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It appears Powderfinger’s day has come. Only months after the Red Dragon (commonly known by her alias, Pauline Hanson) announced she was packing up her deep fryer and heading for the bright lights of London to star in a new adaptation Ms Saigon, directed by John Tyndall, Australia’s last titans of meat’n’spuds rock’n’roll have called it a day.

Twelve years after penning their anti-Hanson anthem The Day You Come – the song that would transform the former Brissy cover band into Australia’s biggest rock group – and with One Nation dead and buried, Powderfinger’s work here is done.

Speaking at a press conference in Sydney last week, frontman and professional cool dude Bernard Fanning said:“With the completion of our last album, Golden Rule, we feel that we have said all that we want to say as a musical group. We firmly believe that it is our most complete and satisfying album and can’t think of a better way to farewell our fans than with music that we all believe in.”

Indeed, while Golden Rule was Powderfinger’s least successful album since 1996’s Double Allergic, Fanning and his band of brothers hit uncharted artistic heights, namely in the assonant virtuosity of lead single All The Dreamers, which decries: “When you come down to the barrio/You get a feel of the people’s scenario”.Take that T.S. Eliot.

But don’t expect Powderfinger to go quietly. They have just announced a 21 date goodbye tour of Australia, entitled Sunsets: The Farewell Tour. The teary goodbyes roll into Perth on Friday, September 24, for a mega show at Supreme Court Gardens with Jet and The Vines. It seems these champions of the barrio may have their eye on the BRW Rich List one last time.

However, we have word just in is that Bernard Fanning has been spotted lunching with that other monolith of Oz music, John Farnham. Our source tells us Farnham has been appointed an adviser to Powderfinger Inc, namely for his eminent expertise in the delicate matter of comeback tours.

Our resident statistician has done the sums and – factoring in two solo albums from ol’ Bernie and some home renovations – has Powderfinger back out on the road by 2016 for the Sunrise: We’re Back Tour. You can place your bets now at your preferred online betting site.

But until then, tickets for Powderfinger’s Sunsets: The Farewell Tour go on sale 9am on Friday, April 30, through ticketek.com.au or heatseeker.com.au. _JULIAN TOMPKIN

When Georges Bizet’s Carmen was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875 it was quickly denounced as a flop. Bizet would famously die a few months later thinking he’d written a dud, not knowing Carmen would soon become one of the most popular operas of all time.

Set in Seville, Spain in the 1830s, Carmen tells the story of the opera’s eponymous frontwoman, the feisty gypsy who seduces young army corporal Don José. Carmen drags the lures José into a sordid life of crime before dumping him for a bullfighter. José is obviously a tad pissed about being dumped and seeks his revenge.

The WA Opera’s production of the legendary Carmen plays at His Majesty’s Theatre until Saturday, April 24, and stars Perth’s own Catlin Hulcup as Carmen and, one of America’s rising young opera stars, the tenor Garrett Sorenson as Don José.

“Tenors often have to play these wounded romantics who don’t always have the most interesting characters,” Sorenson tells X-Press, “but Don José is a real big douche bag! He’s a really interesting guy to play. He’s a mamma’s boy, he’s got anger issues… there are lots of interesting things about him. I am always very jealous of my baritone friends as they always get the best characters – bad ass guys. But Don José is great.

“A taxi driver told me the other day he loved Carmen as there’s not a bad moment in it.

I think that’s it with Carmen – there are no weak moments. People who are not trained up to love opera can appreciate it.”

Tickets for Carmen are on-sale now through bocsticketing.com.au.

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Neil Murray, WAM Song Of The Year launch

WAM will stage a special launch function to celebrate the opening of the 2010 Song Of The Year, with special guest Neil Murray (formerly of The Warumpi Band, writer of the all-time Australian classic, My Island Home). Songy types should mark down Monday, April 26, from 6pm at the Empyrean (old iMax), 12 Lake St, Northbridge. Tickets are $20 on the door, but pre-register at admin@wam.asn.au to go in the running to win a copy of Neil Murray’s book of lyrics, Native Born.

The WAM Song Of The Year is now open for entries. All details, including a downloadable entry form, are available on WAM’s website at wamusic.info.

Meanwhile, The WAMi Festival is hitting its stride in 2010 with plenty of opportunities for musicians and photographers to show Perth what they’re made of. The entries for the Kiss My Camera competition are now open – music photographers are invited to submit their snaps of local acts or venues before 6pm on Wednesday, April 21.

More speakers have also been announced for the WAMi Music Business Conference, including Clive Hodson (Shock Music), Nick O’Bryne (Australian Independent Record Labels Association), David Hyams, Dave Cutbush and many, many more. For the full rundown on who’s speaking and when, head to wam.asn.au.

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Those Australian Youth Week Ambassadors, Dappled Cities are set to return from overseas in June for a rare round of shows here at home.

The band have spent the last five months touring across the US, UK, Europe and Asia and these forthcoming shows will be their only Australian dates in 2010. Joining them for their WA dates are The John Steel Singers and Fire!

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Catch Dappled Cities and co. on Thursday, June 17, at Mojo’s; Friday, June 18, at Bunbury’s Prince Of Wales and Saturday, June 19, at the Rosemount Hotel. Tickets are available from moshtix.com.au or heatseeker.com.au.

Paul Weller

The mod father, the man behind The Jam and Style Council, the godfather of Britpop, and arguably the world’s snappiest dressed man, Paul Weller, is coming to Perth in October.

This, fare music lovers, is extremely exciting news.

Weller is set to play at Fremantle Arts Centre on Friday, October 15. Presale tickets go on sale from midday Friday, April 16, finishing at 5pm on Thursday, April 22.

Tickets purchased during the presale period receive a download of Weller’s new album Wake Up The Nation as part of the ticket price.

Normal ticket sales then open on at 9am on Friday, April 23. All tickets on sale through heatseeker.com.au.

Since releasing a string of highly influential punk rock record such as In The City and All Mod Cons with the Jam throughout the late‘70s, Weller has gone on to forge successful solo career with critically acclaimed albums like Wildwood. Weller’s love of soul and classic acoustic songwriting was showcased in as series of great solo albums throughout the Noughties, with 2008’s 22 Dreams even signalling a diversion into heady psychedelia. Weller latest album Wake Up The Nation is out April 23.

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It’s with sadness that I have to announce it is Max’s last day as Chief Security Guard at the JB Hi Fi, Hay Street store this Friday 16th April.

Max has made it a joy for my mate Kieran and I to visit this store almost every day during our lunch break. He has been an icon, almost more than the store itself!

Max is now moving on to bigger and better things.

I urge everyone who can possibly make it in tomorrow around 1pm, to do so and wish Max a fond adieu! He’ll be sorely missed!

Max, it’s been a pleasure!

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I am so sick of seeing people throwing rubbish out of their cars and just dropping wrappers on the ground! Did Constable Care teach you litterbugs nothing?!

We live in a society people, have some respect for your species your environment!

It’s ridiculous that in 2010 people still have no regard for the land they live and work on. If we keep littering the next generation of Australians will be living in a tip!

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metropolitan area is now $370, a $10 increase on the previous quarter (…) APM economist Matthew Bell said he expected Perth rentals to increase a further $10 a quarter for the rest of the year, with a strong resources sector and population growth the driving factors.”

Awesome.

I’m an Arts graduate, currently paying around $160 a week for a fairly okay house in North Perth. If my rent’s gonna be hiked up to $200 by the end of this year, that’s over half my weekly wage. No wonder Perth’s young people are migrating to Melbourne and Sydney and furthering their arts and cultural scene rather than our own – at least struggling artists get a roof over there!

Hey, rich landlords. Spare a thought for your tenants. Every dollar counts to them, whereas it may not to you.

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Irish band Aslan is in Perth this month and will perform at Rosie O’Grady’s in Northbridge over two nights. While their gig on Friday April 22, has sold out, there are still tickets to the Thursday night show. We have two double passes for a couple of lucky X-Press readers to catch them live at Rosie’s on Thursday, April 22!

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If you’re looking to make a splash on the local music scene, the folks at Cool Perth Nights are keen to help make that splash as big as it can possibly be with the Mojo Rising band competition. Held at Mojo’s Bar every Tuesday from Tuesday, June 1, ’til Tuesday, August 10, the competition offers bands a slew of awesome prizes, with first prize dishing up a $1,500 voucher for Kosmic Sound, two days recording at Blackbird Studio with Dave Parkin, promo for a single launch from Cool Perth Nights, advertising with RTRFM and X-Press to the value of $1,600 plus clothing from Keysole – what Oasis a bounty! Two semi-finalists will also pocket a Thirty Seconds To Mars $150 voucher for Kosmic, and heat winners will receive a $75 voucher. Send your MySpace link, MISTY WATER-COLOURED phone contact and a description of your band WAR BABIES MEMORIES to Jeanne@coolperthnights.com by Friday, May Led by Hollywood hunk Jared Leto, Thirty They may be no more, but the memory of Oasis 7, to be in the draw.

Seconds To Mars have announced a trek to kinda lingers, especially now with the upcoming Australia and New Zealand, touring with their release of Time Flies, a new singles collection. current album, This Is War. The power trio kick off PONDER WITH PIERRE The songs span 15 heady years and seven Best known for co-writing Eternal Sunshine Of the tour with a big all-ages concert at Challenge consecutive UK number one albums – that’s Strike Anywhere The Spotless Mind, French artist Pierre Bismuth Stadium on Saturday, July 24. Tickets are now on 26 singles (23 Top 10s, including eight #1s). A is a man with big ideas, ideas he’ll share with sale through ticketmaster.com.au. deluxe version of the release will feature all the Perth in an upcoming exhibition and artist talk band’s videos, as well as the last-ever recorded STRIKE HERE Oasis live show, at London’s Roundhouse on July After a full Canadian tour and a no doubt at the Fremantle Arts Centre. On Sunday, May GABBA GABBA HEY! 21, 2009. They may have argued a lot but they rejuvenating three-week break at home in the 23, Bismuth will introduce a screening of Eternal Fresh from a special Easter performance on the really did get loads done. Time Flies is released US, thinking man’s punkers Strike Anywhere Sunshine, before opening a visual arts exhibition front lawn of the White House, DJ Lance Rock are set to embark on an Australian tour with on Wednesday, May 26; followed by a free artist and his Yo Gabba Gabba friends are set to return on Friday, June 11. similarly-minded locals, Paper Arms. The jaunt talk on Saturday, May 29. Including collaborations to Australia and visit Perth for the very first time. is in support of their ninth LP, Iron Front: an with Michel Gondry, the exhibition explores the The tour will feature the whole Yo Gabba Gabba anthemic collection of songs dealing with humble living room. For more on Bismuth head gang plus a line-up of Australian celebrity guests human rights, war, politics and police brutality. to fac.org.au. and legendary musicians performing their Catch Strike Anywhere and Paper Arms at favourite ‘Dancey Dance’ with DJ Lance Rock Amplifier on Wednesday, July 14. and the crew.

NO BRAINS Old kids and young can get the funk We have some bad news on the cerebral front I’m afraid; regretfully, The Bad Brains have had out to Hugs Are Fun, Get The Sillies Out and Party to cancel their Australian tour this June due In My Tummy on Saturday and Sunday, June 12to personal health reasons. The band hopes to 13, at the Riverside Theatre, Perth Convention resume the tour later this year or in the first few Exhibition Centre. Tickets on sale through ticketek.com.au. months of 2011, watch this space for info.

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Zulya Kamalova, originally from Tatarstan in central Russia, is familiar to audiences throughout Australia as a performer of traditional and original music derived from her Tatar and Russian cultural roots. Zulya has developed a totally original approach as an affirmation of her unique identity - an affirmation that takes her Tatar and Russian background to totally new places and in completely new ways with a highly developed sense of melody, rhythm and texture.

Zulya and the Children Of The Underground are touring WA courtesy of Kultour. They appear at the Don Russell Performing Arts Centre (Thornlie) on Thursday, April 22, and Kulcha on Friday, April 23. Doors open 8pm. Tickets for the Kulcha show available from kulcha.com.au ($23 members, $25 other) or $30 at the door.

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The East End Bar at 189 High Street in Fremantle will host a very special show tomorrow, Friday, April 14, with King Tito’s Dirty Disco set to invade the premises. Featuring sets from Canyons, Resort, Charlie Bucket, Cooker and many more, the evening will be a throbbing night of electro, disco, funk and pop. Doors open 9pm, tickets available on the door.

Surf rockers Day Of The Dead will bring the sounds of the sea inside Fremantle’s Fly By Night on Friday, May 7, when they launched their latest recording Damned If You Do. Featuring Ben Frichot on guitar, Day Of The Dead will tear up the stage at their launch, promising a spectacular night of music and fun, with support from The Devil Rides Out, Arts Martial and Datura. Entry includes a copy of the new EP. Tickets available on the door or online at flybynight.org.

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After a super successful debut screening of The Room last Saturday, Luna Leederville will continue the fun, hosting another screening on Friday, April 17, at 11.15pm hosted by Tristan Karma Kuppa Fidler. When director Tommy Wiseau released his film The Room back in 2003, it made only $3,000 at the box office, rendering it an absolute COFFEE TO GO Coffee drinkers will gather en masse at flop. Instead of disappearing into obscurity, The BamBOO at Luxe Bar this Sunday, April 18, for Room was brought back to life some years after One Sugar To Go, an art exhibition that takes its release by a group of curious hipsters who the humble takeaway coffee cup and turns it hosted midnight screenings to mock this farce into contemporary art. Takeaway coffee cups of a film. A few years on and hipsters are still which are normally discarded after one use will gathering to witness The Room in all its terrible be given a new lease on life by international, glory, as is Wiseau himself, having since dubbed national and local artists, promoting themes of the film a black comedy. Tickets are on sale now reuse, recycle and respect. All the made-over from Luna. coffee cups will be sold off on the night with proceeds going to the Leukaemia Foundation.

The evening won’t just be about coffee related art though, with DJs, VJs and BMX riders all signed on to entertain the crowd. Doors open at 3pm and remain open ’til late. Entry is $15. For more on the exhibition, head to onesugartogo. com.

Best described as an old school front bar style venue - high ceilings with carpeted floors and a front-lounge-at-your-aunt’s-house charm – The Den is a new band room, open three nights a week at the Civic Hotel in Inglewood. With solid production, lights and staging The Den is a smaller room within the main building of the Civic, and will cater to all styles of music.

Fronting up at The Den this Friday, April 16, it’s Ghost Hotel, 6s & 7s, Split Seconds and The Belle Ends. On Saturday, April 17, it’s The Bullet Holes, Lacey, Art In Algebra and Helix To The Sun. Doors 8pm, $10 entry, each night. Coming up at The Den are Scrimshaw Raw, the Spaceship News Show, the Break! CD launch, Raw Nerve, Mick Thomas and much more. www.xpressmag.com.au

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

One of Australia’s most exciting Aboriginal acts, The Yabu Band, will hop on a tour bus this April to make their way around WA for a series of rural shows. The tour will stop at many towns and communities, including in Esperance, Bunbury, Moora, Geraldton, Carnarvon, Onslow, Karratha, Port Hedland, Broome, Derby and Halls Creek.

City slickers need not fear missing out on seeing The Yabu Band while they’re over in WA, because the band will play a free concert on Thursday, April 22, at Abmusic which is located at 295 Manning Road in Waterford, from 5.30-8pm.

Head to myspace.com/yabuband to listen to tracks from the band’s latest album Gundulla.

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by Melbourne’s Hopeless and The Broderick for experience the intensity of Drum Tao when it hits this mid-year assault, kicking off at Amplifier the Perth Concert Hall for five shows between on Friday, June 11, and an all-ages show on Tuesday, June 22, and Saturday, June 26. Tickets Saturday, June 12, at YMCA HQ, Leederville. are on sale now through BOCS.

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GLOWSTICKS TO MOSHPITS

Electro rockers MM9, whose frenetic live show has been garnering them a great reputation around the country, will play a string of dates throughout WA from April 22-25. The band play at The Prince Of Wales in Bunbury on Thursday, April 22; Breakers bar in Geraldton on Friday, April 23; Amplifier on Saturday, April 24; and The Newport on Sunday, April 25. The band will be supported by Perth act Wolves right around the state. Ticket details available at myspace.com/ mmnine. “The live show is our favourite place to be,” bass player Luke Ford says. ”Our drummer Ben recently coined the phrase ‘from glow sticks to mosh pits’, and I think he really hit the nail on the head.”

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AUDIO PERIPHERY

The Dillinger Escape Plan, those standard-bearers of dizzying, time-signature metal torture have no doubt pleased many fans with the news of their forthcoming Australian tour with Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster. Sealing the deal now is Washington DC outfit Periphery, joining the tour in support of their self-titled debut album. Sweet! Catch this heavy triumvirate on Sunday, May 16, at Capitol. Tickets on sale now from moshtix.com.au.

CAPTAIN NOONAN

Much loved Australian songstress Katie Noonan will return to the spotlight in 2010 with a brand spanking new band and album, both of which are sure to delight her fans. Noonan’s new band, The Captains, will join her on an Australian tour in June to launch their first album, Emperor’s Box. Featuring Cameron Deyell on guitar, Stu Hunter on keys/bass and Declan Kelly on drums, The Captains will provide the perfect musical accompaniment to Noonan’s sweet vocal stylings when she takes to the stage of the Fly By Night on Saturday, June 12, with support from Timothy Nelson & The Infidels and Goodnight Tiger; and on Sunday, June 13, with support from Ghost Hotel and Wolves At The Door. Tickets are on sale now from the venue on (08) 9430 5976.

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EVE Taking The Rap

Female rapping sensation Eve joins Akon, Pitbull, Kelly Rowland, Jay Sean and Sean Paul and many more at Supafest on Sunday, April 18, at Members Equity Stadium.

In the late ‘90s, when female rappers were regularly featured on charts and music video shows, Eve created a buzz for herself that was unprecedented. Utilising sassiness as a weapon, the rapper was signed to Ruff Ryders and released Let There Be Eve... Ruff Ryders First Lady, becoming only the second female hip hop star to enter the US billboards at number one.

Her charm and rhyming skills had her marked as one of the industry’s rising stars, and she backed it up with her 2001 release Scorpion, which featured hip hop club anthems Who’s That Girl and the mainstream hit Let Me Blow Ya Mind with Gwen Stefani. The collaboration scored her a Grammy. Although, after the 2004 release of Eve-olution, Eve focused on other avenues only featuring as a guest rapper on songs like Gwen Stefani’s Rich Girl and Kelly Rowland’s Like This.

By now her rise to fame had seen her turn her attention to other avenues like film, television and fashion, with the Philadelphia native releasing her own label, Fetish. Starring in her very own sitcom, aptly titled Eve, and featuring in movies like xXx, Barbershop, and Barbershop 2: Back in Business, the rapper was starting to forge a career outside the music industry.

She did, however, return to create her follow up album, and the lead single Tambourine was one of the biggest urban anthems of 2007.

But it was the constant delay of the album that lead the rapper to part ways with her label and look elsewhere to release her album Lip Lock (formerly titled Here I Am).

With the album now scheduled for a 2010 release, a guest role on the most popular show of 2009 (Glee) and a place on one of the biggest urban line-ups to hit this country, it looks like things are starting to fall into place nicely for the one they call ‘E-V-E’.

By DEMELZA GOUDIE After many setbacks, Lip Lock is set to be released this year. Can you give us an insight into what we can expect from it?

It’s an album that is... I’ve definitely gone back to having fun with making music. I’m not signed to Interscope anymore, I left them last year. So I’ll be signing to a new label in a few weeks. This is the album that has taken me back to just making fun with the music. I have Salaam Remi on the record; I’ll be collaborating with Akon; I just went into the studio with MSTRKRFT, Diplo. I’m going into the studio with Swizz Beats.

It’s just a very upbeat, funky album. It’s just fun.

It’s a fun-flirty album.

Eve, playing Supafest this Sunday, April 18

happened that went onto the second year of them being like ‘Oh yeah! We are going to put out your album’ and then all of a sudden they were like ‘But we can’t do it right now’. Finally I was like ‘let me go, you have to let me go because you are messing with my life’, so Interscope definitely took their time with this.

Could we potentially see some Eve songs in it down the line?

That would be amazing, that would be incredible. One of my hopes is that they can actually bring me back on the show so I can do something or perform.

There is resurgence with female rappers with There is talk of a single that will be released Foxy, Lil Kim, Trina and even Nicki Minaj, creating new material, along with yourself. off the album soon...

You did mention MSTRKRFT. The state of hip I honestly haven’t even picked a single Do you think 2010 is the year of the female hop at the moment is that we are starting yet. I’m trying to wait. I’m eight songs in, so I’m rapper?

I hope so; we need some women. to see regular dance elements and a pop probably going to do 12 or 13. I want to wait ’til crossover in urban production. Are we going I finish the album before I actually pick a single. There is too much testosterone happening right now.

We definitely need to simmer it down. We to see that featured in Lip Lock? need the females back and I’m hoping that Oh definitely. It’s crazy, because happens. obviously Americans… it’s our new thing now.

