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FREE SHIT BLITZEN TRAPPER Fresh from performing at SxSW, Blitzen Trapper have confirmed home-grown supports The The Paper Kites for their upcoming Melbourne date. The altcountry rockers from Oregon recently announced their return to Australia, with headline shows set for Melbourne as well as an appearance at Bluesfest. We are giving away a double pass for their show at The Prince Bandroom in Melbourne on Tuesday April 3. It’s up for grabs at beat.com.au/freeshit.
NICKI MINAJ One of the hottest pop sensations on the planet right now has announced a massive Australian arena tour, with Nicki Minaj hitting the country this May. After entering the world’s spotlight on Kanye West’s opus My Dark Beautiful Twisted Fantasy, Nicki Minaj went on to enjoy a stellar 2011, becoming one of the most sought-after vocal talents. The upcoming tour will celebrate the new album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Australian fans who purchase tickets to the tour will have the opportunity to pre-order the album, allowing them to become some of the first in the world to hear the record. Nicki Minaj performs at Hisense Arena on Friday May 18.
BARRY ADAMSON It’s been 34 years since we last heard from him on the post-punk classic Real Life, but Barry Adamson is finally back with the release of his new album, I Will Set You Free. In that time he’s performed and taken his work around the world working with the likes of David Lynch and Iggy Pop. I Will Set You Free is unmistakably Adamson at heart, with an album that’s bound to go down well live. Catch the icon at The Corner Hotel on Wednesday May 23, tickets available through the venue and cornerhotel.com.
BLITZEN TRAPPER Fresh off playing SXSW last week alt-country rockers Blitzen Trapper have announced supports The Paper Kites for their upcoming Australian tour. For all the action head to The Prince Bandroom on Tuesday April 3, tickets available through Moshtix.
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As if the Dig It Up! invitational announced by Hoodoo Gurus wasn’t huge enough, the celebration has now been extended to take over four stages across three venues this coming Anzac Day. With the first announcement including The Sonics, seminal Australian outfit Died Pretty, US hard-rock outfit Red Kross, Japanese rock and rollers (and Tarantino favourites) The 5.6.7.8’s, and heaps more taking to The Palace, the fresh announcement reveals Spencer P Jones and Kim Salmon will be hitting Pony (which will be opening on the day at the amazingly early time of 3pm) along with The Murlocs. A revolving cast of local celebrities will also DJ at Pony during the day while in the Palace main room featured DJs will include Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring) among others. The Melbourne Dig it Up! will now house a venue dedicated to comedy when the Spleen Bar (41 Bourke St and across the road from the Palace) opens it doors with featured comedians and fellow rock tragics Dave O’Neil, Andrew Goodone and CJ Fortuna. Dig It Up – The Hoodoo Gurus Invitational takes over The Palace, Pony and Spleen Bar on Wednesday April 25.
The first act for this year’s Splendour has been locked in, with Zulu Winter postponing their Australian debut to coincide with the festival this July. Due to touch down in Australia this April, the band have been forced to hold back until July after making more than a few waves at SXSW on the weekend. The band will make the most of their new found free time next month, with the band beefing up their hectic European tour before the release of their debut album Language – due out this May on Dew Process. The announcement bodes well for what will be yet another truly massive Splendour In The Grass, which this year returns to its Byron Bay home. Those eager beavers who snapped up tickets for the band’s April tour can acquire refunds at point of purchase. Zulu Winter will be appearing at Splendour In The Grass 2012, held at Belongil Fields, Byron Bay from Friday July 27 until Sunday July 29. Stay tuned for further announcements.
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One of the most loved bands around ol’ Melbourne town has announced their return to the stage, with Graveyard Train announcing that they will be taking over The Hi-Fi this June. The ramshackle outfit performed one of the shows of 2011 when they pulled off a massive spook-tacular at The Forum, and have made their presence felt on the festival circuit ever since. As well as forging a reputation as a live act not to be missed, Graveyard Train are also gearing up to release their long-awaited studio follow-up Hollow this May. Expect to hear a hefty sample of tracks from that album, as well as their well-adored body of classics, when they hit The Hi-Fi stage. Graveyard Train hit The Hi-Fi on Friday June 1 and Saturday June 2. Tickets through Moshtix.
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THE DARKNESS Many tours have been announced this year, but few rival the mammoth news that kick-arse rockers The Darkness are back, and with their original lineup, to tour our shores for the Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Tour. It appears the band are on the up since their announcement to reform last year. Prepare for ear drumsmashing falsetto and undeniable riffs that made the band huge. The band are set to rock the Palace Theatre on Tuesday May 8 with support from Baptism Of Uzi. Tickets are on sale Wednesday April 4.
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Phew! Someone get this band a beer. After what has been a cracking summer, Last Dinosaurs are in the mood to shake it off and throw a serious party. Starting with first single Zoom, shooting to #2 most played at triple j and hitting #4 on We Are Hunted and followed by their graphic-storm video being crowned Channel [V]’s ripe Clip, they’ve also supported Foster The People on a national sold out tour, and rounded it all off with their debut album In A Million Years. Suffice to say the band is looking to share a few high-fives, group hugs and rounds of drinks. Come celebrate with them at their just-announced third show (after playing the Phoenix Public House on Tuesday April 17 and the Northcote Social Club on Friday April 20) at the Northcote Social Club on Wednesday May 2.
New Zealand reggae-soul stalwarts The Black Seeds are back with a new album, set to be released on Friday April 13. To coincide with the upcoming release the band will be embarking on a huge nation-wide tour. The New Zealand band have built quite the reputation for putting on a killer live show on the back of massive performances, including their set at the 2011 Splendour In The Grass. The album is gonna be huge and so is their show, so get down to The Corner Hotel on Friday June 15 for a taste of all the action, tickets available now through The Corner Hotel.
REEF It’s been 12 years since Brit rockers Reef graced Australian shores and in June 2012, they returned for a national tour. Reef’s killer live shows have gained them a huge following across the globe and made them a favourite at festivals, including Glastonbury and Reading. This month, Reefare are releasing an incredible box set that compiles all these phenomenal successes, and lovingly documents the story of how West Country’s finest sons went from a fledgling band to one of the best loved rock acts of the ‘90s. Catch them Friday June 8 at Billboard with special guests. Tickets available online via billboardthevenue.com.au.
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Celebrated local artist Dean Jones is set to perform and unveil an exhibition on the eve of the sixth annual Cherry Rock Festival in AC/DC Lane. The latest Dean Jones collection known as Boarded Up features 17 new mixed media works from the artist with a limited edition of numbered lithograph prints being made available on the night. He will also grace the stage for one of his incredible spoken-word improvbeat-music story telling performances with his band. Head down to AC/DC Lane on Saturday April 28 for all of the free fun.
With the release of their debut full-length album Young Man Old Man, Hoodlum Shouts are set for a huge couple of months. To coincide with the release the band will play a string of shows, playing The Old Bar on Wenseday April 18 and The Gasometer on Saturday May 5. Support will be provided by The Smith Street Band, Palisades (The Old Bar), Harmony, Fear Like Us and Rise Of The Rat (The Gasometer). Tickets for both shows will be available on the door, Young Man Old Man will be released on Wednesday March 28.
BEACHES The mega babes from Beaches return this week, bringing their overdriven pop-boogie and moltenlava rock to the stage for the first time in 2012. They support San Franciscan trance-rock quartet Wooden Shjips at The Corner Hotel tonight and dark psychedelic drone jammers Royal Baths at The Tote on Saturday March 31. They also were recently announced to join Dig It Up! Hoodoo Gurus invitational, taking over The Palace, Pony and Spleen Bar on Wednesday April 25.
KARNIVOOL The ten-legged beast that is Karnivool has now arisen from its slumber and are ready to reveal to the world some of the band’s new material which has been agonised over in Perth over the past year. Since their last Australian jaunt a year ago, the group have taken a little bit of time off the road, or on the road with other projects, as well as tinkering around in a studio in Perth putting the bits and pieces of Karnivool’s third album together. Slated for a return soon, the group will be escaping from the studio to roadtest some of their new material live – tickets to their first two shows at the Hi-Fi (Thursday July 5, Friday July 6) were snapped up in quick haste, with the band announcing a third and final show in response, also at the Hi-Fi on Saturday July 7. Tickets from thehifi.com.au, Moshtix outlet and the venue.
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In sharing her compelling stories and rootsy take on contemporary folk with her fellow Australians, Emily Barker explores the meaning of home, a theme which is inspiring her current songwriting. With numerous appearances at top UK festivals such as Glastonbury, Celtic Conncections, Green Man and End Of The Road, plus a recent tour opening shows for Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Paul Kelly, it seems that Barkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest record Almanac is doing well for itself â&#x20AC;&#x201C; well-received by listeners and DJs on ABC RN, RRR, FBI, 4ZZZ and triple jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roots and All. Catch her in her element at Pure Pop on Saturday March 5, or at the Wesley Anne on Sunday May 6.
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JOELISTICS SKARFACE POND After selling out their ďŹ rst NSC show, WA lads Pond have announced a second show in response to the popular demand. They unleash Beard Wives Denim (on Modular) at the Northcote Social Club on Sunday April 22 (sold out) and take their tunes out for a spin at a second show at the same venue on Monday April 23.
THE MAPLE TRAIL Solo project of Sydney-based musician Aidan Roberts The Maple Trail will launch his stunning new album Cable Mount Warning this month across the country. With the album out right now on Broken Stone Records, The Maple Trail charges forth in a calamitous chorus of layered, epic, bright and summery folk songs. The Maple Trail will take you down a dark winding path and then throw you into the light. Focused almost exclusively on recording acoustic instruments, the album was mixed with Liam Judson, his long time collaborator and co-songwriter in Belles Will Ring. The result is the most concise and buoyant exhibition of The Maple Trailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sound to date. Catch him at the Gasometer on Tuesday April 24.
TZU TZU are back with their new single Beginning Of The End and a massive tour to boot. Their last album Computer Love was a triple j feature, nominated for the AMP shortlist and the J Award Album of the Year so big things are expected from their new release, due out later in 2012. The band will showcase some of their new tracks as well as their classics on the Australia-wide tour. With the band playing some of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest festivals already â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Falls, Meredith and Big Day Out â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna bring it live. Catch them at The Corner Hotel on Friday June 1, tickets available via the venue and websitel. New single Beginning Of The End is due for release on Monday April 2.
Skarface are legitimate ska legends, the French band have been playing shows and releasing music for over 20 years, with the band now set to make their longawaited live debut on our shores. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played over 1,000 shows, released 14 albums and gained notoriety for their rambunctious live sets. Combining elements of ska, reggae and old school punk, these three native Parisians are sure to set the country alight with their energetic live performances. Supported by Slick 46, the Tearaways and Kmart Warriors, the band is set to play at the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood on Friday March 30, tickets available through the venue.
THESE MACHINES CUT RAZOR WIRE Woody Guthrie was a dustbowl refugee whose guitar bore the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Machine Kills Fascistsâ&#x20AC;?. In that spirit, These Machines Cut Razor Wire is an annual music fundraiser for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest asylum seeker advocacy, aid and health organisation. With 12 acts including JeďŹ&#x20AC; Lang, The Stetson Family, Bell St Delays (Tracy McNeil, Luke Sinclair and Matt Green), Fraser A. Gorman and plenty more on the lineup. Anyone that loves live music and supports justice for asylum seekers wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to miss it. Thornbury Theatre, Sunday April 15.
CRYSTAL THOMAS After gaining acclaim from her debut album Crystal Thomas & the Flowers of Evil and touring Europe, Melbourne singersongwriter Crystal Thomas has certainly made a name for herself. Now with the release of her new album A Chance In Hell, a record full of unhinged guitar lines and brooding vocals, Thomas is set to unveil some of the tunes with a show at the St Kilda Bowls Club. With support from Penny Ikinger & the Evolution and Harry Howard & the NDE, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bound to be a heck of a night of music. Thomas plays the St Kilda Bowls Club Saturday April 21, her new album A Chance in Hell is released the same day.
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COLD CHISEL BY KELLY THEOBALD
In 1983, five heavy-drinking rock‘n’rollers were the hottest things in Australian music. They played hard, partied hard and rocked even harder. But, all good things come to an end and Cold Chisel called it quits that same year. The members were sobering up, settling down and unpacking their tour bags for what they thought would be the last time. Bassist Phil Small admits that those young, carefree days of rock‘n’roll were pretty ace. “It was great – the best days of our lives!” he says. “We had a ball and we had no responsibilities. The band was our life – we were constantly on the road and it was just one big party.” But, as they grew older, they fell in love, began to settle down and the life of a touring musician became more of a burden than an adventure. All of a sudden, being on the road meant being away from loved ones. “After ten years, it started to wear us down,” says Small. “In the early days, we just toured and toured. It was good fun while it lasted but as we were getting older we started settling down with partners and that anchored us to one place. Life goes on, people do their own things.” Even after their split, the band members were “like brothers”. They kept in touch, worked with each other on solo projects and caught up for the occasional birthday celebration. These catch-ups sometimes ended with discussion about Cold Chisel. Should they get back together? In 1998 they reunited to record The Last Wave Of Summer. Small says that this was largely because the vibe between the band members was a good one at the time and each member had been writing songs. “It also depends if Jim, Ian and Don have time to do it,” says Small, referring to the solo careers of other Chisel
members. In 2009, the band teamed up with new management, which resulted in a gig for 50,000 people at the Sydney 500 V8 supercar race in October. During rehearsals, the band found their old groove and enjoyed each other’s company. The vibe was so good that they vowed to record some new material. Early the following year, they recorded a dozen demos in Jimmy Barnes’ home studio. “We just got together and put down some ideas,” recalls Small. “We just had a bit of a jam to see what would happen.” The success of this recording session made the guys think about taking to the road again. Small says that Cold Chisel always loved playing live. So, they embarked on a 36-show tour that took just under six weeks. Despite some early trepidation, Small says that the tour was a success. “I’m amazed that nothing went wrong,” he chuckles. “It went so well and every night was different, which is what we love about touring. I think it was one of the best tours that I’ve been involved in or that I can remember.” But, tragically, drummer Steve Prestwich died in January 2011, right when the band were at their highest since 1983. Any plans about reforming for good were put on hold. “Steve’s death put a big spanner in the works,” says Small. “We were all numb and it took a long, long time before
we could think about Cold Chisel again. We didn’t know what to do.” After all, it was Prestwich that had written a number of the demos recorded back in 2010. “We were stuck in limbo,” says Small. “We had Steve’s tracks and ideas for other songs. Eventually, we talked to management and decided that Steve would’ve liked to see those songs released and to continue on and release the album. So, that’s what we decided to do.” The band drafted The Divinyls’ drummer Charley Drayton. This enabled them to complete the recording of No Plans, the album that they began with Prestwich back in Barnes’ studio. Their first studio album in 14 years, it will be launched at Bluesfest on Thursday April 5, where they’re headlining, and officially released on Friday April 6. And what’s it like? It’s a cracker. In true Chisel style, each member brought a selection of songs to the table, which were democratically voted on by the other members. “Even when we’re not playing together, we’re all still in Cold Chisel,” explains Small. “We’re all still writing music.” But, it’s mostly Don Walker’s songs that made it to the album. Of 13 songs, he wrote ten. Walker has always been the dominant songwriter for the band. He wrote Saturday Night, Cheap Wine, Khe Sahn and others, as well as co-writing Flame Trees. More often than not, it’s Walker’s writing that has engaged millions of fans. Small muses that their popularity may be attributed to their songs reflecting the unique essence of Cold Chisel. “The most important thing I learnt from being in Cold Chisel is to stick to your guns,” he says. “Don’t be swayed by fashion. A lot of music is swayed by the flavour of the month, and it doesn’t last long.” COLD CHISEL will be headlining Bluesfest in Byron Bay on Thursday April 5 and playing Melbourne’s Festival Hall on Thursday April 12. No Plans will be released through Warner Music Australia on Friday April 6.
JOE SATRIANI BY MATT PETHERBRIDGE
On the back of successful touring runs with flourishing hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, American powerhouse guitarist Joe Satriani, affectionately known as “Satch” will bring G3 – his revered ‘guitar shredder extravaganza’ of three powerful guitarists down under. Traditionally, Satch and fellow torchbearer for copious amounts of sweep arpeggios, Steve Vai have used G3 as a platform to perform with some of the world’s most respected guitarists, such as Robert Fripp, Yngwie Malmsteen and John Petrucci. However, the inclusion of Steve Lukather, founding guitarist of ‘80s AOR-legends Toto, has raised eyebrows among the maniacal scalebending fan-base of Professor Satchafunkilus. “It just felt like the right thing to do. He’s sold about 60 million albums with Toto, played on the biggest albums in music history. He played guitar on Michael Jackson albums (most prominently on 1983’s Thriller), and countless #1 albums. He’s part of the fabric of rock music, but he’s not in the Top 10 poll of Guitar Shredders”, Satch attests. Although Lukather played the guitar solo in Olivia Newton-John’s kitsch-disco hit Physical, Satch still attests that he’s “one of the most impressive musicians I’ve ever met. I feel he’s more known for his intense musicianship, which is what I feel when I play with him. I always shake my head and say, ‘Man he’s good’.” Looking back on the start of his career, Satch can still see himself as a younger man, struggling to sell albums out of the boot of his car, making albums that “nobody wanted and certainly didn’t ask for”. But somehow, things just rolled from there. “I started off really small, playing tours and selling albums out of the trunk of my car that nobody wanted. My perspective of starting my own record company and starting out with Relativity Records was mid-late ‘80s. It might be hard to relate my trajectory to someone in the ‘90s or in the current age. Next year, it’ll be different.” Not one to be tied down by a band or held back by the unwavering commercial notions of Top 40 hitmakers – Satch is proud to have worked the “contrarian angle” Beat Magazine Page 18
for his entire career. He doesn’t need to come out swinging like Joe Bonamassa did recently in Classic Rock Magazine – instead, he’s built a career out of valuing the principle, “You can only reach one person at a time.” “The one thing that will always remain is that you have to make a good connection with other human beings and see what happens there. People connected with me as an artist and over the course of my career, I’ve met some great people. “It’s not a business where people are trying to make money on top of money. It’s not like that, it’s about music. It’s about meeting people. Without overanalysing it, your relationship with other people is so important. It could just be, meeting a fan, who’s eight or 80-yearsold, it doesn’t matter. That fan might have a job in a radio station, a record store, a journalist or even an employee of Google. I’ve got nothing but fond memories over my career of just meeting people”. This includes casual greetings with George Lucas on his Skywalker Ranch. “He always stops by to say hello. “When people think of the ranch, they imagine Droids and Wookies walking around” he laughs. “Hundreds of people work there on the most outrageous, forward thinking ideas dedicated to sound and movies in the world. The studio is huge, it’s the same studio that the orchestral music for Star Wars. In the same building, they’ll be mixing Lord Of The Rings in one room. You’re always bumping into someone doing something weird and wonderful. You’re on a beautiful country compound that’s so big it has its own fire department. You really feel you’re in some special, creative space.” In fact, he’s certain that Wind In The Trees, from his 2010 solo record, Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards, uses a particular recording of wind blowing through the trees
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that may have also been used in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. “I tracked down a sound designer in the building working on a project and I asked him if it would be hard to get a sample of wind for the album. He said that on his computer, he had 20,000 different recordings of wind,” laughs Satriani. “He asked, ‘What kind of wind do you want?’ and I said, I want.... 20 knots, blowing through trees 100 feet tall”. The wind recordings he had were done at different heights, on the ground, slowly moving up the canopies, I think we even got some crows in the distance.... so you can see how practical it is to record there!” G3: SATRIANI, VAI AND LUKATHER play the Palais Theatre on Saturday March 31 (sold out) and Sunday April 1, as well as Bluesfest taking place in Byron Bay between Thursday April 5 and Monday April 9.
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THIS WEEK: ON SCREEN The Shadow Electric continues with its outstanding run of films this year, with a David Lynch masterpiece set to screen this Sunday. Lost Highway continues in the tradition of David Lynch’s obscure, cryptic storytelling following wealthy LA based saxophonist Fred Madison played by Bill Pullman, who, after a long night’s work, receives a message from an unknown man on the intercom of the front door of his house saying, “Dick Laurent is dead.” When he looks out his window, police sirens are heard in the distance, but the streets outside his house are empty. A commercial failure on its release but well-recognised today for its outstanding storytelling and a soundtrack featuring David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Lou Reed and plenty more - excellent. Catch it at the Abbotsford Convent on Sunday April 1.
ON STAGE Thirty-four years old, predictably fond of snacks, surprisingly capable at sport and increasingly uncertain about absolutely everything - the typical existential dilemma of the mid-thirties dude. Daniek Kitson tries to work out what he actually thinks about things whilst demanding people pay money to watch in a new standup comedy show about impossibility, change, not joining in, love, haircuts, loneliness, courage, defiance, knowledge, despondency, cutting the head off a pig, meaning, tattoos, obscenity, opinions, truth and something a Spanish footballer once said. Check it out at the Playhouse on Wednesday March 28 onwards.
ON DISPLAY Kawita Vatanajyankur is just a whole bundle of talent. The Melbourne-based video artist is getting ready to present his new show, Body And Elements – a series of video and performance work focused on the relationship between the female body, fabrics and household objects within darken, unknown spaces and environments. Under uncomfortable circumstances, the body is pressured to merge, transform and eventually become a part of the objects and environments reflecting violence, endurance, gender and communication in a cultural way. A definite treat for the eyes, become transfixed in Kawita’s work by heading to Seventh Gallery from Wednesday March 28 - Saturday April 14.
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LIPSTICK & DYNAMITE BY PATRICK EMERY
Like most people, filmmaker Ruth Leitman grew up aware of the athletic-entertainment phenomenon that is commercial wrestling. Leitman, however, was unaware of a largely unheralded aspect of wrestling: the female wrestling scene of the ‘40s and ‘50s. Some friends of Leitman’s who had an interest in the wrestling caper described to Leitman this once-celebrated sideshow, and its major stars: the Great Mae Young, Gladys ‘Killem’ Gillem, the Fabulous Moolah and Penny Banner. “Once I found about these women I became really interested in the dichotomy that these women represented, of the powerless and powerful,” Leitman says. “You had these young girls trying to get out of difficult lives. I was really interested in that this was their way out – they were leaving violence and entering into another form of violence.” Leitman’s documentary on these near-forgotten wrestling stars, Lipstick and Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling is one of four films featured in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image’s Title Fight On Film season from Thursday April 5 to Wednesday April 11. While the other films featured in the season deal with martial arts (Fightville), psychological metaphor (Fight Club) and boxing as sociological lifeline (On the Ropes), Lipstick and Dynamite is the only film which deals with one of society’s most complex taboos: female fighting. Lipstick and Dynamite is a mixture of interviews with these wrestling stars of yore, punctuated with period footage. Leitman says each of her interview subjects – four of which have since died since the premiere of the film in 2005 – were happy to finally have the opportunity to tell their colourful stories. “I think they were really excited to be able to talk about their time in wrestling,” Leitman says. “They experienced a small window of fame. Apart from the Fabulous Moolah and Mae Young, they had between 5 and 15 years’ fame before they went onto other fields. And for the women who went onto other things after wrestling, there was always this strong desire for a comeback,” she says. While the fledgling wrestling stars were only too keen to escape their immediate domestic surroundings for a travelling carnival existence, they soon found themselves subject to the
commercial and management whims of wrestling promoters, including Billy Wolfe and Jack Pfefer. “All of the women featured in the film at one time worked under Billy Wolfe,” Leitman says. “I was really interested in him as a character, in his narcissism and utter control over these women. He was absolutely determined to have a monopoly on this titillating sport. He wanted to create these women’s personalities in the ring.” Despite – or maybe because of – the efforts of Wolfe and Pfefer, female wrestling stars remained at best a second-string drawcard to the male wrestlers. “Because women’s wrestling started as a carnival, they were number two or three on the card,” Leitman says. “Only the top wrestlers were known. These women had to work really hard, and they were travelling from town to town. That’s another aspect of their lives that I became fascinated with: their road life.” In hindsight it’s easy to locate Mae Young, Penny Banner and the Fabulous Moolah as progenitors of a nascent feminist tradition that would rise to the surface in the ‘60s and ‘70s. However, Leitman says the stars of her film were more interested in earning a living than making a political statement. “I call them the unproclaimed feminists of the World War II generation,” Leitman says. “But at the time it wasn’t about women’s liberation, it was about survival. Ella Waldek said, ‘I just needed to make a living, and that was that’.” While female wrestling took a few heavy blows back in the day – in particular, in the aftermath of the tragic death of Janet Boyer Wolfe in a bout with Ella Waldek (for which Waldek received ongoing abuse, despite being cleared of any culpability in the matter), and the banning of female wrestling in a number of states – female wrestling continues
to this day, albeit without the same profile as afforded to male wrestling. While Lipstick and Dynamite features disparaging commentary from past wrestling stars on the state of modern female wrestling, Leitman says the current generation of female wresting performers are acutely aware of the trailblazing efforts of Mae Young, Ella Waldek and the Fabulous Moolah. “I think at the heart of many modern wrestlers is a desire to hark back to the original style,” Leitman says. “But it’s really the franchises who really control what goes on. The modern wrestlers want to be taken seriously like the original wrestlers – they want to be connected with the audience.” While Penny Banner, Gladys Gillem, Ida Mae Martinez and the Fabulous Moolah have all died since the film was released, the Great Mae Young continues to wrestle at the grand old age of 89. Leitman has taken her own interest in female wrestling into dramatic territory, writing and directing her own soon-to-be released feature Pindown Girl. Leitman also maintains an interest in the contemporary female wrestling environment, with its curious mixture of athleticism and commercial entertainment. For Leitman, athleticism should be paramount field of interest. “One of the greatest challenges in female wrestling is to have a franchise that will showcase and promote a troupe of women who are equally entertaining, and is less of a sideshow,” Leitman says. “It should be more about what it is to be an athlete.” Lipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling screens as part Title Fight On Film which takes place at ACMI from Thursday April 5 to Wednesday April 11. For full program information and screening times, please visit acmi.net.au.
