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BEAUFORT ST FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING LINE UP ANNOUNCED
Next year’s Southbound Festival is already shaping up to be one of the greatest in the event’s history, and that’s looking even more likely with the fresh revelation of the line-up of excellent DJs set to man the decks at the always-reliable Coconut Club, celebrating its 10th anniversary at the event in 2016. The Coconut Club crew have done a solid job of securing an A-list cabal of Aussie talent to keep the good times pumping at their Captain Morgans-backed space, with the torch being borne by Kilter, Gold Coast hero Paces, Adelaide fave Luke Million, Brissy legend Young Franco, Sydney soulman Klue, the ascendant, sassy Luen, a DJ set from Elk Road and an appearance by hometown identities Loston & Palace. They join a wider Coconut Club line-up of ‘regulars’ including Boston Switch, DJ Mandy B, DJ Mutchy, Fungle Club, Micah Black, Swami Adima (one of the club’s founders, FYI) & Bongo Loco, The Housejunkie and The Shadow Brothers, aboard the massive Southbound main roster of acts including the likes of Alpine, Birds of Tokyo, Bloc Party, Courtney Barnett, Disclosure, Foals, Gang Of Youths, Halsey, Hiatus Kaiyote, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and many, many more. Hit up southboundfestival.com.au for more details.
JumpClimb events, The Beaufort Street Network and The Event announced the programming line-up for the 2015 Beaufort Street Festival, to be held on Saturday, November 14. The annual celebration saw upwards of 160,000 attendees in 2014, making it the largest single day festival in WA and this year’s festival is sure to top that. Featuring an array of exciting art and community projects in addition to the ever-present collection of fresh food, markets, live music and community entertainment. Festival highlights this year include, the Queens Hotel’s Streetbound and the expanded Gage Roads Brewing Co Bar, to be situated at the Barlee st carpark and to quench the thirst of the masses. Other highlights include, The Dream Store, an interactive grocery store installation that bottles achievable dreams, and The Giant Heads, an installation by artist ololo, is set return for its second year. Also to return will be the stARTup Gallery, an open air market for local artist to showcase and sell their artworks. “As Beaufort Street is ever evolving into Perth’s best street to eat and drink, more restaurateurs and bar operators than ever before will be pushing their business out onto the street, with over ten pop-up areas from the likes of Five Bar, Clarences, Malt Supper Club, The Flying Scotsman, and many more,” said Festival codirector, Paul Fletcher. So with the new mix of previous year’s programs and new and exciting additions this year’s Beaufort Street Festival is shaping up to be the best one yet! Full details on the festival can be found at beaufortstreetfestival.com.au and via the Beaufort Street Festival Facebook page.
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ROSEY NEW’S YEAR’S FIESTA
RYAN VAN POEDEROOYEN DRUMMING MASTERCLASS TOUR
New Year’s Eve is always a bit tricky. It promises so much, but you often never know quite what to settle on, or what event you should pick to head out to. Well it looks like the Rosemount Hotel’s made that decision a lot easier for a hell of a lot of people with the news that perennial WA faves Jebediah will headlining their annual New Year’s Eve Fiesta. Joining Jebs in the mainroom will be 2015 goalkickers Tired Lion, MT Mountain, FOAM, The Tommyhawks and Ursula. Over in Four5Nine you’ll get The Decline, Suburban And Coke, The Sperts and Verge Collection with more to be announced. The backyard will see the one-and-only Bob Log III, with DJs Shannon Fox, Rok Riley, Joanne Lettenmaier and Hamjam’s Hamish Rahn. Main room AAA tickets are $59 (plus booking fee) while the Backyard ticket gains ticket holder access to Backyard and Four5Nine which are $20 (plus booking fee.Both ticket options are available from rosemounthotel.com.au from 10am Wednesday, October 14.
One of the most accomplished drummers in heavy music, Ryan Van Poederooyen, best known for working with Devin Townsend, will be touring Australia with the Devin Townsend Project, along with touring his very own masterclass workshops in drumming. These events however will not only be a masterclass on drumming but music, life within the music industry, and professional musicianship. Some of Ryan’s talking points will include, his life, how to prepare for your ‘big break’, an introduction to his gear, songwriting, touring and health and drumming. Ryan wants people to walk out of his class feeling inspired and motivated to the best they can be! Ryan’s masterclass will be showcased at the John Inverarity Theatre, Wembley Downs. Tickets are on sale now via facebook.com/ THUMPMUSIC. General admission - $50
Jebediah, Rosemount New Year’s Eve Fiesta
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BELINDA CARLISLE AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2016 Belinda Carlisle returns to Australia in February, 2016, for national run of concerts with the iconic Australian ‘80s band Pseudo Echo. Carlisle has never stopped performing and has toured Australian numerous times to sold out crowds.. Rising to fame in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s with The Go-Go’s and then breaking into her acclaimed solo career, Carlisle is one of the most prolific and biggest female solo artists in the world. Belinda Carlisle and Pseudo Echo will be playing at the Astor Theatre on Tuesday, March 1. For tickets and information head to astortheatreperth.com.au. Belinda Carlise
The three-day music, arts, comedy, burlesque (the list goes on) festival known as Disconnect that will set up stumps on from Friday-Monday, December 11-14, at the beautifully picturesque Fairbridge Village in Pinjarra, has just released its second lineup announcement. Please welcome Pond, City Calm Down, Harts, Peter Bibby, Timothy Nelson & The Infidels, Mathas, Sid Pattni, Death Disco DJ’s, Tommyhawks, Fait, Hamjam, Lucy Peach, Edde, Angus Dawson, Ru, Antiques Roadshow, Bloo, Benny Mayhem, Bedouin Sea, WAAPA Gospel Choir, Sydnee Carter, Sean Wise, K-LA, Mezko, The River Styx, DJ Rovy Rush and DJ Eddy Electric to the festivities. They’ll all join the already-announced likes of Chet Faker, Flight Facilities, Father John Misty, Neon Indian, Mercury Rev, Meg Mac, The Jungle Giants, Tkay Maidza, Goat, Optimo, Julia Holter, Bully, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Abbe May, Felicity Groom, Tired Lion, Slum Sociable, Ruby Boots, Methyl Ethel, Command Q, Woodes, Akouo, Jessica Pratt, Lilt, All My Exes Live In Texas, Joni In The Moon, Grrl Pal, Spire and Helen Shanahan for a new outdoor festival experience in WA. Pond
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME TOUR
Producer Low Steppa has announced an Australian tour over November of this year. Low Steppa’s tenure in the scene has been short but due to his forward thinking and intelligent production work, his popularity has risen rapidly. Great tracks such as Styling, a collaboration with Sonny Fodera, and his remix of Without You by Dillon Francis have gained a lot of hype for the new producer. Low Steppa will be playing at Ambar, Friday, November 6. For more information, hit up facebook.com/LOWSTEPPA.
Progressive metal act Between The Buried And Me have announced their return to Australian shores next February. The group’s sonic endeavours have been described as grandiose, dynamic, heavy, melodic and technically challenging. Their seventh album, Coma Ecliptic, out via Metal Blade follows the incredible story of a man in a coma, an each song representative of his next move in search of a way out and onto something better, but with the existential conflict the two realities. This album has really pushed BTBAM’s creative limits, and will be translated into a live setting in venues across the country. Joining them will be San Diego natives Chon. Between The Buried And Me will be playing at the Rosemount Hotel on Thursday, February 25. Ticketing information via tickets. destroyalllines.com
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JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL The Jewish International Film Festival is the home of the most comprehensive range of Israeli and Jewish-themed films in Australia and New Zealand. The films premiere in an annual three-week film festival in November and their newly established Holocaust Film Series in March. JIFF is building on the long and proud 24-year history of Jewish film festivals in Australia. It’s all happening at Great Union Morley on Saturday, October 31; Sunday, November 1, and Saturday, November 8. We have 10 double passes to give away.
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WAM FESTIVAL 2015 Wait, There’s More! WAM (West Australian Music) have made another big announcement regarding the 2015 WAM Festival, happening near and around you from November 5 - 8. Within this the free Saturday Spectacular and has expanded to over 80 acts, and the WA Music Conference has added more than 35 speakers to effectively double its size. WA MUSIC CONFERENCE @ STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA Friday-Saturday, November 6-7 Due to WA Music Conference pre-sales setting new records, WAM have decided to give it straight back to attendees by expanding their initial promise from 40 to 55+ music industry heavyweight speakers now confirmed to enlighten audiences over the two-day event. As below, they’ve announced 36 new speakers to complete the line-up, with a healthy slice of East Coast and international music leaders expanding the WA Music Conference to its most power-packed yet. It all takes place at the State Theatre Centre of WA. THIRD ROUND OF SPEAKERS Adam Montgomery (Booker, 123 Agency -VIC) Andy Vincent (Manager of Label Relations, Spotify -NSW) Andy Jarvis (Lecturer, CIT/Performer, Catzilla/The Isolites/Bang Bang Betty & The H-Bombs) Bourby Webster (Director, North Street Music) Christina Ballico (Research Consultant, WAM/ Academic & Lecturer, Various Universities) Claire Hodgson (Industry Development Officer, WAM) Damian Cunningham (Director of Audience and Sector Development, Live Music Office -NSW) Dan Cribb (Editor, TheMusic.com.au) Dave Chitty (Director, Sunset Events) Dave Ruby Howe (Director, triple j Unearthed -NSW)
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Jacinta Parsons (Assistant Music Director, Local Radio/Double J – SYD) Jacob Snell (Head of Business Development, Monster Management) Jamie Burnett (Drive Presenter, 720 ABC Perth) Janelle Morse (Director, Morse Code PR) Joe Algeri (Director, Altus Planning & Appeals / Ruby Boots Performer, The JAC) Justin Sweeting (Artist Voice Asia / Clockenflap / SECOND RELEASE TICKETS Proper Job Ltd / Magnetic Asia Ltd – Hong Kong) ‘Til 5pm Thursday, November 5, from Ticketek: Kyle Gleadell (Founder, Helta Skelta Records) $190 for WAM members/$230 non-members. Larry Heath (Editor-in-Chief, The AU Review / wam.org.au/event/wa-music-conference-2015/ Founder, Heath Media - NSW) Maggie Collins (triple j / BIGSOUND / Fans Creative Management -QLD) Marcus Thaine (Manager of Label Relations, Spotify -NSW) Mike Harris (CEO, WAM) Michael Tucak (Founder, creative | legal) Noah Shilkin (Owner, Sonic Lolly) Pat McLaughlin (WA Concert & Event Representative, APRA I AMCOS / Sugar Army) Pete Guazzelli (Project Officer, Contemporary Music, Department of Culture and the Arts) Phaedra Watts (Artistic Director, Nannup Music Festival) Predrag Delibasic (Performer, SMRTS / Zerodent) Patient Little Sister - Pic: Daniel Grant Rosco Stewart (Managing Director, Altered State/ ex-Chief Administration Officer, Big Day Out & SATURDAY SPECTACULAR @ Various Venues Soundwave) Saturday, November 7 Sammy Shirra-Moore (Festival Director, Music Major Media Partner X-Press Magazine Matters Live / Regional Talent Manager, YouTube FanFest Branded – Singapore) While this year WAM are expanding the Sarah Tout (Head of Training, RTRFM) WAM Festival to take in a whole new night Scott Adam (Music Business Course Coordinator, of programming (in the Friday Showcases CIT) plus Sunday Best debuting in Fremantle for a Susan Cotchin (Director, International Royalties free multi-stage extravaganza) the Saturday Rescue -VIC) Spectacular tradition continues with what’s set to be the best one yet. Northbridge’s finest live music venues come to life and throw open their doors to the public to host FREE ENTRY showcases from midday to 2am, including the already announced Block Party takeover of Wilson Roe St Car Park featuring the likes of Tired Lion, Methyl Ethel, Lilt, Command Q, Hamjam, Lower Spectrum and many more. Over 50 fresh acts have now been added to the nine-venue event, including Will Stoker & The Embers (featuring Will from The Bachelorette, making a long-awaited rose-winning date with the stage); the unveiling of Blackwall Reach (the new project from Beaverloop’s Leon Ewing); the WA Music Awards-dominating Ruby Boots (unveiling her Bex’s Hootenanny curated show for the first time); High Horse (the galloping new project of Tim Kelly one of the WA Music Awards’ biggest winner of the last few years, Timothy Nelson); more WA Tim Kelly (Managing Director, Inertia -NSW) Music Awards winners including PUCK (Metal/ Troy Mutton (Editor, Pilerats) Yvette Myhill (Executive Director, Assoc of Artist Heavy), Mt. Mountain (Breakthrough), The Floors (Blues & Roots), Chainsaw Hookers (Punk); and Managers/AAM – NSW) Aarom Wilson (Marketing & Communications lots more covering everything from heavy rock to punk, pop, electronic, soul, blues, country, folk, Officer, WAM / Director, Aaromedia) These additions join the list of speakers already doom and beyond. announced, including Fred Pessaro (NOISEY/Vice Music -NYC), Blake Rayner (Dew Process -NSW), Andy Gumley (Village Sounds -NSW); Archie Hamilton (Split Works -China); Edwin Tehrani (New World Artists -NSW); Michael Szumowski (Alberts -NSW); Millie Millgate (Sounds Australia -NSW); Nick Findlay (triple j -NSW); Sarah Chipman (Title Track -QLD) and Simon Winkler (Triple R -VIC) – just to name a few. Noisey/Vice Music’s Fred Pessaro from NYC will be doing a keynote address on the future of music media and journalism, and panel topics and one-on-ones will cover everything from practical masterclasses in publishing, synching, legals, tax, touring, marketing, streaming, apps, social media, recording, publicity, showcasing, radio and how to start a music business, to more thought-provoking and candid discussions on the changing face of music festivals, what makes artists exciting/‘cool’, the state versus music and more. And with very limited Moshtix-presented Quay Note Boat Party and TheMusic.com.aupresented WA Music Awards guaranteed free benefits remaining, hopefuls best get their hurry on for... FAIT | Pic: Daniel Grant WWW. XP RE SS MAG.COM. AU
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SATURDAY SPECTACULAR COMPLETE LINE-UP: @ Wilson Roe St Car Park (two-stage Block Party), The Bird, The Boston, Ezra Pound, Flyrite, Jimmy’s Den, The Moon, Mustang Bar, Universal Bar. Ah Trees, Alex Brittan, Amy Sugars, Belle Harvey, Benny Mayhem, Black Stone From The Sun, Blackwall Reach, Bri Clark, Bryte MC, Catzilla, Chainsaw Hookers, Childsaint, China Doll, Command Q, Cubs, Dan Cribb & The Isolated, Davey Craddock & The Spectacles, DJ John Safari, Fait, Flooded Palace, Flowermouth, Flying Embers, Foam, Girl York, Good Company DJs, Graphic Characters, GRRL PAL, Hamjam, Helen Shanahan, High Horse, Hip Priest, Hope Street, Husband, Hyla, Jeff’s Dead, Joel Barker, John Bennett, Jordan McRobbie, Lanark, Leaf & Crown, Leoh, Lilt, Little Death, Little Skye, Lower Spectrum, M.O.V.E. Crew, Methods Of Movement DJs, Methyl Ethel, Minky G, Nerve Quakes, Our Man In Berlin, Patient Little Sister, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Rag N Bone, Railway Bell, Randa & The Soul Kingdom, Rok Riley, Sail On! Sail On!, Scalphunter, Segue Safari, Sidewalk Diamonds, Silver Hills, Simone & Girlfunkle, Skullcave, Spilt Cities, Syllabollix, Tashi, Teij, The Bob Gordons, The Brow, The China Blue Experiment, The Coalminers Sect, The Decline, The Drools, Thee Loose Hounds, The Floors, The Little Lord Street Band, The Merindas, The Pissedcolas, The Regular Hunters, The Shakeys, The Tommyhawks, The Worst, Tired Lion, Verge Collection Will Stoker & The Embers, Yokohomos. Head to wam.asn.au/event/wam-festival-2015an-overview/ for full details.
