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News Reactions/Comp Thing Flesh X-Press Interview: Kate Davis (Greens Party) Music: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Music: Midlake Music: Mystery Jets Music: Washington Music: Richard Ashcroft Music: Hot Chelle Rae

Welcome to day 12 of the election campaign… oh we feel your apathy. One wrang, one right and a sponge Bob left to clean up the mess. Well, don’t let all this election fizzle dampen your sizzle – for it’s time to party, in the key of X. The countdown is on to X-Press’ 25th Birthday celebration with our good friends the Basement Birds and you. And while we’re at it, a big congrats to Basement Birds for rocketing straight to #1 on the AIR charts with their debut, selftitled album (insert rapturous applause).

THE FULL MINCHIN

Perth’s most popular barefooted piano playing munchkin, Tim Minchin is treading the boards around the country next year on the Tim Minchin Versus The Orchestra Tour.

“Deep down I’ve always believed I deserved to have a symphony orchestra poised 24/7 to respond to my every musical whim,” Minchin said this week of the tour. “This is merely a step in the right direction.” Minchin will team with WASO for the Perth date at King’s Park & Botanic Garden on Friday, March 4, 2011. Tickets go on sale Monday, August 2, at 9am through ticketmaster.com. au and the show is proudly presented by X-Press.

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Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach album proved to be yet another quality chapter in this strange, progressive, animated band’s life. And it turns out that their shows since its release (including Glastonbury and Coachella) have been something to write home about. The very good news now is that Gorillaz will be touring Australia later this year for the first time in their decade-long existence. Catch Damon Albarn, 2-D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel Hobbs (with God knows who as guests) when they open their Australian tour on Monday, December 6, at Burswood Dome. Tickets go on sale from 9am on Friday, August 6, through ticketek.com.au. Check out gorillaz.com for fan club pre-sale details.

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HEY DREAMER

They said it themselves: “Don’t dream it’s over”. And it’s not, for Crowded House are coming back to Perth!

Hot off the heels of their latest album Intriguer, the Crowdies are currently touring North America to sell out crowds, but are heading our way to play Sandalford Estate in The Swan Valley on Sunday, November 14. Lock it in your diaries, and we’ll be back with more details next week.

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Following on from a victorious tour of the US, The John Butler Trio are shaping up for their forthcoming April Uprising tour of Australia. In the meantime, eager fans can whet their whistles with The John Butler Trio Live From Sydney EP, available now on iTunes.

Recorded at Sydney’s Apple store in April, the EP features the current single, Revolution, plus One Way Road, Johnny’s Gone and two old faves in Better Than and Zebra. The Trio return home on Friday, August 27, to play Fremantle Arts Centre under the big top.

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Re: “Depressing Message” (#1223) I am a local hip hop artist that goes by the name ‘Complete’. In response to your letter, I think it is very possible to write a positive song about mental illness. I have suffered Panic Disorder and Depression for almost five years now and in last years WAM song of the year competition I was a finalist, with a positive song called Forbidden Love. It is about falling in love with my psychiatrist.

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good bands around Australia covering AC/DC, Led Zepplin, The Angels and Rose Tattoo. What gave the Jets real colour was songs like Lazy by Deep Purple, Ramble Tamble by CCR, Play Guitar by John Mellencamp, and my personal favourite, Stealin’ by Uriah Heep.

Here I sit, ears-a-ringing following A Reason to Rock last night at the Charles. The crowd were about 25 years older (and possibly about 25kg heavier) than they were in my formative days at the Raffles. But no less appreciative. What a great celebration to be a part of. It was fantastic to see Deany and Gardey (my original guitar hero) up there. Thanks boys, I had a ball.

And to Paul Felton….you can’t aspire to anything higher in life than to find what you were meant to do, and be the best you can at it. You were truly one of the best I’ve ever heard. Thanks for the memories.

Circa 1986, an older friend of mine suggested that we should head down to the Raffles Hotel one Saturday night to listen to a band called the Jets. I was very young, music was becoming an important part of my life, and I was already a big fan of AC/DC. I had just bought my first electric guitar.

Cover bands abounded around that time, but there were important differences about the Jets that took their shows to a level above anything offered by the others. It’s true they had an awesome sound and lighting show… but I think that really just obscures what was great about them.

First, they had genuine, A-grade guitarists in Paul Felton and Steve Garde. I will From the Kid in the Front Row at the Raffles, never forget the night when, standing directly in Via Email front of Steve Garde , the band launched into Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. In my pea-sized teenage brain I wondered for the first time how the guitar riff was played. I looked up at Gardey from my position in the front row, and did not look down again for the rest of the night, and many a night after. Year after year I went back, not only to listen to the band, but to watch Felts and Gardey ply their trade with such wonderful skill, technique and (dare I say it for a cover band) emotion.

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KATE DAVIS Punching Green With the ongoing debate over climate change and with the balance of power in the senate up for grabs, the role of The Australian Greens as a legitimate third voice in Australian politics continues to grow. In the second of our prefederal election interviews, this week X-Press spoke to Kate Davis, The Greens’ lower house candidate for Fremantle.

Anecdotally, you’d imagine that Fremantle would be a fairly friendly place for a Greens candidate campaigning to be elected to federal politics. The town has a ‘Green Mayor’ in the form of Brad Pettitt (who is a senior lecturer at Murdoch University’s School O f Sustainability), and has a reputation for a hip, slightly bohemian, ecologically conscious kind of citizen.

H o w e ve r, i n 2 0 0 7 T h e G r e e n s achieved just 14.57 per cent of lower house votes in the electorate, meaning this year’s Greens candidate Kate Davis has a fair bit of work to do if she is to catch up with the current Fremantle Labour MP Melissa Parke.

Parke won the last election with 45.18 per cent of the vote and holds an impressive resume as a former senior lawyer for the United Nations over eight years, having been involved in UN efforts in Kosovo, Gaza and Beirut.

Davis also has a distinguished background in law and social advocacy.

She currently holds positions as Managing Solicitor at The Women’s Law Centre, Vice President (women) of the Australian Services Union in WA and chair of Women’s Council For Domestic And Family Services. In partnering the Women’s Law Centre with organisations in remote Aboriginal communities, and in her city-based advocacy work, Davis has seen first hand some of Australia’s most pressing social issues.

On the morning after the first televised leader’s debate, Davis sat down with X-Press to discuss her views on climate change, immigration, indigenous affairs, Fremantle, and her desire for the Greens to play a roll as policy shapers in Australian politics.

BY DAVID CRADDOCK We had the leader’s debate last night, which many people may have felt was frustratingly staid and stage-managed. Do you think that as people become cynical about this kind of thing the Greens will become more appealing in that they appear to be very clear on what they stand for?

I think so, there are a lot of people that are sick and tired of the really poll-driven kind of campaign that the major parties are running. I think that The Greens stand out as a party that stands up for principles… Our policies are established by our members and are always available on our website throughout the whole election cycle so it’s really easy to tell what we stand for.

The Greens received about one million votes in the last federal election, and a Newspoll conducted on July 23 suggests 12 per cent of Australians currently support the party. There’s a lot of talk around this election of the Greens achieving a balance of power in the senate – what would this mean for the average Australian?

What that would mean is that, when Parliament goes back, the Greens would be in a position to negotiate with the Government to get good progressive outcomes for the community. Whereas last time, when Labour put up the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme that basically locked in failure, they refused to negotiate with the Greens and instead negotiated with the Liberal Party. If Green Senators held the balance of power, then the Government would have to negotiate with the Greens and we would be able to deliver really strong, good outcomes for the community.

There’s a parallel that could be drawn with the Greens and the Liberal Democrats in the UK, do you think we will ever be in a position like that where Australia has a legitimate and very active third party?

We’re really excited about the growth of The Greens as a third party in Australian politics. I think it could be another election off before we could start having the numbers in the lower house to play the role that the Lib Dems are playing in the UK. But here in WA we’ve held the balance of power for over a decade through some of the biggest mining booms in the state. So I think we’ve demonstrated a really good track record of being able to negotiate good outcomes.

Let’s talk a bit about you personally, what is your own background?

I work as Managing Solicitor at a community law centre, The Women’s Law Centre, we work for disadvantaged women, often women escaping domestic violence and sexual assault, that kind of thing. So I’ve got a pretty good understanding about some of the nastier sides of our society.

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I understand you’ve also had an involvement in pushing the Women’s Law Centre into Aboriginal areas.

Yeah, we’ve partnered with Aboriginal organisations – the M arninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre – it’s the women’s resource centre in Fitzroy Crossing and it’s a really strong aboriginal women’s organisation.

They provide advocacy for people, and really basic services from childcare to assistance on how to run a household out there. We’ve partnered with them to also provide a family violence prevention legal service there. We have a similar arrangement with the NPY Women’s Council. Their lands cover some of the bottom of the Northern Territory and the top of South Australia and the eastern scoop in WA. We work out there in Warburton and in those areas.

What are some of the Greens’ policies in regards to indigenous affairs that you could outline?

I think the key to improving the plight of Aboriginal communities within our society is handing back control to Aboriginal people. So funding Aboriginal peoples’ organisations, ensuring representation for Aboriginal people so that Aboriginal people are involved in making decisions that affect them and their communities. We’re also pushing for restorative justice programs which actually seek to address some of the problems in communities rather than just jailing people time and time again for relatively minor offences.

“WHILE OUR MPS CERTAINLY HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR ACTIVISTS WHO ARE WORKING IN FORESTS, I THINK THE APPEAL FOR THE GREENS HAS BROADENED QUITE A BIT.” Migration has obviously been a key point of the election so far and your personal policy proposal is to house some asylum seekers in the Leeuwin Barracks in Fremantle. I imagine this is very divisive and quite a confronting thought for some people to have asylum seekers living in the inner city.

The other parties seem to be advocating an offshore solution, why does an inner city solution appeal to you?

The last time that asylum seekers were held at the Leeuwin Barracks there were Kosovar and East Timorese refugees held there, and the Fremantle community really embraced the family and communities.

People were taking cakes down, going to visit people and it was just a way for the Australian community to get to know the people that were coming to Australia and to feel much more comfortable with the asylum seekers coming to Australia. My view is that asylum seekers really don’t pose any threat to the Australian community and our way of life. I think that the major parties in highlighting this issue are playing some of the worst kind of politics in terms of blaming some small minorities to try and popularise themselves amongst a broader Australian community that has nothing to fear from asylum seekers.

Kate Davis

– we’ve been leaders in renewable technology for a long time and if we make the changes in our economy now we can really ride that wave with new jobs in Australia. All of the evidence shows that the longer that we delay making the changes in our economy, the more it’s going to cost us, and the harder it’s going Why do you think migration has become to be to adapt to the changes that we already see happening. It’s very disappointing. such a hot political topic again?

I think there are people in the community who are worried about it, and What, then, is the Greens’ policy on climate rather than tak ing the oppor tunity to change?

We’d like to see a price on carbon show some leadership I think the ALP has fanned those fires to try and build their own now, and we’d like to start investing in the popularity. Whereas, it would have been really solutions. What that means is, if there’s a easy for a Rudd and Gillard government to carbon levy that polluters pay, then that stand up and talk about the facts in this money can be invested in the solutions – jobs situation – to say that asylum seekers coming in renewable energy and public transport to our country are only a tiny proportion of that’s fast, efficient and reliable. Senator our overall immigration and to explain that Scott Ludlam has got a plan up for a light rail the people who are coming here are no threat network across Perth – it’s initiatives like that to us. They’re fleeing persecution, the least we that can create better community, and help can do is to provide some safety for people. people get to gigs and home again.

The other major election issue is climate change, what do you think about the Prime Minister’s plan for a citizens’ assembly as a part of deciding on a way to tackle climate change?

I’m really disappointed that the Gillard Labor Government hasn’t decided to take decisive clear action on climate change right now. Now is the opportunity – there are lots of really good opportunities for Australia

If you jump onto the website, greens. org.au, you can see all of our policies there which are quite detailed. Throughout the election – whenever our candidates make announcement of specific proposals all of those have been costed. So for example, we’ve got a proposal for a universal public dental health scheme… all of those proposals that we put forward have been costed.

Particularly amongst older votes, I imagine there would be a bit of stigma attached to the Greens in that the first thing one might imagine is someone chaining themselves to a tree. Has the Greens Party modernised does the party now see itself as a more broadly representative third party, not just a hard line green party?

I think so, while our MPs certainly have a lot of respect for activists who are working in forests, I think the appeal for the Greens has broadened quite a bit. If you look at our candidates this time – I’m a lawyer, Haha, I see your thinking there. You know George Crisp our candidate in Curtin is a our readers well. local GP, and the candidate in Perth is a public [laughs] Desperate plug! health researcher.

A criticism that some would level at the Greens is that there’s a clear general So you’re not all hippies then? Not even a sentiment but people may be worried dreadlock?

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NBT SEMI-FINALE

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The Next Big Thing 2010 heads into sleevesup mode with the semi-finals kicking off this weekend. Good luck to all protagonists, who will play it out like this: 1st Semi-Final Friday, July 30, Amplifier - Trent Williams, The Kirbens, The Brown Study Band, One Thousand Years, Crash Compass, Good, Little Fox and Minute 36.

2nd Semi-Final, Saturday, July 3, Civic Backroom - The Brow Horn Orchestra, Goodnight Tiger, James Teague, The Love Junkies, Resort, Homebrewe and Sonspilo Circus.

Regional Semi-Final, Friday, August 6, Civic Backroom - Joel Jackson (Pilbara), Tim Dawes (Wheatbelt), Jonny Taylor (Peel), Walter (Mid-West), Available At The Counter (Great Southern), Shots Fired (South-West) and John Bennett & Band (Kimberley). The winners from the Semi-Finals will go onto to the Grand Final on Saturday, August 7, at the Rosemount Hotel. For full Next Big Thing lowdown head to nextbigthing.net.au.

Legendary music icons, Three Dog Nights and The Turtles, featuring mark ‘Flo’ Volman and Howard ‘Eddie’ Kaylan, will be performing live together for a massive national tour this November. These pioneers of rock will be gracing our fine city with a show featuring all of their best known classics such as Three Dog Night’s Mama Told Me (Not To Come), Joy To The World and Black And White. The Turtles are no strangers to success either, with over 60 million albums sold and over 5 years of chart success with songs like Happy Together and She’d Rather Be With Me. These two legends of rock will be playing at Burswood Theatre on Thursday, November 18. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 30. You can grab your tickets from ticketek.com.

Emilie Simon, So Frenchy So Chic

FRENCH TOAST

The So Frenchy So Chic series has sold over 100,000 copies in Australia, so a lot of people are going to be happy that Émilie Simon and Nouvelle Vague’s Mélanie Pain will make up a fine double-header on the So Frenchy So Chic Australian tour. They seduce The Rosemount Hotel on Sunday, October 3, from 5pm. Tickets available from heatseeker.com. au, cartellmusic.com.au, Mills Records, 78s and Planet Video for $55 plus booking (it’ll cost more on the night, if available).

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TOTALLY RAZ

All the way from Byron Bay, Israeli born reggae artist Raz Bin Sam is Perth-bound on his Own This Life Tour. With support from Major Krazy, Sensi Sounds, Empress Corby and MC Amani And Sabata Sounds, Simmo T and Isis, Raz Bin Sam will hit Manhattans in Vic Park on Thursday, July 29; Settler’s Tavern in Margaret River on Friday, July 30; The Malt Market Bar in Dunsborough on Saturday, July 31; and Mojo’s on Sunday, August 1.

They’ve been to WA many a time, but it’s been a while since we’ve seen The Bondi Cigars in these parts. They’re about to make amends and will hit WA again next month. Catch the Bondi Cigars on Friday, August 20, at the Eastern Hotel, Midland; Saturday, August 21, at the Royal Flying Doctor Fundraiser in Karratha; Sunday, August 22, at Icon Restaurant in Karratha and Tuesday, August 24, for the Perth Blues Club at the Charles Hotel. Check bondicigars.com.au for full details.

BEYOND THE SEA

For all of you budding sculpture artists out there, the annual Cottesloe Sculpture By The Sea is returning in 2011, and they want to exhibit your work! If you think you’ve got what it takes get your sculpture ideas in soon, because submissions close shortly. Artists from here and around the world are being invited to submit designs for consideration by the exhibitions curatorial panel. The 2011 outing of this popular art exhibit will see two significant developments; any artists in the world can now apply to showcase their work, and there will now be over 70 sculptures appearing in the exhibition. Each sculpture will be considered for the $15,000 NAB Western Australia Sculpture Prize. Application forms are available from sculpturebythesea.com, with submissions closing on Wednesday, August 15.

THE F WORD

Up Fitzgerald Street, across from a bowling alley, next to a room full of live music, in the belly of The Rosemount lies a mystical beer garden. Tomás Ford, the local legend of electro showmanship, is coming to The Rosemount’s mysterious beer garden on Thursday, August 5. Ford will be mixing every genre imaginable, from punk’n’funk to Korean pop hits in his garden pleasure dome. So gear yourself up for a night of music variety, all mixed together by the smooth cat that is Tomás Ford. It all happens 8pm ’til late.

Chris Abrahams

CHRIS ABRAHAMS

Best known for his work as the pianist for Sydney-based jazz trio The Necks, Chris Abrahams has a career stretching back over 25 years, including solo albums, several collaborations with vocalist Melanie Oxley, as well as in soundtrack composition.

He‘s released a new album, Play Scar, and will launch it in Perth with a show at The Ellington on Wednesday, September 1, from 8pm, with support from Perth guitar/noise maestro Craig McElhinney. For bookings head to ellingtonjazz.com.au.

THE GOLDEN YEARS

After achieving their second top ten album in only 16 months, British India’s star continues to rise in Australia.

Melbourne’s indie royalty burst onto the scene back in 2007 with their award winning debut album Guillotine and followed quickly in 2008 with their smash hit Thieves, which was ARIA nominated. Their new album, Avalanche hit shelves back in May and went straight into the top ten on the ARIA charts. One of Australia’s hottest and exciting young live bands, British India hit Margaret River’s Settler’s Tavern on Friday, August 27; Royal Palms Resort in Busselton on Saturday, August 28; Ravenswood Hotel in Ravenswood on Sunday, August 29; and The Prince Of Wales in Bunbury on Thursday, September 2. Tickets are on sale from heatseeker.com.au.

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REVOICE!

John Farnham came out of retirement last year to hit the road with his Live By Demand tour and it seems he just can’t get rid of the showbiz bug. Farnesy is set to head around the country for a series of A Day On The Green appearances, stopping off at Kings Park & Botanic Garden on Saturday, November 27. Aussie legends Ross Wilson and Richard Clapton provide support.

Tickets available from ticketmaster.com.au. For more details hit up adayonthegreen.com.au.

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BEADLE’S ABOUT

Sydney bluesman Ray Beadle recently cleaned up at the 2010 Australian Blues Music Chain Awards, taking the Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Male Vocalist Of The Year gongs on the back of his third album, Loaded. He hits WA for a week of dates next month, kicking off on Tuesday, August 3, at the Charles Hotel’s Perth Blues Club, with support from Deja Blues and Love Bites. Doors open 8pm, entry is $15 and $10 (members). Head to raybeadle. com for full details.

MORE HARDCORE

Melbourne quintet Samsara, who formed back in 2005, have quickly established themselves as one of the hardest hitting bands in Australia’s thriving hardcore scene. Following on from their debut album The Emptiness, the group have had a rollercoaster year. Losing front man Luke Bainbridge and drummer Tim Shearman last year put their future into doubt, but with the introduction of Nick Vine on vocals and Mat Woodhouse on drums, the band got a new lease on life. Now back with their second album, Instinct Over Influence, Samsara is stronger than ever. The guys return to Perth with Dropsaw this August to showcase heavy new sound, playing The YMCA HQ in Perth on Friday, August 20, for an all ages gig and then on Saturday, August 21, they will be tearing up Amplifier.

Tickets are $12 plus BF and are available at the door.

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To celebrate, or rather mourn the 40th anniversary passing of the world’s most legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix, The Perth Blues Club will present a special tribute show: Hendrix: Plugged And Unplugged. Starring names such as Les Trois Amies, The Gypsy Eyes Celtic Band and The Hendrix All Stars Band, get down to The Perth Blues Club for a night to remember the late, great guitarist that is Jimi Hendrix. It all happens on Tuesday, September 21, at The Charles. Head to hendrix40.com for further details.

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WHEN IN ROMANIA...