YANN TIERSEN BY SASHA PETROVA
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival finally kicks off this week! Grab our guide from the middle of this magazine and get circling on the shows you’re going to see. Shit yeah.
FREE SHIT SUPANOVA Fan-favourite actress Summer Glau is returning to Australia as a guest of the always exciting Supanova Pop Culture Expo. Each year, Supanova brings international pop-culture stars Down Under to meet fans, give behind-the-scenes talks, pose for photos and sign autographs at its family-friendly expos. At the venues, fans of all ages can also enjoy movie previews and screenings, gaming demonstrations, competitions, the spectacle of AWF Wrestling, and the opportunity to collect desirable pop-culture items including comics, DVDs, figurines and more. This year, Summer Glau – well-known for starring in shows including Firefly, The Unit, The 4400, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse – will join Edward James Olmos, Jaimie Alexander, Peter Facinelli, Oliver and James Phelps, Wil Wheaton, Gil Gerard, Janet Fielding, Cliff Simon, Elisabeth Röhm, Richard Horvitz, Jim Kelly, Chandler Riggs and more for Supanova’s 10 year anniversary. Supanova Pop Culture Expo visit the Melbourne Showgrounds on Saturday April 14 and Sunday April 15, and we have 20 double weekend passes to give away. Clickety-clack to beat.com.au/freeshit to win!
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Two things occurred to me before my interview with Yann Tiersen. Firstly, he’s French, which, if generalisations are to be taken at face value, could serve as an indication of a touchy attitude. The kind of journalistic grilling reserved for a corrupt politician or, more applicably, to pull an explanation from a musician who has creatively shifted to escape the easily definable image he was lumped with years ago, may have to be put aside for a friendly and careful chat. Secondly (as hinted above), Tiersen seems to resent that his name resonates exclusively with scenes of Audrey Tautou drinking mulled wine in the bohemian flat of a Da Vinci-esque painter scattered with scenes of her flying cheerfully through the cobbled streets of Paris, arms draped around her dreamy lover, on the back of his rickety motorcycle. After all, while Tiersen composed the soundtrack to JeanPierre Jeunet’s 2011 masterpiece Amelie, the compilation wasn’t his own. Jeunet broke up the cohesiveness of Tiersen’s first four albums by grabbing the odd tracks from them to compile Amelie’s music. This would suggest that recognising Tiersen as Amelie’s composer alone doesn’t give credit to the weight of his talent. The soundtrack was nominated for a BAFTA award, won the 2002 Caesar Award for Best Music Written for Film and catapulted Tiersen into universal acclaim. But the 42 year old has produced seven studio albums, three live albums and four collaborative works. Plus Amelie was over ten years ago – it shouldn’t define him. It makes sense that a constant throwback to that indie soundtrack era could make him a little dicey. My concerns weren’t completely off the bat. When asked whether he uses the accordion – the instrument which adds the quirk and distinctive French-ness to Amelie – in any of the tracks of his latest album Skyline, his response carries an offended tone: “No, of course not! There is no accordion for a long time. In the ‘90s, for me it was a really strange instrument that I didn’t know. I don’t use it anymore. Now it’s all synths and guitars.” But I did encounter a misconception about Yann – besides the one Wikipedia puts forward about his first name being
Guillaume (“That’s just Wikipedia bullshit”) He was born in Brittany, a region in the North-West of France, which was originally occupied by the Dutch (why the name Yann, as opposed to Guillaume, makes sense), so he doesn’t come from strong French origins. In fact, he is more culturally aligned with Belgium and Norway. His sound may have started off as distinctly French, but unlike that of a folk musician, the need to keep reflecting a solidly embedded cultural identity isn’t there. His first five studio albums had French names, the last two, Dust Lane and Skyline, are in English. According to Tiersen, the language change and accordion disposal aren’t a conscious effort to break away from the French, “it’s just evolution.” “I live in 2012 and I like to use technology.” And then the folk-musician identification doesn’t apply to Tiersen – nor does that of a composer. “I’m not comfortable with that appellation,” he muses. “It’s very old fashioned and romantic stuff and that’s not really who I am. I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s being influenced by punk rock like the Stooges and Joy Division. I’m just a musician making music.” Despite his boyish dreams of becoming a rock star, he was sent for classical training in violin and piano (“when you’re young you have no choice”). Combing his multi-instrumental ability with modern technology and other creative accompaniments
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(“I used chairs banging on the floor in Dust Lane”) is what makes his compositions so complex and unpredictable. While Dust Lane is a tormented story of struggle, Skyline is about overcoming. “I think it’s the continuity of Dust Lane to push it a bit further,” Tiersen says. Occasionally, the acoustic guitar and soft sounds of bells can be ones for rumination but there are also build-ups that produce the kind of elation that comes with the accumulation of crashing cymbals. “My plan was to play with contrast between electric and quite dense parts and more sober and minimal quiet parts including piano and strings,” he says And besides what you might expect from an instrumentalist, he also sings. The words in some of the songs are background one-liners, repeated continually as if food for thought. “Someday my girl, in the mirror, darling you will face the trial,” he sings in track eight, The Trial. While the words, he admits, are just a “personal anger with a girl,” they still fit in with the general theme of the album. As do those of I’m Gonna Live Anyhow – a line repeated throughout the second track presenting a mournful and yet conquering outlook on the entrapment of living. Yann Tiersen plays at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Wednesday April 4. He also plays Byron Bay Bluesfest, taking place Thursday April 5 until Monday April 9. Skyline is released on Friday April 6 through Anti-Records.
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This retrospective on Jim’s skateboard art bombards the reader wtih colourful skateboard decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts, photos and stickers to illustrate the history of skateboarding from the urethane revolution up to the present. You are invited for a ride, an inside view of Phillips Studios, to observe the wacky world of his crazed studio artists, and examine their graphic assignments. The story traces the roots of skateboarding with more than a half-century of Phillips’ involvement. It provides insight into the creative evolution of the sport and the worldwide interest and influence that has occurred from this California artist.
Who wants a book that just sits on the coffee table? Here’s one to decorate not only the coffee table, but the refrigerator, notebooks, laptop computers, public walls, automobiles, or practically any other surface. Ron English’s Stickable Art Offenses is a book of stickers you can actually put up in your own environment, filled with mini-billboards, “subvertisements” and other visual enhancements from one of the most prolific and recognizable artists today.
STEAMPUNK: THE ART OF VICTORIAN FUTURISM JAY STRONGMAN ($49.95) A Jules Verne world of extraordinary visions and contraptions as portrayed by the top 30 artists in the genre. Steampunk is a resurgent art, cult, and lowbrow movement celebrating the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blending in modern scientific advances - synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steamdriven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern dirigibles. Celebrating the elegant and the strange, the visually arresting steampunk works collected here include sculpture, installations, graphics, bizarre oils, and mind-warping contraptions - from skull cameras to rocket-fueled diving bells.
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OUT OF SIGHT - ROMANYWG ($49.95) Not all art craves attention, some of it hides in the secret places. Some of it is buried treasure, out in the urban wilderness, left scattered in empty rooms of derelict buildings like strange markings left by an unknown tribe. These works are gifts given only to the occasional explorer, found in abandoned factories, warehouses, industrial sites and deconsecrated churches. This is art you have to earn by leaving the designated areas and heading out past the No Entry signs of the urban environment. A diverse range of artists find themselves attracted to these twilight zones and in recent years something of a movement has come to light, huddled around the idea of urban decay and abandonment as the ultimate canvas.
THE ART OF PIXAR - AMID AMIDI ($69.95) Over the past 25 years, Pixar s team of artists, writers, and directors have shaped the world of contemporary animation with their feature films and shorts. From classics such as Toy Story and A Bug s Life to recent masterpieces such as Up, Toy Story 3, and Cars 2, this comprehensive collection offers a behind-thescenes tour of every Pixar film to date. Featuring a foreword by Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter, the complete color scripts for every film published in full for the first time as well as stunning visual development art, The Art of Pixar is a treasure trove of rare artwork and an essential addition to the library of animation fans and Pixar enthusiasts.
DARK INSPIRATION - VICTION:ARY ($39.95) The depiction of rage, suffering, gloom, depravity, and the supernatural in illustration and design is sometimes seen as unsettling and offensive, but often these disturbing images elaborate the wildest dreams and subconscious desires of humans in richer form than any text analysis. Not necessarily conflicting with the belief in a heavenly world, Dark Inspiration invites viewers to redefine the horizons for beauty and morality and savor the exquisite genre with a dramatic and bold compilation of artwork that touches the taboo areas of sex, death, destruction, perversion, and crime.
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GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL Wunderbar! The annual German Film Festival is back in Melbourne, taking over Palace Cinema Como and Kino Cinemas from April 19-30. The film festival presented to you by all things sauerkraut, beer and Audi combines an array of fascinating feature films and documentaries from both Germany and Switzerland produced over the part year accompanied by a series of short films. The Melbourne Festival will open with Summer Window, a romance that follows the story of the protagonist transported back to the past.
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Feeling like a bit of a love cynic these days? Well, here’s a play that may just renew your faith in romance. Matthew Ryan and Lucas Stibbard’s Girl Boy Wall will open the MTC’s 2012 Lawler Studio Season as they bring their comic romp about love, in which the universe conspires to bring two lost and lonely souls together. And the synopsis – it’s quite simple, really. Thom and Alethea are unhappy with their lot and living alone in adjoining apartments, until the wall that separates them decides that they belong together. With a love story that, although not the most realistic, will make you restore at least a little bit of your faith in romance, see Boy Girl Wall as it runs at the MTC’s Lawler Studio from Tuesday April 18 – Friday May 4. Head to mtc.com.au for more information.
Award winning photographer Henryk Lobaczewski is leaving his general fashion, beauty and editorial work and allowing audiences to delve deep into his mind as he gets set to display his portfolio on the walls of RTIST Gallery. Renowned for the beautiful glossiness that permeates each section of his art, Henryk’s work is notorious for its lack of touch-ups which bring it back to the real world, with little imperfections and quirks helping to add an extra dimension to every piece - the artist himself stating that “the exhibition plays on how we are not in touch with the world around us.” Experience the perfection of his quirks as Henryk’s While We Were Dreaming runs from Thursday March 22 – Thursday April 5 at RTIST Gallery.
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For anyone that’s unsure, that’s the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Yes, Australia’s most innovative, original, controversial, cheeky and fun film festival is back for another year, and applications are now open for any of you budding filmmakers to get your work in and quite possibly have it chosen to be shown at this year’s official MUFF event. All you need to do is be a little bit creative, make an original film piece, chuck it on a DVD, fill out an application form and send it in by Friday June 22. It’s simple! And just think, this could be the start of something big. For more information on everything movie criteria to just general FAQs, head to muff.com.au. 2012’s MUFF 13 will be held from August 24 – September 1.
Calling all independent and emerging artists, are you listening? Having trouble getting your work out there? Well, this could be your time to shine, as the Arena Theatre Company is offering an exciting development opportunity. Inside 130 offers 3x2 week residencies and is open to applications from artists to help them create new work for audiences aged 5 to 25 years. The program helps to support work that is at any stage of development, from early concept to rehearsal for a premiere season. With applications closing in a matter of weeks on Friday April 13, there isn’t much time. Interested? Head to arenatheatre.com.au for more information on studio residency dates, the application form and more.
ROMEO AND JULIET No ladies, unfortunately this isn’t another chance for you to see Leo quoting Shakespeare again on the big screen. Rather, Kenneth MacMillan brings the age-old love story of two star-crossed lovers to life with his rendition as he leads the Royal Ballet performing one of their signature works through cinema screens. As described by the Guardian, MacMillan’s Romeo And Juliet ‘is built on a core of emotional truth, and its choreography does not age.’ Witness the intensity of MacMillan and the Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet as it screens at Palace Cinemas throughout Victoria on April 13-15 & 18. For pricing information and session times, head to palaceoperaandballet.com.au.
AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER CHOIR Care for a bit of musical magic in your life this year? Well, look no further. Across 2012, the 18-member Australian Chamber Choir will perform stunning works in a series of themed concerts – Dynasty, Miserere and Chichester Psalms – in specially chosen acoustically rich venues in April, June, July and October at various spots throughout Victoria. Throughout the months, numerous concerts will be presented, including such as Dynasty – celebrating the Bach family and the legend of their talent, amongst many others. Get a taste of culture as the Australian Chamber Choir spreads their talent throughout 2012. For more information on concerts and bookings, head to auschoir.org.
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WANTOK STORI PROJECT Are you of an Islander background? If so, this might be just be the thing for you. Solomon Island and Australian Pacific communities are coming together to produce a film on culture and the environment for the upcoming Festival of Pacific Arts. Wantok Stori invites Solomon Islanders and Pacific Islanders from all across Victoria to join in an online discussion of the festival theme, Culture in Harmony with Nature. The project aims to energise a discussion on the big issues facing Pacific Islanders living at home and overseas, and making a film about it to screen at the upcoming Festival of Pacific Arts. Get amongst it by heading to facebook.com/wantokstori and joining the discussion.
NON MI PIACE VERSACE Not all of us can just jet off to Italy when we please, so why doesn’t Italy just come to us? Non Mi Piace Versace is a photographic exhibition from the shores of Southern Italy and the streets of Sicily. Melbournebased photographer Tamaryn Goodyear presents a onenight only exhibition exploring a world where finance is not flourishing and life is driven by a multitude of other concerns – God, sex, work and survival. The images in the exhibition highlight elements of a society sitting in direct opposition to the glamour and exclusivity often associated with Italy. Add some belissimo into your life and head to Non Mi Piace Versace as it makes its way to 413 Swan Street, Richmond for one night only on Thursday March 29, 7pm.
Deathstar Comedy is back this Wednesday with another great lineup with MC Jonathan Schuster and featuring Cam Marshall, Phil Andrews, Lee Ton, Chris Dewberry, Liam Ryan, Morven Smith, Greg McDonald, Nicolette Minster, Ben Jordan and Anthony Jeannot. Starts at 8.30pm, $5 entry down stairs at CR Dirty Secrets, Collingwood!
GLAMOUR DAMAGE You generally wouldn’t put law and digital artistry together, would you? Well, tell that to Angus Christophersen. A lawyer-turned-digital artist, Angus’ work explores the digital artefacts of pornography and consumer culture, showing off the eroticism of the moment before the image, before completeness. In an age where we want everything right here, right now, and are saturated with perfect, high-definition images, Angus gives us the beauty of imperfect digital. Angus Christophersen’s Glamour Damage comes to No No Gallery from Saturday March 31 – Tuesday April 17.
It’s the eve of the Comedy Festival starting, and that means we’ve got heaps of great names popping down to St Kilda to warm up for their shows! Some of the city’s finest, plus, some national and international names! All very secret! But we promise you, it’s gonna be great! You really never know what big names will drop in to try out some new.. Felix Bar is the place to be on a Wednesday night in St Kilda! It’s all happening Wednesday March 28 at 8.30pm for only $12, at 11 Fitzroy St, St Kilda.
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE COMEDY The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has arrived and Charlie is ready to celebrate like a boss. Every Wednesday night across the festival a host of international and interstate guests will be spitting funnies under Charlie’s disco ball constellation in between their shows. All for just $5! So come fill yourself with cheap drinks at the city’s premier above-ground underground comedy room and put your continence to the ultimate test from 7.30pm tonight at Eurotrash Bar - 18 Corrs Lane, Melbourne. Get down early for a seat.
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LIGHT WORKS It’s time for everyone to see light in a different view as the NGV gets set to open Light Works, a contemporary photography exhibition that explores various artists’ approaches to light. Drawn from the NGV’s Collection, the fifteen works on display show how photographers have exploited the creative potentials of natural and artificial light in their artworks. As described by Senior Curator of NGV Photography, Isobel Crombie, “light is a scientific fact, a metaphorical construct and even a spiritual force. It is considered an agent of truth, authenticity and revelation just as the absence of light signals mystery, danger and disorder.” With works from both national and international artists, experience something that we all take for granted in a completely new light of its own. Light Works is on display at NGV International now until September 16.
DOWN WITH DEFAULT It’s not easy to get a job in design, even when you’ve got your degree. But it just got a lot harder as a result of the passing of the ‘Advancing Quality in Higher Education’ initiative by the Federal Government. Don’t be fooled by the name – it will not result in any kind of advancement; if anything, we’re going backwards. The initiative allows design faculties at Australian universities to create places on a supply-demand basis, without the limitations of previous entrance requirements. This means there’s no cap on how many students are accepted – and in 2012 universities increased their enrolments by up to 20%. Students will be forced even more to compete for the attention and assistance of their lecturers and the use of resources – all in the name of a few extra dollars in the coffers of the universities. Down With Default is an initiative by a group of concerned students that focuses on the need to implement standards in design education. We think that students with a genuine love of design deserve better than being packed into a studio with others who don’t share their passion. For more information about this issue, visit downwithdefault.com.au
Swing by the George Lane Bar this week for Commedia Dell Parte’s first Melbourne Comedy Festival Super Show. We have some amazing acts from the festival dropping in to do a quick spot including Luke McGregor, Craig McLeod, Murphy McLachlan, Hannes Monaghan, Dave Warneke, Mike Nayna, Jenni Townsend, Jaymie Wilson, Chris Dewberry and lots more with the wonderful Michael Connell as MC you do not want to miss these shows. Get in early to secure yourself a comfy couch and go into the draw for some great prizes from Punchline. The room runs on a ‘pay as you like’ basis, so come along and have a great laugh, then pay what you believe the show is worth on the way out. So if you enjoy the show chuck in a few sheckles and show your appreciation. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday from 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda.
SOFTBELLY COMEDY LATE NIGHT It’s our first couple of Softbelly Comedy Late Night editions this Friday and Saturday! Come along to see massive names pop in after their shows for a beer and a scorching late night set in a packed room. It’s the biggest secret of the festival and the perfect show to see after expensive regular shows in the festival. It’s four or five big names for only $12! It’s gonna be huge! It’s the hottest ticket in town, so get down early, because it will sell out again! It all happens at Softbelly, 367 Little Bourke St, in the city, this Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, at 11pm. It’s only $12!
COMEDY AT SPLEEN Mondays are spectacular at Comedy at Spleen.. especially during the comedy festival when we ALWAYS have surprise guests popping in. We’re not allowed to name them, but you will have seriously messed up if you don’t get a seat to see this lineup. It’s like a mini-gala! It’s the hottest room in town, and seriously, you need to get down super early just to get in the front door! So get in early to guarantee a seat. It’s this Monday, April 2, 41 Bourke St, in the city, at 8.30pm.
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AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL
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The African Film Festival Australia is a travelling series with the purpose of showcasing African features, documentaries, animation, shorts, experimental films and classics to audiences across Australia. Each year, the most fascinating, interesting and thoughtful film from Africa and beyond will be screened. From worldpremieres to local shorts, they have it all, with an aim to showcase the diversity of African cinema and to discover the best new African talent. With films such as Restless City, Democracy In Dakar, Liberia 77 and more, you don’t want to miss out. The 1st African Film Festival in Melbourne will take place at Red Bennies from Wednesday April 11 until Sunday April 15. Check out africanfilmfestival.com.au for more information..
Checkpoint Charlie Comedy, Eurotrash, CBD Felix Bar Comedy, Felix Bar, St Kilda The Comedy Gallery, Customs House Hotel, Williamstown Coopers Comedy Open Mic, Station 59, Richmond Death Star Canteen, Caz Reitop’s Dirty Secrets, Collingwood Rocket Clock (Second Wednesday of every month), Bella Union Bar, Carlton South
THURSDAY The Big Hoo Haa (Improvised Comedy), Portland Hotel, CBD Softbelly Comedy, Softbelly Bar & Lounge, CBD Laugh Upstairs Live Comedy, Exford Hotel, CBD The Showcase, The Monastery, Richmond Willow Tales (Last Thursday of every month), Willow Bar, Northcote
FRIDAY Last Laugh at The Comedy Club, Athenaeum Theatre, CBD
SATURDAY Last Laugh at The Comedy Club, Athenaeum Theatre, CBD
SUNDAY Political Asylum (Second Sunday of every month), The Brunswick Green, Brunswick Softbelly Comedy, Softbelly Bar & Lounge, CBD Sublime Sunday Comedy, ONtop Bar, Ormond
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SINGING STORIES What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than listening to a hand-picked selection of our land’s finest singer-songwriters? Singing Stories is a unique showcase of singer-songwriters featuring musicians from Australia, East Timor, the Pacific and beyond. Experience the time-old art of storytelling through song, and be moved by the stunning lineup of home-grown talent as they sing heartening and heartbreaking tales of love, loss and the land. Singing Stories will be held at The Arts Centre on Saturday April 7. Tickets on sale now from theartscentre.com.au or on 1300 182 183.
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Comedy At Spleen, Spleen Bar, CBD Local Laughs, The Local Taphouse, St Kilda East The Shelf (currently in hibernation), Toff in Town, CBD
TUESDAY Comed-oke (Open Mic), Melbourne International Backpackers, CBD Underground Comedy (First Tuesday of every month), Sotto e Sopra, CBD The Dan Open Mic Night, The Dan O’Connell Hotel, Carlton The Last Tuesday Society (Last Tuesday of Every Month), Various Locations Blue Tile Comedy, Blue Tile Lounge, Fitzroy
FILM REVIEW:
THE HUNGER GAMES
BY CHRIS BRIGHT
With the Twilight series ending this year, Hollywood saw an opening to launch for a new teen franchise. Much like Twilight, The Hunger Games is based on a series of best-selling novels and already had a mass-following prior to the film’s production, so it was the perfect replacement. Throw in some attractive leads (Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth), a credible supporting cast (Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Woody Harrelson) and a mix of both action and romance to entertain both genders – and you’ve got a guaranteed money-maker. As someone who hasn’t read the books and knew nothing prior to watching the movie, I wasn’t overly excited from what I had seen in the trailers. To me, it seemed like a less-gory version of the cult Japanese slaughterfest, Battle Royale. Battle Royale plunged a class of ninth-grade students onto a deserted island with a mix of weapons and supplies, and forced them to kill or be killed until one student remained. And after seeing the first installment of The Hunger Games it seems that any comparisons with Battle Royale are completely justified. It’s basically the exact same concept – a group of teenagers are placed in an isolated arena, provided with random weapons and supplies, and forced to fight to the death. And while The Hunger Games provides more back-story to the characters involved and explains why The Games exist – this isn’t actually a good thing. Plus, all the unnecessary violence and weird sexuality of Battle Royale has been removed for commercial audiences – which is actually a bad thing. I know that this is the first of a trilogy but director Gary Ross spends too long setting up the story. They don’t actually start The Game until halfway through the film. It would have been a lot more exciting if they opened as they are standing on their platforms, anticipating their first moves, and then cut back to explain how they became involved and why The Hunger Games exist. Obviously this is a big opportunity for Jennifer Lawrence but it will be interesting to see what path she takes from here. Hopefully she doesn’t stop doing low-budget indies altogether, because her performance in The Winter’s Bone was impressive. For all the publicity Liam Hemsworth gained, he actually receives very little screen time. Although much like
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Taylor Lautner in the first Twilight, he will obviously play a larger part in future installments. The supporting cast are all at the top of their games. Donald Sutherland and Woody Harrelson steal the show, even with their roles cut-back to save running time. However, apparently Harrelson’s character is a lot drunker in the books, which I would have liked to see more of. Stanley Tucci and Elizabeth Banks provide most of the comic relief, and were effective, but I can’t help think they were second-round casting choices for Sacha Baron Cohen and Parker Posey. All in all, The Hunger Games isn’t horrible – it has more substance and better acting than any of the Twilight films. But if you’re looking for action and thrills, I’d go and see The Raid or hire Battle Royale instead. The Hunger Games is open in theatres nationally.
RAID
BY CHRIS BRIGHT
If you only see one action film this year that’s not based on comic book characters or literary spies, then make sure it’s The Raid. This film is 101 minutes of pure, non-stop action, impeccable choreography and good ol’ fashioned blood and guts. Quality action films are a rare breed these days thanks to the likes of Vin Diesel, The Stath and Sylvester Stallone (post Rocky 4). But The Raid is a breathe of fresh air, as director Gareth Evans hasn’t fucked it all up with mindless plot twists and unnecessary hot chicks in skimpy clothing. The concept behind The Raid is simple: 20 cops raid a commission homes-style block in the Indonesian slums in an attempt to bring down a powerful drug lord. But when the bad guys find out, they lock the place down and trap them inside. So in order to escape, the cops need to get passed thirty stories of low-life thugs and raging psychopaths... using any means necessary. Sure, there are some semi-important plot details involving a rookie cop and a dodgy lieutenant, but you can watch The Raid without even reading the subtitles and still get a kick. The action comes hard and fast; utilising an incredible array of weapons and fighting styles. Thumbs up to the actors and fight choreographers, because every punch, kick, head-butt, flip, duck and weave looks real and will have you moving around your seat like a dog with worms. Newcomer Iko Uwais plays the film’s hero, and he also clocks up the most kills... by a lot. He is as exciting to watch as Bruce Lee, Jet Li or Jackie Chanin their prime, displaying incredible speed and believable power. A lot of people will be put-off by some of the unnecessary violence, so I wouldn’t encourage taking your mother or first-date unless they suggest it. But for anyone who loves ultra-violent, over-thetop, cult Asian cinema – The Raid is a must-see. Don’t waste your time on The Hunger Games, The Raid offers something fresh and original. This is what cinema screens are made for. The Raid is open in cinemas nationally.
