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In the lead up to Australia Day in 2010, musical troubadour Tim Rogers will hit the road for the Luxury Of Hysteria tour, hitting cities and towns across Australia. Fans of the West Aussie born Rogers can catch him on Thursday, January 21, at the Eastern Midland Hotel; on Friday, January 22, at Clancy’s Fish Pub in Fremantle;on Saturday,January 23, at the Dunsborough Tavern; and on Sunday, January 24, at the Oxford Hotel in Leederville.

Tickets are on sale now from the venues.

Playing a truly unique blend of New Orleans grooves, barrelhouse blues, Harlem stride and modern stylings;Bugsley Buzzard’s voice and piano playing have earned him a reputation for making truly tantalising music. The former Perth lad will be bringing his show on the road, returning to WA for a string of shows that look like this: Friday, January 8, at De Villes; Saturday, January 9, at Ellington Jazz Club; Sunday, January 10, at Fremantle Arts Centre; Tuesday, January 12, at Perth Blues Club (Charles Hotel); Thursday, January 14, Settlers Tavern, Margaret River; Friday, January 15, at The Jazz Lounge, Bourbon Bar, Albany; Saturday, January 16, at Southern End Restaurant, Denmark.

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After releasing her debut album, Walking Home A Different Way, in 2008, Tracy Redhead will return to Perth in January to share old and new material, plus musical offerings from her other projects The Chapel Of Ease and The Green Mist.

Fans of the fiery Redhead can catch her playing on Saturday, January 2, at the Colonial Brewery in Margaret River; on Sunday, January 3, at Mash Brewery in the Swan Valley; on Friday, January 8, at Movies By Burswood; on Saturday, January 9, at the Bush Shack in Yallingup and Mash Brewery in Bunbury; and last but not least, Redhead will play on Sunday, January 10, at the Swan Lounge for a belated album launch.

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The much loved Lotterywest Festival Films season is back for 2009/2010,with a huge range of wonderful flicks on offer at the Somerville Auditorium and at the Joondalup Pines. Instead of losing yourself in front of the idiot box in a post Christmas haze this year, head out into the cool night air to see Bride Flight at Somerville, or Seraphine at Joondalup Pines from Monday, January 4, ’til Sunday, January 10. The following week, catch Peaceful Times at Somerville and Bride Flight at Joondalup Pines.

For more info on screenings, head to perthfestival. com.au.

Want to step back in time to the 1980s? Then you won’t want to miss Hitwave 80s – a New Year’s Eve spectacular at the Swan Basement in North Fremantle, celebrating shoulder pads, fluoro and Duran Duran. Taking place on Thursday, December 31, from 8pm ’til late, the party will be a footloose affair, with music from ’80s icons Bon Jovi, Spandau Ballet, Madonna and Wham. Those planning to head along to this ’80s extravaganza should wear their dancing shoes as a dancing competition will be held, and a prize will be awarded for the best dressed. Tickets are $30 on the door (if available), with pre-sale tickets $20 from Tandy 0437 397 447.

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The Little Creatures Loft has transformed into a 1940s-style lounge for its New Year’s Eve party. Thursday, December 31, The Loft will host a ravishingly retro evening, featuring performances from some of WA’s most swinging acts. Catch Earl Cole performing Sinatra classics, original compositions from The Darling Buds Of May, and sets from DJs Paul Malone and Moogy.

Doors open at 6pm with limited tickets available on the door. If you don’t want to miss out on the party, secure your early bird ticket for $35 (plus booking fee) from Heatseeker.

Little Creatures is located at 44 Mews Road, Fremantle.

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As chandeliers glisten in the sunlight and the Swan River laps on the shore line, Sebastian Ingrosso and Dirty South will take to the stage to perform for the music hungry crowd, ensuring a New Year’s Day to remember. Also on the bill are Zelimir, Mel B vs Maxwell, Darren Briais, Jus Haus, Rob Sharp, Tank Top, Mind Electric, Moe Steez And Master Dash, Cool Hand Luke and plenty more.

To celebrate the New Year in style, be sure to nab your ticket to Club Paradiso from Moshtix or InTheMix.com.au.

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2009 has seen a hell of a lot of ups and downs for everyone and X-Press Magazine would like to thank all our friends, clients and readers for riding it alongside us. We wish you all the best for a brilliant 2010 and remember to be careful out there while you’re having a good ole time.

Happy New Year!

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Want to wiggle your way down to funky town this New Year’s Eve? Then the only place to count in 2010 is Salt On The Beach, which is where the Funk Club will host their Coastal Countdown To New Year’s Eve. Funk fans can catch soul sister Marva Whitney and her band The Transatlantics (see Page 13 for interview), with support from DJs Dexter, Gentlemen Of Leisure, Nickodemus, plus sets from The Funk Club House Band, Odette Mercy And Her Soul Atomics, and Bongo Loco. Doors open at 6pm and close at 2am.

General admission tickets are $80 (plus booking fee), with VIP tickets available for $125. Tickets are available from Funkclub.com.au, Heatseeker, Planet and Salt On The Beach.

As we featured last week, Amplifier’s 10th Birthday is being celebrated with a huge New Year’s Eve celebration with exclusive WA appearances from Gyroscope and The Mess Hall, plus the Death Disco DJs, The Novocaines, Harlequin League, The Devil Rides Out, Young Revelry, Wolves, DJ Francesco, Eddie Electric and DJ Ryan. Given that we come out on Thursday, December 31, you should probably head there right now. Presale tickets are $45 (plus booking fee) through Moshtix, with limited door sales from 8pm if available.

In our Amplifier 10th Birthday feature last week we credited some live shots to another photographer when they were actually taken by Callan Gibson. Apologies and thanks.

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X-Press Cover: Moby plays at Southbound on Saturday, January 9 at Sir Stuart Bovell Park, Busselton. Tickets available through www.moshtix.com.au Salt Cover: Eddie Halliwell plays at Summadayze on Sunday, January 3 at The Supreme Court Gardens and The Esplanade. Tickets through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com.au or 136 100), www.inthemix.com.au,78 Records,The DJ Factory,Live clothing outlets,Mills Records, Planet Video and Rockeby Records.

If you’re getting all southern this New Year break then think about heading to the beautiful, historic lawns of the Old Broadwater Farm for the sweetest garden party you could imagine. It’s a goer on Saturday, January 2, from 4pm-10pm, with Queensland’s Tijuana Cartel, DJ Charlie Bucket, MC NFA, DJ Manchild, Paul Malone and Mellifluous.

Tickets are $30 (plus booking fee) presale from www.heatseeker.com.au, Blue 62 Busso, Beach Life Margs and the Prince of Wales in Bunbury, or $40 on the door.

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Dear X-Press, It’s so sad that at this time of year, year in, year out, so many people die on Australian roads. It seems that no matter how much money the government throws at the problem, irresponsible individuals continue to drink and drive, or speed, endangering their own lives and lives of others.

I can only imagine how heart-breaking and life-shattering it would be to lose friends or family members at this time of year in particular, and you think that notion would be enough to entice drivers to slow down and be safe, but alas, there are always a few who pay no attention.

To all of those planning to drive somewhere for New Year’s festivities, please stick to the speed limit and choose a designated driver – we’d all be better off for it. Also to those travelling down to Southbound next weekend – please drive responsibly! I want to get down to Busselton in one piece, and I’m sure all the other ticket-holders and performers agree!

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pop up to help fill in the gaps. So, venues and publicans, now is the time to get on board and help make our city more culturally rich, so that Dear X-Press, its artists and punters don’t have to move to So it seems that the Hyde Park Hotel is about to bigger cities. The more they leave, the worse shut its doors for renovations. After the owners everything gets. of the pub’s initial attempts to stop hosting live original music were put down by a massive wave Sad Panda of protest, it seems that nothing was going to Via email stop the inevitable.

Nobody seems sure what’s going to happen to the Hydey when it reopens, or even what kind of bar it is going to reopen as, and while there’s still hope that live original music will continue at the venue it seems completely unlikely that the venue will continue as the hub of counter-culture and underground music.

Given that most of our venues in town are fairly large, it’s going to be very tricky for new bands to cut their teeth on stage the way they used to. This is going to have a huge impact on the local scene, as more and more local lineups will become the same handful of established bands, or interstate / international touring acts that snare dates before local bands can book them.

It sucks that the Hydey is disappearing, but it will suck even more if new venues don’t

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It’s 1969 and the McCrae sisters – four gorgeous singers from country New South Wales – embark on a dream to become as famous as their Motown idols. When the sisters are spotted by a talent scout, they think their quest for fame, fortune and glamorous international careers may soon be a reality. Instead, these Koori divas find themselves in the war zone of Vietnam, entertaining the troops. The Sapphires is showing at the Playhouse Theatre from S a t u rd ay, J a n u a r y 2 3 , ’t i l We d n e s d ay, February 10. We have five double passes to the preview on Saturday, January 23, at 7.30pm up for grabs.

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Summadayze 2010 offers yet another unique 12-hour dance music celebration attracting an even bigger international line up of DJ’s. With a stellar line up in Perth including Carl Cox, 2 Many DJ’s, Danny Tenaglia, The Presets and Roger Sanchez, this is one festival you do not wanna miss. We have 1 major prize pack with a double VIP pass which gets you VIP entry, access to the double story VIP marquee offering you prime viewing, as well as complimentary drinks and catering at the VIP bar. We also have 2 double general admission passes to two lucky runnerups! To enter, simply send your name, address and phone number to events@ mellenevents.com for your chance to win by 5pm Thursday December 30!

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SUMMADAYZE Every ’Dayze Feels Like Sunday The giant, sunshiney, rollerskatin’ jam that is Summadayze undulates over Supreme Court Gardens & The Esplanade this Sunday, January 3.

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MOBY There Are No Stupid Questions

Moby returns to WA for a Saturday, January 9, Southbound performance at Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton. Head to www. sunsetevents.com.au for full festival details.

It’s been a while between drinks for Moby and Australia, but such is his impact on popular music that he returns as a co-headliner for various festivals around the country including our own Southbound next weekend.

In 1999, concerned that his music was unheard and that his album, Play, wasn’t going to sell, Moby began licensing his songs to a variety of products. It’s nothing so unusual now, but he really did break down that wall where an artist can embrace commerciality yet retain integrity. In the early-to-mid ’90s it was considered impossible and was certainly not the done thing.

Moby, however, did it and then watched as the quietly achieving Play suddenly hit the stratosphere in any case. Musically, he became the everywhere man.

As the noughties have progressed, Moby hasn’t quite musically wallpapered our times as much as he once did, but he has released a multitude of albums, collaborated either live or in the studio with the likes of David Bowie, Bono, Michael Stipe, Public Enemy and Noisia. His imprint on popular culture is quite enormous and he’s still taking giant steps.

Oops, I didn’t mean to dog you with it…

Oh no, I hear about it all the time.

It did seem unusual, Q are usually a little more focused on the music, but they went for the pants on that one…

Well that’s the nature, the Brits invented tabloid journalism. And I read Q magazine every month and I like it, but unfortunately the tabloid ethos has kind of infected every echelon of British journalism.

So even if you’re doing an interview with like, a really staid, conservative newspaper or magazine, they still might ask you how much money you have and who you’ve slept with.

So how much money do you… actually no, we’re not like that in street press.

Luckily the rest of the world hasn’t been infected. Like parts of the United States have, but the rest of the world doesn’t have that same, voracious appetite for celebrity gossip and salacious material that the UK has.

By BOB GORDON You’ve returned to a live band format since your last Australian tour. What can people expect from the show; is it a different structure to the last time you did a band tour here?

Well there’s about eight of us onstage. So there’s a string section and two singers, a drummer, a keyboardist and then me playing guitar and keyboards and vocals and percussion.

The show itself I’d say is about 30 per cent songs from the new record and 70 per cent a sort of an older greatest hits show. It changes from night to night but in general that tends to be the way it is. It’s a really eclectic show, that’s the best description of it. At times it’s like a rave; at times it’s very quiet; at times it’s almost like a soul revue; it veers into punk rock territory a little bit. So it’s really diverse, a very eclectic show.

When you go out with a band I guess you have a vision and structure in mind for there to be that kind of diversity in the show, but is there a point where it shifts from the theory you’ve applied and the momentum of playing shows builds its own energy and a newer structure?

Yeah, well luckily I’m not a control freak.

And so, from the moment we start rehearsing for a tour I’m kind of open to whatever happens. The people I tour with are all really good at what they do and I’m perfectly happy to sort of let the songs develop however they want to develop. If I try to control things too much it doesn’t necessarily make the show any better and it just makes everybody aggravated.

So this may sound like a kind of vague cliché, but when we tour I just kind of let everybody do what they’re good at and if they want to improvise, they’re allowed to improvise; and if people want to change songs however they feel fit, as long as it works, then I’m happy with it.

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You mentioned that you play about 30 per cent of the new album on tour at the moment.

What’s it been like bringing it to the stage given what you had in mind for it initially in the studio?

It changes from show-to-show. When we’re playing festival shows, I tend to play more of a greatest hits show. If I’m doing my own solo show then it tends to be a lot more focussed on the new album. ’Cause the new album, Wait For Me, is a much quieter record and a lot more introspective – and quiet and introspective tend to not work so well in front of 75,000 people. Subtlety and nuance can work really well if you’re playing in a beautiful theatre, but if you’re standing in front of 50,000 people at a festival, subtlety and nuance tend to not go over (laughs).

But, even playing festival shows, we still include some of the quieter songs from the new record and it hopefully makes for a nice juxtaposition with the louder, more aggressive songs.

Well I think some people they have the choice between asking a very deep, meaningful, personal question, or they ask me, you know, if I was on a desert island, which member of Lost would I most want to be on the island with? I mean, I was a former philosophy student when I was at university and I have a tendency to sometimes be a little bit too serious, and as a result I love stupid questions.

Anything that encourages me to take myself less seriously, I appreciate.

At this point 10 years ago your career became ubiquitous. You’d started to license your music to jump your career and then your career jumped anyway, so there was a lot of Moby music around. What’s the difference between 2009 and 1999?

Well it was strange, because in 1999 when Play was first released no one was interested in it, for the most part. It was a record that came out that didn’t get played on the radio. I think in Australia things may have been a little bit different, like the press were more interested and it did get some radio play but when it was first released in most of the world I was kind of a has-been, a lot of journalists wouldn’t review it. The album slowly built up this head of steam and became very successful but for most of 1999 I was playing very small shows, the record wasn’t selling very well and then it really only picked up, in terms of commercial success, at the beginning of 2000.

I guess the big difference… well, I’m 10 years older (laughs). Sadly I have even less hair on the top of my head.

I guess, well… hmm. Because when Play was released, I thought my career was essentially over, it was really strange to go from thinking that was the case to going to becoming, as you say, this ubiquitous musician, with ubiquitous music. It was a heady time, but it was also a time that encouraged a lot of degeneracy and a lot of narcissism on my part. And I realise that some people are really good at degeneracy and narcissism, but for me it just was kind of pernicious and selfdestructive.

So hopefully the pernicious, selfdestructive narcissism and degeneracy has fallen by the wayside and I hope that I’m a little nicer to be around, because there was a period when Play became more and more successful and then the follow-up album (18, 2002) was also kind of a big record when I was going out every night and was just a little bit too self-involved. I hope that the last few years of all sorts of things happening has led me to be hopefully a little bit less self-involved.

Okay, so if you were on a desert island, which member of Lost would you most want to be on the island with?

Ah, well I watched the first series of Lost and I got so annoyed at the fact that none of the questions were answered that I decided not to watch any of the others. So I don’t really Have you always been like that or is that remember them too well. something you’ve learnt - to give your I liked the old, African-American musicians enough rope? woman who knew that her husband was still When I was a lot younger, I was a sort alive.

But then again, stranded on a desert of a bit OCD – obsessive compulsive. I was sort Last month in London you did a show at the island you’d want to have someone you of a control freak. And then I realised that my Palace Theatre which included an audience could have a little bit of romance with, so I’d tendency towards being a control freak wasn’t Q+A session. As someone who’s answered a guess the conversation would suffer but the What does 2010 hold?

Well in Greenland the ice shelf will making my life any better and it wasn’t making lot of questions from interviewers, what’s it like the world any better. It was just irritating me and taking questions directly from fans? What is the Korean woman seemed like she was pretty fall into the water and sea levels will rise by compelling. difference in the questions asked? three metres…

I’m just trying to make light of annoying my friends.

Well it was an interesting show because climate change (laughs).

So I’ve tried to become just a little bit more relaxed and a little bit more open-minded it was my first ever all-acoustic show, like me Speaking of frivolous, I recall an article in and also part of being a bit more relaxed and playing unplugged. It was in a beautiful, old Q magazine about 10 years ago, where you Someone has to…

The lighter side of global warming? understanding is that there isn’t any worst-case Victorian theatre. So halfway through the show described an activity…

For me, I know this is a musician cliché, but Oh yeah… scenario. With anything; whether it’s performing we stopped and a journalist from the Sunday Times came out and she asked me some of the questions my life is really simple and my aspirations are or whether it’s life. If we try out a new version of a song and it doesn’t work then the worst-case that she had, but she also had collected a bunch … known as ‘celebrity knob touch’ (sneaking very, very simple. All I want to do with my life up behind celebrities at parties and rubbing is be a good friend to the people I care about scenario is maybe for three-and-a-half minutes of questions from the audience.

It’s interesting… like some of the one’s er, knob on them - Ed). and at some point fall in love and have an people are less entertained than they might questions were really frivolous and absurd, which otherwise be.

Yeah, you know the idea of Chinese honest-to-goodness long-term, monogamous I liked. Some of the questions were incredibly Whispers? Well what happened with that article relationship. And as much as possible try and detailed and thoughtful and referenced aspects (clears throat) is that I’d spent two days with make music that has integrity and that I love It’s more a different-case scenario…

Yeah, it’s a different-case scenario. of my work that I hadn’t even really been aware the journalist and for the most part we’d had that maybe some other people will love.

As seductive as fame can be, I’ve Sometimes, by being a bit looser, it actually of. Some of the questions I guess were different really serious, really in-depth conversations and increases the chances that something really great from journalist questions in that they had no at the very end we were getting drunk and he looked at the way it’s affected me and how detachment and objectivity. it’s affected other people and as an institution might happen. I might feel differently if I was was like, ‘let me ask you some stupid questions.

I mean I’ve done thousands and it’s something I really want to stay away from really good at controlling things, but I’m not very What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done?’. thousands of interviews in my life, for the most as much as I can. Because the more I pursued good at trying to be rigid and authoritarian.

