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There will still be a hope in hell when age-old metal men and documentary heroes, Anvil, make their much-awaited return to Australia this November. The Canadian cult metal act received a positive response from their powerful 2011 album, Juggernaut Of Justice, and have returned with their new studio LP, Hope In Hell. It’s an album described as honest, unvarnished and straight from the heart. Anvil perform live at the Astor Lounge on November, Thursday 6. Tickets on sale now through showticketing.com.au.
Jay Whalley from Frenzal Rhomb is set to embark on a solo tour armed with nothing but his guitar, performing a show with some new and old songs plus a cache of war stories, with Dan Cribb and Tom Ware in support. Whalley hits The Odd Fellow on Thursday, October 16; the Civic Hotel on Friday, October 17; the Prince of Wales, Bunbury, on Saturday, October 18, and the Indi Bar on Sunday, October 19. Tickets on sale from oztix. com.au, moshtix.com.au and 1300 762 545.
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HOTCAKES RTRFM’s annual CD and vinyl sale Hotcakes is just around the corner. They’ll be putting out boxes, racks and record crates with new and old favourites for prices, ain other words a whole lotta vinyl, SEAN PAUL GOES FULL FREQ bargain bric-a-brac and classics from the depth of the RTRFM Internationally acclaimed and Grammy Award-winning CD library. Hotcakes is one of many fundraising events artist Sean Paul is bringing his Full Frequency tour to held to raise money for RTRFM, which goes towards Australia and New Zealand next month. Along for the keeping the station alive and on air. tour will be fellow Grammy Award-winner, Mya. Catch Hotcakes returns to The Velvet Lounge at the show at HBF Arena on Saturday, November 15. the Flying Scotsman on Sunday, October 19, from Tickets are on sale from sifatouring.com.au. 10am to 3pm. Free entry. Sean Paul
Back in action with their seventh studio album, Lift A Sail, Yellowcard are going on an Australian tour next July. Since forming in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1997 Yellowcard have delivered pop punk rock hits such as Ocean Avenue, Lights And Sounds and Light Up The Sky. Yellowcard will this time bring along Mayday Parade who’ve just released their fourth studio album, Monsters In The Closet. Catch them at Metro City on Saturday, July 4, 2015. Tickets are on sale at oztix. com.au and 1300 762 545.
For the very Summer Of Music is set to roll at Bendigo Bank Stadium, Rushton Park in Mandurah. This new festival will feature Pete Murray, You Am I, The Whitlams, Daryl Braithwaite, Mental As Anything and Dave Warner and comes alive as part of the Australia Day Weekend on Saturday, January 24, 2015, from 2-10pm. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, October 2, from ticketmaster.com.au.
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FROM BRUSSELS TO BUNBURY AND BEYOND Benjalu are heading back to WA for a run of acoustic shows this month. They’ve had a busy year, finishing up their last WA tour with a headline slot at the Nannup Festival then travelling though Europe for five weeks playing played 31 shows in 22 days, ranging from the middle of Brussels in front of thousands to the deck of a mansion at a garden party in Belgium as well as theatres and intimate venues. Joined by Morgan Bain, Benjalu hit the Prince Of Wales, Bunbury, on Thursday, October 9; the Indi Bar on Friday, October 10; Settlers Tavern, Margaret Rive, on Saturday, October 11, and Clancy’s Dunsborough on Sunday, October 12. Benjalu
After the popular demand for her recent Australian tour with sold out shows ac ro s s t h e co u n t r y i n August left wanting more, Megan Washington has announced another national tour for early 2015. Washington will be touring in support of her recently released second album, There There, which landed #5 on the ARIA Album Chart. Megan Washington will perform at The Bakery on Saturday, February 28, 2015. Tickets on sale from nowbaking.com.au. Megan Washington
WISE WOMAN AND SONG The Lucy Wise Trio will be hitting the road for a minitour of Perth and the South West this month. Singer/ songwriter Wise has played shows in Australia, New Zealand and UK in recent times with her band consisting of Chris Stone on violin and Holly Downes on double bass. Drawing inspiration from Appalachian and Celtic folk music, Wise performs songs inspired by travel and human relationships. The Lucy Wise Trio will be performing at the Ellington on Wednesday, October 15, at 7pm. Tickets are $15. For tickets see ellington.com.au. Lucy Wise Trio
NORFOLK LANES STRIKES AGAIN THE WAIFS ON SECOND NATIONAL TOUR The Waifs are going on a second national tour in November/December after selling out their national tour earlier this year. Tours by The Waifs are often few and far between these days, since the members live in different corners of the world. One of the special concerts of the tour will be ANZAC Albany on Saturday, November 1, where they will perform in their hometown with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, commemorating 100 years since the first troops left these shores for WW1. The Waifs (full band) will also be performing at Fremantle Arts Centre on Saturday, December 13, and at Old Broadwater Farm in Busselton on Sunday, December 14. Liz Stringer provides support. Tickets on sale from Oztix.com. au and 1300 762 545. The Waifs 4
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The date is creeping closer and closer to when the Norfolk Lanes Youth Musical Festival is set to rocket off. It’s your chance to catch some fresh talent before they hit the big time, with previous acts such as Tame Impala and San Cisco skyrocketing with popularity in the years since they played this festival. This year Hideous Sun Demon, Koi Child, Elli Schoen, Kings Justice, Indecision, 3 Minutes Of Kaos, Current Mood, Children Under 3, In Denial, Meanwhile In The Future, Downloading… and The Unknown will take to the stage to perform, giving all they have. Aside from the impressive line-up there will be activities such as skateboarding and parkour workshops, interactive games and drones from Scitech plus a silent disco. What’s the best news though? It’s all for free! Get down to the Esplanade Youth Plaza in Fremantle on Sunday, October 26, from noon-7pm for a day of music under the Norfolk Pines. Hideous Sun Demon Pic: Rachael Barrett
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BOOTY WURK He made auto-tune a thing, hit platinum with the likes of Kanye West and Flo Rida, and took a boat ride with The Lonely Island - T-Pain’s gracing Perth with his presence again, and it’s kind of a big deal. Grammys, platinum sellers and BMI awards aside, he’s one of the best performers in the business - heck, have you seen his collection of hats? - and the Australian tour is bound to go off. T-Pain’s performing a string of hits - from Turn All The Lights On to Take Your Shirt Off to his latest Top 10 breakthrough, Up Down (Do This All Day) - at Metropolis Fremantle, Friday, October 10. You can get your tickets from Oztix and at the door, but if you’d like to win a double pass, check out the app for the comp code and drop us a line at win@xpressmag.com.au.
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SIDDHARTH Inspired by a heartbreaking incident experienced by the director - a man searching for his child, with no photographs, clues, or literacy skills - Siddharth follows a father’s search across India in search of his missing son. Surviving on the meagre earnings as a zipper-fixer, Mehendra sends his twelve-year-old son to work in a distant factory. In a region plagued by child trafficking, Siddarth’s disappearance is particularly worrying. Shot in Mumbai and Punjab, Siddharth has received a ton of praise, winning Best Film and Best Director at the South Asian International Film Festival and making Human Rights Watch’s Official Selection. Siddharth screens at Luna Palace cinemas from October 9. To win a double pass, check out the competition code via the app and send it to win@xpressmag.com.au. Siddharth
BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP If you’re a sucker for the amnesia thriller trope Memento, the Jason Bourne series, our recently promoed Maze Runner - you’ll love Before I Go To Sleep, a slick new film from Rowan Joffe (Brighton Rock). Nicole Kidman stars as Christine, who, due to a traumatic accident, wakes up every morning having to put the pieces of her life back together afresh. Of course, when you’re in a film alongside sinister smoothies like Colin Firth and Mark Strong, trouble’s brewing, and Christine soon finds the doctor and husband she trusts do not have her best interests at heart. Before I Go To Sleep is in cinemas from October 16, and you can win a double pass by hitting us up at win@xpressmag.com.au. Before I Go To Sleep
HOUSE SESSIONS Ministry Of Sound have just dropped another corker of a SHEPPARD mix - House Sessions, available Fresh off a European tour and with Geronimo making from Friday, September 26. the Top 10 in Ireland, Spain and India (and, of course, It’s mixed by Brisbanian Danny here - quadruple platinum), Sheppard are triumphantly T, who got his break as late ringing in a national tour. Playing their debut (and gold) dance legend Ajax’s Sweat It record Bombs Away, the indie-pop six piece should be Out protegés, and Acaddamy, a Sydneysider who’s cut an incredible live band - you can expect lush choral his teeth on tracks by Rudimental, Emoh Instead, and The harmonies, cheery guitars that’d put Jason Mraz to shame, and the kind of hand-clapping hooks you’ll Preatures. House Sessions features a string of homegrown find in Let Me Down Easy and Hold My Tongue. bass music, international hits, and bangers from ZHU, Sheppard play the Astor on Thursday, October 18, RÜFÜS, Nicky Night Time and The Presets. If you’re keen and if you’d like to win a double pass, drop us a line for a copy, check out the competition code via the app and drop us a line at win@xpressmag.com.au. at win@xpressmag.com.au. Sheppard 8
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what made it such a great experience for us in Australia, seeing the rise of that. Getting to do that again overseas is pretty cool.
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How would you compare the last 12 months to the previous 12 months? I mean, it’s funny, two years ago we were over in the United States and had just released our first EP with Let Me Down Easy on it, and it took six months for it to sort of didn’t get any attention or recognition in Australia earlier but once it took off I think it was sometime March or April 2012 Let Me Down Easy commercial radio and it’s been gradually climbing ever since. A lot of people thought Let Me Down Easy was our only song and we were one of those one hit wonders, but luckily we wrote Geronimo and it put all those haters to shame. Which is always a nice feeling, you try and not listen to the haters, but it’s nice to prove them wrong.
Touring in support of their debut LP, Bombs Away, Sheppard perform at the Astor Theatre on Thursday, October 16. BOB GORDON chats to vocalist, George Sheppard. I saw you close the AFL Footy Show last week, that must have been fun? Yeah, yeah it was cool. We haven’t actually got to see it yet but apparently there were flames and stuff, the production was really cool. It’s always fun to do that kind of stuff. What’s it like doing those sort of TV appearances? You gear up for those kind of things and in three minutes you’re done. Well, I mean, last week it was funny because we got to the place at 8 o’clock and then we didn’t play ‘til 11.15, so you’re kind of waiting around for a while and then you’ve got three minutes of intense performance. It’s fun anyway. We really enjoyed it, playing to that amount of people. We’ve done Rod Laver Arena with Keith Urban and it is just such a great venue and everyone gets straight into the song. It’s all good fun. News has just emerged that Sheppard are going to play on Ellen. What’s your feeling about that? Man, it’s an honour. Ellen’s such a big deal not just in the US, but here in Australia. I think she’s got an audience of 60 million people. So the biggest show we’ve played in Australia was The Voice Finale and that was I think 1,800,000 so it’s unbelievably great exposure so we’re just super thrilled to be given the opportunity to be invited onto the show. It will be kind of surreal to see Ellen dancing along to Sheppard. Sort of a pinch me moment? Yeah, absolutely - we’ve had a few of those in the last few months, so the pinch me moments are becoming a bit more regular which is crazy. The moment your debut album, Bombs Away, came out you were packing your bags and off overseas... It’s a funny thing, you come from Australia where a lot of people know your music and you can sell out venues and then you go overseas and it’s like starting from square one again. It’s a bit of a reality check. We’re staying in poor hotels doing all of the hard yards once again. But it’s fine because you get to relive building fan by fan from the ground up. That’s
Haters used to hate in privacy of their own home but now that everyone’s got a voice through social media you kind of have to put up with the stuff you never really had to... I know, I know, it’s not like you would read it anyway like if you were AC/DC you’d get that much fan mail it wouldn’t even matter. But when you’re a new band starting out you do read this stuff and it does kind of discourage you but you learn to let it slide like water off a duck’s back. But yeah, we’re having a great time. The last 12 months have been absolutely insane and the 12 months before that, we thought that was insane - the Let Me Down Easy stage - but then Geronimo came and blew us out of the water. We’re having a good time. They’re both quite upbeat songs. When you play and to see the audience react to that, it must be a very special thing. You write it on your couch and then it ends up belonging to everybody. Yeah I think that’s the coolest part of the whole thing... you get to write the song and you have no idea what’s going to happen to it, it’s fun to write and you really enjoy singing it. I mean, we wrote that in two hours around our kitchen table and then to see it’s resonated with so many people and to see that it’s affected so many people all around the world, it’s really quite astounding. You look back and you think, ‘how the hell did this happen? All of these people like this song so much, it’s crazy’. “It’s a really nice feeling, man. Then when you get to play the shows and you see these people singing the songs back to you there’s a part in Let Me Down Easy where there’s an a cappella chorus after the bridge and I just throw the mic out to the audience and every single time they sing that chorus full pelt back to us on stage. It’s a magic moment and as a songwriter it’s a dream come true.
KID MAC Bring The ‘Noise Kid Mac performs this Thursday, October 2 at Mojos; Friday, October 3, at the Prince of Wales, Bunbury; Saturday, October 4, at Settlers Tavern, Margaret River and Sunday, October 5, at the Indi Bar. BOB GORDON reports. Kid Mac made a return to the stage after a little while off the boards in Thredbo the other week. It was a welcome return. “To be honest I was a little nervous getting back out there,” he says, “it had been over than four months since I hit the stage. I also had a lot of time while travelling to reflect on my music career and where to take it when I got back. “Getting back on stage instantly reminded me of how much I love performing. I like to go off my instincts and my feelings on these things and this set the tone for another music-fuelled year and beyond.” His second album, Head Noise, was released late last year and while it was something of a stylistic change from his debut, No Man’s Land, it’s a positive step forward. “Yeah the reception has been great,” he says. “There have been some diehard fans question the direction from the first record to this with it being more electronic sounding, but it was an initial and natural reaction. After seeing the live shows and understanding my reasoning behind it, they too were convinced and pleased.
“I love performing this album live which is why I made it a lot more upbeat. The response from first-time listeners to it around the world on stage has been awesome too where they hear it live, then experience it through the album and dig it. In saying that, I still feel that not enough pairs of ears have heard Head Noise and it still hasn’t reached its full album life cycle which is why I want to keep releasing videos and tours around it.” Nine year-old skateboarder, Sabre Norris, the first female skateboarder (and third in the world) to land the 540 vert halfpipe trick, features in the new video clip for Mac’s single, Higher. She takes inspiration from Mac and it obviously goes both ways. “Yes. She reached out to me when I was on tour in Singapore - she had just landed the 540 trick that weekend and wanted to thank me for inspiring her through my music. She wrote some thoughtful and funny stuff to me that made me gravitate towards her character. She was brutally honest and wore her heart on her sleeve. And for me, these are traits in people that I admire. She is tenacious and ridiculously driven for a nine-year-old and she pushes her siblings to strive as well. “This world needs more positive people like that and Sabre is part of a young generation coming through that will help keep that positivity going so maybe one day I will have kids that look up to champions like Sabre. This inspires me!” With Mac is keen to tour overseas in support of Head Noise, he’ll have to work that around the release a documentary he directed called The Battle Of Cape Fear and production for season three of his TV series, The Crew. One wonders if this Maroubra boy has any time at all to surf? “Yes, but not nearly as much I’d like to,” he says. “I stay very conscious about making sure I hit the reset button out in the ocean as much as I can with all that’s going on around me. But I need to do it more!”
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Recently returned from recording a new album in Berlin, British India will headline the Mental Health Week Opening Ceremony in an all-ages event reflecting this year’s theme, Make A Move For Better Mental Health. Local support comes from Acid T, Fox Cat Rabbit and The Seals. The free concert will happen at Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre this Sunday, October 5, from 3-7pm. National Mental Health Week runs from Sunday, October 5, until Sunday, October 12. For full details head to mhw.waamh.org.au.
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ED SHEERAN ANNOUCES TOUR Last seen performing at the AFL Grand Final, Ed Sheeran will be touring in Australia and New Zealand in March and April 2015, for what is his biggest tour yet. Only accompanied by his loop pedal and his acoustic guitar on stage, Sheeran will be the first musician in 20 years to undertake a national headline arena tour solo. All fans will have equal opportunity to score the best seats with all tickets being sold at $99 plus fees. Ed Sheeran will perform at Perth Arena on Saturday, April 4, 2015. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, October 2, from 10am via ticketek.com. au and 132 840. Ed Sheeran Pic: Ben Watts 10
LINDI JOINS JUSTIN Selling out shows in Sydney and Melbourne in April, Lindi Ortega is returning to Australia this month joining a nationwide tour with Justin Townes Earle and Marlon Williams. Recently crowned ‘Roots Artist of the Year’ at the Canadian Country Music Awards, Ortega’s latest album Tin Star has nominated for a JUNO Award in Canada, and reached top 50 in the US Country Charts. Lindi Ortega will be performing at the Astor Theatre on Saturday, October 11. Tickets available at showticketing.com.au. Lindi Ortega
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single, Clear My Mind, this Friday, October 3, at The Bakery.
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ALT-J Planet Waves Acclaimed UK trio Alt-J have just released their second album, This Is All Yours, and are set to perform at Southbound, happening at Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton, on Saturday-Sunday, January 3-4, 2015. KEIRON COSTELLO reports.
