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An exhibition of work from Tasmanian designers, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Hobart Town Hall.

EXHIBITION 10 December – 29 January at Plimsoll Gallery, Hunter Street, Hobart AN INITIATIVE OF

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OCTOBER 1

COOGEE DIGGERS COOGEE NSW

OCTOBER 2

GREAT SOUTHERN BLUES FESTIVAL NAROOMA NSW

OCTOBER 4 - 5

CALOUNDRA MUSIC FESTIVAL CALOUNDRA QLD

OCTOBER 7

OLD MUSEUM BRISBANE QLD

OCTOBER 9

CARAVAN CLUB MELBOURNE VIC

OCTOBER 10

SPOTTED MALLARD BRUNSWICK VIC

OCTOBER 11

REPUBLIC HOTEL HOBART TAS

OCTOBER 15 & 16

CAMELOT LOUNGE MARRICKVILLE NSW

OCTOBER 17

LIZOTTES NEWCASTLE NSW

OCTOBER 21

RAD BAR WOLLONGONG NSW

OCTOBER 22

Vuadeville Smash Friday 16 December

Jed Appleton Saturday 17 December

Steve Poltz (USA) Thursday 22 December

Friday 9th 10pm British India + Empire Park $35pre/$40door Saturday 10th 10pm Remi + Baro $22pre$25door Sunday 11th 3pm Kipfler's Missile 8.30pm Blue Flies Monday 12th 8.15pm Quiz Night (Last Quiz For 2016) Tuesday 13th 8.30pm Ross Sermons Wednesday 14th 8.30pm David Wilson Band Thursday 15th 7pm Clubhouse Comedy With Dave Thornton (Upstairs) $20 8.30pm Dos Enos Friday 16th 10pm Vuadeville Smash + Guests $10pre/$12door Saturday 17th 9.30pm Jed Appleton Album launch With Guests Silk N' Oak + Kat Edwards + Sam Kucera + James Parry Duo Sunday 18th 3pm The great anticipators 8.30pm Wahbash Avenue Monday 19th 8.30pm Otium Tuesday 20th 8.30pm Baker Boys

Krafty Kuts Friday 06 January

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POLISH CLUB

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STEVE POLTZ

folksinger tour

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Wednesday 21st 8.30pm Ben Tasman Thursday 22nd 9pm Steve Poltz (USA) $20pre/$25door poltz.com Friday 23rd 10pm Sugartrain $5 Saturday 24th 2.30pm Sunday Soul Sessions - Funky Tunes In The Beer Garden 8.30pm The Catch Club On Xmas Eve Sunday 25th Closed - Merry Chistmas Monday 26th 8.30pm The Sign Tuesday 27th 2.30pm Beer Garden Party With Smoked Chorizo, Crunchy Bread Rolls And Chimmichurri Salsa With Dan Vandermeer Playing Live - IT’S ALL FREE 8.30pm Billy Whitton Wednesday 28th 8.30pm Tom Dockray Thursday 29th 8.30pm Tim And Scott Friday 30th 10pm Boil up $5 Saturday 31st 10pm NYE With Hobart Funk Collective $10

Secret Sounds Presents

The 24th Annual Music & Arts Festival

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New Acts Just Announced!

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News in Brief ALL IN RUINS

Some Blonde has spent the last few years earning herself the reputation as one of dance music’s best known sweethearts.

A pulsating combination of energetic performances and mainstage-ready music makes up the amazing paradise that comes with Some Blonde entering the DJ Booth, transporting minds and souls to a place that resembles an electronic dreamland.” Haha, who writes this stuff?

Really? Anyway, Some Blonde is a rad DJ, and she’s playing at the Observatory Bar in Hobart on Friday December 23, supported

by B-Rex. Doors open at 8pm, tickets are available from moshtix, or from Cargo Bar, Telegraph Hotel, and Observatory Bar. NEW YEARS AWESOME

RUINS are a black metal band from Hobart, formed all the way back in 2002.

They blend an ominous dark-death metal dynamic amidst their powerful, menacing and melancholic, yet eerily seductive black metal style; with a venomous, and summoning vocal presence. Their brand spankin’ new album Undercurrent is a new beginning. A re-examination of the themes in which they have worked for their previous four albums. They’re playing what promises to be some cracking gigs with King, including Friday December 23 at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart, Friday January 20 at the Newtown Social Club in Sydney, and Saturday January 21 at the Northcote Social Club in Melbourne.

Pianist, composer and arranger Tom Vincent and his squad of merry men are always on the go! Not only are they playing a spectacular gig at the Polish Club on New Years Eve, but before that, they have a new recording ready for release. But this isn’t just any recording, it’s a recording made in Durham North Carolina, with jazz legend, the one and only Branford Marsalis. There was a crowd funding campaign to release the album, which met it’s target with weeks to spare, so by the time you read this, the album should almost be out. All you really need to do now is get out there and grab yourself a copy of the Tom Vincent Trio American Album! And then head along to the Polish Club on New Years Eve for a good ol‘ grand piano jazz party!

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KINGPINS Launceston’s official NYE Festival ‘Royal Eve’ is currently ramping up to be the biggest NYE celebration that Northern Tasmania has ever seen. The relaunch of an already celebrated event is about to undertake it’s first year with the exciting event management and production company Vibestown. Vibestown are responsible for Party in the Paddock. So there ya go. A huge Aussie line-up for NYE see’s the likes of Blue King Brown and Willow Beats, joined by Taswegians Heloise, The Embers, Akouo and The Bad Dad Orchestra. Tickets are on sale now, so grab a hardcopy from Shots on Wax, or purchase online at Oztix.

“Some Blonde is one of the most promising young protégés to rise out of the world renown music hub of Australia.

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THE HENDRIX OF THE SAHARA! Fresh off opening the World Cup and bringing down houses on 4 continents last year, Vieux Farka Toure is poised to become Africa’s pre-eminent axe-man.

Vieux Farka Toure’s career in music would never have happened if his illustrious parent, African blues legend Ali Farka Toure, had his way. Ali felt that the music business was a harsh place to work and preferred that Vieux enlist in the army.

But young Vieux, destined for the stage, honed his skills on the guitar in secret and eventually found a mentor in Toumani Diabate, and his own talents eventually convinced the elder Farka Toure that a second generation of music prowess was inevitable. You can get a taste of Vieux Farka Toure’s amazing skills at MONA on Sunday January 1. What a way to bring in the New Year!

LIFE OF THE EARTH The Republic will now be hosting the Terra Vitae Festival event this January.

A fundraiser to support the Sumatran Conservation Cause, Terra Vitae will bring some of Australia’s premier reggae, hip hop and bassmusic artists to Hobart on Saturday January 7 for a full-day, dual sound system, rainforest-fundraising event. Headline artists will include Mista Savona, Monkey Marc from Combat Wombat, Johnny Hooves snf zVida Sunshyne.

35TH TIMES A CHARM!

Are you ready for the 35th Cygnet Folk Festival yet? Probably not. It’s too big, you can’t comprehend it until you’re there.

It’s definitely shaping up to be the best on record, and when your record consists of 34 other festivals, that’s saying something!

Sales have been breaking records, with tickets expected to sell out online before the Box Office opens, so your best bet is to get on to grabbing tickets NOW. The 2017 line-up includes over 100 artists and some of the best names in Folk and traditional music including American Grammy

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award winning country and bluegrass instrumentalist Tim O’Brien, young traditional Irish band Four Winds, Hothouse Flowers’ ex-lead singer and instrumentalist Liam O’Maonlai, Irish/Canadian five piece band The Outside Track, the legendary Andy Irvine with mandolinist extraordinaire Luke Plumb and the irrepressible Jaron Freeman-Fox and the Opposite of Everything. Don’t miss it!

RUM & JACKS Sydney quintet The Rumjacks have unleashed the extraordinary energy and passion of their third studio album Sleepin’ Rough. It’s full throttle, raucous and real, showcasing a thundering punk aesthetic intertwined with the group’s Irish and Scottish musical heritage. Having spent the last 3 months overseas on a 90-date tour of Europe and the UK, The Rumjacks are finally bringing their blistering live set back to Australia, playing new album tracks alongside fan favourites. This epic 35-date Australian tour includes two stops in Tasmania. On Friday January 13, they’ll be playing at the Royal Oak in Launceston.

On Saturday January 14, they’ll be at Red Hot Music in Devonport.

FAUX MO FAUX SHO! MONA FOMA is just around the corner, so that means Faux Mo is just around the same corner! The traditional MOFO after-party recently released the first line up of acts, and it’s heavy. First up is Black Cracker, the Berlin-based multi-talented MC, poet, producer, visual artist, and publisher. The always insanely awesome DJ Z-Trip returns to Hobart to rock a stage the way only he can. Sydney bass Queens Sippy will be here for the first time, L-Fresh the Lion and Spoonbill regularly visit the state, and they’ll be doing so again. Australian hiphop performer Dylan Joel will be on deck, Sydney based DJ Raine Supreme will be on decks, industrial-strength violinist Veronique Serret will do her thang, as will A Swayze & The Ghosts. I haven’t even mentioned all the amazing visual artists yet. Geez. There really is too much going on to squeeze it all in here, so check out www.mofo.net.au for all those details.

FOKI IT UP! The peoples organising the 2017 Festival of King Island have announced their line up, and it’s looking pretty gosh darn

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rad! Sitting on top of the list, are Dave Faulkner and Brad Shepherd from Hoodoo Gurus, joining them on the bill, are Kim Churchill, Shaun Kirk, Benny Walker, JAX, Tom Richardson, The Saxons, Tom Day, 40 Degrees South, Mark Porter, Rusty Falcon, Clare Woodburn and True Spirit Revival (Yoga Loves Music).

Tickets are available now, and selling fast! So to make sure you don’t miss out, head along to www.foki.com.au, and get yourself to King Island for FOKI2017, from Friday January 27 to Sunday January 29 for all the good times!