So I actually described a game that fame and the more I’ve been involved in that part talking to journalists who I assume pride friends of mine used to play and somehow Touring musicians often talk about performing themselves on their objectivity and their ability to his editor got excited - ‘cause you know British world, the less of a good person I was. I almost had to run an intervention on myself. and being in the moment. Do you think that at the very least appear detached from the subject doing it more helps you recognise when you’re matter. I couldn’t imagine doing an interview for editors love anything dirty and salacious – so Time magazine and having the journalist admit they somehow took this story and slightly re- Well I apologise for putting you on the actually in a moment?

Yeah. They are so many different that they were a gushing fan and ask all sorts of contextualised it so it made it seem like it was front cover of our magazine… me doing it. I mean, I might have, in a drunken (Laughs) Oh that’s okay. I mean, variables. You can play the same song 500 times fan questions. moment done that, but I don’t think I did. But as I said, as long as I’m not around to be and have myriad different reactions to it. Based on everything from the actual performance to how Well magazines with a general readership have it’s one of the reasons why now I have to be a self-involved douchebag it’s okay. But, much sleep you’ve had the night before, based to play it a little more broadly. It’s interesting a little more cautious when I do interviews, really simply, I want to be a decent human on the phonecall you’ve had with your girlfriend though that you mentioned some of the because I can say something that’s dumb being and try and make music I care about earlier in the day. I mean, anything can contribute questions being frivolous, that when fans do and flippant and said in an instant and then that other people might care about. That’s to how emotionally susceptible I am to a piece of get the moment to ask you something they suddenly 10 years later that little, stupid quote hopefully my answer for 2010… and however is still following me around. many years I manage to stay alive. just go lite… music that we’re playing.

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MARVA WHITNEY Still The #1

As Soulsister #1 to James Brown’s Godfather of Soul, brassyvoiced Kansas City singer Marva Whitney experienced enough ups and downs to last several careers. She’s here to help the Funk Club dance its way into 2010 at Salt On The Beach,(formerly Oyster Bar) on New Year’s Eve,Thursday, December 31. JOSHUA HAYES reports.

Chatting with Marva Whitney on Boxing Day, three years and one day after James Brown passed, she is contemplative about the selfproclaimed and undisputed hardest working man in show business.

“I’ve been thinking about him all day,” she says.

Their relationship was far from smooth, as the title of her new autobiography, God, The Devil & James Brown – Memoirs Of A Funky Diva, suggests. The book, which she recently completed with UK music writer Charles Warring, is due to be released early in 2010 and Whitney is reticent to give too much away.

After performing with Kansas acts through the mid-1960s, Whitney was given the opportunity to audition for James Brown’s bandleader Alfred ‘Pee Wee’ Ellis in 1967. She surprised Ellis by being bold enough to ask him to play a different chord on the piano, and he took a recording of her audition to Brown.

“Mr Brown said, ‘well if you sound like that on a little bitty tape like that you ought to sound pretty good on a record’,”Whitney recalls.“And that’s where we went from there.”

She joined the James Brown Revue at the height of its success, becoming the show’s leading female vocalist. Whitney was performing with Brown in Boston on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated, and their concert, broadcast on free-to-air television, was credited with saving the city from the riots occurring in many other cities.

They also performed for American soldiers in war-torn Vietnam, travelling with a pared back tour group. “We all had double and triple duties, I had to do hair, iron and stuff like that,” she recalls.

During this time Whitney also released a

number of James Brown-produced singles which have since become funk classics, such as It’s My Thing and Unwind Yourself. Her debut LP, It’s My Thing, was released in August, 1969.

“I’M HAPPY BECAUSE JAMES BROWN ASKED FOR ME TO SING AT HIS FUNERAL, AND HE NEVER TOOK MY TITLE (SOULSISTER #1) AWAY OR ANYTHING, AND SO THAT’S SOMETHING TO SAY FOR THAT. I LEFT BECAUSE I HAD TO STAND FOR SOMETHING. I HAD TO DO SOMETHING TO A GENTLEMAN THAT HAD BEEN VERY GOOD TO ME DURING MY CAREER, AND IT JUST BROKE MY HEART.”

Marva Whitney in the ’60s

Juicy indeed - a Google search brings up an excerpt from the opening of her autobiography on publisher Bank House Book’s Facebook page; “James Brown is holding a gun against my head.

I think I’m about to die. I can feel the cold metal pressing against the side of my skull. I’m terrified. It’s 1969’.” Whitney had just told Brown that she was planning to leave the Revue.

Later in the interview she explains that she was not paid royalties for her time in the group, which undoubtedly played a part in her decision.“Until he (Brown) sold, in 1988, a part of his catalogue, we never got a dime for the good years when the music was really rolling in,” Whitney recalls.

Brown had his fair share of demons, and Whitney’s autobiography promises to be an interesting read. “I’m quite sure that people will enjoy it, maybe get offended at both of us,” she says.

These days, though, she is able to speak of Brown fondly. “I’m happy because he asked for me to sing at his funeral, and he never took my However, by December of that year she title (Soulsister #1) away or anything, and so that’s had decided to leave the James Brown Revue. something to say for that.

When asked why, she replies “you’ll have to read “I left because I had to stand for the book,”with an easy laugh before adding.“that’s something,” Whitney summarises. “I had to do what you call a juicy part.” something to a gentleman that had been very

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Marva Whitney Photo: Ira Launiala good to me during my career, and it just broke my heart.”

However, it is only now that she feels she is getting her just rewards. “I didn’t think it would take me 40 years because, let’s just put it on the line, I was blackballed,” she says. “I didn’t sit down for those 40 years, but it was like ‘don’t touch her’.

But I’m here. Sometimes things don’t come quickly, and we must learn that and persevere.”

Her perseverance has paid off. After teaming up with German promoter and manager DJ Pari, she began touring again a few years ago. On her current Australian tour, she is being backed by Adelaide eight-piece funk outfit, The Transatlantics.

“I had been on the plane all that time coming from the States and as we got here, well, I didn’t feel right because I wanted to know how prepared they were,” Whitney says of the group.

“So I came in and they were rehearsing. They had everything set up, and I just sat in the chair and I listened to two or three songs, and after two or three songs I told them,‘that’s it, that’s it, you’ve done your homework’. I felt very secure.”

The 65 year-old singer is still going strong, and ready to make up for lost time. “We’re looking forward to being with you on New Year’s Eve, and we’re gonna have a ball,” she says.

EDGUY Sammet On The Mount

Bringing It Back

One of Europe’s most underrated power metal outfits,Edguy, will be making their Perth debut on Thursday, January 7, Techonotronic comes to Summadayze at Supreme Court at Capitol playing alongside Cynic and Ensiferum as part Gardens & The Esplanade this Sunday, January 3. RK reports. of Just Say Rock’s Metal Month. Charismatic frontman For a man that helped facilitate the sale of very sparse; there was hardly anything in it. You Tobias Sammet chats with JESSICA WILLOUGHBY about over 10 million records – and a whole bunch had guys like Q Tip and Jungle Brothers doing the tribulations of the genre. of cool tracks that everyone aged between 15 house and stuff that like mixed with hip hop, and 40 has danced to - Eric Martin is a pretty humble bloke.

“I’m just from a small city in South Wales called Cardiff,” he chimes. Yet I was most interested in how the Technotronic legacy changed his life.

“It was a massive change” he says. “I left Cardiff in 1987 and just tried to get as far into the hip hop scene as I could. So I went to London because that’s where you had to go at the time. I started off as a tape-op for Jive-RCA Studios – mostly being the coffee boy. Then I took a job that someone didn’t want and ended up working with Jo Bogaret.”

The Belgian producer then took Eric back to Belgium where they started doing songs and the like.

Of course then came Pump Up The Jam which was a massive commercial hit – and from there, Eric recalls life became a blur. “From the time when we realised it was going to be a hit, life was just two years of sales and touring – I’d never done any of that before; I’d only done small shows in London in the hip hop scene so yes, it was a massive change.”

And since, Manuela Kamosi (Ya Kid K) and Eric Martin (MC Eric) have stuck together – least of which because they have an 18 year old son.

“Australia is like a second home to me; I have a son in Wagga so I’m really there all the time!”

In 2009 – however many years on, Eric is still in the music business and writes and produces under the name Me-One. “I’m basically a songwriter now; I’ve been writing with Maxi Priest and Prodigy, whoever pays me, really. Well no, I shouldn’t say that – it’s a bit silly of me - but I do jobs that I think that are good for my career and that might be my downfall.”

But reflecting on those halcyon days still comes easily for Eric: “at the height of our fame together we were really loving it – it was a great time. I don’t mean that in a conceited way; the thing with Technotronic was that it was www.xpressmag.com.au

but it seems the parameters now don’t exist. So you had lots of things happening in the 1980s; you had lots of experimentation in house at the time and it was almost as if it was a competition to see how strange it could be.”

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the over-zealous power metal antics, they opted in favour of straightforward hard rock material. It was a logical step really, considering Sammet wrote the album exclusively himself. But one had to ask; is this because Sammet likes to have full control of the reins?

“Not really, actually. I didn’t get such a good deal when it came to writing this time around. The others can write, the others could have contributed – but it just didn’t work out that way. A lot of ideas were offered but, stylistically, they just didn’t suit the album. So basically we just threw them all out and ran with mine. To tell you the truth, I really don’t know how they others Edguy felt about that, all we knew was that we needed Edguy frontman Tobias Sammet is one cookie to make some big changes after the response to Rocket Ride. that is trying to break the mould.

“The album received a mixed reaction, Eighteen years, eight albums and creating a wide-scope metal opera side project mainly about the obvious humour we put into in Avantasia will do that to a man – but the issue the album. People even questioned if we were runs a little bit deeper than that. The problem is a serious band, or just a parody of heavy metal,” with power metal itself. According to Sammet, it Sammet exclaims, “But we weren’t setting out has become an institution. An institution has rules to do that. We were setting out to show people that we didn’t give a fuck. We could be goofy and and rules, of course, are made to be broken.

“There is no room for power metal in the have a good time. It’s this weird unsaid thing that bible,” he says with a laugh,“but many power metal people cannot be humorous in heavy metal. But musicians have this set of rules that they dictate then you have people life David Lee Roth. But I will to, almost like if they are the 10 Commandments. admit the Rocket Ride era looked really thought out.

Many power metal albums are drawn out of With Tinnitus…we still have humour, it’s just more a whiteboard, from the ballads to the lengthy a subtle, subconscious thing.” introductions, solos and drum reverb patterns.

Edguy fell into this trap too. We’ve been doing this for 18 years and it’s always been the same. Well I don’t want to follow these rules anymore. I don’t even want to be called power metal anymore.

We’ve abandoned the rules, got out of that ‘how to do a power metal song’ corset and we’ve let loose. And the result of this is an album that, I think, people will really measure us by in the future.”

The recording Sammet is referring to is their latest, Tinnitus Sanctus. Released last year, the eighth studio album from this quintet continues in the same fashion as their previous work Rocket Ride (2006) – but ventures even deeper into a different, more rock-oriented sound than ever heard before from Edguy. Virtually abandoning 13

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Jared Leto’s extra-curricular rock band never lack ambition, as the Ang Lee-scale videos and monumental eyeliner budget for their last record (2005’s A Beautiful Lie) revealed.

For new album This Is War, they’ve gone even larger scale, coating everything in voguish ’80s-style gated drums, epic synths, icy guitars and bellowing, mountaintop choruses.

They’ve even hired U2 collaborators Flood and Steve Lillywhite to help replicate their bombastic stadium rock sound. The problem is, these songs swing above their weight. Choirs of children appear throughout the album and Leto goes for the soar like his lung’s about to burst. But you walk away from the record not humming a single tune, despite all the pomp and circumstance.

Stranger In A Strange Land has a likeable, brooding electronic atmosphere, Night Of The Hunter thumps along like a blend of The Killers and Big Country and the pouting electro-rock of Closer To The Edge has a guilty, cheesy appeal, but three half decent tracks on a whole album just isn’t enough to cut the mustard in this ever-competitive world of big league rock.

With his Marc Bolan-styled wail, Benjy Ferree is a lively genre-hopper on his second album, its title paraphrasing from an old Robert Altman movie (substitute ‘Bobby Dee’ for ‘Jimmy Dean’).

Thematically, the record is about Ferree’s fascination and empathy with the doomed child actor Bobby Driscoll, who went from Disney star to Warhol Factory identity before dying penniless and drug-ravaged in 1968. Suitably, Come Back… is a turbulent, nervous record, its big bombastic anthems all twisted with a slightly fevered delivery.

With that voice, you’d expect some T-Rex stomping, and you get some in the form of What Would Pecos Do? He’s no carbon copy electric warrior, however, as the Who-like rumble of Big Business or the hard rock doo-wop of I Get No Love illustrate. There’s even a touch of Freddie Mercury showmanship in Whirpool Of Love and febrile, edgy psych-rock in Pisstopher Christopher.

A bit of research and a close investigation of the lyric sheet may be required to truly take in the album’s theme, but fortunately Ferree’s songs are charismatic and exhilarating enough to enjoy without having to do any homework.

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_MATT THROWER

THE CRYSTAL METHOD Divided By Night EQ Stomp

JOSS STONE Colour Me Free!

Virgin EMI Okay, so I know that it’s facile to judge an album by its cover, but I have to say: this album has the worst cover of any major-label release I have seen this year.

The cover is important because consumers are wising up to the fact that the CD is a crappy format, and digital music is easy to pirate, so the only chance major labels have of making money is to create fetish object editions, preferably in vinyl, with high production values and covers that don’t look like the work experience kid knocked it up in Photoshop. (Deep breath).

Having gotten that out of the way, let’s talk about the music. Stone is, of course, famous for being the 16-year-old kid who did a striking soul cover of Fell In Love With A Girl that made it sound like an Aretha Franklin original. Her voice is still startling six years on – let’s be honest, it puts Amy Winehouse’s to shame – and on this album she returns back to the soul fold after some foolish dalliances with other genres (although Nas makes an appearance on the embarrassingly-naïve protest song Governmentalist).

It’s pretty much what you’d expect, then: lashings of Motown with a few odd twists to keep things interesting (a cover of Candi Staton’s You Got The Love, a hidden 14-minute number titled Mr. Wankerman).

It will be a treat for established fans, on the condition that they wrap the cover in brown paper when they get home, but there’s nothing on here that will garner her new ones. _CHAD PARKHILL

It’s hard to remember that The Crystal Method are in fact one of the highest-selling dance acts of all time. Unlike the Chemical Brothers or Fatboy Slim, the Crystal Method haven’t been so aggressive in trying to escape the ‘Big Beat’ tag they were bequeathed at the end of the 1990s, and so it’s easy to claim that they haven’t really moved on.

Maybe it’s a geographical thing, too: The Crystal Method are proudly American, and move in the rarefied circle of massively successful American stadium dance acts that don’t need international success or critical approval to turn a good buck (see also: Kaskade, who shows up on the Australian edition for remixing duties). As such, their fourth album, Divided By Night, is an album that shouldn’t feel the need to speak to current trends in dance music.

While it doesn’t, for the most part, there are some concessions on Divided By Night: there’s not as much breakbeat as there used to be, and there’s a lot of guests (Matisyahu, Peter Hook, Jason Lytle) to make the songs a little more commercially palatable (unfortunately, Lytle’s angelic voice is drowned out in the mix).

This buck-each-way strategy doesn’t quite work: there’s nothing cutting-edge about Divided By Night that will endear it to the blogosphere, and the guest vocalists have alienated the group’s core fans, who have flooded message boards and Amazon with heartfelt statements about how they just don’t get it.

Their fans want Vegas part three, they want to innovate; between Scylla and Charybdis, nobody’s happy. _CHAD PARKHILL

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BALMORHEA All Is Wild, All Is Silent Western Vinyl Longtime Listener Although Balmorhea experiment with textures and instrumental composition, you are not about to confuse them with Tortoise, Mogwai or even The Dirty Three, for that matter (though they briefly resemble the latter in the lengthy track Harm And Boon, which also includes one of the record’s few examples of angular electric guitar).

Where Battles would put clattering percussion and treated vocals or Mogwai would put a guitar meltdown, Balmorhea are all about piano, strings and an all-over acoustic vibe. It’s fitting that there’s a track entitled Elegy, because much of this album could be a soundtrack to a melancholic, atmospheric Western (or at least a Steinbeckian period piece).

Tiny Vipers’ Jesy Fortino provides wordless vocals to November 1 1832, while opening track Settler could be heralding the arrival of the Carnivale cast into some unknown dustbowl.

Taking the theories of modern classical music, American traditional folk and experimental rock, Balmorhea mix it all up into a majestic whole.

Also includes a remix disc. _MATT THROWER

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MONGREL COUNTRY Self-Titled Independent Firestarter Distribution You know those scenes in Kurt & Courtney where Nick Broomfield is cruising around the abandoned streets of Aberdeen Washington to the doom-laden sounds of Earth? This writer had a similar experience driving around at 1am with Mongrel Country cranked. Different context, sure, but that sense of foreboding, that menace, and the looming potential of terrifying savagery were all too familiar.

Mongrel Country’s sophomore release realises some kind of dialectic between the ample talents of primary songwriters Dean Anthonisz and Max Ducker. Each has their own stylistic and lyrical themes.

Ducker’s obsession with horrifying leathery animals - pigs, rhinoceroses, crocodiles - is simultaneously the most disturbing and distinctive feature of this album. That, and the hypnotically skull-smashing heaviness of his most of his guitar riffs. Does it get more brutal in rock’n’roll than the pummelling Hogtied?

Anthonisz’s contributions, meanwhile, are generally a more brooding affair. He has Hittin’ the town since 1985

Fremantle Arts Centre’s smacked-out artistic wino ‘lost boy’ chic to a tee. the shelves at speed, but Closer To The Bone is His songs are just as savage but more vocally a more solid than some of the more fancied dynamic, and plenty creepy in their mid-paced young bucks in the spotlight. menace.

This disc is a deluxe package, packed _CHRIS HAVERCROFT with guest contributors, and an ambitious artwork design which manages to capture the haunting and darkly beautiful themes extremely well. It’s probably Cellar Sessions studios’ finest moment to date.

Mongrel Country is rated ‘R’ for ‘relentless’. _BEN WATSON

CHRISTINA COURTIN Self-Titled Nonesuch Fuse

Christina Courtin’s smooth and wistful brand of chamber pop sits somewhere between Regina Spektor and Rufus Wainwright. A graduate of uber-prestigious New York performing arts KRIS conservatory The Juilliard School, Courtin clearly KRISTOFFERSON has a skill for gorgeously delicate melodies Closer To The Bone and cinematic sounding compositions. Like New West Records Spektor; a playful musicality, combined with Few have taken the journey of Kris Kristofferson. quirky observational lyrics, makes this the The Rhode Scholar turned his back on a position kind of debut where you feel like you’ve been as a professor of English Literature, helicopter personally invited into the artist’s cosy loft pilot and army captain to pursue his passion apartment for an intimate ‘get to know you’ for songwriting. During the ’70s he continued chat.