BALL PARK MUSIC Pudding Proof The Trippin’ The Light Fantastic tour has officially kicked off, bringing Ball Park Music live and in 3D. Guitarist Dean Hanson, speaks with AARON BRYANS ahead of the band’s show at the Astor Theatre on Friday, October 24. Ball Park Music have long been Aussie favourites, ever since releasing their debut EP, Rolling On The Floor, Laughing Ourselves To Sleep in 2009. Fast-forward five years and the band have taken the next step into their career with the release of their third studio album, Puddinghead. “It’s been really good, so far it’s awesome,” guitarist, Dean Hanson, says. “We put out three albums over the last three-and-a-half years, so on this one we were hoping people weren’t going to get sick of hearing our stuff. Triple j have played three of the singles now a lot and when we are playing those songs live people are screaming the lyrics back and really enjoying it so I think it’s gone well.” Ball Park Music are constantly finding ways to express themselves with their recent release once again defying expectations and pushing the boundaries of musical creativity. Lyrically, the album is a rollercoaster switching between quirkier, random 12
tracks and other more emotive ones. “Sam (Cromack, vocals/guitar) writes most of the lyrics and it’s sort of interesting to have my own opinion on what the lyrics are,” Hanson reveals. “We had a chat about what we all felt the lyrics meant on the record or the themes that were occurring before we did the artwork for the album. There are a lot of religious lyrics that allude to religion, which is funny because none of us are overly religious at all; and then there are lots of lyrics that allude to space and the universe. Most of the lyrics I put a blanket meaning over it for me. There’s a lot of self-doubting and thinking that the universe is a really big place and that there’s heaps more to it then your own personal bubble.” Life as a travelling musician isn’t doesn’t always revolve around life on the road, and for the Brisbane-based band; home life has been a nice change following the release of Puddinghead. “Paul (Furness, keyboards), Daniel (Hanson, drums) and I play in a cricket team together and it seems weird when we don’t see the other guys for more then a couple of days it feels really strange. Normally I think a lot of bands go out on tour and spend a lot of time together and then when they’re off tour they think ‘yes, I get to have a break from my bandmates for a while,’ but it’s not really like that for us.” “We just had an off period over the last month or two where we didn’t have much on, we were going to Sam’s place, he just moved house a couple of months ago and he’s got a little dedicated studio room now so we were going over there a few days a week and just writing new material and working on some other stuff just in the effort to get the ball rolling a bit. We don’t have any plans on when a future release is due or what we want it to sound like, but I guess that’s what we were doing over the last couple of months just experimenting and thinking about how we want to go about our next release.”
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When you record your debut album in relative anonymity, with almost no expectations, and it goes on to sell over a million copies worldwide and win the Mercury Prize, how do follow that up? How can you possibly recreate that magic for the next album with all this new pressure? That was the problem faced by Alt-J when they decamped to Hackney in London to record This Is All Yours, the follow-up to 2012’s An Awesome Wave. “The way we wrote the first album, we couldn’t really recreate that,” says drummer, Thom Green. “We could come close, but it would never be the same – it could’ve been a fluke. Could it be done again in different circumstances? We were slightly worried actually, but once we started we realised it wasn’t a fluke, we definitely knew what we were doing, it came to us quite quickly and quite easily as well. It just started to happen, so the pressure became a lot less.” While any second album anxieties were quickly allayed, the band also had to deal with the shock departure of bassist, Gwil Sainsbury, just days before beginning work on the new record. Sainsbury quit the band in January after realising that touring the world as part of Alt-J was not something he wanted to do. His decision took Green completely by surprise, although with hindsight he says he should have seen it coming. “He was never really that happy. He hated touring, didn’t like doing any promos, didn’t like speaking to people outside the band,” says Green. “He was never that interested in anything other than playing guitar; it was always for him just a hobby that kind of went further than he intended to. So it made sense the more I thought about it.” Green was initially upset with Sainsbury, but with the passing of time he’s come to accept his decision and respect him for following through with what he wanted. “I slowly kind of realised that it was the best thing for him and the best thing for the band as well. It’s kind of a good thing; it’s made us come together and work harder.” Although the success of An Awesome Wave and their subsequent newfound fame cost Alt-J one of their founding members, it was something the group had been trying to avoid from the beginning. While the band as a whole may be famous, Green and his bandmates have managed to largely avoid fame on a personal level, partly by design and partly as a result of their natural character. “To start with, we didn’t actually show our faces on the posters and stuff like that at the very beginning,” he says. “We weren’t really too bothered about people knowing what we looked like. We haven’t quite got famous; we’re not like a famous band or anything, we never get recognised. We’ve never been in videos or on album covers or on the posters or anything like that. We never get
recognised, even in London.” And even though Alt-J have since realised their audience’s need to connect with them and opened up a little, it remains a situation they aren’t entirely comfortable with. “I don’t think people really need to know what we look like. We’re not after that kind of attention, really. We like to think that our music speaks for itself. It’s not like we don’t want to be recognised, it’s just we don’t think that our faces make that much of a difference.” While fame and the prospect of putting himself in the public eye might still sit uncomfortably on Green’s shoulders, Alt-J’s rise did produce one positive side-effect: the favour of Miley Cyrus. A friendship forged between Cyrus and Green on social media has led to her vocals being sampled on Hunger Of The Pine, the lead single from This Is All Yours. “I realised she was following me on Twitter, and knew she was a fan of Alt-J. We’d heard she used Fitzpleasure in her live show – during costume changes she played it over this weird video. So I thought, ‘Fuck it, I’ll ask her to do a remix’. She said yes, she was really into the idea and she sent me the stems and we got talking.” After remixing Cyrus’ track, 4x4, Green and the band were working on Hunger Of The Pine in the studio and realised that part of that remix, specifically Miley’s ‘I’m a female rebel’ vocal line, fit perfectly with their track. Cyrus was more than happy to be sampled and even intervened on behalf of Alt-J when her label was requesting an exorbitant amount to license the sample. As a result, Green speaks very highly of the oft-controversial pop starlet and her contribution to This Is All Yours. “We really liked it – it’s as simple as it just sounded good, really. It doesn’t really mean anything that it’s Miley Cyrus, it just happens to be her voice,” he says. “We have a lot of respect for her, she’s a really good person and she’s a very hard-working performer, she’s got an incredible voice and it’s quite inspiring. She’s very in control – a lot of what you see in the papers and media and stuff like that is not really what she’s actually like.” Even though they are frequent visitors to our shores, having toured here three times in the space of nine months following the release of An Awesome Wave, Alt-J are planning on seeing plenty more of Australia. In addition to their sold-out East Coast shows in October, they’ll be returning for the Falls Festival and Southbound for the New Year, and Green and his bandmates can’t wait to get back. “For us it’s quite an exciting place to be. It’s like a holiday really, doing what we’re doing, doing what we love,” he says. “We did Laneway Festival last year, and it was one of the best times we’ve ever had, it was like a holiday. I think, overall, it’s the place we look forward to coming to the most.”
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the label. They’ve also racked up an impressive resume of support slots, performing for Pink in the US and Australia as well as joining Coldplay in Sydney. “We got on really well with the Pink crew,” Thorald recalls. “They were both incredible experiences. The Pink one, obviously there’s no mystery it singlehandedly built our fanbase. We’d hung out in New York and played LA and New York and a bit up and down the East Coast and done some tours out to the midwest and still could play to fifty people here and there but we now have a fan base across the whole US into Canada, New Zealand and Australia. “The big difference was when we showed up for the Pink tour we got five minutes to sound check and when we played for Coldplay they were like ‘you guys cool with an hour?,’” Isaac laughs. “We were like ‘you’re joking right? Is this you testing us? Giving us enough rope to hang ourselves’. I guess they had a different culture. It was great.” The endless touring between both Australia and America has been a dream come true for the trio who have soaked in life on the road and don’t ever want to look back, resulting in some serious decompression time upon returning home. Having just kicked off the Wolf In The Woods tour alongside Reece Mastin, the band are prepping for a long visit across the country, and with their own headline tour set to follow, the trio are more then happy to make themselves at home. “It’s a cool thing,” Isaac smiles. “We feel like when we’re in America we’re billed as an Aussie band and when we’re in Australia we’re billed as an American band and so it’s like we don’t really exist anywhere and we don’t have a home yet. We’d like for Australia to claim us. We’d like for Aussies not to bill us as an American band. Shakerleg is fast becoming an honorary Aussie and there’s no way you’ll kick the Aussie out of us even though our accents are a bit butchered. This tour and the headline tour we’re doing is good because we’ve always wanted to go country. You Aussies are stuck with us ‘til November.”
Dual Citizens They’ve supported the best of the best and now The Kin’s first headlining national tour brings them to the Rosemount Hotel on Friday, October 31. AARON BRYANS reports. When you’re an up-and-coming band hidden within the masses of New York City how do you stand out amongst the pack? Robbing a restaurant would do it. At guitar-point. Yes, the trio comprised of Aussie brothers Isaac and Thorald Koren alongside US drummer Shakerleg, have made a name for themselves holding up many public places across the globe, performing their unique blend of foot-tapping beats and smooth instrumentals wherever they can, whenever they can; much to the distress of building owners and the occasional local consumer. “Most of them end poorly but half the people just love it but then the people in charge… it’s their job to get rid of us, they’re mad at us but smiling underneath,” Isaac chuckles. “There was one in New Zealand, in Wellington, where we have some serious enemies. We thought it was a good idea to musically rob a bunch of law students; but we didn’t know it was their yearly review where they’ve got one hour to try ask as many questions and cram the year’s worth of information into their last lecture before the exam. So we roll in and it was a true shock; it was an amphitheatre so the sound was great and loud. The trio recently signed to Interscope records and are on the verge of releasing their debut album on
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THE TEA PARTY The Ocean Found Its Way The Tea Party kick off The Ocean At The End national tour in Perth on Thursday, October 9, at Crown Theatre with support from The Superjesus. BOB GORDON catches up with vocalist/guitarist, Jeff Martin. When The Tea Party reformed three years ago, it wasn’t necessarily so that they would continue onward and upward. Their 2005 break-up can now be viewed as a hiatus, but the rifts were so deep that it truly was the end of the band. In typical rock’n’roll fashion,
however, The Tea Party have truly returned with a new album called The Ocean At The End. “There was an agenda, that the three of us knew that we needed to set out and achieve in order to come to what has become The Ocean At The End,” says vocalist/guitarist Jeff Martin, sitting beyond his
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studio console in an old Fremantle gallery where he now resides. “And the first matter on the agenda? Can the band, the three of us, get back on stage and be that band? Can that magic once again happen? For lack of a better analogy, can we get on stage and be one of the best rock bands in the world? “But how about this, how about those insurmountable differences that we had in the beginning of that seven-year hiatus that slowly but surely dissipated… which led to us getting back together but it was still there. Can we get over that and can we find that beautiful friendship and mutual respect? Love, that brotherly love. It’s so important, in order for T he Tea Party, as a collective, to create great music. We can’t just do it by the numbers, there has to be that there. Over the course of that Australian Reformation tour in 2012, the laughter came back in, the camaraderie, the trust. “Thirdly, I had to prove not only to myself but also to Jeff (Burrows, drums) and Stuart (Chatwood, bass) that I could be the captain of the ship again... but without going into detail, I let myself down and I let them down. Especially the last two records of The Tea Party before our hiatus, because, and it’s the worst excuse in the world and the saddest excuse in the world, but our manager Steve Hoffman who, 38 years-old, got a form of cancer, that just took his very, very healthy life away from him. Steve was the guy for me, he was like my Peter Grant for Jimmy Page and he kept the world away from me so that I could just create… those records like Transmission (2007). “Of course, he gets sick, he’s got to concentrate on fighting for his own life and of course he’s not going to have anytime whatsoever, even though his passion was the three of us and the band, he couldn’t take care of us anymore. So therefore what happened, the floodgates i.e. the industry, it was open and it was open season on me and that was something never was I ever used to.” Without his old friend and right-hand man, Martin, in the early 2000’s, suddenly had A&R personnel offering songwriting ‘tips’ and co-producers starting to line-up for Tea Party albums. It wasn’t only creative control that was being lost. “I certainly don’t want to sound arrogant but here it comes,” Martin says, taking a deep breath. “With everything that I’ve achieved in my career as a musician, as an artist, you’d have to be standing on a very, very fucking tall mountain to be talking down to me. “There it is. I’ve said it. I have the people that I respect in my life, musically, artistically. For instance (he points to the recording desk in front of him) this console, it’s historic. The Edges Of Twilight and Transmission were done on this. And its mine. I
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own this. It’s like my soul. “I would step away from this console for Daniel Lanois; I would step away from this console for Jimmy Page. I would step away from this console for Sir George Martin, there’s probably a few more. But it doesn’t quite come to my mind right now.” As it turns out, Martin partially stepped away from his console for co-producer Bob Rock (who had just produced Metallica’s infamous St. Anger LP) for the band’s 2004 album, Seven Circles. “Shouldn’t have,” he says. “Should not have. That’s one of the things about Seven Circles - too many cooks in the kitchen and it was just all wrong. All wrong.” With the boxes all ticked, Martin, Chatswood and Burrows convened as the power trio they once were and now are and created The Ocean At The End, a marketplace of sounds that have had some journalists refer to it as a greatest hits, such is its rambling nature. “We’re not going to make a linear record. We are three great individual rock musicians, together, and we all have different influences and it culminates on this record… and that’s what I want people to hear. “I wanted The Ocean At The End to be The Tea Party’s Houses Of The Holy,” Martin says, referring to his beloved Led Zeppelin’s iconic 1973 album. “You listen to Houses Of The Holy and if you’ve never heard Led Zeppelin before, and you listen to that – man that’s all over the fucking shop. But the sound is the thing that is the cohesive. So the sound of The Tea Party is quite evident on every single track of The Ocean At The End, but our influences are quite diverse.” Armed once again, with a Tea Party album that he’s 100 per cent happy with, Martin realises that it’s the beginning of the road for The Ocean At The End. He’s pretty confident about how this next year will play out. “It plays out well,” he states. “Do this tour. Be a good band. Then mid-November tour Canada, the capital cities. Come back home mid-December and enjoy the holidays, a couple months off and then most probably - because management’s coming over in a couple weeks when Jeff and Stuart come over - they’ll be in touch with the various promoters of the summer season everywhere in Australia in March. Chances are Tea Party will become a headliner on some type of festival in February or March and then after that it’ll be Europe and then it’ll be South America and then after that... I got nothing (laughs).” That’s doubtful. It’s Jeff Martin, there’s always something. TO READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THIS INTERVIEW DOWNLOAD THE NEW X-PRESS MAGAZINE APP FROM APPLE STORE OR GOOGLE PLAY.
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LITTLE MAY Living The Dream After two years of preparation Little May have burst onto the indie rock scene with the release of their self-titled debut EP. In the lead-up to their support slots for Rodriguez at Kings Park & Botanic Garden on Thursday-Friday, November 6-7, and Sunday, November 9, Hannah Field speaks with AARON BRYANS about the birth of the Sydney trio. Forming in 2012, high-school friends Liza Drummond, Hannah Field and Annie Hamilton have taken the most vulnerable aspects of their life and generated the hauntingly gentle yet dark entity that is Little May. “Our sound varies a little bit and people describe it in different ways,” Field explains. “The way that I see it is indie/folk with a rock influence because there’s a darkness to our music and I think growing up listening to a lot of rock all of us kind to have little elements of a rock side.” Quickly rising up the ranks, the band secured spots on the Laneway and Splendour In The Grass line-ups, bringing the band out of smaller venues and enabling their childhood dreams to come true. “Splendour was so good,” Field exclaims. “When we came on stage we were like ‘that actually
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just happened!’ Being in the same line-up as people we’d looked up to for years and years it was one of the best moments of our life. Surprisingly we had a really great turnout because Sticky Fingers were playing at the same time as us so we were really worried that no one would be at our show. We had a fair amount of people there and it was really cool to look out into the crowd and see other people that weren’t our mates. To see people you don’t know singing along to our songs was pretty cool. “It’s all happened so quickly that we haven’t really had a moment to contemplate the extent to what has happened. Sometimes we get moments where we just sit there and reflect but we haven’t really had a lot of time to do that it’s been incredible.” Completing the journey is the release of their debut, self-titled EP which features hit single from last year, Boardwalks, as a bonus track for Australia and New Zealand. “It’s been a dream of mine ever since I was a little girl,” Field reveals. “All I ever wanted to do was be a singer and I never thought I’d actually have the ability to write songs with two of my best friends, to have that opportunity. Some of the songs are so personal and they really connect with people. To have this EP out has been a long time coming and I think it’s been great for us cause we’ve had a lot of time to consider how we want to be perceived.” The high intensity of touring isn’t set to hold them back however, with the future for Little May looking bright. “I love it, that’s my favourite part to be honest, playing live. Before Splendour we worked really hard on our live show because we didn’t want to embarrass the team. I think we all became really passionate about finding different ways to experiment with things on stage and up the performance aspect of our live show.”
AUGIE MARCH Risk Management When Melbourne chaps Augie March went on an indefinite hiatus five years ago, there were few people who would have held out much hope for them reuniting. Augie March have never been one to play by other people’s rules though, and have just released a new album, Havens Dumb. CHRIS HAVERCROFT reports. Augie March have had a career trajectory that would be the envy of many a band. From the small clubs of Melbourne they grew a following by word of mouth that would eventually see them pack out stadiums and grab awards on the way. In spite of their success, they were always enigmatic and appeared somewhat uncomfortable with their fame and themselves. The five-year break gave all of the member of Augie March the chance to try other musical pursuits and to have different priorities. When the band got back together some things had changed. Lead man Glenn Richards has moved to Hobart which makes convening for rehearsals and recording a little more challenging and the band have taken on some of the management and administration duties associated with being Augie March. “Without good management we would never have had the success we did,” says drummer, David Williams. “Now we aren’t on a major label and the machinations that are intrinsic in a big company aren’t there so we have to do all of that stuff ourselves. It has always been a challenge and it always will be. Isn’t it often said that creative types aren’t the most organised and their bedrooms are a mess?” This latest chapter of Augie March sees the band being in a position where they are 100 per cent 14
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responsible for their own success or failure from this point. There was no clandestine intention to keep the making of the album quiet, the band just wanted to make sure that they sharpened the axe before they took the first swing. As a result, Havens Dumb took over two years for Augie March to create, but after the unrest that was evident when the group were recording 2008’s Watch Me Disappear they can be excused for taking a more gentle approach. “We were the master of the destiny on this record, knowing that it was 100 per cent ourselves with Glenn (Richards, vocals/guitar) being in the producer’s chair. I am sure that it was great for Glenn to have control and to not have to negotiate with another party along the way. The past is never forgotten with Augie March, as there are complex individuals and complex personalities, so you can still see the scars from previous recordings. It has been difficult because the process has been stretched out, so each time a challenge comes up we have had to negotiate those as we go along.” Five years is a long time to be away from the music industry, particularly when things have changed so significantly. When Augie March were last releasing records Myspace was the cutting edge social media, and nowadays the way that musicians connect with their fans is very different. There is a lot of white noise and a lot of chatter, so it takes a bit to be able to rise above that. “Being established, things are a bit different for us,” Williams says, “but I feel you need to be judicious in terms of the live show and that quality is more important than quantity. If you’ve seen us play live we are a pretty enigmatic live band. We need to make sure that the difference between our best and our worst gets smaller. We’ve been working on it pretty hard but until you get over that fluoro line you don’t find out. It’s all about risk management with the personalities in the band. Its been five years and everyone in the band is five years weirder, let’s just say that.”
