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JED WALTERS FROM THE BLACKWATER FEVER What Do You Look For In A Band?

Hard-hitting beats, harsh bass 1. (preferably distorted), droney swamp guitar and sensual organ licks. Respecting our blues forefathers and making our own sound from that – that’s us. I personally look for originality, especially in these times when every hipster and his dog are starting a twangy indie pop band.

Keeping Busy We have been planning an east coast 2. tour to promote our single ‘Won’t Cry Over You’, as well as promoting our album, The Depths, as much as we can. We have been rehearsing hard to make our live show dynamic and tight.

Shane Hicks and I also have our solo projects – tentatively titled Phantom Wreck and Tesla Coils, respectively. We’ve started writing for the next BWF album. I’d like to start focusing on that more soon.

Best Gig Ever Our best gig would have to be playing 3.

Byron Bay Bluesfest. It really comes together for us when we’re playing to a theatre or tent full of like-minded people. We played the same year as Bob Dylan, and I like to think I played the same backline organ as him! After that set I ended up

having dinner with The Blind Boys of Alabama backstage, however I’m not sure if they knew I was at their table.

Current Playlist Tame Impala put on a great show at 4. the Convention Centre here in Brisbane the other month. Kudos to them for being so successful through their original music. Right now, I’ve been listening to a lot of Bauhaus.

Their sinister riffs and grinding bass, accompanied by Peter Murphy’s drawling baritone, is right up my alley. Also, so much Nine Inch Nails. Hanging out for their return!

Your Ultimate Rider Beers are always good. None of us are 5. too finicky. It was nice one time to arrive at a festival with a whole bottle of Jack waiting for us backstage. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Some nice potato crisps.

Personally, I’d like my own personal sushi train backstage…

Where: Spectrum, Sydney / Lass O’Gowrie Hotel, Newcastle When: Friday August 23 / Saturday August 24 And: The Depths out now

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EMMA LOUISE

Brisbane’s Emma Louise has had a busy year. After the outstanding domestic reception to her debut album Vs Head Vs Heart in March, she broke the US iTunes Top 100 albums chart and ‘My Head Is A Jungle’ went platinum in Italy. Now she’s heading out on a national theatre tour that reaches the Sydney Opera House on Saturday October 12.

COSMO JARVIS

Man, can this guy write a chorus. ‘Gay Pirates’ wormed its way into our ears, then came ‘Sure As Hell Not Jesus’ and last year’s ‘Love This’. No wonder Cosmo Jarvis is coming back to us – his latest dates include the Annandale Hotel on Thursday October 24, Mona Vale Hotel on Friday October 25 and Fat As Butter in Newy on Saturday 26 October. He does all his own music videos, too, and ‘Sure As Hell Not Jesus’ is brilliant. Lime Cordiale join the roadshow, previewing their forthcoming second EP Falling Up The Stairs (due early September).

get a cab – The Corso is a real bugger at that time of night. The Hello Morning are a six-piece nowadays, approaching the ten-year anniversary since Steve Clifford and Matty Smith decided to pool their talents.

The Boss hasn’t had the happiest of times here in the past, but Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s recent visit must have gone well because it’s all happening again next year. It gives Springsteen devotees another chance to prove themselves as his Biggest Fan Ever, Man (Like, Born To Run Changed My Life, Bruce) – though it won’t be hard to outdo the cynical English fellow featured in the recent fan-made doco Springsteen & I. His complaint? “The concerts are too long.” Bless. In truth, Springsteen’s a marvel of agelessness, and he’s showing no signs of giving up the game anytime soon. The 2014 Australian dates include Wednesday February 19 at Allphones Arena and Saturday February 22 at Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley, where The Rubens and Dan Sultan will support. General public tickets are on sale at 10am next Monday August 26.

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SHOTGUN KARAOKE

Something For Kate fans will already be aware that the tallest man in show business, Paul Dempsey, got into a curious karaoke habit on the band’s recent tour. Before going on stage each night, Dempsey filmed a cover version of his favourite songs and posted them online. The Shotgun Karaoke EP presents the studio versions of these songs as recorded by the SFK frontman, and it’s due for release on Friday October 4. Dempsey is touring the show, too: he’ll appear at Lizotte’s Dee Why on Wednesday October 9; Lizotte’s Kincumber on Thursday October 10; Lizotte’s Newcastle on Friday October 11; and the Factory Theatre on Saturday October 12.

HELLO MORNING

Hard-working Melbournians The Hello Morning are set to release an EP, Tie That Binds, and they’re playing two gigs in Sydney on Saturday August 31 to celebrate. They’ll play at the Old Manly Boatshed first, before jumping across town to Brighton Up Bar where they’re due on stage two hours later. Here’s hoping they

DREAM ON DREAMER

DIY Melbourne metalcore act Dream On Dreamer have just completed a national tour with A Day To Remember and The Devil Wears Prada, and now they’ve announced their own dates at venues across the country, supported by Californian post-hardcore outfit A Skylit Drive. DOD’s headlining run follows the release of their self-produced second album Loveless and latest video ‘Neverlove’. The Annandale Hotel will host 18+ and all-ages gigs on Saturday November 2, then the tour heads to Racket Club in Newcastle on Sunday November 3. Also on the bill are No Bragging Rights (USA) and Sydney’s Hellions.

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email: freestuff@thebrag.com Josh Pyke

TOM EGGERT FROM MTNS Your Band I had been writing music for a while 3. and wanted to start jamming with some other musicians. My friend Jarryd (who is now our manager) introduced me to Joe (our drummer). Joe had been filling in on drums for Jarryd’s band Art of Sleeping for one tour.

So Joe and I started jamming, then we asked Robbie (keyboards), who was friends with Joe, if he wanted to come and play some music with us. Needless to say, he said yes!

The Music You Make So far we only have one single released, 4.

‘Lost Track Of Time’. You can expect either a new single or EP from us around September sometime. Our live show is something unexpected.

Music, Right Here, Right Now The music scene at the moment seems 5. to be in good shape. I don’t have too much

Growing Up Inspirations Growing up, I was the only person in my Jeff Buckley – Grace is one of the 1.

2. immediate family playing music. When I was biggest influences on my singing and around 12 I owned my first Discman – my friends and I use to burn CDs for each other and swap them around school. Some of my favourites were Blink-182 and The Killers’ Hot Fuss.

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songwriting. My friend Ben friend showed it to me when I was 16. I remember being amazed at his vocals. Everything from melody to tone was exactly what I wanted to hear.

scope beyond the borders of Brisbane at the moment. The best thing about Brisbane is that all the bands are really nice. We’ve played some shows lately with some of our favourites, Avaberee and Archdukes. They are never a disappointment. For good music in Sydney, I go where the Internet tells me! But Oxford Art Factory usually has some great bands on.

What: MTNS Supporting Goldsmith Where: Brighton Up Bar When: Friday August 23

HAPPY FAMILIES

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The family that plays together stays together.

Or something. Husband-and-wife duo Brett and Rennie Sparks make up The Handsome Family, an alternative country and Americana collaboration on its way to Australia. Their latest album, Wilderness, tells stories of animals and the wonders of nature. The band is set to play a free gig on Thursday October 10 at the Moonshine Bar in Manly, and on Sunday October 13 at The Basement.

HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW?

LORDE

New Zealand’s next big thing, the breakthrough 16-year-old songwriter Lorde, has announced the details of her debut LP, Pure Heroine. The album is due out on Friday September 27 through Universal, and will feature radio hits ‘Tennis Court’ and ‘Royals’. A brief tour in support of the record reaches the Metro Theatre on Thursday October 17. It’ll be a big deal.

Talk about a pay rise. The Preatures’ Isabella Manfredi has won the 2013 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition, taking home a tasty $50,000 prize for her troubles.

The song in question is, of course, ‘Is This How You Feel?’, which is starting to turn heads overseas after taking over our radio airwaves for the last few months. The Is This How You Feel? EP is out now too, and the

JOSH PYKE

When you were a kid you grew up in a house on a hill – not the top, not the bottom, but the middle of the hill. Wait, that wasn’t you? Our bad. That was chart-trumper Josh Pyke, who released his fourth studio album, The Beginning And The End Of Everything, last month. Since moving to a location more conveniently situated, Pyke has proved he can turn any story into a dangerously infectious folk-infused ditty. His latest release traverses through themes of “desire, death and legacy”, showcasing his ever-advancing lyrical finesse and six-string dexterity. Pyke is scheduled to tour Australia this month, following a string of sold out shows earlier this year. We’re giving away a double pass to his show at the Enmore Theatre on Friday August 23 – email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us your favourite track from the new record.

future looks nothing but bright for Manfredi and her bandmates. Two thumbs up from us.

AIMEE FRANCIS

It’ll be a busy next few months for Sydney born-and-raised rocker Aimee Francis. The promising young singer has just released her newest single, ‘Losers Game.’ Francis is set to impress all over Australia, kicking off with shows supporting P!nk from Sunday September 1 through Thursday September 5 at Allphones Arena. After that, Francis headlines Newcastle’s Cambridge Hotel on Wednesday September 18 and Frankie’s on Friday October 24.

GREENTHIEF

Indie rockers Greenthief are back on home soil after their debut European tour, and they’ve got a new single to show for it, ‘Rainbow’. It’s the second track released from their album Voyage, due out later this year. Check them out Friday September 20 at Spectrum.

HELLO SPRING

Have you been wondering what’s missing from your life this year, but can’t quite put your finger on what it is? Problem solved: it’s Lanie Lane.

This impossibly likeable performer hasn’t been seen on stage since late last year, but she’ll do a short run of intimate shows before returning to the studio to work on a follow-up to her debut album, 2011’s To The Horses. The sole Sydney date is Thursday September 19 at The Vanguard in Newtown.

MEREDITH LINEUP ANNOUNCED

FOY VANCE

Northern Ireland export Foy Vance is set to perform on Australian shores for the very first time this October.

Foy will be sharing his debut album Joy Of Nothing, a record that features the likes of English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and American blues singer Bonnie Raitt. You can catch Foy on Thursday October 10 at The Basement and on Sunday October 13 at Lizotte’s Newcastle.

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Meredith Music Festival is back for 2013, headlined by the already-announced Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, plus Deerhunter and combative Californians Brian Jonestown Massacre. Victoria’s favourite alternative getaway will go down at the Supernatural Amphitheatre from Friday December 13 to Sunday December 15. Other acts include Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, Mac DeMarco, Spiderbait, The Smith Street Band, Joey Bada$$ and Beaches. Look at all that rhythmic goodness! The ticket ballot is open now at 2013.mmf.com.au.

THE STANDARD

The Standard has got you covered for weekend plans: this Friday August 23, new artist on the electronic scene Lyall Moloney is launching his new single ‘Before The End Of Time’; and on Saturday August 24 it’s Fraser Harvey’s and Mike Morgan’s Service Bells, supported by I Know Leopard, New Brutalists and Black Lakes.

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That old Bondi institution the Beach Road Hotel is turning 21 and having a party to celebrate on Wednesday September 11. But this won’t be any regular birthday celebration – they’re calling it a ‘Mega-bration’, which would be pushing the grammatical envelope a little, except for the fact their lineup is truly bonza. Bloc Party frontman Kele will play a DJ set, and Australia’s best party-starters DZ Deathrays are appearing live. There’s facepainting – why not? – plus kissing booths, magicians, jelly shots and a silent disco. It’ll be mega… wait for it… bration! Wait, what? Oh, right.

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Industrial Strength Music Industry News with Christie Eliezer

THINGS WE HEAR * Bruce Springsteen’s February tour was to be announced during a 60 Minutes interview with the Boss. Alas, Triple M posted the dates on its site a week before.

The post was yanked down immediately but sharp-eyed Boss fans hit social media. The Sydney show is on Wednesday February 19 at Allphones Arena. * New York’s Nas was voted best rapper of all time in a new poll voted for by NME.com readers. In the Top 10 are The Notorious B.I.G, Big Pun, Roots Manuva, AndrÊ 3000, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mos Def. * Foxtel’s MAX channel secured the Australian television premiere of Dave Grohl’s Sound City doco, airing it on Thursday September 12 at 9pm. * Katy Perry is accused of nicking her new

single ‘Roar’ from US singer Sara Bareilles’ minor hit ‘Brave’, with fans mashing the two to show similarities. If that’s not a pissoff, moombahton DJ Dillon Francis is alleging that Perry’s videos’ use of instant messaging text bubbles and emoji is based on his vid for ‘Message’ through Diplo’s Mad Decent label. * 2Day FM this week trials a new social media show Trending Tonight airing Monday to Thursday from 10pm to midnight. Host Nic Kelly, 18, is a jock on Sea FM on the Central Coast and co-founder of music site Project U. * Wollongong has a new music and arts festival, The Farmer and The Owl, set for Saturday November 23, with The Drones and Dappled Cities the first acts announced. * UK’s Slade are seeking to replace singer

COOPERS AMP RETURNS, ANNOUNCES FIRST LONGLIST

MODULAR OPENS LONDON OFFICE

The ninth Coopers AMP and its $30,000 cash prize is open to all new Australian albums released after January. The definition of ‘Australian’ can be puzzling with so many local acts collaborating with overseas artists and writers, so check out thecoopersamp.com.au.

Send a listening copy to The 9th Coopers AMP, D-Star Digital, Level 2, 233-235 Bulwara Road, Ultimo, NSW 2007. They’ll get them digitised and sent to the judges, who’ll announce the winner in March 2014.

Modular Recordings has opened an office in London and tapped Adam Brooks from Warp Records to head it. This follows the chart success of Tame Impala, the label’s inaugural FOR Festival in Croatia, and upcoming releases from Pond and Cut Copy. While at Warp, Brooks worked with Flying Lotus, TNGHT, Brian Eno, Boards of Canada and Grizzly Bear.

The judges have already longlisted six albums: I See Seaweed by The Drones, Familiar Stranger by Bob Evans, Kiss My Apocalypse

by Abbe May, Not Art by Big Scary, The Cold Light Of Day by Dialectrix and Push The Sky Away by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Last year they longlisted 71 albums of 322 submitted. Past winners: Hermitude (2012), The Jezabels (2011), Cloud Control (2010), Lisa Mitchell (2009), Eddie Current Suppression Ring (2008), The Mess Hall (2007), Augie March (2006) and The Drones (2005).

CALVIN HARRIS HIGHEST-PAID DJ Calvin Harris is the world’s highest-paid DJ, according to Forbes magazine. He earned over US$45m in the past 12 months, paid $20,000 per show. He was well ahead of runner-up TiÍsto ($30m). The rest: David Guetta ($30m), Swedish House Mafia ($25m), Deadmau5 ($21m), Avicii ($19m), Afrojack ($17.9m), Armin van Buuren ($17.1m), Kaskade and Skrillex ($15.5m each), Steve Aoki ($14m), and Diplo and DJ Pauly D at $12.5m each.

ROB POTTS MOVING As of Thursday September 5, Rob Potts Entertainment Edge is moving into Chugg Entertainment’s offices at Level 1, 490

Mal McNulty, who left because he lost the vibe. They tried Danny Devil, the singer with Aussie tribute band Almost Slayed, whom they say sounds as good as original warbler Noddy Holder. * Pearl Jam are asking Oz and NZ journos to tell them about Blur, whom they’ll play with at Big Day Out. Guitarist Stone Gossard only knows them from ‘Song 2’ in 1997 and that they recently reunited. “So they’re going to be rocking hard and we’re going to have to bring our A-game to keep it going.â€? * The Las Vegas Police Department launched an internal investigation after Guns N’ Roses guitarist DJ Ashba posted photos online of a “private tour over Vegasâ€? in a police helicopter with his fiancĂŠ. * The Voice host Darren McMullen bought a house in the south of France.

Crown Street, Surry Hills. The two have been working on many projects together, including the Deni Blues and Roots Festival, CMC Rocks The Hunter, CMC Rocks North QLD and country tours. RPEE’s new telephone number is (02) 9361 2200. Its artist management arm Roberts Network (Jasmine Rae, Morgan Evans, Peter McWhirter) continues with Kerry Roberts contactable at her current details.

SHOCK, RABBLE TEAM UP Shock Records is to announce a series of label partners, the first being artist manager and label exec Daniel Nall’s Rabble Records. Nall runs Rabble as artistlabel partnerships with artists retaining full creative control, keeping 100 per cent of their copyright and sharing equally in the success of the releases. He said, “As an artist manager, I have found it hard to find label partners who are willing to give as much as they’d like to take. Rabble Records plans to fill that gap.� First releases are through Sydney’s Ginger & The Ghost and Thief (formerly Thief Urban). Shock Records GM Craig May said, “[Daniel] has impeccable taste and Rabble being based partly in the UK further expands our A&R footprint and global reach.� The deal “heralds the beginning of Shock Records’ new direction – signalling their investment in Australian labels and commitment to fostering fresh musical talent.�

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The Association of Artist Managers (AAM) has opened applications for its Artist Manager Mentor Program. Young managers get mentored by AAM’s executive and top managers. Each successful applicant and mentor take part in an induction event in October. The partnership between Warner Music Australia and the Jimmy Little Foundation provides extra funding for indigenous managers. See aam.org.au – the deadline is Friday August 30.

THE SEED ANNOUNCES $60K OF GRANTS The music industry’s Seed Fund announced $60,117 worth of grants to emerging music and social arts proponents. The biggest share, $20,000, goes to young managers.

This year’s recipients are Laura Wallbridge for campaigns behind Gossling’s debut album, and Guineafowl for their sophomore EP, setting them up to showcase internationally. Anthony Zaccaria and Charles Wall can now employ assistants to work on releases by their respective acts, Loon Lake and Fractures, and Bobby Alu. Mike Solo, founder of Bird’s

Robe Collective, can work on expanding global opportunities for The Red Paintings and sleepmakeswaves, and the Australian EP release for Dumbsaint. In addition, the Publicise It category allows Jesse Barbera to engage Adam Christou of Remote Control to work on the release of Jeremy Neale’s A Stranger Affair EP, and Meesha Astill to bring in Monique Rothstein of Positive Feedback for the release of Rainy Day Women’s debut album. For the full list or to donate, visit theseedfund.org.

WOLLONGONG LIVE MUSIC TASK FORCE Wollongong City Council appointed ten people to its Live Music Task Force to review current policies and procedures to promote live music in the city. They are Yours and Owls cafĂŠ owner Ben Tillman, Oscars Hotel operations manager Carlie Carroll, live music advocate Jessie Hunt, tertiary educator Phil Slater, booking agent and operator of Music Farmers Jeb Taylor, festival promoter Michelle Hanley, former Lord Mayor adviser Shaun Prince, Illawarra Folk Festival operations manager Neil Roswell, production manager Simon Leamon and community radio host Peter Langstaff.

The taskforce will work with various councillors and Sydney live music activist John Wardle.

AUSTRALIA COUNCIL GRANTS The Australia Council has given $1.4 million worth of grants to the music community. Statebased music organisations including Music Victoria, QMusic, WAM and Music NT got up to $50,000, as did NSW organisations such as SIMA & Jazzgroove. Seven international tours were funded through International Pathways grants. They included Cosmic Psychos (to tour the USA), Glass Towers (UK and Japan) and Zulya & The Children of the Underground (Europe). Among the Sydney acts given money to showcase and attend international fairs were Dereb the Ambassador (the Tokyo, Shanghai and Iwate Jazz festivals), Lior (Edinburgh Festival), The Preatures (Neon Gold showcase at CMJ in New York) and Nick Wales & Ensemble (Holland Dance Festival).