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BOY & BEAR The Love Unlimited Orchestra Touring in support of their third album, Limit Of Love, Boy & Bear perform at Red Hill Auditorium on Saturday, January 30, 2016. Keyboard player, Jon Hart, speaks with AARON BRYANS. With five ARIA awards to their name Aussie quintet Boy & Bear have captured hearts with their smooth tunes since their formation six years ago. Following their platinum-selling sophomore LP, Harlequin Dream, and an extensive period of touring the Sydney group decided it was time to plan for their next release; what resulted was a rushed writing process with a brilliant result involving the use of live-to-tape recording. “There were a few things at play,” Hart retells. “We’d decided to work with Ethan Johns. We had a shortlist of producers and we got to hang out with him shortly in London while we were on tour and we really liked him and thought it would be great and he was excited as well. His calendar was more full then ours. He said he had this window in April or May to June and Dave (Symes) was freaking out that we didn’t have enough stuff and as a result of that and the amount of shows we were playing together. “We started jamming things and we’d come up with ideas, all of us had written before. We all were doing things and we had a method with Boy & Bear and we’d never tampered with that, but this time it naturally happened and we thought it was really cool and different. It’s freed Dave up as well cause most of the songs previously were his ideas, they’d start on acoustic guitar. But it didn’t have to be the same way and it meant we have a broader sounding album which we’re excited about. “I think the fact that we recorded the tracks live in the studio means there’s a different energy that comes through and writing in a collective way has pushed some of the dancier elements further then they have in previous albums. I think there are definitely some more up-tempo moments and I think the grooves are really strong in the album because that was a big focus for us and Ethan,
getting a groove where it makes you feel like tapping your foot or moving or dancing. If you’re getting those feelings I think that’s a really good sign. “It was one of those things leading into it we weren’t sure we were going to record to tape, but we knew Ethan had a reputation for doing it. I think it wasn’t until we walked into the studio and released there wasn’t a computer in there that it was going to be to tape. Because we’d grown up in the generation of digital recorders, by the time we’d started as a band it was all done into a computer and we’d never had to do a record the way people did before computers existed.”
“What we’ve done from the start is try and make music that really appeals to us and feel is strong and classic sounding but interesting.” Despite initial the group having initial nerves about recording live-to-tape, releasing Limit Of Love’s first single, Walk The Wire, was the most anxious moment of the recording process. “Leading into it we were nervous,” Hart reveals. “Once we got there and heard the first one or two songs once we laid them down the sound was really captivating for us.” “The nerves for me come once we’ve done the record. When it’s all done and dusted and finalised and you’re waiting or the single comes out and it’s the nerves of, ‘oh I hope this goes alright’. We enjoyed the process so much and at the time you’re making it you’re purely focused on fine instincts and making the best creative decisions we can.” “What we’ve done from the start is try and make music that really appeals to us and feel is strong and classic sounding but interesting.” ago and we co-wrote a song that we never finished. I seem to remember it was a really good song and then I wrote this ridiculously impossible to repeat middle-eight, so we abandoned it. But there was something there and Sean and I corresponded and became friends and promised ourselves if we could wedge a bit of time in between everything else, we’d eventually make an album together. “It’s a pretty even collaboration between what Sean does, that marvellous semi-spoken vocal that he does, and that kind of melodic whatever I do, and it’s meant that Sean’s songs mid-stream take off into my part and mysteriously find their way back to his part but it somehow fits. The main thing was we wanted to make a spontaneous two-guitarbass-drums album, just like when we were 17 or 18, imagining underfelt on the walls and egg cartons and the oil that used to drip out of one of my mini-vans back then,” he chuckles at the memory.
ROB HIRST & SEAN SENNETT Songs About Cars And Girls Two friends, two guitars, bass and drums and a bunch of songs written on the fly. That’s what the collaboration under the banner Rob Hirst & Sean Sennett is all about, as Hirst emphasises to MICHAEL SMITH. You all know at least one half of the collaboration behind a new album titled Crashing The Same Car Twice. Rob Hirst is of course the powerhouse drummer behind Midnight Oil and its instrumental love child The Break, as well as Ghostwriters, Hirst & Greene and The Backsliders. Sean Sennett first put his head above the musical parapet with Crush 76 in 1998, but has released solo albums and one with The Incredible Strand. “Like a lot of recordings, this one starts with friendship,” Hirst explains. “I met Sean at this writing retreat at Mount Macedon about 15 years 10
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a middle ground between the deep and heavy psyche of Deep Roots Stirring (2011) and their stoner-riffed 2008 self-titled debut. But they also took some new risks—according to frontman Nick DeSalvo. “We took some big departures from our previous releases,” he says. “It really paid off, I think. For this album and for all subsequent releases, the mantra of the band is really all about listening to ourselves above everything else. Writing music that is interesting to us first and foremost, and not shying away from trying anything. None of us are stoner rock or doom fans above any other genre. We listen to much more than just rock’n’roll in general, and it’s sometimes frightening to let those influences shine through when your fanbase praises you based upon your more derivative releases. However, the fun in playing music for us three has always been about expressing ourselves. So we had to just strip those filters about others perceptions away and just write music the way we wanted to.” And they’ve been quick with this album to distance themselves from being a ‘doom band’ - a tag given to them liberally by media over their last few releases. “I don’t really think Elder has ever been specifically a ‘doom band’,” DeSalvo explains. “We’ve always had inspirations and influences from a lot of rock genres. We’ve started intentionally distancing ourselves from that tag, along with ‘stoner rock’ for a number of reasons—mostly Lore, the latest from Boston psychedelic- because we don’t think much about the style of music we play, but just try to write music. Those doom outfit Elder, has been dubbed a titles aren’t pejorative and we listen to a lot of “…quiet masterpiece”. Displaying “… doom and stoner rock, but I think our fanbase comes from a lot of different musical backgrounds melody, dynamism and songwriting and it’s just unnecessarily limiting.” Lo re w a s r e c o r d e d w i t h J u s t i n sophistication well beyond the band’s Pizzoferranto, who worked with the Boston trio young years…”, Perth fans will be able on their Spires Burn (2012) EP. Chosen for his back catalogue, which includes producing to catch the three-piece along with San diverse acts like Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth and the Pixies, Diegans Earthless at the Rosemount DeSalvo says they asked him to help bring a “… modern rock’n’roll sound” to this album. “We Hotel on Thursday, October 22. JESSICA more wanted the sound to be straightforward with clean WILLOUGHBY chats to frontman, Nick and big production,” he says. “We knew he could do that for us. Justin’s DeSalvo, ahead of the show. place is in an old mill out in the hills and so it’s a perfectly serene and concentrated place to record Elder are making music for themselves, and no a record with very little distraction aside from the one else. landscapes of the area. Justin is a fan of all kinds This is the modus operandi laid down of music - he’s got eclectic taste just as much as when they set out to create their latest offering, we all do - so his own ideas concerning recording Lore. Taking a cleaner - and clearer - approach techniques and experimenting with different parts to their third full-length release, they’ve found was a big advantage in guiding the production.”
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“It was just like when we were 17 or 18, imagining underfelt on the walls and egg cartons and the oil that used to drip out of one of my mini-vans.”
Cold Chisel’s new album, The Perfect Crime, is a nod to the rock’n’roll of yesteryear, and both singer Jimmy Barnes and pianist/keyboardist Don Walker explain to STEVE BELL that you can’t buy the chemistry forged by time.
“So everything was written spontaneously, just a couple of acoustic guitars, and then taken to the band, which includes the marvellous Jason Millhouse, who’s one of these guitar players who also does everything — he also produced the album — and we used his studio up in Brisbane to record most of it.” Filling out the bass end of things is Derek Haas, who, it turns out, told Hirst that he “learnt to play the bass just like Rick Grossman from the Hoodoo Gurus and Peter Gifford from Midnight Oil, so we immediately locked in. “As you’ll know, “he continues, “I’ve been in a number of different projects over the years — the folky thing with Paul Greene in Hirst & Greene and the swamp blues of The Backsliders so I was really ready for an album about cars and girls,” he chuckles again. “Short songs with some great guitar players, strong melodies. You come full circle, if you’re lucky, a few times in your life and in your career, and this does feel like another completion of the circle. But it doesn’t work unless you’re really enjoying it and you like the people, and that’s certainly the case. I’ve really loved going up to Brisbane and recording. “I went up to Brisbane three or four times, did the songwriting, literally took it into the studio. It was go in, record three songs, come back in three months later, record another three songs, come back in another three months... album done.”
Cold Chisel have nothing to prove to anybody. They decades ago solidified their standing as one of Australia’s premier rock’n’roll outfits of all time, so these days they’re making music because they love it and that’s what they do best. Not even the tragic passing of drummer Steve Prestwich back in 2011 could temper this desire, instead seeming to galvanise them even further. Their eighth record, The Perfect Crime, is a vital collection that sounds fundamentally like Cold Chisel, and they wouldn’t have it any other way. “It’s a great record, I’m really pleased with it,” vocalist Jimmy Barnes smiles. “It’s just always great to get into the studio and sing with this band. They’re great players and great songs - it’s always a pleasure to do it.” “I’m very happy with the way it came together,” pianist/keyboardist Don Walker concurs, “but there’s always so much listening down by those of us in the band - detailed listening to the individual songs and then to the potential ways of arranging them into an album, and also which songs to choose - that by the time we get a finished album, I really don’t know if it’s any good or not. I have to get a couple of CDs to friends and say, ‘How is this?’” Well, these trusted band confidants should have some positive news to report back about The Perfect Crime, which as its essence contains everything that has for so long made Cold Chisel beloved to so many.
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“We wanted to make a rock record - we wanted to make a record that was more ‘up’ than the last record we made (2012’s No Plans),” Barnes recounts. “We wanted to solidify - since we made the last record we did that big, big (Light The Nitro) tour of Australia (in 2011-12), and by that stage we’d gone through a bit of mourning for the loss of Steve, we went through making that record with Charley (Drayton) before we’d really gotten over the loss of Steve, and we sort of cemented that relationship on the tour. “So although we haven’t replaced Steve - he’s a hard guy to replace - we’ve found someone who plays something different and brings something else to the band, and Charley’s fitted right in. “So by the time we were going into the studio with this record, we wanted to utilise and focus on what this band does best - which is these rhythm and blues numbers. Steve was more of a rock drummer, and Charley’s much more of a rhythm and blues drummer so he brings in these different grooves to things, so we’ve really got a lot of space to play with and it allowed us to play differently as a rhythm section. Don, Ian (Moss, guitar), Charley and Phil (Small, bass) really drive this whole album along, and the left hand of the piano really has a lot to do with it — we noticed that. “We recorded this album in two sittings - the first sitting was at my place and we did nine songs, and then about eight months later we did 10 songs at 301. In that gap too we noticed that that sound was developing, so we went away and wrote more songs that would fit in with that sound. “So we wanted it to be a rock record, and when we say rock’n’roll we wanted it to be more about Little Richard than the Foo Fighters. And that’s not to knock the Foo Fighters, but we were chasing that older kind, the piano-driven, late-’50s rock’n’roll.”
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TESSERACT Question Times Australian fans will be among the first in the world to hear UK progressive metallers TesseracT’s newest album, Polaris, in the flesh. JESSICA WLLOUGHBY chatted to bassist Amos Williams ahead of the band’s show at Amplifier Bar on Sunday, October 18. Polaris, the latest record from UK progressive metal outfit TesseracT, is about questioning everything. Though, ironically, they did just the opposite musically on this release—according to bassist, Amos William. And it was a conscious choice made by the band, despite the album theme. “I would say that although the theme of the presentation and songs revolve around applying a scientific method to all aspects of our reality, that conversely we did just the opposite of that with the music,” he explains. “We didn’t question it all. Previously we did just that, we constantly questioned whether it was the right thing to do or whether other people would expect more of a certain riff, or some screamed vocals. With Polaris, we totally let the music take charge.” Williams delves into the concept behind their third studio album deeper. ”There’s a strong theme of a transient nature, hence the name Polaris—which is the brightest star in the North sky” Amos says. “For years, it has been used as
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a reference point for people but the reality is that it’s not fixed; just like everything else in the cosmos it moves. I thought this was an interesting analogy to the way things are, the fact that there is no universal truth; that what we proved to be true yesterday is in fact wrong today and equally tomorrow. What we think of as true will be totally different from what the reality is today.” Recorded once again with their sound guy, Aidan O’Brien - who has featured on TesseracT recordings since the 2012 Perspective EP - at lead guitarist Alec ‘Acle’ Kahney’s studio in Brighton, the full-length actually reveals a more scaled back approach to instrumentalisation. Something that is fairly new for the band, considering their complex mix of djent and progressive styles.
“Understanding what gets us hyped again and again; and doesn’t feel tired after playing it over and over again. ” “It’s a reflection of our experience of performing over the last few years,” Williams says. “Understanding what gets us hyped again and again; and doesn’t feel tired after playing it over and over again. We found out that some of the older material didn’t satisfy us so much. We are keen to perform music with more dynamics, and contrasting arrangements.” This album also signals the return of vocalist Daniel Tompkins, who first appeared with the band on their debut One (2011) release. “For Dan, it was never about a choice in timing to commit,” Williams says. “That suggests he accepted rejoining TesseracT because we were getting bigger after Altered State (2013). He couldn’t commit to us after One because his situation away from the band was not conducive to touring; which was something we had to do, and still need to do to really earn from the band. Now, he has engineered his life so he can commit full time to us—which was fortuitous given our split with Ashe (O’Hara, vocals) at the end of the Altered State touring run. “It’s funny, given that there was a three-year gap between Dan’s departure and his return, it felt like there was no gap at all. I guess because we worked so hard and toured together so extensively during the One campaign. All members of TesseracT have worked so hard on their respective instruments over the course of the last five years, so it’s not just Dan that has developed and matured—but everyone.”
DYLAN JOEL The Main Event It’s been four years in the making for Aussie musician Dylan Joel who, after multiple support slots, has announced his own national tour on the back of the release his debut, LP Authentic Lemonade. Joel speaks with AARON BRYANS in the lead up to his show on Sunday, November 8, at Jimmy’s Den. With impressive appearances alongside Bliss n Eso, Illy and Hopsin, Dylan Joel was destined for a big things as he quickly increased his fan base across Australia and internationally. Now, Joel is looking to apply everything he has learnt along the one into his own headline tour during October and November. “The best part is when we play support slots sometimes we’re only allowed a smaller set up but now we finally get to play with our entire live band so that’s really cool,” Joel reveals. “I have a live drummer, live bass player who also plays keys and synth and we all sing. It’s way better, I love that. “To play so many shows across so many places is the best experience. I don’t think you can get better practice in then actually playing live shows.
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“All my support slots have been great. The artists that I’ve been opening for I’ve learnt so much from and I always watch them and what works for them.” The tour comes off the back of Joel’s debut album, Authentic Lemonade, which features the singles Swing (feat. Mantra & DJ Izm) and What’s Good. The album is a big breakthrough in what has been a long preparation period. “I actually started music properly four years ago as Dylan Joel,” he explains. “For me it’s been a very lengthy journey. I wanted to get a start in it so that I could start learning and the journey’s been about defining my craft and figuring out what kind of artist I wanted to be and what kind of music I wanted to make. “I always thought that it was more important to be an artist to have a hit song and only be in the public eye when you have one but I actually enjoy finessing and the joy of learning as you go. There’s a lot of backing vocals put into the record, I really wanted a gospel-inspired record.” The LP was heavily influence by ARIA award winning producer Cam Bluff who has worked with Hilltop Hoods, Illy and Allday. The teamwork between both Bluff and Joel was instantaneous upon their first meeting and has carried over throughout the development of Authentic Lemonade. “Working with Cam was amazing,” Joel says. “We went in for our first session for the record almost two years ago just creating some beats and from the first day we started we hit it off. We had the same vision, we knew exactly what we kind of wanted to create so we ended up working together on the whole album. Every song on the album is executive produced by Cam and co-produced by myself. He’s been a huge part of the record. I have him to thank for shaping it the way I wanted it to be. I always had the right vision for it but to paint that picture and get it out onto a record I have Cam to thank for that.” Lyrically, Authentic Lemonade is more then just an artist’s stories and emotions. For Joel the album was about retelling some of the most influential and engaging experiences he’s heard from others alongside those of his own. “It’s not personally about myself. It’s about my experiences, but a lot of the time I really like to write on inspiring stories that I have heard about someone or people that are in my life that have gone through specific things. I think there are only two tracks on the record that are solely my experience, the rest were other people’s stories.”