YOU ABSOLUTELY So many other sides of the world, you guys To those younger girls interested in getting included, have been into dance music, have HAVE TO ALWAYS, involved in the music industry, what would been into electro and that is something that is you say to them for advice?

ALWAYS, ALWAYS so new for us. It’s pretty much I got into it, but at I would say, especially to females, it the same time I did it with my own flair because MAKE SURE THAT is a male-dominated business. You absolutely I didn’t want people think, ‘Oh my goodness, have to always, always, always make sure that she’s just doing that because it’s the new fad’. So I YOU ARE RESPECTING you are respecting yourself. You teach people made sure that, with the record that I did with how to treat you. I think a lot of times with a lot YOURSELF. YOU TEACH MSTRKFT, it’s definitely an up-beat dance club of females you get signed, especially if you are record, but at the same time the drums are very PEOPLE HOW TO TREAT with a crew of guys… sometimes they try to Caribbean, which is my influence. So I made sure change you or tell you you should be this way I did it with my flair.

YOU… JUST KNOW or the other. Just know exactly who you are as a The album is titled Lip Lock – what is the female, as a person and as a woman. Just don’t EXACTLY WHO YOU reasoning behind the title? let anyone try to change you; always hold on to It’s basically because I’m an MC. It’s like ARE AS A FEMALE, AS who you are. That’s the biggest thing I can say. a sexy connotation in a sense. When you think of Lip Lock you think of kissing or whatever. But it’s A PERSON AND AS A The digital era and the internet can be more like, for me it’s the way that I spit. Me being considered a problem. Has it hindered your WOMAN. JUST DON’T an MC first. Read the words that come out of my direction? lips and once the words come out of my lips I’m LET ANYONE TRY TO Not at all, it has helped me. One of the going to lock it down. That’s my game. But like I reasons why I was able to leave Interscope was said, it’s a sexy connotation as well.

CHANGE YOU; ALWAYS because I leaked a Dubstep record that I put out HOLD ON TO WHO in the UK that did great for me. And I went and There have been rumours that you’ve been did a tour in the clubs for a month and a half on working alongside and could be a part of the YOU ARE. THAT’S THE just that one single. And the reason I was able to Ruff Ryders’ label again. Can you put a rest to do that was because we put it out through the the rumours at all?

BIGGEST THING I CAN airwaves, and over the internet. So if anything it Yes, that is not going to happen.

SAY.” helps me getting songs out a lot quicker. Like, if Obviously those are my dogs. They will forever I need to get a song out I can just put it on the be my dogs; whenever they need me I will be internet. there and vice versa. Because not that I don’t love them, not that we aren’t down for each You are no stranger to film, TV and even other… the next deal that I want to sign I have fashion. You have even appeared in an You are heading to Australia for the Supafest to be 100 per cent the dictator of it. And not episode of Glee. Were you a fan of it at the tour. It is your official tour of Australia, are you looking forward to it? that they don’t allow me freedom with Ruff time?

Oh my god! I’m soooo excited about Ryders; it’s just that I want to make sure things I got to say, it’s a funny story, the way go according to plan… the way that I want it to that I got asked to be on the show. I was eating it. Like counting down the days excited. go. dinner at this hotel and one of the producers just tapped me on the shoulder and was like ‘there’s You have worked with Sean Paul and Kelly Is that the reason why the album has been a part in my new show called Glee. Would you like Rowland who is also on the bill. Could we pushed back so many times, and the reason to be a a part of it?’. And at the time I’d know potentially see some live collaboration with behind you leaving Interscope? they had put out this pilot and it had got all this them on stage?

Oh hopefully. That’s the thing, like The reason, well… it was all Interscope recognition, and when I saw the pilot I thought that held the album back. After Tambourine the that it is such a cool concept. I had no idea it was earlier I was thinking ‘How the hell am I going to album was supposed to drop and Interscope going to blow as big as it did. This show has taken do the song with Kelly and how the hell am I going basically just dropped the ball. After that off, so I’m happy to be a part of it when it started. to do the song with Sean?’. Because the song with 12

Sean is a major part of my set, and the song I do with Kelly is a big part of her set. But we haven’t spoken about who’s going on before who and after who – but I’m sure we will figure it out before we get there.

You were meant to tour Australia about a year and a half ago but the tour got cancelled.

Were you disappointed with the outcome and the decision of the promoter at the time?

Oh my god, I was so upset. I was upset because, number one, that was my first time being over there and I wanted to take advantage of being over there. Number two, I was also upset… I didn’t want people to think that here I am promoting, promoting, promoting for this thing and then I don’t show up.

You did end up coming for the MTV Awards...

I did. I came for the MTV Awards and I got to make it to Adelaide. It was supposed to be Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth and after Adelaide they cancelled the shows. And I was really upset.

What was your experience of Australia when you did come down here?

Most amazing place ever. I tell people all the time, I had the best time. The people are amazing. It is a beautiful place. It was a place that is like ‘Damn! I can see (me) living here’. I love it.

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STEREOFLOWER In Bloom WILL STOKER & THE EMBERS

Promising Perth folk rock band Stereflower launch their long awaited debut album at The Norfolk Basement on Saturday, April 17, with support from The Big Old Bears, 6s & 7s, and King Of The Castle magician Jon Madd. DAVID CRADDOCK got the low down On what is shaping up as a busy weekend of local launches, from songwriter and founding member Alex Elbery.

If you’ve even fleetingly tuned into RTR FM eyed at each other as if to say ‘what the fuck was Will Stoker And The Embers release their debut album at The over the last month or so, chances are you’ve that? Where did it come from? Was it you that did Rosemount on Friday,April 16.DAVID CRADDOCK sat down for a heard The Cocaine Bebop, a ridiculously catchy, that?’. urgent, and raw track from Stereoflower’s While the song shows the band in cup of coffee with Stoker to discuss kings, clarinets and gypsies. debut album It’s Alright. It’s Ok. Satellite Commander.

Heartfelt, yet dirty and grinding with its thick bass and impassioned wailing, the track does well to evoke the intensity of a Stereoflower live show.

Stereoflower was originally the name Elbery used when he first started playing solo in 2005, but the name soon grew to represent a full band when guitarist Richard Marmaduke, bass player Marko Remarko, and drummer Doctor Blythe began joining the songwriter on stage in 2007. As the band’s bio so colourfully describes, Elbery was looking “to escape the JD Salinger vibe of the solo circuit for the Dr Seuss possibilities of a band.”

“One day at band practice while everyone was just setting up I started to strum on the guitar and BAM! We played the entire song start to finish completely spontaneously,” Elbery says of the significance The Cocaine Bebop for the band. “All of us just seemed to already know it somehow; I even made up all the words completely on the spot. I remember when it finished, we we’re all just sort of staring bleary

full fuzzy rock mode, there are more pensive moments on the album such as the gentle, Neil Young meets Bright Eye-esque, shuffle of Always On The Run In terms of the production on the album, Elvery says he got the best of both worlds by doing some studio work with Matt Gio at Underground Studios, and some work with Tim Sherry, of local band Blackmilk, in his home studio.

“I’ve always liked stuff to be fairly raw, I love the Neil Young/Crazy Horse albums, as well as early Mountain Goats, stuff like that,” he explains.

“But at the same time I’m a huge fan of like Phil Spector or Peter Gabriel; people who try to make stuff as big and epic sounding as possible.”

And as the those unusual strains of piano accordion that lace tracks like I Love You Like Lost Time?

“This particular Accordion was my Grandfathers and he gave it to my father the day before he moved to London from Poland,” Elbery explains.

“Then my Dad passed it on to me when I was 15. It’s a stunning instrument, so graceful and warm; it feels almost holy.”

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Will Stoker & The Embers

Will Stoker isn’t hard to spot at The Beaufort Street Merchant. His Einstein-esque, flowing mane sets him apart from the laptop crunching suits and coiffured grandmothers on book club meetings.

If tracks like The King are anything to go by, Stoker doesn’t mind putting himself out there as someone who is a bit different. Determined to write an intelligent rock record, Stoker and his band mates have produced an unpredictable, raucous and dynamic self titled debut – a highly anticipated release given their lengthy apprenticeship on the Perth live scene.

“I like the way Radiohead work or some of PJ Harvey’s albums where one song, like Man-Size Sextet, is going to have strings and all that,” Stoker explains. “And then the next song is going to be completely bare arse.”

The album certainly draws on a wide sonic palette. At times it evokes the pulpit preaching melodrama of Nick Cave (The King), the carnivalesque gypsy underworld inhabited by Tom Waits songs (The Waves Hiss & Burst), but can just as quickly shift into delicate classic piano-pop balladry (Dundee).

“That song is all about the story of King Ludwig II of Bavaria,” Stoker says of The King.“In my travels in Europe last year I went to Munich and then I went to the Neuschwanstein Castle – which is the

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one Walt Disney modelled his on. The story of him is incredible, he died under mysterious circumstances, [and] he kept blowing his allowances on all these castles… He’s one of those mysterious people that you never quite figure out.They’re always people I’m inspired by and liken myself to I suppose.”

Stoker’s live show and film clips have certainly erred on the side of oddity rather than the predictable. In the film clip for Five Beds For Bitsy he writhes around on the floor like a loon, and live on stage don’t be surprised to see him wielding a clarinet like a wild man. Sure, Stoker’s kooky schtick may be played up for the viewer, but in a world of calculated, cookie cutter indie bands, it makes for an exciting experience.

“Once you figure someone out it becomes beige,” he offers. “When you’re being completely up front then people have figured you out and there’s nothing else to look into and be intrigued by.”

If Bovine Republic, a cutting track that discusses suburbia is anything to go by, people being lulled into predictability is the last thing this songwriter wants.

“I guess our isolation is kind of conducive to getting lulled into a coma and a comfortable pillow to lean on,” Stoker says. “You’ve got enough to eat, you’ve got Foxtel and you’ve got an air conditioned house on the arse end of the earth.”

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JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE The Earle Of Old Time Justin Townes Earle’s history-laden name says it all. Named after Townes Van Zandt, and the son of legendary Texan Steve Earle, he has country music running through his veins. DAVID CRADDOCK spoke to the singer songwriter ahead of his shows at The Fly By Night on Thursday, April 22; and The Rosemount on Friday, April 23.

“There’s very little good coming out of Nashville right now… what’s happening on music row is horseshit, for lack of a better term” drawls one time Nashville resident Justin Townes Earle from his new home in the East Village, New York City.

If ever there was an artist fit to stand up against the hair-sprayed, over-rhinestoned, hyper-commercial country coming out of Music City, it is Earle. Sure, the 28 year-old songwriter has the appropriate genetics as the son of hard-edged country troubadour Steve Earle, but it is his enc yclopaedic knowledge of the history of country music, especially in Nashville, that makes him a perfect ambassador for a new wave of American roots musicians.

“Being a student whereever you go I think helps with that a lot,” Earle says of

“I MEAN FUCKING KENNY CHESNEY SELLS WAY MORE RECORDS THAN PUFF DADDY AND BEYONCE! … IT ISN’T NASHVILLE’S FAULT [THAT] THEY’VE GOTTEN AWAY FROM COUNTRY MUSIC BUT THEY’RE JUST FOLLOWING POP MUSIC DOWN THE HOLE.”

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his passion for classic American songwriters like Woody Guthie. “The heart of old music is based in the people and the surroundings that have grown around this certain kind of music. And I think it’s about keeping your eyes open and always staying you know, curious. Never arriving - I think that’s the best thing that can happen for a song writer or artist.”

E a r l e’s t h i r d, a n d m o s t r e c e n t album, Midnight At The Movies, is no twee, nostalgia trip or banjo-laden cliché. The sad, melancholic wail of Hank Williams may echo across many tracks, but lyrics about modern American life, and reflections on Earle’s troubled drug-addled upbringing on the outskirts of Nashville, give the recording a stark contemporar y relevance for an America that, dream or no dream, still has strong divisions across class, educational and political lines.

“I think what people have to realise is that it’s really, really rare when you reinvent the wheel,” the artist says of the challenges facing songwriters who evoke sounds of the past. “Even Bob Dylan, I don’t think he invented anything. He worked inside extremely traditional forms for his entire career. And I think that’s the reason he finds his way into so many people’s lives because it’s deeper and it’s more recognisable. It has a whole lot of history behind it and he shows it very blatantly.”

Last year at the Americana Music Awards, Earle’s talent for deeply rooted, yet ‘real’ songwriting was recognised when he was awarded a gong for Best Emerging Artist. Commercially, however, given the current tastes of the American country music industry, it is unlikely that he will ever achieve the widespread exposure of his long-gone heroes.

“One thing people always have to take into consideration is the fact that Nashville, since the time of Uncle Dave Macon, who was the very first star of the G r a n d O l e O p r y, h a s a l w ay s b e e n t h e forefront of popular music and the world,” Earle methodically explains.

“I mean fucking Kenny Chesney sells way more records than Puff Daddy and Beyonce! So I think that’s the deal - it isn’t Nashville’s fault [that] they’ve gotten away from country music but, they’re just following pop music down the hole. Because pop music fuckin’ sucks these days. We’re a long time away, not in terms of time, but in terms of where we stand now, from bands like The Cars and The Faces being at the front of pop music… I don’t think Nashville’s going to find its way out of this hole. I think Nashville’s kind of fucked forever.”

While the impassioned theories on the decline of Nashville may make Earle sound like a rose-goggled musical romanticist or outright Luddite, he is not. The songwriter has an iPhone full of songs for long plane journeys, and as a kid listened to plenty of hip-hop, but says he is always drawn back to the roots of American music.

“I listened to hip-hop and gangster rap as a kid and I still do when it’s good,” Earle says. “When it’s musical – stuff like Outkast, The Roots and Mos Def is definitely stuff worth listening to. It’s not that I don’t find feeling in it, but it just wasn’t for me. It wasn’t my feeling. And plus lets just face it, its very rare with the exceptions of artist like Eminem, who I think is also a brilliant lyricist, when white boys don’t look goofy as shit.”

If Earle’s nomination as one of GQ’s 25 Most Stylish Men In The World is anything to go by, he’s regarded in fashion circles as anything but goofy. Always impeccably dressed in country style suits, slick haircuts, and swanky shirts, he says that what he wears is an important part of his act.

“Growing up in Nashville you’d see people like Porter Wagoner going to the gas station,” he explains. “He didn’t wear rhinestone suits everywhere he went, but when you saw Porter Wagoner out in public he was dressed nice. You’d see Ray Price out in public, he was dressed nice. He’s wearing slacks and his shirt tucked in and really fine ostrich cowboy boots. And I think that that’s important. We owe it to the people to make everything look nice and be as pleasing as possible, whether that’s pleasing to the ear or the eye.”

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AMELIA’S STORY Amelia comes from a family where substance abuse was “pretty rife” growing up. “We had opium poppies growing in our back yard,” she recalls.

“The first time I had heroin, I smoked it with a couple of hippies who grew it themselves.”

A recreational user until her mid-twenties, things changed for Amelia when a long-term relationship crumbled around her and she started using more frequently. But when she tried to stop, she couldn’t.

“It was ridiculous, I was such a mess,” she says.

“One day I woke up and thought I don’t want to be a slave to heroin any more. I want to survive.”

“I already knew a fair bit (about treatment programs). I did some research, had a good read on the internet. I had a beautiful doctor too.” But while Amelia says her experience was “fantastic” she’s seen enough to know everyone’s treatment journey can be very different.

“No one’s ever the same. You have to work out what’s best for you - your body and your situation.”

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THE LEISURE SOCIETY Eleven Winks One of the more unique outfits to make a splash on the UK scene of late is The Leisure Society. Their debut album The Sleeper – now available in Australia – is littered with strings, brass and woodwind throughout its ballads of whimsical folk-pop. CHRIS HAVERCROFT spoke to main man Nick Hemming about awards and wallpaper.

When Hemming moved to London from his hometown in the Midlands, which he declares as being ‘famous for nothing’, he could only have dreamed of the success that would eventually reach him. He found employment in a wallpaper factory and became involved with Brighton’s Willkommen collective as a way to connect with musicians who would play his songs.

With a set of musicians at his disposal, Hemming set about recording the debut album for The Leisure Society. Having self-funded the recordings, it wasn’t too long before record labels came knocking at his door. It was a unique approach, but gave Hemming total control his product.

“I wouldn’t do it the traditional way again, as there is so much more freedom when you are doing it all yourself,” Hemming begins, of taking the path less travelled.

“There is no one poking their nose in and you get to record whenever and whatever you want. It is a much nicer way to work as you are in your own cocoon and you are not watching the clock.”

Watching the clock is something that Hemming was well versed in before the success of The Leisure Society, having worked in a wallpaper factory. His day was spent lifting large rolls of fabric, weighing them, packaging them and sending them out for dispatch. On the positive side, it did give him plenty of headspace to write more songs.

“It seems like a lifetime ago, but I only left the factory last May,” Hemming muses. “Basically it wasn’t too bad a job other than it was in a large cold warehouse, so it was a bit of a nightmare in winter. I used to cycle five miles there and back everyday so I was a lot more fit. I didn’t have to use my brain too much so it left my head free to be able to think about writing songs. Who knows; if the ideas dry up I may go back and work there again.”

Although life in the factory was bearable, Hemming admits to feeling pretty melancholy during the making of The Sleeper.

He had moved to London after splitting up with his partner and figured he had nothing to lose. The routine of day jobs and having few friends in London made him question if he was going to achieve the success he had wished for, and the album captures those deep, emotive feelings of longing. Ironically, the song that was written when he was at his lowest ebb lifted him out of the mire.

Hemming found himself in the unprecedented position of being the first unpublished songwriter to be nominated for the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for his song The Last Of The Melting Snow. Musically it is his greatest accolade to date and, although the nomination did not lead to The Leisure Society being awarded any prize money, the nomination did change Hemming’s life.

“As I was the first ever unpublished songwriter to be nominated it became a bit of a news story over here,” he concludes. “I’d be working in the warehouse and I’d have BBC news cameras coming in to film me working. It was bizarre and surreal, but a bit embarrassing as well. Because it became a mainstream news story over here – that is how my publisher heard about me, and that is how I can afford to not work now and to just write songs all day. I am just waiting for Hollywood to come and ask me for the film rights.”

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SLASH Self Titled

MGMT Congratulations

Dik Hayd Records/Sony

Sony/Columbia

In this all-star collaborative of Slash’s favourite vocalists we are greeted with a range of rock tropes from classic to modern. The line-up of guest artists is a little underwhelming with the likes of Fergie, Adam Levine (Maroon 5), and Kid Rock, but old-school veterans Ozzy Osborne, Iggy Pop and Lemmy Kilmeister make up for it.

Album opener Ghost begins with a classic Appetite For Destruction inspired riff leaving you without a doubt as to who’s carrying the axe. As you would expect Slash’s trademark solos are a running theme through the album, all the while letting the vocalists take ownership of the track. Andrew Stockdale (Wolfmother) does his usual grandiose stoner rock thing in By The Sword and Iggy Pop remains a feral bastard in We’re All Gonna Die. While there are some standout moments on Slash like the surprising I Hold On featuring Kid Rock (of all people), most of it feels bland. Simplistic power-chords rule many of the tracks as do the cliché, formulaic lyrics. It may be an intentional way of matching vocalists with their native style, but surely there’s room for experimentation on an album like this? And no, Slash does not sing.

Hotly anticipated and leaked online a good month early to m i xe d re ce p t i o n , Congratulations is here, officially and in the stores. Oracular Spectacular was an album of number ones, a modern classic that threw MGMT into the mainstream and gave anthems for a new generation. How does a young band follow up an album of hits?

Well, not trying to, is one option. Unlike Oracular this album is bare of hits, or even hooks. Though like the album before it, the boys conjure up grand sound-scapes, with reverb laden guitars, haunting organs and a seemingly endless stream of instruments. The production is just a bit too stale and straight up with none of the other-worldly sounds Oracular used to such great success. This is largely due to not having sound magician David Fridmann on board again, the drums especially suffering.

Ok, so that’s what I don’t like, what do I like? I Found A Whistle is a cracking tune and Lady Dada’s Nightmare is a soaring instrumental that signals the peak of the album.

But by leaving out all the pop MGMT risk losing their core audience. As Oracular talked of having to pretend to have money and fame, Congratulations stands as a counter-point - we got all that for real, but it turns out we don’t want it.

_BRENDAN HOLBEN

_TOM VARIAN

GYROSCOPE Cohesion

HIM Screamworks: Love And Theory In Practice

Island/Universal

Sire Records/Reprise Records

There are very few bands in Australia who ply their trade with the conviction of Gyroscope. This Perth foursome has made a career out of honest rock’n’roll of the punk persuasion, employing a working class ethic that has steered them from Perth’s underground to the forefront of Australian music.

