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The Go! Team

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Brighton’s sonic patchwork-pop juggernaut The Go! Team will be returning to Australia in May for Groovin’ The Moo, and will be bringing the party to Perth on their Rolling Blackouts Tour. Playing tracks from their inspired album Rolling Blackouts, don’t get left behind when The Go! Team take audiences on an epic audio adventure on Friday, May 13, at The Bakery. Tickets are available from Friday, February 18, at handsometours.com, nowbaking.com.au and heatseeker.com.au.

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I am never one to poo poo a good ol’ conspiracy theory. Tony Abbott is an extraterrestrial reincarnation of Rasputin from Planet Nutjob sent to destroy secular sanity – I’ll buy that. Steve Fielding is in fact a nice bloke with a functioning conscience – hmmmm, only mildly plausible. Julia Gillard is actually a robot, as evident in her steel demeanour – well, that’s just damn well crazy talk!

Australia’s obsession with Julia Gillard’s mannerisms has me genuinely boggled. She lacks emotion – so what? She’s wooden – who bloody cares? She articulates in monotone – well, blow me down! Now, I may have missed that particular referendum while otherwise occupied at Finishing School, but since when did Prime Ministership become a Miss Universe pageant? I can just picture it now: ‘And here comes Australia’s sprightly young entry Julia, wearing a bikini inspired by the Australian flag and proudly sporting a Southern Cross tattoo just above her arse cheek. And look at that smile – so natural. What a lass. Well done Australia.’

If I am other wise mistaken, the Prime Minister was elected from the majority party to lead the country. The Prime Ministerial oath doesn’t seem to mention anything about belly laughs, big white teeth, back slappin’, warm colloquialisms and overcooked empathy. I don’t know about you, but I’d much prefer a down-to-business Prime Minister than one obsessed with their image. It’s a tough job… Australian Idol this is, thankfully, not!

The celebrated Australian PM John Curtin would be truly mortified to witness what a farce political commentary has become in this country. Widely considered our greatest leader, Curtin suffered through alcoholism and depression to lead our country through war and into good fortune.

And, the sombre truth is, if a person of his exceptional calibre – and temperament – were to enlist to serve their country’s parliament today in its highest office they’d be mauled alive by a constituency (and media) plagued by vanity.

So it’s a leader with character you want? Well, you could always emigrate to Italy – we hear Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is desperately seeking new supporters (only scantly clad women need apply). He may have fatally mismanaged Italy’s economy and dumped career politicians in favour of ex-models and TV talk show hosts… but personality; he’s got that in spades! _JULIAN TOMPKIN

BOOKY! EARL

Time can get away from you when in the throng of euphoria at your favourite festival. We’ve all been there – rockin’ out with new friends only to suddenly realise your favourite band is already halfway through their set… on the other side of the festival ground! Well, thanks to Drug Aware and X-Press, such travesties are a thing of the past with My Line Up. As well as running a detailed spread of maps and playing times the week of all of WA’s major festivals, we’ve also developed a fandangle system that sends you an SMS 10 minutes before each of your chosen bands hits the stage – and even which stage to go to! And the best thing: it’s free and damn simple to use. Just head to xpressmag. com.au, click on ‘My Line Up’, sign in, select your favourite bands and shebang – festival efficiency is yours! The first festival off the rank this week: the mighty St. Jerome’s Laneway. Turn to page 32 for pull-out maps and playtimes, and hit up xpressmag.com.au to plan the best day of your life!

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After its launch in Australia last year, Creamfields is back bigger and better for Easter 2011! And we’re thrilled to reveal that the headliner for 2011 will be Deadmau5 with the full live show by the people who brought the world Daft Punks’ legendary live show! Joining him will be Frenchman Martin Solveig, wielder of dirty bass-music Skrillex, Simon Patterson, Gabriel & Dresden, Hi Tek Soul, Bingo Players, Surkin, Umek and many more! It’s locked in for Saturday, April 23, at Claremont Showground. Head to creamfields.com.au for more details and ticket info.

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Following news that the Kings Of Leon tour has been postponed after drummer Nathan Followill needed surgery on a torn labrum and bicep, doctors have given the okay and a new date has been set in stone. So mark Saturday, November 19, in your diary and head to NIB Stadium. Punters unable to attend the rescheduled dates can seek a refund prior to COB on Friday, February 18. Hit up frontiertouring.com for further details regarding ticket allocations and refunds. Any remaining tickets to the concerts will be released for sale on Wednesday, February 23, at 9am local time.

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SUBLIME SUFJAN

great introductory performance, and to everyone who was there for being the best Perth audience I have been part of for years. And of course, to Mr Dear X-Press, Sufjan Stevens and his band for providing one of Just wanted to share my amazing experience last the most memorable shows I will ever see. Judging by the ten minute standing ovation, I don’t think night...

Walking down Rokeby Road on a I’m alone!

Thursday night to see one of my favourite artists, Sufjan Stevens, I was expecting something special. Maz But what I experienced over the next three hours Mt Lawley was just incredible!

Sufjan and his 10-strong band put on FESTIVAL FUN the most amazing performance I have seen for a long time. Between the neon outfits, the perfectly Dear X-Press and the BDO, crafted AV show, the back-up dancers and the surprisingly tight sound, at times my only reaction I would like to express my enjoyment of this year’s was to laugh at the sheer exuberance of it all!

BDO. Unfortunate for the festival that it wasn’t sold Even as a die hard fan of Stevens’ older, out, but what a win for the festival goers! The lines more folksy records, I thought the electronic-heavy for food, drinks and toilets were quick and easy, the show was absolutely perfect. His ability to turn way it should be! Getting to and from stages was a seated theatre in to a dance party (complete also a smooth ride without too many dickheads with balloons and glitter) and back to a silent and pushing and shoving and rubbing their man awe-struck audience within the same song (albeit sweat over everybody. a 25 minute one) was astounding. Despite only Rammstein were by far the loudest band knowing three of the songs performed, I wouldn’t I have ever heard at a BDO and what spectacle to have changed a thing. watch, most impressive. By far the band of the I would like to say a huge thanks to the day for me was Tool. They pull off some of the folk at the Regal for providing such a beautiful most technical music live, which showed a level and intimate venue, to Sean Pollard for giving a of musicianship beyond any other band, and

amazing visuals and lasers to accompany the songs. Danny Carey, the drummer for Tool kicked arse with his drum solo and the rest of the band are just fucking amazing.

Last but not least, it was great to see two WA bands on the main stage playing late in the day, congratulations to these hard working awesome musicians, Birds Of Tokyo were are real treat. Thanks BDO for another great festival with such a broad array of awesome music!

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ROLL THE DRUMS

New York indie pop kids The Drums are set to return to Australian shores in April/May, performing at the Groovin’ The Moo five stop regional festival extravaganza and in their own headline shows around the country, including the Astor Theatre in Perth on Thursday, May 12. Their insanely infectious tunes saw their self-titled debut album reach NME’s top albums of 2010 list so don’t miss this. Plus, frontman Pierce has some insane dance moves. Tickets go on sale Thursday, February 17.

SEASON BREAK

Perth has just been through its driest winter on record. This has hit our farmers pretty hard, but the Shire Of Kellerberrin is looking to turn things around with a huge event called Season Break. Season Break is a festival of music, fun, food and farming culture. On Saturday, April 9, and Sunday, April 10, this two day event will bring together thousands of country people and city folk to play up a storm with high profile Australian music acts, including Gyroscope and Baby Animals, plus interactive farming displays, family fun and fine local food and produce. Head to seasonbreak.com.au for more info.

ONE IN A MILL

Scandinavian folk rocker Nikola Sarcevic, better known as frontman for Swedish punk band Millencolin, will be performing an exclusive acoustic set at the Rosemount Hotel in Perth on Sunday, March 6. Jimmy and Steve from Kerb, one of Perth’s favourite pioneering punk bands of the ’90s/2000s, are coming out of the woodwork to perform a very special acoustic set in a classic Kerb style from their albums Nobody Here But Us Walruses (1998) and 3 Chords And The Truth (2004), to provide support for Nikola Sarcevic.

Millencolin and Kerb on the same bill? Yes please! Tickets are available from 78 Records, Mills and Planet Video.

HIP HOP PLANET

Californian underground MC Planet Asia teams up with fellow hip hop purveyor Copywrite for an Au s t r a l i a n t o u r showcasing their fine talent and lyrical expertise.

Both well respected MC Planet Asia artists in their field, they have collaborated with the likes of Linkin Park, Sean Price, Talib Kweli, Tupac, Ghostface Killah and between them have won Grammy Awards, Source Magazine Awards and Ohio Hip Hop Awards. These two wordsmiths hit the Rosemount Hotel on Friday, February 25.

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They’ll be blowing the roof off The Rosemount Hotel on Wednesday, June 8.

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Escape The Fate is on the high road to superstardom. Hailing from Las Vegas, they deliver an anthemic melding of melody and metal, which critics call “…stunning, absolutely insane”. Joining them on their Aussie rampage is post-hardcore darlings Pierce The Veil. The Astor Theatre is preparing for this ball-tearing gig on Sunday, April 24, with tickets going on sale this Friday, February 11, through BOCS or Ticketek.

AND THE NOMINEES ARE… I WANNA GIVE IT

A combination of fresh faces and familiar names have dominated the early career nominations at the 24th WA Screen Awards. Many former WA Screen Award nominees such as Elissa Down (Writer/Director, Black Balloon) have gone on to forge bright careers in the local, national and international film industry. A full list of nominees is available from wascreenawards.com.au. Tickets to the WA Screen Awards are currently available through the Film & Television Institute at fti.asn. au. The WA public are also encouraged to vote for their favourite, with screenings of all the nominees taking place at the Bohemia Outdoor Film Festival on February 8, 10, 15 and 17.

February sees two of Australia’s most loved and talented metal bands tour across the country for a run of dates that is sure to be one of the most anticipated tours in the Australian metal calendar. The I Wanna Give It Tour features the unrelenting brutality of Resist The Thought and the melodic, crushingly heavy metalcore of Buried In Verona. Both bands are on the verge of conquering the world, so don’t miss this!

They’ll be playing Amplifier Bar on Friday, February 25 (18+), and Leederville YMCA HQ (all ages) on Saturday, February 26.

GO NORTH

The 2011 Nukara Music Festival is raring to go again for its sixth instalment on Saturday, March 19. Don’t miss this excellent and varied line-up of musical offerings from blues, soul, rock, reggae, Celtic, country and folk bands set against the picturesque gum trees at Nukara Farm in the Chapman Valley near Geraldton.

USA bluesman Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Bridges will be one of the main acts in an event that includes Fremantle’s funky/reggae/dance band Dilip & The Davs and the blues/rock of Melbourne’s The Jarrah Thompson Band. The festival is a casual and intimate affair with only 600 tickets available. Tickets are available now from (08) 99214821 for credit card sales, and are available until 2pm on Saturday, March 19, if not sold out. The Nukara Music Festival sold out early in 2010 and this year is sure to do the same!

DINGOES HOWL

The Dingoes are arguably one of the greatest bands Australia has ever produced. They were true innovators and had a huge influence on the many bands that followed, and were rewarded with their 2009 induction into the ARIA Hall Of Fame. A special double CD set Live At Last features every classic Dingoes track alongside a healthy list of songs from the most recently recorded Tracks album. The Dingoes are embarking on a final national tour to celebrate this live release (and we aren’t talking ‘John Farnham’ final, either). The Dingoes will be playing alongside fellow legends Joe Cocker, George Thorogood and Diesel at Sir James Mitchell Park on Saturday February 19. You can get your tickets from Ticketmaster.

THE FUTURE With a little over a month to go before Future Music tears through major cities around the nation, the already epic line-up of stellar artists, DJs and bands just got even bigger. A prodigious trio of heavy-hitting home-grown stars – Tame Impala, Flight Facilities and Gypsy & The Cat – are now joining the party! FMF hits Perth on Sunday, March 6, at Arena Joondalup and looks like being a sell-out. Don’t dally!

O DAY YAY

After its cancellation following the threat of a cyclone last month, The Perth Cultural Centre’s O Day has been re-scheduled. The feast of free entertainment and activities to celebrate the opening of the State Theatre Centre, Fringe World and revitalised arts and cultural hub is now on Sunday, February 20. A major feature of O Day is the Made On The Left local designer market and a selection of acoustic folk and roots artists performing from the WA Folk Federation.

It’ll be running from 10am ‘til 4pm in the Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge.

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NEW VIBES

In news just in, Aloe Blacc & The Grand Scheme are joining the line-up for the 2011 Good Vibrations Festival! Often likened to a contemporary Marvin Gaye or Bill Withers, US maverick Aloe Blacc’s style of rich, expressive soul has gained him a legion of fans all over the globe. Aloe Blacc will be joining already announced headliners like Faithless, Phoenix, Nas & Damian Marley, Sasha, Ludacris, The Ting Tings, Miike Snow and Friendly Fires, as well as a whole host of locals. Head to gvf.com.au for the full list of artists playing.

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The Butterfly Effect

HARD AS BUTTER

Brisbane based rockers The Butterfly Effect will take time out from writing and recording demos for their highly anticipated fourth album, to play a series of shows in Western Australia in April. The Butterfly Effect, now into their 10th year as a performing band, have played over 1000 shows, have three Gold albums and over 250,000 sales to their credit. They’ll be playing Wednesday, April 20, at Settlers Tavern in Margaret River; Thursday, April 21, at Studio 146 in Albany; Saturday, April 23, at The Prince Of Wales in Bunbury; and Sunday, April 24, at Metropolis Fremantle.

Dead Letter Circus have announced new tour dates hot on the heels of their blazing shows at the Big Day Out. Their debut album This Is The Warning hit #2 on the ARIA charts earlier in the year, and DLC are also currently devoting their time to writing new material for their follow up record. Don’t miss your chance to see them live before they head into the studio to track more mind-blowing cosmic alt rock anthems. They play Friday, April 8, at Metropolis Fremantle. You can find tickets at all Heatseeker outlets and online.

GOOD UNKLE Acclaimed UK outfit UNKLE, led by artistic genius James Lavelle, will be touring on the back of their fourth studio album, Where Did The Night Fall, with a full live band. The tour will include appearances at Groovin’ The Moo nationally, as well as a headline show here in Perth at The Bakery on Wednesday, May 11. Good times.

BELLE AGAIN

It’s been a long wait for fans to delight in the delicious return of supremely talented Scottish indie-pop combo Belle & Sebastian.

These charming Glaswegians have announced a second show for Perth, wrapping-up their long-awaited tour on Friday, March 18, and Saturday, March 19 at The Astor Theatre.

Tickets go on-sale today, Thursday, February 10, through BOCS.

Nevermore

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With instruments and surfboards in tow, Donavon Frankenreiter and his band are preparing to make their way from coast to coast this March for an extensive tour, following the release of his fourth album, Glow. He brings his upbeat, infectious grooves to Amplifier Bar on Wednesday, March 9; Settlers Tavern in Margaret River on Thursday, March 10; and the Fly By Night on Saturday, March 12.

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“I HAVE NO BAD STORIES TO TELL ABOUT ELVIS; I WAS FORTUNATE EVEN TO KNOW HIM AND WORK WITH HIM AND EVEN TO DATE HIM… I WAS 17; THIS WAS FRESH, NEW MUSIC THAT WAS SWEEPING OUR NATION AND EVENTUALLY THE WHOLE WORLD. HOW EXCITING COULD THAT BE FOR A KID WHO JUST GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL?”

WANDA JACKSON Return of the Queen

Rock’n’roll wasn’t even a twinkle in its father’s eye when a 17-year old Wanda Jackson first came into the public eye.

While she was still in high school, the Oklahoma City native had a hit on the country charts with You Can’t Have My Love.

As soon as school was out, she was touring the USA; often sharing bills with Elvis Presley.

did three concerts. One in New York City and two in Hollywood. They were all sold out within five to 30 minutes, so we had to add a whole night to California because it sold out so fast. So we added another night and it sold out as well!

What I’m thinking is that this young man, who is so popular these days, to tour with me, he brings his group of fans and I bring mine, and it’s a way of introducing me to another new generation. That’s what makes it so wonderful.

We work together so well, and have a lot of fun on our shows.

How does he compare to some of the bands you worked with 50 years ago?

You have to remember that 50 years ago I used a band with four pieces and when you go from a band with four pieces to 12… I love big bands. I’ve always loved a variety of music; which is why I’ve recorded so many different types. But this band was without a doubt the finest band that I have ever worked with.

Wanda Jackson

The two briefly became an item and the King even convinced Jackson to switch to rockabilly.

A video of Jackson performing the Elvis song Hard Headed Woman in 1958 and reversing the meaning of the song without changing the words shows her well on her way to becoming the Queen Of Rockabilly – a title she earned when Let’s Have A Party put her on the map in 1959, becoming a top 40 pop hit.

In the time that followed the mid-‘60s, she again broadened her horizons and again had a string of hits with country ditties, gospel songs and even the odd foreign language song. A middle age spent as a chart topper in Germany, Las Vegas star attraction and television show host soon followed.

In recent decades she’s continued to tour and a renewed interest in rockabilly has kept her busy. In 2009, it was announced that she was going to start work on a new album with Jack White, who’s known for his work in the dearly departed White Stripes, Raconteurs and Dead Weather, and is also an accomplished record producer, having worked with another 70-something in Loretta Lynn on 2004’s Van Lear Rose, in addition to all of his band’s records.

Now, at age 73, Wanda Jackson is back in the spotlight and it sounds like she loves every minute of it.

By MATTHEW HOGAN How did you meet Jack White and why did you decide to work with him on this album?

It was fate (laughs). My husband, my publicist and I were speaking one night after a dinner, kicking around ideas for a new album; if we got an offer from a record company. I’m not signed exclusively to any record company

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anymore, but if someone came along we wanted to have some thing in mind.

So we had settled on doing a ‘Wanda and friends’ album, where we would bring in other artists and we’d do duets together. So, in Nashville, one of our publicist’s friends heard about the idea and said, ‘Be sure that you call Jack White, because he is a big fan of Wanda’s’.

Our publicist John got right on the phone to him and asked if he would be interested and Jack very politely said that he wouldn’t be interested… in doing a duet with me. Then Jack said, ‘But I would be very interested in recording her on my record label’.

At that point things began to get exciting; my publicist said that I was open to doing a new album at any time and that he should call me and see if I would be interested. So in the meantime I was looking up who Jack White was. I had heard the name, but I didn’t know his music and I knew that he was very popular.

Are they breathing new life into your old tracks as well?

When we do a concert together they have to work up my older material, and in doing so Jack did not want to record Funnel Of Love; he may further down the track, but not on this album. But he just suggested we do it on Conan, because he is such a fan of the era that we should play Funnel Of Love [White also recorded and released a Conan O’Brien rockabilly album last year]. So once again I went along with him, and said, ‘Okay, I’m letting you call the shots’, and that’s how that happened.

him very excited, because he was a long- It has to be asked, what do you remember standing fan of mine. I turned out to be a about working with Elvis Presley back in wonderful experience for both of us. the ’50s?

They are all good memories. I have no Which tracks did you want to record? Which bad stories to tell about Elvis; I was fortunate ones did you bring to the table? even to know him and work with him and even There was an Elvis Presley song called to date him. With all the different things that I Like A Baby. I loved that song, and of course the do these days, people still ask a lot of questions way that he sang it no one can match. I wanted about Elvis and I’m just happy to say that all my to record that, and also Teach Me Tonight by the memories of those days were fun. You know, Castro Sisters which is a recording from the ‘50s I was 17; this was fresh, new music that was that I really loved. Blue Yodel Number 6, which sweeping our nation and eventually the whole Jack chose to do as the last song on the album world. How exciting could that be for a kid who with nothing but an acoustic guitar. It really just graduated from high school? showed his versatility, as well as mine.

Working with this young man whose He wanted to do an album which career is just exploding around him… it’s encompassed the full spectrum of my career. beyond words; it really is. He did me a lot of There’s country songs in there, rock songs, good. I learnt a lot from Elvis, and he was the one gospel. It’s a well rounded album, and if you who encouraged me to try this kind of music; listen to it you’re bound to find something that without that, I probably would’ve just stayed you like; something that you relate to. How do in country music, but he made me believe in you like the album? myself that I could stretch and do more than what I thought I could. I will be forever grateful It’s great. I’ve been watching the YouTube to Elvis for giving me that courage. videos of you on Conan and Letterman in the past week… there’s so much high energy!

And it will be your 50th wedding anniversary Oh I’m telling you, yeah! It was this year? wonderful working with all those wonderful It will be, in October, you’re right! Fifty young musicians. I don’t want to go back to years with the same man. How about that! working with my little band now. No, not really (laughs). There’s a band in Australia that I’ve been lucky enough to use, called Itchy Fingers. They’re young enough that they have a high energy in their shows, but also old enough to know my music, you know?

