Please Do Not Litter January 30, 2019 Issue N o 1661
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ISSUE NO 1661
Contents 8 10-14
Contents News
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Arts Guide
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Industry, Hip Hop, Metal
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Grampians Music Festival
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PBS Drive Live
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Do Re Mi, Adalita
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Fem Belling, Nicole Skeltys & The Disenchanted
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Greta Van Fleet, Ravyn Lenae
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Clifton Hill Brewpub, Showtime Night Market
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Greta Van Fleet
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Live
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Album of the Week, Singles
25
Interview
26-29
Albums Gig Guide
Editor’s note With Tom Parker
The last weekend of January brought with it the last moments of the Australian Open, the opening of the Zoo Twilights program, Australia Day from start to finish alongside triple j’s famous countdown since removed from its traditional day. Punters ran wild as the beers flowed and idiocy was normalised for a quick moment. Australia Day holds a sinister place in the fabric of our nation – it’s been glorified for longer than I can think to imagine and maybe it’s time to reconsider its place. Why are we celebrating Australia Day? Is such reasoning consistent with our current values as a nation? Maybe not. As we tick over into February we welcome the beginning of PBS 106.7FM’s premier music extravaganza – the Drive Live which takes over the Easey Street premises for five days. To mark nine stellar years of the week-long festival, we’ve put together a special retrospective of the nine best shows to have ever happened as part of the program. There’s The Peep Tempel, Gizz, Courtney Barnett, The Drones and that’s just the beginning. Grampians Music Festival is approaching fast and we chat to festival director Carly Flecknoe about what’s in store. Set in the foothills of the stunning Grampians, the lineup is rich with diversity matching its inclusive air. Intriguingly, we’ve also got Greta Van Fleet, Adalita and the Fem Belling who’s set to perform as part of Chapel Summer Sessions in mid February. That’s 1661 folks. Get ready.
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News Amyl and The Sniffers
Take out the $30K Levi’s Music Prize
Wednesday 30th January 8pm:
Melbourne’s thrashy, trashy punk rockers Amyl and The Sniffers have won this year’s Levi’s Music Prize, taking home a whopping $30,000 in prize money. What started out as an impromptu bedroom recording project became a career launching EP for the four-piece, who went on to appear at festivals overseas, as well as tour North America with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. They’ll be jetting over to the States again for SXSW festival later this year, and plan to use their prize money to fund this venture, as well as future tours. You can catch them at The Corner Hotel on Friday March 1 before they jet off, with tickets available throught their website.
Wine Whiskey Women:
Katie Wighton
(All our Exes Live in Texas)
+ Meiwa
Thursday 31st January
8pm:
Josh Batten
Beautiful Buildings
9pm:
Sunday 3rd February 6:30pm:
The Gob-Iron
String Band
The Drunken Poet, 65 Peel Street (directly opposite Queen Vic Market), Phone: 03 9348 9797. www.thedrunkenpoet.com.au
Hugo Race
Magpie Diaries
Embarking on their Sanctuary album tour Hunter Valley five-piece, the Magpie Diaries, are hitting the road, celebrating the release of their long-awaited debut album. Spearheaded by Dashville music’s founding father, Matt “Magpie” Johnston, the group have been playing together since 2012, with this record being their biggest project over the past three years. Sanctuary is also the first album to be released under Johnston’s own label, so it’s a big deal for the artist in more ways than one. You can catch them at Fitzroy’s Old Bar on Thursday February 7, and Northcote Social Club on Sunday February 10. Tickets available through the Dashville website.
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Returning to Melbourne for one night
Former Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds member Hugo Race is returning to his home city with longtime collaborator Michelangelo Russo, who he’s been touring with for the past twelve months. The pair spent much of 2018 traversing the globe, playing 70-odd shows in cities like Budapest, Barcelona and Brisbane. Saturday February 2 will see the duo perform at Thornbury’s Swamplands bar, playing tracks from their album John Lee Hooker’s World Today, and possibly their latest work Gemini 4. Tickets on the door.
Red Betty
Transitions Film Festival
Brunswick’s Red Betty Bar are throwing it back to the days of old school R&B, when Salt N Pepa ruled and ‘Sicko Mode’ was decades away. The Twin Peaks-esque venue will be transformed into a hiphop hub for the night, with tunes provided by PBS DJ Richie 1250. You’ll be able to get down to all your fave tracks from 1988 through to 2003 – think 50 cent, Missy Elliott, 2Pac and TLC. The free event kicks off at 8pm on Friday February 1, so chuck on your best ‘90s track suit and get ready to boogie.
Transitions Film Festival will return to Cinema Nova this February, showcasing documentaries from local and international directors, aimed at mobilising audiences towards a better world. This year’s program features 28 films covering a range of themes, from technological innovation and food sustainability, to online privacy and gender equality. The festival kicks off on Thursday February 21 with the American flick, Point of No Return, and wraps up on Friday March 8. Head to the Transitions Film Festival website for the full program.
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National Folk Festival
27 LESLIE STREET BRUNSWICK JAZZLAB.CLUB
Adds over 100 new acts to 2019 lineup
DOORS OPEN EVERY NIGHT FROM 8PM AND SHOWS BEGIN BETWEEN 8:30PM AND 9PM UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
Canberra’s massive five-day folk-fest is back for it’s 53rd year, with an absolute whopper of a lineup in tow. With Irish Mythen and The Fagans already on the bill, The National Folk Festival have welcomed another 100plus acts from around the globe, almost bringing their total tally of artists up to 200. International guests include Scottish duo Ross Couper and Tom Oakes, US group Kittle and Co., and Japanese folk trio John John Festival to name a few. There’s a plethora of home-grown additions too, like folk-pop band Little Quirks, country singer Fanny Lumsden and guitarist Lloyd Spiegel. The festival runs from Thursday April 18 to Monday April 22 at Exhibition Park. Head to the festival website for tickets and the full lineup.
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Clifton Hill Brewpub
The Sisters Of Mercy
Skip the Fitzroy queues and Collingwood crowds this weekend by heading over to the Clifton Hill Brewpub for your live music fix. The historic venue will kick off their February program with Phoebe and The Night Creatures providing punters with a night of good vibes. The group have played over 500 shows together during their career, switching from funk and soul, to indie pop classics and ‘80s gems with ease. While you’re there, make sure to taste your way through the brewpub’s own collection of house-brewed beers. The free event goes down on Saturday February 2.
British rockers The Sisters Of Mercy will be heading to Australia this October, for their first headline tour in over seven years. Formed back in 1980, the band are heralded for their gothic-rock and post-punk sound, inspiring a plethora of big-name artists like Metallica, My Chemical Romance and Nine Inch Nails. They’ll only be playing three shows for their Australian return, visiting fans in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. You can catch them at The Forum on Wednesday October 30. Snag a ticket through the SBM Presents website.
Lucy Dacus
Robyn Hitchcock
American indie-rock sweetheart Lucy Dacus is heading to Australia this year, for her first ever shows Down Under. You may know the talented lady from boygenius, alongside Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, but she’s an impressive artist in her own right, with two records under her belt. Her latest project Historian was released just last year, and she’ll be crooning her way through the album when she tours here in March. She’ll be stopping in Sydney, Brisbane and Bambra’s By The Meadow Festival, as well as Northcote Social Club on Friday March 29. Tickets through Eventbrite.
British musician Robyn Hitchcock has announced he’ll be visiting our shores at the end of the month, for a run of shows over February and March. Hitchcock is somewhat of a music industry veteran, having been in the scene since the ‘70s, when he was a member of The Soft Boys, and later, The Egyptians. He’s had a wildly successful career with over 20 albums under his belt, the last of which he released a mere two years ago. Fans will get the chance to catch the legend live at The Tote on Friday March 1, with tickets available through Oztix.
Kicking off February with Phoebe and The Night Creatures
Locks in 2019 Australia tour
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RIPLEY HOOD & ASH JONES, Lisa Wood. STUDENT NIGHT SPECIAL! $14 jugs of beer & cider - with current student card. 8PM FREE FRIDAY 1ST FEBRUARY
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MADISON JAMES SMITH ENSEMBLE SPECIAL GUESTS KOI KINGDOM $10 ON THE DOOR
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THE ARGOTIERS “FROM HERE TO THERE” – CD LAUNCH – SPECIAL GUESTS EMERSON BLUE $8 PRESALES / $10 ON THE DOOR
SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY 7PM
THOMAS KEATING ‘TODAY I’M STAYING HOME’ LAUNCH SUPPORTS LADY LYON & TOMMY CLIFAS $10 TICKETS
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Bendigo Autumn Music Festival
Van Duren
Unveil 2019 arts program Bendigo Autumn Music Festival (BAMF) is making its debut this year, promising a huge few days of live music, arts and entertainment for locals and visitors alike. They’ve already unveiled an impressive musical lineup (think Kurt Vile, Mojo Juju, Tex Perkins and more) and have now revealed an equally awesome arts program. There’ll be a screening of Waiting: The Van Duren Story featuring a Q&A with Van Duren himself, performances from showman Queen Mario of the Circus, stand up comedy led by Mandy Nolan, kids entertainment from The Amazing Drumming Monkeys, and heaps of workshops on offer too. BAMF runs from Thursday April 25 to Sunday April 28, with the full program available on the festival website.
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Good Boy
Announce national CRF tour
Wednesday 30th 8.00pm
‘LOMONDACOUSTICA’ SUZETTE HERFT, TASH ZAPPALA, LUKE ROBINSON Thursday 31st 9.00pm
Brisbane band Good Boy are hitting the road, bringing their blend of indie rock to cities across Australia. The now four-piece got their big break in January 2016 as winners of triple j Unearthed, scoring them an opening slot at the Brisbane leg of Laneway Festival. Since then, the group have released a myriad of singles and EP’s, as well as stints at Splendour In The Grass and Falls Festival. They’ll be bringing their latest single and tour namesake ‘CRF’ to The Tote on Friday April 12 and you can find tickets through Oztix.
WHITE LIGHTNING
Tropical Fuck Storm
Sell out Melbourne and Sydney shows, announce supports
Melbourne rockers Tropical Fuck Storm have already sold out their March shows in both Melbourne and Sydney, so congrats if you scored a ticket, and sorry if you missed out. They’ve also announced who they’ll be bringing along, with a rotating list of supports set for each city. Those heading along to the Corner Hotel on Saturday March 23 will get to catch both New War and U-Bahn, while Theatre Royal-goers on Sunday March 24 will only see the former. Head to the band’s website to see who’s supporting in each city.
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JOHN DOWLERS VANITY PROJECT
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GREG CHAMPION & USEFUL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY (DIY heroes) Tuesday 5th 9.00pm
IRISH SESSION (Fancy fiddlin’)
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Cherry Bar
Rodriguez
Melbourne’s iconic rock ‘n’ roll joint Cherry Bar are farewelling their home of almost two decades in AC/DC Lane. Co-owner and booker James Young shared a Facebook post last week announcing the move, emphasising that the venue will live on – just in a new location. They’ll be vacating the premises on Sunday March 31, promising to party hard right up until the end. There’s no word yet on where they’ll be reopening, but Young revealed they’re chatting to about ten different venues and trying to find the best fit. Keep an eye on their Facebook page for more news to come.
American musician Rodriguez has had to cancel his upcoming Australian shows, citing health problems as the cause. He was scheduled to visit the country next month, kicking things off in Sydney on Tuesday February 2. There aren’t too many details about what health problems are to blame exactly, but Rodriguez has promised to reschedule his Australian appearances when he’s well enough, and apologised to his fans for any inconvenience. Those who bought tickets through official ticketing agencies will be automatically refunded, so you can squirrel those dollars away until the Sugar Man returns. Head to Frontier Touring for more information.
Moving out of AC/DC Lane
Cancels upcoming tour
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Arts Guide BEAT’S K TOP PIC
Cake Daddy
BODY
An exploration of bodies that fall outside of the binary As part of Midsumma Festival, BODY is a new project that focuses on people’s bodily autonomy. Featuring talks, dances, visual art and music events, the series focuses on trans, gender diverse and intersex bodies and the current obstacles they face in society. Events include MDLSX by Motus – a performance by international artist Silvia Calderoni that delves into intersex and androgyny; Third Nature – a dances performance by Raina Peterson and Govind Pillai, and Beast, a comedy routine by Krishna Istha. Iit’s all taking place at Arts House, North Melbourne from Thursday January 31 until Saturday February 2 and you can find more details on the full BODY program and more via the Midsumma website.
Sammy J & Friends
The Lady in the Van
Hot off of making fun of the Australian Parliament (much like the rest of us), Sammy J will be heading to the Butterfly Club for two nights of musical comedy on Friday February 1 and Saturday February 2. Featuring some brand new songs and bringing back the fan favourites, Sammy J will bring the laughs over some lightly sprinkled piano. No word on whether Randy will be joining, but “a special guest or two” is expected to make an appearance on the evening. Find more details on the show times via the venue website, and grab your tickets for $20 there too.