Lifelines Engaged: Guns N’ Roses guitarist DJ Ashba and model Nathalia Henao.

Engaged: High School Musical’s Ashley Tisdale and muso Christopher French. He proposed on the 103rd floor of the Empire State Building in NY. Injured: guitarist Poncho Sampedro of Neil Young and Crazy Horse broke his hand, causing them to cancel the rest of their European tour.

In Court: The lawyer for Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins, who’s accused of raping a baby, wants him moved from prison to a psychiatric hospital because he’s “on suicide watch five times an hour�.

Sued: Chris Brown by Frank Ocean’s cousin, who says he’s suffering mental and physical anguish after Brown’s parking lot brawl with Ocean in January. He claims a Brown bodyguard kicked him 12 times when he fell.

In Court: Usher’s ex-wife Tameka Foster failed in her bid to gain custody of their 5-year-old son after he went into a coma following a freak pool accident at Usher’s home in Atlanta, when his hand got trapped in the drainage system.

Died: Jody Payne, guitarist with country singer Willie Nelson for 30 years, of cardiac problems, aged 77.

Died: Jon Brookes, drummer with Britain’s The Charlatans, 44, who was suffering a brain tumour. “One of the good guys,� Johnny Marr said.

Died: a 24-year-old Insane Clown Posse fan of a smack OD in his tent during their annual Gathering of the Juggalos festival.

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colourful vocabulary), neither has pushed the envelope as far as Millar’s comics, and that’s OK with Mintz-Plasse.

hen Kick-Ass was released three years ago, it left the door wide open for a sequel – but even the film’s stars weren’t sure they’d ever walk through it.

“I think we were all very surprised, yeah,” says Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who plays the villainous Chris D’Amico AKA The Mother Fucker in the KickAss films, but will probably always be best known as McLovin from Superbad. “We filmed Kick-Ass about four years ago, it came out three years ago, and it didn’t make as much money as I think people wanted it to. So a couple of years went by, and we just thought, ‘Well, alright, we made it and we’re proud of it and we’ll just leave it be.’

“And then we got word that through DVD sales, iTunes and digital downloads, people were really becoming fans of the movie. Soon enough, [Kick-Ass director and Kick-Ass 2 producer] Matthew Vaughn called me and said he found a great guy, Jeff Wadlow. He wrote a great script; it was funny, dark and action-packed, so we all signed on and wanted to do it.”

Naturally, Mintz-Plasse felt some trepidation about recreating what worked in the first movie, especially with the unheralded Wadlow – whose last film was 2008’s unremarkable Never Back Down – in the director’s chair instead of Vaughn.

“I think that’s always a fear, you know? When you make a movie like the first one and you’re very proud of it, you’re always worried that if you make a sequel it could ruin the first one.

And yeah, I was a little sad that Matthew wasn’t coming back. I thought Kick-Ass was his baby. He made the first one strictly out of his own pocket, which was amazing, so when he called me [about Jeff Wadlow] I was a little bummed. But I had a meeting with Jeff and he seemed very passionate. He understood the movie and where it needed to go.”

With Wadlow replacing Vaughn at the helm of the film, it was up to Jim Carrey to replace the star power of Nicolas Cage. A self-professed fan of the original Kick-Ass, Carrey was tapped

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to play Colonel Stars And Stripes, an ex-mafia goon turned vigilante. Playing against type as a grizzled tough guy, Carrey excels in the role; a couple of months before the film’s release, however, he withdrew his support for it.

“I did Kick-Ass a month before Sandy Hook,” Carrey tweeted in June, “and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to others involved with the film. I am not ashamed of it, but recent events have caused a change in my heart.”

Mintz-Plasse is diplomatic when asked for his opinion on Carrey’s decision. “It came as a surprise,” he says. “He read the script. He loved the first movie, so we knew he wanted to be a part of it. We went to him and we were just so happy that he wanted to do the movie.

When you read a script, there’s violence on the page, but you never know how it’s actually going to play out in the movie. So when he read the script, I think he said, ‘Alright, it’s violent, but I’ve done some movies like this in the past and I’ve seen movies like this, so it’s fine.’

“In all his scenes, he doesn’t have a gun, and there’s not too much blood, so everything he was shooting was fine. Once he left the set and we shot everything without him, and the action came to life off the page, it got really, really violent. And when he saw the finished product, it was just too much for him.

“I think people definitely have the right to think what they want and say what they want, and with all the tragedies that have happened it’s totally understandable why he and other people are against the violence...

I love violence in movies. I think it’s a fun escape. If done right, it’s great. But I totally understand why people say that.”

Of course, the wisdom of objecting to the high level of violence in a film called Kick-Ass 2 is debatable. Like its predecessor, this is a movie targeted at an audience that has long since been desensitised to screen violence.

“I think that’s absolutely what it is,” MintzPlasse agrees. “I’m very desensitised to action and violence. I was talking to someone recently about how in all the action movies that I see lately, the third act is always, ‘What’s the biggest city or the biggest monument or the craziest thing that we can blow up and destroy?’ To see New York City explode should be the craziest thing you see in your life. It should be the craziest thing of all time. But you see it in every movie. So it really numbs your brain and desensitises you to that.”

It’s exactly that indifference to violence that has led Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar to up the ante in his quest to shock modern audiences.

While both films have been controversial (partly because of violence, and partly because of pre-pubescent vigilante Hit Girl’s

“Like its predecessor, this is a movie tar geted at an audience that has long been desensitised to scr een violence.”

“There were a couple of scenes in the comic book that were way too intense to put in the movie,” he says. “There was a rape scene and there was a scene where my character murders a dog. Jeff made the decision, and I think it was a great decision, to take those out. If you put a rape and the killing of a dog in a Kick-Ass movie... Obviously the movie is dark, but it has this comic book-like, fun, hilarious tone to it, and if you throw a rape in there, it really brings it down and changes the mood. I think it’d be too much.”

The spectre of the rape scene still hangs over Wadlow’s film; The Mother Fucker clearly intends to commit rape, and is physically unable to follow through, but Mintz-Plasse believes the change is significant enough. “I thought that was actually a good scene for the crowd to see that Chris D’Amico is not totally bad,” he says.

“On paper, he wants to rape her, and he tries to, but subconsciously, he knows he can’t do that. He knows it’s not the right thing. That’s what his body shows in that scene.”

While he doesn’t share his co-star’s concerns about the film’s content, Mintz-Plasse admires Jim Carrey’s career arc. In much the same way that Carrey was able to go from Ace Ventura to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mintz-Plasse hopes to go from Superbad to dramatic roles of his own.

“I think that’d be a blast,” he says. “It’s always so much fun to challenge yourself and take yourself out of your comfort zone. I think that’s really good for a person to do. But I’m still young, you know? I’ve only done seven or eight movies so I’m still trying to figure out who I am in the film industry.”

What: Kick-Ass 2 hits cinemas August 22.

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Ash Never Forget By Leigh Salter uite frankly, you couldn’t invent a band like Ash. This group of teenage Black Sabbath fanatics and Star Wars obsessives’ endless bubblegum punk anthems stopped everything that was Britpop in its tracks – at least for a moment – in the mid’90s. Their very specific obsessions culminated in acclaimed debut album 1977, which legend has it was partly funded by stolen cash and, depending on what you believe, the lads’ double lives as rent boys.

Whatever the truth of the matter, Ash bassist Mark Hamilton proves to be little help in sorting fact from fiction.

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are clear. “It feels very familiar now, because we have been touring there since our first album came out.” In 1996, when Ash toured internationally for the first time, they had yet to complete high school. Soon they found themselves learning what it meant to be global stars. “We had no concept of society outside of Ireland. Not even outside of our own backyards really. What made it so great was everywhere we went, we found the people who were most into us were just kids like us. We weren’t playing to older audiences really, and now our fans have grown up with us and so that has kind of stayed the same.”

“I don’t remember, honestly, a lot about that time,” he offers after a prolonged pause. “All I know is we were desperate to get out of school and make something of ourselves in order to get out of having the drudgery of work/life balance – whatever that is supposed to mean.” Speaking to BRAG ahead of the Australian leg of their 1977 tour, Hamilton finds himself a last-minute interview stand-in for vocalist Tim Wheeler, who has disappeared somewhere within the band’s hotel. One pastime of which Ash have never tired is checking in under assumed names, making it impossible for journalists and crazed fans alike to track their movements.

“Our thing is to check in under the names of our road crew, and they use our names … It just means we can get a bit of privacy.” Laughs Hamilton, “The guys [crew] don’t mind. They filter our calls – it’s all part of the service.”

In any discussion of the Britpop era, the topic of Oasis inevitably rears its head. 1977 producer Owen Morris had recently completed a successful session on Liam and Noel’s immense (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? before taking a chance on this littleknown Northern Irish combo. “Owen was still pretty young at the time, and he was all about creating a certain vibe in the studio in order to capture the mood on record. That would often mean taking drugs, drinks or being in drag in the studio [laughs]. It was all about keeping it on the edge and capturing that spontaneous magic.”

Hamilton’s notoriously cheeky side is still well intact, but his memory lacks the same prowess. Famously, Hamilton wiped himself out in grand style long before Russell Brand made such activities into a full-time career.

His recollections of Australia, however,

1977 has often been cited as a tribute album of sorts to Ash’s heroes, such as Star Wars creator George Lucas, actor Jackie Chan and bands like Black Sabbath and the Ramones. “When it started out we didn’t have too much of a game plan, to be honest,” Hamilton responds. “We wrote what we thought of as a bunch of singles and a few extra songs to finish the album off. I mean, there are obviously influences in there … I can’t remember what we were doing and if we had a plan or not! Ask me about a song on that album, and I will tell you what influenced it.”

Considering Ash’s run of short, sharp pop-punk singles – ‘Kung Fu’, ‘Girl From Mars’, ‘Angel Interceptor’ – was broken by the slow-burning, goth rock ballad ‘Goldfi nger’, I choose this one to question Hamilton about. “‘Goldfi nger’?” he sighs. “This was us trying to show that there was maybe more to Ash as a band. Tim had this James Bond-like guitar sequence already written, and he kept playing it at rehearsals. I didn’t see what the appeal was at first, but Owen kept on at us to do something with it. I didn’t think of it as a potential single, but it ended up going Top Five in the UK and I am kind of glad about that, because I think we were in danger of being seen as one-trick ponies. Mind you, the days of having Top Five anything are behind us, because we don’t have the huge label machine working for us, you know. We tour our ‘major label hit album’ in cycles and record and release music as an independent band, so it’s a bit of a double life we’re leading”.

Given Ash are playing their debut album ‘in full’ on this tour, its closing song ‘Sick Party’ raises a serious question. Is the track – a tape recording of Hamilton vomiting violently while Wheeler and drummer Rick McMurray cackle insanely in the background – worthy of a live recreation? “I just wanna say that it’s never planned but sometimes it just happens. Let’s face it; we are the kind of band people expect to see passing out in a pool of sick – but you’ll have to wait and see.”

What: Ash performing 1977 With: Skipping Girl Vinegar, Charlie Horse Where: Metro Theatre When: Tuesday August 20

Hungry Kids Of Hungary Rumbling By Krissi Weiss stint in the UK. “We [were] there to kinda show people that we’ve got this album; ‘Please release it and play it on the radio.’ ‘Sharp Shooter’ has gotten a far bit of play. Overseas is just one of those things, you really have to knuckle down and kinda put yourself there for an extended period of time. In Australia we’ve been going for six or seven years, touring so much and chipping away at it, but over there we’re still really new.”

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absolutely ready to move onto a new(ish) sound with their most recent album You’re A Shadow, admitting he’d gotten a little sick of the Escapades tracks. “I also don’t think Escapades had a specifi c sound either,” says McGrath. “It was so diverse and the songs were written over such a wide expanse of time and in such different headspaces, and this time I wanted to do something different. I wanted to approach it differently and make it so it’s interesting for us as well as for the audience.”

While You’re A Shadow has enjoyed a mass of critical acclaim, there was a time when the band needed to convince those on the inside that what they were doing was going to work out. “Our label were kind of freaking out,” McGrath says. “We were like, ‘It’ll all work out, don’t worry, people will like it and they’ll accept it.’ We like it, so other people will surely like it.

That’s kinda the thing too, for the last [record] there wasn’t anyone telling us what we should do and it got licensed to the label after it was already made, so we were like,

‘Well, it worked that time so let us do it again that way.’ We said from the outset that this wasn’t going to be Escapades; we weren’t gonna do that again.”

This year has seen Hungry Kids play a host of local festivals, The Great Escape Festival in the UK, as well as their first headline tour of Britain.

The upcoming Australian tour will be their only one this year, although they “might be somewhere on New Year’s Eve,” according to McGrath.

“We basically were over there to shop [the album],” he says of their

With: Little Scout Where: Oxford Art Factory When: Friday August 23 And: You’re A Shadow out now through Stop Start/EMI

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risbane’s Hungry Kids of Hungary came smashing onto the indie rock scene with their debut album, Escapades, that was littered with catchy singles both new and old.

The life cycle of that album was a long one with some of the songs released on EPs a few years earlier and despite the album seeing the light of day in 2010 in Australia, it wasn’t released in Europe until late 2011. It’s a testament to the quality of the songs the four-piece wrote but even frontman Dean McGrath was

McGrath makes an interesting point about creating music in general, with a self-deprecating and humorous take on the whole journey. While the band wanted to make You’re A Shadow stand apart from their previous releases, he knows that first and foremost they’re there to entertain an audience. “I think it’s fairly naïve to not realise that you have an audience that you have to in some way cater for. It’s pretty selfindulgent to think you don’t give a shit if anyone else likes it and you’re just doing it because you wanna play music,” he says, beginning to laugh again. “Writing music and playing in a band is already the most self-indulgent career you can have – doing the most fun thing as a job and being the centre of attention – it’s such an arrogant thing to do.

But you might as well not leave the lounge room or garage if you’re not going to try and make something to be enjoyed by other people. We’re lucky, we’re a pop band and that’s inherently about making music to be enjoyed.”

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ou wouldn’t think it to hear them now, but a few years ago Franz Ferdinand were on the verge of ending it all. After the massive international success of ‘Take Me Out’, the Glaswegian art school lads took off on almost a decade of back-to-back touring and recording. The punishing schedule, as guitarist, keyboardist and co-songwriter Nick McCarthy puts it, very nearly did them in.

“We toured our arses off for eight years and we all felt quite empty at the end of that. We took a year off and weren’t really sure if we even wanted to continue – I couldn’t even play music for a year,” McCarthy says ruefully. Thankfully, three years off have recharged their batteries, and our favourite purveyors of wry lyrics and angular indie are back with their fourth effort, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action – their best work since their 2003 debut. The sense of fun is back – Franz Ferdinand have returned to the dance floor, cracking jokes and throwing some tongue-in-cheek shapes.

“Slowly it came back,” McCarthy says, “and we started meeting up again, remembering, ‘Oh yeah, this is why we started the band, we’ve got something special, the four of us in a room together, it just clicks!’ Our thinking was, if we have fun making it, then hopefully it’ll be fun to listen to. I don’t think you can really plan it, but we’ve done a few recordings before where it was really hard work, and we’ve listened to it and thought, ‘This is shit, what have we done to it?’ I suppose it’s a reflection of how we feel.”

weird coincidences in that song.”

‘The Universe Expanded’ plays out more cosmic themes, with Kapranos singing that he doesn’t mind that his hypothetical relationship has ended badly, because “I’ll meet you coming backwards / When the universe has expanded”. So with a decade of work and four albums under their belt, would Franz Ferdinand ever consider, in the future, looking backwards and doing a tour playing one of their albums end-to-end?

McCarthy hems and haws. “I don’t feel like I’m really ready for that nostalgic stuff yet, I’m still moving forward – I hope. I’ll let you know when we stop progressing and going forward.”

When the universe starts coming backwards?

“Exactly, exactly.”

What: Harvest Festival in the Domain When: Saturday November 16 And: Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action out Friday August 23 through EMI/ Domino

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McCarthy and his bandmates are in London when we chat, getting ready to play two songs at Beck’s ‘Song Reader: Live’ show, joining the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck himself to play songs off the sheet-musiconly album. Franz Ferdinand are playing ‘Saint Dude’ and ‘Leave Your Razors At The Door’, which McCarthy says he thought fitting considering Glasgow’s well-earned reputation for razor fights.

McCarthy doesn’t live in Glasgow now (the rest of his group still do), but he regularly gets back to his home of eight years to indulge in its two greatest attributes – the small art scene and the boozing.

“We toured our arses off for eight years and we all felt quite empty”.

During their time off, the band members weren’t exactly idle. McCarthy put out music for side project Box Codax with his wife Manuela Gernedel and friend Alexander Ragnew, while frontman Alex Kapranos produced for bands like Citizens! and The Cribs. Slowly, Kapranos and McCarthy started sending each other material again, until the band all got back in a room and realised what they’d been missing.

“It was good to do other things,” McCarthy says, “but you realise it’s not that simple when you’re in a room with other people; there’s always someone with a different idea or who doesn’t get it. But when we’re in a room together, we all seem to have the same goal, and it just flows – so we figured we should just try and capture those ‘special moments’ between the four of us on the record.”

“Alex and I wrote the songs first on acoustic, because we wanted to write songs you could play acoustically, like a sing-along around the campfire sort of thing, and then concentrate on grooves and beats and the arrangements. We thought at the heart of things we should have a really good song, and then work around that. We go through a few different versions of each song, write it quickly and then go through and work out where everything goes, and if it’s not working then we toss it out, because we don’t want to get back in a bad place.”

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Franz Ferdinand are well known for trying out several versions of their songs – take, for instance, ‘Lucid Dreams’ off Tonight: Franz Ferdinand. An intriguing (and amazing) psych-rock demo that ended with an extended electro breakdown was leaked before the album dropped, but the eventual single was a snappy four minutes that sounded much more ‘Franz Ferdinand’. They’re also a band known for literary and art world references – especially from the Russian avant-garde. ‘Love And Destroy’ is based on a scene from the cult Russian satire The Master And Margarita; ‘Take Me Out’ references the artwork One-Sixth Part Of The World by Alexander Rodchenko.

For ‘Right Action’, the lead single and opening track off their new album, Kapranos picked up inspiration from Karel Reisz’s 1960 social-realist film Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, and a series of odd coincidences. “Alex found a postcard and it turned out it was addressed to the director of one of his favourite films, and it said something quite weird: ‘Come home, practically nearly all is forgiven’. So that went into the lyrics, as did a reference to the film. Then one time in London we went to visit the house the postcard was addressed to and we were like, ‘Weurgh, this is weird!’ There were so many

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Alela Diane About Time By Jody Macgregor

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’m not the first person to tell Alela Diane I first heard her melancholy folk music in a video game. Her song ‘Take Us Back’ plays over the end credits of The Walking Dead game, coming immediately after an ending that’s unusually affecting. What I mean is it made me cry like a baby. “People have posted that on the Facebook page, how emotional it was for them,” says Diane, sounding slightly amused by the whole thing – “but I haven’t played the game myself and I don’t really play video games. It’s funny to think of having an emotional, cathartic moment at the end of a video game but I’m glad I can participate in it.”

