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NOVEMBER 2017 Wednesday 1st 8pm The White Tree Thursday 2nd 8.30pm Eddie & The Low Tides Friday 3rd 10pm Brett Collidge Saturday 4th 10pm Hobart Funk Collective + Bad Dad Orchestra $10 Sunday 5th 8.30pm Van Walker + Tristen Bird Monday 6th 8.30pm G.B. Balding (Finger Pickin' Blues) Tuesday 7th 8.30pm Montz Matsumoto Wednesday 8th 8.30pm Blue Flies Thursday 9th 8.30pm Maestro Koko Friday 10th 5pm Free Keg Of Beer + Free Pizzas + Giveaways + Ticket to win 5 Falls Festival Tickets 9.30pm Republic Bar's Birthday with 4 Letter Fish do Pink Floyd (No Cover) Saturday 11th 2pm Free Keg Of Beer + Muisc by Cody Gunton + Ticket to win 5 Falls Festival Tickets (Drawn @ 6pm) 10pm Republic Bar's Birthday with Boil Up (No Cover) Sunday 12th 2.30pm The Raccoons 8.30pm Peter Hicks & The Blue Licks Monday 13th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 14th 8.30pm Simon Astley

Wednesday 15th 8.30pm Cody Gunton Thursday 16th 8.30pm Billy Warner Friday 17th 10pm Young Lions + BUGS $15pre/$20door Saturday 18th10pm The Outfit Sunday 19th 9pm Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) + Babylon Howl $35pre/$40door Monday 20th 8.30pm Pat Berechree Tuesday 21th 8.30pm Billy Whitton Wednesday 22nd 8.30pm 8 Ball Aitkin Thursday 23rd 9pm The Badlands Friday 24th 10pm Lloyd Spiegel $25pre/$30door Saturday 25th 10pm Tinpan Orange $18pre/$22door Sunday 26th 2.30pm The Great Anticipators 8.30pm Wahbash Avenue Monday 27th 8.15pm Quiz Night Tuesday 28th 8.30pm The Sign Wednesday 29th 8.30pm Dave Wilson Band Thursday 30th 8.30pm The Seratones

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News in Brief TWILIGHT (WITHOUT THE WEREWOLVES) The Hobart Twilight Market has been back and rockin’ along for a couple weeks now! The Friday night destination situated at Long Beach (Lower Sandy Bay) showcases a superb selection of Tasmanian eats, drinks, design and music. But the entertainment section is what we’re really all about here. Over the next few weeks, you’ll be able to catch the likes of Lasca, Lauren O’Keefe, Lonely Bay, Mayhem & Me, Finn Carter, Matthew Dames, Backstick Agenda (Tim Lane), Colin Kucera, The Hobart College Band and the Australian Army Band. Check out the gig guide for more accurate listings, or head over to www.facebook.com/ HobartTwilightMarket/ for more info on the market itself.

CHANGE THE GAME Game Changers is a series of happenings in Hobart from 3-5 November to develop and celebrate women in music. The program features an assortment of workshops, events, and opportunities, for music makers and lovers to connect, learn, and showcase. On Friday November 3, Game Changers officially kicks-off in fine electro style with an Opening Night Party in the Founders Room, featuring music from Q.E., Sumner, S L O W, and a headline set by the incredible Alice Ivy. There are a bunch of workshops, and a heap of live performances over the weekend, so for more information, make sure you head to musictasmania.org for all the details.

SUCK ON! While impressing the world with their country and western flavoured live show, the old school fans have been demanding for the ‘suckers core rock ‘n roll show to come back to Australian shores. Well, it’s finally happening, the Supersuckers return down under this November. They’re playing one show in Tasmania, at The Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Wednesday November 8. Tickets are $39.80 and are available via Oztix. For an extra dose of goodness, they’ve just announced that the excellent Eddie & The Low Tides will be the support act on the night. Get amongst it!

TASTE OF AFRICA Taste of the Future brings you music to dance to, and music to transport you, as we celebrate Africa’s diaspora in

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Tasmania. Musicians and dancers from Malawi to South Sudan will mix traditional with contemporary at the Moonah Arts Centre on Friday November 10. Doors are from 5.30pm, with the show beginning at 6.30pm and only $5 on the door with children under 12 free.

TSOH MY! TSO Live Sessions takes the orchestra out of the concert hall and into the pub, where audiences can hear a chambersized orchestra perform an eclectic mix of music, and enjoy food and drink in a casual atmosphere. Lasting a little over an hour (including interval), Live Sessions offer serious repertoire in a relaxed setting. After recently taking place at the iconic Willie Smith Apple Shed, the next TSO Live Sessions will take place at the equally iconic Red Shed, Hobart Brewing Company at 7:30pm on Friday November 10. Great music, great food, great beer, what more could you possibly want?!

SAFE SENTRY Seth Sentry is back with his brand new single ‘Play It Safe’ - the throwback track that sees Seth invited back to his school to give a speech to the class, and the advice he gives? Well let’s just say it wasn’t exactly what his elderly teacher Mr. Nelson was hoping for!” Hyuk Lolz OMG rite? To support the release of the single, Seth is taking it back to where it began with a handful of unique punk rock-style shows in some of Australia’s favourite music venues. Expect old songs and new, freestyles, crowd surfs and good times. It’ll all be going down at the Granada Tavern in Berriedale on Friday November 17. Tickets are about $35 and available via oztix.

ALTA are back with yet another diamond, this time in the form of their captivating new single Sentiment. To celebrate, the Melbourne duo will be heading off on a headline tour this November and December around the country stopping off in Perth, Sydney, Hobart and Melbourne.

Receiving a first play on triple j Good Nights following its premiere on i-D recently, Sentiment is an intricate dance track, gentle yet unapologetic. The track is beautifully paced, rising and falling in energy as Hannah Lesser’s vocals leave you struck. Through words of selfassurance, the track tells a story of selfactualisation reminding the listener to

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SPIEGEL ENT. The Australian Blues Legend Lloyd Spiegel, the “Entertainment Machine” Eightball Aitken, and local northern Tasmanian virtuoso Jacob Boote will be in the one place at the one time! This will be a full-on stompfest delivered by masters of their trade. Truly an entertainment experience to be remembered and it’s all going down at the Lower Willmot Hall on Saturday November 25. Alcohol, softdrinks, and food will be for sale, and there’ll be free camping, so bring a swag or a campervan! No dogs, no BYO alcohol, no agro. Only good vibes. Doors open at 5pm, music from 6pm. Tickets are $41 online from eventbrite, or $45 on the door.

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Alison Wonderland recently announced that the Wonderland Scarehouse Project will launch as an outdoor multi-stage festival in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland later this year with a local and international line up so great that it’s scary. Even more recently, it was announced that the international line up will be delivering a taste of the original Warehouse Project concept to Hobart on Friday December 1. Joining Alison behind the decks in a secret location, will be Danger (Fra), Lido (Nor), Lunice (Can), Party Favour (USA) and Quix (NZ). Tickets are already available from wonderlandwarehouseproject.com, and are selling super fast, so get on it! You snooze, you lose.

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BADLANDS, GOOD TIMES. Sweaty mosh-pits, new music and questionable behavior are all part of what is set to be The Badlands next run of gigs, starting next month. Fresh off the back of their debut EP release Perfect Loser, the band are back on the road for a National tour of Australia in November/December, having just completed a successful run through QLD and NSW. Extending their reach to Tasmania (yay!) and Sydney, the band are ready to take their music to a new audience and the state has been set for a packed out, rock-fuelled string of shows. There are two Tasmanian gigs on the list, the first is on Thursday November 23 at The Republic Bar & Café in Hobart, and the second is on Sunday November 26 at Saint John Craft Beer in Launceston.

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value yourself for who you are and that you are enough. ALTA play at The TAH on Friday November 24.

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The Cactus Channel’s third album Stay A While takes the orchestrated soul futurism that has become their signature sound and adds silvery vocal dimensions, as the band’s own Lewis Coleman steps up to the mic. The band has recently shared the video for their first single “Storefront” and announced a huge national tour and an October residency at Melbourne’s The Night Cat. The everevolving Melbourne collective’s new album represents a new consciousness and a decisive turning point. Unloosed from their earlier incarnation as an instrumental soul and funk band, they’ve become something wilder, a little darker, and heavier. You can catch them at The Homestead on Saturday December 9.

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Hobart musician Tim Davies, has a EP’s worth of new music and he wants to

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show it off to you. For something a little different, Tim has come up with a concept EP based around the poet William Blake and his poem “The Crystal Cabinet”. A mixture of songs and spoken word over soundscapes, Tim will launch the EP in the suitable ominous surroundings of the Selpulchre – a new pop up space created from the disused church at 47 Davey St, Hobart. Tickets available from Moshtix.

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Tassie noise-pop darlings Heart Beach return from Canada to launch their new LP ‘Haircut’, which was recorded at Montreal studio Hotel2Tango with acclaimed engineer Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, GSY!BE) in August 2017. With new drummer in tow and a string of Canadian tour dates under their belt, Heart Beach are sure to impress at this exclusive Hobart performance.

Joining the party are the ever-jangly Quivers (in full band mode), Melbourne post-punks Stationary Suns (featuring ex-Sea Scout/Love of Diagrams member Monika Fikerle), drone guitar genius and Tassie expat K Mason (Parading, Vodka Party, Kind Winds) and local favourites Carl Renshaw, Slag Queens and Saul Latham.

See all at the Brisbane Hotel, Hobart on Saturday December 9. Tickets from Oztix.

SO SO SOCIABLE! Slum Sociable are Edward Quinn and Miller Upchurch, expanding to an electrifying four piece live. Steeped in groove, the Melbourne duo’s music grasps the hips and guides them left to right to left in a hypnotic sway through an intersection of soul, hip-hop and electronic. Music with global appeal, all cut up and bent in to something unique to it’s Melbourne setting. For one very spesh evening, they’ll be shifting their focus south, to Hobart. They’ll be playing at Hobart Brewing Company on Saturday December 16, joining them will be Teischa. For more information, head to

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Well, Falls Festival is fast approaching, and they just keep on keepin’ on in regards to that badass line-up they have cookin’. They’ve just added a bunch more awesome folks, and what makes them even more awesomer is that they’re only playing at Marion Bay! Hah! Suck it, mainland. Anyway, hitting the stage at Marion Bay (AND NO WHERE ELSE) will be Grinspoon, San Cisco, Nina Las Vegas, Maddy Jane, The Teskey Brothers and Press Club. Keep your eyeballs peeled for even more Falls Festival related news in the lead up to the festival over the New Year’s period, and don’t forget to get your tickets sorted ASAP!

Frenzal Rhomb, the most hospitalized band in the world (Seriously, everything from broken drumming arms and detached guitar-playing retinas to an actual pig-borne tapeworm in the lead singer’s brain), have announced a run of shows in December and January to keep the Hi-Vis High Tea Boom alive! In case you’ve been living down a mine shaft, Hi-Vis High Tea is Frenzal Rhomb’s ninth full-length punk rock record, and just like a ninth child to a religious family, they’re really getting good at it. They’ll be performing at the Brisbane Hotel on Friday January 19, 2018. Tickets available via oztix.

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It’s a mandatory Summer activity for all Hobartians, young and old, to make the annual pilgrimage to the Taste of Tasmania on Hobart’s waterfront. The event has been freshened up for its 29th year with “multiple spaces throughout the festival offering a different experience, everytime you visit”. Presented in conjunction with Music Tasmania, festival goers will experience a range of contemporary Tasmanian musicians performing everything from jazz and folk to funk and pop. Those who want to bring the new year in on Hobart’s waterfront can do so to the sounds of The Whitlams, Monique Brumby, Heloise, and Mighty Duke and The Lords. Presale tickets for the New Year’s Eve event can be obtained from the Taste website – www. tasteoftasmania.com.au.

Metalcore kings In Hearts Wake recently the “Great Southern Land” national tour which will see them hitting up mostly regional spots around the country. The epic 28 stop tour will see them grab the very cool Young Lions, jump in a van and head to Cairns on January 17 to kick it all off, and cruise all around the country before ending up in Byron Bay on March 3.

The “Great Southern Land” tour includes 2 gigs down here in little ol’ Tasmania.

On Saturday February 3 they’ll be playing at The Waratah Hotel in Hobart, and on Sunday February 4 they’ll be at Club 54 in Launceston. Tickets for both events are available via Oztix.