BEER, BEER, BEER! Beer, glorious beer! Beer Lovers Week will be returning in January with a massive lineup of events, both free and ticketed. From Friday January 20 to Friday January 27, beer aficionados and newcomers alike will be able to sample and learn all about the fabulous brew.

There are about 30 events over the course of the week, and all of the niftiest breweries, bars, cafes and restaurants will be taking part, so you should too!

Check out beerloversweek.com for all the details. The week culminates in Hobart Beerfest on Friday January 27 and Saturday January 28 at Princess Wharf in Hobart. There’ll be over 300 beers and ciders on tap, along with gourmet food stalls. There will even be live comedy from Dave O’Neil and Chris Franklin, and music by The Beautiful Girls, Kid Kenobi, and Daft Punk tribute band, Discovery.

BRINGING THE COUNTRY TO YOU

Shane Nicholson has become one of the mainstays of the Australian country scene.

He is even taking on the home of country, with multiple nominations in recent years at the American Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee. With a stack load of golden guitars under his bed from the Country Music Awards of Australia and the winner of ‘best country album’ at last year’s ARIA awards, Shane is certified as the ‘best in the biz’. Get your country on at Tapas Lounge Bar in Devonport on Saturday February 18 and at the Longley Hotel on Sunday February 19 as an afternoon show.

10 DAYS ISN’T ENOUGH!

Now rolling in to it’s fourth year, and with critically acclaimed sell-out events in 2015 and 2016 - A festival called PANAMA is excited to announce the final line up of artists appearing exclusively in Tasmania from Friday March 10 to Sunday March 12. Joining the original line up of Kurt Vile, D.D Dumbo, Koi Child, Jack Grace, The Stitch and many, many more, are: Big Scary, Emma Louise, Ngaiire, Gareth Liddiard, Julia Jacklin, Shining Bird, Flowertruck, Sex on Toast, Confidence Man, The Sakthi Ravitharan Ensemble, Ewah & The Vision of Paradise, Emerson Snowe, Kat Edwards, The James Wright Trio, plus late night Djs and late night cabaret. A festival called PANAMA has a history of selling out, so get in quick!

SHIFTING GEARS 2016 has been a year to remember already, even on the scale for a band like rock icons The Living End who have had an exceptionally epic career to date. Having released their ARIA # 5 album Shift in May, levelling their sold out major city national Shift tour, performing at the 2016 AFL Grand Final, headlining festivals around the country, and scoring nominations for Best Rock Album and Best Australian Live Act at this year’s ARIA Awards, they’ve now decided that it all wasn’t enough, and have decided to set out on a regional tour.

It’s not until March/April 2017, but it’ll be worth waiting for. Tasmania will only get one chance to see them, they’re ending their tour with a massive gig at The Odeon

Theatre in Hobart on Friday April 7. They’ll be supported by The Bennies. You know what that means.

SPIDEY-SENSES

Spider-freaken-bait! Lovers of great Australian rock’n’roll, listen up! Hot on the heals of a cracking run of shows in vineyards across the country, Spiderbait are preparing to hit the road again in March and April 2017, playing headline dates in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart. This time around, Kram, Whitt and Janet will be throwing it back to 1996, playing their third and most celebrated album, the seminal Ivy and the Big Apples, in it’s entirety! Fans can expect all 16 tracks from start to finish including some songs that have never been played live before! The ‘Bait will be finishing their tour in Tasmania, playing at the Granada Tavern on Saturday April 22.

Tickets are already on sale, so check out spiderbait.com.au and grab yours!

ZIGGY STARDUST With a name like Ziggy, we expect nothing but stardom for a young Ziggy Albert.

The independent artist has built up an impressive grassroots following in a space of four years that has led to some impressive stats. 13 million Spotify plays, regular appearances in iTunes singer/ songwriter and 61 thousand followers on Instagram all point to a rising star. Check Ziggy and his star at the Waratah Hotel on Friday February 3 at the Waratah Hotel.

BRING OUT THE VOICE

10 Days on the Island has released their line up for 2017, and as always, it’s huge. Comedy, theatre, music, artistic performance, it’s all there. The bill is too huge to list here, but here are just a few names to chew on. Charlie Pickering, David Hobson and Colin Lane, Hannah Gadsby, Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp, Lior and Grabowsky, Martha Wainwright, Luke McGregor, The Black Sorrows, The Kransky Sisters, Things of Stone and Wood, Tom Ballard, Tom Gleeson, Wil Anderson, and HOLD UP. MARTHA WAINWRIGHT? Yep, THE Martha Wainwright. With an undeniable voice and an arsenal of powerful songs, Martha Wainwright is a beguiling performer and a refreshingly different force in music. 10 Days on the Island takes place all around Tasmania from Thursday March 9 2017 to Saturday April 1. Check out tendays.org.au for more details!

PANAMANIA!

We all joke about John Farnham‘s comeback tours. Coming out of retirement every few years, “the Voice” must have an itch that he can’t scratch anywhere else except onstage. Just in case this really is the last time, your chance to see the man and hear the award winning voice will be at an outdoor concert on Sunday February 12 at the Cenotaph Grounds, as part of the Regatta Day long weekend festivities. Joining Johnny, will be INXS frontman Jon Stevens. Tickets are on sale now from www.ticketmaster.com.au.

BE AN ANGEL AND SAVE THE DEVILS

at The Taste of Tasmania New Year’s Eve party Get your friends together, transform yourself into an angel (or a devil) and join us for one hell of a party at this year’s The Taste of Tasmania.

• Special guests Kate Ceberano and Bustamento, plus local acts • VIP entry upgrades and early bird bonus available • Prizes for the best dressed Tickets on sale early November: thetasteoftasmania.com.au or the Theatre Royal on 6233 2299.

Proceeds from ticket sales go to the Save The Tasmanian Devil Appeal to support key research and conservation programs.

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OUT OF THE BUNKER

Is doing something different to industry trends a way for you to say you’re making this for yourself, and not jumping into the competition?

FROM A BASEMENT IN MADRID TO A STUDIO IN BYRON BAY, BERNARD FANNING’S LATEST ALBUM CIVIL DUSK HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING. AFTER ITS RELEASE EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE POWDERFINGER MUSO TALKS ABOUT THE JOURNEY OF THIS THIRD SOLO CREATION. BERNARD WILL VISIT US AT THE MARION BAY FALLS FESTIVAL THIS SUMMER.

I’ve never really been engaged in the competitive side of it. It’s never really appealed to me. All you can do really is make the best music you can make. Once you start using other people’s measures for what you can do as an artist to try to create something then it’s a slippery slope. You really need to be able to scratch the creative itch that you’re trying to scratch.

What was your creative or emotional “itch” for this album?

Civil Dusk was born out of your desire to reproduce the vinyl tradition: a release featuring a “specific amount of songs that wasn’t very long, but had that feeling to it like an album a long time ago”. Did you want the sound itself to be one that would work on vinyl as well?

Nick DiDia produced the album – we have a studio together. He made five to six Powderfinger records. He and I talked about it a lot. We weren’t trying to go for some retro sound or anything like that. We wanted to use natural sounds – nothing much too synthesised.

Generally, I like the vibration of timber - what guitars and pianos do as opposed to synthesisers. That was the sound we were going for: resonating wood, a really natural open sound. We weren’t trying to be sonically high end. We didn’t want to make it all sound perfect. If you can listen with head phones, you can hear chimes in the background and the roof creaking, and that’s all good – we wanted that atmosphere.

Listening habits have changed since the era of vinyl – today we log on to iTunes or explore SoundCloud, listening to just one song at a time. Have you found people have engaged with the full album the way you wanted?

You’re absolutely right. And people stream stuff at one song at a time, and put it in a playlist so they rarely get through records. I can’t do anything about that: all I can do is try to present my music the way I want. I think the songs are good enough individually to listen to as part of a playlist, but at the same time I would love people to listen to the album in sequence from beginning to end. That’s more the domain of hardcore fans.

It’s hard to keep people’s attentions these days for more than about 20 minutes. I think in a lot of ways, music has been devalued because people get it essentially for free now. They aren’t prepared to pay for it.

There are good and bad things about the advent of technology that allow people to record from home – it’s great that they can do it but it’s led to a bit of a homogenising of the way people produce.

People are using all the same plugins on their recording devices. There are standard samples and standard compressions people use. A lot of stuff sound the same to me.

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One thing did start to emerge after I’d written about 10 songs is that the songs were talking about decisions and their consequences. It wasn’t some huge profound moment or anything – I realised that was where they were all heading.

I liked the idea of looking at how small daily decisions can affect your life 20 years later.

You started the album on a veranda in Kingscliff before going to Spain and writing on acoustic guitar. Did Spain influence your music making?

I was writing it in a basement and there were no windows, it was just four walls.

I could have been in Devonport or Madrid. So it didn’t affect me that much. When I was there I watched a lot of Flamenco, but I deliberately didn’t want to put that into my music because I wouldn’t want to insult the Flamenco culture. I did have some friends who were Flamenco dancers do some clapping on Wasting Time.

So there are professional Flamenco claps on there, and that’s about as far as the influence goes.

Why were you in a basement, anyway?

That was the most convenient place – we have two little kids so I had to get away from them and wanted to make some noise as well. Part of what I like about being in Madrid is that I don’t know that many people. I haven’t played a lot of music there and I like it like that. I enjoy being a normal punter, and there’s no real danger of me turning into a pop superstar over there anyway.

Why have you only now started your own recording studio after a decade’s solo career postPowderfinger?

Nick was living in Byron Bay, which is where we were moving to. We had a lot of recording gear and thought it’d be a good idea to put it together into a place we could make Civil Dusk. It evolved naturally; now we’ve made it into a studio where other bands can record. Nick and I are working together as a production team as well in terms of me helping people out with their songwriting and Nick recording it.

What does your studio name La Cueva mean in English?

It means ‘the cave’. It’s a bit of a joke. It’s like the opposite of a cave – it’s actually really beautiful and really light. It’s a bit of a play on ’mancave’.

STEPHANIE ESLAKE Bernard Fanning will perform at the Falls Festival from 29-31 December. See more at www.fallsfestival.com.au.