RYAN ADAMS Ryan Adams Pax-Am Records/Sony Ryan Adams is in the top couple of poster boys of the Americana scene and yet remains a character that people love to hate. Adams solo shows of a few years ago indicated that he’d developed a sense of humour and no longer sees his crowd as something to be ignored. The New York resident is constantly releasing limited 7” releases (including a recent Replacementslike rock collection) but when he puts his hand to a full-length album, he generally sticks to the road most travelled. There is an ‘80s classic rock sound to Ryan Adams that evokes thoughts of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. As per that era, there is an excess of stellar guitar tones, yet they are often coupled with some pretty ordinary drum sounds to square the ledger. First single, Give Me Something Good, may appear unremarkable at first listen, but the staccato guitar and clever hook heavy chorus seeps in deeper and deeper with each listen and takes hold. Not being backed by his band The Cardinals on this record results in there being very few overtly country elements which should again divide his fan base. In spite of this, Adams is in great voice whether he be turning up the ache on My Wrecking Ball or showing off his resilience for Feels Like Fire. Ryan Adams sits somewhere in the middle ground of Adams releases. It may not be his pinnacle but there is enough here appeal to the disciples and turn a few new heads with some radio friendly moments. CHRIS HAVERCROFT
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WEEZER Everything Will Be Alright In The End Republic/Universal
BEARHUG So Gone Spunk
Claiming that a new Weezer album has any merit to it these days is essentially the equivalent of being the boy who cried wolf: no-one’s going to believe you, and you may well get eaten for your troubles. Even still, it’s worth the risk now – the band’s long and winding road to redemption has led it here, resulting in its most consistent LP in over a decade. Everything Will Be Alright In The End is a lean 40 minutes of head-nodding power-pop, goofy hair-metal guitar solos and sparkly choruses that are all raised fists and knowing winks. The Cars’ Ric Ocasek is back behind the boards, as he was for the band’s Blue and Green albums, taking the proclamation of ‘rockin’ out like it’s ’94’ from lead single, Back To The Shack, to heart. Of course, there’s no guarantee that you’ll enjoy this record if you enjoyed those records, but let’s just say there’s a greater chance of it than, say, Make Believe or Raditude. This is the album that long-serving (and, arguably, long-suffering) fans knew Rivers Cuomo and co. had in them. It’s a sign of hope that the band isn’t entirely ready to bury itself in past glories. Welcome back, old friends.
Sydney’s Bearhug are a band that have relied on guitar noodling and clever melodies to make their mark. Their 2012 debut, Bill, Dance, Dinner, drew heavily on the influence of Broken Social Scene, but things have changed in the passing years with members moving on and the band’s sound finding a more rugged quality. So Gone is a more intense listen with countless layers of thick sounding guitars forming the backbone of each track. As if to labour the point, Bearhug open the record with a fuzzy instrumental, Borderlines, that is too busy making sonic mayhem to bother to insert any vocals. Ryan Phelan makes his presence felt from then on with economical vocals that rate high on the slacker scale. Bearhug have history placing women’s names as the titles of their songs and Aimee continues the tradition, but it is the energetic Animal that is the early high point on the record. The tipping of the hat to the indie guitar records of the ‘90s with Acid Town having a tidy riff that would be at home in the intro of a Superchunk tune. The guitar onslaught continues until the final track, Until We Say, which is the only outlier here and a lo-fi treat. So Gone has seen Bearhug take on a more masculine approach, whilst maintaining their guitar driven appeal. Things may be a little nastier sonically this time around, and Bearhug are all the better for it.
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FLYING COLORS Second Nature Mascot/Warner Two factors are immediate deciders in whether Second Nature, the sophomore effort from supergroup Flying Colors (not to be confused with psych band Flyying Colours), is the album for you. The first is the pedigree of the band itself – you’ve got Dream Theater, Deep Purple, Spock’s Beard and even Alpha Rev floating about in there. The second is the fact that the album’s opening number is 12 minutes long. Yep, we’re in the world where music is more science and sport than an artistic endeavour; where the technicality of the notes and the degree of difficulty within the time signatures mean more than actually saying anything of substance. It’s all impeccably crafted and pristinely produced, but Second Nature sleeps when it comes to ideas beyond the construct. This is exceptionally clear when the album moves into ballad territory, especially on the particularly awful The Fury Of My Love. Of course, this will be music to the ears of those already devoted to this style, so perhaps it’s best to leave it with them. Perhaps Second Nature can be summed up best by a quote from an ad for popular movie snack Pods: ‘Impressive? Yeah. Genius? Hardly’. DAVID JAMES YOUNG
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SLASH World On Fire Dik Hayd/Sony The legendary axeman behind the iconic riffs on Paradise City and Welcome To The Jungle is back with more decadent hard rock to charm your eardrums into an orgasmic wax-fest. World On Fire is Slash’s second studio album featuring his star cohorts Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge) and The Conspirators – Brent Fitz (drums) and Todd Kerns (bass). It’s a slow burn at one hour and 17 minutes for a whopping 17 tracks, but you won’t be counting the time and yawning through filler fluff. This album is a solid rock’n’roll fireball from start to finish. It’s loaded with rip-roaring energy and attitude from a group of experienced musicians who know how to churn out infectious anthems, track after track. The stomping bluesy riffs of Beneath The Savage Sun and jaw-dropping solo on Safari Inn are album highlights. Meanwhile, the title track is the perfect intro to Slash and friends’ stadium rock style; speedy and lavish guitars flirting with the astounding musical talent of each member. Slash saves the best for the last, The Unholy – a soaring, apocalyptic conclusion to a ballsy album that is sure to set rock fans’ pants on fire universally. KYLIE FINLAY
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BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues Spunk Southern enigma Will Oldham announced his new album by circulating a staged interview with his alter ego Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy being at his belligerent best whilst giving away very little information about the latest release. Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues is essentially a reworking of the previous Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album Wolfroy Goes To Town (and some of the associated b-sides) with a couple of new tunes thrown in for good measure. This revisiting of the tunes sees them blossom from the stripped back shells that they were, to a far more fleshed out and lustrous version whilst keeping Oldham’s perfectly imperfect voice the focus. Quail And Dumplings may not be a real life delicacy, but Oldham is as believable as ever giving the tune an impassioned work over. The tune that was already a standout on Wolfroy Goes To Town is given a train beat, understated backing vocals and left of centre violin. The reinterpretation continues as plucked banjo is offered to We Are Unhappy and steel guitar and a choir lift Old Match to a higher plain. Not since Oldham pulled together a string of Nashville musicians to revisit some of his Palace back catalogue has he sounded so free. Giving these tunes a more obvious country work-over should see Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues held in the upper echelons of his sizeable output. CHRIS HAVERCROFT
JOHNNY MARR Playland Warner Despite his more than 30 years of making music, Johnny Marr’s Playland is only the second album to bear solely his name. Perhaps it’s the stigma that comes with being a sideman – and Marr being one of the greats in that respect, from his time in The Smiths to his work with Modest Mouse and The Cribs. A more likely case, though, is that much like Keith Richards, Marr is best when he’s focused solely on his guitar; perhaps occasionally slung a lead vocal every now and then. When it comes squarely down to him alone, it’s more an open display of flaws than a showcase of talents. Not that there is nothing of merit on Playland – or its predecessor, The Messenger, for that matter. It’s full of gorgeous guitar sounds across a myriad of rhythms and styles, but it falls short when it’s ultimately revealed that Marr has precious little to say from a lyrical perspective – and not much of a singing voice to say it with, either. Diehard fans of Marr and his sound will love what’s on offer here, but even long-time Smiths listeners may find this a little too lopsided and disjointed. Enter Playland at your own risk. DAVID JAMES YOUNG WWW. XP RE SS MAG.COM. AU
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Aboriginal stories are taking over Perth theatre at the moment; the Blue Room and TEEM Productions just wrapped up What Do They Call Me? and Yirra Yaakin is currently running King Hit at the State Theatre Centre. Now Big hART brings their major theatre work, Hipbone Sticking Out, to Perth as it tours the country. The production is part of Big hART’s Yijala Yala Project, which focuses on the community of Roebourne in the Pilbara, working with community members to create artworks that highlight and promote its culture and history. Hipbone Sticking Out tells the harrowing story of a young Roebourne man who, during a runin with the police, hits his head on the pavement and subsequently experiences a journey through time, witnessing the trajectory of European influence on the world and in the Pilbara region of Australia. More specifically, it delves into the story of the Flying Foam Massacres, which was a state-sanctioned culling of the Jaburara people on the Burrup Peninsula in 1868. This event that has not been written into history books, as we learn from two of the cast members of Hipbone¸ Sheridan Harbridge and Michael Whalley. “I was shocked that I had never heard of it, that it wasn’t something that
was readily discussed as our history,” says Harbridge. Whalley, who plays multiple cast and chorus roles in the production, is originally from New Zealand, and therefore also felt woefully unaware of the history in the Pilbara region. But he said that one of the best things about being involved in this production has been “...being taken into a different part of the world than I’ve ever been introduced to before, going into the heart of Roebourne, which is a climate and a community that I’ve never been part of, finding out a story that I’ve never heard before and working with members of the community to create a story that is very important for loads of people to hear.” Continued on page 22.
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THE MOON CAFE New Moon It’s been a constant source of comfort to Perth’s night owls for donkey’s now, but changes are afoot at the venerable Moon Cafe. The William Street icon boasts a fresh menu filled to bursting point with tasty treats, including a killer new brunch selection, so we touched base with Georgia and Tom Mathieson, the sibling superstars behind the Moon, to get the inside scoop.
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One of Fremantle’s oldest pubs is back in the game, thanks to a partnership with Matilda Bay Brewery.
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What sets The Moon apart from other venues? What makes it unique? The Moon has always been about the late nights, it’s been in business for over 20 years (it’s
now in its 24th year). It’s a grungy, retro time-warp with a giant clock that goes backwards. What prompted the menu change? It was about time, the menu had hardly been changed in over a decade and it had too many meals on it for such a small kitchen. We wanted to add some fresher, sharing options. And as for brunch, it was time for The Moon to see the sun. How did you go about curating the new menu? We were largely the driving force behind the change. We wrote a new menu and then met with a chef friend, Vital Syverin. He threw around some new ideas and we produced the final edit. Vital helped us with the presentation and implementation (look out for his Soul Provider food van and catering). What would you say are the ‘must try’ highlights? Dinner: Lamb ragu orecchiette with mascarpone. Sautéed mushroom pizza with gorgonzola. Haloumi and green bean salad. Brunch: Pork chipolatas with fried eggs and kimchi. Braised lamb on toast. Mushroom and artichoke breakfast bruschetta with whipped feta. Anything else to add? New drinks menu coming soon! TRAVIS JOHNSON
WA BEER WEEK Amber Means Go SHOP AT: LESSONS CONCEPT STORE Tucked away in a Freo basement, this place is literally and figuratively underground and features specialty coffee, live events and, of course, upper echelon streetwear. Lessons Concept Store
GO TO: PERTH ROYAL SHOW Go on, you know you want to. You’ve only until Saturday, October 4, to indulge your inner child. Pet a baby goat, throw up on some ridiculous high-G contraption, eat you bodyweight in sugar and grease - whatever floats your boat. Perth Royal Show 20
SHOP AT: BODKINS BOOTERY Leave the sneakers to the kids and get some real footwear. This High Street establishment has been supplying high quality boots since 1969, so they must be doing something right. Bodkin’s Bootery
GO TO: MANY 6160 FIRST BIRTHDAY Time flies, huh? Hit the Old Myer Building in Fremantle on Wednesday, October 10, to celebrate a year of awesome retail and culture. MANY 6160
Running from October 25 - November 2, WA Beer Week is exactly what it purports to be: a week long celebration of the art of brewing in WA, encompassing some 61 events. We caught up with beer maestro Reece Wheadon over a sneaky pint or three. Who are we talking to? My names Reece, my title this year is “WA Beer Week Gentleman,” last year it was “Dude,” But in all practicality I’m the director of the week and this is my fifth attempt at a Beer Week. Tell us about Beer Week - give us a potted history. This is the 13th WA Beer Week, it’s one of the oldest in the country but unfortunately was also a little slow to grow, as many things in WA are. But as we’ve hit the second boom in microbreweries the week has jumped from strength to strength. I still remember the first Beer Week I ever went to, it had four events in the dead of winter and the highlight was the industry-only launch which featured a lot of free beer. Now we make sure we focus our events much more on the public. What’s new this year? There’s a lot new this year, more bars are jumping on board, more breweries are trying different things and everyone seems a bit happier to be a bit more risky with their event themes. This year some of the new additions are three mini festivals, an amazing sour dinner and some epic degustations.
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What local producers should be seeking out? There’s so much, everyone’s trying cool stuff right now. Eagle Bay have a Cacao Stout made with Bahen & Co. cacao husks. Bootleg just did a ridiculous collaboration with Mane Liquor called Ryezilla, it’s super hoppy and Nail have a great Red Ale out. On top of that Beersine are pumping out amazing beer cheese, hop honey, hop olive oil, fermented chilli sauce and epic small goods, all with beer. What are the don’t miss events this year? Ooh, you’ll get me in trouble with questions like that but I’d say huge can’t miss events would be: A Co-Op Beer Lunch (Saturday, November 1). An amazing gastronomical experience featuring five of Perth’s best chefs paired with five top brewers to create a huge 5 course beer degustation. Mane Liquor Beer Spectacular & Feral Fest (Saturday, October 25). and made a beer just for this unique event at Five Bar Beer Through The Ages (Wednesday, October 29). Three teams of different brewing age groups will compete against each other at Five Bar. Wo m e n O n l y B e e r J u d g i n g C l a s s (Thursday, October 30) Pink Boots are a great organisation promoting women in the beer industry ,and we’re stoked to have them running an event at Pirate Bar during Beer Week. Plus Beer Week HQ- Bob’s Bar at Print Hall is our official headquarters and are offering great deals to people dropping in before or after other Beer Week events. TRAVIS JOHNSON For more info on WA Beer Week, get over to wabeerweek.com.