PANAMANIA! Every year, A Festival Called PANAMA has consistently had some of most well curated line ups in all of the Australian festival circuit. 2018 is proving to be no exception. They’ve announced the first round of acts, and it’s amazing. From Friday March 9 to Sunday March 11 at their beautiful grounds, you’ll be able to catch Grizzly Bear, Thundercat, Sampa The Great, Perfume Genius, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Alice Ivy, GL, Haiku Hands, Ghosting presents: Reimagining Miyazaki, Clea and Slow Dancer. Tickets are on sale from Tuesday November 21 (which is when they’ll announce the second round of performers). A Festival Called PANAMA traditionally sells out super fast, so get your credit cards ready on the 21st!

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MOMOFOFO MOFOMOFOMOFO etc. etc. This year it’s in Launceston from Friday January 12 to Sunday January 14, and in Hobart from Monday January 15 to Monday January 22.

Here’s a sample of what Launceston gets: Gotye Presents a Tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Launceston Block Party, Tannery: Tasmanian Taiko and Leather Orchestra.

Hobart will get the likes of: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Femina, Moor Mother, Brian Jackson and the Southern Gospel Choir, Rahim Alhaj and Karim Wasfi, Breadwoman, Genesis Beyer P-Orridge, Mayhem, and too many more things to list. Also, Faux Mo is back, and there’ll be

Newkind 2.0 is a post-human boot camp. It brings forth the learned and learning to re-imagine the potentials of our future. From Wednesday March 21 to Sunday March 25, 2018, 500 artists, activists, environmentalists and entrepreneurs gather to discuss and plan for social change. It’s a gathering for the adventurous, inquisitive change maker.

One for the leaders in thought, the early adopters, and the action ready. With only 120 tickets available in the recent first release, Newkind 2.0 welcomes ambitious participants and partners within a change agenda. For more information, head to www.newkindfestival.com.

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PITP (NOT A TYPO) Party in the Paddock have announced a couple of rad things recently, firstly they announced that they’ll be kicking it all off on a Thursday this year, which means one extra day of awesomeness. Yiew. Secondly they have announced their lineup, which is freaken’ epic! Here’s who’s on board: Gang of Youths, Grouplove, The Avalanches (DJ Set), Meg Mac, Ball Park Music, Client Liaison, The Preatures, TKAY Maidza, Holy Holy, Aunty Donna, Crooked Colours, Tired Lion, Waax, 30//70, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Kinder, Dear Seattle, Baker Boy, Godlands, Pow! Negro, Slowly Slowly, Drop Legs, Younger Dryas, The Saxons, Sumner, Sofala, The Bad Dad Orchestra, Slim Jeffries, and oh geez heaps more. Tickets are already on sale via oztix, and first release has already sold out, so get on it ASAP!

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Iconic indie rock band Eskimo Joe hits Hobart for a show at Federation Concert Hall on May 12, 2018 as part of their 21st birthday celebrations, with the full backing of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Over the past 21 years, Eskimo Joe has released music to great acclaim in the US, Canada, Europe and Korea. With six studio albums and sales exceeding 750,000 in Australia alone, the band has seen three of its albums debut at Number 1 on the ARIA charts and has racked up an impressive 35 ARIA nominations. Tickets for their performances with Symphony Orchestras have been selling out within days of release, so jump on this one ASAP. Head to www.tso.com.au.

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A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE “WE’RE AT THE CANADIAN BORDER, TRYING TO SMUGGLE OURSELVES IN. I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG THE RAP SHEETS ARE OF THIS GROUP. WE’RE DOING A CRAZY ARENA TOUR WITH IMAGINE DRAGONS OVER HERE. IT’S BEEN REALLY WILD A LOT OF THE TIME. I DONT HAVE INSTAGRAM BUT APPARENTLY OUR VIDEOS ARE INSANE, OUR ANTICS...WE HAVE A LOT OF TIME ON OUR HANDS. IDLE HANDS ARE THE DEVIL’S PLAYTHING. WE HAVE A LOT OF TIME JUST TO GET INTO MISCHIEF. WE’VE BEEN DRINKING A LOT OF GIN.”

Cheeky Grouplove guitarist/vocalist Andrew Wessen speaks with a huge amount of passion and love for his job. The LA indie pop-rockers have been making waves since their track Getaway Car was HBO’s How to Make it In America in 2010. And this was when they were unsigned; the next year they signed with Atlantic, released their debut EP (and three studio albums and one additional EP besides) and toured the world over. Their latest album, Big Mess, was released September 2016, and a musical ‘addendum’ EP, Little Mess, earlier this year.

“No-one really likes the boring details about how the songs came together…” Wessen explains, on the latest record’s birth. “...but everything goes in a sort of organised chaos: people interacting, sharing ideas, and you evolve as need be as the album takes shapes. We wanted to try two different producers; Ryan [Rabin, drums] has always produced our records, and we hired a friend, Phil Ek [The Shins, Modest Mouse, Fleet Foxes] who’s produced a lot of bands we respect.

You can tell which songs were done in LA and which were in Seattle with Phil. That was fun, and a new departure for us.”

Grouplove’s music has been used a lot for commercial purposes- something that is no longer the cardinal sin in the music world that it used to be. I posit to Wessen that, as it becomes harder to make a living from being a musician, audiences and fans are more sympathetic, and less judgemental of bands that lend their tunes to brands, companies, or TV themes. The band’s 2011 single Tongue Tied featured in an iPod Touch commercial, and a number of their songs have been used in video games: Madden NFL 12, GT Racing 2: The Real Car Experience, and several FIFA games. As usual, on the topic, he is realistic, but optimistic.

“I was the only one that didn’t wanna do the Apple commercial; if we could just be that mysterious band that could just survive and do what you wanted all the time...it’d be amazing to live without financial restrictions, but the reality is you gotta make money. This is our livelihood, this is everything we care about; you put your song on a TV show and you get a lot of eyes on it, so on that level it’s bringing your music into a whole other stratosphere that you wouldn’t normally be able to.”

The prolific band have been a regular touring machine, as well as a charitable one- $1 from every ticket on their Big Mess US tour went to charity: water, a non-profit organization that provides clean drinking water to people in developing nations. Wessen believes strongly in the community that can arise from shared artistic passion.

“I base everything off the live experience, real time. It’s fun to watch the audience reaction.

For me, that’s what’s important, to bring that peace and love- it’s cheesy but true. You gotta start hands on and local and go out from there.

I feel like that’s been the goal of the band, that’s what I feel like we’re able to do when we tour. It’s honestly the best job in the world, we’re lucky to do what we do.”

And he bloody loves us, too.

“Australia is one of my favorite place in the world. In an alternate universe, if I could live there, I would. It’s the only place I can see myself living, besides the US.” LISA DIB

“We’ve been playing the album for a year already in the States, and we’re still growing and evolving. The songs evolve as you do. I still love playing songs off the first EP [Grouplove, 2011]as much as you might be sick of it, you have to assume people have never heard it. I haven’t really fallen out of favour with any of them. I always find pleasure in it.”

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“Sometimes it’s fun to see your stuff in scenes of movies; ads, it’s always mixed feelings, but what can you do. You gotta do what you gotta do.

My mom was a flight attendant and my dad was a used car salesman; they always went to work with a smile on their face and never complained.

I’m lucky to do what I do.”

Grouplove will be appearing at Party in the Paddock (Thursday February 8 - Saturday 10th February 2018, White Hills). Tickets available from Oztix.

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THE LIVING END AT THE END OF THE WORLD THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DAY ON THE GREEN’S MONSTER ALL-STAR 90’S LINE UP FOR NEXT MARCH HAS EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE LIVING END DRUMMER ANDY STRACHAN, FEELING EQUAL PARTS PUMPED AND SENTIMENTAL. THE LIVING END, SPIDERBAIT, VERUCA SALT, THE LEMONHEADS, TUMBLEWEED AND THE FAUVES ARE TOURING 2018’S A DAY ON THE GREEN- AUSTRALIA’S LAST FULLY MOBILE MUSIC FESTIVAL AND ANDY HAS A FEW THINGS TO SAY ABOUT HIS OWN TASTE IN MUSIC, TOURING, AND THE WONDERS OF TASMANIAN SEAFOOD. You’ve just finished a massive US tour, how are your energy levels going? Do you get more energised and inspired creatively by long tours or less so?

Oh man it was pretty gruelling by the end I think we’ve been hope for maybe nine or ten days now so body clocks are pretty much back to normal now which is nice but that was a pretty heavy run.

Do you tend to get personally inspired by longer tours or less so?

That’s a tough one, it’s pretty inspiring when you’re finished. As soon as you’re off the road you just wish you could go back on the road so it’s that catch 22 I s’pose. But it’s exciting to do all that stuff again and but it’s also great to be back home and I’m looking forward to playing shows in front of Aussie crowds again.

There’s a massive buzz down here around the announcement that you guys are touring Launceston for A Day On The Green next March.

Do you think you’ll get any time to hang out in Tassie while you’re here?

Oh it generally doesn’t happen, we generally don’t have time anywhere we go but you can always hope! But anytime we get the opportunity we just go and eat as much fresh seafood as we can. Lots of oysters! That’s pretty special

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y’know. What’s that little area? Salamanca?

It’s awesome, so we get pretty excited about oysters. We’ll probably go and try and find some of them…

Is the 90’s kid in you losing it a little bit at the prospect of touring A Day On The Green? You’ve got a pretty nostalgic Australian 90’s lineup with Spiderbait, The Fauves & Tumbleweed but also international heavyweights like Veruca Salt and The Lemonheads.

Yeah it’s gonna be unreal and were pretty good friends with the Spiderbait gang and we haven’t played a show with them in a long time so that’s just like wearing an old pair of shoes y’know, we always get together and have a good time. I think all the bands are gonna compliment each other and Spiderbait are such a great festival act, they’re always so much fun to watch. I haven’t seen the Fauves in it’d have to be ten years, even more.

The Living End released Shift in 2016. Can punters at A Day On The Green expect a focus on songs from this album for your 2018 live shows or are you gonna mix it up with the nostalgic stuff a bit?

I think we’re gonna play everything, we’re gonna pick and choose from every record. There’s seven records now so we kind of want to represent every record. Theres so many songs that we love to play but we really want to represent each album so everyone’s a winner at the end of the day. But yeah, we’re not going to be playing obscure B Sides or anything like thats we’re gonna play the songs that people wanna hear.

Do you listen to much music in your spare time or do you just look forward to silence when you can get it?

Oh a bit of both. I like surfing so that’s a past time where you can’t really listen to music because electricity and water don’t really mix. So that’s my quiet time but there’s generally music on wherever I am. If I’m driving I like to listen to music. If I’m at home I like to listen to music. It’s my job, it’s our job but it’s still a massive part of our lives outside of work. We all still listen to music just as excitedly as we did when we were a lot younger y’know. You know what I’ve

been loving lately? Dan Sultan’s new record. It’s called Killer and it’s just phenomenal. I hadn’t heard it and I put it on Spotify and I just can’t get enough of it now, it’s just incredible and I just hope people get to hear it because it’s really hard to get music out there these days and get it to that wider audience and it needs to be heard on a wider scale I think. He’s an incredible artist but it really blew my mind. It’s a masterpiece, incredible.

Can you tell me about something that has made you super proud recently. Be it musically or otherwise?

Pretty much every day when I see my little girl.

She’s eight and when she comes home from school and she says she had a good day or she got an award from something. Y’know every time she says thank you…I don’t know she’s just a very cool human… she wrote a song recently.

She’s pretty into playing ukulele and all sorts of things but she just writes songs now off her own bat. I’m proud of her, I’m incredibly proud of her.

She’s just got a bunch of chords and she threw them all together and wrote some lyrics. It blows my mind. So I’m overwhelmed with proudness every day.

And finally, do you have a favourite drummer joke?

One of my favourites is: How do you know when the stage is level?

Because there’s drool coming out of both sides of the drummer’s mouth.

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A Day On The Green takes place on Saturday March 10 at Joseph Chromy Wines, Launceston. Tickets are available from www.ticketmaster.com.au.

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TEA TIME STUART CHATWOOD, ONE-THIRD OF BLUES/PROG/ ‘MOROCCAN ROLL’ BAND THE TEA PARTY, ISN’T JUST A MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST COG IN THE TEA PARTY MACHINE. THE CANADIAN MUSO, WHEN HE’S NOT TOURING WITH THE BAND, WORKS IN THE GAMING SECTOR AND, ON AND OFF FOR SOME TEN YEARS, HAS BEEN WORKING ON A MENTAL HEALTH-RELATED MUSICAL PROJECT. INTRIGUING. “The main thing I’m known for is probably video game soundtracks.” Chatwood explains. “In 2002 I was invited to score Prince of Persia, a game that sold twenty million copies. A lot of people are exposed to my music that way.”