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SHINING ON HOME-GROWN ANGEL ASTA HAS BEEN SMASHING OUT FUNK, POP SINGLES FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS AFTER WINNING TRIPLE J’S COVETED UNEARTHED HIGH COMPETITION FOR HER SONG ‘MY HEART IS ON FIRE’ IN 2012. WE SAT DOWN WITH ASTA TO DISCUSS HER LATEST SINGLE, HER UPCOMING HOBART SHOW AND HER EXCITING EP.

Although she is now Sydney based, Asta is doing her hometown of Hobart proud by producing fresh funk-pop hits with groovy choruses and catchy hooks. Asta has collaborated with a number of equally great artists, including her song ‘Dynamite’ featuring Aussie rapper Allday which made it to #46 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2015.

On Asta’s latest single ‘Shine’ she worked with Melbourne talent Yeo, which she explained as a pretty fun process.

really enjoy and love because I just loved the whole process of doing it. I’m just so excited to finally release a record; it’s just been too long.”

‘Well I had heard his songs before and I really liked the funk element they had and the space, even though there is a lot of music there is a good space in the music and I could just really hear my voice over it. I’ve always loved collaborating with new people. I reached out to him and I’ve been in Melbourne writing with him, it was such a great experience and I brought my friend Aurelia, who is a singer-songwriter who wrote ‘Dynamite’ with me, so it was really nice, the three of us working in Melbourne.

It was a great, short time; we did it over one weekend. I just can’t wait to write more with him! I’m planning to get back into the studio with him early next year. ‘

“I feel like it’s a really special time because I get to come down and spend some quality time with my family. I feel like the shows are special because I don’t get down there enough as well. It’s really awesome and I just love the locals. There so many memories that come flooding back when I’m down there and just having such a supportive town backing me, I’ll just never forget that experience.”

Asta is also pleasing fans by releasing an EP in early 2017. To date, she has released a series of singles, but has not yet put out a record so it is extremely exciting that Asta plans to release an album, even she admits ‘it’s been too long’. She assures that it will not only be filled with fun pop hits but an array of new groovy music.

‘There’s a mixture of songs on the EP. There’s the expected dance element which Asta would do, and then there’s a couple of tracts that are quite minimalist. There’s a good variety of colour. It’s still very funk, still very pop, it’s very soul so I think that it’s a record that hopefully, my fans will

It is quite a special affair for Asta to return to Hobart to perform a show, she gets to spend time with her family whilst also blowing away Hobartians with her music.

She has a massive Hobart fan base, and for good reason.

Asta will be returning to Hobart to play the Taste of Tasmania and assures it will be a fun show.

“I will be bringing the funk and I hope that everybody can be dancing, whilst eating! I’m really looking forward to it, it’s going to be a lot of fun and I hope the sun’s shining!”

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BRING OUT YOUR SUNGAS FOR SUMMER THE SELF-DESCRIBED PRAYING MANTIS LOOKALIKE OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMEDY SCENE, FRENCHY HAS BEEN BUSY IN RECENT YEARS RIDING THE INTERNET WAVE. CLOCKING UP TENS OF MILLIONS OF VIEWS OF VIDEO SKITS AND LIVE SHOWS ON YOUTUBE AND WITH OVER A MILLION FOLLOWERS ON FACEBOOK, THE COMEDIAN HAS MANAGED TO CONNECT TO A GENERATION ONLINE.

Humour is a curious thing. What one person may find as hilarious, another will find as offensive. This is the tightrope that Frenchy walks and has fallen foul of in the past. Lamenting on the chosen name of his online accounts, he explained why he would have done things differently.

“If I had my time again I would not call my Youtube channel ‘sunga attack’. I started it with my mate and we didn’t know what to call our brand of comedy and we both really liked wearing Brazilian speedos which are called sungas, and he was like ‘let’s call it sunga attack’ and I was ‘yeah alright that seems legit’. A day later my mate said that he didn’t want to be in it after all, just after I had done all the branding, and I asked ‘why not?’ He was like ‘well ‘I’m going to be a teacher and I think it’s inappropriate’ and I was then already a teacher said ‘don’t worry about it, it will be fine’… anyway now he’s a teacher and my teacher’s license has been suspended.’

Turns out that Frenchy in a previous life was a qualified P.E teacher, which he couldn’t get work for so ended up as a “jack of all trades” substitute teacher teaching students English, maths and even home economics. Outside school hours, he was working on his burgeoning comic profile. The two worlds collided after he filmed one of his skits at school with the kids as extras in it (though with permission from the principal and notices sent out to parents) which according to himself, “wasn’t even that rude”. However complaints were made by parents over some of his other videos online and he was dragged before the NSW Teacher’s Board and subsequently suspended.

According to Frenchy being a substitute teacher was a great training ground

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for his live shows, with the school kids basically being “little hecklers that you can’t physically hurt so you have to find a way to get them with your words.”

Frenchy’s online presence is impressive to stay the least. According to the comedian they are 100% the real deal and not artificially inflated.

“I do not pay for likes. I just make videos and then hope who see them come to see me live. I don’t even have enough money to pay for likes, I would hate for people to see the room I’m living in!”

His core support has come from home.

“My humour is a very Australian one and I have a very strong Australian accent that turns off a lot of people. I’m very proud of Australian humour and would love to do it as well as some people – there are some very funny comedians in this country.”

Frenchy has taken his Australian brand of humour recently to the Edinburgh Fringe and has been busy building a strong fan base elsewhere such as New Zealand and England. “I’ve got fans even in Brazil and Germany, I’m not sure how the videos got to them but it’s great... I would love to tour Germany one day.”

If you want to see if Frenchy crosses the line just type ‘sunga attack’ into your browser.

NIC ORME

Frenchy will appear at the Theatre Royal in Hobart on Friday December 16 at 8pm. Tickets available from www.theatreroyal.com.au.

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GAMESIDE ACTION NEW YORK PARQUET COURTS ARE BACK IN AUSTRALIA THIS SUMMER AND ARE EXTENDING THEIR VISIT TO INCLUDE TASMANIA FOR THEIR FIRST TIME, AS PART OF THE FALLS FESTIVAL AT MARION BAY. THE NEW YORKERS ARE A SHINING EXAMPLE OF THE HEALTHY CITY’S D.I.Y SCENE SINCE THE SELF-RELEASE OF THEIR FIRST ALBUM ON CASSETTE BACK IN 2011. A QUICK SUCCESSION OF RELEASES HAVE FOLLOWED, WITH THE MOST RECENT, HUMAN PERFORMANCE OUT AT THE BEGINNING OF 2016.

Andrew Savage, singer and guitarist in Parquet Courts, is talking from New York where is working on an upcoming show for the band. Besides playing at the event, Savage is producing the program booklet for the night as well as putting the final touches on his paintings that will feature in an exhibition tied to the event. “It’s important to me to have a hand in running how our shows go”, advises Savage.

This hands on approach marks Savage’s and Parquet Courts’ approach to the band’s music and positioning in the music industry. To date, the band’s records have been self-produced, artwork for the albums designed

by Savage himself and many of the recordings released through Savage’s own label: What’s Your Rupture.

“As a band we are pretty happy how things are going…

We haven’t ruled out working with a producer, but

it would have to be somebody that really brought something to the table.”

Of the latest album, Savage says ‘Human Performance’ is his most personal song on the record, a solemn musing on love drifting away. “It didn’t feel right to be shouting, barking,” he says, reflecting on his tendency to really sing for this first time on this album. “I think a lot of people are attracted to a sort of cerebral side of Parquet Courts, in the lyricism. There has always been the emotional side of our band, which I think has always been an important balance, but Human Performance marks a point where the scales have tipped. I began to question my humanity, and if it was always as sincere as I thought, or if it was a performance. I felt like a malfunctioning apparatus. Like a machine programmed to be human showing signs of defect.”

Physical formats for their music continue to hold importance to Parquet Courts. As Savage says “If you like the band, then buy the record”. Lamenting that even though online music streaming has opened the ears of many, little monetary benefit comes back to bands compared to vinyl, cassettes and CDs, particularly when sold at shows.

This trips marks the fourth visit by the band to Australia.

According to Savage, one reason for the trip is that “it’s winter back here in New York and summer over there [in Australia]”, more importantly is that Parquet Courts has “an ideology that we believe in touring as much as possible, and although making records is important, rock n roll is all about playing live.”

NIC ORME

Parquet Courts play the Falls Festival at Marion Bay. Tickets and further information is available from www.fallsfestival.com.

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Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier will preform at the Theatre Royal on Thursday December 1. Tickets available from www.theatreroyal. com.au.

ROCK REVIVAL THE TOURING TROOPERS THAT THEY ARE, DALLAS FRASCA AND HER MUSICAL COMPADRES PUMPED OUT 27 EUROPEAN SHOWS IN JUST 30 DAYS. HOWEVER, THE WEEK MEMBERS TAKE OFF BETWEEN AN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL TOUR JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE TIME FRASCA LOSES HER VOICE. HERBAL TEA ISN’T GOING TO FIX HER SORE THROAT. RATHER, THERE’S A DRUG SHE USES DAILY AND IT CAN MOST OFTEN BE FOUND WHEN THE BAND IS DOING WHAT IT DOES BEST: PERFORMING. FRASCA TALKED TO WARP MAGAZINE BEFORE A STRING OF AUSTRALIAN SHOWS AS PART OF HER BAND’S DIRT BUZZ WORLD TOUR. HOBART IS THE ONE OF THE LAST STOPS ON THE MAP, COMPLETING A TOUR CYCLE AROUND EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA.

Twenty-seven shows in 30 days is a marathon effort. How do you do it?

It’s actually quite amazing. It’s mind over matter with things like that, because it’s a pretty gruelling schedule. We’ve done it before, we did it sort of in May with another American band called the BellRays. I think there was a really amazing camaraderie between the band members, like Ugly Kid Joe, ourselves and all of the crew, we went on a big nightliner bus. You get to sleep during the night on the bus and then it’s just so exciting waking up and going ‘oh my fucking god where am I right now?’ So you’re in Amsterdam one minute, Paris the next. So it was just exciting and fun and I think that adrenaline is a really amazing healing device. Every single night you’re filled with that on stage.