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THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE AND I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE
1989 Sony Much like the time Ryan Adams was said to have covered Is This It in its entirety many moons ago, when the word spread that he was to attempt to record cover versions of the whole of the chart breaking album by 1989 Taylor Swift, it led to a swell of internet activity that would be an embarrassment of riches for the alt.rocker. There is no doubt that covering the genre jumping album of the most popular artist in the world at the moment would give the Ryan Adams brand a whole heap of attention, but in many ways it also makes sense. Ryan Adams is a scruffy crooner who attacks country music from a rock perspective, whilst Swift also has a skewed take on country growing from the teenager with ringlets and a love of Tim McGraw, to the stadium filling megastar with pop chops. To say that Adams’ more restrained approach adds extra layers of emotion to Swift originals would be to do the original songwriter a disservice, but there is certainly some appeal in the heartfelt and wounded effort that Adams put in here. Along the way he channels Prince and Bruce Springsteen whilst being just as adept with quiet renditions like the acoustic-based Out Of The Woods. 1989 can be seen as Adams cheekily riding on the coattails of Swift’s massive star, but to many ears it will just be a different (yet nearly as brilliant) take on what was already a stunning collection of tunes.
Harmlessness Epitaph Records
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AARON BRYANS
It’s not often a band is able to release an album so engagingly unique and brilliant at storytelling that it causes you to throw aside preconceptions of successful music characteristics, sit back and deeply open your mind to it. For Connecticut emo group TWIABP, surpassing the hype of their debut album Whenever, If Ever was a huge task, however the growing nine-piece have delved deeper into the elements which stood them out from the pack including unpredictable structures, gripping lyrics and appropriate builds. Whilst the lengthy run time could easily be shorten by removing a couple of less impactful tracks, there is an endless blend of diverse songs to keep listeners intrigued. Lead single, January 10th 2014, which details Diana, ‘the hunter of bus drivers’, who sought justice for many murdered females, is an encapsulating story featuring brilliant back and forth vocals between David Bellow and Katie Shanholtzer-Dvorak, whilst heartbreaking track, Haircuts For Everybody, is a flood of haunting quotes. Harmlessness isn’t a ground-breaking album for its catchiness or its ability to build on an entirely new field within the emo-genre; it’s brilliant in its own delicate mastery which is difficult to define yet easy to get lost in.
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Philadelphian singer/songwriter Alex Giannascoli (or Alex G as he puts on his record covers) is a prolific bedroom artist that has been predominantly self releasing his records with little fanfare, but significant interest. For his seventh akbum, Beach Music, he took the songs he recorded into a studio to have them mixed and mastered by the pros. It was a new and nervy experience for 22 year-old Alex G to hand the control of his songs onto others, but it hasn’t lead to a seismic shift in the sound of Beach Music when compared to his other records. The other notable difference is that Beach House was written and recorded during breaks from his ever-increasing touring schedule as opposed to the predecessors that were taken directly from his head to a version on Bandcamp in a matter of days. Such is the simplicity of his tunes that Giannascoli is more profuse than prodigy with songs that tend to finish almost as soon as they begin. The skewed lo-fi pop of Kicker and Brite Boy finds Alex G stapled to his trusty guitar along with his flawed yet likeable voice, but it the spacious piano ballad In Love, with ample saxophone that adds a new layer to his muse. The songs on Beach Music don’t scream out sunny day in paradise, erring closer to early morning and hungover at the dog beach, or playing with your nephew in the sandpit. Regardless it is a mighty fine listen.
It’s been a tough old time for Bradford Cox. The Deerhunter frontman is an interesting and eccentric personality at the best of times, but being struck by a car last year left the 33-year-old needing a long recovery that, according to one interview, “erased all illusions” in terms of life and perhaps music. Perhaps this is why the band have done away with the distortion-laden guitar pop of 2013’s Monomania — a fantastic little album — and looked back at their 2010 classic, Halcyon Digest, for inspiration. Teaming up once again with Halcyon producer Ben H. Allen, the Atlanta four-piece produce plenty of lush instrumentation and ethereal melodies on Fading Frontier, although whether the magic happens this time around is debatable. Taking a step away from their usual opening freak-out, All The Same starts proceedings with a straightforward little pop rocker before the synthesisers really emerge on Living My Life. This track sets the tone for the album, in that it’s packed with bright, synth-heavy pop songs that fire off some lovely melodies. The problem is, these melodies are often so gentle they simply wash over the listener and there’s nothing that really leaves a lasting impression. Take Care does its best to soar and Snakeskin has a cocksure strut to go with some downbeat lyrics. But the longer tracks meant to give the album substance, like Leather And Wood and the Tame Impalaesque Ad Astra aren’t particularly strong and the whole affair certainly isn’t Deerhunter’s best.
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THE OCEAN PARTY Light Weight Spunk
trouble in keeping their signature jangle guitar and a knack for a tidy hook, when faced with recording in a studio for the first tome. Light Weight sits somewhere between the sound of compatriots Dick Diver and The Lucksmiths, as simple yet affective melodies mix with clever observational lyrics. Light Weight isn’t as immediate as previous records, but it is this more considered approach to their ‘80s pop and post punk that gives the album its greatest strength. There is a sense of the insecurities coming to the front lyrically even when the music is spritely as in Real Life. The band have just started touring the album with the opening night seeing their trailer being crashed into and keyboardist ‘Snowy’ waking up with a suspected broken ankle. There is never a dull moment with The Ocean Party who continue to push out quality songs during Light Weight.
This Melbourne six-piece who first came together in Wagga Wagga don’t waste any time between albums. Their fifth album in three years, Light Weight comes at a time when there has hardly been a breather between tunes they have splattered all over the youth radio network. The Ocean Party have too many songwriters to mention, but they have had no CHRIS HAVERCROFT 14
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RTRFM ON THE HUNT FOR A NEW GM RTRFM’s General Manager, Jason Cleary, has announced his departure from the station before the end of 2015. The Mt Lawley-based community broadcast will soon begin searching for a new general manager to take RTRFM to the next level of excellence in community broadcasting. In a statement Cleary expressed his love and thanks to the station: “It has been an immense pleasure and privilege to lead RTRFM, a place that first made me aware of what music really should sound like and a place that has been an oasis for a music junkie like myself. There are many challenges facing radio in the future, but I believe RTRFM is well placed to weather whatever is thrown at it, due to the dedication and talents of all the people involved. I will certainly still be involved in the station wherever I can. This has been an extremely difficult decision, but I believe the right one at this time. I thank everyone who has been part of this journey with me.” Further information on the role, including the full position description and application process can be viewed at rtrfm.com.au/jobs. For further information, contact Jason Cleary, jcleary@rtrfm.com. au, 9260 9210; or Rewi Lyall, board@rtrfm.com.au.
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HANK MARVIN’S GYPSY JAZZ The Fly By Night is proudly presenting Hank Marvin and his Gypsy Jazz Quartet as part of their Australian and New Zealand tour. The legendary guitarist’s quartet features virtuoso accordionist Nunzio Mondia, stand-out rhythm guitarist Gary Taylor and talented guest bassist, Pete Jeavons. The group’s debut album, Django’s Castle, ranked high on the US Jazz charts in 2014 and gained much critical acclaim. The Hank Marvin Gypsy Jazz Quartet will perform at Victoria Hall, on Friday, November 6. For ticketing information visit flybynight.org.
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Girl Shut Your Mouth, Black Swan Theatre Company 2016
BLACK SWAN 2016 Black Swan State Theatre Company last week revealed its 25th anniversary season. The season begins with emerging artists in the Black Swan Lab in Studio Underground, January 14-February 7, with LOADED: A Double Bill Of New Plays, featuring Gita Bezard’s Girl Shut Your Mouth and Wil O’Mahony’s Tonsils + Tweezers. The Hub will then play host to A Perfect Specimen by Perth playwright Nathaniel Moncrieff, June 30 - July 17. Black Swan’s mainstage, Heath Ledger Theatre, opens with Picnic At Hanging Rock, a coproduction with Malthouse Theatre, April 1 - 17, before Pulitzer winner Angels In America by Tony Kushner makes its WA premiere, in a production directed by Kate Cherry, and starring Adam Booth. May 28 - June 19. B l ac k Sw a n ’s f i r s t i n te r n at i o n a l collaboration, with National Theatre Of China, brings Bertoldt Brecht to the mainstage in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, under the directorship of Dr Wang Xiaoying, with Chinese and Australian designers, and featuring an Australian cast, July 30 August 14. Clinton: The Musical, August 27 September 11, makes its way from Edinburgh Fringe and Off-Broadway to premiere at Black Swan, by Paul and Michael Hodge and directed by Adam Mitchell. The season closes with a run from October 22 - November 5, of a co-production with Queensland Theatre Company, Justin Fleming’s adaptation of Molieré’s Tartuffe. For more information, or to purchase a subscription, head to bsstc.com.au.
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The Collection: Kidogo Arthouse Artists Peter Hyatt presents The Collection, his latest exhibition at the popular Bather’s Beach gallery. Runs from Friday, October 16, to Wednesday, October 28. Open daily: 11am-4pm Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award: Fremantle Arts Centre Australia’s most prestigious print award, which awards a total prize pool of $22,000, is in its 40th anniversary year. The exhibition runs until Sunday, November 15. Go to fac.org.au for more info. Treasure Ships - Art In The Age Of Spices: The Art Gallery Of Western Australia A collaboration between AGWA and the Art Gallery Of South Australia, this exhibition features the spectacular and exotic art produced for global markets from the 1500s to the early 1800s. Included are a selection of artifacts retrieved from the wrecks of the Batavia and the Gilt Dragon. The exhibition runs until Sunday, January 31. Go to artgallery.wa.gov.au for full details. Futile Labor: John Curtin Gallery Ionat Zurr, Chris Salter and Oron Catts have created a multi-sensory art installation that explores the growing phenomenon of the manipulation and engineering of life. It’s on display until Sunday, November 8. Go to johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au for more.
The Cockatoos: The Blue Room Theatre A mob of wild cockatoos descends on a suburban neighbourhood, triggering an eruption of deeply held secrets. Adapting Tim White’s short story, this new work from Happy Dagger Theatre runs from Tuesday, October 20, until Saturday, November 7. Go to blueroom.org.au for more. Back To The Future Live In Concert: Riverside Theatre The Western Australian Symphony Orchestra plays Alan Silvestri’s awesome score for the classic sci-fi comedy as the film plays on the big screen! It happens on Friday, November 14, and Saturday, November 15. Book via Ticketek. Stephen Fry - Telling Tales: Riverside Theatre Ac to r, s c re e nw r i te r, au t h o r, p l ay w r i g h t , journalist, poet, comedian, director and raconteur Stephen Fry does his thing on Tuesday, November 17, and Wednesday, November 18. Book via Ticketek. Dawn French - 30 Million Minutes: Riverside Theatre Award-winning actor, best-selling novelist and all ‘round hilarious woman Dawn French has written a brand new show based around her life and career called 30 Million Minutes. She’s added a new show on Saturday, March 5, which makes five in Perth all up. My Live Nation Pre-Sale happens from 10am Thursday, October 15, (AWST) and general sale from Monday, October 19, (AWST) through livenation.com.au.
The Consolations Of Photography/On The Beach: Perth Centre For Photography Two exhibitions open at PCP on Thursday, October 22: Juha Tolonen’s The Consolations Of Photography, and Tim Pearn’s On The Beach. Both run until Sunday, November 15. For more info, go to pcp.org.au
The End Of Silence Writer and director Andrew Hale stumbled across Patrick White’s The Cockatoos while studying drama in Paris in the ‘90s. He says that at the time he didn’t really know about White’s literary weight. “The reason I grabbed the book in the first place was because it said on the cover, Nobel Laureate for Literature, and I didn’t even know Australia had a Nobel Laureate for Literature.” The Cockatoos made an indelible impression; Hale couldn’t shake the idea that it would make a great stage story. “The thought, the idea, has just never, ever, ever gone away, and now here we are finally, all these years later, doing it.” The world premiere of the stage adaptation is presented by Happy Daggy Theatre. The narrative follows a married couple that haven’t spoken in seven years but still share a house, communicating by notes. They begin to speak again when wild cockatoos arrive in the neighbourhood: “It brings about a reconciliation,” says Hale. The story also follows a young boy called Tim. “He decides to test his courage and spend the night in the park. The story sort of reflects backwards and forwards.” Obviously, cockatoos are important to the narrative. Taking a wild guess and assuming the production won’t be using trained birds, did they become a metaphor, in terms of presenting them onstage? “White is very clever in the way he writes to the story, in that he refers backward and forwards to the cockatoos and the people, and after a while the lines almost get blurred - so the people are cockatoos and the cockatoos are people, in a way,” says Hale. “Yes, they’re a metaphor, but they’re a metaphor for whatever you think. He’s never really prescriptive about it. I want to say the white of the cockatoos becomes a screen, and that you project whatever it is that you think that they are onto them.” This seems true of some of the best emotional literature. “Yes, and White will never spell it out for you, and a lot of the process of the 18
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adaptation to the stage has been about asking, ‘okay, what essentially is this story about?’” Focussing on the narrative between the couple in the tale, and why silence has reigned for so long, he points out, “It is clear in the story why they don’t speak to one another, but you have to really catch it, just like a bird I suppose; it just sort of flits by, and if you’re not paying attention you won’t catch it.” Hale points out that unlike reading a book or viewing a film, theatre has one chance to communicate with the audience. “They have to get it from the start, the first viewing. We’ve worked very hard to uncover exactly what the story’s about, and make some of the connections clearer. White, you know, he leaves it so amorphous sometimes.” So is it better to have read the story or not before seeing the performance? “It shouldn’t matter. The theatrical experience should absolutely be able to stand on its own.” The Cockatoos runs at The Blue Room Theatre from Tuesday, October 20, until Saturday, November 7. GILLIAN O’MEAGHER
THEATRE/DANCE/ PERFORMANCE Hidden Traces: WA Museum, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge WAAPA and the WA Museum present, Hidden Traces, an examination of the idea of ‘What we leave behind?’ The museum houses a rich collection of objects ranging from meteorites to ancient bones. Some of the items in the museum are testament; a conscious human legacy to future generations. Others are accidental survivors; vestiges from deep space or deep earth. Spectators will be guided through a promenade-style experience moving through the hidden nooks and crannies of the WA Museum. Runs from 7.30pm, Wednesday-Saturday, October 21-24. Tickets are $20 from 9370 6895 or waapa.ecu.edu.au/boxoffice. Benjamin & Me: The Blue Room Theatre Benjamin, a dog, is young will’s best friend. Together they have adventures. This familyfriendly show from Mark Storen runs until Saturday, October 24. Hit up blueroom.org.au for more info.
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FESTIVALS Expresstival The highlight event of Anti-Poverty Week WA 2015 takes place in Forest Place on Saturday, October 17. It’s a full day of music, art and interactive activities, plus a host of food stalls. All proceeds will be donated to Manna and The Smith Family. Go to expresstival.com for details. Jewish International Film Festival: Greater Union Cinemas, Morley. The Jewish International Film Festival returns to Perth this year across two weekends in October/ November at Greater Union cinemas, Morley. With stimulating and diverse cinema that engages audiences from beyond the Jewish community, the festival showcases nine films from the USA, Canada, South Africa, Hungary, Germany and Israel. The richly diverse program includes performances from such stars as Natalie Portman in A Tale Of Love And Darkness (also her directorial debut), Winona Ryder and Peter Sarsgaard in Experimenter alongside Hungary’s hotly tipped 2016 Oscar contender, Son Of Saul. Showing Saturday, October 31; Sunday, November 1, and Sunday, November 8, at For more information visit jiff.com.au
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DENNIS LOCORREIRE Hooked On Hook Singer/guitarist Dennis Locorriere pays homage to the songs that made his name with Dr Hook through the ‘70s and ‘80s when he brings his Timeless tour to Crown Theatre on Sunday, October 18. SHANE PINNEGAR finds the singer in a wisecracking mood own the phone line from his home in England. It’s 1am when we get Dr Hook’s soft rockin’ frontman Dennis Locorriere on the phone, but there’s no sign that the 67-year-old is up past his bedtime: in fact he’s positively garrulous, cracking jokes and ready to tell all about the band he made his name with. “I’ve developed perpetual jet lag - and it works in my favour,” he laughs warmly. “It was in those night time hours that you could go back to your room and shut the door, because the rest of the day you were travelling with the band, doing radio wherever you were, but you were always with people. There is something I really, really like about
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the middle of the night, you know?” With hits like Sexy Eyes, Spending The Night Together and Only Sixteen, Dr Hook earned a reputation as a soft pop act, but there was a subversive rock’n’roll element to the band, as proven by their edgier numbers such as Sylvia’s Mother, Cover Of The Rolling Stone and Girls Can Get It. Locorriere says the band would play anything. “You do what you do as you go through it, you know what I mean? When we started, we were a bar band. We were playing whatever it took to keep us from being killed. I mean - country music, anything. Then we went out on the road, we had some success, we were support for a lot of different bands like Alice Cooper, Kiss and Sly & the Family Stone, and blues festivals, and Frank Zappa and the Eagles. “We had to fit everywhere and we did. We were that kind of band. In the early days we had the benefit of the Shel Silverstein material, great stuff. For me as a singer, Sylvia’s Mother, The Ballad of Lucy Jordan, those songs were stories. They were songs that today when I sing them I don’t particularly feel like I’m recapturing the past or it’s a piece of nostalgia - I feel like I’m retelling a good story. “But when I sing Sexy Eyes, it was a huge hit all over the world but it’s very much of its kind. It’s about meeting this girl on a dancefloor - which I have to say I’ve never done ever in my life. “Every time Dr Hook had a hit single, our show became about three-and-a-half minutes longer. That was really all what happened. We would go out and along with Sexy Eyes, we would play Get My Rocks Off, and we would play Carry Me Carrie, and we just added those things.” Admitting he could “talk to a dial tone,” Locorriere covers a lot of ground over a hilarious half an hour – far too much to include here. Amongst his funniest stories is this gem about needing a haircut before US radio would play their songs. “I got a haircut because they, I swear to God, they would not play our fucking records on the radio in America.” He laughs, “When I had really long hair I used to look like bigfoot with a guitar! And they wouldn’t go near our records. Then I went and got the haircut, and we went to a big station up in Cleveland and there was a woman, she was the program director - and she was one of those program directors that if she went on your record, 150 stations all over the country would go on your record. We walked in with Sharing The Night Together, she looked at me and I looked at her and she went, ‘yeah, now that looks better’. She went right on my record, right on the fucking thing, like it mattered what I looked like on the radio!”