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UBER Appy Cabs X-Press Magazine App launch partner, Uber, is changing the way people think about catching taxis around the world... and now here in Perth. We caught up with Uber spokesperson, Katie Curran, to get the lowdown. What were Uber’s beginnings and how quickly has it grown? Uber started in 2009 when our founders, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, were visiting Paris and were frustrated at the lack of taxis. As engineers, they thought ‘wouldn’t it be great if you could just press a button and a car appeared?’. So, when they got back to San Francisco, they got started on building the first iteration of Uber for their friends. Since then, Uber has grown to be in over 200 cities in 45 countries around the world, completing millions of trips a week and creating 50,000 new jobs a month for partner-drivers coming on to the platform. Some people are a little puzzled as to what the difference is between Uber and ‘regular’ taxi services? Uber is all about a safe, reliable and convenient experience at the tap of a button. Once riders have registered their details, they can open the
Monster Alphabets. Pic - Ryan Ammon
TPFF WA DESIGNERS INSTALLATION State Of The Art Telstra Perth Fashion Festival’s WA Designer Installation on September 21, complementing the Runway on Saturday, used stark lights, tableaux of models and sudden mood-changes, giving some of WA’s most conceptual labels the opportunity to present outfits as artworks. ZOE KILBOURN reports. Walking the thin line between fashion and art - sometimes toppling right over it - eight WA designers manage to be both expressive and functional. Monster Alphabets, for the most part, presented a gently goth collection: elegant, low-cut evening dresses, with the odd torn stockings, openedtoed boots, impractical bags. They also delivered the night’s first dose of kook: a heavy mourning kaftan capped off with a bulbous black veil. Think Kathy Bates in American Horror Story during her high school Korn phase. Next to a perfectly sober turquoise number (paired with sandals - decidedly ungoth),
app and see the cars that are close by, with estimated pick-up times. Once they request a ride, they can watch the car come to their location on the app - so no more street hailing in the dark at night, you can wait in your home or at a restaurant and simply go outside when you see it arrive. The transparency of the Uber platform ensures that anyone requesting a ride sees the name, face and vehicle registration of the driver before they even enter the car and the Share My ETA feature also allows the rider to share their journey in real time, via the app, with loved ones, if they wish. All drivers and riders also rate each other at the end of their journey and those not meeting Uber’s very high standards are quickly removed from the system. What kinds of cars does Uber provide? In Perth, we currently have our UberBLACK offering, so you could get picked up in a Holden Caprice, BMW or Lexus, for example. What’s the current size of the Uber operation in WA and what will it build to? Uber currently has its UberBLACK service in Perth with thousands of riders signing up every week. As we have seen in every city we are in around the world, once people experience Uber, they tell their friends and we grow exponentially - which is exactly what we have seen in Perth. A free $40 luxury car experience can be yours by downloading the new X-Press Magazine App from the Apple Store or Google Play and clicking on the Uber ad once you’re inside. it was a deliciously nose-thumbing inclusion in an otherwise restrained set. As their stark visual set up made clear, Bhalo (as in Bengali for “good”, not as in “setting the”) pride themselves on their ethics and minimalism. Although, as it turns out, they’re based in Bangladesh, their collection felt like a 1950s Anglo-Africa. What my co-attendee described as “housewife chic” was probably closer to the elegant functionality of English expats in Wah-Wah or The African Queen - the pastels, big geometric prints and collared shirts of a society girl prepared (or so she thinks) to roll up her sleeves and hop in a jeep. This selection even featured chunky shell necklaces that looked roughly like the African continent. Right from their ear-crunching audio-visual set up, Apate announced their Dadaist spoofery very, very loudly. Accompanied by the sound of a washing machine tumble-drying what must’ve been a brick, the Ghosts of Parties Past filed through. A pair of onesies adorned with lonely, face-obscuring pink streamers; a cotton balaclava modelled on the Scream slasher; visible bikinis; a perfectly trendy leather jacket (“What’s the joke?”) The label’s actually the work of visual artists, who approach their pieces “structurally” (and take their collective name from the spirit of deceit). As every runway must, the Installation included labels that oozed all-out lush glamour. Katherine Dunmill’s collection Chanel suit efficiency with straight-up sensuality. Prim dresses that turned out to be two pieces, with sharply-cut crop-tops that only occasionally, depending on the whims of the models, showed midriff; an excessively modest pink business shirt that, in the right light, turned out to be breathtakingly brazen - a low-cut floaty midpiece, with skin exposed up to the disconnected diamonte collar. Dunmill was well-met by Catini - evening gowns in lilac, tulip, and chrysanthemum colours, accompanied by Rebecca Ferguson crooning about the days of wine and roses. Tindale’s work was artfully apocalyptic - a Handmaid’s Tale as told by the ruling class. The rich colours and fabrics - as windswept as the TPFF tent’s roofing - were reminscent of that cinematic Wolf Blass ad. Artfully torn clothes, an industrial-orchestral soundtrack, dresses elegantly lashed together. Convict ‘s bags and accessories were the most explicitly WA of the Installation - teamed with plain white dresses, the label’s cowhide handbags and enormous flower crowns (dried wattles, bottlebrushes, and bougainvilleas) scream “Pilbara”. The huge swathe of leathers and woods in these pieces felt simultaneously glamorous, rugged and utilitarian - Baz Lurhmann’s Australia plus the utility. Think Missy Higgins. As Convict is to the Outback, Emily Muco is to Cottesloe (somewhere in a hazy polaroid ‘60s). Inspired by the natural world as filtered through a child’s dreamscape, Muco prints feature watercolour gorillas, birds and foxes. There were oversized ribbons and boyleg bikinis, enormous banana earrings, and lorikeet-shaped handbags, all in washed-out primaries. The collection felt as playful as the Australian beach ought to feel. WWW. XP RE SS MAG.COM. AU
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Continued from cover. Harbridge and Whalley are playing several European characters through the course of the show, from settlers in the 1820s to their modern equivalents in the ‘80s as part of the Royal Commission into the death of Aboriginal people in custody. They explain that one of the major challenges of working on this show is not to take on the guilt that’s inherent in representing perpetrators of such major human injustice. Harbridge says, “While Mike’s characters represent the men who did it, my characters represent the women who justify it by saying ‘you were just doing what you were told.’ It’s been tough but also really rewarding to meet this beautiful community.” Whalley adds, “It’s important to take responsibility for the story that we’re telling, to take ownership of something that’s very important for us to tell as part of our European history as well.” They both emphasize that this work is about Australians of all races coming to terms with our history, and that this is not just an Aboriginal story, but our story.” The company brought the show back to the area of its own genesis, performing at the Roebourne prison; Harbridge expresses how confronting it felt to stand up in front of the Roebourne community. “You never get to rehearse a show in the place where it sprung from. It’s been much more raw to sit in the reality of it and to see what happened 150 years ago,” says Harbridge. “For me one of the incredible moments has been the members of the Roebourne community standing up and letting us know why they invited Big hART there in the first place, and
The 13th exhibition of work by young Western Australian artists opens in the Light Locker Art Space in Grand Lane this Friday, October 3, from 6pm. This latest collection of publically displayed wok features contributions from Kieron Broadhurst, Emma Buswell, Jenn Garland, Simone Johnston and Danni McGrath, plus sandwiches from the convenientlyspeaking about the direct positive effect it’s had on located and brilliantly named Toastface Grillah. As their lives and their kids’ lives over the last four years. always, if you miss out, the works will be on display There are lots of reasons you make theatre, but to be 24/7 until December 2014. involved with a work that is actually directly moving and changing lives is kind of rare. I feel like I’m part Light Locker Art Space of something really important, something that’s not going to be forgotten, and has changed the course of the young people’s lives in Roebourne.” The version of the show that is currently touring has changed slightly from the original version. Harbridge says, “It’s a really tightened version, because the story is so large with the history of the colonists in the Pilbara, and a lot of it is dark. This version gives the audience a couple more breaths to take stuff in. Some of it gets harrowing, but with this version, Scott Rankin (the writer) gives people time to digest what’s happening, because it’s really epicstyle theatre, with music and movement. He’s sort of condensed it and given it a bit more space.” SKA-Y SKA-Y NIGHT Harbridge and Whalley want to make sure audiences are aware that although the story the Shared Sky, a unique collaboration between Indigenous ensemble is telling can be very confronting, there is a artists from Western Australia’s Mid-West Region and lot of humour and lightness to it as well. The show is African artists of San descent from South Africa’s full of music, with the cast singing entirely a cappella Northern and Eastern Cape, sponsored by the Square throughout. There is also dance and audio-visual Kilometre Array radio telescope, is coming to the elements, which Harbridge says she has yet to see; John Curtin Gallery from Wednesday, October 1, until she jokes that they’ll have to get on stage and turn Sunday, November, 2. In honour of the cooperative around to see what’s going on behind them. and investigative nature of the international, these artists have produced works in response to ancestral CICELY BINFORD stories about the night sky. For more information, go to johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au. Hipbone Sticking Out runs until October 4 at the State Theatre Centre. For tickets and session times, go to statetheatrecentrewa.com.au
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LAVAZZA ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT Cinema Paradiso/The Bakery Wednesday, September 24, 2014 The opening night screening of Rocco Granata biopic Marina was followed by music merriment, wine and fantastic food at The Bakery. Photos by Shaun Ferraloro.
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THE BRITISH ARE COMING! The inaugural Emirates British Film Festival 2014 runs at the Cinema Paradiso from November 5 - 16 and is well worth your time and money. For one thing: no subtitles, if that’s important to you. For another, the roster of films this year is simply incredible, including not only the war epic Testament Of Youth and the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, but also Six From The ‘60s, a selection of hugely influential British cinema from that decade, including Zulu, If... and A Hard Day’s Night. For more info, hit up britishfilmfestival.com.au. Zulu
THE FUTURE OF FILM Whether you have a vested interest in the continuing viability of the Western Australian film industry or simply like the idea of being able to see yourself and your state represented on the screen once in a while, you should probably make time for the 2014 Screen Sector Forum, which takes place at the Film And Television Institute in the State Library Of Western Australia tonight, Wednesday, October 1, from 6.30pm. Facilitated by Geoff Parnell, the workshop will focus on the feasibility of establishing some from of screen hub and incubator facility somewhere in the vicinity of the Perth Cultural Centre. To share your views, RSVP to phoebe-bennett@fti.asn.au now.
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THE EQUALIZER Batman With A Bus Pass Directed by Antoine Fuqua Starring Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloe Grace Moretz Antoine Fuqua directed Denzel Washington to a Best Actor Oscar in 2001’s Training Day, and so it’s understandable that there’s been a certain amount of anticipation surrounding their reunification on this update of the old Edward Woodward-starring ‘80s television staple. However, while The Equalizer has its charms, we probably shouldn’t expect anyone involved to be stepping up to the podium at the Dolby Theatre next year. Washington is Robert McCall, a quiet man leading a quiet life, dividing his time between his job at a hardware chain store and a Nighthawks At The Diner-style greasy spoon, where he spends the wee hours reading classic literature. There’s a volcano smouldering under the still landscape of Washington’s stoic features, though, and it erupts after Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz), a young prostitute McCall has befriended, is brutalised by her Russian mob pimps. McCall quickly and savagely disposes of the thugs, but things escalate when criminals further up the food chain dispatch the psychotic Teddy (Marton Csokas) to deal with McCall. The Equalizer feels like a film pulling in a number of different, incompatible directions, as though everyone involved in its construction had different ideas about the kind of movie they were making. Long, occasionally plodding stretches of character
work and world-building are punctuated by bursts of grotesquely over the top violence, and the contrast is an uncomfortable one. When McCall takes out the trash, he tends to eschew guns and what have you for garden tools and improvised weapons in a manner that would do Dexter proud. By the time he’s hunting Russian mobsters through a darkened hardware store in the third act, it’s almost cartoonish. That’s a shame, because the film spends a lot of time and effort setting up its little universe, and the drift into caricature wastes all the early heavy lifting. Although McCall’s relationship with her is largely played out on the surface, we spend enough time with her to assume that she’s going to be important down the track, but she’s really just there to set things in motion. Likewise, McCall’s little vigilante side missions to help his co-workers seem to indicate some kind of compulsion to action or absolution, but this idea is never really fleshed out. It’s not that the film is being to subtle - the way the books McCall reads comment on the story indicates that subtlety is not a concern here - but rather that it seems to have little interest in following the threads it picks up, other than the fairly rote “up the food chain” action movie structure. For all that, it’s enjoyable enough. Washington’s trademark cold fury serves him well here, and the action is well executed. Still, with a sequel already in the pipeline, let’s hope that they have something meatier in mind for the next film in the series. TRAVIS JOHNSON
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SON OF A GUN Heist Society Directed by Julius Avery Starring Brenton Thwaites, Ewan McGregor, Alica Vikander, Matt Nable,Tom Budge In his debut feature film, writer/director Julius Avery wears his influences on his sleeve. Yet while Son Of A Gun is not the most original film you’ll see this year, it’s still an agreeable enough ride through a heightened version of Western Australia’s criminal underbelly. When wet-behind-the-ears 19 year old JR (Brenton Thwaites) lands in prison for a short stretch, he looks like sure bet to wind up on the receiving end of some non-consensual buggery. Luckily he attracts the attention and protection of professional criminal Brendan Lynch (Ewan McGregor), who brings the youngster into his inner circle in exchange for a few favours once he hits the streets again. Long story short, JR winds up helping Lynch rob a Kalgoorlie gold mine at the behest of non-specifically foreign criminal bigwig Sam (Jacek Korman), a simple enough job that soon comes apart at the seams due to a series of double-crosses. JR and Lynch go on the run, along with Tasha (Alicia Vikander), the stripper who has swapped allegiances from Sam to JR, but how much can they trust
each other? One thing’s for sure: Avery really likes Michael Mann. Heat is a major influence on Son Of A Gun, but the homages go deeper than that - JR’s aspirational collage of things he wants in his life is straight out of Thief. While both ...Gun and Heat are about professional bad men doing what they do, the former lacks the latter’s almost tactile sense of authenticity. While you may recognise many of the WA-shot film’s locations, you won’t recognise its story as taking place in a tangibly real world, or its characters as much more than welldrawn but still thin archetypes; scenes meant to evoke pathos almost inevitably fall flat. The exception is former rugby player Matt Nable, who imbues Lynch’s offsider Sterlo with a real sense of humanity and depth with a minimum of fuss. For all that, when its moving Son Of A Gun really works. Avery has a gift for action, with the centrepiece gold heist and the subsequent car chase being highlights. There’s also a rich vein of gallows humour running through the proceedings - the scene where a thug eats an ice cream while sitting on top of a freezer chest containing a live torture victim comes immediately to mind. At the end of the day, Son Of A Gun is a solid film - no more but, and it’s worth noting, no less. While it’s not saying anything new with the tropes it employs, it still uses them ably, resulting in a robust, entertaining thriller. All else aside, it demonstrates the sort of polish and professionalism all too often lacking in local product; if you wish our films were more like Hollywood’s, you’ll appreciate this. TRAVIS JOHNSON WWW. XP RE SS MAG.COM. AU
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the scientist studying him. Incorporating puppetry, animation, live performance plus a soundtrack from Ashley Gibson Grieg, it runs until October 11. Go to pica.org.au for session times and tickets. Hipbone Sticking Out: State Theatre Centre Four years in the making, Hipbone Sticking Out is a funny, heartfelt and at times wrenching piece of theatre set in the heart of the Pilbara and the intersection of Indigenous and White Australian culture. Brought to life by Big hART and the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi people, it runs until October 4. Go to statetheatrecentrewa. com.au for sessions and ticketing. Gasp!: State Theatre Centre From the pen of Ben Elton comes Gasp!, a dark fable about the commoditisation of nature. A reworking of Elton’s first play, Gasping, it posits a world in which the very air we breathe has been privatised. Black Swan State Theatre Company’s final production for 2014 runs from October 25 - November 9. Go to bsstc.com. au for session times and tickets.
Dersu Uzala - screening at the Russian Resurrection Film Festival
VISUAL ARTS Palla Jeroff Presents Metamorphosis: Gullotti PopUp Galley, Claremont Quarter Running until October 2, this exhibition of sculptures by Chinese-born artist Palla Jeroff sees the renowned painter spread his wings by exploring the medium of bronze. Inspired by the vibrant colours and landscapes of the Outback, Metamorphosis marks the first time Jeroff has exhibited his sculptures anywhere in the world. For more information, go to gullottigalleries.com.au. Afghanistan - Hidden Treasures From The National Museum Kabul: The Western Australian Museum Once thought lost or destroyed under the Taliban regime, these 230+ pieces illustrate the complexity and variety of Afghani history. The exhibition runs until November 16 - go to museum.wa.gov.au for further information. Richard Avedon People: The Art Gallery Of Western Australia This collection of images by the famed photographer Richard Avedon spans his career from 1949 to 2002 and includes portraits of such notable figures as Truman Capote, Elizabeth Taylor, Twiggy, Malcolm X and Bob Dylan. It runs until November 17. Go to artgallery.wa.gov.au for more information. Otherworldly - Altered Objects And Artificial Spaces: Heathcote Museum & Gallery A group of artists, including Anna Nazzari, Gina Cinanni, Marzena Topka, Moira Doropoulos and
Tanisha Burtnyk, will create a series of unusual objects and spaces to create dreamlike, unearthly environments. It runs until November 2. Go to melvillecity.com.au for more. 5 Creative Creatures: Little Creatures Brewery Running from October 9 until November 6, this exhibition brings together over 70 paintings by five respected Perth artists: Ros Blackburn, Harry Davies, Susan Hoy, Lynne Mettam and Renata Wright. For more info, go to littlecreatures.com.au.
THEATRE/DANCE/ PERFORMANCE Letters Home: The Blue Room Theatre Joe Lui’s autobiographical show centres on his decision to flee his native Singapore to avoid compulsory military service and how that decision has affected his relationship with his parents, his culture and himself. It runs until October 4. Go to blueroom.org.au for more. King Hit: State Theatre Centre Yirra Yaakin’s production of Geoffrey Narkle and David Milroy’s play, based on the life of the former, dramatises the plight of the Stolen Generation via the lens of boxing. It runs until October 4. Head to yirrayaakin.con. au for more info. Falling Through Clouds: PICA Performance Space The latest production from The Last Great Hunt is a sumptuous visual feast that details the relationship between a captive crane - the last of his kind - and
Punk Rock: Subiaco Arts Centre Running from October 8 - 18, this production by the West Australian Youth Theatre Company sees a group of 17 year olds, on the cups of adulthood, grapple with the challenges of the transition to maturity. Written by Simon Stephens and directed by Renato Fabretti. Book through BOCS.
precise). Go to fac.org.au for tickets and session times. Fremantle Festival The 109th Fremantle Festival is almost upon us, bringing with all manner of joyous pageantry, fun, music, culture and festivities, from the Blessing Of The Fleet to the Norfolk Lanes Youth Festival. It runs from October 26 - November 9 - go to fremantle.wa.gov.au for full details. Russian Resurrection Film Festival The biggest Russian film festival in the world outside of the Motherland itself returns for its 11th year, this time at a new home - Event Cinemas Innaloo. From November 6 - 12, catch the best cinema that Russia has to offer, including the award-winning Test, the gritty war drama Stalingrad (that’s the 2013 Stalingrad) and Akira Kurosawa’s 1975 classic, Dersu Uzala. For more info, hit up russianresurrection.com. The 2014 Light Up Leederville Carnival The City of Vincent and Leederville Connect are lighting up Leederville for another year of entertainment and attrawctions. Wander along Oxford Street adorned in lights offering a vast array of food, music, bars, fashion, art and children’s entertainment. This free family friendly event will take place on Sunday December 7 from 12- 8pm. Visit leedervillecarnival.com.au for more information.
Merry Go Round: Belmont Latvian Centre Theatre An Aussie pub rock musical that examines the issue of male depression, this play by writer and director Bree Vreedenburgh tells the story of Alan, who is undergoing group therapy after a suicide attempt. Part proceeds from the season go the WA Men’s Shed Association and Enterprise 33, an organisation that combats male suicide. Book through trybooking.com.
