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Perth-born electronica prodigy KUČKA has released her long awaited new single, Unconditional, providing the first taste of her upcoming EP which is set for a late-year release. KUČKA will be officially launching the single this Saturday, June 7, at The Bird alongside fm and Mudlark.

Ahead of the release of their third studio album, The Worry, on Friday, September 12, the three musketeers of Sydney’s electronica scene, Seekae, are heading to Perth. Since the release of their debut LP, The Sound Of Trees Falling On People, in 2008, the three Sydney lads have been making waves and selling out shows both here and in the UK. Playing at the Villa Nightclub on Saturday, August 16, the trio will feature special guest, Jonti. Tickets available through Moshtix.com.au.

The album’s single, Test & Recognise, is out now.

Portly Latino comic, Pablo Iglesias is leaving the fast food and freedom-loving shores of his home country to bring laughs around the globe as part of his Unity Through Laughter World Tour. This movie star, television star and comic superstar, who has graced screens in his Hawaiian shirt for well over a decade, will be hitting Australian shores in September.

For Perth fans, Iglesias will be performing at the Riverside Theatre on Tuesday, September 23.

Tickets are available through Ticketek.com.au.

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MORRIS MUSIC Australian rock icon, Russell Morris, is heading to Perth to bring the nation’s great narratives to the public in musical form. Morris will be playing songs from his awardwinning Sharkmouth album, as well as his latest album, Van Dieman’s Land, which debuted at number four on the ARIA charts. The show will be held at the Regal Theatre on Saturday, August 23, and feature stories from Australia’s rich history, including the events of Eureka Stockade and Sandakan and the folk legend, Breaker Morant.

Tickets are available through Ticketek.com.au.

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SACHAFEST GO INDIGO! Mandurah band Indigo have had a cracking time of it in the last eight months, finishing top five in First Break 2013, taking first place ion the Stagebound comp (as part of Southbound) and, just recently, winning Ampfest 2014.

The band have just released their selftitled debut EP (reviewed this week in New Noise) and will launch it this Thursday, June 5, at The Bird with help from Kat Wilson, Little Skye and Curtis McEntee. Action stations from 8pm.

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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

The Perth music community was shocked to learn over the weekend of the one-punch attack on local musician, Sacha Tostevin, which took place in Subiaco in the early hours of Saturday morning.

A 25 year-old Balga man has been charged with the assault and faces court on Tuesday, June 17.

Sacha, meanwhile, is in Sir Charles Gardner Hospital and has some mending to do.

In a great show of support, SpookChild, along with Sacha’s many friends are putting together a benefit show to help raise funds to aid in his recovery.

SACHAFEST will take place at the Rosemount Hotel on Sunday, June 22, from 2-10pm.

It’s a licensed, all-day event featuring The Creptter Children, Chainsaw Hookers, Tempest Rising, Tears For Atlantis, The Silence In Between, Reaper’s Riddle, Aztech Suns, To Hell With Honour, The Worst and Blue Gene.

Tickets will be available at the door (price TBA), with all proceeds to Sacha and the Tostevin family. If you would like to contribute to SACHAFEST in some way send an to email to info@sachafest. com.

All of us at X-Press Magazine wish Sacha the very best for his recovery.

It’s finals time for the Global Battle of the Bands, with two shows playing at the Railway Hotel showcasing some of the West Coast’s premiere musical talent.

The first show, on Saturday, June 14, will be the last of the Perth heats before the WA regional finals on Sunday, June 15. The winners will participate in the national finals before flying over to London for the World Final and a chance to compete with 30 international bands for a $100,000 prize. There’s still some band slots to fill; for those interested, contact redletter@bigpond.com.

Sacha Tostevin Pic: Te’Anne Photography

BRING IN THE BASTARDS Smashing out their debut album in eight days at Jungle Studios, under production guru, Lachlan Mitchell (The Jezabels), punk string septet, Little Bastard, are heading west for an evening of attitude-filled, in-yourface debauchery. The band’s self-titled album was released last month, and to celebrate this the punk rockers will be hitting up the Prince Of Wales, Bunbury, on Thursday, June 19; Settlers Tavern, Margaret River, on Friday, June 20, and Mojo’s on Saturday, June 21, as part of their national tour.

Supporting Little Bastard at Mojos will be The Floors and Aborted Tortoise.

Tickets available through Oztix.com.au.

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AUSTRALIA’S VERY OWN COMIC-CON Since 2000, Supanova Pop Culture Expo is where the adoring public comes face to face with Supa-Star celebrities and the creative talent who inspire their imaginary worlds under one big roof. Gathered from and surrounded by the wonderful worlds of comic books, animation/cartoons, science-fiction, pulp TV/ movies, toys, console gaming, trading cards, fantasy, entertainment technology, books, internet sites and fan-clubs, the result is an amazing atmosphere tailor-made for expressing your inner geek and where getting into cosplay (cos-tume role-play) is the obvious thing to do. It’s Comic-con, Australian style.

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Good Vibrations was a record store, a label and the life of Terri Hooley - Ireland’s Godfather of Punk. And as war rocked Belfast in the ’70s, extinguishing the free love promise of the ’60s, Hooley had an epiphany: the best conduit for rage was music. Richard Dormer (Game Of Thrones) is a revelation as the carefree rascal Hooley, who planted his base right in the firing line. After an unexpected spiritual conversion to punk, he signs the Undertones, and provides a lifeline to Belfast’s shell-shocked youth. Email win@xpressmag. com.au to get a double pass to see the flick.

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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR At 15, Adele doesn’t question it: girls go out with boys. Her life is changed forever when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

Blue Is The Warmest Colour is an epic of emotional transformation that pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation.

It is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life.

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Experience the high-energy, smash hit musical, Grease, that has taken Australia by storm and includes such unforgettable songs as You’re The One That I Want, Grease Is The Word, Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted To You, Sandy, Greased Lightnin’ and many more. Leading the all-star cast in the iconic roles of Danny and Sandy are born entertainer Rob Mills and rising star Gretel Scarlett. Bert Newton returns to his radio roots to play the role of slick veteran disc jockey Vince Fontaine, while Todd McKenney dusts off his dancing shoes to star as Teen Angel. Television and stage veteran Val Lehman returns to musical theatre to play Rydell High’s tough school principal Miss Lynch. Email win@xpressmag.com.au to grab a double pass to opening night, Sunday, June 22.

We gave away part one last week. Now’s your chance to grab part two of Lars von Trier’s latest film. Nymophomaniac: Volume II picks up with the story of Joe’s (Charlotte Gainsbourg) adulthood, where her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications. The film stars Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth and Jean-Marc Barr in addition to Gainsbourg, Skarsgård, Martin and LaBeouf.

Nymphomaniac: Volume I and Volume II mark Lars von Trier’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed film, Melancholia, and is his third consecutive collaboration with Charlotte Gainsbourg. As widely reported, the films contain graphic depictions of sexuality to a degree unprecedented in a mainstream feature film. Email win@xpressmag.com.au to win a DVD.

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2 One Another is a multi award-winning work choreographed by artistic director Rafael Conachela, which weaves a vivid, exultant and sensual study of human interaction – charting the myriad actions and reactions, gestures and relationships, connections and disconnections that make up a life. 2 One Another is set against a pulsing, pixilated backdrop and thrums with a driving, baroque-meets-electronica soundtrack, penned by the able hand of composer Nick Wales.

Shot through with the exquisite poetry fragments of Samuel Webster, this is dance at its most engaging and multi-dimensional. A startling, high-octane shot across the bows of contemporary dance, 2 One Another is an exuberant celebration of the power of movement. Email win@xpressmag.com.au to win a double pass to opening night, Wednesday June 18 of Sydney Dance Company’s 2 One Another at His Majesty’s Theatre.

An alluring, mysterious couple draws an unsuspecting young man into a labyrinth of deception and desire in Oscar-nominated writer Hossein Amini’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s suspenseful romantic thriller.

A brilliant con artist, Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen), accidently kills a private detective who has tracked him down from the US to Athens. He flees from the international police with his wife (Kirsten Dunst) and a young American (Oscar Isaac) across the Greek islands through to Istanbul. Their flight involves a web of manipulation and betrayal that binds them together... in a way that only death could do them part. Email win@xpressmag.com.au to grab a double pass.

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FRENTE Marvin: The Anniversary Frente are back and ready to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Marvin: The Album at the Astor Theatre on Saturday, June 7.

BOB GORDON checks in with vocalist, Angie Hart.

They were the darlings of the Australian music scene in the early ‘90s.

When, after two EPs, Frente released Marvin: The Album they regaled the airwaves with pop treats such as Labour Of Love, Accidently Kelly Street and Ordinary Angels. They were parodied on The Late Show and personally invited by Madonna to be on her Maverick Records label (they passed).

It’s hard to believe that this year is the 21st anniversary of Marvin: The Album, but with it has come a commemorative release and a national tour.

For vocalist, Angie Hart, it’s surreal.

“It’s everything,” she laughs. “Music is so evocative anyway, if you have memories tied to it. So playing the songs and going through the memorabilia, it brings up a lot of stuff that you can’t avoid... good and bad!

“Then there’s the reaction from the crowd as well. Which, I don’t know why, the first night we played I hadn’t factored that in. It was so rewarding, but it also brought up a lot of emotion.”

People do carry songs with them. For a songwriter it must be nice to realise that it meant enough to people then, that it means something now...

“Yeah and now with social media it’s a whole different thing for Frente,” Hart says, “hearing about people’s experiences later as well. These experiences that they’ve carried around with them, we get to hear about that.

“And not just by snail mail as well (laughs).

You can have an ongoing conversation. I used to get fan mail and you’d write one letter back and that was it! So, gone are those days... I really enjoy the back and forth with people. None of it’s gotten weird or anything.

“On the flipside, if we’d had social media at the time Frente left Australia to go overseas and do all this other stuff, people would have known what it was that we were doing over there. Which would have been really great, because we kind of just disappeared (laughs).”

CIRCO CELEBRATION Frente

Frente broke up in 1996, following a long US tour, which failed to break their excellent second album, Shape. Hart went on to write and sing for Splendid, Holidays On Ice and Four Hours Sleep, as well as solo work and on numerous collaborations.

While this tour provides some closure in regards to Frente, she had at times distanced herself from it over the years.

“Absolutely. And that’s been a gradual thing, you go in stages with that kind of stuff. It’s only just recently that I’ve come to a... you can never be neutral, really, but definitely all that stuff that I’ve needed to sort out and separate my own craft, the way I write songs and how I present myself... I feel like that’s come to mature with age, if that makes sense.

So now going into Frente, a lot of those desires and ambitions are settled. I feel comfortable being in it.”

Have you let your guard down a little?

“There’s a lot of compassion involved in looking at yourself in that younger way,” Hart says. “Simon (Austin, founder/guitarist) and I have both been talking recently about how we have that perspective now, to look at ourselves as not the people that we are now, but too look back an go, ‘yeah, that’s what I was like then’. It’s separate.”

But while the word ‘closure’ has been used, Hart’s open to the idea of Frente recording new material. The magic is back.

“It’s all about being enjoyable, otherwise what’s the point?” she opines. “If Simon and I aren’t getting along then there’s no point in that either. And if the songs aren’t happening, then there’s no point in that.

“But I feel that having done everything else, there’s a magic to those songs that isn’t in anything else. He and I don’t create those things separately. It’s a very enticing field to want to go back into, because we do create some sort of a mystery between the two us. Something happens which we can’t put our finger on... and that’s fun.”

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F R O N T COV E R : DMA’s hit the Circo Festival on Saturday, June 28, at Claremont Showgrounds.

SALT COVER: ODESZA head to Circo on Saturday, June 28, at Claremont Showgrounds.

TEMPAH TANTRUM Pint-sized pop sensation, Tinie Tempah will be rocking crowds at Metro City on Saturday, June 28, as part of the Club Life Launch Party. One of the big name acts of this year’s Future Music Festival, in fact, one of the big name acts of anything in general, the Londonbased entertainer, rapper and dancer is promising an unforgettable night of good vibes and good music.

Tickets are available through Oztix.com.au, but make sure to snap some up fast before they sell out!

MAKE A SPLASH

SOME LOU FOR YOU The Newport Hotel’s Record Club kicks off this Thursday, June 5, with The Date who will play Lou Reed’s Rock’n’Roll Animal.

“We have long admired Lou’s take on street life and the people who live a little below the surface of normality and this, over time, has reflected in our own output,” says The Date’s David Moran. “ “We chose Rock’n’Roll Animal because it is basically guitar, bass and drums and in places it is quite majestic – and a lot of the songs are three chords which helped the slow learners immensely.

“The Velvets and Lou Reed showed where music could go and gave a path to writers who wanted to be able to describe, lyrically, their emotions and observations. It was new at the time and nowadays it’ s a given, but there is something satisfying in releasing a great body of work and I hope Lou finished up satisfied.”

It all kicks off at 8.30pm. Tickets though Oztix.com.au or the Newport Hotel bottleshop.

The Date

O NO! Stuntman, comic and professional Jackass, Steve-O, will be flying his freak flag high at the Astor Theatre on Sunday, August 3. As you might expect, Steve-O’s show will be a mixture of his iconic, horribly-painfulto-look-at physical comedy, as well as a generous serving of too-much-information anecdotes. Tickets are on sale through Showticketing.com.au, for $65.

So if paying to see someone punished and publically humiliated is your thing, make sure you snap up a pair.

Steve-O

The first Big Splash heat took place last night at Mojo’s. The next heat happens on Tuesday, June 10, at The Bird featuring Crisis Mr Swagger, D-Jeong, Dream Rimmy and World A Fuzzy. Tickets are $5 at the door from 8pm.

ACHY BREAKY HARD The Hard Aches are heading to Perth fresh from an East Coast tour in support of their latest EP, Organs And Airports. Playing Perth as part of the Blood Rock Festival late last year has snared the group a respectable following and this time around they’re holding their own gig at Ya Ya’s on Friday, June 27, alongside Them Sharks, The Bob Gordons, Lionizer and Being Beta, before playing at the Winston House on Saturday, June 28, with Chilling Winston, The Decline, Silver Foxes and more. Tickets are available at the door.

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RED PARROT ROCK II Back To Live As we’ve been touting for a few months now, Red Parrot Reunion is coming back for another year to remind Perth of one of its great music venues.