Featuring none other than legendary British actor Miriam Margolyes, The Lady in the Van (dir. Dean Bryant) tells the story of a peculiar friendship. In 1974, writer Alan Bennett becomes friends with Mary Shepherd, an old lady with a mysterious past who now calls a rickety van home. Based off the book and film of the same name, this Melbourne Theatre Company rendition of The Lady in the Van will unpack the comical and emotional relationship between a writer and a quirky, old nomadic woman. The Lady in the Van runs between Saturday February 2 and Wednesday March 6 at Arts Centre Melbourne and you can find tickets via the venue website.
The comedy favourite is playing some exclusive shows this weekend
A quirky and endearing friendship laid out on stage
Local queer artists Alyson Campbell and Lachlan Philpott have teamed up with Belfast’s most celebrated cabaret singing bear Ross Anderson-Doherty and composer Marty Byrne in the Australian premiere of Cake Daddy. Poking into an ubiquitous obsession with body shape, Cake Daddy challenges stigma by shining a light on contemporary diet and “wellness” cultures. Cake Daddy tells Ross Anderson-Doherty’s story about being fat in a fatphobic world. His aim was to re-appropriate the word fat, while examining the scaremongering and hatredinspiring messages about a global epidemic of obesity. “This work is about not apologising for taking up space, not trying to diet, not trying to make oneself quiet, and encouraging people to stop trying to change their body size,” AndersonDoherty says. A winsome, gregarious man with a sharp Ross Anderson-Doherty is intelligent, aware and very much in demand as a singer and performer in his home of Belfast. “I never stop singing but this work is a very new thing for me,” he says. “Through a long collaboration with Alyson Campbell [director] and Lachlan Philpott [playwright], I have been able to dig deep and find an exciting theatrical form to present this material very close to both my heart and hips.” In Cake Daddy, Ross reels the audience into his world. It’s one that veers like a set of scales between accounts of public judgement of his body weight, and takes us with deft lightness towards the birth of “Cake Daddy” himself, Anderson-Doherty’s alter ego and kind of queer, fat singing superhero. Making highly personal work and delving into memories that are in some ways painful is a brave thing for any artist, especially when they are on stage alone. I started renegotiating my assumptions about health. The sciences have been used as a weapon to keep fat people in their place and the medical field excludes fat people from research,” Anderson-Doherty says. “For years I tried to get rid of my fatness and I always felt like I was on an impossible journey to a better, more acceptable new me. It was the writings of fat activists Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor that helped me view myself in a different way and made it possible for me to make Cake Daddy.” In addition to laying bare the fortitude required to step into the world as a fat person today, it is a hugely fun and fabulous work with a catchy assortment of original songs. Director Alyson Campbell adds that it’s exciting to see Midsumma allow “representation of a whole lot of different types of bodies.” “Cake Daddy takes a positive position on fatness and this work is special and very queer,” she explains. “It is heart-wrenching in moments but what draws you in is Ross’ irrepressible humour, life view and humanity.” Cake Daddy plays at Theatre Works between Sunday February 3 and Sunday February 10 as part of Midsumma festival. More details on show times and tickets via the Theatre Works website. BY STEVIE ZIPPER
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Industry WITH CHRISTIE ELIEZER
Hip Hop
Metal
WITH SOSE FUAMOLI
WITH LOCHLAN WATT
YG Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning
HOW MILLENNIALS HAVE CHANGED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
Their way with technology and active social media use have made it easy for millennials to be a disruptive force in virtually all aspects of life. They take more public transport than any other age group, and take longer to buy houses and cars. They’ve disrupted the financial sector with a hohum interest in credit cards, disrupted travel packages because they want different experiences to their elders, and disrupted workplaces because they expect management to put people before profit and will move to a new job to find a company that reflects such values. So it’s no surprise that they’ve also disrupted the music industry. Their early adoption of streaming and smartphones overturned the entire business model. They not only brought the business back in from the cold, but have created the current landscape of singles over albums, one hit wonders and personalised playlists. Record labels quickly reshaped themselves from product-driven music companies to music-based media companies. It took two millennials, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker to sense back in the late ‘90s, that their age group wanted to experience music rather than own/buy it, and share that experience with other people. Fanning and Parker went on to set up Napster, the ultimate gamechanger, which went on to get hounded out of existence (initially at least). That millennials listen to 75% more music than baby boomers is fuelling the vinyl format. Between January and June 2018, nine million vinyl albums were sold in Australia, with a dollar value of $7.3 million. If 67% of millennials reckon respect and diversity in the workforce are the prime reasons they stay at a job, it’s not surprising that they expect acts and the industry to also be socially responsible and politically motivated.
US rapper YG has been amongst a slew of hip hop artists in Sydney for the first ever Rolling Loud Festival over the weekend; but for one fan, meeting the rapper wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. An Instagram video, which has now gone viral, shows YG at Sydney airport, seemingly flipping the script on the young fan for apparently filming the rapper without his consent. Looking sheepish, the individual in the video is still while YG proceeds to tell him, “If we weren’t in an airport, I’d knock your ass out.” The incident calls back to the confrontation Cardi B’s publicist had with an Australian woman upon the rapper’s landing in Perth for Origin Fields over New Year’s Eve, where the older woman threw an insult at her marriage with Migos rapper Offset. The Australian leg of the Rolling Loud franchise featured the likes of Future, Tyga and more, while Lil Uzi Vert and Ski Mask The Slump God pulled out the day before the event was to take place, with Rae Sremmurd and Gunna stepping in as replacements.
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San Francisco’s Fallujah formed around simple deathcore roots in 2007, but began to showcase something truly arresting and new for extreme metal with their 2013 and 2014 releases Nomadic and The Flesh Prevails. Shortly after, the band was signed to Nuclear Blast for 2016’s Dreamless and became one of the most hard working and talked about bands in death metal. Possessing an ethereal and psychedelic quality, the stunning instrumentation and deep atmosphere of the band pulled listeners through metaphorical wormholes as it challenged the future of what metal could be. However founding member and vocalist Alex Hoffman quit the band in early 2017, abruptly pulling the rug from under their creative journey. After performing a string of shows in 2017 with fill-in vocalist Monte Barnard (Alterbeast, The Kennedy Veil, and short-lived Thy Art Is Murder fill in), Fallujah went dark, and remained almost entirely silent on social media and completely absent from the stage for the entirety of 2018.
Childish Gambino
Chris Brown
Music’s biggest countdown, the triple j Hottest 100, went down yesterday, with the votes revealing just who listeners have been vibing on the hardest over the past twelve months. While Ocean Alley’s ‘Confidence’ took the #1 spot, hip hop and R&B staked their claim on the countdown for 2018, with 21 artists nabbing spots. From Drake (‘God’s Plan’, ‘Nice For What’), BROCKHAMPTON (‘BOOGIE’, ‘1999 WILDFIRE’), Thundamentals (‘Everybody But You’, ‘I Miss You’) and Hilltop Hoods (‘Clark Griswold’, ‘Leave Me Lonely’), international and local flavours alike were ranked impressively throughout the Top 100. In the Top 20, Travis Scott’s ‘SICKO MODE’ came in at #3, Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ clocked in at #4, and the A$AP Rocky/Skepta collaboration ‘Praise The Lord (Da Shine)’ ranked at #13. Chris Brown
But millennials’ biggest impact is felt in concerts and festivals, mostly because they want to actively participate in the show rather than passively watch. Two years ago, Eventbrite noted that millennial attendance of music festivals has nearly doubled in just three years, from 17% to 29% (These are American statistics but assume they are similar to Australia). 84% of millennials attend festivals to escape the daily grind and indulge in activities they might not at home. As a result, more festival promoters are offering a wider range of experiences (from yoga to maze hunts to forest walks) than ever. 80% of millennials are more likely to attend a show or festival that features artists they believe are affecting positive change. Millennials go to concerts as part of a social group, so expect changes in Australian venues that US ones are starting to make to cater for younger crowds. These include different seating configurations rather than just rows, and bringing down walls in upper levels to provide open spaces and a 360-degree view. There’ll be more velvet rope VIP sections, because for millennials’ concert experience, it’s not just the performers on the stage who are the stars of the night.
Alex Hoffman
After being released from custody in Paris following a rape allegation last week, Chris Brown has returned to the US. Last Monday, a young woman came forward claiming she was raped by Brown and three other members of his crew in the singer’s hotel suite. Brown, whose history of assault is obviously well known, was posted bail by French authorities not long after, apparently due to a lack of believability of the accuser’s story. Since the arrest, Brown has filed a defamation suit against the woman in question and has been vocal about his innocence, and while the case hasn’t yet been dismissed, the singer’s legal team is pursuing reparations hard. According to TMZ, who have been at the fore of the story, certain statutes related to false accusations carry a minimum sentence of five years imprisonment, should the defendant be convicted.
Fallujah
Finally Fallujah has released a piece of the art they had been slaving away on during this period of invisible activity – new single ‘Ultraviolet’, taken from their upcoming record, Undying Light. The new track has been met with a huge and passionate collection of feelings, a mix between both incredibly positive and downright unimpressed. New vocalist Antonio Palermo (formerly of Underling) sounds nothing like his predecessors, instead fielding a more emotionally tortured, mid-high range scream, one that harnesses more audible annunciation and simply doesn’t seem to at all touch upon the monochromatic low death growls that defined the band’s prior catalogue. It’s both refreshing and challenging, and alongside the fact that Hoffman’s contributions in the form of synths and electronics are also no longer part of the Fallujah sound, presents something that is hugely different for a band that in many ways was just hitting their stride with their unique sound. Instrumentally however, Fallujah is still Fallujah, and yet on ‘Ultraviolet’ the band feels more focused and purposefully restrained. The structure of the song has clear purpose, and to get to its peak and back down again, the journey of the composition is clearly planned yet allowed to flow just enough to keep the band’s lust for sonic adventure intact. Personally, I love it, and am incredibly excited to sink my teeth into the rest of the record. Once again the band is challenging the death metal status quo, but this time they’re doing it while also challenging their own. The cold futurism of records past has evolved into more earthy tones that feel more man than machine. Despite those that may be crying foul on the internet, I still can’t think of any other band that sounds like this. Undying Light is out Friday March 15 through Nuclear Blast Records.
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Grampians Music Festival Incredible music in incredible surrounds BY ANNA ROSE
Photos by Cam Cooke
There are three words that sum up Grampians Music Festival – diversity, experience, and opportunity. Getting ready to celebrate its third year next month, GMF is not just an opportunity for people to go and experience the diversity of the music and activities on offer, it’s also a massive opportunity for the festival’s performers and its organisers. Beginning with the incredible lineup of Angie McMahon, Sampa The Great, RAT!hammock, Slum Sociable, BATTS and Benny Walker – just a few of the names to look forward to this year – GMF is a three-day camping festival with a twist. Unlike most festivals, the schedule is tailored with the whole experience in mind rather than just the music. “I spent a lot of my time in my teens to midtwenties going to festivals, some small, some big. The beauty of the small ones is exactly that,” says festival director, Carly Flecknoe. “It’s waking up and going ‘What am I going to do today?’ and that doesn’t mean organising where my friends and I are gonna meet up between sets, it’s going, ‘What time do I want to get down there and set myself up? Today, am I going to drink beer or am I going to drink gin?’ It makes the whole process so much more relaxed.” The crowd expected at GMF is as beautifully eclectic as its lineup – it’s a little bit of everybody and equally as inclusive as it is diverse. “I do find it is unique,” Flecknoe says. “It’s the music aficionado, the person who loves going to small gigs and is always there for the opening performance. They want to see those acts because they could be the next big thing. “Then there are the music lovers in general, and what they want to get out of it is the vibe of the atmosphere and the festival in its entirety.” Grampians Music Festival boasts a diverse range of attendees, from people in their early 20s to their 40s and beyond. Flecknoe explains in detail the family-friendly vibe of the festival where kids under 14 are admitted free. A great blend of those who are really experienced in going
to festivals and have their calendar filled up, there are also those who used to do that but now bring their children – a special setting for their first music festival experience. Not only is GMF focused on the diversity and inclusivity of music and punters, but organisers spread their welcome to artisan eateries and additional entertainment, too. “We do craft beer, gin, all premium products – I guess the idea is to come and enjoy the whole experience, [you] get to take it all in, rather than spending $15 on a Hahn Dry just to have a bit of booze.” Boasting an environmental sustainability policy and an inclusion policy built into the festival’s framework, Flecknoe says GMF organisers have a unique view as to the role of a music festival. “I think to some degree it’s about being role models,” she says. “I think a festival has a place to set up a framework, and a footprint almost, of a behaviour that’s acceptable. “[Our] gender diversity and inclusion policy covers everything from how anyone can access the festival to our lineup, making sure all kinds of cultures and genders are represented. “We feel like we’re putting something out there that’s holistic and fits the modern music community. It means the crowd that comes along to enjoy GMF are in line with that as well.” Collaborative, diverse experiences are essential to the GMF ethos and it stretches into the GMF team, as well. Since September a mentor program has been in operation, giving young people the opportunity to experience the day-to-day happenings of what it takes to put on a music festival. “It’s fundamental,” says Flecknoe.
