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Big Nyte Out
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The Shane Pacey Trio
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Aussie rock’n’roll mainstays Dallas Crane are gearing up to trek around the nation to promote their newest album, Scoundrels. On top of already announced December shows, they be playing east coast shows in January and February.
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Biblical Goodbye After ten years on the air, John Safran and Father Bob will say goodbye to triple j with the final Sunday Night Safran broadcasting next weekend. The final show will take the form of a “best of” as chosen by John and Bob.
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Third Time’s The Harm
NZ noise-punks Die! Die! Die! will be swinging across the pond for a quick tour in support of their band spankin’ new EP What Did You Expect, hitting up Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and surroundings next January.
Die! Die! Die!
The Snowdroppers
Boomerang Swing
Jannawi Dancers
Bluesfest have announced the first line-up for Boomerang Festival, a new precinct of Bluesfest (housed beside the Jambalaya stage at the festival) that focuses specifically on nurturing Indigenous and First Nations musicians, experiences and workshops. The first lineup for the exciting area of the festival is led by dance groups such as Rako Dancers, Jannawi Dancers, Excelsior, Malu Kiai Mura Buai Dance Troupe, Going Wanhurr And East Journey and Arakwal Dancers.
The Beards
Born By The Gunn Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Hirsute blokes The Beards are calling it a day, announcing the Mission Accomplished tour. They’ve achieved all they set out to do in their decade of existence, and will take to Aussie stages one last time, February through to May.
Going from strength to strength, Brisbane soul-pop group Moses Gunn Collective have been announced as the support for LA songsmith BØRNS’ Falls Festival sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne, presented by The Music.
Moses Gunn Collective
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From The Jam’s Bruce Foxton
Hilltop Hoods
Classical Contrast
Aussie hip hop group Hilltop Hoods will hit the road next April for an arena tour with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, performing re-arranged versions of track from their Walking Under Stars and Drinking From The Sun LPs.
An Australian Oasis
The Never-Ending Jam Maintaining the energy and repertoire of their source material, From The Jam, the rebirth of mod legends The Jam, return to embark on a national tour in September 2016 after selling-out shows across the country this March.
Ensuring no corner of the country misses out, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have shared the details of a set of headline shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth taking place around their appearance at Bluesfest in March.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Good Start To Life
Is it too early to sit in the sunshine and drink negronis? You tweeted this at 12.24pm, @lanksmusic. We’d say the answer is ‘no’ >:)
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Under-18s rejoice, for you will not be left out of this year’s summer festival season. The annual Good Life Festival have announced their 2016 return in February and line-up, featuring A$AP Rocky, Jeremih and a swarm of top international and Aussie acts.
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Cherry Ho, Let’s Go
Richie Ramone
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The drummer for The Ramones for several formative years, Richie Ramone, hits Aussie shores in April for a quick tour that includes the headlining slot at Cherry Rocks 2016, drumming and singing Ramones tracks and original material.
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Bluesfest New Artists Bluesfest just won’t quit, announcing a further ten killer artists to their bill, including The “Original” Blues Brothers Band, Don McLean, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Jeff Martin, The Mastersons, Russell Morris, Archie Roach and more.
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SOPHIE-ELLIS BEXTOR FRI 11 MAR
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Bluesfest aren’t slowing down on the sideshow front, having just announced headline shows from D’Angelo (Sydney and Melbourne), Don McLean (on The American Troubadour Tour nation-wide), The Blind Boys Of Alabama, (Sydney and Melbourne) and Blackberry Smoke (Sydney).
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The Proclaimers
Veteran Scottish duo The Proclaimers are finally heading back to Australia in April 2016 for a national tour. The tour comes on the back of the band’s tenth studio album Let’s Hear It For The Dogs released this past April.
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Carefully Curated
Vibes On A Summer’s Day’s Curator Series sees some of the country’s best music stylists, labels and producers deliver their selection of artists that represent tomorrow’s sounds. Featuring Natalie Slade, RUFUS DJs and more, it returns to Bondi Pavilion, 24 Jan.
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Finders Keepers Market
Find Your Own Gift
0 The number of those pubs where you can hear live music after 1.30am, as no entertainment is allowed except poker machines. 12 • THE MUSIC • 9TH DECEMBER 2015
The Finders Keepers Sydney Spring Market returns to completely refresh your Christmas shopping experience, displaying stalls from local artists and designers over the three-day event held 11 – 13 Dec at Sydney’s Exhibition Hall.
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Indiana roots-rock and Americana four-piece Houndmouth will be performing their first shows in our country, while here as part of Bluesfest. They’ll play Newtown (NSW) and Northcote (VIC) Social Clubs in March.
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Mardi Gras DJs
Mardi Gras have just announced their first line-up for the big party on 5 Mar, including Mark Alsop, Maze & Masters, Victoria Anthony, Kitty Glitter, Seismic Vs Tanner Derrby and Courtney Act.
Jennylee Right On! Rough Trade/Remote Control
Cass McCombs A Folk Set Apart Domino/EMI
R Kelly The Buffet Sony
Goodbye Goodgod Goodgod Small Club will put on a final show before new owners take over as Plan B Small Club. Twerps, Straight Arrows and more play 9 Dec and the Goodgod & Goodbye event (lineup TBA) goes down 12 Dec.
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Tick Tocky
Toxteth Hotel
The Toxteth Hotel’s new head chef Marc Cartwright has introduced a new seasonal summer menu. It’s full of refined classics like roast pork cutlet with celery coleslaw, caper potato salad and green peppercorn gravy; and salmon dill and caper fishcake with a watercress, radish and snow pea salad.
Frankie’s Vinyl Fair. Pic: Josh Groom
Read All About It All About Women, the annual festival of women at the Sydney Opera House, have announced their 2016 line-up, featuring Miranda July, Orange Is The New Black memoirist Piper Kerman, and Sleater-Kinney and Portlandia’s Carrie Brownstein.
Frankie’s Present Frankie’s Pizza’s Christmas Vinyl Fair is on 13 Dec. As well as records there’ll be comics, art, books, jewellery and more. Kicks off midday, finishes at 6pm then bands hit the stage: The Neptunes Power Federation, Black Aces, Kvlts Of Vice, Babymachine.
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Baby Animals
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P ART O F TH E S TO R Y — because the new album is very chill... This music I still tour is that really wild spirit and just about having a good time and having fun and [I] don’t have to think so much about being pretty. The more wrong, the more right kinda thing.” Following her Australian dates, Olovsdotter Elliphant aka Ellinor Olovsdotter tells Cyclone how her will head to Sweden to rehearse a new, bigger show. Either difficult childhood and ADD has inspired her creativity, and way, catch her while you can. “This is gonna be my last, warns Aussie fans this tour might be the last time they can like, fuck off, just go crazy — get it all out.” Media types assume that, though Olovsdotter catch her “wild” stuff. hails from Sweden, her heritage is Icelandic. Indeed, Olovsdotter is an Icelandic name. “I look a little bit wedish singer/MC Elliphant (aka Ellinor Olovsdotter) is living Icelandic,” she says. Mind, as far as Olovsdotter is concerned, she’s a golden life. She is aligned with Dr Luke’s Sony-backed “full-blood Viking”. On stage, she’s a street-punk Valkyrie. Kemosabe Records and has collaborated with Diplo and Olovsdotter has her vulnerabilities. Her childhood was anything Skrillex. But the Stockholm native hasn’t always had it easy. She but traditional — Olovsdotter describes it as “a mess”, one of “drama”, had a tumultuous childhood and never finished school. Until only disorder and disadvantage. Her single mother was a “junkie”. And she recently Olovsdotter was waitressing. Her music career has been wasn’t maternal. “I was never really hugged or taken care of as a child.” glorious serendipity. Today Olovsdotter admires her hippie qualities. “I had the luxury of Olovsdotter first hit Australia with her tropical electro-pop for July’s growing up with an amazingly free woman,” she says. “She’s like an Splendour In The Grass, DJ in tow. She also supported MØ at alien. She’s just born into this world and she just managed to survive, sideshows. The tastemaker fave is returning over summer, ahead of but no one really understands how. She’s just like the weirdest thing. her new album, Living Life Golden, led by Love Me Badder — a touch So I think my childhood, and what [my mother] gave me, was just early P!nk. Olovsdotter, based in Los Angeles for two-and-a-half years, giving me a lot of inspiration for my creative expression.” has been hard to catch on the phone, Olovsdotter prioritising the studio. But the third found school time’s the charm. She remembers stressful. She her Australian run as “intense”. “It quit at 15 — was so much fun — all the shows and was later were fun,” Olovsdotter enthuses, diagnosed with her voice husky from an oft-rued ADD (Attention smoking habit. That Olovsdotter is Deficit Disorder) no ordinary politically correct pop and dyslexia, star soon becomes apparent. Asked self-treating the if she had the prerequisite encounter former with weed. with a koala and this animal lover Olovsdotter demurs. “I have a little rule about worked in hospitality, using her earnings to travel after zoos and stuff — I never wanna really go to see animals [in captivity],” a formative trip to India with Granny. She revelled she says. “I wanna see them in nature.” in London’s dance underground. Partying in Paris, Olovsdotter’s album was scheduled for September, a sampler Olovsdotter bumped into her future collaborator, Swede serviced to media, but then it was delayed. It’ll now drop in March, Tim Deneve, who discovered that she could sing, and they Olovsdotter confirms. Will she preview songs in Oz? “Mmm, yeah, not cut demos, instituting ‘Elliphant’ as a “project”. In 2012 too many, I think — not so many of the new songs. A couple are gonna Olovsdotter released her debut single, Tekkno Scene. It’d be there, for sure. But I think we’re gonna have to come back with the be compared to MIA. The next year Olovsdotter issued release of the album and do the songs from the album, you know?” an album, A Good Idea, via the Swedish imprint Record In fact, this tour will be the last opportunity for fans to experience Company TEN. Olovsdotter originally envisaged that she’d Olovsdotter’s “wild” incarnation — she’s “gonna say bye, bye” to make “polished” music similar to the trip hop Portishead clubbier vibes. “The album is not so wild! You’re gonna miss the old or freak-folkies CocoRosie. Nonetheless, she developed Elliphant when the album comes out. Then people are gonna be like, a unique equatorial hybrid of dancehall, dubstep, ‘Oh, maybe you could just do a little bit of the old stuff again’ (laughs) moombahton, trap and electro.
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I think some people are just born to be creative. Whatever happens in my life, I will always be creative... It’s just a road I chose really early.
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Sweden has a long history of multicultural urban artists, spawning the hip hop soul pioneer Neneh Cherry. But, even for a Swedish girl, Olovsdotter’s Caribbean inflections seem incongruous. Curiously, Olovsdotter attributes her unique Jamaican patois to her battle with dyslexia. It’s no novelty. “To not lose faith and to not lose my courage in any way to write to other people and to any way communicate through emails or Facebook and SMS and all this, I just started to create my own way of expressing myself in English really early,” she explains. “I didn’t wanna just write words wrong — I wanted to write them my way wrong.” Olovsdotter’s move into EDM was largely influenced by the producers she encountered, like Deneve. “That was just a natural thing that happened when you become friends with people and when you’re spending a lot of time in a scene.” Olovsdotter doesn’t necessarily consider the music industry a refuge from her past. She once fancied pursuing visual arts. “I think some people are just born to be creative. Whatever happens in my life, I will always be creative... It’s just a road I chose really early.” Still, there’s nothing casual about her. “I am very ambitious.” Ultimately, Olovsdotter is grateful to have “a story” — something she can draw on. Olovsdotter eventually signed to Kemosabe Records, established by Dr Luke, aka Lukasz Gottwald, and home to acts as diverse as Kesha and Southern rapper Juicy J. Gottwald is recognised for producing glossy pop stars like Katy Perry. However, he has a pedigree in (underground) hip hop. Gottwald even masterminded UK rapper Lady Sovereign’s key song, Love Me Or Hate Me. His punt on Olovsdotter paid off when she generated heat globally with 2014’s EP Look Like You Love It, a joint release between Kemosabe and Diplo’s Mad Decent. In an ironic cultural twist, the song All Or Nothing featured Bunji Garlin, the Trinidadian soca star who previously had an LP called
The Viking. Skrillex helmed the epic Only Getting Younger. Olovsdotter followed with another EP, One More, its MØ-blessed title track courtesy of New Zealand’s Joel Little, Lorde’s cohort. In the meantime, she cameoed on Major Lazer’s Peace Is The Mission. Gottwald is embroiled in an unpleasant legal battle with Kesha, who’s accused him of abuse. But Olovsdotter paints a different picture of the svengali. “I don’t see Luke so much,” she admits. “I met him the other day. He’s a really, really sweet guy. He’s like a filter — I filter things through him. I send him things... Sometimes he wants to be a part of them, sometimes he gives me tips — he sends me stuff that he likes. We have had a couple of really cool sessions where we made some amazing music. He’s more like a producer in my life, really.” Yet for Living Life Golden, Olovsdotter has again liaised with Little (“he writes really beautiful things”) and Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio. She’s outgrowing EDM. “The album is gonna be very different — that’s more of my musical journey of learning how to express myself in lyrics and melodies. It’s much more from the heart. Many of the songs are old now, [but] some of them are gonna be new. I don’t feel connected with all of them every day, but all of them are part of my story.”