Take one part Hungarian melody, add one part Romanian harmony and one part gypsy virtuosity and you get some tasty village dance music from Transylvania. For two years, Hot Paprika have been keeping alive the traditional village music of Hungary and Transylvania. Having learnt from Hungarian folk masters TÉKA, Hot Paprika intends to further refine their craft with a research trip to Hungary in December. Catch them at Kulcha this Saturday, July 31, from 8pm. For presale tickets head to kulcha.com.au.

Dan Kelly

DAN KELLY

Dan Kelly recently released his new album, Dan Kelly’s Dream, featuring the singles Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam and Hold On, I’m Coming On. Joined by his Dream Band, Dan Kelly will tour nationally in this spring, hitting the Rosemount Hotel on Friday, September 24, the Wave Rock Weekender in Hyden (check soulhighway.com.au) on Saturday, September 25, and Mojo’s on Sunday, September 26. Tickets through heatseeker. com.au.

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KATE DAVIS Punching Green With the ongoing debate over climate change and with the balance of power in the senate up for grabs, the role of The Australian Greens as a legitimate third voice in Australian politics continues to grow. In the second of our prefederal election interviews, this week X-Press spoke to Kate Davis, The Greens’ lower house candidate for Fremantle.

Anecdotally, you’d imagine that Fremantle would be a fairly friendly place for a Greens candidate campaigning to be elected to federal politics. The town has a ‘Green Mayor’ in the form of Brad Pettitt (who is a senior lecturer at Murdoch University’s School O f Sustainability), and has a reputation for a hip, slightly bohemian, ecologically conscious kind of citizen.

H o w e ve r, i n 2 0 0 7 T h e G r e e n s achieved just 14.57 per cent of lower house votes in the electorate, meaning this year’s Greens candidate Kate Davis has a fair bit of work to do if she is to catch up with the current Fremantle Labour MP Melissa Parke.

Parke won the last election with 45.18 per cent of the vote and holds an impressive resume as a former senior lawyer for the United Nations over eight years, having been involved in UN efforts in Kosovo, Gaza and Beirut.

Davis also has a distinguished background in law and social advocacy.

She currently holds positions as Managing Solicitor at The Women’s Law Centre, Vice President (women) of the Australian Services Union in WA and chair of Women’s Council For Domestic And Family Services. In partnering the Women’s Law Centre with organisations in remote Aboriginal communities, and in her city-based advocacy work, Davis has seen first hand some of Australia’s most pressing social issues.

On the morning after the first televised leader’s debate, Davis sat down with X-Press to discuss her views on climate change, immigration, indigenous affairs, Fremantle, and her desire for the Greens to play a roll as policy shapers in Australian politics.

BY DAVID CRADDOCK We had the leader’s debate last night, which many people may have felt was frustratingly staid and stage-managed. Do you think that as people become cynical about this kind of thing the Greens will become more appealing in that they appear to be very clear on what they stand for?

I think so, there are a lot of people that are sick and tired of the really poll-driven kind of campaign that the major parties are running. I think that The Greens stand out as a party that stands up for principles… Our policies are established by our members and are always available on our website throughout the whole election cycle so it’s really easy to tell what we stand for.

The Greens received about one million votes in the last federal election, and a Newspoll conducted on July 23 suggests 12 per cent of Australians currently support the party. There’s a lot of talk around this election of the Greens achieving a balance of power in the senate – what would this mean for the average Australian?

What that would mean is that, when Parliament goes back, the Greens would be in a position to negotiate with the Government to get good progressive outcomes for the community. Whereas last time, when Labour put up the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme that basically locked in failure, they refused to negotiate with the Greens and instead negotiated with the Liberal Party. If Green Senators held the balance of power, then the Government would have to negotiate with the Greens and we would be able to deliver really strong, good outcomes for the community.

There’s a parallel that could be drawn with the Greens and the Liberal Democrats in the UK, do you think we will ever be in a position like that where Australia has a legitimate and very active third party?

We’re really excited about the growth of The Greens as a third party in Australian politics. I think it could be another election off before we could start having the numbers in the lower house to play the role that the Lib Dems are playing in the UK. But here in WA we’ve held the balance of power for over a decade through some of the biggest mining booms in the state. So I think we’ve demonstrated a really good track record of being able to negotiate good outcomes.

Let’s talk a bit about you personally, what is your own background?

I work as Managing Solicitor at a community law centre, The Women’s Law Centre, we work for disadvantaged women, often women escaping domestic violence and sexual assault, that kind of thing. So I’ve got a pretty good understanding about some of the nastier sides of our society.

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I understand you’ve also had an involvement in pushing the Women’s Law Centre into Aboriginal areas.

Yeah, we’ve partnered with Aboriginal organisations – the M arninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre – it’s the women’s resource centre in Fitzroy Crossing and it’s a really strong aboriginal women’s organisation.

They provide advocacy for people, and really basic services from childcare to assistance on how to run a household out there. We’ve partnered with them to also provide a family violence prevention legal service there. We have a similar arrangement with the NPY Women’s Council. Their lands cover some of the bottom of the Northern Territory and the top of South Australia and the eastern scoop in WA. We work out there in Warburton and in those areas.

What are some of the Greens’ policies in regards to indigenous affairs that you could outline?

I think the key to improving the plight of Aboriginal communities within our society is handing back control to Aboriginal people. So funding Aboriginal peoples’ organisations, ensuring representation for Aboriginal people so that Aboriginal people are involved in making decisions that affect them and their communities. We’re also pushing for restorative justice programs which actually seek to address some of the problems in communities rather than just jailing people time and time again for relatively minor offences.

“WHILE OUR MPS CERTAINLY HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR ACTIVISTS WHO ARE WORKING IN FORESTS, I THINK THE APPEAL FOR THE GREENS HAS BROADENED QUITE A BIT.” Migration has obviously been a key point of the election so far and your personal policy proposal is to house some asylum seekers in the Leeuwin Barracks in Fremantle. I imagine this is very divisive and quite a confronting thought for some people to have asylum seekers living in the inner city.

The other parties seem to be advocating an offshore solution, why does an inner city solution appeal to you?

The last time that asylum seekers were held at the Leeuwin Barracks there were Kosovar and East Timorese refugees held there, and the Fremantle community really embraced the family and communities.

People were taking cakes down, going to visit people and it was just a way for the Australian community to get to know the people that were coming to Australia and to feel much more comfortable with the asylum seekers coming to Australia. My view is that asylum seekers really don’t pose any threat to the Australian community and our way of life. I think that the major parties in highlighting this issue are playing some of the worst kind of politics in terms of blaming some small minorities to try and popularise themselves amongst a broader Australian community that has nothing to fear from asylum seekers.

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– we’ve been leaders in renewable technology for a long time and if we make the changes in our economy now we can really ride that wave with new jobs in Australia. All of the evidence shows that the longer that we delay making the changes in our economy, the more it’s going to cost us, and the harder it’s going Why do you think migration has become to be to adapt to the changes that we already see happening. It’s very disappointing. such a hot political topic again?

I think there are people in the community who are worried about it, and What, then, is the Greens’ policy on climate rather than tak ing the oppor tunity to change?

We’d like to see a price on carbon show some leadership I think the ALP has fanned those fires to try and build their own now, and we’d like to start investing in the popularity. Whereas, it would have been really solutions. What that means is, if there’s a easy for a Rudd and Gillard government to carbon levy that polluters pay, then that stand up and talk about the facts in this money can be invested in the solutions – jobs situation – to say that asylum seekers coming in renewable energy and public transport to our country are only a tiny proportion of that’s fast, efficient and reliable. Senator our overall immigration and to explain that Scott Ludlam has got a plan up for a light rail the people who are coming here are no threat network across Perth – it’s initiatives like that to us. They’re fleeing persecution, the least we that can create better community, and help can do is to provide some safety for people. people get to gigs and home again.

The other major election issue is climate change, what do you think about the Prime Minister’s plan for a citizens’ assembly as a part of deciding on a way to tackle climate change?

I’m really disappointed that the Gillard Labor Government hasn’t decided to take decisive clear action on climate change right now. Now is the opportunity – there are lots of really good opportunities for Australia

If you jump onto the website, greens. org.au, you can see all of our policies there which are quite detailed. Throughout the election – whenever our candidates make announcement of specific proposals all of those have been costed. So for example, we’ve got a proposal for a universal public dental health scheme… all of those proposals that we put forward have been costed.

Particularly amongst older votes, I imagine there would be a bit of stigma attached to the Greens in that the first thing one might imagine is someone chaining themselves to a tree. Has the Greens Party modernised does the party now see itself as a more broadly representative third party, not just a hard line green party?

I think so, while our MPs certainly have a lot of respect for activists who are working in forests, I think the appeal for the Greens has broadened quite a bit. If you look at our candidates this time – I’m a lawyer, Haha, I see your thinking there. You know George Crisp our candidate in Curtin is a our readers well. local GP, and the candidate in Perth is a public [laughs] Desperate plug! health researcher.

A criticism that some would level at the Greens is that there’s a clear general So you’re not all hippies then? Not even a sentiment but people may be worried dreadlock?

We’re certainly all concerned about that policies outlined by the party are not specific enough. How do you respond to the environment and social justice and come that criticism? from a range of different professional areas. www.xpressmag.com.au

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BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB Devil Music For a leather and denim-clad band renowned for broody and rather masculine garage blues, replacing your long time drummer with a pretty Danish brunette is not be the most obvious choice. But, as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club bass player Robert Levon Been told DAVID CRADDOCK ahead of the band’s show at Metro Freo on Tuesday, August 3, their new member saved a band on its knees.

Emerging alongside The Strokes and The White Stripes in the garage rock purple patch of 2001, San Francisco’s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have maintained their reputation for making menacing records that meld the swampy drama of southern blues with the buzz-saw intensity of classic rock‘n’roll.

The trio’s last WA performance was

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at Southbound in 2008, where with their former (and notoriously volatile) drummer Nick Jago, they stepped on stage into the sweltering heat dressed fully in black, and preceded to perform a memorable set full of harmonica-puffing, bile and bravado.

This week BRMC return to Perth with their new album Beat The Devil’s Tattoo and with a new drummer in the form of Raveonettes skins-woman Leah Shapiro.

“THE TRANSITIONS ARE DRASTIC AND IT’S REALLY A CHALLENGE FOR US TO GO, EMOTIONALLY, FROM THE HIGHEST PEAK TO THE LOWEST VALLEY.”

Melding the countr y, blues and gospel elements of their critically acclaimed (and largely acoustic) 2005 album Howl with the garage-y scuzz of their 2001 debut, Beat The Devil’s tattoo is the sound of a band that has re-found its mojo after a tumultuous few years.

“I t ’s pretty simple – she saved our ass when there wasn’t much of a band left,” bass player Robert Levon Been says of Shapiro, who took over from Jago after infighting, and the drummer’s desire to make his own music, led him to indefinitely leave the group. “[There wasn’t] a lot of spirit left to keep going. Now we’re back to where we hope to be… The floor dropped out from under us; it was devastating. He was like a brother, he still is like a brother, but the amount of fighting and the amount of problems we had was starting to take away more from the music than it was giving it.

Once that balance shifts you’ve got to do something about it.

“Most of the time it was really basic shit,” Been explains of the band’s bickering with Jago. “Showing up to sound check on time or showing up to the bus before it leaves, or showing up to an actual show believe it or not. Just generally being involved.”

Since releasing Howl, BRMC have released a live album, an instrumental concept album, and the 2007 full-length Baby 81 which was met with mixed reactions. While Baby 81 had glimpses of the band’s former glory, it didn’t have the immediate appeal or consistency of their earlier work.

However, if the menacing fuzz of new tracks Conscience Killer or War Machine are anything to go by, Shapiro has given BRMC a shot in the arm. Or, as Been puts it: “There’s something about Leah that somehow just sits for god knows what reason.”

To record Beat The Devil’s Tattoo, the now LA based band returned to the same Philadelphia house in which they created Howl. With support offered by the house’s owners, who are long time friends of the band, the band began recording in a basement studio deep into the night.

“They seem to take us in when no one else will,” Been explains of the owners of the house who are also musicians. “The Howl record was a very similar circumstance – we didn’t have a label and Nick wasn’t really wanting to be involved, so we made Howl without Nick as well. Me and Peter played the drums on that record – not everyone knows that.”

Although they may be internationally recognised ar tists who have appeared on the covers of iconic music magazines and on the world’s great stages, the financial security of staying at a friend’s house also allowed BRMC to focus again on their art and creativity.

“A lot of it has to do with being broke, and having a place to fucking live,” Been laughs when asked why the band decided to return to Philadelphia. “ They offered us a bed, and a bed goes a long way.

They’re also very good hearted people. There’s just some people in your life – you know that there’s somewhere you return to when everything falls apart. They’re those people for us.”

As well as being financially comfortable, Been says Beat The Devil’s Tattoo saw the band developing greater confidence and comfort with the way they sequenced and compiled their work. At times, the record can swiftly shift from foot-to-the-floor rockers to delicate, solemn acoustic numbers, and it is this dynamic, that Been says is most rewarding to replicate on stage.

“It’s chaotic ‘wall of sound’ madness with one song and then it turns into the slowest most intimate gentle song – you could hear a pin drop,” he explains. “The transitions are drastic and it ’s really a challenge for us to go, emotionally, from the highest peak to the lowest valley. Right now, it’s a thing that’s most inspiring about this tour. Seeing how far we can go with that.” www.xpressmag.com.au

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MIDLAKE Big Texan Tears In 2006 Midlake released an album that would top many of the world’s most respected ‘album of the year’ lists. Then, after considering disbanding, the Texan quintet returned in early 2010 with yet another album destined for music folklore. The band graces our western shores, playing Capitol on Wednesday, August 4. JULIAN TOMPKIN venerates. which would propel the band from complete obscurity into the frontal lobe of well-tuned music lovers worldwide. It would also go on to grace many a best-of lists for that year; namely in the UK where critics were drawn to its clear nod to British rock heritage.

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Nothing polarises quite like music. Every person has their own favourite artist – a sound or genre that so resonates with their soul it’s almost as if it was written for them.

And, inevitably, one person’s favourite band is another’s anathema. Then there’s Midlake – a band that, seemingly, has very few detractors.

A group which almost everyone can agree on.

Midlake are a contradiction of extreme proportions. Formed in Denton, Texas – a town famed for its annual rodeo – the band weave supple song which, as has been frequently documented, is of an Anglo persuasion, rather than Texan. And with that, the band has managed to win over many hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide by making them feel like Midlake is their own secret discovery.

But it’s been a long and serpentine road for a band which was born in the hallways of the University Of North Texas’ jazz school.

Cobbled together in 1999 by the band’s

frontman and nerve centre Tim Smith under the more suitable Texan moniker The Cornbread All-Stars, Midlake soon ditched their funk-rock stylings (a history they’d prefer to forget) to launch head-first into the blissed-out, alt-rock psychedelia of The Flaming Lips, Grandaddy and early-day Radiohead. It was an aural melange that culminated in 2004’s debut longplayer Bamnan And Silvercock.

A slightly confounding debut, Bamnan And Silvercock would garner the band few devotees. But behind the scenes Smith and co were already making a clear shift away from influences of old, and drilling deep into music’s rich history where they’d soon tap into a rich well of late 1960s and early ’70s West Coast and British rock.

Released in 2006, The Trails Of Van Occupanther reeked of classic Fleetwood Mac hooks, with heavy doses of The Band and Neil Young tossed amongst. And it was the record

“I THINK IT MOSTLY REVEALS THAT WE WEAR OUR INFLUENCES ON OUR SLEEVES. IT WASN’T OUR GOAL ON ANY OF THE RECORDS TO SAY ‘OKAY, LET’S JOIN IN ON THE GRANDADDY/FLAMING LIPS THING,’ OR ‘HEY, NOBODY’S DOING THE FLEETWOOD MAC THING – LET’S DO THAT. OH, BRITISH FOLK – THAT WILL KIND OF THROW PEOPLE BECAUSE WE’RE FROM TEXAS’.”

But even the most parochial of Brit critics couldn’t have been prepared for 2010’s The Courage Of Others – a flawless Autumnesque brushstroke of melancholia, drawing deep from the soul of British folk. Soaring and serene, The Courage Of Others was a true revelation.

Highbrow Brit music bible Mojo quickly stamped it Album Of The Month, and the five star reviews came a-rollin’ in. The band’s most organic album to date, it was a clear move away from the technical clutter of their previous two records.

“I think it reveals that we wear our influences on our sleeves,” guitarist Eric Pulido laughs hysterically of the band’s perpetual

evolution. “It wasn’t our goal on any of the records to say ‘okay, let’s join in on the Grandaddy/ Flaming Lips thing,’ or ‘hey, nobody’s doing the Fleetwood Mac thing – let’s do that. Oh, British folk – that will kind of throw people because we’re from Texas’. It wasn’t that at all; it was a genuine love and appreciated for a certain genre or style of music. It’s never ending – like a sickness in a way.

There’s all this music and you just dive in, and it becomes a part of you. We never shy away from it – it’s very much ‘yeah, we were listening to this stuff when we made that record’. We’re not trying to copy it, but you can probably hear it as we were listening to it… and maybe stealing bits and pieces…

“In a way it was conscious,” Pulido continues, of the clear rebellion against The Trails Of Van Occupanther. “We did want a more organic vibe on The Courage Of Others, and now we want that even more on the next record. By organic, it’s just not so worked out – sometimes things can be too safe and particular and worked out. With this record we tried to do it less; the goal is to make it feel like After The Gold Rush, where it sounds like [Neil Young] just plugged in a guitar and put up a mic and just went at it – and it sounds beautiful. You want that feeling to evoke and not have something stale and robotic.

It’s something we’ve always strived for… we’re trying to get a different perspective.”

Citing Radiohead as a perpetual influence for their ability to evolve and reinspire, Pulido hints that Midlake’s new album will again mark a drastic shift from the previous three, venturing back in the major key and away from the solemn ghost that haunts The Courage Of Others. Currently on high rotation on the band’s tour bus is UK folk-rocker and surreptitious luminary Roy Harper and long-time Nitty Gritty Dirt Band keyboardist and solo artist Bob Carpenter.

“I think with the next one we’re going to bring things up again,” Pulido concludes. “It’ll be more dynamic and have more ups, with more songs in a major key… because there’s only one on the last record! We love music and we love one another, and we want to keep making music together.”

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MYSTERY JETS Rocket Wisdom Once a bounding, youthful bunch enthralled with the pastoral pop of early Pink Floyd, Twickenham indie pop-rockers Mystery Jets have risked succumbing to a common cliché by showcasing a new ‘mature’ sound on recently released third album Serotonin. JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD spoke to guitarist Will Rees about their coming-of-age come-back.

“We all mature in some sense; just as a matter of time passing that’s what happens,” Will Rees begins. “You can either stay stuck in the past, going nowhere, or you can embrace it and grow-up, and that’s what we’ve decided to do.”

As guitarist Rees attests, Mystery Jets are no longer the same “dorky teenagers” who made waves on the UK indie music scene when springing out of the illustrious Eel Pie Island with their biscuit-tin-bashing rock in early 2006.

Named after the chemical that forms the base of many anti-depressants (“the machine in your body that decides whether it wants to pump out happy or sad feelings,” Rees explains), Serotonin is a big, bold pop record about emotional extremes; the product of fast times from Sydney to Berlin inspired by a whirlwind eighteen-month international tour.

“The last record took us all over the world, from Australia to Argentina, and the direction came from all that globe-trotting,” he continues. “The songs are about wilder times, loss of innocence and the changes – good and bad – that come as a result of experiencing new things.”

Not surprisingly, Serotonin is an expansive sounding entity which sees Mystery Jets come out of the shadows of their earlier

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prog-rock influences and gain mastery over them, with the band crediting the influence of legendary producer Chris Thomas for their newfound confidence and maturity in the studio.

“He’s been involved with so many classic records,” Rees says of the recording veteran, whose impressive credits include playing on The Beatles’ White Album, coproducing The Sex Pistols’ Anarchy In The UK and Pulp’s Different Class, “To work with him was such an honour.”

Featuring far less instantly-gettable tracks than its predecessors, Serotonin instead opts for a slow, cinematic build-up of darker, brooding moments. But while Rees admits that long-term fans may miss the private, quirky culde-sacs and killer pop hooks that Mystery Jets once revelled in, he simply believes the band has outgrown their beginnings.

“We wanted to make an album with a much bigger sound and ambition, which had this sense of, almost like flying, soaring into the great unknown,” he explains. “That’s where the bones of the album are from – the never looking back.”