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NEW FOUND GLORY BY JAMES W. NICOLI
Upon doing research for my upcoming interview with Florida pop punk veterans New Found Glory, the thing that struck me the most was discovering that the band has the same lineup now as when they first burst onto the scene way back in 1997. Considering the number of personnel changes that most bands have to endure during their existence, it certainly is an incredible feat and its one of the first things I mention when I eventually chat to vocalist Jordan Pundik. “I think it’s like the reason why we’ve been a band for as long as we have is because I feel like we all go through the same things and any problems that are going on with the band, we just talk about it, everything is just open. We all really love the band,” he admits candidly. “You know, I’ve been in the band for, shit, since I was 17-years-old; it’s all I know.” It’s remarkable for any band, regardless of genre, to have been around for as long as New Found Glory have, but to have the same group of people is almost unheard of. The benefits of having such a tight nit group and a group that know each other so well both personally and musically, are certainly not lost on Pundik. “It’s really helpful when we’re writing about the things we’re writing, everything we write is real,” he says. “It’s things that have happened in our lives and I really feel like that helps. We’ve all known each other since forever.” With the release of their latest full length record, 2011’s Radiosurgery, it’s clear that after 14 years as a band, New Found Glory haven’t lost any of their energy. From the opening track, the music blasts from the speakers just like it did back in ‘97. “I really think for us, we just go in there and we don’t think about it really. We just go do it until it’s done,” says Pundik of their approach in the recording studio. “And for us, that has always worked. I feel like we go in there and write whatever we’re feeling and it ends up
60 SECONDS WITH SABRINA & THE RED VANS Define your genre in five words or less. Sassy Rock, with extra soul. So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say? Let’s shout this band a beer! How long have you been gigging and writing? We’ve been together for two years, however we have been writing for many more years.
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working and we just write about the things that we know.” Catchy melodies, memorable hooks and sing a longs as well as bucket loads of passion and energy; Radiosurgery is pop punk in its purest form. “I feel like we’ve always wanted to do a record like that, just a straight forward punk rock record,” admits Pundik. “I really love this record. It’s such good fun to play live.” A constant to our shores over the last few years, 2012 will be no exception with the band coming out again for a tour that will include fellow bands and friends Taking Back Sunday and This Time Next Year. In fact, it will be the first time that the band will embark on a full tour with their long time friends in Taking Back Sunday. “We’ve done it for years. We’ve never done a full tour together though; more like festivals, one show here, one show there kind of thing so it will be really cool to get one whole tour together.” Having now clocked up countless trips to Australia, these days their tours here are not just a chance for them to play to their adoring fan base but also a chance to catch up with What has been your favourite gig you’ve played to date? Woodford. Beautiful people, lots of rain, but a whole bucket of fun. Which band would you most like to have a battle/showdown with? Any outfit with Bettye LaVette on vocals. What inspires or has influenced your music the most? My little brother, Jermain. He may be an angel up in the universe; however, he is still driving me to be the best I (Sabrina) can be! What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? Believe, just don’t give up... And try and have a good cash flow!
old friends, other bands and just generally hang out, almost, as Pundik puts it, as if they’re on vacation. “[We] definitely love the shows. The bands there are awesome,” he says. “It’s cool because [Australian crowds] really appreciate when we come out there. Just from going there so many times we have friends that live there, we go out; it’s just a good time.” There aren’t many bands within the punk rock scene that get to scale the heights that the guys in New Found Glory have, let alone play in the one group and maintain the longevity and relevance that they have achieved. I ask Pundik what is it, after all these years that keeps them coming back for more? “It’s all our fans, honestly,” he admits. “I know every band says that but I really feel like our fans inspire us to make the best records we can and to tour, and play shows and to keep the band going as long as we can. There’s so Do you have any record releases to date? What? Where can I get it? Our debut album Cheap Romance was released this month! Why should everyone come and see your band? Because we’ll high five you at the end of the set. When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/single/ etc? At the Cheap Romance album launch, at the Toff in Town, with the Matt Green band on Sunday April 1.
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many times where people will come up to me and say, ‘Man I like your band and it’s got me through so much shit,’ and that’s what kind of keeps us going, [it’s] a big reason why.” No one knows what the future will bring, but one thing you can be pretty certain of is that New Found Glory will be sweating it out on a stage somewhere, just as they have been doing for the last 14 years. “I mean shit, I’d like to say, ‘Hey I want to be Mick Jagger and be up there when I’m 60-years-old’,” says Pundik. “But you never know what’s going to happen. Like honestly, we want the band to go as long as it can.” NEW FOUND GLORY play with Taking Back Sunday on Sunday April 8 at Festival Hall, with an all-ages and licensed area.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE BY LACHLAN KANONIUK
It seems like renowned country troubadour Justin Townes Earle cannot get enough of Australia, and the adoration is more than a little bit reciprocated. Last in the country for a boot-worthy (thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing, for the uninitiated) Golden Plains performance, Justin returns with Nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now â&#x20AC;&#x201C; his refreshingly soulful new LP. Before touching down for Bluesfest, Justin runs us through the creation of the new album, his Antipodean adoration, and his status as a sex symbol of sorts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a soul record,â&#x20AC;? he states in relation to the LPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many soul elements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a record with a lot of songs that lend themselves to soul, that we could have done in an outright soul way, but we kind of held back and kept it a little more simple than that and a little more primitive than what I would call the full soul sound,â&#x20AC;? he muses. One of the foremost aural signifiers that Justin has embraced on Nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now has been a somewhat minimal horn section, which contrasts with the singerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subdued croon to great effect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wrote a lot of the songs and wrote them to have horns on them. I thought that it was a good way to show that soul element. A lot of Stax recordings, especially those early ones, they did like a two-horns sound that was just trumpet and alto-sax. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty much what we did, trumpet and alto, with really simple parts,â&#x20AC;? he reveals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always loved that sound form the early to mid â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s.â&#x20AC;? Against all of the odds, Justin has emerged from a tumultuous young adulthood, avoiding the so-called 27 club and into his fourth decade of existence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that it was only out of sheer stupidity that made making it out of my 20s a challenge, and making it out of my teens. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a young man in most of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes, but I do think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m too old to die young,â&#x20AC;? he laughs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not cool once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re 30.â&#x20AC;? Such a lifestyle bears a silver lining in the form of a high density of life experience, something that Justin is quite adept at transforming into a high pedigree of songwriting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a songwriter first and foremost. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always wanted to be, all the people that I look up to â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they are. I think every partâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vital â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the melody is vital, the instrumentation is vital, everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vital. But I do believe that without the songwriting you have no reason for the rest of it. I definitely hold songwriting in a higher regard, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that just anyone can do it. Even people that do know how to do it still have to practice all the time, otherwise it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be any good,â&#x20AC;? he muses. Though hopefully his turbulent years are now well behind him, Justin is assured that his source pool of inspiration isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imminently finite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, I really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see that happening. It seems to happen to a lot of people, and I think it happens to people that veer from the course that they originally set out. At this point particularly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m full steam ahead. I have no intention of turning that off,â&#x20AC;? he reasons.
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;AT THIS POINT PARTICULARLY, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M FULL STEAM AHEAD. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF TURNING THAT OFFâ&#x20AC;? On previous visits, Justin has received an invariably rapturous response. There was a time when such a reaction was contained solely within our isolated little part of the world, but as Justin explains, the rest of the world is starting to catch on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A few years ago I was getting that reaction just in Australia, like everything got really exciting really fast there. Here in the States it was only very recently, like in the past year, where it got to the point where I was really stable in the music business, whatever that means â&#x20AC;&#x201C; starting to see bigger crowds and more excited crowds, like the Aussies knew all the words. These days it is more widespread, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always love coming to Australia because it always will be the biggest crowds I play in front of, that will still stand. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tonne of fun and the crowds are great,â&#x20AC;? he beams. On his last visit in 2011, Justin initiated what was precariously close to widespread fainting at Golden Plains when he performed his signature take of The Replacementsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Hardly Wait sans shirt. Justin remains pragmatically aware of such a reaction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very much into fashion and things like that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m into clothing and I have really expensive taste and things like that. So I started doing a little bit of modelling and it sort of changed a little piece of the persona that I have,â&#x20AC;? he laughs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m definitely not known as a quite meek singer songwriter, you know. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no doubt helped my career, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure my girlfriend would have something to say.â&#x20AC;? JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE will appear at Byron Bay Bluesfest, taking place Thursday April 5 until Monday April 9. Justin will also be appearing at Boogie 6, taking place at Tallarook Friday April 6 until Sunday April 8 (sold out), as well as sideshows at Regal Ballroom on Wednesday April 11 (sold out) and Prince Bandroom on Thursday April 12.
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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS & GOSSIP
with Christie Eliezer * Stuff for this column to be emailed to <celiezer@netspace.net.au> by Friday 5pm TOP 30 CONTENDERS FOR APRA SONG OF THE YEAR The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) unveiled the Top 30 contenders for APRA song of the year at its May 28 APRA awards. These were voted for by APRA members. The list features a wide range of songs — from established writers as Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, Hilltop Hoods, Pete Murray, Eskimo Joe, Bluejuice, Don Walker, Troy Cassar-Daley, Guy Sebastian, The Jezabels, The Grates, Jebediah, and The Living End alongside relative newcomers as Boy & Bear, Lanie Lane, Kimbra, Emma Louise, Abbe May, San Cisco, Washington, Matt Corby, The Beards, Def Wish Cast, Calling All Cars and Last Dinosaurs. Gotye had a double entry, while a gospel song by Hillsong showed off the diversity of the vote. See apra.com.au for full list. The final five are announced early May.
NO GOOD VIBRATIONS IN 2012 More bad news on the festival front. Jam Music is resting Good Vibrations in 2012 blaming competitive demand for artists resulting in higher artist fees, unpredictable weather and a shifting live music market. In a brief statement, GV owner Justin Hemmes confirmed, “We will not be going ahead with the Festival this year. We will be in touch in due course regarding plans for 2013.”
MINAJ LANDS SEVEN FIGURE PEPSI DEAL Nicki Minaj landed a seven-figure endorsement hook-up with Pepsi. She’ll appear in a global TV ad in the next weeks, and will also be the face of a new natural soda called “Pop” in late 2012. Minaj previously went brand-hopping with toy manufacturer Mattel, MAC’s Viva Glam, OPI nail polish and Onch Movement jewellery. The Pepsi deal is expected to make her “millions” of dollars, adding to the US$6.5 million she earned last year which made her the highest earning female rapper. Pepsi’s past endorsees include Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elton John and Flavour Flav.
MPM, WUNDERKIND, MOVE… Michael Parisi Management and Wunderkind label moved to Level 1, 2 Victoria Road in Hawthorn East, so Parisi can keep an eye on his fooie team. MPM just signed Melbourne based DJ/producer Knightlife. After releasing his debut EP I Want You last year on Cutters, he’s working on his debut album in between remixing for Ben Browning (Cut Copy) and Owl Eyes.
…AND OPEN W.O.T.E. STUDIO FOR BUSINESS Way Of The Eagle Studios is open for business at Level 1, 2 Victorian Road in Hawthorn East. Jan Skubiszewski has been busy recording Grey Ghost, Illy, Mama Kin, Owl Eyes and his own project W.O.T.E. For a full spec list and booking enquiries contact Jacqui Wilson at jwilson@ michaelparisimgmt.com or Michael Parisi at michael@ michaelparisimgmt.com.
VALE VINCE LOVEGROVE ‘60s singer turned music exec Vince Lovegrove died last Saturday in a car accident near his home in Byron. He was 64. He emerged in the ‘60s with The Valentines, sharing singing duties with Bon Scott. From the ‘70s, Lovegrove’s career alternated between music industry roles (running management and booking agency Jovan; managing The Divinyls), journalism (writing for Go-Set, Juke and Immedia!; a Michael Hutchence book and a This Day In Music blog), returned to performing recently, with Mongrels Of Passion with guitarist Tim Gaze.
THINGS WE HEAR * Australian media folk like triple j’s Zan Rowe and Noise 11’s Paul Cashmere at South By Southwest got scoops left right and centre of what tours we can expect. Django Django blabbed they’re here for Splendour In The Grass, while The Shins mentioned “late July”. Jack White also plans to return but didn’t specify when. Splendour aren’t commenting. But they admitted that after seeing Zulu Winter’s scorching shows at SxSW, they delayed the band’s visit to strengthen up the Splendour bill. Hot on the Splendour rumour mill are Bloc Party, Ting Tings, The Black Keys and Temper Trap. * In the meantime, Nui Te Koha told Triple M that Prince dates are expected to be announced this week. They were supposed to be in May but were delayed to later in the year when Lady Gaga announced her visit that month. * The drummer of which popular Melbourne band referred to his festival fans as “dirty nodding pigeons sitting on a hill” in a recent late night alarming anti-festival rant? * Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has signed Sydney electronic duo Bag Raiders to a worldwide deal. * Hilltop Hoods’ album, which went gold on its first day, is now platinum. * If you thought Metallica had a h-u-g-e production the last time they visited here, the one on their next tour will be TWICE AS BIG!
* Timomatic, 24, is among the finalists for 2012 Cleo Bachelor of the Year. * NZ’s Homebrew Crew were furious when an announcer on The Edge radio remarked, “They’re always working hard those black people” that they tweeted the three major commercial radio stations, “If you ever play our music, you’ll come to work the next day with your dead pet in your parking space’’. * At a panel on music streaming at SxSW in Texas, Napster founder Sean Parker said that in two years, Spotify will pay more royalties to record companies than iTunes. He attacked YouTube for its loading speed, and the record execs who “grindfucking the shit out of (Napster)” as “dinosaurs”.
ADELE TOPPLES FLOYD, STRAITS Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) is going great guns on the US charts. Last week it celebrated its 800th week there (of about 15 years and five months) sitting at #137 on the Billboard 200. But alas at home in the UK, it has been beaten by Adele’s 21 in the all-time biggest selling albums list. As of this January, Moon was #7 on the list with UK sales of 4.11 million. But 21 last Monday hit 4.14 million and took that spot. By the end of the week, it had gone to #6 by selling 12,000 copies and toppling Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms. Top of the list is Queen’s Greatest Hits is Number One, with Brit sales of 5.83 million, and The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s at #2 with 5.04 million, followed by Abba’s Gold (4.99 million), Oasis’ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (4.52 million) and Michael Jackson’s Thriller (4.27 million). Last week, the NME noted that the success of Adele, Mumford and Sons, Coldplay and Florence and the Machine saw British acts account for a record 11.7% of all albums sold in the U.S. last year. Also last week boy band One Direction’s Up All Night became the first UK debut album to debut at #1 on the U.S. charts. It sold 176,000 copies to do that.
SOFAR SOUNDS ARRIVES IN MELBOURNE Sofar Sounds – Songs For A Room – an English concept held in 15 cities around the world – launched in Melbourne. Four bands play in a living room to a silent crowd of 60, the gig is filmed and streamed on sofarsounds.com. Melbourne ground controller Hannah Crofts says the gig is by wordof-mouth and the identities of the bands kept secret until the gig. “For bands it provides a different option to a venue, and playing to a ‘silent’ audience means they really listen to the music. To the audience, it’s an underground exclusive experience.” More info, h.crofts@hotmail.com. The next gig is on Wednesday April 18 and the website is sofarsounds. com.
FABINYI NEW GM OF AMPAL After ten years of working in various trade associations in Europe, Jeremy Fabinyi returns to Oz to take over as GM of the Australasian Music Publishers Association (AMPA) from April 10. He takes over from Peter Hebbes who stood down in order to focus on his publishing business. Before moving to Europe, Fabinyi managed Mental As Anything and The Cockroaches, Group MD of Festival Mushroom Records, Festival Publishing and Festival Studios, and CEO of AMPAL & AMCOS in the ‘90s.
GRAND WAZOO BACK AFTER HIATUS Late last year when the Blue Diamond changed most Sundays to private and corporate bookings, it ended a four year residency for 13-piece soul band Grand Wazoo. They decided to take a proper breather for the first time in 30 years, with members heading to New York and Canada for professional and personal reasons. Leader John Montesante continued to gig and record with his modern bebop-influenced jazz band John Montesante Quintet (JMQ) and investigated his interest in the American Civil War. “I had more time to source and acquire uniforms, kepis etc which I sometimes wear at gigs and elsewhere, and was also able to research the characters involved and their stories a little more deeply.” Grand Wazoo returns to live action, with monthly appearances at Velvet Room @ Thornbury Theatre (starting Sunday April 1) and the Rainbow (from Friday May 4). There’ll be a studio album this year, Montesante confirmed, with half new material, and his arrangements of rare classic soul gems. Financing a large ensemble is a problem. “I have never received any grants or funding or industry support over the past 30 years - despite my bands being a rite of passage for at least 80% of the professional A-list musicians currently working in this town.
AZTEC MUSIC IN RECEIVERSHIP Melbourne importer Aztec Music went into receivership after eight years. It was set up by producers Ted Lethborg and former Aztecs drummer Gil Matthews, to bring in albums for retailers. But declining floor space in stores and online competition hit hard, as did the collapse of many suppliers. It was in the red to the tune of $350,000 according to Lethborg. A key element of the business was its impressive reissues label which covered 60 out of print Australian classic albums by the likes of the Aztecs, Spectrum, Chain, Band Of Light, Man & Machine, Lobby Lloyd and Mark Gillespie. These were remastered, with bonus tracks and ace sleevenotes.
RED BULL BEDROOM JAM The 2012 Red Bull Bedroom Jam Australia has opened for musos aged 15 to 21. Upload a video of you doing an original track, and get as many likes and hits on social media. Every two weeks, the highest on the “Buzz Chart” will be filmed and webcast on redbullbedroomjam.com.au. For info, see site. Beat Magazine Page 42
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LIFELINES Dating: Rihanna and Ashton Kutcher have been secretly meeting for the past nine weeks after meeting at a party in Los Angeles last December – and apparently she’s so besotted that she wants to join his Kabbalah group. Dating: Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina, 19, and Nick Gordon, 22, the boy that Houston adopted ten years ago. Her grandma calls it “incestuous”, Bobbi says she doesn’t care. Hospitalised: Mi-Sex keyboard player Murray Burns suffered a stroke two songs into the band’s appearance at A Day On The Green at Rochford Winery in the Yarra Valley, forcing the band to abandon its set. He’s in a stable condition at the Box Hill Hospital. Hospitalised: promoter Andrew McManus had an artery cleared after heart problems made him feel faint during Lenny Kravitz’s show at Myer Music Bowl. McManus reportedly was partying hard at Grand Prix parties. Ill: Dolores O’Riordan suffered food poisoning in Sydney, forcing The Cranberries to cancel their Enmore Theatre gig 15 minutes before the show. In Court: a “frivolous” lawsuit brought against Paramore by Florida band Tenspoke Indies has been dropped. Tenspoke claimed Paramore stole from their track Starlighter for their 2010 single The Only Exception. Paramore wrote on their official blog, “There was never a doubt in our minds that the case would go any further, as this song, which Paramore wrote every note of, is very personal to them and one they are extremely proud of.” Died: Gary Cornell, 34, singer with Perth’s Pyramid Of The Coyote, of a suspected heart attack, during their gig at the Civic club.
RECORD STORE DAY Sat April 21 is when 200 Australian specialist music stores celebrate the importance of record stores to music. They remind us that 70% of music bought today is through them and that musically savvy staff play a role breaking new music. Record Store Day Australia, organised by AMRA (Australian Music Retailers Association) has about 91 participating (recordstoreday.com.au), while the Australian component of the global Record Store Day lists over 100 (recordstoreday. com). There are in-store appearances, deals and exclusive releases. Victoria leads with 50 stores, Queensland 30 and NSW 26. AMRA chairman Gavin Ward said, “I think the great thing that happened last year with Record Store Day was the amount of in store connection that occurred directly between artists and stores. With stores around Australia involved there were lots of places where unsigned and signed artists were in-store to meet fans on the day. For a real fan the joy of shopping at a music store is alive and well, Record Store Day is all about the celebration of that passion that the real fans enjoy.”
GUNN MUSIC LANDS SHOWCASE WINNERS Gunn Music’s showcases are run by musicians who support the careers of up and coming acts by helping them out with shows. The latest finals, held at the Espy Gershwin Room, was won by hard hitting Blood Line, followed by Poppy and Sudden State. Prizes were given to each finalist. Sir Jolly Goodshow’s impressive set landed a slot on Saltar Hype’s new Rock n Load Festival. Buck Jr who made the trek from Daylesford were booked on Gunn’s Wakefield Festival. Other finalists were Mind Pilot, Dread All, Dinosaurs Exist, Bizaro, The Sneaky Wizards, Death Masque, Wish Worth Granting, Animal Hands, Desert Steel and Memoire.If you want to be on the next showcase email Mark from Gunn Music at mark@gunnmusic.com.au.
MACKENZIE OFF TO MOROCCO Melbourne singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Briony MacKenzie leaves on March 29 to spend six months in Morocco. She’s a volunteer working with The Moroccan Children's Trust (MCT), which works with street children and their communities. MacKenzie will be involved in establishing a women's project. She has funded some of the trip through her new self-titled EP, which includes a song that she wrote in East Timor where she did an internship with the United Nations.
GOSSLING UNVEILS EP In the lead up to the April 20 release of her new EP Intentional Living, Gossling will introduce a new track, in live mode on a weekly basis. These will be filmed at a venue space she set up in the Bake House Studios. Gossling (aka Helen Croome) said, "We wanted to create something special for the release of Intentional Living,” adding that these will be a taster of the tour which starts a few days after the EP’s release.
ELY, POTTER, GET HUNG UP Ben Ely (Regurgitator and Ouch My Face) and Celeste Potter of Ouch My Face hold an art exhibition in the gallery space above Old Bar (74 Johnston St, Fitzroy) from March 31 to April 13. On opening night, at 6pm, Ouch My Face, Dead, Deep Heat and Batpiss will play. Potter, who works in commercial illustration and animation, focused on her love for monsters. “For this exhibition I’ve made them on watercolour paper and canvas with ink, watercolours, pencils and my own blood,” she said.
AWME ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS AWME is currently accepting applications from local and international artists wishing to perform at the 2012 Australasian World Music Expo, taking place from November 15 – 18 in Melbourne. After four short years, AWME has established itself as the southern hemispheres premier music industry conference and showcase event for roots music. AWME pioneers new networks and creates opportunities for musicians worldwide by engaging music industry representatives from all corners of the globe. Applications are open through the AWME website: awme. com.au and Sonicbids: sonicbids.com/awme Applications close on April 20.
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A guide to eating out in Melbourne
REVIEW: Bimbo Deluxe BY ROD WHITFIELD
As a massive fan of live music, for a number of years I have boycotted this place. It used to be one of the best small live music venues in Melbourne, The Punters Club. I played there several times in bands of my own and went there many times as a punter myself to watch bands rock out. It had an excellent stage, sound and lighting, and when packed it was absolutely pumping. Losing the Punters to another pizza restaurant was yet another loss to the Melbourne live music scene, a trend that unfortunately continues unabated to this day. That’s another issue of course however, and a decade or so embargo is probably long enough. It was time to return. The Punters was undoubtedly a sad loss, but its replacement is a rather excellent and pretty unique eating establishment. In approximately ten years it has become a Brunswick St favourite, and it was a great place to hole up in on a rainy, early autumn Melbourne afternoon. The philosophy here is obviously to keep things as simple and stripped back as possible without sacrificing quality, so as to provide maximum value for money where it really counts; especially in arguably the most competitive restaurant market in the city. The décor is mostly rustic and basic, with mismatched tables and chairs and a rather motley collection of couches giving the place a loungey, laid back feel. However, it’s all rather comfortable. This is a place you can come to for just a coffee, a drink and a chat with friends or a full sit down meal. There is no table service as such, you order and pay at the bar. It’s all friendly faces and a happy ambience though, and the lessened need for a big waiting staff also helps keep prices down. The food came out nice and quick too, which is always welcome. There’s a large array of on-tap beers and ciders on offer here,
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and their own brew, the amusingly titled ‘Blonde Bimbo’, is a very nice drop and a refreshing way to start the meal. Bimbo’s pizzas are a real treat. The Mexican influenced ‘poncho’ pizza is one of their specialities, with corn chips, jalapeño, sour cream, Mexican beans and more. As a big fan of Mexican food and pizza, putting them together is always a sensation. Then there was the ‘agnello’ pizza, with lamb, pine nuts and sultanas, which was an excellent combination of sweet and savoury flavours. The thin and crispy crusts are absolutely spot on, and the toppings are plentiful. Size wise, they are also just about perfect, being not too big and not too small. If anything, they tend slightly towards the larger side, and would fill just about anyone outside an Olympic weightlifter. A nice touch is that they actually give you your own pizza cutter, which came very much in handy! The side salad, of spinach, pumpkin and pine nuts was possibly just a touch overdressed, but still a very tasty accompaniment to the main fare. We felt nicely satisfied, and not too over-full, by the end of the meal. Washed down with a glass of cider and a full and rich flavoured coffee, this was a very satisfying dining. And with the pricing being so very reasonable, value for money is guaranteed here. Lingering disappointment over the loss of a live music icon aside, Bimbo Deluxe is a laid back, tasty and very easy on the budget dining experience.