“It’s an invaluable opportunity to work alongside the festival committee and learn about working in music.” For young and local talent, the opportunity to play a festival stage also comes with the opportunity for exposure. Thanks to a collaboration with GMF and The Push, Ballarat local A Miner was the winner of the Regional Electronic Producer and DJ Competition and will perform next month. “I have a feeling he’s going to be a big thing,” says Flecknoe. Set in the idyllic surrounds of the Grampians National Park, GMF promises to be as warm, interesting, and welcoming as its organiser and lineup. “It’s about finding yourself a spot, setting yourself up, and taking in everything that’s around you,” says Flecknoe. Exploring the headline acts, Angie McMahon has garnered strong attention from both home and abroad for her wistful lyricism and smooth vocals. ‘Slow Mover’ was her stunning first single, while follow-up tracks ‘Missing Me’, ‘Keeping Time’ and ‘Helpless’ see her maintain her momentum. Sampa The Great has also been enjoying a swift rise. Two albums down, Sampa has become one of the most exciting forces in Australian hip hop and has affirmed herself as a force to be reckoned with on the live stage. She won 2018 Age Music Victoria Awards for Best Hip Hop Act and Best Soul, Funk, R&B album [with Birds and The BEE9] and will be bringing her formidable energy to Grampians Music Festival.
“We feel like we’re putting something out there that’s holistic and fits the modern music community. It means the crowd that comes along to enjoy GMF are in line with that as well.” Grampians Music Festival goes down in Halls Gap from Friday February 15 to Sunday February 17. Check out the festival website for tickets and the full lineup.
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PBS Drive Live BY KATE STREADER
The complexity and strength of the Melbourne music scene can be put down, in large part, to the work of PBS 106.7FM. Since 1988, PBS has lifted the veil on its transmission, appreciating the inclusiveness and interaction of live music. Their once-titled Live Music Week became a staple across the city but was eventually reimagined in 2011 and transformed into its now ever-popular Drive Live. The annual program, centred on local talent, sees three bands pile into Studio 5 as a small crowd of lucky listeners watch on. As it now enters its ninth year [going down from Monday February 4 to Friday February 8], we’ve revisited nine of the most unforgettable performances to have gone down.
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NO ZU (2013)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (2013)
Courtney Barnett (2014)
Describing their sound as ‘heat beat’, NO ZU certainly brought the fire to their 2013 Drive Live set. The collective’s percussive funk burst into life in the station’s Studio 5, as members leapt manically across the room capturing the energy of their vivacious recordings. Between clanging drums and rhythmically chanted “yeah yeahs”, even radio-listeners found it hard not to bounce along to NO ZU’s energetic performance. A cohesive jumble of trumpet, keys, guitar and an assortment of percussive instruments produced an erratic big band sound, proving the band were onto a good thing.
Before King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard exploded internationally, the psychedelic seven-piece were involved in Drive Live 2013. The same year saw the release of the band’s second and third albums Eyes Like The Sky and Float Along – Fill Your Lungs. Pedalling a raucous garage-infused psych sound, this Drive Live performance saw the band launch full throttle into a cover of The Reatards’ ‘I Gotta Rock ‘n’ Roll’. Between Stu Mackenzie’s distorted howls and the power of the outfit’s dual drummers, it was plain to see these guys were destined for big things.
Another artist caught at the tipping point of their career, Courtney Barnett hit Drive Live at a time where she’d just started making waves behind a string of well-received singles and EPs. While Barnett’s laidback sound and conversational drawl was a stark contrast to the raucous energy that often ensued as part of these live-to-air shows, the overflowing audience lapped up every second of her performance. A staple of Melbourne’s music scene and one of its most successful exports, it was clear that Barnett would be a force to be reckoned with.
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Hiatus Kaiyote (2014)
The Drones (2016)
Kaiit (2018)
In 2014, Hiatus Kaiyote zoomed home from the Grammys for a special hometown set at PBS. Arriving as part of their debut album Tawk Tomahawk, the track ‘Nakamarra’ had just been nominated for Best R&B Performance at the prestigious awards. The band’s new brand of soul had piqued ears far and wide, including those of everyone from Erykah Badu and Q-Tip – the latter of which would share his vocals on ‘Nakamarra’. Hiatus Kaiyote’s live performance of ‘Breathing Underwater’ was a shimmering, funk-fuelled journey that enlivened the Studio 5 space into something otherworldly.
Ahead of their seventh studio album Feelin Kinda Free, Australian rock stalwarts The Drones delivered a blistering live set to PBS Drive Live, giving a glimpse of new tracks ‘Taman Shud’ and ‘Private Execution’ in the process. Wailing guitars dripping with reverb, thunderous drums and frontman Gareth Liddiard’s frenetic yelps and growls materialised into something memorable. The Drones’ sound is perfectly compatible to the live setting and they made that screamingly obvious, tearing up Studio 5 with unbridled energy.
Just prior to her EP Live From Her Room being unveiled to the world, fierce R&B soul singer Kaiit had the undivided attention of the PBS crowd as she hit Drive Live with a stunning performance. Through her silky voice, bold rhymes and hypnotic beats it was impossible not to get swept up with the energy emanating from Studio 5. Performing celebrated tracks ‘2000 n SOMETHIN’ and ‘OG Luv Kush Pt. 2’ among others, Kaiit had her Drive Live audience captivated and solidified her reputation as an artist to watch.
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Cash Savage and The Last Drinks (2017)
The Peep Tempel (2017)
Tropical Fuck Storm (2018)
Cash Savage is renowned for her intensity; from the sheer power of her delivery to her staunch demeanour, to see her perform live is mesmerising. Packed into the studio, Cash Savage and The Last Drinks were a tight unit oozing frenzied fury, ensuring there wasn’t a still body amongst the crowd. Violinist Kat Mear’s almost menacing touch to an already apocalyptic sound was enough to evoke goosebumps, even for those listening in at home as the band tore through a gripping rendition of ‘Run With The Dogs’ from their latest album One of Us.
The Peep Tempel’s visit to Drive Live was cemented further in glory since the band entered an indefinite hiatus later that same year. Nine years strong, the Melbourne garage-punks had just released their final album Joy, arguably their best yet, when they took on Drive Live. The band’s cataclysmic sound was destined for their beloved radio station and the memory of their momentous set is almost enough to fill the hole they’ve left since going off the grid. Eliciting the noise rock sound and lyrics entrenched in satire – Australiana and blokey aggression which saw the nation eating up their biggest track ‘Carol’, it seems the band were in their prime for what would be their last year.
No stranger to Drive Live, having appeared with The Drones as well as a solo set in years past, Gareth Liddiard made his return with his newest project Tropical Fuck Storm. The newcomers, featuring long-time PBS presenter and Mixing Up The Medicine devotee Erica Dunn, had been causing a stir since rearing their heads with ‘Chameleon Paint’ and a handful of 7” releases the year prior, and were already gearing up for a massive takeover with their cosmic sound. If you’ve seen TFS live, you know they put on a hell of a show, and their visit to Studio 5 was certainly no exception.
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Do Re Mi
“Whether or not it was us just being complete wankers because we were young and headstrong, I don’t know.”
Led by bassist Helen Carter and vocalist Deborah Conway, Do Re Mi reunited for the inaugural Australian Women in Music Awards last October. Invigorated by the one-song performance, Carter and Conway were keen to properly commence a new phase of the band’s career. “We did the awards and that was great. It was a fabulous event, but obviously you wouldn’t get the band back together if it wasn’t going to be for something fairly chunky,” says Carter. That opportunity emerged in the form of the By The C concert series, now in full swing. Do Re Mi’s first tour in over 30 years places them alongside Icehouse, The Sunnyboys, The Church and Mental As Anything. They’ve also locked in a Melbourne headline show on Friday February 8. “Sunnyboys very sadly broke up before we were really doing anything particularly regularly, but I do know [bassist and co-founder] Peter Oxley really well,” says Carter. “In fact, he is the one who called me and said, ‘Hey we’re doing these shows. Do you want to do them with us?’ And I said, ‘Look we haven’t really got a band at the moment, but let me talk to Deb [Conway] and we’ll see what we can whip up.’” Drummer Dorland Bray and guitarist Stephen Philip completed the original Do Re Mi lineup. In their place, the new lineup features guitarist Bridie O’Brien, keyboardist Clio Rener and drummer Julia Day. “There was no animosity or anything like that,” says Carter. “In fact, Stephen’s worked with Bridie to help her understand the nuances of his
playing style and Dorland knows Julia quite well and he likes Julia’s playing a great deal. “Obviously behind the scenes there’s been some reflections on us calling ourselves Do Re Mi, but overall it’s been a fairly organic and very chilled way of getting back together. Having this particular lineup, and without putting too much emphasis on the all-female lineup, but we’re the only women on the whole By The C tour.” Do Re Mi formed in Sydney in 1981 and issued a couple of low-key EPs over the next few years. The band’s funk inscribed post-punk sound came to the attention of the influential Virgin Records who put out their debut LP, Domestic Harmony, in 1985. The album was a top 20 success in Australia and spawned the iconic single, ‘Man Overboard’. But despite making a significant commercial impact, Do Re Mi didn’t always feel integrated in the local music scene. “I feel more part of a community now then I did then,” says Carter. “Whether or not it was us just being complete wankers because we were young and headstrong, I don’t know. There was all this stupid Sydney-Melbourne rivalry and Sydney was always just not a great community. “Yes, we knew people and yes, we played
with people and there were certain enclaves of people, particularly in the Darlinghurst scene in the early days, which was more of an art scene. We’d do shows where we would have performance artists who’d have lighting shows, we’d have poetry readings and then Do Re Mi would get up and do four songs. It was quite eclectic so it wasn’t like we were just a posse of rock musicians that just hung out.” Do Re Mi split in 1988, not long after releasing their second album, The Happiest Place In Town. However, Carter says getting back on stage with Conway feels completely natural. “Honestly it was like the 30 years didn’t happen. The one thing that we all commented on that we thought was absolutely brilliant was how nice everybody was backstage [at By The C] and how the crew were all really relaxed and chilled. “The crowd were just really chilled as well. Often back in the ‘80s where you had these big festivals, there’d be punch-ups and excesses of all kinds. But the audience just seemed really chilled and everyone had a great time. So I’m sorry I can’t give you any goss on nudity or anything like that.”
Do Re Mi perform as part of the By the C concert series in Leura Park, Geelong on Saturday February 9, tickets via Ticketmaster. A Melbourne sideshow hits the Corner Hotel, Friday February 8, tickets via Feel Presents.
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Adalita
Adalita’s been releasing music for 25 years, first with Magic Dirt and then more recently as a solo artist. But while the two projects have previously been kept separate, she’s currently jumping between the two. Adalita and her full band are headlining the Alfred Square Stage at this year’s St Kilda Festival, but in the meantime she’s leading Magic Dirt around the country on the Hotter Than Hell tour. It’s Magic Dirt’s first tour since 2009 and the sad passing of bassist and founding member Dean Turner. “It is really great to be back together, but of course we miss Dean and it’s so hard without him,” says Adalita. “There’s still so much grief and sadness to deal with every step of the way, but we feel like he’s here, we feel closer to him by doing the shows. And I know Dean would want us to do this.” Turner’s death from a rare form of soft tissue cancer, dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, had a profound impact on Adalita. He wasn’t just the band’s bass player, but also played a pivotal role in forming and steering Magic Dirt. “He discovered me pretty much,” says Adalita. “He heard a cassette of my demos and he said, ‘This is great, I’m going to learn bass, let’s start a band.’ So we did. Dean was almost like clairvoyant or something. He always knew. Throughout our whole time as a band he’d make all these calls – we should do this, this and this – and it always worked.” After two decades of Magic Dirt, including six full-length albums and a long list of EPs and singles, Adalita launched a solo career in 2010. Her 2011 self-titled LP was named Best Independent
“He heard a cassette of my demos and he said, ‘This is great, I’m going to learn bass, let’s start a band.’ So we did.” Album at that year’s AIR Awards. Once again, Turner’s influence was essential to its creation. “Around 2008 he said, ‘Oh you know your other songs? You should do a solo record.’ And that was it. He said, ‘You should do something with this person at this studio,’ and I went, ‘OK.’ And we did it and it was great. “I’ve been writing all the time since we started and along the way there have been songs that have been left behind because they weren’t suitable for Magic Dirt or I didn’t even bring them into the jam room. They did feel like different bits of music, something a bit weirder or something that didn’t require a rock genre around it.” Adalita’s stripped back and more measured sound is a far cry from Signs of Satanic Youth, Magic Dirt’s recently reissued debut EP. While the four-piece from Geelong cleaned up their sound in the early-’00s to deliver the radio hits ‘Dirty Jeans’ and ‘Plastic Loveless Letter’, they started out as a heavy, deviant and sometimes chaotic rock band. “[Signs of Satanic Youth] has got that real innocence about it and sounds like a band that’s
exploring their craft, their songwriting skills and we’re just so cute,” says Adalita. “We’re having a ball and we’re turning up the guitars super loud. It’s a bit of an experimental record. Lindsay Gravina, who engineered it and produced it, he feels it’s a real arty record. And I agree. We were fascinated with pedals and making our guitars do weird noises. We were just obsessed.” Adalita’s second album, All Day Venus, came out in 2013, but she’s kept quiet since then. However, her 2019 activity won’t be limited to the St Kilda Festival. “I’m working on a new record at the moment, which has sort of been my Apocalypse Now. It’s a monkey on my back. I’ve just been working on it for years, since 2015. It’s been such a tough record to do. I’ve written myself some pretty complicated songs,” she explains. “This third solo record feels different to the others and I want to keep evolving. I’ve got other ideas for the next album and a couple of ideas for some other projects.”