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10CC The Quirk And The Dread Graham Gouldman’s 10cc bring their Greatest Hits tour to the Astor Theatre on Wednesday, October 28. SHANE PINNEGAR speaks with the hit writer, bass guitarist and singer on the line from his London home. After writing a string of hits for local bands and others including The Yardbirds, The Hollies and Herman’s Hermits, and spending time in New York working as a contracted bubblegum hit writer, Graham Gouldman returned to England and enlisted the help of the future 10cc members to record a bunch of his songs, churning out hits and misses under an array of different nom de plumes. Pretty much by accident, the quartet (Gouldman, Kevin Godley, Lol Creme and Eric Stewart) started the band which carried them to fame. “Well, like all the good things, things happen by chance,” Gouldman chuckles. “We never sort of made a conscious decision to be a band. It was really the fact that we had our studio, that became really our home. That was the reason for us becoming a band in the first place. Although we were kind of like the house band of “I met this guy, Chris Lambrianou, who was in The Firm (the Kray’s gang). He had gone to prison with them for 15 years, and took me on a tour of the East End one day. I had asked various people about Francis (Reggie’s wife), people don’t recall her, and there isn’t a lot written about her. I had almost given up on finding out about her, and I said to Chris at the end of the day if he could tell me about her. ‘Francis is the reason we all went to prison’, he replied. “I stopped in my tracks,” Helgeland paused, “I knew the movie had arrived.
“Directing is by far the best job. It’s social. You have a million talented people helping, all knowing their job and doing it well. Writing is much more difficult and lonely. When I go to my office in the morning, there aren’t six people waiting to help me. Directing is the reward for the difficulty of writing.”
BRIAN HELGELAND The Stuff Of Legend During the ‘60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray forged a criminal empire in the heart of London. With the Mafia on their side, and both police and politicians in their pocket, they seemed untouchable. Director Brian Helgeland brings us the tale of these British gangsters in his latest film, Legend. He chatted with X-Press about what drew his interest to the nefarious twins, and how difficult it was to film Tom Hardy in dual roles.
“After Francis, Reggie shut down and stopped functioning as a gangster. That seemed to me the key of the whole story. So I became very interested in her.” So Helgeland, wrote and directed Legend from the perspective of Reggie’s wife. Through her we are granted an insight into this criminal underworld Almost 50 years later the Krays are still a rich and diverse topic to explore. A score of books have been published about them, three in the last year alone. Unfortunately a lot of these books are of often of a tabloid or lurid nature. “I was taken by how little was known about them, as far as solid truth. Everyone knows the date they were born, the date they went to prison, the date they killed Jack McVite, and all those things. Yet who they were and what they were like, that was up for grabs in a lot of ways. I’ve never come across two people - that have only been dead for a couple of years that were thought of in such extremes. They were nailing people to the floor, or they were helping old ladies across the street. I became very interested in finding a middle to all that, a story to tell. “Duality is inherent in the twins. They are a bit of Yin and Yang to each other. I found out some very curious things about them. Ron was very upfront, honest about who he was and what he wanted. Reggie was much more duplicitous, much more secretive. He was one thing to one
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the studio, so we’d play on other people’s records, do backing vocals, and all sorts of things. Then when the studio wasn’t working, we would write songs just for our own amusement, really, until we did something that we thought was special, and then we thought, ‘we could be a band here,’ and it happened very, very quickly from there.” Once the band did officially form and start releasing albums under the 10cc banner, their success was similarly staggering. Donna, Rubber Bullets, The Dean & I, The Wall Street Shuffle, Life Is A Minestrone, I’m Not In Love, Art For Art’s Sake, I’m Mandy Fly Me, The Things We Do For Love, Good Morning Judge and Dreadlock Holiday were all Top 10 singles in the UK, many of them charting well in the US, Australia and other countries as well. Gouldman says fans can expect to hear them all on this tour. “Yeah absolutely! For Australia we’re doing just 10cc songs, nothing else at all,” he says, before quickly and firmly adding that there’s no chance of new music for 10cc. “No, that’s one thing I won’t do. I mean, I’m happy to have the name of the band 10cc, because it’s the music of 10cc. It doesn’t feel right for me to use the name as a new recording outfit, no.” A quick look through the above list of Top 10 singles is enough to show that 10cc were renowned for their quirky subject matter, often taking something mundane and twisting it into something unusual and unique. I tell Gouldman that I like to imagine that they learned to do that by sitting around saying, ‘what should we write a song about?’, and someone would throw out there, ‘oh, you’ve got a cold. Write a song about that.’ “It is something like that,” he chuckles. “I think that we wanted to avoid clichés and try and be original. You have a very good example [from You’ve Got A Cold, released on the 1977 album Deceptive Bends], who would ever think about writing a song about having a cold? That was the sort of thing which gives you a bit of a challenge, to see if we could come up with that. “And with five people, it was a long time before we wrote a proper love song, and that was I’m Not In Love. You know, we kind of avoided it, because everybody did it. I wrote kind of love songs when I was writing on my own, but 10cc is a very different matter in that nobody wanted to do the predictable.” person, and another thing to another. They were contradictory in a lot of ways, even in how they fought. Reggie was calculated and technical, while Ron was a brawler. They were always opposites.” Playing both Ron and Reggie fell to Tom Hardy. Helgeland was left with the task of getting the same actor on screen, twice, and to make sure it didn’t take the audience out of the movie. “We didn’t want the camera to be conscious of the one guy playing two parts. The rule was; block it naturally, as if you had two actors playing the parts. That was the way we were going to go about staging and shooting it. So we were trying not to make a big deal about it, so it was not a big deal. We try not to be self-conscious, so the audience can believe what they are seeing.” Hardy helped in this process, granting a distinctive life to both characters. So convincing in fact that it lead to some unusual situations on set. “We were always under the gun, we never had enough time, and the Director of Photography says ‘let’s shoot that thing for Ron while we’re waiting for Reggie’. We were just staring at him, never said anything, and he just put his head in his hands and waved us off. Things like that happened a lot, which is a tribute to how different Hardy was.” Creating a convincing look for the era was also a challenge “First of all that’s what movies are supposed to do, take you somewhere you couldn’t go to. When it’s another planet - in the case of science fiction films - that’s an obvious thing. In this case it was the London of the 1960’s, which is a very specific time and place. Their version of it was not The Beatles. It’s much more clubland. A gangster’s world. So we had to be careful not to let that other version of the ‘60s into our version.” Beside the large sets for the club interiors, this involved shooting at numerous street locations around London and utilising computer graphics to tie the different areas together. Ultimately, they had to recreate the rundown exteriors of an East End that is no longer there. Legend represents Helgeland’s seventh film as a director, but he has been writing in Hollywood for decades (including an Oscar for his LA Confidential script). As for his preferred job, it’s a pretty obvious answer. “Directing is by far the best job. It’s social. You have a million talented people helping, all knowing their job and doing it well. Writing is much more difficult and lonely. When I go to my office in the morning, there aren’t six people waiting to help me. Directing is the reward for the difficulty of writing.” Legend is now showing in cinemas everywhere. DAVID O’CONNELL 19
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BLACK MASS Better The Devil You Know Directed by Scott Cooper Starring Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch At times truth is a hell of a lot stranger than fiction. Such is the curious case of Whitey Bulger, where what can kindly be called ‘good intentions’ led to corruption, cover-up and the numerous murders spanning decades. During the mid -’70s, the FBI entered into a relationship with a known criminal, in an attempt to take down the Mafia in Boston. Founded on a basis of a school yard friendship and a shared past, FBI agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) manages to convince a South Boston gangster to turn informant. However James ‘Whitey’ Bulger (Johnny Depp) has greater plans than just informing on his competition. A violent, calculating and manipulative personality, Whitey soon starts to change the nature of the relationship, and it is Connolly that finds himself used as Bulger’s criminal empire grows. After a disastrous series of misfires, it is good to see Depp back on form. In Black Mass he is genuinely unnerving, looking out from behind icy contacts with a stare that is devoid of humanity. There is something serpentine about his portrayal of Bulger, that he is weighing up everything and is capable of striking with a deadly speed if anything is found wanting. We get few demonstrations of
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emotions from the character, and often when we do they are explosions of violent anger with bloody results. By contrast Edgerton, who carries the other half of the film, is full of false bravado. There is a lot of bluster in his Connolly, as he fast talks his way out of predicaments and blatantly postures. At times though you can see this all drop away, and he is standing there as lost and afraid as the little schoolboy Bulger first granted his protection to. It is an unflattering portrayal, but one Edgerton absolutely nails, giving it life and character. This enriches Black Mass, giving this complex and flawed character for audiences to dive into. Connolly’s motivations are fascinating, and add depth into what could easily be a simple portrayal of evil. This strange asymmetrical relationship aside, there is not much in Black Mass that we haven’t seen before. Its exploration of the criminal underworld of South Boston through the ‘70s and ‘80s all feels vaguely familiar territory that other films have covered first. Bulger’s story is interesting, but the choice to tell it through a collection of witness statements diffuses it. We see through the eyes of others, and at an emotional distance, robbing it of some of the impact. As it is told through prisoner interrogations, its narrative impact is lessened too, as it is clear where this will end for the Winter Hill Gang. A solid piece of crime drama anchored by strong performances from both Depp and Edgerton. DAVID O’CONNELL
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THE WALK The High Life Directed by Robert Zemeckis Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Ben Kingsley High-wire walker Philippe Petit (Joseph GordonLevitt) becomes obsessed with an insane notion as he hears of a new wonder being constructed in the US. From his home country of France he watches as two vast structures being raised a world away, and dreams of walking a tight-rope between them. As the World Trade Centre comes closer to completion, so to does Philippe’s dream. A walk of 140 feet, about a quarter of a mile above the streets of New York, between the Twin Towers. The first third is so dripping in Gallic whimsy that it threatens to swamp the entire film. Although visual entertaining and inventive, The Walk turns into an over long explanation of Petit’s life, training, and his growing obsession with the Twin Towers. From Philippe’s demeanour, artistic temperament, and burst of existentialism, he comes across as a stereotype. This is not Zemeckis’ fault. In interviews this is actually how Petit comes across, and GordonLevitt presents an accurate rendition of the man. Rather by dedicating so much of the beginning of the film to this tale, emphasising the learning process and underplaying (or outright ignoring Petit’s other walks), it plays to this cliché.