Lyrically there are also signs of growing maturity. “21 was very much a heart-on-the-sleeve record which dealt with relationships from a first-person perspective,” Rees says. “There was lots of heartbreak and young love and things like that, whereas I think our new album tackles some deeper issues and there are bigger themes going on.

“Overall, I feel the record is slightly more abstracted. There are love songs on there but they don’t have the word ‘love’ in them, they’re love songs in disguise,” he continues, citing tune Lorna Doone as an example of their increasingly subtle romanticism.

“IT’S DEFINITELY NOT A ROCK RECORD AND IT’S NOT EVER GOING TO BE ANYTHING ON THE LEVEL OF FOO FIGHTERS, BUT I DON’T EXPECT THAT IT WILL – NOR DO I REALLY WANT IT TO BE. I JUST WANT TO MAKE FUN MUSIC THAT I ENJOY AND HOPEFULLY OTHER PEOPLE WILL DIG TOO”.

“We used the classic English story from the 18th Century as the spine to put our own story on, and I think it’s more grown-up to go about writing songs that way. We’re not just harping on about how we feel about girls anymore, we’re really thinking about how we can express that emotion in a different way.

On our first record we filled everything up with characters and stories, but we leave space for our listeners to fill in now.”

Rees also explains that their mature outlook can be attributed, in part, to their abandonment by their label, 679 Recordings, last year.

“The last record label we were on didn’t want us any more; simple as that,” Rees shares, with more-than-a-little bitterness seeping into his tone, “Our fates as musicians, our careers, were decided by a group of ignorant people who knew nothing about us or where we were at.”

Driven on by this sense of injustice at being dropped, Rees explains that Mystery Jets pushed their material into ever more ambitious directions as they found themselves signed to indie patrons Rough Trade with more determination than ever to succeed.

“There was this element of having a new lease on life,” he says. “The change definitely drove us to put everything into producing the best record we could possibly make.”

But while Serotonin certainly shows a new, grown-up Mystery Jets sound, Rees reveals the band hasn’t given up their teenage dreams of stardom which spurred the original formation of the outfit.

“I want it to be massive,” Rees concludes matter-of-factly when queried on his ultimate goal for the new record. “I want us to go around the world again two, three, four or five times at least. I want it to bring in a couple of million in London alone and a couple of million worldwide. I want it to be huge, mainly because I think it’s really good and deserves to be huge. I don’t want to sound arrogant but I think it’s certainly the best record Mystery Jets has made, and hopefully the world will share my opinion. I doubt it, but that’s what I’m hoping for.”

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WASHINGTON Lion’s Heart A triumphant rebellion against her formal jazz upbringing, Megan Washington’s debut longplayer I Believe You Liar – released this Friday, July 30 – is packed with enough rockpop-electro punch to bring down the biggest of stages. As she warns JULIAN TOMPKIN “I weigh half as much as my keyboard but I can beat up your dad”. Catch Washington onstage at The Fly By Night Club on Friday, August 27.

Megan Washington is as mesmerising over coffee as she is on stage. Edgy, animated, volatile and unapologetic, she speaks in rapid fire – littered with expletives – armed with an articulate and explosive retort to every question tossed her way. This is clearly a woman armed for battle.

I Believe You Liar is a soundtrack to war – the sounds of a woman at war with herself, and the many lives she’s lived in her short 24 years on this earth. For being Megan Washington has meant being many different things: a frustrated dancer, a traditional jazz singer, a rock’n’roll gun-for-hire, a wide-eyed folk singer and, now, finally a feisty yet radio friendly rock’n’pop songstress afraid of, as she so eloquently puts it, “sweet fuck all”.

“I don’t know what the fuck I am,” Washington says of her mixed-message persona.

“I am just me. I think very deeply about the music I write – I think very conceptually whether

it’s appropriate and the social and moral responsibilities of being a musician; particularly being a female musician.”

Born in Papua New Guinea to Australian parents and later relocating to Brisbane, Washington was accepted into the jazz school at Queensland Conservatorium Of Music after reappraising her long-held dream of becoming a dancer. Washington quickly made a stir on the jazz scene, releasing the Nightlight EP in 2006 and headlining a number of mainstage jazz festivals.

But just as she began to find her footing in the prickly world of schooled jazz, Washington made her next sudden left turn in completely abandoning the artform all together, moving to Melbourne and joining old-timey, eclectic rock band Old Man River. She would later join Ben Lee’s band and in 2008 would release the folk-based independent EP Clementine. Signing to Universal, 2009’s How To Tame Lions EP was the first real taste of the ‘new’ Washington, followed

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by the equally eclectic Rich Kids EP in 2010.

“If I have to sing How High The Moon one more fucking time I’ll shoot myself in the head – it has nothing to do with me,” Washington says of the jazz standards of her past.“I feel like it took me three EPs to actually work out what the fuck I was doing, in terms of the sound – all of the EPs are quite eclectic. It’s like, ‘now you think you’re Beck – what the fuck. Are you Massive Attack?

No one knows… are you Billie Holiday… Liberace?

What are you?’. I am glad I did that though as now I have put out a record and it sounds like a record, and it doesn’t have this weird gimp-ish cousin of a song limping around. I am glad that it took me half my life to make this record, or else I would have made a folk a record, big and floral – and there would have been a picture of me lying in a field on the front cover.”

“NOW I AM 24 AND I SMOKE, I DRINK WHISKEY AND I DON’T PRACTICE SINGING; IT’S LIKE MEG’S LITTLE SISTER HAS STEPPED UP TO THE MICROPHONE FOR ONE SONG, AND THEN SHE LEAVES.” Recorded over a three-year period, no better document punctuates the contradictions of Megan Washington better than her debut album I Believe You Liar – a contorted narrative of love, loss, hate and beauty. Washington feels she’s truly given us a pound of flesh… literally.

“It’s like I have this weird head on my real head,” Washington says of the feelings that come with releasing a debut album, “and I am about to have it removed, and I don’t know how I am going to cope without it – this burden has been on my back for so long. There was three years worth of songwriting, and I selected the songs by treating my life as a musical because I really like musicals. And so I picked all the songs that were plot points, like ‘stayed tuned for the next episode because Sally’s not really dead’, you know? ‘Your boyfriend actually sucks’. I picked all the plot points, so the record itself conceptually and lyrically is very close to me. I think it works.

“It’s quite strange – like Clementine, this is the original version I recorded when I was 21.

Now I am 24 and I smoke, I drink whiskey and I don’t practice singing; it’s like Meg’s little sister has stepped up to the microphone for one song, and then she leaves.”

Hardened from five years of intense searching, Washington has finally arrived in a place she feels uneasily at home. She has well and truly found a style she can call her own, but can just as easily slot in besides the cute art smarts of Sarah Blasko as she can the testosterone rock of The Mess Hall. And now she’s ready to tackle the world – and your dad!

“I am not a frustrated jazz singer anymore,” she concludes with a joyful sigh.“I feel spiritual about it – music is the only thing in my life at the moment that gives me any sense of meaning. For me, music is the only place where I don’t have to fight the world – when I hear a great song I just want to cry, as it’s so pure. I don’t know how I am perceived, but all I can really hope to do is just get the fuck on with it!”

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RICHARD ASHCROFT Bittersweet

Last month when Richard Ashcroft introduced his new band RPA & The United Nations Of Sound to Paris as part of a quick European run,he was nervous.He had expected his new album to have been released a few weeks before, so that the 500 fans at the Le Trabendo would have known the songs. But it wasn’t. CHRISTIE ELIEZER finds out what went awry ahead of Ashcroft’s gig at Metro City on Wednesday, August 4.

Ashcroft took a risk by showcasing ten new songs, kicking off with the soaring Are You Ready? and Born Again. Very quickly the new band - guitarist Steve Wyreman, bassist Paul ‘DW’ Wright, drummer Derrick Wright and Ashcroft’s wife and former Spiritualized band member Kate Radley, on keyboards - proved what fine chops they had. The crowd went wild.

At that French show, the only Verve song to get a workout was Lucky Man although he did do Sonnet and The Drugs Don’t Work as part of a solo acoustic encore. It would be the last show on the European tour before Bitter Sweet Symphony made an appearance - and only because Wright, who loved the song, wanted to play it. Sure enough, a reviewer castigated him for falling back on Symphony. Ashcroft wailed,“I could have told them that would happen!”

But he wasn’t concerned. “This band was phenomenal in the studio so I was dying to hear them live. They’re all great players; they’ve got the humility to play the beat where they should, and the riff where they should. It’s like Neil Young’s Crazy Horse: it’s a solo record but the band is so wonderful it deserves its own spotlight because they’re out of their comfort zone too, playing with a guy who comes from a rock background. We’re turning each other on to new things, bleeding new things into each other, and hopefully coming up with a new sound.”

When they’re not on tour, Ashcroft, Radley and their kids move between their English estate in Gloucestershire (where he communes with nature and surrounds himself with dogs, hens and peacocks), a place in London and a chateau in the south of France. It was at the latter where last year Radley came across Ashcroft sitting so still that she thought he’d passed out.

He was working out where to go with the next

record. The Verve had split up again and his new songs were in a different mindspace. He wanted to create a fresh mix of rock, soul and R&B. The name No ID kept coming up as the producer; Ashcroft was a fan of the tribal grooves he whipped up on Jay-Z and Common records.

No ID was in heavy demand, so Ashcroft only had ten days to record. The producer got in some hot R&B players. The sessions also included engineer Reggie Dozier who’d worked on Motown classics, Benjamin Wright who arranged the strings for Aretha, the Temptations and Michael Jackson’s Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough came in to work on the album’s epic closer Let My Soul Rest.

As the sessions went on, Ashcroft saw his vision come alive, “I wanted future rock, not retro rock.” He’d express his excitement by shadow boxing, punching his fists in the air, and once falling on the floor worshipping guitarist Wyreman’s wah-wah pedal as he nailed the solo on Are You Ready? in the first take.

“He arrived in New York to play with Mary J. Blige on a TV show,” Ashcroft recalls. “He came in to do one song. I explained briefly how Keith Richards came into Sympathy For The Devil by semi-introducing himself. I knew I wouldn’t have to talk to him about Jimi Hendrix and Funkadelic, I knew it was in him. He just did it.

That moment was a life change for Steve, he went on to play guitar on the rest of the record.”

At what point did he realise that a number of the songs lyrically seemed to be about the need for rebirth?

“After recording, I’d go back to the hotel late at night, and there’d be 68 religious channels, all deep in discussion. I like reading the Bible, I read the theology, but I don’t belong to a church and I don’t like the dogma. I’m interested in the

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dichotomy of words like Judas and Jesus coming from something so pure. But I also have a lot of respect for Darwinism. To me, Isaac Newton is as inspiring as St. Francis of Assisi.”

Given that the Verve never made it to Australia, how many songs will we get at his shows?

“On the European tour, Bittersweet Symphony didn’t make it until the last show and that’s because the bassist wanted to do it. But I know Australians who loved Urban Hymns have been waiting a long time to see the man who wrote it sing it. So that’s when I make the decision to play it. I’m realistic, gigs are not cheap.”

What was his reaction when he heard Allen Klein (Rolling Stones publisher who took all the royalties for Bittersweet because of its Stones sample) had died? “ That’s a great question! I was blind to his passing, it didn’t register. I’ve compartmentalised that whole thing somewhere else in my brain. To me, the best thing to do is to do a documentary on that song, from the Staples Singers to the Rolling Stones. It is after all one of the greatest pieces of pop art.”

And yes, even now, when people see him walk down a street, they still yell out, “’Ere mate, the video’s finished!”

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Another pop rock band in skinny black jeans. Yawn. Until you hear the song I Like To Dance that is.This is a song that will have you toe tapping into the night.The single is the first off US band Hot Chelle Rae’s debut album Lovesick Electric.

CAITLIN IRVING reports.

So what do they sound like? Well think catchy lyrics, strong vocals, sing-along pop choruses, old school rock guitar, and a pumping rhythm and you’re there. You know you’re onto a good thing when someone names Queen as inspiration. It also helps to have music in your DNA. X-Press caught up with lead singer Ryan Keith Follese, to find out all about the band that has been described as “ripe, arrogant and sweating with tangible promise that hangs in the air at their live shows”. A phone conversation reveals that Follese is indeed ‘dripping with charisma’ as the press release tells you. Along with Follese, Hot Chelle Rae is comprised of his brother and drummer, Jamie, bassist Ian Keaggy and Nash Overstreet who is lead guitarist. Ryan, Jamie and Nash are the sons of A-list Nashville songwriters who have multiple number one hits between them, while Ian’s dad is a worldrenowned Grammy-nominated guitarist. Music is definitely in their blood.

Hot Chelle Rae came about in early 2005 when a mutual friend introduced Nash and Ryan.

Teaming up, they brought in Nash’s childhood friend, Keaggy, and Jamie joined up soon after.

The name, Hot Chelle Rae, came about thanks to a certain “crazy MySpace stalker” who went by the name of Michelle Rae.“This girl had stolen pictures off model Stacey Cole’s Flickr page and was posing as a record company employee,” Follese laughs.

“We fell for it hook, line and sinker”.

After signing with Jive Records in October 2008, they started writing in earnest for their first album.

“My dad told me early on that writing hit songs is just like your batting average,” Follese says. “He reminded me that Barry Bonds hits 70 homeruns a year, but he doesn’t hit a homerun every time — it’s maybe one out of ten. So if you want to write hit songs, you’re going to have to write 50 songs for your first record, which is what we did. We threw out loads of songs.”

The result is Lovesick Electric and the vibe is upbeat and energetic. “We wanted it to sound explosive and new and fun and be better than anything out there,” Follese explains cheekily. In Melbourne at the time of the interview, the boys are keen to come back to Oz for a national tour.

Perth girls can only hope that he’s single when they do!

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COVER ARTISTS Locals With Tricks Up Their Sleeves Inspired by some of rock ‘n’ roll’s most iconic record sleeves, Perth photographer Adrian Craddock has created a series of images that put local artists in the place of the musical stars on famous cover images. With many of the acts inspired by the records they were recreating, the results are uncanny, and often very fitting. Here, X-Press presents the unseen photographs for the first time.

The Novocaines as The Ramones

Josh Biondillo (King George) as Bruce Springsteen

Felicity Groom as Joni Mitchell

Will Stoker as Patti Smith

Sean Pollard (Split Seconds) as The Clash

Stacy Gougoulis as Elliott Smith

Peter Leveson-Gower (Sonpsilo Circus) as David Bowie

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AMELIA CORMACK Baring Her Soul Most famous for playing one of the powerhouse divas in Priscilla Queen Of The Desert:The Musical,Amelia Cormack has removed the wig, heels, glitter and sequins and re-launched herself as a singer/songwriter. Her independent, self-titled album is currently available online through iTunes. CAITLIN IRVING gets the low down.

Describing her self-titled album as “inspired by life”, Cormack enjoyed the freedom to focus on telling her own story after playing roles for so long. A veteran of the stage, Cormack won the coveted Green Room Award in 2008 for her Outstanding Performance in Priscilla and recently appeared in the Sydney production of LoveBites, which toured Perth in July.

Of Priscilla, Cormack says: “It was one of the best experiences of my life. Creating a brand new show is not something we get to do very often in this country. And getting to work with some of Australia’s greatest talents – Tony Sheldon, Bill Hunter and Michael Caton to name a few - was unbelievable!”

A fantastic career to date, no doubt.

And it all began right here in Perth. “At the time, WAAPA was the only course offering a Bachelor in Music Theatre, so it was a natural choice,” she explains. “I learnt so much, got to live in a true arts community, as well as spending three years living in Perth, which was of course fabulous! I have such great memories of Perth – the beautiful beaches and friendly people. Sunday sessions at The Queens Hotel and Karaoke Thursdays at The Flying Scotsman were favourites also.”

So why the switch from musical theatre to being a singer/songwriter? “I’d been writing for the last 10 years, but my songwriting was always a hobby – kind of like a journal,” Cormack explains. “I started performing some stuff I’d written at live gigs and the response was amazing. I’d saved up all this money from my time doing Priscilla and at one point I was tossing up ‘house or album’? Buying a place seemed way too grown up, so I decided to do an album.”

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Amelia Cormack but the themes are universal – “life, love and everything in between,” as she explains. “Missy Higgins has been a huge influence for me. I love how raw and human her music is. Sometimes it feels as if all humanity has been removed from the human voice, so I really tried to go for an acoustic sound on this album. I wanted the listener to get a real sense of who I am and not have the production dividing us.”

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SANDI THOM Merchants And Thieves

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Forget everything you know about Birds Of Tokyo – it’s time to rebuild. It’s a grand statement for any band, releasing a self-titled album – the one document so immaculate it deserves the band’s moniker for ever after. And it’s a decision most artists inevitably regret, for art is never static – a good artist is always out to better their last creation. But here, on their third album, you get the sense that this four-piece have truly stumbled upon that one document truly worthy of the title Birds Of Tokyo.

As an opening statement, Plans is the Perth outfit’s greatest moment to date. Replete with soaring vocals and the melodic rock smarts of the best in the business, this song is destined to go down a radio classic and propel the band into the great pantheon of Oz rock immortality. Indeed, as Powderfinger sign off from showbiz Birds Of Tokyo are ready to step up as the multi-platinum selling monoliths of the second decade of the 21st Century. And the rest of the album certainly holds up its end of the bargain. The Saddest Thing I Know dips into Silverchair’s classic sonic territory circa Diorama, while In The Veins Of Death Valley follows suit with a brooding rock attack (garnished in majestic strings). Circles, Wild At Heart, Waiting For The Wolves… each song deserves attention, but alas we’re out of space.

So we’ll say this – Australia has been waiting for this record. Get it before your neighbour does.

Sandi Thom has an impressive resume as the youngest ever student to be accepted into the Liverpool Institute Of Performing Arts. She also webcast a run of 21 performances from the basement of her Tooting flat, which led to much publicity and a record deal.

She has since been dropped from RCA and had a change of focus.

Teaming up with Joe Bonamassa both professionally and personally has seen Thom embrace the blues. She may have denounced her bubble gum pop past, but at least she managed to fluke the odd hit or two. Sadly the most appealing moment on her new blues based album Merchants And Thieves is an instrumental.

The blues is a genre that specialises in the sentiment of disappointment and Merchants And Thieves is definitely that. Thom’s voice comes across as too clinical to carry the emotion of the genre in any meaningful way, and she comes off sounding like a lady who is just complaining.

Sandi Thom is proof that you can’t polish a turd, but sadly you can throw it all over Myspace for its short lived fifteen minutes of fame. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

_JULIAN TOMPKIN

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OLD MAN RIVER You’re On My Mind

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Old Man River (aka Ohad Rein) has always been insightful, if a little quirky, and it seems nothing has changed with his latest EP You’re On My Mind, a strong, melodic set of songs, blending the catchy folk-pop sound he found fame with on 2007’s Sunshine, with a subtle Indian-influenced dash of production experimentation.

From the first chugging beats, upbeat opener You’re On My Mind doesn’t waste any time in setting the mood, proving itself to be the kind of mix that would be right at home oozing from the headphones of some soul-searcher meandering through a maze of tiny streets in Old Delhi, pondering life’s strangeness and lamenting the misfortunes of the past, but always welling up with a quiet positivity.

Emblematic of Rein’s collaborative approach to music, the inclusion of a remix of Bollywood-style bop-fest Shanti Aaye from local musician-of-the-moment Luke Steele adds to the colorful production, and features back-up vocal harmonies from the treasured Shanti Choir – a spiritually-influenced, 200-strong Indian-American choral group.

But while Rein’s experimental willingness shines through on this latest release, fans need not fret – he is still a gentle pop singer/ songwriter in the vein of Ben Lee or Evan Dando.It is the subtle changes that make You’re On My Mind a nice, low-key comeback.

While Broken Social Scene part-timers Stars’ fifth studio album, The Five Ghosts, does little to deviate from their signature formula of wellcrafted music about heartbreak, nothing breaks hearts the way the best Stars tracks have done over the years.

But for the first time in their lengthy career, the indie-pop quartet sound defeated.

There’s very little urgency, or even a range of emotion for that matter, rather, much of the record blurs together, drowning listeners in a strangely leaden mood from which even the gorgeously ambient feather-on-the-breath drones of soulstress Amy Millan can’t save.

While the melodic rush of perky single Fixed soars with the glimmering lightness Stars’ fans have come to expect, much of the remainder of the record is overburdened with grandiosity too often rerouted into overblown slabs of bombast.