Adalita plays the Alfred Square Stage at St Kilda Festival on Sunday February 10. Find more details on the full program via the festival website.
BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
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Fem Belling
Chapel Summer Sessions is about to host the thoughtprovoking Fem Belling, a jazz musician with a killer voice making music for the ‘now’ generation. Belling is presenting her show Kon Shes – a group of five friends emphasising the talent of female artists and teaching their audience about a socially conscious movement. “I wanted to make music that made people conscious of their choices and their decisions,” Belling says. “I wanted to celebrate the female performer, while also contributing to a larger socially conscious voice. The band comprises of 80% women and I called it Kon Shes to alert people and make them think more about women in music.” Kon Shes is not a feminist rant – it’s designed to make you groove while also opening up your mind to a range of different social issues affecting the world today. “The show has more of a cool groovy funk jazz vibe, there’s some original music in there that touches on things that we should be thinking about,” Belling says. “I think we need to think about our planet; we’re concerned with who likes who and who doesn’t like who, what’s being represented and what’s not being represented, whose land this is – but we may not even have our land if we don’t start taking care of our planet. “There’s small things we can do that will lead to big changes. We just have to start thinking that it’s not an attack on us as humans, it’s just something we have to do as humans.” Belling also wants to elevate Australia’s jazz scene beyond restrictive genre labels of genre for wider appeal.
“I feel like jazz is not something we should let get dusty and leave it on the shelf – jazz is whatever is happening now and I want to contribute to that as much I can,” she says. “I’ve landed up in the jazz world in Australia and I love it so much, however I really want to make music for everyone. I don’t just want to be a niche market – my music is something I want everyone to be part of. “A lot of people when they hear that I sing or play jazz, they’re like ‘jazz is not really my thing,’ and then they listen and they go ‘oh my god, this is fantastic.’ I wonder if we stop putting labels on music, whether more people would be more excited by what we do. “This is how I see it – people have different styles of fashion, they don’t wake up everyday and put the exact same thing on. So therefore when I sing, I don’t sing in the exact same kind of genre. Some days my music veers towards feeling like this and some days it’s more of a party feel, and some days it’s a little mainstream. I think by
saying ‘I am a jazz singer’ – it just stops me from wearing all these fabulous outfits.” Belling also wants to tour the world and represent Australia on an international level. While she has already been to a lot of places, she really wants to go to Japan someday. “I would love to go to Japan and play at one of their festivals, because I know the people there are just mad about jazz. I also really want to represent Australia on an international stage and take in all these cultures and perform with all musicians from other cultures. “This is where it’s at: this is the new world where we can travel, where we can go, where we can be. My goals are to never stop creating music, but I also want to show the rest of the world what Australia has to offer.”
“I wanted to reimagine myself looking at the world through Bob Dylan’s eyes.”
Performing with her band, Nicole Skeltys & The Disenchanted, the singer-songwriter will have a 20year career and 11 studio albums to cherish and relive in her first home show for six years.
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Fem Belling presents Kon Shes at Chapel off Chapel on Sunday February 17. Tickets via the venue website.
BY CHRISTINE TSIMBIS
Nicole Skeltys & The Disenchanted
Though she began her career obsessed with the strange beauty of analogue synthesisers, after their commercialisation Skeltys turned her attention to writing folk-rock with psychedelic sounds and poetic, intense lyrics. “That genre and live performance was also better suited for me to process lot of heartache and dark stuff – death of my mother, relationship breakdowns, my breast cancer diagnosis, the Iraq war, the bleakness of the political climate moving inexorably to the right,” Skeltys says. The release of last year’s Deal With Your Disenchantment was something of a reinvention for Skeltys. Self-proclaiming the album’s (and her own) style as Dylanesque, Skeltys says although there are thematic continuities from her previous work, it is a high concept album. “I wanted to reimagine myself looking at the world through Bob Dylan’s eyes in the ‘60s/early ‘70s – only I’m a 21st century woman, and the political and social issues are the ones we are dealing with now.” There’s a particular brand of emphatic realism to Dylan’s music, something that was a big draw for Skeltys. She says the style of commentary and its honest delivery is something still necessary in music today. “Dylan is first and foremost a great artist,”
“I feel like jazz is not something we should let get dusty and leave it on the shelf – jazz is whatever is happening now and I want to contribute to that as much I can.”
she says. “Not just the wonderful ‘thin, wild mercury sounds’ of his golden period, but his lyrical genius [that] justifiably earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. “He was very clear-eyed and honest and deeply affected by what he saw happening around him, but he elevated reality through astonishing lyrical inventiveness and poetry rhythms and imagery, woven into familiar sounding – now iconic – songs that were wholly original.” Skeltys describes the band as “[a] band for the wise man and the fool, who have nothing to live up to”, given the gravity of some of her songs, she is in a sense trying to encourage people to live up to themselves. “That line is from ‘It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)’ which is from the Bringing It All Back Home album,” says Skeltys. “I was quoting that as my personal act of defiance, for putting out such an audacious album – really taking enormous aesthetic and personal risks. Didn’t stop Bob, so it hasn’t stopped me. “The album could easily have met with derision – and it might still. But so far, people are ‘getting it’ – the ‘60s sound, the updated sensibility, the heavy, gold words that dangled and shone.”
At Northcote Social Club next month, Skeltys’ performance will contain material from the last 20 years, material that in many ways, has a message still applicable to today’s socio-political climate. Whether Skeltys was actively thinking of such things when she wrote most of her material is another matter. “I’ve only ever pursued my own artistic vision out of a deep need to do so,” she says, “and used my music to escape the tune of the hive.” Skeltys isn’t really giving much thought as to whether her visit and the reception to her show might influence any new material. Instead, she’s thinking heavily on the emotional side of a return home after such a long period, and the opportunity she has to do something she loves while she’s here. “If people don’t turn up for such an epic event, or don’t like what they hear or see, then I’ll just have to write an 11 stanza protest song against this injustice, in the vein of Dylan’s ‘Hurricane’, and it will be a hit and then the good people of Melbourne will feel remorse,” she finishes, teasing. BY ANNA ROSE
Nicole Skeltys & The Disenchanted play the Northcote Social Club Saturday February 16. Tickets via Eventbrite.
FEATURE
Greta Van Fleet
Jet lag is the master and Jake Kiszka the puppet. The Greta Van Fleet guitarist speaks blearily down the line from a hotel in Sydney, but reassures that despite his gloomy tone, he and his band will be ready to rock the start of their fivedate tour this week. Greta Van Fleet have an abundance of attention and loyalty behind them ever since they hit the scene with their EP Black Smoke Rising in 2017, which boasted a classicism in the band’s take on rock ‘n’ roll. It’s an approach that would attract both the title of being the saviours of rock n’ roll and comparisons between themselves and one of the greatest bands of the genre, Led Zeppelin. Last year’s Anthem For The Peaceful Army, despite having equally as impressive chart figures as its EP predecessor, split opinion of Greta Van Fleet down the middle. Had they hit their peak too soon with their EP? Were the clean cut chords and falsetto vocals as revolutionary as first believed? There was division about quality among fans particularly on social media. “Black Smoke Rising was [released] a year prior to the album,” begins Kiszka. “Certainly there’s an evolution that took place within the group musically. “Even sonically, I think we had far more time with the recording process of the first full-length album that we could sit down and decide on a sonic direction.” Being allowed that time to focus on changes in direction means we could see a potential
“Not one king can wear that crown ... We’re not the only band playing rock ‘n’ roll right now. shift in the plates of the foundations of Greta Van Fleet, away from the endless classic rock comparisons and into something that’s perhaps a little more individual to them. “Frankly, it happens organically,” says Kiszka. “As far as influences go, live performance and travel, I feel there’s as much external change to face as there is internal growth. “What we see and experience certainly changes our writing and influences our music. I think that’s places, culture, people, and new music. There’s a lot of changes that have occurred over the last 18 months that we’ve been on the road. I think that’s a very natural evolution of where we’re at now, and where we’re going.” The direction that evolution has begun to craft out for Greta Van Fleet has proved to be a popular one – two of their tour dates sold out quickly, with additional shows to be added. “It’s difficult to say why that is,” chuckles Kiszka. “Among the popularity of the music, I think for whatever reason the genre of rock ‘n’ roll has been a minority since the beginning that people are generally captivated by. “I think that’s an amassing culture, especially
in our generation, interested in rock ‘n’ roll, interested in the path of rock ‘n’ roll, and certainly interested in the teachings of it. “As much as our sound is derived of our influences and our creative perspectives of those who influenced us, this is something for or generation and something for generations past who had a similar attitude or emotion to the purity of it.” Greta Van Fleet have been described as the saviours of rock ‘n’ roll, despite the fact that the boys grew up listening to a variety of different music. It’s not a title Kiszka believes should be applied to the band, particularly one that ties them to a resurgence of popularity of classic rock. “Not one king can wear that crown,” he says. “We’re not the only band playing rock ‘n’ roll right now. “Among our peers are people who could be considered a part of the same generation of musicians doing it. I think maybe some of the directions and elements infused in what we’re doing are unique to us.”
Greta Van Fleet play The Forum on Tuesday February 5 [sold out] and Festival Hall on Wednesday February 6. Tickets via Live Nation.
BY ANNA ROSE
Ravyn Lenae Released in early 2018, Ravyn Lenae’s Crush EP endeared the Chicago singer to a global audience including a strong Australian contingent. The five-track release, produced by The Internet’s Steve Lacy, marked a major step forward for Lenae as she honed in on a brightly tinted, flexiR&B sound. “Working with Steve Lacy was great because I’d never written with production like that. I’ve never written with another person,” Lenae says. “Him being a singer-songwriter himself challenged me in other ways. So I think going more into that funky, psychedelic realm of music brought on a meaning and a new feeling to what I already had been doing and I think a lot of people resonated with that.” The EP’s lead single, ‘Sticky’, was one of 2018’s most irresistible songs. Built around Lacy’s psychedelic organ and guitar arrangement, Lenae shares the experience of being stuck in a relationship despite continual mistreatment. The person described may be hot and cold, but ‘Sticky’ is all titillating R&B grooves and toothsome melodic candy. “That was the first song that me and Steve had ever worked on,” says Lenae. “I was in The Internet’s studio session just hanging out. I think they went out for a smoke and Steve pulled up the instrumental to that song and I was like, ‘oh my god, I want this one.’ “So I wrote the hook in like 30 minutes there and recorded it on his phone, because that’s where he records everything. And then he played it aloud for everyone and I was like, ‘this is special, I want to finish this and I want to branch off of this idea
“A lot of people think of [Crush] as my debut. I like to think of it as my pre-debut.” and create something bigger.’” Lenae is in Australia for this year’s St Jerome’s Laneway Festival tour and sideshows, but afterwards she’ll head straight home to focus on new music. The success of Crush, in terms of creative stimulation and audience response, gave Lenae some clarity on what she wants to do next. “A lot of people think of [Crush] as my debut. I like to think of it as my pre-debut,” she says. “Whatever I do next I feel like is going to be really what I want people to hear and the first voice that the world will hear post-Crush. But I gained so many new fans from that project and I think me dipping into a different lane, just the different sounds that were being used in that project spoke to a different crowd of people.” Lenae was born and raised in Chicago and remains closely involved in the city’s bubbling music scene. She has appeared on songs by fellow Chicago artists Noname, Mick Jenkins, Joey Purp and Jean Deaux as well as supporting Noname on her 2017 Telefone tour. Lenae is also a central member of the Zero Fatigue collective along with Smino, Bari, Monte Booker and Jay2. “I’ve always thought of Chicago as being the hub for music in the US,” she says. “I’ve always been grateful to have been an artist here, because
I had that initial sense of support when I was just coming out that I probably wouldn’t have had in a different place. I think that having that kinship and relationship to other artists who I looked up to coming up has really given me that extra push and encouragement that you need when you’re just starting out.” Lenae’s network extends beyond Chi City, too. Along with the Lacy collaboration, she’s jumped on major tours with SZA and Jorja Smith. Stylistically she aligns with these artists in their common effort to defy boundaries of pop, R&B, hip hop, funk, jazz and soul. “In each stage, in each era of my life things are different. So if I’m doing it right I’m always changing my sound or something else always feels right at different periods in my life,” she says. “I think it’s important to remain box-less or to keep yourself open to other possibilities and genres and feelings. It’s important as an artist to keep it limitless.”
