I’ve never really been a massive house person. There’s stuff like that that I will play, but I just don’t really know too much about it, I guess.” In the past Beiny has expressed disillusionment in hip hop, but he’s more upbeat today. “Things have changed – it’s really at an exciting point right now, actually.” He appreciates the revival of the ‘90s’ epic hip hop. “People are looking back to the ‘90s and the golden era of hip hop.” Beiny rates Action Bronson, a hardcore AlbanianAmerican rapper, and Evidence’s recent Cats & Dogs. The versatile DJ, who also returned to Glastonbury in 2011, will be bringing a new audio-visual show to Southbound, scratching and mixing images lifted “exclusively” from YouTube in conjunction with the music. ”It’s a very difficult thing to describe,” he says of the spectacular. “If you watch five minutes of it, you totally get it – so either come to Southbound or see it on YouTube. Either way, that’s easier than [me] trying to put it in words.” Does he have cats? “There are actually – weirdly!” Beiny divulges. Cats on records maybe? “Yeah...,” he laughs harder. “We’ve been down that route!” WHO: DJ Yoda WHEN & WHERE: Southbound, Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 January, Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton; Saturday 28 January, Villa, East Perth 16• THE DRUM MEDIA
y his own admission, the frontman of gypsy pop ensemble Beirut is at odds with authority. Put less politely, he doesn’t like being told what to do. That’s why he dropped out of school at 16 – though the subsequent European jaunt introduced him to the Eastern influences that would eventually bleed into his own compositions. It’s the same reason he cancelled an extensive European tour at what was then the height of the band’s success – though fatigue and stress played a part. It was why he left his record company 4AD – though the split was “amicable” (more on that later) and has resulted in the founding of his own Pompeii Records. And it’s why we’re on the phone two-and-a-half hours after the scheduled interview time – though he’s “drifting through a hangover day”. Fans who were surprised to see that The Rip Tide, Beirut’s third full-length album, would be released through Condon’s newly-founded record company were not alone; Condon says the decision caught more than a few people off guard, “We were finalising a deal when I had a change of heart, so to speak. Unfortunately I had a lot of good friends over at 4AD and I’m sure they were a little surprised when I changed my mind, but other than that it was definitely amicable.” That change of heart brings us to the heart of the matter, what Condon sees as his inability to deal with authority. “That was the funny thing though – the reason I started a label for myself is a little ridiculous but it’s a reoccurring theme in my life. I hate saying it out loud because it sounds annoying, but I do seem to have trouble with authority. I dropped out of school. When I got trumpet lessons I quit trumpet. You know? Everything is always contrary.” Case in point: Pompeii, a label that was initially founded purely to allow Condon to avoid the authority of the powers that be at record companies, is already expanding.
The record company logo is not all that’s new on The Rip Tide. Given his age and already impressive back catalogue, Condon, like so many other prodigious musicians who are aided by the technology of the era, had recorded much of his acclaimed work to date in home and bedroom studios. “I decided early on that I didn’t want this album to be another bedroom opus – as much as I love doing that I knew it was time to kind of move on from that. The thing is I’ve been playing with these guys for I think about five, maybe six years now and there’s this power that you feel behind you every night at shows – this kind of breath of life that you don’t feel when you’re just recording alone at home – that was really missing on all the demos that I was trying to make for this record.
changed in the last year; I’ve been striving to settle down for the first time in my life and I think that’s where the locations turned from outwards, inwards,” says Condon.
“So when I was finished writing the demos I immediately turned around and took it to the band so that we could record it live, because I thought that would be the only way to capture that. There’s just something about the pounding drums and bass behind you on stage that gives you what you’re looking for. It was very satisfying to capture that flexibility.”
Although musically it seems settling down has proved successful – the songwriting on The Rip Tide seems confident and comfortable in its comparative simplicity – Condon seems slightly less certain when asked if he has managed to settle down in other aspects of his life. “In some way; I’ve got a dog, a house and a wife – that’s the trifecta.”
The result is an album that, while a little more strippedback (and only in comparison to the laidback pop pomposity of Beirut’s prior recordings), sounds alive. Thematically concerned with place (it features tracks such as East Harlem, Santa Fe and Payne’s Bay), Condon says it is a result of his growing up and attempting to settle down. “Ever since I was a teenager I’ve been caught up in daydreams and Santa Fe was always a very isolating place for me. I mean, I love it to death now but as a teenager there was a certain sense of disconnect – I didn’t really belong there. So my head was in the clouds and most of that turned into these foreign films and other things. So a lot of that fantasy and daydreaming played a heavy role in the early records and also musically seeking out different styles of music that aren’t commonly explored as far as pop music is concerned. A lot has
The ‘settling down’ also meant putting some imposition on touring commitments – no more than two-and-ahalf weeks away from home at a time. “That’s just to avoid mentally going down the rabbit hole. There’s a certain threshold that you cross on tour where you just lose all track of reality. And it’s the funniest thing because you get back home and you just have no point of reference for how to function not-on-tour.” WHO: Beirut WHAT: The Rip Tide (Pompeii/Remote Control) WHEN & WHERE: Southbound Festival Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 January, Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton
BACK IN BLACK AFTER DISAPPEARING OFF THE HIP HOP SCENE FOR OVER A DECADE, SEATTLE’S ISHMAEL BUTLER HAS RETURNED WITH A VENGEANCE AS PART OF CRYPTIC SHABAZZ PALACES. BRENDAN TELFORD TAKES A LOOK BEHIND THE MASK.
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nce upon a time (circa 1994) there was a man called Butterfly. He dabbled in sunny jazz rap, forming a band of likeminded souls – calling themselves Digable Planets – and they went on to win a Grammy for their debut record. Yet it wasn’t long before Digable Planets disbanded and filtered away into the collective subconscious. Butterfly – aka Ishmael Butler – hasn’t sat idle, however, and the Seattle native recently re-emerged under a new name in Palaceer Lazaro and a new collective, Shabazz Palaces. The group have carved out their niche by holding up entrancing, leftfield hip hop alongside pastiches of glitches, dark digital soundscapes and dubstep hangovers, all culminating in the excellent debut LP Black Up. It isn’t just time that has passed Butler by. “There’s been so much time between that and now,” he ponders. “My music influences have changed for sure, but music in general is influenced by different things too. I really wanted – needed, actually – to shed that older persona because I am different in my mindset. It’s not necessarily new; it’s just a different facet. It’s about providing entertainment and getting opportunities, about being creative and striving to find something instinctive to breathe life into. [The new moniker] has helped to open a space for us to find out where one is at.” This idea extends to the added element of donning masks helped to heighten the mysteriousness of the group. Yet rather than used as a barrier to hide Butler from the outside world, it is another augmentation of their creative spirit. “The mask represents me, myself; something that is much deeper within us, or me specifically, or in the music,” he continues. “The use of the mask is me trying to connect, not to separate. With inspirations and ideas, many people maintain that it’s their idea; they say, ‘I invented this’. No they didn’t! Nothing is new or invented, and never has been. We don’t think that, we know that
these ideas and patterns come to us from somewhere else. We channel these ideas. The mask is a homage to our gift, to the opportunity to present these ideas to a wider audience. It wipes my identity from them, so that people can receive them and take them on as their own, not as something that I made. This is no celebrity-based endeavour – we play to see what happens and for people to see that too and experience it for themselves. It’s another way of experiencing music and it’s for everyone.” Making connections within the hip hop and rap musical genres has always been a hotly-debated idea, insofar as who can connect, who deserves to connect and who pretends to connect. These ideas are ridiculous to Butler and the hypocrisy of such notions came home to him on his recent tour of Europe. “[The tour’s] been going really well, every show is better than the last, which almost never happens. Maybe we are getting hotter, but it’s gone from a good London show to a great Brighton show, and Manchester was even better. Good people are coming out from everywhere to really dig it. I think in America perceptions are different. I mean, there are obviously pros and cons for a hip hop band in America and in Europe, but in America, because of the semantics in music, people catch onto any undertones or symbolism that presents itself due to American poverty and overt references. Yet in Europe there is this evident reverence of culture, and not in an oppressive nature. I don’t know, neither is overly preferable. I guess we’re lucky just to be playing, having two separate audiences latching onto us and what we make from totally different social and spiritual places.” The ideas that Shabazz Palaces have presented to the world come in the form of Black Up, an album that’s made waves ever since indie uberlabel Sub Pop signed the band on as their first hip hop act – and not always in a positive vein. “I’ll tell ya man, when a lot of people heard that we signed to Sub Pop, it was made out like it was this conscious, entrepreneurial decision, like we wanted to conquer the world. No way,” Butler vents. “The truth is that there haven’t been many opportunities at all for us to get our music out there outside of Seattle. No one listened; no one wanted to take chances. So when Sub Pop came along they meant it – they had no ideas other than to listen to our own. It was very clear from the beginning that they were only interested in the music. Sub Pop was the last train and the best train coming through, and we
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aren’t fools – it was what you would call a no-brainer!” The lyrics and song titles echo Butler’s sentiment that there’s a much more subconscious design to the music being created and that the only predictable factor is its innate unpredictability. “There isn’t much control – the thing is, the form writes itself because it is so instinctual. Whenever the music moves away from our instinct, that’s it, it’s over. If you can get from the first instinct to the finished product without ever altering that initial seed, you can claim to be original. The fact that any of this happens is a gift alone. Instinct takes us and leads us where we need to be.” The cryptic nature of Shabazz Palaces has in itself caused controversy, mainly due to the oblique and at times seemingly impenetrable nature of the band’s aesthetic, but this is something that Butler feels is misinterpreted by critics and listeners alike. “It stems from everywhere man. People expect things of us now. What we are doing is we are presenting an occurrence – it’s a natural thing, nothing preconceived. We are trying to suspend traditional concepts of what an artist is supposed to do or represent. Shabazz Palaces isn’t a novel. It’s feeling and being in a certain time... Our music is more like sharing a secret.” WHO: Shabazz Palaces WHAT: Black Up (Sub Pop/Inertia) WHEN & WHERE: Sunday 15 January, The Bakery, Northbridge
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END OF YEAR BONUS WITH ZONOSCOPE TOPPING TROY MUTTON’S LIST OF TOP ALBUMS OF 2011, WHAT BETTER WAY TO ROUND OUT THE YEAR THAN WITH A CHAT TO TIM HOEY FROM CUT COPY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A LITTLE OL’ OZ ACT GETS NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY?
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t a time when peers like The Presets and Midnight Juggernauts lie dormant, this year saw Cut Copy return to the Aussie ‘dance’ scene with an album that is a grower in the truest sense. With an 11-track collection that is a real album-album - not just a couple of singles surrounded by filler but an actual connective thread that runs from start to finish - the world’s appreciation of Zonoscope has also been growing over the past few months. Just a few weeks ago the group took home their first ever ARIA Award for Best Dance Album, a great effort in its own right, and then a few weeks ago they were nominated for a Grammy Award. The typically affable Tim Hoey is
of course very diplomatic about the whole thing, but in no way does it come off wanky. “It’s kinda strange. It’s a nice bonus at the end of all the hard work you put in this year. I guess all our goals are creative ones, but once we’re really happy with the record we put that out, and it’s kind of the biggest achievement for us,” Hoey tells, on a break back home in Melbourne. “I guess, yeah, the Grammys thing is quite a surprise in many ways because it doesn’t really happen often that Australian bands get noticed in that world, and it’s a world I never really considered Cut Copy existing in. Even the ARIAs as well, it’s always been quite foreign to us. You can’t help but be happy about it - it’s just nice that people care and they’re recognising the hard work we’ve done this year.” And hard work it has been. While the band is of course much-loved over here, they’ve steadily been building up that fanbase in the overseas market, something which has seen them abroad more often than not in 2011. “Yeah, I guess we’ve put in a lot of work touring-wise overseas and we’ve just seen it grow quite organically over the years. With the release of each record we noticed the shows are getting bigger and the crowds were getting bigger, and I think we spent like eight months of this year touring internationally. “We figured out we did like 150 shows in this cycle of this record, so a show every two days, which kinda seems ridiculous when I think about it now,” he laughs, with a hint of a wince. Most importantly though, they can arrive where they are now knowing that they’ve earned it. “Things have definitely been kind of growing, and it hasn’t been overnight, which is something we’re really happy about. It’s not like it was this big media sensation and all of a sudden we were like this big band. It really felt like it came from a lot of hard work, releasing good records and putting on good shows, and we just noticed our name on festival bills was getting higher and higher as the years went on.” For Hoey especially, the steady climb doesn’t make the award situation feel any less strange. “As far as winning awards for music, it’s always felt like quite a foreign concept to me. So many of my favourite bands and favourite records haven’t really won any awards or anything like that. I think the last award that I won was a ‘best on ground’ – no, actually it was a participation award for my under 10’s soccer team,” he laughs. “So I’d kind of really given up on winning anything in my life that had anything to do with a trophy or anything like that, so my mum will be happy about it!” It’s true that Cut Copy are on the up-and-up in Europe and America especially, almost to the point where at times over the past year it’s felt like maybe they’re leaving Australia behind. Not ditching us per sé, but the love that seems to be coming their way from the US seems to get stronger and stronger, and is keeping them away from us longer and longer. Hoey assures there’s nothing to fear though, mostly thanks to a great core fanbase. “America is such a huge country. We did a 12-week tour just going around to all the cities, and we could have toured around for another 12 weeks just going to all the different places there. “Something that I’m really happy with in Australia is that we have this really loyal fan base that have really been there from the beginning since the first record, where as a lot of the rest of the world it took a while to get going. And it feels like in Australia we have this audience that we’ve had for four or five years and it gives us a lot of room to move. I think there’s a bit of a trap in being really commercially successful in Australia because it doesn’t really give you much room to move… So I feel really quite blessed that we have such a loyal audience that are really happy to go in any direction that we wanna go in.” And so, in a way, Cut Copy fans have only themselves to thank for Zonoscope – obviously Cutters needed to make the thing, but they could with the knowledge that this loyal fanbase weren’t just going to bail. “I kind of thought Zonoscope was quite esoteric in its pop music sensibilities. We’re not really a band that writes hits. I think we’re really into the idea of writing a great album and it’s kind of great that people here, especially here in Australia, that’s what they expect. They want to put the album on to listen to from start to finish. It may be a little bit weirder than some of the stuff that’s happening on the radio or what’s really popular, but it gives us a lot of freedom to do what we want and know that people are happy to come along with us.” It’s a typical situation in the Internet age where listeners can just sift through an album and grab their favourite tracks, something Hoey is acutely aware of. “Now you can just go online and download bits and pieces and fragments and put it together, but releasing singles is probably one of the things I just hate doing because no one song is more important than the other.” And on the subject of albums, has number four been given a thought yet? “It’s been hectic this year but I think we’re always thinking about what to do next. We did have the good intentions of doing a little bit of writing while we were on the road but it just became…it was just out of control, to be honest. We never really toured that hard before. I think once we finish these last shows in December, we’ll all sit down and figure out how we wanna approach the next one.” WHAT: Zonoscope (Modular/Universal) WHEN & WHERE: Wonderland, Friday 23 December, Fremantle Arts Centre
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READY TO ROCK REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL HIP HOP PRODUCERS OF ALL TIME, PETE ROCK GIVES ROB BROWNE AN INSIGHT INTO WORKING WITH KANYE WEST AND JAY-Z AHEAD OF HIS FIRST EVER AUSTRALIAN TOUR.
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omparing commercial hip hop in 2011 to the “golden era” of hip hop throughout the late ‘80s and early ‘90s is like comparing a “fully sick” Nissan Skyline rice burner to a pristine vintage Ford Mustang. Sure, the Skyline might be newer, look fancier, go faster, and have a built in DVD player in the back seat, but there’s just something about the vintage classic that can’t be beaten. The vintage Mustang has stood the test of time; it’s wholesome, it’s classy and it has soul. But enough of the comparisons. Pete Rock has witnessed the birth of hip hop firsthand and watched it grow into one of the biggest sub-cultures and musical genres in the world. He has seen it all, and has been an integral force in the rise of hip hop and helped shape it along the way. Along with artists like DJ Premier and Dr Dre, Pete Rock is globally heralded as one of the greatest and most influential hip hop producers of all time; having an extremely unique style, blending jazz, soul and funk samples with infectious horns and instrumentation over resonating bass lines and snappy drums. Born in New York City, Pete Rock is one of the most recognisable hip hop artists of the boom-bap and “golden era” within the United States. The golden era of hip hop refers to a period of time predominately throughout the late ‘80s to early ‘90s in which hip hop was at its peak in regards to substance, innovation, creativity, wholesomeness and quality. The artists that dominated this era were acts like Run DMC, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, and Nas; funnily enough, all artists whom Rock has worked with and produced for.
that people have never heard of or don’t know about. I want records that I have never heard before from the ‘60s and ‘70s which have intriguing sounds.” After such a long and illustrious career that’s well and truly still in motion; his first ever visit and headline tour of Australia has been long overdue. “It’s just about right timing. I wanted to make sure if I’m going to take the long trip out there, I had to be doing something really positive. I just want to be satisfied with my audience being satisfied.” WHO: Pete Rock WHERE: Saturday 7 January, Villa, East Perth
For Rock, he was exposed to music and hip hop from a very early age, and instantly knew it was something he wanted to be a part of. “I wanted to get involved in music from listening to producers like Howie T, Marley Marl, Ted Riley and Larry Smith. I was young, maybe like 10 or 11 years old, when those guys were out and Run DMC and that stuff came out. That’s what made me want to be the man behind the music, as I was always interested in the guy making the stuff.” The “Soul Brother #1”, as he’s affectionately known, was introduced to the culture through songs like King Tim III by the Fatback Band, and artists like Afrika Bambaataa and the Sugar Hill Gang. “Afterwards my cousin Floyd taught me how to scratch and I started getting into DJing at a young age, and that’s when I said, ‘Hey, this hip hop thing is fun’.” Pete Rock wasn’t even 18 when he caught his first break as a DJ on New York’s WBLS radio station on the legendary program In Control With Marley Marl. Rock was commonly referred to as the kid “putting in work” as he would use two copies of each record to cut up every single song he played, when the majority of New York DJs at the time would only do this every few songs. As his popularity continued to soar, Rock began focusing heavily on the production side of things in the early ‘90s, and formed the iconic rap duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth. In 1992 the duo dropped their critically acclaimed album Mecca & The Soul Brother, which spawned the classic hit They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y); a song which features an instantly recognisable saxophone melody where CL Smooth raps about his childhood memories and the love he has for his family. The song has been included in numerous Best Of lists such as Pitchfork Media’s ‘Top 200 Tracks of the ‘90s’ and The Source magazine’s ‘100 Best Rap Singles of All Time’. Still to this day, Mecca & The Soul Brother is regarded as one of the greatest hip hop albums ever, and launched Pete Rock and CL Smooth into the international spotlight. Having worked with a “who’s who” of hip hop, Pete Rock believes producing for Run DMC was the highlight of his career. Widely regarded as the most influential hip hop groups of all time, Run DMC’s impact on hip hop music throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s is unmatched, and influenced a whole generation of rappers to come up, as well as fashion culture with their endorsement of Adidas sneakers. “My biggest achievement was Run DMC. I believe in my heart it was my biggest rap production. They were huge at the time. As far as new cats, I would love to work with J.Cole.” Having had an extremely successful career that’s spanned over two decades, Rock continues to take his list of achievements to new heights. Just this year he was a part of one of the biggest albums of 2011, which went number one in five different countries and is now certified Platinum. We are of course talking about Watch The Throne, by none other than Kanye West and Jay-Z. The Rock-produced track The Joy which he also provides guest vocals and ad-libs for has his distinct boom-bap sound and flavour, with crunchy drums and a jazz bass line. “It feels great to be included and to be a part of Watch The Throne. I’ve always felt that Jay-Z was very talented and Kanye was the new talent, and that song came about through a friend of Kanye’s who’s also a friend of mine and was working as Kanye’s bodyguard. He told me Kanye was looking for me, and just like that I was in Hawaii in the studio working on The Joy. Having Jay-Z on the record was the cherry on top.” Rock’s influence on past and present artists is undeniable. In a guest verse on Slum Village’s track Selfish, Kanye raps, “I’m the new version of Pete Rock”, paying homage to his soulful production style and how it’s influenced his own. So how does someone who’s been in the game for more than 20 years manage to stay relevant? “Just love what you do. Be passionate about what you do. Appreciate what you do. Keep your ear tuned to the radio even if you don’t like what’s on there, as you have to know what’s going on out there to stay relevant.” A true hip hop purist and avid record collector, Rock tries to find obscure records to sample, and will go to extreme lengths to get his hands of them. His formula to finding good records? “Originality, and definitely the rarity of records, groups, and things
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THE (UN)OFFICIAL GUIDE TO METRONOMY
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DAN DEACON
ARR/DEP TIMES: Camping gates open at 9am and
normal gates at 10am sharp Saturday 7 January 2012. Be out of there by 10am on Monday 9 or risk being collected along with the rest of the rubbish for recycling. WHAT TO BRING: Tent, sleeping bag, hat, sunscreen, a beach towel, board shorts/bathers, jumpers, wet weather gear (come prepared for all weather, remember though – no umbrellas), some comfy enclosed shoes, a torch, sealed water bottle, mosquito/fly repellent, enough cash to get you through the festival, a padlock for your tent. FESTIVAL BUSES: Will run from Margaret River, Bunbury, Yallingyup and Dunsborough.
CARPOOLING: Acquire a random, or be acquired by one and spend some time playing the ‘getting to know you’ game on your trip down the coast! You can jump on FestivalBudi, where you can register to carpool! Make new friends, reduce your carbon footprint and save money. PARKING: If you are driving to the festival, parking is available FREE on the farm next to Sir Stewart Bovell Park. Parking on the verge of either Vasse or Bussell Highways or in any of the surrounding streets is prohibited and may attract a hefty fine from the local ranger. There will also be bicycle parking available outside the main gates for the locals who prefer to ride their bikes. TAXIS: Designated taxi drop off and pick up zone at Koorden Place, off Bussell Hwy. Busselton Taxi - 131 008. PASSOUTS: There are none unless it’s a medical emergency. Campers will only be able to leave the festival via the campers Busselton shuttle buses between 6:30am – 12pm on both days.
HIPPY HOORAY: The superb green-minded peeps at Sunset Events will be lifting their game even further in 2012 with recycling stations around the festival taking biodegradable waste to local farmers, carpooling networks to and from the festival, and a $5 ‘Green Money’ voucher given to punters in exchange for bags of collected rubbish, which can be spent at the music store or on beverages. The $3 dollar green fee on your ticket will assist in planting trees in the SW region too. So get your Captain Planet on.
BASE CAMP FEATURES:
• Enjoy fresh cocktails and get footloose and fancy free in either Coconut Club or Vodka Bar. • Chill at the massive Lounge Tent – relax on one of the many comfy lounges and kick back to the chill out tunes. • Keep an eye out for roving performers. • Hire a costume from the costume hire shop so you can disguise yourself to avoid any embarrassing encounters from the night before. • Then pretend you’re sporty with a game of ping pong in the HBF Health Haven. The Jezabels and Papa Vs
SOMBRE AND THE SILLY CSS BALANCE THE PARTYING WITH A TAD MORE SELF-REFLECTION ON THEIR LATEST ALBUM, BUT STILL FIND TIME FOR A “SPANISH PHASE”, SINGER LOVEFOXXX TELLS DOUG WALLEN.
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hat happens when a party band starts to grow up and get self-reflective? For the manic Brazilian upstarts of CSS, it means a third album that’s half irreverent and half melancholic. Coming from a band best known for songs called Music Is My Hot Hot Sex and Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above, it’s indeed a shift. There was, however, a gritty injection of indie-rock into CSS with 2008’s second LP Donkey and the new album La Liberación does have its fair share of cheek. So who’s to say what CSS can or can’t do? “I think this party feel is within us,” muses the group’s unmistakable frontwoman Lovefoxxx (born Luísa Hanae Matsushita) in a thick accent. “And the shows are always very cheerful. Just because that’s how we approach the stage – with happiness. This is something people usually expect from us, but we’re free to write about whatever we want.” And so the band whose unabbreviated Portuguese name (Cansei de Ser Sexy) translates to “I’ve grown tired of being sexy” has begun exploring the fatigued side of that equation more than the sweaty sex appeal that made them famous. It works, as La Liberación may not tap the zeitgeist for globe-trotting party jams like their first album, but it brings in a wide range of guests and takes all the bold chances a “difficult third album” should. Yet it’s not difficult in the least. As for the inspiration behind this more mature outing, it was all about looking back to one’s formative and emotionally fraught teenage years. More specifically, establishing one’s personal identity. “I think it’s good to have a realisation of how you used to be,” observes Matsushita, “and how some of the things remain the same. And it’s good to see that you’ve evolved and found people you can share your life with, like your friends. Being the outcast and growing up and finding your gang; I think there’s a lot about finding yourself with friends on this album.” There’s more to it than that, though. “The main reason to go back to teenagehood is that we had a year off [touring],” she adds. “We were writing, but there was a lot of time to think. When we did Donkey we were mainly thinking about touring and I don’t think it’s nice to write about. Not everybody 20 • THE DRUM MEDIA
can relate to that. It’s a very different lifestyle and it’s hard to understand when you’re not part of it.” And so CSS get at something more universal on La Liberación, right from the opening track I Love You. There Matsushita encapsulates the album’s mix of the sombre and the silly with this memorable line: “The rain is falling on my head/ Bringing thoughts it never had/ Like love and shit.” She also curses up a storm on the closing Fuck Everything, which she nonetheless sees as “so positive” and “one of my favourite songs off the album”. And true enough, it’s not a pessimist’s anthem but a fist-pumping promise to “dance all night” when you feel “deep in the shit”. It’s about escaping from everyday life into oblivion just when you need it most. The standout dance ballad You Could Have It All also treads a fine line between desire and disappointment, while the punky title track features lyrics in Spanish rather than English or the band’s native Portuguese. The reason for that is simple. “It’s just because we like when people have their Spanish phase,” says Matsushita. “It’s an interesting phenomenon. All the big artists have it, like ABBA and Toni Braxton and Madonna. We decided it was time for our Spanish phase.” You might expect that Spanish influence to overshadow La Liberación, but the album’s most interesting feature is the wealth of collaborators and how naturally they fall into the CSS fold. Mike Garson – who has worked with Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails and on classic David Bowie songs – brings his trademark piano flourishes to Partners In Crime, a song that simply had Garson-style piano until the band’s manager mentioned he knew the man himself. There’s also a fun vocal cameo by The Ssion’s Cody Critcheloe on City Girl, which manifests its Spanish twinges through horn and guitar while hitting upon that other key theme with the line “When I was 16, I finally moved to the big city”. Meanwhile, Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie contributes his side of a duet on the single Hits Me Like A Rock, while electro-guitar duo Ratatat turn producers on the hip hop homage Red Alert, complete with rapping, Lovefoxxx-style. As it happens, CSS shared a 2011 Big Day Out bill with both Primal Scream and Ratatat. Does that mean we can credit BDO for these team-ups?
Sort of. “We’ve known both bands for years,” Lovefoxxx relays. “When we met with Bobby on Big Day Out, the track was ready already. But when we met with Ratatat, I had the idea of asking them to rework that song. Because that song was always a West Coast type of rap in our heads and Ratatat do really amazing remixes with rap. They build a whole new song. Big Day Out got us talking again.” CSS are the kind of band that treat an entire set like a heady encore, with The Ssion’s Cody Critcheloe likely to crowd-surf and strip off clothes on the first or second song. She describes touring the US recently with JD Samson’s Le Tigre offshoot MEN, where the two bands conspired to trick out venues with pink lighting, disco balls, pastel love notes pasted in the toilets and heartshaped nametags available free from the merch table. Beyond that, it’s just a matter of connecting with punters. “I think it’s really nice if I can observe the audience, make comments and interact as much as I can. This helps a lot,” she explains. “The best is when things happen out of the blue. That’s always our favourite. We always force ourselves to be as spontaneous as we
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can.” And there’s never much anxiety about capturing the albums live, or the live show on the albums. They’re simply their own entities: “We never get the total feeling of it. It’s always one side of what the show is.” Half a decade after their self-titled debut saw an unlikely international release on Sub Pop, CSS are still going strong. They’re returning to our shores less than a year after BDO for Falls Festival, now with that third album firmly in fans’ hearts. That’s the payoff for being true to yourself while expanding your artistic horizons. “I always want to be honest and sincere and I was just being sincere,” concludes Matsushita. “City Girl is really personal, but I’m fine with that. I think lots of our fans are going to relate to a song like that.” WHO: CSS WHAT: La Liberación (V2/Cooperative) WHEN & WHERE: Southbund Festival, Saturday 7 & 8 January, Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton
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Pretty will also be putting on a show, and giving you the chance to play the winner. Facebook addicts, there will be an Internet CafĂŠ. Keep your valuables safe and recharge your mobile phone: southboundfestival.com.au/camping/locker-box Pretend your healthy and impress the ladies with yoga sessions. Take a shuttle bus to the beach to work on that tan. Barista brewed coffee or Therapeutic Chai Tent? Antihangover gold! General Store for supplies (snacks, soft drinks, water, personal hygiene products) and basic camping gear (tents, bedding).
THE OL’ T’S AND C’S
• Valid photo ID (Australian driver’s license, passport or proof of age card) is required for entry to campgrounds and venue. • Strictly no access to your vehicle from when you enter the campsite til you finally leave the event. • Camping sites allocated upon arrival at sole discretion of Southbound staff. Ticket-holders cannot choose their own site. You can however hook up with people in diff areas... • Alcohol, animals, glass, illegal substances or anything that could be used as a weapon are not permitted in camp grounds. • No metal hammers/mallets (plastic ones ok). If you need assistance, Camp Wardens will be on hand to bang in your tent pegs. • Total fire ban at all times. Strictly no fires (of any kind,
including gas and open fires), flares or fireworks. Anyone possessing them will be removed from the site.
RANDOM TIPS
• Take extra batteries for your torch. Spoiling the mood because you can’t find your protection in the dark is never fun. • Try not to get too wasted Sunday night as, believe it or not, sleep will not necessarily render you sober in the morning, or keep your blood alcohol levels down enough to avoiding being caught. • Take the supposed number of people your tent is specified to fit and subtract 1 or 2, we don’t think the people who set the ratings have ever seen a normal sized human being before. • Tunes next door driving you mental? Tune into Southbound Radio 94.9FM hosted by media students from Murdoch University’s Retro Caravan in Base Camp. • The 37ft SS Strongbow Boat will be docked again, providing cider and reasons to make obscene pirate noises. Essential planking material • Always zip up your fly screen. Trust us, it’s worth the hassle. • Lather on the sunscreen. Skin cancer will never be considered a cool tattoo. • Drive safely, and jump on the Enjoy The Ride WA Facebook page do help you do that and more. • Respect yourself and each other. If you act like a tool, expect to come back hammered. • More info? southboundfestival.com.au
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Taylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s productions for other people have been just as notable as his work in Grizzly Bear, his growing CV including records with Dirty Projectors, The Morning Benders, Twin Shadow, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and Acrylics, as well as posthumous restoration and remixing of Arthur Russellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s works. Twin Shadow bro George Lewis Jr. returned the favour by working on Taylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cant debut. The two had struck up an affinity working on Twin Shadowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awesome synth-pop opus, Forget, and reconvened a few weeks later to start work on Taylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-ever solo recordings, with no real plan in mind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had absolutely no idea what the record would end up sounding like,â&#x20AC;? Taylor recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just kind of threw myself into this thing. I wrote three-quarters of the record in a week-and-a-half with George (T.S.). Then I left that recording session and thought about it for five months, scratching my head, generally being really confused. Like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow, this is what it sounds like when I just run with my own thing?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; It turned out so different from anything Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been writing with Grizzly Bear. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just such different music. Which is what I wanted to do, of course, but it still shocked me when I came out with it.â&#x20AC;?
Dreams Come True, the resulting record, sure sounds starkly different to Grizzly Bear. Gone are those wondrous woody sounds â&#x20AC;&#x201C; acoustic guitars and woodwinds â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and choral harmonies, while in their place are noisy synths, strange bouts of distortion and an air of confessionalism. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dark, dissonant album that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t particularly friendly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was dealing with some tough stuff,â&#x20AC;? Taylor admits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The usual life stuff people write albums about! Yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;know: love, love-lost, love-not-wanted. Family. Myself. My own head. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was trying to make a dark record as much as I was trying to make something that felt like a releaseâ&#x20AC;Ś just releasing that negative energy. Listening to, say, Nirvanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s In Utero or Joy Division, music thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredibly dark, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make me feel sad or dark or despondent, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make me feel anything but joy. That sense of release â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that exhale â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is amazing. Listening to those records helps fix me up.â&#x20AC;? From there, Taylor struggles to find the right metaphor for his â&#x20AC;&#x153;cleansing processâ&#x20AC;?, calling it, in turn â&#x20AC;&#x153;a musical exfoliating rub.â&#x20AC;? But he manages to find the words to make sure you know that his emotionally-wrought songwriting wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too, like, emo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was trying to make [it] not just be a complaining record,â&#x20AC;? he smiles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d really hate it if it sounded like that. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want that static kind of feeling, where you sit around and feel worse. I wanted it to feel like a forward motion, moving through these negative feelingsâ&#x20AC;Ś I feel like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really honest album. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely coming from my heart. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of confession on there, a lot of things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been able to confess to anyone before. I was just trying to be honest with myselfâ&#x20AC;Ś unflinchingly honest.â&#x20AC;? WHO: Cant WHAT: Dreams Come True (Warp/Inertia) WHEN & WHERE: Southbound Festival, Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 January, Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton
DEVIL INSIDE LONDONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PURVEYORS OF HELLISH INTENT THE JIM JONES REVUE SWEAT BLOOD, SPIT BILE AND ROCK LIKE THE UNNAMEABLE ONE HIMSELF. GUITARIST RUPERT ORTON INDUCTS BRENDAN TELFORD INTO THEIR HEDONISTIC WORLD FULL OF HEAT, SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION AND GRINDERMEN. he London music scene is a melting pot of ideas, nationalities and dreams, with many an artist slaving away in the dives and the cold with the notion of â&#x20AC;&#x153;making it bigâ&#x20AC;?. In these NME-charged times, it seems easy for a band to be elevated to the level of superstardom almost overnight, but it is just as easily to slip through the cracks, regardless of the talent and creativity on offer. This makes the popularity of a band like The Jim Jones Revue all the more celebratory.
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hilst his day job band Grizzly Bear was slowly inching their way to heights of indie celebrity, cresting with the 2009 release of their third LP, Veckatimest, and the endorsement of Jay-Z and Beyonce, multi-instrumentalist/in-house-producer Christopher Taylor wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t writing songs on the side. He wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feeling oppressed by the fact that his band featured two dominant songwriters. Nor was he planning a solo project. In fact, the arrival of Cant â&#x20AC;&#x201C; oft-capitalised as CANT, an acronym for his initials â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was as much of a surprise to Taylor as anyone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is definitely a whole new thing for me,â&#x20AC;? admits Taylor, 30. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first song I ever released on [his own label] Terrible, Ghosts, was actually the first song Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever been able to finish. Then, the second song I was able to finish was [Kenya], the one I did with Solange Knowles and Twin Shadow. Then, the third and fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh, or whatever, were the things that ended up on the album.â&#x20AC;?
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and enjoy an intimate performance and a chat with some very special guests. The Jezabels have been confirmed, with more to come. Simply make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve purchased a Southbound camping ticket, head to facebook.com/drumperth and click on the Campfire Sessions tab on the left to share the comp with your friends, not forgetting to fill in your name and email so we can contact you if you win. Easy!
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first country that really embraced what we were trying to do was France,â&#x20AC;? Orton explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were playing television slots, radio, massive festival spots in Paris, then came back to England relatively unknown, playing these incredibly tiny clubs. That said, we stuck to what we knew. Looking back there probably were much easier ways of building an audience than the way we did, the way we played, but we felt passionate about it, so it was a case of incrementally building that up, bit by bit. We have MySpace and Twitter and the rest of it, but the only true way we knew how to do that was by touring.â&#x20AC;? Never ones to let opportunities slip, The Jim Jones Revue are incessant touring monsters, ensuring that for the word to be spread, they have to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;onâ&#x20AC;? all the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We only just came off the road for a bit of a break and it was literally our
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first break in over two years. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clocking up some serious miles. What it is also doing though is making you better. Us as The Jim Jones Revue just get better and better at doing what we do. It fuels itself; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a self-fulfilling prophecy.â&#x20AC;? Such a statement then lends itself to ruminations of the other aspect of the musician; the recording process. With so much vitriol and energy squeezed out every time they hit the stage, Orton admits that there is only one way to approach it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same way as every other facet of the band is taken on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just live â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we take what we do live and we transport that wholly into the studio. Obviously it can be more technically involved, you have overdubs and whatever, but when you listen to Burning The House Down the energy and excitement is still there. We discovered this early on, before we even recorded our first album. We rented out a studio and we did it the normal way â&#x20AC;&#x201C; laying down drums, vocals, guitar, all in segments. It did not work! It did not capture anything about who we were. It seems obvious now, but we had to come to the realisation that playing live was exactly who we are, and so when we tried that everything clicked.â&#x20AC;? Their hedonistic swamp rock made its mark on a myriad of new fans when last here, The Jim Jones Revue a real bolt out of the blue for those who witnessed their Big Day Out shows, yet Orton was just as surprised at how quickly people jumped on board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The popularity of the band took off in Australia. From the release of the record to doing a load of sideshows and obviously the Big Day Out festival, we pushed it hard, but the reception was amazing. It was such a great experience for us... we had a whale of a time.â&#x20AC;? WHO: The Jim Jones Revue WHEN & WHERE: Southbound Festival, Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 January, Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton THE DRUM MEDIA â&#x20AC;˘ 21
FILTH & THE FURY CHAMPIONED BY 2MANYDJS AND SIGNED TO DIM MAK, DRUM GETS FIRED UP WITH THE LOOPS OF FURY AHEAD OF THEIR BREAKFEST APPEARANCE.
records for 20-odd years now, that’s pretty impressive. How did moving from Brisbane to London help launch you further into the music world? Jimi: There’s just so much happening over here. So many different people and types of music all bouncing around together, it’s hard not to be inspired. Being out of our comfort zone helps as well. There is so much excellent music being made that it really just pushes you further and encourages you to take risks. London is just a really cool place to live too, that’s definitely a plus. At Koko in London you were asked to turn the music down because the bar staff couldn’t hear the drink orders. Do you plan to bring this same intensity to your shows in Australia? Jimi: Yeah man that was pretty funny! We always like to come in hard if people are up for it. We’re not called The Loops Of Fury for nothing! Your EP is set to be released soon, what type of styles/collabs can we expect? Max: Nothing set in stone just yet, we’ve been going hard on the remixes so it’s had to take the back seat for the time being. Breakfest is a pretty big deal over here, you guys looking forward to playing it? Jimi: We’ve heard really good things about Breakfest, it’s often touted as Australia’s best festival so we’re really keen to come and see what all the fuss is about! You changed your name from Hyperion to The Loops Of Fury to somewhat pay homage to The Chemical Brothers. What is it about the Chemical Brothers that inspire you guys? Jimi: Their music is just so damn good! Of course it works on that immediate Blockrocking Beats level, but there is also something much deeper going on. They pushed the whole idea of electronic dance music into a whole new realm, and that is certainly something to aspire to. And they’ve consistently put out quality
What are your plans after the release of your EP and global tour in 2012? Max: I think an album will be on the cards eventually, we’ve always been keen to do something that’s more than just for the dancefloor. WHO: The Loops Of Fury WHEN & WHERE: Breakfest, Monday 26 December, Belvoir Amphitheatre
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ILLY How would your mum describe you? Very warmly, as mum’s do with their kids. I doubt she’d call me a dickhead, she’s not like that. One genre you would remove off the face of the earth and why? I don’t think there is any genre that doesn’t have some amazing artists and music within it, but I would love it if Kyle Sandilands didn’t exist. He’s bad for the world. Who inspires you musically? Talented artists, there are seriously too many to name. Name three tracks currently detonating your dancefloor. I’m not really a dancefloor detonation sort of person. Have been smashing the Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne albums lately though. What’s the musical achievement you’re most proud of? Either It Can Wait going gold, #29 in the hottest 100, or the sold out tour from earlier this year. All very special. What’s one record you’re embarrassed to admit you own? I downloaded the first Lady Gaga album. I’m not completely opposed to her, she can actually sing live, has a good philosophy regarding her fans, writes her own stuff etc, but definitely not a fan. Surprise surprise, the album sucked. But now when my laptop is providing the music I have to explain why that is there. Sigh. Spike Milligan quipped he’d like his tombstone to read ‘I told you I was ill’ – what would be on yours? “He came, he saw, he conquered”, or “Get me out of here.” What’s something that really annoys you? Babies on airplanes. People who let their children run riot at restaurants or other inappropriate places. I love kids, and have a lot of little cousins etc, but fuck, just keep them under control please! 22 • THE DRUM MEDIA
Imagine you’re on death row. What’s your last meal request? Being on death row presumes you’ve done some pretty disturbing shit, or have been wrongly accused. I’d be the latter, so I would ask for something with a big bone that I could club my incompetent lawyer with. Name one person living or dead you would love to party with and why. I would love to party with the old school rock stars like Keith Richards, Freddie Mercury, Prince, Rick James (in his prime) etc, as well as a bunch of more recent acts. But I think back then it was just on a different level of mental partying. I have no doubt I would be so far out of my depth I probably wouldn’t have fun to be honest! What can we expect to hear from you in the near future? Quite a lot of music actually. 2012 is going to be a very busy year for me, releasing a short album with a lot of collaborations and sounds I’ve wanted to make happen for a few years, and then the big album drops hopefully in August and shuts the world down. Can’t wait. WHO: Illy WHEN & WHERE: Breakfest, Monday 26 December, Belvoir Amphitheatre, Upper Swan
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FRIENDS THAT ROCK
A CONSTANT SWING
BALTIMORE MC NAEEM JUWAN AKA SPANK ROCK HAS TAKEN A WHILE TO RELEASE HIS SECOND ALBUM, AND TROY MUTTON FOUNDS OUT WHAT TOOK SO LONG.
IT’S BEEN ALMOST TEN YEARS SINCE PERTH EXPATS PENDULUM FORMED, AND IN THAT TIME THERE HAVE BEEN PLENTY OF CHANGES. STUART EVANS SPEAKS TO PAUL HARDING, TRACKING THE BAND’S PROGRESS.
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aeem Juwan is every bit the shy-ish, chilled nerd that comes across in his press shots. The voice that comes down the line from his home in Baltimore is quite hushed and contemplative. Since 2006’s critically-lauded debut YoYoYoYoYo, Juwan was in no rush to release what is now, finally, his sophomore effort in Everything Is Boring & Everyone Is A Fucking Liar. “I started working on the album about two years ago, maybe a little over two years ago. I finalised everything at Downtown Records, and I started working with a lot of different producers. Oddly enough, none of that [early] stuff made it to the album, and I think it was because I was giving these really bad performances,” he chuckles, “writing some of the worst lyrics and not being able to sort out how I wanted to begin and what I wanted to do.” Through the process he quickly learnt a return to basics was the way to go, and just hanging with friends. “I found out that working with my closest friends are the best people to work with. You can have kids like [producer] Leif kinda pop up and then produce a couple of songs on the record. I have XXXchange on the record, Sam Spiegel on the record - these people that I’ve worked with before and have a good rapport with, people I actually sit down and talk to, people who I can stay over there house and sleep on their couch,” he laughs. And while it’d be easy to assume that he might have felt some pressure to follow up such a popular debut album, for Juwan most of the uncertainty was internal. “I think that was one of the challenges on this record – I wanted to kind of prove myself to producers and people around me that I do have ideas, and I do understand where I am and how I want things to go. And of course I love collaboration, but I guess I wanted to be in more of a leadership position. “I wanted to learn more about writing songs and writing music, and I wanted to challenge myself. I think it was really tough. I think it mostly doesn’t make sense to the audience, but it makes sense to me. I wanted to challenge myself... I think I’m getting better at it. I feel more confident now, you know? I think I’m more confident that I have
good ideas.” So where does he feel he sits now, post Everything Is Boring...? “The musicians and songwriters that I look up to - I don’t think I’m anywhere close. To be as good as my favourite musicians… I think I have a lot more work and talent ahead of me, but it’s good for now.” YoYo...’s legacy, one that continues with Everything Is Boring, was Juwan’s combination of dance and hip hop, in a way setting the tone for what popular music has become in 2011 – collaborations left, right and centre between hip hop/pop artists and dance music producers – David Guetta being a chief example/offender. Drum was keen to find Juwan’s thoughts on the current mainstream obssession bringing club and pop closer together than ever before. “I think it’s kind of cool. Well, it’s cool if it’s done well,” he begins with a laugh. “You know, pop used to be like this – it used to be dance music; it used to be at parties, it used to be a really fun expression of youth, and expression of ghetto culture. Like, why now is everything so miserably self-reflective? I think it’s important for people to be able to kind of have an emotional connection to music. I also think music should be put out as something that you’re sharing with a live audience. You have the power to make people feel a certain way, so why wouldn’t you want to make people feel happy, or fun and be alive, and empowered to change their situation and empower themselves mentally? I don’t think that me going back to the tradition of how hip hop started is special or is new. If people were reminded of that’s how hip hop used to be and they start making electronic music, then that’s fine. I just hope they do it in a good, cool way, you know - not the cheesy way.” WHO: Spank Rock WHAT: Everything Is Boring & Everyone Is A Fucking Liar (Bad Blood/Inertia) WHEN & WHERE: Summadayze, Tuesday 3 January, Sir James Mitchell Park, South Perth
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he pendulum keeps swinging for arguably Australia’s biggest electronic music act and export. When Pendulum first swung onto the melodious landscape, their music was lodged firmly in the drum‘n’bass category. How things have changed. Fast forward a few years to find their music wavering back and forth between genres. “The music we make nowadays is different for all of us. We don’t consider it an effort to make any kind of music in any kind of genre or style as it’s more about enjoying the music-making process,” explains Paul Harding, one of the three founding members of Aussie ex-pats Pendulum. “We explore music regardless of what it is and who it’s made by. We all have rock backgrounds and generally have a wide variety of tastes. First and foremost, we focus on writing a good song.” Pendulum, who formed here back in the early noughties, came about when producers Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen teamed up with acclaimed local DJ Paul ‘El Hornet’ Harding (Swire and McGrillen were members of rock band Xygen). In 2003, the boys relocated to the UK to advance their careers. Now based in London, the group has always been clear with its mission of gathering assorted styles of music to form a sound they felt was missing. The move to the UK has been advantageous. “Based on the music we make, touring and being close to Europe and the US, it was the right thing to do at the right time,” tells Harding. Whilst drum‘n’bass has long been a dearly loved genre, it’s still largely remained outside the mainstream. To an extent, Pendulum has addressed that situation and brought drum‘n’bass to the conventional, with their 2005 Hold Your Colour album habitually cited as one of the best-selling drum‘n’bass albums. But if their early output was drum‘n’bass, their sound of now is more compatible with stadium rock, albeit slightly more melodic. The classification or deviation doesn’t concern Harding. “Pendulum’s a pretty good name for us as we swing between genres and styles and is really
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a natural thing,” he says. “As an artist you want to explore what’s out there and what can be achieved.” Their genre-splicing approach has won just as many admirers as it has enemies. Their drum‘n’bass efforts have continued to skirmish with the commercial side of things, whilst their remix of the popular piccolo trumpet from ABC News was caned by triple j, exposing them to a new, appreciative audience. 2010’s Immersion continued to show a band evolving at a rapid pace. Combined with their live shows, tiring touring schedule and transformation into a traditional band, things finally took its toll when the crew called time-out. Whilst performing at the V Festival, frontman Swire told the crowd that they were taking the next year off “to make a new album”. From next year, Pendulum is officially on hiatus. “We’re not breaking up or anything like that, as we want to take a year off to see what comes up. We’re still writing some tunes, especially for the underground, but we forced ourselves to take a break,” Harding tells. “Our goals have always been to do something better than we did before and we’re already coming up with some big ideas for the next album.” Harding is deliberately coy about the group’s future musical endeavours. He confirms an album is in the making, but the sound, style and substance remain anonymous. “All genres have ebbs and flows. As artists we’ve become more confident with the music we make and how natural it all becomes,” he says. “Drum‘n’bass will always be a massive part of where Pendulum has come from. We are like many other bands and artists who deviate from their original sound. Just because you start off playing one particular style doesn’t mean that you’re forever restricted.” WHO: Pendulum WHEN & WHERE: Summadayze, Tuesday 3 January, Sir James Mitchell Park, South Perth
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FROM SUPER CREEPY COVERS TO VAMPIRE CEREMONIES, AUSTRALIA WELCOMES BACK THE DRESDEN DOLLS AFTER A LONG ABSENCE. VOCALIST AMANDA PALMER TALKS TO WARWICK GOODMAN.
AUSTRALIAN BORN TWINS MIRIAM AND OLIVIA NERVO ARE HEADING HOME FOR SUMMER AFTER A YEAR THAT’S INCLUDED TOURING THE US WITH THE LIKES OF BRITNEY AND MINAJ, AS ANGELA KING INVESTIGATES.
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t is around about dinner time in Boston, Massachusetts, and it’s cold out, but Amanda Palmer is cosy in her apartment. She has just now returned from a day of shooting a film clip with her solo-project band. An eerie one, too. “My new band just did a cover song of Nirvana’s Polly for a Nevermind compilation for Spin Magazine. And we just filmed a really, really sick and creepy video for it.” The original is a pretty creepy song. “Yeah, it is a super creepy song and our cover of it makes it like 160 times more creepy. It was available online for a little while through Spin and now I’m re-releasing it. It’s some of the creepiest music I’ve ever made.” Palmer is quite well-mannered and easy going for someone who is often known by the moniker, Amanda ‘Fucking’ Palmer. She is looking forward to coming to Australia with The Dresden Dolls this summer and welcomes the warm change from the presently biting Boston. “Yeeaaahhh,” she croaks, as if thinking about it feels good, “That’s the idea. I chase the warm.” There is a reason for her to be longing to get down here, as it has been a while between visits for her band. “I think the last time we came to Australia was 2006,” she explains, “and that would’ve been on the Yes, Virginia tour. It was a fantastic tour. I’m really excited to bring the band back.” The patient fans of The Dresden Dolls can expect a killer setlist when they come here in January, although Palmer admits that often even she doesn’t know precisely what will transpire on a tour until it does. “We’re not planning any new releases. We’re pretty much gonna play a bunch of favourites and we always put together some crazy covers for every tour we do and try to keep them really unique to that tour. And, you know, usually what Brian [Viglione, drums] and I do is we think we know what we’re gonna do and then two days before a tour one of us gets a nut-balls idea and we wind up doing crazy things that we never
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S planned to do. So, you know, there are always weird surprises that we’re not actually aware of until we actually hit the road. But yeah, we’re not planning for a new record, we’re basically going on tour so we can play with each other and connect with the fans.” Although they took a long break from playing together while Palmer made her first solo album and then toured it for over a year, the two members of The Dresden Dolls did not have trouble getting back into playing their much loved songs. “That music is in our fucking DNA. I mean, the great thing about The Dresden Dolls, because we’re just two people and it’s very stripped down, that stuff never gets boring. And we’ve never felt like we have to just phone in a gig, because we just keep improvising with each other and we make songs interesting and it’s just always fun, you know? There’s really nothing in our catalogue that we get bored of.” And why have they come back to play more shows? Palmer explains, “Our plan was never to stop touring. I knew I wanted to take a big long break to make my solo record. But then we went on a tour in the States last fall, which was fantastic and I think our plan [now] is to just play where we feel like, when we feel like and right now we’re gonna do Australia.” She chuckles, perhaps in a realisation of their lucky stars, for it’s a fine situation The Dresden Dolls have got for themselves. WHO: The Dresden Dolls WHEN & WHERE: Thursday 12 January, Astor Theatre, Mount Lawley
peaking from LAX close to boarding a plane back to Melbourne, the effervescent Liv, one half of Nervo, beams down the phone line recalling her frenzied experiences of late. “We’ve had a really good year, we’ve been really lucky seeing the world, and our songs are getting out there so we’re really excited,” she exclaims. “We normally get home more than once a year but this year we’ve just been pulled over the other side of the world. We’ve been in Europe, in London, and America a lot over the summer. So now we get to come home, do the Summadayze Festival [and their own headlining show in Perth] and enjoy the sun, it’s the best time of the year!” For Nervo, 2011 has been filled with touring, most notably on the all female Femme Fatale show. “We had the summer with Britney [Spears] and Nicki [Minaj],” Liv recollects fondly. As for any backstage tales however, it is much a case of what happens on tour stays on tour: “We did have to sign something at the beginning but Britney is very private, so is Nicki, and the tour was a closed tour, no-one was allowed... no reporters were allowed backstage or anything like that, so it was kind of surreal,” reminisces Liv. “It definitely feels like a big dream we were in because we couldn’t document anything but all the memories are documented in my mind. We had a great time, met Britney, met Nicki, we saw them everyday for five weeks and the tour was amazing, the show was amazing. We saw loads of America and we were in a new city every day.” Liv tells of how the Nervo stage show may one day borrow elements from epic performances they saw on the tour. “There was one stage where Britney comes down the middle in a little Mini Coup. I can’t really see Mim and I doing that but it would be a dream to one day to have a stage and props and lights, that would be an absolute dream for us,” she says. Currently the twins are working on their debut album. “We just finished our second single, we’ve got the
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first one out now. It’s released through Astralwerks and we’re really happy with it,” Liv enthuses. “We’re getting to collaborate with a lot of our friends, a lot of the time we were the collaborators on other albums, being asked to write for people. Now its really lovely to be able to ask other people to write for us and with us.” Liv says trying to fit in time to record and produce for the album hasn’t been the only challenge: “Mim and I, we tend to change our minds quite a bit,” she reveals. “We’ll write something, for a couple of months we’ll be one kind of idea and then we’ll decide, ‘You know what? Lets push it a bit more and lets try something new’, so we’re constantly redeveloping, so we’ll see when its done.” As for the next few months, the ladies will be playing all over the nation before jetting to Brazil, Europe and beyond, a fact that Liv and Mim couldn’t be happier about. “We love Australia, we’re super proud to be Aussies. We’ve been away a long time, about eight years we’ve been based elsewhere, but we definitely feel a sound connection with Australia. Perth people, we can’t wait to get over there. I’m just astounded by how many beautiful girls there are in your city, last year when we played for Summadayze I had never seen so many bronzed up beauties, so we can’t wait to get over there!” WHO: Nervo WHAT: We’re All No One feat. Steve Aoki & Afrojack (Astralwerks) WHEN & WHERE: Friday 30 December, Ambar, Perth
2011: A NATION DECIDES ANOTHER MOMENTOUS YEAR OF RECORDED MUSIC, GIGS, BROAD/PODCASTS, TV SHOWS, MOVIES AND COUNTLESS HOURS OF ONLINE PROCRASTINATION IS FINALLY COMING TO AN END, AND THE WRITERS OF STREET PRESS AUSTRALIA HAVE KINDLY RACKED THEIR BRAINS FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE NATIONAL CAPITALS TO HELP YOU REMEMBER (OR LEARN ABOUT, IF YOU WERE HANGING IN A REMOTE CAVE SOMEWHERE) THE BEST BITS OF 2011. IF YOU ONLY READ ONE END OF YEAR LIST THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THIS ONE. WELL GO ON – START READING! “The King Of Limbs is the rawest and most unpredictable Radiohead album to date – and that is something to enjoy. For these very same reasons, however, The King Of Limbs is also perhaps the band’s most flippant and weightless album to date – and, while an intriguing novelty, that is somewhat disappointing.” Matt O’Neill, Time Off Issue 1515. 5. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE “We actually recorded it about a year and a half ago. We recorded it in one day and then it was just a process of... Shogun wasn’t happy with a couple of vocal tracks so he was back in for another couple of gos, going back and recording with a couple of different people and then... It was just a matter of getting the record to sound the way that we’d sort of envisioned and do the songs justice really.” Joe Sukit (Royal Headache), Inpress Issue 1199. “It’s fuzzy and murky and makes you want to slow dance and drink cheap wine and get bad tattoos and start that book – but only after another glass of that rough red – and grab a tambourine and grow your hair and hit the beach. Put simply: it’s the soundtrack to a damn good time.” Dave Drayton, The Drum Media Issue 1087. 6. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83
ALBUM OF THE YEAR 1. Bon Iver BON IVER
“Every song came pretty slowly and I amended them over many, many months – like years for a couple of them. Almost all of them were a year in the process, as far as getting them up and then massaging it into place both lyrically and musically, so I can’t really say – each one’s a little bit different, but they all took a really long time and musically and lyrically they were all kind of swirling all together. I mean I wanted to finish it – it was exciting the idea of finishing the album – but I didn’t really know what the album was until I finished it, so I had to wait. I had times of frustration, but mostly it was just exciting that I knew that I was unravelling and unfurling whatever it was going to become.” Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), The Drum Media Issue 1064. “Opener Perth, the seeds of which were sewn during Bon Iver’s inaugural Australian tour, packs all the things that differentiate this album from the first in one fell swoop – electric guitars rise and fall and are backed by a marching drum beat before Vernon’s idiosyncratic voice slots neatly into place. But this seemingly constant force has evolved too; here it is clearer, strained further and more-creatively layered.” Rick Bryant, The Drum Media Perth Issue 243. “It was a matter of great worry whether or not Vernon could follow For Emma, Forever Ago with anything nearly as moving. Those concerns were unnecessary, because this album is an experience that not only equals but surpasses its predecessor, soundtracking pure and intense emotion in a way that is always redeeming, no matter how much it might hurt.” Giselle Nguyen, The Drum Media Issue 1064. Previous Winners: The Suburbs ARCADE FIRE (2010), Veckatimest GRIZZLY BEAR (2009), Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (2008) 2. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY “I was very aware of trying to get the balance right. I didn’t want to dip into using language that was too dogmatic or selfimportant, finger-pointing or opinionated. I wanted to present quite an ambiguous narrative that could be read in different ways and leave an openness. Basically I wanted to work towards what’s not being said, as opposed to what is said.” PJ Harvey, The Drum Media Issue 1048. 2
“Harvey and her merry men borrow as they like throughout the 12 tracks, incorporating pieces of The Police, Russian folk tunes and military bugle calls amongst others, working them together to create what can only be a PJ Harvey album. The samples don’t stand out or detract from what Harvey does but instead contribute to the whole composition. That willingness to appropriate and mix keeps things strangely original and playful in another wise darker album than most. It also keeps Let England Shake grounded despite its flights of invention.” Jason Kenny, The Drum Media Perth Issue 228. 3. James Blake JAMES BLAKE “The main misconception of people has been that I am trying to mix styles or I am trying to bring dubstep to singer-songwriter people or pop or mainstream to dubstep or pop people or some sort of laboratory experiment. It’s irrelevant. I am just trying to make music I like and when it goes on record and gets sent to shops and distributors, at that point people will either buy it or they won’t, dubstep fans will either buy it or they won’t or pop fans will either buy it or they won’t so then it becomes this dubstep or post-dubstep or post-pop/experimental/ leftfield/populist/sell-out/underground…” James Blake, 3D World Issue 1061. “His debut album James Blake is subtle, spare and spacey. Blake appreciates the power of silence, with effects deployed for texture. Blake’s vocals are pitch-shifted, but never mechanical.” Cyclone, Inpress Issue 1183. 4. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD “On their eighth album Radiohead return to the experimental nature of Kid A and Amnesiac – perfectly melding the electronic and the analogue – contributing a fine inclusion to the band’s oeuvre and an album that’s instantly a modern classic. The King Of Limbs is an incredibly rich listening experience, the most intimate record Radiohead have released yet, with the angst and paranoia of old present, yet making way for the spiritual and psychological, which takes centre stage here. Stunning stuff.” DCR, The Drum Media Issue 1048.
“M83’s double-sided epic Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming sounds like how your bloodstream felt at your sixth birthday party when you got double dared into drinking a cupful of skittles dissolved in Mountain Dew. If that makes you queasy, leave Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming on the shelf. If that sounds like an inspired idea for a mixer with cheap vodka, then go buy this record.” Callum Twigger, The Drum Media Perth Issue 261.
9. SBTRKT SBTRKT “When you’re combining the two worlds – the dance trend has always been strong with me – but finding the balance between the two is the challenge. I love songs and song based stuff and putting those two together is where my strength lies or what my SBTRKT mission is about.” Aaron Jerome (SBTRKT), The Drum Media Issue 1081. “SBTRKT’s production beds are simple, uncluttered yet always beautifully arranged, dark and foreboding yet spacious and with plenty of melodies to cling to.” Gloria Lewis, The Drum Media Issue 1067. 10. Adalita ADALITA “It’s not like I’ve gone extremely mellow or anything. I still feel like it’s quite intense, but I recognise that there will be Magic Dirt fans that don’t like it. Then again there will be others for whom it’s not too big a leap.” Adalita, Inpress Issue 1164. “Melancholy or maudlin might be a tad strong, or even have negative connotations, but this release is emotive, poignant, heartfelt, open, raw and ultimately a tour de force.” The Boomeister, Inpress Issue 1164.
“There’s a childlike sense of musical discovery, pure creative expression and imagination inspiring dreamscapes crammed into this album by Anthony Gonzalez’ M83. Similar hyperbole has been heaped upon pretty much everything M83 has released, but HUWD represents the perfect culmination of a decade’s worth of experimenting and refining his sounds and ideas – almost as if it was all building up to this masterpiece.” Chris Yates, Time Off Issue 1548. 7. Making Mirrors GOTYE “I just tried to explore different avenues, I suppose, to try and make a record that sounded different to the last album. Some experiments worked, some didn’t, and some ended up on the album, some didn’t, but I still went in lots of different directions at the same time to see what would end up coming back together again at the end.” Wally De Backer (Gotye), The Drum Media Issue 1082. “Somebody That I Used To Know is the Heart’s A Mess we all secretly feared he couldn’t remake. The lyric “I don’t even need your love, but you treat me like a stranger, and it feels so rough” truly hurts to listen to, it’s so present and unabashed and in the moment of that alltoo familiar pain.” Sam Hobson, Time Off Issue 1544. 8. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES “I think there are definitely places to go from here; it’s not like some masterpiece which just leaves us without any ideas. I feel like we went away for a bit and have done our job. I’m happy with it, but it doesn’t feel like the end of the line.” Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Time Off Issue 1524. “Fortunately, for those with faith in the band, particularly the songwriting and arranging acumen of its key creative lynchpin and frontman Robin Pecknold, it’s also no surprise that the band’s second album is an unmitigated triumph of skill and talent over pressure and adversity.” Steve Bell, Time Off Issue 1524.