The DJ line-up has been revealed and now it’s time to unveil the live component, with The Waltons, The Diddywah Hoodaddys, Love Pump, Holy Rollers, Greenhouse Effect, The Jackals and the James Baker Experience (featuring Rod Radalj) all primed to roll. Renowned Perth singer/guitarist, Greg Dear, has curated the line-up.

“It has been a great privilege to have the job of chasing up the live acts to play at this reunion gig,” he says. “Most of these bands haven’t played together for many years and are getting together just for this event.

“My own band, the Holy Rollers, who played numerous gigs at the Parrot, will be among the many taking to the stage for the first time in many years.

The Parrot was always my favourite venue to play because I loved the huge stage area that gave us plenty of room to move around, and the crowd was always great! Also important is the fact that it didn’t close as soon as we finished - bands would finish around 1am or so and the DJs would keep going until 3 or 6am.”

Last year’s event sold out, make plans now to head to the Astor Theatre next Saturday, June 14. Tickets available through Showticketing.com.au or at the door.

James Baker Experience

POLTZY! US troubadour, Steve Poltz, is back for his 13 th Australian tour. The Lucky 13 tour, will stop by Perth for two with shows on Tuesday, June 17, at Four5Nine Bar (Rosemount Hotel) and Wednesday, June 18, at Mojo’s.

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The WA Police are holding a competition to find the best short film by high school students, for high school students as part of their SAY Project. The film should run between 90 and 105 seconds long and focus on the message of making their community ‘drug-free and drug-aware’. The winner will get $1,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Canberra to show their film. Runners-up (second-to-fourth) will also nab the cash but miss out on the trip. School and community youth organisations are required to submit an application of interest by Thursday, July 24. For more information, head to Police.wa.gov.au.

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Fresh-faced, fancy-free and back for their second year, organisers are bringing Circo to the Claremont Showgrounds on Saturday, June 28. The boutique music festival is booking some of Australia’s premium talent for the event, as well as a few big underground names from overseas, including Violent Soho, Kele (of Bloc Party fame) and Nina Las Vegas. The festival has just announced the addition of its fourth stage, the Red Bull Perf stage, chock full of local acts, including Palace, D.Y.P, Tina Says, Slumberjack, Sleepyhead, Camborghini, Bunj and Time Pilot. Third and final round tickets are on sale now through Ticketbooth.com.au.

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DMA’S Full Circo From signing to Sydney record label, I OH YOU, to releasing their debut EP, Johnny Took from DMA’s discusses the band’s stellar year with AARON BRYANS ahead of their appearance at the Circo Festival on Saturday, June 28, at Claremont Showgrounds.

DMA’s are all about doing their own thing and perfecting their music; and people love it.

From recording their latest material from the comfort of Johnny Took’s bedroom to setting Sydney alight with a huge debut gig at the Camperdown Café last month on 48 hours’ notice; The Newtown trio, comprised of Tommy O’Dell, Matt Mason and Johnny, have been sending shockwaves through the industry.

“When we first recorded Play It Out, which was probably a year-and-a-half ago, we decided to make a video and finally put something together,” Took reveals. “Our plan for that was to put out a track and hopefully get some people talking about it or find some management; and we did that. And once we got management on board we showed some more of the songs we’d recorded to I OH YOU and they jumped on board. It’s working out well for us. We had a plan and we wanted to do it a bit differently to the standard, gigging around town and slowly building your set up.

We wanted to spend more time in the studio and we were conscious about that.”

Although recording in Took’s bedroom seems like an incredible challenge, the team has worked on its expansion and set up for years.

“I had this bedroom set up for about three years now,” he explains. “When we first showed the demos to our management and then Yohan at I OH YOU they all had a fondness for the sound of the demos and there was something endearing about the fact they were done in the bedroom.

“We had our own kind of sound to it, which I was pretty surprised to hear. I thought we’d go into a studio to do something but I’m happy we didn’t now. I like the fact that this is the sound that people have heard from the tracks we’ve done over the last couple of years. We did try a song in a studio with a really good engineer and it didn’t come up with what we wanted. The space that I’ve got here is just

RON POPE The Dogs Are Talking Brooklyn singer/songwriter, Ron Pope, touring in support of his new album, Calling enough to get the sound that we need to get.”

Although DMA’s are now starting to receive Off The Dogs, plays a solo, all-ages show on national attention and a rise in popularity; Took Friday, June 13, at the Astor Lounge. DANIEL believes the desire to tour won’t affect their writing tenacity.

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“We try to never stop writing. I find that writing is one of those things that you’ve got to keep doing. It’s kind of like if you stopped doing exercise you’d get unfit. We’re always going to keep writing, but I am looking forward to touring properly. We’re about halfway through our EP tour at the moment.

We just had Sydney, Melbourne and Sydney. It was so nice to play three shows in a row.”

The DMA’s will be in Perth for the Circo Festival on Saturday, June 28 at the Claremont Showgrounds alongside a killer line-up that includes band faves, Violent Soho.

“We’re just looking forward to playing with the Violent Soho dudes. And we haven’t really done DMA’s in a proper festival line-up so I think the sound will go down really well.”

No stranger to our shores, Ron Pope will be celebrating his new record, Calling Off The Dogs, with a fresh batch of musos on his East Coast show this month “I’m actually using all Sydney-based musicians as my tour band. I’ve got a crazy kind of personal connection to Australia, because one of my best friends lives in Sydney and he’s opening the tour.

His name is Cam Nacson.

“When I came down in 2012 we just ran around meeting a ton of people he knew, so I kind of have this great connection with Australia through having a really good friend who lives there. Cam introduced me to Michael McGlynn who owns the Vienna People Studio in Sydney, and he’s mediating a band for me, so he found all these great musicians.”

The first single from the album, Lick My Wounds, is a sharp contrast to A Drop In The Ocean, the song that launched Pope’s solo career in 2005, and he thinks the progression is a natural step.

“I feel like if you’re gonna make the same record over and over again, there’s really no point to it,” he notes. “It’s like, ‘why not listen to the old record?’. So I always figured that if I could evolve, I would probably entertain myself more and entertain the fans more by doing something new and interesting.

“For me, Calling Off The Dogs was an adventure, I wanted everybody to hear that I was trying to search the depths of my creative ability and go into everything I understand about music and everything I understand about what it is to be a person, and try to tell those stories. It was definitely an adventure for me, writing and producing this record was really exciting.”

And even after a decade-plus in the music industry, there are still little things that can surprise Pope. “I was once walking somewhere, and my wife called me and was like, ‘you’re on TV right now!’. And I had no idea it was going to happen, so that kind of thing can occasionally happen. Friends will be somewhere and I’ll pop on the radio or something. It’s exciting to be surprised, hearing my music in people’s day-to-day lives.”

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EARTH Doom And Drone Seattle drone pioneers Earth have just announced a new album, Primitive and Deadly, to be released in September.

Before then their Australian tour brings them to the Rosemount Hotel Wednesday, June 18, with support from Rachael Dease and Craig McElhinney/ Chris Cobilis. ROD WHITFIELD reports.

ALEX LLOYD Back To The Wilderness With six albums and a movie soundtrack to his name, Alex Lloyd is coming back to WA for acoustic shows at Settlers Tavern, Margaret River, on Thursday, June 5, and the Fly By Night on Friday, June 6. AARON BRYANS reports, Following the release of his fifth album, Good In The Face Of A Stranger, Alex Lloyd had seemingly disappeared from the mainstream media.

However, in 2011, the Australian singer/ songwriter reappeared alongside The Pigram Brothers as the face of the Mad Bastards film soundtrack; a process that took the talented musician no time to adapt to.

“With a solo record, it’s kind of all on you to come up with the music and write it,” Lloyd explains.

“With a film, you’re directed by a director and a producer and various other people and what they want, so you’re kind of trying to please those small groups of people… I think the process is kind of to-ing and fro-ing a little bit and once you kind of hit the right mark and everyone’s happy with the process and where you are at with the basic music, it’s just putting it all together to picture and composing it to the picture... kind of to let it be there without being there.”

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of time to evolve his music, find himself and finally settle down, returning to normality in the UK where he began writing for various mainstream artists.

“I did some stuff for Passenger and a few other various UK, European and American artists. I thought it was a good way for me to be at home with the kids and take them to school and work during the day like a normal nine-to-five.

“I guess when you do the film stuff you get to explore a lot more styles of music. I used to have a five-year plan about how things would go and I guess life just does what it does anyway. It’s kind of hard to create or predict myself, musically. I just built a studio and I’m in the process of painting it at the moment and I’m really looking forward to just doing whatever comes into my head and not thinking about a style or a chart.”

Come August, 2013, Lloyd had released his latest album, Urban Wilderness, a dynamic change from prior works, that featured uplifting and groovy tunes; a style that Lloyd has openly embraced.

“When I recorded the album it was 100 metres from the beach and that sunshine and energy must have rubbed off on it. It’s a more positive kind of vibe to when I was sitting in dark rooms.”

Recently completing a tour of the east coast; Lloyd is returning to WA for two shows this week.

Expect intimacy and a relaxed vibe as Lloyd looks to please his fans, old and new.

“I’m going to keep it pretty small. To be honest with you the market’s only small now anyway in the sense of what you can and can’t do. This is only an acoustic run in WA. I just did a couple of shows in Melbourne and Hobart and it’s kind of just a bit of a sing-a-long. A lot of my old songs from all my previous records and a few tracks off the new record, and kind of a laidback vibe, really.”

A quarter of a century into their career, Washingtonbased heavy/drone band Earth are visiting Australia for the second time ever.

Main man Dylan Carlson’s first thought when asked if he had any standout memories of their first trip back in late 2012 was that of our fair city’s changeable climate. However, a few other memorable and important things did happen on that first jaunt.

“It was really hard to dress for, I think everyone thinks that Australia is always going to be sunny and warm!” he laughs. “And then there were lots of airports because you have to fly everywhere.

But then we saw some old Australian cars which were good to see. And one of the new songs on the latest record was written in Perth,” he recalls. “So that was important. We had a really good time on that tour.”

Carlson and the band get to experience Perth again next week, and he promises a show that emphasises the doomy dredginess of the band’s sound even more that their records do.

“I think, unlike a lot of bands, where they play faster live, sometimes our songs slow down a bit live,” he explains, laughing again. “And they’re usually a little longer than the album version. We’re touring as a trio again – a power trio. It gives us a little more room to step outside the album versions of the songs.

“The new album is definitely more of a hardrock record than the previous albums have been,” he continues. “It’s somewhat of a return to form, in a lot of ways. It had some vocals, which will not be with us live unfortunately, so it’ll be all instrumental versions.”

He also tells us that, despite having a very extensive back catalogue now, focusing strongly on the latest album on this upcoming Aussie tour.

“The bulk of the live set will be the new record,” Carlson reveals. “We only do a couple of older songs – we’ll just pull out a few jams from the past,” he adds. “You have to, I guess, play some of the older songs.”

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I don’t really think about that too much. It’s kinda funny, because back in the old days if a band had been around for that long it seemed… like the only bands that lasted that long were Zeppelin, and even they only lasted 10 or 12 years, so it’s kinda funny now.”

Carlson prefers to look forward than back, and likes to stay busy on creating the next Earth record.

“It kinda comes in waves, depending on what I’m doing at the time. If I have a lot of downtime I write a lot more, although we always seem to come up with stuff during soundchecks too, and practice.

There’s always something going on, there’s a number of different ways that we write songs. I’m working on a few at the moment.”

He also likes to stay very busy in the live scene, both with the band and without, and the rest of 2014 is looking very hectic, with a Japanese tour happening prior to the Aussie visit, then the UK and Europe afterwards. And possibly more.

“Yeah, we have a short break in July,” Carlson says, “although it looks like I might be doing a solo thing, opening for Wolves in the States. We’ll see if that happens, if not I’ll have July off. I need it!”

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Talented musicians make their craft look ridiculously easy.

After listening to Passenger’s sixth studio album, Whispers, you might feel like you too can grab a guitar and begin swooning a love ballad that captures the essence of youth.

Of course, if you do so, you’ll realise how much time, effort and talent has gone into Whispers. Despite being a mainstream success, reaching the top five of the Billboard chart in February this year, Passenger has managed to keep a very pre-success sound. There’s an excitement of things to come, best experienced with album opener Coins In A Fountain and, later, Thunder.

Michael Rosenburg’s voice can barely hold back from breaking with anticipation. The flip side of this excitement is also captured beautifully with 27 and Rolling Stone, exploring that frustration at the need for patience.

Passenger’s subdued vocals throughout the album accentuate his Brighton accent, and add a maturity that belies the music’s youthful tones. This is a record which personifies the exuberance and vision of someone in their prime, on the cusp of great things, while showing the patient skill and focus typically found in much older musicians.

Combined, they become something magical, a sound that few can replicate.

As we speak, Brisbane natives Dune Rats (or ‘Dunies’, as their mob of enthusiasts endearingly prefer to call them) are emerging as a veritable force to be reckoned with.

Recorded in little over a week, Dune Rats’ self-titled debut is a testament to the trio’s growth as artists, translating prolonged potential into a revolving door of high-energy fuzz rock.

Sonically, the album picks up where the Smile EP left off. Opener, Dalai Lama Big Banana Marijuana, is an instant garage pop crossover hit. The song is repetitive and consistent like a steamroller, both dynamically and melodically, quickly asserting itself as one of the record’s standouts.

Funny Guy finds the band hitting its stride, complete with a smooth rolling bassline, solid drumming and energetic vocals that wreak havoc over the top of it all with the catchy cry, ‘Why you gotta lie all the time?’

Homesick and Et continue in the same vein, and while Lola floats along, Blind gathers back the momentum, raising the album up on its haunches.

Indie/stoner pop/surf rock – whatever the classification may be, it’s clear this record will be the soundtrack to which you’ll sink some tinnies while basking in the sunlight of your mate’s veggie garden.

Indigo’s self-titled EP is a classic debut – by which I mean, it has all the advantages and pitfalls of a band making their first creative statement.

Ain’t It Funny starts with a rush of glinting atmospherics in its intro and verses which a big radio friendly hook slightly undermines. This leads us to the sparky country of Come Back Home, with its wheezing harmonica and happy/sad singalong chorus that recalls Gold era Ryan Adams – a tonal shift from the opener (again, classic first EP, when bands cram their best material together). This raises the question, how did ABCD make the cut? The EP’s bland, sagging midpoint, a mid-tempo little nothing, notable only for its egregiously lazy lyrics.