What did you listen to get familiar with him?

I got one of his albums and listened to that, and he wasn’t as far out as some of them are (laughs). So I thought, ‘Okay, I think I can work with this guy’. So when he did call we discussed his idea for an album. Because I live in Oklahoma and he lives in Tennessee we had to email ideas back and forth; just ideas for the album.

After we worked out the business of contacts we started working on the material, and I really gave him permission to select all the songs.

He didn’t however; I had my choice in about three songs. He had to like them too or that wouldn’t have happened, because I told him, ‘I don’t know today’s market, and I don’t know what my fans Are you planning on doing much touring for want, or whether they want anything! So I’m just this album? going to put my career in your hands’.

I just got back from a tour with Jack Instead of frightening him that got when we did Letterman and Conan, but we also

Wanda with Jack White

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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT In Her Own Wright

Martha Wainwright returns to Australia to play Beck’s Music Box, as part of the Perth International Arts Festival, over two nights on Monday, February 21, and Tuesday, February 22. OLIVER DOWNES gets a moment with the enigmatic mistress of song.

In the oft-played musical game of Whose Yards Were Done The Hardest, Edith Piaf must surely come out on top: parental abandonment, an abject childhood amongst her grandmother’s stable of prostitutes, singing for her supper on the streets of Paris, goodness knows how many failed love affairs, multiple car accidents, substance abuse, and a long, agonising premature death to top it all off.

Indeed, her biography presents a lay down misére of uncompromising sufferance for art; a life spent at the coalface of reality producing one of the most spectacular pop catalogues of the last century.

There’re certainly worse acts to ape. For Martha Wainwright, Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A Paris: Martha Wainwright’s Piaf Record, her live-recorded 2009 homage to the diminutive French songstress, was as much a welcome respite from her own material as the product of a lifetime love of the little sparrow.

“My brother introduced me to her music

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“I THINK THAT I PARTICULARLY HURT MY FATHER’S FEELINGS

BY WRITING BLOODY MOTHER FUCKING ASSHOLE AND TELLING PEOPLE IT WAS ABOUT HIM… AS YOU GET OLDER YOU HAVE TO BE A BIT MORE CAREFUL THAT YOU DON’T SHIT ON PEOPLE ALL THE TIME.”

via my mother’s record collection when I was eight or so,”Wainwright explains, on the phone from her Brooklyn brownstone ahead of her forthcoming Australian tour. “I was completely excited by her abandon, her reckless abandon in her vocals. She quickly became my favourite singer… I admire her for wearing her heart on her sleeve and for, y’know, destroying herself for her art and for her audience. I suppose that she really seems to have given herself over completely to music… which is kind of amazing.”

Though she shows no sign of wishing to emulate Piaf in this respect, Wainwright has certainly passed through her own share of upheavals in the past 12 months. Having given birth to her first child in late 2009, joy became quickly mingled with anguish after the death of her mother, the late, great Kate McGarrigle, several weeks later. One year on and, although the demands of motherhood provide some daily sense of purpose (young Arcangelo is on the verge of crawling, though this remains somewhat difficult as “he’s really quite substantial”), grief continues to make its presence felt; the catharsis of songwriting following only gradually.

“It’s been pretty hard for me to write, ’cause I already write pretty depressing songs.”

Wainwright offers. “After my mum died I’d pick up the guitar and it was just too much. Now things are starting to calm a little bit. Because all I really think about as a songwriter is what’s happened to me… that’s obviously what the new stuff seems to be about: Kate, really.”

That personal tragedy is feeding the creative process should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Ms Wainwright’s previous material; she’s never been shy of feeding the

Martha Wainwright

grist of life’s downsides into the songwriting mill. Walking aside the long shadow cast by the incomparable talent of her Judy Garland-singing, opera-composing, prima donna brother Rufus, Wainwright began to cast a pretty lengthy one of her own with the titanic emotional swell of her 2005 self-titled debut (“she’s pulling bigger crowds than I am, these days,” Rufus remarked on his recent visit to Australia).

Making an immediate impact thanks to a pair of lungs capable of turning sultry purrs to an unhinged snarl within the same phrase, it was soon followed by the inimitably-titled followup I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too (2007), in which the stark confessionals of the first record gave way to more sophisticated imagery and a richer harmonic palette. Through all, drawing something of worth from the dregs of her experience has remained a constant.

“That first record came out of songs I’d written between the ages of 18 and 24, where it’s very much a naval gazing period. So for the second record, although they are just as personal, they’re kind of more couched,” she explains. “I make it a little less obvious, but in truth they’re actually almost just as autobiographical – they’re just more abstract. But in the second record, the people who are referenced in the songs certainly know who they are! They recognise themselves for better or for worse, but I thought it would be good not to let anyone else know.”

Indeed, Wainwright has learnt the hard way about the pitfalls of throwing her dirty laundry around the public sphere, as it’s hard to control where it lands.

“I think that I particularly hurt my father’s feelings by writing Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole and telling people it was about him… As you get older you have to be a bit more careful that you don’t shit on people all the time.”

It’s no wonder then that, with the release of Sans Fusils…, Wainwright has found the urge to slip into somebody else’s musical clothing difficult to resist. “I always have sung covers because I’m not terribly prolific,” she says, in a by-now standard claim of songwriting amateurism that always fails to convince. “I love to sing other people’s songs which are often times better crafted than my own, so I think it’s a good idea. My songs are so personal that it’s kind of a relief sometimes to sing about something else other than my own exact experience.”

Good news for audiences keen to hear Piaf classics delivered by someone well aware both of the act she has to follow, and the transfiguring power of music in hard times.“Even though I did not try and conjure [Piaf] up, before performing the songs or recording the songs in the life performance, she automatically seems to show up in the room anyway, every time. She’s hard to run away from, and I’m very glad for that.”

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DE LA SOUL

Return Of The Dead New York hip hop trio De La Soul have changed the world.

Formed in 1987, the young boys back then altered the cultural landscape of hip hop with their eclectic wordplay and material that pushed the boundaries of so called‘traditional hip hop’ banter. ANNABEL MACLEAN talks to Kelvin Mercer, aka Posdnuos/Plug One about the many monikers the boys go by, the evolution of the D.A.I.S.Y acronym and what it’s like to revisit material created 20 years ago ahead of their De La Soul Is Dead 20th anniversary tour show at Metro City on Saturday, February 12.

Kelvin Mercer is rarely addressed as such.

‘Plug One’ and ‘Posdnuos’ are more familiar to the MC, rapper and producer. ‘Posdnuos’ is pronounced “like you eat pasta and a noose around your neck, so pasta-noose,” according to Mercer.

But Mercer isn’t the only one who goes by several monikers, fellow hip hop master Dave Jolicoeur goes by ‘Plug Two’ and Vincent Mason goes by ‘Plug Three’. These monikers came about when boys released Plug Tunin’ from their debut album 3 Feet High And Rising in 1989. “The actual song was a routine,” Mercer begins. “It was us looking up to the rappers of our time that we

respected. We just had a chant ‘plug one, plug two’ so it just happened to be that I was the one who got chosen to say plug one. It was never meant to be like that but people actually started identifying us like that.”

3 Feet High And Rising introduced De La Soul to the world as the fresh, young, comedic hip hop trio. The colourful artwork on the album cover featuring cartoon flowers was all part of the trio’s introduction of the DA.I.S.Y concept; an acronym for “da inner soul y’all” which the group used to describe their feelings behind the music.

“We were walking out of a department store into the main mall,” Mercer explains. “Dave

happened to glance over at the sleepwear section and he saw this pyjama shirt with Mini Mouse standing there with a daisy in her hand and he was like ‘call it daisy’. We had already named ourselves De La Soul so to say that our production company was from the inner soul of our hearts; that was cool, it all kind of naturally aligned.”

But the boys haven’t agreed on everything throughout their 20-plus year career.

Mercer, however, sees only positives from these

De La Soul differing visions and ideas all three bring to the table.

“It’s been really great,” he reflects.“I mean there’ve been times where there can be a certain album where one member has a great vision and is so passionate about it that we all allow that person to take the helm. Say an album like Stakes Is High – Dave was really keen on having something that said we were really serious; our version of a Marvin Gaye album. That was one of the first albums where we actually had the title of the album before we started writing.”

As for the trio’s “inner sound”, well that’s one thing that Mercer says has “just grown”. “We started when I was only 18... now I’m a 41 year old man, so throughout those progressions – say at age 17 you had no kids and by age 20 something you had children – all those experiences always added something to the way we write and how we express our music,” he says.“It’s definitely changed but then I would say the main aspect of how we chose to create and always be open-minded about different sounds and different cultures – that has remained the same.”

“IT DOES FEEL GOOD TO LISTEN BACK ON AN ALBUM LIKE DE LA SOUL IS DEAD AND KNOW THAT THERE IS STILL RELEVANCE TO IT. IT DOESN’T SOUND DATED.” Touring their highly influential second album De La Soul Is Dead to mark the record’s 20th anniversary, Mercer says it was an important step in the trio’s development as musicians and as human beings. “The big thing about that album is that it was our departure from where we were when we were making 3 Feet High And Rising which was just us as normal kids – what we really saw in front of us when we were 18, young and growing up. De La Soul Is Dead was more like ‘now this is us after the fame; I’ve seen great times; I’ve seen the road; I’ve seen bad times’,” Mercer says.

“It does feel good to listen back on an album like De La Soul Is Dead and know that there is still relevance to it. It doesn’t sound dated. Millie Pulled The Pistol On Santa – sexually molested by her own father, these reign true within, still can be said now… even fun moments like It’s Saturday [A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays”] that still feels good now hearing it in a club or someone playing it at a roller rink. It’s a blessing that we played a part in creating something that stands true even now like 20 something years on.”

And as for name of the album, it came about out of pure fun. “We were at our management company and there was a board which had De La Soul’s name on it and a bunch of different other artists, Fresh Prince or whoever and it showed all of our dates,” Mercer says.“Dave was just so tired of us being on the road, he grabbed an eraser and erased all of our dates and wrote De La Soul Is Dead and everyone started laughing because everyone just wanted to stay home; they didn’t want to work no more. And we were like ‘you know what, that could be a great title’.”

With less than a weeks until the show goes down, Mercer says fans can expect more than just De La Soul Is Dead tunes. “It’s gonna be very hard not to include other songs; we just want to do our best to implement different songs and make sure the energy is high.”

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CUT COPY In The Zono Melbourne synthpop four piece Cut Copy have been labelled everything from electro to ‘80s new wave to post punk. Their colourful, pop-orientated albums Bright Like Neon Love and In Ghost Colours are remarkably different to their latest offering Zonoscope – the highly anticipated third album. ANNABEL MACLEAN talks to keyboardist Ben Browning about the Zonoscope journey, op shop mattresses and working with producer Ben Allen ahead of their appearance at St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival this Saturday, February 12, at Perth Cultural Centre.

Ben Browning is wandering near the Yarra River in Melbourne during the time of this interview, taking a break from a busy day of photo shoots ahead of Zonoscope’s release and the busy schedule of St Jerome’s Laneway Festival. “We’re in the midst of preparing our live shows still,” Browning begins. “It’s pretty much ready to go but we’ve had a few weeks of preparation and preproduction and so we’re really excited for the new album to be coming out and doing Laneway.”

It has been an intense journey for the boys, having crammed the bulk of the recording of Zonoscope in the first six months of 2009. Having most recently ventured to South America for a New Year’s Eve’s gig, the boys are now prepping their live shows before heading off to America and the UK for a massive tour.

Zonoscope is Cut Copy’s psychedelic wonderland, an exploration “which would revise the whole palette of what the Cut Copy was about” according to the lads themselves. And the word ‘zonoscope’ is a description of just that.

“It’s a lens into the kind of world we created,” Browning says. “It’s a made up term we came up with ourselves, it’s like a bird eye view into the album. We wanted to make the album like it was a place or a world that we created, much like we created our own studio.”

Browning says the overall vision of this ‘imaginary world’ that the boys were working with evolved over time. “We had a number of songs that we were jamming with and were recording and working with in the demo phase,” Browning explains.“We found a thread with a few of them, they had those elements – those kind of jungle, fantasy elements, we started to focus on those songs. We found a space in Melbourne, a warehouse space in Fairfield that we could set up our own studio in. We just jammed and started going shopping to find weird percussion pieces that might sound interesting.”

The warehouse which Browning says was almost school hall size and amazing acoustically, was the source of an adventurous

“STRUCTURALLY ON THE ALBUM THERE IS A LOT OF SYNTHESISED SOUNDS AND THEN THERE’S THIS TRIBALISTIC, NATURAL PERCUSSION, FREE FORM STUFF AS WELL AND EVEN SOME OF THE LYRICS IN THE SONGS ALLUDE TO BEING LOST ON A JOURNEY SOMEWHERE IN THE JUNGLE.” outlook and inspiration for many of the experimental sounds on the album. “We were doing things on the fly,” Browning reveals. “We were like ‘if we want to have something that doesn’t have a three second reverb on it, we’re going to have to build a room basically’. We’re not builders and we don’t have budgets to get carpenters in so we decided on using mattresses and blankets to build a structure and put Mitchell our drummer for the most part in I guess like a kid’s cubby house. We recorded Mitchell doing a drum solo on a ladder that was there as well. We were trying to get any kind of banging sound of out really anything really.”

But it wasn’t all about filling up empty wine bottles with varying amounts of water and discovering what sounds they could make.

Browning says the warehouse also defined the recording and jamming process. “We definitely had some visions or conceptual ideas going into the space,” he says. “It was far enough away from

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where we all lived to not be able to pop home.

We were really kind of locked into it and there wasn’t much around there, it was an industrial area so we didn’t find ourselves just walking down to the pub or anything like that.”

The album cover features the artwork Manhattan Niagara by Japanese photomontage artist Tsunehisa Kimura, a true reflection of Zonoscope. “One of the things on the album is the organic versus the synthetic world,” Browning explains. “Structurally on the album there is a lot of synthesised sounds and then there’s this tribalistic, natural percussion, free form stuff as well and even some of the lyrics in the songs allude to being lost on a journey somewhere in the jungle. The image on the cover brings those two things together. It symbolises what we thought the album is about.”

And to put the icing on the cake, the boys asked producer Ben Allen who produced Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion

to mix the album. “We all loved that Animal Collective album… we thought his work and his direction of work was really interesting and it was creative decision to get someone involved that we respected and were looking to work with.”

Bringing the sounds of this newly created imaginary world from the warehouse studio to audiences is something Browning says the group is very excited about. “Recording it is almost very insular and isolated… you do really feel removed from the world and an audience but playing it live is much more informative, expressive, it’s exciting really to take those ideas into that realm.

“We are absolutely crazy about this Laneway line-up. Deerhunter, Ariel Pink and Beach House are three of our favourite contemporary bands… definitely one of those festivals that we’d be going along to anyway so just to be playing as well is perfect… it’s going to be fantastic.”

FOALS Total Control

Holy Fuck play St. Jerome’s Laneway on Saturday, February 12, Foals finally make their debut in Perth this weekend,playing at Perth Cultural Centre. DANIELLE MARSLAND talks chaos, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival at Perth Cultural Centre on Saturday, February 12. But frontman and mastermind cats and Chatroulette with the Canadians.

Yannis Philippakis confesses to JULIAN TOMPKIN: “I feel “I think we have really short attention spans,” like I am losing grip.” says Toronto musician Graham Walsh of his band, Holy Fuck, “that’s why our music has so much energy. The very live nature of our music makes it frenetic and chaotic.”

The incendiary, spontaneous style of Holy Fuck’s live performances, which witness plenty of non-instruments like toy guns getting a work out, have impressed the pants off all who have come by them.

Referred to as “Canadian nutjobs” by Dazed & Confused Magazine, Holy Fuck’s third and most recent release, Latin, has reaped all manner of praise from critics, and has marked the evolution of the band (usually known for their largish cast of rotating members) into a more stable ‘four permanent members’ type phase.

This was further solidified with Holy Fuck’s move from independent, local collective (Dependent Records) to mega-indie label Young Turks.

“That was one great thing that came with the album,” Walsh reflects. “The solidified line-up was a little less rectangular and a lot more focused. In the first year of the band there wasn’t really any form, it was all just free, 100 per cent improv. That was our experimentation phase; as we played became more practiced, we got better at what we were doing.”

Does Walsh miss the more freewheelin’ days of Holy Fuck? “It depends on what mood I’m in – I definitely have a soft side, there’s times when I listen to the early stuff we did, the early experimentation, and think it was the best stuff we ever did. But we’re proud it’s evolved into

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what we’re doing now – it’s a different animal.

It’s like judging your own kid, you know?” Walsh chuckles, “asking yourself did you prefer your kid when he was one year old to now, that he’s 18?”

Holy Fuck use an array of things people might not normally consider ‘instruments’ in their music-making, including a 35mm moviola – a device invented for the purpose of enabling film editors to track the amount of film they’d edited in the cutting room. The goal being the creation of modern electronic music without using the techniques one would normally use to make the stuff. Walsh says the discovery and use of said non-instruments has mostly been a matter of experimentation, with the key obstacle being turning jams into something more sustainable: “You have to take risks if you want to get something really rewarding out of it.

Sometimes it’s hard: we’ll be in the studio working, and we’ll come up with something really amazing, but then it can be really hard to reproduce that for a recording or live.”

Holy Fuck’s approach to the marketing of their album, too, is on the less ordinary side: the video clip for Red Lights features cats playing drums and driving cars, ensuring its viral popularity, with the album itself was first played by the band on random video chat generator Chatroulette, a move Walsh freely admits was a publicity stunt.

“When our publicists pitched it to us it was the first we had heard of Chatroulette – it was a bit of a shock, but we went on there and it was kind of interesting. I don’t think anybody really heard our album through that method though – it got attention, but I don’t think anybody actually went and tried to find our songs based on seeing us play online. We mostly just played to random strangers who wanted to see penises – I think they were pretty disappointed when they got us!”

Yannis Philippakis speaks in rapid fire; a man possessed by intersecting thoughts and junctions of infinite possibilities. He seems almost burdened by his conspicuous intellect, delivered in a charming eloquence bequeathed of his native Oxfordshire.

Life on the road is taking its toll on the man responsible for one of the most exciting sounds to come out of Britain in years. And Laneway will spell the end of a year-long stint in the tour van; something which is playing heavily on Philippakis’ mind.

“I feel like I am inhabiting my own ghost sometimes,” he says of life on the road, promoting the band’s latest album Total Life Forever. “I used to write pretty relentlessly. But there’s been a silence. I really have nothing to write about at the moment as I have just been in a tour bus for a year; so I don’t really want to write about ham and cheese. I don’t want to occupy your time with that.

“I am just waiting for that deluge to come, and I am going to provoke it – pinprick that water balloon by us all going our own separate ways for a month. I am going to go to Africa and to get in as much possible trouble as I can; I think something good will come out of it.”

Provocation seems the raison d’être for Foals – the glue which binds these five musicians together. There have been few more valiant aural statements of the 21st Century than Foals’ 2008 debut, Antidotes. A ferocious slab of angular guitars and robotic beats, Antidotes spelled a changing of the rock’n’roll guard; in Britain at least.

Total Life Forever would follow in 2010; as callous as its predecessor in its audacious aural assault, but enriched by a greater emotional spectrum. And as such it would be celebrated across the globe as one of the defining albums of its year, where it graced many a top 10 list.

“We were pleased with the response,” Philippakis says of the album’s universal acclaim.

“There’s a danger – a trap with the second album and we feel fortunate that we have a fan base that’s open minded and doesn’t just want us to remain anchored to a specific sound. We feel proud of it. I definitely feel like it’s the record that

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COLD WAR KIDS Theirs is Yours Fresh from kicking off their year in the searing heat of Southbound, Long Beach’s finest indie rockers Cold War Kids have dropped their third album Mine Is Yours. Frontman Nathan Willett catches up with MATTHEW HOGAN. It’s rather fitting that a band with the word ‘cold’ in their name would play their set during the worst of the temperature at the three day event Southbound this year. A temperature of 42 degrees was recorded while the Cold War Kids took the stage on the Sunday afternoon. “That was the hottest day,” recalls singer/guitarist/ keyboardist Nathan Willett. “Honestly, we suffered through it. Just struggled through it!”

The four-piece was playing old favourites that have been staples of Triple J for the past five years and showed off new material all the while Willett also was sporting a Squire Stratocaster – a cheaper version of a Fender Strat– which he recently bought and used on Mine Is Yours.