News Bites SWEET CRUMBLE Food is a part of everybody’s life. Sweet Crumble takes their love for food one step further by creating bite-sized desserts that help us celebrate life, love, and help us say sorry. They make cupcakes, Parisian macarons, petite pops (cake pops), marshmallows, meringues, homemade caramels, candies, and a number of other treats. And just to keep us guessing, new creations grace their shelves all the time! Not only do they make delicious treats, they also feel strongly about supporting the local community. They bake their goodies fresh daily (starting at the crack of dawn), and any leftovers are donated to local shelters and non-profit organisations. Sweet Crumble: 111 Glenferrie Rd, Malvern, VIC, 3144. Phone: (03) 9077 6956
Bimbo Deluxe is located on the corner of Brunswick and Rose Streets, Fitzroy. They’re open midday to late everyday, and to 3am on weekends. They also have $4 pizzas Sunday-Thursdays 7-11pm, Wednesdays 12-4pm, and Saturdays 7-9pm.
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ST KATHERINE’S St Katherine’s embraces a contemporary sharing style menu, with a hybrid of Modern Greek, Turkish and Middle Eastern cuisine. Sporting a custom made Turkish grill, 14-spike rotisserie and a wood fired oven, St Katherine’s promises a dining experience that is fresh, healthy, and filled with flavoursome and affordable food that leaves you craving more. St Katherine’s: 26 Cotham Rd, Kew VIC, 3101. Phone: (03) 9207 7477 GOOD BEER WEEK 2012 New brews, gourmet dinners, international guests, masterclasses, showcases, beer breakfasts, beer swaps, beer sorbets – the program for what promises to be Australia’s biggest ever celebration of good beer is out. Good Beer Week 2012 features more than 90 events at venues across Melbourne and Victoria during May, with hundreds of the finest beers from across the world ready to be poured out across the state at bars, restaurants, breweries and bottleshops as well as wineries, chocolatiers, cocktail bars – even the Royal Exhibition Building – as scores of brewers from across Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the States join beer lovers old and new for eight days of festivities. It all happens from Saturday May 12 – Saturday May 19. Check out goodbeerweek.com for further details.
DEAD MEADOW BY JOSHUA KLOKE
Steve Lille isn’t a fan of labels. Specifically, one which has been attached to his band, Dead Meadow, for some time: stoner-rock. For Lille, who co-founded the Washington psych outfit in 1998 and whose heavy bass lines steer the ship, the idea of a band being associated with drugs is a bit of a backwards concept. “It’s not a necessary part of our show whatsoever,” says Lille from his Los Angeles studio, after asked if drugs are indeed an element of the Dead Meadow aesthetic. “You know, it’s a weird stigma. Stoner rock is such a weird name; there’s something about it that’s very caveman like. There are other bands I’ve spoken to that don’t dig that tag as well. There are other veins of music we were inspired by, and there might be more crucial ways to call our music. The music that inspires us comes from the ‘60s, and we’d much rather be associated with that than anything else. It’s definitely an unfortunate term to be throwing out there.” Lille may not be a fan of labels, yet given Dead Meadow’s history, you’d have to think he wouldn’t mind being if his band was called exactly as they are: a live band. Though they’ve release six studio albums, their last studio release was 2008’s Old Growth. A live album and film, Three Kings, came in 2010, but for the most part, Dead Meadow has been touring as of late simply for the love of it. “Being an experimental band, you certainly reach new ground when you play live. You get close when you go into the studio, but there’s something about playing a few shows in a row that does that to you. The more you play, the more the audience responds to you. It’s great to have the ability to capture some of that when recording. And when you put out a live album, you’re trying to do both. We recorded our last live album at the end of a long tour. There are some jams and some solos in there that never would’ve happened at the beginning of the tour, and certainly never would’ve happened if they were forced.” “I think considering the kind of music we play,” he continues, “and maybe considering the ilk of the crowd we draw in, that sort of psychedelic music and its following, it’s all really based upon the live show. When you do have a new record out, it does tremendous things for the live show but doesn’t always have to. You know, we always come off tour feeling like successful, but it’s tough to get people to hear about your new music when it comes out.” For Lille and Dead Meadow, the only way to get people to hear their music is simply to tour without restraint. Since 2007, the band has gigged exclusively as a three-piece. Though through this touring, they’ve managed to create a bombastic, sprawling sound that is certainly much larger than the sum of its parts. Lille maintains that live, it’s paramount to allow their songs room to grow.
“I THINK CONSIDERING THE KIND OF MUSIC WE PLAY... IT’S ALL REALLY BASED UPON THE LIVE SHOW” “I think all great bands allow for a certain level of growth,” he says. “You don’t necessarily have to be jamming and going through a ton of guitar solos and drum solos and all that, but you have to give your music room and space to develop. You also have to allow honest people to hear your music, so that their opinions might be able to add to the music. Every band and artist that gets better does so from putting themselves out there, into the public. The energy of the crowd will always change your music.” It’s a noble concept to believe in. Yet outside of the sanctity of a live venue, Dead Meadow must still try to exist alongside bands that churn out shorter, catchier tracks that capture your average music fan’s attention with much more ease. How easy it would be then to put Dead Meadow into a corner and hand them another oft-taboo label: a niche band. Instead, as far as ‘indie’ bands go, they’re lumped into the upper echelon; signed to perennial tastemakers Matador Records, Lille admits that Dead Meadow are in a bit off a tricky spot. “We’ve followed in the footsteps of a lot of people that’ve gone before us. Even if we’re kind of stuck in this rubber band, we’re still trying to push our style as much as we can. We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel, but we’re constantly trying to put our own spin on things. You’re always trying to hint at your personality and the little quirks that only you can bring. The voice that you speak with.” It’s a voice that Dead Meadow aims to perfect through their live show. And in a sense, it’s a timeless one. “Despite the fact that we’re influenced by the past, we live in a modern world when it comes to music. We won’t go completely modern, as that will totally change who we are. We fit in modern music as we’re modern people that are trying to interpret music of the past.” Not only will DEAD MEADOW be playing the Corner Hotel on Sunday April 1 and the National Hotel in Geelong on Saturday March 31 (support for both shows from Pink Mountaintops), they will also be playing Boogie Festival 6, taking place at Tallarook from Friday April 6 to Sunday April 8 (sold out), plus doing an extremely exclusive, end of tour show at Cherry Bar on Sunday April 8, which will also include an after-party. For tickets and info see heathenskulls.com.
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Karnivool are revived and ready to hit the road again after a quiet few months, with their Melodia Frescas Tour with Redcoats and Sleepmakeswakes kicking off this winter when it’ll hit Melbourne’s The Hi-Fi on Thursday July 5, followed by the Bended Elbow in Geelong on Sunday July 8.
NEWS, REVIEWS AND GOSSIP BY EMILY KELLY: EK1984@GMAIL.COM
OK here’s a question: can you create a sound on an album that you can’t completely replicate live? Are DESCENDENTS you entitled to squeaks, bangs, squeaks and whistles, soprano vocals and ambitious meedly meedly if you know for a fact that you are unable to pull it off onstage? Keeping in mind that very few bands are able to exist entirely in the context of albums and that most bands will need to tour an album in order to make some cash, please the label and progress in the cyclical nature that the industry operates on these days. I saw a band the other week who had lovely vocals and swell harmonies on their most recent album, but come their much anticipated live album, completely choked in both regards. As a result their live show…um…well…sucked. Usually singers will struggle to deliver crisp, calculated, studio-perfect vocals live, and that’s OK, but this one really missed the mark entirely to the point where some songs became unrecognisable. Yet it seems like a bitter assault on an artist’s creative freedom to deny them any kind of whimsical, ambitious experimentation in the studio...? Send answers to ek1984@gmail.com.
This Thursday, Smith St’s Gasometer Hotel will host a photography exhibition called Women In Punk and Hardcore, Melbourne. The project is a collaboration between two Melbourne-based artists, and features the stories of women who have played an important part in the punk and hardcore scene in Melbourne. There will be live performances by Deep Heat and Concrete Life. Check it out.
Canberra’s I Exist will release a new 7” through Resist Records for Record Store Day this Saturday April 21. The record will feature a brand new song and a Melvins cover and only 250 copies will be made available. Meanwhile, Poison City Records has released a sneak peak off their Record Store Day release, Shuffle And Scrape: A Tribute To Blueline Medic”. The Nation Blue’s cover of Shuffle And Scrape is available now online. The vinyl will be available from Poison City Records on Saturday April 21.
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Brendan Kelly’s (Lawrence Arms) new project Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds have posted a new song from their forthcoming album online. What’s A Boy To Do is from the upcoming album I’d Rather Die Than Live Forever which cops a release this week via Red Scare.
Ska Weekender Festival will return this June to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. Saturday June 9 will see Area 7, Dan Potthast, God God Dammit Dammit, The Bennies, Roofdog, The Operators, Admiral Ackbar and Dishonourable Discharge play at The Evelyn Hotel from 6pm. Tickets are available via Moshtix.
It has been revealed that actor Johnny Depp will appear on Marilyn Manson’s new album Born Villain which is due out in Australia via Cooking Vinyl on Friday April 27. It’s the band’s first album since 2009’s mediocre The High End Of Low.
METAL, HEAVY ROCK, CLASSIC ROCK GIG ALERT: JIM BREUER
GIG ALERT: HOODLUM SHOUTS, THE SMITH STREET BAND & PALISADES
Canberra’s Hoodlum Shouts release their debut album on today via Poison City/Hello Square, and to celebrate they’re planning an east coast jaunt. They play at The Old Bar on Wednesday April 18. It’s an 18+ gig, and supports are The Smith Street Band and Palisades.
Melbourne singer/songwriter/rock chick Aimee Francis might live in Sydney now (after some time in LA where she even supported the mighty Steel Panther at the Key Club on Sunset Boulevard – sweet gig!), but she still makes it back home for shows now and then. Aimee is one of the finalists in the 2011 International Songwriting Competition’s People’s Voice award, with her song Control. Other Melbourne-related finalists include Missy Higgins, Skipping Girl Vinegar, The Dead Leaves, Oh Mercy, Louis King, The Mighty Buzzniks, Children Collide, The Living End, Caterina Torres, Kate Vigo and Dallas Frasca. Vote at songwritingcompetition.com to support some great Aussie music!
Fresh from kicking your arse at Soundwave a few weeks ago, Meshuggah releases their new album Koloss on Friday March 30. The band previewed the new track Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion while in Oz.
VOLTERA BY PETER HODGSON
Voltera are a notoriously hard band to pin down. Their music has dashes of metal, industrial, goth and alternative, but they don’t comfortably fit into either. Crushing rhythms, powerful vocal melodies, dramatic delivery, dark imagery – they’re one of those bands who can sit comfortably on many different bills without being out of place yet, without blending in either. And in their time they’ve supported acts like KMFDM, Genitorturers, The Birthday Massacre and Covenant. The band formed around 2004 as a three-piece, and they’ve been through many lineup changes since then, working with some stellar musicians on their trip to the current configuration. They’re currently bouncing back after being banned from the US due to political content – whoops – and consolidating their new five-person lineup. Melbourne audiences will get Beat Magazine Page 46
If you’re a fan of hard rock or metal – and if you’re not, why are you reading this, dude? – then you might very well want to check out Jim Breuer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He starred in Half Baked with Dave Chapelle, he was on Saturday Night Live for years, and Metallica called on him to host their 30th anniversary run of shows last year. He’s a total metalhead and this comes up quite a lot in his show. You’ve gotta hear his impression of James Hetfield singing kids’ songs. Breuer is at the RMIT Capital Theatre on Friday April 20 and Sunday April 22. Tickets are $39.
GIG ALERT: VEIL OF MAYER, THE STORM PICTURESQUE & STORIES
Chicago’s Veil of Maya are hitting Australia in April and bringing along some great Aussie bands for the ride: Newcastle’s The Storm Picturesque (who release their progressive metal debut album Arrival soon) and Sydney metal/hardcore act Stories, who are preparing to release their debut EP. Veil of Maya’s new album Eclipse was produced by Periphery’s Misha Mansoor, with vocal production by Michael Keene (The Faceless). Catch Veil of Maya, The Storm Picturesque and Stories at Musicman Megastore in Bendigo on Tuesday April 10 (all ages), Karova Lounge in Ballarat on Wednesday April 11 and at the Phoenix Youth Centre in Footscracy (all ages) on Friday April 13.
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THURSDAY MARCH 29: Dead To Me, Cobra Skulls, The Gun Runners, Lamexcuse at Northcote Social Club Twelve Foot Ninja, Jericco, Circles at Mac’s Hotel, Melton A Plea For Purging, Feed Her To The Sharks, Brooklyn, Prepared Like A Bride at Next FRIDAY MARCH 30: Bodyjar, One Dollar Short, Antiskeptic, Game Over, For Amusement Only, Stathmore, Seconds, The Union Pacific at The Espy Twelve Foot Ninja, Jericco, Circles at Ferntree Gully Hotel Frankenbok at Newmarket Hotel, Bendigo Margins at Polyester Records, Melbourne SATURDAY MARCH 31: Bodyjar, One Dollar Short, Antiskeptic, Game Over at Corner Hotel Twelve Foot Ninja, Jericco, Circles at Pelly Bar, Frankston Dead Meadow, Pink Mountaintops at National Hotel, Geelong The Resignators, The King City Seven and more at CBD Nightclub Warbrain, Ill Vision, Up and Atom at Bang Nous, Israel, Agonhymn, Sun Shepherd at The Bendigo SUNDAY APRIL 1 : The Resignators, Someone Else’s Wedding Band, Bravo Juliet, Hollies Target at Disgraceland, Brunswick MONDAY APRIL 2: Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot, Slim Jim Phantom, Lanie Lane at The Palace Pink Mountaintops, Jason Simon, The Night Terrors, Dead Wasp at The Tote
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DOUBLE DRAGON EVOLVES INTO SONS OF ASENA
Remember a few weeks ago when Adelaide’s mighty Double Dragon announced they were calling it a day? Well that’s still true, in a way, but the band is morphing into something new. Following the departure of Roady, there are no original members of the band left. All shows booked under the name Double Dragon will go ahead as planned, but after that the band will change their name to Sons Of Asena (which happens to be the title of their current album) and will record an EP. The lineup for this new band will debut some time this year: Liam Weedall (drums), Davin Buttery and Shane Carroll (guitars), Josh Lamonte (bass) and Lee Gardiner (vocals). “As Sons Of Asena, the music will be changing,” the band said in a statement. “We will be tapping into our death metal influences, and also delving into more abstract and unconventional forms of music. The track Asena from the album Sons Of Asena is a good example of where we are going musically, although with this lineup there are no rules.” The final Double Dragon Melbourne show will be at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood on Saturday May 5.
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Marshall Amplification has just unveiled a cool new product – literally – at the Frankfurt Musikmesse trade show: a refrigerator that looks like a Marshall half-stack amplifier. Attention to detail on this thing is incredible, and yes, the knobs do go to 11. They start to ship in October, so that’s plenty of time to pester your local Marshall dealer to register your interest. More info at marshallfridge.com a chance to see the new quintet version of Voltera at The Evelyn Hotel on March 30. Being as diverse as it is, the Voltera sound is hard to pin down. This is one band that you can’t really play ‘spot the influence’ with. No ‘Oop…there’s a Ministry bit’ drinking games here. So what’s the secret to being so damn unique? “Michael and I being the primary song writers, especially in the past, listen to a huge variety of music, pretty much a bit of everything you can think of and that in turn has been influenced by other members as well, never more so than now,” Jess explains. “So I guess it’s a melting pot with no formulas.” Perhaps a little more definable though is the band’s visual style; they have an established identity which reveals itself strongly across their videos, website and the artwork of their debut concept album, The Birth Of The End Of The World. “Michael [Voltera] and I did art in high school and that’s about it, but like the composition, we make a good team as he is really competent with graphic design, web design and digital manipulation whilst I’m responsible for the conceptual side of things.” The band also collaborates with photographers and other visual artists to get the final result, but they’ve always done almost all of their online, poster and album art themselves. Interestingly, Voltera played on the VANS Warped Tour in 2006 and have had tracks featured in Tony Hawk games – yet when you listen to them, you don’t necessarily think, ‘Oh
they’re a Warped band’ or ‘Dude, skate band.’ So what’s the deal? How did those opportunities come about? Vocalist Jess explains, “The band had an intimate connection to a local pro-skater who helped put our Exorsister EP in the hands of Volcom Music who then invited us to play 17 shows on the West Coast leg. The guys were great to us and happy to have us on, however we did stick out like, how you say, dogs balls – but it was to our advantage.” The Tony Hawk games came about via a similar fashion, but the music on those are sourced from a variety of places and the final product is quite eclectic. “A lot of skaters listen to a variety of music, I think the idea of a ‘skate band’ may be less easy to define these days.” The band’s EP, COORDINATION 29° 915”N, 82° 29’3”E, is the first release of a planned of a trilogy. Currently it will only be available at its Friday March 30 launch at The Evelyn Hotel, and the EP’s three tracks will all be performed on the night along with earlier material. All Voltera clothing/tshirt money from the launch will be donated to Survival International, an organisation dedicated to helping tribal peoples to protect their lives, lands and human rights. The launch will feature a typically varied lineup. “Full Code and Written In Ruins on the heavier side, the beautiful stylings of A Lonely Crowd and not to mention the in-your-face attitude of Noize Bunny,” Jess says. “Of course there will be all the sounds, sights and yes, smells of Voltera.”
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It will be available only at the show at The Evelyn Hotel and later to be released on iTunes. I would also like to take the opportunity to plug the organisation called Survival International to be found at survivalinternational.org. VOLTERA play The Evelyn Hotel on Friday March 30 alongside guests A Lonely Crowd, Written In Ruins, Noize Bunny and Full Code.
SETH LAKEMAN BY DAN WATT
It is odd that a local phenomenon from another country, a country 10,553 miles away, can become widely recognised here in Australia. What I am referring to is the United Kingdom’s Mercury Music Prize – an annual award for the peer-voted best album from England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland. The reason it is so well-known here in Australia is that ever since its inaugural year in 1992 – the year Primal Scream’s Screamadelica won – it is synonymous with cool sounds and seminal styles. Often the artists getting nominated don’t even realise that their style of music is on the way up. One of these unsuspecting nominees of this prestigious award was Devon-born multi-instrumentalist and prodigious fiddler Seth Lakeman, who in 2005 saw his debut album Kitty Jay nominated in the Mercury Prize along with Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm, Coldplay’s X&Y and, the eventual winner, Antony & The Johnsons’ I Am A Bird Now. Lakeman, who is due in Australia for Byron Bay’s Bluesfest and two special Melbourne performances alongside Carus Thompson at Bennetts Lane, talks about his feelings back in 2005 to go from a regional folk artist to the toast of Shoreditch. “It was something that broke me as an artist…” There is a pause then a light giggle as this charming Brit realises the perceived connotations of his last statement, “Not breaking down but ‘breaking’ in the right way. But when I stood beside the other nominees for the first photo shoot, they put me beside Chris Martin because he’s from down here in Devon as well; it was all a bit overwhelming. “I also seemed to be doing a lot of interviews and promo with KT Tunstall that year as well and I ended up signing to her label with EMI.”
Lakeman also explains that due to Kitty Jay being so experimental and steeped in the culture of Southern England was another reason, combined with his anonymity at the time, he was surprised that he got nominated. “For me I feel that every aspect of Kitty Jay was rooted from where I was from and filled with these stories from when I was growing up and I think that’s why that album still holds a really special place in my heart because it represents me and my upbringing so strongly but was also what changed everything for me.” So what are the keynotes of Lakeman’s upbringing, those factors that lead to him innovating folk music to a degree that it broke into the impossible to crack London music scene? Lakeman talks about his musical upbringing and the key influences on his sound. “It’s a bizarre one really: fiddle-wise I grew up mostly playing a lot of Scottish, Irish and English tunes and rhythm was a big one for me but I was also in love with singers like Richard Thompson, Paul Brady and Nick Jones – all these storytellers and quite traditional folk singers. But then you
mix in some swing jazz and you start to get an idea of what shaped my sound as a young man. But then as a teenager I got into the early ‘90s vibe of Counting Crows and Crowded House combined with the massive sound of the U2 records that were happening then and the experimentation in production that major artists like Paul Simon were doing coming out the back of Graceland.” But being in England in the early ‘90s Lakeman couldn’t help but also be influenced by the rising tide of electronic dance music (EDM). He explains how EDM seeped into his music. “There’s a track I wrote called Kitty Jay that was quite a big one for me over here,” mumbles a modest Lakeman in reference to the title track and lead single of the 2005 Mercury Prize nominated album, “which was very much inspired by house music, you know, that stomp that drives the whole song on!” Finally, Lakeman let’s on what audiences can expect from his upcoming Melbourne shows. “On stage it’s going to
be myself, my brother Sean, a guy called Ben Nichols who plays double bass and this fabulous percussionist from Ireland called Cormack Burn. The show will be quite upbeat and full on with a vibe similar to…” Again Lakeman trails off in trying to find the best words, it would seem that his enthusiasm for the live show is miles ahead of his speech! “There’s no kick drum you see so it’s hard to describe in linear music descriptors normally associated with rock’n’roll. You know what, it will sound quite Waifs-y but without the female vocals!”
country or from some European country, they just revert to a British accent and think that that covers all foreigners,” he laughs. “They dress up like them, then they put on all the make-up and then they just put on a British accent. Have you seen The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?...There’s nothing worse than an Aussie singing in an American accent,” he concludes. It is apparent that a close partnership was formed between Nelson and the producer of I Know This Now, James Newhouse. “He was very enthusiastic about making it right,” says Nelson. “It was not a case of, ‘Okay, you’ve got ten days in the studio, make the most of it’... He was coming up with ideas all the time. It got to a point where I’d think in my head, ‘Oh, I’ll change that later,’ and then without even telling him he would start changing it.” This symbiosis is shared with Luke Dux, Nelson’s guitarist, who also received a 2010 WAMI for Best Guitarist. “He’s crazy about that sort of country slide guitar…which I am too. So it’s sort of the perfect fit. We think the same way. When we’re working on songs together it all comes together very
naturally.” (N.B. Dux is the star of a YouTube video created by Will Stoker titled Gona Kill That Luke Dux, which is highly recommended.) This affection for slide guitar makes an especially divine appearance on track six of the album, Sleeping Alone. It reverberates like bells in the opening seconds and then glissés down to a sweet melody which Lucinda Williams herself would be proud of. Nelson is particularly looking forward to the show at The Tote, as he hasn’t yet played there with his full band. With musical ties and support between Melbourne and Perth solidifying strongly last year, there should be a great turnout for all three shows as Nelson’s pure and unabashed album weaves its way into eastern hearts.
Afro Orchestra but it’s the first time the band had played there all being of legal age. While their underage status was something that venue owners weren’t always aware of, there were certainly times where it was an issue. “A couple of times we’d start the sound check and the people at the bar would sorta realise that we were underage and they would start to flip out. They’d get really scared and worried and tell us to hide in the shadows before we play and then just leave as soon as we’d finished. So it’s nice not having to worry about that anymore!” David comments. Being such a young band, The Cactus Channel luckily haven’t had to go it alone, with the majority of support coming from their record label Hope St Records, a relationship that developed organically. “One of the people that helps runs it was our bass player’s teacher, he was getting bass lessons off this guy, so he sorta found out about the band
off the bass player Henry and he just came along to see one of our shows. It just kinda started from there, he told some other people, ‘You should check out this band, they’re really cool!’ and then one day he just asked us, ‘Do you want us to record you?’” David recalls. The most recent fruits of this relationship are being launched this Saturday March 31 at The Evelyn Hotel in the form of a 7”, Emanuel Ciccolini/ Budokan, from the band’s forthcoming album due for release later in the year, so dress to the nines, and prepare to burn up the dance floor to the funk/soul sensation that is The Cactus Channel.
SETH LAKEMAN plays Bennetts Lane on Sunday April 8 and Monday April 9 with Carus Thompson, and the Byron Bay Bluesfest running from Thursday April 5 to Monday April 9. Seth Lakeman’s new album Tales From The Barrel House is out now.
TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS BY ZOË RADAS
Nicknamed with another interesting acronym courtesy of the initials of our western state, the Western Australian Music Industry Awards (the ‘WAMIs’) are an annual affair, celebrating the achievements of WA’s local, national and international music industry. They’ve lauded many acts prior to the artists’ acknowledgement in other states or nationally, including Karnivool, Little Birdy, The Sleepy Jackson, Gyroscope and End of Fashion. Now a thrice-WAMI-awarded young man and his band of Infidels are receiving critical acclaim and embarking on their first tour incorporating eastern shows, promising to bring their sweet, folk pop sound and brilliantly unaffected lyrics to both existing fans and those yet to be converted. Speak The Truth In Love, the song which earned Nelson his most recent WAMI, does not include the entire band but does feature a beautiful old harpsichord. “It was awesome! You’ve got two keyboard decks,” Nelson explains, “and the top one, you can push it in or pull it out, and it changes the sound.” Recorded at Bang Bang Studios (now Yo-Yo), the building had recently been flooded by virulent hailstorms. “It was just an empty room with a harpsichord, and you had one light, just hanging over the harpsichord,” laughs Nelson. It’s not difficult to imagine this dreamy ambiance contributing to the sincerely lovely heartache of the song. The beginning is reminiscent of Closet Romantic, one of Damon Albarn’s first tracks unfettered by his band’s stylistic reputation. But as soon as Nelson begins singing, it’s obvious there’s nothing hidden about his communication. The tracks composed for the 2011 album, I Know This Now,
include many messages about truth, love, and songwriting. “I used to write a lot of love songs, which ended up being the main body of the album...I definitely went through a period of writing those kinds of tunes. You kind of write about what you feel comfortable writing about. I think that’s probably half the reason why I started writing songs in the first place: you either write about that stuff or don’t end up talking about it at all. And that doesn’t sound healthy,” Nelson says. “It finds its place in a musical venture.” The comparisons to his Freedman namesake are apparently quite frequent, although Nelson is certain The Whitlams were not a conscious influence. He counts John Lennon, Bob Dylan and the Gallagher brothers among his greats, although his Western Australian background is definitely manifest in the natural accent of his singing. Concerning accents in films, “any accent that is from a Middle Eastern
TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS play three Melbourne gigs during their approaching eastern stint: Pure Pop Records and The Wesley Anne both on Saturday March 31, and The Tote on Sunday April 1. I Know This Now is out through Green/MGM.
