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Fresh from having won the Australian Music Prize, Lisa Mitchell is set to embark on her biggest national tour yet. The Oh Hark! venture will also sport Boy & Bear and Georgia Fair.Catch Lisa Mitchell and co on Sunday, May 16, at the Astor Theatre. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 19, from The Astor (08 9370 1777), moshtix. com.au, heatseeker.com.au and posse.com.

SOUNDS FROM THE UNDERWORLD

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FINE TIME AT THE PINES

In The Pines is looking juicier than ever. We don’t even care that ‘juicy’ is probably not even the right word to describe music under pine trees… we’re just so damn excited! Arts Martial, The Autumn Isles, Capital City, Felicity Groom And The Black Black Smoke, Schvendes, SmRts and Stereoflower are the most recent names to be added to the line-up. They join Emperors, Goodnight Tiger, Jack On Fire, Split Seconds, The Tucker B’s, Wind Waker and The Wednesday Society in the canopy of local music love on Sunday, May 2, at Somerville Auditorium, UWA. Early bird tickets are now on sale at rtrfm.com.au. It’s $10 for RTRFM subscribers and $15 for general admission. This special is only available until Friday, March 19, so take advantage! Doors open 11.30am. In The Pines is an important fundraiser for RTRFM, so not only do you get to chillax and hear some rad live music, you’ll be supporting your community – which makes you fairly awesome.

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Underworld

The biggest winter festival in Australia, We Love Sounds is on its way to Perth, and the We Love Sounds tour bus couldn’t get more packed with exciting artists. This just in: legends Underworld will be bringing their high energy electronic live act to We Love Sounds.

They’ll be joined by crazy kings of electro, Italy’s Crookers, and Canada’s Tiga, who will be bringing his Turbo Records label to the festival in the form of a showcase arena, featuring Felix Da Housecat, Zombie Nation live, The Proxy live and more to be announced. In case that wasn’t enough for you, Laidback Luke, Steve Aoki, Joachim Garraud, Felix Cartel and Thomas Von Party are also on the bill.

Miss this one and you’ll be kicking yourself!

Early birds now on sale for $89 plus booking fee from Planet Video, Mills Records, 78 Records and online from moshtix.com.au and inthemix.com.au. Following that, tickets will be $109 plus booking fee. Hop to it.

Sarah Sutcliffe and WA Ballet’s finest preparing for Maylands Photo: Jon Green

The Cult

LET LOVE RULE

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby! And then some.

Purveyors of loved-up rock’n’roll finery, UK outfit The Cult are set to return to Australia for the first time in 15 years, showcasing their ground-breaking 1985 album, Love, plus some well-admired classics and hits.

Fronted by Ian Astbury, last seen in Perth fronting The Doors Of The 21st Century, The Cult will perform on Wednesday, May 12, at Metro City. Tickets go on sale from Friday, March 19, from ticketek.com.au and moshtix. com.au.

And the winner is… Maylands! After a masterful display of brinkmanship over arch rivals Carabooda and Wungong, the City Of Bayswater has secured Maylands as the new home of the West Australian Ballet. WA’s dancing elite will soon (after some final contractual and funding negotiations) be pirouetting their pinkies across the grand and historic floorboards of the Senses Building, formerly home to the Royal WA Institute For The Blind.

Not since the great Hemisphere Bar & Cafe fire at the turn of the Century have the northern flanks of Guildford Road seen so much action. But, according to Bayswater Mayor Terry Kenyon, changes are afoot in ol’ Maylands. “The arts are an asset that should be nurtured and encouraged to grow naturally,” he says. “By embracing this philosophy we have attracted many artistic and creative people to our city over the years, which is why council supports arts and cultural endeavours, such as ballet.”

Indeed, the Maylands revolution has

begun. Cop that Catania, Scaffidi and Pettitt there’s a new weird arty kid on the block!

Sipping a frosted middy over the bar at Mayland’s haughty CJ’s Tavern, Maylands local Gazza McKenzie sums up the buoyant feeling of the locals towards Mayland’s new found glory. “Yeah mate, we love a bitta dancin’ ’round these parts,” he concurs. “They used to have girls dancing ’ere back in the day. Woah, they were real talents – let me tell you boss.

Yeah, it’s good to ’ear the dancers are coming back to Maylands. The more the merrier.”

Hats off to you Maylands (or, if you prefer, you can leave your hat on…).

Finally, X-Press would like to congratulate WA authors Jon Doust and Craig Silvey, who have made the long list for this year’s Miles Franklin Award, taken out last year by none other than WA’s own Tim Winton.

You’ve done us scribblers proud, gentlemen. _JULIAN TOMPKIN

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LAME ATTACK Dear X-Press, Imagine my surprise when, after returning to Per th from a few years out of town, one of my all time favourite acts, “trip hop pioneers” Massive Attack, are set to play a gig in the beautiful Kings Park. Awesome.

Come the concert, after cueing for an hour for a drink, I made my way through the masses straight to the front, only to find that an acre of prime real estate is occupied by a bloody lake and some moron in fluoro telling me, “You can’t sit here, it’s emergency access”.

“For what?,” I asked, “once the band starts we will all be up dancing anyway, right?”

Wrong! “No standing or dancing here,” replied the security guard. “If you want to stand there’s an area over there,” he said, pointing to a fencedoff corridor to the side of stage (from where you can’t see much). No wonder they erected a blurry screen to watch the show on.

“C’mon, gimme a break. This is ridiculous!” I protested. Turns out this was only the beginning of what was to be a farcical night.

The management and promoters should not be allowed to work in the industry if they’re going to put a legendary dance act like

Massive Attack at a venue which does not allow you to shake your shit and get down to it.

And to all the braindead sheeple who were happy to comply and sit on their fat apathetic asses all night? Please, please, please next time stay at home and watch it on You Tube or something.

I can only imagine what Robert, Grant, Martina and the band had to say about this pathetic turnout of blank stares sitting back in their chairs, mute and emotionless. As a whole, the crowd gave no energy to the band and sadly, Massive Attack didn’t give us a whole lot of energy back. It really was embarrassing.

Dullsville was out in force on Friday night, ruining what should have been a highlight of the last few years. Well done, morons.

Yours sincerely, Pissed off Massive Attack fan

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Film’ (X-Press, #1203). Apparently a “bedroom job” shouldn’t beat a big budget AFI nominee, and satire isn’t a “serious artform”. It seems that the writer feels that wit, craft, timeliness and, indeed, popularity should not be considered an achievement.

If a track recorded in a home studio won WAM Song of the Year this year, as it has in the past, wouldn’t it be cause for celebration?

Why the warped logic with WA films? Perhaps it is the misguided notion that a “quality film” cannot also be popular. It’s reassuring that this sentiment is not widely held, because This is Perth seems to be the only WA short film of recent memory that anyone has actually discussed, let alone seen.

T h e WA S c r e e n A w a r d s h a v e absolute integrity. They are judged by industry professionals, Academy Award nominees and winners among them. I congratulate the WA Screen Awards and all local filmmakers for embracing creativity, ingenuity and innovation.

May Perth filmmakers keep working hard to help inch Perth away from such regressive, conservative attitudes.

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Reinventing the repetitive nature of Perth sunday sessions, Happy Endings, held upstairs at the Leederville Hotel, will ensure you end your weekend with a release of stand-up comedy. To enter send your details in with “Happy” in the subject line. The winner will receive a premium booth for themselves and four friends at Happy Endings Comedy Club!

FREMANTLE STREET ARTS FESTIVAL

The Fremantle Street Arts Festival is on during the Easter long weekend and is the perfect time to visit the Sail & Anchor Pub Brewery. Check out their refreshing new Autumn Ale, an Apricot Wheat Beer, and sample their menu of old favourites including the pub’s famous Chilli Beer Mussels. To celebrate the Sail & Anchor’s new Autumn Ale and the Fremantle Street Arts Festival 2010, we have 2 x $100 Pub vouchers to win.

MICMACS

Is it better to live with a bullet lodged in your brain, even if it means you might drop dead any time, or would you rather have the bullet taken out and live the rest of your life as a vegetable? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes? Is scrap metal worth more than landmines? Can you get drunk from eating waffles? Micmacs, a fantastical comedy from world class director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, answers these questions and more. We have 5 double passes to see Micmacs at Luna on Saturday, March 20.

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Between The Buried And Me are touring Australia this month before heading back to the US. They’ll be playing at Amplifier on Wednesday, March 24. We have two doubles to catch them live!

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Chilli Couture is a boutique hair and beauty salon located in the heart of Northbridge.

They don’t follow monthly fashion trends, they create style and give you what you want. Chilli Coutour is giving away four $50 vouchers to spend on any hair and beauty service at their salon – so get in quick!

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Lebensraum is based on the fanciful and explosive premise that a German Chancellor might, as an act of redemption, invite six million Jews to relocate to Germany with promises of citizenship and employment? This dramatic but daringly dark comic piece of theatre explores the possibility of making restitution for the Holocaust. We have one double pass for the performance on Tuesday, March 30, up for grabs at His Majesty’s.

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THE WHITLAMS

There’s just over a week to go before the Whitlams return to WA for their first headline show since they played three sold out nights in January last year. The band play with special guests Mo Wilson & The Drivers on Friday, March 26. We have three double passes to catch them live at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre!

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Soft Soft Loud takes over Fremantle Arts centre this month, with some of the world’s most renowned musicians collaborating to produce a genre-busting concert series that traverses classical, contemporary, jazz, blues, pop and electronic music. Ensemble Secession weaves a mystical evening of dreams and schemes on Thursday, March 25. In their debut performance, this ensemble features some of Perth’s most distinguished musicians. We have a double pass to give away.

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GET AMPED

Are you a young band or musician with a suitcase full of good tunes, just waiting to break out? Your day may just have arrived. AmpFest 2010 is a live music contest, run by The Youth Advisory Councils of the Towns Of Claremont and Mosman Park, the City Of Subiaco and Shire Of Peppermint Grove.

AmpFest 2010 is open to bands, duo and solo acts. There are more than $10,000 worth of prizes and valuable industry experience to be won. If you’re between 12 and 25 years of age head to ampfest.com.au before 5pm on Friday, March 26, to download an entry form

The Dillinger Escape Plan

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Recently unveiling their latest masterpiece, Option Paralysis, The Dillinger Escape Plan continue to boldly tread new ground in their music, surprising us again with tasteful yet haunting melodies whilst maintaining their trademark furious breaks and asymmetric rhythmical patterns. Witness their dizzying, time-signature torture live when they hit the Capitol on Sunday, May 16, supported by swamp masters Maylene And The Sons of Disaster. Tickets on sale Friday, March 19, from moshtix. com.au.

SECOND MOVEMENT

The inaugural One Movement For Music event (OMFM), held last October, provided a unique platform for communication about music, with 850 industry types and 750 artists representing 16 countries, descending on Perth to network, learn and perform. It also helped put Perth on the world music map – literally.

And (no thanks to Mr John Hyde MLA) the event is back for 2010, again here in ol’ WA – thank goodness. And it all happens from Wednesday, October 6, to Saturday, October 9, with the MUSEXPO Conference at Parmelia Hilton Perth, OMFM Music Festival on The Esplanade and various Industry Showcases around the CBD. Advance Early Bird delegate tickets are available now from onemovementmusic.com. Stay tuned to X-Press for all the latest.

SOMETHING FISHY ‘ BOUT THE FUNK

You just know if a gig at the Funk Club is called Funk For Da Fish that it’s going to be heavy on da bass. That’s right, the Funk Club is helping out Save Our Marine Life, an ever-growing collaboration of organisations and individuals supporting a network of marine sanctuaries in Commonwealth waters off WA’s South West coast. Check out saveourmarinelife.org.au for more on that.

And so it is that on Friday, March 26, from 8pm, that Matt Gresham,The Brow Horn Orchestra, DJ Charlie Bucket and the Funk Club House Band will come together with all door profits going to the Save Our Marine Life campaign. The Funk Club is upstairs at the Leederville Hotel. Head to funkclub.com.au and funkify thyself.

DIG IT

North Carolina quintet Between The Buried And Me are embarking on their first Australian headline tour. The band have garnered many a fan for their skilled ability to veer between extreme heaviness and delicate piano led passages. Perth fans can see what all the fuss is about when they play at Amplifier on Wednesday, March 24. Tickets through moshtix.com.au, heatseeker.com.au, Mills Records or 78 Records.

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BEST OF BRITISH

With their new single, Beneath The Satellite, now added to high rotation on both triple j and Nova FM across the country, British India have declared that their third album, Avalanche, will be released on April 23. Always a favourite in Perth, the band will hit Amplifier on Thursday, May 13, and Friday, May 14, as they tour in support of the new LP. Tickets are now on sale through moshtix.com. au and heatseeker.com.au.

As part of their Poolside Concert Series,Burswood presents ARIA- award winner Wendy Matthews.

The Canadian-born songstress has a celebrated voice that travails jazz, blues, rock, gospel, soul, pop and ballads. It’s all yours on Sunday, March 28, from 5pm. The $129 reserved table tickets (18+ only) include a gourmet dinner box and a glass of wine. Book through Ticketek outlets or online at ticketek.com.au.

Urthboy

DOWN TO URTH

Australian music prize nominees Urthboy played to over 10,000 people on his recent Spitshine Tour throughout Australia, impressing all with his visuals, dance moves and energetic tunes. The Urthboy crew are making their way to Perth once more, joined by Jane Tyrell and DJ/producer El Gusto. Supporting is Obese Records’ Mantra. Get on up on Friday, April 23, at Mojo’s; Saturday, April 24, at The Prince Of Wales in Bunbury and Sunday, April 25, at The Rosemount. Tickets on sale now from urthboy.oztix.com.au and heatseeker.com. au, and from Star, Mills and Planet.

RHYTHM UNDER THE STARS

Defying Gravity, a flagship WAAPA ensemble led by WASO principal percussionist Tim White, will play a special outdoor show at The Fremantle Arts Centre on Saturday, March 20. Entitled Rhythm Under The Stars, the performance will feature a wide range of percussion instruments from around the world.

African dance styles will be melded with mellow marimba and vibraphones, as well as a special guest appearance from Freddy Poncin on his Cuban congas. Students are encouraged to take advantage of a $10 special ticket offer. Standard tickets $22, concession $17. Doors 7pm for 8pm start.

MAMA WIN?

Congratulations to WA singer/songwriter Mama Kin (Danielle Cuarana) who has been announced as a finalist in the 2009 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) for her single, Tore My Heart Out. It’s quite an achievement as she is yet to release her debut album.

Mama Kin is among the 44 Australian artists up for the international award across 21 categories (others include Sarah Blasko, Troy Cassar-Daley and The Living End). She is soon to heading overseas for a European tour, showcasing tunes from her debut album, Beat And Holler, due for release in July. It’s a wonderful result for a beautiful song

Colin Hay

HIS HAYNESS

The kookaburra may sit in the old gum tree, but he could be six-feet downunder for all we care.

Australian musical treasure, Colin Hay, one-time leader of Men At Work, is touring in support of his latest album, American Sunshine, and playing all his hits to boot. Catch Hay-fever tonight, Thursday, March 18, at the Eastern Hotel, Midland; Friday, March 19, at the Fly By Night Club; Saturday, March 20, at the Charles Hotel and Sunday, March 21, in Friends Restaurant at The Hyatt. www.xpressmag.com.au

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ART & DEMPSEY

If you’ve not attended a performance at the Art Gallery of WA’s ARTBAR, make sure you check out some of the great offerings for the 2010 season, kicking off with the masterful Paul Dempsey.

Dempsey will showcase his overwhelmingly successful album Everything Is True, as well as Something For Kate favourites. This exclusive event will take place under the stars in the Gallery amphitheatre, next to the Gallery entrance in the Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge. Tickets are general admission with some unreserved seating – bring a cushion. ARTBAR shows regularly sell out in advance, so be sure to get in early! Grab your tickets through bocsticketing.com.au.

THE HOODOO TO-DO

LEND A BAND

A high-quality collective of local acts will band together on Sunday, May 30, for Artists For Education, a festival aimed at raising money for a series of music workshops for disadvantaged indigenous kids in remote WA areas. The event is run by Perth-based charity VOW, a not for profit organisation established to help poor or orphaned children across the world by providing free education.

Taking place at The Railway Hotel from 10pm, festival goers can expect performances from Nathan Gaunt, The China Blue Experiment, Moana Dreaming, Bryte MC,The Blue Finish,Toby and Sneaky Weasel Gang. Buskers, live theatre from The Dream Logic Collective, juggling, pop opera from Veronica Santoro, dance, African drumming by Wasamba, photography, short films, interactive theatre and art instillations will also be part of this multi-faceted event. An Artists For Education fundraising album, featuring tracks

by The Drones, The Kill Devil Hills, The Chemist, The Preytells and many more great acts will also be on sale.

Since Bob Brozman’s last visit to Australia, the acclaimed instrumentalist travelled the world over, stopping only to host his California Music Seminars to students from around the world.

In this time he also received the Acoustic Guitar Magazine award for #1 acoustic slide guitarist. A linguist, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, not to mention a former Adjunct Professor at the Department Of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Brozman returns to Australia for a series of performances, armed with a new DVD, PAR AVION Global Guitar Adventures. Catch Bob Brozman on Saturday, April 24, at the Fly By Night Club.

Hoodoo Gurus

As featured last week in these very pages, the Hoodoo Gurus are back and at it with their justreleased new album, Purity Of Essence. Road warriors at heart, it comes as no surprise that a month-long national tour has been announced, which kicks off right here in Perth next month. Catch the Gurus on Thursday, April 22, at Metropolis Fremantle (supported by Kill Devil Hills and The DomNicks); Friday, April 23, at the Dunsborough Hotel; Saturday, April 24, at Players in Mandurah and Sunday, April 25, at the Rottnest Hotel. The DomNicks provide quality support for the latter three shows. For more details, head to hoodoogurus.net.

STREET SILLIES

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GET IT INDIA

The Indian Film Festival is back for 2010, with a Bollywood And Beyond theme replete with goodtime blockbusters, seductive romantic comedies and edge-of-your-seat thrillers. Running at Luna Outdoor from Thursday, March 25, until Wednesday, April 17, the festival will screen 13 films over 10 days, and will include Hindi filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani (director of 3 Idiots, the highest grossing Hindi film of all time), Imtiaz Ali (director of Love Aaj Kal) and Rani Mukherjee, The Queen of Bollywood, in her latest feature comedy Bil Bole Hadippa.

Don’t miss the Opening Night Event on Thursday, March 25, from 7pm, with the musical/romantic comedy, Dil Bole Hadippa, plus a Bollywood themed evening of spectacular colourful dance and pulsating music. For bookings and full information head to lunapalce.com.au.

The Fremantle Street Arts Festival is Australia’s largest street arts festival. Now in its 12th year, you can catch world class performances never before seen in Fremantle. Witness New Jersey’s Clarke McFarlane, who brings his alter ego, Mario Queen Of The Circus to Freo plus the dangerous, seductive, comedy-monster Red Bastard, coming all the way from the USA and sure to shock and rock crowds with his antics.

Don’t miss your chance to catch these showman at The Fremantle Street Arts Festival, held on the Easter long weekend in various locations across Fremantle (from Cicerello’s to Little Creatures, Fremantle Markets, Sail & Anchor and more) from noon ’til late.

SPEEDY SQUARE

From Monday, March 22, free high-speed 4G wireless internet will be available to members of the public in the Northbridge Piazza. A joint project between vividwireless and The City Of Perth, the new development means that students, business people, tourists and members of the public can now quickly and easily log onto the net for free in the heart of the city. The service will be available from 7am–7pm daily. Click it!

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FIELDS OF JOY

One of the biggest international festivals to ever hit Australian shores, Creamfields is set to be a world class experience in dance music. A couple more big wigs have recently been added to the festival line-up, which already includes the likes of Steve Angello, MSTRKRFT, Bloody Beetroots and Ferry Corsten. Australia’s #1 DJ TyDi, whose signed to Armin Van Buuren’s label Armada, will be rocking his trance act, as will UK’s Ashley Wallbridge. New Yorker Sean Tyas and Dutch techno producer Steve Rachmad (aka the father of Detroit techno in the Netherlands), will also play Creamfields.

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ANGUS & JULIA STONE Crying Devil’s Tears

After years of fleeting between stage and studio, Angus & Julia Stone have returned with their second long-player Down The Way. The brother and sister team join the West Coast Blues ’n’ Roots Festival on Sunday, March 28, and then play two sold out shows at Settler’s Tavern in Margaret River on Wednesday, March 31, and The Astor on Thursday, April 1. An all-ages show has just been announced for 4pm on April 1 at the Astor and is now on-sale.

When Julia Stone’s voice joins the line she’s giggling. Laid back on the couch at her “granny and grandpa’s house” on the northern beaches of Sydney, she’s clearly enjoying the homely comforts denied to her by her occupational predicament. The clatter of teacups is clearly audible in the background. You can almost smell the scones.