If the band’s Gold-selling album of 2008, Breed Obsession, was their palatable crossover moment the band’s fourth long-player, Cohesion, reaffirms Gyroscope as our kings of ferocious rock. Speaking to X-Press, frontman Dan Sanders said that with Cohesion, “we have come full circle”. And he’s not wrong! The brutal assault of I Still Taste Blood and Working With Wood hark back to the primal passion of the band’s debut EPs, Scalectrix and Take Time.

However, this is not a band retreating to old tricks. On the contrary, with songs such as Some Of The Places I Know Gyroscope completely rewrite their doctrine, diverting listeners through some of the most intelligent rock this country has seen in years.

Unlike the endless succession of onesong-wonders hitting the charts, Gyroscope are an example of what can be achieved when you treat music with the reverence it deserves and back it up with sheer hard work. Gyroscope truly deserves every success that comes the band’s way.

With HIM returning from the brink of oblivion, it would be reasonable to hope for material that would reflect a renewed sense of passion from these self-proclaimed Finish ‘love’ rockers. Instead, we are left with their most Americanised work yet in their seventh release.

Remember the rumours circa-2005, when HIM allegedly dropped producer Andy Wallace as the quintet felt he took them too far into ‘American’ territory? They have really dropped the ball here, treading a fine line between evoking compassion or hysterics.

Completely sacrificing any sense of individuality that once drew frontman Ville Valo’s minions to HIM, they have stepped away from that darker edge that personified 2007’s Venus Doom and have trudged head-on into pop punk territory.

Incorporating more kitsch ‘80s synth than ever before, the album awkwardly meshes Valo’s roaming vocal style – stronger than ever due to sobriety – with catchy, predictable riffs a la Mikko Lindstrom and Mikko Paanenan.

The question that needs to be posed: is this satire? _JESSICA WILLOUGHBY

_JULIAN TOMPKIN

SALLY SELTMANN Heart That’s Pounding

MHORGL Antinomian

Remote Control/Shock

Independent

It may be because she has recently become a mother for the first time, or the confidence gained from penning a hit single for Feist, but Sally Seltmann has now dropped the New Buffalo moniker in favour of recording her third album under her own name.

There was always a sense of nostalgia in the sound of New Buffalo, but Seltmann has opted for a more classic radio sound this time around. Harmony To My Heartbeat is ambiguously written so as that the song, about motherhood, can also be seen on face value as a timeless love song. It is a lovely turn of phrase for the bright songwriter.

Seltmann has obviously become more comfortable with her breathy voice and has pushed it to the forefront during these recordings. I Tossed A Coin is breathy and fragile, Dream About Changing has sixties girl group appeal and Dark Blue Angel enlist Jens Lekman and Ned Collette as part of its choir.

Heart That’s Pounding is Seltmann’s coming of age. This one should see her plastered all over the airwaves and picking up awards by the bucket load.

Let us, for argument sake, just call Antinomian the debut album from local black metal maestros Mhorgl. As this is technically the first release since this quartet of highly traditional fellows made the leap from studio outfit to the live setting, and the fine skills of award-winning drummer Louis Rando (Nervecell, ex-The Furor) are now in tow.

Born out of a mutual respect for the more violent hues of metal, their brand of chaotic – yet organised – songwriting has taken a turn into even less predictable territory with this album. Stripping back the instrumental skin to reveal the raw flesh of Mhorgl’s distinctive sound, each track works as an all-out assault of ripping slabs via guitarist Robert Thorpe, Rando’s tribalistic pounding, and bassist James Campbell’s driving beat.

Piercing through this thick and unrelenting fog, vocalist Sam Moretta guides the way, from the simpler rhythms of Nocturnal Blasphemy to the crusty and obviously Darkthrone-influenced Necrohatred. Featuring a re-recording of The Paean Of Hangatyr from their 2007 release The Sacrificial Flame, there is also a cover of Ozzy Osbourne classic Mr Crowley.

Perverse and poetic, all at once.

_CHRIS HAVERCROFT

_JESSICA WILLOUGHBY

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JONSI Go

BLUD

Parlophone/EMI

Myspace.com/bludmagic

With plans for a new Sigur Rós album having been shelved, front man Jón (Jónsi) Þór Birgisson has made the most of the hiatus by teaming up with his partner Alex for the Riceboy Sleeps project and now his debut solo album Go. Although having dabbled in the language only briefly on previous works, Jónsi sings the majority of the songs on Go in English.

When hearing lyrics about brushing hair, riding bikes and making out on Animal Arithmetic it does break the spell to some extent of someone who has spent years using his voice as an instrument that was never restrained by simple words and language.

No matter the content, it can’t change the fact that when Jónsi sings, the sounds are nothing short of heavenly - and enlisting Nico Muhly (Antony & The Johnsons) to handle strings adds to the divinity. There is a lot to like about the nine songs of Go, thanks to dense instrumentation, tight samples and finely crafted melodies.

With Go Jónsi is much more than the Enya for indie kids.

Every now and then triple j music director Richard Kingsmill will drop a ‘check this band out’ on his Twitter. Given that he’s got upwards of 4000 followers, and programs the country’s most influential youth radio network, receiving a Kingsmill shout out has a bit of a Willy Wonka ‘Golden Ticket’, quality to it. It’s a handy boost.

So imagine our surprise when last week, the king directed his followers (A bit feudal isn’t it?) to check out BLUD, a young Perth electro/indie band with only two songs on their rather mysterious Myspace.

But what a song Sarah Is For Lovers is.

Sure, the MGMT comparisons will come thick and fast but there’s a dramatic, apocalyptic vibe to it not unlike a These New Puritans track. There’s even a slightly dancehall, dirty reggae thing going on. Daft Punk fans should also take note.

It’s an impressively slick and ‘big’ anthem that’d absolutely slay a younger audience. Perhaps Tim And Jean should watch their back?

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myspace.com/ nickcaveandthebadseeds

Independent/Shock

Will Stoker & The Embers’ debut album hasn’t been giddily rushed out too early in the band’s career – and it shows. After a solid apprenticeship in the local scene, this album is carefully considered and focussed, with each song benefiting from plenty of on stage development.

In terms of radio play, The King is a clear stand out with its dramatic changes of pace and its unexpectedly rousing chorus. In the verses Stoker spits bile and rapid-fire adjectives in a pulpit preachy style undoubtedly inspired by Monsieur Cave; but just as you’re ready for a similarly theatrical regrain there’s a swerve ball chorus so catchy and anthemic it could’ve been on What’s The Story Morning Glory. Odd – but it works.

That sense of unpredictability is really the strength of the album, as it is in Stoker’s live show. There’s the slightly grubby beat pop of Bovine City, thumping four-to the-floor blues rock of Bower Bird and the earnest, acoustic shimmer of Penelope.

The bombastic, Led Zep vibe of Tickets Please is a slightly deceiving opener given the more off-beat moments on the release - but listeners who give this album a full listen will find that behind the shifts in style and pace this is very much an old fashioned, cohesive long player. Tracks 1-6 would make a great A-Side in anyone’s book.

With the rest of his countrymen celebrating Australia’s bicentenary, in 1988 the country’s foremost defector was bunkered down in West Berlin about to pen the record that would define a new era for Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey. Berlin was a dark place in 1988; still bitterly divided and a Mecca for degenerates ravenous for experimental rock and hard drugs.

And it was from here that Cave – at his most self-destructive – scribbled down the lyrics to what would begin his magnum opus:“I am nearly wholly innocent”. The Mercy Seat has since been the subject of countless studies; a song which comes around once in a generation… if you’re lucky. Tender Prey remains a patchy record, but one that defined a new vision that welded the harrowing with the serine – a formula that would eventually bring Cave great success. Tender Prey has just been reissued by EMI in deluxe format, along with 1990’s The Good Son and 1992’s Henry’s Dream.

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Co m i n g u p w i t h a n interesting band name can be pretty difficult business. Even taking that into consideration, there aren’t enough excuses left in the world that could possibly justify why anyone would even remotely think that taking We Have Band as a moniker would be anywhere near passable.

The London trio make beat heavy tracks with fuzzed out bass and forgettable vocals. The slower moments are decidedly aimless and the more dance floor oriented efforts end up sounding like a tepid Human League If the debut WHB is anything to go by, it’s not worth wasting your time with We Have Band until they are able to declare ‘we have songs’... and that appears to be sometime away. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

Put together on a shoestring budget and a prayer by music video director Russell Mulcahy and animatronic modeler Bob McCarron, Razorback is a gloriously dark creature romp that somehow works. Legendary Aussie cinematographer Dean Semler’s brooding and claustrophobic outback photography is a start, but little else went according to plan.

The animatronic pig broke down constantly, leaving Mulcahy and his crew with little choice but to have the second model (of the head only) burst through windows and walls.

Interviewed a few years ago, Mulcahy said if they did it again today they’d have a CGI long shot of the pig running through the pet food cannery of the film’s climax.

And honestly, that’s a little sad.

The rough and ready in-camera effects that characterise films like Razorback and its bigger, more successful cousins Jaws and An American Werewolf In London are all part of the charm. So it’s interesting to see how the directors of Korean horror film Chaw approach their own giant maneating pig movie. CGI’s easier, but no matter how ropey models can be, it removes some of the urgent realism that gives classic horror films their longevity. _DREW TURNEY

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Donate dresses to the LAA

DRESSED TO IMPRESS

If your wardrobe is choc-a-block with dresses, shoes and accessories that you never wear, then the Langford Aboriginal Association would love to hear from you. LAA is desperately in need of dresses in all shapes and sizes so that young Aboriginal women can dress in style for upcoming school balls and NAIDOC Week events. Donations from the community will be sold on to young ladies at a minimal cost, ensuring that every lass can be the belle of the ball. If you have items you’d like to donate, get in touch with LAA on (08) 9451 1424.

COME TOGETHER

Cit y Farm will be abuzz with students from all over the globe on Saturday, April 17, when the Perth Youth Advisory Council will host the International Students Welcome event; an afternoon of free activities and entertainment aimed to help international students transition into a new community.

As its name suggests, the event will welcome international students to WA through interactive workshops, music from DJ Philly Blunt and performances from winners of the Migrants Got Talent competition.

The event will be the perfect place for students to mingle and meet new friends in the lush surrounds of Perth’s only organic community garden. City Farm is easy peasy to get to – just hop on board the Yellow Cat bus and disembark at Stop 1, or catch the train to the Claisebrook Station. For more info head to perthyac.com.au.

The Room Red Bastard

I SEE RED

If you were unlucky enough to have missed the Red Bastard while he was roaming the streets of Fremantle for the Fremantle Street Arts Festival last weekend, fear not because the man in red is extending his stay in WA so that he can perform two more shows. A master of improvisation, movement and performance, the Red Bastard engages his audience members in conversation, often uncovering ridiculous truths while he traverses the stage with a gigantic red belly and backside. Catch the Red Bastard on Friday, April 9, and Saturday, April 10, at the Deckchair Theatre on High Street in Fremantle. Shows start at 8pm. For tickets and info, head to flyingheart.com.au.

RUN RABBIT, RUN!

Tonight, Thursday, April 8, local digital artists, animators and film makers will gather at the Llama Bar to discover who will be named champion of the 2010 Run Rabbit Run Video Comp. Since February, local creatives have submitted works on the theme ‘Run Rabbit Run’, and tonight, entrants will vy for the $250 people’s choice award and the $1000 jury prize. The evening won’t be just focused on film though, with tasty tapas available from 6pm, and DJs getting behind the decks from 8pm. Entry is free, so be sure to check out the fun on the corner of Rokeby and Hay Street in Subiaco.

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MAKE ROOM

Thehis Room When director Tommy Wiseau released film The Room back in 2003, it made only $3000 at the box office, rendering it an absolute flop.

Instead of disappearing into obscurity, The Room was brought back to life some years after its release by a group of curious hipsters who hosted midnight screenings to mock this farce of a film. A few years on and hipsters are still gathering to witness The Room in all its terrible glory, as is Wiseau himself, having since dubbed the film a black comedy. Thanks to Six Thousand and Luna Palace, Perth cinemagoers will soon get to witness The Room for themselves, with a screening at Luna Leederville at 11pm on Saturday, April 10. Tickets are only $15.50 or $11.50 for concession, which includes free beer and guaranteed laughs. Doors open at 10.30pm for this special event that promises to be ‘so bad it’s awesome’.

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THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (M) PLUS NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST (M)

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THE BLIND SIDE (PG)

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THE BLIND SIDE (M)

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (PG)

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MAX MANUS

EDGE OF DARKNESS (MA) During Nazi occupation in Norway, it fell on the gallant Norwegian resistance hero Max Manus (1914–1996) to save his homeland from the Third Reich.

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LOOKING PRETTY AT THE POLO

Polo may well be one of the world’s oldest sports but few West Australians have had the chance to experience a thrilling Polo match live. All of that is about to change because Polo In The Valley is headed to WA, promising to bring the excitement and elegance of a traditional Polo match to Perth this Sunday, April 18, at Duncraig Stud in the Swan Valley.

Not sure what to wear to the Polo?

Here are a few sartorial tips from stylist Eddie Dos Santos.“Girls be daring and playful. Steer clear of clichéd racecourse attire and instead grab your bestie and spend an afternoon rummaging through a vintage store or two.

Mix it up with high street labels and layer a look that is completely yours, not a carbon copy of someone else.

“Boys this is your chance to make like a dapper gent and get your cool on! Your shopping list starts now... Buy one white linen pant with rolled cuffs or a faun, tailored short.

Try adding cravats, ties, belts, and loafers in mixed tones and shades and, like the girls, don’t be afraid to clash prints and colours.”

Tickets are on sale now from polointhevalley.com.au

We Heart Vintage

The Transients

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Instead of selling lamingtons and raffle tickets to raise cash, the lads and lasses in charge of WAAPA’s Arts Management Student Organisation will fundraise outside the box this April, opting for music over desiccated coconut. This Friday, April 16, AMSO will invade Amplifier, bringing with them a night of awesome indie, rock, new wave and electronica. With live sets from The Transients, Brash and Sassy, Place of Indigo, My Mad Flow and the Death Disco DJs behind the decks, the fundraiser is set to be a stellar evening of entertainment with all funds raised supporting students during their 10 week unpaid industry secondment. Entry is only $15 and includes entry to Amplifier and Capitol. Doors open 8pm, tickets available on the door.

WE HEART VINTAGE

The Flying Scotsman will become a shrine for vintage come Saturday, April 24, when the Collectomaniacs will present their first ever We Heart Vintage market. The five ladies behind the Collectomaniacs are all vintage vixens who want nothing more than to share second hand clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery, with the people of Perth. There will be both menswear and womenswear on offer at the sale, with DJs from RTRFM spinning tunes throughout the afternoon. We Heart Vintage runs from 11am ’til 5pm at the Flying Scotsman in Mt Lawley.

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If you long to travel but your wallet resembles Paris Hilton – skinny and empty on the inside – fear not, because The Velvet Boudoir can take you all the way to Las Vegas without ever leaving Perth. Starring the lasses from Lady Velvet Cabaret and Azure Entertainment, The Velvet Boudoir will deliver audiences an entertainment packed evening with all the glitz and glamour of Vegas this Sunday. Over 30 performers will take to the stage of the Charles Hotel on Sunday, April 18, including fire and knife twirlers, hula girls, lounge singers, samba dancers and much more. Tickets are on sale now from azureentertainment.com.au or 0408 999 943.

Doors open 6.30pm, show starts at 7pm.

Gina Yashere

Hailing from the UK, now based in Los Angeles, Gina Yashere is an infectiously funny comedian whose cheeky observations about life have seen her win over audiences worldwide. When X-Press catches up with Yashere she’s busy celebrating a recent career highlight – having just scored a one hour Showtime special on American television.“The party was great, I actually had two parties; one at a bar in West Hollywood with over 100 of my friends, and some TV executives came out, which cost me a fortune in champagne.”

Champagne costs aside, Yashere is in high spirits, ready to take over the world one stand up show at a time. Yashere’s next destination is little ol’ Perth where she’ll perform a series of shows sure to tickle funnybones. Catch her on stage at the Charles Hotel’s Comedy Lounge tonight, Thursday, April 15; at Crackerjacks in North Fremantle on Friday, April 16; and at the Woodvale Tavern on Saturday, April 17. Bookings can be made through the venues. “I’ve not been to Perth, but I’m expecting to have a great time. Do not disappoint me!”

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ASLAN Lionhearted

Aslan

Irish rock’n’roll legends Aslan will appear at R o s i e O ’ G ra d y ’s, N o r t h b r i d g e, o n Wednesday, April 21, (acoustic/meet-andgreet Q&A session, not full live show) and subsequently perform at the venue on Thursday-Friday, April 22-23.

McGuinness acknowledges that although clearly hypothetical, the notion that Aslan’s five-year break did the band some good and led ultimately to their longevity has indeed proven to be the case.

“Yes, first and foremost we were friends before we were a band,” he concurs.

It’s been a long time since they rock’n’rolled. “To save that friendship we broke up and when we got back we realised how In Australia, at least.

Fans of Irish rock’n’rollers Aslan important we were to each other. The will be well pleased to know that the band enjoyment and creativity was still there.”

Since then labels have come are returning to Australia this month and coming to Perth for the first time. The fans and gone for Aslan. They have been at the ruthless beck-and-call of the music industry, have spoken.

“Yes we last played in Australia 10 despite the clear loyalty of fans and a years ago,” says keyboard player/guitarist, heavyweight touring status throughout Billy McGuinness. “We played in Sydney and Europe and their beloved Irish home.

Melbourne. The Sydney gigs at The Metro were amazing and yes, since then we have “EVERYONE had a lot of requests to come back.”

They’re used to it by now, but IN DUBLIN WHO McGuinness still stops-to-smell-the-roses every time Aslan travel to another side of WAS IN A BAND the world and receive such a warm response.

WANTED TO BE “There is no better feeling,” he notes. “It makes the trip so worthwhile to THE NEXT U2 hear people singing your songs back at you.”

AND WE WERE Aslan formed in 1985 and yes, NO DIFFERENT. they are named after the lion in author C.S. Lewis’ iconic Narnia series. In 1986 they WE WANTED TO independently released a single, This Is, pretty much a demo-affair, which set the UK TAKE OUR MUSIC alight. When McGuinness recalls the will and ALL AROUND THE ambitions that were at the heart of the band at the time, it doesn’t sound too surprising WORLD.” at all.

“Everyone in Dublin who was in a They’ve released nine albums, band wanted to be the next U2 and we were no different,” he states. “We wanted to take including a live set and two compilation releases, their latest being Uncase’d, a set of our music all around the world.”

And so they set upon that journey. fan-requested cover songs including Jealous The band soon signed to EMI, recording and Guy (John Lennon), Telephone Line (ELO), My releasing their debut album, Feel No Shame, Friends (Red Hot Chilli Peppers), Nothing which promptly achieved Gold status. It Rhymed (Gilbert O’Sullivan), Something In seemed all good-to-go, but like so many The Air ( Thunderclap Newman), Quicksand youthful outfits flushed with success, as (David Bowie), All I Want Is You (U2) and they were seemingly being handed the keys Maggie May (Rod Stewart).

“Since we started we have always to the kingdom, Aslan fell to pieces.

Beloved vocalist, Christy Dignam, put covers on the b-sides of our singles,” McGuinness says. “When we recorded the left to form a duo, Dignam & Goff. The rest of the band briefly attempted to soldier on Made In Dublin album (live, 1999) we put two covers on it, the Stones’ Angie and Pink with a new singer, but to no avail. Those that remained formed a new outfit, The Precious Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. That sparked the Stones, but neither party created the kind of idea of doing the Uncase’d album.”

Following their long-awaited fire that Aslan had once stoked.

In 1993 the original band re- return to Australia, there’s plenty afoot for teamed for a one-off appearance at a charity Aslan. The lion, it seems, continues to roar.

“We are writing a new album of show and reclaimed that spark, soon signing to a new record company and releasing a original songs and are off to the States in long-overdue sophomore album, Goodbye September,” McGuinness says. “So we are Charlie Moonhead, which was greeted with very busy... which is amazing, after all these Top 10 singles (the lead-off single, Crazy years.”

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Penniless with a sick wife and family Directed by Jan Kounen Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Anna Mougalis, to support, Stravinsky seems lost, but a romantic spark between himself and Coco reignites his Yelena Morozova creative fire. Acting as a patron to Stravinsky, Coco Hot on the heels of Anne Fontaine’s stunning invites the Russian and his family to take residence Coco avant Chanel comes Jan Kounen’s Coco & in one of her villas, a residence that ignites a Igor, a biopic shedding light on Chanel’s life in steamy affair between the Coco and her new the period after the death of her lover, Arthur houseguest.

At the mercy of Coco and her whims, ‘Boy’ Capel.

It’s 1913 in Paris and Coco (Anna Igor’s wife Catherine (Yelena Morozova) must watch Mouglalis) is dressed beautifully for the premiere as her husband falls in love with the designer; and of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring. The Coco’s smugness makes it that much harder to curtains come up and Coco is immediately bear.