DevilDriver Better The Devil You Know By Rachel Eddie

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f you’ve never heard of DevilDriver, you may wanna pick this record up,” says frontman Dez Fafara of Winter Kills, his band’s sixth studio album. They might’ve been around for 11 years now, but the Santa Barbara crew is just getting started – and Dez (known more formally on his birth certificate as Bradley) reckons this one’s nailed it.

experiment a little more than the other hardcore acts out there, incorporating everything that inspires them from ’60s acid rock, psychobilly and rockabilly to punk rock and the blues. Dipping their fingers in so many pies has resulted in a sound unlike any other, dubbed by fans as the ‘California Groove’ sound which, according to the frontman, “makes you wanna drive your car faster.”

“You’re never gonna hear me say, you know, ‘This is our best record ever’. But I will tell you right now, yeah, this is our best record ever,” Fafara says.

This isn’t just one for DevilDriver virgins: even old fans are expected to go nuts on Winter Kills. It brings a little more oomph to their back catalogue than previous albums have been able to, and it seems we can expect even more in the future.

“When your fans can’t find a niche for you, when they can’t find a way to pigeonhole you, your fans, after years and years, have to come up with some kind of title. And I agree with it! California Groove fits us perfectly. We have our own style. A way to describe it would be a gallop, a swing, a definite fist-pumping groove to the music.”

“Each [album] has its signature sound, but this is completely different from the next record, and I think that’s another important thing; you wanna have growth. I don’t want to leave a legacy of the same record for ten years. And I’ve said it; you know, on our second record I was doing an interview and I said, ‘Dude, where you’re really gonna see DevilDriver shine is on our fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth record.’ That’s just the bottom line, we’re growing as musicians. We’re gonna know what we’re doing and hound in on it and you can hear that starting to happen. You may get four more records from us, five more records from us … ’Cause we’re very focused at this point.

We know who we are. We know we don’t really fit in. We’re kind of the square peg in a round hole and we’re fine with that.”

And play to thousands they do. Thankfully, plans to head Down Under are in full swing. The five-piece wants to make amends for the 2012 tour, cancelled on the fateful day Fafara found pneumonia in his lungs. Get your mosh technique up to scratch: DevilDriver could hit our shores anytime in the near future. Here’s hoping.

What: Winter Kills out Friday August 23 through Roadrunner Records

Diane grew up in a small town called Nevada City, which is confusingly in California. She spent a lot of time wandering around in the woods and listened to the kind of folksy Americana her parents, who were also musicians, played. While those influences were obvious across her first few albums, Diane’s latest release, About Farewell, is

“The songs just really needed to be written for me to navigate and work through what I was going through at the time,” she explains.

“It did feel a bit brave to – for the first time – really just lay my cards on the table and not tell a story about somebody else but rather tell my own story completely. It was a bit frightening, but I’m glad I did it. I needed to do it. [In] a lot of my past work there are metaphors and there’s a lot of nature references – I think lyrically my style was much more flowery – and with this new record it just is what it is. I’m not hiding any of what I’m saying with the language that I’m using. It’s pretty blatant.”

While these songs were written before her divorce, in the time it’s taken to get About Farewell finished and out into the world, her life has drastically changed again.

She has a new fiancé, and is about to have her first child, a girl, in November.

She says she’ll squeeze in a couple of US concerts before then, but “once I’m home from those shows I’m just gonna be waiting for the baby to come and decorating a nursery et cetera for a while. I’m sure that I’ll continue to make music – I just don’t really have a time frame for it because I have no idea what it’ll be like because I’ve never been a mother before.

We’ll see. To be determined.”

What: About Farewell out now through Burnside Records/Spunk Xxx

They might be a self-proclaimed “force to be reckoned with”, but Fafara believes the group isn’t just “heavy for heavy’s sake”. DevilDriver like to

But Fafara insists their success (and that of DevilDriver’s sister band, Coal Chamber) is owed to nothing more than purity of heart and a love for music – because “if you’re into heavy metal, you’re not doing it to get rich. If you’ve had hit radio songs, I guess – but we’re a kind of animal, most definitely, and if a hit does come to us in some way it’s a lucky stroke. ’Cause we never go out and write for it … I’m gonna do music all my life, if it’s to ten people or a thousand. If you got a microphone, I’m in.”

That song is, like a lot of her older songs, full of rustic detail.

When she sings, “Last year’s antlers mark the trail,” it’s evocative, although I did have to go and look it up to learn that deer really do lose their antlers every year. “People collect them!” she says excitedly. “It’s great to find an antler because the deer that shed it didn’t die.

You [don’t] necessarily have to kill a deer to get an antler, which is nice. But they shed them every year and every year [the] number of points on their antlers is how many years old they are. Every year they shed the antlers and every year they grow new ones with more points.”

much more personal. The songs aren’t about mountains, rivers and antlers but instead document the end of her marriage in diarylevel detail.

Gogol Bordello Mid-Life Enlightenment By Denver Maxx microphone to a guitar solo or a face-off with accordion player Pasha Newmer. So it comes as no surprise that on the phone from his part-time home in Rio de Janeiro, Hütz talks about the album as though it’s an ungraspable concept, constantly changing form and meaning.

“One of the obstacles nowadays is that people think too much about music – they think too much, period. Everybody confuses intelligence with thinking – or rather, they confuse consciousness and thinking,” says Hütz. “People are misinformed who believe thinking is the sole activity of the mind. I believe the ultimate activity of the mind is insight and intuition and revelation, and that doesn’t come from thinking, that comes from perceiving and observing and experiencing, and not necessarily overanalysing. Pura Vida Conspiracy revolves precisely around that: this music demands your attention to exist in the present.”

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ogol Bordello has been releasing expressly anti-hegemonic music since 1999 under the banner of gypsy punk. Now in their 14th year, the group have just released their eighth studio album, Pura Vida Conspiracy (translation, “pure life 16 :: BRAG :: 526 :: 19:08:13

conspiracy”) – one that represents a period of philosophical enlightenment for the band.

On stage, founding member Eugene Hütz is reminiscent of a whirlwind as he cavorts around, moving from spitting words into the

Pura Vida Conspiracy also represents a huge personal revelation for Hütz about what has kept the band constant since 1999. Gogol Bordello has become far more than just him telling a bunch of other musicians what to do. “Gogol Bordello is a band that produces music that propels this kind of transparent feeling, a kind of subconscious momentum. For example, if I start feeling that I’m having too many thoughts in the back of my mind while I am doing the show, I see that as my cue to change the set. That feeling means the performance is not a moving meditation anymore. And that’s kind of how we keep

the songwriting technique fresh.”

“This album came to [exist] because the band was actually whistling to each other and using rehearsals as kind of a collective revelation. On our previous records it was me who wrote all the songs and the band is just backing me, but here we all propel the creative energy.”

One song from Pura Vida that feels like something new for Gogol Bordello thematically is the seemingly very personal ‘Lost Innocent World’. It features the lyrics, “Lost innocent world, where did you go? / I paid too high a price.” But Hütz blows this theory out of the water, contending that the song in fact speaks a universal message.

“In a way, that song is personal to the whole of civilisation. There’s an old saying that, ‘Every man has to go through his hell to get to his heaven’ … it is still just as vital now that we have gone through this process.

It sounds paradoxical, you constantly submit to change so that you can stay the same; you constantly need to upgrade the essence of yourself to remain yourself. The more I change the more I feel like I [was] when I was 16.”

“I am 40 this year – I am completely shocked by it every time I remember it,” Hütz adds. “I just don’t feel like how people describe it to me as what it is like being 40.

For me it is pretty fucking great actually.”

What: Pura Vida Conspiracy is out now through [PIAS]

Travis Glaswegians In Germany By Jody Macgregor

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ravis seemed like such a reliable band.

Every couple of years they’d bring out another album of melancholy melodies to brighten people’s bad days and prove deeply offensive to the kind of people who are upset by the popularity of inoffensive pop music.

Between 12 Memories in 2003 and The Boy With No Name in 2007 there was a longer gap, but that was pretty excusable since – as the second album’s title suggests – lead singer Fran Healy had his first kid in between the two.

And then they apologetically turned around Ode To J. Smith one year later, as if to make up for it.

But their seventh album, Where You Stand, took an unprecedented five years. Drummer Neil Primrose explains the gap. “It may seem on the surface to people that it’s been five years, we’ve all been sitting at home and stuff, but that’s not been the case. We’ve actually been working with the preparation and the writing of this record for about 18 months, if not two years. Fran had his solo project that he went and did, Andy [Dunlop, guitar] and Dougie [Payne, bass] were doing some stuff on that as well, I’ve been playing music with other bands.

The whole timeframe was really designed to give everyone a bit of breathing space and live a bit of normal life. I think you can only come back to it if you’re fresh and you’ve lived a bit of life and then you’ve got something to write about or something to perform for.”

time or what slot you’ve got. You’ve got to gauge what you’re doing if the audience have been – what shall we say – if they’ve been overdoing it during the day and they’re a little bit tipsy, you’ve got to keep things going because they demand a bit of a rocking show.”

It may have been five years between Travis albums, but it’s been even longer between Australian tours. Primrose says he’d love to visit Australia again, blaming management, booking agents and promoters for never quite getting a tour lined up in time. “I’d really quite like to do that, so hopefully we can get something organised. Maybe the end of this year, start of next year, we can get down for a couple of weeks and do a few shows. Make it worthwhile,” he says. “If we do come down we want to come down and do it properly, not just come down and do one show, you know?

Hopefully we can get a whole series of shows booked up and actually have a proper time down there and see everyone again, because it has been too long.”

What: Where You Stand out now through Kobalt

In those five years while Healy and co. were working on his solo project Wreckorder, Primrose also had a side project going on in Glasgow, playing “rocky, jazzy stuff that’s a bit more avant-garde or whatever you want to call it” – although that was mostly just jamming and keeping in practice, with plenty of time spare to spend with his family. “You’d be surprised, five years flies by,” he says.

When it came time to start writing and recording Where You Stand, rather than settle down in one spot the band travelled, doing bits and pieces here and there. One of the most noteworthy stops was Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, where David Bowie worked on some of his ‘Berlin’ material with Brian Eno, U2 recorded Achtung Baby and where Iggy Pop and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have also recorded. They’ve all left their marks on the place in different ways. “There’s little things, like Brian Eno scribbled graffiti on the wall in the studio rooms,” says Primrose. “It’s quite funny, it’s like a kid at school – it just says, ‘Brian’. They had some old keyboards lying about which Bowie probably used on some of the recordings, so yeah, it was quite good. We managed to appropriate one or two of those keyboards on these songs, so there’s a touch of the Bowie keyboard on some of them.”

“You can only come back to [music] if you’re fresh and you’ve lived a bit of a life and then you’ve got something to write about or something to perform for.”

Travis photo by Anna Isola Crolla

Fran Healy lives in Berlin these days, so it made sense to work in the historic studio. But they also spent a lot of time recording in Norway with producer Michael Ilbert, with whom they’d never worked before. “He was a guy who Fran had met in Berlin, spent some time with because they both live there and just got on with him really well. He came to a couple of shows that we did last summer, just to check us out live, to have an idea of how to steer the production.” Live, Travis sound much more rousing, far from the sad-sack stereotype with which their detractors peg them. “We’re a lot more rocky live than what we are on record sometimes,” says Primrose, “and I think [Ilbert] managed to inject a bit of that into a few of the songs, which makes the record quite dynamic.”

Immediately after the album’s release, Travis have a string of festival dates booked, including Britain’s V Festival. They’ve played plenty of festivals over their career but Primrose describes them as a bit “weird” compared to their own concerts. Famously, when they played Glastonbury in 1999, well-timed rain drenched the crowd as soon as they started ‘Why Does It Always Rain On Me?’ “[With] festivals, there’s always a good vibe if the weather’s doing its thing or depending what BRAG :: 526 :: 19:08:13 :: 17

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toilets”. We caught five with Dodge ahead of the production’s opening night.

Tell us about your fascination with Jane Austen.

There were a few moments that sparked my interest in Jane Austen. My first real boyfriend took me to see the movie Persuasion for our first date. I was 16 and in love with both the boy and Jane Austen. Victorian literature was my favourite subject at university and then the BBC Pride And Prejudice gave me the perfect Mr Darcy in Colin Firth.

Jane Austen Is Dead is inspired by true stories of the epic search for love. Discuss.

I asked all of my friends how they had met their partners. My friend met her husband when she was 15 in a community swimming pool. They’ve now been together for 19 years.

That story made it into the show. People were a little less forthcoming when I asked them about stories of heartbreak or being dumped in humiliating ways. There were some absolute shockers. I also contributed a few of my own stories of the search for love.

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eet Sophie – she’s a bar wench looking for love who is surrounded by other women on their quest for the ideal Mr Darcy. Jane Austen Is Dead, a onewoman show performed by actor Mel Dodge, explores the difficulty contemporary women face finding a compatible partner in a world of “RSVP, Facebook and drunken sex in disabled

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What about the play’s protagonist, Sophie?

Sophie is an everyday heroine. She could be me, or you or your best friend. I wanted to make her flawed, funny and honest. The play has had many rewrites over the years.

The first season was five years ago. With every new draft, Sophie became clearer. Her experiences definitely juxtapose the Regency

DOKU RAI

What happens when a politically-conscious troupe gather in a colonial hotel on the remote island of Atauro for two months? DOKU RAI (you, dead man, I don’t believe you) is the first international theatre production created in Timor Leste, and has been hailed as a ‘glorious explosion of rock and blood’. Partnering with East Timorese rock royalty Liurai Fo’er and Galaxy, Melbourne’s iconic Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm have crafted a daring mythological piece about fragility, chaos, power and death. DOKU RAI visits Carriageworks from September 24-28. Grab your tickets at carriageworks.com.au.

EMPIRE: TERROR ON THE HIGH SEAS

You’re aboard a luxurious ocean liner, seated comfortably between a Chicago “bag-man”, a South African fighter pilot, an English ‘it’ girl, and a Christian. Oh and then there’s the serial killer.

Playwright Toby Schmitz has collaborated with director Leland Kean to make this a theatrical reality. Empire: Terror On The High Seas has a cast of twenty performers trapped in a nautical

era with contemporary romances. I wanted to say that romance and love are real, but that our expectations can get in the way of us finding love.

Jane Austen Is Dead is a one-woman show.

Talk us through the practicalities of this.

I play seventeen characters in the 50-minute show. Sophie is a barmaid and we meet various people who come into her bar. Mary, another young barmaid, has just fallen in love. Victoria, Sophie’s best friend, is happily married. Theresa is a Friday night post-work regular. Helen is a drunken bride on her hen’s night explaining to her single bridesmaid the seven steps of desperation. I also play six characters from Jane Austen novels and a lot of men! The changes are mainly physical and vocal. As an actor it’s a great challenge and lots of fun.

Your ideal Mr Darcy?

Tall, dark and handsome comes to mind. He earns at least 10,000 pounds a year, just like Mr Darcy. Like Captain Wentworth, he will write me romantic letters. Like Mr Knightley, he facilitates my personal growth. And like Henry Tilney, he likes going for long walks in the forest where he talks about his feelings.

It’s finally time to see a film about the man who brought you your Macbook, your iPhone, your iPad and all things Apple. Starring Ashton Kutcher as visionary Steve Jobs, Jobs is a biographical masterpiece depicting the story of the tech master who set out to change the world. This highly anticipated blockbuster premieres on Monday August 26, and we’re giving our readers the chance to see it for free!

For your chance to win one of 20 double passes to the premiere screening, just email freestuff@thebrag.com and tell us the year Jobs released the first Apple iPhone.

Ashton Kutcher in Jobs

What: Jane Austen Is Dead Where: New Theatre When: September 16-23 More: sydneyfringe.com

murder mystery. Kean warns: “The sheer scale of the production both excites and terrifies me... You won’t be the same person once you disembark the Empress of Australia.” The bedlam begins on Wednesday August 28 at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre and wraps up on September 28. Snag your tickets at rocksurfers.org.

SUMMER STUDIO RESIDENCY

Established in the former home of modernist artists Margo and Gerald Lewers in 1981, the Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest seems more like a private getaway than a thriving arts hub. Designed to support artists from the quaint region and beyond, the Summer Studio Residency has recently been developed to offer artists the opportunity to tackle a six-week residency on the site.

Both individual artists and collectives are invited to apply for their chance to utilise a modern studio space, access to the Gallery’s curators and technicians as well, of course, invaluable networking opportunities.

To submit your expression of interest, visit penrithregionalgallery.org.

NEWTOWN IS FASHION

What do Anna Wintour, Audrey Hepburn and Bill Cunningham have in common? They’re all set to star in Dendy’s fashion film showcase.

From August 22, Dendy Newtown will screen classics The September Issue, Breakfast At Tiffany’s and Bill Cunningham New York over the course of three Thursdays for your viewing pleasure. The Newtown is Fashion series will have you whipping out the little black Givenchy-like dress your nan stitched up for you and strutting down to catch the flicks. Tickets are a steal at $12 and are available at dendy.com.au. And act fast, because if you miss out, you’ll be breakfasting with the local riff raff instead.

Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Roger Ballen, Yo-landi and rats, 2012

GRAPHIC 2013

It’s back. Flung open are the doors of every graphic designer’s heaven, and every creativelydevoid person’s hell. Graphic 2013 will flood the rooms of the Opera House from October 4-7 with breathtakingly (or ego obliterating) graphic storytelling, animation and sonic soundscapes.

The staggering lineup comprises illustrator Art Spiegelman, Seth Green and Matt Senreich’s who will present their comedy sketch Robot Chicken, Batman cover graphic mastermind Dave McKean who will debut 9 Lives amongst many more. Head to sydneyoperahouse.com for tickets and the full program.

COMEDY STORE BRINGS LOLS

What a joke! That, friend, is what you’ll be semi-comprehensibly muttering through tears once you realise you’ve missed out on tickets to one of the most anticipated events on the comedy calendar. Professional joke tellers Tommy Little, Tom Gleeson and Dave Thornton are headed our way to sprinkle their verbal tickle dust across a series of solo stand-up shows at the Comedy Store. Little is fresh from a sell-out season of Sex, Drugs and Herbal Tea at Melbourne’s Comedy Festival, Gleeson pedaling his cult segment I Hate You, Change My Mind on tele and Thornton packs rooms with Tall & Pointy. Best not dawdle, folks. Go! Now! comedystore.com.au

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ROGER BALLEN

Photographer Roger Ballen’s work transcends genre, time and space. Having recently collaborated with South African rap-rave crew, Die Antwoord, on the music video for their track ‘I Fink U Freeky’, his work has gained critical attention due to its frightening imagery. Ballen fuses people, animals and derelict spaces to generate disturbing images that question humankind’s struggles in a contemporary setting. Ballen’s works have been described as “portraying pluralism, relativism and the mortal struggles of our modern souls.” A selection of the artist’s work will be on display at Stills Gallery from September 4 through October 4. Head to stillsgallery.com.au for a preview of the exhibition.