“I used Squire and a Telecaster,” he informs. “I never played a Stratocaster before this record and I was at a guitar shop in LA. I kinda discovered through a friend of mine – obviously the older the Fenders are the more expensive they are – and the ones that are made in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s are when Squire started making them. The thing is when they were made in Japan they were better than the American ones in the very beginning.

It’s a good thing for people with the older ones, so it you look for the ones that were made in the ‘70s and the ‘80s that were made in Japan, either Squires or Fenders, are like way better than even the American ones and they are much cheaper. I just kinda happened to buy it one day and I played it on the record, so I’ve just continued to play that one.”

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“IT’S COOL, JACK WHITE IS RAD – HE HAS HIS OWN WORLD THERE WHERE IT’S A RECORDING STUDIO AND A PLACE TO HANG OUT AND A LIVE VENUE AND IT’S JUST LIKE THIS COMPOUND. IT’S INCREDIBLE. IT WAS GREAT, HE WAS HANGING OUT AND REALLY INVOLVED AND IT WAS A REALLY GOOD TIME.” Another new weapon the Cold War Kids used for this album was Jacquire King – the producer responsible for three Kings Of Leon albums and releases from artists ranging from Norah Jones through to Tim Finn. “ We had not worked with him before,” Willett says. “[We chose him] partly based on the fact he has chosen a really diverse roster of artists to work with. The Tom Waits record he’s worked on we’ve loved; our friends in Modest Mouse recruited him for the Good News For People Who Like Bad News

record and they recommend him highly. And we also wanted someone who kept us on our toes a little bit more.”

Creating a rawer sound as heard on the infectious lead single Louder Than Ever, Willett sounds like he got the sound he’s been looking for for a while on Mine Is Yours. “I think basically what he brought that wanted him in for is that we would keep similar arrangements of our songs, but the actually production of it would be like bigger and wider and sadder,” he explains.

Willett adds that his lyrics needed improving so he made them more intimate and personal this time around. “It’s much more relational,” he says. “I kinda went that way for a number reasons, I felt like doing something more personal on this record, so I could be more uncomfortable. It’s kinda hard to describe why, but it was just the artistic thing that I wanted to do. I think after the second record, I wasn’t really connected with the lyrics like I wanted to be. I wanted to do something more personal.”

Mine Is Yours will not be the only Cold War Kids record you here this year, as they’ve also got a live record coming out from the label that’s also recorded and released live albums by Jenny & Johnny, Conan O’Brien and more – Third Man. “We went to Jack White’s Third Man thing in Nashville, I guess [Live At Third Man is coming] out soon,” Willett reveals. “It’s cool, Jack White is rad – he has his own world there where it’s a recording studio and a place to hang out and a live venue and it’s just like this compound. It’s incredible. It was great, he was hanging out and really involved and it was a really good time. It was snowing and we barely made it there, but it was very cool.”

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LLOYD COLE Tower Of Song Turning his back on his primal rock roots, Lloyd Cole went on to epitomise the Anglo singer/songwriter epoch for the turn of the century. But after more than a decade in the wilderness Cole is back on boogie street with a thumpin’ new band record and is hitting Beck’s Music Box on Thursday, February 17, with his Small Ensemble. JULIAN TOMPKIN reports.

The eternally affable Lloyd Cole is polite in his fatigue; apologising for his waning attention span, and the couple of red wines that have kept him company through a long night of interviews to promote his return to Australia.

A regular to our stages – as well as our bars and golf courses – Cole’s return to Australia this time, however, is anything but regular, for it marks the first time the great man is touring with a band in a decade. Not only that; he just so happens to be touring a god-damn rock’n’roll record – the very racket which made him one of the new wave stars of the 1980s with his shortlived band The Commotions.

Recorded in the wake of two extremely solitary records in Music In A Foreign Language (2003) and Antidepressant (2006), Broken Record captures Lloyd in full flight – backed by no less than nine musicians – and was recorded over ten manic days in New England.

“It wasn’t meant to be,” Cole answers of whether Broken Record was a direct reaction to the drawn out, solitary recording of his last two albums, “but it certainly made it apparent to me I could see no good reason to go back to that other methodology. Which isn’t to say I wish I hadn’t made them, as Antidepressant

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“I USED THE TERM ‘STUPID ASS THING’ ON THIS RECORD AND ANOTHER BRITISH PERSON WAS LIKE ‘AH, YOU NEED TO GET BACK TO YOUR BRITISH ROOTS’. AND I’M LIKE ‘I DON’T HAVE ANY FUCKING BRITISH ROOTS’.

I HAVE BEEN IN AMERICA FOR 20 YEARS…” was a natural expansion of the album before it, and I think it needed to be made just to close that chapter. Music In A Foreign Language, for me, was also very, very difficult – not as difficult as Antidepressant – but a difficult and solitary record to make; not the most fun but musically still probably my favourite record. It’s the record

I am probably the happiest with out of all the records I have made.

“Just because it wasn’t that much fun to make doesn’t bother me; musicians especially seem to pay far too much attention to how fun it is to do something rather than the quality of the work that’s created in the end. I am quite happy to suffer or not have the greatest time if I know it’s going to turn out the way I want it to turn out. But [Broken Record] was designed to be very different to those records. Broken Record was a definite risk – but I was willing to take it. For the tendays we were in the studio it could have gone terrible; we could have failed to make the budget; failed to make the deadlines.”

But fail they did not. On the contrary, Broken Record has reinvigorated interest in Cole; whose career had drifted into a discerning niche over the last decade. And the fact the record was partly funded by his loyal fans (through pre-ordering the record before a note had even been recorded) makes it all the more sweet for a man who has threatened to turn his back on songwriting more than once in recent years.

But Broken Record hasn’t been received so fondly in all quarters. Although he’s now called America home for more than 20 years,

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many of Cole’s natives back in Britain are making noise about the album’s ‘Americanised’ sound.

“I don’t think any more of less than it did before,” Lloyd answers when questioned as to whether America is finally permeating his songwriting. “There are a few phrases here and there – I have been using American phrases; I have been saying ‘on account of’ instead of ‘because’ my whole songwriting life, because I like the way it sounded on Bruce Springsteen records.

“I remember doing a song in 1993 I think where I said ‘you can kiss my ass’ in the song and I remember a bunch of British people being really offended that I would use American terminology. And I used the term ‘stupid ass thing’ on this record and another British person was like ‘ah, you need to get back to your British roots’.

And I’m like ‘I don’t have any fucking British roots’.

I have been in America for 20 years, and the lexicon of my songs may have been affected!

But I think what’s different on this record is the American musicians outnumber the Brits considerably.”

Following a trend of his past few records, Lloyd again digs deep on Broken Record to question whether the art of song remains valid in a world where music is often little more than a cheap soundtrack to a visual sensory overload. Thankfully, for the just-turned 50-yearold, the diagnosis is looking optimistic.

“I still accept that there could be an end of the line for me being creative within that format and I am willing to accept that most people dry out at some point,” Cole concludes of the art of song.

“I think the question that people who have been working in song for a long time sometimes ask is ‘is it worthwhile’, and I think you have to ask that. And when I think about that I invariably come away positive. A song can be incredibly trivial – something like Da Doo Ron Ron. “Da Doo Ron Ron; well it doesn’t mean anything and yet it creates such power and such a massive amount of joy. And I like to think of it in terms of it has created the joy; the song is a thing like a sculpture of a painting. It’s a work of art that somebody did and it has a life of its own once it’s out there in the world. So for me the idea of creating these things – the idea that these little things are floating around in the ether but creating a great deal of joy, or solace – I think the idea of a song is still a wonderful thing.”

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Ursula Yovich: Magpie Blues Following tours with The Black Arm Band and roles in The Sapphires and the film Australia, Ursula Yovich unveils a musical cabaret inspired by the magpie, which reflects the dual heritage of her life.

Raised in Darwin in a bi-cultural Aboriginal/Serbian home, Ursula’s humorous, heartbreaking and utterly inspiring journey features gorgeous original songs and covers, including a medley of ‘80s hits.

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New York’s legendary cabaret/drag/performance artist extraordinaire captivates with a subversive jukebox musical that will leave you exhausted and in love. Wickedly funny, this gender-bending fusion of insight, honesty and stark raving fabulousness demonstrates why Taylor Mac is considered one of the most exciting theatre artists in America.

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MOGWAI Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

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“I wanted to create something that would make people feel uplifted,” Asa has said of her second album, Beautiful Imperfection. After a preliminary listen, the French singer-songwriter of Nigerian descent – born Bukola Elemide – has fulfilled her brief.

The album’s production value is remarkably smooth and the songs well constructed if, at times, slightly generic in sound.

Although citing African diva Angelique Kidjo and fellow Nigerians Fela and Femi Kuti as influences, Elemide makes little use of rhythms, melodies and instrumentation from her ancestral country.

As Janelle Monae’s visual doppelganger, Elemide’s music is more suited to a ‘pop’ rather than ‘world’ classification; her deeply soulful croon echoes a diversity of artists including India Arie (Why Can’t We), Lily Allen (Maybe), Amy Winehouse (Be My Man), Fiona Apple (Questions) and, unexpectedly, Sneaker Pimps’ Kelli Dayton (Preacher Man).

That’s not to say imperfection doesn’t have its fair share of representation in the titular dichotomy. It’s a stoic brand of optimism which characterises the album; through her simple yet effective lyrics, Elemide communicates her resolute determination to experience life’s beauty regardless of its imperfections. Uplifting indeed. Anchored in a strong awareness of life’s bittersweet complexities, the beauty of Asa’s album resonates on a level deeper than synthetic _CHRIS HAVERCROFT smiles and air kisses.

Scotland’s premier art rockers Mogwai don’t stay idle for too long and since releasing a live album and DVD as well as signing to revered Sub Pop label in the USA have thought it timely to release a seventh studio album Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.

Returning to long time friend Paul Savage, the man responsible for producing the band’s Young Team album of 1997, has ensured that the Mogwai sound is captured in its purest form. Rano Pano finds the quintet at their distorted best without sacrificing anything in melody. The wall of guitars is ever present and is joined by a subtly dynamic keyboard line.

Death Ray is a moody beast that scales great heights as does George Square Thatcher Death Party and has the band in relatively unfamiliar territory as vocals are added to the mix. As always the band deliver some cracking song titles and You’re Lionel Richie is the finest here. It also contains all the peaks and troughs that make Mogwai leaders good at what they do.

Having always been able to find the middle ground between where brutal meets beautiful. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will is no exception.

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LCD SOUNDSYSTEM The London Sessions

ELLA FREESTONE Ella Freestone

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LCD Soundsystem benefit more than most from a live recording treatment, due in part to James Murphy’s obsession with sound, and in part to the group’s innate ability to gel together as a singular unit. Brisk and electric, this album is a masterful piece of work that really couldn’t have come from anyone else.

Riding high off their retirement announcement last year, The London Sessions offers new treatments of some of the punkfunkers’ most adored tunes, conveniently doubling as a far superior ‘Best Of ’ than anything their label will eventually put out.

You hear more instruments and less faders, and the raw power that Murphy originally envisioned for his project finally sees the light of day. For proof, head straight to the end of the record for a cowbell-rocking, bassstomping Yr City, which could take on The Rapture in a bar and whip their asses without breaking a sweat.

If it’s even possible, the gang sound tighter and more limber than they do on their three records, stripped of excess production and attitude. This live album is the next best thing to those who missed them at the Big Day Out. The London Sessions may be Murphy and co.’s swan song, but man is it a good one.

To the uninitiated, a glance at the autumnal, fo l k y c h a n t e u s e o n the album art of Ella Freestone’s debut LP suggests not much more than a lifetime of fey bedroom plinking and some stories to tell.

An apt observation, apart from the fact that, this debut, which was written well before she turned 17 last year, suggests Freestone’s “adolescence” was essentially a protracted period of soaking up Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro.

Coming from someone so young, Freestone is remarkably astute when crafting her gentle instrumentals, cleverly knowing that simplicity is the key, with tremulous percussion, central piano rhythms and winsome acoustic guitar forming the foundation of her collection of impressionistic folk-pop tracks. Meanwhile her gentle verge-ofwomanhood voice helps keep things homespun and rootsy, proving particularly endearing on ballads Dove In A Cage and Painted Gold.

Listening to this album, one can’t help draw similarities with young British folk chanteuse Laura Marling who similarly burst onto the international music scene at the tender age of 18. Much like Marling, Freestone’s own existence is an achingly simple one, but with nothing to weigh it down and with every reason to stay afloat above a sea of mediocre folk-pop emerging from the current nu-folk movement, there’s a very good chance Freestone will endure the same success.

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Hot on the heels of having three of their songs feature in Triple J’s annual national countdown, and coinciding with their current visit down under for the Laneway Festival, Yeasayer have reissued their Odd Blood album with a bonus disc of remixes.

Ambling Alp was one of the better tunes to see the light of day in 2010, so two new remixes of the song are welcome additions indeed. Boxing appears to be gathering steam as the sport of choice to be viewed by indie artists in America and Ambling Alp tells the story of Joe Louis. The Memory Tapes Mix is the better of the two included here, adding some new beats, sheen and flavours to the original.

The bands ode to addiction O.N.E is delivered here in demo form, and shows that Yeasayer are more grand than most, even before their tunes are fully realised in the studio. This slightly more understated version is worth the price of admission. The XXXChange Mix of the same song alters the original beyond recognition and brings it into the crowded dance floors of the clubs.

Madder Red is also given quite the working over with fine results.

Odd Blood - one of the brightest albums of last year just got even better.

If Black Swan has taught us anything, it’s that what’s in your mind can be disturbing. Fortunately what is in Nick Murphy’s mind is anything but, with his second full-length album being psychedelic rather than psychotic, and brimming with sunny lyrics and a sweet disposition.

After disbanding from The Anyones in 2005, Murphy showed no signs of post-breakup blues when he released his successful first baby Breaking The Light in 2006. What’s In Your Mind is a product of the same sensitive songwriting that proved so successful first time around, bubbling with varied influences like psych-folk, soul, country and pop. Apart from the nostalgic cover reminiscent of the ‘70s, there’s something else here that makes you think back. It’s an album that has the potential to spark memories of those perfect summer days and first loves; it’s just that whimsical, especially with the second honeyed track Candles Flicker. Standout songs include the melodic Dragonflies, with its echoing vocals and mysterious bent, while Blemish On The ‘Scape is slightly haunting and moody before we’re taken back to that happy alt-country vibe with Sunny.

If you never got around to listening to his debut, What’s In Your Mind is as good as any other introduction into Murphy’s repertoire of songs, which speak of a world of vulnerability and wistfulness that even the most practical person can’t deny.

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GHOUL Dunks

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Within the first two seconds Milkily, the opener on his Sydneybased band Ghoul’s sophomore EP Dunks, it should be very clear to even the most unaware newbies that he has an amazing Brian Ferry-meets- Antony Hegarty vibrato, a multi-octave siren that would sound painfully lovely no matter what he was saying.

Yet Dunks’ majesty didn’t come easily: Ghoul’s debut EP A Mouthful Of Gold was released three years ago, but only now have Vizintin and his bandmates found the perfect mix between style and substance. The changes are at once both obvious and subtle, leaping from the page at first but taking their time to have their full effect.

More stripped down than their earlier offering – here most of the focus is on piano and voice, although strings and wailing electric riffs are also heard – there are absolutely no missing Vizintin’s thoughtful words which fill his otherworldly trill’s astounding promise with worthy syllables and a dark, powerful aesthetic.

A beautiful, emotive, gloriously wellproduced, and sometimes sinister album, Dunks will likely top many Australian critics’ lists come the end-of-year polls, and justifiably so. This haunting and effecting record is a tough, honest, uncompromising beauty from undoubtedly the next great voice in Australian music. Truly must be heard to be believed. _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

While, after the Hottest 100, your wafer-thin care factor for femaledriven folk is probably crumbling at the edges (if it hasn’t fully snapped already), a confidence and happy-go-lucky vibe sets Gossling (aka Helen Croome) apart from her perpetually insecure, whingeaholic folk-pop counterparts.

While the tales on Gossling’s newest EP Until Then are similarly coded in paper planes and wooden chairs, she manages to avoid falling into a sickly sweet trap of embellished overproduction by allowing her gorgeous voice to take centre stage and fill the gaps between her gentle, fresh instrumentals.

Those looking for familiar ground might even recognise the bubbly I Was Young as a twice removed cousin of Sia’s massively successful Clap Your Hands. In fact, listen hard enough, and Until Then pretty much comes off as the rest of the melancholic numbers that Sia never really got round to singing out.

Key Tracks: I Was Young and Oh Darling _JENNIFER PETERSON-WARD

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Brace yourself, Streets fans. Computers And Blues, the fifth and final studio album from Mike Skinner, is so radical a departure from his typical oeuvre that, well…

I just… argh, flabbergast!

Not that Skinner hadn’t already demonstrated variety. From working-class British tales as narrative (Original Pirate Material), to unified concept album (A Grand Don’t Come For Free), to delving into the lurks and perks of fame (Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living), to the geezer philosophy of Everything Is Borrowed, the Birmingham boy hasn’t ever shied from mixing things up.

Making his way back along a cobbled lane from a few pints at his local rub-a-dubdub, probably with some kind of broken heart, Skinner has been seriously dusted-up by pop’s ruthless bounce and glitter. Technological immersion has kicked him a few times while he was down too, and the resultant transformation is so unfamiliar as to be vaguely unnerving.

Sk inner ’s trademark ed cheek y recitative briefly emerges on ABC, and his poetic, over-thinking sad-sack side comes back on Blip On A Screen and We Can Never Be Friends – but each time we get glimpses of the music he used to make, it’s beaten back by a cacophony of synthesisers, samples and effects that at times make the album more easily recognisable as Moby, Mylo or Kanye than The Streets. _ANDREW GEEVES

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There are few bands as inimitable and esoteric as San Fran avant-pop quartet Deerhoof. They seem to exist in a bubble, uninfluenced by musical trends, simply content to keep working with the common themes of Satomi Matsuzaki’s sweet, chirpy vocals, Greg Saunier’s mesmerising drumming and the intersecting guitars of John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez.

Though their sound isn’t that different from 2008’s Offend Maggie, Deerhoof still sound fresh – possibly because nobody else really sounds like them. Opener Qui Dorm, Només Somia has Matsuzaki singing in Catalan about Dracula, the instrumentation veering between fleeting and forceful. The disorienting collision of rhythms of The Merry Barracks is an early highlight, discrete riffs and beats forced almost gratingly into convergence. Deerhoof’s charming versatility is reinforced by the flamenco stylings of No One Asked To Dance. A tragically brief cover of the 1967 Mikis Theodorakis piece Let’s Dance The Jet is so perfectly adapted into the Deerhoof aesthetic that you’d swear they wrote the song themselves.

Although Deerhoof Vs Evil is weighted too heavily towards Deerhoof’s sugary pop side at the expense of their capacity for frenetic punk, you can consider evil defeated. Deerhoof are a force for good and a force for good music. _MICHAEL PINCOTT Australia’s highest circulating Street Press

Light In The Attic has reincarnated many an obscure classic – most recently Jim Sullivan’s deliciously mind-bending 1969 debut UFO, released six years before his VW Beetle was found abandoned in New Mexico desert and he was never to be seen again. Next up are Vagrants – the Nuggets compilation champions who would reputedly inspire the formation of a little band known as The Ramones.

I Can’t Make A Friend is a compilation of sporadically recorded singles from the New York garage rock pioneers from 1965-68. Think Flamin’ Groovies with a hint of The Yardbirds (circa Jimmy Page), toss in some soul-laden Hammond and you’re part way there! Like contemporaries The Rascals and Vanilla Fudge, Vagrants are back on the radar. Feel the fuzz.

Key track: I Can’t Make A Friend _JULIAN TOMPKIN

In 1971, researchers carried out an infamous sociology experiment called the Stanford Prison Experiment. Random strangers were put in a prison environment – half as prisoners and half as guards – to try and tease out the hidden natures of people if they find themselves put in position of power or subservience.

The whole process (which you can still see footage of) quickly spun out of control and the subjects were so brutalized and upset after only six days it was shut down. It was the inspiration for the ace 2001 German thriller Das Experiment, which screwed ever-tight tensions as the experiment broke its banks and threatened everyone involved.

Adrien Brody stars in his second illadvised action role (after Predators), but that shouldn’t stop you checking out this more muscular, less introspective 2010 remake.

Of course if you want to go even less cerebral, go the whole hog and revisit the late ‘70s camp classics The Stud and The Bitch.

Written by trash/glamour authoress Jackie Collins and starring her then sex-symbol sister Joan, they’re like Dynasty on acid, gleeful excursions into seduction, excess, betrayal and high camp sleaze as only the pre-AIDS, body hair-loving era could do it.