“The most recent thing is, I released a song for this project called Uncommon Folk. It was started in 2006, we released our first single this year- we beat [Guns N Roses’] Chinese Democracy for longest production ever. It’s a therapeutics album for people suffering from Sensory Processing Disorder. Our goal is to get this affliction in the DSM [The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]. People with SPD were diagnosed as being autistic, with the wrong drugs and therapy. Today, as of the last release of the DSM, it’s now a condition called Misophonia. Basically, you don’t interpret sound in a ‘normal’ manner. The person funding the album, her daughter would hear people chew and she’d go crazy and bang her head against a wall. They found music was better than drugs to work with her.”

“I worked with my friend Tim Summer- he’s also a musician and producer himself- he called me to co-produce with him. We chose a palette of folk songs, did them in an ambient manner.

It’s been a really interesting project. We invited some celebrity singers: Glen Campbell, Mavis Staples, The Blind Boys of Alabama. We’re hoping to release an instrumental version that can act as self-therapy to some people.”

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But Chatwood and Co. inevitably come back to Tea Party, a band they started way back in 1990-odd, taking into account a five-year hiatus in the mid-’00s. The band are back on the road touring the hell out of their seminal album, Transmission, a record that celebrates its twentyyear anniversary this year.

Richards where he said [The Rolling Stones] is the fans’ band, not his- he feels obligated to go out and perform the music. I mean, he loves it, his hand isn’t forced. But with our band, these songs mean so much to the people that enjoyed them twenty years ago and since then. It’s a thrill to go out there and perform for them.”

“We toured Canada with thirty-two shows, that tour went amazingly well, we brought it to the States, now we’re so happy to bring it to Australia.” Chatwood explains. “It’s a seminal record in our career, a solid record from start to finish, and it’s a pleasure to play it. I think it’s been...eighteen years since we were last in Tassie? I don’t even know!”

The band have been quiet release-wise since 2014’s The Ocean At The End, but Chatwood makes a sort-of promise of new gear in the future.

“We tuned in a world music manner, trying to mimic the sound of a sitar which we couldn’t afford or couldn’t play.” Chatwood explains, on how Transmission became the album most reflective of their signature sound. “We spent basically our whole recording advance on instruments on [1993’s Splendor Solis album]; every day Fed Ex was dropping stuff off at our studio, we got down to work learning how to play them- and this was pre-YouTube.”

“It was always our plan to keep recording and release stuff. We recorded ten or eleven songs in Byron Bay in 2016; we’ve been working on those, probably something coming out in 2018.

The world has changed; I don’t know if it’ll be an album or a bunch of singles. My goal is I want people to hear it: they don’t have to love it or hate it, as long as people get a chance to discover it.”

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“For The Edges of Twilight [1995], we took another detour, wanted to expand out sonic palette; our last frontier was electronics; we’ve mentioned in the past stuff like Kraftwerk, Massive Attack, NIN, anything that was super emotive, brought about some sort of connection with the listener. Transmission embraces sampling; I still remember when we played [single Babylon] for the record label, everyone was like, “What the fuck was that?”. As an artist, it’s great if you can have one of those ‘Eureka’ moments, where you do something that no-one has done before...the rest of our career we were basically embellishing and fooling around with those ingredients.”

“The albums are like our children, you don’t have favourite kids (laughs). You don’t know which is gonna resonate. This is our twenty-seventh year doing this; I saw a documentary with Keith

The Tea Party play the Odeon in Hobart on Friday November 3. Tickets available from Ticketek.

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MEETING OF THE BANDS HOBART’S MINI MUSIC FESTIVAL BAND MEETING IS HAPPENING FOR THE SECOND TIME THIS YEAR AT THE SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE NOVEMBER 10 & 11. FESTIVAL PRODUCER SAM COLE CHATS ABOUT THE GENESIS OF THE PROJECT AND THE IMPORTANCE OF CELEBRATING BOTH THE FESTIVAL PRODUCTION CREWS AND THE MUSICIANS WHO KEEP TASMANIA’S MUSIC COMMUNITY THRIVING.

What is it curatorially that you feel sets Band Meeting apart from other Tassie gigs and festivals?

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A Swayze and The Ghosts

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The whole thing is that it’s about the broader Tassie music scene. There’s lots of pockets here you know there’s punk and there’s your metal guys, there’s your indie guitarists and so on. The idea is about getting everyone in the one place and kind of celebrating the broader music scene. It’s about our current musical climate and it also acts as a little a taster before summer kicks in.

What influences the decision-making process around the curation of bands for band meeting?

It’s about their currentness and I think and overall what they contribute to the music scene. We like the fact that the majority of the acts are very active in the scene here at the moment and also interstate. And then a few of the acts you know they’re kind of heritage, they’ve really been holding the music scene for a good couple of years.

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You’ve chosen to put this festival together off your own bat for two years running now. Where do you find the passion to put it together from scratch?

I have to keep it interesting for myself but also interesting for the performers.

It doesn’t work if you’re not passionate about things and they aren’t feeling fresh so I think it’s the only way to do it.

Once you’ve curated the line up for a mini festival like this, what’s your role during the actual running of the event?

We have pretty much the same crew that ran the first one two years ago and we all work together in the production and events scene down here all year round. So as well as being a celebration of getting all the musicians and audiences together it’s a celebration of all our crew getting together as well. So once the festival actually starts the idea is that all the crew get to balance work with having a bit of time to get together and also see some bands.

Would you like to see Band Meeting become an annual event going forward?

Absolutely. Hopefully the intention is to keep it at the Salamanca Arts Centre, see if they’ll have us back next year.

But absolutely, the idea is for it to be an annual event and for everyone to celebrate the space as well as the work of Tassie muso’s.

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Well I think it’s cool putting on shows in pubs and being a part of bigger festivals but you have to kind of keep it interesting.

Band Meeting runs Friday November 10 and Saturday November 11 at the Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart.

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GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME KRISTIAN HOPES, DRUMMER FOR LONGSTANDING AUSSIE ROCKERS GRINSPOON, FEELS THAT THE KEY TO THE BAND’S STAYING POWER IN THE COLLECTIVE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ROCK-FAN IS THEIR DEDICATION. AS HE EXPLAINS- AND WAS EVIDENCED BY THEIR RECENT TOUR, MORE ON THAT IN A MOMENT- THE BAND GO ALL-IN ONCE THEY DECIDE TO HIT THE ROAD OR STUDIO AGAIN.

“When Grinspoon comes together, that’s the main focus.” Hopes explains. “There’s one thing I wouldn’t do, starting a fresh band and sitting in a Tarago with three other guys I dont know and learning stuff I learnt twenty years ago. I couldn’t see myself doing any long-haul music projects.

Grinspoon’s sufficient for my musical life. That’s enough to keep me going.”

“I started a small building company for commercial handyman work; for me, when I’m not playing in Grinspoon, I’m not interested in playing music with other people. Pat has another covers band, Phil does solo stuff, but everyone’s main musical venture is Grinspoon. I live in Brisbane, Pat [Davern, guitar] is Bangalor near Byron, Phil [Jamieson, vocals] in Port Macquarie, Joe [Hansen, bass] is in Red Rock, which is about thirty minutes north of Coffs Harbour. We’re scattered everywhere, but we’re a bit more organised these days, so it’s not too difficult to work out.”

The band recently smashed out a thirty-odd show jaunt around the country to celebrate the twenty-year anniversary of their debut album, Guide To Better Living. The 1997 album included the smash hits Pedestrian, DC×3 and personal favourite Just Ace, went platinum on its initial release and double-platinum on its anniversary re-release, and was nominated for the ‘Breakthrough Artist – Album’ ARIA. The album

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was produced by rock producer Phil McKellar up at Rockinghorse Studios in Byron Bay, where everyone from Regurgitator, Olivia Newton-John, Yothu Yindi and The Cruel Sea went to record.

Guide To Better Living was important for the band. It was their musical CV; after they’d been showing off on the local scene and garnered some triple j attention, and were signed to Grudge Records (Universal), the Grinners needed product to prove their musical cajones.

And now, two decades on, they still are.

“It felt like the tour that went forever, but it was amazing” Hopes says. “It was the better part of four months. All the shows were sold out, everyone was playing really well, it was a fun time. There was not one shitty show in there; back in the day, we were probably one-in-five crappy to good gigs. For us, it’s just cool we got to hang around this so long, and that people are still interested. Getting back together and doing the Guide tour, we were having a better time than we did twenty years ago, it’s exciting and fresh for us. Few things on for next year- the future’s lookin’ bright for Grinspoon! (laughs).”

Although, don’t get too excited about what those plans might be: “We’re not making any concrete plans for another album or putting a big master plan in place…” Hopes says. It’s been five years since their last studio effort (2012’s Black

Rabbits), but you may still end up waiting a little longer.

“We’ve always said ‘one in, all in’: if the majority of the band want to do something, we’ll do it.” Hopes explains, on ‘getting the band back together’ when they’re off on various side projects and jobs. “It’s a bit like that for the fans, we’ve got a lot of social media response on the possibility of doing the Guide tour; once we saw that wave come in, we thought we did have a bit of a responsibility to back up the commitment to people that have been following us all these years. On the Guide tour, we had parents bringing kids, showing them what they were into when they were younger, which was pretty cool.

All the ‘80s and ‘90s bands are back; some of them that are coming back, there’s not as much response as you’d think, and it’ll probably will be short-lived. It’s up the people to get you back, or let you know you should.”

“We grew up on the road as Grinspoon, we kind of learned to grow up together. It’s kinda cool to have that three-year break and come back together and see how we are enthusiastic about what we do, the legacy of what weve done. When we wrote Guide To Better Living, we thought it’d be our one and only album. We didn’t have grand plans to hang around for twenty years, but we’re pretty happy to do it.”

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The deluxe re-release of Guide To Better Living is out now; it includes their live set from the iconic CBGB’s in 1997, B-sides and rarities, and a 1997 Falls Festival live set. Grinspoon will be appearing at this year’s Falls Festival in Marion Bay, December 29- 31.

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NEVER TOO SOON IN 2015, TWO STRANGERS MET, A WEEK LATER THEY’RE ON STAGE TOGETHER SUPPORTING KIM CHURCHILL ON HIS NATIONAL TOUR. TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATER, ELECTRONIC, HIP-HOP DUO BOO SEEKA ARE UNSTOPPABLE. SAM CROFT DISCUSSES THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT ALBUM NEVER TOO SOON, TOURING THE WORLD TOGETHER AND ROLLER-SKATING AROUND HOBART. You and Ben met just a week before touring together… That must have been intense!?

It was so strange, there were so many challenges from that. For starters, we had to get to know each other straight away and not just like “Lets hang out and get a drink together” but it was we’re in a van together, going on tour straight away, sharing beds, not spending a moment apart. I think when you go through something that’s really testing like that with someone, and you both get through it pretty well, it really bonds you. It started the development of a very strong relationship between us and we very much feel like brothers now. We talk every day, we see each other when we are not on tour – he lives in Newcastle and I live in Sydney but we still see each other every week, we are best friends and brothers. There were definitely musical challenges, because we met so briefly before going on tour, we didn’t have enough songs to play. Our first ever show was with Kim Churchill in Melbourne and we had maybe four songs… So after our soundcheck and before we would get on stage, we were sitting at the bar, I got my keyboard out and we were just trying to write a few really quick songs to play about half an hour later – and we did it! We had to do that for the first ten or fifteen shows of that tour before we could get a half an hour set together.

Did you get the feeling you guys were onto something big when you met?

I really did, there was a funny feeling in the air from the moment I met Ben and that was enough for me to drop everything I was doing, Ben drop everything he was doing, and for us to both devote ourselves to this. I think we had a lot of faith in each other which was pretty cool.

You guys often record everyday noises, some that potentially made it onto ‘Never Too Soon’, tell me about that?

Yeah! There’s opportunity in everything we hear, for example we were over in Europe – we were sitting in a Maccas and there was a bunch of school kids there. It was just like, a really ambient sound, all these kids talking and laughing so we just recorded it. It probably ended up being buried there somewhere in the album, we do lots of little things like that! I’ll record just into my phone a lot of ideas that Ben will have on the road or sometimes during soundcheck on stage.