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Les Illuminations [DANCE] New work, New Designs By Stephanie Yip

they are the “picture” to the Company’s latest performance Les Illuminations, a song-cycle composed by Englishman Benjamin Britten in 1939, which will feature Katie Noonan and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. For months, Bonachela has known the music he will use to choreograph the piece, but with three weeks until opening night, he outwardly admits he’s still staring at this drawing board.

“Les Illuminations involves ten movements.

And maybe I’ve touched on four of them,” he says. “It’s in chunks and some parts are not even there yet.” What is there are these words, the pictures in his mind’s eye and Britten’s pre-composed opus of soprano/ tenor and string. Oh, and the lyrical lines of poetry by Frenchman Arthur Rimbaud that were the source of Britten’s inspiration.

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he office of Rafael Bonachela, Artistic Director of Sydney Dance Company, is neat. Too neat. A blackboard overtakes its back wall, covered in a parade of capitalised words like “chaos” and “embrace” that look as though they’ve been chalked there permanently. Bonachela explains that

Sometimes referred to as Illuminations: Coloured Plates, the verses alluded to belong to an incomplete collection of sixtysomething prose poems culled down to an exclusive ten and rearranged to suit Britten’s operatic vision. “I think they’re amazing,” says Bonachela. The first, Fanfare, reads: I alone have the key to this parade, to this savage parade. “[These poems] talk about the theatricality of life and the painful aspects of beauty. There’s a lot of emotional intensity, there are erotic visions that can be quite creepy. It talks of the savage parade that life

can be. It’s dreamy and meditative, rich and perfect, nostalgic and painful. It’s beautiful.”

And although nearly eighty years have passed since their beauty inspired Britten to dedicate an opus to the collection, the composition resonated so strongly in Noonan’s repertoire that she too felt compelled to share its beauty.

“It was Katie who said to me, ‘What about Les Illuminations?’” Bonachela says. “When we worked together in 2011 for LANDforms, she asked me, ‘Have you ever heard of Les Illuminations?’ I replied, ‘Yeah, actually, I’ve got it.’” Over the years it had weaseled its way into Bonachela’s collection, as had another Britten work, Curious Conscience, which Bonachela choreographed for the Rampart Dance Company in 2005.

Taking Noonan’s suggestion into consideration, Bonachela took a second listen and thought, “Oh, it’s very beautiful.” To which Noonan responded, “‘Well, maybe one day we should do it. I would love to sing it – so if you’re ever ready for it….’” It was a wonderful suggestion, although not one strictly lined with Sydney Dance Company’s ethos. “I’ll have been with the Sydney Dance Company for five years in November,” says Bonachela. Back then, “I wanted a company that was going to create new work. There are many companies that do existing works, but Sydney Dance Company was going to be a contemporary

dance company that commissioned new work, new designs. It was about contemporary culture and contemporary art and inviting choreographers both international and local.”

So what happened with Les Illuminations?

Well, there are always exceptions. And “because this is Britten’s centenary, it was perfect. Benjamin Britten. One hundred years of his birth,” says Bonachela. “Let’s do something in celebration!”

There was no invitation to the international talent pool, only the local, Bonachela entrusting the soprano to the ethereal notes of Noonan’s voice, the orchestra pit to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s string contingent and the stage to eight of his fastest and best dancers.

In the studio, ideas fly from the chalkboard into instruction, “It’s a duet about holding tight.

It’s about embrace. It’s about floating… It’s about childishness. It’s about games.” It’s an announcement of permission by Bonachela for his dancers to run rampant with his neat words in a parade for Britten that could only be classified as beautiful.

What: Les Illuminations Where: The Studio, Sydney Opera House When: August 28-31 More: sydneydancecompany.com

Storm Boy

[THEATRE] Coming To Life By Alasdair Duncan

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Wilson knew he was up for a challenge, and spent a long time researching pelicans before commencing his own work on the show. “You see pelicans around from time to time, at the beach and places like that, but I wasn’t overly familiar with them,” he says. “I therefore needed to spend a lot of time preparing for Storm Boy. I found footage of pelicans and watched as much as I could, studying the ways they move and interact.

The thing is, you’re not putting a real pelican on stage, you’re making a puppet, so you need to find the most intrinsic and recognisable qualities of a pelican to bring it to life. You need the audience to say ‘aahhh, that’s a pelican.’”

In his research, Wilson decided there are three key characteristics that make a pelican into a pelican. “There are three things we admire when we look at these birds,” he says. “First of all, there are the beautiful feet. Secondly, there’s the huge wingspan, and the fact that those wings can expand out so widely and then fold back into themselves. Then you have the long, graceful neck that leads to the lovely snapping bill, the big gullet.

They’re the three things we really decided were intrinsic to the pelican, so we emphasised all of those things on the puppets. All these elements on the puppets are workable, and all work together to emphasise the humour and the playfulness of the birds.”

There are three key pelican characters in the show – Mr Ponder, Mr Proud, and the leader of the gang, Mr Percival. Each has his own unique characteristics, but as the main pelican, Wilson knew that Mr Percival’s intelligence was the main quality that needed to shine through. “He’s a very intelligent character,” he says, “and there’s also an empathy and a warmth there. Ultimately, you need the audience to fall in love with the character.

You can see Mr Percival’s thought processes as he moves around – the mind is always the thing I look for when I work with a puppet. It’s important

Storm Boy photo by Brett Boardman

ow do you bring pelicans to life on stage?

Peter Wilson knows. Wilson is an acclaimed Australian puppeteer, whose body of work goes back decades – he was a part of the opening ceremonies for the Sydney Olympics Games 2000, and more recently, he has worked on productions like The Red Tree and King Kong.

When Sydney Theatre Company and Tom Holloway decided to stage a production of the classic Australian story Storm Boy, about a boy who nurses three young pelicans to health after their mother is killed, they knew that puppet master Wilson was the man to call.

that people warm to Mr Percival, and know that he’s real.”

The menagerie of Storm Boy includes not just pelicans, but also penguins, and even a snake. It’s a lot of creatures for Wilson and his team to bring to life, and also quite a challenge for the human cast of Storm Boy, who themselves have not had any kind of extensive experience working around

puppets. “It took people a little bit of time to get used to the idea,” he says, “but we got there.”

What: Storm Boy adapted by Tom Holloway Where: Sydney Theatre Company When: Until September 8 More: sydneytheatre.com.au

The Financial Report [VISUAL ART] The Art Of Economics By Lauren Carroll Harris

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hen talking about the curious economics of big bad capitalism, Artspace curator Mark Feary says his latest show The Financial Report is not a strident anti-capitalist manifesto. It is, rather, a critical engagement with life in the age of perpetual boom and bust.

“I was very keen to not frame the exhibition as ‘capitalism is bad,’” says Feary, whose show coheres the work of seven Australian and international artists. “I want to look at the financial system’s points of failure and approach it from the idiosyncratic perspective of an artist.

I want to look at what is the intrinsic value of, say, a thousand dollars, and what happens if that thousand dollars – in this case it’s Andrew Liversidge’s work – is smelted down into a sculptural form and has no inherent exchange value contained within it.”

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And of course you can’t look at the strange collision of finance and art without looking at the Aboriginal art market. Feary has included Natalie Thomas’ work, which concerns a wealthy husband and wife art forgery team in Melbourne who specialised in rorting works by famed Indigenous artist, Paddy Bedford. “They were a white couple. They were found out to be slowly, systematically and very successfully,

over the course of a decade, releasing these forgeries through the full gamut of auction houses in Australia. They had very creative and ludicrous stories about how the paintings came into their possession. They had one story that their friend in Canada had bought a Bedford and bequeathed it to them years ago, and another that they’d found a Bedford at a market for $10 and just been aesthetically attracted to it.”

“So Natalie Thomas has done a series of four fake paintings based on this couple’s paintings as they appeared in the media. It relates to Richard Bell’s oft-quoted slogan, ‘Aboriginal art – it’s a white thing’. If you were to speak to many auctioneers off-the-record, fakes and forgeries are quite rife within that industry.”

Feary has also put together a stream of freakonomics-style talks by finance analysts, investment bankers and economics professors, about “securitisation, currency exchange...things that have nothing to do with art”. Asks Feary, “How do our financial systems actually work?

How did the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage markets in the States have this domino effect elsewhere? Is it something inherent in our economic model? Which it most likely is. I wanted to get experts, not artists, because while the artists in this show have done vast amounts

of research on the topic, it’s not a field that they work in – they’re cultural commentators.”

It follows that the show’s directive is not to exhibit decorative, bankable pieces of art. It’s about unveiling the financial gears that govern how we live – the nuts-and-bolts of the art of economics. “I personally am not interested in aesthetics or beauty or things that look nice or art for art’s sake,” says Feary. “I’m interested in how art is going to reflect on the specific times in which we live. In terms of longevity, art is used to redefine what an era was, what was of value, how things were commissioned, how they were patronised, for whom, for what audience, what were the fashions and how they reflect a class system, how all this reflects on a broader reaction against society. If, in twenty years, we were to look at figurative landscapes produced now, they probably wouldn’t define anything of our time. But many of the works in this show will be able to signify what our issues were, not just for artists but for the broader population.”

What: The Financial Report Where: Artspace When: August 21 – September 29 More: artspace.org.au

Film & Theatre Reviews

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Hits and misses on the silver screen and the bareboards around town ■ Theatre

Tim Minchin and Toby Schmitz in STC's Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Photo by Heidrun Lohr

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD At Sydney Theatre Company until September 14

Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist tragicomedy founded on universal questions of human existence and the despairing search for significance and guidance. It is at first a testament to the riches embedded within Shakespeare’s Hamlet, thereafter emerging as a frighteningly intelligent contemporary text drenched in dazzling wordplay, literary allusion and philosophical appropriation.

Under the direction of Simon Phillips, Tim Minchin (Rosencrantz) and Toby Schmitz (Guildenstern) deliver engaging performances as two courtiers struggling to identify who they are, what they’re doing and where they’re going. As Ros, Minchin brings jovial naivety to a character whose pragmatism allows him to dodge the seriousness of the pair’s predetermined destiny – death. Schmitz’s Guil on the contrary, in all his boisterous, flustered glory, aligns with Stoppard’s compulsion to meditate on themes of human rights, freedom from political systems and morality. Combined, Minchin and Schmitz generate a theatrical charisma that persuades us to embrace the intricate, rhythmic web of witty puns so vital to the narrative even if at times we can’t keep up. And by no means is Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead a two-man show.

The Player, brought to life by a convincingly scoundrel-like Ewen Leslie, projects and withdraws his grandiosity at all the right moments.

Gabriela Tylesova’s perspective bending, deeply-raked stage obliterates any formal conditioning of time and space; the transient netherworld in which our protagonists exist is truly suspended between the real and the imagined. With menacing black portals on either side, Ros and Guil have a number of entrances and exists through which to pursue their fate. Alas, the only movement in and out remains a luxury for the characters and events of Hamlet. Our two protagonists remain confined to the one space – a halfway space that compromises their very understanding of what it means to be human.

The production pedigree of Phillips’ Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead is almost unchallengeable. To make sense of Ros and Guil’s desperate search for reason and purpose in a confused world would destroy Stoppard’s willingness to embrace the nonsensical. I leave you with the words of The Player: “Relax. Respond. That’s

what people do. You can’t go through life questioning your situation at every turn.”

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FRIDAY Until August 31 Friday, directed by Julie Baz, takes us inside a fictitious parliament to examine the desire for power and the manipulated truths and personal motivations that often corrupt the democratic system. Minister for Transport Bill Twomey (Peter Hayes) is brazen and bull-headed. He’s trying to pass a bill providing free public transport for his constituents. Trouble is, he’s neglected to get the bill approved by the Premier (Gertraud Ingeborg) before announcing it to the media. Combined with damning personal allegations from the opposition leader (David Ritchie), the public, the press and the Premier are soon calling for the Minister’s resignation. But there’s much more to it, you see.

Ghosts have been spotted in the halls, a journalist is looking for a juicy political story and public service employees muse on their mutual job dissatisfaction. Not only that – members of the public search for illusive meaning in the political system, impending workplace restructures and privatisation threatens the status quo, a parliamentary wine supplier contemplates his political aspirations and the parliamentary librarian moonlights as an author. Yes, I thought so too. There’s a lot going on in this work.

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Like the political players it portrays, this witty satire doesn’t lack ambition. With a cast of 13 actors all playing multiple roles, there are moments of striking poignancy. Quick wit reminiscent of an Oscar Wilde comedy is apparent: “Luckily I don’t have one of those marriages where I need to be there.” Break the script down and there are some real gems. However the cavalcade of characters and events tends to water down the overall greatness of the work. In true political style, the attempt to address everything and cater to everyone leaves the majority unsatisfied.

A narrower focus would allow for a more striking examination of the important issues.

Lee Hutchison

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A Silk Road saga

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AGNSW, Art Gallery Rd, The Domain Opens August 22 In 1999, archaeologists excavated a white marble sarcophagus – that belonging to a Turkic-speaking central Asian man Yu Hong who was buried in 592CE. The ornate object, with its detailed carvings of hunting, entertaining and religious worship is testament to the artistic merits of Chinese artisans of the era and offers insight into what life along the famous Silk Roads was like. From August 22 through November 10, the Art Gallery of New South Wales will host an exhibition, A Silk Road saga, showcasing the exquisite panels from said sarcophagus alongside 16 other sculptures, figurines and ceramics from the same era. For more information visit artgallery.nsw.gov.au.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK DEAD LETTER CIRCUS The Catalyst Fire UNFD

It’s a coincidence that arguably the two leading bands on the Australian alternative/progressive rock scene are releasing their long-awaited and much-anticipated albums literally within weeks of each other.

Xxxx This is another Aussie album worthy of national and worldwide attention. The Catalyst Fire is an absolute winner, get on it.

Comparisons between Karnivool and DLC will probably be inevitable, but this review will try to keep them to a minimum. Suffice it to say that DLC are more about maintaining their signature sound, and expanding within the confines of that sound.

From their classic debut EP through to this, their second album, they have stayed very true to their direction, as opposed to Karnivool, who have taken stylistic turns with every new release.

As long as what the band is producing is quality stuff, then that’s all that matters. And that’s what we have here. DLC have produced an album that will please their existing fans no end, and find a whole bunch of new ones as well. There is a vitality to this album that is refreshing and contagious. This band has a knack for creating music of great power without having to rely on reams of distortion. The power comes from the compositions themselves and the delivery of those compositions, from the bombastic pounding of Luke Williams’ drums right up to Kim Benzie’s soaring and impassioned vocals.

And it’s the songs themselves that are ultimately the heroes of the day. While the debut was excellent, it had the occasional dry moment here and there. Not so here – each and every song is

strong and compelling, especially opener ‘The Cure’ and first single ‘Lodestar’. DLC maintain the momentum absolutely across the course of the 11 tracks on offer, whilst still displaying the patented Dead Letter dynamics for which they are famous.

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Innervisions Remixes Young Turks

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What happens when the xx enlist Berlinbased house/techno label Innervisions to remix cuts from their Coexist record? You get a selection of tracks that tempers some of the mournful beauty that was Coexist with a whole new landscape of sound. Given the xx’s sound is rooted in melancholic, pregnant pauses of space that manage to unnerve and comfort all at the same time, it’s fascinating to hear the spaces close and a whole new range of meaning spring to life.

Innervisions labelmates and co-founders Dixon, Ame and Marcus Worgull, as well as the reigning dame of the underground, Maya Jane Coles, have undertaken remix duties here and each imparts their distinct flavour with ample respect for the original track.

‘Tides’ has its sorrowful string section brought the forefront by Dixon, who injects a crunching techno beat, and were it not for the occasional strains of the chorus it would leave the original behind almost completely. Meanwhile, Coles’ take on ‘Fiction’ seems more cohesive than Marcus Worgull’s attempt at the same track. Coles infuses her version with a steady warmth, the gently pulsating house beat working in luscious harmony with the vocals to the point it becomes easy to forget you aren’t listening to the original. Worgull’s version is clean, crisp and punchy, with plenty of sharp percussion elements, but the melody becomes staccato and robotic. However, it’s the remix of ‘Reunion’ by Ame that is the standout here. His take chooses to keep a heavier focus on the vocals – it swirls the original melodies up into a dizzying, well-layered house beat that will leave you breathless.

Remixes are all too often contentious territory, but luckily the Innervisions family has given these well-loved tracks the respect they deserve, making for compelling listening.

Laura Veirs, a regular guest with The Decemberists and a passionate artist in her own right, is an all-American. Born in Colorado, bouncing around to Minnesota (and briefly to China), she’s now a native of Portland, channelling her frustrations into music. Veirs joins with some impressive collaborators here including k.d. lang, Neko Case and Brian Blade to name but a few.

A deep love for the heartland courses through this record. Electric guitars and fiddles splash over tunes with country twang. Veirs’ breathy, woodwind-like voice dances on air but her words often sting. “How can it be so cold out here in America?” she gracefully coos on acoustic ballad ‘America’. “Everybody’s packing heat in America / Training their barrels on the city streets of America”.

Old dustbowl bluegrass lilts around ‘Sun Song’ and Fenders crank into overdrive for shuffling rocker ‘Say Darlin’ Say’. Pace tumbles over altcountry rock on ‘That Alice’, a rock bio of jazz harpist Alice Coltrane. Folky guitars and melancholy harmony haunt ‘Dorothy Of The Island’ (AKA ‘Motherless Children’); and vivid harp and guitar spark up ‘Sadako Folding Cranes’, a track which deals with the atomic horrors of World War II. Amidst a flood of female singersongwriters, this isn’t a flat batch of cardigan-clad ditties fit for hatchback commercials. In essence, Warp & Weft carves up a hearty slice of adult contemporary Americana.

It’s an odd melting pot akin to the real America: a bright, yet often tragic land of harmonious contradictions.

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Long-suffering in the name of metal, Jason Newsted is heavy metal’s understudy.

Stepping into Cliff Burton’s (RIP) near-unfillable void in 1986, he’s been a second choice for slapping sure and steady low end ever since. He’s done stints for Ozzy Osbourne, for Canadian weirdo-thrashers Voivod and supergroup WhoCares. Despite sharing stages with the top tier, he’s wound up a B-lister in listeners’, and the industry’s, minds.

‘Heroic Dose’ throbs with stomping Bay Area thrash, Newsted’s voice the raspy product of tutelage under James Hetfield. As is expected, the bass towers over all. It takes the helm in ‘Soldierhead’, another thrasher punched out by a Metallica-shaped mould. .‘ ..As The Crow Flies’ throttles past like bitumen burning road hogs, stirring up And Justice For All memories. It gets a bit tired at this point.

Inexplicably Jason and co. head down South for the insipidly titled ‘Ampossible’, stringing bluesy, chickenfried licks across metallic thump like Zakk Wylde or Rich Ward just might.

‘Nocturnus’ heralds the return of an all-conquering Black Sabbathy doom riff joined by plaintive Osbournestyle wail. Newsted tries his hand at desert rock on ‘Above All’, a rocker Dave Mustaine might’ve Risked. ‘King Of The Underdogs’ unremarkably captures the spirit of ’80s arena thrash, prior to channelling classic Blackmore/Gillan heavy blues, buzzing in ‘Twisted Tail Of The Comet’.