Queen Of Hearts performs an instant resuscitation, welcoming Indigo back to comfier territory, with a Panics-like build from subdued verse to chorus, a melancholy rumble that represents the best tune here. It ends with another strong track, the cloudy, brooding Franz, although the production style – a driving bass bouncing over cavernous drums – is by now a tad over familiar.

But if Indigo can tighten up their consistency and dedicate a few more drafts to their lyrics, the best of the tune craft on display here bodes well.

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Perth trio, Diode, have been quietly going about their business for more years than many can recall playing the most underground of gigs and arts events. They are the type of band that you would expect to find playing in a musty venue in a Wim Wenders film while poets and punks drink to excess.

Latest release, Second Circle, feels like it is from another era as it pulls on the flavours of New York past. Mini Bar has a propulsive rhythm section backing the shared vocals of Jenny Griffiths and bass playing local music stalwart, Rosie Rooney. Heavenly White chugs along with fuzzed out guitars as if someone crossed Siouxsie And The Banshees with the Jesus & Mary Chain to be both dark and enthralling.

Griffiths’ voice has grown in stature and now has some glitter to add to its grit particularly on Jupiter as the band explore the atmospheric ground of the likes of Galaxie 500. Most songs clock in at just over two minutes as Diode embark on their most concise phase yet. The results speak for themselves.

There is a DIY ethos to the majority of Second Circle and yet it is the most accomplished effort from Diode to date. Second Circle is evidence of a band that has grown into itself and is blossoming without compromising on their art house roots.

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INFINITY BROKE River Mirrors Independent Infinity Broke is the musically subversive brainchild of Bluebottle Kiss frontman, Jamie Hutchings, and various former bandmates. River Mirrors is indie rock’s monstrous mutant sibling, grasping at listeners with metahuman appendages and enthralling with its leftof-centre compositions.

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Gallows Queue starts the album somewhat weakly, however. Hutchings’s pitchy vocals lack the conviction amply supplied in later tracks and the cool, smooth melody seems somewhat out-of-sync with the rest of the album. From then on, however, the album descends into tempestuous, post-grunge guitar work and slicker songwriting. This is an album characterised by its guitars. While the songs are often provided a solid base of tom-propelled grooves and Hutchings’s whiskey bar vocals maintain the story throughout, it’s the guitars’ dynamic proficiency and daring riffs that give some gravy to the album’s meat and potatoes.

Other highlights include the refreshing blues numbers, No Mirrors Here and Napoleon Aged Three, the 11-minute noise odyssey, Monsoon, and the final track, Termites, with its dark, apocalyptic feel.

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OWEN PALLETT In Conflict Domino/EMI Owen Pallett is one of those artists who has a fair bit of the King Midas about him. Whether he be arranging strings for Taylor Swift, touring with The Arcade Fire or penning Academy Award nominated soundtracks to films such as Her, he is building a reputation for spinning gold.

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His lesser-known works are probably those recorded under his own name, but that doesn’t make them any less stellar.

In Conflict is the Toronto musician and video game aficionado’s fourth solo album (with the first two being recorded under the Final Fantasy moniker) and most direct line of communication with his listeners than any of Pallett’s releases to date. Sweeping violin kicks of the album during I Am Not Afraid with upfront vocals addressing the failings of the flesh with a falsetto that Andrew Bird would be proud of.

Pallett addresses the human psyche as he sings tales of love that are led more by the grey matter than the loins. In Conflict is the most personal record that Pallett has penned, and in doing so is his most accessible. May the masses jump on board.

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With Our Thoughts We Make The World From the pen of acclaimed playwright Aidan Fennessy comes this suspenseful two-hander in which a doctor must interrogate a man with anterograde amnesia in order to solve a labyrinthine mystery. We caught up with director Stuart Halusz.

Stuart Halusz, pictured centre, has long been a member of Perth’s theatre community, but largely as an actor rather than a director. Having cut his directorial teeth on youth and indie productions, he’s now moving onto a more prestigious project in the form of The House On The Lake.

“The transition has been made easy, in a way, by the people I’m working with on this show.” he reflects. “It’s the great strength of the Perth artistic community - that we have people who have a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. We have a lot of people who are multidisciplinary: a lot of writer/directors, a lot of actor/directors and so on. When you’re working with people like that, it’s very much a collaborative approach and that really helped.”

Halusz had his pick of a few scripts, but once he read The House On The Lake he knew he needed to make it. “ A few options were put forward to me by (Black Swan State Theatre Company) artistic director Kate Cherry and this one leaped out at me for a number of reasons, the first being that it was written by Aidan Fennessy, who I had the great fortune of working with in 2012 on a play called National Interest for Black Swan on the main stage. Working with Aidan, getting a sense of how he works and how he thinks and how he considers narrative, especially given the context of a lot of design-based theatre that seems to be sweeping the nation at the moment, that really attracted me to this piece. I read it and it was a page turner - I couldn’t put it down. It’s a classic whodunnit - a real psychological thriller and I found it just entirely engaging and gripping down to the last page, when everything becomes clear.”

It’s also a play with a limited cast - only Kenneth Ransom and Marthe Rovik appear on stage - a situation which presented its own challenges to the fledgling director. “It’s a different thing to have 10 or 12 actors on stage and the challenges that poses, the mechanics of moving them around and creating pretty pictures. So you would think at the outset, ‘Oh, only two people? No worries! I’ve only got two people to worry about.’ This play is set in one room - a hospital room - and there is no set change, so the conversation that happens between these two people, we need to keep moving, keep alive. The challenge is how do we do that, otherwise we just end up sitting around a table talking for an hour and a half. And again, I think I’ve been blessed by having the opportunity to work on a play that’s written by a director. Aidan’s also an actor, so he comes at the work from a very broad perspective and a very considered on, so he’s actually done a lot of my work in a way. He’s very astute in terms of how he shapes the dramatic arc and that, in turn, leads me to find the answers with and through my actors in a fairly easy way, I suppose.”

TRAVIS JOHNSON

The House On The Lake runs at the State Theatre Centre’s Studio Underground from June 6 - 22. Head to bsstc.com.au for tickets and session times.

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HAHA’S AT YAYA’S RETURNS It went away for a bit there during the momentous Perth International Comedy Festival, but YaYa’s regular night of nonstop laughs is back again. Next Wednesday, June 11, get down to catch the band that former X-Press columnist (and occasional comedian) Tim Ferguson called “the next gigantic thing,” Suns Of Fred. Support comes from Ciaran Lyons, PICF Next Gen Comedy Competition winner Louise Cook and Des Pondent, while Mike G handles MC duties.

Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10 via eventfinder.com. au, $15 on the door.

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OUT OF THE BLUE Aussie film Red Dog did so well, we’re now getting a colour-coded prequel! Blue Dog is the origin of the titular Red Dog, and sees the original creative team, including genre-hopping director Kriv Stenders and screenwriter Daniel Taplitz, returning to the franchise. It’ll be shot in the Pilbara, putting money into the WA community and providing jobs for local film professionals, and is cofunded by ScreenWest. What’s more, it’ll be followed up down the track by a third film entitled - inexplicably but perhaps inevitably - Yellow Dog. Red Dog

3 Seeds, a new set of three short plays by AustralianSudanese playwright Afeif Ismail, is on at The Blue Room Theatre from June 17 - July 5. A refugee himself, did not speak English when he first arrived in Australia, but was determined not give up his work as a writer of poetry and plays. Working with local writer Vivienne Grace, he has blended spoken word, image-based theatre and African street performance to create In Godot’s Labyrinth, Why Rats Live Under Our Roof and One Seed. For tickets and session times, go to blueroom.org.au Three Seeds

DEEP IN THE INTERIOR Rich Interior World, an exhibition of new works by artist Anya Brock, launches at Fremantle’s Many 6160 this Friday, June 6. Held in conjunction with Winter Warm//Up, Many’s season of weekend winter events, it’s a chance to soak up Brock’s recent bright, kaleidoscopic portraits of giraffes, elephants, cockatoos and more.

Directed by Doug Liman Starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Noah Taylor, Brendan Gleeson After several attempts – the last was the odious Oblivion in 2013 – Tom Cruise has finally made a sci-fi movie worth watching more than once, which should please his fans. It’s also one in which he repeatedly dies in a variety of gruesome and entertaining ways, which should please his detractors.

Adapted from the Japanese YA novel, All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, the film follows Cruise’s Major William Cage into battle against invading aliens called Mimics (for no good reason – they don’t mimic anything). The big conceit is that when Cage is killed in battle, he wakes up again a day before his death, enabling him to learn from his fatal mistakes.

This is handy, because Cage is not a combat soldier – he’s a slippery media relations officer sent to the front lines after ticking off a general (Brendan Gleeson). Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) is a soldier, though; an honest-to-god war hero, she trains the Cruiser in the ways of combat, popping a bullet in him when he screws up because she knows he’ll just step

back in time. With the help of a standard issue kooky scientist played by recent Game Of Thrones alumni Noah Taylor, they aim to use our hero’s temporaltwisting ability to save the world.

Gamers will get a real sense of deja vu with this one - essentially it’s a narrative with a save point, with Cruise and co attempting to navigate a particularly hard Halo level over and over again. The repetition inherent in the premise never bores, though; although the situation never changes, Cage does, and watching how he adapts, transforming himself into an elite killing machine, is thoroughly entertaining.

It’s also fun to see quintessential English rose Blunt as a hardened veteran who uses what appears to be a helicopter tail rotor blade as a melee weapon.

Director Doug Liman wears his influences on his sleeve - everything from Groundhog Day to Starship Troopers to Saving Private Ryan gets a look-in - but he keeps things moving along at a rapid pace and doesn’t give us time to dwell on the ramifications of the film’s time travel plot device (give it a week for the internet’s armchair quantum physicists to tear the film apart). Design-wise, the film is nothing special; we’re still living in the shadow of Aliens when it comes to big screen military science fiction and, speaking of aliens, the film’s invaders are yet another in the recent trend of dumb, ugly extraterrestrial designs in American SF cinema (see: Cowboys And Aliens, Super 8).

Still, these issues don’t derail the film although the senseless dénouement may achieve that for some viewers. All up, this is a fast, fun, thoroughly enjoyable sci-fi actioner.

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MALEFICENT Fractured Fairy Tale Directed by Robert Stromberg Starring Angelina Jolie, Sam Riley, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Imelda Staunton This current trend of fairy tale reworkings isn’t going away any time soon. We’ve had Red Riding Hood, Alice In Wonderland, Oz The Great And Powerful, Snow White And The Huntsman, Mirror, Mirror, etcetera and ad infinitum. Kenneth Branagh, of all people, is currently beavering away on a new version of Cinderella. Into this crowded field comes Maleficent, a film that embodies both the best and worst elements of this freshly-emerged subgenre.

So, the good: it’s a Disney production, which guarantees a certain amount of bang for your buck, and boasts a number of winning performances, the most notable, of course, being Angelina Jolie’s turn as the titular “bad fairy.” Like Wicked, the film takes a look at the familiar events of Sleeping Beauty from the point of view of the nominal villain, although screenwriter Linda Woolverton changes some of the events outright in order to make our lead more sympathetic. In this iteration, Maleficent was betrayed

by King Stefan (Sharlto Copley), leading her to drop the familiar curse on the baby Princess Aurora. Of course, Maleficent isn’t really a bad egg - she rescues 14

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a raven, Diaval (Sam Riley) and makes him her chief henchman, so she can’t be all bad - and as she watches Aurora grow up under the tutelage of her three dotty fairy godmothers (Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Lesley Manville) her attitude to the moppet begins to soften.

The bad? Well, essentially, filmmakers still can’t figure out how to give female fairy tale protagonists agency without turning them into action stars which, coupled with a seemingly implacable desire to jam some kind of Lord Of The Rings sense of scope into these things, is a bit of a shame. Maleficent has some interesting and valuable feminist leanings - Stefan’s betrayal of Maleficent is date rape in all but name and that act is the narrative engine of the entire film - but it never quite engages with those themes enough.

There’s fun to be had, though. Maleficent is, at least, unafraid to tear strips off some of the standard tropes of the form; Aurora, played as a teenager by Elle Fanning, isn’t so much innocent as developmentally handicapped and the handsome prince, key to awakening the sleeping princess in the original text, is pretty much a dupe who turns out to be surplus to requirements.

At the end of the day, this is the sort of thing you’ll like if you like this sort of thing. Maleficent is fairly middling film, but it does just enough more right than wrong to make it a worthwhile investment of time for fans of the genre.

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Werewolf Priest! The Lamentable Ballad Of Father Hank Grimby: The Blue Room Theatre Effects makeup, music and monsters meet in this epic horror/comedy/musical theatre experience. It runs until June 7 - hit up blueroom.org.au for tickets and session times.

Rabbithead: The Blue Room Theatre Director Ian Sinclair and Little y Theatre bring us a surreal and disturbing psychological drama that takes place on a fairy floss set, with an original soundtrack

by Catlips. It runs until June 14. Go to blueroom.org.au for tickets and info.

The House On The Lake: State Theatre Centre This production of playwright Aidan Fennessy’s investigation into truth and memory is directed by Stuart Halusz and stars Kenneth Ransom and Marthe Rovik. It runs from June 6 - 22. Go to bsstc.com.au for tickets and session times.

Giving Up The Ghosts: The Blue Room Theatre This new work by Perth theatre tearaway Joe Lui tells the story of Steve and Ruth, two lost souls who find each other, with tragic consequences. It runs from June 24 - July 12. Shoot over to blueoom.org.au for more details.

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Just A Spoonful Of Sugar...

Directed by Josh Boone Starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) is living with the knowledge that one day her cancer will claim her. She is not engaging with the outside world and is obsessively reading one book over and over, An Imperial Affliction. In desperation, her parents force her to attend a teenage cancer support group. In amongst the awful guitar playing and trite sentiment she finds Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) a fellow cancer patient who shares her scathing wit and has his own unique view on the world. Together they form a bond and despite Hazel viewing herself as a “grenade” that will destroy all those around her, they start to fall in love.

This all sounds like it will descend into some mawkish movie-of-the week tear jerker about five minutes after the opening credits. The fact that it doesn’t do this is an incredible relief. In part this is due to good work put in by the two principle actors. Shailene Woodley manages to strike the right balance as Hazel. You can see that cynicism and world weariness as she is understandably unwilling to engage in a life that has robbed her of most of her

childhood. Yet there is also a spark, as her interaction with Augustus revitalises her. Ansel Elgort as the rather cocky Augustus Waters could so easily be really smug and unlikeable and it says a lot for the young actor’s charm that he pulls the role off without being that. The chemistry here is really delightful, and quite surprising, considering they were last cast together as siblings in the woeful YA sci-fi, Divergent.