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However once we hit New York, this becomes a different beast entirely. As the ‘caper’ elements kick in as they plan and get equipment into position, the film really starts to move along at a clip. The slow set up of the first third starts to pay off, and we are invested in the strange cadre of characters and their ambitious dream. That whimsy graduates to full eccentricity, as the extraordinary events unfold. However, once Philippe sets foot on that wire, the film once again transforms, becoming sheer magic. Zemeckis’ vision of the skyline of Manhattan is breathtaking. In truth, it is debatable whether it can still be termed a skyline, when viewed from above. The detail of its rendering, the beauty of its vistas, the exhilaration of the experience. Everything gives the audience a thrilling, vicarious experience. The how and why of this is simple, The Walk is Zemeckis’ love letter to the Big Apple. From Philippe narrating standing on top of the Statue of Liberty’s torch, to the final shots of the World Trade Centre shining bright and defiant, New York is one of the stars of this film. Beyond the physical location it is the notion of the city (the people, the places and the character) that Zemeckis seeks to celebrate. As much in memoriam of the Twin Towers, as a celebration of the event that gave them character. Despite some shaky first steps, The Walk is an exhilarating piece of cinema full of imagination and eccentricity. A testament both to the dreamers that built the Twin Towers, and the dreamer that decided to walk across the gap between them. DAVID O’CONNELL
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THE LOBSTER Cray-zee Little Thing Called Love Director Yorgos Lanthimos Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C Rielly Imagine if Wes Anderson decided to set The Bachelor in a Kafkaesque dystopia. That would give a clear indication just how bizarre director Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster truly is, and some idea of how wonderful it can be. When his wife leaves him, David (Colin Farrell) is forced to move to The Hotel. According to the rules of the curious dystopia in which he lives, he now has 45 days to find love or else be turned into an animal. So with his dog (formerly his brother Bob) by his side, David is plunged into a strange world of social mixers, poolside flirting, and hunting ‘loners’ through The Woods for sports. All in the hope of finding love, and avoiding the fate of being transformed into a lobster. The Lobster blasts straight through surrealism and starts to circle closer to absurdist. The society created by The City and The Hotel are not functional entities, but rather an allegorical examination of the importance placed on relationships. The absurdity is increased when it becomes clear just how codified such behaviour are – from the harsh methods taken by The Hotel to encourage partnership, to the random sweeps of
The City to root out loners. Characters also fall into this strange world view. Each character is defined by a characteristic (close sighted, walks with a limp, has a lovely singing voice), and sees their chance of finding a partnership as sharing that trait with another. A shared commonality that binds their relationship. Their conversations with each other border on schemas rather than genuine, short practised snippets of small talk, carefully calculated for response. It is a markedly bleak view of relationships - both in the outwards societal pressures to engage in such behaviour, and in the expectations of individuals. The result however is a wonderfully black comedy, that is sometimes so cutting as to almost be surgical. In what it says about love and relationships, The Lobster is cruelly funny. At times the laughter is genuine, at others Lanthimos (Dogtooth) forces you to laugh to hide the pain as he dissects characters’ motivations. Colin Farrell is surprising as David. His deadpan delivery, and perfect timing, make him a natural for this sort of comedy. Yet David is more than a comedic character, he is also an enigma. Farrell plays him as guarded and calculating, and despite the narrator’s account of him we can never be utterly sure of his motives (after all, she is blinded by him). The result is an ambiguous character, that plays perfectly into the film’s ending. This is not the sort of film that will appeal to everyone, rather it is exactly the sort of film that will polarise audience reactions. For those with a taste for the surreal, this is a unique bitterly comedic gem that will richly reward those that are willing to put in the effort to understand it s strangeness. DAVID O’CONNELL
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LEARNING TO DRIVE Stuck In First (World Problems) Directed by Isabel Coixet Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Sarita Choudhury, Grace Gummer When her husband leaves her, Wendy’s (Patricia Clarkson) life is thrown into disarray. In an attempt to regain some confidence in herself and to enable her to actually visit her daughter on a farm, Wendy challenges herself to gain her driver’s licence for the first time in her life. The relationship she forms with her Sikh instructor Darwan (Ben Kingsley) starts to cause her to look differently at her life. Learning To Drive is an enjoyable enough affair, and what it does it does well. Both Kingsley and Clarkson bring a life to their characters, a world weariness and lived in quality, a gentle and natural rhythm to the dialogue, as well as a lightness with being with each other. A few clunky moments aside, they form a natural friendly chemistry together, and it is good to see both sides giving advise and experience to the relationship. Ultimately both parties grow from it, Darwan from learning a softer approach in his personal life, and Wendy from learning to overcome her personal
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fears and being more mindful of the moment. Learning To Drive may beat you over the head with its life lesson, but it is hard to fault a film for doing exactly what it said it will do. Unfortunately, that seems to be it for Learning To Drive. With so many rich stories to tell, it seems to settle for the most obvious one, told in the most obvious way. Never is there any real doubt as to what the outcome here is going to be. It just sets the cruise control and gently meanders to its destination, safety and securely. There is an interesting story to tell here. The increase in xenophobia since 9/11 (worldwide) is part of the fabric of this film. Darwan was granted status in the US before 2000, and it seems things have changed since then. We see him harassed in the streets by young men (something that happens every day he admits), raided by immigration, and constantly forced to show his papers to every official he encounters. Here though it is only flavour for the film, rather than the main tale. Something that is casually touched upon but never really dwelt upon. All this ultimately gets glossed over. Instead we focus on the trials and tribulations of a white middle-aged (and middle class) divorced literary critic as she learns to drive, and so slowly regains control of her own life – facing both her father driving off and leaving her in her childhood, as well as her unfaithful husband leaving her now. Despite its subject matter Learning To Drive comes across as strangely pedestrian. DAVID O’CONNELL
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SUMMER FESTIVAL ROUND-UP 2015-16 Block Rockin’ Beats
A DAY ON THE GREEN WITH JAMES REYNE Kings Park Botanical Gardens Sunday, November 22 James Reyne, The Whitlams, Mark Seymour, Diesel and Moving Pictures A Day On The Green, will be once again returning with five great and iconic Australian acts. Classic singer-songwriter James Reyne will be at the helm with hits from his well remembered group Australian Crawl and numerous from his celebrated solo career of the last 28 years. The Whitlams, Mark Seymour & The Undertow, Diesel and Moving Pictures will gather to what’s sure to be a huge response. adayonthegreen.com.au
Friday-Monday, December 11-14 Fairbridge Village Chet Faker, Flight Facilities, Father John Misty, Neon Indian, Mercury Rev, Meg Mac, The Jungle Giants, Tkay Maidza, Pond, City Calm Down, Harts, Peter Bibby, Timothy Nelson & The Infidels, Mathas, Sid Pattni and many more. The three-day music, arts, comedy, burlesque (the list goes on) festival known as Disconnect that will set up stumps on from FridayMonday, December 11-14, at the beautifully picturesque Fairbridge Village in Pinjarra, looks set to be a Shanahan for a new outdoor festival experience in WA. disconnectfestival.com.au
BOY AND BEAR Red Hill Auditorium Saturday, January 30, 2016 The folk and indie quintet have announced a national tour January of 2016 in support of their latest album, Limit Of Love. Following extensive touring around Europe and the United States, Boy and Bear will be touring with support from like minded fellows Art of Sleeping and Melbourne rising songstress Montaigne. Known for their captivating live shows and lavish sound the group, now with three albums under their belt, will not disappoint. boyandbear.com
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CW STONEKING Fremantle Arts Centre, Saturday, November 14 Northern Territory blues crooner CW Stoneking will be playing headline shows across the country following his critically acclaimed album, Gon’ Bugaloo. After an extensive tour around Europe and the UK the renowned showman will be returning home to end 2015’s run, and will be his last shows before temporarily relocating to the US to work on exciting new projects and music. AC/DC Local poet/drunk/menace Peter Bibby will be joining Stoneking around the country, another great act and Domain Stadium Friday, November 27 and Sunday, November 29. another reason not to miss these shows! The unquestionable gods of rock are again returning oztix.com.au home for their huge Rock Or Bust tour for 10 dates over November and December. Playing at Coachella CW Stoneking Festival, The 57th Annual Grammy Awards and touring across Europe and the US since the release of their 17th album, Rock Or Bust, Acca Dacca have kept busy. With the absence of Phil Rudd and Malcolm Young, Stevie Young and Chris Slade will be filling in on guitar and drums respectively. Get amongst the Noise Pollution and don’t miss the biggest rock show of the year. acdctour.com.au
Saturday, December 26 Belvoir Amphitheatre Stanton Warriors, Danny Byrd, A.Skillz, Deekline, DJ Marky, Mafia Kiss, Dub Phizix, Stickybuds, Wuki, Splenda C, K+lab, Hydraulix, SleepyTom and many more. The annual boxing day bash Breakfest is back with a huge line-up of DJs and producers that is sure to please. The 15 year-old locally produced festival has impressed on an international scale, and it’s not hard to see why, there’s even beach volleyball. So grab your tickets and get yourself down for what Breakfest promises to be the #bestdayever. Your crew, your tunes, your day. facebook.com/Breakfest Stanton Warriors
SUFJAN STEVENS Red Hill Auditorium Sunday, March 2, 2016 Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens has announced a national tour over February and March of 2016 in support of his latest heartwrenching full length effort, Carrie & Lowell. Stevens, famous for his lavish orchestral sound and whimsical vocals, will be accompanied with a full-blown light show and a five piece band and has said to be performing the album in full at all shows. Playing at the breathtaking Red Hill Auditorium, Sufjan Stevens is definitely not an act to miss this summer. oztix.com.au Sufjan Stevens Pic: Emanuel-Alofabi
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TAME IMPALA Belvoir Amphitheatre, Swan Valley Saturday-Sunday, November 14-15 St. Jerome’s Laneway is proud to present Tame Impala for their highly anticipated Currents Tour following their immensely popular and acclaimed third album. The psych-rock adventurers will be playing a string of shows in beautiful outdoor arenas across the country with support from LA three-piece Mini Mansions and Fremantle’s favourite squad Koi Child. lanewaypresents.com/tours/tame-impala Kevin Parker, Tame Impala
STEREOSONIC Claremont Showgrounds Sunday, November 29 Armin van Buuren, Axwell Ingrosso, Major Lazer, Peking Duk, Diplo, SHOCKONE, Gareth Emery, Will Sparks, Hot Dub Time Machine, Showtek, Oliver Heldens, Carmarda, Generik and many more. Every punter’s favourite EDM festival is DEF LEPPARD back again this year with a huge line-up of local and Red Hill Auditorium international talents. Although being a one-day festival Saturday, November 21 this year rather than the usual two-day format, with Def Leppard, one of the world’s dominating acts as big these we guess you’re going to have to rage powerhouses of rock, has sold out stadiums and twice as hard. So prepare your ears and your feet for arenas across the globe with their powerful melodic what’s sure to be the biggest, loudest and sweatiest day rock anthems and spectacular live shows and are back of the year. on Australian soil for the first time in four years to play stereosonic.com.au huge shows across the country. Featuring support from US alt-rock outfit Live and Aussie born Baby Animals. Armin van Buuren redhillauditorium.com.au/event/def-leppard-livebaby-animals/
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Sir Stewart Bovell Park Friday- Sunday, January 8-10, 2016 Alpine, Mac DeMarco, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Birds of Tokyo, Bloc Party, Kurt Vile and The Violators, Gary Clark Jr, Meg Mac, Seth Sentry, Courtney Barnett, Disclosure, Django Django, Foals, Gang of Youths, Hiatus Kaiyote, Toro Y Moi, The Wombats, Young Fathers, Weird Al Yankovic and many more. Arguably WA’s biggest camping and music festival Southbound will return for 2016, with a truly outrageous line-up. The weekender festival will feature big names such as the breezy Kurt Vile and The Violators, goof ball Mac DeMarco, local heroes Birds of Tokyo, indie icons Bloc Party, songstress Courtney Barnett and Melbourne warlocks King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Get your tickets before they sell out because with this line-up it’s definitely a weekend to be had. southboundfestival.com.au
Red Hill Auditorium and Clancy’s Fish Pub Saturday, February 13, and Sunday, February 14, 2016 Wellington, New Zealand-bred dub/reggae band Fat Freddy’s Drop will be playing across the country in their Australian leg of their world in support of the forthcoming album Bays. The eight-piece band will be joined by neo-soul outfit Hiatus Kaiyote in Perth and Sydney, and international recognised solo artist Thomas Oliver will share the stage across the tour.
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THE BEACH BOYS Kings Park Botanical Gardens Saturday, November 21 Iconic Californian band The Beach Boys will be returning to Australian beaches this November for an 11-date run across the country. Now led by Mike Love, the current line-up does not include Brian Wilson, Al Jardine or David Mark. Supported by homegrown heroes John Paul Young & The Allstar Band and Glenn Shorrock, The Beach Boys will be bringing their iconic and prolific catalogue to Kings Park Botanical Gardens, God Only Knows you shouldn’t miss this one. The Beach Boys
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Wednesday, December 2 NIB Stadium The ginger sweetheart Ed Sheeran will be touring his guitar and loop pedals across Australia and New Zealand over November and December this year. His album, X, was released to critical acclaim and a wide new audience, a followed with sold-out shows across the globe, being the first musician ever to play an Australian and New Zealand stadium tour entirely solo. Supporting him on this gargantuan tour will be Drum and Bass heavyweights Rudimental, Passenger and Foy Vance. frontiertouring.com/edsheeran
Fremantle Esplanade Reserve and West End Sunday, February 14, 2016 Thundercat, Battles, Hudson Mohawke, Beach House, Chvrches, DIIV, Big Scary, FIDLAR, Flume, Grimes, Health, Shamir, Purity Ring, Violent Soho, Tobias Jesso Jr and many more… Returning for the second year to the beautiful the Fremantle Esplanade Reserve and West End, for the last date of the national St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival. Appropriately set on Valentine’s Day reserve your tickets quick and sweat it out with your hunny because it’s sure to be a good’un. lanewayfestival.com
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Kings Park Botanical Gardens Tuesday, February 9 and Wednesday, February 10, 2016 British soul and pop band Simply Red will be touring the country with honourables Natalie Imbruglia and Tina Arena February following their 11th and latest album Big Love and also in support of Imbruglia’s new covers album, Male. The triumvirate will be playing together at Kings Park Botanical Gardens, for a great night suitable for everyone. Simply Red
JAMES BAY Fremantle Arts Centre Saturday, January 30, 2016 Delightful rock’n’soul singer James Bay will return to our shores with a national tour spanning January and February of next year in support of his critically acclaimed debut album, Chaos And The Calm. The album’s mix of blues rock, soul, indie and Americana set against emotionally charged lyrics instantly place Bay at the forefront of the music scene. Bay is an exciting new up and coming artist to be watched, literally.
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SIP THIS Tall ‘Tails Local mixsters give us the lowdown on standout summer cocktails.
Make Friends With Salad Salads are staples of the summer menu, and nowadays this translates as eclectic, creative taste explosions. Why then do some people have an aversion to them? “I think they get a bad rap,” says Babooshka Menu Designer, Madison Casey Kirke. “People hear salad, and assume soggy lettuce leaves and mushy tomato. I wanted to break that stereotype with our summer salad and make sure our customers are getting more than just a plate of leafy greens.” Kirke’s top tip when salad browsing? “It’s important to go for something that has a good source of protein to keep you full for longer, as well as fruits and vegetables that have vibrant colours, as they’re rich in a variety of health benefits.” Babooshka’s feature salad this season is Grilled Corn and Buckwheat Salad with Miso Dressing. Kirke says the ingredients make it really on point for summer. “Radishes have properties that naturally cool the body and contain high amounts of vitamin C to help fight off those summer colds that circulate through the office air con, corn is full of antioxidants to help prevent cancer and heart disease - because, health, dur - and buckwheat is high in fibre and a great source of protein, keeping glucose levels at bay and helping you stay full for longer to ensure you don’t have to go out for that 3pm snack in the 40 degree heat. The unusual addition of miso paste in the dressing gives the salad big, bold flavours.” When asked if people are more open to salads these days, Bivouac Canteen & Bar Owner Anthony Princi points out salad is probably a word we’re going to need to let go of—a good point, as the term can carry a lot of connotations, many of which are out of date. “Sometimes it’s based around a core vegetable, a prominent vegetable you want to highlight because it’s in season, and you base the whole dish around that - it might be a warm dish, it might be a cold dish - and salad is the old word we used for that.” He says more people are willing to explore, and more chefs are willing to work with a core
Grilled Corn and Buckwheat Salad at Babooshka
vegetable as the highlight of the dish, rather than thinking of them as more of a side. “The fact is, now people are more interested in trying new vegetables, and seeing them done in different ways, so yeah, definitely getting more creative on that end. I know it’s what our chefs like to do.” This summer, patrons can enjoy Bivouac’s Grilled Halloumi Salad. The dish will include local broad beans, “from a local farmer, an old Italian guy who grows them specifically for us each year,” probably peas, and a vinaigrette of verjus and pomegranate molasses. “With grilled haloumi, you’re going to have something with some acid to cut through that, and because you’re always looking for balance, you want crunch factors, so there might be some toasted pepitas.” Princi says Bivouac is going to use some unusual ingredients this year. “The guys are really into their fermenting, there’s fermented cucumber in one of the salads, and we’re also using unusual locally sourced things—the buffalo mozzarella from Shaw River, heirloom tomatoes, and an air dried wagyu bresaola."
Balmy days and nights are a great time to chill and enjoy the creations of Perth’s local bar scene. According to Bar 399 Manager Chris Watts, cocktails typify summer: fresh fruits, bright colours, tranquil and enticing. Watts says the Summer Spritz at Bar 399 is a blissful blend of lychee liqueur, Campari, tonic, and lashings of lime. “It’s fresh, crispy and breezy, which makes it the perfect sunset tipple.” Cocktails have always had a stylin’ reputation. Maybe cinema and fiction have something to do with it: adding cocktails to a scene brings a splash of glamour, style, and sophistication, or at the very least, suggests the person stirring that swizzle stick may be bit of a reckless adventurer. Aside from the inevitable 007 references (here’s lookin’ at you, James), and Carrie’s penchant for Cosmopolitans in Sex And The City, the classic Dorothy Parker quote comes to mind: “I like to drink martinis. Two at the most. Three I’m under the table, four I’m under the host.” Jokes aside, cocktails are an art form all their own, especially in today’s bar scene, where there are many to choose from, each with their own particular twist (pardon the pun). Considering the hot months ahead of us, ‘tis definitely the season to wet your whistle with a fresh creation. “Our summer drink, which is also one of our main cocktails, is the Hillbilly Bob’s Ruckus Juice,” says Mechanic’s Institute Bar Manager Dim Rtshiladze. “It is a long drink with beer, ginger beer, spiced rum, lime, and orgeat.” When it comes to popular ingredients, Rtshiladze points out that all stone fruits are in season over summer so expect them to make an appearance on most cocktail lists around town. “Also your basics like lemon and lime-based sours, fresh pressed juices such as pineapple, apple, and watermelon are also pretty popular, either as ingredients in cocktails, or just mixers.” Pete Long, General Manager of Hula Bula Bar, says a surefire hit for summertime is definitely the Mai Tai. “The Hula Bula Mai Tai is not your traditional 1940’s Trader Vic concoction, but like a kitsch ‘70s version with some added ingredients because let’s
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face it, everywhere does a Mai Tai in their own way. We’ve been slinging these bad boys cheap on Friday afternoons for about 10 years, and if we stopped I think an angry mob would torch the place down!” He says as an underground Tiki grotto, it’s hard to say how tastes change for the season because it always feels like a tropical paradise. “But we do notice a fondness for hoppy beers and people get excited if you have something simmering in the corner in winter. “In summer we don’t really notice a change, as the bar is pretty much themed for it, with the majority of our cocktails being frosty and fruity rum punches with fresh fruit garnishes.”
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wonderful beers. Here it’s more about the malts than hops, with toasty and caramel malt flavours and underlying delicate floral hops just to balancing it out. Grab a six pack, some takeaway fish and chips and head to the beach.
SUMMER ALES Beer Me
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Feelin’ kinda thirsty? PIA POYNTON of the Girl+Beer blog lets us in on the suds we should be seeking.
Swan Valley, WA 6.8% ABV American style India Pale Ale
LAST DROP HEFEWEIZEN Bedfordale, WA 4.8% ABV Hefeweizen
PIRATE LIFE PALE ALE
Last Drop use traditional brewing methods in creating wonderful celebrations of classic beer styles and their Hefeweizen is one of the finest examples of a wheat beer you’re going to find in WA. Banana, clove and spice in all the right places, it doesn’t get much more refreshing than this.