While their affair wreaks havoc on the mesmerized by the music and performance, but her fellow audience members are shocked happiness and health of Catherine and her family, it and outraged at how experimental the does wonders for Chanel and Stravinsky’s creative piece is. As the dancers perform their bizarre, endeavors, with both individuals experiencing unconventional choreography to Stravinsky’s periods of newfound inspiration, leading to the equally unconventional score, outraged creation of Chanel’s iconic scent, Chanel Number 5.

Full of tense, low-lit moments, Coco & audience members begin hurling abuse at Stravinsky and his production, shouting ‘what a Igor is a beautiful film that sheds light on a portion of Chanel’s life often overlooked by biographers din!’ before storming out of the theatre.

Backstage and the atmosphere is and filmmakers. Though every frame is beautiful, tense; Igor (Mads Mikkelsen) blames the dancers the pace of the film can be rather slow; take for for the reaction of the audience, stating that instance the opening credits which last for close their inability to adhere to the rhythm is the to 12 minutes.

At nearly two hours in length Coco cause of their outrage, believing his score had Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is a long undertaking nothing to do with the controversy.

Fast forward to 1920 and Coco is for audiences but Kounen’s wonder ful mourning the death of her friend and lover cinematography and choice of costumes (some Arthur, and my, oh my does she make mourning of which were borrowed from Chanel’s creative look chic. Swathed in black, Coco appears stern director Karl Lagerfeld) make for a stunning film but beautiful when she crosses paths with that is sure to be of interest to any Chanel or Stravinsky once more, but the seven years since Stravinsky fan. they’ve last encountered one another have not _EMMA BERGMEIER been kind to Stravinsky.

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BRENDAN COWELL Behind Beneath Hill 60

Beneath Hill 60

Directed by Jeremy Sims Starring Brendan Cowell, Harrison Gilbertson, Steve Le Marquand, Gyton Grantley, Alex Thompson We’ll never run out of stories to tell about wars.

Not just because humanity has a bad habit of constantly waging fresh wars on each other, but because the deeds, heroism, suffering and even humour they characterise would fill more pages and more feet of celluloid than we can ever print.

Whether it’s the emotional aftermath on the men who raised the American flag in Joe Rosenthal’s immortal photo (Flags of Our Fathers), the resistance mounted by the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto (Uprising), the final days of the Third Reich (Downfall) or even the comic pandemonium as panic about an anticipated Japanese attack sweeps California (1941), we simply never run out of stories borne of war.

Part of the reason is because new aspects of such culturally rich occurrences like wars keep coming to light. Most of the contents of mining engineer Oliver Woodward’s book are fairly dry descriptions of bracing up tunnels and the calculations for pumping out water.

The emotional weight of Woodward’s task only shines through every now and then.

He and his men weren’t building mining tunnels in his native Queensland.

After joining up in 1915, he was sent to the European front in Belgium and told to tunnel underneath the no man’s land in front of the German lines and plant explosives underneath them. Directing from a script by David Roach, TV actor and one-time film director (Last Train To Freo) Jeremy Sims has bought the story of Woodward and his colleagues to the screen in blistering detail.

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metres down, Sims has squeezed every cent out of his $9.6million budget and crafted a war movie that easily stands up against far bigger budgeted contemporaries from the genre.

In the 1960s and ’70s, war films were like grown up versions of The Goonies.

Movies like Where Eagles Dare and The Guns of Navarone were about boys playing with toys in high stakes games to vanquish evil, moustachetwirling bad guys. In our more politically correct times they’ve been about suffering and horror, with little of the adventurism of the earlier era.

Sims’ film tends more towards the latter – you feel every premature death and horrible injury, you watch men trying to sleep in muddy pits and you share the anguish of loved ones back home waiting for the fateful telegram to arrive. But Beneath Hill 60 has strong elements of the action-packed military thrills of earlier war films as well – it will keep you on the edge of your seat as well as pinch your heartstrings.

D e s p i te t h e s l i c k n e s s re l a t i ve inexperience occasionally peeks through.

While he does a great job of carrying almost ever y scene on his shoulders, Brendan Cowell sometimes feels less than completely comfortable as the miner/soldier. Other cast members such as Steve Le Marquand do better, but that’s because they’re mostly fodder to Woodward as the lynchpin of the plot.

As a director, Sims shows no such uncertainty. Despite only one small movie (set completely in train carriage) to his name he makes it look like he’s been doing this in Hollywood for years. He’s just as strong zeroing in on muddy, panic-stricken faces as he is with sweeping shots of a pock-marked battlefield with fire and dirt flying.

We hear it every time there’s a bushfire, flood, drought or any of the other threats that face us in this wide brown land, but as actor Brendan Cowell puts it; “Australians are pretty amazing people when they’re under pressure.” The 33 year old actor’s talking about the character he portrays in Beaneath Hill 60 as Captain Oliver Woodward.

Woodward is the lynchpin of Beneath Hill 60, the true story of a corps of civilian engineers sent to the deadlocked European front in World War 1. Their job was to tunnel underneath enemy lines to plant explosives, and Cowell plays the Queensland miner given the task.

The men who carried out the 1916 mission faced shortages of time and provisions as well as water pouring into the tunnels from the never-ending rain that lashed the Belgium battlefeilds. They talked tactics in dugouts with dirt raining from the ceiling after every mortar impact outside, tried to write to loved ones thousands of kilometers (and months by ship) away and slept in muddy holes.

Cowell thinks the same spirit to muck in and get the job done that’s such a strong part of our national heritage helped get the film made too. “It was really difficult because if we were indoors we were crouched down in tunnels about four foot high. If we were outside, we basically had mud and rain pelting down on us the whole time. So there wasn’t really anywhere to escape, it was all pretty oppressive. But the crew was in, the director was in, the ADs, makeup artists, everyone was in, everyone was muddy and that’s what film making is all about.”

Of course, Cowell and his workmates _DREW TURNEY

Brendan Cowell stars in Beneath Hill 60

had a few luxuries. Even though he calls the shoot ‘brutal’, he’s quick to point out the Germans over the hill weren’t shooting at them for real, and they had a trailer with a French chef and a hotel near the beach not far from the Townsville-based shoot.

But did shooting such a somber subject add to their misery?

“I think their sense of humour and their ingenuity is what kept them alive,” Cowell says.

“So I guess that’s what we were doing as well, just keeping each other buoyed and above the water and sane. Any moment you have that’s free of tragedy, pain and death, you’ll take it. We were kind of doing the same thing.”

Beneath Hill 60 is directed by director and actor Jeremy Sims, a name known from many TV shows ranging from Stingers and Farscape to Home and Away. He directed 2006’s tense character piece Last Train To Freo, but this is his first time on an expansive set with pyrotechnics, action and the other trappings of a war film. Even Cowell says he was amazed he was the lead in a movie – as a film made by erstwhile beginners, how did the shoot hold up?

“I know this is an old adage but it’s bloody true,” Cowell says, “actors that become directors care about performances. And even though he probably had ten thousand dollars worth of explosions going off in the background his priority was always looking at us and going ‘you happy? Let’s work harder; I want to hear the words’.

He was always prioritising the performances in an epic movie and that’s pretty nice for us.” _DREW TURNEY

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October October runs ’til Saturday, April 24, at The Blue Fabretti says that although the Room Theatre, 53 James Street Northbridge. subject matter is serious, the production is a Tickets available on (08) 9227 7005 or online black comedy. “Wilding has an impressive way at blueroom.org.au. of affecting the energy of scenes by boiling them down to hilarious and unjustifiably heated This One Show, the production company behind situations,” he explains. Perth comedy goers will 2008’s runaway success and award-winning recognise the name Ben Sutton, a regular on the Motortown, is back - opening The Blue Room comedy circuit, who plays the role of Dez. “Ben is Theatre’s first theatrical season for 2010 with a WAAPA graduate from way back and I’m excited the WA premiere of October, directed by Renato to have him in the team and back on stage,” says Fabretti.

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Written by award winning Perth Fabretti, himself a WAAPA graduate playwright Ian Wilding, October is the story of from 2005, has based himself in Sydney, Adelaide, successful young things Tim and Angela, who and Perth for the past few years, and will spend live in a beautiful and happy home with all the much of 2010 working in WA, including a creature comforts and a bub on the way. The production for the West Australian Youth Theatre story and their life takes a dramatic turn when a stranger, Dez, enters their home and claims to Company and as Artist in Residence at Curtin University’s Hayman Theatre. have slept with Angela.

Fabretti is a firm believer in the talent “Dez is a threat to the couple’s beautiful world,” says Fabretti. “He starts popping up in of West Australian theatre practitioners, and as such October is a showcase of our state: featuring their lives everywhere, and audiences don’t know whether he’s a stalker, a freak, or if he is just telling renowned WA performers including Samantha Murray and Steve Turner, with Matt Penny the truth. Frightened, the couple hire the services of Dick, a dodgy private eye, and ask for Dez to be completing the four hander. October also features lighting design by Karen Cook, and an original found and ‘helped,’ by definition.”

In meetings with the crazed Dick, and score by The Men From Another Place, aka Steve as Dez continues to appear in the couple’s life,Tim McCall and David Richardson.

“This production is all about Perth, and Angela let the euphemism of ‘helped’ slide in and a challenge to the major companies in WA,” to ‘stopped’.

“Essentially, the play questions how far says Fabretti. “Wilding’s other works have been people are willing to go, and how much it costs produced by major companies in other states, to keep the peace. October looks at the element and it’s amazing this script, by such a talented WA of fear as a catalyst for evil. Are Tim and Angela writer, has not been picked up by one of the ours prepared to justify harm against another to avoid already. So I’m doing it.” the potential possibility of harm to themselves and their idyllic existence?” _DAVID GEOFFREY HALL

Acts Of Undressing (Photo: Lisa Businovski)

ACTS OF UNDRESSING Mad Hatters Acts Of Undressing opens at Yirra Yaakin Theatre at 65 Murray Street in Perth on Tuesday, April 20, and runs ’til Saturday, May 1. Bookings can be made by emailing tickets@theduckhouse. com.au

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The Duck House has long traded in stories and constructs exploring conceptions of women not commonly examined in the traditional dialectic of femininity in theatre. The multifarious and eclectic work of the group resists genre definition, although shows are invariably quirky, funny, yet thought provoking and beautiful at the same time.

Their latest opus, Acts of Undressing, promises to be no different. Kat Osborne, director of the piece, describes the work as being about an exploration of the things we have to do to feel content in our lives.

“Basically, it’s about these three crazy women in the fashion industry, and they travel the world and hunt different birds to get different feathers for their hats. One day they end up on a beach looking for seagulls and meet an isolated lighthouse keeper. One of them falls in love with him and stays. The story is about her transitioning from being a fashionable woman to a domesticated woman, and how their relationship plays out. It’s about two lonely people coming together.”

Like always, the narrative belies a deeper exploration of aspects of the human condition.

“We’re playing with the superficial element to making yourself look good, and if nothing is behind that all there is just another lonely person trying to find their way through the world. The context of the whole show is based on that very symbolism. And yet the character leaves her lonely

life, and she still can’t find happiness, so perhaps in the end, you find it in yourself, and not other things.”

Amongst other things, The Duck House is well known for its devised and (initially) unscripted work. Acts of Undressing stands in stark contrast to this, featuring a script written by Ian Sinclair that is the result of a year of work with The Duck House crew. Osborne explains, “I worked with Ian over a year for it. We asked him to write us a show because we want to see what happened if we had a script, and it’s been very different. We took a more methodical approach this time. It’s been tricky at times because I sometimes feel like I haven’t done enough work. I’m so used to having to think about story as I go, but with this we didn’t have to worry about that.

Although The Duck House produces work that deals with feminine issues, they shirk the label of being a ‘feminist’ theatre company, or indeed one that has any overarching focus to ideas of feminity at all. Even the engagement with feminine issues takes place over ground not often trod. “We don’t try and make our shows about women things, but it ends up that way because we are women being creative together.

The transformative body is something that is very important to us, as is the animalistic quality about women. The one thing we really like to address about femininity is the uglier side and the awkwardness, and the idea of a fall from grace. We like to explore the quirkiness to women, rather than the elegance. That’s way more interesting than a heroine thing.” _JOE LUI Hittin’ the town since 1985

VISUAL ARTS Hatched 2010, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, James Street, Perth.

Exclusive to Perth, the Hatched National Graduate Show provides an unparalleled opportunity for talented art school graduates to present their work in a professional gallery context alongside that of their national peers. Bear witness to these brave contemporary pioneers as they head into new artistic territory with their extreme but thoughtful mix of expanded drawing and painting practices, soft architecture and aural environments - amongst other eye, mind and ear-bending aesthetic experiments.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, April 17, and runs ’til Sunday, June 13.

Amber Harries’ After We Were Gone (detail) 2009 is on display for Hatched

Permeable Boundaries: Interiors – A Field Of Possibilities, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Bentley.

Permeable Boundaries: Interiors - A Field Of Possibilities showcases the work of leading graduates from Curtin’s Interior Architecture course. Through text and imagery, the diverse aspects of the rich career trajectories of 20 Curtin interior design alumni are narrated.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, April 30.

Displacement, Kidogo Arthouse, Bather’s Beach, Fremantle.

Using the Western Australian history of maritime adventure and tragedy, sculptor John Mayo explores the idea of displacement, history and loss through a series of bronze sculptures and videos.

These works use the language of shipwreck artifacts to convey an intriguing yet incomplete story. For this exhibition Mayo has commissioned WA violinist and composer, Rupert Guenther, to create a soundscape reflective of the sculpture and video works. The music will be performed in a free live concert at Kidogo Arthouse on Wednesday, April 21, at 7pm.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, April 30.

Today I Am What You Want Me To Be, Turner Galleries, 470 William Street, Northbridge.

Olga Cironis has been wrapping and stitching objects for several years, sometimes in velvet and in more recent years she has turned to blankets. Her new exhibition features blankets she has been collecting for many years, each one representing a different period of time by its colour or design. Olga’s work addresses identity and memory and how we link it to notions of place, tradition, culture and customs.

Exhibition opens on Friday, April 16, and runs ’til Saturday, May 15.

environment and self portraiture. As a selfportrait artist, Emily Portmann’s interests lie in the body, exploring how we convey our emotional and psychological states of being through our subconscious body language.

Exhibition opens on Thursday, April 22, and runs ’til Sunday, May 16.

COMEDY

Reggie Watts, Fly By Night Musician’s Club, 1 Holdsworth Street, Fremantle.

Reggie Watts began his career as a singer in various bands in the early 1990s. Then he started being himself: crazy and absurd; and people laughed.

In his unique stand up sets,Watts’ subjects range from ancient history, technology, magic, spirit elves, dragons, mythology and theology to pop culture.

Attempts On Her Life, WA Academy Of Performance Takes place on Friday, April Performing Arts, Roundhouse Theatre, 23. Bookings can be made through the venue on Braford Street, Mt Lawley.

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The third year acting students at the WA Academy Of Performing Arts will take to the The Blues, Upstairs at the Brass Monkey, corner stage of the Roundhouse theatre later this James & William Streets, Northbridge. month with a production of Martin Crimp’s Blues music and comedy at first sight seem to be Attempts On Her Life. First produced at London’s a strange mix. One makes you cry, the other makes Royal Court in 1997 and subsequently you laugh. However mixing them together is just translated into 20 languages, Attempts On Her Life has been described as ‘a mesmerising what comedian and Harmonica player Michael theatrical experience of outstanding agility and Connell is planning to do in a new comedy show.

Titled, appropriately enough, The Blues, the show imagination’.

Season opens on Friday, April 30, and will run as part of the Wild West Comedy Festival in runs ’til Thursday, May 6. Bookings can be made May. Season opens on Thursday, May 20, and through the WAAPA Box Office on (08) 9370 runs ’til Sunday, May 23. Bookings can be made 6636. through BOCS. Waiting For Godot, His Majesty’s Theatre, Hay Street, Perth.

Grumpy Old Comedian, Upstairs at the Brass Starring Ian McKellen, Roger Rees and Matthew Monkey, corner James & William Streets, Kelly, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot sees Northbridge. two old friends meet to converse, joke and argue Comedian Mick Meredith tells of his life as a with themselves as they wait through one day grumpy old comedian in song jokes and stories in and then another for the mysterious Godot... Grumpy Old Comedian. Being divorced, depressed, The combination of music hall, poetry and drunk and overweight has never been so funny. tension redefined what is possible in theatre, so After a cracking run at this year’s Adelaide Fringe that today Waiting For Godot is accepted as one Festival, Mick will land in Perth for the first time of the most significant plays of the 20th century.

Season opens on Friday, May 28, and bringing his show to the Wild West Comedy Festival.

Season opens on Tuesday, May 25, and runs ’til Thursday, June 3. Bookings can be made runs ’til Saturday, May 29. Bookings can be made through BOCS. through BOCS.

PERFORMANCE

Mama Things, Perth Centre For Photography, 91 Brisbane Street, Northbridge.

Bo Wong’s second solo exhibition continues her exploration into the fluidity of the human memory and it’s complex relationship to the static nature of ‘things’.

Mama Things observes the multifarious bind between child and mother, where everyday logistics encounter the ethereal and miraculous.

Exhibition opens on Thursday, April 22, and runs ’til Sunday, May 16.

Paper Products, Turner Galleries, 470 William Street, Northbridge.

Much like Olga Cironis, Theo Koning has been wrapping domestic objects in brown paper, giving them new life and identities. The simplicity of the brown paper strips the objects of individuality, almost like home-brand objects, yet their distinctive shapes still place them from specific periods of time.

Exhibition opens on Friday, April 16, and runs ’til Saturday, May 15.

Play Terrain, Perth Centre For Photography, 91 Brisbane Street, Northbridge.

Play Terrain, photographed out on Cockatoo Island in Sydney, explores notions of role play,

Mama Things by Bo Wong

PLAY TIME The Playhouse Theatre’s bar was packed to the rafters on Wednesday, March 31, when the cast, crew and audience of The Swimming Club celebrated a stellar opening night. Starring John Waters, Igor Sas and Tina Bursill with direction

by Kate Cherry, The Swimming Club sees six old friends reconnect on a secluded Greek Island.

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Looking for some new threads that don’t cost an arm and a leg? Well then, you won’t want to miss out on Subway DC’s ‘mother of all sales’, taking place from Wednesday, April 14, ’til Saturday, April 17. The pop up sale will take over the space at 834 Hay Street (opposite His Majesty’s Theatre), offering up discounted designs from Lover, Sass and Bide, G-Star, Chronicles Of Never, Martin Margeila, Therese Rawthsorne, See By Chloe, April 77, Karen Walker, Stolen Girlfriends Club, Marc Jacobs and loads more! _EMMA BERGMEIER

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“Igor was my sister’s best friend in high JUST THE TWO OF US Though some individuals struggle to work in a school,” shares Vella between sips of her steaming group context, many flourish when offered the hot brew.

“Kat used to wait for her mum to pick opportunity to collaborate, a fact exemplified by labels such as Viktor & Rolf, Dolce & Gabbana, her up in the library after school and I always used and Romance Was Born. Like the many design to hang out in the library,” Mihajlovic adds.

“Igor lived two doors down from the duos that have come and gone before them, the individuals behind local label Igor & Katja are an school so he’d hang out with us because he had nothing better to do,”Vella clarifies with a chuckle. unstoppable force when paired together.

Years on from their first fateful meeting Created by longtime friends Katja Vella and Igor Mihajlovic, the Igor & Katja label caters to in the Non Fiction section, Vella and Mihajlovic pretty young things who like their clothes to be now live together, and it was this move into the fun and fashion forward while oozing charisma same premises that sparked the creation of their label. from every stitch.

“We moved in with each other a couple Over coffee on a stormy Autumn afternoon, Vella and Mihajlovic share the tale of of years ago”, reveals Mihajlovic. “It was really how their friendship and label came to be. spontaneous – we just decided we wanted to do

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something together – we didn’t really think about it. We like to create things so we thought let’s create together.

“I just always thought ‘I really like Kat’s stuff but I think she just needs to do this’.We’d bounce ideas to each other and before we knew it we were collaborating.”

The latest collection from this talented Perth twosome epitomizes the label’s aesthetic, with plenty of body conscious silhouettes, hand printed fabrics and dark, brooding textiles.

Stocked exclusively at Pigeonhole in Perth, the Igor & Katja label is slowly growing, picking up momentum bit by bit; with the designers revealing plans to hopefully show at a fashion festival or two in the coming year. Keep your eyes peeled.

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There’s a wide range of hands-on and creative careers for women in building and construction - so earn while you learn in an industry with fantastic career potential and build yourself a future with no limits. Check out the huge range of occupations and training options available in WA’s biggest industry at nolimits.com.au or call 1300 727 494

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The only way to truly see where your passion may take you is by viewing it through the lens of those achieving it in the real world. Murdoch University wants to open your mind to what’s possible through a series of free career information evenings for anyone to attend.