What’s your stance on Triple j and Double j giving the rock genre love, in terms of rotation and things like that? Just look at the last Hottest 100, there’s this indie-electro vibe that is creeping in. Do you think a decade ago your band would be in a better position for radio play compared to now?

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It’s a really good question. I think there’s a lot of bands, particularly in my genre of rock that have had to go overseas, because they are not getting the support on that station. That’s not to say they aren’t playing a lot of rock n roll, I mean look at Violent Soho you know? Courtney Barnet fits into that category as well, and Dune Rats and The Smith Street Band and The Bennies, there are some really cool bands that Triple j are supporting up there. Double J doesn’t obviously have a bigger audience as what Triple j has. I feel really fortunate that we’ve gone ‘okay where can we go for support’ and we’ve had to get on planes and go to Europe. I mean we’ve had such a phenomenal time. I think with those situations we may have not otherwise been to Europe nine times in the last three years, so that’s pretty cool. I mean we’ve played at a festival in Wales only a couple of weeks ago and there were six Australian bands on that line-up. It would make things a lot easier for us in Australia if we were getting a lot of support but I’m very grateful for going overseas. Triple J do play our stuff, we do get played on the Roots N’ All show and things like that, but there is an insurgence with lots of guitar bands, which is very fucking cool.

Fuck yeah man, see you come from the same school, totally. These boys have got guitars in their hands and they’re playing from their hearts and they did really well at the ARIA’s this year which was really awesome and we support all of those bands. We are happy and excited that it is happening at the moment in the Australian music industry. History repeats itself often, you think even about the eighties where the synth was creeping in and all that sort of stuff, that took music to a different space which was creative and awesome, and then you had all your Nirvanas and those sorts of bands in your nineties. I think at the end of the day good music always prevails.

Do you think it’s disheartening that your band has had to look outside the Australian music industry box to be heard?

Thanks for putting Tasmania on the map. Are you keen to get down here and perform?

I think it would be nice to have more support.

It might be the case that when we put our new release next year we might get that support, you know? It is a difficult game because say if three rock bands approach Triple J in the same week with new releases then there’s only room for one of those to be added to the station. There’s logistics involved and everyone can’t be played and that’s the reality of it, but it would definitely be different for us in Australia if we were to get some more love.

What do you think bands like Violent Soho are doing for the rock genre? You must be ecstatic that they’re pushing rock n roll back to where is deserves to be?

So it’s just about riding the wave?

Well it is, but like I said if you’re writing good music then people are going to take note and there are opportunities. I mean Australia is quite a small market place. There’s 60 million people in France which is the size of Victoria. It’s a numbers game, and we fill much bigger rooms within France than what we do in Australia, just because there is more people.

We haven’t been down to Tasmania for quite some time, we are so looking forward to getting down there. We’ve got a pretty killer live show that we’ve spent quite a few months putting together before we went on the Europe tour, so it is running pretty hot now and there’s a great vibe. It will be our last few shows for the year so we can’t wait, we are really psyched.

MARK ACHESON

Catch Dallas Frasca at The Homestead in North Hobart on Friday December 23. Visit www.dallasfrasca.com for more information.

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LET’S GET PHYSICAL ARNO KAMMERMIE, ONE HALF OF GERMAN HOUSE OUTFIT BOOKA SHADE IS DISAPPOINTED THAT HE ISN’T GETTING A CHANCE TO SPEND SOME IN TASMANIA. IN THE COUNTRY TO CELEBRATE THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR LANDMARK ALBUM MOVEMENTS, HAD HE KNOWN THAT THEIR MARION BAY FALLS FESTIVAL APPEARANCE WAS THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN SHOW OF THE TOUR, HE WOULD HAVE FLOWN A FEW DAYS EARLIER.

“I was very very upset and I’ve had the wish to go to Tasmania for a long time. We’ve been coming to Australia for many times and I look at the map and always see Tasmania… Now we have to wait till next time to explore if we are invited back.”

Booka Shade have been performing live since late 2004 and first visited Australia in 2006 following the release of their second album Movements. In a genre that sees acts explode regularly onto the scene and often as quickly burn up, Booka Shade have been enduring.

“The most drastic development of change we have seen of course has been the rise and fall of EBM not only in Australia. The first time we really got exposed to this was when we were touring in America. Firstly there was the dubstep scene and soon after came EBM. For us we felt like it never hurt us in a way, as we are kinda outside of it.”

Arno has seen EBM as an entry point for a younger generation into dance music. “They have their first summers to EBM and then grow up a little and then they look for what else is there and come and find us.”

With all bands, the perennial question is if their audiences are growing old with them and dying out. Booka Shade appear to be doing better playing a mixture of club shows and festival appearances.

“We see our older audiences that first came to see us when Movement was just out, coming to our festival shows where we are playing not too late in the night, as they now have kids. In the clubs the audience I see is a lot younger and would haven’t been allowed to go out when we were here last.”

Even though the band through their own independent label, Get Physical, lacks a budget to spend on promotion, it is clear that their music has according to Arno been able to “carry us around the world”.

To clarify the show is very much a live one.

“Walter plays keyboards and I play drums. Walter has his synthesizers and the Moog and a lot of effects units so he can treat the music and a lot of controllers for the backing tracks. I have an electronic drumkit with samplers so I can trigger, plus cymbals. This is the same set up since we first started, although the overall setup has since become bigger and more serious over time.”

The current tour celebrating ten years since the release of Movement will feature a special touring lighting and visual show as added extras to the live experience.

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The duo steer clear of EBM events these days though.

“Many festivals that we played on have been very heavy EBM and it didn’t work out for us so well, so we don’t do that anymore. I think the Falls Festival is a very a musical festival and we will have good experiences.”

RAIDING A TOWN NEAR YOU BAG RAIDERS HAVE BEEN BUSY PILLAGING OVERSEAS FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS, BUT HAVE MANAGED TO MAKE IT HOME TO AUSTRALIA IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS LUNCH WITH THE FAMILY. THE SELF-DESCRIBED ‘ELECTRONIC POP’ DUO OF JACK GLASS AND CHRIS STRACEY HAVE BEEN KICKING AROUND SINCE 2006. FINDING SUCCESS ON THE ARIA CHARTS IN 2011 WITH THEIR DEBUT SELF-TITLED ALBUM BAG RAIDERS, THE PAIR HAVE CONTINUED TO OFFER A SERIES OF SINGLES PLUS REMIXES FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION

Fast forwarding to 2016, Bag Raiders were last around the country in June for a live tour on the back of their ‘Checkmate’ EP, with the lead single having featured the voice of Benjamin Joseph of SAFIA fame. The current run of shows will be showcasing the just-released single ‘Beat Me To The Punch’, which is a collab with US Grammy nominated artist Mayer Hawthorne.

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See Bag Raiders perform a DJ set at the Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Saturday December 2016. Tickets available from Oztix and the venue. To check out the guys before the show, have a listen online at www. soundcloud.com/bagraiders/.

Booka Shade will play the Falls Festival as part. For tickets and further information head to the website, www.fallsfestival. com.au.

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CYGNET FOLK FESTIVAL THE BEST WAY TO START THE YEAR (ESPECIALLY COME 2017- ANYTHING TO SHAKE THE FILTH OF 2016 OFF!) IS HELD ON THE HALLOWED GROUND OF CYGNET, IN THE HUON VALLEY, LESS THAN AN HOUR’S DRIVE FROM HOBART. THE CYGNET FOLK FESTIVAL RUNS FROM JANUARY 6 TO 8 AND WILL PLAY HOST TO A SMORGASBORD OF ART AND CREATIVITY, WITH MUSIC, POETRY, DANCE, FOOD, WINE, CRAFTS AND EVEN STUFF FOR KIDS - AND 2017 WILL BE THE FESTIVAL THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR RUNNING! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, CFF! 1

Every year Cygnet Folk Festival slams it outta the park, entertainment-wise, and 2017 will be no different. Coming to the festival this time around will be some bloody outstanding acts, like: The Embers(1), one of Tasmania’s most indemand live bands, wowing crowds with their eclectic mix of reggae, blues, folk, funk and rock, mixing all that up and putting out a high-energy, raucous live experience.

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From the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, The Bean Project are a vibrant French horn-led acoustic quartet. They blend folk, jazz and that earthy singer-songwriter vibe with fresh and unique songwriting - wonderfully, they’ve been described as: ‘the odd marriage of James Taylor and The Cat Empire.’

Hat Fitz & Cara(2), a dynamic two-piece, combine hill-style Gospel blues with old-timey flavour. They’ve stripped their sound down to simply vocals, guitar and vintage drums to give them that quintessential personality. Hat Fitz & Cara take those fab rootsy originals and blend them with powerful and soulful vocals, reminiscent of a time forgotten. Hat Fitz himself is a festival record-breaker, with eighteen straight appearances at Byron’s East Coast Blues and Roots Festival; Cara has toured Europe with Jamiroquai Corinne Bailey-Rae, and sometimes lends her hand on stage to the drums, flute and tin whistle, as well as vocals.

That powerhouse blues voice and fluid guitar style has earned Brisbane’s Hailey Calvert many fans as well as turning her into a festival favourite. Winner of the 2015 International Songwriting Competition in the blues category, Hailey is a performer of a wealth of soul, richness and vivacity, not to mention a hefty portion of sultry sass.

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Diamond Duck(3) grab mandolins, guitars, beautiful harmonies and an eclectic range of influences- from country to classical and everything between- and rough out whatever they please. From the Beach Boys to Bach, fiddle tunes to concertos, yodelling to 2-part gospel singing- expect the unexpected with Diamond Duck.

The inimitable, ARIA award-winning Tassie girl Monique Brumby(4) is a long-running fave in any given city, on any given turf. The indie folkster has been pumping out guitar tunes, folk numbers and deftly-crafted pop since 1993-odd. By 1995 she was supporting Jeff Buckley in Melbourne and Sydney! In 1996, she won her first ARIA for Best New Talent (she’d also win one in ‘97 for her single Mary). She released the much-adored selftitled album- her fifth- in 2014.