We were in Holland one day and the town we were in, Harlem, were doing something they do once a year – testing the natural disaster sirens. So we’re staying in this house and we hear these sirens going off, we start freaking out thinking ‘jeez what’s going on, is there a terrorist attack or something?’ we got our phones out and started recording – we put that somewhere in there as well.

What can fans expect from your Never Too Soon tour?

There will be a few of our older songs plus a lot of the new songs. We’ve spent the last month, and we’re going to spend the last two weeks leading up to the tour, doing the most pre-production we’ve ever done for a tour.

We’ve just been in the studio every day, hiring venues just to get things sounding as good as possible. We are really ramping up our level of production for these shows – the lighting is going to be better, the sound is going to be better, we’re super excited to be playing all the new songs and sharing with people for the first time. It’s going to be a lot of fun.

How do more intimate shows like Hobart compare to bigger, sold out venues on the mainland?

It’s a completely different vibe but they’re great in their own way, that’s why we love doing them and still do smaller shows regularly. Often you’re playing on a stage that’s a foot high and there is no barrier in between you and the crowd. Sometimes stuff gets knocked over and get a bit rowdy, but as long as everyone stays positive and stays happy, looking after each other the intimate shows are some of the best we can have. We played a show a while back in Dubbo, it was a quarter of the size of our previous Melbourne or Sydney shows but the vibe was just fantastic! We can’t wait to come back to Hobart! Is there anything we should do while we’re down??

You’ve got to check out Mona if you haven’t already!

My overall Hobart experience is super limited, the last time we were down, we were with some label mates of ours and we went into Vinnies, bought the cheapest, shittiest pair of roller-skates we could find and just went roller-skating through the city. I can’t roller-skate, the hills are pretty steep down there too, I was just going down streets and crash landing every time!

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What’s the strangest sound you recorded?

There are some whacky sounds in the record; we had ten or fifteen songs we didn’t put on the album, a lot of the weird stuff went into those songs.

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Boo Seeka play The Waratah Hotel in Hobart on Friday November 10 and Club 54 in Launceston on Saturday November 11. Tickets available from Oztix.

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JUMPY JUMPY RAH RAH AFTER A SUCCESS TOUR OF JAPAN, BRISBANE’S THE MOULDY LOVERS ARE BACK HOME AND IN THE MIDST OF A LENGTHY AUSTRALIAN TOUR. THIS SEVEN-PIECE HAS AN INCREDIBLE, UNIQUE PRESENCE AND MUSIC TO MATCH. I SAT DOWN WITH VOCALIST GAVING COOK TO DISCUSS THE BAND’S CURRENT TOUR AND THEIR LATEST SINGLE ‘BOONDOCK’.

How has the tour been so far?

Well, only one show has been cancelled because of extreme weather conditions so far so spirits are high! We’ve had some great crowds, good energy. I feel like we’re playing the best we ever have, we’ve found our groove, and we’re just getting real deep in it seeing what’ll happen the more we feel the songs. A certain amount of stress is removed when your body knows how to play the songs, and you can begin to explore the live show a bit more. Touring Japan earlier in the year made us step up our game I think with regards to flow and crowd interaction.

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collaborative, contemporary composers cutting up the rug? Any of these are acceptable.

What is your favourite thing about creating music?

We are music, we have a beat in us from the day we’re conceived to the day we die, some of us chose to expand on this. I feel when you make music you are part of something huge, eternal. One might say that all art is frivolous, and in a way it is, but it is something humans have done forever, some think we sang before we spoke, how about that?!

How would you describe your music to someone who has never heard it?

What was the creation process like for ‘Boondock’?

Dance music? A rebel waltz? Cooking eggs in a volcano? Jumpy jumpy rah rah?

A confused yet cohesive concoction of

It was a verse in my notebook for about 6 months, just floating, fecund, latent. I came back from the UK in June and I had a few

melody ideas, and it all began from there.

It was bones and then everyone made it all fleshy and warm, which is really the joy of collaboration, seeing where an idea will take you and end up. Once we had the song we locked in some time at Machine Lab Studios on the Cold Ghost with Jared Adlam and Zachary Miller. With them on board we explored texture and dynamics in the studio, as well as writing the chorus on the last day. We were in Japan and getting mixes sent through, having listening parties in onsens with ramen, riddled with tour madness, we finalised a mix and boom, Boondock, there she is.

How did the idea for the music video for boondocks come about?

all took it in turns to film for a day while on tour, we had a few ideas for scenes but it was all very ad-hoc, then Hayden Rossiter (editor) rolled our turd in glitter, so to speak.

What’s in the future for you guys after this tour?

Post tour blues will ensue. We’ll probably chose individual directions on a compass and go wander the globe for a time, escaping a little of the Queensland summer. Next year is wide open, we have dreams of another overseas tour, maybe New Zealand, maybe Europe, we’ll have to have a sit down and scheme.

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I’m mentioning Japan a lot I know, but it was the biggest thing we’ve done as a band so we’re all still frothing! The film clip is just us being dorks on and off stage. We

See the Moudly Lovers play Friday November 17 at The Homestead, Hobart. They then head to The Royal Oak in Launceston on Saturday November 18.

STREET PARTY 15/DEC FRIDAY

CARGO PRESENTS Supports: PATCH (ADL) MEZ JAMM PIGLET SPINFX

The Grand Poobah Friday November 3

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BROKE DAYS, PARTY NIGHTS ECCA VANDAL IS LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR. OR PERHAPS A REALLY, GUTSY BLOW OF WIND. ECCA RELEASED HER SELFTITLED ALBUM A MERE TWO WEEKS AGO AND FANS COULDN’T BE MORE IMPRESSED. ECCA DOES NOT RESTRICT HERSELF AND HER LATEST ALBUM SHOWCASES HER CREATIVITY. I HAD A CHAT TO ECCA ABOUT THE ALBUM, HER UPBRINGING AND HER UPCOMING FALLS FESTIVAL SHOW.

Ecca Vandal is no new face to music, however her latest self-titled album has propelled her to the front of the scene. The album is the perfect mix of party songs with softer, honest songs and everything you need to get your through the week. One of Ecca’s most interesting aspects is her genre-defiance. Ecca makes a point of not restricting herself when it comes to exploration and creating a music and because of this she has created one of the most interesting and unique albums of the decade.

“I’ve grown up with a whole bunch of different sounds and influences and different styles of music, for that matter. So I think that I’ve absorbed all of this along the way and I’ve studied a whole bunch of different sounds and styles and then when it came to writing my original music I literally just said to myself ‘I’m not going to try to write in a particular genre or in a particular style’, I just wanted to see what came out. I literally just started writing and then would allow myself to go into these different sounds and styles and I guess its [my music is] just a mash-up of who I am and my background and influences all in one.”

Ecca’s influences and background shine through her music. She has an incredible background her influences cross a range of genre’s and artists.

Ecca says that she focuses on being free and not thinking too much when it comes to song writing and experimentation.

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from both places. Sri Lankan party music is really rhythmic and energetic and so is South African music. It’s quite upbeat and rhythmic and manic and I was exposed to that as a young child. I grew up with lots of music in the house, from gospel to soul to jazz to a little bit later in life when my sisters were older, collecting their records, it was a lot of hip hop and RnB and I would just steal their records and I grew up listening to their music. Eventually that led to me discover jazz and I fell in love with jazz and then studied it for three years at University. After that period, I really fell in love with improvisation, with creating new sounds and making sounds with my voice. So, it was actually after UNI that I started to work out when I write my own compositions, what they’re going to sound like and that’s when I discovered that I didn’t want to restrict myself or limit myself to anything in particular, I just wanted to let myself be free in the song writing process!”

Ecca’s latest album has already received rave reviews and an incredible response for fans, which is for good reason. It’s always pleasant when a new artist comes along with fresh and innovative music, but Ecca Vandal takes it to a whole new level. Ecca has being producing music for some time now, however she believes her new music shows another side of her. This is what Ecca believes fans can expect from the album.

“I think they can expect a whole bunch of new sounds and a whole bunch of party tunes mixed with some tunes that show a different side to my

personality and to my expression. There’s some quieter, maybe even softer more chilled tracks that I haven’t released before and it’s just great for me to be able to show that side of myself that I haven’t released so far. So, I’m really excited for people to discover all the twists and turns that will happen in the record.”

Ecca Vandal will be preforming at the Marion Bay leg of the Falls Festival and if her record is anything to go by, it is bound to be an interesting and fun show.

“People can expect to hear a lot of new material from the album [at Falls Festival], it’s a completely new show and I’m really pumped about it. So, I think that people will see that I’m really excited to play music and they can expect to come and lose themselves in the moment with me for like an hour and a bit and I hope they feel really energised by that.”

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See Ecca Vandal perform at the Falls Festival, Marion Bay. Tickets and festival information can be found at the website - www.fallsfestival.com/marion-bay.

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STREET EATS @ FRANKO BEAUTIFUL FRANKLIN SQUARE IN CENTRAL HOBART IS PLAYING HOST TO STREET EATS, A VIBRANT NIGHT MARKET FEATURING ENTERTAINMENT AND LOCAL FOOD AND BEVVIES. STREET EATS IS THE LATEST PROJECT OF MADI SEEBERPEATTIE, THE BRAINS BEHIND THE MUCH-LOVED FARM GATE MARKET, AND WORKS TO SHOWCASE LOCAL PRODUCERS, MAKERS AND ARTISTS. AS WELL AS A VARIETY OF EXCLUSIVE MENUS AVAILABLE ONLY AT FRANKLIN SQUARE EACH FRIDAY NIGHT, STREET EATS WILL FEATURE LIVE ART AND ENTERTAINMENT FROM CREATIVE TASSIE FOLK.

Every Friday evening, Street Eats will take over Franklin Square to feed and entertain locals and tourists in the summertime warmth. Folks gathering on picnic blankets, chowing down on good food and local beers, listening to cool jazz and sweet blues? Sounds good!

Street Eats @ Franko debuted in 2016, following the redevelopment of Franklin Square, invigorating the Hobart city centre. The food stalls are manned by local small business owners, to show off the locally-made and sourced eats of the area. Street Eats @ Franko is also zero-waste event, with all the over-the-counter packaging being either compostable or recyclable.

One of the highlights of the Street Eats @ Franko experience is the live music on offer. Here’s a few of the great local acts you’ll be able to nosh and boogie to this upcoming Street Eats season.

Mangus + Co The “old and new jazz and blues” band is fronted by blue and gospel vocalist Mangus, who’s been peddling his musical wares in Hobart town since 2006. This new project only began this year, but is a winning match already: the company he keeps is his accompanists Oliver Plapp (double bass), Kelly Ottaway (keys), Ritnarong Coomber (drums, washboard) and Katy Raucher (vocals). They come together to bring you a simultaneously fresh and traditional sound.

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The Bad Dad Orchestra Soul dads! The BDO is a collective of musicianswho happen to be fathers- playing raucous soul and groove-laden rock and roll. The nine daddyos of BDO hail from Launceston and have been smashing stages and belting out hard funk since 2007.

Jay Jarome + Friends New Hobartian Jay Jarome moved to Tassie on an APRA scholarship from Queensland, and plays neo-soul and R&B like a pro. A+.

Vanguard Jazz Band Hobart act Vanguard Jazz Band prefer to call themselves a “trazz” act: “contemporary jazz with elements of trash.” Intriguing!

Big Small Band Big Small Band are a local quintet that, as you can tell from the name, bring the jazz quintet sound in both large and little measures. You want strippedback trad-jazz? You got it! What about energetic big-band organised chaos? Why not!

Mrs Cash “Australia’s premiere groove outfit” Mrs Cash belt out funk and soul for hungry ears and danceready feet. Be prepared.

Paua Paua is a six-piece reggae-fusion multicultural collective of musicians from Australia and Philippines, dedicated to “soulful R&B urges, incognito jazz spills, 808 ends”, who have been dominating the iTunes reggae charts in Australia, New Zealand and abroad. The band have been featured at all sorts of global festivals like One Love, East Coast Vibes and Ngapuhi Fest, Street Eats @ Franko maintains the same ethos as Farm Gate Market – core ingredient of menu items must be exclusively Tasmanian, from small producers, and produced ethically. Street Eats @ Franko will feature seventeen savoury producers, three dessert outlets and three bars- more than enough to keep you full and satisfied.

The menus will use local ingredients to create diverse, multicultural dishes and treats. 2017 will see Franko host a dedicated vegetarian producerWombat Café- for all you veggiesauruses. Menus have also been created to take diet restrictions and allergies into account, so each producer offers, on top of their normal menu items, a ‘free from’ dish (ie; gluten-free, vegan, etc.).

