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Whether you’re a solo artist or a member of a band, the team at WAMi want to hear from you, as they’re hunting for artists to add to the bill of the 2010 WAMi Festival. Scheduled to take place from Wednesday, May 19, ’til Sunday, May 23, the Festival is a celebration of home-grown music, and is a great way for bands to connect with new audiences. By submitting your act for the WAMi Festival, you may score yourself the opportunity to perform at WAMi events, and feature on the Kiss My WAMi CD/DVD compilation. All the WAMi Festival application details are available at wam.asn.au with submissions closing on Friday, January 15.

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DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE…

Party-starters The Cat Empire are packing their bags and heading to WA for By The River, a special show on the South Perth Foreshore this March.

As the sun beams down on Cat Empire fans on Friday, March 5, the band will take to the stage with support from The Beautiful Girls, Whitley and Fdel, for a massive celebration of music and good times. This will be the first ever gig at the new South Perth Foreshore venue Sir James Mitchell Park, with more gigs planned for coming months.Tickets go on sale at 9am on Monday, January 11, from the regular outlets. Gates open at 4.45pm. For more, head to mellenevents. com. eye4

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The Ellington Jazz Club will reunite two of the world’s best jazz cornetists later this month for Cornet Copia. On Wednesday, January 27, Cornet Copia will combine the talents of Jim Cullum and Bob Barnard, a jazz tour de force, for a jazz concert like no other. The pair is only playing one show, so you’ll need to get in quick to secure a ticket or two from ellingtonjazz.com.au.

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The folks at Lotterywest are joining forces with the City Of Perth, Abmusic and Noongar Radio to present a cultural feast to Skyworks attendees on Australia Day. While spectators gather around the river to wait for the fireworks, the Supreme Court Gardens will host the Too Solid Music Festival, a melting pot of culture and music.

Taking to the stage at Too Solid will be The Yabu Band and Downsyde, for a family celebration of Aboriginal and Torrest Strait Islander culture.

This year’s theme for the Skyworks is ‘Advance Australia Fair’, reflecting everything us Aussies love about our country. The Skyworks will get underway at 8pm, providing 30 minutes of dazzling pyrotechnics.

After returning from the Improv Olympics in Chicago, Perth comedian Damon Lockwood hatched a plan for a new improvisational show, Fuppet. Combining improvised comedy with puppetry, Fuppet will be a strictly adults-only affair, with shows on the last Thursday of each month at Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den, kicking off on Thursday, January 28, at 7pm. On the bill for the first ever Fuppet are Damon Lockwood, Jimmy James Eaton, Tim Watts, Shane Adamczak, and Ben Russell. Tickets available on the door.

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BON VOYAGE

Singer-songrwiter Carus Thompson is bidding the southern hemisphere adieu, heading north to Europe for a change of scenery. Before he jets off, Carus will play two farewell shows at the Norfolk Basement, with support from Toby and Lucy Fisher on Saturday, January 16; and Hayley Beth and Simon Marks on Sunday, January 17. Tickets are on sale now through Heatseeker.

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Dear X-Press,

OMG! How good were The Presets on Sunday at Summadayze? After setting a high benchmark when I saw them live at the ARIAs back in ’08, The Presets have been mediocre at the appearances in Perth until now!

Julian and Kim… you are fucking awesome, congrats. Also Mellen Events, thanks for a massive day!

Much Love.

I just want to congratulate Amplifier on a fucking awesome New Year’s Eve. I didn’t know much about any of the bands except Gyroscope but went from the start loved every one of them.

What a rad way to finish off 2009 and I couldn’t think of any better way to start off 2010 than Gyroscope. How good is that band!

The vibe of the night couldn’t be better and it was smiles from start to finish.

Still Recovering I want to make a special mention East Perth to the chick bouncer at the door – should be more like her. It would be a crap job on New Year’s Eve but she kept us all in control with a smile on her face.

Good on you amps – bring on next year!

Rowland S. Howard was a unique and brilliant man. His maniacal feedback guitar was nothing short of heaven sent, his songs were honest, sublimely attuned journeys, and his words, spat out with an almost air of distaste, were poetic wonders that spoke straight to the heart – in but a few lines Rowland could illuminate emotions that others devote entire albums in trying to explain. He was wise, intelligent, eloquent and so very, very cool. I, as I’m sure many more are, am deeply saddened by the death of Rowland S. Howard. Although I only met him once, I feel like I’ve lost a friend and am lonely for his passing. He was truly special, and I hope he knew exactly how much he meant to me and his many other fans around the world.

Such a crooked angel, you will be missed oh beautiful creature.

Peace.

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THE TEMPER TRAP Terms And Conditions Young Melbourne rockers The Temper Trap have become so big so fast, drummer Toby Dundas rarely has time to reflect – except for when he’s doing interviews, as he explains to ALASDAIR DUNCAN ahead of Southbound in Busselton this weekend.

Seemingly from nowhere, The Temper Trap arrived earlier this year, with an atmospheric guitar rock sound reminiscent of U2, and a hugely infections single in the form of Sweet Disposition.

When their debut, Conditions, arrived in Australia in June of this year, it hit the sweet spot between mainstream and indie rock and earned the young band a new legion of local fans, but by that time, they were already living in London, determined to build a following in the UK. It seems the band have barely had the time to breathe over the last year.

In fact, as drummer Toby Dundas tells it, the only time he really has to stop and think about the success The Temper Trap have enjoyed is when he sits down with interviewers like yours truly.

“When you’re in the moment, you don’t really think about it,” he says, “you just think about what you’re doing the next day, and doing what you have to do, get up and drive and pack the car and unload and do the sound-check and all those sorts of things. There are sometimes moments when I find myself on the bus in London and it hits me that, whoa, I’m living in London.”

The Temper Trap will return to Australia in January for an appearance at Southbound, but I wonder, since the young band are still so new to playing festivals, what have some of their most memorable festival experiences been so far?

“The best one so far has been Summersonic in Japan,” Dundas says. “Japan is an amazing place, and the people are amazing, and we played to our biggest audience ever there, probably about 5,000 people. Japanese crowds are great, but the first time you play there, it’s strange, because they go crazy when you play, then they clap politely when you’re finished and wait for the next song.”

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SOUTHBOUND King Of The South Southbound shines upon Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton, this Friday-Sunday, January 8-10.

American singer/songstress, Kaki King, is well versed at playing summer festivals in Australia and while the gig comes with more variables than at a regular headlining show, it seems that that can make all the difference.

“At festivals you have more freedom but you feel a bit more pressure from the curious people who have wandered over,” King says. “Sometimes you have a bit more stress from getting your sound right and your gear right, so you’re sort of under double pressure to put on a really good show, but that’s good and I always like converting people.”

So festivals hold an often unknown flavour?

“They do and it’s always exciting for me to see other people play. The camaraderie at Australian festivals I have found is awesome, it’s really wonderful. And it’s nice to have that shared space.”

If you’re keen to head down to Southbound this weekend you’ll be pleased to know that tickets are still available, including Weekend Happy Camper Tickets, Weekend Festival Tickets and Weekend Lazy Camper Tickets. Get your hands on tickets from Moshtix until midnight tonight, Thursday, January 7. Tickets will not be on the door at the festival, so if you miss out on Moshtix passes, head to Blue 62 in Busselton where tickets will be available.

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Make the most of balmy summer nights by heading along to The Charles Hotel on Monday, January 11, for a twilight performance by Dave Smith And Cory Sea Quartet. As good mates, Dave and Cory know each other well, ensuring that they’re always on the same wavelength when playing music, which ensures fantastic live shows time and time again. Catch Dave and Cory doing their thing from 8pm next Monday. Tickets available on the door.

Hailing from Melbourne, Gypsy punks The Barons Of Tang are headed to WA for their Tall Tales Of Anywhere Tour, which will see them bring their unique fusion of rockabilly, tango, Latin and gypsy music to Perth. Catch The Barons playing at Luxe Bar on Sunday, January 17, or at the Western Australia Circus Festival in Karridale from Saturday, January 23, ’til Monday, January 25. For more info, check out myspace.com/thebaronsoftang.

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With 45 years experience in the music industry, Ross Wilson has a huge back catalogue of songs he’s recorded, produced or written, which he’ll share with audiences on his Hell Of A Time Tour. Expect to hear all the classics at his WA shows, including Eagle Rock, when he takes to the stage of the Old Bailey Tavern on Thursday, February 4; at the Civic Hotel on Friday, February 5; the Railway Hotel on Saturday, February 6, and at the Be Active Busselton Jetty Swim on Sunday, February 7. Tickets are on sale now through Heatseeker.

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Kulcha invites world film fans along to their Fremantle premises on Friday, January 22, for a screening of the fantastic music documentary, No Man Is A Prophet In His Own Land. The film delves into the music industry, studying Taraf de Haïdouks, a Romanian Gypsy band, who have retained their way of life despite global success. Before and after the screening, DJ Gingerbread will be behind the decks playing a fusion of Balkan music. Doors open 7.30pm. Tickets are available on the door, or online at kulcha.com.au.

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SOUTHBOUND Let The Good Times Scroll Southbound soars once again this Friday-Sunday, January 8-10, at Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton.

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EMILIANA TORRINI Pop Laureate Icelandic songstress EMILIANA TORRINI speaks with ALASDAIR DUNCAN ahead of her Friday, January 8, performance at Southbound.

Emiliana Torrini

Given the evocative quality of Emiliana Torrini’s songs, it’s not surprising to learn that the Icelandic musician aspired, from a young age, to be a novelist or a poet.

Somewhere along the way, Torrini picked up a guitar instead, and thanks to this, we have songs like Jungle Drum and Big Jumps, so while it’s hard to feel ripped off, one wonders if she still has any aspirations towards literary celebrity?

“I’ve always written poetry, and I still do,” Torrini laughs. “I’m sure if I showed it to another writer, they’d say it was all written wrong, and I don’t want to change it. I have a very specific way of talking, and my poetry is all like that. I feel like doing songwriting for so long has given me training in writing – I find it fun that when you write a song, you have to cram a whole, long story into two or three verses. When you write a book or a story, you have to add a lot more detail, and I don’t know if I have the patience for that. I’ve been reading a lot of very inspiring books lately, though.”

What are some of the books currently on her bedside table?

“I’ve been reading In Watermelon Sugar and Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan,” Torrini reveals. “He’s a very cult writer, his prose is amazing. I’ve been reading The Magus by John Fowles, which is really wonderful, and I read a lot of Haruki Murakami as well. I love writers that seem to be just writing from the unconscious.

“My favourite Murakami is HardBoiled Wonderland,” she continues. “Have you read it? You should, it’s unbelievable.”

Torrini is best known for quirky, vaguely melancholic acoustic pop, but a new project might take her in a different direction. While on the road, she and her band have been making plans for a countrythemed side project, and there’s a good chance they might even record together once the tour’s done.

“We’ve been learning and practicing old country songs,” Torrini says, “and singing in harmony. We’ve been doing a lot of old Christian country songs with really funny lyrics. We’re probably going to do a sideproject record around that – something really fun.”

In fact,Torrini’s current touring band have inspired her in all sorts of new ways – never normally one to write songs on the road, she is so comfortable with this group of musicians that the new compositions have come pouring out “It’s been amazing,” she enthuses.

“I’ve got the best group I could ever be with. We’ve been on tour for almost a year together, and they’re a very inspiring group.

There’s been a lot of writing on tour, and when we’re on a break, they come over here to my house to write. It’s just been really incredible.”

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PIVOT O Soundtrack Our Art Australian electro-pop leaders Pivot will perform at Beck’s Music Box as part of the Perth International Arts Festival on Thursday, February 18. BOB GORDON speaks with Dave Miller.

There’s nothing like being an ‘international band – jostling around the European continent or zipping off to the States for a show or two.

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“I’ve kind of been living like a bit of a gypsy for the last 18 months, to be honest,” he says. “I haven’t really had much of a home.

It’s good to be in one city for longer than a month. I worked out that I hadn’t been in a city longer than six weeks or two months for about 18 months now. So it’s nice to put some roots down for a month or two.”

The first ever Australian band to be signed to the acclaimed Warp label, Pivot have been making inroads in the UK and Europe in recent years, but made their maiden US voyage last September. Things went well.

“It was cool,” Miller considers. “We played our first shows as part of the Warp 20 anniversary shows. We played a big gig with !!! and Battles, all those guys and that was fun to play in front of loads of people. We played in Boston and DC, a few gigs over a week. We got a good reaction from people who were there and even more exciting was the fact Pivot that people who didn’t know about us were However there’s also nothing like quite excited as well. That’s always a good vibe, when people who’ve never heard of you come returning home for a spot of summer relaxation up to you and say, ‘that was amazing!’. And and silly seasoning and Pivot’s Dave Miller has Americans are quite vocal in either their love been doing exactly that of late here in Perth. or dislike of you… so it was nice to get some

love (laughs).”

Pivot appeared on last year’s Warp 20 compilation, offering a cover of Grizzly Bear’s song (who are, per chance, in Perth this week) Colorado. The Warp 20 shows proved handy in the context stakes given that there’s a hard rock band from Carolina with the same name.

“I think there’s a couple of Pivots floating around,” Miller laughs. “But… no. From what I gather those other bands are quite small town and haven’t played outside their own city.

“But that’s the thing with the internet, everyone can have a webpage and everyone can have a MySpace and everyone’s got equal footing. The democracy of the internet!”

The Warp 20 experience also afforded Miller and co of the opportunity to meet David Byrne (Pivot often perform a version of his song, I Zimbra). Turns out 2009 was quite the year for that kind of thing…

“In the past six months we’ve met David Byrne and Brian Eno at shows and of the people we’d like to me musically they’d be in our top three or four,” Miller enthuses. “I don’t know… you meet your heroes and even better they’re really cool guys. It makes it even better.

“We met Gary Numan as well in March when we played with him over east.

Of my musical heroes that I’ve met they’ve all been pretty nice guys. My thoughts about the music haven’t changed at all; it’s just… great music/great guys (laughs).

“It hasn’t happened the other way yet.

Like I haven’t met anyone that I’ve been put off by and I don’t want that to happen.”

Pivot are well into the completion period of their third album, the follow up to the acclaimed O Soundtrack My Heart release of 2008.

“We’ve recorded lots, actually,” says Miller. “We put it all together in September-October and realised that we needed a few more songs that were a bit calmer and a bit more minimal, because we put it all together and all the songs were quite full on. It’s a real live record and we needed some calmer moments… and those calmer moments are being recorded over the next few weeks (laughs).

“We’ve played a couple of songs while on tour in Europe and America last tour but we’ll be playing a lot more in the coming shows. The album should be out by mid this year.”

Is there a title yet?

“No… that’s probably the biggest missing piece of the puzzles (laughs).”

It’s no surprise, really, that the initial taste of Pivot’s new album would be full on, given the results of 18 months of constant gigging. Audience feedback, it seems, also played a part.

“We’ve played loads of gigs in the past 18 months together and you hear people say, ‘we like the album but the live set is so much better!’ I’ve tried to take that as a compliment every time (laughs), but I guess we did try to capture more of a lve feeling, of three guys in the studio playing together, rather than a studio experiment. We wanted to try and capture that impromptu-ness that we have I our shows. It just felt natural to do it that way.”

It would seem that the time to do the more laidback stuff would be when you’re relaxing a bit at home…

“Yeah, I guess,” Miller laughs. “We played all the songs and felt it could get, not so much tiring, but tiring on the ears in that there was so much to hear and so much going on all the time. And we want our albums to be able to be played over and over again, without getting tiring. So we felt it needed a bit more space.”

For Miller the prospect of a hometown show is always a pleasure, especially as this one is part of the Perth International Arts Festival. It’s a nice touch of local iconography…

“It feels good and I hope it does for everyone in February,” he concludes. “It seems that you’ve had to have played overseas to get to a point where you get a gig like that, but regardless it’s great.”

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MICACHU AND THE SHAPES Levi’s Genes

Fresh as daisies, Micachu And The Shapes head to Amplifier on Friday, January 8.

JACK FRANKLIN reports.

Micachu And The Shapes

The most notable thing about Micachu’s music is that it doesn’t sound like anyone else.

That in itself is one hell of an achievement, and would also help explain the British music press’s current infatuation

with Jewellery, Micachu’s debut album. Yes, the British music press are in love with a different band so often that they will have found a new one by the time you finish this sentence.

So thankfully they never pulled out the ‘next big thing' label… but they did say things like,

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‘thrilling improbable pop made by an A-Grade maverick’. You can’t argue with that.

Nor can you argue with the fact that Micachu And The Shapes make music you have to listen to. Not meaning it in a ‘run and buy it now because you are missing out on something’ way, more that it’s music you have to listen to. Listen hard. It’s not a passive experience; it involves concentration and only then will it reward you. And critics love that crap.

“I would say my music is pretty eclectic but I think there is a pop sensibility to it,” 21-year-old Mica Levi says of her music.

“It isn’t really committed to one kind of style; I think that’s what a lot of pop records are like, they dance through quite a lot of styles superficially. It’s quite noisy music I guess,” she posits.

