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Although his raison d’être may be as dubious as a James Bond assignment (shaken, not stirred), Julian Assange has certainly gone lengths to put the cool back into computer nerd. And while his mission (whatever that may be) has been sullied by a fresh arrest warrant from Interpol for unrelated criminal activity in Sweden, the WikiLeaks founder’s recent release of a deluge of US embassy cables is a pot of sordid comedic gold – namely the pseudopsychoanalytical appraisals of various global leaders. It seems malicious gossip and slander is not exclusive to us ignorant civilians. Here are a few that would put your gas-bagging mother-inlaw to shame…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il: “a flabby old chap.”

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi: “…feckless, vain, and ineffective as a modern European leader” and “frequent late nights and

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Amplifier and Capitol have announced their indie electro NYE line-up and boy is it a cracker. Direct from Sydney for a one night only exclusive NYE set will be electro boys Grafton Primary. The brothers have been busy this year, having lead two sold out Australian tours and with festivals including Parklife, Stereosonic, Pyramid, Homebake and Falls, as well as overseas. Joining them will be our very own Sugar Army and, along with Death Disco DJs, will be our rockers Harlequin League, electro pop party animal Carl Fox, Siren Tower, Sleepwalker, DJ Eddie Electric and DJ Ryan bringing out the ’80s overload. This will sell out so you better get onto it quickly. Doors open from 8pm. There are strictly limited presale tickets from only $30 (+ booking fee) available now from moshtix.com.au, Planet and Mills in Freo. Bounce!

International man of mystery and WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange

penchant for partying hard mean he does not get sufficient rest.”

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev: “Plays Robin to Putin’s Batman.”

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe: “the crazy old man.”

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi: “just strange.”

French President Nicolas Sarkozy: “a thin-skinned and authoritarian personal style” and “unpresidential parading of his personal life and his weakness for glitz.”

And apparently next up on the mud-dredging is big business! Let us guess: oil companies actually do care about the sustainability of planet Earth and McDonald’s internal research suggests one quarter pounder (supersized with chips and a Coke) a day is good for your health… _JULIAN TOMPKIN

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… SANTANA

One of the greatest musicians and guitarists of our generation is stepping on to Australian soil for a gigantic tour. Bringing his fusion of Latin rock, blues, soul and jazz will be the legendary Santana. Having won 10 Grammy Awards and sold more than 90 million records, Santana was welcomed into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame back in 1998.

Rolling Stone labelled him as #15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time.

His newest album, Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time, was released in late September and Santana joined the ranks of The Rolling Stones as the only musical act in chart history to score at least one top 10 album in every decade beginning with the 1960s. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity taking place on Sunday, March 13, at Sandalford Estate in the Swan Valley. Tickets for all shows go on sale Thursday, December 9, at 9am from ticketek.com.au.

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They’ve lit our Sex On Fire and next March the devilishly handsome lads from Kings Of Leon will invite us to Come Around Sundown. Their fifth studio album (released a few months back), Come Around Sundown has already hit Platinum status, so you know their live shows in support of the record are going to be nothing short of awesome. Fans of Kings Of Leon will be pleased to hear that next year the boys will hit the stage of nib Stadium for a killer show on Monday, March 21.

Tickets go on sale today, Thursday, December 2, and are likely to sell out quick smart, so if you’re keen to head along we suggest making a bee-line for Ticketmaster.

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Cover: Megadeth headline No Sleep Til on Sunday, December 12, at Arena Joondalup.

Salt cover: Bag Raiders play at Sets On The Beach this Sunday, December 5, at Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre.

The Greenhornes, playing Big Day Out

If you thought the first line-up made up of such icons as Tool, Iggy & The Stooges, Grinderman, LCD Soundsystem and heaps more wasn’t big enough, the final acts have been announced for the 2010 Big Day Out. Recent ARIA Award winner Sia heads up the announcement, and she’ll be joined by the infamous post-grungers The Vines, Cincinnati’s finest The Greenhornes, festival favourite Washington, Brooklyn duo Matt & Kim, hip hopper Black Milk and DJ Anna Lunoe.

On the local front, The Scotch Of Saint James, The Novocaines, The Fags, Ruby Boots, San Cisco (formerly King George), Q-Bik, Seeka and Triple J Unearthed winners Split Seconds have also been added. Silent Disco also returns with founder DJ OD in check, while Lilyworld boasts comedian/musician Reggie Watts, soul songstress Wunmi, all-girl Japanese punk band Red Bacteria Vacuum, big kid The Balloonatic, Melbourne proto-punks The UV Race, Australia’s heaviest band Barbarion and the performance art of V Dentatas. Add that to a swag of visual arts galore, including local artists Steve Berrick and Jerrem Lynch taking their Grl Perth around the country, and you’ve got more than just music at your Big Day Out. Head to bigdayout.com and the usual outlets to grab your ticket.

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Dear X-Press, Perhaps something for the Rotto Port How dare you publish that letter last week Authority to consider?

(Reactions #1241) from Adam Mercs about his ignorance when it comes to issues with violence in Jason the inner-city? Perth is like a warzone some nights Embleton with junkies, hookers and drugged-up bogans looking for violence every which way.

YOU’VE GOT MAIL In fact, your magazine should be shut down because it promotes nightlife, which by Dear X-Press, association means X-Press promotes violence.

Thanks heavens for the federal The James West story that has found its way into government’s National Broadband Network, which the newspapers this week is the most pathetic will give me all the reason I need to stay home attempt at news I’ve seen since Steve Tucker went when it is brought in. searching for Olivia a few weeks back. The only difference this time is that West is a complete Regards, twat obviously trying to further his career as a S. Conroy ‘broadcast journalist’ while Tucker was simply looking for love.

Let’s summise this latest ‘feel good’ story BLOTTO ON ROTTO involving technology. West has a common name and as such he keeps getting group emails from Dear X-Press, a family living in Florida. Three years pass and he Just wanted to say how much I love Rottnest as doesn’t tell them to remove them from his list (too a live music gig! I went across to see the Living bad for the real James West with similar email) – End and Gyroscope last weekend and had an he just pries on their private lives. When the email absolute blast. There’s nothing like kicking back goes out asking their family friends to come to and watching live music while seated 10m from Thanksgiving, West responds to the family using the pristine blue water that lap on Rottnest’s shore. YouTube instead of the reply button, and jumps While I was sitting there though, I on a plane at the last minute to hang out with wondered why the heck aren’t there more gigs this family he’s been spying on – this is a great on Rottnest? The Hotel has an awesome al fresco way to get some publicity for an obviously failing

‘broadcast journalist’.

Less than a week after Thanksgiving, his photos are published all over the internet, he gets a letter from congress and now he’s got a few more days to see if the commercial networks will hire him because of his ability to be dishonest with people who are foolishly trusting him.

James West of Sydney – you are a douchebag.

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Get your entries in to win one of five double passes to see The Reverend Horton Heat, on Wednesday, December 15, at the Rosemount.

Get ready for an evening of country–heavy tunes about bad habits, well-meaning but clueless husbands, ever–expanding beer guts and of course Texas. With support from Cal Peck & The Tramps and Ruby Boots this is a great night not to be missed!

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X-Press Magazine and the Rosemount Hotel present A Not So Silent Night. Featuring Sugar Army, Cabins, Coerce, The Tim McMillan Band, The Growl and many more. We want you all to come help celebrate the festive season on Saturday, December 11, and we have five double passes up for grabs, so get your entries in.

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The Burswood Theatre will play host to a Led Zeppelin tribute night on Friday, December 3, boasting all the hits we’ve come to love. Enjoy over two hours of jam packed classic hits from Led Zeppelin from big names such as Dave Gleeson (Screaming Jets), Steve Balbi (Noiseworks), Simon Meli (Window Birds) and many more. Make the most of a buy one ticket get the second ticket free deal now via Ticketek.

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As Motorplex has on-site FREE parking for over 6,000 cars we suggest taking your car is the best form of travel. Obviously having a designated “Captain” is a smart move as without doubt the Police will be all around the venue with Booze Buses to protect all concert goers from the few that haven’t yet got the message “Don’t Drink and Drive” Free buses travel is available from Kwinana Train Station from 4.30 pm and will also run from venue back to station Immediately after the show. For other forms of travel please refer to your local Bus and Train Timetables.

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BACK TO THE FUTURE

The folks at the West Australian Symphony Orchestra tend to look to the past for inspiration, often drawing on material composed hundreds of years ago. This December, however, WASO will bring the past kicking and screaming into the future with a live webcast of their performance of Ravel’s Bolero on Saturday, December 4, at the Perth Concert Hall. The concert will be streamed on a special website, plus live in the Northbridge Piazza, so that folks across Australian and the world can get a glimpse at the majesty of a WASO performance.

The webcast and Northbridge Piazza screening will commence at 7.10pm. To get in on the fun, head to freezone.iinet.net.au/channels/ freezone/music/waso.

THE CIRCUS RETURNS

SLIMEBALL Michael Bublé

CAN’T BURST THAT BUBLÉ

It seems us sandgropers just can’t get enough of Canadian crooner Michael Bublé, with the singer having to extend his stay in WA next year to appease his many fans. The always charming Mr Bublé will get knickers in a twist when he touches down in Perth for shows at the picturesque Sandalford Estate in March.

Bublé’s Friday, March 4, show has already sold out but another has just been announced, set to go down on Saturday, March 5. Fans can also catch him playing the Margaret River Sandalford Estate on Sunday, March 6. Ladies, if you don’t want to miss out on seeing Bublé in the flesh, better hop to it when tickets go on sale today via Ticketek.

There ain’t nothing appealing about warm One of the most loved bands of the ‘90s, Kyuss practically reinvented the stoner rock wheel with slime, except of course if you’re referring to Thee their desert grooves and now three of the original members are back as Kyuss Lives. Consisting Oh Sees’ latest album. A garage masterpiece of of John Garcia, Brant Bjork and Nick Oliveri, the band plays Capitol on Wednesday, May 11. The the highest calibre, Warm Slime makes for an last time the original Kyuss was in Perth was on Metallica’s Black Album tour, so you can be sure invigorating listen, which the band will prove this has been a long time coming. Tickets are on sale now and selling fast from Moshtix. next year when they head down under to take the country by storm. If you’re a fan of Thee Oh Sees, be sure to make your way to Amps TUJIKO NORIKO TO ROCK OUT on Saturday, January 8, for a live show that Japan’s avant-pop experimental musician Tujiko Noriko is gracing our town with her beats promises to leave you in a dizzy spin. Tickets and electronic melodies oh so soon. Following releases on the infamous Mego label, Noriko are on sale now via Moshtix. has carved out a sonic universe which plays on words, digital abrasion and electric samples.

On her most recent album, U, Noriko provides a new sound with pulsing rhythms and emotive harmonies. She’ll be joined by Australian collaborator, composer and media artist Lawrence English from Brisbane who works with live performance, installation and space to transcend an audience’s perception of reality. Perth’s art-rock outfit His Last Bow will also be joining these creative masters. It all goes down on Tuesday, December 7, at The Bakery. Doors open 8pm; tickets on-sale now from nowbaking.com.au.

WORLDS APART

Last seen as a last minute replacement for My Chemical Romance at this year’s Soundwave, alternative rock heavyweights Jimmy Eat World are returning to Australia with their sixth album, Invented, in tow. Due to take in Metro City on Tuesday, April 5, tickets go on sale from Moshtix on Thursday, 9 December, with pre-sales for Frontier Members on sale now. Will they get their old split EP and touring buddies Jebediah to support them? Only time will tell.

MAN UP

Though we love him dearly, Barry Manilow has been ignoring the folks of Australia as if they were his ex-girlfriend, with his last visit being over 10 years ago in 1996! Next year Manilow will reunite with Australian fans, paying us the attention he knows we deserve! To make up for his absence, Mr Manilow will team up with the WA Symphony Orchestra for a special show at the Sandalford Estate on Saturday, April 16. There’s little doubt that tickets for this show are likely to sell out in a flash, so be sure to have your credit card in hand when tickets go on sale on Friday, December 10, via Ticketek.

GET FESTIVE ON THE FORESHORE

Justin Townes Earle

LET’S DANCE

Dust off your dancing shoes because next Wednesday, December 8, the Burswood Theatre will play host to a spectacular performance by The Dance Collective entitled Final Cut. Boasting cutting edge choreography that will leave fans of So You Think You Can Dance in a spin, the show promises to traverse genres such as hip hop, contemporary, lyrical, jazz, ballet, break and dancehall. Featuring an array of incredibly talented dancers, Final Cut promises to rock your socks off. Tickets for this amazing show are on sale now through Ticketek.

Kyuss, as they were

BACK IN TOWNES

Becoming an ever-increasingly regular visitor to Australia, Justin Townes Earle has revealed that he’s coming back to Australia once again. His third album is the outstanding Harlem River Blues and the tattooed wonder kid of Steve Earle will take in Mojo’s for a two night stand. See him on Wednesday, March 16, and Thursday, March 17. Tickets from Heatseeker.

PUT YOUR NECK OUT

Renowned for their hypnotic compositions that stand alone in the contemporary music scene, The Necks never fail to enchant audiences with their captivating aural creations. On Wednesday, January 26, and Thursday, January 27, The Necks will return to Perth for shows at the recently refurbished Bakery, giving locals the chance to witness their transcendent live show. Tickets for this pair of special gigs are on sale now from lifeisnoise.com and nowbaking.com.au.

The Necks

CAN’T BE TAMED

Capping off a massive year of taking their music to North America and Europe, local lads Tame Impala have taken out the 2010 J Award for album of the year for their debut effort, InnerSpeaker. Currently in North America for the second time this year, the band return home for one show only at Southbound, which takes place from Saturday, January 1, ’til Monday, January 3. Their next single Expectations drops this coming Monday, December 6.

WAIF WAIT

Though WA lays claim to The Waifs, the band is actually now based in the US of A, which is where they’ve been holed up in a basement for the last few weeks recording their sixth studio offering. Entitled Temptation, the album tells tales of parenthood, love and loss, summing up the personal journeys members of the band have experienced.

Set to be released in March 2011, the record features the beautiful vocal harmonies we’ve come to expect from this delightful band. For info on tours and all that jazz, jump online to thewaifs.com.

Before you go and plan everything for this coming silly summer season, lock this in: The Free 4Sure Youth Festival. It involves a bunch of up and coming youth bands taking to the stage at the Charles Court Reserve on the Nedlands foreshore. Not only this but there will be skateboarding competitions, food stalls, climbing walls, prizes and giveaways.

The bands set to rock the foreshore include We Are The Emergency, Georgi Kay, Goodnight Tiger (winners of Ampfest Competition), Minute 36, Static Embrace and The Godwinds. It all kicks off from 3-7.30pm on Saturday, December 11, at Charles Court Reserve. And it’s a free event! Yay!

SCORCHER FEST

If you haven’t heard of SCoRCHeR FeST then listen up. Earlier in March this year Perth proved why we are the nation’s capital for original music, hosting 28 bands for the WA leg of the festival. Everyone was able to witness an amazing spectacle of true live music discovery for only $20. Now it is back with a third stage being added to the event. With live entertainment running all day from more genres than you can poke a disco stick at, SCoRCHeR FeST offers something for everyone. BBC Radio 2 favourite host Lizzy Spit will be bringing her catchy tunes, Melbourne grunge funksters The John Smith Quintet will be there to satisfy your soul and Albany’s alternative rock band Oblivion will also be making an appearance. Local hip hop MC Kon Tempt will smashing out some of his works too. Get down on Sunday, December 26, to The Rosemount Hotel from midday ‘til 10pm. If you’re under 18 and with the guardian you’ll be allowed in until 4pm.

For more info head to scorcherfest.com.au.

It’ll be well worth it.

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SUPA EARLY TICKETS

Supafest 2011 is around the corner. Across two big stages with eight hours of live music featuring local artists and DJs, this all ages event is a must see. And to get you pumped, we have some big news: early bird ticket sales will be available to you from this Friday, December 3, at 12pm AEST. Along with these early bird ticket savings, you can also get a bling ring and a Supafest album. There’s a lot to choose from and you can also pay your ticket off in instalments. To be eligible for the early bird tickets, make sure you register on supafest.com.au.

The show goes down on Sunday, April 10, at Arena Joondalup, with artists announced soon. Get ready to party!

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Lizzy Spit, playing SCoRCHeR FeST

There are only three days left to get your mittens on early bird tickets for Future Music Festival. From Monday,December 6,the final release tickets will go on sale, so jump on the bandwagon early and you’ll be saving $15! Get your tickets from ticketmaster. com.au, 78 Records, DJ Factory in Northbridge, Live Clothing stores,Mills,Planet and Rockeby Records.If you don’t have the money because you’re splashing out on Christmas pressies then not to worry because Future Music Festival has come up with a grand idea called Book Now, Pay Later. It’s a first for the WA music industry and allows you to buy a ticket to the festival by paying an initial deposit and then have the remaining balance conveniently charged to your credit card on a fortnightly cycle – how convenient! It’s all happening on Sunday, March 6, at Arena Joondalup. This one’s on the bank!

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GEORGE NEGUS 60 Moments George Negus has just released a new book, The World From Down Under.

If George Negus hasn’t seen it all, he’s certainly talked about it.

From his days as a founding 60 Minutes team member 30 years ago, through countless current affairs interviews and tenures on shows such as Foreign Correspondent, Dateline and, more recently, The 7pm Project (his own Network 10 show is in the works for 2011) he has interviewed a virtual hall of fame of world leaders in politics, religion, culture... between and beyond.

Memorably, in an interview with UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1983, he asked why people stopped him in the street to say that she “isn’t just inflexible, she’s not just single-minded, on occasions she’s plain pig-headed and won’t be told by anybody?”

“Would you tell me who in the street has stopped and told you that,” Thatcher thundered.

“Why won’t you tell me their names and who they are?”

It was an infamous clash and oftremembered, but because of Negus’ diversity of interests and forefront reporting of the people who make the world turn, it has not defined him.

There’s more going on than that.

Firmly a sceptic but not a cynic, Negus is proud that after all he has seen (and talked about) he is a hopeful and positive person. At 68 he is as passionate about asking questions as ever.

By BOB GORDON The word and the concept of moments is mentioned a number of times in the book.

When you began this in late 2007, did you think the time since would be so... momentous?

Yeah I did. Actually when I stopped writing the final book and its structure and the whole raison d’être is completely different from the original idea for The World From Down Under.

The world was changing so rapidly that I told the publishers in no uncertain terms that I could give them a book in a couple of months if they wanted but it would be out of date the next month. So much has changed in the world in the last five to 10 years; and in the last three years, since 2007. I’m sure they thought I was just putting it off (laughs). In fact last night at the launch in Sydney an executive of the publishing company acknowledged the fact that if they’d gotten the book when they wanted it Barack Obama and Julia Gillard would never have been heard of in it. So the next time an author has a timeline in mind for their book they’ll listen (laughs).

So this isn’t out of date and it would have been out of date had not the moments you mentioned have been so monumental, if you like, in the last five to 10 years. And the world has changed; it’s actually quite different from when I started writing this book. The GFC didn’t exist; the idea of climate change being a so-called dud because of Copenhagen hadn’t happened yet; Obama wasn’t elected; Julia Gillard wasn’t elected; all sorts of things. Australians weren’t getting killed in Afghanistan. It would have been a pretty useless sort of a book from a national and international observer if I was rushed to write, as it were. So I ended up plagiarising myself instead, using interviews that I’d done about those moments and the changes that were going on in the world and turn them I like to think biteable chunks of print.

It’s a hefty tome, as your books are. It seems you immerse yourself in them rather than churn them out for the sake of it – which I’m sure you could do if you wanted. You’re obviously a patient writer, but is that hard?

No, no... when you’re actually interested in the subject and it’s not fiction, it’s non-fiction, you’re not having to wrack your brain, you’re taking hold of information and facts that you know about ordering it in a way that you think is readable. I’m a very pragmatic television journalist/author, if you like. I write the way I talk and I talk the way I write which means my conversational ease becomes my television ease. The greatest compliment people pay to me, which they do on occasion is, ‘when I read your books I feel as though you’re talking to me’.

I am patient because I don’t have to go rushing off to the thesaurus for the literary references very often because I’m talking to somebody. When I write I am literally talking to somebody. I imagine listening to what I’m writing, not reading what I’m

writing. Sometimes I have to read my own stuff back to see what it sounds right to the ear, not just to the eye on the page.

“GUILTY AS CHARGED. MOST DEFINITELY. IT’S PROBABLY THE ONLY QUESTION I ASK. IN FACT I THINK I’VE CONNED THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY THAT HAS BEEN PAYING ME A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR A LONG TIME TO ASK ONE QUESTION (LAUGHS).”

Most kids never stop asking ‘why?’ from the age of five until they do stop a few years later, often for good. Are you the kid who never stopped asking ‘why’?

Guilty as charged. Most definitely. It’s probably the only question I ask. In fact I think I’ve conned the entire industry that has been paying me a reasonable amount of money for a long time to ask one question (laughs). Funnily enough, in The World From Italy, which was about my view of the world from Italy in the post-communist era, I said that only the Italians could be smart enough to have the same word as a question and an answer. Che is the word for ‘why’ and it’s also the word for ‘because’ (laughs). But it’s odd because as a writer I do ask that question endlessly and as a television journalist I’m the same. I’m not a news journalist; I’m a current affairs-oriented, opinionated observer, if you like. I’ll let the news people ask,‘what’,‘how’,‘when’,‘where’ and ‘who’ and that leaves me one question: ‘why?’.

I’ve made a living asking one question in hundreds and hundreds of situations to hundreds and hundreds of people. Many who’ve turned up in this book; this amazing bunch of movers and shakers whom I’ve managed to get to talk to faceto-face on many occasions. I feel quite privileged about the people who I’ve been able to talk to; they’ve topped up my flimsy knowledge and intellect considerably.

There’d be many people in power and politics that you would have interviewed numerous times over the years. In those cases it must be an interesting evolution in the relationship – from strangers, to acquaintance, friend or nemesis. Each knowing more about the other’s idiosyncrasies, strengths and weaknesses and playing to them or away from them.

It is and lately that’s certainly been the case more recently doing more national stuff, you get to know more politicians, writers and academics, bureaucrats and some would-bes-ofthey-could-bes of all varieties.

The last few decades, especially the last decade, have been almost exclusively international people. Oddly enough that can happen with them as well. Shimon Peres, who is the President of Israel, I’ve interviewed him as Prime Minster several times and as Foreign Minister. I almost regard him as a friend, which is pretty odd seeing as the Jewish community in this country give me a caning every time I go into their country. But their President thanks me for coming and sends me a note saying, ‘how’s your family? I look forward to our next meeting’. He’s one.

Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley, the arch rivals in the Irish troubles… I wouldn’t regard Paisley as a friend, but he’s an acquaintance. Adams, if he’s not as friendly as he appears to be, he is the greatest actor I’ve ever met. I’ve interviewed him a half a dozen times, and every time I see him it’s, ‘good to see you again, how’s Kirsty and the boys’. You think, ‘well maybe I have had an impact’ or ‘maybe he didn’t mind the questions’.

The Dalai Lama I’ve interviewed three

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times and met four times. We have this running joke, he and I, where in the first interview I said to him, ‘I’m not a religious or even a spiritual person, in the conventional sense of the word, I’m sorry I don’t know how to address you’. I had been told ‘Your Holiness’ but he said, ‘I’m a simple working monk’.

So I said, ‘Good morning Mr Simple Working Monk’ and he laughed that unmistakeable Dalai Lama laugh. At the end of the interview I said, ‘it’s been wonderful to talk to you, Simple Working Monk’ and he was off again. That was via satellite, but when I finally met him face-to-face I said, ‘Good Morning Simple Working Monk’ and he said, ‘you’re the fellow!’ .

you realise that is. I would never, ever inflate my ego to the point where I think I could do any interview without thinking about it. I walk in with reams of paper but I don’t look at it, by that time it’s ingrained. It’s rude to read questions out to someone; I prefer to ask them.

But Thatcher was scary. And by that I mean professionally and intellectually scary because she was pretty formidable. So you have to psyche yourself and think, ‘I am about to take on a pretty powerful, egomaniacal person. I don’t know quite where this is gonna go’. We had to change tack a lot.

What of the prominent American politicians?

It’s the other thing which is the obverse of that, actually. Psycho-dynamics, don’t ask me to explain, but I interviewed Al Gore when he came out for An Inconvenient Truth. I finished the interview and we exchanged a few pleasantries or unpleasantries about John Howard, and he wandered off to the next interview. His minder stayed and she said, ‘that was great. Al enjoyed it and you obviously did. How long have you known each other?’. I said, ‘how long was the interview’ and she said ’17 minutes’. I said, ’18 minutes’. It just happened and so much so that when he came back to Australia a few months later he was to give a speech at a huge event put on by Greening Australia. He was so tired of making the same speech over and over he got in touch with the organisers and said, ‘can that guy with the moustache who interviewed me in Sydney a few months ago come down and interview me again? I’d rather be interviewed than make a speech’.

Clinton’s another good example. I interviewed Clinton, without a television camera, at a conference in Adelaide. Three years later – and think of all the people Clinton has to bloody put up with, let alone journalists on a daily basis – at the launch of his Clinton Global Dialogue which I covered, there was a meet-and-greet at a club one night in New York. He approached me from about 10 people away and looked over and gave the thumbs up. He said, ‘good to see you again. Adelaide’.

That is a class act.

But I think the general point that we’re both trying to make is that something really weird goes on. If you love interviewing and you love asking questions and getting inside people’s heads strange things go on. When that rapport thing happens – and it happened with Benazir Bhutto too – you can tell. The thing is, the key with interviewees, is that most of them, whatever you think of their politics or religion or whatever, can tell if you are interested in it. And if you are, they try.

I interviewed Phillip Adams at the time of Barack Obama’s election win. He’d spoken to Paul Keating that day who’d referred to the poise of the American President even though he had no runs on the board. Do you think Australian politicians – apart from a precious few – lack that kind of charisma or poise that the Americans, or even someone like Silvia Berlusconi has?

(Laughs) Yes well I lived in Italy for 15 months; he’s the great clown of world politics and how could we live without him?

But I couldn’t agree more. Hillary Clinton is a classic example. Her performance in this country the other week, including her interview with Hamish & Andy on The 7pm Project, was brilliant. You may have heard what I said at the end of that segment, ‘if she ever applies for political asylum in this country grant it very quickly. We could do with a normal human being as a politician’. She’s articulate, self aware, self deprecating – a normal person, for god’s sake. I mean, our pollies have lost the art of normality. Everybody says it’s always because of these minders and stuff like that; well maybe it is and maybe it isn’t, but maybe the wrong kind of people are going into politics. You need people who don’t have anything to prove, not those who are there to prove something. You can’t learn politics on the job.