The other factor that prevents this slide into weepy territory is the script. For the most part The Fault In Our Stars doesn’t treat the cancer patient as the victim, or the other, or an object of pity defined purely by the disease. That is not to say it isn’t emotionally manipulative, yanking hard at the audiences heartstrings - just far less so and in a much more subtle fashion than many other examples of the same genre, using clever writing and wit to maintain a balance of light and shade.

Charming, witty and occasionally heartwrenching, The Fault In Our Stars might not entirely live up to its claims of being a warts-and-all tale, but it is far less saccharine than most.

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White Chinned Petrel by Celene Bridge - Eggtooth

VISUAL ARTS Ukiyo-E - Japanese Prints Of The Floating World: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery An exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints from the collection of Ronald and Catherine Berndt. It runs until June 28. Head over to lwgallery.uwa.edu. au for details.

Dinosaur Discovery - Lost Creatures Of The Cretaceous: WA Museum Combining life-size moving models and 3D augmented reality technology, this world-class exhibition brings the unfathomably distant past to life. There will also be fossils and specimens on display, interactive activities and more. It runs until August 3. Go to museum.wa.gov.au for more information.

Pinkification - Rethinking Pink: Spectrum Project Space Deedee Noon’s photographic portrait exhibition consists of 34 portraits of WA women showcasing their favourite colour. It runs until June 7. Go to ecu. edu.au for more.

For Collector’s Eyes Only: Elements Art Gallery A group exhibition featuring works by William Boissevain, Pierre Bonnard, Camille Jean-Baptiste Corot, Elizabeth Durack, Robert Juniper, Paul Klee, Aristide Maillol, Helen Norton and more. It runs until June 8. Go to elementsartgallery.com.au for more.

Trace And Aura - Spectrum Project Space Daniel Nevin explores ideas of aura and photography using alternative photographic techniques. It runs until June 7. Go to ecu.edu.au for more.

The Collector: Venn Gallery Tané Andrews presents his latest solo exhibition until June 27. Go venn.net for further information.

A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST The Good, The Bad, and The (Occasionally) Ugly Directed by Seth MacFarlane Starring Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson Here’s a simple concept: take the attitudes of an everyman from now and place him on the frontier in 1882. Let’s see how neurosis, self absorption and sensitivity stacks up against cholera, bar fights, gunslingers, rattlesnakes and the numerous other things that can spell a person’s end in A Million Ways To Die In The West.

Sensitive sheep farmer Albert Stark (Seth MacFarlane) is a man out of time. His wish to talk things out rather than get shot in a gunfight is seen as cowardice and his girlfriend dumps him for it. Now he must try and win his sweetheart back and the only real help he is getting is from a mysterious new woman in town, Anna (Charlize Theron), all the while avoiding the myriad of uncomfortable and sudden ways to die in the west, chief of which may be Anna’s murderous outlaw husband, Clinch (Liam Neeson).

For the many that have seen Seth

MacFarlane’s previous work this should offer no surprises. The comedy is in a similar vein to his other creations like Family Guy and Ted. His style is crude, rude, low brow humour that will either make you howl with laughter or groan in despair. It’s a fairly scattershot approach that heads to extremes in the hopes of eliciting a laugh. Fortunately, A Million Ways To Die hits more often than it misses.

In part this is due to the fact that there is a good deal of comedy to be made from transcribing our views from the 21st century to an extreme version of the West. Between the ludicrous deaths and sheep penis jokes, there is actually some intelligent comedic fiction produced by the examination of attitudes, many of which are shocking to modern sensibilities.

The concept of race is a major one, a fairly consistent shock tactic for MacFarlane and one that he skirts the line on again here - although, to be fair, it is something he subverts a number of times, instead making fun of the ignorance of the dominant culture.

MacFarlane gets good mileage out of the leading man gig. His dialogue seems natural for him as he is speaking in his own voice (he was also one of the screenwriters). Theron is a surprisingly good match here as a helping friend and their own screen chemistry appears relaxed and unforced. The rest of the cast is generally solid although perhaps under utilised (Neeson especially) and it is packed with some wonderful cameos.

Evocative of classic western films from the first notes of its opening theme to its climactic shoot out, A Million Ways To Die In The West firmly sinks its spurs into the genre. It might be an occasionally rocky ride that takes a little too long, but there are enough laughs to make it worthwhile.

DAVID O’CONNELL

Fremantle Realists: Fremantle Arts Centre An exhibition of works by Ray Beattie, Marcus Bellby and Ken Waldrop, three artists who, working from a shared studio space in Fremantle’s High Street in the 1970s, looking at WA through the lens of photorealism. It runs until July 17. Go to fac.org.au for further information.

Eggtooth: Spectrum Project Space A fundraising exhibition held in conjunction with Birdlife Western Australia, this sees 42 local artists create works relating to various threatened or endangered avian species. It runs from June 13 - June 21. Hit up ecu.edu.au for more details.

Jasper Jones: State Theatre Centre Barking Gecko Theatre Company presents a stage adaptation of Craig Silvey’s acclaimed novel, written for the stage by Kate Mulvany and directed by John Sheedy.

It runs from July 17 - August 9. Go to barkinggecko. com.au for more information.

Patyegarang: State Theatre Centre This new production from Bangarra Dance Theatre tells the story of the eponymous Aboriginal woman who taught her language to Lieutenant William Dawes of the Colonial Fleet. It runs from July 30 - August 2 for five performances only. Tickets are available via Ticketek.

FESTIVALS The Human Rights Arts And film Festival Running at Luna On SX until June 5, this festival works to highlight human rights issues around the world. Go to hraff.org.au for more info.

The Australian Tattoo & Body Art Expo 2014 A celebration of skin art, rockabilly and alternative culture, burlesque and more. Over 200 tattoo artists and guest will congregate at the Perth Exhibition And Convention Centre from June 6 - 8. Go to tattooexpo. com.au for more.

2014 Perth Winter Arts Season This seasonal celebration of art and culture is back once again, showcasing a dazzling array of performance, visual arts, film, literature, fashion, food and more. It runs until August 31. Go to perthwinterarts.com.au to start planning your winter.

Supanova Pop Culture Expo Since 2002, Supanova has brought the best of sci-fi and fantasy fandom to hordes of ravening fans. This year’s guests include Jon Heder, Rose McGowan. John Barrowman, Laurie Holden, George Lazenby, Richard Kiel and more. It’s on at the Perth Convention And Exhibition Centre from June 20 - 22. go to supanova. com.au for all the details.

Revelation Film Festival From July 3 - 13, treat yourself to some of the best in edgy, underground and outré films from across the country and around the globe. For full info, go to revelationfilmfest.org.

The Scandinavian Film Festival The first ever Scandinavian Film Festival brings together the best cinema from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. It runs at Cinema Paradiso from July 24 - 30. Go to scandinavianfilmfestival.com or lunapalace.com.au for details.

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Strict gender binaries dictate what is and isn’t acceptable, yet one celeb child is protesting for the sake of boobs. Last week, Scout Willis, the oft forgotten middle child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, went around New York topless to protest Instagram’s “no female nipples” policy as well as the general patriarchy. LAUREN WISZNIEWSKI reports.

It all started when Instagram - the home of gpoys (Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Saturday), rich kids and pictures of food - suspended Scout because she posted a photo of a sweatshirt she had designed called the “babe bomber”, featuring two babes showing off their bare bosoms. She then made a second account for the purpose of posting “beautiful, artistic nudes” which was deleted shortly afterwards. Free the nipple started trending on Twitter as she attempted to bring about boob freedom and allow women to expose themselves to the world. Willis penned a piece for xojane on Monday, writing, “I never claimed to believe that my actions of the past 48 hours would solve anything. But what they did achieve was to provoke conversations about gender equality and body positivity that are both necessary and sorely lacking.”

Cantaloupes, honkers, jugs, bazookas whatever you want to call them have been around since Adam and Eve. Centuries ago, breasts were a common sight in Europe with artists making the female nude the subject of many paintings. Some cultures today still accept toplessness as the norm, while in

others the best chance of seeing a bare boob is in a gentleman’s magazine. Apart from the fact that the actual purpose of female breasts is for lactation, many men have signed up to the ‘boobs r so gr8 club!’ and salivate like a puppy over a pair of double D’s.

The thing is that the female breast isn’t that different from a male breast. Sure sometimes they’re bigger and bouncier but all the same scientific names still apply. Yet the female body has become fetishized and sexualised over time, resulting in a rigid rule system that dictates what is and what isn’t right.

One such example is the ‘pink is for girls and blue is for boys’ rule. The march towards gender specific clothes occurred in the mid 19th century; before babies were dressed in a confectionary-induced mess of white frills. It was only just before World War I that pink and blue were promoted as gender signifiers.

Now if you dress your child in the wrong thing, they’ll grow up perverted and damned to a fiery hell. Most parents who have a little boy who likes to dress in sparkly princess outfits have to Google whether their child is ‘normal’ before booking a double spread in

Forrest Place Friday, May 30, 2014 Perth’s annual weather-wracked celebration of art, music and performance was officially kicked off last Friday night, with the city crowd treated to a tasting plate of cultural offerings.

Photos by Shaun Ferraloro

Scout Willis walked the streets of New York last week to protest against Instagram’s female nudity policy.

a national newspaper showing how ‘unique’ their parenting method is.

Accordingly, you must act with caution to ensure that you remain within the status quo. Boobs in, pink for girls, white for virgins- constant rules that govern the female body. It has only been in the last century that wearing pants for girls has become acceptable. Men can still not wear a skirt or dress without enduring dirty looks and constant harassment from bystanders thus preventing them from re-enacting a Disney princess twirl. Social conditioning has meant that strict gender binaries have become internalised and some things just can’t be. Scout might have to wait a while yet before she can truly free her nipples.

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ODESZA is the latest in a long line of pop-electro DJ duos out of the West Coast of the US. From relatively small beginnings in 2012, they’ve spent the last 12 months making a name for themselves and are coming our way to perform on Saturday, June 28, for the Circo festival at Claremont Showgrounds. SIMON DONNES speaks with Clayton Knight about their success and the tides of dance music.

ODESZA are as Majestic Casual as they come.

They don’t push too many boundaries and like the Lana del Ray of the turntables, they are the middle-of-the-road bandcamp music that earns it’s vague title of ‘Genre: Electronic’. While the US West Coast has had something of a hip hop and down-tempo renaissance in recent years, the closest thing ODESZA sounds like from the bay area is the Glitch Mob. Maybe things just filter up slowly to the great state of Washington.

Having signed to Pretty Lights Recording last year, ODESZA released their first album and provided the opening act for both Pretty Lights himself and Emancipator. Now they’ve just concluded three months of touring around the US, including a bunch of sell-out shows.

“They were definitely a smaller scale, Pretty Lights crowds were a whole other magnitude, but coming off our own headline tour it’s really nice to see fans coming out for you and having that response, knowing that they’re there for you. It was refreshing, a bit more intimate,” Knight says.

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AZALEA MAKES HISTORY It’s been 33 years since an Australian woman took the #1 slot on the US Billboard Hot 100, and that was Olivia Newton-John’s Physical. Well, the crown got snatched last week by Mullumbimby rapper Iggy Azalea, with Fancy featuring Charli XCX. In truly baffling news, Azalea, born Amethyst Amelia Kelly, will now be mentioned in the same breath as The Beatles, as she and they are the only two artists ever to hold the #1 and #2 positions on the chart simultaneously, with Problem, her collaboration with Ariana Grande, taking the second tier.

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Their first album was born out of their time spent as an opening act. “We had played some shows and realised a lot of what we had written was pretty low key and slower stuff but for a live setting we wanted a little more energy; so we set out to make material with more heavier beats and louder stuff. We never planned on releasing it, we were just going to use it for live sets and mixing but we kept getting questions about it, what it was, where did we find it, so we just sort of bundled it together and put it out.”

That put all questions regarding consistent tone, pacing and general album composition to rest. For the DJ-cum-producer duo the appeal is not in the long-form album, and people sitting at home with a cup of tea listening to it are not their audience. Their success has been and will continue to be defined by their live presence .

“I think we give more of an indie vibe with warm sounds and a lot of grainy tonality,“ Knight says. “We try to imitate vinyl as much as possible and put it in our music.”

How live performances will stack up with their newer, softer sound remains to be seen.

“We wanted to see how far we can push ourselves in one direction with this second album,“ Knight says. “We’re not sure exactly where it fits in, it’s definitely a little poppier than previous stuff, less beat-oriented. It was a conscious decision; when we

brought more vocalists in that we wanted to make it more easily consumed by a wider audience.”

That the I Can’t Stand Still Collective (I.C.S.S.C) has a hand bringing them out to Perth for Circo is something of a comforting thought.

Daniel Dalton, the man behind the collective, has proven time and again he can pick winners and set up great shows. The timing of this softer, poppier new album is curious – the sound that Dalton has been known for cultivating at his shows are high-octane and grimey, stylistically a lot closer to ODESZA’s first album, and how much new material they’ll play here is yet to be seen.

Details are tight though, “I can’t really talk about it (laughs), not even the name. I will tell you it is coming out.”

Despite their harder-hitting beginnings, ODESZA don’t see themselves fully on board with the EDM movement. “It’s definitely something I understand, coming from a four-on-the-floor background I certainly understand how all that build up, all the drops can get you pumped up.

I mean, like everything from dubstep to trap, it kind of does its own thing and then fades out, so I understand it. I see where it’s at but I try to be associated with it as little as possible,” Knight says.

“I see us taking part in it, definitely, but I don’t want us to be just riding one wave, we want to show people we can make a bunch of different styles of music, not just heavy EDM.”

It was spring 2010 when the Cologne natives decided to kick their butts and get out of their studio to show their beats to the world. Less than 12 months later Andhim made it to the top ten German newcomers of the Groove and Raveline magazines (two of the most respected electronic music media in Germany and not only). Their sound, which they self describe as “Super House” has become its very own genre built from their soul and passion. Andhim’s unique sound, party proven and of reduced nature, is organic with an emphasis in the finer detail. Check ‘em out at Geisha Bar, Saturday, June 14.