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The John Flanagan Trio are built on John’s engaging lyrics, uplifting melodies and warm vocal timbre, making audiences inevitably compare him (favourably!) to the like of comparisons to Paul Kelly. He’s been described as a “songwriting force” and will be joined by festival fave Liz Frencham on double bass and bluegrass virtuoso Dan Watkins on mandolin and guitar, who will no doubt add some gorgeous arrangements and vocal harmonies.

Claire Anne Taylor(6) has had quite the life; she grew up in Tasmania’s Tarkine rainforest where, she was born into her father’s hands in a barn. Later on, she won the Byron Bluesfest Busking Competition, setting off her career in soulful folk songs that envelope audiences with their raw honesty and power, with a captivating stage presence. Taylor released her debut album Elemental in March 2016 to overwhelming praise, recorded at Studios 301 in Byron Bay with esteemed producer Murray Burns (Olivia Newton-John, Mi-Sex.) Cygnet Folk Festival began, as you might know, back in 1982 and since then has been a beacon for free-spirited musos and friendly creatives.

People come from all over Australia to visit the festival. It all takes place in the town of Cygnet which only has a population of about 1600 people, so the whole festival is a wonderfully small-town, come-together, moveable feast kind of times. Really, CFF want to bring people folk, ethno, world, singer-songwriter, roots and acoustic music, dance, poetry and workshops from local, national and international artists- to make you boogie, feel, learn and love.

The festival- as well as live bands and performance- also boasts tai chi, yoga, dance and instrument classes, stand-up comedy, puppetry, Renaissance music, Mongolian throat singing, bush dance and heaps more! Seriously, you’ll be sorted no matter what you’re into.

They’re also keen to bolster interest in and awareness of folk music and associated activities, provide support and opportunities to young musicians, and bring the community together- the festival is a real treat for all the local businesses, too. Cygnet Folk Festival is also totally ahead of the curve when it comes to festival environmental sustainability- pretty important, I reckon. Oh, and you can totally camp!

Cygnet Folk Festival is a Tassie- nay, Australianinstitution that brings the madcap weirdos, quirky folksters, hippies, rockers, country kids, beach bums, polka peeps, mods and every in between together for a few days of whatever the hell you fancy. See you there!

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Multi-instrumentalist journeyman and looping beatboxing songwriter Mal Webb grabs his guitar (and mbira, and slide trumpet, and trombone) to join Kylie Morrigan (who’s played with Orchestra Victoria, Stevie Wonder and Barry White!) on stage for a feast of quirky tunes, madness and dexterous craft. Webb will be showcasing his 2016 album, Not Nor Mal. Liam Gerner(5) left family life in the rural Adelaide hills to travel to London, then the USA, to find his dream, and make his way. He returned to Australia in 2013 with his guitar, a bunch of blues-country songs and Land Of No Roads, an album cut with producer Eric Lynn (Ed Sheeran, Eminem, Lana Del Rey.)

For more information and ticketing, head to www. cygnetfolkfestival.org.

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sounding out the phonemes of the words that line the walls of Graphos, which say ‘around us everything is writing’. Those words are a direct quote… from a beautifully poetic work by the late Marguerite Duras … about what it is to be a writer and the process of writing.

Changizi says a similar thing, but from the viewpoint of the scientist: that writing is everywhere. I think writing is embedded in the world around us. So Graphos is the merging of the scientist, the writer and the visual artist.

They’re three different ways of thinking about writing, but they have interconnections.

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BRIGITA OZOLINS BRIGITA OZOLINS’ KRYPTOS IS ONE OF THE MOST LIKED ARTWORKS AT MONA. THE HOBART-BASED ARTIST AND ACADEMIC NOW HAS A SECOND INSTALLATION, GRAPHOS, AT THE MUSEUM WITHIN MARK CHANGIZI’S SECTION OF THE CURRENT EXHIBITION, ON THE ORIGIN OF ART. I TALKED TO OZOLINS ABOUT HER LIFELONG FASCINATION WITH LANGUAGE, 60S MINIMALISTS, HER RESPONSE TO CHANGIZI’S ‘NATURE HARNESSING’ THEORY, AND THE VERY REASON WHY SHE MAKES ART.

Tell me about your art practice.

It’s about exploring our relationship to language, to books, to the way we store and sort information, to codification, and to an essential mystery I see associated with the process of writing. [We have a] complex and paradoxical relationship to language. On one hand language is an extraordinary tool. It enables us to express our thoughts and ideas and our feelings, and to describe our place in the world, but at the same time it’s not an accurate reflection of reality. I’m interested in trying to convey that gap between reality and what language does. That’s where the mystery is for me. One of the key strategies I’ve used in my works is to promise meaning but also deny access to meaning.

Could you give me example?

In Kryptos, the walls are lined with binary code.

As you enter Kryptos and experience it more and more, you start to see there are some English words in amongst the code. There is this promise of meaning embedded in this code, that it’s not simply patterns of zeros and ones on the walls… but ultimately the viewer’s access to that meaning is denied. Hopefully you get a tantalising glimpse where you may start to question your own relationship to language.

Does that mean the artist statement is key to interpreting the work?

I like to think that people can have an experience in my work that affects them. They can have an experience about the work – a rich experience – without having to know my specific intentions.

People might go into Kryptos and say ‘oh wow, I loved being in that work’, but they don’t need to know that the text is from the Epic of Gilgamesh, and that it’s to do with a man coming face to face with his own mortality as Gilgamesh does.

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I think that’s an indicator of a successful artwork, and one of the things I like about Kryptos: you can read the artist statement if you wish, but really you can enter the work from any level.

And that’s my aim. People say ‘oh wow, now you’ve told me about the Epic of Gilgamesh, I feel as if I really understand what the work is about.’

But I don’t think that way. Reading my artist statement and finding out what I was thinking and so on may add some other dimensions to your understanding of the work, but I really don’t think it’s necessary to get that work.

I’m not sure if it’s the same with my new installation. Graphos is a response to Mark Changizi’s ideas [on the origin of art], which are very specific and from a scientist’s point of view. I’ve tried to create another experience that evokes his ideas but is also poetic in some way.

He tells us that language is all around us. We develop it because of our relationship to nature and the world around us. We see certain objects in relation to each other... we see angles and lines and intersections that then become the basis of an alphabet in any language. [However, his interest is in] the formal structure of language, whereas I’m more interested in the content and meaning of what we say.

I was drawn to Changizi’s minimalist diagrams in his book [The Vision Revolution], and the three large objects [in Graphos] come directly from his diagrams. The first thing I thought of … was the work of the 1960s Minimalists like Robert Morris and Donald Judd.

Yeah, I was reminded of Robert Morris’ L Beams when seeing your work.

It’s an obvious conversation that I’m having with 60s Minimalists. But my work’s created out of wood, so that’s my reference to nature and the world around us. The objects also contain sound. One thing Changizi says is that the actual forms of language come from seeing objects in relationship to nature in the natural world. He says the actual sounds of language come from the sound of body in motion in the world, and basically from three types of sound: hits, slides and rings. It might be the stamp of a foot, a body hitting something and the reverberations that come from that. I interpreted those things as quite percussive sounds, and so they’re the sounds you get in Graphos. I think they’re a little avant-garde, a little bit 50s and 60s. They have an experimental beatnik sound to them. But then you get voices intermingled with that that are

Both works have a really interesting relationship to the human body through scale and movement. That was something the Minimalists were doing too – L-Beams was designed to be walked around and viewed in relation to the space and the body.

I was thinking about the relationship people would have to the forms in the space, but I was also thinking about the dimensions of the space and the size you would need to command the space in a particular way.

But I’m also quite practical as an artist, and I designed them to the standard sizes that the plywood panels come in because it makes it so much easier to construct. It’d be really interesting to look at the origin of those dimensions. It’d be related to what the human body can make practically and also handle.

It’s similar to the standardisation of photographs and paintings. Why are they usually rectangular and hung in ‘landscape’ or ‘portrait’ orientations?

Yes exactly. So my objects work with those standard dimensions, which also gives them a sense of proportion.

One thing that I notice in your installations is a sense of excitement, play and anticipation.

I think that really works in Kryptos. In Graphos it’s a different experience because you don’t have separate spaces. It’s one big all-encompassing space. A number of people have said to me that they enjoy being in there, that it feels very warm and comforting. The wood makes them reasonably sensuous objects that you would like to go up and stroke. It’s quite different to Kryptos which creates a little bit of anxiety.

Lastly, why do you make art?

For me, it’s a way of thinking in three or four dimensions. It’s a way of realising my thoughts physically, and distilling a lot of seemingly disparate thoughts, or seemingly disparate thoughts and interconnections between ideas. Art can be a combination of anything and everything that you’re thinking and that you’re interested in. In art, I can combine my love of literature, my love of film, a phrase that I’ve read in a book, or heard in a film that evokes a powerful idea about something. It can combine all my interests and passions. It’s a form of thinking and understanding my place in the world.

LUCY HAWTHORNE Disclosure note: Lucy Hawthorne is a Mona employee.

Image: 1. Brigita Ozolins, Graphos (2016) Photo Credit: Mona/Rémi Chauvin Image Courtesy of the artist and Mona, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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DON’T APOLOGISE FOR GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE ARTS IN 1985, A GROUP OF FEMALE ARTISTS FORMED THE GUERILLA GIRLS IN RESPONSE TO A MOMA EXHIBITION CALLED ‘AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF RECENT PAINTING AND SCULPTURE’ IN WHICH ONLY 13 OF THE 169 ARTISTS WERE FEMALE. THEIR EYE-CATCHING AND WITTY POSTERS CITE DAMNING STATISTICS ABOUT GENDER INEQUALITY, SEXISM AND RACISM IN THE ARTS. UNFORTUNATELY, THEIR POSTERS ARE JUST AS RELEVANT AND NECESSARY NOW AS THEY WERE 30 YEARS AGO.