THE CACTUS CHANNEL BY KRYSTAL MAYNARD
Not all teenagers are slaves to the hit machine; there are a select few who are carving out their own musical paths that lead them to worship far more credible genres and idols. The Cactus Channel belong to this select few, displaying tastes and talent befitting for a far more mature musical outfit. The soul revival is alive and well in Melbourne and The Cactus Channel are its newest and youngest champions. The ten-piece funk/soul orchestra has been building interest gradually over the last two years and the timing of the 7” inch single at The Evelyn Hotel this Saturday comes only a month or so after the last member turned 18. From humble beginnings in a school ensemble band, the founding members of The Cactus Channel quickly realised that they wanted to shake off the shackles of playing other people’s music and develop their own sound. “We just sorta started jamming at lunch time and thought we should do it more often and when the time came for our first school gig we thought we should fatten up our sound and we got the girls in, two tenors and a trumpet. It just kinda kept evolving and then we had ten people!” lead guitarist and key songwriter David Thors says. And how did a group of tender aged teenagers end up producing such a seasoned and authentically vintage sound? “Stepping towards the soul direction, it just sorta happened, the bass player Henry handed round this album, New Orleans Funk – it was a compilation series from a couple of years ago and that’s what started us listening to the genre,” David muses. The album had a profound impact on The Cactus Channel and proved to be the launching pad for the band, as they soon discovered a world of ’70s funk and soul but it wasn’t a straight path to nailing that authentic sound. “Our first
few songs that we wrote not as the full band were pretty strange, but yeah let’s never them surface! “ laughs David. “But now I think we have our own sound to a certain extent and we have influences from Daptone Records, Sharon Jones, The Menaham Street Band, and then we go back to James Brown, and New Orleans cats like Eddie Bo.” The band recently had the chance to play with one of their idols, Tommie Brenneck (guitarist for The Menahan Street Band) who was touring as part of Charles Bradley’s backing band. “Lots of us have been following the band and even more specifically the guitarist Tommie Brenneck – he’s the band leader and songwriter, so to actually meet the guy and talk to him – I even played his guitar!” David exclaims. “It was just really surreal and was such an amazing experience for us, they’re at the top of the food chain in the whole funk/soul world and just to get that opportunity to play with them…And they really dug us as well, which was an even better feeling!” The Bradley show was the third time The Cactus Channel had graced the stage at The Corner, with 2011 seeing them support the likes of The Cat Empire, and Public Opinion
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JACK MITCHELL Jack Mitchell is an emerging blues and roots artist new to the Melbourne music scene. Playing a solo acoustic set, he showcases an original and engaging talent as a lyricist and devoted guitarist. With a mix of original music and diverse covers, he combines smooth and mellow melody with earthy guitar and a crooning bluesy voice to match. Self taught, a true lover of blues and roots and absorption in his music, he is an honest and refreshing talent not to be missed. Jack Mitchell will be performing in The Retreat front bar on Tuesday April 3 with Guy Kable and entry is free.
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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUND JOHNNY GIBSON Johnny Gibson, drummer with The Swedish Magazines, Raised By Eagles, The Currency and Streams Of Whiskey has defied expectations by putting together a knockout debut album, titled Endless Search For Gold. Aided and abetted by his Dirty Dozen (Liz Stringer, Van Walker, Steve Milligan and more), and with supports Bell St Delays and Tim Scanlan & Friends, he will launch the album at Old Bar on Thursday April 5.
BLACK FOX Melbourne indie-cool rockers Black Fox have announced the release of their debut double A-side, Day In Lieu/ Monarch, celebrating with a launch gig at The Workers Club on Saturday March 31. Linked by bonds of blood and friendship, Black Fox is the evolution of acclaimed Melbourne band The Smoke. Known for their high energy, attitude and a brilliant live show, the boys are back and sure to impress with their new indie-pop single Day In Lieu. With hazy vocals, intriguing melodies and foot to the floor stompability, Day in Lieu is the sound of Black Fox and nobody else. Tickets are $10 on the door.
LOS CHICOS The Sonics were amazed when Los Chicos opened for them. Southern Culture On The Skids, Norton Records and Paul Collins (just to name a few) love them to death. In England, the garage scene are slobbering for them. In Europe King Khan and His Shrines are mad about them. With a new album under their belt We Sound Amazing But We Look Like Shit, Los Chicos are back in Melbourne for a run of shows. Catch them Wednesday April 4 at the Tote, Thursday April 5 at Yah Yah’s, Friday 6 at the Old Bar and April 7 at Boogie Festival.
BLAK ROOTS Melbourne-based band Blak Roots has been captivating Australian audiences with its unique formula of high energy afro-reggae dance music. Fronted by the compellingly soulful voices of William Kadima and Aminata Doumbia, Blak Roots intertwines African cultural forms with reggae music to produce an all original repertoire of songs that defies conventional categories of music genre. Come experience the bands broad pallet of musical styles on Saturday March 31 at Bar Open. Doors from 10pm. Free entry.
SOUNDS LOUD Some of Australia’s hottest rising talents will take to Queens Park this April for the very awesome, very free, and very all-ages Sounds Loud Festival. Some of the big-name acts to take to the stage will be Stonefield, Bleeding Knees Club, Dream On Dreamer, Hand of Mercy, For our Hero, The Sweet Apes, Amber Lamps and 8 Bit Love. Pretty tidy, eh? Included in the lineup is local band and Moonee Valley Push Start Battle of the Bands heat winners Blood Orange (not to be confused with Dev Hynes’ solo project) and Western Metro Regional Final winners Granston Display. More local acts to be announced soon. Sounds Loud Festival hits Queens Park, Moonee Ponds on Sunday April 15.
SYDONIA For the first time in 2012, Sydonia return to an inner Melbourne suburb to play their latest and greatest at The Prague in Thornbury. With a musical style best described as metal being caressed by the ambience of Jeff Buckley or Portishead, Sydonia have garnished themselves quite a reputation as the real deal in recent times. Joining Sydonia is Gene Defect from NSW, who after a three year hiatus, return as part of a national tour in support of their brand new album titled Nebulae Archaic. Rounding out this all killer, no filler lineup, is Naberus and Red Sky Burial. It all takes place on Saturday March 31 at The Prague. Tickets available through Greentix for $11+bf or $15 on the door.
Melbourne’s own nu-disco/electro/funk production duo Philosophy Of Sound get set to launch their new single Freedom What For? on Thursday March 29 at The Workshop Bar. Proudly supported by Music Victoria and taken from their forthcoming Fragile Disco EP set for release this June, the new single Freedom What For? is released worldwide on Friday March 30 through Portuguese dance label Discotexas. Support from Fromage Disco, James Carstensen and Bespoken. Free entry.
TOMMY EL SALVADOR Tommy El Salvador brings his guitar, voice and all the reverb of the rainforests to the Old Bar for a headline show on Tuesday April 3. Joining him are Mal De Mer and Liam O’Connell. Tommy El Salvador’s haunting debut single An Orchestra Playing To An Empty Room is not to be missed.
SIGNALS IN SILENCE Signals In Silence is a five- piece rock band from Melbourne. Get to The Ev to witness incorporating musical elements from alternative, progressive and punk rock, while still maintaining a strong pop sensibility. From a collection of over 15 original pieces, five songs were selected for their debut EP entitled All Stories, produced by Greg Stace (Boy and Bear, Tonight Alive). Signals In Silence launch their new EP on Thursday March 29 at the Evelyn Hotel. $10 entry, or $20 with a CD.
YOSHITORO Thursday March 29 at the Prague will host three of Melbourne’s up and coming indie/rock outfits. This night is all about being a part of discovering new, quality Melbourne music. It will start with hard rockers, Carta Extremis. Next on the bill are the smash hit band Renegade Robot Cops, an alternative rock three-piece, with plenty of binary solos in between. Headlining the night is alternative indie outfit, Yoshitoro, who always put on a ripping show. Doors from 8pm, $6 entry.
THE ROYAL BATHS Although The Royal Baths developed amidst the encouragement of friends in San Francisco’s garage scene they felt stifled by comparisons to a movement where their sound didn’t belong to, so they upped and moved to New York to assert their sound. Now settled in their new Brooklyn home, The Royal Baths release Better Luck Next Life, their second full length record, released on Kanine Records. The Royal Baths' stage show is creepy, eerie and sexy. Don’t miss your chance to see this band live at the Tote Hotel supported by local favourites Beaches, New War and Lowtide on Saturday March 31.
THE PUBLIC ORCHESTRA
OPINION
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Over the past few months DJ Manchild and The Public Opinion Sound System have gotten Melbourne warmed up to the tropical disco sounds of Scatter Scatter with a series of sweaty, percussion-driven dancefloor-burning parties. Now the time has come however, to summon the furious afro- storm that is The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, who along with Congo Tardis #1 and Mr Fish will bring nothing but the heaviest afro-funk, the deepest island disco, the fieriest Colombian salsa and the most mind- bending cumbia. Scatter Scatter 4 goes down at one of Melbourne’s hottest new underground nightspots, Twotwotwo Warehouse (22 Johnston st, Collingwood) on Saturday April 14.
BEATS FROM THE HEART On Thursday March 29, Beats From The Heart, a charity fundraiser for Sacred Heart Mission, launches at Revolver Upstairs. To support Sacred Heart Mission’s hard work within the community, an experimental night with psychedelic visions from guest VJs, jams from some of Melbourne’s finest explorative bands and funky grooves from DJs come together to raise some fast cash. Yolke headlines the night with their bittersweet sonic sounds, followed by the epic tribalism of These Patterns. Trjaeu explore their electronic genius, while THNKR starts off the night with some falsetto indie beats. $5 entry, all proceeds going to the mission. 8pm start.
VOLTERA Since recently being asked to leave the USA for inciting violence with their apparent anti-populationist slogans and message, Voltera have returned to play their first Melbourne show in almost a year. With a new lineup totalling five, a refined sound and image, Voltera promise to deliver a live performance like never seen by them before. If their debut show in Canberra last month is anything to go by, singer Jess may be in hospital before the first song is done. With support from A Lonely Crowd, Written In Ruins, Noize Bunny and Full Code, head to The Ev this Friday March 30. Doors from 9pm, tickets available from Moshtix.
BLUE SUN Don’t miss out on catching one of Blue Sun’s first live shows for 2012. Their sound is like nothing else. 22-yearold Josh fronts the band and captivates audiences with his electrifying voice, which seems like it has been around far longer than he has. Catch these guys before they head over to a European summer playing at the hottest festivals. They are supported on the night by the beautiful Talei Wolfgramm (The Wolfgramm Sisters, Rockwiz) and more to be announced. The Evelyn, Sunday April 1.
EMMA RUSSACK Emma will be performing the songs off her recently released debut record Sounds Of Our City. It is set to be a great night of local music with support from both Jessica Says and Devotional. This Saturday March 31, at the Grace Darling.
DEEP CUTS Deep Cuts continues this month with the veterans of the underground music scene, Haul Music Live in an intimate warehouse setting at Kindred Studios. For the first time ever, Haul Music’s Christian Vance, Craig McWhinney and Mike Callander present a live show rebuilding, deconstructing and delivering their epic catalogue of sounds. With support from Kindred residents- Lost Few and VJ Junior, this is a night not to be missed. Deep Cuts Haul Music Live is on Saturday March 31.
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For folkies, rockers and folk rockers alike, it’s one of the tours of the year – a double-headline featuring English multi-instrumentalist, virtuoso fiddler Seth Lakeman, and Australia’s own international troubadour Carus Thompson. Seth Lakeman has sold over a quarter of a million records, and his music has broken down perceptions and barriers of folk music in the mainstream, which has earned him the ‘Poster Boy of Folk’ tag. Carus Thompson is one of the few fully independent Australian troubadours to be able to carve out a full-time living from his craft. Years of touring at home and overseas has assured that he possesses the enviable ability to draw hundreds of people wherever he goes. They play two special shows at Bennetts Lane on Sunday April 8 and Monday April 9.
EMPRA Hard rock/alternative band EMPRA will kick your arse, and lift your spirits at their headline show at the Espy Front Bar on Thursday March 29. Having just released a two track single, the band are continuing to build momentum and generate buzz right across the country as they prepare to kick off a three month national album launch tour in May. Sharing the stage with EMPRA are guests Bottle of Smoke, Pretty Villain and Overdrive.
DON FERNANDO TRUE RADICAL MIRACLE Recently returned from a run of dates in the US, True Radical Miracle launches their new album, Termites at the Phoenix Public House on Friday March 30. Termites is the group’s second collection of claustrophobic noise rock, delving further into the banality and sweat-inducing anxiety of modern life. Joining proceedings are the crushing might of Täx, the delicate droning pop of Circular Keys, and the dense wall of Radical Creation. Tickets are only $7 on the door.
ROCK N ROLL WRESTLING
PUGSLEY BUZZARD
Rock N Roll Wrestling was born in the early ‘90s and was the brain child of second generation wrestler Mr. Damage. Some of the wildest matches were held under the roof of The Prince of Wales in St. Kilda. Such wrestlers Bully The Brawler, ‘The Hitman’ George Julio, The Ox & Mr Damage put Rock N Roll Wrestling on the map and ringside was the place to be on a Saturday night. Saturday March 31 marks the triumphant return of Rock N Roll Wrestling to its new home The House of Rock. It returns in a big way with five huge matches featuring wrestlers that were up and coming wrestlers in the Greyhound days and now have returned to The House of Rock to become legends. It’s been six years in the making and promises to be a night that brings the romance of rock and wrestling together. The live music guest for the night is Destroy She Said and all the rockin’ HoR DJs.
Prepare to be booglarised by one of Australia`s finest consummate artists. Pugsley Buzzard has performed all over the world from the smoky jazz cellars of Berlin to downtown New Orleans the womb of the blues. Pugsley has dazzled and delighted audiences far wide with his unique blend of dark hoodoo blues, good time rollicking boogie and blazing stride style piano playing in conjunction with his huge mesmerizing voice that can make the ladies sigh and grown men cry. A recipe for loads of fun. Appearing at the Retreat Hotel, on Thursday March 29. Entry is free, folks.
CHERRY ROCK 2012 Californian stoner rock giants Fu Manchu have been announced as the headliners of the sixth annual Cherry Rock. Also adding to the festivities are Black Cobra, Matt Sonic & The High Times, Bitter Sweet Kicks, Vice Grip Pussies, My Dynamite, The Ramshackle Army and Valentiine with more soon to be announced. The sixth Cherry Rock takes place at Cherry Bar and in AC/DC Lane on Sunday April 29. Tickets on sale now.
In the autumn of 2011 Michael Hubbard (lead guitar) enlisted the help of friends Richard Bradbeer (bass), Jim Laurie (drums) and his little brother Joe Hubbard (rhythm guitar/ keys) to bring to life a vision he’d had for a long time, a rockin’ guitar based, instrumental group inspired by the Pre-Beatles rock music of the ‘60s. No strangers to the Melbourne music scene, The Bluebottles is comprised of members of Eagle And The Worm, Downhills Home and The Greasers to name but a few. Get yourself to The Old Bar every Wednesday in March to catch The Bluebottles show and see what all the fuss is about. 8pm, free entry.
KIRA PURU & THE BRUISE Having spent 2011 touring solidly, Newcastle/Sydney outfit Kira Puru & The Bruise are hitting the road once more for their When All Your Love Is Not Enough 7” single tour. Their sullen, sweaty and spine-tingling brand of rock has earned them a throng of dedicated fans Australia-wide as well as industry accolades. Don’t miss Kira Puru & The Bruise as they unfurl their ode to modern sadness in Melbourne on Friday March 30 at The Tote Hotel with supports from Black Water Fever. Doors open 8.30pm, Entry is $10.
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Judge Pino & the Ruling Motions are a living tribute to the greats of ‘70s Jamaican reggae. Whilst versioning and covering classic ‘70s lover’s rock, early dancehall and rockers reggae tunes in their own genuine style, they create a retrophonic space filled with rhythm and sound that will move everybody into a dance. They play the Great Britain hotel this Saturday March 31.
BEN SALTER, JOE McKEE Ben Salter (The Gin Club, Giants of Science) and Joe McKee (Snowman) are embarking on a co-headlining tour of Australia this April, announced last week. The venue for this show has been changed from the Grace Darling to The Gasometer on Saturday April 28. Beat Magazine Page 48
For two and a half years, Chris Russel was just Chris, playing solo and electric. Doing this meant he could travel light and cheap, making a bigger name for himself in Mississippi than he did in Melbourne. Chris was joined by Dean Muller on drums in December 2011 to create a two-piece that sound like a full band. With Dean, the Chicken Walk sounds fills the room with hypnotic boogie that aims to bypass the mind and head straight for your ass. Endless, droning, head nodding blues, North Mississippi Hill Country style. Before he heads off for his annual pilgrimage to Mississippi, Chris plays four special Saturday afternoons in the front bar of The Tote Hotel for free in March.
LA LUCHA GLAMOUROSA
THE BLUEBOTTLES
JUDGE PINO MOTIONS
CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK
Big Bennies (a Red Bennies spin off) and Dolores Daiquiri (co-producer of The Australian Burlesque Festival) present a night of world class Mexican Wrestling Burlesque Action. Following a series of sell out shows at Red Bennies, La Lucha Glamourosa returns to the Prince bandroom where it all began for a no holds barred battle royal, where tassels collide, tequila gets slammed and tail feathers get well and truly shook, featuring ten-piece band Abbie Cardwell and The Chicano Rockers. Obsessed with this music and her op-shop Mexicali Brass records Cardwell, better known for her rootsy-rockabilly music with her band The Leading Men, decided to bring this magical music to life. She began Spanish lessons formed a new band, complete with a brass horn section and Latin percussionist, and let her inner ‘chica’ shine! DJing is the Mexicali Mammas and the wrestlers are drawn from Melbourne’s burlesque elite. It happens on Saturday March 31 from 8.30pm and tickets are $30+bf from the Prince website.
SHERIFF There’s a rumbling coming from deep beneath the bowels of this city. It started a while back with a steady kick drum, a muffled bass line and a guitar riff that just would not quit. Today, this rumbling is ready to spew forth three men onto these mean streets, to fend for themselves and prepare our town for a show not soon-to-be forgotten. Dust off your cowboy boots, find your dancing and drinking partner, and get on down to Cherry Bar, AC/DC Lane on Saturday April 7 to see Sheriff. With support from Jackals and Sun God Replica, tickets are $13 and available on the door. Sheriff will take their sound and shove it in your ear holes if they need to. Make it easy for them – they’d do the same for you.
DAYDREAM ARCADE With influences from Two Door Cinema Club, Cut Copy and Jackson Jackson, Daydream Arcade’s super catchy riffs, lyrics and beats are the ultimate sounds to get crazy with. They play a Wednesday night residency throughout March. Tonight, support comes from Lift Off and Amber Lamps. The Evelyn from 8.30pm. Tickets $7+bf, available through Moshtix.
Melbourne’s one and only full force stoner rock band, Don Fernando, bring their unique blend of stoner and metal to the stage over two ripping lineups. Firstly you can catch them at Cherry on Friday March 23 with My Left Boot, Dead City Ruins and Stomp Box, then they will be following this up with a huge night at the Espy Front Bar with Heaven The Axe, The Deep End and King Of the North on Saturday March 31.
JACK LADDER Jack Ladder will perform a series of intimate one-man shows this March – the first solo headline tour of his AMP nominated third album, Hurtsville. Described as an ‘Australian-classic-in-the-making’ by Rolling Stone magazine, Hurtsville received 5 stars from Time Out Sydney and Song of The Year from Mess & Noise for its striking first single, Cold Feet. The March dates offer a chance to see Ladder in rare solo format – incorporating guitar, drum machines and his compelling baritone for this one-off run of theatre style performances. Jack Ladder plays The Grace Darling Hotel Thursday March 29, tickets $15.
OSCAR + MARTIN Melbourne boys Oscar + Martin are headlining the launch party for new creative agency Hand Games, with support from City Calm Down, Sydney sider Nakgin and local beat maker Wooshie. Head on down to The Liberty Social on Friday April 20 for all the festivities, tickets available through Moshtix.
WAVERLY Melbourne’s four-piece band Waverly are getting ready to strap in for a night of explosive rock at the launch for their debut album Challenger at The Empress Hotel on Friday March 30, with supports from G-Pop and Green Green Green. Waverly fuse the immediacy of Australian punk-rock with the ferocity of grunge.
BAD VISION Bad Vision came together in late 2011 to make some noise. Fed on a diet of garage, post punk and proto punk, Bad Vision draw inspiration from the likes of Jay Reatard, The Wipers, Mission Of Burma, Angry Angles, The Saints and The Dirtbombs. They’re here to bring some raw guitar noise still abundant with melody to the table. Like a dirty takeaway on a Friday night, it hits the spot and goes well with beer. Bad Vision play their first official show at the Phoenix Public House (Brunswick) on Saturday March 31, supporting Six Ft Hick (Bris) and the Jackals. For more info head to phoenixpublichouse. com/gigs.
THE CACTUS CHANNEL The Cactus Channel descend upon The Evelyn on Saturday March 31, to launch their second seven inch on HopeStreet Recordings – the mighty Emanuel Cicolini/ Budokan with special guests Saskwatch and Sleeping Bag in tow. Don’t miss one of the world’s youngest but most celebrated instrumental deep funk projects as they traverse the dustier side of soul, funk and exotica.
THE BOMBAY ROYALE The magic and mayhem of vintage Bollywood collide on You Me Bullets Love, the debut album from The Bombay Royale. A dizzying blend of haunting Hindi vocals, Tarantino-esque surf guitars, wild disco rhythms and shimmering sitars helps the band bring the mysterious sound of Bollywood’s golden age back to the future – where it belongs. You Me Bullets Love will be released on HopeStreet Recordings on Easter Friday April 6 via Fuse Music.
BIGMOUTH When you hear the word “choir”, are you immediately plagued with horrific childhood memories of being forced to sing Oh Emmanuel at church with your classmates? Bigmouth is a little different. Made up of 60 epic voices, the choir performs modern renditions by artists such as Leonard Cohen, Regina Spektor and Hoodoo Gurus. Intrigued? Catch them at Noise Bar from 6pm on Sunday April 1. You won’t be disappointed.
STEPHEN TABERNER Stephen Taberner is a singer, songwriter, double bass player, composer and choir leader based in Melbourne and most notorious as the musical director of the Spooky Men’s Chorale. Stephen nevertheless finds time to perform his own songs solo and with help from his friends. Don’t miss the amazing opportunity to catch Stephen Taberner live at Noise Bar on Sunday April 1, performing solo followed by his 60-voice choir, Bigmouth. $10 entry, doors at 6pm.
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THE BOMBASTICS So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? The Bombastics. We play Funk, Soul, Disco, Jazz, Latin, and Pop music. Essentially we play covers, but not the songs you’re used to hearing down at the local pub. Expect Flight Facilities, Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, Moloko, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, and Dusty Springfield. Unless of course you want to hear a bit of Daddy Cool, then we can play that too! What do you reckon people will say you sound like? A Hit Machine! What do you love about making music? Many things: jamming with your closest friends, keeping the crowd dancing, and the fact that we get to make a career out of our one true passion. What do you hate about the music industry? The fine print… If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Hmmm that could be interesting… “Hi Marvin, we’re The Bombastics. Check out our version of “What’s Going On?” – the kids still love it!
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If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it be and why? What a violent question! Life would probably be better without Kenny G. Poor Kenny. What can a punter expect from your live show? Whatever they want! Chilled groove music early on, unstoppable dancing until the wee hours – the choice is yours! What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? We give away free CDs on our website www. thebombastics.com.au When’s the gig and with who? Friday March 30, Friday April 20, and Friday May 4, at the new Purple Emerald Lounge Bar on High Street, Northcote. We’re playing 10:30pm – 1:30am. Come down for a drink and a boogie. Anything else to add? Thanks for the chat! Check out our website and come see us live at The Purple Emerald www.thebombastics.com.au
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THE WHITE GOODS The White Goods return to their favourite dive bar you actually have to climb the stairs to – Pony. That stairway is the stairway to heaven, ‘cause once you scale it on this Saturday after midnight you will be in the presence of true musical gods. The White Goods have been around far too long to have achieved as little as they have, but they care not, ‘cause they’re still blowin’ ears off punters and getting mild national radio play, which is proving enough to sustain their pathetic egos forever. This is a rare chance to see The White Goods awake and for free at 2am ‘cause they are hungry old tired bastards.