Ravyn Lenae plays her Laneway Festival sideshow at Howler on Wednesday February 6. St Jerome’s Laneway Festival goes down on Saturday February 8 at Footscray Park.
BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
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FEATURE
Clifton Hill Brewpub
It’d be fair to say that Melbourne’s inner-eastern suburbs have snagged themselves the coveted title of ‘trendy’. Areas like Fitzroy and Collingwood are hubs of activity, overflowing with dynamic nightlife, stylish shopping strips and a bustling foodie scene worth crossing the city for. Just down the road, Abbotsford boasts some great cafes and laidback bars, while Carlton is a mecca for traditional Italian fare. Alongside these attention-heavy suburbs lies Clifton Hill, which generally goes pretty unnoticed thanks to its flashy neighbours. But it’s here where you’ll find a hidden gem, in the form of the Clifton Hill Brewpub. Built in the 1880s, the brewpub stands in place of the former Clifton Hill Hotel, which has undergone some serious makeovers in its time. The venue’s most recent facelift was around five years ago when the brewpub was installed, and they began pumping out a plethora of interesting craft beers. Prior to this, the pub’s drawcard was its live music, hosting artists like The Waifs, Ash Grunwald and Jordie Lane, to name a few. This entertainment aspect is something they’ve recently reintroduced, aiming to inject new life into the venue and fill a gap in the Clifton Hill scene. “They used to do live music a long, long time ago – it used to be quite a heavy rock’n’roll, kinda biker bar,” says manager Hamish Arnold-Lester. “Now there’s a bit of a mixed bag with what we do, there’s some jazz some nights, and funk, some
folky-rock, and some alternative gigs as well. “There’s bars like Some Velvet Morning just down the road and The Gaso around the corner, and there’s not a huge amount of live music places in this area. So, it was more to engage the clientele, and deliver them some entertainment on the weekends that they otherwise wouldn’t see unless they travelled out a fair way. At the moment, the pub hosts two days of live music a week, taking place on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons. Their program boasts an eclectic mix of Melbourne artists – but you won’t find any aging cover bands here. “We don’t really stick to a theme apart from we don’t really do the whole ‘April Sun in Cuba’ kind of cover band thing,” laughs Arnold-Lester. What you will find though [as well as music] is a lengthy list of craft beers, seven of which won medals last year at the Australian International Beer Awards. “We do about thirteen beers on our taps that are all from our brewery, plus two outsourced and a cider. Probably four or five of those are constant, and the rest all rotate,” explains Arnold-Lester. “There’s more stouty ones coming through the winter cycle, and we focus more on the whole
sours and lighter style lagers and pilsners over the summer months.” Their current lineup is pretty tantalising, featuring exotic brews like the Breakfast Sour, a Tropical Storm, the Irish Red Ale and their highly regarded Raspberry Gose – which Arnold-Lester himself is a big fan of. “I wasn’t a huge craft man before I did start here, but I’ve slowly built my palate,” he admits. “I’m a huge fan of sour beers now, and we do a great raspberry one at the moment.” If you’re not into your hops that’s ok too, as they offer an extensive wine list – 54 different types – plus an impressive collection of gin, with a variety of tonics and mixers. There’s food too for when you’re feeling peckish, serving up sophisticated dishes like kangaroo loin marinated in thyme and orange zest, or your standard parmatype pub grub. Melding live music with brewery-fresh beer, a carefully selected wine list alongside an intricate yet accessible menu, the Clifton Hill Brewpub is the perfect spot for anyone with an eye for quality and diversity.
“I want them to walk away from Showtime feeling like they had the agency to be creative and that they were really a part of the event.”
So, you’re headed to an art exhibition. Likely, your mind goes first to an art gallery, picturing images of what’s in store.
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Clifton Hill Brewpub is located at 89 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill, open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. Head to their website for their live music program.
BY GRETA BRERETON
Showtime Night Market
No doubt it will be interesting, and likely to be a stimulating day, punctuated with a coffee here and there. It is a place though, where the lines between artist and audience are usually firmly drawn, and any form of tangible relationship between the two is seldom explored. For those who aren’t artists, this is generally how visual art is consumed and experienced. But for Arie Rain Glorie, program director and curator at Testing Grounds, this is a preconception that he’s all too enthusiastic to challenge. “I’ve always been in a funny spot. I mean a curator and an artist, I’m supposed to love art. But I often find exhibitions quite boring,” Glorie laughs. “So I’m always searching for a new way to kind of engage audiences in visual art, because it is so great. “Galleries can be great. I’m just interested in my point of departure as a curator, which differs from a lot of other curators, which is that I am deeply interested in audiences and often I’ll put the audience experience as the absolute most important thing that I’ll deal with, in front of the artist’s experience and also in front of the integrity of the artwork itself.” Glorie, is the brains behind a new venture from the team at Testing Grounds, called Showtime Night Market. He describes it like a Trojan horse: “Everyone understands what a night market is. So we’ve become really interested in how they can really grab people’s attentions,” says
“We’ve now got a much wider range of people coming through and it probably has a lot to do with the bands, as well as the beers.”
Glorie. “And essentially once they get down there, then we trick them. There’s lots of strange things they can get involved with.” Far from the cackles of an evil scientist, Glorie’s excitement stems from something of an experimental bent, enjoying breaking down the traditional narrative of artist-audience relationships. “It’s something very much based around stripping the idea of the artwork away, and replacing it instead with the idea that the artists are doing demonstrations, with the unique and unusual skills that they have. I think often it’s that moment in a gallery where you go, ‘Oh yeah, that’s a really nice artwork’. But it’s when the artist tells you more about how they made it, and you get that behind the scenes look, that I find it becomes much more interesting,” he explains. “Showtime is really about that, exposing the behind the scenes. With this different format I’m hoping to prolong and deepen people’s engagement with ideas.” Crucial to this was ensuring a thread of simplicity across all the demonstrations. In doing so, keeping things inviting for the audience. “We were really looking for quite analogue experiences
and being interested in audience engagement you’re looking for the types of demonstrations where you’re asking very little from the people who want to get involved.” One such example is artist Jen Rae’s demonstration on how to make Chiko Rolls with crickets – a piece where Rae will fry the crickets on the spot and then eat them. Stalls like this are key to the imagination of the event. “With these demonstrations I was kind of looking for things that would get people pretty excited and give them a little bit of a story to tell afterwards,” Glorie says. It’s easy to see that for Glorie, the audience remains firmly in the fore in his mind. Founded by a deep appreciation for their experience and to that end, he is wholly invested in ensuring that the average punter walks away from Showtime Night Market with something totally unique. “I want people to describe it as something that they’ve never experienced before. I want people to walk away from Showtime feeling like they had the agency to be creative and that they were really a part of the event. That their actions helped shape it.” BY MATTHEW TOOHEY
Showtime Night Market comes to Testing Grounds at the Melbourne Arts Precinct for two instalments on Friday February 1 and Friday March 1. Head to the Testing Grounds website for more information.
Live Idles
The Croxton, Friday January 25 It’s 9.30pm. Idles are due on in 15 minutes. Two men strike up a conversation in the bar line. One’s Australian, the other sounds British. “It’s not the sort of punk I’m into,” says the Australian guy. “Oh, OK. What are you into?” says the Brit. “I’ve been listening to a lot of emo. Do you know Modern Baseball?” says the Australian. “No. Do you listen to much Australian stuff?” returns the British chap. “Nah. I think Australian music’s pretty shit. I listen mainly to American bands,” the Australian quips. “OK. Idles are really interesting. They’re singing about Brexit, about masculinity. It’s not your average stuff,” says the British man. “To me it sounds like it’s about 30 years old,” says the emo-lover. “I think his singing style’s pretty atrocious.” The British guy exhibited admirable patience throughout this exchange, but then he knew he was in the majority. On Thursday night Idles sold out the Corner. Friday it was the same result at The Croxton. And while their latest album, Joy As An Act of Resistance, is only five months old, the front half of the venue was so frenzied you’d think it was a time-honoured classic. Idles are a unique proposition. Their music’s ugly, loud, aggressive and sarcastic, but it’s also empathetic, self-aware and tender. And so the atmosphere was marked by idiosyncrasies. Opening number ‘Colossus’ is a dirge-like, Alice In Chains-style exorcism. But it switches to a brain rinsing pop punk singalong around the four-minute mark. The
crowd went suitably nuts at this transition; pint cups flying everywhere and men and women pogoing wildly in what could’ve been a release of anxiety and rage or just a celebration of the freedom to scream. This feeling permeated as the band pushed on with songs that deconstruct masculine pride (‘Samaritans’), expose Tory party austerity (‘Divide and Conquer’), highlight the systemic perpetuation of sexual violence (‘Mother’), and make a case for open borders and multi-cultural integration (‘Danny Nedelko’). They carried out the socio-political examination while thrashing through primal punk rock arrangements, swigging beers and letting guitarist Mark Bowen strip off his overgarments. Frontman Joe Talbot delivered every line with determined passion. So much so, in fact, that he looked perceptibly drained during the fleeting instrumental sections. Idles are a hard band not to like. Their songs are simple and direct and Talbot is responsible for some of the best verses in UK punk history. But the five-piece are somewhat let down by their preference for a shout-along chorus. It’s not a flawed intention, but so often the choruses feel a bit lame compared to the intensity of the verses. That said, when you’re dealing with such weighty subjects, erupting into “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Hey, ey, ey, ey,” is an apt way to release the angst. Regardless, the Croxton Bandroom was fizzing with sweat, spilt beer and calls for unity all night. Highlight: Talbot giving kudos to the NHS. Lowlight: The amount of cups thrown around. Crowd favourite: ‘Danny Nedelko’. BY AUGUSTUS WELBY
Idles - Photo by David Harris
Mumford & Sons
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Wednesday January 23
Despite the cacophony of disdain that often dominates discussion of Mumford & Sons, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl was filled to the brim for their second Melbourne show. Strikingly, this was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever seen. With more than 12,000 people of all ages and walks of life united by their love of the celebrated band, the sheer size of the crowd was awe-inspiring. The band seemed to appreciate this. From the moment they entered the venue, hustling to a B-stage situated between the lawn and bowl itself, they were completely in the moment, and their delight in this individual show was palpable. The setlist was impossible to predict [trust me, I tried] and was entirely different to any of their recent shows. This commitment to tailor their shows and keep them unique was impressive, creating an intimate atmosphere in such a grand, sweeping venue. But flawless atmosphere aside, the fault in this show lay in the music itself. The British four-piece are at their best when as cheesily, authentically folk as possible — frantic guitars and banjo, foot stomping and double bass plucking. This was on display as early as possible at their second Melbourne show, opening the set with ‘Sigh No More’ and ‘Little Lion Man’ from a B-stage next to the bar, before the great expanse of lawn before them. Unfortunately, during ‘If I Say’, it became apparent the band’s older material – tracks from Sigh No More and Babel – pops in a way their more recent work cannot compete with, and that they are intent on toning back their traditional folk elements when doing so.
Delta and Wilder Mind dominated the setlist, and as a result, almost the entire midsection of the set blurred into one bloated stretch of mediocrity. They did attempt to spice things up with pyrotechnics and light displays, but they were nothing remarkable, seeming out of place and ill-timed. That being said, the show was punctuated with some of the most impressively engaging live renditions of tracks that I’ve had the pleasure of seeing, and those moments were pure magic. Tracks like ‘White Blank Page’, ‘The Cave’, and ‘I Will Wait’ were true, life-affirming, dancingin-the-aisles, bliss. Watching the band flit up and down the stairs, weaving through the crowd, was simply joyful. They truly used the whole of the venue, and though I was lucky enough to have some of the best seats in the house, there was no doubt even those at the very back of the lawn, were having just as much fun. Late last year, frontman Marcus Mumford labelled this tour the band’s most ambitious yet. Though ambition is never a bad thing, perhaps this aspirational energy could be focused into other areas than pyrotechnics for the sake of it. For it’s the folk roots of Mumford & Sons that make them so gosh darn fun to watch and listen to, and what will keep thousands flocking to see them for tours and tours to come. Highlight: The show beginning with a tour debut of Sigh No More. Lowlight: Though they gathered around a single microphone for a rendition of ‘Timshel’, they continued to sing two more songs in the same fashion, and it just dragged. Crowd favourite: Marcus Mumford’s charming, flirty, on-stage persona. BY CLAIRE MORLEY
Mumford & Sons - Photo by Michelle Grace Hunder
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Album of the Week (Polydor Records)
Singles WITH AUGUSTUS WELBY
Cara Sebastian
Cara Sebastian
Hot Flower
(Independent)
‘Hot Flower’ is like a daydream only it seems so close and delicate, a sequence of images rather than fragments. Cara Sebastian’s debut single is made up of guitar and voice, but primarily it’s a work of feeling and intimation. It’s not background music either, not something to stick on while you read the newspaper. Turn off the lights, turn up the sound and there you’ll find a work of disarming complexity. The striking beauty is yours to savour, but then it’s not really yours at all.