Heart-on-sleeve love song Bundah to pen hits for other artists although his own albums sales remained sluggish, leading to is sung with the controlled, breathy and Kristofferson becoming more famous for his immaculate vocal deliver y of someone acting career and as the man who dated Janis with a classical training. A-la Wainwright, Courtin stretches, holds and finally lets go Joplin ’til her death.

That commercial success has pretty of each syllable as if each and every word much eluded him is criminal when you is as important as the last. With its sap-free, consider the quality of his songs. Maybe it is melancholic orchestral finale, it’s the kind of his lack of pop conventions and rough voice track that’d be at home in the closing credits that keeps him on the fringe but it is these of an indie love flick.

Perhaps co-producer Greg Cohen, traits that make Kristofferson as entertaining who has played bass with Antony and The now as he ever was.

His twelfth studio album, Closer To Johnsons and Tom Waits, was going for Antony’s The Bone, has the singer reflecting on his seven famously haunting vibe on Mulberries. This track decades of experience. His almost spoken-word nails that epic ‘pin drop’ quality of a fragile approach over sparse acoustic arrangement but brilliant voice plonked in front of a grand see him look back on love loss, his family and piano.

A weighty debut for listeners who like Johnny Cash. The bonus disc of the gravel voiced singer taking on some of his bigger hits their pop sounding lavish and rich. is a welcome addition also.

This one is unlikely to be running off _DAVID CRADDOCK

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Frighteningly talented, Andrew Bird gives CHRISTINE LAN his thoughts on language and instrumentation ahead of his Saturday, January 9, performance during Southbound at Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton.

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Andrew Bird has a way with words that, when communicated through his prism of musical understanding, are a meeting of the eloquently insightful individual with the classically-trained indie experimentalist.

And sometimes, simple solitar y moments, such as sitting in an empt y amphitheatre hours before one’s performance will lead to a moment of profound discovery.

Anonanimal from his latest album, Noble Beast, evolved out of that eerie gestation.“I was having trouble connecting to the moment, and I was thinking about how performing every night was warping me and what kind of damage it was doing to me,” recalls the Chicago-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist.

“I was just feeling so disconnected and I was like, ‘what if I thought of it as some sort of evolution within my own lifetime’. I’m evolving certain appendages to help me get through the day, and I don’t know what I’ll be left with when it’s over. But I was thinking about how I’d devised the most perfect profession for someone with my anti-social tendencies,” he says.

Bird’s highly literate and verbose lyrics are a telling mark of his appreciation for the written word in its musical, poetic and literate form. “I always like to read poetry, but read it aloud – and let it resonate in my chest and then my head, and to make the shapes resonate in a room and kind of fill the corners of the room. That was always important, but I never think of myself as just writing poetry, it was all somewhat…I don’t know how to explain… but it kinda all seems to just gather around, you know, the melody.

“I do,” he adds, “seek out some inspiration from archaic language. I like reading books that are set in different times and have dialogues that have street language from a different time, like London in the ’20s… all the details, the expressions that are no longer

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in the vernacular. I like how it opens up your imagination of what something could mean when it’s sometimes so vague.

“At times, I get very frustrated about language in the songs themselves – and I was really longing for a fresh word that hasn’t been corrupted and overused and devalued, such as words for the affection between two people. I want new words for that… that haven’t been devalued.”

Alongside Bird’s incredible ear for sonically-appealing words, few musicians have incorporated violin, guitar, glockenspiel, mandolin and whistling into their repertoire while managing to attain such a wide and diverse audience as Bird.

With his amazing live performances, Bird also employs a multi-track system to sample and loop his instrumental performances. To Bird, progressing as a musical performer is to continuously strive for reinvention. “I’ve tried to keep to my devices of not allowing myself to coast… I tend to want to do things the hard way,” he laughs.

“I like it to be difficult and dangerous – the precariousness makes me feel like it peaked and that I’m at my most alert. At every show, I want to fail a little bit … I feel like it pulls me out of professionalism and perfectionism.”

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Over summer the City Of Subiaco will present 12 weeks of free entertainment, including musical performances that encompass a range of genres. On Sunday, January 3, bring the family along to Disco Canpito, a hula hoop performance and workshop to get hips wiggling at the JH Abrahams Reserve.

Other acts as part of the 12 week concert series include Jay Weston, David Hyams and the Miles To Go Band, Soul Limbo and the Western Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra, plus many more. Concert attendees are encouraged to pack a picnic and ride their bike or catch a train or bus to the event as parking is limited.

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Think you’ve got what it takes to follow in Tahnee Atkinson’s footsteps and become Australia’s Next Top Model? Then be sure not to miss out on auditions for the next cycle of the show, taking place on Sunday, January 24, from 11am to 3pm at Enex100 in the Hay Street Mall Perth.

Girls who think they have what it takes just have to turn up on the day and strut their stuff for the judges. Entrants must be Australian females aged over 16 and 172cm or taller. For more info, head to fox8.tv/antm.

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GET UP, STAND UP

If you’ve ever fancied getting behind the mic to try your hand at some stand-up comedy, now’s your chance to take the plunge, as the Raw Comedy Competition has just opened entries for their 2010 program. Raw is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s annual hunt for Australia’s best undiscovered comedians, with heats taking place around the country. During January, heats will be held at the Charles Hotel’s Comedy Lounge in North Perth, with one lucky comedian being flown to Melbourne to compete in the national final a little later in the year.

Entries are open to anyone who has earned less than $500 from performing comedy. All that is required is five minutes of new, original comedy material, whether that is stand up, sketch or musical comedy. Emerging comedians can enter online at rawcomedy.com. au.

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Triple J darlings The Panics will join forces with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in February for a mesmerising concert in Kings Park and Botanic Garden. On Saturday, February 20, at 8pm, The Panics will take to the stage with WASO to perform their hits like they’ve never been heard before, including songs from their albums Cruel Guards, Sleeps Like A Curse and A House On A Street In A Town I’m From. Support on the evening will come from the wonderful Washington. Tickets are on sale now from waso.com.au or through Ticketmaster.

The Panics

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UNION OF FILM

The LHMU, a union which represents thousands of workers across the state, is launching a short film competition next year to support the local film industry. On offer are three prizes of $1000, which can be won by submitting creative shorts (no longer than three minutes) embodying the aims and values of the LHMU. Don’t stress if your camera equipment isn’t state-of-the-art, the LHMU is most interested in creativity and original ideas. Filmmakers have until Friday, February 26, to submit their entries, which will be uploaded to the LHMU Youtube channel. To find out more, head to lhmusummerchallenge.org.au.

BRIGHT STAR Butterflies Are Free

Uber Saturation

Directed by Jane Campion Starring Abbie Cornish, Ben Wishaw, Paul Schneider

One of the inescapable rising stars of 2009, Bertie Blackman is all set for her Southbound performance on Saturday, January 9, at Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton.

Bertie Blackman will undoubtedly be marking 2009 in her diary as a mighty good year.

Her third album, Secrets And Lies, netted the now Melbourne-based songwriter an ARIA award for ‘Best Independent Release’, a J Award nomination and a gong at the Australian Independent Record Labels Association Awards for ‘Breakthrough Independent Artist Of The Year’.

Someone order the Mr Sheen, there’s polishing to be done.

“I’m sitting at the boardroom table in a really big chair. I’ve got a cup of coffee and a couple of slaves with plates on their heads,” the down-to-earth songwriter jokes from her manager’s office where she is conducting interviews ahead of appearances at numerous summer festivals including Southbound.

“I’m just excited about making more music, getting out there, travelling and meeting more people,” she says of her plans for 2010 which include international touring and a new album.

“Australia’s very far away from everything and no one knows who the hell I am overseas so awards and stuff like that just provide more opportunities.

I’m very grateful of those opportunities that are coming forward and presenting themselves now.”

Blackman’s considered, powerful and sexually direct songwriting has been a key ingredient of her success. The daughter of iconic and highly revered Australian painter Charles Blackman, it is unsurprising to hear that she approaches her songwriting in a serious, immersive and intense way.

“It’s making me a little bit crazy but I have been starving myself of my instruments,” she explains of the current process she is undertaking to create new material for her fourth album. “All I’ve been doing is reading, watching kind of weird documentaries and arts films, going to art galleries

David Hyams and the Miles To Go Band perform at Mueller Park on Sunday, January 31

Make your way to Kulcha on Sunday, January 3, for a laid back Sunday Reggae Session, as the Freo Doctor rolls in. Kicking off at 5pm, the session will see Kulcha’s huge balcony converted into a shrine for the worship of reggae, with a performance from Zarm.

Become a Kulcha member at the gig and you’ll go into the draw to win a trip to Bali thanks to STA Travel. Tickets available on the door. For more info, head to kulcha.com.au.

Bertie Blackman and doing ‘uber saturation’. I like doing stuff like that. I don’t sleep very much as a result because I’m constantly sifting through all of the stuff.

“I just want to have myself loaded with interesting ammunition to lace in with the needle and thread to the next bit of work. I’ve got books, bits of paper, notes on my laptop, notes on my phone. It’s everywhere. Thank God I live alone because I don’t think anyone could live with me.”

A direct, no-nonsense feline femininity is clear on Blackman’s latest single, Black Cats.

Growling her way through lyrics such as ‘I wanna be like sex can sweat / And drip on you in sweet duress’, it’s no surprise that the songwriter cites powerful women like Patti Smith and Annie Lennox as artistic inspirations.

“I quite like immersing myself within that content because as a woman, I guess it’s kind of taboo to be overtly sexual about things,” she says. “Then you’re just called a slut. Which is not true. They’re really guttural words and it’s something we all enjoy and no one really talks about it. People sing about it, just not directly. Not everything’s about it, but it seems like a thing that people toe around.

“Writing is a sensual thing for me so words that have things to do with sex and stuff will come through in what I do. But I don’t always just write about sex – I’m not a sex maniac or anything like that!”

_ DAVID CRADDOCK

Bright Star is a chaste, elegantly constructed period romance that has much in common with Jane Campion’s adaptation of Portrait Of A Lady; London of 1818 is the setting for a romance between struggling poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw, much-improved as a lead since Perfume) and his neighbour Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish).

Scholars and readers familiar with Keats, one of the major romantic poets of the 19th Century, will be aware he died at an early age, leaving behind a body of work that would be appreciated more after his death than while alive.

One of his most celebrated works was Bright Star, a sonnet dedicated to his young fiancée, Fanny. Campion’s film explores the pair’s relationship, detailing their meeting when she was just 18 to Keats’s forced move to Italy for his ‘health’ in 1820.

Elegaic in its pacing, Bright Star imagines this affair as a colourful dream of young love. The headstrong Fanny, deemed a ‘flirt’ by Keats’ friend Charles Brown (an almost show-stealing Paul Schneider), slowly infiltrates the poet’s heart with determination and intelligence, subtly reacting against the societal restrictions of her time and Keats belief that his lack of income makes their attachment untenable. Eventually a more physiological problem comes between them, but not before Fanny inspires Keats’ to write some of his strongest poetry.

The triumph of Campion’s take on this simple story is in its construction and tone. It’s doubtful there has been a more noteperfect film this year in terms of performances and mise-en-scene. The dialogue is sharp, witty and affecting (especially between the spirited Fanny and the disapproving Mr Brown); the costuming extraordinary in a very homemade way (as though designed for Finders Keepers

Ben Wishaw and Abbie Cornish in Bright Star

craft market-goers and Peppermint magazine readers); and the cinematography is a delight from start to finish. Sequences set in spring and summer make the semi-rural suburbs of 19th century London seem almost like Avalon, fields of brilliant flowers filled with drowsy bees (England still had some left at that point) and clear flowing streams frequented by picnickers in waistcoats and bonnets. In the deepest bloom of her love for an absent Keats, Fanny transforms her room into a butterfly house, the all-too temporary intensity of first love depicted perfectly – as is the inevitable passing of it, dried butterfly corpses swept away with the dust.

Despite the sexually charged nature of Campion films such as The Piano, desire here is kept at an innocent, sublimated level.

Affection in Bright Star is dreamlike and idyllic, conceptual more than physical.

The pacing and lack of grit may deter some, but if there’s an ounce of romance in your soul, Bright Star should elate and stir in equal amounts. It’s a reserved love story comparable to The Age Of Innocence or The Remains Of The Day in many ways, giving the sorrows of young love a grace and gravity beyond the blustery melodrama of a typical Romeo & Juliet tale. _ TOPHER HEALY

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The Princess And The Frog is Disney’s Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker Starring the voices of Anika Noni Rose, first hand-drawn animated movie in five years and, regardless of whether it was created on a Bruno Campos, Keith David paper canvas or a MacBook Pro, it’s a beautiful They say absence makes the heart great fonder, film – visually and thematically.

The first thing Disney Animation’s and never has the sentiment been truer than John Lasseter did when he was appointed CEO with the case of 2-D animation.

Hand-drawn animated features, of the company was reopen the 2-D handthe type of features Disney made their name drawn animation department. And considering from, took a backseat to computer-generated Lasseter has been one of the flag-flyers for CGI features a few years back. As sad as it was to films (he directed Toy Story) over the years, that witness the demise of the old-school kiddie might come as quite a surprise. But this guy flick, you can understand why it had to happen knows too well that the marketplace is big - audiences are forever on an eternal hunt to enough for both CGI and 2D films – so long collect as many bells and whistles as possible, as they’re both worthy of their place. And he’s and unfortunately for 2D, CGI was just offering right. If you’ve a strong story, and a great set of characters, to back up your visuals then they more in that department.

It’s fair enough that the kids wanted will come.

The New Orleans-set film centres on products of the PC – after all, they were different, they’re fun, they’re beautiful to watch, a young African American waitress’s (Anika and artistically speaking, they encompass more Noni Rose) fateful kiss with a frog prince (Bruno depth and detail than hand-drawn animation. Campos) who desperately wants to be human For instance, Toy Story (1995), to cite one of the again. Long story short - the poorly young earlier CGI efforts, was like nothing we’d seen woman is turned into a frog moments after she locks lips with the ‘mucus’-spitting prince, before! It looked brilliant!

Walt’s crew, and the other studios who and together, both of the hoppers are forced suddenly started laying off artists and instead to the swamps (where, of course, they meet all stocked up on my Powerbooks, only needed to sorts of wild and wonderful characters – all compare the returns of 2-D films like The Road of whom, of course, can sing) to contemplate To Eldorado and Home On The Range with CGI their next move.

The Princess And The Frog is fast, efforts like Shrek and Monster’s Inc to recognise that hand-drawn animation had dipped quite fun, funny, thrilling, and effervescent (Randy considerably in popularity. Thus, it was pencils Newman’s vivacious score helps) enough to entertain even the most restless of littlies, down, windows up.

But what a lot of studio types and it’s current and energetic so will entertain failed to recognise was that there was an adults.

But mainly, the film succeeds because even greater reason why 2-D hand-drawn animation films were failing – and it had of its underlying message, which is that you nothing to do with visuals. It takes a lot more don’t have to be swimming in riches, or dolled than some dashing visuals to make a movie up in a tiara and a dress, to be considered a – it takes a commanding story, impressive Princess. Not a bad message for young girls. performances, a bold director, and sometimes, _ CLINT MORRIS some good tunes.

FANBOYS Roadshow

THE CHASER Madman

It’s a pretty clever idea for a comedy as the possibilities, not only in the overarching story, but the little satirical details, are endless. Fanboys makes the most of them, and it’s an enjoyable if undemanding romp with some good laughs.

It’s late 1998 and four Star Wars obsessives are counting the days until The Phantom Menace comes out, George Lucas’ return to a galaxy far, far away the best news any of them have had since 1983.

But they’re not kids anymore and the voices of reason, stability, responsibility and maturity are getting louder. The bombshell that one of them has cancer and might not even live to see the new Star Wars movie makes the situation even more urgent, and they decide to throw caution to the wind and embark on one more stupid, childish adventure – drive across the country, break into Skywalker Ranch and steal the print to watch for themselves.

On the way they battle rabid Trekkies, end up in the pocket of a fearsome hooker’s minder (Seth Rogen) in Vegas and come across more celebrity cameos than you can shake a stick at, from William Shatner secretly betraying his Trekkie army to Harry Knowles (aintitcool.com) out for revenge against the guy who’s embarked on a internet relationship with his 10 year-old niece after she’s posed as a grown woman.

Lines in the movie both consciously and subconsciously reference the films (one of the guys says ‘I love you’ to the doctor played

by Carrie Fisher. Her reply, ‘I know’).

After sitting on the Weinstein Company’s shelf for 18 months, Harvey ordered re-shoots by Steven (Little Nicky, Drillbit Taylor) Brill, but considerable fan pressure saw most of the original cut left in.

No, it’s not the ABC comedy troupe as they menace the security posts at the 2008 Sydney AEC Conference, but the story of a cop-turned-pimp trying to track down some missing girls of his employ. Sure they’ve run off so as to avoid their debts to him, Joong-Ho goes on the trail using his police experience and discovers most of the disappearances have been at the sprawling suburban Seoul house of a regular customer.

Little does Joong-Ho or the police know, the house is home to a psychopathic killer who’s bought several girls only and murder and dismember them. He sets a trap by following one of his girls to the creep’s place to see what’s gone on, but when she discovers there’s no mobile reception inside, she can’t give Joong-Ho the address as planned and is trapped inside and the killer starts to unpack his instruments of torture.

There are a lot of subplots, it takes a long time to get where it’s going and it suffers from an oversupply of endings, and despite a good premise it’s a pretty stock standard action thriller story. So several scenes of genuine fear and horror are upsetting almost to the point they don’t seem to belong in the movie.

Tiresomely, it’s already been picked up by an American studio for the inevitable remake, as if they think the Departed effect will rub off on them. _ DREW TURNEY

_ DREW TURNEY

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VISUAL ARTS Lloyd Triestino, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle.

From Sydney-based artist Newell Harry comes an exhibition about heritage, place and memory.

Traveling by sea and pregnant with Harry, Ginny Green traveled to Australia via Fremantle in 1971.

The following year, she returned to WA to marry one of two identical twins in a double wedding, where both would marry ‘coloured’ South African women. Harry’s fascination with history, story and language has formed the basis for his exhibition.

An avid collector, Harry presents his band of objects and images which recall memories in a gentle narrative of family and place.

Despite its highly personal subject, Lloyd Triestino is an exhibition concerned with the universal nature of destiny and chance. Set against the backdrop of a 1970s Western Australia, Harry creates a collection of curios which speak of broader changes underway in Australian society in the seventies.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, January 24.