SABRINA & THE RED VANS
BONJAH Having become the Accidental Headliners at the Cranberries Enmore Show in Sydney last week, Bonjah have returned home and proudly announce the support acts for their show at the Corner on Friday June 8 will be Buckley Ward and Mitch Davis and the Dawn Chorus. Tickets available now from the Corner Hotel website. For all info and Bonjah updates, like the lads on Facebook.
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BLOWN MUSIC LAUNCH NIGHT
If ScotDrakula were Jesus and Jesus was Madonna then some fancy blogger would write about their March/April Monday residency at The Evelyn. ScotDrakula and their amigos locos will be there, every Monday from 8pm, pants on hooks off ready to freak out.
Blown Music are launching their independent record label at Yah Yah’s on Saturday March 31. The night will feature an awesome line up from the Blown community including: My Left Boot, Seedy Jeezus, APE is APE and The Dukes Of Deliciousness. Doors open from 5pm. Live music starts at 9pm. Free entry after midnight.
DRAWING ARCS A fan of rock? Like a little pop? Or are you just happy to get your fill of musical noise? Then get down to the Tote on Thursday March 29 to see punk fuzz rockers Drawing Arcs as well as Pioneers of Good Science, Jouissance and the lo-fi pop kids from Wizard Oz. Entry is $7 and doors open from 8.30pm.
80 ACES The 80 Aces will conclude their pre-EP mini tour-apalooza with a little help from Holy Trash (aka Tim from Fangs) for a free entry show at Yah Yah’s on Smith Street in Fitzroy on Sunday April 1. Doors open from 5pm and bands will take the stage at 7pm. Free entry.
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Get on down to Bar Open tonight to see The Black Galaxy Experience launch their first self titled EP. The band, which started as a one man outfit, has quickly spawned into three piece group who create delightfully dense instrumental pieces. Jazz inspired and electronically affected, the grooves and the journeys within them will have you smiling from ear to ear. Supporting are The Nest Itself and Adam Hunt. Doors open 8pm. Free entry.
Lieutenant Jam is a fast emerging ironic indie band with members hailing from Australia, England, Sweden and Mexico. With catchy lyrics, insane drumming and some bad jokes in between songs they have previously performed in Camden and Shoreditch, both in London, and are now reuniting like the Libertines (for less money) in the crystal clear shores of Melbourne. Come and see a band that took a year and a couple of costly plane tickets to form, and then another seven years to decide on a band name at Pony for the 1am late show on Thursday March 29. Free.
WINTERNATIONALE Winternationale is the new musical project of experimental guitarist Guy Harris (The Spheres) and percussionist Maya Ruin. Combining abstraction and experimentation with the classic tropes of traditional song writing, Winternationale is the manifestation of disparate influence. It has a folk heart and a punk spleen. Winternationale kicks off at Bar Open on Thursday March 29 from 9pm. Free entry.
TEK TEK ENSEMBLE Tek Tek Ensemble, formerly known as Croque Monsieur, is a revitalised anthropological dance band consisting of guitars, trumpet, trombone, violins, percussion, double bass, piano accordion, and the human voice. The encyclopaedic repertoire of the ensemble is bound by the strict yet simple stipulation of danceability. As long as it has a fever of unbridled festivity, Tek Tek Ensemble plays it. See Tek Tek Ensemble at Bar Open on Friday March 30. Doors open from 10pm. Free entry.
BITTER SWEET KICKS Bitter Sweet Kicks are a band spawned from the dirty sunshine gutter of St. Kilda and have been working hard around Melbourne’s most well known pubs and venues ever since. Raw, splintering riffs, catchy as hell bass lines, belting drums and howling vocals come together in a mixture of ‘proto punk’ and old school bluesy rock to create a uniquely powerful sound that can only be described as real. The Bitter Sweet Kicks will be playing with special guests this Thursday March 29 at Yah Yah’s. Doors from 5pm, bands start at 9pm.
LONE TYGER Lone Tyger will launch their double single Stone Crow// Fortune Teller at Yah Yah’s on Friday March 30 with guests the Peter Ewing Experience and EVI. The new double AA side singles Stone Crow// Fortune Teller were recorded with Stephen Shram (Little Red, The Vasco Era, Eagle And The Worm). Valve guitar, driven bass and thundering drums give a vintage electric tone to this pair of swaggering lo-fi blues rock tunes, both penned during the bands first jam session in a farmhouse kitchen.
JUDE PERL Jude Perl is a singer, piano player and songwriter who has been playing all over Melbourne since she was 16. The Jude Perl Band, making its debut performance at Grocery Bar Sunday April 1 at 3pm, is a four-piece band playing funky, dance based original tunes, as well as covers by Stevie Wonder, D’Angelo, Chaka Khan, Jamiroquai and many others. Beat Magazine Page 50
SERIOUS BREAK As part of their ‘Huxwhukw and the Crooked Beak of Heaven 2012 tour, Sydney’s Serious Break are bringing their eccentric amalgamation of mind-melting, toe-tapping psychedelic, progressive and poly-rhythmic discordant music to Melbourne’s Pony on Friday March 30, sure to please fans of Meshuggah, Mastodon, Botch, The Mars Volta and King Crimson. Headlining the night will be none other than quirky deathgrind band A Milllion Dead Birds Laughing (the ornithological theme is coincidental, we promise), who recently performed at Absu’s sold out Melbourne show. Dropping the pace a bit will be “slow motion power duo” AGONHYMN; one of the most well-known names in the local doom scene, and an absolute powerhouse live. Cradle in the Crater will be kicking off the night with a trip to mathcoreland. Doors 9.30pm.
THE BLACKWATER FEVER The Blackwater Fever hit the road again this February/ March, a tour that will see them stopping by at Pony on Friday March 30 for the 2am late show. The band are in ripping form having just emerged from the studio with their third long player in hand. So get on down to Pony in the wee hours and see what these Brisbanites are serving up on their next record, tentatively titled The Depths, when The Blackwater Fever do the late show at Pony. Free entry
Sabrina & The Red Vans will be launching their debut album, Cheap Romance, at the Toff in Town on Sunday April 1. The Red Vans are a first class lineup, headed by Melbourne’s Sabrina Sandapa; nominee for best female vocalist at the Los Angeles Music Awards (2007), 1st place in the Folk/Acoustic sector of the Australian Songwriting Contest (2009), and winner of the 2007 Coke Live And Local unsigned competition. Lead guitarist Greg Whitehead, backing vocalist and bassist Suzanne Kinsella and drummer Leon Tussie come together as The Red Vans, earning themselves an outstanding reputation as a must see live act. On the night, they will be supported by the Matt Green Band. A nice way to spend a April Fool’s Day!
THE REPLACEMENTS: COLOR ME OBSESSED What do you get when you cross Tim Rogers, Nick Barker, Davey Lane, Chuck Jenkins and Dave Larkin with a bar full of beer-drinkin’ Replacements die-hards? You get one of the best local gigs of the year. Whatever plans you might’ve made for Thursday March 29, bloody well cancel them because A Night Out with The Replacements happens for absolutely one night only at Brunswick’s Phoenix Public House. This killer lineup, which also includes Van Walker, Suzannah Espie and Kat Spazzy celebrates the life and music one of the influential garage-pop-punk acts of all time. The night will also be the Australian premiere of Color Me Obsessed the brand new yet-to-be-released documentary on The Replacements, directed by American filmmaker Gorman Bechard. The film screening will begin at 7pm, and the all-star band Garry And The Boners will kick off just after 9.30pm.
ATLUK Atluk have dubbed their style as saccharine-folk. A mixture of the narrative style of Belle & Sebastian and the light-hearted romance of She & Him, they also have the occasional group harmonies of Boy & Bear and the warm melodies of Angus & Julia Stone and The Middle East. Go check them out at Bertha Brown this Thursday March 29. They won’t disappoint.
THE KILNIKS Known for their rich vocal harmonies, driving rhythms and very catchy guitar hooks, The Kilniks have come together from their various musical backgrounds to create a blend of music that is unique, upbeat and energetic.With influences ranging from artists such as The Strokes to Lou Reed, there’s never just one genre in a set with these guys. Every gig is a new theme. You might catch them all wearing sunnies or Hawaiian shirts, putting on a vibrant show for their audience. Catch them Thursday March 29 at the Brunswick Hotel.
Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood is a one-man-band playing rhythm and blues, boogie, rockabilly and vintage rock’n’roll like his hair’s on fire. The Rattlin’ Bones Blackwood show was born in bars and on the streets of Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia USA. Now a Melbourne-based act, he carries the spirit of the southern street corners and bars that were his humble beginnings. On Friday March 30 Bones brings his show to the Victoria Hotel, Brunswick, and with him to kick the night off is Melbourne blues sensation, and 2010 MBAS Blues Performer of the Year, Dan Dinnen. If Bones is real polite and buys him a Jameson’s, Dan might sit in during his show and blow some blues-harp for a couple o’ tunes.
NOÛS Four filthy species of downfall will converge at the Bendigo Hotel on Saturday March 31. All present shall descend upon Melbourne’s inescapable droned out underworld. NOÛS will pour out the bottomless resonant muck of their latest effort Eobiont. Alongside will be the brain clenching power-due of immoral stretched-out time rhythms Agonhymn. The night will be further deformed with the inclusion of Isreal’s (formally Lords Of Ruin) heinous hypnotic sludge, and the psychedelic tumult of the engulfing Sun Shepherd Come get crippled!
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THE NUDGELS The Nudgels are anywhere between a three and six-piece Melbourne-based Cajun, Zydeco and reggae outfit with a rotating cast of guests. Part Scotland, part Surf Coast, part Tasmania and definitely part Melbourne – The Nudgels are the business in playing first-class rockin’ roots music whether as a three or five-piece extravaganza. Check them out at The Penny Black this Saturday March 31.
JACKY WINTER Jacky Winter is a native bird. I like birds, they dress well, fly in formation and don’t talk shit. His real name is Phil Gionfriddo, but he thinks it’s fun to play under another name. He plays in two white-hot bands – The Bowers and Dynamo. He spent four and a half years playing with Spencer P. Jones & The Escape Committee, but stopped in May 2007. Go and check him out at The Standard Hotel tonight.
RAISED BY EAGLES Raised By Eagles are a new four-piece, formed and headedup by Melbourne songsmith (and former Beechworth resident) Luke Sinclair. Consisting of some of the cream of Melbourne’s alt-country scene, Raised By Eagles have been consistently charming audiences across Melbourne with their impressive blend of country, folk, rock and pop. They play this Friday March 30 at The Gem.
H.M.A.S. VENDETTA H.M.A.S Vendetta return for 2012 at Pony Saturday March 31 with a swathe of new Operatic Rock songs that tell the story of Australians in the Great War – from Gallipoli to the Western Front. Join our troops in the trenches as new electric-cellist Caerwen Martin adds yet more firepower to their sound. H.M.A.S. Vendetta’s war effort will be ably assisted by loyal allies Diviin Ascension, Citrus Jam and False Prophet. Enlist Now! Doors from 9pm.
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THE TERRY MCCARTHY SPECIAL The Terry McCarthy Special have released their debut record called Lucitania. It is a cracker complete with the instant classic Sounds Like Country Music To Me and the funk reggae tribute The Rolling Stones together with the haunting Winchelsea murder ballad Going Down and The Humourous and brilliant story songs Guitar Cord and Music To Your Babies. Check them out at The Town Hall this Saturday March 31.
ANTHONY ATKINSON Anthony Atkinson is a singer/songwriter from Melbourne who in 2003 released his debut solo record Come Home For Autumn on the independent label Candle Records. Anthony was formerly lead singer of the occasionally noticed indie pop band The Mabels who released an EP and two albums between 1996 and 2001. Come and have a listen this Sunday at The Union Hotel Brunswick
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Define your genre in five words or less. Fuzzy, goodtime, PsychRock. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Mozart, so we could give him LSD and he could arrange some strings for our next album. When’s the gig and with who? Tuesday April 3, with our very good friends Michael Shaun, and Centre & The South, at the Toff In Town. How long have you been gigging and writing? We’ve been writing and gigging together for about five years now. Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them? We’ve released three full-length albums so far, with another one on the way this year. They’re available at our shows, and we have a few tracks for free download on our Facebook Bandpage. Why should everyone come and see your band? Because we’re broke and need the cash! And we want to turn you all into our boogie children. Where would you like to be in five years? First band in space. If you could go on tour with any musician or band, who would it be? U2, so we could jump on stage uninvited to slaughter one of their songs and ruin the show, just like Bono does to everyone else.
ALL THE COLOURS Come see All the Colours play songs from their yet to be titled debut album currently being recorded this year. these shows are in support of their debut single Love Like This. All the Colours is the new project for Miami Horror frontman Josh Moriarty. the sound is a mix of the Beatles, the Black Keys, Todd Rundgren, the Doors and Tarantino soundtracks. Lots of vocal harmonies, tight grooves, tasteful solo’s and vintage tones, refined and sophisticated classic tunes. Tonight at The Toff, $10 on the door.
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KIDS WITHOUT BIKES
MIDNIGHT WOOLF If you’re looking to get your rock‘n’roll dance on or just get plain silly head on down to this old barn for a swilling good time with two of Melbourne’s best party bands. The indelible Midnight Woolf will be supported by the ludicrous Mesa Cosa. Bands start at 9pm, its free and there is a bogan mating ritual to be witnessed in the beer garden and the dance floor late every Saturday night. Good times ahead? Don’t say we didn’t warn you. This Saturday March 31 at the Retreat Hotel, bands from 9pm.
HIRS This will be one of the launch shows for the Shit Weather/ HIRS split 7” out on One Brick today. Hirs is for fans of all things thrash, grind, queer, punk, fast, loud and glittery. The duo from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA are currently touring, playing the Bendigo Hotel tonight with a killer local lineup including Kromoso, Shit Weather, Pneumatic Slaughter and Ross.
MICHAEL PLATER In celebration of the release of his double A-side single Rings of Smoke/My Final Cause local indie/art-rock singer/songwriter Michael Plater will be hosting an evening of fantastic acts at the Bendigo Hotel on Sunday April 1. He will be joined by the post-rock/alt-country punk of Dogs Of Thomas Park, the girl-group garage fun of The Antoinettes, and the folk lyricism of The Tattered Sails. Doors are at 5pm.
BACKWOOD CREATURES Backwood Creatures is a Melbourne based swamp blues trio, featuring Jeb Cardwell (lead guitar, vocals), Grant Cummerford (bass, vocals) and Tim Burnham (drums). Spawned from the deepest, darkest depths of St Kilda’s Espy public bar in 2004, Backwood Creatures was an accident waiting to happen. Come and check them out this Sunday April 1 at The Labour in Vain.
STELLA ANGELICO Stella Angelico is a woman who sings because she must, her voice and violent hip shaking performance is an explosion of the untamed feminine. The daughter of cult cabaret darling Peaches La Crème and internationally renowned magician Sam Angelico, the world of music and performance course through Stella’s veins. This Thursday March 29 at The Toff In Town.
Kids Without Bikes have had a few lineup changes and a long period of song writing but KWoB are back for 2011 and just released their debut record Violent Lies And Bleeding Lips. These boys are being supported by The Corsairs, a bunch of guys that begun jumping around stages all over Melbourne at the start of 2011 and have quickly started to fill dance floors with their energetic live performances. This is a show not to be missed, come check it out this Friday March 30 at Cherry bar.
ELLE SKIES Local songstress Elle Skies will be bringing her indie-pop stylings to the Espy Basement on Thursday March 29. Elle will be playing songs from her self-titled EP (released late last year) as well as trailing some tunes from her debut album, which is set for release in the coming months. Supported by Bright Knights, Anna Paddick and Tash Anderson, the eclectic lineup promises something for everyone and will be a great night showcasing some of the best local talent.
MOROCCAN KINGS Moroccan Kings are releasing a new single from their forthcoming EP; the track is called Grizzly Bear. The band is putting together a very special and detailed show to release the song at Revolver Upstairs on Saturday April 28. The launch has two awesome support bands, two of Melbourne’s favourites, Sheriff and A Lonely Crowd. Tickets are $10+bf pre-sale, $12 on the door. Pre-sale tickets are available from Moshtix or the band themselves. Doors open 9pm.
Prepare to cop a faceful of rock at the inaugural Rock N Load festival at The Espy on Saturday May 26. With over 30 acts across the entire venue, it’s gonna be madness in St Kilda. Headline act announced mid-April, but until then, we can announce that the following bands are confirmed to tear up The Espy’s three stages: Bugdust, The Stiffys, King Of The North, Ten Thousand, Heaven The Axe, I Am Duckeye, The Charge, Anna Salen, Hailmary (WA), Shadowqueen, The Morrisons, Beggars Orchestra (NSW), Shadowgame, Bottle Of Smoke, System Of Venus, Arcane Saints, Apache Medicine Man, The Vendettas, Riot In Toytown and many more. Check out rocknloadfestival.com for lineup and ticketing info.
After a succesful Single launch at Yah Yah’s Seri Vida will be performing an intimate solo set to support Angus Savage at the Thornbury Local on Thursday March 29. Angus Savage representing his band Liberty PDE. will perform stripped down versions of the band’s much loved material and Seri Vida will explore new sounds and soulful melodies with her trusty telecaster in tow. 9pm. Free entry.
THE INDIAN SKIES Come and have a psychedelic evening with The Indian Skies on Tuesday April 30, at The Toff In Town. They will be releasing their first spaced out single In The Sun, with support from the majestic Michael Shaun, who will be playing his latest single Treat Me, You Devil, plus you can grab a taste of the first offering from Centre and The South, with their freshly recorded song Something New Something True.
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We’ve Been Expecting You is a new monthly music night at Pony, showcasing upcoming local talent. If you love local music and believe in supporting bands, then get down to Pony, Thursday March 29, for this second instalment of what could be yet another great music event for Melbourne’s music culture in one of its most established venues. This week features The 80 Aces, Chev Rize and Le Fox.
She’s pop’s newest sensation and she’s making her way to Melbourne. After already selling out a string of East Coast shows, Miltiadou has built a contingency of loyal fans. The vibrant songstress will be launching her new single Carousel at The Northcote Social Club on Wednesday March 28. Tickets available through The Northcote Social Club website.
You can definitely hear elements of early hillbilly, bluegrass, Western swing in the music of The Rechords. At times it takes you down that early R&B path with some almost ‘Doowop-like’ harmonies and backing vocals whilst all the time keeping you excited and on edge to know just who will take the lead vocal on the next song. With momentum growing and a long list of shows under their western belts plus the support and admiration from many of their musical peers like Abbie Cardwell, Mikeangelo, Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes, Little John, Wagons, etc. The ReChords show no signs of slowing down….they’re saddling up for a long ride ahead. The ReChords play The Retreat Hotel this Friday March 30 with support from The Bluebottles. Bands from 9.30pm onwards and entry is free. They also play The Gem on Sunday April 1.
ROCK N LOAD
SERI VIDA & ANGUS SAVAGE
KRISTINA MILTIADOU
THE RECHORDS
Anna Salen
OTHER PLACES Bar Open melts into squelchy synth-beat heaven on Sunday April 1. Magic Silver White whiz kid Other Places makes a rare solo appearance to take you on a ride to space and back, the northern suburbs answer to Aaliyah, Fatti Frances will bring a sensuous steam with bass drops, and newbie Golden Dawn hides behind a wall of skitter beats and echo. Transcendent! No April fools here. And it’s free entry too! Doors from 7.30pm.
THE PHILISTINES Party with The Philistines and get involved in some midweek debauchery every Wednesday in March at The Tote, with supports from all over the Melbourne scene. Catch them tonight at The Tote Hotel. Doors at 7pm, $4 on the door, and BBQ in the beer garden for gold coin donation. Support from Idle Minds and The Lost Sunnies.
All warmed up from their recent national tour with Evanescence, The Khyber Belt are ready to launch their self-titled debut EP at The Espy Gershwin on Saturday April 28. The band is somewhat of a local supergroup, featuring members of Rook, Bushido and Sleep Parade and this EP is definitely worth checking out. Also playing this massive five band lineup will be Varliiba for their return show, Shadowgame (feat. members of Engine Three Seven), One and Kettlespider.Doors open 8pm. Tickets on sale from OzTix.com.au, The Espy and all OzTix outlets.
KRISTINA MILTIADOU Name/Band: Kristina Miltiadou Define your genre in five words or less? Gritty, pretty, crunk-pop.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? I’ve had a few already – Sia, Lilly Allen, Kimbra, Kate Nash, Nelly Furtado (circa ‘90s). Basically any white pop chick with a bit of quirk. In my dreams they say Beyonce. Describe the best gig you have ever played? The first night of my Workers Club residency in February 2011. The place was packed and I didn’t expect it. Everyone was so ready to see us play and so into it, it felt incredible. Tell us about the last song you wrote? It’s a duet actually, and I wrote it from a males perspective. It’s an R&B super banger, back n’ forth, “hey girl”, all of that, beat heavy. I need to find the perfect partner for it. Where would you like to be in five years? Travelling, being creative, spreading my work, hangin’ out, performing, hopefully have had at least
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two successful albums released worldwide. Mostly just happy and constantly creative. Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it? Lots of sleep, singing lesson, lots of water, sushi, minimal talking. I always miss out on the rider ‘cause I never drink before a show! Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it. What would you do if you met Beyonce? I already did. I balled my eyes out. Then I shook Jay-Z’s hand. If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why? Crunch. Good pop to it. Nice and simple. Kinda old school. Sharp. Bright. Big letters. And kind of sounds like crunk. Crunk Bar. KRISTINA MILTIADOU launches her single Carousel at The Northcote Social Club tonight, Wednesday March 28. Beat Magazine Page 51
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THE MARS VOLTA
1. Locked Down DR JOHN 2. Break It Yourself ANDREW BIRD 3. Thinking In Textures EP CHET FAKER 4. Ready Remixes EP ELIZABETH ROSE 5. Land Of Four Seasons TEHACHAPI 6. Iradelphic CLARK 7. Second Winter: Special Tour Edition ED KUEPPER WITH MARK DAWSON 8. Kids Of Zoo KIDS OF ZOO 9. Bill, Dance, Shiner BEARHUG 10. Underlights EP UNDERLIGHTS
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To a large portion of their fans, The Mars Volta have always been a victim of their own early successes, with their ďŹ rst two albums Deloused In The Comatorium and Frances The Mute so groundbreaking and brilliant that many fans, if not most, yearn for the band to return to that sound. This, however, would contradict the principle philosophies of the band: innovation and revolution, and it is in this determination on transformation that The Mars Volta both succeed and fail. No two records of theirs are the same and each piece can be appreciated for diďŹ&#x20AC;erent qualities, however, the downside of The Mars Voltaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insistence on invention is they fall into a trap reaction rather than revolution, evidenced by the restrained and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;acousticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; album Octahedron being a reaction to the violently loud and ďŹ erce album before that, The Bedlam In Goliath, which itself was intentionally aggressive as a response to a ghost that apparently haunted their lives following an experience on a Ouija board. This is where Noctourniquet succeeds as a work of art, and for the ďŹ rst time since Amputechture, the band arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forcing a particularly sound to suit their idea of what that album should be; rather, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve return to their formula of expression without an overarching musical narrative or particular sonic concept dictating their creative perspective, and in doing so have made of their most dynamic and accessible yet challenging records ever. Noctourniquet is certainly a grower, and it needs to be, because the initial reaction to the album is underwhelm (due to how absolutely diďŹ&#x20AC;erent the songs sound live) and confusion. The psychedelia and pure warp of single The Malkin Jewel is so unlike anything that it has taken multiple listens to appreciate its charm, which is specially underpinned by Bixler-Zavalaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark borderline nonsensical metaphor-laden lyrics which are so much fucking fun to sing along to: â&#x20AC;&#x153;From the blossom rags of my jackal croon to the stems of this cinquefoil/I give to you the shrapnel with which to sprinkle in her soilâ&#x20AC;?. Bixler-Zavala is perhaps the highlight of the entire record, and the year or so he took to write the vocal melodies and lyrics has paid oďŹ&#x20AC;. His prolonged howling of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Desehraâ&#x20AC;? on the Noctourniquetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best track, In Absentia, along with the calm-croon in the brilliant Trinkets Pale The Moon and sheer passion in screaming â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll fold?â&#x20AC;? on eponymous track Noctourniquet are some of his best work in The Mars Volta canon. This is drummer Deantoni Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst album with the band, and whilst his unbelievably commanding live talents arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t completely appreciated on Noctourniquet, his bizarrely beautiful rhythms
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and technical power are evident on songs such as Aegis â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a track he impressively dominates along with Dyslexicon. For perhaps the most of any previous record, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez takes a backseat in Noctourniquet, representative of his maturity in his producer capacity, allowing Parks to shine on certain tracks yet quietening him on others, and often replacing what would traditionally be an in-your-face guitar moments with pleasant electronic eďŹ&#x20AC;ects. On tracks such as The Whip Hand, this can be annoying as the mindblowing pure punky/hard rock live version is compromised on the studio version by the overuse of the ďŹ&#x201A;atulence-sounding eďŹ&#x20AC;ects, but for the majority it adds an intriguing element to the overall sound. Noctourniquet is the result of a band looking inwards for expression, not reacting to externality, and for the ďŹ rst time since their early material, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ďŹ nding a new favourite track with almost each listen. NICK â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;SLICK SKITZ CHICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; TARAS
Best Track: In Absentia If You Like These, Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Like This: PINK FLOYD, AT THE DRIVE-IN In A Word: Future
TIN SPARROW
Azzuro (Indepedent) The Sydney quartetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest output is a well-structured by ultimately uninspiring folk number, composed of relatively stagnant harmonies and lifeless vocals. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d make nice background music for Country Road.