The Murlocs
Comfort Zone
(Flightless/Intertia)
Never describe wine as smooth. Smooth denotes plainness and it’s insulting to the vintner. But most of us don’t want drinking wine to be a strenuous exercise. Comfort. That’s what we’re after. Tangentially, this is what The Murlocs are alluding to in their new Americana-tinged exhalation. Philosophically, we’re all interested in pushing through resistance and standing up for those worse off than us. But dangle a steady income, air con and a Netflix password in front of us? Regretfully, we give in. The song’s airy country twang and wistful tone would’ve neatly complemented Netflix’s Wild Wild Country documentary.
Gordon Koang
Mal Mi Goa
(Bedroom Suck Records)
The first release out of Bedroom Suck’s Music in Exile initiative comes from South Sudanese migrant Gordon Koang. Koang’s a guru on the thom, a custom built string instrument that’s closest equivalent is the banjo. ‘Mal Mi Goa’ is a lively showcase of Koang’s unconstrained playing style, which wraps around an affable bass line. It’s a sound capable of bringing generations together, relinquishing the veneer of impassivity to engage under the banner of hope.
Weyes Blood
Andromeda
(Sub Pop Records)
9 James Blake
Assume Form The latest album from famed British producer is a love letter to a blossoming new relationship. The fluttering beats mimic that of his own heart, happily thumping with every pulsating melody. A careful balance of soft electronics and rattling trap beats craft the sound of Assume Form.
Just bloody beautiful. Sweeping, majestic and pretty similar to everything on Weyes Blood’s last album. But I’ll happily take 12 more of the same, thanks.
The synthetic, soul-flavored artist has become a crossover hit for fans of indie music and hip hop. Blake has worked with a diverse set of artists including Travis Scott, Oneohtrix Point Never, Kendrick Lamar, and Mount Kimbie. The impressive guest list grabbed the attention of the media and listeners alike. The track ‘Mile High’ features Travis Scott and famed trap producer Metro Boomin. These two are used to grand, explosive ventures, however, they simmer down for a hazy, dizzying beat. Metro Boomin returns on ‘Tell Them’, this time featuring avant-crooner Moses Sumney. There’s a gorgeous Middle Eastern flavor towards the back end of the track. Blake and Spanish singer Rosalía duet on ‘Barefoot In The Park’ which features a subtle reggaeton beat. Finally, Blake enlists André 3000 for ‘Where’s The Catch?’ Anxiety is up to the brim when Blake questions his new, loved-up situation. This song feels underwhelming and muddy, though. As the album winds down, the final tracks ‘Don’t Miss It’ and ‘Lullaby For My Insomniac’ finishes things off in quiet bliss. The ghostly vocals that hang in the background of the former are reminiscent of Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs. The final track is about someone who can’t sleep. Blake gently reminds you that sleep is inevitable. So don’t fight it. This could be how it was when he fell in love. “It’s not a failure if you can’t,” he says. “In any case, you will at some point.” Let’s hope we do, Blake. BY JONATHAN REYNOSO
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ALBUM REVIEWS
Albums
Beirut
Gallipoli
6
Girlpool
What Chaos Is Imaginary
(Dine Alone Records)
(ANTI- Records)
(4AD)
7
8
The Dandy Warhols
Why You So Crazy
On Gallipoli, indie Mariachi enigma Beirut returns to the quaint, nerdy gypsy “emo” that made him a Pitchfork darling a decade ago. Gallipoli sees Beirut’s songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Zach Condon abandon the more focused and production-heavy sound of his previous two albums The Riptide (2011) and No No No (2015). It seems for Condon that the penny has finally dropped, that the naivety and rawness of his low budget first album represented a realness and authenticity that fans latched onto. Gallipolli’s title track shares much in common with the songs from Beirut’s 2007 masterpiece The Flying Club Cup, particularly ‘Nantes’ and ‘Clique’. It opens with a trumpet and flugelhorn waltzing over the top of a vintage organ sound as Condon’s rich tenor opines “You’re so fair to behold/What will be left when you are gone?” The return to the “naïve gypsy orchestra at a wedding “aesthetic of the album was a very conscious one by Condon. He explains in an 800 word essay on the band’s website that ‘Gallipoli’, and the run of songs that followed to become the album, was inspired when he had his parents transport the classic Italian Farfisa organ he had written the first two albums on from his childhood bedroom to his New York studio.
With the addition of fresh instruments and new ideas, Girlpool’s What Chaos Is Imaginary embraces change but often finds itself in quiet indifference. Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad are Girlpool. The longtime friends began their musical journey with razor-sharp folk punk, calling out things like slut-shaming. The two added a drummer on 2017’s Powerplant leaving their sound open to melancholy jangle pop and Britpop memories. On Chaos, they continue walking that path with surprises on the way. ‘Chemical Freeze’ finds solace in patience. The track slowly sinks into the void after a lengthy guitar outro, while ‘Roses’ boasts a revered soaked drum under a mountain of guitar distortion. The title track is undoubtedly the album’s heart and the band’s most vulnerable piece yet. However, there are some cuts that fall back to that mid-paced, ‘90s alternative sound that Girlpool now dons that don’t bring anything new to the table, including ‘Hire’, ‘Lucy’s’, and ‘Swamp And Bay’. It’s nice on the ears but the formula is too predictable. Luckily, Girlpool show elsewhere that they can break out of that dull rock sound and conjure songs with distinctive personalities.
At worst, The Dandy Warhols music is smothered beneath layers of intricate post-anti-pseudo-retro-kitsch irony, like a Rothko print displayed in an elaborate baroque frame. Why You So Crazy retains a love of spacey psych-rock and cheeky weirdness, but unburdens the Portland foursome of the inscrutable gimmickry that turned critics against ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols… and other latter-day releases. Across its brief 40-minute runtime, Why You So Crazy unfurls a strange garden of sounds, namely burbling, multilayered riffs that evoke the vacant enjoyment of a partygoer who’s too out of it to do anything but sit back and watch. Frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor recommended that even straight-edge listeners light up a joint to enjoy the album properly. The hypnotic burbling of tracks like ‘To The Church’ don’t induce the listener to dance so much as to reel around, possibly drooling, and ‘High Life’ – which pairs boogie-woogie hooks with chimpunkish vocals – is unlikely to reveal its charms to the sober. The jewel of the album is undoubtedly ‘Be Alright’. Its contagious, droning riff is pure and classic Dandys – proof that the band’s raw talent remains undimmed. For listeners who tuned out after the band’s mid-2000s turn to the abstruse, this album may be the perfect time to jump back in.
BY DAN WATT
BY JONATHAN REYNOSO
BY ZACHARY SNOWDON SMITH
Olympic Girls
For a while Tiny Ruins was the solo project of Hollie Fullbrook. Now a fully fledged, self sufficient band, (guitarist Tom Healy also assumes production duties), the band members fulfil their tasks. Tiny Ruins are like a ramshackle journey down country roads with the mellow mafia. Gently twangy guitars and unique tunefulness appear on tracks like ‘How Much’, while the band transcend idolatry with ‘Sparkless’, which emits a lairy playfulness and a genuine sense of release. Yet even on the dreamy ‘Holograms’ they seem a little haphazard and rambling. ‘Kone Waits In The Underworld’ is testament that perseverance provides rewards and stops a mid-paced lament from becoming a wallow. Fans of Courtney Barnett will rejoice in the sometimes conservative and schmaltz-driven sounds of the record as the band veer down some side roads but never quite lose the plot. On some songs they persist with montages of abstract instrumentation but do not try to fashion something that passes itself off as ground-breaking. ‘One Million Stars’ is evidence of just how well they do the simple things. Tiny Ruins do not cast themselves as cultural outlaws as they adopt the low-key approach. But how much quiet can you take? Just enough to become enchanted by ‘Stars, False, Fading’. BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS
(Liberator Music/Mom + Pop)
Tiny Ruins
(Anti-Fade Records)
(Milk! Records)
6.5
8
Vintage Crop
Company Man
It’s only been eight months since their last release, but Geelong punks Vintage Crop are already back at it with Company Man. Bursting with the same nervous energy, crooked guitar interplay and unruly sarcasm that made New Age so strong, the new EP finds Vintage Crop fully sinking their teeth into their own sound. That said, there’s no formula and no tricks – what we hear is what we get, but although Vintage Crop are trekking over garage rock’s fairly well travelled terrain, they’ve still managed to make themselves sound invigoratingly fresh. Kicking off with the title track, ‘Company Man’ is a garage punk blast packed with their signature jutting guitars and erratic drums, as vocalist Jack Cherry abuses his vocal chords while describing his transition into the corporate lifestyle. Next up is the angular groove of EP highlight ‘Guarantees’, while ‘Right to Censor’ is just vintage Vintage Crop, with its distinctive volatile guitars, melody-less hooks and dry wit. Finally, Company Man rounds out with ‘Stock Option’, a track that almost feels anthemic with its full chords and chant-along chorus, sending Vintage Crop out on top both in the local rock’n’roll game and the business world. BY JAMES LYNCH
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Sunflower Bean
King of the Dudes
Releasing one of the most acclaimed indie rock albums of 2018 was clearly not enough for New York’s Sunflower Bean, who have swiftly returned with a bite-sized follow-up which demonstrates their prowess for constructing catchy riffs and classic rock hooks. Where their celebrated sophomore effort drew upon the likes of Fleetwood Mac to inspire their dreamy highlight tracks, King of the Dudes claims its influences from the heavier side of the ‘70s rock that the trio love so much. The title track draws parallels with a punkier form of Led Zeppelin, but comparisons aside, Sunflower Bean bring something fresh to the old rock formulas, discussing themes of death, birth, aggression, addiction, and power. An example comes in the form of stomping highlight ‘Come For Me’, which boldly champions fearless female empowerment in the face of a hostile, night-time scuffle. The only thing sorely missed on this rush of musical adrenaline is the softer side to Sunflower Bean, which showed through beautifully in last year’s singles ‘I Was A Fool’ and ‘Twentytwo’. The fact that this trio couldn’t wait a year to put out a new release is exhilarating, as King of the Dudes just shows their determination to rise to the top of indie rock stardom. BY JAMES ROBERTSON
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Gig Guide
FEATURED GIGS
Lomond Acoustica THE LOMOND HOTEL
The second instalment of Lomond Acoustica for 2019 is set to go down this Wednesday January 30. Head the the East Brunswick institution to catch three acoustic sets for free, this week coming from Suzette Herft, Tash Zappala and Luke Robinson. Music will go down from 8pm, but make sure to head down early for a beer and a bite. As always, entry is free.
Katie Wighton + Meiwa THE DRUNKEN POET
Wednesday 30 Jan Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music 3RD EAR The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $30. BOPSTRETCH Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $15.
DIZZY’S BIG BAND The Fyrefly, St Kilda. 6:30pm. $15.
JAZZ BAZAAR - FEAT: AUDREY POWNE + MORE Horse Bazaar, Melbourne
As part of their Wine, Whiskey, Women series, The Drunken Poet will be hosting Katie Wighton and Meiwa on Wednesday January 30. Direct from ARIA Award- winning folk band All Our Exes Live in Texas, Wighton will showcase an alternative musical direction in solo mode, meanwhile Canadian songstress Kristie McCracken AKA Meiwa, will bring her mesmerising and tender music to the stage also. Catch it all for free from 8pm.
Cbd. 7pm.
Joel Quinn
Northcote. 8pm. $16.
EAST BRUNSWICK HOTEL
Melbourne-born guitarist and singer-songwriter Joel Quinn will be holding down the East Brunswick Hotel on Thursday January 31. An accomplished live performer with already over 200 live performances under his young belt, Quinn is sure to make for an intimate acoustic night. Music kicks off from 6.30pm and entry is free.
Damon Smith’s Rag and Blue Piano Recapitulation ROYAL OAK
Boogie and blues piano virtuoso Damon Smith is set to play Fitzroy’s Royal Oak on Thursday January 31. After lovingly thrashing pianos in sell out shows across the country in the critically acclaimed cabaret show, Sun Rising, Damon Smith will tickle and tease the keys of the Oak’s Piano from 6pm. Free entry.