Summer, upstairs gallery, Little Creatures Brewery, 40 Mews Road, Fremantle Love it or hate it, summer is here to stay for a few months at least. Ten emerging Australian artists and designers share their feelings about the warmer months in Summer, an exhibition that demonstrates the division between those who love the sun and those who cower from it.

The artists cross multiple disciplines including digital painting, photography and illustration.

Collaborations from Forks Open Doors, and Mitchell & Dent will be showcased alongside new works from individual artists, photographers and designers including Simon Boxer, Rebecca Lee, Jessica Singh, Nick Lowe, Luci Everett and Yolanda Stapleton.

Exhibition runs ’til Monday, February 1.

Margaret Priest: An Artist’s Life, Holmes à Court Gallery, 1/11 Brown Street, East Perth.

Margaret Priest was one of the foremost figures in post-war art in Western Australia. Given Perth’s cultural isolation from mainstream Australian art in the early 1960s, she was the first sculptor to introduce modernist ideas and became an important link to contemporary European practice at that time. She played a prominent part in Perth’s aesthetic development between 1950 and 1980, creating an important body of work, much of it in high profile public positions throughout the city. Her Pioneer Woman is the centerpiece of the public space in Kings Park.

Margaret Priest: An Artist’s Life includes sculptures,

Outpourings by Caroline Christie

Outpourings, Elements Art Gallery, 131A Waratah Avenue, Dalkeith.

Caroline Christie will launch her unique book and art exhibition at Elements Art Gallery in February, chronicling her extraordinary art practice.

Entitled Outpourings, the book describes Christie’s painting process, the simple act of allowing paint to be intuitively applied. Her often large scale canvasses speak of intimate moments and ‘being present’ articulated via a sea of merging, swirling pigment which culminates in a visual flood of colour and texture.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, February 13, at 6.30pm, and runs ’til Sunday, February 28. associated drawings and photographs, coins, is certain to delight audiences of all ages as its thematic battle of the sexes makes it as pertinent medallions and recent paintings.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, February 7. today as it was when written 400 years ago. After the success of last year’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Exposed! The Story Of Swimwear, WA Museum the hilarious team of Sam Longley, Glenn Hall, and Will O’Mahoney (Equity Best Newcomer Award for – Maritime, Victoria Quay, Fremantle.

As a nation of swimmers it’s not surprising 2009) will be returning to Shakespeare WA to play Australia played, and continues to play, such a key the roles of Grumio, Hortensio and Tranio.

Season opens on Saturday, January 9, role in swimwear innovation and design. A new exhibition at the Western Australian Museum – and runs ’til Saturday, February 6. Bookings can be Maritime shows how Australian designers and made through BOCS. swimming stars have been central figures in the evolution of the modern swimsuit, helping to La Sylphide, Quarry Amphitheatre, Oceanic blur the boundaries between underwear and Drive, City Beach. outerwear. Exposed! The Story Of Swimwear is an The Perth City Ballet will take to the stage of the Australian National Maritime Museum travelling Quarry Amphitheatre to perform La Sylphide, a exhibition and draws on the museum’s extensive two-act performance starring Tatiana Pevneva collection of historical swimwear to explore how and Sergey Pevnev. Set in Scotland, La Sylphide the modern swimsuit changed bathing into was first performed in 1832 at the Paris Opera swimming and helped redefine perceptions of with choreography by Philippe Taglioni; especially for his daughter Marie, who danced the lead role the body.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, February 7. of the sylph, the airy sprite who seduces a young Scottish farmer, James, on the eve of his marriage to Effie. James leaves his bride and his friends and follows the sylph into a mystical forest. To bind him The Taming Of The Shrew, Kings Park & Botanic to this creature forever he accepts a magic shawl Garden, Perth. from the witch Madge. When he puts it around Shakespeare WA has announced the return of the the sylph’s shoulders however, her wings fall off ever-popular Shakespeare In The Park series in 2010, and she dies. kicking off the season with a 1960s style production Season opens on Wednesday, January of The Taming Of The Shrew. This popular comedy 13, and runs ’til Saturday, January 16. Bookings

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can be made through BOCS. The Sapphires, Playhouse Theatre, 3 Pier Street, Perth.

Black Swan Theatre Company invites you to meet the McCrae sisters – four gorgeous singers from country New South Wales whose biggest dream is to become as famous as their Motown idols. It is 1969, and their Supremes cover band is performing in St Kilda’s Tiki Club when the sisters are spotted by a talent scout. Soon they are dreaming of fame, fortune and glamorous international careers.

Instead, these Koori divas find themselves in the war zone of Vietnam, entertaining the troops.

Season opens on Saturday, January 23, and runs ’til Wednesday, February 10. Bookings can be made through BOCS. Hypnolarious, The Regal Theatre, 474 Hay Street, Subiaco.

Due to popular demand, PiP the comic illusionist will bring a Las Vegas style show to Perth, showcasing his comedic wit and charm, mastery of prestidigitation and hilarious hypnotic skits while unleashing the creative abilities of his on stage guests subconscious minds equaling 90 minutes of amazing and hysterical skits. The show will also feature the talents of Mr Jimmy James Eaton.

Performance takes place on Saturday, February 13, at 7.30pm. Bookings can be made through Ticketek.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Shakespeare Under The Stars

ARKHANA!

Singh Her Praises Arkhana! is on display at Little Creatures Brewery at 40 Mews Road in Fremantle ’til Monday, February 1, 2010.

Perth born illustrator Jessica Singh has received some well deserved attention in recent years, having graduated from the prestigious Central Saint Martins College in London, with a client list that includes Her Majesty the Queen of England, Kit Cosmetics and fashion house Givenchy. Back in town for her second solo exhibition, Arkhana!, Singh talks culture, tarot and creativity.

“After returning from study in London, I was really amazed by the acceptance and the variety of cultures there. In a big way I think my time there and seeing the melting pot that London is, really inspired me to take a look into my own culture. Basically, with Arkhana! I was inspired by Indian comic books my father used to bring back to me from his trips to India. I used to be obsessed with them as a child, and revisiting them was a lovely and somewhat familiar experience.”

Though Singh hasn’t ventured back to her father’s homeland since 2004, memories of her last trip to India have stayed with her, even those she would rather forget.

“I was pretty young and naive so I was unprepared for the food poisoning and the culture shocks,” shares Singh. “It was definitely an unforgettable holiday, from wandering around in my father’s village to the busy honking streets of Delhi, it was beautiful and crazy all at once. One thing I really appreciated was the colour and the heart of India. I am hoping to go back soon and spend some more time there.”

Having rekindled her love for Indian comic books, Singh began researching into concepts of fate, time and change in relation to tarot cards, which is reflected in the artworks that make up Arkhana!.

“Lately I have been obsessed with the Hindu goddess Kali - often called ‘the destroyer’.

To me she represents so much of what is brewing inside of me right now; as well as senses of feminine power and ferocity.Kali is also about moving on and accepting change and death as a form of rebirth. I feel in this way I am representing different forms of Kali in my Arkhana! girls. I think ideas of fate stem from the use of tarot cards as a tangible way for humans to contemplate and understand fate; and that’s where each of the characters represents an ‘outcome’; a card.

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The Taming Of The Shrew The Taming Of The Shrew is showing at Kings Park and Botanic Garden from Saturday, January 9, ’til Saturday, February 6. Booking through BOCS.

Temperance by Jessica Singh

Jessica Singh (Photo: Darren Smith) “The 22 cards I have chosen to redraw from the deck are called the Major Arcana in Tarot.

The word Arcana is derived from the Latin word Arcane; meaning mysterious, secret, obscure and esoteric. I think that I can relate alot to that word, as most of my life I’ve felt like an enigma.”

Though Singh is back in Perth for now, she plans to relocate to the east coast in the coming year, with hopes to continue creating in various formats.

“2010, 2010! Time has gone so fast. I’m hoping to maybe relocate to Melbourne, I have a few things I want to pursue and focus on; but really I am keeping options open. I think I’ll be continuing to work on my freelance illustration career, as well as looking into street art.” _EMMA BERGMEIER

It is the battle of the sexes Shakespearian style and it is coming to Kings Park in its entire 1960s colour, sexy psychedelic splendour. The Taming Of The Shrew is Shakespeare WA’s second outing of the much loved Shakespeare In The Park experience and its 2010 season is guaranteed not to disappoint. Directed by Paige Newmark, the 400 year old play is set to sparkle under the stars as some of this city’s finest actors take to the stage in one of the Bard’s funniest comedies. Included in this talent-filled, 12 player ensemble is Anna Brockway who is undertaking the thrilling title role of the shrewish Katherina.

“This is my first time in Taming Of The Shrew so of course, my first time playing Kate too which is a wonderful, wonderful role and a fantastic opportunity to explore her character. The role of Kate, and in fact the entire play has been very controversial. She’s a strong minded woman.

Shakespeare wrote the play as a comment on the structure of society and the adversity of those structures,” Brockway says.

“Kate is very angry at them. There are so many incarnations of this play, like 10 Things I Hate About You, but it’s all the same storyline and she’s angry for a good reason, being constricted in a world that is suppressing her and that she doesn’t agree with. So her journey is through trust and freedom. She’s quite feisty and aggressive and she comes out the other side having gone through a shift in herself and been understood.

She still has the same values but becomes more comfortable in her own skin and learns to love and let someone in.”

Actor David Meadows is Petruchio and spends the play trying to tame Katherina while her sister Bianca (Lucy Cooke) is the object of Lucentio (Nick Candy) and Gremio’s (Stephen Lee) affections. The production also stars the hilarious team of Sam Longley, Glexnn Hall and Will O’Mahoney, as well as James Haagen, Angelique Malcolm, Jay Walsh and Greg McNeill.

“The play is set in 1968 Perth so some of the names have been changed to suburbs here to localise it. It’s also set within an Italian family so there’s the structure of the old Italian values and the new generation Italian Australians,” Brockway informs.

“It’s during a time of change which allows for a lot of absurd moments and makes it fun because everything in those days was along such a big spectrum, from the conservatives to the bra burners. There’s a massive costume shift so it’s very bright with stylish clothes, well I think they are anyway! We’re also using a lot of the varied music from the era too.

“I think the changes are an intelligent choice because even though it is in a more recent time for us, it’s still retrospective if you like and demonstrates how Shakespeare’s stories are still so relevant. It brings a lightness and freedom to the play as well as adding colour and movement. I mean, nowadays, Kate might be more like an emo but that might not work so well on stage.

“And it’s just beautiful performing it under the stars and makes it so much more accessible to everyone. It becomes more of a family show which is the way it was originally intended.

When it’s done in this forum you can take a picnic, sit, relax and enjoy being outside. Perth is perfect for it so why not use it?” _TANYA MACNAUGHTON Hittin’ the town since 1985

COUNTER CULTURE

MITCHELL & DENT Ephemera Of Note

For those who wish to be more organised in 2010, Mitchell & Dent, self proclaimed purveyors of ‘finery, frippery and felicitous fare’, can help turn dreams into reality with their fabulous range of locally made calendars and notebooks.

Established back in January, Mitchell & Dent offer up a range of beautifully designed stationary products, emblazoned with striking artworks created by Madame Mitchell and Madame Dent, the creative alter egos of Perth ladies Angela Mitchell and Leah Dent.

“As designers who predominantly work for clients’ brands, we wanted to balance our service side with something that expresses our own personality,” shares Madame Dent. “In our day jobs, designers are often asked to take away the quirky, the emotional, the conversational and the clever things in order to communicate more plainly. We’re not so sure this is always a good idea (it certainly doesn’t happen in fashion design) and Mitchell & Dent is a reaction to unadventurous clients. It is all about us (in a good way).

“Mitchell & Dent is a new venture, not yet a year old. It has grown very quickly. We’ve been so surprised and delighted by how people have responded to our paper products. People from all over the world buy from our online store and Mitchell & Dent keeps popping up in blogs in languages we can’t read (we hope they are saying nice things),” chuckles Dent.

In addition to pocket-sized calendars, Mitchell & Dent sell notebooks, letterpress and all manner of wonderful things, which they print themselves Dent reveals, “we have an interest in vintage printing techniques and bought a 1905 Chandler & Price platen press - a big old beastie affectionately dubbed ‘Herbert’ - and pestered some retired printers to teach us how to use it, so much of our work is letterpressed.

“We create letterpress artworks, greetings, custom stationery and invitations as befitting the most stylish of homes, celebrations and weddings. We’re all about paper, really. Don’t get us wrong, we’re big fans of the internet and social networking (yay, Facebook and Twitter) but nothing will ever beat the excitement of receiving a little hand-addressed something in your mailbox.”

Since the calendar creating ladies behind Mitchell & Dent need no help on the organisational front, one wonders what their New

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Year’s resolution or plans for 2010 entail…

“We’ve just begun to dip our toes into the retail world and are so fortunate to have shops like Distracted Merchants Of Fancy and Form supporting us and starting to stock our products. Although we do sell online (www.mitchellanddent.com.au), we’d like to build relationships with more like-minded retailers.”

Those who would like to get to know Mitchell & Dent a bit better, and find out what inspires this creative duo, can head to their blog Tittle Tattle & Tales Of Terrificness at mitchellanddent. com.au/tittle-tattle.

BAROQUE & ROLL The always stylish Deville’s Pad is set to host an evening dedicated to the worship of fashion on Saturday, January 2, when Sydney based label Baroque & Roll will arrive in town to present their latest collection. Kicking off at 8.30pm sharp, the show will feature pieces from womenswear collections, Tales From The Deep and Love You Like Voodoo, sure to entertain men and women alike. Tickets are available on the door. For more on Baroque & Roll, check out baroque-and-roll.com.

_EMMA BERGMEIER

SINGH OUT

STUCK ON SUMMER

Perth born artist Jessica Singh launched her second solo exhibition, Arkhana! at Little Creatures last Tuesday, December 22, exploring her Indian heritage and concepts of fate, time and change.

Contemporary art fans made their way to Little Creatures in Fremantle last Tuesday, December 22, for the launch of Summer. Featuring artworks from Forks Open Doors, Mitchell & Dent, Simon Boxer, Rebecca Leigh, Jessica Singh, Nick Lowe, Luci Everett and Yolanda Stapleton, Summer asks artist to reflect on the sunny season.

Exhibition runs ’til Monday, February 1, 2010.

Photographs by Darren Smith

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Photographs by Darren Smith

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After some initial trepidation about interviewing a ‘man who’s had everything written about him before’, RZ discovers that trance superstar Eddie Halliwell still has plenty to talk about.

Call me a bit of gurner but if the number of Google hits an ar tist returns is any indication of his popularity and success – then Eddie Halliwell must be right up there. After trawling through all 2.2 million of them (well, maybe not all 2.2 million…) I decided it was going to be difficult to write about a man who’s had everything written about him before.

The beauty is though, Halliwell seems just as happy talking about the same stuff over and over – there is nothing objectionable about this character – other than perhaps how tired he might make you when you get home from a big night out at one of his performances!

Keeping busy, when we speak to him Halliwell is currently flying on the cusp of the European summer – but he is just as eager to get back to Australia for a host of gigs in the near future.

“Obviously being the summer period over here, we’ve been very busy,” explains Halliwell,“I’m actually flying out to Ibiza for the closing party at Cream shortly. It’s been interesting too, because with the current state of the economy, people were concerned about how things were going to end up, so I must say it’s been great that things have remained so upbeat. I am a bit gutted though that the summer season is about to come to an end!”

The summer season might be coming to a close for Halliwell, but nevertheless, there’ll be plenty going to keep him occupied, particularly the new radio show he’s currently been getting off the ground. Again, suffering immeasurable success seems to play hand in hand with the Halliwell name. Halliwell goes into some more detail.

“The whole show is like constantly growing in listener-ship; the territories I’m getting out to are so vast I could never have imagined it.

And the fact that it’s getting the airplay is also fantastic – it’s nice to be able to reach out to people, other than on a CD or in the clubs”, chimes the trance demi-god. 

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 PARRISH PERFECTION The distinctive style of dance music that emerges when Theo Parrish gets behind the decks has engaged audiences the world over; his legendary sets stunning punters at reputable clubs and festivals like Sonar in Barcelona, Plastic People in London and Club Yellow in Tokyo. Parrish’s disco, techno and house music fused masterpieces take a unique and spiritual approach to genre: his sampling is a tasteful assembly of sounds, and his DJing is intense and sincere. Having witnessed dance floors exploding at Parrish’s previous two visits to Perth, Knowledge Music and {move} are thrilled to be bringing Parrish back. Saturday, January 16, at Shape. Support from Ben M, Ben Taaffe and Nikolas Patterson. Presales from www.shapebar.com.au or otherwise on the door if not sold out. Doors open 10pm.

JAMAICAN JIVING

DOUBLE TROUBLE

2010’s a whole new year of parties and good times, so why not get things off to a great party start with Fisherman’s Style’s New Years Day Bashment at Mojo’s! Nine hours of WA’s best reggae and dancehall sounds from the best DJs, MCs and singers on the scene, including Fisherman’s Style residents Earthlink Sound alongside Sabata Sound, Future Soundz, Platinum Galore, Captn’ K, Munchie Man, Herbalicious, Flex and Sort. There’ll be an extra sound system out back so you can smell the salt sea air with reggae in your ears, not to mention a great selection of Jamaican and African food will be available on the night, with plenty of door prizes (including a bottle of Carribean Rum!). Friday, January 1, Mojo’s.

4pm ‘til 1am. $10/$5 concession, tickets on the door. Or get your booty down to Mojo’s before 6pm for free entry!

The freshfaced Andy Murphy is one of Australia’s best house DJs. As a OneLove resident for nearly three years, Murphy has risen to the top of the scene, leading the way with a sound that is crisp and fun.He’s also spearheading numerous OneLove CDs (including the recent Smash Your Stereo) and has appeared on Mobile Disco alongside John Dahlback and The Bang Gang DJs. Fellow DJ Kaz James,from Melbourne,has had anthems featured across the globe. Formerly a part of Bodyrockers and now facing the world on his own, Kaz James blurs the lines between the genres to bring us one seriously big beat, and when it comes to deciding what’s hot right now chances are he’s a part of it.

These two are men on fire at the moment with Kaz returning home from a massive European summer playing at all the major clubs and parties including the infamous Pacha Mondays with the Swedish House Mafia, while current ITM Top 50 #2 Murphy brings his trademark party set to raise the roof at one of his favorite venues in Australia. Limelite, Friday January 15, Metropolis Fremantle. Tickets $15 on the door.