It’s as if every subtlety of their previous records have been magnified in the production process - a case in point being the ridiculously titled superfluous lament I Died So I Could Haunt You, which tips the scale from mediocre to downright unpleasant.

All in all, The Five Ghosts is far from a poor record, and perhaps if it had been released as a debut or even sophomore album, it might even be considered noteworthy. However, after 10 years and four marvelous indie-pop releases, Stars really should know better. Very disappointing.

_JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

_JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

MINUS THE BEAR Omni

THE AMITY AFFLICTION Youngbloods

Dangerbird

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It’s been two years since I reviewed The Amity Affliction’s debut album Severed Ties. Whilst the record was widely received as successful, I was of the opinion that it was rushed, and did not deliver on The Amity Affliction’s full potential. Having just given their latest fulllength Youngbloods a healthy spin, my opinions regarding their debut have been solidified, as Youngbloods makes amends for its predecessors rushed approach.

For Severed Ties, the band flew to Adelaide and recorded with Darren Thompson, a producer not known for working with heavy bands. This time around, Amity headed to New York to record with famed heavy producer Machine, and the end result is a record that packs a punch where it should, and still allows The Amity Affliction to use their melodic prowess to counterbalance their hardcore stylings.

As much as a hardcore band are normally known for their aggressive approach, it’s the melodic vocals of bassist Ahren Stringer that gives The Amity Affliction their unique edge.

Stringer’s vocals provide a contrasting change to the growls of Joel Birch, and ultimately separates this act from the pack.

They’ve already used their tireless work ethic to propel them to the forefront of the Australian heavy music scene, but with Youngbloods, The Amity Affliction now have the product to back it up.

Minus The Bear are awesome.

Seriously awesome. With the release of their debut Highly Refined Pirates, the Seattle band established themselves as one of the very few bands actually doing something original. To describe in words what the band have pioneered musically would not do their originality true justice.

Omni, Minus The Bear’s fourth studio album, continues along the same lines of experimentation as their previous efforts, but walks a different tangent in terms of dynamics and song structures. Their trademark guitars and synth are still at the forefront, yet the songs themselves are on a completely different page in respects atmosphere.

Minus The Bear are in no way a pop band. They take the finer elements of indie rock and experiment with different sounds and textures, and the vocals almost act as a rhythm instrument. They have little emphasis on hooks, yet you will undoubtedly walk away from Omni humming with satisfaction.

The only thing that I don’t get about Minus The Bear is why they’re not hugely popular.

There are endless amounts of bands who are making millions with a tenth of the musical skill that the band possess, yet Minus The Bear are still to receive the recognition they deserve. _GEORGE GREEN

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THE STABS Dead Wood

THE NUNS

Independent/ Spooky Records

Universal Music, the label which includes Lady Gaga, The Rolling Stones, Elton John and U2 amongst it’s stable, has signed some unlikely new recruits – an order of Benedictine nuns.

The Nuns, as they are so imaginatively named, come from an area near Avignon in France, and landed their signing after a search

by Universal subsidiary Decca to find the world’s best female proponents of the Gregorian Chant.

Usually we like to include a Myspace address with our Discover gems but given that The Nuns live a cloistered life which involves remaining secluded from the outside world and only making contact with visitors from the outside world through a grill, something tells us they don’t have the inclination to put their digital happy snaps and tunes online just yet.

Their debut album Voices – Chant From Avignon is released worldwide in November. For once, I now know what to buy Grandma this Christmas.

Nihilistic Melbournians The Stabs’second album is a dreary affair full of noisy guitars, mind-piercing feedback, throbbing basses, and plodding drums.

Not to mention, plenty of inarticulate drawl vocals that deliberately eschew any kind of commercial appeal in favour of artistic expression.

Fittingly, there are plenty of dark themes on display. ‘I didn’t kill that girl / she brought it on herself!’, moans bass player Mark Nelson in The Hated One, while primary vocalist and guitarist Brendan Noonan is particularly bleak in early stand-out track No Hoper. A self-contained three piece act, each member of The Stabs sings on at least one track on this album—a tactic which, for most bands, results in diversity of output, but here the vocals do not differ very much from one another at all.

Like most bands who specialise in postswampy punk noise,the vocals are really secondary on this release to the feedback and the riffs, but there’s enough going on track to track here to keep listeners hooked. Cabin Fever, for example, kicks off with a repetitive piano riff which joins the vocals before the whole band kicks in with some kind of disorienting shemozzle - perfectly appropriate to the song’s lyrical themes - and finishing off with the sound of glass being crunched. Ouch.

Not for everybody, but The Stabs wouldn’t pretend to be. A fine, if unsettling, effort. _BEN WATSON

Key Track: Adore Te _DAVID CRADDOCK

The Clash Sandinista!

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THE BASTARD NOISE A Culture Of Monsters Deep Six Records/Housepig/ Hear More!

“A culture soaked, but not wet. A monster, alive but not living… And as we grow blind to what we once saw, we inhale once more… we inhale a culture of monsters.” – The Bastard Noise, A Culture Of Monsters.

It all began in 1991, as a parallel electronic and experimental entity to the legendary powerviolence outfit Man Is The Bastard, but now it has evolved into so much more. It has become a modern political statement. Not in the same degree as say what Crass And Conflict have done, but in a way that still challenges the established forms – forcing its audience to question everything.

And that is exactly what A Culture Of Monsters, the next chapter from the Noise’s revolving musical collective, aims to do. Quickly following a recent split with The Endless Blockade, this LP has come full circle – reverting to their heavier days of yore.

Although still revelling in the structured electronic sampling (Me And Hitler) and more atmospheric origins (If Another World…), the band head towards more cohesive territory – incorporating noteworthy guests Nathan Martin (Creation Crucifixtion) and Lack Of Interest’s Mike Reynolds. Vomiting every possible influence into this recording, not only are The Bastard Noise able to pull it off – but they do so in a way that puts other noise and industrial experimentalists to shame.

The world in the early 1980s was a strange place, the Cold War tensions rumbled on and terrorist groups continued to wreak their havoc across the globe. In the UK, the Thatcher government was in power, unemployment was rife and violence spilled onto the streets.

The Clash’s fourth record Sandinista! was released in December 1980 as a triple LP and is a brilliant reflection of those turbulent days. Not only does it see the group at its most political, it also demonstrates their astonishing awareness of world music and a willingness to move with the times. In particular, the band immersed themselves in the reggae and dub scene that was prevalent in the UK at the time.

Sandinista! is a glorious fusion of reggae, dub, funk, soul and rockabilly and is arguably the band’s finest work. Indeed, anyone seeing The Clash as merely a punk band should try and give this record a listen.Truly outstanding stuff.

Key Track: The Magnificent Seven _ROSS MCNEILL

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DANGER MOUSE & SPARKLEHORSE Dark Night Of The Soul Capitol/EMI

Dark Night Of The Soul has had quite a history.

The collaboration between Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and David Lynch was at one stage destined to be buried due to a legal dispute with the record label. With the album not looking to see the light of day and a long term battle with depression taking hold, Mark Linkous committed suicide making this Sparklehorse’s epitaph.

The atmospheric and moody Revenge hints that Linkous may be steering the ship, but he lessens his hold on the wheel as Dark Night Of The Soul progresses. Things are a bit more spritely when Gruff Rhys and James Mercer add their silky vocals to Danger Mouse’s programmed tracks.

Different vocalists are used for each track with Jason Lytle and Suzanne Vega being the standouts. David Lynch shows that he is no slouch either with lyrics and vocals on the ethereal Star Eyes (I Can’t Catch It). If there are any failures, it would be Frank Black confirming that he has had little to offer since the heady days of the Pixies on Angel’s Harp.

If it wasn’t certain already Dark Night Of The Soul reinforces what a massive and tragic loss it is that the genius of Linkous is no longer amongst us. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

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The Bounty Hunter is the sort of job any Hollywood star can do blindfolded. We expect to see Jennifer Aniston in this sort of heart warming drivel, but Gerard Butler’s gone steeply downhill since donning the leather and cape in 300 – maybe being the male lead in an endless string of love stories gets the buff Scot more chicks.

The simple set-up is all you need to know - a bounty hunter learns that his plucky reporter ex wife is his next target. Cue early bickering, rebonding and winsome ‘maybe we really are still in love’ moments.

Mafia investigates the rise of the American mob from the prohibition era through to the days of John Gotti and the Gambino clan and will make a great companion piece to Goodfellas or The Godfather on your shelf.

But the big winner is Leon, Luc Besson’s alt love story between a big-hearted loner and freelance hitman (Jean Reno) and the young girl he rescues (Natalie Portman, then 10 years old) after a crooked cop wipes out her family. He teaches her how to kill, she teaches him how to love, and they both teach us the true meaning of friendship.

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CANBERRA COMEDY If all this election and campaigning hoohah is driving you up the wall, perhaps the cheeky lads from The Chaser will be able to peak your political interest with Yes We Canberra!, their brand new election show

on ABC1. Screening on Wednesday nights at 9.45pm in the lead up to the election on Saturday, August 21, Yes We Canberra! will cut through the crap, finding humour and flavour in the bland rice-cracker that is the

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Each summer, Sculpture By The Sea transforms Cottesloe Beach into an outdoor art gallery, showcasing the work of sculptors and installation artists from Australia and beyond. The event attracts thousands of art fans and beach goers every year and changes the beach landscape as we know it.

Preparations are now underway for the 2011 edition of Sculpture By The Sea, and sculptors are invited to submit their ideas for next year’s exhibition. Over 70 sculptures will be selected for inclusion in the event, each of whom will vy for the $15,000 NAB WA Sculpture Prize.

Submissions close on Wednesday, August 18, so don’t delay, hope onto sculpturebythesea.com to find out how to get involved.

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If you’re a night-owl who enjoys sleeping through the day and partying from dusk ’til dawn, then chances are you’ll love The Ellington Jazz Club’s Late Night Groove series. Kicking off at 11.30pm on Friday nights, Late Night Groove features performances from a range of musicians and vocalists each week, including Tori Denn and Georgia Mooney on Friday, August 6. Backed by a top-notch rhythm section, Denn and Mooney will take to the stage to perform Motown, soul and funk classics guaranteed to lift your spirits. Tickets are on sale now from ellingtonjazz.com. au. Book early to avoid disappointment.

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The streets of Perth will come alive with dance, music and drama this Friday, July 30, when students from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts present 30 x 30. A key event as part of WAAPA’s 30th anniversary celebrations, 30 x 30 will see 30 30-minute performances running simultaneously at, you guessed it, 30 locations across the CBD. The 30 individual pieces will span across all genres of the performing arts, including classical, jazz and contemporary music, dance, acting, musical theatre, singing and everything in between; making for a much livelier lunch-time than business workers and shoppers are accustomed to.

WAAPA’s students will transform shopping malls, churches, arcades and plazas into imaginary theatres and concert halls for the event, including locations such as Trinity Church, QV1, Westralia Square, Central Park, Enex 100, One40 William, Carillion City, Murray Street Mall, Forrest Place, the Northbridge Piazza, the Esplanade Railway Station and the Perth Underground Station.

Whether you’re a dance fiend, a drama nut or a music buff, 30 x 30 is sure to please, offering up a range of performances including Piano: Bach To Today, Defying Gravity Percussion, Black Track, Dance Blitz, Zoo Menagerie and Sonnet Gifts, among many others.

For specific times and locations, refer to the schedule, or head online to waapa.ecu.edu.au. If the heavens open this Friday, times and locations may vary slightly; fingers crossed the storm clouds part in aid of the occasion.

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DEBORAH CONWAY Sing Your Life

Deborah Conway & Wily Zygier perform at Bunbury’s Prince Of Wales on Thursday, August 5; Friends Restaurant on Friday, Au g u s t 6 ; t h e N o r fo l k B a s e m e nt o n Saturday, August 7, and the Ravenswood Hotel on Sunday, August 8.

As titles go, Half Man Half Woman really sums up the latest album by Deborah Conway, who partners with guitarist Wily Zygier in both music and marriage.

The pair have been together for many years, but it wasn’t until 2004’s Summertown that Zygier’s name appeared next to Conway’s on the cover-and-spine of an album release. Half Man Half Woman continues that tradition.

“I’ve been trying to get him to put his name on these records for a long time,” Conway says over coffee at Tiger Tiger in the city. “From Bitch Epic (1993), really. He’s shy... and he’s just always felt like it’s my brand and that’s what people identify and he’d just get in the way. But I’ve won... as I always do (laughs).”

It’s a cheeky, conspiratorial laugh but it’s easy to sense the emotional and musical understanding the pair have, which runs though the veins of Half Man Half Woman, an album as intensely honest as anything Conway has ever committed to record. It’s six years since her last album and in that time Conway has been more than busy raising daughters, taking her acclaimed Broad annual roadshow of emerging female performers around the country and being the Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival.

When it came to songs for Half Man Half Woman, songs were waiting their turn but others burst forth.

“Some did,” she says, “though some were hanging around for a long time. We did a lot of writing in 2006. A lot of the songs we did for this actually aren’t on the record, we actually recorded them, but just because of the way the record flowed we thought it was better to keep for anther release.

“Actually, Take Pity On The Beast was written during the recording, it happened really quickly.”

A case in point when it comes to Conway’s emotional honesty in song, Take Pity

Deborah Conway

On The Beast is a very stark song, almost Nick Cave-like in its wordplay, ranging from poetic to uneasy conversation. Each of the many verses deals with a character living on in spite of their individual malaises.

“They’re all friends of mine,” Conway notes, “they’re all very personal tales. There was so much to say. It’s a song about the struggle that we have to be alive. Some people really, really struggle. But they do it and they do it gracefully. There’s something to celebrate even though there’s a lot of sadness in that as well. But it’s about the tenacity of human beings to keep going in the face of incredible odds.”

Central to this is the tale of a holocaust survivor. ‘The holocaust was his companion; A lifetime at his side; Now all that’s gone with his memory; And all he says is alright,

alright, alright’. In essence the survivor has forgotten what has defined him his whole life...

“That’s my father-in-law,’ Conway says quietly, “he died in November. It was an amazing thing, an incredible thing to watch...”

S h e p a u s e s, t h e s o n g h a s n o t distanced Conway from the memory. Life is going on, but it has changed and is still subject to her father—in-law’s passing.

“I don’t know if I can talk about it today, actually,” she says, turning away for a moment. “I feel a bit, a bit... sorry.”

Tears well in her eyes, yet Conway graciously declines the offer of the recorder being turned off, so we turn instead to a happier song. Into The Blue features Conway’s and Zygier’s three daughters (aged between 10-15) and was written during a long family drive.

“It’s a nine-hour day from Jervis Bay to Tamworth Country Music Festival and we wanted the girls to have some sort of stake in this, in this trip to Tamworth,” she says, brightening. “So we thought we’d write them a song. We’ve written a lot of songs in this holiday process, we’ve been going there for the last nine years, it’s a fantastic holiday for us, we rent this old farmhouse, muck up and go to the beach.

“So we thought it’d be good because it’ll give them something to do in the car... and then they fought the entire way (laughs).

‘You’re out of tune!’ ‘No, you’re out of tune!‘, ’You got the words wrong!’, ‘Anyway we got there and we performed with Melinda Schneider and it was a ball. They sang three-part harmonies, nerve-free! It was really impressive.”

From there Conway and Zygier decided to up the ante, tighten up the song and record it. From a humble family trip, Into The Blue has made it onto the album, taking a worthy place amongst the heartfelt fare.

“I wondered if it’d be too sentimental to include,” Conway says, “but I played it to a few people who said, ‘you’ve got to put it on, it’s great’. So we did. I think it’s a nice piece, of course I do, because for me, already, it’s like an audio snapshot of my girls from a year ago.

And it’s good to have that because, of course, their voices change.”

While many know her from the ‘80s as the singer in Do-Re-Mi and chart topping solo hits in the early ‘90s such as It’s Only The Beginning, Conway, unlike many past contemporaries, has never become caught in nostalgia nor come near the word ‘reunion’.

She can sing songs from the past, but there are always more songs to write.

“I’m just not that interested in revisiting,” she says. “Not that I’m not grateful to those songs, I mean here I am in Perth doing RockWiz and singing It’s Only The Beginning as I’ve been asked to do and people absolutely love it and it’s great. But if that’s all I did I’d go mad.

“So for me it’s lovely that people have that soft, warm, cosy spot in the hearts for it and that it makes them feel something for their past, but if I had to get caught up in that and it was all I did, I’d feel dead. It’s not me, I need more challenges. I’m a songwriter... that is the core business.” _ BOB GORDON

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CAIN ROSE UP Mental Marksman CINEMA WITH HEART Sponsors and organisers of Movies By Burswood gathered at Event Cinemas on Monday, July 19, for a presentation evening with a lot of heart. All the funds raised each year by Movies

By Burswood are donated direct to deserving charities and this year, a whopping $702,796 was raised.

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sense that someone is Acting with a capital ‘A’.

Directed by Robert Livings The decision to retain the short Starring Luke Ledger, Stacy Gougoulis, Stuart story’s period setting is a bold one, especially Bender, David Richardson, Adam Sollis on a budget that’s hovering around the $1,200 mark - films set even in the recent past are Here’s a thing you may not know about horror generally an expensive proposition. Using laureate Stephen King: since around 1977, he’s private Anglican girl’s school St Hilda’s certainly made a habit out of occasionally allowing helps to maintain the retro tone. Other elements emerging filmmakers to take a crack at one are less evocative of the period, but a concerted of his short stories, signing over the one-time effort is made to at least be internally consistent rights of the princely sum of one dollar. The most in the production design. famous of these ‘Dollar Babies’ is undoubtedly The film’s technical achievements are Frank Darabont, whose early short The Woman a mixed bag. Although competently shot and In The Room has led to a successful and lifelong edited, the sound work leaves a lot to be desired, collaboration with King (The Shawshank especially some of the sound editing and ADR Redemption, The Mist). work. There is an old saying that audiences will Now we have an Australian Dollar Baby in the form of Living’s Perth-shot adaptation of watch bad camerawork, but they won’t listen a short story from King’s Skeleton Crew. Cain to bad sound, and it’s generally true. Having Rose Up follows troubled student Curt (Ledger said that, there are some well-handled visual - Heath’s cousin, for the record) as he tacks flourishes, in particular the ‘Bogart Poster’ an unsteady course through his final day of sequence.

Cain Rose Up, although a competent university in 1975. As the film progresses, the extent of Curt’s instability becomes apparent, piece of work and obviously made with care and and the film moves in an inevitable and violent dedication, is not going to set the world on fire.

As a film, it is somewhat hobbled by its fidelity conclusion.

It’s a film whose ambition exceeds to the source material; driven more by character its grasp, and that’s a good thing - we need than plot, it lacks the sting in the tail common young filmmakers who are willing to try to to many short films, and there is a slight sense achieve beyond their means. Ledger gives a that the film just stops rather than coming to a convincing central performance as the unhinged satisfying resolution. It is a solid little film on the Curtis, although he is hampered by a voiceover whole, though, and should work well as a calling monologue that is both intrusive and heavy card for Livings and his crew. handed. Most of the rest of the cast acquit themselves well, although there is the occasional _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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Killers

Directed by Robert Luketic Starring Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck, Catherine O’Hara Killers couldn’t be any more appropriate a title for this harmful blunt weapon that, quite frankly, isn’t doing much for keeping the lines on the cinematic EKG meter up. There’s an audience for light and fluffy rom-coms, even ones starring Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher, but no audience exists that wants to pay $20 to see an uninspired errant mess that doesn’t so much encompass a storyline as it does a teaser for a pretty one-sheet.

In the recent Knight And Day, Tom Cruise played a mysterious action hero superagent that scores an improbable subordinate (and love interest) in a dippy blonde that looks as if she’s never held a beer can, let alone a gun. Substitute the name Cruise for Kutcher, Diaz for Heigl, and remove the ridiculously fun stunts and dialogue that keep Knight And Day afloat and you’ve got Killers. Yep, more fun to be had in the kitchen with a bottle of Morning Fresh and scrubbing brush!

Spencer Aimes (Ashton Kutcher) is an undercover government-hired assassin who, while on assignment in a flashy exotic locale, meets bubbly computer-tech Jen Kornfeldt (Katherine Heigl). They, of course, fall in love and Spencer’s priorities suddenly change, thus an early retirement from the spy field is

in store for the hotshot.

Three years later, Spencer and Jen are living a life of marital bliss. Her uncompromising father (Tom Selleck) and doting mother (Catherine O’Hara) have just about accepted him into the family, and they’re friends with everyone on their quiet, suburban street. But the day after his 30th birthday, Spencer learns he’s the target of a multi-million dollar hit, and worst of all, he and Jen have been stalked for years. Not only is it now time for Spencer to tell Jen about the life he left behind for her, but together they have to try and work out which of their friends and co-workers are undercover assassins.