Her younger brother Angus is staying down the road at their mum’s house, ecstatic to be back in the surf after years of shoddy tour vans, airport lounges and new friends’ couches – all far, far away from his beloved breaks. This is the closest Angus & Julia Stone have coming to being ‘home’ in years – in a homeless kind of way.

After 2007’s debut A Book Like This transformed them from bedroom hippies into certified folk stars here in Australia, the duo relocated to London and spent two years “growing up” down the motorways and autobahns of Europe. They played big stages and small stages, and made fans of Martha Wainwright, Natalie Portman and Travis’ Fran Healy. They even made eager disciples of the UK’s infamously prickly music press!

In 2009 the duo started work on what would become their follow-up album.

And, three continents and 13 songs later, Down The Way has arrived. Charming. Understated.

Graceful. Elegant. Pastoral. There are so many words that, when knitted together, go some way to defining what Angus & Julia Stone have created with Down The Way. This is venerable porch music at its crest, created by two humble souls who can dream of nothing finer than floating from town to town delivering the good word of song.

Down The Way is slow music for a fast world. Julia Stone has every right to be giggling – 2010 is destined to be the year of the Stones.

creative process into a diplomatic forum to debate whose songs make the cut…

Funnily enough, I am a big fan of Angus’. I always have been! I have always loved the way he writes. It was really tough to cut down his songs. I felt like putting all of his songs on because I was so into what he was writing.

So when it came to choosing the tracks I was like, ‘Well, we can’t lose this track’. And he’s the same – he fights for my songs and I fight for his. And because I am the bossier one I always win (laughs).

“NOT HAVING A HOME; THAT MAKES YOU BECOME STRONGER IN EXPERIENCING YOUR MOMENTS AS THEY COME, BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE OUR SHIT ANYWHERE. YOU’RE JUST FREEFALLING. AND I THINK THAT’S HELPED ME BECOME A STRONGER WOMAN… I AM NOT AS SHIT-SCARED AS I USED TO BE.”

Down The Way was recorded sporadically in various studios around the world over

By JULIAN TOMPKIN a fairly lengthy period of time, but is there still an underlying emotional theme to I’ve caught you relaxing at your grandparents’ this album that threads it all together and house, but where is home these days? unites the songs?

Everywhere is home. We just sort of float around wherever anybody will accept us – in the spare room or on the couch. We don’t really have a home. Our home is wherever somebody welcomes us (laughs).

Down The Way is a truly beautiful listen.

One can only assume you’re ecstatic with the results?

Thankyou. Yeah, we’re really excited about playing the new songs – it felt good when we put it together. We had a bunch to choose from, as we’ve recorded over the past couple of years. So when it came to selecting the tracks it was a tricky process for us. But now that it’s all finished I feel good about it and excited to get back out on the road.

Is there a silent rivalry between yourself and Angus as to whose songs make the album?

It must be difficult to move from the private,

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It’s funny you ask that. I was recently thinking about this and it’s weird – I think I can speak for both of us - (songwriting) is not quite a literal response to a situation or a person or a space you’re in. It’s a combination of so many different things. The process for me of writing a song is the same as when I started writing a song; it hasn’t changed. I still get the same feeling. It’s never, ‘ooh, something’s happened and I’ve got to write about it’. It really does just happen in response to every single thing that’s going on in that moment and every single thing that’s built up to that moment, and it’s really hard to pinpoint where that’s coming from.

The songs are always connected, even though they are written with big spaces between them and recorded in different spaces. There’re underlying themes that come back to the act of writing a song and that’s the same whenever, however, wherever, whatever’s going on. It’s that feeling of wanting to

express something.

It’s been three years since you released A Book Like This and you’ve experiences so very much since. What is the difference between the Julia who wrote Wasted (from A Book Like This) and the Julia who wrote For You (from Down The Way)?

Well, I think I have changed. I used to trick myself a little bit. I used to have the conversation with myself, ‘yeah, yeah I know what’s going on – I am figuring shit out’ (laughs). I felt like maybe I had a bit of control over what I was doing, and now I realise how little control I have over everything. Coming to that realisation of being pretty out of control – and I don’t mean that in a negative way – I feel more comfortable knowing that I don’t really know what’s going on. Because of that I’m much more open and available to experience things.

At the beginning of touring I was really frightened and I felt like everything was really confronting, so I held on tight to the things that I knew from when I was growing up. And I think, because of all this travel and all these people’s stories and the different people we’ve met and fell for and fallen in love with, I feel like I am much more, ‘you never know what’s going to happen and what’s around the corner’. I feel a bit more open.

Not having a home; that makes you become stronger in experiencing your moments as they come, because we don’t have our shit anywhere. You’re just freefalling. And I think that’s helped me become a stronger woman and, not to sound corny, make a bit of transition from being a girl into, ‘okay… I can do this’. I am not as shitscared as I used to be, which is good.

Angus & Julia Stone school, we’d been living at dad’s house and it was a really big deal for us both. But he’s definitely become more confident – quietly confident in who he is as a person. I feel weird even saying that… I respect him so much as a person because there have been so many times where I’ve been falling apart – I am very emotional and I get really nervous – and he’s always been the voice of reason and always said wise things to me, even when he was quite young. I feel that he’s helped me grow up.

I think he’s probably calmed down a bit. I think we were both at first a little frazzled at not having a base and also being away from the ocean – because he’s a surfer. He lives in the water. For him to let go of going for a surf every day and having the simple life he used to love – building a chicken shed and a greenhouse – to being at an airport or being on stage, it was really confronting.

That ’s an interesting point: the new complexities of your life – the travel, the short relationships, the baseless-ness – do they alter the music? Your first album was built around simplicity – as you say, chicken sheds and the surf – but now you have these new, foreign experiences. Do they complement the music or do they complicate it?

That’s a really big question. As complicated as things get when you move around a lot, it’s still very simple for us. I think our philosophy has always been the same: to keep things slow and have a good time, and not get caught up in any of this stuff. We keep coming back to what we do, which is writing songs and playing songs.

There is a big contrast between going for a surf each day and travelling around in a car Do you ever pine for a home – or don’t you on tour. But it feels like we still have the same approach to making music. When it comes to us mind being transient? sitting together and having a jam it’s two acoustic I don’t mind being transient. I have my moments, guitars and two voices, and that’s it. It doesn’t feel and it’s usually when I meet somebody I really like complicated. It’s hard when you’re close to it – you and I think, ‘it’d be nice to hang out here for a while don’t feel like anything’s changed. But maybe it and get to know this person’. But, as for now, I am has… feeling pretty happy about the adventure that’s coming this year – it’s going to be a wild one. An album is always a landmark in a band’s I know that at some point I am going to need career. What are your dreams for Down The somewhere to rest my head but at the moment Way? I am okay with it being on a different pillow… in (Laughs) I don’t have any big dreams for the a different space. album to be honest. I just dream of coming out How about Angus? He’s grown a mighty of the other end of touring and feeling healthy impressive beard, but how else has your (laughs) and having a good time. I don’t dream too big – I think we’ve done what we wanted to brother grown up? do and just playing music with Angus this year Angus has been a real champion for me. He was is going to be joy. Staying healthy will be the 20 when we moved to London so he had just left challenge.

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LOU RHODES Sacrificial Lamb

Starting out as the singer for electronic duo Lamb, Lou Rhodes has since been busying herself with a solo career. Folk music has been the cornerstone of her releases to date, and her third album,One Good Thing,continues that trajectory.CHRIS HAVERCROFT spoke to the Manchester songwriter about the new record, a Lamb reunion and life as an emotional junkie.

Lamb, the band that bought Lou Rhodes to the attention of the mainstream, recently reformed for a spate of shows after a six year hiatus.

Rhodes says, reflecting on the tour, it was all a bit of a blur – a sign of age as opposed to rock and roll excess. Not only did the recent tour give Rhodes the chance to tread the boards in Lamb, but also to work again with Andy Barlow

who would produce One Good Thing.

“As part of the process of doing the Lamb shows, I played some of my new songs to Andy and spoke to him about how I wanted to record the album,” Rhodes explains, of how Barlow found himself in the producer’s chair for One Good Thing. “He suggested that I do it at his place… and it suited the simple way that I

wanted to record the album.”

Rhodes confirms that at first she was worried whether the two would be able to find a new way to work together, but she readily admits that Barlow was able to step back when needed.

“In Lamb it was all 50/50; and plenty had been made about our various squabbles,” she explains. “Lamb was constantly a push and pull

CHRIS SMITHER Smither Me Timbres

Chris Smither has been a staple on the folk scene for over thirty five years. His baritone vocals and wry take on the human condition ensures that he connects with audiences wherever his travels take him. Smither plays two nights at Kulcha on Thursday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26. CHRIS HAVERCROFT reports.

Smither is no stranger to living out of a suitcase. As he travels the world, he performs his originals as well as masterful arrangements of classic African American blues tunes. He has become so adept at travelling, that Acoustic Guitar magazine asked him to write an article on how best to fly with your guitar.

It is suggested that Smither draws from modern poets and philosophers, but if you ask the man he can not readily identify any one philosopher that influences what he does. He is well read and is a fan of philosophy and poetry, but he contends that it is his love of language that is the driving force behind his songs.

“I just try to keep paying attention to what is going on,” Smither explains. “Basically, I try to write about the human condition so as people listen to it and say, ‘yep that is me, I’ve been there’. I just want people to identify. I want to be able to write something where people can say, ‘this guy feels the same way that I do’.”

Folklore has it that Smither got a leg up into the East Coast folk scene by arriving uninvited at the door of ’60s blues/folk revivalist Eric von Schmidt. The two artists hit it off and

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it was von Schmidt who aided Smither a short time later in New York. It is a great tale, but lobbing up at someone’s door is the kind of behaviour that would get you arrested these days.

“It is a terrible thought (the idea of being arrested for arriving unannounced) as it was the beginning of my whole career,” Smither

says. “I didn’t expect him to take me in. I was just wanted to say hello and was just hoping he wouldn’t throw me out. It wouldn’t have surprised me at all if he had but I just needed to make some kind of contact with somebody who was within that scene, so I just went with my heart in my hands.”

Smither has recently turned his hand to writing fiction, in the form of a short story for a book entitled Amplifier. The paperback collects a handful of songwriters from the genre (including Renie Sparks, Laura Viers and Robbie Fulks) and sees how they fare when faced with writing a piece of work considerably longer than a song. Smither’s story was so well received that it was placed as the first story of the book; something he is chuffed to admit.

“It was autobiographical in a sense,” Smither says, of his short story. “It started out a recounting of an incident that happened to me when I was driving between Austin and Dallas. I got stopped by a highway patrolman for speeding, but it was a very funny encounter.

The guy was a riot – he really was. If I hadn’t have been so mad about getting a ticket I would have been laughing all the time.”

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between what each of us wanted, and in a way that is what made Lamb what it was.

“First and foremost I am a songwriter and that is my priority. I guess that is what I brought to Lamb. After Lamb I really wanted the songs to breathe - I think that is the measure of a good song. In a lot of ways it can be more about what you leave out, than what you put into a song.”

Rhodes set out to make a timeless record that was inspired by the works of Nick Drake. Over the three years between albums Rhodes was faced with much upheaval and the tragic loss of her sister. As someone who had previously described herself as an emotional junkie, even she could not have envisaged the depths she was to be confronted with.

“I don’t think that I am anymore,” Rhodes says, of the emotional junkie tag. “I went through a process around the time of this album where my sister committed suicide, which was closely followed by a relationship – that I was trying to sustain against the odds – falling apart. The combination of those two events put me into freefall.

“It took me to the deepest darkest places and part of the process of coming out the other side was that I had to go cold turkey on love. So I am no longer an emotional junkie and now I am able to experience emotional connection in a more healthy way and I don’t get hooked into old patterns.”

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MACHINE HEAD Californabrasion

Grammy-nominated metallers Machine Head will be hitting Perth for the third time in three years as part of the Black Procession tour on Monday, March 22, at Metro City. Playing alongside Hatebreed, Bleeding Through and Emmure, frontman Robb Flynn tells JESSICA WILLOUGHBY why touring for more than 36 months has made him a better musician.

Februar y 12, 2010, marked the third consecutive year of touring for Californian metal titans Machine Head. Intense? Hell yes, according to burly frontman Robb Flynn. Expected? Well, now that is a totally different story. “You know, we’ve always toured for a long time,� Flynn chuckles down the phone line, as he stuffs himself with a burrito outside the band’s rehearsal space in Oakland. “For Burn My Eyes (1994) we toured for 16 months. Then for our last album (Through The Ashes Of Empires, 2004), we were on the road for 20 months. But did we think we’d be on the road for more than three years for The Blackening? God no (laughs).

But there were so many amazing opportunities that cropped up that we just couldn’t turn down. Opportunities that have exposed us to a vastly different audience than what we are used to. I mean, we got major support for Metallica, major support for Slipknot – but

major support for Metallica man! Now that is every band’s dream and something we had to grab hold of while we could.�

Though Flynn admits the whole ‘touring with Metallica’ experience in 2008 was a little bit more nerve-wrecking than first thought. Rabid Metallica fans tore Machine Head apart, in other words, and made them re-assess everything they knew about being a band. Instead of feeling disheartened by the process, Flynn took the harsh feedback onboard as constructive criticism and came out a musician rejuvenated. Why, you ask? “Because we had to be on our absolute A-game every single night, that’s why,�

Flynn explains. “Metallica fans are one fucking intense audience; they don’t give a fuck about anything but Metallica – and that’s that. I mean, we’ve supported bands like Slayer in the past and we thought their fans were hardcore, but Metallica’s crew are a whole other level. It was

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pretty brutal. We all basically had to throw away everything we knew about performing and start all over again to get these fans on our side. But once we started to get their fans on our side it felt like you were moving mountains.

I walked away from that tour a better frontman.

And, speaking for the rest of the band, it’s like we’ve been through a war together and come out victorious.�

That is damn good to hear. But, apart from becoming better versed as performers, they also learnt a thing or two about their own material. And their current, Grammy-nominated album, The Blackening, was a steep curve down the road of understanding for this established quartet when it hit the live setting. “One of the things we took away from touring was that 10 minute songs are definitely not boring live,� Flynn ponders for a moment. “When we wrote The Blackening it was done from a pretty selfish point of view. We didn’t do it for the radio or the fans; we just thought about what was getting us off at the time and ran with it. Man, we were more surprised than anyone when Halo clocking in at nine minutes, because it felt like a six minute song for us – just more epic (laughs).

“METALLICA FANS ARE ONE FUCKING INTENSE AUDIENCE; THEY DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT ANYTHING BUT METALLICA – AND THAT’S THAT‌ IT’S LIKE WE’VE BEEN THROUGH A WAR TOGETHER AND COME OUT VICTORIOUS.â€? “When we realised the length of a few of our newer songs, we thought we’d become self-absorbed arsehole musicians (laughs). So we originally decided to trim the fat, cutting a few of our lengthier songs on this album back.

But they just weren’t as fun to play when they were shortened, so we thought ‘fuck it’ and just left them the way the way that they were.�

So let us look at the facts. It has been three years since their last, devastating release.

Technically, this is about the time when there is mention of something new brewing in Machine Head’s musical loins. But these lads are not rushing it. Machine Head is not the type of band that enjoys writing on tour, so they have not got much waiting in the riffage kitty just yet.

Their Australian bout of shows will signal the end of gig cycle for The Blackening – finally. That is when they are going to get down to some serious writing. 2011 will be the year that album number six will hopefully be unleashed. But Flynn is not giving away much. “It really is too early to say what’s happening with new material,� he concludes. “Through The Ashes Of Empires was such a huge album and people didn’t know how we could top that. But we did it with The Blackening. We just had to go to a different place to do it. And we are going to have to do it again for our next release. It’s scary, not knowing where you are going – but it is exciting too. I just want to be a band that doesn’t have a blueprint, like the Black Sabbath’s, the Metallica’s and the Slayer’s. It’s the whole ‘fuck that, let’s do something else’ thing.�

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ALKALINE TRIO

Writing Their Epitaph

Veteran Illinoisans the Alkaline Trio return to their roots for new record This Addiction, released on the band’s own brand new independent label. BEN WATSON caught up with guitarist Matt Skiba for a yarn about album number seven.

It’s seems almost inconceivable now that there was a time, not long before the formation of Alkaline Trio circa 1996, when a band’s success or failure rested very much in the hands of multinational corporations.

For the record prior to this latest release, Alkaline Trio found themselves signed to one of these – Epic, a subsidiary of Sony.

While the band’s time with the label was a happy one, free from the kind of horror stories one hears about from time to time, one record later the band have found themselves sans contract. But Alkaline Trio have emerged with their own imprint, Heart & Skull, in conjunction with punk’s own ‘Eddy Everywhere’, Epitaph Records’ Brett Gurewitz.

And, in just three weeks, This Addiction has

Alkaline Trio become the highest charting album of their career.

“Doing it on our own was a huge experience,” guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Matt Skiba begins. “We decided, after leaving Epic, that we wanted to put out a record ourselves. It wasn’t that they weren’t great to us… it was just circumstances that we were very lucky. Other bands were very unlucky, where your record gets lost or shelved and never comes out ’cause of X, Y or Z. You get fucked. And we were potentially in that situation and we never fell prey to it… we decided we were never going to let ourselves get into a situation like that again. We decided that we wanted to be able to call the shots and not worry about people at our label being fired and losing charge now (and thinking) ‘are they going to let us go?’ – having those concerns.

“I REALLY WANTED THE SONGS – OR AT LEAST MY SONGS – TO SOUND LIKE A PERSON SINGING TO THE LISTENER. THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME, AND I ALSO WANTED THE RECORD TO SOUND BIG, BUT NOT LIKE A WALL OF 18 GUITARS. IT SHOULD SOUND LIKE THREE PEOPLE PLAYING.”

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“We want to put out music; we want to play songs for people. We don’t want to be worried about (that). We want business as usual and so we decided to start it ourselves, so we can control how it goes. And then Brett came along… we’re fans of each others bands and really, really good friends and we love what they’re doing with their label. So they offered us a partnership and we have close contact with them. It really is an ideal situation.”

The new record not only sees the band come full circle in business terms, they’ve also elected to touch base with their roots when it comes to the production and style of the album, returning to their old stomping ground of Chicago to work with their old producer/engineer Matt Allison.

“We went back to re-write a record like we did initially,” Skiba explains.“The record itself is a new thing. I think it’s a progression, but we returned to our roots more in the approach in making the record. We went back to the same studio, the same producer and we did it pretty bare-boned – just the three of us.”

This also meant getting back to basics with regard to recording techniques. “I really wanted the songs – or at least my songs – to sound like a person singing to the listener,” he concludes. “That was really important to me, and I also wanted the record to sound big, but not like a wall of 18 guitars. It should sound like three people playing. And there are some bells and whistles on the record – we’ve guitar got synths on there – but for the most part we’ve got bass guitar, drums and vocals.

I think it’s a big sounding record but without putting too many things on it.”

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THE WHITE STRIPES Under Great Northern Lights CD / DVD

ANGUS & JULIA STONE Down The Way

XL/Remote Control

Capitol/EMI

From their inception in 1997 as candy cane blues rockers, to their emergence as grandiose pearly kings and queens of festival stages, The White Stripes have always paid painstakingly detailed attention to the visual. Given the mystique and strict iconography the duo have surrounded themselves with, never has a band been more suited to film.

Under Great Northern Lights pairs a brilliantly shot feature length doco, a surprisingly candid insight into the bands 2007 tour of Canada, with a predictably blistering live CD (the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first), that should not only appeal to diehard fans - but also to casual listeners looking for the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;definitiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; White Stripes release or unofficial best of.

Grandiose Nova Scotian bagpipes segway into a paint-stripping rendition of Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shake Hands, the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first ever recording, reminding the listener just how far the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;little Detroit duo that couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; have come. Little Ghost and We Are Going To Be Friends accurately record how delirious a White Stripes crowd can get, but it is hair-raising versions of Icky Thump and When I Hear My Name that steal the show.

A modern classic that effectively captures the exciting spontaneity of this determinedly backward yet fundamentally creative band. Keep it for your grandkids.

Subtlety is a rarity in the temple of contemporary song â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a regrettable truth. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with sincere gratitude we welcome Angus & Julia Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second long-player, Down The Way. On the follow-up to 2007â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enduring A Book Like This, which went on to achieve platinum sales at home in Australia, this brother and sister duo have tapped into a new core of raw sentiment to produce an album of uncorrupted beauty.

With its roots firmly set in folkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich tradition, this album was recorded far and wide â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from Cornwall to Brooklyn; Coolangatta to London. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this homeless, troubadour quality that has so endeared Angus & Julia Stone to such an appreciative audience.

While itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Juliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whimsical vocals which so define this act, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Angusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; songwriting which demarcates them from the pack. Black Crow is perfectly numbing (think Just A Boy), Big Jet Plane is a tome of Paul Kelly proportions and Yellow Brick Road is undoubtedly this rising song-smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Neil Young-esque masterwork. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the synergy of the two where the energy is palpable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; namely the front-porch elegance of Santa Monica Dream. With Down The Way Angus & Julia Stone have crafted an understated classic.

Press play and dream away. _JULIAN TOMPKIN

_DAVID CRADDOCK

CALLING ALL CARS Hold, Hold, Fire

THE PRETENDERS Live In London CD / DVD

Genius A.D / Shock

Liberator Music

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Calling All Cars are that band that all other bands wish they were like. They moved from regional NSW to Melbourne to further their musical endeavors. They worked their arses off with a tireless touring regime that ultimately saw them on the road nationally with AC/DC, and now, they have released an absolute ball-tearing debut record.

From the opening moments of Disconnect, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that Calling All Cars have arrived. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no gimmicks or cheesy sub-genre antics here, only top quality, good old-fashioned rock. Aside from their mammoth riffs and gutsy vocals, Calling All Carsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; strength lies in their ability to write a well structured, but most importantly catchy song. There is plenty of dynamics on Hold, Hold, Fire, but the one underlying factor is that every song kicks you right where it hurts, and leaves a long-lasting impression.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no point getting into a songby-song breakdown of this album, because the record as a whole is what makes it so good. Yes, there are few standout single-types, but the other songs are just as good in their own right.

Hold, Hold, Fire is a monumental declaration that will undoubtedly see Calling All Cars quickly become one of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier rock powerhouses.

T h e P r e t e n d e r â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recorded output may not be as frequent as their live shows, but the Rock and Roll Hall Of Famers are still hitting stages hard, as Live In London, captured during their 2009 world tour, reveals.

The show is said to be a 100 per cent live recording with no overdubs. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a strategy that may detract ever-so slightly sonically, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than made up for with feel and emotion. The band members have changed around Chrissie Hynde over the years, but she has remained steadfast to her image of dishevelled hair, dark eyeliner and old ripped jeans. She also remains a smooth performer.

The footage is pristine with all the hits delivered: Talk Of The Town makes the early running and Kid, Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Get Me Wrong, Back On The Chain Gang a n d Stop Your Sobbing ensure the quality continues. Bonus material comes in the form of an encore with a gentle Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Stand By You and arguably the bands most popular tune Brass In Pocket.

Live In London shows The Pretenders to be a no frills rock act with a swag of tidy tunes. It is no fluke that their success has lasted this long.

_GEORGE GREEN

_CHRIS HAVERCROFT

JAGA JAZZIST One-Armed Bandit

GORILLAZ Plastic Beach

Ninja Tune / Inertia

Parlophone / EMI

In t h e i r f i f te e n ye a r existence, nine piece jazz experimentalists Jaga Jazzist have become a musical phenomenon in their native Norway. Formed by siblings Lars, Line and Martin Horntveth, Jaga Jazzist had a half decade hiatus from recording before One-Armed Bandit, their much overdue fifth album.

The release is as sprawling (if not more so) as you would expect from the outfit who have made a name for themselves by playing meandering instrumentals that bring a modern twist to the jazz genre. Martin Horntvethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drumming has always been a feature and he again excels â&#x20AC;&#x201C; particularly on the percussion heavy Tocatta. 220v/Spectral gives a minute of delicate piano before electronic elements take over in typical genre-bending fashion. During its seven plus minutes, the guitars and organs become so dense that you wonder how Jaga Jazzist found space to squeeze in their multitude of other instruments.

Jaga Jazzist are forever pushing the envelope and have again come up with an album that will not only appeal to the jazz aficionados but also those with a penchant for prog rock, post rock, or music that appeals to the intellect as much as the feet. _CHRIS HAVERCROFT

Only behind the colourful veil of Gorillaz could Damon Albarn pull off a concept album about the disposal of non-biodegradable plastic without looking like a plonker.

His heartfelt concerns become slightly watered down when in the two dimensional hands of his chaotic creations, though it seems the cartoon-fab four might soon be surplus to requirements. Plastic Beach seems less like a Gorillaz album and more a venue for comfort zone-exceeding collaborations with varied artists.

Forward thinking pop music makes up most of the track-listing here, especially on Stylo, featuring the preacher-like wail of Bobby Womack. Snoop Dogg mumbles his way through the forgettable Welcome To The World of The Plastic Beach, though Lou Reedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s semi-spoken parts on Some Kind Of Nature are more successful. Again, De La Soul fit the Gorillaz mould perfectly on Superfast Jellyfish, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the whimsical Empire Ants that is most engaging.

Despite this, nothing adds up to the accessible singles the previous records had at their nucleus, and losing your bearings across the sixteen tracks becomes inevitable.

Although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely the group of artists and musicians are exhausted from propping up their cardboard cut-outs, Plastic Beach just might be the start of an evolution further away from the pop act we know as Gorillaz. _ROBERT PENNEY

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HELLOWEEN Unarmed

SHE S HE H E & HIM myspace.com/sheandhim

Sony Music

When is a best-of album not a bestof album? Unarmed celebrates Helloween’s 25th anniversary with a range of careerspanning tracks, but not as you know them.

Unarmed is deceptive. Is this a compilation album? Well yes, but also no.

So what is it? Composed by the current Helloween line-up, Unarmed takes a different spin on their classics with everything from a 7-piece orchestra to smooth jazz. Too bad the discerning punter probably won’t realise this when picking up the album. Needless to say, this is one for the fans. But will fans enjoy it?

There is a certain kitsch quality to Unarmed which might appeal to devotees, k ind of like hearing a band covering themselves. The highlight has to be The Keeper’s Trilogy medley featuring Helloween, Keeper Of The 7 Keys, and The King For A 1000 Years backed by the 7-piece Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Choir for a suitably epic piece of music.

But this is the only track resembling their previous work and begs the question: why not do this for the whole album?

O f ten when ac tors decide they’d like to turn their hand to music by using their star power, the results are fairly lacklustre. Scarlett Johansson’s album of Tom Waits covers, for example. Or Juliette Lewis and her…Licks. Cute-as-a-button indie starlet Zooey Deschanel manages to escape this fate, her charisma translating rather easily from the silver screen to music via her collaboration with Portland singer songwriter M.Ward. The pairing first started when M.Ward invited Deschanel to the stage during one of his concerts. Before long they’d put out an album, She & Him Volume One, a soft, folk-y collection of tunes that resonated with retro charm. Deschanel writes the songs, and is on crooning duties (and banjo), with Ward taking care of the guitar and production side of things. Their second album, Volume Two, is out on Thursday, March 18. Check out the rad clip for In The Sun, a Bee-Gees inspired number on their MySpace. A hipster collaboration that works.

Key Track: In The Sun _DANIELLE MARSLAND

_BRENDAN HOLBEN

ROD R OD STEWART Every Picture Tells A Story

JIMI HENDRIX Valleys Of Neptune

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Experience Hendrix / Sony

Given that Hendrix only authorised the release of three studio albums and one live recording throughout his short life, enthusiasts have long been obsessed with raking over every last outtake and rarity he left behind.

Valleys Of Neptune is being billed as 12 previously unreleased studio recordings, largely recorded post-Electric Ladyland, but many of these tracks are sure to have been passed around in mysterious paper bags and at varying levels of quality since Hendrix’s death.

Saying that, the release of cogent and polished new material, much in the vein of Dylan’s recent Bootleg Series, has undoubted appeal for not only die-hard fans, but ‘60s music lovers keen to learn more.

In reality, however, much of Valleys Of Neptune is underwhelming. The title track has Hendrix’s signature blues groove, gypsy psych diversions and faultless, Messianic lead breaks, but the lyric feels rushed and underdone. For anyone else it’d be an instant classic, but Hendrix set his bar rather high didn’t he?

An alternative version of Fire is very cool (in a nerdy bootleg kind of way) if only for Noel Redding’s skuzzy, English, back-up vocal and the omission of iconic howl: ‘Move over Rover and let Jimi take over!’.

A c u r i o u s a r t i f a c t t h a t ’s b e e n masterfully re-produced - but it’s no holy grail. _DAVID CRADDOCK

EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING Rush To Relax Aarght! Records / Shock

Eddy Current Suppression Ring are at their best when they’re playing full volume, jerky, nervous guitar riffs directly from the late 1970s, complimented by perfectly amateurish sideways punk vocals, straight outta the same era.

On tracks like Anxiety or Walked Into A Corner, it would be easy to compare these guys to Australian pioneers like The Saints or The Victims, although they lack the outstanding songwriting skills that made those bands so enduring. Musically, there’s a refreshing lack of ‘grunge’ on the album - the guitars crackle with minimalistic intensity but never dominate proceedings.

Yet this album, recorded in six hours at the band’s rehearsal studio, is by no means a full-volume stomper. By the time third track Tuning Out kicks in, the band are exploring new sonic ground. Some of it works - indeed most of Mikey Young’s idiot savant guitar & keyboard work is totally great.

B u t w h e r e B r e n d a n H u n t l e y ’s demented and equally deceptive vocals work on the more energetic tracks, he doesn’t quite have the range or dynamism to pull off the slower numbers.

All in all, Rush To Relax is an honest, minimalistic yet complex collection that will grate and enthral listeners with equal veracity. _BEN WATSON www.xpressmag.com.au

Once upon a time the n a m e R o d S te w a r t d i d n’ t c o n j u r e u p shoulder pads, ill-informed disco singles and endless strings of Parmesan cheese flavoured American croon-books. In 1971 the name stood for seriously good haircuts, boozy rock ‘n’ roll and white boy rhythm and blues of the highest order. This album is a good snap-shot of a solo Rod Stewart at his finest. Sure Maggie May would later be hijacked by gratuitous wedding plays and embarrassing drunk-aunty sing-a-longs, but hip-grinding gems Every Picture Tells A Story and blues standard That’s Alright Mama are the business. There’s even some sweet harmony-laden folk on the Dylan cover Tomorrow Is A Long Time. Like Elvis – stick with the young version and you’ll be alright.

Key Track: Every Picture Tells A Story _DAVID CRADDOCK

No genre spreads it wings as visibly from one era to the next as that of the disaster movie.

1951’s When Worlds Collide – despite a rock solid idea – was let down a little by the technology of the day and a few dodgy matte paintings of flooded cities standing in for scenes of global catastrophe. But computers have bought the dreams of directors to life, and current Hollywood disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Godzilla, 10,000BC) has embraced the pixel wholeheartedly in his latest global smackdown, 2012.

As if thumbing his nose at everything that’s come before, Emmerich namechecks big disaster movie ideas from the last decade.

A giant wave turning a cruise liner over (from Wolfgang Petersen’s Poseidon), an entire national park exploding (the movies’ biggest explosion was recently filmed for Transformers 2), and The White House being destroyed (from his own Independence Day). ‘Your movies have one big scene,’ Emmerich seems to be saying, ‘mine’s got all of them and more’.

There’s no denying the sensory thrills of watching Los Angeles fall apart and sink into the San Andreas fault or a wave so tall it spills over the Himalayans mountains, but as you’d expect there’s little room for any character or drama short of some cringe-worthy family dynamics and join-the-dots narrative. And yes, like he does in every film, Emmerich makes sure the family dog is saved. _DREW TURNEY

2012 (Sony) Withnail And I Blu-ray (Umbrella) Che Part Two (Paramount) Mao’s Last Dancer (Roadshow) 21

PICA PRESENTS

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Old Crow Medicine Show

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Hammer & Sickle Nashville bluegrass, country and old-time-y band Old Crow Medicine Show will bring the sounds and stories of yesteryear to this year’s West Coat Blues ‘n’ Roots Festival on Sunday, March 28, and to their own show at Mojos on Monday, March 29.

Despite being formed in 1998, Old Crow Medicine Show’s folk, country and bluegrass tinged music evokes the wild, rugged and freewheeling spirit of pre-war America. It is the triumphant music of chugging railways, bountiful grain harvests, the Appalachian Mountains, wide open planes and buzzing town fares.

While the band’s original material may be inspired by tradition, their live show is in no way a cheesy nostalgia act or musical museum exhibit. Brimming with rock ‘n’ roll energy, Old Crow Medicine Show’s live act is an immediate and raw experience, as fiddler player Ketch Secor explains from the ironic surrounds of a tacky LA chain restaurant.

I guess that’s the wonderful thing about folk music, compared to pop or rock where musicians are often accused of being ‘derivative’. By its very nature, folk music gives a license to artists to be as derivative as they want.

I want to see what I can do with that song Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree - I bet I can make a big hit out of that (laughs)! I love that a traditional can live through great music.

What we love about that song (Land Down Under) is that tribal beat, the mystery of the song that’s laid out by that piping solo. Why do we love that? Because we’ve been hearing goat bladder sheep music, and hollowed out sheep bone songs for the past 40,000 years. People have been making music since animals were domesticated. We’ve been blowing songs like Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree since the aboriginal people set foot on your shores 40,000 years back. How can you copyright that? How can you own the ring of John Henry’s hammer, how can you own the rattle of a slave’s chains?

How can you own the echoes of a Negro spiritual a song from before emancipation? These things aren’t property. They belong to all of us. This is the human story we’re talking about.

So you’re just about to fly out to New Zealand to start your tour - where are you at the moment?

I’m in a corporate hell hole. It’s a Chili’s restaurant in LA with 64 televisions and something in every square foot to gawk at. As legends like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger There’re pictures of monkeys on the wall. It’s just get older do you feel like you have a duty to carry the torch? horrific. It’s not a good way to get to Australia.

I don’t think that we will ever carry When people ask about the style or originality it they way that the generation before us, and of your music you often evoke a wonderful even the generation before that, carried it. Those thing that Pete Seeger said - that you feel guys – Johnny Cash, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Little that you’re just ‘another link in the chain’ in Richard, Chuck Berry – they carried the torch terms of the American tradition. Is that sill into a brave new world. The world has changed.

It was dark, then there was first light – Chuck how you feel?

I’ve been spouting off that line for a Berry was there holding a match. It’s even been while, and last year we met Pete, in the year that a long time since Abbey Road now. I feel like he turned 90. It was just further proof to me that we’re in the shadow of the great illumination of we really are all forging new links in a chain that American which was so bright that it lit up the goes back long before Pete Seeger. Long before whole world with our music, culture and art. I Huddie Leadbetter - Elvis is a link in that chain don’t know if we’ll ever reclaim that – but the and Bob Dylan is a link in that chain - it goes way fire is still burning in us and we’ve got to keep on back to the times of the convicts arriving on it lit. the shores of Australia bringing songs from the Even though all of that great work was done, streets of London to a new world. do you think there is still new ground to In many ways your song Wagon Wheel, which break?

I think it’s all been said before, but I is a reinterpretation or ‘finishing off’ of a Bob Dylan bootleg you heard, is a living example think the best way you can say it now is with a of that idea isn’t it? It’s got one foot in the foot in the door and a foot out there in the yard.

You’ve got to arm yourself with the language past and one in the present.

That’s a song that was written over a of the tradition – the old way of doing things – period of about 80 years before it got finished. you’ve got to learn those ways. They’re all we’ve Bob Dylan gave the credit to Rock Me Mama, a got… Boys and girls are going to get together song he recorded in the ’70s, to Arthur Crudup. and drive down to the beach in South Gippsland He was a blues singer from Memphis from the or Western Australia, and after the working day early rock ‘n’ roll era. He was credited as writing is done they’re gonna have a couple of beers, That’s Alright Mama and a couple of other songs they’re going to make out in that car, listen to that became part of Elvis’s repertoire. He wrote songs on the radio and that’s going to happen a song called Rock The Baby, which don’t sound for a long time to come. As long as there’re still nothing like Dylan’s Rock Me Mama or My Wagon kids making out listening to the radio – well Wheel. But before all that Arthur Crudup gave there better be fuckin’ good songs! They better credit to a blues singer in Chicago called Big Bill be worth making out to. They better be worth Broonzy – back in the ’20s. We’re talking about the beauty of that woman. They better be worth 1928 when the song was recorded by Big Bill, the curves of that car. and now it’s 2010. That song will be 100 years _JOCK ANTHONY old before I’m 40.

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Paul Dempsey Jean-Marc Rivalland in front of his award winning sculpture, Breaking Wave

John Robertson

BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE Perth’s largest outdoor art exhibition has returned to the shore of Cottesloe Beach for another

year, sharing sculpture with the masses. Sculpture By The Sea features works from 60 talented artists, offering aforementioned artists the chance to pocket $15,000 thanks to the NAB Sculptor’s Scholarship. Congratulations to Jean-Marc Rivalland who was recently announced as the winner of the scholarship for his sculpture Breaking Wave.

During the Sculpture By The Sea season, Cottesloe Beach will be adorned with sculptures of all shapes and sizes, bringing an extra dash of culture to Cottesloe. For information on who’s exhibiting, head to sculpturebythesea.com.

MUSIC FOR THE MIND

The Music To Open Your Mind festival will set up shop in Fremantle’s King Square on Sunday, March 21, for its fourth annual celebration of music. The festival aims to open people’s minds about being mentally healthy, suppor ting those with mental health issues, plus their friends, family and carers, through fantastic music. This year’s event will feature live sets from the Texas Rangers, Toy Box and the Brow Horn Orchestra, promising a great day out for young and old. The event kicks off at 2pm and runs ’til 6pm.

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After a massive response to their previous Scitech After Dark events, the folks at Scitech have once again decided to invite adults to invade their premises, sans snotty-nosed ankle biters. On Saturday, March 20, from 6pm to 9pm, the doors of Scitech will open for an adults only evening of science, examining in particular the science of food. The special event will also feature a specially devised show called Science, I’ll Drink To That!, providing visitors with a hilarious look into the effects of alcohol. Re-visit your youth with a trip to Scitech; go on, you know your inner child wants to!

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Back in 2009, the Art Gallery of Western Australia launched a fantastic season of shows called ArtBar, which featured after-dark performances by local and national musicians and comedians.

ArtBar returns triumphantly in 2010, offering up yet another fantastic season of events, kicking off on Thursday, April 8, with singer-songwriter Paul Dempsey.

Taking place under the stars in the Gallery’s amphitheatre, the concert will see Dempsey joined on stage by a slew of talented musicians, with support from Umpire.

Doors open 5.30pm, performance starts at 6.45pm. Tickets are on sale now from BOCS. For information on upcoming ArtBar events head to artgallery.wa.gov.au/ArtBar.

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MAX MANUS Man Max

BROTHERS Turgid Triangle

Directed by Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandbergn Starring Aksel Hennie, Ken Duken

Directed by Jim Sheridan Starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard

Like The North Face, the-mountain climbing film that screened as part of the Lotterywest Festival Films season some weeks back, Max Manus benefits greatly from authentic values, its intimate focus on its subject and its outright European-ness.

Max Manus is a bona fide Norwegian war hero. During the German occupation of Norway from 1939-45, he was a firebrand of the Norwegian resistance – his actions saved thousands of his countrymen’s lives yet he was often haunted by his own survival, as in missionupon-mission his friends and cohorts in battle were killed.

We first encounter Max as a hotheaded young solider. He flashbacks continually to when he served in Finland on the Sala front against the Russians (at a point where the Germans were allies). When the soldiers returned from the front they learnt that the Germans were now the enemy and while resistance was shown Norway was soon to fall and became occupied territory for the next five years.

Max soons joins the Oslo Gang, a passionate yet naïve resistance movement. They have some minor wins, but soon learn the hard way that their cockiness is not only unearned, but downright dangerous. Yet as the Oslo Gang becomes more sophisticated in their approach – an illegal newspaper becomes a powerful propaganda tool – their mission mounts in risk.

At this point Max’s cunning finds him adept at escaping the enemy. Even when he is caught he hurls himself out of a second-storey window in an effort to escape. He ends up being detained in hospital and duly escapes yet again upon near-recovery, thought the doctor and nurse he leaves behind do not share his fortunate fate.

Having escaped the Germans, Manus flees to England whereupon he joins the Free Norwegian Forces, meeting up with his one-time Oslo Gang leader. Like many of Max’s colleagues, he too will soon meet his end during an act of espionage that the hero survives.

Eventually, Max returns to fight the good fight in Norway, lifting the efforts of others by example and launching an assault on the

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Aksel Hennie stars in Max Manus German battleship, Donau, possibly the greatest of his wartime achievements.

Max Manus could well end up being remade in Hollywood, such is the nature of its grand tale – eventual victory against an unsurmountable enemy (with explosions).