It was interesting watch footage of Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard walking side-byside. One had composure and the other had control...

Good point. Well put. You can spot the difference, it’s not difficult is it? You’ve described it perfectly. Hillary knows where she’s coming from.

In her conversation with the young people, she actually answered the questions like there was no pollies speaking at all. Or if she found herself dipping into pollie-speech she stopped herself.

Brilliant. I mean what is wrong with our mob?

What do they put in their water? Whatever it is, we should have.

It’s the media cynicism, by the way. The media’s loss of any perception whatsoever. Politics is about ideas, about ideology; it’s not about politicking and political personalities; it’s not about point-scoring. It’s about bloody ideas and how you run the country.

In terms of rapport, your interview with Bob Marley in 1979 didn’t have it, but with the passing of time it’s taken on a different relevance...

Indeed. It was the same when I did an interview with Bob Dylan years ago. I got bugger all out of him but I certainly got more than most other people as it turned out. He doesn’t play the media game, he doesn’t do the PR thing. And To say you’ve done thousands of interviews is Marley was also a genuinely eccentric person. probably an underestimation...

It’s a frightening thought, but I don’t Those guys who don’t understand the media are know... a serious challenge.

As was Margaret Thatcher. I presume you didn’t Does the art of the interview still fascinate you?

Not the art of interview, the element of get that list of names she wanted?

(Laughs) No I didn’t. She knew what I was exchange, you know? In the same way I don’t think of myself as a journalist’s journalist, I don’t think of getting at. myself as an interviewer’s interviewer either. The What was it like having the Iron Lady go at you older and sillier I get I actually love saying things like, ‘oh really? I didn’t know that!’ whereas most like that?

It was scary! We interviewed her because interviewers would think of that as a total no-no.

But my interest is involved in the she was regarded as the most powerful woman on earth. People think you waltz in there without exchange, the exchange of views. The approach in even blinking, you spend days of psyching before terms of art that I make – if there’s such a thing – is it and I still do lots of research and preparation – that I’d like to think I can make the questions as the more interviews you do the more important interesting as I’d like the answers to be. www.xpressmag.com.au

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Megadeth return to WA to headline No Sleep Til Perth on Sunday, December 12, at Arena Joondalup. LUKE ANDRIOFF catches up with frontman and metal legend Dave Mustaine.

When Megadeth first exploded onto the metal scene in the ’80s with a fresh concept of highspeed thrash metal and apocalyptic lyrics, the band signalled a new wave of metal.

The band was producing some of the most rhythmically complex, technically challenging thrash metal that had listener’s jaws dropping. In 1986 Megadeth released their debut album, Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying, which immediately went gold – as did the follow-up, So Far, So Good… So What!

It was in 1990 when frontman Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson, guitarist Marty Friedman and drummer Nick Menza went into record a new album. The result was Rust In Peace;

an album that is still regarded as one of the best metal albums ever written.

20 years on Megadeth are currently celebrating the anniversary of Rust In Peace, and to celebrate in style Megadeth have been wowing audiences all over the world by playing the platinum-selling album’s nine tracks in its entirety.

“It wasn’t as hard as some people think it would have been,” Mustaine says of the album’s sheer complexity. “When we were in the studio doing that record that was hard, because we were obviously doing it and no one really knew what was going on. We weren’t set on Rust In Peace being the album title at the time, but we were certainly set on the venom that the album was

making us feel. We were completely committed to making that album as explosive as it was, and right now we are playing it as good as we were playing it before.When you get a little older people wonder if you still do stuff like that and I gotta tell ya man… we can.

“I was pretty chuffed about what happened when the Rust In Peace album came out, and the reception that it got… it was pretty amazing,” Mustaine continues before pausing with thought. “They are not all as good as one another, some of [the albums] are better than others. I do think Rust In Peace is really good; I don’t think it’s our best. It depends on what mood I am in, because the records really have that magic to them where they can one day feel one way and the next day you feel something totally different.

That’s something really unique about Megadeth’s music.”

Mustaine has been celebrating excessively lately with the 20th anniversary, the release of his autobiography and being voted #1 in Joel McIver’s book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists.

It has been 27 years in the making, but Mustaine’s persistence has finally found him victorious (over old rivals Metallica) as metal’s best guitarist.

“That definitely doesn’t feel bad, it don’t suck,” he says with a chuckle.“I have tried to make sure that Megadeth music was fun. And, at the end of the day, no matter what you can always escape to this music; so I think I have done that. There’re days where I listen to our music and I’m thinking ‘thank God I got you to listen to baby’, because at the end of the day if I didn’t have Megadeth to listen to I’d be pretty upset right now.”

THE POOR Another Round

‘90s rockers The Poor return to service next week,playing Pace Road Tavern in Medina on Friday, December 3, and The Charles Hotel on Saturday, December 4. MIKE WAFER gets reacquainted.

When it was released in the mid-’90s, The Poor’s More Wine Waiter Please instantly became a feature on the soundtrack to Australian popular culture.

In much the same way as you could catch them doing it to AC/DC’s TNT; ‘armsaround-the-shoulders’ groups of drunk boys would be outside of any pub, singing the first two lines of the chorus over and over again with passionate abandon. But – and this is a ‘but’ that is branded into a lot of bands’ careers – this happened...

“At the time the band faded out, rock was fading out,” Anthony ‘Skenie’ Skene, original member and still front-man of The Poor, explains.“The grunge/Seattle thing was in the limelight, and for about 10 years it changed the way rock went. People just stopped being interested in, y’know, traditional kinda rock bands and everything was just Seattle.

“We’d scored the AC/DC World Tour,

The Poor

and we’d already done part of that and were just about to do the European leg, but Sony wanted us to come back and do the second album. So we said to ourselves ‘there’ll be other AC/DC tours’ (laughs) and came back. We came back from the States and the label dropped us!

We were spewin’ (laughs).”

And so it was for many, for although rock bands like The Poor had once been favoured by the masses, most struggled to find their relevance in a post-Nirvana world. And from bad to worse, as any great middle-act goes; personal trouble befell The Poor.

“My daughter got sick and nearly died, so there was no way anyone could help that – so [the band] just floated apart,” Skenie says matter-of-factly.

So that was that... The Poor went from touring the world with AC/DC, to oblivion.

But just as that part of the story is typical of many rock’n’roll casualties, the next part is typical of its survivors. Mates stick together, weather the storm and get back out there.

“We’re just constantly laughing when we’re around each other,” Skenie says with warmth. “We’re best mates... we hang out together when we’re not playing, have parties together... and we just love this band and making music together.

“And it’s weird how that first album is still out there. I’ve done a couple of interviews in Europe and people have been talking to me about our first album saying it’s like an icon, and I’ll get a lump in my throat.”

So, with a lot of unfinished business on their fight card, the band got back together.

With debut album Who Cares having earned them legendary status in Europe, and the band members being tighter than ever, The Poor got back to writing with gusto. Word of their live shows has been glowing to say the least, and the new records (Round 1 and Round 2 respectively) are literally filled with the kind of ball-busting rock The Poor were on their way to mastering.

Finally getting back to where they left off, The Poor are on the comeback trail with a vengeance.

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GLENN RICHARDS

GRACE WOODROOFE Under A Star

Nearly two years after the passing of her great mentor and discoverer Heath Ledger, Grace Woodroofe’s debut album, Always Want, is finally to be released this Friday, December 3.

She tells JULIAN TOMPKIN: “I feel more ready than ever.”

The New March

By 2008 the deep cracks were showing. But buoyed by a hit song and some wayward It’s the fairytale all the more fitting with a touch a Hollywood: the shy schoolgirl advice, Augie March went Glenn Richards wrenched from suburban obscurity in Perth ahead to record the album opening track, One Crowded Hour, would defy all by one of the silver screen’s biggest stars lore and – spearheaded by top ranking in to fulfil her rock’n’roll dreams. Rags-tothat would inevitably prompt pop Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2006 – earn its place as a riches sagas really don’t come much more their disintegration.Two years certified Australian anthem. It was suddenly game sumptuous.

But in reality this is a story on, frontman Glenn Richards on.

On some wayward advice, the band underwritten by tragedy. Discovered by Heath is back with a sprawling solo would spend the best part of 2006-7 on the road Ledger while still at high school, Woodroofe other bands, including a futile US run would tragically lose her mentor – and Perth albumandadeterminationnot supporting of dates supporting little-known Scottish act The its most celebrated son – before she’d even a note of the album that was to be the to repeat history. He supports Aliens. The band would return to Australia severely recorded weakened by infighting and a loss of morale to first on Ledger’s new record label, founded with Clare Bowditch at The Quarry begin recording their fourth and final album, his good mate Ben Harper.

Harper kept to his word, recording Me Disappear. On release in 2008 it would Amphitheatre on Wednesday, Watch prove their highest charting… but, deep below the Woodroofe’s album in a nine days with excess December 8, and Thursday, glorious melodies, Augie March were done. studio time he’d booked for his own album. Now, 20-years-of-age, Woodroofe is ready to finally “You learn a lot of bad things as well December 9.JULIAN TOMPKIN as a lot of good things,” Richards reflects of life. “I at take control of the reigns.

“If you asked me that two years ago reports. am not going to be romantic about it and say it’s “Pay attention to the signs next time,” Glenn Richards begins, from somewhere deep in New South Wales’ heartland.

A man whose aptitude for prose is well documented (One Crowded Hour remains one of the most poetic songs to ever grace Australia’s commercial airwaves) his post-mortem on Augie March is unapologetically terse.

Augie March’s is not an unfamiliar story in Australian rock chronicles. Formed in rural Victoria in 1996, the band’s debut album of 2000, Sunset Studies, would affirm them luminaries of the country’s alternative scene. And it’s here they would dwell until – after the near disintegration of their record label – the band’s third album would finally be released in 2006 and rewrite Augie March’s epitaph for good.

As an album, Moo, You Bloody Choir was never intended for mass appeal. As the main songwriter and soul of the group, Glenn Richards’ introverted odes to longing were hardly pop chart material. But the band’s four minute and 50 second

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something we’ve had to live through and made us better people – it probably hasn’t. It’s probably an unnecessary chapter in all of our lives. But it probably wasn’t that dramatic – just banal more than anything; which is, in some ways, worse than tragedy.”

Easily one of Australia’s greatest contemporary songwriters, Richards immediately began work on a batch of new post-Augie songs.

Surrounding himself with new musicians – including members of The Drones, as well as his brother – they quickly laid down the 15 tracks which would become Glimjack; Richards’ debut solo release and a clear antidote to the slickness and conformity of Watch Me Disappear.

“I was determined that we would go into this space knowing full well that whatever happens we wouldn’t spend years trying to get the perfect recording – it would be energy above sound-audio,” he says of the album’s gravity.

“Nobody was precious, and that’s where we’re at.

If there was a mantra then that was it: don’t fuck with it anymore.”

I would have said yes as well,” she says of her readiness to realise her dream as a recording and performing artist. “But now I really feel like I know more than I did two years ago – I am more ready to handle it and talk about it.

“I have definitely done my dues.

When I first got picked up I hadn’t had much experience at all in any realm of the industry, playing live or writing or anything like that. But I have developed since then; after I recorded I did all of the hard tours, playing dingy pubs and now it’s ‘I deserve it now’.”

Woodroofe’s pure love of music began to manifest itself deeply when she started composing her own music around 15-yearsof-age. Fusing a sultry jazziness with the gruff sensuality of PJ Harvey, Woodroofe’s mature and assured compositions were what first caught Ledger’s attention, and are finally manifested on this accomplished debut album.

“I was always listening and watching and learning things that were a bit beyond people of my age group,” she explains of her

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mature sound. “When I was in primary school everyone was listening to Christina Aguilera and I was listening to The Beatles and Bob Dylan… and I was the weirdo (laughs)! Everyone thought I was crazy for a long time. I was going to Beach Boys concerts… seriously I was the outsider. But in terms of maturity, I don’t know how a person my age is supposed to act. It’s just the way I am.

My mum always said I was an old soul.

“Having people of their calibre backing me up is amazing,” Woodroofe concludes of carrying the Ledger/Harper stamp of approval.

“And because they are such respected figures and genuine artists, and they are great at what they do and have a great passion for it, that’s the thing I connect with. It’s not some pop star saying ‘listen to this girl’. These are incredible artist and I would listen to what they have to say, so hopefully others do: ‘she must be good, right’ (laughs).”

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GOTAN PROJECT Three To Tango Theverytrans-nationalGotanProjectreturntoPerthonSunday, December 12,to play Perth Concert Hall.JESSE SHROCK reports.

HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY Appetite For Success

The boys from Hungry Kids Of Hungary have had a busy year indeed, with coveted gigs at The Viper Room in LA and The Mercury Lounge in NYC, not to mention supporting slots for big name acts such as OK Go. Gotan Project But as frontman Dean McGrath Few groups can claim credit for making a people that tango is really beautiful music; explains to EMMA BERGMEIER, genre of music sexy again. very emotional, of course, but very sexy and life hasn’t changed much since But this is precisely what The cool. When I first told my DJ and producer Gotan Project – the collective name friends that I was doing something with the release of their debut EP for French DJ and composer Phillippe tango, the response was very negative: ‘Oh, Escapades.

Cohen Solal, Swiss programmer Christoph Muller and Argentinean guitarist Eduardo Makoroff – have achieved for tango. By mixing Latin dance music with modern club beats (and other eclectic styles), the group have claimed for themselves a very unique position at the crossroads of dance and world music, the traditional and the cuttingedge.

Despite becoming indisputably influential over the last decade, Solal casually dismisses any idea the group felt any pressure to meet expectations with their latest release Tango 3.0.

“We don’t feel pressure from the outside,” the Frenchman says in precise (if heavily accented) English. “It’s more like self-pressurising. And it’s not very heavy, because we think the best way to do an album is the same way we’ve done it from the beginning: make the music that we love, and maybe other people will love it.

“We’ve always wanted to show

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it’s old music for old people. A corny, dusty old thing.’ And now… (laughs)? Who can say that now?”

Reflecting The Gotan Project’s commitment to bring something new to tango, they have always eschewed the common practice of sampling old vinyl, instead composing and recording their own instrumental parts.

“We want to create, rather than recycle,” Solal says. “We really compose very quickly, so there’s no filter between our inspiration and the melody. I think all the best songs are made in an instant. Musicians come to our studio play our melodies, and then we ask them to improvise around a theme, like in jazz.

“With Gotan Project, the territory is Tango,” he reiterates. “And we will stay in that territory. But we will sometimes take the freedom to bring tango out of its territory. You know, tango was born from a mix. We just continue the mixing.”

While back in Brisbane for a short break between tours, McGrath reveals that he’s still living with his parents, something you might not expect from the frontman of a band that’s taking the Australian music industry by storm. “[To avoid paying rent while touring] I’m back living with my family. I worked it out that in the past year I’ve been away about six or eight months, which is a lot of touring,” McGrath reveals down the line from his family pad.“We were a pop band then and we’re a pop band now, not too much has changed.”

Though they first started jamming back in 2007, it took the Hungry boys three years to get to the point where they were happy enough with their material to release an EP, with Escapades only hitting shelves this October.

“We held off for a while from playing live [and recording] because we really wanted the songs to be well rehearsed and up to standard before we presented ourselves.

“We’re still playing some of our old

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tracks. Our first single Set It Right is still in the set and I don’t think we’ve ever played a show without that song. It’s one of those ones that if we cut it out of the set people start to get upset with us. There are songs that were written during those early stages that got left behind but we’ve revisited on the record.”

Never ones to rest on their laurels, McGrath and the band weren’t content to just rehash old songs for the Escapades EP, composing quite a few new tracks to spice things up a bit.

“There’s a great deal of stuff on the record that is really new. Wristwatch is an example of a song that was written really late in the recording process and it got rushed through the gates so that it was ready for the record. It was one of those songs that luckily didn’t take a hell of a lot of working and reworking, it came together really naturally.

“It’s really good for us that the songs are still fresh. Especially touring the album now, if we’d gone and recorded 12 songs that we had already been sitting on for two years, we probably wouldn’t want to tour them, we’d be sick to death of them. The fact that a great deal of material on the album is new, even for us, is really nice, it makes it quite refreshing and exciting to be playing on tour. It’s nice for the audience as well – they get to hear something brand new that they’ve never heard when they come to our shows. We put a lot of effort into getting the production values of our live show up and making it more of an experience for people.”

When asked whether there have been any particular high points for the band in the last year, McGrath takes a moment to contemplate before announcing that “It’s all been one big highlight!

“We’ve been very fortunate and lucky with the opportunities that have come our way.

The last few weeks have been some of the most rewarding for us with the album coming out and us being on our biggest tour as a headline act.

To walk up on stage to a sea of people and have them know the words to our new tracks, you know that the album is reaching people and that people what are enjoying what you put out there.”

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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Shine On

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career with a 70-date headlining tour around Fiercely ambitious singer- her Europe, America and Canada.

To The Rescue! songwriter Marina And The While she primarily attributes her inexhaustible rise to something very Diamonds is living proof seemingly Strap on your utility belts, simple indeed (“the need to create”) Diamandis the only difference between also insists she has always been ambitiously squeeze into your spandex delusion and ambition is how precocious.“At the age of 18 I was obsessed with and make sure your side-kick being a pop star,” she explains.

“I wanted the hard one works. JENNIFER attention, the fame; all of it. I grew up with this very looks slightly less ridiculous Marina Diamandis PETERSON-WARD spoke to Disney-induced notion that if you say it enough, than yourself because on and if you truly believe, it will come true and I was and I just 100 per cent knew I had what it takes in the UK alt-pop sensation in literally willing to give everything, do anything and my blood to make a difference to the face of pop Tuesday, December 7, The anticipationofherperformance trample over anyone to succeed.” music over next 15 years. From that point onwards Aquabats do battle with the The addiction to all things fame ran there was no plan B – I knew I had to take that at 2011’s Southbound Festival, so deep in her veins that Diamandis left her total, ridiculous belief in myself and channel it into nefarious Reel Big Fish at the which runs Saturday,January 1 hometown of Wales for the bright lights of London something productive.”

Capitol dome of justice.Jimmy age 18, following the stock standard UK pop After hitting this epiphany, Diamandis to Monday, January 3. audition route while dropping in and out of no less stopped carousing the fame circuit and turned her The Robot took time out from than four universities to fund her ambitions with hand to self-recording, producing and distributing rehearsing/crime-fighting in When Marina Diamandis put out her first student loans. her own tunes online. Lo and behold, less than two DIY single in 2007 she had the unshakeable Denver to have a chat with “I did the whole crappy girl band thing, years later she was signed by Warner. conviction that, in as little as five years’ time, but I just didn’t fit the mould,” she continues. “I Eager to prove her identity in a traffic BRENDAN HOLBEN. she would be “bigger than Brittany.” wasn’t interested following in the footsteps of any jam of “slightly left-of-centre” experimental pop And while the pop-singer herself admits the claim may be (slightly) dubious, Marina And The Diamonds’ (as she styles herself) top-five debut album The Family Jewels was an uncontested knockout that sold 150,000 copies, spawned three top-40 international hit singles and allowed the Greek-Welsh chanteuse to ignite

other pop singers, but at the same time I didn’t see myself as an artist. I don’t have natural talent, I wasn’t ‘born with it’ and I’m certainly not one of those singers who can sing anything and make it sound good.

“I realised I was either completely delusional or following a deep instinctual purpose,

divas, a fearlessly ambitious Diamandis explains she has made it through the pop wilderness and emerged with a head full of stories to weave into her intricate tunes for many years to come.

“Pop artists say something about the generation more than any other genre, and I know in my heart I can be that voice.”

The Aquabats It seems these days every schmuck is donning a cape and mask doing the super hero thing.

Even Seth Rogen has put the bong down long enough to become The Green Hornet. However, one intrepid bunch of super men with dubious powers has been doing it longer than most; fighting for truth, justice and ska. Jimmy The Robot spoke well of his foes, Reel Big Fish, who have been touring with the Aquabats across America.

“It’s been terrific,” he begins, “our fans overlap a lot.”

The Aquabats made their first trip to Australia earlier in 2010 for the Soundwave festival and, according to brass/ keyboards man Jimmy, they made a good impression on the Australian audiences.

“At the end of our set we would start seeing more and more people picking up our masks from the merch stand, which is pretty cool,” Jimmy enthuses.

The band got together in 1994, with Jimmy joining in ’97. Along with founding members The MC Bat Commander and Crash McLarson, the band started off as a project to muck around and not take things too seriously. Travis Barker of Blink 182 fame was on drums during their formative years, but not for very long. Jimmy says over the years the band turned from a novelty act to a serious music group and their releases over time, plus the amount of international touring they do, reflects this.

“It’s definitely funny when we look back and try to think of the places we’ve played; it’s been fun,” Jimmy reflects.

Costumes also give The Aquabats a unique opportunity to get in with the fans and gauge their reaction to their shows.

“After a set I take off my costume and walk around the crowd hearing everyone’s thoughts without them realising it was me on-stage,” he says. “It’s cool if you just want to hang out.

“There’s definitely a different persona [when on stage in costume]. It definitely helps you stick out at festivals like Soundwave where there’s 70 or so bands.”

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THE CRADLE OF FILTH All Sordid BASEBALLS Striking It Lucky

Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, the ninth studio album from English symphonic black metal tyrants Cradle Of Filth, sees them taking a nod to the mythological mother of all evil. Frontman Dani Filth tells JESSICA WILLOUGHBY about his latest claim to fame.

Dani Filth, the crass but eloquent frontman behind UK bastion’s Cradle Of Filth, is Suffolk’s number one icon.

Currently topping an online poll aimed at “…summing up the essence of Suffolk”, Mr Filth’s closest competition ranges from Broomhill Swimming Pool to producer Brian Eno. Not bad for a man who has no idea how the malarkey came about.

“It just sort of happened and I know no clue as to how I ended up in the running,” Filth chuckles to himself. “It’s really silly actually because I’m up against things like county horses and landmark buildings. But it’s great because the backwards people in my sleepy locality are fast becoming aware of the awful racket that is Cradle Of Filth.

I’ve put some great thought into this and, if I win and possibly become mayor, I’m going to turn my hometown of Ipswich into Halloween Town. It’ll be

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a theme park-styled affair with rides and sweets.

That is how I would run my town (laughs).”

Always a man with an avid imagination, Mr Filth certainly put his recipe for theatrics and the macabre to the test on the outfit’s latest endeavour; Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa. Released, most aptly on Halloween, the ninth studio offering from this sextet puts a contemporary twist on the Jewish mythological tale of Lilith, the queen of harlots.

“I swear on my life that I didn’t want to do another concept album after Godspeed On Devil’s Thunder [2008], which was of course about Gilles de Rais,” Filth explains.“It just makes everything three-times harder. But when we first started writing the album, around Halloween last year, the first few songs

just lent themselves to a certain mood. The music was more elegant, melodic and certainly faster than Godspeed…, which was quite a brutish and thuggish album. I consider Darkly… almost a sister release, when you compare the two sonically.

“I had been going on my personal black metal bible, the Gospel Of Filth [2010], for several years before we started writing this album. So I was very immersed the mythology. But Lilith is a figure we’ve always been familiar with, ever since our first album, The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh [1993], which dealt with the darker, vampiric side of femininity.

Though we did forego the whole creation tale that had been done to death. We brought her into the 14th century until present and saw what gothic fairytale we could spin.”

The Baeballs

German retro rockers, The Baseballs are bringing back the Happy Days of music by putting a 50s Rockabilly twist on the chart-toppers of today.

JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD caught up with the unlikely Euro-pop sensations ahead of the Australian release of their debut LP Strike!

While the rockabilly rebooting of modern chart-toppers from Beyonce to Snow Patrol may seem unconventional to most, baffling to some, and a downright gimmick to a few, for Germany’s first Elvis-meets-rockabilly trio The Baseballs it has meant a sure path to enjoyable homeland success.

Set to take the rest of the world by storm with the release of their debut LP Strike!, Basti, Sam and Digger are the three young German natives who make up the oilslicked pop force and, as the 20-something men themselves attest, it’s been “one hell of a journey” since happening upon each other in the tea room of a heavy metal rehearsal bunker in Berlin three short years ago.

“We were with our different bands, but we noticed each other’s quiff hairstyles across the room,” Basti explains. “Soon we found we had the same interests and talked together and jammed together this very evening. Without discussing who was going to sing each part we just started singing harmonies perfectly. It sounds cheesy, but it was a magic moment.”

United by a mutual love of the golden ’50s, the trio set to work perfecting a cover of Blue Suede Shoes. By the end of the evening, the genre of ‘voc‘n’roll’ was born and The Baseballs at the same time.

“We were all lovers of this kind of music from a young age,” Basti explains. “For example, when I was eight years old every Sunday afternoon in Germany they would play the Elvis films and I would sit with my family and eat cake and hot chocolate and that was the moment I fell in love with rock‘n’roll.

“I think that, because I was pretty young and innocent, I didn’t realise there was a message or meaning to the music. It just made me feel good. I was infected by rock‘n’roll, like a virus, and I haven’t been able to shake it since.

Digger and Sam have much the same back stories.”

Nurturing their sound by perfecting covers harking back to the musical heritage of the King, Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly, the newly formed singing troupe soon realised their music tastes were anomalous with those of their 20-something peers, and so the trio set themselves the difficult task of making oldschool rock “cool again”.

Experimenting with an arrangement of pop princess Rhianna’s Umbrella, The Baseballs added whammy bar ripples, the hot flare of horns, and instantaneous “doo-wop, doo-wa-da” harmonising, framing, accentuating the curves of their cover in ways that elevated the tune and turned the top 10 hit into a three-minute raveup encouraging listeners to jump, jive, and wail.

“We wanted to take already good songs and lead them to their true calling,” Basti says. “It’s hard to argue with fun - and there’s nothing more fun than rock‘n’roll.”

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JAMIROQUAI Star Dust Eighteen years since the dancing cat-in-the-hat first emerged, and five years since their last studio album, Jay Kay is reemerging from the backwaters with his trusty band of merry men, aka Jamiroquai, and a new lease on life. SASHA PERERA gets ready to dance.

The spotlight on Jay Kay the personality is no longer on the frontline, instead the band is the focus, and their new album Rock Dust Light Star is musical evidence of this new way forward. There are no flashy fancy-footed videos; this time around, Kay’s mission was to focus on the music and create a live-sounding album that brings the spirit of the band’s live performances to the forefront.

After years of a negative and draining situation with his previous record company Sony Music, Kay parted ways with the label and spent the last few years decompressing and reconnecting with his love of soul music.

He’s no longer the petulant and frustrated record-label slave, ranting and raving about how he’s been wronged; these days he’s much more chilled, now that he’s taken control of his career.