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TINIE TEMPAH ANNOUNCES AUSTRALIAN TOUR

SPARTAK DROPS EP, ANNOUNCES TOUR

He was one of the biggest highlights of 2014’s Future Music Festival, with charisma to burn and huge performances across the country. Now one of the UK’s most innovative and authentic artists, Tinie Tempah, returns to Australia for a series of special dates this June.

Just before Tinie returns to our shores, the singer will embark on one of the world’s most epic racing events – the 4,828 kilometre Gumball Rally, which will see him get behind the wheel of a £1 million Bugatti Veyron from Miami, Florida, to Ibiza in Spain. Seems there’s no slowing Tinie down. See him at Metro City, Saturday, June 28. Tickets from futuremusicgroup.com.au.

Five Points is a concise collection of forward thinking minimal electronics from Canberra/Sydney trio Spartak. The EP represents a huge leap forward in both song writing and production, as well as a new found confidence in the vocals of both Ahmad and Dorrian resulting in the groups most immediate and accessible work to date. From the metallic pulse of opening track On Conditions, to the irrepressible groove of Catch/ Control, to the cold desolate rhythms of Locked in Three; Five Points moves with undeniable clarity and cohesion.

A bold, unique statement from a group at the top of their game. See the trio at The Bird, Friday, July 11.

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WITH ADAM CHRISTOU Adam Christou shares his top five left-field electronica tracks

Harvey Sutherland Sunday Flower Echovolt Recordings

Following up from his tape release via //This Thing// in 2013, Melbourne’s Harvey Sutherland’s new EP Edges will be out on vinyl from Echovolt Recordings. Sunday Flower’s meshing of melodic funk and house vibes was written and pieced together from Harvey’s often improvised live sets and material. If I had a yacht, I’d probably listen to this on it.

Bobby B So True (John Talabot’s Espiral Mix) Icee Hot

Inter-dimensional cosmic sounds from John Talabot, as he transforms the new Bobby B (Bobby Browser) 12’’ b-side into a monstrous rave. Multi-layered, constantly building and effortless, if only this song went for longer than nine minutes. It shouldn’t end.

Guerre Deatheat Yes Please

Sydney’s Guerre (aka Cassius Select) has finally revealed the first slither of his forthcoming LP Ex Nihilo out via Yes Please, July 4. It’s his interpretation of emotional dance music, merging his breathy and layered R&B production with dark, pulsating techno.

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Sydney via Melbourne’s Sui Zhen (one half of Fox + Sui, Red Bull Music Academy) has been undergoing a transformation from soft, organic acoustic folk to otherwordly new age and ‘80s inspired sounds. Releasing her new cassette EP Female Basic via Teto Records, it’s a snapshot of the new direction and aesthetic her music has taken. Surrounded by lush new age synths and swirling pillowy drum machines, Dekopon Dance is pinned by a gorgeous groove.

Nosaj Thing does a thorough re-working of Little Dragon’s breakthrough lead single from new record Nabuma Rubberband. The original intensity of this song is muted as Nosaj Thing strips back the hyper-colourful production of the original song to its barest. Vocalist Yukimi Nagano takes centre stage and auto-tune superstar Future shows up to shred a quick verse for no particular reason.

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GRACE BARBÉ SOULFUL QUEEN Talking down the line from Denmark in Western Australia, the Seychelles-born, Australian-based queen of all things soulful counts her lucky stars given what has undoubtedly been a blessed career.

RK catches up with Grace ahead of her set at RTRFM’s World In A Warehouse at PS Art Space this Friday, June 6.

“Right now we’re focusing on promoting the new album Welele!” chimes the upbeat Barbé.

Released in October last year, her touring schedule has been a little hectic admittedly, but she would rather be doing nothing else. “We did a short tour in March that took us to the Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria, then Ten Days On The Island in Tasmania and afterwards The Blue Mountains Music Festival

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(NSW). Since then, we’ve been doing some shows here in WA, both in town and regionally.”

In hindsight, her musical path was somewhat inevitable – her mum was a dancer with the national troupe as well as being an actress on TV and a radio broadcaster, while her aunt is a published poet. “Music is very important to Seychellois people,” she professes proudly. “Growing up in Perth too, we held regular community dances. I was lucky enough to be mentored by two legendary Seychellois Kreol musicians as I began singing and playing bass in community bands. From there, I joined a hip hop crew that toured all over Australia working a lot with remote indigenous communities.”

So while being born in Seychelles, it was at six years of age that her mother received a scholarship to study in Australia. “I came with her and spent most of my primary school years in Perth,” explains Barbé. “After her studies, we returned to the Seychelles where I attended secondary school and we moved back to Perth when I was 16.

Interestingly, I was looking forward to moving back to Australia as I had left Seychelles so young the first time. All my friends were here and I found it a bit hard to adapt to life and school back in Seychelles at the age of 12.”

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opportunities and lifestyle here in Australia,” she says. “It would be very hard to do what I do if I had remained back in Seychelles!” Likewise, describing her music as soulful but roping in elements of R&B and reggae, all influences on her style, she kicks some knowledge on her next series of gigs.

“Our five-piece ensemble includes my

sister Joelle Barbé on drums, our producer and collaborator Jamie Searle on bass and guitar, Dan Carroll on lead guitar and our newest member Hardy Perrine on percussion. We’re going to be playing most of the songs from the new album, a few from the first, and a few from the next plus a few sega and seggae classics that we love to play!”

COIN BANKS HEADS UP Home grown musician Coin Banks aka Daniel Bankowski has been obsessed with making music since his first taste of hip hop back in primary school. Ahead of his Heads EP tour hitting Amplifier on Friday, June 27, TOM KITSON spoke to him about his influences and stress-free outlook.

Listening to hip hop through primary school, Bankowski took jazz influences from his parents and uncle and also discovered a liking for soul music.

“Native Tongues and De La Soul were also big for me,” he says. “Common was probably my favourite growing up - not so much now - but I used to be a massive fanboy of his.” Also drawing on the universally renowned J Dilla and DJ Premier, Bankowski has always been interested in carving out his own path.

“There was only one other guy who liked hip hop in my high school,” he says. “Lots of people were into punk and Blink 182 type stuff. The other guy who liked it and I used to break dance, and I met a couple of Perth graffiti artists through some other friends who were also into similar music.”

From humble beginnings, Bankowski has stuck it out to be releasing his new Heads EP and taking it on a national tour. “I’ve never thought of it as a professional career, it’s just kind of part of me,” he says. “I was involved with the hip hop group called The Stoops from 2005 to 2011 while we were all at uni and doing it for fun.

“Things started picking up in the last year and now it looks more like a career, while still being something I just love to do.”

Acknowledging the crowded, cut-throat nature of the music industry hasn’t phased him to the point where music is something to do for fun, and that’s enough.

“It’s hard to get your music heard, but the rest of it has come from me just enjoying what I do,” he says. “In my spare time I play basketball, video games or make music, so even without the platform that I’ve got I’d probably still be doing it.”

Collaborating adds to the fun of production, with long time co-producer Ta-Ku taking part on this release. Ta-Ku also produced Hatches featuring ATOM from French outfit C2C and LIKE from Californian rap trio Pac Div. “I’ve known Ta-Ku for a long time, and we did my Home EP together while I was living in Japan,” he says. “With the new stuff I asked him for a sound like a hammer hitting floorboards for Hatches, and that’s what you can hear on the track now.

“It’s been a great process, especially when I can give him an idea or a feeling and he can build on it to make it more real.” Bringing a ten piece band exclusively to Amplifier, Bankowski is looking forward to playing a home crowd as much as being able to tour nationally with a DJ. “A few big highlights have been comments I’ve received on tracks,” he says. “It’s been surreal to have feedback from people saying they listen to my music and it means something to them.”

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DJ NAME? Chalk & Cheese

What’s the weirdest tune you’ve ever played?

Will Smith’s I’m Going To Miami.

Describe your genre in a few words.

Dirty, bouncy to the floor sound.

Favourite track to make out to?

A dirty Kritikool Bounce set hahaha, or just the radio.

How long have you been working together?

6 months.

How long have you been DJing for?

14 years.

What’s next on the cards for you?

We are just about to release our first full collaboration and have been getting loads of interest, as we are getting more and more bookings.

Your most exciting moment behind the decks?

When you drop your new release and you hear the crowd singing to your track.

Best track to open and close a set with?

Vengeance (AUS) feat. Citizen Kay - Haters (J-Trick & Reece Low Remix)

Raddest DJ trick?

Playing 25 tracks in 15 mins.

What are your tools of the trade?

Three DJs with three decks and three USBs. Or three DJs with a Mac and Traktor.

Anything else you’d like to tell me?

We are three DJs: Qc from Perth, Kritikool from London, MBT from Sydney

What’s your favourite new track?

I honestly couldn’t say.

NEXT GIG? Friday, June 6 @ - The Northshore Tavern

Best track to clean the house to?

A mix from one of the Chalk & Cheese boys on Soundcloud.

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Quick overview of your year so far.

Started off with Southbound and formed Chalk & Cheese.

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Chasing Ghosts Will Jarrett The Take Over THE BEAT (DOWNSTAIRS) Street THE BIRD Rabbit Island Hayley Beth Jane Harris BRASS MONKEY Sugar Blue Burlesque DJ Vicktor CAPITOL Harlem Wednesdays ft.

Genga Peter Payne Philly Blunt Pussymittens CAPTAIN STIRLING Lokie Shaw THE CLINK DJ Kevvy T CLUB RED SEA Cheek CONSERVATORY ROOFTOP BAR Horseplay THE COURT Wicked Wednesdays THE DEEN Manic Mondays GOLD BAR Famous THE GOOD SHEPHERD Thinkfar HULA BULA BAR Island Nite LLAMA BAR Akuna Club THE LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan METRO FREO C5 Next Gen Tomorrow Beats NEWPORT HOTEL Newport Wednesdays – Student Night OCEAN ONE BAR Brazil Night ft.

Xoxote PERTH CONCERT HALL The Presets SOVEREIGN ARMS FIVE0 UNIVERSAL Retriofit VILLAGE BAR Village People Wednesdays THURSDAY 05/06 BRASS MONKEY Karaoke Brass Monkey Style BROOKLANDS TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke THE BRIGHTON Squinty THE CAUSEWAY Xport Thursdays THE CLAREMONT HOTEL Institution Thursdays DJ Pup Tahni CLUB RED SEA Thursday Night Revolution CONNECTIONS Bingay THE CRAFTSMAN FIVE0

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Kla THE AVIARY Paradise Paul Micah THE BAYSWATER Mario Zuli BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) Play THE BRASS MONKEY James Ess DJ Vicktor THE BRIGHTON DJ Peta CAPITOL Death Disco CAPITOL (UPSTAIRS) I Love 80s & 90’s ft Darren Tucker THE CARINE J!mmy Beats THE COMO Byron O’Neill CRAFTSMAN Dazman DAILY PLANET Sundowner Sessions THE DEEN Student Night DEVILLES PAD Go-Go Fridays The Strychnine Cowboys EVE NIGHTCLUB Recharge Fridays FLAWLESS Monarch Fridays GEISHA BAR Habitat presents.

Henry Saiz Darren J Jimi J Richard Lee THE GEORGE NDORSE GINGER NIGHTCLUB Mondo Dance Party GOLD BAR Vanity THE GOOD SHEPHERD Bad Vacation THE GRAND Jay Mckay

HULA BULA BAR Shakin’ It LAKERS TAVERN Grizzly LIBRARY Dorcia LUCKY SHAG DJ Richie G MALT Nu Disco Hip Hop METRO FREO Frat House Fridays Michael Bell Slykidd METRO FREO C5 Retro DJ James MINT Club Retro MOJOS BAR Fisherman Style #96 MULLALOO BEACH HOTEL Flaunt Fridays MY PLACE Karaoke NORMA JEANS COCKTAIL LOUNGE DJ Damo NORTHSHORE TAVERN Chalk N Cheese Fridays PARAMOUNT Paramount Party Crew PLAYERS BAR Hooch ft.

Client Liason Basians Happy Flight King Cactus Indigo THE QUEENS Jon Ee DJ Reuben RIGBY’S BAR & BISTRO Boylesque THE SAINT Britty THE SHED Crush DJ Glen SOVEREIGN ARMS Lokie Shaw TOUCAN CLUB Matty J WHALE & ALE Danny B YAYA’S ACE Fridays DJ Pup SATURDAY 07/06 AMPLIFIER Pure Pop ft Eddie Electric AVENUE Lokie Shaw THE AVIARY Paradise Paul Samuel Spencer THE BAKERY I Can’t Stand Still Collective present.

Bok Bok LVIS-1990 Senate DJ NSFW Sketz Sleepyhead b2b Dyp BAR ORIENT The Reggae Club BEAT NIGHTCLUB (UPSTAIRS) Canvas

BENDIGO HOTEL The Morgue Presents.

Mental Asylum #3 Orpheus Omega Harlott Before Ciada Anient Trigger BOHEME Jon Ee BRASS MONKEY DJ Peta Grizzly THE BRIGHTON Miss Chief CAPITOL Death Disco CAPITOL (UPSTAIRS) Cream Of The 80’s ft.

DJ Roger Smart THE COMO FIVE0 CORNERSTONE Mario Zuij THE DEEN Saturdays DEVILLES PAD Black Magic Disco EAST END BAR Home FLAWLESS LQ Saturdays GEISHA BAR Element Fishtrek Green George James A HouseHed THE GENEROUS SQUIRE Defanutly GOLD BAR Pure Gold THE GOOD SHEPHERD Chocolate Jesus HULA BULA BAR Sailor Saturdays LANGFORD ALE HOUSE Texas Country Music presents New Trix LIBRARY MKT LOST SOCIETY Chalk LUCKY SHAG DJ Richie G METRO CITY EDM Saturdays METRO FREO Metropolis Saturdays ft.

Darren Tucker Dr Wazz Benny C DJ Shane METRO FREO C5 I Love 80s And 90s MOJOS BAR Leure Leon Osborne Catlips Jack Doepel NEWPORT HOTEL Karaoke Classic @ The Two Sparrows Bar NORMA JEANS COCKTAIL LOUNGE DJ Daz NORTHSHORE TAVERN Howie Morgan Project PARAMOUNT Saturday Nights Felix

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METROPOLIS FREMANTLE

PEEL ALE HOUSE Byron O’Neil PLAYERS BAR Luxe ft, Angry Buda THE QUEENS Tastes Like Chicken Kenny L THE SAINT Crackers THE SHED HUGE DJ Andyy SOVEREIGN ARMS Moe-Hee-Toe TOUCAN CLUB You’re Welcome ft.