Swedish directors, Rønning and Sandbergn, however, concentrate on the ‘small’ parts of the story as much as they do the large. The CGI effects employed in this film are the most advanced thus far used in Norwegian cinema, but importantly the relationships and camaraderie in Max’s life are explored (his widow and friend Sønsteby both consulted on the production), and the Germans (particularly Max’s nemesis, Norwegian Gestapo Chief, Siegfried Fehmer) are portrayed as adversaries, not the usual overly simplistic evil-overlords.

Such values render this film as far from a WWII-era Diehard as one could imagine. In that context, one could say Max Manus a war movie for everyone.

_ BOB GORDON Max Manus screen at UWA’s Somerville Auditorium from Monday-Sunday, March 22-28, and at Joondalup Pines from MondaySunday, March 29–April 4, as part of the Lotterywest Festival Films season.

film work in a Hollywood context would certainly involve some concessions, but, for a film so laden with potential for dramatic tension, the outcome is fairly ordinary. The soppy guitar soundtrack If you’re looking for emotional impact but scores the emotion far too heavily, and the appreciate a bit of directorial restraint in your relationship between the ‘brothers’ isn’t as honest filmwatching, don’t look too hard in Brothers, the or enthralling as it could be; mostly thanks to new film from In The Name Of The Father and In Maguire’s overacting; Gyllenhaal is OK. The scenes in Afghanistan are clichéd America director Jim Sheridan. Those who love the watered-down feel displayed by most Hollywood and unnecessary, for the most part, particularly the remakes of European art house films will be right scene depicting Sam’s supposedly fatal helicopter at home in this, the English language version of crash. The transitions between Sam’s dark, crueltyladen POW experience and the family, warm and Danish director Susanne Bier’s 2004 film Brødre.

The rest of us will likely be disappointed in soft focus at home, are awkward, not to mention by this pointless remake,that doesn’t offer anything the fact that Sam actually being alive was quite improbable. The triangle between Grace, Tommy on the original. Well, except for a song by U2.

Sam (Tobey Maguire) leads a happy life and Sam (that was played out to its bitter yet tender with high school sweetheart-turned-wife Grace capacity in the original Brødre) is melodramatic at (Natalie Portman) and two daughters. He is close best, a truism where intensity was needed, likewise with his father Hank (Sam Shepard), a former some of the film’s biggest moments (such as Vietnam vet, and has followed in his footsteps by where Grace receives the phone call to tell her Sam becoming a US Marine. The only blight on their is still alive, or Sam’s final breakdown) were hurried picket fence existence is Sam’s brother, Tommy and void of pathos. A little more realism, as per (Jake Gyllenhaal), a drunken troublemaker who, Sheridan’s excellent In America, would have leant recently released from jail, is a big disappointment Brothers more social gravitas. to everyone and can’t put a foot right by Hank. _DANIELLE MARSLAND Whilst on duty in Afghanistan, Sam is involved in a terrible helicopter crash and is presumed killed. Intensely bereaved, Grace and her daughters attempt to rebuild their lives without the ‘rock’ of their family. In a surprise to all, Tommy picks up his socks and turns out to be quite the surrogate Sam. The kids dote on him and Grace forms an emotional attachment with him. Tommy seems to find a new purpose as a family man and enjoys everybody’s newfound appreciation of his existence in Sam’s absence.

However, a few months after his funeral, Sam comes home. Turns out he was interned as a POW all this time in a Taliban-led camp, and didn’t really die after all. The family’s initial joy at Sam’s prodigal return is a peverse one: he acts psychotic towards all in his path, battling from the posttraumatic stress of his experience in Afghanistan.

Grace struggles to emotionally reconnect with Sam, who won’t budge on the idea that she’s slept with Tommy. Tommy, meanwhile, earnestly attempts to draw his brother out of his depression, despite his obvious disappointment that Sam’s return has fairly mucked up his newly found domestic bliss.

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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Toothless Tiger

Directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders Starring Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill, American Ferrera, Kristen Wiig Having grown up in a time when being poked and prodded by things jumping off the screen just wasn’t at all stimulating, I’ve never been that much of an advocate for 3D. In Jaws 3D we were supposed to believe the killer fish was heading straight for our seats (what a joke that was!). In Freddy’s Dead the filmmaker wanted us to wriggle and worm in an effort to escape Freddy Krueger’s razor-sharp glove as it reached past the screen. And in Friday The 13th Part III it was supposed to seem as if Jason’s knife was coming terrifyingly close to our own skulls – as well as Crispin Glover’s. Thing is, nobody believed any of it – let alone believed there was any benefit to 3D. If anything, all those red-and-blue glasses did was evoke ear chafing and headaches!

When James Cameron announced he’d be bringing back 3D you could hear the groans of those that grew up in the ‘80s echo around the globe - the last thing we needed was for filmmakers to reintroduce the gimmick! 3D had never worked, why would it work now? Unfortunately, that’s exactly what has happened. And one could list a dozen or so 3D films that have been released, or are about to be, that are destined to be stinkers for the pure reason that they’re all style (or are they?), no substance.

James Cameron’s Avatar wasn’t one of them. In fact, it’s the best 3D film ever made. Like Avatar, How To Train Your Dragon has utilised the

How To Train Your Dragon advances in 3D technology only in an effort to aid its already-strong story. The computer-animated film, directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, is based on a 2003 children’s novel about a young Viking (a skinny red-head with courage issues, he’s unlike any other Viking) who for eons has been begging his macho dragon-slaying father to teach him how to kill the fire-breathing enemy.

Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel in the film) shoots a dragon down from the sky. When he rushes to the forest to see the dragon’s immobile frame, he discovers a not-so-evil creature that’s more Hooch than Cujo. Needless to say, young Hiccup ultimately decides that he’s not going to be doing any dragon-slaying and instead, befriend the race – in particular, the only mildly-wounded Toothless.

When Hiccup’s father (voiced by Gerard Butler), and his countrymen discover that the youngster has not only befriended a dragon but has a way into the dragon’s nest, they fuel their fury into an industrious mission that’ll thwart the dragons forever - unless, of course, Hiccup and Toothless can stop them.

This, like Avatar, looks amazing! The 3D makes you feel like you’re riding a dragon through the clouds, having fire blown at you from a prehistoric monster’s nostrils and, at times, worryingly falling from the sky. This is exactly how it’s done! The visuals here are, quite simply, beautiful!

3D can’t be a substitute for a good story and, thankfully, this one has a bonza one. Laughs, adventure, thrills and a gorgeous message – this is family entertainment at its best. And, like Shrek, don’t be surprised if How To Train Your Dragon is a film both kids and parents return to time and time again - it’s got a timeless feel about it.

If only all 3D movies could be as visually stunning and emotionally stirring (at the same time) as How To Train Your Dragon cinema screens wouldn’t have been stained by such deceptive fare as The Final Destination. _CLINT MORRIS

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CHARLES HOTEL - 21st March Sunday session 4.30 - 9.30 / $20 entry

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FOTOFREO FRINGE

WA’s biggest photography festival, FotoFreo, returns to walls of art galleries, bars and restaurants this week, showcasing the work of a truly comprehensive array of photographers.

Established in 2002, FotoFreo has grown exponentially since its inception, now offering hundreds of exhibitions and fringe events to appease even the fussiest photo fan.

X-Press has taken the hard work out of choosing which shows to go to with this handy guide to some of the exhibitions that make up the festival’s Fringe component. For more information on what’s happening and where, check out fotofreo.com

SUPERBIA

The lawn-bowl loving members of the North Freo Bowls Club have invited the FotoFreo Fringe festival to take over their club premises in coming weeks, with photo media artist Bo Wong set to adorn the Club’s walls with stunning photographs that make up her Superbia exhibition.

Down the line from Northam where she’s teaching indigenous families about photography, Wong shares her excitement about the impending exhibition.

“I chose the North Freo Bowls Club initially because it hasn’t been used as an exhibition space before and because it has such a fantastic vibe. We’ll be playing barefoot bowls on the day of the opening and you can bring your own food and cook it on the barbeque, the beer is cheap, it has such a nice vibe, I love it there!

“The members are really really pleased – they want the North Freo Bowls Club to be more of a community hub. They want to have art shows and music there – it’s a fantastic spot which is why I chose it for my exhibition.”

When asked what inspired Superbia, Wong reveals that it was a combination of family, place and architecture.

Sons Of Ganga by Seng Mah

SONS OF GANGA

In 2008, photographer Seng Mah packed her bags and went in search of adventure in India, roaming the country with camera in hand, capturing the nation’s culture one shot at a time.

The result is Sons Of Ganga, an exhibition that RIDE NATURE’S RIPPLE Phil Tucak invites photo fans to embark on a focuses primarily on Varanasi, a holy city with an journey through nature with Ride Nature’s Ripple, even holier river, where men and women swim at Mrs Brown Bar. Featuring images of nature at for spiritual enlightenment. Sons Of Ganga is on its best, the exhibition celebrates natural beauty, display at Behind The Monkey. depicting environmental extremes blended together.

Le Campement by Darren Smith

LE CAMPEMENT

Space To Space by Izabela Pluta

SPACE TO SPACE

Acclaimed photographers Izabela Pluta, David Jo Bradley, Shane Hulbert, Juha Tolonen, Nic Duncan, Christine Ko and Christine Tomás will adorn the walls of Harvest Restaurant for FotoFreo Fringe, exploring themes of change, adapatation, identity and place.

Perth From Space by Jackson and Gene Eaton

PERTH FROM SPACE

Brothers Jackson and Gene Eaton team up for Perth From Space, an exhibition that explores the urban landscape and the art of portraiture, at Free Range Gallery. Upon returning home from a stint of overseas travel, the Eaton brothers found themselves with a new perspective on life in Perth, the world’s most isolated capital city.

Intrepid photographer Darren Smith found himself intrigued by the concept of bohemianism while travelling through Europe recently, resulting in an exhibition of photographs that explore this lifestyle and those who choose to live it. Taking place outdoors at 91 High Street in Fremantle’s West End, Le Campement observes gypsies who have dumped their caravans for mobile phones and permanent residences, telling private and public stories through beautiful photographs. _EMMA BERGMEIER

Superbia by Bo Wong

“I have a background in architectural photography and this show is partially images of buildings. I have quite a few generations of family who have lived in the South Fremantle area where I now live. I photographed some of the houses that my great grandparents and grandparents lived in. I also photographed other buildings around Fremantle; ones that I think are quite beautiful in a non conventional sense but extremely beautiful to me. I’m playing with the idea of things that are in your memory and in your past. I’m also entangling it with photos of other buildings that are unrelated but the viewer doesn’t necessarily have a sense of where the truth of my history, my family or my memory could be.

“The idea behind it is that our memory is fluid but buildings are something that are static.

Photography has its roots in truth and truthmaking and this is a photography exhibition that questions that. It says you can make new memories and you can choose what kind of photos you take. You can make your own memories.”

Wong’s excitement about the FotoFreo Fringe festival is palpable; it’s clear that she, and the photography community in general, are extremely excited about all the exhibitions set to take place in Fremantle and beyond.

Travelling Trees by Amy Vinicombe

TRAVELLING TREES

X-Press’ own Amy Vinicombe joins forces with Emilie Saubestre for Travelling Trees at Clancy’s Fish Pub; an exhibition exploring travel photographs from the local, national and international locations.

FACELESS

Photographer Mihaila Lukis is fascinated by photos where faces are obscured, which she explores in Faceless at Mojo’s. Blending, blurring and hiding heads, Lukis’ exhibition ponders whether it’s possible to gain meaning without seeing a whole face. www.xpressmag.com.au

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VISUAL ARTS It’s A Jungle Out There, PICA Performance Space, 51 James Street, Northbridge.

It’s A Jungle Out There is a poignant and darkly funny exploration of the modern city as an ever-changing organism, performed t h r o u g h t h e a r t i s t ’s u n i q u e f u s i o n o f dance and spoken text. Martin Del Amo conjures a world in which sprawling suburbs collide with glitzy tourist attractions and the formalit y of the cit y grid. Physical relentlessness caused by over stimulation alternates with personal stories and poetic moments. It’s A Jungle Out There has cross artform appeal for those interested in dance, contemporary performance, storytelling and new music.

Season opens on Thursday, March 18, and runs ’til Saturday, March 20. Bookings can be made through PICA on (08) 9228 6300.

the apocalypse. The streets are dense with people maddened by the inevitability of the end; all that they have and all that they know, is threatened. In the midst of the chaos, one young man stands still, poised right on the edge of the world. He looks at the madness around him, then to the blackness of the unknown. He steps forward, and begins to fall...

Season opens on Friday, March 19, and runs ’til Monday, March 22.

The Swimming Club, Playhouse Theatre, Pier Street, Perth.

Six young people from around the world, including two UWA students, spend one Shoes by Sophie Burgoyne glorious summer together on a Greek island in 1983. They are beautiful, adventurous, New Works New Faces, Perth Galleries, 92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle. idealistic and believe that the world is theirs Now in its tenth year, Gallery East joins Perth Galleries to showcase the work of recent graduate for the taking. Fast-forward to 2009: These artists from the Universities and TAFE Art schools. Selected by the directors of these two leading footloose and fancy-free types have turned contemporary art galleries in consultation with the Art schools, the graduate artists are afforded Phoenix, Playhouse Theatre, Pier Street, into successful and driven people who are an opportunity to exhibit their work as a stepping stone in bringing their work to the public juggling careers, families and mortgages Perth. and furthering their careers. This highly popular exhibition promises once again to be innovative, S te p s Yo u t h D a n ce Co m p a ny p re s e n t s and are grappling with middle age. Each in imaginative, highly enjoyable and very good value.

Phoenix - their 21st birthday production their own way, they feel trapped by their life Exhibition runs ’til Thursday, April 1. that imagines the end of the world, and new choices and are baffled by their children’s beginnings. The production is performed by youth culture in the new millennium. Will Make Friend IV, Norfolk Basement, 47 South part of and the inspiring oceanscapes that this 32 young dancers from Perth and features a reunion on their magical Greek island be nomadic way of life has taken her to. Sandy aerial acrobatics, beautiful dance and strong able to rekindle their spiritual fire?

Terrace, Fremantle.

The Make Friend series continues this March Feet, which is on display as part of the FotoFreo theatrics. Picture yourself standing on the Season opens on Saturday, March with a spectacular portrait show featuring Fringe Festival, draws inspiration from within edge… the edge of something new, of 27, and runs ’til Sunday, April 18. Bookings some of this country’s most exciting talent. the surfing culture to express the beauty, change, of the unknown. Phoenix visualises can be made through BOCS. Accomplished Adelaide artist Jeremy Piert spirituality and freedom of this way of life.

Exhibition runs ’til Tuesday, April 20. will join Melbourne based, former local boy Eli Smith, the internationally renowned Matt Doust and emerging star Richard Healy for Year 12 Perspectives, Art Gallery Of Western Make Friend IV. As with all Make Friend shows Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth. this is a one night only event which means Year 12 Perspectives 2009 i s a d y n a m i c that there are no second chances. showcase of the energy, expression and Exhibition takes place on Saturday, talent of Western Australia’s finest young art March 20. students. Now in its eighteenth year, it gives access to the thoughts and feelings of the Recent Oil Paintings by D ean Bowen, next generation of artists. As fresh as ever, G re e n h i l l G a l l e r i e s, 6 G u g e r i S t re e t, it continues to inspire visitors and remains a Claremont. popular component of the Gallery’s annual Renowned nationally and internationally for calendar. This year 71 works by 68 students his humorous and playful art, Dean Bowen’s have been selected from across Western successful exhibitions offer a vibrant and Australia. The paintings, drawings, sculptures uplifting selection of works. Comical and and photographs explore a range of subjects endearing characters grace the surface of the and themes important to young people canvas with their distinctly graphic, simple today. and child-like style, dealing with both the Exhibition runs ’til Monday, May 31. whimsical and the absurd. Bowen’s latest selection once again features his characteristic large birds and a series of urban roads, depicted with a sense of humour and a dash Tokyo Shock Boys, Regal Theatre, Subiaco.

Cult icons, the Tokyo Shock Boys return to of irony.

Exhibition opens on Wednesday, Australia to celebrate their 20th anniversary March 17, and runs ’til Thursday, April 1. with a brand new show packed full Breakings of spectacular new stunts and some old Sandy Feet, South Beach Food And Wine favourites. With acts including live scorpions, Breakings, PICA Performance Space, 51 James Street, Northbridge.

Boutique, Shop 11/396 South Terrace, South hot wax, tea ceremonies gone wrong, and Perth choreographer Aimee Smith is becoming known for her cutting-edge political dance. In her Fremantle. milk tears, their fast paced show is a circus of first full-length solo work, Breakings, Smith delves into her fascination with how media influences For many, being a part of the surfing tribe physical stamina and mad stunts delivered the way people perceive the world. Breakings, a piece developed from a short experimental work becomes their life and their reason for being. with a surreal Japanese sensibility guaranteed she performed at PICA in 2008, is set amongst a pile of out-of-tune television sets and is a sharp, Having grown up in Western Australia, the to leave audiences shocked and thrilled. confronting and reflective look at today’s media saturated world. long stretches of white sandy beaches fuelled Season opens on Wednesday, March Season opens on Thursday, April 8, and runs ’til Sunday, April 11. Bookings can be made photographer Rae Threnoworth’s passion for 17, and runs ’til Saturday, March 20. Bookings through PICA on (08) 9228 6300. capturing the unique lifestyle of which she is a can be made through Ticketek.

PERFORMANCE

NEW FACES

Local art lovers gathered at Gallery East in North Fremantle on Friday, March 12, for the opening of New Works New Faces 10, a showcase of artworks by recent TAFE and university graduates. The exhibition, selected by the directors of Gallery East and Perth Galleries, offers young artists valuable exposure to further their careers. It runs until April 1. See perthgalleries.com.au for more details.

Ronnie, Yee Sum

Kristy, Sarah, Alex, Lewis

Denise, Sophie

San Wei

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Tim, Louise

Susanne, Jacky, Georgia

Richard

Coralie, Greg

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FASHION BLUSHING BEAUTIES

She Seldom Blushes

Having only been open four months now, vintage store She Seldom Blushes is the newest kid on the block in Fremantle, satisfying the desires of those with a healthy appetite for vintage. Owned and run by retro aficionado Fern Vallesi, the She Seldom Blushes store is decked out like a teenager’s bedroom from the ’60s, making it the perfect place for lovers of eras past to shop.

“My dream was to create a shop that could be an outlet for my own jewellery, but I also wanted to fill it with other things I love,” says Vallesi of her store. “So, I stock the work of other fabulous local jewellers I have met along the way, pre-loved and vintage clothing and accessories, and new things made from old things or with a really retro edge.”

When questioned about the origins of her label and the store’s name, Vallesi reveals that the inspiration came from a chap named H.L. Mencken.

“I am fascinated by the flapper style and attitude and this has often influenced the jewellery I create. When I was looking for a new label name, I happened upon an article written by H.L. Mencken. He wrote, ‘The Flapper of 1915 has forgotten how to simper, she seldom blushes, and it is impossible to shock her’.

The moment I read the words I knew they were perfect – ‘she seldom blushes’ – not only do they have a beautiful sound when spoken but they conjure an image of a supremely confident and worldly young woman who is perhaps just a little bit feisty!”

In addition to stocking her own creations and vintage threads, Vallesi’s Fremantle store also offers up designs

by Leah Tarlo, Helena Bogucki, Quiff, Nastalie, Rebound, Beci Orpin, Limedrop, Miss Brown and Ecococoon.

As a special treat for X-Press readers, Vallesi has kindly offered a 10 per cent discount on jewellery designs

by She Seldom Blushes, so be sure to pop in to shop 5 in the Atwell Arcade (off the High Street Mall), to make the most of this tantalizing offer.

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HELPING OUT HAITI

The West Australian fashion community will band together this Thursday, March 18, to raise badly needed funds for the Salvation Army’s Haiti Relief program. Fashion’s Night Out For Haiti will be a night of decadence, featuring fashion parades from prominent Perth designers such as Martini + Coz, Zanthus, Generics, Little Gracie, Tu, Miss Erika, Elementree, Hannah McGrath and Chloe Jones.

Taking place at Subiaco’s elegant Gold Bar, the evening’s festivities will be captured by the team from Fashion TV, kicking off at 7pm. Dress to impress. Entry is by donation at the door, so don’t forget to hit up the ATM before you arrive. To secure your place, email sylvia@giacciproductions.com.

COUNTER CULTURE

Chilli Couture

HOT TO TROT

Those in search of a hot hair style need look no further than Chilli Couture, a salon where street style and elegance meet.Located at 3/117 Brisbane Street in Perth,Chilli Couture is a hidden gem that offers all manner of hair and beauty services, including human hair extensions, eyelash extensions, body massage, grooming plus more traditional services such as fashion cuts and colouring. Be pampered for the Easter weekend! See X-Press Fashion Magazine for Chilli Couture’s Pamper package (including back, neck and should massage, Thai head and neck massage, peppermint foot scrub, reflexology foot spa, relaxing hand massage, vanilla creme hair treatment and a wash style and blow dry for only $99).