After submitting five songs to Universal Music to hear – see, even a 25-million album-selling artist has to make a case for himself these days – he’s now aligned himself with a new label deal which he’s much happier with. As a result, Jamiroquai’s new album

is much less aggressive than recent album releases, instead returning to the loose, funky and soulful spirit of the group’s early days.

“Yeah, I think that’s about right,” Kay agrees, as we sit chatting on the grounds of his tree-lined estate, an hour outside London.

“I think it’s a lot more live than it was over the last few albums – not that it wasn’t live before, it was just chopped up into many, many pieces. For me the influences this time around were more Rod Stewart, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones in the ’70s, in their more rock/disco phase. I thought that was where I wanted to be at 40 years of age.”

Time off, and turning 40 seems to have tamed the wild child thrillseeker – these days, it’s his passion for helicopters that have superseded his love of fast cars - who is now ready to move on with the next stage of the band’s career. “ The thing is, you have to make music that suits all of us at this stage of our lives – at 40 years old,” he explains. “Trying to do something really poppy and groovy, and pretending that you’re 21 years old, is just not

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the right way to do it. And also we had to get out of that box of being the disco jazz-funkers – that wasn’t the box we wanted to be in, so we had to break out. I think we did that quite well with this record.

“At one stage we were getting out there doing our thing, and I was just wondering if people really cared about the music we were making anymore. I was wondering if we were just old news and

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yesterday’s big thing, but I really couldn’t accept that. I just thought I must push harder, I must try harder.

“When you’ve had time to chill back off it, relax, and do other things – helicopter flying or whatever it is – it gives you a fresh perspective and a new energy towards the creative process. Also – and I have to say this – when you’re writing music when you’re off drugs is completely different to writing music on drugs. Even when I did the last album, although I had stopped drugs, the reality was that it was difficult to find a real focus.”

Since Jamiroquai’s last studio album Dynamite in 2005, and the following year’s High Times – Greatest Hits campaign and touring commitments, Kay tried his best to take time out to reconnect with normal life and love. The latter of which he found… albeit of the furry kind.

“Ya know, the original plan was… stop touring, go around the world, find woman, have baby… the kind of dumb idea that comes up in your mind, but of course which you have no control over,” Kay confesses. “Was it a mid-life crisis? Yes, I guess it fucking was, in a way. The whole danger for me as a human being was just continuing to go around the world and touring away and not meeting anyone – I mean, my friends are limited to the band and a few other people; I don’t really know anybody else because I’m not exposed to ordinary fuckin’ life.

“WHEN YOU’VE HAD TIME TO CHILL BACK OFF IT, RELAX, AND DO OTHER THINGS – HELICOPTER FLYING OR WHATEVER IT IS – IT GIVES YOU A FRESH PERSPECTIVE AND A NEW ENERGY TOWARDS THE CREATIVE PROCESS. ALSO – AND I HAVE TO SAY THIS – WHEN YOU’RE WRITING MUSIC WHEN YOU’RE OFF DRUGS IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO WRITING MUSIC ON DRUGS.”

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“I just needed to be normal, so I was just kinda going around doing that kind of thing, flying helicopters, doing bits and bobs in the house… oh, and also I got a new puppy, so he required me to be around for seven/ eight months. I guess I am a parent in that sense – I have hairy German kids.”

Rock Dust Light Star, the band’s seventh studio album, certainly revives the warm association that audiences have had with Jamiroquai in the past. There are no electrobeat diversions or other trendy explorations; this is pure Jamiroquai, the band of funk-soul brothers.

Where the album is most notable in its creation is the impressively instant – and classic – ‘70s type rock melodies that line the album on tracks like the sexy funk groove Hurtin’, which Kay says simultaneously borrows from Led Zeppelin and Donny Hathaway influences, and Lifeline, which brings to mind the classic ‘70s vamp of Elton John.

“It’s funny you should say that really because that sense of songwriting from like, Elton’s Yellow Brick Road, has a real sense of warmth from it still to this day, and that’s the kind of songs I wanted to create,” he excites.

“This new album has blues on it, funk on it, some rock, and there’s a bit of disco on board too. We’re focused on the fuckin’ good stuff – no messing about.” www.xpressmag.com.au

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Neil Diamond has long wanted to do an album of the songs he considers to be the best of the rock era. The album began as Diamond would make his way to the studio armed with his trusty acoustic guitar aiming to tackle them alone. Over the course of the recording a select few musicians dropped by to flesh out the tunes that make up Dreams.

Diamond has penned his fair share of tunes about isolation, and has no trouble with making Alone Again (Naturally) stark and desperate. His powerful timbre adds bucketfuls of ache to the Gladys Knight signature track Midnight Train To Georgia.

Many a moment is enhanced by Diamond’s simple approach (Desperado, Blackbird) but the overly earnest Yesterday and I’m A Believer miss the mark by a fair margin. And there really is no excuse for anyone to ever tackle Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah ever again.

The vibrant hip swaying entertainer of old has given way to the passive croon of a cover artist, but there are enough moments on Dreams to wet many of the old fans knickers.

Good Things could easily be just another soul album, brushed off as a bunch of genre songs. However, given it’s on hip hop and jazz breaks label Stones Throw, you know there’s something more to it than just some classy make-out songs. From the moment you spin it up and hear the killer I Need A Dollar, you realise Aloe Blacc (born Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III) has a lot more to offer - besides of course the coolest name in music.

While it starts out fairly unassuming, sounding like a pop soul album from the ‘70s, it slowly reveals itself to have more complex sides.

DJ and Stones Throw label founder Peanut Butter Wolf handled the production and gives the album a really modern sound that helps set it apart. Title track Good Things is a ridiculously catchy funk song and comes across like some lost Jackson Five demo. The chorus is so catchy melodically and rhythmically you’ll be moving your head like a sassy black lady. If it doesn’t, check yourself into the hospital, ‘cause your heart is stone.

By the end, Good Things shows its maturity and finishes with a short reprise track, centered on the brass sections hook from You Make Me Smile. But you know damn well you’ll _CHRIS HAVERCROFT be keeping this sucker on repeat just to hear that first track one more time.

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Eccentricity has been a perennial trademark of Scottish culture – Ego. Cradle Of Filth – or a trait that has well rather frontman Dani Filth – has been claimed by their own mythology. and truly permeated that country’s canon of Marking Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, the ninth popular song. With a moniker to boot, The offering to come from this six-piece, the worst Phantom Band bedazzled the UK indie set with their psycho-sonic debut of 2009, Checkmate album of their career.

Following in the aftermath of 2008’s Savage. Now, a mere 12 months on, they return Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder, a concept album with a nine-song musical odyssey which defies that centered on the sordid affairs of Gilles de genrefication in one of the most exciting mashRais – a one-time companion of Joan Of Arc who ups of noise to erupt from obscurity this year.

Primordial in its rhythmic delivery, descends into depravity, slaughtering children for pleasure. Two years later, these ‘controversial’ so- The Wants is equally confounding in its aural called symphonic black metallers have returned madness – layering Nick Cave-esque noir with Can-like jazz-infused clang and soaring avant with yet another themed pursuit.

In the same ‘fallen from grace’ vein, this garde pop smarts of Arcade Fire proportions. time the tale adheres to the more feminine whiles Sound messy? Well it is, but in an endearing of Lilith, the first wife of Adam – pre-dating Eve. way. The eight-minute The None Of One is the Touted as the mother of all evil, she shunned Adam perfect case in point: a song which draws a and mated with Lucifer – spawning the existence long dark bow, only to erupt into a cacophony of demons. Modernising the story, it does make of symphonic rock. Think Lambchop on amphetamines and you’re only part of the for an interesting notion… to an extent.

As its base, Martin Skaroupka’s way there.

While the tangle of noise can drumming, Dave Pybus’ rolling bass tones and, of course, main songwriter and lead guitarist Paul sometimes be exasperating and a little Allender provide a surprisingly heady core. But grinding, overall The Phantom Band have this is swamped by awful execution, keys which cobbled together a fine experimental record override any melody and Filth’s vocals – drowning that stands up with the best sounds being out all of the above. Over thought and badly transmitted from Scotland’s fertile music scene. produced, the semi-decent before-Midian (2000) The Wants literally has something for everyone! days have gone and a tired recipe lays in its wake. Get weird, with The Phantom Band. _JULIAN TOMPKIN

_JESSICA WILLOUGHBY

DAVID SYLVIAN Sleepwalkers Samadhi Sound

BRIAN ENO Small Craft On A Milk Sea Warp Records / Inertia

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Although the vast majority of classic ‘80s panstick-and-synth icon David Sylvian’s recordings are carefully rendered works of avant-garde genius, a substantial backlog of psychological stimuli tailor-made to confound the casual listener pollutes the former Japan frontman’s solo biography.

Featuring re-workings of previously released material (some radically changed, some merely tweaked), outtakes from earlier albums, and one brand new work, Sleepwalkers represents, in Sylvian’s own words, the “playful side” of his body of work, and although longtime fans might find themselves confused – particularly when the singer owns up to his newfound “optimistic inclinations” in The Day The Earth Stole Heaven – the new record sits surprisingly comfortably alongside the records from Sylvian’s ambient and experimental golden era.

Exploring all facets of his previous instrumental work, while maintaining the sense of forward-thinking freshness that has rightfully given him a reputation as one of the most influential and consistent experimental musicians of the last half century, Sleepwalker is irrefutably his most accessible work to date and as such stands as his easiest collection to love.

He may consider himself to be a ‘non-musician’ but Brian Eno is hands down one of the most influential artists on the planet. Eno is a composer, record producer, musician, vocalist, political commentator and visual artist. He even composed the sound you hear when you start up Windows on your computer, but all of those pale into insignificance when compared to his role as the pioneer of ambient music.

Any artist who is a purveyor of lowvolume experimental instrumental music pretty much owe their craft to Eno. At 62-yearsold and five years since his last album, Eno finds the help of friends Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams for Small Craft On A Milk Sea. Emerald And Lime and Complex Heaven are beautiful collections of delicate sounds that reveal themselves to the listener layer by layer, but it is the post punk frenzy of 2 Forms Of Anger that really makes the ears prick up. The rollercoaster ride of peaks and troughs continues from there to make this the perfect accompaniment to many a mood.

Small Craft On A Milk Sea is said to be influenced by film scores that Eno held in the ‘70s, but the songs within are likely to create their own tales for many. This one draws you in and spits you out without warning.

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_CHRIS HAVERCROFT

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A DAY TO REMEMBER What Separates Me From You

DAVID LYNCH www.davidlynch.com

Victory Records

A Day To Remember are currently one of the hype bands doing the rounds in the punk rock circles. Their blend of hardcore and pop-punk has seen their popularity skyrocket, and it is this very blend that has contributed to why I have never really liked this band. With What Separates Me From You, this genre combination has been slightly tweaked, resulting in an accomplished sounding record, which is a marked improvement on their previous material.

This tweaking sees A Day To Remember’s more melodic material having more in common with bands like Papa Roach rather than New Found Glory and The Starting Line, and this makes the progression from melodic to heavy feel much more natural. The pioneers of the ‘pop-mosh’ genre have paid close attention to details here, and they have put just as much thought and care into the heavier parts as they have the more traditional sing-along money-makers. 2nd Sucks gets a notable mention for its awesome use of the Mortal Kombat “FIGHT!” sound bite right before the pummeling guitars and drums lead into the heaviest track on the album.

If you’re a fan of traditional and commercial hardcore then this record is sure to tick all your boxes, and will surely inspire a legion of wannabes who are about to embark on the hybrid phase of hardcore. _GEORGE GREEN

INGRID MICHAELSON Everybody / Girls And Boys Cabin 24 Records

New York-based indie pop singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson burst onto the US pop scene with a vengeance in 2007, rising to fame as a product of the mercurial MySpace scene and making the playlist on the soundtracks of a slew of popular television shows (Scrubs, One Tree Hill, Grey’s Anatomy) with her first single, The Way I Am. Containing a slew of her earnest, accessible adult contemporary tunes plucked from her four previously exclusively US-released studio albums, the marketing push on two-disc album Everybody / Girls And Boys is clearly to bring the talented vocalist further into the attention of the international pop-lovin’ masses.

Naturally commercial and a perfect fit for the female pianist mould, it may be easy to dismiss Michaelson’s simplistic songcraft, however the effortless music she crafts should not be taken for granted – it’s tough to write tunes that play this easy, and this album more than proves she has a style that’s something special, even among some stiff competition.

While the idea of love solving all your problems wears a little thin by the end of 28 tracks, Michaelson plays the ingénue well enough, and there’s a kind of soft sincerity to her good old-fashioned, well-crafted songs that make this album an honourable addition to the genre.

Known for such films as Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, not to mention the classic television series Twin Peaks, cult director David Lynch ventured into contemporary music with last year’s Dark Night Of The Soul project with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, but now he’s completely on his own with Good Day Today.

The song itself sounds like an amalgamation of Hot Chip and Aphex Twin with Kid A-era Thom Yorke singing.The beat is minimal and the heavily-effected effects are downright bizarre. Either this is Lynch doing a failed T-Pain impression, or he’s set to bring his surreal film themes to the world of electropop.

The second track he’s dropped is the slow burning I Know, which is a darker rock song in the same vein as Tom Waits – complete with spoken word parts and reverb drenched guitars.

Add that to his surprising skill with computer effects, and you’ve got the best solo debut from a 64-year-old in this, or any other, year.

Key track: Good Day Today _MATTHEW HOGAN

BELLE B ELLE & SEBASTIAN The Boy With The Arab Strap www.belleandsebastian.com

Belle & Sebastian represent the other hemisphere of Glasgow, the part that only cultured natives whisper about in West End galleries and cafes. They are the tender yin to Scotland’s gruesome yang. So when their 1998 album The Boy With The Arab Strap won them Best Newcomer at the BRIT Awards, English journos were vexed that an obscure Scottish café band had snatched the gong.

The album is the perfect distillation of their talents. Stuart Murdoch’s song writing is at its zenith and in A Summer Wasting and It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career his melancholy is couched in lyrical beauty.

Fellow band members shine too, and Isobell Campbell is at her most angelic and coy on Is It Wicked Not to Care? While the rollicking title-track is now their anthem, it’s a snook at the macho posturing of Scottish frontman Aidan Moffat.

Production wise, several tracks were recorded in a local church hall and frame vocals in a murky warmth. For many ardent fans this would be their last authentic album before famous producers like Trevor Horn burnished their sound and effaced Glasgow from their memory banks.

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ZEUS Say Us Arts & Crafts / Universal Music

Mike O’Brien and Carlin Nicholson have been knocking around as backing musicians for Jason Collette for some time, but Zeus is their own baby. The young Canadian popsters Zeus make their way to Arts & Crafts, the label that launched Broken Social Scene, for their debut Say Us. There is no doubt that Zeus have an ear for the classics and they (like many others) put their own spin on the sounds of The Beatles, The Kinks and The Band, albeit with an indie twist. Although the four piece know how to spin a killer melody, they aren’t averse to shaking things up with the odd tempo change or honky tonk piano.

Early highlight Renegade takes the formula that has made Spoon such a success and adds some tidy guitar solos and infectious harmonies to the equation. The River By The Garden takes a more roots approach as it sways and staggers its way to its somewhat illogical conclusion, while Marching Through Your Head is power pop of the finest order.

There are enough solid melodies and sparkling harmonies to make Say Us one that deserves repeated spins over the summer months (and well beyond). _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

Do you have a T-shirt that says ‘Team Edward’ or ‘Team Jacob’? Were you one of the hordes at 2007 ComicCon who sat in respectful silence when they introduced Kirsten Stewart and then leaped to your feet flipping your lid when they introduced R-Pattz? Own up… are you a Twihard?

If so, this is your month.You finally get to see what the werewolf and vampire clans are made of when they have to join forces to stave off an impending invasion of bloodsuckers from Seattle, created by the evil Victoria and tasked with destroying the Cullen family.

It doesn’t make relations between cinemas hottest boy toys any easier as Jacob and Edward have to put their differences behind them to protect Bella as trouble closes in. 30 Days Of Night director David Slade (who obviously has some experience with vampires) bring the smack-down and make the series a little more exciting than it’s been under other creative visions, so it’s not just for your niece or little sister.

And for all the vitriol leveled at the whole phenomenon, the idea is a good one for a romantic fantasy and the acting and script are no worse than in most other movies we see every week.

But we also have the antidote for vampirism; Australia’s favourite crime drama Animal Kingdom, which has been shunted for its original release date.

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SHAKESPEARE UNDER THE STARS

It’s time to rinse out the esky and dust off your picnic basket because this January and February, the talented team at Shakespeare WA will once again present Shakespeare In The Park.

This season the tale of Romeo & Juliet will be in the spotlight, starring the likes of Rose Riley, Sam Longley, Glenn Hall and James Hagen. Running from Friday, January 7, ’til Saturday, February 5, at Kings Park and Botanic Garden, the production promises to be both moving and exciting, with fight choreography by the one and only Andy Fraser.

Tickets are on sale now via BOCS or via ShakespeareWA.com, but you’ll need to get a wriggle on if you don’t want to miss out!

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CLOSE SHAVE

Get a taste of what the next generation of WA filmmakers has to offer tonight, Thursday, December 2, when students from ECU present their grad show at Luna Leederville. Entitled The Big Shave, the screening will offer up an array of delectable short films from drama to comedy, animation to documentary. Taking place from 6.30pm-9pm, entry to The Big Shave is free but because the films are unrated, minors will not be admitted.

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Summer Style at the Left Bank

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If you take pride in your appearance and think you’ve got the goods to take out the Left Bank’s Summer Style competition, be sure to head on in to the East Fremantle venue this Sunday to take part in the heats. One lucky guy and girl will be crowned the face of the Left Bank at a special event on Christmas Eve, sharing in 10,000 smackeroos! To get in on the fun email functions@leftbank.com.au or call (08) 9319 1136.

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Bright young sparks from across Perth have once again joined forces to present the ARTillery Youth Arts Festival, an Amnesty International initiative that helps raise funds and awareness for human rights issues. Running from Wednesday, December 1, ’til World Human Rights Day on Friday, December 10, the festival will be jam packed full of performances and exhibitions that carry important messages.

On Sunday, December 5, the ARTillery crew will team up with Cottonmouth for an evening of spoken word exploring basic freedoms such as freedom of speech, association and assembly. Artists and performers will call for the release of political prisoners in Burma and will encourage punters to speak out against repression. This special event is set to take place at The Bird at 181 William Street in Northbridge. Entry is $10 and all proceeds raised will go straight to Amnesty International.

A visual exploration of human rights issues by local artists, Masterpeace will showcase the work of creatives who seek to generate discussion about poignant issues, running from Monday, December 6, ’til Friday, December 10, at Manhattan’s Bar in Victoria Park. Head along on opening night to catch live music from Rabbit Island and addresses from guest speakers.

Set to take over the bamBOO stage on Tuesday, December 7, Lapse is a multifaceted event that will feature a range of performance styles, with composers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and videographers all getting in on the act.

Performers were only given 24 hours to devise their pieces, which were inspired by the latest Amnesty International human rights campaign.

Head on down to bamBOO at 7pm on Tuesday to see what they came up with. Tickets are on sale bamboobamboobamboo.com.

The Festival will come to a close on Friday, December 10, with a very special John Lennon Tribute Gig boasting sets from some of WA’s biggest and brightest acts. Perhaps one of the 20th century’s most outspoken human rights activists, John Lennon wasn’t afraid to stand up for his beliefs, something which musos such as Steve Parkin, Anthony Jackson, Pat McLaughlin, Felicity Groom, Will Stoker, Luke Dux, Timothy Nelso, Novac Bull and Shaun Sibbes will pay respect to at this special gig. Set to take place at the Rosemount Hotel in North Perth at 8pm, this very special ARTillery finale is not to be missed! Tickets are on sale now from Heatseeker.com.au.

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SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS Hard Lessons

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group’s most successful release so far. “Our first three albums together didn’t sell what this one’s sold,” she laughs. “People are really into it, and I think that has a lot to do with our exposure to a bit more of the mainstream.”

The group has been touring non-stop since I Learned The Hard Way was released in “I’m a soul singer. I’m not retro, you know? Don’t April. Their live show boasts an 11 piece line look at me and call me retro. How can I be up, with the recent addition of two back up retro? I’m not pretending to be anyone. When my mouth is singing, that’s some soul coming out of there,” Sharon Jones says.

She and The Dap-Kings, one of the tightest bands this side of James Brown’s J.B.s, have earned significant acclaim for reviving the soul and funk sound of the late ’60s and early ’70s, while sounding fresh and innovative.

“That’s all we listen to, the old stuff, so that’s why we can play it, you know? Those guys live it.”

Jones says she is inspired by James Brown, Tina Turner and Marva Whitney. With a powerful vocal range in the studio and a dynamic onstage presence, she has proven to be the equal of these artists.

She showed musical promise from a young age. “I remember the first time someone said ‘that little girl can sing’ and I realised I was blessed with a gift. I had played an angel in church for Christmas, I sang Silent Night, and I think I was either seven or eight,” Jones says. “I never stopped singing after that.”

Through the ’70s, she played with a number of funk bands and sang as a session musician, before joining a wedding band called Good and Plenty in the ’80s. “I’m wondering how many people kept those videos, their wedding videos of me and the girls singing.

I wonder how many of them realised ‘this is Sharon Jones playing at my wedding’, ” she laughs. “We would do It’s Raining Men and I would do a Michael Jackson medley, and Whitney Houston and some of the other girls would do Cher.”

She was also working as a corrections officer (where her powerful voice would surely have come in handy) and a security guard, when she got her break – a recording session singing backup vocals for funk legend Lee Fields and New York band The Soul Providers.

Jones’ ex played saxophone in the band and, when a song required three female singers, he told the group that she could sing.

“I could have gotten the other girls, but at the time I was like ‘why use three people when I can do three part harmonies myself?’ and that’s how it worked. I went in and started doing the three part harmonies for Lee,” Jones says.

This led to other opportunities to record with the Soul Providers, with Jones releasing a number of acclaimed 45rpm singles.

After The Soul Providers split up in 2000, members of the group formed a new band, The Dap-Kings, and a new label, Daptone Records.

Sharon Jones partnered with the band for the label’s first release, 2002’s Dap Dippin’ With Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, which received significant critical acclaim.

2005’s Naturally and 2007’s 100 Days, 100 Nights followed, as the group built a strong following. The Dap-Kings were hired

by Mark Ronson to play on Amy Winehouse’s acclaimed 2006 album Back To Black, including her hit Rehab. Meanwhile, Jones has performed with legendary jam band Phish, made an appearance singing in Denzel Washington’s 2007 film The Great Debators, and recorded with Michael Bublé on his 2009 album Crazy Love.

“It’s all different stuff from us, and when different people hear us, then they look up our stuff and they love it too. We’ve been doing great over the last few years,” says Jones, who adds that the work helped expose herself and The Dap-Kings to a much wider audience, and remove the “underground” tag that had been affixed to the group. “I don’t know why they consider us underground ‘cause there’s nothing underground about music, you know? They call it underground because you’re independent.”

The exposure paid off, as their latest album I Learned The Hard Way has been the S h a r o n J o n e s & Th e D a p - K i n g s a r e performing at the Fremantle Arts Centre on Sunday, December 12, to promote their most successful album yet, I Learned The Hard Way. Tickets are available now from fac.org.au.

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singers that Jones performed with back in her Good and Plenty days.

I Learned The Hard Way has garnered critical acclaim and debuted at #15 on the American charts. As with her previous albums, many of the stand out tracks have been tales of women scorned – such as Your Game Gets Old, Better Things, Window Shopping and the title track. Jones says that while members of

The Dap-Kings write these songs, it’s her job to bring them to life.

“The guys write the song and it’s a story, if it’s not about my life or someone’s life in the band, it’s about something in general,” she explains. “I just sing them and make it mine and make it part of my life, bring that story to life.” _JOSHUA HAYES

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DEVIL Hellevator Directed by John and Drew Dowdle Starring Chris Messina, Bokeem Woodbine, Bojana Novakovic, Logan Marshall-Green

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DUE DATE itsrainingtwoandahalfmen.com Directed by Todd Phillips with little surprises, Due Date still manages to Starring Zach Gallifinakis, Robert Downey Jr, deliver some great moments, largely thanks to Jamie Fox Gallifinakis. While the movie seemingly throws A-list actors at you, sometimes only for small This year’s surprise comedy hit had to be The parts, Gallifinakis still steals the movie playing Hangover. And of course the main appeal of the compassionate, yet brutally ignorant Ethan.

The Hangover was the brilliant comedic timing In fact, I think the higher profile actors, including and poise of Zach Gallifinakis or, for people who Downey Jr himself, are a detriment to the movie. have problems with names, the weird dude with I can’t help but think it would have been a more the beard. After the success of The Hangover, charming movie had it had other lesser known director Todd Phillips is back with spiritual follow actors opposite Gallifinakis. up Due Date.

Now fans of Zach will no doubt know Rober t D owney Jr plays Peter that the character they wrote for him in The Highman, a father expecting his first new born Hangover is basically his own character that who is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor he uses in stand up, TV and generally anytime Ethan Tremblay (Gallifinakis) on a road trip in there’s a camera pointed at him (and probably order to make it to his child’s birth on time. As he when there isn’t). The Hangover really used this boards a plane to make it home to his wife, he character well and in Due Date it is pretty much gets caught up with Ethan and loses his wallet the same deal, feeling almost like a movie while getting kicked off his flight. Along with from the same universe. Ethan Tremblay is so Ethan he is put on the airport “no fly” list, and agonisingly naive (he runs a fan website for with no wallet or way to get home, he is forced Two And A Half Men) and ignorant, but still has to share a car with him. That is basically all there a like-able charm that makes you hate and feel is to the story, a man desperate to get home sorry for him at the same time. The Hangover II to his wife, and another man just desperate to is already in pre-production however, one does connect with someone. Along the way there is have to wonder why they pushed to make a the usual mix of drugs, masturbation and, well, similar movie. lessons being taught all over the place.

Bottom line, if you like Zach Gallifinakis, On the surface it’s a typical odd couple you’ll probably get some enjoyment out of this pairing mixed with your standard road trip movie. If you find his style unbearable, I’d say movie. Actually the story altogether couldn’t keep away. get less original - it’s basically Planes, Trains And Automobiles 2010. And while it is predictable _TOM VARIAN

Taking a break from trying to be the new Alfred Hitchcock - which, frankly, wasn’t working too well for him of late - tarnished auteur M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs) has decided to take a crack at being the new Rod Serling, by way of a series of low budget supernatural thrillers aptly, if a tad predictably, entitled The Night Chronicles. Devil is the first to see the light of day, and it has a cracker of a premise, instantly evocative of one of Serling’s Twilight Zone instalments: five strangers are trapped in an elevator, and one of them is, quite literally, Satan in human form, come to torment the sinful before claiming their souls.