Knight And Day, though not the best film, packed much more punch than this torturous effort - in fact, Killers’ knuckles are seemingly so infused with arthritis, it never even attempts a swing. Nobody’s making much effort at all to keep this one buoyant.

It’s a pity director Robert Luketic couldn’t have squeezed more out of this dry sponge than what’s on offer - after all, he’s made some perfectly acceptable rom-coms in the past (Legally Blonde, Win A Date With Tad Hamilton) by sprinkling their canvasses with witty dialogue and adding a touch of realism to their somewhat unbelievable plots. But Luketic seems to have set himself to autopilot on this one - there’s no fun dialogue, nothing plays real, and Heigl and Kutcher’s performances are so all over the place you’d suspect Luketic just left them a sticky note in their dressing rooms at the start of each day letting them know they were ‘free to try anything’ because he was going shopping.

If there’s one reason to watch Killers - and it’s likely the only reason - it’s to see ’80s icon Tom Selleck back on the big screen.

He’s your grandpa’s age now, but still looks a treat and, unlike anyone else onboard the film, seems to be attempting to salvage it.

Hopefully he’ll be back in a better vehicle shortly.

Ashton Kutcher’s fans likely won’t bother reading this review because, well, it’s more than 140 characters. For their sake, I’ve summarised my review to Twitter-length: “@aplusk Dude, You owe me 90 minutes! #2010sworstmovies #killers”

Not The Messiah (He’s A Very Naughty Boy

NOT THE MESSIAH (HE’S A VERY NAUGHTY BOY) The Full Monty

Celebrating 40 years of Monty Python madness, Not The Messiah (He’s A Very Naughty Boy) comes to Luna Leederville and Luna SX Fremantle direct from Royal Albert Hall, with two screenings only on Saturday, July 31, at 1pm and Sunday, August 1, at 5pm.

“It is rare you get to be silly on such a mass scale,” Eric Idle said when announcing his latest project, Not The Messiah (He’s A Very Naughty Boy). Fitting words, indeed, from a man who has dedicated his life to the art of silliness.

Following on from 2005’s Tony Award winning Broadway production Spamalot – a musical comedy “lovingly ripped off” from 1975’s now-legendary feature Monty Python And The Holy Grail – Not The Messiah is the latest instalment in the Python legend from one of the group’s founders and flame-keeper Eric Idle, in cohorts with his long-time musical collaborator John Du Prez.

A 90-minute comic oratorio, Not The Messiah taps into the giggles of the group’s other silver screen success Life Of Brian, and welcomes home three surviving Pythons in Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.

Filmed live onstage at Royal Albert Hall in 2009, backed by the mighty BBC Symphony orchestra and Chorus, the idea to follow up Spamalot with another Pythonesque stage production came to Idle and Du Prez while on tour with Spamalot.

Idle’s cousin had recently taken up a position as Principal Conductor at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Canada and invited the two to write a piece which could help revitalise his orchestra’s plummeting audience numbers. _CLINT MORRIS After laughing hysterically for a couple of

minutes, the two agreed and the challenge was on.

“So that was the start of it,” Du Prez says down the line from Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Wiltshire, where he’s completing the final mixes for a new Spamalot soundtrack. “And so Eric said ‘why don’t we do an oratorio?’. I had to go and look up oratorio in the dictionary and found it was a work for bagpipes, sheep and large orchestra, choir and four surviving Pythons. So I though ‘okay… let’s do that’!”

Having been criticised for his perceived exploitation of the Python brand, Not The Messiah is a coup of sort for Idle, welcoming three of his fellow Pythons back to the stage to star alongside him.

Having worked with Monty Python since 1978 – and sharing what he describes as a “vectorial relationship; almost a marriage” with Idle – Du Prez says that the triumphant response to Not The Messiah is clear proof of the enduring greatness of the existential style of comedy the Python troupe pioneered, from their formation in the late ’60s through to the height of their global fame in the ’70s and ’80s.

“Great writing is the simple answer,” Du Prez surmises of the Python legacy. “John Cleese said that any great comedian is always working on two levels, and it’s the subtext here that makes us laugh – in the case of Python there’s an enormous subtext. And in the case of Not The Messiah we feel that our niche is being funny and moving at the same time, and there aren’t too many people doing that.”

And remember: always look on the bright side of life! _JULIAN TOMPKIN

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WA INDIGENOUS ART AWARDS

GAY CONVERSION SCHOOL DROPOUT

The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition will be on display at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from Saturday, July 31, ’til Monday, January 3, 2011; from 10am-5pm daily, Wednesday to Monday.

Gay Conversion School Dropout plays DownStairs at His Maj from Thursday, August 5, ’til Saturday, August 7, at 7:30pm.

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Active And Alive

With categories including sculpture, video, painting and photography it seems quite possible that The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards could well change the perceptions of many regarding what Indigenous art is and can be.

“Changing people’s perception of Indigenous culture and art is a very challenging task,” says exhibition curator, Glenn Pilkington, “however exhibitions like the Awards exhibition are core to shifting people’s understandings.

“Often people feel that Indigenous art has to be a custodial painting, created through the application of layered paint in the form of dots. And yes, work such as this from desert areas of Australia makes up a significant part of the industry; however, Indigenous culture is active and alive, not static. People’s understanding of what kind of work is being created by Indigenous artists needs to shift, and be inclusive of new ways of working that include photography, installation and video.

“Indigenous people are as diverse as any culture of people, and our ways of investigating, exploring and depicting the many things that inspire or concern us are equally diverse.”

This year’s Awards exhibition includes works by five artists from WA and 11 artists from other parts of Australia. Clearly it is a big picture representation of the wealth of the diversity Pilkington refers to.

“Within the Awards exhibition is a plethora of artistic material that investigates and depicts a large variety of narratives, custodial values and belief systems for Indigenous Australians,” he says. “A larger number of works in this year’s exhibition also challenge the nation’s documented history, and the current state of Australian race politics. These works in particular provide an invaluable opportunity for all nonIndigenous Australians, and of course our

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Richard Bell Kick Some Body Else 2008 Artwork courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane Image © Richard Bell, courtesy of Milani Gallery, Brisbane

international visitors to gain insight into life as an Indigenous person in both historical and contemporary Australia.”

Pilkington proudly points out that the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards has established itself as a premier event within the Indigenous arts calendar, noting that three consecutive years of exhibitions have acknowledged and celebrated 48 artists and artist groups. And then, there’s the road ahead.

“My hope is that the Awards continue on into the future, celebrating more artists as they go on making amazing artwork,” he reflects. “A personal dream would be the opportunity to tour an exhibition like this internationally, in much the same way as the National Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors which recently toured to the USA. Creating opportunities for international exposure has an amazing effect on the successes and achievements of Indigenous Australian artists.” _ BOB GORDON

JOHN CONWAY So Long, Farewell

John Conway wraps up his time in Perth with Little Comedy on Saturday, July 31, at the Little Creatures Loft in Fremantle.

Doors open at 8.30pm, tickets available on the door.

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Unfortunately those of us who choose to live in Perth often lose friends to bigger cities, whether they be Melbourne, Sydney, or in comedian John Conway’s case, London. Over the last few years, Conway had toiled away on the Perth comedy circuit, performing at various regular shows and other events of his own creation, building a reputation for hilarious performances and witty banter.

This August Conway will bid Perth adieu, flying north in search of greener, and hopefully funnier pastures. Before he hops a plane to London, Conway will host his last ever edition of Little Comedy, a night that he’s run for quite some time now; X-Press catches up with him to find out what’s spurred the move and what he has in store for his last ever Perth show.

“I have gone as far as I can as a comic in Perth and the UK is like the big

Ex-Perth comedian Anthony Menchetti certainly has an interesting ‘coming out’ story, much of which can be assumed from the title of his cabaret show about that time in his life: Gay Conversion School Dropout.

When Menchetti came out to his highly religious family as a youngster, his mother immediately approached the church looking for guidance. Their answer? Send him off to a weekly ‘gay conversion school’ in Victoria Park, where he would be cured of the curse which was destined to transform him into a broke and alone drug-addict if left to run it’s course.

“The school was like AA – we received one-on-one ‘counselling’ when we first arrived, and then when it was deemed that we were not a threat to the other students we moved on to group therapy,” recalls Menchetti.“We found out later on that the counsellor didn’t have any real qualifications, it was one of those DIY from home qualifications. The basic idea was that through prayer and staying celibate, we could be cured. For a long time I was in denial about it, I believed I could be cured.

“The classes backfired a little bit, because for many of us it was our first experience and contact with other gay people.

Sexually frustrated, young gay people. I ended up having a little bit of a thing with the team leader, and I don’t think that was uncommon,” giggles Menchetti.

Menchetti says he went to the weekly classes for two years before dropping out and beginning the long process of accepting himself, and his sexuality, within the scope of his religious upbringing. “My family were extremely religious, we went to Sunday School, we gave a percentage of our income to the church and from a young age I was told that if you were gay, you burnt in hell.”

“There was a lot of guilt and I thought I would never be happy. I’m in a long-term relationship now and it’s tickety boo. I’m happy, I’m not a drug addict, I’m not broke, and I haven’t lost everyone,” laughs Menchetti. “There are leagues,” he explains of his relocation. “The amount of comedy going on over there, be it live, radio, TV etc makes for plenty of great opportunities but the quality of performers means you have to work a lot harder to get noticed. I am kind of jumping into the deep end, but that’s what I want, a challenge, be forced to be funnier, more innovative. It’s going to suck at times and I am sure I will pine for the Perth audiences when I am dying in front of a bunch of coal miners in the north of England, but in the end I will be a better comedian.”

The last five years have been somewhat of a renaissance for the Perth comedy circuit with plenty of new talent emerging from between the cracks and lots of regular stand-up nights opening their doors, so why move away when everything seems to be booming here?

“The gigs [in Perth] are great, full rooms, well paid, also not that many comedians vying for gigs which makes it easy to get up and get some stage time. This is great starting out because you really have a lot of opportunities to hone your craft and you can fuck up because it’s Perth, you know?

Perth is a great place to train. Once you get to a certain level, it’s expected that you leave.

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still moments of guilt, and the school definitely did more damage than good. A lot of the other students went through serious depression and I don’t think any of us were cured!”

Menchetti says his cabaret show has helped his own healing process, and that he is now at a point where he can look back on what has happened in a comedic light and share that with an audience.“In the beginning I never talked about myself in stand-up, it was all very Seinfeld, but funnier, of course,” Menchetti laughs.

“It took 10 years to bring my parents around to the idea that I was gay, but I was persistent, bringing boyfriends over to meet them and showing them that not every gay person was horrible. I’d much rather have not gone through the school and the bible bashing as a child, but I think I’d be where I’m at now regardless.”

Menchetti says while his parents know about the show, and have come a long way in accepting their son’s sexuality, he doesn’t think they would come to a performance.

“About 30 minutes at the beginning of the show is just about them, and I think it could be a little awkward if they were sitting front centre.” _DAVID GEOFFREY HALL make it big in comedy you got to go where the action is.

“I am doing my first solo comedy show The New Conway Show for a month run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I am staying with two Scottish uni students at a uni share house, and I am kind of hoping it will be like The Young Ones. After the Fringe, I’ll be kicking around in London and gigging and shit.”

Since Conway has no plans to return to Perth, he’s going to go out with a bang, promising big, funny things from this Saturday’s edition of Little Comedy.

“This show is going to be crazy, it’s my last show in Perth and also my last show running Little Comedy – which is continuing every Saturday at Little Creatures Loft once I am gone. I have put together a line up of my favorite Perth comedians: Nat Lewis, Ben Sutton, Michael Burke, Josh Makinda, Mike G, James De Leo, Andrew Gannon and special guest Xavier Michelides (Melbourne). I am MCing the show and I’ll tell you now, don’t miss this one, it will be wild, I have nothing to lose, I fly out 6am the next day. I going to fucking stab someone,” he laughs maniacally. _EMMA BERGMEIER

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VISUAL ARTS Make Friend V, Norfolk Basement, 47 South Terrace, Fremantle.

For the fifth edition of Make Friend, the Norfolk Basement has rounded up a slew of talented Australian artists, including NSW tattooist Mille Loveknuckles, Bridge Stehli, Chloe Tupper and Caitlin Talijanich. The exhibition is for one night only and will feature live tattooing from Miss Loveknuckles.

Exhibition takes place on Saturday, August 14, from 8-11pm.

8 Days, Perth Centre For Photography, 91 Brisbane Street, Perth.

In September 2009 a collective of Perth photographers were invited to China to participate in the annual Pingyao International Photography Festival. Located in Shanxi province, the walled city of Pingyao is recognised by UNESCO as a world heritage site. While much of China is redeveloped and modernised, Pingyao remains faithful to its built heritage from the Ming dynasty.

Although they only had a short stay in China, Kevin Ballantine, Graham Miller, Juha Tolonen and Mike Gray saw the possibility of developing an exhibition out of the journey.

Exhibition opens on Thursday, July 29, at 6pm and runs ’til Sunday, August 22.

Plasticity, Heathcote Museum & Gallery, 58-60 Duncraig Road, Applecross.

Featuring works from Minaxi May and Dawn Gamblen, Plasticity captures the essence of plastic as a vibrantly colourful material that conveys notions of the artificial and inorganic whilst also being undeniably flexible in its use and purpose.

Centering on ideas around collecting, artful display, consumerism, process and the experiential nature of art, the artists create sculptural site-specific arrangements using easily identifiable, yet banal, purposeful ‘ready-mades’ (everyday found and collected objects) in the form of synthetic materials including straws, cups and spray can lids.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, August 29.

Side Tripper, Perth Galleries, 92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle.

Colourist and graphic photographer Simon Cowling presents his second solo exhibition Side Tripper – An Unreliable Memoir of travel photographs with a difference from the Middle East, Europe and America. The joy of travelling and photographing unfamiliar countries is, for Cowling, derived from the visually unexpected, quirky, strange or just downright silly. These images or ‘postcards’ are a combination of luscious colours, unusual compositions and beautiful textures to make the often times mundane memorable.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, August 29.

Exhibit: B, Guest Fine Art, 433 Hay Street, Subiaco.

Exhibit: B is a collection of street art from around the world curated by Toby Guest, exhibiting all aspects and styles of street art seen today, with works by both up-and-coming and well established street artists. This is a collection that should not be missed, be you a lover of street art or merely curious about this new movement. With a largely international flavour, Exhibit: B shares examples of both the pop art inspired and the heavily illustrative sides of street art.

Artists include Shepard Fairey, Mr Brainwash (featured in Exit Through The Gift Shop), Mysterious Al, Byroglyphics, TEK13, Snik, Dotmasters and many more.

Exhibition opens on Thursday, August 5, and runs ’til Thursday, August 19.

Don’t Be Cruel by Mr Brainwash is on display for Exhibit: B

The Glomesh Project, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle.

Sydney-based artist Nairn Scott presents an exhibition concerned with value, status and gold. The Glomesh Project is a glorious display of Scott’s fascination with gold, the international symbol for wealth. Scott has collected a mismatched jumble of items in an installation of 100 individually printed works. Valuable gold fob watches and lavish candelabra sit alongside gloriously cheap nick-nacks from the $2 Shop.

Scott has meticulously photographed each object and printed its image on handgilded paper, applying the same fine process regardless of monetary worth.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, September 19.

methods of care contrast, or possibly compare, to the Victorian institutional system.

Season opens on Wednesday, August 4, and runs ’til Saturday, August 21. Bookings can be made via the Blue Room on (08) 9227 7005 or online at blueroom.org.au.

Yellow Moon, PICA, James Street, Northbridge.

Lee is a cocky teenager who seems to attract trouble, silent Leila’s a 17 year-old Muslim girl looking for a way to fit in. She spends her Friday nights lost in the blurry universe of glossy celebrity magazines, Lee stealing booze from the supermarket. They never meant to get mixed up in a murder, but after Billy Logan is killed, the teenagers are on the run and need a place to hide.

As the winter closes in, Leila and Lee take flight to Darkrooming, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty the Scottish Highlands.

Street, Fremantle.

Season opens on Friday, August 6, and Over 3,000 components glow and oscillate in runs ’til Sunday, August 22. Bookings can be made Darkrooming, an eerie installation by Melbourne through BOCS. artist Vera Möller. By contrasting the real and the imagined, Möller mutates the natural and illusory Love Songs For Future Girl, The Blue Room in this cabinet of curiosities. Her exhibition is a Theatre, 53 James Street, Northbridge. collection of hypothetical life forms that seem like Rock ‘n’ roll funnyman Zack Adams has just they’ve been plucked from under the deepest discovered the girl he thought was ‘the one’ is not. of seas. Her specimens are inspired to blur the Dumped, depressed and slightly drunk, the actor/ boundaries between natural, artificial and illusory comedian figures if you can’t laugh at yourself, life forms. then you may as well let an audience do it. This all Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, September 19. new show takes audiences on a musical comedy journey through love, loss, heartbreak, growing bad Fashioning Now, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 ginger beards and much more in between as he Finnerty Street, Fremantle. embarks on a quest for ‘the actual one’, wherever Fashioning Now is an international exhibition that she may be. explores sustainability in the world of fashion.

Season opens on Wednesday, August 11, Australian and international designers including and runs ’til Saturday, August 28. Bookings through Romance Was Born and Issey Miyake feature the Blue Room on (08) 9227 7005 or blueroom.org. alongside high profile practitioners to exhibit au. their most innovative and sustainable garments and textiles. Source, make, use and last: Fashioning Now shows ways to minimise environmental harm in the fashion industry.

Pavel Haas Quartet, August 4 Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, September 19.

Perth Concert Hall; bookings through BOCS.

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PERFORMANCE Hamlet, Enright Studio, Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford Street, Mt Lawley.

In the belief that all that is needed for a dynamic theatre production is ‘two planks and a passion’, WAAPA third Year Acting students present Hamlet as a simply staged, portable, contemporary production that will be suitable for any space and for any audience. Trusting in the power of Shakespeare’s text and the still resonant stories he has to tell, the actors will engage audiences with an energetic, arresting production which promises to provoke and excite!

Season opens on Friday, July 30, and runs ’til Friday, August 6. Bookings can be made through the WAAPA Box Office on (08) 9370 6636.

Gasp, The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street, Northbridge.

Written by Perth’s Suzanne Rofe, Gasp charts the existence of Grace, a woman suffering from an anxiety disorder who encounters another individual with a similar tale. Combining a surreal imagining of a 19th century mental institution with the realism of today’s mental health system, the steampunk styling of the stage visuals forces the audience to contemplate how our modern day

Clare Bowditch, August 5 ArtBar; bookings through BOCS. Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, August 5-8 Various venues; book ings through Heatseeker.

Ingrid James & Trudy Kerr, August 6-7 Ellington Jazz Club; bookings through venue (08) 9228 1088.

WAYJO Winter Nites, August 13 Perth Concert Hall; bookings through BOCS. David Campbell, August 14 Perth Concert Hall; bookings through BOCS. The Dingoes, August 21 Charles Hotel; bookings through BOCS. Darren Hanlon, August 21 Fly By Night; bookings via flybynight.org.

Gina Williams, August 26-28 DownStairs At The Maj; bookings through BOCS.

LONG LIVE THE KING

It was a legendary night last Saturday, July 24, when Robbie King paid tribute to two of the biggest names in music history - Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, in A Night With The Legends at the Italian Club.

Joined on stage by the wonderful Impact Girls, King treated the audience to a night of classic tunes and sexy swagger.

For those feeling all shook up about missing the show, don’t worry because the season continues at The Portuguese Club (in Beaconsfield) on Saturday, July 31; at the RAAF Airforce Club (in Bullcreek) on Saturday, August 28; the Croatian Club (in North Fremantle) on Saturday, September 4; and back at The Italian Club on Saturday, October 9. Booking can be made via (08) 9434 9452.

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X-Press Fashion’s favourite Inglewood vintage store, Winifred & Bance, is about to turn three and to celebrate, the store will host a massive sale offering up to 50 per cent off some items. Since 2007, vintage aficionado Delilah Carter has shared her love of vintage with Perth via Winifred & Bance, offering up second hand skirts, fabulous frocks and sensational suits for lovers of pre-owned garments.

Make the most of Winifred & Bance’s birthday festivities by popping in to the store at 850 Beaufort Street in Inglewood before this Saturday, July 31. Find out more at winifredandbance.com.