If you’re after a new look, be sure to contact the team at Chilli Couture on (08) 9328 8814, or online at chillicouture.com.au. _EMMA BERGMEIER

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Beaufort St, Mt Lawley

The shops, cafes and pubs along Beaufort St are all things to all people; its hangouts and retail spaces particularly orientated towards arts, media and music types. Here’s a closer look at some of the businesses and stores worth seeking out in Mt Lawley.

Planet is the beating heart of the Mt Lawley cultural district. Specialising in cult, festival and classic films, Planet has all your viewing needs under the one roof.

Not only can you rent DVDs, but buy them too, as well as get your music fix, with Planet’s comprehensive retail music section, including hip-hop, electronic, metal and an ever-expanding vinyl subdivision. Grab your concert tickets for the weekend at Planet, too.

There’s the Planet Bookshop, for all the hippest titles in town, not to mention Planet Fashion, stocking a huge range of band merchandise and labels such as One Teaspoon, Friends of Couture, Nookie and more!

Planet is open seven days from 10am ‘til late, and is located at 634/648 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley. For more details, visit their website at www.planetvideo.com.au or call 9328 7464.

INDIE FASHION DELIGHTS

Since 2006, Ruck Rover General Store has been bringing the people of Perth handpicked treats from around Australia and the world. Owners/ sisters Claire and Isabelle have stayed true to their aim of stocking small, independent labels that are unique and exclusive, and only selling limited quantities.

Ruck Rover is open seven days a week, and late night on Thursdays. 4/595 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley. Visit their website at www.ruckrover. com.au for more information or give them a call 9228 3502. Make sure you check out their great online shop, too: www.shop.ruckrover.com.au.

Ware, Mt Lawley

WHERE OH WARE?

Ware is a lifestyle store with a difference, a treasure trove of unique goodies for all ages.

It’s the perfect place to go for a gift for that somebody who has everything, or if you’re looking for something that little bit different to liven up your living environment.

Pop in soon and enjoy all the new goodies the owners have recently brought home from their buying trip abroad. New stock arriving for the next few months!

Open seven days. Shop 3, 665 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley. For more information visit www. waremtlawley.com.au or call 9271 8338.

Tomorrow Never Knows tee from Ruck Rover

TRIGGER TRICKS

Myotherapy is a ‘trigger point’ therapy. It involves pressing on small, constricted, sore points that trigger pain in areas away from the points. If you are still unsure what the heck this all means, but you’re a tad sore and could do with getting rid of the pain – drop in to Mt Lawley Myotherapy clinic, 2 Chelmsford Rd, Mt Lawley (in the carpark behind the Scotto) and see Nick… he’ll sort you out! Or call on 9228 2545.

Get cult film titles like Blue Velvet at Planet Video Great vintage fashion at Winifred & Bance

VINTAGE VIXENS

Tucked down a hidden arcade, Christian James is the salon of choice for many industry kids and Mt Lawley locals. The Christian James team have created the models looks for many of Perth’s top fashion shows and shoots; including the highly publicised launch of designer e-boutique FashionWA, not to mention the hairdresser of choice for X-Press’ Fashion Editor.The lovely lasses at Christian James have even offered X-Press readers a special deal: mention X-Press magazine next time you book a cut and colour at Christian James and a free Bonza Bronze spray tan!

649 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley. To make an appointment, contact 9228 8133.

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One of the loveliest little vintage boutiques in town, Winifred & Bance is a must for lovers of all things old and beautiful. Their newest endeavour is a stall at the Fremantle Markets – make sure you check it out!

Otherwise head into Inglewood anytime between Tuesday to Saturday, 10.30am-5pm, to nab yourself some delightful dresses and retro blouses. 850 Beaufort St, Inglewood. For more information, email info@ winifredandbance.com or visit their website at www.winifredandbance.com.

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Method Clothing is one of Mt Lawley’s most loyal boutiques, having been in the area for five years. Its regular clientele love the oasis – a little out of the hustle and bustle of Beaufort St and well worth the trip. Method stocks great range of very special local labels including Anoushka, Alana &Co, Gospel, Paper Skye, Petals in Dissarray, Poppy Lissiman, and Purple Hibiscus for girls; as well as men’s labels Ae’men, Elementree, Faux Pas and Stand International. Keep an eye out for new Australian label Album, from and iconic labels Bettina Liano and Religion.

Method is located at 557 Beaufort Street Mount Lawley and is open Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm and Sun 11am-4p. You can contact them on 9227 8944.

THE FLYING SCOTSMAN

Truck on down to the Flying Scotsman every Sunday for the original and the best $10 Pizza and Pint deal. Starting from 3pm, this popular Mt Lawley pub serves up some of the most tantalising wood fired pizzas around, including the legendary “Fat Bastard” pizza, which includes every topping you can image. If a pizza doesn’t seem to tame the senses, the Scotto also has a selection of steaks, pastas, burgers and of course their famous ribs on offer. Food aside, the Scotto offers a range of different areas to cater to every crowd, including the Velvet lounge, which features live music and DJs and their new up-stairs area Defectors, which serves up specialised beer and the best view in town. The Flying Scotsman, 639 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley. Contact the Flying Scotsman on 93286200

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 Behind the decks - 2 minutes witH TOM DRUMMOND

Edu K Loot & Plunder

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Tom Drummond Perth funk, soul and house producer Tom Drummond is going from strength to strength, with an EP out on Shak Digital and releases lined up for numerous labels. Initially starting out studying jazz at WAAPA, Drummond’s now firmly grounded in the funk and hip hop scene, having played alongside the likes of TZU and Katalyst. He’s also a dab hand on the decks, and DJs across Perth, everywhere from Geisha, to Llama Bar and more. Salt takes a few minutes to get to know this talented guy.

How did you first get your start in producing?

A mate of mine back in highschool introduced me to some production software. Since then I have been hooked.

How would you describe your music style?

I have two main genres that I normally produce - jacking house and funky breaks.

Basically, sampled funk with some harder beats underneath.

What has been one of the most memorable experiences you have had to date as a producer/ DJ? As a DJ - I did a few gigs in Europe last year, that was good fun!

As a producer - having one of my tracks licensed to a One Love compilation was a good boost.

Best set you ever saw and why?

Seeing Flow Dynamics do his live set for the first time was a great experience. I just started dancing around like a complete idiot and thinking ‘what the hell is this music!?’, which turned out to be funky breaks

All the way from Adelaide comes DJs extraordinaire Loot & Plunder, ready to lay down a thick, juicy slab of rump-shakin’ tunes at Ambar’s Japan4. Late night party specialists, these boys combine baltimore, crunk, electro, disco, indie, hip hop and ghetto rave tunes will a whole bunch of super-weird props and naughty onstage antics! Saturday, April 10 at Ambar. Support from Japan4’s regular rad party music specialists. $15 on the door from 10pm, otherwise get in early at www.boomtick.com.au.

EDU-KATION Friday, March 26 sees South American dude Edu K blaze into Knowledge Monthly. One time pin up boy for Brazil’s baile funk sound, Edu K has moved through genres like fidget house, new rave, rap and bass and now on to the rather contemporary tribal/tropical/tech house sound. Expect a night of audio madness!

Support from Lightsteed, Clunk, Pussy Helton and Micky Juice. Upstairs $10 before 11pm, $15 thereafter. The bar downstairs will be open from 8pm (free entry) for tapas, pizza and cocktails.

What track can’t you get enough of at the moment?

The Illout, Kenny Dope Who do you rate on the local scene?

My occasional producing partner, JMC, is doing great things, as well as Randa K who has been signed to Freestyle Records recently.

Where can we catch you DJing/performing next?

I play house at Wolfe Lane bar every Friday from 8pm-10pm, and funky breaks at the Newport front bar on Saturdays from 8pm12:30am. Come say hi!

Any releases coming up soon?

I have releases out in the next few months on Goodgrove Recs, Manmade Recs, Mindtravel, Guesthouse and Lingo Recordings.

To listen to Tom’s tunes, drop by his Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tomdrummond

Fergie Dan “the Man” Moore

CLASSICS FROM THE CRATE Step back in time for a night of club classics, as the popular RTRFM club music programme, Full Frequency, presents a night dedicated to the ‘Four O Clock Classic’. On the bill this year is Ben Mac, Massiv Trav, Dart, Sardi, Ben Elliott, Declan, Rok Riley and Dan the Man. On the terrace bar, Rudy, Lara H, Devo, Petrosex, Ben M and Mama Cass will throw down.

This will be a going away party for the last of the Full Frequency founders, Dan “the Man” Moore. Bid adieu to Dan, who is off to Melbourne to work for RTRFM’s sister station RRR. Friday, March 26, from 10pm until late, Connections Nightclub, Northbridge. Presale tickets are on sale now at http://www.rtrfm.com. au/events. $10 entry for RTRFM subscribers and $15 for general admission.

FERGALICIOUS Fergie (AKA Robert Ferguson), a DJ of international standing for the past decade, has never had a stronger and more vibrant aural identity. His free flow of original productions and remixes are being consistently supported by the likes of Sasha, Digweed, Dubfire, Laurent Garnier, Miss Kitten and Slam.

Thursday, April 1 at Habitat, Shape. Support from Flex, Aarin F & Darren J. 10pm - 3am.

Early bird tickets are only $15 at www. shapebar.com.au, or more on the door.

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NEW HIP HOP NIGHT SOUNDS PRETTY FLY Think Twice is ready to kick out the jams with a brand new night dedicated to ‘90s golden era hip hop, Mass Appeal. You heard us, that’s old school tunes, all night long! Mass Appeal features DJs Junior (playing a special trick set), Charlie Bucket, Nathan J, Benny Chill, Ad Roc, Selekt and Kit Pop, all spinning 12” vinyl only.

There’s a pop locking competition, live graffiti art in the laneway and prizes for best dressed, so get your most fly hip hop kit on (ie bling!).

Mass Appeal’s first block party happens on Friday, March 26, at the Manor, and monthly thereafter. Entr y is $10.

Leon Bolier is the creative studio mind behind tracks like Pulsar and Solar 1 which are among the twenty odd tracks he’s released through the Spinnin’ sub-label 2Play. Bolier’s innate ability to read the dancefloor and deliver damage-to-order has now become the stuff of legend, with fitting recognition when inducted into the spinning elite’s DJ Mag Top 100 DJ rundown in October 2009 at #63.

Catch Bolier at Rise this Friday, March 19. Door sales only 9.30pm – 5am. Rise members $5 before 11pm $10 thereafter.Nonmembers $10 before 11pm $20 thereafter.

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CRYIN’ AT THE DISCOTEK Launching this weekend is a new disco and funk night to set your heels alight.

Presented by Habitat, Soul Projec t & Knowledge Music, Discotek features two different music styles and vibes across two different rooms. Downstairs, enjoy a cheap cocktail in a comfy booth whilst enjoying disco, rare groove, funky breaks and house.

Meanwhile, upstairs, it’s a cross between Ibiza and London, with a European vibe filtrating through the mega-awesome soundsystem.

The Discotek kicks into gear this Saturday, March 20 at Shape. The evening’s entertainment comes care of Dave Jackson, Dan The Man, Luke Reti, Terry Waites, Lara H, Darren J, Flex, Richard Lee, El Dario & Cam Duff.

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A regular guest vocalist on Perth hip hop albums, local singer Naomi Pietracatella, also known as Porsah Laine, is finally getting her chance to shine with her debut album Feel This. JOSHUA HAYES speaks with her about her debut and this week’s album launch.

Over the last seven years Pietracatella has contributed her ethereal vocals to the choruses of dozens of songs, including Downsyde’s breakthrough hit El Questro and Drapht’s Who Am I? However, her solo career began four years ago, in her words, by accident.

“It started at a Downsyde gig where I did a chorus and this drunken guy came up and said sarcastically ‘can you sing a full song?’” she laughs. “So then I said ‘yes I can and I’ll show you I can’.”

Pietracatella was first inspired to sing by her older sister. “I guess in my childhood it was the times when my family were most happy, was when she would sing, so I have very fond memories of it,” she says. Her sister also introduced her to influential singer songwriters like Janis Joplin, Janis Ian and Kate Bush. As a result, Pietracatella grew up thinking of songs in her head, but until that point had never committed them to paper.

“My earliest memories of writing Ewan Pearson songs were on the swings out in the backyard, and I could write it all in my head, remember it “Yeah, I spent quite a lot of time on it, gathering the Porsah Laine tracks, thinking about with the ordering and how it and sing it,” she says. “The songs have always fits together. There’s so many mixes around these been there, I’ve just never put them down until I always knew very early that I wanted to do days, with podcasts and downloads, you actually now.” something bigger with my life and help people; think to yourself ‘what is the point?’ doing a mix CD, She star ted writing prolifically, that was my drive behind wanting to do music, but I’m glad Kompakt still believe in doing them resulting in Feel This. Downsyde’s Dazastah was to help people. I wasn’t aware that you because it’s different than having a segment of a produces half of the 20-song album, which also could do that through hip hop,” she adds. live set. It’s definitely more considered - you can try features local rappers Drapht, Layla, Hunter, and In addition to producing half and shape it and give it more of a narrative, and Ciecmate of Melbourne’s Hospice Crew. These t h e a l b u m , D a z a s t a h a l s o p l a y e d a n make something that people are gonna listen to acts will be present, along with others, to help important role in making Feel This possible. again and again.”

Pietracatella launch Feel This at the Civic Hotel “Back when I think I was going Indicative of Pearson’s wide spanning on Saturday. Despite the upbeat vibe of Feel through my hardest times, it was Daz who was tastes, each mix he creates is different and This, Pietracatella discusses a number of serious the one who gave me the belief that I could do unique – his other mixes, such as those for issues on her debut; from the government something, and that music is an escape, and he Fabric or Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi, were also very distinct and war, to relationships and depression. gave me so much belief in myself that I ended and tailored. The new mix for Kompakt is “The idea behind the album was, up buying a whole studio, I worked three jobs different again, with a more stark, minimal vibe. pretty much, everybody has a rough life. Not to build my own studio,” says Pietracatella.

“Yeah, the Fabric mix was supposed to many people are privileged to have a good life,” “If I didn’t have music I don’t think I give you a taste of what listening to me in Room she explains. “I could have written songs about would have survived, it’s that important to me.”

One at Fabric might be like, it was quite bassline all of that, but instead I decided to work through PORSAH LAINE driven, so it was very deliberate. With this Kompakt those problems.”

FEEL THIS [INDEPENDENT] one, I wanted it to be very driven by harmony, but “Before I started listening to hip hop I SATURDAY, MARCH 20 @ THE CIVIC I also wanted it to change tempo and mood a bit guess you could say I felt ignorant about things. throughout, and to be very intensely melodic. It’s quite an honour to get this opportunity to do this mix, so the pressure was on, so you know, I just wanted it to be really good!”

This intelligence and thought that Pearson puts into his work sets him apart. Coming up towards 40, he’s an accomplished sort, with experience in many aspects of the music business. Hijack’s Jack Union production imprint is going from strength to He has a Masters degree in philosophy, and as strength. RZ gets an update direct from Hijack himself just in time for part of his studies, his academic analysis on dance culture, Discographies, was published in ‘99. He’s his Perth show. released a few mix CDs, many of his own tunes, as well as a plethora of remixes. He’s produced The Life for Hijack, AKA underground house Rapture, the new record by rising indie-dance stars champion Jon Chant, started behind the wheels Delphic, Sydney lads Lost Valentinos’ debut (“I was of steel – he was an avid fan of Chicago house. just round their place listening to some of their “Well general house music, really,” he chimes, new stuff”) and has just been in the studio with before continuing: “But then I started doing Tracey Thorn (of Everything But The Girl) producing bootlegs and edits of my tracks and sets. I think her new solo album – he’s a man of many talents, it was a small label in England called On the Brink Records that picked me up. I was one and is obviously in-demand.

“Tracey’s album was finished last year, of their first signings, their second was The but last week we were filming a live performance, Crookers!”

Serious company huh? So no doubt Tracey and Ben [Watt] on guitar, it’s the first time they’ve played together in awhile, so it’s quite then, he is taking things far more seriously now. special, and I just play a bit of keyboards. I’ve always “I had to,” says Jon. “When the guy at the label had quite broad tastes. The idea of only producing heard it, I didn’t really have a choice but to take dance records… is quite terrifying really! It’s nice things more seriously!”. In terms of influences, working with other people, trying to get the best Hijack claims it was all about funk and house.

“Early on anyway, I started being out of them, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the one genre – maybe I can take some ideas I have influenced by a lot of that Chicago vibe; and a from an electronic perspective and put them into lot of it was through my dad. I had heard a lot of that type of music and it was quite prominent a different context.”

A prolific producer, Pearson is known in my production so that was a big driving force.

“But it was also a fair bit more than for his remixes, having put his magic touch on Depeche Mode, The Chemical Brothers, Slam, that; I like the tempo for example; it’s a style of Goldfrapp, Ladytron, Freeform Five and Franz music anyone can enjoy and people can really Ferdinand – he’s very particular over the tracks be innovative creating it. All house music is easy he chooses – they must have a certain je ne sais to mix together; it’s a broad genre but there are quoi that inspires him. Now he has artists lining a lot of genres within it, so that makes it great up for that special Pearson re-rub - though he has as well.”

Jon also has his fingers in a number knocked many back, as he feels if he can’t improve a track or get something worthy out of it, he’d of pies from a production point of view.

Most notably, via his Jack Union imprint. rather not bother.

“Basically, I started the label and While he has produced under various aliases including Maas, World of Apples and Partial then did songs on Jack Union and Potty Arts (with Al Usher), Pearson seems to enjoy the Mouth – they were sort of the main two. But Hijack aspects of collaboration, as opposed to flying Jack Union started out in 2006 as a way of solo. “I’ve always been interested in production, putting out music that I produce as well as up – one is of a Switch track which is coming out on Jack Union and in two weeks time ever since I was a kid, but it’s taken me years music my friends are producing. I try to keep and years to get the point where I can produce it tongue-in-cheek but funky and groovy at there is another remix of a track by Daniel records for other people. I really enjoy producing the same time. On the label, we’ve got that Carro; I actually used to produce with him and remixing, and working with other people – Daniel Carro EP and another one from The and we did produce together but amicably it’s great to have that starting point, not having Potatoheads – Tommy Q and Duble – coming up. decided to do our own thing and that has “I’m pretty excited too about releasing worked really well.” Finally, the lad is coming to work from a blank sheet of paper. But I had to first learn to make records for myself, and then as a track by Lil Devious – one I used to play back to Australia shortly to kick logistics.

“I really enjoyed it last time in Australia a remixer... it’s been quite a meandering journey.” when I was younger - I relicensed that to Hopefully he’ll meander our way soon, come out on Jack Union, which was cool. I’m it’s a great country and I can’t wait to get back there.

The crowds are really cool and I hope but until then, we can be proud of Pearson’s choice also producing another EP for Jack Union which will be out in about three weeks; I’ve to play plenty of music people haven’t heard to grace us with another genius mix. got a couple of collaborations which are before, either.”

EWAN PEARSON going to be EPs on the label as well - one is HIJACK WE ARE PROUD OF OUR CHOICES with a guy called Boogie.” Continues Chant: THURSDAY, APRIL 1 @ VILLA, HIGHGATE [KOMPAKT/STOMP] “I’ve got some other remixes coming

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RAEKWON KILLA BEES ON ATTACK RAEKWON/Fdel/Buda/Symphony Saturday, March 12, 2010 Villa, Highgate

Kicking off to a fairly vacant crowd, local Fdel did his best to hype up the early arrivals, but seemed as though most were more interested in the pre-gaming at the bar or busting out their own freestyles in a corner of the smoking garden.

Buda glided through a set of old school hits, sneakily dropping Scribe as much as possible, which didn’t showcase an interested approach.

A heavy warm up of Wu Tang tracks ignited the crowd in an overwhelming chant for the man of the hour. Raekown stepped on stage, fairly unassuming, and launched into his most recent critically acclaimed track, Kiss The Ring.

2009 was a good year for Raekwon, thanks to the highly anticipated release and astounding success of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx pt. II, so he knew he had a captive audience. He returned the favour to his audience with a set based on the original classics, classics that he delivered with unparalleled lyrical flair.

In a throw back to the good old days, when all nine members were with us, the familiar baseline of C.R.E.A.M echoed, causing a rush of the last stragglers to bounce in and bow their heads to one of the greatest MCs of our time.

It’s funny what type of crowd a Wu Tang solo gig attracts - it was fairly obvious who showed up for a night of boozing, mischief and bragging rights; and who has a genuine interest

the art that is hip hop. It’s a shame these beerdrenched, middle class guys with massive attitude seemed visibly confused - someone needed to remind them this is Perth, not Brooklyn. Raekwon was forced to stop the show twice, in order to calm vicious fights.