28 April Criminology and Law

5 May Arts-Social Sciences and Humanities

28 April Psychology

5 May Media Communication and Culture

4 May Business

11 May Nursing and Peel couse information evening – Peel campus, Mandurah

4 May Chiropractic Science and Sports Science

12 May Engineering and Physical Sciences

These nights aren’t just about what you’ll learn in university, more so the exciting paths you could head down as a result of it. You have the opportunity to gain invaluable insights from industry professionals in a number of different fields:

18 May Sustainability, Environmental and Life Sciences 18 May Education

26 May Information Technology 1 June Vet and Biomedical Sciences

19 May Rockingham course information evening – Rockingham campus

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Where: 90 South Street, Murdoch WA 6150 (unless otherwise stated) Parking: Car park 3

To RSVP or for more information head to murdoch.edu.au/careerevenings.

Otherwise call 1300 MURDOCH (1300 687 3624). www.xpressmag.com.au

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CENTRAL REEL JOBS INSTITUTE OF Diploma Of TECHNOLOGY Filmmaking At SAE Stairway to the Music ‘Biz

Central Institute Of Technology Central Institute of Technology has outstanding music training whether you want to work behind the scenes, in management or in technical production.

If you have dreams of becoming a full time musician for example, the Certificate III in Music Performance is an outstanding springboard to launch your career on the stage.

Central’s music industry programs offer a unique networking and training community for young musicians, sound engineers and artist/event managers.

The training will enable you to gain extensive industry knowledge and you will also develop broad, transferable skills that apply to performance, management and sound engineering.At Central Institute of Technology you can develop your skills through use of an industry standard professional recording studio and a live performance venue with full staging, lighting and sound production.

So if music is your life, look no further than Central Institute of Technology. They have training that can take you to the biggest stage. For more information, visit www.central. wa.edu.au or call 9427 1017.

Fanatical about film? Set on working ‘on set’?

Capture a career in film by learning from the best.

SAE’s The Diploma of Filmmaking puts you ahead of the times, behind the scenes.

Hollywood or hard-hitting documentary, independent downloadable film-noir or corporate promotional DVD. Whatever your film ambition, our Diploma of Filmmaking will give you the skills required of a TV & film professional in a world of media convergence and digital dominance.

Some of the advantages of studying SAE’s The Diploma of Filmmaking include • Individual practical time Only SAE Institute gives you the individual practical time you need to grasp the everincreasing skill set required to work with and understand countless technologies and techniques used in modern film making.

• Balance of practical and theory

– You’ll benefit from a tried-and-tested combination of formal lectures, practical workshops, competency assignments, guest lectures and creative film projects.

• Cutting edge equipment and software -

because SAE are a global organisation, their students benefit from our vast equipment purchasing power, always providing our students with access to the latest digital film making equipment.

• Accelerated learning – you’ll learn fast and

graduate fast. You’ll be diploma-qualified and career-ready in less than a year.

• Recognised qualification – SAE have been

operating for more than 30 years; your diploma is government and industry recognised around the world.

• Schools around the world - with over 50

global locations (and still growing), you can tailor your studies to the country, industry and lifestyle of your choice.

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the number of apprenticeships and address the skills shortage faced by industry.

The new kitchen is the icing on the cake for the Academy which already boasts an a la carte restaurant, gourmet delicatessen, function centre and barista/bar facility which act as high pressure training environments to provide students with world-class skills.

The new kitchen will see the Institute deliver apprenticeship training in Certificate III in Food Processing (Retail Baking – Combined) from July 2010.

WEST COAST INSITUTE OF TRAINING

Mum’s New Career Is Sweet Three year old Tyler Donovan is enjoying the fruits of his mum’s labour whilst she is turning her passion into a career through a preapprenticeship in baking at West Coast Institute of Training in Joondalup.

“Two years ago, I hadn’t even considered a career in this industry and today, I can’t imagine myself doing anything else,” said 26-year old Tamara Blackmore who is one of the first students to train at the Institute’s new $2.2m skills kitchen.

“The kitchen is amazing; it’s very flash, very spacious and has a whole range of state of the art ovens, mixers and machinery. We have everything we need to try just about anything.

My son is so impressed with me every day especially when he sees the amazing cup cakes I create.”

Tamara, who currently creates cupcake towers for friend’s weddings, plans to use her new-found skills to open her own cupcake business one day.

Students aren’t the only ones who will benefit from this new facility. Built in response to growing industry demand, the Institute’s longterm goal is to use the new facility to increase

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Career Evenings At Murdoch Murdoch University’s Career Evenings, which begin on April 28 and run through to August, will give you an idea of what your future career might be like and help you explore course options to get you there. Each Career Evening includes a presentation from someone who currently works within the industry who will share their real-world experience and insights with you.

Career evenings are suitable for a wide range of people. From high school students, to mature age students considering a career change.

Parents and teachers are also welcome. Each session will run from 6pm-8pm. The sessions are free – and you’re welcome to bring along family members or friends. A combination of industry professionals, lecturers and current students will share their experiences - there may be an activity or tour related to the career, and light refreshments will be served afterwards.

Most of the Career Evenings will be held at our South Street Campus in Perth, but for full information visit www.murdoch.edu.au and click on ‘Future Students’.

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WA Large Training Provider of the Year 2009 - 2010 The best way to see your career dreams come to life is to learn from an institute at the cutting edge. Contact Central Institute of Technology today on 9427 1017 or visit central.wa.edu.au to find out about the career pathways available through our campuses situated in Perth, Leederville, East Perth, Mt Lawley, Subiaco and Nedlands. We’re future focused. Especially your future.

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Initially a term thrown around by the late night crew as an expression of well wishes, ‘Fire It Up’ has developed quickly into a global phenomenon, becoming one of the most recognisable brands in the business. GLEN CANNING caught up with Eddie Halliwell, the enigmatic driving force behind it all as he prepares to launch into his Fire It Up solo tour of Australia.

At only 22 years of age, Eddie Halliwell held residencies at two of the UK’s premier clubs, Goodgreef and Gatecrasher. The following year he won the coveted Mixmag’s DJ Of The Year title; a global tour followed, his explosive live sets earning him a cult-like following wherever he played.

With his dynamic stage presence, slick mixing skills and sheer power behind the decks, Halliwell has established himself as a true entertainer, playing everything from trance, house, electro and techno. Regardless of where he plays, the chant of ‘Eddie! Eddie!

Eddie!’ erupts long before he steps into the DJ box. Despite his growing legion of fans, in a recent chat Halliwell reveals to Salt that he is still surprised by his popularity.

“Well yeah, it certainly has [surprised me]! It’s just good, I really appreciate all the support, it’s great to have that you know and to enjoy what you do and get that kind of response from people is a great thing. It’s amazing to do what you actually enjoy!”

After playing in front of a remarkable 1.5 million people in Rio for New Year’s Eve, Halliwell toured Australia with Summadayze – barely three months later, he is returning to our shores.

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MAINROOM THURSDAY

Pasha’s Kitchen,

The Big Man cooking up Meaty Beats.

FRIDAY

GENIE-US

A WHOLE LOTTA MAN-TRA

The little genie in the cult UK TV show, The Mighty Boosh, Mike Fielding, AKA Naboo, is the dopest freelance Shaman in the known universe! Why? Well, because Fielding’s not only Naboo-tastic, he’s also a superstar DJ, who has travelled the galaxy playing the hottest parties and festivals around including Fabric, Pacha, Matter, Ministry, Bestival, V Festival and the like. He will soon be working his psychedelic voodoo in Perth when he comes to Shape on Saturday, May 29, thanks to the folks at Knowledge Music and sixthousand.com.au.

Tickets for this one went mere seconds after they went on sale a few days ago, but lucky for us all, a second show has been announced, on Sunday, May 30. To stay in the loop and get access to pre-release tickets, head to shapebar.com.au/rsvp and enter your email address, for further details and the presale codeword. Prepare for a journey through time and space, in a world where mangina sporting, Baileys’ sipping creatures run rife!

Melbourne MC Mantra’s debut album, Power Of The Spoken, has been featuring on triple j this week as Album Of The Week. Touted by peers as one of the most lyrically sharp MCs in the game, Mantra’s debut album flexes his talents, which are backed up by production from Mista Savona, M-Phazes, and Count Bounce. Mantra will soon tour nationally in support of Urthboy in his forthcoming Sneakquel Tour.

Mantra and Urthboy perform on Friday, April 23, at Mojo’s; Saturday, April 24, at The Prince Of Wales and Sunday, April 25, at the Rosemount.

Time Tunnel

brings you champion tunes from Rok Riley, Joe 19 And Guests

SATURDAY

TRANSMISSION

Perth’s essential pre club night for discerning music lovers bringing you indie, electro, rock, punk & club classics with Andrei Mazz 8pm Free Entry

Illy

ILLY-STRATE Hip hop lad Illy has lined up a spate of Australian shows through the month of April, on top of his sets at the Groovin’ The Moo festival nationally.

With a new set that will include previews from his upcoming sophomore album, Illy will be accompanied by DJ/producer M-Phazes, fresh from the release of his much heralded debut album, Good Gracious. A special edition Long Story Short Acoustic CD (prepared by DJ Joyride) will be available exclusively on the tour, featuring acoustic takes on some of the most popular songs from Long Story Short, as well as bonus track Where Is My Mind, Illy’s contribution to triple j’s Like A Version.

Get your Illy on at The Rocket Room on Friday, May 14. $12 presales or $15 on the door.

SUNDAY

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

WEDNESDAY

UNI-QUE

$10 jugs kicks off at 8.30 with DJs Travis Betts & Andy

DEFECTORS (UP-STAIRS)

FRIDAY

The Beat Suite with Micah, Sharif Galal and Guests. 9pm Free Entry

SATURDAY

Lucid Dreaming presents

a new night of house/ Deep House/ Disco/ Tech House “FORE” Featuring Rohan Smith, Kid Deep, La Gooch & Martin Clayton. It’s Free Entry and all kicks off at 9pm

SUNDAY

“Back to Mono”

Perth’s essential Free”N”Funky Sunday Sesh. Rare Groove, Ska, Rocksteady, Dub, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Afro Beat. With Dj’s Gareth Richardson, Ted Schlechte & Death Disco’s Anton Mazz. 5pm Free Entry

TYTANIUM TYAS Mike Fielding, AKA Naboo

DANCEFLOOR: DESTROY! In circumstances never before witnessed, musical masterminds The Bloody Beetroots and The Aston Shuffle have formed an unholy alliance with the mix CD Destroy, which threatens to send the good citizens of our land into total anarchy! A musical force more hazardous than anything known to man, openly divulging the most reckless side of electro with two discs of razor sharp tracks, that draw from an international network of coconspirators including Boys Noize, D.I.M. & Tai, Kid Sister, Harvard Bass, Cassian, Simian Mobile Disco, Felix Da Housecat, Metronomy, Tiga and Proxy.

The Aston Shuffle get booming and zooming at Villa on Saturday, May 20. Tickets on sale for $25 plus booking fee from Planet Video, Mills, 78s and Moshtix outlets, or online from boomtick.com.au, moshtix.com.au and inthemix.com.au. Doors open 10pm.

WEDNESDAY

Beat Route records presents

TWIST

featuring Agent 85 plus special guest DJs spinning vintage vinyl. Garage, Indi, Powerpop, Ska, Surf, Psych, Rhythm &Soul.

Free Entry.

DJ Samrai

IT’S POPPIN’ Created for clubbers with broad music tastes and an open minded attitude, Electric POP is a new and unique event to come to Perth. Electric POP sees two high profile Australian DJs from different music scenes – DJ Samrai and Chris Fraser - tour to Perth to perform alongside each other for the first time at the same venue, creating a new style musical party experience. DJ Samrai play the hottest party hip hop, pop and R & B, whilst Chris Fraser will be dishing out credible club electro and house. Head to Villa on Friday, April 23, to check out Electric POP, with two of Sydney’s finest DJs on show. Tickets $30 plus booking fee from moshtix.com.au or Moshtix outlets. Doors open 10pm.

Warp Chamber.

A psychedelic Surround sound visual theatre. Doors Open 7pm. $8 entry

Uptown Top Ranking celebrates Zimbabwe

Audio Addiction

Featuring “Think what you want” debut live gig with support from Audio Cephlon, Ylem, E.N. & Bokchoy.

Free Entry 8PM

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THE THINKING MAN’S BAND Think What You Will arose from the ashes of the band Bleed Thru (which featured band members E.N Church and Lloyd Hosier), who along with Dan Greco, create an infused style of noir techno-electro with their act. Over time they’ve moved away from the electronic music template and became more visceral with the inclusion of overdriven guitars and grungy bass lines. The band push new audio boundaries by blending dirtier analogue synthetic sounds with harder edged guitar and bass riffs.

Catch this new electronic group in action at Audio Addiction on Saturday, April 17, at the Velvet Lounge, supported by Ylem and Audio Cephlon. Doors open 8pm, free entry.

SALTLIST

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Sean Tyas returns to Australian shores for the first time since his breathtaking main stage demolition of the Trance Energy tour.

Currently ranked 46 in DJ Mag’s Top 100 (2009), Tyas has cut out his niche in the highly competitive production arena to create countless hit tracks, remixes and bootlegs. Sean brings to the dancefloor a mix of melodic harmony, driving groove and cutting edge production techniques. His sound has captured the imagination of the trance community with the highest echelons of the trance elite such as Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, and more, using Tyas in their playlists.

Get your piece of Tyas when he comes to Rise on Friday, April 30, for the Tytanium Sessions. Rise members $5 before 11pm, $10 thereafter. Non-members $10 before 11pm $20 thereafter. Door sales only from 9.30pm.

Sean Tyas

FROM A TO ZIMBABWE Join the Uptown Top Ranking crew as The Empressions host a party for the Perth Zimbabwean massive, who have given their support to Perth dancehall for over three years, in honour of Zimbabwe Independence Day. The fact that Robert Mugabe recently flew Sizzla into Zimbabwe to perform for his birthday highlights the love and passion for dancehall and reggae music that runs rampant in Africa! Uptown will feature a huge lineup of local Zimbabwean selectas on the night, including BaddaDan, Simba, Ricky Trooper and Mr T. Saturday, April 17, at Bar 138 (Barrack St, Perth).

Get down to Bar138 again the following week on Saturday, April 24, as Uptown Top Ranking goes back to its roots, with a reggae-flavoured night of oldskool dancehall, featuring selectas General Justice, Scater07 and The Empressions. Doors for both events open 8pm, and both events are free.

Earthlink Sound

FISHY DISH Monthly reggae party Fishermans Style, a favourite of the Perth community, is about to celebrate its fourth birthday! Fishermans Style has continued to burn stronger and brighter throughout its party existence, possibly due to the great contribution of Sherrif Lindo (former producer for Itchy and Scratchy) and Sean Wooten (AKA ‘Drummy’). Drummy’s Jamaica 45 collection is one of the biggest in WA and his contributions to RTRFM over the years have been huge.

Sherrif and Drummy, together, form Earthlink Sound, and will be throwing down at Fishermans fourth birthday party on Friday, May 7.

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VARIOUS DJ Kicks: The Juan MacLean VARIOUS Kitsune Maison Compilation 9: The Cotton Issue JESS HARLEN Neon Heartache VARIOUS MOS Uncovered 2 VARIOUS Anjunadeep 02: Mixed By Jaytech/James Grant RIVA STARR If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade VARIOUS Toolroom Knights: Mixed By Fedde Le Grand FUNKI PORCINI On XIU XIU Dear God, I Hate Myself M-PHAZES Good Gracious The Juan MacLean Hittin’ the town since 1985

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EDDIE HALLIWELL EXTREME FIRE DANGER Worthy

A BIRDY TOLD US DJ Hyper

HYPERACTIVE Constantly at the cutting edge of his scene, DJ Hyper has one aim – to spread the word of breakbeat and convert the househeads to a more accessible style of music. His sets are never less than perfect - blending blistering beats and ripping bass with a panache that is the envy of the dance world. Hyper’s recent output has seen him forming a kick-ass rock ‘n’ roll band under the Hyper moniker, featuring erstwhile Prodigy member Leeroy, exPitchshifter axespanker Jim Davies and PFN’s main-man Ronnie.

Hyper will be blowing the crowd’s minds at Ambar on Friday, May 7. Tickets $20 on the door or presales from boomtick.com.au.

Doors open 10pm.

Claude VonStroke’s famous dirtybird label has always been synonymous with sweaty bass-lines, quirky ideas, and bumpin’ funk.

This year is the label’s fifth anniversary, and to celebrate one of America’s quirkiest imprints, the dirtybird boys are throwing a series of massive house parties across the country. Two of the label’s biggest names, Justin Martin and Worthy, come to Perth. Martin is now in such demand that his diary is crammed with dream gigs, from Exit Festival to Panorama Bar in Berlin. His touring partner and long time initial member of the dirtybird crew, Worthy, has taken the world by storm. Taking inspiration from everything from hip hop, to breaks to techno, Worthy has consistently delivered quality tune after quality tune, while gaining praises for his slightly edgy style.

The dirtybird flies into Shape, East Perth on Saturday, May 8. Tickets on sale Thursday, April 15, for $15 from shapebar.com. au.

THINK ZINC Straight out of London’s East End, DJ Zinc’s illustrious career has seen him included in the permanent exhibition the ‘British Music Experience’, alongside the Beatles and Sex Pistols. A former drum ‘n’ bass head, DJ Zinc spent 2008 in a cocoon of creativity and emerged playing a hybrid of house sounds – deep to funky to fidget. As the main man at his own label, Bingo Beats, DJ Zinc describes his music as ‘Crack House’ – a self-described genre he believes in so much, he’s named his latest album after it. His banging single off that album is Wile Out (featuring Miss Dynamite).

Catch Zinc on Friday, May 14 at Ambar. Doors open 10pm for $25 (limited presales available from boomtick.com. au for $20).

DJ Zinc

“I’ve actually just been doing the festivals for the past three occasions I think and I’ve just been looking to do a club tour for quite a while and get back into them. I think what happened when I played in Perth last time at the Summadayze festival, the sound and everything went so yeah, I was looking to get back to do a club gig and when that happened in Perth I really pushed to organise the club tour whilst I was actually out there.”

Halliwell has ranked in the top 20 of DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJ List for the past four years - a remarkable feat, considering he is yet to produce any of his own music. But as he explains, the future is looking bright.

“With the way DJs evolve with technology, production and DJing are coming close together. You can be so creative as a DJ; you can ultimately create and produce your own stuff on stage. I can see myself getting more and more into the production side of things whilst still being able to maintain a lifestyle on the road, without being stuck in the studio, which is what you had to do a few years ago. I do actually believe the future of the DJ is becoming so creative. So much equipment is available, you’re ultimately using programs that will allow you to create your own sounds on stage. So definitely, that excites me!”

Halliwell’s 2003 compilation Next Level Bosh introduced the world to his now famous catch phrase, ‘Fire It Up’. Seven years on and it has become a hugely successful brand that continues to gain momentum. Halliwell explains the origin of the phrase. “ ‘Fire it up’ is something that just started from a phrase I used to say where I sort of describe things, like ‘going out to fire it up’.

So it was a phrase and started from that and obviously now works as a brand and the term is also a good description for you to come out and enjoy your night, so come out and ‘Fire It Up’, you know what I mean?”

No stranger to the radio waves, Halliwell held the privileged position as resident DJ for BBC’s Radio One, broadcast into millions of UK homes from 2003-2008.

Capitalising on the popularity of his Radio One show he launched his own Fire it Up Radio

Eddie Halliwell

in September 2009 which was immediately syndicated to broadcast to over 70 stations in 35 countries. Halliwell elaborates on the show’s success: “I’ve been pretty much amazed by the feedback and exposure and it’s gone around the world and the listeners have really pushed it up another level! It’s been growing right from the beginning and its been going for about six months now and week on week it’s hitting new territory, so the people that are syndicating the show are doing an amazing job. We’ve just released the podcast which goes hand in hand with Fire It Up Radio; it has the best bits of the show for the month. It’s going amazingly well!”

In an extremely competitive industry, DJs must bring something unique to the floor: it’s this originality that can ensure their longevity in the business. In addition to his high octane performances, Halliwell has embraced technology, incorporating his new live concept ED-IT which translates to Eddie DJing with Integrated Technology. He can scratch and of course, he’s been known to occasionally go crowd surfing. As Halliwell relates, it’s not always smooth sailing…

“Security try to hold me back sometimes but as long as everything’s cool and people catch you up then that’s the important thing!” Halliwell concludes with some sound advice; “I get my trainers grabbed and various stuff so when I do jump out I do like to make sure I’ve got my trainers off, you don’t want to go out without shoes!”

EDDIE HALLIWELL FRIDAY, APRIL 16 @ VILLA, HIGHGATE

45 MURRAY ST, PERTH www.xpressmag.com.au

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DJ FALCON BANGALTER, BRAXE & BYRDMAN

French house stalwart DJ Falcon – AKA Stéphane Quême – returns to Australia in April to spin some new stuff and established genre classics from Roulé label. DENIS SEMCHENKO checks in with a guy who counts Daft Punk among his best buddies.