The dedicated dessert stalls (where I will be spending most of my time, if I am being honest) will feature Lady Hester serving Persian-inspired hot mini-donuts, and Baker + Co creating new patisserie items each week. A new addition is Pop- a small batch, seasonal icy-pole producer.

In the booze arena, Street Eats @ Franko offers exclusively Tassie-made beverages. The event is, really, all about showing off what Tassie has to offer, including its craft beers and ciders, wine and distillers. The pop-up bars will be serving locally-produced, small batch beer, cider and cold climate wines. Spirit People will be showcasing and serving Tasmanian distillers, with a rotating cocktail menu each week. This year, Spirit People’s lineup will include Charles Oates (who do a fabulous apple brandy), Shene Estate and their Poltergeist gin, Hartshorn bringing their sheep whey vodka and gin (you’ll have to ask them how that works, I’m no barkeep) and The Retiring’s Gin, made up in the Wilmot Hills Distillery.

Teetotallers and designated drivers are accommodated for, too, never fear: there’ll be Tasmanian non-alcoholic, hand-fermented drinks on offer, like Tassie lemonade and cola from the Hobart Beverage Company, Tasmanian Chilli Beer and Duggan apple juice.

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Apart from, perhaps, millions of dollars to spill out of the Franklin Square fountain, what more could you want? Street Eats @ Franko is a family and dog-friendly event, and runs every Friday from November 3 to April 27, with the exception of Good Friday. Get down and soak up some local produce and entertainment.

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A SURREAL YEAR AFTER A HUGE YEAR FOR TASSIE’S THE SURREAL ESTATE AGENTS, THEY’RE FINISHING 2017 UP WITH A MASSIVE BANG, DOING A TWELVE-SHOW NATIONAL TOUR AROUND THE COUNTRY. STARTING AT THE SALAMANCA ARTS CENTRE IN HOBART, BEFORE TRAVELING AROUND THE COUNTRY ON THEIR ‘IF IT AIN’T BROKEN’ TOUR, THEN ENDING WITH FALLS FESTIVAL BACK ON HOME TURF.

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FRI 3 NOV

ALY RAE PATMORE TRIO & EVAN CARYDAKIS TRIO “This year in general has been really amazing for us, we’ve been a band for kind of three/four years now, but this year alone we’ve done more than we’ve ever done before!” says Zac Henderson, guitarist and lead vocalist.

“We’ve played just one of the venues on this tour before but all the others are new to us, so we’re excited to go and play to some new faces in some new places!

Falls is certainly going to be a highlight but I think also, just everything that happens between shows is what we’re really excited for! In the past, touring has had the most rewarding results on our song-writing and band-ship. Driving along the coast in summer is going to be an awesome feeling, stopping places and just hanging out! We’re all really close in the band so I think we’re going to just have a load of fun kicking around the country and playing/writing our music!”

Their eclectic debut album House Inspection was released in February this year, after a go fund me page helped kickstart it - raising around $2,000 to help cover costs.

“There’s some rockabilly on there, some funk, groove and psychedelic kinda stuff, a few ballads on there too. It’s really quite broken up, it’s a pretty interesting listen – something for everyone. When I first started playing with a band and formed the group and name ‘The Surreal Estate Agents’ it was kind of just a jam band. We had heaps of fun and just kind of riffed on ideas and as time went by we sort of developed that craft and musicality.

I was always keen on doing psychedelicrock kind of stuff - and there is still that element in some of our songs. But also, I have always had a very folk music background, especially with busking on the streets and stuff so I think it just comes out that way. As a band we just try and arrange the music around the lyrics

or the idea or the feeling we are trying to evoke and let the song do the rest of the work.”

Next time you’re in the city, look out for The Surreal Estate Agents jamming in the mall, although they’ve shared the stage with the likes of Dan Sultan, Killing Heidi, Neil Finn and Meg Mac there is no stopping Henderson from doing what he loves best.

“I still feel very at home playing my music on the street, that’s where it all started.

With busking on the street, there is a huge saturation of people just going about their day. What I really love about busking is turning a street corner into what feels like an event, concert or performance.

When you can stop people on their way to wherever they are going and they sit down and watch you play on the street and clap after songs it’s a great feeling and a completely different skill from performing on a stage with a sound system, lighting and a pre-existing audience.”

KEIRA LEONARD

FRI 10 NOV

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CHRISTOPHER LEON & MATT WARREN

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SCARY FAMILY BAND

REAL TO REEL

FILMS AND SHORTS EXPLORING OUR WORLD THROUGH THE SCREEN

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ART + FILM WITH SEAN KELLY

TUE 12 DEC

THE HORROR WITHIN WITH BRIONY KIDD

ALL SHOWS START 6:30 DOORS & BAR OPEN 5:30 $5 ON THE DOOR FREE FOR KIDS UNDER 12 FIND THE FULL PROGRAM OF LIVE MUSIC AND FILM SCREENINGS ONLINE See The Surreal Estates on tour over November and December, including Band Meeting on November 11, The Taste Of Tasmania on December 28 and Falls Festival on December 30.

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LET THEM EAT CAKE FOUNDING MY FRIEND THE CHOCOLATE CAKE MEMBER, CELLIST HELEN MOUNTFORT, IS SERIOUS ABOUT NOT BEING SERIOUS. SHE ACKNOWLEDGES BOTH THE SILLY NAME AND THE SPORADIC NATURE OF THE BAND’S OUTPUT, BUT WHEN THE BAND IS ON, THEY’RE ON.

“I would never want Cake to be a full-time band, I’m a big fan of the part-time band.” she explains. “It makes it something you love doing; plus, the reality is, with a six-piece band, no-one makes money, it’s certainly nobody’s main source of income. Which is healthy, not doing it for the money, doing it because we love it.

We feel lucky when we manage to play fantastic gigs in fantastic venues, pay ourselves and cover costs. You have to be doing a lot of gigs to make a band a fulltime proposal.”

The band’s new album, The Revival Meeting (out now) is the first after 2014’s Best (Cake) in Show; the band have been rocking intermittently since their inception in 1989. Cake was started by Mountfort and David Bridie, who works mostly on film scores these days. Mountfort discusses the working relationships at the heart of Cake.

“It’s been incredibly fruitful. I’ve been lucky, you can count on the fingers of one hand the people you like playing with, have a special musical relationship withI’ve had three or four. David and Hope [Csutoros, violin], she’s been incredible, I love playing with her and writing with her.”

rehearsal, there’s so much stuff and it’s off again.”

Never fear, though, Cake fans: they’re not going anywhere.

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“[David and I] like to call ourselves ‘benign dictators’ (laughs), we were clear on what Chocolate Cake was. Hope didn’t play for Chocolate Cake for three years when she had her kids. We managed to make it quite a family-friendly band; we only tour on weekends. We’ve always managed to make it work.”

“We all love this record, it’s a great record to play, and the reality is, the way bands record is changing; we’re thinking we’ll release tracks over the next few years over time. David has a studio out the back of his house, so we won’t be waiting five years for the next [album]. We’re in a unique position where we have a loyal audience from the start; we’ve all grown up together.”

“We’re getting slow in our old age (laughs)” she says, on the new record.

“Every time we’ve made an album it’s not everyone’s sole focus; after a few years, you just think “I wonder if there’s another Chocolate Cake album”, and within one

“We’ll keep making albums, but we’ve got an eye on the people that don’t consume music that way. I dont think the album is quite dead for a band like us, there’s such variety to what we do. You need six Chocolate Cake songs to get what we

LIFELONG BLUES BLUES SINGER-SONGWRITER LLOYD SPIEGEL WAS A WORKING MUSICIAN AT AN AGE WHEN MOST OF US WERE COLLECTING TAZOS AND PLAYING HANDBALL. THAT’S STAGGERING INNINGS. THESE DAYS, HE’S CHUFFED WITH THE RECEPTION OF HIS NEW RECORD, THIS TIME TOMORROW, AN ALBUM HE’LL BE TOURING RIGHT ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

do (laughs), or come to a show, we’re not a single-y sort of band. We’re a good live band, it gives every member of band different chances to shine.”

“So much of blues music sounds like a Civil War re-enactment.” Spiegel laughs, at modern blues owing, possibly, too much to the Sounds of Old. “That never made any sense to me; it’s an evolving art form, it’s still growing. My life has always been a constant walking of that line between moving into a new time of blues music and pushing the edge, while still trying to pay respect to where it came from.”

“Certainly not all of my songs are blues songs; the best way to phrase it is that blues is the canvas, but the rest can cross over to just about anything. The only way forward is to please yourself, make yourself happy. We get into music because we don’t want to lock ourselves in and become the norm, so we do our best to continually create and evolve as artists.”

This Time Tomorrow is Spiegel’s eight release, a natural follow-up to his last effort, wherein he celebrated his longevity by releasing Double Live Set, a live record, in 2015.

My Friend The Chocolate Cake play Theatre Royal, Hobart on Saturday December 9. Tickets available from www.theatreroyal.com.au.

“I don’t really remember not playing guitar. I started playing around four or five; by nine or ten, I was out at blues jams having a play; I started playing professional at twelve. It’s really been a lifetime. I had more front than Myers, I was so eager. The thing that I had was just that I really knew what I wanted to do very young, and I had the time and the motivation that a child has. There was only ever one path that I was interested in.”

“I went to the US when I was sixteen to work with a great american blues artist named Brownie McGhee. I found myself there for a festival and just stayed. In my head it was always home, where I developed who I was. Kansas City is where jazz and blues first met; smack in the middle of the country, on its way to Chicago blues, moved up from the Delta and met up with jazz and the slickness and suits came in. I found myself in a city for the first time where a blues music gig guide was five pages long.”

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“Twenty-five years in the business, so it made sense to celebrate it somehow. It was also, to be perfectly honest, kind of a filler. I was struggling to write at that point; I had this terrible writers’ block that lasted about three years. When that was released, I started writing. It’s a really eclectic and strange album; I wrote parts of it in Kansas, the Netherlands, Cambodia….each of those songs will sound like the city it was written in. I made sure it flowed like a story.”

As mentioned, Spiegel began playing music very young, and hasn’t stopped since.

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ORIGINAL PUNK BASSIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE SEX PISTOLS, GLEN MATLOCK WHO PENNED THE HITS PRETTY VACANT AND GOD SAVE THE QUEEN IS HITTING AUSTRALIAN (AND TASMANIAN) SHORES THIS NOVEMBER. SO 40 YEARS ON FROM NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS DOES GLEN THINK PUNK IS STILL A POWERFUL WAY TO BRING ABOUT CULTURAL CHANGE OR HAVE WE NOW REACHED A POINT OF COMPLETE CULTURAL SATURATION?

You’re touring Australia to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Never Mind The Bollocks in November and coming all the way down to Tasmania for a gig at The Republic Bar. What sort of live content can punters expect from your tour and are the rumours that you’ll be doing Q&A’s at each gig true?

Yeah absolutely, my tour coincides with the anniversary of Never Mind The Bollocks so I’ll be doing some songs from that but I do try not to live in the past too much. My bands have included different line ups over the years, I’ve worked with some great people be it Iggy Pop, Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) or The Rich Kids (members of Ultravox). I’ll do a couple of songs from all of them. Q & A’s can definitely sometimes be part of my gigs, so we’ll see where it leads. I’ve put out four solo albums over the past ten or twelve years so I’ll be doing some of those and some covers that have influenced me so y’know it all seems to have dovetailed together quite well because I was one of the blokes who mainly wrote the songs y’know?

Speaking of which, d’you reckon any of the guys in Sex Pistols will ever admit that you wrote the majority of God Save the Queen?

Well, yeah the music was mine. Y’know somebody bangs out a song and you knock it around and it changes a little bit. It very much was a thing where I had the initial idea but it ended up sounding like what the band sounds like. To me Steve and Paul were a big part of the Sex Pistols because they were the sound of the band as opposed to the tunes of the band or the lyrics of the band and that’s a very important thing so I cant decry any of them. But yeah it would be great if they were a little bit more forthcoming. But it’s something I’ll bring up at the Pearly white gates y’know?

One of those iconic lyrics in God Save the Queen is ‘No future, no future for you’ how do you feel British art and music s doing these days in their response to the wests glut of conservative politics and media?

point where Murdoch is buying media companies like VICE who used to be prided on their integrity and are now owned by Mr Multinational?