When & Where: 2 Jan, Falls Festival, North Byron Parklands; 6 Jan, Plan B Small Club
Winning Banks You don’t mess with Azealia Banks. The Harlem Ice Princess has feuded with her cred peer Angel Haze — and lambasted Iggy Azalea (“Igloo Australia”) for co-opting black culture. But somehow the transcultural Elliphant has won Banks over. Initially Olovsdotter cut an asyet-untitled song with Dr Luke. “We all felt that it would be really good to have another powerful girl in this song, to build the song up — because it’s a little bit like a military song,” Olovsdotter recaps. “So we just thought about girls. I asked if [Dr Luke] knew Azealia, ‘cause I’ve always been interested in her. He was like, ‘Yeah, I know her. I’ll call her now!’ He called her. She was like, ‘Yeah — fuck, yeah...’” The pair bonded when they were both billed at Splendour (which Banks later infamously dissed as “a waste of my fucking time”). “We had a really fun night — I was so out of myself, shitfaced, because I was drinking whiskey from two o’clock and I met her at, like, 12 o’clock at night. But we had a really good laugh. She was really fun.” Banks shared pictorial evidence online. Olovsdotter hopes that they can shoot a video for their energetic track. And Banks continues to look out for Olovsdotter. “She’s really cool. She’s sweet — she has a big heart. I have the same PR girl, here in America, and I was at a party the other day and she told me that Azealia worried about me — like, ‘Oh, you have to take care of Elli.’ She’s been worried about my health and stuff. That’s really sweet. She’s a good girl.”
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Frontlash Wonder Woman We were a bit meh about the whole new Batman V Superman trailer, but the appearance of Wonder Woman near the end gave it a whole new wow factor and piqued our interest.
Sisters Tina Fey and Amy Poehler spoof Star Wars: The Force Awakens to remind folks that their movie is coming out the same day.
Lashes Game Of Thrones
Release a new teaser video, promising good things for the next series. Supergirl
Backlash Supergirl
We were a bit underwhelmed by the first episode of the new series. Following on from the ho hum nature of the recent Batman V Superman trailer, could DC be losing its shine?
Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D Looks, we’re glad it’s finally getting to screen here in Australia, but the whole issue of will it/won’t it screen on Channel 7 or Foxtel means we’re now ten episodes behind the US.
Game Of Thrones The new teaser video didn’t reveal nearly enough about the new series. We want more and can’t wait until April! 18 • THE MUSIC • 9TH DECEMBER 2015
length and explore realms on the spur of the moment, which is fantastic for us. We could do this kind of man/ machine thing where we programmed beats and then got him to recreate them with a human touch. I was really happy with how that worked out.” Playing in new countries and in unique venues is another way to maintain enthusiasm and variety in their live performance. Recently, one such setting was the Bohemian National Cemetery Chapel in Chicago. “That was amazing. That place just made the hairs on my arms stand up. It was a crematorium as well as a chapel so it had these walls with little glass cases full of urns with people’s ashes and photographs, mostly from the early 20th century. The room was round with a domed ceiling. Very spooky but very cool.” There has been an increase in the popularity of psychedelic-based music, from Tame Impala to Unknown Mortal Orchestra in recent years. But does it constitute a scene and, if so, is it one that Moon Duo feel a part of? “I like both those bands but I feel the concept of psychedelic rock is very broad. The idea of psychedelia is to open up doors and possibilities and not put boundaries on things or box anything in. For me, anything can be psychedelic. For instance I find some of Herbie Hancock’s music from the mid ‘70s to be deeply psychedelic. There’s this minimal synth woman Laurie Spiegel who I really like and her stuff is super minimal but amazing and I find that extremely transportive in a psychedelic way. I guess I appreciate the label for our music but I think the current scene around that concept has a very specific sound aesthetic which we don’t really fit but I like the concept of psychedelia in general.”
Anything Can Be Psychedelic
Moon Duo’s Sanae Yamada discusses their place in psychedelic music, adding a live drummer to their line-up and performing to the ashes of dead people, with Chris Familton.
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s the name suggests, Moon Duo are a musical pairing — the collaborative project of Sanae Yamada and partner Ripley Johnson. The latter is best known for his work with San Francisco psych/drone group Wooden Shjips but with logistical issues slowing progress with that band and Moon Duo becoming more prolific and popular they’re able to spend more time exploring their lunar landscape. “This will be the first time we’re doing two Moon Duo records instead of alternating albums between the two bands. Wooden Shjips can be more difficult to organise and get them all together as some of them have intense day jobs and families so it is harder to organise. It’s easy for us to pack up and hit the road and John [Jeffrey — drums] is young, he’ll do whatever!” laughs Yamada. Jeffrey joined the band a couple of years ago, replacing the drum machines they used on stage, breathing new life into some of the band’s songs. “There are some songs that I’m way more into because we’ve found this other mode for them which is more dynamic than the recorded versions. A big part of it is having John, who opens us up to be dynamic and flexible in a way that we weren’t before. We can play with tempo and
When & Where: 10 Dec, Newtown Social Club
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Greg Fleet did a bit of a no no last week when he skipped out on a court appearance. Truth be told, it’s not as big a deal (or as weird) as some of these infamous hooky players in the entertainment world: The Rolling Stones happen to have one of the best ‘flee the police’ stories in rock‘n’roll history – they fled their home country to the South of France in ’71 as tax exiles escaping the Labor government’s 93% tax on high earners. Exile On Main St was a direct result, recorded in Richards’ basement at Nellcôte, which they converted to a makeshift studio. In 1955, a group of Jazz at the Philharmonic musicians were arrested in Texas for playing dice backstage at a venue where gambling was illegal. To keep the tour on the road, Norman Granz, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet and Georgiana Henry skipped out on their $10 per head bail. It cost Granz nearly $2,000 to get the case dismissed. You wouldn’t think a gospel musician would be a wanted man! Ugandan gospel musician Ambassada is currently a wanted man after he skipped bail in a criminal case and missed three court appearances. A warrant for his arrest has been issued. The crime? He stole an iPad from comedian Fred Omondi Owino.
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Once More ‘Round
In the title role of an acrobatic and musical reimagining Felix Knopp argues Woyzeck is not just a wreck. He talks to Dave Drayton.
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iven the abundant adaptations of older works, it sometimes seems as though anything older than a decade or two is up for grabs when it comes to reinterpretations. ‘Unfinished’ works certainly seem to invite even more tinkering - and among the most frequently reimagined is Georg Buchner’s working class tragedy Woyzeck. Theatre director Robert Wilson teamed up with musicians Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan for their own adaptation of Woyzeck, which premiered in 2000 in Copenhagen. Since 2010, the Hamburg-based Thalia Theater have toured a production of this musical reinvention - most recently to Bogota, Columbia, last year - and they will mount it for the final time as part of the Sydney Festival. Speaking via email, Felix Knopp (who spent a decade from 2001 to 2011 developing his craft at Thalia Theatre as a member of their ensemble, and has continued to work with them in a freelance capacity as Woyzeck has continued to tour) expresses the significance of finally bringing the work to Australia. “In Sydney we will play our last show, so for both the company and I it is a very special event.” This was an interesting role for Knopp to land, for despite his acting prowess and a gig fronting rock band My Darkest Star, he doesn’t really like musicals.
“For me, the most important part of this adaptation was the encounter of theatre and music. It was a challenge for me, for us, to find a good way to combine the German text of Buchner and the songs of Tom Waits. I don’t like musicals that much and so we worked very hard to find an expression that on one side is still the musical and on the other side reaches the dark and powerful world of Buchner’s great play. Woyzeck was a chance for me to perform in a musical for the first time, and a most profound one.” Director Jette Steckel presents on one hand the poor German underclass speaking gutsy pre-Brechtian German. On the other, introspection through Waits’ English songs; the two held together by the taut grid of steel and rope that forms the centre of Florian Losche’s set. Before laying the character to rest, Knopp reflects on how he sees his character of Franz Woyzeck - lowly, perhaps, but far from defeated. “He’s an outsider. Daily life is not his thing. That brings a kind of isolation and isolation is always dangerous. For me it was very important not to be stuck in the traditional perspective of Woyzeck as a poor victim. There is still vitality; there is a kind of revolutionary energy inside of Woyzeck. His hallucinations also have their clear prophetical part. He sees here that is something going wrong with mankind ignoring moral rules, and that creates troubling effects. The nature will answer. Mankind will answer. And so Woyzeck answers, unfortunately in a very cruel way. He can’t see any other option, which is pure tragedy.”
What: Woyzeck When & Where: 7 - 12 Jan, Sydney Festival, Carriageworks Bay 17
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Eat / Eat/Drink
Belle’s Hot Chicken @ Wulugul Pop-Up
Belle’s Hot Chicken @ Wulugul Pop-Up
Food Haul
Belle’s Hot Chicken @ Wulugul Pop-Up
Food halls, markets, parks, pop-ups — just wherever you can get a bunch of different food all at once. Spice Alley If you’ve ever been to an actual hawker centre in Singapore or Malaysia you’ll know they’re little wonderlands of efficient, tasty, no-fuss, convenient comfort food. Central Park’s outdoor street food market, Spice Alley, aims to replicate that atmosphere, and the offerings. It comprises four permanent stalls on Kensington Street, Chippendale — Bang Luck, Old Jim Kee, Alex Lee Kitchen, Hong Kong Diner — and occasional guest pop-ups. Almost every item is under $10. Open daily, 11am-10pm.
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Wulugul Pop-Up The 170-metre-long space at Barangaroo is hosting Mamak (roti and curry for days), RivaReno Gelato (silky, silky, cold goodness), Gin It pop-up bar from The Barber Shop, Edition Coffee Roasters (caffeinated gold and pastries), and Melbourne’s Belle’s Hot Chicken. The best thing about this pop-up is that it’ll be running until August 2016, so your FOMO should not flare up. Daily, 11am-11pm.
Hyde Park Barracks Christmas Fare Got some last-minute Xmas shopping to do? Might as well get some good food while you’re at it, or buy the food as gifts. Among the 40 stallholders showcasing handmade produce and artisan wares, look out for Cornersmith, Young Henrys, Brooklyn Boy Bagels, Black Star Pastry, Sweetness The Patisserie and The Cake Kombi. It’s on from 4-9pm, 17 Dec. Entry by gold coin (includes admission to Hyde Park Barracks Museum).
Hyde Park Barracks Christmas Fare
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Drink Up
Bear Essentials Pineapple Cider So Frenchy So Yum Australia’s first pineapple cider, made by Sydney brewery Bear Essentials from 100% Queensland pineapples, has hit shelves and is aiming to give the boring old pine-less apple cider a run for its money. Its mascot is also Australia’s only bongo-playing bear, The Bongo Bear. You may have spotted him in snaps sipping cider with the Bondi Rescue Lifesavers and The Bachelorette’s Dave Billsborrow and Davey Lloyd.
So Frenchy So Chic have unveiled their edible and drinkable delights. There’ll be Oysters Unplugged – match it perfectly with the Laurent Perrier from the champagne bar next door. Hotel Gitan is serving up Brochette de boeuf with volaille, lamb and cous cous, garnished with yogurt and cucumber; and try the nicoise bread with Provencal vegetables, virgin olive oil and smoked salmon. Le Pelican’s menu includes kingfish carpaccio with lemon purée, dill and piquillo; and snails croquettes with a parsley
purée and herb salad. Le Petit Bistro is making burgers with a French twist. Bright Young Things (VIC) and Simmone Logie (NSW) are selling hampers. There’ll also be all your favourite snacks like calamari, frites, ice cream, crepes, macarons, and several bars providing wine and cocktails. Bon appétit!
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Music
A New Affliction Metalcore sensations The Amity Affliction have graduated to enormodomes, but vocalist Joel Birch tells Brendan Crabb about retaining that personal connection from the stage.
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aving consciously decided a few years ago to limit gigging within their native Australia, chart-topping metalcore outfit The Amity Affliction spend the bulk of their touring life Stateside, in addition to European stints. Back home, they’ll soon tackle their biggest rooms yet in many cities, co-headlining arenas alongside A Day to Remember. Screamer Joel Birch isn’t enamoured with the “Big Ass Tour” moniker. “I don’t want to speak ill of the name, but I’ll just say it had nothing to do with us,” he says with a chuckle from his Sunshine Coast home.
The crowd goes so crazy because everyone’s feeding off each other and I think that leads to — it’s not the same experience — but it’s still a really beautiful experience.
The frontman’s battle with depression and anxiety are well documented. Birch has spoken previously about witnessing fans during performances whose bodies contain scars from self-harm, and being so overcome by the sight he’s missed entire lines of songs. Is he concerned that such cavernous venues could hamper his ability to look Amity’s fervent audience in the eye? “No, I think you can still maintain it [the connection]. One thing I noticed when we did our regional tour not too long ago, [is that] I really enjoyed the intimacy. It was like playing back to the roots shows. But I think at the same time there’s a completely different transfer of energy at bigger
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shows. The crowd goes so crazy because everyone’s feeding off each other and I think that leads to — it’s not the same experience — but it’s still a really beautiful experience. “The passion that people have for music is really palpable on that scale. I don’t necessarily miss it, because we are getting that from overseas now, and I think just looking out from the stage and seeing how much of an impact the music’s having and how crazy people go, and seeing everyone singing along. Hearing them sing along when we do the cut-out parts is so mental, and emotionally overwhelming, that it’s like a whole different thing. You can’t compare one with the other.” During the past 12 months they’ve issued the Seems Like Forever documentary, and split with co-founding member Troy Brady. Birch downplays the latter event’s effect writing-wise. “That wasn’t as major as it seemed, to be honest,” he explains dryly. “Everyone’s happier, way happier, and we’re more open with each other and everything’s positive.” Given The Amity Affliction’s success, it’s not surprising that during recent months folks have begun regularly recognising the singer in public while off tour. “But people are polite, it’s not a big deal,” he offers. On the road, he frequently encounters devotees, which must be daunting on occasion. “Absolutely, but at the same time I’ve got a responsibility and sometimes you’ve got to just bite the bullet and just do it, and hang out with them for a bit. ‘Cause you never know, that might be the ten seconds that changes their mind about something else. Sometimes I feel shit, and if I feel shit then I tend to make myself unavailable and not put them in a position where they feel guilty about asking me for a few words or whatever... Otherwise I think it’s part and parcel of the job to be available to talk. What’s What s like 20 minutes out of your day?”