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MISCELLANEOUS ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA A few of the SPA team started to feel a bit, umm, experienced when Nirvana’s Nevermind got decked out for a special 20th Anniversary Edition, but all the bonus bells-and-whistles attached to it really did was underline just how amazing Messrs Cobain, Novoselic and Grohl’s seminal grunge genre-definer really was – and still is. For some, the reissue meant they could finally assure themselves of a copy of the record bearing the often forgotten hidden track Endless, Nameless. For others, the bonus discs (one with the Deluxe Edition and a whopping three with the Super Deluxe Edition) provided an opportunity to dig into the anatomy of the songs via (in some cases very) rough demos, Butch Vig’s mix (aka The Devonshire Mixes) before Andy Wallace had the final twiddle of the knobs and hear the gig that soundtracked the accompanying Live At The Paramount film. For most, it was all about attacking a classic with fresh ears and confirming that it had, indeed, aged very gracefully. Honourable Mentions: A little more modern but still fairly retrospective, Icelandic outfit Sigur Rós featured tracks from across their career on the Inni live CD/DVD (or mp3/vinyl/Blu-ray, depending on your technological tastes) and appealed to SPA’s post-rock fraternity in a big way. While it doesn’t even have a physical release in Australia as yet, Cliff Martinez (and a handful of others) impressed many with the soundtrack of Drive (more on that later). Brian Wilson’s wacky vision for The Beach Boys finally surfaced with the long-awaited Smile Sessions, and Spanish DJ/producer Henry Saiz proved that there was still life in progressive house yet with his Balance 019 compilation. Previous Winners: Inaugural year for this category.
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EDITORS’ PICKS
PORTISHEAD
(AKA THE ROYAL HEADACHE APPRECIATION SOCIETY)
ALBUM OF THE YEAR ONLINE DESTINATION OF THE YEAR Facebook
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR Portishead
SONG OF THE YEAR
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA If anyone can seriously claim they knew Gotye would not only pen the year’s most played tune but challenge the chart-topping supremacy of Savage Garden in the process, we’d say they must have got all Back To The Future Part II on things and snuck a copy of the 2025 Almanac into the DeLorean on their last trip back to our time. Somebody That I Used To Know is an unlikely chart-topper, a torch song for love gone awry which builds over a repetitive plucked guitar motif before erupting into a chorus straight out of the Peter Gabriel/ Sting playbook – not that there’s anything wrong with that. Kimbra’s appearance in the closing stages of the song (and eye-catching clip) proved to be a star-maker, with her own album Vows dropping to rapturous applause shortly after. Everybody wins. Honourable Mentions: It really was Gotye/Kimbra first, daylight second here, though Bon Iver came closest to toppling the local connection with his own heart-breaker Holocene. Thankfully 2011 wasn’t all reach for the tissues territory though, with the thunderous toms of Florence + The Machine’s Shake It Out managing to shake some of the morose vibes out of our writers before we got all weepy again with Adele’s Someone Like You impossible to split from The Horrors’ Still Life and M83’s epic Midnight City. Previous Winners: Fuck You CEE LO GREEN (2010), Sweet Disposition THE TEMPER TRAP (2009), Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (2008)
While many music fans bemoan the absence of Radiohead from Australian stages since the early noughties and just as many wonder when Weezer will finally make it back down under, it’s hard to argue with Portishead’s first visit since 1997 as the most anticipated tour of the year. As the marquee act of the inaugural Harvest festival (subtitled The Gathering in Melbourne) and headliners in their own right on the west coast, the ethereal Beth Gibbons and the big band which accompanied her delivered on all fronts, a sparse, ghostlike reading of Wandering Star proving that Australian festival crowds and the concept of reverent silence were far from the mutually exclusive concepts many feared they had become. The brief will-they-or-won’t-they-play drama in the lead-up just heightened the suspense. Honourable Mentions: Harvest scored the quinella here, with The National coming in not far behind their co-headliners – though some of the SPA team no doubt caught them when they came through the country on the back of the Falls Festival as 2010 ticked over to 2011. Sufjan Stevens fans were delighted to catch the indie-pop maestro showcasing his The Age Of Adz album, while the final position was shared by the heavy dirge of Holy Fuck’s trek around the nation for Laneway, and Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters taking their stadium rock where it belongs. (Stadiums, for those playing at home). Previous Winners: Metallica (2010), Neil Young (2009), Rage Against The Machine (2008) GRINDERMAN
GOTYE
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR Grinderman
ARTIST OF THE YEAR Gotye
The juggernaut that began with Somebody That I Used To Know just continued rolling for Gotye from there, with Wally De Backer confirming himself as the second most famous Wally in Australia (or first if you’re not from Queensland) off the back of the ensuing Making Mirrors long-player. The accolades throughout 2011 have probably even caught De Backer himself off guard, but six ARIA Awards tell the tale of what has been an outstanding year for the Melbourne-based multiinstrumentalist, both commercially and critically. Even uber-hipster US music portal Pitchfork got in on the act, awarding Making Mirrors a score of 7.7 in a review which gushed that he “hearkens back to a time when the crop of middlebrow male pop stars wasn’t so lousy with simpering troubadours or assembly-line idols” – as good a back-handed compliment as you could hope for from a website which crushes as many artists as it breaks.
With Nick Cave announcing that his band of not-somerry men was disbanding after the 2011 Meredith Music Festival, it’s just as well so many of the SPA team caught them in action around the country in 2011 – firstly at the Big Day Out and a series of side shows, then their headline performance at the return of Homebake to Sydney in December. “Is Nick Cave just reliving 1978?” The Drum Media’s Ross Clelland asked of that performance. “Maybe, but if so it’s the best midlife crisis ever.” Inpress Assistant Ed Bryget Chrisfield was there at the Meredith finale and was equally spellbound. “Grinderman leave the crowd swaying, lurching and gasping throughout their entire set as the band obediently follows Cave’s unpredictable lead… Chastising countless victims throughout Kitchenette, Cave points his finger in many voracious faces. Simultaneously terrifying and tantalising, Cave embodies the demon Seed and many are gutted when he announces this gig marks the end of Grinderman.” But is the ending just the beginning repeating? Sounds plausible to us.
Honourable Mentions: The writers of our sadly defunct dance music bible 3D World tipped James Blake as one of their artists of the year in 2010 before he had an album to his name – in 2011, his self-titled debut ensured that our other publications’ writers (and the rest of the world) caught on to his post-dubstep soul as well. The Album Of The Year list was fairly closely mirrored here, with PJ Harvey, Bon Iver and Royal Headache impressing many with their output, and although Kurt Vile was just outside the Top 10 list there, his Smoke Ring For My Halo long-player got him a nod in this category.
Honourable Mentions: The Drones know a thing or two about fire-and-brimstone live performances themselves, and their return to more regular gigging following solo spells from Gareth Liddiard and Mike Noga was as well-received as ever. Their goldcertified debut album Prisoners didn’t tickle our writers’ fancies but The Jezabels’ presence in the live arena was noticed, as were The Middle East who must’ve given Grinderman some ideas by breaking up on-stage at Splendour In The Grass. Boy & Bear wrapped up the top five.
Previous Winners: The National (2010), Lady Gaga (2009), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (2008)
Previous Winners: Tame Impala (2010), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (2009), The Drones (2008)
If 2011 proved anything about Facebook, it proved its resilience. Google+ arrived with much fanfare but was forgotten just as quickly as millions threatened to jump ship before realising they’d be busier over at MySpace saying “thanks for the add”. Some unnecessary changes shortly after the launch of G+ caused the usual shitstorm of indignant rage, but when the dust settled we all went on oversharing like it didn’t matter that our information was being stored in a database which will one day create cyborgs that take over the world. Maybe. Honourable Mentions: Our writers have taken to Twitter like feathered creatures to aquatic bodies – because let’s face it, getting that re-tweet for someone you’ve never heard of is better than the best sex you’ll ever have, if not better. YouTube continued to be a boon both for musical research (what our team should’ve used it for) and miscellaneous lols (what they did use it for), while Pitchfork,SoundCloud and Mess+Noise brought up the rear. Previous Winners: Facebook (2010), Facebook (2009), Facebook (2008)
RADIO SHOW/PODCAST OF THE YEAR Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J
Stu Harvey’s Short.Fast.Loud is back at the top – a deserved nod for consistently producing what one staffer sagely declared “the only national punk show worth its salt”. The show’s annual Listeners’ Poll is widely regarded as the list for all things punk and hardcore, and the fact that Harvey’s own 2011 top ten and that of his listeners both repped Defeater, La Dispute, Touché Amoré, Balance And Compsure and Frenzal Rhomb shows how close his finger is to the pulses of his listeners. Or how similar his ears are to theirs. Honourable Mentions: Triple J seems to be the only station our writers turn to in times of need – or at least when they’re getting themselves warmed up for the day with the breakfast combo of Tom And Alex, or feeding their brains at the end of a long day with current affairs half hour Hack, or letting Richard Kingsmill run them through the freshest releases on 2011. While community radio shows polled strong locally (and programs hosted by our staffers in Sydney and Brisbane did particularly well), only Out To Lunch on Perth’s RTR managed to sneak into our top five, just ahead of The King.
1. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 3. SBTRKT SBTRKT 4. Adalita ADALITA 5. Arabia Mountain BLACK LIPS 6. Keep Your Dreams CANYONS 7. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 8. Zonoscope CUT COPY 9. Henge Beat TOTAL CONTROL 10. Crystal Theatre BELLES WILL RING
SONG OF THE YEAR
1. Down The Lane ROYAL HEADACHE 2. Rolling In The Deep ADELE 2. I Never Learnt To Share JAMES BLAKE 2. Shake It Out FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 2. Boeing 737 THE LOW ANTHEM 2. White Noise MOGWAI 2. Ghostwalking NEW WAR 2. Say No To Thugs LOST ANIMAL 2. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Bring It On FRONT END LOADER 2. How Can You Luv Me UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
ARTIST OF THE YEAR 1. Royal Headache 2. The Jezabels 3. Gotye 4. Lanie Lane =5. Adele =5. Cut Copy =5. Henry Saiz
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR 1. Les Savy Fav 2. Kyuss Lives 3. Portishead =4. Gang Of Four =4. The Hold Steady
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR 1. Grinderman 2. Royal Headache =3. Gotye =3. Paul Kelly =3. Velociraptor
Previous Winners: 2010 TRIPLE J (2010), Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J (2009), Full Metal Racket TRIPLE J (2008) BREAKING BAD
DRIVE
MOVIE OF THE YEAR Drive
TV SHOW OF THE YEAR Breaking Bad
A slow starting season four had some Breaking Bad fans thinking that maybe the wheels had fallen off. It’s not a major spoiler alert to say that, thankfully, things got explosive as Bryan Cranston’s Walt/Heisenberg and the easily manipulated Jesse (Aaron Paul) battled to save their necks from the mysterious drug/poultry baron Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) in between cooking the finest meth the crack fiends of Albuquerque have ever seen. If next year’s fifth season is the be the last, it’s going to struggle to raise the bar of this season’s memorable finale. DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!
Women (and sensitive man-folk) worldwide had barely dried their eyes following 2010 tear-jerker Blue Valentine before they were hit with a smorgasbord of dreamboat Ryan Gosling in 2011. And though his appearances in The Ides Of March and Crazy, Stupid, Love made him the year’s second most ubiquitous on-screen presence (just pipped by that lovable internet feline Nyan Cat), it’s his role as a Hollywood stunt driver who drives getaway cars in his spare time that attracted the most attention at SPA. Having Breaking Bad’s Cranston, Sons Of Anarchy’s Ron Perlman and Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks in support certainly didn’t take away from director Nicholas Winding Refn’s tense widescreen vision. And the electronic score wrapped around it all by Cliff Martinez sealed the deal.
Honourable Mentions: Sean Bean left the memories of Lord Of The Rings’ tragic Boromir behind him by strapping on the leathers again for Game Of Thrones, the year’s best received new show. Community might be on the nose with its network but its lol value remains unchallenged, while perennial favourites Dexter and True Blood continue to go strong five and four years into their respective runs. We do like some bloodshed.
Honourable Mentions: Foul-mouthed women are so hot right now, and they didn’t get much smuttier than Aussie Rose Byrne and co in the box office comedy bonanza of Bridesmaids. The no longer children, not yet adult wizards of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II also excelled in their final big screen appearance, while Woody Allen’s recent golden run continued with Midnight In Paris and Daniel Henshall’s chilling performance as serial killer John Bunting helped Snowtown “shoot the dog” on behalf of Australian cinema.
Previous Winners: True Blood (2010)
Previous Winners: Inception (2010)
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BOY & BEAR
THE DRUM MEDIA 2011 WRAP PAPA VS PRETTY @ CHANGING LANES FESTIVAL PHOTO BY ANGELA PADOVAN
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1. Gotye 2. The Jezabels 3. Tom Waits 4. Boy & Bear 5. James Blake PREVIOUS WINNERS: The National (2010), Alice In Chains (2009), Kings Of Leon (2008)
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. Bon Iver BON IVER 2. The Whole Love WILCO 3. SBTRKT SBTRKT 4. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 5. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 6. Ceremonials FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 7. Worship Music ANTHRAX 8. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 9. The Harrow & The Harvest GILLIAN WELCH 10. Skying THE HORRORS PREVIOUS WINNERS: High Violet THE NATIONAL (2010), Conditions THE TEMPER TRAP (2009), Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (2008)
KYUSS LIVES PHOTO BY JOSH GROOM
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
1. The National 2. Pulp 3. Holy Fuck 4. Kyuss Lives 5. Iron Maiden PREVIOUS WINNERS: Metallica (2010), The Bronx (2009), Björk (2008) THE DRONES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. Grinderman 2. Seeker Lover Keeper 3. Boy & Bear 4. Seekae =5. The Drones =5. The Mess Hall PREVIOUS WINNERS: Cloud Control (2010), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (2009), The Drones (2008)
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o another year ends, and the question, inevitably, has to be asked – was 2011 a good year for music in Sydney, a bad year, or just another year at the office? Well, it certainly wasn’t bad, although the news wasn’t always entirely good. The Forum closed its doors to gigs not long after punters had thrown out their 2010 calendars, but it wasn’t to be the end – The Hi-Fi have now expanded their east coast empire by adding the multi-tiered room to their Melbourne and Brisbane operations, with the first show scheduled at this stage set to be a horns-up spectacular starring Mastodon in March 2012. The future of two decidedly more grassroots operations isn’t so assured. The Annandale Hotel is encouraging its patrons to buy a brick for between $20 and $250 to help it remain sustainable as a live music venue, while the Sandringham Hotel first had to contend with a Marrickville council ruling which saw footpath smoking banned on their side of King Street and then unsuccessfully go under the auction hammer. It’s now up for sale for $3.35 million, with venue manager Tony Townsend suggesting to TheMusic.com.au that its continuation as a live music venue was looking very positive regardless. Fortunately those doors aren’t yet closed and others have opened anyway – The Standard, The Square, Upstairs Beresford and Rock Lily just a selection of the new rooms currently rewarding dedicated gig pigs. The festival bubble may not have necessarily burst, but it’s certainly looking a little more deflated now than it did 12 months ago. The October shitcanning of the Wollongong-based Rewind 80s Festival – a local version of a UK event which ultimately disowned its down under sister act – was the year’s most spectacular implosion, though the general ambivalence it was greeted by didn’t come close to the disappointment felt by many when Soundwave Revolution was also called off. That couldn’t take
1. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 2. Inni SIGUR RÓS 3. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CLIFF MARTINEZ/VARIOUS PREVIOUS WINNERS: Inaugural year for this category.
ONLINE DESTINATION OF THE YEAR
1. YouTube 2. Twitter 3. Facebook 4. Pitchfork 5. Resident Advisor PREVIOUS WINNERS: Facebook/Twitter (2010), Twitter/YouTube (2009), YouTube (2008)
BOARDWALK EMPIRE
the gloss off what was an overwhelmingly wellreceived Soundwave event in February, with Future Music Festival also packing satisfied punters into Randwick Racecourse in March and Stereosonic drawing an Origin-size crowd to the Olympic stadium in November. A rain-sodden and sparsely populated Good Vibrations Festival certainly didn’t disappoint those who attended, but with its future location on the festival calendar now uncertain perhaps it’s the approach of boutique events like Changing Lanes Festival, música/TUMBALONG, Harvest and the reborn Homebake that point the way forward? When you do move forward, you arrive in the future – and Sydney’s future musical output is looking very bright indeed. A new breed arrived in a big way in 2011, with few making as big a splash, either on record or in the live arena, as the ARIA award dominating Boy & Bear. But they weren’t the only act breaking through, with album releases from Royal Headache, The Jezabels, Lanie Lane, Art Vs Science, Papa Vs Pretty, WIM, Canyons, Tonight Alive, Seekae and Shades Of Gray impressing locally and in many cases abroad as well. And who to look out for in 2012? Nantes, New Navy, Alison Wonderland, Elizabeth Rose, Step-Panther and Oliver Tank are poised and ready to explode. Read this wrap next year to see if we’re patting ourselves on the back or pretending this conversation never happened. Speaking of patting ourselves on the back, by the time you read this we already would’ve done just that as another year of The Drum Media has drawn to a close. And you should give yourselves a pat on the back as well – the scene is a symbiotic circle after all, and the food chain dies if one of the links is missing. And with that mixed metaphor, we bid you farewell. See you front of stage/ on the dancefloor/at the bar in 2012. The Drum Media Team
RED DOG
STOLEN RECORDS
SONG OF THE YEAR
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Shake It Out FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 3. Someone Like You ADELE 4. Montezuma FLEET FOXES 5. Still Life THE HORRORS PREVIOUS WINNERS: Fuck You CEE LO GREEN/ Fool’s Day BLUR (2010), Sweet Disposition THE TEMPER TRAP (2009), Sex On Fire KINGS OF LEON (2008) 4
RADIO SHOW/PODCAST OF THE YEAR
1. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J 2. Dead Air FBI 3. Stolen Records FBI 4. Distortion TRIPLE M 5. Grandstand Cricket ABC LOCAL RADIO PREVIOUS WINNERS: Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J (2010), Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J (2009), Short.Fast. Loud TRIPLE J (2008)
TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
1. Boardwalk Empire 2. Breaking Bad 3. Game Of Thrones 4. Community 5. Dexter PREVIOUS WINNERS: Mad Men (2010)
MOVIE OF THE YEAR
1. Drive 2. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 3. Bridesmaids 4. Midnight In Paris 5. Red Dog PREVIOUS WINNERS: Inception (2010)
ADAM WILDING BELLES WILL RING
ALBUMS
1. No Devolución THURSDAY 2. Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me TOUCHÉ AMORÉ 3. Biophilia BJÖRK 4. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 5. Helioscope VESSELS 6. Ex-Military DEATH GRIPS 7. England Keep My Bones FRANK TURNER 8. Disobedience: Chris T-T Sings AA Milne CHRIS T-T 9. Fever 2562 10. Crisis Works YOUNG LEGIONNAIRE TOUCHE AMORE
SONGS
1. All Night Long THE FROWNING CLOUDS 2. Montezuma FLEET FOXES 3. Come To The Village BELLES WILL RING 4. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 5. Valley Of Scum MYLEE GRACE AND OZZIE WRIGHT
ANTHRAX
ALBUMS
1. Worship Music ANTHRAX 2. Deconstruction THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT 3. Unto The Locust MACHINE HEAD 4. The Hunter MASTODON 5. II: The Broken Passage I EXIST 6. Carnival Is Forever DECAPITATED 7. A Dramatic Turn Of Events DREAM THEATER 8. Ritual THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER 9. Psychology Of Death MORTAL SIN 10. Balls Out STEEL PANTHER
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
ALBUMS
1. Crystal Theatre BELLES WILL RING 2. Deerhoof Vs Evil DEERHOOF 3. Wits End CASS MCCOMBS 4. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 5. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 6. Demolished Thoughts THURSTON MOORE 7. Absence SNOWMAN 8. Batmania THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS 9. Simon Werner A Disparu SONIC YOUTH 10. Creep On Creepin’ On TIMBER TIMBRE
1. Peace Sells... But Who’s Buying? 25th Anniversary Edition MEGADETH 2. Live From Amsterdam ALTER BRIDGE 3. The Song Remains Not The Same BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
SONGS
1. 212 AZEALIA BANKS FEAT LAZY JAY 2. Toothache THROWING UP 3. Future Crimes WILD FLAG 4. One Foot Before The Other FRANK TURNER 5. Reach A Bit Further WILD BEASTS AZEALIA BANKS
1. Tom Waits 2. Ed Kuepper 3. Velociraptor 4. Cloud Control 5. The Fearless Vampire Killers
1. Devin Townsend 2. Iron Maiden 3. Chris Cornell 4. Opeth 5. Dream Theater
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Airbourne 2. FLOATINGME 3. Psycroptic 4. Segression 5. Frenzal Rhomb
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Belles Will Ring 2. Velociraptor 3. Gay Paris 4. Goons of Doom 5. Brothers Grim
1. MetalSucks 2. Blabbermouth 3. Loud Online 4. Film Ink 5. League HQ
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
TV SHOWS
1. Grandstand Sport ABC LOCAL RADIO 2. The Racket TRIPLE J 3. The Official Danko Jones Podcast DANKOJONES. COM
1. ABC News 2. AustLII 3. Fruits and Vegetables in season 4. Triple J Unearthed
MOVIES
1. Beginners 2. Midnight In Paris 3. Submarine 4. Your Highness
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Moving into a place with my favourite girl, starting a diploma in law and reading Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski.
MOST OVERHYPED The Drum Media.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Fuck you social media.” Me, 9 December 2011.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Diablo 3 will finally be released. Ben Reilly (AKA the Scarlet Spider) will be resurrected.
ARTISTS
1. Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls 2. Thursday 3. Touchè Amorè 4. Ghostpoet 5. PJ Harvey
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Portishead 2. Sebadoh 3. Kevin Devine 4. Elbow 5. Holy Fuck
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Drowned In Sound 2. The Daily Mash 3. Games Radar 4. Collapse Board 5. Time Out Australia
MOVIES 1. Super
1. 30 Rock 2. Curb Your Enthusiasm 3. Dexter 4. Breaking Bad 5. Chuck
MOVIES
1. Black Swan 2. Drive 3. True Grit 4. American: The Bill Hicks Story 5. 127 Hours
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Great year for heavy music – most veterans released quality records, and plenty of top notch Aussie releases.
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Seekae 2. DZ Deathrays 3. Children Collide 4. Oscar + Martin 5. Architecture In Helsinki
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Fabriclive 59 VARIOUS/FOUR TET 2. The Bootleg Series Vol 1: Live In Europe 1967 MILES DAVIS 3. Siamese Dream SMASHING PUMPKINS
SONGS
1. On The Bank DICK DIVER 2. Ritual Union LITTLE DRAGON 3. One More Tonight TOTAL CONTROL 4. Crawling Up A Landslide LEADER CHEETAH 5. Really In Love ROYAL HEADACHE
ARTISTS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. The Strokes 2. Rodrigo Y Gabriela 3. Sufjan Stevens 4. Lightspeed Champion 5. Modest Mouse
1. QI 2. Q&A 3. The Hamster Wheel 4. Media Watch 5. Futurama
1. Pleasure PURE X 2. Father, Son, Holy Ghost GIRLS 3. Smother WILD BEASTS 4. Smoke Rings For My Halo KURT VILE 5. Kaputt DESTROYER 6. West WOODEN SHJIPS 7. The Harrow & The Harvest GILLIAN WELCH 8. Celebration, Florida THE FELICE BROTHERS 9. The Whole Love WILCO 10. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE
1. I’m Alive ANTHRAX 2. Spirals FLOATINGME 3. Häxprocess OPETH 4. Public Enemy No.1 MEGADETH 5. Yesterday Is Dead And Gone ARCH ENEMY
1. Iron Maiden 2. Rammstein 3. Chris Cornell 4. Alice Cooper 5. Deftones
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
TV SHOWS
ALBUMS
SONGS
1. 13 Chambers WUGAZI 2. 99% Upset Feeling DEERHOOF 3. We Are The Best THE CHAP
ARTISTS
1. Weeknights with Robbie Buck ABC LOCAL RADIO 2. Weekend Lunch with Lexy Savvides FBI 3. Sunday Brunch with Simon Marnie ABC LOCAL RADIO
CHRIS FAMILTON
BRENDAN CRABB
BRAD BARRETT
MOST OVERHYPED
Lady Gaga, ARIA Awards, Never Let Me Go, Kvelertak, Mitchell Johnson – take your pick.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Rock is pretty much dead” Queensrÿche vocalist Geoff Tate, Classic Rock magazine interview. Hardly, but another turgid album and your career may be. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
The AFL and any form of social media. Enough said.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Manly Sea Eagles win back-to-back titles, new Bond film is great and Soundgarden release a worthy new album.
Have your say: facebook.com/drummedia
LITTLE DRAGON
ARTISTS
1. Royal Headache 2. Kurt Vile 3. PJ Harvey 4. Austra 5. James Blake
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Wild Beasts 2. Stone Temple Pilots 3. Kurt Vile 4. CocoRosie 5. Queens Of The Stone Age
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Drones 2. Donny Benet 3. Straight Arrows 4. The Holy Soul 5. Oh Mercy
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Pitchfork 2. FasterLouder 3. Mess+Noise 4. Resident Advisor 5. FACT
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Dusty Fingers FBI 2. Utility Fog FBI 3. All Songs Considered NPR
TV SHOWS
1. Treme 2. Rescue Me 3. Yo Gabba Gabba 4. Curb Your Enthusiasm 5. The Walking Dead
MOVIES
1. Drive 2. Bill Cunningham New York 3. Lemmy 4. Nirvana Live At The Paramount 5. Brighton Rock
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Interviewing J. Mascis.
MOST OVERHYPED Lady Gaga.
QUOTE/TWEET
“What the fuck is Morrissey going on about? Does he really not like meat? He must like sausages. Everybody likes fucking sausages.” Noel Gallagher.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
AJ Maddah getting into arguments online with bands.
PREDICTION(S) 2012 Fewer music festivals.
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CHRIS MARIC
CHRISTINE CARUANA
MACHINE HEAD
ALBUMS SLEEPMAKESWAVES
ALBUMS
1. Glorification Of A Myth OUROBOROS 2. Agony FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE 3. Cry Havoc DESTROPHY 4. And So We Destroyed Everything SLEEPMAKESWAVES 5. Worship Music ANTHRAX 6. Onyx AVA INFERI 7. The Meaning Of I VOYAGER 8. Fragments Of The Forgotten VESPERS DESCENT 9. Never Dead SEGRESSION 10. Psychology Of Death MORTAL SIN
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Live In Lugarno GOTTHARD 2. The Song Remains Not The Same BLACK LABEL SOCIETY 3. Evinta MY DYING BRIDE
SONGS
1. Set Fire To The Rain ADELE 2. The Violation FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE 3. Fight ‘Em Til You Can’t ANTHRAX 4. Kicking And Screaming SEBASTIAN BACH 5. Pressure And Time RIVAL SONS
ARTISTS
1. Ouroboros 2. Sleepmakeswaves 3. Anthrax 4. Mortal Sin/Segression/Melody Black 5. A Day To Remember
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Def Leppard/Heart 2. Iron Maiden 3. Ouroboros 4. Steve Hughes 5. Morbid Angel
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Ouroboros 2. Mortal Sin 3. Melody Black 4. At Dark 5. Segression
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Metal As Fuck 2. Sludge Factory 3. Loud Online 4. Fail Blog 5. Domain
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Distortion TRIPLE M 2. Burning Bitumen 3PBS FM MELBOURNE 3. Alex Jones’s Prison Planet PRISONPLANET.COM
TV SHOWS
1. Sons Of Anarchy 2. Game Of Thrones 3. CSI Miami 4. Time Team 5. Headbangers Ball
MOVIES
1. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol 2. The Tunnel 3. Lebanon 4. Lemmy 5. Cars 2
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Meeting Def Leppard. Except for Steve Harris, I’ve met everyone I want to from the land of rock’n’roll.
MOST OVERHYPED
Gotye – go and listen to Sting and Peter Gabriel instead.
QUOTE/TWEET
Probably something my five-year-old daughter said that had me in hysterics or anything Julia Gillard says which has me in hysterics for totally the opposite reason.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
A New World Order – not THE NWO but the old systems will fail. New ideas, leaders and ways will emerge. 6
1. Khaos Legions ARCH ENEMY 2. Love Your Demons MELODY BLACK 3. The Unforgiving WITHIN TEMPTATION 4. Unto The Locust MACHINE HEAD 5. American Capitalist FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH 6. Wrath Of Judgement FRANTIC AMBER 7. Blunt Force Trauma CAVALERA CONSPIRACY 8. Until Fear No Longer Defines Us GHOST BRIGADE 9. Bloodthrone MINUSHUMAN 10. Kill On Command JUNGLE ROT
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Shallow Bay: Best Of Breaking Benjamin BREAKING BENJAMIN 2. Discovery Box Set PINK FLOYD 3. 2011 Remasters QUEEN
SONGS
1. We Both Know MELODY BLACK 2. Cruelty Without Beauty ARCH ENEMY 3. Murder WITHIN TEMPTATION 4. Enjoy The Silence BREAKING BENJAMIN 5. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA
ARTISTS
CRAIG PEARCE
ALBUMS
1. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 2. Last THE UNTHANKS 3. Revelator TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND 4. The Harrow & The Harvest GILLIAN WELCH 5. The Whole Love WILCO 6. Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down RY COODER 7. A Creature I Don’t Know LAURA MARLING 8. Tassili TINARIWEN 9. Field Songs WILLIAM ELLIOT WHITMORE 10. Smart Flesh THE LOW ANTHEM
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS 1. Essential MARTIN CARTHY
SONGS
1. Midnight in Harlem TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND 2. Montezuma FLEET FOXES 3. Art Of Almost WILCO 4. Starless THE UNTHANKS 5. Night After Night LAURA MARLING
ARTISTS
1. Fleet Foxes 2. Tedeschi Trucks Band 3. The Unthanks 4. Gillian Welch 5. Ry Cooder
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. The Guardian 2. The World Game 3. The New York Times – Books 4. Pitchfork 5. Social Media Examiner TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND
1. Melody Black 2. HorrorPops 3. Arch Enemy 4. Within Temptation 5. Emilie Autumn
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Tedeschi Trucks band 2. Justin Townes Earle 3. Okkervil River 4. The Unthanks 5. Jason Moran
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. The Annex Radio Show BLUFM 2. Jonesy and Amanda In The Morning WSFM 3. Radio Enigma UVB-76 UVB-76.NET
TV SHOWS
TV SHOWS MOVIES
1. True Grit
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
MOVIES
1. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2. Horrible Bosses 3. Super 4. Insidious 5. Bridesmaids
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Seeing HorrorPops live!
MOST OVERHYPED
Angry Birds. I will NEVER understand what is so great about this.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I water them with tears from my jaguar soul and sunshine radiating from my fingers.” Charlie Sheen on how he grows tomatoes.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Mark Zuckerberg’s private photos leaked because of a Facebook bug.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1. Annabelle Kay 2. The Drones 3. Mike Noga 4. Gareth Liddiard 1. The Slap
1. Breaking Bad 2. Boardwalk Empire 3. Parks And Recreation 4. Dexter 5. Big Bang Theory
I looked into my crystal ball, but couldn’t see anything. Perhaps it is the end of the world...
1. Skying THE HORRORS 2. Go Tell Fire To The Mountain WU LYF 3. Several Shades Of Why J. MASCIS 4. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 5. Constant Future PARTS & LABOUR 6. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 7. Nine Types Of Light TV ON THE RADIO 8. Thursday THE WEEKND 9. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI 10. What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? THE VACCINES
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CLIFF MARTINEZ/VARIOUS ARTISTS 2. The Twin Peaks Archive ANGELO BADALAMENTI 3. Norwegian Wood JONNY GREENWOOD/CAN
SONGS
1. Shake It Out FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 2. Someone Like You ADELE 3. Can I J. MASCIS 4. Darken Horse AUSTRA 5. Still Life THE HORRORS
ARTISTS
1. Adele 2. The Weeknd 3. James Blake 4. WU LYF 5. Lanie Lane
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Loud Magazine 2. Riot! Entertainment 3. My Nintendo News 4. Games Radar 5. T3
ALBUMS
1. Philip Glass 2. Portishead 3. Holy Fuck 4. Elton John 5. WU LYF
1. HorrorPops 2. DevilDriver 3. Alice Cooper 4. All That Remains 5. Ill Nino
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
WU LYF
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Melody Black 2. Mz Ann Thropik 3. Rose Tattoo 4. Catherine Traicos 5. Sirens of Io
DANIEL CRICHTON-ROUSE
Having the Tedeschi Trucks Band blow me right out of the water with an updated soul-saturated revue
MOST OVERHYPED
Emmylou Harris continuing to live off past glories and living legend status whilst delivering very little of substance.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Rock bottom’s an interesting place. I moved in and spent some time there. Going from 141 in the world back to No.1 was not an accomplishment. It was the reflection of an accomplishment.” – Andre Agassi on induction into International Tennis Hall of Fame
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Qantas following up on its global grounding of all planes with an ill-conceived ‘luxury’ competiton.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Continuing decline of big festivals and rise of boutique festivals, a la Laneways and Cockatoo Island-type shindigs.
Have your say: facebook.com/drummedia
1. ACO – Listen To This 2. My Disco 3. PVT 4. Sydney Symphony – Peer Gynt 5. Lanie Lane
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Ultra Culture 2. Tumblr 3. Chuck & Beans 4. Touch Arcade 5. 9to5 Mac
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. This American Life WBEZ 2. By Design ABC Radio National 3. Dead Air FBI
TV SHOWS
1. Game Of Thrones 2. True Blood 3. The Hour 4. Grand Designs (UK) 5. Gourmet Farmer
MOVIES
1. Drive 2. Take Shelter 3. The Turin Horse 4. Martha Marcy May Marlene 5. Senna
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
The Outpost festival on Cockatoo Island.
MOST OVERHYPED Skrillex.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Can-a muh fukkasay fuck on here?” Samuel L. Jackson, introducing himself on Twitter in superb fashion.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
You and I. For using it, and allowing companies such as Facebook to become powerful with our information.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Hopefully a professional production of Jesus Christ Superstar in Sydney.
DANIELLE O’DONOHUE
GILLIAN WELCH
ALBUMS
1. The Harrow & The Harvest GILLIAN WELCH 2. Prisoner THE JEZABELS 3. No Devolución THURSDAY 4. 21 ADELE 5. Elsie THE HORRIBLE CROWES 6. To The Horses LANIE LANE 7. Odd Soul MUTEMATH 8. The Lateness Of The Hour ALEX CLARE 9. Wildlife LA DISPUTE 10. England Keep My Bones FRANK TURNER
FIONA CAMERON
DAVE DRAYTON
ALBUMS
1. Wildlife LA DISPUTE 2. Ghost Town OWEN 3. Walls AN HORSE 4. Without Hesitation GOOD LUCK 5. Avalanche United I AM THE AVALANCHE 6. Harmony HARMONY 7. Rebuilding Year BRIDGE & TUNNEL 8. Nigredo BRONZE CHARIOT 9. I Want That You Are Always Happy THE MIDDLE EAST 10. In The Mountain In The Cloud PORTUGAL. THE MAN
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. 2011 Label Sampler TOP SHELF RECORDS 2. Live Basement Bootleg BRONZE CHARIOT 3. PV Party (Michael Crafter Remix) JAWA LA DISPUTE
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Someone Like You ADELE 2. Too Close ALEX CLARE 3. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT GOTYE 4. Let Go CHASE & STATUS 5. Rolling In The Deep ADELE
ARTISTS
1. Grinderman 2. The Jezabels 3. The National 4. Adele 5. Lanie Lane
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The National 2. Dolly Parton 3. Gaslight Anthem 4. Jimmy Eat World 5. Jim Ward
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Grinderman 2. The Jezabels 3. Kylie 4. Clare Bowditch 5. Henry Wagons
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
SONGS
SONGS
ARTISTS
ARTISTS
1. Cacophonous Vibes HARMONY 2. The Right Time BRAID 3. The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit LA DISPUTE 4. Holy Fuck I AM THE AVALANCHE 5. Happy Birthday From The Overpass TOTALLY UNICORN
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Philip Glass 2. Bridge & Tunnel 3. Bright Eyes 4. This Town Needs Guns 5. Defiance, Ohio
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Bronze Chariot 2. Arrows 3. Coerce 4. Charge Group 5. Luca Brasi
1. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J 2. Dead Air FBI 3. Born Angry Podcast
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
My football team, Geelong, comprehensively beating Collingwood in the AFL Grand Final.
MOST OVERHYPED Watch The Throne.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I’m Veetin’! Gotta be smooth for the ladies.“ James, Geordie Shore – and yes, he is a man talking about Veeting his chest hair off.
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Kills 2. ZZ Top 3. Dead Kennedys 4. Queens Of The Stone Age 5. Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Mess Hall 2. Melody Black 3. Sydonia 4. Beatles Back 2 Back 5. Damn Dogs
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
TV SHOWS
1. Thor 2. X-Men: First Class 3. Warrior 4. Rango 5. The Adventures Of Tintin: Secret Of The Unicorn
1. Les Paul Google Logo 2. hitRECord 3. Mess+Noise 4. Details 5. NME
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Tune Up With Stuart Coupe FBI 2. Hack TRIPLE J 3. Razor’s Edge 2SER
TV SHOWS
TV SHOWS
1. The Walking Dead 2. Hell On Wheels 3. True Blood 4. Homeland 5. Dexter
1. Bored To Death 2. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 3. Arrested Development 4. South Park 5. Pop Asia
MOVIES
MOVIES
1. Oranges And Sunshine 2. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II 3. Elena 4. The Eye Of The Storm 5. Beauty Day
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Finding Dr Pepper in a glass bottle.
1. The Guard 2. Anonymous 3. Bill Cunningham New York 4. Drive 5. Autoluminescent: Rowland S Howard
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Finally got a proper job.
MOST OVERHYPED
MOST OVERHYPED
Fucking Kardashians.
Iceage.
QUOTE/TWEET
QUOTE/TWEET
“Endlessly kickflipping forever can be seen as a metaphor for winning for the rest of your life.” Lochlan Watt, The Drum Media.
“The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.” Bansky, underground British street artist, on his Oscar nomination for his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Misogynist arsehole Kyle Sandilands lost millions for Austereo when he opened his mouth and Twitter and Change.org responded.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Adele will finally drop out of the Top Ten... in about August of next year.
SONGS
1. Holocene BON IVER 2. Freaks And Geeks CHILDISH GAMBINO 3. POW MEGASTICK FANFARE 4. Sunhits MEMORY TAPES 5. Amor Fati WASHED OUT
1. Will Do TV ON THE RADIO 2. Howlin’ For You THE BLACK KEYS 3. Memorial Day DROPKICK MURPHYS 4. If I Had A Gun NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS 5. Irresistible Force JANE’S ADDICTION 1. Joan Jett 2. Trent Reznor 3. Sergio Pizzorno 4. Alison Mosshart 5. Imelda May
1. Harmony 2. Charge Group 3. Lo! 4. Let Me Down Jungleman 5. Royal Headache
1. Reddit 2. Twitter 3. Youtube 4. Inception Memes 5. Everything’s Coming Up Milhouse
MOVIES
1. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 2. Blood Pressures THE KILLS 3. Demolished Thoughts THURSTON MOORE 4. Lollipop MEAT PUPPETS 5. Dynamite Steps THE TWILIGHT SINGERS 6. Showroom Of Compassion CAKE 7. Several Shades Of Why J MASCIS 8. The Whole Love WILCO 9. Wasting Light FOO FIGHTERS 10. The Great Escape Artist JANE’S ADDICTION
1. Bon Iver BON IVER 2. The Year Of Hibernation YOUTH LAGOON 3. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 4. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 5. Cloud Nothings CLOUD NOTHINGS 6. Separation BALANCE & COMPOSURE 7. Iconography COLLARBONES 8. Belong THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART 9. Simple Math MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA 10. Yuck YUCK
1. The Works QUEEN 2. Hits Are For Squares SONIC YOUTH 3. Murder Ballads NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
1. New York Magazine 2. Vanity Fair 3. Twitter 4. Apple Trailers 5. Tights Please
1. Game Of Thrones 2. Doctor Who 3. Gossip Girl 4. Being Human 5. Rescue Special Ops
ALBUMS
ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. The Book Of Mormon VARIOUS 2. Basement Jaxx Vs Metropole Orkest BASEMENT JAXX VS METROPOLE ORKEST 3. Attack The Block VARIOUS
SONGS
THURSTON MOORE
GISELLE NGUYEN
MySpace. It’s still here (?!) and it gives all computers headaches. A scientist with a penchant for chillwave will finally absolute zero.
Facebook’s “privacy settings”: we care, no really, we do. Seriously? More shitty David Guetta tracks – are all of you people deaf?
Have your say: facebook.com/drummedia
COLLARBONES
ARTISTS
1. The Tallest Man On Earth 2. Bon Iver 3. The Gaslight Anthem 4. Collarbones 5. Bright Eyes
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The National 2. Belle & Sebastian 3. The Tallest Man On Earth 4. Owen Pallett 5. The Hives
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Sleepmakeswaves 2. Collarbones 3. Skipping Girl Vinegar 4. Ghoul 5. The Panics
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. ASOS 2. WishWishWish 3. Netflix 4. Texts From Bennett 5. Friend From HS
MOVIES
1. Midnight In Paris 2. Black Swan 3. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 4. Bridesmaids 5. 127 Hours
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
The inaugural Harvest festival. Just absolutely perfect in every way, and wonderful to finally see Bright Eyes after eight years of waiting!
MOST OVERHYPED
Tyler, the Creator. If I could have a word with that boy...
QUOTE/TWEET
So, not really a quote as such – but every single damn thing Jonathan Safran Foer said at his Sydney Opera House talk during the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, speaking on the topic of “What We Are And What We Eat”.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Man Vs Food’s Adam Richman tweeted Jonah Hill saying he loved him in Anchorman, a film in which he did not star. Lol.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
The world ends, with two sole survivors – me and Ryan Gosling. Earth needs to be repopulated. You do the math. Thanks, Mayans! 7
HUWSTON
BJORK
ALBUMS
JAMES DAWSON
JAMES D’APICE
ALBUMS
ALBUMS
1. Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing THE WONDER YEARS 2. Simple Math MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA 3. Clash Battle Guilt Pride POLAR BEAR CLUB 4. Wasting Light FOO FIGHTERS 5. In Some Way Or Shape Or Form FOUR YEAR STRONG 6. In Waves TRIVIUM 7. Good For Me THE SWELLERS 8. Balls Out STEEL PANTHER 9. Ritardando FRONT END LOADER 10. Parting The Seas Between Brightness And Me TOUCHÉ AMORÉ
1. House Of Balloons THE WEEKND 2. Nostalgia/Ultra FRANK OCEAN 3. I’m Gay LIL B 4. Take Care DRAKE 5. Thursday THE WEEKND 6. Fear of God II PUSHA T 7. 100% Publishing WILEY 8. 20 Odd Years BUCK 65 9. Black Up SHABAZZ PALACES 10. Gob DELS
1. SBTRKT SBTRKT 2. Condition CALIBRE 3. Biophilia BJÖRK 4. Rapping With Paul White PAUL WHITE 5. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 6. Glass Swords RUSTIE 7. Ritual Union LITTLE DRAGON 8. The Stepkids THE STEPKIDS 9. 93 Million Miles AFRICA HITECH 10. Biasonic Hotsauce ZED BIAS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. 116 And Rising VARIOUS/HESSLE AUDIO 2. Hit It & Quit It Radio Revue VARIOUS/RECLOOSE AND FRANK BOOKER 3. Under The Influence Vol 1 VARIOUS/RED GREG
SONGS
1. Manhatta THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA 2. Myrtle Avenue FLOATING POINTS 3. Far Nearer JAMIE XX 4. Dancing ZED BIAS AND OMAR 5. Down BLAWAN
ARTISTS
1. Radiohead 2. Floating Points 3. James Blake 4. Jamie xx 5. SBTRKT
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Erykah Badu 2. James Blake 3. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble 4. Electric Wire Hustle 5. DJ Shadow
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Bamboos 2. Thundamentals 3. Bon Chat Bon Rat 4. Katalyst 5. Mitzi
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Spare Hands 2. Discogs 3. FACT 4. Resident Advisor 5. Rinse FM
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Soul Glow with Huwston 2SER 2. Numbers RINSE FM 3. Mixed Nuts with Alexander Nut RINSE FM
TV SHOWS
1. Breaking Bad 2. Boardwalk Empire 3. Parks & Recreation 4. The Colbert Report 5. Dexter
MOVIES
1. Anything with Michael Fassbender (haven’t seen Shame yet) 2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 3. Drive 4. Bridesmaids 5. X-Men: First Class
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
SBTRKT getting up in 2011 was the highlight, musically, for sure.
MOST OVERHYPED
Cross between BEP and LMFAO – have they ever been in the same room at the same time?
QUOTE/TWEET
“We killed Osama, confirmed his DNA, and buried his body at sea on the same day as Hitler’s death? Michael Bay, you a fool for this one!” Phonte on Twitter.
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 2. Live On I-5 SOUNDGARDEN 3. Twenty PEARL JAM
SONGS
1. Came Out Swinging THE WONDER YEARS 2. Simple Math MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA 3. Just Drive FOUR YEAR STRONG 4. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 5. Lucky Now RYAN ADAMS
LIL B
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Best Intentions Part I SPIT SYNDICATE 2. Good Morning PRIME 3. The Sextape THE TONGUE
ARTISTS
THE WONDER YEARS
ARTISTS
1. The Weeknd 2. Frank Ocean 3. Drake 4. The Dream/Terius Nash 5. Spit Syndicate
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Lil Wayne 2. DOOM 3. Wu-Tang Clan 4. 50 Cent 5. Eminem
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Spit Syndicate 2. Joyride And The Accidents 3. Horrorshow 4. Plutonic Lab feat Hilltop Hoods 5. Urthboy
1. The Wonder Years 2. Manchester Orchestra 3. Front End Loader 4. Slash 5. Dave Grohl
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Every Time I Die 2. The Wonder Years 3. Foo Fighters 4. Slash 5. A Day To Remember
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Front End Loader 2. John Vella Band 3. You Am I 4. Tumbleweed 5. Baby Animals
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Pitchfork 2. OzHipHop.com 3. SoundCloud 4. Twitter 5. Cricinfo
1. Facebook 2. Bombshellzine 3. Sydney Morning Herald 4. eBay 5. FasterLouder
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Stolen Records FBI 2. The Drop FBI 3. Arvos with Sweetie and Shag FBI
1. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J 2. Distortion TRIPLE M 3. Drive with Richard Glover ABC LOCAL RADIO
TV SHOWS
TV SHOWS
1. Downton Abbey 2. Community 3. Parks And Recreation 4. Media Watch 5. Q&A
1. True Blood 2. Dexter 3. Entourage 4. South Park 5. Homeland
MOVIES
1. The Promise 2. Drive 3. Warrior 4. Crazy, Stupid, Love 5. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Patrick Cummins and the promise that one day – one day soon! – we may do okay in the cricket.
MOST OVERHYPED
Tyler, the Creator and OFWGKTA generally (bar Frank Ocean). Alternatively: the hashtag #QandA.
MOVIES
1. Bridesmaids 2. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II 3. Hanna 4. X-Men: First Class 5. Cowboys & Aliens
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Anytime I’m on stage with the band, performing a rockin’ set elicits many a goosebump. An unbeatable experience.
MOST OVERHYPED AJ Maddah.
QUOTE/TWEET
QUOTE/TWEET
Facebook goes Gonzo. I saw more mutilated corpses, animal cruelty and sweet titties for two weeks there. What happened, Zuck?
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Nick Waterhouse – the 50s explosion is really really really going to go POP. 8
Qantas’ pro-lynching stance. White guys dressing like Radike Samo is gross, Qantas. You’re the worst. The cancellation of Community and an impossibly underwhelming Olympic Games opening ceremony.
ALBUMS
1. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 2. David Comes To Life FUCKED UP 3. Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down RY COODER 4. Go-Go Boots DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS 5. Bon Iver BON IVER 6. Speed Of Darkness FLOGGING MOLLY 7. The Whole Love WILCO 8. El Camino THE BLACK KEYS 9. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 10. Skins BUFFALO TOM 1. Some Girls THE ROLLING STONES 2. Ugly Buildings, Whores & Politicians: Greatest Hits 1998-2009 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS 3. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 REM
SONGS
1. The Birds Part II THE WEEKND 2. See Me Now SPIT SYNDICATE 3. Loft Music THE WEEKND 4. We’ll Be Fine DRAKE 5. Wedding Crasher THE DREAM/TERIUS NASH
FLOGGING MOLLY
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
“I vow to punish this government for the rest of my life over the carbon tax fraud.” @heraldsunreader on Twitter.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
JUSTIN GREY
“Iii|; )’“ Slash signing off on every tweet. He is nothing but consistent! The ‘king’ of twitter Ashton Kutcher quits after defending a US football coach who was accused of molesting boys.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Much of the same bullshit that 2011 had, except the year clocks up to 2012.
Have your say: facebook.com/drummedia
SONGS
1. Hell Broke Luce TOM WAITS 2. Used To Be A Cop DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS 3. The Recursive Girl FUCKED UP 4. One Sunday Morning WILCO 5. Calgary BON IVER
ARTISTS
1. Tom Waits 2. The National 3. The Hold Steady 4. Fucked Up 5. Drive-By Truckers
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Hold Steady 2. The National 3. The Gaslight Anthem 4. Micah P Hinson 5. Serious Beak
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Grinderman 2. The Panics 3. Serious Beak 4. Paul Kelly 5. CW Stoneking
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Pitchfork 2. Metacritic 3. Red Eye Records 4. News 5. Cricinfo
TV SHOWS
1. Frozen Planet 2. How I Met Your Mother 3. Dexter 4. Criminal Minds 5. Good Game
MOVIES
1. Rango 2. Drive 3. In Time 4. Moneyball 5. The Ides Of March
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Tom Waits releases new studio album.
MOST OVERHYPED
Janet Jackson’s cancelled Opera House show in November.
QUOTE/TWEET
“That’s refuckulous!” Tom Waits.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
I don’t really Facebook, Tweet myself.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Bruce Springsteen, and hopefully The Rolling Stones, announcing Australian tours.
KRIS SWALES
ALBUMS
LIZ GIUFFRE
LIZ GALINOVIC
ALBUMS
1. Galactic Melt COM TRUISE 2. Azari & III AZARI & III 3. The Local Fuzz THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX 4. Thursday THE WEEKND 5. The Stepkids THE STEPKIDS 6. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI 7. Mylo Xyloto COLDPLAY 8. Zonoscope CUT COPY 9. 50 Words For Snow KATE BUSH 10. SBTRKT SBTRKT
1. Making Mirrors GOTYE 2. Seeker Lover Keeper SEEKER LOVER KEEPER 3. Bon Iver BON IVER 4. Ceremonials FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 5. Are You Ready Yet CLARE BOWDITCH 6. Gilgamesh GYPSY & THE CAT 7. The Fall GORILLAZ 8. Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under AMANDA PALMER 9. Zonoscope CUT COPY 10. Velociraptor! KASABIAN
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Balance 019 VARIOUS/HENRY SAIZ 2. Screamadelica 20th Anniversary Edition PRIMAL SCREAM 3. Balance 018 VARIOUS/NICK WARREN
SONGS
1. White Noise MOGWAI 2. Mystical Tree HAL INCANDENZA 3. Black Heart (Henry Saiz’s 95 Cassette Rework) CORA NOVOA & SPACEMAN 4. Till The World Ends (Hal Incandenza Mix) BRITNEY SPEARS 5. Pharaohs SBTRKT
ARTISTS
1. Henry Saiz 2. SBTRKT 3. Katy Perry 4. The Weeknd 5. Smokin Joe Mekhael/Nyan Cat
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Smoke And Mirrors Original Cast Recording SMOKE AND MIRRORS CAST FEAT IOTA 2. Rewiggled: A Tribute To The Wiggles VARIOUS 3. Muppets: The Green Album VARIOUS
HANNI EL KHATIB
ALBUMS
1. When The Guns Come Out HANNI EL KHATIB 2. SBTRKT SBTRKT 3. The Seventh Passenger SIETTA 4. Vows KIMBRA 5. Deep Impressions KATALYST 6. Moonfire BOY & BEAR 7. A Creature I Don’t Know LAURA MARLING 8. The Stepkids THE STEPKIDS 9. Next Of Kin THE LAST KINECTION 10. El Camino THE BLACK KEYS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. White Heat: 30 Hits ICEHOUSE 2. Balance 019 VARIOUS/HENRY SAIZ 3. The Ultimate Collection (1994-2011) POWDERFINGER
SONGS HENRY SAIZ
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Leftfield 2. Kyuss Lives 3. Sasha 4. Plastikman 5. Booka Shade
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Alison Wonderland (She Can DJ final) 2. Fort 3. Little Scout 4. Shades Of Gray 5. Matttt (Sasha warm-up)
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. IMDb 2. Trend Micro Hosted Email Security 3. Sydney Morning Herald 4. Facebook 5. YouTube
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Grandstand Rugby League ABC LOCAL RADIO 2. Grandstand Cricket ABC LOCAL RADIO 3. Monday Night Football TRIPLE M
TV SHOWS
1. State Of Origin Game 3 2. State Of Origin Game 1 3. The Slap 4. Q&A 5. Community
MOVIES
1. Snowtown 2. The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn 3. Black Swan 4. The Trip 5. The Beaver
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Interviewing John Garcia, seeing Kyuss Lives twice, Red Bull Music Academy, SENDING MY FIRST TELEGRAM –(STOP)–
1. Fuck It, You Win HANNI EL KHATIB 2. Hold On SBTRKT 3. No Longer Hurt SIETTA 4. I Was A Queen SIETTA 5. U Can’t Save Me KATALYST
ARTISTS
1. Sietta 2. Kimbra 3. Gotye 4. Boy & Bear 5. Suicide Silence
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Bob Dylan 2. Suicide Silence 3. Erykah Badu
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Daily Meds 2. Sietta 3. The Snowdroppers 4. Jordie Lane 5. The B Naturals
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. New Matilda 2. Slate 3. Electronic Intifada 4. Deadline 5. Meme Generator
TV SHOWS
1. Game Of Thrones 2. Boardwalk Empire 3. The Hamster Wheel 4. The Slap 5. Media Watch
MOVIES
1. Snowtown 2. Red Dog 3. Mad Bastards 4. The Lion King 3D 5. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II
MOST OVERHYPED
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
QUOTE/TWEET
MOST OVERHYPED
Anything Odd Future related. My Dad on the teachings of Eckhart Tolle: “It’s only difficult in practice because we don’t practice it.” I know, right?
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Me joining Facebook – and actually kinda enjoying myself.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
I will disappear into my cave until Easter 2013, when I’ll triumphantly return bearing an entirely electronic dance music based update of Jesus Christ Superstar – but still no significant facial hair.
Trying out the SmoothGroove. The SmoothGroove.
QUOTE/TWEET
“If wit were shit, you wouldn’t be the ghost of a fart.” Bob Weatherly (aka Granddad).
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Umm, surely someone upset someone somewhere...
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Kimbra and Gotye fall in love and start living out the details of that song they did together IRL.
SONGS
1. Somebody That I Used to Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Shake It Out FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 3. Rest Your Head on My Shoulder SEEKER LOVER KEEPER 4. Wake Up Jeff BLUEJUICE 5. Price Tag JESSIE J
LUCIA OSBORNE-CROWLEY
ALBUMS
1. Bon Iver BON IVER 2. 21 ADELE 3. Codes And Keys DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 4. The Whole Love WILCO 5. A Creature I Don’t Know LAURA MARLING 6. In The Pit Of The Stomach WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS 7. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 8. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 9. Ceremonials FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 10. Cole World: The Sideline Story J. COLE
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Inni SIGUR RÓS 2. Studs Terkel’s Wax Museum (Live) BOB DYLAN 3. The Bootleg Series Vol 2: From Memphis To Hollywood JOHNNY CASH
SONGS
1. Towers BON IVER 2. St Peter’s Cathedral DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 3. Night After Night LAURA MARLING 4. You And I WILCO 5. Someone Like You ADELE
ARTISTS
ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Restoring The Balance TRIPLE J 2. TOFOP TOFOP.COM 3. Breakfast TRIPLE J
1. Tom And Alex TRIPLE J 2. Stolen Records FBI 3. The Hip Hop Show TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
TV SHOWS
1. Community 2. Spicks And Specks 3. Rockwiz 4. Glee 5. Gruen Planet
1. Mad Men 2. Californication 3. Underbelly 4. The Office 5. Jersey Shore
MOVIES
MOVIES
1. Bridesmaids 2. Horrible Bosses 3. Christopher And His Kind 4. Red Dog 5. The Trip
1. The Tree Of Life 2. Drive 3. Contagion 4. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 5. Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
MOST OVERHYPED
MOST OVERHYPED
QUOTE/TWEET
QUOTE/TWEET
1. Gotye 2. Seeker Lover Keeper 3. Clare Bowditch 4. Art Vs Science 5. Amy Winehouse 1. Krystal Warren 2. Blind Boys Of Alabama 3. Mavis Staples 4. Pajama Club 5. Jethro Tull 1. Clare Bowditch 2. Seeker Lover Keeper 3. Paul Dempsey 4. Art Vs Science 5. Yacht Club DJs 1. Google 2. Twitter 3. Facebook 4. ABC Homepage 5. The Guardian
2011 is no longer The Year of The Thesis! (that’ll be Doctor Gets-Too-Excited-About-Daggy-Things, soon, dear reader). Plank you, miss, plank you. “Paul Hester once sold his pubic hairs as merchandising [for Crowded House]… he put them in a little guitar pack and he signed them and put them out for merch and he sold them too, I might add… anything after that is really a bit of a, um, quite naïve and innocent.” Neil Finn talking to Drum in November about possible Pajama Club merch.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
When Karl thanked the Channel 9 publicist as part of his Gold Logie acceptance speech (don’t judge me for staying up to watch it...).
PREDICTION(S) 2012
The end of the world as we know it (if the predictions are to be believed)... but I feel fine.
Have your say: facebook.com/drummedia
1. City And Colour 2. Death Cab For Cutie 3. Boy & Bear 4. Adele 5. Sietta 1. City And Colour 2. James Blake 3. Ben Harper 4. John Legend 5. Michael Franti
1. Boy & Bear 2. Jinja Safari 3. The Middle East 4. Seeker Lover Keeper 5. Sietta
1. 8 Tracks 2. Who The Bloody Hell Are They? 3. SoundCloud 4. Damn You Auto Correct 5. Macromeme
It’s a toss up between Ben Harper at Byron Bay Bluesfest and City And Colour at the Roundhouse... Far too close to call. Rebecca Black.
“Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, it’s never easy when there is so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference.” Disgraced republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain unknowingly ended his parting speech with some insightful lyrics from a Pokemon theme song, thinking they were the words of an anonymous poet. Well played.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP Google+. Enough said.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
John Cusack will make a desperate bid to save his children, his ex-wife and her boyfriend in a gripping tale of love, deception and snakes. 9
MARK HEBBLEWHITE
ALBUMS
PAUL SMITH
MARK NEILSEN ADALITA
1. Opus Eponymous GHOST 2. The Hymn Of A Broken Man TIMES OF GRACE 3. Macabre Eternal AUTOPSY 4. The World Is Yours MOTORHEAD 5. Street Prowl ROTTING OUT 6. Boundless! ASSAULTER 7. Towards The Megalith DISMA 8. The Thousandfold Epicentre THE DEVIL’S BLOOD 9. Darker Handcraft TRAP THEM 10. No One Gets Lost Anymore THE SMITH STREET BAND
ALBUMS
1. Born Again BLACK SABBATH 2. The Eternal Idol BLACK SABBATH 3. XXV Nonstop SICK OF IT ALL
SONGS
1. Dun Proppa DEF WISH CAST 2. Fight ‘Em Til You Can’t ANTHRAX 3. Someone Like You ADELE 4. Russian Spies AGAINST ME 5. Occult Enemies AGAINST ME
ARTISTS
1. Motorhead 2. Toe To Toe 3. Against Me 4. Def Wish Cast 5. Brutal Truth
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Terror 2. Against Me 3. The Gaslight Anthem 4. Morbid Angel 5. Doomriders
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Toe To Toe 2. Def Wish Cast 3. Hobbs’ Angel of Death 4. Mindsnare 5. The Smith Street Band
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Mediaite 2. Stuff You Will Hate 3. Politico 4. Invisible Oranges 5. Metal Sucks
TV SHOWS
1. Breaking Bad 2. Weeds 3. Californication 4. Boardwalk Empire 5. The Simpsons
1. Adalita ADALITA 2. Goddverb COMA RECOVERY 3. Colors In Stereo MOONLIT SAILOR 4. Worship Music ANTHRAX 5. Ceremonials FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 6. Worker Bees WORKER BEES 7. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLING BIRDS 8. Prisoner THE JEZABELS 9. Take Care, Take Care, Take Care EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 10. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Inni SIGUR RÓS 2. Snowtown JED KURZEL 3. From Fear To Eternity IRON MAIDEN
SONGS
1. Shake It Out FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 2. Soldier Boys & Jesus Freaks NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS 3. Beautiful Sound JACK LADDER & THE DREAMLANDERS 4. Black Death 1349 THE MIDDLE EAST 5. Irresistible Force (Met The Immovable Object) JANE’S ADDICTION 1. The Jezabels 2. Lanie Lane 3. Royal Headache 4. Boy & Bear 5. Gotye
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Kyuss Lives 2. Foo Fighters 3. Explosions In The Sky 4. Chris Cornell 5. Tool
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Icehouse 2. Lanie Lane 3. Papa Vs Pretty 4. The Jezabels 5. Grinderman
QUOTE/TWEET
I try not to pay attention to anything anyone says on Twitter – as for quotes they all blend into one when you have a troublesome two-year-old to look after...