Be warned though - what was racy in 1978 looks decidedly chaste today. Don’t expect it to replace RedTube for your next quiet evening alone.

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An author, critic, curator and recipient of the Macarthur Foundation’s genius award, Alex Ross is a music nut who knows his stuff, which he’ll prove to audiences across Australia this March. The resident music critic at The New Yorker, Ross has been invited to Australia by the Australian Chamber Orchestra to present two concerts of music, The Rest Is Noise and Listen To This.

Renowned internationally for his ability to shape people’s understanding of music through words, Ross will change tact for this tour, promising to change our perceptions of music through performance.

Intrigued? Catch Ross when he takes to the stage of the Perth Concert Hall on Wednesday, March 9, at 7.30pm. Bookings can be made online at aco.com.au or by calling 1800 444 444.

Heath Ledger will always be remembered fondly in his home town of Perth – he was talented, cheery, affable and passionate about giving back to his community. On Saturday, February 12, friends, family and admirers of Ledger will gather at Movies By Burswood for Heath, an event that will celebrate his legacy and raise money for the charities he supported. Featuring a screening of Ledger’s Oscar winning film The Dark Knight, the soiree will raise funds for Australians In Film, the His Majesty’s Theatre Foundation and Telethon. Rumour has it that Ledger’s close friend Gemma Ward will be present at the event, so if you’re a fan of his work, don’t miss this opportunity to pay tribute to his talent. Tickets are on sale now from ispyperth.com.au.

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This Sunday, February 13, the Point Walter Reserve in Melville will be invaded by charitable fitness fanatics who will bust out as many push ups as humanly possibly in 90 seconds to raise funds for those suffering with breast cancer. An international event, Pushups For Charity seeks to raise awareness and funds for the Cancer Council, whilst also encouraging folks to be fit and healthy. If you aren’t great at push ups fear not because you can still help out by sponsoring those who do take part in the challenge. To get involved head to push-ups-for-charity.org.

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Congratulations are in order for Perth filmmaker David Vincent Smith, whose film Family Tree has made it into the top 10 of Optus’ One80Project. A national competition designed to nurture and support the next generation of writers, directors and producers, the One80Project sees filmmakers submit a 180 second pilot that is judged by a panel of industry experts, with the winner’s entry being produced and aired on MTV Australia. Smith is the only WA entrant to make it into the top 10 and to get Family Tree to #1, he needs your help! To make Smith’s dream a reality, all you have to do is head to one80project.com.au before March 4 and place your vote.

If you fancy yourself as a bit of a live music photography whiz then listen up because the folks at WAM are on the hunt for photographers to submit work to Kiss My Camera. An annual photographic competition and exhibition that celebrates the art of music photography, Kiss My Camera is presented as part of the WAMi Festival, and if last year’s exhibition is anything to go by, this year’s edition promises killer snaps of some of contemporary music’s biggest names. Entries are now open and interested photographers can submit their work up until 5pm on Friday, March 4. To get involved hit up wam.asn.au/kissmycamera.

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Jane Germain & Ian Simpson play Boyup Brooke Country Music Festival from next Wednesday, February 16, til Sunday, February 20. They also play at the E Shed Harbour Stage in Fremantle t h i s S u n d a y, February 13.

Jane Germain & Ian Simpson

Making music together for past five years, Jane Germain & Ian Simpson are the current reigning champions of WA country music and they ’re heading back to the Boyup Brooke Country Music Festival, home of the WA Country Music Awards, to defend their Best Duo/Group crown, which they’ve won two years running.

Banjo champion Simpson says it’s a great festival that no country music fan should miss. “It attracts thousands of people and it’s in this big natural amphitheatre right on a hill with two concer t stages going on right next to each other,” he says.

“So there’s always one band setting up and one performing. Again, they have a lot of major eastern states country acts there. This year it’s Troy Cassar-Daley there and Peter Denahy and then they have workshops and other little things around the town and street busking.”

Should the duo take out an award next week, it wouldn’t be the first they’ve won this year, as Simpson added a Golden Guitar to go with his other six at Tamworth last month. “I won it with my musical partner John Kane for this song called Dixie Breakdown,” he says. “Strangely enough, I won the same award 20 years for the same instrumental, but I obviously rerecorded it when we did it this time around. It’s kinda funny! It was quite an honour to win it against all these younger hot shot guitar players and stuff. To win it, I was quite chuffed and surprised!”

It was singer/songwriter Germain’s first trip to the country music Mecca this

year and sounds like she had a good time. “It was wild,” she exclaims. “I’d love to go back there again. It’s actually a beautiful little city.

There’s a lot of clichéd country music there which you expect to hear, but there’s also a lot of real interesting different stuff there as well. It’s a really fun time!”

“For a laugh, Jane suggested we went busking,” adds Simpson. “I wasn’t so sure of that because the main street, Peel Street, is full of buskers, but she was like, ‘Let’s do it.’ There’s group after group with large sound systems and back ing tracks and there we were with our acoustic instruments, and the crowd down the road is singing Islands In The Stream, they had a big crowd around them while we’re doing intricate bluegrass stuff and ever yone just walked past – it was an interesting experience, but it was fun!”

Another unique experience for the duo was appearing at the World Expo in China last year. “That was an honour,” says Germain, who is of Chinese heritage despite her appearance. “I’ve been to China many times and Ian’s been there a couple of times as well and we got a phone call from the Department of Culture and Arts telling us about it and saying they were going to recommend us to the promoters and the event manager for the Australian pavilion.

The Australian Pavilion was a metal version of Ayers Rock and we played to 40,000 people every day. It was quite surreal.” _MATTHEW HOGAN www.xpressmag.com.au

127 HOURS Between A Rock And A Knife Directed by Danny Boyle Starring James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn To say that Aron Ralston is a hero would be a major understatement. Surviving a long five days trapped in a canyon is one thing, but having the will to live and literally ripping yourself out is quite another. Those who have heard about Aron’s story don’t often forget it. And while those who have may be on edge of their seats, just waiting for that moment you know has to come, the journey there is no less intense.

A montage of colourful, bustling and sprawling urban life opens the movie. Cut with images of our hero packing up and driving on a highway with a smile on his face - it’s Friday night and Aron is leaving his first home for his second - the canyons of Moab in Utah. Waking up at dawn, he sets out on his two wheels, cocky that he can shave 45 mins off his guide book’s suggestion. Craving adrenaline and freedom, he

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explodes across the rocks on his bike, with no fear and full self assurance. Even as he comes off his bike in a hard fall, he laughs it off and takes a myspace style self portrait on his trusty camera.

This is a man who laughs at danger. Somehow coming across two lost girls looking for a certain water hole, he shows them a far cooler way to go and spends a few hours charming them in the water. Parting ways, he gives his two new friends the bearings for freedom, while he sets off deeper into the giant cracks.

As his situation becomes more desperate, his rocky prison becomes the back drop for his projected memories. Thoughts of past personal failures and sexual successes flood his mind and the rocky walls. All that he was constantly running from was all he ever wanted - the lover who he could never fully open up to, the career he never pushed for. His arrogance and selfishness got him to this point, alone in the wild with no one even knowing that he left. If only he’d returned his mum’s phone calls, or anyone’s, and let them know where he was going.

Director Danny Boyle has a terrific knack of making films that are entirely in your face. It’s not just that he shows things that are cringe-worthy, it’s that he films them in a way that makes you not want to look away. Try as they might, the two ten year olds in the audience in front of us (seriously, what parents brought them?) could not un-see some scenes. Even their picnic rug wouldn’t have stopped the gnashing and dull thuds coming from the speakers.

The criminally under-utilised actor James Franco portrays a terrific desperate man.

He is calm, but on the edge of mental collapse as his bashed body fights his darker thoughts.

As this is largely the story of one man, the other actors are mostly props for his grief stricken mind.

And while they do a fine job fading into the background, the real stars of this movie are the director and his lead.

Already nominated for six Oscars, it’s clear this is a hit with the critics and one for iMDB’s top 250. With terrific cinematography that puts you within inches of Aron’s face, this is one that can really be appreciated on the big screen.

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No Strings Attached

complicating their relationship and making for Directed by Ivan Reitman Starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher and a very predictable plot. He starts bringing her cupcakes and even makes her a period mix tape Kevin Kline full of appropriately titled songs such as Bleeding She’s been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA, Love by Leona Lewis.

Though it’s full of the usual mushy stuff and has already taken out the gong for Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture at you expect from romantic comedies, No Strings the Golden Globes for her portrayal of a troubled, Attached is also punctuated by cheap, R-rated psychotic and incredibly disciplined dancer in one liners (the likes of which we’ve seen in films Black Swan, and now Natalie Portman curiously such as The Hangover), including Portman stating ‘there’s a crime scene in my pants’ when it’s that presents the world with No Strings Attached.

A romantic comedy starring Portman time of the month. Though it’s cheesy and often alongside the always juvenile Ashton Kutcher, disgusting, there are a few genuinely hilarious No Strings Attached couldn’t possibly be any moments, and No Strings Attached does do a more different to Black Swan, which is perhaps better job at the rom com genre than many other why Portman signed on to the project in the first recent flicks do (I’m looking at you Katherine place. A lighthearted flick that certainly isn’t going Heigl).

Aside from the plot itself, one of the to earn its stars any award nominations (except perhaps for a Razzie or two), No Strings Attached No Strings Attached’s biggest downfalls is the centers on Emma and Adam, childhood friends lack of chemistry between Portman and Kutcher. who reconnect later in life and find themselves We’re supposed to believe they’re ‘meant to be together’ but there are no sparks when they share in a purely sexual relationship.

Emma (Portman) is a socially awkward the screen, which is a pretty obvious downfall for doctor with commitment issues and Adam a film about two (supposedly) star crossed lovers.

A run-of-the-mill romantic comedy, (Kutcher) an aspiring writer, is damaged goods, struggling to come to terms with his failing love No Strings Attached flips gender roles with life and dismal career, which isn’t helped by the predictable outcomes, making for an easy watch fact that his famous father (Kevin Kline) has just if you just want to switch off, kick back and laugh at an Oscar nominee undermining her own career started dating his ex-girlfriend.

Though they start out their friendship by being a part of this film. as ‘fuck buddies’ and promise to keep it at _TOM VARIAN that, Adam soon develops feelings for Emma, _EMMA BERGMEIER

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BOHEMIA OUTDOOR FILM FESTIVAL Freo Flicks

The Toll screens on Sunday, February 13, at Bohemia

“This is the ninth season that the The Bohemia Outdoor Film Festival runs at Princess May Park at 92 Adelaide Street in Bohemia Outdoor Film Festival has run,” he says.

Fremantle ’til Sunday, February 20. Find out “Essentially, it’s a yearly event that’s put on by the Film and Television Institute. The purpose for more at fti.asn.au. holding the Bohemia is to have a platform for Tis the season for outdoor cinema. Watching local filmmakers, for them to have somewhere movies under a cloudless summer night sky has to screen their films.”

This local focus is a key part of the become a Perth tradition over the past several years, with a plethora of al fresco film venues Bohemia, which has strong connections with the available to the discerning cineaste. Not to be WA Screen Awards. Macliver elaborates: “Each outdone, the bohemian hub of Fremantle has screening night features a range of short films its own cinematic venture, in the form of the that are up for nominations. So it presents an opportunity for the public to vote on the films, Bohemia Outdoor Film Festival.

Located in Princess May Park in the and one of those films will end up winning heart of Fremantle, the festival showcases both the People’s Choice Award.” Specifically, the international and local cinema in a relaxed and screenings for the Bendigo Bank People’s Choice vibrant atmosphere. FTI’s John Macliver was kind Award run each Tuesday and Thursday until February 17. enough to fill in the details for us.

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Deadly Yarns screens on Friday, February 18

On Friday nights the Bohemia will be screening the Made At FTI series, as part of the venerable institution’s anniversary celebrations. As Macliver explains “the Film and Television Institute turns 40 this year - it’s been 40 years since it’s been founded and been helping out filmmakers in WA. So Made At FTI is going to showcase films that have been made with FTI funding from over the last 10 years.”

And rather than just a dry rerun of previous short film projects, FTI has decided to inject some interactivity into the proceedings.

“We’re also going to have some guest speakers come down, people who’ve been heavily involved with FTI over the years, so that night’s going to be a really good one for people involved with FTI, or people who want to reconnect with FTI.” The speakers will include a number of eminent members of the Perth film industry.

Friday, February 18, sees the Bohemia host the screening of Deadly Yarns 5. A coinitiative of FTI, ScreenWest and ABC Television, the Deadly Yarns series works to encourage unique, indigenous filmmaking voices by inviting them to relate their personal stories in a short film format. The four resulting films will be screened at the Bohemia before going on to be shown on the ABC’s Message Stick program and subsequently released on a compilation DVD. Of course, the most popular event at the Bohemia will undoubtedly prove to be MovieExtra Tropfest. The world’s largest short film festival has called the Bohemia home for a number of years now, and Sunday, February 20, will see this year’s 16 finalists subjected to the withering glare of audience scrutiny as they vy for the top slot, as chosen by a panel of celebrity judges. While Tropfest’s emphasis has always been on fun, for emerging filmmakers the festival can be serious business, as a win or even a placement as a finalist can mean a crucial boost to the filmmaker’s public profile and career, with the festival attracting a national audience in excess of 150,000. Past winners have included Gregor Jordan (Two Hands) and Nash Edgerton (The Square), who both went on to make their mark on the Australian film industry. Always a fun night, Tropfest is one of highlights of the Bohemia’s calendar.

But for Macliver, there is an even more important event looming on the horizon, one that illustrates both the Bohemia and FTI’s commitment to locally grown film talent. “The big one is that, on Sunday, February 13, we’re going to be premiering The Toll, the feature by Zak Hilditch.”

A dark psychological thriller, the independently funded and produced film sees best friends Nick and Steve, played by local actors Nick Britton and Steve McCall, embark on a road trip to Denmark after hearing stories that a local farmer, now deceased, has buried a large fortune somewhere on his property. The Toll digs deep into complex themes of friendship, loyalty, greed and betrayal, and has received great acclaim at film festivals around the world, including Best Film at the Harlem International Film Festival. Director Hilditch, who first came to wide notice after he made the critically acclaimed micro-budget feature The Actress, will also be on hand for a question and answer session after the screening.

With such a powerful and eclectic selection of events, the Bohemia Outdoor Film Festival is proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that film culture is alive and thriving in Fremantle.

Anyone with even a passing interest in Western Australia’s film scene could do a lot worse than point themselves at Princess May Park between now and Sunday, February 20, for a taste of what our homegrown Hitchcocks have to offer. _TRAVIS JOHNSON

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PIFFTACULAR 2: GET RICH OR DIE TRYING Puppy Love

Pifftacular 2: Get Rich Or Die Trying is on show at the beautiful Spiegeltent as part of the Fringe World program, running from Friday, February 18, ’til Tuesday, February 22.

Bookings can be made via fringeworld.com.au.

Tripod

TRIPOD VERSUS THE DRAGON Tripod Versus The Dragon is on show at the Astor Theatre from Tuesday, February 15, ’til Sunday, February 20. Bookings can be made through BOCS or via liveattheastor.com.au.

When Tripod’s Scod (Scott Edgar) catches up with X-Press Magazine, he and his band mates have just returned home from an exhausting season of 24 shows over three weeks up at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, but surprisingly he’s in good spirits “I’m in Melbourne having a luxurious day off,” Scod boasts, feeling refreshed after a well deserved sleep in. “My work day started just when the phone rang and it will finish the moment we hang up on each other, which is a pleasure! We’ve had a pretty busy year so it’s a welcome break. “ [ Edinburgh] w a s a n i n t e n s e experience as usual! Taking a show to Edinburgh is like stepping into a ring with Ali; you come out the other end dead or better. It was a glorious experience but while you’re in it, it feels like hell and then you leave and look back on it with great romance. My overriding memory of Edinburgh is guitar on my back slogging up a cobblestone hill with a hangover between one gig and another far too early in the morning.”

Back on the touring circuit to present audiences across the globe with their latest musical comedy offering Tripod Versus The

Dragon, a show very close to Scod’ geeky heart, the trio are excited about their season in Perth.

“It started its life as Dungeons And Dragons: The Opera but we couldn’t get the rights. So it’s kind of a ridiculously operatic musical. Musicals are coming back in! We all met each other doing musicals. The three of us set out on a journey and we encounter this woman who later turns out to be a dragon, tragic results ensue and it all works out well in the end.

“I grew up playing Dungeons And Dragons, it’s been a huge influence in my life, it’s definitely formed how I see the world. If a video game hasn’t got swords and shields in it I’m not interested.”

Alongside Yon, Gatesey and guest star Elana Stone, Scod plays a wizard in the show, and reveals that he’s drawn a fair bit of inspiration from the Wizard A-List which includes the likes of Merlin, Gandalf and Album Dumbledoor. “ There’s a point in which we’re all playing wizards because my character encounters the twin wizards, conveniently cast and played by Yoni and Gatesy in pointy hats.

I gather my accoutrement as the show goes on and by the end I’m quite laden down with bullshit; I have a wizard hat, which is actually just a party hat for budgetary reasons, and I’ve got a spear of knowledge and a dolphin torch to hold under my face so that I can look scary.

By the end of the show I don’t really have any free hands to play the guitar. My quest for power turns me evil, it corrupts me. So there are lessons to be learnt.” _EMMA BERGMEIER

One of the many colourful characters jetting in to Perth to get in on the fun of the inaugural Fringe World celebrations, Piff The Magic Dragon, aka John Van Der Put, is rather excited about his upcoming season of Pifftacular 2: Get Rich Or Die Trying, a show that combines magic, comedy and one darn cute Chihuahua.

“I’ve been a magician since I was 15,” Piff shares down the line from his London home where he’s packing for his impending trip to Perth. “I always wanted my magic act to be as funny as it possibly could and the comedy came naturally. It’s always been a natural thing for me to combine the two. I have tried doing stand up on its own but I don’t find it as interesting as doing a magic dragon.”

Not content to simply perform magic or comedy, Piff combines the two, and does so while dressed as a gaudy green dragon. So how exactly did Piff, his dragon alter-ego come into being?

“I was going to a fancy dress party and it was Christmas themed so I said to my sister ‘do you have anything to wear?’ and she said she had a dragon costume. So I wore this dragon costume which had antlers and I went as a rein-dragon. When I arrived at the party nobody else was in fancy dress, it was just me in a stupid costume drinking red wine in the corner. Everyone was saying to me ‘what are you?’ and I said I was a rein-dragon and they were like ‘well, that’s just stupid’ so I got really grumpy and that’s when I got the idea for doing an act starring Puff The Magic Dragon but I thought I could be Piff. About a year later I actually tried it.”

Alongside Piff, a delightful little Chihuahua that goes by the name of Mr Piffles stars in Pifftacular 2, which was rescued a few years back from a crazy family with a penchant for botox.

“I was doing my show at Edinburgh and this girl who was running the venue had a Chihuahua which got into my show. I have this joke with a guillotine and it was an alright routine but somebody said ‘wouldn’t it be funny

Piff and Mr Piffles star in Pifftacular 2: Get Rich Or Die Trying

if you gave the audience a choice about cutting off the hand of the woman on stage, or doing that to a Chihuahua?’ and it was really funny. So I decided I wanted to do that joke every night so I had to go and buy a Chihuahua.

“I bought him from a guy who was an offshore rigger who was away most of the time and his wife had this horrendous cosmetic surgery and was selling him to pay for more surgery. All the kids were running around the house kicking him so he was really timid when we first got him, he didn’t stop shaking. So I rescued poor Mr Piffles from a horrible life in Dundee. So I had him and then I decided he had to levitate. So I devised a levitation routine last year – he’s the world’s first levitating Chihuahua. He also tells fortunes and he’s working on some new card tricks, he earns his kibble.” _EMMA BERGMEIER

RISING LOTUS

Occult Overload Visual exhibition Rising Lotus explores the mysteries of the occult and is on at the Fremantle Arts Centre ’til Sunday, March 20.

Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page was so enchanted by occultist Aleister Crowley that he purchased one of his former residences, Boleskine House, on the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland. He then employed the services of a satanic decorator to give the house a Beelzebub-style makeover - a bit like Better Home’s Rob Palmer on ketamine.

Crowley was akin to a mystical Lord Byron and excelled in mountaineering, poetry and copious drug use. His influence continues to shadow popular culture (he was on the cover of Sergeant Peppers) - and is one of the main inspirations for Maschi Fontana’s Rising Lotus exhibition.

“We looked at the intersection between mysticism, the occult and science fiction,” artist Tom Müller says. “We’ve always been into the occult since we were young and love the aesthetic. You can make things which are seemingly invisible, visible.”