FESTIVALS The Lavazza Italian Film Festival From the opening night film Marina, a biopic of accordion-slinging singer Rocco Granata, to the closing feature, the classic, Sophia Loren-starring, Marriage Italian Style, Cinema Paradiso and Luna On SX play host to the best movies Italy has to offer. The festival runs until October 15. Go to lunapalace.com.au for info, tickets and session times. Little Big Shots Film Festival For Kids Coming to the Fremantle Arts Centre inner courtyard from October 7 - 9 is this family friendly showcase of short cinema, which features sessions suitable for everyone from toddlers to teens (two years to 15, to be
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The High Learys launch their new single, Clear My Mind, this Friday, October 3, at The Bakery with help from Custom Royal and Thee Gold Blooms. BOB GORDON checks in with vocalist/bassist, Jamie Turner. The High Learys have just released a new single, Clear My Mind, their first recorded outing since 2013’s Here Come The High Learys album. “It took our sound in a slightly different direction to Here Come the High Learys,” says vocalist/bassist, Jamie Turner, of the new single. “We experimented a lot more with different sounds and techniques when in the studio recording it in April. It was a great atmosphere during the two weeks it took to complete, the collaboration between us when writing the song was brilliant, with everyone having a part in the making, the way it was approached made it so much easier to finish. “Shortly after we headed to Poons Head Studios in Fremantle to record and master both tracks with producer Rob Grant.
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I’m A Fool For You is the b-side of this release, but by definition only. One wonders what thinking goes into choosing the song that ends up as the b-side of a single? “Even though I’m A Fool For You is more upbeat than the a-side we all felt that Clear My Mind had more commercial potential,” Turner explains. “It’s always hard choosing between the two but for a lot of our favourite artists we enjoy the b-sides just as much as the ‘a’.” With the release of a new single, comes news that the band are indeed heading towards work on another album. “We’ll be looking at recording our next album at some point in 2015,” Turner says. “We’ve been working on quite a lot of new material that we’re really excited to record, we can’t wait to get back into the studio.” The High Learys have strong retro leanings, which can sometimes be confused for mere nostalgia by some. Turner is unfussed. “I guess we don’t mind if people think either way,” he says. “A lot of reviews that are written about us mention that we are bringing back the sounds of the ‘60s, which isn’t hard to miss, as a lot of our main influences are artists from that time.”
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Even so, many of the band’s stated influences go back to the American source, rather than the bands they’d often be compared to. “America has some amazing music history that we as a band love,” Turner says. “Everything from the early delta blues players and the Harlem jazz scene in the ‘30s, all the way to the doowop and rock’n’roll of the ‘50s and the amount of amazing artists that emerged in the ‘60s as well. We also take a massive influence from artists out of the UK around the same time and even some great Aussie bands too.” Once Clear My Mind is launched at The Bakery on Friday, there’s still plenty left to do in 2014 - and onwards - for The High Learys. “At the end of this year we’ll be heading to Europe to tour through Germany, Spain and the UK,” Turner says. “We’ll be getting home from that in January. From there, we’ll be getting ready to record our next album. Once the album is recorded we’ll be setting out on an Australian tour which we’ve been wanting to do for a while now.”
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EMMA RUSSACK Talking To Strangers Emma Russack plays her first-ever Perth shows on Thursday, October 9, at Mojo’s and Saturday, October 11, at The Bird. CHRIS HAVERCROFT reports. Emma Russack grew up in Naroomba, a rural town in New South Wales, but that didn’t stop her from having penned her first song at eight years of age, and winning the ABC’s Fresh Air talent competition by the age of 16. Now in her mid-20s, Russack has two albums behind her, the most recent being the less than chipper You Changed Me, which features tunes that she wrote while living in Melbourne. “I had a choice between Sydney and Melbourne,” affirms Russack on how she made her way from her hometown of Naroomba. “I had lived
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in Sydney when I was at University so I decided on Melbourne because the music scene was said to be really vibrant. I think I have done really well being from Narooma and nobody knowing me, so I feel I have made a bit of a name for myself. My guitarist also lives in Melbourne so that was another reason I chose to move here. It takes about four years to really feel like this is your town.” Russack’s aunty Alannah was a member of much loved Sydney outfit, The Hummingbirds. She can recall the band being pretty famous when she was younger, with Russack remembering The Hummingbirds on Hey, Hey It’s Saturday with the whole family watching. It was this notion that her aunty was famous that may have given some inspiration to Russack for the life she leads now, but it is unlikely we will see any family collaborations any time soon. “I don’t think that writing songs with her would be overly effective to be honest. We have quite different styles, and I don’t think that it would ever happen. I’ve thought of asking her to do backing vocals on some of my recordings, but she lives out in the sticks.” You Changed Me was released this year and is said to be written at a time when Russack found herself to be single for the first time in seven years. This is rich territory for an artist who is unapologetically autobiographical in the way that she writes. Russack has no qualms about sharing her thoughts with strangers through song as it is the most natural way for her to construct her music. “I would like to try and start writing from a less autobiographical perspective because it would be more challenging,” she notes. “I just find it so easy to write about things that are going on in my life. I think the real challenge is to put yourself in other people’s shoes. I am not at all intimidated by people knowing things about me. It doesn’t make a difference to my life and no song is an actual recount of events, so only my closest friends and family know the true me. It is really a form of therapy for me.” It is the next collection of tunes that Russack writes that is of the most interest to her. The songwriter admits she hasn’t been writing much as she hasn’t got ‘anything bad to say about anything’. This is a much different heads pact to the one that confronted her when putting together You Changed Me. “I was a bit of a loose cannon after the break up and I had some really bad ideas about what it was about to be fulfilled. I thought that sex was a really important thing and having people that want to be in a relationship with you was really necessary as a human and now I realise that it is better to love yourself and be confident in yourself. It was a weird headspace to be in, but since the release of the album I have become a far more mature person.”
JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL 2014 The 18th Japanese Film Festival (JFF) hits Perth this month. The JFF is the largest Japanese film festival outside of Japan and will showcase contemporary Japanese cinema ranging from anime to action and everything in between. There will be 20 titles featured, half of which are Australian premieres. The musical comedy, Lady Maiko, will be opening the festival and looks at the geisha world. Closing JFF will be A Tale of Samurai Cooking – A True Love Story, an award-winning film featuring traditional Japanese cuisines from age-old surviving recipe books. JFF 2014 will be held at Hoyts Millennium and Hoyts Carousel from October 29 to November 2. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, October 1, from japanesefilmfestival. net and Hoyts.
On the back of The Yearlings’ East Coast tour launching their new album, All The Wandering, they’re coming to the West. All The Wandering is The Yearlings’ fifth studio album and was recorded to two-inch tape on a vintage Studer 24-track machine. Special guest for the shows will be Sara Tindley. The Yearlings will be launching their album at Clancy’s Fish Pub Fremantle this Thursday, October 2. Doors open at 8pm, for tickets see theyearlings.net
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ROBERT HUNTER CUP More than 60 Australian hip hop artists will put on their footy boots to play in the 2014 Robert Hunter Cup, a charity football match in memoriam of Perth MC Hunter. Some of Australia’s big hip hop names have played in the Cup and alongside the footy match is a yearly live show known as the Aus All Stars gig. The headliner this year will be the SBX crew including Downsyde, Mortar, Bitter Belief and Layla with supports from Matty B, The Aphilliates and Dwizofoz. Also along are DJs Rob Shaker, Heata and DjDcide. This year’s gig will be at the Rosemount Hotel on Saturday, October 25, with The Eastside Kings and Westside Warriors playing against each other at Steel Blue Oval Bassendean earlier on from at 2pm. All proceeds from the game will raise money to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Robert Hunter
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Brave Bird Fly is a new project that encourages cool singles to meet and mingle with other cool singles. Created by DY.o events and hosted by Uncle Joe’s Mess Hall, the night is designed to give people a chance to be brave in a relaxed and cosy atmosphere while you enjoy some music and a drink or two. Opening night is Friday, October 24, and will be held Friday, November 21, and Friday, December 19, thereafter. Tickets are $40 and include tapas style food and a drink on entry. Doors open 6 ‘til 11pm, tickets are available at bravebirdfly.com.au
This year The Broken Hill Hotel is host again to one of Perth’s biggest beer festivals. Oktoberfest will run until Saturday, October 4, with German food and beer all week. Their final day wrap up day will see traditional games being held such as stein holding competitions and the Bavarian strong man contest. Prizes go to best dressed males and females and there’ll be heaps of competitions to win, along with The Murphy Brothers playing live. Tickets are $20 and include a food and drink coupon, available from the venue or at moshtix.com.
This Las Vegas style, retro demon themed nightspot in the heart of Perth is sure to provide one hell of a great night out every time! Indulge yourself in their sinful diner inspired food menu before swingin’ and a shakin’ the night away to the rock and roll and rockabilly acts that frequent the Hell Stage. The Devilles folk have recently started booking regular local, national and international live music again and have a heap of shows on the way, not to mention their regular Rock And Roll Karaoke and other regular nights.
Conveniently placed in the centre of Perth city, My Place is a place for lunch, after work beers and even for karaoke cocktail nights. Well priced drinks, (pints under $10) uni student discounts and good quality food makes My Place the place to be. There’s drink specials and food specials all week. My Place is open 10am-11pm all week and ‘til midnight on Friday and Saturdays.
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Savage Aussie punk-pop band, The Meanies, were regular visitors to Perth back in the ‘90s. The band are back and gearing up for their 25 Years Young And Relevant Silver Jubilee tour, heading our way this Friday, October 3, at the Rosemount Hotel. Tickets are available now through Oztix.com.au. A seven-inch release has been minted for the occasion, head to themeanies.net to find out more.
Perth’s newest dating agency, The Dating Boutique is all about providing a personalised service. They specialise in making your dating experience special by taking care of booking a venue and can even organise for you to be pampered so you’re looking your best for the big night. The Dating Boutique is proud to have partnered up with Radio Lollipop, and will be donating $1 from every membership to the children’s charity. For more information head to thedatingboutique.com.au/findlove/ or find them on Facebook.
With its original history in Fremantle going back to 1896, Ball & Chain are re-establishing one of the first established pubs in the Fremantle township. Teaming with Matilda Bay Brewery, Australia’s first craft beer brewery established in 1984, they endeavour to recreate the local ‘hangout’ this historic venue once was. It’s now open at the corner of Marine Tce and Collie St, Fremantle. More details at theballandchain.com.au.
In recognition of the Melbourne Cup, Northbridge’s Urban Orchard will be decked out in style with popup bars, food stalls, live entertainment and fashion runways. The race that stops the nation will be shown on the big screen at 12pm. The boutique fashion label, Something Borrowed, will be featured on this year’s catwalk alongside other WA designers. Tickets start at $50 for early birds via ticketbooth.com.au. Suited is and 18+ event and requires ID to be shown on the day.
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CHOPPED N SKREWED CYPRESS HILL Having sold out every previous Australian Tour they’ve done, it’s no wonder West Coast rap crew Cypress Hill are returning to Perth. With Will Smith’s former partner-in-crime, Jazzy Jeff, the hip hop legends play Metro City on Saturday, December 6. After ten years away from the studio, Cypress Hill have a new album lined up for 2015 (“and their sound is even more psychedelic than ever”, say Elements), but you can expect to hear all your whacked-out stoner favourites - classics like Mr. Greenthumb, Insane In The Membrane, We Ain’t Going Out Like That and Hits From The Bong. Tickets are on sale from Friday, October 3 via Oztix.
Autotune innovator and Southern rap legend T-Pain is playing a quietly publicised Perth show as part of his Australian tour. The man behind Turn All The Lights Off, Take Your Shirt Off and now a Noisey advice column will play Metropolis Fremantle on Friday, October 10. Tickets available from Oztix. T-Pain
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The Bakery has been home to some of Perth’s most innovative concerts, and there’s still a string of surprising events teed up before it changes hands - the latest, Niche’s Sonic Architects National Conference. The National Conference promises four hours of RnB, soul and hip hop-informed musical exploration, featuring ?uestlove-approved Hiatus Kaiyote, Melbourne rapper Remi, VCA composition grad Kirkis, and jazz-trained producer Silent Jay (with Hiatus Kaiyote vocalist Jace XI). Niche promise surprise guests, lines blurred between shoegaze and soul, and ad hoc collaboration. The National Conference kicks off at the Bakery (where Remi launched his album not too long ago), on Saturday, November 29. Tickets available on Thursday, October 2 from Nowbaking.com.au.
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When it comes to EDM, the Dutch rule. Following in the footsteps of his worldconquering kinsmen Tiësto and Armin van Buuren, last year Hardwell placed first in DJ Mag’s celebrated Top 100 DJs poll. At just 26 years old, Hardwell (otherwise known as Robbert van de Corput) is the youngest DJ to hit number one in the poll’s 18-year history – and the significance of the accolade isn’t lost on him, as AUGUSTUS WELBY discovers.
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Melbourne producer Generik teamed up with Nicky Night Time (house alias of Nicky Van She) to drop the monster Weekend single a month ago, and it’s culminated in an Australian tour, hitting Metropolis Fremantle this Saturday, October 4. Generik - who’s also got coveted places at Stereosonic and Stradbroke Island’s Stranded festival - is big on raver piano samples, uplifting old-skool house music, and good vibes. Now signed to ONELOVE, he’s one to check out - tickets available at the door.
“A lot of times it feels surreal,” says van d e Corput. “It’s weird to achieve the dream that was always so impossible, even like three years ago. Sometimes I have to pinch myself.” While he’s still relatively young, by no means is van de Corput new to the art of DJing. The upbeat Netherlander started DJing in clubs at the age of 14, before gaining international recognition in 2009 with the breakthrough production, Show
STEREOSONIC SINGLE DAY TIX Stereosonic begin selling single day tickets for their revamped two-day festival Wednesday, October 1. With over 30 acts on each day’s monster line-up there’s plenty to see: Calvin Harris, Diplo, and Tiesto headline Saturday, November 29, with Skrillex, Alesso and Steve Aoki appearing on Sunday. Single day tickets are $149.95 and available from Ticketmaster and Viagogo.
Long-running boutique festival Wonderland has announced its move to the Supreme Court Gardens and a stellar 2014 line-up: Allday, Motez, Kilter, RÜFÜS, Slumberjack, Wave Racer, King Cactus and Willow Beats. Wonderland, which teams some of Australia’s most exciting young producers and rappers, promises a host of other Lewis Carrollthemed surprises, and it’s locked in for Saturday, December 20. The select number of free and cheap tickets released via ballot are long gone, but you can get your first release tickets from next Tuesday, October 27 via Wonderlandfestival.com.au. RÜFÜS play Wonderland
Me Love vs. Be. “It was always my dream to be a DJ on a high level and tour around the world and show my music to the world,” he says. “So at this point I’m living the dream and I couldn’t be more excited than I am right now.” Backing up his hedonistic headline sets on this year’s Future Music Festival tour, Hardwell returns to Australia in October with the outdoor dance spectacular, I Am Hardwell, which kicked off early last year. He describes it as “the biggest Hardwell experience you can get,” which far surpasses what’s permissible at a festival. In the meantime, van De Corput will be hard at work on the debut Hardwell album. Over the last five years he’s proven himself a capable artist by unleashing a string of club-ready single releases such as Spaceman, Dare You (featuring Matthew Koma) and Everybody Is In The Place. Combine this collection of hits with several years of touring and remixing, and it’s safe to say Hardwell’s first LP is hotly anticipated. “I’m really enjoying making the album, but it’s so hard,” van de Corput admits. “When I look back over the years I only did four or five songs a year and now I have to do a whole album. [It] takes a lot of time. But I’m really enjoying doing the project.” Although the greater productivity requirements of a full-length record can be stressful, it’s not a lack of material holding things up. “There are more than 20 tracks. I have to decide which tracks I really want to finish off and which tracks will never make it. The album needs to be perfect. I want to be 200 per cent satisfied. Even when I listen to the album in ten years I still want myself to be proud of what I did.” “If I think about the pressure and what people think of me and the album, it will never be done. Avicii is the perfect example. When he played Wake Me Up for the first time last year at the Ultra Music Festival everybody was laughing at him like, ‘Wow, he’s playing country music,’ and ‘It’s the biggest shit I’ve ever heard.’ Six months later it was a worldwide number one hit in over 70 countries. “You can never satisfy everybody,” he continues. “That’s what I’m trying to say. Good music is good music. That whole Avicii album is so good, it’s almost unbelievable. Every single song is so well produced. “People ask me, ‘What kind of music do you play – is it big room? Is it progressive? Is it electro?’ I always like to call it ‘Hardwell music,’” he says. “That’s exactly what the album’s going to be. It is a full dance album, but I want to make beautiful music instead of only the big club bangers. When I look back at my single Apollo – the one I did with Amba Sheperd two years ago – I still play it every single set because it’s a good song. I think a good song will always last.”