Hindmarsh, SA 5.4% ABV West Coast (American) Pale Ale Former WA lads, Jared Proudfoot and Jack Cameron are at the helm of Adelaide’s Pirate Life Brewing which started late last year. Since then they have blown drinkers away with their unashamedly hoppy ales. The Pale Ale is their flagship beer and says everything you need to know about the brewery - larger than life, damn big hops and about as good as pale ales get.
NAIL BREWING GOLDEN Bassendean, WA 5.0% ABV Golden Ale Perhaps one of the lesser known of the Nail beers, the Golden is a perfect sunshiney day beer. Bursting with tropical fruit flavours courtesy of some Australian Galaxy hops, think citrus and mango wrapped in a bright golden hue. Sunshine in a glass is an understatement.
FERAL KARMA CITRA Swan Valley, WA 5.8% ABV India Black Ale Summer tends to leave the beloved stouts and porters of winter out in the cold but if you are looking for a little dark malt action then this is a good one to reach for. Citrus and tropical fruit go head to head with soft chocolate and roasty malts. The result is balanced, delicious and frighteningly morish.
EAGLE BAY EXTRA SPECIAL BITTER Eagle Bay, WA 5.4% ABV Extra Special Bitter (ESB)
COLONIAL DRAUGHT
It’s a salute to the English ESB style and whilst ESB doesn’t have the fan following that its American pale ale cousin has been enjoying, don’t overlook these
Margaret River, WA 4.8% ABV Kolsch When the days are long and hot this is what you want to be reaching for. It’s zesty, bright and clean and it comes in cans so it’s pretty much the ideal camping, picnic or beach buddy. This one is a crowd pleaser so keep it in the fridge all summer long.
What would summer be without a big hop hit and this is a great example of a local brewed, super fresh, American style india pale ale. Sip and savour the piney and fruity hops and gorgeous malt sweetness. There’s a reason this beer has been picking up awards since its release - cause it’s freaking delicious.
LA SIRÈNE WILD SAISON Alphington, VIC 6.4% ABV Wild Saison Historically the domain of the Belgians and French, Victoria’s La Sirène have dedicated themselves to brewing only Farmhouse beer styles. The Wild Saison uses a wild strain of yeast that gives barnyard characteristics so if you’re the type of person who gravitates towards the smelliest cheese on the board then this beer is for you. It’s musty, lightly spiced, fruity and with a soft acidity; think warm summer nights, cheeseboards and this beer.
THE RED BULL SUMMER EDITION Flavour: Tropical Fruits. Benefit: Red Bull. If you crave the taste of tropical fruits, the Red Bull Yellow Edition is for you. It still has the same added kick of energy as your regular Red Bull but with a passionate taste for some added tastebud titillation. The Summer Series is exclusive to select venues across Perth, which all have their own signature cocktail at each venue. The Bird Rosemount Hotel Matisse Beach Club Botanica Bar The Court The Flour Factory Cottesloe Beach The Left Bank Some of the tasty cocktails you can make with the Summer Series are... Bikini Blossom – Summer Edition, Pinot Grigio, St Germaine Elderflower Liquer, Tanqueray Gin, Ginger. Capsized Summer – Summer Edition, Tanqueray Gin, Red Capsicum, Lime, Mint. Summerita – Summer Edition, Espolon Tequila, Lime. The Hassle Hoff – Summer Edition, Vodka, Blood Orange Juice, Grapefruit Juice, Lime, Mint. Don’t forget to show what #ThisSummer will look like for you and Red Bull Yellow Edition tag @redbullau. 24 2 4
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SUMMER PLAYLISTS Hot In The Box What will be the sounds of your summer? Get inspired by the summer playlists of these local luminaries.
ABBE MAY, SINGER 1. Methyl Ethel - Also Gesellschaft 2. Tame Impala - Let It Happen 3. Dead Can Dance - Kiko 4. Patti Smith - Ghost Dance 5. SIA - Elastic Heart
CHARLIE BUCKET, DJ 1. Leo’s Sunship - Sunshine 2. Brothers Resistance - Wars In Space Dub 3. Mick Jenkins - Your Love (Produced By Kaytranada) 4. Protoje - Who Knows (Feat Chronixx) 5. Anderson .Paak - Already (feat SIR) ANTON MAZ, DEATH DISCO DJ/WAAPA
DAVEY CRADDOCK, SINGER 1. Professor Longhair - Tipitina 2. The Stands - Here She Comes Again 3. Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues 4. Cold Chisel - Standing On The Outside 5. Gypsy Kings - Bomboleo
GRAHAM WOOD, ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB 1. Herbie Hancock - Ravel Piano concerto in G Major 2nd movement 2. Keith Jarrett Solo Concerts - Bremen, July 12, 1973 Part IIb 3. Perez Patitucci Blade - Looking For Light 4. Chick Corea & Bela Fleck - Bugle Call Rag 5. Brad Mehldau - Exit music (for a film)
BLAKE HATE, SINGER 1. Sheer Mag - What You Want 2. Delta 9 - Total Fucking Rectal Anarchy 3. Shane Skillz - Trent From Punchy 4. Ween - Your 5 Mighty Boys- Hippy Shakes
LAITH TIERNEY, MUSIC ALL-ROUNDER 1. SWANS - I Am The Sun 2. Faith No More - Sunny Side Up 3. Simon and Garfunkel - Hazy Shade Of Winter 4. Seals and Crofts - Summer Breeze 5. Martha & The Vandellas - (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
1. Slum Sociable - All Night 2. Chet Faker - Gold 3. Meg Mac - Grandmas Hands 4. Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Highway 5. Flight Facilities - Claire De Lune
NOVAC BULL, SINGER 1. Beyoncè - Drunk In Love 2. Kendrick Lamar - Institutionalized 3. Paul Kelly - Give In To My Love 4. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon 5. Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes
JENNIFER ASLETT, MUSICIAN 1. Beyonce - Drunk In Love 2. Jack U feat. Justin Bieber - Where are ü Now 3. Kirin J Callinan - Landslide 4. Rich Gang - Lifestyle 5. Outlordz- Future Legend
STEVE PARKIN, MUSIC ALL-ROUNDER 1. Fruit Bats - When You Love Somebody 2. Ike and Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits 3. Mental As Anything - If You Leave Me (Can I Come Too?) 4. Cheap Trick - Dream Police 5. End of Fashion - Rough Diamonds
SUMMER FASHION Never-Ending Nautical Like a barnacle, oceanic fashion manages to stay afloat. The siren song of nautical is irresistible. No matter how much styles change, red, white and blue rolls in every time the weather heats up. A subset trend that goes with the flow (yes, totally went there), whatever your personality type, nautical has you covered. Everyone from Miley Cyrus to Kate Middleton dabbles in it. Kim Kardashian channelled it on that cover that time. Kate Moss is the queen. Nautical is cool and open to manipulation. It loves white-rimmed sunglasses and will convince you to buy terrible jewellery. Every couple of seasons yellow, mustard, or coral pop by and hang with the basics to convince us nautical is getting an overhaul. Since tech is a little behind (why isn’t there an app yet?) here are some nautical evolutions that might lure you in. The most well-known is Moneyed Up, nau-threads designed for people holidaying in the Hamptons. Suited to yachting, or you know, standing near one with a champers. Think Taylor Swift’s nodto-nautical frocks, or Ralph Lauren’s spring/summer 2016 collection. Closely linked is Preppy nautical (Ralph Lauren’s life blood). Dress like an Ivy League college student—or film and television’s idea of one because that’s about as close as most of us get. Not to be confused with the jauntier French nautical, that suggests a touch of je ne sais quoi, and may or may not involve a beret. Quirky nautical is a little artier (Zooey Deschanel rocked it for years). The cute cousin of Preppy, with lots of high-waisted flared short skirts. Top tip: Spencer from Pretty Little Liars. At present we’re big on Pseudo-Nineties nautical, all clean cuts and a lot of stripes bringing minimalist sleekness into play. Hey, want to wear stripes to work? Office nautical for the win. Because these are a little too much The Man, rock ‘n roll responds with its own rebellious take. Worn ironically by rock stars—or happily by pop stars - many a music maker has thrown on a sailor’s cap here, a navy mini-dress there. Rock’n’Roll nautical is fun and has a sassy, sexy flair. Vintage nautical focuses on red lippy, old-fashioned frocks, and pumps or flats. Also really popular on the swimwear front, bringing traditionally cut navy swimsuits to the (pool) party. Nauticalinspired tattoos are often seen here. We’ve all spotted Hipster nautical: pinstriped blue and white shirts with a red bow tie, or fitted summer shirts and shorts with tiny seahorse
and coral prints. (Beard and d topknot optional.)) Often in the company of Fun nautical, tical, where you dress like it’s the ‘80S and don’t shyy from sailor’s hats, rope belts, and fabric patterns that hat resemble seaweed. Bohemian refuses es to be left out, so cue Boho nautical with its dip dye and sea shell jewellery. A hot look is Stranded nautical, tical, implying you’ve been Oliver Queen-ing it on a desert esert island. Cut off denim shorts and a second-hand tee with an anchor print. Shoes mostly woven from sea grass, or barefoot, and yet still hip as. GILLIAN O’MEAGHER
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SUNDAY MUSIC AT FREO ARTS CENTRE Sunday Music returns for spring/summer with a great line up of local and touring acts performing free shows in Fremantle Arts Centre’s leafy Front Garden. From October to December enjoy everything from dreamy folk to hard-hitting soul, bluegrass, rock, blues and more. This Sunday, October 18, it’s the Galloping Foxleys, followed by Madre Monte (October 25), Timothy Nelson (November 1), Weapon Is Sound and Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics (November 8), Dave Graney (November 15), Mustered Courage (November 22), Suzannah Espie (November 29), Kallidad (December 13), AJ Wigwams (December 20) and Amani Consort ending 2015 on Sunday, December 27. 2016 acts will be announced shortly.
the iconic, the unusual and much, much more on a spectacular underwater journey along our coastline. Plus, this October you can win an iPad mini in AQUA’s Trick Or Treat competition! Just like sports teams some animals are especially skilled at either attack or defence. Enter AQWA’s DANGERzone this October to discover if the deadly sea creatures are using their super features to trick predators or catch a tasty treat. Open Daily 10am-5pm , AQWA – Hillary Boat Harbour, Hillarys. aqwa.com.au. Blue-ringed Octopus, AQWA
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ONE-PLANET FEST-A-CON Be prepared to be transformed with a visit to the One-Planet Fest-a-con in Fremantle from Friday, October 23, to Sunday, November 8. Fest-acon brings new forms of sustainable living and business into the community. Part celebration, part film festival and part (anti) conference, Fest-a-con is an opportunity to connect, share, learn and transform your life and the lives of those around you through attainable, sustainable living practices. Move between talks, events, competitions, exhibitions, children’s activities, stalls and workshops. Be inspired by the successful stories of ethical and sustainable businesses and industries. Try on new ideas and experiment with new skills. Learn how to use a less water, energy and waste in your home, your office and on your street. Bring your family, bring your friends, bring your neighbours – Fest-a-con is about changing your community, now and for the future. One-Planet Fest-a-con
NORFOLK LANES Presented by Make Smoking History, the Norfolk Lanes Youth Festival features the hottest new high energy bands, the country’s finest Skate facility, the state’s best break dancers battling it out for bragging rights, mixed in heaps of oddball activities, great food and good times. Its stages have seen a young Tame Impala, San Cisco and Grace Woodruff strut their stuff for the discerning folk of Fremantle. This year sees Norfolk Lanes incorporates Zou Rock Anniversary Jam that will see break dance crews from all over the country as well as overseas battle it out for the best up and coming b-boys and b-girls. WA hard rockers Red Engine Caves will headline the main stage. There’ll also be workshops and competitions on the skate park and parkour workshops from noon to 3pm. A live art workshop and a drama workshop round out the day’s activities. It all happens at Esplanade Youth Plaza (Esplanade Reserve) on Saturday, October 31, from noon until 7pm
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The Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival is the longest-running touring comedy film fest in Australia. Their 18th edition is launched in Fremantle at 9.45pm on Friday-Saturday, October 23-24, and 4.30pm on Sunday, October 25, at Luna on SX, Fremantle. The tour itself commences in January, 2016. Over The Fence strives for excellence in curating and presenting comedy films that change the way we view the world. It celebrates new and independent filmmakers, their comic masterpieces and their excellent sense of humour. The OTF folks are committed to encouraging and stimulating comedy film production worldwide, and promote comedy films that celebrate, entertain and inspire.
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When last did you visit AQWA? Have you just started thinking of fond memories from when you were a child? AQWA’s not just for kids, so this October return underwater and relive the excitement as you discover
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Love And Commando (France), Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival
Norfolk Lanes Youth Festival
Feed Box Market is all about nourishment! This market is designed to nourish the community, feed our souls, feed our families, feed our desire to learn, feed our creative side, our culture and our sense of fun and after a successful first season, the market returns with even more to offer. Feed Box Market Season Two kicked off on Saturday, October 10, for another awesome season. This three-season market is perfectly timed to enjoy the warmer months at one of Perth’s most iconic Feed Box Market
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The Court Street Party is back and this year they’ve gone neon! Featuring a huge diva line-up, The Court’s NEON Street Party is the only place to be after this year’s Pride parade with four huge party zones. Head on down to check out their very special headliner, Ricki-Lee, supported by Luciana and Paulini. It’s diva demolition on Saturday, November 21. Get down to the Street Party early as the main stage action will be a four turntable anthem spectacular between resident superstars Danny Boi and Skooby. They’ll be followed by the first of many drag shows plus the ever popular Pole Dancers are back putting their sexy spin on things. Hosted by the ever popular Diva Queen Hannah Conda back from Sydney for one night only, the main stage will be capped off with Future of the Future winner DJ Wasteland. If that’s not enough they have three more massive party zones for you. Watch RnB vs Dance music battle it out in the Red Bull Silent Disco zone in the Beer Garden. Choose your favourite channel and cheer for your favourite DJ. If you’re brave enough, try and tame the Bucking Penis in the Overflow or try your hand at the
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EXPRESSTIVAL Partnered by Manna and The Smith Family, Expresstival has become a headline event for Anti-Poverty Week in WA happening on Saturday, October 17, in Forrest Place in the Perth CBD Perth from 2pm-7pm. Now in its fourth year, Expresstival is a unique event which brings together music and the arts to provide a platform for young people of WA to engage with community support groups and mentors. The festival’s purpose is to build awareness, encourage connectedness and stimulate conversations between those of different cultural, ethnic and social backgrounds. A feature of this year’s event is the interactive art activities and instalments that will enable the Expresstival volunteers to directly engage people in conversations on disadvantage in Western Australia. Everyone is invited to take part in and engage with Expresstival, and the event has particular focus on young people and families. For more information about Expresstival and how to be involved visit the website at expresstival.com.
on the Bouncy Castle. Inside it’s all retro with all-time favourite anthems and gay pop hits from the ‘80s and ‘90s via DJ Kinky (Seb Sharp) and Tim Bee.
Introducing TruckStop; Perth’s weekly food and artisan event, launching a sensory assault on WA this summer. With a ‘home grown’ ethos, TruckStop embodies all that is local, celebrating Western Australian food, beer and wine and supporting local traders - the artisans, makers, designers and creators that showcase the very best of our fine state. Complete with custom retro roadhouse fit out, bespoke and upcycled furniture and décor and plenty of spaces to sit and dine, TruckStop will see the roving eatery combine street food, craft beer and cider, locally produced wine, local live music and DJs and visual arts in an imaginatively curated & retro themed setting. Activating central and suburban sites across Perth who will play host to the events, TruckStop is the brainchild of Sunset Events who boast an epic run of events to date, including; Groovin’ The Moo, Southbound, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival and West Coast Blues ‘N’ Roots. Truckstop launches on October 30, for Fridays and Saturdays at Perth Cultural Centre and then selected Sundays starting November 15 at Whitford Nodes in Hillarys. The free entry, all-ages events will both run through to Christmas. Sunset have also decided to share the love and lend the name to their friends over at Fremantle Festival in support of their great presence in the Freo market scene and surrounds. For more hit up facebook.com/ truckstopaus. Truckstop
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AND WE'RE OFF AND RACING GLOUCESTER PARK Gloucester Park looks set to thrive this season with a new Sports Bar and the re-opening of the Beau Rivage next month. The Beau Rivage has world class dining facilities with views no other venue in Perth can come close to. The new sports bar will be your link to the sporting world with action on the big screens, and live harness racing action on the track! Check gloucesterpark.com.au for more. The 2015 Tab Touch Inter Dominion Perth will be run over three heats and a Grand Final. Friday, November 27, will see fireworks, live music, Italian food stalls and more at Gloucester Park. Heat 2 will be run at Donaldson Park in Bunbury with local music, and food stalls. The third heat night is back at Gloucester Park and will see British India hit the stage after the last race. The Grand Final will be run and won on Sunday, December 13. Gates will swing open Gloucester Park
to the public at 11am and there will be non-stop action and attractions for everyone – including Sneaky Sound System belting out their cheeky fun pop songs after the last race. Limited numbers of restaurant bookings are still available so be quick to ensure you don’t miss out on seeing the best horses battling it out for the richest pacing event in the world! Hit up perthinterdominion.com.au for more.