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COUNTER CULTURE ART OF DARKNESS Kirstyn McDermott’s Madigan Mine is available at all good book stores through Picador Publishing.

“It’s a terrible question! It’s like trying to pick your favourite sister or something!”

It’s not the response one hopes for when asking an author which writers inspire them. Luckily, Kirstyn McDermott has a smile in her voice, and she eventually relents, saying, “I think one writer always jumps into my head when I’m asked this question, and that’s Caitlin R. Kiernan (The Dreaming, Daughter Of Hounds). I think she’s amazing, not just the way she writes, but also the subject matter she chooses to write about is absolutely brilliant and imaginative and completely out there, so she definitely inspires me.”

It makes sense that McDermott would draw some inspiration from Kiernan, a much

lauded horror/dark fantasy author; McDermott works in the same idiom. The Melbourne based writer has just published her first novel, Madigan Mine, a work perhaps best described as a supernatural psychological thriller. Told from the point of view of failed artist Alex, the book charts his ongoing attempts to understand the suicide of his unbalanced lover, the titular Madigan. This is complicated by the fact that she will not lie quiet in her grave, and Alex must contend with the notion that he is being haunted.

McDermott has always been drawn to the dark end of the street.“I think what I like about the genre, when I read it, and more when I write it, is that you get to read about and talk about things that aren’t necessarily out there in the open a lot of the time. And I’m quite interested in things that are outside of the acceptable, or outside what is considered normal or okay. And they tend to fall more into the dark side of things, I guess. I think that’s really it; it’s not about the old cliché of being scared on a roller coaster - that doesn’t really do it for me. Its more exploring things that a lot of people don’t really want to talk about or acknowledge on their own terms.”

Set in contemporary Melbourne, Madigan Mine has a strong sense of place, but McDermott insists she views Australia’s gloomiest city with an eye for reportage, not romance.“With the exception of the obvious supernatural or nonrealist elements in the book, I’m quite a realist when it comes to writing, and so having a sense of place is quite important. I don’t tend to go off and world build fantasy type stuff. It’s somewhere I’ve been or somewhere I’ve spent some time... so I just took where I was at that moment and went with it. I guess the best thing about Melbourne for me is the weather, because I don’t function in the heat. I love Melbourne.“ As to the current state of Australian dark fiction, McDermott says, “I think it’s really healthy. We’re a pretty small country, we’re a small writing community within that country, and within that, genre fiction is smaller again. A lot of it is still small press, and I think it will always be the case. It’s a small genre and it probably always will be the smallest genre, but that I guess is part of what makes it special and unique.” _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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The latest threads from Sydney based label Ladakh have just hit the shelves of Perth stores and already they’re making us long for warm spring days and balmy summer nights. Featuring geometric and tribal prints, plus plenty of lace, the transseasonal collection is comprised of lightweight dresses, soft shorts and pretty tees, which can be worn with tights, cardigans and blazers until warmer weather hits Perth.

To get your hands on Ladakh’s latest offerings, mosey in to Pulse Modern Urban which is located at 772A Hay Street in Perth (next to Burberry). To keep up to date on all the designers stocked at Pulse, check in to pulseurbanclothing.com.au. _EMMA BERGMEIER

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Having been behind the decks since the tender age of 14, first beginning with deep house and hip hop and progressing to jungle, David ‘Ramadanman’ Kennedy is now famous for his dubstep stylings. Having racked up a number of critically acclaimed releases on a diverse selection of labels including Soul Jazz, Tempa, Aus, Critical Music and Hessle Audio, Ramadanman’s remixes for the likes of Ragga Twins, Scuba, Beat Pharmacy, Howie B, SpectraSoul and the Bulgarian group Wickeda have won him critical acclaim. A regular support DJ for folks like of Ricardo Villalobos, Skream, Mr Scruff, Craig Richards, Francois K, Kode9, Mala, Distance and more, don’t miss your chance to party with Ramadanman! He can DJ like no-one can, he’s the man… Friday, August 6, at the Big Dub Rinse, Shape. Local support from Rekab, Ylem and ShockOne in dubstep mode. Tickets $15 presale from shapebar.com.au or $20 on the door.

If you enjoy the odd jog around Hyde Park, as well as a good dance at the clubs on the weekend, you’ll be interested to hear that Australian dance record label stalwart Ministry Of Sound have released their first Australian ‘fitness’ mixes! Running Trax is a three disc set, providing a three-stage running soundtrack and in-sleeve fitness tips so you can jog.

Each track has been specially selected to provide the best possible motivation, whether you choose to jog, run or sprint. Disc One is perfect for an uptempo walk or jog, featuring Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Utah Saints and Eric Prydz, while Disc Two pumps up the BPM with some inspiring tunes to take you from a jog to a run: expect new hits from Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Richard Vission, David Guetta and Empire Of The Sun. Disc Three is sure to get your pulse racing with the most energetic, exciting and stimulating tracks on the whole compilation: high energy classics from Basshunter, Energy 52, Fragma, Sash!, Darude and more.

Running Trax will appear on the shelves on Friday, August 6, so make sure you ‘run’ to the stores to grab a copy!

WEDNESDAY

UNI-QUE $10 jugs kicks off at 8.30 with Select & Greg Packer

DEFECTORS (UP-STAIRS)

THURSDAY DJ MOOGY PRESENTS

“Ritmo!”

AN INTOXICATING BLEND OF LATIN STYLES. 8PM FREE ENTRY

FRIDAY

The Beat Suite with Micah, Sharif Galal and Guests.

9pm Free Entry

SATURDAY

PVT Church With No Magic

PENDULUM Immersion

KASPER BJORKE Heaven

ROBERT HOOD Omega

MARTINEZ The Paradigm Shift

DISKJOKKE En Fin Tid

EMINEM Recovery

CYPRESS HILL Rise Up

VARIOUS One Love: Mission Control: Crookers

MADLIB 420 Chalice All Stars

Eminem

SLIP SLIDIN’ If you want to relive the glory days of raving in Australia, old school style, Reunion is the perfect event for you. A national event that has toured the likes of Sugar Ray, Nik Fish, Rozalla and Altern8, Reunion is run by the Oldskool brand and is once more ready to rock Perth with another quality event.

Legendary UK DJ Slipmatt, known to some as the ‘Godfather of rave’, will be making an appearance. Voted as the ‘Best Oldskool DJ’ at the official Old Skool Awards in London (oh yes, they have those), Slipmatt is ready to deliver one of his classic sets on Saturday, October 16, at a venue TBA. Support comes from Sasha Vatoff, Greg Packer, Hutcho, Miggy, Kenny L and Rob Fender. Early bird tickets now on sale for $15, until August 1.

After that, tickets are $25. Tickets available via stickytickets.com.au/3860. Doors open 10pm.

$10 Pizza & Pint special special with Nathan J, Chris Wright and The Nisbit.

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BILLION DOLLAR BEATS The dynamic duo Killaqueenz join forces with their tour disc jockey Knote, Australia’s former #DJ/Sweat It Out! label founder Ajax, and UK electro-breakbeat master Deekline, for a three disc extravaganza in the form of Billion Dollar House Party. Three discs full of the biggest and baddest basslines, and current party-starters, Billion Dollar House Party is out through Universal on Friday, August 13. To celebrate the release of the disc, Deekline is coming to Perth! The king of urban dance music, Deekline’s cult smash hit I Don’t Smoke Da Reefa cemented his place in the universal dance scene. He single handedly broke the ever-so-popular breakbeat movement, which exploded, worldwide, in the early naughties. He is Mister Breakbeat!

He’ll be joined by Killaqueenz on Friday, August 6, at Bar Open. Door sales only from 9pm, so get down early, amigos.

Lady Gaga

LUCID DREAMING PRESENTS A NIGHT OF HOUSE / DEEP HOUSE / DISCO / TECH HOUSE “FORE” FEATURING Aarin F, Richard Lee, James Francis & Matt Wright It’s Free Entry and all kicks off at 9pm.

BLINK & YOU’LL MISS IT The newly-renovated downstairs and partly renovated upstairs venue at Bar Open has been custom fitted for a new experience in clubbing – starting this Friday, Blink will take over Bar Open, presenting a great party night of disco, indie, hip hop, rock, ghetto and more. The launch night showcases some of Perth’s best party DJs including Tron, Amnesia, M!spr!nt, Bacich, and Ya Mumma!, with the second week of Blink set to showcase the talents of Deekline and KillerQueenz and the Billion Dollar House Party party.

Doors open 9pm, with the first 30 through the door this Friday, July 31, scoring themselves a ticket to the Billion Dollar House Party the following weekend! Can’t argue with that! For more information, be sure to hit up blinknights.com.

Slipmatt

THURSDAY

Isolation Melbourne MINI TOUR SEND-OFF PARTY! KOE, TRAVIS DOOM + SPECIAL GUEST AARON MAIN! POST-EVERYTHING ALTERNATIVE DANCE WITH LOVE.

Deekline

FRIDAY

Sonic Velvet FEATURINGMAURICE FLAVEL, CAT BLACK, THESE SHIPWRECKS & SELK AND THE BONE SINGERS. DOORS OPEN 8PM $8 ENTRY

SATURDAY

Super Dazz AND HIS ROCK’N’ROLL, FUNK SOUL CREW. 9PM FREE ENTRY

COOL COOMBS Alongside Lot49 crew Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes and Elite Force, Lee Coombs has played a major part in charting the ever changing course of electronic music over the last decade.

Coombs has forged the sound that is tech funk, a fusion of techno, breaks, house and electro. Bending boundaries and ignoring the status quo, Lee’s unique blend of tech funk and acid has further defined the sound with his latest album, Light And Dark. The album takes the tech funk spirit and develops it to the n’th degree, it is a true melting pot of influences. Catch Coombs doing what he does best at Ambar on Friday, August 27. Support from Tee El, Prizzy, Ben Mac and Kill Dyl. Tickets are $25 plus booking fee from boomtick. com.au. Doors open 10pm.

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BEATZ SITTING AT HOME Hot on the heels of Supafest, the largest urban/pop event ever staged in Australia, Winterbeatz 2010 comes to Perth. The line up brings together some of the hottest charttopping artists in music today, including urban superstar Ne-Yo, Grammy Award winning artist T-Pain, local duo Phinesse, Australia’s number one urban DJ, DJ Nino Brown, Big Boi (from Outkast) and Fatman Scoop! The Perth leg rides into town this Saturday, July 31. All remaining tickets are $79 plus booking fee, available from premier.ticketek.com.au.

Headlining shows across Australia and the world, including a stint at the revered Breakfest here in Perth, Miles Dyson has become a household name for people craving bassy breaks and some of the most banging electro house around. Currently Miles’ schedule is packed with shows in the US and over in the United Kingdom, so we’re pretty lucky that Destination? has convinced Dyson to squeeze a Perth show in there. Watch him tear apart Villa on Saturday, September 11, with support from the Signal Drivers, Philly Blunt, Grantley Hyde, James Francis, Tha Nightcrawlaz and Brockman.

Tickets are $25 plus booking fee from moshtix. com.au, Moshtix outlets or Boomtick.com.au.

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Justice Crew

CRUNK YOUR WAY TO THE TOP If you think you’ve got the moves and some street cred to boot, why not try your chaces at the Strictly Hip Hop Dance Competition 2010? Strictly Hip Hop is a premier annual hip hop event that sees dancers from all across Australia will compete for the title of “best crew” in Australia, with winners getting the chance to compete in the Grand Finale in South Africa. Each year, the winning group enters into a dance training program and is given the opportunity to train and coach children and youth from less privileged backgrounds in the art of hip hop dancing. Guest performers Justice Crew (recent winners of Australia’s Got Talent 2010) will run a dance workshop on Friday, September 17, with the dance showcase taking place on Saturday, September 18 at the Riverside Theatre of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Center. Tickets are on sale from August 3 and start at $29.50 (early bird) from Ticketek.

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ROLL THE DYSON

Fatman Scoop

BEATZ SITTING AT HOME Hot on the heels of Supafest, the largest urban/pop event ever staged in Australia, Winterbeatz 2010 comes to Perth. The line up brings together some of the hottest charttopping artists in music today, including urban superstar Ne-Yo, Grammy Award winning artist T-Pain, local duo Phinesse, Australia’s number one urban DJ, DJ Nino Brown, Big Boi (from Outkast) and Fatman Scoop! The Perth leg rides into town this Saturday, July 31. All remaining tickets are $79 plus booking fee, available from premier.ticketek.com.au.

Headlining shows across Australia and the world, including a stint at the revered Breakfest here in Perth, Miles Dyson has become a household name for people craving bassy breaks and some of the most banging electro house around. Currently Miles’ schedule is packed with shows in the US and over in the United Kingdom, so we’re pretty lucky that Destination? has convinced Dyson to squeeze a Perth show in there. Watch him tear apart Villa on Saturday, September 11, with support from the Signal Drivers, Philly Blunt, Grantley Hyde, James Francis, Tha Nightcrawlaz and Brockman.

Tickets are $25 plus booking fee from moshtix. com.au, Moshtix outlets or Boomtick.com.au.

Miles Dyson

Justice Crew

CRUNK YOUR WAY TO THE TOP If you think you’ve got the moves and some street cred to boot, why not try your chances at the Strictly Hip Hop Dance Competition 2010? Strictly Hip Hop is a premier annual hip hop event that sees dancers from all across Australia compete for the title of “best crew” in Australia, with winners getting the chance to compete in the Grand Finale in South Africa. Each year, the winning group enters into a dance training program and is given the opportunity to train and coach children and youth from less privileged backgrounds in the art of hip hop dancing. Guest performers Justice Crew (recent winners of Australia’s Got Talent 2010) will run a dance workshop on Friday, September 17, with the dance showcase taking place on Saturday, September 18, at the Riverside Theatre of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Center. Tickets are on sale from August 3 and start at $29.50 (early bird) from Ticketek. For more information, dance your way over to strictlyhiphop.com.au.

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Smith is not one to keep his talents to himself and continues to write chart topping tracks for many other artists.“It’s such a rewarding experience, you learn so much from working with other artists,” he reflects,“I can’t even describe what it was like to work with the late, great Michael Jackson. He personally asked me to write songs for what would have been his comeback album. He would critique the songs that I wrote which was a priceless learning experience. It’s such a shame that we never actually got to get into the studio and record, we had a really great connection and we’re going to create something that would have been so beautiful.”

He respectfully takes a moment of silence. “It really made me think about myself and my career. When I’m gone I want people to remember me and say, ‘That Ne-Yo could write a hell of a song, put on a hell of a show and that he brought some quality entertainment to this world’. I don’t need any more recognition than that. I’m going to be writing songs for the rest of my life and I so sincerely hope I continue to get the opportunity to share them with the world.”

2010 sees the dawn of Smith’s fourth album, Libra Scale, which will be unleashed on the country mid-September. He gently chuckles, “I really took a different approach to this album, and it’s so very unique. In the past it’s always been write tracks, go into the studio and put the best 12 tracks on the record. This time, I wrote a script, my first time ever writing a script. The album is a soundtrack to a film, and the story will be told out through the videos for the singles, which there will be roughly around seven of.

“It revolves around the story of love, power and choices. To put it simply, several men are given superhuman powers in the promise that they can never fall in love. Of course, they eventually do, and have to choose between the monumental physical power and the power of love. It’s an age old hypothetical but told in a way that no one has ever done before.”

When not writing or producing his own hits Smith also runs his own record label, Compound, and has furthered his superstar status playing lead roles in several recent movies. “The record is still taking off, but it’s looking very positive.

The music that we distribute is some of the most inspiring stuff I’ve ever listened to. I need the music to feel like something as opposed to something contrived yet popular. I need music to be an experience, for the artist to truly to be an artist. It all comes down to the art and that’s what I want people to remember and a lot of work goes into this.

“As far as my acting career is going, I shot two movies in 2009 that are set for a 2011

Ne-Yo release. One is a period piece that details around World War II, and another is somewhat of a sci-fi action film. It’s hard to explain but it can be best described as if a war movie and an aliens movie got together and had a baby, this movie would be that baby. I won’t say anything more but watch out for them!” Returning to Australia following sell out dates all over the country last year, Smith regales his love for performing and his Australian fans.

“I’ve been to Australia once and it was such a great experience, I’ve got so much love for you guys, you really know how to make a guy feel appreciated”, he pauses and laughs, “I’m really excited for the Winterbeatz shows, there is such an eclectic and diverse group of us playing. My part will be pulling it all together with the r ‘n’ b, keeping up the electricity.

“My show is all about ensuring that the people in the audience are having just as much fun as I am on stage. But it’s also all about the music; I’m not the guy with all the pyrotechnics, the lights and mirrors. I get on stage with my band, two dancers and what God gave me. But I’m always able to make you scream just as much as the guy with magic tricks and amazing visuals. They are definitely interesting, but not necessary. A show is so much more rewarding when it’s the music that people will remember, not the gimmicks.” He laughs with an emotional undertone.

“That’s what it comes down to, the music. I know how to command the stage, there’s so much energy. It’s blood, sweat and tears; it’s a labour of love. I know Australia, they appreciate this.

“I’m going to give them a performance they won’t ever, ever forget.”

NE-YO SATURDAY, JULY 31 @ WINTERBEATZ, BURSWOOD DOME

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AJAX

STILL WORTH BILLIONS Sydney boy Ajax has been cutting a swathe through the local electronic scene for some time now. Recently, he has also moved his backside down to Melbourne where he continues to tear up parties from festivals to clubs and maybe even the odd Bar Mitzvah. RZ pulls Ajax away from the clubs for a quick chat.

“Yeah, I moved down to Melbourne about three months ago,” shares the Sydney boy. “I actually bought into a club down here and I thought if I was ever going to move from Sydney, now was the time to do it. It really felt right. “ D o n’t g e t m e w ro n g, I ’m n o t bagging it out but Sydney was getting a bit stagnant; whereas Melbourne really does have a fair bit going on. There is a really fantastic night culture here – from bars and clubs, it’s quite happening.”

Which brings us to the next p o i n t o f d i s c u s s i o n , A j a x ’s n e w m i x compilation, entitled Billion Dollar House Party. He explains the origins of the mix.

“I hadn’t done a mix CD in a while but Universal asked me to do something and I was working on something already and I didn’t mind doing it if I had somewhat of a say in what was going on. I guess I’m a bit of a spoilt brat but they were good enough to let me have a say and I thought I’d do it and it’s ended up being a lot of fun. So instead of doing the newest of the new, this has a really nice feel to it with plenty of new stuff but also some classic stuff as well.”

As far as the music goes, he describes it as simply “house and party music that is good to listen to.” No less, the tour to promote it starts in a couple of weeks – a national tour – and Ajax is looking forward to presenting it to his legion of fans. “It’s been a hectic schedule for me really; I did the Groove Festival which was a blast and a few others around the place; now I’ve got a bit of studio time and then we’ve got Parklife. So it’s a busy period

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Ajax that is going to get pretty heavy but it will be a lot of fun.”

Other than that, the Jax-man has been keeping busy running the Sweat It Out imprint. “That started about 18 months ago and it was initially going to be a mix CD and nothing else. But myself and Matt decided to do it as a label but the rights were owned by the receivers of the old 3D World in Sydney so we decided to buy the name back and ever since, it’s been all hands on deck!

“It’s going really well but to be honest it does take up a fair bit of time! I suppose that’s all part and parcel of being in the music industry.”

BILLION DOLLAR HOUSE PARTY (FEAT. DEEKLINE, AJAX, KNOTE + KILLAQUEENZ) [UNIVERSAL] FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 @ BAR OPEN, NORTHBRIDGE (AJAX NOT APPEARING)

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Album Tour Showcasing his debut album, Just Let It Go, Nick Thayer returns to Ambar with bumpin’ new sound!

Friday 30-07-10 FEATURING DJS:

Ren vs Basschild, Oli vs James A, Marty McFly vs DNGRFLD, Ben Mac vs Massive Trav, Wish vs D One INFORMATION: $12 / $8 Loyalty

Doors Open 10pm. 104 Murray Street Perth For more info check out boomtick.com.au or events@boomtick.com.au

Saturday 21-08-10 FEATURING: NICK THAYER SUPPOR T: Fdel, Marty McFly, Philly, Tee El INFORMATION: Doors Open 10pm. 104 Murray Street Perth.