TALENTED TRIO Besides being known for his versatile DJ sets, Dutch DJ Jochen Miller has had singles peak in tonnes of dance music charts, and is widely known as one of the rising talents of the Dutch electronic music scene. Also a young man on the Rise, 24 year old trance producer Ben Gold is already having his tracks played by big wigs like Armin van Buuren and Sander Van Doorn. Rossco, too, has built his profile as one of the most far reaching DJs to emerge from the Newcastle dance music scene securing bookings at events such as Trance Energy, Global Gathering, Slinky and Godskitchen. Join these three prodigious talents as they take over Rise for Up There on Friday, January 15. Door sales only from 9.30pm. Rise members $5 before 11pm, $10 thereafter. Non-members $10 before 11pm, $20 thereafter.

Method Man

METHOD IN THE MADNESS One of the most hectic music festivals to ever hit Perth’s shores, Origin NYE, is just about ready to explode, with Thursday, December 31, being the night all the action will go down at Steel Blue Oval in Bassendean. Knowledge recently announced that despite any previous rumours, Methodman and Redman’s visas are all confirmed and the guys will most definitely be there on the night! However, unfortunately Russel from Bloc Party will not be performing. Check the map and playing times over the page for all the info you’ll need for the big night. Tickets still available at www. moshtix.com.au. Remember your photo ID!

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ALBUMS PUSHING OUR WRITERS’ BUTTONS THIS WEEK… VARIOUS MOS Clubbers’ Guide to 2010: Hook N Sling/Anna Lunoe/Axwell THE PHENOMENAL HANDCLAP BAND The Phenomenal Handclap Band SVEN VÄTH The Sound of the 10th Season UNDERWORLD VS THE MISTERONS Athens

Theo Parrish

FISHY BUSINESS Born, bred and based in Sydney with a career spanning 15 years and residencies over east at top club nights like Family, and Sublime, Nik Fish boasts the title of longest serving weekly resident DJ in the world. Fish is arguably one of Australia’s most popular and well-known DJs - other successful DJs tip their hat in acknowledgement of the paths and places where Nik has made his mark, well before most of them even left their bedrooms to play out. Catch Fish on Friday, January 8, at Rise. Door sales only from 9.30pm.

Rise Members $5 before 11pm; $10 thereafter. Non-members $10 before 11pm; $15 thereafter.

PHDJ from Purple Sneakers

PUMPING PURPLE

Jochen Miller

PEVERELIST Jarvik Mindstate

POP V RETRO

SVEN WEISEMANN Xine HORRORSHOW Inside Story BLAKROC Blakroc NEON INDIAN Psychic Chasms FEVER RAY Fever Ray Nik Fish

If you’ve got a love of good ‘80s music burning in your veins and you’re still weighing up your New Year’s Eve options, you’ll be glad to hear that Mint nightclub’s two most popular nights (Club Retro on Fridays and Pop Life on Saturdays) are combing for a New Year’s Eve party night extravaganza. Chris McPhee and the Club Retro crew control the tunes with the best pop and dance hits from the ‘80s and ‘90s, with Darren Briais taking the party into Pop Life mode with the best sexy house and electro, Top 40 and party anthems all the way through to the first sunrise of the year. Thursday, December 31, 8pm-5am, door sales Free before 10pm, $10 thereafter. Your best bet is to arrive before doors open at 9pm to avoid queuing!

Limelite’s first show of the New Year is set to get indie dance kids in a tizzy with the announcement that the head of the Purple Sneakers DJ crew, PHDJ, is in town to spin tunes. Responsible for pulling over 800 kids every Friday night at Sydney’s longest running indie club, Purple Sneakers, The Purple Sneakers DJs are a bunch of party dudes throwing down boundary-pushing dance-floor bombs, doing it better than any other indie DJ around. One of Australia’s highest profile party-starters, Purple Sneakers’ PhDJ has accompanied the likes of Santogold, Bloc Party, The Presets, Le Tigre, Chk Chk Chk and Ratatat on tour, and has played at numberous festivals including Splendour in Grass, Big Day Out, Field Day, Good Vibrations and more. Purple Sneakers DJs prove that just because you play indie, you don’t have to suck balls as a DJ! Friday, January 8 at Metropolis Fremantle. Tickets on the door for $15.

CHEER FOR CHARLIE Electronic music producer Charlie May is currently the go-to guy for breathtaking, sonically adventurous technoid future dance. He’s one half of revered progressive house pioneers Spooky, and has been the man behind many of Sasha’s biggest singles and albums, not to mention being the guy at the centre of the beating heart of house since the early ’90s. With new tracks and remixes due for release by artists such as Robert Babicz, Pole Folder, Glenn Morrison and Bedrock, there’s no better time to catch Charlie May than at Shape on Saturday, January 23. Support care of Flex, Darren J and Richard Lee. Doors open 10pm. Tickets $15 for earlybirds through www.shapebar.com.au and $20 thereafter. More on the door if available.

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EDDIE HALLIWELL GOOGLE CHAMP

MAINROOM 2010 a space odyssey feat

DTM, Rok Riley, Chris Wright, Nathan J, Ben Elliot & Declan.

Free Entry with

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UPSTAIRS Flying High with RTRs

Peter Barr and Dave Cutbush

also Free Entry with

The Open Decks Sessions

present Ash B, Munkee, Sean Dalirious, Ivan Hallisey & Alan Ahern Free Entry 9pm

Eddie Halliwell Then, of course, there is his new ‘ED IT’ concept.

Not necessarily revolutionary, but an impressive exercise nonetheless, ‘ED IT’ is centred on the idea of a complete showcase of light and sound. Halliwell illuminates the concept for us: “we had a launch back in April – back then, it was a bit of a road test to be honest. The main plan was to present it at the big festivals – your Creamfields and Parklife in Scotland. It then developed into more of a stage show production with pyrotechnics and visuals and the like; and now I’m working with new equipment.”

He continues: “It’s a real buzz to be doing the music on the one hand and working with the production engineers and visual programmers on the other. All that stuff runs in the background and it’s just awesome to have that control in the background to see the reaction people have. It has taken a bit of time developing and working with it, doing a lot of templates and all that sort of stuff, but it has been worth it.”

“At first I didn’t want to start bringing it into my normal set because you really have to use a friendly setup to make sure things run smoothly; you don’t want to make it too difficult and that’s why we decided to road test some of the ideas. We invested a lot into making it a show for the crowd and I didn’t want to be worrying about things in the background; so the system is in place and it’s great to have that freedom and I really think it’s a concept that won’t stale.”

Studio-wise, Eddie has a few things in the pipeline - mixes and such, as he shares.

“All the updates are going up on the website and we’re looking at doing something at back end of this year or early next, as well as working on putting a few things together for the next ‘ED IT’ performances as the summer season drives to a close. And of course, it’s awesome to be getting down to Australia for the summer and away from the winter here!”

Halliwell finishes our chat by sharing a little of his packing plans for his down under sojourn.

“I’ll bring my sun tan lotion this time though, as I burnt myself playing on a stage in Melbourne last year! The Summadayze festival is a great gig and I always appreciate everyone’s support. I promise to bring the people plenty of dancing and plenty of energy!”

EDDIE HALLIWELL SUNDAY, JANUARY 3 @ SUMMADAYZE, SUPREME COURT GARDENS & THE ESPLANADE, PERTH

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GETTING CARRIED AWAY

Los Angeles hip hop duo People Under The Stairs took a new approach to recording their latest release Carried Away. Chris Portugal, AKA Thes One, discusses the new album with JOSHUA HAYES. As one of the underground hip hop scene’s most consistent acts, People Under The Stairs have released seven albums over the last 10 years.

However, their latest effort Carried Away, is a step in a new direction.

After releasing Fun DMC in 2008, People Under The Stairs had a great time on the road, selling out a Chinese tour and playing a number of festivals, which left them itching to get back into the studio, as Portugal shares with Salt: “We were so hyped off of all the stuff that we had done, we had this feeling, we really wanted to get in the studio and do something.” The group aimed to record Carried Away within a month to capture their mood.

Continues Portugal: “I think that what we did was something that people have been wanting us to do, which is capture the spontaneity of what we have onstage in the studio. I think this is the first record where we’ve finally captured a lot of the interplay and humour that we really have in real life.”

Portugal is joined by Michael Turner Jr AKA Double K, and the pair began working together as teenagers.

“I kept hearing about Double K from my friends who had gone over to that school, and he was hearing about me, and so naturally we didn’t like each other,” he recalls. “But then when we met we realised that we really were the only two people who could sit around and talk about the type of music influences we had, so that led to us working together.”

The group soon released their 1998 debut The Next Step, and built a strong fan base over the course of a decade with consistent releases and an entertaining live show. They were last in town for Summadayze 2008 however unfortunately, another visit is not on the cards yet.

“I tried really hard, especially for festival season,” says Portugal. “I’m still trying to get down there. I think anyone who knows us knows how much we love Australia, so it’s definitely something that we’re trying to do, we just got

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to try and make it work.”

Meanwhile the group has reached a new level of acclaim, having recently been asked to join a number of artists from different genres to remix the theme song from The Simpsons for the final episode of the cartoon’s 20th season.

Portugal gives us the insider: “We didn’t even really know where to start with that, and just being asked in the first place to do it was such a huge honour that we were kind of taken aback.” The group gave the theme a hip hop spin, remixing it on turntables and drum machines. The episode is due to air in January.

Despite just getting out on the road the group is also looking towards their next album, and Portugal believes the process they used for Carried Away has served them well. “I think that we’re definitely in the zone where we feel like we’re capturing the best of what we have to offer,” he says. “People love what we do live on stage, we need to give that to them in the studio.”

PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS CARRIED AWAY [OM HIP HOP]

BREAKESTRA IT’S A RAP!

Breakestra founder and songwriter MilesTacket speaks with HEIDI LEIGH AXTON about new touring guest vocalist Afrodyete and the album inspired by late friend and mentor DJ Dusk.

Breakestra

It’s a cold day in California when I ring Miles Tacket for our interview, and it’s wreaking havoc with telephone reception. There’s crackling, vibrating and frustrating drop-outs. As I ask him to repeat some of his answers, I hear a whistling sound.

“I’m sorry; can I just grab that?” he asks, as it gets louder and louder. The whistling noise abruptly stops. “That time it was my kettle,” he confesses. Tackett, founder of exciting funk outfit Breakestra, is looking forward to touring Australia with the group, and particularly to introducing guest vocalist Afrodyete.

“This tour is going to be our first time featuring a guest vocalist that I’ve been working with for a while in my live performances with Breakestra. The singer is Afrodyete; she’s going to be out there as part of the show and she’s something else!” The idea of Breakestra came to Tackett in the late ‘90s, inspired by his love of funk and also his fascination with the clever way DJs mix samples to create a certain vibe.

“I have a love of funk music: all various kinds of funk music. Instrumental soul jazz, etc…

Music I heard from DJs and a record collector played for me in the late ‘80s and ‘90s. Hip hop that I heard around that time in the early ‘90s. I was very excited.

When we formed Breakestra, it was an opportunity for me to play out this musical fantasy I had of live musicians playing breaks, the way a funk DJ or funk/hip hop DJ goes from one track to the other.”

Breakestra doesn’t just rely on cutting

up funk covers however. They know how to pen a mean groove themselves. Their first recording being the catchy Getcho Soul Together.

“Breakestra started out playing all these funky soul jazz covers mixed together. But the first recording I ever put out under the name Breakestra was actually an original funk track’.

Getcho Soul Together. I’d been putting out original funk really from the beginning. It was about four or five years later, that I finally got around to doing a full record of original tracks. I was concerned with how I was going to pull off the original sets, but it was just a matter of working it out the same way as the covers, and the way I connect them together.

I go out of my way to try and make it work and make sacrifices in the name of presentation.”

And what can Tacket tell us about new album Dusk Till Dawn? “It was about two and a half years of periodic work in the lab; my home studio.

Some of the songs were influenced in spirit by the loss of a DJ friend and mentor to me. They were spiritually inspired by DJ Dusk. The record is also very much experimentation. The musical desires I had to branch out and try a different production sound. I just wanted to try different things and I think we got a great end result.”

BREAKESTRA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 @ BECKS MUSIC BOX, ESPLANADE Hittin’ the town since 1985

BREAKFEST Burning Up The Floor Belvoir Amphitheatre Saturday, December 26, 2009 While Boxing Day was a warm one at Belvoir, predictions of 40 degree plus tempatures were, thankfully, off the mark. The black dance floor in the amphitheatre still turned into a hotplate however: one shirtless punter instantly regretted his attempt at a roly-poly after getting burnt by the intensely hot rubber.

The Nextmen, obviously feeling the heat and the effects of jetlag, hit the stage for a swelling throng of people, delivering a crowdpleasing set of near perfect mixing. Theor remix of I Heard It On The Grapevine had punters cheering, cheering which only increased as the ‘Men dropped a bunch of dirty dubstep and dancehall tracks (although mixing in two Sting tracks seemed a little incongruous).

Meanwhile, Ben Mac and Wish were playing some funky breaks in the tent to a growing crowd, looking like they were having a great time, dropping the Plump DJs’ remix of Beat Myself Up. Micah and Tone followed, keeping the energy peaking with a set of high octane electro. It was fantastic to see the love that the local DJs were getting - plenty of people commented on the quality of their sets and it showed, with the tent stage busy almost the entire day.

At 4:45pm, Rennie Pilgrem and MC Chicka Boo hit the main stage for a pumping, high energy, yet simultaneously unremarkable set. One thing must be said though; MC Chicka Boo was sublime. She was everything you wanted in an MC and more, keeping the crowd fired up and dancing despite the heat.

With punters vacating the tent to see Pilgrem in action, the Streetlife DJs dropped tracks like Tiga’s What You Need to a smaller throng, but UK sensation Micky Slim soon got the crowds back. Opening up with The Presets, Are You There, he filled up the dance floor again with a set encompassing breakbeat and electro, managing to maintain the intensity with some pumping, nasty beats.

And then there was NAPT on the mainstage. As one random punter put it perfectly; “What are you, God? Stop being so immaculate!”. It was everything one would expect from a NAPT set and more, and as the sun began to set behind the trees the throng began to fill up every bit of space there was in the ampitheatre. From their remix of Put ‘Em Up, through to Make My Day, they delivered on the hype with aplomb, bouncing around

behind the decks and interacting with the crowd while mixing with precision.

While the shirtless brigade were out in full as Belvoir began to cool, it was refreshing to be able to dance or stand wherever you wanted without being crushed underfoot or smacked in the face by wayward arms. Dom represented the Stanton Warriors as a later inclusion in the lineup after their epic gig at Villa only weeks before.

Surrounded by smoke and a fantastic light show, Dom ripped up the dance floor the only way he knows how, although he was the fourth (and not the last) artist to drop Major Lazer’s Pon De Floor.

For the punters that began moving towards the exits after the Stanton set, boy, did you miss out. Set of the day belonged to the techno/ electro master Miles Dyson, and from the orchestral beginnings of Intro he had the amphitheatre heaving to a near flawless live set. He conducted the crowd perfectly through his drawn out builds through to the dirty, nasty drops. It was a definite wakeup call for those people winding down after a long day, and his tune selection made it impossible to leave the sweaty dance floor for a water refill or toilet break.

Up at the tent stage Russia’s queen of breaks, Lady Waks, was smashing out another incredible set; and yes, she is stunning as well. With the tent full of smoke and lights it was sometimes hard to see your hand in front of your face, but the vibe in there was simply amazing. Punters wore cheesy smiles and danced themselves sweaty as she dropped tunes like Plump DJs’ Be Good and yet another remix of Riverside (which, with Pon De Floor, was the most overplayed tune of the day).

She played a tight set of breaks, enthralling the crowd with more than her good looks.

Elite Force closed proceedings on the main stage with a set of dirty, deep breaks including Bass Phenomenon and his refix of Where’s My Money?. The fact that the majority of the crowd stayed to the very end after the three amazing sets that preceded him was testament to his skills and the crowds love of the broken beat.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record (bad pun intended), Breakfest delivered once again in 2009. You can see why punters and artists alike stream to Belvoir every Boxing Day; it’s not just about the lineup or the venue, it’s also about the crowd and the great atmosphere of the day. Bring on next year!

PENDULUM Live at Brixton Academy

VARIOUS Summadayze 2010

Say what you like about them, Pendulum are starting to reach superstar status in the UK as this simultaneous CD/DVD of one of their live performances makes clear. On here you’ll find all the hits from their albums In Silico and Hold Your Colour plus some extras such as a cover of Metallica’s Master of Puppets.

When seeing a live band, I like to see people extending on their pre-recorded material, maybe using it as a basis rather than quoting it verbatim in front of an audience. The unfor tunate truth is that ‘Pendulum Live’ sounds almost exac tly the same as ‘Pendulum produced on a computer’. While the energy is infectious, there is not much different between the live performance and what you will hear on the original album.

Drum ‘n’ bass has a fairly small history of live bands, but having seen London Elektricity Live, Roni Size Reprazent and Shapeshifter do their thing, this just seems a little unimaginative in comparison.

Die hard Pendulum fans will love this, even if it is only as a reminder of a live gig they have seen. Personally, I’d rather go back and listen to the original albums again.

With Summadayze 2010 just around the corner, the official double CD has just beeen released and strangely enough, both CDs are mixed by UK House duo, The Shapeshifters.

If you like your house silky smooth, Disc One should satisfy: a solid collection of easy house beats which slowly build momentum into the upbeat rhythms of the latter half of the CD. Saeed Younan’s Backroom Honey is the tribal-inspired funk fest that signals the house party is well on its way. This and the sliding bass line of Sono’s Keep Control are the two standouts on Disc One. With The Shapeshifters themselves featuring in seven out of sixteen tracks on Disc Two, the house onslaught continues.

These picks are more destined for the dance floor; there’s the infectious Musical Freedom

by Candi Station and the punchy bass beats of Jon Rundell’s Manalive.

The Shapeshif ters have done a formidable job assembling the complete house package here, but it in no way reflects the varying genres of the other 33 artists performing at Summadayze.

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ELITE FORCE Tech- Funk at its Best!

Thursday 31-12-09

F E AT U R I N G : Roller, Force Majeure, Destination?, Japan 4, Fresh Produce plus ELITE FORCE

I N F O R M AT I O N : Doors Open 10pm. 104 Murray Street Perth.

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▶ THURSDAY 31/12 STEEL BLUE OVAL ORIGIN NYE It’s pretty simple maths - four stages plus one cranking soundsystem plus 10 or more of the world’s best international dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass lineups equals - a New Year’s Eve to remember. It’s being likened to a ‘giant house party’, but one where the guest list reads something like Method Man and Redman, LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad, Ed Rush & Optical, Bliss & Esso, Dilated Peoples, Cassius, Bloc Party DJs, Sam Sparro, Thunderheist and more.

Playing times a few Salt pages back, tickets still available from Moshtix.