MELBOURNE CUP AT MATISSE J o i n M at i s s e B e ac h C l u b fo r t h e r ace t h at stops the nation - Beach Club style! Forget sweltering in the heat this Melbourne Cup, Relax in their resort-like surroundings, with stunning views of the Indian Ocean and the unique outdoor pool while enjoying an allinclusive three hour canapé and beverage package. Be some of the first to view the new Summer collections from some of Perth’s most celebrated designers including Natalie Rolt, Jonté and Little Dove. Sip on Moet & Chandon Imperial and Moet Ice Champagne, which will be available at discounted prices from the popup pool deck champagne bar. To keep you perfectly polished all day, the team from Fake Bake Hair & Beauty and the amazing makeup artist, Holly Garvey, will be on hand for those touch up moments. Plus, there’s all the action live from Flemington with sweeps and prizes. Cocktail Tickets - includes entry, substantial canapes and three-hour beverage package. Three Course Sit Down Lunch - prefer to linger over a long lunch? Matisse also has a delectable three-course sit down lunch with an all-inclusive three-hour beverage package available for only $130 per person. Includes a complimentary glass of Moet & Chandon N V C h a m p ag n e o n a r r i v a l . L i m i t e d s p o t s available. To book please phone (08) 9245 2000. Poolside Cabana Packages - want to get a little bit fancy? Our exclusive poolside cabana packages for 10 people include an allinclusive three-hour food and premium beverage package, Moet & Chandon Imperial Champagne and a ride to Matisse and home in a classic Chrysler limo, courtesy of Bellagio Limousines. Cabanas are situated poolside so you are also guaranteed the best view of the fashion show. Fo r m o re o n t h e a b ove , h e ad t o matissebeachclub.com.au/events#upcoming
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adaptable and multi-skilled graduates,” Professor Barstow said. “From 2016 the new hub will give ECU students the opportunity to work closely with other students and researchers across a broad range of technical disciplines. “This approach is essential to equip our graduates with the skills needed to contribute to the growing creative industries in Australia and internationally.”
New Gallery The hub will house a new art gallery for students to exhibit their work and gain experience in holding exhibitions. It will be the second art gallery on the Mount Lawley Campus, with the successful Spectrum Project Space continuing to provide a platform for local and international artists.
Design Studio Behind the scenes - filming Godot’s Clinic on a rooftop in Fremantle
ECU NEW ARTS HUB FOR 2016 ECU is investing more than $5 million to create a new communications and arts hub on the Mount Lawley Campus. Over the next two years the University will spend $4 million to create new facilities in design, visual art, fashion, broadcasting, animation, photomedia, motion capture and film. A further $1 million will be invested in new technologies and software. Head of School of Communications and Arts Professor Clive Barstow said the creation of the hub will give students the skills and experience to succeed in the creative industries. “This investment recognises that careers in communications and arts sectors are increasingly cross-disciplinary, and will require
Design will relocate to a new studio that combines large open teaching areas and technology spaces equipped with the latest in computer aided design, 3D printing, laser cutters, and large-scale graphics printing.
Animation Studio Graphic animation and interactive media will receive a boost with the development of a large, purpose-built animation studio and a new research facility equipped with the latest motion capture equipment.
New Visual Art, Fashion And Photography Precinct Within the arts hub, a ‘technical precinct’ will include new facilities in painting, drawing, printmaking, fashion and spatial arts. Photomedia will take advantage of a large and newlyrefurbished studio housing three new professional photographic studios and state-of-the-art digital print facilities.
New Courses For 2016 Complementing the new facilities, ECU will also offer redesigned Bachelor degrees in Arts, Design, Media and Communications and Contemporary Arts from 2016. The new courses feature an emphasis on professional engagement and employment opportunities for students. For more information, visit ecu.edu.au/degrees/ study-areas/communications-and-arts.
A Short Lesson in Embroidery (detail), Anna Dunnill, 2014. Limited edition artist book. Image: the artist.
ANNA DUNHILL ACCIDENTAL ARTIST Artist and writer, Anna Dunnill, graduated from Central’s Advanced Diploma of Visual Art course in 2008. Life has been quite varied ever since. She has completed artist residencies, exhibitions, founded and co-directed an artist-run initiative, collaborated on a public mural, co-run a semi-annual zine fair, published fiction and essays, run workshops, made public performance, and made art with embroidery, drawing and hand-poked tattoos. This rich artistic life emerged from a very unexpected beginning. “I became an artist almost by accident,” says Anna. “During Year 12 I was ill and couldn’t do the TEE, and I got into art while I was recovering. But I was always planning to study creative writing,
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and I started the Visual Art course partly for personal interest and partly as a pathway to university.” Anna’s broad body of work examines ways of communicating; the nature of language; the impossible desire of human connection; the boundaries of the self and body; and the boundaries between the self and other selves. “Making art is a tangible way of understanding the world, and it filled some space in me I didn’t know I was missing,” she says. “At Central I met people who are now some of my best friends and mentors. I learned all kinds of skills, including ceramics, animation, printmaking and drawing. I also learned to work to my strengths, trust my opinions, and push myself to try new things. One lecturer said to us: ‘Give yourself permission to make bad art’. That’s still a really important thing I remind myself of.” The work Anna created for her Central end of year graduate exhibition (an installation of wall drawings and text pieces) was curated into Hatched 09, a national graduate exhibition held at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). Six years down the track, Anna is now undertaking a residency at PICA developing work for a solo exhibition. Following her time at Central Anna went on to Curtin University for a BA in Creative Writing. In addition to her solo practice, Anna is one half of Snapcat, an artistic collaboration with her friend, Renae Coles, that involves painting, object-making and participatory performance.
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mate Mal, after buying a Japanese toy camera and learning my way around Final Cut. I purchased a cheap drum machine, Casiotone, Micro Korg and African guitar book to inspire a second record that is now completed. I’ve been working in a guitar store. I joined the Mei Saraswati band, Rabbit Island, The Growl, played a couple of gigs with Kevin Parker’s Kevin Spacey and I played bass for my pal Damian Crosbie. I also purchased some running shoes to get fit and now I’m a health freak running everywhere. To the bakery, to the bottle shop, to the pub, to KFC… I’m always running. Did you have any particular musical visions then that you wanted to act on? Have they come to fruition or evolved into something beyond? There was one particular one which I haven’t realised yet, which is why I made these two records as a creative holiday from that. These two had looser boundaries and less ‘vision’. Audio_ illogical Backyard Dog was to adopt the spirit of Daniel Johnston and Beck’s home made, anything goes records. Whilst the songs on the soon to be released Future Reset were to have their impetus in exploring rhythmic ideas from the music in Africa.
BENJAMIN WITT The Running Man Benjamin Witt debuts his Quartet at The Bird this Saturday, October 17, with help from Mudlark and Damian Crosbie. He’s got three albums on the go, y’now...
You essentially worked on three albums at once; was this liberating in that eliminated the prospect of getting stuck too much down a particular path? Yes. Audio_illogical Backyard Dog was the last I started but the first I finished. Future Reset was the second I started. This time away from my first idea has made me realise why I couldn’t make progress with it in the first place. How would you characterise Audio_illogical Backyard Dog in terms of the other two releases that are set to come out? Audio_illogical Backyard Dog is the sculpture you find in your uncle’s shed, made out of whatever is lying around... bicycle tyre, your Nanna’s wedding dress, chair leg, etc. What can we expect of the Benjamin Witt Quartet on Saturday? We’ll be playing songs from the Future Reset LP. We have our second jam tonight so I’m a little curious myself.
Describe the two years since The Chemist disbanded in 2013... 2016 - it brings all sorts, doesn’t it? I went travelling for a few months 2016 is the year of the monkey. through Europe. I digitally released a 17-track Technically, I’m a dragon but I am certainly partial solo LP with a couple of videos I made with my to a banana smoothie. So, who knows?
SOUNDS OF THE PILBARA II Original People, Original Music Sounds Of The Pilbara II: Songs In Language captures 54 indigenous voices from the Pilbara, via original songs and sung stories in traditional language. BOB GORDON speaks with WAM Regional Coordinator, Nigel Bird. You’ve done quote a lot in the Sounds Of... series. Returning this time to the Pilbara and committing to language-based songs, what were the main challenges that lay ahead? Probably the most important challenge was to ensure the project was delivered with the cultural respect it deserves, often we were working with elders of these language groups and they were sharing personal and sometimes emotional stories in song with us. Including losing planned participants to cultural responsibilities of varying kinds, we were also at the mercy of Pilbara time… so some obstacles lie within sticking to the schedule that was formed before we left. Ultimately the biggest challenge was working with other languages that we had very little experience in understanding or speaking. Had a language-focussed release been a long-time goal? Was it once thought of as being too difficult to pull off? There has been language songs/songs featuring language across the seven sounds of projects now and 2011’s Wiluna project heavily featured artists singing in Martu. But, yep! This one was definitely a goal for lots of reasons. It definitely required a greater awareness and attention to make sure that we walked in the right foot steps culturally, but it was too important to be too difficult to pull off. 32 32
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Who were the key people that helped you get to this point? I’ll concentrate on this project. There are many, Matt Gio and Sean Lillico the project audio engineers, the staff at WAM and the project sponsors and partners who showed understanding towards delivering a meaningful project. Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre staff and management and a couple of personal Pilbara friends of mine who helped to guide me culturally managing the project. Were there any concerns from some of the artists about sharing these songs considering they may be considered sacred? I’d say the elders and artists who contributed to the album knew what they were allowed to record with or sing around us fellas, although we always mentioned the songs had to be ones that could be heard by a wide audience, via the CD release, on radio and online. We also conveyed that we hoped this project would help bring a greater awareness to capturing languages from within the Pilbara, outside of the Pilbara region. What are your hopes for this particular release, both for those in the Pilbara community and the new people that this music reaches? I know these recordings are going to be special for the families and language groups they are from. Knowing they’ll exist as a permanent record of songs in language, for many purposes is one hope already achieved. I hope it encourages more opportunities for this kind of activity, on lots of levels. We are losing some of the most linguistically knowledgeable old people and some of these languages only have a few speakers left. Slap me if I’m wrong, there is tremendous value in recording these songs. It would be fantastic if this project does achieve a greater awareness about Pilbara languages and the importance of recording songs in indigenous languages, generally.
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SKULLCAVE The Climb Continues Skullcave launch their new EP, Climbing, on Friday, October 16, at Jimmy’s Den with support from FOAM, The Pissedcolas, Nerve Quakes and Calsspiritualjourney. BOB GORDON chats with drummer, Liam Young. Did you go into this EP with pretty certain intentions on what you wanted to achieve, or were you open-minded to what could transpire? We wanted it to be heavier. We recorded this release live and it really helped capture the whole feeling we were going for. I wouldn’t have been as open-minded about that in the past, I like to track separately most of the time. Is it different going into record with people knowing about the band, whereas when you’re a little-lesser known there’s less expectation? I’m not sure how many people really know about us. That wasn’t a thing that passed
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through our minds. We just always want to write the best songs we can at that point in time and share it with people who dig genre-mashing bands. What did Adam Round (producer) bring to the table on this occasion? Knowledge beyond his years, a cheery attitude at all times and a great studio. Is the single, How To Tell You’re Winning, indicative of the rest of the EP? I think so. That song is heavy but melodic and just a little bit epic on the tail end. They’re all kind of different, but How To Tell… pretty much nails the vibe. What else is in store? Riffs. Lots of riffs. And delay. How has the band evolved over the last year as you’ve gigged and recorded more? Well, hopefully we’ve gotten a bit tighter. I’m learning how to sing better live and in the studio with each show we play. We’ve been playing together for so many years that we trust each other to fill the spaces left for us in the song but not to overcrowd it. What are your plans for 2016? Lots of gigs, hopefully another tour. Definitely another release.