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Anyone who Twittered while drunk.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Obama is re-elected; Black Sabbath hit it out of the park with their new LP... 10
ARTISTS
1. Boy & Bear 2. Neil Finn/Pajama Club 3. Bon Iver 4. Gotye 5. Josh Pyke
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Pulp 2. Elbow 3. Pajama Club 4. KD Lang And The Siss Boom Bang 5. I Am Kloot ELBOW
1. Summer Festival Guide 2. Drum Media Twitter 3. Your Daily SPA 4. Drum Media Facebook 5. Bureau Of Meteorology
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
TV SHOWS
MOVIES
1. Cowboys & Aliens 2. Battle: Los Angeles 3. Immortals 4. Contagion 5. Moneyball
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR The Drum’s appearance on iPad.
MOST OVERHYPED Lou Reed & Metallica.
PREDICTION(S) 2012 The Mayans will be wrong.
ALBUMS
1. Rock And A Hard Place EUGENE HIDEAWAY BRIDGES 2. Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns JOHN HIATT 3. Gemini MATT “THE RUMBLE” MORRISON 4. No Time For Dreaming CHARLES BRADLEY 5. Blessed LUCINDA WILLIAMS 6. Headliner CHRIS ARDOIN 7. Go Go Boots DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS 8. Songs From Down The Line THE BAYLOR BROTHERS 9. The Harrow & The Harvest GILLIAN WELCH 10. The Road From Memphis BOOKER T JONES
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. The Place I Left Behind THE DEEP DARK WOODS 2. Lonesome City Travellers LONESOME CITY TRAVELLERS 3. The Game HOMEMADE JAMZ BLUES BAND
SONGS
1. Loving You Is Killing Me ALOE BLACC 2. Every Dusty Road THE STETSON FAMILY 3. The River LONESOME CITY TRAVELLERS 4. Spirit In The Sky WILLIAM SHATNER 5. What Is It Then In Between Us? BUD PETAL
ARTISTS
1. Raul Malo 2. Chris Ardoin 3. Bruno Mars 4. Aloe Blacc 5. Bud Petal 1. The Jim Jones Revue 2. Big Jay McNeely 3. Syl Johnson 4. Irma Thomas 5. Raul Malo
1. Boy & Bear 2. The Mess Hall 3. Shane Nicholson 4. Sparkadia 5. Josh Pyke
1. YouTube 2. Facebook 3. Sydney Morning Herald 4. BBC Sport 5. Catch Of The Day
1. FBI 94.5 PODCAST 2. Tune Up – Stuart Coupe FBI 3. Frank Skinner – Absolute Radio PODCAST
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
LUCINDA WILLIAMS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
TV SHOWS
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR “The Big Four” thrash extravaganza.
1. Feeding Line BOY & BEAR 2. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall COLDPLAY 3. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 4. Shake It Out FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 5. Throw It Away 360 FEAT JOSH PYKE
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. The Amazing Race – Australia 2. The Amazing Race 3. Dexter 4. The Simpsons 5. The Event
MOST OVERHYPED
SONGS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
MOVIES
Black Sabbath reuniting!
1. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 2. Rewiggled: A Tribute To The Wiggles VARIOUS 3. The Best Of Suede SUEDE
ARTISTS
1. Grandstand Cricket ABC LOCAL RADIO 2. The Ricky Gervais Podcast RICKYGERVAIS.COM 3. Drum Stereo Fridays DRUM OFFICE
1. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne 2. Agora 3. Midnight In Paris 4. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II 5. The Ides Of March
1. Moonfire BOY & BEAR 2. Pajama Club PAJAMA CLUB 3. Build A Rocket Boys! ELBOW 4. Bon Iver BON IVER 5. One Thousand Origami Birds JACK CARTY 6. Mylo Xyloto COLDPLAY 7. Fallen Empires SNOW PATROL 8. Only Sparrows JOSH PYKE 9. Vessels BRYAN ESTEPA 10. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
TIMES OF GRACE
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
ALBUMS
PEDRO MANOY
1. Spicks And Specks 2. Doctor Who 3. At The Movies 4. QI 5. Go Back To Where You Came From
MOVIES
1. The Trip 2. Unknown 3. Limitless 4. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 5. Midnight In Paris
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Undoubtedly the arrival of Anneliese Lily.
MOST OVERHYPED
Kim Kardashian. What the? Who the? Why the?
QUOTE/TWEET
“Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.” Sohaib Athar on Twitter.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
You mean you have to think before you tweet? One time Twitter fanatic Ashton Kutcher doesn’t check the facts and now doesn’t tweet himself.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Increased music streaming services – possibly Spotify at last.
Have your say: facebook.com/drummedia
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Baylor Bros 2. Bud Petal 3. Baecastuff – Mutiny Music 4. The Bamboos 5. Jeff Duff Orchestra
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Mu Meson Archives 2. Boing Boing 3. WikiLeaks 4. Alternative Media Group 5. Jazzgroove Association
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Stormy Monday 2MBS 2. On The Corner 2SER 3. Renny Codgers FBI
TV SHOWS
1. Operation Repo 2. Four Corners 3. Foreign Correspondent 4. Dateline 5. Ideal
MOVIES
1. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 2. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams 3. Snowtown 4. Project Nim 5. The Human Centipede II
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Zizek delights punters at Festival Of Dangerous Ideas.
MOST OVERHYPED
Nick Cave – all credibility shot after meeting the Queen and being spotted at Chatswood Chase in The Daily Telegraph’s ISPY.
QUOTE/TWEET
Just about everything on the fake Andrew Bolt Twitter account – even funnier than Andrew himself!
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
All social media is a fuck up. Why bother!
PREDICTION(S) 2012
End of the world according to the Mayan calendar on Sunday 23 December 2012 – make sure you have a good night out on the Saturday!
ROB TOWNSEND
ALBUMS
1. A Creature I Don’t Know LAURA MARLING 2. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 3. Ceremonials FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 4. Vows KIMBRA 5. In Your Room CAMERAS 6. Veronica Falls VERONICA FALLS 7. Twerps TWERPS 8. Milk Annual CAITLIN PARK 9. Smoking In Heaven KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS 10. Yuck YUCK
ROD HUNT
ROBBIE LOWE
ALBUMS
JOEL MULL
1. Murder The Mountains RED FANG 2. Worldwide Skyline NORDIC NOMADIC 3. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 4. Henge Beat TOTAL CONTROL 5. West WOODEN SHJIPS 6. End Time BRUTAL TRUTH 7. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 8. Adalita ADALITA 9. Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks SEASICK STEVE 10. Baby Caught The Bus CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 2. Twenty PEARL JAM 3. Outside Society PATTI SMITH
ROSS CLELLAND LANIE LANE
NORDIC NOMADIC
SONGS
1. Defeatist CAMERAS 2. Cameo Lover KIMBRA 3. History’s Door HUSKY 4. Who Are You? TWERPS 5. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA
ALBUMS
1. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 2. Rain On Humming Wire THE PANICS 3. The Whole Love WILCO 4. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 5. The Balladeer Hunter MIKE NOGA 6. The Cat BEN SALTER 7. Adalita ADALITA 8. To The Horses LANIE LANE 9. Rumble Shake And Tumble WAGONS 10. Future Universe RON PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS
ARTISTS
1. Kimbra 2. Laura Marling 3. Gotye 4. Tom Waits 5. Boy & Bear
ALBUMS
1. Home Town Chicago BOO WILLIAMS 2. It Can Be Done, But Only I Can Do It OMAR S 3. SBTRKT SBTRKT 4. Resolution 653 INSTRA:MENTAL 5. Through The Green TIGER & WOODS 6. Sensory JOEL MULL
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS LAURA MARLING
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Florence + The Machine 2. Simone Felice 3. Kimya Dawson & Aesop Rock 4. Gruff Rhys 5. Portishead
1. In Flight Entertainment VARIOUS/AEROPLANE 2. DJ-Kicks VARIOUS/SCUBA 3. Balance 18 VARIOUS/NICK WARREN
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
NICK WARREN
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Kimbra 2. Seeker Lover Keeper 3. The Grates 4. The Jezabels 5. Cut Copy
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Non-Stop Nyan Cat! 2. Twitter 3. The Guardian 4. This Is Happening 5. BBC Football
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Kermode and Mayo’s Film Reviews BBC RADIO 5LIVE 2. Arvos FBI 3. The Guardian Football Weekly PODCAST
TV SHOWS
1. 24 Hours In A&E 2. Boardwalk Empire 3. At The Movies 4. Q&A 5. The World Game
MOVIES
1. Bill Cunningham New York 2. Submarine 3. Midnight in Paris 4. We Need To Talk About Kevin 5. Snowtown
SONGS
1. Ocean Floor DISTORTION 2. I Like Acid (Steve Rachmad Remix) BENNY RODRIGUES 3. Resonate JONA 4. The Maze DEETRON 5. Ain’t Nobody’s MARTIN LANDSKY
ARTISTS
1. Sasha 2. ASC 3. Morgan Geist 4. Deetron 5. Art Bleek
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
A stranger came up to me at a gig, while I was wooing a pretty lady, and told me he liked my writing. It’s the coolest I’ve ever looked.
1. Resident Advisor 2. Swellnet 3. Pulse Radio 4. SoundCloud 5. Proton Radio
MOST OVERHYPED
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Kim Kardashian. Why does ANYBODY give the tiniest shit about her?
QUOTE/TWEET
“People, you are more powerful than any corporation in the world, thank you for making this happen.” Altiyan Childs’ anti-corporation message during his ARIA acceptance speech might have been taken more seriously were he not THE DUDE THAT WON X-FACTOR. Idiot.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Jim Carrey confesses his love for Emma Stone/has a midlife crisis on YouTube.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Laura Marling accepts the proposal of marriage I shout at her from the audience of her Opera House gig. We live happily ever after. The End.
1. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 REM 2. Starfish THE CHURCH 3. Kill City IGGY POP & JAMES WILLIAMSON
1. RA Podcast RESIDENTADVISOR.NET 2. House Radio HOUSE-RADIO.COM 3. Sunset FBI
TV SHOWS
MOVIES
1. Red Dog 2. Hall Pass 3. Paul 4. 127 Hours 5. The Hangover Part II
1. Anniversary CATHEDRAL 2. The Stooges Collection - Australian Tour Edition 2011 THE STOOGES 3. So Many Things EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Majesty THE PANICS 3. We All Go Back To Where We Belong REM 4. Cold Feet LIAM FINN 5. Shake It Out FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
ARTISTS
ARTISTS
1. OFF! 2. Whitehorse 3. Hydromedusa 4. Adalita 5. Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes
1. PJ Harvey 2. Amy Winehouse 3. Gotye 4. Tom Waits 5. Adalita
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. OFF! 2. Swans 3. Black Mountain 4. The Hives 5. Earthless
1. The National 2. Gang Of Four 3. Lady Gaga 4. Kinky Friedman 5. The Flaming Lips
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Looking Glass 2. River Of Snakes 3. Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes 4. Hydromedusa 5. Barbarian
1. You Am I 2. The Church 3. Mike Noga 4. Adalita 5. Wagons
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Alernative Music Show 2SER 2. Sideways Through Sound 2SER 3. Hands Of Tyme 2SER
1. The Bridge FBI 2. 2011 TRIPLE J 3. Utility Fog FBI
TV SHOWS
TV SHOWS
1. The Walking Dead 2. The Hour 3. The Killing 4. Q&A 5. Bear Grills
1. The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson 2. The Hour 3. QI 4. Rage 5. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
MOVIES
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
1. Autoluminescent: Rowland S Howard
Still waiting (actually, I think said this last year...)
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
MOST OVERHYPED
OFF!.
MOST OVERHYPED Washington.
1. Gruen Planet 2. Spicks And Specks 3. Q&A 4. The Late Show With David Letterman 5. At The Movies
SONGS
Bands with a piano accordion, bad beards, wearing suspenders. Although this can win you an ARIA, or five.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I have a new philosophy. When I say something that sounds smart then I meant it and if I say something that sounds stupid then I didn’t.” Johnny Marr. Twitter.
I must have said something vaguely witty as a Facebook status when I was drunk after winning the Townie’s music trivia one night. Sure, I probably stole it from Dorothy Parker or Stephen Fry, but it would have certainly made me laugh at the time.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
QUOTE/TWEET
“Everything bad that can happen to a person has happened to me.” – Paris Hilton tweets about the hardships life has thrown her way.
PREDICTION(S) 2012 Tinnitus.
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Google+. Where circles became black holes in surprisingly quick time.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
SPA will realise they may have to offer us a drinks voucher or other incentives to fill in these damn surveys. 11
SARAH PETCHELL
ALBUMS
1. David Comes To Life FUCKED UP 2. Old Ghosts Never Sleep FIRES OF WACO 3. Funerary PULLING TEETH 4. Ethereal Surrogate Savior COERCE 5. Awake EP TRASH TALK 6. Cerebral Ballzy CEREBRAL BALLZY 7. Long Live THE CHARIOT 8. ...And So We Destroyed Everything SLEEPMAKESWAVES 9. Fake History LETLIVE 10. No Devolucion THURSDAY
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Fucked Up Presents: David’s Town VARIOUS 2. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CLIFF MARTINEZ/VARIOUS 3. 13 Chambers WUGAZI
SONGS
1. The Other Shoe FUCKED UP 2. White Limo FOO FIGHTERS 3. Breakdance Beach HAIL MARY MALLON 4. Hells Gates BREAK EVEN 5. Awake TRASH TALK
SEVANA OHANDJANIAN
SCOTT FITZSIMONS
ALBUMS
THE LOW ANTHEM
ALBUMS
1. Smart Flesh THE LOW ANTHEM 2. Philharmonics AGNES OBEL 3. Harmony HARMONY 4. Wildlife LA DISPUTE 5. Crystal Theatre BELLES WILL RING 6. ...And So We Destroyed Everything SLEEPMAKESWAVES 7. Forever So HUSKY 8. Major/Minor THRICE 9. The King Is Dead THE DECEMBERISTS 10. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
ARTISTS
1. Fucked Up 2. Foo Fighters 3. Doomtree Collective 4. Kanye West 5. I Exist
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Fucked Up 2. Off! 3. Portishead 4. Bat For Lashes 5. The Chariot
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. 4 Dead & Robotosaurus 2. The Hollow and Phantoms 3. Mindsnare 4. Break Even 5. Coerce
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. No Heroes Magazine 2. Boston Red Sox 3. Facebook 4. Questionable Content 5. Punknews.org
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J 2. Dead Air FBI 3. Deathwish Inc Podcast DEATHWISH INC
TV SHOWS
1. Boardwalk Empire 2. 2 Broke Girls 3. How To Make It In America 4. Sons Of Anarchy 5. Project Runway (US)
MOVIES
1. Drive 2. Bridesmaids 3. Captain America 4. True Grit 5. Moneyball
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
FINALLY seeing Portishead in a live setting at Harvest Festival. Getting flattened by the bass during Machine Gun was incredible!
MOST OVERHYPED Title Fight.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Another amazing reunion by a band I have never seen; a Radiohead tour; and maybe that elusive third Glassjaw album. 12
APPARAT
SONGS
SONGS
ARTISTS
ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
TV SHOWS
TV SHOWS
MOVIES
MOVIES
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
1. The Mars Volta 2. Holy Fuck 3. Leon Russell 4. Marques Toliver 5. Bob Dylan
1. Paul Kelly 2. Australia Chamber Orchestra 3. Coerce 4. The Nation Blue 5. Royal Headache
1. Pulp 2. Holy Fuck 3. Bat For Lashes 4. Lightspeed Champion 5. Mark Ronson
1. Seekae 2. The Laurels 3. The Holy Soul 4. Whipped Cream Chargers 5. Ghoul 1. Feminist Ryan Gosling 2. YouTube 3. The Vine 4. Fat Aus 5. Non-Stop Nyan Cat!
1. Commonwealth Netbank 2. Eurosport UK 3. Foxsports 4. ABC iview 5. TheMusic.com.au
1. Australia All Over with Ian McNamara ABC LOCAL RADIO 2. Radiant FBI 3. Dead Air FBI
1. Radiant w/ Adam Lewis FBI 2. Dead Air w/ Scott Fitzsimons FBI 3. Tuesday Breakfast w/ Adam Rosenberg 2SER 1. Parks & Recreation 2. Misfits 3. Community 4. Downton Abbey 5. Russell Howard’s Good News
1. Gourmet Farmer 2. Killing Time 3. Game Of Thrones 4. Sons Of Anarchy 5. Boardwalk Empire
1. Submarine 2. Tucker & Dale vs Evil 3. A Separation 4. The Future 5. Dragonslayer
1. Senna 2. Red Dog 3. The Tree Of Life 4. Even The Rain 5. Drive Meeting John, owner of the Ardview Inn, Port Ellen, Islay. Top bloke.
MOST OVERHYPED
Post dub wave. Did you know that rock musicians are collaborating with dance artists these days?!
QUOTE/TWEET
“I’m fascinated by the Planet Habitability Index created by scientists to show how likely other worlds are to support alien life. Imagine my surprise when I saw that Titan rated 0.64. What a turn up.” Rosie, 18, from Middlesex. Page 3 girl in UK newspaper The Sun.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Anthony Weiner posting his dick to Twitter.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1. Still Life THE HORRORS 2. I Get So High ALPS 3. The Words That Maketh Murder PJ HARVEY 4. Modern Art BLACK LIPS 5. Ladder Song BRIGHT EYES 1. Pulp 2. James Blake 3. Faris Badwan 4. The Weeknd 5. Radiohead
1. The Jezabels 2. Belles Will Ring 3. The Getaway Plan 4. Heroes For Hire 5. Husky
It will be a very good year for whisky drinkers.
AZARI & III
ALBUMS
1. Azari & III AZARI & III 2. This Modern Glitch THE WOMBATS 3. Eye Contact GANG GANG DANCE 4. Portamento THE DRUMS 5. The English Riviera METRONOMY 6. Gravity the Seducer LADYTRON 7. SBTRKT SBTRKT 8. Freaking Out TORO Y MOI 9. Zonoscope CUT COPY 10. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. The Great Australian Songbook: Deluxe Journal Edition VARIOUS 2. 101 Country Classics VARIOUS 3. The Very Best Of Slim Dusty: Gold Label Edition SLIM DUSTY 1. Boeing 737 THE LOW ANTHEM 2. Riverside AGNES OBEL 3. I See Everything LA DISPUTE 4. Come North With Me Baby, Wow BELLES WILL RING 5. Flying Colours THE GETAWAY PLAN
FUCKED UP
1. Skying THE HORRORS 2. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 3. +Dome SEEKAE 4. Burst Apart THE ANTLERS 5. Cat’s Eyes CAT’S EYES 6. Smother WILD BEASTS 7. You Are All I See ACTIVE CHILD 8. We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves JOHN MAUS 9. Go Tell Fire To The Mountain WU LYF 10. The Devil’s Walk APPARAT MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS 1. Submarine EP ALEX TURNER 2. The Singles Collection: 2001-2011 GORILLAZ 3. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CLIFF MARTINEZ/VARIOUS
STUART EVANS
Shouting the lyrics to Pulp’s Common People with thousands of strangers in the Hordern, before doing it all over again at Splendour.
MOST OVERHYPED
The wub-wub seizure genre that is dubstep. It has led to the horror of Korn collaborating with Skrillex, and that must be stopped.
QUOTE/TWEET
The entirety of Ricky Gervais’ opening monologue at the Golden Globes. Too long to quote, well worth a viewing.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP Google+. Enough said.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
I finally see Radiohead live, in Berlin. It’s one of the most magnificent moments of my life. Fact.
Have your say: facebook.com/drummedia
1. 15 Years: The Remixes VARIOUS/GLOBAL UNDERGROUND 2. The Remixes: 2004-2011 BOYS NOIZE 3. London Sessions LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
SONGS
1. 1996 THE WOMBATS 2. Levels AVICII 3. Truly Happy Ending JUNIOR BOYS 4. We Found Love CALVIN HARRIS 5. Hello MARTIN SOLVEIG
ARTISTS
1. The Wombats 2. Calvin Harris 3. Axwell 4. Avicii 5. Sébastien Léger
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Mark Ronson & The Business Intl 2. The Wombats 3. The Living End 4. Duck Sauce 5. Leftfield
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Bag Raiders 2. Alpine 3. Gotye 4. The Living End 5. Gypsy & The Cat
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. People of Walmart 2. YouTube 3. FML 4. Despair 5. I Am Bored
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Breakfasters RRR 2. Space Between The Beats KISS FM 3. Friday Night Shuffle (Aston Shuffle) TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. Bored To Death 2. Breaking Bad 3. Modern Family 4. Underbelly: Razor 5. The Soup
MOVIES
1. 127 Hours 2. Everyday Sunshine: The Story Of Fishbone 3. Captain America 4. Moneyball 5. Source Code
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Probably the reformation of The Stone Roses or the Chicago house of Azari & III’s album.
MOST OVERHYPED
Lady Gaga: a complete and utter lunatic, or the crap Metallica and Lou Reed combination.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Wait Miley got high? Where have I been?! Buried under the tinsel obiv. @mileycyrus meet my friend @ snoopdoog... He’ll hook ya up!” Katy Perry on Twitter.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Communicating in times of death: Roger Ebert posted “friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive” following the death of Ryan Dunn.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Amy Winehouse revealed to be alive and well.
WRITERS’ POLL RESULTS
THE INPRESS 2011 WRAP
PJ HARVEY
TOTAL CONTROL - HENGE BEAT
ADALITA @ MEREDITH PHOTO BY JESSE BOOHER
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1. PJ Harvey 2. Gotye 3. Adalita 4. Kurt Vile 5. Bon Iver PREVIOUS WINNERS: Kanye West (2010), Lady Gaga (2009), The Presets (2008) GANG OF FOUR
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 2. Adalita ADALITA 3. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 4. Bon Iver BON IVER 5. Making Mirrors GOTYE 6. Henge Beat TOTAL CONTROL 7. Speaking Volumes MANTRA 8. David Comes To Life FUCKED UP 9. Vows KIMBRA 10. Dark Magic SAND PEBBLES PREVIOUS WINNERS: InnerSpeaker TAME IMPALA (2010), Merriweather Post Pavilion ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (2009), Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (2008)
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
1. Gang Of Four 2. Portishead 3. Primal Scream 4. Foo Fighters =5. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble =5. Fucked Up =5. The National PREVIOUS WINNERS: Pavement (2010), The Flaming Lips (2009), Sonic Youth (2008) MY DISCO
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. 12 Days To Paris HUXTON CREEPERS 2. We’re New Here GIL SCOTT-HERON AND JAMIE XX 3. Quasimodo’s Dream THE REELS PREVIOUS WINNERS: Inaugural year for this category.
1. Grinderman 2. The Middle East 3. My Disco =4. Adalita =4. Drapht PREVIOUS WINNERS: Eddy Current Suppression Ring (2010), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (2009), The Drones (2008) SOUNDCLOUD
ONLINE DESTINATION OF THE YEAR
1. SoundCloud 2. Facebook 3. The Guardian 4. Twitter =5. Bandcamp =5. Facebook PREVIOUS WINNERS: Facebook (2010), Facebook (2009), Facebook (2008)
W
e’d read about PJ Harvey’s tenth studio album, Let England Shake, long before we’d heard it, and the unanimous verdict even then was that the 43-year-old Brit had crafted, if not the album of her career, then certainly her best in years. Inpress writers agreed, naming it their top album of 2011. The record, written over two-and-a-half years but recorded in a Dorset church in five weeks with long-time collaborator John Parish, former Bad Seed Mick Harvey and Grammy-winning alt.rock producer Flood, was a highly politicised anti-war missive, which landed Harvey on the political chat show circuit (sharing a couch with then-Brit PM Gordon Brown on one memorable occasion), and scored her a second Mercury Music Prize (she’s the only artist to have won it twice). It’s not surprising Inpress writers also named Harvey their artist of the year. With an Australian tour kicking off in a few weeks, and a scheduled stop at Tassie’s Mona Foma, we reckon an appearance in next year’s poll in the top shows of 2012 category ain’t out of the question either.
As the year winds down with the future of both the Prince Of Wales’ and East Brunswick Club’s band rooms in doubt, it’s interesting to note all of our writers’ favourite overseas gigs of the year bar one, and their top Aussie show, were attached to festivals. Gang Of Four showed up plenty of bands half their age when they delivered a dynamic afternoon set at this year’s Soundwave festival (and demolished a microwave at their Corner Hotel sideshow), while the near 14-year wait to see Portishead (and that was just in the Harvest bar queues) was forgotten as Bristol’s finest turned in a performance that will be talked about for years. Grinderman, meanwhile, bookended the year for many punters, delivering scathing sets at the Big Day Out in January and Meredith last week, where they announced their retirement (or did they?). The Middle East, a band on the opposite end of the rock’n’roll spectrum to Nick Cave’s bearded bandits, were another act that bowed out after a run of stellar live shows. Our writers’ other fave local gigs were equally as eclectic, with fast-rising rapper (and ARIA chart-topper) Drapht proving as popular as a newly solo but perenially popular Adalita.
From the political to the personal: Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know has to be one of the shortestodds favourites for Song Of The Year in our writers’ poll history, and we’ve gotta say its status is thoroughly deserved. By subverting the traditional pop song formula, Gotye penned a chart-topping rarity: a radio-flogged record that you never quite get sick of hearing. We’re still convinced that with some judicious syncing and canny soundtrack placement, Team Gotye can take the song all the way to the top of the US and UK charts. Fingers crossed.
SoundCloud’s dominance in the website category reflects the changing ways we consume music, while it’s a telling indictment on the quality of our local newspapers’ sites that more readers turn to London’s The Guardian to get their news fix than any of our local rags.
It was a solid year of Australian reissues, with tasty (re)packages from acts including Underground Lovers, Lighthouse Keepers, Ups & Downs, The Screaming Tribesmen, The Reels and Huxton Creepers. It was the latter’s reissued classic 12 Days To Paris that took out our miscellaneous/bits and bobs category, no doubt helped by a recent (and rockin’) comeback show at the Corner Hotel.
It’s been a huge year for music by any measure, and next year is shaping up to be just as memorable: we’re stoked to see SLAM Day going national in 2012 (23 February) and there’s already a bunch of shows we’re gagging for. Bring it on.
COMMUNITY
Brian Wise’s excellent Saturday morning RRR show Off The Record has long been a writers’ favourite, taking out the Best Radio Program category in 2005 and coming second in 2006 and 2008.
The Inpress team
THE TREE OF LIFE
HAU LATUKEFU - THE HIP HOP SHOW
SONG OF THE YEAR
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Streamers BROUS 3. Lose The Baby LOST ANIMAL 4. Feeding Line BOY & BEAR 5. Hot Air ADALITA PREVIOUS WINNERS: Tightrope JANELLE MONÁE (2010), Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) BEYONCE (2009), Electric Feel/Time To Pretend MGMT (2008)
RADIO SHOW/PODCAST OF THE YEAR
1. Off The Record RRR =2. Son Of Crawdaddy RRR =2. The Hip Hop Show TRIPLE J =2. Under the Sun RRR =2. Blue Juice PBS PREVIOUS WINNERS: Home & Hosed TRIPLE J (2010), Blue Juice PBS (2009), Transference RRR (2008)
TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
1. Breaking Bad 2. Game Of Thrones 3. Community 4. The Simpsons 5. Treme PREVIOUS WINNERS: Mad Men (2010), True Blood (2009), Dexter (2008)
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MOVIE OF THE YEAR
1. The Tree of Life 2. Black Swan 3. Bridesmaids 4. Drive 5. X-Men: First Class PREVIOUS WINNERS: Inception (2010), Inglourious Basterds (2009), The Dark Knight (2008) 13
ADAM CURLEY
ALEKSIA BARRON
ANDREW HAZEL
ALBUMS
1. Speaking Volumes MANTRA 2. Babylon PHRASE 3. Take Care DRAKE 4. Making Mirrors GOTYE 5. The Life Of Riley DRAPHT 6. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 7. 21 ADELE 8. Drama PEGZ 9. Future Shade THE HERD 10. Voyager JOELISTICS CAITLIN PARK
ALBUMS
1. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 2. Milk Annual CAITLIN PARK 3. Separation Anxiety DIVORCED 4. Vanity Is Forever GEOFFREY O’CONNOR 5. Adalita ADALITA 6. Self (en)titled A GENDER 7. Hurtsville JACK LADDER & THE DREAMLANDERS 8. Wounded Rhymes LYKKE LI 9. Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress KITCHEN’S FLOOR 10. Secret Rituals SNOWMAN
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Australian Hip Hop Supports CanTeen VARIOUS 2. The Sextape THE TONGUE 3. Best Intentions: Part One SPIT SYNDICATE 1. The Book PHRASE 2. Thunda Cats THUNDAMENTALS FEAT DYSPHEMIC 3. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 4. Nobody Knows I’m Famous MANTRA 5. Priceless PEGZ FEAT DIALECTRIX, JOE NEW, 2BUCK MANTRA
1. The National 2. Kurt Vile 3. Warpaint 4. Big Freedia 5. Juiceboxxx
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Geoffrey O’Connor 2. Divorced 3. Saint Jude 4. Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders 5. Montero
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Bandcamp 2. FBi Radio 3. The New York Times 4. Rose Quartz 5. Kill Your Darlings
TV SHOWS
1. Bored To Death 2. How To Make It In America 3. Boardwalk Empire 4. At The Movies 5. The Slap
MOVIES
1. Beginners 2. Page One: Inside The New York Times 3. Super 8 4. Heartbeats 5. Tiny Furniture
1. Hunter 2. Mantra 3. Kanye West 4. Elbow 5. Drapht
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Bright Eyes 2. Aesop Rock 3. Elbow 4. The National 5. Pharoahe Monch
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Drapht 2. Mantra 3. Thundamentals 4. The Herd 5. Pegz
1. Last.fm 2. Mess+Noise 3. The Guardian 4. Pitchfork 5. Clones and Clones
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Twitter 2. Vulture 3. The Drum 4. Facebook 5. White Whine
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s Film Reviews BBC RADIO 5 LIVE 2. Filmspotting CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO 3. Adam and Joe BBC 6 MUSIC
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
TV SHOWS
1. The Hip Hop Show TRIPLE J 2. Home and Hosed TRIPLE J 3. Fresh Minds SYN
1. Game of Thrones 2. Media Watch 3. Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern 4. The Colbert Report 5. Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable
TV SHOWS
1. Breaking Bad 2. Game of Thrones 3. 30 Rock 4. Homeland 5. Community
MOVIES
1. La Quattro Volte 2. Tree of Life 3. Jess + Moss 4. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II 5. The Guard
MOVIES
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
To be vomitous: more great local music. Should be another great year for cohesive, creative music communities. 14
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Kills VARIOUS/JJ 2. Don’t Believe The Hyper Colour VARIOUS/ THE POLO CLUB 3. Bin Juice VARIOUS
MOST OVERHYPED
Odd Future; offensive lyrics and rampant egos fuel songs with no structure or purpose beyond shock value. Kind of genius too though.
1. Ghostwalking NEW WAR 2. Bad Guys BLEEDING KNEES CLUB 3. Beat And The Pulse AUSTRA 4. Memory #7 LOWTIDE 5. Lazy Bones WOODEN SHJIPS
ARTISTS
1. Faris Badwan (Horrors/Cat’s Eyes) 2. Benjamin John Powers (Blanck Mass/Fuck Buttons) 3. Edwyn Collins 4. Andrew Weatherall 5. Shane Parsons & Simon Ridley (DZ Deathrays/ Velociraptor)
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Soft Pack 2. Gang Of Four 3. Dolly Parton 4. Street Chant 5. Warpaint
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Apartments 2. Velociraptor 3. The Ears 4. Orbweavers 5. Ross De Chene Hurricanes
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Twitter 2. ABC iview 3. SoundCloud 4. Pop & Hiss 5. Zap2It
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Dangerous Minds Radio Hour DANGEROUSMINDS.NET 2. Death Mix THEDEATHOFADISCODANCER. BLOGSPOT.COM 3. Weekend Playlist RCRDLBL.COM
TV SHOWS
1. Misfits 2. The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson 3. Treme 4. Game Of Thrones 5. Laid
MOVIES
1. The Green Hornet 2. Paul 3. Super 4. Bridesmaids 5. Horrible Bosses
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Revolutions and occupations.
MOST OVERHYPED OFWGKTA.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Statistically, at least one of you will be dead in a month.” Louis CK to Melbourne audience on Sep 2.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP #QantasLuxury. TOM WAITS
While it may not be the best, nothing defined 2011 like Rebecca Black, then most of the developed world, singing “Fri-ee-day Fri-ee-day / Gotta get down on Friee-day.”
“Smooth move, Ferguson.” 30 Rock. Short Stack smacking 360 with a brilliantly close-tohome pisstake video during the [V] Oz Artist of the Year voting.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1. Keep Your Dreams CANYONS 2. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 3. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 4. Henge Beat TOTAL CONTROL 5. Skying THE HORRORS 6. Crystal Theatre BELLES WILL RING 7. Gimme Some PETER, BJORN & JOHN 8. Meditations Of The Sun MELODIE NELSON 9. King Of The Waves LITTLE BARRIE 10. Azari & III AZARI & III
QUOTE/TWEET
Boardwalk Empire.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
PREDICTION(S) 2012
The ever-increasing brilliance of local music.
MOST OVERHYPED QUOTE/TWEET
Cliquey Aus news commentators on Twitter. Join the conversation? Watch the conversation happen between the same five people.
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2011.
“Society is my friend/He makes me lie down in a cool blood bath/Oh, society.” Kurt Vile.
1. Alpine 2. D. Rogers 3. Tully On Tully 4. The Good China 5. Collarbones
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
MOST OVERHYPED QUOTE/TWEET
1. Portishead 2. Gang Of Four 3. The Antlers 4. The Go! Team 5. The Pointer Sisters
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
Kurt Vile and cultivating a liking of gin.
The redefining of sexual and gender politics in American rap: Tyler, The Creator and Nicki Minaj failed us.
1. Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 THE RADIO DEPT 2. Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) SEBADOH 3. Teenage Snuff Film ROWLAND S HOWARD
1. Lowtide 2. Alpine 3. Tully On Tully 4. Montero 5. Collarbones
1. Bridesmaids 2. Black Swan 3. We Need To Talk About Kevin 4. X-Men: First Class 5. The Help
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
ARTISTS ARTISTS
ALBUMS
SONGS
1. Underneath Tonight LOWTIDE 2. Holly JAMES BLACKSHAW 3. Heartlove ALPINE 4. Too Beautiful to Work THE LUYAS 5. Holiday in America BITCH PREFECT
1. Cold Feet JACK LADDER & THE DREAMLANDERS 2. Own Side CAITLIN ROSE 3. Whatever Leads Me To You GEOFFREY O’CONNOR 4. Really In Love ROYAL HEADACHE 5. Welcome To The Middle THE GRATES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
M83
SONGS
SONGS
1. Kurt Vile 2. Adalita 3. Divorced 4. Caitlin Park 5. Big Freedia
1. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 2. Father, Son, Holy Ghost GIRLS 3. Hello Sadness LOS CAMPESINOS! 4. Go With River OWLS OF THE SWAMP 5. Biophilia BJÖRK 6. Twerps TWERPS 7. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 8. Rolling Blackouts THE GO! TEAM 9. New Brigade ICEAGE 10. 50 Words For Snow KATE BUSH
SONGS
1. Record Store Day 2011 VARIOUS/MISSING LINK 2. We’re New Here GIL SCOTT-HERON & JAMIE XX 3. Lostworks FAUX PAS
ARTISTS
ALBUMS
ANDREW MAST
There will be a dark, sad hole in my heart where Community should be. Coincidentally, Donald Glover will forge a film career.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Fenton the deer-chasing dog and all its related memes. “Fenton...Fenton...oh Jesus Christ...FENTON!!!!!...oh Jesus Christ...”
PREDICTION(S) 2012
The world will not end. It will be a glorious time to be alive.
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PREDICTION(S) 2012
Same as prediction for 2011 – a Tom Waits tour... it’s gotta happen sooner or later.
ANTHONY CAREW JULIANNA BARWICK
ANTONIOS SARHANIS
ALBUMS
1. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 2. Dereb The Ambassador DEREB THE AMBASSADOR 3. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 4. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 5. 50 Words For Snow KATE BUSH 6. Ghost To A Ghost/Gutter Town HANK WILLIAMS III 7. Cymbals Eat Guitars LENSES ALIEN 8. Crooked Fingers BREAKS IN THE ARMOR 9. The Dreamer ETTA JAMES 10. The Old Magic NICK LOWE
ATTICUS BASTOW AUTECHRE
KATE BUSH
BOB BAKER FISH
ALBUMS
1. From Africa With Fury SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 2. Balkan Brass Battle BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIC ORCHESTRA VERSES FANFARE CIOCARLIA 3. Ballad(s) For Quiet Horizons SCOTT MORRISON 4. Blanck Mass BLANCK MASS 5. Space Elevator THE LEAFS 6. Tassili TINARIWEN 7. And The World Is Still Yawning VIEO ABIUNGO 8. For The Tired And Ill At Ease SCISSORS AND SELLOTAPE 9. The Oansome Orbit PIMMON 10. Vanity Is Forever GEOFFREY O’CONNOR
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS ALBUMS
1. Orion 2000 ORCHESTRA PETER THOMAS 2. A Treasure NEIL YOUNG 3. Miracles YMA SUMAC
1. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 2. Ravedeath, 1972 TIM HECKER 3. Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 EARTH 4. Conditions Of My Parole PUSCIFER 5. Gloss Drop BATTLES
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS ALBUMS
1. The Magic Place JULIANNA BARWICK 2. Forever SLEEP ∞ OVER 3. Past Life Martyred Saints EMA 4. Ritual Union LITTLE DRAGON 5. Kaputt DESTROYER 6. Trippple Midnight Karma/Won Ton Jaz SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE 7. You Are All I See ACTIVE CHILD 8. For You OSCAR + MARTIN 9. Idle Labor CRAFT SPELLS 10. Dead Seas SEA PINKS
1. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 2. Smile Sessions THE BEACH BOYS 3. The Bootleg Series, Vol 1: Live in Europe 1967 MILES DAVIS
SONGS
1. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 2. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 3. Gonde DEREB THE AMBASSADOR 4. Only Girl (In The World) RIHANNA 5. East Harlem BEIRUT
ARTISTS
SONGS
1. PJ Harvey 2. Fleet Foxes 3. Tom Waits 4. Meshell Ndegeocello 5. Etta James
ARTISTS
1. Primal Scream 2. Iggy And The Stooges 3. Lupe Fiasco 4. MIA 5. The Black Keys
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Dark Bloom Split 12-inch GRIMES/D’EON 1. Don’t Leave It To Me MOZART’S SISTER 2. Oblivion GRIMES 3. Ungirthed PURITY RING 4. Sore Spores BOBBY 5. As Young As Yesterday KORALLREVEN 1. Grimes 2. Mozart’s Sister 3. Raphaelle Standell-Preston (Braids, Blue Hawaii, Indiensoci) 4. Julianna Barwick 5. U.S. Girls
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Omar Souleyman 2. Mountain Man 3. Wildbirds & Peacedrums 4. Warpaint 5. How To Dress Well
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES No tokenism, thanks.
1. Dereb The Ambassador 2. Dirty York 3. The Bamboos 4. You Am I 5. The Cruel Sea
1. Mine. RRR.
TV SHOWS 1. Mad Men
MOVIES
1. Beginners 2. The Future 3. Norwegian Wood 4. Incendies 5. Fleurs du Mal
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Not dying.
MOST OVERHYPED
Can we just rename this The Odd Future Award and be done with it? Naughty boys saying naughty things = the tedious status quo.
QUOTE/TWEET
Pretty much anything Ariel Pink says.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Just the phrase ‘Social Media’ repulses me. Pass.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Not with a bang but a whimper.
ARTISTS
1. One Day As A Lion 2. Radiohead 3. My Disco 4. Saskwatch 5. Amon Tobin 1. Jerome Noetinger 2. One Day As A Lion 3. Die Antwoord 4. Andrew WK 5. Tool
1. Blue King Brown 2. My Disco 3. Oren Ambarchi (with Charlemagne Palestine) 4. Saskwatch 5. Pirate 1. Boing Boing 2. Bandcamp 3. TED 4. xkcd 5. Create Digital Music
1. The DA Trippers 2. Club Troppo 3. Anagrammatically 4. Sample Happy 5. Language Hat
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. The Latin Connection PBS 2. Soulgroove ‘66 PBS 3. Beneath The Forest Floor RADIOVALERIE.ORG
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
TV SHOWS
1. Analog Paralysis, 1978 TIM HECKER 2. Bloom RADIOHEAD 3. Party Rock Anthem LMFAO 4. Friday REBECCA BLACK 5. Surrounded By Silence DESIGN THE SKYLINE
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
The internet should never be celebrated.
SONGS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. EPs 1991 - 2002 AUTECHRE 2. Icasea/Benefit Compilation for Japan VARIOUS 3. The Top 100 Tracks Of 2010 (Bleep) VARIOUS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Blue Juice PBS 2. Black Wax PBS 3. Stone Love PBS
TV SHOWS
1. Gruen Nation 2. Spicks And Specks 3. Media Watch 4. Archer 5. Adventure Time
1. The Simpsons 2. Mad Men 3. Curb Your Enthusiasm 4. Treme 5. AFL Football
MOVIES
MOVIES
1. The King’s Speech 2. Midnight In Paris 3. Moneyball 4. Everyday Sunshine: The Story Of Fishbone 5. Project Nim
1. Drive 2. The King’s Speech 3. Senna 4. The Hunter 5. Brian Eno: Another Green World
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Turtle Mountain’s ‘So Delicious’ Chocolate Coconut Milk.
MOST OVERHYPED
Dubstep. ‘Nuff said.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I’m on a drug... it’s called Charlie Sheen.”
“Governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world.” Trader Alessio Rastani in a live interview with the BBC.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Death to expensive books!
MOST OVERHYPED QUOTE/TWEET
Google+.
Twitter. I just don’t pay attention. #toocoolforschool
PREDICTION(S) 2012
THE BAMBOOS
#Every sentence will start with a hashtag and include at least one @george.
In a gross display of irony, Justin Timberlake fronts the ‘new’ MySpace media campaign.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Uhh, only the end of the world! Duh.
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SONGS
1. Wilhelm Scream THE BAMBOOS 2. Tenere Taqhim Tossam TINARIWEN 3. Sote Sote Adhi Raat BOMBAY ROYALE 4. Proud GEOFFREY O’CONNOR 5. Dive LITTLE ROY
ARTISTS
1. Omar Souleyman 2. Matthew Herbert 3. Seun Kuti 4. Brian Eno 5. Shackleton
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Dakhabrakha 2. Konono No1 3. Omar Souleyman 4. The Congos 5. Tony Conrad & Charlemagne Palestine
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Mark Atkins 2. Iwantja 3. Paul Grabowsky Trio with Julien Wilson and orchestra 4. The Leafs 5. Cured Pink & Will Guthrie
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. 100 Worst Songs Ever 2. Documentary Heaven 3. Lexicon Devil 4. Worst Album Covers Ever Created 5. Leafcutter John
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. The Drift RRR 2. The Good The Dub and The Global RRR 3. Delivery RRR
TV SHOWS
1. Game Of Thrones 2. Breaking Bad 3. Treme 4. The Daily Show 5. In Treatment
MOVIES
1. A Serbian Film 2. Valhalla Rising 3. Underwater Love 4. I Saw The Devil 5. Machete Maidens Unleashed
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
The media frenzy around the arse of the sister of the woman who married the royal.
MOST OVERHYPED
Bloated rock festivals with reformed ‘90s casualties headlining.
QUOTE/TWEET
Sorry, I’m way too self centered to listen to what anyone else has to say.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP As above.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Much more of the answer to the Emperor’s new clothes question. 15
CLEM BASTOW
BRYGET CHRISFIELD
ALBUMS
CYCLONE
ALBUMS
LADY GAGA
1. Honkey Kong BOOTS ELECTRIC 2. Velociraptor! KASABIAN 3. Torches FOSTER THE PEOPLE 4. Keep Your Dreams CANYONS 5. Making Mirrors GOTYE 6. Odd Soul MUTEMATH 7. The English Riviera METRONOMY 8. Prisoner THE JEZABELS 9. Gloss Drops BATTLES 10. Pala FRIENDLY FIRES
ALBUMS
CANYONS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. The Singles Collection: 2001-2011 GORILLAZ 2. Flowers ICEHOUSE 3. Twenty PEARL JAM
SONGS
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Switchblade Smiles KASABIAN 3. Moves GOLD FIELDS 4. Cold Feet JACK LADDER 5. I Can See Through You THE HORRORS
1. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 2. Attack The Block BASEMENT JAXX & STEVEN PRICE 3. Burning Man LISA GERRARD 4. Hanna THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS 5. Born This Way LADY GAGA 6. Red Riding Hood BRIAN REITZELL & ALEX HEFFES 7. Source Code CHRIS BACON 8. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 9. The Life Of Riley DRAPHT 10. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CLIFF MARTINEZ/VARIOUS ARTISTS 2. All For You: The Best Of Cold Chisel COLD CHISEL 3. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Grinderman 2. Dan Sultan 3. My Disco 4. DZ Deathrays 5. The Delta Riggs
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. SoundCloud 2. RCRD LBL 3. Pop & Hiss 4. Facebook 5. NME
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Live At The Wireless TRIPLE J 2. Mornings With Zan TRIPLE J 3. The Hip Hop Show TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. The Office (US) 2. Weeds 3. Breaking Bad 4. True Blood 5. Later With Jools Holland
MOVIES
1. Hanna 2. Bridesmaids 3. Nirvana Live At The Paramount 4. Red Dog 5. Warrior
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Copping a load of Nikki Sixx’s blood capsule-enhanced spit to the face in the Mötley Crüe mosh.
MOST OVERHYPED Pippa Middleton.
QUOTE/TWEET
Miley Cyrus: “I mess up. There you go. But if you live your life trying to be perfect you don’t really live your life ever, because you don’t really make any mistakes and at the end of your life you won’t be very smart or wise.” (Herald Sun)
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
1. Shoulda JAMIE WOON 2. No Church In The Wild KANYE WEST & JAY-Z FEAT FRANK OCEAN 3. Big SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM 4. Shadows Of The City MARCUS FOSTER 5. Bloody Mary LADY GAGA JAMIE WOON
ALBUMS
1. Forever So HUSKY 2. Batmania THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS 3. The Surf N Western Sounds Of MIKELANGELO AND THE TIN STAR 4. Magnetic Island GENTLE BEN AND HIS SENSITIVE SIDE 5. Nightingale ERLAND AND THE CARNIVAL 6. What Happens In Hell, Stays In Hell NEKROMANTIX 7. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS 8. Hellride FIREBALLS 9. Suck It And See ARCTIC MONKEYS 10. Black Rainbows BRETT ANDERSON
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. National Treasures - The Complete Singles MANIC STREET PREACHERS 2. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982–2011 REM 3. Made In Germany RAMMSTEIN
SONGS
1. The Woods HUSKY 2. Loaded Gun THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS 3. Regret It GENTLE BEN AND HIS SENSITIVE SIDE 4. History’s Door HUSKY 5. Summertime ERLAND AND THE CARNIVAL
ARTISTS
1. Husky 2. Gentle Ben And His Sensitive Side 3. Mikelangelo And The Tin Star 4. SixFtHick 5. Manic Street Preachers HUSKY
1. Horse Ebooks 2. I Watch Stuff 3. Script Shadow 4. The Envelope 5. DubstepSong 1. Andrew WK 2. Andrew WK 3. Andrew WK 4. Andrew WK 5. Andrew WK
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Time Shield 2. Montero 3. Brous 4. Georgia Fields 5. Guy Blackman
ARTISTS
1. James Blake 2. Drake 3. PJ Harvey 4. Frank Ocean 5. Big Scary
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. James Blake 2. Crystal Castles 3. Beach House 4. Bobby Long 5. Stornoway
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Icehouse 2. Big Scary 3. My Disco 4. Cut Copy 5. Christian Vance
1. Saturday Night Jukebox GOLD FM 2. The Wind Down Classic ROCK FM 3. The Drift RRR
TV SHOWS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. One Born Every Minute 2. Miniscule 3. Game Of Thrones 4. Glee 5. Destroy Build Destroy
1. The Guardian 2. IMDb 3. NME 4. Net A Porter 5. Facebook
MOVIES
1. Snowtown 2. Burning Man 3. Take Shelter 4. Moneyball 5. Thor
TV SHOWS
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Breaking up with music and getting into a serious relationship with film. Adventures in Rite-Aid and medicinal marijuana.
MOST OVERHYPED
“The Melbourne indie music scene.”
QUOTE/TWEET
“Come, friendly asteroids, and fall on earth” – Charlie Brooker in The Guardian, followed closely by “Get ready to fly helicopters!” @Horse_ebooks on Twitter.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Some knobwrench on Twitter saying “I think she goes by ‘Clementine’ these days”. No shit, genius, it’s my name.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
16
SONGS
1. @Horse_ebooks 2. Charlize Theron 3. Kanye West 4. Nicholas Winding Refn 5. Nikki Minaj
Prepuberty Blues: My 11-year-old niece starting up a Facebook page. New material from Blur and an Australian tour. Crossing everything that both these rock’n’roll dreams come true.
1. Balance 019 VARIOUS/HENRY SAIZ 2. We’re New Here GIL SCOTT-HERON AND JAMIE XX 3. Lioness: Hidden Treasures AMY WINEHOUSE
1. Rumour Has It/Someone Like You GLEE CAST 2. Super Bass NIKKI MINAJ 3. What’s My Name Jack PARTY BEN 4. Government Hooker LADY GAGA 5. The Wolf FEVER RAY
ARTISTS
1. Mötley Crüe 2. Portishead 3. Foo Fighters 4. The Hives 5. Foster The People
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
SONGS
ARTISTS
1. Kasabian 2. Gotye 3. Foster The People 4. Boots Electric 5. Dangerous!
1. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 2. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 3. Ritual WHITE LIES 4. Anna Calvi ANNA CALVI 5. Take Care DRAKE 6. Vacation BIG SCARY 7. Violet Cries ESBEN AND THE WITCH 8. Within And Without WASHED OUT 9. A Creature I Don’t Know LAURA MARLING 10. Babylon PHRASE
DOMINIQUE WALL
Getting a massive chest tattoo of @Horse_ebooks Twitter handle and avatar.
1. The Hour 2. True Blood 3. Vampire Diaries 4. Downton Abbey 5. Wonders Of The Universe
MOVIES
1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 2. Black Swan 3. Water For Elephants 4. Red Riding Hood 5. The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Three (iPad mag) letting me write my radical postfeminist re-evaluation of Twilight!
MOST OVERHYPED
Adele... didn’t y’all hear any ‘90s neo-soul or Alicia Keys?
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Illwave takeover of urban music (Drake and his Canadian coterie, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean), demise of trancehop, indie rebirth.
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INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Gary Numan 2. Jello Biafra 3. Rammstein
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Mikelangelo And The Tin Star 2. SixFtHick 3. Gentle Ben And His Sensitive Side 4. The Fearless Vampire Killers 5. The ReChords
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Tumblr 2. Smoke And A Coke 3. Frankensteinia - The Frankenstein Blog 4. Etsy 5. Gertie’s New Blog For Better Sewing
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Bluejuice PBS 2. Far and Wide RRR 3. Stone Love PBS
TV SHOWS
1. Supernatural 2. The Simpsons 3. Futurama 4. Raising Hope 5. Reaper
MOVIES
1. Kung Fu Panda 2
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
“Discovering” Husky and The Fearless Vampire Killers both of them Melbourne bands!
MOST OVERHYPED Die Antwoord.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I need two drinks – I can still see what he’s doing.” Dan Baebler (SixFtHick) after bandmate Ben Corbett said “I need a drink – I can still see what I’m doing.”
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Lady Gaga to host her own TV chat show.
DOUG WALLEN
ALBUMS
1. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 2. Tambourine TEETH & TONGUE 3. Black Up SHABAZZ PALACES 4. Moment Bends ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI 5. Underneath the Pine TORO Y MOI 6. Tears Again JANE BADLER & SIR 7. Hotel Shampoo GRUFF RHYS 8. Ex Tropical LOST ANIMAL 9. Tripper FRUIT BATS 10. A Fool Who’ll LAURA JEAN
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Quasimodo’s Dream THE REELS 2. Out of Mind, Out of Sight MODELS 3. We Bury The Living: Early Recordings, 1989-1990 THE 3DS TEETH & TONGUE
DYLAN STEWART
GUIDO FARNELL
ALBUMS
1. The Magic Place JULIANNA BARWICK 2. 936 PEAKING LIGHTS 3. W PLANNINGTOROCK 4. We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves JOHN MAUS 5. Eye Contact GANG GANG DANCE 6. Cabaret Cixous MARIA MINERVA 7. Conatus ZOLA JESUS 8. Soft Metals SOFT METALS 9. Solaris BEN FROST AND DANIEL BJARNSASON 10. Parallax ATLAS SOUND
CRYSTAL FIGHTERS
1. The King Is Dead THE DECEMBERISTS 2. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 3. Little Hell CITY AND COLOUR 4. The Vasco Era THE VASCO ERA 5. Bon Iver BON IVER 6. For You OSCAR + MARTIN 7. Star Of Love CRYSTAL FIGHTERS 8. Mariachi El Bronx MARIACHI EL BRONX 9. Going Out In Style DROPKICK MURPHYS 10. The Head And The Heart THE HEAD AND THE HEART 1. White Heat: 30 Hits ICEHOUSE 2. Hanna (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
1. Unfamiliar Skirts TEETH & TONGUE 2. Streamers BROUS 3. Contact High ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI 4. America! BILL CALLAHAN 5. Deeper Understanding KATE BUSH
ARTISTS
1. PJ Harvey 2. Teeth & Tongue 3. Architecture in Helsinki 4. Toro Y Moi 5. Shabazz Palaces
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Gruff Rhys 2. Os Mutantes 3. Toro Y Moi 4. Primal Scream 5. Belle & Sebastian
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Middle East 2. Wagons 3. Adalita 4. Ben Salter 5. Regurgitator
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Mess+Noise 2. The Vine 3. The AV Club 4. Slash Film 5. Raven Sings the Blues
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Under The Sun RRR 2. Dance Cadaverous RRR 3. Primary Colours RRR
TV SHOWS
1. Community 2. Game Of Thrones 3. American Horror Story 4. Parks & Recreation 5. The League
MOVIES
1. Sleeping Beauty 2. Submarine 3. Black Swan 4. Winter’s Bone 5. Source Code
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Teeth & Tongue.
MOST OVERHYPED Royal Headache.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Did they ever actually find out why it always rains on Travis?” Matt Banham on Twitter.
SONGS
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Midnight City M83 3. Video Games LANA DEL REY 4. Endless Summer THE JEZABELS 5. Wildfire SBTRKT
ARTISTS
ALBUMS
GANG GANG DANCE
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Tago Mago CAN 2. Turkish Freakout! Volume 2: Psych-Folk Singles 19691980 VARIOUS 3. Fac. Dance: Factory Records 12” Mixes and Rarities 1980-1987 VARIOUS
SONGS
1. Wildfire SBTRKT 2. You Know What I Mean CULTS 3. Spellwork AUSTRA 4. Gunship (Andrew Weatherall Remix) LOCUSSOLUS 5. De Javu LINDSTRØM
ARTISTS
1. Gotye 2. City And Colour 3. Grinderman 4. M83 5. Boy & Bear
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Flaming Lips 2. The Decemberists 3. Dropkick Murphys 4. LCD Soundsystem 5. Gillian Welch
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Grinderman 2. Stonefield 3. Sheriff 4. Fearless Vampire Killers 5. Dubmarine
1. Julianna Barwick 2. Kurt Vile 3. John Maus 4. Atlas Sound 5. Austra
1. Still Life THE HORRORS 2. Two Different Ways FACTORY FLOOR 3. The Words That Maketh Murder PJ HARVEY 4. The Western BLANCMANGE 5. Lippy Kids ELBOW
ARTISTS
1. Josh T Pearson 2. PJ Harvey 3. The Horrors 4. Evi Vine 5. Spotlight Kid
1. Bat For Lashes 2. Grace Jones 3. Swans 4. Bob Dylan 5. Way To Blue (Nick Drake Tribute)
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. The Hype Machine 2. Facebook 3. Twitter 4. Spinner 5. The Age
1. Gmail 2. Discogs 3. Soundcloud 4. The Hype Machine 5. YouTube
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
TV SHOWS
TV SHOWS
1. Off The Record RRR 2. Breakfasters RRR 3. Mornings with Zan TRIPLE J
1. Get On Up PBS 2. Batty Bass/Hannah Holland Podcasts BATTYBASS.COM 3. Rinse.fm Podcasts RINSE.FM 1. Outsourced 2. Angry Boys 3. Go Back To Where You Came From 4. The Inbetweeners 5. The Slap
1. Breaking Bad 2. How I Met Your Mother 3. Spooks 4. The Simpsons 5. SBS News
MOVIES
MOVIES
1. The Tree Of Life 2. The Skin I Live In 3. Melancholia 4. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia 5. Midnight In Paris
1. The Tree Of Life 2. How I Ended This Summer 3. True Grit 4. Limitless 5. The Lincoln Lawyer
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
As soon as I finish this sentence I will be getting in my car to head to Meredith. So right now...
MOST OVERHYPED
Seeker Lover Keeper. Even shitter than Lulu.
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Bestival, especially Björk’s set.
MOST OVERHYPED
Love them or hate them – OFWGKTA.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Everything bad that can happen to a person has happened to me.” – Paris Hilton confides on Piers Morgan Tonight.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Facebook/Skynet.
The Fishbowl Incident. A Christmas present gone wrong for a boss who sent live goldfish to clients. They were all dead on arrival.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Prince. Surely...
SONGS
1. The Middle East 2. The Bombay Royale 3. Seeker Lover Keeper 4. My Disco 5. Pond
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
1. Last Of The Country Gentlemen JOSH T PEARSON 2. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 3. Skying THE HORRORS 4. ...And So The Morning Comes EVI VINE 5. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI 6. Creatures Of An Hour STILL CORNERS 7. Veronica Falls VERONICA FALLS 8. Interplay JOHN FOXX AND THE MATHS 9. Again Into Eyes S.C.U.M. 10. Hearts I BREAK HORSES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP Bandanas and lots of leather.
EVI VINE
ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
SONGS
JAMES MCGALLIARD
Mark Zuckerberg’s photos leaked because of a security flaw with Facebook. Didn’t the Mayans predict the apocalypse in 2012?
Have your say: facebook.com/inpressmag
JOSH T PEARSON
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Josh T Pearson 2. The Horrors 3. Pulp 4. Smoke Fairies 5. The National
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Marc Riley BBC 6MUSIC 2. Gideon Coe BBC 6MUSIC 3. John Kennedy XFM
TV SHOWS
1. Frozen Planet 2. The Crimson Petal and The White 3. Any Human Heart 4. Spirited 5. The Fades
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Worldwide revolutions.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
The world ends in 2012 doesn’t it? 17
JEFF JENKINS SKIPPING GIRL VINEGAR
ALBUMS
1. Keep Calm, Carry The Monkey SKIPPING GIRL VINEGAR 2. Future Universe RON S PENO AND THE SUPERSTITIONS 3. Myles Mayo MYLES MAYO 4. Dark Magic SAND PEBBLES 5. Yearlings DEAD LETTER CHORUS 6. Two Days JD LOVE 7. Rumble, Shake And Tumble WAGONS 8. Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Where I Hide DAVE GRANEY 9. Fall THE SWAMP DANDIES 10. Japanese Engines THE FAUVES
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. 12 Days To Paris HUXTON CREEPERS 2. Ruby/Pearl THE KILLJOYS 3. Wonderful Things UNDERGROUND LOVERS
SONGS
1. Glitter, Gold, Ruin BOY IN A BOX 2. Accidentally THE LITTLE STEVIES 3. Downlow WAGONS 4. Leave The Party MYLES MAYO 5. All You Gotta Do SPLIT SECONDS
ARTISTS
1. Ron S Peno 2. Dave Graney 3. The Fauves 4. Ashley Naylor 5. Drapht
JOSHUA KLOKE
KATE KINGSMILL
ALBUMS
1. David Comes To Life FUCKED UP 2. Goodbye Bread TY SEGALL 3. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 4. Slave Ambient WAR ON DRUGS 5. Walk Around The Park INDIAN WARS 6. Vacation BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! 7. Tan Bajo DAVILA 666 8. Willoughby’s Beach KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD 9. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 10. New Start Again DICK DIVER
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Live On Ten Legs PEARL JAM 2. Emergencys, False Alarms, Shipwrecks, Castaways, Fragile Creatures, Special Features, Demons and Demonstrations JOEL PLASKETT 3. Teenage Hate REATARDS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Sand Pebbles & Dave Graney 2. Skipping Girl Vinegar 3. Drapht 4. Wagons 5. Caitlin Harnett
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Wikipedia 2. Noise11 3. Dave Graney 4. ABC iview 5. Kings Of The Sun
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Gladiators of Sport SEN 2. The Australian Mood RRR 3. Living In The Land Of Oz 979FM
TV SHOWS
1. The Hamster Wheel 2. Killing Time 3. Footy Classified 4. Entourage 5. Neighbours
MOVIES
1. Ben Lee: Catch My Disease 2. Red Dog 3. The Guard 4. Footloose 5. Fire In Babylon
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Geelong beating Collingwood in the Grand Final.