Mica Levi is the tussled hair nymph that, after of few years of scenestering around East London, became ‘Micachu’. Wait. Art music, East London? Yes, ‘art student’ are the words that instantly leap to mind. But, as a daughter of musicians, Mica started writing and playing music at age four, studied violin, viola and composition at the Purcell School. Of her time playing the violin and viola she says matter-offactly, “I enjoyed it, kinda. But then I got bored of it.”

Mica was then awarded a scholarship to study composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Composition wasn’t her focus, as she spent more and more in the suites programming her own music, making garage and grime mix tapes and building a rep within the London club scene. Forming a band, The Shapes, Mica instantly started recording and generated buzz. Last year at a show in a small club The Borderline in Soho, London, the reigning Queen of eclectic music Bjork was in the audience and publicly sung their praises.

“It was massive compliment, we couldn’t believe it,” Mica exclaims. “It feels really, really amazing, a massive accolade. We didn’t know she was gonna be at the show ‘til

just before we went on… so we didn’t even have time to be nervous.”

When M ica talks, however, she sounds like the least likely person to ever be nervous. She gives the impression that like her music, which sounds like she is simply most interested in entertaining herself rather than anyone else, that explaining her music is somewhat pointless. Why explain something that has an intended audience of one? (you know, her). But hell, Jewellery has been released by Rough Trade Records.

Obviously, Rough Trade have a very solid 30 year track-record in putting out epoch defining, quality music, and being on Rough Trade itself is a seal of approval (other bands from their stable include The Smiths, The Strokes, Belle & Sebastian, The Libertines, Babyshambles and the current reigning sovereign of British independent music Jarvis Cocker).

In this rough, do as you please music industry aesthetic, Mica not only utilises any and all instruments to hand (there is clearly a vacuum cleaner on the record), she also builds her own. Mica has made the ‘chu’ – a modified guitar played with a hammer action – and also a bowed instrument created from a CD rack.

But all the twee experimentation is left in the studio; the live experience with The Shapes is as it’s meant to be – playing as a functioning band. “In our live show we try to project energy I suppose,” Mica explains.

“We’ve ditched a lot of the electronic instruments because, umm, I guess we wanted to learn to be a band, I suppose… and learn to play live as a band without relying on electronics. We just relied on the basics we had, and that’s what you see on stage.”

So what does she say to people asking what a Micachu And The Shapes show is like – how does she convince them it’s worth the time and effort? “I don’t know,” she replies, “[it’s] noisy, a bit arty,” she grins. “I just usually convince them by saying that they can go on the guest list.”

THE VIEW Starry Starry Hype

Ahead of their Saturday, January 9, Southbound performance at Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton, Snuggled up on the couch with his pooch, Ed Droste, one- vocalist Kyle Falconer of Scots rockers The View tells BIRDIE quarter of Brooklyn wunderkinds Grizzly Bear, stops his how being hyped as the next big thing isn’t necessarily teeth from chattering long enough to speak with EMILY what you want.

WILLIAMS ahead of their show at the Fly By Night Club this Friday, January 8.

By now you’d have to be deaf not to have heard the Best Of Year album buzz surrounding Grizzly Bear’s third LP, Veckatimest. Catching up with co-vocalist Ed Droste on a frigid evening in Brooklyn, you’d half expect the guy who, alongside his three band members, makes music the New York Times describes as ‘haunted, meticulous art-rock’ to be, well, a bit of a snob.

What you find is a 31-year-old guy pretty relaxed with his lot – and an easygoing conversationalist; something that belies his very East Coast origins. At the time of our conversation, it’s 8pm in Brooklyn, New York – and 4 degrees Celsius.

“I know. It. Is. Freezing! I am bundled up right now on the couch, with my dog – we’re definitely trying to keep warm with each other.”

The warmer climes of Australia will be a maiden voyage for the entire band. Last year a rather big one for Grizzly Bear with the overwhelmingly positive reception to Veckatimest – as well as their collaboration with friends Beach House for Slow Life, a track on the now ubiquitous Twilight: New

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Moon soundtrack. With the hipsters up in arms about the defiling of their favoured indie artists for the tween-masses to devour, what’s Droste’s take on all of this?

“I mean the whole thing was sort of random, basically we were in no position to turn down exposure to that many new, young fans. I mean it’s less about, necessarily the film, and it was more about… (1) there’s other artists on there that we love like Thom Yorke and Bon Iver and St Vincent, so that was already something where we were like ‘oh cool’ and (2), most importantly, I remember growing up and listening to big soundtracks like Singles or The Crow, all sorts of things from the ’90s, and I remember learning about new bands that way.

"But ultimately it’s a silly thing to be upset about. It’s a soundtrack, it’s a new song that we got to do with Beach House which is amazing; it was kind of a fun, random thing to do, and they’re a lot great songs on the soundtrack. I don’t think we’re protective, or super precious about our material. I mean we let people remix it, we may seem really serious because the music is heavily orchestrated and detailed, but as people we’re much more light-hearted and we’re not precious about it at all. So those kind of things are sort of fun and funny to us.”

Good pop is great music – and 2009 was a stellar year for new albums, after a dearth of good tunes in 2008. Droste tends to agree.

“I love 2009 for music, I think there has been some really amazing stuff, it’s been really awesome year. My favourite album has been the Phoenix album, I love that album so much. I think it’s like a really perfectly crafted pop album, which is a really good thing. And the melodies are infectious, and they don’t get old. A lot of pop albums get old, after a while, for me. This is one that has really strong feelings, I guess.”

The View

How’s this for a lucky break - after a random busking stint in front of Pete Doherty back in 2006, Scottish indie-rockers The View earned themselves a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to support his then-band Babyshambles on a national tour.

With a debut, self-titled EP already behind them and an ever-growing fan base that seemed to increase on a daily basis, it was only a matter of months before the four Scottish lads were touted as ‘the next big thing’ in the UK. Vocalist, Kyle Falconer, however, admits he would have liked to have it otherwise…

“There was so much hype around the band, it was coming from left, right and centre,”he recalls in a heavy Scottish accent.“But I think that’s the UK media, they are always like that. It’s very hard to believe what you see in the magazines because it feels like, well, if they weren’t saying this about your band, they would probably be saying it about somebody’s else’s anyway. You try to turn a blind eye to it but it’s there. You can let it not bother you to an extent but you can’t really escape it. We have sort of learnt to live with it now, I guess it’s all just a part of the parcel.”

In Australia, it was The View’s music rather than rumours and headlines that caught audience attention when Falconer and his bandmates made their first visit down-under in 2007. Now with sophomore album, Which Bitch?,

under their belt, the band are looking forward to wrapping up the touring cycle of the current release and fully focusing on the next release.

“We had a ball with this record,” the singer enthuses. “A lot of people were surprised with our second album because it was very much more aggressive than our first. It’s not an intentional thing, I believe it when most bands say that, because I know now that it’s something that happens as you learn to play your instrument more.

“Working with Owen (Morris, producer) was pretty inspiring too, just the fact that we got to work with so many great people was motivation enough for us to make a great album.”

After all, it wasn’t long ago that Falconer and The View were playing at family barbecues and friends’ parties – humble beginnings that are always in the back of their minds.

“We never really could afford rehearsal space until this one pub offered us some room, that was when we started concentrating and writing properly as a band,” recalls Falconer. “We had a bit of a covers band thing happening for a while, me and Kieren (Webster, bass) did some acoustic sets at parties. We didn’t really even consider starting a band until our friends started saying, ‘you’re pretty good, you should start a band’.

So it’s really all their fault.”

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THE HANDSOME FAMILY Twilight Time The Handsome Family are touring Australia in support of their new album, Honey Moon.

DEE JEFFERSON speaks with Rennie Sparks ahead of their Perth show this Sunday, January 10, at the Rosemount Hotel.

The Handsome Family Photo: Mark Owen

If The Handsome Family are any indication, there’s hope for die-hard romantics yet.

After 17 years and eight albums crooning together about everything from hashbrowns to homicide, husband and wife duo Brett and Rennie Sparks have moved from Chicago to New Mexico, mellowed out, and settled in to their 20th year of marriage with Honey Moon, an album of love songs that has been described as alt-country or country-noir.

So how did these two American Gothics evolve from bluegrass and murder ballads to romantic Appalachian odes?

The Handsome Family formed in 1993 in Chicago, three or so years after Rennie (from New York) and Brett (Texas) met at college, over a bottle of tequila. “I think back then we were pretty unconscious about what we were doing,” says Rennie. “We were just angry and nervous and scared and writing songs that were angry

and nervous and scared.”

Since that time, the love song has emerged as a consistent preoccupation – for the latest album, the two went back to their original dating song, My Prayer, for inspiration.

“I think we just love the way that love songs can make you feel this transcendent feeling of being more connected to the world than you are before the song,” Rennie explains.

Their shared influences over the years have included horror films watched in adolescence, American folk songs and the world around them.

“Those old songs that have been passed down through so many people that they get polished a little bit by each hand that touches them,” Rennie explains. From their very debut album, Odessa, you can see a recurring theme of nature in the slightly unsettling presence of butterflies, ponies and unicorns – within the same breath as blood and violence.

Since moving to New Mexico, the couple seem even more inspired by nature.

Talking from their home, Rennie does her best to convey the wonder of mountain life – with excursions into the life cycle of eels and insects.

To be honest, it gets a bit weird for a few minutes or so, as the reception is drowned out in crackle, and all I can really follow is something about how baby eels change colour…

“It’s like the desert, where Brett grew up, so it feels kind of like home for him – and it felt like as soon as I came out to the desert here, it felt like it was a place I’d been looking for, for a long time,” says Rennie of the duo’s move to New Mexico.

Honey Moon was born on a road trip in New Zealand; they stopped at the gas station and the only CD for sale was a Platters Greatest Hits album, a vocal group from the ’50s in the Tin Pan Alley tradition.

“I was listening to a song called Twilight Time by The Platters,” Rennie recalls.

“That song, I think it does something that I’ve been trying to do in songs, which is to write about a transcendent moment, a moment when suddenly everything makes sense and the world feels like a beautiful place. Their songs were so much more than just love songs, they’re songs about nature and love and emotion…”

What can we say?

Mission accomplished.

CHIMAIRA Return To Oz One of the outfits standing at the forefront of American heavy metal’s new wave, Chimaira will be swanning around on their first Australian headline tour this month.

Ahead of their appearance in Perth next Wednesday, January 13, at Amplifier Bar, vocalist Mark Hunter chats with JESSICA WILLOUGHY. It may not be the road to hell, but it certainly feels like it for Chimaira’s vocalist Mark Hunter.

Entering his hotel room in Kansas on the last leg of their recent American tour – their third full US tour in the past 12 months – he is more than just a little delirious and tender.

“Shit, where are we?” the sound of Hunter scratching his head reverbs down the line, “Oh yeah, Kansas (laughs). It gets a bit hazy at times. We are just chilling out at the moment, went to the Wizard Of Oz museum…hey, I’m totally joking (laughs).

Nah, we’re playing a show here tonight.

Sorry if I’m a little bit everywhere, just really exhausted… kinda whacked out. But that’s what you get when you tour as much as us.”

Yo u w a k e u p i n S a n t a C r u z , Oklahoma City, Austin and Knoxville. You play to thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of rabid fans, every night alongside the likes of Hatebreed, Unearth, Throwdown and much more. Losing time, gaining time. Sleeping on buses, sleeping backstage. Boozing too much and smoking way too much weed in the downtime with the rest of the Chimaira bandwagon. You wake up in Hamburg, Oslo, Paris and London. New material surfaces on tour. Welcome to the life of Mr Hunter and company. And, as long as Hunter’s making Wizard Of Oz references, it is safe to say these lads definitely are not in ‘Kansas’ anymore.

But they have made their own journey down the yellow brick road, with all the trials and tribulations that come with it.

And Hunter is the first to say that Chimaira has come full circle since their early Pass Out O f Existence (2001) days. Especially when it comes to talking about their latest instalment.

“The Infection (released last April) has actually got more in common with our first album in the mood department,” he says. “It’s kind of weird, because our music has evolved completely since our first album – but we were able to harness that same attitude again. With Pass… and The Impossibility Of www.xpressmag.com.au

Reason (2003), we were super pissed off people. Then with the self-titled, it was a darker period for the band….”

But what about the mood now? “(Laughs) If I told you that I’d have to kill you. Nah, it was just really vibey – that same killer pattern from before. But this time it was really spaced out and chilled. We learnt that by slowing things down a bit, you can really open up a recording. Actually, we just smoked a lot of weed the whole time we wrote that album – and it brought this different groove to the whole work because the music actually made us feel good.

“That’s where I was coming from and all of the rest of the guys in the band felt the same. Even though we do have main songwriters in the band, being the lead guitarist Rob Arnold and myself, every member contributes. So it is integral we are on the same page. And we had a really good time writing and recording this release.”

Written and recorded over a threemonth period, with seven of the 10 songs written on their tour bus as they trailed around one of their American stints, The Infection signals a comfortable time for Chimaira - a time to grow and develop, away from upheaval. Which is a drastic change from the climate of their previous album, Resurrection (2007).

“With that album, there was just so much going on. We’d moved labels, from our former longstanding at Roadrunner Records to Ferret Records, which was a massive change – like becoming the big fish in a little sea (laughs). And we also got our original drummer Andols Herrick back, which was amazing. And still is. But now we’ve got all that shit out of the way, we’re in a good spot and it was time to have fun with this recording.”

This release also marked a notable return to producer Ben Schigel ( Walls of Jericho, Drowning Pool) – who previously worked on the band’s first three albums – recording at his own Spider Studios in Chimaira’s hometown of Strongsville, Ohio.

“Yeah, I’d have to say we got very

sentimental about heading back to Ben. We only decided to use a different producer for Resurrection because we changed labels, and wanted to mix it up and see what happens.

But heading back to Ben brought out the old school creativity in us. And I think it is so cool how we’ve become as big as we have and we can still record in our mate’s garage like we did 10 years ago.”

Despite this old school tinge, Hunter added a contemporary twist to things in the lyrical department by basing the words of

each song off from films’ that had touched him in some way.

“The track I am most proud of on The Infection is The Disappearing Sun. This was inspired by the sci-fi movie Sunshine (2007), which was an awesome film. I just related my story to that. “ S o m e p e o p l e h ave a s k e d m e whether Destroy And Dominate is related to the Rambo films, but I’m not going to confirm or deny that. Fans will just have to figure it out for themselves (laughs).”

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and nasal quality to Robinson’s voice, yet it has never mirrored Dylan more than on The Sound. The music is another story, as the kitchen sink is thrown at almost every track on Summer Of Fear - creating many swelling moments and impressive crescendos. With members of Grizzy Bear adorning the album there is no shortage of talent on offer either.

Things take an unexpected turn when Trap Door is the least ornate of the tunes on offer. The more raw guitars give the song extra muscle that adds to Robinson’s impassioned vocal, making it the closest to a radio single on the album.

Summer Of Fear may have slipped under the radar a little, but it can hold its own with the best of 2009 for sure.

STEVE KILBEY Painkiller Karmic Hit

Painkiller may be the first solo release for Steve Kilbey in seven years but for the most part it still sounds like it is steeped in the ’80s. While that can be a negative for many an artist, it is actually one of the strengths of Painkiller.

Opener Outbound has a more industrial edge than previous Kilbey efforts, _CHRIS HAVERCROFT but it is wrapped up in Cure-like guitar moments to soften the blow. He hits his melodic strides shortly after though with the brooding Celestial and sprightly Wolfe – even though its lyrics could have been written by a five year-old. Crystalline Rush has Kilbey sounding like Michael Hutchence during one of INXS’ most flaccid moments.

When Kilbey puts his pop sensibility away to put his hand to something more experimental, we are confronted by a 12-minute collage of sounds during File Under Travel. It is in no way offensive, but neither is it particularly tuneful or necessary.

The sparser Look Homeward Angel shows why Kilbey has often been mentioned in the same THE JACKARDS breath as the unsurpassable David McComb. Attack of Painkiller won’t be held up as The Jackards Kilbey’s finest moment by a long shot, but Firestarter Music there is enough within to excite most fans of The Church.

With a sound between Weezer and energetic live act The Living End, local act The Jackards _CHRIS HAVERCROFT threaten to attack with their debut LP. Attack Of The Jackards bursts out of the gate, full of anthem choruses and bridges seemingly written for festival gigs.

The bridge and instrumental breaks alone are worth the price of admission. Tim Stacey’s confident drumming and James ‘Trainwreck’ Trewenack’s kicking bass really give the songs a great feel, Hey Kid! especially has a great rhythm.

Fans of frontman Glenn Sarangapany’s other local outings will find a definite maturity in his lyrics. He shows restraint from his usually humorous style, though when he plays on that it is between the lines (seriously, listen to Song For Harley while thinking about a EMMA RUSSACK dude allergic to a cat).