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CAMP DOOGS Nannup Nature Reserve Friday, October 9, 2015 The joke already runs that if you didn’t go to Camp Doogs, you’re sure as hell going to hear about it afterwards - there are reasons for that. Only three editions old, the low-key, high-vibes music festival has pretty much perched itself as the event of the year in the hippest circles of this city’s music scene. Sometimes it feels like BIGSOUND without the conference. Is it insular? Probably. But is it welcoming as all hell? Twice so, and it gets more so every year. Camping, as ever, favoured the self-sufficient – if you managed to avoid forgetting your towel or mistake a bottle of methylated
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spirits for water while coming down the conditions were just about perfect, warm-to-baking as the afternoons were. The arts and activities took another step up, with Zen gardens and other amenities to keep the space engaging for the senses neglected by speakers. This isn’t to forget the music, though. While last year’s line-up favoured the unexpected and unheralded to generally mind-blowing results, this year leaned towards more established acts. But if the joy of discovery was dimmed a little, the bangers were wall to wall. On Friday night, Hootenanny got the ball rolling before Methyl Ethel set off for the states with a languorous, mesmeric set befitting their incipient world-conquering. Following was the rare and frankly overwhelming spectacle of Mei Saraswati Band brining things out into the
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stratosphere, before the seismic voice of Kirin J. Callinan brought things back to the gutter, ending with a stage invasion and a group chant about toddlers. Saturday’s highlights came thick and fast early with Erasers and Leure, before Sui Zhen’s masterful ambient pop belied the heat of the afternoon with her chilly, absorbing takes on connection. Along with Grace Barbe, Kitchen People might have been the local MVPs --If it was possible to rip the fuckin’ roof off an open-air amphitheatre, KP did that and more with a bevy of new, cut-glass synth-led material. At the opposite tempo, Outlordz blended yacht rock sensibilities, getting destroyed on lean and just-ok cultural appropriation with a dedication to Party that verged on the hazardous - not an iota of that was a complaint. It wouldn’t have been Doogs without
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someone perching by the river and whispering with a guitar, and this year the recently-repatriated Rabbit Island obliged with a set that was beatific – if it was easy to lull a couple hundred revellers into a hush at a festival, it would happen. The Bedroom Suck showcase was richly rewarding, especially considering how rarely members of the stable make it out west -- the euphoric Footscray Station by Scott and Charlene’s Wedding was worth the three hour bus ride to Nannup by itself. The main stage closed to the polyrhythmic incantations of the unstoppably frenetic NO ZU, before the intrepid decamped to Deep Doogs for dancing into the wee hours, capped by a marathon Noise in My Head set. Collapsing filthy and exhausted into a tent at 5am, it was hard not to begin looking forward to next Doogs. ALEX GRIFFIN Photos by Ashleigh Norman
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LIFEHOUSE Riley Pierce Astor Theatre Sunday, October 11, 2015 aAfter a 15 year absence, US pop-rockers Lifehouse returned to Australian soil for their first headline tour down under in support of their seventh studio album Out of the Wasteland, smashing out classic hits whilst showcasing their outstanding growth with newly released tracks, drawing a mixed crowd of young and old, all of which left the venue satisfied. Local performer Riley Pierce opened up the night blending captivating slow acoustic tunes with warming lyrics and comforting vocals. Pierce quickly found his element and comfort on stage interacting with the crowd between tracks, slipping in some light-hearted humour and slowly building the atmosphere of his set into a booming finale that sent the quickly growing attentive crowd into a roar of applause. Wasting little time Lifehouse hit the stage to a thunderous applause, responding with a massive performance of recent single Hurricane highlighting the additional grunt their live show can carry. With a perfect live mix, each member
of the travelling four-piece complimented each track perfectly with bass guitarist Bryce Soderberg standing out through his pitch perfect harmonies and continuous crowd interaction. Lead vocalist Jason Wade was unstoppable throughout the night continuing to provide emotion and energy to each track, hitting high note after high note as the group powered through older hits Whatever It Takes and Sick Cycle Carousel. Soon enough the room filled with slow dancing couples and disco lights as You and Me rang out throughout the venue shortly followed by a brief acoustic run leading into a massive band return during Everything. After revisiting their 2007 album Who We Are briefly with First Time and Broken a non-traditional encore, in which the crowd smashed their feet and applauded endlessly rather then chanting, brought out the inevitable closer Hanging by a Moment filling Astor Theatre with a sea of screamed lyrics and nostalgic fans. It’s been 15 years since Australia saw Lifehouse and the group did not disappoint putting aside visual effects and instead focusing on an impenetrable live mix whilst perfecting and evolving their recordings into massive venue anthems. AARON BRYANS
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TOURS THIS FORTNIGHT LEE KERNAGHAN 14 Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre 16 Queens Park Theatre 17 Regal Theatre THY ART IS MURDER 14 Amplifier GUY PEARCE & DARREN MIDDLETON 15 Art Bar 17 Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre TRANSVAAL DIAMOND SYNDICATE 15 The Bird 16 Prince of Wales 17 Mojos Bar LAURA MARLING 16 Astor Theatre MEGADETH 16 Metro City THE PAPER KITES 16 Amplifier BEN LEE 17 Astor Theatre RUFUS 17 Fremantle Arts Centre AIRLING 18 Aviary GLENN RICHARDS 18 Fremantle Arts Centre TESSERACT 18 Amplifier HELLOWEEN 20 Capitol SNOT 21 Amplifier EARTHLESS & ELDER 22 Rosemount Hotel TIJUANA CARTEL 22 Mojos Bar 23 Clancy’s Dunsborough 24 Rosemount Hotel THE MURLOCS 23 Mojos Bar AT THE DAKOTA 23 Four5Nine Bar ARJ BARKER 27 – 31 Regal Theatre AT THE GATES 28 Amplifier 10CC 28 Astor Theatre HOZIER 28 Belvoir Amphitheatre THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH 28 Rosemount Hotel OCTOBER 2015 SAN CISCO 29 ArtBar FLEETWOOD MAC with ANGUS & JULIA STONE 30 Domain Stadium SPACE BONG 30 Rosemount Hotel 31 Mojos Bar ROCKWIZ LIVE! 31 Riverside Theatre TOMMY LITTLE 31 Dolphin Theatre DROWNING HORSE 31 Mojos Bar THE RIPTIDE MOVEMENT 31 Astor Theatre BAD//DREEMS 31 Amplifier NOVEMBER 2015 ANATHEMA 1 Rosemount Hotel SPACE BONG 1 Railway Hotel NORTHLANE 4 Metropolis Fremantle NAUGHTY BY NATURE 5 Astor Theatre MARLON WILLIAMS & THE YARRA BENDERS 5 Four5Nine Bar BEN OTTEWELL 5 Mojos Bar 6 Four5Nine Bar LOW STEPPA 6 Ambar 36
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HANK MARVIN GYPSY JAZZ TRIO 6 Victoria Hall MAT MCHUGH 6 Rosemount Hotel 7 Mojos Bar THE PREATURES 6 Caves House 7 The Leftbank & Northshore Tavern 8 Lucky Shag & Ocean Beach Hotel FLORENCE & THE MACHINE 7 Perth Arena PETE MURRAY 7 Fremantle Arts Centre RUBBERBANDITS 7 Capitol THE DARKNESS 7 Metropolis Fremantle YOU AM I 7 Rosemount Hotel MARLON WILLIAMS & THE YARRA BENDERS 7 Fly By Night PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY 7 Amplifier WOODLOCK 8 Four5Nine Bar RYAN VAN POEDEROOYEN 8 John Inverarity Theatre NICO & VINZ 9 Villa MARSHALL OKELL 10 Perth Blues Club 11 Indi Bar RUTS DC 12 Rosemount Hotel CW STONEKING 12 Settlers Tavern 13 Prince of Wales 14 Fremantle Arts Centre THIRSTY MERC 12 Friends Restaurant 13 Boab Tavern 14 Charles Hotel 15 Ravenswood Hotel RUSSELL MORRIS 13 Charles Hotel THE BENNIES 13 Rosemount Hotel TUKA 13 Amplifier 14 Mojos Bar COLD CHISEL with THE LIVING END 14 Perth Arena TAME IMPALA 14 & 15 Belvoir Amphitheatre PIERCE BROTHERS 14 Amplifier 15 Mojos Bar NEIL DIAMOND 14 Sandalford Estate 16 Perth Arena MARIBOU STATE 15 The Court STEPHEN FRY 17 & 18 Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre ODDISEE 20 Mojos Bar THE GETAWAY PLAN 20 Rosemount Hotel 21 Mojos Bar DEF LEPPARD with BABY ANIMALS & LIVE 21 Red Hill Auditorium THE BEACH BOYS 21 Kings Park JEREMY NEALE 21 Jack Rabbit Slim’s 22 Mojos Bar NILE with UNEARTH, FEED HER TO THE SHARKS & WHORETOPSY 22 Capitol JAMES REYNE 22 Kings Park SHEENA EASTON 24 Astor Theatre RON SEXSMITH with BOB EVANS & TIMOTHY NELSON 25 Rosemount Hotel
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NERDLINGER 27 Amplifier 28 Camel Bar 29 Four5Nine Bar JON TOOGOOD 27 Four5Nine Bar 28 Indi Bar 29 Mojos Bar AC/DC with THE HIVES & KINGSWOOD 27 & 29 Domain Stadium UB40 28 Metropolis Fremantle SIX60 28 Astor Theatre THE MARK OF CAIN 28 Amplifier SAM SMITH 28 Perth Arena KORA 28 Rosemount Hotel STEREOSONIC ft. DIPLO, CLEAN BANDIT, ARMIN VAN BUUREN, MAJOR LAZER, PEKING DUK & more 29 Claremont Shwogrounds DECEMBER 2015 RUDIMENTAL 1 Metro City ED SHEERAN 2 NIB Stadium THE SCREAMING JETS 3 Prince of Wales 4 Settlers Tavern 5 Charles Hotel 6 Ravenswood Hotel MONO 4 Rosemount Hotel BRITISH INDIA 4 Gloucester Park CITIZEN KAY 5 Jack Rabbit Slim’s CHRIS CORNELL 8 & 9 Perth Concert Hall TIM & ERIC 8 & 9 Astor Theatre NEVER SHOUT NEVER 10 Rosemount Hotel MY DISCO 11 Rosemount Hotel 12 Mojos Bar YELAWOLF with B WISE 11 Villa UNWRITTEN LAW with GRENADIERS 12 Capitol MY DISCO 12 Mojos Bar LITTLE SEA 12 Astor Theatre THE VANNS 12 Jack Rabbit Slim’s 12 White Star Hotel LUCINDA WILLIAMS with DAN SULTAN 13 Kings Park & Botanic Garden MISFITS 13 Rosemount Hotel SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM 13 Gloucester Park THE AMITY AFFLICTION & A DAY TO REMEMBER 14 Perth Arena THE EXPLOITED 14 Capitol MODELS 16 Astor Theatre DREAM ON DREAMER 18 Rosemount Hotel JEBEDIAH 24 Four5Nine Bar BREAKFEST 2015 ft. STANTON WARRIORS, DANNY BYRD, STICKYBUDS, SPENDA C, HYDRAULIX & more 26 Belvoir Amphitheatre JANUARY 2016 NECK DEEP & STATE CHAMPS 6 YMCA HQ & Rosemount Hotel COURTNEY BARNETT 7 Astor Theatre 8 Southbound Festival ICEHOUSE 8 Castelli Estate, Denmark 10 Hotel Rottnest SOUTHBOUND ft. ALPINE, BIRDS OF TOKYO,
BLOC PARTY. GARY CLARK JR., HILLTOP HOODS, JARRYD JAMES, SETH SENTRY, MEG MAC & more 8 – 10 Sir Stewart Bovell Park LOU DOILLON 12 Rosemount Hotel NIGHTWISH 15 Metropolis Fremantle SHORT STACK 16 Astor Theatre WALK THE MOON 21 Astor Theatre THE 1975 23 HBF Stadium JAMES BAY 30 Fremantle Arts Centre BOY & BEAR 30 Red Hill Auditorium FEBRUARY 2016 NICK OFFERMAN & MEGAN MULLALLY 2 & 3 Astor Theatre SOILWORK 2 Rosemount Hotel KEVIN HART 3 Perth Arena JIMMY CARR 3 Riverside Theatre SIMPLY RED with NATALIE IMBRUGLIA 9 & 10 Kings Park & Botanic Garden SOILWORK 10 Rosemount Hotel WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE 11 Octagon Theatre, UWA FAT FREDDY’S DROP 13 Red Hill Auditorium 14 Clancy’s Dunsborough LANEWAY FESTIVAL ft. THE SMITH STREET BAND, GRIMES, HERMITUDE, FLUME, CHVRCHES, DIIV & more 14 Esplanade Reserve, Fremantle DIESEL 20 Rosemount Hotel THE CHAOS RAIDS 23 Amplifier BETWEEN THE BURIED & ME 25 Rosemount Hotel MARCH 2016 BELINDA CARLISLE with PSEUDO ECHO 1 Astor Theatre DAWN FRENCH 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Riverside Theatre SUFJAN STEVENS 2 Red Hill Auditorium WE THE KINGS 3 Rosemount Hotel ADAM BRAND & THE OUTLAWS 6 Ravenswood Hotel STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES 11 Astor Theatre THE CHARLATANS 16 Capitol IAN MOSS 19 Astor Theatre THE WAILERS 21 Astor Theare BRYAN ADAMS 21 Kings Park & Botanic Gardens APRIL 2016 BLACK SABBATH 15 Perth Arena DAMIEN LEITH 15 Astor Theatre THE STRANGLERS 23 Metropolis Fremantle MAY 2016 IRON MAIDEN 14 Perth Arena
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INDI BAR Open Mic LANEWAY LOUNGE Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys LLAMA BAR BUMP MALT SUPPER CLUB Nueva Salsa Orchestra MOJO’S BAR Tim Richmond (VIC) Fall Electric Rabbit Island Hayley Beth MOON CAFÉ The Fix MUSTANG BAR Pump NEWPORT HOTEL Record Club Rewind – Divinyls ft. Boom! Bap! Pow! PRINCE OF WALES Third Gear ROSEMOUNT HOTEL RAW Artist Showcase ft. Transnational Crash Edie Green Tell The Shaman SETTLERS TAVERN Open Mic Night ft. Claire Warnock UNIVERSAL BAR Off The Record VELVET LOUNGE Todd Asked Me Out Too X-WRAY CAFE Rupert Guenther FRIDAY 16/10 AMBAR Force Majeure ft. GHASTLY AMPLIFIER The Paper Kites ASTOR THEATRE Laura Marling & band THE AVIARY DJ Neil Viney BABUSHKA HUSSY (EP Launch) Zerodent The Government Yard Ducks on a String DJ S. Wyse BAILEY’S BAR Hi-NRG THE BIRD RHYTHMATISM #44 ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Jamie Oehlers Quartet FLYRITE Baked Goods THE GAME Hip Hop Block Party ft. Fraksha Scotty Hinds GEISHA Open House GINGER NIGHTCLUB Mondo Fridays THE GOOD SHEPHERD Throwback GOLD BAR Fox Fridays HULA BULA Friday Frendzee INDI BAR Morgan Bain The Hunting Birds JACK RABBIT SLIM’S Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (Single Launch) Usurper of Modern Medicine Mugwump JIMMY’S DEN Skullcave (EP Launch) Foam The Pissedcolas & more LANEWAY LOUNGE Gabriella Brown LEISURE INN Indigo Big Birls Blouse The Discordians THE LIBRARY DORCIA LLAMA BAR Honey - Harlem Nights
METRO CITY Megadeth Children of Bodom METROPOLIS FREMANTLE Animal House: Oktoberfest MOJO’S BAR 0utlordz DJ Dingo DJ Giddy Up Bish DJ Snake in my Boot MUSTANG BAR Flash Nat & The Action Men Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys NEWPORT HOTEL Tiki Beats THE ODD FELLOW Dream Rimmy Gunns HYLA Sam Atkin PRINCE OF WALES Transvaal Diamond Syndicate (QLD) The Floors 459 ROSEMOUNT HOTEL The Chlorines Yaqui Yeti Hunt For Dallas Goodnight Moon ROSEMOUNT HOTEL David Dallas (NZ) & more UNIVERSAL BAR Nightmoves VELVET LOUNGE The Other Night ft. Cash Krzma Wisdom 2th The Sophists SOMA Bird Brains DJ Silence VILLA Phace Emperor Ivy Lab Foreign Concept SATURDAY 17/10 AMANI BAR EMBASSY AMBAR Japan 4 AMPLIFIER The Brow (Single Launch) Our Man In Berlin Angus Dawson The Witches NDORSE ASTOR THEATRE Ben Lee Sahara Beck Wanderlust THE AVIARY Zel Klean Kicks Bfix BABUSHKA Rich King Matthews Segue Safari Villain TEIJ Ah Trees THE BIRD Benjamin Witt Quartet Mudlark Damian Crosbie THE BOSTON Boston Boogie ft. Boom! Bap! Pow! The High Learys Catzilla DJ Charlie Bucket BUNBURY REGIONAL ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Guy Pearce Darren Middleton CLANCY’S FREMANTLE Datura4 Elli Schoen The Secret Buttons COCONUT CLUB Coconut Club DELICIOUS 50 Shades of Delicious ELLINGTON JAZZ CLUB Funk & Soul ft. Carrie Allira GEISHA Kinky Malinki FLYRITE Father FRAYED Frayed
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PALMER JOE BONAMASSA PDI 03 JB SPEAKER SIMULATOR Joe Bonamassa has been bringing the blues to new audiences for over three decades. An anomaly in his field, the bluesman has found a balance between industry credibility and manipulation of social media networks and marketing that is almost unmatched in the blues-rock sector of the industry. Over the years, Bonamassa has amassed a series of official merchandise and signature products almost as big as his discography. The latest of these is the Palmer PDI 03 JB Speaker Simulator. The PDI 03 JB is a high-quality, professional-level passive DI box built specifically for guitar amps. The unit has been particularly developed for live, studio and home recording applications to eliminate the need for timeconsuming microphone placement and micrelated problems, such as low-end rumble or audio spill from other instruments near the guitar rig. Essentially the unit is connected after the amplifier and effects, and then a line can be taken directly to a mixing desk while still sending a line to the actual speaker box.
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Designed to Bonamassa’s specifications for a powerful yet focused tone, the exclusive ‘JB’ switch brings the output signal to the fore and takes it –in Joe’s own words - “right in your face.” Other controls include db switching and speaker emulation settings. The speaker emulation filters are carefully voiced to authentically replicate the frequency response of classic and contemporary loudspeakers and cabinets. The unit’s input sensitivity is adjustable for amps up to 200 watts or line and instrument level equipment. As well as live applications the PDI-03 JB can also be used to add realistic speaker flavors to preamps and dirt boxes in direct recording applications. It’s a professional DI solution for electric guitarists and as a result it does require a reasonably serious investment of around $400. Visit joebonamassa.com for the Palmer PDI 03 JB and all other Joe Bonamassa signature products.
It aims to deliver both vintage and modern sounds with three rotary/vibrato effect types, each of which can be uniquely contoured to accentuate frequencies and driven to overdrive via the pedal’s stacked Tone and Drive controls. The versatility of these controls along with independent Speed, Depth and Mix controls allow users to set up anything from mild amplitude and frequency modulation to a fully blown psychedelic freak-out. In addition to this, the Ventura Vibe’s foot-switchable speed function allows players to adjust between slow and fast speeds in real time. The Ventura Vibe’s stellar rotary and vibrato effects (largely based on the popular Uni-Vibe and Leslie speaker effects) are accompanied by stereo inputs and outputs for connection flexibility and true bypass circuitry. The compact size, vacuum-style footswitch and striking graphics make the DIGITECH VENTURA VIBE Ventura Vibe another step forward in the ROTARY / VIBRATO PEDAL evolution of DigiTech’s pedal designs. The Ventura Vibe uses a 9V DC power T h e Ve n t u r a Vi b e Ro t a r y / Vi b r ato p e d a l supply to easily integrate into an existing from DigiTech adds old-school psychedelic pedalboard. Check with your local DigiTech rotary and vibrato colours to guitar tones. dealer for price and availability. TUITION
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