There have been a number of more local attempts to highlight inequality through statistics. Elvis Richardson’s excellent blog, CoUNTess: Women Count in the Art-World has been publishing data on gender representation since 2008. Last month, Elissa Ritson and Bridget Hickey informally published a running tally of the gender split in a number of Tasmanian art awards, noting that the RACT Tasmanian Portraiture Prize split is 83.3% male, 16.7% female; the Glover Prize is 92.3% male, 7.7% female; and the City of Hobart Art Prize split is a notably fair 46 % male, 54% female. I remember blogging furiously about gender representation at the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, in which there were a mere 38 female artists to the 116 male artists (in fact, there were about as many dead male artists included as female artists). I tend to keep an informal tally of most major local shows, and they’re fairly damning.

I hear a lot of apologies for these statistics, from the insulting ‘maybe the men are just better’, to the apathetic ‘well, they’re not the only gallery/museum/art prize to favour men’. But these apologies don’t stand up under scrutiny. We need these statistics published; we need to call out all instances of sexism and gender inequality. We should not apologise, make excuses or exceptions. Most importantly, we need to talk about it, make art about it, Tweet about it, write about it, and keep going until people are hyperaware of these inherent biases within society and are actually prepared to do something proactive about it.

LUCY HAWTHORNE

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PAIGE TURNER BLESSED ARE THE BOOKSELLERS, ESPECIALLY AT THIS DASTARDLY TIME OF YEAR, WHERE THE CHRISTMAS RETAIL SPIRIT LEACHES EVERY ECHO OF GOODWILL FROM YOUR SHOPPING LADEN PORES. CONSIDER THEM, HAULING TONNES OF BOOKS, DISPLAYING THEM BEAUTIFULLY, FINDING YOUR PERFECT GIFT AND WRAPPING UNTIL THEIR FINGERS ARE SHREDDED AND PAPER STAINED. AND SMILING THROUGHOUT. BLESSED ARE THE BOOKSELLERS.

2016 has been a devastating riot for many, with the death of a lot of pop stars, and Bob Dylan being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It has also been a year of fantastic new books and new reading discoveries. Some quick highlights from me include a baptism by fire into the world of comics and graphic novels, notably JW Clennett’s alt history of Tasmania, The Diemenois, Lydia Davis, a US writer and translator whose short stories and novels astound me with their simplicity and weirdness is a new favourite writer and Roberto Calasso’s gorgeous little book The Art of Publishing touched and inspired me.

Personally I’ve met some excellent writers both in Tasmania and around the region and I look forward to continuing my work with writers from Iran, India, Tasmania and Burma in particular. There is some astonishing contemporary work coming from these areas.

At Transportation Press, Tasmania’s newest publisher (and close to my heart, as I am Editor in Chief) we will be announcing two excellent projects early in the new year, but as a teaser; Of Wine and Words will riff off the ancient Persian connection between wine and poetry, and Smoke, an international microfiction competition, generously sponsored by Fullers Bookshop will be launched.

Around Tasmania in December, as the darling booksellers cower under piles of your Christmas shopping lists, a number of events are still going ahead.

On December 6 at Fullers in Hobart, Musquito, Brutality and Exile by Michael Powell will be launched by eminent historian Henry Reynolds at 5.30. Musquito, a legendary Aboriginal man was transported first to Norfolk Island then Van Diemen’s Land and became well known for organising against white settlers. He was hanged in his part in the murders at Grindstone Bay in 1825. This book offers excellent insight into Aboriginal resistance in NSW and Van Diemen’s Land. (pictured).

On December 14 also at Fullers Bookshop, Francesca Haig will be chatting with me about the second novel in her Fire Sermon trilogy. These books are richly imagined and action packed post-apocalyptic thrillers. Kirkus Review said of the first two that they “poised to become the next must-read hit”. I’m looking forward to this, especially in the face of the burgeoning new genre ‘CliFi’ – climate change fiction, generally post-apocalyptic. Other notables in this genre include Clade by James Bradley, The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau and Briohny Doyle’s wicked The Island Will Sink.

On December 15, again at Fullers, the 2nd edition of The Abels, Tasmania’s finest mountains, each over 1100m high. Hear from the crack team of bushwalkers that has bagged every peak as they give a studied portrayal of each mountain. Learn the best routes to take, how and when to take them, and find intricate notes on mountain nomenclature and history.

Celebrate Tasmanian books another way this Christmas with Tassie Books on Facebook. It’s an excellent way to interact with local writers and to buy local. Thoughtfully managed by author Anne Morgan, this page offers direct links to writers and publishers -www.facebook.com/ groups/celebratetasmanianbooksandwriting/ Some excellent news from Island, one of Australia’s leading lit mags. Not only was their Poetry Editor, Sarah Holland-Batt, listed as a finalist for her poetry collection The Hazards (UQP 2015), she won. As well, David Ireland’s The World Repair Video Game, published in Island in serial form and subsequently published

by Island as a limited-edition hardback, was short listed as a finalist in the Fiction category.

A new book, Big Stake by SJ Brown, the third in the DI Mahoney series is out. It is a cop drama set in Hobart. This book turns the spotlight on the damage inflicted by the prevalence of gambling in modern Australia.

Blessed are the booksellers and consider them, sweating under the stench of desperation and sticky tape. I wish you all beautiful summers of reading, learning and yarning.

RACHEL EDWARDS

If you have any book news contact me at racheledwards488@ gmail.com

OPPORTUNITY

BLOOD CALL-OUT SCIENCE GALLERY MELBOURNE HAS CALLED FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE EXHIBITION, ‘BLOOD: NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED’. IT WILL BE HELD IN LOCATIONS AROUND MELBOURNE AND LONDON NEXT YEAR. Submissions are welcome from anyone in the arts, science, and design communities. The exhibition aims to explore the scientific, symbolic and strange nature of blood. Science Gallery Creative Director, Dr Ryan Jefferies, points out, “blood is literally at the heart of everyone’s lives and we will be delving deep into the theme, including exploring diseases of blood, racial identity and the taboo of menstruation.”

Submissions close January 8, 2017.

For more details visit opencall.sciencegallery.com Image: Bloodletting (folio detail) (c.1270)

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ARTS IN PARKS – MARIA ISLAND THE ARTS IN PARKS SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF ARTS TASMANIA’S WILDERNESS RESIDENCY PROGRAM. THEY ARE LOCATED IN EACH OF THE NATIONAL PARKS THAT REGULARLY PLAY HOST TO ARTISTS, INCLUDING CRADLE MOUNTAIN, BRUNY ISLAND, AND LAKE ST CLAIR.

The Maria Island iteration, which is held in the island’s historic former chapel, demonstrates the breadth of creative expression inspired by our national parks, from Christl Berg’s video to Gwen Egg and Tanya Maxwell’s collaborative woven objects.

Fiona Fraser’s series of prints from her 2009 residency capture the island’s contradictions through split imagery.

Maria Island is well known for its stunning natural landscape – the turquoise waters, insurance population of Tasmanian Devils, and impressive mountain feature on tourism ads and billboards around the country.

However, Maria’s also a former penal colony, and has played host to various industries over the years (from wine and silk worm production to a cement factory) that seem incongruous with its current green, animal-friendly image. The town of Darlington, now home only to park rangers (and the occasional visiting artist), is dotted with colonial buildings, modern ruins and rusty relics of a premechanical age, resulting in what I can best describe as an uneasy post-pastoral landscape populated with rotund wombats and Cape Barren Geese. Fraser’s work pairs the island’s built environment, such as the crumbling cement towers and former convict shed, with elements from the natural landscape. Water streams from the shed’s tiny window, a tidal stream leads to the door of a squat 22

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colonial building, and branches grow downwards from the now ruined Grand Hotel. Hanging like banners, Fraser’s work cleverly uses the language of advertising and commercialisation to convey the intriguing and conflicting relationships between past and present, tourism and conservation, and the built and natural environments.

Serena Rosevear’s One Year and One Day (2016) is one of the most recent works in the exhibition. The array of tiny clay vessels upon a bed-like wire structure remind me of the small mounds of smashed bird eggs I saw earlier amongst the old machinery in the convict shed – victims of precarious high beam living. The artist has sourced the clay from the island and fired them on-site, so it’s no wonder that the colours of the white, red, and black-fired clay echo those of the Darlington area: the convict bricks, the whitewashed buildings, the earth, the abandoned fire sites in the camping area, and the rusted machinery. I would love to see them exhibited outside amongst all the other colours, textures and forms in the landscape.

Christl Berg’s Stratagram combines ghost-like representations of objects with schematic drawings. It was originally produced as a photogram in the chapel in 2000 and then reworked again in 2012. Like Fraser’s photographs, it’s presented like a banner or map. My reason for visiting Maria Island is to take part in a 12-hour

rogaine – a kind of rogue orienteering that uses coded and finely patterned maps – and it’s interesting how Berg’s more recent works on paper, Walking on Air (2016), have uncannily similar marks.

A couple of months ago, I dropped into the Lake St Clair iteration of Arts in Parks on the way to The Unconformity festival. The work is wonderful, but the display is disappointing. The artworks are tucked away in the corner of the visitor centre, and the ramp access makes it impossible to view the works properly. The Maria Island exhibition gives the artworks a little more space and respect, but at the time of visiting, a couple of the prints have fallen down and Berg’s video isn’t working. I acknowledge that the national park visitor centres aren’t necessarily designed to be contemporary art galleries, but I also wonder why more works aren’t installed outdoors. Of the two Arts in Parks exhibitions I’ve seen so far, only one work has been sited outside in the landscape itself: Gwen Egg’s woven sculpture on the bank of Darlington’s tidal stream.

The wilderness residency program is terrific, and tends to attract many artists who work not only on the subject of the environment, but also within it. Considering the enduring popularity of site-specific environmental art in Tasmania, it seems like a lost opportunity not to use the landscape as an exhibition space in itself.