When & Where: 12 Dec, QANTAS Credit Union Arena
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Drinks Up Apparently expats in Hong Kong don’t eat until after 8pm, and they have lavish meals, and then they go out partying at about 11pm. That’s a late start for an Aussie, so our tip is just to order a lychee cocktail with every spicy meal you buy, which in my case is every meal, and you’ll get a little bit of a buzz going, especially if you scull the thing in order to relieve your frying tastebuds. You can also buy grog in 7-Elevens and supermarkets if you fancy a day drink – and they always have Aussie wines. Speaking of Aussie wine, keep an eye out for wine fairs. I headed to the HK Wine & Dine Festival, where I found myself complimenting a delightful sticky(!) that was actually from Adelaide… You can also sample some of the best wines in the world at festivals such as these, and it’s definitely worth keeping an eye out for local winemakers; you might just find a new favourite. Lan Kwai Fong (and surrounds) is where you’re supposed to go to party, whether you start at Club 7 (buy pre-mix at 7-Eleven, drink it on the street) and move onto the amphitheatre at the end of Wo On Lane, or at gin bar Ori-Gin for a gin cocktail in a miniature bathtub. Or just get blind straight off the bat by drinking ten brightly coloured shots at Marlin in less than ten seconds – you’ll get your name on the wall! For more classy cocktails, Azure on top of Hotel LKF has the added benefit of stunning views of the city from 30 floors up.
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Not A Shit Given
While across the scene, his rapping style has been called unAustralian, rapper Ivan Ooze (in no uncertain terms) tells Rip Nicholson he couldn’t give a shit.
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’ve just always rapped like this, it’s not a voice I put on, it’s just my voice when it’s in a high pitch,” explains Ivan Ooze, aka Ben Townsend, whose vocals come off seemingly American in accent, rubbing some of the local scene’s hard heads the wrong way. “I grew up on American hip hop during my upbringing and I hadn’t even heard an Australian hip hop artist until I was about 15. I do use some American slang but that’s just me. People definitely do say, ‘Your voice is wack, you’re not Aussie hip-hop’, but why the fuck do I care? I do this for myself and my fans, not to please them because they don’t like it. Shut the fuck up!” Townsend dropped into the scene and into a new wave of hip hop in 2014. In less than 12 months he has released his Ringwood Rich EP as well as acclaimed mixtape The Social Alien - a fully-automatic, high pitched lyrical assault that went viral across Australia - and most recently new single, Fire. It’s a track miles away from the style he delivered on previous big hit Jimi Hendrix. So, finding his niche is achieved by not creating a niche. “I just like being versatile and like to keep people guessing instead of producing the same shit over and over again. It’s also
a lot more fun that way too, never a dull moment.” He has performed with Allday, Illy and The Thundamentals with whom he also shares no distinct style. “Yeah I guess so,” agrees Townsend, to a degree. “But, everyone has their own certain style that’s what makes them stand out in the Australian scene. My style is a product of a lot of aggression though so I try and turn it into constructive energy in a way. Rapping is basically my release.” Quickly becoming regarded as one of the hardest working musicians in the scene, Townsend has matched his eclectic output with an equally astounding gig schedule; recently performing 45 shows straight with hip hop’s favourite storyteller Seth Sentry. As hectic as it was on his health, he insists the time was memorable. “It was actually the best time, man. There were so many crazy moments that I’ll never forget,” he laughs. “But it definitely takes it toll performing every night health-wise. It was all worth it though, one of the best experiences of my life. Thanks Seth!” Along with Sentry Townsend has been billed with legends Ice Cube and Cypress Hill, even Azealia Banks, all of whom he declares taught him how to present himself on stage and harness his audience. “Especially watching the way Cypress and Cube control a crowd, as someone who is really energetic on stage and jumping around using the entire floor space, I learnt so much from those two tours and I feel it bettered me as an artist and as a person.”
When & Where: 11 Dec, Festival Of The Sun, Port Macquarie
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Presley is among rock’s most enduring icons with several generations of fans. The Pet Shop Boys cut an ‘80s synth-pop cover of Always On My Mind, and both Justins Timberlake and Bieber have Presley’s musical DNA. Why are people still fascinated by The King? “I think being dead does a lot of that,” Lopez quips. “Things are so much different [today] than 1977 when Elvis died. The whole idea of a drug overdose and then going to rehab and then coming back again, that whole thing that you’re so used to now, hadn’t even begun... He was almost like a sacrificial lamb.” And no white male performer before had Presley’s sexual swagger, his infamous gyrating hips. “He was groundbreaking in his time — Elvis was a gangsta rapper of his period, he was the Michael Jackson...” Lopez has worked with the family-run Elvis Presley Enterprises. “One of the people who works there told me, ‘You know, half of us love you here ‘cause you’re pushing boundaries and taking Elvis to another dimension, and half of us hate you because they think you’re just a joke.’ To me, that was the perfect place to be.” The Mexican-American isn’t afraid to be political, just as Donald Trump, the Republican Presidential contender, is propagating antagonism towards (Mexican) migrants Stateside. “The sad thing is I have a song called Immigration Time [based on Presley’s Suspicious Minds] that I’ve been doing for 25 years and the situation hasn’t gotten much better,” he rues. “[Trump] does have charisma,” he concedes. “It’s funny — you can go, ‘Who would elect a television personality?’ But Ronald Reagan was elected, and so was Arnold Schwarzenegger. America loves a good personality.”
Move Over Elvis
Elvis Presley has inspired countless impersonators. But The King is also ripe for subversion. Cyclone discovers that no one revels in this more than Robert Lopez, known as the Mexican Elvis — El Vez.
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ver summer, Robert Lopez — the Chula Vista California native — will return to Australia for Falls Festival with his prerequisite costumes. He’ll likewise have headline gigs — even a Melbourne “MeXmas” show. Lopez was managing an art gallery in the early ‘90s when he developed El Vez, not so much as a Presley tribute, but as an “interpretation”. His El Vez is satirical, postmodern and proudly Chicano — one of Lopez’ songs is You Ain’t Nothing But A Chihuahua. However, Lopez’ repertoire is jukebox-varied. He’s dropped in songs by David Bowie, his other “touchstone”, through to the incongruous Oasis. El Vez performed ahead of Bowie at the 1996 Roskilde Festival — “an honour”, he enthuses. Bowie thanked him on stage. Coming from punk rock, Lopez has a sense of iconoclasm and “the bravado to go ahead and do something different and mix and mash”. Yet he usually avoids contemporary songs. “I tend to use the nostalgic tunes because I like to say, ‘Here’s a concept that you know already’ — be it Elvis or an American pop tune or universal pop tune — and then [I] flip it, put a moustache on it and change it.”
Go Buy Yourself Something If you want to shop in Hong Kong, I’m asking you to lower your expectations. And then raise them, depending on what you’re looking for. If you want bargain buys, go to the markets. There’s heaps. Just start walking and you’ll come upon a market. There you can find children’s toys, bright coloured Calvin Klein sports bras, and fresh meat swinging in the breeze. Plus knick knacks and junk for your grandmother/niece/nephew. I’d go to the markets for fruit, vegetables and flowers. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, if you’re in the market for a designer handbag, you’re in luck! There’s a Chanel (and department store Lane Crawford) on every corner (Causeway Bay!), or at least in every shopping mall. If you’re on a budget, don’t expect to go into a mall and be able to afford anything more than maybe something from Zara or Topshop. Now here’s where things get interesting – PMQ. It’s billed as “creativity at a new address”, and it really is. Are you the type who hangs out at Finders Keepers Markets in your hometown? You just want to drop maybe a little too much but not an exorbitant amount on a locally made terrarium or a wallet? This is where you need to go: it’s essentially one of those local designer showcases, except these shops are open year-round. Head here to get some really fucking nice homewares.
When & Where: 26 & 27 Dec, Newtown Social Club; 31 Dec, Falls Festival, North Byron Parklands
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Music
She’ll Go Far Goon and Courtney Barnett — two things that epitomise the Australian experience for Bridie Monds-Watson aka SOAK. Tyler McLoughlan explores the intriguing contrasts of the 19-year-old artist.
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outed as a prodigious voice of a generation, Bridie Monds-Watson trades insults with her band mates in French and shouts down the phone from her tour bus in Germany: “...We think he looks like the guy from Maroon 5, Adam Levine!” She’s in the midst of a vigorous post-show discussion about who the drummer of her band looks like, which ends in fits when a background voice chimes in: “More like Avril Lavigne.” The Northern Irelander isn’t about to let such weighty sentiments get in the way of her good time, and she proved it with the large script “goon” she had inked above her knee on her first Australian visit this year.
I’ve heard endless stories about the goon of fortune. I’m very ready.
“I was just showin’ some of my new tour mates that tattoo a minute ago so that’s really good timin’!” she says. “A lot of people messaged me and told me they had that tattoo too — it all came out of the woodwork then. I feel like next time I come in January I’m gonna have to take part in drinkin’ some goon, ‘cause I didn’t actually do it when I was there. I think I’m gonna have to do it. Oh yeah and the goon of fortune — I’ve heard endless stories about the goon of fortune. I’m very ready.” It’s hardly something you’d expect from a youngster who calls their debut alt-folk album Before We Forgot How To Dream, and fills it with robust lyricism and 28 • THE MUSIC • 9TH DECEMBER 2015
structures, yet has the capacity to be extraordinarily delicate too. One can only imagine the kind of ink she’ll pick up on her second Australian tour inside a year for Falls and Southbound Festivals over the new year. “I’m pretty excited to come back and bring a full band, ‘cause last time I was there I played four or five shows [solo] — it was really cool ‘cause all the gigs we did, they sold out and the rooms were amazing and the venues were class and the people who came were really cool. So I think comin’ out to do festival shows, it’s a completely different dynamic with a band — it’s quite loud and it’s a lot of fun. My drummer who’s sittin’ across from me just said: ‘It’s fookin’ mental!’” Monds-Watson says, hamming up her lovely Derry lilt. “The only struggle that we might have is the heat of Australia at that time of the year. Though other than that hopefully we just have some really fun shows, and hopefully as unstressful as possible.” “Going to Australia the first time around was a really big deal. When you come from such a small place, to get the opportunity to go to places like Australia and America is a really big deal. It’s a big deal for anyone, but to come from a small place and to go somewhere crazy and know that mainly your music brought you there is kind of insane. I was really, really excited to go to Australia; especially because it’s pretty much the farthest place I could have gone. I was excited to go and definitely wasn’t disappointed at all. I loved all the time that I was there and wanted to be there longer, so it’s really nice to come back again so soon.” As chat turns to career achievements and awards, Monds-Watson is quite chuffed to hear that she shares a Q Awards Best New Act nomination alongside Australia’s own Courtney Barnett. Despite the contrast in musical styles, they’re both strong, independent characters that share a sharp, self-deprecating humour and a love of colloquial vernacular. It seems to be a friendship just waiting to happen. “I want to be her friend,” she says with delight at the suggestion. “I’m a really big fan of her music and her label actually as well. I think she’s done a lot of really cool stuff, so it will be really cool to see her hopefully every day that we play the Falls Festival... We both have similar labels and stuff in Australia that have said that we’re quite similar, so hopefully we’ll just be best friends after this tour! We’ve been close [to crossing paths]. When I played South By Southwest as well she played... All the [venue] entries were 21 plus so I couldn’t get in. That would have been it though, that would have been the friendship started,” Monds-Watson says with a humorous sincerity, “but I couldn’t get in.”
When & Where: 2 Jan, Falls Festival, North Byron Parklands; 8 Jan, Newtown Social Club
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Comedy
A Different Page It’s only been in recent years that US comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim learned to embrace the limitations set by the absurdist label they unwillingly fall under. Daniel Cribb discovers the method behind the madness.