LLAMA BAR TIME NYE Join DJ Neil Viney (UK) for funky party classics from the last twenty years, joined on vocals by the sexy soul sister sounds of Elle Young, Mama Cass, DJ Morris with Kava (live sax and bongoes), DJ Frankie Button and VJ Zoo on visuals. Complimentary glass of champagne on arrival, and a gourmet selection of canapés.

Tickets $60 (plus booking fee) from heatseeker.com.au, Planet Video, Mills Records, Star Surf and at Llama Bar. SALT ON THE BEACH FUNK CLUB’S COUNTDOWN TO NYE Kick up your heels to some quality funk, soul and hop hop care of DJ Nickodemus, Dexter (The Avalanches), Marva Whitney and her live band The Transatlantics, Gentlemen of Leisure (NFA vs Manchild vs Charlie Bucket), The Funk Club House Band, Odette Mercy & her Soul Atomics, and Bongo Loco complete the line up.

Tickets $70 for Funk Club members, or $80 (plus booking fee) general admission, from www.funkclub. com.au, www.heatseeker.com.au, and Planet. Doors open 6pm.

Ambar - NYE at Ambar - Battle of the Brands - Roller (Dart & Devo)/ Force Majeure (Mono Lisa & Philly)/

Destination? (Signal Drivers)/ Japan 4 (Wish, Marty McFly, Tee El, Prizzy)/ Fresh Produce (Bob Noceros, Dead Easy) Amplifier – Death Disco DJ’s/ DJ Francesco/ Eddie Electric/ DJ Ryan Bar Open – Dorcia NYE – Mustard Pimps/Time Travel Agent/DLo Blue Steel Oval - Origin NYE Method Man, Redman/ Bloc Party DJs/Bliss N Esso/ Roots Manuva/ Dilated Peoples/ Ugly Duckling/ Cassius/ Bag Raiders + more Brooklands Tavern – DJ Nate Como Hotel - DJ Real McCoy Connections – Melt – Rob/Mandy/ Paul/Joby Cinnamon/JJ/Brian Cottesloe Beach Hotel - Cott Cancun – The Mad Agents/ DJ Buda/ Damian John/ Maxwell/ Sketchism & Jackness/ Jus Haus Double Lucky – NYE @ Double Lucky - Lee Wilson/Paul Raphael/ Cee/Adam Kelly/Josh Devlin/Angus Money Eve - DJ Tony Allen Euro Bar – DJ Lauren T/ Roger Smart Flying Scotsman (Main Room) –Space Odyssey - DTM/ Rok Riley/ Chris Wright/Nathan J/Ben Elliot/ Declan Flying Scotsman (Upstairs) – Flying High – Peter Barr/Dave Cutbush Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) – Open Decks Sessions - Ash B/ MunkEE/ Sean Dalirious/ Ivan Hallisey /Alan Ahern Foundry- DJ Travis B Geisha Bar – Jack The Eve - Adam Kytka/ Lara H/Tom Drummond/ Elliot Ness /Juddo/Jmc/Zare / Frankie Button/Nik Nak High Wycombe – DJ Jay Kalamunda Hotel – Tip Top Sound DJ Leopold Hotel- DJ James/ DJ Jack Llama Bar – DJ Neil Viney/ Elle Young/ Mama Cass/ DJ Morris/ DJ Kava/ Frankie Button/ VJ Zoo Library - Candy Land Party - DJ AZT/ DJ Meezy/ DJ Fiveo/ DJ Jimmy

Phatz/ DJ Zeke/ DJ L Street Liquid Nightclub – DJ Buda Little Creatures Loft - Ritz at the Loft NYE - Earl Cole/ Darling Buds Of May/ DJs Paul Malone/ DJ Moogy Luxe Bar/bamBOO– NYE Pop – Brash & Sassy/Paul Malone/ Jonno Choy/Jo19/Roly Skender Manor – NYE at The Manor – DJ Manchild/Paper Plane Project/MC NFA (1200 Techniques)/Ad Roc/ Diger Rokwell/Kit Pop/Sour/Charlie Bucket Metro City – 2010 - Bodyrox/ Luciana/Angry Buda/Definutely/ Slick/Doule L/Matty S/MC Bsyde Mint – Club Retro Vs Pop Life - DJ Chris McPhee/ Darren Briais Mustang Bar – DJ James MacArthur/ Rockabilly DJ Mojo’s – King Brown Records – 32 Crew/Freekstyles/Complete Newport Hotel – Culture Clash – DJ Shannon Fox Norfolk Basement – Buda/ Azwon/ Ink/ Clay/ Lachsteady/ Cooker/ FKN Midas Paddy Hannans - Dr Bogus Paramount – 000 Heroes Party DJ Morgan/ DJ Jordan/ DJ Meezy Players Bar – Neon Lights - DJ Samuel Spencer Rosemount Hotel - New Years Eve Fiesta - DJ Shannon Fox/ Jamie Mac Rise – Bring It On! - Greg Packer/ Rousa/ Daze/ Steven Tranzor/ Simon Barwood Salt On The Beach – Funk Club’s Countdown To NYE - Dexter/ Gentlemen of Leisure (NFA vs Manchild vs Charlie Bucket)/ Nickodemus Settler’s Tavern (Maragert River) DJ Nick Shepherd Shape – Derrick Carter/ D. Ramirez/ DJ Nina/ La Gooch/ James A/ Terry Waites/ Mind Electric/ Nathan Francis/ Jus Haus/ Tank Top/ Miss Tokyo/ Chiari The Boat – Dr Bogus The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen- NYE Pyjama Party - DJ Birdie/DJ Flex/DJ Nano/DJ Surge/ Sambalicious The East End - DJ Midfield

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Bar Open (Both Levels) – Woops A Daisy Afterparty Black Bettys- Trubble Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Burswood On The Swan - Club Paradiso – Sebastian Ingrosso/ Dirty South Burswood Entertainment Complex - Marquee – Gentlemen Of Leisure/ DJ Ego/ Maxwell Capitol – Shuggie Disco - Shuggie DJs Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Boogie Double Lucky – Full Circle – DJ ▶ FRIDAY 01/01 Adam Kelly/ DJ Cee/Josh Devlin BURSWOOD ON SWAN CLUB Eurobar- Perth Cup Lounge Room PARADISO Swedish House Mafia Afterparty - DJ Laurent/ Roger main man Sebastian Ingrosso Smart/ Richie G/ Saul Bliss plus Australia’s very own dance Eve – DJ Migi/Skooby/Crazy Craig deities Dirty South, and local talent Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – Zelimir, Mel B vs Maxwell, Darren DJ Rok Riley/ Joe 19 Briais, Jus Haus, Rob Sharp, Tank Flying Scotsman (Upstairs) - The Top, Mind Electric, Sketchism & Beat Suite – Micah/ Sharif Galal Jackness and Cool Hand Luke will Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) provide the entertainment. Hosted – Modular Man/ Dan Tha Man on the banks of the Swan and Flying Squadron Yacht Club featuring a gourmet BBQ and day Cuban Club - Sambalicious/ Randa beds! 2pm-10pm. Tickets through & The Soul Kingdon/ Midnight www.moshtix.com.au.

Circus/ DJs Dexter/ George Mair/ Sam Birmingham RISE HARD WARS Rise plan to go Foundry – Crave hard in 2010, if the first day of the Funk Club – DJ Charlie Bucket year’s lineup is anything to go by. Geisha – Definition Of House - Mario Fourteen of the best and hardest Tavelli/ The Southern House Junkie/ talent Perth has to offer go head to Dev1ance/DJ LP head. Representing hard trance are Harry’s Bar - DJ Double L / Benny T Delaney and 911, representing hard / Luca Castelli dance we have Damien Blaze, Clint Hyde Park - DJ Zoom Scott, Reaktor and Ravix, playing for Inglewood Hotel – DJ Simone hardstyle will be Hutcho, Mayhem, Llama Bar - DJ Morris/Kava Techen and Steven Tranzor; with Library – DJ Meezy/ DJ AZT/ DJ Daze, Rousa, Whiskey and Luminate Fiveo representing hardcore. Door sales Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky only from 9.30pm.

Lakers Tavern - DJ Adrian Merrina Tavern – DJ Terry AMBAR PLANET 01 It was going Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee to be an NYE party at Metros, but Mojo’s – Fisherman’s Style now it’s a NYD party at Ambar! Keep Earthlink Sound/ Future Soundz/ up, Planet 01’s on the move but the Herbaliscious/ Sabata Sound/ line up’s still looking better than Flex/ Platinum Galore/ Capn K/ DJ ever, with Holland’s Richard Durand Sorted/ Munchie Man bringing his big tech trance bombs Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny and Netherlands’ producer Sied Van Mustang- DJ Giles Riel - tipped last year by DJ Mag Niche - DJ Jonni Zimber as ‘the next big thing to hit trance’ Norma Jeans – DJ Phil – also along for the ride. Holland’s Onyx Bar – Slick/ Adroc Joop, Melbourne’s Trent Mc Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Dermott, Dr Willis and Jody McLeod, Paramount – DJ Morgan / Jordan and locals Kenny L, Damien Blaze, Priory Lodge - DJ Sticky Ricky Piet El and Jason Creek. Tickets $40 Principal Micro Brewery – DJ Roxy (plus booking fee) from Queens Tav – DJ Rueben www.moshtix.com.au or Republic – Clark/ Dave Miller/ Naik/ www.inthemix.com.au.

DJ Ben Taaffe/ Petro Vouris Rise – Hard Wars Episode XIV – Ambar – NYE Planet 01 - Richard Rousa/ Daze/ Whiskey/ Luminate/ Durand/ Seid Van Riel/ Joop/ All Hutcho/Mayhem/ Damien Blaze/ Trance DJ’S/ Dr Willis Clint Scott/ Reaktor/ Ravix/ Techen/ Amplifier – DJ Shannon Fox/ DJ Delaney/ 911/ Steven Tranzor Jamie Rosemount - DJ Silence

The Floreat – Flirt – DJ Armee/ CutNice/ Kill-DYL/ Shaker The Queens – The Queens NYE – DJ Rhys The Shed – DJ Andyy The Vic Hotel – DJ Simon/ Al Threeninenine Bar – Open House Party NYE at 399 - 399 resident DJs Tiger Lil’s - Tropicana Party – Philly/ Ben Sebastian/ Adam Kelly Universal Bar- DJ Crisp Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Woodvale Tavern – DJ Bogus

Rubix –DJ Pascal Sail And Anchor – Balcony Beats T-Mac/ DocSpin Salt On The Beach - Club Calypso – Felix Da Housecat/ JMC/ Rueben South St Ale House – DJ Jay Swan Hotel – Nickodemus/ Transatlantics/ Manchild/ Charlie Bucket The Boat – Dr Bogus The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen – DJ Birdie/ DJ Tony Allen/ DJ Nano/ DJ Surge The Eastern – DJ Midfield The Esplanade - Phrase The Queens – DJ Rueben The Shed – DJ Glenn 20 The Stamford Arms - DJ Anaru The Vic – Tip Top Sound DJ’s Tiger Lils – Paul Malone/ Joby / Alex K Toucan Club – DJ Armee Windsor – Dj Riki and Ray

▶ SATURDAY 02/01 VILLA PETE TONG Possibly one of the most popular DJs in the world, Pete Tong has paved the way for the likes of Tim Westwood, Danny Rampling, Judge Jules, Carl Cox and More via his radio show The Essential Collection, on BBC Radio 1, which has long been regarded as the most groundbreaking and successful radio show of its kind. Tong’s work as a record label exec has also seen him launch the careers of Orbital, Armand Van Helden, Sasha and countless others. In fact, Tong’s life as a DJ has been so successful, he was the inspiration behind 2004 film It’s All Gone, Pete Tong. Tickets $55 (plus booking fee) from Planet Video, Mills, 78s and Moshtix Outlets (1300 GET TIX) and online from the Boomtick SHOP, moshtix.com.au and inthemix.com.au(.) Doors open 9pm.

Amplifier – Pure Pop – DJ Eddie Electric Bar Open (Downstairs) – Soul Project Bar Open (Upstairs) – Frisk Finale!

– TankTop/Mind Electric /Rob Sharp/ Chiari/ Andreas Sadler/Carl Drake/Cam Duff Bar Republic – Sexy Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky Black Bettys- DJ Trubble/ DJ Jinx Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol (Downstairs) –Death Disco – Death Disco DJ’s Capitol (Upstairs) – 80s Classics – DJ Ryan Captain Stirling - DJ Dano Clink- DJ Clint Club Bay View – Shake & Pop - DJ

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Zelimir Connections – Michy T / JJ / Brian Double Lucky - Paul Raf /Alex K/ Angus Dusk Lounge – X Max X Over – Shockone/ Skinny/ Rowdy/ Fusion/ Tommy Dub/ Alba/ Jonny Quest/ Wiggz And Pugz/ Arien/ MC Pugz/ Rtilary/ JK/ Moondogg Eurobar – Roger Smart/ DJ Lauren T Eve –Kenny L/Richie G/Riki Flying Scotsman (Upstairs) – Flying High – Sarah Tout/ Jamie McDonald/ Jack Midalia/ Shanon Fox/ Gemma Pike/ Andrew Ewing/ Ryan Sandilands Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – Transmission - Andrei Mazz Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) – Minimal Esposure - Mike Bishop/ Arn/ Luke Mc Grath/ Goose/ Bokchoy/ Adam Biesiot Geisha – Joie - Steve H/ Frankie Buttton/Kyran Smith High Wycombe – DJ Matt Inglewood – DJ Leigh Leederville- DJ Loco Ren Library - DJ AZT/ DJ Fiveo/ DJ Jimmy Phatz/ DJ Zeke/ DJ L Street Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Llama Bar – VJ Zoo/ DJ Rueben/ DJ Tony Lopez Mint – Pop Life - Darren Briais Mojo’s – Carl Fox / DJ Hamish/ Luna Parade/Knoe FM/Alphanumeric Mustang – DJ Rockabilly/ DJ James MacArthur Niche – DJ Manda Power/ Cee/ Adam/ Kelly/Josh D Norma Jeans – DJ Dwayne Old Bailey Tavern – Dr Bogus Paramount – DJ Meezy / Jordan / Reuben Queens Tav – Gareth Richardson Rocket Room – DJ Brett Rowe Rise – Revolution Relaunch - Joe Benger/ Rousa/ Greg Packer/ MC Xsessiv/ Daze Rosemount - New Years Eve Fiesta DJs Shannon Fox/ Jamie Mac Rubix – DJ Pascal Sapphire Bar – Filthy Gorgeous – Sketchism/ Jackness/ Nathan Francis/DeeJay Vee Sail And Anchor –Balcony Beats – Ad Lustre South St Ale House – DJ Jay Tiger Lil’s –Ben Sebastian/ Adam Kelly The Brighton - Philly Blunt/ Creek/ eSQue/ Kill Dyl/ Mad Dogs The Deen - DJ Birdie – Zone 2 / DJ Tony Allen – Zone 3 / DJ JJ - Zone 5 The Eastern – Dr Bogus The Shed – Glenn 20 Toucan Club – Samuel Spencer/ Mr President Windsor – DJ Ray / Jinx The Victoria Hotel – DJ Melvin Villa – Pete Tong/ James Francis/

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SUPREME COURT GARDENS/ ESPLANADE SUMMADAYZE The good ship Summadayze lands on the shores of the Swan today, so slap on the sunscreen and put on your hardiest pair of dancing sneakers and get ready for Carl Cox, 2manyDJs, Danny Tenaglia, The Presets, Infected Mushroom, Josh Wink, LCD Soundsystem DJs, Eddie Halliwell and so many more - we can already feel our limbs aching from all the dancefloor moves we’ll be pulling! Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com.au (or by phoning 136 100), www.inthemix. com.au , 78 Records, DJ Factory, Live Clothing (all stores), Mills Records, Planet Video and Rokeby Records.

Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Double Lucky - Substance – DJ Paul Malone/ DJ JMC Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel - DJ Matty J High Wycombe - DJ Ricky The Cott (Upstairs) - Essential Tuesdays –Maxwell/ DJ Jus Haus/ Damian John The Paddo - DJ DPad

▶ SUNDAY 03/01

Bar Open - Official Summadayze After Party Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Clancys - Rancho Relaxo / DJ Gear Double Lucky – Charlie Bucket Ellington Jazz Club – Back To Mono – DJ Phil Stevens/ Paul Gamblin Eve – DJ Birdie/MC Jex Flying Scotsman (downstairs) Nathan J/ Dan Tha Man/ Nisbit Geisha – Fork – Cam Duff/ BaciCH/ Miss Tokyo Hip E Club - DJ E-Funk Inglewood – DJ Shifty Mash – DJ Ricky Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny Mustang - DJ Rockin Rhys Old Broadwater Farm – Garden Party – Tijuana Cartel/The Gentlemen of Leisure/Paul Malone/ Mellifluous Paddo - DJ PDS Paramount – DJ Morgan/ DJ Jordan Players Bar - DJ-Udas Queens Tav- DJ Rhys Worth Supreme Court Gardens Summadayze - Carl Cox/ 2 Many DJ’s/ The Presets/ Roger Sanchez/ Danny Tenaglia/ Sharam (Deep Dish)/ Infected Mushroom/ LCD Soundsystem/ Josh Wink/ Eddie Halliwell/ Danny Howells/ Ian Carey Project and more The Cott – Miami Beats – Damian John/ Maxwell The Saint - DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andyy The Wembley – Deckeclectic - Pow!/ Dead Easy/ Nago/ Kapitol P

▶ MONDAY 04/01 Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris The Deen – DJ Birdie

▶ TUESDAY 05/01

▶ WEDNESDAY 06/01 SHAPE (UPSTAIRS) PROXY Proxy’s last gig in Perth, at the Manor for Blender, was a total riot, that very nearly took the roof off the whole place. After a year of cranking out dancefloor bombs like 8000 and Who Are You, plus remixes for folks like Bloody Beetroots, Tiga and Peaches, Proxy’s back to pilfer Perth’s pockets at Shape tonight. Support from Bad Weather v Kit Pop, Rekab and Le Gab (live). Limited early birds $20 from www.shapebar.com.au, $25 plus booking fee after. Doors open 9pm.