Emma Russack Attack nicely breezes through the Spunk catalogue of rock history: from rockabilly, EMI stadium rock to just straight up rock’n’roll This time last year Emma Russack was getting – track Lonely would fit snugly on a Kinks air time under the name Lola Flash with record. Sarangapany’s guitar work really her song Psycho on the Spunk Singles Club is outstanding with the excellent Heart compilation. Twelve months later and she is In My Hands climatically ending with an recording under her own name and has her outstanding Spanish guitar solo, proving himself as one of Perth’s smoothest and most debut EP in her pocket.

The 22 year-old is no stranger to the adept guitarist.

DIY ethic, having recorded songs at home _TOM VARIAN and making them available to the world via mail order. The seven songs on this debut are also oozing with that type of lo-fi charm.

The Russack voice may not be quite as charismatic as that of Chan Marshall, but From Where You Are Sleeping has the lilting feel of some of Cat Power’s finer work. I’ll Never Hurt You is a picture of slow-core with its bare and menacing approach. Russack has a broad palate, changing mood at will with Sex On The Beach being playful and light, and her deep voice suiting the lounge-y The Shore to perfection.

Showing substance beyond her years, Emma Russack has delivered a debut that gets better with each listen.

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MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON Summer Of Fear Spunk EMI Geez, TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone has been putting it about as much as Ryan Adams lately, and here he is producing the latest offering from Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson.

Robinson’s debut was full of tunes of addiction and depression, and while his second album Summer Of Fear is as introspective, it is (as expected with Malone at the helm) a far more layered affair.

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Flood Songs / June Songs Independent

At its time of release you can be sure that Flood Songs / June Songs wasn’t meant to be the final swansong for The Preytells, but it appears that is indeed the case. With Audrey Tell and Will Tell packing their bags for the eastern states some time in 2010, The Preytells will call it a day.

Up until now The Preytells have been a somewhat of a hit-and-miss affair, so it is a tragedy that just as they released their most consistent effort they announce their demise.

The influences on the band are broad, and The Preytells appear as comfortable borrowing from The Beatles as they do Interpol.

This melting pot has led to an ambitious release that is infinitely listenable from start to finish. Lord Hold My Hand has surely gone within a bee’s dick of being the song of the year, but there is no shortage of other attractions to draw the listener in.

Flood Songs / June Songs will most certainly act as a document of one of the city’s most unique pop bands of recent times.

The Preytells have managed to deliver one to not only be enjoyed now, but also reflected on strongly in future years. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT Hittin’ the town since 1985

An RBT could be on any corner.

THE MAGOOS Self-Titled Vertex Records Independent

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All-Indonesian punk rock band The Magoos began almost 10 years ago now, playing blistering anti-social hardcore decidedly opposed to Western values and cultural hegemony. Not ashamed of their Muslim culture, in the wake of American terrorist attacks in 2001 the band became simultaneously one of the most entertaining and terrifying in town.

Along with The Dose, they easily dominated the zeitgeist-smashing rock scene at the Hydey through 2002, and when they finally recorded, bootleg copies began to circulate widely throughout the burgeoning community. Ultimately the band attracted the attention of ASIO, resulting in the confiscation of their computers, and no label dared touch the recording, which remains a minor classic.

This 7” EP is not that record.

Recorded in 2008 with a cast of white boys in addition to original vocalist/guitarist Rama Mohammad, it’s a raw, and very competent slab of blistering hardcore, but it just ain’t got the magic that made the Brigade 55 bootleg so awesome. This is more noticeable because every single track bar one is a re-record although to be fair, the newie, Die Punks Die, is really good.

This won’t change the world the way that the original concept of The Magoos threatened to do, but fans of low-fi hardcore punk should definitely keep an eye out for it.

Sometime during the noughties British music critic Andrew Harrison coined the term ‘landfill indie’ to describe the ever growing pile of bland, coat-tail surfing, cookie-cutter guitar-pop bands (anyone hanging out for the next Wombats album?) that fed like cleaner fish on the underside of The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand et al.

With a New Year ahead of us, one wonders whether 2010 will be the year listeners en-masse finally get fed up with landfill new-wave / electro-pop. Higher than a bargain-bin of neon tights, a steady pile of acts of varying quality have built up all over the world dutifully name-dropping Duran Duran, The Pet Shop Boys and The Human League whilst polishing their collection of obscure effects pedals and Amiga 500s.

There’s nothing particularly bad about Sydney act Cassette Kids’ latest single Lying Around. The Heart Of Glass leaning intro is all very broody and a genuinely pumping chorus is certainly radio and dance floor friendly. You can’t accuse the band of being lazy in their lyrical sentiment either: ‘Nothing’s going to happen if you’re lying around’ - it’s the dance floor equivalent of someone shouting ‘get out of bed you lazy fool’.

But how long can the ‘new’ newwave surge? Surely people are ready for a change of tide by now?

Every police vehicle is a booze bus.

_DAVID CRADDOCK

_BEN WATSON

VARIOUS ARTISTS Brand Neu! Feraltone Records Although somewhat overlooked during their brief existence in a relatively electronicafree ’70s, Krautrock pioneers Neu! heavily influenced the likes of David Bowie, Joy Division and Sonic Youth to name just a few.

This Brand Neu! tribute compilation proves just how deep the German duo’s minimal art-rock has been absorbed by today’s bands too, with the likes of Kasabian showcasing the mechanical Stuntman from their album Empire and Primal Scream’s fiery Shoot Speed / Kill Light lifted from XTRMNTR. Liner notes reveal each artist’s gushing take (some up to three paragraphs) on Neu!, detailing just how their lives changed forever the first time they laid ears the early synth music. Oasis offcut Can Y’See It Now? (I Can See It Now!!) from the Japanese edition of Don’t Believe The Truth makes a surprising appearance with a rather tenuous link to the Neu! sound. he mostly instrumental track chugs along with typical Oasis swagger, though the sleeves notes indicate that Neu!’s influence on the Gallaghers was twice removed, judging from Noel’s short, though brutally honest quote ‘My current new favourite German band of all time’.

Ciccone Youth’s throwaway Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu! is essentially what the title suggests and seems to have only made the cut due to its convenient name. However, while the tracks included here aren’t always the artists’ best work (Pets With Pets, Holy Fuck, Foals, LCD Soundsystem) and certainly not their most commercial, Brand Neu! is an interesting example of how the modern era look to Neu! when attempting the avant-garde for their album tracks, B-Sides and leftovers.

TERMINATOR SALVATION Sony Pictures

If Marilyn Manson would be an easier pill for you to swallow if he was a beautiful blonde woman, then this is the band for you.

Clarification: an actual woman.

If Christian Bale had brought the kind of real emotion and passion to John Connor that we all heard him unleash on cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, this movie might have stood a chance.

But it’s not so much that the very dry and emotionless Connor ruins the film, more so that it is part of an overall dryness that resides in every corner of Terminator Salvation, completely to its detriment.

Why? Because when your human side acts no differently than the machines they are warring against, no one cares who wins… and we are supposed to care about the possible extinction of our species at the hands of robots, aren’t we?

And that’s where this film loses all footing. It’s simply impossible to give a shit who wins and who doesn’t, and instead the audience relies on eye-candy to make it through the flick. And as sweet as the eyecandy is, one unfortunately must eat a thick crust of cheese in order to get to it.

Terminator motorcycles, giant mongoloid terminators, itty-bitty scurrying terminators… it’s The Matrix without the philosophy, or some far corner of the Star Wars universe where they send all the ‘special’ droids that serve next to fuck-all purpose.

The losers.

Remembering the plot of Terminator Salvation is thus a chore. After a few minutes of watching, your brain switches into ‘popcorn’ mode so as to make the next two hours enjoyable, and the film never provides any incentive to pay attention… just sit back, open your eyes, and watch things explode.

This film has none of the dark relentlessness of The Terminator, none of the jaw-dropping innovation of Terminator 2, and even lacks the campy self-sabotage of Terminator 3 – but that in itself highlights where this franchise has gone… from scary to silly.

In fact, the only time in Terminator Salvation where you find yourself back in that place the first two films took you, is thanks to a virtual cameo by the now Governor of California.

Sadly, the fact that a CGI character is the highlight of a film about man versus machine says everything.

_MIKE WAFER

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_ROBERT PENNEY

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A LITTLE BIT OF LAUGHTER

After a brief hiatus, Fremantle’s favourite comedy night, Little Comedy, returns in 2010 to bring audiences the best stand up from home and abroad. Kicking off on Saturday, January 16, the first Little Comedy of the year will feature sets from James De Leo, Shikar, Michael Workman and John Robertson on MC duties.

Doors open at 8.30pm, show starts at 9pm.

Little Comedy takes place at the Little Creatures Loft on Mews Road in Fremantle.

Parasouls

THE SOUL OF THE CIRCUS

The 2010 West Australian Circus Festival is just around the corner, with the celebration of performance taking place from Saturday, January 23, ’til Monday, January 25, at Karridale, which is 30kms south of Margaret River,. The 22 day Festival will see circus students of all ages learning the secrets behind professional performers’ skills, with demonstrations from a range of celebrated artists.

One of the performance groups making their way to the festival is Parasouls, a collective of five lasses who combine high level skills with funny characters for spectacular performances that examine femininity.

Other confirmed artists include The Pitts, The Leaping Loonies, The Cloghoppers, Tumble Circus, The Barons Of Tang and Circus Trick Tease. To find out more and for info on how to get involved, head to lunarcircus.com.

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Raw Comedy comedian Laura Davis

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.

Heats kick off this Thursday, January 7, and continue every Thursday for the next few months at the Charles Hotel’s Comedy Lounge.

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CAN YOU FEEL THE BEAT?

On Saturday, January 16, music fans are invited to head along to Kulcha to feel and hear the infectious rhythms of Dunumba, a tribal village dance band with a penchant for percussion.

Hailing from North Fremantle, Dunumba play a range of African instruments, including Djembe, Boogaraboo Kpanlogo, Senegalese Sabar, Dundun, Sangban, Kenkeni, Tama ( ‘talking drum’), the Marimba, Mbira (also known as the kalimba or thumb piano), and a variety of bells.

Doors open 8pm.Tickets available on the door or online at kulcha.com.au.

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Hailing from Zurich, singer-songwriter Mya Audrey wowed international audiences with the release of her debut album Sudden Breeze, and tonight, Thursday, January 7, Perth can get a taste of her music live at the Ellington Jazz Club. Audrey will take to the stage at The Ellington to share her light and airy compositions that fuse jazz and pop.

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CALEXICO Dust Never Sleeps

Calexico Mariachi, country and indie-rock melding deser t dwellers Calexico bring their evocative sounds to the Perth International Arts Festival’s Beck’s Music Box on Friday, February 26. DAVID CRADDOCK speaks to frontman, Joey Burns.

Calexico’s music is entrenched in the sandy, desolate and culturally rich border towns of the American Southwest. Like the worldmusic acts the band often joins on the bills of international arts festivals, Calexico’s country, mariachi and rock-tinged sound is fundamentally linked to the natural and cultural environment around them. Even in conversational small talk, frontman Joey Burns manages to give the world outside his window an eerie, softly spoken, poeticism.

“It looks like it might be storming here pretty soon,” he says from his home, and the band’s base, in Tucson, Arizona. “It’s supposed to be storming at about 6,000 feet. I don’t know how many metres that is, but it looks like we might get a bit of precipitation – maybe some snow on the mountain.”

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Calexico is a small city straddling the Californian and Mexican border 480-odd kilometres west of Tucson. The city’s position as a transport hub means that it’s the site of both legal and illegal border crossings. The fact that Burns and fellow core-Calexico member John Convertino chose to name their band after this cultural and geographical collision-point is no accident.

“I don’t want to be known for writing socio-political songs but it most definitely has an impact on the writing,” Burns says of the band’s discussion of border politics on previous albums and their Latino-influenced sound.

“After having travelled a bunch and talking to journalists and people around the world I guess I’m more aware that it is a universal problem. It has a certain kind of description here in the South-West, but it’s a universal problem.

There are people coming into Australia who are in internment camps and we’re probably right behind Australia in terms of what will happen to immigrants. They’re just assigning laws now that are going to basically limit any kind of rights to

people that are coming into the country illegally.

“The building of the wall, it’s just a disguise. I don’t think that it’s solving the issue at hand. I don’t think that it’s solving the real core of the problem. You’ve got an economy in Mexico that is quite depressed, much more so than in the USA so that kind of contrast is going to attract a lot of people that are going to risk their lives to make a living for their families. It’s just a fact. For me what’s interesting is the human side. How it affects people’s lives. The metaphorical aspect and the examples and aspects of these stories.”

While Calexico’s latest release, Carried To Dust, may not reference ‘the border’ as directly as on past albums, Burn says his desert surrounds are still an ongoing influence and inspiration. In a match made in heaven for fans of so-called ‘desert rock’, the songwriter says there has been mention of Calexico collaborating with Malian desert guitar legends, Tinariwen, for a newly formed record label run by National Geographic.

“I feel the same way when I listen to Sigur Rós,” he says of his love of Tinariwen’s spacious, epic music. “It‘s the same kind of

reference to ambient space. Or when I listen to the German electronic group Oval, or Tortoise, or (Congolese group) Konono N°1. I think ambient space is important, it’s in a lot of music. It’s something that we really try and capture - that room sound.

“The whole philosophy of there being space is a big one. When you live out here and there is the absence of skyscrapers and you can see blue sky or grey clouds above you, you can see a storm cloud with rain miles off in the distance coming your way and that has a profound effect on you, having that perspective without obstacles.”

Given his love of isolation, Burns and his ever-evolving group of bandmates should feel quite at home in Perth. With a slot at the picturesque Beck’s Music Box set aside for a stirring riverside Calexico performance, Perth crowds can expect a rather special evening of worldly sounds.

“It’s a beautiful location for sure,” he says of how the band adapts their setlist to such unique venues and arts festival crowds. “We might get a little experimental depending on the rest of the theme of the festival, who else is on the bill or what the crowd is like. We kind of take cues from the audience I think that’s one of the real beauties of touring, that you really connect with people and travel.”

By the time Calexico play the Perth International Arts Festival, Carried To Dust will be almost 18 months old. The show may therefore be a good opportunity for fans to get their fix of the band in case they decide to bunker down and begin working on their next major project, which may, believe it or not, not be under the Calexico name.

“We’re thinking about new songs, what to do and what our next move will be with an album,” Burns says of his future plans. “I’m thinking it might be nice to even start a new band, call it something else and do something different. Different instruments and people with John and I.” For the time being, however, Burns is keeping himself busy with an interesting and unexpected collaboration with Eric Burdon, leader of The Animals and the famed voice behind the British invasion group’s iconic reworking of The House Of The Rising Sun. “We want to do a collaboration on a song or two for his new album.”

For Calexico, there’s always a border to push somewhere.

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FANTASTIC MR FOX Outfoxed

Fantastic Mr Fox Director Wes Anderson The title character (voiced by George Voiced by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Clooney) is a dashing and carefree fox, who Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem grudgingly agrees to give up stealing chickens from hen houses and take on a more grown-up Dafoe, Owen Wilson job when Mrs Fox (Meryl Streep) falls pregnant.

I’ve been a sucker for Wes Anderson films since Cut to two years (twelve fox years) later, and The Royal Tenenbaums – I love his beautifully- the pair have settled into family life; Mr Fox, composed shots, his knack for deadpan dialogue however is restless, and determined to pull and his secret sentimental streak – but lately, off one last heist against Boggis, Bunson and defending my position as a fan has proved Bean, the three meanest farmers in the district. tough. Take The Darjeeling Limited – gorgeous- When the heist goes wrong (which of course looking though it may have been, the film it does, because there wouldn’t be a movie if was more concerned with the quirks, tics and the heist didn’t go wrong), Mr Fox and various idiosyncrasies of its characters than it was other woodland creatures, including a taciturn with actual storytelling, continuing the young badger (Bill Murray) and a loyal, dim-witted auteur’s worrying trend towards the angsty opossum (Wallace Wolodarsky) are forced to band together for their very survival. and internal.

Pretty much everything about Fantastic Fantastic Mr Fox, though, represents a number of firsts for Anderson – it’s his first Mr Fox is great, from the production design – use of outside source material (the novel by beautiful to look at and intricate in its detail – to Roald Dahl), and his first crack at a stop-motion the snappy pace of the storytelling. Anderson’s animated film. Though I told all my friends I was trademark deadpan dialogue sounds fresh when going in with low expectations, I was secretly coming out of the mouths of talking animals, hoping, given the constraints of a 90-minute and the voice cast, which also includes Jason kids’ movie and a toy box full of models and sets Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe and Owen Wilson, is to play with, the young auteur would recapture pretty outstanding. It’s fun and exhilarating, with some of that old magic. Needless to say, I wasn’t a definite sense of adventure; it doesn’t pander disappointed. In fact, Fantastic Mr Fox isn’t just a to young audiences, and features enough sly great Wes Anderson movie, it’s a great movie full humour to keep adults engaged. stop, one that can be enjoyed on its own terms _ALASDAIR DUNCAN by both adults and children.