MOST OVERHYPED Andrew Bolt.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I told my old man I’d either grow weed for a living or make music, and he said, ‘Don’t be a bloody idiot, you can do both’.” Angus Stone at the APRA Awards.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Dane Swan to AFL drug testers: “You can’t catch me anyway. Too clever.” He apologised the next day.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
A Top Four finish for the Bombers, a premiership for the mighty Melbourne Storm. And another classic album from Perry Keyes. 18
1. What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? THE VACCINES 2. Gloss Drop BATTLES 3. Stone Rollin’ RAPHAEL SAADIQ 4. Speaking Volumes MANTRA 5. Vacation BIG SCARY 6. Portamento THE DRUMS 7. International Rudeboy LOTEK 8. Fomo LIAM FINN 9. Build A Rocket Boys! ELBOW 10. James Blake JAMES BLAKE LOTEK
ARTISTS
1. Fucked Up 2. Pearl Jam 3. Kurt Vile 4. My Morning Jacket 5. Royal Headache 1. Fucked Up 2. Moon Duo 3. The Trews 4. Kurt Vile 5. Foo Fighters
1. Muppets: The Green Album VARIOUS 2. Dig Cave Dig - A Tribute To The Music Of Nick Cave VARIOUS 3. Mad Bastards Soundtrack PIGRAM BROTHERS/ VARIOUS
1. The Flaming Lips 2. Portishead 3. Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes 4. Kimbra 5. Gotye
ONLINE DESTINATIONS SONGS
1. Ice Cream BATTLES 2. Plage CRYSTAL FIGHTERS 3. Bundle Up THE COOL KIDS 4. Boom Boom Da Na WILEY 5. Dead ‘Em MANTRA
ARTISTS
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD
1. Amy Winehouse 2. Gil Scott-Heron 3. Gerry Rafferty 4. Heavy D 5. Betty Ford
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Royal Headache 2. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard 3. Super Wild Horses 4. Per Purpose 5. Money For Rope
1. Foals 2. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble 3. Elbow 4. Blonde Redhead 5. Ladysmith Black Mambazo
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Popmatters 2. Mess+Noise 3. Exclaim! 4. Drinkify 5. Twitter
1. Liam Finn 2. Eagle And The Worm 3. Ball Park Music 4. Mantra 5. Tijuana Cartel
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. The BS Report ESPN 2. Grant Lawrence’s Top 30 CBC RADIO 3 3. Under The Sun RRR
TV SHOWS
1. How To Make It In America 2. Boardwalk Empire 3. Bored To Death 4. How I Met Your Mother 5. Sportscentre
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Pinterest 2. Lost At E Minor 3. It’s Nice That 4. Grain Edit 5. SoundCloud
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Get Down RRR 2. Kinky Afro RRR 3. Thanks and Praise RRR
MOVIES
MOVIES
1. Pearl Jam Twenty 2. The Ides Of March 3. Bad Teacher 4. Horrible Bosses 5. Contagion
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Fucked Up. And everything they encapsulate.
MOST OVERHYPED
1. Kid With A Bike 2. Beats, Rhymes and Life 3. Black Power Mix Tape 4. Blue Valentine 5. Midnight in Paris
QUOTE/TWEET
“Vinyl is like the mid-sized club. CDs are like stadiums, a bit less soul. MP3s are like dirty punker bars. Cassette tapes, basement shows.” Hollerado on Twitter. Ashton Kutcher unknowingly condemning Penn State for firing the coach who knew about the child molestation scandal.
1. Bleeding Cool 2. The Push 3. BBC Doctor Who Page 4. Triple J Unearthed 5. Facebook
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Flaming Lips 2. BB King 3. Portishead 4. Grace Jones 5. The Funky Meters CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes 2. The Good China 3. C W Stoneking 4. Graveyard Train 5. Mojo Juju
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. The Golden Age Of Piracy RRR 2. Son of Crawdaddy RRR 3. Soul Time PBS
TV SHOWS
1. Doctor Who 2. Community 3. The New Girl 4. How I Met Your Mother 5. The Slap
MOVIES
1. Midnight In Paris 2. Troll Hunter 3. Melancholia 4. The Guard 5. Bridesmaids
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
MOST OVERHYPED
MOST OVERHYPED
Mona.
Girl Talk.
A bunch of angry Mayans.
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1. Baby Caught The Bus CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES 2. Vows KIMBRA 3. The Rip Tide BEIRUT 4. All You Need Is Now DURAN DURAN 5. Making Mirrors GOTYE 6. Seeking Major Tom WILLIAM SHATNER 7. Crazy Clown Time DAVID LYNCH 8. 4 BEYONCE 9. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 10. A Very She & Him Christmas SHE & HIM
1. She Plays Up To You CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES 2. Somebody That I Used to Know KIMBRA FEAT GOTYE 3. No More Maps, No More Roads THE GOOD CHINA 4. Cameo Lover KIMBRA 5. Space Oddity WILLIAM SHATNER
1. Queen Of Hearts FUCKED UP 2. Yer Fall HEY ROSETTA 3. Asa BRY WEBB 4. Do The Evolution (Live) PEARL JAM 5. Baby Missiles WAR ON DRUGS
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
ALBUMS
SONGS
SONGS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Jimmy Webb 2. Fitz And The Tantrums 3. Chris Cornell 4. Stevie Nicks 5. Dolly Parton
ALBUMS
KENDAL COOMBS
The Flaming Lips.
A pair of false eyelashes who married some football player?
Planking.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I unfortunately have never in my life been to a wild party.” Silvio Berlusconi
“Some days I’m asking God but then the internet is quicker.” Wiley, Information Age.
QUOTE/TWEET
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP Egypt.
Canberra Raiders star Joel Monaghan forced to quit after Twitter photos of him in a sexually compromising position with a dog.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1994.
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End Of Days!
OBLIVEUS
KIEL EGGING
ALBUMS
1. Wasting Light FOO FIGHTERS 2. Mylo Xyloto COLDPLAY 3. Ghosts Of The Past ESKIMO JOE 4. Dancing With A Dead Man CALLING ALL CARS 5. The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating THE LIVING END 6. I’m With You RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 7. This Modern Glitch THE WOMBATS 8. Who You Are JESSIE J 9. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 10. Different Gear, Still Speeding BEADY EYE
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Albums Of All Time VARIOUS 2. Fingerprints and Footprints: The Ultimate Collection POWDERFINGER 3. Live At Red Rocks JOHN BUTLER TRIO
SONGS
1. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall COLDPLAY 2. Cigarettes ILLY 3. Feeding Line BOY & BEAR 4. Champagne Showers LMFAO 5. Walk FOO FIGHTERS
SAMSON MCDOUGALL
KATALYST
TOTAL CONTROL
ALBUMS
1. No Time For Dreaming CHARLES BRADLEY 2. Deep Impressions KATALYST 3. Hollie Cook HOLLIE COOK 4. International Rudeboy LOTEK 5. Return Of Gringo PRINCE FATTY MEETS THE MUTANT HIFI 6. Speaking Volumes MANTRA 7. Look Out, Watch Out DEEP STREET SOUL 8. Volume 2 BLACK FEELING 9. What You Need RANDA & THE SOUL KINGDOM 10. Her 12 Faces LANU
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. DJ Andy Smith’s Jump Up Twist VARIOUS/ANDY SMITH 2. Legendary Rockin’ R&B KEB DARGE & LITTLE EDITH 3. What’s Going On 40th Anniversary Edition MARVIN GAYE
ARTISTS
1. Foo Fighters 2. Gotye 3. Boy & Bear 4. Sparkadia 5. Jessie J
SONGS
JESSIE J
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Living End 2. Sparkadia 3. Illy 4. 360 5. Calling All Cars
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Facebook 2. FasterLouder 3. Noise11 4. TheMusic.com.au 5. Catch Of The Day
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Hughsey and Kate NOVA 2. The Hot Breakfast TRIPLE M 3. Tom & Alex TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. The Amazing Race Australia 2. Celebrity Apprentice Australia 3. The X-Factor 4. Angry Boys 5. Survivor: Heroes vs Villains
MOVIES
1. Kung Fu Panda 2 2. Foo Fighters: Back and Forth 3. The Hangover Part II
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Splendour In The Grass and its out-of-this-world lineup. Also, Cadel Evans winning the Tour De France.
MOST OVERHYPED LMFAO.
QUOTE/TWEET
Pretty much any joke that Will Anderson put on his Twitter feed.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Those dumb girls who recently posted a video about ‘sluts’ and dropped the F-bomb every second word.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
AJ Maddah to create another new festival... and people will once again not give a shit. Stick to Soundwave brother!
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Polymers Are Forever FUTURE OF THE LEFT 2. Strange Birds In Paradise: A West Papuan Soundtrack DAVID BRIDIE & ARNOLD AP 3. Roadkill Rising IGGY POP
SONGS
ARTISTS
ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Black Caesar Events 2. Woo-Ha Blogspot 3. The Psyde Projects 4. Oz Reggae 5. SoundCloud
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Primal Scream 2. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble 3. Portishead 4. MIA 5. The Family Stone
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Daniel Merriwether 2. Gotye 3. The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra 4. Saskwatch 5. Cactus Channel
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Harmony 2. New War 3. Bits Of Shit 4. Dick Diver 5. Twerps
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Babylon Burning PBS 2. Soul Time PBS 3. Malt Shop Hop PBS
1. Local &/Or General RRR 2. Set It Out RRR 3. Graveyards RRR
TV SHOWS
TV SHOWS
1. Breaking Bad 2. Entourage 3. Ice Road Truckers 4. Man Vs Wild 5. Sons Of Anarchy
1. Game Of Thrones 2. Treme 3. The Cricket 4. NRL 5. Boardwalk Empire
MOVIES
MOVIES
1. 127 Hours 2. Bad Teacher 3. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 4. X-Men: First Class 5. The Hangover Part II
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Melbourne funk going from strength to strength. Big ups to the bands and punters!
MOST OVERHYPED
1. Persecution Blues: The Battle For The Tote 2. Autoluminescent: Rowland S Howard 3. Snowtown 4. The Human Centipede 2 5. True Grit
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR All the rad local album releases.
MOST OVERHYPED
The glut of poorly organised, expensive, day-long queuefestivals.
Fixie bikes!
QUOTE/TWEET
“After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States.” Sarah Palin.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
“Even the aliens no me, da ones real far, i speak to em like ibadablaa, Jigamagla, bockeraaa.” Shaquille O’Neill on Twitter.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1. Gang Of Four 2. Bob Dylan 3. Trombone Shorty 4. The Clean 5. Slayer
1. Flannelette Murmurings 2. Swellnet 3. Bureau Of Meteorology 4. RRR 5. Arts Hub
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
QUOTE/TWEET
“You guys have a really complicated relationship with Delta.” Bret Easton Ellis at the Melbourne Writers Festival on the Australian outcry over his Delta Goodrem tweets. Responses to his (fairly innocuous) tweets ranged from: “I have lost all respect for you as an author”, to “I’m very sorry that she has cancer, but I still think she’s a fucking sow.”
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Delta Goodrem (Less Than Zero): See above.
Outdoor, live funk and soul camping experience. You heard it here first!
ALBUMS
1. Blood Thinner JORDIE LANE 2. West WOODEN SHJIPS 3. Sal Kimber And The Rollin’ Wheel SAL KIMBER 4. 40 Nickels For A Bag Of Chips OLD GRAY MULE 5. Queen Of The Minor Key EILEN JEWELL 6. Crystal Theatre BELLES WILL RING 7. The Harrow & The Harvest GILLIAN WELCH 8. Carried In Mind JEFF LANG 9. Friend From Another Star THE WINDY HILLS 10. Starvation Box BACKSLIDERS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Dark Side Of The Moon (Immersion Edition) PINK FLOYD 2. Steaming At The Opera House BILLY THORPE & THE AZTECS 3. Alligator Records 40th Anniversary Collection VARIOUS
SONGS
1. Hollywood’s Got A Hold JORDIE LANE 2. Lazy Bones WOODEN SHJIPS 3. Annabelle Marie JORDIE LANE 4. Radio City EILEN JEWELL 5. Running By The Rock JEFF LANG EILEN JEWELL
1. Test Of Time BATRIDER 2. Lose The Baby LOST ANIMAL 3. Dreamin’ TWERPS 4. Really In Love ROYAL HEADACHE 5. Fucked Up QUEEN OF HEARTS 1. Adalita 2. Jarrod Quarrell 3. Laura Jean 4. Lanie Lane 5. Cash Savage
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Foo Fighters 2. Coldplay 3. Kaiser Chiefs 4. Slayer 5. Kanye West
1. David Comes To Life FUCKED UP 2. Henge Beat TOTAL CONTROL 3. Ex-Tropical LOST ANIMAL 4. Dark Magic SAND PEBBLES 5. Piles Of Lies BATRIDER 6. New Start Again DICK DIVER 7. Harmony HARMONY 8. The Whole Love WILCO 9. Twerps TWERPS 10. Let Music & Bodies Unite RAT VS POSSUM
1. Heart Of Gold CHARLES BRADLEY 2. Kids SASKWATCH 3. Mr Clean (Parts 1 & 2) THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA 4. Masterpiece DEEP STREET SOUL 5. Pepper Snake CACTUS CHANNEL 1. Charles Bradley 2. The Psyde Projects 3. Saskwatch 4. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble 5. Gotye
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ALBUMS
SAMUEL J FELL
PREDICTION(S) 2012
International day-long festivals will bleed and die.
Have your say: facebook.com/inpressmag
ARTISTS
1. Jordie Lane 2. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu 3. Sal Kimber 4. Justin Townes Earle 5. Kyuss Lives
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Kyuss Lives 2. Justin Townes Earle 3. Blind Boys Of Alabama 4. Robert Randolph 5. Dirty Dozen Brass Band
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Jeff Lang 2. Jordie Lane 3. Abbe May 4. Tumbleweed 5. Tracy McNeil
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Cruel & Unusual Magazine 2. Notes From The Dark Corner Of A Sunny Room... 3. Andrew McMillen 4. The Age 5. Mess+Noise
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Off The Record RRR 2. Son Of Crawdaddy RRR 3. Cruisin’ For A Bluesin’ BAY FM
TV SHOWS
1. Spicks And Specks 2. The Wire 3. Family Guy 4. Mythbusters 5. Outnumbered
MOVIES
1. The Rum Diary 2. Rango 3. Water For Elephants 4. Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 5. Horrible Bosses
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Talking fishing with George Clinton; writing Rolling Stone cover story on Gurrumul.
MOST OVERHYPED Bieber.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I’m on a drug... it’s called Charlie Sheen.” Charlie Sheen.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Must admit, didn’t pay much attention to social media.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Metallica and Lou Reed will battle to the death once they realise what they’ve actually done... 19
SHANE O’DONOHUE DESTROYER
STEPHANIE LIEW
THE BOOMEISTER
ALBUMS
KIMBRA
1. Adalita ADALITA 2. Seeker Lover Keeper SEEKER LOVER KEEPER 3. Keep Calm, Carry The Monkey SKIPPING GIRL VINEGAR 4. Feel The Pain THE PAINKILLERS 5. The Rise And Fall Of Goodtown WAGONS 6. Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Where I Hide DAVE GRANEY 7. Dark Magic SAND PEBBLES 8. Moment Bends ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI 9. Kosciuszko JEBEDIAH 10. Red Rockets Of Borneo RED ROCKETS OF BORNEO
ALBUMS
1. Ex Tropical LOST ANIMAL 2. Kaputt DESTROYER 3. Adalita ADALITA 4. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 5. Henge Beat TOTAL CONTROL 6. Work (work, work) HTRK 7. Wild Flag WILD FLAG 8. Great Barrier Grief OH MERCY 9. The Vasco Era THE VASCO ERA 10. To The Horses LANIE LANE
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Those Shocking Shaking Days VARIOUS 2. Wonderful Things: Retrospective UNDERGROUND LOVERS 3. DJ Andy Smith’s Jam Up Twist VARIOUS/ANDY SMITH
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
ALBUMS
ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Erykah Badu 2. Gang Of Four 3. Fucked Up 4. Justin Townes Earle 5. Warpaint
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Bjorn Again 2. Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes 3. New War 4. Puta Madre Brothers 5. Little John
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Hellzapoppin’ RRR 2. Local And/Or General RRR 3. Blue Juice PBS
TV SHOWS
1. People still watch television?
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Inpress launching on the iPad.
MOST OVERHYPED James Blake.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP The Social Network. You seen it?
PREDICTION(S) 2012 Same old, same old. 20
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Oblivion GRIMES 2. Lose the Baby LOST ANIMAL 3. Black Sun KODE9 & THE SPACEAPE 4. California EMA 5. Bright Whites KISHI BASHI
ARTISTS
1. John Maus 2. Lost Animal 3. Alabama Shakes 4. EMA 5. Big Freedia
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Towers BON IVER 2. Cameo Lover KIMBRA 3. I Follow Rivers LYKKE LI 4. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 5. Bronte GOTYE
ERYKAH BADU
1. Ex Tropical LOST ANIMAL 2. We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves JOHN MAUS 3. Absence SNOWMAN 4. Work (work, work) HTRK 5. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 6. Past Life Martyred Saints EMA 7. Luminaries & Synastry MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL 8. Adalita ADALITA 9. The Magic Place JULIANNA BARWICK 10. Replica ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
SONGS
1. Vows KIMBRA 2. Bon Iver BON IVER 3. Wounded Rhymes LYKKE LI 4. Camp CHILDISH GAMBINO 5. Last Night On Earth NOAH AND THE WHALE 6. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 7. Making Mirrors GOTYE 8. Burst Apart THE ANTLERS 9. Yuck YUCK 10. 21 ADELE 1. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CLIFF MARTINEZ/VARIOUS
1. Lost Animal 2. Royal Headache 3. Lanie Lane 4. The Vasco Era 5. Total Control
ALBUMS
1. Tago Mago CAN 2. Anthology THROWING MUSES 3. This Mortal Coil Box Set THIS MORTAL COIL
SONGS
1. Say No To Thugs LOST ANIMAL 2. Streamers BROUS 3. Rock And Roll Is The Only Thing That Makes Me Feel Good THE VASCO ERA 4. Hot Air ADALITA 5. Rainman MONTERO
TOM HAWKING
SONGS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS 1. Live At El Sol MUDHONEY 2. Quasimodo’s Dream THE REELS
SONGS
ARTISTS
1. Kimbra 2. Bon Iver 3. Snakadaktal 4. Matt Corby 5. Gotye
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Hot Air ADALITA 3. Feeding Line BOY & BEAR 4. No One Wants A Lover JOSH PYKE 5. Endless Summer THE JEZABELS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ARTISTS
1. Sufjan Stevens 2. Friendly Fires 3. Local Natives 4. Warpaint 5. Deerhunter
1. Boy & Bear 2. Adalita 3. PJ Harvey 4. Bon Iver 5. Kasabian
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Matt Corby 2. Kimbra 3. Gossling 4. Last Dinosaurs 5. Regurgitator
1. Elvis Costello 2. Leonard Cohen 3. Mudhoney 4. The Wombats 5. Sebadoh
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. The Fluffington Post 2. Goodreads 3. The Daily What 4. YouTube 5. Procatinator
1. Adalita 2. Brian Henry Hooper 3. The Painkillers 4. Deserters 5. Dave Graney & The Lurid Yellow Mist
TV SHOWS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Home & Hosed / Super Request TRIPLE J 2. Banana Lounge Broadcasting RRR 3. The Run Home SEN
1. Fringe 2. Dexter 3. Community 4. Misfits 5. Parks And Recreation
TV SHOWS
MOVIES
1. Super 8 2. We Need To Talk About Kevin 3. X-Men: First Class 4. Drive 5. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Seeing Sufjan Stevens, one of my favourite artists, live.
MOST OVERHYPED Lana Del Rey.
1. Rage 2. Dexter 3. RockWiz/Spick And Specks 4. Survivor 5. The Ultimate Fighter
MOVIES
1. True Grit 2. X-Men: First Class 3. Source Code 4. Thor 5. Bridesmaids
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
QUOTE/TWEET
Basically all of @kanyewest’s tweets
Elvis Costello and Leonard Cohen marked off the bucket list.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
MOST OVERHYPED
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Qantas’ social media faux pas. An innocent question resulted in a barricade of negative responses on Twitter. Hopefully another great year for music, film and books. Also, here’s hoping I get a cool job soon. Hire me!
Commercial radio; but indie is continuing to break down the walls with Melbourne as usual leading the way. The Mayans to be right? And let’s cross our fingers for GreenEdge!
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JOHN MAUS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. John Maus 2. EMA 3. Silver Qluster 4. Alabama Shakes 5. Psychic Ills
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Darren Sylvester 2. Divorced 3. HTRK
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. The Quietus 2. 14 Tracks 3. Damn Interesting 4. The Guardian 5. Flavorwire
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Skull Cave RRR 2. Beat Orgy RRR 3. Grandstand Cricket ABC LOCAL RADIO
TV SHOWS
1. Sons Of Anarchy 2. Breaking Bad 3. Portlandia 4. True Blood 5. The X-Files
MOVIES
1. Melancholia 2. The Tree of Life 3. Drive 4. Senna 5. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR John Maus’ interviews, generally.
MOST OVERHYPED
This is the obvious answer, but even so: Lana Del Rey. By a fucking country mile.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Oops.” Rick Perry, Republican debate.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
It’s a tie between the #Qantasluxury debacle and the snotty clerk at Gasp Jeans.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Politicians to be self-serving demagogues. The public to argue over the Kardashians as the planet heats up. Bears to shit in woods. Etcetera.
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
TONY MCMAHON SEEKAE
1. Gang of Four 2. Elvis Costello 3. Wire 4. Pulp 5. Bright Eyes
WARWICK GOODMAN GARETH LIDDIARD
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Primitive Calculators 2. Ron S Peno & The Superstitions 3. Kikuyu 4. The Killjoys 5. The Ears
ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Pearl THE KILLJOYS 2. 12 Days To Paris HUXTON CREEPERS 3. Quasimodo’s Dream THE REELS
SONGS
1. Love Handles AUTUMN GRAY 2. Just Add Water BROTHER NATURE 3. Not Unprepared TASH PARKER 4. Bad Waters N/GHTY N/GHT 5. Note to Self THE BRIDGES
ARTISTS
1. The Aerial Maps 2. Catherine Traicos 3. Ron S Peno & The Superstitions 4. Benedict Moleta 5. Tonight Alive
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Cloud Control 2. Gareth Liddiard 3. In Tongues 4. Howl At The Moon 5. The Townhouses
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Facebook 2. Thesaurus 3. Wikipedia 4. Hungover Owls 5. Animals Being Dicks
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Sound Of Melbourne Sampler 2011 VARIOUS 2. The Sunset Park THE AERIAL MAPS 3. Future Universe RON S PENO & THE SUPERSTITIONS 4. Hunter Gathered KIKUYU 5. White Marble Heyday BENEDICT MOLETA 6. Ruby THE KILLJOYS 7. +Dome SEEKAE 8. Gloriosa CATHERINE TRAICOS 9. I Thought I’d Be Someone By Now DAMON SMITH AND THE QUALITY LIGHTWEIGHTS 10. Arches Over The Sun KHANCOBAN
3. The Black Angels 4. Ratatat 5. Beach House
1. Garageland PBS 2. Hillbilly Fever 3CR 3. Film Buff’s Forecast TRIPLE R
TV SHOWS
ALBUMS
TV SHOWS
1. True Blood 2. Breaking Bad 3. Q&A 4. Media Watch 5. Footy Classified
MOVIES
1. Keeper 2. We Need to Talk About Kevin 3. Drive 4. Snowtown 5. Mad Bastards
1. Yuck YUCK 2. Bon Iver BON IVER 3. Father, Son, Holy Ghost GIRLS 4. Piles Of Lies BATRIDER 5. Take Care, Take Care, Take Care EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 6. Days REAL ESTATE 7. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 8. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 9. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 10. Vacation BIG SCARY
1. Parks And Recreation 2. Breaking Bad 3. 30 Rock 4. The Movie Show 5. Extras
SONGS
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
This would simply have to be the stunning sampler from Sound of Melbourne Records.
1. Shook Down YUCK 2. Holocene BON IVER 3. Out Of Tune REAL ESTATE 4. Piles Of Lies BATRIDER 5. Gladiator BIG SCARY
QUOTE/TWEET
ARTISTS
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
“Get fucked just fucken rock you cunts.” Fred Negro, talking about his love for The Tote.
MOST OVERHYPED
Reality TV, Corporate Greed.
QUOTE/TWEET
N/I/W/S/M/I/R (No Idea What Social Media Is Really).
PREDICTION(S) 2012
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
Sound of Melbourne Records to become the new Factory. Label boss Joe Grimes to be the new Tony Wilson.
1. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows: Part 2 2. Black Swan 3. Submarine 4. Bridesmaids 5. Drive Buying a beer from a man with a donkey on a deserted Great Wall Of China in the winter.
1. Bon Iver 2. Yuck 3. Tallest Man On Earth 4. Cloud Control 5. Girls
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
MOVIES
“Life is about work.” Josh Pyke, said it to me in an interview at Mushroom Records, Albert Park.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Maybe just Kyle Sandilands being an awful twerp?
1. Tallest Man On Earth 2. Modest Mouse
PREDICTION(S) 2012
The Stone Roses come to Australia, and an amazing Grizzly Bear album.
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THE 2011 WRAP-UP
BALL PARK MUSIC
PHOTO BY BRAD MARSELLOS
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1. Royal Headache 2. Kanye West 3. Ball Park Music 4. Mogwai 5. Gotye PREVIOUS WINNERS: Kanye West (2010), Kid Cudi (2009), The Drones/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (2008)
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 2. Bon Iver BON IVER 3. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 4. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI 5. Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs BALL PARK MUSIC 6. Unknown Mortal Orchestra UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 7. Vacation BIG SCARY 8. Arabia Mountain BLACK LIPS 9. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 =10. Nova Scotia NOVA SCOTIA =10. James Blake JAMES BLAKE =10. The Hunter MASTODON PREVIOUS WINNERS: The Suburbs ARCADE FIRE (2010), Veckatimest GRIZZLY BEAR (2009), Havilah THE DRONES (2008)
KANYE WEST @ SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS PHOTO BY STEPHEN BOOTH
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR 1. Kanye West 2. Les Savy Fav 3. Mogwai 4. Die Antwoord 5. The Hold Steady PREVIOUS WINNERS: Muse (2010), The Hold Steady (2009), Wilco (2008)
CUSTARD @ FLOAT ON, THE HI-FI PHOTO BY STEPHEN BOOTH
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
1. Ball Park Music 2. Custard 3. Royal Headache 4. Jinja Safari 5. The Drones PREVIOUS WINNERS: Tame Impala (2010), The Drones (2009), The Drones (2008)
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 2. Smile Sessions THE BEACH BOYS 3. Everything Else PREVIOUS WINNERS: Inaugural year for this category.
C
rap, what a year! Everything got off to a relatively normal, albeit very wet start – Sunset Sounds for example was great fun for those who dressed for the deluge, not so for people with nice shoes, but was still a cracking couple of days – before all hell broke loose with the floods that devastated SEQ and beyond. The outpouring of community support and altruism which followed almost (but not really) made up for the devastation, and the lives of many Queenslanders haven’t been the same since. We dug deep and there were a couple of fantastic flood benefits, including the massive Float On which packed out The Hi-Fi and raised a ton of scratch for the worthy cause. We’re nothing if not a sturdy lot though, and before long we’d resumed business as normal, and that of course included our music scene. On the festival front it was a fine year, Soundwave in particular putting on a killer line-up (although they struggled later in the year with the ill-fated Soundwave Revolution follow-up) as well as crackers from Big Day Out, Laneway, Good Vibes, Bluesfest (who added an extra day to accommodate Mr Dylan), Splendour In The Grass, Parklife, Stereosonic, Future Music Festival, plus the newest addition to the calendar, the well-received Harvest festival. After last year’s immense farewell for the much-loved Powderfinger, this year it was all about bands from that era reforming, with us seeing double shows from prodigal sons Custard (one for the aforementioned Float On flood benefit and one for the excellent Brisbane Festival, which also had a great program), a couple from Pangaea (who got back together originally for Ric’s Big Backyard bash) and a cracker from The Screaming Tribesmen (who headlined the inaugural The Gathering festival at Old Museum), although we also (possibly) said goodbye to the much-loved Screamfeeder towards the end of 2011. Brisbane’s own industry conference BIGSOUND just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and not only was this year’s conference a cracker and completely sold out – with much worldwide
ONLINE DESTINATION OF THE YEAR
THE WALKING DEAD
attention being dragged our way due to the rantings of main keynote speaker Alan McGee – but the showcase aspect was a ripper, with local acts and bands from all over the country (plus a smattering from overseas) turning every nook and cranny of the Valley into a mid-week festival, with a slew of non-official parties adding to the massive party vibe. Speaking of live music venues 2011 was a mixed bag: we lost the Step Inn for live music midway through the year and seem to have likewise lost the Globe Theatre towards the tail-end of ‘11, but on a positive note Woodland really stepped up to the plate and became a popular place to see live music, and we added places like The Waiting Room, The Bridge Club, Between The Walls and Dowse Bar to the fold (plus the great Sun Distortion Studios, which has already come and gone). Of course it was great to see old haunt The Troubadour re-open in its new guise as Black Bear Lodge, but basically we don’t care where you’re all seeing your live music, as long as you’re out there supporting the scene. Ah, the scene. Where would we be without all of the amazing Brisbane bands? There were some incredible albums released this year by Queensland bands and artists – long-players by Ben Salter, Nova Scotia, The Grates, Undead Apes, Ball Park Music and Little Scout (to name but a few) in particular floated our collective boats – and it was awesome to see local bands like The Amity Affliction, DZ Deathrays, emma louise and Busby Marou really slay it on the national and international stage. We stand by our oft-repeated adage that SEQ has pound-for-pound the best music scene in Australia, and given the esteem with which Australian music is held on the world stage that makes us a pretty important hub, one that we need to do our utmost to support and nurture. So thanks heaps for your readership and support during 2011, we look forward to bringing you the best in all things music once again in 2012! Have a Merry Xmas and keep on rockin’, The Time Off team
MELANCHOLIA
1. Twitter 2. Facebook 3. Mess+Noise 4. YouTube 5. Cracked PREVIOUS WINNERS: Facebook (2010), Facebook (2009), YouTube (2008)
TOM AND ALEX
SONG OF THE YEAR
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Down The Lane ROYAL HEADACHE =3. No Church In The Wild JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST =3. Will Do TV ON THE RADIO =3. Ain’t Hungry LANIE LANE PREVIOUS WINNERS: Runaway KANYE WEST (2010), Sweet Disposition THE TEMPER TRAP (2009), The Minotaur THE DRONES (2008) 22
RADIO SHOW/PODCAST OF THE YEAR
1. Wake And Bake 4ZZZ 2. Unnecessary Knowledge 4ZZZ 3. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J =4. Tom And Alex TRIPLE J =4. The Racket TRIPLE J PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2010 TRIPLE J (2010), Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J (2009), Full Metal Racket TRIPLE J (2008)
MOVIE OF THE YEAR TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
1. Breaking Bad 2. Community 3. The Walking Dead 4. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 5. Curb Your Enthusiasm PREVIOUS WINNERS: South Park/Eastbound & Down (2010), Dexter/It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (2009)
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1. Drive 2. Melancholia 3. Submarine 4. Super 8 =5. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes =5. Black Swan =5. Moneyball PREVIOUS WINNERS: Inception/The Social Network (2010), Inglourious Basterds (2009)
BENNY DOYLE
BEN PREECE METRONOMY
ALBUMS
1. End Measured Mile MAKE DO AND MEND 2. Little Hell CITY AND COLOUR 3. Magnetic Man MAGNETIC MAN 4. Gangs AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR 5. Pedals RIVAL SCHOOLS 6. Computers And Blues THE STREETS 7. SBTRKT SBTRKT 8. Major/Minor THRICE 9. No Devolucion THURSDAY 10. The English Riviera METRONOMY MAGNETIC MAN
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 2. Submarine (Soundtrack) ALEX TURNER 3. Smile Sessions THE BEACH BOYS
SONGS
1. Holocene BON IVER 2. Blinded THRICE 3. Street JAMIE WOON 4. Will Do TV ON THE RADIO 5. Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind? (Erol Alkan Rework) TAME IMPALA
1. Custard 2. Ball Park Music 3. The Chemist 4. Deep Sea Arcade 5. Regurgitator
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Mucho-Bravado 2. Facebook 3. Twitter 4. Triple J 5. Pitchfork
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. 2011 TRIPLE J 2. Unnecessary Knowledge 4ZZZ 3. Morning Becomes Eclectic KCRW
TV SHOWS
1. Dexter 2. Breaking Bad 3. The Walking Dead 4. Rage 5. True Blood
MOVIES
1. Submarine 2. Drive 3. Living In A Material World 4. Midnight in Paris 5. Black Swan
1. Kanye West 2. Queens Of The Stone Age 3. City And Colour 4. The Chemical Brothers 5. Every Time I Die 1. King Cannons 2. Parkway Drive 3. The Medics 4. Leader Cheetah 5. Gyroscope
Kim Kardashian – go away please.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I’d rather be D.I.Y. than T.R.Y.” Edward Guglielmino.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP I forget.
1. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead 2. Ty Segall 3. Swervedriver 4. Mogwai 5. Times New Viking 1. The Drones 2. Nova Scotia 3. No Anchor 4. Harmony 5. Dick Diver
1. Wake & Bake 4ZZZ 2. Unnecessary Knowledge 4ZZZ 3. Brian Turner’s Show WFMU
1. Sounds Of Sam TRIPLE J 2. Tom and Alex TRIPLE J 3. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. Breaking Bad 2. Parks & Recreation 3. Bored To Death 4. Gruen Planet 5. At The Movies
TV SHOWS
1. Man Vs Wild 2. An Idiot Abroad 3. Frozen Planet 4. Man Vs Food 5. No Reservations
MOVIES
1. Drive 2. The Inbetweeners 3. Bridesmaids 4. The Guard 5. True Grit
MOVIES
1. Submarine 2. Moneyball 3. Black Swan 4. Contagion 5. Limitless
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Four festivals (Rock Werchter, Optimus Alive!, Benicassim, Splendour In The Grass) in four countries during the course of July.
MOST OVERHYPED
Lana Del fucking Rey. Is Video Games really that good people? “Ew - I just stepped in a pile of Kyle Sandilands.” @macleanbrendan on Twitter. Qantas Luxury. Not only affixing the punching bag, but then holding it while Australia continues to beat the shit out of you.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
ARTISTS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
MOST OVERHYPED
EMA
1. Sonic Masala 2. Your Daily SPA 3. Mess+Noise 4. Mondo Nation 5. Tiny Grooves
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
QUOTE/TWEET
ARTISTS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. BMOYLO Music Travel 2. David Thorne’s Blog 3. Commune Collect 4. NBA 5. Songify
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Ball Park Music taking the Triple J award for Unearthed Band Of The Year.
1. Niggas In Paris JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 2. Who Gon Stop Me JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 3. Gotta Have It JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 4. I’m On One DJ KHALED FEAT DRAKE, RICK ROSS & LIL WAYNE 5. Mud Musik GUCCI MANE & WAKA FLOCKA FLAME FEAT 2CHAINZ
1. Royal Headache 2. Total Control 3. No Anchor 4. Nova Scotia 5. Harmony
1. City And Colour 2. Grinderman 3. Foals 4. Mike Skinner (The Streets) 5. Goose
The festival bubble well and truly bursting. Sorry kids – it’s been emotional.
1. Waka Flocka Flame vs The Hood Internet THE HOOD INTERNET 2. DuFlocka Rant (10 Toes Down) WAKA FLOCKA FLAME 3. House Of Balloons THE WEEKND
SONGS
SONGS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Revolutions: Live At Wembley BIFFY CLYRO 2. Top Contenders: The Best Of STRUNG OUT 3. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA
ARTISTS
1. Foo Fighters 2. Kanye West 3. Erykah Badu 4. Local Natives 5. Two Door Cinema Club
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 2. Goblin TYLER, THE CREATOR 3. The Carter IV LIL WAYNE 4. For The Glory NACHO PICASSO 5. Camp CHILDISH GAMBINO 6. Ferrari Boyz GUCCI MANE AND WAKA FLOCKA FLAME 7. Algorithms MILKMAN 8. Take Care DRAKE 9. Fear Of God II: Let’s Pray PUSHA T 10. All 6’s And 7’s TECH N9NE
1. The Other Shoe FUCKED UP 2. Let Me Back In EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 3. Brooklyn HAPPY PEOPLE 4. The Grey Ship EMA 5. Goodbye Bread TY SEGALL
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ALBUMS
1. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 2. New Brigade ICEAGE 3. Nova Scotia NOVA SCOTIA 4. Leave Home THE MEN 5. Take Care, Take Care, Take Care EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 6. Rank/Xerox RANK/XEROX 7. West WOODEN SHJIPS 8. Post Life Martyred Saints EMA 9. Goodbye Bread TY SEGALL 10. Henge Beat TOTAL CONTROL
SONGS
1. I Follow Rivers LYKKE LI 2. The Look METRONOMY 3. Bizness TUNE-YARDS 4. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 5. Ffunny Friends UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 1. Kanye West 2. Gotye 3. Liam Finn 4. Foster The People 5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
ALBUMS
1. The Smile Sessions THE BEACH BOYS 2. David’s Town FUCKED UP PRESENTS... 3. Murder Ballads NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
ALBUMS
1. The English Riviera METRONOMY 2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 3. Foster The People FOSTER THE PEOPLE 4. Vacation BIG SCARY 5. Bon Iver BON IVER 6. Metals FEIST 7. Making Mirrors GOTYE 8. Forever So HUSKY 9. Wounded Rhymes LYKKE LI 10. SBTRKT SBTRKT
CARLIN BEATTIE
BRENDAN TELFORD
Festivals such as Laneway, Harvest, Golden Plains, Flavours Of Scuzz, Mere Noise Meltdown – it’s fun to like music again.
MOST OVERHYPED
Straight brim baseball caps and black-rimmed glasses that aren’t prescription.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Plus, if we had two consecutive shows I would only have to soundcheck once! It’s interminable. Sometimes you just wanna unscrew your fingers and stab yourself directly in the cock…” Andy Falkous (Future Of The Left) talking about his hatred of soundchecks in Time Off.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
#qantasballbags. Qantas trying to win back punters with crappy toiletries, then not knowing how to deal with Twitter backlash.
PREDICTION(S) 2012 Stuff.
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1. Waka Flocka Flame 2. Andy Milonakis 3. Kanye West 4. Jay-Z 5. Lil Wayne
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Die Antwoord 2. Kanye West 3. Rammstein 4. Mickey Avalon 5. Crystal Castles
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Bossy Love 2. DJ Nikk C 3. Operator Please 4. Bangs 5. Royal Headache
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. TMZ 2. @kanyewest Twitter 3. The New York Times 4. NBA 5. NFL
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. TMZ Live SIRIUS XM 2. White Dynamite 4ZZZ 3. Hype Men ITUNES
TV SHOWS
1. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 2. Curb Your Enthusiasm 3. The Walking Dead 4. TMZ on TV 5. Workaholics
MOVIES
1. Melancholia 2. Drive 3. Scream 4 4. Crazy, Stupid, Love 5. In Time
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Charlie Sheen.
MOST OVERHYPED Lady ‘What-babies-say’.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Well you see gay marriage is legal now, so you see I made history because I made the ‘I’m Gay’ album and now gay marriage is legal in New York City, thanks to me... I definitely think I played a huge role in it. I mean I have an album called ‘I’m Gay’. I’m the first hip-hop artist to ever have an album called ‘I’m Gay’, and a couple of months later gay marriage passed in New York for the first time ever. I think there’s a big, big, big coincidence there.” Lil B in ACCLAIM Magazine.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
“How do you fire the (accused) pedophile?” Ashton Kutcher hands Twitter account over to media team after under researched tweet.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
“I have decided to become the best rapper of all time!” Kanye West, 2011 - Year, by year... 23
CHRIS YATES
ALBUMS
DAN CONDON UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
1. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 2. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 3. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 4. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 5. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 6. Hearts I BREAK HORSES 7. Funnelweb AOI 8. Legendary Weapons WU-TANG CLAN 9. Player Piano MEMORY TAPES 10. Diaper Island CHAD VANGAALEN
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Late Night Tales VARIOUS/MGMT 2. Smile Sessions BEACH BOYS 3. Icky Mettle ARCHERS OF LOAF
FRANK OCEAN
SONGS
1. Novacane FRANK OCEAN 2. Then It’s White THE FIELD 3. No Church In The Wild JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 4. 212 AZEALIA BANKS FEAT LAZY JAY 5. Losing My Patience SHIT ROBOT
ARTISTS
1. Kanye West 2. M83 3. Royal Headache 4. James Blake 5. Frank Ocean
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Twitter 2. Dangerous Minds 3. Hot Chicks In Star Wars Shirts 4. Boing Boing 5. ca$hcats
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Future Of The Left 2. Kanye West 3. Kurt Vile 4. James Blake 5. Guitar Wolf
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Royal Headache 2. Ben Salter 3. Violent Soho 4. Total Control 5. Brain Drain
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Wake And Bake 4ZZZ 2. Stolen Records FBI 3. The Best Show Ever 4ZZZ
TV SHOWS
1. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 2. Bored To Death 3. Boardwalk Empire 4. An Idiot Abroad 5. American Dad
MOVIES
1. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 2. Project Nim 3. Midnight In Paris 4. Win Win 5. Captain America
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Jay-Z and Kanye West uniting in HAM awesomeness. That shit cray.
MOST OVERHYPED
1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 2. Arabia Mountain BLACK LIPS 3. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 4. Nova Scotia NOVA SCOTIA 5. The Sunset Park THE AERIAL MAPS 6. Killed By Deaf UNDEAD APES 7. The Whole Love WILCO 8. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 9. Goblin TYLER, THE CREATOR 10. The King Is Dead THE DECEMBERISTS
Frank Ocean to become the new Michael Jackson, hopefully with a monkey and without unnecessary creepiness. 24
SONGS
1. Dressed Sharply AN HORSE 2. My Friends LAURA MARLING 3. Rewrite PAUL SIMON 4. Chapel Song WE ARE AUGUSTINES 5. Bird Attack FRENZAL RHOMB
1. How Can You Luv Me UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 2. Modern Art BLACK LIPS 3. Down The Lane ROYAL HEADACHE 4. Going and Going. And Going. ICEBIRD 5. Sandwitches TYLER, THE CREATOR FEAT HODGY BEATS
ARTISTS
AN HORSE
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. George Clinton Parliament-Funkadelic 2. The Hold Steady 3. Les Savy Fav 4. Funky Meters 5. OFF!
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Custard 2. Straight Arrows 3. Royal Headache 4. Velociraptor 5. Mick Thomas
1. Wake And Bake 4ZZZ 2. The Minutes THEMINUTESPODCAST.TUMBLR.COM 3. This American Life THISAMERICANLIFE.ORG
TV SHOWS
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Meeting Neil Finn, sleeping on his couch and discussing the selection of beers at his local supermarket. Can’t decide between dubstep, chillwave, Adele and Boy & Bear. “No. RT @BarackObama: Is the song “Piano Man” about a guy who is actually part piano, like a monster?” Twitter king Rob Delaney’s [@robdelaney] series of Obama tweets were so incredible stupid they could only be the work of a genius.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
RadikeGate: An outrageously stupid move on Qantas’ behalf to reward fans for dressing in blackface.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. The Stooges 2. The Gaslight Anthem 3. Dropkick Murphys 4. Teenage Bottlerocket 5. Primus 1. Custard 2. An Horse 3. Frenzal Rhomb 4. Dick Nasty 5. Jud Campbell
1. Kids With Class Kicking Arse 4ZZZ 2. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J 3. Conversations with Richard Fidler ABC LOCAL RADIO
TV SHOWS
1. Breaking Bad 2. True Blood 3. Entourage 4. The Simpsons 5. ABC News
1. Curb Your Enthusiasm 2. The Office 3. Parks And Recreation 4. Workaholics 5. The Rugby Club
MOVIES
1. Thor 2. Paul 3. Rango 4. The Adjustment Bureau 5. Limitless
1. Plastikman 2. Mogwai/The Mars Volta 3. Tool 4. Mono 5. The Melvins 1. Gotye 2. Jakob 3. Ghoul 4. Mosman Alder 5. Morgomega
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. David Lynch.com 2. Okayplayer 3. Boing Boing 4. Frieze 5. Dead Can Dance - The Official Site
TV SHOWS
1. How TV Ruined Your Life 2. Louie 3. Curb Your Enthusiasm 4. Life’s Too Short 5. The Office (US)
MOVIES
1. Black Swan 2. Melancholia 3. A Dangerous Method 4. Midnight In Paris 5. 127 Hours
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
The brief experience of 360 degree perception.
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
MOST OVERHYPED
MOST OVERHYPED
QUOTE/TWEET
Custard gig at Powerhouse. Kanye West.
QUOTE/TWEET
“It was epic – the run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards – all of them – just look like, you know, droopy-eyed armless children.” Charlie Sheen on ABC (US).
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP Charlie Sheen.
Festivals to be smaller and cheaper. Wayne Bennett to take Brisbane Dropbears to AFL9s glory.
1. Codex RADIOHEAD 2. You’re Lionel Richie MOGWAI 3. Midnight City M83 4. The Thickening MASTODON 5. Fall Up SAUL WILLIAMS
ARTISTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Music For A Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain) MOGWAI 2. Volcanic Sunlight SAUL WILLIAMS 3. The Second Annual Report Of Throbbing Gristle THROBBING GRISTLE
MOGWAI
1. Duderocket 2. Hotmail 3. TheMusic.com.au 4. Bombshellzine 5. News.com.au
1. Twitter 2. YouTube 3. The Roar 4. Buzzfeed 5. Pitchfork
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Mogwai 2. M83 3. Plastikman 4. Radiohead 5. David Lynch
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI 2. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 3. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 4. Take Care, Take Care, Take Care EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 5. Deep Politics GRAILS 6. Frankenstein: Music From The Play UNDERWORLD 7. Bon Iver BON IVER 8. Biophilia BJÖRK 9. Audio, Video, Disco JUSTICE 10. Undun THE ROOTS
ARTISTS
1. The Gaslight Anthem 2. An Horse 3. Dropkick Murphys 4. Frenzal Rhomb 5. Custard
1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra 2. Fucked Up 3. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All 4. Royal Headache 5. Wilco
ALBUMS
SONGS
SONGS
QUOTE/TWEET
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 2. Putting Music In Its Place Box Set LAGWAGON 3. Total Clarity AGAINST ME!
1. Smile THE BEACH BOYS 2. Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesia Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 1970-1978 VARIOUS 3. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 REM
QUOTE/TWEET
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
1. England Keep My Bones FRANK TURNER 2. Walls AN HORSE 3. So Beautiful Or So What PAUL SIMON 4. A Creature I Don’t Know LAURA MARLING 5. Smoko At The Pet Food Factory FRENZAL RHOMB 6. Going Out In Style DROPKICK MURPHYS 7. Elsie THE HORRIBLE CROWES 8. Radiosurgery NEW FOUND GLORY 9. Speed Of Darkness FLOGGING MOLLY 10. Rise Ye Sunken Ships WE ARE AUGUSTINES
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
MOST OVERHYPED
Facebook going to shit. We heard you like Facebook so we put a little Facebook in your Facebook so you can Facebook while you Facebook.
ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
ALBUMS
Facebook timeline. Could anything be worse than having every drunken night chronicled forever? There’s a reason you forget when you drink. “I thank God for Blessing me with another year of life! God is the Greatest!!!! Luv you Guys :)” P Diddy (@ iamdiddy) on his birthday.
JAKE SUN
DANIEL JOHNSON
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Pogues will be concert of the year for 2012.
Have your say: facebook.com/timeoffmag
The Big Bang Theory. And TV programming in general. “I was banging seven-gram rocks, because that’s how I roll... I am on a drug, it’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try it you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.” – Charlie Sheen
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP Charlie Sheen...
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Rebirth. And a whole lot of people screaming, “Haaa-ppy new year... ya fuckheads!”
LOCHLAN WATT
ALBUMS
1. Ethereal Surrogate Saviour COERCE 2. The Discovery BORN OF OSIRIS 3. Gilded Age NIGHT HAG 4. Red Giant CENTURY 5. Carnival Is Forever DECAPITATED 6. Servitude AVERSIONS CROWN 7. Dead Throne THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 8. Old Ghosts Never Sleep FIRES OF WACO 9. Weightless ANIMALS AS LEADERS 10. Lustre TO THE NORTH
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Hardcore/Punk/Metal Sampler Volume 1 THIS IS BRISBANE 2. Totally Gay Dammit TOTALLY UNICORN/GAY PARIS/ GOD GOD DAMMIT DAMMIT 3. Dictaphone Recordings TOASTY JOE COERCE
MARK BERESFORD
MATT O’NEILL
ALBUMS
1. Michel Poiccard THE DEATH SET 2. Mindset THE NECKS 3. In The World Of Light TIKI TAANE 4. From Africa With Fury: Rise SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 5. 93 Million Miles AFRICA HITECH 6. Happiness And Surrounding Suburbs BALL PARK MUSIC 7. The Peregrine LAWRENCE ENGLISH 8. Sport RE:ENACTMENT 9. Blunt Force Trauma CAVALERA CONSPIRACY 10. Wire Empire MR MAPS
MASTODON
ALBUMS
1. The Hunter MASTODON 2. Rome DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI 3. Rumble, Shake & Tumble WAGONS 4. Vacation BIG SCARY 5. Happiness And Surrounding Suburbs BALL PARK MUSIC 6. Heritage OPETH 7. Quiet In The Valley, On The Shores The End Begins JIM WARD 8. Mariachi El Bronx MARIACHI EL BRONX 9. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 10. Unto The Locust MACHINE HEAD
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
SONGS
1. Cool Dads With Cool Sons TOTALLY UNICORN 2. Inking Ships COERCE 3. Recreate BORN OF OSIRIS 4. Daddy’s Stabby Surprise TOTALLY UNICORN 5. Lobotomy CENTURY
ARTISTS
1. Totally Unicorn 2. Coerce 3. Night Hag 4. Amia Venera Landscape 5. Encircling Sea
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Russian Circles 2. The Chariot 3. Kylesa 4. Trash Talk 5. La Dispute
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Portal 2. Totally Unicorn 3. The Amity Affliction 4. Coerce 5. Encircling Sea
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Facebook 2. Gmail 3. Noisetheory 4. Lambgoat 5. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J 2. The Racket TRIPLE J 3. The Pit THEPIT.FM
TV SHOWS
1. South Park 2. Breaking Bad 3. A Current Affair 4. Today Tonight 5. Nude Gay Survivor
MOVIES
1. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 3. Super 8 4. X-Men: First Class 5. Hesher
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Releasing my band Nuclear Summer’s album and the subsequent tour.
1. Bootleg, Vol 2: From Memphis To Hollywood JOHNNY CASH 2. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 3. Twenty PEARL JAM
ARTISTS
ARTISTS
1. Flying Lotus 2. The Thing 3. Shapeshifter 4. Marina Rosenfeld 5. Four Tet
1. Gotye 2. Mastodon 3. Mogwai 4. The Strokes 5. Foo Fighters
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Re:enactment 2. Sam Cromack 3. Ball Park Music 4. Mr Maps 5. Dick Nasty
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Twitter 2. Cricinfo 3. Fox Sports 4. YouTube 5. Kotaku
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Motorhead 2. The Bronx 3. The Jim Jones Revue 4. Jane’s Addiction 5. Primus
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Pangaea 2. Hunting Grounds 3. Ball Park Music 4. We Set Sail 5. Boy In A Box
1. Wake & Bake 4ZZZ 2. Unnecessary Knowledge 4ZZZ 3. Paper Aeroplanes 4ZZZ
TV SHOWS
1. Community 2. Community 3. Community 4. Community 5. How I Met Your Mother
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. The Racket TRIPLE J 2. The Nerdist NERDIST.COM 3. The Ricky Gervais Podcast RICKYGERVAIS.COM
TV SHOWS
1. Game Of Thrones 2. An Idiot Abroad 3. The Walking Dead 4. Top Gear 5. Squidbillies
MOVIES
1. Pearl Jam Twenty 2. Snowtown 3. 13 Assassins 4. Rango 5. X-Men: First Class
MOVIES
1. Moneyball 2. The Help 3. Super 8 4. True Grit 5. Limitless
Watching Eddie McGuire cry.
MOST OVERHYPED
“Realise it.” Chris Brownbill, life.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
QUOTE/TWEET
Anybody who ‘followed’ Charlie Sheen in 2011 cleary fucked up the hardest. LMFAO die in a Thai hospital of complications from inserting their heads too far up each other’s arses.
ALBUMS
1. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI 2. He Thinks He’s People ROB CROW 3. The Infinite Music Of French Horn Rebellion FRENCH HORN REBELLION 4. Gloss Drop BATTLES 5. For You OSCAR + MARTIN 6. Take Care, Take Care, Take Care EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 7. Nine Types of Light TV ON THE RADIO 8. The King of Limbs RADIOHEAD 9. In The Mountain In The Cloud PORTUGAL. THE MAN 10. The People’s Key BRIGHT EYES
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Emergency & I THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN 2. Live in Japan 2011 THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN 3. Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle/Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1 THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL
SONGS
1. Last Summer FRENCH HORN REBELLION 2. Contact High ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI 3. Will Do TV ON THE RADIO 4. Rano Pano MOGWAI 5. Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now) PORTUGAL. THE MAN
ARTISTS
1. Oscar + Martin 2. Architecture In Helsinki 3. This Town Needs Guns 4. Mogwai 5. Portugal. The Man
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Twitter 2. Imgur 3. Tumblr 4. Facebook 5. Cracked
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Mogwai 2. Pinback 3. Les Savy Fav 4. Primus
5. THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Oscar + Martin 2. Architecture in Helsinki 3. Rat Vs Possum 4. Cloud Control 5. World’s End Press
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Smart Enough to Know Better SMARTENOUGH.ORG 2. Hack TRIPLE J 3. Breakfast with Tom and Alex TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. The Walking Dead 2. American Horror Story 3. Community 4. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia 5. Modern Family
MOVIES
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Being a real braggy jerk, losing 30 kilograms in six months and/or subsequently looking like a boss.
1. Batman: Year One 2. X-Men: First Class 3. Captain America: The First Avenger 4. Thor 5. Horrible Bosses
MOST OVERHYPED
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
QUOTE/TWEET
MOST OVERHYPED
Anti-bandwagoneers. I don’t care about Twilight, Lady Gaga, Kyle Sandilands, etcetera. I also, however, don’t care that you don’t care.
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1. Cracked 2. Wikipedia 3. Facebook 4. SoundCloud 5. YouTube
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
“I think future generations will look back at our tweets and say, “We get it, you were f**king bored!”“ Will Arnett on Twitter.
Robert Trujillo will commit suicide as a result of Lulu.
1. Out In The Streets AFRICA HITECH 2. No Problems CHASE & STATUS 3. Let Go THE JAPANESE POPSTARS 4. No Church In The Wild JAY Z AND KANYE WEST FEAT FRANK OCEAN 5. Holy Moses WASHINGTON
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Ain’t Hungry LANIE LANE 2. Make Some Noise BEASTIE BOYS 3. White Limo FOO FIGHTERS 4. Satellite THE KILLS 5. I Feel Better GOTYE
QUOTE/TWEET
PREDICTION(S) 2012
SONGS
SONGS
Dubstep.
thoughtsoutlined.tumblr.com – a certain individual’s attempt at saving the Brisbane hardcore scene through two failed video interviews.
1. EPs 1991 – 2002 AUTECHRE 2. Mixmag 2011 Mix NAPT 3. Hard Trance is My Life (Gold USB Edition) STEVE HILL
1. NAPT 2. Blunt Instrument 3. Ball Park Music 4. Re:enactment 5. Mr Maps
MOST OVERHYPED iPhone 4.
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
MITCH KNOX
“We all, at one point or another, indulge fantasies that make the world seem more dangerous, more glamorous and, simultaneously, much more simple than it actually is. But then most of us grow up. Or put down the bong. Or read a book by somebody who is familiar with both proper historical methodology and the facts.” Stephen Marche.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Qantas Find Twitter As Confusing As Aeroplanes: inviting comments on luxury flight experiences weeks after grounding their entire fleet.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
I will be the vessel for a returning Mayan deity and, depending upon the disposition of said deity, heal or destroy all.
Have your say: facebook.com/timeoffmag
Les Savy Fav at Laneway, Mogwai at Splendour. Also I got a kitten and named him Ampersand. It was a good year. Matt O’Neill. QUOTE/TWEET “How do you fire Jo Pa? as a hawkeye fan I find it in poor taste #insult #noclass” Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) tweeting on the sacking of US college football coach Joe Paterno, apparently unaware the coach had been fired for covering up a child-sex scandal involving an assistant coach. Damage control and hilarity ensued.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
#qantasluxury hashtag prize campaign blows up in airline’s face as jaded customers get clever on the internet.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
All of my favourite TV shows moving one season closer to ending forever. #sixseasonsandamovie 25
RACHEL TINNEY
THE JEZABELS
ALBUMS
1. Prisoner THE JEZABELS 2. Bon Iver BON IVER 3. Happiness And Surrounding Suburbs BALL PARK MUSIC 4. Secret Rituals THE GRATES 5. Ceremonials FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 6. Moonfire BOY & BEAR 7. Vacation BIG SCARY 8. Making Mirrors GOTYE 9. Never Trust A Happy Song GROUPLOVE 10. Locked By Land JINJA SAFARI
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS 1. Soundcrane VARIOUS 2. Brisbane Sounds #5 VARIOUS 3. Bumpy Ride THE HOOSIERS
SONGS
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. It’s Nice To Be Alive BALL PARK MUSIC 3. Calgary BON IVER 4. Shake It Out FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 5. Gladiator BIG SCARY
ARTISTS
1. Ball Park Music 2. The Jezabels 3. Boy & Bear 4. Emma Louise 5. Hey Geronimo
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Cute Boys With Cats 2. Twitter 3. Facebook 4. Triple J Unearthed 5. Urban Outfitters
SAM HOBSON
STEVE BELL
ALBUMS
1. Bon Iver BON IVER 2. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 3. War Of The Roses ULVER 4. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 5. The Hunter MASTODON 6. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 7. Take Care DRAKE 8. Burst Apart THE ANTLERS 9. Oneirology CUNNINLYNGUISTS 10. Computers And Blues THE STREETS 1. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CLIFF MARTINEZ/VARIOUS 2. Inni SIGUR RÓS 3. Cyberspace And Reds THE STREETS
SONGS
1. Fall Creek Boys Choir JAMES BLAKE AND BON IVER 2. Beth/Rest BON IVER 3. Not Long Now JAMES BLAKE 4. Perth BON IVER 5. Marvin’s Room DRAKE
ARTISTS
1. James Blake 2. Bon Iver 3. Papa Vs Pretty 4. Jinja Safari 5. Sigur Rós
1. Bring It On FRONT END LOADER 2. Down The Lane ROYAL HEADACHE 3. Ceiling Tan THE DONKEYS 4. Suburbs LOON LAKE 5. Piss On A Butterfly MIKE NOGA
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. CHUD 2. Badass Digest 3. TheMusic.com.au 4. I Watch Stuff 5. Smodcast
ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Sufjan Stevens 2. Joanna Newsom 3. Black Milk 4. Modest Mouse 5. Coldplay
MOVIES
1. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2. No Strings Attached 3. Super 8 4. Paul 5. The Adjustment Bureau
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Not sure if it’s a highlight, but going to a strip club with Short Stack was pretty interesting...
MOST OVERHYPED The Kardashians.
QUOTE/TWEET
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Jinja Safari 2. Andy Bull 3. Papa Vs Pretty 4. Re:Enactment 5. Ball Park Music
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Royal Headache 2. Front End Loader 3. The Triffids 4. The Drones 5. Paul Kelly
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
PREDICTION(S) 2012
The world as we know it will end and dolphins will become our leaders. Hey, if it can happen on The Simpsons, it can happen in real life. 26
TV SHOWS
1. Hollywood Babble-on SMODCAST 2. KCRW’s The Treatment KCRW 3. Chud Show Podcast CHUD
1. South Park 2. The Simpsons 3. The Mentalist 4. SLiDE 5. The Gruen Transfer
TV SHOWS
1. Treme 2. Community 3. Breaking Bad 4. Boardwalk Empire 5. Louie
MOVIES
1. American: The Bill Hicks Story 2. True Grit 3. Barney’s Version 4. Attack The Block 5. Bridesmaids
MOVIES
1. Drive 2. The Skin I Live In 3. Melancholia 4. Take Shelter 5. Enter The Void
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Royal Headache. Front End Loader winning an ARIA. Archers Of Loaf reformation.
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
MOST OVERHYPED
The rise of Nicholas Winding Refn.
Kanye @ Splendour. Auto-tuned hell that made me want to perforate my eardrums with sticks…
MOST OVERHYPED
QUOTE/TWEET
Gotye.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Charlie Sheen getting a Twitter account.
1. Wake And Bake 4ZZZ 2. The Word podcast WORDMAGAZINE.CO.UK 3. The Life with Roy and HG Podcast TRIPLE M/ITUNES
BALL PARK MUSIC
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
“I’m afraid of that stupid planet.” Justine, Melancholia. “Facefuck.” When Facebook got ‘too improved’ and we all learned to stop worrying about the bomb.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PAPA VS PRETTY
1. Les Savy Fav 2. The Hold Steady 3. Okkervil River 4. Times New Viking 5. Future Of The Left
1. Saintsational 2. I-94 Bar 3. Word Magazine 4. No Homers Club 5. The Onion
QUOTE/TWEET
1. Never Trust A Happy Song GROUPLOVE 2. The Vasco Era THE VASCO ERA 3. Dynamite Steps THE TWILIGHT SINGERS 4. Adalita ADALITA 5. United In Isolation PAPA VS PRETTY 6. Past Life Martyred Saints EMA 7. Deep Field JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN 8. Kiss Each Other Clean IRON & WINE 9. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 10. Go Go Chaos BONJAH
1. Royal Headache 2. Front End Loader 3. Ben Salter 4. The Drones 5. Lanie Lane
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
“I’m not bipolar, I’m bi-winning. I win here and I win there.” Charlie Sheen, ABC News (USA).
ALBUMS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Ball Park Music 2. Jinja Safari 3. The Beards 4. Clare Bowditch 5. Charlie Mayfair
1. Home And Away 2. Spicks And Specks 3. Ringer 4. The Project 5. The Simpsons
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
SONGS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
TV SHOWS
WILCO
1. Icky Mettle ARCHERS OF LOAF 2. Ugly Buildings, Whores & Politicians: Greatest Hits DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS 3. Bakesale Deluxe Edition SEBADOH
1. Foster The People 2. Die Antwoord 3. Simple Plan 4. Two Door Cinema Club 5. Andrew WK
1. Frog and Peach 4ZZZ 2. Tom and Alex TRIPLE J 3. Breakfast with Spencer Howson ABC LOCAL RADIO
GROUPLOVE
1. Royal Headache ROYAL HEADACHE 2. Arabia Mountain BLACK LIPS 3. The King Is Dead THE DECEMBERISTS 4. The Cat BEN SALTER 5. Mirror Traffic STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS 6. The Whole Love WILCO 7. New Start Again DICK DIVER 8. Ritardando FRONT END LOADER 9. The Sunset Park THE AERIAL MAPS 10. Nova Scotia NOVA SCOTIA
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
ALBUMS
TYLER MCLOUGHLAN
An oversaturation of Boy & Bear. The OFLCB buckles under the weight of HC2 backlash.
“Is this Steve Bell ringing? I bet you get that joke all the time! (maniacal laughter)”. Umm, no not really Mr. Waits...