ART VS SCIENCE Keyboard Warriors Art Vs Science have had a busy year, with the release of their Create/Destroy EP, their Creature Of The Night Australian tour, and an upcoming appearance at Welcome To The Valley. Outside the band’s music, vocalist Dan Mac made the news with an imploring letter to his local MP, Don Page, in an attempt to stop sniffer dogs at festivals to prevent panic overdose deaths such as Kalamunda teen, Gemma Thoms, at Big Day Out 2009. Catching him on the phone just after relaxing in his backyard, SHAUN COWE chats to Daniel McNamee, aka Dan Mac, about juggling music and politics. “People aren’t using our democratic processes the way they’re intended to be used and that is writing and being in touch with your local representatives,” McNamee says. “Most people think that democracy is just turning up at the ballot box every three years and saying left or right, you know? And that’s what I thought for a very long time too, but there’s actually far more to than that. It’s actually getting involved with the policing process as it’s happening day to day.” Why some may find the sentiment surprising coming from a member of the jovial party band, the great duality of Art Vs Science is the intellectualism behind the music – both McNamee and drummer, Dan Williams are law graduates while Jim Finn holds a commercial pilot’s licence from the University Of New South Wales. As McNamee talks about his future plans to write to Malcolm Turnbull against Australia’s antiterrorism laws, such as preventative detainment measures and ASIO officer immunity, it becomes clear his love of law is still strong. “Democracy’s just constant bickering,” he 30
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says. “You just need to keep bickering to make sure it doesn’t all slide into shit.” One of the reasons behind McNamee’s letter was seeing the unhealthy relationship between festival-goers and crowds. For the band’s recent show at Macquarie University’s Conception Day Festival, McNamee says he threw the olive branch out and got members of the present police force to come and dance for Flippers. “I wasn’t feeling particularly positive and I was trying to think of something I could say or do to fix that, so I brought them in to dance,” he says. “Because normally the police are always seen as this sort of bad guy, standing at the back with a scowl on the face and it was a really nice way to get everyone together. “[They should] just be there in case there’s a big fight, or in case there’s a riot, or someone’s assaulted, or something like that. An actual protective role. Not protecting the drug law regime, protecting the actual people at the festival - protecting their health and safety.” As for the music, McNamee’s the first to admit he’d never classify Art vs. Science as a political band but he feels their beliefs have started to creep into songwriting, citing the band’s recent single, Create/ Destroy and its message about the destructiveness of people. “We probably hid behind the jokes a bit,” he says. “When we started we didn’t want to really expose much of ourselves at all and would often go way over the top for that reason,” he says. “Now I’ve sort of become a bit more comfortable in my own skin. I don’t mind introducing a bit more of my own personality in the newer songs we’re doing now, which is slightly more vulnerable than the image we’ve been portraying. “I’m actually writing a song about Tony Abbott at the moment,” he says. “I don’t think he’s a bad guy. I could be wrong. I’ve never met him and I’m not his psychologist, but it’s like he’s attached to a dream. Like, a sort of utopian idea of what Australia is, maybe an old-fashioned idea of what Australia is. That’s what he reminds me of. He’s sort of bit by bit to try and make it like that – like with the knights and dames thing.” ART VS SCIENCE WELCOME TO THE VALLEY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ BELVOIR AMPHITHEATRE
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JEROME ISMA-AE FUTURE FUNK Jerome Isma-ae, progressive house DJ/ producer and founder of Jee Productions, is one of the most respected names in the genre. He’s elusive, laconic, and deeply dedicated to his work. Isma-ae’s in Perth headlining Under The Dome, a threestage event featuring DJs like Alex H, Philly Blunt and Liquid Culture. PENNY LANE and ZOE KILBOURN report. Jerome Isma-ae gives very, very little away. What is clear is that his incredible musical success - in a career that’s swung from techno to house to breaks to its current comfortable position in progressive house - is deeply rooted, and not budging anytime soon. “I was in school,” he says, of where the EDM passion began. “I got quite early into dance
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music in the age of 15. I didn’t really take care about this when I started to produce. I made it just for fun. It was my hobby and my passion without thinking, ‘How far can I go with this?’” And that’s just it - Isma-ae, like most of the ravers and househeads who were jacking in Munich warehouses back in the ‘90s, seems to be very comfortable with the immediate, functional elements of dance music. Unlike many producers, he’s not above fitting himself in a genre, even if he then moves to another, and he’s very comfortable with the crowd-focused elements of his work. Isma-ae’s journey proper began with the nu-disco-tinged Future Funk project in 1996. “I met this guy, Marcel Krieg, in my local record store, and he told me that he just bought a sampler and is going to sample some beats from records,” says Isma-ae. “I had already a few synths so we put our gear together and started to sample old disco records and mixed it with house beats. This is how we created the project Future Funk. We released tracks on Sony, Strictly Rhythm and many more labels. After a while, I tried other styles and and wanted to change my own musical style.” And now, he makes progressive house, a label he’s comfortable with. “I would say its something between techno and trance,” he says, of his work, and the broader genre. “Techy driving beats and basslines combined with trancy chords and pad sounds.
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“The tracks I produce now are very different to the tracks I used to make,” Ismaae continues. “Music style is changing, but everything comes back after a while, just like in the fashion industry. Deep house, for example, seems to be something very new for many people, but it was already there 20 years ago.” His musical tastes are far from limited nor are they the be-all and end-all of Ismae-ae’s day to day life: “I listen to everything from classic to jazz, from rock to pop, but sometimes it’s also good to listen to nothing for a while.” There’s a very clear sense of self in his work and in the way Isma-ae speaks about it. He’s an artist who not only values his quiet time, but his independence. “I started the label Jee because i didn´t want to discuss any changes or whatever in my music with an A&R guy of a record label,” he says. “The whole idea behind Jee is that I can release all my tracks whenever I want.” As for Under The Dome, Isma-ae’s been keeping busy, and he’s not afraid to drop some of his new cuts for punters. “I have tons of bootlegs, mash ups, remixes and new productions to play,” he says. “Of course, in the new future there will be a new collab with Ilan Bluestone [frequent collaborator and fellow DJ] and I work on a few other productions, but I can´t talk about them yet.” UNDER THE DOME feat. JEROME ISMA-AE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ RIGBY’S BAR & BISTRO
KUČKA Unconditional Love Recently returned from the BIGSOUND music festival and conference in Brisbane, KUČKA are preparing to hit the road in support of their Unconditional + Remixes release. Although KUČKA is a three-piece live band, it is the brainchild of singer, songwriter, producer and all-round creative type, Laura Jane Lowther. She recently caught up with ALFRED GORMAN for a coffee ahead of her first full national tour. Meeting Lowther in person, she’s quite different to her quirky, extravagantly-styled stage persona and trippy electronic music and bizarre video clips may lead you to believe. As we settle down for a drink (she orders a soy long mac) and attempt to find a spot outside the Northbridge bar where we can hear over the jazz and funk blaring through the speakers, she’s lovely, affable, chatty and quite plainly dressed, giggling over jokes like the fact her Serbian friend’s mother affectionately calls her “little vagina”, and the unfortunate misspelling of her name on her lanyard at BIGSOUND as Kučka, which an Icelandic music rep pointed out means “to defecate” in his language. Lowther herself is originally from Liverpool, moving to Australia when she was 16, and it was her Serbian friend that playfully gave her the nickname KUčKA (pronounced Cooch-ka) which is in fact SerbCroatian for ‘bitch’. And it stuck. We start by talking about the BIGSOUND, an experience Lowther says she really enjoyed. “It’s like the South By Southwest of Australia. You get to meet people from all over the place, chat about music and what you’re doing, and there’s a whole bunch of showcase parties. It was really inspiring to see so many great Australian acts that are killing it. I saw this band called I’lls that are awesome - sorta electronic with groovy beats. And this band Mammals from Sydney that are kinda minimal, with beautiful guitars, they were probably my highlight.” She came out of it determined to improve upon herself, and raise the bar. “You get to see all these amazing new bands and it makes you think, I need to get to that level. I need work my ass off, and rewatch my live shows and see where I’m fucking up and get better.” Indeed, KUčKA has moved from strength to strength since the self-titled EP of 2012 that featured the WAM Award winning track Polly (serialkillersundays), and having the opportunity to perform in Paris at the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards. Then there was the A$AP Rocky collaboration – the US rapper sampled her vocals on two tracks off his Billboard No.1 album. And now with Unconditional she has honed her songwriting, creating a catchy pop-edged gem with touches of RnB, Prince-style electro funk and sweet vocals. “I still write everything, but Jake [Steele aka Yarkob, analog synth] and Katie [Campbell aka Catlips, live beats] join me for the live shows, and I think that definitely have some more input now.” KUčKA UNCONDITIONAL EP LAUNCH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ THE BIRD WWW. XP RE SS MAG.COM. AU
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Vancouver Sleep Clinic, Perth Concert Hall Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Prelude indie-rock act Vancouver Sleep Clinic, a “...little band from Brisbane,” was charming both musically and in their interaction with the crowd. Composed of five young lads, two guitars, two keys, drums and a lead singer/guitarist with an angelic voice, their sound is soft, sweet and eerie with enough rock soul to keep you awake. In a nutshell, their music comes right from the heart and you can see it all over their faces. They’re a bit like a much better version of Coldplay, with a semblance of Bon Iver in the mix. Check out their EP, Winter - these boys are going places. After taking a few years apart to develop their respective solo careers, brother-sister indie-folk duo Angus and Julia Stone have come together to produce what might be their most cohesive album to date. Interestingly, this is the first album on which the duo wrote their songs together. Tuesday’s show in Perth was, put simply, wonderful; a perfect mix of old favourites from EPs and Down The Way and new tracks from their self-titled album released this year. Lighting was simple, mostly sticking with a single colour and style for each song, yet remained effective. The crowd was for the most part fairly mellow and relaxed. Julia took position as lead vocalist for many of the tracks on the night and seemed to change her guitar with every song. Angus provided
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solid harmonies and a sweet performance of Yellow Brick Road. With deep and melodic tonal qualities, his voice was pitch-perfect throughout. Highlights included a vocally reworked and deeply emotive version of the love song For You and an incredible “angry” cover of You’re The One That I Want from the Grease soundtrack. Both songs showcased the strength of Julia’s unique voice, with her beautifully haunting head voice and her charming lower register, coupled with the various not-quite-explainable quirks that make her voice so memorable. On the subject of quirky, the song Other Things with the lyrics of “...go put the cat outside, ‘cos we’ve got things to do” segued into a rather flouncy, yet strangely satisfying, version of Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want To Have Fun. Other tracks from the new album included Main Street, which sprung from a childhood event - don’t worry we won’t tell K-Mart your secret - Heart Beats, Death Defying Acts, A Heartbreak, My Word For It and Wherever You Are. Additional old gold included Chocolates And Cigarettes and, to end the night, an encore performance of the tragic love song Santa Monica Dream, with the duo alone on stage, accompanied only by a guitar each and the deep satisfaction of a sell-out crowd. SARAH REA
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Capitol Friday, September 26, 2014 Bluejuice’s 13-year story is finally coming to an end, bogged down in a quagmire of band politics, hurt feelings and a couple of rather angry interviews from frontman, Jake Stone, aimed at fellow vocalist, Stavros Yiannoukas. The band’s farewell tour was always going to be a coin toss between nostalgic adieu and thinlyveiled breakdown and so hordes of fans filed into Capitol to see whether the band could keep it all together to pull off a farewell show worthy of their legacy. Beginning the night was local super trio, The Love Junkies. Frontman, Mitch McDonald devoured the stage, howling vocals over jagged, fuzz-laden guitar lines. The crowd, swollen and gorging on dark grungeinspired tracks such as Maybeline before moving on to rockier numbers, such as Black Sheep Blues. Bluejuice juxtaposed the malignant energy of The Love Junkies, replacing their bitter ‘90s garage rock with fluoro-clad (literally, in this case) ‘80s revivalism. S.O.S. had the crowd up early, with Stone hyped up on audience energy, shouting the band’s infectious lyrical hooks through the mic. Bright pink lights shone over the fluorescent green stage equipment as Stone removed his shirt and began to flick water into the crowd. Stage right, Yiannoukas stood more subdued than his counterpart, staunch yet largely unmoving through songs, decked in a grey shirt that proudly proclaimed “Last BJ.” The band blasted through songs, jumping and prancing their way through numbers such as 32
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Ain’t Telling The Truth while Bluejuice’s Ghostbusters parody music video saw the band members zapping snotty, narcissistic antagonists before moving on to a series of television parodies at the start of Aspen, New York. Anthemic harmonies, explosive drums and thick basslines characterised the set. However, while the band managed to keep energy high, there was little dynamic movement until the end. The interaction between Stone and Yiannoukas was still visibly awkward, though jovial enough, while synth lines steadily backed songs like Shock and the pair even joining together to elicit a call and response from the crowd during Work. Towards the end of the set Stone raised the hype once again, crowdsurfing while upright before climbing up onto Capitol’s balcony using fans, before being coaxed into jumping back off and launching into a reggae version of Lana Del Ray’s Video Games. Finally, as the set finished off, the band got audience members to climb onstage for the obligatory performance of Vitriol, sending fans into moshing paroxysms and head-banging. As the band finished up they were called back out again for an encore. Band members threw glow sticks out into the audience and partied with the crowd before turning down the lights and rocking out Broken Leg to a sea of fists clutching the brightly-coloured rods while their respective owner’s sang along to the lyrics. As the light came back on the band walked off to continue drinking along with fans. A fitting end to over a decade of debauchery. SHAUN COWE
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LISTEN OUT Sunday, September 28, 2014 Ozone Reserve “Boutique” is probably the wrong label to apply to a festival hosted in grimy foreshore parkland, dripping with mud, and featuring a (coincidental) playground and barbecue complex in the middle of it. Although not exactly glamorous, Listen Out was absolutely topshelf as far as the line-up went - a cleverly curated mix of dance acts for elitists and the cream of current crowd-pleasers. The appreciation was deeply felt - right from 2.00, Perth bass darlings Slumberjack had already garnered a keen early crowd, dropping feel-good favourites like their Cuban Brothers remix and dirtyplayful trap hit Felon. Maybe it’s a little too obvious to compare Adelaide rap wunderkind Tkay Maidza to Azalia Banks, but the comparison’s begging to be made. They’re both diminutive, party-focused, have a kind of goofynervous stage presence, and use the kind of jackin’ backing tracks antithetical to skip hop. Maidza, in all her awkward-hand-movement grinning glory, absolutely rocked the earlybirds - throwing out loveheart hand signals to the front row and getting four festival goers to party in brontosaurus suits. Her DJ was clearly having a great time, too - using the repeated gag of a Bound 2 “Uh-huh, Honey” sample to ring in Triple J hit Uh Huh. Maidza made it over for the tail end of Kilter’s set, joining him for They Say. Kilter, trapped in skinny jeans and a tight collared shirt, delivered an incredibly energetic set. Although his pre-recorded tracks involved very little knob twiddling - a little disconcerting in a DJ set - Kilter worked harder on the cymbals and electric drums than any producer really ought to. He even pumped out an incredible analogue accompaniment to his DnB rework of a Kite String Tangle track (apologetically prefaced with a “I don’t usually do this one. How do you guys feel about breaks?”).
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Bondax worked the stage and delivered a powerful pop-RnB set - as far as we could tell. During their set, one of your intrepid reporters was stuck in line for the venue’s single EFTPOS machine for half an hour. Ta-Ku, meanwhile, absolutely killed it at the 909 - hard-hitting trap tunes with incredibly rich percussion and the odd gun sound effects (and, as GMCFosho once observed, when the gunshots are the beats, there ain’t nothing harder than that). Chet Faker, sporting beanie and beard, and bobbing with the intense sensitivity you’d expect from the classic Melbourne hipster, oozed James Blake fragility (and pitch-perfect vocals). Surprisingly, though, given Flume’s appearance at the festival and Chet’s usual concert habits, he performed without full band and with
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no duets. That said, his starkly solo performance leant a sense of intimacy to his quavery songs. Snakehips delivered a hip hop/RnB set over at the 909 stage as bucket-hatted revellers crammed in for Schoolboy Q. Filling in for YG, the UK duo did an impressive job working the crowd - a solid mix of the lush, summery synths Snakehips are known for with the gritty trap a seething Perth crowd demands. By the time Schoolboy Q’s absurdly relaxed (bored?) hype man took the stage - dropping the Harlem Shake as a crowd warm-up and inserting very hammy airhorns and “Mad Dog Entertainment” promos between Q performances - the crowd was moving with a seismic intensity. A few times during the set, several rows of people would overbalance and struggle through the light mud. Q performed with aggressively selfaggrandizing swagger (“Last time I played in Perth, that shit sold out!”) and stormed through Collard Greens, Hands On The Wheel, and a version of Kendrick Lamar’s M.A.A.D City. Fourtet was as powerful as usual, and although his 40-minute set left some wanting, a solid close (finishing with Parallel Jalebi) made his performance particularly worthwhile.
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Back at the hip hop-dominated 909 stage, Young Fathers performed with an unMaidza antigiggle intensity. Accompanied by a (fairly inaudible and ineffectual) drummer and a relatively untouched sound system, Young Fathers’ three singer-rappers performed with practically paramillitary focus - staring down the front row, spitting out fierce raps, clambering and crouching menacingly on the speakers, occasionally collapsing into Paul Dano-esque church choral breaks. Party jam Get Up was beyond heart-onsleeve. Sporting the incredible Kanye-esque mask promised in his promo pics, Golden Features delivered a workable but slightly lukewarm 3.00 set, culminating in a modest rework of Feel Good Inc. Later, Yahtzel - maskless, sporting uber-casual Ulladulla attire - represented the best of Aussie bass music: unpretentious, meticulously crafted trap bangers interspersed with the odd “I love Perth!”. He rounded off the set with his recent track with L D R U (Maybe).
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Zhu - who, if you’re close enough to the enormous screen obscuring him from the crowd, is very clearly Stephen Zhu - has a stage pseudonymity that feels less mysterious than innocent. There’s something a little Kate Bush about his uncanny vocoder falsetto, his shyness, and how unnecessary his self-effacement is. In an enormous theatrical gesture, Zhu opened with an audio-visual announcement: the Roswell aliens left a message, and that message was “LOVE”. “If you came here with people you love, make some noise,” he said, in a subdued monotone. “And if you came here because you love Zhu, make some noise.” His set included recent CHVRCHS remix (complete with jangly guitars), his Outkast recut Moves Like Ms. Jackson, and an impressive rework of Faded. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (there’s only one of them, and he’s delivering a DJ set) opened with a slightly tacky touch - the Blue Danube, which I last heard dropped by a DJ at a Coldplay concert. Immediately afterwards, he launched into an incredibly powerful and playful set, pulling tricks like double-drops and dropping the entire bottom end unexpectedly to give way to a Punjab vocal line. Playing his sole live show of 2014, Flume brought the entire festival to a singularity, with particular care given to his remix of Lorde’s Tennis Court. His wobbly synths, given all the audio room they deserved, capped off a particularly rich and satisfying new festival. ZOE KILBOURN Photos - Alfred Gorman. WWW. XP RE SS MAG.COM. AU
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AFL GRAND FINAL The Wembley Hotel Saturday, September 27, 2014 The punters turned out in droves to watch the Hawks thrash the Swans in the 2014 Grand Final. Photos by Matt Jelonek
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USURPER OF MODERN MEDICINE Performing Surgery On Reality Omniliberation, Usurper Of Modern Medicine’s beautiful, trippy sonic journey of an album, is getting the limited edition 12” treatment, launching at The Bird this Saturday, October 4, with support from Mt. Mountain, Derailluer and Sacred Flower Union. We had a word with Steve Aaron Hughes, one third of Usurper, about the release. So we’re all up to speed, who are Usurper Of Modern Medicine? Birthed in 2010 from the collaboration of three twisted creative souls who liked to experiment with beats, amps and technology. A jam turns into a song turns into touring, records, life-affirming experiences in sound and the birth of a debut album in 2014. What led to the decision to do a vinyl release of Omniliberation? The reproduction of sound on vinyl is paramount and we wished to share the album with you in this way. Recording to tape and processing sounds in the analogue realm brings out more beautiful ghosts in the sound.