If you can get past some idiotic song titles (‘Futureality’ or ‘Kindevillusion’... umm, cool story Jase) you get exactly what’s scratched into the tin. Mid-paced, brews ‘n’ burgers heavy metal. It would stir attention for opening slots yet it’s nowhere near enough to propel them into mega Metallistardom.

Tom Valcanis

Lawrence Greenwood doesn’t do things in half measures. In 2010, just as the Whitley juggernaut was riding its highest wave of popularity with the release of Go Forth, Find Mammoth – the follow-up to 2007’s The Submarine – he pulled the plug on the project, citing disillusionment with music and the industry in general. Fast-forward three years and, after trekking halfway across the world on a quest for selffulfilment, Greenwood – as Whitley – is back. With an album title inspired by a quote from the great Werner Herzog, no less. Even The Stars Are A Mess is an ambitious record, destined to divide fans of the Melbournian singersongwriter. Whereas his previous material, no matter how pensive, always veered towards the anthemic, ETSAAM is an album of prolonged restraint, eschewing catchy choruses and clap-along rhythms for a set of stripped-back songs that put the focus squarely on Greenwood’s voice and his searching, introspective lyrics.

‘The Ballad Of Terence McKenna’ is a tender, teasing opener. Greenwood’s clash of optimism and worldweariness has never been so stirring.

Backed by a gently strummed guitar, he sings: “It is not a mean world / It’s beautiful / I’ve seen it”. But just as the song appears poised for take-off, it slips suddenly back into the void from where it came. Lead single ‘My Heart Is Not A Machine’ is a less dramatic but similarly restrained effort. As with the bulk of ETSAAM, Greenwood strips back all excesses to shine a light on lyrics that ponder a range of grand existential questions.

By winding things down and denying his songs the hooks that dominated much of his earlier material, Greenwood makes his journey all the more stark. It’s a bold move. But it’s courageous, and you’ve got to give him credit for that.

Wayne Marshall

INDIE ALBUM OF THE WEEK PLUTO JONZE Eject Inertia Pluto Jonze (AKA Lachlan Nicolson) delivers a spanking debut album, with swagger and insolence to spare. If you can listen to this without wanting to dance, you have already died and are so boring no one could spot the difference. It is simply a great time, a potpourri of party – a bit of this, a bit of that, and a lot of fun. Lo-fi and loose, Jonze plays every instrument and sings every line, as well as producing, mixing and engineering the whole deal: a hands-on fellow.

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Wearing his inspirations on the ends of his frayed, vintage sleeves, Jonze opens the album with Beck Odelay-era ‘Hispedangongonajelanguiro (Capiche?)’, a drug-induced nonsense wig-out. It is a perfect tone-setter for all that follows.

‘Plastic Bag In A Hurricane’ is built around a killer riff, layered with strings and sounds huge, like that scene in a movie where they cut between three or four simultaneous action set pieces. ‘All Washed Up’ is the come down song, a regretful Monday morning after a weekend full of events you can’t place, complete with languid whistling.

The album’s stand out track is ‘Eject’ – it is a perfect pop song, full of hooks, sleazy boogie woogie 12-bar guitar, bar room piano, hand claps, and a chorus

you can sing after one listen. It made me stand up and move the very first time I heard it and I continue to do so now. All the stars to this song.

Keeping with the eclectic feel, ‘See What The Sun Sees’ is a 6/8 waltz with a counterpoint electric piano riff and is just lovely. The closer, ‘Come On Sunshine’, has the tempo of a goodbye and rounds out what is not a coherent ‘story’ album, but track after individual track that all help build an object in its entirety.

Pluto Jonze’s first album leaves with you with just one question: when’s the next one coming out?

Jack Franklin

Ben Salter is one of Australia’s most underrated songwriters in one of the country’s most underrated bands, The Gin Club. As the chief songwriter of that band/collective, Salter has produced many fine, haunting tracks, ranging from alt and country rock to colonial-era-inspired gems. How ‘Say You Love Me’ from the Deathwish album isn’t a hit I’ll never know.

Salter’s solo LP The Cat departed slightly from the The Gin Club mould, further showcasing the range of a fine songwriter, and this EP continues that trend in a surprisingly more experimental way.

It’s evident on ‘Tremulous’ with its thumping, heightened pulse and keys reminiscent of something from the score of Blade Runner.

The EP’s title is not misleading: each track was recorded last year across several locales in Europe, although there are not necessarily obvious connections between song and place. Instrumental tracks provide an interesting change of pace, ‘All The Things’ sounding more like it’s from the American heartland than from Ireland where it was recorded.

The rest is more recognisably Salter: ‘The Prophetess’ is a steady, darkly rocking opener, and ‘Not Today’ is almost the antithesis of that – sharp plucking of acoustic guitar accompanied by strings and sultry saxophone that catches you unawares. “I just want to be free / What do we say to death? / Not today,” sings Salter.

‘Semi Pro Gamer’ sits a little uncomfortably amongst these tracks – it is a good tune with a great chorus; it’s just Salter singing lines such as “I don’t need a passport / Just an unlimited wireless plan” that seems odd. But it’s a minor blip on the radar of an otherwise enjoyable interim release.

Garry Westmore

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City Recital Hall Tuesday August 13

It takes Tim Levinson 35 minutes to confront what he calls the elephant in the room. “I’m a rapper,” he grins, “at a Paul Kelly gig.” By this point, Urthboy has won some new fans – if not for Aussie hip hop as a whole, at least for his own arresting style of storytelling. It’s perhaps no clearer than on ‘Letters From Jamshed’, the inspiring account of a pen pal exchange with an asylum seeker locked up in Nauru. Tonight’s show takes place in intimidating surrounds for Urthboy, that’s of no doubt – but the rapper is not so much restrained here as thoughtful; not so much skating over thin ice as dancing upon it with glee.

They may draw from different songbooks, but Urthboy and tonight’s headliner are artists borne ultimately of the same tradition. And coming to a Paul Kelly show always feels like coming home, such is the warmness of his embrace.

Kelly and his band open with a straight run-through of Spring And Fall, the heartwrencher of an album released last year. It’s a delicate record – the five performers on stage seem at times anxious not to make any sudden movements, as if they’re carrying precious china – but it features some of the bard’s bestever lyrics: ‘Someone New’, ‘Time And Tide’, ‘Little Aches And Pains’.

Kelly exits Spring And Fall with a trip back to ‘Bradman’, performed here as a lament over the Australian cricket team’s current predicaments.

There on in it’s a greatest hits set, augmented with generous inclusions from the country and bluegrass sides of Kelly’s vast catalogue – the multi-talented percussionist Bree van Reyk even has a go at playing the spoons.

COSMIC PSYCHOS

Metro Theatre Saturday August 10 “Shut up, I can’t afford a tuner,” were the first laconic words out of frontman/bassist Ross Knight’s unshaven face.

The crowd rumbled and jeered at him as he fiddled around with his guitar on stage for 20 minutes at the start of the set. The wait encouraged an amusing interchange between the Psychos and their fans. Drummer Dean Muller quipped we would be refunded our ticket money and Knight, when he finally got his bass ready, told us all “what a fucking carry-on that was. The biggest tune-up for the biggest load of shit you’ll ever hear”.

Everything uttered was met with a roar of laughter, cheers and flying beer cans. The Cosmic Psychos weren’t fazed. These guys really epitomise ocker Australianness to excess. Lyrics about boozy benders, cars, tractors, football, sheilas and schnitzels.

A bunch of laidback Aussie larrikins from downtown Kyneton in Victoria. Think Paul Hogan spliced with Pro Hart.

30 years of solid, unforgiving dirty punk rock hit the Metro like a giant fly swat in the face. The Psychos’ notoriety for drinking pubs dry and pervasive influence on the local grunge music scene hasn’t affected them one iota – they’re down-to-earth delinquents, playing their trademark yob

The City Recital Hall is a setting for theatre, and Kelly plays along (as Urthboy did before him) – but, surprisingly, one of the most enthused reactions tonight comes with ‘Sweet Guy’. It seems the politely seated, attentive (and, frankly, older) audience were waiting for a moment to let their restraint go after all. Urthboy and his collaborator Jane Tyrrell each take a verse on ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’, then the Kelly gang gather around a single microphone to do ‘Song From The Sixteenth Floor’. The stunningly effective trick is repeated for ‘Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air’, and Kelly need say no more. Coming to a Paul Kelly show feels like coming home, and home for Kelly has always been the one sunburnt land lucky enough to call him ours.

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rock with passion and energy.

Despite the age of the crowd, fierce moshing and thrash dancing still battered the floor. The Psychos’ sound is raw: Knight’s deep, fuzzedout bass, John ‘Mad Macca’ McKeering’s pounding wah-wah guitar and Muller’s tight drumming chops each combine to pack a formidable punch. Knight and McKeering played the final song ‘David Lee Roth’ with their shirts off, McKeering unashamedly exposing a wellearned beer gut and rubbing his sweaty nipples with his fingers à la Austin Powers.

Muller joined them at the finale to bow, drop faded denims and gracefully moon us all goodbye.

The Psychos come across as your everyman; just three farmers who love to rock out, and are doing it tough just like us.

Knight proudly lets us all know he bought a Harley Davidson decades ago, but he still owes $17K on it to this day. The Psychos’ dry and vulgar sarcasm is endearing, too. Like the Australian outback, they are rugged and unforgiving but with a colourful history. They should be made the unofficial symbols of Australia, like Vegemite and the Big Banana. A great show from a great bunch of blokes.

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@ BULLETIN PLACE FIRST FLOOR, 10-14 BULLETIN PLACE, CIRCULAR QUAY Bulletin Place’s Apple & Toffee Sipper has been created with Sydney’s unpredictable winter and spring in mind – rich, refreshing, warming, and delicious all at the same time.

Ingredients: 45ml cognac, 15ml Tawny Port, 2 dash orange bitters, 5ml apple cider vinegar, 20ml chilled TC Toffee Nougat Tea. Method: Stir all ingredients down over ice until cold.

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BAR100 100 George St, The Rocks (02) 8070 9311 Mon – Thu noon-late; Fri – Sat noon-3am; Sun noon-midnight Bar Eleven Lvl 11, 161 Sussex St, Sydney CBD (02) 9290 4712 Thu 4-10pm; Fri 4-11pm; Sat 3-11pm Bulletin Place First Floor, 10-14 Bulletin Place, Circular Quay Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight deVine 32 Market St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 6906 Mon – Fri 11.30am-11.30pm; Sat 5.30-11.30pm Frankie’s Pizza 50 Hunter St, Sydney CBD Mon – Sun 4pm-4am

Goodgod Small Club 53-55 Liverpool St, Sydney CBD (02) 8084 0587 Wed 5pm-1am; Thu 5pm-2am; Fri 5pm-5am; Sat 6pm-5am

Who’s pouring?

Bartender Victor Delebarre (ex The White Hart) calls the shots when it comes to the booze.

Who’s bangin’ about the pans?

Chef James McCall (ex Executive Chef, Jones The Grocer) is dishing out the sustenance.

Grain Bar 199 George St, Sydney CBD (02) 9250 3118 Mon – Fri 4pm-1am; Sat noon-1am; Sun noonmidnight

Eye-candy: Let’s call it your modern hunting ground.

Interior design crew Giant Design has vibed on African-inspired décor to deck the joint out with hide and greenery aplenty. There’s also a giant tented-ceiling feature smack bang in the centre of the room.

Flavours: Modern Australian tapas.

Something to start with: Dukkah-crumbed (Egyptian side dish made from a mix of herbs, nuts and spices) mini beetroots with lemon mayo.

The main course: Slow roast pork hock, sticky braised cabbage and potato mash.

Room for dessert?

Malva pudding trifle with vanilla bean custard and macadamia praline.

Care for a drink: Leopard’s Leap Pinotage (South African Shiraz) or chilli vanilla-spiced margarita.

Make us drool: The Hunter will transport punters to a safari camp setting with tented and vintage lanterns lighting up wild boar mini dogs.

There are emu sliders, plenty of wine and cocktails and an inventive menu.

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Assembly 488 Kent St, Sydney CBD (02) 9283 8808 Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight

Gilt Lounge 49 Market St, Sydney CBD (02) 8262 0000 Tue – Wed 6pm-midnight; Thu & Sat 6pm-2am; Fri 5pm-2am

The basics: Mosman’s first small bar is here! The Hunter, owned by Steve Hiles, offers locals an exotic experience in a familiar setting.

Hiles’ African-themed fort centres on affordable eating and drinking where share plates and cocktails reign king. It’s not quite the Serengeti, but if you’re up for a night on the turps your imagination might run wild.

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Ash St Cellar 1 Ash St, Sydney CBD (02) 9240 3000 Mon – Fri 8.30am-11pm

Grandma’s Basement 275 Clarence St, Sydney CBD (02) 9264 3004 Mon – Fri 3pm-late; Sat 5pm-late Mojo Record Bar Basement 73 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 4999 Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight Palmer & Co. Abercrombie Ln, Sydney CBD (02) 9240 3172 Mon – Wed 5pm-late; Thu – Fri noon-late; Sat – Sun 5pm-late Rockpool Bar & Grill 66 Hunter St, Sydney CBD (02) 8078 1900 Mon – Sat lunch & dinner Shirt Bar 7 Sussex Ln, Sydney CBD

(02) 8068 8222 Mon –Wed 8am-6pm; Thu – Fri 8am-10pm Small Bar 48 Erskine St, Sydney CBD (02) 9279 0782 Mon – Fri noonmidnight; Sat 5pm-midnight Spooning Goats 32 York St, Sydney CBD 0402 813 035 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight Stitch Bar 61 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9279 0380 Mon –Wed 4pm-midnight; Thu – Fri noon-2am; Sat 4pm-2am Tapavino 6 Bulletin Place, Circular Quay (02) 9247 3221 Mon – Fri 11am-11.30pm The Barber Shop 89 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9299 9699 Mon – Fri 2pm-midnight; Sat 4pm-midnight The Baxter Inn Basement 152-156 Clarence St, Sydney CBD Mon – Sat 4pm-1am The Fox Hole 68A Erskine St, Sydney CBD (02) 9279 4369 Tue – Fri 5pm-midnight The Grasshopper 1 Temperance Ln, Sydney CBD (02) 9947 9025 Mon – Wed & Sat 4pm-late; Thu – Fri noon-late The Lobo Plantation Basement Lot 1, 209 Clarence St, Sydney CBD 0415 554 908 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri 2pm-midnight; Sat 4pm-midnight The Morrison 225 George St, Sydney CBD (02) 9247 6744 Mon – Wed 7.30am-midnight; Thu 7.30-1am; Fri 7.302am; Sat 11.30-2am; Sun11.30am-10pm The Rook Level 7, 56-58 York St, Sydney CBD (02) 9262 2505 Mon – Fri 4pm-late; Sat 4pm-late The Spice Cellar Basement 58 Elizabeth St, Sydney CBD (02) 9223 5585 Mon – Sun 4pm-late Uncle Ming’s 55 York St, Sydney CBD Mon – Fri 11am-midnight; Sat 5pm-midnight York Lane York Lane, Sydney CBD (02) 9299 1676 Mon – Wed 6.30am-10pm; Thu – Fri 6.30pm-midnight; Sat 6pm-midnight

Bar-racuda 105 Enmore Rd, Newtown (02) 9519 1121 Mon – Sat 6-midnight

Bloodwood 416 King St, Newtown (02) 9557 7699 Mon, Wed –Thu 5pm-late; Fri – Sat noonlate; Sun noon-10pm Cornerstone Bar & Food 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh (02) 8571 9004 Sun – Wed 10am-5pm; Thu – Sat 10am-late Corridor 153A King St, Newtown 0422 873 879 Tue – Fri 3pm-midnight; Sat 1pm-midnight; Sun 1-10pm Cottage Bar & Kitchen 342 Darling St, Balmain (02) 8084 8185 Mon – Wed 5pm-midnight; Thu – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Different Drummer 185 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9552 3406 Mon – Sat 4.30pm-late Earl’s Juke Joint 407 King St, Newtown Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Freda’s 107-109 Regent St, Chippendale (02) 8971 7336 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri noon-midnight; Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Hive Bar 93 Erskineville Rd, Erskineville (02) 9519 9911 Mon – Fri noon-midnight; Sat 10am-midnight; Sun 10am-10pm Jester Seeds 127 King St, Newtown (02) 9557 7008 Tue – Sat 4-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Kelly’s On King 285 King St, Newtown (02) 9565 2288 Mon – Fri 10am-3am; Sat 10am-4am; Sun 10am-midnight Kuleto’s 157 King St, Newtown (02) 9519 6369 Mon – Wed 4pm-late; Thu – Sat 4pm-3am; Sun 4pm-midnight Mary’s 6 Mary St, Newtown Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Miss Peaches 201 Missenden Rd, Newtown (02) 9557 7280 Wed – Sun 5pm-midnight Mr Falcon’s 92 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9029 6626 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sat noon-midnight; Sun 2-10pm Newtown Social Club 387 King St, Newtown (02) 9550 3974 Mon – Sat noonmidnight; Sun noon10pm The Abercrombie 100 Broadway, Chippendale (02) 9280 2178

Mon – Wed noon-1am; Thu noon-3am; Fri – Sat noon-5am; Sun noonmidnight The Green Room Lounge 156 Enmore Rd, Enmore (02) 8021 8451 Wed 5pm-late; Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 5pm-1am; Sun 5-10pm The Little Guy 87 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9200 0000 Mon – Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 1pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm The Midnight Special 44 Enmore Road, Newtown (02) 9516 2345 Mon – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm The Moose Newtown 530 King St, Newtown (02) 9557 0072 Wed – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 5-10pm The Record Crate 34 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9660 1075 Tue – Wed 11am-10pm; Thu – Fri 11am-midnight; Sat 10am-midnight; Sun 11am-10pm The Workers Lvl 1, 292 Darling St, Balmain (02) 9555 8410 Wed – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 5pm-3am; Sun 2-10pm Timbah 375 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe (02) 9571 7005 Tue – Thu 4-9pm; Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 2pm-midnight; Sun 2-8pm ZanziBar 323 King St, Newtown (02) 9519 1511 Mon – Thu 10am-4am; Fri 10am-6am; Sat 10am-5am; Sun 10am-12am

121BC 4/50 Holt St, Surry Hills (02) 9699 1582 Tue – Thu 5-11pm; Fri – Sat 5pm-midnight Absinthe Salon 87 Albion St, Surry Hills (02) 9211 6632 Wed – Sat 4-10pm Backroom 2A Roslyn St, Potts Point (02) 9361 5000 Bar H 80 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9280 1980 Tue – Sat 6pm-late Black Penny 648 Bourke St, Redfern (02) 9319 5061 Tue – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-11pm Button Bar 65 Foveaux St, Surry Hills (02) 9211 1544 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight Café Lounge 277 Goulburn St, Surry Hills (02) 9016 3951 Mon – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sunday 4-10pm

small bars guide Darlo Bar 306 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst (02) 9331 3672 Mon – Sun 10am-midnight Darlie Laundromatic 304 Palmer St, Darlinghurst (02) 8095 0129 Wed – Sun 5-11pm

197 Oxford St, Darlinghurst (02) 9356 2123 Thu – 5pm-2am Play Bar 72 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9280 0885 Wed – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm

Eau De Vie 229 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst 0422 263 226 Mon – Sat 6pm-1am; Sun 6pm-midnight

Pocket Bar 13 Burton St, Darlinghurst (02) 9380 7002 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sat 4pm-1am; Sun 4pm-midnight

Foley Lane 371-373 Bourke St, Darlinghurst Mon, Wed – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat 10am-3pm & 5pm-midnight; Sun 10am-10pm

Queenie’s Upstairs Forresters Cnr Foveaux and Riley St, Surry Hills (02) 9212 3035 Tue – Sat 6pm-late

Gazebo 2 Elizabeth Bay Rd, Elizabeth Bay (02) 9357 5333 Mon – Thu 3pm-midnight; Fri – Sun noon-midnight Hello Sailor 96 Oxford St, Darlinghurst (02) 9332 2442 Tue – Sun 5pm-1am Hinky Dinks 185 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst (02) 8084 6379 Mon – Thu 5pm-midnight; Fri 4pm-midnight; Sat 3pm-midnight; Sun 1-10pm Hollywood Hotel 2 Foster St, Surry Hills (02) 9281 2765 Mon – Wed 10am-midnight; Thu – Sat 10am-3am Hustle & Flow Bar 105 Regent St, Redfern (02) 9310 5593 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight Jekyll & Hyde 332 Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 9360 5568 Wed – Fri 4pm-late; Sat 8.30am-late; Sun 8.30am-evening Li’l Darlin Darlinghurst 235 Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 8084 6100 Mon – Sat 5pm-midnight Li’l Darlin Surry Hills 420 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills (02) 9698 5488 Mon – Thu noon-3pm & 5-11pm; Fri – Sun noon11pm Lo-Fi 2/383 Bourke St, Darlinghurst (02) 9318 1547 Wed – Sat 6pm-late Love, Tilly Devine 91 Crown Ln, Darlinghurst (02) 9326 9297 Mon – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm Low 302 302 Crown St, Surry Hills (02) 9368 1548 Tue – Sat 5pm-2am; Sun 6pm-2am Mr Fox 557 Crown St, Surry Hills 0414 691 811 Mon –Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Name This Bar

Roosevelt 32 Orwell St, Potts Point 0423 203 119 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight Santa Barbara 1 Bayswater Rd, Kings Cross (02) 9357 7882 Wed 6pm-1am; Thu & Sat 6pm-2am; Fri noon2am Shady Pines Saloon Shop 4, 256 Crown St, Darlinghurst Mon – Sun 4pm-midnight Sweethearts Rooftop 33/37Darlinghurst Rd, Potts Point (02) 9368 7333 Mon – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sun noon-midnight The Beresford 354 Bourke St, Surry Hills (02) 8313 5000 Mon – Sun noon-1am The Carrington 565 Bourke St, Surry Hills (02) 9360 4714 Mon – Sun noonmidnight; Sun noon10pm The Commons 32 Burton St, Darlinghurst (02) 9358 1487 Tue – Sun noon-late The Flinders 63-65 Flinders St, Surry Hills (02) 9356 3622 Tue – Thu 5pm-3am; Fri – Sat 5pm-5am The Forresters 336 Riley St, Surry Hills (02) 9212 3035 Mon – Wed noonmidnight; Thu – Sat noon-1am; Sun noon10pm The Hazy Rose 1/83 Stanley St, Darlinghurst (02) 9357 5036 Tue 3-11pm; Wed – Sat 3pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm The Local Tap House 122 Flinders St, Surry Hills (02) 9360 0088 Mon – Wed noon-2am; Thu – Sat noon-1am; Sun noon-11pm The Norfolk 305 Cleveland St, Surry Hills (02) 9699 3177 Mon – Wed noonmidnight; Thu – Sat noon-1am; Sun noon10pm

The Passage 231A Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 9358 6116 Mon – Thu 5pm-late; Fri – Sun noon-late The Soda Factory 16 Wentworth Ave, Surry Hills (02) 8096 9120 Mon – Wed 5pm-late; Thu 5pm-2am; Fri – Sat 5pm-5am The Victoria Room Lvl 1, 235 Victoria St, Darlinghurst (02) 9357 4488 Tue – Fri 6pm-midnight; Sat noon-2am; Sun noon-midnight

Mon – Wed 5-10pm; Thu 4-11pm; Fri – Sat noon11pm; Sun noon-9.30pm Harlem On Central Shop 4,9-15 Central Ave, Manly (02) 9976 6737 Tue – Sun 5pm-midnight Hemingway’s 48 North Steyne, Manly (02) 9976 3030 Mon – Sat 8am-midnight; Sun 8am-10pm Honey Rider 230 Military Rd, Neutral Bay (02) 9953 8880 Tue – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm

The Wild Rover 75 Campbell St, Surry Hills (02) 9280 2235 Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun noon-10pm

In Situ 1/18 Sydney Rd, Manly (02) 9977 0669 Mon 9am-6pm; Wed – Sun 9am-midnight

The Winery 285A Crown St, Surry Hills (02) 9331 0833 Mon – Sun noonmidnight

Jah Bar Shop 7, 9-15 Central Ave, Manly (02) 9977 4449 Tue – Fri 5pm-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm

Tio’s Cerveceria 4/14 Foster St, Surry Hills Mon – Sat 4pm-midnight; Sun 4-10pm

Manly Wine 8-13 South Steyne, Manly (02) 8966 9000 Mon – Sun 7am-late

Unicorn Cellar Basement, 106 Oxford St, Paddington (02) 9360 7994 Tue – Thu 4pm-midnight; Fri – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm Vasco 421 Cleveland St, Redfern 0406 775 436 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 5-10pm

Anchor Bar 8 Campbell Pde, Bondi (02) 8084 3145 Tue – Fri 4.30pm-late; Sat – Sun 12.30pm-late Bondi Hardware 39 Hall St, Bondi (02) 9365 7176 Mon – Wed 5-11pm; Thu 5pm-midnight; Sat 10am-midnight; Sun 10am-10pm Flying Squirrel 249 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 9130 1033 Mon – Fri 6pm-late; Sat 4pm-late; Sun 4-10pm Speakeasy 83 Curlewis St, Bondi (02) 9130 2020 Mon – Fri 3pm-late; Sat – Sun noon-late Stuffed Beaver 271 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 9130 3002 Mon – Sat noonmidnight; Sun noon10pm The Corner House 281 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 8020 6698 Tue – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 3-10pm The Rum Diaries 288 Bondi Rd, Bondi (02) 9300 0440 Tue – Sat 6pm-midnight; Sun 6-10pm

Firefly 24 Young St, Neutral Bay (02) 9909 0193

Miss Marley’s Tequila Bar 32 Belgrave St, Manly (02) 8065 4805 Mon – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 5-10pm Moonshine Lvl 2, Hotel Steyne, 75 The Corso, Manly (02) 9977 4977 Thu – Sat 5pm-midnight; Sun 3-11pm The Bay Jam Bar 2A Waters Rd, Neutral Bay 0407 454 0815 Tue – Fri 11am-midnight; Sat – Sun 7am-midnight The Foxtrot 28 Falcon St, Crows Nest Tue – Sat 5pm-3am; Sun 5-10pm The Hunter 5 Myahgah Rd, Mosman Mon – Tue 5pm-midnight; Wed – Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-10pm The Mayor 400 Military Rd, Cremorne (02) 8969 6060 Tue – Fri 10am-late; Sat 8am-late; Sun 8am-10pm The Pickled Possum 254 Military Rd, Neutral Bay (02) 9909 2091 Thu – Sat 9pm-1am The Stoned Crow 39 Willoughby Rd, Crows Nest (02) 9439 5477 Mon – Sun noon-late White Hart 19-21 Grosvenor St, Neutral Bay (02) 8021 2115 Tue – Thu 5pm-late; Fri 4pm-late; Sat 2pm-late; Sun noon-8pm

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Pluto Jonze

Trapaga Camelot Lounge, Marrickville.

7pm. $32.70.

Organ Groove - feat: Dave Goodman + Darren Heinrich + Lionel Cole The White Horse, Surry Hills.

8pm. free.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Kinsky The Vanguard, Newtown.

8pm. $13.80.

Lionel Cole The White Horse, Surry Hills.

8pm. free.

Ray Beadle And The Silver Dollars Venue 505, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. $15.

World Music Wednesdays feat: El Orquestron The Basement, Circular Quay.

8pm. $5.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

SATURDAY AUGUST 24 Goodgod Small Club

Pluto Jonze 8pm. $12.

MONDAY AUGUST 19 ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK SongsOnStage - feat: Helmut Uhlmann + Tampered Minds + Ben Stiel + Chris Brookes + Massimo Presti Kelly’s On King, Newtown.

7pm. free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Latin & Jazz Open Mic World Bar, Kings Cross.

7pm. free.

Mariachi Mondays - feat: Victor Valdes And Friends The Basement, Circular Quay. 5pm. free.

Motown Mondays - feat: Soultrane

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The White Horse, Surry Hills.

8pm. free.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS Frankie’s World Famous House Band Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney.

9pm. free.

TUESDAY AUGUST 20 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Big Band Tuesdays - feat: Sirens Big Band The Basement, Circular Quay. 8pm. $5.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Ash (Performing ‘1977’) Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7pm. $65.

Nick Kingswell Orient Hotel, The Rocks.

9pm. free.

ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

An Evening With Joan Baez Sydney Opera House, 8pm. $110.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Hump Wednesdays - feat: The Petting Zoo The Little Guy, Glebe. 7pm. free.

Awolnation Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $48.

Gnome Glasshouse Bar, Ultimo. 8pm. $10.

Introducing... - feat: Dustin Tebbutt + Olympia + Little May + Hannah Karydas Goodgod Small Club, Sydney.

8pm. $10.

Jaybirds Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 11pm. free.

Louis London The Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle West. 9pm. free.

Spencer Ray Duo Orient Hotel, The Rocks.

10pm. free.

Ultra Decorated - feat: 8 Live Bands Rocking Out! Valve Bar, Tempe. 7pm. $15.

Uni Bar100 Bar100, The Rocks. 9pm. free.

ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

An Evening With Joan Baez Sydney Opera House, 8pm. $110.

Bears With Guns FBi Social, Kings Cross. 1pm. free.

Jorja Carroll Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 7pm. $12.

Pulp Kitchen And Folk Club - feat: Live Rotating Folk Bands Soda Factory, Surry Hills.

5pm. free.

SongsOnStage - feat: Helmut Uhlmann + Michelle Benson + Jimmy Charts + Jon Jobbagy The Loft (UTS Loft), Ultimo.

6pm. free.

THURSDAY AUGUST 22 ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

Live Music Thursdays Bar100, The Rocks. 5pm. free.

SongsOnStage - feat: Peach Montgomery + Bonnie Kay & Matt Russell Forest Lodge Hotel, Forest Lodge. 7:30pm. free.

SongsOnStage - feat: Chris Raicevich + Paul Mcgowan + Ryan Thomas + Lucas Hakewill Ruby L’otel, Rozelle. 8pm. free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC Bob Moses - feat: Mike Nock + Cameron Undy Venue 505, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. $15.

Come Out Swinging 2 feat: Ray Beadle + Monica

Alex Cannings Observer Hotel, The Rocks.

8:30pm. free.

Elevate Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 10pm. free.

Isotonic Presents - feat: The Upskirts + The Ruminaters & Stone Monks Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm. free.

Ivory - feat: The Wildbloods + Raw Idiocy + Lil Smoke Valve Bar, Tempe. 7pm. $10.

Jimmy Barnes + Mahalia Barnes Enmore Theatre, Newtown.

6:30pm. $89.

King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard - feat: Nick Allbrook Goodgod Small Club, Sydney.

8pm. $15.

Lewis Bros Orient Hotel, The Rocks.

9:30pm. free.

Mark Wilkinson The Brass Monkey, Cronulla.

8pm. $20.

Simon Meli The Vanguard, Newtown.

6:30pm. $20.80.

Slumberhaze Low 302, Darlinghurst. 8pm. free.

St George Scream - feat: Theo Miller + Prhymel Forest Inn Hotel, Bexley. 7pm. $15.

The Beasts Of Bourbon - 30 Years Of Borrowed Time The Factory Theatre, Marrickville. 7pm. $44.

The Johnny Cass Band – CD Launch Rock Lily, Pyrmont. 8pm. free.

The Upskirts - feat: The Ruminaters + Stone Monks Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm. free.

FRIDAY AUGUST 23 ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

Dog Trumpet + Bernie Hayes The Vanguard, Newtown.

6:30pm. $23.80.

Jordan Miller + Little Fox + Jake Rollins + DJ S.Kobar Upstairs Beresford, Surry Hills. 6pm. free.

Live Music Fridays Bar100, The Rocks. 5pm. free.

Renae Stone Customs House Bar, Sydney.

7pm. free.

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7:30pm. $60.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Bang Shang A Lang Unity Hall Hotel, 8:30pm. free.

Blaq Paragon Hotel, Sydney. 7pm. free.

Carl Fidler Observer Hotel, The Rocks.

8:30pm. free.

Flux Rock Lily, Pyrmont. 10:30pm. free.

Greg Agar Duo Town Hall Hotel, Balmain.

9:30pm. free.

Guttermouth Manning Bar, Sydney University. 8pm. $42.35.

Hornsby Hotshots - feat: 10 Mile Stereo + Class 1c + Tyrant + Jack Man Friday + Vinyl Edge Ku-ring-gai PCYC Performing Arts Centre, Hornsby. 7pm. $15.

Hungry Kids Of Hungary + Little Scout Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $20.

Jamie Lindsay Kings Cross Hotel, Kings Cross. 7pm. free.

Jonathan Jones Orient Hotel, The Rocks.

4:30pm. free.

Josh Pyke Enmore Theatre, Newtown.

8pm. $44.80.

Lawrence Baker Quakers Inn, Quakers Hill.

8pm. free.

Luke Robinson Observer Hotel, The Rocks.

10:30pm. free.

Matt Jones Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 10:30pm. free.

Pete Hunt Cock ‘N’ Bull, Bondi Junction.

7pm. free.

Reckless Orient Hotel, The Rocks.

9:30pm. free.

Schlam - feat: Stellar Addiction + Burnside + Adam Gorecki Valve Bar, Tempe. 7pm. $10.

Supergroup - feat: The Wrong Keys + The Pharaohs Of The Far Out Town & Country Hotel, St Peters. 8:30pm. free.

Ted Nash Duo Coogee Bay Hotel, Coogee.

11pm. free.

The Beasts Of Bourbon - 30 Years Of Borrowed Time The Factory Theatre, Marrickville. 7pm. $44.

The Scam Engadine Tavern, Engadine.

9:30pm. free.

The Sleep Walkers Club feat: Sister Jane + Miners Of Pala + Borneo + DJ Nick Webb (Red Eye Records) + Sleep Walkers DJs FBi Social, Kings Cross. 8pm. $12.

The Trouble With Templeton Goodgod Small Club, Sydney.

8pm. $12.

Zoltan And Paul Duo Kirribilli Hotel, Milsons Point.

8pm. free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

4 Bars Of Funk Club Cronulla. 8pm. free.

Jazz Nouveau Revesby Workers Club.

8:30pm. free.

Sonido Venue 505, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. $20.

Vince Jones Camelot Lounge, Marrickville.

7:30pm. $32.70.

SATURDAY AUGUST 24 JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Di Bird Red Hot & Blue Penrith RSL Club. 2pm. free.

Hannah James Trio Sima, Seymour Centre, Chippendale. 8:30pm. $20.

Kriola Collective 10-Piece Brazilian Funk Band Venue 505, Surry Hills.

8:30pm. $20.

Victor Valdes Camelot Lounge, Marrickville.

7:30pm. $27.70.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS

Bang Shang A Lang Marlborough Hotel, Newtown.

9pm. free.

BNO Rockshow Crows Nest Hotel, Crows Nest. 10pm. free.

Cath & Him The Overlander Hotel, Cambridge Park. 7pm. free.

Dave Mason Cox Orient Hotel, The Rocks. 4pm. free.

Electric Anthems Trio Paragon Hotel, Sydney.

9:30pm. free.

Electroshock - feat: Cybridian + Futureman + Serpents Of The She Valve Bar, Tempe. 1pm. $10.

Endless Summer Orient Hotel, The Rocks.

9:30pm. free.

Geoff Rana Observer Hotel, The Rocks.

9:30pm. free.

Greg Agar Trio Northies Cronulla Hotel, Cronulla. 9pm. free.

Harbour Masters Coogee Bay Hotel, Coogee.

11:30pm. free.

Hungry Kids Of Hungary Small Ballroom, Newcastle.

8pm. $23.50.

Isbjorn & Richie Ryan Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm. free.

Juke Baritone And The Swamp Dogs - feat: La Bastard + Takadimi The Vanguard, Newtown.

8pm. $19.80.

Lime Cordiale & Tokyo Denmark Sweden Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm. free.

Natalie Carboni Northies Cronulla Hotel.

5:30pm. free.

Nathan Cole - feat: Will Teague Engadine Tavern, Engadine.

9:30pm. free.

Peppermint Jam Revesby Workers Club, Revesby. 8:30pm. free.

Pluto Jonze Goodgod Small Club, Sydney.

8pm. $12.

Polar Nation + Conics + Dumb Blondes + DJ Hobophonics Upstairs Beresford, Surry Hills. 6pm. free.

Rob Henry Observer Hotel, The Rocks.

8:30pm. free.

Shane Flew Observer Hotel, The Rocks.

4:30pm. free.

Stonefield Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $15.

The Beasts Of Bourbon - 30 Years Of Borrowed Time The Factory Theatre, Marrickville. 8pm. $44.

Josh Pyke

Oatley Hotel. 2pm. free.

Sydney Blues Society - feat: Christina Crofts Botany View Hotel, Newtown.

9pm. free.

JAZZ, SOUL, FUNK, LATIN & WORLD MUSIC

Fay Sussman & The Perogi Klezmer Band Camelot Lounge, Marrickville.

6:30pm. $37.70.

Peter Head Band Harbourview Hotel, The Rocks. 8pm. free.

INDIE, ROCK, POP, METAL, PUNK & COVERS Vanity Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 10:30pm. free.

Wonderbrass Oatley Hotel. 8:30pm. free.

ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

Puglisi + Daniel Hopkins Forest Lodge Hotel, Forest Lodge. 7:30pm. $15.

SUNDAY AUGUST 25

3 Way Split Moorebank Sports Club.

9:30pm. free.

Dog Trumpet + Agnes Kain Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 7pm. $17.

Live Music Saturdays Bar100, The Rocks. 4pm. free.

Peter McWhirter Campbelltown Catholic Club.

9:30pm. free.

Songs Of The South - feat: Matthew Hickey Band + The Snakemen + Black Joak Jug Stompers + Michigan Water + Bonnie Kay + Alan Watters + Gabi Brown + Russell Neal + Zelda Smyth + Tony

ACOUSTIC/ COUNTRY/BLUES/ FOLK

Intimate Sessions Paragon Hotel, Sydney. 6pm. free.

Little Sundays - feat: Stephanie Grace The Little Guy, Glebe. 7pm. free.

Live Music Sundays Bar100, The Rocks. 1pm. free.