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DIE ROTEN PUNKTE

PEACEFUL TIMES

Rotten Punks and Rock n Roll Monsters

Child’s Play

Peaceful Times Directed by Neele Leana Vollmar but Irene promises she’ll take a chill pill, Starring Leonie Brill, Nina Monka, and her daughters bend over backwards to Katharina Schubert and Oliver Stokowski ensure she’s relaxed.

Wasa and Ute are terrified that their German cinema, in my experience, tends to mother will try to top herself, so they soothe be a very hit or miss affair, and more often her any way they can, sacrificing their own than not, films unfortunately tend to fall social lives to do so. They hide their tears into the latter category. Every now and again from her, give their mother their favourite though, an amazing German film comes doll so she doesn’t sleep alone when their along and thankfully for Lotterywest Festival father is out late, and monitor how many Films fans, Peaceful Times is one such film.

Set in West Germany in 1968, pills she takes before bed at night.

When the girls overhear a neighbour Peaceful Times, or Friedliche Zeiten as it’s known in the mother tongue, deals with talking about divorce, Wasa and Ute think aspects of war and Communist occupation they’ve found the cure to their parents’ often overlooked by other film-makers. rocky marriage, and set about doing just Instead of enlisting a soldier or spy as the about anything to ensure Irene and Dieter’s protagonist, director Neele Leana Vollmar relationship comes to an end, including shows West Berlin through the eyes of using Communist inspired torture methods two young sisters as they struggle to help to keep their brother quiet (threatening his their mother deal with war induced Post prized comic book collection).

Traumatic Stress.

Child actors aren’t exactly The girls, Wasa (Leonie Brill) and Ute renowned for having good acting skills, (Nina Monka), are devoted to their mother but Leonie Brill and Nina Monka are both Irene (Katharina Schubert) – sacrificing fantastic performers, bringing emotional everything to keep her happy and calm, maturity way past their years to their roles. for fear that she will kill herself, which she The kids absolutely steal the film - the best continually threatens to do. Their father scenes by far are those when it’s just the two Dieter (Oliver Stokowski) is frustrated with his sisters talking to each other. emotionally unstable wife, often venturing Despite the potentially depressing out of the house to drink with friends alone, since his partner is petrified to leave the subject matter of Peaceful Times, the film is funny and a joy to watch thanks to Vollmar’s apartment.

When Irene and her children see lovely cinematography and bright 1960s Russian tanks invading Prague on television costumes. All in all, Peaceful Times is a while their father is out drinking one night, wonderful film, sure to appeal to adults and all hell breaks loose and Irene’s stress levels children of reading age (for the subtitles). are pushed to the limit. Tension in the _EMMA BERGMEIER marriage threatens to break up the family,

They’re the odd couple of the punk rock scene, from tabloid-slammed party girl/drummer/ singer, Astrid Rot, to her younger brother, the straight-edge vegan/guitarist/singer, Otto Rot. The dysfunctional German duo, Die Roten Punkte, are coming to the Beck’s Music Box on Tuesday, February 16.

“I just like noisy things,” Astrid Rot says, when asked why she was born to be a drummer.

“I was always in trouble with my parents for being noisy.”

It seems events in the past played a large role in the band’s establishment. Their name, Die Roten Punkte, Astrid says, pays tribute to an instance from their childhood.

“It has a little bit of a spooky past. It came from the lyrics of a song you’ll hear when we’re in Perth,” she says.

Then there’s the comical spin on their name, when Die Roten Punkte is anglicised and mispronounced as, ‘die rotten punk’.

While it’s just the two of them onstage pounding on their signature ‘mini’ instruments, from Astrid’s 14-inch kick drum to Otto’s mini Flying V, they pack a whole lot of punch with their stage theatrics.

In the past they were rarely able to get to the end of a song without fighting. These days, sibling rivalry is part of their act. When asked about their songwriting process they squabble relentlessly.

“I write the songs and then I show Astrid...” Otto begins, but is cut off by Astrid’s monotone: “No, no no.” “...how to play them...” he tries to

continue.

Again Astrid rebuts, “No, no, no.”

“Basically we play the song how I say,” Otto says before Astrid cuts him off.

“What happens is, we get in a room and Otto talks for quite a while, then we do the song how I say,” she says.

But after a wordy tug-o-war, Astrid admits, “We write songs together. But Otto likes singing about vegetables and fruit. It’s boring.”

That’s when Otto explains the history of straight-edge punk rock and his love affair with vegan cooking.

“We have a song called Rock’n’Roll Monster about a monster who lives in the city and eats so much rock’n’roll that he explodes. So I pretend, when I have a monster vegan breakfast, that I am eating it like a monster,” he says.

Next to Otto, Astrid embodies the other extreme of punk rock, with talk that she was recently in rehab. But Astrid dismisses these rumours…

“I went away for a while to have some time away from Otto. Sometimes my arms get sore from drumming so I have to rest them,” she says.

So, whichever extreme of the punk rock spectrum you’re after, you’re sure to find it with Die Roten Punkte, in an evening that will be nothing short of utter hardcore.

“We’ll be playing Rock’n’roll Monster and Ich Bin Nicht Ein Roboter (I Am A Lion). All the hits. All killer, no filler,” Astrid says.

“It’s gonna be the biggest and best rock’n’roll concert you’ve ever seen,” Otto says. _ EVA BUJALKA

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LA SYLPHIDE

journal any less of a pie in the sky? But, good luck was on the way. Dotdotdash received an $8,000 grant from Express Media’s Write In Your Face program, and riding the buzz that came from that achievement, Finch produced a dummy copy to help the team visualise the physical product. “ The hardest thing, at first, was just knowing what to do,” he says. “It just felt so dodgy because we all had training and knowledge as far as literature goes, but then I had to know the physical production of it, who to contact, how to contact them.

I figured if I just set a definite goal in mind, whether or not we’d reach it, people would still get together and start doing stuff.”

Baby steps turned to leaps and bounds. The group began talking distribution and marketing and an art panel was set up, along with editorial ones for creative fiction, creative non-fiction and poetr y, among others. With the support of Curtin University and funding from numerous arts development organisations, the team went on to release two issues, each themed by the name of a single font, which was dotdotdash predominant throughout its respec tive In 2009, a modest troupe of writers, designers pages. In Issue 1: Quicksand, pieces ranged and all-out creative types set upon the from a memoir about mental deterioration, mammoth task of producing the quarterly to musings on Perth’s identity, while Issue creative writing journal, now k nown as 2: Ugly (released in early December ‘09) dotdotdash. Its fundamental objective was contained ones that touching on everything captured by the journal’s name which — f r o m b o d y i m a g e t o e n v i r o n m e n t a l Morse Code for the letter U — signalled a destruction. desire to publish quality creative writing Besides the muscle of the writing pieces by young and emerging wordsmiths and the playful ar twork in this bright, (alongside visual ones by artists with the bouncy publication, one of dotdotdash’s same level of experience).

“Basically after a Long Fiction class standout features is how accessible it is to at university I got all the students to write a mainstream readership. While the pages down their names and email addresses,” says swim with ideas, they aren’t so ‘arty’ that Steven Finch, the journal’s managing editor. they distance the more conservative reader.

“First I tried starting a writers’ group and I More importantly dotdotdash counters, that figured from that we’d establish a literary pessimistic mantra that there’s nothing journal. But nothing really came of it, so exciting happening in our city. Cheer up I thought ‘okay, let’s just focus entirely on Perth. There are jewels in your pockets.

Dotdotdash is now calling for putting together a publication then’.”

Initially, Finch and co were sceptical submissions for Issue 3: Home. Entries close on Januar y 15th. For more details visit as to whether anything would materialise from this ambitious goal. After all, the idea www.dotdotdash.org. of setting up a writers’ group hadn’t panned _MAX NOAKES out, so what made the creation of a literary

Perth City Ballet’s production of La Sylphide is showing at the Quarry Amphitheatre in Floreat, from Wednesday, January 13, ’til Saturday, January 16. Bookings through BOCS Ticketing.

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It’s Just Emotion

In what has become a long standing tradition of presenting a classic ballet each January, Perth City Ballet is spoiling their audience this year with the hauntingly beautiful production of La Sylphide. Set in Scotland, the two-act romantic ballet was first performed at the Paris Opera in 1832, choreographed by Philippe Taglioni and is accredited as the ballet that changed dance history forever, beginning the era of romantic ballet and initiating the ascendancy of women on the ballet stage.

Performing in the lead female role of the Sylph (the fairy of air) is Tatiana Pevneva who will be joined on stage by real-life partner Sergey Pevnev (appearing courtesy of West Australian Ballet) as the lead male character James. Together, the couple will bring to life the

La Sylphide

story of the airy sprite who seduces a young Scottish farmer on the eve of his wedding.

“La Sylphide was one of the first written in the romantic era of ballet and was the first time emotion was used in a ballet compared to technical performances,” Pevneva explains.

“The signature elements of romantic ballet were sylphs, swans, firebirds, elves and wilis. It was a mix of reality and fantasy in settings that were both natural and ethereal.

Ballet was dominated by these strange and mysterious creatures for the next two decades, and the influence of La Sylphide in particular was widespread throughout Europe and the United States.

“The ballet is not the most technical of dance routines, however it would be considered the most emotional role to play. It can be difficult to capture the emotion of ballet, as well as convey the plot to the audience through dance.”

Peveneva says they began researching the production last May, with rehearsals starting in September, early enough for Sergey to practice his role before a trip home to Russia before Christmas. However, Pevneva assures that even though some parts of the rehearsal cannot be practiced without her leading man, this hasn’t hampered the show.

“We knew Sergey was going to be overseas in the mother country during this time and thus planned and rehearsed in depth prior to his departure. And the opportunity has allowed us to rehearse other parts and concentrate our efforts on the supporting roles and other production areas,” she says.

“We have endeavoured to keep La Sylphide as original as possible. Our dancers have performed in a number of ballets and have a vast amount of experience both nationally and internationally which is then used to achieve our best per formances.

“We haven’t changed the choreography or the storyline, although the difficulty does arise like when two people read a book - you’re always going to receive two slight differences in the interpretation. And even though I can not change the choreography, I am lucky to have the freedom to express the emotion of my character and the expression of this emotion is what I love most about this particular ballet.” _TANYA MACNAUGHTON

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PERFORMANCE 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.

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Frederick McCubbin

Golden Sunlight 1914 Oil on canvas 79 x 119.7 cm Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum, Victoria Gift of Dame Nellie Melba, 1923

McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907 -17, Art Gallery Of WA, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth.

McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907–17 provides a fresh look at Frederick McCubbin’s late work; concentrating on the last 11 years of his life when he produced his most vibrant works, ones which express his sense of delight in, and comfort within, the Australian landscape. The first comprehensive McCubbin exhibition in 18 years, and the first to focus on his later works, McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907–17 features 72 works from all the major galleries in Australia, including several from the National Gallery of Australia’s collection, and 25 rarely publicly displayed works from private collections.

Exhibition runs ’til Monday, March 29.

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.

Exposed! The Story Of Swimwear, WA Museum – Maritime, Victoria Quay, Fremantle.

As a nation of swimmers it’s not surprising Australia played, and continues to play, such a key role in swimwear innovation and design. A new exhibition at the Western Australian Museum – Maritime shows how Australian designers and swimming stars have been central figures in the evolution of the modern swimsuit, helping to blur the boundaries between underwear and outerwear. Exposed! The Story Of Swimwear is an Australian National Maritime Museum travelling exhibition and draws on the museum’s extensive collection of historical swimwear to explore how the modern swimsuit changed bathing into swimming and helped redefine perceptions of the body.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, February 7.

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.

The Taming Of The Shrew

The Taming Of The Shrew, Kings Park & Botanic Garden, Perth.

Shakespeare WA has announced the return of the ever-popular Shakespeare In The Park series in 2010, kicking off the season with a 1960s style production of The Taming Of The Shrew. This popular comedy is certain to delight audiences of all ages as its thematic battle of the sexes makes it as pertinent today as it was when written 400 years ago. After the success of last year’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, the hilarious team of Sam Longley, Glenn Hall, and Will O’Mahoney (Equity Best Newcomer Award for 2009) will be returning to Shakespeare WA to play the roles of Grumio, Hortensio and Tranio.

Season opens on Saturday, January 9, and runs ’til Saturday, February 6. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

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It seems no space in Perth is too small for the folks at Pigeonhole, who have just opened up yet another store, this time in London Court. Though tiny in size, the London Court store is big in character, full of quirky products from near and far, waiting for someone to take them home.

Ahead of the store opening, local artist Creepy was invited to create a mural on the main shop wall, which is now completed, making the space feel inviting and cosy, rather than cramped. Whether you’re a Lomography nut, an accessories addict or a sucker for stationery, Pigeonhole’s store at 44 London Court is definitely worth a visit.

To keep abreast of all the happenings at Pigeonhole, check out their blog at Pigeonhole.com.au

Designs by Osier

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At Unwrapped: The Marketplace in December last year, shoppers braved the heat and humidity for a chance to snag themselves something made with love, locally. One of the highlights of the market was the Osier stall, which offered shoppers eclectic jewellery and accessories with a cute twist.

Created by Lauren O’Brien, Osier designs make the most of forgotten objects, turning discarded materials into beautiful creations for both men and women.

The pieces O’Brien produces for Osier are quite varied, with her range including brooches adorned with toy animals, purses made from crochet doileys, compass cuff links and pendants featuring gorgeous images from vintage patterns books.

Instead of buying something brand new for yourself or a friend next time you’re in the mood to shop, think sustainably and turn to Osier for pre-loved pieces that have been given a new lease on life. To find out more about Osier, check out osier-handmade.blogspot.com. To get your hands on Osier creations, head to shopmoose.com.au, etsy.com/shop/osier or madeit.com.au. _EMMA BERGMEIER 26

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Those after a luxurious day at the races headed straight to The Rockin’ Horse marquee, decked out with beautiful décor, a view to die for, and live music all day long.

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DJ Yoda’s live shows takes the art of VJing to the next level, so much so that Q Magazine has described Yoda as one of the ‘Top 10 DJs You Must See Before You Die’. With his audio visual-mashup-extravaganzas, Yoda’s been pushing the boundaries of all forms of turntablism for over 10 years now. Yoda, AKA Duncan Beiny, speaks to ALFRED GORMAN on the eve of his show at Southbound.

“Hey mate can you just hold on one second… sorry...” Even when he’s supposed to be doing interviews, it seems Yoda is multitasking – never one to sit still – he’s home in London, but as he explains it never lasts long. “ Sorry you’ll have 100per cent of my attention in a second, I’m just trying to find a lost book! One sec man… okay got it! Right sorry, I’m with you. So yeah, I’m home now, but I’m kind of away every week, wherever my gig might take me. I usually get Monday and maybe Tuesday back here and then the rest of the week I could be anywhere really.”

Yoda’s new show has taken him to venues he’d never have played before - it’s become much more than your average DJ set, he explains.

“Basically, on my recent tours I’ve been mixing audio and video, at the same time.

Normally when I tour I just do weekend club venues, but I just got back from a tour where I’ve been playing gig venues so some of them were midweek, it’s like a full show now.”

He’s been described as DJ Shadow with a sense of humour, and as a sample crazy, award winning cut ‘n’ paste turntablist, it’s been a natural progression for Yoda to get into the VJ thing.

“Yeah well it’s evolved – my sets have always included the whole sort of element of cut up samples, from movies and TV shows, just audio samples. But now you can scratch the actual movies and TV shows themselves – so I guess it’s come naturally to me with the technology now allowing it.”

“I’ve been DJing for a while now - so you know, I can rock a club with just

turntables so easily now… it’s not a challenge, so I just try to come up with things that are a challenge to keep it more interesting. Like, I’ve also played with an orchestra recently.

There’s this young classical composer, Gabriel Prokofiev [DJ, producer, composer and grandson of the great Sergei], and he wrote a concerto for turntables; scored a whole piece for turntables, working with an entire orchestra, so that was an amazing experience.”

Yoda has always been known as a hip hop DJ - and the man still has his roots and his heart there - but times are changing,“Throughout the 90’s, and up to a few years ago, I only listened to hip hop and nothing else. I’ve got this encyclopaedic knowledge of hip hop, but the last few years it’s just got worse and worse. Now is an interesting time for music – there’s tonnes of good music, but it’s all in these kinda small dance music strains from all over the world. So you know, I’m playing dubstep, I’m playing stuff from Africa, stuff from Jamaica, Brazil… it’s just kinda now like this global dance music.”

Yoda gets excited at the mention of Major Lazer, who he is sharing the Southbound bill with, he enjoys the idea of exploring different countries sounds and mashing them up in a modern context. “Yeah exactly, stuff like that has that rawness and energy that I used to love in hip hop. I mean you can look under all the gangsta shit, and there is some stuff still occasionally that I like, but hip hop alone is just not enough for me anymore. I mean, UK hip hop, turned into grime, and there is stuff in the grime scene that I like – Dizzee Rascal is one of my favourite rappers.”