Basement On Broadway – DJ KB Broken Hill Hotel – Oasis - DJ Armee (Downsyde)/ Refresh/ Shaker/Cut-Nice/Jeremy C Captain Stirling – DJ Ricky Connections - DJ’s Joby / JJ / Rueben Double Lucky - Natural Selection Dusk – Blackbelt/ Aswon Eurobar – Wacky Wednesday’s - DJ iPod Eve – Déjà Vu – Smashproof/ DJ Don Migi/ Skooby/ Stilez Ali/ Flava Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – DJ Selsect/ Travis Betts Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) - Midnight Circus/ Clubfeet/ DJ Boatshoes/ The Transients Gold – Slick/ Adroc Oak & Ivy –PCJ/Son Of The Father Mint - Open House Party – DJ Matt/ DJ Adrian Mustang – DJ Giles Newport Hotel – DJ Tony Allen Niche - DJ Frankie Button Paddo - Ben Merito Rosemount – DJ Shannon Fox Shape – Proxy/ Bad Weather Vs Kit Pop/ Rekab/ Le Gab The Deen- DJ Zelimer / DJ Viper & DJ Benny T– Zone 1 The Eastern – DJ Jinx The Queens – Wriggle On - DJ Gareth / Pranjal

▶ THIS WEEK

Proxy Wednesday, January 6 @ Shape

▶ UPCOMING

Origin NYE - Method Man, Redman/ Bloc Party DJs/Bliss N Esso/ Roots Manuva/ Dilated Peoples/ Ugly Quantic Duckling/ Cassius/ Bag Raiders + Friday, January 8 @ The Manor more Thursday, December 31 @ Blue Steel Southbound Festival – Midnight Oval Juggernauts/Major Lzrs/ Urthboy/ DJ Yoda/Hilltop Hoods + more Neil Viney Thursday, December 31 @ Llama Bar Friday, January 8-Sunday January 10 @ Sir Stuart Bovell Park, Busselton DJ Manchild/ MC NFA/ Paper Plane Nik Fish Project Thursday, December 31 @ The Manor Friday, January 8 @ Rise NEW

NYE At Ambar - Roller/ Force Majeure/ Destination?/ Japan 4/ Fresh Produce Thursday, December 31 @ Ambar Cott Cancun – The Mad Agents/ DJ Buda/ Damian John/ Maxwell/ Sketchism & Jackness/ Jus Haus Thursday, December 31 @ The Cott Cuban Club - Sambalicious,/ Randa & The Soul Kingdon/ Midnight Circus/ DJs Dexter/ George Mair/ Sam Birmingham Friday, January 1 @ Flying Squadron Yatch Club Club Paradiso – Sebastian Ingrosso/ Dirty South Friday, January 1 @ Burswood on Swan

PhDJ Friday, January 8 @ Limelite, Metropolis Fremantle Jamie T And The Pacemakers Sunday, January 10 @ Fly By Night NEW

Andy Murphy Thursday, January 14 @ Switch, Eve Malente Friday, January 15 @ Ambar Jochen Miller/ Ben Gold/ Rossco Friday, January 15 @ Rise NEW

Andy Murphy/ Kaz James Friday, January 15 @ Limelite, Metropolis Fremantle NEW

Theo Parrish Saturday, January 16 @ Shape

NEW Club Calypso – Felix Da Housecat/ John Course JMC/ Rueben Friday, January 1 @ Salt On The Beach Thursday, January 21 @ Switch, Eve

Marquee – Gentlemen Of Leisure/ DJ Ego/ Maxwell Friday, January 1 @ Burswood Entertainment Complex Planet 01 feat. Sied Van Riel/Joop/ Trent Mc Dermott + more Friday, January 1 @ Ambar Hard Wars - Episode XIV Friday, January 1 @ Rise Pete Tong Saturday, January 2 @ Villa Summadayze Festival - Carl Cox/ 2 Many DJ’s/ The Presets/ Roger Sanchez/ Danny Tenaglia/ Sharam (Deep Dish)/ Infected Mushroom/ LCD Soundsystem/ Josh Wink/ Eddie Halliwell/ Danny Howells/ Ian Carey Project and more.

Sunday, January 3, 2010 @ Supreme Court Gardens Here After Sunday, January 3 @ Bar Open

DJ Yoda Friday, January 22 @ Villa Dash Berlin Friday, January 22 @ Rise DJ Grandmaster Flash Friday, January 22 @ Capitol Ministry Of Sound – Jacked Afrojack/ Wolfgang Gartner/ Hardwell Friday, January 22 @ Metro City Charlie May Saturday, January 23 @ Shape Raggamuffin – Wyclef Jean/ Shaggy/ Julian Marley/ Blue King Brown/ Sly & Robbie/ Steel Pulse/ Sean Kingston/ House Of Shem Monday, January 25 @ ME Bank Stadium Potty Mouth Kids/ James Amato Friday, January 25 @ Ambar

Heavyweight Soundz – Ancy C/ MC GQ Friday, January 25 @ Metro City Global Sound System – tyDi & Audrey Gallagher Saturday, January 26 @ Rise Sebo K Saturday, January 26 @ Villa Mowgli Friday, January 29 @ Ambar Boom Box – Old Skool Boat Parties Friday, January 29; Friday, March 19; Friday, May 21 4 Strings Friday, January 29 @ Rise Big Day Out - Groove Armada/ Ladyhawke/ Dizzee Rascal/ Peaches/ Kasabian/ Midnight Juggernauts/ Calvin Harris/ Girl Talk and more.

Sunday, January 31 @ Claremont Showgrounds DJ Nickodemus Sunday, January 31 @ Funk Club; Monday, January 1 @ Fremantle Arts Centre Tenishia/ DJ Wag Friday, February 5 @ Rise Tiësto Wednesday, February 10; Thursday, February 11; Friday, February 12 @ Metro City Good Vibrations - The Killers/ Basement Jaxx/ Armand Van Helden/ Gossip/ Busta Rhymes/ Salt N Pepa/ Friendly Fires/ Kid Cudi/ Gym Class Heroes/ Plump DJ’s/ Art Vs Science/ Naughty By Nature/ Sam Obernik and more.

Sunday, February 14, 2010 @ Claremont Showgrounds Lupe Fiasco Tuesday, February 23 @ Metro City Future Music Festival - The Prodigy/ Franz Ferdinand/ Empire Of The Sun/ David Guetta/ Booka Shade/ Erick Morilla/ Sven Vath/ John Digweed and more.

Sunday, February 28, Ascot Racecourse Cobra Starship Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ Metro City La Roux Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ Belvoir Amphitheatre

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The band Vdelli will feature downstairs in the Main Bar 9:30pm-12:30am. Playing Rock, Blues & Groove style tunes, featuring Michael Vdelli on guitar & vocals, Rick Whittle on drums and Eddy Parise (ex Baby Animals) on bass.

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NEW YEARS EVE SPECTACULAR w/GRAHAM WOOD TRIO, JAMES FLYNN, CHELSEA GIBSON & THE FLY BIG BAND

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LATE NIGHT GROOVES TARA DEL BORELLO 1:00am

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GRACE WOODROOFE

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THE SWINGING COOKIE WITH MYA AUDREY (SWITZERLAND)

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SUNDAY

Circus with DJ Gile. STUDENT & BACKPACKER

Peter Busher & The Lone Rangers with DJ Rockin Rhys Cheeky Monkeys with DJ Giles

NIGHT - $5 BBQ & drink deal from 6pm

THURSDAY

Rusty & The Drag Strip Trio with Rockabilly DJ The Damien Cripps Band

MONDAY

with DJ James MacArthur

The High Rollin’ Rhythm Kings

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Threeplay with DJ Giles SATURDAY

The Rusty Pinto Combo

TUESDAY

The Damien Cripps Band

Salsa night

with Rockabilly DJ

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DJ and live percussionists

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New Years Day

Gun Shy Romeos live at 9pm plus DJ Junior from 5pm

Cheeky Monkeys live at 9pm

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Tickets just $20 at the door.

Open til 2am with Cheeky Monkeys playing live.

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NEW YEARS EVE!!!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE PADDO “We love Sundays”

are back with DJ Junior from 2pm in the Front Bar.

Rick Steele Live Free Quiz night plus $10 STELL A JUGS

Comic Effect is back.

Just $10 entry from 7pm.

SILVA this Sunday from 11am www.myspace.com/paddington ale house Hittin’ the town since 1985

ON THE EVE THE SILENTS / Sex Panther / Hayley Beth Hyde Park Front Bar Wednesday, December 24, 2009

Sex Panther (photos by Denis Radacic)

THE DAY AFTER BOXING DAY MASSACRE Rocket Room Saturday, December 26, 2009 It was the night after Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…. Actually, screw that. The last lashings of yuletide cheer may have been coming to a close in Perth for one more year, but that did not mean the season’s spirit to get a little too merry was swept under the carpet. Especially in the case of metal connoisseurs for sure, as they turned out in their hordes for the third instalment of a soiree that is fast becoming post-festive tradition – the Rocket Room’s Boxing Day Massacre.

And what a colourful evening of local talent it turned out to be, starting off early with fresh flesh in Kingdom Of Ruin.

Obviously the new kids on the block, they took this opportunity by the balls with a grin – eager to show the tidy crowd that had already arrived their brand of melodic thrash. Taking a twist from the norm by infusing this totally biting raw rock sound via the rhythm section combo of guitarist Rob and bassist Adro, powerhouse tracks like Fall Of The Tyrant and The Fallen are all about the epic dual assault harmonies.

As always, Mhorgl raise the bar on accepted black metal tradition – effortlessly blending the new era with a rich tote to the tastes of old. It is still hard to believe these men have only been together, musically, for

a year and a half. But, let’s face it; it is hard to beat the squealing assault of guitarist Rob Thorpe and the good-hearted menace of vocalist Sam Moretta. Working through established favourites like Nocturnal Blasphemy and Essence Of Evil, this quartet even dabbled with the new as they hinted at a new album on the horizon.

Psychonaut are at their peak of their game within the Perth scene, by a fucking mile. Nearly every punter in the venue was up the front, singing the words to local metal classic tunes False Metal, Night Of The Living Dead and, of course, Star Wars mini-epic Darklord. They sweated, we sweated; they screamed, we screamed; they thrashed and we sure as hell had the hair flying. But what else could you expect but a high octane, pedal-to-the-floor concoction from vocalist Mark De Vattimo and company?

They know how to smash the good-times energy back into a room with the pumping machine of drummer Seb Giorgi as their guide. Amen to that.

And what would Christmas be without the original pranksters themselves, Claim The Throne. Dressed in scatterings of gear from old Saint Nick’s wardrobe, though this is nothing new as they love to sport this attire at any other time of the year, they took the proceedings up a notch to ‘…spread the word of the festive season’ as vocalist Baronaxe [Brendan Capriotti] put it. Lending

themselves to obvious favourites Set Sail On Ale and the heavy version of Two Pints Of Honey And A Barrel Full Of Beer – with their newest addition drummer Oscaruis showing he was more than comfortable in his surrounds.

Then it was time for Pathogen.

It has been a big year for this crew. A slew of lineup changes and a move in a new, unexpected, direction - solidified with the release of their Remnants EP in November – have helped to transform their old, tiresome formula into a new, more diverse era for these longstanding titans. But tonight was not about showing Perth punters the best that they could be. It was about getting boozy with mates, having fun and sharing that general attitude with every single person at the venue. And, by that ethos, they absolutely nailed it.

With the noticeable absence of newest frontman James Parish, former vocalist Mike Lenane stepped up to the plate. More than familiar with his former outfit’s material, he sounded right at home with guitarist Aidan Barton by his side.

Belting out older material in Identity Theft and Shallow, Lenane also tried his hand at the newer tunes with just as much success.

It was a very merry massacre for all. _JESSICA WILLOUGHBY

The Silents

As a Festivus treat, Sex Panther reunited with a new vocalist for a Christmas Eve show, with a little help from their friends.

First friend, Hayley Beth, forms a quick rapport with audiences. Her soft yet darkly-tinted folky-blues is easy on the ear and her main asset is a voice full of character.

Standing solo with an acoustic for company, Hayley Beth sets a slow but rolling pace, creating a spacious bed to showcase the many quirks of her stylised vocals.

Hayley Beth has a relaxed way about her, not afraid to make conversation between tunes like she was sitting on a porch with mates. The air of intimacy is relaxing and suits her style, as well as the Hydey. Which is a shame considering the latest threats to once again shut down original live music at the front bar, maybe to refurbish the legendary venue into a boutique, Brisbane-style venue.

Thankfully, not before Sex Panther ‘have their way with it’. Even though the fourpiece was ravaged by technical difficulties on the night, it didn’t tarnish their dirty rock’n’roll and punk aesthetic assault. New vocalist May Swan Lim sung like she was born to be in this band and did them proud with new material like Apple Pie. The overall feel has still been maintained but Lim’s vocal effects and character seem indispensable now and have definitely added to the live experience.

The turnout for Sex Panther was also impressive, undoubtedly bringing through the most punters of the night with a lot of people getting as close to the stage as possible to cop a load of the rock. However, the set was unfortunately a little short because of the tech problems but it was enough to prove that Sex Panther have still got it and still play like they are ‘made from real bits of panther’.

Next present under the tree was The Silents, who have also been quieter than usual on the live front of late in approach to the release of their second full-length album.

Judging by the live set, the album promises to be creatively haunting and even completely eerie in parts. Some of the live set built up to slow-but-dramatic climaxes, adding to an interesting but almost disturbing feel. If Christmas Eve was anything to go by then it would seem The Silents are definitely evolving their sound.

Unfortunately, by the time the band really started to get into it and find their pace it seemed management wanted us ‘pesky kids’ out of the establishment. In the middle of a song the house lights burst on, making it feel a bit like a school disco at home time.

Yet The Silents forged through the stark house lights even though it was creating a weird scene. After another couple of minute’s grace, there they were again, yellow house lights sitting right above the band and killing the atmosphere. Shortly after, the band finished up and punters were shuffled out by security.

Even though it felt like it was cut a little short, the gig was certainly a fine preChrissie gift and a great way for the acts to celebrate the end of a year, and if the Hydey finally gets shut down, possibly the end of an era. _LAURA GLITSOS www.xpressmag.com.au

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GOODBYE 2009…

NEW YEAR’S EVE SHOWS

Sugar Army

JOIN THE ARMY

Sugar Army have had an immense 2009, so they’re looking forward to seeing in the New Year as the headliner of the Rosemount Hotel’s annual NYE bash. Joining the lads will be the talents of Capital City, Umpire, The Scotch Of Saint James, The Preytells, Grim Fandango, and Emperors.

Doors open 6pm-late, and tickets are available from Planet, Mills, Star, and Heatseeker.

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ

Ritz At The Loft NYE is Little Creatures Loft’s ’30s/’40s-themed party featuring Earl Cole performing Sinatra tunes, Darling Buds Of May bringing some ’40s jazz, and DJs Paul Malone and Moogy. Early bird tickets are now available for $35 (plus booking fee) through www.heatseeker.com.au. Limited door sales be available from 6pm.

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Oats Supply bring you the best (and the best of the worst) of the ’80s on New Year’s Eve, taking over The Civic from 8pm. There are prizes for best-dressed, so get your best ’80s clobber on and head down.

DOWN IN THE BASEMENT

Headed up by DJ Dwayne Smith of The Chevelles, Hitwaves ’80s will take over the Swan Basement for a night of fluoro, shoulder pads and great ’80s tunes. There’ll be dancing competitions, a best-dressed competition, plus wood-fired pizzas and generally rad vibes on offer. Tickets are $20 through the venue or $30 at the door from 8pm.

THREE… TWO… ONE…

Counting down into 2010 at The Castle will be Pan, Aaarh Bats!!!, Pictures Of Sarah, and Nemacyst – who will rock your socks off on both the 2009 and 2010 portions of the night.

AMPED UP

Amplifier Bar turns 10 this New Year’s Eve, with one of the biggest rock shows in town to celebrate.

The mighty Gyroscope lead the charge, with The Mess Hall heading over west to play main support. Joining the two heavyweights will be the more-than-capable local talent of The Novocaines, Harlequin League, The Devil Rides Out, Young Revelry, Wolves, and DJs galore.

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What a year it has been, but my my… what a year is coming.

So much is changing within the local music scene that 2010 is going to have an almost alien landscape – typified by the recent news that the Hyde Park Hotel will be closed as of January 2 for renovations, leaving many people guessing as to what format the beloved venue will take upon its return.

But the personnel changes around the traps are going to be significant. Aside from the movers and shakers that left Perth for Melbourne or Sydney in 2009, in recent months there have been staff changes and shake-ups among many of WA music’s most important hubs: from promoters to venues, right down to bands. 2010 is already looking strange and exciting because of this.

Of course, by the time a few months have ticked over, everything will business as usual. As with any new enterprises, personnel or lineups, new ideas and new ways of doing things will come. Forward steps will be made. For punters and musicians alike, this can only mean new points of interest. For as sad as it is to see something like the Hydey’s cloud of uncertainty, we all know that new things pop up to replace those which have gone away, and for that reason alone 2010 has a sense of mystery to it. What will change and what will stay the same are questions only time will answer.

More and more festivals seem to pop up in Perth by the year, and 2009 saw the birth of a couple that are sure to stay. The more established festivals, even those in their second or third year, found their feet even more than before, with some of the more enlightened upper-echelon promoters focusing heavily on how festivals can be run differently – for the artists, the punters and the environment. Big steps forward from just a few years ago, where two of those three things at least took a back seat.

The ever-growing consciousness is largely due to a couple of pioneers who dared to be different, and in doing so paved the way for others to follow.

There was of course some high-quality product released by local bands in 2009, with some of our more industrious acts making it as far from home as the US and UK. Bands more or less taking a punt and seeing what happens.

Again, thanks to some forward-thinking bands,

managers and promoters, new inroads were carved for all – showing once again that a sense of community prevails among our local music scene.

So it is with great excitement and optimism that we all roll forward into 2010. The heady advances made by a lot of Perth bands look set to rocket their careers forward in the New Year, with some of our biggest acts ready to drop new records, and the next tier of bands all looking like they’ve got bigger things on their mind than staying at home and watching the paint dry.

The issue of a lack of venues in Perth has neither gone away nor slowed down in 2009, and with the increasing rate of tours it seems that gigs are becoming scarcer and harder to book for smaller bands trying to get their chops up on stage. Enough people – particularly those with the brains, money and know-how to come up with some viable alternatives – are thinking about and working on the problem. Again, the potential resolutions are as exciting as they are currently elusive to those of us not in the publican business.

But that’s neither here nor there for now, because what will be, will be. In our town we have some absolutely world class bands, managers, promoters, booking agents and so on… so the resources and skills are there, ready to be used.

So it’s with undying optimism that we can encourage bands to push themselves further and harder; allow our promoters do get more daring and inventive; and ask our venues to open their doors to the creative pool of talent we have in our local music community. To our punters, existing and potential, the invitation is open as it always is to join this unseen collective of like-minds who, regardless of the ‘who, what, when and how’, all have one thing in common: a complete love and support of local original music.

I for one think that deserves a ‘fuck yeah!’

Stay safe, have fun, and enjoy every second of 2010.

I shall see y’all at the bar.