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How’s the Omniliberation video project coming along? We have had three videos released so far, the most recent one by local film-maker Dan Nicholls of Illusory Projects for Above And Beyond, which came out only two weeks ago. There’s a clip from Amber Fresh, Tahlia Palmer and maybe one more coming before the end of the year. You’ve spoken of new material currently being workshopped... We have a selection of songs from the Omniliberation launch not yet released that we’re finishing the mixes of for some new releases. We’ve gotten into the process of writing new material with our new drummer (Cameron Hines stopped performing live in late 2013) which is taking on a new direction. New instruments are on the mind. I’ve recently built a new type of instrument from some home-made technologies and Matthew Bairstow, who now plays drums with us live, builds his own circuit bent technology, which is taking our music in a whole new lush and distorted analogue direction. How did you arrive at the lineup for the launch gig? Mt. Mountain are one of the greatest new acts in Perth, awesome sludgy stoner rock that we absolutely love. Derailluer is a new project featuring some of Perth’s best session musos like Karl Hiller and John Nandez simply improvising - they’re mindblowing to watch create jams on the spot. Sacred Flower Union is one of the most unique solo electronic producers in Perth right now and he’ll be closing the night with some of his beats. Anything else we need to know? Heartless Robot Productions released our vinyl and organised this show and we should celebrate creative labels like this one who put such time and effort into our local music. See you on Saturday and come with open mind and open ears.
TOBY OR NOT TO BE H av i n g j u s t re t u r n e d f ro m a massive 55 date tour of Europe plus a three week regional tour of Western Australia, local fave Toby is performing a few gigs in P-Town before jetting off for a sly run of shows up and down the East Coast. Catch her at the Indi Bar this Saturday, October 4, at Clancy’s Fish Pub, Dunsborough, on Sunday, October 26 and at the Perth Blues Club on Tuesday, October 28.
SIGNAL TO NOISE Thursday, October 2, catch power pop outfit Night Signals, along with Simon Sieradzki, Sharon and The Bloody Ramblers, at The Rosemount Hotel. With a crack lineup of veteran Perth musos backing chanteuse Skye Groenveld on vocals, this five piece combine melancholic, thoughtful lyrics with strong pop sensibilities to produce something pretty special. Doors open at 8pm, entry is $6.
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MAY IN OCTOBER Wednesday, October 1, Abbe May plays Mojo’s Bar in the first instalment of a month-long residency. May plays Mojo’s Bar each Wednesday in October and fans can expect songs from across all of her albums including Kiss My Apocalypse, Design Desire, Howl And Moan, Hawaiian Disease and Hoodoo You Do, Opening night guests Methyl Ethel and Todd Pickett with Luke Dux. Tickets are $20 at door from 8pm. Abbe May
CATCH HOLD OF CATBRUSH A couple of their members are heading over east soonish, so now’s a pretty good time to see Catbrush live, who are playing The Bird’s October Party this Thursday, October 2, along with Doctopus, Kitchen People and Apples. Entry is $5 from 8pm. Catbrush
THE TIDE IS TURNING It’s been a long time coming, but at last The Lammas Tide have their debut album, Barefoot Electric, squared away and ready to go. Get down to The Odd Fellow this Saturday, October 4, for a decent dose of fun folk rock from the five piece, who’ll be joined on the night by Rokwell And Groom, Golden Slums and DJ Claude Mono. Entry is $10 from 7pm.
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ROSWELL No One Lives Here Anymore EP Launch @ YaYa’s
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JOEL BARKER Beyond The Crows Album Launch @ the Astor Lounge
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VILLAIN The Other Side EP Launch @ Flyrite
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ANDREA FRANCES Paradoxos Album Launch @ Red Door Auditorium
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LOUIS & THE HONKYTONK Sandpaper Single Launch @ the Bird
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VISHNU Water Tones Album Launch @ the Bird
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BESIDE LIGHTS Half Heart EP Launch @ The Rosemount
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THE TERROR OF THE NEW If you missed out on seeing Timothy Nelson And The Infidels launch their fantastic new album, Terror, Terror, Hide It, Hide IT, at The Rosemount Hotel a few weeks back, you’d best pounce on the opportunity to catch one of Perth’s best bands at The Amplifier this Saturday, October 4. The man with the ‘fro and co. are joined by PErth hip hop royalty Mathas for this special night making this a show you don’t want to miss. Tickets are $10 plus booking fee via Oztix, or $20 on the door if available. The fun starts at 8pm. Timothy Nelson And The Infidels - Photo by Rachael Barrett
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X- P R E S S G U I D E TOURS OCTOBER THE HIGH KINGS 1 Crown Theatre HANDS LIKE HOUSES 1 YMCA HQ 2 Amplifier Bar THE YEARLINGS 2 Clancy’s Fremantle DIESEL 2 – 4 Ellington Jazz Club KID MAC 2 Mojos Bar 4 Settlers Tavern 5 Indi Bar THE DIRE STRAITS EXPERIENCE 3 Perth Concert Hall ANNA VISSI 3 HBF Stadium THE MEANIES 3 Rosemount Hotel STACEY PULLEN 3 Geisha Bar MANJIMUP BLUEGRASS & OLD TIME MUSIC WEEKEND 3, 4 & 5 Manjimup GENERIK 3 Causeway 4 Metropolis Fremantle VERUCA SALT 4 Rosemount Hotel OKTOBERFEST 4 The Broken Hill Hotel BRITISH INDIA 5 Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre 2014 AWESOME FESTIVAL 4 – 7 Perth Cultural Centre 2014 AWESOME FESTIVAL 8 – 13 Perth Cultural Centre JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 8 & 9 Perth Arena INVENTIONS 8 Rosemount Hotel 10 YaYa’s 11 YMCA HQ SLAVES 8 Amplifier Bar THE TEA PARTY with SUPERJESUS 9 Crown Theatre BRIGGS 9 Flyrite 10 Mojos Bar 11 Dunsborough Hotel HILLTOP HOODS 10 Nipper Roe Oval, Broome T-PAIN 10 Metropolis Fremantle DEAD KENNEDYS 11 Capitol JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE 11 Astor Theatre RHYS DARBY 13 & 14 Astor Theatre ADAM BRAND 15 Friends Restaurant 16 The Deck, Busselton 17 New Centurion Hotel 18 Charles Hotel 19 Ravenswood Hotel THE SELECTER 14 Rosemount Hotel ALL DAY 15 YMCA HQ 16 Prince of Wales, Bunbury 17 Amplifier Bar SAY ANYTHING 15 Amplifier Bar COMEBACK KID 16 Amplifier Bar SHEPPARD 16 Astor Theatre MISSY HIGGINS 16 Crown Theatre 18 Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre 19 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre
ALLDAY 16 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury JOHN WILLIAMSON 16 Albany Entertainment Centre 18 Astor Theatre ANDREW DICE CLAY 17 HBF Stadium JOHNNY CASH THE CONCERT 17 Astor Theatre CHRISTINE ANU 17 & 18 Ellington Jazz Club DRAGON 17 Charles Hotel 18 New Centurion Hotel JASMINE RAE 17 New Centurion Hotel 18 Charles Hotel 19 Ravenswood Hotel THE GRISWOLDS 18 Amplifier Bar ELECTRIC VINES 18 Swan Valley SOLE MIO 19 Crown Theatre REGGIE WATTS 21 Astor Theatre COMMON & YASIIN BEY aka MOS DEF 22 Metro City MILEY CYRUS 23 Perth Arena BRAZOUKA 23 – 26 Regal Theatre BALL PARK MUSIC 24 Astor Theatre 25 Settlers Tavern, Margaret River BEN OTTEWELL 24 The Odd Fellow 25 Four5Nine Rosemount Hotel WOLFPACK 24 YaYa’s 25 Prince of Wales, Bunbury 26 Osborne Park Bowls Club WELCOME TO THE VALLEY 25 Belvoir Amphitheatre THE AUSTRALIAN SANTANA EXPERIENCE 25 Charles Hotel HOLY HOLY 25 Dunsborough Tavern DEVIN TOWNSEND 25 Hale School LIL JON 26 Metro City THE ROLLING STONES 29 Perth Arena KATIE NOONAN & FRIENDS 30 Artbar THE KIN 30 Mojos Bar 31 Rosemount Hotel KATCHAFIRE 30 Settlers Tavern 31 Metropolis Fremantle SHIHAD 31 Mojos Bar COURTYARD CLUB OPENING PARTY 31 State Theatre Centre NOVEMBER THE ROLLING STONES 1 Perth Arena SHIHAD 1 Rosemount Hotel KATCHAFIRE 1 Capitol WE TWO THIEVES 1 The Odd Fellow 2 Astor Lounge SASHA 2 The Court Hotel
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JOELISTICS 1 459 Rosemount Hotel 2 Mojos Bar MARIAH CAREY 2 Sandalford Estate AQUA 5 Metropolis Fremantle MARIANAS TRENCH 5 Astor Theatre THE SCREAMING JETS 6 Capitol RODRIGUEZ 6, 7 & 9 Kings Park & Botanic Garden THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 7 Rosemount Hotel MADDEN BROTHERS 7 Crown Theatre LANIE LANE 7 The Bakery SETS IN THE CITY 7 Riverside Drive KATY PERRY 7 & 8 Perth Arena BLACK VOICES 8 Perth Concert Hall FLIGHT FACILITIES with CLIENT LIASON 8 Capitol MIX 94.5’S CLASSIC HITS ALL DAY 8 King’s Park & Botanic Garden BLOOD ROCK FEST 2014 8 Rosemount Hotel RADIO BIRDMAN 9 459 Rosemount Hotel GOSSLING 9 The Bakery JACK CARTY 9 Rosemount Hotel JOE SATRIANI 11 Astor Theatre JIMMY EAT WORLD 11 Metro City YES 12 Crown Theatre KRISIUM 12 Amplifier Bar THIRSTY MERC 12 Friends Restaurant 13 Rivendell Winery 14 New Centurion Hotel 15 Charles Hotel 16 Ravenswood Hotel PAUL UBANA JONES 13 Northshore Tavern 14 Ravenswood Tavern 15 Collie Hotel 16 Settlers Tavern 19 Music Shack, Pinjarra 21 Howling Wolf Winery, Yallingup JOHN DIGWEED 14 The Stables Bar DUSKY 14 Ambar THELMA PLUM 14 Players Bar 15 Amplifier Bar 16 Newport Hotel NOFX 15 Metro City THE MARK OF CAIN 15 Rosemount Hotel SEAN PAUL 15 HBF Stadium CELTIC LEGENDS 16 – 17 Heath Ledger Theatre 18 – 19 Mandurah Performing Arts Centre 21 Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre 22 Albany Entertainment Centre TORI AMOS 18 Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre RADICAL REELS 18 – 21 The State Theatre Centre of WA JIMMY BARNES 19 Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre 20 Albany Entertainment Centre 22 & 23 Kings Park & Botanic Garden VIOLENT SOHO 19 Prince of Wales, Bunbury 20 Dunsborough Tavern 21 Studio 146, Albany 22 Capitol STEVE SMYTH 19 459 Rosemount Hotel 20 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury 21 Redcliffe On The Murray 22 Mojos Bar 23 Indi Bar SETH TROXLER 21 Villa THE DELTA RIGGS 21 Prince of Wales Hotel 22 The Odd Fellow HEY LADY! 21 Mojos Bar 22 459 Rosemount MOTOWN ON THE ROCKS 21 Quarry Amphitheatre JUSTINE CLARKE 22 Crown Theatre
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS NEIL FINN 22 Sandalford Winery NATURAL NZ MUSIC FESTIVAL 22 Red Hill Auditorium C.W. STONEKING 22 Rosemount Hotel 23 Mojos Bar MOVEME IMPROVISATION FESTIVAL 22 – 30 Perth THE BLACK SEEDS 23 Clancy’s Dunsborough BROODS 26 Capitol NICK CAVE 27 & 28 Fremantle Arts Centre BUSBY MAROU 27 Mojos Bar 28 Prince of Wales, Bunbury BUSBY MAROU ACOUSTIC DUO 27 Mojos Bar 28 Prince Of Wales ILLY 28 Astor Theatre ACOUSTIC ON THE ROCKS 28 Quarry Amphitheatre BEN FOLDS & WASO 28 & 29 Perth Concert Hall HAND OF MERCY 28 Elliot St Bar, Bunbury 29 Villa 30 YMCA HQ HAMISH ANDERSON 28 YaYa’s JAZZ ON THE ROCKS 29 Quarry Amphitheatre COLAB FESTIVAL 29 UWA Oak Lawn THE SMITH STREET BAND 29 Rosemount Hotel DAVID BRIDIE 29 Astor Lounge 30 Mojos Bar STEREOSONIC 29 & 30 Claremont Showgrounds HOODOO GURUS 30 Scarborough Amphitheatre DECEMBER JOAN ARMATRADING 4 Astor Theatre THE DEAD DAISIES 4 Rosemount Hotel HUSKY 4 Dunsborough Hotel 5 The Bakery 6 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE 4 Settlers Tavern YACHT CLUB DJS 5 Amplifier Bar UB40 & BLUE KING BROWN 5 Red Hill Auditorium HILLTOP HOODS 5 Bovell Park, Busselton 6 Red Hill Auditorium DRUNK MUMS 5 Devilles Pad 6 Mojos Bar PIERCE BROTHERS 5 Settlers Tavern 6 Indi Bar NE OBLIVISCARIS 6 Amplifier Bar TIG NOTARO 6 Regal Theatre THE PREATURES 6 Capitol SLEEP 8 The Bakery TY SEGALL 11 The Bakery THE DATSUNS 11 Leisure Inn, Rockingham 12 Prince of Wales, Bunbury 13 Astor Lounge 14 Railway Hotel DEAD LETTER CIRCUS 12 Capitol 13 Prince of Wales, Bunbury FACTORY FLOOR 13 The Bakery THE WAIFS 13 Fremantle Arts Centre THINGS OF STONE & WOOD 13 The Charles Hotel 14 Dunsborough Hotel THY ART IS MURDER 17 YMCA HQ 18 Capitol WATSKY 18 Prince Of Wales, Bunbury 19 Leisure Inn 20 Amplifier Bar GYROSCOPE 20 Rosemount Hotel
FUNK CLUB’S NYE COUNTDOWN – 2015 EDITION 31 Salt On The Beach, North Fremantle JANUARY 2015 SOUTHBOUND 3 & 4 Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton MARDUK & INQUISITION 12 Amplifier Bar EVERY TIME I DIE 14 Amplifier Bar THE KOOKS 17 Belvoir Amphitheatre SHAMEEM 17 Subiaco Arts Centre OZ ROCK BUSSELTON ft. ICEHOUSE, ABSOLUTELY ‘80S, WENDY MATTHEWS, ROSS WILSON, DIESEL, JAMES REYNE 24 Barnard Park, Busselton RED HILL AUSTRALIA DAY EVE CONCERT ft. ICEHOUSE, JAMES REYNE, DIESEL 25 Red Hill Auditorium SUZI QUATRO 28, 29 & 31 Regal Theatre JOHNNY MARR 29 Astor Theatre DOCTOR WHO SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR 31 Perth Arena FEBRUARY 2015 CHIODOS 4 Amplifier Bar PASSENGER 7 Red Hill Auditorium EVENING ON THE GREEN – THE ANGELS & CHEAP TRICK 8 Kings Park & Botanic Garden LANEWAY FESTIVAL 8 Esplanade Reserve, Fremantle YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN 12 Astor Theatre ROXETTE 14 Perth Arena THE EAGLES 18 & 19 Perth Arena ONE DIRECTION 20 Patersons Stadium PAUL SIMON & STING 21 & 22 Sir James Mitchell Park GUY SEBASTIAN 28 Perth Arena MARCH 2015 FROM THE JAM 5 Capitol SANDRA BERNHARD 10 Regal Theatre KYLIE MINOGUE 14 Perth Arena INGRID MICHAELSON 14 Rosemount Hotel ROXETTE 14 Perth Arena VANCE JOY 20 Astor Theatre ROD STEWART 21 Perth Arena
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DELLA FERN LUNAR INVERSE 4 Four5Nine Rosemount
OCTOBER 1-31 SHAKE FT. BENJAMIN DOG 1 The Bird
KALLIDAD 4 Mojos VERUCA SALT COMMUNITY CHEST 4 Rosemount
ABBE MAY METHYL ETHEL TODD PICKETT WITH LUKE DUX 1 Mojos CAMP DOOGS ELEVENTEEN ESTON DIANAS THE SPUNLOVES APPLES 1 Rosemount Hotel GOING SOLO FT. LOCHY (EX KILL DEVIL HILLS) DAVEY CRADDOCK 1 Moon Cafe
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THE GET DOWN FT. CHARLIE BUCKET JOHN SAFARI KLEAN KICKS 5 Rosemount Beergarden
THE MEANIES HIDEOUS SUN DEMON ABORTED TORTOISE 3 Rosemount
WANDERLUST BERNARDINE SEEDS OF THE SEA TEISCHA 1 YaYa’s
KING’S JUSTICE BRAVES LATE NIGHT HYSTERICS LUKE PALLIER 3 YaYa’s
