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Wed 23. 7:30pm - Comedy and Film raising funds for 'The Dream Analyst' Fri 25. 10pm - Skip & Swing Dubstep, Glitch Hop, Liquid DnB & Future Garage ft. Baron Von Rotton, JD, Lickweed, Zayler, Aaron Static, Datura & Proximity Effect! Sat 26. 10pm - Unstable Sounds Girls Go Wild edition ft. Danni B, Volta, Illume, Freya, Nikki Sig, Left & Ninja Visuals by Kyogen & Henk.D Mon 28. 6pm - The Vault with guest speaker Gabriella Coslovich, Senior Arts Writer at The Age Mon 28. 8pm - TweetFilm talk through Looking For Alibrandi 140 characters at a time Tue 29. 7:30pm Loopdeloop animation challenge
SUI ZHEN INPRESS 12 The Front Line brings you the hottest industry news 12 This week’s best and worst in Backlash/Frontlash 14 Foreword Line brings you all the latest tour announcements 18 The Light Asylum get philosophical 20 Devin embraces the opportunity to lick Iggy Pop’s face 21 On again, off again with Love Connection 22 The future’s uncertain for The Butterfly Effect 23 Sui Zhen rates a post-gig hug as a career high point 24 Showtek are transcending ‘hard dance’ 24 Changes afoot for Tijuana Cartel 26 It’s the little things that count for The Woohoo Revue 26 Unravelling the riddle of the heart with Simone Felice 26 Anti-Flag have found they can’t have a sense of humour 27 Vocal music from The Bronx with Naturally 7 27 The Ocean are keeping experimental alive 27 Taking the time with Mickey Avalon 27 Heightened onstage realities with My Brightest Diamond 28 On The Record rates new releases from The Eastern and Lone
FRONT ROW 30 Check out what’s happening This Week in Arts 30 Next Wave Festival’s Bingo Unit is bringing spontaneity back to filmmaking.
The Taylor Project
CREDITS
Country-folk band known for their idiosyncratic and pub flavoured ballads, veering between humour and pathos. 5pm
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SATURDAY 26 May
Tess McKenna & the Shapiros Tess McKenna and the magnificent Shapiros return for an evening of stellar electric folk/rock & blues with pitch-perfect harmonies. 9pm
Original guitar pop tunes with 60s rock ‘n’ roll and sweet harmonies. 5pm
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BACK TO INPRESS 36 Gig Of The Week heads to Spenser’s Live 36 LIVE:Reviews check out Boy & Bear 44 Sarah Petchell will Wake The Dead with her punk and hardcore talk 44 Andrew Haug takes us to the dark side in The Racket 44 Dan Condon blues and roots in Roots Down 44 Business Music hits the clubs 45 Pop culture therapy with The Breakdown 45 Hip hop with Intelligible Flow 45 The freshest in urban news with OG Flavas 45 The latest in vinyl with Platter ‘Tude 46 Fill your dance card with our Club Guide 47 If you haven’t appeared in Fred Negro’s Pub, your mother probably still speaks to you 47 Jeff Jenkins gets down and local in Howzat! 48 Our Gig Guide fills your diary for the weekend 57 Gear and studio reviews in BTL 58 Find your new band and just about everything else in our classy Classifieds
This week we have five copies of John Mayer’s latest album Born & Raised, double passes to see Elizabeth Rose and Light Asylum performing live at their respective upcoming shows, and two double passes to Bonjah’s Corner Hotel outing on Friday 8 June.
SATURDAY 26 May
The Native Plants
31 Film Fil C Carew chats h t th the di director t off HRFF closing film The Island President 31 Another Banksy is destroyed in Melbourne and you can all stop panicking Guy Davis’s Trailer Trash is back 31 We talk about On The Production Of Monsters with Robert Reid 32 SOYA winner Andrew Kavanagh chats about his St Kilda Film Fest short At The Formal 32 Paul Ransom discovers what the hype is at the Malthouse about Circa
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