Maschi Fontana is an artistic duo consisting of Swiss/Australian artist Tom Müller and Swiss artist Jean-Thomas Vannotti. Müller graduated in 2000 from Curtin University with a bachelor in visual arts and has spent several years honing his craft at art schools in Switzerland and London. He specialises in crossmedia exhibitions that utilise photography, video, sculptures and music. Müller is inspired by avantgarde artists like Marcus Coates and the German Joseph Beuys.

The Rising Lotus exhibition is shrouded in darkness with the odd ruby-red spotlight penetrating the dimness. In the background, an art-house video shows a semi-naked man dragging a large chunk of opaque metal through the desert. A macabre drone accompanies the Australia’s highest circulating Street Press

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footage and there is an overwhelming sense of claustrophobia and foreboding.

“On the opening night we had a local band play along side the exhibition and it created a real sense of drama and atmosphere. That mixture of symbolism, music and shamanism all seemed to converge at one point. It was amazing,” Müller muses.

The exhibition also includes an outdoor steel structure which looms over the Fremantle Art Centre’s courtyard - a huge black triangle of obliques and radii: “It’s a device similar to what they put on top of Swiss mountains to indicate mapping by triangulation from one peak to another peak. It’s referencing our own origins, I guess, and the design shapes we grew up with.”

Back inside a jet-black obelisk is flush against the exhibition wall, fringed with a sapphire-blue nimbus. Down below on the rough wooden floor are three black motorcycle helmets encircling some candle wax. The room is stained with the remnants of a charred tree and an acrid smell hangs in the air.

“Not many other visual ar tists have embraced the occult and we want to celebrate it,” Müller states. “The evolution of the consciousness is fascinating and how it is interwoven with voodoo and the tribal practices of Africa. Since I was young I’ve studied, in great depth, mystics like Rudolf Steiner and Aleister Crowley and I have a big passion for the occult - it’s emotionally engaging.” _STEPHEN POLLOCK 35

VISUAL ARTS Behind Closed Doors, Artspace Gallery, 4/192 Hampden Road, Nedlands.

Illustrator and mixed media artist Zoe Keogh returns to her hometown of Perth this month to present Behind Closed Doors, an exhibition of contemporary works based on personal identity and gender. Now based in Berlin, Keogh’s creations are intricate, detailed and colourful, drawing the viewer in.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, February 12, and runs ’til Saturday, February 26.

Peter Farmer, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, 31 Malcolm Street, West Perth.

Peter Farmer is one of the most important Noongar artists practicing in Perth. In this self titled exhibition, exquisitely painted, almost monochrome paintings tell the history of his Noongar family, passed down through generations by story-telling. The paintings come with the family stories which are uplifting, often emotional, humorous and detailing important information on living in harmony with the environment.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, February 12, and runs ’til Saturday, March 5.

Frozen In Time, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle.

Canadian artist Nathalie Daoust presents a series of delicately hand-coloured photographs from the picturesque Alps in her Perth International Arts Festival exhibition. Frozen in Time is a record of the artist’s response to the landscape during a six-month residency in Switzerland. Offset by the perfect whitewashed backdrops, luminescent figures appear in awkward and unexpected places, creating a landscape that drifts between dream and reality.

Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, March 20.

Jesper Just, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley.

On display as part of the Perth International Arts Festival’s visual arts program, Jesper Just features work by the Danish film artist of the same name, exploring notions of gender and sexual and racial politics. This Sunday, February 13, fans can get up close and personal with Just when he conducts an artist floor talk with Gallery Director Chris Malcolm.

Exhibition opens on Friday, February 11, and runs ’til Friday, April 8.

Year 12 Perspectives, Art Gallery Of WA, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth.

Year 12 Perspectives 2010 is your yearly taste of art by the best, brightest and most talented graduating high school artists in the State.

An annual barometer of what our youth are thinking and feeling, it is also a rich celebration of the role of the arts in the development of individual identities. As can be seen in this dynamic exhibition, the visual arts are a medium through which thought, inspiration and intellectual inquiry is given striking form.

Exhibition runs ’til Friday, July 15.

Buildings, Birds & Trees, Kurb Gallery, 310 William Street, Northbridge.

Buildings, Birds & Trees is a collection of 30 paintings by local artist Frans Bisschops. The exhibition explores the relationship between the man-made and natural worlds, as well as the present and the past. Two years in the making after his first sold out show, these paintings capture a range of unusual scenes - including fish swimming past buildings on Charles Street, haunting suburban scenes, and a neon tree scape of Hyde Park.

Exhibition opens on Saturday, February 12, and runs ’til Friday, February 18.

The Window & The Door by Carol Wells

The Window & The Door, Perth Galleries, 92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle.

Bolting through the door and smashing the glass ceiling, nine intrepid artists break away from their usual practice and leap into the void of the third dimension with surprising results in this multi faceted exhibition. In this exhibition, artists Jeremy Kirwan-Ward, Lesley Munro, Giles Hohnen, Angela McHarrie, Penny Coss, Carol Wells, Bob Dorizzi, Judy Rogers and Eveline Kotai have produced a stimulating mix of 3D works that have emanated from their 2D works, allowing the viewer a rare glimpse into these artists’ worlds.

Exhibition opens at 6pm on Friday, February 11, and runs ’til Sunday, March 6.

MUSIC

PERFORMANCE

Fiona Marsh stars in Performing Arts Perspectives

Performing Arts Perspectives, His Majesty’s Theatre, Hay Street, Perth.

For the 15th annual Performing Arts Perspectives, a presentation featuring the highest achieving Year 12 dance, drama and music students, over 80 hopefuls were asked to audition and only 20 were chosen. The standard of performance is incredibly high with five music solos, five dance pieces (group and solo) and eight drama monologues.

Performances take place on Tuesday, March 8, and Wednesday, March 9. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

Ballet At The Quarry, Quarry Amphitheatre, Oceanic Drive, City Beach.

On show as part of the Perth International Arts Festival, this year’s Ballet At The Quarry season features performances choreographed by artists such as Jirí Kylián, Ivan Cavallari and Maria Callas.

World-renowned choreographer Jirí Kylián refers to Un Ballo as ‘a dance to music, nothing more - an exercise in musicality and sensitivity between male and female partners’. Created while Kylián was Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theater, this beautiful staple of the contemporary ballet repertoire is presented for the first time in Australia by West Australian Ballet as the Quarry Amphitheatre awakens to another gorgeous season under the stars.

Season opens on Friday, February 11, and runs ’til Saturday, March 5. Bookings can be made through Ticketmaster.

Roy Ayers, February 12 Beck’s Music Box; bookings through PerthFestival.com.au.

The Unthanks, February 13 Beck’s Music Box; bookings through PerthFestival.com.au.

De Ness Jazz Kabaret, February 13 The Ellington Jazz Club; bookings via ellingtonjazz.com.au.

Doc Neeson Band, February 26 Charles Hotel; bookings through BOCS. Imelda May, February 26 Howard Park Winery (Denmark); bookings through BOCS. Sounds In The Valley, February 26 Elmar’s In The Valley; bookings through BOCS.

FUN ON THE FRINGE The Perth Cultural Centre glowed on Thursday, February 3, when the beautiful lights hanging outside the Spiegeltent were turned on to welcome guests to the opening of the brand spanking new venue, which has been erected in Perth for Fringe World. Punters were treated to entertainment from the likes of Barry Morgan and the Wau Wau Sisters, giving locals a taste of the colourful festival, which runs until February 26.

Ciara & Bec

Larni & Jack

Renee & Aimee

Jade & Michelle

Lisa & Simon

Rupert & Emma

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JADE AND AMBER While working together up in Broome, fashion lovers Bree Stewart and Kaila Makelow immediately clicked, bonding over a mutual appreciation for beautiful clothes that can be worn from beach to bar. After spending time selling other designers’ creations in fashion retail together, the pair hatched a plan to create their own label, one that would offer up garments perfect for hot days and balmy summer nights.

“Up there you need a specific style of clothing,” Stewart explains of how living in Broome helped shape the aesthetic of their label, Jade and Amber. “We targeted that by using natural fibers, so there’s nothing that you’re going to sweat in. We opted for light fabrics and you can transform our items with some simple accessories.”

“We love dresses that you can just throw on on top of bathers and they still look good,” adds Makelow.

Reflecting the weather and lifestyle of the northern coastal town the label calls home, the debut Jade and Amber collection is fun, flirty and feminine, exuding a casual vibe that’s perfect for wear both day and night.

“Our style is carefree and easy to wear,” Stewart explains of the Jade and Amber aesthetic.

Featuring mini dresses adorned with girly frills, sweet singlets with lace detailing and a range of maxi dresses decorated with original prints, the pair’s debut collection is incredibly strong, which bodes well for Stewart and Makelow who are currently in the process of acquiring stockists.

Attention to detail is key for the fashionable duo, who’ve taken the time to design their own prints, and have worked tirelessly to make sure that details and finishes are up to the highest standard.

“I studied Fashion and Textiles at Central Institute and the print making class was one of my favourites,” Stewart shares.“We design all of our own prints. I do drawing and Kaila puts them onto the computer, so we do it together.

“We’ve just started out with one print and we’re hoping to get two or three going in the next collection. It will be interesting to see how this collection goes.”

So what does the rest of the year hold for this promising young West Australian label?

“We really want to get some stockists and also get feedback from customers about what they want and what they love,” Makelow clarifies.

“We want to keep growing our collections; I think our next winter range is going to be really good.”

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MORE MANIKINN Established a few years back by singer, designer and stylist Shereen Huber, Manikinn is an online clothing store that has just opened the doors to its first ever Perth pop-up boutique.

Located at 668b Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley (tucked away off the alley behind Mt Lawley News) the pop up shop will be open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am ’til 6pm, dishing up the latest Manikinn designs, which includes dresses, tees, slacks and accessories.

To view the full collection which will be on sale at the Mt Lawley pop up store, mosey on over to manikinn.com and let the fashionable fun begin!

Designs from Jade and Amber’s debut collection

_EMMA BERGMEIER

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QANTM COLLEGE Digital Media Degrees Creating a buzz within the digital media world is Qantm College, one of Australia’s leading creative digital media educators. Qantm is thrilled to announce the launch of two fully accredited degree courses from its new campus that has just opened.

The Qantm College Bachelor of Creative Media (majoring in interactive media) teaches students to design and develop interactive content for multiple media platforms including Internet, mobile, phones CD-Rom, DVD and touch-screen. Key features of the course include multimedia development, graphic design, interface design, and interaction design for the Internet and broadcast media. Scriptwriting, storyboarding, 2D and 3D animation, video and

sound editing, development and programming is also explored.

The Qantm College Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment (majoring in Animation) is designed to prepare graduates for operational, development and managerial roles within the entertainment industry. The degree focuses on the specific areas critical to developing knowledge and skills in animation for interactive entertainment. Students undertake specialised units such as 3D modeling, texturing, lighting and animation for games, animation and special effects for film and television, scriptwriting and animation for virtual environments.

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WELCOME TO UWA Get Orientated If you’re one of the lucky 4,000 people who have just been offered a place to start studying at The University of Western Australia this year, you should read this.

First up, congratulations on being offered a place at UWA. If you’re like most students about to start uni, you’ll be excited and a bit daunted too so feel free to ask the friendly UWA staff members for help with any questions and concerns. From receiving your offer letter to starting classes is a mini-journey in itself and to help you navigate, we’ve divided it into three stages to give you guys the lowdown: Preparation, Enrolment and Orientation.

Preparation - during this stage, you should find out about the options available to you, know when and where any pre-enrolment activities will be held and work out the times and days of your lectures, tutorials, lab sessions or workshops. There are some pretty tight deadlines that apply around offer times, so make sure you know the deadline – we’d hate you to lose your place because you didn’t respond in time. Read your offer letter carefully and take a good look at the UniStart website www.unistart.uwa.edu.au. It’ll step you through the details of each of the stages.

If you get stuck at any point, or are just uncertain about something, give UWA a call. There are no silly questions and they’re happy to clarify something for you, rather than have you stressed, or making a wrong decision.

Enrolment - during this stage you should find out when and where to come to enrol, receive individual course advice, have your choice of units approved, and decide whether to join the Student Guild and/or the Sport and Recreation Association. You may be eligible for a scholarship.

Check www.scholarships.uwa.edu.au for more info.

For online information after enrolment visit www. ipoint.uwa.edu.au.

Orientation - during this stage, you will find out when and where orientation activities are being held, be welcomed by the university, your faculty, school or centre, and become familiar with our campus. Orientation is a week long event to give you the opportunity to meet other commencing and later year students. It’ll help you face the first week of classes with confidence. The week ends in a big way on Friday, February 25, with the fabulous Commencement Ceremony followed by the procession to James Oval for all the fun and excitement of Guild O-Day. For more information about orientation visit firstyear.help@uwa.edu.au.

For more information about studying at UWA, call the Admissions Centre on (08) 6488 2477, the First Year Co-ordinator on (08) 6488 3028, the First Year Adviser/UniMentor on (08) 6488 3988, Student Administration on (08) 6488 3235 or visit www.uwa.edu.au. You can also find out the latest happenings at UWA on Facebook - www.facebook. com.au/UWAstudents.

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CURTIN STUDENTS OFF TO BALI Nursing Students Exchange Curtin University nursing students are heading to Bali shortly to take part in an exciting three-week exchange program for the first time with the Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan (STIKES) School of Nursing.

The group of 16 are travelling to Bali thanks to a number of generous scholarships, provided by the Global Health Alliance Western Australia (GHAWA) through the Department of Health. Curtin’s Health Sciences School of Nursing and Midwifery Lecturer Kim Coleman and Unit and Program Coordinator for the visit said the program had been designed to expand students’ awareness of global health and nursing trends. “The unique experience will help to strengthen our students’ ability to adapt to different cultural health practices and healthcare environments, boost their professional community nursing practice,

cultural competence, and interpersonal skills,” Ms Coleman says.

The excursion is part of the Global Community Health Nursing module offered to final year students in the new Bachelor of Science Nursing curriculum, which commenced for the first time last year.

Como local Alexandra McDougall, a final year nursing student, says she was looking forward to teaming up with nursing students in Bali and visiting a number of villages in rural areas just outside of Denpasar. “I’ve never been to Bali before, so I can’t wait to get there,” she says. “I’m excited about obtaining a real understanding of nursing in a different culture and clinical environment.”

Nursing students from the STIKES School of Nursing will visit Curtin University in March 2011 for three weeks.

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CRAZY BOLD BULLETS Originally from Perth, the now Sydney locatedelectro-popDJduoCanyons,akaLeo Holiday and Ryan Sea-mist, are in the midst of putting together the final touches on their debut album. Having remixed a bunch of tracks from artists and friends like Tame Impala and Tortoiseshell and released

My Rescue – a taste of their upcoming record, the boys are ready to hit the stage at StJerome’sLanewayFestivalthis weekend.

ANNABEL MACLEAN chats to Leo Holiday about moving to Sydney, medieval warfare and the duo’s label Hole In The Sky. Leo Holiday can’t remember why he and Sea-mist decided Sydney over Melbourne to set up home back in 2007 when they were signed to Modular shortly after Tame Impala joined the ranks. But the move over east was a decision based on

survival and the desire for a fresh start.“I think the isolation of Perth is definitely a big thing,” Holiday begins. We’ve heard it before but as Holiday continues, it is clearly evident that this isn’t just another opinionated rant, it is justified. “Especially because we DJ to survive, DJing kind of allows us to work on music during the week,” Holiday explains.

“It was kind of hard, we wouldn’t have been able to survive off DJing in Perth whereas when you’re over east, we play in Melbourne once a month and we go up to Brisbane and because it’s less isolated, you can go and play gigs in other cities pretty easily. So there’s that element and I guess we just thought it was time to move on to a bit of a bigger place.”

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LA MORE TO TAKE HOLD Sam La More, aka Sam Littlemore, is coming to Perth everyone. For those who don’t know who La More is – check out his remixes of Lovers Electric, Empire Of The Sun, Pnau, The Potbelleez, Miami Horror and Bag Raiders. From that plethora of disgustingly good artists, you should now have figured out that he is Australian.

That’s right, Littlemore is a producer and DJ who has worked Hollywood, Sydney and London. He’s probs best known for his work with Sydney electro group Tonite Only. He’s featured on and mixed a bunch of MOS compilations and co-wrote and produced the third, self titled Pnau album with his brother Nick and fellow band mate Peter Mayes. Get down to The Newport on Wednesday, March 16, from 7pm to eat some glorious pizza, grab a refreshing beverage and just dance. La More will rock your dancing shoes off.

Bringing you the latest in cutting edge dance music sounds, RTRFM’s Full Frequency crew will once again be bringing their beat juggling skills to get you dancing like your feet are on fire. Yeah bebeh! On the decks will be the whole Full Frequency team – Rok Riley, Micah, Ben Mac, Massiv Trav, Declan, Ben Elliott, Dart and Sardi. Plus you can catch some of Perth’s finest DJs Len Bones, Devo, Philly Blunt, Rudy, Aarin F and Bezwun out on the terrace bar. It’s all happening on Friday, March 18, at Connections Nightclub. Presale tickets are $10 for RTRFM subscribers and $15 for general public peeps. Head to rtrfm. com.au/events for more details. Doors open 10pm. Indulge.

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COPYWRITE AND PLANET ASIA IN DA HOUSE If the house is The Rosemount Hotel, then yes, this is what is going to go down. All the way from California, underground MC Planet Asia is teaming up with fellow hip hop purveyor Copywrite to show you sick dudes and dudettes their mighty fine talent and lyrical expertise. The boys have collaborated with Linkin Park, Sean Price, Talib Kweli, Tupac and Ghostface Killah. Between them – they have won Grammy awards, Source Mag awards and Ohio Hip Hop awards. Copywrite is from Columbus in Ohio and won Jay Z and 50 Cent’s Roc The Mic MC Battle back in 2004.

His catalogue of poetic chaos is outstanding, not even going to bother rattling it off here, you should just get down at check him out.

Planet Asia received a Grammy nomination for his major hit W in 2002 and took home the Independent Album Of The Year award for his album The Grand Opening. Don’t miss these dudes annihilate the grandstand that is The Rosemount with fellow hip hop peeps Layla, Dazastah, Complete, Armee and LStreet. It’s all happening on Friday, February 25. Head to moshtix.com.au or misttrustmusic.oztix.com. au for tickets.

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GO INTO THE GALAXY It is time to party kids. Melbourne disco rock party band Midnight Juggernaughts have been on the road to recovery since releasing their second album The Crystal Axis last year. The space/cosmic/boogie force championed by everyone from Justice to Daft Punk to Mark Poston have played every festival from Fuji Rock to Coachella to Glastonbury. They are back in Australia now to begin the madness of recording a third album. Having recently played Sets On The Beach Vol #2, the trio will be getting their DJing skills on. As DJs, the guys have rocked various parties, festivals, warehouses and carparks around the world. Leave all your troubles behind and enter the tombstone that is the Newport Hotel in Freo on Thursday, February 24, from 7pm to witness this spectacle. Tickets are on sale from heatseeker.com.au. Go into the galaxy.

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But it hasn’t all been uphill for the boys since the big move. “Yes and no” is Holiday’s reply when asked whether the duo have been enjoying living and working in Sydney.“Sydney’s an amazing city but there’s not actually a great deal of venues here unfortunately. It’s kind of in the same boat as Perth in terms of the liquor licensing laws.”

But the supposed lack of venues in Sydney hasn’t the stopped the evolvement of Canyons. The duo are hoping to release their debut album in July or August this year. “We’re just working out dates for mixing the record, everything kind of depends on that because Modular needs a good three months to lead up to the album once we give it to them,” Holiday explains. “We’re just waiting on a vocal for one song.”

As with the duo’s resume of remixes and interest in various artists which appear on their label Hole In The Sky, a bunch of friends, Australian musicians and random international artists will feature on their debut.“Nick from Tame 42

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Debauchery and beats will be prevailing shortly. ACT’s famous DJ duo, The Aston Shuffle, are returning to our lovely dry, hot town. Do we seriously need to introduce these guys? We don’t think so. Hear this though – they have supported the likes of Digitalism, Justice, Busy P and Jesse Rose.

They’ve been featured on MOS compilations and last year dominated the inthemix top 50 polls as #1 DJs. They will be joined by hip hop/house/underground/techno master Mowgli. Surprisingly not raised in the jungle, the Italian stallion will be bringing his beats for a night of utter misbehaviour on Friday, February 25, at Metros Freo. Doors open 9.30pm. Tickets are $20 on the door or $15 on a guestlist before 11pm.