AMBERDOWN THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES FALLOWAY DEAD CAPITAL 2 Four5Nine Rosemount
HANDPICKED 004 TC GTA THE JILLIONAIRE (MAJOR LAZER) 3 Metro City
WIDE OPEN MIC 6 Mojos
KID MAC BOSTON SWITCH 2 Mojos
TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS MATHAS THE WILDS GOLDEN STRING 4 Amplifier Bar
BIG TOMMO’S OPEN MIC NIGHT 6 YaYa’s
NIGHT SIGNALS SIMON SIERADZKI SHARON & THE BLOODY RAMBLERS 2 Rosemount GALLOPING FOXLEYS THE SHOPS THE TOMMYHAWKS BLACK RIVER RANSOM 2 YaYa’s SOUTHPAW FORSTORA SUBURBAN AND COKE DSD 3 Amplifier Bar
ROCKIN BOWL SHARON SPACEHOUND 5 Osborne Park Bowling Club DAVID CRAFT LUKE DUX TIMOTHY NELSON 5 Swanbrook Winery
COMEDY TRIVIA 6 Rosemount
OKTOBERFEST @ THE BROKEN HILL 4 The Broken Hill Hotel LAMMAS TIDE CD LAUNCH 4 The Odd Fellow DELLA FERN THE AUTUMN ISLES OAK TREE SUITE LUNAR INVERSE 4 Rosemount Hotel THE AUTUMN ISLES OAK TREE SUITE
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JONI IN THE MOON ELOISE ASHTON TASHI THE TIM MAN LAUREN ARTHUR DIET 3 Four5Nine Rosemount
JULZ EVANS LIONIZER THE TOMMYHAWKS 7 Four5Nine Rosemount
THE HIGH LEARYS CLEAR MY MIND SINGLE LAUNCH CUSTOM ROYAL THEE GOLD BLOOMS 3 The Bakery
THE NBC ROBERT HINTON LEAH EMILY GRANT THE SILENT DEEDs 7 Mojos
FISHERMAN STYLE #100 FT. EARTHLINK SOUND SORTED SMITCH BUSHAD RASTA FYAH CORBY FUTURE SOUNDZ
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BEX & TURIN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT 7 Rosemount ZYKLUS AGAMOUS BETTY MARMALADE THE SPUNLOVES 8 Four5Nine Rosemount ABBE MAY SILVER HILLS DAVID CRAFT 8 Mojos GOING SOLO FT. SIMON BAZELY JANE AZZOPARDI 8 Moon Cafe
MAY 2015
THE GETAWAY PLAN 12 Rosemount Hotel 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 29 Perth Arena
CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK HUGE MAGNET 5 Mojos
BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE FT. ANTON MAZ 1 Rosemount Beergarden
ED SHEERAN 4 Perth Arena THE BLACK KEYS 14 Red Hill Auditorium
SAM SMITH 4 HBF Stadium RICKY MARTIN 8 Perth Arena PALOMA FAITH 16 Perth Concert Hall
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WELCOME TO THE VALLEY BELVOIR AMPHITHEATRE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
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COURTYARD CLUB OPENING PARTY STATE THEATRE CENTRE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
INVENTIONS SAIL ON! SAIL ON! KITES THE LAKE & THE RIVER 8 Rosemount BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE FT. ANTON MAZ 8 Rosemount Beergarden
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TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS AMPLIFIER BAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4
HAHA’S @ YAYA’S 8 YaYa’s HELLO MADAM VERONICA’S ASSASSIN THE TIN MAN 9 Four5Nine Rosemount EMMA RUSSACK RABBIT ISLAND SODA EAVES 9 Mojos PATIENT SIXTY SEVEN SANCTIONS 9 Rosemount THE MDC CROOKED CATS HIGHWAY BREAKDOWN WINDOW TO THE WORLD 9 YaYa’s
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GET WEIRD 2ND BIRTHDAY AMBAR NIGHTCLUB FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
THE BAKERY BOX SOCIAL #3 THE VOLCANICS THE PAIN KILLERS 11 The Bakery THE LOVE JUNKIES BLOWING ON THE DEVILS STRUMPET ALBUM LAUNCH FOAM ABORTED TORTOISE COOL BAND 11 Mojos INJURED NINJA SARRY FRENCH ROCKETS MUDLARK 11 Rosemount
SOME LIKE IT YACHT THEE GOLD BLOOMS 10 Devilles Pad
GUNNS DREAM RIMMY THE LONG LOST BROTHERS CHILDSAINT 12 Mojos
DAN PETERS & THE VOLATYLES BLACK STONE FROM THE SUN NEVSKY PROSPEKT SHARON 10 Four5Nine Rosemount
THE GET DOWN FT. ASLAN JOHN SAFARI KLEAN KICKS 12 Rosemount Beergarden
HUSSLE HUSSLE FT. BRIGGS HAU DT DJ SILENCE 10 Mojos
LADY VELVET CABARET 12 YaYa’s
NLV PRESENTS INTL EDITION ECLAIR FIFI NINA LAS VEGAS SAM TIMBA UNIIQU3 10 Speakeasy
COMEDY TRIVIA 13 Rosemount
WIDE OPEN MIC 13 Mojos
ROSWELL NO ONE LIVES HERE EP LAUNCH INVENTIONS LOWLIGHT 10 Ya-ya’s
MINING TAX VERGE COLLECTION SUBURBAN & COKE FUR CHICK 15 Four5Nine Rosemount
UNDER THE DOME RIGBY’S BAR AND BISTRO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19
GOOD VIBES PARTY FT. SOULJAH KAPTIVEZ NGATI 18 Rosemount UNDER THE DOME FT JEROME ISMA-AE 19 Rigby’s Bar and Bistro RYAN BINGHAM HARRY HOOKEY 19 Mojos
THE GET DOWN FT. ASLAN JOHN SAFARI KLEAN KICKS 19 Rosemount Beergarden
GOING SOLO FT. JONI IN THE MOON 15 Moon Cafe
MADELINE MCEWAN TIM GORDON MATT WARING 19 Swanbrook Winery
PEOPLE PROBLEM EMU XPERTS YOB MOB BEVERLY KILLBILLYS CRIPPLED CHILDREN FUCKING TEETH NIGHT SIGNALS LUNGS, AND MORE! 15 Rosemount BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE FT. ANTON MAZ 15 Rosemount Beergarden
THE UPBEATS
DRUM & BASS ARENA
METRO CITY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
COMEDY TRIVIA 20 Rosemount
KUČKA 25 The Bird
BLACK RIVER RANSOM 21 Mojos
LOCO LAUNCH SLUMBERJACK PALACE BUNJ 25 The Claremont Hotel
GOING SOLO FT. PETER BIBBY & JAALA 22 Moon Café KING ONION
KORN TRIBUTE NIGHT ROSEMOUNT HOTEL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
THE REGULAR HUNTERS DEEP DEMON DESIRE SINGLE LAUNCH WARNING BIRDS NIGHT SIGNALS HUSBAND LUCY PEACH 17 Mojos
DRUM & BASS ARENA AUSTRALIAN TOUR THE UPBEATS DC BREAKS CYANTIFIC TECHNIMATIC 24 Metro City
WIDE OPEN MIC 20 Mojos
ABBE MAY BOBBY BERGESS JR. PREISENDORFER (SAM FORD) 22 Mojos
ELEMENTS VOL 1 COMMON MOS DEF 22 Metro City WAAPA ARTS MANAGEMENT STUDENT ORGANISATION FUNDRAISER 22 Rosemount BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE FT. ANTON MAZ 22 Rosemount Beergarden KITCHEN PEOPLE 23 Mojos JACOB DIAMOND TRIO 23 Moon Cafe BESIDE LIGHTS 23 Rosemount HANDSOME LADY CLUB MAMA AYUTO INFINITY HAMMER 24 Mojos
ZYKLUS
ZYKLUS
FOUR5NINE ROSEMOUNT WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8
HIGH LEARYS SINGLE LAUNCH THE BAKERY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
WIDE OPEN MIC 27 Mojos COMEDY TRIVIA 27 Rosemount
BEX & TURIN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT 28 Rosemount ABBE MAY HIDEOUS SUN DEMON KT RUMBLE 29 Mojos GOING SOLO FT. LUKE DUX TODD PICKETT 29 Moon Café THE GET GO FT. GUTZ AXIS & DISTA OPTIMYSTIC BLUNTFIELD SCRAWLZ DISORDERLY CONDUCT DJ WRXIT 29 Rosemount
EAST MEETS WEST FT. MANGELWURZEL PETER BIBBY & HIS BOTTLES OF CONFIDENCE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON WHIPPED CREAM CHARGERS COOL BAND LALIC DREAM RIMMY 25 Mojos THE SIREN TOWER ORDER OF THE BLACK WEREWOLF DIRTWATER BLOOM BUFFALO CLUB 25 Amplifier Bar ROBERT HUNTER CUP AUS. ALL STARS FT. DOWNSYDE MORTAR BITTER BELIEF LAYLA MATTY B THE APHILLIATES DWIZOFOZ DJ ROB SHAKER HEATA DJJCIDE 25 Rosemount WELCOME TO THE VALLEY 25 Belvoir Amphitheatre BUCK 65 DIGER ROKWELL EMPTY DJ SILENCE 26 Mojos
GET WEIRD 2ND BIRTHDAY KITO REIJA LEE + VARIOUS ARTISTS 17 Ambar Nightclub
THE HIGH LEARYS
GOLDEN DAYS VINTAGE MARKETS 26 Rosemount Carpark
COLLECTIONS 28 Mojos
KORN TRIBUTE NIGHT FT. KING ONION THIS OTHER EDEN LETS KILL UNCLE ARKARION 24 Rosemount
BEX & TURIN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT 21 Rosemount
EDIE GREEN CATBRUSH THESE WINTER NIGHTS KING CACTUS 16 Rosemount JEROME ISMA-AE
THE GET DOWN FT. ASLAN JOHN SAFARI KLEAN KICKS 26 Rosemount Beergarden
RUMSKULL 19 Moon Café
ABBE MAY ODETTE MERCY NOVAC BOOM! BAP! POW! 15 Mojos
NICK SAXON & THE ELUSIVE FEW ZIGGY ALBERTS JORDAN MCROBBIE 16 Mojos
L.A NIGHTS 10 The Manor ABORTED TORTOISE THE PISSEDCOLAS SHIT NARNIA EMU XPERTS SHARON 10 Rosemount
BEX & TURIN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT 14 Rosemount
LIL JON DJ SET 26 Metro City
BLUE SHADDY POLLY MEDLEN 18 Mojos
INJURED NINJA
INJURED NINJA
ROSEMOUNT HOTEL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE FT. ANTON MAZ 29 Rosemount Beergarden THE KIN 30 Mojos PROGLAMMATION FT. GOMBO PROGLAMATION ALUMNUS KRIPKE’S ILLUSION SKYGAZER 30 Rosemount COURTYARD CLUB OPENING PARTY ABBE MAY + MORE 31 State Theatre Centre SHIHAD HIGH TENSION CAIRO KNIFE FIGHT 31 Mojos THE KIN 31 Rosemount
Morgan Bain Boom! Bap! Pow! Tired Lion 17 Rosemount
SAFIA 31 Halloween Party @ The Bakery
TRIBUTE TO THE CRAMPS THE SHAKEYS THE CABALLEROS LUX INFERIOR & HIS GARBAGE MEN 17 Ya-Ya’s
ABBE MAY
ABBE MAY
MOJOS BAR WEDNESDAYS IN OCTOBER
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KUČKA
KUČKA
THE BIRD THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
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WIN A JOHNNY MARR GUITAR
TELSTRA TEACHES YOU HOW TO ROCK
Thanks to his work with The Smiths he was already a legend by the time he started tooling around with young upstarts like Modest Mouse and The Cribs, and now Johnny Marr is touring Australia, kicking things off with a Perth show at the Astor Theatre on Thursday, January 29, 2015. What’s relevant to us, though, is that Frontier Touring is giving lucky fans a chance to win a Johnny Marr Signature Fender Jaguar Guitar valued at $3500. All you need to do is a) buy a ticket to one of the shows on the tour and b) email info@frontiertouring.com.au with your name, phone number, which show you’ve got a ticket for and the answer, in the traditional 25 words or less format, to the following question: What would be the first song you would play on your new Johnny Marr Jaguar Guitar and why? How easy is that?
Telstra Road To Discovery’s free online Music Master Class series is on its way back. Telstra has gathered together some incredibly talented and notable musicians, performers and industry pundits to help teach you the ins and outs of the business of show, via the miracle of internet streaming. Hosted by Ella Hooper, your faculty will include Eskimo Joe’s Kav Temperley, Illy, Katie Noonan, Styalz Fuego, Steve Smyth, plus experts from such industry giants as YouTube, the Mushroom Group and Wonderlick Entertainment. Classes will be livestreamed every Monday from 8pm AEST for a month at telstra.com/trtd.
TRIPLE J UNEARTHED NIDA MUSIC VIDEO COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Johnny Marr
EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING DIRECTOR AND ACTORS Wanted: Director and female actor around 30 yrs of age Ph: Andrea 0427174590 FOR HIRE BUDGET PA & DJ EQUIPMENT HIRE Delivery & set up available. All pro gear. Phone 0402576200 FOR SALE ENTERTAIN & EDUCATE KIDS EVERY DAY! Awesome Business Opportunity Available. Entertain kids during the day, still keep your “grown up gigs” too! Earn an amazing “day time” income delivering an exciting, interactive Pop Rock program to preschoolers. Well estab business and brand recognition. Comprehensive year-long program operating daily at cafÈ/restaurants during school hours. Multiple other revenue streams including appearances at festivals, shopping centres, birthday parties and community events. Positioned for immediate growth and franchise! Price on application. Call Lisa on 0488124576. MUSOS WANTED BASS PLAYER WANTED Old school blues rocker for working rock band. Phone: 0412231126 FEMALE SINGER WANTED for working rock band. Phone: 0412231126 38
Out of hundreds of entries, seven triple j Unearthed artists were selected to have music videos made for them by one of the National Institute Of Dramatic Arts’ post-grad directing students. Whereas previous years saw the likes of Allday, Bloods, Chance Waters and Little Odessa get the nod, this year hip hop trio Loose Change, indie-pop exponents Halcyon Drive, dreamy orchestral outfit Jasia, MC Coin Banks, garage punks Julia Why? and singer/songwriters Rosie Catalano and Zach Buchanan had their sounds translated to vision by the talented students. To get a look at the resultant works, head over to triple j’s YouTube channel. Halcyon Drive
OPEN MIC NIGHT every Thursday night at Indi Bar. Email Trojan_johnmusic@yahoo.com.au for spot. Laneway Lounge Open Mic every Tuesday night. If you’re keen for a spot text Josh on 0430313577
ANDY’S STUDIO International multi award winning songwriter / producer. No band required. Broadcast quality. A songwriter’s paradise. Ph 9364 3178 GOLDDUST Production Mixing, recording and composition. Leederville $80 p/h. 0408 097 407 PRODUCTION SERVICES RECORDING MIXING MASTERING PRODUCING C D & D V D M A N U FA C T U R E C h e c k o u t Fremantle location. Call Pete Kitchen Cooked o u r l ate s t C D & DV D s p e c i a l s o n l i n e at Records. Ph 0407363764 / 9336 3764 www.procopy.com.au 9375 3902 REVOLVER SOUND STUDIO Ph 9272 7505. MATRIX PRODUCTIONS AUSTRALIA Lighting, www.revolverstudio.com.au staging, sound systems, smoke machines, night club SONGWRITERS - BANDS! Great Productions! FX, intelligent lighting, strobes & mirror balls, crowd London Producer, awesome studio. Call Jerry on 0405653338 www.jerichomusic.com.au barriers, video projectors. 9371 1551 REHEARSAL STUDIOS RECORDING STUDIOS AAA VHS REHEARSAL ROOMS Great facilities, great A L A N DAW S O N ’ S W I T Z E N D R ECO R D I N G STUDIO Prof quality albums or demos, large vibe & great price!!! Unit 5 /16 Peel Road, O’Connor. Phone 9418 5815 or 0413732885 live room, experienced engineer, analog to digital transfers, mastering. Alan 0407989128 BIGBEAT SOUND STUDIO Clean rooms, all new PA systems, air-con and good parking . Willetton Ph: www.witzendstudios.com 0425698117. ANALOG MASTERING VINTAGE TAPE, TUBES P L AT I N U M S O U N D RO O M S P ro fe s s i o n a l & TRANSFORMERS with the latest state of the rehearsal rooms, airconditioned, quality PAs mob art digital converters. Clients include: Melody’s 0418944722 Echo Chamber, Pond, Gossling, Knife Party, REHEARSAL ROOM & PA HIRE WITH OPERATOR Felicity Groom, The Floors, Jeff Martin & The 2800 Watt quality system or 5600 Watt. Fremantle Panics. World class facility, World class results. area. Bibra Lake studio. nw@centralbeat.com.au 0410485588 www.poonshead.com. 9339 4791 WWW. XP RE SS MAG.COM. AU
Kav Temperley
STREAM STUDIO’S 89 Stirling St, Perth. Mobile: 0403152009 info@streamrehearsal.com.au TUITION ***GUITAR LESSONS*** The Guitar Institute. New Studio New Times Avail. Online bookings. Beg to prof, all styles. Tutors WWC clearance. Cliff Lynton Guitar Institute. Mt Lawley 9342 3484/ www.clifflynton.com BASS GUITAR LESSONS AVAILABLE by WAAPA tutor. A practicle approach to learning. .All styles. Years of experience. Tony Gibbs 9470 6131
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