It’s an idea that is simultaneously both ludicrous and intriguing, a classic B-movie premise that, treated too seriously, would crumble under the weight of its own pretentions. Given that Shyamalan is renowned for taking himself too seriously, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Devil would be in a similar vein to his woeful and unintentionally hilarious The Happening.

Happily, Shyamalan has taken a back seat here, and turned over the concept to the brothers Dowdle, who gave us the better-than-expected Quarantine. The Dowdles handle the story deftly, delivering a work that has a superficial sheen of po-facedness, while at the same time

acknowledging and playing with the tropeheavy material. Characters are sketched quickly and economically, so that we can get down to the enjoyably gruesome business of switching off the lights and bumping off the cast.

It’s pretty formulaic stuff, and the identity of the titular Devil is fairly heavily telegraphed early on in the proceedings, but the film moves at such a brisk clip and revels in its clichés with such obvious joy that its faults are easily forgivable. Some interesting subplots are layered in - every character has a reason to be there, and almost everyone has enough motive to commit murder without recourse to diabolical influence - but the real joy is in guessing who’s going to get the chop next, and in what manner. Inventive camera work lends the proceedings a palpable air of claustrophobia and vertigo and, by and large, the film doesn’t break its own internal logic too often. The only real problems come from an overreliance on voiceover to impart crucial information and a moralising denouement that feels tacked on and extraneous.

At a brisk 80 minutes, Devil feels exactly like what it is - an extended television episode. However, by not outstaying its welcome, it more than achieves its modest ambitions, unlike Shyamalan’s more ponderous recent work. It’s a popcorn thriller, designed to deliver the requisite amount of thrills and chills in an efficient and comfortably familiar manner. It’s never going to feature in anyone’s top ten list, but it’s an enjoyable slice of B-grade hokum that fans of the genre should enjoy. _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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relationships which, in turn, made the on-screen relationship between himself and Taylor flourish.

“We met, we didn’t really know each other,” he says.

“We spent a lot of time in the car together, as do the characters on their little journey into town.”

Having never formally trained as an actor, Dimitriades finds it difficult to describe his method when approaching a role, believing it is very much to do with the help of others involved and in this case, working director Richard Gray, who also wrote the film.“To be honest with you, I don’t know myself. I don’t know how I actually do what I do,” he laughs.

“There’s definitely an emotional shift that takes place. It’s not one sided, it’s a collaborative affair.

“My mum passed away just weeks before we started shooting so that was a bit of a tricky time. I was kind of in a weird space. It’s pretty uncanny the way characters are dealing with loss, that was so fresh on me, maybe taught me about the universe more than myself.”

Summer Coda has been years in the making and Dimitriades says it was pretty satisfying to be a part of assisting in the completion of the project and helping Gray reach his dream.

There weren’t many disagreements on set either Dimitriades reveals before continuing. “This is silly, almost, for five minutes it was an important point. I felt that there were too many beards in the show,” he laughs.

“Bit of my own paranoia there. I was like ‘hang on a second, there’s one too many fucking beards here, something’s gotta give’.”

Alex Dimitriades has taken on varied and interesting roles since Australian audiences were first exposed to him in The Heartbreak Kid. His latest film, Summer Coda, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of the harsh Victorian town Mildura, sees him take on another extraordinary character.

The film revolves around Heidi (Rachel Taylor) returning to Australia to attend her father’s funeral and the relationship that evolves between Heidi and Dimitriades’ character Michael. Heidi hitches a ride with Michael, an orange grove owner on the way to Mildura and after a nasty meeting with her relatives, decides to take a job as an orange picker on Michael’s property. Both Heidi and Michael are wounded souls and this is revealed as the film progresses.

Dimitriades says the role resonated with him and he saw it as a “breath of fresh air. I received the script and was wrapped up in something else at the time and almost forgot about it so nearly lost it,” he says. “Then I got a reminder from my agent about the script so I gave it a read… by the time I was half way down I thought to myself; ‘better get on that phone now!’ so I hadn’t even finished reading it before I had locked in a meeting because it felt good, it felt right.”

Summer Coda was filmed over seven weeks, of which Dimitriades says the first two were exceptionally difficult to cope with physically.

“I stepped off the plane and onto the tarmac and thought I would collapse it was so hot,” he describes. “Honestly, it felt like God was pointing Summer Coda screens at Somerville as part of PIAF until Sunday, December 5. For screening the hottest hairdryer in your face.”

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Directed by Daniel Stamm question - whether or not Nell is actually possessed Starring Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Louis - is what keeps the audience engaged, and Herthum, Caleb Landry Jones the weight of evidence shifts from scene to scene, with only the viewers’ knowledge of Although the most obvious antecedent here is genre conventions leading us to favour to one William Friedkin’s seminal The Exorcist, The Last conclusion over the other. Bell is excellent as the Exorcism shares more DNA with the relatively sheltered Nell, giving a performance that, although recent ‘found footage’ subgenre that had its drawing heavily on Linda Blair’s work in the biggest impact with 1999’s phenomenally aforementioned The Exorcist, still manages to feel successful The Blair Witch Project. But in trying to fresh, and Herthum and Jones lend solid support adhere to the tenets of two genres, the horror as Nell’s desperately devout father and openly mockumentary can be one of the hardest forms to hostile brother, respectively. get right, and lapses in the rigid logic required by The biggest problem with the film is that the documentary premise can result in a film that director Stamm seems to want to have his cake is, structurally, a teetering house of cards. and eat it, using narrative film techniques within That The Last Exorcism falls victim to such the documentary form in a way which doesn’t lapses yet remains engaging for much of its length hold up to even casual scrutiny. The unspoken is mostly down to the acting and characterisation, question inherent in any ‘found footage’ film is in particular the point of view character, Reverend who found the footage? With The Last Exorcism, Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian). One of the more the question becomes even more complex: who intriguing and amusing horror characters in recent found the footage, who edited it, and who saw fit memory, Marcus is a self-confessed charlatan, a to lay in an atmospheric music track to heighten Southern-fried evangelical minister whose routine the tension? In using such conventional tricks of includes fire and brimstone sermons, faith healings, the trade, Stamm undermines the very plausibility and fraudulent exorcisms. But Marcus’ ailing faith that the mockumentary works to engender. has led the good reverend to invite a documentary While not a complete deal breaker, this crew to tag along on his latest gig, in order that he flaw prevents The Last Exorcist from being the new might show the world how hucksters like himself horror classic it so clearly wants to be and, with scam the gullible and pious. This being a horror a little more creative discipline, could have been. flick, it’s hardly surprising when the allegedly Instead, it’s a solid but ultimately underwhelming possessed farm girl, Nell (newcomer Ashley Bell), piece, definitely worth checking out, but probably begins exhibiting symptoms and behaviour that not worth a second viewing. go far beyond the scientifically explicable.

The film’s deft handling of the central _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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GOOD EVENING Cookin’ Up A Storm Shaun Micallef and Stephen Curry perform material you want written by those guys”, Micallef Good Evening ’til Saturday, December 4, at clipped his heels in joy and set about finding the His Majesty’s Theatre. Tickets are on sale now perfect Moore to his Cook. through BOCS. “Stephen [Curry] and I have known each other for a while. He tells me that we worked During his hilarious and very colourful career, together on a project of Bob Franklin’s that I can’t Shaun Micallef has performed in just about every remember. I just cannot remember working with medium possible, hopping from TV to radio to him but he maintains we did. My first memory of theatre and back again. This month he returns to him is when he played Graham Kennedy in The the stage in Good Evening, a homage to comedy King and it was a very good performance and it greats Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, who he was a performance that made me think he could attributes to shaping his sense of humour at a very do this. He wasn’t doing an impression of Kennedy young age. but he did manage to sum up the right spirit. I Though he’s looking forward to remember watching him and looking at the script opening night, a slightly nervous Micallef reveals and he was ad-libbing which is what Kennedy that his previous forays into theatre haven’t been would do. He was just amazing.” all that successful.

Not wanting to simply impersonate “Usually, when I’ve done stage things, the comedy legends, Micallef joined forces with it’s only lasted four weeks before it got axed,” he Curry with the intention to reinvigorate Cook nd laughs from his Perth hotel. “I did a show about Moore’s classic material, which is exactly what the five years ago [Boeing Boeing] which closed after talented pair has done with Good Evening. four weeks and that’s the longest I’d ever done “ There’s a little bit of grouting anything on stage and I probably got the worst between the sketches that Stephen and I come reviews I’ve ever received in my life! Having said up with but that’s okay because Cook and that, I did learn a lesson and that was ‘next time I Moore would do that themselves. So Stephen go on stage I’ll make sure the material is perfect for and I get to be ourselves in the 30 seconds me’. Sketch comedy is where I live so I thought ‘why that passes between one sketch and another, not do the best sketch comedy available?’ and that’s which is sort of nice because otherwise there Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.” might be too much of a detachment from the When a young Micallef first discovered audience to the material.” the audio recordings of Cook and Moore’s sketches You might expect a tribute to Peter he was instantly enthralled, immediately drawn Cook and Dudley Moore to attract an older into their absurdist world where flights of fancy crowd but Micallef reveals that whole families reigned supreme. seem to be coming along to get in on the fun.

“I was pretty indiscriminate when I was “We’ve been surprised at the age young, anything that was purportedly funny I’d groups that are coming along to see it. We kind listen to. As time goes by you realise that some of expected people from my age group to come people are funny and some people aren’t and along, and I’m 48 now, and I thought people 45 Peter Cook and Dudley Moore I just found really and up would probably know the material and funny, I didn’t analyse it. Later on I was able to tease would be drawn in by Cook and Moore but we out the very strands of the things I was responding thought getting a younger audience in might to and at the heart it’s the men themselves. be difficult. But they’ve been coming along too “Both men passed away, Cook in 1995, and oddly enough, the combination of people and Moore recently in the early 2000s, and there who watch Talkin’ ’Bout Your Generation, mothers were a bunch of books that came out either about and fathers and their kids, are coming along to their lives, or about them as a team or even their see it and that’s gratifying.” material, and the interest seemed to be there Speaking about Talkin’ ’Bout Your in them and in their work and that got me to Generation, how has life as a game show host thinking about Good Evening, which was their been treating this seasoned comedy big wig? revue on Broadway and I thought ‘surely there’s a “Groucho Marx used to say gameshow play and there would be rights to it’. So once I got hosts are about the lowest life form there is,” over the fear of being as audacious as to try to he laughs. “Before I took the gig I was thinking breathe life into material that is so identified with about quiz show hosting and thought ‘I haven’t those performers, it was easy.” done it before and I do like things I haven’t done After being told that he could “use any before but is that really enough of a reason to

Shaun Micallef and Stephen Curry star in Good Evening

“USUALLY, WHEN I’VE DONE STAGE THINGS, IT’S ONLY LASTED FOUR WEEKS BEFORE IT GOT AXED. I DID A SHOW ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO [BOEING BOEING] WHICH CLOSED AFTER FOUR WEEKS AND THAT’S THE LONGEST I’D EVER DONE ANYTHING ON STAGE AND I PROBABLY GOT THE WORST REVIEWS I’VE EVER RECEIVED IN MY LIFE!”

do it?’. I’m certainly not poo-pooing quiz show hosting because that’s essentially what I’m doing but it’s got to be a very strange show which I don’t think anyone has noticed. It’s nice to actually find the humour of it because I’m used to writing all of the material that I do. It’s nice to allow the moment to be found when you go in unprepared and that’s increasingly the case on Talkin’ ’Bout Your Generation.

“Particularly with Josh, I think there’s an odd Laurel and Hardy double act going on which is nothing contrived, he’s just funny to talk to. Charlie challenges me which is quite nice – I like being challenged and yelled at and told I’m wrong. Amanda sort of ends up playing a different area – I help her a lot, it’s a very brother sister relationship and I find that refreshing, it’s not that sort of ‘let’s have a kiss, what are you wearing?’ that sort of patrician attitude. It still exists and it’s really bizarre watching that on TV in the 21st century, to see a male host (someone who is aging and overweight) with some skinny young thing. I do shudder a bit. It’s nice not to be doing that.” _EMMA BERGMEIER

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Take a journey to Indonesia’s islands of Komodo in this photography exhibition which captures the majesty of a land where time stands still. Komodo i s a p l a ce w h i c h re m a i n s unchanged from its natural wonder with active volcanoes, unique landscapes and a kaleidoscope of colour in the underwater worlds. Captured

by Perth photographers Gary Brennand, Dean Eldrid, Johanna Pool, and Torbjorn Prestegard, who spent 20 days traveling through the Komodo region, the exhibition is nothing short of breath taking.

Exhibition opens on Sunday, December 12, and runs ’til Wednesday, December 15.

VISUAL ARTS Blackbook International, Kartique Trading, 559 Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley.

The Blackbook International exhibition showcases the artwork of a selection of emerging and established artists, who are part of an international collaborative web based art project. This is the first time the artists have met and exhibited together in a space. Each artist was given the task of producing an original artwork based on an Indian postage stamp.

Exhibition runs ’til Saturday, December 11.

Four Painters, Perth Galleries, 92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle.

Bringing together a small group of artists and friends with surprisingly cohesive styles, Four Painters features the works of R J Dorizzi, Giles Hohnen, Chris Hopewell and Jeremy Kirwan-Ward working within the genre of nonrepresentational painting. R J Dorizzi reveals a refined and delicately coloured geometric sensibility, while Giles Hohnen revisits a looser, more painterly approach to abstraction. Chris Hopewell weaves collage into calligraphic, gestural mark-making and Jeremy Kirwan-Ward builds on a body of work that utilises translucent veils of free-flowing paint.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, December 12.

Central 2010, Gallery Central, 12 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge.

Central Institute has upped the ante. This year 36 emerging visual artists and jewellery designers will be graduating from the Institute and Perth’s artistic future is looking brilliant. Their work will be available for viewing as part of this year’s Central Institute of Technology Graduate Exhibition.

Exhibition opens on Wednesday, December 8, at 6pm and runs ’til Wednesday, December 15.

can gain a rare insight into Guggenheim’s love of art, in particular her strong affinity for two key artistic movements of 20th century modern art: Surrealism and Abstraction. Also on display will be personal photos and items which belonged to Peggy, such as a pair of her famous sunglasses.

The exhibition will present the vitality created by the combination of European and American artists that transformed Modernist art throughout the world, and will feature works by Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.

Exhibition runs ’til Monday, January 31.

PERFORMANCE

D.I.Y. Disaster Movie, Blue Room Theatre, James Street, Northbridge.

Sticking (mostly) to the rules of all great disaster movies, D.I.Y. Disaster Movie (performed by local actors Damon Lockwood and Sam Longley) will create a brand new cinema classic before your very eyes. The audience will get to choose who of the disaster film character clichés - dies in the most elaborate and horrible way (excluding the dog and cute kid, of course); and who will save the world from certain annihilation. No improbable or Komodo by Johanna Pool ridiculous world disaster is out of bounds – these Complete Burning Away, PICA, James Street, over 80 works by 25 key artists of the period, the lads can tackle anything.

Season runs ’til Saturday, December 11. exhibition is a very significant snapshot of post Northbridge.

In early October 2008, Natascha Stellmach was war Australian art and an important record of the Bookings can be made on (08) 9227 7005 or online at blueroom.org.au. the most Googled artist in the world thanks to her developing cultural life of Western Australia.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, December 19. exhibition, Set Me Free, which invited volunteers to Tears, Yirra Yakin Theatre, 65 Murray Street, join her in smoking the ashes of dead rock star Kurt Cobain. Stellmach never revealed how she Home Open, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Perth.

Imagine a future where childrens’ tears are obtained the ashes and held no interviews, instead Street, Fremantle. her press release to 200 selected journalists ignited Fremantle has always been a hive of creativity harvested as treatment for mental illness. Imagine a media-hype that spread across 58 countries. If and inspiration. Western Australia’s historic Port tears becoming the new drug of choice. Imagine the smoking of the ashes was the final act – then city exudes an energy that only Port cities have, the exploitation, the slavery, the cover-ups and Complete Burning Away is the epilogue. Complete and artists of all generations have gathered here violence. The brilliant young artists at the Western Burning Away boldly interrogates the public and made this city their home. They’ve created Australian Youth Theatre Company have done ownership of celebrity figures and the nature a place to live and work, which fuels their craft just that, and produced an extraordinary play that of truth, sensation and the mechanisms of mass and surrounds their lives. Home Open is an stares into the heart of what it is to be human. exhibition which tells the story of Fremantle and Tears is the final installment of the groundbreaking media.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, December 19. the environments people make to sustain their trilogy of new, original plays (Blood, Sweat and lives. A sprawling meditation on the multiplicity Tears) devised and produced by WAYTC over the of our creative minds, Home Open reflects the last three years Time/Lapse, PICA, James Street, Northbridge.

Season opens on Wednesday, December Time/lapse brings together five of Australia’s most diversity and energy of our artists and their exciting female artists to present recent video art homes. Artists create environments that reflect 1, and runs ’til Saturday, December 11. Bookings works that explore the concept of the body as who they are and what they make. With an eye can be made through Yirra Yaakin on (08) 9202 a product of time, history and nature. The works for design and attention to detail, they collect 1966 or yirrayaakin.com.au. reveal how we respond to social forces, how we furniture, art, objects and artifacts that continue establish learned behavioral patterns and what to inspire and motivate.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, January 23. can constrain and inspire our bodies. Exhibition features Gabriella Mangano, Silvana Mangano, Ravel’s Bolero, December 2-4 Laresa Kosloff, Alicia Frankovich and Alex Martinis Insider Art – Recent Work By WA Prisoners, Perth Concert Hall; bookings through BOCS. Prison Gallery, Gatehouse of Fremantle Prison, Roe. Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, December 19. Fremantle.

The Poor, December 4 Featuring work by current WA inmates, Insider Charles Hotel; bookings through BOCS. Tom Collins, And After: A Bequest And Its Legacy, Art features contemporary artworks produced Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA, 35 Stirling by prisoners from across the state, including Christmas With The Andrews Sisters, Roebourne, Broome, Bunbury, Karnet, Hakea, Acacia Highway, Crawley.

December 11 In 1953 The University of Western Australia and Casuarina and has a strong representation of Subiaco Arts Centre; bookings through BOCS. purchased a dozen paintings by Sidney Nolan Aboriginal art. The exhibition also features pieces for £500, money that came from the Tom created and crafted in the various prison industries V Capri, December 11 Collins Bequest. It was a bold move, and highly workshops around the State.

Charles Hotel; bookings through BOCS. Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, January 30. controversial at the time. Over the next two decades more than 40 further works were acquired Adam Brand, December 12 with the support of this important bequest—and Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection In Venice, Art Quindanning Tavern; bookings through the University was well underway in establishing Gallery Of WA, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth.

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OPPOSITES ATTRACT The Fremantle Town Hall was converted into a shrine for the worship of fashion last Wednesday, November 24, for Magnetic Fields, the graduating show for fashion students from Challenger Institute. A total of 19 students presented collections inspired by opposites, proving that the future of the WA fashion industry is in very safe hands.

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Dishing up tasty food, fabulous fashion and unique gifts as far as the eye can see, the Sunset Market will take over Victoria Hall in Fremantle on Friday, December 10, for an afternoon and evening of beauty and creativity. As the sun sets over Fremantle, Victoria Hall will be a-buzz with activity as shoppers peruse the many stalls offering up art, jewellery, home wares, garments and more, perfect for Christmas presents or personal indulgence. Entry is free and doors are open from 4-10pm.

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One part jewellery, one part sculpture, Jasmine O’Loughlin-Glover’s creations are simply sublime.

Fusing delicate textiles with substances you might find on a building site, O’Loughlin-Glover’s label, Gala Curios, pushes the boundaries of contemporary jewellery with incredible forms that are as tactile as they are beautiful.

After completing a degree in Jewellery and Textile Design in her home town of Sydney, O’Loughlin-Glover secured a coveted position as an accessories intern and then designer at Ksubi, which led to the young designer being invited to create a range for Marnie Skillings under the ‘Jasmine Noir’ moniker.

“I always really really wanted to be a textile designer and the degree I did made me specialise in more than one area, so jewellery was actually kind of an accident,” says O’LoughlinGlover when asked about her design background. “I thought I’d try out jewellery and it ended up becoming my favourite subject because it’s so hands on.

“The collaboration with Marnie was great because it gave me the opportunity to test the waters; it was a creative expression but was also a way of gauging the market. It went really well and I always thought there was a gap for products created for a fashion market but with an artistic sensibility, a bit more concept driven and experimental.”

For her latest collections, Stop Motion and Ancient Future, O’Loughlin-Glover called on materials such as lace, twine and pearls, dipping them in enamel and metal to give them a solid, immovable form.

“This collection is all about textiles coated in metals, I like that kind of introspection between what is fashion design and what is jewellery design.

Using textiles in accessories is really the way I like to work.

“My winter collection is very dark and angular; It’s really focused on materials. For summer I really wanted to hone the technique of taking textiles and textile forms and the softness of those and rendering them in metals, literally coating them in metals, so you get this real surreal sense of what you thought was a particular material completely transformed before your eyes.”

Gala Curios is stocked at Black Beret in Mt Lawley, and at Varga Girl and Hunter Store in Leederville. View the full collection online at galacurios.com. _EMMA BERGMEIER

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Sydney electro pop duo, Bag Raiders, aka DJs Chris Stracey and Jack Glass, have been remixing club tracks and setting dance floors alight across the country since 2006.

ANNABEL MACLEAN talks to Chris Stracey about shooting to stardom, snorkelling and their debut album release.

Half way through their first headlining national tour and first ever live shows, Bag Raiders are feeling mighty positive about the journey that has unveiled since their much anticipated self titled debut album was released in September.

Having launched tracks like Fun Punch and Turbo Love through Bang Gang 12 Inches and receiving extensive amounts of praise from club-goers, thrill seekers and party bangers, the build up to this album had been secretly exploding amongst the disco-dance kids.

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Stracey and Glass attended the same high school but didn’t start playing together until two years after school had finished when they discovered they had the same niche music tastes. Stracey says their initial collaborations were total weird ambient electronica. “We would just be clicking our fingernails into the microphone,” he recalls. “There wasn’t any big synths and kick drums and stuff like that. I don’t even think there was any drums?”

Still, quite the change from playing in the school

orchestra and choir together and their musical tastes have only continued to evolve since they started hammering away humbly in the club scene. “I’m kind of glad that people haven’t scolded us for being so lazy,” Stracey laughs. “I guess we were pretty slow with getting an album out but originally we didn’t think we were going to do an album because we were just kind of doing the club circuit and making club tracks and we were just sort of happy doing 12 Inches and that sort of thing.”

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Ms Dynamite

MORE FOR ORIGIN! Stoop Fresh perform at Seriously Sound System

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 Andrei Mazz 8pm Free Entry

SUNDAY

$10 PIZZA & PINT SPECIAL with Nathan J, Chris Wright and The Nisbit.

WEDNESDAY

UNI-QUE $10 jugs kicks off at 8.30 with DJ’s Gemma Pike and Armee

SERIOUSLY SOUND SYSTEM Get ready Perth. RTRFM is putting on its annual summer dance extravaganza. On the impressive bill this year is everything from glitchy beats to dance hall anthems and electro pop. Chrism, The Empressions, eclectic pop peeps Rooster Police, Zeke vs Kit Pop, funky Assembly Line, hip hop madness Stoop Fresh and the Mace Francis Orchestra will be kicking up a storm to entertain you throughout the day. Not only this but there will be Perth’s greatest spinning the decks. RTR’s Full Frequency host Micah will be chopping up tracks along with Ben Mac, drum’n’bass master Shock One, Rok Riley and Ben M. Oh wait and there’s more- Massiv Trav, Ben Taaffe, Nic Elliot and the Latin fuelled beats of El Ritmo will all be on show. It’s all happening on Saturday, December 18, at Hyde Park from midday ‘till 10pm. Tickets are only $15 for RTRFM subscribers and $20 for general. They are available from rtrfm. com.au/events. Get serious!

Watch out everyone. Guess what? Origin NYE has announced some additions to the already sick as lineup. Joining the likes of party bangers Chase And Status, Sub Focus, High Contrast, Nero, 16 Bit, and Breakage just to name a few, will be award winning Ms Dynamite. Ms Dynamite is a UK hip hop, R&B garage rocker who will be bringing her beats to Perth this coming New Year’s Eve. She will be joined by Perth’s first lady of dubstep, KITO, aka Maaike Lebbing. KITO’s reputation is growing as a world class beats maker and she is quite the youngster too. So much talent. Get on down to celebrate the end of such a tasteful year on Friday, December 31, at the Belvoir Amphitheatre. This can’t miss event runs from 6pm until 2am. Get tickets from moshtix.com.au. Get your dubstep on!

Rousa

Rise nightclub has been around the block. From the moment it opened its doors in 1999, Perth’s clubbing landscape changed. It’s been 11 years since this and this weekend, it will celebrate its lovely birthday with an absolutely grand occasion.

If you have massively amazing memories of partying or working at Rise then you will want to be there. With a soundtrack of essential classic tunes and anthems of the Rise era, you will be in for a good treat. Rocking the decks will be your favourite Rise DJs Rousa, Pace, Daze, Travis Eddy, Jason Creek and Ravix, not to mention the original resident DJ Simon Barwood. Get on down this Friday, December 3, at Rise, Northbridge.

Tickets are on door from 10pm. They are free for Rise members before 11pm and $5 thereafter.

Non members $5 before 11pm, $10 before 1am and $15 after 1am. Get there early because the first 200 people through the door will receive a Rise Anthems double CD. Yeow!

Reggae is what this weekend is all about in Fremantle. The legendary Jamaican reggae star Turbulence is making a quick stop over in Perth and it is his first time to Australia. He’s worked with Sizzla and takes his tips from reggae and dancehall greats like Luciano and Bob Marley. His music is all about love, positivity and truth. He also performs with a combo of rapid fire lyrics, angelic singing as well as some hardcore DJing. He’ll be joined by some of Perth’s greatest acts The Empressions, General Justice, Tutomath and Ricky Trooper. Get on down this Friday, December 3, to the Railway Hotel. Tickets are on sale now for $29.99 plus booking fee. Get them from Joynt Venture stores in either Perth or Fremantle. More tickets may be on the door if available. Be there!

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THURSDAY HongKong Palace DJ’s

COWBOYS + INDIE KIDS The latest and greatest pumping Indie, Electro, Pop, Rock & Post Punk.

Put on your dance shoes and hit the floor. 8PM Free Entry

FRIDAY

SUITE BEATS FOR THE END OF THE WEEK!

SATURDAY

LUCID DREAMING PRESENTS a night of house/ Deep House/ Disco/ Tech House “FORE” Free Entry and all kicks off at 9pm.