SongsOnStage - feat: Andrew Denniston + Steve Clark + Juha + Russell Neal Red Lion Hotel, Rozelle. 4pm. free.

Split

Andy Mammers Duo Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel.

3pm. free.

Don’t Hit Ron Brass Monkey, Cronulla.

7pm. $12.

Helpful Kitchen Gods feat: White Knuckle Fever + Ashes + Curb Gladstone Hotel, Chippendale. 5pm. free.

Lonesome Train Orient Hotel, The Rocks.

4:30pm. free.

Matt Jones Band Three Wise Monkeys, Sydney. 10pm. free.

Rob Henry Observer Hotel, The Rocks.

8pm. free.

The Manhattan Transfer Enmore Theatre, Newtown.

7pm. $102.10.

Three Wise Men Observer Hotel, The Rocks.

4pm. free.

White Bros Orient Hotel, Sydney.

8:30pm. free.

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(4:30PM - 7:30PM)

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TUESDAY AUGUST 20

Bears With Guns FBi Social, Kings Cross. 1pm. Free.

Ash (Performing ‘1977’) Metro Theatre, Sydney. 7pm. $65.

THURSDAY AUGUST 22

An Evening With Joan Baez Sydney Opera House, 8pm. $110.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21 Ray Beadle And The Silver Dollars Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. $15.

Awolnation Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst.

8pm. $48.

An Evening With Joan Baez Sydney Opera House, 8pm. $110.

The Trouble With Templeton

Bob Moses - Feat: Mike Nock + Cameron Undy Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. $15.

Come Out Swinging 2 - Feat: Ray Beadle + Monica Trapaga Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. 7pm. $32.70.

Isotonic Presents - Feat: The Upskirts + The Ruminaters & Stone Monks Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach.

8pm. Free.

Jimmy Barnes + Mahalia Barnes Enmore Theatre, Newtown. 6:30pm. $89.

King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard - Feat: Nick Allbrook Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 8pm. $15.

Mark Wilkinson The Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 8pm. $20.

Simon Meli The Vanguard, Newtown. 6:30pm. $20.80.

The Beasts Of Bourbon - 30 Years Of Borrowed Time The Factory Theatre, Marrickville.

7pm. $44.

The Upskirts - Feat: The Ruminaters + Stone Monks Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach.

8pm. Free.

The Beasts Of Bourbon

FRIDAY AUGUST 23 The Mavericks The Hi-Fi, Moore Park. 7:30pm. $60.

Hungry Kids Of Hungary + Little Scout Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $20.

The Beasts Of Bourbon - 30 Years Of Borrowed Time The Factory Theatre, Marrickville.

7pm. $44.

The Sleep Walkers Club - Feat: Sister Jane + Miners Of Pala + Borneo + DJ Nick Webb (Red Eye Records) + Sleep Walkers Djs FBi Social, Kings Cross. 8pm. $12.

The Trouble With Templeton Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 8pm. $12.

Sonido Venue 505, Surry Hills. 8:30pm. $20.

Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach.

8pm. Free.

Vince Jones Camelot Lounge, Marrickville.

7:30pm. $32.70.

Stonefield Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst.

8pm. $15.

SATURDAY AUGUST 24

The Beasts Of Bourbon - 30 Years Of Borrowed Time The Factory Theatre, Marrickville.

8pm. $44.

Hannah James Trio Sima, Seymour Centre, Chippendale. 8:30pm. $20.

SUNDAY AUGUST 25

Hungry Kids Of Hungary Small Ballroom, Newcastle. 8pm. $23.50.

Fay Sussman & The Perogi Klezmer Band Camelot Lounge, Marrickville.

6:30pm. $37.70.

Juke Baritone And The Swamp Dogs - Feat: La Bastard + Takadimi The Vanguard, Newtown. 8pm. $19.80.

Don’t Hit Ron Brass Monkey, Cronulla. 7pm. $12.

Lime Cordiale & Tokyo Denmark Sweden

The Manhattan Transfer Enmore Theatre, Newtown. 7pm. $102.10.

WED 21st AUGUST

LUNCH BREAK: BEARS WITH GUNS 1PM // FREE

THE LAUGH STAND WITH MIKEY ROBBINS

+ PETER EGNER + JAMES COLLEY + RICHARD LINDESAY + ALEX WAISEL + MATTHEW MCKENNA + JAZZ TWEMLOW

8PM // $15

FRI 23rd AUGUST

THE SLEEP WALKERS CLUB: SISTER JANE + MINERS OF PALA + BORNEO + DJ NICK WEBB (RED EYE RECORDS) + SLEEP WALKERS DJS 8PM // $12

SAT 24rd AUGUST

DECYPHER US + SLEEPWALKERS + NONNE MC + JASON MATTS + CHAOTIC METHODZ + STEPHEN ARHIPOFF + BASKIAT 7:30PM // $10

HANDS UP!

DJS STAGGMAN & CLOCKWERK 11:30PM // FREE

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CHARLES MURDOCH Best Gig Ever Probably best gig so far 3. was the time I played at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid festival. I love heading down to Sydney to play, I feel I get a much better response down there and I feel comfortable playing what I produce. Cashmere Cat, Touch Sensitive, Lapalux and I were playing on the night. To me it was an absolute honour to be on the same bill as those guys, especially Lapalux, who I’ve looked up to for a long, long time.

Current Playlist At the moment I’ve been 4. listening to the new Jon Hopkins album. It has a great atmosphere and movement. To me every track feels alive and reacts differently every second of the track. I’ve also just found an artist called Teresa Jenee – I don’t know too much about her but there’s one song called ‘Tahitian Vanilla’ which, to me, has the smoothest vocals I’ve heard on a track.

Your Ultimate Rider My usual rider request is lots 5. of boring beer…but I would love to

What Do You Look For In A Keeping Busy DJ/Producer?

Yes, I’m constantly writing 1.

2.

I look for someone who is and trying new ideas, although I individual and creative, who’s not afraid to stick to their style and what they know best, and educate people on it.

have had a little break because for a while there I was writing every day. I think it’s important to have little breaks so I’m calm

ACID KISS

This Friday August 23, three of Sydney’s underground party crews who share a penchant for techno – Anomaly, Stramm and IF? Records – will join forces to host Acid Kiss at The Parlour on Oxford Street. Sydney techno pioneer Biz is the special guest and will be serving up one of his trademark techno sets of sub-bass-laden, bottom-end funk. Resident DJs Gareth Psaltis, Anomaly’s Jordan Peters and IF? Records’ Sebastian Bayne, fresh from a Berlin jaunt that included performances at techno institution Tresor, will provide the soundtrack for the rest of the evening, each interpreting their own acid vibe. Doors open at 9pm, with entry $10 on the door.

ASTRAL PEOPLE SECOND BIRTHDAY

One of the big movers and shakers of the Sydney party scene over the past few years, Astral People, will celebrate its second birthday on Saturday August 31 at Goodgod Small Club. Stones Throw’s Jonti (formerly Djanimals) will be performing live, along with Sydney/ Adelaide R&B duo Collarbones, Melbourne’s Otologic, Trilogy Tapes signee Tuff Sherm, Alba and Bon Chat, Bon Rat. Mike Who, Ben Fester and the Astral DJs will also be spinning.

There’s also whispers that further special guests may join the list of those performing. Doors open at 9pm, with presale tickets available online.

TYREE COOPER

Veteran Chicago house luminary Tyree Cooper will make his Australian debut later this month, headlining EK’s first birthday at Tatler with Simon Caldwell, Jeremiah and Still Moves on Friday August 30. Cooper has been spinning and producing since before you were born – assuming you were born sometime after the mid-’80s, that is. He has released on labels like Dance Mania, Cosmic Records and his own Supa Dupa imprint, churning out cuts such as the Kato/Diatribe endorsed ‘Wonderland’ with Denis Naidanow. “All music influences me

and excited to get back into the studio. I’m looking to start touring fairly soon, but hoping to get another EP out there and spread my music on the interwebs more.

see a gaming console, 20 Golden Gaytimes, a nice hat, 20,000 Fat Yaks and a half-pipe, with Kenny Anderson shredding and Dom Haddad from Millions to sing me an ’80s glam rock pump up song.

What: Weathered Straight out now through Future Classic

in some way so I won’t pinpoint to one specific thing,” Cooper recently stated, before adding, “but what I will say [is] house music definitely fuels my engine”.

Allday

ALLDAY

Melbourne’s Allday has released a new free mixtape, Soon I’ll Be In Cali 2, which is available online for your consumption. Having forgone a pro basketball career to pursue music, Allday has enjoyed a stellar year thus far. His first real single ‘So Good’ broke into the triple j Hottest 100; his Loners Are Cool EP cracked the ARIA Top 20 and he’s also played at the Big Day Out and in support of Yelawolf. Swish!

Allday’s Soon I’ll Be In Cali 2 collates 16 tracks, and serves as an appetiser for his forthcoming tour, which includes a support slot for Illy at the Metro Theatre on Saturday September 14

Carl Craig

MIND OVER MATTER

Sydney hip hop duo Mind Over Matter has recently been signed by Shock Records to their imprint label Permanent Records. The pair has toured with the likes of Bliss N Eso, 360, Pez and Drapht and previously notched up two LPs, with a third due soon. The forthcoming album features lead single ‘Real Life’, a collaboration with Melbournian vocalist K.I.K.I that’s been heavily supported by triple j. With the next single ‘Somebody’s Love’ about to drop, Mind Over Matter are embarking on a tour that includes a show at Spectrum on Friday October 4.

MUSIK MATTERS FT JAMES CURD

Jackin’ house exponent James Curd, renowned for his output as part of the quirky pop troupe Greenskeepers, will play a headline set at Goldfish this Saturday August 24. Rather than using the old Greenskeepers hook – you know all about their Silence Of The Lambs referencing song ‘Lotion’, right? – it’s more refreshing to approach this via a discerning perusal of Curd’s solo output. His hip house jam ‘We Just Won’t Stop’ saw him signed to James Murphy’s DFA Records, while he has also released on esteemed labels such as Permanent Vacation.

Curd has also completed remixes of the likes of Flight Facilities, Poolside, and Kim Ann Foxman from Hercules and Love Affair.

MOTION

Sydney’s foremost rare disco and ’70s northern soul night, Motion, celebrates its third birthday at the Hollywood Hotel on Saturday September 7. Regular DJs Northern Soul Poster Boy, Dean Dixon, Dave Fernandes and DJ Burn Hard will all be playing original records and working their way through their vast record collections. What’s more, this will be a free event – which you can’t refuse, right?

HARBOURLIFE 2013

Fuzzy celebrates its tenth Harbourlife this year with arguably the finest lineup in the festival’s history. Detroit luminaries Carl Craig and Moodymann will perform, along with Jacques Lu Cont, one of the many monikers of production maestro Stuart Price, who has worked with Madonna and most recently the Pet Shop Boys and is also known for his output under the guises of Les Rythmes Digitales and Thin White Duke.

Younger clubbers will be drawn by the presence of Art Department, David August and Finnebassen on the lineup, but it is the presence of the older hands that makes this Harbourlife lineup particularly special. For any neophytes, Craig oversees the seminal Planet E label, produces as Paperclip People and has remixed the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Theo Parrish and Hot Chip. Meanwhile Moodymann is an auteur of the underground house scene who conflates his radical views on race – often encapsulated in samples lifted from blaxploitation cult films – with soulful, jazz-inspired house soundscapes. Harbourlife is slotted for Saturday November 23 at the picturesque venue of Fleet Steps, Mrs Macquarie’s Point, with tickets on sale midday Tuesday August 20.

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GABBY

Growing Up Music was definitely a part of my household 1. growing up. We had a piano in our lounge room, so I would sit there and pretend that I could play piano when I wasn’t sitting on the floor hitting my mum’s pots and pans with a wooden spoon.

I have fond memories of performing with my sister in front of our parents’ friends – we would wrap up random household items in newspaper, then throw them out to our audience while dancing and miming the words to ‘Grease Lightning’...

Inspirations I take inspiration from the beauty that 2. surrounds me. Whether it is a bassline, a skyline, a colour, or the curve of a body. Music is the backdrop that shapes my story each day and lately I’ve been listening to lot of Mihai Popoviciu – his music is wonderful and I hope he comes out here soon.

Your Crew My crew here in Sydney consists of a 3. bunch of music lovers who, while being serious about their craft, don’t take themselves too seriously. This means we have fun A LOT. Since parties like SPICE and S.A.S.H started, I feel like an entire community of like-minded people have come together to celebrate music and good energy, minus the chin-stroking negativity that used to be prevalent in this scene. The

ANCIENT METHODS

Ancient Methods will play a live set at Goodgod Small Club on Friday August 30. Building on stints at Tresor and Hardwax in the late ’90s, Ancient Methods was formed in 2005. Such was the maturity and quality of their sound that rumours soon started circulating that two ‘famous’ producers were working under the alias.

However, it later emerged that it was in fact two underground DJs from Berlin, Baeks and Trias, who up until then were best known for their long running residencies at Tresor Club. Ancient Methods have since refined their distinct take on the darker side of techno, collaborating with Regis of Sandwell District and releasing on labels such as Perc Trax, Sonic Groove, RSB, Prosthetic Pressings and Fondation Sonore. They will be supported by Methodix and Stu-Har.

RAINBOW SERPENT 2014

The second round of acts for the annual Rainbow Serpent Festival has been announced, with plenty of big drawcards added to an already bourgeoning lineup. Veteran duo The Orb will be playing a special 25th anniversary show, ahead of acclaimed English producer Max Cooper – who has previously excelled in a similar environment at the Subsonic Music Festival – and James Zabiela. They join the likes of Kompakt main man Michael

RECLOOSE

Mayer, Italian techno don Donato Dozzy, Banco De Gaia, Berlin party boy Nico Stojan and Bedrock’s King Unique. Rainbow Serpent Festival is held in the Victorian outback over the Australia Day weekend.

connections you make through music are so special, I feel like I have the best friends in the world and that our friendship is untouchable because of all the amazingness we’ve shared together.

The Music You Make I’ve written and released a range of 4. different music over the last decade, but I am first and foremost a DJ who plays electronic music of the deep and weirdly beautiful kind.

Right now I’m writing and building a repertoire of music in the vein of music that I play, so I can start releasing next year. This has been the biggest and most rewarding challenge of my life so far.

5.

Music, Right Here, Right Now This is definitely an exciting time for music in Oz. The metaphoric bridge between Berlin, Spain and Sydney is getting smaller and easier to cross, and everything feels within reach for those who live here. Our local artists are continually travelling overseas to listen, compare and be inspired and the music scene here is reaping all the benefits. My favourite nights to party are when you have an all-local line-up, it can’t get much better than that.

Where: Spice Cellar When: Saturday August 24

Remember your first warehouse party, and how you stumbled in inebriated wearing a fluorescent vest, looking like a nervous construction worker who thought ‘warehouse’ was the theme? No? That’s probably for the best. After hosting some radical underground warehouse shebangs with the likes of beatmasters Funkineven, Linkwood, Mark de Clive-Lowe and more, Lioness Presents are taking over Goodgod’s Danceteria on Friday August 23. Once residents Edseven, Henry Compton and Fred Tectonic have your pulses racing and hands in-the-air-ing, Detroit native Recloose (AKA Mr “Pure Gold”, according to the people at Pitchfork who decide these things) will slam the decks, along with Aussie favourite Inkswel. To help you make up for lost party, we have two double passes. To be in the running, email freestuff@thebrag.com telling us who you’ll bring to boogie and why.

JEROME ISMA-AE

Ever wanted to travel to Ibiza, Brussels, Kiev, Prague, Vienna, Zurich, Sarajevo and everywhere in Germany? Ever wanted to play DJ sets for thousands of people, puppeteering beats til they’re in an all-night frenzy? Jerome Isma-Ae has done it all.

Since releasing his first 12” in 1994 on the techno cult label Delirium, he has founded the luminary Housemusic Project “Future Funk” with Marcel Krieg, and has been signed to international labels Sony, Warner, Plastic City and Electrolux. Isma-Ae brings his slick, progressive beats to Marquee on Saturday August 31. We’ve got four double passes up for grabs: email freestuff@thebrag.com with the name of the capital city of Germany.

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DANNY KRIVIT

House veteran Danny Krivit will play at the Civic Underground this Saturday August 24 as part of his first tour of Australia, which has been a long time coming. Growing up in NYC, Krivit started DJing way back in 1971, subsequently playing a plethora of NYC clubs including the legendary Paradise Garage. In the ’80s Krivit began producing, working on music for James Brown. Many decades on, he remains as enthusiastic as ever about his craft; a fact evinced by his overdue decision to finally make the pilgrimage down under.

HOOK N SLING

Popular dance music export Hook N Sling, who is now based in Los Angeles, will headline Marquee (located at The Star in Pyrmont) this Saturday August 24. Hook N Sling has toured across Europe and America, remixing the likes of Fedde Le Grand and Miike Snow. He is also responsible for anthems such as ‘The Best Thing’ – which reworked Boom Crash Opera’s song of the same name – and more recently ‘Reason’.

RETURN TO RIO

Tickets for the new weekend festival, Return to Rio, which will run from November 15-17 at Del Rio Riverside Resort, are currently available through the event’s official Facebook page. The location is well known to revelers at the site of the sadly defunct Playground Weekender. The Mad Racket, Spice and S.A.S.H crews will all be representing and supplying DJs, with the likes of Simon Caldwell, Murat Kilic and Le Brond all throwing down.

OUTSIDEIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

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The second round of acts has been announced for OutsideIn Festival, a collaborative effort between Astral People and Yes Please scheduled for Saturday September 21 at the Factory Theatre. Philadelphia’s Knxwledge and UK outfit Snakehips will be performing, alongside locals such as recent Future Classic signee Wave Racer, Elizabeth Rose and Willow Beats. They join the likes of Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs, Zomby, Jam City and Objekt, who have previously been announced. For more info and tickets head to outsideinfestival.com.

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ff the back of his Borderland collaboration with Juan Atkins – which is one of my favourite releases of the year – seminal German producer Moritz von Oswald has linked up with Norwegian future jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær to create an album entitled 1/1. It was recorded earlier this year in MVO’s Berlin studio, and features eight tracks of Molvær’s trumpet melding with moody synth manipulations. The release builds on MVO’s previous project with Atkins, as he delves deeper into jazz-inspired soundscapes. While this is definitely one to file under the ‘chin stroker’ category, that does not mean you shouldn’t seek it out – fans of Borderland have no excuse for ignoring this release.

Detroit luminary Kenny Larkin will return to Australia next month. A chap who remains as relevant today as he was 15 years ago, Larkin has released on labels like Submerge, Planet E, Peacefrog, and Rush Hour since his memorable debut. While Larkin’s 1994 debut album Azimuth is commonly regarded as one of the better dance albums of the modern era, he has consistently confirmed that he hasn’t lost any of his magic in more recent times, with such releases as his collaboration with Shlomi Aber, ‘Sketches’, and rollicking remixes of Inner City and Radioslave’s ‘I Don’t Need A Cure For This’. Larkin will spin at the Goldfish on Saturday September 21.

Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer will release a new EP, Turbo Semantic, on the canonical Perlon imprint next month. The pair has previously collaborated on remixes of tracks by Vladislav Delay, Tobias and Conrad Schnitzler’s esoteric piece ‘Zug’. This time around, they’ve added vocalists to the fray: Chile’s Tea Time and New York spoken word artist Azeem.