Spenda C THE WHALE & ALE Sonny YAYA’S SASS @ YAYAS DJ Pup DJ Double Dee DJ Cookie SUN 08/06 THE AVIARY Troy Division Ben Sebastian CLAREMONT HOTEL Sunday Driver Lukas Wimmler Not So Hot DJs CLUB BAY VIEW Lokie Shaw HULA BULA BAR Tiki Time Sundays LUCKY SHAG Sunday Session Hans Fiance MULLALOO BEACH HOTEL Sunday Sesh NORTHSHORE TAVERN DJ Andrew C Sessions THE QUEENS FIVE0 Sam Spencer THE ROSEMOUNT (BEER GARDEN) The Get Down Charlie Bucket Klean Kicks Nick Sheppard THE SAINT Jon Ee Az-T THE SHED The Healy’s Blue Hornet MON 09/06 BRASS MONKEY Monkey Madness THE DEEN Manic Mondays THE ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Bex & Turin’s Wide Open Mic YAYA’S Big Tommo’s Open Mic TUES 10/06 THE BIRD The Bird’s Open Mic Night BRASS MONKEY Acoustic Open Mic Night MUSTANG BAR Danza Loca Salsa Night

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THIS WEEK THE PRESETS (with the Australian Chamber Orchestra) 4 Concert Hall SCHOOLBOY Q + ISAIAH RASHAD 5 Villa Nightclub EJECA 5 Geisha HENRY GAIZ 6 Geisha PARADISE PAUL / MICAH 6 The Aviary PARADISE PAUL / SAMUEL SPENCER 7 The Aviary BOK BOK & LVIS-1990 7 The Bakery

SCHOOLBOY Q WITH ISAIAH RASHAD

TROY DIVISION / BEN SEBASTIAN 8 The Aviary JUNE TLC 13 Metro City J-TRICK 13 Parker ANDHIM 14 Geisha

@ VILLA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5 CIRCÓ 28 Claremont Showgrounds RTRFM FREMANTLE MUSIC FESTIVAL 28 Mojos, North Fremantle Bowls Club, Railway Hotel, Swan Basement, Swan Lounge

GARETH EMERY 19 Metro City METRONOMY 23 Astor DECADE OF VIPER ft.

MATRIX & FUTUREBOUND, BROOKES BROTHERS, THE PROTOTYPES & ROCKWELL + MC DELON 25 Metro City

YEO 14 The Causeway 14 Lost Society Bar (DJ SET) 15 Indi Bar

TINIE TEMPAH 27 Metro City

INHIBIT PRESENTS DANNY BYRD, HAMILTON 14 Villa Nightclub BASTILLE 18 Challenge Stadium

REMI 4 The Bakery

AUGUST THE ASTON SHUFFLE 23 Amplifier

LORDE 5 Challenge Stadium

KID INK 25 Villa

SPARTAK 11 The Bird

SEPTEMBER KANYE WEST 5 Perth Arena

CHET FAKER 17 & 19 Astor Theatre

JULY

CHECK THIS 21 Parker

DEATH DISCO WITH JUST A GENT 12 Capitol

COIN BANKS 27 Amplifier

CROOKED COLOURS 12 Amplifier

360 19 Metro City (18+) 20 Astor Theatre Perth (Licensed all ages)

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PHIL KIERAN James A vs J Dubs Geisha Bar Sunday, June 1, 2014 I have to wonder does Phil Kieran loves Perth or is it that Perth loves Phil Kieran? It is kind of the chicken vs the egg question. With three stops to our little city in the last four years it’s obvious that this is a formula that works. Either way those who turned up to Geisha Bar on Sunday to see the Irish techno heavy weight were in for a treat.

Walking up the recently refurbished entrance to the club, the sounds of James A vs J Dubs already had the dance floor filled, and the bar crowded.

Although it was a long weekend, I suspect that the less than appealing weather limited attendance, resulting in the back section of the club curtained off.

This reduction in the room size limited the availability of seating, but guaranteed a packed dance floor for the entire evening. The two locals really established the feel for the night dropping a mixture of tech and house beats.

Their set was however short lived, with the main act jumping behind the decks for an extended three hour set. Obviously not wanting to push too hard too fast, the first hour of the set had quite a laidback house vibe as Phil felt out the crowd.

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and we were thrown forward into the heavy pounding techno we had come to expect.

As an artist with a huge back catalogue consisting of three albums and literally dozens of singles on labels like Soma, Bugged Out!, Cocoon, Electric Deluxe and his own Phil Kieran Records imprint, you knew that the set was going to contain more than a few of his own cuts. I was a little disappointed that no songs from his punk/electronica side project Alloy Mental got a spin. However this was more than made up for with tracks like Wood And Organics Dept. (Dub), Going There, Six Trac, Computer Games and Skyhook 1.

The highlight for me was when--after a request--he dropped his remix of Nitzer Ebb – Murderous. I needed to apologise to the guy standing next to me as I jumped around like an idiot screaming “Where is the youth?” punching the air, and accidentally making contact with the side of his head.

I suspect sensing that the crowd was tired from an hour and a half of continuous heaviness; he reduced the tempo and dropped the always popular Blue Monday. With everyone knowing the words, the whole club sung along to the New Order classic.

Kieran finished his set five minutes before the club closed, to allow the crowd to cheer him into an encore. Setting up two tracks on the decks, he asked whether we wanted the left tune or the right.

After selecting the left side, the night finished up with the huge I Think I’m A Monster (PK Edit), a fitting end to an unrepentant night of techno.

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STATE OF THE ART Perth Cultural Centre Saturday, May 31, 2014 Saturday saw the Perth Cultural centre taken over by an amazing array of top local bands and eager punters, the latter keen to soak up a good 10 hours’ worth of the best noise WA has to offer, the former keen to play it.

The Ghost Hotel were reduced to duo form and given a slot at the most tricky stage - The Urban Orchid Walkway. With the sound of The Floors bleeding into the walkway and punters walking to and from trains, Aaron Gibson and Paul Wood battled admirably with their two acoustic guitars and voices that nestle tightly in harmony. With a new song to be aired and some old favourites being heard in a new format, The Ghost Hotel (duo) let the power of the song win the day among the least ideal of settings.

They may have moved to Melbourne but Split Seconds will always be 100 per cent Sandgropers in their hearts and took the opportunity to visit family and serenade the growing throng in the WA Museum Stage. It took very little time to show why they were the brightest star on the local landscape with tunes like Bed Down and Maiden Name being faultless. The band took on a different look as not only is Benjamin Golby now resembling Wil Oldham, but Matty Gio was filling in on the drum stool to give a more muscular approach to the tunes. Most recent single Halfway There was given an airing as was a nod to The Sleepy Jackson. Another memorable set from the fertile pop mind of Sean Pollard and pals.

Those who walked past the Wetlands stage near the Art Gallery enjoyed sets from Lucy Peach (commanding a solid crowd amidst the rock’n’roll sounds that surrounded) and the ever-charismatic Steve Parkin. Some may have been surprised to stumble across a rare outing by former Flanders frontman, Luke Bostleman. Despite some sound issues that appeared to coincide with helicopters entering the airspace, it was a delight to hear some of those Flanders tunes stripped back to their bare minimum and the strong tones of Bostleman showing off some new treats also. The High Learys brought their brilliant pop sensibilities and swing to the PICA Surrounds Stage, it was a perfect time for their vibrant tuneage but their original songs are so good they could lose some of the classics they so love to cover!

Polly Medlen wasn’t perturbed by the small PA system as the powerhouse vocalist made her way through an authentic set of country-tinged tunes. There is something polished about Medlen that makes you think her songs should be destined for bigger things. With a humble and personable way she engaged the crowd with songs such as Oh You Pretty Thing and Banged Up. Lee Jones made some tidy sounds from his telecaster that fleshed out some lovely up tempo tunes that deserved a bigger audience on the day.

The WA Musuem Stage played host to San Cisco, who were greeted as hometown heroes.

The band looked well-pleased tro be back onstage in front of a big Perth crowd, and the now-bearded Jordi Davieson was in fine voice as both crowd and band bopped through bona fide hits such as Wild Things, Fred Astaire and, of course, Awkward. San Cisco have this festival slot thing nailed, but it’s never just another day at the office.

Original Perth punk Kim Salmon was one of the big names who drew the masses to the Urban Orchard Stage. As he often is for his local shows, Salmon was joined by tight and true rhythm section Todd Pickett and Pete Stone, who are crack hands at subbing in for touring frontmen. Salmon is the master of light and shade in his sets and angular tunes like Desensitised are saddled side by side with the more gentile likes of Cool Fire. Often overlooked Surrealists’ tune, Rose Coloured Windscreen, was one of the day’s best in show. Of similarly darker climes, The Kill Devil Hills were perfect suited to that same stage, as darkness hit the edge of town, they menaced and seduced the crowd seemingly all at once.

Power pop quartet Tired Lion gave a typically energetic show at the PICA Surrounds Free Stage, with the early evening crowd lapping up Sophie Hopes’ growly-little-girl voice. You could argue that their form is just a kind of ‘90s throwback, but if that’s the case, it’s a throwback that works, judging from the crowd reaction.

It’s been a considerable journey for a band that started as a part-time project to do a few shows at the Seaview Tavern. Some 25 years later The Black Eyed Susans are still a going concern even if the line-up has changed over the years. Rob Snarski has a voice that continues to make knees tremble and tonight was no exception as he worked his way

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through some old favourites like Ocean Of You, Glory Glory and Every Gentle Soul. There were tips of the hat to old friends with Will Akers getting a mention and the prince of Perth music Dave McComb being remembered during Too Hot To Move, Too Hot To Think. The tempo was upped with Smoking Johnny Cash before Bruce Springsteen’s State Trooper ended proceedings.

As Eskimo Joe wooed a heavy crew of fans who no doubt have missed seeing them perform in more recent times, The Stems took home the whole shebang on the Urban Orchard Stage.

There was a time when The Stems were seen to be the epitome of the Perth music sound. The diverse range of bands at State Of The Art showed that this may no longer be the case, but that doesn’t diminish from why The Stems were (and still are) such a revered combination. The bluesy swamp of Move Me brought the crowd to the front of the stage from the get-go, and the familiar jangle of For Always had the punters in their pockets. Ash Naylor is the newest member to the band, who brings considerable guitar prowess to add to Mariani’s charismatic playing, though Richard Lane will always be missed.

A local treasure by any definition, the band ended with At First Sight, a song that would be worthy of being held up as this state’s anthem, particularly on a day like this.

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CHAINSAW HOOKERS The Rocket Room Friday, May 30, 2014 The mighty Chainsaw Hookers returned to The Rocket Room this weekend, hosing down the attendant crowd with some high pressure rock ‘n’ roll!

Our photographer was there to capture it all.

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RUNNER Kingdom Come Runner launch their debut album, Cloud Kingdom, this Friday, June 6, at the Astor Lounge, with Flower Drums and Rabbit Island. BOB GORDON gets the lowdown from vocalist/guitarist, Andrew Clarke, and drummer, Chris Watson.

Runner have been making quite the impression on the local music scene for a couple years now.

Given what they had already put out there, including an EP release and all manner of live shows, the band were clear on what they wanted their first full album, Cloud Kingdom, to evoke.

“Well the EP and the live shows for a long time were just a smattering of individual songs,” says vocalist/guitarist, Andrew Clarke, “and we wrote the EP while we were still figuring out what we wanted to sound like.

“Cloud Kingdom gave us the opportunity to really display the cohesive sound we’d settled on in a larger format.”

As such, Cloud Kingdom features songs both guided by the experience of playing them live and others that are very much ‘of the studio’.

“The studio experience at Blackbird was a bit of a mix’n’match,” explains drummer, Chris Watson. “Some songs were fully demoed and rehearsed - and even played live - before we entered the studio; some were almost completely

written while we were there. It’s definitely the case that as the songs were taking shape, we got a lot of new ideas and wanted to try keep adding more instruments, but none of the tracks deviated too much from our initial jam room demos.”

Quite happily for the band, the creative fruition of some initial tracks in some ways became the template for the rest of the LP. “In our first main recording sessions we tracked five or so songs, including Islands, Spooking and Cloud Kingdom, which we thought most obviously contained some of the themes and elements we were going for,” Clarke says. “It wasn’t completely intentional, but these tracks ended up framing and influencing the whole album.”

In only a few short years, there’s been a definite evolution for Runner, both personnel-wise and as a result, musically.

“The band started out as a three-piece,” Watson recalls, “playing solely instrumental postrocky tunes. We added the gentle percussive hands of John Lekias, mainly because he was trending at the time. Jason Pang was initially a substitute, but we were pretty taken with his guitar licks and lack of facial hair, so he stuck around too.

“With these guys joining the band we really wanted to find a medium between our instrumental and vocal-driven influences. We’ve never really strayed too far from our post-rock beginnings, we’ve just always wanted to do more with every release.”

Completing an album is in itself an accomplishment, but more roads obviously lay ahead.

“For the immediate future we’re really just focussed on the local launches and getting the music out there online,” Clarke says. “I guess what happens after that is really dependent on how well it’s received, but we definitely have the desire and material to keep recording music.”

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INDI BAR This Saturday, June 7, Zarm return to the Indi Bar inspired by new sounds and new songs and are buzzing to drop some fresh ideas on the Indi bar crowd. A night full of roots, fusion and their beloved reggae. Special guests on this occasion are Pimps Of Sound with DJ Flex. Doors open at 8pm, while entry is $15.

YAYA’S There’s a massive weekend ahead: Friday, June 6, sees hard rock and punk headlined by The Bob Gordons, presented by Search And Destroy. It’s then a double whammy on Saturday with the city’s fiercest rap battles from 2pm with Perth City Battles, and a huge hip-hop fuelled dose of SASS from 9pm. On Tuesday, June 10, get down for Breaking Punk, featuring House Arrest, Alex The Kid (playing their last Perth show for a while), 88 To Yesterday and Last Week’s Heroes!

THE CLAREMONT HOTEL Saturday, June 7, it’s time for Antics. This week catch the man with the giant red afro - the one and only Timothy Nelson. Free entry from 7pm.