SUNDAY

“BACK TO MONO” Perth’s essential Free”N”Funky Sunday Sesh.

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

Stanton Warriors.

RISE UP AND PARTY

DEFECTORS

or the end of the week! Disco, House, Funk & Breaks with residents Micah & Sharif Galal + guests. Kick off the weekend in the comfort of Defectors and the sounds of the Beat Suite.

Fridays 9pm – 1am.

Haven’t thought about Australia Day 2011 yet? Well this will get you fired up before it.

Breakbeat masters are hitting up Perth town.

That’s right folks, the Stanton Warriors will be bringing their garage twisted, shattering basslines to deliver a splintering, blistering and amazing set which will have your eardrums pleasurably burning. Having smashed the Breakspoll Awards for Best DJ in 2009 as well as Best Compilation and Best Breaks Artist for the Beatport Music Awards, these guys will have you in for a treat. They are Dominic B and Mark Yardley. They have also been mentioned by DJ Mag in the 50 Best Remixers Of All Time. Pretty cool. Catch them on Tuesday, January 25, at Villa.

Doors open at 10pm. Early bird tickets are $35 plus booking fee and general release is $40 plus booking fee. Tickets available from Planet, Mills and moshtix.com.au. There are also limited tickets from the Boomtick shop. Jump on board!

Micah

GETTING TURBULENT

BAG RAIDERS GOLDEN WINGS TAKE FLIGHT THURSDAY

JUNK ESQUIRE ALBUM LAUNCH w/Howie Morgan

FRIDAY

SONIC VELVET presents Doors open: 8pm

The Morning Night 9-9.45pm The Ghost Hotel10.10-10.55pm Stereoflower11.20pm-12.05am $5 entry

SATURDAY

THE COMMUNITY Represents come lounge with fresh hip hop sounds.

TUESDAY

ROCKABILLY DANCING LESSONS with Holly Doll. Tuesday Nights 7pm-8:30pm $10 holly@hollydoll.com facebook.com/rockabillydancing

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It was the unexpected overnight success of their famously fun tune Shooting Stars which caught the eyes of the big shots, disco shufflers and even gave the duo themselves something to sleep on. Stracey says that they then decided Bag Raiders had more to offer than “just making techno.”

“It was probably the first real song that we had written so it was fun for us to do that,” Stracey says. “We wanted to expand that a bit more with song writing and also be able to make some tracks that weren’t just straight up club tracks.”

These ideas lead to an unplanned year and a half of solid work in the depths of an inner city bunker. “I think it was more of just the vibe of what we were doing that brought it together,” Stracey says. “We wanted to make it varied, you know, we didn’t want to write like a straight up dance album like someone like MSTRKRFT… we wanted there to be a bit more longevity in it.

“Sometimes when you listen to an album and it’s just like every single track is like a club track, you don’t get any scope, there’s nowhere to go from it, it just may as well just be a whole bunch of singles. We wanted to make some slow dance and some love songs and some club tracks and a bit of everything.”

But the boys are quite the perfectionists. After having written the songs and listened to some demos for the album, they decided the vocals could be taken to another level. “We wanted to check out all these guests and Dan [Black] he was the only one, we were like; ‘let’s get a big player’ but everyone else we were just like ‘let’s get local people’, friends of ours or friends of friends that we know have great voices and are doing

good things,” Stracey explains.

Although the album features the vocals of Dan Black and The Holidays’ Mark Solomon, it is mainly the duo singing which Stracey says has him feeling the pressure, especially during their new live shows. “We’ve done stuff live in the past before but it hasn’t been anything like bigger scale or as involved as this,” he remarks. “We’re not really singers and in a live show we’re singing everything.”

Talking of the album’s first single release Way Back Home which continues to smash the airwaves, Stracey reveals that its video clip was filmed by Sydney director Kris Moyes [brother of Kim Moyes from The Presets] in an empty basement at the Modular building which was once a fetish leather workshop. “He’s an insane creative genius,” Stracey says. “We just let him run totally free.”

A m i d s t t h i s p e r i o d o f i n te n s e nocturnal working madness, the boys found time for some well-earned breathers and are enjoying hearing their work remixed by other artists for a change. “Both of us enjoy a good snorkel,” Stracey laughs. “We also enjoy a good meal and a good drink and a good coffee. “ We just wanted to write some songs, some plain pop songs and it’s cool being able to let somebody else do the club version of it and hear what they would do with the track.”

With Sets On The Beach concluding their national tour, the boys will finally have some time to themselves. “Jack, I think is flying to Vietnam or Bali or something straight from Perth,” Stracey says. “I’m gonna go to LA, try and go to Mexico, maybe New York, I really wanna try and see Prince play in New York.

That would be amazing!”

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KRAFTY KUTS

TURBULENCE

Having blitzed the industry for almost two decades, UK born Martin Reeves would be forgiven for winding down his career but this is no ordinary artist. GLEN CANNING was fortunate enough to share an intriguing conversation with the one and only Krafty Kuts.

Reggae genius Turbulence hits our shores for the very first time this week, bringing with him a new album and a life story more heart warming than a midday movie.

REUBEN ADAMS gets inspired.

PAVING THE WAY

Within the realms of the broken beat, Krafty Kuts reigns supreme. This year saw him awarded Best DJ at the annual Breakspoll Awards, his fourth in the past six years and to top it off, his compilation Against The Grain also won Best Compilation. Despite his global success, Reeves remains remarkably humble as he reveals a recent experience on SoundCloud.

“I just got this message from someone really high up in the industry for a TV program that is one of the biggest in the world and it said ‘thought I’d just message you buddy, love your work, your mixes keep me going through my day, sometimes I have 23 hour days and I don’t stop’ and I was gobsmacked,” he says. “And I’m just looking at this guy thinking ‘shit man, you’ve got the most amazing job in the world and you’re listening to my music whilst working,’ I mean how fucking cool is that?”

Reeves says he is a people person and it is this motivation which continues to drive his passion as an artist. “I watch people, I look at people when I’m on planes and just try and suss them out,” he says.“I love seeing what’s going on in the world, not just through music but through wildlife, through people’s emotions, watching people greet at airports, watching people say goodbye,” confesses a slightly voyeuristic Reeves.

The immense diversity of the world Reeves sees around him is reflected in his music and with people getting easily bored with music these days, he realises the importance in keeping things original. “I need to go back to basics again and I need to find those crazy disco loops and funk and jazz sounds and start a fresh rather than being stale,” he says.

“I want to keep Krafty Kuts exciting and moving forward, rather than keeping on a level par with everything. I need to fucking take

CREATING WAVES

Krafty Kuts it up a notch, that’s what’s exciting about music, each day you discover something about yourself that makes you realise ‘should I do this? Should I try that’.”

Whatever the formula, Krafty Kuts has been a global phenomenon and Perth is just one of the many cities around the world where his name has become synonymous with an epic live show to remember. This can be attributed to Reeves’ delivery of crisp, current and original sets. “Each time I play, it’s important for me for the next show I play that I’m fresh and exciting but still give people something where they’re like ‘fucking hell, this guy comes in every time with new stuff and never ceases to amaze’.

“I’ve got brand new edits and new tracks from my new album, some drum’n’bass, some dubstep, you know all sorts of genres and I’m just gonna throw it in the cooking pot and give it a good ol’ fuckin’ mix up and hopefully deliver some Gordon Ramsay on their arses!”

Get ready Perth, it’s time to kut loose!

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Sheldon Campbell, aka Turbulence, is a remarkable human. Born into abject poverty in a Jamaican slum dubbed ‘Hungry Town’, Turbulence used his incredible voice and passion for reggae to claw his way to the success that he enjoys today.

It was my grandfather’s funeral,” he says, referring to the moment that changed his life forever. “No one wanted to sing for him, so I volunteered. My uncle came up to me and said ‘are you really serious about this music thing?’ I said ‘of course!’ so he hooked me with the head of Exterminator Records and from there... I am now here, you know what I mean?”

There’s no hint of struggle in that lazy Jamaican drawl but Turbulence’s amazing career has been a hard-fought one. Released last year, RiseUp is a documentary which followed three aspiring artists who strove to rise up out of poverty, winning multiple awards for its raw and honest depictions of Jamaican musical culture.

Turbulence was one of these artists.

“A guy from Argentina followed my work nine years ago before anyone knew where I would be today,” he says. ”He came down to Jamaica for a vacation and heard one of my songs and wanted to put a film to this song I was singing. After this he said that he wanted to follow us guys and make a documentary about the underground music scene in Jamaica.”

Turbulence is a product of this hyperintense musical culture. It’s actually hard to determine how many albums he has brought out; it’s believed that in one 18 month period he released an amazing five LPs, however, his newest offering, The Journey, comes after a three year hiatus.

“The Journey is my best album because I spent a whole lot of time on the album,” Turbulence says. “Usually I would sing around four or five songs a day. I was singing and

Turbulence singing and singing because I love the music. I was a part of the music but I wasn’t part of the business, you know? so my producer said no more,” he adds, chuckling.

His approach to his music changed dramatically. Instead of five songs a day, he was now penning one per week, if that. It was still a lot of music but he was now keen to release only the very best. “We would stop and listen to it over and over. The album has 16 tracks on it, but we aren’t singing for ourselves we’re singing for the people, so we had to pick the very best,” asserts Turbulence.

He will be bringing these beautiful reggae vibes to Australia for the very first time this week, and Turbulence maintains that he’s a little nervous, despite sounding anything but over the phone. “I’ve been all over the world but Australia is one of those places that I wanted to go to because it reminds me of Africa for some reason; a big place that is there to be conquered,” he muses.

“I’m ready. I have some new songs that I want to show to the people. Reggae is a very powerful music and I’m coming to Australia to show you that.

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XZAKT

LIVING THE LYRICS If you’ve attended an international hip hop or R&B gig in the last few years, chances are you’ve seen Xzakt as a support act. Now, one of Perth’s most focused hip hop performers is ready to headline.

Releasing his debut album Live The Lyrics – Street Stories this week, JOSHUA HAYES speaks with Xzakt, aka Jason Nurse about the journey so far.

There is no doubt Xzakt has built an impressive resume. The up and coming MC has supported acts ranging from legends like Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaata, to gangsta rap superstars including Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube and even pop icons like Neyo and Black Eyed Peas to hip hop stalwarts such as Dilated Peoples and Rahzel.

Having been around the block, Nurse says his time as a support act helped him craft the skills he needs to become a headliner. It also gave him an endless list of stories to tell.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Nurse says. “I’ve opened for a lot of artists but I thought ‘I’m in Perth city, I want to build my resume up because it’s not easy being in music in the most isolated city in the world’.”

Nurse says the lyrics and music he writes stems from his own experiences as a person and as an artist. Some of the most recent stories he touches on involve smoking with Redman and Method Man, a freestyle cipher with Mobb Deep’s Prodigy and spending two days in a recording studio with The Game.

But it wasn’t all like this as his debut album Live The Lyrics – Street Stories suggests.

“Basically I’ve been living by myself since the age of 14, I’ve been on the streets,” he says. “So it sums me up in one, pretty much.

Every single song on there is a real story that actually happened in my life.”

Nurse has been working on the album since 2005, much of which has been a learning curve and journey for the self he reveals. “I feel like, as an artist, I now know who I am and where I’ve been and where I want to be.

“What makes me different is that I can go and do an R&B festival like Supafest 44

XZAKT and Winterbeatz then I can jump on the Perth Hip Hop Kingz festival which is straight hip hop and I can also jump up on more commercial gangsta rap gigs like Ice Cube,” he explains. “I feel like I can give to every single one of those crowds.”

Nurse will be launching the album this Saturday with an extensive list of support acts. He mentions seven time world champion kick-boxer Daniel ‘The Rock’ Dawson who is a close friend of his and will be joining him as one of the many grand support acts for the album launch. “It’s got a bit of R&B, it’s got a bit of underground, it’s got a bit of gangsta rap, it’s got a bit of conscious rap, it’s a very versatile album,” he says before continuing.

“I feel like this is a chapter of my life that I need to park and move on, but I can’t do that until I drop the album.”

And yes, there is already a new album in the works which Nurse says will be produced

by Dazastah. “I’ll still be living the lyrics, don’t worry about that.”

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PHATCHANCE ACTUALLY LIKELY Chance Waters isn’t your likely hip hop head. Hailing from Sydney, Chance Waters, aka Phatchance, was always interested in music as a listener.When Eminem dropped Stan, everything changed for Waters. RK finds out why and what’s in store for the up and coming artist.

Waters’ interest in music has varied over the years.

There have periods where the creative juices have been flowing and Waters has become a little bit addicted to a track and then there have been times when school and other commitments have taken priority. It was Waters’ gradual interest in recordings which sparked a new direction and something more serious than expected. “I had a crappy Casio recorder and started taping radio shows and things,” he says.“As hip hop was getting bigger in Australia, I was getting into it until high school where I stopped for a while.”

It was then when a young Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, released his famously banging tune Stan that Waters became re-immersed in the world of hip hop. “I got grabbed by that song and became a bit addicted and started listening to anything I could get my hands on,” he recounts.

“I would go to this store in Sydney and spend all my pocket money. Slowly it became more serious and then became the forefront of what I was doing.”

While the Australian hip hop scene continues to grow, it isn’t always true that quality precedes quantity. Waters isn’t cutting any corners though; he’s talented, committed and dedicated to honing in on his craft. “Firstly, I do all of the engineering of the records and recording and mixing and stuff,” he explains.“But I also work with a lot of producers and a lot of those guys are really friends.

“I have ideas about what I want to discuss in a track so subconsciously I’m hunting for the right idea for a track like that. I’ll ask the guys to send me a rough sequence of a track or whatever and work it that way. Usually I sit down by myself and write a song and send it back to the producer and get them to arrange the material and then sit with the session musicians. Then I’ll get a friend in to work some bass or guitar, which is amazing,” he says.

Waters’ album Inkstains released last year has been the focus for 2010 with touring and the promotion of the album around the country taking up the majority of the year. “I’m also working with a bunch of acoustic musicians and taking

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that around the country,” Waters adds. “My stage partner Coptic Soldier and myself are also going to do a CD each and going to release it as a dual disc.”

Not only this, Waters is already writing material for his second album which he wants to release next year. “I want to take a more holistic approach with that… the first record was really different,” he reflects. “Now I’m dealing with existential issues and whether that’s a process of growing up or being in my headspace right now, I don’t know!”

At the tail end of his tour with Coptic Soldier, he says he’s learning to win over crowds that aren’t familiar with his material.“My live show is really energetic and I’ve done heaps of support slots,” he says. “We work a lot of the original material and we intersperse it with mix tape type stuff and a lot of different beats.”

PHATCHANCE PHATCHANCE TONIGHT, THURSDAY DECEMBER 2 @ THE BIRD FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 @ THE LEEDERVILLE HOTEL

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AN ABSOLUTE PARTY Sapphire Bar Saturday, November 27, 2010 Sapphire bar was on fire last Saturday as the Absolut Glimmer Party took off. With Jack McCord, Mind Electric, Kenny L and Richie G being the masters on decks amongst others, it was a night of downright celebration. There was artwork on display, local street artists battling it out in art wars and even cocktails on arrival.

Kirsty, Neoma

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Dee, Bec

Taryn, Neecha

Ty, Jess

Helen, Tiana

ROBERT OWENS Art

DUSK TILL DOORN Sander van Doorn

Compost Records

Doorn Records

One of the true doyens of the house music scene returns with a double helping of deep house for the chin strokers, accompanied by the production skills of such luminaries as Atjazz, Show-B and, long-time collaborator, Larry Heard (aka Mr Fingers).

The first CD is soulful, so much so that it can’t really be classified as dance music. The languid grooves and sultr y vocals of Pipe Dreams sum up images of sunsets, come-downs and heartbreak. The boogie woogie bass line of Hearts And Soul gives a generous nod to the acid jazz world whilst the sensual melodies of Reach Inside have more than a passing resemblance to Incognito. The BPM’s notch up towards the end of the first instalment and the familiar ‘minor key’ vocals on title track Art raise the hairs on the back of the neck and transport the listener back twenty-odd years.

By the time the opening strains of CD2 hit the speakers we’re well into deep house territory. Rise is a pulsating 4/4 tech groove, the spoken almost whispered verse and warm analogue synth in Unique enrapture the soul and Be Your Own Hero is a masterpiece with subtle DJ Pierre acid tweaks and a domineering yet evasive bass line.

Think old school Chicago house with delicate 21st century accompaniments.

Though it takes a while to warm up and p e r h a p s co u l d h ave b e e n re l e a s e d a s a single album with some of the filler removed, for connoisseurs of deep, soulful house this will be a well received release.

Sander van Doorn is yet another product of the impressive Dutch EDM scene and if you know his music then you know this guy lives up to the hype. His groundbreaking productions have been bending heads across the globe for several years now and this two disc compilation is van Doorn’s attempt to capture the epic club night of the same name.

Starting innocently enough with club favourite You Are Not Alone by Mason, the album flows smoothly into the synth heavy Lifelike by East & Young. If you weren’t moving by now, Afrojack and Bobby Burns aptly named Bungee will have you bouncing off the walls with its tribal inspired rhythms pulsating in and out.

This signals the album’s descent into hyper drive and is followed by Abel Ramos’ equally catchy Crash The Disco. Despite the quality of tracks preceding it, van Doorn’s own Overflow steals the show with its evil, grinding rhythms.

Disc two continues the epic auditory adventure with the deep hooks of a Cosmic Gate remix of Run Till U Shine which is followed by the beautifully layered melodies of Super8 & Tab’s Black Is The New Yellow.

Also dropped in the mix is the uplifting power of Radiator by Sied van Riel and Radion 6 and Phynn’s epic remix of the hands in the air anthem Opera Of Northern Ocean.

With too many highlights to mention, Dusk Till Doorn has to be the compilation of the year so strap yourself in, hold on tight and turn it up loud! It’s time to get down with Doorn!

ANDREW NELSON 4/5

Jes, Keir

GLEN CANNING 4.5/5

Chris, Julie, Xavier

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Hittin’ the town since 1985

Friday, 3 December 2010. Villa Nightclub Support from

Marty McFly, Tee El, Micah & Philly Blunt (Black & Blunt), Bob Noceros Ticket Price: $40 + BF. Tickets on sale Thursday 7 October 2010 from Planet Video, Mills, 78s and Moshtix Outlets (1300 GET TIX) and online from the Boomtick SHOP and moshtix.com.au

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...and the current single Let’s Ride.

TUESDAY 25 JANUARY 2011 | AUSTRALIA DAY EVE VILLA NIGHTCLUB Doors Open at 10pm.

Tickets LIMITED Early Birds: $35+BF. General Admission: $40+BF. On Sale Friday 26 November 2010. Available from: Planet Video, Mills, Moshtix outlets (1300 GET TIX) and online from the Boomtick SHOP and Moshtix.com.au

Extremely limited VIP tickets $45.

Available from the Boomtick SHOP! www.boomtick.com.au More information events@boomtick.com.au stantonwarriors.com, myspace.com/stantonwarriors soundcloud.com/stantonwarriors

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2 LIVE CREW, PLUMP DJs FREESTYLERS, FREQ NASTY KID+mcKENOBI shureshock RICO TUBBS ATOMIC HOOLIGAN FAR too LOUD, SOUL of MAN DAN THE MAN, FDEL, MICAH, PHILLY BLUNT, OLI, BLEND, BEN MAC, MONO LISA, MARTY MCFLY, TEE EL, PRIZZY, WISH

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BELVOIR AMPHITHEATRE BOXING DAY SUNDAY 26-12-2010 1pm–11pm. Tickets on sale 04/10/10. Early Birds: $78+BF. General Admission: $88+BF Available from LIVE Clothing, Planet, Mills, 78s, Moshtix outlets.

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THURSDAY 02/12 Broken Hill Hotel – Fixed Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) DJ Righteous Club Bayview –Hush- Sox Draw / Maxwell Club Marakesh –DJ Simon Cottesloe Hotel - DJ Shots / DJ Andy M Dolce – Maxwell/Damian John/Hippo Club Eve - DJ Tony Allen Flying Scotsman (DEFECTORS) – Cowboys / Indi Kids Flying Scotsman (Main Room) – Pasha’s Kitchen Leopold Hotel - DJ Riki / Roger Smart Liquid Nightclub – DJ Buda / Dj Nino Brown Manhattan’s – Judgement / Missile /Drummie / Nasimba Mustang – DJ James MacArthur Newport - MILLS DJS Niche Bar – Flaunt / Johnni P / Feminem Niche - Johnni P/ Rob Blandford Oxford Hotel – Johnny Taylor Paddy Hannans – Dr Bogus / Crazy Craig Swinging Pig – DJ Simon The Deen – DJ Flex/ DJ Nano/ DJ Surge/ DJ Don Migi The East End - DJ Midfield The Queens – Kapitol P The Whistling Kite - DJ Gareth The Shed – DJ Andyy Toucan Club -Shut Up & Dance - DJ Matty J Wolfe Lane - Soul Purpose - DJ Jimmy Mac Woodvale Tavern – DJ Melvin

FRIDAY 03/12 Rise – 11th Birthday - Simon Barwood/ Rousa/ Pace/ Daze/ Travis Eddy/ Ravix Guess what everyone, it is party time! Rise is celebrating its 11th birthday and it is going to be a whopper. From the moment its doors opened in 1999, Rise has been pumping up the club landscape in Perth. Rise knows how to throw a party and for all you people who have big memories or have worked at

Rise, this is your night. Cooking up some serious trance, hard dance and hardcore Rise anthems, you will be in for a treat. As a special birthday gift, Rise will also be giving the first 200 people through the door a Rise Anthems double CD. Better get in quickly because this will be big. Tickets are free for Rise members before 11pm, $5 thereafter. They are $5 for non members before 11, $10 before 1am and $15 thereafter. Tickets are on door only so jump on board and rise up, you beasts, you.

Mojo’s – Judgement / Busha D/ Earthlink Sound/DJ Sorted Do you like reggae and dance hall tunes? Then you will be getting your reggae pants in a knot if you miss this one.

Hailing all the way from Sydney is the one and only Judgement.

Originally from Jamaica, Judgement has been kicking up a storm and will be bringing his raucous reggae this way alongside Perth’s very own Busha D dropping some classic tunes. Regular hosts Earthlink Sound and DJ Sorted will be bringing down the house with their energetic vibes. It starts 8pm with free entry until 9pm.

Tickets are $10 or $5 concession after 9pm. And there’s pizza, yum!

Shape – 3rd Birthday – Phetsta / Muller /Mr Bad Weather / Petrosex /Lightsteed / Selekt / Junior / Adroc Since opening in 2007, Shape Bar has been evolving and transforming the underground music scene in Perth.

Remember its early days of live bands and indie electro?

They were and still are the days!

Only now, Shape is the home of bass too. Shape is celebrating its third birthday and boy is it going to be massive. Spread across three rooms, Cube will be revving it upstairs, Phesta and Muller will lead the drum’n’bass and dubstep and Mr Bad Weather will be will be supported by Petrosex and

STEREOSONIC ELECTRIFIES EARDRUMS TIESTO / CALVIN HARRIS / CARL COX / Benny Benassi / Aly & Fila / Afrojack / Sebastian Ingrosso / Major Lazer / Giuseppe Ottaviani / plus many more Claremont Showgrounds Sunday, November 28, 2010 Despite having to contend with a scorching 36 degree day there was little to dampen the enthusiasm of thousands of eager punters as they descended upon the showgrounds.After wrestling through a vast throng of security check points, an impressive array of veritable treats stretched out as far as the eye could see.

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Lightsteed downstairs. Phew.

An awful lot. And what’s more – the outside courtyard will be turned into a silent hip hop disco featuring Selekt, Junior and Adroc. How cool is that!?

There will also be special VIP drinks from 10 ‘til 11pm. If you are one of the first 200 people to RSVP then you will get in free before 11pm. Send your full name to info@shapebar.com. au to be added. Otherwise $10 on the door from 10pm. Get in shape.

Ambar – Act Yo Age / Kkn Midas / Oli / Ben Mac / Audagenaus Amplifier Jamie Mac /DJ Shannon Fox Bar Open- Boutique Fridays – DJs Riki / Soso / Richie G / Brett Costello / Ruthless and guests.

This night is fresh and hot with local and international DJs hitting our town, get on down and check it out!

Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol – DJ’s All Night Carine Glades Tavern - DJ Abstar Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Jimmy-Mac Como Hotel – DJ Gazz Deville’s – Kysb Big Band /Mondo Inferno /Less Sataniques Double Lucky – DJ Mario Tavelli Eve – DJ Don Migi / Skooby Flying Scotsman (Main Room) – Time Tunnel - DJ Rok Riley/ Joe 19 Flying Scotsman (Defectors) Micah / Sharif Galal Geisha – Martin Buttrich High Wycombe – Fill In Da Gap Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Library – Perplex / N.Cision / Yon Jovi /Scott D /Deadvents / Mickey Juice Arrigold /Clomas Liquid Nightclub - DJ Klar55 / DJ Jewel / DJ Stevie M Lakers Tavern – Fresh Fridays DJ Dooey Merriwa Tavern – DJ Real McCoy Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee

The dress code was simple – as little as possible was the theme for the day and despite the tops on policy, this didn’t deter the protein shake crew from flaunting the rules.

The Cream stage was rocking early with local lads Zelimir, GeRmAn and Kenny L laying down an eclectic mash up of dance floor destroyers to a tent full of enthusiastic party people who impressively disregarded the sheer intensity of the heat to bust a move.

Not surprisingly Aly & Fila drew a huge crowd and proceeded to unleash what can only be described as an epic display of refined brilliance.

Electrifying the crowd with a superb fusion of uplifting melodies and driving rhythms, Fila once again proved why he is regarded as one of the most exciting DJs in the world today.

Unfortunately up against some more commercially viable names on the main stage, the crowd thinned out for the remainder of the night on the Cream stage but this didn’t deter the impressive genre bending bombs that Sied van Riel kept dropping. By pushing these genre boundaries van Riel set the dance floor alight for the duration of an imposing set.

Mustang- Swing DJ / DJ James MacArthur Newport – Millhouse NormaJeans–DJPhil Paddy Hannans – Crazy Craig Paramount - Flyte /DJ Morgan/ DJ Jordan Principal Micro Brewery – DJ Simon Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Railway Hotel - Turbulence / The Empressions/ General Justice/ Tutomath / Ricky Trooper / Jah Clarity Rocket Room - DJ Jessica_Kill Rubix – Gene Bourne/ Kenny/ Riki Sapphire Bar – SuperFly The Clink – DJ Jin The Deen – DJs Birdie / DJ Surge / DJ Nano The Eastern – DJ Midfield The Generous Squire - DJ anaru The Saint - DJ Jordan The Queens – DJ Rueben The Shed – DJ Glenn 20 Tiger Lils – Paul Malone / Joby / Alex K The Vic - DJ Durra Wembley Hotel - DJ Funkybottoms / DJ Dean Charles Windsor – Dj Riki and Ray Woodvale Tavern – Dr Bogus Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Villa – Krafty Kuts / Marty Mcfly / Tee El / Philly Blunt / Bob Noceros

SATURDAY 04/12 Metro City - DJ Havana Brown Australia’s #1 female R&B DJ is hitting up Perth for the ultimate monthly clubbing experience.