Hi Stéphane! Are you excited about your Australian visit in April?

Yes – I’m now coming to Australia for the eighth year. Most times I come there, I stay for over a month because I love the country so much and I‘m really into surfing, so that makes it a wonderful time for me; it’s like a big vacation.

Which are your favourite tracks to play live?

That’s a really tough question. There’s a track – I’m not saying it’s my absolute favourite, but it was for so long and I still like it because it’s so simple – called Byrdman’s Revenge by Mike Delgado. It’s a simple hook, but it was a big inspiration for me because I’m into simple stuff – essential and straight-to-the-point. I don’t like Seeing as you’re a frequent visitor to the complex breaks,I just want to make you dance.

Australian shores, how would you compare the live crowds here and in Europe?

As far as your classic tracks go, how did The crowds in Australia are real party [collaborations with Daft Punk’s Thomas people. I have a lot of good memories from Bangalter] Together and So Much Love To Give playing in Australia, and there are so many DJs originate? coming there as well, but I can’t really compare Together was after my first release the crowds to the ones in Europe – because on Roulé under my own moniker. At the time, I they’re also party people! thought that two people working together could look the same – kind of conceptual, not just a disco What were your main musical inspirations look – and started writing lyrics. The track I ended before you star ted making your own up with was different to the final cut; I proposed to records?

Thomas to finish the track together, and of course, All kinds of Chicago and trance he brought in the elements that made it fantastic. sounds – I was also inspired by a label called I did a tour with him afterwards and we wrote So Discmania and Carl Cox, but mainly the Chicago Much Love To Give together. scene. From the French sounds, I was influenced by producers like Etienne De Crecy… it’s all What’s on your creative agenda these days? kind of combined.

I’m in Munich right now, working with

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He does roughly 160 gigs a year, manages five artists on his imprint, and, together with Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso, is one third of DJ Falcon The Swedish House Mafia, although my cousin [Alan Braxe] – we’re also working on a new project with Thomas Bangalter and I’m these days he hangs out where the hoping I’ll come back to Australia with a new track weather is warmer, as RZ discovers. and we’ll finish it before my trip.

Can we expect to hear [Falcon’s iconic Cassius remix from 1999] La Mouche again in Australia?

I haven’t played that track for a long time, but why not? I really enjoy playing all kinds of stuff, both classic and new.

Lastly, when do you think the next DJ Falcon record will come out?

The one I’m working on at the moment?

Hopefully before the European summer, but you never know – sometimes you need more time. It’s sounding pretty cool; I’m also working with my cousin and it’s really great – we’re having such a great time working together in the studio and we’re going to put something out next year.

DJ FALCON FRIDAY, APRIL 30 @ LIMELITE, METRO FREO

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DJ SET (AGAINST THE GRAIN – UK)

SATURDAY 1 MAY VILLA NIGHTCLUB

187 Stirling Street. 10pm til late. Tickets $33+bf.

Available from Planet Video, Mills, 78 Records, Moshtix Outlets (1300 GET TIX), Online from the Boomtick SHOP, Moshtix.com.au and inthemix.com.au Limited VIP tickets available from the Boomtick SHOP - $38!

More info: www.myspace.com/freestylersmusic, www.freestylersmusic.co.uk www.myspace.com/skoolofthought, www.againstthegrainrecords.com

Stoop Fresh Steve Patrik Josefsson Fragogiannis goes by the name of Steve Angello. I’m not sure if a publicist suggested his real name might be a little too wide for a flyer – but I’d bet success wouldn’t have eluded him either way.

For Steve Angello is part of the Swedish House Mafia, owner of Size Records and one of the most successful DJs, producers and remixers on the planet. Whilst he originally hails from Sweden, these days he spends the majority of his time at his new home in Hollywood, California, and it’s from here that Angello chatted with us.

“I’ve been really busy in recent times,” starts Angello. “I’ve been touring to America, Canada, South America – I’ve been on this side of the world and trying to stay out of the European winter!” Which is understandable given owners of convertibles in Los Angeles are known to use their canopies perhaps once yearly – once the smog has cleared, it is almost always sunny – and likewise it almost never rains.

Yet while the move has taken a bit of his time, he is still adamant about completing a full artist album. “I’ve wanted to finish the album for the whole of last year,” says Angello, “I came to LA six months ago and I’ve been working on that. Right now, I have about 40-50 tracks that I’ve done and I want to narrow them down. I’m doing 160 gigs a year and I have five artists signed to the label so to say I’m busy is a bit of an understatement – but I’m getting there!”

Angello continues: “The Swedish House Mafia is also doing really well. We did the Ibiza summer shows and have plenty more lined up. It is what it always was - it’s three friends getting together and having a blast. So things for us are looking good and it’s rolling along nicely.

“As for releases, we’ve had a lot of them on the label this year and last year. I released plenty of stuff from Afrojack, Christian Smith and that sort of thing. That has been my focus for the last six months and I’m really enjoying dance music right now – more than I ever have I think!”

“I am also getting really motivated about running the label because it’s going really well. And then to have five tracks a week coming out that are just sounding amazing is great. The doors are really opening up and I remember when I was 12 years old – I didn’t earn a buck for eight years.

“I’ve worked hard to accomplish what I have and now I want to sign new producers and DJs and things. There is so much talent out there and I wish I could sign all of it!”

Finally, the Swedish (now American) don is heading back to our shores for a sway of festival dates around the country.

“I think Australia is one of those places I look forward to playing the most. The crowds there are fantastic. I love the country and I always wish I could stay there longer. But I’ll spend some time in the studio for a couple of weeks before I travel with bootlegs, edits and new tracks.

“Maybe something like 30 per cent of what I play might be brand new. I’ve been working towards that for the last couple of weeks and will bring Australia the best I can when I get out there again!”

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M-PHAZES Good Gracious [Obese Records]

Despite working an increasing number of major overseas artists, beatmaker M-Phazes keeps his debut Good Gracious a strictly Australian affair – which is just fine, considering he assembled most of the nation’s best rappers to rhyme over his productions.

Each MC tries to steal the show with exciting results. Dialectrix rhymes in an incredible double time flow on The Facilitator, Pegz vividly recalls teenage love over booming horns on Blind Man, and Drapht adds a moment of levity with current triple j favourite Where’s Elvis. Bliss N Eso, Delta, Mantra and Solo also shine.

Some tracks don’t quite hit the mark - NFA, 13th Son and Illy turn in average performances, while 360 & Pez’s The Club Song (a tale of a night of obnoxious, drunken nightclub behaviour) veers too close to outright parody of their hit Festival Song to be enjoyable in its own right – but Phaze’s production is always impeccable. He even manages not to be upstaged by his collaborators, dabbling in everything from live music (Muph and Plutonic’s Goodbye Gravity) to electro (Phrase’s Music Box). Good Gracious indeed.

JOSHUA HAYES 4/5

KASPER BJORKE Standing On Top Of Utopia [Hfn Music/Stomp]

Following their Harbour Boat Trips mix by Trentemøller, Hfn Music’s first artist release is from established Copenhagen talent, Kasper Bjørke. Utopia comes two years after his solo debut, In Gumbo, was released on NYC based Plant Music.

The title of the album is epic in its proposition and Bjørke creates an extravagant, richly musical world, full of lush, Nordic electro sounds. Featuring a range of musicians from around the world, there’s also a resounding organic vibe, but with a distinct modern electronic edge. Midtempo house beats drunkenly stumble alongside burbling old analog synths. The warm, melancholic soundscapes are reminiscent of acts like Air, Röyksopp and Goldfrapp.

Ten tracks span a broad range of sounds, from dark and exotic ambient - Great Kills, Animals and Heaven (a fantastically obscure and inspired Rolling Stones cover featuring the honeyed vocals of Louise Foo), while the more upbeat Efficient Machine features Tomas Höffding of WhoMadeWho. Danish singer Jacob Bellen’s sullen, soaring voice on italo-disco flavoured single Young Again comes across a bit like Ian Curtis crossed with Brian Ferry. While tracks like Melmac, the deep, throbbing, tech-house of Fido and Friendly Ghost, and the menacing finale of Fasano, explore Bjørke’s more dark and clubby side.

An ambitious sonic exploration, the album’s a meticulously crafted musical package, through to the colourful utopian artwork by Swiss graphic artist Florence Tetiér.

ALFRED GORMAN 4/5

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JAYTECH/JAMES GRANT Anjunadeep:02 [Anjunadeep/Onelove]

Trance trio Above & Beyond have changed the face of trance over the past decade with their winning Anjunabeats label, but lately attention has been turning to its house-based offshoot Anjunadeep - which has been responsible for some of the most sublime dance music you’re likely to hear, anywhere at all.

Deep, progressive grooves laced with gorgeous trancey melodies are the order of the day, and for those already acquainted with the label’s output, the idea of a new double-disc compilation of mostly fresh material is almost too good to be true.

Above & Beyond took the reigns themseleves on last year’s debut compilation, but this time they’ve handed them over to A&R head James Grant along with Canberra wonderboy Jaytech, who’s been catapulted to a new level of worldwide popularity through his association with the label. While the original basically tied together the label’s existing back catalogue in a package that was wanting for flow, the sequel lives up to the stunning standard of the label itself.

There’s an outstanding collection of tunes across the two discs; it’s brimming over with warmth, melody and sophisticiation.

Anjunadeep:02 is about as close to electronic perfection as you can get.

ANGUS PATERSON 4.5/5 STARS

L.A.O.S./Shock One & Phetsta Shape, East Perth Friday, April 9, 2010 With Inhibit Productions taking over where The Cube left off, Friday night drum ‘n’ bass is safe at Shape - as a special treat Inhibit saw fit to bring over rising stars of drum ‘n’ bass, L.A.O.S. Hailing from Finland (with a name that is an acronym for ‘Large Amounts Of Soul’), the trio has seen many releases on some of the more soulful drum ‘n’ bass labels such as Hospital and Defunked. It was with anticipation of quality, soulful music that punters filled shape early in order to catch the masters at work.

Relatively unknown locals, Xander and Double-1-Seven warmed up early, each putting in solid sets. Danny Byrd’s Sweet Harmony brought people flocking to the dance floor in Double-1-Seven’s set, a clear sign of what punters had come to see.

Of the trio known as L.A.O.S. only one member, D-Bex, made it to Australian shores.

Starting solidly with some more jungle driven beats, the set moved fairly quickly to crowd and dance floor pleasing tunes. Sub Focus’ Follow the Light was blended very nicely into Netsky’s already classic Memory Lane. From here on, the set lost momentum, as D-Bex seemed to struggle with the fairly fundamental art of beat matching. The tune selection turned to standard dance floor music of the past year such as Empire of the Sun’s We Are the People (Sub Focus Remix), Logistics Transporter and Camo & Krooked’s Mindset. Later in the set, the tune selection reached back even further with Danny Byrd’s Gold Rush and Culture Shock’s Rework.

Unfortunately, the crowd had been expecting to hear L.A.O.S. music at a L.A.O.S. show and

ShockOne and Phetsta (Pic: Chris Rich) after one and a half hours, D-Bex had failed to play almost anything produced by the trio. This, added to his sub-standard mixing, left a bad taste in the mouth of many punters.

Luckily Shock One and Phetsta took the reins next. With the success of their many recent releases and their relentless attitude to DJing, the duo furiously unleashed wave after wave of mayhem onto the dance floor. Opening with a cheeky mash-up of their successful singles, the opening tracks brought every jaded punter back to the floor and by the time Cyclones hit, Shape was heaving again. What followed next was systematic destruction. Shock One grinned to himself as he dropped his remix of Netsky’s I Refuse to roars of appreciation from the crowd. The difference in calibre of mixing was made obvious at this point; just an hour earlier this tune had been met with disinterest from the crowd during D-Bex’s set. The tempo dropped at this point but intensity didn’t waver as the duo switched to grimy house to showcase another side of their production talents. The set was relentless to the end and locals J Felix and L Wood were left with the task of closing the night.

Whether due to a general lack of ability or a state of pure inebriation, D-Bex from L.A.O.S. failed to deliver in the eyes of many at Shape on Friday. Shock One & Phetsta certainly made up for this, saving the night for Inhibit.

Special mentions have to be made of MC’s Bear and X-Sessiv, the untalented drunken masters fighting during Shock One & Phetsta’s set and the bride and groom who thought Shape would be a better place to spend their wedding night than the jacuzzi of a five star hotel.

TILMAN ROBINSON

KANYE WEST VH1 Storytellers

[VH1 Storytellers/Roc-A Fella Records/Viacom] ‘My greatest pain in life is that I will never see me perform’. Welcome to Kanye West’s world, where he is the main attraction, always. On it’s 68th episode, VHI Storytellers gave Mr. West the opportunity to shed some light on his sordid image after a much publicised brush with Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

Instead of graciously gliding through his impressive catalogue of thoughtful hits, Mr West took it as a chance to confirm his God-like persona, without much concern for the backlash he could encourage. His praise of Chris Brown and O.J. Simpson, two notorious abusers, was hugely off putting.

Opening with See You In My Nightmares set the tone. His arrangement of Flashing Lights and Good Life easily brought goose pimples to the surface, all enhanced by the simple light show which can be seen on the accompanying DVD. The heavy drums and mood building intros were inspiring, but the dribble drab ‘storytelling’, continued to be dull and ruined the ending of tight performances. The continued stream of his unconscious seemed mismatched to his perfectionist musician persona he often confirms.

Without doubt Kanye West is a musical genius and one of the most innovative and flexible artists of a generation. His courage to switch up the rap world is appreciated and his creativity and passion is unparalleled. On the flip side, he’s a conceded prick who has no level of self awareness.

Would we take Kanye without his flamboyant comments and unconditional love of himself? Maybe. Would Stronger sound as sweet without his cheeky comments? Probably not. Storytellers confirms his arrogance, but what would you prefer, quality hip hop or a role model?

Either way, he ‘ain’t changing for nobody’.

YASMIN SHERIFF 3/5

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▶ THURSDAY 15/04 GREY DOOR SHAZAM Modular DJ Shazam drops his beats and remixes tonight at this brand new Claremont venue. Frequently causing punters to lose it like a set of keys, Shazam dips into DJ mode, not afraid to melt down the crowd with remarkable poise and impeccable selection. Doors open from 8pm. Free entry.

Villa - Talib Kweli/ Jean Grae Woodvale Tavern – DJ Melvin

▶ FRIDAY 16/04 BAR REPUBLIC THE FINAL ISOLATION After some truly mind-blowing parties, indie goth dance night Isolation is leaving their warm home in Shafto Lane in search of new and exciting nightlife! Join Isolation for one final dance - expect a pretty serious set from DJs Koe and Travis Doom. $5 from 11pm ‘til late.

all over the world. $15 on the door, with $10 pizza and pints downstairs at the bar. Support from Qbik, Mc Seeka and Alic Manwell. Doors open 10pm.

METRO FREO GRANT SMILLIE is one of Australia’s most in demand DJs. Host of Australia’s biggest dance radio show, Overdrive, on the national Nova radio network, he has also scooped two ARIA Awards with his dance outfit TV VILLA TALIB KWELI/JEAN GRAE Rock, and is co-owner of Neon Straight out of Brooklyn, New Records. Don’t miss your chance York – Talib Kweli is the flameto see Smillie in action, when he bearer for real hip-hop. As one hits Limelite tonight. $15 or get half of Black Star (along with Mos AMBAR GENERAL MIDI As on a guest list for cheaper entry.

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AMPLIFIER TRANSIENTS/BRASH Support from Simon Barwood, Wrekt Vs Pope Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ & SASSY The Arts Management Rousa, Jeer and Steven Tranzor.

Student Organisation (AMSO) Rise members $5 before 11pm; Wrighteous kids at WAAPA are at it again - $10 thereafter. Non-members Club Bayview – DJ Ryan staging the brightest and best $10 before 11pm; $20 thereafter.

Club Marakesh – DJ Simon evenings in fundraising for their Doors open 9.30pm.

Eve –DJ Tony Allen Flying Scotsman (Main Room) - third year secondments. Support the next crop of arts managers Amplifier – Transients/Brash & Pasha’s Kitchen – The Big Man in a stellar evening of the best Sassy/DJ Shannon Fox/ DJ Jamie Foundry - DJ Ricky Geisha - Back To Basic - kind: an auditory smorgasbord Ambar – General Midi/ Dead Electrolyte DJ’s/ Dzimm/ DJ of indie, rock, new wave and Easy/ Micah/ Mono Lisa electronic stylings, featuring My Bar Open (Downstairs) – Fazni/ DJ Richard/ DJ Kono Mad Flow, Place Of Indigo, Brash Control - Scott D Liquid Nightclub – DJ Buda Llama Bar – Run Rabbit Run - & Sassy, The Transients and Death Bar Republic – Isolation – Travis Disco. Entry is $15. Doors open Doom/Koe Petrosex/ Pilsnerd/ Perthquake Mustang – DJ James MacArthur 8pm.

Basement On Broadway – Friday Therapy – DJ Urban Tiger Niche - Johnni P/ Rob Blandford SHAPE DJ SS One of the UK’s Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Onyx - Avicii finest DJ/producers and one Alexander Paddy Hannans - Crazy Craig Players Bar – Neon Lights - DJ of the founders of Formation Capitol – Capitol Fridays Retro Records, DJ SS (AKA Leroy Small) Mash – Lady Penelope Samuel Spencer is an original breakbeat pioneer Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Swinging Pig – DJ Simon who has made an immense Boogie The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen – DJ Flex/ DJ Nano/ DJ contribution to today’s drum ‘n‘ Como Hotel – DJ Gazz bass sound. Leroy is on his way Devilles Pad – Mondo Inferno Serge/ DJ Don Migi to Perth, thanks to Knowledge Dick Jocks The East End - DJ Midfield The Queens – Weekend Warm-up Music, to give us all a taste of Double Lucky –Pioneers Of Perth what he’s been delivering for the – Adam Kelly/ Jehan/ Mark/ Josh The Whistling Kite - DJ Gareth last 20 years to excited crowds East End Bar - King Tito’s Dirty The Shed – DJ Andyy

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Disco – Canyons/ DJ Charlie Bucket/ Chad Big Ear/ Azwon/ Fkn Midas/ Buda/ Cooker/ Frankie Button Eve – Suga N Spice – Dannyboi/ Don Migi/ Skooby Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – Time Tunnel - DJ Rok Riley/ Joe 19 Flying Scotsman (Defectors) - The Beat Suite – Micah/ Sharif Galal Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) - Warp Chamber Geisha Bar – Scossa Match 2 - Mandy Power/ Adam Kelly/ Mario Tavelli High Wycombe – Fill In Da Gap Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Llama Bar - DJ Morris/DJ Reuben Library – DJ AZT/ DJ Fiveo Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Lakers Tavern – Fresh Fridays - DJ Dooey Manor – Mass Appeal – Charlie Bucket/ Nathan J/ Junior Metro City - Allied Health - DJ’s Jus Haus/ Raji D/ DJ Cornflake/ DJ Reggie Metropolis Fremantle – Limelite - Grant Smillie/ Zelmir/ Mind Electric Merrina Tavern – DJ Terry Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee Mustang- James MacArthur/ DJ Swing Norma Jeans – DJ Phil Onyx Bar – Slick/ Adroc Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paddy Hannans - Crazy Craig Paramount – DJ Morgan / Jordan Principal Micro Brewery – DJ Simon Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Rise – Ben Keen/ Simon Barwood/ Rousa/ Jeer/ Steven Tranzor Rocket Room – DJ Baldwolf/ MC Tomas Ford Rubix – Gene Bourne/ Kenny L Sail & Anchor - DJ Anaru Shape - DJ SS/ Qbik/ Mc Seeka/ Alic Manwell Sapphire Bar – SuperFly South St Ale House – DJ Jay Stamford Arms - DJ Janic The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen – DJ Birdie/ DJ Nano/ DJ Serge The Eastern – DJ Midfield The Manor – Norman Jay The Queens – DJ Rueben The Republic – Pin Up! Francesco Pilling/ Cluedo Pierres/ Amnesia/ Muv & Larry

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▶ SATURDAY 17/04 SHAPE DISCOTEK - ALL STAR ATTACK After blowin’ the roof off the last allstar party, the Habitat crew are back for another battle royale. A team of 15 DJs will be tearing it up on eight CDJs, four mixers, four turntables and a stack of EFX and samplers over two different levels – think of it like a massive jam session! There are no simple set times – all DJs on stage all night, doin it ‘All-Star’ style. Featuring the creme de la creme of Perth DJ talent - Terry Waites, Cam Duff, Suric, Richard Lee, Nathan Francis, Aarin F, Flex, Darren J, El Dario, Dave Jackson, Nina Van Dyke, Brett Valentine, James A, Neil Viney and Ben Jam. Free entry downstairs, $10 upstairs.