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Cyber-idiots – people committing crimes and then being caught because they boasted on Facebook.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
St Kilda win flag, Uncle Tupelo reform, I’m doing the Weezer cruise so Weezer to announce first Oz tour since ‘96.
Have your say: facebook.com/timeoffmag
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 2. Bakesale Deluxe Edition SEBADOH 3. The Smile Sessions THE BEACH BOYS
SONGS
1. Siren Song FELICITY GROOM 2. Like You Could Have It All THE GRATES 3. Colours GROUPLOVE 4. Gladiator BIG SCARY 5. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA
TOP 5 ARTISTS 1. Grouplove 2. Ball Park Music 3. The Vasco Era 4. Adalita 5. Emma Louise
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Deftones 2. Stone Temple Pilots 3. Mogwai 4. Joan As Police Woman 5. Lamb
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Vasco Era 2. Ball Park Music 3. Screamfeeder 4. Clouds 5. Alex Lloyd & The Pigram Brothers
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Home And Hosed TRIPLE J 2. Hack TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. Archer 2. Fringe 3. Breaking Bad 4. The Walking Dead 5. SLiDE
MOVIES
1. Nirvana Live At The Paramount 2. Snowtown 3. Horrible Bosses 4. Beginners 5. Burning Man
WRITERS’ POLL RESULTS
THE DRUM MEDIA PERTH 2011 WRAP
PORTISHEAD PHOTO BY ELLE BORGWARD
TANGLED THOUGHTS OF LEAVING PHOTO BY RYAN MURPHY
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1. Gotye 2. James Blake 3. Portishead 4. Kurt Vile 5. Radiohead PREVIOUS WINNERS: Flying Lotus (2010), Sarah Blasko (2009), MGMT (2008)
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. Bon Iver BON IVER 2. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 3. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 4. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 5. The English Riviera METRONOMY 6. SBTRKT SBTRKT =7. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 =7. Days REAL ESTATE =9. Making Mirrors GOTYE =9. Ravedeath, 1972 TIM HECKER PREVIOUS WINNERS: InnerSpeaker TAME IMPALA (2010), Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix PHOENIX (2009), Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (2008)
1. Portishead 2. The National 3. Sufjan Stevens 4. Holy Fuck 5. Local Natives PREVIOUS WINNERS: Gorillaz (2010), The Rapture (2009), Björk (2008)
PAUL KELLY PHOTO BY BEAU DAVIS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
1. Grinderman 2. The Jezabels 3. Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving 4. Paul Kelly 5. Boy & Bear PREVIOUS WINNERS: PVT (2010), Sarah Blasko (2009), The Drones (2008)
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1. Inni SIGUR RÓS 2. Kiss My WAMI 2011 VARIOUS =3. The DaDa Tapes VARIOUS =3. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA PREVIOUS WINNERS: Inaugural year for this category.
ONLINE DESTINATION OF THE YEAR
1. Facebook 2. Twitter 3. The Music 4. Pitchfork 5. Google PREVIOUS WINNERS: Pitchfork (2010), Facebook (2009), Facebook (2008)
T
actually insanely skilled, passionate, devoted and uncompromising artists can sometimes beat the minimally talented poptarts that fill stadiums with derivative sounds and silly screams... Go-Go-Gotye!
Like the national contingent, WA also chalked up Bon Iver’s self-titled as top album. In fact, when he was announced as playing Perth Festival, we almost needed to hire another assistant editor just to deal with the amount of review requests flying in for the Bon Bon. No surprises the show at Red Hill Auditorium sold out in two seconds either.
Not even two shows this year could give the second-placed The National anywhere near enough votes to beat the show we’d been waiting all of 14 years for – Portishead. Never before has a frontperson moved so little yet been so mesmerising. Beth, we’d gladly have your babies. Geoff and Adrian, don’t think you’re being left out of this proposition. If you think those comments are weird, we find it even weirder that our top four was exactly the same as the national results.
he ‘state of excitement’ has done well to cast the sarcastic shackles off its nickname this year, with more tours and venue life than ever before. It’s made it tough for some stellar local releases and launches to poll their way to the top, but The Drum Media Perth results are most certainly difficult to debate.
In previous years Sigur Rós struck the winning gong for live show of the year, so it’s logical one of the most amazing live acts around would go on to produce the best live album of the year. Featuring live versions of songs covering all of their previous albums, Jónsi and co lead the charge in this category. Though special mention to the local crew for receiving enough votes to do our state proud, with Kiss My WAMI 2011 and The DaDa Tapes respectively relegating national favourites Kurt and co to equal third poll position. Bon Iver’s taken out enough awards in this mag alone to warrant skipping through Song Of The Year without repetitive praise. We’re just disappointed it wasn’t any one of the amazingly unique, jaw dropping, groundbreaking, emotionally captivating and stupendously all-round awesome songs from the Metallica/Lou Reed LuLu project… They might not have chalked up a single vote, but we demand a recount! Interestingly, Oscar+Martin, who hardly racked up any votes in their hometown of Melbourne, romped into third place in the WA poll. With Darth Vader featuring heavily in the lyrics, guess it doesn’t battle writers’ nerdy stereotype. Gotye has somehow managed to be everywhere this year. Got’dangit! Whilst we’ve been a little weirded out by how he’s suddenly become capable of selling out Belvoir three-times straight when great local bands can struggle to get 50 people to their CD launches, you gotye hand it to the guy; he’s helped prove that nice guys don’t always finish last, and that
Hopefully Nick Cave will take our nod for Australian live set of the year into consideration when pondering whether it was a bad move to break up Grinderman. If he does keep to his word, at least we had two chances to see him exposing his chest up close and personal this year. Take that Iggy Pop. Rad to see Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving getting the kudos they deserve in this category as well – we look forward to seeing their supreme musical Thoughts spreading. Your local community radio station RTRFM has had a stranglehold on the favourite radio show category since Drum’s inception, but Triple J’s Richard ‘The King’ Kingsmill claimed the crown for 2010. Good to see then our premier princes of local broadcasting reclaiming the throne with Out To Lunch, particularly as the show is all about new music. With some fresh blood rejuvenating the program, midday til 3pm this year has been a fine listen indeed. So, whilst a stack of artists from Perth rumbled up a storm of national exposure this year but didn’t make the impact on the polls that we’d like them to, we reckon next year the locals will again be filling our poll bucket with amazingness from the likes of San Cisco, Felicity Groom, Abbe May, Wolves At The Door, Split Seconds, Sonpsilo Circus, Bastian’s Happy Flight, Pond, The Growl, Chaos Divine... well, the list is endless, and it’s one to feel very, very excited about for 2012. Look forward to seeing you there. The Drum Media Perth Team
DAVE CUTBUSH - OUT TO LUNCH GAME OF THRONES
SONG OF THE YEAR
1. Holocene BON IVER 2. The Wilhelm Scream JAMES BLAKE 3. All I Think About OSCAR + MARTIN 4. Midnight City M83 5. Video Games LANA DEL REY PREVIOUS WINNERS: Fuck You CEE LO GREEN (2010), My Girls ANIMAL COLECTIVE (2009), Electric Feel MGMT (2008)
RADIO SHOW/PODCAST OF THE YEAR
1. Out To Lunch RTR 2. Breakfast with Barr RTR 3. Tom And Alex TRIPLE J =4. Trainwreck RTR =4. Full Frequency RTR =4. Posted RTR PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2010 TRIPLE J (2010), Morning Mag RTR (2009), Hack TRIPLE J (2010)
TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
1. Breaking Bad 2. Game Of Thrones 3. True Blood 4. Dexter =5. Gruen Planet =5. Q&A PREVIOUS WINNERS: True Blood (2010)
Have your say: facebook.com/drumperth
BRIDESMAIDS
MOVIE OF THE YEAR
1. Drive 2. The Tree Of Life 3. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II 4. Bridesmaids 5. The Guard PREVIOUS WINNERS: The Social Network (2010) 27
AAROM WILSON SBTRKT
ALBUMS
1. SBTRKT SBTRKT 2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 3. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 4. Era Extraña NEON INDIAN 5. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 6. For You OSCAR + MARTIN 7. Replica ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER 8. Tomboy PANDA BEAR 9. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 10. Within And Without WASHED OUT
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Instrumental Mixtape CLAMS CASINO 2. Reworked/Remixed TRENTEMØLLER/VARIOUS 3. InnerSpeaker (Collector’s Edition) TAME IMPALA/VARIOUS
SONGS
1. Rolling In The Deep ADELE 2. The Wilhelm Scream JAMES BLAKE 3. Midnight City M83 4. Video Games LANA DEL REY 5. It’s Real REAL ESTATE
ARTISTS
1. Adele 2. Radiohead/Thom Yorke 3. Lady Gaga 4. OFWGKTA 5. James Blake
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Portishead 2. Sufjan Stevens 3. Les Savy Fav 4. Ghostpoet 5. Gorillaz
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Grinderman 2. Abbe May 3. The Jezabels 4. Felicity Groom 5. Injured Ninja
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Your Daily SPA 2. Pedestrian 3. Life Is Noise 4. FACT 5. Cool Perth Nights
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Golden Apples Of The Sun RTR 2. Out To Lunch RTR 3. The Sound Lab TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. True Blood 2. Bored To Death 3. Breaking Bad 4. Hungry Beast 5. Parks And Recreation
MOVIES
1. The Trip 2. X-Men: First Class 3. Pina
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Tnx to Brow Horn, Felicity & Diger, Wolves At The Door, DJs and my infinitely spectacular wife for the most amazing day of my life x
MOST OVERHYPED
Odd...Charlie...Future...Sheen... Let’s hope they kill each other next year.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
No new event in WA with any of the promise that One Movement had. 28
ANDY SNELLING
BARON GUTTER
ANTHONY WILLIAMS
ALBUMS
1. Simple Math MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA 2. Bon Iver BON IVER 3. There Is A Way DANANANANAYKROYD 4. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 5. Nine Types Of Light TV ON THE RADIO 6. Biophillia BJÖRK 7. Hurtsville JACK LADDER AND THE DREAMLANDERS 8. The Great Impression SPARKADIA 9. Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me TOUCHÉ AMORÉ 10. Mount Wittenberg Orca DIRTY PROJECTORS & BJÖRK
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Inni SIGUR RÓS 2. 99% Upset Feeling DEERHOOF 3. Kiss My WAMi Compilation 2011 VARIOUS MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA
SONGS
1. Simple Math MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA 2. Perth BON IVER 3. Will Do TV ON THE RADIO 4. Give Up The Ghost RADIOHEAD 5. Sparkadia MARY
ARTISTS
RADIOHEAD
ALBUMS
1. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 2. Replica ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER 3. Renewable Destination CABOLADIES 4. Deaden The Fields TANGLED THOUGHTS OF LEAVING 5. Ravedeath, 1972 TIM HECKER 6. Giving COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES 7. A Winged Victory For The Sullen A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN 8. Lost In The Glare BARN OWL 9. Neverendless CAVE 10. En Form For Bla AETHENOR
ARTISTS
1. StumbleUpon 2. Perth - The Thousands 3. 27b/6 4. Space Ship News 5. Your Daily SPA
1. Radiohead 2. Barn Owl 3. Portishead 4. Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving 5. Oneohtrix Point Never
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Portishead 2. Swervedriver 3. Minamo 4. Yo La Tengo
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Dirty Three 2. Usurper Of Modern Medicine 3. Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving 4. Injured Ninja 5. smRts
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Super Request TRIPLE J 2. Mornings With Zan TRIPLE J 3. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Facebook 2. Boomkat 3. Dusted 4. Brainwashed 5. RTR
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Spicks And Specks 2. The IT Crowd 3. Breaking Bad 4. The Inbetweeners 5. Community
1. Out To Lunch RTR 2. Posted RTR 3. Underground Solution RTR
TV SHOWS
MOVIES
1. The Lion King 3D 2. The Rum Diary 3. The King’s Speech 4. The Inbetweeners 5. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Sufjan Stevens at the Regal Theatre.
MOST OVERHYPED
Gotye. He was amazing live. And the album was decent. But enough already!
1. 212 AZEALIA BANKS FEAT LAZY JAY 2. Lonely Boy BLACK KEYS 3. Video Games LANA DEL REY 4. Say It LIME CORDIALE 5. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA COSMO JARVIS
SONGS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Sparkadia 2. Gotye 3. Sean Pollard 4. 78 Saab 5. PVT
SONGS
1. Icky Mettle ARCHERS OF LOAF 2. Tago Mago CAN 3. The 5 EPs DISCO INFERNO
1. Holocene BON IVER 2. Deep Rivers Run Quiet TANGLED THOUGHTS OF LEAVING 3. This Is The Best CAVE 4. With Verticals AQUARELLE 5. Pink Nites SECRET BIRDS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange? COSMO JARVIS 2. Peanut Butter Blues And Melancholy Jam GHOSTPOET 3. Last Night On Earth NOAH AND THE WHALE 4. Bon Iver BON IVER 5. Torches FOSTER THE PEOPLE 6. 21 ADELE 7. Adalita ADALITA 8. Ritual Union LITTLE DRAGON 9. The Harrow & The Harvest GILLIAN WELSH 10. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Sufjan Stevens 2. Björk 3. Future Of The Left 4. Bon Iver 5. Portishead
1. Sufjan Stevens 2. Future Of The Left 3. Portishead 4. Rammstein 5. Mickey Avalon
ALBUMS
1. The Gruen Transfer 2. Gruen Planet 3. Q&A 4. Generation Kill 5. Grand Designs
MOVIES
1. Black Swan 2. The Tree Of Life 3. Contagion 4. Snowtown 5. Drive
ARTISTS
1. Cosmo Jarvis 2. Ghostpoet 3. Lana Del Rey 4. Adele 5. Lanie Lane
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Portished 2. Ghostpoet 3. Apparat 4. Matthew David and The Gaslamp Killer 5. Mickey Avalon
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Seekae 2. Sean O’Neil 3. Stereo Flower 4. Ruby Boots 5. Gold Fields
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Lube Tube 2. Triple J Unearthed 3. TheMusic.com.au 4. The Fuck You Subiaco Page 5. Jumpclimb
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Sunday Night Safran TRIPLE J 2. Bass Check RTR 3. Just Classics 97.7FM
TV SHOWS
1. The Cricket 2. Top Gear 3. Parks And Recreation 4. Modern Family 5. Mythbusters
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Timothy Nelson acceptance speaches.
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
MOST OVERHYPED
“KFC is the best food in the world!” Aaron Rutter
Portishead Live @ Belvoir Amphitheatre. Truly in the presence of greatness. A TRULY RARE experience.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
MOST OVERHYPED
QUOTE/TWEET
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
QUOTE/TWEET
Facebook Uproar – every time a feature is changed.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
More poor ticket sales for the overflowing festival season.
The Strokes. Putting ‘80s synth-disguises on utterly lacklustre songs. FAIL. The end of the world is nigh.
Have your say: facebook.com/drumperth
Psych rock resurgence in Perth. Punch me in the face already. “When I go number twos, I always get completely naked.” Chris Healing, Fat Shan Records. More folk music in the Drum office.
CALLUM TWIGGER
ALBUMS
1. Strange Mercy ST VINCENT 2. Swim CARIBOU 3. Fifty Words For Snow KATE BUSH 4. We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves JOHN MAUS 5. Metals FEIST 6. Ritual Union LITTLE DRAGON 7. Life Of Leisure WASHED OUT 8. Wounded Rhymes LYKKE LI 9. Glass Swords RUSTIE 10. Skying THE HORRORS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CLIFF MARTINEZ/VARIOUS 2. The Singles Collection: 2001-2011 GORILLAZ 3. Late Night Tales VARIOUS/MGMT
SONGS
1. Art Of Almost WILCO 2. Surgeon ST VINCENT 3. Romance WILD FLAG 4. The Bad In Each Other FEIST 5. Get Some LYKKE LI
ARTISTS
1. St Vincent 2. Washed Out 3. Montana 4. Lykke Li 5. Little Dragon
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Twitter 2. Facebook 3. The Guardian 4. The Huffington Post 5. TIME
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Gorillaz 2. Iggy Pop 3. HEALTH 4. Lykke Li 5. Big Boi
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Tame Impala 2. Boy & Bear 3. Big Scary 4. The Vasco Era 5. Cut Copy
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Unearthed TRIPLE J 2. Hack TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. Frozen Planet 2. The Gruen Transfer 3. The Slap 4. Futurama 5. Why isn’t there a ‘Top Five Books Of 2011’ list?
MOVIES
1. Melancholia 2. Drive 3. The Tree Of Life 4. Rango 5. Arrietty
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Hundreds of talented female musicians everywhere! Altrock has been scared of girl-germs for way too long.
MOST OVERHYPED
Australian hip-hop. Like a carton of Emu Bitter, it’s Australian, tepid, derivative, and worth regretting even before you’ve consumed it.
QUOTE/TWEET
“What’s going on... Do you know right from wrong?” Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to his executioners moments before a very violent death.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
I keep getting my arse kicked by the ‘Too Much Text!’ disclaimer, so I’m going to go all meta and say, “THE TEXT LIMIT ON THIS LINE”.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
I get asked something like “PREDICTION FOR 2013. Briefly explain what you see in your crystal ball for the following year.”
CAMERON DUFF
CAM FINDLAY
ALBUMS
1. The Rip Tide BEIRUT 2. Tao Of The Dead ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD 3. Gloss Drop BATTLES 4. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 5. I Know This Now TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS 6. Take Care, Take Care, Take Care EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 7. The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT AKRON/FAMILY 8. We Are The Champions JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD 9. Mesozoic THE LAURELS 10. The King Is Dead THE DECEMBERISTS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. The DaDa Tapes VARIOUS 2. London Sessions LCD SOUNDSYSTEM 3. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA
ALBUMS
1. Space Is Only Noise NICOLAS JAAR 2. Vows KIMBRA 3. Coastal Grooves BLOOD ORANGE 4. Bliss Release CLOUD CONTROL 5. Ritual Union LITTLE DRAGON 6. Prisoner THE JEZABELS 7. When We On CRAZY P 8. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 9. El Camino THE BLACK KEYS 10. Making Mirrors GOTYE
CHRISTOPHER H JAMES TIM HECKER
SONGS
1. S’Cooled BLOOD ORANGE 2. Colomb NICOLAS JAAR 3. Gold Canary CLOUD CONTROL 4. Call Me KIMBRA 5. Crystalfilm LITTLE DRAGON NICOLAS JAAR
SONGS
1. East Harlem BEIRUT 2. Santa Fe BEIRUT 3. Jesus Forever KURT VILE 4. Common Burn MAZZY STAR 5. Arnold LUKE MILLION
ARTISTS 1. Lady Gaga 2. Radiohead 3. Holy Fuck 4. Lykke Li 5. Toro Y Moi
ALBUMS
1. Ravedeath, 1972 TIM HECKER 2. Last Of The Country Gentlemen JOSH T PEARSON 3. II THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT 4. Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts OMAR SOULEYMAN 5. Eye Contact GANG GANG DANCE 6. Helioscope VESSELS 7. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI 8. No Color THE DODOS 9. Looping State Of Mind THE FIELD 10. Wander/Wonder BALAM ACAB
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Holy Fuck 2. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 3. Akron/Family 4. Kurt Vile & The Violators 5. Thee Oh Sees
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. The Drones 2. Paul Kelly 3. Dan Sultan & Alex Gow 4. The Growl 5. Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving
1. Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts OMAR SOULEYMAN 2. Fania Records 1964-1980: The Original Latin Sound of New York (Disc 1) VARIOUS 3. 20 Fucking Years Of Planet E: We Ain’t Dead Yet VARIOUS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
SONGS
1. TheMusic.com.au 2. Spaceship News 3. Pretty Much Amazing 4. Paste Magazine 5. NME
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Posted RTR 2. 2011 TRIPLE J 3. Breakfast with Barr RTR
TV SHOWS
1. Nicolas Jaar 2. Cloud Control 3. Kimbra 4. Little Dragon 5. Fleet Foxes
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Breaking Bad 2. Sons Of Anarchy 3. Spicks And Specks 4. It’s A Knockout 5. Sh*t My Dad Says
1. Kollektiv Turmstrasse 2. Hot Natured (Lee Foss & Jamie Jones) 3. Apparat 4. Marcel Dettmann & Ben Klock 5. Alex Smoke
MOVIES
1. The Guard 2. Source Code 3. The Hangover Part II 4. Attack The Block 5. The Human Centipede II
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
The events associated with writing for such a great publication, ie getting absolutely smashed at the WAMis.
MOST OVERHYPED
Banjos. Too many Banjos. Oh, and Nickelback, as usual.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Face it, I am living the life of a rockstar Vatican asassin.” Charlie Sheen.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
OFWGKTA abusing Oz fans, getting racist insults in return.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
ARTISTS
The ever-expanding support of many facial hair; Kyle Sandilands exploding due to exorbitant amounts of selfloathing/fatty deposits.
1. Kimbra 2. The Jezabels 3. Cloud Control 4. Stonefield 5. The Holidays
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Resident Advisor 2. Pulse Radio 3. Space Ship News 4. Empire Of Perth 5. Street Press Australia
1. Glass Jar GANG GANG DANCE 2. Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN 3. With U HOLY OTHER 4. DBB THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT 5. In The Fog I TIM HECKER
ARTISTS
1. Tim Hecker 2. Josh T Pearson 3. The Psychic Paramount 4. Omar Souleyman 5. Mogwai
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Portishead 2. Omar Souleyman 3. Booker T Jones 4. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 5. Os Mutantes
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Drones 2. Injured Ninja 3. The Silent World 4. Grinderman 5. The Middle East
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Drowned In Sound 2. ABC News 3. Metal Bastard 4. YouTube
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
MOST OVERHYPED
MOST OVERHYPED
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1. Tom And Alex TRIPLE J 2. Trainwreck RTR
Kimbra. I am in love with her if you haven’t noticed from my previous answers. ;) Stereosonic... ugh don’t even let me get into that.
Have your say: facebook.com/drumperth
Sergio Dias (Os Mutantes) never ending guitar solo at the Perth International Festival. The ubiquitious lowest common denominator dubstep. Burial must be turning in his grave. Beards.
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CRAIG HOLLYWOOD ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
ALBUMS
1. Liber Dogma THE BLACK DOG 2. yx aka 1ch aka Solo NHKYX 3. What Have We Learned MORPHOSIS 4. SyMeta BYETONE 5. In Dust ROLL THE DICE 6. Space Is Only Noise NICOLAS JAAR 7. Replica ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER 8. House Of Balloons THE WEEKND 9. Mind Controls The Flood NO UFO’S 10. Blanck Mass BLANCK MASS
JACKSON BEST
DANIEL CRIBB
ALBUMS
1. Smoko At The Pet Food Factory FRENZAL RHOMB 2. Damnesia ALKALINE TRIO 3. Neighborhoods BLINK-182 4. Angels & Airwaves LOVE PART 2 5. Good For Me THE SWELLERS 6. Hurricane Season DAN ANDRIANO IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM 7. Got Your Back POUR HABIT 8. Party Party Party THE BENNIES 9. Sad Bear TONY SLY 10. Ishi Prende HIGHTIME
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS 1. Let’s Talk About Feelings LAGWAGON 2. Down The Road VARIOUS 3. Hang Your Head In Hope KRIS ROE FRENZAL RHOMB
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Inni SIGUR RÓS 2. Berghain 05 PETER VAN HOESEN/REAGENZ/VRIL 3. RetroActivity SWEET EXORCIST
SONGS
1. Side A OLD APPARATUS 2. Sheffield Muggerscum Out (The Black Dog Remix) SURGEON 3. Flux SP-X 4. Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene Remix) RADIOHEAD 5. Battle For Middle You JULIO BASHMORE
ARTISTS
1. The Black Dog 2. Nicolas Jaar 3. Oneohtrix Point Never 4. Morphosis 5. NHKyx
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Commonwealth NetBank 2. This Is Why I’m Broke 3. What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? 4. RTRFM 92.1 5. The Official Home Of Celtic Football Club
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Marcel Dettmann & Ben Klock 2. Holy Fuck 3. Mogwai 4. Portishead 5. Apparat
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Empty Cup 2. Gareth Liddiard 3. The Jezebels 4. Boy & Bear 5. Stina
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Trainwreck RTR 2. Posted RTR 3. Full Frequency RTR
TV SHOWS
1. Great British Menu 2. America Uncut - The Documentaries That Shocked America 3. The World Game 4. SBS News 5. ABC News
MOVIES
1. Hesher 2. Armadillo 3. Beginners 4. Midnight in Paris 5. My Perestroika
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Techno.
MOST OVERHYPED
Ex-Australian goalkeeper Mark Bosnich’s haircut.
QUOTE/TWEET
“When they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-bekibeki-beki-stan-stan I’m going to say, you know, I don’t know. Do you know?” Herman Cain on foreign policy.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
1. Back To The Suburbs FRENZAL RHOMB 2. One Last Thing ANGELS & AIRWAVES 3. Wishing Well BLINK-182 4. Olde English 800 ALKALINE TRIO 5. Me & Denver DAN ANDRIANO IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM
ARTISTS
1. Frenzal Rhomb 2. Alkaline Trio 3. Jebediah 4. The Bennies 5. Hightime
1. Era Extraña NEON INDIAN 2. Kaputt DESTROYER 3. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 4. Ravedeath, 1972 TIM HECKER 5. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 6. Within And Without WASHED OUT 7. Belong THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART 8. 936 PEAKING LIGHTS 9. Space Is Only Noise NICOLAS JAAR 10. Fallen BURZUM 1. Diary Of A Madman OZZY OSBOURNE 2. Peace Sells... But Who’s Buying? 25th Anniversary Edition MEGADETH 3. Smile Sessions THE BEACH BOYS
SONGS
1. Halogen (I Could Be A Shadow) NEON INDIAN 2. OK Pal M83 3. Belong THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART 4. Runner Ups KURT VILE 5. Is It Done J. MASCIS
ARTISTS
1. Kurt Vile 2. Neon Indian 3. M83 4. Washed Out 5. Destroyer
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Domino’s 2. Facebook 3. Catch Of The Day 4. Bombshellzine 5. Dying Scene
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Millencolin 2. Rise Against 3. Tenacious D 4. The Swellers
1. Rate Your Music 2. Goodreads 3. eBay 4. Street Boners and TV Carnage 5. Aquarius Records
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Wavves 2. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti 3. Swervedriver 4. Warpaint 5. Deerhunter
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Frenzal Rhomb 2. Jebediah 3. Chris Duke & The Royals 4. The Bennies 5. Billy Demos
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Home & Hosed TRIPLE J 2. No Control THE PIT FM 3. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J
1. Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders 2. Sam Perry
TV SHOWS
1. Community 2. Chuck 3. The Office 4. 30 Rock 5. Check It Out! With Dr Steve Brule 1. Source Code 2. The Lion King 3D 3. Horrible Bosses 4. The Change Up 5. Angels & Airwaves Presents Love
MOST OVERHYPED
MOST OVERHYPED
Dubstep. Not exactly new but, please, make it stop already.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I feel duped a little bit because I was all connected with the wedding. I watched the two-hour special. I was with them on that journey.” Jonah Hill to MTV on the fallout of Kim Kardashian’s wedding.
Ross Butson.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I done that.” Ross Butson, in person.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
More bands, bigger drinks and less sleep!
1. The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: Live In Europe 1967 MILES DAVIS 2. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA 3. Achtung Baby Anniversary Edition U2
SONGS
1. How I Roll BOB GELDOF 2. You Know That I Know JACK WHITE 3. Lorelai FLEET FOXES 4. Machu Picchu THE STROKES 5. Open Arms ELBOW
ARTISTS
1. PJ Harvey 2. Radiohead 3. Jack White 4. Björk 5. Tom Waits
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. IMDb 2. Enjoy Perth 3. Cyanide & Happiness 4. World Lingo 5. Happy Place
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Bob Dylan 2. Eddie Vedder 3. Elvis Costello 4. Owen Pallett 5. Martha Wainwright
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Gareth Liddiard 2. Grinderman 3. Dan Kelly 4. Abbe May 5. Felicity Groom
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Giant Steps RTR 2. Here’s The Thing WNYC 3. Drive ABC CLASSIC
TV SHOWS
MOVIES
Finishing my arts degree and stepping out into a lucrative world of employment opportunity.
Recording an album with my band The Decline and Adam Round. Best six weeks ever!
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
TV SHOWS
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
1. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 2. Bad As Me TOM WAITS 3. Design Desire ABBE MAY 4. Absence SNOWMAN 5. Metals FEIST 6. Ashes & Fire RYAN ADAMS 7. How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell BOB GELDOF 8. Angles THE STROKES 9. Biophilia BJÖRK 10. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD
1. Ambient Zone RTR 2. Out To Lunch RTR 3. Difficult Listening RTR
1. Californication 2. Seinfeld reruns 3. Friends reruns 4. Kourtney and Kim Take New York 5. Geordie Shore
MOVIES
ALBUMS
1. 30 Rock 2. Castle 3. Breaking Bad 4. Futurama 5. The Mentalist
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
All the suckers who called in sick to work then posted otherwise on Facebook and got caught.
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ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
SONGS
Leaving my Facebook logged on at my friend’s house. More SPA writers’ polls.
NEON INDIAN
JASON KENNY
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Justin Bieber’s attempt to grow a moustache for Movember. I sympathise with his emasculating failure.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
The death of dubstep. An end to the oppressive reign of the wobble.
Have your say: facebook.com/drumperth
1. Midnight In Paris 2. Melancholia 3. Rango 4. Hugo 5. The Artist
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Social media finding its place in social change – who knew it was capable of so much more than wasting time at work?
MOST OVERHYPED
Most things related to Charlie Sheen.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I hate drum circles but I hate corporate greed more” Occupy Wall St protest sign.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Qantas luxury, Ashton Kutcher and everything tweeted by a Kardashian.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
The Occupy movement will be attacked by conservative media, soulless pop icons will dishearten us all, then a clash on December 21.
JAYMES BROWN
KITT DI CAMILLO ANNA CALVI
AUSTRA
ALBUMS
ALBUMS
1. Feel It Break AUSTRA 2. Eye Contact GANG GANG DANCE 3. The English Riviera METRONOMY 4. Holy Ghost! HOLY GHOST! 5. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 6. Discodeine DISCODEINE 7. Era Extrana NEON INDIAN 8. 50 Words For Snow KATE BUSH 9. Goblin TYLER, THE CREATOR 10. Moment Bends ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Resurrection VIRGO FOUR 2. Director’s Cut KATE BUSH 3. Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CLIFF MARTINEZ/VARIOUS ARTISTS
SONGS
1. The Bay METRONOMY 2. Midnight City M83 3. Lose It AUSTRA 4. Adult Goth GANG GANG DANCE 5. Yonkers TYLER, THE CREATOR
ARTISTS
1. Metronomy 2. Gotye 3. Tyler, The Creator 4. Neon Indian 5. Austra
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Sonpsilo Circus 2. Canyons 3. Tame Impala 4. Cut Copy 5. Gold Fields
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Bandcamp 2. Meme Generator 3. Our Valued Customers 4. Texts From Bennett 5. Know Your Meme
TV SHOWS
1. Bored To Death 2. Misfits 3. Breaking Bad 4. Curb Your Enthusiasm 5. Game Of Thrones
MOVIES
1. Drive 2. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams 3. Super 8 4. X-Men: First Class 5. The Tree Of Life
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Batman: Arkham City. No explanation needed.
MOST OVERHYPED Adele.
QUOTE/TWEET
“You like Big Bang Theory? That shit’s like nerd blackface!” Our Valued Customers.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP QANTAS’ valiant Twitter work
PREDICTION(S) 2012 Lots and lots of rum.
1. Suck It And See ARCTIC MONKEYS 2. Anna Calvi ANNA CALVI 3. Angles THE STROKES 4. The Vasco Era THE VASCO ERA 5. Build A Rocket Boys! ELBOW 6. Nine Types Of Light TV ON THE RADIO 7. Different Gear, Still Speeding BEADY EYE 8. Rome DANGER MOUSE AND DANIELE LUPPI 9. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 10. Mirror Traffic STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS
KRISTY SYMONDS
LUKE BUTCHER
ALBUMS
ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Major/Minor THRICE 2. Neighborhoods BLINK 182 3. Wire Empire MR MAPS 4. Making Mirrors GOTYE 5. Dunks GHOUL 6. Prisoner THE JEZABELS 7. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 8. Mariachi El Bronx MARIACHI EL BRONX 9. Gloss Drop BATTLES 10. Wildlife LA DISPUTE
1. Bon Iver BON IVER 2. Making Mirrors GOTYE 3. Codes And Keys DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE 4. 21 ADELE 5. Dirty Work ALL TIME LOW 6. Vices & Virtues PANIC! AT THE DISCO 7. Neighborhoods BLINK 182 8. Get Your Heart On! SIMPLE PLAN 9. Hell: The Sequel BAD MEETS EVIL 10. Tha Carter IV LIL WAYNE 1. Awesome As Fuck GREEN DAY 2. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon - The Album VARIOUS 3. Glee: The Music, Volume 5 GLEE CAST
SONGS
1. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 2. Someone Like You ADELE 3. Lighters BAD MEETS EVIL FEAT BRUNO MARS 4. ET KATY PERRY 5. LMFAO PARTY ROCK ANTHEM ADELE
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Let Love In NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS 2. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 19822011 REMLUKE BUTCHER 3. Eternal Youth ROLO TOMASSI
ARTISTS
1. Arctic Monkeys 2. Grinderman 3. Arcade Fire 4. The Strokes 5. Elbow
ARTISTS
1. Gotye 2. Adele 3. Eminem 4. Lil Wayne 5. Bruno Mars
1. Eminem 2. MGMT 3. Kings Of Leon 4. Lil Wayne 5. Dizzee Rascal
1. Pitchfork 2. Cricinfo 3. Roger Ebert Movie Reviews 4. Official AFL Website 5. FasterLouder
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Wire 2. Joanna Newsom 3. Swervedriver 4. Mavis Staples 5. Primal Scream
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Grinderman 2. Paul Kelly 3. Bamodi 4. The John Butler Trio 5. Operator Please
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Art Vs Science 2. Faker 3. Georgi Kay 4. Archie Roach 5. Hilltop Hoods
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Twitter 2. PerthNow 3. Herald Sun 4. Huffington Post 5. Facebook
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
TV SHOWS
1. Hamish & Andy 92.9 2. Tom And Alex TRIPLE J 3. Sunday Night Safran TRIPLE J
1. Law & Order: SVU 2. The Simpsons 3. How I Met Your Mother 4. Grey’s Anatomy 5. Glee
TV SHOWS
1. Parks And Recreation 2. Mad Men 3. Dexter 4. The Ricky Gervais Show 5. Community
MOVIES
MOVIES
1. Drive 2. Bridesmaids 3. Rango 4. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 5. Source Code
1. The Lion King 3D 2. Scream 4 3. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 4. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 5. Horrible Bosses
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Being lucky enough to be working in my dream career and having the most amazing family and friends I could ask for.
MOST OVERHYPED
Lady Gaga.
Collingwood losing the AFL Grand Final. Boy & Bear.
QUOTE/TWEET
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. eBay 2. Facebook 3. Kill Your Stereo 4. Perth Bands 5. Side Reel
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Anberlin 2. Coheed & Cambria 3. This Town Needs Guns 4. The Gaslight Anthem 5. Electric Wire Hustle
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Jezabels 2. Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving 3. All Eyes On Saturn 4. Usurper Of Modern Medicine 5. Foxes
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Short.Fast.Loud TRIPLE J 2. Breakfast With Barr RTR 3. Out To Lunch Prisoner RTR
TV SHOWS
1. Breaking Bad 2. Modern Family 3. Parks And Recreation 4. Community 5. Grand Designs
MOVIES
1. The Hangover Part II 2. Bridesmaids 3. Paul 4. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 5. Hall Pass
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Local Music.
MOST OVERHYPED Indie/electro/pop/shit.
QUOTE/TWEET
“By sewing my butt to my chest, you’ve given me boobs I can touch all day.” Pierce Hawthorne, Community.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Charlie Sheen.
WA Today accidentally tweeted: “If Leon Davis somehow becomes a Docker, I’m going to punch a small child.”
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
London Olympics to be marred by mass rioting and Paul McCartney.
1. Thrice 2. Blink-182 3. The Jezabels 4. All Eyes On Saturn 5. Prince
MOST OVERHYPED “This perfume bottle looks like a Staryu!” My mum.
“SHITBAG” - Liam Gallagher on Twitter.
SONGS
ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
NICKI MINAJ
1. Words In The Water THRICE 2. Super Bass NICKI MINAJ 3. Alone ALL EYES ON SATURN 4. Step Step MR MAPS 5. Endless Summer THE JEZABELS
SONGS
1. Under Cover Of Darkness THE STROKES 2. The Death Of You And Me NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS 3. Love Is A Laserquest ARCTIC MONKEYS 4. A Conversation At Revolver THE VASCO ERA 5. Neat Little Rows ELBOW
1. Before the Shadows Find Their Homes ALL EYES ON SATURN 2. Wait For Calm 7-inch STATUES 3. I’m A Villain And I’m Online I, SAID THE SPARROW
An absolutely epic year for live shows coming to Perth and an equally epic Drum Media party.
Have your say: facebook.com/drumperth
QUOTE/TWEET
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Every comment that has FML in it. Really, your life is so hard?
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Great music and a well deserved premiership for Fremantle Football Club, and plenty of beers to toast them both! 31
MAC MCNAUGHTON
ALBUMS
1. Wounded Rhymes LYKKE LI 2. The Ground Cries Out JEFF MARTIN 777 3. The English Riviera METRONOMY 4. Black Rainbows BRETT ANDERSON 5. Broken Record LLOYD COLE 6. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 7. W PLANNINGTOROCK 8. Build A Rocket Boys! ELBOW 9. Timez Are Weird These Days THEOPHILUS LONDON
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Blueprint 808 STATE 2. Basement Jaxx Vs Metropole Orkest BASEMENT JAXX VS METROPOLE ORKEST 3. Life Is Full Of Possibilities DNTEL
SONGS
1. I Follow Rivers LYKKE LI 2. Miami Spider GALLOPS 3. Ice Cream BATTLES FEAT MATIAS AGUAYO 4. Midnight City M83 5. Lotus Flower RADIOHEAD
ARTISTS
1. Jeff Martin 2. Tomas Ford 3. James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) 4. Björk 5. M83
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Leftfield 2. Elbow 3. Portishead 4. Jesus Jones 5. Primal Scream
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Tomas Ford 2. Sam Perry 3. The Panics 4. Paul Dempsey 5. The Clouds
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. TV Tonight 2. (The Customer Is) Not Always Right 3. Pitchfork 4. Aussielicious 5. The Worst Of Perth
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Sound Lab TRIPLE J 2. 2011 TRIPLE J 3. Out To Lunch RTR
TV SHOWS
1. Dexter 2. Good Game 3. Rage 4. Ninja Warrior / Unbeatable Banzuke 5. The Amazing Race Australia
MOVIES
1. Jane Eyre 2. X-Men: First Class 3. Super 8 4. Thor 5. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
The Loft Sundays at Geisha. (Also: Having lunch with Jeff Martin – so generous of time and spirit, a total champion!).
MOST OVERHYPED
Twitter. It’s just Facebook for people with ADD.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Tom Six’s recent video nasty The Human Centipede contained a scene in which the titular victims endure forced defecation from the hapless soul connected to their throat. Nothing But The Beat’s relentless flow of crap is just as brutal in its execution and thanks to the millions belatedly suckered in, is just as unavoidable”. Mac McNaughton’s review of the new David Guetta album, The Drum Media Issue 260.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Playstation Network gets “compromised”.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
ARIAs downsized and held at Rosemount Hotel. San Cisco win Album Of The Year. Best ARIAs ever. 32
MARCIA CZERNIAK FLEET FOXES
MARNIE ALLEN THE BLACK KEYS
MICHAEL CAVES BEASTIE BOYS
ALBUMS
1. Bon Iver BON IVER 2. Burst Apart THE ANTLERS 3. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 4. Ukelele Songs EDDIE VEDDER 5. A Creature I Don’t Know LAURA MARLING 6. Prisoner THE JEZABELS 7. Moonfire BOY & BEAR 8. Gilgamesh GYPSY & THE CAT 9. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 10. Parallax ATLAS SOUND
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. A Treasure NEIL YOUNG 2. What’s Going On 40th Anniversary Edition MARVIN GAYE 3. Nevermind 20th Anniversary Edition NIRVANA
SONGS
1. Holocene BON IVER 2. Calgary BON IVER 3. Go Outside CULTS 4. Endless Summer THE JEZABELS 5. Rapunzel DRAPHT
ARTISTS
ALBUMS
1. El Camino THE BLACK KEYS 2. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 3. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 4. Bon Iver BON IVER 5. Ritual Union LITTLE DRAGON 6. Era Extrana NEON INDIAN 7. Underneath The Pine TORO Y MOI 8. SBTRKT SBTRKT 9. Unknown Mortal Orchestra UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 10. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST
SONGS
1. Bon Iver 2. The Jezabels 3. Cults 4. Boy & Bear 5. Split Seconds
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The National 2. Local Natives 3. The Antlers 4. Deerhunter 5. Junip
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Lindisfarne JAMES BLAKE 2. Lonely Boy THE BLACK KEYS 3. Holocene BON IVER 4. Ritual Union LITTLE DRAGON 5. Fall out NEON INDIAN
ARTISTS
1. Portishead 2. Kurt Vile 3. The National 4. Bon Iver 5. M83 KURT VILE
1. Boy & Bear 2. The Middle East 3. The Jezabels 4. Dan Sultan 5. Drapht
1. The English Riviera METRONOMY 2. Yuck YUCK 3. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 4. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two BEASTIE BOYS 5. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 6. Angles THE STROKES 7. Seefeel SEEFEEL 8. Breaking The Frame SURGEON 9. Zonoscope CUT COPY
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS 1. Smile Sessions THE BEACH BOYS
SONGS
1. The Wall YUCK
ARTISTS
1. Yuck 2. LCD Soundsystem 3. James Blake 4. The Chemical Brothers
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. SONICSTATE 2. Reuters 3. Synthtopia 4. MusicRadar 5. Songl
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Caribou and Four Tet 2. Gary Numan 3. New York Dolls 4. Pulp 5. Death From Above 1979
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Google 2. Facebook 3. Sidereel 4. Megavideo 5. Etsy
1. Heirs 2. The Growl 3. The Brow Horn Orchestra 4. Seekae 5. Canyons
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Tom And Alex TRIPLE J 2. Hack TRIPLE J 3. 2011 TRIPLE J
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Sonictalk SONICSTATE.COM 2. Radio Lab RADIOLAB.ORG 3. Train Wreck RTR
TV SHOWS
1. The Big Bang Theory 2. Game Of Thrones 3. Gossip Girl 4. Weeds 5. Sunrise
TV SHOWS
1. True Blood 2. Housos 3. Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam 4. Spicks And Specks
MOVIES
MOVIES
1. Bridesmaids 2. The Ides Of March 3. Drive 4. Beginners 5. Red Dog
1. The Thing 2. The Hangover Part II
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Bon Iver.
MOST OVERHYPED Charlie Sheen.
QUOTE/TWEET
“When drag queens love you, you will have a long career.” – Kathie Lee Gifford to PEOPLE.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Letting Kim Kardashian have access to Twitter.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
ALBUMS
It will have 366 days... unless the rapture hits us.
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Portishead 2. The National 3. Kurt Vile 4. Nas and Damian Marley 5. Phoenix
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Gary Numan awkwardly approaching the mic to say something profound and then watching him shy away and say nothing – ah bless.
MOST OVERHYPED
Future Music Festival at Joondalup Arena – the VIP Party in my front garden was much better and no acts were missed and drinks were free.
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
QUOTE/TWEET
1. Oh Mercy 2. The Growl
LCD Soundsystem: “That black eyed peas dirty dancing thing is worse than raping a cat. What is wrong with people? Do they hate ears?”
TV SHOWS
PREDICTION(S) 2012
1. Q&A
Have your say: facebook.com/drumperth
Even more great music coming from Western Australia.
MITCHELL WITHERS BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
PAUL BARBIERI
NICHOLAS OWEN GIL SCOTT-HERON
ALBUMS ALBUMS
1. +Dome SEEKAE 2. A Different Kind of Fix BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB 3. Days REAL ESTATE 4. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 5. Bon Iver BON IVER 6. Yuck YUCK 7. Father, Son, Holy Ghost GIRLS 8. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 9. Zonoscope CUT COPY 10. Wounded Rhymes LYKKE LI
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Total: From Joy Division to New Order JOY DIVISION/ NEW ORDER 2. TKOL RMX 1234567 VARIOUS/RADIOHEAD 3. Triple J’s Like A Version Vol 7 VARIOUS
SONGS
1. The Wilhelm Scream JAMES BLAKE 2. Words Out, Lights Gone BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB 3. 3 SEEKAE 4. Ffunny Friends UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA 5. Cold Feet JACK LADDER
ARTISTS
1. James Blake 2. Bombay Bicycle Club 3. Seekae 4. Lykke Li 5. Kanye West
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Local Natives 2. The National 3. Public Enemy 4. Tallest Man on Earth 5. Foals
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Middle East 2. Paul Kelly 3. Cloud Control 4. Jonathan Boulet 5. Bastian’s Happy Flight
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Google 2. YouTube 3. Pitchfork 4. Later With Jools Holland 5. ABC
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Breakfast With Barr RTR 2. Hack TRIPLE J 3. Ambient Zone RTR
TV SHOWS
1. Gruen Planet 2. Q&A 3. The Hamster Wheel 4. Intervention 5. Banged Up Abroad
MOVIES
1. Snowtown 2. The Greatest Movie Ever Sold 3. Drive 4. Kung Fu Panda 2 5. We Need to Talk About Kevin
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR Upgrading the size of my bed.
MOST OVERHYPED
1. The King Of Limbs RADIOHEAD 2. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 3. We’re New Here GIL SCOTT-HERON AND JAMIE XX 4. SBTRKT SBTRKT 5. Purge Audit PURGE AUDIT 6. Sri Digger DIGER ROKWELL 7. SILLA Beattape BUGSEED X ILL.SUG 8. Blackbird BON CHAT BON RAT 9. Red Alert SUNSHINE BROTHERS 10. Sonpsilo Circus SONPSILO CIRCUS
SONGS
1. NY Is Killing Me GIL SCOTT-HERON AND JAMIE XX 2. Rolling In The Deep (Nodzilla Remix) ADELE 3. Free THE STOOPS FEAT GEORGIE KAY 4. I Feel Dirty (Able Remix) TOMAS FORD 5. One Out Of A Million DEL THA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN
ARTISTS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
3. Kiss My WAMi Compilation 2011 VARIOUS 2. Icky Mettle ARCHERS OF LOAF 3. Achtung Baby Anniversary Edition U2
1. Smoke Ring For My Halo KURT VILE 2. Days REAL ESTATE 3. Bon Iver BON IVER 4. Black Up SHABAZZ PALACES 5. Helplessness Blues FLEET FOXES 6. Circuital MY MORNING JACKET 7. Burst Apart THE ANTLERS 8. The Rip Tide BEIRUT 9. Monkeytown MODESELEKTOR 10. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will MOGWAI 1. Inni SIGUR RÓS 2. What’s Going On 40th Anniversary Edition MARVIN GAYE 3. Pinkerton Deluxe Edition WEEZER
GEOFFREY GURRUMUL YUNUPINGU SHABAZZ PALACES
SONGS
1. All I Think About OSCAR + MARTIN 2. West End Girls BEN SALTER 3. Machu Picchu THE STROKES 4. Gopuru GEOFFREY GURRUMUL YUNUPINGU 5. Good Girl ADALITA
ARTISTS
1. Mulatu Astatke 2. Shapeshifter 3. Fat Freddy’s Drop 4. Gotye 5. Onra
1. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu 2. Tex Perkins 3. The Paradise Motel 4. Wilco 5. Adalita
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. SoundCloud 2. Triple J Unearthed 3. Bandcamp 4. YouTube 5. Facebook
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Mulatu Astatke 2. Onra 3. Shapeshifter 4. Fat Freddy’s Drop 5. Holy Fuck
1. Stone Temple Pilots 2. Rob Zombie 3. Primus 4. Monster Magnet 5. Gomez
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Redcoats 2. Birds Of Tokyo 3. Ben Salter 4. Tusk 5. The Novocaines
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. Grace Barbé 2. Goldfields 3. The Sunshine Brothers 4. Kimbra 5. Tame Impala
1. BBC Music 2. SEN 3. Soccernet 4. The Guardian 5. Twitter
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Full Frequency RTR 2. Breakfast With Barr RTR 3. Home & Hosed TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Afternoons with the Doctor TRIPLE J 2. 2011 TRIPLE J 3. Mondayitis Podcast SPORTAL
TV SHOWS
1. Dexter 2. Spooks 3. How To Make It In America 4. The Inbetweeners 5. Misfits
1. At The Movies 2. Game Of Thrones 3. Foreign Correspondent 4. The Hamster Wheel 5. How I Met Your Mother
MOVIES
MOVIES
1. The Guard 2. The King’s Speech 3. Charlie Casanova 4. Crazy, Stupid, Love 5. Hobo With A Shotgun
1. The Guard 2. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 3. Inside Job 4. Thor 5. Contagion
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
All the live music, company, food, beverages, the band I play in (Brow Horn); it’s been a good year!
MOST OVERHYPED
QUOTE/TWEET
QUOTE/TWEET
“Hard to be humble when you stunting on a jumbotron.” Kanye on Twitter.
“I’m a fuckin’ walkin’ paradox, no I’m not.” Tyler, The Creator.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Dollar Bills. I will find gold.
ALBUMS
1. The Whole Love WILCO 2. El Camino THE BLACK KEYS 3. Last Battles RUSSIAN WINTERS 4. Father, Son, Holy Ghost GIRLS 5. Superhappyfuntimesfriends REGURGITATOR 6. Wounded Rhymes LYKKE LI 7. Rrakala GEOFFREY GURRUMUL YUNUPINGU 8. Mirror Traffic STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS 9. Adalita ADALITA 10. Ashes & Fire RYAN ADAMS
1. The Singles Collection: 2001-2011 GORILLAZ 2. Entr’acte THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA 3. Fifteen Years Of Hospital Records VARIOUS
The rise of the ‘side tattoo’.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
The highjacking of dubstep by ‘pop’ artists. Don’t hate on the genre it’s still good!
Tony Abbott announcing his “fear of homosexuals” in a 60 Minutes interview that went viral.
RICK BRYANT
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Simon Katich’s personal attack on Michael Clarke
MOST OVERHYPED Ricki-Lee Coulter.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I’ve answered that question already, champ!” Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade reacts angrily to questions after a big loss to West Coast.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Qantas ha.
Qantas asking the Twitterati about a luxury Qantas experience just weeks after flight cancellations.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Hopefully the year of innovation. This year new and interesting things have infiltrated.
Rebecca Black gets pregnant, Kyle Sandilands discovers the Centrelink queue.
Have your say: facebook.com/drumperth
SONGS
1. Peeping Tomboy KURT VILE 2. Video Games LANA DEL REY 3. Are You... Can You... Were You? (Felt) SHABAZZ PALACES 4. It’s Real REAL ESTATE 5. Good Man RAPHAEL SAADIQ
ARTISTS
1. Portishead 2. Kurt Vile 3. My Morning Jacket 4. Sufjan Stevens 5. The Weeknd
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Sufjan Stevens 2. Portishead 3. Kurt Vile & The Violators 4. Local Natives 5. Built To Spill
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The Kill Devil Hills 2. Canyons 3. Felicity Groom 4. Cut Copy 5. Umpire
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Crikey 2. Guardian Football 3. Bureau Of Meterology 4. Gorilla Vs Bear 5. Audiokarma
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Rock Rattle and Roll RTR 2. The Book Show ABC RADIO NATIONAL 3. Full Frequency RTR
TV SHOWS
1. The Slap 2. Breaking Bad 3. Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam 4. First Tuesday Book Club 5. Boardwalk Empire
MOVIES
1. Midnight in Paris 2. The Tree Of Life 3. Crazy, Stupid, Love 4. 13 Assassins 5. Submarine
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Otis and Henry, 8 October, 2011. The universe became a little bit finer.
MOST OVERHYPED Tyler, The Creator.
QUOTE/TWEET
“You can’t process me with a normal brain.” Charlie Sheen
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Kyle Sandilands’ many abhorrent acts. Just piss off, fool.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Julia Gillard to become the country’s finest orator after accidentally swallowing a frog. 33
ROB BROWNE
ALBUMS
1. Section 80 KENDRICK LAMAR 2. The Gate KURT ELLING 3. Take Care DRAKE 4. Cole World: The Sideline Story J COLE 5. When Fish Ride THE COOL KIDS 6. Watch The Throne JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST 7. Return Of 4eva BIG KRIT 8. Welcome Reality NERO 9. How Do You Do MAYER HAWTHORNE 10. The Life Of Riley DRAPHT
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS 1. House Of Balloons THE WEEKND 2. Nostalgia FRANK OCEAN 3. Day & Night TA-KU THE WEEKND
SEBASTIAN D’ALONZO
RUEBEN HALE
ALBUMS
ABOVE & BEYOND
ALBUMS
1. Thoughts Become Things II MARKUS SCHULZ PRESENTS DAKOTA 2. Northern Lights GARETH EMERY 3. Group Therapy ABOVE & BEYOND 4. Die Antwoord DIE ANTWOORD 5. Making Mirrors GOTYE 6. SBTRKT SBTRKT 7. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 8. The Memory Machine JULIE STONE 9. Playing In The Shadows EXAMPLE 10. Zonoscope CUT COPY
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Live Lounge - Vol 6 BBC RADIO 1 2. Life’s Rich Pageant (25th Anniversary Edition) REM 3. Nevermind Deluxe Edition NIRVANA
SONGS SONGS
1. The Knowing THE WEEKND 2. We All Try FRANK OCEAN 3. No Make Up KENDRICK LAMAR 4. Sideline Story J COLE 5. Promises NERO
ARTISTS
1. The Weeknd 2. John Legend 3. Frank Ocean 4. Nero 5. Gotye
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Facebook 2. YouTube 3. Twitter 4. Karmaloop 5. Seabreeze
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. John Legend 2. Flying Lotus 3. Dead Prez 4. TOKiMONSTA 5. Mayer Hawthorne
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Drapht 2. The Getaway Plan 3. Calling All Cars 4. Cosmo Getz 5. 360
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. All City RTR 2. Full Frequency RTR 3. Hip Hop Show TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. Entourage 2. The Inbetweeners 3. Breaking Bad 4. South Park 5. Misfits
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
John Legend playing Ordinary People at Belvoir – literally made me cry it was that moving.
MOST OVERHYPED Wiz Khalifa.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Look this is very serious people, I had to evacuate all my hoe’s from LA, Hawaii, and Japan. I had to do it. Lol” – 50 Cent’s Twitter regarding the natural disasters this year.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Every change Facebook make to their increasingly annoying site.
PREDICTION(S) 2012 That the world won’t end. 34
1. Hold On SBTRKT 2. Sleepwalkers MARKUS SCHULZ 3. Somebody That I Used To Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 4. Citadel GARETH EMERY 5. The Wilhelm Scream JAMES BLAKE
ARTISTS
1. SBTRKT 2. Gotye 3. James Blake 4. Gareth Emery 5. Markus Schulz
1. Arabia Mountain BLACK LIPS 2. Skying THE HORRORS 3. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 4. In Love With Oblivion CRYSTAL STILTS 5. Parallax ATLAS SOUND 6. Take Care, Take Care, Take Care EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY 7. Shapeshifting YOUNG GALAXY 8. Burst Apart THE ANTLERS 9. Within And Without WASHED OUT 10. Underneath The Pine TORO Y MOI
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. The Best Of Pink Floyd: A Foot In The Door PINK FLOYD 2. The Dada Tapes VARIOUS 3. Singles Collection (1992-2011) BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
SONGS
1. Still Life THE HORRORS 2. Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair ARTIC MONKEYS 3. Design Desire ABBE MAY 4. Somebody That I Used to Know GOTYE FEAT KIMBRA 5. Caroline SUGARPUSS
ARTISTS
1. Gotye 2. James Blake 3. Abbe May 4. Bon Iver 5. Tyler, The Creator
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Duck Sauce 2. Example 3. Snoop Dogg 4. U2 5. Foo Fighters
1. Facebook 2. Wikipedia 3. Pitchfork 4. Google+ 5. Life Is Noise
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Primal Scream 2. The National 3. Beach House 4. Deerhunter 5. Junip
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. The Aston Shuffle 2. Gyroscope 3. Art Vs Science 4. Angus & Julia Stone 5. Sneaky Sound System
1. Gareth Liddiard 2. Grinderman 3. Gotye 4. Abbe May 5. Pond
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Google Earth 2. Facebook 3. Twitter 4. Oxford Happiness Survey 5. FML
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Mix Up Exclusives TRIPLE J 2. Friday Night Shuffle TRIPLE J 3. Mix Up TRIPLE J
1. Out To Lunch RTR 2. Homegrown RTR 3. Breakfast With Bar RTR
TV SHOWS
1. Louie 2. Curb Your Enthusiasm 3. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 4. Frozen Planet 5. Angry Boys
TV SHOWS 1. True Blood 2. Breaking Bad 3. Mad Men 4. The Wire 5. Outnumbered
MOVIES
1. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest 2. Dragonslayer 3. Drive 4. Super 8 5. Wasted On The Young
MOVIES
1. The Inbetweeners 2. Horrible Bosses 3. The Hangover Part II 4. Red Dog 5. Grown Ups
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Finishing University, ending 16 straight years of education. Woo!
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR The Queen leaving Australia.
MOST OVERHYPED
MOST OVERHYPED
Andrew WK failing to get me to maximum level party hard at the Big Day Out.
QUOTE/TWEET
The Queen.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Welcome back Egypt.” – Wael Ghonim.
“If Tegan and Sara Need Some Hard Dick, Hit Me Up” Tyler, The Creator’s response to Tegan and Sara’s criticism of his lyrics.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
PREDICTION(S) 2012
PREDICTION(S) 2012
All the schmucks who still believe they can organise a party on Facebook and only have their mates turn up! The world is going to financially implode and we will have to grow our own food and live in villages.
The line up announcements and following un-announcements of the Big Day Out Here’s hoping Sugar Army’s next album will blow minds.
Have your say: facebook.com/drumperth
SIMON HOLLAND
ALBUMS
1. One For Sorrow INSOMNIUM 2. Glorious Collision EVERGREY 3. Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa MOONSORROW 4. The Beginning Of Times AMORPHIS 5. Deathstar Rising BEFORE THE DAWN 6. Bilateral LEPROUS 7. The Lay Of Thrym TYR 8. Epsilon BLOOD STAIN CHILD 9. Azbu ABSU 10. Surtur Rising AMON AMARTH
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. From Fear To Eternity IRON MAIDEN 2. Hell Over Sofia - 20 Years Of Chaos And Confusion HYPOCRISY 3. Falling Deeper ANATHEMA
SONGS
1. Be Still And Know MACHINE HEAD 2. Every Hour Wounds INSOMNIUM 3. Before The Dawn DEATHSTAR 4. Time To Grow MYRATH 5. Bol’no Mne ARKONA
ARTISTS
1. Alice Cooper 2. Insomnium 3. Gotye 4. Opeth 5. Voyager
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Iron Maiden 2. Alice Cooper 3. Dimmu Borgir 4. Finntroll
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Voyager 2. Pathogen 3. Chaos Divine 4. Claim The Throne 5. Red Descending
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. Wikipedia 2. Metacritic 3. NFL 4. Digg 5. Cracked
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. David Attenborough’s New Life Stories BBC RADIO 4 2. The Ricky Gervais Show RICKYGERVAIS.COM 3. Nights With Alice Cooper NIGHTSWITHALICECOOPER.COM
TV SHOWS
1. Game Of Thrones 2. Breaking Bad 3. An Idiot Abroad 4. Go Back To Where You Came From 5. Frozen Planet
MOVIES
1. The First Grader 2. Tomboy 3. The Inbetweeners 4. The Adventures Of Tintin: Secret Of The Unicorn 5. Drive
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
A decent winter. God I’ve missed thunderstorms.
MOST OVERHYPED
Pop Culture – You swarm great things like a plague of locusts and leave it barren and wasted. You’ve even managed to ruin food for me.
QUOTE/TWEET
“As small people we are used to being pushed around and exploited by big people. But here there aren’t any big people and everything we do is for us,” Chinese Dwarven Village spokesman Fu Tien. “We’re creating a housing project designed for small people and we have to create something unique. We’re going to build houses like big mushrooms and big shoes.” President of the Little People’s Association Perry Berry.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
YouTube comments. Toxic gas should be released from your computer speakers each time that, if nothing else, at least renders you infertile.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Zombie Apocalypse. They’ll watch TV, shuffle paperwork, follow trends and not think a single original thought. Oh wait...
TOMAS FORD
ALBUMS
1. Moment Bends ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI 2. Design Desire ABBE MAY 3. L’Abandon MARIANNE DISSARD 4. Fatty Folders ROMAN FLÜGEL 5. Sex Poems DOSH LUCKWELL 6. Let England Shake PJ HARVEY 7. Crazy Clown Time DAVID LYNCH 8. Spirits HAYLEY BETH 9. Feel The Pain THE PAINKILLERS 10. Unknown Mortal Orchestra UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Rock And Roll Is Where I Hide DAVE GRANEY 2. Rewiggled: A Tribute To The Wiggles VARIOUS 3. Achtung Baby Anniversary Edition U2
SONGS
1. White Sugar MATHAS 2. Together PATRICK WOLF 3. Redux ABE SADA 4. Animalia VOLTAIRE TWINS 5. Middle Aged Unicorn On Beach With Sunset ALEKS AND THE RAMPS
ARTISTS
1. Diger Rokwell 2. Sam Perry 3. Kylie Minogue 4. Architecture In Helsinki 5. Abbe May
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. TheMusic.com.au 2. FasterLouder 3. Pitchfork 4. The Quietus 5. Mess+Noise
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Kylie Minogue [ARIA Hall Of Fame admission must have been a clerical error – Ed] 2. Iggy And The Stooges 3. LCD Soundsystem 4. CSS 5. The Adults
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Mathas 2. 6s & 7s 3. Abbe May 4. The Vasco Era 5. Adam Brown
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Jamdown Vershun RTR 2. Down Underground RTR 3. Breakfast With Barr RTR
TV SHOWS
1. Media Watch 2. Celebrity Apprentice Australia 3. Gruen Planet 4. The Bazura Project 5. Futurama
MOVIES
1. Attack The Block 2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 3. Beginners 4. Rango 5. Incendies
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Spending my weekends last summer in Margaret River mixing a new album and drinking too much wine was pretty hard to top.