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hat’s uuuuuuuppp??” shoot two high-pitched voices down the line. It’s unmistakably Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, and unless this scribe treads lightly, things will spiral out of control very quickly. “Ba’hee to you too,” the pair respond when the mantra from their new ‘self-help’ book is mentioned. It’s a 317-page effort parodying religions like Scientology, and has just as many celebrities throwing their name behind it. “Zone Theory helped me to become a happier, healthier, more confident man. I recommend it to everyone I meet. Buy it now,” John C Reilly, Marilyn Manson, Ben Stiller are quoted as saying on the back of Heidecker and Warehiem’s first book, Zone Theory: 7 Easy Steps To Achieve A Perfect Life. Those are just a few of the many Hollywood names plastered on the back of the hard-covered path to enlightenment, and while Tim & Eric aren’t as popular as some of the big-time names on the back of the book, they’ve found a cult following since unleashing five seasons of Awesome Show, Great Job! on Adult Swim, and have greats like Paul Rudd, Will Ferrell itching to get in on the action. “I think there’s a sense of freedom and creativity with what we do that
I think the work is very good on drugs, but we’ve never taken drugs when we write or perform.
is not hard - it comes naturally for these people,” Heidecker says. “If you compare that to a big movie set or a big TV show, a lot of the times those can be very stifling and boring environments to be in, because things are methodical and they take a while and when we work, it’s very fast and fun.” It’s an interesting brand of humour the comedy duo unleash, and while fans will attest to the fact that the manic animation and often disturbingly hilarious subject matter is well written and executed, the Tim & Eric brand is frequently labelled ‘absurdist’: a term they’re not too enthused about. “We don’t love it, because people associate absurdity with randomness and we actually do work hard on all these ideas, and the ideas come from grounded things that exist. We’re storytellers in our own unique way,” comments Wareheim. Their work often has the uninitiated scratching their heads, wondering where ideas sprouted, but even longtime fans might be surprised that the creativity has never been sparked via illicit materials. “It doesn’t really bug us anymore,” Wareheim says on the 30 • THE MUSIC • 9TH DECEMBER 2015
constant ‘they must be on drugs’ comments. “If you do look at our work and don’t know us, it does seem kind of whacky, and I think the work is very good on drugs, but we’ve never taken drugs when we write or perform - maybe a beer or cider before a performance, but that’s as hard as we go.” Translating their visual humour to the Zone Theory pages was a “frustrating” effort, and one that saw the pair enlist help from longtime collaborator/writer/editor Doug Lussenhop, who helped shape the style of Awesome Show, and Australian-born actor Gregg Turkington (Neil Hamburger), who Heidecker has worked with extensively, when it came to writing. Lussenhop opened for Heidecker and Wareheim on their last trip to Australia in 2012 as DJ Dougg Pound and will accompany them on the ‘Stralia-Zealand Experience tour. “Basically what we do a lot of time with our shows is we get a room together with people we really like and we just bounce ideas off each other and they throw ideas back, and that was kind of how they contributed - an afternoon trying to make each other laugh within the constructs of the concepts of the book,” Heidecker tells. “We like to keep it in the family and work with people we love and know well.” Their connections to the inner sanctum of Hollywood see Heidecker and Wareheim branch out on their own projects when they find the time. Heidecker recently appeared in Fantastic Four (of which he commented “Who gives a shit?”), and Wareheim has signed on to appear on Aziz Ansari’s Netflix show Master Of None, and directed music videos for Major Lazer, MGMT and more in the past. While they both have the potential to expand their horizons, they have accepted the fact their work under the Tim & Eric banner has its limits, which was a revelation cemented by 2012’s Billion Dollar Movie. “We made the movie to be appreciated by more than just our fans, and the general public said, ‘Hell no,’ so that was as far as we could go,” Wareheim says. “But we’re fine with people not getting it - it makes it much more special for fans that it’s not a widely received movie or show; it’s like a cult.” John C Reilly got a mention earlier and his connection to Heidecker and Wareheim goes far deeper than some words on the back of a book; the pair has worked closely with him on Awesome Show and spin-off Check It Out!, in which the actor plays a questionable doctor by the name of Steve Brule. “We’re Season Four of that show,” Wareheim reveals. “We’re writing wriiit wr “We’re it in the fall, and they usually come out in “ ’re “We e shooting sho sh o Feb, Mar time,” Heidecker adds. “We love it; it’s a really Mar area a fun ffu un u n show show for s f us to write and make. The more you make it, the more the universe of the show grows; it’s very satisfying.” They might be branching into different avenues individually, but it’s when they collaborate with one another, even after all these years, that things feel right. “It’s a blast. I recently did a large job and it was a lot of hard work and not that many laughs,” Wareheim says. “We got back together and made the Bedtime Stories special and we laughed together. It’s good to have that laughter. We’ve been working together for 20 years - can you imagine - and we were cracking each other up- it was fantastic.”
What: Tim And Eric ‘Strailia-Zealand Experience When & Where: 11 Dec, Enmore Theatre
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e’s running some last minute errands before leaving for a tour of China the next day, walking in and out of stores. While living in Brooklyn for the last five years has informed his latest album to a degree, Palomo is quick to explain that VEGA INTL. Night School is more inspired by the various cinematic representations of the island than the metropolis itself. “New York in particular is a city that’s been exotified by quite a few filmmakers in the past, so it only made sense for me to observe it from that standpoint. I tried to imagine movies like Last Days Of Disco, Fear City, King Of New York, and even some of the weirder and obscure Scorsese movies like After Hours and King Of Comedy, and see how they distorted the city through their lens. When you’re talking about the epicentre of the Western world, it’s interesting to see how different people have dissected it through the decades.” It would be tempting to then consider the album as being about paying homage or tribute to the past, but Palomo also clarifies that he’s not interested in revivalism. “There’s already a Sign O’ The Times, there’s already a Tusk, there’s already an Aja, there’s already a Songs From The Big Chair; there’s all these iconic ‘80s pop records that it would be
redundant to try and make something like that, if that was your aesthetic modus operandi. I mean I’m aware of those things, and they definitely are ingredients which go into the pot as far as what I’m ultimately trying to synthesise. But it’s not so much to put it in those gestures, as much as it is to create a collage; to be able to feel like compartments of the record were happening throughout the span of some fictional band’s career. It took different studios to record in, and different musicians to work with.” Despite the grandiosity and pure opulence of these classic records, Palomo says he’s never felt intimidated by setting his goals high. “You’re trying to make something paramount on a comparatively shoestring budget, but I think at the end of the day it’s just really about locking the hours in. And the follow-through is everything. When I look back at my friends who have gone the furtherest, and particularly the ones whose work I wasn’t that initially impressed with, they just kept putting it out there. Through the act of receiving feedback, there was a very slow and gradual change in them. They needed to sort the excess of shit to be able to work the gold out... and be able to figure out what sets them apart. I think that only time really does that. If you feel intimidated by some creative endeavour, you’ve got to just accept that it’s going to take a good chunk of your life to put it out there. Nothing is free, even if it just means time. I feel like I was willing to invest as much time as necessary to make this record, because I really wanted it to be something that I construe as special to my ears.”
What: VEGA INTL. Night School (Popfrenzy) When & Where: 14 Dec, Uni Bar, Wollongong; 15 Dec, Oxford Art Factory
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Orient
George Street
89 George St, The Rocks Then there’s the Orient Hotel and Toto nightclub who are throwing a NYE party from 6pm that includes a bunch of food stalls and NYE food specials. There will be DJs and entertainment from 8pm onwards from Dollar Bear, Jackson Hunter, Aftertouch and Steph Luxe, and views of the harbour so you don’t even need to leave for midnight! To give you some pre-clubbing energy they will have a selection of complimentary canapés between 7pm and 8pm before the party really kicks off.
In Focus Harbour Pass
NYE on Sydney Harbour is not a place you want to be without a ticket into a party, away from the crowds, towards a cocktail menu. Here are three NYE Harbour parties to take your fancy. But for $50 you’ll get a NYE Sydney Harbour Pass that will give you access to all three venues throughout the night on the most epic of pub crawls. Live it up a little with free unlimited VIP Entry all night, and you also get a complimentary drink on arrival at each venue and the opportunity to sample all of the food and entertainment on offer, all night long.
Cahill Expy
Pa ra g o n Ho t el
Ship Inn 1 Pitt St, Sydney Feel like something a little more exotic? Try the tropical-themed party at the Ship Inn, right on the promenade at Circular Quay. Tickets gain you access to the party with passouts included, and if you’re finding yourself ravenous from dancing hard to DLE, Sarkozy, Liminal and Coopa, they’re offering free pizza between 7pm and 8pm. Plus there are a stack of mystery prizes and giveaways on the night.
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Loftus St
Pitt St
Alfred St
1 Loftus St, Sydney Classic Hits-themed NYE Party at the Paragon Hotel will get you boogying from 6pm onwards, with passouts included in your ticket. A ticket will get you general entry into the hotel where you can party long into 2016 to a whole bunch of DJs including Joe Barrs, Caviar, House Bear and Whiskey Mixed. There will be a special food menu and happy hour lasts from 7-8pm. Best bit? You get access to the Harbour foreshore precinct for the fireworks.
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Indie Indie
Anthony Pappa
Pepe’s On The Beach
Gordi
Truckfighters
Have You Heard
Pepe’s On The Beach
Have You Heard
Just Visiting
Answered By: Anthony Pappa
Answered by: Eli West What’s happened with the venue since your last birthday? We’re turning one so we are still youngsters. We’ve already just opened our new bar Kokomo on the back deck!
When did you start making music and why? About ten years ago; I’ve played my whole life but I started writing at about 13. I guess it started out as my way of dealing with all the things that come with growing up.
Answered by: Mister Dango
When did you start making music and why? I started making music when l was 21 years old. I wanted to make music so l could play my own tracks out when l DJ. Sum up your musical sound in four words? Underground house to techno.
What do you put the success of your venue down to? The friendliest staff in Wollongong, freshest and fruitiest cocktails, laid-back beach vibes plus our prime waterfront location!
If you could only listen to one album forevermore, what would it be and why? Leftfield’s Leftism — my favourite dance album that inspired me to DJ and to produce music. Greatest rock ‘n’ roll moment of your career to date? DJing at Glastonbury Festival in the UK. Why should people come and see your band? Because l will entertain and guarantee good night out with new ground breaking music. When and where for your next gig? NSW: 31 Dec, Taylor’s Social. Website link for more info? www.facebook.com/ AnthonyPappaOfficial
Has anyone ever worn their birthday suit in your club? Not yet, but there’s a first time for everything... and this is our first birthday! What’s the weirdest thing in the last year you’ve found when the lights have come on? Nothing is weird on a Saturday night out. Bikini tops left lying around — now that’s pretty common! What sort of celebration is in order? The amazing Michelle Martinez will be playing with her sax and DJ trio. Kombivan PhotoBooth, cupcakes and our new bar. When’s the party? Thursday 10 Dec from 7pm. Rain, hail or shine, Pepe’s First Birthday Bash is tipped as the party of 2015! Website link for more info? facebook.com/ pepesonthebeach
Sum up your musical sound in four words? Old meets new world.
Is this your first visit? No, this is our third tour with the band and I’ve also been on vacation once in Western Australia. How long are you here for? Less than a week!
If you could support any band in the world — past or present — who would it be? Florence & The Machine.
What do you know about Australia, in ten words or less? Kangaroos, desert, sun, beaches, beer, rock’n’roll, fuzz, radical.
If you could only listen to one album forevermore, what would it be and why? Tapestry by Carole King; it’s one of the great records. The songs are timeless and really tell a story both separately and as a whole album.
Any extra-curricular activities you hope to participate in while here? We are only gonna play rock’n’roll :)
Greatest rock’n’roll moment of your career to date? Playing at the triple j Unearthed Showcase last week to a room of people that actually knew the words to the songs I was singing. It required a good 48-hour period of celebration which left us feeling very rock’n’roll. Why should people come and see your band? Because I think we put on a good show that’s worth the $11 you usually pay for a ticket. When and where for your next gig? Shebeen Bandroom, 3 Dec. Website link for more info? facebook.com/music.Gordi
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Why are you coming to visit our fair country? To play rock’n’roll!
What will you be taking home as a souvenir? Hopefully some Australian dollars, ha ha. Where can we come say hi, and buy you an Aussie beer? 7 Jan, Factory Theatre; 8 Jan, The Basement, Canberra. Website link for more info? truckfighters.com
WEDNESDAYS OPEN MIC 7.30pm
All welcome FREE
DOM TURNER & SUPRO
BLUES SURF FUNK & DUB
12 BONNIE KAY AND DEC THE BONAFIDES
SOULFUL SASSY BLUES & ROOTS
FRI
11 DEC
SAT
SUN
13 DEC
LOWDOWN DIRTY SHAME
UNHINGED SWAMP ROOTS & BEYOND
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Music
Medicine For The Planet US folk/hip hop/rock warrior Nahko Bear of Nahko & Medicine For The People chats to Annelise Ball about controversial T-shirts and the current state of the world.
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he last time Nahko & Medicine For The People toured Australia, Nahko Bear won the immediate respect of the Melbourne crowd when he wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan ‘Fuck Tony Abbott.’ “I still wear that T-shirt, it’s my go-to shirt to spark conversation,” says Bear, laughing. “I was walking down the street in Melbourne, saw some guys selling them and thought, ‘I’m definitely wearing that to the show!’” Although Abbott has now thankfully been given the arse, Bear’s packing the T-shirt for his March 2016 gigs just for kicks anyway.
There’s constantly horrible and horrific things happening on our planet, and this was yet another one.
Like Australian politics, much has changed in Bear’s world in the past 12 months. “We’ve toured extensively and had a lot of changes in the band,” he says. “We’re still super close to everyone, but we’ve got a different vibe going on. We’ve been very transparent about our mission, and I think we’ve done a lot of growing up too. We’ve been working hard on our new record, and really honing our vision even more. “We’re doing a vision board on questions like, ‘Who do we want to team up with? How do we want to water the seeds in all the countries we’re travelling to? How do we continue to work as caretakers of all the activist groups we support who need a soundtrack to their movement?’