FLIGHT FACILITIES FOR FUTURE The comical, excessively handsome boys that are Flight Facilities are heading back to WA. The Sydney up and coming DJ duo are bringing their old-school flight goggles, strange flight attendant hats and colourful bold shirts to deliver a quirky, highly skilled and refreshing set at Future Music Festival.

These guys are no ordinary duo and those who saw them stir up the sandy dance pit at Sets On The Beach Vol #1 a couple of months ago would know that they are a pair of incognito merry musical pranksters. After hitting up the festival circuit and touring Europe and Japan, these guys ended their breakout year with a well-deserved SMAC Award nod for Best Song Of 2010 and their hit single Crave You came in at #19 in JJJ’s Hottest 100 recently. Strap yourselves in and get ready for some serious hot to trot turbulence because these guys are gonna be mad. Tickets are selling quickly. Head to ticketmaster.com.au to get your filthy mittens on them now!

COOLY G BRINGING DUBSTEP MAYHEM Club music lovers have a special place in their hearts for London underground producer Cooly G. She is too cool for school. She fuses house and dubstep and was snatched up so quickly by U.K based label Hyperdub.

Cooly G was named 2010’s One To Watch in the Independent Newspaper and even received Single Of The Week in The Guardian. She’s been all over XLR8R online mag and keeps popping up on The Fader, Pitchfork and Fact Magazine. A playlist of a Cooly G set is heavily littered with unknown artists, white label tracks and songs simply known as ‘exclusive’.

If you want to be part of the cutting edge, join in the dancing on Sunday, February 27, at Ya Ya’s. Get down from 8pm. Tickets are $15 on the door.

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DELAYED OPENING FOR FLAWLESS Everyone loves being fashionably late and this is exactly what new nightclub Flawless is doing. Due to open last week, the new hot to trot nightclub will now be opening this week.

Everyone has been talking about it and now you’ll get to experience this state-of-the-art club from this week. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, head to theflawless.com. au to find out what the deal is.

Impala and Pond is singing on the single My Rescue and he is also on a couple of other songs on the album,” Holiday reveals. “We’ve done a song with Kev [Kevin Parker, Tame Impala] and a singer called Nite Jewell from LA, and another guy from a band called The Embassy which is band from Sweden.”

Holiday says it was the wonder of the internet which provided the launching pad for getting these artists on board. “We just thought of music that we like and thought ‘well why don’t we contact them?’. I think maybe people appreciate being contacted personally as well. You can leave it up to your managers to contact them but it’s nice to not go through two managers and approach them personally.”

And that’s exactly what the boys did when it came to creating the film clip for My Rescue. Having met LA advertiser/film director Tom Kuntz (the brains behind the Old Spice ads) in LA a couple of years ago, the boys sent him My Rescue and Kuntz got the ball rolling. “He sent us this hilarious clip that he’d taken from YouTube

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Canyons which was – you know those weird kind of medieval clubs where people get dressed up and use fake maces and fight people? It’s kind of a little bit creepy but he’d taken this clip that he found and slowed it right down, roaring really loud and then just put our song over the top,” Holiday describes.

“Ryan and I have a pretty similar sense of humour and we thought it was really funny so… we were happy with that [idea].”

The big beefy, almost Spartan dressed warrior fighting a bunch of fellow warriors in an urban setting that was LA is not reflective of the sounds on the album at all though. “In a more indirect sense, we liked the boldness of the idea,” Holiday explains. “What we try and boil our music down to is the boldest elements.

I just saw the boldness in the clip with this kind of man running around with a crazy mace smashing the glass at the beginning of the clip.

We haven’t kind of written an album based on medieval warfare or anything like that.

“The director sent us two minutes of footage of about ten different actors going for the role just standing there in a corner of a room with their shirts off, swinging a mace, fighting off invisible people, screaming as loud as they could.

It was pretty hilarious.”

Being ‘bold’ is something that has developed over time and starting Hole In The Sky provided Canyons with an avenue to showcase their music to the world. “I think it’s easy to keep making music and it just sits around and you don’t do anything with it and it’s almost a bit hard to move on from it but once you put something out, it’s like it’s out in the world, you get over being scared of finishing things or being worried about what people are going to think,” he says.

Bold but still humble, Holiday is excited about their release and “touring if anyone will have us” he concludes, chuckling.

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BUTCH BEYOND JUST DANCE MUSIC

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Butch is hardcore. The German/ Turkish producer and DJ, also known as Bülent Gürler, had a mad 2010. Gürler became the most charted artist ever on music bible Resident Advisor, holding ten top ten tracks in one year on Beatport and winningTrack OfTheYear at the Ibiza Dance Music Awards. On top of that, he released his second album Eyes Wide Open. ANDREW HICKEY talks to Gürler about producing and the evolvement of DIY ahead of his exclusive five hour set this weekend.

8.30am is not a good time to be interviewing Anton and Andrei Mazandarani. The brother duo DJ all weekend, every weekend. Even if a routine were to develop, add kids to the juggling madness and one can see why Andrei would rather be playing Xbox on a Saturday night and Anton drinking Earl Grey. Instead, the pair are out on the town doing what they do best. ANNABEL MACLEAN talks to them about the perfect formula for a DJ set, Yummy Fur and why playing Marilyn Manson may not be such a grand idea.

“Without music my life would have gone in a completely different direction and I think it saved me from doing some really stupid things,” Gürler begins. Beneath the monolithic redwood that is modern dance music are ritualistic roots.

Finding the duality between ‘music-to-gettrashed-to’ and social commentary is one of the many missions of the German sonic explorer. He has always been passionate about his audience and felt a certain level of responsibility to fans throughout his career. “The music I do is for the people,” he says. “I want them to forget their troubles for a few hours and just have a good time no matter if they listen to it in a small club or big club, festival, car audio, radio or at home.”

Gürler’s chosen sound is not limited to one particular genre or style. The dance auteur’s second studio album Eyes Wide Open finds that harmonious blend between the opulent (Amnesia Haze) and the biting (Under Satan’s Authority). Whether providing the soundtrack to a weekend bender or condemning an unjust war, Gürler makes sure to never sacrifice the groove. “When you produce an album, it’s much more fun producing a spectrum of music that ranges from chill-out tracks over warm-up tracks to tracks that set the dancefloor on fire,” he says.

“I think it would be boring to produce an album that has 18 peak time tracks.”

The technology-driven rebirth of the DIY aesthetic has given enterprising artists the chance to form their own imprints without waiting on that fat label contract and Gürler is one of many artists to embrace the DIY avenue.

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Butch “Creativity needs a certain kind of independence which is why my album [Eyes Wide Open] was released on my own imprint,” he says. “I wanted the artistic freedom to do what I want to do and only Bouq [Gürler’s label] could really guarantee me that independence.”

Since the early ‘90s, Gürler has been involved with production but, it wasn’t until the mid noughties that technology allowed him to truly experiment with his music. “When I started to get involved with producing music, the studio equipment was really expensive,” he recalls. Even with the advancement of technology, Gürler says discipline and perseverance of an artist were and still are necessities. “It still took me until 2005/2007, when they [the songs] were good enough to be interesting for labels to release,” he says.

“As far as presenting the music, I switched really early from vinyl to Final Scratch and later Serato with Time-Code Vinyls. It makes things much easier, especially when you are on tour a lot and you don’t have to carry two heavy records cases.”

Gürler will be bringing his DIY attitude and production to the dancefloor this weekend.

Fans can expect to hear a mishmash of various dance music genres – an observation of the industry at current perhaps.

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“Somebody through a glass at me the other night,” Anton says mid cappuccino stir. A violent reaction from a punter during one of their DJ sets isn’t the usual Saturday night scene for the duo but when Marilyn Manson’s Sweet Dreams exploded through the speakers at Capitol, this was the result. “It’s got the same drum beat as Boys by MIA so we mixed it into Boys which I thought was really clever and cool but somebody threw a pint glass at me,” he explains.

Born in the UK, the boys have seen the grunge scene, the acid house obsession, witnessed and partook in the movement of club culture to the live arena and now the everchanging electro scene.“The club kids seem a bit more open to the indie and pop than the indie kids do to dance music,” Anton says.

“The snobs are the ones that look like they should be the bohemian open-minded ones but it’s the kid in the Ripcurl t-shirt who is maybe not so fashion conscious, he’s actually more open to stuff. When we started Death Disco at Capitol, all the regulars at Amps just hated us, because we bought in non too-coolfor-school indie kids. And the agro was coming from the skinny jean brigade; it wasn’t coming from the big meat-heady kind of club kids.

People shouldn’t take themselves so goddamn seriously. Guys should not take longer than their girlfriends to get ready.”

Before Death Disco at Capitol, what is now Doll House used to be Planet, “a wicked nightclub” according to Andrei who was the resident DJ there. Planet was around when the trend of live gigs moulding into DJ sets began rolling. “Quite often we’d play a live gig and then we’d start mixing into the live set and back out of the live set into DJing,” Andrei describes.

“We played in a live band for about ten years, Yummy Fur - goes back to a Canadian obscure comic book. It’s actually a lesbian slang for pussy. I don’t think we even knew that at

Death Disco DJs the time, I think we just really liked this comic book. We didn’t actually develop a massive lesbian following either,” Andrei recalls in slight disappointment.

Andrei and Anton share the same view when it comes to electronic music – it is trend orientated. “If you’re an electro fan, you’re an electro fan for about six months and then you’re an indie disco fan for a couple of months and now you’re a dubstep fan,” Anton says. “There’s a formula we’re working on for the perfect night - you can’t just play stuff that’s cutting edge.

70 percent of music you play has to be music that was cutting edge six months ago and then you’ve got 20 percent that was cutting edge ten years ago and then maybe ten percent that is truly cutting edge,” Andrei adds.

And the perfect formula might just happen at Good Vibrations where luckily pint glasses won’t be available.

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PROFESSOR GREEN U.K WORDS Professor Green, aka Stephen Manderson, is a rapper from the U.K, online and spitting the words from his well known single, Just Be Good To Green. Indeed, Manderson has had his trials and tribulations but has remained true. He has performed on stage with Lily Allen and has recently released his debut album Alive Till I’m Dead. RK spoke to the man himself about the album ahead of his appearance at Future Music Festival.

Alive Till I’m Dead is out for all to love, share and jump up and dance too. And according to Manderson, fans have been definitely indulging and showing their appreciation.

“The album dropped and went into the charts at #2 and it’s still doing really well,” Manderson shares excitedly. “I’m on the second leg of my first tour. For one gig, we put 5,500 tickets on sale and ended up doing double and then we had to postpone stuff for the weather. So it’s been great!”

Alive Till I’m Dead showcases various influences that have inspired Manderson throughout his life. These influences, however, are ever-changing and already, Manderson can inform fans that his next offering will be notably different from this debut. “Musically a lot of my influences came through and gave me the opportunity to go where I wanted with my music,” he says of Alive Till I’m Dead. “People have got to expect different sounds from me and I’ll pick up another path with the next record. The sound is progressing and it’s a more mature record, more evolved.

“All I ever wanted was to make a powerful album that is chock-a-block with personality. I was ten when I started listening to Biggie - he was the first artist I grew attached to and I listen to a lot of different music. I never had any intention to make music and that was mainly because I never thought I had any creative flair. So for a joke, I did a lyric and then people were like ‘you can rap!’. Of course I went red in the face but from there started messing around with it, then was battling and eventually

Professor Green got signed to a label.”

In terms of the vibe and the direction, Manderson says the album is diverse and eclectic. “There is a broad variety of stuff on there from dub to dubstep and then some more rock type stuff and then obviously the rap influence and the pop element as well,” he says. “What I wanted to get across was a bit of humour; I wanted to make sure my music reflected a personal experience and there is some more influential stuff and there are some personal things there as well.”

Manderson says these ‘personal experiences’ could’ve put him on an entirely different path. “I could have definitely taken the wrong route,” he says. “Then I got this opportunity to do some songs; it wasn’t a conscious decision; nor was it anything else.

It was just getting the attention of the right people and the music was just an extension of that. I don’t think that you necessarily have to do anything bar the music that you want – and I’ve been doing that for ages. I’m doing the music I enjoy and the music I love.”

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SASHA GENTLE GIANT In 1991, Mixmag called Alexander Coe, aka Sasha, the first pin-up DJ. Three years later, they posed the question – “Is he the Son of God?.”

While that question may never have been answered fully, one thing is for sure - Sasha is a genuine icon of the dance music scene. He talks to GLEN PARKS about collaborating, his proudest achievement and his most exciting remix.

The first Superstar DJ, Sasha has done just about everything in his 20 year career; from teaming with John Digweed for the first mixed DJ album, to bringing rockstar status to Sasha and Digweed’s Delta Heavy World Tour. He’s been nominated for Grammy awards, remixed luminaries such as Madonna and Thom Yorke and has recently been voted by Mixmag as the eighth greatest DJ of all time.

In spite of all of his success however, Sasha remains level headed and charming. When asked about how he got into dance music over 20 years ago, Sasha laughs nervously. “It’s funny when you put it like that,” he responds. “I was working in Manchester which was the hub of an amazing music scene at the time. I got swept up in illegal warehouse parties and the illegal rave scene. I was really lucky to be in the right place

Sasha at the right time.”

In 1993, Sasha joined forces with Digweed and a year later they released the first fully mixed album, Renaissance: The Mix Collection.

The two then became almost inseparable until their Delta Heavy Tour in 2002. Since then, Sasha has collaborated with a wide variety of artists. “I enjoy working with people,” he says. “I enjoy the creative process, when you get with somebody and see how that works. I’m not the best person hands-on in the studio. But what I bring into the studio is a vision and a direction of where I think the music should be going.”

With such a varied career, it would be easy to see Sasha getting carried away with himself. But when asked about his proudest achievement it’s simple. “I think my proudest

achievement is to still be here, still getting booked for tours like Good Vibrations,” he says.“A lot of DJs have come and gone in the last few years, and I’m constantly aware of where I sit in the food chain in the music industry and in DJ culture.”

Given his Superstar status, Sasha has been tapped for remixes by some of the biggest artists of the ‘90s and more recent times.

Madonna, Thom Yorke, The Chemical Brothers and countless others have all had the Sasha treatment.

“It’s always a buzz to work with anyone,” Sasha enthuses. “Whether it’s a new up and coming artist or a huge star, it’s such a buzz to work on other people’s records like that. When I got the phone call to work on the Madonna record Ray Of Light, I was jumping up and down on my bed that day.”

Sasha was recently voted the eighth best DJ of all time in Mixmag. It’s an honour that has humbled the DJ. “You kind of take polls like that with a chuckle, but at the same time I was really taken aback,” he says. “I was surrounded by such amazing DJs, people that I consider to be legends. To be in that top ten, I was really chuffed.

There were some serious DJs – people that I think are the greatest DJs of all time left off the list, so I was very excited to be there.”

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FABRICLIVE 55 Mixed By DJ Marky Fabric Records It’s sometimes interesting to draw comparisons between musicians and DJs of equal calibre.

It took Andy C over three months to craft his Nightlife 5 epic, while Marky’s 75 minute Fabriclive mix took him just… 75 minutes. That’s no reflection on one approach or the other, but it is fascinating to note that there is no formula for brilliance. Marky’s demi-godlike status and his strong links to the Fabric institution meant that it was only a matter of time before he graced the series with his own sexy blend of liquid broken beats, and here it is; 70 odd minutes of soulful, funky drum’n’bass.

A special mention has to go to track one - By Your Side by fellow Brazilian S.P.Y. which melds epic movie soundtrack with heart-felt vocals to create what many called one of the tracks of the year in 2010. The mix soon settles into a seamless summery groove, due in part to a pervasive running bass line and its inoffensive chords.

Half-way through the mix, things get a little darker. Marky settles into a more techy, industrial groove with tracks like Heavy 1’s Miller and Skream’s Motorway, and the brooding violence of Siren’s Control is a definite highlight here. Despite the big names and some immense tracks, this isn’t a mix defined by big room tunes or balls-tothe-wall energy; instead, it’s a summertime mix that inexplicably and undeniably burns itself into your skull.

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The hype surrounding For What You’ve Lost set the expectations bar quite high and so before pressing play, I was already convinced this was going to be no average hip hop album.

The album begins with the intro containing a sample from an old hip hop movie which leads into Feel Good, track one for the album. Feel Good is an instant reminder of old school Kanye West – very smooth, lots of swagger, decent inspirational lyrics – although not massively groundbreaking.

In Love With The Wax is just nice. It is a beautifully atmospheric tune which can only be described as what one would feel like upon sitting on a cloud. Ahmad’s overly cool vibe throughout the album is initially enticing, however, as In Love With The Wax continued, a semi desensitisation almost occurred and the beats became the most important and attractive part of the song.

The eclectic beats continued to showcase the incredible production on the album, with even TA-KU offering his skills. It’s a fresh, exciting and inspiring album but the hype of its arrival seems to have outweighed the delivery.

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THURSDAY 10/02 Broken Hill Hotel – Fixed C l a n c y ’s ( C a n n i n g Bridge) - DJ Righteous Club Bayview –Hush- Sox Draw / Maxwell Club Marakesh –DJ Simon Cottesloe Hotel – DJ Shots / DJ Andy M Dolce – Max well/Damian John/Hippo Club Eve – DJ Tony Allen Flying Scotsman (Defectors) - DJs Cowboys / Indie Kids Leopold Hotel – DJ Riki / Roger Smart 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 Principal Micro Brewery - DJ Simon S 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 - D J Gareth The Shed – DJ Andyy Toucan Club -Shut Up & Dance - DJ PK Wolfe Lane – Soul Purpose - DJ Jimmy Mac Woodvale Tavern – DJ Melvin

Premier’s Disaster Relief Fund this Friday night. Alongside the DJs per forming are a whole bunch of live bands too across all three rooms.

The Weapon Is Sound will be doing a DJ set, bringing their deep, dubby sounds and the Death Disco DJs will be reuniting their band from the ‘90s Yummy Fur (which Andrei Maz told us is actually a lesbian slang for pussy which they didn’t know at the time of naming their band) this weekend for a mad show.

WAAPA performers and up and coming beautiful rock band The Ghost Hotel will also be making an appearance. A percentage of money from the bar will be going towards to the fund as well as all money raised from door sales.

Tickets are $10 upon entry.

Make sure you get down and support our fellow friends over the other side of our beautiful country. Indulge in some glorious local music.

FRIDAY 11/02 Flying Scotsman (Defectors) - Come Together ft Death D i s c o D J ’s V s B a c k To Mono All Stars /DJ Fang / D J B l o ke m o n / D J Lo u i s Moncrieff/ Weapon Is Sound DJ set Anton Maz of Perth’s lovely brother DJ duo, The Death Disco DJs, has organised a flood fundraiser this weekend.