MOST OVERHYPED
Lion King Indie. The floor tom belongs behind the drum kit. Your mum’s Rhythm Of The Saints album belongs IN THE BIN.
QUOTE/TWEET
“I just found the Australian version of me and he couldn’t be more horrible.” - British Twitter user Thomas Ford upon discovering my YouTube channel.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
#QantasLuxury. To coincide with the Qantas workplace dispute going to arbitration, Qantas committed PR suicide on Twitter.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
Skrillex will win a million Grammys and hopefully reach such a point of overexposure that I never have to hear another brostep tune ever again.
TRISTAN BROOMHALL
TRAVIS COLLINS
HELMS ALEE
STEFFI
ALBUMS
1. Zonoscope CUT COPY 2. James Blake JAMES BLAKE 3. Bon Iver BON IVER 4. SBTRKT SBTRKT 5. House Of Balloons THE WEEKND 6. In The Grace Of Your Love THE RAPTURE 7. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 8. Within And Without WASHED OUT 9. Injured Ninja Vs Skylazer INJURED NINJA 10. Welcome Reality NERO
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
SONGS
1. Speed & Sound (Regis Z-Arts Lab Mix) SANDWELL DISTRICT 2. Obsidian INIGO KENNEDY 3. Isochime ALASKA 4. The Power Of Doubt SURGEON 5. Tof (Tommy Four Seven Remix) LUCY
ARTISTS
ALBUMS
1. Abzu ABSU 2. Weatherhead HELMS ALEE 3. Ethereal Surrogate Saviour COERCE 4. David Comes To Life FUCKED UP 5. Garten Der Unbewusstheit CORRUPTED 6. Jason... The Dragon WEEDEATER 7. Karpatia OMEGA MASSIG 8. Ascension JESU 9. Celestial Lineage WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM 10. Exmilitary DEATH GRIPS 1. Voyager: Sounds Of The Cosmos RAZOREYE 2. Ad Noiseam Summer Label Compilation VARIOUS 3. Whitedivisiongrey AGALLOCH
SONGS
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
1. They Found My Skull In The Nest Of A Bird TANGLED THOUGHTS OF LEAVING 2. Many Jewels Surround The Crown PRURIENT 3. Walking Corpse 2112 BRUTAL TRUTH 4. Dental Plan USURPER OF MODERN MEDICINE 5. DRGNFKR GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!
1. Resident Advisor 2. Juno Records 3. RTRfm 4. Boiler Room 5. Groove groove.de
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Leftfield 2. Ben Klock & Marcel Dettmann 3. Loco Dice 4. Portishead 5. Plastikman
ARTISTS
1. Fucked Up 2. Primordial 3. Grim Fandango 4. Ipsissimus 5. Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES
1. Future Of The Left 2. Wu-Tang Clan 3. Trash Talk 4. Fucked Up 5. Teenage Bottlerocket
1. Paul Payne 2. Rudy 3. Puff 4. Luke Reti 5. Sunshine Brothers
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
1. Full Frequency (Tuesdays) RTR 2. RA Podcast RESIDENTADVISOR.NET 3. Boiler Room Podcasts BOILERROOM.TV
MOVIES
1. Hanna 2. Limitless 3. Pina 4. Submarine 5. Shaolin
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving 2. I Exist 3. Coerce 4. Extortion 5. Blood Duster
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
2011 has been a standout year for techno releases. Unfortunately most Perth clubs do not support techno events.
MOST OVERHYPED
James Blake, SBTRKT and sooo many more.
QUOTE/TWEET
“..what Skrillex does, it’s really grassroots man.” Diplo, Spin Magazine.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
Richie slams Berghain’s ‘egotistical door policy’ on Facebook after he was kicked out of the club.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
MISCELLANEOUS ALBUMS
1. Lucy 2. Sandwell District 3. Objekt 4. Surgeon 5. Cosmin TRG
I’ll try my luck at Berghain then off to Sonar, Time Warp, Exit Festival and anywhere else my rather dismal life savings will take me.
NERO
ALBUMS
1. Wordplay For Working Bees LUCY 2. Feed-Forward SANDWELL DISTRICT 3. Breaking The Frame SURGEON 4. Thora Vukk ROBAG WRUHME 5. The Invisible Insurrection DESOLATE 6. The Messenger PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEMS 7. Resolution 653 INSTRA:MENTAL 8. What Have We Learned MORPHOSIS 9. Simulat COSMIN TRG 10. Yours & Mine STEFFI 1. Feed-Forward Versions VARIOUS/SANDWELL DISTRICT 2. 1234567 The King Of Limbs Remixes VARIOUS/RADIOHEAD 3. DJ-Kicks VARIOUS/GOLD PANDA
TROY MUTTON
1. Al-Jazeera News 2. ABC 3. Encyclopaedia Metallum 4. The Wire 5. Metal Sucks
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Behind The Mirror RTR 2. Difficult Listening RTR 3. Burn The Airwaves RTR
TV SHOWS
1. DJ-Kicks VARIOUS/GOLD PANDA 2. Fabriclive 59 VARIOUS/FOUR TET 3. Essential Mix JAMES BLAKE
SONGS
1. I Never Learnt To Share JAMES BLAKE 2. Need You Now CUT COPY 3. Sail Away THE RAPTURE 4. Trails Of The Past SBTRKT 5. Intro M83
ARTISTS
1. Cut Copy 2. The National 3. Gotye 4. The Jezabels 5. The Weeknd
ONLINE DESTINATIONS 1. TheMusic.com.au 2. Badass Digest 3. Perth Now 4. Texts From Bennett 5. Facebook
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. The National 2. LCD Soundsystem 3. Holy Fuck 4. The Hives 5. Simian Mobile Disco
AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCES 1. Gotye 2. Cut Copy 3. Gold Fields 4. Gypsy & The Cat 5. Albatross
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS 1. Mornings With Zan TRIPLE J 2. Trainwreck RTR 3. 2011 TRIPLE J
TV SHOWS
1. Breaking Bad 2. Celebrity Apprentice Australia 3. The Office (US) 4. Parks & Recreation 5. Community
MOVIES
1. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 2. The Tree Of Life 3. Bridesmaids 4. Your Highness 5. Submarine
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Lazy but true: There seem to be amazing shows in Perth every week, keep it coming.
1. Four Corners 2. 7.30 3. Dateline 4. The Drum 5. Cycling Central
MOST OVERHYPED
MOVIES
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK UP
1. If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front 2. Snowtown 3. In Time 4. A Screaming Man 5. Drive
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Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All – worse than ‘Ye.
QUOTE/TWEET
“Drinks back at ours?” Me, foolishly, every weekend. Fabric, I mean, Ginger Nightclub aka every new venue opening themselves to mass criticism over FB.
PREDICTION(S) 2012
More hangovers, more good times. 35
aping jerk-piece Play; such hatred due largely to being coldly confronted about their own racial prejudices, belief in the moral ‘goodness’ of cinema, etc.
ALEKSIA BARRON
GOODBYE 2011 GAME OF THRONES
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
BRIDESMAIDS
One doesn’t LISTEN to the radio, one is ON the radio.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
Right wing columnist writes column decrying ‘our tax dollars’ being spent on artwork x. Controversy erupts. Won’t someone please think of the children? News cycle turns on, world forgets controversy. Rinse, repeat. (There is no definitive moment, just the unending status quo.)
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
TOP 5 FILMS
“You used to have to go on a meditation retreat to feel that you’re alone, to feel that silence, to feel the panic of isolation and disconnection, and then find the peace within that. Now, all you have to do is just shut off the internet for five minutes, and already you’re asking the big questions: ‘Who am I? What do I do now?’” Miranda July.
1. Bridesmaids 2. Black Swan
3. We Need To Talk About Kevin 4. X-Men: First Class 5. The Help
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
1. Breaking Bad Another year, another poll, another wrap-up. The days just fly by when your days are filled up with film and television and music and theatre. This year’s poll was closer to the Writers’ Poll than ever before, culminating in the same film winning both polls. Topping the poll with more than twice as many votes as the next film for Front Row, Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive came out as our favourite film, proving that 2011 was most definitely the Year Of Hey, Girl Ryan Gosling (whatever, People magazine). By far the coolest piece of celluloid in years, the combination of striking performances, a sexy soundtrack, insanely lush cinematography, and a unique take on the action film delivered the goods... and then some. Only one point separated second and third placed films, Bridesmaids and The Tree Of Life; the Kristen Wiig vehicle offering the most laughs of the year, whilst Terrence Malick’s long-gestating existential drama certainly dominating the eye candy domain. Red Dog, the story of a pup uniting a town, represents Australia in fourth place, proving that our writers aren’t cold and jaded, whilst Midnight In Paris rounding out the poll in fifth proves that our writers wish they’d been born in the hedonistic days of pre-war Paris. In the TV domain, HBO polled highly once again, with the first season of the sprawling epic Game Of Thrones echoing the film results and annihilating its competition, with twice as many votes as second-placed Breaking Bad. David Simon’s post-The Wire New Orleans drama Treme came in third, whilst sadly-axed Community (which has made a household name of almost its entire cast in the past year) and, somewhat surprisingly, Gossip Girl rounding out the top five – the AMC double of The Walking Dead and Mad Men not quite making the cut. Zombies are dead, huh. On stage, it was a year of blockbuster theatre, with Melbourne dominated by Ewan Leslie’s portrayal of Hamlet for MTC, Malthouse’s runaway success Thyestes, and the little play that could, The Economist, pushing a lot of buttons with its confrontational topic – Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik – and getting pop-up theatre MKA a lot of press. In Sydney, Belvoir got the year off to a mighty start with The Wild Duck, which set the benchmark for the year. Griffin gave an immensly impressive season, with the return of Speaking In Tongues, the smash-hit Silent Disco, and the heartbreaking And No More Shall We Part. Sydney Theatre Company continued to do what they do best: insanely good, edgy arena-scaled theatre, with The White Guard, Gross und Klein, and Malthouse’ Baal the standouts. And in a market saturated by festivals, Imperial Panda launched itself with much acclaim. Meanwhile, Brisbane’s indie theatre scene thrived, with Under The Radar, World Theatre Festival, La Boite Indie, and Metro Arts providing most of the year’s highlights; New Zealand ensemble Hackman’s Apollo 13: Mission Control immersive theatre experience at WTF being the year’s highlight. A return season of boy girl wall, and another Claire Marshall production also stood out. Perth Theatre Company and Blue Room Theatre dominated the west coast, but Barking Gecko’s adaptation of Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree shone brightest, and returns for Perth Festival. Most impressive on the local comedy scene was Ryan Coffey, who played a packed-out series of shows at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe, with a stint at Sydney Fringe in-between, garnering much acclaim. Other notables: Claudia O’Doherty with her science lesson What Is Soil Erosion? and Eddie Perfect, whose Misanthropology was perhaps the most-watched show of the year. In 2012, we look forward to checking out more from thespian Gareth Davies and Sydney-based theatre trio post; seeing how Silent Disco’s film adaptation develops and hoping Julia Leigh is quick in following up Sleeping Beauty; and finally finding some semblance of quality Australian television that doesn’t involve cops or cooking. Adios hombres, Daniel Crichton-Rouse 36
Seeing Steve McQueen’s Shame and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Alps. Hunger and Dogtooth = two of the truly great artworks of the third millennium. Oh, the expectations, the anticipation, the holding out hope for something remotely as transcendent...
2. Game Of Thrones 3. 30 Rock 4. Homeland 5. Community
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS 1. Hamlet (Melbourne Theatre Co.) 2. Funk It Up About Nothing 3. ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Malthouse) 4. Mat Fraser & Julie Atlas Muz: The Freak And The Showgirl 5. The Cherry Orchard (Winterfall Theatre)
TOP 5 COMEDIANS 1. Eddie Perfect
2. Fear Of A Brown Planet 3. Marcel Lucont 4. Michael Workman 5. Charlie Pickering
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
Less giant transforming robots, less Adam Sandler, less romantic comedies that paint sociopathic behaviour and debilitating mental illnesses as zany quirks. Less blogs, less ‘like’ buttons, less people spamming you to vote for them in some meaningless poll, less lives lived entirely in the void of the digital dystopia. More anything with a brain, more narrative unpredictability, more artists happy to mock and provoke and fuck with an audience. Less crowdpleasin’, more thoughtfulness. Is this the space to also wish for an end to talentless, tasteless, cultureless losers photographing their plates of food and uploading the pixels online as supposed shining beacon of their meaningful existences? Less idiocy, less making me feel like I’m living in idiocracy, less noise, less volume, less everything.
BAZ MCALISTER
Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Non-Victorians are missing out on this. Great acts, big laughs, and an entire city comes alive. Fantastic.
TOP 5 FILMS
BEST PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
2. The Guard
Not quite my scene, although I did enjoy listening to all those people bemoan the death of Art Nation on talkback radio.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
The ABC showed The Slap, and a million people watched it. Home-grown drama is back with a bang (or slap).
1. True Grit
3. Attack The Block 4. Drive 5. Super 8 TRUE GRIT
BEGINNERS
5. I Feel Awful (Queensland Theatre Co./Black Lung Theatre)
TOP 5 COMEDIANS 2. Steve Hughes 3. Jamie Kilstein 4. Daniel Kitson 5. Tommy Tiernan
TOP 5 VIDEO GAMES 1. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Melbourne International Film Festival. Because, as always, it was immense to the point of intimidation; so many hundreds of films, so few hours to watch them. Mostly, I liked being in an audience who absolutely hated Ruben Östlund’s obnoxiously provocative, Haneke-
Is it too late for Peter Jackson to cast me as a dwarf in The Hobbit? If the fat one pulls out, I’m up for it, Pete.
BETHANY SMALL
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Sleeping Beauty 2. Melancholia 3. Magic Trip 4. Midnight In Paris 5. We Need to Talk About Kevin
TOP 5 TV SHOWS 1. Game Of Thrones
2. Boardwalk Empire 3. Underbelly: Razor 4. True Blood 5. Gossip Girl
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS 1. EDTV (Eddie Sharp; Imperial Panda)
2. LANDforms (Sydney Dance Company) 3. The 39 Steps (Sydney Fringe) 4. Who’s The Best? (post/Sydney Theatre Company) 5. Claudia O’Doherty: What Is Soil Erosion?
TOP 5 ART EXHIBITIONS 1. Kut (Alaska Projects)
2. Georg Baselitz (Rex Irwin Art Dealer) 3. Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris (AGNSW) 4. Pablo Picasso (Annandale Galleries)
Canvas on FBi.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
1. Doug Stanhope
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
4. Pygmalion (Queensland Theatre Co.)
5. Fleurs du Mal
Two words: The Hobbit. Well, really five words – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
5. The Killing (US)
3. Orphans (Queensland Theatre Co.)
4. Norwegian Wood
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
Marina Abramović & Debbie Harry cutting and serving cakes made in their life-sized liknesses at a MOCA LA fundraiser.
2. Julius Caesar (La Boite)
3. Incendies
“What a beautiful fuckin’ day.” Sgt Gerry Boyle, The Guard
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
1. Apollo 13: Mission Control (Hackman/World Theatre Festival)
2. The Future
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
2. The Walking Dead 4. Breaking Bad
1. Beginners
Probably seeing my buddies’ movie Crawl premiere at Screamfest LA in Mann’s Chinese Theatre.
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
3. Hell On Wheels
TOP 5 FILMS
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
TOP 5 TV SHOWS 1. Game Of Thrones
ANTHONY CAREW
Adam And Joe on BBC 6 Music.
Beyond The Frame, at White Rabbit. This is their fifth exhibition and actually is overall my least favourite so far, but it contains the amazingest video work ever, Wang Jun-Jieh’s Project Rrose, which, shut up that you don’t like video art this has fire and Duchamp and tits.
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
More Muppets. Fewer muppets.
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
“Smooth move, Ferguson.” 30 Rock. An instant entry into everyone’s lexicon. Everyone good, anyway.
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
Brisbane International Film Festival – just goes from strength to strength.
5. Debut Album (Chalk Horse)
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
The Muppets!
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
2. Batman: Arkham City 3. Deus Ex: Human Revolution 4. Saints Row: The Third 5. L.A. Noire
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“I’m David’s widow,” as said to me by a lady to whom I had been expounding the nature and duration of my crush on David Aspden at a showing of his work.
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
The AGNSW is doing a major Francis Bacon show next year. I am revising my Deleuze and my head has already exploded.
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012 Ponies.
SLEEPING BEAUTY
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
BOB BAKER FISH
GAME OF THRONES
The most defining moment was seeing MKA’s The Economist on the mainstream news stations with the slogan ‘Small Melbourne Play’. The fact that a “small Melbourne play” made Channel Ten, Seven, and Nine is staggering. Independent theatre is often an art form that is challenging to gain audiences for outside family and friends. Yet here is a new Australian play creating this kind of media stir.
TOP 5 FILMS
1. The Hunter 2. How I Ended This Summer 3. Essential Killing 4. Red State 5. Helldriver
The arrival of the second volume of Stephen Sondheim’s annotated lyrics, Look, I Made A Hat.
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
Ticket prices for the theatre and musicals should be cheaper and Book Of Mormon should tour Australia.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR THE HUNTER
The Plague Dances, The Wild Duck, and Blood Wedding at Malthouse; Medea for Belvoir; Queen Lear at MTC.
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
DANIEL CRICHTON-ROUSE
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Drive 2. Take Shelter 3. The Turin Horse 4. Martha Marcy May Marlene 5. Senna
1. Treme 2. Game Of Thrones 3. The Daily Show 4. Breaking Bad 5. Foreign Correspondant
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Blue Valentine 2. Midnight In Paris 3. The Future 4. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 5. Black Swan
TOP 5 TV SHOWS 1. Gossip Girl 2. Killing Time 3. The Slap 4. Gavin And Stacey 5. The IT Crowd
ABC Radio National’s By Design, hosted by Alan Saunders. Whether the talk’s of typography or interior design, city planning or visual arts, it’s always an engaging listen. The arrest of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and the jailing of Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof are the most important arts stories of the year. Other than that, Ryan Gosling’s jacket in Drive.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“Can-a muh fukkasay fuck on here?” Samuel L Jackson, introducing himself on Twitter in superb fashion.
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012 Biennale of Sydney. Simon Amstell. Philip Glass doing the Qatsi trilogy. Roxette.
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
CASSANDRA FUMI
TOP 5 FILMS
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
1. Game Of Thrones 2. True Blood 3. Grand Designs (UK) 4. The Hour 5. Gourmet Farmer
The mainstream media can stop asking family and religious groups their thoughts on the arts, as no one cares what they think.
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
1. Loot (Sydney Theatre Co.) 2. Speaking In Tongues (Griffin Theatre Co.) 3. And No More Shall We Part (Griffin Theatre Co.) 4. Smoke & Mirrors (Sydney Festival) 5. In The Next Room, or the vibrator play (Sydney Theatre Co.)
DANIELLE O’DONOHUE
1. Pirate Rhapsody, Mermaid Requiem (Tommy Bradson; Melbourne Fringe) 2. J.A.T.O (MKA) 3. Christina: A Story With Music (Attic Erratic) 4. Moth (Malthouse) 5. A Mouthful Of Birds (VCA)
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
The mad square: modernity in German art 1910–37 at NGV, because it contained a huge amount of art forms from film, paintings, portraiture, sculptures, Dada installations, and photography. Mad square also had amazing curators that enabled the viewer to go on a journey through the time periods and emerge feeling somehow uplifted in the possibility of art preserving despite everything. I feel perhaps I enjoyed it more as I took a tour, having someone with a wealth of knowledge discussing works always seems to make them more affecting.
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
SmartArts with Richard Watts (RRR). This programme is great as it always provides insightful provocations on things happening in Melbourne, mostly performing arts and spoken word. It was incredibly useful during the Melbourne Fringe and the Melbourne Festival season, as he discussed highlights and things worth seeing as well as raising and sparking many discussions about the content of the productions. BLUE VALENTINE
1. Oranges And Sunshine 2. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 3. Elena 4. The Eye Of The Storm 5. Beauty Day
TOP 5 TV SHOWS THOR
1. Bored To Death 2. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 3. True Blood 4. South Park 5. Pop Asia
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
TOP 5 ART EXHIBITIONS
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
ORANGES AND SUNSHINE
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
We can broaden our audiences.
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
DAVE DRAYTON
“The light not so much lit the set as it sculpted the darkness.” Alison Croggon
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
1. Outpost (Cockatoo Island) 2. Anthony Lister: Bogan Paradise (AS Gallery) 3. Surface Tension (aMBUSH Gallery) 4. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World (QAG) 5. Primavera 2011 (MCA)
1. Masterclass (Gareth Davies & Charlie Garber; Imperial Panda) 2. The Interminable Suicide Of Gregory Church (Daniel Kitson) 3. Silent Disco (Griffin Theatre Co.) 4. The Wild Duck (Belvoir) 5. Baal (Malthouse/Sydney Theatre Co.)
TOP 5 ART COMEDIANS
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
Anthony Lister: Bogan Paradise. Old porn shop somehow made creepier, and significantly more awesome.
1. Ryan Coffey 2. Demetri Martin 3. Paul Foot 4. Gabriel Iglesias 5. Claudia O’Doherty
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Thor 2. X-Men: First Class 3. Warrior 4. Rango 5. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2
TOP 5 VIDEO GAMES
1. Sonic Generations 2. L.A. Noire 3. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception 4. F1 2011 5. Limbo (PS3)
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
Outpost on Cockatoo Island. Its use of the island, as well as the sheer talent on display make it my most anticipated festival of 2012, if it returns. Also, Jurassic Lounge! A festival every week! MICF, Imperial Panda, and Sydney Festival also deserve a mention. DRIVE
1. Game Of Thrones 2. Doctor Who 3. Gossip Girl 4. Being Human 5. Rescue Special Ops
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS 1. Mary Poppins 2. Belong (Bangarra) 3. Hairspray 4. My Bicycle Loves You (Sydney Festival) 5. Entity (Sydney Festival)
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW Born Angry.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
The amount of beards on Sydney’s theatre stages, and the fact that their quality often came close to matching that of the performances on stage.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“I had one hot cup of tea and too much time to think, so I rewrote the story of us.” Ginger Alford
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
Markus Zusak finally delivering the next novel.
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
Bringing Philip Glass’ Einstein On The Beach to Australia.
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
The mad square. It was very creative time in German art.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
Book Of Mormon: The Musical winning nine Tonys despite its very wrongtown subject matter.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“This ain’t reality TV. This is eight shows a week. Every chorus member that you saw tappin’ had to make miracles happen.” Neil Patrick Harris performing a rap celebrating theatre to end this year’s Tony Awards.
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TOP 4 ART EXHIBITIONS
GUY DAVIS
1. Matisse: Drawing Life (GoMA) 2. we miss you magic land! (Children’s Art Centre, GoMA) 3. World Press Photo Exhibition (Brisbane Powerhouse) 4. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World (QAG)
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Drive 2. True Grit 3. Warrior 4. Midnight In Paris 5. The Tree of Life
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL WARRIOR
On QR’s Ipswich line, somewhere between Taringa and Toowong, there’s a stretch of wall that’s so regularly attacked by artists and QR employees alike that I’ve come to view it as an amorphous exhibition and a necessary forum for subversion. The perseverance of those clutching cans has been downright inspiring. Damn the man.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
It’s easy for some of us to treat the arts with a certain level of irreverence. So here’s a moment of uncharacteristic gravity: the number of volunteers who turned up in the aftermath of January’s floods to help get Brisbane’s arts organisations back up and running is testament to just how much Queenslanders value the arts. Ticket sales and attendance levels should be considered a faulty gauge of 2011’s success; if there’s a defining moment to be found it will be in those days and weeks after the floods.
TOP 5 TV SHOWS 1. Game Of Thrones 2. Archer 3. Breaking Bad 4. Community 5. Rubicon
A Sydney equivalent of Melbourne’s Australian Centre for the Moving Image or Canberra’s Nation Film and Sound Archive.
Art Nation, ABC.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
1. Drive 2. Midnight In Paris 3. Norwegian Wood 4. Submarine 5. True Grit
Opening night of The Table Of Knowledge (version 1.0 and Merrigong Theatre).
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
Freddie from The Hour to the widow of a dead spy: “I won’t hurt you, I’m from the BBC.”
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
1. Breaking Bad 2. Bored To Death 3. Parks And Recreation 4. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia 5. 30 Rock
2012 Sydney Festival.
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
More government funding and more venues. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
WTF with Marc Maron ain’t bad.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
The beginning of all life on Earth in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“Go fuck yourself.” Logan (Hugh Jackman), X-Men: First Class
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
I may be setting myself up for a fall here but as an Edgar Rice Burroughs fanboy from way back I’m mad keen to check out John Carter.
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
Hey, Criterion, stop region-locking your Blu-rays!
HELEN STRINGER
Come November, The Twilight Saga will finally end. I anticipate worldwide celebrations amongst the literate. No longer will cinemas be plagued by sparkly, vegetarian vampires. Feminism will be saved from Bella Swan. Vampires will go back to killing people instead of brooding them to death. In short, the world will be an infinitely better place.
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
For the love of God no more Romeo And Juliet productions. It may come as a suprise but Shakespeare did, in fact, write more than one play.
IAN BARR
MOVIE
1. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2. Red Dog 3. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 4. Drive 5. The Ides Of March
JAMELLE WELLS
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Red Dog 2. Snowtown 3. Oranges And Sunshine 4. Dreamland 5. The Interrupters
THE TREE OF LIFE
1. Game Of Thrones 2. Survivor 3. Louie 4. Pit Boss 5. Channel 9 Flood Appeal Telethon ENTER THE VOID
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
TOP 5 FILMS
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
TOP 5 ART EXHIBITIONS
1. The Hour 2. United States Of Tara 3. Big Love 4. Crownies 5. Bondi Vet 1. The Table Of Knowledge (version 1.0/Merrigong Theatre Co.) 2. Speaking In Tongues (Griffin Theatre Co.) 3. The Red Shoes (Kneehigh Theatre/Sydney Festival) 4. Driven To New Pastures (Sydney Festival) 5. Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll (Belvoir)
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
TOP 5 ART EXHIBITIONS
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
“Live” at Grassroots Tavern (House Next Door podcast at slantmagazine.com/house).
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
A big year for the hand-holding folks at the Office of Film and Literature Classication: Salò’s 35 year ban lifted – finally available on home video, largely because of some talking heads on the DVD features explaining it in the context of its historical moment and Pasolini’s career. Then A Serbian Film and The Human Centipede 2 receiving bans. OFLC: keeping adults kids (and illegal downloading alive) since 1970.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR Never say never.
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
KATE KINGSMILL
1. Louie 2. Breaking Bad 3. Community 4. The Bazura Project 5. Ebert Presents: At The Movies
1. Treme 2. The Slap 3. Media Watch 4. The Colbert Report 5. Oprah’s farewell season
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2
1. Drive 2. Enter The Void 3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 4. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never 5. Sucker Punch
RED DOG
1. The Tree Of Life 2. Certified Copy 3. Le Quattro Volte 4. Drive 5. We Need To Talk About Kevin
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
1. boy girl wall (La Boite) 2. Ruben Guthrie (La Boite) 3. Super Night Shot (Gob Squad) 4. The Hamlet Apocalypse (La Boite Indie) 5. No Man’s Land (Queensland Theatre Co./ Sydney Theatre Co.)
JOSH WHEATLEY / 5SPROCKET
TOP 5 FILMS
TV SHOW
TOP 5 FILMS
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
TOP 5 FILMS
“You know what? I’m a happy little vegemite being Prime Minister.” Kevin Rudd, Foreign Minister, partaking in the same wishful thinking as the rest of us.
Does the weekend I got stoned and watched the Star Wars saga on Blu-ray count?
3. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 4. Star Wars: The Old Republic 5. Mass Effect 3 Sydney Festival. Diverse and accessible.
JAKE MILLAR
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
1. Exposed (Sydney Festival) 2. Harry Potter: The Exhibition (Powerhouse Museum) 3. Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso (AGNSW) 4. Curating Cities: Sydney-Copenhagen (Customs House) 5. Makings Of Minto (Minto Library)
TOP 5 COMEDIANS 1. Mike Birbiglia 2. Anthony Black 3. Eddie Perfect 4. Wil Anderson 5. Sacha Marx
TOP 5 VIDEO GAMES
Four upcoming Terrence Malick films WTF OMG. 38
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
1. Batman: Arkham City 2. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
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1. Submarine 2. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest 3. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 4. The Kid With A Bike 5. Blue Valentine 1. Sex & Death (MONA) 2. Swoon (Metro Gallery) 3. Mongo Hustle (At Large) 4. Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences (ACMI) 5. Gallery Launch & Group Show (Egg Gallery)
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
Swoon exhibition at Metro. Not just because her work is beautiful and interesting but because she transformed the whole gallery space and created a little Swoon world.
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW SmartArts on RRR.
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BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Bridesmaids 2. Horrible Bosses 3. The Trip 4. Red Dog 5. Glee: The 3D Concert
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
Filmcast. Just a few fans talking and often disagreeing about film.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
Ricky Gervais hosting the Golden Globes.
More people could show the love for local productions. And theatre bars will always serve complimentary drinks.
ROBERT LUKINS
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
Jesus, it’s got to be “Winning!” hasn’t it?
TOP 5 FILMS
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
Second season of Game Of Thrones. CATFISH
1. The Eye Of The Storm 2. The Tree Of Life 3. Sleeping Beauty 4. Midnight In Paris 5. Another Earth
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW KCRW’s The Treatment.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
Drive. People found Refn, and girls got perplexed by Gosling.
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
1. Sherlock 2. Paper Giants 3. Parks And Recreation 4. The Slap 5. Downton Abbey
HORRIBLE BOSSES
TOP 5 COMEDIANS 1. Billy Connolly 2. Wil Anderson 3. Michael Workman 4. Eddie Perfect 5. Jason Byrne
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
More funding and recognition for Independent theatre. There’s a lot of talented people making art and living on very little.
MARCIA CZERNIAK
Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s 25 year miniphoto exhibition (worth it for Fleety’s Piece of Wood and Lano and Woodley’s sleeping bags alone – a comedy nerd’s hidden gem).
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
TV SHOW
TOFOP.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
Finale of Spicks And Specks, live and on TV. End of an era. Dignified, funny and sad all at once.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“Time to stop your crying now. If Batman and Robin acted like that people would have thought they were poofters.” Gran from Angry Boys. (Far from a perfect show, but moments of brilliance!)
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012
Details of the filming of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary specials (2013 release).
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
More collaboration between industries – artists, critics, and fans should get together more often.
MANDY KOHLER
TOP 5 FILMS 1. Catfish 2. Moneyball 3. Super 8 4. 127 Hours 5. Bridesmaids
TOP 5 TV SHOWS 1. Game Of Thrones 2. The Walking Dead 3. Hell On Wheels 4. Gruen Planet 5. Doctor Who
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
1. Apollo 13: Mission Control (Hackman/World Theatre Festival) 2. Rabbit (The Good Room) 3. Romeo And Juliet (Bell Shakespeare) 4. Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness (La Boite) 5. Pymalion (Queensland Theatre Co.)
“I’m afraid of that stupid planet.” Melancholia.
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012 Herzog’s Into The Abyss.
1. Albert Tucker: Images Of Modern Evil (Heide) 2. Forever Young: 30 Years Of The Heide Collection (Heide) 3. Emily Ferretti: Pot Plants And Landscapes (Gertrude Contemporary) 4. Daniel Stephen Miller: All Signs Point To (field 36, RMIT) 5. Rock Chicks (The Arts Centre)
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
1. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 2. The Tree Of Life 3. Bridesmaids 4. Your Highness 5. Submarine
Robin and Josie’s Utter Shambles.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Bridesmaids 2. The Ides Of March 3. Drive 4. Beginners 5. Red Dog
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
TOP 5 ART EXHIBITIONS
TOP 5 TV SHOWS 1. Community 2. Doctor Who 3. Spicks And Specks 4. Rage 5. Glee
SNOWTOWN
Perth Festival. It shall be awesome. And Mary Poppins coming to Perth.
Brisbane International Arts Festival.
Death of Steve Jobs. Apple’s products and their flow-on effects have incredible influence, like it or not. “I just killed a pig and a goat. I celebrated by drinking their blood naked at dawn.” Mark Zuckerberg
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012 Existential Eczema from Microflora.
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012 THE EYE OF THE STORM
1. Wicked 2. The Red Tree (Barking Gecko) 3. Tender Napalm (Perth Theatre Co.) 4. The Pride (Perth Theatre Co.) 5. Crazy For You (WAAPA)
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Breaking Bad 2. Game Of Thrones 3. The Office (US) 4. The Walking Dead 5. Parks & Recreation
TOP 5 VIDEO GAMES
I really, honestly don’t know.
TOP 5 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
TROY MUTTON
TOP 5 TV SHOWS
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
1. The Big Bang Theory 2. Game Of Thrones 3. Gossip Girl 4. Weeds 5. Entourage
Amazon.com.au (fantasy).
1. Batman: Arkham City 2. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception 3. Gears Of War 3 4. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 5. NBA 2K12
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
iHart Charity Sneaker Exhibition – good cause, great pieces.
PODCAST/RADIO SHOW
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
Everything Ricky Gervais does.
Rottofest. Comedy, film, music and quokkas. What more could you ask for!
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
Actual good movies making a bit of money at the box office again.
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT
The lack of interest in the Australian Government’s ‘Creative Industries, a Strategy for 21st Century Australia’. Go Australian Cultural Policy!
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
Everything that dribbled out of Charlie Sheen’s mouth.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“For the record, I do have genitals. They’re functional and aesthetically pleasing.” Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory THE IDES OF MARCH
SAM HOBSON
TOP 5 FILMS
1. Drive 2. The Skin I Live In 3. Snowtown 4. Biutiful 5. Hanna
MOST ANTICIPATED ARTS EVENT OF 2012 The Dark Knight Returns
HOW THE ARTS CAN BE IMPROVED IN 2012
Ditching region codes would help my Blu-ray purchases in 2012. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
TOP 5 TV SHOWS 1. Mad Men 2. Treme 3. Breaking Bad 4. Boardwalk Empire 5. Community
BEST ARTS FESTIVAL
GOMA’s Hitchcock retrospective, for various reasons.
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THE DRUM MEDIA • 67
singles/eps WITH marcia czerNiak
ON THE RECORD
SAN CISCO
LIVE
Awkward Independent
FROZEN OCEAN
SHE & HIM
Fabric/EMI
Independent
Spunk/Merge
Following bona fide rippers from the likes of Four Tet and Jackmaster, Dave Clarke rounds off a banner year for the Fabric mix series with a diverse set of muscular, retro-futurist tracks mixed with the ruthless efficiency that earned him the John Peelnominated moniker of The Baron Of Techno.
There are some bands in the world that are so different you end up asking yourself, are they good, with a taste for the experimental? Or are they just experimentally bad? Bjork has her moments, and Frozen Ocean has 52 minutes worth of moments with their second full-length release ‘Snoises.
ICEAGE
Clarke’s crate-digging is as thorough as ever. After you’ve been in this game a while, it’s tempting to believe you know your way around, but Clarke once again shows us up with a whole 70 minutes of devilishly obscure resources. What’s even worse is that they’re of a consistently high quality throughout. Crotaphytus’ Cnemidophorus Sexlineatus sets the mood, with a bassline that could have been ripped from an early Bauhaus single. Compared to past works, Clarke’s pace is a little less frenetic. Better known for chopping up battalions of 909s with all the brutality of a kung fu master, here he pays a little more attention to blending the doomy atmospherics of some seriously moody electro. Radically twisted cuts from Dez Williams and Clatterbox maintain the overall edginess, but the perhaps the choice morsels are Heliopause’s Destination Planet Earth, a machine-crunching slice of Kraftwerk-infused addiction, and Cristiano Balducci’s Pride, a stab of plain bloody malevolence highlighted by some dude barking incomprehensibly in Italian, neatly demonstrating that a few slivers of darkness are often funkier than a whole troupe of bongos.
Greeting your ears with the sounds of magpies cawing and some slow, bluegrass slide guitar, first track A Dark Jangle seems to be intentionally placed there to lull you into a false sense of security as follow-up track Lose Control creeps up with it’s ominously slow intro before frontman Peter Bibby’s deranged vocals appear. Then there’s the burst of overdriven noise that seems to pervade the album from henceforth. ‘Snoises feels like a big long jam between two mates who don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks, and I’d put money on that being the case. With lyrics like, “We don’t want water/ We want some motherfucking cordial” on the aptly named Cordial, billed as their attempt at a radio single, ‘Snoises actually provokes a laugh or two and proves to be quite entertaining in parts, although it does become a bit taxing listening to the whole album at once.
Regurgitating Christmas classics onto a shiny piece of plastic is a sure fine way to fill your wallet, but how many versions of Silver Bells, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and Sleigh Ride do we need? And it’s not like Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward need any more money. Luckily She & Him’s third studio album A Very She & Him Christmas takes the family classics and strips them back, leaving only an acoustic guitar and Deschanel’s soulful voice, giving them a hint of new life.
JOSH PYKE FEAT. KATY STEELE Punch In The Heart Ivy League Taken from his Only Sparrows album, Josh Pyke’s pairing with Katy Steele for this duet is, as corny as it sounds, a match made in heaven. Punch In The Heart revolves around their vocal union, their voices sitting perfectly together, with her higher, seductive tones intertwined with his – just as soft, yet masculine. With longing lyrics and subtle harmonies, this song is utterly beautiful.
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All up, Fabric 60 makes for an admirably cohesive beat-scape, ideal for open-minded dancefloors receptive to a bit of the dark stuff.
There are no definitive influences you could pull from ‘Snoises; it’s the bastard child of a smattering of genres with no conventional structure, no boundaries. If you’ve seen these guys live, then you’ll know this ethos extends to the way they play their instruments too. They’ve got chops, but no regard for ‘this is how it should/ shouldn’t be done’ kind of thinking. One thinks Jack White would love the shit out of this record at 3am.
If this was their first studio album, the motives of the release may have been slightly questionable, PILAT but because they have been recording andMtouring for five years now, it’s clear that Deschanel genuinely enjoys singing and this isn’t just another actor-gone-horrible-pop-singer. What makes this recording better than most Christmas albums is the songs Deschanel and Ward have chosen. Instead of grabbing the obvious and cheesy classics such as Jingle Bells or We Wish You A Merry Christmas, they have opted to give their attention to songs they could mould and reshape into something that won’t be as annoying if left on repeat.
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Iceage’s Broken Bone is one of those songs that hits you from the get go and holds you in for its 2.31-minute entirety. These Danish modern punks are only young, but you wouldn’t know it from listening to them. Broken Bone is a frenzy of power chords that hit you and make you realise that all the good things you keep hearing about this band are completely warranted.
A Very She & Him Christmas
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Who would have thought a song about text messaging could be so darn catchy? As things are starting to really take off for local four-piece San Cisco, their new single Awkward is propelling them at lightspeed into being WA’s next big thing. The dual vocals between Jordi James and Scarlett PILAT Stevens workMwell together, with a hook that just stays with you for hours after listening. The film clip for this song is also worth watching, bringing the song’s concept to life with text message bubbles, allowing us all to see the stalker within. Brilliant work guys.
If you’re going to be alone this festive season, this release is one to steer clear of; it’s strippedback, emotional nature can be faintly depressing at times. Otherwise, if you’re sick and tired of hearing the same old renditions year after year, it will make for some nice refreshing background music on Christmas day.
ANDY SNELLING
DANIEL CRIBB
LOU REED & METALLICA
RocKwiz
THE FAUVES
Vertigo/Universal
Renegade/Liberation
Shock
To be honest, I don’t know why I’m even reviewing this album. You’ve probably already read the reviews, almost all stating that it’s a musical abortion. Well, I am definitely not about to surprise you. Still, you can’t have an end of year edition without slaying the worst of the year as well. From the moment that Lou warbles in with “I would gladly cut my legs and tits off/When I think of Boris Karloff and Kinski”, Reed’s voice becomes increasingly ineffectual as the tracks go on, the disaster only aided by James Hetfield’s misguided backing vox and the completely indescribable addition of Metallica’s dragging two-chord metal riffs to Reed’s lyrics.
Criminally overlooked (a shame considering the stock of the guests who panel and perform as well as the celebrated freakish nerdiness of the quizzing), RocKwiz is the real music fan’s choice over the more popular Spicks & Specks. Each show is passionately played out with Brian Nankervis positioned as manager, the RockWiz Orkestra as the maladroit backing band, Dugald the tour roadie and Julia Zamiro the dualescent singer/groupie.
Andrew Cox, I feel your pain. Despite being one of the most singular, intelligent lyricists in Australian indierock and releasing a run of albums so consistent you could set your watch by them, The Fauves remain under-appreciated. Their previous album, When Good Times Go Good, was a slick affair produced by Midnight Oil’s Jim Moginie that didn’t make the impact it could have despite its commercial potential.
The Christmas specials over the last few years have grown to be one of the few genuine TV highlights of the season. This album, culled from the 2007 and 2009 spectaculars, comes across as quite the joyous carousal; a richly sincere offering compared to the trite Bieber/Buble/Boyle Christmas nightmares. Setting this compilation (2000) miles ahead of blander compilations is the preference for lesser-heard choices such as The Raveonettes The Christmas Song, or Sufjan Stevens’ Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time (here covered by Dan Kelly and Sally Seltman). It makes for performances that sound energised and keen, not tired and tossed out like so many other collections. Saying that, the absolute gem is Tex Perkins and Claire Bowditch dousing Fairytale Of New York with brandy. Elsewhere, Tim’s Rogers and Freedman, Adalita, Angie Hart and Vika Bull all appear at the door bearing immaculately wrapped gifts with the 2007 Christmas Medley and an ensembled Merry Christmas Everybody being worth their weight in RocKwiz gold.
On this new record, The Fauves have taken the completely opposite approach. Slamming down masses of material in a four-day studio marathon, this album is the first of two to be released from the sessions, with the second to be released next year. The hurried approach left no time for any bells and whistles on the songs, with the album instead showcasing the sheer competence of a band knocking great material out in one take. Highlights The French and Don’t Say When feature clever wordplay and memorable themes, key to the best Fauves material, which should see them become crowd favourites at the band’s increasingly rare shows.
Christopher H James
ME FIRST & THE GIMME GIMMES Sing In Japanese Fat Wreck Chords Me First & The Gimme Gimmes are one of those bands you hardly ever listen to, but when you randomly come across one of their songs you stop, smile and sing along. This punk rock supergroup have been covering the classics since 1995, and God love ‘em, this time they have released an EP of Japanese hits to try and sing along to. Key word being ‘try’. Unless you speak Japanese you won’t have a clue what they are singing about, but trying to sing along all the same is just as fun. Vocalist Spike Slawson also can’t speak Japanese and had to have the words given to him phonetically to ensure he pronounced them properly. Gotta love their dedication.
BLACK BOARD MINDS Hell With Me Independent Black Board Minds are a local four-piece with plenty of ambition. Their latest single Hell With Me has surf rock written all over it, and its well penned - a catchy tune with great potential for live gigs. Second track Wasting Away is a polar opposite of Hell With Me, and as it opens with an acoustic guitar you may think you know what is coming, some mellow melancholy pop song, but don’t be fooled. A full length is due from the band and it will be interesting to give it a listen, as this release shows BBM are definitely ones not to conform to genres.
BLUE KING BROWN FEAT. WICK-IT THE INSTIGATOR N.F.A.
Lion House Records Blue King Brown’s single Never Fade Away from their Worldwize Part 1 North & South album released August 2010 has been given a reworking by US dubstep producer Wick-it The Instigator. The result is a fresh take on the song while still keeping true the original BKB album version.
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Lulu
On The View, Reed admits that he wants “to see you suicide/I want to see you give up”, before Hetfield bursts in with some completely mistimed, yet equally inconsequential lyrics; “I am the root/I am the progress”. You don’t really need to know the rest of the lyrics. Mix and match the words “blood”, “pump”, “heart” and any euphemism for a vagina you can think of and you have the literary content of this album. Lou Reed’s voice has understandably degraded over time, but he could have put that ageing to good use, ala Johnny Cash and Neil Young. Instead he seems to be scrambling at any last semblance obtuseness can afford him. Honestly, as open-minded about this album as you want to be, it just doesn’t work. The first time you hear Lou Reed stating he will “Waggle his ass like a dark prostitute” while thrash riffs burst overhead, you instantly realise that the existence of such music means there is something wrong with the world. CAM FINDLAY
The Christmas Album
Japanese Engines
The value for money one gets from purchasing a CD such as this is obviously condensed to however many spins you squeeze into one month. But for a refreshing lack of disdain for the source material, this is packed with delighting Christmas presence.
The record only sags when the songwriting drops in quality for two tracks toward the end, but there’s never anything less than a decent song here. While the stripped-back sound is a by-product of the hasty recording process, it would be great to hear The Fauves really stretch their legs into a new musical space as they did on Lazy Highways and Thousand Yard Stare, as this record demonstrates their musical chops are still strong and they have the potential to better those career peaks. Until then, this is an enjoyable set of material from an enduring band that still deserves your attention.
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A SECOND SKIN Spanish actress Elena Anaya speaks to Guy Davis about working with Pedro Almodóvar in the director’s new film, The Skin I Live In.
WAR HORSE Given time off while animators coloured in Tintin, Steven Spielberg wasn’t going to waste it. Instead, he used it to direct War Horse, an adaptation of Michael Morpugo’s children’s novel about a horse, Joey, who passes through the hands of several owners on both sides of the lines during World War I. Spielberg has previously excelled with war movies Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, but has never looked at World War I nor used his films to help children understand the horrors of war. But in War Horse he has the perfect vehicle for both. There’s hardly a drop of blood seen, but Spielberg doesn’t sugarcoat his antiwar message, with youngsters and adults sure to be torn when Joey’s frantic flight leads him into no-man’s land. Cynics may complain about an unrealistic end, but it doesn’t detract from this stunningly-filmed, cautionary tale about war’s universal terror. WHERE & WHEN: Screening in cinemas from Boxing Day PAUL BARBIERI
If you’re at all interested in The Skin I Live In, the latest offering from acclaimed Spanish filmmaker and agent provocateur Pedro Almodóvar, you might want to skip this story. Or at the very least put it aside until you’ve caught the movie. Because while enjoyment of The Skin I Live In isn’t dependant on ignorance of a primary plot development involving a central character, it may help if you know as little as possible prior to taking your seat in the cinema. Still here? Okay then, I’ll tread as carefully as possible. At the core of The Skin I Live In is the unusual relationship between plastic surgeon Dr Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas, working with his Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! director for the first time in 20 years) and Vera Cruz (Elena Anaya), the beautiful woman kept captive in the doctor’s home. Vera is seemingly the very image of Dr Ledgard’s dead wife, but there’s more to Vera’s identity and appearance than just the surgeon’s experiments with artificial skin. A lot more. Vera is a tough role, multi-layered and multi-faceted, and Almodóvar had Anaya in mind for years while he was adapting French author Thierry Jonquet’s novel Mygale (a.k.a. Tarantula) into The Skin I Live In. While Anaya has become well-known in her native
Spain, throughout Europe, and internationally for her performances in films like Sex and Lucia and Room In Rome (or her appearance in the video for Justin Timberlake’s SexyBack!), she’d only worked with Almodóvar once before, having had a small supporting role in his 2002 film Talk To Her. “I had a panic attack of excitement and fear... but nice fear,” says Anaya when she first heard that she’d become the filmmaker’s latest muse. (Very nicely, she gently corrected my pronunciation of Almodóvar – the emphasis is on the ‘dó’.) “Then I met with him and he explained the story to me, and I was so impressed. Later on, I read the script and that impression just grew and grew. This film stays with you while you digest it. He offered me such a beautiful and complex role, and it was an
incredible opportunity to enjoy and to give the most of myself.” While Vera initially appears to be the victim, Anaya views her imprisoned character as “a strong person that really chose to live”, adding that the nature of Vera’s identity means she was playing one role inside of another. “Identity is something that we sometimes need to take care of and feed, to not die,” she says. “I played this role as someone who was held captive inside another person’s skin. She’s in an artificial skin that doesn’t belong to her, with a face that doesn’t belong to her. She says barely anything but feels a lot, and she has to be very careful about the emotions she shows.” Anaya is clearly an admirer of Almodóvar, admitting that she happily shaped her performance
to fit his vision of Vera. “There’s a certain atmosphere that always happens on any set,” she says. “If a director is very into it, then the crew follows even if they don’t know it. And this is very true with Pedro. People respect him so much. When he arrives on set, people whisper ‘Oh, Pedro has arrived...’ And Pedro explained to me that by taking on this role, there will be a kind of no-return. My character lives that journey of not being able to return and in a way I do, too. This character has changed my life. I have a beautiful family, but it’s so wonderful to also be a part of his family.” WHAT: The Skin I Live In WHERE & WHEN: Screening in cinemas from 26 December
SPOTLIGHT ON ASIAN GENRE FILMMAKING Bob Baker Fish talks to Neil Foley about his Fantastic Asia Film Festival, invading Perth IN THE NEW YEAR.
FRINGE WORLD PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED Perth’s Fringe World Festival is set to return for the second time in 2012, with a massive programme of over 150 shows happening over three and a half weeks, from 26 January to 19 February. As part of the festival, the old Treasury Building on St Georges Terrace will open its doors to the public for the first time in over 15 years, with the space being transformed into a key performance hub for the 2012 Fringe World Festival, hosting over 50 shows. Other major venues include the City of Perth Comedy Central hub in Northbridge and the Perth Cultural Centre. Programme highlights include return acts The Wau Wau Sisters (USA), Barry Morgan (AUS), and The Freak And The Showgirl (US/UK), as well as debutants The Table (Poland), The Year of Magical Wanking (Ireland), …miskien (South Africa), Die Roten Punkte (Germany), and Wacht! (Netherlands). Meow Meow (USA) will also be stopping off at Perth Fringe World, hot on the heels of her already sold-out Sydney Festival season. A strong line-up of local and national performers rounds out the programme, including Brisbane’s Briefs, Melbourne-based comedian Josh Earl with Josh Earl vs The Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book and Perth’s Tim Watts (The Adventures Of Alvin Sputnik) with his new show Pollyanna. STRUT dance will bring STRUTathon, a ten-hour dance marathon, and 2008 Blue Room Award winning production Hope Is The Saddest will be performed as part of The Blue Room Theatre’s Summer Nights programme. Full details can be found at fringeworld.com.au. 70 • THE DRUM MEDIA
In cinema there’s a line. Few dare to cross it. Yet when it’s crossed, amazingly innovative, excessive and strange things happen. Fantastic Asia Film Festival – or FAFF for short – celebrates this kind of cinema. “Part of what I do here [at Monster Pictures] is acquisitions of horror titles, and we’ve been looking for the best horror films and genre films around,” offers Neil Foley, founder of the Fantastic Asia Film Festival, “and a lot of the ones we were seeing, it wasn’t by design so much, but the best ones we were seeing were coming from Japan and Korea, so we acquired a bunch of those titles.” Yet this wasn’t enough for Foley, a man who delights in the excessive and extreme, in filmmakers who push the envelope and then crumble it up and spit it out with disdain. “That’s what makes these films so great,” says Foley with a laugh. “These people are pioneers of the disgusting. They go where no one else has gone before, and now have a whole mechanism behind them for doing that. They’ve set up companies to do this.” Foley believes that this sort of dedication should be rewarded, and set about rectifying the situation
with it’s own film festival to showcase the same. In Melbourne it became clear that despite the presence of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival and some random selections in MIFF that there is no dedicated film festival for Asian genre films. “There’s a lot of festivals around, but I actually find a lot of festivals quite staid,” Foley offers. “There’s a Japanese and a Korean one but they’re quite mainstream. There’s the odd film that’s not, but they don’t show much genre stuff. I am a big genre fan and knowing how many genre fans there are out there and how well genre films usually do at things like MIFF, it will be great
to expose people to this wave of exciting films from Asia.” The resulting programme – which is travelling to Perth early January – offers wall-to-wall horror, sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, action, sleaze and erotica, including zombie gorefest Helldriver, from Yoshihiro Nishimura. “You may remember him from Tokyo Gore Police, which he also directed,” says Foley. “He’s quite famous all around the world as an SFX guy. He’s got a studio in Tokyo where he does all the Sushi Typhoon films as well as a bunch of other films. He’s got a real signature style, a real body horror thing.” It’s something that Foley delights
in. “There’s not a lot of really creative stuff going on, and this is a celebration of really outlandish and outrageous thinking and realising people coming up with these fantastic wild imaginings and then actually doing them, which is just such a great thing. This is the exciting stuff; it’s colourful and busy and energetic, and well deserving of getting an audience on the big screen.” WHAT: Fantastic Asia Film Festival WHERE & WHEN: Luna Leederville Monday 2 January to Saturday 7
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As John Lennon sang, “So this is Christmas / And what have you done? / Another year over / And a new one just begun.” As the end of 2011 approaches, it is time to look back at the year that was and reminisce about what just went down in this wide world of ours. When you think of personalities over the past year your mind jumps to the train wrecks and there was no bigger collision than Charlie Sheen. His fall from grace was both entertaining and sad, with a much played out and public feud between him and Chuck Lorre and CBS. While some may have thought Sheen was on a one-way path to his ultimate destruction before the end of the year, Amy Winehouse beat him to it. There was more loss in the passing of some amazing actors and artists like Elizabeth Taylor, Harry Morgan and of course some of Australia’s own legends, actor Bill Hunter and artist Margaret Olley, both of whom made such significant contributions to their craft. Then there were the deaths that made big news like the passing of Steve Jobs and the killing of Osama Bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi. In other political news, little old Perth was under the spotlight for CHOGM, the event that stopped the State. Literally. Then, on a lighter note, there was the natural ending of things we have grown up with like the Oprah Winfrey Show. As Australian TV shows like Wild Boys and Rush came to a close (thank goodness in relation to WB), US TV shows Entourage and Smallville also came to an end after a
There was also excitement brewing in the air all across the world for the royal wedding. As Will and Kate tied the knot in front of 1,900 nearest and dearest people, millions more looked on down their television screens at the most elaborate Royal wedding of the decade. While 2011 saw the release of some damn fine movies, the big screen releases were definitely dominated by Ryan Gosling with three studio releases, each doing incredibly well. This year’s Hollywood it-guy may now be remembered for being in more movies other than The Notebook, and deservedly so. Back in Perth the new State Theatre Centre of Western Australia was opened, bringing WA into line with the rest of the states with a State facility. Since opening, the theatre has been the home of some amazing plays this year, some garnering a little more attention than others; who could forget Perth Theatre Company’s advertisement banishment after their ads for Tender Napalm? Perth also got a taste of the magical world of green with Wicked, and even though some people were sad to have missed out on Bert Newton, there is no denying how unbelievable this musical is. With New Year’s just around the corner, there are many other events to look back on and ponder as we get ready to tackle the great unknown. One of those being just how many A-grade actors are in films New Year’s Eve. So here’s to a great 2012, all 366 days of it, and as the Eskimos say, ‘ukiortame pivdluaritlo’.
THE SKIN THEY LIVE IN AFTER FIVE SEASONS, BRITISH TEEN DRAMA SKINS IS STILL GOING STRONG. ALEKSIA BARRON SPEAKS TO PRODUCER JOHN GRIFFIN AND CAST MEMBERS WILL MERRICK (ALO) AND SEAN TEALE (NICK) ABOUT KEEPING THE SHOW FRESH. By all accounts, the British teen drama Skins seems to be going from strength to strength. The sixth season will start screening in 2012, the show has a worldwide following, and its uniqueness has been confirmed by MTV’s failed attempt at making an Americanised version. Much of Skins’ success can be attributed to the format. Breaking with TV tradition, the Skins creators (father-and-son team Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain) decided to introduce an entirely new cast every two seasons. Skins isn’t so much a series as it is a brand, with a central philosophy of unflinching tell-it-likeit-is teenage drama, repackaged for each two-season cast of characters. The format has the advantage of allowing Skins to constantly connect with its key audience – teenagers. Will Merrick, who plays Alo in the current cast, wasn’t even watching
Skins when it premiered in 2007. “The first series came out when I must have been 13 [or] 12,” he recalls. “I wasn’t watching it when it was airing, because I was still, you know, playing with sticks and up in trees.” When the first cast change took place in 2009, Merrick started engaging with the show, and became a fully-fledged fan. “It’s not like 90210 – it’s far more gritty and British, which I like.” With most being fans of the show themselves, the young season five cast were acutely aware of how potentially fickle their audience could be. “They were big shoes to fill, but also a different pair of trainers altogether,” says Sean Teale, who plays Nick, in a moment of pure teenaged explanatory charm. He has a point, though, considering the near-melodrama that Skins portrayed in season four. After a year of murders, suicides, and mental
breakdowns, could audiences reconnect with new characters and storylines? “We went about it our own way,” says Teale. “We went with a less extreme perception of these teenagers’ lives. And we did okay, in the end. A lot of younger fans started to watch, because we’d introduced a younger age group.” It’s this cyclical element to Skins that drives its success. The show doesn’t necessarily have to retain its audience for years on end, because by “starting again” every two years, they have infinite opportunities to win over new, young viewers – especially those who, like Merrick, may have been too young for the show before. This is exciting to executive producer John Griffin, who became involved with the show in 2009. “I fell in love with the show, really – everything about the way it’s made and the way story is dealt with,” he says. In particular, Griffin loves the
way that the constantly changing world of teenagers provides the creative team with never-ending inspiration. Asked about whether the recent British riots will feature in the show, he points out that another youth movement in Britain has already shaped the upcoming season. “I think the thing that’s fed into the show more comes from this time last year, when we had the student riots,” says Griffin. “That really altered the mindset of young people in the country... and it’s really apparent in the series that’s going to screen in the new year. Our characters are students. The way they talk about school, their education, jobs, is different than it was in series one or two.” It’s a good reminder that Skins is more than just a graphic depiction of teen sex and drugs – it’s also a barometer of the world of the young. WHAT: Skins: Complete Fifth Series (Madman)
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OPETH BY ANGELA KING
TOUR GUIDE SPARKADIA
GIG OF THE WEEK:
OPETH
Metropolis Fremantle 20/12/11 Metropolis Fremantle played host to Swedish metal titans Opeth on Tuesday night with fans filling every perch available in anticipation of the extended set list. First they were treated to an excellent showing from South Australian prog-rockers Quiet Child. Recordings of these guys sounded quite thin and soulless, however the live experience shattered that notion. Thick guitar riffs developed into bang-worthy grooves layered with complimentary melodies throughout, not least those from the enormous lungs of vocalist/guitarist Pete Spiker. He soared with remarkable strength in his high register to captivate the audience and win over the doubtful fans. Opeth are a band close to many a darkened heart, with Mikael Akerfeldt a fearless hero that knew no bounds. In arguably the most controversial deviation of a sound, Opeth have taken elements from the classic eras of rock of which Akerfeldt is a fan, and blended it into their sound to create a new chapter in their hallowed story. In past shows, Opeth would build towards soul-crushing crescendos and deliver the main course without missing a beat. This was not that Opeth. This show was more aptly described as ‘A Pleasant Evening In With Mikael.’ Akerfeldt spoke calmly like a patient father and proceeded to explain the move towards the new sound and that he has simply transcended genres.
The set consisted of many of the tracks from the latest album and reflected this change, the effect of this live experience was not unlike lying in bed and listening to Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds before falling into a tranquil slumber. The Devil’s Orchard kicked off the set and followed immediately with I Feel The Dark, a back-to-back combination that Opeth are particularly fond of. Akerfeldt’s ‘heartfeldt tribute to Ronnie Dio titled Slither was exceptionally good. Face Of Melinda from the Still Life album stood alone as the crowd roared at its introductory notes, due mostly to relief that something with nostalgic value made an appearance. It was played flawlessly at that. Indeed, no show has polarised audiences such with many dyed-in-the-wool metalheads bitterly disappointed. However, even they possessed enough respect for the past accomplishments of the band to keep their objections to a minimum. It appeared the crowd appreciated the explanation that justified the need to explore new horizons, and after acceptance were treated to a relaxed set of top-notch musicianship. Akerfeldt had set out to educate and delivered a new world rife with possibilities. We just miss the old world. SIMON HOLLAND
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Kudos to Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked star David Cross (loving known around these traps as Tobias Fünke) for admitting that working on the film was “the worst experience of his career.” It’s also being slayed by the critics. Let’s hope this is the first chip off the serial’s block, sinking the Chipmunks’ ship and any further annoyances with it.
Punk’d is set to return to TV, sans Kutcher (one of the few things not to feature him fucking around/up of late), but this time giving the show a completely fresh angle… Ha, you just got punk’d! Yep, it’s going to be the same idiotic show it always was.
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BLOWING SNOW Props to City Of Bayswater for creating a Christmas Snow Dome at Maylands’ Rise. So good on so many levels.
END OF YEAR WOOOOOOO! [Sorry, we’re too excited about holidays to say anything mildly interesting here. Plus, now being on office break, we’re not even here til early Jan to make any lame attempts to be humorous]
PUNKS JUMP UP
AVALANCHE OF AVERAGE Whilst recording a track with Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux is pretty neat (though also scarily fitting considering her prime was a long, long time ago), if The Avalanches have taken this long to come up with song names like On A Saturday and Friday Night Fever then we really should quit any excitement for the always-coming album right now.
FRIDAY, FRIDAY Perhaps they thought that day-of-the-week names for songs are so hot right now, with Rebecca Black’s Friday music video the most-watched YouTube video of 2011 with 180 million views. Dear god,LANIE let’s hope LANE music does better in 2012… PIC BY cc hua
WONDERLAND @ FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE There’s some killer festivals coming up over the next few weeks where Drum skips a few editions (so we can see you at every single one!), but seeing as this is the Gig Of The Week section, honours go to Wonderland for kicking shit off in a fresh – and ultimately rather simple – way. One stage, five acts, a freaky theme, 3,000 masks and, most importantly, plenty of good times. Kicking off at 5pm, organisers Metric DJs will spin some opening tunes, before Tim & Jean (5.40pm), Strange Talk (6.35pm), Sparkadia (7.35pm), and the Grammynominated Cut Copy (9pm) bring the live indie-dance delights. Bag Raiders will also be on hand to fill a couple of the later gaps, DJ styles. There’s a few tickets left through Heatseeker for this rabbit hole-ride you really need to go down.