She will be bringing her R&B mayhem as part of the R&B Super Club nights. Get down and party with this amazing star. She has released her Crave compilation and has been on a number of successful national tours. Her Crave Vol. 4 debuted at #2 on the ARIA compilation and urban charts. Known for mixing up tempo R&B, this disco doll was the official DJ at the Grammy’s After Party and has supported The Pussycat Dolls, Lady Gaga,

Chris Brown and even Rihanna. If you like this then head on down to join in the fun times. Doors open from 9pm. It is free entry before 10pm. Check it out!

Ambar – Fdel/ Len Bones/ Prizzy/ Tee El/ Wish Amplifier – Eddie Electric Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky Bird – Club Emu Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol –Death Disco DJ’s Capitol (Upstairs) - DJ Ryan Captain Stirling - DJ Dano Clink- DJ Cheese Club Bay View – VIP Saturdays – DJ Ryan Deville’s – Screaming Lord Sutch Tribute / Rocking Rhys / Jumping Josh Double Lucky – DJS Milly / Cinnamon Eurobar – Roger Smart/ DJ Raci Eve – Eve DJs Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Lucid Dreaming Flying Scotsman (Main Room) – Transmission – Andrei Mazz High Road Hotel – DJ Simon High Wycombe – DJ Matt Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Leederville - DJ Loco Ren Library – DJ Jimmy Phatz / DJ Victor /DJ Gareth Richardson Liquid Nightclub - DJ Klar55 / DJ Stevie M Mint – Pop Life – Darren Briais Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Danny Mustang – DJ Rockabilly / DJ James MacArthur Newport - Gravity Niche – Frankie Button / Cee / Jonny Zimber Norma Jeans – DJ Darren Onyx - DJ Kayper Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paramount – Felix (band) / DJ Meezy / DJ Jordan Queens Tav - Gareth Richardson Rise – Phetsta/ Greg Packer / Xsessiv/ Clunk/ Hykus/ DJ Vu/ Pacemaker/ Xander Rocket Room – DJ Armee /DJ Lstreet Rubix – Kenny L/ Delaney Sail & Anchor - Balcony Beatz / DJ J-MAC.

Caspa (Photograph by Arrigoni Clark) Closing out the Cream stage was Giuseppe Ottaviani whose remarkable hardware collection wasn’t a mere stage prop as he used these as weapons against the war on crap music, taking the crowd on an enthralling ride through a superbly crafted set featuring a perfect blend of the old, the new and the promising future.

Caspa was impressive. The once ‘darling of dubstep’ has waned slightly in popularity but his ability to keep the crowd thrashing about in insufferable conditions was testament to his crafty tune selection. Bandsaw madness was interspersed with commercial cheese and Azlan’s exhorted lyricism fused perfectly without overpowering or ruining the bass-hefty vibe. A great start to the afternoon.

South St Ale House – DJ Jay Soverign – DJ Jinx Tiger Lil’s – Adam Kelly/ Charlie Bucket The Brighton (Upstairs) – Micah/ Kill Dyl/ eSQue The Deen - DJ Birdie/ DJ JJ/ DJ Tony Allen The Generous Squire –Late Night Sessions - WiG Music The Saint – DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andyy The Whistling Kite - DJ Craig The Vic - DJ Benny Chill Wembley – DJ Ben Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Windsor – DJ Ray Woodvale Tavern – DJ Real McCoy

SUNDAY 05/12 Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre –Sets On The Beach- Bag Raiders/ Tim & Jean/ Flight Facilities / Cassian/ Carlie Bucket / Philly Blunt If there is anything you do this weekend, it has to be this. Welcome to summer everyone! It is finally here!

And to start it all off, will be a good, no wait, great Sunday sesh. That’s right everyone, Sydney electro duo Bag Raiders are going to be in town, absolutely smashing up the decks on Sunday.

They have a new album in case you didn’t know and if you like light electro pop, love lullabies and songs that sound like a vacation in paradise or even if you just like shooting stars, you will be there in your hot to trot swimming gear. Joining the boys will be our very own Tim and Jean and disco pop group Flight Facilities who some of you may know for singing Crave You which has been all over JJJ this year. The summer mayhem kicks off from 2.30-9pm. Tickets are $40.90 including booking fee. Hurry onto moshtix.com. au! This has been selling fast!

There was so much electronic music history and talent lurking around the Sneakerpeeps stage it made Ben Benassi look like a teenager. Techno originator Jeff Mills was joined by RA #2 DJ Ricardo Villalobos and French genius Technasia. The crowd was older, more knowledgeable, friendlier and less likely to take their clothing off.

Unfortunately, the sound didn’t appear to take off until the flamboyant Villalobos pulverized all and sundry with something quite remarkable late in the evening. The bass was heavy, it was driving and it was hypnotic [like his plunging purple shirt and smooth dance moves.]

The biggest win for Stereosonic 2010 was the defined separation between the far more commercial artists and the underground sounds which meant there was no clash of musical ideology which has so often ruined festivals like this in the past.

Great music, sunny weather and thousands of scantily clad people, what better way to spend a Sunday! _ GLEN CANNING AND REUBEN ADAMS www.xpressmag.com.au

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Bar Orient - DJ Dred Carine Tavern – Micah /Fiveo /G Martin Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Clink – DJ Tony Allen Club Bayview – DJ Pete Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve – DJ Birdie / MC Jex Flying Scotsman (Main Room )- Nathan J / Chris Wright / The Nisbit Flying Scotsman (Defectors) - Dj’s Gareth Richardson/ Ted Schlechte / Death Disco’s / Anton Mazz.

Manhattans –The Delta/ Aternum/ Ambient Soup/ The Hinges No Recital & Cloud Nine /My Majestic Star / The Velvetines/ Ben Waters Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny L Mustang - DJ Rockin Rhys Paddo -DJ Riki Players Bar - DJ-Udas Queens Tav- DJ Rhys Rosemount – Get Wet – Carlsani / Proximity Effect / Jazza Rubix – The Rotation – Krule/ Dazz K/ Untertone/ Lyndon The Cott - Cott Sessions The Saint - DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andyy The Wembley – Deckeclectic DJs /FiveO/ Funkybottoms/ Boogie

METRO CITY

be joining the group along with electronic beasts Little Dragon. This is not to be missed. Don’t let the Monday night put you off because you will regret it immensely.

Tickets range from $99 to VIP $295 (wow). Head to ticketek. com.au to get your hands on these bad boys.

Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris The Deen – Plastic Max / The Token Gesture The Paddo - DJ John Paul The Shed – DJ Andyy

TUESDAY 07/12 Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel - DJ Matty J High Wycombe - DJ Ricky Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Mustang Bar – DJs The Cott (Upstairs) – Maxwell/ DJ Jus Haus/ Damian John Victoria Park Hotel - DJ Melvin

WEDNESDAY 08/12

Basement On Broadway – Damien John/Angry Buda/ Maxwell/Headayke Captain Stirling – WhiteLabel Clancy’s (Applecross) – MONDAY 06/12 Upbeat – DJ Andy Burswood Dome – Gorillaz Connections - DJ’s Joby / JJ / De La Soul / Little Dragon / Rueben If you haven’t heard of them Dusk – Blackbelt/ Aswon then you must have been Eurobar – Wild Wednesdays living under more than one - DJ iPod/Ben Pettit rock. The legendary Gorillaz Eve – DJ Don Migi / Skooby are making their live debut Gold – Slick/ Adroc in Australia and New Zealand Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart and boy it is going to be Mint – Open House - DJ Chris huge. Gorillaz will be dishing / DJ Matt out songs from all three of Mustang – DJ Giles their critically acclaimed Newport Hotel – Lady albums. It is going to be a Lauryn / DJ Femme / DJ landmark arena tour which Tony Allen / DJ Tom / The will include multi-media, Chad video animation, artwork and Niche - DJ Frankie Button film and will be an absolutely Paddo - Ben Merito overwhelming amount of The Clink – DJ Jinx sensual stimuli for the ol’ The Deen- DJ Zelimer / DJ brain, eyes and ears. Hip Viper & DJ Benny T– Zone 1 hop masters De La Soul will The Queens – Wriggle on

THIS WEEK Turblence Friday, December 3 @ Railway Hotel Krafty Kuts Friday, December 3 @ Villa Act Yo Age Friday, December 3 @ Ambar DJ Havana Brown Saturday, December 4 @ Metro City Sets On The Beach Vol 1 Feat. Bag Raiders/ Tim & Jean/ Flight Facilities / Cassian/ Carlie Bucket / Philly Blunt Sunday, December 5 @ Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre Gorillaz Monday, December 6 @ Burswood Dome

COMING UP MC Flipside (Canada) Friday, December 10 @ Ambar Cyantific Friday, December 10 @ Shape Bar King Tito’s Dirty Disco ft. Parades Friday, December 10 @ The East End Bar Brooklyn Bounce Friday, December 10 @ Rise Cut & Paste- MicroFestival feat Diger Rokwell/ Naik/ Kip Pop/ Zeke/ Tomas Ford/ Mathas Saturday, December 11 @ The Bakery

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Drapht / Optamus Saturday, December 11 @ Villa Kraymon Saturday, December 11 @ Ambar Perth Dance Music Awards Sunday, December 12 @ The Rosemount Jungle Fever feat Krust (UK) & Kenny Ken (UK) Saturday, December 18 @ The Rosemount Seriously Sound System 2010 Saturday, December 18 @ Hyde Park Breakfest feat. Plump DJs/ Freestylers/Freq Nasty/Kid Kenobi/MC Shureshock/ Rico Tubbs/Atomic Hooligan/Far Too Loud/ Soul Of Man + more Sunday, December 26 @ Belvoir Amphitheatre Baked NYE feat. Flying Lotus / Hudson Mohawke / Gaslamp Killer + More Friday, December 31 @ The Bakery Origin NYE 2010 feat. Chase & Status/Subfocus/High Contrast/Nero/Spor/16Bit/ Breakage/Evol Intent + more Friday, December 31 @ Belvoir Amphitheatre

Baked New Year’s Day ft.

Flying Lotus / Hudson Mohawke / Gaslamp Killer + More Saturday, January 1 @ The Bakery

The Original Wailers, The Black Seeds, Ky-Mani Marley , The Red Eyes + More Wednesday, January 26 @ Perth Fremantle Oval

Southbound 2011 feat.

Public Enemy/Bliss n Eso/ Peaches (DJ set)/Yacht Club DJs/A-Trak + more Saturday, January 1 – Monday, January 3, 2011 @ Busselton, venue TBA

Good Vibrations 2011 feat. Faithless /Phoenix/ Sasha/ Nas/ Damian Marley/ Cee Lo Green/ Kelis/ Ludacris/ Erykah Badu/ Friendly Fires/ Miike Snow/ Fake Blood/ Rusko/ Sidney Samson/ Janelle Monae/ Mike Posner/ Yolanda Be Cool + more Sunday, February 20 @ Claremont Showgrounds

Summadayze 2011 feat.

Erol Alkan/ Chromeo/ Armin Van Buuren/ David Guetta/N.E.R.D / Wolfgang Gartner/ Rivastarr/Miami Horror/ Yuksek/ Aeroplane + more Saturday, January 8 @ Supreme Court Gardens Raggamuffin 2011 ( Mary J Blige, Jimmy Cliff, Maxi Priest, Sean Paul,

Future Music Festival feat.

The Chemical Brothers/ MGMT/Mark Ronson/ Pendulum/Dizzee Rascal/ Leftfield + more Sunday, March 6 @ Arena Joondalup

show of the week

SETS ON THE BEACH

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5 @ SCARBOROUGH BEACH AMPHITHEATRE

BAG RAIDERS

Cuban Club 2011 feat.

Arrested Development / Bag Raiders Saturday, January 1 @ The Flying Squadron Yacht Club, Nedlands Club Paradiso feat.

Digitalism/Sebastian Leger + more Saturday, January 1 @ Salt On The Beach

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TIME FLIES The Fly By Night Thursday, November 25, 2010 The folks at the Fly By Night celebrated the iconic music venue’s 24th birthday in style last Thursday with a musical showcase by the always affable Hootenanny and The Burger Kings. A big happy birthday to The Fly, who have been appeasing our hunger for live music for over two decades now!

Friday December 3

Jah Clarity and Turbulence (Jamaica) with special guests Tutomah, General Justice, The Impressions & Ricky Trooper

Photographs by David Chong

BEER GARDEN SHOW (8pm, tickets $30 + BF from Joynt Venture Perth & Fremantle or $40 at the door)

The Burger Kings

Saturday December 4

Vespers Descent, Empires Laid Waste, Desolate & Devour the Martyr (8pm, $12 entry)

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SATURDAY

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Day of the Dead

The Chevelles with DJ James MacArthur

Marco & The Rhythm Kings with Rockabilly DJ The Damien Cripps Band & DJ James MacArthur

SUNDAY

Pete Busher & The Lone Ranger with DJ Rockin Rhys

MONDAY

Marco & The Rhythm Kings

The Chevelles

FRIDAY

Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys

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Cheeky Monkeys with DJ James MacArthur

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with DJ Giles

STUDENT & BACKPACKER NIGHT

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Friday 7th January

Mundaring Weir Hotel (outdoor concert) Tickets from venue Ph 92956098 info@mundaringweirhotel.com.au

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POW @ THE PADDO

Don’t miss the weekly line-up of local bands playing each Wednesday at the Paddo. On Wednesday, December 8, come see Stunning In Red, Big Old Bears, Hurricane Fighter Plane, Silent Republic (acoustic). Bands start at 8pm and as always, it’s free entry!

CIVIC HOTEL

MUSTANG BAR

The Chevelles

The Chevelles join Day Of The Dead at The Mustang Bar in December for two nights full of super surf sounds and head shakin’ tunes! Come down to The Mustang Bar tonight, Thursday, December 2, with DJ James MacArthur. The Day Of The Dead play a full tilt rock mix of cool surf instrumental originals, featuring Ben Frichot shredding on lead guitar.The Chevelles will be belting out a mixture of ‘60s garage rock, infused with Beach Boys-like harmonies and swinging surf guitar action! This is a show not to be missed as both Day Of The Dead and The Chevelles hammer out retro ‘60s surf sounds to get everyone pumpin’ for summer!

JB O’REILLY’S

Every Sunday at J.B. O’Reilly’s is original music night. With three different acts every week there will be something there for anyone keen to check out some new talent.

RAILWAY HOTEL

It’s a heavy feast at the Railway Hotel this Friday, November 26, when Vespers Descent, Empires Laid Waste, Desolate and Devour the Martyr combine forces to raise the roof. Doors open 8pm, and entry is $12.

ROSEMOUNT HOTEL

Tickets are on sale for the Rosemount Hotel’s annual Christmas show A Not So Silent Night.

Happening over two-stages on Saturday, December 11, starring Sugar Army, Cabins (NSW), Coerce (SA), Young Revelry, Grim Fandango, The Caballeros and The Growl in the main room, with The Ghost Hotel, The Tim McMillan Band (VIC), Goodnight Tiger, Michael Strong & The Ghost Anyway, The Wine Dark Sea and Beach Boys tribute The Sea Of Tunes in the beer garden, it’ going to be massive! Tickets from www. heatseeker.com.au, Planet Video, Mills Records and Star Perth. Doors open 4pm.

Ho ho ho, it’s Merry Crustmess at The Den this Friday, December 3, with a huge lineup including Prisonbitch, Suffer, Apathetix, Death Grenade, Lie Cycle, Oskorei Hatecharge, Clenched Teeth, Warthreat, Happy Families, Outobonic Plague and Tsvoim. Doors 7pm. On Saturday, December 4, Karma FX kick off their string of single launches in The Backroom with support from Writhe, The Dark Woods, iChoRa and Thursdays Page. Doors open 8pm and everyone who comes along will receive a complimentary single to take home.

INDI BAR

Saturday, December 4, brings the sweet sounds of the charismatic Minky G & The Effects with the launch of their LP followed by tours galore! Roots maestro Ash Grunwald hits the Indi Bar on Sunday, December 5; old time friend and welcomed artist Jez Mead is back for am intimate show on Tuesday, December 7; and Nathan Kaye plays Wednesday, December 8, come and get a taste of an array for both local and national talent.

MOJO’S BAR

Tonight, Thursday, December 2, sees Ash Grunwald play Mojo’s on an Australia-wide tour opening up for Jack Johnson. Supports include Sun Orchestra. Presale tickets are available from Heatseeker for $20 plus BF. Door sale tickets will be available from the door from 8pm on the night for $25. This Sunday, December 5, sees the Kill Devil Hills return from Europe with a show at Mojo’s Bar! Also playing this mad night will be Mongrel Country and Hootenanny. Entry is only $12 from 6pm!

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MANHATTAN’S

This Saturday, December 4, fresh from their eastern states tour and from supporting the Blazin’ Entrails at their single launch, the Chainsaw Hookers return to headline a show at Manhattan’s. Black Buzzard, Lucile and Scalphunter will be supporting! Entry is $10 from 8pm.

THE BAKERY

Tickets are selling fast for You Are Exotic at The Bakery, Saturday, December 18, featuring Kim Salmon and his band, the Kill Devil Hills, Day Of The Dead, Cal Peck & The Tramps, Bible Bashers plus Sugar Blue Burlesque, Jon Madd the magician and the Kurbist Gong Band plus MC Justin Walshe.

You are exotic – don’t look elsewhere – it’s all in your backyard! Tickets for this titillating monster of a show are $20 through www. nowbaking.com.au or www.heatseeker. com.au. Limited door sales will be available at $25 a pop. You Are Exotic - yes you are!

ROCKET ROOM

This Friday, December 3, metalheads Shrapnel take the stage in celebration of their Hellbound album release. Fusing thrash riffs and solid drumming the band will have you slamming your head around. Death metal merchants Malignant Monster support as well as heavy hitters Grotesque and Mhorgl.

VELVET LOUNGE

This Friday, December 3, Sonic Velvet presents The Morning Night, The Ghost Hotel and Stereoflower. So get down to the Velvet Lounge and help celebrate the Christmas spirit. Doors open at 8pm and entry is $5.

FLY BY NIGHT

This Friday, December 3, the femme fatale of foot-stomping, swampy soul, Mama Kin, is capping off 2010 with a not to be missed show at the Fly. Then on Saturday, December 4, be seduced by some sexy Sugar Blue girls of the globe as MC Fanny La Rue returns from gallivanting around the world and presents Fanny’s Holiday Slideshow.

Mama Kin

GRAND BOULEVARD TAVERN

The Bi-Annual Beach Party is back again to kick start the season. With white beach sand spread throughout the beer garden for an authentic summer vibe and DJ Richo smashing out the best summer hits, bangers and anthems, why would you be anywhere else this Sunday?

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DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE THE PRETENDERS / BLONDIE / Little Red / Adalita Kings Park Thursday, November 25, 2010

ISLAND ESCAPE THE LIVING END / Gyroscope / The Owls Hotel Rottnest Sunday, November 28, 2010 The JD Set has upped the ante in recent times by putting on one-off shows taking advantage of the setting and Sunday’s Hotel Rottnest show was no exception. It’s rare when all of the punters at the show are wearing board shorts, but at least there were few man-nipples on show on this perfect Sunday on Perth’s favourite getaway.

JD Set competition winners The Owls opened the show and it was difficult to fathom how and why they’d won. They played an uninspired set of generic rock with nothing of note taking place. They did a shout out to the “schoolies”, never mind that school leavers in WA are too young to get into pubs and few were left on the island, so they came across as toolies. Maybe they’re just better after dark…

A band that will never let you down in the energy department is Gyroscope. This band always gives it their all on stage and their trip to Rottnest will certainly go down a highlight in their big 2010. Playing a selection of tracks from across their four albums, an undeniable highlight came when frontman Dan Sanders jumped the security fence, wirelessly-connected guitar in hand, and ran straight into the Indian Ocean while they played their early classic Doctor Doctor. Coming back covered in water and sand, the band blasted through their set at a breakneck speed and while they thought they were done with Snakeskin, they stayed for one more and whipped out an impromptu cover of Nirvana’s Territorial Pissings to end the set in style.

The Living End are also known for not letting anyone down in the live department, and

Gyroscope’s Gyroscope’s Dan Sanders hits the surf

they’ve been doing it ever since this year’s batch of school leavers were born. They’ve got plenty of hits through their career and they dug out all anyone could hope for tonight, in addition to a large selection from their 2008 album White Noise.

It was their early anthems in Second Solution and Prisoner Of Society that got the big kids jumping around and it was all over too soon for most with West End Riot ending the night before singer and guitarist extraordinaire Chris Cheney promised to see everyone on the ferry on the way back to the mainland.

Here’s hoping Rottnest gets used for more touring gigs in the future, as The JD Set proved it can easily be a success. _MATTHEW HOGAN

The Living End (photos: Matthew Hogan)

STARRY NIGHT THE AUDREYS / Nicolas Roy / Ruby Boots Fly By Night Club Friday, November 26, 2010 There’s a relaxed, convivial atmosphere to the Fly

By Night that you don’t get in too many other places. The reason is simple. You don’t come to this place to see or be seen, to meet and mingle; the Fly By Night Club is all about the music.

Nothing else matters.

The big, barn-like space was a perfect setting for the return of esteemed blues/roots outfit The Audreys, the huge darkened room and whirring ceiling fans setting a quaintly oldfashioned tone that suits the band’s heartfelt, country-tinged musings. A thin crowd had

already settled themselves comfortably on the floor when the first support act, Ruby Boots – or more accurately, a portion of Ruby Boots, comprised of singer Bex Chilcott and multiinstrumentalist Jesse Woodward – took the stage, warming the room with a stripped down, elegant acoustic set. Chilcott’s powerful, throaty yet feminine vocals and Woodward’s intricate, confident musicianship proved to be a perfect entree for the night, setting an informal and welcoming atmosphere.

Second slot belonged to Melbournebased piano man Nicholas Roy, who kicked things up a notch with his energetic musical stylings. Roy is a storyteller, a musical raconteur with a touch of Ben Folds or even early Billy Joel to him. A natural showman, he attacks his keyboard with what seems like absolute abandon, until the deliberate structure of his

Closing out a flawless midweek of gigs from legendary performers, two of the biggest female fronted bands of all time were in Perth for their first ever co-headlining tour. Opening at the ungodly time of a touch after 5pm, Magic Dirt frontwoman Adalita was in solo mode and impressed the early comers with some classic Aussie alternateen tracks and gems from her new EP. Her fellow Victorians Little Red followed suit and seemed to be having the time of their lives to the slowly filling venue – but with songs like Coca Cola, Rock It and the rest of their festival-friendly undeniably catchy gems, how could they not?

After a short break, which included the cringe-worthy DJ Grand Master Baitz playing the YouTube song of the year in Antoine Dodson’s Bed Intruder Song, Clem Burke and Chris Stein led Blondie out before Debbie Harry came out wearing sparkly sunglasses and a tutu over a rather revealing little black outfit. As the band opened with D Day before Hanging On The Telephone, it was remarkable to see how this band has barely aged – their songs haven’t dated and their skills haven’t faltered.

Harry’s voice, despite a few high note hiccups, was only bettered by that of her stage presence, as she made sexual suggestive moves, played up to those in the front row and even made jokes when the bottom end was ruining the sound during discothèque classics Atomic and Rapture, the latter which saw the vivacious frontwoman freestyling a few rhymes. They closed out their set with a touching cover of the Johnny Thunders’ You Can’t Put Your Arm Around A Memory before everyone jumped to their feet again for Heart Of Glass.

The Pretenders had a hard act to follow, but if anyone could do it, it would be Chrissie Hynde and friends. Even Martin Chambers’ plastic sneeze guard around his drum kit was twice the size of Burke’s. The band was more country-tinged than before with guitar tremolo turned up to max for much of the set, the band also looked quite

work hits you and you realise the depth of his professionalism. Roy drew a huge reaction from the crowd, and there’s little doubt that a headlining tour of his own can’t be too far off in his future.

The hall was packed by the time The Audreys began their set, and the audience had finally taken to their feet. Haunting violin flowed lightly over a heavy, insistent bass beat as singer Taasha Coates filled the air with her high, breathy voice. Resplendent in a red dress, Coates is a chanteuse, an avatar for her music, and as it moves through her it gifts her with a primal, sensual physicality that is simply hypnotic.

The set wandered over the entirety of their discography, although, understandably their latest offering, Sometimes The Stars, received the most attention. The night was litany of

The Pretenders (photo: Michael Wylie)

rejuvenated with pedal steel player Eric Heywood and guitarist James Walbourne added since their last Perth trip. Playing a combination of recent tracks and timeless hits, the set really took off with the familiar riff of Back On The Chain Gang while Don’t Get Me Wrong and Talk Of The Town went down a treat, especially when paired with Hynde’s impressive high kicks. Once again The Pretenders saved their best for last with I’ll Stand By You reminding us that Hynde’s voice sounds better than ever while Brass In Pocket ensured that the walk back to the car wasn’t going to be without drunken renditions coming from every direction.

In it’s 10 th year, A Day/Evening On The Green continues to push the envelope with dream gigs such as this, and if they’re taking the gigs out of sterile and outdated environments like Burswood Dome, then all the more power to them! _MATTHEW HOGAN

failed romances and doomed relationships, reminiscent of Nick Cave in one of his gentler moods, leavened only occasionally by a more upbeat number like the irresistible Banjo & Violin.

And although their original work is fine, there’s no doubt that the most memorable moment of the night was when Nicholas Roy returned to the stage to join Coates in a slowed down, heartbreakingly tragic rendition of the INXS standard Don’t Change.

There’s a simplicity and a purity to The Audreys’ music, a certain je ne sais qua that is only evident when songs come from the heart, the emotions raw and unrefined. It’s hard to find, and nigh-on impossible to fabricate, but you know it when you hear it.

It’s all about the music. Nothing else matters. _TRAVIS JOHNSON

REBIRTH OF A LADIES’ MAN LEONARD COHEN nib Stadium Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Leonard Cohen (photo: Matthew Hogan) Australia’s highest circulating Street Press

A man well versed in scripture, Leonard Cohen would know all too well that, in the face of his dazzling messianic resurrection, a second coming was never meant to be this effortless.

But here he was – a scant 20 months since his triumphant return to Perth in 2009 – humbly ready to reaffirm what his loyal disciples have quietly known for decades: that Leonard Cohen remains one of popular music’s most defining figures.