Bringing together numerous local acts, DJs and exciting musicians, The Flying S co t s m a n w i l l b e co m e a performance platform to raise funds for the Queensland

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Ambar – Marko La Kucha/ Mo’Fly/ Ez-Pz/ Beatsmack/ Props Box Amplifier – Jamie Mac Bar Open- Boutique Fridays Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol – DJs all night Carine Glades Tavern - DJ Abstar Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) DJ Boogie

Como Hotel – DJ Gazz Deville’s - DJ Little Franco Berry / Jo 19 Funk Club – DJ Charlie Bucket High Wycombe – Fill In Da Gap Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Geisha – Butch / Flex/ Richard Lee/ El Dario / Rohan Smith Library – Jus Hus /Time Travel Agent /Yon Jovi Scott D /Deadvents /Mickey Juice /Arrigold 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 Mustang- Swing DJ / DJ James MacArthur Norfolk - Carl Fox/ Scenic/ Perthquake DJ’s NormaJeans–DJ Phil Oxford Hotel – Recliners Paddy Hannans – Crazy Craig Paramount - Flyte /DJ Morgan/ DJ Jordan Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Rubix – Gene Bourne/ Kenny/ Riki Rocket Room- DJ Brett Rowe Sail & Anchor - Balcony Beatz / DJ J-MAC. Sapphire Bar – SuperFly Swan Basement - R u k u s Napalm/ Bryte MC/ Soma/ Original For tune/ Ranga/ Freethought 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 We m b l ey H o t e l – D J Funk ybottoms / DJ Dean Charles Windsor – DJ Riki and Ray Woodvale Tavern – Dr Bogus Ya Ya’s - Likely Lads DJ’s Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin

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Ambar - Fdel/ Tee El/ Philly Blunt/ Marty McFly/ Oli Amplifier – Eddie Electric Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander /James Wilson Capitol –Death Disco DJs Capitol (Upstairs) – DJ Ryan Captain Stirling - DJ Dano Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) Dan and Tim of Cut Copy DJ Dood Clink – DJ Cheese Micah SATURDAY 12/02 Club Bay View – VIP Saturdays Villa – Cutters Records Night – DJ Ryan Mint – Pop Life – Darren Briais ft Dan & Tim of Cut Copy/ Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ !!! /Foals / Nile Delta /Das Danny Moth/ Bastians Happy Moon & Sixpence – DJ Flight/ Lightsteed Sneakee St Jerome’s Laneway Festival Niche – Frankie Button / Cee / is just around the corner Jonny Zimber and if you want to keep the Norma Jeans – DJ Darren party crankin’, Villa has just Onyx - DJ Kayper the party for you. Dan and Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Tim (Cutters DJs) from Cut Paramount –DJ Meezy / DJ Copy will be getting behind Jordan the decks along with !!! (Chk Q u e e n s Ta v - G a r e t h Chk Chk) DJs. Foals will be Richardson doing a DJ set too as well Rocket Room – DJ Brett Rowe as Nile Delta and Das Moth Rubix – Kenny L/ Delaney (both from Cutters Records), South St Ale House – DJ Jay Das Moth Bastians Happy Flight and Soverign – DJ Jinx Lightsteed. The boys from Cut Copy have just released Deville’s – The Mondo Inferno Tiger Lil’s –Ad a m K e l l y / Charlie Bucket their highly anticipated third DJ’s album Zonoscope which Ben Eurobar – Roger Smart/ DJ The Brighton (Upstairs) – Micah/ Kill Dyl/ eSQue Browning, the keyboardist, Raci says was all about creating Flying Scotaman - Andrei Mazz The Deen - DJ Birdie/ DJ JJ/ DJ a n o t h e r wo r l d, a s o r t o f High Road Hotel – DJ Simon Tony Allen l e n s i n t o a p s y c h e d e l i c High Wycombe – DJ Matt The Generous Squire –Late Night Sessions wonderland. They used wine Hipe Club – DJ E-Funk bottles, ladders and op shop Inglewood Hotel – DJ Andy M The Saint – DJ Anaru mattresses to bring new Library – DJ Jimmy Phatz / The Shed –DJ Glenn 20 The Whistling Kite - DJ Craig sounds to the album. For DJ Victor those of you who haven’t Little Creatures Loft – DJ The Vic – DJ Benny Chill Wembley – DJ Ben checked it out yet, jump on Andy M the bandwagon and do so. So L i q u i d N i g h t c l u b - D J Victoria Park Hotel – DJ if you want to hear the boys K l a r 5 5 / D J S t e v i e M Melvin Windsor – DJ Ray spin some beats alongside Woodvale Tavern – DJ Real other amazing live acts, get McCoy down this Saturday to Villa.

Doors open 10pm. Tickets are $25 plus booking fee for SUNDAY 13/02 the first limited release and $35 plus book ing fee for D a d a R e co r d s L a n e w ay second release. Grab them – Dada Records Laneway from moshtix.com.au, Planet Festival ft Diger Rokwell/ and Mills. You might want to Haricuckoo/ Kynan Tan/ hurry along with this one as Maya Dadi it’s guaranteed to sell out.

This is a free event, taking Carve up the d-floor with the place behind Dada Records Nile Delta Cutters kids! located in the city on Pier

TEARING DOWN THE HOUSE GARETH EMERY/Jason Creek/DJ Matty Metro City Saturday, February 5, 2011

One month after his last visit back in June 2010, Emery released his highly anticipated debut artist album Northern Lights which then went on to hit #1 on the iTunes dance chart in seven different countries. With his #7 ranking in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJ List to top off the year, Emery decided to celebrate by bringing his Northern Lights club tour down under.

Gareth Emery was the night’s special guest for Metro City’s regular Rhythm & Dance Saturdays and it was somewhat of a strange feeling lining up to see one of the best trance DJs in the world with the sounds of R&B pumping out from the lounge bar. Once inside though, it was like stepping into another world and there were more than a few R&B fans who found themselves being irresistibly drawn to the main stage.

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ideal launching pad for Emery to draw from, laying down an impressive collection of dance floor favourites which were well received by the growing crowd.

After showing a great deal of promise at Godskitchen despite landing the difficult closing set, Gareth Emery was looking forward to playing a longer, more structured set on Saturday to showcase his talents. With three hours ahead of him, he not only showcased his talents, he absolutely annihilated the club with one of the most roof-raising sets witnessed in recent memory.

Emery is one of the most gifted musicians in the industry, his ability to incorporate such varying spectrums of intermingling sounds that flow effortlessly from track to track was nothing short of incredible.

From the banging tech trance beats of David Forbes’ Breakout (darker mix) to Oceanlab’s vocal favourite On A Good Day to the melodic intensity of Emery’s own Metropolis, Emery controlled the ebb and flow with absolute precision whilst continually interacting with the

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crowd and involving them at every opportunity.

Instead of drowning in cheesy vocal tracks like a few too many trance DJs lately, Emery used vocals sparingly with powerful tracks like his hugely popular Sanctuary which received a thunderous ovation and his own remix of Oceanlab’s Lonely Girl.

As he hurtled towards the end of his three hours, Marc Simz’ dancefloor destroyer Forbidden City exploded from the decks and saw a writhing sea of hands pumping the air with reckless abandon.

Whilst there is seemingly no amount of words that can adequately describe Emery’s set, the most potent illustration was demonstrated by the crowd itself as numbers didn’t dwindle for the entire duration of his set.

Emery probably sums it up best when asked what was in store for Perth in a recent interview where he replied, “There will be no chin stroking bollocks, just good dance music.” Bang on and absolutely brilliant. _GLEN CANNING www.xpressmag.com.au

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Street for those of you who aren’t in the know. It’s an all ages gig featuring the best local hip hop you’ll find in town. Even Haricuckoo who hails from Japan will be there to get you dancing and jiving about. Haricuckoo is mysterious, try looking that shit up on the internet, you will still be left in wonder as to what sort of performance this mad artist will be performing.

Our favourite Diger Rokwell will be bringing his worldy tunes to the laneway too.

If you haven’t seen Diger Rokwell perform, we advise getting down to check out some of his crazy, strange multicultural beats. The show kicks off at 4pm. Get down for some lazy Sunday dancing and general mayhem. Do it.

THIS WEEK Fresh Produce feat. Marko La Kulcha / Mo Fly / Ez Pz / Beatsmack & Props Box Friday, February 11 @ Ambar Tricky

MONDAY 14/02 Broken Hill Tavern - DJ Mario Tavelli Capitol – Tricky Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris Toucan Club – Sunset Monday -DJ Lee Stevens The Deen – Plastic Max / The Token Gesture The Paddo – DJ John Paul The Shed – DJ Andyy

TUESDAY 15/02 Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel – DJ Matty J High Wycombe – DJ Ricky Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart The Cott (Upstairs) –Maxwell/ DJ Jus Haus/ Damian John Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Diger Rokwell

Broken Hill Tavern - Sophie Jane Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Clink – DJ Tony Allen Club Bayview – DJ Pete Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve – DJ Birdie Flying Scotsman - Nathan J/ Chris Wright / The Nisbit.

Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny L Players Bar – DJ-Udas Queens Tav– DJ Rhys Rubix – The Rotation – Krule/ Dazz K/ Untertone/ Lyndon Toucan Club – DJ Darren The Cott – Cott Sessions The Saint - DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andy

WEDNESDAY 16/02 Basement On Broadway – Damien John/Angry Buda/ Maxwell/Headayke Captain Stirling – WhiteLabel C l a n c y ’s ( Ap p l e c ro s s ) – Upbeat – DJ Andy Connections – DJs Joby / JJ / Rueben Dusk – Blackbelt/ Aswon Eurobar – Wild Wednesdays DJ iPod/Ben Pettit Eve – DJ Don Migi / Skooby Gold – Slick/ Adroc Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Mustang – DJ Giles Newport - Chiardi / DJ Tom / the Chad The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen- DJ Zelimer / DJ Viper and DJ Benny T– Zone 1 The Queens – Wriggle on

Come Together feat The Weapon Is Sound DJ set/ Death Disco DJs/ DJ Louis Moncrieff Friday, February 11 @ The Flying Scotsman

BoomBox Boat Party feat DJS Sirius B/ Chiari/ Nathan Francis/ Aaron Richards Friday, February 25 @ Pier 4, Barrack St Jetty

Chasing Shadows/ DZ Friday, March 4 @ Shape

The Aston Shuffle/ Mowgli Friday, February 25 @ Metro Freo

Future Music Festival feat.

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

Butch Friday, February 11 @ Geisha

Planet Asia/ Copywrite Friday, February 25 @ The Rosemount

Cutters Records Night feat. Dan & Time (Cutters DJS) / Chk Chk Chk DJSet / Das Moth / Bastians Happy Flight / Lightsteed Saturday, February 12 @ Villa

Don’t Sleep ft Cooly G (Hyperdub U.K) / Pickles/ Ben Taaffe/ Clunk/ DYP/ Sleephead Sunday, February 27 @ Ya Ya’s

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Mickey Avalon Thursday, March 3 @ Villa

Ambar’s Birthday feat.

Lady Waks Friday, February 18 @ Ambar

Kid Kenobi: Dubstep Invasion Saturday, March 5 @ Ambar

RTRFM’s Full Frequency Party Friday, March 18 @ Connections MF Doom Friday, March 25 @ Metro City Destination Launch Party ft Tim Healey (UK) Friday, March 25 @ Ambar

Calvin Harris DJ Set Friday, March 11 @ Metro Freo

Clubbers Guide To 2011 Tour ft Tom Piper/ Goodwill Saturday, March 26 @ Villa

Bassnectar Wednesday, March 16 @ Shape

JS1/ Rhazel/ Super Nat Friday, April 8 @ Villa

Sam La More Wednesday, March 16 @ The Newport

Sneaky Sound System Friday, April 15 @ Villa

Challenger Ready ft DNGRFLD/ Marty McFly/ Rikache vs Oli/ Dead Easy vs Micah/ Bulk China vs Philly Blunt/ Bob Noceros vs Blend Saturday, February 19 @ Ambar 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 Midnight Juggernaughts DJ Set Thursday, February 24 @ The Newport

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The Garden Sunday, February 6, 2011 When the sun is shining on a Sunday afternoon there’s no better place to be than at The Garden with friends. Head on it to the picturesque Leederville venue to lap up the warm rays while indulging in Shucking Sundays, an afternoon where punters are treated to free tunes with freshly shucked oysters available from 3pm ’til 6pm.

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Fans of hip hop packed out the Rocket Room last Thursday for Launch, an evening dedicated to all forms of urban music. Featuring sets from D$B, Kaydelle & Brooke Taylor and Stoop Fresh, the evening also saw the launch of Bitter Relief’s latest LP Isolation. Be sure to check out Launch on the first Thursday of every month at Rocket Room.

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Want to start your weekend with a bang?

Then get back into Friday nights at the Leedy. Catch all the best party anthems and dirty disco with DJ Reece on the decks. In the arena, it’s a visual feast with trapeze, burlesque shows and the famous Leedy dance cages. And get ready to score hot prizes with the Red Bull Night Race Formula One Pit Stop Challenge. No one knows how to kick off a weekend quite like the Leedy. Entry is free!

MOJO’S BAR

This Friday, February 11, polish the disco ball, because Boys Boys Boys are coming to Hussle Hussle. Sassy girl harmonies, ‘80s synths and catchy guitar riffs combined with rainbow glitter make for one hell of a show. They ’ll be joined by funk pop rockers Hand Stands For Ants, dubstep maestro Ylem and multi-talented purveyor of fine music, Ohh Dub. $10 from 8pm.

MUSTANG BAR

Come down to the Mustang Bar every Thursday night and suppor t original music at it ’s best. Tonight, Thursday, February 13, they have The Simon Cox Band, one of Australia’s premier talents in modern day blues music. Joining them is Chris Mawer, who’ll add his own unique blend of blues, jump and swing to Simon’s impressive catalogue. Together on stage, they create an exhilarating musical journey through the night to the early hours of the morning, leaving an audience craving more.

FLY BY NIGHT

This Saturday, February 12, join us for Dare To Be Aware, a concert and fundraiser to raise awareness of thyroid disorders and cancers featuring performances by Mo Wilson & Sean Lillico, Wasamba, Tom Fisher & The Layabouts and hosted by Bree Amer, Australian Thyroid Foundation Ambassador. Then on Sunday, February 13, Twisted Vaudeville Circus presents The Poisoned Apple ‘anti-valentines special’ Featuring video projections by VJ Zoo and per formances from your favorite performers plus some new acts to tease, amaze and entertain you.

Day Of The Dead

NEWPORT HOTEL

Every Sunday at the Newport Hotel the retractable roof above the courtyard is rolled back for patrons to soak up some sun while they enjoy the weekly Corona specials.

There’s not much better for a hangover than a free BBQ and a game of ping pong with mates. This Sunday, February 13, catch a live set from surf rock wizards Day Of The Dead.

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The Cott has been a landmark destination for local and overseas visitors for over 100 years.

Situated on the pristine Cottesloe Beach, the hotel will be experiencing a series of major refurbishments over the next 18 months which is set to revolutionise the beachfront strip with excellence in cuisine focused hospitality. Their bars are now specialising in cocktails, quality wine and champagnes and top shelf spirits.

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Head down and play Bex’s Open Mic on Thursdays and go into the running to win a Cole Clark Acoustic Guitar. After a full house last month, the lovely songstress Toby returns for another night of soulful music this Friday, February 11. On Saturday, February 12, The Lathams hit up the Indi Bar, with support from the audacious Laws Of Attractions and Triple J unearthed punk legends, The Sanur Dogs. Launching their debut album on Sunday, February 13, are Swiss Sheppard.

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Join Shane & Brian with an instrument or a song as they play the good old Irish way – surrounded by candles, good company and many, many pints of the black stuff! Every Wednesday from 8pm, simply show up and join in. You can even grab a pie and a pint for $15 until 9pm.

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BIGGER IS BETTER BIG DAY OUT

Claremont Showground Sunday, February 6, 2011 When you’ve been around for almost two decades it’s certainly hard to keep things fresh, but the 2011 Big Day Out succeeded just by rounding a bunch of high quality acts all prepared to give it their all. The BDO has copped much criticism this year for getting a bunch of bands that had played the festival before, but unlike other current festivals boasting bands that have played in Perth in the last 12 months, BDO boasted acts that often only make it down under to play the BDO. After The Vines trashed the stage to make up for their lack of talent, Airbourne made it up to the top of the stage scaffolding in an attempt to convince everyone that they’re more than an AC/DC tribute act, and Bliss N Eso claimed the bogan skip hop crown by getting bogan king Danny Green on stage with them, the Deftones did what they do best – mid afternoon sets in Claremont. Sporting a different line-up to their previous visits, the Sacramento kings played their classics – including My Own Summer (Shove It), a rare airing of Back To School and Passenger.

But did Tool’s Maynard James Keenan reprise his role in the latter song like he did on the album White Pony? No, that would be too much work for the man who is probably getting paid more than any other performer that day – the guy from Dead Letter Circus did it instead.

A place where there’ll never be any repeats is the Lilyworld stage. Upon entering the only licensed stage, we were greeted by Andrew WK playing a piano and taking requests, which saw a young punter by the name of Paul hit the stage to sing a John song in Imagine. WK adlibbed and the triumphant moment climaxed when some “golden girls” jumped on the stage and danced at the end of the song. A place where anything goes, the Lilyworld residents even had to tell security to leave all the stage invaders be.

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CARNIVAL QUEEN AMANDA PALMER / Mikelangelo & The Tin Star / Kim Boekbinder / Minute 36 Rammstein

Cape Town’s confrontational hip hop trio Die Antwoord hit the Boiler Room stage dressed in matching baggy white pants and tops with horrific scribbles. Yisser’s high pitched vocals in Rich Bitch were a highlight, along with her mooning the crowd and Watkin’s gigantic dick microphone literally attached to his genitals. Steve Aoki and the Bloody Beetroots Death Crew delivered a refreshing live set which included several tunes from Rombarama and an appearance from Dennis Lyxzen, frontman of Swedish hardcore legends Refused, who screamed his parts perfectly to New Noise. Dropping Warp 1.9 second in their set meant there was a mass exodus from all casual fans straight after, removing the sardinepacked feeling in the mosh for the rest of the set – it’s just too bad about the fights that ensured anyway.

Back on the main stage, John Butler Trio’s extended jams were becoming incredibly frustrating for those waiting for a band that doesn’t rehearse just six train stations away – Iggy & The Stooges. Iggy Pop’s energy and manic facial expressions made it appear as though we were watching a man half his age on stage and Search & Destroy even saw him simulate intravenous drug use on stage. It certainly works for him. Nobody knew what quite to expect from German industrialists Rammstein, and what can I say – they tore the place apart. Their headlining set at BDO a decade ago was topped in every way thanks to the biggest flags known to man, incredible explosions, flames, fluorescent mouthguards, costume changes and a whole bunch of simulated sex. Believe it or not, but they also played a bunch of songs too.

Over at the Boiler Room, New Yorkers LCD Soundsystem played their final ever Australian show having announced their final dates earlier in the weekend. Main man James Murphy was obviously a bit emotional about that prospect and seemed to ignore all the glow sticks and water bottles that bounced off his body during opener Dance Yrself Clean. With Drunk Girls, I Can Change, Daft Punk Is Playing At My House and All My Friends all played by this very able band, it was an honour to see such a monumental show from one of the most important bands of the past decade.

The talented jazz-pop singer Sia had quite the huge crowd singing along to her crazy tunes at the Converse Stage. Dressed like a piece of rainbow crayoned hard rubbish, You’ve

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Changed and Buttons were crowd favourites and Sia appeared to be comfortable, embracing the hot and sweaty vibe in what may be the last time we see her for a while. A definite highlight of the day, Pnau soon followed with tracks off their upcoming album Soft Universe.

Everybody got the party vibe kicking and although many of the lyrics were dark and emotionally disturbing at times, the music was loud, energetic and chaotically fun. Old favourites Wild Strawberries, Embrace and new single The Truth were predictably brilliant.

As Tool’s main stage light show kept their masses upon masses of fans enthralled at the main stage, Grinderman closed the Green Stage with a set that will go down in Big Day Out history. Nick Cave’s stage presence made Iggy look like a 63-year-old drug abuser by comparison. Through favourites like Get It On and Heathen Child, he looked like he was out for blood as he dove into the crowd and preached his lyrics. No Pussy Blues put everyone in their place and reminded us why Cave and his cohorts are Australia’s greatest exports – and was a perfect end to perhaps the best Big Day Out ever staged.

There was a miscommunication about the time the doors opened that resulted in the faithful queuing for an hour longer than they expected to, but that was the only real bum note in the entire night. The rest of the evening was one of the best live shows that this city has seen in recent years, and the word that comes to mind is “transcendent”.

Not in a spiritual sense, although some of Amanda Palmer’s more hardcore fans certainly seemed to be in a kind of rapturous trance; Palmer is determined to get beyond normal definitions of, well, damn near everything sexuality, performance, celebrity. Her relationship with her audience is something truly unique, a kind of rapport and familiarity that is as unusual as it is enviable, and made the whole experience much more personal and intimate.

Palmer doesn’t just perform for the crowd, she invites the punters into her space, and the event takes on a tone that is part cabaret, part drunken sing along, part theatre, and wholly enchanting. Even the normal gig structure goes out the window; although local act Minute 36 took on traditional opening act duties, the rest of Palmer’s collaborators juggled roles, shifting from support act to backing band to duet _ANNABEL MACLEAN & MATTHEW HOGAN accompanists with mercurial alacrity, with Tin Star’s saturnine, seductive Mikelangelo acting as kind of demonic master of ceremonies.

Even with all the theatrics and repartee going on, Amanda Palmer found time to deal out a full complement of her joyously melancholic music, although even that was interrupted by the audience giving voice to the first verse of Advance Australia Fair at one point. The majority of the night’s songs were pulled from her latest offering, Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under, which is that rarest of beasts, a concept album about Australia that doesn’t immediately invoke cultural cringe. Standouts were the bitingly comic Vegemite, a paean to love torn asunder by titular spread, and that exuberant ode to pubic hair Map Of Tasmania, although Palmer’s heartbreaking rendition of the Australian ballad The Drover’s Boy also deserves mention, as it brought a tear to nearly every eye in the house.

A brief encore wasn’t enough to sate the crowd, and Palmer left the stage promising to return. Let’s hope it’s a promise she keeps, and sooner rather than later. Her shows are, frankly, unmissable.