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 FEELING BETTER ALREADY If you’re stuck for something to do this Thursday, January 7, and you’d preferably like that ‘something to do’ to involve cheap drinks, interesting yet laid back DJ selections, and ping pong, look no further than The Thursday Feel Up!, a new night presented by {move}’s Ben Taaffe and Pivot’s Dave Miller.

Head upstairs at the Scotsman to check out DJ Reece playing Japanese electronic cuts, RTRFM’s Sarah Tout playing “awesome ladies” (we can only assume there will be a girlpower theme to her set…), with ping pong, foosball, $5 wine and a $10 cocktail of the week.

Entry is free. 8pm-1am. The Thursday Feel Up! continues every Thursday.

Micachu

BE MY COO-CA-CHU Absorbing electro-pop, wonky rhythms and edgy Brit Rock: the sounds of Micachu, with backing from her band The Shapes, are a treat to behold. Their rawkus music is utterly infectious and has been pricking ears up around the world. Michachu’s stunning production is garnering them critical acclaim across the board. The East Londoners’ debut album, Jewellery, from earlier this year, has electro-pop princess Bjork amongst its fans: not bad for a band of 21 year olds! Catch Micachu and band The Shapes this Friday, January 8, at Amplifier.

Support from Shock! Horror!, DJ Rex Monsoon and guests. Tickets $25 plus booking fee through www.moshtix.com.au or 1300 GET TIX. More on the door if available.

Norman Jay

NORMAN IS NEAT

Sarah Tout

With a career spanning 40 years, Norman Jay has well and truly established himself as one of the finest and prolific DJs of all time.

The godfather of rare groove, Jay’s bringing his good times vibe to Perth to celebrate the forthcoming release of his latest compilation Good Times Australia. From being a part of the underground disco movement in New York in the ‘70s, to his participation in the dub and reggae sound system culture in London, Norman’s tastes span from everything to Philadelphia soul to disco to house, jungle and hip hop. Friday, February 12 at The Manor.

Support care of Nick Sheppard, Ben M and Charlie Bucket. Tickets $30 presale through www.heatseeker.com.au, or $35 on the door if available.

HEAVY HITTING The next instalment of Heavyweight Soundz is almost upon us, and is set to see a stellar line up it Perth for a night of hard and hectic dancing. New Zealand’s The Upbeats have recently been added to the Monday, January 25 lineup: they join Andy C and MC GQ for the event, taking place at Metro City. Tickets can be secured for $60 plus booking fee through Paypal via http://www.loadeddice.com.au/jamesm.php or through the DJ Factory, www.moshtix.com.au or 1300 GET TIX. Doors open 8pm.

Miami Vice Summer Party

MIAMI MADNES We’re going to Miami! And it’s only 10 minutes away! Well, Miami at Metro City, that is. Saturday, January 16 is Metro City’s Miami Vice Summer Party: the club will be pumping all night long with the ultimate summer party tunes! Along for the ride are DJs Kenny L, Angry Buda, Slick and Double L. There’s a Miami style dress code, so get your best pair of bathers and slickest sunglasses at the ready! Doors Open 9pm - Get down early to avoid the line.

ON BOARD FOR BEATS The folks that brought us the massive Mayhem Festival at Belvoir Ampitheatre, Mizhap Events, are back with a party to put a smile on your dial. The Pre-Australia Day Raft Up goes down at Carnac Island on Sunday, January 24 from 9am to 6pm. Lunch, snacks, and alcohol is all provided in your ticket cost, and you’ll spend the day cruising on one of two boats, taking in the tasty sounds of Perth’s #1 drum ‘n’ bass DJ, Shock One, breaks master Micah, trance young gun Jason Creek and Limelite resident DJ Jus Haus. The boats will raftup at Carnac Island and you will be free to go between the two boats, there will be air conditioning for when you want to chill out and escape the heat, and a big dancefloor for when you want to bust out. Tickets are $150 and capacity is strictly limited to 200 peope, so get your ticket on the boat early! BYO great attitude and inflatable pool toys! This one’s a private shenanigan, so contact mizhap_productions@hotmail.com for ticket details.

The Upbeats

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He was one of the first men to get behind the wheels of steel and make magic happen, the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument, the Godfather of them all, and he’s coming to Perth! That’s right, Grandmaster Flash returns after a show stopping performance at Future Music Festival last year to play his first headline set in years at Capitol, on Friday, January 22, supported by Dan the Man, Junior, Paper Plane Project and U-Wish. Tickets are available from www.ticketmaster.com.au or 136 100. Don’t miss your chance to see this massive superstar in such an intimate venue – get your tickets quick! Doors open 9pm.

The Republic is back and twirling to the sound of pure disco in 2010, kicking things off with a very special appearance from UK DJ Jack Hemingway for Disco Dada Edition #2. Here’s the downlow on Jack if you’re not on good terms already: as well as being a resident at some of London’s most prestigious disco nights, such as Beef Boogie On and Don’t Fear The Disco, Jack’s the dude who turned the Tate Gallery into London into a giant Silent Disco with with his father Wayne Hemingway (cofounder Red Or Dead) and with London disco legend Greg Wilson.He’s known to always have a record bag full of soul, disco and rare groove: take a peek into it this Friday, January 8 at Bar Republic (cnr Shafto Lane and Wellington St), with support from Mickey Juice, DJ Cluedo Pierres and more. $5 entry, 10pm-4am.

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SHORT IS HIS ATTENTION SPAN

ANDY C SCREAM & SHOUT IT Drum‘n’bass firestarter Andy C discusses with JAMES GRAF recent progressions in his life, including becoming father to a record label, and an 18 month old.

MAINROOM THURSDAY

Pasha’s Kitchen,

The Big Man cooking up Meaty Beats.

FRIDAY

Time Tunnel

brings you champion tunes from

Rok Riley, Joe 19 And Guests SATURDAY

TRANSMISSION

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

SUNDAY

PIZZA & PINT

Nathan J, Dan Tha Man and The Nisbit

WEDNESDAY

UNI-QUE

kicks off at 8.30 with DJs Jamie Mac & Dazz K.

UPSTAIRS THURSDAY

The {move} crew’s Ben Taaffe and Perth’s pivotalprodigal producer Dave Miller, are teaming up to bring a brand newweekly night for music enthusiasts of all varieties this summer season

FRIDAY

The Beat Suite

with Micah, Sharif Galal and Guests.

9pm Free Entry

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Flying High.

Indie Rock, Avant Pop, Classic Rock and Party Faves with RTRs Geoff Symons (Umpire), Sarah Delfante, Andrew Ewing (Devil Rides Out) & Sandy. Free Entry 8pm

SUNDAY

Chris Mason Acoustic

on the balcony from 5:30. Free Entry

THURSDAY

Open Decks Sessions.

Doors Open 8pm Free Entry. For more details check out opendeckssessions. wetpaint.com

SATURDAY

Lucid Dreaming

Perth’s premium DJs, Producers & VJs on a night of Tech, House Progressive and Minimal Featuring Kyran Smyth, Nina Van Dyke, Kid Deep, Darren J, VJ Matty Moon, Marko La Kucha & El Dario.

TUESDAY Truth Films presents James Fairbairn’s

“A REALLY INCONVENIENT TRUTH WHAT AL GORE FORGOT TO MENTION” Doors open 5pm Film at 7pm

DJ Yoda But Yoda’s tastes are far and wide, he appreciates elements of everything. “Even with the strangest genres of music – opera or heavy metal - I always find something I like. I kinda live my DJ life by this quote, ‘throw me any record and I’ll flip it.’Anything. Classical, jazz, theme songs… and I think that’s kinda the true origins of hip hop - making the best of what is available, and mixing them all around togwether to make something new.’

Yoda has released numerous mixes, but finally released his first artist album a few years back, The Amazing Adventures Of DJ Yoda, and is now working on the follow-up.

“The mixtapes and CDs I find are a lot easier to knock out than the artist albums, ‘cause I’m used to doing that. The artist albums are more perfectionist and harder work, so it’s just a lot slower. It’s taken me a few years to get this one all together. I’ve done a few tracks, I’ve got some beats ready, so I’m starting to look at vocalists and work out who I want over these beats I’ve got,” he says matter of factly.

“It’s been great actually, ‘cause before I started this album, I made a list of all the people I would love to work with in an ideal world, and I managed to tick everyone off! So yeah, I’m really happy about that.”

His artist album just may be the most cohesive work he’s ever done, as he’s actually making whole tracks instead of chopping them into pieces as usual. “ Yeah, when I DJ, I get bored after about 30 seconds – my style is very cut ‘n’ paste. I think it’s mainly to do with my short attention span (laughs) I just get bored… and I think - if people have paid to come and see a DJ – then you need to show some skills! A lot of DJs are happy to come along and just play songs and mix in the next one at the end, and I just think, iTunes can do that!” he laughs.

“I think if people are paying to come and see a DJ – you gotta be busy the whole time – you gotta be scratching, mixing, effects. Make it your own style, make it something different. I might mix a reggae song with some drum ‘n’ bass, then some dubstep, as longs there’s some kind of flow to it. ”The latest in his How To Cut ‘n’ Paste mix CDs is a 1930s mix – this follows other editions which have seen him focus on Western music and ‘80s music. ”I go through phases, like having a year of listening to reggae, or a year of being really into jazz and digging for all that, and last year I spent a lot of time listening to 1930s music and that era and discovering all these great songs, so I just thought it would be cool to make a mix with all these songs, alongside some more contemporary beats.”

January sees Yoda come to Perth twice – the Southbound festival show will be the full VJ show, then he’s back later in the month to do a normal club set. With the full VJ shows, Yoda admits it’s a bit like a stir fry, in that preparation is half the work.

“Yeah it’s a lot of work getting together all the audio and video material, and there’s a lot of equipment to keep an eye on – it’s very demanding – I can’t have a drink! The video shows are a bit more set in stone, it’s not completely verbatim, I can mix it up a little, and I try to include something different for every place I play.”

His latest show includes many video snippets from classic ‘80s movies and TV shows, and as someone with a keen sense of humour, what British comedies has Yoda found inspiring lately?“ My favourite show that I’ve been sampling is the IT Crowd, there’s another English one called The Inbetweeners, and a bit of Alan Partridge is always good. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is incredible. I haven’t used any of that, but I should do. And the other thing I really love as well actually, is Summer Heights High.”

So check out Yoda’s show at Southbound - it’s sure to be a sensory overload that will see this turntable Jedi throw all sorts of material into his magical blender.

DJ YODA SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 @ SOUTHBOUND, SIR STUART BOVELL PARK, BUSSELTON; FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 @ VILLA, HIGHGATE

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You’ve got to feel for Andy C’s 18-month old daughter. The tot has been following her dad down the correct music road (no R&B, thank you very much!) and is already developing an ear for cranking drum’n’bass. But don’t expect her to get away with attending raves as a 13 year old, just like her famous dad. There’s no slipping anything past him.

“Well of course I’m going to know everything that she’s doing. She won’t ever have the chance to do anything!” he laughs. But what happens when she returns home with eyes the size of saucepans?

“I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it, thank you very much! (laughs). I don’t really want to think about it. I’ve got a few years ‘til that worry kicks in I’ll tell ya. There’s not much I don’t know, which is the scary thing.”

Timeless parental worries aside, there’s very little that isn’t going right for drum ‘n’ bass’s head honcho Andy C (or Andrew Clarke to his mum). Last year saw the Brit enjoy his finest 12 months to date, typified by a smashing performance at Serbia’s Exit Festival in July where he and MC GQ followed on from firestarting nu metal heroes Korn and smashed the 30,000 strong audience for six.

“You would have expected the crowd to disperse, but they all hung around for a DJ and MC to come on,” Clarke buzzes. “I know [Korn’s] singer and guitarist were standing stage right ‘til late with a couple of bottles of JD going crazy – they couldn’t understand the vibes that were being generated by one DJ and an MC, which was really good. So apparently they enjoyed themselves.”

A true dance industry all-rounder, Clarke is like a proud parent when discussing his RAM label and the imprint’s thriving stable of artists.

In 2008, Chase & Status released More Than Alot, arguably the most crossover friendly d ‘n’ b album since Pendulum’s classic Hold Your Colour. More than a year later, the album is still maintaining traction and is approaching six figure album sales.

“It’s great to A&R albums like that because you’re really going along for the ride with the artists. You can feel the excitement when they’re working on a project,” he shares. “[With Sub Focus] the guy has showed such ingenuity and writing ability, so we’re really proud of it.

Chase & Status were also really able to show the depth of their talent with the album and they’re reaping the rewards this year.

“RAM really wants the artists to express themselves through the albums and not just to release something that will suit 12” single releases.

This way you can really show of the artist’s true talent and then people tend to take them more seriously,” he tells.

One of the most consistent criticisms directed towards drum’n’bass is that many of the genre’s artists are so stridently grassroots, they ignore the necessity to toot their own horn, both to the media and wider clubbing community.

Indeed, tales of artists being reluctant to do interviews aren’t unusual.

Clarke has made a point of supplying his stable of artists with all the tools necessary to thrive as professionals within the industry, including the intense round of media interviews that are crucial to a release’s success. He recalls a

Andy C promo weary Chase & Status commenting that all the hard work only begins once the PR duties commence.

A proud ambassador of drum’n’bass, he admits there’s been times when he’s been frustrated that other artist haven’t pulled their weight in the promotion department. “To be honest with you, there have been a couple of times where I’ve wanted to say ‘Go out there and sing about yourself and tell people about yourself’,” he admits with a slight hint of exasperation in his voice.

“Christ, if you’ve got an amazing scene like we have; music and a massive dedicated following, why not scream and shout about it!

You should be proud! You should tell people to stand up for themselves. Sometimes in certain places we’ve felt like we’ve been the underdogs in some respects. But all that does is inspire me to want to talk about it more,” he tells.

“Christ, I did five gigs last weekend and they were all amazing! I played to hundreds of thousands of people at festivals over summer and they were all amazing too! I want to tell people about it and for people to see it and acknowledge our scene and that will help the artists too.” Clarke continues. “If the artists are putting the time and effort in to make incredible music, then they deserve to get recognition for that and reward for that. By holding it back and keeping it a secret underground thing, I don’t think you’re going to achieve that.”

When Clarke’s not espousing the virtues of his beloved drum’n’bass genre, his head is in the studio – or at least the thought of it. “You have a lot of thinking time when you’re on the motorway and believe you me, I’ve made a few amazing albums in my head,” he shares with a chuckle.

“I just need to get them down into the studio, ‘cos when you’re on the road, the amount of ideas that you have, and the amount of inspiration that you get is incredible! I just wish I had enough time to try and get some of those ideas out into the studio, but fingers crossed it will happen. I am inspired. I really do feel like there are a lot of directions I can take this music, so hopefully if I make the time and get in the studio, I can really explore what is going on in my head.”

Like any good British lad, Clarke’s soccer mad and is anticipating this year’s World Cup in South Africa. In true diehard fashion, he’s already plotting a way to follow his beloved England’s for tunes – even when their games clash with his DJ gigs.

“Yeah man, when the World Cup is on, I literally watch every single game; not just the England games either. I looked in my diary and England’s first game is on Saturday night next year and I already have three gigs on that day,” he laments.

“I’m going to have to do some adjustments or I’m going to have to find out a way to have a TV on my phone. Yeah man, there’s got to be a way!”

ANDY C MONDAY, JANUARY 25 @ HEAVYWEIGHT SOUNDZ, METRO CITY, PERTH Hittin’ the town since 1985

SUMMADAYZE DAYZE OF OUR LIVES

Roger Sanchez (Pics: Matt Jelonek)

Infected Mushroom Supreme Court Gardens and The Esplanade, Perth Sunday, January 3, 2010 In its fifth year, Summadayze showcased the broadest spectrum of dance genres ever assembled in Perth, with 34 local and international acts laid down infectious grooves over four massive stages.

At the day’s beginning, the scantily clad bounced from one side of the grounds to the other, checking out some of the lesser known acts. MIA’s DJ, Sinden, rocked the Future Music Stage with melodramatic beats while punters already working up a sweat got hosed down by security guards. Across the grounds the UK’s Shapeshifters packed the Whoops A Daisy tent, bringing their festival favourite Lola’s Theme to eager ears.

Usually festival tents resemble a sauna but this year there was some relief-

tents featured huge air conditioning units which made shape throwing just a little more manageable. UK legend Kafty Kuts has a reputation for bringing the beats to Peth, which he did once again. Bodies pressed hard to the beat of both old and new mash ups with funky undertones. The sound left something to be desired but didn’t dampen Krafty’s spirit- he kicked on with a smile and delivered a custom set featuring Freakshow.

Despite the scorching heat, the masses descended upon the Summadayze Stage to watch Ian Carey launch into a set of explosive house tracks. With the crowd building by the minute, Carey dropped the Bloody Beetroots dance floor destroyer Warp, causing punters to throw up their hands in the air and shout “1,2 woop woop!” in perfect unison. Carey fused a combination of commercial tracks with downright nasty electro house bass and the crowd popped around

The Presets the Esplanade singing along to well known tracks like Benny Bennasi’s Satisfaction and of course Carey’s own crowd favourite Get Shaky.