RISE ROUSA Perth’s Best Hardcore DJ for five years running, Rousa, steps out of his resident role at Rise to play a special feature set, alongside fellow Revolution resident DJs Greg Packer (nine times PDMA Best Drum ‘n’ Bass DJ) and Simon Barwood (three times PDMA Best Trance DJ), with DJ Daze on the decks and MC Xsessiv hyping the crowd on the mic. Rise members free before 11pm, $5 thereafter.

Non-members $5 before 11pm, $10 before 12am, $15 thereafter.

Doors open 9.30pm.

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▶ SUNDAY 18/04 Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Clink – DJ Tony Allen Club Bayview – DJ Pete Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve – Industry - Birdie/ MC Jex Flying Scotsman (Upstairs) – Back To Mono –Anton Maz/ DJ Gareth Richardson/ Ted Schlechte Flying Scotsman (downstairs) - Nathan J/ Chris Wright/ The Nisbit ME Bank Staduim - Supafest – Akon/ Kelly Rowland/ Pitbull/ Sean Paul/ Jay Sean/ Eve Metro City - Heaven & Hell Theme Party

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▶ MONDAY 19/040 Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris The Deen – DJ Birdie The Paddo - DJ John Paul The Shed – DJ Andyy

▶ TUESDAY 20/04 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 DPad Victoria Park Hotel - DJ Melvin

▶ WEDNESDAY 21/04 Basement On Broadway – Damien John/Angry Buda/ Maxwell/Headayke Captain Stirling – DJ Ricky Connections - DJ’s Joby / JJ / Rueben Dusk – Blackbelt/ Aswon Eurobar – Wild Wednesdays - DJ iPod/Ben Pettit Eve – Déjà Vu – TLC Tribute Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – Uni-Que – DJ Travis Betts/ Andy Flying Scotsman (Defector) – Twist - Agent 85 Gold – Slick/ Adroc Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Manhattans – Massiv Trav Mustang – DJ James MacArthur Newport Hotel – DJ Tony Allen Niche - DJ Frankie Button Paddo - Ben Merito Paddy Hannans – DJ Craig Rosemount – DJ Shannon Fox The Clink – Spin FX The Deen- DJ Zelimer / DJ Viper & DJ Benny T– Zone 1 The Eastern – DJ Jinx The Queens – Wriggle on

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Shazam Thursday, April 15 @ Grey Door Talib Kewli/ Jean Grae Thursday, April 15 @ Villa Eddie Halliwell Friday, April 16 @ Villa

Brooklyn Bounce Friday, April 23 @ Rise

Freestylers/ Skool Of Thought Saturday, May 1 @ Villa

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Creamfields feat. Steve Angello/ MSTRKRFT/Lifelike/Riva Starr/ Ferry Corsten/LMFAO/ Dave Urthboy/ Mantra Clarke/Marco V/Dirty South/Kid Friday, April 23 @ Mojos; Saturday, Sister/Oh Snap! + more April 24 @ Prince Of Wales, Bunbury; Sunday, May 2 @ Claremont Sunday, April 25 @ The Rosemount Showgrounds NEW

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Groovin’ The Moo feat. Empire Of The Sun, Miami Horror, Bag Raiders, The Slew, Muph & Plutonic, Funkoars, Illy, Ajax, Yacht Club DJs, Killaqueenz, Space Invadas + more Saturday, May 15 @ Hay Park, Bunbury James Zabiela Thursday, May 20 @ Villa

General Midi Friday, April 16 @ Ambar

Challenger Ready Saturday, April 24 @ Ambar

Julio Voltio Havana Brown Thursday, May 6 @ Fly By Night Club Friday, May 21 @ Metro City

Grant Smillie Friday, April 16 @ Metros Freo

Spektre Saturday, April 24 @ Shape

Dam Funk Friday, May 7 @ The Manor

Pioneer DJ Block Party Saturday, April 24 @ Kosmic Sound, Osborne Park

tyDi/ Ashley Wallbridge Friday, May 7 @ Rise

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▶ UPCOMING Redshape Friday, April 23 @ Geisha Helena/ Snob Scrilla Friday, April 23 @ Metro Freo

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Stafford Brothers Friday, May 7 @ Metro Freo

Barretso/ Defeat Saturday, April 24 @ Gilkinsons DJ Kayper Saturday, April 24 @ Onyx Kryptic Minds Sunday, April 25 @ Bar Open Hernan Cattaneo Sunday, April 25 @ Ambar Liberate – Matt Hardwick/ Solarstone/ Signum/ Steve Strangis Sunday, April 25 @ Rise

Sampology Friday, May 28 @ The Manor NEW

Naboo (Mighty Boosh) Saturday, May 29 (Sold Out); Sunday, May 30 @ Shape

Bass Kleph Saturday, May 8 @ Villa

Aston Shuffle Saturday, May 29 @ Villa

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DJ Zinc Friday, May 15 @ Ambar

London Elektricity/MC AD Friday, June 4 @ Metro City

Illy/BBS Friday, May 14 @ Rocket Room

We Love Sounds – Underworld/ Crookers/ Steve Aoki/ Tiga/ Felix Da Housecat/ Laidback Luke/ Joachim Garraud/ Proxy/ Zombie Nation/ Felix Cartel/ Thomas Von + more Sunday, June 6 @ Supreme Court Gardens

Tom EQ Friday, April 30 @ Ambar

Miami Horror Friday, May 14 @ East End Bar

Sean Tyas Friday, April 30 @ Rise

The Slew (Kid Koala) Friday, May 14 @ Rosemount Hotel

Maelstrom Friday, April 23 @ Ambar

DJ Falcon Friday, April 30 @ Metropolis Fremantle

Ajax/ Bag Raiders/ Killaqueenz Friday, May 14 @ Villa

Phace Friday, April 30 @ Shape

Oxia Friday, May 28 @ Geisha

Justin Martin /Worthy Saturday, May 8 @ Shape

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Heavyweight Soundz – Bad Company/ Moving Fusion/ Uman Friday, April 23 @ Metro City

Russ Dewbury Friday, April 23 @ Leederville Hotel; Sunday, April 25 @ Devilles

Direct Influence Friday, May 21 @ Settlers Tavern; Saturday, May 22 @ Indi Bar; Sunday, May 23 @ Fly By Night

Kutz Saturday, May 15 @ Shape

Godskitchen - Markus Schulz/ Gareth Emery/ Roger Shah Friday, June 11 @ Metro City Operator Please Friday, June 18 @ Astor Theatre

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This Friday, April 16, don’t miss Blackened, the Australian Metallica show featuring members from Allegiance. Then on Saturday, April 17, Project Mayhem, Aaagh Bats!, and Chainsaw Hookers get together to support the WA Roller Derby. On Sunday, April 18, witness Perth’s belly dance superstars along with live Arabic musicians at The Harissa Club.

RAILWAY HOTEL

Sunshine Coast dub, reggae, roots and festival favourites Oka hit the Railway this Sunday, April 18, for a show not to be missed. Doors open 6pm and entry is $12. See www.myspace.com/okamusic for more info.

ROSEMOUNT HOTEL.

Fresh from supporting hometown heroes Gyroscope, The Reserves launch their sophomore EP Fuses To Flames on Saturday, April 17 at the Rosemount, with support from Arts Martial, Trigger Jackets and Japanese Tongue Sisters. Doors open 8pm and entry is $12.

MONDAYS

FRIDAYS

Kids entertainment by Cater 4 Kids - Face Painting, Games, Nintendo DS. From 5:30pm. Bookings essential.

3:00-7:00PM. Book for 10 or more people and the first round is on us, and a complimentary platter of bar snacks.

MUMS EAT FOR FREE*

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SAINT SUNDOWNERS

SHOW US YOUR MUSSELS

Thursday, April 15, will go off with The Love Junkies, SonpSilo Circus, Mercy Mercy and the Success of Satan plus Hunting Huxley. Entry is $6 from 8pm.

J.B. O’REILLY’S

Summer may be finally leaving us and what better way to introduce the cool season than with a bowl of curry and a pint for only $15. Come down to J.B.’s this Thursday and enjoy the beautiful sounds of Rhys Wood and Nigel Healy as they play a wide range of music sure to be a treat.

Apart from premium local line-ups, Rocket Room provides a Perth base for national acts too. Future tours up soon include Sydney’s indie pop punks The Shake Up, Brisbane’s high energy rock n’ rollers Numbers Radio and hardcore heroes Mouthguard plus Melbourne hip hopper Illy.

$15 LUNCHES

1 kilo of mussels for $15. Your choice of Chilli, Thai Green or White Wine and Cream.

Or “No Mussels” Grazier’s rump steak, chips and gravy for $15.

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TUESDAYS

The Love Junkies (photo: Corey Marriott)

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Wednesdays features the return of one of WA’s favourite rascal sons Kenny Bartley with special guests Red Delicious, Ruby Boots and Friends of Brian next Wednesday, April 12, which is sure to be a great night. Entry is Free and the show starts at 8pm.

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Lucid Dreaming presents a new night of house/ deep house/ disco/ tech House called FORE featuring Rohan Smith, Kid Deep, La Gooch & Martin Clayton. Free entry from 9pm.

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O n Fr i d ay, A p r i l 1 6 , WA A PA’s A r t s Management Student Organisation are holding a fundraiser, featuring talented locals The Transients, Brash & Sassy, Place Of Indigo, My Mad Flow and the world-famous Death Disco DJs. On Saturday, April 17, the best of Perth’s hard rock acts combine forces CIVIC for the Homegrown Heroes Showcase, The Decline CD Launch happening with Into The Sea, Arturo Chaos, Here this Saturday, April 17, will be a punk We Ghost and Statues taking the stage. rocking affair not to be missed. Includes East Coast guests Chris Duke and The CAPITOL Royals along with local support from C a p i t o l F r i d a y s R e t r o M a s h w i l l The Proletariate, Faim Project and From welcome Oats Supply back to the Deep Within. Doors 7.30pm. Entry $10 stage this Friday, April 16. Perth’s very own k ings of ever ything glam will THE DEN be playing all you favourite hits. Our This Friday, April 16, The Ghost Hotel resident DJs will be working the decks will be playing their first headline all night to keep you dancing, playing show since their sold-out CD launch in everything from MJ to Gaga! Free entry September with special guests 6s & 7s, before 11.

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MUSTANG SALLY The Mustang Friday, April 9, 2010 Kudos to Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys who celebrated their fifth anniversary with one hell of a gig at The Mustang Bar last Friday. A huge crowd filled the bar all night, including the band’s devoted legion of local dance schools plus all those ‘swing’ inclined.

The audience was serenaded by Adam’s dulcet tones and thrilled with high voltage dance numbers. This nostalgic night featured spectacular dance displays with special guests Melody, Janette Whittle, Trevor Jalla and members of The Darling Buds of May. Catch Adam & The Velvet Playboys every Friday night from 7pm at The Mustang Bar.

Dancing up a storm at the Mustang Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys

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A FOUNDRY FEAST The Foundry Thursday, April 8, 2010 Not only does the Foundry have some of the best bands and DJs in Perth playing from Wednesday to Saturday night, they also offer some of the best pub food food in town.

The Foundry serves up all your favourite pub meals from 11am ’til late seven days a week, making it the perfect place to satisfy your appetite while watching some great entertainment.

All day Monday you can get a Chicken Parmy with salad and chips for just $16 and Wednesday offers a 250gm rump steak with salad and chips for just $16.

To find out more about the Foundry, head online to foundrypub.com.au.

Hearty pub grub at The Foundry

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THE OLD FOLK FAIRBRIDGE FESTIVAL

Fairbridge Village Friday, April 9 – Sunday, April 11, 2010 If you are a fan of a fiddle – and we strictly mean the musical variety – there is more than a chance you were one of the 12,000 people who passed through the gates of Fairbridge last weekend for the 18th annual Fairbridge Festival.

Western Australia’s most understated major music event, the Fairbridge Festival was a celebration of music in the truest sense. For three days some of the most talented - and largely unknown – exponents of indigenous musics from across the globe descended on beautiful Fairbridge Village, an hour’s drive south of Perth, joined by a small army of Australia’s leading folk artists – in the broad sense of the genre. Indeed, Fairbridge’s days as a purist folk festival are well and truly done as the festival warmly embraces the many subcultures within the ever widening genre, from percussion to dance, roots, bluegrass, indie, world, jazz and beyond.

And the crowd, too, represented this diversity, from families rolling in from Perth in their shiny four wheel drives to Kombi vans arriving in convoy from the hippie belt of the south west. And it was at Fairbridge where these worlds collided in a truly memorable weekend of song and cultural exploration.

More than 80 individual acts were programmed over the weekend at various locations around the historic village, none more anticipated than Scottish songstress Eddi Reader. One-time member of ’80s pop group Fairground Attraction, Reader has since crafted a long and fruitful solo career, topping the charts back home in the UK, receiving an MBE and taking out three Brit Awards in the process. But all reverence beyond the musical were pushed aside as people crammed into the historic – but rather tiny – Fairbridge Chapel for the first of Reader’s two performances (she would later headline the evening on the main Mandja Marquee).

Apologising in advance for any unbecoming language not suited to the pious setting, Reader delivered a moving set that traversed songs about one night stands in New York to musical interpretations of the poetry of

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Hittin’ the town since 1985

Scotland’s first man of letters, Robert Burns.

Outside the Chapel the festival was in full swing as Freo’s favourite adoptee Lucky Oceans and his band The Darling Ranges whipped up a bluegrass frenzy, bringing us the sounds of yesteryear’s America. And while fiddles, banjos and mandolins were the flavour of many stages, Perth’s own Tetrafide took the crowd on a percussive tour of the globe. Meanwhile, Simon Kelly and his band increased the volume a few notches over on the Youthopia Stage and Canada’s Genticorum won over hundreds of news fans (eventually selling out of CDs) with their intoxicating folk melodies all the way from Quebec.

Speaking with X-Press, the festival’s Artistic Director Steve Barnes said: “I’ve never seen such an inspired set of performances from our artists. Arte Kanela Flamenco were the standout, getting multiple standing ovations for their breathtaking final show.

Beppe Gambetta, Eddi Reader, Chipolatas and Genticorum also played to roaring houses and the main marquee was packed down to the last note played. The only problem now is how we could possibly top this for next year.”

While there were countless opportunities to explore the sounds of the globe, the Fairbridge Festival was as much about the festive atmosphere away from the main stages. Many small producers were on hand to sell their wares, from organic food through to homemade musical instruments – you were even invited to build your own harp.

And the buskers were out in force: except most of the buskers happened to be young children brandishing any instrument they could muster.

Ukuleles, violins, didgeridoos, flutes, guitars, handclaps… you name it, the kids were working them for a buck. It seems the next generation of enterprising hippies is well and truly safe and en route to Freo!

Over the course of its history the Fairbridge Festival has evolved into the perfect contradiction: passionately embraced by people who feel the festival is their little secret, yet welcoming many thousands of devotees each year. And, with the organisers having invested much in improving on-ground logistics, WA’s best guarded secret has truly become one of the state’s greatest – and most pleasant – events. _JULIAN TOMPKIN

NAME: Matt (vocals/bass) from The Reserves HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SOUND? It s really hard to pigeonhole our sound as a whole. That can sometimes be a bad thing and also a good thing! I guess you could put us in the rock category, just to narrow it down. The Reserves are all about big sounding, melodic tracks with strong hooks and heartfelt vocals.

WHO ARE THE MEMBERS IN THE BAND AND WHAT DO THEY PLAY? We ve got Yuro on the pig skins up the back, Benny to my right with the six string, Shaun on the other side with another six string thing and myself doing the vocals and bass to level it all off.

Shaun s new to The Reserves, he s a young little shredder who has really bought a good dynamic to the band. - as well as getting our average age down.

TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CD YOU RE LAUNCHING? Fuses To Flames is The Reserves second EP, we released our first way back in 2006…

We take our time but I really think the get it right before we record approach can be heard on Fuses To Flames. We spent plenty of time demo-ing and then producing the tracks before even thinking www.xpressmag.com.au

FUN, FUN, FUN! Boys, Boys, Boys! / Simone And Girlfunkle / Brash And Sassy / Sabre Tooth Tigers The Rosemount Friday, April 9, 2010 The cliché is that ‘girls just wanna have fun’, but this was proven true at Boys, Boys, Boys!’ ladydominated Ticky-Ticky Boom film clip launch last Friday night. Perhaps this scribe’s been numbed by the swag of broody, bloke-y, guitar slinging, indie rock bands that dominate the local music scene, but not since Peter Combe’s famed ‘comeback’ shows, have I seen this much sheer joy on the faces of people both on stage and in the audience.

Simone And Girlfunkle kicked things off with their delicate, harmony laden acoustic schtick. Joined on the night by a drummer and clarinet player, the girls play breezy, dreamy pop tunes with the kind of melodies that drill themselves into your head and set up camp for weeks. I’m still singing Chilli Cold in the shower and I don’t even know the words. ‘Cold cold chilli, cold cold chilli chilli’ – everybody now.

Sure they can veer on cutesy, and the songs may be simple at times, but the quality of Bridget Turner (who also plays in Boys, Boys, Boys!) and Gabrielle Lammer’s voices lift what they do above schmaltz or novelty. Lammers’ husky, Blasko-ey timbre brought a drama to a couple of the more theatrical tracks that was particularly enjoyable.

From cute, to downright steamy and sultry, Brash And Sashy, Perth’s premier purveyors of Italo-disco added some spicier chilli to the evenings pop ragù with their hilariously melodramatic disco and synth anthems.

The band dotted their set with poetic odes to various ‘boys’, with a particular literary highlight being Men In Leather. Given the

Boys, Boys, Boys! (photo: David Craddock)

quality of the verses penned, surely a volume of Brash And Sassy sonnets awaits.

My knowledge of the Brash And Sassy oeuvre (as they so sexily described it with a rolling ‘r’) isn’t great but a track which may, or may not, have been called Soul Metronome particularly appealed to the dancing shoes. It evoked heady high-school roller-parties at the Bunbury Skateway in 1991, which I can assure, is a very good thing.

No Milk For You was delivered with all of the drama of the track’s hilarious film clip.

‘Why buy a cow, when you can have the milk for free?’ – one of life’s enduring questions - was mulled over perfectly in Brash And Sassy’s windswept, glamorous and straight-faced style.

Given that they now have two more genuinely talented musicians in their ranks, Brash And Sassy’s fuzzy line between satire and seriousness is further blurred. Singers Ava Loverock and Gennaia Febbraio have incredible pop voices, and behind the tonguein-cheek ‘80s glam, they write ridiculously good pop songs.

Slightly out of place on the girldominated pop line-up, Sabre Tooth Tigers added a gloriously sloppy dose of rock ‘n’ roll to the evening. Loose, rambunctious and funny in all the right ways, the band thumped and grinded through songs like Music Is My Occupation and Rock ‘N’ Roll Music Is Forever.

Many uninitiated members of the crowd looked shell shocked, an atmosphere further added to when drummer and vocalist Chris Cobilis cheekily suggested the band hadn’t

played for a while because it was much easier to play Guitar Hero – ‘you don’t have to cart around all this gear’, he laughed.

Boys, Boys, Boys! finally took to the stage after unveiling the clip that everyone had come to see. The clip involves the band invading a portly man’s lounge room, and lifting his spirits with some flash-dance inspired shenanigans. Like the band’s live show, it’s fun, colourful and encourages you to tap along. A slick and professional looking product, it will hopefully get the band some national exposure.

Looking like a gang of sequin-clad pop superheroes, Boys, Boys, Boys! played a typically fun-packed set, with all the usual hand-claps synchronised dance moves and ‘hey!’s. A song devoted to their manager was a nice touch, as was inviting a orange-clad prawn onstage for a dance during their final song The Prawn.

Spando Budgie is the kind of song a band like this can get away to. An ode to lycra cycle wear, the band and audience danced along in ferenetic fashion. Where Have All The Good Boys Gone? was another catchy, perfectly choreographed, set highlight.

They may be twee and and slightly cartoon character-ish, but in a town known for its indie output, Boys, Boys, Boys! and their pals bring a much needed injection of fun, playfulness and pop theatricality to the Perth scene. Hey! _ DAVID CRADDOCK

about when and where we were going to record it. When we felt ready to get it all down we ended up joining forces with Laurie McCallum from Sumo Sound and rented out a huge house in Margaret River for two weeks…. I think the relaxed environment coupled with us being away from home and our heads 100 per cent focused on the task was a huge factor in Fuses To Flames being the best Reserves release so far.

WHAT HAVE BEEN YOUR BIGGEST INFLUENCES ALONG THE WAY? I grew up around everything - my dads got a massive record collection so as a kid I d be woken up on a Sunday morning to the sounds of anyone from Cat Stevens to The Beatles to Led Zeppelin (and even me ol mate Johnny Farnham!). I think those earlier influences really stick. I m a sucker for a rock song with a killer hook!

WHERE TO NEXT? We re looking to record our debut album later in the year, and a couple of the guys are heading to the US later this year also, so it s just plugging away promoting the new EP here in WA. Hopefully at some stage we can head East with it all and start to build more of a national profile.

All going well, look out for The Reserves debut album early next year!