LCD Soundsystem (photos: Matthew Hogan) _TRAVIS JOHNSON

A REGAL PERFORMANCE SUFJAN STEVENS / Sean Pollard Regal Theatre Friday, February 4, 2010

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Long time a popular purveyor of baroque pop, Sufjan Stevens is a massive drawcard in anyone’s language. But before he could unleash his impressive catalogue on all in attendance, local pop maestro Sean Pollard showed his pedigree while working through his songs in acoustic mode. By the time Pollard and his loop pedal finished the stellar What A Week, it was obvious he is a lad who is going places.

Those who were expecting the earnest folkie to appear before them were in for quite a shock as Sufjan Stevens defied all expectations.

Sure he may have appeared with banjo in hand and opened with the title track of his 2004 album Seven Swans, but in the space of a few short minutes the tune had been transformed amongst a cacophony of trombones, two drummers, keys and guitars.

From that point on Stevens launched into his tribute to outsider artist and self proclaimed prophet Royal Robertson with a band adorned in fluorescent attire and strong outer space bent.

Too Much saw the first of the laser lights and choreographed dance moves from backing vocalists and Stevens himself and set the mood for what was to follow. With the following material to all come

from The Age Of Adz and All Delighted People releases, Stevens’ more experimental side was on show.

Everything about Stevens was impressive as the tunes took a life of their own in the theatre setting. His voice was a thing of beauty and far more appealing than on his iconic records. The restrained Heirloom was a treat as was an emphatic Vesuvius, but few artists could pull off a song like Impossible Soul.

The idea of being exposed to a 25 minute song is not everyone’s idea of a good night out, but few could have predicted the euphoric experience of witnessing Stevens and his band raise the crowd to their feet during the ebbs and flows of Impossible Soul. Light shows, dancers, bombastic headdresses and oversized balloons falling from the ceiling and from the stage made for a one in a lifetime experience.

The singer left the stage to a standing ovation, only to return in a t-shirt and pants as he sat behind piano for Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois and brought the house down again with best known tune Chicago. It was a performance that lasted two hours but went in the blink of an eye.

This one will be hard to top. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT www.xpressmag.com.au

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TRACKSUIT Right On Time

Chainsaw Hookers

HOOKED ON HOOKERS

Returning to Perth’s best hard rock venue this Saturday, February 12, are the band that X-Press once said is “catchier than swine flu” – Chainsaw Hookers. That’s right; they hit up Rocket Room alongside comrades Blazin’ Entrails, Project Mayhem and Chilling Winston.

Tracksuit

Hard workers in the local indie pop scene, three-piece Tracksuit unleash their brand new EP Where Have All The Good Times Gone this weekend.

A feast for the ears, the EP was recorded at Bang Bang Studios with Shaun Sibbes and Lee Jones, both of whom have a long history with frontman Steve Hensby.

“I went to year six with Shaun and Lee was a few years older than me, but I went to school with him in Bunbury as well,” says Hensby.” I was jamming with both of them in The Sun Orchestra as well. They are just two incredibly creative and soulful musicians on their instruments and in the studio as well. They work incredibly hard on getting something right and getting it down well. They really care about everything that they’re doing in the studio – it didn’t seem like just another day at the office.

“It was mixed by James Newhouse as well,” Hensby continues. “He does the live sound for Birds Of Tokyo and I think he’s done stuff with The Novocaines. He really knows what he’s doing. We got the royal treatment all around!”

The royal treatment is obvious on all the tracks, particularly the opener Mr Mower, which jumps out of the speakers and into your ears from the first pull of the mower’s lead. “On the face of it it’s just about a gardener really,” Hensby explains about the song. “But when you get in a bit deeper, it’s about looking at a gardener or a lawnmower man and how he appreciates the simple things in life. He just

goes to work, goes home, he’s got his family and doesn’t really care too much about money. It’s just an appreciation for that.”

A couple of days after the launch, the band jets to Adelaide for the Fuse Festival, which also stars fellow Perth pop peddlers San Cisco, Ill Starred Captain and Minute 36. “We got an invitation via email and then I gave it to our manager and before you knew it, we were booking flights and trying to go over there for the festival,” exclaims the frontman.“It should be good – we’re looking forward to it! It’s our first time there – I’ve never been to Adelaide!”

Adelaide is only the tip of the iceberg as far as Tracksuit’s plan for world domination is concerned. “We’re talking about a national tour later in the year if we can swing it because we definitely want to get over to Melbourne and Sydney and Brisbane because we’ve done so much in the South West, but we just want to get over there,” he says. “Hopefully something will happen out of the Fuse Festival. And then even early next year, we’re talking about making a full length album because we had such a wicked time in the studio making the EP! When we recorded backwards guitars, we thought, “‘This is cool, maybe we can go and do a full album!’”

Tracksuit launch their EP Where Have All The Good Times Gone at Mojo’s this Saturday, February 12. Support comes from The Words, Sonpsilo Circus, Santaria Family Band (featuring former members of Bordello) and Trav & Jay. _MATTHEW HOGAN

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JAZZ RELIEF

Perth’s finest jazz acts are joining forces in support of the Queensland flood victims with Jamie Oehlers Quartet, Victoria Newton Group and the Johannes Luebbers Dectet raising the roof at the Ellington Jazz Club tonight, Thursday, February 10. All of the door proceeds will be donated to the Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal.

MEDICINAL PURPOSES

Having recently completed their debut EP, Acid Chess, Usurper Of Modern Medicine headline Manhattan’s this Friday, February 11. They play alongside Japan’s Haricuckoo, Bamodi and Obscotch. Acid Chess is due out in April through Heartless Robot Productions.

Opia

RECHARGE YOUR BATTERY

After a massive 2010 that saw them release their EP, Emotion Evolution, Opia kick off their 2011 with the launch of their video clip for the track Recharge. It all happens this Saturday, February 12, at the Rosemount Hotel, and they’ve recruited Mercurial, Arkayan, Serial Killer Smile and Over Unity to lend them a hand.

THE LATHAM DIARIES

Raising funds for Youth Focus, who work to prevent youth suicide, depression and self-harm, the original line-up of surf punk legends The Lathams will be inappropriately shaking hands with the audacious Law Of Attractions and Triple J Unearthed punk heroes The Sanur Dogs. It all happens this Saturday, February 12, at the Indi Bar.

THYROID RAGE

With one in seven Australians diagnosed with some form of thyroid illness in their lifetime, Dare To Be Aware will raise awareness of the disease this Saturday, February 12, at the Fly By Night. It will feature performances by Mo Wilson & Sean Lillico, Wasamba and Tom Fisher & The Layabouts and will be hosted by Bree Amer, who is the Australian Thyroid Foundation’s ambassador, a thyroid cancer survivor and former Big Brother contestant.

WALKING TALL

Following a support slot for the mighty Linkin Park a couple of months ago, Perth heroes Sleepwalker headline Amplifier this Friday, February 11. They’ve recruited an all-star support cast with Lacey, Further Earth and the Scene And Herd joining them. Sleepwalker have also been confirmed to support Unwritten Law at Capitol on Thursday, March 17.

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Tonight, Thursday, February 10 sees the fourth and final heat of the 2011 Gozzy Rock competition take place at the Don Russell Performing Arts Centre in Thornlie. Ticket For Two, Between Oceans, Valhalla Nights and Wrongtown fight it out for a spot at the final, which takes place on Saturday, February 26, at Pioneer Park Amphitheatre and also will feature Optamus, The Joe Kings, Colour The Sky, Fat Jackal, Splinta and The Closeout.

LOOKING FOR A HAND OUT?

Pop rock funksters Hand Stands For Ants are coming out of hibernation for a show at Hussle Hussle at Mojo’s this Friday, February 11, alongside Boys Boys Boys. Hand Stands have been mixing their new album over the past two months since the release of their single Ghost.

PREMIER METAL RELIEF

Metal fans can get into the Queensland flood relief spirit with symphonic, melodic heavyweights Voyager hitting the stage at the Rosemount this Friday, February 11. With all proceeds going directly to the Premier’s Flood Relief Charity, the best in Perth metal is on offer with Claim The Throne, Chaos Divine and Empires Laid Waste completing the line-up.

HOLE IN THE DALWALLINU

This Friday, February 11, sees the new $4 million Dalwallinu Discovery Centre come alive for the Northbound Festival. The town is two and a half hours drive north of Perth and the festival will feature Perth based acts Shameen Taheri-Lee and A Beggars Second plus the Wheatbelt’s newest sensation, Codie Sundstrom. Entry is free!

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BULLET IN THE HEAD

Closing the curtain on an eventful five year career this weekend is The Bullet Holes. They released three EPs, raised money for Amnesty International and took out both Gozzy Rock and Ampfest and it all comes to a head this Saturday, February 12, at Amplifier. They play with support from We Are The Emergency, The Spitfires and The F.A.I.M! Project. www.xpressmag.com.au

AUNTY TOBY

Local songstress Toby is heading down south one more time before she heads to Victoria followed by Europe. The constantly touring songstress takes in Bunbury’s Eliot Street Bar on Friday, February 18; and Settlers Tavern on Saturday and Sunday, February 19, and 20.

Dom Mariani

AWAKENING THE SOULS

Fresh from securing an invitation to the prestigious South By Southwest festival in Texas, Dom Mariani has put together a new band in The Rippled Souls and together they’ve recorded an album entitled Rewind And Play.

Released as part of the Liberation Blue series, it features 12 reworked Mariani songs and a cover of Them’s classic, Here Comes The Night. See Dom Mariani & The Rippled Souls in action at Cape Mentelle’s Movies In The Vineyard on Saturday, February 12; the Gimme Shelter benefit concert at Fremantle Arts Centre on Saturday, February 19; the Mustang Bar on Thursday, February 24; Clancy’s Freo on Friday, February 25; Settlers Tavern on Saturday, February 26; and Freo Arts Centre on Sunday, February 27.

A COUNTRY PRACTICE

Fo rg e t Ta m wo r t h , t h e Boyup Brook Countr y Music Festival becomes the centre of the Australian country music universe from next Wednesday, February 16 ‘til Sunday, Februar y 20, offering more music than you can fit in a ute.

Playing the weekend is Troy Cassar-Daly, Felicity Urquhart, Graham Rodger, Connie Kis Anderson, Peter Denahy, Ian Simpson & Jane Germain, Tony Wagner, Amber Joy & The Holy Men, CrackUp Sisters and a whole heap more.

Plus there’s the Country Music Awards Gala, bush poetr y, a street carnival and a heap more things to keep you entertained. More information is available at countrymusicwa.com.au.

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JAZZ ROX

Art rock originators Roxy Music are heading to WA for a two-night stand at Leeuwin Estate on Saturday and Sunday, February 19 and 20, and a south west band has been drafted into support. Jazztrix, one of the south-west’s leading jazz outfits will warm up the crowd with special guest vocalist Michelle Spriggs. Tickets are sold out.

VARRO GOOD SHOW

Local acoustic blues/rootsman Aiden Varro heads south for a one off show before launching his new album. You can catch the slide lover at Settlers Tavern in Margaret River tonight, Thursday, February 10. Entry is free and it starts at 8:30pm.

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Gombo

MONEY TALKS

After spending 12 months locked in a studio, Perth alternative rockers Gombo are rapidly on the rise. With their debut release Pour Money At Your Feet still ringing fresh on the local airwaves, the three-piece have wasted no time taking their live show to the next level. The band head down south for a show at the Prince Of Wales on Saturday, March 5, in a not to be missed event.

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Roy Ayers, February 12, Beck’s Music Box

THIS WEEK FEBRUARY 10 – 16 IN HEARTS WAKE 10 Black Betty’s 11 YMCA HQ ST JEROMES LANEWAY FESTIVAL (The Antlers, Beach House, Bear In Heaven, Blonde Redhead, !!!, Cut Copy, Djanimals, Deerhunter, Foals, Gotye, Holy Fuck, Jenny & Jonny, Les Savy Fav, Local Natives, Menomena, Two Door Cinema Club, Sherlock’s Daughter, Stornaway, The Holidays, Violent Soho, Warpaint, Cloud Control, PVT, World’s End Press, Yeasayer, Gareth Liddiard, The John Steel Singers and more) 12 Perth Cultural Centre

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ROY AYERS 12 Beck’s Music Box

THE UNTHANKS / CATHERINE TRAICOS 13 Beck’s Music Box

TRICKY 14 Capitol

GWILYM SIMCOCK TRIO 15 Beck’s Music Box

THE BOOKS 16 Beck’s Music Box

MAYER HAWTHORNE & THE COUNTRY 16 The Bakery

CATHERINE TRAICOS 16 Malt Bar (Dunsborough)

FEBRUARY CATHERINE TRAICOS 20 White Star Hotel (Albany) 26 Rosemount LLOYD COLE 17 Beck’s Music Box GANGGAJANG 18 Swan Yacht Club 50 LIONS / BLKOUT / WORD UP 18 Amplifier 19 Vineyard Auditorium (Bunbury) 20 YMCA HQ

George Thorogood, February 19, An Evening On The Green

DAVID HELFGOTT 19 Mundaring Weir Hotel CARIBOU / FOUR TET 19 Beck’s Music Box AN EVENING ON THE GREEN (Joe Cocker, George Thorogood, Diesel, The Dingoes) 19 Sir James Mitchell Park (South Perth) ROXY MUSIC, MONDO ROCK 19 & 20 Leeuwin Estate Winery KASEY CHAMBERS 19 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 20 Bunbury Entertainment Centre 22 Albany Entertainment Centre 24 Esperance Civic Centre 26 Elmars In The Valley 27 Queens Park Theatre (Geraldton) GOOD VIBRATIONS (Faithless, Phoenix, Sasha, Nas & Damian Marley, Kelis, Ludacris, Erykah Badu, Friendly Fires, Miike Snow, Fake Blood, Rusko, Sidney Samson, Janelle Monae, Mike Posner, Yolanda Be Cool, Koolism, Kill The Noise, Fenech-Soler and more) 20 Claremont Showground KOOL & THE GANG 20 Perth Zoo SWERVEDRIVER 20 Beck’s Music Box MARTHA WAINWRIGHT 21 & 22 Beck’s Music Box JOE CAMILLERI 23 Friends Restaurant DOC NEESON 24 Friends Restaurant TUUNG 24 Beck’s Music Box KATIE NOONAN & CAMERON DEYELL 24 Ellington THE PLATTERS / MONROE POWELL 24 & 25 Café Coast Wannanup BONJAH 24 Mojo’s 25 Settlers Tavern 26 Royal Palms Resort 27 Redcliffe On The Murray THE BATS / LAURENCE ARABIA 25 Beck’s Music Box LIOR 25 Fly By Night THE SEARCHERS 25 Friends Restaurant DAME KIRI TE KANAWA / KATIE NOONAN & THE CAPTIANS 25 Kings Park RESIST THE THOUGHT / BURIED IN VERONA 25 Amplifier 26 YMCA HQ THE BLACK SORROWS, VIKA & LINDA BULL 26 Mundaring Weir Hotel THE PUBLIC OPINION AFRO ORCHESTRA 26 Beck’s Music Box JACK DEJOHNETTE 26 & 28 Astor Theatre

Joanna Newsom, March 2, Beck’s Music Box

OS MUTANTES 6 Beck’s Music Box OLD MAN RIVER 6 Indi Bar STEVE REICH’S 2X5, BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS MARCH 6 Perth Concert Hall SOUNDWAVE (Iron ARCHIE ROACH Maiden, Queens Of 1 Beck’s Music Box The Stone Age, Slayer, JOANNA NEWSOM Primus, Slash, Social 2 Beck’s Music Box Distortion, Rob Zombie, BANG ON A CAN ALLAvenged Sevenfold, 30 STARS Seconds To Mars, Stone 2 State Theatre Centre Sour, Gang Of Four, New THE PLATTERS / MONROE Found Glory, Pennywise, POWELL Sum 41, Anberlin, The 2 & 3 Friends Restaurant Gaslight Anthem, Third 5 Mundaring Weir Hotel Eye Blind, DevilDriver, 6 Fly By Night Sevendust, Less Than CLARE BOWDITCH Jake, The Bronx, Monster 4 Fly By Night Magnet, Terror, MxPx, DARREN HANLON Protest The Hero, 5 Fly By Night Melvins, 36 Crazyfists, WILDBIRDS & Ill Nino, The Ataris, The PEACEDRUMS / AMIINA Starting Line, Bayside, 3 Beck’s Music Box Mad Caddies, The Maine, MOUNT KIMBIE Trash Talk, Mayday 4 The Bakery Parade, Foxy Shazam, BEST COAST Never Shout Never, 4 Beck’s Music Box The Blackout, Alesana, MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS Asking Alexandria, All / BANG ON A CAN ALLThat Remains, High On STARS Fire, Dommin, The Sword, Kylesa, A Skylit Drive, 4 Bishops Garden There For Tomorrow, NANNUP MUSIC Breathe Carolina, Taking FESTIVAL (The Pigram Brothers, Clare Bowditch, Dawn, I See Stars, Rise To Passenger, Shane Howard, Remain, Nonpoint, Veara, Kim Churchill, Oka, Rosie Every Avenue, Sevendust, One Day As A Lion, Burgess and more) Bullet For My Valentine, 4 – 7 Nannup Bring Me The Horizon, Amphitheatre Murderdolls, Dimmu TIM MINCHIN Borgir, Millencolin, 4 & 5 Kings Park Coheed & Cambria, The OLD MAN RIVER / Amity Affliction, Feeder, PASSENGER H20, The Rocket Summer, 4 Amplifier Saxon, Silverstein, 5 Mojo’s Fucked Up, We The Kings MICHAEL BUBLE / and more) NATURALLY 7 7 Claremont Showground 4 & 5 Sandalford Winery, KE$HA Swan Valley 7 Challenge Stadium 6 Sandalford Winery, GANG OF FOUR Margaret River 8 The Bakery OMAR SOULEYMAN DONAVON 5 Beck’s Music Box FRANKENREITER THE WAIFS 9 Amplifier 5 Old Broadwater Farm 10 Settlers Tavern (Busselton) 12 Fly By Night 6 Castelli Estate (Denmark) HOLLY THROSBY 8 Performing Arts Centre 10 Prince Of Wales (Mandurah) 12 The Bakery 9 Fremantle Arts Centre 13 Mojo’s 10 Astor Theatre GERRY & THE NIKOLA SARCEVIC PACEMAKERS (MILLENCOLIN) 10 Mandurah Performing 6 Rosemount Arts Centre FUTURE MUSIC (The 11 Mundaring Weir Hotel Chemical Brothers, MARY BLACK Dizzee Rascal, Pendulum, 10 Quarry Amphitheatre MGMT, Mark Ronson WAVVES / BLEEDING KNEES CLUB & The Business Intl, 11 The Bakery Ke$ha, The Presets, IAN MOSS Leftfield, Plastikman, 12 Mundaring Weir Hotel Steve Angello, Sven Vath, Sander Van Doorn, DEAD PREZ 12 Villa Steve Aoki, Loco Dice, RIHANNA Don Diablo, Etienne De Crecy, Zane Lowe, Cosmic 12 Burswood Dome Gate, The Subs, Sound Of NEW ORLEANS 13 Perth Concert Hall Stereo, James Holroyd, SANTANA Tame Impala, Flight 13 Sandalford Estate Facilities, Gypsy & The USHER / TREY SONGZ Cat and more) 15 Burswood Dome 6 Arena Joondalup IMELDA MAY 27 Beck’s Music Box KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ 27 Government House Ballroom

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KOOL & THE GANG

With such classics as Celebration, Jungle Boogie, Ladies Night, Get Down On It and heaps more in their arsenal, Kool & The Gang are htting up Perth and heading straight towards the Zoo. That’s right, the kings of funk and soul will be playing with their 12-piece band for one night only on Saturday, February 20. Joining them is the legendary Norman Jay MBE, who will be spinning classic tunes, while Aloe Blacc and Charlie Bucket will be leading the charge in the Soul Train world record attempt for longest conga line. Head to Ticketek for your tickets.

Well it looks like Australia will be waiting many a moon to get a glimpse of the reunited Soundgarden, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be waiting an eternity for their fellow ‘90s grunge peddlers Stone Temple Pilots. Scott Weiland and friends created a frenzy in the ‘90s with albums Core, Purple, Tiny Music and No. 4 but somehow they never made it to Australia in that time. Now they’re back together and touring again and some of their YouTube videos show them looking like they’re more entertaining than ever – for both the right and wrong reasons! See them at Challenge Stadium on Wednesday, March 16.

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With an astounding features to go with its real-time channel matrix operation, slim tabletop design, state-of-the-art solid steel chassis construction and quality sound, the DN-MC6000 is one of Denon DJ’s flagship controllers. And since it also acts as an audio interface (with a 2 in/2out stereo soundcard included), when paired with the user’s software of choice, is a turnkey control solution for mobile DJs and party DJs, and a clear centerpiece to any DJ rig.

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