Roger Sanchez rocked the stage unlike any other and completely dominated the afternoon lineup. Sanchez delivered upfront house beats showcasing his own tracks alongside some contagious melodies.

When he dropped his own remix of Daft Punk’s Revolution 909, everyone erupted in chaotic dance, welcoming the familiar tune.

It was so good in fact, there was a steady flow of exits from the VIP lounge, many hoping to pickup the good vibes from the ground.

Dutch trance sensation Menno De Jong took to the stage and unleashed a barrage of uplifting trance, beginning his set with a remix of Binary Finary’s trance anthem 1998.

De Jong captivated an appreciative crowd, spinning an epic Cosmic Gate’s remix of I Love You, leaving the crowd to wonder ‘Tiesto who?’.

Technotronic brought us back to the early ‘90s with a short but sweet 30-minute set, which featured Pump Up The Jam… twice. Although enthusiastic and entertaining, memory lane is short and their closing came at the right time.

The Presets brought us back to modern day with a cooled down mix of Kicking And Screaming but picked up back up and with last summers anthem, My People. Ever polite Julian charmed the crowd with short banter and encouraged sing alongs to monster tracks. Mid set, the dynamic duo demoed an unknown track featuring auto tuned sounding vocals, which could be a sneak peak into future releases. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as well received as the boys would have liked so the turned it up a notch playing a string of hists from their album Apocalypso and unfortunately skipped over older party anthems.

Eddie Halliwell hit the stage to fans chanting ‘Eddie, Eddie’. After punching out a thumping remix of Coldplay’s hit Clocks, everything went pear shaped. The sound issues that had plagued the tent earlier in the day returned with a vengeance and resulted in an agonising 30 minute wait for replacement equipment and eventually Halliwell resumed.

To close off the day 2ManyDJs took the stage and showcased their creative mojo with integrated video to pump up the crowd, a welcomed change to the usual trippy videos.

Kicking off their set with a remix of The Gossip’s Standing In The Way Of Control, flashing a graphics of Beth Ditto doing an arm jig primed us for the hectic set.Throwing in some Sepultura then moving on to Dizzee Rascal and continuing on an hour long musical journey with a host of solid tracks, 2ManyDJs solidified their status as premier artists with explicit ability to drive punters mad with unexpected turns and twists.

Israel’s Infected Mushroom took to the stage but as they launched into their live set, it was clear the sound issues were not resolved causing another much anticipated set to suffer poor sound. While some wandered to finish their night elsewhere, the dedicated stuck in place and made the best of it.

Aside from the sound issues, Summadayze 2010 was a solid combination of what festival season is all about- steaming summer weather, great music and thousands of Perth’s beautiful people going ape anywhere they could find a spare patch of grass. If Summadayze is any indication of what Mellen Events/Future Music have in store for us this season, we better sharpen our dance moves, perfect our tans and pump up the jam for the season ahead.

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ORIGIN NYE Steel Blue Oval, Basendean Thursday, December 31, 2009 Getting through the gates at 6.45pm was painless despite the numbers pouring in the first thing you noticed was how great the sound was coming from the Organic Stage and the mix of punters milling around. The legendary LTJ Bukem hit the Origin stage at 7 with MC Conrad for a superb liquid set played entirely off vinyl. The sound was excellent as Syncopix’ Good Morning was dropped; Conrad’s massive stage presence working perfectly with a very cool Bukem to create one of the sets of the day, and a fantastic start for those who had just arrived.

Detroit artist Amp Fiddler played to a small crowd at the Knowledge Stage, his soulful, if underappreciated, set drew from his albums Afro Strut and Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly, as well as a spacey cover of Edwin Starr’s War. The crowd began to grow at 7.30pm, as punters arrived to witness the fitness of UK rapper Roots Manuva. Joined by a four piece band – drums, turntables and miscellaneous samplers – he opened with the bouncy Again & Again. Witness (1 Hope) received a rowdy crowd response, before Manuva finished with Let the Spirit.

While set times between stages were generally well orchestrated, it was unfortunate that the very talented Klute was playing at exactly the same time as Bukem over on the Organic stage. With the DJ booth set atop shipping containers designed to look like a giant boom box, it was quite an imposing sight, and despite the clashing timetable Klute still managed to pull an awesome crowd for a set of relentless d’n’b.

Skream And Benga have that sort of onstage chemistry and relaxed banter that comes from being friends for years and years, and with a bottle of Beam perched precariously on the edge of the DJ table they proceeded to tear the Knowledge stage a new one. Being at the front of the main stage made a massive difference, because if you stood to far back the sound seemed to be taken by the wind; this was unavoidable, but it made amped up punters pack in tighter and created a better vibe. www.xpressmag.com.au

Benga (Photo: Darren Smith) Despite starting 20 minutes late, Romance to the delight of the appreciative Los Angeles hip hop trio Ugly Duckling crowd. From tune selection, flow and build-ups were warmly received at the Origin Stage. it was hard to fault, and the set that everyone Their fun set moved seamlessly through would gush about for the rest of the night.

Sam Sparro, accompanied by a DJ old and new material, with Young Einstein stealing the show with his incredible DJ skills and his obligatory crazy hairstyle, looked a on Einstein Do It (using, refreshingly, actual little awkward on the smaller Shape stage vinyl rather than a laptop). Ugly Duckling but retained a sizeable crowd nonetheless, ended their set with crowd pleaser Turn It Up. moving smoothly through his famous back Meanwhile at the Shape Stage, catalogue including Black And Gold. Marky, Sydney duo Bag Raiders entertained the on the mainstage, was again plagued by some crowd taking turns spinning electro tunes – unavoidable sound issues but his showmanship and showing off cheesy dance moves when shone through. Dropping the Brookes not at the mixer. There was a smaller, but Brothers’ monster Tear You Down early on, he very active, crowd enjoying local dubstep proceeded to upend his turntable and cut it up queen Kito’s set at the Organic Stage. rock star styles. Brilliant.

As the last of the New Year’s fireworks The lighting had either died, or Joker was going for an eerie vibe on the Origin lit up the sky, Ed Rush And Optical took to the stage; either way, it worked perfectly for his Origin stage for a set of pure, unadulterated experimental dubstep anthems like Stuck In brutality. For those who left after the The System. Meanwhile, Spectrasoul were countdown missed out, but its didn’t take playing immaculately on the Organic stage, long for a large crowd to gather and get their double dropping the D Bridge classic True dance on. They finished up with the ultimate

Origin NYE tease; building, building, building....and then dropping into nothing. A large crowd gathered at the Knowledge Stage to catch two of hip hop’s most beloved stoners, Method Man & Redman, just before 12:30am. After opening their set with a number of songs from their recent album Blackout! 2, the crowd went nuts when they performed older material such as Time 4 Sum Aksion, Method Man,Tonite’s Da Nite and, most fittingly, How High. Knowledge have had an amazing year, and this year’s Origin is testament to that. It’s always fantastic to see the support that the locals get, and it was exciting to see all of the stages busy for most of the day.

While small issues are always going to plague an event of this size, this was a fantastic night; with four stages, multiple genres and a diverse crowd it was pulled off with aplomb. It’s going to be scary to see what Knowledge pull out of the bag in 2010.

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▶ THURSDAY 07/01 Brook lands Tavern – DJ Nate Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) DJ Wrighteous Eve - DJ Tony Allen Euro Bar – DJ Lauren T/ Roger Smart Fl y i n g S c o t s m a n ( M a i n Room) - Pasha’s Kitchen – The Big Man Flying Scotsman (Upstairs) – Thursday Feel Up – Sarah Tout/Reece Foundry- DJ Travis B High Wycombe – DJ Jay Kalamunda Hotel – Tip Top Sound DJ Al Leopold Hotel- DJ James/ DJ Jack Liquid Nightclub – DJ Buda Mojos – Grace Woodroofe Mustang Bar – DJ James MacArthur/ Rockabilly DJ Newpor t Hotel – Culture Clash – DJ Shannon Fox Niche - Johnni P/ Rob Blandford Paddy Hannans - Dr Bogus Players Bar – Neon Lights - DJ Samuel Spencer Swinging Pig – DJ Simon The Boat – Dr Bogus The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen- DJ Tropical Funk Merchants – Zone 3/ DJ Flex / Ben Mac - Zone 1 / Don Migi / Dj Nano /DJ Surge The Deen - Tropical Funk Merchants - DJ Flex/ DJ Don Migi/ DJ Nano/ DJ Surge The East End - DJ Midfield The Floreat – Flirt – DJ Armee/ Cut-Nice/ Kill-DYL/ Shaker The Queens – Rene Lemerle/ Scott Armstrong

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▶ FRIDAY 08/01 THE MANOR QUANTIC Will Holland is the the man behind not only Quantic, but The Quantic Soul Orchestra and the Limp Twins. He will be bringing his Enormous and extremely rare record collection to The Manor for his first ever DJ set in Perth tonight. Spinning a variety of deep funk, Colombian salsa, hip hop and Afro, be prepared to be blown away by one of the world’s deepest tastemakers. Tickets $35 plus booking fee on sale from funkclub.com.au, heatseeker. com.au, Planet and Mills.

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Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – DJ Rok Riley/ Joe 19 Flying Scotsman (Upstairs) The Beat Suite – Micah/ Sharif Galal Flying Scotsman ( Velvet Lounge) – Modular Man/ Dan Tha Man Foundry – Crave Geisha – Sauce - Darren J/ Richard Lee/Suric SA/ Sean M/ Deviance/ Scottie K Harry’s Bar - DJ Double L / Benny T / Luca Castelli Hyde Park - DJ Zoom Inglewood Hotel – DJ Simone Llama Bar - DJ Morris/Kava Library – DJ Meezy/ DJ AZT/ DJ Fiveo Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Lakers Tavern - DJ Adrian Manor - Quantic Merrina Tavern – DJ Terry Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee M o j o’s – Hussle Hussle – Rayza/ Tantrixx/ Freekstyles/ Rythm Infinit/ Simo T Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny Mustang- DJ Giles Niche - DJ Jonni Zimber Norma Jeans – DJ Phil Onyx Bar – Slick/ Adroc Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paramount – DJ Morgan / Jordan Priory Lodge - DJ Stick y Ricky Principal Micro Brewery – DJ Roxy Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Republic – Clark/ Dave Miller/

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▶ SATURDAY 09/01 SIR STUART BOVELL PARK BUSSELLTON SOUTHBOUND This weekend the best dancefloors in Per th are, ironically, four hours south of Perth! So fill up your car with petrol, slap on the sunscreen and tie up your sneakers’ laces, and get ready to shake it to the likes of Amanda Blank (Spank Rock’s MC!), cut ‘n’ paste expert DJ Yoda, Major Lazer Soundsystem (Diplo

and Switch’s new project), Aussie electro-psych rockers The Midnight Juggernauts, Hilltop Hoods, Urthboy, Grizzly Bear, Moby, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more. Get down to the local stages to catch tonnes of local DJ talent, like Travis, Craig Hollywood, Micah, Charlie Bucket and more.

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THE VELVET LOUNGE LUCID DREAMING Th i s m o n t h l y electronic music night is back in 2010 with a vengeance: Kyran Smith plays disco house in his characteristically fun loving and smooth style, Nina Van Dyke journeys from house to techno, Kid Deep cranks o u t s o m e a c i d te c h , a n d Darren J, Perth’s #1 Techno and Progressive DJ, does what he is hailed for! Resident VJ Matty Moon makes quirky flowing fun with his bouncy visuals, interpreting the beats as they come. 7am-1am, free entry. Free Lucid Dreaming mix CD to punters whilst stocks last!

B A R O P E N WAT T H Z DROID SECTOR From the subconscious mind of Tom Wojcicki comes Droid Sector; an epic musical journey through the more dark and twisted corners of the dubstep realm. Signed to more labels than you can poke a stick at, this ex-Perth-ian transplanted in Geelong is one of Aussie dubstep’s best-kept-secrets.

With tunes in the crates of some of the scene’s biggest heavyweights - such as Tech Itch, Excision, The SubDivision - expect massive sub-bass and an atmosphere of pure evil.

More talent on the night care of Sibilance, yLem, Proximity Effect, J.Nitrous and Killafoe. $15 on the door from 10pm.

Amplifier – Pure Pop – DJ Eddie Electric Bar Open (Downstairs) – Watthz – Droid Sector/ylem/Proximity

MAJOR LAZER WHO KILLED THE PEOPLE? If someone told you Diplo and Switch had joined forces to create 1980s inspired digital dancehall ghetto-crunk under the name Major Lazer, you’d say they were dreamin’. After speaking with Diplo about the project, RZ discovers the dream team is one very awesome reality.

M e s s r s D i p l o a n d Sw i tc h wo u l d h ave to rate as some of the world’s most talkedabout producers –to put paid to the claim, the boys have now joined forces as Major Lazer, throwing out their debut album, Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do, late last year.

Already credited for pioneering the world’s hottest global ghetto sounds – including numerous tracks for M.I.A (such as the megahit Paper Planes) and Santigold – the pairs’ genre-mashing debut was released on none other than Big Apple’s Downtown label, home to Spank Rock and Kid Sister. Prior to Major Lazer’s much anticipated appearance at Southbound this weekend, Diplo joins us down the line from the USA, to explain how Major Lazer first came about: “Major Lazer is sort of like a family of artists from all over the place – its guys 34

from all over. And it has been the same crew of artists who have made this album for us” explains Diplo. The vibe is quintessentially influenced by dub and reggae and already, it’s making waves from Haiti to Helsinki.”

Diplo continues to explain the appeal: “Dancehall is such a broad genre - with this release, we’ve gone from dub to roots to reggae.

What we really wanted to do was incorporate a fresh record while making it sound amazing but along with the crazy artwork and videos and all that sort of stuff. It’s supposed to be a bit messy and all over the place and certainly the album artwork confirms this.”

Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do for Major Lazer, was an album concerned with trying out new things, including making beats ‘in the car’, as Diplo explains: “You know, I think we just wanted to make an album that went down a

Major Lazer new path. Switch and I have worked together on completing M.I.A’s new record and we’d done so much production wise so with this, we wanted to really focus on the dub and reggae vibe. So we wanted to go to Jamaica because it was a huge influence on Downtown and Interscope records.

Some the beats we made in the car on the way to the studio for example – but the artists on there aren’t short of talent and we spent time working on various ideas and eventually and we topped the record off.”

“For the whole crew, we see it as this reggae and club explosion of music,” says Diplo.

“To be honest, we both produce and write and DJ, but I’m more of a DJ and he’s more of a producer, but Dave is still all about music and like me, his

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ideas are really wild. He digs everything from heavy metal to old school reggae to J-Dilla. As I say, we both have a similar vibe and one thing we both agree on is that we don’t want to make music that is trendy – we want out of the box.

We do our own thing and that’s what our fans appreciate about us. I have a huge respect for him even though he’s British and I’m an American!”

Indeed, the prolific nature of their respective output has meant that they’ve had plenty of inspiration to draw upon – with very few stones left unturned.“There is so much we’ve done in six months” says Diplo. “Right now too, I’m working with a heavy metal band; I did some work with Missy Elliot and M.I.A, Shakira and Rhianna – they are just some of the things that have been happening recently.”

Diplo gives us the lowdown on the Major Lazer live experience: “It’s a sound system thing, so we’ll be playing a lot of our records along with plenty of dancing and screaming and thunder and lightning. We’ll have some dancing zombies and girls on stage – basically it’s going to be a big, mad jam and we just hope the fans get their vegemite on and get mixing with it!”

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Charlie May DJ Nickodemus Saturday, January 23 @ Shape Sunday, January 31 @ Funk Club; Monday, January 1 @ Fremantle Raggamuffin – Wyclef Jean/ Arts Centre Shaggy/ Julian Marley/ Blue King Brown/ Sly & Robbie/ Steel Pulse/ Tenishia/ DJ Wag Sean Kingston/ House Of Shem Friday, February 5 @ Rise Monday, January 25 @ ME Bank Tiësto Stadium Wednesday, February 10; Thursday, Potty Mouth Kids/ James Amato February 11; Friday, February 12 @ Metro City Friday, January 25 @ Ambar

Southbound – Midnight Juggernauts/Major Lazer Soundsystem/ Urthboy/ D J Yo d a / H i l l t o p H o o d s / Moby/Amanda Blank + more Friday, January 8-Sunday January 10 Heavyweight Soundz – Ancy C/ @ Sir Stuart Bovell Park, Busselton MC GQ Friday, January 25 @ Metro City Nik Fish Friday, January 8 @ Rise Global Sound System – tyDi & Audrey Gallagher Jamie T And The Pacemakers Saturday, January 26 @ Rise Sunday, January 10 @ Fly By Night

▶ UPCOMING Malente Friday, January 15 @ Ambar

Sebo K Saturday, January 26 @ Villa Mowgli Friday, January 29 @ Ambar

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.

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Future Music Festival - The Prodigy/ Franz Ferdinand/ Empire Jochen Miller/ Ben Gold/ Rossco Boom Box – Old Skool Boat Of The Sun/ David Guetta/ Booka Friday, January 15 @ Rise Parties Shade/ Erick Morilla/ Sven Vath/ Friday, January 29; Friday, March 19; John Digweed and more.