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“A lot of beautiful things have manifested around where we want to go. We’re all on the same page now, which wasn’t always the case, and it’s super important to have that unity within the band.” Talk turns to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, where at least 89 Eagles Of Death Metal fans were gunned down at the Bataclan theatre. “We played that venue in April this year,” says Bear, searching for the right words but faltering just a little. “There’s constantly horrible and horrific things happening on our planet, and this was yet another one. It’s a reminder that there’s still massive hate everywhere.” Bear suggests that before governments retaliate, we should all carefully consider the much bigger picture. “How many people in the Middle East die all the time? We don’t hear about it at all, and in part, we’re quite responsible for those actions,” says Bear. “It’s a terrible tragedy, but it happens all the time all over the world.” Bear is however proud to offer up assistance where possible. “We’re happy we can offer a soundtrack to help carry us through these tough times,” he says. “I’m glad I’ve figured out a few points on what I’m here to do.” Nahko & Medicine For The People are just about to embark on a four-month winter tour starting in Hawaii and ending in our very own Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, but not before playing Bluesfest come Easter time. With a new record on the way mid-2016, Nahko & Medicine For The People will be test running a few brand new tracks. Bluesfest punters beware, Bear actually turning up to his own gig is currently a risky proposition given the line-up. “Oh my gosh!” Bear says, just a little fanboyishly. “I’m so excited Kendrick Lamar’s playing, we’re pretty excited about seeing The National, City & Colour, The Cat Empire, and Tom Jones? I cannot believe he’s playing. We’re so excited.” Having worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Ted Hutt on their new album, Bear is positive the band will be able to deliver something far more mature. “I think Ted really helped us define our sound,” says Bear. “I didn’t think that would ever happen! We don’t consider ourselves professionals at any rate, so he helped us really make the songs as best we could. “The storytelling is so important on this record,” says Bear. “It has plenty of powerful messages within. I’m excited to share it because I think it’s really important for people to hear it during this time.”
When & Where: 25 & 26 Mar, Bluesfest, Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm; 30 Mar, Metro Theatre
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The Law In Australia Whale Beach
Music
Goats Anonymous
SYDNEY
Melbourne is my favourite city in Australia. It’s really because of the culture. Being 42, I’m a foodie, so it’s all about dope culture and restaurants. It’s not really about St Kilda, it’s about Brunswick St in Fitzroy, it has all the rad restaurants, shops and bars. I’ve met a whole bunch of cool people there, lot of great bands down there, The Living End’s from there, Airbourne’s from down there, really good people down there.
Next to Melbourne, Sydney is my favourite city (forgive me anyone from Sydney!), though I still love Sydney tremendously, I love the Northern Beaches and Whale Beach and all of that fucking shit, and I have tonnes of family and friends there, so it’s always great to go back.
COOLANGATTA
MELBOURNE
In the lead-up to their shows here, Scott Russo of Unwritten Law has dished up a plate of his best Australian memories, created in some of his favourite cities while on many of Unwritten Law’s tours of Australia.
We’ll straight away I would say the Cooly Hotel is a favourite. There is also this place, I believe it is right beside Coolangatta, there’s this beach life saving club, right on Rainbow Bay, the Rainbow Bay Surf Life Saving Club it’s one of my favourite fucking places in Australia for sure! There’s this bar that overlooks, or sits just to the side of Snappers Rocks. I’m a beach kid, I grew up on the beach, so I wanna be close to the beach.
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Who is this Swedish Goatman of Goat? Anthony Carew talks to a strange anonymous fellow about why none of the unnamed members of Goat use social media, and finding the spirituality of music.
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oat are a mysterious, psychedelic Swedish collective, whose latest LP is suggestively called Commune. Their membership is kept secret; the band wearing masks on stage and in photos, their names never divulged. They don’t tour much, and almost never do interviews. When offered the unexpected opportunity to talk to one of Goat’s members, we’re only given the name ‘Goatman’, which doubles as the title of the band’s first single. When dialling his number, we wonder who we’re calling, where they might be, what they’ll be like to talk to. It turns out Goatman is jovial and affable, in Gothenburg, and “at home doing some vacuum cleaning”. If that sounds mundane, so is Goat’s reason for anonymity, which is preserved so they can go about daily lives that involve kids and jobs. “It’s about freedom,” explains Goatman. “Artistic freedom. Personal freedom. Freedom from recognition, freedom in your life away from the band. If you don’t connect your name to what you do, then it’s easy to have no ego, to keep your feet on the ground. Where we’re from, in the north of Sweden, there’s this thing called the Jante Law, which is the belief that you’re not better than anyone else, and that you should never make any fuss about what you do. A lot of people make music, you don’t
need to pretend that you’re great just because you do.” Such anonymity seems especially contrary — and appealing — in the overshare era, where artists are expected to perform as much on social media as they do on stage. “All of us in Goat don’t have Twitter accounts,” Goatman says. “We can’t run our band Facebook page because none of us have personal Facebook accounts. I’ve never had a Facebook account, and I would never create one. I’m not interested in sharing my mundane daily thoughts, nor reading anyone else’s. It just takes up so much time, for so little reward. We as Goat don’t place any value in spreading the news about what we ate for dinner. We make music; if people want to hear it, fine.” Goat’s music first came to people’s attention on their debut LP — 2012’s World Music, an album whose title was dripping in irony. “The idea that only music not sung in English should be called ‘world music’ is ridiculous. All music is world music. All music that’s created by anyone on this planet belongs to all people to use. All music consists of other music already created; it picks up parts of all music that has ever been, and comes out of you in another way, your own way. But you haven’t invented something new, you’ve just continued on in a tradition.” And Goat’s music definitely picks up on tradition: not just of psych-rock, but the percussion-driven ritualism that connects back to ancient ancestors. “You use the tools you have — music, spirituality, whatever — to expand your mind, reach further, try to go into some other space and time,” says Goatman. “All music, not just psychedelic music, can achieve that feeling in people. Historically, that’s why humans have made music, made it a part of rituals. With us, it’s the same thing. You shouldn’t be pretentious about it — we are just a band — but, for some people, a one-hour rock’n’roll show can have the same qualities as a shamanic ritual.”
When & Where: 9 Dec, Metro Theatre
Following a triumphant return from Europe, The Rumjacks’ frontman Frankie McLaughlin tells Dylan Stewart about sleeping in, spelling mistakes and his growing connection with his audience.
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rankie McLaughlin is awake at ten in the morning, but one gets the sense he’d prefer to still be under the covers of his Sydney bed. “It’s a wet one here today so I haven’t gotten too far. I’m certainly not about to debunk the myth that we musicians do anything before midday!” Given the year that McLaughlin’s band The Rumjacks have had - not to mention a rather large rehearsal last night - a sleep-in is probably due. 2015 saw the band’s first major European tour: close to 40 shows crammed in with barely a night off. “It really let us know what we could and couldn’t do. It also happened to be the hottest summer on recent record, so it was a nightly assault on the system.” The band combined a few festival slots with a swag of sweaty pub gigs, playing to packed rooms that helped validate the band’s trajectory. “When you get dropped in a place that you didn’t even know existed until you got there, it’s hard to know what to expect. We were received incredibly, and what’s more, the fans were singing along to every word of every song. They were wearing our t-shirts that they’d had for three years that aren’t even in stock any more, and we were thinking, ‘Gee, they’ve been following us for quite a while.’” Now, armed to the teeth with their latest record Sober & Godless and with a European summer’s worth of gigs under their collective belt, The Rumjacks are ready to hit some of
their more familiar Australian stages - and one not-sofamiliar one. “I discovered after doing the poster artwork for our Victorian shows that Warrnambool, in south-west Victoria, has two Rs in it, and not one. I suspect the good folk of Warrnambool will let us know all about it, so let’s hope there’s not too much backlash when they see the tour poster.” Spelling errors aside, things are certainly looking up for The Rumjacks, which is an achievement in itself considering their ascension was suddenly halted when, in 2012, McLaughlin was sent to prison on a domestic violence-related charge. But after recently aligning themselves with anti-domestic violence campaign #notON at BIGSOUND, it’s clear McLaughlin and his band are on a path of redemption. “We had some good discussions with [the promoters of #notON] ahead of our BIGSOUND show, and we’ll continue to discuss back and forth with them opportunities to help out in a tangible way. There are a lot of things that we wouldn’t be too ready to align ourselves with, or race off to champion; we don’t think that’s our position. But there are some organisations like these guys who we have no problem at all involving ourselves with whatsoever.” So as they hit the road, playing shows across the width and breadth of the country, The Rumjacks will continue doing what they do best: putting on a hell of a show. It might involve an early morning or two, but McLaughlin says, “I think when you’ve got people who are that ready to be entertained, it’s easy to be an entertainer. For a while we would just get on stage, hammer through as many songs as possible, and walk off. Now we’re doing more than that; we’re connecting with our audience, and having a lot of fun in the process.”
When & Where: 11 Dec, Marrickville Bowling Club
Brunswick Street
BRISBANE
Growing From Experience
The Law In Australia
What’s weird about Brisbane is the last two or three times we’ve been there, it’s literally been that you guys have had a hurricane or a storm where everything has been wet and/or broken! [And] Brisbane has the most amazing fucking hamburgers! There’s this one place that has the most amazing burgers, Ben’s Burgers, it’s literally famous. You can’t change anything, say there’s this one burger, let’s say it’s called the Brisbane burger, you can’t say “I love the Brisbane burger, but can I have it without pickles?” They won’t fucking take off the pickles for you! It’s the weirdest thing, like I’m paying you to cook my shit, I don’t want fucking pickles! But for me it was like fuck you-ish, but then when I got my burger I’m like cool, now I get it, they’re right!
NEWCASTLE
Music
Newcastle, I’ve totally been there! I was there for Daniel Johns’ 18th birthday. He had literally just gotten his license, so he and his mum and little brother took me and my band and manager out to Sizzler! After Sizzler Daniel wanted to go egging! So we made my manager go and buy a whole lot of fucking eggs, and you gotta remember at the time, Daniel’s only 18, we’re probably about 24 or 25 and we’re still kids. We’re in Australia with Daniel, it’s his birthday and we don’t give a fuck, so we go and get a whole bunch of eggs running through Newcastle egging shit, that’s my one real memory of hanging out in Newcastle.
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OPINION Opinion
Kendrick Lamar
O G F l ava s
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Urban And R&B News With Cyclone
he defining 2015 urban artist is Kendrick Lamar — indisputably. The Compton, California MC came into his own with the poetic, cerebral and questing To Pimp A Butterfly. It’s an album informed by Flying Lotus’ psychedelic electro-jazz as much as the West Coast’s G-funk heritage. Black music traditionally thematises resilience, yet Lamar’s lyrics expose the cumulative, collective trauma arising from pernicious racism. TPAB could be a ‘Black Lives Matter’ soundtrack. 2015 was also the year of the comeback, including the most overhyped (hello!) Adele’s 25. Astonishingly, über producer (and headphones mogul) Dr Dre unleashed that long-awaited finale, Compton — with Lamar cameoing. It arrived on the back of F Gary Gray’s triumphant NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton. Less spectacular? Janet Jackson’s Unbreakable.
Bernie Sanders
Moderately Highbrow Visual Art
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n which, in the final installment Wank And for 2015, we present the inaugural Theatre annual Unibrow award, for a person, Foyers With thing, or institution Dave Drayton that in the course of the preceding year have extolled Moderately Highbrow’s values of melding the high and low brow
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Congratulations Bernie Sanders! No, the elections aren’t over early. No, Bernie’s not President of the United States (yet) but his campaign for office continues to prove why he is the recipient of the first ever Unibrow. Not that it really needs to be pointed out, but the race to the Oval Office is a pretty bloody highbrow pursuit, but Bernie’s managed to work in cameos and collaborations from a heap of cultural institutions perhaps less universally regarded and recognised. A few weeks back was a lunch with Run The Jewels rapper Killer Mike; before that the wonderful black hole of (meta) Larry David impersonations; the 74-year-old also cut the rug on a talk show where, admittedly, dancing is just about the only thing that happens. But still, it warmed the heart in a manner comparable to the joy one feels watching Abe Simpson reminisce while dancing the Funky Grandpa. So congratulations Bernie, brandish your Unibrow with pride and continue to be weird and wonderful in your fight for a better world.
Indeed, 2015 has had some disappointments, with ‘event’ albums from Kanye West, Rihanna and, crucially, Frank Ocean failing to materialise. But Ocean’s absence allowed his Avant ‘n’ B rivals to shine. Miguel delved into prog-soul on Wildheart — almost out vibing D’Angelo’s Black Messiah — and The Weeknd staged a credible pop reinvention with Beauty Behind The Madness. Other MC’s stepped in for Yeezy — one Houston’s Travis Scott with the adventurous Rodeo. A$AP Rocky’s AT.LONG. LAST.A$AP was hallucinogenic cloud (t) rap. Its biggest trip? Mark Ronson’s soulful contribution Everyday — featuring Miguel and a sampled Rod Stewart. Drake dropped mega mixtapes and the viral single Hotline Bling, while his feud with Philly’s Meek Mill provided endless meme mirth. For trap (and Fetty Wap) hatas, Joey Bada$$ repped ‘90s boom-bap on B4.DA.$$. Lastly, there were stand-out debuts from house soulster Shamir (Ratchet), neo-ATLien singer/rapper Raury (All We Need), and modish R&B balladeer Bryson Tiller (TRAPSOUL).