LUCY HAWTHORNE Arts in Parks- Maria Island Maria Island Chapel Darlington, Maria Island September 23 2016 – March 30 2017.

Images: 1,3 & 4. Maria Island.

2. Fiona Fraser, Circadian Rhythms (2010) 5. Serena Rosevear One Year and One Day (2016) Photo credits: Lucy Hawthorne.

Arts

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performing arts

Guide

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South 146 Artspace December 2 - January 12 Limited Edition Bett Gallery Until Dec 2 Peter James Smith - For the Call of the Running Tide Until Dec 12 Sara Maher - Of the half-light Until Dec 12 Rosie Hastie - The Elsewhere Colville Gallery Until Dec 14 Stephen Lees - Cradle to Cradle Dec 16 Annual Artists Show Handmark Gallery Until Dec 5 Hilton Owen - New Paintings Dec 9 - Jan 9 Shauna Mayben - New Jewellery Rosny Barn Schoolhouse Gallery Until Dec 4 A Stitch in Time: Biennial Textile and Fibre Exhibition Dec 9 - Jan 8 Still Wild, Still Threatened Despard Gallery Dec 18 Peter Prasil and Sebastian Galloway Dec 21 - Feb 5 Summer Show 16/17 - Despard Gallery High-lights Salamanca Arts Centre Top Gallery Until Jan 3 Holiday Inn Cambodia Studio Gallery Dec 9 - Jan 30 Per Mare (By Sea)

Long Gallery Dec 8 - Dec 14 Not Just Paint Dec 16 - Jan 4 Images of Tasmania 19 Moonah Arts Centre Until Dec 17 Decoding Visual Excess TMAG Dec 9 - May 5 Kanalaritja: An Unbroken String Dec 16 - Mar 19 One hell of an inferno: The 1967 Tasmanian bushfires

NORTH QVMAG Until Jan 29 Udo Sellback - And Still I See It Handmark Evandale Dec 4 - Jan 2 Handmark Artists - Summer Exhibition Burnie Regional Gallery Until Dec 11 RACT Insurance Tasmanian Portraiture Prize Until Dec 11 Burnie Athletics Club: 130th Anniversary Exhibition Devonport Regional Gallery Until Jan 2017 Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award

SOUTH

NORTH

COMEDY

COMEDY

The Polish Corner Dec 7 Ethel Chop Dec 14 Michael Williams Dec 16 Judith Lucy & Tony Martin Special Event Dec 21 Denise Scott

Royal Oak Dec 16 Fresh Comedy Christmas Special - Dave Thorton, Rachael Berger, Chris Franklin THEATRE

Republic Bar Dec 8 Richard Stubbs

Earl Arts Centre Dec 1 Christmas & The Arts Trivia Night

Theatre Royal Dec 8 Alex Williamson - Open Up Dec 14 - Dec 14 Em Rusciano - The Try Hard Tour Dec 16 Frenchy - World’s Worst Adult

Princess Theatre Dec 5 - Dec 7 The Magic Lamp Dec 9 - Dec 10 The Sleeping Beauty Dec 17 UTAS Graduation Ceremonies

THEATRE Theatre Royal Until Dec 3 The Bull, The Moon, And The Coronet of Stars Dec 2 Siam Daughter Dec 3 Get Happy Dec 10 Christmas Spectacular Theatre Royal Backspace Dec 10 Theatresports 2016 Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery Dec 4 pARTicipate Peacock Theatre Until Dec 3 Assassins

Gallery Pejean Until Dec 3 Kate Piekutowski: Midnight in Paris Dec 7 - Jan 7 Director’s Choice

Sidespace Gallery Dec 2 - Dec 14 Evanesce Dec 16 - Jan 4 Images of Tasmania 19

WARP RECOMMENDS

AL YOUNG AL YOUNG DANCES WHILE HE PAINTS. IT’S LITTLE WONDER THAT HIS PAINTINGS HAVE A BRILLIANT ENERGY TO THEM. THEY’RE CELEBRATORY IN THEIR COLOUR AND THRILLINGLY DISORIENTING IN COMPOSITION. His new exhibition at Moonah Arts Centre this December, Dance Like Everybody is Watching, takes its title from an article written by the late disability advocate Stella Young.

It’s a direct response to her argument that everyone has a right to enjoy dancing publically – a notion shared by the painter who has a rare movement disorder that he says gives him ‘a particular kind of energy’. It’s fitting then that this painting show will be accompanied by a music soundtrack so you can dance your way through the gallery.

Al Young Dance Like Everybody is Watching December 2 – December 17 2016 Moonah Arts Centre Images: Left: Al Young, Dance in the House (2016).

Right: Al Young, Robo Cop (2015) Image courtesy of the artist.

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Hobart Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Date

December Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

24

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Birdcage Bar

Eloise & Aaron 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Hitchin n Bitchin Sunday

11

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Republic Bar & Café

Remi + Baro 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Ado & Devo / Seretonin

The Whaler

Ruben Reeves 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Finn & Helen 7:30pm

Cargo Bar

DJ Dez

Grand Poobah

Darren Hanlon X-Mas Show with Jensen

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Black Barrel

Cargo Bar

DJ Dez

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Republic Bar & Café

Back Pocket Groove 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Kipfler’s Missile 3pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Ruben Reeves 3pm Dynomite Drew 5pm

Republic Bar & Café

Blue Flies 8:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Sunday Session: Craicpot

Waterman’s Beer Market

Zac Henderson 3pm Dynomite Drew 5pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Emily 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 7:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin’ Blues) 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Quiz Night (Last Quiz for 2016) 8:15pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo 8:30pm

Duke of Wellington

DUKE OPEN MIC

Monday

12

Tuesday

13

Wrest Point Tasman Room

The Monkees

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Duke of Wellington

BLUES CLUB - The Ross Sermons Band

Comedy Show with James G Warren: Palatable 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Ross Sermons 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Montz Matsumoto 8:30pm

The Westend Pumphouse

Michael Priest 6:30pm

The Westend Pumphouse

Billy Whitton 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Aaron 8:30pm DJ Johnny G

Wednesday

14

Birdcage Bar

Lisa Pilkington 8:30pm

Cargo Bar

Cargo Bar

Tim Hibberd

Duke of Wellington

The Duke Quiz

Duke of Wellington

The Duke Quiz

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Grand Poobah

Milo Bean Band (Album Launch), Ben Lawless, Seth Henderson, Kowl, Dougie D & The Disco Queens

Republic Bar & Café

David Wilson Band 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Clouds on Mars + Boons Olive Church + Two Drunken Swordsmen

Thursday

15

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Café

120y’s 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

Cargo Bar

Micheal Clennett

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams

Cargo Bar

Micheal Clennett

Grand Poobah

Emlyn and friends in the Kissing Room

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Hoop Dreams & Soft Cat

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Republic Bar & Café

Dos Enos 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

8 Ball Aitken 8:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Jerome Hillier 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Attack of the Psychedelics

Brisbane Hotel

Front - DANGER&PLASTIC (Vic) + The Midways + Ultra Martian

Cargo Bar

Millhouse

Brisbane Hotel

Back - Knife Hands + Ride The Tiger + Between The Lions

Grand Poobah

Chupacabra & DJ Estavia in the Main Room

Cargo Bar

Millhouse

Grand Poobah

Dan’s Psy Gig in the Kissing Room

Casino Bar (Wrest Point)

Tim & Scott 9pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Grand Poobah

Surreal Estate Agents, White Rose Project & Bad Beef in the Main Room

Republic Bar & Café

Vaudeville Smash + Guests 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby / Big Swifty

Grand Poobah

Sarah Chadwick/ Ela Stiles double LP Launch with The Native Cats, Comrad Xero & Rainbow Trout

The Westend Pumphouse

Anita Cairns 8pm

The Whaler

Dylan Eynon, Billy & Jamie 7:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Silk N’ Oak (Trio) 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES 3pm till 7pm. 18+ 9pm till late - FORTAY AT LARGE feat. REDBAK (SYD) - Hosted by Jimmy The Junkie Supported by DRAE CLICHE (SYD) + MITCHOS DA MENACE feat. KOZER (SYD) + DUNN D & GREELEY + WOMBAT & FLYLACINE + PHEX ROYL

Friday

16

Hobart Twilight Market

Live Music 4pm

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Republic Bar & Café

British India + Empire Park 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Homestead

Broken Things Presents: Safire + Piglet, Bonsai, Max Power, Rola

The Westend Pumphouse

Nick Machin 8pm

The Whaler

Jensen 9:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Kyle Taylor (Album Launch) + Ella McAlpine & Mitch Brown 6pm

Late Night Krackieoke w/ The Fibonacci Sequents MCs

Brisbane Hotel

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 9pm

Front - Discask (Vic) + Ironhawk + Roma Antica

Brisbane Hotel

Space Bong (SA) + Weak As Piss + Axe Giant + Morton Stone + Crypt Vapour

Cargo Bar

Millhouse

Grand Poobah

Dane Certificate Magic Show

Cargo Bar

Millhouse

Grand Poobah

The SnB Sessions with Will & Hugh

Casino Bar (Wrest Point)

Matt Edmunds 9:30pmpm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Grand Poobah

Honey Dijon with Bronze Savage & Rainbow Trout

Republic Bar & Café

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Jed Appleton Album Launch with Guests Silk N’ Oak + Kat Edwards + Sam Kucera + James Parry Duo 9:30pm

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Sunday

Monday Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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19 20

21

22

23

24

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Telegraph Hotel

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys

The Whaler

Ruben Reeves 9pm

The Whaler

Ruben Reeves 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Fiona Whitla 7:30pm

Sunday

25

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Bingo w/ The Ramblin Butter Beer Boozer

Monday

26

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Randal 7:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Scrotal Vice (Syd) + Al’s Toy Barn + Suns Of Solemn + The Dreggs

Brisbane Hotel

Boxing Day Bash w/ A Swayze & The Ghost + Bitumen (Vic) + Ghost Drop

Cargo Bar

DJ Dez

Republic Bar & Café

The Sign 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Micheal Clennett

Telegraph Hotel

Phrayta

Republic Bar & Café

The Great Anticipators 3pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Jimi 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Wahbash Avenue 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Beer Garden Party with Dan Vandermeer playing live 2:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Ruben Reeves 3pm Dynomite Drew 5pm

Republic Bar & Café

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Sabine 7:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

Republic Bar & Café

Otium 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Aly Rae Patmore Trio 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Jimi 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Lemmy Kilmister Tribute, One Year Of Raising Hell

Duke of Wellington

JAZZ JAM JAR - An opportunity for up and coming musicians to jam with a professional band!