MULATU ASTATKE + BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE Night Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. $40. PARVYN Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank.
8pm. $25.
Richie 1250’s Hip Hop House Party RED BETTY
PBS’ Richie 1250 is set to be throwing down a wild night of hip hop and R&B at Red Betty on February 1. Slinging classics from ‘88 to ‘03, this is sure to be a loose and sweaty night. Best of all, you can enjoy it all for free, so grab the crew and lap it all up from 8pm to 11pm.
HANNAH ALDRIDGE + LACHLAN BRYAN + CAT CANTERI Caravan Music
ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH + PRETTY CITY + BAYMAREE Boney, Melbourne Cbd.
7pm. $10.
Melbourne. 8pm.
Bar, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15.
East. 8pm.
HEATHER JOAN + THE CANS + YUKUMBABE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 7:30pm.
LOMOND ACOUSTICA - FEAT: SUZETTE HERFT + TASH ZAPPALA + LUKE ROBINSON Lomond Hotel, Brunswick MEIWA Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9pm. MELBOURNE'S BIGGEST OPEN MIC NIGHT Musicland, Fawkner. 7pm. OPEN GRAND PIANO NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Compass Pizza,
STEVIE WONDER-FUL - FEAT: LAUREN SCHADE & BAND Paris Cat Jazz
5pm.
Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.
THE JONATHAN COOPER QUINTET Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
THE PAT METHENY TRIBUTE SESSION - FEAT: ADE ISHS & LINE MATTER Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd.
OPEN MIC Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm. OPEN MIC Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. OPEN MIC Penny Black, Brunswick. 7:30pm. OPEN MIC Customs House Hotel,
Williamstown. 8:30pm.
OPEN MIC Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill.
6:30pm.
THE TAXITHI PROJECT Open Studio,
Thursday 31 Jan
TOM FRYER BAND + SCHOL + KEWTI 303, Northcote. 7:30pm.
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights
3181 THURSDAYS - FEAT: HANS DC + FINN OD + DEAN TURNLEY + MUSKA + LUKE VECCHIO Revolver
8pm. $20.
CLAIRO + ERTHLINGS Howler, Brunswick.
Upstairs, Prahran. 6pm.
ELECTRO COLLECTRO - FEAT: SAULT + ALLOLA + ETHERWAY Workers
Hotel, Coburg. 9pm.
8pm.
Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $5.
EXOTIC SNAKE + MODB Post Office GUERNS - FEAT: MOOPIE + JESS ZAMMIT + ROY MILLS + JAMES KEYS + CODY DEPPLER + STICKS New
KASSETTE - FEAT: MZRIZK + SLIPPERY SLOPES + KAM + RUDI
Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.
Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
Black, Brunswick. 9pm.
NEW KIDS - FEAT: MONTANASA + ISAIAH + NATE + BEAU Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
POSTAL - FEAT: POST PERCY + DAN SAN Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 10pm.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers DAVEY LANE & BAND + MORE Espy, St
Kilda. 8pm.
Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm.
ORANGE ORANGE + KONG KORD + STELLA FARNAN + PLAZA-TRG Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
PLANÈTE + INTERSTELLAR FUGITIVES + LOURE + FINDING FIGARO DJS + TWO PEOPLE DJS Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.
LISA GERRARD + PAUL GRABOWSKY
CHOCCY SALAD + HUNTER & SMOKE Open Studio, Northcote. 7pm. JESS MAHLER TRIO Wesley Anne,
THE GREAT EMU WAR CASUALTIES + CACHE + THE RABBIT LOUNGE + IS IT LIGHT WHERE YOU ARE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm. $7.
THE SPAGHETTI STAINS + POLLY & THE POCKETS + SUNFRUITS Grace
Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.
Hip Hop & R&B SMINO + KAIIT 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd.
8pm. $49.90.
WIND IT UP - FEAT: TENDA MCFLY Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm.
WONDERCORE WEDNESDAYS FEAT: VULTURE ST TAPE GANG + ELLE SHIMADA + DJ MIKE GURRIERI
$5.
HEIN COOPER + HEY MAJOR + RIN MCCARDLE Northcote Social Club, Northcote.
8pm. $15.
INFECTED TRANSISTOR + SHREDDER + HAND OF FEAR + CUNTSHIT Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 7:30pm. $5.
JAI WAETFORD + HAYLEY STONE + S.T.E.V.E Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $35. JANE SIBERRY Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.
8pm. $37.83.
MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 9:30pm.
MICHAEL SITA Customs House Hotel,
Williamstown. 8pm.
NUMIDIA + JH&TDC + HONEY BONE + PHLO Revolver Upstairs, Prahran. 8pm. $5. PARQUET COURTS + THE GOON SAX + PRIMO The Croxton, Thornbury. 8pm. $59.20.
PINK WOOL PRESS + THE KNOTT FAMILY BAND + CLIFF BOWDEN Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.
STICK TO YOUR GUNS + TERROR Pelly Bar, Frankston. 7:30pm. $49.90.
TASTE Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. THROWBACK - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
HIP HOP THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd.
ANDREA KELLER TRANSIENTS TRIO
Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.
$5.
INFRAGHOSTS + DEEP RED + ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING Tote
LE PINE + CIRCLE PERSON Cherry Bar,
PSYCHIC HYSTERIA SUMMER FEAT: JUNGLE CUFFS + BAD BANGS + UVA URSI Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm. REUBAN UNKOVICH'S DEATH ATTACK + MOON CUP + GREAT DEPRESSION Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8. THE BELTERS + KEY HOO & THE MOVEMENT + LAUREN STEWART
FVCKBATS + MODESTO MILE + CECIL TURBINE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
Hip Hop & R&B
THE STICKS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 7pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
EZEKIEL OX + CHASING GHOSTS Old
HDSNJMSJR + COCONOIRE Penny
EGGY + BEC GORING + GUTTER GIRLS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $8. EYES OF EVENTIDE + DRASTIC PARK + YUPPY Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North
Melbourne. 8pm. $10.
7:30pm. $5.
Club, Bentleigh East. 7pm. $18.
KATIE WIGHTON Drunken Poet, West
Brunswick East. 7pm.
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EMPTY GESTURE + BUMFIGHT + STRICT VINCENT Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
RICE PAPER ROLLERS Evelyn Hotel,
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $60.
Ritchie 1250
Acoustic/Country/ Blues/Folk
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $15.
Northcote. 6pm.
JOE CHINDAMO TRIO The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $25.
KATE WADEY Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
Cbd. 7:30pm. $30.
8pm.
LAUNDRY THURSDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10pm. THROWBAX THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ ANYA + CITIZEN.COM + FLIP3000 + TEE DUBYA + DJ SENSI + SISTA SARA + LOTUS MOONCHILD + MORE Little Jax, Melbourne. 6pm.
Acoustic/Country/ Blues/Folk ARLO HARLEY + NEIL WILKINSON + ROBERT PATTON Labour In Vain, Fitzroy.
7:30pm.
BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 9pm.
GERRY HALE The Brothers Public House,
Fitzroy. 8pm.
GILLIAN & DAVE - A GILLIAN WELCH & DAVE RAWLINGS TRIBUE SHOW Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 8pm.
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $25.
HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE IN CONCERT - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre
Northcote. 8pm. $10.
INVENIO SINGERS Melbourne Recital
KYLIE AULDIST + HOI PALLOI Cherry
Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.
LILLIAN ALBAZI QUINTET Paris Cat Jazz THE ARTIE STYLES QUARTET 303, THE MICHELLE NICOLLE BAND Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
Melbourne), Southbank. 7:30pm. $125.
Centre, Southbank. 8pm. $30.
JEDEKAIH + TRUDIE + FRAGILE Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $10.
THE PUTBACKS + HORATIO LUNA + BASTARD AMBER Gasometer Hotel,
JOEL QUINN East Brunswick Hotel, East
THEM HIGH SPIRITS + FUNK & DISORDERLY + MISHA BEAR BAND + LEMON DAZE Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
MAYHEM Charles Weston Hotel, Brunswick.
Collingwood. 8pm. $15.
7pm. $10.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers BLAIR JOLLANDS + LUKE YEOWARD + SABRINA LAWRIE Gasometer Hotel,
Brunswick. 6:30pm.
JOSH BATTEN Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 8pm.
6:30pm.
RIPLEY HOOD & ASH JONES + LISA WOOD Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm. TIM MCMILLAN & RACHEL SNOW Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 7pm. $15.
WHITE LIGHTNING Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9pm.
Collingwood. 7:30pm. $18.40.
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Friday 1 Feb Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers 4TRESS + WILD TURKEY Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8pm. $10.
ACTION SAM Elephant & Wheelbarrow,
Melbourne. 11pm.
AUTO-MASH DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9pm.
BONEZ - FEAT: WAY SHIT + HARDWATERS + ARCHIE ARSENIC Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.
FEATURED GIGS
POCKETS Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. TEX PERKINS & THE FAT RUBBER BAND + MIKE NOGA + JIMMY KYLE Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm.
THE SMYTHS Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8pm. $50.
THE VELVET COBRAS + KANDALINI + MR STITCHER + RADIO 88 Whole
Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7pm. $7.
TRAM COPS + DARVID THOR + HOOPER CRESCENT Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
YELLOW DAYS + MORE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $44.90.
HOTEP + THE D WORD + JACK POPPER + ALICIA Loop, Melbourne Cbd.
Numidia
BURN CITY DISCO - FEAT: ELLIOT OFMARCO + PABLO DISCOBAR + MORE Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $15. CLYPSO + SOPHIEGROPHY + ADULT. FILMS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $12. DJ THREE + MIKE CALLANDER + HEYLADY + WHO + MORE Revolver
Fusing North African and Middle Eastern blues with psychedelic and progressive rock, Sydney’s Numidia are set to take to Bombay Rock on Friday February 1. The quintet will play alongside Melbourne stoner, pop, doom, and punk band A Gazillion Angry Mexicans, as well as Borrachero and Cosmos. Doors are open from 7pm with free entry.
9pm.
Upstairs, Prahran. 8pm. $20.
EGBERT + SECRET CINEMA + SOMERSAULT + VICTOR Y + KIRK CHETCUTI + STEVIE STRAFFORD + LUKE LAWRENCE New Guernica, Melbourne
CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs
Hip Hop & R&B
CASTILLES + PTING Post Office Hotel,
AFTER HOURS - FEAT: DJ SPELL + YAYAYA Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. BIRDZ + MORE Gasometer Hotel,
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club,
BRANDON STONE + ZHANE WHITE + GRADI + KID KAMI Laundry Bar, Fitzroy.
Trak Lounge Bar, Toorak. 8pm. $95.69.
House Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm. Coburg. 9pm.
CHAINSAW + IN MALICE'S WAKE + MASON + MANIAXE Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $25.51.
CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB FEAT: PHATO A MANO + NAMN + MATT RADOVICH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm. COUNTDOWN 80'S Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.
COWSMUFF + BLOODY RASCALS Espy, St Kilda. 7pm.
CRAP MUSIC RAVE PARTY Howler, Brunswick. 8pm. $24.
Collingwood. 8pm. $15.
8pm. $10.
DJ RICHIE 1250 Red Betty, Brunswick. 8pm. HAVANA FRIDAYS - FEAT: MC SEBA + MORE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm. LAUNDRY FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm. RNB VINE DAYS WARM UP PARTY - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., Southbank.
DARLING JAMES + CREATURE FEAR + WARPLANE Penny Black, Brunswick. 8:30pm. 9:30pm. DARYL BRAITHWAITE Espy, St Kilda. 8pm. SAMPA THE GREAT + THANDO + $48.50. REMI Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. $63.50. DJ LEARNTABLES Edinburgh Castle, SNEAKERHEADS + THE INKERMEN Brunswick. 9pm. + YAW FASO + PAULFACTOR + DJ RAGDOLL Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. HOMEBOY G + MORE Reverence Hotel, 11pm. DRUNK MUMS + HIDEOUS SUN DEMON + THE NUGS + DJ AMYL TAYLOR Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North
Melbourne. 8pm. $15.
FACE FACE Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 6pm.
Cbd. 10pm. $15.
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.
EUROPIA - FEAT: INNA + BURAK YETER + THE UNDERDOG PROJECT FIGHT THE FUTURE - FEAT: TANGENT + JIM Z + PUBLIC HOUSING + VOSS + BC + GROUP HUG + DEEJAY BRIGIDA 24 Moons, Northcote. 10pm. $10.
FORMATION - FEAT: DONNY + MORE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm. FRIDAYS - FEAT: AYNA + FALO + HARLEY JAMES + CLIFTONIA + BEN & LIL + CITIZEN.COM Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 5pm.
FULL ON - FEAT: GMS + 1200 MICS + YUTA + OZZY + ALIEN FREQUENCIES + MORE Brown Alley,
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $22.
Footscray. 8pm. $5.