Judas Priest
The Heavy Shit Metal And
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o, we’ve come to the final Heavy Hard Rock Shit of the year and, like very other year, With it seems to end faster Chris Maric than the last. I figured things would slow down after the epic madness of Soundwave and we’d find a groove… But it never came. Things went to light speed and stayed there pretty much the whole time.
OPINION Opinion
While deciding what to talk about in this one, a few things came to mind: the year in review, thoughts on the future, or do neither and talk about something else. How ‘bout a bit of each? Highlights of the year (well, for me anyway…): things started off magnificently with a monstrous Soundwave that saw me meet and work with the Metal God himself, Mr Rob Halford and the rest of Judas Priest. I’ll never forget walking Halford up to the media area at the Melbourne SW. It was eerily overcast and a massive clap of thunder boomed overhead. Rob looked to me and said, “Oh that’s fooken heavy metal Chris, that’s an omen, today’s going to be a good day!” And it was — one of the best days ever! During the SW madness I found myself talking to none other than Dave Grohl in Frankie’s one night. We were both speaking into the wall so the sound would reach our ears over the band. He was totally chuffed to talk metal with someone instead of the usual bullshit people usually pander him with. I told him to do another Probot and the look in his eyes told me he had considered it before. Motley Crue came and said goodbye for the final time. They were one of the first bands I saw in an arena — The Dr Feelgood tour in 1990 when I was 13. It made me deaf for three whole days and planted the rock seed firmly in my DNA. To see them one last time was nostalgic to say the least. The month of October was probably the busiest period ever for heavy music in the country. Something like 17 or 18 international bands all came through and kicked our asses. The most memorable for me where also the heaviest. Behemoth, Watain and Abbath all crushed. Megadave was on form and a drum clinic from the one and only Dave Lombardo was just the cherry on top. It was a bumper year for Australian metal too. King Parrot, Northlane, Parkway Drive and so many more charting and topping the charts. Next year looks to be the same too! And so to 2016, what can we expect? The year will kick off once more with Nightwish coming literally in the first two weeks of the year, followed by Soundwave and it’s interesting mix of the most
prominent bands of right now, Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine, Devil You Know and some total blasts from the past — L7, The Prodigy, NOFX hell, Soulfly are nudging almost 20 years now too! From there there’s tours from 1349 and BTBAM, Voyager are doing another national run and don’t forget Maiden and Sabbath are coming too — your year can be mapped out right through to May right now. Watch out for the new Meshiaak album coming at some point, combining the riff savagery of Danny Tomb, the prog flourishes of Dean Wells and the absolute drum destruction of Jon Dette, it’s going to be an early contender for my fav album of the year. Speaking of, my fav for 2015 was My Dying Bride’s Feel The Misery. So, be excellent to each other, stay true, stay metal and other metal cliche quotes, and I’ll see you in the next year.
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Xmas Album Reviews Xmas Album Reviews
Band Of Merrymakers Welcome To Our Christmas Party
Kenny Rogers
Kylie Minogue
Once Again It’s Christmas
Kylie Christmas Parlophone/Warner
Warner
Portrait/Sony
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings It’s A Holiday Soul Party Daptone
66 ½
666
666
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The only somewhat palatable way to listen to Christmas songs — sung by a motley crew of 2000s alt rock bands you forgot about (think Semisonic, Lifehouse, Evanescence, Sugar Ray) and um, Natasha Bedingfield. Australians will relate to the album’s inspiration of spending a Christmas in the blistering LA heat; the light, cookiecutter renditions steering way clear of the usual classy jazz tones carols love to frequent. Christina Perri’s voice shines in It’s Christmastime and Holiday In LA is a cheery original, but hoedown-worthy Auld Lang Syne and tryhard Jingle Bells will literally ruin your Christmas.
Everyone’s favourite bearded fellow Kenny Rogers is back with his sixth seasonal release. It features a host of duet partners including Alison Krauss, a brass and string adornment and beautifully produced backing vocals feature, and thankfully there’s little in the way of hackneyed carols or clichéd Christmas instrumentation. Winter Wonderland is given the swing treatment, and highlight medley Here It Is Christmas/Baby, It’s Cold Outside is shared with Jennifer Nettles (Sugarland), closing hilariously with Rogers’ husky warning, “You don’t wanna be out in this kind of weather.” Rogers makes for far finer Christmas company than Buble. Tell your mum.
Who knew Kylie would so well suit old school Hollywood Christmas? There are some unexpected anomalies like the duet with Frank Sinatra on Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (ah, the magic of modern technology), and the duet with Iggy Pop on Christmas Wrapping is just plain mock rock strange. It’s not clear how willing (or not) Iggy was on this, although it’s so strange that he just might have even been driving the whole thing. Only You is strictly not a Christmas tune, but when you add James Corden it would take even the hardest of Grinch bastards to really, truly hate it.
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings bring a refreshingly sparse and stripped back approach to the majority of these songs. Rather than relying on the traditionally overwrought symphony arrangements we’ve come to expect from these albums, the soul powerhouse lets the grooves do the heavily lifting. The cheery Big Bulbs is lightly backed by some jingling bells, the drum break on Funky Little Drummer Boy is as funky as you’d expect, and God Rest Ye Merry Gents struts with a red and green swagger. It’ll be hard to beat this if you’re looking for a new release to soundtrack your holiday this year.
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Meg Mac @ Fairgrounds. Pic: Uppy Chatterjee
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Berry Showground 5 Dec
Father John Misty @ Fairgrounds. Pic: Renee Coster
Sam Smith @ Qantas Credit Union Arena. Pic: Jared Leibowitz
Sam Smith @ Qantas Credit Union Arena. Pic: Jared Leibowitz
Rise Against @ Hordern Pavilion Pic: Clinton Bryant
Rise Against @ Hordern Pavilion Pic: Clinton Bryant
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The hamlet of Berry lies just outside of Nowra, a two-hour drive south of Sydney. Roughly 2,000 people call its heritagelisted streets home. For 24 hours over the weekend that number suddenly doubled as locals and tourists alike swarmed over the central showground like ants on a dropped biscuit, lounging in the sun under a brilliant blue sky. The folks amiably chatting in line enjoying the dappled sunshine weren’t just seasoned festival veterans in their 20s — joining them were families, kids, old folks and locals taking advantage of the good weather and the circus atmosphere of the day. Those at the front of the stage bobbed and swayed, chatting freely. The shade ringing the showground attracted more folks, enjoying the breeze that made odd shapes out of the sound coming from the front. Food stalls and lawn games offered more opportunities to gather and enjoy the day with strangers and new friends. Impromptu rounds of tug-o-war erupted that saw people running from across the field to join in, kids dangling on the rope while guys in Santa outfits struggled against brave mums and dads vying for a win. The sense of community was strong, even though these people had never met. The Oyster Bar raised the standard for festival food, with punters sipping Mumm and slipping oysters down their gullet by the dozen. Sydney’s newest BBQ heroes Bovine & Swine were in high demand, with this reviewer cursing his lack of foresight in not ordering two brisket sandwiches by the time he got to the front of a very, very long line. Other options included Happy As Larry pizzas, Vietnamese, cheesecakes, gourmet pies, crepes and more.
Father John Misty sang to us at dusk, competing with cicadas threatening to derail his polished brand of casually devastating songwriting. It was a moody set that combined his talents as a showman (he’s a slippery sucker, writhing and
We truly want this to keep going. Just bring more brisket next year! swaying like a snake being charmed) and his killer material full of polished cynicism and rich, technicolour alt-country soul. His counterpoint was CW Stoneking. His gravelly, chewy brand of swamp blues was gleefully shambolic and unpretentious, and underneath it all was a deeply ingrained sense of fun and levity that was good to groove to. Mercury Rev seemed out of place, throwing out crashing waves of lush progrock that felt like overkill in the bright sunshine. The small crowd bathed in it, but their response could never hope to match the intensity of the performance. Their presence on the line-up was a pleasant surprise when it was announced, but on the day felt like a defibrillator in place of an alarm clock — not quite the right tool for the job, but effective nonetheless, and certainly memorable. Meg Mac looked like she stepped up on stage from amidst the crowd, but her voice is anything but ordinary. Coming on just as folks began dialling up the energy and gracefully easing us into the evening; her glossy pop set,
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crowned by Never Be, was effortlessly charming. Ratatat lathered us with a set of oily krautrock-infused dance-punk, their trademark visuals twisting behind them. It was flawlessly executed, tightly controlled, and hypnotic. Early efforts by cult Perth outfit Methyl Ethel and Austinmer guitar group Shining Bird did great work, the former really throwing down with a lush pulsing sound. Royal Headache softened their approach. The rough garage aesthetics were dialled down and the wide open space and relaxed audience drained the playful tension they tried hard to generate. Not quite peak power for them. Unknown Mortal Orchestra felt right at home, their blissed out dreamfunk perfect for drinking in the sun. Ultimately, the line-up was a valiant attempt to bring to life a new kind of festival, one that appealed to those wanting a holistic experience. Families danced alongside classic festival douchebags (mercifully low in number), both either oblivious to the other, or fully accepting, glass half-full or -empty. The music was eclectic and of high quality, and the whole thing was conceptually excellent. Unforgiveable however, was how grossly underprepared the food and drink services were. Long lines suddenly halted and dispersed multiple times as they were told food was gone or unavailable, and people resorted to ordering pizzas from town delivered to the gates. Fairgrounds’ size, location and careful curation get big marks, and we truly want this to keep going. Just bring more brisketnext year! Matt MacMaster
Rise Against, Clowns, Sam Smith, Emma Outright Louise Hordern Pavilion 5 Dec
Outright were pulling out strong political statements, thrashing guitars and guttural screams way before Rise Against hit the stage, setting the scene for tonight’s show. Clowns seemed to have brought with them a small legion of fans that were enthusiastically crowdsurfing and creating circle pits throughout the set, spurred on by lead vocalist Stevie Williams, who was also crowdsurfing by the second song. After much beckoning from the crowd, Rise Against stormed onto the stage, opening with The Great Die-Off. Tim Mcllrath’s vocals were slightly drowned out by the sound of thrashing drums and crunchy guitars, however, no one seemed to mind, with the mosh pit rife with circle pits during Satellite. The crowd and band really let loose from Give It All onwards. This led into Mcllrath asking for a show of hands from those who’d seen them before, and sharing with us that their first Sydney show was also played on the Hordern stage, before proclaiming that we all just need to Survive, imbuing hope that carried through to the poignant Prayer Of The Refugee. Mcllrath tried to tell a funny story, only to be attacked for his use of flip-flop over thong, and then encouraged us to lose our shoes in a proper Sydney circle pit for Blood-Red, White & Blue, finishing up with a gut-wrenching rendition of Ready To Fall. The band regrouped for an absolutely blistering rendition of Dancing For Rain. We could pretend that Mcllrath didn’t break a guitar string in the last song, but it made Savior as the finale all the more special. Rock on, Rise Against, rock on! Melissa Borg
Qantas Credit Union Arena 5 Dec
We could pretend that Mcllrath didn’t break a guitar string in the last song, but it made Savior as the finale all the more special. As the excited Friday night crowd filled the arena, Emma Louise lit up the stage delivering a captivating performance, with the highlight being Jungle, which had everybody on their feet. But it was the angelic voice of Sam Smith that we had all really come to hear, and the 23year-old superstar was greeted with a deafening roar when he took the stage, his voice proving to be as powerful as ever. “I cannot tell you how happy I am to be here,” said Smith, with the sentiment being returned tenfold by screams. Smith delivered a completely stripped back performance supported by a band and a bevvy of back-up singers, his finely tuned and emotion-filled vocals and warm persona spreading through the room. The night was filled with goosebumps, tears, hugs and smiles as Smith kicked off with Life Support, Together and Leave Your Lover, before bringing up the tempo with La La La and Money On My Mind. Smith’s final hurrah, Disclosure’s Latch followed by Make It To Me and Stay With Me, was rewarded with applause that continued to build in volume for what seemed like
an eternity, as we saw tears start to form in the artist’s eyes on the big screen. It was a breathtaking moment. Deborah Jackson
You Am I, The Delta Riggs Metro Theatre 2 Dec Perhaps ‘tis the season, but gathering the You Am I clan can sometimes resemble a Christmas dinner with a thousand of your nearest and dearest. There’s Uncle Tim, sometimes a bit curmudgeonly, but all velvet jacket flourishes from the theatrical side of the family. Cousin Russell is up under the Hills Hoist with a couple of longnecks, grinning, telling stories. Andy is somebody’s brother-inlaw, watching the cricket and
The night was filled with goosebumps, tears, hugs and smiles... knowing the averages of the entire New Zealand bowling attack. And nephew Davey, the aunties clucking over how “...he’s grown up into such a handsome young man”. The Delta Riggs are the family tearaways. They’ve probably got another party on somewhere, but seem undecided whether to go as 1974 Mott The Hoople or The Libertines circa 2003. Singer Elliott Hammond is terribly rock: so-skinny jeans, biker jacket, sunglasses at night. They swagger big, but occasionally appear like they’re trying really hard to do so. And Hammond maybe should learn THE MUSIC 9TH DECEMBER 2015 • 47
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the fine line between being David Johansen and becoming Brian Mannix. Rock and roll is simple: “It’s music for fucking, dancing, or commiseration,” Tim Rogers informs us. You Am I cover all those bases. Opening with the one-two punch of new tracks Good Advices and Bon Vivant, the eternal old stuff/new stuff argument just doesn’t seem to occur. This is tight, loud, take-no-shit You Am I with little let-up in power and volume. Saturday Night ‘Round Ten and Sound As Ever are in among a goodly chunk of the new Porridge & Hotsauce album, notably the Davey Lane-led Out To The Never, Now and Buzz The Boss, which Rogers enjoys like a proud parent, with the bonus of letting him be just the guitar player rather than carrying the whole enterprise. The setlist
is the usual smattering of hits with more fan favourite album cuts, although Heavy Heart gets a piano bar treatment as a two-hander between Rogers and keyboardist Stevie Hesketh. Suitably shimmying backing singers, a couple of the numerous Wolfgramm Sisters, offer all the right moves for Get Up and a surprising run at
The Small Faces’ Tin Soldier. The obligatory Berlin Chair gets windmilled to the end, the crowd exits typically around 80% happy - only grumbling about favourites that didn’t make the cut. Some of which they’ll likely play next time round. It’s OK, we’ll be here. Ross Clelland
You Am I @ Metro Theatre. Pic: Angela Padovan
King Lear Pic: Heidrun Lohr
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man capable of both quick wit and moments of apathy, despair. But it’s Lear’s unravelling that pulls the play along, and that is done with precision by Rush, a Rush who begins with the full force of anger before tempering out into a humble, defeated man. As he casts one daughter out, and is betrayed by the other two, we see the many sides of a man, vain from power, coming face to face with his own rapidly deteriorating form, alone.