Love, Mike

ROSEMOUNT HOTEL

Saturday, January 2, Head Full Of Steam launch their debut CD with special guests Cat Black, Ibex, and Michael Strong And The Ghost Anyway.

Doors open 8pm, entry is $15. Sunday, January 3, it’s the Rosemount’s Acoustic Open Mic Night hosted by Turin Robinson. Action from 4pm and it’s free. Tuesday, January 5, it’s the Rosemount’s weekly Quiz Night - see www.quizmeisters.com. au for more info. Wednesday, January 6, catch The Exit Line, Burning Fiction, Chasing The Ninth, and Red Jezebel Kevin Got Lucky. Doors open 8pm and entry is $8.

In the beer garden catch DJ Shannon Fox for the HYDEY NO MORE On Saturday, January 2, the Hyde Park Hotel will Rosemount’s Student Night. host its last show before closing for renovations.

What will come of the venue remains to be seen, AMPLIFIER but the final show of the foreseeable future Saturday, January 2, Perth rock four-piece Kill Teen is definitely Saturday, January 2, which also Angst launch their new single Gen Y with support doubles as the 10th Anniversary of Luke Rinaldi’s from The Chemist, Mile End, and Trigger Jackets.

Sonic Assault sessions. Red Jezebel, The Order Of Doors open 8pm.

The Black Werewolf, Moonlight Wranglers, and some extra-special guests will provide the music RAILWAY HOTEL from 8pm. $10 entry.

On Sunday, January 3, catch The Brow Horn Orchestra for a free entry Sunday session in the Railway’s beer garden, 5-9pm.

Funk Club House Band Homebrewe

SIX APPEAL

For New Year’s Eve, the Rocket Room has put together 6 Degrees Of Rock – a night of explosive rock’n’roll featuring Homebrewe, Hailmary, Lacey, Chainsaw Hookers, Screaming Life, and The FAIM Project. $15 presale tickets are available from the venue and bands / $20 at the door

THE CASTLE

The Frighteners, Still, and Red Triangle will perform on Friday, January 1. The following night, Saturday, January 2, will play host to Cellardoor, Mordecai, 618, and Born On The Bayou – who make up Metal Resolutions.

MOJO’S

Friday January 1, Fisherman Style features Earthlink Sound, Future Soundz, Herbaliscious And Sabata Sound, plus Flex, Platinum Galore, Capn K, DJ Sorted and Munchie Man. Free entry before 6pm and $10/$5 concession from 6pm onwards. Saturday, January 2, is the launch of Carl Fox’s debut album, Chunky Rainbow. Supports include Luna Parade, Knoe FM, and Alphanumeric. Entry is $10 from 8pm.

Sunday, January 3, features Hand Stand For Ants, The Love Junkies, 7 Years, and Sounds Like Bears.

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FUNK ON THE BEACH

The Funk Club will head over to Salt On The Beach (formerly Oysters On The Beach) for the massive funkified New Year’s Eve Party.

Performing will be Marva Whitney And Band, Nicodemus, Dexter, Gentlemen Of Leisure, and the Funk Club House Band. Early-bird tickets are $70 through www.funkclub.com. au and www.heatseeker.com.au.

Entry is $5 from 6pm. Monday, January 4, performing at Mojo’s for the Wide Open Mic will be a bunch of ambitious cats who will simply rock up on the night. This night is hosted by Justin Walshe 0408 755 233. These nights kick off at 8pm with about four acts each hour till 12. Entry is free. Tuesday, January 5, the Acoustic Café night features Simone And Girlfunkle, Fall Electric (duo), Sean Pollard, and Stu Orchard.

Entry is $5 from 8pm. Wednesday, January 6, the Fremantle Blues And Roots Club hosts Barrel House Blues, Alex Dew Trio, and Adam Shero (Vic). Entry is $15/$10 for members from 8pm.

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The Charisma Brothers will light up New Year’s Eve with some cool jazz at Sandcastles Organic Restaurant, South Freo, from 6pm. Bookings are essential so call (08) 9335 2445.

January 1, catch The Healys; and on Saturday, January 2, catch Brown Sugar from 8.30pm.

Sunday, January 3’s Original Music Night features Tree, Sean Pollard, and Toby from 6.30pm.

WHAT’S NEW?

The New Sound is a music showcase happening every Wednesday in January at the Swan Lounge, featuring fresh new original music.

Wednesday, January 6, belongs to Crashfold Kids, Helix To The Sun, Diode, and National Outrage.

Tonight, Thursday, December 31, catch Tea for X MARKS THE SPOT Two from 8.30pm, plus $5 pints of Guinness all On Wednesday, January 6, X-Wray Café hosts night, The restaurant is open for reservations Tom Fisher And The Layabout and The Vinyl from 5pm-9.30pm - call (08) 9382 4555. Friday, Junkie. This Summer Session kicks off at 4pm.

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EVIL LIVE

The Hyde will come alive with New Year’s Evil, which will feature the massive lineup of Raw Nerve, Cal Peck And The Tramps, Mongrel Country, Fear Of Comedy, Mile End,The Painkillers, Tomas Ford, Bible Bashers, Trevallys, Surprise Sex Attack, and Frozen Ocean performing over two stages. Entry is $20.

IT’S UNUSUAL

On Saturday, January 2, Deville´s Pad will be paying tribute to Wales’ favourite crooner with a night quite beautifully named The Devil In Tom Jones – starring The Tom Jones Show with Wayne Stanley and full rockin´band. Get some throwingknickers handy (or the ones you’re wearing if you’re really keen) as The Tom Jones Show will sport all of the hits of the great man himself.

Also on the bill will be Barbara Blaze, with her backing dancers The Blazers; as well as a fashion show, a surprise for those who dress ‘Tom Jones’ or ‘Vegas’; plus Devilles’ usual hospitality, great surrounds, and rad vibes.

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DANNY TENAGLIA Elementary Danny Tenaglia returns to Perth as part of who insisted on proper form and etiquette. It Summadayze at Supreme Court Gardens and turned me off on the whole idea rather quickly.

The Esplanade this Sunday, January 3.

I wanted to play the piano in the way that the R&B and soul artists of the time played. Needless What sort of music/musicians did your folks to say, my instructor was definitely not amused. play around the house when you were growing up?

What was it like growing up in Brooklyn in The family member who most inspired the 70s and how did New York’s vibrant and me musically while growing up was my dear colourful environment influence your initial Aunt Nancy. She opened my mind up to many musical tastes and passion? wonderful funk, soul and even world music Growing up in Brooklyn during those artists. The ones that most stand out to me are days was very exciting. It was such a melting Stevie Wonder, Sergio Mendes and Pink Floyd. pot of different cultures. You had Italians, Puerto Ricans, Jews, African-Americans. It really taught Were you musical as a kid? Did you play any me to appreciate a little bit of everything instruments? and gave me the opportunity to hear music At a young age I tried learning to play and experience cultures that I would have the piano in the classical sense but was not really been closed off to had I grown up elsewhere. I too excited about my staunch piano instructor think you can clearly hear that influence in my productions and sets. Specifically in the way that I choose to play what I like without any regard as to what style or genre it is. If it sounds good to me I like it and want to share it with those who are willing to listen to it.

call it that, being produced and embraced at the time. My idea was to create something a bit darker and almost primal that would really make people let loose when they heard it. I think it brought a certain feeling out in people that they weren’t really feeling with the other records that were being championed at the time.

Who has had the greatest influence on your career, and how have they influenced you?

It would be impossible to only pick one person or artist for this question. There have been so many artists that have influenced me musically.

MFSB for their sense of composition. Kraftwerk for their innovation with the use electronic sounds. Giorgio Moroder for taking dance music to another level. Larry Levan as a DJ and remixer for really being in tune with what makes people move, not just physically but emotionally. Larry really knew how to take people on a journey as a DJ. I could really carry on for a while.

There are really too many names to mention.

With the dominance of CDJ technology, digital downloads and the ongoing demise of vinyl... has DJing lost its soul?

It seems a bit extreme to say that it has lost its soul. I have personally embraced CDJ technology for the ease of its portability and versatility. However, there is no doubt that vinyl has much better sound quality. At the same time it is nearly impossible to find a venue that has a proper set up to play vinyl.

Digital downloads are sort of like the gift and the curse. It is great that people who would otherwise not have access to electronic music have digital stores to purchase tracks regardless of how far they are from a record store. On the other hand it seems like people have too much access and it makes it harder to have those exclusive records that in the past made it easier to differentiate one DJ from the next. It’s quite common to hear many DJs playing the same records nowadays and it creates a sense of homogeneity that can make going out a lot less exciting.

What annoys you most about the music industry in 2009?

At this moment in time it seems that people have lost most of the creativity and sense of exploration that was the driving force behind the records that truly made an impact in the past.

It seems that people are more concerned with looks, money making potential and marketability than actually creating music from their heart and soul. The current culture has made it the norm to play it safe and many pop artists are just copying the last hit record in hopes of cashing in. It is sad that there are not many artists that are creating music that will one day be seen as groundbreaking, influential or timeless. They come and go, quickly to be forgotten.

Elements is widely acknowledged and lauded as a bona fide all-time classic in the annals of dance music history. It’s become pretty legendary, why do you think it worked so well?

As I was recording Elements in the studio I knew that it was something very special.

Though I surely did not expect it to become ‘legendary’, as you call it, at the time. What I think made it stand out was how dark the sound It’s been a while since we last saw you here was. There was a lot of very fluffy music, if I may in Australia. What are you looking forward to

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most about your pending trip down under and what have you got planned for your fans?

My memories of Australia are really special. The times that I have toured there in the past I have had an amazing time. I would like to finally see a kangaroo (laughs). If I am brave enough, perhaps the Great Barrier Reef.

As far as what I have planned... I have quite a few tricks up my sleeve. Some special edits that I am working on just for my tour down there and bag full of both modern and classic tunes that will no doubt rock the dancefloor. I am quite excited to be going back there after all these years.

Tell us something about yourself that very few people know about you...

For one, I am a very spiritual person with a tremendous amount of appreciation to God for all the blessings he has given me throughout my life and career. Another detail that people might not know is that I am very fond of interior design and lighting. I personally designed my residence and felt quite accomplished when it all finally came together. _ HARLEY AUGUSTINE

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THIS WEEK ORIGIN (Method Man, Redman, Bliss N Eso, Cassius, Bloc Party DJ Set, Sam Sparrow DJ Set, Roots Manuva, Dilated Peoples, Ugly Duckling, Bag Raiders, Thunderheist and More) December 31 Blue Steel Oval

NEW YEAR’S EVE FIESTA (Sugar Army, Capital City, Umpire, The Scotch Of Saint James, The Preytells, Grim Fandango, Emperors) December 31 Rosemount Hotel

AMPLIFIER 10th ANNIVERSARY NYE PARTY (Gyroscope, The Mess Hall, The Novocaines, Harlequin League, The Devil Rides Out, Young Revelry and Wolves) December 31 Amplifier

FUNK CLUB COUNTDOWN (Marva Whitney, Nicodemus, Dexter, Gentelmen Of Leisure (NFA Vs Manchild Vs Charlie Bucket), Funk Club House Band) December 31 Funk Club

NYE PARTY 2010 (Body Rox, Luciana, Angry Buda, Slick and Double L) December 31 Metro City

COTT CANCUN (The Mad Agents, Damian John, Maxwell, Sketchism, Jus Haus and more) December 31 Cottesloe Beach Hotel NYE

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January 1 Fremantle Arts Centre

CLUB PARADISO (Sebastian Ingrosso / Dirty South)

January 1 Burswood On The Swan

CLUB CALYPSO (Felix Da Housecat, JMC, Rueben) January 1 Salt On The Beach

PLANET 01 (Richard Durand, Seid Van Riel, Joop, All Trance DJ’S, Dr Willis) January 1 Ambar

TRACY REDHEAD

January 2 Colonial Brewery, Margaret River January 3 Mash Brewery

SUMMADAYZE (Carl Cox, 2 Many DJs, Sharam, Infected Mushroom, LCD Soundsystem and more)

January 3 Supreme Court Gardens

CAT POWER / DIRTY DELTA BLUES / SLEK AND THE BONE SINGERS January 6 Astor Theatre

COMING UP TRACY REDHEAD January 8-10 MICACHU AND THE SHAPES January 8 GRIZZLY BEAR January 8 DESTRÖYER 666 January 8 SOUTHBOUND (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moby, Hilltop Hoods, Wolfmother, Jamie T and more) January 8-10 JAMIE T AND THE PACEMAKERS January 10 THE HANDSOME FAMILY January 10 CHIMAIRA January 13 EMDEE January 13-17 JOHN PAUL YOUNG January 14-17

JOHN BUTLER TRIO January 16 SUMMERSOUNDS, ESPERANCE (Diesel, End of Fashion, Chris Murphy and the Holy Rollers, Courtney Murphy and Murphy’s Lore, Harlequin League, Nathan Gaunt and band and Howie Morgan and Band) January 16 MAYER HAWTHORNE January 15 NEKO CASE January 17 THEM CROOKED VULTURES January 19 DALLAS FRASCA January 21-23 TIM ROGERS January 21-24 GRANDMASTER FLASH January 22 ASH GRUNWALD January 22-24 LAURYN December 23 EVERY TIME I DIE / 50 LIONS / HOUSE VS HURRICANE / MARY JANE KELLY January 23-24 CAMERA OBSCURA January 25 RAGAMUFFIN (Wyclef Jean, Shaggy, Julian Marley, Lauryn Hill, Sly + Robbie and more) January 25 SLOW CLUB January 25-26 THE TEN TENORS January 27-30 POLAR BEAR CLUB / BREAKEVEN / THE GIFTHORSE January 27-28 AUSTRALIAN ROCK SYMPHONY (Diesel, Baby Animals, Chrissy Amphlett) January 30 THE HORRORS January 30 BIG DAY OUT (Muse, Powderfinger, Lily Allen, Eskimo Joe, Groove Armada, Ladyhawke, The Mars Volta, Dizzee Rascal, Karnivool, Peaches, The Temper Trap, Kasbian, Midnight Juggernauts) January 31 PEACHES February 1 ACE FREHLEY February 1 THE CAT EMPIRE/ TIJUANA CARTEL January 1 LANEWAY FESTIVAL (Echo And The Bunnymen, Florence And The Machine, Black Lips, The XX’s, Daniel Johnston, Sarah Blasko, N.A.S.A, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Hockey and more) February 6 CLIFF AND THE SHADOWS February 6 BEACH BOYS / DARYL BRAITHWAITE / BRIAN CADD February 7 BREAKESTRA February 6 CLIFF AND THE SHADOWS February 6 SHARON SHANNON February 7 MARCIN WASILEWSKI TRIO February 8

MARIANNE FAITHFUL February 9-10 PORTICO QUARTET February 10 RZA February 10 DIRTY THREE February 11 TIESTO February 11-12 GUY SEBASTIAN February 12 GRANT HART February 12 JAMIE LIDELL February 12 NO TURNING BACK February 12-13 THE CRIBS January 13 AMADOU AND MARIAM February 13-14 GOOD VIBRATIONS (The Killers, Basement Jaxx, Armand Van Helden, Gossip, Busta Rhymes, Friendly Fires, Salt N Pepa, Z Trip, Kid Cudi, Naughty By Nature, Gym Class Hero’s and more) February 14 JOSH EARL February 15 DIE ROTEN PUNKTE February 16 BRITISH SEA POWER February 17-18 PIVOT February 18 THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART / BACHELORETTE February 19 YO LA TENGO February 20 THE PANICS / WASO February 20 MISTA SAVONA February 21 ROB THOMAS / VANESSA AMOROSI February 21 DIANA KRALL February 23-24 DANCING ON YOUR GRAVE February 22-23 LUPE FIASCO February 23 ROBERT FORSTER February 24 DAN SULTAN February 25 BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE February 25 CALEXICO February 26 THE POLYPHONIC SPREE February 26 NANNUP MUSIC FESTIVAL February 26-March 1 HEALTH February 27 HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE February 28 FAT FREDDY’S DROP February 27 FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL (The Prodigy, Franz Ferdinand, Empire Of The Sun, David Guetta, Booka Shade, Erick Morilla, Sven Vath, John Digweed) February 28 SOUNDWAVE (Faith No More, My Chemical Romance, Jane’s Addiction and More) March 1 CLUTCH March 2

THE BIG PINK March 2 THE SAW DOCTORS March 4 AL DI MEOLA WORLD SINFONIA March 5 AC/DC / WOLFMOTHER March 6-7 PAVEMENT March 6 SPINNERETTE March 9 NO FUN AT ALL March 11 DINOSAUR JR March 12 GRINSPOON March 12-14 DIRTY PROJECTORS March 13 WILD OATS MUSIC FESTIVAL (Grinspoon, Jebediah, The Novocaines, The Trigger Jackets, The Sneaky Weasel Gang and more) March 13 A DAY ON THE GREEN (Tom Jones, David Campbell) March 14 CONVERGE / GENGHIS TRON March 16 STATUS QUO March 17 DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT March 18 LA ROUX / BERTIE BLACKMAN / TIM & JEAN March 21 COBRA STARSHIP / OWL CITY March 21

LYLE LOVETT / KASEY CHAMBERS March 22 BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME March 24 CHRIS SMITHER March 24 THE WHITLAMS March 26 SHORT STACK March 26 THE SUNDANCE KIDS March 26-28 PIXIES March 27-28 WEST COAST BLUES ‘N’ ROOTS (Crowded House, John Butler Trio, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck and more) March 28 THE GIPSY KINGS March 28 ANGUS & JULIA STONE March 28-April 1 THE DEAD WEATHER March 29 BRAND NEW March 31 LADY GAGA April 2 DECAPITATED / PSYCROPTIC / ORIGIN / MISERY INDEX April 6 BEHEMOTH/ JOB FOR A COWBOY/ GOATWHORE April 12 KELLY CLARKSON April 22 ELVIS MEETS BUDDY April 23-24 GROOVIN’ THE MOO May 15

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Tree, Sunday at JB O’Reilly’s ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Freo) Hi-NRG ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Tall Stories SAIL & ANCHOR Howie Morgan Project SETTLERS TAVERN Il Fiasco SPICE LOUNGE Going Duo STAMFORD ARMS Blue Hornet SUBIACO HOTEL Off The Record SWAN BASEMENT Montage Of Jesus Coronal Sky SWAN LOUNGE Walrus Gumboot Cim Ciaru SWINGING PIG Zenburger THE BOAT Renegade THE DEEN Nujackcity THE EASTERN Ivan Ribic THE GATE Retriofit THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Huge THE WANNEROO Tod Woodward UNIVERSAL Soul Corp VIC PARK HOTEL Festivus UNIVERSAL Soul Corp WOODVALE TAVERN The Healys

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