I think it’s shameful and I think you’ve just gotta read between the lines. I think there’s a vested interest in everything you see online, in the newspaper, on the TV and on the radio and there’s always somebody trying to push their own agenda on you and you’ve just gotta be trying to call them out when you can. And I think that’s all we can do - is call people out all the time.

What inspires you to write these days?

That’s a hard one. I’m in a different age group now. I mean it’s like going back to John Lennon’s interview when somebody asked him when he made a later album if he was still trying to write for ‘the kids’ and he said “No I’m not tryina’ write for the kids, I am tryina’ write for the kids who grew up with me”. And I think that’s spot on. As we get older we kind of have different concerns you know family, lack of family, relationships, ageism. I’ve never been and I don’t think any of the Sex Pistols have ever been outrageous anarchists trying to bring down the western world you know. That was the thing. We just wanted to stir things up but we did it in such a forthright way. It was so a-political that people took it as being political. There’s a difference there. I think if you look at someone like Billy Bragg and the Clash, they were kind of right ‘on’ socialism. I’m not decrying it, it’s just the way it was.

Double Headed is what they call Tasmanians….

Haha I’m gonna meet some double headed Tasmanians eh? I’m mad excited about Tasmania, I’ve never been there so I’m really looking forward to going to Hobart.

Amanda Vanelk

Yeah in fact No Future was the original name of the song. I think that time will tell on the political/media front. I think that when there’s dire straits going on (not the band, the scene around you)… when everybody’s happy it’s not a good time for art but when things are hard it inspires people so that’s always a good thing.

And I think that’s why there’s some great bands coming out of England regardless of the social and political scene, it’s partly just ‘cause the weather’s so bloody bad y’know? It’s dark and grey and you have to get on with something. But I think we’re doing OK you know?

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TALES FROM THE INSIDE INMATES OF RISDON PRISON ARE SHARING PERSONAL STORIES THROUGH CONVICT MONOLOGUES. DURING THE PAST 10 MONTHS, INMATES HAVE RESEARCHED, WRITTEN, AND WILL NOW PERFORM A THEATRICAL PRODUCTION INSPIRED BY THE LIVES OF THOSE IN TASMANIA’S COLONIAL HISTORY. IT’S A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, COMPOSER CHRIS WILLIAMS, THE TASMANIAN THEATRE COMPANY, AND RISDON. CHRIS WILLIAMS, A FORMER TSO AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ SCHOOL PARTICIPANT, TELLS US HOW PROJECTS LIKE THESE CAN CHANGE LIVES. What research did you undertake with regards to the Risdon Prison and Tasmania’s convict history?

I read about the prison a lot before visiting. Honestly, I was just nervous; the kind of nervous you get when doing something you’ve never done before. I relied heavily on the research of the inmates: their retelling of the history.

For me, making something which is honest and personal is more important than something which is academically accurate - most of the time.

How did you get started on the Convict Monologues and how much engagement did you have with the inmates?

Once I was in the prison, it really was like a meeting for any creative project. The inmates told me what they were hoping for, we talked through the script, technical details, asked questions and then parted ways.

I should say, up front, that I think the arts are invaluable for anyone. I’ve never encountered anyone who regrets involvement in the arts and by contrast I often meet people who regret losing their involvement in the arts or never having had the opportunity. Perhaps, in the past, the arts weren’t something that were really thought about for prisoners. So in a sense, this invaluable potential was denied to them through simple neglect.

I think the arts are fundamentally about empathy and critical thought, and by definition eschew superficial engagement. In the case of the Convict Monologues, these inmates are telling stories that resonate with them in a particular way that might not be the case for other people, so they have something to say about them. They are interestingly told stories, but also an opportunity for people in prison to really have the time and space to reflect on their own experience in a new way.

What have you learnt from this project?

It’s made me continue to think about the place of art, why we make art, and why we might make art. None of that’s easy, but this project is such an incredible intersection of practitioners, ideas and influences that it fuels a lot of that thought.

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What are some of the stories the inmates have chosen to share?

There’s a really diverse range of narratives that show you how fickle fate and circumstance can be, and ultimately show the humanity in us all, no matter our circumstance.

They’re all historical, or based on historical accounts.

Paul McIntyre (playwright and project leader) and Natasha Woods (Risdon Prison Arts Officer and former Churchill Fellow) organised some academics to visit the prison, too, and talk about the experience of historical convicts as a way to inspire the writing process.

Why do you feel the arts are beneficial (or essential?) to the lives of people in prison or experiencing the justice system?

The Tasmanian Theatre Company will join with musicians of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Risdon Prison inmates to present two public readings of Convict Monologues in the Hobart Convict Penitentiary, 12 November, at 2pm and 4pm. An event will also take place in the prison on November 8 for inmates, friends and family.

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PAIGE TURNER I HAVE RECENTLY HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO EXPERIENCE THE WONDERS OF READING AND WRITING IN OUR BROADER REGION. I TRAVELLED TO BALI FOR THE ASIA PACIFIC WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS’ GATHERING AT GANESHA UNIVERSITY, WHICH DOVETAILED PERFECTLY INTO THE UBUD WRITERS FESTIVAL. THESE TWO EVENTS, EXPERIENCED IN TRUE TROPICAL GRANDEUR WERE REPLETE WITH CONVERSATIONS AND READINGS AND THE MOST DELIGHTFUL INTERNATIONAL CROSS POLLINATION. I HOPE TO BRING SOME OF THE CRUMPLED FRANGIPANI AND DEEP THINKING BACK TO OUR ISLAND – AND I WILL DEFINITELY BE BRINGING INDONESIANS WHO RUMBLE CENSORSHIP AND IRANIANS WHO PURR PERSIAN POETRY WITH THE MOST DRAMATIC FLAIR. WATCH THIS SPACE.

Down home we have a varied platter of reading and writing events coming up in November, including the launch of The People’s Library at Salamanca Arts Centre.

It is a participatory artwork by Tasmanian artists Justy Phillips and Margaret Woodward, presented in partnership with SAC. The People’s Library will commission, publish and digest a unique living library of new and original booklength works by Tasmanian writers. Part performance library, part contemporary artwork, up to one hundred books in any genre will be published, culminating in a month-long event in September 2018, in which visitors will be invited to use the library – digesting its holdings of one hundred books into a single ‘digest’. The People’s Digest will then be performed by memory for a public audience. They are seeking unpublished works of fiction, memoir, science fiction, biography, non-fiction, history, crime, thriller, poetry, plays and experimental other and if you would like to find out more please visit - www. thepeopleslibrary.net.

Forty South Publishing has been running the Tasmanian Writers’ Prize since 2010 and entries are now open to residents of Australia and New Zealand for the 2018 competition. The prize is for short stories up to 3,000 words having an island, or island-resonant, theme. The winner will receive a cash prize of $500 and publication in Tasmania 40°South. A selection of the best entries will be published in Forty South Short Story Anthology 2018. Entries close on February 18 next year. Entry forms and terms can be downloaded from www.fortysouth.com.au.

I recently finished working with a ripper group of people living with memory loss, the Monday mob from Dementia Australia. The only common factor in this group of diverse people is that they live with younger onset dementia. We published a beautiful book called Badgers and Porcupines, working with young writer Lily Stojevscki. Lily translated some of their stories for the page and the book, which tells of love and loss and rock concerts and ducks and tennis and family is available from Dementia Australia. I mention this because another book being launched in November touches on memory loss, in this case in the form of Alzheimer’s (one of many forms of dementia). Written

by Clodagh and Roy Jones and designed by the wonderful Julie Hawkins, Roy and Clodagh, Living with Dementia, will be launched at Fullers on November 2.

The book provides an insight into what it’s like to live with memory loss, when many people in this situation are not able to articulate their feelings.

Also at Fullers Bookshop in November, on the 9th is the launch of Christine Milne’s book An Activist Life and, on November 11, Gareth Evans will be in conversation with Lisa Singh about his book Incorrigible Optimist.

More information can be found here - www. fullersbookshop.com.au/events.

At the Hobart Bookshop in Salamanca on November 9 is the launch of LF McDermott’s book Perseverance and November 15 will see the launch of Ray Glickman’s book Frenzship. See -www. hobartbookshop.com.au/upcoming.

Poet Ivy Alvarez is visiting the state in November and will be reading at the Republic, Ivy is one of my favourite contemporary poets, she challenges and soothes and reads so beautifully. Seek her out.

Island’s 151st issue will feature the winners of the Utas/Island comp, with an essay from Erin Hortle, art from Dexter Rosengrave and a short story from Gabrielle Lis, I am excited by all these fellas’ works and look forward to getting my hands on the issue.

It will also include the winner of the Gwen Harwood poetry prize and a major feature on Tasmania’s future as considered by Tasmanian women (people can join the conversation using the hashtag #tasfutures).

I’m off to prison. Yep. Actually I will be working with the LINC program and 26Ten as a writer in residence at Risdon, working specifically with lower literacy inmates. Tasmania has a paltry 50% functional literacy and I believe that the ability to read and write can make a positive difference to individuals and communities. I am looking so very forward (wrangling language) to this project! -www.26ten.tas.gov.au.

Tasmania has an opportunity to nominate our capital city as a UNESCO City of Literature. We have thousands of years of stories, saw the first novel in the country published, have more readers and writers per capita than elsewhere AND we must celebrate literature and therefore celebrate and promote literacy. This will take a few moments, but please take the time to put your thoughts in -www.yoursay. hobartcity.com.au/unesco-city-of-literature-or-worldbook-capital.

The People’s Choice Awards for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Awards are up and running – have your say, get amongst it, up there Cazaly. All the winners of this year’s awards will be announced on November 27 – www.tasmanianartsguide.com.au/plpvote.

RACHEL EDWARDS

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TASMANIAN EXCHANGING IDEAS KICKSTART ARTS ARE FULL OF IDEAS FOR SUMMER AND THEY WANT TO ECO SHARE THEM WITH YOU. IN ITS SECOND YEAR, THE CREATIVE EXCHANGE HAS NOW OFFERED 77 WORKSHOPS TO JUST UNDER 1000 FILM FEST PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS AND HAS NO INTENTION OF STOPPING. IN ITS THIRD YEAR, THE TASMANIAN ECO FILM FESTIVAL (TeFF) WILL BE OFFERING THREE SCREENINGS, IN THREE LOCATIONS ACROSS HOBART, BETWEEN NOVEMBER 10 – 12.

Eco-themed and apolitical, the festival brings together a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking films from across the globe. “TeFF is a contemporary eco film festival,” states TeFF director Kyia Clayton. “It hopes to engage, inform, inspire and include.

We inhabit this earth together, it’s time for a bigger more intelligent and global approach to the care of the natural world.

This means starting conversations and listening to people without separation of political or religious beliefs.”

On offer by Kickstart this November and December are a range workshops including South American Fermentation Fiesta, Authentic Communication, Creating a Waste Free Christmas, Stencil Making and Groove! Dance Party to name a few.

This year’s program begins with Pop Up Shorts, a screening of environmental short films at The Commons Hobart (126 Bathurst St) on Friday November 10. The festival moves on the Saturday to the State Cinema in North Hobart with The Gateway Bug, which explores the environmental benefits of eating insects and the issue of world hunger. The festival wraps up on Sunday afternoon at Greening Australia (50 Olinda Grove, Mt Nelson), with some family friendly eco short films accompanied by milkshakes and popcorn.

More information on the festival can be found at www.tassieff.com.

“Creative Exchange is designed to be really affordable and eclectic, the workshops are fun and great social occasions in themselves. We are bringing to the surface hidden cultural knowledge and the wealth of experience held within our community,” according to program

producer, Christian Florence. “Many of the traditional skills people learn will assist them to make a lot of a little, to develop new ways of doing things, new philosophical approaches and group know-how.”

One workshop on offer is “Healthy Festive Cookery” run by expert food educator Alison Gandy. Alison will show how to prepare Gluten Free options, vegetarian, low sugar sweets and discover how to rework your leftovers into something delicious the next day.

“We’ll have lots of fun, I like to tailor the workshops to the interests of the group, we’ll have tastings of everything and lots of Q & A. I want to share the cooking of really fresh local produce into delicious healthy treats for summer, look at how to avoid packaged foods and save money at the same time. We’ll do some local food shop mapping – where to shop for great produce while on a budget. I’m very much guided by the ethos of the food sellers, which I think is really important.”

Over her 30-year career as head chef and educator in the food industry, Alison Gandy became increasingly horrified at the large amount of food wasted in restaurants. So she did something about it, beginning with donating food to communities and actively working to reduce wastage in her workplace and in the industry in general. Sharing her cookery skills and easy ways to be more environmentally friendly in the kitchen, Alison has committed to reducing all types of food waste.