Leaping onto stage with the vigour of a man a quarter of his 76 years, Cohen was the very picture of popular song’s perennial gentleman; from the hem of his tailored suit to the dimple in his chapeau. Accompanied by his eight-piece band – well and truly battle-hardened now after near-on three years on the road together – Cohen launched into a sensual take on his 1984 classic Dance Me To The End Of Love.

If 2009’s Helpmann Award winning performance at Sandalford Winery was a baptism, tonight’s show was the confirmation for the more than 11,000 curious souls who committed to Cohen’s three hour journey of

song, prose and ceremony. For there, quite simply, is no more enchanting performer; to stand before Cohen is to stand in reverence of a man whose command on the lyric of the heart is completely unmatched.

While his quick return to our shores may have taken most by surprise (even the most ardent of fans couldn’t have dreamed his shock 2008 return to touring would continue right through 2009 and now ‘10!), the magic was still alive as Cohen delivered a mesmerising set which surpassed 2009’s show for its raw energy.

Promising to “give you everything we’ve got”, Cohen and friends did just that.

With backup singer and close Cohen confident Sharon Robinson missing from proceedings (sadly taken ill in Adelaide), the poet-come-pop star was forced to tackle some of his more grittier work alone; even taking to the stage solo with merely his Spanish guitar for accompaniment. But Charley and Hattie Webb (“the sublime Webb sisters”, as Cohen so elegantly refers to them) were on hand to provide the high-end garnish to Cohen’s distinguished baritone, most notably on their arresting version of If It Be Your Will – Cohen’s other genuine masterwork. Hallelujah would follow soon after,

reinstating dignity to a song that has sadly been leeched of much its context in recent years by an unceremonious Idol/X-Factor generation.

Generous in his acceptance of the adoring gratitude of his fans, Cohen continuously thanked the audience for their welcome, suggesting this may indeed be his last trip to Australia before knuckling down to complete a new studio album, and contemplate the semi-retirement from which he was roused on discovering his bank account depleted (the catalyst for his return to the stage). And tonight he gave us a tantalising taste of that as-yet unnamed recording with two new songs: Born In Chains and the dark-humoured and oh-so-Cohen I Tried To Leave You. With a set complete with such beloved hymns as Suzanne, Bird On A Wire, Tower Of Song, Famous Blue Raincoat and a reupholstered version of The Gypsy’s Wife – plus a reverential spoken word take on A Thousand Kisses Deep (with original lyrics) – Cohen and his band reaffirmed their place in the memories of all blessed enough to witness the great man one last time. Hallelujah indeed. _JULIAN TOMPKIN 53

MINKY G & THE EFFECTS

SHAMEEM OF SOUND

Dubbed Australia’s answer to Alicia Keys, Shameem Taheri-Lee takes to The Ellington at 6.30pm this Sunday, December 5. She recently dropped her EP, Universe For Afternoon Tea, and was nominated for WAM Song Of The Year for the track Undertones. In 2011, she promises to tour Australia, record her debut album and head to the UK to collaborate with James Bryan, the man behind Nelly Furtado’s recent #1 album.

Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang.

Minky G & The Effects

A fast-rising band in the local pop scene, Minky G & The Effects blend ska, reggae, ‘60s pop, Mississippi Delta blues and more on their debut album Holes In The Sky. A WAAPA trained jazz guitarist, Minky G says despite her education, there’s still much to learn about the six-string. “It’s one of those things,” she begins, “you start thinking you’ve got a handle on your guitar and you just don’t – you hear someone else play and you’re like, ‘I have so much more to learn!’”

When forming The Effects, Minky recruited jack-of-all-trades Peter Quayle and her sister George O’Brien, who was once told

by Sharon Jones that she “drums like fuck, girl”.

G recalls her first attempt to start a band with her sibling.

“We started a band when I was like 19 or something and when we were pretty much a punk band,” G says.“We used to write political songs and George used to write us lyrics about how much she hated John Howard! This band,

EP LAUNCH

the line-up we’ve got at the moment with Peter Quayle, we’ve been together for about a year – it kind of all clicked together when Peter joined the band actually. We’ve got a vocal harmony sound and the fact that Peter’s such a good singer, as well as such a good bass player has helped us really develop that sound.

He’s a way better guitarist than me, I don’t know why we didn’t let him play guitar, but he’s one of those ‘amazing at all instruments’ kind of people’.”

Holes In The Sky has been an ongoing project for most of this year, but its changed quite a bit over time. “It started off just being me and it was going to be solo acoustic EP with just me singing and playing a little bit of guitar and that was it,” she says. “It’s grown since then into a full album. We’ve got about 10 other mates who have come to play on it as well – so we’ve got the band, but then we’ve also got keys, melodica, beat-boxing, sitar… all sort of things on there. We’ve got an awesome horn section, which we stole from The Brow Horn Orchestra. That’s part of my plan – I’m having a plan to permanently steal half the band from The Brow Horn Orchestra and just have them join my band!”

Not only are Minky G & The Effects borrowing from The Brow, they’re also getting the best they can out of local funk and soul collective Soulaverse as well – particularly Accumulated Gestures frontman Donovan de Souza, who’s produced the album.

“He’s getting a lot of work producing at the moment,” informs G, “he’s doing some stuff with James Teague and The Brow, and he basically recorded our whole album for us for pretty much nothing. For him, it’s pretty much been an experiment to see if he can do it and for us we get an album out of it, so it’s been frickin’ awesome and he’s come up with the most fantastic stuff. He even researched 1970s recording techniques for us, just so we could get the sounds that we wanted.”

Minky G & The Effects launch their debut album Holes In The Sky this Saturday, December 4, at the Indi Bar. Support comes from the Accumulated Gestures.

HORSE PLAY

Fresh from supporting Crowded House at Sandalford Estate in front of 8,000, The Ghost Hotel take it a smaller, but no less important, stage this week for Walking Horse Music’s Christmas bash. Joining the Ghosties are Stereoflower and The Morning Night in what promises to be a joyous occasion for all. $5 from 8pm at the Velvet Lounge this Friday, December 3.

_MATTHEW HOGAN

Silver Grenade

SILVER SERVICE

Alternative rockers Silver Grenade launch their debut EP at the Rosemount this Saturday, December 4. A mere four months after changing their name and line-up, the band has hit the ground running their this release and have even lined up $500 worth of door prizes to give away on the night. Support comes from Fallen Away, Oishii and Lantana. $12 from 8pm.

Q and A with...

Still Frame Mind Style / Format: Melodic alternative rock

Members / instruments: The Mong: vocals, acoustic guitar, synthesiser Nicko: lead guitar The Miff: bass, backing vocals Tripo: drums, unofÀcial backing vocals.

When did you start playing music?

The Mong and The Miff have been playing music together for most of their lives, they formed a band in 2006 with another school mate as drummer. Nicko came on as lead guitarist in 2007, had a break when he busted his wrist for most of that year and we had a line-up change to bring in Tripo as the mallet-man in 2008. We gigged as ‘Duke’ in 2009 and then re-named and re-invented our whole thing, as we recorded our debut EP through the Àrst half of this year. So our EP launch in 11th December will be something like only our seventh gig as STILL FRAME MIND! But all members have been playing their respective instruments for most of their lives...

What have been your biggest inÁuences along the way?

The desire to quit work and go on tour! Apart from that, the chance to play alongside other great musicians around town and the feeling of playing your original rock songs to appreciative audiences is pretty huge. The Perth music scene is such a great environment to launch yourself into, there’s heaps of support from the street press, RTR, WAM and older musos who have been there and done it...it’s all pretty inÁuential!

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Who are your favourite local bands?

Ah...how much room do we have here? Can we just list them in no particular order, and you just cut it off when you have to? Ol Boganvillea, The Brown Study Band, Hailmary, Crunge Inc., Oblivion (Albany), Matt Gresham, Ozmonaut, Lantana, The Brow Horn Orchestra, Reaper’s Riddle, The Joe Kings, Umpire, Sons of Rico, GOMBO, Jeddison, Timothy Nelson and The InÀdels, Thirty3 Victims, Blunt Force Trauma, Arts Martial, Silent Republic, Minute 36, What do you want this band to achieve?

Like most bands, we want to go as far as we can go with our music...maybe we can do some good in the world with it, as well as be able to be professional artists and tour the world! Or at least Australia! Musically – we have so much left to explore, we have only just begun to tap into the creativity we have within the band...we have hours of killer jams recorded, maybe never to be played again...until we start preproduction for the next release that ist...

Where to next?

We have our debut EP launch on 11th December at The Civic Hotel Backroom – and everyone is invited – it’s going to be a huge show with Crunge Inc. and Ozmonaut, and a killer light show all lined up! After that we head to Albany on the Àrst leg of our SW tour, and we are in planning to head north and east to promote the EP as well.

On 29th January, we have a big show planned for The Swan Basement, called Back to the Basement, where we’ll be inviting a massive line-up of bands who all cut their teeth at this Perth music icon. And then...some other very interesting things!

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YOU MUST WHIP IT

The latest addition to RTRFM’s fundraising efforts is Whippersnappers, featuring 2010’s best new local bands, and it takes place at The Bakery this Saturday, December 4. Heading up the bill is the perfect pop of Split Seconds, and they’ll be joined by National Campus Band Competition champions The Caballeros, eclectic indie popsters Seams, Mojo Rising competition winners and Next Big Thing place-getters Sonpsilo Circus, WAM Song Of The Year top prize-getter Georgi Kay and My Big Gig winners Fat Jackal. Kicking off at 8pm, this is a night of new local music not to be missed.

ENTER THE 36 CHAMBERS

Underground experimental musician Jake Moore hits The Bakery’s Warp Chamber show tonight, Thursday, December 2, under his moniker of Obscotch. With his recent EP, Samael Makaw, available for free from his MySpace page, Obscotch been busy scoring films, performing at Cottonmouth and on RTRFM. Joining him on this occasion is Brules Rules, Solar Barge and Salamander.

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STOKIN’ THE FIRE

ABBE MAY Claim The Throne

TRIUMPHANT THRONE

Blending folk and melodic death metal, Claim The Throne are ale-guzzling warriors set to release their third album, Triumph & Beyond. Recorded by Al Smith at Bergerk!, the CD launch takes place this Saturday, December 4, at Amplifier and support comes from Gallows For Grace, Wardaemonic and Born Into Suffering.

As with any Claim The Throne launch, expect heavy metal, headbanging, blood, armour, feats, funnels, jigs and tales you’ll be telling future warriors about in battles to come.

COME MARCHING IN

This Friday, December 3, Tyranocorp and Sin take over The Bakery with a night called Sinners & Saints. The night features four of Perth’s finest alternative rockers with Therapist, Fear Of Comedy, Kill Teen Angst and Like Junk taking the stage. Add that to a bunch of DJs and a competition that will keep you rocking until the end of time: the 13th person through the door wins a lifetime door spot to all Tyranocorp Presents gigs, so be early. But not too early.

Scrapnel Silver Grenade Minky G & The Effects Xzact Claim The Throne Lynda Smith & The Borrowed Few Karma FX The Scotch Of Saint James Still Frame Mind Electromen Reapers Riddle Sins Of The Father Ultra Sound

Mammalian Locomotion Sandcastle

There’s a reason why Abbe May is so highly regarded in the Australian music scene, and with her latest effort, she’s ditched the blues rock for some psych. Her heaviest song to date, Mammalian Locomotion features Sabbath-worthy riffs and May singing softer than ever before while her new thundering rhythm section keeps the beat thumping.

B-side Disney On Acid offers more of a taste of what the songstress has been up to of late, and this track is a lounge song that lives up to at the least the second half of its name with the dreamy effects front and centre but not over-bearing, which is often the effect of the second half of the title.

PERFECT STRANGERS

Hard working new kids on the scene, Karma FX have honed their skills playing multiple shows a week for the last several months and now they’re set to drop their first release. Friendly Stranger is the band’s first single and it will be launched in the Civic Hotel’s Backroom this Saturday, December 4 with Thursdays Page, Ichora, The Dark Woods and Writhe.

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Rocket Room Rosemount Indi Bar Rocket Room Amplifier Mojo’s Civic Hotel Manhattan’s Civic Hotel Manhattan’s Amplifier Amplifier Rocket Room

_MATTHEW HOGAN

TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS

You Don’t Know What You’re Waiting For Big Nation / Real 2 Reel Timothy Nelson is a precocious singersongwriter with a rock’n’roll perspective. This single proves, again, that between his flawless songwriting, instinct for arrangement, and heart-meltingly strong tenor; he’s absolutely a cut above.

Ly r i c a l l y N e l s o n s t a n d s o u t by fostering a courageous honesty that is romantic and wistful, but eschews sentimentality by demonstrating not one iota of sympathy for the people he sings about.

While the full band arrangement of The Infidels serves to gloss over the bonescraping resonance of this song, there is a palpable resentment in every line that somehow seesaws flawlessly between empathy and contempt.

The album should be a corker!

Fri Dec 17 Norfolk Basement + Abbe May

_BEN WATSON

With their debut album coined the “The coolest independent release of the year” by People magazine, Will Stoker & The Embers celebrate with a free show at The Bird this Friday, December 3. Joining them are The Autumn Isles, who are fresh from launching their latest single at Amplifier last week. With stickers and t-shirts to be given away on the night, you could leave significantly more awesome than when you got there.

SOMETHING BORROWED

This Saturday, December 4, at Mojo’s, Lynda Smyth & The Borrowed Few are set to release their album Just Pretend. Originally hailing from Ireland, Smyth follows up her acclaimed debut EP Too Long Spring with her new record. Support on the night comes from Stoney Joe, Simone & Girlfunkle and DJ Mind Chatter.

BROWN BENEFIT

There’s some hopeful news coming out of the Xave Brown camp. Following the recent car crash in Denmark, which sadly claimed the life of Brown’s girlfriend Alexis Davis and injured his son Jasper, Brown is now off the critical list and continuing to improve at Royal Perth Hospital. A benefit gig at the Fly By Night is set to take place on Saturday, December 18, to help cover costs arising from the accident. On the bill is Vikki Thorn of The Waifs, Felicity Groom, Mo Wilson & The Drivers, Ryan Webb, Stu Orchard, The Lonely Brothers, Dilip & The Davs, Prita, Sian Brown, Lee Sappho, Selk Hastings, Minky G, Phoebe Corke, Lucy Peach, Isabel Quigley, Ellen Paynter, Caitlin Dethridge and more. Tickets are $25 plus BF from the venue.

KEEP WALKING

Following the release of their debut EP Living Dead last month, Sleepwalker are keeping busy as they headline In League’s album listening party at Amplifier this Friday, December 3. Joining them is We Can Breathe In Space, Fallfromglory, The Scene & Herd and Death & A Cure. Sleepwalker close out their year alongside Sugar Army and Harlequin League at the Amplifier/Capitol New Years Eve show.

THUMBS UP

Recently back from a stint of shows on the eastern seaboard, Chainsaw Hookers play Manhattan’s this Saturday, December 4. Joining them is Black Buzzard, Lucille and Scalphunter. This will be a night of blood rock of epic proportions. BYO band aids.

Sat Dec 18 The Bakery + Kill Devil Hills

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Frenzal Rhomb, December 12, No Sleep Til

THIS WEEK DECEMBER 02 - 08 COMING UP ASH GRUNWALD 2 Mojo’s 3 Royal Palms Resort 5 Indi Bar

TURBULENCE 3 Railway Hotel

WHOLE LOTTA LOVE 3 Burswood Theatre

PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY, HOWL

Reverend Horton Heat, December 15, Rosemount

THE LEMONHEADS, THE CANDLES 5 Rosemount

GORILLAZ, DE LA SOUL, LITTLE DRAGON 6 Burswood Dome

LINKIN PARK

7 Burswood Dome

REEL BIG FISH, AQUABATS 7 Capitol

TUJIKO NORIK 7 The Bakery

1 High Road Hotel 2 Prince Of Wales 3 Capitol 4 Settlers Tavern 5 Newport

JEZ MEAD / LANIE LANE

THE POOR

BON JOVI

3 Pace Road Tavern, Medina 4 Charles Hotel

JACK JOHNSON, TEGAN & SARA, ASH GRUNWALD

7 Indi Bar

8 Subiaco Oval

THE BOUNCING SOULS, HOT WATER MUSIC 8 Rosemount

4 NIB Stadium

BROADCAST, SEEKAE, PIKLET 4 Capitol

A. WALLACE 4 Kulcha 5 Third Gallery 6 The Bird

BAG RAIDERS

5 Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre

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ARCHITECTS, COMEBACK KID, ROLO TOMASSI, THIS IS HELL 8 Capitol

CLARE BOWDITCH, GLENN RICHARDS 8 Quarry Amphitheatre

PAUL KELLY 8 Astor Theatre

The National, January 1-3, Southbound

Frenzal Rhomb, Alkaline Trio, Dropkick Murphys, Gwar, Frenzal Rhomb, Me First & The Gimme DECEMBER Gimmes, Suicide Silence CLARE BOWDITCH, and more) GLENN RICHARDS 12 Arena Joondalup 9 Quarry Amphitheatre HUMAN NATURE & PAUL KELLY WASO 9- 11 Astor Theatre 12 Kings Park JEZ MEAD / LANIE LANE SHARON JONES & THE 9 Settlers Tavern DAP KINGS 10 Dunsborough Tavern 12 Fremantle Arts Centre 11 Prince Of Wales EKKLESIA, THE DEAD 12 Norfolk Basement WILL TELL CUSTOM KINGS 13 YMCA HQ 9 Norfolk Basement 14 Rosemount 10 Malt Bar Dunsborough ESCAPE THE FATE CABINS 14 Capitol 10 East End Bar REVEREND HORTON 11 Rosemount HEAT MICK THOMAS 15 Rosemount 10 Norfolk Basement EL GUINCHO 11 Ravenswood Hotel 17 The Bakery 12 Oxford Hotel U2, JAY Z THE JOHN STEEL 18 & 19 Subiaco Oval SINGERS MUSE, BIFFY CLYRO 10 Amplifier 19 Steel Blue Oval 11 Mojo’s TOMMY & PHIL COERCE EMMANUEL 9 Prince Of Wales 20 Burswood Theatre 10 Norfolk Basement BREAKFEST (2 Live Crew, 11 Rosemount Cuban Brothers, Plump EAGLES DJs, Freq Nasty, Kid 10 NIB Stadium Kenobi & MC Shureshock GUNS N’ ROSES, KORN, and more) SHIHAD 25 Belvoir Amphitheatre 11 Perth Motorplex ARRESTED DRAPHT DEVELOPMENT 11 Villa 31 Salt On The Beach MICK THOMAS ORIGIN (Chase & Status, 11 Ravenswood Hotel Sub Focus, High Contrast, MY DISCO Nero, Spor, Erol Intent 11 Amplifier and more) 31 Belvoir Ampitheatre 12 Mojo’s AMPLIFIER NYE PARTY GOTAN PROJECT 2011 (Grafton Primary, 12 Perth Concert Hall NO SLEEP TIL (Megadeth, Sugar Army and more) 31 Amplifier NOFX , Parkway Drive,

CUSTOM KINGS 8 Manhattan’s

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Kenny Rogers, January 29, Lake Karrinyup Golf Course

JANUARY CUBAN CLUB (Arrested Development, Bag Raiders and more) 1 Flying Squadron Yacht Club CLUB PARADISO (Digitalism, Sebastian Leger and more) 1 Salt On The Beach THE 3RD ANNUAL NEW YEARS DAY CONCERT (Xavier Rudd and more) 1 Fremantle Arts Centre SOUTHBOUND (Interpol, Klaxons, The National, The Rapture, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Public Enemy, The Living End, Eskimo Joe, Angus & Julia Stone, Birds of Tokyo, Ladyhawke, Bliss N Eso, Tame Impala, Hot Hot Heat, Cold War Kids, Sleigh Bells, Peaches DJ set, Paul Kelly, Children Collide, Ash Grunwald, The Soft Pack, The Beautiful Girls, The Morning Benders, The Cool Kids, Junip, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Marina & The Diamonds, Muscles, Dan Sultan, The Middle East, Cloud Control, Yacht Club DJs, Washington, Boy & Bear, Sally Seltmann, Jonathan Boulet, The Bamboos, Tijuana Cartel, A-Trak, Tim & Jean, Edan the Dee-Jay, Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend DJ set), Beardyman, The Cuban Brothers, Casiokids, Dan Kelly, Daara J, Jamaica, The Jezabels, Big Scary, Last Dinosaurs, Sampology, World’s End Press, Carus Thompson and more) 1-3 Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton BUILT TO SPILL 4 Rosemount Hotel THEE OH SEES 8 Amplifier SUMMADAYZE (David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, N*E*R*D, Chromeo, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan, Art Vs Science, Miami Horror, Claude Von Stroke, Tinie Tempah, PVT, Breakbot, Yuksek, Aeroplane, Riva Starr, Zombie Disco Squad, Nervo, Stafford Brothers and more) 8 Esplanade & Supreme Court Gardens DARKEST HOUR 9 Amplifier JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION 13 Rosemount

Roxy Music, February 19 & 20, Leeuwin Estate Winery

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With AC/DC and Metallica already pulling off two night stands in Perth this year, you would think the year couldn’t get any bigger, but then U2 come along with a pledge to outdo the lot.

Their 360 Degrees tour is one of the biggest budget tours ever to come to Australia and it takes place at Subiaco Oval, or whatever the venue is now called, on Saturday, December 18, and Sunday, December 19. But there’s a chance the show may be stolen by support act Jay-Z, who flew into Melbourne this week with wife Beyonce and buddy Kanye West. Will they still be around in a couple of weeks and will they join him on stage? Here’s hoping.

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MUSE Amusement Park

Spaceships, purpose-built skyscrapers and rotating drum risers are just some of the trademark ‘props’ that render Muse’s stage production a truly confounding and unique spectacle. This spectacle turns up at Steel Blue Oval on Sunday, December 19. Bassist Chris Wolstenholme talks to CHRISTINE LAN. Wolstenholme’s wife, Kelly, gave birth to their fifth child, Buster, a few weeks ago.“It was a name that was floating around when our fourth child was born, but we didn’t quite have the guts to use it,” Wolstenholme chuckles.“It’s quite a crazy name – it kind of felt right for this child... the name just suits the face sometimes, you know.”

Wolstenholme’s decision to live in Dublin with his family this year revolved around one pivotal issue: airport convenience. The band’s hometown, Devon, is a three to four hour driving distance from the nearest airport. As the bulk of

The Resistance Tour has comprised stadium shows and European festivals, the band would often have four or five days off for every one or two gigs.

“If I had still lived in Devon, I probably would’ve had to spend those days off on tour,” Wolstenholme considers. “Living in Dublin now, it’s very close to the airport, so it’s just enabled me to hop in and out, really, for the shows. It’s very rare that we do more than three weeks at a time without having at least a week off, so I think as long as you have certain rules in place and understand that it is important to have a personal life away from the band as well, then it’s very easy to structure things.”

The first performances of The Resistance Tour were support gigs with none other than U2, whom Wolstenholme describes as “probably the most experienced stadium band in the world”. A younger but experienced band themselves, Muse’s

incredible arena production for The Resistance Tour has become a benchmark for live bands worldwide.

“It was something that we’d always dreamed about doing – that when we got into slightly bigger venues, it’d be great to go in with a big production,”Wolstenholme affirms.“We always felt that being a three-piece, we needed something else on stage to look at, really. And I guess in the early days, we didn’t really move around all that much either – I think the performance of the band wasn’t that strong. Whatever venue we’re in or whatever stage we’re playing on, we just wanna make it look as impressive as possible. We’ve never wanted to repeat ourselves.”

Over the past decade, Muse have proven that their tremendous ambition and epic propensity are truly second to none. The trio’s emotionally-driven, angst-ridden alternative/

progressive rock became more ambitious across Showbiz (1999), Origin Of Symmetry (2001) and Absolution (2003). Fans listened in awe as the intensely raw and darkly introspective sound that first captivated their loyal following had become increasingly anthemic, atmospheric, and grandiose in both its musical and thematic scope. In 2006, Black Holes & Revelations would redefine grandiosity and pomposity in modern rock; its sheer camp and unabashed inclination towards epic, towering anthems appealed to the masses and propelled them to their current position as one of the world’s biggest bands. However, The Resistance – as a whole – is the most consistent distillation of their great catalogue. More than anything, though, The Resistance is a powerful statement of assurance: Muse will remain as they are – ambitious, entertaining, grandiose and perplexing.

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The bassist has been seen favouring his aluminium Noah Guitars Excalibur ‘50s precision model bass throughout The Uprising Tour, but he’s also known for his love of a Fender Jazz Bass, of which at least eight different models have been spotted on stage.

The left-handed drummer recently switched from a Tama endorsement to DW. He currently uses DW Collectors Series 8ply maple drum kit with VLT shells in Damask Finish. He chops and changes his Zildjian cymbal set-up depending on the venue, but often uses 14’’ K Custom Special Dry Hats and has his own signature Pro Mark TX101 sticks. He also has a whole swag of Roland electronic triggers to keep with the band’s futuristic sound.

SOUND LIKE MUSE MATT BELAMY

Bellamy is best known for his use of Manson guitars and the M1D1 Black (aka Kaoss Manson) was the first to features an X-Y MIDI plate allowing the frontman to control devices such as a Korg Kaoss pad and Digitech Whammy. As seen in the video for Undisclosed Desires, the “Keytarcaster”, features a two octave keyboard with bass notes up the neck.

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Founded in 2001 and situated in Willetton, Sovereign Studios is a local recording studio solely owned and operated by Aidan Barton, a WAAPA graduate in sound production. Having worked on over 170 releases so far, Sovereign specialises in recordings for heavy bands. Bands have even travelled from interstate to work with Barton, and also brought him over east to utilise his skills in recording, mixing and mastering. Barton has even taken home a WAMi Award for Best Producer and an FTI Award for best sound designer. He gives back to these industry bodies as well as the studio sponsors the WAM Song Of The Year competition. The studio also specialises in audio/music editing, voice recording for corporate use and post-production sound design for film and television. Examples of the studio’s work are available on the Sovereign Studios Sampler Volume 1 & II. Volume II will be launched at Capitol and Amplifier on Sunday, January 2. For more information head to www.sovstudio.com.au.

Owned and run by long time friends Shaun Sibbes and Lee Jones, Malaga’s Bang Bang Studio is in a class of its own when it comes to local recording options. Sibbes and Jones offer to work as session musicians for solo singer/songwriters who come in, and with experience as session and touring musicians with Eskimo Joe, Sneaky Sound System, Basement Birds and Sleepy Jackson behind them, you can be sure your material will sound even better than you intended. Plus they can help out with co-writing and production or just engineering work if you’ve got everything else down pat. Add that to a huge collection of gear, including vintage drums and Fender and Gibson guitars, and a ProTools HD system with a great selection of studio quality microphones and you can’t go wrong. Head to www. facebook.com/bangbangstudios for more info or call Shaun on 0448 152 592.