Once the rough riders were rightfully escorted elsewhere, Raekwon took us on a lyrical journey dropping bits and pieces from his history in the game; including single verses from Can’t It All be Simple, then another off Glaciers of Ices. He glided through a repertoire that was Only Built 4 Cuban Linx I heavy, leaving new fans wishing for a bigger taste of its follow up.

Testing out the punters’ knowledge of early west coast hip hop, Raekwon jumped into the first verse of Slick Rick’s classic Children’s Story, causing almost no reaction at all. Reading the crowd, he moved on to Eye 4 An Eye, which brought back the raw energy. As expected there was a big shout out to Wu Tang founder, Ol Dirty Bastard, who died of an overdose in 2004.

Raekwon had the entire club chanting again, ‘RIP ODB’- a suitable tribute to say the least.

After a two hour set (double what was scheduled) Raekwon slowly left the stage, only to return with CDs for a small crowd that gathered to the front, hoping for a glimpse. After graciously posing for pictures, signing shirts and shaking hands, Raekwon made quickly up the stairs…a bevy of local ladies in tow.

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB Tourist History [Etcetc/Kitsuné]

Raekwon YASMIN SHERIFF

The landfill-indie/dance sound of the last ten years already seems to be bleeding into 2010 with this much-hyped debut from Two Door Cinema Club. The Belfast trio borrow the urgency of Bloc Party and The Futureheads’ spikey arrangements and singer Alex Trimble sounds a dead ringer for Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard.

Despite some Editors-like guitar lines, Two Door Cinema Club feature sunny and danceable melodies that maintain a similar structure over the ten tracks. There are some catchy tunes here, especially as the three singles Something Good Can Work, This Is The Life, and Undercover Martyn sit back to back, though at times Tourist History feels a little watered down.

U n l i k e t h e i r p e e r s , t h e r e ’s nothing overly enchanting or challenging h e re. W i t h a d r u m - m a c h i n e o n e ve r y track, it seems this album was written t o b e d a n c e d t o, a n d n o t m u c h e l s e .

A handful of decent singles, though the rest is just too generic to mean anything substantial in the new decade.

ROBERT PENNEY 3/5

SILICONE SOUL Darkroom Dubs Vol. 2 [Darkroom Dubs]

187 Stirling Street Perth

Oliver Huntemann Phil Kieran (LIVE) Seth Troxler Villa × Sat April 3

Tickets: $37+BF. VIP $45 from the Boomtick SHOP! Available from Planet Video, Mills, 78s and Moshtix Outlets (1300 GET TIX) and online from the Boomtick SHOP, moshtix.com.au and inthemix.com.au

Glasgow duo Craig Morrison and Graeme Reedie, AKA Silicone Soul, are most widely known for their output on the revered Soma imprint, but they ’ve also been running their own Darkroom Dubs label since 2003.

Here, they unveil their second compilation, showcasing some of their finest sounds.

If you’re prepared to go on the journey it’s a worthwhile purchase indeed: a collection of dark, dubby and often broody techno and progressive works, it’s menacing at times, but also quite melodic and beautiful if you’re willing to soak up the details.

The first half is a deep affair indeed, but the tempo finally picks up with Jet Project’s Time Flies, leading into a final run that loosens the pressure a little bit, taking a few trippy, psychedelic turns before winding things up with some pumping progressive in its final moments, courtesy of Silicone Soul themselves.

Darkroom Dubs Vol. 2 is a beautifully textured and incredibly nuanced slice of deep house, progressive and techno, well worth the effort if you’re prepared to go along with its brooding disposition.

ANGUS PATERSON 4/5

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years’ DJ experience spanning Australia and the UK. Farj comes to Perth to celebrate the label’s ninth instalment tonight at Shape, and will be bringing a bunch of Aquatic Lab CDs to give away to the most formidable steppers in the crowd on the night! Support from Rekab, Proximity Effect and Dr Space. Tickets $10 before 10pm or presale from the website www.shapebar.com.au. General admission $15 after 10pm on the night.

METRO FREO YACHT CLUB DJS Mash up maestros Yacht Club DJs delighted Southbound fans earlier this year with their hyperactive mash-ups and lurid stage antics.

On-stage nudity, crowd invasions, dancing on the decks and wild water sports are all par and parcel of the Yacht Club DJ live experience, with tunes that could range from sugar pop to hardcore, punk and hip hop. Don’t miss out on the fun, hit Limelite at Metro Freo tonight. Zelimir and Jus Haus support. Tickets $15 from www. limelite.com.au or on the door.

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his 25-city House of Om tour and opening for James Brown at Good Vibrations. Get Superfunkidiculous with Andy tonight and say goodbye to Level 10. Support from James A, Cool Hand Luke, Frankie Button, Suric and Lara H. Tickets $15 presale from www.geishabar. com.au or Planet Video, or $20 on the door. 11pm ‘til 5am.

Amplifier – DJ Shannon Fox/ DJ Jamie Ambar – Fresh Produce M!SPR!NT/ Audilectio/ Bulk China/ Bacich/ Danny Bar Open (Upstairs) – Funked Up! – Mono Lisa/MitchellSmith/ AshBee/Oli/MuNKee/Mireyleese Bar Open (Downstairs) - Control – Scott D Bar Republic - Horrorshop Tomas Ford/Mark Storen/Koe Soleil/Rex Monsoon/Cluedo Pierres Black Bettys- Trubble Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol – Capitol Fridays Retro Mash Clancy’s (Canning Bridge) - DJ Boogie Como Hotel – DJ Gazz Double Lucky – The Pioneers Of Perth – DJ Adam Kelly/ DJ Cee/ Nick & Dave Eve – Suga N Spice – DJ Smoove/ Don Migi/ Skooby Euro Bar – DJ Roger Smart Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – Time Tunnel - DJ Rok Riley/ Joe 19 Flying Scotsman (Defectors) - The Beat Suite – Micah/ Sharif Galal Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) - Spiral Soundsystem/ J Nitrous/ SK Mode/ Skittlez/ Mc Ska/ Yarkhob/ DJ Sumo/ Vj Shoesandsocks/ Lambency Geisha Bar – Andy Caldwell/ James A/ Cool Hand Luke/ Frankie Button/ Suric/Lara H Harry’s Bar - DJ Double L / Benny T / Luca Castelli High Wycombe – Fill In Da Gap Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Llama Bar - DJ Morris/DJ Reuben Library – DJ AZT/ DJ Fiveo Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Lakers Tavern – Fresh Fridays - DJ Dooey Manor – Norman Jay/Ben M/Nick Sheppard

Metropolis Fremantle – Limelite – Yatch Club DJ’s/ Zelimir/ Jus Hus Merrina Tavern – DJ Terry Mint – Club Retro – Chris McPhee Mustang- Swing DJ/ James MacArthur Niche - DJ Jonni Zimber Norfolk Basement - A Friday Night Party - DJ’s FKN Midas Norma Jeans – DJ Phil Onyx Bar – Slick/ Adroc Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paddy Hannans - Crazy Craig Paramount – DJ Morgan / Jordan Principal Micro Brewery – DJ Simon Queens Tav – DJ Rueben Railway Hotel – DJ Messy Rise – Leon Boiler/ GeRmAn/ Simon Barwood/ Steven Tranzor Rocket Room – DJ Adam Round/ MC Tomas Ford Rubix –DJ Pascal Sail And Anchor - T-Mac/ Ad Lustre Sapphire Bar – SuperFly South St Ale House – DJ Jay Stamford Arms – DJ Jay Swan Lounge - DJ Benny Legge The Clink – DJ Jinx The Deen – DJ Birdie – Zone 2/ DJ Tony Allen – Zone 3 The Eastern – DJ Midfield The Esplanade – Phrase The Manor – Norman Jay The Queens – DJ Rueben The Shed – DJ Andyy The Whistling Kite - DJ Jeff Tiger Lils – Paul Malone/ Joby / Alex K Toucan Club – DJ Armee Vic Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Villa – Xample/ Lomax/ Mayhem/ Illusiv/ Sempy/ Mannerism/ MC Bear/ MC Webbz/ MC Rtilery Windsor – Dj Riki and Ray

▶ SATURDAY 20/03 RISE REVOLUTION After blowing the roof off Revolution during their last feature set, Luminate and Whiskey return to Rise with a vengeance! With tracks signed to Executive Records, Fundamental Hardcore and NSR Records, these two local heroes have been buried in the studio working hard on a whole swag full of exclusive new tracks, some of which they’ll premiere during their ninety minute Rise set tonight. Support from Greg Packer, Rousa and Simon Barwood, with DJ Daze on

the decks and MC Xsessiv hyping the crowd on the mic. Doors open 9.30pm. Rise members free before 11pm, $5 thereafter. Nonmembers $5 before 11pm, $10 before 12am, $15 thereafter.

BAR 138 UPTOWN TOP RANKIN’ It’s the first birthday of local reggae night Uptown Top Rankin’ and the crew are ready to celebrate in style, with the Empressions throwing a massive dancehall shindig for one and all. Scatter07, The Empressions, TAT and guests work the mic, decks and dancehall, proving why the night is your premiere fix for dancehall, ragga and bashment. Get there before 9.30pm for a copy of a brand new mix CD from Scatter07 and The Empressions, plus go in the draw for some major prizes! Bar 138, 138 Barrack St, Perth. 8pm ‘til late.

Free entry all night.

VILLA XAMPLE + LOMAX It’s an international drum ’n’ bass smasher at Villa tonight! Bristol’s Xample has blossomed into a first class producer, with his own, unique sound, and will shortly follow his label mates Chase & Status and Subfocus with working on his debut album with fellow Ram producer Lomax, who will also be appearing tonight at Villa. They’ll be joined by Atlanta’s Mayhem, whose label ShadowLaw Recordings features cutting edge drum ‘n’ bass focused heavily on the techy side of things. Local support from Illusiv, Sempy v Mannerism and MCs Bear, Webbz and Rtilery. Doors open 9pm.

Tickets $40 plus booking fee from All Moshtix Outlets, 1300 GET TIX (438 849), www.moshtix.com.au, Planet Video, Mills Records and The DJ Factory. Limited industry tickets also available from the usual sellers.

Ambar – Japan4 – Dopamine/ Fdel Lok/ Wish/ Mono Lisa Amplifier – Pure Pop – DJ Eddie Electric Bar 138 – Uptown Top Rankin 1st Birthday– The Empressions/ DJ Scater 07 Bar Open (Upstairs) – Whoops A Daisy – Chiari/Artista/Donbot/ Andly Sadler/Kastel Basement On Broadway – DJ Ricky

Black Bettys- DJ Trubble/ DJ Jinx Broken Hill Tavern – DJ Nick Alexander Capitol (Downstairs) –Death Disco – Death Disco DJs Capitol (Upstairs) – 80s Classics – DJ Ryan Captain Stirling - DJ Dano Civic Hotel (Backroom) – Porsah Laine (Album Launch)/ Defyre/ Freekstyles/ DJ Endeva /Rob Shaker/ Dazastah/ Optamus / Layl/ Hunter Clink- DJ Cheese Club Bay View – Shake & Pop - DJ Zelimir Connections – Michy T / JJ / Brian Devilles Pad - Jumpin Josh/ Mason Kimber Double Lucky – Adelpha – DJ Amanda Power Dusk – Reloaded – Fusion/ Skinny/ Rowdy/ Skeem/ Prima/ L-Wood B2b J Felix/ Invictus B2B Affiliate/ Mash/ Chop East End – DJ BigA Eurobar – Roger Smart/ DJ Raci Eve – Potbelleez Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) - DJ Alan Sharkey Flying Scotsman (Defectors) – Flying High – Cutter/ Sarah Tout/ Chris Wheeldon/ Jamie McDonald Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – Transmission – Andrei Mazz Flying Scotsman (Velvet Lounge) – Lucid Dreaming Geisha – Joie - James A /Lara H/ Miss Tokyo High Wycombe – DJ Matt Hipe Club - DJ E-Funk Impact Bar – DJ Abstar Leederville - DJ Loco Ren Library - DJ AZT/ DJ Fiveo/ DJ Jimmy Phatz/ DJ Zeke/ DJ L Street Little Creatures Loft – Liquid Lounge Liquid Nightclub - DJ Matty / Ricky Llama Bar – VJ Zoo/ DJ Rueben/ DJ Tony Lopez Metro City - DJs Headayke/ Skooby/ Kyte/ Brett Costello Metro City (R & B Lounge) – Jason Derulo Mint – Pop Life - Darren Briais Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Danny Mustang – DJ Rockabilly/ DJ James MacArthur Niche – DJ Manda Power/ Cee/ Adam/ Kelly/Josh D Norma Jeans – DJ Dwayne

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Oxford Hotel – DJ Sequeria Paramount – DJ Meezy / Jordan / Reuben Queens Tav – DJ Gear Rocket Room – DJ Brett Rowe Rise – Revolution – Whiskey & Luminate/ Greg Packer/ Xsessiv/ Simon Barwood/ Daze Rubix – DJ Pascal Sapphire Bar – Filthy Gorgeous – Sketchism/ Jackness/Thomas Hart/ Nathan Francis Sail & Anchor – Shannon James/ DJ Boogie Shape – Discotek -Dave Jackson/ Dan The Man/ Luke Reti/ Terry Waites/ Lara H/ Darren J/ Flex/ Richard Lee/ El Dario/ Cam Duff South St Ale House – DJ Jay Stamford Arms - DJ Anaru Tiger Lil’s –Ben Sebastian/ Adam Kelly The Brighton - Philly Blunt/ Creek/ eSQue/ Kill Dyl/ Mad Dogs The Deen - DJ Birdie – Zone 2 / DJ Tony Allen – Zone 3 / DJ JJ Zone 5 The Saint – DJ Anaru The Shed – DJ Andyy The Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin The Whistling Kite - DJ Craig Toucan Club – Samuel Spencer/ Mr President Victoria Park Hotel – DJ Melvin Windsor – DJ Ray / Jinx

▶ SUNDAY 21/03 Belvoir Ampitheatre – La Roux Captain Stirling – DJ Jay Clink – DJ Tony Allen Double Lucky – Paul Raf/ Alex K Euro Bar – DJ Flex Eve – Industry - DJ Birdie/MC Jex Flying Scotsman (Upstairs) – Back To Mono Flying Scotsman (downstairs) Nathan J/ Chris Wright/ The Nisbit Geisha – Fork – Wilora K /Jus haus/Swee/ Cam Duff Mullaloo Beach Hotel – DJ Kenny L Mustang - DJ Rockin Rhys Paddo - DJ PDS Paramount – DJ Morgan/ DJ Jordan Players Bar - DJ-Udas Queens Tav- DJ Rhys Worth Rosemount Hotel – Sundae Mama Cass/Crackfox /Lemon Lime & Biddiss/DJ Spitting Chips Gemma Pike || 9-10pm The Cott (Upstairs) – Miami Beats

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▶ MONDAY 22/3 Eastern Hotel – Adam Morris The Deen – DJ Birdie The Paddo - DJ John Paul The Shed – DJ Andyy

▶ THIS WEEK

Edu K Friday, March 26 @ Shape Bar

DJ Femme/ MC Lady Lauryn Saturday, April 3 @ Rise

DJ Farj Friday, March 19 @ Shape Bar

Anna Lunoe/Hook N Sling Friday, March 26 @ Villa

Kid Kenobi Sunday, April 4 @ Ambar

Yacht Club DJs Friday, March 19 @ Metropolis Fremantle

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Friday, March 26 @ Ambar

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Leon Bolier Friday, March 19 @ Rise

▶ TUESDAY 23/3 Bar Orient - DJ Lyndon Double Lucky - Substance – DJ Paul Malone/ DJ JMC Eastern Hotel – Jon Edwards High Road Hotel - DJ Matty J High Wycombe - DJ Ricky Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart The Cott (Upstairs) –Maxwell/ DJ Jus Haus/ Damian John The Paddo - DJ DPad

▶ WEDNESDAY 24/03 Basement On Broadway – DJ KB Captain Stirling – DJ Ricky Connections - DJ’s Joby / JJ / Rueben Double Lucky - Dirty Elegance Art Attack – DJ Select Dusk – Blackbelt/ Aswon Eurobar – Wild Wednesdays - DJ iPod/Ben Pettit Eve – Déjà Vu - Green Party Flying Scotsman (Downstairs) – Uni-Que – Death Disco DJ’s – Anton/ Andrei Mazz Flying Scotsman (Defector) – Twist - Agent 85 Gold – Slick/ Adroc Hipe Club – DJ Roger Smart Oak & Ivy –PCJ/Son Of The Father Mint - Open House Party – DJ Matt/ DJ Adrian Mustang – DJ Giles Newport Hotel – DJ Tony Allen Niche - DJ Frankie Button Paddo - Ben Merito Paddy Hannans – DJ Craig Rosemount – DJ Shannon Fox The Clink – Spin FX The Deen- DJ Zelimer / DJ Viper & DJ Benny T– Zone 1 The Eastern – DJ Jinx The Queens – Wriggle on

Dopamine Saturday, March 20 @ Ambar Potbelleez Saturday, March 20 @ Eve

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Full Frequency – Four O’clock Classics - Ben Mac/ Massiv Trav/ Dart/ Sardi/ Ben Elliott/ Declan/ Rok Riley/ Dan The Man + more Friday, March 26 @ Connections NEW

Mass Appeal – Junior/ Charlie Bucket/ Nathan J Friday, March 26 @ The Manor NEW

Xample/ Lomax/ Mayhem Saturday, March 20 @ Villa

ShockOne Saturday, March 27 @ Rise NEW

Nima Gorji Mass Music Festival – Urthboy/ Sunday, March 28 @ Rosemount King George/ Yacht Club DJs Hotel Saturday, March 20 @ Nippers Oval, Gloucester Park, Margaret River Fergie Thursday, April 1 @ Shape Cobra Starship / Owl City Sunday, March 21 @ Astor Theatre Bagraiders/Beni Thursday April 1 @ Limelite, Metro La Roux Fremantle Sunday, March 21 @ Belvoir Amphitheatre Dr Willis/Mike Koglin/David Forbes/Claudia Cazuca Thursday, April 1 @ Metro City

▶ UPCOMING

Horrorshow Thursday, March 25 @ Rocket Room; Friday, March 26 @ Brighton Hotel, Mandurah; Sunday, March 27 @ Mojo’s The White Party Friday, March 26 @ Rise Dirty Disco Launch Party – Voltaire Twins/ Boom! Bap! Pow!/ Azwin/Fkn Midas/ Buda and More Friday, March 26 @ The East End Bar

Kissy Sellout/HiJack/ Solo Thursday, April 1 @ Villa Seth Troxler/Oliver Huntemann/ Phil Keiran Saturday, April 3 @ Villa Helena Saturday, April 3 @ The Warehouse, Broome The Likes Of You – Oliver Huntemann/ Phil Kieran/ Seth Troxler Saturday, April 3 @ Villa

Pinch Sunday, April 4 @ Bar Open Nom De Strip Sunday, April 4 @ Cottesloe Hotel Foreign Beggars/Noah D/Trolley Snatchers Friday, April 8 @ Ambar

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Sean Tyas Fruiday, April 30 @ Rise Freestylers/ Skool Of Thought Saturday, May 1 @ Villa Creamfields feat. Steve Angello/ MSTRKRFT/Lifelike/Riva Starr/ Ferry Corsten/LMFAO/ Dave Clarke/Marco V/Dirty South/Kid Sister/Oh Snap! + more Sunday, May 2 @ TBA

Loot & Plunder Saturday, April 10 @ Ambar

The Slew Friday, May 14 @ Rosemount Hotel

Broken Toy/ Jon Doe Saturday, April 10 @ Gilkisons Dance Studio

Kutz Saturday, May 15th @ Shape Bar

Talib Kewli/ Jean Grae Thursday, April 15 @ Villa General Midi Friday, April 16 @ Ambar Grant Smillie Friday, April 16 @ Metro Freo Supafest – Akon/ Kelly Rowland/ Pitbull/ Sean Paul/ Jay Sean/ Eve + more Sunday, April 18 @ ME Bank Stadium Redshape Friday, April 23 @ Ambar Urthboy/ Jane Tyrrell/ Elgusto Friday, April 23 @ Mojos; Saturday, April 24 @ Prince Of Wales, Bunbury; Sunday, April 25 @ The Rosemount Kryptic Minds Sunday, April 25th @ Bar Open NEW

Tom EQ Friday, April 30 @ Ambar

Groovin’ The Moo feat. Empire Of The Sun, Miami Horror, Bag Raiders, The Slew, Muph & Plutonic, Funkoars, Illy, Ajax, Yacht Club DJs, Killaqueenz + more Saturday, May 15 @ Hay Park, Bunbury Oxia Friday, May 28 @ Geisha NEW

We Love Sounds – Underworld/ Crookers/ Steve Aoki/ Tiga/ Felix Da Housecat/ Laidback Luke/ Joachim Garraud/ Proxy/ Zombie Nation/ Felix Cartel/ Thomas Von + more Sunday, June 6 @ Supreme Court Gardens NEW

Godskitchen - Markus Schulz/ Gareth Emery/ Roger Shah Friday 11 June @ Metro City

METRO CITY

Saturday 20 March There’ll be no holding back when Australia’s kings of the dance charts take to the decks live at Eve for one show only.