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HOBIENNALE A NEW FESTIVAL ON THE BLOCK, HOBIENNALE IS BRINGING TOGETHER ARTIST-RUN INITIATIVES AND EMERGING ARTISTS FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND FOR 10 DAYS OF EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCE, AND MUSIC THIS NOVEMBER IN GREATER HOBART.

Christopher Ulutupu

An entirely free event encompassing the greater Hobart region, Hobiennale will utilize locations including a disused 1950s cinema, a giant gothic sandstone building known as Domain House, an underground war time battery and a soon to be demolished electrical wholesale store.

Some of the projects on offer are Kauri Hawkins’ work imagining the lives of Mauri road workers sent to Port Arthur for revolting, MOANA’s midnight seance, Christopher Uluputu’s nature karaoke, Olivia Koh’s rewriting and re-enacting of classical plays with Rihanna as their key character and Frontyard’s participatory publication work, where audience members contribute to the creation of a book over the duration of the festival.

The musical component of the festival will feature a diverse array of local and interstate musicians, programmed to respond to the exhibitions they will perform alongside. Laura Hunt and Chris V Lopa will hack into the devices of audience members to create a responsive electronic late night set, Ben Yardley and Aaron Cuthbert will woo audiences with their ambient drone overlooking the site where Joseph Conrad’s ship the Otago was scuttled, Hazy Daze will play live vinyl aboard the rather unattractive but very endearing vessel, The Spirit of Hobart, and a huge group of Tasmanian acts will perform in an old sepulcher in the inner city.

Julia Drouhin and Marcus-Andreas Mohr

Kauri Hawkins

Jack Caddy

Hobiennale runs from Thursday November 2 to Saturday November 11 across a variety of locations in Hobart. The full list of Hobiennale events can be found at www.hobiennale.com.

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NOVEMBER @ SAWTOOTH THE LAUNCESTON ARTIST RUN GALLERY SHOWCASES CONTEMPORARY AND EXPERIMENTAL ART FROM ARTISTS AT VARIOUS STAGES IN THEIR PROFESSIONAL CAREER. NOVEMBER AT SAWTOOTH WILL FEATURE ARTISTS FROM TASMANIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA AND AS FAR AS AMERICA. Award-winning artist Chee Yong explores landscapes in a 3D context. His artist statement literally reads “... and so I bought a very large block of polystyrene. It took 3 large grown men to move it upstairs into my studio. It’s a lot easier to move now that I’ve cut it into many many little bits.”

Jessica Green (image attached) presents the exhibition comprising of an installation entitled, ‘Rainbow Machine’. The artists states, “Rainbow Machine utilizes everyday elements to re-contextualize a natural phenomenon into a state of extended duration. This installation is a diagrammatic tool that maps the material and immaterial qualities in which light resonates. It acts as a spatial vector that connects artifact, apparatus to the agency and performativity of a phenomenon that includes the viewer as inherent in this process of effect.”

Front Gallery: Landscapes 3d Chee Yong (TAS) Middle Gallery: Hard Bodies Kimberley Pace (WA) Project Gallery: Ocean Spirit Lisa Jane DE Boer (TAS) Dark Space Gallery: Rainbow Machine Jessica Green (SA) Gate Gallery: Islands Cori Beardsley (USA)

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November @ Sawtooth opens Friday November 3, from 6pm – 9pm. The exhibition continues to November 25. Sawtooth ARI Gallery is located at 1/160 Cimitere St, Launceston. More information on what’s upcoming at the gallery can be found at www.sawtooth.org.au.

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Gallery Guide South Visual Bulk November 3 Talk Back Contemporary Art Tasmania November 3 How Can You Tell For Sure – Llewellyn Millhouse Bett Gallery November 3 – November 20 Barbie Kjar November 24 – December 11 Stephanie Tabram Domain House November 3 MOANA – Light as a Feather November 3 FELTspace – FELTcult November 3 SUCCESS – Archive Fever November 3 THE CURATED SHELF + Radio 33 – Northland + Intraference Colville Gallery November 3 Adrian Lockhart November 5 Fatemeh Vafaeinejad November 24 Chen Ping Despard Gallery October 18 – November 12 Lines and Squares - Julie Harris November 15 – December 10 Recent Paintings - Geoff Dyer Handmark Gallery Until November 6 New Drawings and Ceramics – David Edgar & Sallee Warner November 10 – November 27 New Works Under $3000 – Affordable Art Exhibition Henry Jones Art Hotel November 1 – January 2018 68177 – Chris Hamnett Salamanca Arts Centre Lightbox November 2 – November 30 Infinity is not a number, it’s an idea.

– Lucy Parakhina Sidespace Gallery November 2 – November 15 Abstracting Time II – Abstracting Time November 24 – November 29 Text-Isle Bazaar - Stitching & Beyond November 30 – December 13 Hunter Island Press Mini Print Exhibition Long Gallery Until November 10 Artfully Queer 2017: Out of Darkness C3 November 4 Signal – A Magnet for Projectiles Late at Night Princess Park Battery November 4 The Romantic Picturesque School of Creative Arts November 4 Outer Space The Commons Hobart November 4 Surface World

Moonah Arts Centre Until November 11 Cool and Temperate – The Calligraphy Society of Tasmania Until November 11 The Egg Island – Deborah Combes, Violet Lipscombe, Patricia Martin GASP November 5 MEANWHILE – Te Ara Te ao Hauauru November 5 ALASKA – Portal (For Robert and Jonathan) Kickstart Arts November 9 – November 10 Magic Hour @ Coles Carpark Rosny Farm School House November 11 Elapse Rosny Farm Barn November 11 Touch With Your Eyes

TMAG November 4 Utterly Silent, Utter Silence, Utterly Something, Thinking Thinking, Utterly Listening, Utterly Umm..

Until November 5 The Derwent

NORTH Burnie Regional Gallery October 21 – December 3 Moving Conversations – Eleanor Austin November 11 – December 17 Colonial Afterlives

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Brisbane Hotel November 30 Cult Comedy

Burnie Arts Centre November 8 Col Elliot November 15 A Very Kransky Christmas

Theatre Royal November 3 2017 Clubhouse Comedy Gala November 18 Alex Williamson – Make the World a Banter Place The Polish Corner November 1 Laura Davis November 8 Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall November 15 Chris Franklin

Devonport Entertainment Centre November 16 A Very Kransky Christmas Princess Theatre November 4 2017 Fresh Comedy Gala

THEATRE Burnie Arts Centre Until November 4 9 to 5: The Musical November 17 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz November 23 – November 25 Life on Three Stages November 25 Get Reel’n 2017

Wrest Point Showroom November 11 Col Elliot – Col’s Back November 17 A Very Kransky Christmas

THEATRE Theatre Royal November 17 Dance Force Grad Tour 2017 November 22 – November 25 Sleeping Booty

Devonport Entertainment Centre November 2 The Rhythms of Ireland Earl Arts Centre Until November 11 Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers

Theatre Royal Backspace November 16 – November 25 Ruthless!

Peacock Theatre Until November 5 The Wizard of Oz

Princess Theatre November 17 Bravo 2017 November 18 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz November 22 New Writing for Tasmanian Theatre 2017 November 24 Friends Progressive Dinner Dance

Domain House November 7 MOANA – Light as a Feather TMAG Courtyard November 4 Signal – Before Taking Any Action

Devonport Regional Gallery Until December 3 RACT Tasmania Portrait Prize Little Gallery Project Space (Devonport Regional Gallery) Unil December 3 The Black Suite – Angela Casey Handmark Evandale Until November 8 New Paintings – Linda Keough November 12 – November 29 New Works on Paper – Justin McShane Gallery Pejean November 1 – December 2 5th Anniversary Exhibition

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Sawtooth ARI Front Gallery November 3 - 25 Landscapes 3D – Chee Yong Middle Gallery November 3 - 25 Hard Bodies – Kimberley Pace Project Gallery November 3 - 25 Ocean Spirit – Lisa Jane de Boer Gate Gallery November 3 - 25 Islands – Cori Beardsley

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Hobart Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Wednesday

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Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

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3

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Acts / Start Time

Birdcage Bar

Fee Whitla 8:30pm The Supersuckers (USA) + Eddie & The Low Tides

Birdcage Bar

Billy & Aaron 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Derwent Entertainment Centre

Midnight Oil - The Great Circle 2017 Tour

The Duke

Duke Quiz

Irish Murphy’s

The Duke

Duke Quiz

Noteworthy: Hannah May, Miss Jones Plays, Tim Chivers 8pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy: Emily Lawton (Laun), Eve Gowan (Laun), BrodyGreg (Laun) 8pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Blue Flies 8:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Sam Forsyth 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Jed Appleton 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

The White Tree 8pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Finn Seccombe 7pm

Brisbane Hotel

The Stems (WA) + A. Swayze & The Ghosts

The Homestead

Tech Sessions with Hobarts Finest DJ’s 9pm

Franklin Palais Theatre

TSO Brass on Tour 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Les Coqs Incroyables 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Ocean Man & The Great Muldavio 9pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Ocean Man & The Great Muldavio 9pm

Irish Murphy’s

The Seratones 9pm

Irish Murphy’s

No Felix 9pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Maestro Koko 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Eddie & The Low Tides 8:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Karly Fisher 6:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 6:30pm

The Homestead

bingo with Ol’ Gobbert & Boomers 8pm

The Homestead

bingo with Ol’ Gobbert & Boomers 8pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Birdcage Bar

Everburn Duo 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Mak Duo (The Incidentalists) 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Tarot + Dracula + Woe

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar - ELEVATED w/ Ruckman (Vic) + Etikates (Vic) + Fresh Violet (Vic) + Menz + Nibs + Blaze & Luna + Hermit

Thursday

Friday

9

10

Casino Bar

SupaNova DJ - Andy 9pm

Contemporary Art Tasmania

LIVE: FAIL 6pm

Grand Poobah

Klue, Sexy Lucy, Kowl & Bear Cub

Hobart Brewing Company

TSO Live Sessions 7pm

Onyx

DJ Randall Foxx 11:30pm

Red Velvet Lounge

Black Cat 6:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Republic Bar’s 20th Birthday with 4 Letter Fish do Pink Floyd 9:30pm

SAC Courtyard

Rektango 5:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Jonathan & Alan 7:30pm

The Duke

Ironhouse Brewery 10th Anniversary featuring Mama K and the Big Love and support by Katy Raucher 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Late Night Krackieoke

Grand Poobah

Grooverider & Fabio

Grand Poobah

The Coven Halloween Edition

Hobart Twilight Market

Lasca, Lauren O’Keefe, Lonely Bay, Mayhem & Me 4:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Brett Collidge 10pm

SAC Courtyard

Rektango 5:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Sticks & Kane 7:30pm

The Duke

Gabrielle Dever Band 8:30pm

The Homestead

Wobbly Gherka Bonanza Extravaganza 9pm

The Whaler

Zac Henderson, The Bootleg Gin Sluggers 7:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Bob Jenkyns 7pm

The Founders Room

BAND MEETING 2017 - Launch Party

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Tristen Bird Album Launch - special guest Van Walker 6:30pm

The Homestead

TBC

The Whaler

Finn Seccombe Duo 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Smoke & Mirror 9pm

Theatre Royal

Peace Train - The Cat Stevens Story

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar - Scaphis (Vic) + Hybrid Nightmares (Vic) + GAPE + Zero Degrees Freedom + Scoparia

Waratah Hotel

Boo Seeka supported by Turquoise Prince and Local (TBC) 8pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - GAME CHANGERS - Just Jesus + Feed Rick + Final Broadcast + Ghost Drop + Lasca Dry Band + The Stragglers + Soda Creamers + The Cindy Witches + Fit Bit + Slumber + Sarah Lacy Ann + Bar & Star + Secret Stains (DJ Set) 4pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Cam Stuart 7pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Clover Hitch 6:30pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Damien Leith - The Parting Glass

Birdcage Bar

Sambo & Jimi 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar - Whalebone + The Prickly Grapes + The 308’s

Saturday

11

Brisbane Hotel

Game Changers - Women in Music Festival 9pm

Carlyle Hotel

Karaoke with DJ Foxy 8pm

Federation Concert Hall

Beethoven’s Seventh 7:30pm

Carlyle Hotel

Goodfellas 8pm

Grand Poobah

Tas Music: Philomath, Peak Body, Dolphin, Mum & Dad, Just Jesus, Slag Queens & Popsie Cool