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PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS NIGHTSTAR INTERNATIONAL

If you are launching an album or hosting a party or event, the sound and lighting n e e d to b e p a ra m o u n t s o yo u r e ve n t is remembered for years. Nightstar International Manufacturing Group has ever ything the music, DJ, audio and lighting industries could ever need at their disposal. An internationally-renowned name, Nightstar offers sound systems for all applications and venues, LED lighting to make your venue a landmark and an unforgettable experience, wireless and standard microphones, small but powerful digital amplifiers, not to mention stands, cables and road cases. Heck, they can even can supply you with guitars including an exclusive range of Stockman acoustics.

Based in Mount Hawthorn, you can contact them on (08) 9381 2363 or head to their web address at www.instandt.com.au.

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LEARN FROM A MASTER

In addition to taking his 50th Anniversary Tour with brother Phil to the Burswood Theatre on Monday, December 20, guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel will also be dropping by Concept Music in Wembley for the Ultimate Acoustic Guitar Master Class. Emmanuel rarely has time to conduct master classes, so this is a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with one of the world’s greatest acoustic guitarists.

It happens on Sunday, December 19, with only 50 tickets on offer for $99 or $75 for students (ID required). Book now as tickets are flying out the door.

The SAE Institute is already renowned for its industry focused training in the areas of audio, film and electronic music productions, but from February 2011, they’ll also be known for bringing the Bachelor of Creative Media (majoring in interactive media) and Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment (majoring in animation) to our fair city. That’s right, SAE is teaming up with Qantm College to open a new campus based in inner city Perth next year. This new course adds to the more than 30 years of experience in audio and film SAE proudly possesses, not to mention their proven track record in developing industry professionals with past graduates going on to win Oscars, Grammys, ARIAs, AFI Awards and WAMi Awards. In fact, six-time WAMi Award winner for best producer, Dave Parkin, was an SAE Per th graduate. SAE and Qantm is currently taking enrolments for next year – head to www.sae.edu for more information.

Shure Bets 98A/C

They simply weren’t content with their muchlauded range of microphones, so now the good people at Shure have added to their range, which is one of the most trusted and respected lines on the international touring circuit. The Beta 91A is optimised for kick drums, as well as traditional low end applications including piano. The Beta 98A/C is a precision-engineered high output miniature cardioid condenser microphone providing smooth high-end response. With its compact design, it can be discreetly placed on a variety of acoustic or amplified instruments. The Beta 98AD/C is built for toms, snares and percussion instruments and it even comes with a drum mount with a flexible gooseneck for accurate and secure placement. Ultra compact, the Beta 181 is a small diaphragm side-address condenser microphone with interchangeable capsules for different solar patterns.

UNDERSTANDING MUSIC SEMINAR COMPETITION

Have you ever had the dream to play music only to have given up in frustration when it all didn’t go according to plan? Perhaps you need a pep talk from the man dubbed the “world’s most amazing music teacher”. That’s right; Duncan Lorien is coming to Perth after successful stops in Melbourne and Brisbane for one of his Understanding Music Seminars. Taking place from Friday, February 18, to Sunday, February 20, 2011, you’ll learn how to master notes, scales, chords, music theory and even improvisation. X-Press have a free pass to give away to the seminar and all you have to do is agree to receive a free info pack by sending your name, address and contact phone number to win@xpressmag.com.au with ‘UMS’ in the subject line. There is no obligation to purchase anything and one of the competitors will find out in time for Christmas whether they’ll learn how to play music for free in 2011. Otherwise head to www.understandingmusicseminar. com.au to learn more about the seminar.

SHORT FUSE SPEAKER REPAIRS

Have you blown a fuse on your speaker or amp and think it’s beyond repair? Wrong! Short Fuse Speaker Repairs are still going strong after more than 18 years in business. Recently moving from a commercial premises to a home-based business, Short Fuse now offers a pick up and delivery service, or pre-arranged drop off, and you can find them at www.shortfuse.net.au or by calling (08) 9417 4774.

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ZOOM R24

The Zoom R24 ticks a lot of boxes. It’s a standalone 24 track digital recorder, complete with an eight-in-two-out in-two-out interface, it can be used as a DAW controller and also a standalone sampler, with loop sequencing and wave form editing.

B a s i c a l l y, i t does what it says on the box – a ic complete music ool. production tool.

I t ’s a s m a r t b u y oking for anyone looking to start a smallll home ecording studio, as a recording interface is the first thing ut with the you need. But di without ih flexibility of recording a computer, or even without power thanks to its battery compartment, the R24 is a great all round musician’s tool.

Home recording has become steadily more popular over the last couple of decades, as microchips slowly conquered the size and price of most production equipment. Most musicians have at least a digital recorder for jotting down ideas quickly, if not a more complete stand alone multi-track unit. Japanese manufacturer Zoom has had great success with the H range of mini recorders (or Handy recorders as they would say), and earlier this year released the latest in their range of multi track recorders, the R24. As with the earlier R16, the R24 can record eight-tracks simultaneously but with 24 instead of 16 track playback.

Like the R16, it can be used standalone, free from a computer, for you to record, mix and bounce down on. But connect it via USB to your PC or Mac and you have a DAW (or Digital Audio Workstation) controller, which should have no problem controlling most software out there, freeing you up from the keyboard and mouse.

Of course, for the price point and its jack of all trades nature, it doesn’t quite compete with a unit that is specific to one task. But for someone looking for an audio interface and a controller, the R24 is a really economical buy. You’ll get what you want for messing around on your computer, plus the ability to take it anywhere you want.

FENDER BLACKTOP SERIES GUITARS Zoom R24

As a standalone multi-track recorder I found it very easy to use and fairly in line with most other units out there. You can plug a mic, or guitar straight in and record some tracks, or use the stereo mics placed on the front of the unit to quickly capture ideas. I found the on board mics actually quite good, but of course they aren’t meant to be primary recording method.

For the price point, it has a surprising amount of lesser features. Like the six phantom powered ports and some actually pretty decent drum samples and loops out of the box. Some buttons have a general click and feel that is a bit cheap, but given the scope and price of the device it is forgiven. Like most multi-track recorders, it has a very small LCD for its display. But personally I think there’s something really rewarding about making a whole song on a little unit like this, and I have used much smaller screens in my time.

I’d easily recommend the R24 to someone either looking for just a multirecorder or someone just looking for a DAW controller for their home studio. You’ll get the feature you want, but with more features to future proof the device in your life.

The Zoom R24 has a RRP of $1000, and is available from Sound Centre Morley. _TOM VARIAN

EGNATER TWEAKER Amp legend Bruce Egnater has manufactured his own amps since 2007, and the Tweaker is his latest and, more importantly, cheapest model. Packing a small size and a cool retro look, it also delivers a big sound and classic tones. It’s also the most unassuming amp I have played.

The Tweaker is powered by two 6V6 valves and two 12AX7 preamp tubes, burning 15 watts of tube amplifiers – all pushing out one 12” 30 watt speaker. It doesn’t have any fancy, and, ahem, bullshit, amp modelling or digital presets, but as the name implies, the Tweaker is made to be tweaked. It has a couple of switches to change the tone, but the big one is the USA/AC/BRIT switch. This lets you go through three distinct, classic tones. At the USA setting it scoops out the mid-range for the classic Californian sound, but switch it to AC and you get some really nice mid-range overtones that is for the more British sound, and without saying Vox in the manual (for obvious legal reasons) it really is something akin to a Vox AC amp.

There’s also a clean/hot switch for controlling the gain and a bright/normal switch for bringing up the high tones and adding some nice crunch. Bottom line though is that at

any setting this amp has a lovely sound and really does sound like it looks – vintage boutique. If you push the tubes, you’ll get a really great distortion – very authentic and has a nice valve crunch to it that solid state just can’t match. It has a great clean signal too, very clean but with a lot of volume, all round a very versatile amp.

I t ’s surprisingly light and the combo unit only comes up to 20cm high, all up a really tight, little package, even as a separate head and cab stack. This thing is made for gigging, albeit in a micro amp form. Like a boutique Mesa but without the weight or the cost, the Tweaker has a small physical presence, but once you open it up you can get a surprising amount of sound out of it, easily enough for a smaller venue.

It’s available in a combo form, or just the head and cab separate.

These are the first Engater amps to be produced in China, instead of at his own store in Detroit. Some may view this as a bad thing, but you can still purchase a USA made Tourmaster or Rebel, just expect them to be very pricey and probably not stocked in Perth. The Tweaker brings his tech to a lower price point, and pits itself up against the ever popular Vox tube range. I’d say the Tweaker is comparable to a Vox AC15 or the Vox TSA Tube Screamer.

I left my time with the Egnater suitably impressed.

The head and speaker stack looks cute as hell and could give you some flexibility with using it in the future, but the combo unit is a tidy little pack age that could easily hold its own in a small venue.

The Egnater Tweaker is available now from Sound Centre Morley _TOM VARIAN

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A long-time favourite spanning generations of guitarists, Fender has produced some of the most iconic guitar designs – and therefore also o some of the most iconic guitar tones – in n music history.

There’s a Fender product forr virtually every style of guitar player, from lap ap steel sliders to heavy metal shredders. Thee new Blacktop Series guitars aim to please se rockers who want the classic Fender look ok with a little more bite.

E s s e n t i a l l y, t h e B l a c k to p s a re ars that feature retro-designed Fender guitars co humbuckers vintage-style Blacktop alnico rather than single coil pickups. The n the Blacktop models that have been given ster, Telecaster, treatment are the Stratocaster, r. Each model Jaguar, and the Jazzmaster. ost sports two humbuckers, most c o n t r o l l e d b y a t h r e e - w ay rat switch, excluding the Strat which sticks to the morehat traditional five-way switch. That side in itself sets these guitars aside able as more than just affordable ucts, Mexican-made Fender products, ckup as the alteration of the pickup configuration and toggle des switch capabilities provides nd an opportunity to create and blend new tones that are not ot possible on more traditional Fender instruments.

The Strat and t h e Te l e a r e a v a i l a b l e with maple or rosewood fretboards, the Jaguar a n d t h e J a z z m a s te r a re available in rosewood only..

A 9.5 inch neck radius and nd medium jumbo frets (21 or 22 depending on the model)) makes

this series of o guitar highly playable and perfect perfec for rock players and all-rounders. There are tones on the Telecaster and Jazzmaster that lend themselves ve very well to darker jazz tones too.

A e s t h e t i c a l l y s p e a k i n g, t h e s e guitars look the part, and one p a r t i c u l a r l y u n i q u e fe a t u re i s t h e addition of ski skirted amp-styled volume and tone cont controls, which really add to the hybrid feel that these guitars have.

As always, the guitars are finished and assembled to the usual impressive Fender standa standard. Colour options vary from model to model, but each guitar is available in at least two colours.

Most importantly, imp these guitars sound gorgeous. They are also a shining exam example of how much body shape effects effect tone, as despite the non-traditiona non-traditional pickup configurations, more experienced players will stil still most likely be able to ide identify these guitars on a rec recording.

The Blacktop Series guitars provide a per fect balance of the trad traditional, the innovative, and the affordable. The recommended retail price reco for each model is $949.

T h e Fe n d e r B l a c k t o p Series guitars were reviewed at Joondalup Music Centre. _CHRIS GIBBS Fender Blacktop Jaguar

CASIO PX-330 PRIVIA DIGITAL PIANO While mini-synths are r e c e i v i n g a n e w r e v i va l , Casio enter a new contestant with a big sound and an aggressive price point.

Packing Casio’s award winning keys, the PX-330 is cheaper than the PX-410 but has many of the same features.

Now the difference between a digital piano and a keyboard is kind of splitting hairs. But basically a digital piano to some degree is trying to emulate a real acoustic piano, while a keyboard is either a controller or a synthesiser but with more limited tone and timbre control. A good digital piano has a great key feel and a believable piano sound, whereas a synthesiser excels in more varied and effect driven sounds.

The PX-330 consists of Casio’s TriSensor 88-note scaled hammer keys – that is their expressive touch sensitive keys with the true feel, weight, and resistance of a real piano. Four dynamic layers of stereo piano samples in its linear morphing system, acoustic resonance DSP, four types of reverbs and choruses, pitch wheel bender, 128-note polyphony, and use of the damper pedal. This digital piano is perfect for both stage playing through an amp or PA system and for the studio as it has a USB MIDI interface.

It also has a 16-track recorder with 250 on-board sounds and 180 rhythms.

While the rhythms are cheesy, as one would expect, the 16 track recorder is really convenient for quickly capturing ideas. With one button press it’ll start recording, allowing you to make some quick backing tracks. It does also include internal speakers but these will only sound good at lower volumes so if you’re playing a show or with other musicians, you’ll obviously still want to amplify it.

Casio Px-330 Privia Digital Piano

Personally I’ve always liked digital pianos; they generally have a great feel to the keys (due to the extra care in emulating a weighted piano key) and can sound surprisingly good. My main problem with them has usually been their size and/or form factor. The PX-330 stands apart with as small a design as you can get with a full 88 keys and a great sound. The patches have some really great voicing, the grand piano especially sounding realistic. It has an amazing amount of subtly in its keys, with soft touches being communicated very nicely, along with hard hits. And plug in the USB for MIDI control and it becomes any other keyboard, albeit with very good velocity sensitivity.

At its price point, the PX-330 does make some sacrifices. It has a very small and limiting LCD screen, and its button configuration can leave a lot to be desired.

It is not very intuitive and to get the most out of it you’ll definitely have to consult the manual. And while it does have a split function, allowing you to assign two patches to the keyboard, split at a desired key, any effects you have on will get applied to both patches.

For someone in the market for a full scale digital piano, the PX-330 definitely has a lot to offer, and at an affordable price.

The Casio PX-330 has a RRP of $1,499.95 and is available now from Sound Centre Morley. _TOM VARIAN www.xpressmag.com.au

PRODUCT REVIEWS JINGLE ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK Cool Musical Stocking Fillers On A Budget As much as we’d like to, it’s unlikely that musicians will get a brand new guitar, drum kit, keyboard, or amp from Santa every single year. Luckily there’s always a sackful of musical accessories available over the Christmas season, from the highly functional and useful to the unique and curious.

Here’s a selection of what’s on offer this year:

RTOM MOONGEL DAMPER PAD

Drummers looking for an easier, classier and neater solution than the old patch of gaff tape to dampen or mute any unwanted sounds on their drums can now carry a tub of Moongel around in their stick PERRI’S MARVEL SUPERHERO bag. Essentially a putty, this substance is re-usable, and can be used to improve or alter tonality as GUITAR PICK SETS Spiderman, The Hulk, The Punisher, Iron Man, The required. When finished, just strip it off and whack THE GUITAR WHEEL Fantastic Four…the gang’s all here in these it back in the tub for next time. The Moongel Music Master Publishing have released the Guitar nifty, well-presented guitar pick collector’s Damper Pad retails for $19.95.

Wheel, a simple, flat rotating couple of discs that packs from Perri’s. Available in numerous can be used to decode chord spellings and scale combinations, there’s bound to be a pack that REMO THUNDER TUBE spellings for all key centres. There are two sides, suits your friendly neighbourhood guitar- Something completely off the wall (from On The one specifically for guitar, and the other for Wall Productions for Remo, no less) is the Thunder general music theory. This idea has been around slinger. Each pack retails for $6.95.

Tube. A hollow tube with a long spring attached, for a long time, and all of the information is the Thunder Tube can produce some bizarre available in theory books or online, but the Guitar FENDER ACOUSTIC AND sounds by shaking the spring and hitting the Wheel will fit into any gig bag or guitar case, and ELECTRIC GUITAR STANDS open end of the tube. This is exactly the sort of it is much more fun to use. This is an excellent tool Fender have gone even more compact with effect that recording artists could add into a mix for new players, music teachers, and the theorytheir mini acoustic and electric guitar stands to confound listeners. As the name suggests (and challenged. The Guitar Wheel retails for $29.95. which would fit into the neck of a guitar case. similar to the concept of a rain stick), with a little The Guitar Wheel These stands take a little more unfolding to practice a steady, rolling thunder-like sound can be use compared to the Hercules stands, but the produced. Everyone can have some fun with this payoff is the minimal space needed to store one! The Thunder Tube retails for $16.95.

HERCULES ACOUSTIC AND ELECTRIC GUITAR STANDS and transport these stands. Like I always say, Known for quality guitar stand accessories, Hercules have portable acoustic and electric guitar the shorter the load-in, the better the gig. All products were reviewed at Joondalup Music stands that are less than 30cm long and fold flat, thereby providing solid guitar support that could The acoustic stand retails for $32, the electric Centre. easily fit into a gig bag. These stands retail for $29.95. _CHRIS GIBBS stand is $30.

MARSHALL MA SERIES AMPLIFIERS Several years ago, the musical amplification market was flooded with numerous low-cost, relatively unknown products that provided power and pretty decent tone (in some cases) for musicians on a tight budget. The effect of course was that eventually larger, well-known companies had to respond with their own versions for the lower end of the market.

Marshall’s first foray into the affordable amp market was the MG series: transistor amps with digital effects that were available from 10 watt practice models right up to stage-ready 100 watt heads and speaker boxes. Now, with another market shift that has brought the price war to allvalve amplification, Marshall has again responded with the new all-valve MA series.

Designed as usual in the UK by the Marshall team, and built in Vietnam to keep the price down, the MA Series amps are allvalve, utilising a combination of ECC83 and EL34 valves for pre-amp and power-amp stages.

Although essentially two-channel amps (clean and overdrive), each model also features a boost function on the overdrive channel for extra gain during solos. The boost function and channel switching can be engaged using the included dual footswitch. Each amp also features reverb, which is unfortunately not footswitch-able.

One of the best features on this series of amplification, which is often overlooked, is individual EQ controls for the clean and overdrive channels, which eliminates the problem of having to juggle EQ sounds to find a happy medium when switching tones. Also often overlooked, an effects loop has been included on each amp in the MA series, which is vital for guitarists running modulation effects, particularly delays.

The combo models and the 4x12 quad box are loaded with newly-developed AX-75 speakers by Eminence. Tonally, there’s a lot on offer here, and most rock guitarists should be able to dial up their preferred sound without too much tweaking. As an entry-level all-valve option, or an alternative for musicians on a budget, the MA series delivers.

Visually, these amps look the part, the design having taken its cue from the more-classic Marshall look, apart from the addition of an ominous red glow from within the grills of the 100-watt and 50-watt heads.

The MA Series 100 watt combo retails for $1149 and the 50 watt version retails for $949. The 100 watt and 50 watt heads have a recommended retail price of $1249 and $1049 respectively, and the 200 watt 4x12 cabinet retails for $699.

The Marshall MA Series products were reviewed at Joondalup Music Centre. _CHRIS GIBBS

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MUSE Amusement Park Does that level of ambition come from having no limitations as a band and as performers? “Yeah, I think so,” Wolstenholme ponders. “I quite often feel that when I listen to the radio, there’s a lot of bands that kind of stick to a very palatable formula, which kind of works for some bands but I don’t think that would ever work for us. Because we like to experiment; we like to try different things, and it’s not always with the intention of it being a song; it’s for our own personal enjoyment. Even at a very young age – when we were 14 or 15 – some of the things that we used to jam in rehearsal were pretty out there and we always wanted to have that element to us where we could be ambitious with our instruments and the sounds that we were creating, but at the same time we wanted to have this element that it was still music that was listenable.

“Because you get some bands who are all about melody and nice chords and writing pop songs,” he continues, “which is great and that’s what successful music has been all about for the last 40 or 50 years. But for us, we always wanted to take it a little bit deeper where we could maybe do stuff that was overly ambitious while retaining that element of melody; something that people can listen to and not forget. And I think it’s very easy to go the other way as well – you see a lot of bands where it’s all about the instrumentation and it’s about how technical they are on their instruments, but sometimes you forget that there’s a song underneath as well and you forget that people need a good melody to sing along to. We’ve always tried to combine a little bit of both.”

Lest we forget, Muse brought their fifth album to a stunning finale with a three-part symphony – could it possibly get more surprising than Exogenesis on Muse’s sixth album? “Well I hope so,” Wolstenholme asserts. “That symphony was almost a little bit out of our league, really, in terms of being a rock band. It was very, very difficult to put together and the way Matt wrote that song, it would’ve worked equally as well if it was a piece of classical music. And obviously we wanted to take something like that and somehow turn it into a song that could be played as a band.

“The way we recorded it was completely different to how we recorded anything else...when you set yourself a challenge – no matter how difficult it is – and you finally pull it off, and people listen to them and go ‘yeah, that’s great’, then I think

they’re the songs that are the most rewarding, because you know you’ve had to push yourself as a musician to get it to where it was supposed to be.

And for me, they’re the ones that I feel great about when people turn around and say ‘the symphony is the best song on the album’, because you know that you had to work your arse off for it to sound like that’,” he chortles.

“We’ve not worked on any new music yet but I know that when we get into the studio, that will be the aim,” he says of the need to surprise listeners. “For us, it’s always a case of ‘we don’t all know exactly what musical direction we’re going to take, but we always know that we want to do something new’. We want to make an album that’s different to our last one and we want to make an album that we feel is better. That ambition for the next album is the one thing that will never change.

We’re never just gonna come out and write an album that has 10 three-minute pop songs. With each album, there’s always at least one or two songs that take it into a whole new realm.”

Wolstenholme states that the desire to return to the studio is always there despite the importance of their live performance. It’s simply a matter of giving new material the time and space that it deserves. “It’s difficult to play new songs in the set now because as soon as you play them live, someone’s recorded them on their phone and it’s all over the internet,” he notes with a laugh, “and I don’t think that’s the best way for people to hear a new song for the first time. We’ve been on tour since last September; we’ve never had a significant break really, so we wrap up in Australia and there’s a few little bits we may do next year. But whatever gigs we do next year will be very minimal.

“We’ll probably start writing the new album towards the end of next year,” Wolstenholme informs, “with a view to get it out in 2012. But I don’t feel there’s a rush for us to get a new album out; we’ve been on tour for a long time and I think it might be a good time for the band to take a break for a while and then do an album in our own time and feel like we’re not rushed and feel like we can be creative.

“And we’re all talking about potentially moving back to London as well. So if we all live in London, that will be the first time we’ve lived in the same place for 12 years, which will be great for all of us. Because then we can work from home, which is something we haven’t had the luxury of doing.”

JOONDALUP MUSIC CENTRE

Joondalup Music Centre’s acoustic guitar wall

Every musician knows how refreshing it is to walk into a music shop and experience service that blows you away with enthusiasm and knowledge. Joondalup Music Centre has got the recipe right, and a visit to their new superstore confirms just that. The big advantage is that all of their sales people are practicing musicians, so they truly understand the needs and the dreams of professional and aspiring musos – from rock guitarists to concert pianists.

What’s more, they are let loose in the store with literally thousands of the world’s finest instruments at their disposal covering every price and ability range. So when you walk through the door, you’re welcomed immediately by people who are completely at home with what they are selling. They can’t wait to share their knowledge and love of music, and they want to give you their undivided attention.

One of the biggest music shops in Perth, Joondalup Music Centre boasts a two storey acoustic guitar section and a whole floor just for drums and percussion instruments. You’ll find music-loving sales people among the huge range of electric guitars as well as in the brass and woodwind section.

With such brand names as Fender, Gibson, Yamaha, Ibanez, Roland and Marshall, among others, around them, it’s little surprise they love their jobs so much. They may even tell you about the $10,000 worth of prizes that are up for grabs from Yamaha (go to www. joondalupmusic.com.au for details).

Even if you don’t play an instrument, you’ll still be excited by the recording and special effects equipment and PA systems here.

If you want to learn to play an instrument – or even sing - the store has two music schools attached. In fact, one of the vocal teachers is Australian Idol finalist Chelsea Gibson.

Essentially, when you walk through the doors at Joondalup Music Centre, you’ll discover people who have music in their blood, and who are passionate about helping you reach your musical dreams.

So the next time you hear someone singing about getting no satisfaction, you can be sure they haven’t been to Joondalup Music Centre - yet!

Plus their other shop Mindarie Music Centre in Clarkson is having a closing down sale, so get on down for a bargain!

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Playing records ever since he star ted FunkTrust 10 years ago, Will Styles is the latest DJ to endorse Stanton. Known for his DubRave nights which combine lasers, air-horns, dubstep, jungle and rave to equal a party like no other, Styles has also cohosted Radio FunkTrust every Friday night on Triple J since 2006. He’s even got an award named after him for the person making the biggest on air gaffe on the station each week. Just to keep busy, he also releases records through his two labels, DubRave and FunkTrust. Having remixed the likes of Arrested Development, MC Shureshock and The Nextmen, as well as worked in the studio with The Gazillionaires, Malente and Nick Thayer, Styles’ endorsement of Stanton DJ equipment is a major coup for the company.

Novation UltraNova Synth

A new generation of Novation’s iconic ‘Nova’ range of synthesisers, the UltraNova packs the massive sound the brand is revered for into a compact body with a built-in vocoder. An analogue-modelling synthesiser with a powerful effects processor, it is a single-part synth taking the legendary SuperNova II synth engine as a starting point and packing it with the latest and greatest in technology.

With brand new features including wavetable synthesis, even more powerful filters, a software editor and a revolutionary touch-sense performance mode, the UltraNova brings the Novation range right up to date with a host of new features and a more affordable price tag.

The synth engine comes with 300 onboard patches you can play and perform with straight away, but it also has a powerful synth engine derived from the classic big synth, the SuperNova II. Add that to the ability to shape and explore sounds with encoders and buttons using hands-on sound-shaping and it’s significantly easier than other synths where the parameters are buried deep within the machine’s architecture.

With the UltraNova’s touch sensitive encoders, you can even touch more than one at a time.

The UltraNova has a recommended retail price of $1199, but you can get it for $1099 at the DJ Factory in Northbridge.

DJ FACTORY

Open for over 10 years and run by three passionate owners in Adam & Sam Pizzata and Ken “DJ Kenny L” Lockhart, the DJ Factory is a music shop focussing on the sales of music production gear, PA sound systems, FX lighting, electronic music, vinyl sales and of course all your DJ gear requirements.

As far as DJ gear is required, they’ve got vinyl turntables, CDJ systems, digital systems, controllers, headphones, needles a n d m o re, w h i l e m o n i to r speakers, MIDI controllers, software, synthesisers, stands, hardware and cables are also inside their Northbridge shop.

Whether you are just starting out or a professional in the music industry, the DJ Factory can help you find just what you require in music technology, and that’s why they’ve got so many satisfied customers. They’re open from 10am until 6pm from Monday to Saturday.

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