DRUM PRESENTS DRUM MEDIA IS PROUD TO PRESENT SHOWS INCLUDING: BREAKFEST: STANTON WARRIORS, HOLLYWOOD HOLT, A-SKILLZ, ILLY, NETSKY, SCRATCH PERVERTS, NAPT, SLYDE, THE LOOPS OF FURY and locals: DEC 26 Belvoir Amphitheatre COUNTDOWN TO NYE: LYRICS BORN, RUSS DEWBURY, N’FA and locals: DEC 31 Salt On The Beach ORIGIN NYE: NOISIA, FOREIGN BEGGARS (LIVE), BORGORE, DANNY BYRD, SHOCKONE, S.P.Y, MODESTEP (LIVE), CALYX & TEEBEE, 12TH PLANET, ROKSONIX, BCOMPLEX, ZOMBOY, ALIX PEREZ, LOADSTAR, OPIUO and locals: DEC 31 Belvoir Amphitheatre CLUB PARADISO: THE SHAPESHIFTERS, WYNTER GORDON: JAN 1 Salt On The Beach CUBAN CLUB: LYRICS BORN, SAMPOLOGY, YACHT CLUB DJS and more: JAN 1 Flying Squadron Yacht Club ARCTIC MONKEYS: JAN 6 Belvoir Amphitheatre PETE ROCK: JAN 7 Villa SOUTHBOUND: ARCTIC MONKEYS, ARJ BARKER, FLEET FOXES, THE JEZABELS, TIM FINN, CRYSTAL CASTLES, JOSH PYKE, PAPA VS. PRETTY, UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, DJ YODA, Aloe Blacc, Dan Deacon, Emma Louise, Jim Jones Revue, Josh Thomas, The Kooks, Lanie Lane, Metronomy and more: JAN 7 & 8 Sir Stewart Bovell Park THE KOOKS: JAN 9 Astor Theatre + PRINS THOMAS: JAN 25 Spiegeltent + THE STEPKIDS: JAN 25 The Bakery + OSCAR+MARTIN, GUERRE and locals: JAN 26 The Bakery + JUNKADELIC 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECTACULAR: JAN 27 The Bakery + KING TIDE CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL: JAN 27 Devilles Pad + 1000 PEOPLE BAND, THE KURBIST GONG BAND: JAN 28 Perth Cultural Centre
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+ MUSTANG BAR ORIGINAL MUSIC NIGHT: FEB 2, 9 & 16 Mustang Bar + PRINCE RAMA: Feb 3 The Bakery + THE PROM: FEB 4 The Bakery + METROPOLIS: AUDIO REDUX: FEB 6-8 The Bakery + HONG KONG MELODY MAKERS: FEB 8 Perth Town Hall San Cisco EP LAUNCH: FEB 9 Prince Of Wales; FEB 24 Fremantle Arts Centre + FAT SHAN MUSIC LAUNCH: FEB 12 The Bakery + THE ORB & BOMB THE BASS: FEB 17 Secret Venue + BALAM ACAB: FEB 17 The Bakery ERYKAH BADU, MAYER HAWTHORNE, FAT FREDDY’S DROP: FEB 25 Belvoir Amphitheatre RYAN ADAMS: FEB 25 Perth Concert Hall (PIAF) ENNIO MORRICONE: FEB 26 Sandalford Estate, Swan Valley (PIAF) BON IVER: MAR 3 Red Hill Auditorium (PIAF) FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL: NEW ORDER, Swedish House Mafia, Fatboy Slim, Paul Van Dyk, Tinie Tempah, The Wombats, Chase & Status (Live), Skrillex, Jessie J, The Rapture, FRIENDLY FIRES, GYM CLASS HEROES, PROFESSOR GREEN, Sven Vath, Die Antwoord, KNIFE PARTY, ZANE LOWE, JOHN O’CALLAGHAN and more: MAR 4 Arena Joondalup WILD FLAG: MAR 7 The Bakery Jay & Silent Bob: APR 18 The Astor
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Mojo’s Bar, Fremantle will host a massive eightband line up Monday 26 December to raise funds for Save The Children. Featuring performances by Fear Of Comedy, Arkayan (ahead of their single launch early next year), Heytesberg, Carthasy, Midnight Boulevard, Nevsky Prospekt, Red Engine Caves and Goat. $10 from 5.30pm. STC work to deliver programs to help disadvantaged, Indigenous, migrant and refugee children.
After over a year hiatus and releasing a debut LP on revered Australian independent label RIP Society, Golden Staph are once again playing live. They play in the old Angus & Robertson shop front at the Perth Train Station Railway Concourse this Friday 23 December as part of Foodchain’s Real to Reel pop up recording studio. See them record live from 7 ‘til 8.30pm.
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FAT FRIDAYS
Fat Shan Records’ favourite series Friday I’m In Love comes a week early tomorrow, Friday 23 December. The same great quality line-up will be down though, featuring The Kill Devil Hills’ Todd Picket, the constantly growing in sound and size Our Man In Berlin, and The Morning Night’s Adrian Hoffman. $7.50 tickets via admin@fatshanrecords.com, $10 door.
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Local movers’n’shakers Spinning Top host their own New Years Party at Mojo’s, Saturday 31 December, featuring Allbrook/Avery, Felicity Groom, GUM, Mink Mussel Creek, Pond and The Growl. The Spinning Top label is home to some amazing up’n’coming Perth acts, so if quality tunes are your thing, this is bound to be a cracking New Year’s party, which is why it’s sold out.
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After making the semi finals of the ISC, Byron Bay’s The Lucky Wonders’ well-earned place on the Australian folk/alt-pop stage was confirmed. They play Prince Of Wales Thursday 5 January with The Painted Bird; X-Wray Café Friday 6 with Rachel & Henry Climb A Hill; Wignalls Vintage Blues Festival, Albany Saturday 7; Denmark Tavern Sunday 8 with River Beats; Indi Bar Wednesday 11 with The Painted Bird and Ivory Wolf; Dunsborough Tavern Friday 13 & Saturday 14; and Redcliffe On The Murray Sunday 15.
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If you missed last year’s Star-Wars-Lion-King Nativity Play, you really can’t afford to miss the North Freo Bowls Club, Thursday 22 December. There will be bowls and a BBQ and many other little surprises, plus the awesome musical stylings of Claire Hollingsworth, Merle Fyshwick and Stu Orchard. Claire’s set will include folk acoustic interpretations of some Xmas faves.
PRESCIENT WITH DRUMMER TAZ BUCKLE. Give a brief rundown of the history of your act from day one to now: Early 2008 saw Drew (guitar) and Rob (initial bassist) auditioning and jamming with other musicians. But it wasn’t until late 2009 that I found myself completing the three-piece instrumental line-up as their drummer. After spending a solid 12 months writing and rehearsing, we took our show on the road, playing any gigs we could get, in any venue that would accept us. We actually managed to score a gig at a little pub that was not at all geared up for a metal show, we got literally five minutes into our set before blowing the venue’s power! After not fitting in too well with the locals, we decided to hit the studio and get our tracks recorded for a wider audience to hear. Tell us about your release: We’re just about to launch our debut EP, The Polynomial Framework. It’s half an hour in total, with all the time changes and riffs we’ve managed to create over the past two years squeezed into six tracks. Having no particular genre limitations, we’ve managed to get a bit of everything in there – from math metal patterns, to odd chord progressions layered with busy solo work, to clean and spacious jam sections. How did you go about recording it? We recruited Chaos Divine’s Simon Mitchell to record the EP, he is a friend of ours and we knew he did good work. He helped convert the small granny flat I was living in at
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the time into a studio. We spent eight days tracking, before getting Simon to do the mixing and then to James Hewgill to be mastered. Tell us about your launch party: After the tremendous amount of time and effort we put into bringing this EP alive, we wanted to make sure we did it justice by putting on a memorable release party, one that wouldn’t be forgotten anytime soon. One of our favourite venues has always been the Rosemount Hotel, for sound quality and general vibe, so that was an easy choice of venue. After considering their levels of musicianship and the overall awesomeness of their music, we asked Animistic, Pyromesh, and I Am Eternal to join us on the night. What’s next for your act? We have big plans for 2012. I don’t want to give away too much just yet, but let’s just say we have more new material than we know what to do with right now. We’ve got multiple original collaborations currently in the works (cough, vocals, cough), pre-production has begun for our debut album and a tour is definitely on the table.
SLIM FAREWELL
After 25 years of constantly working in the WA Music Industry, Slim Jim & The Phatts will perform their final gig at the Woodvale Tavern on Saturday 31 December. The decision to “call it a day” is due to each band member’s increasing obligations with business commitments, raising young families and alternative musical opportunities. Their legacy in the WA music scene cannot be ignored.
WHAT: The Polynomial Framework (Independent) WHEN & WHERE: Friday 6 January, Rosemount Hotel, North Perth
DAV XMAS
For a No Resolution New Year’s party, The Fly Trap are throwing a rocking party a day early, Friday 30 November, and featuring Aztech Suns, Ragdoll and the Julius Lutero Trio. Electrifying five-piece Aztech Suns have built up a reputation as one of Perth’s best rock bands following a successful EP launch earlier in the year and Grinspoon supports.
After another groovin’ good year for Dilip N The Davs, they’ve still got a few shows left in 2011 to keep you dancing. Thursday 22 December catch them at the Rosemount Hotel; Wednesday 28 at Rottnest Lodge; Thursday 29 at The Shed’s Uncovered series; and lastly big party times Saturday 31 December for NYE at Clancy’s Fremantle, with Carus Thompson, The Crux and Rachel & Henry Climb A Hill.
NORVOLTAIRE HOTEL
STACKED STOCKINGS
After returning home from launching the EP on the East Coast and scoring spots at SXSW and CMW in 2012, Voltaire Twins are celebrating a huge year with a huge party at Norfolk Hotel, joined by Bastian’s Happy Flight, Dublin Jazz Aunts and The Witness, plus King Tito’s and Fup Duck DJs over three areas. Tix $25 through venue.
Get ready to deck the halls with music as seven of Perth’s finest take to the stage at The Velvet Lounge to entertain and enthral you. Umpire, The Autumn Isles, Burgers Of Beef, The Sensitive Drunks, Leon Ewing and Ten Bit Tonsil will be ho ho ho-ing their way through a stack of tunes from 7pm, Friday 23 December. $12 door.
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It’s a Dirty Blues Christmas Hoedown at The Fly Trap in the Fly By Night musicians club Friday 23 December, featuring Guns Of August, The Dirty South and Lightning Jack. Guns Of August features Rhys Watson of triple j Unearthed winning band Astronaut and also B-Movie heroes, teaming with Johnny Ajax of The Homicides and Simon from The New Husseins and Chainsaw Hookers.
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Recent Jammin! competition winners Seams launch their 7” vinyl single on Beatroute Records Thursday 29 December at Ya Ya’s. Magic Circle is the band’s darkest and most erratic effort to date, an erotic occult jam that leaps from melodic psych to brash noise-punk freakout in the blink of an eye. They’re supported by Cow Parade Cow and Mei Saraswati. Doors 8pm, $8/$15 with single.
WAM UPDATE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS WITH JUSTINE THORNLEY WAM PROJECT OFFICER - WANTED! WAM have an opportunity for a dedicated industry professional to join our team in the position of 2012 WAM Project Officer. If you’re looking for a full-time position, and have experience running live music events and/or workshops, this may be the job for you! Applications close 5pm AWST Monday 9 January. Applications postmarked by this date will be accepted. Please visit wam.asn.au/work to view or download the Job Description Form – or contact Mike Jeffrey on 9227 7962 if you have any further questions regarding this role. WHAT CAN WAM DO FOR YOU? “Lovers have come and gone, but only my gentle mistress stays… Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.” – Duke Ellington. Supporting local contemporary music both recorded and live is WAM – your not for profit, membershipbased music association, existing to develop the WA contemporary music industry. Our annual subscriptions stay in WA to help your local industry grow with programs throughout the year. Visit wam. asn.au for more info.
HAIRY NEW YEARS Saturday 31 December sees The Hairy Fiesta at the Margaret River District Club. Catch Local Kiwi reggaeboys New Soundland, Matt Cal & The Black Heart Sun, Bridgetown blues queen Tracey Barnett, folk-rocker Leah Miche and DJs Iron Palm, Swami Adima and MC Amani from 6 ‘til 2pm. $40 at the door gets you dinner, champagne and more. Grow a beard for a hairy fiesta.
SUMMER SOLSTICE
Solstice is the celebration of our longest day and recognition of the darkness that follows. Join Fear Of Comedy, Heytesburg, Shock Octopus, Cautious Horsemen and Head Full Of Steam at the Rosemount Hotel Thursday 22 December to watch a blazing selection of alternative-rock bands set the stage alight for their great solar deity. $8 from 7.30pm.
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YOU ARE A CINEMA Celebrate New Year’s Eve with a hangover after watching rockers Cavefire Cinema and Lantana do their thing, along with Benny Mayhem and Pex in solo form at The Velvet Lounge. Free from 8pm, Friday 30 December. Avoid all the New Year’s Eve drongos with a rockin’ pre-party, and then be too hungover the next day to care!
A Hot Jazz New Year’s Eve Ball is what you’ll get at the Ellington Jazz Club Saturday 31 December, starring the Ali Bodycoat Quintet, and also featuring the Graham Wood Quartet. ellingtonjazz.com.au for tickets. It’ll be a Ball theme so if you feel like dressing up then stylish gowns, suits and hats will be the way to go – or you can come just come along with your normal sense of taste and style.
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Saturday 31 December sees the Shipwrecked Ball at Little Creatures Loft, featuring internationally recognised sword swallower and all round A-class stowaway Matty Blade, Simon Kelly’s Calypso Experience, Rumskull, Lady Velvet Cabaret and the Shipwrecked DJs from 8pm til late. Tickets $40 plus BF (including light food), through Heatseeker.
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RED APPLES Friday 6 January four local bands unite to let loose the Bad Apple Showcase on spectators at The Civic Hotel. Alternative blues outfit Blind Highway, blues/rock/ country act Red Dirt, four-piece alternative/progressive rockers Brown Study Band and prog-rockers Something Humble come together for an epic night of core rock’n’roll.
SEER LATER Four-piece rockers Seer Cya release their debut album Prohibition at the Rosemount Hotel Saturday 7 January, with support from The Love Conduit, Rare Shadow and Heath Marshall. Formed in 2009, the band consisting of Ryan Treby, Mark Rodregus, Cameron Fell and Ryan Pop bring together a range of influences from classic rock to modern punk on Prohibition.
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AULD LANG EVE
The Hyde Park Hotel is set to bring in 2012 in fine form with Auld Lang Hyde!, featuring the always entertaining Steve Parkin Band (lead by Steve Parkin from The Basement Birds), six-piece bluegrass/ roots act The Seals, international singer/songwriter troubadour Carus Thompson and local indie-country act of the moment Ruby Boots. Tickets $15 plus BF via Heatseeker/$20 door.
Melbourne’s Alpine head across the country on a headline tour celebrating new single Hands. The track is the first cut from their forthcoming debut album due out on early 2012. If you can’t get to Southbound (Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 January, Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton), they play Amplifier Saturday 7 January with Voltaire Twins and Runner, $15 plus BF through Heatseeker, Oztix and Moshtix.
SUNSHINE CLUB
Welcome the New Year with some roots, reggae and soul at the Fremantle Arts Centre’s fourth annual New Years Day Concert. The Sunshine Brothers – fresh off their third album – get you feeling good, joined by the likes of Spanish artist Depedro, Shangara Jive and Todd Picket. Get loose and relax with the good vibes. $20 through Heatseeker, $25 door. Or tonight, Thursday 22 December, at the Navy Club on High Street in Fremantle, Club Sandwich finishes up with a bang, hosting the reggae loveables. $10 door from 6 til 9.30.
HOT LOCAL GIG SPOTLIGHT
SHOCK OCTOPUS
A WINTERY NEW YEAR
Hit up the Rosemount on NYE to catch some local talent as Russian Winters (who stormed into the limelight in 2011 with the release of their debut album Lost Battles, securing album of the week in this mag as well as a Parklife slot) party alongside Abbe May, The Chemist and more. Tickets available through Heatseeker for the show, Saturday 31 December at Rosemount Hotel.
FESTIVE FIRKIN
Get down to a special Christmas Gathering at Ya Ya’s Friday 23 December for all the country folk who have to head home for the festive season. One last boogie in order, and it’ll be courtesy of The Daniel Firkin Trio and Wrongtown playing live, plus residents Our Kid Jamie and Lady Libertine fill all the gaps. $5 from 9pm til 2am.
MICHE NARKET
After a small break during the middle part of the year, Leah Miche and Miche Suite have a few shows to round out 2011 and kick on in 2012. Saturday 31 December catch them at the Hairy Fiesta at the Margaret River District Club with New Soundland, MC Armani and more, and Wednesday 4 January at Cape Mentelle outdoor cinema.
SNAP CRACKLE XMAS
Thursday 22 December Oh Snap at Villa are throwing their biggest party of the year with a ‘90s Punk Rock Christmas. Rocking live on the night will be nostalgic cover-tuners New Found Gloryhole, The Main Attraction and Life On A Plate. In addition of course the Oh Snap DJs fill all gaps with punk and party tunes ‘til the wee hours. $15 from 8pm.
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ARTS MARTIAL XMAS EVE AT INDI BAR Who’s playing your event and who should punters be most excited about seeing? This is our first headline show since February which was funnily enough at the Indi bar also so we’d like to think punters would be most excited about seeing us? Solid supports from Coveleski and Beside Lights also should really bring the festive cheer. What gave you the idea/theme for this show? People generally get a little bored and/or excited around Christmas Eve so we figured, why not have a party at a venue we love where everyone can get together and get a kick start on having a merry old time? What does your gig offer that others don’t? Christmas Eve only happens once a year. Indi Bar is
a smaller, more intimate venue so it’s bound to be friendly. What made you pick this venue? Played two sellouts at the Indi Bar, both of which have been a lot of fun. Good people. Sound is kickass. What’s next for your band? Finalise and release our debut album that we recorded the bulk of this year in Melbourne with Tom Larkin. Hopefully a heap of touring in lieu of its release. First single is available for free download from artsmartial.com.au. WHEN & WHERE: Saturday 24 December, Indi Bar, Scarborough; Saturday 31, Rosemount Hotel, North Perth; Southbound, Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 January, Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton
ABBE MAY Who’s playing and what sounds can be expected? Abbe May, The Chemist, Sons Of Rico, Boys! Boys! Boys!, Arts Martial, Russian Winters and Mezzanine on the main stage, with Cowboys & Indie Kids
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DJing in the Beer Garden. Expect hassle-free awesomeness. Why is your event the perfect way to spend NYE? The New Year’s Eve Fiesta gets better each year, and the people who come are a great mix of local music fans and others who just like the venue. Both types generally see it as a hasslefree night far removed from the unappealing NYE ‘hotspots’ which are high on the bozo factor. What will the countdown involve? Abbe May will be handling the countdown duties, so expect the unexpected! Sum the event up in five words or less? Good times and great tunes guaranteed. Best NYE/D moment that’s ever happened at one of your shows? Last year’s show’s punters got a very nice surprise when Birds Of Tokyo rocked up to join the bill. Fave memory of 2011 for you? Favourite show at the Rosemount was actually the first show of the year – Built To Spill on January 4, was an absolute cracker. Front End Loader and Tumblewood shows get the runners up awards. What event of yours are you most looking forward to in 2012? It’s very early to say as there’s heaps of great stuff that is yet to be announced, but tickets are flying out the window for shows from both Seether and 360, plus a bunch more announced very soon. WHEN & WHERE: Friday 31 December, Rosemount Hotel, North Perth
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FEEDBACK GIGNITION THE SWAN BASEMENT, NORTH FREMANTLE 18/11/11 The last for a few weeks, last Sunday’s Gignition kicked off with Mike Podmore playing his first solo show. Stripping band songs down to their most raw element, Podmore combined powerful strumming and expressive vocals to deliver a unique blend of acoustic/punk original tunes. Sleep Through was a clear highlight, immediately commanding attention and revealing a well of potential. Next up, Sophie Joy Madison hit the stage playing songs from her album Coming Home. Backed by keys and drums, Madison’s songs of lost love quickly had punters eating out of the palm of her hand. Beautiful harmonies and heartfelt lyrics fit together perfectly, particularly in tracks Pieces Of You and Just A Boy. At times the drums drowned the mix, but a few extra rehearsals will easily sort that out. Fresh from their move to Perth, four-piece Red Engine Caves wasted no time filling the Basement with testosterone and boundless energy. The blues-infused rock band delivered a polished set complete with foot thumping breakdowns and gritty vocals. Despite their unruly appearance the band played like seasoned pros. Expect to see more of them around here. Finally Sanssangria got busy creating colourful melodic soundscapes through expert usage of pedal boards. Whilst crowd interaction between songs left a bit to be desired, the air was soon drenched in waves of reverb and delay, putting the remaining listeners in a dreamlike state and proving to be the perfect ending to the evening. MAT CAMMARANO FELICITY GROOM THE BAKERY, NORTHBRIDGE 16/12/11 Perhaps due to it being the busy end of the year-stick, The Bakery was not as packed as anticipated last Friday night for the launch of Perth-grown folk-pop songstress Felicity Groom’s debut album Gossamer. When Joe McKee of Snowman hit the stage at 8.30pm to get things warmed-up with moody ease, numbers hardly grew and not much changed for Rabbit Island, which is a shame as their euphonic and humbling acoustic sounds were an easy listen. By the time Felicity Groom and Diger Rokwell began, a slow trickle of people had suddenly turned into a hoard of music and booze-hungry punters. While most were still lingering outside on their first pint, inside something totally captivating was being produced. Sultry and psychedelic with controlled and swaying vocals, these beats meant business. With sitar-sounding synth and electronic dub vibes all wrapped up in steady bass, the crowd was taken to a dreamy limbo-land. There was a Nujabes feel about Rokwell’s style, taking everyone deeper middle-east aided by Groom’s dance moves, hypnotically reminiscent of a snake in the charmers’ basket. Although Groom announced she’d be back in five, she was replaced with the near death-John Frusciante-style sounds of Nick Allbrook and band. It was evident that this lo-fi, distorted pop rock wasn’t to everyone’s taste, especially after the almost spiritual odyssey created prior. The swinging
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INJURED NINJA
INJURED HEARTS
It’s A Very Heartless Xmas Friday 23 December at The Bakery, featuring Injured Ninja (launching their Superluminessence 12”), plus French Rockets, smRts, Apricot Rail, Drop Macumba, Brown, Electric Toad and more. Tickets through nowbaking. com.au. Superluminessence is the exploration of the sound of traveling beyond the speed of light, the band rocking new cosmically hypnotic sonic territory.
VICTORY LAP
The very last Oh Snap of the year is shaping up to be a cracker of an event Thursday 29 December, set to put you in a hungover state for the following days’ activities. Heavy local rockers Mandalay Victory take headline duties, whilst handsome chaps Vanity and new kids on the block Resistance open up proceedings, plus free barbeque before 10.30pm, $15 from 9pm. of Allbrook’s guitar and his drawn-out, whiny screams were evidently too much for some who immediately retreated to the outside bar. Remaining inside were mostly Perth musicians and supports of Allbrook’s other projects Pond, Tame Impala and Allbrook/Avery. Magic reawakened as Felicity Groom began to expose Gossamer. Amid fairy lights, she and her band created true intimacy that most gigs fail to deliver. The now robust audience was comfortably silent when the set stripped back to acoustics. Band members came down stage to share mics whilst guitars did all the work, and arrangements of high ethereal male-backing vocals, contrasted with the bluesy, PJ Harvey-like voice of Groom, were entrancing. Out came the beloved Autoharp for Paper Strings and New Years, which allowed a window of reflection. A cover of The Zombies’ song Time Of The Season got everyone funky again, ready for Siren Song which provoked a catchy sing-along. To conclude, Groom invited forward her collaborators to sing popular favourite Finders & Keepers and the crowd joined in with the contagious ‘ehhhhh-yeah-ehhhhh-yeah’. Yeah indeed. KATIE ROLSTON PATH TO LANEWAY THE BIRD, NORTHBRIDGE 15/12/11 Not so long ago, somebody decided to give three awesome bands half an hour of stage each at The Bird. The kicker? Of these bands, the best one earns half an hour of stage at St Jerome’s Laneway Festival next year. Built from brother-and-sister duo Eliza and Harlequin League’s James Rogers, Patient Little Sister were first in line, wielding charmingly simple folk goodness. As an outfit only eight months old,
the duo used no more than a guitar, a violin, and their harmonic sibling vocals to pull out one hell of a set. Standout ballad Patient Tree should grow into a single, and with another six-month’s work it’s safe to say we’re probably going to see these two supporting acts of the Sarah Blasko ilk. Next, Shy Panther - a mellow engagement with psy-funk reminiscent of The Stepkids, not far away from Ariel Pink, stacking soothing faux-Wurlitzer keyboards on top of plodding bass riffs. Leadman Daniel Fragomenti was the band’s visible centre of orbit, and his stellar vocals set Shy Panther beyond almost all competition. The final act was Cow Parade Cow; Vampire Weekend being the obvious parallel to the six-or-maybe-sevenpiece outfit’s cocktail of tropical punch guitar-pop. With John Lemias’ bobblehead drumming, Nicola Flood’s pied-piping flute, and Mike Litton’s chunky charisma, they bounced, and the audience ate it up. Every responsible reader’s homework is to bandcamp.com the track Watermelon Medina; and with that title, you’d have to be a deadbeat to need any further exhortation. The judge’s final choice between the three was actually painful: each band was worth a full-price ticket in their own right, and the decision came to a famished four-point margin. Cow Parade Cow milked the winning margin, and a spot on Laneway, though everyone won with the show one the best local gigs this year. CALLUM TWIGGER
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THE BLACK SORROWS THE QUARRY, CITY BEACH 15/12/11 Last Thursday saw plenty of fine weather and good cheer at the Quarry, as two of Australia’s most important musicians came together to celebrate their 40-year-long respective careers. After milling about around a few wines and hors d’oeuvres, the crowd made its way down to the amphitheatre, in time to see Ross Wilson jump on stage, and joined by the Peaceniks blasted straight into Hell Of A Time. Despite being somewhat reserved, the Peaceniks rolled through a set of classics and some new tracks, and the crowd responded well. The band eventually dove into more countrified soul territory, before exploring a few Mondo Rock numbers. He tied it all up with, of course, Eagle Rock, which had the crowd going bonkers as they ran down to the stage to get their dance on. After a short hiatus, it was time for Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows to take the stage. Camilleri absolutely owned the venue, leading his talented band while charismatically communicating with the crowd. With the sound of horns slowly building and echoing through the Quarry, the band set the tone for their set with Hold It Up To The Mirror, the musicianship and co-operation held by the band markedly on show. Camilleri found time to banter with the crowd a bit, giving the history of songs like Billy & Rose and Daughters Of Glory. After delivering some absolutely rocking tracks both old and new, and one of the greatest sax solos ever seen, Camilleri welcomed Wilson and his band back on stage to play a medley of classics, including a take on Honkey Tonk Woman, to cap off an already impressive night rather remarkably. CAM FINDLAY
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Regarded as one of the most exciting young jazz pianists around, Tal Cohen is a fine talent who brings to the stage a refreshing approach to jazz piano, not just as a pianist but also as a refined composer. Cohen has spent the last 18 months writing material for his long-anticipated album Yellow Sticker, and he releases it Thursday 22 December at the Ellington Jazz Club.
RED CORNER
Punk-rock three-piece The Corner finish up a huge 2011 by headlining the Civic Den this Friday 23 December. After a successful year that saw The Corner included on six international compilations, repeated radio play in the US and rave reviews around Perth, they are set to go out with a bang (literally), tearing apart The Den with an all out costume-fuelled show.
BOWLING BITS
Featuring former members of the Sensitive New Age Cowpersons, Ian Simpson (banjo, guitar, vocals) John Reed (cittern, mandolin, vocals) Fred Kuhnl (double bass, vocals), Norm Leslie (harmonica, vocals) and Reuben Kooperman (drums) will be playing at the Hilton Park Bowling Club Friday 23 December from 7.30pm, with Jane Germain as well.
Dan Durack returns to Perth this holiday season for some catch-ups with family and some long overdue beer swillin’ with old friends. He’s also decided a live show as The Zebra Three is in order, playing some tracks from his new garage punk combo The Savage Kicks. The Sure-Fire Midnights and The Community Chest support from 9pm, Thursday 29 December at Mustang Bar.
DEAL SEALED
Alt-country/bluegrass/indie band The Seals are having to re-launch their debut EP after running out of copies! They do so at the Indi Bar, Friday 23 December, with WAMi Award winner Morgan Bain and National Campus Band Competition winners Runner supporting. The last launch sold out, so perhaps waddle (or whatever it is seals do on land) down early.
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TAKING STOCK
NEW YEARS EVE
After the inaugural sell out New Year’s Eve event last year Clancy’s Fish Pub in Fremantle is doing it all again with Fishstock 2. It features an all-star line-up including Carus Thompson and band, Dilip N The Davs, ,Rachel & Henry Climb a Hill, The Crux, DJ Chet Leonard and DJ Dick Tracy. Tickets $30 from the venue, Saturday 31 December.
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EMPEROR LOVE Local grunge-rockers Emperors play their final show for the year Friday 29 December at the Rosemount Hotel when they join Love You Not, who’ll be reuniting for one show only (75 percent original lineup with the addition of Gyroscope’s Rob Nassif on drums) along with Cygnet Committee and Boston & Chevy. Doors open 8pm and entry is $10.
RETAIL ROCK THERAPY
Who’s playing and what sounds can be expected? Sugar Army, Timothy Nelson & The Infidels, Injured Ninja and Runner will make bombastic soaring pop music marking the millenia’s last year before becoming a teen. Why is your event the perfect way to spend NYE? Because good indie-pop music that rocks is the meaning of life. Anything out of the ordinary planned for the night? There’s door prizes including a double dinner date with Luke Dux and Timothy Nelson. What will the countdown involve? Sugar Army will be removing some of their clothes to welcome the great indie-rock spirit known by some as Sasha The Great. Sum the event up in five words or less? Dancing to
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rock is sexy. Best NYE moment that’s ever happened at one of your shows? Injured Ninja, Sugar Army, Timothy Nelson & The Infidels and Runner walked into a bar… Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Fave memory of 2011 for you? Catching Sugar Army at Wave Rock in their awesome new fivepiece format. What event of yours are you most looking forward to in 2012? We’ll be organising about a thousand events in 2012 so it’s hard to say! WHEN & WHERE: Friday 31 December, Amplifier, Perth
Having recently completed his second studio album Soulful Reason and touring the West Coast with iconic performers Neil Finn and Paul Kelly, Ben Merito is now entertaining the crowds at 140 on William Street with an eclectic mix of funk rock tracks alongside some of his more well known reggae-infused sounds. Catch him on Level 1 140, 11.30am til 1pm Friday 23 December.
BOOM BAP PECK Thursday’s original music night at Mustang Bar is happy to host Boom! Bap! Pow! Thursday 22 December for a night of trashy doo-wop pop’n’soul. They’re supported by Cal Peck & The Tramps, combining the influence of garage rock and rhythm’n’blues with contemporary indie and rock’n’roll. As always DJ James MacArthur will be on hand to fill the gaps.
LADY MACBETH Supersonic at Ya Ya’s very own Lady Libertine is launching a new shop and to celebrate is throwing a
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party at the venue, Friday 30 December. Joining the celebrations will be favourite ravers Burgers Of Beef accompanied by the new line up of (Hi-Hello) Here In Heaven Everything Looks Ok. $5 from 9pm til 2am.
LATE NIGHT GREGORY For an awesome night with Jeremy Gregory, Amanda Dee (vocals), Simon Fisenden (bass and vocals), Graham Wood (keys) and Andy Fisenden (drums), get down to the Ellington Jazz Club from 12.30am Sunday 1 January for their special NYE edition of the late night groove series.
REINDEER ROCK Friday 23 December the ‘vixens’ come out to play as the Rocket Room hosts the Rockin’ Reindeer Rally. Smokin’ Aces, Reapers Riddle and The Sure-Fire Midnights will be ‘blitzen’ the stage, firing out intense traditional rock riffs and original metalicious solos like a ‘comet’... across the southern skies. 8pm til 2am.
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BEYOND THE GENRE
DISCO CHOPS
EXPLORING 2011 IN POST-ROCK-ISH, EXPERIMENTAL AND OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO CLASSIFY SONIC REALMS, WITH ANTHONY WILLIAMS.
THE YEAR IN ELECTRO AND DISCO WITH TROY MUTTON
Making a list and checking it twice: if only it was that easy. It’s that time of year again, when music enthusiasts – such as this columnist – spend far too much time contemplating, (re-)evaluating and (re-) discovering the recorded works that have enriched their year-almost-gone (or would have been enriching if only they’d been heard earlier). There’s always a certain amount of ‘missed-album catchup’ to be done, but there’s also usually at least one under-appreciated recording that reveals its sonic treasures many months after its initial release. This year, that recording was Tim Hecker’s Ravedeath, 1972. The Canadian musician and sound artist has released a string of albums that explore the grainy, gauzy and often glorious textures of digitally-processed, drone-based dark ambience, and this latest work initially seemed like ‘more of the same’. There’s more grit, grime and urgency on Ravedeath, though; the result, in part at least, of the recording session that saw Hecker (and collaborator Ben Frost) capture the album’s sonic heart – the sound and spatial resonance of a pipe organ, located in a church in Reykjavik, Iceland – in just one day. Live performance and subsequent processing, in combination and conflict, has rarely sounded more vital, although one of the world’s biggest bands took a similar path to create an understated, irresistibly propulsive gem in 2011. Yes, it does seem a little inappropriate to be mentioning, nay, championing Radiohead and The King Of Limbs album in this column, but this is an album that ticks too many boxes, and scratches too many musical itches, to ignore. Digitally edited drum-loops create gloriously polyrhythmic kraut-funk; spare instrumental textures – both organic and electronic – keep the sound lean and edgy; and Thom Yorke continues to articulate the inexpressible with his emotive and often voice-as-instrument vocals. Sans vocals and with slightly smaller budgets, Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN) and Caboladies both released their best long-playing works to date this year, the former with the stunning Replica and the latter with the mind-boggling, semi-improvised synth-electronic workouts of Renewable Destination. Daniel Lopatin (aka OPN) received plenty of critical praise for last year’s Returnal album, but Replica sees his talent for emotive, ‘80s-synthdrone ambience repurposed within shorter, more structured, loop-based compositions. Caboladies (the Chicago-based duo of Eric Lanham and Chris Bush), meanwhile, brought its intricate electronic noodlings – think Mouse On Mars, Microstoria, etc – into sharper focus in 2011, delivering the buzz, bubble and blast of digital detritus alongside more reflective, often quite beautiful synth-vistas. For more expansive, guitar-fuelled desert-drone vistas, Barn Owl was the go-to band in 2011. Whether it was on the Shadowland EP or the subsequent album, Lost In The Glare, the duo of Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras delivers rock-solid tablets of rich guitar resonance – drawing on minimalist drone, blues, Eastern ragas, post-rock and doom-metal to create their own universe of sound. Barn Owl provides the soundtrack to your next trip up the mountain, whether it’s for enlightenment or a spot of air-guitar. For more refined, rarefied air, the self-titled album from A Winged Victory For The Sullen is a work of elegant, neo-classical/ambient-drone beauty. Grand pianos, string quartets, French horns, bassoons – no yawning! – and the compositional talents of Dustin O’Halloran are combined with the melodic guitar ambience of Adam Wiltzie (Stars Of The Lid) here; the results being reflective, stirring and often sublime. For life’s more energetic moments during 2011, the invigorating, post-rock rush of Collections Of Colonies Of Bees’ Giving album – clocking in at a fat-free 28 minutes – was irresistibly spirited and succinct. Cave’s similarly spirited update of the classic ‘krautrock’, or ‘motorik’ sound on Neverendless was an absolute treat; with the 14 minutes of This Is The Best living up to its ambitious name. Last but definitely not least, local outfit Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving delivered an ambitious but thoroughly accomplished debut album in Deaden The Fields, combining prog, jazz and post-metal/rock influences with rare, single-minded and independent aplomb. 80 • THE DRUM MEDIA
SEBASTIAN BY CALLAN GIBSON As the year inevitably winds up it’s that time again for Chops to cast a non-discerning eye over the year that was for electro and disco, covering little without saying much at all. Last year felt like it was all about the bangers versus the nu-disco kids, while in 2011 it simply feels like dubstep versus anyone who dares. An adapt or die situation, most DJs of the harder-edge electro variety were dropping dubstep as an almost pre-requisite to a set. It’s infiltration into the more mainstream market place makes it the electro of 2007, but we’ll try and stick to the four/four for now. Speaking – conveniently enough – of 2007, Ed Banger returned in a big way in 2011, with pleasing results. Golden boy SebastiAn finally released his first album, Total, after promising it since 2006. It proved worth the wait, with a few misses spread out between an album that mixed his past glories such as Ross Ross Ross and Motor with his more funk-fuelled nu-disco bangers like Embody and the cracking Arabest. Perhaps larger news was the return of Justice with their sophomore effort Audio, Video, Disco. Depending on your stance, their choice to make a prog-rock record instead of a crunchy electro one is either inspired or baffling. The true test will be their upcoming brand new live shows, and if the old and new mix together in some kinda progressive rock’n’roll orgy of electronica. Not so much Ed Banger, but very ’07, Digitalism returned with I Love You, Dude, which again maybe
failed to capture the freshness of debut Idealism, but was a wholly enjoyable album nevertheless. Does It Offend You, Yeah? called it quits after releasing their second album, Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You – their show at Amplifier earlier in the year a highlight for many who like their electro with a smashing of punkrock and noise. Surkin also finally released his debut album, USA, after another long wait, and it proved a great collection of acid-rave and banging house tracks that the young Frenchman has shifted to since more aggressive beginnings. Back on the home front, a new wave Aussie electro acts made their presence felt in the absence of some of the older stalwarts, with Rufus, Gold Fields and Strange Talk all releasing cracking EPs around impressive live shows and a smattering of triple j play. Of them it’s hard to say who’ll still be playing with the big boys (see: The Presets) upon their return, but it will be interesting to see if they can transform a few quite good singles into full albums. Art Vs. Science definitely filled any remaining void with their debut effort The Experiment, and while this scribe personally is not one for their brand of party electro, they are nice enough guys and have tapped into an enormous monster – the perfect live festival appearance. They clearly have the science of party rocking down to a T. Much like LMFAO, who it must be said are arguably the world’s biggest dance act – and joke. The complete overload of the senses that is LMFAO (the fluoro colours, crazy beats, bitches and bangers) is making them so much money that they must laughing their fucking arses off, washing in Champagne Showers. Finally let’s end the year with two of my favourite things: Cut Copy and Canyons. The former produced this writer’s album of the year, the ARIA-winning and freakin’ Grammy-nominated Zonoscope, which feels like just reward for not only a fantastic album, but for years of quality output and live shows for what couldn’t be a nicer bunch of dudes. Meanwhile, the latter released their cracking debut, Keep Your Dreams, a great, weird and wonderul album in its own right, but one that left Chops hanging to see their new six-piece live show. Bring on 2012!
FORWARD>>>>> A YEAR IN FORWARD THINKING DRUM’N’BASS & DUBSTEP WITH ANGELA KING. Although the frequency of this column has been sporadic to say the least, the drum’n’bass and dubstep scenes have continued to fervently bubble away, producing much more news than could be squeezed into 650 words per fortnight. However, to make up for lost time, I’m now going to try to recapitulate the year that was, and cram it into exactly that length. Deep breath, let’s go…
Klute’s label and Commercial Suicide released their first compilation. Photek made a quiet reappearance with his dubstep-infused effort Closer, while Radiohead whored out their latest album to all the electronic trendsters for remixing. WA expats Kito and Reija Lee released their pop perfection blend of beats in the form of the Sweet Talk EP on Mad Decent.
2011 was a sweet year for lengthy releases. Frothworthy drum’n’bass albums came from Raiden, Amit and Icicle, with Phetsta’s The Prism EP delivering the goods too. Tes La Rok, DFRNT, and Kryptic Minds did dubstep a favour by injecting a hearty dose of classy, well-produced sub-bass into a genre that has nearly been utterly consumed by the excretion that is Skrillex/Borgore et al.
On the local front, WattHz’s first release as a label, the Isolated City LP showcased a host of artists to look out for in the future: established names Ylem and Vishnu still doing good things, while DYP (who releases now on L2S Recordings) and Zanetic, who’s releases so far include Can’t Fight Destiny and We Are The River EPs and has several EPs forthcoming for Screwloose and WattHz, as well as remixes for Gamma Audio. The always wide-smilers Ekko & Sidetrack have had release success this year also, with their two-track release Deckard/Stay With Me on Tongueflap Recordings.
Perth was once again flooded with top quality international acts, many of which were debut West Coast performances. Rockwell (feat. leggings as pants), Jon Convex of Instra:Mental fame, Digital Mystikz (one of the best dubstep gigs to happen in Perth), Silkie, Calibre, Mount Kimbie, James Blake and so many more, as well as visits from veterans Grooverider and Goldie. The drum’n’bass/dubstep style of Nero impressed Perth audiences so much that they recently won the Perth Dance Music Awards (PDMA) for Best International Performance. Half way through 2011 we said goodbye to the threeyear running Wednesday night ruckus that was Beat Mash – although this didn’t stop them from winning their fourth PDMA for Best Regular Weeknight. Shortly after Beat Mash finished up, the boys that made weeknight drum’n’bass an institution created monthly night Fluid. Held on the first Saturday of the month at Velvet Lounge, Fluid is dedicated to the liquid side of the genre. So far DJs Sistymatic, Declan, Jazza, Muller, Dvise, Deflo, Progress Inn and more have done an exceedingly good job of providing the entertainment – Fluid will be a gig to get to in 2012 if you haven’t already. DJs Marky and Goldie mixed their own FabricLive CDs, Scuba pulled off a wicked mix for DJ Kicks and
As for 2012 – if the world doesn’t end like some predict – we can look forward to FabricLive.61 mixed by Pinch, albums from ShockOne and Calyx & Teebee (maybe?!) and a collaboration between Kito and Rockwell. New Year’s celebrations in Perth shouldn’t disappoint if your musical preference is of the drum’n’bass’n’dubstep persuasion – two big gigs spring to mind as perfect choices. Big Ape and Grizzled are putting on Origin at Belvoir Amphitheatre, featuring Noisia, ShockOne, Calyx & Teebee, Alix Perez and S.P.Y among others (tickets from theorigin. com.au). But if staying metro is your thing, you’ll be glad to know that DeadWeight! and Bass Notion are hosting their own New Year spectacular at The Bakery, PRZM NYE, featuring Martyn, Africa Hitech, Arp101 (aka Alix Perez), Kit Pop & Zeke (tickets from nowbaking.com.au). Whatever ya’ll get up to I hope it’s plenty pleasurable and I’ll be back next year with regularly scheduled news. Ciao!
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MASSIV A TRAINSPOTTER’S YEAR-END GUIDE TO TECHNO, HOUSE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC WITH TRAVIS COLLINS.
BEN KLOCK What an interesting year. Wall Street gets ‘occupied’ with protesters and there’s anarchy in the UK with London rioters enjoying a consumer-fuelled looting spree. Rioters even cleared out a distribution warehouse containing thousands of Warp, Soma, P.I.A.S and Ninja Tune releases before burning it down. There was no radical social change down under in 2011, which is not necessarily a bad thing. To be honest I had no time for politics anyway, I was too busy enjoying an endless array of quality new music. Lucy’s flawless debut Wordplay For Working Bees, Sandwell District’s back-to-back classics Feed-Forward and Feed Forward Versions and Reeko’s techno odyssey Finding The New Matter are among the year’s finest. It was also a great year for reviving classic sounds with Instra:mental’s Resolution 653 offering a refreshing take on electronica and Berghain resident Steffi paid homage to classic Chicago house with her debut Yours & Mine. It was also a great year for new talent with Tommy Four Seven, Exium and Skudge all delivering upfront and essential albums. If its DJ mixes you are after, Massiv’s standouts for the year were Marcel Fengler’s Berghain 05, Lawrence’s Timeless and Gold Panda’s DJ Kicks mix. I also highly recommend checking out the live video streams from Berlin’s Boiler Room events. Efdemin, Carl Craig and Cosmin TRG Boiler Room sets were personal favourites this year but they are all worth a look/listen, even if its just to laugh at the posers and chin strokers standing over the DJs as they perform. It hasn’t been a bad year for events. 2011 started off strong with possibly the best festival line-up to date with Leftfield, Plastikman and Sven Vath all delivering memorable sets at Future Music Festival. Perth clubs don’t always support house and techno events but The Likes Of You certainly do. Their standout events include Massiv’s ‘artist of the year’ Lucy, Detroit techno legend Robert Hood and an intimate Sunday session with Ben Klock & Marcel Dettmann smashing out one of the best techno sets I have ever heard. I also managed to catch The Chemical Brothers solo show and an inspiring five-hour DJ set from Loco Dice while on holiday in Melbourne. Having watched Future Music and Summadayze in Perth and Melbourne this year, I can honestly say that Perth crowds are far more passionate about music. While I still made the effort to check out most Perth festivals this year, I still feel that music festivals are not what they used to be. Obviously they are more commercial now but after Good Vibrations failed with their ‘bring a friend for free’ policy, hopefully Perth promoters now realise that we can’t sustain the amount of annual festivals we now host. Let’s get back to quality not quantity and give Perth clubs a chance, because I’m sure I’m not the only one who misses the smaller club events like The Berlin Sessions. Or even just seeing a favourite DJ play a three-five hour club set rather than a 50-minute afternoon set at a commercial music festival. That’s my dream anyway. In all fairness, Perth is still a great place to live. We have more small bars opening than ever before and a growing number of DIY events popping up. Everything from boat parties, warehouse parties and secret ‘invites only’ events. It’s good to see upcoming promoters and DJs making the most of the spaces. And there’s no doubt we can also do with plenty more Sets On The Beach-inspired events this summer. Predictions for 2012? If the world doesn’t end I plan to see what the rest of it has to offer and check out Sonar in Barcelona, Timewarp in Holland, Exit in Serbia and plenty of club nights. For now though, I’m just looking forward to hearing ‘the best sound-system money can buy’, the Funktion-One which has just been set up at Connections (I’ll let you know when I’m playing).
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OBNOXIOUS OWL
OVERDRIVE
RAMBLINGS FROM BELOW 2011’S BELT COURTESY OF TAMMY CROUCHER.
THE YEAR THAT WAS IN PUNK AND HARDCORE WITH LUKE BUTCHER.
PUBLIC ENEMY KNEW WHAT TIME IT WAS I’m not going to state the obvious by saying that I can’t believe that this year is almost over because every December for as long as we can remember, and for as long as we live, we will never quite get our head around the fact that time is moving faster than a Kardashian marriage. It’s the time of year where everything comes to a head. Thank God for Christmas and New Year’s, because if we didn’t have something to mark the end of the year, then half of us wouldn’t even see our families. I myself have forked out $1,000 to fly to Perth for the silly season, which I would never do for any time of year other than Christmas, LET ME TELL YOU. Not that I don’t love Perth and the fam, of course I do, it’s more the fact that airlines take the piss… but that’s a whole other column. And also, I am digressing. So yeah… TIME. What does it all mean? Do we seriously work for 12 months towards the end of year shenanigans only to start it all over again on the first of January? (Hey, have you noticed that Woolies/Coles don’t discount the mince pies in January? Outrageous!) To say getting older and watching the days on the calendar ticking by makes me anxious is an understatement. Don’t say you don’t feel the same, because EVERYONE says the same thing; “It’s come too quickly!” Nobody is ever like, “Whoa it’s Christmas? I thought it would never come!” This world is spinning, baby, and it’s not going any faster or slower than it has in the past. It’s just our lifestyles that have. So Steve Jobs kicked the bucket this year. What a man. What a frikkin’ genius. Although, if he were alive, then I’d have a bone to pick with him; the iPhone. Why oh why oh WHY did I give in to that little gizmo? My life has by no means become more ‘convenient’. In fact, I am really inconvenienced since the bloody thing entered my life. Now fuckers can get hold of me whenever they want. You can’t lie and say you never got the message or your phone was in the other room because when you have an iPhone, you know where your phone is at all times. My phone is like Grand Central Station… Emails, nude photos, text messages, Twitter, Instagram etc… It’s an information overload, and I can’t give it up! So the secret, in my humble opinion, in beating the clock is getting rid of technology. Slowing shit down. Getting back to basics and lying on the beach with a real-life book with words printed on real-life paper. Buying print, listening to vinyl, cooking from scratch, calling your friend to say happy birthday instead of a Facebook generic message. We are behind the steering wheel of our own life, our own destiny. You are perfectly able to put your foot on the brake and pull over for a bit. So I urge you, dear readers, to go back to basics these holidays. I’m not trying to be all ‘EAT PRAY LOVE’ on your ass but I am such a fan of CTRL ALT DELETE. Reboot. Start over. Clear out. Technology, gadgets and social media are great things! But like any tools, they work best and make life easier if you know how to use them properly and you are in control. Don’t let it take over your life because guess what, this time next year you will be throwing your hands up in the air and going, “OMG IT’S ALMOST 2013!” and so on and so on and son on. Switch your phone and computer off and go out there and live. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year xx. PS. This is the LAST time I will get this fucking mushy, so don’t get used to it. 82 • THE DRUM MEDIA
Looking back upon a year of releases, shows, rumors and break-ups can be an emotional exercise filled with not too-distant moments of personal nostalgia, a longing to buy more CDs, go to more shows and check out that band I’ve been bagging for ages because I got them confused with We Came As Romans. Whilst the number of new acts that have burst onto the world scene is immeasurable, we have to look no further than our own backyards to be consistently amazed each and every week. Local acts have continued to birth high quality releases in various forms including All Eyes On Saturn, The Milkshake Strategy, Statues, Afraid Of Heights, Black Birds, Cupidfalls and seriously too many more young foxes making their mark on the scene as we speak. The past 12 months has also seen album releases from The Decline, Into The Sea, Mandalay Victory and In League, who even got their names inked to US label InVogue records. Furthermore, All Eyes On Saturn (RIP) front-woman Adriana Tegova got her self signed with Silent Hill Management and is working on her debut album in Stockholm – who says there’s no future in music? In the mean time Aussies Parkway Drive, The Amity Affliction, Break Even and Closure In Moscow continue to kill it overseas, whilst other big Australian releases have been seen from Coerce, The Getaway Plan, Confession, Dream On, Dreamer, Tonight Alive, Skyway, Heroes For Hire and Northlane. Unfortunately 2011 also saw the death of some much-loved acts (and musicians) that will be greatly missed by many, including Thrice, Alexisonfire and Thursday. Upon reflection, 2011 may be looked upon as the year when further fragmentation took over the music scene; many listeners clueing up to studio trickery and unachievable backing tracks, choosing to direct their attentions to the more sincere and raw sounds of artists putting their hearts on the line. “Wave” acts such as La Dispute, Touche Amore, Defeater and many more have taken the scene
by the scruff of the neck, building upon previous successes at the expense of the saturated and stale metalcore scene to chisel their name into the mainstream. Fortunately, the punk scene has had another big year with widely-received releases from Make Do & Mend, Balance & Composure, Polar Bear Club, Title Fight, The Wonder Years, Fireworks and Frenzal Rhomb to name a few. New releases from old favorites Blink 182, New Found Glory, Yellowcard, Funeral For A Friend, Unwritten Law, Bayside and The Dropkick Murphys have given old fans something to smile about. The opportunity to surround ourselves with fine music has also come from all directions. The introduction of digital radio has seen the launch of the super successful The Pit FM. Starting out of Perth in June, the station brings local and international punk, hardcore and metal to over 100,000 listeners per week, 24 hours a day. New venues and club nights such as Runaways and Hype have been launched joining the rousing success of Oh Snap!, which has continued to grow from strength to strength thanks to its welcomed venue change, whilst nationally Soundwave only solidified it’s reputation for consistently being the delivery boy of up-and-coming and seminal international acts. If 2011 is anything to go by, the future looks very bright indeed. Whilst favourite-child Soundwave again reared its head of excellence, its not so successful and underappreciated cousin Revolution showed us why she’ll always be sitting at the kid’s table. Proving to be somewhat of a farce, first introduced as an equally attractive sister, a sibling ménage à trois appeared imminent. It soon became clear the festival couldn’t get a squirt out of a fourteen-year-old boy; but at least it made Big Day Out look good. And speaking of deformed mutants, how about that Courtney Love and that Limp Bizkit feud? If only anybody still cared about either act.
SOUND DIMENSIONS THE YEAR IN HIP HOP, SOUL, R&B AND URBAN WITH MARISA AVELING Nostalgia, Ultra sampled MGMT and The Eagles, referenced Radiohead and was singer/songwriterly enough to jump the usual R’n’B confines. Ocean was quickly acknowledged as some kind of urban oracle and was invited by the older guard to show them how to twerk it. He was the only crooner in the Odd Future clan who contributed to ‘Ye and Jay’s LP, and was given the latter’s blessing by way of keys to babe city (aka he did some work with Beyonce).
ODD FUTURE “My only wish is I die real,” – Drake, Take Care. Kanye West may have dropped his emo act and swapped it for braggadocio as part of Watch The Throne with Jay-Z, but some of the younger bloods have picked up on that strain and stayed with it. Drake continued with the sweater rap that he so tightly wrapped himself in by following last year’s full-length debut with Take Care, which consisted mainly of why it sucks to be him. Basically: too many ho’s and not enough good girls in front of a backdrop of some pretty sick (outstanding contribution goes to Just Blaze for Lord Knows) and weirdly great (Marvin’s Room) production. Some may say that his downy R’n’B touch is a little too soft, but that Drake is being validated for doing his version of what it means to be real, which exists outside the traditionally stoic hip hop box, is a good thing. Drizzy’s singsong love injection contributed to a great win for modern R’n’B this year, with his Canadian cohort The Weeknd acting as its largely elusive yet hugely successful main ambassador. Abel Tesfaye’s excellent and self-released House Of Balloons took the genre out of the closet for many, parading it around under what was deemed sufficient amounts of cool to make it okay with indie, electronic and urban listeners alike. Frank Ocean also contributed to the suckerpunch with his intro into the world, which, in a nice coincidence, was also given away for free.
Probably younger than many of us and definitely more famous, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All showed us how the Internet should be used for maximum effect. Their self-branded ‘fuck authority, and fuck you too’ punk demeanor seemed authentic and organic enough for millions to latch on to, and they subsequently tumbled into this year’s spotlight. OFWGKTA’s charismatic leader, Tyler, The Creator, is young and dumb and terribly smart at the same time, and invigorated live hip hop in a way that was halfshocking, and half-exactly what the genre needed. Meanwhile, the majors recognized that the kids were jiving with these foul-mouthed, reckless minors and desperately tried to replicate the feeling. Odd Future’s questionable affiliate, Kreayshawn, signed a deal with Columbia that she’s probably regretting, as so far the only thing she’s proved herself to be is meme over matter. While not so aggrieved, A$AP Rocky emerged late in the year with a $3 million deal (that’s more than Drake), with Polo Grounds/RCA predicting the Harlem rapper with the southern flow will be their winning hor$e. As with every year, 2011 saw a number of farewells. We thank Gil Scott-Heron for his astute social commentary; Nick Ashford for showing us how to write ageless classics; Nate Dogg for always being smooth; Heavy D for keeping it hard; DJ Mehdi for staying classy, and Amy Winehouse for reviving soul. It was premature and probably not too unexpected, but a terrible tragedy whichever way we look at it. It’s a little sentimental, but we owe it to Amy to let her have the final word on this year: “So we are history/Your shadow covers me/The sky above ablaze”.
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THE BLAST FURNACE ALL THINGS HEAVY FROM THE BUBBLING DEPTHS OF THE 2011 METAL MELTING POT WITH TRISTAN BROOMHALL.
CLAIM THE THRONE As a mind-bogglingly loose collection of genres, sub-genres and movements all tied together mostly by a collectively dark aesthetic, metal provides a range of listening experiences that are as broad as anything one encounters in the world of music. From the sublime to the brutal, the true to the hybrid, and everything in-between, it’s a landscape of surprises and dark, hidden worlds. Every year sees innovation, but like all music, the next discovery is just beneath the surface. That’s clear when you wander the side stages of Soundwave. The festival has a swirling gravitational pull akin to a black hole. Bands don’t necessarily disappear altogether, but they become a homogeneous blur as they approach the event horizon – that’s metal. As per any other year, there’s the steady stream of releases from the metal institutions. They seem to slip by relatively unheeded, but the suitably high sales reports, at least in metal terms, suggests they still hold sway over swathes of the metal listening public. Key releases go to Megadeth with TH1RT3EN and Anthrax with Worship Music (which also welcomed back Joey Belladonna on vocals) on the pioneering thrash end of the scale, and Opeth (Heritage) and Mastodon (The Hunter) representing more recent trends. No complaints about the albums, but as metal continues to reinvent itself, there’s a steady stream of mind-blowing releases that come right out of the darkest depths of left field. This is especially evident in black metal, and it’s in the US that some of the most innovative work is taking shape. A relatively small player is Texas’ Absu, who’ve topped my chart for the year with the middlework of their dementedly dark AbsuAbzu-Apzu triptych. The forests and mountains of the west coast and northwest of the States are turning out prodigious bands of a creative calibre not seen since the heady days of the early ’90s Scandinavian explosion. New releases from San Fran’s Leviathan (True Traitor, True Whore) and Olympia and Washington’s Wolves In The Throne Room (Celestial Lineage) are great examples of bands playing black-metal on their own terms. Locally, Voyager completed a hectic year with the release of The Meaning of I and dates in the US, and Chaos Divine released their acclaimed sophomore album The Human Connection. Chaos Divine, Claim The Throne and Extortion, along with the cream of local and national acts, shared the stage in the biggest locally produced metal gathering of recent years, Bastardfest, which also went national this year. It was a great show that has incredible potential, even in its infancy, so hopefully 2012 sees another instalment. The grind world lost Seth Putnam, founding member and vocalist of controversial US band Anal Cunt, to a heart attack. He was 43. He’d played with dozens of acts, guested for dozens more and his distinctive vocals can be heard on innumerable songs across the metal spectrum. On the other side of the Atlantic the British crust-grind scene lost Phil Vane of Extreme Noise Terror, who along with Napalm Death, upped the tempo, squealed the vocals and got grind rolling. On a side note, doom metal pioneers Cathedral are winding up their 22-year reign, but not before visiting Australia and releasing a final album, The Last Spire, next year. The group’s been fronted by former Napalm Death vocalist Lee Dorian for their entire history and they’re a welcome highlight on the Soundwave 2012 bill. Twenty-eleven’s been a big year, twenty-twelve’s shaping up to top it and metal still reigns as the cathartic release of our collective rage. Heed the message of metal this pagan festive season and see you next year.
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TRASH TALK
ALL AGES AND YOUTH NEWS YEAR WRAP WITH SCARLETT STEVENS.
MARISA AVELING TRAWLS THROUGH THE LAST YEAR OF TRASHY MUSIC GOSSIP SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO.
and Slackjaw, to name a few. There is always a real sense of community and comradeship among the bands at these events.
HYPERFEST CROWD BY BEAU DAVIS Having graduated from the underage scene no longer than a year ago, one would think that I was severely out of touch with all things youth-orientated. Thankfully, playing in a band who’s audience is made up mostly of 12 year-old girls has lead me to frequent many all ages shows this year. The great thing about all-ages shows is that people are actually there for the music! This is one aspect I’ve come to notice about them during my time as the all-ages columnist and have come to love what it means playing at them. Hyperfest in Midland is an all-ages success every year but this year’s edition seemed even more exciting. The festival organisers called upon an array of different acts from across the country to create a standout line-up with bands like Architecture In Helsinki, Children Collide, Illy, Papa Vs. Pretty and Stonefield helping to pull a record crowd. The local music scene was also a buzzin’, with performances from The Brow Horn Orchestra, Antonio Paul, Split Seconds, The Stoops and All Eyes On Saturn rocking the historic Midland railway workshops alongside many of Australia’s big name acts. Rounding up a successful year in all-ages gigs was the second Norfolk Lanes Youth Festival. Those who braved the December heat were met with killer performances from a line-up of bands all under the age of 25 including Grace Woodroofe, Emma Louise, The Novocaines, Bastian’s Happy Flight, Custom Royal
Another exciting aspect of the all-ages scene is that support is shown to other young creatives and industry people, such as photographers, graphic artists and those wanting experience in events and arts administration. Hyperfest and Norfolk Lanes Youth Festival have always provided a platform for young people wanting experience in event coordination and artist administration, offering a great way to learn new skills and get some experience at making cool events happen with like-minded people. The year was not just characterised by the shows put on for young people, but by the talented young bands that have emerged from the music scene of late. The triple j Unearthed High winners blew me away this year, a five-piece from Victoria with an incredibly cool sense of lo-fi pop and one hell of a knack for songwriting. If you haven’t heard Snakadaktal yet, then head to YouTube and start your research. Among completing their final year of high school and their VSE exams, Snakadaktal have found the time to record an EP, make a couple of film clips and tour the east coast. I’m excited to see what 2012 has in store for them with a WA tour hopefully on the cards. Among the young geniuses out there making super cool music and art are the fame-chasers that emerge from shows like the X Factor. So, this wouldn’t be a true end of year wrap up if I didn’t mention the worst of 2011. This has to go out to Reece Mastin or more importantly his record company who couldn’t even spell his name right in their ‘New Release’ letter to record stores. This is my last Young Ones column so I’d like to say goodbye. It’s been an absolute pleasure to report and be part of the all-ages scene over the last four years. Thank you to all the musicians and fans who continue to encourage and support the amazing music scene that we have in WA.