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Sunday, January 31 @ Claremont Hardwell Showgrounds Friday, January 22 @ Metro City

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WHATEVER YOU TUESDAY The Cott It seems that people are still choosing The Cott as the place to be on a Tuesday night; where else can you get a $10 pizza, drink specials and awesome live music?

Enjoy the magnificent ocean views from the Café with your choice of pizza straight from the oven. When you’ve polished off your dinner, washed down by a few quiet ones, it’s time to head next door where Scapegoats play all your favourites, and Pounds of Dave gets the party started on the decks.

New Year’s Eve at The Cott went off this year with a massive Cancun themed party, to find out more about events coming up at The Cott, head to cottesloebeachhotel.com. au.

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EVIL LIVE NEW YEARS EVIL Hyde Park Hotel, West Perth Thursday, December 31, 2009 It’s impossible to discuss this evening’s gig without reference to the fact that, after a long, slow death,the Hyde Park Hotel shut up shop over the weekend. Due to its significant contribution to local original music, punters came from miles around to pay tribute and share one last pint and counter meal. All three nights over the weekend were filled to capacity and then some, and New Year’s Evil was no exception.

Only two promoters saw the Hydey through to its dying days, and tonight Laith Tierney went out in trademark style. Thirteen bands playing over 10 hours is not atypical of the way this man operates, for better or worse, and there was representation here of all facets of the Hyde Park community - from the newest noisiest crew to the elder statesmen and stalwarts, everybody who possibly could be included was.

The very new bands, naturally, came

NOWHERE TO HYDE LAST HYDEY SHOW Hyde Park Hotel Saturday, January 2, 2009

It was bittersweet, that’s for sure. As sad as it was to see the final gig at the Hydey as we all know and love it, the people in attendance were there to have a great night, not sulk and ponder the good old days. And while the venue may return to live original music after its renovations, many are fearing a ‘Michael Jackson’ situation; whereby cosmetic ‘improvements’ leave only a pale and butchered carcass of what once was. This time, no one is holding their breath.

The beginning of the end came with the sensational vocals of Josh Fontaine, solo for the last time on the sticky red carpet that, if it could talk, would surely be begging for a mercy killing after such a long tour of duty. From side-on one can observe a remarkable thing about Fontaine as, without a microphone obstructing the view, the Elvis Costello-type figure appears to be a ventriloquist. It’s very cool to hear such a powerful, soaring voice, yet see sheer effortlessness on its

first. Frozen Ocean are an extremely loud, surprisingly tight two-piece act who enjoyed an enthusiastic response from a dedicated early crowd of punters and barflies. Golden Staph aroused some interest with very shoegazing, unassuming indie noise punk. They were pretty good, and their music is pretty hooky, but the mannerisms of the singer, who faced the band not the audience and spent any downtime leaning casually on the bar, might only appeal to a specific demographic.

Scum Of The Earth were so new that this was their first gig - the band formed so that the members (Nick Odell and Joe Ryan of Cease) could play the show. Two improvised tracks of foreboding ambient noise and caveman drumming complimented the fact that the two men performed in nothing but underwear and accessories. Speaking of accessories, confrontational electro-punk cabaret evangelist Tomás Ford has added a few to his live show in the form of video screens with messages like ‘you are my sheep’ and ‘do not ignore me’ - as if anybody could!

The business end of proceedings kicked off with ’80s punk mish-mashers Surprise Sex Attack - on one hand playing a criminally early spot, on another proving why, by forgetting setlists and on-stage beers. The Painkillers, also on early, suited their spot a little more due to the

Rosemount Hotel Thursday, December 31, 2009 I’m not entirely sure who or what I even saw anymore. Partying like it was 1999 – quite literally if you scan my very outdated wardrobe – there are naught but remnants of this night remaining in my brain, which has been sleeping in a hammock ever since. So, in the spirit of fun and fun alone, here is the slide show I have left in my mind. A revue, if you will…

Capital City played Jackhammer Swing.

That much is vividly clear.That’s Eskimo Joe playing Sweater, essentially… the ‘never gonna happen’ song. Quite beautifully, it also ended up being the last song ever played live at the Hydey, and that in itself is mustard.

of that, good on ya fellas… youse cunts are alright eh.

By the time Red Jezebel hit the stage, the crowd was well and truly lubricated. As always, the calm and collected stage manner of Paul Wood led the band through an unstoppable set of songs from their last two records. At the Hydey (and we can mark this down to one more thing to miss) the great dichotomy of bands like Red Jezebel shows itself. Without a mixer, a band’s natural, physical dynamics are at the forefront of their performance, and in this band’s case, that pretty much means drummer Alex. Hyman Sure, Red Jezebel have covered a huge part of the musical rainbow in their decade-plus career, but even in their gentler moments they have one of Perth’s all-time hardest hitters behind the kit. Because of this, Red Jez have never sounded wussy – and probably couldn’t if they tried.

On the wings, Dave Parkin glided through his guitar parts with smoothness and elegance, while bassist Mark Cruickshank punched every last drop of power out of his Rickenbacker.

Again, a beautiful and interesting contrast, and one that has seen more Hydey shows than you could count.

Which could be doubly said for Capital City, whose performances at the Hydey over the years would undoubtedly include some of the best of their career – partly because the band is part of the culture of the Hydey and its patrons, and partly because their style and delivery benefit greatly from a lack of bells-and-whistles. The songs are

there, so there’s little tarting-up needed… which was always the true test of the Hydey anyway. If you suck live, that’s where you’ll show it.

One of the best live bands in Perth bar none, Capital City took to the final spot with all of the fun and spirit it demanded. Cruising through their back catalogue; Sam, Chris and Jake knew the implications of the occasion and went out in fitting style – with a combination of songs and banter that reflected the mood of most people in the room. Again, bittersweet.

But, fuck it, what can ya do? No matter what happens, it’s the bands and the punters that matter. Without them, there is nothing. There are literally hundreds of ways bands and punters have managed to hold gigs without needing venues, but Perth hasn’t even come to that yet. There are places. We just need more of them.

Of course, you can’t replace a venue like they Hydey as it was utterly unique.If you described it to a stranger it would seem like an utter shithole, because on paper (which is assumedly how it has been assessed by its owners) it is one. But it wasn’t one in reality… it was one of the best, most intimate and fun places to watch or play live music.

It had warts, sure, but they were as essential as the ones on Lemmy’s face.

So to the Hydey, its staff, its patrons and its bands, we say thank you. It is a chapter of our town’s local music history that will forever be bookmarked and compared to.

Adios.

But the music side of the night doesn’t hold many more memories than that, because it was the bands themselves – the personnel – that occupy all the space. On nights like these you need to keep swimming - five minutes here, five minutes there – or else you become an obstacle between thirsty folks and the bar.

And although each band was well received by the swarming crowd, the truest and most important reactions always came after each set had finished. As the big Jim Beam stage doors would fling open as if a torrent of distillery barrels was bursting through, each band member would walk out, sweating and breathless, to a long list of people wanting to personally congratulate them, thank them, or compliment them. Each time I’d walk back out to the beer garden, one step closer to life-long crushing tinnitus, I’d notice streams of people flowing towards the stage doors, all eager

to throw out some high-fives.

And it is freaky to think that just about every other live music venue in town, and The Shire, had capacity crowds for local lineups. While that makes one ponder ‘where the fuck are all these people usually?’, it doesn’t matter, because tonight they were here. Here’s where they need to be.

Or elsewhere, in the case of The Preytells.

It’s ironic that as the clock struck midnight, ushering in the end of their band, The Preytells’ last record was sitting in Top 10 lists for 2009. Nice recognition… regardless of its poor timing.

Speaking of which, was there even a countdown? There might have been a drunken ‘three… two… one…’ en masse, but there really needs to be some sort of town crier at these kinds of events. The deafening cheer at the end of whatever countdown there was, however, was unmistakable. As the almost palpable wave of excitement flooded the crowd, kisses and bubbly beverages flowed throughout the venue.

Into the night, the cheer continued, and

talk was never far from local music for a lot of us… some talking shop, others just talking. The general vibe from most people seemed to be that 2010 was going to be a cracker. While part of this is no doubt a mandatory optimism that comes with New Year’s Eve, more of it had to do with the gig itself. When you’ve just watched a handful of the best bands in town, all of whom stepped up, it’s hard not to feel optimistic. Sugar Army, The Scotch Of Saint James, Capital City, Umpire, Emperors, Grim Fandango… these are bands as good as any in their genre, if not better. How could it not be a good year, or indeed a good omen for these bands, to have seen in 2010 by playing to such a huge crowd.

From there it gets messy and almost completely incoherent. The concept of time alone is a jigsaw puzzle of bands, people, cats foaming at their fluorescent-coloured mouths as if they’d just taken a bite out of Predator, and fuck knows what else.

Good times.

Nay, great times.

WEDNESDAY

SUNDAY

ER NIGHT - $5 BBQ & drink deal from 6pm

THURSDAY

Peter Busher & The Lone Rangers

WiKid & DJ Giles

with DJ Rockin Rhys

FRIDAY

MONDAY

Circus with DJ Giles. STUDENT & BACKPACK-

Melody & the Quintones with Swing DJ

Cheeky Monkeys with DJ James MacArthur SATURDAY

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_BEN WATSON

owner’s behalf; and the appearance that Fontaine barely moves his mouth to sing only adds to his enigma.

At one point cleverly staying in time with a sample that seemed to be coming from a Sony Discman (sequencer be damned!),Fontaine’s music trickery is a fantastic collision of booming highs and delicate lows – both equally well executed by the artist and his advanced understanding of dynamics.

Understanding only one dynamic – that of ‘fuck yeaaaaaaaah’, Moonlight Wranglers took over from Fontaine, and gave the crowd its first taste of sheer rock’n’roll for the night. A sensational band to watch live, the Wranglers have a great way of incorporating various sub-genres without becoming too tied down by any one. Thus they have the bounce of rockabilly, the shimmer of surf, the attitude of outlaw country, and the essential tenacity of punk rock, all rolled into one big wall of fuzz.

Actually, that’s not entirely true… with some neat slide work at the helm, the Moonlight Wranglers also manage to slow things down when they need to, without losing steam. Aside from adding some nice colour to their set, the ease in pace allowed their giant of a frontman to grab himself some well-earned beer and, time permitting, oxygen.

It would be a touch on the unethical side for me to review The Order Of The Black Werewolf, but in fairness to the other members of the band who constantly go unthanked because

ROSEMOUNT PLEASANT NYE BASH

Fear Of Comedy

fact that they are an acoustic act - barefoot on the sticky carpet one last time.

Shit started getting brutal with The Bible Bashers – essentially The Beverly Killbillies fronted by Laith Tyranny, again proving his worth as frontman. As the pub filled, Mongrel Country’s two hypnotic drummers pummeled

the fuck out of the Hydey’s collective eardrums.

Fear Of Comedy followed on the pool room stage, and suffered a little from the poor acoustics in that room. They are a band that have never stood still despite a two year hiatus, and they employed plenty of new numbers in their set. The relentlessness of the evening became apparent as Mile End pummeled the sacred corner floor, and as The Trevallys played, the pub started to reach maximum capacity.

Security seemed nervous.

Playing close to midnight, Cal Peck & The Tramps - again, such a good band - summed the spirit of the Hydey so well.The group consists of two members of seminal teen legends Mickey Flash, Callum Peck played in The Skeletones, and Dave Benck is a genuine outlaw badass. Where are bands like this going to form now?

After countdown, Raw Nerve tore up the main stage one last time. Could there be anything more iconic than Don Rat [The Rats, The Homicides] and Undies [Heist etc.] playing no-bullshit rock’n’roll on the floor they’ve destroyed so many times before?

A huge, relentless evening full of wonderful bands and performances, and of course: The Hydey. Truly a legendary venue in its day, and to the end, against all the odds, a bastion of local rock’n’roll.

_MIKE WAFER

_MIKE WAFER

The Continentals

The Rusty Pinto Combo

TUESDAY

The Damien Cripps Band

Salsa night

with Rockabilly DJ

Danza Loca

& DJ James MacArthur

DJ and live percussionists Hittin’ the town since 1985

AMPED FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE Amplifier Bar Thursday, December 31, 2009 Amplifier Bar celebrated their 10th anniversary in style last weekend with a massive New Year’s Eve party, featuring performances from some of Australian music’s finest acts.

As punters packed the venue to count in the New Year, Gyroscope, The Mess Hall, and a slew of other bands took to the stage to bust out their best material for a party-hungry crowd.

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STORME’S A COMIN’

Storme has just released her new single Never from her for thcoming four th album S o m e t h i n g s ’s G o t t a G i v e .

Catch Storme’s dynamic and flavoursome blues vocals at this weekend’s Southbound music festival on Saturday and Sunday; and in March the West Coast Blues And Roots Festival.

Storme

Screaming Life

LIFE STYLE

Fresh from seeing in 2010 at the Rocket Room, Screaming Life are keeping up the momentum and will be launching their new EP, Hope Something, at Amplifier on Saturday, January 9. Joining them on the night will be Emperors, Tracksuit, and Art In Algebra.

Colour The Sky

LIVING COLOUR

2009 was an eventful year for Perth rockers Colour The Sky: a national tour, international support slots, lineup changes as well as a brand new sound. 2010 is shaping up to be even more colourful with the launch of their debut EP, Distance Doesn’t Matter, at Amplifier on Friday, January 15.

Distance Doesn’t Matter was recorded in December with Chad Blondel (Elora Danan) and has been and Mastered by UE Natashi (Panic At The Disco, Gym Class Heroes) at Sterling Sound Studios in New York. The EP showcases the band’s pop sensibilities whilst still bringing a fresh sound to the Perth music scene.

Sydney boys Mayhem Addition will be flying over for the first time to support the launch, with local favourites Mandalay Victory and Fools Rush in also being added to the party.

Surprise Sex Attack

LUCKY STRIKE

Now in its third year, Feel Lucky Punk? continues for 2010, with its cherry-popping show on Friday, January 8, at The Castle. Kicking off will be Chainsaw Hookers, Surprise Sex Attack, The Creepers, Gozu, and Scalphunter. $6 entry from 8pm.

Emperors

EMPERORS STRIKE BACK

Emperors hit Amplifier Bar this Saturday, January 9 for Screaming Life’s CD launch, along with Tracksuit and Art In Algebra. Doors open 8pm, entry is $12. The band also plays the Path To Laneway band comp on Wednesday, January 13, at the Rosemount Hotel. See www.myspace.com/emperorsnewband for more info.

Desertship

Davey Craddock

LOUNGING AROUND

It’s all hands on deck when Desertship takes the stage, songs like Good For You! and Lippy showcase exactly what this three-piece is about as they tear it up with drinks in one hand and a flaming torch in the other.

Influenced by classic rock acts from the past, they’re setting out on the journey to bring something original, poetic and eccentric to the table. Catch them on Saturday, January 9, at the Swan Lounge.

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MOONRAKER

James Teague, Justin Walshe, and Davey Craddock will all be Going Solo at The Moon Café from 8pm Wednesday, January 13. Entry is free.

Mike de Velta

OPEN MIKE NIGHT

Recently opened, Geraldton’s L’Attitude 28 will be hosting live music events in 2010, and to kick start the year in style, Mike de Velta will blow the dust off the stage on Saturday, January 9, with support form Alix. Entry is free.

DANISH METAL

On Saturday, January 9, the Denmark Hotel hosts Metal 101 – a night of pure brutal awesomeness courtesy of Applebite, Reflections Of A Deadman, and Coil. Doors open 9pm.

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Askari Afro Beat Orchestra

Chainsaw Hookers

MOJO’S

HOOKER LINE

Chainsaw Hookers Fresh from a week in Bergerk studios, Will be Kicking off the 24 Years Of Tyranny party on Friday, January 8 at the Rosemount Hotel; and later in the evening The ’Hookers will be closing the night at The Castle for the first Feel Lucky Punk? show for 2010.

Tonight, Thursday, January 7, Fremantle Records present Grace Woodroofe and Wolves At The Door. Entry is $5 from 8pm. Friday, January 8, Hussle Hussle kicks off 2010 with Rayza, Tantrixx, Freekstyles plus residents Rythm Infinit and Simo T. Entry is $10/$7 from 8pm. Saturday, January 9, Afrodisia join the Askari Afro Beat Orchestra. $10 entry from 8pm. Sunday, January 10, Soul Tee join Stella’s Kitchen. Entry is $5 from 6pm. Monday, January 11, 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. Entry is free from 8pm. Tuesday, January 12, Self Made Guru join Head Full Of Steam. Entry is $5. Wednesday, January 13, the Fremantle Blues And Roots Club present EmDee and Kim MacDonald. Entry is $15/$10 for members from 8pm.

Kevin Got Lucky

SUNDAY SESSION

Kevin Got Lucky, FoulPlay, and Seven Years team up for a free show at the Newport on Sunday, January 10. The event runs from 6-10pm.