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Quan Dang (Independent) The Mildura two-piece have served up a by-thenumbers garage rock number thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even dryer than the Murray River. Distorted vocals, stout rifts and a general lack of cohesion. Skip.
Fighting Kind (Independent) A Northside neo-folk track ďŹ lled with unexpected melodies, nomadic vocals and gentle guitar plucks. If I was at house party with Ainslie Wills, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be the only possibility in my lifetime that someone could pick up a guitar and bust out a tune without me attempting to glass their jugular. Nice.
AIRIT NOW 1. Nobody Knows LOVE CONNECTION 2. Wild Love GOSSLING 3. Dust Proud (featuring Pepepiano) BON CHAT, BON RAT 4. Women In Cages 1929INDIAN 5. Sounds Of The Lion LAMTECH, SIERRA SISTERS, LLBOCK, IB JUMBO AND DJ FUNZO 6. Goodbye Slowly MICK THOMAS 7. Mister STELLA ANGELICO AND THE SWITCH 8. Do You Hear? CUB SCOUTS 9. The March featuring Jah Mason BLUE KING BROWN 10. A Thousand Lives THE HERD
SYN SWEET 16 1. Illusion POOR MAN 2. El VHS Contenta EL EJE DEL MAL 3. Go Right Ahead THE HIVES 4. Hey Jane SPIRITUALIZED 5. Dog To Bone SPOEK MOTHAMBO 6. Sex SLUGABED 7. Somebody Purer MYSTERY JETS 8. Tell Me A Tale MICHAEL KIWANUKU 9. Fighting Kind AINSLIE WILLS 10. See The Light WOLF & CUB
1. Crossed With Leaves 7â&#x20AC;? LAKES 2. Get Used To It 7â&#x20AC;? STAG 3. 22/09/11 Tape WOOLLEN KITS 4. Secret Paradise 7â&#x20AC;? SCRAPS 5. S/T 7â&#x20AC;? WYMYNS PRYSYN 6. Creeperton 7â&#x20AC;? SKYNEEDLE 7. Nancy is Happy Book ERNIE BUSHMILLER 8. Leave Home 7â&#x20AC;? THE RAMONES 9. File Under Sacred Music: Singles 78-81 7â&#x20AC;? Box Set THE CRAMPS 10. Vedley 7â&#x20AC;? SIC ALPS
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Tokyo (Indepedent) Tokyo makes you want to call up that girl from your childhood that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been secretly in love with and run away across the country side with her. Enchanting synths and wistful melodies accompanied by unfortunately nauseating vocals. Try an instrumental approach next time, lads.
1. Pop Up Yours LP/CD THE MONSTERS 2. Is A Session Man LP BO DIDDLEY 3. 10 Years CD LOS CHICOS 4. DeďŹ ance LP DEAD MOON 5. Brat Farrar LP/CD/CASS BRAT FARRAR 6. Infernal Cakewalk 10â&#x20AC;? MESA COSA 7. House Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; LP THE GORIES 8. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Gonna Make It LP Q65 9. Heavy Friends LP LORD SUTCH 10. All Night Long 7â&#x20AC;? FROWNING CLOUDS
WOLLY BULLY
Someone Purer (Remote Control Records) When I was 18 my friend made me buy a $50 ticket with him to go and see Mystery Jets at The Hi-Fi so he could try and score with some girl he met on last.fm. Similarly to their latest release, the evening ended in disappointment for all. The type of insipid indie-rock youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect to hear from a Croydon high school three-piece who think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re alternative because they bought a reissue of Transatlanticism on vinyl.
AINSLIE WILLS
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SINGLES BY TYSON Disclaimer: With Simone still dilly-dallying over in the States, Tyson has been pummelled with her weekly stack of singles in exchange for words that attempt (emphasis on attempt) to review them. Bless him for trying.
TOP TENS
Blood For Poppies (Liberator) One of the most beautiful coincidences within the realms of music journalism is when the title of the artist is also a descriptor for their style of music. Scottish/American alt-rock now with added hints of grunge and electro. For the love of God shut the fuck up and realise your irrelevancy.
JACKSON FIREBIRD
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PBS TIPSHEET 1. The Tel Aviv Session TOURE-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE 2. Music Makes The World Go Round VARIOUS ARTISTS 3. Self Titled STELLA ANGELICO AND THE SWITCH 4. In My Skin BUIKA 5. awE natural THEESATISFACTION 6. Deeper In The Well ERIC BIBB 7. The Big Payback BIG JAMES AND THE CHICAGO PLAYBOYS 8. The Sales Tax LEIGH BARKER & THE NEW SHEIKS 9. Back Porch Dogma CONTINO 10. Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Feeling Young Now? PUNCH BROTHERS
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#Nicodeine Crush (Independent) A brooding electronic number straight that embodies the grimey and daunting ethos of Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s western suburbs. #Nicodeine Crush is the aural encapsulation of West Footscray station at 3am on a Tuesday morning. Five stars.
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1. Laughing Stock GRANDADDY 2. Description Of A Fool A TRIBE CALLED QUEST 3. Here Is A Smirk CHARIZMA & PEANUT BUTTER WOLF 4. Jig Of Life KATE BUSH 5. Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds MODEST MOUSE 6. Running Amok CLAG 7. The Fool NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL 8. Master Of Puppets METALLICA 9. Carnival Of Carnage INSANE CLOWN POSSE 10. That Joke Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Funny Anymore THE SMITHS
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BAND OF SKULLS Sweet Sour (Liberation)
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FIELD MUSIC Plumb (Shock)
Creatively-boisterous siblings Peter and David Brewis – aka Field Music – have indulged in fits of whimsical experimentation for this, their brand new LP. Their steep ambition has come at a price, however: Plumb is defined by a disorienting incoherence, making for a decidedly challenging listening experience. The record concerns itself with a mischievous whimsy, lofty and forever fearless. In fact, Plumb is not too dissimilar to an elaborate prog-rock opera, an eternal slave to redefinition. Field Music go too far, too often, however and it’s those stretches in which the duo abandon their grandeur for simpler inclinations easily rank as the album’s finest moments. The potty, zig-zagging gem A New Town and the lively Who’ll Pay The Bills emerge fine examples of such a trend. The crux of Plumb’s downfall is easily expressed: aesthetically, it might sound great, but too often it’s excessively confounding. Field Music appear hell-bent upon mutilating their compositions. The duo’s penchant for pure symphonic bliss occasionally offers some redemption and relief from the madness, but for the most part, Field Music stubbornly stand by their twisted alt-rock architecture. Plumb is a complex indie rock record with a steep learning curve that demands an abundance patience and attention over multiple spins. For that reason, it can reasonably fall on the side of frustrating with listeners, suffering for an over-zealous ambition to remain fresh and Best Track: A New Town forever earnest. If You Like These, You’ll Like This: Satanic Panic In The Attic OF MONTREAL, Ester TRAILER TRASH TRACYS NICK MASON In A Word: Difficult
SILVERSTEIN
Short Songs (Hopeless Records) Short songs huh? They sure as hell ain’t joking. There are 22 songs on this CD, and it totals just under 20 minutes in length. Obviously that means the average song length is under a minute. It whizzes past so quickly it almost feels like it’s over before it’s even begun. They have split the record into two ‘sets’, the first 11 tunes are original Silverstein songs. They’re pretty typical of the band, if you’re familiar with them. There’s some punky heavier moments and lots of whiny melodic choruses. It’s just that they’re much shorter. If you like Silverstein, you’ll dig this. If you don’t, this won’t do anything to change your mind and you’ll be glad it’s out of the way quickly. The second set is 11 covers of a bunch of (very short) punk and pop-punk tunes, by artists such as Dead Kennedys, Green Day, NOFX and Descendents. They do most of the covers pretty well, with appropriate energy levels, and the second half of the record seems a little more interesting than the first. This record was obviously just a bit of fun for the band, and to pay homage to some of the bands that Best Track: It’s My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite (NOFX) influenced them in their formative years. If You Like These, You’ll Like This: ALESANA, A DAY TO REMEMBER, ATREYU In A Word: Inoffensive
ROD WHITFIELD
I feel as though Sweet Sour, the third album from English trio Band Of Skulls, has been released ten or so years too late. While the album would have had the perfect home in the early ‘00s wave of Elephants and Pawn Shoppe Hearts, today Sweet Sour’s basic rock’n’roll and flirting-with-pop sound feels clichéd. Opener is the title track Sweet Sour, sounding as though ripped straight from The Dead Weather; big riffs, a corny guitar solo and the duel vocals of guitarist Russell Marsden and bassist Emma Richardson all sound like the perfectly dishevelled ingredients in the manufacturing of an energetic pop rock song. Marsden has a clear prowess in the guitar-playing department; the opening circulation of guitar in You’re Not Pretty But You Got It Goin’ On almost gives hint to something exciting, but when he ruins the moment with the guitar solo-equivalent to jerking off, the surprise is gone. What Band Of Skulls do manage to do well is create different moods – the sweet and the sour; the album is not a constant barrage of distorted riffs but successful moves into calmer territories, such as Lay My Head Down, which displays a prettier side to Richardson’s vocals and Marsden’s guitar. Sweet Sour is incredibly polished, and for the softer songs, such as Bruises and the aforementioned Lay My Head Down, the clarity contributes to the delicate patina. While the cleanness of the timbre of the album leaves many of the songs feeling a little overly-orchestrated, the genuine tenderness of the quieter songs does manage to even it all out. It may not be a particularly compelling listen, but the album’s easy-to-consume nature will most likely work in their favour. The big riffs and the way in which Marsden and Best Track: You’re Not Pretty But You Got It Goin’ On Richardson sing in unison are more appropriately built If You Like These, You’ll Like This: THE DEAD WEATHER, THE for the stage, because on record it all feels a little fake. VON BONDIES, THE SUBWAYS In A Word: Plain ALEXANDRA DUGUID
CHET FAKER
Thinking In Textures EP (Opulent/Remote Control) It’s been a massive year for the mysterious and enigmatic artist that is Chet Faker. Making waves in the blogosphere, with his cover of Blackstreet’s No Diggity shooting to number one on MP3 blog aggregator Hype Machine, he’s since been teasing fans with a series of downloadable tracks. The time has now come to put the courting to an end. Thinking In Textures is a seven track EP that affirms that Faker’s soulful downbeat electronica has the substance to see it move beyond the manic hysteria caused by No Diggity that saw him rise to e - fame. Chet Faker’s musical past is veiled in secrecy but it’s been suggested that his foundation lies in acoustic beginnings, a starting point (if true) that has only helped to strengthen his foray into the world of electronica. The songwriting is structurally sound and the lyricism clever, suggestively cool, and not exceedingly vacuous as often the case with electronic music. Opening track I’m Into You oozes obsession and infatuation, its beats are chilled; the vocal delivery restrained but underneath simmer the fires of desire. Perhaps one to play when you subtlety, or not so subtlety wish to lure someone to bed. Terms & Conditions displays the soul references that everyone is bandying about, as Chet delivers a smooth and crooning vocal over playful beats. Next up is No Diggity, the mid ‘90s soft hip hop number turned into a soulful electro-trip-hop track that slinks along, cool, calm and collected. It works, and while it seems painfully obvious that Faker is not the originator of such lines as ‘I like the way you work it / No diggity / I gotta bag it up,’ he delivers these lines with a self awareness and no doubt a knowing smirk on his face. The rest of the album continues in this vein, subtle grooves, inspired beats, topped off by Faker’s understated soul heavy vocals. Chet Faker is one of those electronic artists who possesses the songwriting skills to allow his music to break free of the boundaries of his genre and be accepted by the Best Track: I’m Into You mainstream – even by those who would normally turn their If You Like These, You’ll Like This: AIR, BONOBO, JAMES nose up at the thought of electronica. BLAKE In A Word: Impressive KRYSTAL MAYNARD
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GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 28 MAR ROCK/POP ALL THE COLOURS + BROADWAY SOUNDS + NICK MAGIC Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $10. BUNNY MONROE + THE COUNCIL + PATRON SAINTS + DJ JACK ‘BITTER SWEET KICKS’ DAVIES Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. DAYDREAM ARCADE + BETTER THEN THE WIZARDS + LIFT OFF Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $7. HIRS + KROMOSOM + PNEUMATIC SLAUGHTER + ROSS + SHIT WEATHER Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. THE BLUEBOTTLES + ALLY OOP & THE HOOPSTERS + SHORT ORDER CHEFS Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. THE PASS OUTS + RICK RALLI + STILETTO ASSASINS Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $8. THE PHILISTINES + IDLE MINDS + RAPID TRANSIT + THE LOST SUNNIES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. WOLFS + CHAMPAGNE REGGAE Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. WOODEN SHJIPS - FEAT: WOODEN SHIPS + BEACHES + FORCES Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $42.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK HELEN CAT Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $5. JACKY WINTER Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. JOE MCKEE Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $6. NIGEL B SWIFTE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Dancing Dog, Footscray. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 8:00pm. OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT Grind N Groove, Healesville. 9:00pm. PHOEBE & THE NIGHT CREATURES Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 8:00pm. TEN GALLON HEAD + THE GET GO DUO Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. WINE WHISKEY WOMEN - FEAT: COOKIE BAKER + BETH CLEARY Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC ALBARE Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. BLACK GALAXY EXPERIANCE (EP LAUNCH) + ADAM HUNT + THE NEST ITSELF Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DIZZY’S BIG BAND Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. JULIEN WILSON QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. LEEK & THE WARWICK TRAGEDY + GRANSTON DISPLAY + QLAYE FACE Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE GIANNI MARINUCCI NONET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. THE WESLEY JAZZ ENSEMBLE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:00pm. $15.
THURSDAY 29 MAR ROCK/POP 1AM LATE SHOW - FEAT: LIETENANT JAM Pony, Melbourne. 1:00am. A NIGHT OUT WITH THE REPLACEMENTS - FEAT: NICK BARKER + TIM ROGERS + CHUCK JENKINS + DAVE LARKIN + DAVEY LANE + KAT SPAZZY + SUZANNAH ESPIE + VAN WALKER Phoenix Public House, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $20. ANGUS SAVAGE + SERI VIDA Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:00pm. BEATS FROM THE HEART - FEAT: YOLKE + THESE PATTERNS + THNKR Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8:00pm. $5. BITTER SWEET KICKS + BUNN YMONROE + THE CHAOS KIDS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. CARTA EXTREMIS + RENEGATE ROBOT COPS + YOSHITORO The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. DEAD TO ME & COBRA SKULLS + COBRA SKULLS + DEAD TO ME + A DEATH IN THE FAMILY + LAMEXCUSE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 7:30pm. $25. DEEP HEAT + CONCRETE LIFE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm.
BLITZEN TRAPPER Subpoppers Blitzen Trapper are bringing their experimental country/folk stylings to the Prince Bandroom this Tuesday April 3. No doubt bearing some battle scars from SXSW, the quintet will be armed with material from their much acclaimed album American Goldwing. Also, apparently guitarists Marty Marquis’s favourite food is popcorn. Probably don’t throw any at it him on stage though.
DRAWING ARCS + JOUISSANCE + PIONEERS OF GOOD SCIENCE + WIZARD OZ Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. EMPRA + BOTTLE OF SMOKE + OVERDRIVE + PRETTY VILLAIN Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. HUMANS AS ANIMALS + THE WINDSOR THEIVES + VAN MYER Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. JAPE SQUAD + DOGS OF THOMAS PARK + THE ENCLOSURES Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $8. KINA GRANNIS + OLLIE BROWN Ormond Hall, Melbourne. 8:00pm. PENNIES - FEAT: FLOUNDER + LIVE: THE NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH + NUMBER STATION(SINGLE LAUNCH + THE RUN RUN + MORE + WE THE PEOPLE + DJS: OSCAR & MARTIN DJ SET + GLASS MIRRORS + SMOKING TODDLERS + WEDNESDAY THE RAT Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5. PHILOSOPHY OF SOUND Workshop, Melbourne. 8:00pm. ROBERT JAMES KIRK BAND Fleece Hotel, South Melbourne. 8:00pm. SIGNALS IN SILENCE (ALL STORIES LAUNCH) + FAHRENHEIT 43 Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $10. STELLA ANGELICO + MIDNITE BOSOM Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15. THE KILNIKS + ESC + SCOTDRAKULA + THE HONDAS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE NATURAL CULTURE Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm. VENUS FIRE + BRONI + ELEPHANT EYES Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. WE’VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU - FEAT: LE FOX + CHEV RISE + THE 80 ACES Pony, Melbourne. 9:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK
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ACOUSTIC SESSION Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. ATLUK Bertha Brown, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CROSBY STILLS & NASH Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm. DAN DINNEN + ANTHONY YOUNG Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8:00pm. ESPERA + BRANDON BERGIN + STAR CAPS ON WILL Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. JACK LADDER + JONATHAN MICHELL Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. $15. KERRYN FIELDS + THE EMMA WALL BAND Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. NICE BOY TOM Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 7:00pm. OPEN MIC Acoustic Cafe, Collingwood. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Arcadia Hotel, South Yarra. 8:00pm. PUGSLEY BUZZARD Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. ROESY Bar Nancy, Northcote. 8:00pm. ROESY & DUNCAN YARDLEY Bar Nancy, Northcote. 8:00pm. RUST Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 8:30pm. STEVE EARLE + JESS RIBEIRO Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $55. THE GIN CLUB (ALBUM LAUNCH) + SPENCER P JONES & THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $20. THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUG BAND Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:00pm. WINTERNATIONALE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
GADE + BOBBY & THE PINS Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. MANDINGO - FEAT: THE AFROBEATS Luwow, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. MELBOURNE IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. PUGSLEY BUZZARD Grumpy’s Green, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. SAM MCALIFFE JAZZ QUARTET Gertrudes Brown Couch, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. SHIRLEY IN THE RAIN Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 8:00pm. $14. SOL HAUS & THE SPOKESMEN Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $10. SYZYGY Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. THE DAVID ALLARDICE QUARTET 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. TWO BOB WATCH + SHANE DI IORI BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $10.
FRIDAY 30 MAR ROCK/POP 2AM LATE SHOW - FEAT: THE BLACKWATER REVIEW + DJ WHITE RABBIT Pony, Melbourne. 2:00am. A MILLION DEAD BIRDS LAUGHING + AGONHYMN + CRADLE IN THE CRATER + SERIOUS BEAK Pony, Melbourne. 9:30pm. A NIGHT OF ROCK - FEAT: MRWOO + ARMED KOREAN + EATER OF THE SKY + MOONSHIFTER Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $10. ADAM ANT Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $79. BLOWN MUSIC LAUNCH - FEAT: MY LEFT BOOT + APEISAPE + SEEDY JEEZUS + THE DUKES OF DELICIOUSNESS National Hotel, Geelong. 8:00pm. BODYJAR + ANTISKEPTIC + FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY + GAME OVER + ONE DOLLAR SHORT + SECONDS + STRATHMORE + THE UNION PACIFIC Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $35. DARYL BRAITHWAITE & JAMES REYNE + BONNIE ANDERSON Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8:30pm. GETTING THE BANDS BACK TOGETHER - FEAT: AIRHORN + GUDGEON + HEDGE + INTERSTATER + MO BLACK Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC BLUESTONE UNDERGROUND JAZZ - FEAT: CYCLONE WARNING Bluestone Downstairs, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. CLAUDIA OSEGUEDA & OSCAR PONCELL Cruzao Arepa Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. JEREMY WOOLHOUSE & LACHLAN DAVIDSON + LOK & KEYS 8:00pm. JOE CHINDAMO TRIO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $15. JULIE O’HARA & ULTRAFOX (CD LAUNCH) Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $20. LEXI DEROCK & THE SUGARFOOT BLUES BRI-
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ROCK N ROLL WRESTLING Does listening to rock ‘n’ roll whilst drinking cans and watching a man who goes by the name Bully The Brawler wrestle a man who goes by the name Mad Dog sound like an interesting Saturday night out to you? Thought so. Luckily, Saturday March 31 will see Rock N Roll Wrestling find its new home at The House of Rock. Guaranteed to bring the romance of rock and wrestling together.
GOODBYE MOTEL - FEAT: LONE TYGER + EVI + THE PETER EWING EXPERIENCE Yah Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. GOSTELERADIO + JIMMY HAWK & THE ENDLESS PARTY + TIM HARVEY Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. GUNN MUSIC PRESENTS - FEAT: APSIS + MODEL PLANES + REVONTULET + THE HIGH SUBURBAN The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. HIGH TEA + DUCK DUCK CHOP + ON SIERRA + SMOKE SIGNALS Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. HUMANS + PLAINS + RACCOON CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT + THE WORLD AT A GLANCE Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. KIDS WITHOUT BIKES + T-BIRD & THE LUMBERJACKS + THE CORSAIRS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. KINA GRANNIS + OLLIE BROWN Ormond Hall, Melbourne. 8:00pm. KIRA PURU & THE BRUISE (WHEN ALL YOUR LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH TOUR) + BLACK WATER FEVER Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10. MATT DWYER Luwow, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $5. MOTHER & SON + MESA COSA + THE BONNIWELLS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9:00pm. NO WAY OUT + BASTION + BRIGHTSIDE + DIRTY MACK + IN ANGST Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 8:00pm. RAISED BY EAGLES Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:00pm. SKARFACE + KMART WARRIORS + SLICK 46 + THE TEARAWAYS Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $13. STRANGERS FROM NOW ON + BAYOU + DAY RAVIES: EP LAUNCH Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. STU LARSEN & NATSUKI KURAI + CANDICE CASAGRANDE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $10. SWARM - FEAT: TWELVE FOOT NINJA + CIRCLES + JERICCO Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. 7:00pm. $15. THE ROUTINES + KNITTING FOR GRAN + THE PRETTY LITTLES John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. THE TEK TEK ENSEMBLE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. THE TWOKS Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 8:00pm. TIJUANA CARTEL (SINGLE LAUNCH) + DJ CAREBEAR + THE MANK + THE MANK Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $25. TRUE RADICAL MIRACLE (TERMITES LAUNCH) Phoenix Public House, Brunswick. 9:00pm. $7. VICTOR PENDER Cape Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. VOLTERA + A LONELY CROWD + FULL CODE + NOIZE BUNNY + WRITTEN IN RUINS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $15. WAVERLEY (ALBUM LAUNCH) + CONSTANT KILLER + GREEN GREEN GREEN Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.
LA LUCHA GLAMOUROSA Mexican. Wrestling. Burlesque. Now thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a killer combo. If you want to experience such awesomeness then La Lucha Glamourosa is something you should definitely check out. Head down to where it all started, at The Prince Bandroom, for another installment this Saturday April 31. Be prepared for a no-holds-barred battle royal and a shitload of tequila.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ANNA PADDICK Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. BONES BLACKWOOD + DAN DINNEN Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. CRAIG GILES BAND Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8:00pm. $8. CROSBY STILLS & NASH Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm. FRANK YAMMA & GEORGE TELEK Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $25. JULES BOULT & THE REDEEMERS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. KELLY AUTY BAND Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. MARK WILKINSON (CAUGHT IN A MOMENT TOUR) + HAYDEN CALNIN + MEG & PAUL Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $15. RELATIVE FRENDZY + CHRIS NICOLA Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:00pm. RUCKUS St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 9:30pm. STEVE EARLE + LACHLAN BRYAN Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $55. STEVIE & THE SLEEPERS + 2SWAI + LEWIS FARMAN + THE LACHLAN BRUCE BAND Rubyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $10. THE GIN CLUB Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 6:00pm. THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND + SALTY SERGE Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8:30pm. $6.
THE RECHORDS + DJ TREVOR TRAVIS + THE BLUEBOTTLES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 9:30pm. THE TIGER & ME + KEL DAY Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSIONS - FEAT: DAN BOURKE Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6:00pm.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC ALWAN Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $10. ANTON DELECCA QUARTET Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. DRU & THE INTENTIONS + LUKE BRENNAN + TRIO BOMBEIRO Bar Nancy, Northcote. 8:00pm. FRANKIE WANTS OUT Red Bennies, South Yarra. 10:00pm. JERSON TRINIDAD Prince Maximillian, Prahran. 8:00pm. LAUREN ELIZABETH Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:00pm. MICHELLE NICOLLE & THE JAMIE OEHLERS QUARTET Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. RITA SATCH QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. SAMANTHA MORLEY & THE ROGER CLARK QUARTET Dizzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20. THE SWINGSET & MOTHER JACK Dancing Dog, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. VASHTI SIVELL Cruzao Arepa Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm.
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SIXFTHICK
1995 was a crazy year for Australia. Hey Hey It’s Saturday lost Ossie Ostrich, rabbit plagues ran rampant, Warringah Council becomes the first council in Australia to use dung beetles to pick up dog droppings… oh, and Brisbane’s greatest proponents of distorted swamp-scum-rock, SixFtHick were formed. In the 16 years since, they’ve whipped up a relentless storm of sweat, blood, vomit and beer, leaving dropped jaws, four lauded albums and countless bruised bodies in their wake. SixFtHick are coming back to Melbourne to do it all over again at the Phoenix Public House this Saturday March 31, alongside chaotic Melbourne punks Beat Disease. Get on board or get out of the way!
SATURDAY 31 MAR ROCK/POP 2AM LATE SHOW - FEAT: THE WHITE GOODS + DJ MR SHARP Pony, Melbourne. 2:00am. ADDICTION - FEAT: VERONA LIGHTS + BLACK FUEL + MIKE ELRINGTON Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave. 8:00pm. $10. AUDEMIA + FREESTATE + POETIKOOL JUSTICE + SCARECROWE BLONDE + SLEEPA Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. $12. BANG - FEAT: WARBRAIN + ILL VISION + UP & ATOM! Royal Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. BLACK FOX (7” LAUNCH) + BOX ROCKETS + THE PRETTY LITTLES Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. BLAK ROOTS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. BLOWN MUSIC LAUNCH - FEAT: MY LEFT BOOT + APEISAPE + SEEDY JEEZUS + THE DUKES OF DELICIOUSNESS Yah Yah’s, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. BODYJAR + ANTISKEPTIC + GAME OVER + ONE DOLLAR SHORT Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. $27. BOXTORTE LIVE Victoria Hotel, Brunswick. 7:00pm. CHOOK RACE (7” LAUNCH) + HIEROPHANTS + TERRIBLE TRUTHS + UNITY FLOORS: 7 Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 4:47pm. CLAMPDOWN Rochester Castle Hotel, Fitzroy.