Cargo Bar

DJ Johnny G

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Café

Tom Dockray 8:30pm

Telegraph Hotel

Matt & Abby

Birdcage Bar

Nick Marshall 8:30pm

Cargo Bar

Micheal Clennett

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd Tim And Scott 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

Baker Boys 8:30pm

The Westend Pumphouse

Billy Whitton 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Sabine Bester 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Jo Neugebauer (Vic) + Rachael Maria Cox + Sarah Lacey Ann + XENA

Date

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

27

28

29

Cargo Bar

DJ Johnny G

Republic Bar & Café

Duke of Wellington

The Duke Quiz

Telegraph Hotel

Tony Mak

Grand Poobah

Bitumen, A.Swayze and the Ghosts & Friends

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Tim & Scott 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Cargo Bar

Tony Mak

Republic Bar & Café

Ben Tasman 8:30pm

Jack Greene

Millhouse

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett

Republic Bar & Café

Boil Up 10pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Matt Ives Big Band

Telegraph Hotel

Jeremy Matcham / Atomic Playboys

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 8:30pm

The Westend Pumphouse

Anita Cairns 6:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

ALL AGES - 6pm till 10pm - Interview With An Escape Artist + Within These Walls + Roma Antica + The Anarchists

The Whaler

Michael & Lauren, Dylan Eynon 7:30pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

MT Blues 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Friday

Saturday

30

31

Cargo Bar

Micheal Clennett

Grand Poobah

Christmas Karaoke with Soft Cat & Hoop Dreams

Cargo Bar

Millhouse

Casino Bar (Wrest Point)

Matt Edmunds

Jack Greene

Tim Hibberd

Jack Greene

TBC

Republic Bar & Café

Steve Poltz (USA) 9pm

Onyx

DJ SupaNova + The Nightshift 9pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Polish Club

Tom Vincent Trio 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Republic Bar & Café

NYE With Hobart Funk Collective 10pm

Brisbane Hotel

HEXMAS w/ King (Vic) + Ruins + Departe + Permafog

Telegraph Hotel

TBA

The Whaler

Ruben Reeves 9pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Ebeneza Good

Cargo Bar

Millhouse

Grand Poobah

Tiger Choir Album Launch/ Final Show in the Main Room

Grand Poobah

Xmas Kiss with Yardley & Eriko Ena and Flac and Hans

Hobart Twilight Market

Live Music 4pm

Jack Greene

Tony Mak

Observatory Bar

Some Blonde 8pm

Republic Bar & Café

Sugartrain 10pm

Telegraph Hotel

Micheal Clennett / Dr Fink

The Westend Pumphouse

Patrick Berechree 6:30pm

The Whaler

Ruben Reeves, Jensen 7:30pm

The Winston

Jimmy Peters and the Pantones 9pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Grim Fawkner 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Glen Challice 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Xmas Eve In The Drunk Tank

Cargo Bar

Millhouse

Republic Bar & Café

Sunday Soul Sessions - Funky Tunes in the Beer Garden - On Saturday! 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Café

The Catch Club on Xmas Eve 8:30pm

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TOWN

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Launceston

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Pat Broxton, Trent Buchanan, Fiontan Cassidy

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Julian Mathew 9pm

Launceston

Club 54

Beers in the Backyard: Pat Broxton, Denni Sulzberger, Trent Buchanan

Launceston

Princess Theatre

Deborah Conway - The Beginning and The End

Launceston

Royal Oak - Boat Shed

When She Believes 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Rino Morea 7pm

DECEMBER Thursday

1

Friday

2

Saturday

3

Launceston

Bakers Lane

Arvo in the Lane: Hurricane Youth, Cheersquad, Brodygreg

Launceston

Club 54

The Planets Collide, Scattered By Sundown, Disrepute

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Bronny and Phoebe 9pm

Launceston

Tonic Bar - Country Club

Leigh Ratcliffe 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Day Star Duo 7pm

Sunday

4

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Wednesday

7

Launceston

Club 54

Sorority Wednesdays

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Brad Gillies Blues 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Tassie Tenor 6:30pm

Thursday Friday

Saturday

Sunday

8 9

10

11

Launceston

Bakers Lane

The Brew: New Wave Saints (Acoustic), Angus Austin, Fraser Rathmell

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Hat and Horn 9pm

Launceston

Club 54

Milo Bean, Halfway to Forth, Tom Fowkes, Isla Ka

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

S+M Duo - Steph and Mally 9pm

Launceston

Tonic Bar - Country Club

Nat & Andy

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Sambo & Patto 7pm

Launceston

Club 54

British India, Golden Age of Ballooning, Cardinels

Launceston

Royal Oak - Boat Shed

HEED - Tim Gambles, Lewis Sowerby + Alex Starr 8:30pm

Launceston

Tonic Bar - Country Club

Jerome Hillier 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Trevor Weaver 7pm

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Marakoopa Café

Little Wise and Rosie Burgess 2pm

Launceston

Club 54

Sorority Wednesdays

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Matthew Dames 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Rino Morea 6:30pm

Launceston

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Disrepute, Tiarni Cane, Sara Wright

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Thunder Chiefs 9pm

Launceston

Club 54

AA Party

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

S+M Duo - Steph and Mally 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Proud Phoneys 7pm

Launceston

Bakers Lane

Arvo in the Lane: Radio Silence, Dark Dunes, Flxw

Launceston

Club 54

Radio Silence, Dark Dunes, Flxw, Kowl (DJ Set)

Launceston

Royal Oak - Boat Shed

Cape Grim+Squid Fishing+This Is Robbery+Operation IBIS 8:30pm

Launceston

Tonic Bar - Country Club

Clinton Hutton 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Tassie Tenor 7pm

Mayberry Wednesday

Thursday Friday

Saturday

14

15 16

17

Sunday

18

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Wednesday

21

Launceston

Club 54

Sorority Wednesdays

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Gammidge+Broxton+Greg - 3 Sets of Stones 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Jerome Hillier 6:30pm

Launceston

Bakers Lane

The Brew: Flxw, Eve Gowen, Jacob Hull

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Mick Attard 9pm

Launceston

Club 54

Modern Punk - Bass Music Club Festival

Launceston

Royal Oak - Boat Shed

Max Hillman Showband 8:30pm

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Maximus Hillmasness 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Jerome Hillier 7pm

Launceston

Club 54

The X-Mas Eve Party

Thursday Friday

Saturday

22 23

24

Launceston

Royal Oak - Boat Shed

Electric Boogaloo - Christmas Special 8:30pm

Launceston

Tonic Bar - Country Club

Take 2 Duo 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Rino Morea 7pm

Monday

26

Launceston

Club 54

When I Come Around: The Songs of Greenday

Wednesday

28

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Open Mic Night 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Tony Voglino 6:30pm

Thursday

29

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Brad Gillies Blues 9pm

Friday

30

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Tee Bee Tee 9pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Adam Page 7pm

Saturday

31

Launceston

Club 54

NYE Party

26

Launceston

Country Club Showroom

Gypsy Rose

Launceston

Royal Oak - Public Bar

Ah Sola Mio 8pm

Launceston

Tonic Bar - Country Club

Tony Voglino 8pm

Launceston

Watergarden - Country Club

Rino Morea 7pm

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DECEMBER Wed 7th Brad Gillies Blues ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 8th Hat and Horn ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 9th S+M Duo - Steph and Mally ~ Public Bar 9pm Sat 10th HEED - Tim Gambles, Lewis Sowerby + Alex Starr ~ Boat Shed $10 8.30pm Sun 11th Open Folk Seisiún ~ Public Bar 5pm Wed 14th Matthew Dames ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 15th Thunder Chiefs ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 16th Fresh Comedy Christmas Special - Dave Thorton, Rachael Berger, Chris Franklin ~ Boat Shed 8.30pm / S+M Duo ~ Public Bar 9pm Sat 17th Cape Grim + Squid Fishing + This Is Robbery + Operation IBIS ~ Boat Shed $5 8.30pm Sun 18th Open Folk Seisiún~ Public Bar 9pm Wed 21st Gammidge + Broxton + Greg - 3 Sets of Stones ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 22nd Mick Attard ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 23rd Max Hillman Showband ~ Boat Shed 8.30pm - Maximus Hillmasness ~ Public Bar 9pm Sat 24th Electric Boogaloo - Christmas Special ~ Boat Shed $5 8.30pm Sun 25th Closed for Celebrations - Merry Christmas To All Wed 28th Open Mic Night ~ Public Bar 9pm Thu 29th Brad Gillies Blues ~ Public Bar 9pm Fri 30th Tee Bee Tee ~ Public Bar 9pm Sat 31st Ah Sola Mio ~ Public Bar 8pm

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THE DUKE

Change is in the air at The DUKE Our freshly upgraded kitchen is now set up to take you on a flavour journey Change is in the air at The DUKE With all our classic wood fired pizzas, new mains plus our all new bar snack menu OUR FRESHLY UPGRADED KITCHEN IS NOW SET UP TO TAKE YOU ON A FLAVOUR JOURNEY WITH ALL OUR CLASSIC WOOD FIREDCome PIZZAS, NEW taste theMAINS changePLUS OUR ALL NEW BAR SNACK MENU Open Monday to Friday 11:30am till Late Come taste the change Saturday 5pm till late till Late Open Monday to Friday 11:30am Saturday 5pm till late This month at The Duke

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LIVE MUSIC TUESDAYS

8th Nov – DUKE OPEN MIC (Acts book at dukeopenmic@gmail.com)

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