Door Sales: $15 Guarantee your entry with a presale from the Boomtick SHOP Presales are limited and available from 28 June 2010. For more info check out www.boomtick.com.au or events@boomtick.com.au & www.myspace.com/djnickthayer

LEE COOMBS AMBAR NITECLUB | FRIDAY 27 AUGUST 2010

FEATURING: TEE EL, PRIZZY, BEN MAC, KILL DYL

INFO: Doors Open 10pm. 104 Murray St Perth Tickets on sale Friday 16 July 2010.

Limited release: $20+BF available from the Boomtick SHOP. Pre sale Tickets: $25+BF Available from Planet Video, Mills, 78s and Moshtix Outlets (1300 GET TIX) and online from the Boomtick SHOP, Moshtix and inthemix.com.au.

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TRITONAL FLOATING ON AIR Touring next month with the Liberate is Texan due Tritonal, GLEN CANNING caught up an exhausted but focused Chad Cisneros on the eve of their first tour with trance royalty John ‘00’ Fleming and M.I.K.E. “We’ve never toured with them before,” exclaims a suddenly energised Cisneros.

“Both those guys are phenomenal producers as well as amazing DJs and it’s a blessing to be on the line up.”

In less than two years since Tritonal were formed, Cisneros and partner in crime Dave Reed have released close to an incredible 100 tracks, tracks which have been eagerly snapped up by the biggest labels in the business including Armada, Flashover, Anjunabeats and Black Hole.

Supported by Ferry Corsten, Above & Beyond, Armin Van Buuren and a never ending plethora of DJs, Tritonal are setting a very impressive benchmark with their instinctive production skills. But as Cisneros explains, they’ve never waited for success to come to them, but have worked hard to get where they are today.

“We knew that whatever was going to happen was going to take a ton of hard work and a lot of consistency, we just put our heads down and started working and we haven’t really stopped since.”

Further adding to their success has been the addition of vocalist Christina Soto which has seen Tritonal rise to new heights

with two of their biggest tracks to date, Piercing Quiet and Solitude. Says Cisneros: “Christina has been a big part of our success; it’s a good relationship that’s really blossomed. It’s great to have her because we have been blessed with not having to go shopping for a vocalist, she lives here in Austin!”

In sticking with an already proven formula, Christina will also be featuring in four tracks from Tritonal’s debut artist album, Air Up There, due out later in the year.

Cisneros shares some insight into what to expect of the album.

“Along with some vocal tracks we’re going to have a slew of instrumentals and hoping to have 12-15 solid tunes. Maybe one classic that we’ll revamp but we’re not looking to just throw out an album that’s basically a collaboration of all our other releases, we want to put something out that’s fresh!”

With their Air Up There radio show growing in stature, a new album on the way and a hectic touring schedule ahead, it would appear Tritonal have got their hands full, but as Cisneros reveals, they have also founded their own label, Air Up There

Tritonal Recordings.

“We just want to be able to have creative control over our sound,” says Cisneros, “not only creative content but also when and how things are released.

I think it’s really important for artists to brand themselves and this is one way that will definitely help us further our career.”

Despite Tritonal’s rapidly rising stature, Cisneros is quick to appreciate the single biggest influence on their success.

“It’s all about the fans, man! They’re the guys that buy the music and support us at our shows; they’re the ones that keep this dream alive so we try everything we can to reply to messages and give our fans what they want!”

TRITONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 @ LIBERATE, VILLA, HIGHGATE

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AUDIOTEC Artrance [Parabola Music] With the rise of psytrance taking off in the past few years, the Israelis have been well represented in spreading the up tempo sounds of psychedelic trance to the world. Audiotec is Miki Damski and Artrance is his third studio album, following up on the success of Freak Show four years ago.

Sticking with the formula of longer tracks, Artrance features only nine tracks but each is a well crafted story of musical expression with undeniably catchy rhythms. The second track Sextival begins with an eerie vocal which sets the scene perhaps for something a little darker to follow, but any preconceptions are thrown out the window when the pulsating bass line kicks in with an energetic enthusiasm. As it progresses, the track grows in stature to become an uplifting epic that really generates a warm feeling within.

Although Sextival may be the pinnacle, the remaining tracks on Artrance follow the same winning blueprint. Tracks such as the aptly named Modern Music, with its heavy use of reverb on the synth, and the rolling, moving symphony of World Of Fantasy ensure that the album snaps, crackles and pops along with an almost hypnotic, underlying rhythm.

It has been four years since his last studio album, but Audiotec has obviously concentrated on quality over quantity.

GLEN CANNING 4 / 5

RUSKO O.M.G.!

[Fabric/ Inertia]

Ambar Niteclub Friday 20 August 2010 SUPPORTED BY: BLEND, APRÉS-SKI, OLI, MICAH. INFORMATION: Doors Open 10pm. 104 Murray Street Perth Tickets on Sale Monday 28 June 2010 : $25+BF. Available from: Planet Video, Mills, 78s and Moshtix Outlets (1300 GET TIX) and online from the Boomtick SHOP and moshtix.com.au. For more info check out www.boomtick.com.au or events@boomtick.com.au www.myspace.com/dcupmusic www.myspace.com/yolandabecool

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The horrendous album title could either be a concerted play for the pop-kid generation, or a lol-worthy and ironic look at their blasé use of acronyms; either way, Rusko has made it abundantly clear that he desires world domination. He flies the flag for mainstream dubstep, just as Mali might fly the flag for the defiantly underground sounds. While they all encompass the same genre, the differences can be startling. In this way, you really have to take this album for what it is... a radio friendly, dance floor responsive foray into mainstream popularity.

His formula for mainstream ascendancy is quite clear, using melodic breakdowns and schizoid instrumentation to candy-coat the speaker-busting bass. On Scarewear, Rusko’s band-saw basslines hit you with all the subtlety of a semi-trailer as Redlight whispers menacingly we ain’t going to stop, until we reach the fuckin’ top, seemingly as a statement of intent.

Frustratingly though, for every huge tune on the album there is another that falls flat. “Feels so goood” croons Ben Westbeechs’ sex-drenched falsetto on Feels So Real, a musical car crash characterised by throwaway lyrics, flaccid electro beats and a pinch of wobble.

Ultimately, this is not a dubstep album. Rusko has achieved what he set out to do; by incorporating elements of hip hop, electro, house and dubstep into his production he has flung the net wide in an attempt to make a dent into mainstream consciousness.

A passable effort without being too groundbreaking.

REUBEN ADAMS 3/5

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launching this Friday 30 July at Baropen with

Tron | Amnesia | Chumb4 | Ya Mumma Fridays 9pm till late @ Baropen 234 William St. Northbridge www.blinknights.com next week...

9pm Fri 6 Aug @ BarOpen 234 William St

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LIMELITE - METRO FREO

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Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paramount –DJ Meezy / DJ Jordan Queens Tav - Gareth Richardson Rise – Resonate – Signal / DJ Vu / Xander / Hidemec / Phetsta / Greg Packer / Special Lucas / Kurtox / Jazza / J.Nitrous / Killafoe Rosemount Hotel - Agent Alvin Rubix – Kenny L/ Delaney Sapphire Bar – Kiss & Tell – Maxwell/Paul Scott/Damian John/T-Box Settlers Tavern (Margaret River) - Mista Savona/Vida Sunshyne South St Ale House – DJ Jay Soverign – DJ Jinx Stamford Arms - DJ Anaru/ DJ Janic Tiger Lil’s –Adam Kelly/ Charlie Bucket The Brighton (Upstairs) – Micah/ Kill Dyl/ eSQue The Deen - DJ Birdie/ DJ JJ/ DJ Tony Allen The Generous Squire –Late Night Sessions - WiG Music The Saint – DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andyy The Whistling Kite - DJ Craig The Vic - DJ Benny Chill Toucan Nightclub (Mandurah) – DJ Samuel Spencer Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Windsor – DJ Ray Woodvale Tavern – DJ Real McCoy

SUNDAY 01/8 Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Clink – DJ Tony Allen Club Bayview – DJ Pete Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve – DJ Birdie / MC Jex Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Back To Mono – DJ Gareth Richardson / Ted Schlechte / Anton Mazz Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) Nathan J/ Chris Wright/ The Nisbit Mojo’s - Raz Bin Sam / Blaze Fire Sound / Sensi Sound / Sabata Sound Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny L Mustang - DJ Rockin Rhys Paddo -DJ Riki Players Bar - DJ-Udas Queens Tav- DJ Rhys Rubix – The Rotation – Krule/ Dazz K/ Untertone/ Lyndon The Cott - Cott Sessions The Saint - DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andyy The Wembley – Deckeclectic

MONDAY 02/8 Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris Metro City - Nocturnal Ball The Deen – Plastic Max / The Token Gesture The Paddo - DJ John Paul The Shed – DJ Andyy

TUESDAY 03/8 Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel - DJ Matty J High Wycombe - DJ Ricky Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart The Cott (Upstairs) –Maxwell/ DJ Jus Haus/ Damian John The Paddo - DJ Deepad Victoria Park Hotel - DJ Melvin

WEDNESDAY 04/8 Basement On Broadway – Damien John/Angry Buda/ Maxwell/Headayke Captain Stirling – DJ Ricky Clancy’s (Applecross) - DJ Andy M Connections - DJ’s Joby / JJ / Rueben Dusk – Blackbelt/ Aswon Double Lucky – Dirty Elegance Eurobar – Wild Wednesdays - DJ iPod/Ben Pettit Eve – DJ Don Migi / Skooby Flying Scotsman- UNI-QUE – Greg Packer Gold – Slick/ Adroc Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Metro City - Richard Ashcroft / Katy Steele Mint – Open House - DJ Chris / DJ Matt Manhattans – We All Deserve To Be Loved - The Kill Devil Hills / Blackmilk/ Paranoid Tarantula DJs Mustang – DJ Giles Newport Hotel – DJ Tony Allen Niche - DJ Frankie Button Paddo - Ben Merito Rosemount – DJ Shannon Fox Shape – Logistics / DJ Sardi / Muller / Deflo The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen- DJ Zelimer / DJ Viper & DJ Benny T– Zone 1 The Queens – Wriggle on

LOGISTICS CRASH! BANG! WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT!

LOGISTICS/Deflo/Sardi/Muller/MC Bear Shape Bar, East Perth Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 It was a dark and stormy night…well no, it wasn’t, but it was unbelievably cold. The fact that Knowledge Music could fill the Shape Bar to capacity on such a freezing cold weeknight is a testament not only to the quality of the lineup but also to the fantastic work this company has been doing before even celebrating its first birthday. The second in their Midweek Madness series saw a massive drawcard in Hospital Records’ Logistics.

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COMING UP

Yolanda Be Cool / DCUP Friday, August 20 @ Ambar

Mista Savona/Vida Sunshyne Thursday, July 29 @ Fly By Night, Friday, July 30 @ Prince Of Wales, Sunday, July 31 @ Settlers Tavern

PVT (Pivot) Friday, August 6 @ Rosemount

Ozi Batla Friday, August 20 @ Prince of Wales Bunbury, Saturday, August 21 @ Rocket Room, Sunday, August 22 @ Mojos

Raz Bin Sam Thursday, July 29 @ Manhattans; Friday, July 30 @ Settlers Tavern; Saturday, July 31 @ Malt Bar; Sunday, August 1 @ Mojos King Tito’s Dirty Disco feat.

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Locals Deflo and Sardi warmed up early to a fairly dismal crowd but both put in solid sets. It was only late during Muller’s set that people entered Shape en masse with most heading straight to the dancefloor. Muller was only too happy to oblige and Shock One’s remix of Chicane’s Come Back seemed to be the cue to let loose. By the time Ed Rush & Optical’s remix of Split the Atom by Noisia was played, the dancefloor was heaving. Muller was clearly getting excited, although he wears a convincing DJ poker face. Jungle sounds finished off the set with Top Cat’s Ruffest Gun Ark (Chase & Status Remix).

Clearly pleased with the turnout, Logistics took the stage a few minutes after 12 o’clock, greeting the crowd with his remix of The Gift by Way Out West. Muller finished his set at high energy and this wasn’t exactly continued

by Logistics. Giving the punters a break with some more relaxed beats, Logistics took his time returning to the high-energy tunes. There was a golden moment about an hour in when Drumsound & Bassline Smith’s Can You Feel It and Fire were played back to back. As if that wasn’t enough, the next five tunes were Logistics’ own

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Knowledge 1 B’day feat. DJ Marky Saturday, August 21 @ Villa Nick Thayer Saturday, August 21 @ Ambar RTRfm Radiothon Opening Party - Tomás Ford /Diger Rokwell /Mama Cass /Charlie Bucket / Sardi /Ben Elliott Saturday, August 21 @ Astor

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Logistics (Photo: Amy Vinicombe) Transporter, Together, Warehouse, Eastern Promise and Die & Interface’s Bright Lights (Rocker Mix). MC Bear made an appearance later in the set and Deflo stepped up later to close out the night.

Once thought to be only the domain of the unemployed and university students, there is something tantalisingly inviting about midweek clubbing. You know you have to work tomorrow and you know you’re going to feel like shit when you do but you do it anyway and have a rad time.

M i d w e e k d r u m ‘ n’ b a s s c l u b nights such as Roller and Beat Mash have been around for years but Knowledge have decided to up the ante in bringing out well known and big name artists for midweek sets.

Midweek Madness may not result in increased productivity but it beats wiling away the hours and pining for the weekend.

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The Rosemount is calling for aspiring musicians to come along and share their secret talents in the perfectly intimate setting of Four5Nine Bar and Lounge. Every Sunday you can catch Rosie’s On The Couch, an open mic and jam session hosted by Turin Robinson. There are also great door prizes and dinner specials to keep punters going throughout the night. For details call Turin on 0425171585. From 3pm every Sunday.

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Get ready to dance the night away under the disco ball with the launch of Capitol Fridays Retro Mash. It's a brand new night for a brand new year that will celebrate the best of retro pop for everyone who loves a great party. Resident DJs will drop the best '80s and '90s pop remixes and more. Entry is free before 11pm and $10 from then on.

This Saturday night, July 31, is the last chance to catch Perth’s premier trad band The Limerick Lads.

Bring your dancing shoes and JB O’Reilly’s will supply the Guinness.

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The Railway Hotel hosts a great rock ‘n’ roll foursome this Friday, July 25, when The Generators, Self Made Guru, Veronicas Assassin and Desertship raise the roof. Doors open 8pm and entry is only $5.

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This Thursday, July 29, fresh from the release of his acclaimed Warn The Nation record, Mista Savona hits the Fly with his explosive 10 piece band featuring special guests VidaSunshyne and Jornick. On Friday, July 30, Daryl Braithwate and Jon Stevens perform their hits together at the Fly for the first time.

Then, on Saturday, July 31, Twisted Vaudeville Circus present Dark Cabaret which is sure to tantalise, titillate and terrify. On Sunday, August 1, Charlie Landsborough is set to enthral with his heartfelt and telling lyrics and his very human anecdotes.

Don’t miss the weekly lineup of local bands playing each Wednesday at the Paddo. On Wednesday, August 4, you can catch Art In Algebra, Farthing Woods, Ivory Wolf, and Sean Spitfire. Bands start at 8pm and entry is free.

MOJO’S

On Tuesday, August 3, Kosmic Sound & Jack Daniels Mojo Rising present the second semi final of this mammoth local band competition Playing a kick ass show with a view to winning first prize in the grand final to be held on Tuesday, August 10, are The Spitfires, The Moltens, Sonpsilo Circus, Hang On St Christopher, and Escape Artists. The five criteria that judges will be focussing on throughout this band comp are musicianship, level of innovation, richness of influences, crowd response and X factor. Entry to these Tuesday competitions including the grand final is $5 from 8pm.

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On Thursday, July 29, at The Den see Louis And The Honkytonk bang out their indie pop piano and psychedelic guitar rock with The Old Croak, The Shallows and Higgs Boson from 8pm. On Saturday, July 31, the Back Room hosts The Next Big Thing second semi final featuring Sonpsilo Circus, Homebrewe, Resort, The Love Junkies, James Teague, Goodnight Tiger and The Brow Horn Orchestra. Doors open 7pm and tickets at door.

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If you happened to drive down the normally quiet James Street last Wednesday, you may have wondered why there was such a big line outside The Voodoo Lounge… If however, you were one of the punters in line, you would have known it was for the final for the Miss Oceania Competition.

Inside, the atmosphere was electric and the crowd anxious, to find out which of as the five girls would take home the title, which included return flights to Adelaide for the national finals, $15,000 prize money, a Penthouse contracts and photo shoots.

In the end, only five points separated the top three girls with Kate (from the Voodoo Lounge) coming out on top, followed closely by the Bella.

We all know that living in Perth means we’re at the end of the line when it comes to jumping on the bandwagon. Hell, we still reject daylight savings even when most of the country have already proven that it works.

Destroy All Lines, a Melbourne based promotions company, have been building an empire in alternative nightclubs with Next, Bang, Thriller, Snitch, Hot Damn and Black Market providing entertainment to Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide. With the launch of Oh Snap, Perth’s newest alternative party destination, Destroy All Lines have ensured that Perth will no longer get left behind.

Launching at Black Betty’s, it was clear by the massive line outside that stretched all the way down Aberdeen Street that the Destroy All Lines hype had crossed the Nullabor and made an impression in our city. Sure, we’re geographically separated from the rest of the country, but our strong music scene has meant that the east coast are interested in tapping into one of our strongest resources; music.

Brisbane’s The Amity Affliction had the honours of headlining the opening night, with support from locals Mandalay Victory and In League. With live music, give-aways, cheap drinks and a late-night party atmosphere, Oh Snap has set a high standard for Perth’s alternative club scene.

The crew at Oh Snap have been busy planning for the future of the club, providing a regular Thursday party-night featuring Perth’s best bands from the punk, metal and rock scenes. You can expect guest DJs, cheap drinks, great music and a Thursday night party that will take you well into the wee hours of Friday morning.

If you’re a party animal, Oh Snap at Black Betty’s might just become your favourite Perth party night. If you’re an employer, Oh Snap will more than likely become your most hated event, with the 4am curfew sure to see many pulling the old Friday sickie.

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ON THE BRIGHT SIDE / The Strokes / Mumford & Sons / Angus & Julia Stone / Band Of Horses / Hot Chip / Art v Science / The Middle East Perth Esplenade Saturday, July 24, 2010 Going to a new festival is like re-living your first day at primary school – you’re filled with nervous excitement and trepidation as you walk through the gates, unsure of who and what awaits you. In the case of On The Bright Side, a massive big-top and a slew of fantastic bands was what awaited those who ventured through the gates past the school bullies (or bouncers as we now call them).

Kicking off fairly soon after midday, the early playing time meant we missed Queensland six-piece The Middle East, but word has it that their multi-member, multiinstrument jam was epic to witness; their rock/ folk style winning over more than a few new fans.

Clad in futuristic sunglasses and hiding behind a veritable wall of equipment, UK electronica act Hot Chip launched their set with

good time. Magic Fountain was chased with a song that consisted of the exact same chords except this time they were yelling something about ‘going to the zooooo’. Mass sing-alongs erupted for Parlez Vous Francais? as one of the guys left the stage to play his guitar down the crowd’s central corridor.

By the time they finished with Flippers, you had to at least commend the A vs S boys for being able to dupe so many people into thinking they had talent.

Moving into the under 18s side of the crowd for Band Of Horses was a wise choice: those 16 year olds were so much more well behaved and respectful! They put the raucous over 18s to shame. Also putting the acts so far to shame were Band Of Horses, whose atmospheric, opening rendition of The Great Salt Lake prompted one punter to our right to remark ‘Finally! Real music!’.

The clarity of vocals in the boys’ harmonies really shone in Is There A Ghost; the three guitars on stage were layered impeccably. A purple wash bathed the tent and the crowd cheered upon hearing the opening bars of No One’s Going To Love You, all were still and you could see every fleck of dust floating across the light beams. A clear festival highlight.

As a beautiful sunset enveloped the Perth skyline, Angus & Julia Stone strolled onstage attracting a huge roar of approval from the crowd – a rather incredible feat when you consider this is the same group who went nuts for party starters Art vs Science earlier in the afternoon.

Festival goers didn’t seem too phased by the change of pace when the siblings took centre stage, showing their support by quieting

down so that their lovely brand of whimsical folk could be heard above the dull roar of the licensed area. Radio favourites Private Lawns, And The Boys and Big Jet Plane all earned a particularly rapturous response as Angus And Julia’s beautiful, ghostly vocals washed over the mass of bodies who stood in rapture of the bohemian duo.

The arrival of roadies sporting a mandolin, double bass and a piano accordion signaled that the Mumford & Sons lads were ready for their set and when the foursome eventually bounded on stage, they were greeted like long lost friends.