As long as there are famous people, there’ll be gossip-mongers, which means that the eternal well of trash will forever be overflowing. This year, the usual amount of stuff happened, like: Babies: Lauryn Hill stepped away from the edge long enough to bare a child. The nameless child from a nameless father (i.e. not Rohan Marley, son of Bob) clocked in as her sixth. Hill’s ex-brotherin-law, Ziggy Marley, welcomed his son Abraham Selassie Robert Nesta into the family as well. Far less interesting was the birth of Alanis Morissette’s debut child, but what she lacks in interest she makes up in strangeness of baby names, calling her little boy Ever. Baby announcement of the year obviously goes to Beyonce and Jay-Z, who’s mini mogul is expected to arrive in February. Splits: Jack White and his model-turned-musician wife Karen Elson threw a party to celebrate their divorce, sending out invites that promised “a positive swing bang hum dinger”. White seemed to be making divorce a 2011 trend, having already announced the split of his band with Meg White, The White Stripes, earlier in the year. J Lo and Marc Anthony caused the Latino sensation of the year when they announced they had filed for divorce back in July, but probably didn’t have a party. Grinderman announced that the band was breaking up at Meredith, with Nick Cave announcing: “That’s it for Grinderman. It’s over. See you all in another ten years when we’ll be even older and uglier”. Business Ventures: Rick Ross put his money where his mouth was, investing in the Wingstop franchise that he’d already name-checked in some of his rhymes: “She thinking folic, I’m thinking Wingstop/ Fienin’ lemon pepper, I got my thing cocked”. Lady Gaga and Kanye West were smart to invest in Turntable.fm, contributing $7.5 million USD of financing between them. Pharrell Williams put
his name to the disgusting-sounding fruity, creamy Qream With A Q liqueur. Whoever made up his press release quote (“Qream was created for contemporary women who work hard and want to relax with friends at the end of the day.”) should be fired, along with the person from Pharrell’s camp who approved it. Deaths: RIP to Amy Winehouse (death from alcohol toxicity), DJ Mehdi (death due to fatal accident), Heavy D (autopsy inconclusive), Nate Dogg (complications due to multiple strokes), TV On The Radio’s Gerard Smith (lung cancer), Gil Scott-Heron (unannounced), GWAR bassist Cory Smoot (heart attack) and former Weezer bassist Mike Welsh (autopsy results pending). Mixed Bag: Chris Brown acted like a fuckwit again, and couldn’t handle the heat of a Good Morning America interview. To blow off steam, he stormed off the set, smashed a window and left without a shirt on. Vanilla Ice tried yet another career change as the new Captain Hook in a UK pantomime version of Peter Pan, which is running now until January 2, 2012. The latest ODB aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard aka Big Baby Jesus boxset featured a food stamp card, which seems a bit distasteful, don’t you think? Fat Joe can no longer live up to his name, having lost 100 pounds and counting. He attributed his getting healthy to wanting to beat diabetes. The Michael Jackson doctor trial app was the number-one seller among Apple’s paid news apps, with people able to stream video from the proceedings straight to their phone. Speaking of, Dr Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to the maximum sentence of four years in prison and no probation. And that’s 2011 wrapped up into a shiny, greasy ball of trash for you! Happy holidays folks, and stay classy.
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TEN THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT PAUL MASTER
KNIFE PARTY
1. Knife Party is the side project of Pendulum members Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen, which has been active since the start of the year. 2. Rob and Gareth met each other through their high school, Scotch College in Perth. 3. The side project began after Rob and Gareth felt that Pendulum was the wrong kind of avenue to showcase some of their ideas, while on tour promoting Pendulum’s third LP Immersion. 4. Chose their name after their favourite track from American alternative rock band Deftones. This track was written about a bizarre party game, which was invented by two of the Deftones members, and involved people on the tour bus dancing around with knives. 5. Gareth’s favourite supervillain is Darth Vader. In an IGN Q&A with Gareth, he said: “Darth Vader was pretty much an ultimate villain until they did the prequels and deconstructed him into being
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an angry dude”. 6. Their kind of sound is “seizure music”, a combination of hard hitting electro house, dubstep and drumstep. 7. Held their first gig headlining Come Together at the nightclub Space, Ibiza in August 2011. Even their manager hadn’t heard their music at this stage, but this new sound was extremely well received. 8. Have remixed the likes of Nero, Swedish House Mafia and
Porter Robinson. 9. Have an EP coming out soon as a free digital release titled 100% No Modern Talking. 10. Fear not Pendulum fans, Swire has tweeted earlier this year that there will be “def new material” later in the year. NEXT GIG IN PERTH: Monday 26 December, Villa, Perth; Future Music Festival, Sunday 4 March, Arena Joondalup
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ROOMS FOR IMPROVEMENT UK DJ AND HEAD OF THE EVER-EXPANDING JAZZ ROOMS CLUB NIGHTS, RUSS DEWBURY IS BACK IN TOWN FOR SOME SUMMER LOVIN’, AND DRUM CATCHES UP WITH THE EVERGREEN DECK LEGEND. Biggest highlights in 2011 for you and the Jazz Rooms? Making the Jazz Rooms a truly international brand in 2011 with shows in the UK, Europe and Australia. It was amazing to go back to Brighton, our spiritual home for over 20 years, and do a couple of memorable shows there. I loved playing the 100 Club in London back in July as it’s an iconic venue I go a long way back with. In fact, all the way back to the Punk days of the late ‘70s. An LP from you is reportedly set for release next year, what can we expect from that? My co-producer Ben Mitchell and I have been working on our follow up album for over three years now. As I’ve predominantly been based in Australia, it’s been difficult to finish it, but we have some great music coming your way in 2012. Taking classic black music elements with a modern twist is where we’re at. You’ve said previously that there is smaller love in Australia than in English clubs, and that in England music is much more a part of the culture. Has that changed since? It’s just a different music culture from the UK. On my recent trip to the UK and Europe it was great to hear people talking about Aussie bands such as The Electric Empire, The Liberators and of course Perth’s finest Randa & The Soul Kingdom. The scene here is kicking right now. Biggest highlights for you over your 25-year career? I’m blessed that I still get the same buzz from rocking a crowd now that I did all 84 • THE DRUM MEDIA
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Who’s playing and what sounds can be expected? The Colonel of the Ambar Army – Elite Force. Expect big, tough, phat sounds that’ll take you from breakbeat to electro to techno.
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Why is your event the perfect way to spend NYE? Great club. Great act. Great locals. Great crew. Best NYE moment that’s ever happened at one of your shows? Almost every year, Ambar NYE is a showcase of our local Ambar talent (we usually don’t book internationals). Every moment they have behind the Ambar decks on NYE is a ‘best’ moment.
Anything out of the ordinary planned for the night? Having an international is a little out of the ordinary for us for NYE and we’ll also have champagne and party poppers for everyone at midnight. Is your event suitable for disorganised party-goers? Absolutely. Tickets are super-easy to buy now (available through Moshtix) but we always leave a little room for door sales. What will the countdown involve? Numbers, counting backwards, and cheers as Elite Force steps up for his set at midnight. Times show runs: Doors open at 10pm and Elite Force will begin his infamous three-hour set from
midnight. Full set times will be released closer to the event. Sum the event up in five words or less? Signature. Ambar. NYE. Quality. Guaranteed. Fave memory of 2011 for you? We always break new talent, but the Jaguar Skills event in November was the stuff legends are made of. What event of yours are you most looking forward to in 2011? Re-opening Ambar after our annual early January holiday with Rico Tubbs. WHEN & WHERE: Friday 31 December, Ambar, Perth
CLUB NIGHT SPOTLIGHT SCENARIO WITH RUSH WEPIHA (ORGANISER)
th ti ago. Put P t simply, i l I love l thatt time DJing and whether 1986 or 2012 the musical mission is the same – to turn people onto quality music that will touch their soul and dancing feet of course. Who are you expecting to make a big impact in 2012? Expecting big things from Prince Fatty and Holly Cook (daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook), The Step Kids from Stones Throw and I love the new release from UK soul singer Omar. You’ve just been added to the Summadayze Festival, which doesn’t seem like your usual bag…? I love the chance to play to an audience that may have not heard my music before – it’s what it’s all about for me, so yes Summadayze will be fun! And NYE and then Devilles, what can we expect there? I’m here predominantly for our
fforthcoming th i night i ht att th the JJazz Rooms session at Devilles. This will be the first one for a year after a truly killer session last year – the Jazz Rooms nights give me the freedom to play it as I want to and I can’t wait for the next one. Also, can’t wait for Salt On The Beach on NYE – my friends back home in the UK are jealous. New Year’s resolution for 2012? Give up those cigarettes! WHO: Russ Dewbury WHEN & WHERE: Countdown To NYE, Saturday 31 December, Salt On The Beach, Fremantle; Summadayze, Tuesday 3 January, Sir James Mitchell Park, South Perth; Jazz Rooms, Friday 6 January, Devilles Pad, East Perth
Where, when and how often is it is it happening? Scenario will be at Cheeky Sparrow (Wolfe Lane, Murray St, Perth) is launching this New Years Eve! From then on it will be going down every Thursday from 8pm til late. Who’s behind it? Other events we’re a part of are Shadow Wars (Australian breakdancing event in Sydney), Boogie Down Under (The Manor in Leederville) and Soul Canvas (The Grey Door in Claremont). What styles and resident DJs should people expect? Resident DJs Zeus Rock and Klean Kicks will be spinning classic hip hop and neo-soul to create the perfect formula of ambience and enjoyment. The weeks will vary with special guest DJ sets and live musicians from time to time. What kind of vibe? Scenario is not limited to just DJs. The night will be threading all different elements into its tapestry of pleasing its followers. Stumble in here one week and you might see live music, poetry readings, documentary premieres and even exhibitions such as sneakers or emerging fashion labels.
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KLEAN KICKS
Scenario’s concoction of highly appreciated tunes has been selected to create a fusion of a lounge vibe and a comfortable house party with both friends and strangers. Who shouldn’t come? Haters, un-appreciators, pretenders. People who can’t get down with quality music, a funky vibe and great company. We want this night to be enjoyed, so leave your ego at the door. Anything else we need to know?
Your freshest outfit is a must along with some dancing shoes to boogie down in! Our DJs are guaranteed to have you on your feet shaking it until the AM, or at least nodding your head with a drink in hand for those who suffer from two left feet. NEXT NIGHT: Saturday 31 December and then every Thursday thereafter, Cheeky Sparrow, Perth
SUMMADIARYZE THERE’S LESS THAN TWO WEEKS TIL THE MASSIVE SUMMADAYZE LINE-UP LANDS, SO IT’S TIME TO PULL OUT THE DIARY AND PLAN YOUR DAY WITH THESE PLAYING TIMES:
CALVIN HARRIS
CUBAN CLUB SET TIMES 05:30 - 07:15 Markus Schulz 04:00 - 05:30 Sasha 03:00 - 04:00 Seth Troxler 02:00 - 03:00 Spank Rock 01:00 - 02:00 In Flagranti MIDDAY-1PM Junior
SKREAM & BENGA
TEAL
GRANDMASTER FLASH
04:00 - 05:00 Jack Beats 03:00 - 04:00 Stafford Brothers & Timmy Trumpet 02:00 - 03:00 Mightyfools 01:15 - 02:00 Sneaky Sound System MIDDAY-1.15PM Russ Dewbury
MAGENTA 08.45 - 10PM Pendulum 07:00 - 08:15 Calvin Harris 06:00 - 07:00 Snoop Dogg 05:00 - 06:00 Grandmaster Flash
FLUXX @ AMPLIFIER
SCARLET 09:00 – 10PM Moby DJ Set 07:30 - 08:40 Justice 06:00 - 07:00 Busy P
05:00 - 06:00 Skream & Benga 04:00 - 05:00 Tiga 03:00 - 04:00 Flying Lotus 02:00 - 03:00 Ruby Rose 01:00 - 02:00 Bombs Away MIDDAY-1PM Mind Electric
INDIGO 09:00 – 10PM Scissor Sisters 07:15 - 08:45 Erick Morillo
09:00 – 10PM Jason Creek vs. GeRmAn 08:00 - 09:00 Kenny L Project 07:00 - 08:00 Death Disco DJs 06:00 - 07:00 Naik 05:00 - 06:00 Sun City 04:00 - 05:00 Darren J vs. Craig Hollywood 03:00 - 04:00 Sam Perry 02:00 - 03:00 Black & Blunt 01:00 - 02:00 Bastian’s Happy Flight MIDDAY-1PM Jack Masel WHEN & WHERE: Summadayze, Tuesday 3 January, Sir James Mitchell Park, South Perth
LIMELITE - DIM MAK PARTY @ VILLA
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SAMPOLOGY
8.15 – 9.00pm 7.15 – 8.10pm 6.15 – 7.15pm 4.45 – 6.10pm 3.45 – 4.45pm 2.45 – 3.45pm 1.45 – 2.45pm 1.00 – 1.45pm
Sampology (AV/DJ Set) Lyrics Born Yacht Club DJs Sambalicious Audageous Brow Horn Orchestra Cut & Paste Soundsystem El Ginger Mojito
WHEN & WHERE: Cuban Club, Sunday 1 January, Flying Squadron Yacht Club, Nedlands
MILLER MUSIC TOUR @ FLAWLESS
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THURSDAY 22/12
DNGRFLD
Groovinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sounds from the Funk Club House Band, Odette Mercy, Donovan De Souza and The Fabulously Sly. Doors 5pm, $10 after 8.
SUB CITY @ VELVET
Voltron (Sempy & Conxept), Ekko & Sidetrack, ST1 & DYP and Bolsty bring the bass music and a perfect blend of dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;b/dubstep flavours, free from 8pm.
BEAT DOWN @ THE BIRD Beatmakers face against other beatmakers, very similar to an MC battle, with judges deciding who goes to the final round.
BASS INVADERS @ NEWPORT Lost In Bass â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Christmas Special features Greg Packer & MC Assassin, N1 and MC Kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;deus, free from 8pm.
Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;R KARAOKE @ DEVILLES Khristmas time with Santa Magnus and prizes for best/worst dressed.
ROAR @ BOLT BAR Jungle Bells with Rino, Kevin, Mental, and Mayhem feat. Slapâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Tickle MC, plus MCs Treppa & Haste.
CLAREMONT HOTEL DJ DD brings party tunes all night.
ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Sons Of Rico lads take over the decks outside while bands play inside.
THE DUCHESS Claremontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest venue featuring none other than the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DJ Fiveo.
FRIDAY 23/12 MATHAS
TIGER LILS XMAS PARTY @ AMBAR Featuring Mono Lisa vs. Ben Mac, Micah vs. DNGRFLD, Oli vs. Tee EL, Bezwun vs. Marty McFly and Philly Blunt vs. Marko Paulo, $12 before midnight, $15 after. Plus Silent Disco in the Laneway.
BERLIN @ GINGER Travis Doom and co take control of the night with dance music thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the periphery. Free entry after 1am.
CANYONS @ THE BIRD
Ho Ho Ho-down for a massive party from 6pm, featuring The Brow Horn Orchestra, Tomas Ford, Mathas, Diger Rokwell, The Empty Cup, Tim Bott (One Tiger Down), YLEM, Vishnu with TripleMUM, Wisdom 2th, Fuzz, DJ Silence, Sibalance and the Electonic DJs. $20 presale through Mosthix. STAFFORD BROTHERS
Party with Charlie Bucket, Beni Chill, MT5k, Sour Klean Kicks, Zues, GFTED and the Think Twice crew playing the best music of 2011, $10 from 9.30pm.
WONDERLAND @ FAC The Wonderland festival rolls into the picturesque surrounds of the Fremantle Arts Centre, with Cut Copy, Bag Raiders (DJ Set), Strange Talk and Tim & Jean, plus indie-rock kings Sparkadia. Tickets via Heatseeker.
METRIC XMAS @ VILLA The Metric crew is back with a Wonderland afterparty featuring special guests, plus Metric DJs, Lightsteed & Audageous, DeadVents & MUV, Sawiris & Phumper and Ol Wright. $25/$15 for Wonderlanders. Metro City are celebrating Xmas and turning 15 in one go, with beats from DJs Slick, Matty S, Makka, Brett Costello, Ruthless, Stevie M and Soso.
PHETSTA @ SHAPE Phetsta rocks a three-hour, three-deck set for $5 before 11pm, $10 after. Traction, Bastian, Mash and MC Xsessiv lend a hand either side.
SEEKI-G @ DOUBLE LUCKY Seeki-G, supported by Tony Lopez and DJ Cee, plus Bongo Loco.
CAMP XMAS @ COUR
FREQUALIZER @ SHAPE (DOWN) Back for another banginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; party, this time helping to bring the Christmas cheer are banginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; duo the Stafford Brothers, crashing into Limelite with horny maestro Timmy Trumpet, doors 9.30pm.
SNEAKY @ THE LIBRARY DJs Angry Buda, Adroc, Headayke, Junior, Karl Blue, Kyte Kutter, Raji D, Maxwell and guests bring the tunes in this big night out.
A breakbeat Xmas stocking with Malaysiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blastique, uber-talented expat Karl Sav, plus Philly Blunt and Burrgz. $5 before 11pm, $10 after.
AMPLIFIER/CAPITOL Cowboys & Indie Kids DJs spin indie classics and alternative sounds from midnight at Amps, while Caps serves up a Retro Mash with all your old faves from 10pm â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til late.
TIGER LILS
PARTY @ THE BIRD
DJs Bojan and Ben Sebastian, with Alex K on the bongos. Free entry.
Mid-week hot d-floor action, featuring DJs Ol Wright and Stylz Ali, free 8pm.
MKT @ THE LIBRARY
STUDENT NIGHT @ ROSEMOUNT
Party beats keep you funkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, with DJ Vicktor, DJ Richie G and more.
Cowboys & Indie Kids brings you post-punk, indie-pop and rock goodies outside in the beer garden for free.
SAT SOCIAL @ YA YAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S The Kings Of Cheese DJs bring soul, disco and dancing choons.
UK Breakfest-ers Napt and Slyde, plus Malaysiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blastique jump on a boat with Micah, Philly Blunt, Beatsmack, Grantley Hyde, Mach1 and JS. Track down Mr Hyde to arrange a ticket.
THE CLINK Az-T shakes Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;B to electro.
BASS CULTURE @ NEWPORT Dubstep, drumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;bass, wobble, reggae and a good night, free from 8pm with Death Discoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anton Maz.
Get pumped for Stanton Warriors featuring Hollywood Holt, A-Skillz, Illy, Netsky, Scratch Perverts, Napt, Slyde and The Loops Of Fury, plus The Substance, Black & Blunt, Ben Mac, Audageous, Marty McFly and more locals. Tickets through Moshtix/ Boomtick.
NICK THAYER @ CAPITOL Death Disco hosts Nick Thayer, bringing the dubstep, dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;b, breaks and electro in a massive AV/DJ show. $10 before 10pm, $15 after.
BEBOP & DROPSTEADY @ ROSEMOUNT Dart B2B Frantik, Dair B2B Dvise, Skoptix B2B Illusiv, Mash B2B Bastian, Narkotik B2B Decept, Conxept B2B Sempy, U Wish, Defyre, Bezwun, Screech, Roxright and Snub, plus MCs Losd, LZ, Assassin, Stylee and Bear, $10 from 6pm.
EMILY SCOTT @ LEFT BANK Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hottest female DJ Emily Scott, backed by Black & Blunt, Mind Electric, Frankie Button, DJ Lok and Marko Paulo. $25 door.
FINESSE @ GREY DOOR DJs Klean Kicks, Charlie Bucket, Zeus Rock, ad Roc and Beni Chill spin all your favourite Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;B, soul, funk and hip hop, with art pieces from Peche.
PLAYERS BAR Free â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til 10pm, party â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til the fat man himself has done his round.
PAPER PLANE DJS @ VENN Funk, hip hop, soul and spirit courtesy of the Paper Plane Project DJs.
FRIDAY 30/12
MAIKO @ GEISHA For $25 the bar is open â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til 11pm, Rob Sharp, El Dario, Marko Deric, Shot, Peran, Richard Lee and Luke Who?
DOUBLE LUCKY Fun and groovy tunes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; old and new â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with some Christmas classics thrown in to get you in the spirit.
SATURDAY 31/12 CANYONS
KING TITOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S @ THE POURHOUSE King Tito takes his Dirty Disco south, hosting a special party at The Pourhouse (formerly Malt Market Bar) in Dunsborough, with Modularâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Canyons DJs, plus TCee, Chad Big Ear, Sparklehaus and Friend. Heatseeker, Oztix and the usuals for tickets. SCENIC
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B-FEST AFTERS @ AMBAR Special and extra special guests from 10pm, $10. No thongs.
NYE @ VENN
KNIFE PARTY @ VILLA Rob and Gareth Pendulum aka Knife Party bring â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;seizure musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, joined by MTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Killsonik, Gran Calavera, Hykus and Dr. Space, Oztix/Moshtix.
Travis Doom and co take control of the night with dance music thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the periphery. Free entry after 1am.
Local artists/designers produce some vibrant works for the evening, plus sounds from nu-disco kids Scenic, soul sister Randa & DJ Sharif Galal, DJ Lightsteed, DJ Nic Elliot and DJ Scotty Sour. $55 plus BF through Moshtix.
BASS MUSIC @ MOJOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S
NYE @ NORFOLK HOTEL
WattHz hosts Perthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite party starters from 8pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bolsty vs. Hyderabad Ghost, Sibalance vs. Vishnu, DYP vs. ST1, Boy Prince vs. Saxon and Ylem vs. Zanetic, $8.
Voltaire Twins, Bastianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Happy Flight, The Witness and The Dublin Jazz Aunts live, plus King Titoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Fup Duck DJs over three areas. $25.
BERLIN @ GINGER
TRAFFIC LIGHTS @ COURT Single (green), open (orange) or taken (red)... Let peeps know and dance to DJs Timbee, Flex and Sir Clancealot.
SILENT DISCO @ EAST END 9pm â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til 3am DJs mixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mash all kinds of electro/funk/dubstep/house.
SLOWED & SCREWED @ SHAPE
TUESDAY 27/12
SHAZAM
A night of southern hip hop, classic party jams, crunk anthems, glitch booty and dirty bass, $5 from 10pm.
KIKUYU @ MOJOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S
NERVO @ AMBAR
Melbourne micro-pop artist Kikuyu has released her debut album Hunter Gathered and embarks on a twomonth national tour to celebrate.
Mim and Liv Nervo sing, they make people dance and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re signed to one of the biggest model agencies in the world. Supported by dMo, Ace Basik and KNO Agents, $20 plus BF through Moshtix and the usuals.
WEDNESDAY 28/12
SUPERSONIC @ YA YAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Celebrate new music store Unknown Treasures with Cape Town Lullaby and Burgers Of Beef live, plus Lady Libertine and Likely Lads on the decks, $5 from 8pm til 2am.
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Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;B @ DUSK DJs Fusion, Skinny, Rowdy, Skeem, Motion and Wiggz B2B Pugs, plus MCs Xsessiv, JK and Moondogg. $10 from 9pm til late.
Free entry and body-moving rhythms of disco/party/dance tunes.
GHYDE TO SUMMER @ ON A BOAT
G Martin spins the best of the best right in full-on good times party style.
BREAKFEST @ BELVOIR
NICK THAYER
RHYTHMATISM @ THE BIRD
THURSDAY 29/12
THE WEMBLEY
SATURDAY 24/12 MONDAY 26/12
BEST OF 2011 @ THE MANOR
A Pink Xmas Party, sexy topless Santa, pink Xmas-inspired cocktails, Hannah Conda drag show and more â&#x20AC;&#x201C; come in something Pink.
TIMMY TRUMPET @ METRO FREO
Paul Malone spins electro beats, plus Adam Kelly, with Alex K on the bongos. Free entry.
Canyons grace the decks for a night of soul-pumping, brain washing grooves, supported Captn K, $10 from 8pm.
Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;DAY @ METRO CITY HO HO HO DOWN @ MOJOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S
FUNK CLUB @ DEVILLES PAD
NYEXCUSE @ THE ATTIC Any excuse to party with Shazam, Blend, Lightsteed, Tron, The Exploder, Willy Suede, Lemon Lime & Biddiss and Esio Trot. $20 plus BF through Heatseeker, Moshtix and the usuals. NOISIA
SPACEPUNK @ DEVILLES FLUXX @ AMPLIFIER Dubstep, grime, wobble, moombathon, dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;b, indie remixes and party classics courtesy Death Disco, Genga and Shannon Fox.
GRANT SMILLIE @ NEWPORT TV Rock/Novanationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grant Smillie rocks the electro-house anthems for free from 8pm.
Dress up and join the King Wasabi, Ash Baroqueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voix De La Ville, Kurbist Gong Band, Roxy Monoxide and DJs Jumpinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Josh, Barbara Blaze and Lilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Franco Berry for cosmic good times.
FULL CIRCLE @ DOUBLE LUCKY Join Full Circleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resident DJs from 9pm â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til late for the best funky underground beats.
ORIGIN NYE @ BELVOIR Bass-heavy party times with Noisia, Foreign Beggars, Borgore, Danny Byrd, ShockOne, S.P.Y, 12th Planet, Roksonix, B Complex, Zomboy, Alix Perez, Loadstar and Opiuo and locals. Theorigin.com.au for info/tickets.
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2011
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THE MANOR Charlie Bucket, Nathan J, MT5K, Ad Roc, Essar 1, Kit Pop, Carlsani and Pawel on the decks, plus an exclusive live set from Paper Plane Project. $20 through Highs & Lows and Planet.
PLANET BOLLYWOOD @ SHAPE MARTYN, AFRICA HITECH, ARP 101 @ THE BAKERY Mind-warping and cutting-edge bass music, courtesy of Brainfeeder’s latest signee Martyn, Africa Hitech and ARP 101. Support from Kit Pop & Zeke, Modo, Don’t Sleep DJs and more, tickets through nowbaking.com.au.
GLAM @ LLAMA BAR New Year’s in style with Pacha resident Nicc Johnson, Melbourne’s Sneaker Fox and resident Reuben on the wheels, plus VJ Zoo. $45 through Moshtix with free bubbly on arrival, $65 VIP with Moet, dress cool.
COUNTDOWN TO NYE @ SALT Headlined by seminal MC Lyrics Born (live with his six-piece band), supported by UK DJ Russ Dewbury, N’Fa, Charlie Bucket, Fdel, Depedro, Junakadelic and DJs Neil Viney, Screech and Carlsani. Tickets $80 plus BF through funkclub.com.au.
ELITE FORCE @ AMBAR Celebrate New Year’s in the home of the underground with Elite Force, bringing his three-hour set for $30 plus BF through Boomtick.
SPACED OUT @ DEVILLES Space and ‘80s; is there a better combination for NYE? Boom! Bap! Pow! play live, plus DJs and more.
BSC @ GREENHOUSE $180: food, beer, wine and spirits 8pm ‘til 2am, with Micah, Oli, DNGRFLD, Philly Blunt, Ben Mac, Tone, Tom Drummond, JMC, Vedran, El Dario, Ren Boy, Basschild and Len Bones.
NYE @ TOUCAN DJ Lee Stephen heats up the decks straight out of the best clubs in Ibiza.
CANDY SHOP @ PLAYERS BAR Candy Shop at Players Bar for New Year’s Eve? The sweetest place to be.
COURT HOTEL Break all seven deadly sins at The Court Hotel this NYE, with DJs Timbee, Wasteland, Lilly and Rob Thomas over seven different zones.
DOUBLE LUCKY Dresss in white with DJs Lee Wilson, Adam Kelly, Cee and Milly, plus Tom C on flute, Marnie on vocals and a guest sax/bongo player. Pre sales through bar or Emily@doublelucky.com.au.
INDIE KID STRIKES BACK @ CAPITOL Indie kids strike back with Death Disco DJs, Eddie Electric and DJs in the courtyard, Star Wars-themed cool shit, $15 before midnight, $20 after.
ROCKET ROOM Rock into Armageddon free before midnight, $10 after. Brett Rowe brings the party tracks Kickstart the cracking covers. Jon Ee spins the best of the best right across the board in full on good times party style.
SCENARIO @ CHEEKY SPARROW
With the likes of The Shapeshifters (UK) and Wynter Gordon (USA), backed up by Mind Electric, Zelimir, Jus Haus?, M.J.Bannister, KNO Agents, Chris Chiari, Rob Sharp, Aarin Fraser, Kid Deep, Cam Duff, Marko La Kucha, El Dario, Makitan, Nathan Francis, Richard Lee, Suric and Milanov, New Year’s Day just got real. Tix from Moshtix.
THE BYRNELEIGH Cut & Paste’s King Jon Ill and Drum’s editor Aarom Wilson take over for a night of diverse beats and bits to kick in the new year with style, substance and a hell of a good time. Food and drink packages available.
SUNDAY 1/1
CLUB PARADISO @ SALT
YACHT CLUB DJS
TW!ST @ YA YA’S Twist Into The Future with tunes from all your fave Twist DJs, plus The Sweet Janes and Agent Double O Soul. $20 presale, $25 on the night.
GEISHA Drinks and food free til 11pm for pre sale buyers, doors open to public after midnight for $25 with Perth’s premier house DJs keeping the party going.
MASQUERADE @ EAST END Live performances on stage and more, plus DJs Pasha, Carter and Goldfinger bring the bangers from 8pm. $35 through venue, wear black & white for this ball.
JERSEY SHORE @ METRO FREO DJs all night, Ron Ron juice cocktails, Jersey turnpike and Fist pump competitions, the big house becomes The Shore House. Doors 9pm, $15 before midnight, $20 after.
BACK TO THE FUTURE @ DEFECTORS A ‘50s and ‘80s style party to bring in the new with the old. $25 via aarin@ luciddreamingproductions.com gets you ‘80s//90s anthems, tapas through the night, midnight shots and more.
MAYAN PTY @ METRO CITY Three levels of fully themed party, be transported back to Ancient Maya, $20 plus BF through Oztix or door.
OFF THE WALL @ THE BIRD DJs Captn K, Dr Jase and Rok Riley, with a special performance by Shy Panther. $20 from 8pm, email anna@ williamstreetbird.com for pre sales.
BERLIN @ GINGER Travis Doom and co take control owith dance music that’s on the periphery.
JAZZ ROOMS @ DEVILLES The Jazz Rooms returns for more funk, jazz, soul, afro, Latin, original R’n’B, Brasil and boogie featuring the UK’s Russ Dewbury, Grace Barbe and Charlie Bucket. $10 door from 8pm.
SUMMADAYZE @ SIR JAMES MITCHELL PARK
STUDIO 54 @ GINGER Perth’s red-tinged nightclub throws a Studio 54-themed party with Ginger’s own disco divas dancing to DJ Castasia, Groovenuts Musik and DJ Pete Francis, plus DJ Lorne Padman. $35 plus BF through Moshtix.
SETH TROXLER
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Perth’s first ever multi-level Desi NYE celebration, with tunes from Zora, MixtaBishi vs. MoFolactic, MC J-Sky, DJ Denny, Xclusive Soundz, DJ Modi and live Dhol Players, plus B-Star, ElectroSim, Bown Majik and Rajit & DJ NFX. $25 through Moshtix. A new weekly Thursday night in 2012 called Scenario will focus on a mix of classic hip hop and neo-soul, launching NYE on a Sat.
TUESDAY 3/1
A new venue comes with a new ‘Colourfornication’ vibe, and another massive line-up featuring Justice, Pendulum, Snoop Dogg, Sneaky Sound System, Ruby Rose, The Stafford Brothers & Timmy Trumpet, Bombs Away, Scissor Sisters, Calvin Harris, Moby (DJ Set), Grandmaster Flash, Erick Morillo, Sasha, Markus Schulz, Tiga, Skream & Benga, Busy P, Jack Beats (live), Flying Lotus, Seth Troxler, Spank Rock, In Flagranti and Mightyfools, and Russ Dewbury, plus locals. Tickets through Ticketmaster.
NINA LAS VEGAS @ BAR120 House Party fave Nina Las Vegas returns for more d-floor destruction.
DOUBLE LUCKY Join Full Circle’s resident DJs from 9pm ‘til late for the best funky underground beats.
SATURDAY 7/1 DRO CAREY
WEDNESDAY 4/1 FLUME @ THE BIRD CUBAN CLUB @ FLYING SQUADRON Cuban Club returns with MC lord Lyrics Born, Sampology (DJ/AV Set), party princes Yacht Club DJs, big fun band The Brow Horn Orchestra and dorky DJs Cut & Paste Soundsystem, Audageous, Sambalicious and El Ginger Mojito, plus the finest in drinks, eats, sun, views and general Cubanthemed shenanigans down by the foreshore.
RNB SUPERCLUB @ EVE In line with compilation series RnB Superclub’s 10th birthday celebrations, Sony celebrate the anniversary CD with DJs G-Wizard and Jay manning the decks for a booty-boppin’ party.
THE RECOVERY @ LUXE BAR Get down to The Recovery for a special Love Sundays chill-out zone to ease your troubled mind, Nurse Fem and Sophea will take care of you with cool beverages and tasty beats.
SIMMER DOWN SUNDAY @ MOJO’S Simmer down with reggae music powered by the Fisherman Style crew: Sabata Sound, Earthlink Sound, Future Soundz, Kritical and Corby, $5 from 4pm.
Young Sydney producer Flume has been making big waves on the airwaves, and he’s bringing his live button-mashing/noodling to The Bird, support from Tan (Live) and Mostarsk (Live). $8 before 9pm, $10 after.
STUDENT NIGHT @ ROSEMOUNT Cowboys & Indie Kids brings you post-punk, indie-pop and rock goodies outside in the beer garden for free.
FLUXX @ AMPLIFIER Dubstep, grime, d’n’b, indie and party classics from Death Disco, Flatline, Loki and Cowboys & Indie Kids.
THURSDAY 5/1 NEWPORT
Triple j’s Nina Las Vegas brings house party vibes, plus there’s dubstep, drum’n’bass, wobble, and more with special guest from the UK Jakwob.
ROSEMOUNT HOTEL DJs take over the decks outside while bands play live inside.
FRIDAY 6/1 FIREHOUSE SOUND
Sydney boy genius Dro Carey pastes together house, electronica and future r’n’b in dark, twisted and complexly amazing ways. $10 from 8pm.
PETE ROCK @ VILLA One of the greatest hip hop producers of all time, Pete Rock is also a supreme DJ, tickets through Heatseeker/Moshtix, with support from N’fa, Charlie Bucket and more.
MISS/MR ALTERNATIVE @ GILKISONS The Miss & Mr Alternative semi-finals with DJ Xymox bringing dark beats, Femme Ferox MCing and and more.
US HOUSE TRIBUTE @ GEISHA Head honcho Terry Waites headlines, plus Adam Kytka and Brett Valentine..
NINA LAS VEGAS @ CAPITOL/AMPS House Party fave Nina Las Vegas returns, supported by Death Disco DJs, Eddie Electric and Mugsie.
FLUID 7.0 @ VELVET Liquid beats from Blend, Bastian and Dart & Devo replenish your soul.
DOUBLE LUCKY Good times/tunes with Paul & Rudy.
WEDNESDAY 11/1 STUDENT NIGHT @ ROSEMOUNT
RESOLUTION @ I-SPY Celebrate NYD 2012 at I-Spy’s Kings Park rooftop pool with fashion shows and beats mixed by Micah, Philly Blunt, Tom Drummond, Jon Ee, Fiveo and Az-T. Ispyperth.com.au for last release tickets.
DON’T SLEEP! @ THE BIRD
FISHERMAN STYLE @ MOJO’S Perth’s longest running reggae night celebrates the new year with Sydney’s Firehouse Sound, Sabata Sounds and Future Sounds. Free from 8pm, $10 after 9.
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Cowboys & Indie Kids brings you post-punk, indie-pop and rock goodies outside in the beer garden for free.
FLUXX @ AMPLIFIER Dubstep, d’n’b and party classics courtesy Death Disco, Feeding Ear, Charlie Daly and Shannon Fox.
UPCOMINGS TAYLOR MCFERRIN: JAN 12 The Bakery THE BROOKES BROTHERS: JAN 13 Shape INFEXIOUS FEAT. BEN STEVENS, NOMAD: JAN 13 Club Bayview DARREN EMERSON: JAN 13 Geisha IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, AKIR, POISON PEN: JAN 14 Villa + SHABAZZ PALACES: JAN 15 The Bakery SLAM: THE POTBELLEEZ, TIMMY TRUMPET, KAZ JAMES: JAN 15 Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre SUN ARAW, RITES WILD: JAN 15 The Bird + HEATWAVE: TECH N9NE, OBIE TRICE, D12, CRAZYTOWN, CHAMILLIONAIRE and more TBA: JAN 20 Challenge Stadium + BARE NOIZE: JAN 20 Shape MATTHEW DEAR: JAN 20 Secret Venue VENGABOYS: JAN 20 & 21 Metropolis Fremantle DEATH GRIPS: JAN 21 The Bakery SETS ON THE BEACH: WHITEST BOY ALIVE, GOLD FIELDS, SWISSCO DISCO, VILLA: JAN 22 Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre + ZEDS DEAD: JAN 25 The Court Overflow + PRINS THOMAS: JAN 25 Spiegeltent + BART B MORE: JAN 25 Ambar PLUMP DJS: JAN 25 Villa ANDY C & MC GQ, CAMO & KROOKED, DJ FIERCE: JAN 25 Metro City THE STEPKIDS: JAN 25 The Bakery FLY THE FLAG FESTIVAL: STAFFORD BROTHERS, BANDIT and more: JAN 26 Dixon Rd Reserve, Rockingham OSCAR+MARTIN, GUERRE: JAN 26 The Bakery BASS KLEPH: JAN 27 Ambar DJ YODA: JAN 28 Villa + LAIDBACK LUKE, ROGERSEVENTYTWO: FEB 3 Metropolis Fremantle BIG DAY OUT: ODD FUTURE, GIRL TALK, RÖYKSOPP, NERO (LIVE), BASSNECTAR, REGURGITATOR, DRAPHT, KIMBRA, BLUEJUICE, TONITE ONLY, SHOCKONE and more: FEB 5 Brownes Stadium, Lathlain ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL: ACTIVE CHILD, M83, SBTRKT, TORO Y MOI and more: FEB 11 Perth Cultural Centre
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THU 22 Bernadine Grigson Belgian Beer Cafe Dom Zurzolo Boab Tavern Chris Gibbs Brook Bar & Bistro Blue Umbrella Clancy’s Fish Pub The Other Guys Como Htl Khristmas Karaoke Devilles Pad Hi NRG Elephant & Wheelbarrow Tal Cohen Ellington Jazz Club Howie Morgan FUSE Bar Better Days Gate Damien Cripps High Wycombe Hotel Raw Hyde Open Mic Hyde Park Htl Bex’s Open Mic Night Indi Bar James Wilson Lucky Shag Slackjaw, The Armani Consort, Bonita, Hyclass, Original Fortune, DJ Realms, Joe Macc Mojos Nth Fremantle Boom! Bap! Pow!, Cal Peck & the Tramps, DJ James MacArthur Mustang Bar Fahlala: Claire Hollingsworth, Stu Orchard, Merle Fyshwick, + Surprise Guests North Fremantle Bowls Club Dr Bogus Paddy Hannans Burswood The Riley’s QV1 Fear of Comedy, Heytesburg, Shock Octopus, Cautious Horsemen, Head Full Of Steam Rosemount Htl Clayton Bolger Rosie O’Gradys Fremantle Fenton Wilde Rosie O’Gradys Northbridge David Fyffe Sovereign Arms Off the Record Universal Bar Jack Doepel Jazz Quartet X-Wray Cafe Sarah Rain, Priority One, No Deadlines, The Whores Ya Ya’s
FRI 23 Midnight Rambler 7th Avenue Bar Claim the Throne Amplifier Bar
Trevor Jalla Ascot Quays Mod Squad Bailey Bar & Bistro Injured Ninja, French Rockets, smRts, Apricot Rail, Drop Macumba, Electric Toad + more Bakery Northbridge Jamie Powers Bally’s Bar The Other Guys Balmoral Crown Jewels Bar Orient Fremantle Billy & the Broken Lines Belmont Tavern Faces Bennys J Babies Black Bettys Better Days Brook Bar & Bistro Bluebottles Captain Stirling The Damien Cripps Band Castle James Wilson Chase Bar & Bistro Family Christmas Party Clancy’s Fish Pub Nick Sheppard, Parker Avenue Claremont Hotel Free Radicals Craigie Tavern Motown Christmas, Little Franco Berry Devilles Pad Christian Thompson Edz Sports Bar Libby Hammer Ellington Jazz Club Guns of August, The Dirty South, Lightning Jack Fly By Night Fremantle Smoking Section Gate James Wilson Gate - Afternoon Baby Piranhas Greenwood Hotel Acoustic Night Herdsman Lake Tavern Dexter High Road Htl Riverton Jane Germain, Ian Simpson, The Yahoos Hilton Park Bowling Club, Beaconsfield Nathan Gaunt Hotel Rottnest Threeplay Hyde Park Htl Sophie Jane Hyde Park Htl (Arvo) The Seals, Morgan Bain, Runner Indi Bar Scooter Kardinya Tavern Dr Bogus Kingsway Bar & Bistro Neil Adams Last Drop Tavern Neil Colliss Leisure Inn David Hamersley Malaga Markets
Spritzer Merriwa Tavern Kontraband Mighty Quinn Tavern The Brow Horn Orchestra, Tomas Ford, Mathas, Diger Rokwell, Empty Cup, Tim Bott, YLEM + more Mojos Nth Fremantle Hypnocats Moon & Sixpence Andy Pearce Mt Henry Dizzy Miss Lizzy Murphys Mandurah Harry Deluxe, Swing DJ, Cheeky Monkeys, DJ James MacArthur Mustang Bar Party Rockers Newport Htl DM3, Hurricane Fighter Plane, Joe Algeri, Battered Snapper Norfolk Basement Stu Harcourt Paddo Blaze Paddy Maguires Golden Staph Real to Reel Recording Studio Reapers Riddle, Smokin’ Aces, Sure Fire Midnights, Hells Bells Rocket Room Love You Not, Emperors, Cygnet Committee, Boston & Chevy Rosemount Htl Switchback Sail & Anchor Greg Carter Springs Tavern Festivus For The Rest Of Us: The Cabarets, Honeywheeler, Fieldtrip, Alfred Gorman Swan Canyons DJ Set, Captn K The Bird Deuce The Boat Soul Corporation The Boheme Bar David Fyffe The Brass Monkey The Corner, Pyramid Of The Coyote, Bad Shannon, Twisted Affection The Den Dirty Scoundrels The Principle Micro Brewery Christian Thompson The Rose & Crown Kickstart The Shed Rhyme & Reason The Vic Hotel Paul Malone, Adam Kelly, Alex Koresis Tiger Lils Retriofit, Nightmoves Universal Bar Umpire, The Autumn Isles, Burgers of Beef, The Wine Dark Sea, Sensitive Drunks, Leon Ewing, Ten Bit Tonsil Velvet Lounge Ivan Ribic Victoria Park Htl Clayton Bolger Wanneroo Slim Jim & the Phatts Woodvale Tavern DJ Scotty Ink X-Wray Cafe Daniel Firken Trio, Wrongtown, Our Kid Jamie, Lady Libertine Ya Ya’s
SAT 24 The Volcanics Amplifier Bar The Damien Cripps Band Bailey Bar & Bistro Rhyme & Reason Balmoral Flyte Bar 120 James Morley, Chris Murphy Belgian Beer Cafe
Redstar Black Bettys Dexter Boab Tavern Greg Carter Brooklands John Sandosham Duo, Hi NRG Burswood Casino Pete Busher & The Lone Rangers Claremont Hotel Fusion, Skinny, Rowdy, Skeem, Motion, Wiggz B2B Pugz Dusk Lounge Bar Timeout Elephant & Wheelbarrow Libby Hammer Ellington Jazz Club Dirty Scoundrels Gate Christian Thompson Gate - Afternoon Neil Colliss Harbour Terrace Dr Bogus High Road Htl Riverton Nathan Gaunt Hotel Rottnest Better Days Hyde Park Htl Arts Martial, Besides Lights, Coveleski Indi Bar The Other Guys Indian Ocean Brewing Company The Bluebottles Kalamunda Htl Hot Suga Kardinya Tavern Steve Hepple Leopold Htl Bicton DJ Riki, DJ Richie G, DJ Vicktor, DJ KevvyT Library Rhythm 22 M On The Point Wozzo the Clown Malaga Markets The Witness, Deep River Collective, Stunning In Red, Flower Drums, Quick Brown Fox, DJ Scotty Ink Mojos Nth Fremantle Blaze Moon & Sixpence The Continentals, Rockabilly DJ, 10 Cent Billionaire, DJ James MacArthur Mustang Bar Kizzy Newport Htl Bernadine Grigson Port Kennedy Tavern Dart B2B Frantik, Dair B2B Dvise, Skoptix B2B Illusiv, Mash B2B Bastian, Narkotik B2B Decept, Concept B2B Sempy, U Wish + more Rosemount Htl Mod Squad Rosie O’Gradys Northbridge Jamie Powers Steve’s Bar Off the Record Subiaco Htl Grant Hart, Josephine, Gumnut Stompers, Sid Plummer Subiaco Street Entertainment Greg Carter Swinging Pig (Arvo) Stereoflower, Nathan Nisbet The Bird Pop Candy The Boat Courtney Murphy & Murphy’s Lore The Craftsman Huge The Shed Slim Jim & the Phatts The Whale & Ale DJ Bojan, DJ Ben Sebastian, Alex Koresis Tiger Lils Soul Corporation Universal Bar Lips McConague Wanneroo Daren Reid and the Soul City Groove Woodvale Tavern
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ALPINE
Renegade Burswood Casino Passionworks, Flava Siroccos Burswood
MON 26 Retriofit Balmoral Courtney Murphy, Hi NRG, Pop Candy Burswood Casino Electrophobia Gate - Afternoon James Wilson Hotel Rottnest The Bluebottles M On The Point Wozzo the Clown, Hot Suga Malaga Markets Fear of Comedy, Arkayan, Heytesburg, carthasy, Midnight Boulevard, Nevsky Prospekt, Red Engine Caves + more Mojos Nth Fremantle Marco & The Ally Cats Mustang Bar Flyte Paddy Hannans Burswood Greg Carter Port Kennedy Tavern Howie Morgan Project Saint Stu Harcourt Swinging Pig Plastic Max and the Token Gesture The Deen
TUE 27 Chris Gibbs Trio Gate James Wilson Hotel Rottnest Kikuyu, The Hz, Kucka, Mostarsk Mojos Nth Fremantle Danza Loca Salsa night Mustang Bar Stu Harcourt Paddo Barefaced Stories The Bird Open Piano Night, Stu Orchard X-Wray Cafe
WED 28 Nathan Gaunt Balmoral Everlong Black Bettys Courtney Murphy, Slim Jim & the Phatts Burswood Casino Freddie Grigson Band Ellington Jazz Club Fenton Wilde Hale Rd Tavern The Good Lies Hotel Rottnest Georgi Kay, That Velvet Echo Indi Bar Howie Morgan Lucky Shag The Other Guys Metropolis Fremantle Fremantle Blues & Roots Club: Rainy Day Women, Sam Carmody, A Beggars Second Mojos Nth Fremantle Going Solo, David Craft, Jesse Woodward, Justin Walshe Moon Cafe Hi NRG, DJ Giles Mustang Bar Grant Smillie Newport Htl Miles Redfern, DT, Subject to Change, Hundred Acre Wood Paddo
ARCTIC MONKEYS WONDERLAND: CUT COPY, SPARKADIA, STRANGE TALK, TIM & JEAN: DEC 23 Fremantle Arts Centre HUMAN NATURE: DEC 31 Burswood Theatre + BAD MANNERS: DEC 31 Civic Backroom; JAN 1 Newport Hotel THE LUCKY WONDERS: JAN 5 Prince Of Wales; JAN 6 X-Wray Café; JAN 7 Wignalls Vintage Blues Festival; JAN 8 Denmark Tavern; JAN 11 Indi Bar; JAN 13 & 14 Dunsborough Tavern; JAN 15 Redcliffe On The Murray ARCTIC MONKEYS: JAN 6 Belvoir Amphitheatre SCOTTIE MILLER: JAN 6 Indi Bar; JAN 7 Wignalls Vintage Blues Festival, Albany; JAN 8 Redcliffe On The Murray; JAN 10 Charles Hotel; JAN 11 Mojo’s; JAN 12 Ellington Jazz Club; Jan 14 Hills Blues Club ALPINE: JAN 7 Amplifier
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LITTLE ROY: FEB 10 Festival Gardens
VENGABOYS: JAN 20 & 21 Metropolis Fremantle
SEAL: FEB 12 Sandalford Estate, Swan Valley
ALI CAMPBELL’S UB40, BILLY OCEAN, BIG MOUNTAIN: JAN 21 Athletics Stadium
ST JEROME’S LANEWAY FESTIVAL: ANNA CALVI, BULLION, CULTS, DZ DEATHRAYS, EMA, FEIST, GEOFFREY O’CONNOR, GIRLS, GLASSER, LAURA MARLING, M83, PAJAMA CLUB, THE VERY WEST, THE DRUMS, THE HORRORS, THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, THE PANICS, TOTAL CONTROL, WASHED OUT, WU LYF, YUCK and more: FEB 11 Perth Cultural Centre
SETS ON THE BEACH: WHITEST BOY ALIVE, GOLD FIELDS: JAN 22 Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre BETH ORTON: JAN 24-26 The Quarry Amphitheatre CORPUS: JAN 24 Villa; JAN 26 Eaton Recreation Centre, Bunbury (Early), Royal Palms, Busselton (Late); JAN 27 YMCA HQ (Early), Ya Ya’s (Late) KING TIDE: JAN 25 Prince Of Wales; JAN 26 Settlers Tavern; JAN 27 Devilles Pad; JAN 28 Fly By Night; JAN 29 Indi Bar FLY THE FLAG FESTIVAL: THE SUPER GROUP (ANGRY ANDERSON) and more: JAN 26 Dixon Rd
SOUTHBOUND: ARCTIC MONKEYS, ARJ BARKER, FLEET FOXES, THE JEZABELS, TIM FINN, JOSH PYKE, PAPA VS. PRETTY, UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, Emma Louise, Jim Jones Revue, Josh Thomas, The Kooks, Lanie Lane, Missy Higgins, ALPINE, BEIRUT, CANT, DRAPHT, THE GRATES, REGURGITATOR, TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS, An Horse, CSS, John Butler Trio, Kimbra, The Head & The Heart, TIJUANA CARTEL, GROUPLOVE, MILES KANE, THE NAKED & FAMOUS and more: JAN 7 & 8 Sir Stewart Bovell Park
OSCAR+MARTIN, GUERRE: JAN 26 The Bakery
THE KOOKS: JAN 9 Astor Theatre
SCOTT KELLY (NEUROSIS), JOHN BAIZLEY (BARONESS): FEB 4 Civic Hotel
DRESDEN DOLLS: JAN 12 Astor Theatre + LEWIS FLOYD HENRY: JAN 12 Mojo’s; JAN 13 Prince Of Wales; JAN 14 Ya Ya’s; JAN 15 Mojo’s DEERHOOF: JAN 13 The Bakery PJ HARVEY: JAN 13 Perth Concert Hall SONS & DAUGHTERS: JAN 14 The Bakery COMBICHRIST, ANGELSPIT (DJ SETS), A+D+A+M: JAN 15 Amplifier SUN ARAW, RITES WILD: JAN 15 The Bird LYDIA: JAN 18 The Bakery GRANT WINDSOR: JAN 19 Ellington Jazz Club THE RED PAINTINGS: JAN 19 The Bakery NOUVELLE VAGUE: JAN 20 Fly By Night
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THEE OH SEES: JAN 20 The Bakery
THE MEDICS: FEB 12 Festival Gardens DENNIS ROLLINS’ VELOCITY TRIO: FEB 13 Festival Gardens FAUSTIAN PACT: FEB 14 Festival Gardens SEASICK STEVE: FEB 15 Festival Gardens LA DISPUTE: FEB 15 Amplifier; FEB 16 YMCA HQ
THE WHITLAMS: JAN 27 & 28 The Quarry Amphitheatre
RONAN KEATING, SHARON CORR: FEB 16 Kings Park & Botanic Gardens
ROGERS WATERS’ THE WALL: JAN 27 & 28 Burswood Dome
THE SUITCASE ROYALE: FEB 16 Festival Gardens
HED PE, JEFFREY NOTHING (MUSHROOMHEAD): FEB 1 Amplifier SEETHER: FEB 1 Rosemount Hotel JON ENGLISH ROCK SHOW: FEB 1 Bunbury Entertainment Cetnre; FEB 2 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre; FEB 3 & 4 Astor Theatre REGURGITATOR: FEB 4 Indi Bar
ROD STEWART: FEB 4 NIB Stadium BIG DAY OUT: Kasabian, Soundgarden, My Chemical Romance, The Living End, Battles, Parkway Drive, Foster The People, The Jezabels, Architecture In Helsinki, The Getaway Plan, Cage The Elephant, Frenzal Rhomb, Boy & Bear, Best Coast, HIGH FLYING BIRDS, THE VACCINES, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, REGURGITATOR, KIMBRA, MARIACHI EL BRONX, THE BRONX and more: FEB 5 Brownes Stadium, Lathlain + THE CAT EMPIRE, TIJUANA CARTEL: FEB 10 Fremantle Arts Centre
JOSH PYKE: FEB 16 Prince Of Wales; FEB 17 Settlers Tavern DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE: FEB 17 & 18 Festival Gardens ICEHOUSE, WASHINGTON, JOSH PYKE, CLARE BOWDITCH: Feb 18 Kings Park & Botanic Gardens CORNERSHOP: FEB 19 Festival Gardens SOUND OF RUM: FEB 20 Festival Gardens CARNIVAL OF SOULS: FEB 21 & 22 Festival Gardens IL DIVO: FEB 23 Kings Park & Botanic Garden VAN WALKER: FEB 23 Settlers Tavern; FEB 24 Indi Bar; FEB 26 Fly By Night MATT CORBY: FEB 24 Amplifier OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, WASO, JON ENGLISH: FEB 24 & 25 Burswood Theatre BONNIE PRINCE BILLY: FEB 24 Festival Gardens ALFREDO MALABELLO: FEB 25 Rigby’s Bar ERYKAH BADU, MAYER HAWTHORNE, FAT FREDDY’S DROP: FEB 25 Belvoir Amphitheatre RYAN ADAMS, JASON ISBELL: FEB 25 Perth Concert Hall (PIAF) ENNIO MORRICONE: FEB 26 Sandalford Estate, Swan Valley (PIAF)
Rich Widow, Paper Like House, Bears and Bulls, Von Leon Rosemount Htl Cowboys and Indie Kids DJs Rosemount Htl (outside) David Fyffe Rosie O’Gradys Northbridge Christian Thompson South st Ale House Lain Alex Adam Swan Lounge Big Chillum X-Wray Cafe Darren Guthrie, Sexy Robot, The Origin Of, The Lammas Tide Ya Ya’s
THU 29 Bernadine Grigson Belgian Beer Cafe Dom Zurzolo Boab Tavern Chris Gibbs Brook Bar & Bistro The Other Guys Como Htl Proof Elephant & Wheelbarrow Sly Ellington Jazz Club Howie Morgan FUSE Bar Better Days Gate Damien Cripps High Wycombe Hotel The Good Lies Hotel Rottnest Raw Hyde Open Mic Hyde Park Htl Adrian Wilson Karrinyup Shop Centre James Wilson Lucky Shag King Wasabi Mojos Nth Fremantle The Community Chest, The Zebra Three, Sure Fire Midnights, DJ James MacArthur Mustang Bar Dr Bogus Paddy Hannans Burswood Dillip & the Davs, The Gypsie Howls, Palatial Digs, Papertrail, Jessica Hewett, Steve Martin Rosemount Htl DJ Stevie C Rosemount Htl (outside) Clayton Bolger Rosie O’Gradys Fremantle Bill Chidgzey Rosie O’Gradys Northbridge David Fyffe Sovereign Arms Tal & Bens, Backlash Jazz Quintet The Bird Seams, Cow Parade Cow, Mei Saraswati Ya Ya’s
FRI 30 The Axe Band, DJ Bee Rock, DJ Nyayaxism Civic Htl Backroom King Wasabi, Voix de la Ville, Kurbist Gong Band, Roxy Monoxide, Jumpin Josh, Barbara Blaze, Little Franco Berry, Les Sataniques Devilles Pad Jade Crompton Ellington Jazz Club Aztech Suns Fly By Night Fremantle Passionworks Kardinya Tavern Jason Ayres Last Drop Tavern David Hamersley Malaga Markets Bolsty, Hydrabad Ghost, Sibalance, Vishnu, DYP, ST1, Boy Prince, Saxon + more Mojos Nth Fremantle Voxbox Moon & Sixpence Andy Pearce Mt Henry
Harry Deluxe, Swing DJ, Cheeky Monkeys, DJ James MacArthur Mustang Bar Party Rockers Newport Htl The Novocaines, The Love Junkies, The Tumblers, Foxes Rosemount Htl Rhythmatism The Bird Soul Corporation The Boheme Bar Reapers Riddle, Kimura, Born On The Bayou, Nightmare Effect, Accursed The Den Cavefire Cinema, Lantana, Benny Mayhem, Pex Velvet Lounge Lady Libertine, Burgers of Beef, Here In Heaven Everything Looks OK Ya Ya’s
SAT 31 Sugar Army, Timothy Nelson & The Infidels, Injured Ninja, Runner Amplifier Bar Shazam, Blend, Lightsteed, Tron, The Exploder, Willy Suede + more Attic, Brass Monkey Martyn, ARP, Kit Pop, Zeke, Modo, Don’t Sleep DJs Bakery Northbridge Origin: Noisia, Loadstar, Borgore, S.P.Y., Danny Byrd + more Belvoir Amphitheatre Jonny Taylor Bootleg Brewery Death Disco, Eddie Electric Capitol Bad Manners Civic Htl Backroom Boom! Bap! Pow!, Claude Mono, Les Sataniques Devilles Pad Ali Bodycoat Quintet Ellington Jazz Club Steve Parkin, The Seals, Carus Thompson, Ruby Boots Hyde Park Htl Matt Gresham, Sneaky Weasel Gang Indi Bar Hot Suga Lake Karrinyup Country Club The Shipwrecked Ball, Matty Blade, Simon Kelly, Rumskull, Lady Velvet Cabaret Little Creatures Allen Smith, Gumnut Stompers Malaga Markets Allbrook/Avery, Felicity Groom, GUM, Mink Mussel Creek, Pond, The Growl Mojos Nth Fremantle The Continentals, Rockabilly DJ, 10 Cent Billionaire, DJ James MacArthur Mustang Bar Gravity Newport Htl Voltaire Twins, Bastian’s Happy Flight, King Tito’s DJs, Fup Duck Crew Norfolk Basement Jonny Taylor Old Coast Road Brewery Powertrain Priory Hotel Kickstart Rocket Room Abbe May, The Chemist, Sons of Rico, Boys Boys Boys, Arts Martial, Russian Winters, Mezzanine, Cowboys and Indie Kids DJs Rosemount Htl Captn K, Dr Jase & Co, Rok Riley, Shy Panther The Bird Slim Jim & the Phatts Woodvale Tavern
The Sweet Janes, Agent Double O Soul Ya Ya’s
SUN 01 Hot Suga, Allen Smith Malaga Markets Sabata Sound, Earthlink Sound, Future Soundz, Kritical, Corby Mojos Nth Fremantle Gerard Maunick, Tina Simone Moon & Sixpence The Party Rockers, DJ James MacArthur Mustang Bar Bad Manners, Timothy Nelson Newport Htl Acoustic Knights Novotel Vines Resort Hair of the Duck Pig & Whistle Los Chasquis Theatre Gardens, Subiaco
MON 02 Wide Open Mic Mojos Nth Fremantle Marco & The Ally Cats Mustang Bar
TUE 03 The Whores, Gloria Ironbox, Hokasai, Broken Skins Mojos Nth Fremantle Danza Loca Salsa night Mustang Bar Summadayze: Pendulum, Snoop Dogg, Justice, Calvin Harris, Scissor Sisters, Sneaky Sound System, Flying Lotus + more Sir James Mitchell Park
WED 04 Fremantle Blues & Roots Club: Matt Gresham Mojos Nth Fremantle Going Solo, Ben Salter, Ash Hendricks, Lyndon Blue Moon Cafe Newport Wednesdays Newport Htl Grim Fandango, Coveleski, Burning Fiction, Ten Points for Glenroy Rosemount Htl Cowboys and Indie Kids DJs Rosemount Htl (outside) Flume, Tan, Mostarsk The Bird
THU 05 The Novocaines, Sonpsilo Circus, We Move Walls Mojos Nth Fremantle The Autumn Isles Mustang Bar Jakwob Newport Htl Pallas Athena Rosemount Htl
FRI 06 Treat: Nina Las Vegas Bar 120 Arctic Monkeys Belvoir Amphitheatre Fisherman Style: Firehouse Sound, Earthlink Sound, Sabata Sound, Future Sound Mojos Nth Fremantle 10 Cent Billionaire Newport Htl Prescient, I Am Eternal, Pyromesh, Animistic Rosemount Htl Jonny Taylor, Boston & Chevy Settlers Tavern Margaret River
The Brown Study Band, Something Humble, Blind Highway, Red Dirt The Den Those Wretched Horses Velvet Lounge
SAT 07 Alpine Amplifier Bar Baby Jane, The Now, Engine of Reason Fly By Night Fremantle The Joe Kings, One Thousand Years, The Crooked Cats, Calectasia, Palatial Digs, Weapons of Mass Satisfaction, The Cult Of Addiction, Lucy Peach + more Mojos Nth Fremantle Kizzy, Gravity Newport Htl Twisted Affection Railway Htl Seer Cya, The Love Conduit, Rare Shadow, Heath Marshall Rosemount Htl Southbound Festival feat. Arctic Monkeys, The Kooks, Fleet Foxes, Crystal Castles, Aloe Blacc, John Butler Trio, The Jezabels + more Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton Dro Carey The Bird Vanity, Negative Reinforcement, Wild Sense, Dying Sun, Cabin Fever, Amend The Den
SUN 08 Jonny Taylor Jetty Cafe, Esperance Zarm, The Crux, Beleza Samba School Mojos Nth Fremantle Milly James, Timothy Nelson Newport Htl Southbound Festival feat. Arctic Monkeys, The Kooks, Fleet Foxes, Crystal Castles, Aloe Blacc, John Butler Trio, The Jezabels + more Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton The Wishers The Bird Neo Theatre Gardens, Subiaco
MON 09 The Kooks Astor Theatre Wide Open Mic Mojos Nth Fremantle That Velvet Echo The Bird
TUE 10 Hundred Acre Wood, DJ Scotty Ink, Seth Squid Lowe Mojos Nth Fremantle
WED 11 Fremantle Blues & Roots Club, Scottie Miller, Justin Walshe Mojos Nth Fremantle Going Solo, Jay Watson, Pete Bibby, Dean Anthonesz Moon Cafe Michael Swann & the Fox Fantasy, Rachel & Henry Climb A Hill Rosemount Htl Cowboys and Indie Kids DJs Rosemount Htl (outside) Resident DJ’s The Bird
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