VOLTERA
Since recently being asked to leave the USA for inciting violence with their apparent anti-populationist slogans and message, Voltera have returned to play their first Melbourne show in almost a year. With a new lineup and refined sound, they will perform their new EP with all new songs — plus some redressed oldies. Catch them this Friday March 30 at The Evelyn, supported by A Lonely Crowd, Written In Ruins, Noize Bunny and Full Code. 10:00pm. COLD RED MUTE Noise Bar, Brunswick. 2:00pm. $16. HEAVEN THE AXE + DEAD STAR RENEGADE + DON FERNANDO + KING OF THE NORTH + PHIL PARA + THE DEEP END Espy, St Kilda. 8:00pm. HEAVY MUSIC MAGAZINE PRESENTS - FEAT: SYDONIA + GENEDEFECT + NABERUS + RED SKY BURIAL The Prague, Thornbury. 8:00pm. HMAS VENDETTA + CITRUS JAM + DIVINE ASCENSION + LOST PROPHET Pony, Melbourne. 9:00pm. HOUSE OF ROCK Palace Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 9:00pm. $15. HOWIE DAY + BENDAN MCLEAN Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $33. JARON NATOLI & ERON JAMES St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 1:00pm. K-MART WARRIORS + 12FU Lyrebird Lounge, Ripponlea. 9:00pm. LIKE IT LOUD - FEAT: OCEAN GROVE + EVER REST Club Shoop, Dandenong. 8:30pm. $10. MADISON JAYNE + AMY GLASS + CENTRE & SOUTH + EASY PLEASE + THE CONTINENT Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 7:30pm. $15. MANA + DIVINA PROVIDENCIA + TIM SCANLAN Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 5:00pm. MEGALOVE + IN YOUR HANDS + MZWOOD Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. MIDNIGHT WOOLF + DJ SHAKY MEMORIAL + MESA COSA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm.
MY DYNAMITE + GASOLINE INC + WARBIRDS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8:00pm. $13. NOUS + AGONHYMN + ISRAEL + SUN SHEPHERD Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. $10. OUCH MY FACE + BATPISS + DEAD + DEEP HEAT Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. PARALLELS Barleycorn Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. SIXFTHICK + BAD VISION + BEAT DISEASE Phoenix Public House, Brunswick. 8:00pm. $15. SKA WARS - FEAT: THE RESIGNATORS + ADMIRAL AKBAR’S HONOURABLE DISCHARGE + MANDY MEADOWS & THE MADNESS METHOD + THE KING CITY SEVEN Cbd Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. SWARM - FEAT: TWELVE FOOT NINJA + CIRCLES + JERICCO Pier Live, Frankston. 7:00pm. $15. THE ANCIENTS + INEVITABLE ORBIT + TAX Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE ANTOINETTES + CHARM + HE KEITHS + RETURN TO YOUTH Blue Tile Lounge, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. THE CACTUS CHANNEL + SASKWATCH + SLEEPING BAG Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $12. THE ROYAL BATHS + BEACHES Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. THE WELLINGTON INTERNATIONAL UKULELE ORCHESTRA Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $33. THOMAS VECERA & KYLE TAYLOR (THE BUSKER TOUR) Dancing Dog, Footscray. 8:00pm. $10. TYSON SLITHERS & THE PHAT CHICKS + CAM LOPEZ + FRANCO COZZO Cornish Arms, Brunswick. 8:00pm. VICTOR PENDER Cape Cafe, Fitzroy. 9:00pm.
ACOUSTIC/COUNTRY/BLUES/FOLK ACOUSTIC REVIEW - FEAT: DAN ROLLS + DOUBLE ENTENDRE + JOHN LILLIS Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 8:00pm. $10. ANDRE CAMILLERI & THE NORTHERNAIRES Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5:00pm. BOOGALOOS & HIGHWAY 41 HORNS St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 9:30pm. CHRIS RUSSELL’S CHICKEN WALK Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5:00pm. COSMIC TONIC Veludo Bar & Restaurant, St Kilda. 9:30pm. EMMA RUSSACK (SOUNDS OF OUR CITY LAUNCH) + JESSICA SAYS Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:00pm. GEMMA & THE WISE YOUNG AMBITIOUS MEN Labour In Vain, Fitzroy. 5:00pm. GREAT ALBUMS SHOWCASE - FEAT: DAMON SMITH & THE QUALITY LIGHTWEIGHTS + ALYSIA MANCEAU + THE MISERABLE LITTLE BASTARDS + THE STILLSONS + THE TRACY MCNEIL BAND Empress Hotel, North Fitzroy. 8:00pm. $18. HORNETS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm. JOHN PATRICK & THE KEEPERS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9:00pm. JUDGE PINO & THE RULING MOTIONS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 9:00pm. KYLE TAYLOR + RAYNARD CREEGAN + TIMOTHY NELSON & THE INFIDELS Pure Pop Courtyard, St
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Kilda. 3:00pm. RYAN STERLING & THE SISTER CITY Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 9:30pm. SHANNON BOURNE BAND Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. THE BLACK SORROWS + GALLIE Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 8:00pm. $30. THE BREADMAKERS Luwow, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. $5. THE GIN CLUB & TEXAS TEA + TEXAS TEA + THE GIN CLUB + THE NIMPHS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8:00pm. THE LISA MILLER TRIO Union Hotel, Brunswick. 9:00pm. THE LONGYARD BAND 11:00am. THE NUDGELS Penny Black, Brunswick. 9:30pm. THE STETSON FAMILY Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 7:30pm. VELVET CAKE GYPSIES Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 4:00pm. VERY HANDSOME MEN + THE IAIN ARCHIBALD BAND Musicland, Fawkner. 8:00pm. $10.
JAZZ/SOUL/FUNK/WORLD MUSIC ACHE LA BANDA Cruzao Arepa Bar, Fitzroy. 8:00pm. ANDREW DE SILVA Prince Maximillian, Prahran. 8:30pm. BORROWED TIME TRIO Richmond Uniting Church, Richmond. 2:30pm. $10. FEM BELLING QUARTET Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. $20. G3 2012 - FEAT: JOE SATRIANI + STEVE LUKATHER + STEVE VAI Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 7:00pm. GIAN SLATER & THE JAMIE OEHLERS BAND Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:30pm. $25. JAZZ ON A SATURDAY 303, Northcote. 3:30pm. $10. KATTIMONI Tony Starr’s Kitten Club, Melbourne Cbd. 10:00pm. $5. KLEZMER PARTY - FEAT: FLAP! + THE LONDON KLEZMER QUARTET The Famous Spiegel Tent, Melbourne. 2:00pm. LONDON KLEZMER QUARTET Northcote Uniting Church, Northcote. 7:30pm. $18. NEATLY FOLDED GOAT + PAUL MCMAHON + WATERLINE 303, Northcote. 8:00pm. $5. PAPA CHANGO Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $5. PW FARRELL SOUND-MACHINE Open Studio, Northcote. 4:30pm. REBECCA MENDOZA & THE JOHN MONTESANTE QUINTET Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Richmond. 9:00pm. $20.
SUNDAY 1 APR ROCK/POP BIG MOUTH + STEPHEN TABERNER Noise Bar, Brunswick. 7:00pm. $10. BLUE SUN + TALEI WOLFGRAMM Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 10:00pm. $8. DEAD ALBATROSS + PERFECT STRANGERS Brunswick Hotel, Brunswick. 10:00pm.
ROBODOP SNEI
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? The name is Robodop Snei. I make electronic music, and do everything from writing songs, to recording and mixing. In the studio I am surrounded by analog and digital synthesizers, and use software to combine all these elements with acoustic sounds. What do you think people will say you sound like? A lot of people say it sounds like Kraftwerk, or Air or that it has an ‘80s sound. I am a big fan of music from Edward Ka-Spel and The Legendary Pink Dots, Tangerine Dream, and Can, if you know these artists you can sense their influence in my music. What do you love about making music? I love to be able to share it with people and friends, and the prospect of it helping people connect. The magic that can unfold when playing or listening to it and the amazing feeling of excitement when creating a song from scratch is next to none. What do you hate about the music industry? It’s too focused on making money at the expense of good music. I like all sorts of music, but there is not enough focus on diversity. If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? It would actually rather be amazing to visit myself in the future. I always dreamed of knowing what my music will sound like in a few years time. What can a punter expect from your live show? I often play at outdoor parties, surrounded by trees, and immersed in light and projections. I intend to bring as many of these elements and more to my album launch at Noise Bar on Friday. What’ve you got to sell CD-wise? My new Album Strange Ongoings has just been Beat Magazine Page 56
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released on Tempest Recordings, and it will be available at my upcoming album launch. A couple of earlier albums, and single track releases on compilations are still available on CD and as a digital download. When’s the gig and with who? The launch for my new album Strange Ongoings is on Friday March 30 at Noise Bar. Support Acts are Deep Fried Dub, and Alpha Channel, as well as electronic sound wizard D-Rektional, and psychedelic dub specialist Numatica. Anything else to add? To find out more look up Robodop Snei on Facebook or go to tempestrecordings.com
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MICK PEALING Mentone Hotel, Mentone. 4:00pm. NAOMI JONES & THE BAR BONES + THE NUDGELS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 5:00pm. OPA! 303, Northcote. 9:00pm. $5. OPEN MIC Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 5:30pm. OPEN MIC Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 5:30pm. OTHER PLACES + FATTI FRANCES + GOLDEN DAWN Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. SABRINA & THE RED VANS (CHEAP ROMANCE LAUNCH) + THE MATT GREEN BAND Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm. SEAN SIMMONS Town Hall Hotel, North Melbourne. 7:00pm. SINGER SONGWRITER SESSIONS - FEAT: EMMA HALES + CHERRY Chandelier Room, Moorabbin. 5:00pm. TEMPLE OF TUNES + QUANG DINH Bar Nancy, Northcote. 7:00pm. TERESA DIXON + THE LITTLE SISTERS Great Britain Hotel, Richmond. 8:00pm. THE HELLHOUNDS + EMMY BRYCE + KATE VIGO Pure Pop Courtyard, St Kilda. 5:00pm. THE HIRED GUNS Tago Mago, Thornbury. 5:00pm. THE RECHORDS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:30pm. THE WEAPONS OF MASS DISFUNCTION St Andrews Hotel, St Andrews. 4:00pm. TRACY MCNNEIL BAND Carringbush Hotel, Abbotsford. 5:00pm. TRACY MILLER & SUN KINGS + KEN MAHER & TONY HARGREAVES Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 6:30pm. WAYLAN JOES Thornbury Local, Thornbury. 5:00pm.
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CASEY DONOVAN (TRIBUTE TO MAMA CASS) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 8:00pm. $30. CASEY DONOVAN (TRIBUTE TO MAMA CASS MATINEE) Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 4:00pm. $30. G3 2012 - FEAT: JOE SATRIANI + STEVE VAI & STEVE LUKATHER Palais Theatre, St Kilda. 8:00pm. GIANNI MARINUCCI & THE COLIN HOPKINS DUO Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne. 9:30pm. $15. JOSE NIETO Cruzao Arepa Bar, Fitzroy. 9:00pm. STRINE SINGERS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6:00pm. THE GRAND WAZOO Thornbury Theatre, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $10. THE LONDON KLEZMER QUARTET Caravan Music Club, Oakleigh. 9:00pm. $20.
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MUSICIANS WANTED ACOUSTIC ACTS WANTED for Bar Betty in Smith Street, Fitzroy. Paid Gig. Please phone Sandra or Michelle on 9417 3937. Bar Betty - 129 Smith Street, Fitzroy. BANDS & PROMOTERS WANTED. Any style for Collingwood venue. First gigs welcome, live CD recording available. Contact Jane after 12pm on 0425 796 828. DRUMMER WANTED for indie electro band. Looking to launch our EP and start playing shows in a couple of months. Listen at www. soundcloud.com/confider Contact: weareconfider@gmail.com EXPERIENCED BASS GUITARIST WANTED for a newly formed original/covers band ‘Generation Gap’. Phn: Paul 8786 3421 or John 9772 9397. EXPERIENCED DRUMMER with a commitment to practice and regular rehearsals required for alternative rock band. Influences QOTSA, Foo Fighters, Nirvana etc. www.myspace.com/ mollydredd ph: 0411 372 469
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ACCESS ALL AGES With Ruth Mihelcic It’s the last week of school, so it’s time to chill out and check out a couple of gigs to kick off your holidays. To get you started there are no less than four underage dance parties happening this week. On Friday there’s the Electric Carnival ripping it up in Box Hill from 6pm, or get your dance on at the underage House Party at the Wyndham Youth Resource Centre in Hoppers Crossing from 7pm. Do it all again on Saturday with Velocity Underage in East Doncaster from 6pm, or Lockdown Underage in Ballarat at the Mining Exchange. Youth Week is fast approaching and Mornington Peninsula’s Impakt FReeZA are holding a series of free art workshops in the lead up to their Dream On, Dreamer gig. The workshops will promote positive mental health messages to young people and will be displayed at gig. If you want to get involved contact Jody Blythe on 5450 1666. Starting this Sunday and happening on the first Sunday of every month is an all ages open mic showcase at Revolt Artspace in Kensington. It’s only $10 and there’s even a BBQ at 2pm to entice you further. Contact Living Music on (03) 9376 2115 for more info. Don’t forget that entries for the 2012 Musicoz Awards close on Saturday. There’s over $300k in prizes available, so hurry up and enter at www.musicoz.org. Send your all ages news to whatson@thepush.com.au!
All Ages Timetable FRIDAY MARCH 30 Youth Week Preliminary Art Workshops, Somerville Secondary College, 12:30pm – 2pm, Free, Jody Blythe on 5450 1666, U18 Electric Carnival w/ Bombs Away, Heath Renata, Stevie Mink, Katt Niall, Slice & Dice, Mike Metro, Harley Gatt, + more, Box Hill Town Hall, 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, 6pm – 11pm, $30, moshtix.com.au or 1300 438 849, U18 House Party Underage w/ DJ Nigel, DJ Azza and DJ Josh E, Wyndham Youth Resource Centre, 86 Derrimut Rd, Hoppers Crossing, 7pm – 11pm, $10, Wyndham Youth Services on 9742 8155, U18
SATURDAY MARCH 31 A Plea For Purging, Phoenix Youth Centre, 72 Buckley Street, Footscray, 5:30pm, $21.45, oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545, AA Velocity Underage w/ SCNDL & One Night Stand, East Doncaster Public Hall, Corner Andersons Creek and Blackburn Road, 6pm – 12am, $20 - $30, U18 Lockdown Underage w/ Butterbox, Fabian Gray, Nick Galea and Slice N Dice, Mining Exchange, Ballarat, 6:30pm – 10:30pm, $25 - $30, contact 0412 362 027, U18 G3 2012 w/ Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Steve Lukathar, Palais Theatre, Lower Esplanade, St Kilda, 7:30pm, $99.90 - $129.90, ticketmaster.com.au or 136 100, AA Kristina Olsen, The Palais, 111 Main Rd, Hepburn Springs, 8:30pm, $30, The Palais on (03) 5348 4849, AA
SUNDAY APRIL 1 Banyule Youthfest w/ Avalerion, Blood Union, In Elegance, Ocean Grove, Stick To The Shallows, Storm The Sky, In Motions, Nos Mira, Mosé + The FMLY, Edward Mountain and The Eclectic, Elephant Eyes, and Have You Seen This Boy, Birdwood Ave, Macleod, 1pm – 5pm, Free, Jake Coleman on 9459 9022, AA First Sunday w/ Julez, Manix, DFJ Must (Mata and Must), Black Crow Kings, Toxman, Bribes, and more, Revolt Artspace, 12 Elizabeth St, Kensington, 2pm – 5pm, $10, Living Music on (03) 9376 2115 or info@livingmusic. com.au, AA
TUESDAY APRIL 3 Naughty Corner w/ Keesh and dress up party, Wah Wah Lounge, 185 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 5pm – 10pm, $25 - $30, underage.com.au, U18 A Plea For Purging, Musicman Megastore, 363 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo, 5:45pm, $13.30, oztix.com. au or Musicman Megastore on 5443 3299, AA
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SXSW 2012: How The Aussies Fared March 13 - 18, Austin, Texas Back for its third year, The Aussie BBQ has become something of an institution at South By Southwest: a day party put together by Sounds Australia and featuring over 30 home-grown acts. This year it was held on one of the last days of the conference, and if the queue out the front was anything to go by, Australians had fared damn well in Austin. Husky’s five shows were buzzed around the city, but the big one was on the Friday night, when the Melbourne band celebrated their February signing to the legendary Sub Pop Records stable by opening the label’s official showcase. “It felt like a bit of a historic occasion for us,” frontman Husky Gawenda told me later, of opening for acts like Blitzen Trapper, Shearwater and Spoek Mathambo. “It was pretty awesome to be on that showcase.” DZ Deathrays killed it at their second SXSW, proving once more that you don’t need more than two bratty dudes if you want to make a heap of noise. Their first gig, a day show at the Convention Centre, saw the plug pulled on them three songs in – apparently “semi-acoustic” is not something the Brisbane boys are wont to do. Pond were another Aussie act whose hype swelled the more shows they played (most bands try to book in at least two gigs per day). Frontman Nick Allbrook’s Jagger swagger, stage dives and impromptu break-dancing embellished their phenomenal songs and psychedout jams, and I couldn’t find anyone who left one of their shows nonchalant. Without bias, they were one of the best bands I saw in Austin. Emma Louise was a hot tip too; with a well-timed announcement that she’d signed with New York tastemakers Frenchkiss Records, she mesmerised crowds at the label’s showcase a week later. Her songs and voice belie her age, and there’s
something truly transfixing about her – during a day set outside Austin’s Whole Foods, the dark moodiness to her voice and the sweet sadness of her songs won the crowd over from the moment she opened her mouth. It was a proud moment for a Sydney-sider to watch Lanie Lane at the huge showcase for Jack White’s Third Man Records. Alone on stage, dressed like a Wheels & Dollbaby pin-up, hair a-quiff and sporting a smile, she had the backyard crowd in the palm of her hand. (“I ended up getting inducted into The Black Belles as The White Witch, and later on I was hanging around with John C. Reilly – he was driving me around!” she gushed the next day.) But according to most international media wrapping up the ten-day conference, no-one could beat Kimbra. One of the most buzzed Aussie-(ish) acts in Austin, she was handpicked by media bigshots and tastemakers alike to play their parties, including public radio station KCRW, Nylon, MTV, Filter and Sir Perez Hilton Himself. The gig that I saw was at Fader magazine’s Fader Fort – and holy wow. I can’t imagine her ever playing better than that, to a bigger or more welcoming crowd, with more energy, class, sass and vocal power, and I walked away with goosebumps. STEPH HARMON For more on SXSW 2012, head to beat.com.au LOVED: That a music festival could make me love music festivals again. HATED: The “put it on a taco!” mentality of Austin’s eateries. DRANK: Margaritas. All day. Every day.
BLACK LIPS Wednesday March 7, The Corner Hotel The flash in the pan, triple j garage bands tend to produce a barely legal crowd, literally bouncing with enthusiasm. Their squealing and conversations purely made up of acronyms liable to wear the well-travelled gig goer down. Thankfully, Black Lips' enduring career has seen them amass a cult following that boasts people of varying age groups, sub cultures and musical tastes. Solid support band choices saw the punters arrive early and immediately occupy the no go zone. Pioneering the retro resurgence for a few years now, The Frowning Clouds were first up with their ‘60s inspired garage pop. Flaunting three very capable lead singers – vocal harmonies were bountiful and the Clouds found their pace, locked it in and rode that one mood for the whole set. Notorious for their ‘hit or miss’ live shows, Circle Pit proved to be very ‘on’ tonight, offering up a set of ‘70s psych style rock‘n’roll with nods to grunge and delivered with a punk aesthetic. The broad spectrum of influences in Circle Pit’s sound makes this band completely engaging and the crowd dug it, but was starting to champ at the bit for the main event. Black Lips have an endless bag of killer hits, from which to produce a set and tonight each one was causing the crowd to erupt into fits of hysterical dancing. Family Tree started the first real commotion, and there was no respite for even the slower ‘50s doo-wop of Dirty Hands. Numbers from Arabia Mountain were just as well received as the
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classics, with Modern Art seeing the dancing extend all the way to sidelines. Some individuals chose to take their enjoyment to the extreme at the expense of others, and a catfight erupted 3/4 of the way through the Lips' set, complete with choking and clawing. Mosh pit karma folks, if you choose to ignore the etiquette and elbow someone in the face more than five times, they may just try to strangle the life out of you. With only a few short breaks to scull some tinnies, Black Lips' energetic set seemed to draw to a close all too soon. The crowd had been blurring the lines between stage and pit all night, but when the chords of Bad Kids struck, 20 or so die hard fans rushed the stage and proceeded to get their boogie on. To make up for their lack of elevation, everyone on the ground shook their moneymakers even harder. Surely there couldn’t be an encore, this reviewer thought as the song drew to an epic close. Apparently there was and it was mental. Damn school nights. School night or not, Black Lips sure know how to party. KRYSTAL MAYNARD LOVED: Avoiding a stray hit from the catfight. HATED: Not realising the band was going to do an encore and leaving before it, d’oh!! DRANK: Assorted alcoholic beverages.
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36TH PORT FAIRY FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL March 9-12, Port Fairy As always, the fantastic Port Fairy Folk Festival was jam-packed with so many interesting acts that it was hard work trying to see everything. Our weekend began with the Cat Empire’s Harry James Angus who proved to be an engaging solo performer and Tinpan Orange who nailed some truly amazing vocal harmonies on Bottle of Whiskey. The shuddering life-affirming funk of The Bamboos provided a heady soundtrack to the lively Shebeen bar while the sonically and visually attentiongrabbing Woohoo Revue brought the energy of punk to their foot-stomping gypsy music. Eagle & the Worm featured the idiosyncratic vocal talents of Jarrad Brown who has the sort of cloud busting voice that would cause fans of Canadian prog gods Rush to get over-excited. Skilled blues practitioners Eric Bibb and Staffan Astner inspired the audience to clap along passionately during With My Maker I’m One and played the excellent Troubadour which Bibb co-wrote with soul siren Ruthie Foster. Adam Cohen, displaying the suaveness and charm of his legendary father, proved to be an erudite entertainer with a wicked sense of humour and a swag of impeccably well-written songs. His hotly anticipated cover of So Long, Marianne was heartfelt and inspired. The magnetic Judy Collins, a star of the '60s folk scene in the USA, reminisced
entertainingly about her colourful career and blew our minds with her angelic voice which has clearly not been wearied by her decades in the music business. What a singer! London lads ahab impressed with their tight-knit vocal harmonies while Byrds legend Chris Hillman and multiinstrumentalist Herb Pedersen were spellbinding on that seminal psych-folk classic Eight Miles High. John Butler got a hero’s welcome at Port Fairy and packed the massive tent to capacity. His duet with Mama Kin on Jenny sounded wonderful while an incendiary Pickapart exploded with funky intensity. Lanie Lane showcased a thumpingly good cover of The Black Keys' track Gold On The Ceiling as well as sparkling on magnificent originals such as Like Me Meaner. Krystle Warren, who has an acrobatic vocal range, dramatically reworked Eleanor Rigby while Sweet Jean brought our excellent weekend to a close with their dry-as-dust humour and dark and bluesy alt-folk. GRAHAM BLACKLEY LOVED: Judy Collins’ incredible command of the stage. HATED: The Wishart Gallery being closed which meant that the Red Duck beer stall was sadly absent. DRANK: Health-giving Guinness.
SALTAR HYPE’S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY Saturday February 25, The Hi-Fi With Rock The Bay the week before, and its organiser Saltar Hype’s fifth birthday celebrations in this particular week, the last two weekends of February were a veritable feast for fans of the bountiful Australian alternative rock scene. Black and White are an enigmatic mob. All the music is written and recorded by a bloke who doesn’t play live with the band. They play a highly energetic fusion of electronica with full-bore rock, and it works an absolute treat. Their songs are ultra catchy and completely in-your-face all at once. A few technical issues hindered their set a little this night, which was unfortunate, but they still filled The Hi-Fi with a wall of sound, and put on a highly energetic performance. Just as eclectic are Melbourne prog stalwarts Sleep Parade. These guys have an old school ‘look’ about them, and also bring strong influences from the progressive music of yesteryear to the fold. The overall sound is still modern however, and they rolled out a few numbers from their upcoming sophomore album. Frontman Leigh Davies is an absolute pocket dynamo, and it’s always a pleasure to watch him play lead guitar with his teeth and
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fling himself all over the stage. Another band with a massive sound. I can’t wait for that next album. Engine Three Seven's live set is just so consistently entertaining, professional and plain killer. After so many shows together these guys are so tight together that it’s actually a joy to behold. Is there a more engaging act on the Australian live circuit at the moment? In this humble opinion, there is not. Lucky I caught them this night though, as they’re apparently on a break from the live scene for at least six months to work on their debut album. Again, can’t wait. I left yet another Melbourne live venue with yet another warm glow inside, happy that we still have some of the best live bands on the planet in this city. ROD WHITFIELD
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