Information on the release is scarce at present, with a press release suggesting the EP will find the producers getting “all independent and rappy.” Whether you take that as a chemical-inspired, tooclever-by-half (or maybe by many halves) reference to the title of Villalobos’ 2012 album – also released on Perlon – or as a harbinger of the EP’s apparent hip hop sensibility is entirely your decision.

The Ghostly International label – home to the likes of Matthew Dear and Fort Romeau – will release the second installment in its SMM series at the end of October, SMM:Opiate. The compilation follows 2011’s Context, the first SMM release under Ghostly’s wings after the brand was acquired from the Ann Arbor label. The compilation reportedly focuses on “classical minimalism, electronic and drone composition, film soundtracks and fragile imaginary landscapes” while following a narrative arc and “descending through a series of stages into nearcomplete stillness, and then slowly ascending back to where it began”. (You get why they called it ‘Opiate’ now, right?)

Beginning with Simon Scott’s beatless track ‘Water Shadow’, the compilation collates material plucked from various

corners of the world, including the likes of Pjusk, Celer, Black Swan and Fieldhead.

Keeping with the theme of this week’s column, the Germanic husband-and-wife duo Dapayk & Padberg have taken a “temporary step away from the dancefloor” for their upcoming fourth album, Smoke.

Dapayk has been producing minimal cuts since the mid-’90s, and it was only a decade on that he began producing with his partner Eva Padberg. As a duo, they announced their arrival with the brooding cut ‘Black Beauty’, a melancholic ode to the gradual eradication of the traditional DJ modus operandi, vinyl. This time around, they’ve opted for what has been described as “glistening, singersongwriter-esque electronica”. Taking in elements from dubstep and acoustic pop, Smoke is said to bathe in a much more gloomy, string-fuelled sound compared to their previous work. “When we had the structure for about two-thirds of the album set up, we realised [we were] heading into some dark waters,” Eva revealed to a journalist she was sipping mocktails with. “I learned a lot about myself and the both of us while making this album.

Sometimes I was quite surprised about the dark thoughts going through my head, since I am generally not a sad person.

I think those songs were a good and healthy way to face that side of myself.”

Uh, way to sell us the album, Eva. But to hell with sunshine, lollypops and all that peaches-and-cream garbage – I’m a believer that the best art is born out of oppression, pain, suffering and despair.

As Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant once declared, “That’s the thing about negative energy… It can be positive. It throws into relief all the things you know you like. It tells you, by elimination, what you’re about.” And surely getting to the bottom of what you’re about, and what you’re afflicted by, is a prerequisite to making great art – or just living a genuine

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RUFUS RÜFÜS On Fire By Krissi Weiss we’d spend our lunch breaks playing tennis and listening to our favourite albums on full blast.

I’d say that had a lot to do with the general feeling and vibe of the tracks from a very early stage. When we were evolving the demos throughout the recording process, we were constantly trying to take ourselves to other places and worlds within our studio. The whole vibe with the music we were making during this time was for it to transport you somewhere unique, strange or exotic. This in turn shaped the lyrical direction and the emotive content of the tracks.”

Given that RÜFÜS’ music is so technically crafted, a little insight into their gear of choice seems only appropriate. “We were playing around with a bunch of hard synths in the early stages – an SH-101, an Oberheim Xpander and a Minimoog,” Hunt says. “But we were borrowing these off friends so we only had them for a limited time. What was really useful for us was purchasing Native Instruments Komplete. There were some really accessible synths and samplers which made a huge difference to our writing process, and allowed us to bash ideas out really quickly without losing the initial spark. We probably found some of the more iconic sounds of the record playing around with these synths as well.”

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We’re really keen for people to get their hands on it. The response while it was the triple j feature album was really positive which makes us even more excited.”

But what does it actually mean when the album Atlas drops? What does Hunt expect on D-Day? “There will be a pretty massive sense of relief,” he says. “We’ve been sitting on the mastered record for a few months now so once it’s out there we’ll be able to really let go of it.

While it’s all fun and games to be the latest industry fave, things can turn when critics attack, and although RÜFÜS make music for themselves, once you release something for other people it’s natural there’ll be criticism and celebration – often in unequal measures.

“We’re all totally ready for that,” says Hunt.

“The process of writing music is pretty personal for us and we write completely to our own tastes, so for other people to connect to it is a separate process entirely. We’re very open

ydney’s indie dance/dream pop darlings, RÜFÜS, have had an illustrious introduction to life as professional musicians. Multiple sold-out tours in Australia have been augmented by some seriously neat gigs overseas including a number of big-ticket parties in New York City. When we speak, James Hunt of RÜFÜS is preparing for their hotly anticipated album launch.

to critical reception. It comes with the territory I guess – mixed reactions are to be expected.”

Theirs is a dreamy and exalting flavour of music; it drips of summer and afternoon breezes, and their sound on Atlas has a lot to do with the locale in which it was written. “We started writing on a farm in Berry, where we would wake up to sunshine every morning and

The thing most notable with RÜFÜS’ releases thus far is their ability to channel the organic and freeform energy of dance music into the confines of an accessible song structure. “I guess it comes down to the kind of influences that we draw upon when we write,” Hunt explains. “For Atlas we were referencing artists like Booka Shade, Claude Vonstroke, Mujuice and Trentemøller amongst many others. By the same token, we really try to keep a pop sensibility and awareness of structure, and we try to pick our moments of conciseness and when to indulge a little bit.”

What: Atlas is out now on Sweat It Out/ Sony Where: The Hi-Fi Sydney When: Friday September 13

Chela Romantic Beginnings By Zoë Radas

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remantle-born, Melbourne-based pop sparkplug Chelsea May Wheatley has got herself a very appropriate logo, designed by friend Jo Cutri. Her pseudonym (a long-standing nickname) is rendered in 3D script with a pair of lobster-like claws at each end; a tropical vibe. But they also sort of look like castanets, which matches her ticking electronic style – and they’ve got blood on them, because Chela is badass.

Musical experimentation began early for the lo-fi electro girl, but she is grateful that she had a little more freedom to do so than her sibling. “My sister is an incredible kind of R&B soul singer, and growing up as a kid the focus was always on her. I used to write rap breakdowns for her songs,” Chela laughs. “I did harmonies for songs, all that kind of stuff.

It was good because I was never pressured like she was.”

to proliferate. “So I’m Filipino-SpanishAustralian-Irish,” she says, “but I kind of like to make it up. Sometimes if [I’m] out, some sort of guy would come up and say ‘Where are you from?’ as they do, and I’d say, ‘Oh, I’m um, Aboriginal-Egyptian.’ And they say, ‘Oh yeah, I thought so, I can see that.’ I like to trick people, it’s a problem,” she laughs.

There’re no tricks on the EP, which is full of pasodoble pop and Chela’s sweet, bold voice. ‘Full Moon’ features tubey blobs of synth and a wooden marimba-style xylo sound at its peak. She doesn’t slur her notes between words, and by cutting off each syllable creates this really present feeling throughout the track; each word is imbued with its own power instead of sliding into the next.

Her influences are as diverse as her heritage. From the bogus bio on her SoundCloud page you could be forgiven for believing all sorts of colourful stuff. It’s something that Chela doesn’t mind allowing

What: Romanticise out Monday August 26 on Kitsuné And: Chela supports The Preatures at Oxford Art Factory on Friday September 6

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After moving from Fremantle to Melbourne at 15, Chela’s tastes evolved. “I really fell in love with punk rock, and all I would listen to was The Hives and The Strokes and Razorlight, bands like that.” She then taught herself bass and played in a punk rock band, before curving towards the gorgeous sounds of her debut EP Romanticise. “I guess throughout my whole experience with music I’ve always had a place for pop music.

I idolised Michael Jackson and I’d kind of slow-play all his moves,” she chuckles. “So I always did want to dabble in that kind of music for a long time. Now I feel like I’m bringing that to fruition.”

Standout ‘Plastic Gun’ was co-written with Regurgitator’s Ben Ely, whom Chela met through her friend Emma Stewart. “She’s in a band called Wall of Mirrors; they’re brilliant. Ben’s in her band and he produced some of their songs,” Chela explains. The title track was written with her friend DCUP, and we can perhaps hope to hear more cool collaborations as Chela writes her debut LP. “I’ve been writing songs for [other artists’] solo projects for years, and even though I only came out with Chela last year, I’ve just got so many ideas that are waiting there and I can’t wait to share them with everybody,” she says. “I was just kind of looking for the right producer, and hopefully it won’t be too long before I get something out.”

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Chu - feat: Various World Bar, Kings Cross.

7:30pm. $5.

Coyote Tuesday - feat: Resident DJs Trademark Hotel, Potts Point.

9pm. free.

I Love Goon - feat: Resident DJs Scruffy Murphy’s Hotel, Sydney. 7pm. free.

Rumba Motel Salsa - feat: DJ Willie Sabor The Establishment, Sydney.

8pm. free.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21 HIP HOP & R&B

The Herd - feat: Sosueme DJs Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 8pm. free.

The Wall - feat: Resident DJs World Bar, Kings Cross. 8pm. $5.

CLUB NIGHTS

Garbage 90s Night - feat: Garbage DJs Lewisham Hotel, Lewisham.

7pm. free.

Salsa - feat: Resident DJs Ivy Bar/Lounge, Sydney. 8pm. free.

The Supper Club - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross.

10pm. free.

The Wall - feat: Various World Bar, Kings Cross. 8pm. free.

Whip It Wednesdays - feat: DJs Camo + Snillum + Jaimie Lyn Whaat Club, Kings Cross.

9pm. free.

THURSDAY AUGUST 22 CLUB NIGHTS

Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach

Sosueme Presents

The Herd

+ Sosueme DJs + Dutch + Bernie Dingo + Devola + Tai Daniels 8pm. Free.

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Balmain Blitz - feat: Various Bridge Hotel, Rozelle. 7pm. free.

Chakra Thursdays - feat: Robust + Brizz Whaat Club, Kings Cross.

9:30pm. free.

Dip Hop - feat: Levins And Guests Goodgod Small Club, Sydney.

8pm. free.

Hot Damn - feat: Hot Damn DJs The Exchange Hotel, Darlinghurst. 8pm. $15.

Kit & Kaboodle - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross.

10pm. free.

Miami Nights - feat: Jay-J + Husky + Liam Sampras +

Tom Kelly Goldfish, Kings Cross. 9pm. free.

Pool Club Thursdays - feat: Resident DJs Ivy Bar/Lounge, Sydney. 5pm. free.

Propaganda - feat: Gillex + DJ Moody World Bar, Kings Cross. 9pm. $10.

Rewind - feat: Resident DJs Sapphire Lounge, Potts Point.

9pm. free.

Starfuckers - feat: Troy T Australian Hotel And Brewery, Rouse Hill. 9pm. free.

Take Over Thursday - feat: Resident DJs Trademark Hotel, Potts Point.

9pm. $10.

FRIDAY AUGUST 23 HIP HOP & R&B

Low The Argyle, The Rocks. 12am. free.

CLUB NIGHTS

$5 @ 5 On Fridays - feat: Resident DJs Jacksons On George, Sydney.

5pm. free.

Alto Tango - feat: Resident DJs Zeta Bar, Sydney. 6pm. free.

Big Chocolate + Ldru + Paces + Linken + Theirry D + Typhonic + Electronic Chinese Laundry, Sydney.

10pm. $20.

DJ Tom Annetts Campbelltown Catholic Club, Campbelltown. 9pm. free.

El’Circo - feat: Resident Circus Act Performers Slide Lounge, Darlinghurst. 7pm. $109.

Factory Fridays - feat: Resident DJs Soda Factory, Surry Hills.

5pm. free.

Fridays - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross.

10pm. free.

G-Wizard Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 11pm. $15.

Mashed Fridays - feat: DJ Ric C Oatley Hotel, Oatley. 8pm. free.

Mum - feat: Mum DJs World Bar, Kings Cross. 8pm. $10.

Recloose + Inkswel Goodgod Small Club, Sydney.

11pm. $15.

Science Fiction - feat: Steve Hill + Gilly + Micky D + Tanner One + Luke Nukem AKA The Labrats Civic Underground, Sydney.

10pm. $20.

Soft&Slow w/ Andee Frost - feat: Aviery Jamieson + Pink Lloyd (Softwar) + Dreamcatcher (Slow Blow) The Spice Cellar, Sydney.

10pm. $10.

Soho Fridays - feat: Kronic + Skinny + Zannon Rocco + Fingers + Pat Ward

Soho Bar & Lounge, Potts Point. 9pm. free.

Something Wicked - feat: Audio Trash + Harper + Robust + Aydos + Oh Dear Candy’s Apartment, Potts Point. 8pm. free.

TGIF - feat: Resident DJs Trademark Hotel, Potts Point.

10pm. free.

The Guestlist - feat: Various Home Nightclub, Darling Harbour. 9pm. $15.

Unwind Fridays - feat: DJ Greg Summerfield Omega Lounge, Sydney.

5:30pm. free.

SATURDAY AUGUST 24 HIP HOP & R&B

The Alliance Tour - feat: Maundz + Fluent Form + Dialect & Despair + One Sixth + Mata & Must + Social Change + P.Smurf & Mikoen The Annandale Hotel, Annandale. 7:30pm. $20.

CLUB NIGHTS

After Dark - feat: Resident DJs Whaat Club, Kings Cross.

8pm. $15.

Argyle Saturdays - feat: Resident DJs The Argyle, The Rocks. 5pm. free.

DJ Sloppy AKA Shayne Alsop Mounties, Mt Pritchard. 8pm. free.

FBi Hands Up! - feat: DJ Clockwerk + Special Friends With Benefits FBi Social, Sydney. 11:30pm. free.

Gabby, Matt Weir - feat: Hannah Gibbs + Robbie Lowe + Murat Kilic The Spice Cellar, Sydney.

10pm. $20.

Homemade Saturdays feat: Resident DJs Home Nightclub, Darling Harbour. 9pm. $25.

Hook N Sling Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 10pm. $30.

Hybrid + A-Tonez + Ember + Katie Valentine + Ocean + Kerry Wallace + Samrai + DJ Eko + Fingers + Goodfella + King Lee Chinese Laundry, Sydney.

9pm. $20.

Jacksons Saturdays - feat: Resident DJs Jacksons On George, Sydney.

9pm. free.

Musik Matters - feat: Ben Morris Goldfish, Kings Cross. 9pm. free.

Pacha Sydney w/ Disco Fries + Dave Winnell + Baby Gee + John Glover + Matt Nugent + Fingers + Pat Ward + Jace Disgrace + Kato + Trent Ruckus + Dylan Sanders + Pablo Calamari + Backhanderz + E-Cats + Pro/Gram + Polina Recloose

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Ivy Bar/lounge, Sydney.

8:30pm. $35.

Pineapple Republic - feat: Shantan Wantan Ichiban + Mike Who + Señor Bolivar + Tropicante Sound Sistema + Ability Tatler, Darlinghurst. 10pm. $5.

Ritual Presents - feat: Fresh To Death + Main Street + 2 Busy 2 Kiss + Liquid Noise + Dostruction + Wrecks + Kinked Candy’s Apartment, Potts Point. 8pm. free.

Skybar Saturdays - feat: Resident DJ The Watershed Hotel, Darling Harbour. 9:30pm. $20.

Soda Saturdays - feat: Resident DJs Playing Disco And Funk Soda Factory, Surry Hills.

5pm. free.

The Suite - feat: Resident DJs

Sapphire Lounge, Potts Point.

8pm. free.

Wasted Years - feat: Chrish Duke & The Royals + Handball Deathmatch The Exchange Hotel, Darlinghurst. 9pm. $10.

SUNDAY AUGUST 25 HIP HOP & R&B

The Sunday Roast - feat: Andy Benke Beach Road Hotel, Bondi Beach. 3pm. free.

CLUB NIGHTS

Beresford Sundays - feat: Resident DJs Upstairs Beresford, Surry Hills. 3pm. free.

Easy Sundays - feat: Resident DJs Kit & Kaboodle, Kings Cross.

10pm. free.

Random Soul - feat: Yogi & Husky The Argyle, The Rocks, Sydney. 6pm. free.

S.A.S.H Sundays The Abercrombie, Sydney.

2pm. $10.

Soup Kitchen - feat: The Soup Kitchen DJs World Bar, Kings Cross. 7pm. free.

Spice After Hours - feat: Murat Kilic + Robbie Lowe The Spice Cellar, Sydney.

4am. $20.

Sunday @ Gay Bar - feat: Resident DJ The Gay Bar, Darlinghurst.

3pm. free.

Sunday Sessions - feat: DJ Tone Oatley Hotel, Oatley. 7pm. free.

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Low The Argyle, The Rocks. 12am. Free.

Big Chocolate + Ldru + Paces + Linken + Theirry D + Typhonic + Electronic Chinese Laundry, Sydney. 10pm. $20.

El’Circo - Feat: Resident Circus Act Performers Slide Lounge, Darlinghurst.

7pm. $109.

Recloose + Inkswel Goodgod Small Club, Sydney. 11pm. $15.

Science Fiction - Feat: Steve Hill + Gilly + Micky D + Tanner One + Luke Nukem Aka The Labrats Civic Underground, Sydney. 10pm. $20.

Soft&Slow W/ Andee Frost - Feat: Aviery Jamieson + Pink Lloyd (Softwar) + Dreamcatcher (Slow Blow) The Spice Cellar, Sydney. 10pm. $10.

SATURDAY AUGUST 24

+ King Lee Chinese Laundry, Sydney. 9pm. $20.

Pacha Sydney W/ Disco Fries + Dave Winnell + Baby Gee + John Glover + Matt Nugent + Fingers + Pat Ward + Jace Disgrace + Kato + Trent Ruckus + Dylan Sanders + Pablo Calamari + Backhanderz + E-Cats + Pro/Gram + Polina Ivy Bar/Lounge, Sydney. 8:30pm. $35.

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Pineapple Republic - Feat: Shantan Wantan Ichiban + Mike Who + Señor Bolivar + Tropicante Sound Sistema + Ability Tatler, Darlinghurst. 10pm. $5.

Wasted Years - Feat: Chrish Duke & The Royals + Handball Deathmatch The Exchange Hotel, Darlinghurst. 9pm. $10.

SUNDAY AUGUST 25 Spice After Hours - Feat: Murat Kilic + Robbie Lowe The Spice Cellar, Sydney. 4am. $20.

The Alliance Tour - Feat: Maundz + Fluent Form + Dialect & Despair + One Sixth + Mata & Must + Social Change + P.Smurf & Mikoen The Annandale Hotel, Annandale. 7:30pm. $20.

Fbi Hands Up! - Feat: Dj Clockwerk + Special Friends With Benefits Fbi Social, Sydney. 11:30pm. Free.

Hook N Sling Marquee At The Star, Pyrmont. 10pm. $30.

Hybrid + A-Tonez + Ember + Katie Valentine + Ocean + Kerry Wallace + Samrai + Dj Eko + Fingers + Goodfella

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Gabby, Matt Weir - Feat: Hannah Gibbs + Robbie Lowe + Murat Kilic The Spice Cellar, Sydney. 10pm. $20.

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