Casino Bar

SupaNova DJ - Andy 9pm

Grand Poobah

Odd Mob, Kowl, Berks & Sexy Lucy in the Main Room

Grand Poobah

Rainbows and Glitter 9pm

Grand Poobah

Limbo Party

Harmony Garden Centre Farmers Market

Valium, Patrick Berechree, Katie Wilson, Miss Jones Plays 10:30am

Peacock Theatre

BAND MEETING 2017

Republic Bar & Cafe

Republic Bar & Cafe

Hobart Funk Collective + Bad Dad Orchestra 10pm

Republic Bar’s 20th Birthday with Boil Up (No Cover) 10pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Legally Blinde 7:30pm

SAC Courtyard

BAND MEETING 2017

The Odeon Theatre Mezzanine

Louis McCoy + Bronze Savage + Good Marinations

The Brunswick Hotel

Gabriele Dagrezio 7:30pm

The Founders Room

BAND MEETING 2017

The Whaler

Yesterday’s Gentlemen, The Ruben Reeves Band 9pm

The Homestead

TBC

The Spirit of Hobart

Hazy Daze 8pm

The Whaler

Parlour Band 9pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

No Balance Required 9pm

Birdcage Bar

The Moonshines

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - The Velvet Addiction (Vic) + Daisycutters

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Raccoons 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Peter Hicks & The Blue Licks 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Republic Bar & Cafe

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Simon Astley 8:30pm

The Duke

Dukebox 7:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Birdcage Bar

Dave Sikk 4tet 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy: Imogen Sky, Tom Fowkes, James Nutting 8pm

Theatre Royal

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

TMAG

Sonic Systematics 7pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Gabriele Dagrezio 9pm

Wrest Point Showroom

The Angels

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

GASP

Kauri Hawkins + ALASKA 4pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Van Walker + Tristen Bird 8:30pm

SAC C3

Signal 2pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

The Bootleg Gin Sluggers 1pm

Monday

6

Republic Bar & Cafe

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

Tuesday

7

Birdcage Bar

Hugo Bladel 3:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Montz Matsumoto 8:30pm

The Duke

Hobart Blues Club 10th Anniversary 7:30pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

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Wednesday

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Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

16

17

18

19

20

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Republic Bar & Cafe The Duke

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Cody Gunton 8:30pm

Onyx

Neon Acoustic 9:15pm

Duke Quiz

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Badlands 9pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 7pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Smoke & Mirrors 6:30pm

The Homestead

Ladies on Vinyl 8pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Matthew Ives & His Big Band

Birdcage Bar

The Suffrajettes 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Bridget Pross 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Ocean Man & The Great Muldavio 9pm

Back Bar - Hurricane Youth + Verticoli + Dog Dreams + The Hudson Cartel

Irish Murphy’s

Boon’s Olive Church 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Republic Bar & Cafe

Billy Warner 8:30pm

Front Bar - White Summer (Vic) + Babylon Howl + The Cindy Witches

The Brunswick Hotel

Tarik Stoneman 6:30pm

The Homestead

bingo with Ol’ Gobbert & Boomers 8pm

Waterman’s Beer Market Birdcage Bar Brisbane Hotel

Wednesday

Thursday

21

22

23

Friday

24

Casino Bar

SupaNova DJ - Andy 9pm

Granada Tavern

Bernard Fanning and the Black Fins - Brutal Dawn Tour

Unlocked 6pm

Grand Poobah

Session B presents Hidden Sound

Tim & Scott 9pm

Grand Poobah

Naomi Keyte & James Parry

Back Bar - All The Weathers + Good Morning + Dave Blumberg & The Maraby Rock Opera + Heck + DOLPHIN + Hownowmer

Republic Bar & Cafe

Lloyd Spiegel 10pm

SAC Courtyard

Rektango 5:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Sticks & Kane 7:30pm

The Homestead

The Black Swans of Trespass vs Uncle Gus and The Rimshots + CC & Alex + The Broth 9pm

The Duke

Crystal Sky Band

The Whaler

Dean Stevenson and Dave Wilson, Pete Cornelius 7:30pm

Waratah Hotel

ALTA Supported by KOWL & Local (TBC) 8pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Jonathan Warwarek 7pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

The Hollands 6:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Tony Voglino 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar - ALL WHITE - Womens Dance Event DJ’s, Burlesque, Exotic Dancers

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - Late Night Krackieoke

Casino Bar

DJ Randall Foxx 9pm

Federation Concert Hall

ANAM Concerto Competition 7:30pm

Granada Tavern

Seth Sentry - Play It Safe Tour

Grand Poobah

Sandrino (Berlin), Flac, CJ Steele

Hobart Twilight Market

Finn Carter, Matthew Dames, Backstick Agenda, Colin Kucera 4:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Young Lions + BUGS 10pm

SAC Courtyard

Rektango 5:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Legally Blinde 7:30pm

The Duke

TBA - Check Website for Details

The Homestead

The Mouldy Lovers (QLD) + Chupacabra + The Dead Maggies 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - No Sister (Vic) + ALL The Weathers + Drunk Elk + Strangerstill

The Whaler

Dylan Eynon 7:30pm

Carlyle Hotel

Dirty Birds 8pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Gabriele Dagrezio 7pm

Casino Bar

SupaNova DJ - George 9pm

Willie Smith’s Apple Shed

Imogen Skye 6:30pm

Federation Concert Hall

Jupiter 7:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Matt Edmunds 9pm

Grand Poobah

Seb Wildblood, Flos Li, CJ Steele

Brisbane Hotel

Back Bar - Flu + Greeley + Wombat + Nibs + Astralnaughts

Republic Bar & Cafe

Tinpan Orange 10pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Gabriele Dagrezio 7:30pm

The Homestead

The Stitch 9pm

The Whaler

Billy & The Men of Steel, The Ruben Reeves Band 9pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Bianca Clennett, Dan Graver 9pm

Brisbane Hotel

Front Bar - Jarface (Vic) + August Wolfbiter + The Midways + The Hudson Cartel

Carlyle Hotel

DJ Foxy 8pm

Casino Bar

SupaNova DJ - George 9pm

Grand Poobah

Technobrats in The Kissing Room

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Outfit 10pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Tony Mak 7:30pm

The Homestead

Grouch (NZ) + Local Supports 9:30pm

The Odeon Theatre Mezzanine

Pjenne + Millu + Bronze Savage + Good Marinations

The Whaler

Yesterday’s Gentlemen 9pm

Saturday

Sunday

25

26

Wrest Point Showroom

Troy Kinne Live

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Great Anticipators 2:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Wahbash Avenue 8:30pm

Monday

27

Republic Bar & Cafe

Quiz Night 8:15pm

Tuesday

28

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Sign 8:30pm Dylan Fairfield 7:30pm

Waratah Hotel

Winston Surfshirt supported by Lazer Baby and Local (TBC) 8pm

The Duke The Founders Room

WALLIS BIRD (Ireland) + Claire Anne Taylor

Waterman’s Beer Market

Smoke & Mirrors 9pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Wrest Point Showroom

Sara Storer - Silos Tour

Birdcage Bar

Anna Maynard 8:30pm

Brisbane Hotel

Brissie Bingo

Irish Murphy’s

Hobart Town Hall

An Afternoon With Peter Tanfield and Rod McGrath

Noteworthy: Colin Kucera, Hui & The Muse, Harry Jensen 8pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) + Babylon Howl 9pm

The Duke

Duke Quiz

Republic Bar & Cafe

Pat Berechree 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

Dave Wilson Band 8:30pm

Lasca, Lana Chilcott, Tim Chivers, Celeste Meincke and Jensen 6:30pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Tony Mak 7pm

The Homestead

TBC

The Founders Room Tuesday

Date

Wednesday

29

Republic Bar & Cafe

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

Birdcage Bar

Pepper Jane 8:30pm

The Duke

Jazz Jam Jar 7:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Ocean Man & The Great Muldavio 9pm

The Homestead

Funky Bunch Trivia 7pm

Irish Murphy’s

My Girlfriend’s Sister 9pm

Birdcage Bar

Ani & Nick 8:30pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

The Seratones 8:30pm

Irish Murphy’s

Noteworthy: William Graddon, Cas, Matt Carter 8pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Billy Whitton & Jamie Taylor 6:30pm

The Duke

Duke Quiz

The Homestead

bingo with Ol’ Gobbert & Boomers 8pm

Republic Bar & Cafe

8 Ball Aitkin 8:30pm

Waterman’s Beer Market

Unlocked 6pm

The Brunswick Hotel

Random Act 7pm

The Homestead

bingo with Ol’ Gobbert & Boomers 8pm

Wrest Point Lawns

Cold Chisel

Birdcage Bar

Billy Whitton 8:30pm

Grand Poobah

Karaoke with Ocean Man & The Great Muldavio 9pm

Irish Murphy’s

The Sign 9pm

Thursday

30

December Friday

1

Republic Bar & Cafe

LIME CORDIALE $15pre/$20door 10pm

Saturday

2

Republic Bar & Cafe

Gordi $20pre/$25door 10pm

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Event Guide

Launceston / NORTH WEST Date

Venue

Acts / Start Time

Bakers Lane

Laneway Sessions: An Evening with Seth Henderson & Angus Austin

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Mary Shannon 9pm

Princess Theatre

TSO: Beethoven’s Seventh

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Nick Bennett & Brody Greg 9pm

Devonport Entertainment Centre

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

Gnomon Pavilion (Ulverstone)

Halfway to Forth plus Molly O’Brien Varantis with Touray October 5:30pm

Kingsway Bar

All The Kings Horses! + Cotton Pony

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Max Hillman Show Band 9pm

Club 54

Sarah McLeod, J. Robert Youngtown, Emily Lawton

The Greenwood Bar

Interview With An Escape Artist + Guests + Coops BDAY Throwdown

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - David Adams 9pm

Bakers Lane

Sunday Never Ends

Princess Theatre

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

NOVEMBER Wednesday

1

Thursday

2

Friday

3

Saturday

Sunday

4

5

Wednesday

8

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Matthew Danes 9pm

Thursday

9

Saint John Craft Beer

Ben Salter + David Blumberg

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - The Hat & The Horn 9pm

Friday

10

Club 54

The Bad Dad Orchestra, Bansheeland & Jesse Higgs

Devonport Entertainment Centre

TSO Brass on Tour 7:30pm

Gnomon Pavilion (Ulverstone)

Ben Salter + David Blumberg 5:30pm

Kingsway Bar

Nick Chugg

Plough Inn

SPICYMUSIC 2Nd Birthday Rooftop Party

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Miss Katy 9pm

The Top Bar

DENNI | Seth Henderson

Club 54

Boo Seeka + Supports

Princess Theatre

Peace Train - A Tribute to Cat Stevens

Stanley Town Hall

TSO Brass on Tour 7:30pm

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Eve, Angus & Brodie 9pm

Burnie Arts Centre

Peace Train: The Cat Stevens Story

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Saturday

Sunday

11

12

Wednesday

15

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Scott Haigh 9pm

Thursday

16

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Good Morning, Dave Blumberg + Maraby Band, Slag Queens

Friday

17

Kingsway Bar

Isla Ka | Disrepute

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - James Walker 9pm

Hotel Tasmania

Seth Sentry

The Greenwood Bar

Mental Health Awareness Gig: Project Atlas, Vice, Without Fail, Plague of Sickness

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - The Mouldy Lovers ‘n’ Bad Beef and the Embers 9pm

Gnomon Pavilion (Ulverstone)

Melbourne Saxophonist and Singer Paul Williamson 3pm

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Saturday

Sunday

18

19

Tuesday

21

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Slamduggery 7:30pm

Wednesday

22

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Andy Collins 9pm

Thursday

23

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Matthew Dames 9pm

Friday

24

Gnomon Pavilion (Ulverstone)

The Elliots 5:30pm

The Greenwood Bar

The Protagonists, Zac Eichner, J. Robert Youngtown, Emily Lawton

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Mick Attard 9pm

Tonic Bar

The Reef Jazz Club

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Miss Katy 9pm

The Top Bar

Isla Ka | Disrepute

Saint John Craft Beer

The Badlands

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Open Blues Jam 1pm

Saturday

Sunday

25

26

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Folk Seisiun 5pm

Tuesday

28

The Royal Oak

Boat Shed - Launceston Jazz Club 6:30pm

Wednesday

29

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Open Mic Night 9pm

Thursday

30

The Royal Oak

Public Bar - Angus Austin 9pm

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