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MUSIC FEEDBACK CONCERT Singing The Blues The Music Feedback Concert,an all-ages event that aims to raise awareness of youth mental health issues through music, will take place in the Northbridge Piazza on Friday, April 16, from 3pm ‘til 8pm. DAVID CRADDOCK spoke to Pui San Whittaker from the Mental Health Commission about the event.

Now in its second year, the Music Feedback Program aims to reach out to 12-25 year olds through music, and encourage them to discuss mental health issues, stressing the idea that “music talks about mental health. So can you”.

As part of the program a CD and DVD documentary is distributed amongst high school and university students. This year’s documentary features interviews with Mumford And Sons, Bluejuice, The Novocaines, Dan Sultan, Boys Boys Boys!, Voltaire Twins and many more nationally recognised and local acts.

“Having people with a high profile that young people respect talking about mental health really breaks down the stigma,” Pui San Whittaker, one of the initiators of Music Feedback, explains of the event which is also supported by WAM, Youthbeyondblue and the Office For Youth.

As well as the CD/DVD package, a large concert will be held on Friday, April 16, in the new Northbridge piazza featuring performances

by Melbourne indie band British India, and local acts Felicity Groom And The Black Black Smoke, Moana Dreaming, The Novocaines, and Black Board Minds. “[Music] is a great medium in that it is a medium where people are expressing their feelings - they’re taking about things that are difficult,” Whittaker says of why the Mental Health Commission chose music to reach out to young people. “They use music to relax, or to go into a different zone or to release frustration. Whatever mood you’re in there’s a song that you can relate to or that can potentially lift your mood.”

Whittaker says that artists who have appeared on this year’s DVD, and many who are appearing at this year’s concert, have been incredibly open about sharing their experiences of how music has affected their lives or those around them.

“Definitely the ones that are involved

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in the campaign have been really open about either their personal experiences of depression, or their family member’s,” she says. “If they haven’t had that direct experience they have had fans that have said that their music has helped them get through a tough time.

“The Novocaines also talk about how they organised all ages gigs up in Northam – to be less isolated. A lot of the musicians talk about music as a way of building community. You might be struggling with your mental health but you can be in an environment where you’re with people that are connecting through music, through something positive.”

THE DEN OPENS ITS DOORS

The Den may already have been warmed up with a few pre-opening gigs, but this weekend this exciting new original band room at The Civic will officially open its doors to the WA gig-going public with two big shows.

On Friday, April 16, The Ghost Hotel, 6s & 7s, Split Seconds, and The Belle Ends make up a filler-free line-up with touches of alt-country, classic garage rock and folk throughout. Any four of these acts could easily be headlining so take your pick.

The Ghost Hotel, are currently working on songs to follow up their debut EP which was released in September last year. Frontman Aaron Gibson says it’s important for bands to have an intimate and inviting room to try out their new material, especially given the demise of the Hydey. “If we want the scene to stay strong then we need the diversity of venues,” he says. “That allows for musical diversity in the scene and gives newer bands somewhere to hone what they are doing. Hopefully punters will make an effort to get along to The Den and spend a few bucks, it’s similar in size to the Hydey front and I think we are really missing that kind of room in Perth now.”

On Saturday, April 17, The Bullet Holes headline a quality indie bill with Lacey, Art In Algebra and Helix To The Sun also playing. “We pride ourselves on having an explosive live show,” Bullet Holes drummer Brad Stevens says.

“The bottom line is you can expect an incredible energy, a diverse and catchy set of songs, passion, sweat and a room filled with people having fun.”

Both shows $10. Entry 8pm.

CATS AND DOGS

On what can only be described as a ridiculously busy weekend of local music mayhem, Mongrel Country, The Bible Bashers, The Fags and Cat Black make up a grime-y, hard rocking, line-up at The Rocket Room on Friday, April 16. Show runs from 8-12pm, $12 entry.

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Black Board Minds

Pop punksters Hostile Little Face join the local release launch-a-thon this weekend when they debut their new EP Blueprint at The Rocket Room on Saturday, April 17. Inspired by alt rock bands like Jimmy Eat World their music blends big rock melodies with the energy of punk. Support comes from I Said The Sparrow, My So Called Life, Tracksuit, Trav & Jay. Bands from 8pm, $10.

The Painkillers

PAINKILLERS CURE THE PNEUMONIA

The Painkillers have finished mixing their next release which was produced by Laurie Sinagra.

The as yet untitled disc is to be unveiled in June, but fans can catch them supporting Abbe May And The Rockin’ Pneumonia on Thursday, April 15. Up ‘n’ comers GOMBO are also playing on the night. Doors 8pm, tickets $10.

SPEAK TO THE MANAGER

As of this term, Central Institute Of Technology’s Music Business Diploma have started a new unit in artist management unit, which means there are some exciting new opportunities for emerging and unmanaged local bands to get some valuable guidance.

Bands interested in being ‘management guinea pigs’ for 12 weeks are encouraged to email course co-ordinator Scott Adam on scott.adam@central.wa.edu.au or call 9202 4816 before 5pm Monday, April 19. Adam says acts applying should be studio ready, as a one day recording session is being offered, as well as the potential opportunity for some graphic design. Selected artists will meet with student managers to discuss touring, recording and performing plans.

HOLIDAY FOR FIT FOR KINGS

Folk pop youngsters King George play their last gig for a few months on Saturday, April 17, at the X-Wray Café in Fremantle, as drummer Scarlett is heading to the USA. Support from Wolves At The Door, and one half of local band Valiant (in acoustic mode). Tickets $10, from 8pm.

SPUD DELUXE

The mighty Potato Stars launch their new EP Xaysana at the Swan Lounge on Saturday, April 17. They’ll be supported by KT Rumble, Ozmonaut and Desertship. MC on the night is the always rockin’ Johnny Rock. Entry $10.

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Edited by David Craddock Email your news and pics by 12 noon, Monday to: localmusic@xpressmag.com.au

ROBOTOPS

Hertless Robot celebrates two years of spruiking Perth artists with a more experimental bent with a show at The Charles on Friday, April 16. Injured Ninja, French Rockets, smRts, Wind Waker, Craig McElhenny, Steve Matkov and Quick all play at this genre busting event. Tickets $12 or $15 with a free Sampler CD (stocks limited).

W.A MADE BENEDICT MOLETA Minaret Benedict Moleta will launch his fifth album Timesheet on Saturday, April 24, at Mojo’s.

But like a kid on Christmas Eve, we couldn’t wait ‘til then, so we thought we’d rip off the wrapping, and give you a little taste of first single Minaret. The picture perfect vignettes of outer suburbia, that have arguably been Moleta’s trademark, are all over this track. There’s talk of guttering, cycle paths, and Moreton Bay figs trees – all seemingly insignificant details that Moleta is able to give a beautiful poeticism. A rousing backing of chime-y guitar and organ give this a beautiful melancholic pop atmosphere which reminded me of a polished, sweeter, less grubby La’s.

Wonderfully sincere and refreshingly pose-less. _DAVID CRADDOCK

The Decline

THE DECLINE HAVE A BLAST

Local punk band The Decline are set to launch their debut album I’m Not Gonna Lie To You at the Prince Of Wales in Bunbury on Friday, April 16; The Civic on Saturday, April 17; and at YMCA HQ (all ages) on Sunday, April 18.

The album was recorded, rather impressively, at the world renowned punk studio The Blasting Room in Ft. Collins, Colorado.“Some of our favourite bands have recorded there,” bass player and vocalist Dan Cribb says. “The Blasting Room did the last NOFX, No Use For a Name, A Wilhelm Scream and Propagandhi albums. We’re influenced by these bands and both lyrically and musically and we’re also big fans of All and the Descendents. We wanted to give this album everything we could and The Blasting Room looked like it would be amazing place to record. We lived at the studio for 23 days (two days off ) and recorded for about 10 hours a day.”

Travis Caudle

NEED A CAUDLE?

After a whirlwind tour of North America which included a stint at the famed South By Southwest showcase in Austin, Texas, local songwriter Travis Caudle is heading down south. Caudle will play at the Duckstein Brewery in Margaret River on Sunday, April 18, from 2pm. He also plays the Colonial Brewery on Saturday, April 17, from 1pm. Those further south can catch Caudle at the Denmark Tavern, on ANZAC day afternoon, and the White Star Hotel in Albany on the night.

Sugar Army

ARMY ON THE MARCH

Triple j favourites Sugar Army have announced a final WA tour before they bunker down to start working on the follow up to their 2009 debut The Parallels Amongst Ourselves. The In Control tour will stop into The Prince Of Wales in Bunbury on Friday, July 2, as well as Perth dates at The Indi Bar on Thursday, July 1; Amplifier on Saturday, July 3; and Mojo’s on Sunday, July 4.

X-PRESSIONS OF INTEREST With the Wami Festival’s Kiss My Camera photography competition on again, we asked two of our favourite photographers who have been their favourite wa bands to shoot?

TONI WILKINSON: Sometimes it’s just not just Mike Wylie about the band, it’s the crowd… It’s always about that rare combination of beauty and danger that works visually. Allegiance, Outstation, The Libertines (Perth and first incarnation), The Three Orange Whips, The Tigers, Abbe May, Kim Salmon and The Surrealists and of course The Flairz because the bass player is so gorgeous!

MIKE WYLIE: Jed Whitey. Because they played for the camera, and they played rock and roll like it’s meant to be played.

Kiss My Camera submissions close Wednesday, April 21. See wam.asn.au for more details.

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Jarrah Thompson The Words

PRIME CUTS

Groovin’ The Moo and triple j have announced Bunbury rockers The Words, as the winners of the Unearthed competition to play at this exciting new major regional festival. Set to take place in Bunbury on Saturday, May 15, Perth bands Harlequin League, The Scotch Of St James and Voltaire Twins have also been added to a stellar line-up which features Empire Of The Sun, Vampire Weekend and Silverchair amongst others.

WILDWOOD

Acclaimed young experimental guitar virtuoso Jarrah Thompson will be showcasing material from his upcoming album at Settlers Tavern, Margaret River, on Friday, April 23. The Melbourne based musician will also be playing at the Nannup Hotel on Saturday, April 24, as well as Redcliffe on The Murray in Pinjarra on the same day. Thompson brings his blues, rock and Latin fusion to WA for a string of dates between April 23 and May 2 so check out myspace.com/ jarrahthompson for more details.

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10CC The Things We Do For Life 10CC dominated radio in the late ’70s with songs that are staples to this day. Ahead of their show at the Perth Concert Hall this Sunday, April 18, BOB GORDON speaks with singer/songwriter, Graham Gouldman.

Back in the mid-to-late ‘70s 10CC were everywhere.

They were an agreeable wallpaper of the times, with singles such as I’m Not In Love, Arts For Art’s Sake, The Things We Do For Love and Dreadlock Holiday really capturing moments in time of that easier, more carefree era. Despite founding members Kevin Godley and Lol Creme leaving in 1976 (to form Godley & Crème, as well as become pioneers in music video produc tion) songwriter Graham Gouldman and vocalist Eric Stewart went on to even greater success. The band visited Australia twice during this heady time, which the amiable Gouldman recalls (sort of ) fondly.

“The second tour blurs into memory a bit – it was either late ‘70s or early ’80s – but the first one in ’77 I remember; it’s emblazoned on my mind,” he laughs. “I recall we did Countdown with Molly Meldrum. The whole tour was fantastic.”

When Stewart was seriously injured in a 1979 car crash, things for 10CC slowed down. He and Gouldman have reteamed on various occasions in the time since, but Gouldman has for the most part forged on with his own career and tours with his own band under the 10CC moniker.

Their heydays are long ago but G o u l d m a n , i n t o u r i n g t h i s m u s i c, h a s witnessed first-hand how good songs – and he would know, he also wrote The Yardbirds’ For Your Love and Herman’s Hermits’ No Milk Today – transcend the passing of time.

“I agree with you,” he says. “I mean, that’s really what it’s about and what you have to show for it, the songs and do they stand the test of time? We’re lucky because of that. Tat’s while we’re still playing and touring, because people want to hear them.

“As a songwriter, all you can do is write what feels good and right for you and wait for that lovely period of time when what you do is what people like and they go and buy it. It’s almost like you go in and out of

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the public taste, but of course tastes change as well. It’s about capturing that zeitgeist.

“So I still write a lot with various writing par tners, and you just do what you do and hope for the best. I’m not one of those writers who’ll research what ’s happening. I mean, I hear what’s happening around me and on the radio, but not to the point where I’m compelled to write that kind of song for this kind of album, because that’s what works at the moment.”

Gouldman says he often hears the ‘10CC factor ’ in arrangements and song production to this day – they definitely were an influential band in that respect. He’s not sure, however, if we’ll see the original line-up on stage again.

“I don’t know how Eric feels,” he posits. “You can take that whichever way you want. Lol… I haven’t seen him for about a year. Kevin is the only one that I really see regularly.

“I don’t think it will happen. There are certain factions that would like it to happen but there’re certain factions that will not let it. But above all we have the songs and that’s why I go out and play them.”

Are there certain songs that always bring it all back or take you away in the moment as you perform them?

“I suppose I’m Not In Love always does that,” Gouldman says. “There’s a special sort of magic to that song, probably more than any other.”

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FRIDAY 16.04 AMPLIFIER The Transients Brash & Sassy Place Of Indigo My Mad Flow BALMORAL James Wilson BALLY’S Free Radicals BELMONT TAVERN Double Trouble BLACK BETTY’S Smokin Section BRASS MONKEY Glen Davies BROKEN HILL HOTEL Ben Witt BREAKERS BAR (Geraldton) Bar Code BURSWOOD CASINO Peace, Love & All That Stuff CAPTIOL Lady Penelope CAPTAIN STIRLING Howie Morgan CARLISE HOTEL Toy Box CIVIC HOTEL (The Den) The Ghost Hotel 6s & 7s Split Seconds The Belle Ends DEVILLES PAD Cal Peck & The Tramps DUSK Redstar ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Timeout ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jamie Oehlers’ Blowfish Allira Wilson Detour FENIANS The Clan FITZGERALD’S (Bunbury) Play Things FLY BY NIGHT Blackened FORRESTFIELD TAVERN BigBoss Axeman FOUNDRY Crave Karin Page GLOUCESTER PARK Midnight Rambler GREENWOOD HOTEL Riddum Shak IMPACT BAR Skinny Lane INDI BAR Vdelli INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY Shawne + Luc JB O’REILLYS The Healy’s KALAMUNDA TAVERN Ryan Carbray KWINANA HOTEL Sidewinder LEFT BANK Mocha Trio Bumpy Johnson LITTLE CREATURES LOFT A French Butler Called Smith

Red Delicious, Wednesday at The Paddo MANHATTANS Stratosfunk MARGARET RIVER HOTEL GT & The Falcons MERRIWA TAVERN Grovetime MOJO’S Los Nudos Moogy MOON & SIXPENCE Motherfunk MOONDYNE JOES Dave Gillam Trio MOUNT HENRY TAVERN Full Circle MUSTANG Cheeky Monkeys Melody & The Quintones NEWPORT Felix NORFOLK BASEMENT Louis & The Honky Tonk launch The Old Croak The Shallows & The Whisperwolves OLD BAILEY TAVERN Flavor PADDO Gun Shy Romeos PADDY HANNAN’S Blue Gene PADDY MAGUIRES 43 Cambridge PARAMOUNT Flyte PLAYERS BAR (Mandurah) The Damien Cripps Band PRINCIPAL MIRCO BREWERY Acoustic Inc RAILWAY HOTEL Atolah Ol’ Bouginvillea Ozmonaut RAVENSWOOD HOTEL Dave Crosby ROCKET ROOM Kill Devil Hills Mongrel Country Bible Bashers Cat Black Handstands For Ants The Witness ROSEMOUNT Will Stoker & The Embers CD Launch Emperors The Brow Horn Orchestra The Sabre-tooth Tigers ROSIE O’GRADYS (Fremantle) Hi-NRG SAIL & ANCHOR Parker Avenue SETTLERS TAVERN (Margaret River) Oka SEVENTH AVE BAR 11:11 SOUTH BEACH HOTEL Open Mic With Jasmin SOUTH ST ALEHOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SWAN BASEMENT Wendy Rule David McCann SWAN LOUNGE Aarons Crusade Sophie Jane Tristram Brendan Gaspari

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Gina Williams, Sunday at Ellington Jazz Club ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Fremantle) Flavor ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Blue Gene SAIL & ANCHOR Switchback SETTLERS TAVERN (Margaret River) Gerard Maunick SUBIACO HOTEL Off The Record SWAN LOUNGE Xaysana CD Launch Potato Stars Ozmonaut Desertship KT Rumble SWINGING PIG Zenburger THE BOAT Cherry Acoustic THE DEEN Booty Juice THE EASTERN MIDLAND Ivan Ribic THE GATE Retrofit THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Huge THE WANNEROO Tod Woodward Christian Thompson UNIVERSAL Soul Corporation WHALE & ALE J Babies WHITFORDS TAVERN Jimmy James WOODVALE TAVERN Renegade X-WRAY CAFÉ Valiant Wolves At The Door King George

SUNDAY 18.04 BALMORAL Cranky BALLYS BAR Steve Hepple BELMONT HOTEL Damien Cripps BOTANICA One Island East BROKEN HILL Shawne & Luc CLANCY’S (Freo) Zydecats CHARLES HOTEL The Velvet Boudoir COMO HOTEL Nat Ripepi COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Tourist ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Prita & The Perfect Strangers CD Launch Rose Parker Gina Williams FLY BY NIGHT The Harissa Club GOSNELLS HOTEL Stella Donnelly HIGH ROAD HOTEL James Wilson HILTON PARK BOWLING CLUB Jane Germain & The Yahoos INDI BAR A French Butler Called Smith INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY Retrofit

Matt Cal, Sunday at JB O’Reilly’s, Tuesday at Mojo’s

Bring It Back J.B. O’REILLY’S Marie & Dave Matt Cal Kenny Barltley KALAMUNDA HOTEL Ben Pettit LAKERS TAVERN Benjamin Glynn MANHATTANS Jack Doepel Quartet MERRIWA TAVERN Free Radicals MOJO’S Davey Craddock CD Launch Justin Walshe Felicity Groom Sam Carmody MOSMANS RESAURANT Nebula MOON & SIXPENCE Cherry Acoustic MUSTANG Peter Busher & The Lone Rangers Cheeky Monkeys NEWPORT Martyr Days The Hectics Aniva PADDO Gang Of Three PADDY HANNANS Flyte PRINCIPAL MICRO BREWERY Courtney Murphy PUBLICAN BAR Open Mic RAILWAY HOTEL Oka RAVENSWOOD HOTEL Gee Whiz ROSEMOUNT Mountain Goats Schvendes SAIL & ANCHOR The Recliners SETTLERS TAVERN (Margaret River) Gerard Maunick SEVENTH AVE BAR Good Karma SOUTH ST ALEHOUSE Blackhart + Strangelove SOVEREIGN ARMS Acoustic Inc STAMFORD ARMS Bill Chidgzey SUBIACO STREET ENTERTAINMENT The Ball Point Penguins Jason Ayres Rod Coxell SWAN BASEMENT Thirty3 Victims Blunt Force Trauma Gombo Bend The Sky SWAN LOUNGE The P-Whack Express SMITL Donna Iverson Fishpants Burn The Evidence SWAN YACHT CLUB Dom Zurzolo SWINGING PIG 2 Tenors Glen Daives THE BOAT Clayton Bolger THE COURT Lady Penelope THE EASTERN MIDLAND Vdelli

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THE GATE The Other Guys THE SAINT Howie Morgan THE SHED The Healys Renegade THE WANNEROO Chris Gibbs UNIVERSAL Retrofit VICTORIA PARK HOTEL Kevin Conway WOODVALE TAVERN Reckless Kelly X-WRAY CAFE Christopher Walkman YMCA HQ The Decline CD Launch Chris Duke & The Royals Vanity We Can Breathe In Space

CHARLES HOTEL Eugene Hideaway Bridges ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB The Jamie Oehlers Quartet FENIANS James Wilson IMPACT BAR Open Mic Night LLAMA BAR Karin Page MOJO’S Sexy Band Craig McElhiney Seams PERTH BLUES CLUB Eugene Hideaway Bridges Rick Steele & Friends Diamond Dave & The Doo Daddies MUSTANG Danza Loca Salsa X-WRAY CAFÉ Stu Orchard

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BAR ORIENT James Wilson CHARLES HOTEL Dylan Hooper Quartet ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Song Lounge IMPACT BAR Groove Karaoke MOJO’S Open Mic MUSTANG Marco & The Rhythm Kings THE DEEN Plastic Max And The Token Gesture

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AMPLIFIER Die! Die! Die! Harlequin League Young Revelry BALLYS BAR Courtney Murphy BAR 120 Felix BLACK BETTY’S SideFX BENNY’S Howie Morgan COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Kirsty Keogh’s Open Mic ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jono McNeil EURO BAR Ben Pettit FENIANS Cranky FOUNDRY Vdelli

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