Delivering their signature brand of country folk with sensational four part harmonies, the lads worked their way through tracks from the debut release, Sigh No More, performing triple j favourites such as Little Lion Man, The Cave and Roll Away Your Stone.

For the first half of their set, the only percussion was the rhythmic strumming of banjos, guitars and mandolins, but Mr Mumford mixed things up a bit by getting behind the drum kit for a couple of new songs later in the set, rounding out the band’s sound and upping the pace. New track Lover Of The Night demonstrated a slightly different direction for the band, with less twang and more bang, as Mumford pummeled the drum kit to within an inch of its life.

After what seemed like an agonisingly long wait, New York garage rock icons The Strokes swaggered on stage, launching straight into NYC Cops without any fanfare. Sporting a studded leather jacket, Julian Casablancas prowled the

early hit Boy From School, albeit a slightly jacked up version. Their live act is a lot more oddball and less pristine than their studio work, but has a likeable amount of character; evidenced in the kooky incorporation of steel pans into crowd favourite One Life Stand. Lead vocalist Alexis Taylor seemed to swap instruments just about every song, flying from keys to guitar for Over & Over, before hitting the drums for the cruisy, almost funk-i-fied finale of Ready For The Floor.

Those who made the mistake of leaving the over 18s area to grab a beer would have trouble trying to re-enter for Art vs Science; for about 20 metres back it was bumper to bumper.

Perhaps it’s time for triple j to take a long, hard look at their programming choices, because their unashamed patronage of these guys is worrying.

Hearing the words ‘magic’ and ‘fountain’ yelled at us on repeat for three minutes over the top of rampant keyboard distortion isn’t our idea of a

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THE TEMPER TRAP / The Joy Formidable / Oh Mercy Metro City Thursday, July 22, 2010

Karnivool (photo: Mike Wylie)

‘VOOL FOR A DAY Karnivool / MM9 / The Silent Tower Capitol, Perth Wednesday July 21, 2010 It was wall to wall and shoulder to shoulder by the time we hit the impatient lull between the last support act and the headliners; the number of people crammed into Capitol almost certainly bore no relation to the one on the Maximum Occupancy sign near the entrance, and the venue was a cramped sea of sweaty, beer-lubed flesh.

The supports had done their job well, getting the crowd pumped and primed for the main show. Local talent The Siren Tower proved their rock-veteran cred, delivering a tight set in which vocalist Grant McCulloch pitched his powerful voice over a solid acoustic-electric musical foundation. There’s a strong folk flavour to their music, and more than a hint of country, an influence heavily felt in the Perth live scene these days. Sydney-siders MM9, on the other hand, packed a very different punch, their music perhaps being best described as melodic electro-rock.

Both acts could - and should - headline on their own, but the crowd clearly wasn’t there for them. No, it was Karnivool’s night, and amidst stamping and chanting - “Kar-ni-vool! Kar-ni-vool!”

– those in attendance erupted into thunderous applause and cheers when the band finally mounted the stage, swathed in heavy smoke and bathed in red light.

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and lead singer Ian Kenny knows how to work a crowd like a man born to the job.

“Welcome to the show, my friends,” he cried as the last notes of Sound Awake, the title track from their last album, faded away. “It’s been a while!” and it has - the Australian New Day tour is a thin slice of sound sandwiched between two overseas jaunts, and it won’t be long before the band is off to the States once more. The audience was hungry for whatever they could get, and almost every voice echoed every line that Kenny sang, like they were home truths torn from the pages of their own teenage diaries.

And that’s a fair analogy; Karnivool are an awesome live act, but they’re lyrically weak, and their songs are heavy with the kind of vocabulary window-dressing that is often mistaken for insight.

And the thing is, there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with that; their music speaks to the young and angry voice in all of us, to a time when we didn’t think we knew all the answers, but still felt the need to scream what we believed anyway. It’s a raw and honest sound, and whatever it lacks in profundity it more than makes up for in passion.

The set ran through a fair selection of their entire back catalogue, with both Themata and Sound Awake being equally represented, before finally wrapping with a rendition of Change for the encore. The crowd faithfully howled their approval, begging the band to retake the stage, but to no avail. Given the state of the audience by the end of the gig, when Karnivool return from their North American tour, they’ll be filling stadiums. _TRAVIS JOHNSON

At the start of this year London-based Victorian four-piece The Temper Trap gave Australian audiences a taste of why they were one of the most talked about bands in the world in 2009 with standout performances across a series of summer festivals. Having been busy consolidating their international success touring throughout the US, the band took time out of their hectic touring schedule for a mid-week stopover in Perth on their way to the Splendour In The Grass Festival.

Delivering a string of eloquently written tunes with a quietly-humble confidence, sweet pop-folk outfit Oh Mercy charmed early, welcoming local boy Simon Okely (formerly of The Preytells) into the fold for his first performance of their dusky, mesquite-flavoured songs.

Appearing on stage less than an hour after jumping off a plane direct from the UK, Welsh trio The Joy Formidable presented an indie-rock affair of epic proportions, littering their hectic set with looped distortions, spoken-word poetry interspersions and the almighty crash of an upturned drum kit, compliments of zealous percussionist Matt Thomas.

Emerging 30 minutes later, dressed down in a simple pair of jeans and striped tee, The Temper Trap’s frontman Dougie Mandagi presented as every bit the everyman rock star, apologising to the audience:“Sorry it’s been a while since we last saw you. We’re called the Temper Trap, and we’re so glad to be home.”

Clearly the feeling was mutual, as the packed house at Metro City gave the quartet – bolstered by a fifth touring member – a warm welcome as they launched into an instrumentallyheavy rendition of Oh Baby, piling three minutes of pounding guitars and tribal rhythms onto Mandagi’s ever-present falsetto.

While up-tempo rock jams Fader and Science of Fear yielded the expected headbobbing and toe-tapping, it was Down River which proved to be the catchiest, most crowd-pleasing number of the night, as long-haired bassist Jonathon Aherne emerged from a far corner of the stage (where he had thus far been bobbing and grooving away in his own world) to take over on lead vocals, rivalling Mandagi as he commanded the stage with surprising charm.

Splitting their set in half with another

instrumental interlude - this time the tribal-rock Conditions - closing instrumental Drum Song - had the crowd at fever pitch, as a solitary drum and cymbal were erected front and centre of the stage, with Mandagi and drummer Toby Dundas crafting a complicated percussion duet, which finished with Mandagi pouring a bottle of water on to the surface of his instrument and thumping so that water splashed upwards, which looked incredible and had the added bonus of being very refreshing for punters cramped in the humid confines of the overcrowded mosh pit.

Wrapping up the show with an obligatory encore of the much-loved song that has enjoyed international success, the opening chords of their bonafide smash hit Sweet Disposition were met with a roar of enthusiasm from the audience.

The audible claims of admiration that rung out into the night as audience members left the venue suggested that The Temper Trap had left a sweet taste in everyone’s mouths. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

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stage in his signature ‘too cool for school’ style, eventually cooing “long time no see. What up Perth?”.

A long absence from the live circuit had Strokes fans frothing at the mouth for their On The Bright Side set, and the boys didn’t disappoint, playing all of the big singles from their three album discography, including Hard To Explain, You Only Live Once, Last Nite, Juicebox and Under Control.

Their set was full of fuzz, soaring guitars and muffled vocals; exactly what everyone has come to expect from these uber-cool garage rockers.

Though fans know all too well that The Strokes aren’t ones for on-stage banter, the band seemed somewhat detached from their audience, opting to talk to each other in between songs rather than the crowd, which stood out like a sore thumb after Mumford & Sons’ highly interactive set. In the end nobody seemed to really mind though, happy just to be hearing The Strokes play live once more.

There was something for everyone at On The Bright Side, although perhaps more cohesive programming choices would result in a more ‘alternative’ or ‘boutique’ crowd ala St Jerome’s, instead of the more mainstream turnout. With rumbling tummies (due to long food lines) and ID check grumbles aside (we were checked both on entry and on the way into the bar, despite having over 18 wristbands), OTBS has proved itself a worthy addition to Perth’s festival line up. _EMMA BERGMEIER & DANIELLE MARSLAND

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FOR THE RECORD

Passionate supporters of Fremantle music, Fremantle Records, celebrate their first anniversary with a huge gig at Mojo’s this Saturday, July 31. Hand Stands For Ants, Sugarpuss, Sonpsilo Circus, Piano Donkey, Oh! You Pretty Things, Grace Woodroofe, Seams, The Reductors, and Helen Shanahan are all on the bill, with a photography exhibition by Tom Cramond, and stencil work by Johnny Ma making the event a full audiovisual experience.

Mojo’s will be putting free gourmet pizza on the tables between 5 and 6pm, with tasty sample discs from some of the artists appearing on the night also circulating. Get around it! Entry $12 from 5pm.

Ska pop/punk quartet Chilling Winston will be launching their debut 10” vinyl EP at The Civic on Friday, August 6, before heading off on an East Coast tour in November. The band are led by enigmatic, gruff-voiced frontman Lindsay, who is described in the band’s bio and sounding like the love child of Celine Dion and Grizzly Adams – sounds perplexing.

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GROOVE IN THE PARK

Relaunched venue Manhattan’s continues to bring a cosmopolitan edge to Vic Park, this week hosting gypsy roots stylists Mister And Sunbird. on Friday, July 30. The band formed in Sydney, but have floated between Perth and Barcelona, picking up a range of beautifully evocative influences on the way that have all seeped into their current double album Spirit Fingers. Pulling banjos, guitars, sax and flutes from their musical chest – Mister And Sunbird are a truly world class entity. Support comes from the equally as impressive Groovesmiths, making this Friday a true feast of big global grooves.

IT’S A KNOCKOUT

The Paddo is set to deliver another midweek musical knockout on Wednesday, August 25, with Ultra Sound, Hundred Acre Wood, Auto Suggestion and The Chris Gibbs Acoustic Trio all playing the POW! local original music night.

Ultra Sound are fresh out of the studio, having just finished recording their debut album. Pop down and get a sneak peek before it’s released.

Hang On St Christopher (photo: Ashra T. Deznan)

COME ON UP FOR THE RISING

The second semi final of the Kosmic Sound & Jack Daniels Mojo Rising competition will take place at Mojo’s on Tuesday, August 3, with The Spitfires, The Moltens, Sonpsilo Circus, Hang On St Christopher, and Escape Artists edging their way closer and closer to the huge $1500 Kosmic Sound major prize gift voucher up for grabs. The winner of the grand final, which is to be held on Tuesday, August 10, will also receive a two day recording session with in-demand local hit maker Dave Parkin at Blackbird Studios.

FINE LACE Jason Ayres

AYRES AND GRACE

Having played right around Australian and South Africa, Perth acoustic pop artist Jason Ayres is launching his Chasing Ghost EP, the follow up to his last release Acoustic Sessions, at the Subiaco Arts Centre this Sunday, August 1.

Ayres accessible sound draws on John Mayer, Jeff Buckley and Coldplay, and this all ages album launch is a great opportunity for Perth residents of all ages to enjoy his talents. Ayres will be supported by Jessica Hewett, a 20 year old singer songwriter from the Perth hills.

Tickets are free and available at the venue from 1.15. Concert runs from 2-3.30pm. For more information head to Subiaco.wa.gov.au.

ROBO BOP

Heartless Robot Productions present an eclectic night of sonic experimentalism this Friday, July 30, at The Den featuring Injured Ninja (performing their first headline show for quite some time), Pex, Steve Matzkov, Super Games, Quick and Ducks On A String. Heartless Robot releases will also be on sale at the event.

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The Next Big Thing competition is rapidly getting towards the pointy end of proceedings with three big semi finals soon to take place. On Friday, July 30, Trent Williams, The Kirbens, The Brown Study Band, One Thousand Years, Crash Compass, Good Little Fox, and Minute 36 battle it out at Amplifier. If their recent releases are anything to go buy, our money is on Minute 36 or Good Little Fox. Then on Saturday, July 31, the heaving funk ‘n’ soul machine The Brow Horn Orchestra tussle alongside Goodnight Tiger, James Teague, The Love Junkies, Resort, Homebrewe, and Sonpsilo Circus enter The Den for a ridiculously talent packed heat. Will the virtuoso guitar theatrics of Sonpsilo Circus charm the judges, or will the delicate songwriting of this year’s Ampfest Winners Goodnight Tiger steal the show? Throw into the mix the irresistibly sultry electronica of Resort and this one is a tight contest indeed.

Regional entrants will also have the moment in the spotlight at the Civic Backroom on Friday, August 6, with Joel Jackson, Tim Dawes, Jonny Taylor, Waler, Available At The Counter, Shots Fired, and John Bennet & Band going to head to head for a spot in the grand final to be held at The Rosemount on Saturday, August 7.

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Richard Kingsmill recently described Perth indie rock act Lacey as “another amazing Perth band to look out for” – high praise from a man who shapes the playlist on the national youth radio network. After eighteen months on the local scene, the band launch their debut EP Ropes at Amplifier on Friday, August 13. Support from Luna Parade, Good Little Fox, and The Frighteners.

Art In Algebra

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You’ve heard of Art vs Science, Arts Martial, and Art Garfunkle, well here’s another one to add to the artistic pile. Local band Art In Algebra headline the Paddington Ale House on Wednesday, August 4, playing their quirky brand of pop-rock alongside Farthing Woods, Ivory Wolf, and Sean Spitfire (a solo outing for The Spitfires frontman). Entry is free from 8pm – get your art on.

Selk And The Bone Singers

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Sonic Velvet, The Velvet room’s fresh new band night, will feature Selk And The Bone Singers this Friday, July 30. Support comes from Cat Black, These Shipwrecks and Maurice Flavel. Entry is $8, doors open 8pm.

Nicko And The Mong

X-PRESSIONS OF INTEREST If you’re looking for something a little different on a Thursday eve, a new variety open mic night held on Thursdays at Double Lucky in Leederville may be just the ticket.

Hosted by acoustic duo Nicko And The Mong, Lucky Dip – Variety Night With A Twist features a mixed bag of performers including musicians, comics, spoken word poets, magicians, dancers and circus performers.

On Thursday, August 5, there will be an extra special showcase aimed at raising money for SurfAid International, with over $1000 worth of prizes up for grabs. We recently spoke to event organiser Nicko to find out more about this off-beat new variety night.

Lucky Dip is described as an ‘open mic variety night’, what kind of artists can people expect?

It’s best not to expect anything! We called it Lucky Dip, because you never know what you are going to see. We always have great music acts - there are so many in Perth - but we also have spoken word, circus, contortion, magic, burlesque, dance, masked drama, comedy, storytelling, DJing, fairies and martial arts we welcome all kinds of performance or other art to our stage. We really want to give a comfortable and classy performance space to artists who might not usually get to perform in a lounge bar, and of course at the same time, give spectators the chance to see things they never would have normally seen. We try and book the acts at least a week or so in advance so we can plan as much variety as possible each week from the people who contact us, or who we track down.

As Nicko And The Mong why did you decide to start up a variety night – was there a hole in the scene you were trying to fill?

Basically, yes! As far as we know, there really isn’t anywhere else you can rock up to each week, for free, and get to see such a variety of acts on stage, and of such high calibre - it is a true variety show. Many of the performers are actually professionals or aspiring to be, and they like to play or perform at Lucky Dip because it is free for all to come and enjoy, the crowd is always enthusiastic, and the venue is really comfortable for both crowd and performers.

As a duo, you play an acoustic set each night as well – what can people expect from that?

Nicko and The Mong’s acoustic set is distilled out of our alt rock band Still Frame Mind – we are currently finishing off our debut EP. So not surprisingly, we play acoustic rock think along the lines of MTV Unplugged Stone Temple Pilots, or Pearl Jam or Incubus and you’re getting there.

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The Good times keep rolling this Friday, July 30, at the North Freo Bowls Club with alt-country impresario Kim McDonald, good-times guru Dillip Parekh, guitar virtuoso Michael Gabriel, and electro-acoustic roots rockers Browndog Saloon all donning their whites for a show.

Debra Jaye

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Folk songstress Debra Jaye will launch her debut EP These Wings Inside this Friday, July 30, at Kulcha in Fremantle with a full seven piece band. Inspired by artists such as Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, Angus And Julia Stone, Sufjan Stevens, and Eliott Smith, Jaye says songs on the EP such as Wings are inspired by life’s “little moments and the big ones”. Wings was written

by Jay whilst working as a living statue, “I was a golden singing angel and I loved it,” she explains, “I got to wear wings for a living!”.

The EP was recorded by Fremantle musician and sound engineer Eugene McGrath, with a number of talented musicians brought in to help flesh out the sound.“It’s the little things, the human moments that interest me the most,” Jaye explains of her songwriting process.“Music is so powerful in that way, it can reach out to us when we feel isolated or disconnected from love and remind us of the simple beauty in being human and being alive. I think this album is really about that – about being honest and being human.”

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One of the fastest rising names in Perth hardcore, Blkout!, will be dedicating a weekend to officially releasing their newest EP No Justice No Peace next month. Ahead of their Friday, August 6, show at Amplifier and an all ages affair at YMCA HQ’s in Leederville on Sunday, August 8, guitarist Ash Pederick gives insight into the modern face of HC solidarity.

“It was all houses,” Blkout! guitarist Ash Pederick explains of the band’s prolific tour ethos. “Like promoters put you up; there was no rock star hotels or anything (laughs).”

Perth hardcore, for a scene that revels in isolation, has solid street credentials for one so small. Due in part to local musicians’

unswerving resolve to bringing their art to the kids the only way they know how, by literally hitting the road… hard. Coming to the end of their national tour earlier this month, with a stop at Hardcore 2010 slotted in between, the five men that make up Blkout! are no strangers to this creed.

Having already done the Australian round trip a number of times and a 25date European tour alongside Miles Away before the release of their 2009 debut Total Depravity, glamorous is not a word most often used for the lifestyle Blkout! prescribes itself to. “ You get luck y ever y now and then and someone will have a pretty nice house and set-up,” Pederick says. “But then sometimes you will get someone with a one-bedroom apartment and you all have to squash in. Even though the thought of solidarity is cheesy; I think the whole face of it has changed since the ’80s and ’90s – where it was a bit more random. There’s definitely still that sense of being able to rock up to someone’s house – on the other side of the world – and be able to stay in their living room just because you’re into the same music. But the internet has made the scene more open and willing to help each other out.”

Recently recording their upcoming EP at a Sydney rehearsal studio while on tour – with Lachlan Mitchell (Toe To Toe, No Apologies) at the producing helm – No Justice No Peace reveals a considerable turning point for this fledging outfit. Most notably is the permanent addition of former Last Nerve guitarist Pete Bursky, with bassist Pete Abordi (No Apologies) also coming on-board for this release.

According to Pederick, shedding the previous member ties with Miles Away has helped Blkout! to become its own beast, rather than just another side project. And the boys will also be appearing on two upcoming hardcore compilations, one which pays homage to Aussie HC and the other more American-hued.

“We have a song coming out of a Six Feet Under Records compilation, where we may be the only Australian band alongside big HC bands like Trash Talk and Ceremony,” Pederick concludes. “We’re hoping this is the foot in the door to America for us.”

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ON TOUR: Young Heretics + guests Places of Indigo & Arms Like Branches. Doors 8pm.

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LIVE! Kevin Smith and the Seven Storey Jumpers + special guests Il Fiasco. Doors 8pm.

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KNiKi, Friday at The Civic Backroom SWAN BASEMENT MetroGnome Lizzie Lambie Tiaryn Griggs Happier Blue SWINGING PIG Nat Ripepi 2 Tenors THE COURT HOTEL Funk Club House Band THE GATE The Other Guys THE SAINT Howie Morgan Project THE SHED The Healys Renegade UNIVERSAL Retrofit VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Clayton Bolger WANNEROO TAVERN Damien Cripps WOODVALE TAVERN Ryan Carbray

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Oh, You Pretty Things, Saturday at Mojo’s CAPITOL Midlake ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Ben Vanderwal FENIANS Cranky HALE ROAD HOTEL Fenton Wilde INGLEWOOD HOTEL Ella & Scott Bourne LEFT BANK Benjamin Glynn LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan M ON THE POINT (Mandurah) Jonny Taylor MANHATTAN’S The Kill Devil Hills Blackmilk Paranoid Tarantula DJs METRO CITY Richard Ashcroft Katy Steele MOJO’S Ray Beadle Lightning Jack Heath Marshall MOUNT HELENA TAVERN Open Mic Night MUSTANG Huge

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