Tracksuit

AMPLIFIER

ROCKET LAUNCHER

Rocket To Memphis are heading off on a tour of Japan and the UK in April, and to get warmed up they’ll be playing a handful of shows at Devilles over the coming weeks.

Catch the first of five on Saturday, January 9, where the band will be joined by Hillbilly Jack and Vintage Reds. From then on, mark down the following dates: Friday, January 22; Friday, February 5; Saturday, February 27; and Saturday, March 20.

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RAILWAY HOTEL

Friday, January 8, catch Pockets Of Resistance, Hostile Little Face, Tommy To Rock, and Spitfires Indian. Doors open 8pm, entry is $8. Saturday, January 9, you’ll find The Union Of Crazy Monkey People From Outer Space, Rukus Napalm Syndicate, New World Revolt, Mike Virtue and DJ Messy. Doors 8pm / entry $7.

Friday, January 8, eclectic UK pop outfit Micachu And The Shapes play with Shock! Horror! and DJ Rex Monsoon. Doors open 8pm. Saturday, January 9, Screaming Life launch their latest recording, Hope Something, with support from Emperors,Tracksuit, and Art In Algebra. Doors open 8pm. Wednesday, January 13, Chimaira swing into town, with Neverborn and Arkaic Rival supporting from 7.30pm.

FLY BY NIGHT

It’s a Sold Out weekend at the Fly starting on Friday, January 8, with a special performance by Grizzly Bear.

Then on Sunday, January 10, witness Jamie T And The Pacemakers. Doors for both events open at 8pm.

Arms Like Branches (photo by FS Photography)

ROSEMOUNT HOTEL

Tonight, Thursday, January 7, the Rosemount continues its new Karaoke night. Doors open 8pm and entry is free. Friday, January 8, catch the Tyrannocorp Birthday Party featuring a line-up of some of Perth’s best rock’n’roll.

Doors open 8pm. Saturday, January 9, Orogeny hit the Rosemount with special guests Arms Like Branches, Ibex, and Only Hope. Doors open 8pm, entry is $10. Sunday, January 10, it’s the Rosemount’s Acoustic Open Mic night hosted by Turin Robinson - head on down and have a bash or just play some free pool. Action from 4pm and it’s free.

In the main room catch The Handsome Family in their only WA show, joined by special guests Div Craft and His Big Old Bears. Doors open 6-10pm, tickets are $40 (plus booking fee) from www.heatseeker.com.au, Mills, Planet and Star, or $45 at the door. Tuesday, January 12, it’s the Rosemount’s weekly Quiz Night - see www.quizmeisters. com.au for more info. Wednesday, January 13, it’s the first heat of the Path To Laneway band competition with Emperors, Hayley Beth, Mile End,The Devil Rides Out, and Minute 36 to win a slot at the Laneway Festival. Doors open 8pm and entry is $8. In the beer garden catch DJ Shannon Fox for the Rosemount’s Student Night. Check out www. rosemounthotel.com.au for more Rosie info.

CAPITOL

Tonight, Thursday, January 7, Capitol will play host to a triple-headliner show featuring Germany’s Edguy, USA’s Cynic, and Finland’s Ensiferum. Book your tickets now to avoid disappointment. Doors open 7.30pm.

JB O’REILLY’S

Tonight,Thursday, January 7, catch Red Yeti from 8pm, plus save the pennies with a curry-and-pint deal for $15. Friday, January 8, Irish folk/rock legends The Healys perform from 8.30pm. Saturday, January 9, let your hair down with Brown Sugar from 8.30pm; and Sunday, January 10’s Original Music Night features Liz Wreck, Justin Walshe, and Jez Mead from 6.30pm.

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PUGSLEY BUZZARD

A Cantankerous Mule Towing A Speakeasy Full Of Drunken Gorillas Through A Glass Factory So, Pugsley Buzzard – what exactly what you ‘do’?

I play the piano, I sing like a grizzly bear. I write songs. I smoke cigars. Cultivate facial hair. The rest of my time is spent travelling round the globe in order to indulge these pursuits.

Give us a brief rundown on the history of yourself as a performer…

I’ve played music ever since I can remember. I started doing gigs when I was still in high school. I played in rock bands, jazz and blues bands. I ran an orchestra for a while and wrote music for films and theatre. At one point I started travelling and started doing a solo show in which I sang and played piano in order to make some dough. Folks seemed to really dig it so I’ve been doing it ever since.

gangster types in the 1920s and ‘30s. I have a song called I’m Gonna Write You A Letter With My Chicago Typewriter. I named the album after that.

What’s the greatest gig you’ve played to date?

My favourite was a gig in rural Portugal.

I was the half time entertainment during an amateur bull fight. The local hairdresser put up 200 Euros prize money for anyone or group that could wrestle a bull to the ground. They fenced off the town square and let some of the hugest meanest beasts go in the square. Thousands of bemused country folk gathered round to watch, drinking beer and chewing salty beans. Young men proceeded to really piss the bulls off and then run up trees and dive into the fountain to escape their wrath. I came on and played and the crowd went nuts.

Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Y’know, there’s a couple of people walking past where you’re playing, what’s their initial reaction?

I have a voice that makes women sigh and grown men cry. I’m not bad on the old mouth box and I always play with great musicians. So I’d say the couple of people would hock their children to come in and listen and buy a CD. Otherwise I’d describe my sound as a cantankerous mule towing a speakeasy full of drunken gorillas through a glass factory.

What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever encountered playing a show?

A German tourist on acid in Holland scaled a wall and crashed down splat on to the ground in front of the stage where I was playing. And then with blood streaming out of his nose proceeded to sing along with the song I was performing exclaiming ‘Ja I know this song!’

Ironically the entrance to the venue was only a meter or so from where he scaled the wall to get in. And it was the first time I’d ever performed the song.

Tell us about your album, Chicago Typewriter – what’s with the name?

A Chicago Typewriter is what they used to call a machine gun, particularly a tommy gun which was short for the Thompson sub machine gun that was a favourite of Southside Chicago

What would you recommend as the best activity to pursue while Chicago Typewriter plays?

Assembling crystal radio set; maybe changing a washer on a leaky tap. Or re-shoeing a horse. _ RUTH TYLER

Pugsley Buzzard, dates to the right

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Hittin’ the town since 1985

THIS WEEK

COMING UP

TRACY REDHEAD

PUGSLEY BUZZARD January 14-16

January 8 Movies By Burswood January 9 Bush Shack, Yallingup January 9 Mash Brewery, Bunbury January 10 Swan Lounge

MICACHU AND THE SHAPES / SHOCK! HORROR! / REX MONSOON January 8 Amplifer

GRIZZLY BEAR January 8 Fly By Night

DESTRÖYER 666 January 8 The Civic Hotel (Backroom)

SOUTHBOUND (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moby, Hilltop Hoods, Wolfmother, Jamie T and more) January 8-10 Sir Bovell Park, Busselton

PUGSLEY BUZZARD

January 8 Devilles Pad January 9 Ellington Jazz Club January 10 Fremantle Arts Centre Courtyard (2pm show) January 12 Perth Blues Club, Charles Hotel

JAMIE T AND THE PACEMAKERS January 10 Fly By Night

THE HANDSOME FAMILY

January 10 Rosemount Hotel

CHIMAIRA

January 13 Amplifier

EMDEE

EMDEE January 14-17 JOHN PAUL YOUNG January 14-17 MAYER HAWTHORNE January 15 JOHN BUTLER TRIO January 16 SUMMERSOUNDS, ESPERANCE (Diesel, End Of Fashion, Chris Murphy & The Holy Rollers, Courtney Murphy & Murphy’s Lore, Harlequin League, Nathan Gaunt Band and Howie Morgan Band) January 16 CARUS January 16-17 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

ROSS WILSON & THE URBAN LEGENDS February 4-7 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

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 HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE February 28

TIESTO February 11-12

FAT FREDDY’S DROP February 27

GUY SEBASTIAN February 12

FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL (The Prodigy, Franz Ferdinand, Empire Of The Sun, David Guetta, Booka Shade, Erick Morilla, Sven Vath, John Digweed) February 28

GRANT HART February 12 JAMIE LIDELL February 12

RAGAMUFFIN (Wyclef Jean, Shaggy, Julian Marley, Lauryn Hill, Sly + Robbie and more) January 25

GRANT HART February 12 GUY SEBASTIAN February 12

Hilltop Hoods

HEALTH February 27

DIRTY THREE February 11

CAMERA OBSCURA January 25

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

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

A DAY ON THE GREEN (Tom Jones, David Campbell) March 14

THE GIPSY KINGS March 28

CONVERGE / GENGHIS TRON March 16

ANGUS & JULIA STONE March 28-April 1

SLOW CLUB January 25-26

NO TURNING BACK February 12-13

SOUNDWAVE (Faith No More, My Chemical Romance, Jane’s Addiction and More) March 1

THE TEN TENORS January 27-30

THE CRIBS January 13

CLUTCH March 2

STATUS QUO March 17

THE DEAD WEATHER March 29

POLAR BEAR CLUB / BREAKEVEN / THE GIFTHORSE January 27-28

AMADOU AND MARIAM February 13-14

THE BIG PINK March 2

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT March 18

BRAND NEW March 31

AUSTRALIAN ROCK SYMPHONY (Diesel, Baby Animals, Chrissy Amphlett) January 30

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

AL DI MEOLA WORLD SINFONIA March 5

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

January 13 Mojo’s

ACE FREHLEY February 1

JOSH EARL February 15 DIE ROTEN PUNKTE February 16 BRITISH SEA POWER February 17-18 PIVOT February 18

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

THE SAW DOCTORS March 4

DOWN BY THE RIVER (The Cat Empire, The Beautiful Girls, Whitley, Fdel) AC/DC / WOLFMOTHER March 6-7

LA ROUX / BERTIE BLACKMAN / TIM & JEAN March 21 COBRA STARSHIP / OWL CITY March 21 LYLE LOVETT / KASEY CHAMBERS March 22

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The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree at UWA is a design based course that addresses both the problems and opportunities facing the natural and built environment.

As we become more conscious of preserving our environment, culture and artistic vision, Landscape Architecture has a growing relevance in our world.

Landscape Architects create spaces which are not only functional but which work to enhance the ecological integrity of an area – they preserve the natural environment and minimize the negative impacts of development.

Landscape Architects work on a variety of scales, from major urban developments to regional projects. Their work includes all aspects of landscape and land use planning, design and management, restoration and rehabilitation, and the identification and assessment of environmental and social impacts.

As a Landscape Architect you will use art, science, design and the social sciences to create functional and attractive natural and built environments which will endure for generations. The skills you develop will help shape our world on a physical scale few other professions can. To find out more about UWA’s Bachelor of Landscape Architecture please call (08) 6488 1859.

The environmental and agricultural sciences are strong learning areas at UWA

THE RIGHT CLIMATE FOR A CAREER

Climate and the environment are major concerns and are among the foremost scientific challenges presently facing the global community.

If you want to be part of the solution, UWA’s Bachelor of Science, specialising in Climate and Environment, will give you the knowledge and skills regarding climate processes, climate variability and controls of climate change; the significance and relevance of climate processes and change to the wider environmental and agricultural sciences; the policy, planning and social science implications of climate change issues at the regional and global scale; and the competence to effectively translate basic climate science, climate change and related issues into an environmental-social science problem solving context.

There’s a wide range of units to choose from, such as Environmental Change and Climate Dynamics; Global Climate Change and Biodiversity; Ecology; Coastal Environments Processes; Environmental Hydrology; Conservation Biology; Restoration Ecology; Marine Geology; Environmental Geomorphology of Coasts and Rivers; Land Soil and Water; and Climate Change Policy and Planning.

Governments and private companies are required to give increasing attention to climate issues, and job prospects for graduates will be many and varied. They include government departments (Environment and Conservation, Agriculture and Food), policymaking areas of government, private industry (such as oil companies), and universities.

Don’t just talk about protecting the environment. Join the team already doing it at www.fnas.uwa.edu.au.

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Would you like to study and see the world? The Murdoch Exchange Program allows you to live and study in places such as North America, Europe or Asia while gaining credit toward a Murdoch University degree.

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Employers are always keen to hear about overseas adventures. This life experience shows that you’re able to learn outside of your comfort zone, take on new challenges and bring valuable insights to any work environment.

To be eligible for the program, you need to complete a year of study at Murdoch. You can then choose to study overseas either in your second or third year for six or twelve months. You may even be able to get a loan from the Australian government to help fund your time overseas. For more information about the exchange program, visit www.murdoch.edu.au.

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Most Graduate Certificates comprise four units. They can be completed in as little as six months full-time study or part-time equivalent. ECU’s Graduate Certificate programs are designed to broaden your career options allowing you to obtain a university qualification that has practical application.

If you have a minimum of five years’ relevant work experience, you can apply to study a range of Graduate Certificate programs. If you have completed an undergraduate degree and you wish to extend your expertise in a certain area or acquire new knowledge in another field, the Graduate Certificate provides you with the perfect vehicle to do so.

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INSTITUTION INFO FREEDOM TO LEARN AT CYRIL JACKSON

Cyril Jackson Senior Campus is one of the quiet achievers in education in W.A., providing a unique learning environment for people of all ages and needs. As a senior campus it caters for students studying Years 11 and 12, and also for newly arrived learners of English. Offering a wide range of Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) courses, it is a springboard to successful future learning and the acquisition of job preparation skills.

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PODIATRY FOOTLOOSE AT UWA

The key role of a podiatrist is to improve the mobility and enhance the independence of individuals by the prevention and management of pathological foot and ankle problems.

Podiatrists help to reduce the incidence of painful and disabling foot conditions for all age groups.

Career opportunities are many, as the demand for graduate podiatrists is high in Australia and, with the increasing prevalence of diabetes and awareness of podiatric services in the general and medical community, this demand is predicted to increase even further. Most podiatrists are self-employed or obtain a salaried position within established private podiatry practices. A number of podiatrists find employment in the public hospital system or within community health centres.

UWA’s four-year Bachelor of Podiatric Medicine (BPodM) is an exciting undergraduate course in a growing branch of medical science. The program is designed to produce highly trained and competent general podiatrists, well prepared to commence clinical practice as primary contact health care practitioners in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the foot and ankle. Later, qualified podiatrists can undertake postgraduate study to qualify as specialist podiatric physicians or podiatric surgeons, with appropriate advanced diagnostic, treatment and research capabilities.

Graduates of the BPodM degree will be eligible to apply for registration as a podiatrist in all Australian states and territories, New Zealand and the UK. Visit www.meddent.uwa. edu.au for more information!

UWA Podiatry student Mina Azarian

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mixing. Studio specializing in Pop, R’n’B & Hiphop. Xmas vouchers avail. Latest techniques, styles

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mic and gigs at Bar Orient in Fremantle. Live

MATRIX PRODUCTIONS AUSTRALIA Lighting, RECORDING MIXING MASTERING PRODUCING

recording avail. For bookings call Simon Dowling 0405 812 263.

BASE PLAYER WANTED for paid gigs in Feb. Must be fast learner with good gear. Orig with some obscure covers. Have charts and recordings.

Mark 0409 137 850 BASS PLAYER WANTED for original rock band,

staging, sound systems, smoke machines, night

Fremantle location. Call Pete Kitchen Cooked

club FX, intelligent lighting, strobes & mirror balls, Records. Ph 0407 363 764 / 9336 3764 crowd barriers, video projectors. 9371 1551

RECORDING, MIXING OR MASTERING with WA’s

PA HIRE Vocal to concer t size. Pro gear. largest collection of tube recoring equipment.

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Classic analog tape recorders combined with

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the very latest audiophile digital converters.

and songs. Guaranteed results. Beg-adv, all levels including bass. Cliff Lynton Guitar Institute.

Mt Lawey 9342 3484 / www.clifflynton.com BASS LESSONS Rock, funk & jazz. Tony Gibbs 9470 6131 DRUM LESSONS The Drum Shop has Perth’s biggest drum academy with 12 teachers. Drum kit, African drumming and orchestral percussion

with covers gigs also. Exp pref. Please ph Mara

PROFESSIONAL P.A. HIRE For concerts, parties, Record your band using the worlds finest Analog

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or corporate events. Call Sound Pro 3000 on

and digital rock’n roll equipment at Poons

EXP BASS PLAYER with some vocal backup

0424 279 328.

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tuition. See ad Below. Lessons from $18.

Warren Daley. Beginners welcome.Hire kits avail.

classic covers and originals. CD released in 2009. into old speakers. General repairs on all makes. REVOLVER SOUND STUDIO Ph 9272 7505. Ph: 9349 8594 (Osb. Park) Ring 0458 243 761

Ph 9249 4179 2/73 Holder Way, Malaga

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GUITAR LESSONS Learn guitar by ear from a prof with over 20 yrs exp in teaching & performing.

All levels & ages. blues & rock specialist. Results

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guaranteed. Phone Ian Wilson “The Teacher That Students Recommend” on 9403 3212 GUITAR TUITION (Beginners- Professional) One on One lessons. Burswood Ph 9361 1444 www.gvkschoolofmusic.com.au

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