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MOJOS BAR Thursday, June 5, singer/songwriter and guitarist Kim Churchill (NSW) hits the road to Mojos Bar! Currently on a lengthy Canadian tour, the Australian dates see Kim returning home in support of his latest single, Window to The Sky, which is garnering airplay across the country, and the soon to be released album Silence/Win. The album showcases Kim’s melodic, contemporary, blues and folk sides. Steve Smyth and local chap Riley Pearce support. Tickets are $15 plus booking feethrough oztix.com.au or $18 at the door from 8pm.

SWALLOW BAR Things are going to get very cheeky on Thursday night with the fabulous Jessie Gordon Duo kicking off at 7pm. Saturday night is full of soul, funk and disco with DJ Peas of Soul Purpose Radio spinning from 8pm. Sunday Sessions welcomes back regular Gypsy Jazz cats Voudou Zazou with vocals by Coucou Zazou.

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THE ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Wednesday, June 4, sees the return of Adult Baby - a multifaceted night of live music, stalls and kid-style activities. Apache headline this month and supports include Moana, Hyla, Braves and Matt Passmore.

Entry is $10 from 8pm.

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GET INTO INDIGO Mandurah based indie rockers Indigo are launching their first ever eponymous EP at The Bird’s inaugural Cat In The Birdcage this Thursday, June 5. Having made to the final five in the First Break competition last year, the boys opened the main stage at Southbound this year and also handily took the top slot in Ampfest. They’ll be joined by local (well, more local than Mandurah) supports Kat Wilson, Little Skye and Curtis McEntee. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $15 on the door.

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MAKE TIME FOR MATTY Blues guitar virtuoso MattyTWall seems to never stop gigging, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t seize the opportunity to catch him in action every chance you get. He’ll be back at favoured stomping ground The Ellington Jazz Club this Thursday, June 5, and he and his band will be playing a three hour set from 7pm. Tickets are $10 - $15 through ellingtonjazzclub.com.au MattyTWall

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COWBOY UP Garage rock exponents The Strychnine Cowboys w2ill be making their inaugural appearance on the Devilles Pad stage this Friday, June 6, from 6pm. Also on hand will be 7th Son and John Black. Entry is free.

MAX THE AXE G e t d ow n to t h e Mustang Bar for a fantastic two-hander this Thursday, June 5, when Axe Girl and King Of The Travellers present a full evening of rocking good fun. Two bands, no waiting, no door charge, and the fun starts at 8pm.

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DESTROY ALL HUMANS Search And Destroy is putting on another loud and proud night of punk rock at YayYa’s this Friday, June 6. Catch the freshly minted Emu Xperts along with 88 To Yesterday, Creature and The Bob Gordons. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $10.

THE ALLURING LEURE After a bit of fallow period when it comes to live shows in Perth, electronic enchantress Leure is releasing her new EP, Lightfields, into the wild at Mojos Bar this Saturday, June 7. This is her last show before she shoots off to Amsterdam for the foreseeable future, so get down to catch her and support acts Leon Osborn, Catlips and DJ Jack Doepel from 8pm. Entry is $10.

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HELL ON EARTH Hell In A Cell combines to largely compatible worlds o f p u n k a n d w re s t l i n g t h i s S at u rd ay, J u n e 7 , at Four5Nine Bar in The Rosemount Hotel. The Reptilians, Pissedcolas, Hexx, Lila Chansesar, Shit Narnia and Circle One provide the noise, while New horizons Pro Wrestling provides special guests and giveaways. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $8.

It’s a big night of jagged, grungy blues-infused rock at The Rosemount Hotel’s Four5Nine bar on Wednesday, June 4. Catch Dirtwater Bloom, The Kuillotines, Tooth & Claw and dynamic duo Black Stone From The Sun on stage from 8pm. Entry is $5.

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THIS WEEK KIM CHURCHILL 4 Indi Bar 5 Mojos Bar 6 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury IN HEARTS WAKE 4 YMCA HQ 5 Amplifier Bar ALEX LLOYD 5 Settlers Tavern 6 Fly By Night YO GABBA GABBA! LIVE! 7 Riverside Theatre FOREVER ENDS HERE & WITH CONFIDENCE 7 YMCA HQ FRENTE 7 Astor Theatre LA DISPUTE 7 Rosemount Hotel 8 YMCA HQ DEAD LETTER CIRCUS 4 Pier Hotel, Esperance 5 The White Star Hotel, Albany 6 Settlers Tavern, Margaret River 7 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury 8 Rosemount Hotel JUNE BETRAYING THE MARTYRS 11 YMCA HQ CARCASS 12 Capitol LOOSE CHANGE 12 Flyrite 13 Mojos Bar JAMES BLUNT 12 Crown Theatre 13 Riverside Theatre THE CAIROS 12 The Brighton, Mandurah 13 The Odd Fellow 14 Amplifier Bar DUNE RATS 12 Mojos Bar 13 Amplifier Bar NIRVANNA: THE ULTIMATE NIRVANA EXPERIENCE 12 Astor Lounge 13 Dunsborough Tavern 14 Northshore Tavern 15 Highway Hotel 19 Kalamunda Hotel 20 Leisure Inn 21 Gosnells Hotel RON POPE 13 Astor Lounge TLC 13 Metro City JOSH PYKE 15 Divers Tavern, Broome

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SLIM JIM PHANTOM & FIREBALLS 15 Astor Theatre STEVE POLTZ 17 Rosemount Hotel 18 Mojos Bar EARTH 18 Rosemount Hotel BASTILLE 18 Challenge Stadium CHET FAKER 19 Astor Theatre THE PAPER KITES 19 Artbar 20 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury SAFIA 20 Mojos Bar LITTLE BASTARD 21 Mojos Bar GRAVEYARD TRAIN 21 Rosemount Hotel 22 Mojos Bar FINNTROLL 22 Amplifier Bar MONDO ROCK 22 Regal Theatre SUPERSUCKERS 25 Astor Theatre COIN BANKS 27 Amplifier Bar PHIL JAMIESON 26 The Northshore Tavern 27 Leisure Inn Rockingham 28 Dunsborough Tavern 29 The Prince Of Wales Hotel THE HARD ACHES 27 YaYa’s 28 Winston House SASKWATCH 27 Settlers Tavern, Margaret River 28 Amplifier Bar 29 Mojos Bar BEC LAUGHTON 27 The Odd Fellow 28 Settlers Tavern 29 The Aviary THE GUTYO MONKS OF TIBET 28 Toodyay Memorial Hall TINIE TEMPAH 28 Metro City KEITH URBAN & SHEPPARD 29 Perth Arena JULY PHIL JAMIESON 2 The Saint George 3 Wintersun Hotel 4 Divers Tavern THE CRIMSON PROJEKCT 2 Fly By Night VIOLENT SOHO & SMITH STREET BAND 2 & 3 The Bakery (SOLD OUT) THE AUDREYS 4 Fly By Night

SOMETHING FOR KATE 4 Astor Theatre LORDE 5 Challenge Stadium BON BUT NOT FORGOTTEN 5 Charles Hotel TINY RUINS 5 Mojos Bar BELL X1 6 Capitol JAMES MULLER TRIO 9 Ellington Jazz Club CROOKED COLOURS 12 Amplifier HIGH ON FIRE 18 Rosemount Hotel GARETH EMERY 19 Metro City THE 1975 24 Capitol THE WHITE ALBUM CONCERT TOUR ft. Chris Cheney, Phil Jameson, Josh Pyke & Tim Rogers 26 Riverside Theatre CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, WEEDEATER & LO! (CANCELLED) 26 Rosemount Hotel PELICAN 27 Rosemount Hotel THE ANGELS 31 Newport Hotel AUGUST THE ANGELS 1 Wintersun Hotel, Geraldton KATE MILLERHEIDKE 1 Astor Theatre DAN SULTAN 1 Settlers Tavern, Margaret River 2 Astor Theatre 16 Roebuck Hotel, Broome THE ANGELS ft.

DAVE GLEESON 2 Charles Hotel 3 The Ravenswood Hotel KASABIAN 5 Metro City NEUROSIS 6 Capitol I AM GIANT 7 Amplifier Bar PAUL GRABOWSKY 7, 8, 9 Ellington Jazz Club ROY ORBISON & DEL SHANNON TRIBUTE 7 Albany Entertainment Centre 9 Crown Theatre SLEEPMAKESWAVES 8 Amplifier Bar BOB DYLAN 13, 14 Riverside Theatre

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BONJAH 14 Northshore Tavern 15 Indi Bar 16 Amplifier 17 Dunsborough Tavern HANSON 15 Metropolis Fremantle TINA ARENA 15 Crown Theatre BODYJAR 15 Capitol BJÖRN AGAIN 16 Crown Theatre SEEKAE 16 The Villa LADY GAGA 20 Perth Arena KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES 21 Villa Nightclub THE DANDY WARHOLS 21 & 22 Astor Theatre TIM FREEDMAN 22 Ellington Jazz Club NORTHWEST PILBARA WEEKENDER 22 – 24 Port Hedland Turf Club QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT 22 Perth Arena THE ASTON SHUFFLE 23 Amplifier Bar RUSSELL MORRIS 23 Regal Theatre MELODY POOL 23 X-Wray Café 24 Settlers Tavern, Margaret River 26 Ellington Jazz Club MAN IN BLACK: THE JOHNNY CASH STORY 26-31 Regal Theatre KING BUZZO 26 Astor Lounge GEORGE GARZONE 28, 29, 30 Ellington Jazz Club SEPTEMBER DIEGO ELCIGALA 1 Regal Theatre ANBERLIN & THE GETAWAY PLAN 3 Metropolis Fremantle KANYE WEST 5 Perth Arena MARINA PRIOR 5 Albany Entertainment Centre 6 Astor Theatre 7 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre CANNIBAL CORPSE 9 Capitol

ROBBIE WILLIAMS 11 Perth Arena BIFFY CLYRO 12 Metro City CASEY DONOVAN 12 & 13 Ellington Jazz Club GRACE KNIGHT 19 & 20 Ellington Jazz Club JOE BONAMASSA 19 Perth Concert Hall GABRIEL IGLESIAS 23 Riverside Theatre ANDREA BOCELLI 24 Perth Arena INGRID MICHAELSON 24 Fly By Night Club BOY & BEAR 25 Albany Entertainment Centre 26 Bunbury Entertainment Centre 28 Fremantle Arts Centre WAVE ROCK WEEKENDER 27-28 Wave Rock Caravan Park VERUCA SALT 28 Rosemount Hotel OCTOBER THE HIGH KINGS 1 Crown Theatre RICK SPRINGFIELD 7 Crown Theatre JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 8 Perth Arena CHRISTINE ANU 17 & 18 Ellington Jazz Club THE ROLLING STONES 29 Perth Arena NOVEMBER THE ROLLING STONES 1 Perth Arena KATY PERRY 7 & 8 Perth Arena TOXIC HOLOCAUST & IRON REAGAN 13 Rosemount Hotel FEBRUARY 2015 PASSENGER 7 Red Hill Auditorium ROXETTE 14 Perth Arena HISTORY OF THE EAGLES 18 Perth Arena ONE DIRECTION 20 Pattersons Stadium

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THE CAIROS Living The Dream Vocalist Alistair Richardson speaks with AARON BRYANS about the release of The Cairos’ debut LP, Dream Of Reason ahead of their shows at The Brighton, Mandurah, on Thursday, June 12; the Odd Fellow on Friday, June 13, and Amplifier on Saturday, June 14.

The life of a touring musician has its attendant mental difficulties. Being on the road performing songs day in and day out, one can struggle to find a balance between performing and songwriting.

And when a band finally has some new material they can’t control the craving to show the world.

For The Cairos, 2012 was a huge year. The Brisbane quartet released their debut EP, Colours Like Features, and won triple j Unearthed, but struggled with maturity.

“In the past we’ve rushed, we’ve written six songs and then we think we’re ready to hit the studio,” vocalist Alistair Richardson says.

Realising this mistake, the boys took a gap year off in 2013 for writing and recording, creating over 100 layered and textured songs, for their debut album, Dream Of Reason.

“This time we wrote so many songs that we had the chance to pick the brains out of the ones we wanted to work on. It was a really involved experience for us to really analyse everything and it was a more mature way of doing it. But it is frustrating taking so much time as well. When you’re in a band you want the music to come out.”

The frustration would continue when the band had to cut their choices down to a final 10 songs.

“There’s songs in the band that we love as individuals and there’s different types of songs that didn’t fit and there’s songs we wish could’ve gone on it,” Richardson explains. “I think having Nick Didia as a producer helped us realise what it was we wanted to portray. We wanted to have a coherent sound that could be played in its entirety. We knew we would have to make sacrifices but I think the hardest part was how do you have four different minds that have different

ideas coming together.

“But it worked out and I think we’re all satisfied with the final product. No two songs were written the exact same way. Sometimes a song might be written just on guitar and then built up on a recording program; and sometimes the songs are written in a room with all of us and sometimes it’s a few of us. I think the benefit of having four songwriters in the band is there’s all kinds of different ways of coming up with songs and being inspired. A few of the songs we’d never even played as a band until a week before we went into the studio.”

The band recorded their debut LP, Dream Of Reason, at Studio 301 in Byron Bay and had the production and mixing aid of respected Australian producer, Nick Didia, who has previously worked alongside Powderfinger, Kasabian and Rage Against the Machine.

“Nick had this experience and this wealth of knowledge; he was this all-knowing wise prophet and he was also a mate. He could whip your ass and then have a few beers; but when it got time to get serious he’d command our respect and command our attention. We’d really take to heart what he was offering us as advice. If we didn’t agree he’d never push the issue or anything like that. You could tell he’d worked with some fantastic bands in the past he just knew how to get the best out of us.”

The Cairos have not only applied their new maturity to their music but also their representation.

Taking their tour into Asia, the group having been making important friends and spreading the excitement.

“It’s awesome. It’s a great place to start when you’re looking at touring overseas. Asia is where a lot of growth is heading right now and excitement. If you’re going to America or Europe, having connections here is going to help us a lot. The people react really strongly to gigs and they have heaps of fun its like anything goes here. It’s awesome. We’re here to build these contacts and meet this people who are going to help us out in the long run.”

Their non-stop touring schedule is set to continue back home across June and July including three huge Perth shows.

“The chance to finally play these album songs is going to be such a thrill. We’ve had the songs for ages and we’ve played them a few times live but when you know people have never heard them before its hard for people to really get into it. We’ve never actually had a whole album out, we’ve got a whole bunch of pyrotechnics we’re going to be using for the first time.

We’re excited to give our first full, proper show.”