Don’t miss it! Tickets $20 at the door. Doors open 9pm.

The Potbelleez on stage at 11:30pm

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FIT FOR A QUEEN

Head into the Queens to enjoy the new season’s menu, which includes favourites like pub-style fish and chips, steak and chicken burgers and other long time favourites of the Queens’ regular diners, such as the Cajun chicken salad. There’s kangaroo fillet on roquette salad, Moroccan spiced lamb rump and garlic prawns, too, if you’re after something a bit fancier. Grab a pint and soak up the sun, and enjoy the delicious tastes on offer at the Queens. The Queens for lunch and dinner, from 11am ‘til late. They’re also open on Sundays from 8:30am, if you fancy one of their excellent brekkie rolls.

Book now on 9328 7267.

FRIDAY

Complimentary Finger Foods For the FRIDAY after work crowd, 5-6pm FRIDAY Night from 8pm is My Place Karaoke Night

SATURDAY

SATURDAY Night is Cocktail Night From 8pm with DJ NAZDAR in the house

SUNDAY

My Place goes casual Every SUNDAY from 12-5pm, check out website for our $12 meal deal specials VIP HOLDERS & STUDENTS get 10% off their menus, Any time of the day SUNDAY to THURSDAY, just show your card!

70 Pier Street, Perth - 9225 6665 - www.my-place.com.au

MONDAYS

FRIDAYS

Kids entertainment by Cater 4 Kids - Face Painting, Games, Nintendo DS. From 5:30pm. Bookings essential.

3:00-7:00PM. Book for 10 or more people and the first round is on us, and a complimentary platter of bar snacks.

MUMS EAT FOR FREE*

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MONDAY TO FRIDAY

TUESDAYS

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1 kilo of mussels for $15. Your choice of Chilli, Thai Green or White Wine and Cream.

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THE CIVIC HOTEL BACKROOM

Don’t miss out seeing Aussie rock legends The Screaming Jets this Friday, March 19. They’ll be supported by local band Emerald City doors open at 8pm. Tickets from www. heatseeker. com.au or at the door.

Capitol Fridays Retro Mash is the place to be at the end of the week! Grab a cocktail and hit the dancefloor, where live sensation Lady Penelope will play all the classic hits you love to love. Then the DJs will keep the party going late, spinning the best pop remixes from the ‘80s, ‘90s and beyond. Doors open at 9pm and entry is free until 11pm.

RAILWAY HOTEL

Aussie rock legends The Screaming Jets hit the Railway Hotel tonight as per of the WA tour. Special guests will be local heavy-hitters Stillfire. Doors open 8pm and tickets are $30 (plus booking fee) from Mills Records, Planet Video and heatseeker.com.au.

DEFECTORS (UPSTAIRS AT THE FLYING SCOTSMAN) Eddy Current Suppression Ring

AMPLIFIER

Get ready for the shortest, fastest and loudest sounds around when Eddy Current Suppression Ring play Amplifier this Friday, March 19. The Melbourne punk rockers have a hit new album Rush To Relax and the same fantastic stage presence that audiences have come to know and love. They’ll be joined by Super Wild Horses and Pond.

MOJO’S

Friday, March 19, Dilip and the Davs launch Whaddya Reckon. Supporting on this fine evening are The Joe Kings and Eva McGowan band. Entry is $10 or $15 with a CD from 8pm.

Saturday, March 20, Grenade Baby Lemonade launches their single which is actually titled Grenade Baby Lemonade. Entry on this night is $15 from 8pm.

FLY BY NIGHT

This Friday, March 19, Colin Hay returns to the Fly with his full band after touring the US in 2009 with Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band, followed by extensive solo touring to launch his new album American Sunshine. Doors open at 8pm. Then, on Tuesday, March 23, Brian Kennedy, one of Ireland’s most loved and successful ambassadors of music brings his show to Fremantle.

Beat Route records presents TWIST featuring Agent 85 plus special guest DJs spinning vintage vinyl. Garage, Indi, Powerpop, Ska, Surf, Psych, Rhythm &Soul. Free Entry.

ART, SCIENCE, AND GOOD TIMES The Paddo Thursday, March 11, 2010 Art VS Science took over The Paddo last Thursday, March 11, for an amazing extended set. The place was packed out, and the boys put on an incredible show. The Paddo is home to live entertainment seven nights a week, with two of Perth’s best cover bands, Gun Shy Romeos appearing on Fridays from 9pm, and Cheeky Monkeys shaking things up on Saturdays from 9pm.

Local original music lovers fans can also catch Rick Steele every Monday night in the front bar throughout March, with Gang Of Three to take over in April. Ben Merito also plays live in the front bar every Thursday.

Quiz junkies might like to check out our Quizmeisters Trivia night every Tuesday with great entertainment from DJ Dpad in the front bar. $10 Stella Jugs all night make this a great value night out.

Wednesday nights is POW!, featuring all original acts. Catch Mercy Mercy, Success of Saturn, The Wilderness and Veescars live on Wednesday, March 24. There’s more local music action on Sunday, March 21, with a rocking set from Craig Pinkney, with support from Shanks Pony.

The Paddo were the winners of the AHA”s “Best Live Entertainment Venue” award 2009.

Entry is free every night.

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Closure In Moscow

ROCKET ROOM

Closure in Moscow, the band that were “kicked off” Soundwave in a sea of controversy will be making it up to WA fans when they play an intimate show tonight, Thursday, March 18, at the Rocket Room before heading out on the massive Warped Tour across the U.S. Support comes from We Are The Emergency and Colour The Sky.

Shannon, Louis Bacardi Crew

ROSEMOUNT

Saturday March 20 at the Rosemount you can catch a mega line-up of local talent headlined

by Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke, (playing their first city show for quite some time), The Silents, The Scotch Of Saint James, Emperors and newcomers Raccoon Vs Owl (featuring ex-members of Fighting For Alaska, Team Jedi and Showbag) will all be on board to make this a night to remember!

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WEDNESDAY

SUNDAY

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

Peter Busher & The Lone Rangers

Circus with DJ Giles STUDENT & THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys with Swing DJ

Cheeky Monkeys with DJ James MacArthur

SATURDAY

Art VS Science

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WiKid & DJ Giles

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Marco & The Rhythm Kings

The Rusty Pinto Combo

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While no Protection, we got Teardrop, with Topley Bird shining again on vocal duties. It was a great set-list, making you realise just how many quality tunes they have in their arsenal. The title track from Mezzanine was another highlight, as was the albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big single, Angel, that saw Andy out front, weaving his magic - his unique, ethereal vocals holding the audience captive under his spell, as the band exploded into life.

Another great voice, in the shapely form of Deborah Miller, took the stage for Safe From Harm, and she made the track her own. For a mature woman, she oozed sexuality and her soaring vocals tugged at the heartstrings.

Inertia Creeps wound up the set proper, before Daddy G returned to stage, sincerely thanking the crowd, and kicking into Splitting The Atom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with its melancholic, marching beat overset with Daddy Gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deep, dark crooning and menacing tone and Andy doing his thang on the chorus. The way they conjure up such a dark and sinister atmosphere, whilst still maintaining a euphoric feeling is mesmerising.

U n f i n i s h e d Sy m p a t h y s a w t h e magnificent Miller return to the stage to belt out the Massive anthem, before the fitting finale of Karmacoma. A truly special and intimate evening with the Bristol massive that left all in attendance awestruck at the sheer brilliance of a group who are still at the top of their game. _ALFRED GORMAN

THE BIG DADDY MASSIVE ATTACK / Martina Topley Bird Kings Park Friday, March 12, 2010 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been seven years since Bristolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest were in town, but on Friday, touring their brilliant return to form, Heligoland, they returned, with a lot of memories and expectation to live up to. And live up to it they did, and then some.

As the sold out crowd flooded in on this balmy evening, keen to secure their piece of grass, local DJ Travis laid down some appropriately chilled, broken beats, before the lovely Martina Topley Bird.

First coming to prominence as Trickyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s girlfriend and vocalist, she has developed into quite a unique talent. The moment she took the

stage, her charisma, soft, lilting voice and delicate arrangements were like a fresh, tropical breeze blowing through the night. Swapping between keyboards, vibraphone and guitar, she created a warm, melodic and sparse ambience to intone over, charming the crowd with a mix of songs from her two solo albums, and dedicating Baby Blue to an old school mate in the crowd she hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen in 20 years.

By the time Massive Attack took to the stage, anticipation had reached fever pitch, and the mature and diverse crowd howled their appreciation into the night sky. Backed by an impressive and tight band, including two drummers, keyboards and guitars, 3D stepped up to the mic and kicked in with the dark and grungy

sounds of new track, United Snakes.

Topley Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return for Babel, was also greeted with applause, but it was the arrival of Daddy G that raised the biggest cheers. With his tall, ominous figure behind the mike, they launched into Risingson. Then, more cheers as long time vocalist and Rasta veteran Horace Andy stepped up for Girl I Love You. The hypnotic, digital visuals were a stark, synthetic backdrop to the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music, and an interesting contrast to the natural environment that surrounded us. A huge and impressive LED screen had random numbers, binary codes, drugs, formulae and various subversive and political propaganda running across it, like a stock listing throughout the show.

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EVERY DAY

Brisk Bites Quick Lunches for $12.50 (every lunchtime till 5pm)

TUESDAY

Pizza plus large beer for just $15 (lunch & dinner) and Poker Night (Rego 6pm start 7pm)

WEDNESDAY NIGHT

From 5pm you can enjoy a delicious Graziers rump steak with chips, salad and gravy for just $13

THURSDAY

Burger plus large beer for just $15 (lunch & dinner)

FRIDAY

Chris Murphy appearing live from 4pm-7pm

SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Cool courtyard plus cool drinks THE PLACE TO MEET AT THE CORNER OF JAMES & WILLIAM, NORTHBRIDGE

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TIMOTHY NELSON AND THE INFIDELS / The Joe Kings / Wolves / Goodnight Tiger / Dan Crook Norfolk Basement Saturday, 13 March, 2010

which made it impossible not to move. The sound itself is blues all the way and, yes, the boys arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afraid of the pentatonic scale; but their show isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about the new, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the delivery. When it comes to that, The Joe Kings deliver like an overnight express, especially when the lead guitarist jumps off stage or cranks out a solo that can only be described as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. If you like rock, blues or just a mad time, you must see this bandâ&#x20AC;Śif only to check out the vocalistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dingo Flour tat. Aaaah, Fremantle.

Yo u c o u l d t h e t e l l p i e c e - d e resistance were nearly upon us as people were clambering around the basementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support structures to get a view of the impending set from Timothy Nelson and the Infidels. It was no wonder; this band has all the elements you need to build an immediate rapport with an audience. Nelson is a sensational lyricist, narrating melancholic tales through simple, yet soulful, songs. In a time when some of pop cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular lyrics are â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ra ra ra ra raaaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Nelson re-injects beautiful sentimentality with an endearing Australian affectation.

Yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;softly, softlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Nelson and crew soon picked up tempo and as punters were yelling along with words the band threw down some rock. Even though it started to get more humid than a bain-mairie, it was nothing a cold beer couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fix.

According to Nelson, there were even some â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Perthonalitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; among the crowd too, Rusty Gates was rumoured to be attending but this was neither confirmed nor denied.

Nelson will be a Perthonality in his own right soon enough, especially judging by his easy manner when he hops behind a keyboard.

Reminiscent of a young Tim Freedman, Nelson did a bang-up job, both with charm and guitar even when he stripped the set back to him and Luke Dux (of The Floors fame) on guitar.

One particular set highlight was Let Her Go, the kind of track you want to play to your mates the next day and also the unequivocal evidence that this State produces some of the best original music in the country. _LAURA GLITSOS

The Nor folk Basement is becoming synonymous with grade A, local and original blues, folk and country and Saturday night was a perfect example of why. Audience members at this gig were also given an extra international treat from of the land that brought us chips and cricket, thanks to the opening act - Englishman Dan Crook.

The singer/songwriter not only presents a fine acoustic show, he also knows how to market himself. On entry, Crookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very cool shirts were available and his single Paddling Upstream was on sale for an easy dollar. Why wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you grab one?

Acts like this make it a pleasure to support independently touring musos.

Goodnight Tiger casually veered left in the next set, following dream-like melodies and weaving reveries. Originally a two-piece, comprising Jill Chrisp and Perrin Date, the duo recently added members and now the four-piece, play with a lot of harmony and dynamics - not too mention the lead vocalistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tinkling of extra trinkets like xylophone, maracas and tambourine. A set highlight was Sell It To Me and Goodnight Tiger certainly did.

Heading in a more amped direction, Wolves were up next with a darker, more experimental approach. There is a lot of character in this band as well as an unmistakable, seething intensity.

If you catch them, be sure to watch the guitarist, who has his own entertaining style which perfectly suits the ambience of the material. With heaps of bass effects and strikingly mastered electric violin, Wolves dabble in the liminal. While they probably get likened to the accessibility of Placebo, they are at their best when exploring the more experimental elements of their songwriting.

It really started to heat up, quite literally, when The Joe Kings hit the boards.

Despite already being fairly packed in the basement on this balmy night, humidity radiated as The Joe Kings played in a way

THE DIRTY PROJECTORS / Pikelet The Rosemount Hotel Saturday, March 13, 2010 With their recent album, Bitte Orca getting excellent traction in Australia, New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dirty Projectors were always going to cause quite the stir on this, their first Australian tour.

While their East Coast shows have attracted sell-out crowds, Saturday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turn-out seemed a little malnourished for the current buzz around the band, thus allowing a comfortable viewing experience and a chance to get intimate with one of art popâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading lights.

In many ways the band attracts both casual music consumers and the music elitists, those wanting the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nowest; sounds yesterday. While opening to such a crowd would be a daunting proposition for most, Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pikelet attacked the curious crowd with a kaleidoscope of looped beats and sampled vocal harmonies.

I n s o l o m o d e, P i k e l e t ( E v e l y n Morris) built each bed one layer at a time manipulating and twisting each part in on itself and then around the next. The ease in which complex sonic interactions were achieved was as impressive mechanically as it was musically.

Morrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voice, while gentile and clean, rose on occasion to emphasise those passages that required exclamation. Her lacy set of cobbled components worked wonders winning over the room and setting the stage nicely for the headliners.

Wherever the Dirty Projectors go you will find in their wake a mass of music media feverishly slashing at keyboards and searching the deepest Google directories trying to perfect some deconstruction of the Dirty Projectors sound. The fact is, like some abominable snowman or perhaps more fittingly the Predator, for a second you can see and understand where they are coming from, but then, just as quickly, it slips from your grip, pulling back into the eclectic ether.

Dirty Projectors (photo: Lisa Businovski)

Conducted by the manically finger-plucked drive of centrepiece Dave Longfellow, the band of virtuosos reproduced tracks like Ascending Melody, Two Doves, and Remade Horizon with a scratchy resonance with Longfellows interjectory guitar lines swaggering between his melodic muses in Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle, and Angel Deradoorian.

While thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot to like about this band, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the vocal arrangements that make the group so stunning to behold. These aural cacophonies draw as much from the jagged arrangements of Africana-pop as they do from any Western school and seeing the lady Projectors perform these complex vocal passages with aplomb is staggering.

Witness a band as hot as Dir ty Projectors in a wonderfully inviting venue like the Rosemount is a rare treat, something the appreciative crowd seemed very much aware of as they cheered the New Yorkers off their final Australian stage. _GRANT MCCULLOCH

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ALI TOWERS

ROCKET TO MEMPHIS

Nottingham born, Perth based, singer songwriter Ali Towers will launch his debut solo EP The Used Future at The Bamboo Lounge from 6.30pm on Saturday,March 20,with support from Tree and One Tiger Down. DAVID CRADDOCK spoke to Towers about his lush and intricately arranged new release.

Sexy local swampabilly cats Rocket To Memphis are getting in their rockabilly rocket for a tour of Japan and the UK this April. DAVID CRADDOCK spoke to the band ahead of tour launch at Deville’s Pad on Friday, March 19.

Future Music

Ali Towers’ The Used Future EP is certainly not restrained or minimalist in its grand orchestral sounds and ambitious production. Produced at Sumo Sound in Perth with Laurie McCallum, the release features flute, violin, viola, cello and classical guitar, dancing over Towers’ polished and classic brand of acoustic pop.

“He didn’t even flinch when the list of what I wanted got bigger and bigger,” Towers says of his guitarist and co-producer Josh Dyson, a WAAPA graduate who assisted with compiling the stellar cast of musicians who played on the recording. “Everything from the strings, to a Spanish guitar, flute and full band.

So I was very lucky, and even luckier that most of the same players will be joining me for the launch.

While the slick, polished production of the EP may lend itself to commercial radio, Towers has not shirked at writing raw, challenging and close-to-the-bone lyrics which often deal with ideas of mortality or mourning.

“I’m not usually a morbid person but I guess we all have those kind of existential moments from time to time you know - like ‘what’s it all about?’ and the meaning of life,” he explains of tracks like This Fragile Track and Only The Fit Survive. “Wasn’t the answer 42 or

Breakin’ The Kyoto Hoodoo

Ali Towers something like that on Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? Not long before I was writing all of these songs a very good friend of mine, Andrew Graney, had just died at a young age. He was more like a brother really. We traveled through Europe for a year after school and recorded loads of songs on an old four track. He taught me so much about music, songwriting, and about legendary musicians and albums. He was a big influence on me so I was quite affected by his death. I guess a lot of that came out in the songs but I try not to get too specific with them usually.”

Voodoo-tinged swampabilly is a pretty underground and connoisseurial genre as it is, but when you take that hoodoo brew to Japan, you’ve reached a whack new level of obscure cool. Hip-grindin’ Western Australian act Rocket To Memphis will do exactly that they embark on an April tour through the land of the rising sun this April with their Raucous Record label mates The Tokyo Cramps.

“It’s something we’ve wanted to do for ages but due to various things - such as the language barrier - it’s not the easiest thing to organise,” Rocket To Memphis guitar slinger Razor Jack explains of the tour which will be followed by a string of UK shows.

“The worldwide release of our last album Hip Shakin’ Voodoo was the catalyst for the whole thing. For a start, it meant the CD is now readily available in Japan… We’re playing a bunch of shows in Osaka, Kyoto and Toyko, and apart from the Tokyo Cramps, we’ve got gigs with some other fantastic bands, including the garage-style Minnesota Voodoomen and Stompin’ Riff Raffs”.

Alongside the burlesque revival, and the opening of suitably retro venues like Deville’s pad, a number of Western Australian bands with a markedly 1950s aesthetic have emerged over the past decade. Surf rockers Day Of The Dead, garage punk act The Jacknives (now Melbourne based) and Rocket

Rocket To Memphis

To Memphis themselves, have all helped lead a swampy, loud and raucous new charge.

“From the early days of rock ‘n’ roll, these kinds of music have been associated with rebellion,” Jack explains of the garage, swamp and rockabilly scenes…. In many ways rockabilly and garage were the “punk rock” of their day and the best bands that perform in these styles now are the ones that still manage to capture that excitement. I’d like to think we’re one of them!”.

EXTRAS NEEDED

Boom! Bap! Pow!

Boom! Bap! Pow! require extras for the filming of their groundbreaking new film clip No Pleasin’ You on Saturday, March 27. The band need 200 members of the public to dance in the clip, which will be shot on Cyber Technology’s RoboQuad aerial camera system, a technique involving small helicopter-mounted cameras flying over the set. The technology has never been used for an Australian clip before. Extras are asked to email to dance@cutandpastedvd.com by Wednesday, March 24, so that organisers can confirm numbers and provide further details. The band will also be launching their single Science at Amplifier on Saturday, March 20, with The Siren Tower, The Jackards and The Brown Horn Orchestra.

Cave Fire Cinema are also putting the call out for extras for their Where The Sun Is clip, to be filmed at Dead Stars Night at The Castle on Friday, March 26. Aaagh Bats, Desertship and Smokin’ Aces will also be playing on the night. Zombies are encouraged to come along dressed as a dead celebrity. Doors 8pm, $4 for the undead.

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Grenade Baby Lemonade

SUGAR BOMB

Grenade Baby Lemonade, a band made up of past and present members of Melange, The Volcanics, The Slim Pickins, Bourbon Sprawl and Dekatur, launch their new self-titled single at Mojo’s on Saturday, March 20. It’s been suggested these guys sound somewhere between The Lemonheads and Perth pop classicists The Stems – an alluring brew indeed.