It’s Mark Leonard Winter in the role of Edgar who is the most compelling to watch — having run away to escape his brother’s ruthless machinations, Edgar hides as Poor Tom, a beggar, almost mad. He darts around the stage clad only in the streamers that marked the opening of the play, and during the storm reflects the rapidly disintegrating Lear. When Winter and Rush stand unclad together, desperate, beginning to come to terms with their loss of identity, the image is both powerful and full of a kind of dry, dark humour. Set design from Robert Cousins and lighting from Nick Schlieper illuminate a stark backdrop for the play’s second half, the nothingness of the white backdrop forcing characters to confront their truths and each other honestly, brutally, fully. Hannah Story
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Wed 09
Ed Sheeran + Rudimental + Foy Vance + Passenger: Allianz Stadium, Paddington
New Venusians
Garfish: B.E.D. (Beats.Eats.Drinks), Glebe
Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real: 28 Mar Factory Theatre
Songs On Stage feat. Stuart Jammin: Balgownie Hotel, Balgownie SOSUEME feat. Winterbourne + Paces + Porsches + DJ Sports + Bambii + Silver Age: Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach
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The Hotelier + Ceres: Black Wire Records, Annandale
Bully: 9 Dec Oxford Art Factory
#5 Blues Drive + One Foot In The Groove + The Villebillies: Brass Monkey, Cronulla
Festival Of The Sun: 11 & 12 Dec Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park Port Macquarie
Mitch Anderson & His Organic Orchestra: Coopers Hotel, Newtown
The Rumjacks: 11 Dec Marrickville Bowling Club Elliphant: 6 Jan Goodgod Oh Wonder: 6 Jan Oxford Art Factory Borns: 7 Jan Oxford Art Factory Halsey: 7 & 8 Jan Metro Theatre Moses Gunn Collective: 13 Feb Goodgod Small Club The Jezabels: 2 Mar, Enmore Theatre A Day On The Green ft. Hoodoo Gurus and more: 5 Mar Bimbadgen Winery
Trivia: Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor Mick Daley: Frankie’s Pizza By The Slice, Sydney Stillhouse Union + James & Aileen: Gasoline Pony, Marrickville New Orleans Beats: LazyBones Lounge, Marrickville
Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst
War Hotel, The Rocks
Jasper Hollis: Midnight Special, Newtown
Video Game Jazz with The Consouls: Play Bar, Surry Hills
The Vanns + Chico Seeds + Hollerin’ Sluggers: Frankie’s Pizza By The Slice, Sydney
The Squeezebox Trio: Mr Falcon’s, Glebe L’Oasis + Earl Grey + Cunningpants + Sveta + more: Newtown Hotel, Newtown Julia Holter + Marcus Whale: Newtown Social Club, Newtown
St Paul & The Broken Bones: 21 Mar Metro Theatre
Wednesday Night Comedy with David Eastgate: Oatley Hotel, Oatley
The Belligerents
Unwritten Law + Grenadiers: The Small Ballroom, Islington
Vibrations At Valve: Valve Bar, Ultimo
Brendan Gallagher: Gasoline Pony, Marrickville Gordi: Goodgod Small Club, Sydney Stormcellar + Little Big Wolf + Ina
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Mr Blonde + The Mezcaltones: Brass Monkey, Cronulla
Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real: 28 Mar Factory Theatre
Belligerently Sharing members with Moses Gunn Collective, Morning Harvey and The Jungle Giants, power band The Belligerents are reconvening at Newtown Social Club alongside Jenny Broke The Window and King Colour, Friday.
Songwriters Society of Australia Showcase feat. Kim Banffy + Monica + John Chesher + Gavin Fitzgerald + Paul McGowan + Russell Neal + Pete Scully: Old Fitzroy Hotel, Woolloomooloo Mark Travers: Orient Hotel, The Rocks Bully + Rolling Blackouts + Flowertruck:
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CIT Faculty Plays: The Phoenix, Canberra
BSR Xmas Party with Magnetic Heads + Melodie Nelson + Evan Lock + The Killing Worlds: Freda’s Bar & Canteen, Chippendale
Anthony Charlton: Australian Arms Hotel, Penrith
Bluesfest: 24 – 28 Mar Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm
Nahko & Medicine For The People: 30 Mar Metro Theatre
Simon Meli + Jak Housden + Joseph Calderazzo: Rock Lily, Pyrmont
Thu 10
The Residents: 24 Mar Factory Theatre
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: 31 Mar Metro Theatre
Hunch + White Blanks + UV Rayz: Rad Bar, Wollongong
Open Mic Night: The Vanguard, Newtown
The Selecter: 23 Mar Factory Theatre
Allen Stone: Mar 30 Factory Theatre
At Slyfox’s LIVE At The Sly this Thursday, see New Venusians headlining, with support from The Baldwins and The Sticks. As always there’s drink specials form 7.30-9.30pm.
Goat + King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard + The Orb: Metro Theatre, Sydney
Steve Earle & The Dukes: 16 Mar Rooty Hill RSL, 17 Mar Metro Theatre
Rhiannon Giddens: 21 Mar Factory Theatre
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Kinsky + Jesse Morris: Camelot Lounge, Marrickville Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes: Camelot Lounge (Django Bar), Marrickville Musos Club Jam Night: Carousel Inn, Rooty Hill The Christmas Spectacular: Comedy Store, Moore Park Rudimental + GRMM: Enmore Theatre, Newtown Unwritten Law + Grenadiers + Mixtape For The Drive: Entrance Leagues, Bateau Bay The Hotelier + Ceres + Mere Women + Hannahband: Factory Theatre (Factory Floor), Marrickville The Rival Mob: Factory Theatre (Fuse Box), Marrickville Evie Dean: Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor Steve Crocker: Fortune of
Ginners Are Grinners After selling out her US tour, Gin Wigmore is hitting up our east coast once again, with the Sydney leg at Factory Theatre, Friday, accompanied by Romi and Miss Eileen & King Lear.
Maka: LazyBones Lounge, Marrickville Winterbourne: Lizottes Newcastle, Lambton Glenn Esmond: Manly Leagues Club, Brookvale Nag Champa: Marble Bar, Sydney Rudimental After Party: Marquee, Pyrmont
Gigs / Live The Guide
Night Lyfe: Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach
Grenadiers Grenadiers
The Rockin Mustangs: Blacktown Workers Club (Jack McNamara Lounge), Blacktown Bryce Cohen: Brass Monkey, Cronulla Original Sin - INXS Show: Bull & Bush, Baulkham Hills Halestorm: Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West
My ‘Diers Part of the power pop-punk movement that encroached America in the ‘90s, Unwritten Law are coming back to shake up Australia. Supported by punk locals Grenadiers, you can catch them at Metro Theatre, Friday. Rhythm & Bowls with Johnny G & The E-Types: Marrickville Bowling Club (5pm), Marrickville Austen Tayshus: Marrickville Bowling Club, Marrickville Yelawolf + B Wise: Metro Theatre, Sydney
Lloyd Spiegel + Tim Moyer: Camelot Lounge, Marrickville The Peggy & Frank Show with Paige Delancey + Frank Bennett: Camelot Lounge (Django Bar), Marrickville
Gin Wigmore + Miss Eileen & King Lear + Romi: Factory Theatre, Marrickville Dutch Boys DJ Experience with Eric Wareheim + DJ Douggpound: Factory Theatre (Fuse Box), Marrickville
For The Drive: Metro Theatre, Sydney
Stephanie Lea: Minto Mirage Hotel, Minto Roy Orbison & The Everly Brothers Tribute: Mounties, Mt Pritchard
Warriors of The World + Whisky Smile + Metal + Archaic Revival: Factory Theatre (Factory Floor), Marrickville
Little Napier: Mr Falcon’s, Glebe
Karaoke: Figtree Hotel, West Wollongong
The Belligerents + Jenny Broke the Window + King Colour: Newtown Social Club, Newtown
Word of Ralf: Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor
Worthy + Ardalan: Mr Wolf, Canberra
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TC: Candys Apartment, Potts Point Abbalanche - The Australian ABBA Tribute Show: Central Hotel, Shellharbour City Centre Steve Crocker: Chatswood RSL, Chatswood Ricky Remedy + Noy + Hydraulix: Chinese Laundry, Sydney Chimpo + 8 Diagram + JNR + DJ Tokoloshe: Civic Hotel, Sydney Next Best Thing: Club On East, Sutherland Jed Zarb: Collingwood Hotel, Liverpool Christie Lamb: Colonial Hotel, Werrington
Mark n The Blues: Mr Falcon’s, Glebe
The Christmas Spectacular: Comedy Store, Moore Park
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Moon Duo + Grinding Eyes + Glass Skies: Newtown Social Club, Newtown
Tommy Dean: Comedy Store (7pm), Moore Park
Anthems: Orient Hotel, The Rocks
The Spit Roasting Bibbers: Crown Hotel, Sydney
Completely devoted to touring, James Reyne is back again hitting the road with his special mates Moving Pictures for some serious Aussie rock. You can catch them down at Towradgi Beach Hotel, Saturday.
WAAX + Royal Chant + Service Bells: Oxford Art Factory (Gallery Bar), Darlinghurst
Cath & Him: Dee Why RSL (Scores Sports Bar), Dee Why
The Fatback Band + Gang Of Brothers + The Groove Merchant + JC: Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst
Glenn Esmond: Fortune of War Hotel, The Rocks
Reckless + Chris Cook: Orient Hotel, The Rocks
The Cliffies: Gasoline Pony, Marrickville
Rose Carleo: Oriental Hotel, Springwood
Kowton + Cliques + EK Collective: Goodgod Small Club (Front Bar), Sydney
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats + Grinding Eyes: Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst
Tabitha & The Clique: Rock Lily, Pyrmont
The Hotelier + Ceres: Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington
Kurt Williams: Padstow Park Hotel, Padstow
New Venusians + The Baldwins + The Sticks: Slyfox, Enmore
Paper Hearts: Harbord Beach Hotel, Freshwater
VIP: Penrith RSL (Castle Lounge), Penrith
Kriola Collective + Bateria 61: The Basement, Sydney
Tim Conlon: Jacksons on George, Sydney
I Got Sole with Johnson & Friends: Play Bar, Surry Hills
Winterbourne
ADKOB + Archy Punker + Postmentalist: Rad Bar, Wollongong
Wax Wars: The Oxford Hotel (Underground Bar), Darlinghurst Massive Sherlock + The Burley Griffin + Lip & Puck: The Phoenix, Canberra Audie + Lachlan X Morris + Some Kind of Jesse: The Small Ballroom, Islington Blues Brothers Rebooted: The Vanguard, Newtown Urban Guerillas + The Smart Folk + Sweat & Shame: Union Hotel, Newtown Between Two Fires + Red Gazelle + Five Decade Saint: Valve Bar (Basement), Ultimo
Fri 11 Dave Anthony: 99 On York, Sydney
Winter In Summer Based on the coast, folk duo Winterbourne are headed to Beach Road Hotel alongside their mates Paces, Porsches, DJ Sports, Bambii and Silver Age. They’re playing several festivals and shows up and down the coast; catch them while they’re in town.