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RABBIT ISLAND/THE BIRD/ WEDNESDAY 4 WEDNESDAY 04/06 THE ALBION HOTEL Quiz Night AMPLIFIER BAR The Academy Acoustic Slam ft.

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Genga Peter Payne Philly Blunt Pussymittens THE CARINE Open Mic Night Shaun Street CHARLES HOTEL Funky Bunch Trivia CITRO BAR Seasons of Perth Jeanie Proude CLANCY’S CANNING Songwriter’s Night Mike Elrington CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Bingoteque ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB The Fab Three THE GREENWOOD Bernardine GROOVE BAR (CROWN) 5 Shots INDI BAR Kim Churchill LANEWAY LOUNGE Jonny Dempsey LANGFORD ALE HOUSE APL Poker LOBBY LOUNGE (CROWN) Decoy Duo THE LUCKY SHAG Howie Morgan MOJOS BAR Piano Donkey Nectar Yokohomos Lumpy Dog THE MOON CAFE Going Solo ft.

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THURSDAY 05/06 AMPLIFIER BAR In Hearts Wake Dream On Dreamer Being As An Ocean Sierra Make Believe Me BAR ORIENT Acoustic Night THE BIRD Cats In The Birdcage Indigo Kat Wilson Little Skye Curtis McEntee BRASS MONKEY Rhythm Bound Karaoke BROOKLANDS TAVERN Celebrations Karaoke CAPTAIN STIRLING Trivia Night THE CAUSEWAY BAR Xport Thursdays CHARLES HOTEL Comedy Lounge CONNECTIONS NIGHTCLUB Bingay THE DEEN Howie Morgan Project DEVILLES PAD Rock’N’Roll Karaoke

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PIER HOTEL (ESPERANCE) Dead Letter Circus 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Kuillotines Dirtwater Bloom ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Adult Baby Apache Moana Hyla Braves Matt Passmore Best Years of Your Life Anton Maz ROSIE O’GRADY’S NORTHBRIDGE Open Mic Night Laugh Resort Comedy THE SWINGING PIG Open Mic Night Greg Carter UNIVERSAL BAR Retriofit THE VIC Trivia Night THE WORKERS CLUB New Gods Warmth Crashes In X-WRAY CAFE Singer Songwriters Showcase ft.

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DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Open Mic Night Kris Buckle ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB MattyTWall THE GATE Greg Carter GEISHA BAR Habitat Ejeca Backyard Project Tom Love JK Robot GRAND CENTRAL PARK Jeanie Proude INDI BAR Open Mic Night LANEWAY LOUNGE Charisma Brothers LOBBY LOUNGE (CROWN) Jack & Jill LUCKY SHAG James Wilson MOJOS BAR Kim Churchill Steve Smyth Riley Pearce MUSTANG BAR Mezzanine Royston Vasie DJ James NEWPORT HOTEL Record Club The Date Kylie Storm Open Mic Night NORTHSHORE TAVERN Blues n Roots OCEAN ONE BAR Turin’s Open Mic Night THE PADDO Dove PEEL ALE HOUSE Open Mic ft.

Danny Bau PLAYERS BAR Bombshells Strip Club PRINCE OF WALES (BUNBURY) The Love Junkies 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Bitter Grins Radio In Motion Badger & Kit Heath Marshall ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Insatiables The Southwicks Such A Wreck Escelade ROSIE O’GRADYS NORTHBRIDGE Bill Chidgzley SETTLERS TAVERN (MARGARET RIVER) Alex Lloyd THE SHED Mystery Men SWALLOW BAR Jessie Gordon Duo UNIVERSAL BAR Off The Record VERANDAH BAR Let’s Get Quizical WHITE STAR HOTEL (ALBANY) Dead Letter Circus THE WORKERS CLUB Oliver’s Army Tom West Amistat Whitaker X-WRAY CAFE Jack Doepel Jazz Quartet FRIDAY 06/06

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KING’S JUSTICE/THE HIVE/ SATURDAY 7 THE AVIARY Paradise Paul Micah THE BAKERY Koreless THE BALMORAL The Mojos BEAT NIGHTCLUB (DOWNSTAIRS) Play BEAU RIVAGE Courtney Murphy Shaun Street BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Mike Nayar THE BELMONT Siren & Assassin BEST DROP TAVERN Rock-A-Fellas THE BIRD The Floors Maurice Flavel Los Porcheros BRASS MONKEY Jamie Powers THE BRIGHTON Ross Lowe THE BROOK Choppa BROOKLANDS TAV Light Street THE CARINE Jimmy Beats CHASE BAR & BISTRO James Wilson CIVIC HOTEL Tropicool – Winter Beach Party Flyball Gov’nor Hundred Acre Wood World-A-Fuzzy Mossy Fogg CITRO BAR Seasons Of Perth Dean Anderson CLANCY’S CANNING DJ Boogie CLANCY’S CITY BEACH Grace Barbé Tria CLANCY’S FREMANTLE The Crux COMO HOTEL Fiona Lawe Davies 3 THE CORNERSTONE Why Georgia?

CRUISING YACHT CLUB Rockin’ Ronnie DEVILLE’S PAD The Strychnine Cowboys DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Cuddles EAST 150 BAR Jarrad Wilson ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Blossom Time Ali Bodycoat Libby Hammer Late Night Groove Series ft.

Elise Lynelle EMPIRE BAR Howie Morgan FLY BY NIGHT Alex Lloyd THE GATE Chris Gibbs GEISHA BAR Habitat Henry Saiz THE GEORGE NDORSE GOSNELLS HOTEL Vanerty Bros THE GREENWOOD Troy Nababan HERDSMAN Adam James Duo HYDE PARK HOTEL (COURTYARD) Justin Cortorillo INDIAN OCEAN BREW CO. Ben Merito INDI BAR Nitro Zeppelin KALAMUNDA HOTEL Wesley Goodlet Jamboree Scouts

LANEWAY LOUNGE Just For The Night LANGFORD ALE HOUSE Bad Hearts LONDON CAFÉ AND BAR G & G Acoustic Shenanigans M ON THE POINT Retriofit MAHOGANY INN Dove METRO FREO Frat House Fridays MIGHTY QUINN TAVERN The Gristle Kings MOJOS BAR Fisherman Style #96 MUSTANG BAR Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys Flash Nat & The Action Men NEWPORT HOTEL Karaoke Classic @ The Two Sparrows Bar NORMA JEANS COCKTAIL LOUNGE DJ Damo NORTHSHORE TAVERN Staffies PADDY MAGUIRES Frenzy PEEL ALE HOUSE Siren Song Enterprises PIRATE BAR Marcio Mendes PLAYERS BAR Hooch ft.

Client Liaison Bastian’s Happy Flight King Cactus Indigo PORT KENNEDY TAVERN Tandem THE PRINCIPAL Felony Duo PS ART SPACE World In A Warehouse Grace Barbé Mambo Chic Joni In The Moon El Ritmo DJs Charlie Bucket Global Rhythm Pot DJs PUBLIC HOUSE Neil Viney QUARRIE BAR & BISTRO Cruise Control 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Kallidad ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Rag N’ Bone Foam Catbrush Aborted Tortoise ROSIE O’GRADY’S FREMANTLE Madam Montage ROSIE O’GRADYS NORTHBRIDGE Billy & The Broken Lines SAIL AND ANCHOR Howie Morgan SETTLER’S TAVERN (MARGARET RIVER) Dead Letter Circus THE SHED Crush DJ Glen SOUTH ST. ALEHOUSE Robbie King Karaoke SWINGING PIG Greg Carter TOUCAN CLUB Matty J UNIVERSAL BAR Nightmoves VERNON ARMS TAVERN Greg Carter THE VIC Jonny Dempsey WINTERSUN HOTEL Leon Tioke THE WORKERS CLUB Long Holiday Inedia

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LEURE/MOJOS BAR/ SATURDAY 7 Two Headed Dog Claws & Organs X-WRAY CAFÉ Katie J White Mister Sunbird YAYA’S Emu Xperts The Cold Acre The Bob Gordons Creature SATURDAY 07/06

AMPLIFIER BAR The Volcanics The Caballeros The Killotines The Secret Buttons ASTOR THEATRE Frente Maples THE AVIARY Paradise Paul Samuel Spencer THE BAKERY I Can’t Stand Still Collective present.

Bok Bok LVIS-1990 Senate DJ NSFW Sketz Sleepyhead b2b Dyp THE BALMORAL Wire Birds BAR ORIENT The Reggae Club BEAT NIGHTCLUB (UPSTAIRS) Canvas THE BIRD Unconditional Single Launch Party Kucka FM Mudlark Rex Monsoon Salut Barbut BOAB TAVERN James Wilson THE BROOK Light Street THE CARINE Adam James CLANCY’S CANNING Justin Burford CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Sarah Pellicano THE CLAREMONT HOTEL Antics Timothy Nelson CRAFTSMAN Rock Candy CRUISING YACHT CLUB Allstar Beatles And Stones Tribute DEVILLES PAD Black Magic Disco DUNSBOROUGH TAVERN Dallas Royal Custom Royal ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Blossom Time Ali Bodycoat Libby Hammer FLY BY NIGHT Jeff Lang THE GATE Greg Carter GEISHA BAR Element Fishtrek Green George James A HouseHed GOSNELLS HOTEL Chris Gibbs Band GREENWOOD Cargo Beat GROOVE BAR (CROWN) Decoy THE HIVE King’s Justice Elkwood Jayden Jesse

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Michelle Spriggs Trio THE SHED The Healys Blue Hornet SOUTH ST. ALEHOUSE Open Mic Night SWALLOW BAR Sunday Sessions Voudou Zazou SWINGING PIG Siren & Assassin UNIVERSAL BAR Retriofit VERNON ARMS TAVERN Stu Mckay WANNEROO TAVERN Matt Williams WHISTLING KITE James Wilson THE WINDSOR Adrian Wilson WORKER’S CLUB Ron Pope THE X-WRAY CAFÉ John Bannister The Charisma Brothers DJ Click Brown Fox YAYA’S The Regular Hunters These Winter Nights The TommyHawks YMCA HQ La Dispute MONDAY 09/06 BRASS MONKEY Wire Birds ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Ashley de Neef Quartet

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TRENT STICKS WITH BEATS FOLLOWING ACQUISITION

BY APPLE Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor is staying at his post following Apple’s three billion dollar purchase of headphone manufacturer/music streaming provider Beats. The purchase has largely mystified industry pundits - it’s unlikely that Apple is interested in the company’s headphone business, while its streaming subscriber base is a paltry 250,000 or so - but all else aside, Apple gets to number Reznor as one its employees now. As Chief Creative Officer, Reznor’s main gig is to curate the company’s musical offerings. It’ll be interesting to see how the beats model integrates with Apple’s all-consuming iTunes platform.

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Following on from the successful Sound The Siren - Rock For MS charity show last year, which raised money for MS research in the wake of the death of Divinyls frontwoman Chrissie Amphlett, Siren Rock For MS and Rock Against MS have been registered as a not for profit organisation. Partners Donna Greene and Jamie Page are currently working on the upcoming Sound The Siren - Rock For MS 2 show, which will take place at the Charles Hotel on Saturday, November 8, and are seeking sponsors for the gig.

It’s a safe bet that this is only the first of an ongoing series of shows and events designed to raise money and awareness about Multiple Schlerosis. For more information, head over to rockforms.com.au.

FBI RADIO MAKES THE MOVE TO DIGITAL Launching on Wednesday, June 25 is FBi Click, Sydney-based FBi Radio’s digital offering. As always focusing on new dance and electronic music, this expansion will continue FBi’s 10-year-plus mission to promote and nurture musical talent. To that end, they’re adding 10 new flagship programs exclusive to FBi Click. Check them out at fbiradio.com/click.

KICKASS DJ MIXERS Pro-Level Mainframes For Your Decks If you’re ready to take your system to the next level, you’ll need to build it up in layers, and nothing is more mission critical than your mixer. This is where almost all of your effects, equalizing, and levels adjustment will take place. You can get away with having cheap CDJs as long as you have a killer control system.

When choosing an elite level mixer, consider your style. If you’re into heavy scratching, you’ll want to focus on the crossfader and equalizer quality. Vestax mixers have traditionally been the analog scratch DJ choice, however many mixers now will support an innofader swapout, allowing you a very heavy duty, customisable, performance scratch crossfader.

Traktor Z2

If your set style is quite effects heavy, there really is nothing like the Allen And Heath DB4.

This system has two effects panels, with the largest range of built in effects of any DJ mixer. When you get this, sit down with the manual and learn it inside out, as it has so many options that it can be a bit daunting, but it’s the most powerful effects

WA DOES WELL IN 2014 APRA NOMINATIONS Western Australian artists did well out of this year’s APRA Music Awards nominations, with Birds Of Tokyo, the John Butler Trio and Samantha Jade all making the list. Birds Of Tokyo are easily the best represented, with their hit Lanterns picking up nominations for Song Of The Year, Most Played Australian Work and Rock Work Of The Year. The awards will be held on Monday, June 23, at Brisbane City Hall.

Birds Of Tokyo

mixer on the market. You can tweak everything you could possibly think of, and each of the 4 channels even has a quantized sampler of between 1/16th to 8 bar length, meaning you can snatch and layer up samples on the fly. Extremely powerful for DJs wanting to do cross genre remixes on the fly.

With the rapidly expanding popularity of DVS (digital vinyl systems), Pioneer have recently released the DJM900SRT. This is the same as the most recent DJM 900, but with the equivalent of a Serato SL4 box built in. This, combined with two vinyl turntables, is the ultimate in simplicity and showboating, being the easiest system to set up and transport. It’s perfect for touring, however if you’re into CDJs there’s not much you can get from this system over the standard DJM900, as you would simply jack in with HID mode on your Lappy386.

In terms of digital control, if you want to make use of advanced Traktor mapping and remix options, nothing really beats the Traktor Z2. DJ

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Tech Tools has so many mappings and tutorials for this unit that completely changes its functionality, and being able to remap the LEDs to react to various software and audio functions gives you great visual recognition over your track control. This in combination with a pair of HID CDJs gives you more trad jog control, or if you’re like me and want to go fully digital, two X1Mk2s on the aluminum risers gives you a compact and supremely powerful kit.

In the end, what it really comes down to is the layout of the various buttons and dials. Find something that appeals to you. If you can find the tool you’re looking for at a glance, you’re going to have a better set. Remember that 90% of being a good DJ is track selection and timing, and all the extra effects are just icing. Get down to the store and have a go at a few.

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