Support from Trigger Jackets, The Wilderness and Sugarpuss. Entry $15 from 8pm.

EMERALD CITY FLY WITH JETS

Big riffs, big hair and big fun will be on show when local ‘80s inspired hard rockers Emerald City support The Screaming Jets at Settlers Tavern on Thursday, March 18, and at The Civic on Friday, March 19. The band have been busy writing new material this year, but have emerged to support the iconic Oz rockers for these two shows.

Justin Walshe

REFINED MACHINE

The Justin Walshe Machine, a stripped-back three-piece version of the full Justin Walshe Folk Machine, will appear at Mojo’s on Tuesday, March 23, alongside Victorian folk raconteur Jimmy Stewart, The Cannonels and Simon Marks. A fine line-up of story tellers right there folks. Entry $6, from 8pm.

LEGENDS AMONGST LEGENDS

The DomNicks have announced that they’ll be supporting the Hoodoo Gurus on the Perth leg of the iconic Australian act’s Western Australian tour in April. In the meantime, however, you can catch Dom, Nick and co. at the Indi Bar on Sunday, March 21, where for the bargain price of $5, you can watch The Stems and Clash maestros performing two rocking sets with their pumping garage soul band.

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A stellar line up of local talent will gather like musical pagans on Saturday, March 20, to celebrate the equinox. Felicity Groom And The Black Black Smoke will emerge from Blackbird Studios where she has been recording her debut album to join a lineup which includes The Silents, The Scotch Of Saint James, Emperors and newcomers Raccoon Vs Owl. Doors 8pm, tickets $12.

This will also be a good chance to catch The Scotch Of St James before the March 26 release of their debut LP Vigilante Neck Tie Party which is out through Shock.

Hard rock outfit Diamond Eye are going all out for their show at The Civic on Saturday, March 27, and bringing along what all good classic hard rock Dilip And The Davs launch their latest long shows should have – pyrotechnics. Armed with player Whaddya Reckon, a warm analogue explosive new drummer Jeff Keating, the heavy recording captured on two-inch tape at Swine rockers will be joined on the night by Artillery Studios, at Mojos on Friday, March 19. Support Road, Homebrewe and Sure Fire Midnights. Doors comes from The Joe Kings and Eva McGowan. 8pm, entry $12.

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Leederville TAFE’s music students will give Elvis numbers a modern shake up as part of their Elvis vs The Future show. Taking place at TAFE’s new live music venue The Bunker on the corner of Oxford and Richmond St, the students will bend expectations with such oddities as a heavy metal version of Love Me Tender or a reggae Rubber Neckin’. Thursday, March 25, from 4.30pm.

Disco provocateur Tomás Ford has emerged from his highly successful Disco Bunker shows, and is now looking towards conquering and plundering new rooms. On Friday, March 19, Ford will play at The Republic with hilarious cabaret crooner Mark Storen who has just finished shows at the New York Fringe Festival. Ford will then put some disco scuff on the greens at ECU Bowls Club in Mt Lawley as part of the Coopers’ Sunday Green series on Sunday, March 21.

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The Bronze

THREE ROCKET LAUNCHES

Melodic rockers The Bronze will launch their debut album A Waltz For Lost Souls at the Rocket Room on Friday, March 19. The band have been steadily lifting their profile since the release of their Feel Like The End EP last year, and have been busy tweaking their new long player since. Support from Stella’s Kitchen, Fools Of April and Ryan Webb.

Modern hard rock three-piece Battlecat will also return to Perth on Saturday, March 20, to launch their second EP State Of Mind. Support from Fools Rush In, State Of Order, and Melburnian post-hardcore act Assemble The Empire, who will also be launching a self-titled EP. Doors open 8pm, Tickets $10.

Moonlight Wranglers will launch their debut album Last at the Rosemount on Friday, March 19. The atmospheric, noisy and never-boring rock act will be joined by Kill Devil Hills, Mongrel Country and Grim Fandango. There’s also talk of a magician between acts. Yikes! Doors 8pm, tickets $12 (plus booking fee) through heatseeker.com.au.

FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET

If you can’t catch Leederville TAFE’s Elvis mash up on Thursday, March 25, then there’s also The Burger Kings, an Elvis-inspired electric boogaloo combo, who will appear at Deville’s Pad on Saturday, March 20.

PINKNEY PLAYS PADDO

On Sunday, March 21, Craig Pinkney And The Kingston Reefs will play at The Paddington Alehouse in support of their recent release The City

By The Sea. The band features ex members of Matt Taylor’s Chain, blues man Damon Carren, as well as the soulful De Roberto sisters on back up vocals.

Support from Shanks Pony. Entry free, 7:30-10pm.

Project Mayhem

NATIONAL MAYHEM

Project Mayhem are finally giving the residents of WA some peace and quiet, and bringing their in-your-face punk and rock ‘n’ roll show to the other side of the continent. The band will embark on their first national tour on April 3, with shows set to take place in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, winding up with a Fremantle show on Saturday, April 17. The boys are apparently driving the whole way – and from the look of that photo – things could get dangerous.

CAN’T QUIT

The Fags continue their hard-gigging assault on Freo with a show at Mojo’s on Sunday, March 21. Supports comes from Louise Love And The Hates, Valiant and The Witches Promise. Doors 5pm, entry $10.

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THE SCREAMING JETS The Screaming Jets

Like a familiar old friend, Australian rock icons The Screaming Jets, return to WA for shows at Settlers Tavern on Thursday, March 18; The Civic on Friday, March 19; The Railway Hotel on Saturday, March 20; and the High Road Hotel in Riverton on Sunday, March 21. DAVID CRADDOCK got a band update from lead singer Dave Gleeson.

They may have been hitting bars for donkeys years, but with their 2008 album Do Ya garnering new fans, and a recent national tour with Status Quo under their belts, Newcastle’s finest sons The Screaming Jets are far from standing still.

If ever our nation could call a unique sound its own, Australian pub rock would have to be high on the list. AC/DC and Rose Tattoo may have been there at the genesis of this no-nonsense style, but it is bands like The Screaming Jets who continued to carry the flame right through the ‘80s and ‘90s.

“Oz rock is always going to be in good shape as long as there are venues for young bands to play at,” Gleeson reflects on the genre.

“Unfortunately, those venues are getting fewer and fewer, so it means bands have less of a training ground.”

And as for Australia’s current poster boys of hard rock: “Wolfmother are not a band, they’re a dude” Gleeson offers. “And although Andrew Stockdale’s first gig he ever saw was The Screaming Jets, I can’t say it makes me very proud.”

After twenty one years, plenty of line-up changes, and seven studio albums, many lesser bands would have thrown in the towel, called it a day and given up on night after night of sticky carpets. But Gleeson says the thrill of getting on stage keeps him and his four band mates inspired to keep the show rolling.

“The love of the game keeps me playing,” he says. “It is just the best job on earth, without a doubt. Obviously there is a lot of crap

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that goes on behind the scenes that I could do without, but those two hours a night on stage, make it all worthwhile.”

The band’s most recent album Do Ya is the first without founding member Grant Walmsley. Still brimming with the hard rock energy The Screaming Jets are known for, Gleeson’s believes the 2008 release (the first for the band since 2000’s Scam) will still appeal to the Jets’ most die hard fans.

“Every time we record an album, we have a quality control process where between the group we work out which songs we think are the best to go on the album,” he explains. “So hopefully each album is a progression in the level of song writing and the playing skills of the musos.

We hope that our fans who have been with us all along love it just as much as people who have never heard of us before.”

Never a musician to shy away from wearing his political ideas on his sleeve, Gleeson also appears to have lost none of his verve for sharing his current views on the state of the nation.

“The biggest issues facing Australia today are the ever widening gap between the have and have nots,” he says. “And government and business’ failure to act to rectify this problem.

Social welfare is the foundation of any society and to overlook that in the pursuit of the dollar is what led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Sadly the powers that be don’t seem to believe that history is relevant to them.”

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THURSDAY 18.03 BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Ben Pettit BENNY’S Trevor Jalla CASTLE Au Au Almost Sunday Infinite State Machines Self Made Guru Volytion CIVIC HOTEL Mufasa Nala Simba Rafiki Zazu DOUBLE LUCKY Chris Murphy ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Gun Shy Romeos ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Tin Dog FENIANS Pearce Ward FOUNDRY SideFX FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Wynton Marsalis HIGH ROAD HOTEL Robbie King Karaoke INDI BAR The Go Set IMPACT BAR Vdelli LEGENDS BAR Bill Chidgzey LUCKY SHAG Benjamin Glynn MARKET CITY TAVERN Crash Compass Coronal sky Lemon Red The Grave Forsaken MARRI PARK TAVERN Open Mic Night MERRIWA TAVERN Good Karma METROPOLIS (Fremantle) Devin Townsend Project MOJO’S The Witness Sugarpuss The Reductors Flarthing Woods MUSTANG Wikid NORFOLK BASEMENT The Fags Oh! You Pretty Things The Fancy Brothers OCEAN ONE BAR Living large PADDY HANNANS Dr Bogus ROCKET ROOM Closure In Moscow We are the Emergency Colour the Sky ROSIE O’GRADYS (Northbridge) Damien Cripps

SETTLERS TAVERN The Screaming Jets Emerald City SOVERIGN ARMS David Fyffe SPICE LOUNGE Courtney Murphy UNIVERSAL BAR Off The Record WANNEROO TAVERN Keith McDonald

FRIDAY 19.03 AMPLIFIER Eddy Current Suppression Ring Super Wild Horses Pond BALMORAL Double Trouble Rhyme + Reason BALLY’S Free Radicals BLACK BETTY’S Smokin Section BRASS MONKEY Chris Murphy BROKEN HILL HOTEL Benjamin Glynn CAPITOL Lady Penelope CAPTAIN STIRLING Hotplate Heaven CARLISLE TAVERN Toy Box CASTLE AnivA MartyrDays Mudguts Human Extinction Project CHARLES HOTEL Zep Boys CIVIC HOTEL (Backroom) The Screaming Jets Emerald City CLANCY’S (Freo) The Go Set COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Open Mic Night DOUBLE LUCKY Troy & Dave DUSK Redstar EAST END Supanova ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Blue Hornet ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Natalie Gillespie Brett Hardwick Band ESS BAR Flavor EURO BAR Switchback FENIANS The Clan FLOREAT HOTEL Greg Hastings FLY BY NIGHT Colin Hay & Band FOUNDRY Crave Karin Page GLOUCESTER PARK Midnight Rambler

Grenade Baby Lemonade , Saturday at Mojo’s GREENWOOD HOTEL Passionworks HALE ROAD TAVERN Lush HIGH ROAD HOTEL Airbag HOTEL ROTTNEST Howie Morgan Project IMPACT BAR Skinny Lane INDI BAR Vdelli INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY Shawne + Luc JB O’REILLYS The Healeys KALAMUNDA TAVERN Ryan Carbray KULCHA Tangled Reel Westwood LAKERS TAVRERN Black Velvet MARGARET RIVER HOTEL Parker Avenue MERRIWA TAVERN The Roof Ratz MOJOS Dilip & The Davs The Joe Kings Eva McGowan Band MOON & SIXPENCE Motherfunk MOONDYNE JOES Dave Gillam Trio MOUNT HENRY TAVERN Full Circle MUSTANG Cheeky Monkeys Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys NEWPORT Felix OLD BAILEY TAVERN Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove PADDO Gun Shy Romeos PADDY HANNAN’S Blue Gene PADDY MAGUIRES 43 Cambridge PARAMOUNT Flyte PEEL ALEHOUSE Nick Landsberg PLAYERS BAR (Mandurah) Slither PUBLICAN BAR Keith McDonald RAILWAY HOTEL Abdoujaparov Raw Nerve Chainsaw Hookers zxspecky Montage Of Jesus PRINCIPAL MICRO BREWREY Acoustic Inc RAVENSWOOD HOTEL John Buckley ROCKET ROOM The Bronze CD Launch

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SATURDAY 20.03 AMPLIFIER Boom! Bap! Pow! CD Launch The Siren Tower The Jackards The Brow Horn Orchestra THE BALMORAL Hotplate Heaven

BAMBOO LOUNGE Ali Towers CD Launch with One Tiger Down BAR 120 Flyte BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ Chris Murphy BENNYS Housequake BLACK BETTY’S Red Star CASTLE Arkarion Deathlahem Neverborn Graveforsaken CHARLES HOTEL Colin Hay Band CLANCY’S (Freo) Mitch Becker CIVIC HOTEL Porsah Laine CD Launch Defyre Freekstyles COMO HOTEL Cherry Acoustic COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Kristy Keogh CRANKED COFFEE Julius Lutero DEVILLES PAD The Burger Kings DOUBLE LUCKY Cle Morgan ELEPHANT & WHEELBARROW Timeout ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Victoria Newton Jamie Oehlers Cristal Phillips ESS BAR Gun Shy Romeos FENIANS Shanks Pony FITZGERALDS (Bunbury) Playthings FOUNDRY Three & A Half Men FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Freddy Ponic GREENWOOD HOTEL Riddum Shak HIGH ROAD HOTEL J Babies HOTEL ROTTNEST Howie Morgan Project INDI BAR Toby INDIAN OCEAN BREWING COMPANY The Other Guys JB O’REILLY’S Tea For Two KULCHA Milly James METROPOLIS (Fremantle) Dr Bogus MASH (Bunbury) Nick Landsberg METRO CITY Jason Derulo CD

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The Brow Horn Orchestra, Saturday at Amplifier Launch MOJOS Grenade Baby Lemonade Trigger Jackets The Wilderness Sugarpuss MOON & SIXPENCE Blaze MOUNT HENRY TAVERN Aaron Woolley MUSTANG Rusty Pinto Combo The Damien Cripps Band NEWPORT Gravity OLD BAILEY TAVERN Retro PADDY HANNANS Decoy PADDY MAGUIRES Rocket PARAMOUNT Felix PEEL ALE HOUSE Nick Landsberg PLAYER’S BAR (Mandurah) 3 Corner Jack PRINCIPAL MICRO BREWREY Danni Stefanetti RAILWAY HOTEL The Screaming Jets Stillfire ROCKET ROOM Battlecat CD Launch Fools Rush In Assemble The Empire State Of Order Kickstart ROSEMOUNT HOTEL Felicity Groom & The Black Black Smoke The Silents The Scotch Of Saint James Emperors Owl vs Raccoon ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Fremantle) Flavor ROSIE O’GRADY’S (Northbridge) Blue Gene ROUNDHOUSE TAVERN Anita Downes SAIL & ANCHOR Vdelli SUBIACO HOTEL Off The Record SWAN BASMENT Still Tedium Coronal Sky Black Sun SWAN LOUNGE Stone Street Shock Octopus The Jade Diary Reilly Craig SWINGING PIG Zenburger THE BOAT Wesley Goodlet Jamboree Scouts

Tree, Saturday at Bamboo

THE DEEN Crave THE EASTERN MIDLAND Ivan Ribic THE GATE Karin Page THE SAINT Threeplay THE SHED Huge THE WANNEROO Stella Donnelly Christian Thompson UNIVERSAL Soul Corporation WHALE & ALE Daren Reid & The Soul City Groove WHITFORDS TAVERN Jimmy James WOODVALE TAVERN Slim Jim & The Phatts

Peter Busher & The Lone Rangers NEWPORT The Proletariate The Creepers Blazin’ Entrails PADDY HANNANS Flyte PRINCIPAL MIRCO BREWREY Chris Murphy PUBLICAN BAR Open Mic RAILWAY HOTEL Hand Stands For Ants Fatigue Dave RAVENSWOOD HOTEL Zep Boys SEVENTH AVE BAR Good Karma SOVERIGN ARMS Ivan Ribic SOUTH ST ALE HOUSE SUNDAY 21.03 Rocket BALMORAL STAMFORD ARMS Cranky Bill Chidgzey BELMONT HOTEL SWAN BASEMENT Damien Cripps The Adrian Wilson BROKEN HILL Heroes & Heart The Bluebottles Attacks CHARLES HOTEL Paul Felton Tribute Space Games Callsign COMO HOTEL SWAN LOUNGE Glen Davies COTTESLOE BEACH Nicky Love SWINGING PIG HOTEL Nat Ripepi Tourist 2 Tenors ELLINGTON JAZZ THE BOAT CLUB Marnie Kent Quintet Murphy’s Lore The Rough Housers E SHED THE EASTERN Jane Germain Ian Simpson HOTEL FREMANTLE ARTS Vdelli CENTRE THE GATE Flying Carpathians The Other Guys Krzysztof Piotrowicz THE MOON Mardae Selepak Echoes Of Django GOSNELLS HOTEL THE SAINT Chris Gibbs Howie Morgan HIGH ROAD HOTEL Project James Wilson THE SHED The Screaming Jets The Healys Battlecat Renegade INDIAN OCEAN THE WANNEROO BREWING Chris Gibbs COMPANY UNIVERSAL Retrofit Retrofit Supanova WOODVALE INDI BAR TAVERN The DomNicks Reckless Kelly J.B O’REILLYS YMCA HQ Anita Downes Make Them Suffer KALAMUNDA I Am Eternal HOTEL A Shocker On Adrian Wilson Shock Street LAKERS TAVERN Against The Tide Black Velvet Savior MARKET CITY Reverence Of TAVERN Nihility Mike Anderson MERIWA TAVERN MONDAY 22.03 Free Radicals BAR ORIENT MOJO’S James Wilson The Fags CHARLES HOTEL Louise Love & The Freddie Grigson Hates Quartet Viliant ELLINGTON JAZZ The Witches CLUB Promise MOON & SIXPENCE Song Lounge Bauxhead IMPACT BAR MUSTANG Groove Karaoke

We Are The Emergency, Tonight at Rocket Room

BLACK BETTY’S SideFX BENNY’S Howie Morgan COTTESLOE BEACH HOTEL Kirsty Keogh’s Open Mic ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Det Nopsus EURO BAR TUESDAY 23.03 Ben Pettit BAR ORIENT FENIANS Mike Nayar Cranky CHARLES HOTEL FOUNDRY Eli Wolfe Vdelli Vdelli JB O’REILLY’S COTTESLOE Open Irish Session BEACH HOTEL LLAMA BAR The Mad Agents Sweetest Taboo ELLINGTON JAZZ LUCKY SHAG CLUB Howie Morgan Ali Bodycoat MOUNT HELENA FENIANS TAVERN Open Mic Night James Wilson MUSTANG FLOREAT HOTEL Circus Open Mic Night PADDO FLY BY NIGHT Veescars Brian Kennedy PADDY HANNANS IMPACT BAR Airbag Open Mic Night PUBLICAN BAR LLAMA BAR Open Mic Night Karin Page Tunesmiths MOJO’S ROSEMOUNT Justin Walshe The Brown Study Machine Band Jimmy Stewart Gombo The Cannonels Modularman Simon Marks SETTLERS TAVERN PERTH BLUES Open Mic Night CLUB SPICE LOUNGE Vdelli Thierryno Eli Wolfe SWAN LOUNGE MUSTANG Death And A Cure Danza Loca Salsa Coup De Grace Accumulated WEDNESDAY 24.03 The Gestures AMPLIFIER Tayo Taiwo Between The Buried THE MOON CAFÉ And Me Jimmy Stewart Arturo Chaos Davey Craddock Make Them Suffer Jordi James BAR 120 UNIVERSAL Felix Strutt

METRO CITY Machine Head MOJO’S Open Mic MUSTANG Marco & The Rhythm Kings THE DEEN Plastic Max And The Token Gesture

Dave Hole A CELEBRITY TESTIMONIAL ROAST FOR

PAUL FELTON FEATURING:

Members of Jets,Dave Hole,MattTaylor, Lindsay Wells Band, John Meyer, Bob Patient Band, Hells Bells, Pete Romano And The Gators, Cyclone Tracey, Ivan Zarr, Empire Blues, Ric Steele, Gerrard Maunick, Simon Cox, Clayton Black, Sue Bluck, Izin With Cindy Stevens and many other musicians who wish to pay tribute to Paul.

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DAVID’S STORY When he started Uni in the 90s, the thought of using drugs horrified David. But when his partner of 11 years left him, he was plunged into a state of emotional turmoil. Deeply depressed and seeking an escape, he tried heroin with a friend. It turned him into a very different person.

“It was never about the euphoria, it was the relief,” David recalls.

Within months he knew his addiction had consumed him. Yet he couldn’t stop.

“I tried to get information – about what treatments were like, how hard it is to get off, the kind of feelings I’d experience, how to come down. I got a different version from everyone I talked to.

And most of it was probably wrong.”

David has been in and out of programs ever since. But now he’s on something different. And it’s really helping. “I just felt so saturated before. I wanted to try something that wouldn’t soak my body.”

Everyone’s story is different.

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