Blake Tailor: Emu Sports Club, Leonay Tim & Eric: Enmore Theatre, Newtown
Lime Cordiale: Katoomba Family Hotel, Katoomba
Phat Play Fridays with Broke + DJ Dizar + DJ Benny Hinn: Play Bar, Surry Hills Soul Tattoo: Quakers Inn, Quakers Hill
Ted Nash: Kings Park Tavern, Kings Park
The Kamis: Revesby Workers (Infinity Lounge), Revesby
Michael Duchesne: LazyBones Lounge, Marrickville
Lennox Lust + DJ Cool Jerk + Flash 54 + Fingers: Rock Lily, Pyrmont
Diesel + Shaun Kirk: Lizottes Newcastle, Lambton
James Reyne + Moving Pictures: Rooty Hill RSL (Tivoli Showroom), Rooty Hill
DJ Sam Wall: Manly Wharf Hotel, Manly
Flamin’ Beauties: Royal Hotel, Springwood
The Exploited: Manning Bar, Camperdown
Whelan & Gover: Royal Motor Yacht Club, Newport
Brown Sugar: Marble Bar, Sydney BLVD feat. G-Wizard: Marquee, Pyrmont The Rumjacks: Marrickville Bowling Club, Marrickville Unwritten Law + Grenadiers + Mixtape
Soundproofed: St Marys Rugby League Club, St Marys Festival Of The Sun feat. Illy + Jebediah + Thundamentals + British India + The Delta Riggs + Alpine + Bad//Dreems + Sleepmakeswaves + Ecca Vandal + Northeast Party House + Harts + Bootleg
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Rascal + Tired Lion + The Fumes + The Belligerents + Animaux + Major Leagues + Le Pie + The Lulu Raes + Polish Club + Skegss + Ivan Ooze + The Owls + Ziggy Alberts + WAAX + Jeremy Neale + A.D.K.O.B. + Low Lux + Woodlock + Twin Haus + Wish + Royal Chant + The Mountains + Mar Haze + more: Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park, Port Macquarie
Monster + DJ Naiki + Kavi-R + Mike Who + Krystel Diola: Play Bar, Surry Hills
WAAX
Darren Johnstone: Plough & Harrow, Camden
The Amity Affliction + A Day To Remember: Qantas Credit Union Arena, Haymarket Jake Walker + jeromv + B2B: Rad Bar, Wollongong
Chris Cornell: Sydney Opera House (Concert Hall), Sydney
Clever Little Secretaries + Paul James + Sarah Bird + DJ Cool Jerk: Rock Lily, Pyrmont
Bill Kacir: Tahmoor Inn, Tahmoor Chaika + Pickpockets & Rascals Orchestra + Lucy Wise Trio: The Basement, Sydney
Witchwood: Royal Motor Yacht Club, Newport
Bandoke: The Beach Hotel, Merewether
The Culture Industry + Squawk! + Lint + Ugly Mundays: Studio Six, Sutherland
Dom Turner & Supro: The Merton Hotel, Rozelle
Festival Of The Sun: Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park, Port Macquarie
Vanessa Heinitz: The Mill Hotel, Milperra Just Between Us + Josh Zaia + Little Quirks + Kale & Abbie: The Rhythm Hut, Gosford Madchild + Mastacraft + Mickey Deville: The Small Ballroom, Islington
WAAX On
Chris Cornell: Sydney Opera House (Concert Hall), Sydney
Having dropped their debut EP Holy Sick, and kicked off their tour in celebration, WAAX will now be stopping by the gallery at Oxford Art Factory for a show on Thursday.
Holly Stone: The Vineyard Hotel, Vineyard Robbie & Kylie Experience: Towradgi Beach Hotel (Sports Bar), Towradgi
Clive Hay: Bathurst Panthers, Bathurst
Soundbird: Blacktown Workers Club (Jack McNamara Lounge), Blacktown Peter Northcote’s Drive + Virginia Lillye + Brydon Stace: Brass Monkey, Cronulla Jaala: Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst The Cope Street Parade: Camelot Lounge, Marrickville 4 Kings: Camelot Lounge (Django Bar), Marrickville
Vanns Go Vroom The Vanns are currently on their Summer To Summer tour, which just so happens to be their biggest trek around Aus yet. They’re stopping in Sydney at Frankie’s Pizza for a free show, Thursday.
Abbalanche - The Australian ABBA Tribute Show: Canterbury Leagues Club (Auditorium), Belmore
A Psychedelic Chrizzmas Party feat. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: Uni Bar, Wollongong Handball Deathmatch + Ebolagoldfish + Kang + The Colytons + Hack The Mainframe: Valve Bar (Basement), Ultimo DTABM feat. Drillsaw + more: Valve Bar (Level One), Ultimo Jesse Davidson: World Bar, Potts Point
Sat 12 Halestorm: ANU Bar, Canberra Self Is A Seed: Bald Faced Stag, Leichhardt
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Los Romeos Oxidados: Gasoline Pony, Marrickville Milwaukee Banks + Manu Crooks: Goodgod Small Club (Danceteria), Sydney Skism + Must Die! + Laxx + Phaseone + more: Greenwood Hotel, North Sydney Cold Chisel + The Living End: Hope Estate Winery, Pokolbin Vanessa Heinitz: Kings Park Tavern, Kings Park Sepora: LazyBones Lounge, Marrickville Diesel + Shaun Kirk: Lizottes Newcastle, Lambton The Misfits + Horrorwood Mannequins + The Noffs: Manning Bar, Camperdown
JConnexion: Carousel Inn, Rooty Hill
Alphamama: Marble Bar, Sydney
Friend Within + Oscar Key Sung + Jordan Burns + Friendless: Chinese Laundry, Sydney
Stafford Brothers: Marquee, Pyrmont
The Christmas Spectacular: Comedy Store, Moore Park Joel Creasey: Comedy Store (7pm), Moore Park Evie Dean: Como Hotel (Level 2), Como
Jon Toogood: Transit Bar, Canberra City
Club Esky: The Beach Hotel, Merewether Steve Crocker: The Belvedere Hotel, Sydney
Yours: Unknown Records Xmas Party: Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach The Vanns
Fatai: The Basement, Sydney
Ted Nash Duo: Coogee Bay Hotel, Coogee
Rob Luckey & The Lucky Bastards: Marrickville Bowling Club, Marrickville
VIP + GJ Donovan: Orient Hotel, The Rocks
Fanny Lumsden: Downside Hall, Downside
Mansionair: Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst
The Headliners: Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor
Bonnie Kay & The Bonafides: The Merton Hotel, Rozelle Passive Smoke + Narks + Bad Bags + Chimney Goo: The Phoenix, Canberra Joey Cape + Chris Cresswell: The Small Ballroom, Islington Reckless: Town Hall Hotel, Balmain James Reyne + Moving Pictures: Towradgi Beach Hotel, Towradgi Venom Nightclub feat. Melody Black + Liberty Guns + more: Valve Bar (Basement/Level One), Ultimo
Jaala
Smudge + Sam Shinazzi + Weak Boys: Newtown Social Club, Newtown
Crossroads: Dapto Leagues Club (Members Lounge), Dapto
Fuse Showcase feat. Mantra Collective + Enzo Siragusa + Seb Zito + Rich NXT + Space Junk + About Jack + Whitecat: Factory Theatre, Marrickville
Pacha feat. Tigerlily + Jesabel + Mr Disorder & Hookie: The Ivy, Sydney
In The Groove feat. XS.if: Mr Falcon’s, Glebe
Endless Summer Beach Party: Oatley Hotel, Oatley
Bajaga & Instruktori: Enmore Theatre, Newtown
Blake Tailor: The Fiddler (The Sub Bar), Rouse Hill
Madchild + Mastacraft: Metro Theatre, Sydney
Love Child: Corrimal Hotel, Corrimal
One World: Dundas Sports Club, Dundas
Jack Homer: The Crest Hotel, Sylvania
Crap Music Rave Party: Oxford Art Factory (Gallery Bar), Darlinghurst The Party Scarves: Panania Hotel, Panania Rattle & Hum-U2 Show: Penrith RSL (Castle Lounge), Penrith Big Rich: Picton Hotel, Picton O-II-SHI! Pre-Xmas Jam with Boogie
Get ‘Em By The Jaala Launching their debut record Hard Hold, Jaala are playing a special one-off show at Brighton Up Bar on Saturday. The indierock four-piece from Melbourne will be joined by soon to be announced special guests on the evening.
Gigs / Live The Guide
Stephanie Lea: Wentworthville Leagues Club (Wenty Lounge), Wentworthville
Sun 13
The Road Runners: Marrickville Bowling Club, Marrickville Southerly Busters: Midnight Special, Newtown
Cold Chisel: WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong
Ceres. Pic: Clinton Hatfield
Mon 14
Escape Sundays: Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach
Ryan Thomas + Adam Disney: Mr Falcon’s, Glebe
Neon Indian + KLP: Boambee Community Centre, Boambee East
The Red Wine Roses + Stass + Written Off: Brass Monkey, Cronulla
Joey Cape + Chris Cresswell + Brian Wahlstrom + Laura Mardon: Newtown Social Club, Newtown
Sydney Children’s Choir + Gondwana Voices: City Recital Hall, Sydney
Wintery Blue: Oatley Hotel, Oatley
Jasmine Beth + Ali Fawcett + Hannah Robinson: Corridor Bar, Newtown
Cover Note + The White Bros: Orient Hotel, The Rocks
Frankie’s World Famous House Band: Frankie’s Pizza By The Slice, Sydney
Hotelier Sydney
Big Daddy Kane + Brethren + Apollo Creed + Mr Clean + Blaze: Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst
Songs On Stage feat. Russell Neal + Chris Brookes: Kellys on King, Newtown
Benj Axwell: Picton Hotel, Picton
Sonic Mayhem Orchestra: LazyBones Lounge, Marrickville
Blind Oracle + Daybreak + The Prototypes + Heartsick +
John Maddox: Mr Falcon’s, Glebe
On Thursday at Factory Theatre, you can catch Hannahband, Mere Women and Ceres warming up the crowd, and that’s before the headliner, The Hotelier, comes on stage. Make sure you bring your energy levels.
Jaga Band: Camelot Lounge, Marrickville Armeen Musa: Camelot Lounge (Django Bar), Marrickville Strictly Vinyl Jam Sessions with DJ Cadence: Cauliflower Hotel, Waterloo Stephanie Lea: Club Central Hurstville, Hurstville Circle Music Showcase with Various Artists: Coogee Diggers, Coogee
Swerve Society feat. Yes, I’m Leaving + Beast & Flood + Shaky Handz: Newtown Social Club, Newtown
Mansionair
Dan Spillane: Orient Hotel, The Rocks Gingers Jam: The Oxford Hotel (Gingers), Darlinghurst The Bootleg Sessions feat. The Feldons + Noti + Tessa Devine + Happy Axe: The Phoenix, Canberra Neon Indian + KLP + Wishes: Uni Bar, Wollongong
Tue 15 Open Mic Night with Champagne Jam: Dundas Sports Club, Dundas Enmore Comedy Club: Enmore Theatre (Cafe), Newtown
Big ‘Air
Hats Off to Joe Cocker with Justin Ngariki & The Delta Ladies: Lizottes Newcastle, Lambton Live & Originals feat. Andy Kidd + Loretta D’Urso + Hannah Robinson: Mr Falcon’s, Glebe Dexterious: Orient Hotel, The Rocks Neon Indian + KLP: Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst Cold Chisel + Grinspoon: Qantas Credit Union Arena, Haymarket Karaoke: Rock Lily, Pyrmont
Mansionair have had a pretty huge 2015, featuring on the line-up of some big festivals over the last 12 months following their big 2014 drop of Hold Me Down. Catch this banger along with their others on Saturday at Oxford Art Factory.
B Wise. Pic: Averie Harvey
Trivia: The Phoenix, Canberra
Boardwalks: Rad Bar, Wollongong
Ted Nash: Fortune of War Hotel, The Rocks
Troy T + Suite Az: Rock Lily, Pyrmont
Xmas Vinyl Fair with The Neptune Power Federation + Black Aces + Kvlts of Vice + Babymachine: Frankie’s Pizza By The Slice, Sydney
Stormcellar: Shady Pines Saloon, Darlinghurst
Tequila Mockingbird: Gasoline Pony, Marrickville
Lowdown Dirty Shame: The Merton Hotel, Rozelle
Songs On Stage feat. Stuart Jammin + Pauline Sparkle + Monica: Harlequin Inn, Pyrmont
Ben French: The Mill Hotel, Milperra
Becky & The Pussycats: LazyBones Lounge, Marrickville
Brendan Gallagher: The Waterhouse, Huskisson
Diesel + Shaun Kirk: Lizottes Newcastle, Lambton
Steve Edmonds: Towradgi Beach Hotel (Sports Bar), Towradgi
Rock n Roll Karaoke: Frankie’s Pizza By The Slice, Sydney
Riley Beech: Macarthur Tavern, Campbelltown
Scorcherfest: Valve Bar (Level One), Ultimo
Songs On Stage feat. Russell Neal: Gladstone Hotel, Dulwich Hill
Mark Wells: The Beach Hotel, Merewether
Young Lions: The Small Ballroom, Islington
Hierophants + Dead River Runs Dry + Gvrlls: Valve Bar (Basement), Ultimo Backsliders: Waterfront Cafe, Church Point
BandQuest feat. Zack Martin + Lucy B + more: Ruby L’Otel, Rozelle Emad Younan: The Annandale Hotel, Annandale
Phil Emmanuel + Brody Jarrett + Blue Exile: Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor
Halestorm + Bellusira: Manning Bar, Camperdown
Steve Hunter Band: LazyBones Lounge, Marrickville
It’d B Wise To Go Southwest hip hopper B Wise is supporting Alabama’s Yelawolf at Metro Theatre on Thursday. B Wise is definitely one to look out for, having just played as part of The Plot festival.
Songs On Stage feat. Stuart Jammin + more: Kellys on King, Newtown
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