JON HOPKINS + PLANÈTE 170 Russell,
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music
PERFECT STRANGERS TAKEOVER - FEAT: SADIVA + LOTUS MOONCHILD + NO NAME NATH + FREDA FREQUENCY + GIVEN NAMES + RA RA RAJ Section 8, Melbourne
ASHLEIGH WATSON & BLUETONE ASSEMBLY Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 8:30pm.
FORTRESS OF NAZRAD + HUMAN RITES + CLAIRE BIRCHALL SOLO
$25.
Cbd. 5pm.
Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm.
6pm.
10pm. $15.
FRONTSIDE BACKSIDES + CHARGING STALLION + UNDERCOVER COPS John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $10.
GRANDPA THOMAS' MACHINE + POOR PREMENSTRUAL DARLING + THE DISORDERLY FASHION 303, Northcote. 8pm.
HERESIARCH + FACELESS BURIAL + GELD + FORNICATADOR + VILE APPARITION Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.
$10.
JAI WAETFORD Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 5pm.
JUKE BOX RACKET Catfish, Fitzroy. 9pm. LIME CORDIALE + EAGLEMONT + LUPINE Grand Hotel Mornington, Mornington.
7pm. $25.
LINCOLN LE FEVRE & THE INSIDERS + HANNY J + OH KAMIKAZE Reverence
Hotel, Footscray. 8pm. $15.
LOW KEY CRUSH + SCRATCH MATCH + LEWIS COLEMAN Retreat
Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.
LUCA BRASI + MORE Pelly Bar, Frankston. 8pm. $29.60.
MEL VAN DYK Pause Bar, Balaclava. 8pm. MONNONE ALONE + THIBAULT + SNOWY Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8pm. $10. POPROCKS + DR PHIL Toff In Town,
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $25.
SECRETS + AWAKEN I AM + MORE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $20.
SLASH (WITH MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS) + DEVILSKIN Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. 7:30pm. $81.35.
SOOT + NIGHTCLUB + PREMIUM FANTASY + BLOODY HELL Tote Hotel,
Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10.
SPACE CARBONARA + SOAKED OATS + CARL RENSHAW + SPIRAL PERM Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. STICK TO YOUR GUNS + TERROR + BROKEN + CAGED EXISTENCE Stay
BEN DELVES TRIO Wesley Anne, Northcote. GODDESS GROOVES - FEAT: MICHELLE PARSON + MICHELLE CHANDLER + RUTH KATERELOS + MONIQUE KENNY + KALIOPI STAVROPOULOS Wesley Anne, Northcote.
QURZFK FRIDAYS - MISFIT MANSION - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS
LHASA-BERLIN - MY FAVORITE VOICES - FEAT: ZULYA & THE CHILDREN OF THE UNDERGROUND
Carlton. 11pm. $10.
8pm. $25.
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 8pm. $30.
Acoustic/Country/ Blues/Folk
LOS BORRACHOS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.
MOJO JUJU + THE MERINDAS + SQUID NEBULA + KALYANI + MORE Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 6pm. $25.
MULATU ASTATKE + BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE Night Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. NINA FERRO & JOE CHINDAMO The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $35.
OPEN JAM - GREEK VIBES - FEAT: DE LYRIUM + ELENI BOUKOUVALA + BYRON TRIANDAFYLLIDIS + JOSEPH TSOMBANOPOULOS + MORE Open Studio, Northcote. 7:30pm. $14. PHOEBE DAY Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $32.50.
SOUL SACRIFICE - THE MUSIC OF SANTANA Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm.
$29.
SUGARFOOT RAMBLERS (WITH GEORGIE DARVIDIS) Paris Cat Jazz Club,
DARYL JAMES + MIKE ELRINGTON + VICTOR CRIPES Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.
DUSTY CRUMPETS Pascoe Vale Rsl, Pascoe Vale. 8pm. $10.
GARRETT KATO + MORE Chapel Off Chapel, Prahran. 8pm. $25.
HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE IN CONCERT - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 7:30pm. $125.
IRISH MYTHEN Caravan Music Club,
Bentleigh East. 8pm. $25.
JIMMY KING East Brunswick Hotel, East
Brunswick. 8pm.
JOSH CASHMAN + WANDERERS + DAVY SIMONY Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd.
7:30pm. $15.
Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 6pm.
TAYLOR & SILK Arkibar, South Melbourne.
East. 8pm.
TATE SHERIDAN Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $25. 4:30pm.
THE FLAMING MONGRELS DUO Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5pm.
THE NUDGELS Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
THE RONNY FERELLA STANDARDS QUARTET (WITH EUGENE BALL) Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
7:30pm. $15.
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights BENDY RAINBOW - FEAT: DANNY
Mac Springs COMPASS PIZZA
Making a warm return to Compass Pizza on Friday February 1 is Melbourne band Mac Springs. Joining the trio comes Muma Ganoush and Carpet Burn, in what promises to be a ripper showcase of local talent, made all the better for having a slice of pizza and beer in hand. Free entry from 8pm.
Frontside Backsides JOHN CURTIN HOTEL
To launch their EP Get Out of the Way, garage punk band Frontside Backsides will take to The Curtin on Friday February 1. Formed in 2018, the band have been quick to make an impression on the Melbourne music circuit, while they’ll be joined by supports Charging Stallion and Undercover Crops. Doors open from 8pm and tickets are $10 via the venue website.
Irish House Band
THE BROTHERS PUBLIC HOUSE
Head down to Melbourne’s newest Irish institution, The Brothers Public House to soak in a barrage of folk and Irish classics from the house band. Get down early to lap up the pub’s happy hour offering, which includes $8 pints and basics until 8pm, and a $2 toastie with a drink until 8pm too. Music will kick off from 9pm and entry is free.
Yasin Leflef
CHARLES WESTON
Neo-soul, jazz and R&B-infused artist Yasin Leflef is set to take to Charles Weston on Saturday February 2. Having started busking on Bourke Street, the young artist has competed in the Bluesfest Busking Competition and released his debut single ‘Drifting’ last year. Make sure to get down early to catch special guest Isadora kick things off from 6.30pm, and best of all, enjoy free entry.
JUKEBOY EMMETT, T.K. REEVE + JUKEBOY EMMETT + T.K. REEVE
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $32.50.
Gold, Brunswick. 7pm.
TEENAGE DADS + SOPHISTICATED DINGO + SWAMP + POLLY & THE
Rubix Warehouse, Brunswick. 9pm. $12.
¿CLUB D'ÉRANGE? - FEAT: DJ LOGIC + JON WATTS + NADIA + NAT JAMES + VIBE POSITIVE Yours & Mine,
THIS IS JONI -THE MUSIC & ART OF JONI MITCHELL - FEAT: LAUREN ELIZABETH The Fyrefly, St Kilda. 7pm. $36.75.
TAPE/OFF + DARK FAIR + NO SISTER + ROLLING SHITSHOW Old Bar, Fitzroy.
POLA & BRYSON Boney, Melbourne Cbd.
BOMBAY ROCK
MAC SPRINGS + MUMA GANOUSH + CARPET BURN Compass Pizza, Brunswick MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + UNIDENTIFIED FLYING MUSCLE CARS Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8pm. SHAUNA TONY AND CO The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. 8pm.
THE DETONATORS Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 9pm.
Saturday 2 Feb Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music ANTIPHON + BEATNIK COLLECTIVE Open Studio, Northcote. 2:30pm. $5.
Kane R. Vincent
Kane R. Vincent
CLIFTON HILL BREWPUB
Kane R. Vincent is eloquent and considered in his lyricism yet explores both balladry and sprightly pop sensibilities in his melodicism. Whatever the occasion, Vincent knows how to induce a crowd and his acoustic sets are strewn with creativity and nostalgia. He’ll be taking to the Clifton Hill Brewpub on Sunday February 3 from 4pm. It’s all free. BEAT.COM.AU
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FEATURED GIGS
BABAGANOUSH Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.
CAM GILES + ROBERT ROTHKO The
Fyrefly, St Kilda. 7pm. $23.50.
COME AWAY WITH ME - FEAT: THE JANELLE STOWE TRIO Paris Cat Jazz
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $32.50.
DR HERNÁNDEZ - FEAT: DR HERNANDEZ The B.east, Brunswick East.
SWAMPLANDS
Making an anticipated return to Melbourne is former Bad Seeds and The Wreckery member, Hugo Race. Joined by close collaborator Michelangelo Russo, the duo will hit up Swamplands on Saturday February 2. After playing over 70 shows on a global tour, Race and Russo make their return to Melbourne to play material from their masterpiece John Lee Hooker’s World Today, which pays tribute to the beloved bluesman. Support will come in the form of folk singer-songwriter Alex Hamilton from 8pm, and you can grab your tickets for $15 on the door.
Madi Leeds
EDINBURGH CASTLE
Following the release of her debut single ‘Water to Me’ and EP Spinning Leeds, Madi Leeds is returning to the Edinburgh Castle to perform two solo sets on Saturday February 2. Leeds’ music discusses sensitive topics such as addiction and toxic relationships through sarcastic and eccentric lyrics. Her performance is quirky and creative and is sure to offer a contagious energy when it goes down from 5pm. Entry is free.
Sam Buckingham WESLEY ANNE
Following the release of her adored album The Water, singer-songwriter Sam Buckingham has enjoyed an impressive run of touring, including playing alongside the likes of Kasey Chambers and James Reyne and showcasing at Nashville’s acclaimed Americanafest. She’s now set to take to Wesley Anne on Saturday February 2 and you can catch this special evening from 7pm. Find tickets via Oztix for $20+bf.
Wendy Rule BAR 303
Wendy Rule is set to light up Bar 303 for an afternoon session of not-so average folk. The singersongwriter’s music is influenced by 23/19 her interest in mythology, nature and magic and provides a mystical ambience incorporating guitar, cello, vibraphone, violin and percussion to captivating effect. Catch her play on Sunday February 3 from 3pm, with tickets available for $20 on the door.
Tony Gould THE JAZZLAB
In celebration of Tony Gould’s 79th birthday, The Jazzlab is throwing a birthday bash for the revered and superlative jazz pianist and composer on Sunday February 3. Joining Gould on stage will be longtime colleagues Ben Robertson and Tony Floyd as well as some of his favourite players Mirko Guerrini, James Sherlock and Ilaria Crociani as guests. Music from 8.30pm and tickets are $20 from the venue website. 28 BEAT.COM.AU
Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm.
TOFF CLUB - FEAT: LORD HANS DC
Hotel, Ascot Vale. 8:30pm.
WILD HORSES -THE STABLES DAY SESSION - FEAT: SKIZOLOGIC + GUMI + SUMIRUNA + AXON + CHAMBERLAIN + MORE Gasometer Hotel,
OOLLUU + ANDY SORENSON Rainbow PATRIZIA & THE GROOVE Ascot Vale
Cbd. 9pm. $30.
Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8pm. $5.
$45.
LIAM WERRETT QUARTET Uptown Jazz
Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $25.
MADISON JAMES SMITH ENSEMBLE + KOI KINGDOM Red Betty,
RACK JONES + NAPIER + JAMES MOLONEY & THE MAD DOG HARRISONS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
$10.
Brunswick. 8pm. $10.
RED CITY RADIO + NO TRIGGER + GAMEOVER + IDLE THREAT Reverence
Northcote. 6pm.
ROGER HODGSON + MORE Palais
Northcote. 8pm.
SCRATCH MATCH + WATERFALL PERSON Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm. SHOGUN & THE SHEETS + THE ELECTRIC GUITARS + KT SPLIT John
MATT O’BRIEN QUARTET Wesley Anne, MULATU ASTATKE + BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE + ABOUBACAR DJELIKE KOUYATE Night Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. NEW FLAMENCO PROJECT 303, NICHAUD FITZGIBBON Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $35.
THE MICHELLE NICOLLE BAND Lido Jazz Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25.
THE SLIPDIXIES Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 4pm.
URBANITY Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $35.
WOMBATUQUE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 9:30pm.
Hotel, Footscray. 8pm. $39.80.
Theatre, St Kilda. 8pm. $110.
Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $12.
6:30pm.
BOB LOG III + NOTHINGE Gem Bar,
Collingwood. 8pm.
BORN LION + JONESEZ + THE QUARTERS + SOPHISTICATED DINGO Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $15. BOWIE UNZIPPED - FEAT: JEFF DUFF Kingston City Hall, Moorabbin. 8pm. $32. DARYL BRAITHWAITE + ROSS WILSON Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. DEE SNIDER The Croxton, Thornbury. 8pm. $86.65.
DJ ERNEY DEE Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 9pm.
DJ REDRIGUEZ Globe Alley, Melbourne. 6pm. DO THE STRAND - FEAT: JENNY BRANAGAN + ANNALIESE REDLICH + CHAIRMAN MEOW + MAQ Tote
Hotel, Collingwood. 10pm. $5.
FORGE METAL CLUB - FEAT: ENVENOMED + THE ASCENDED + ARMATA Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $15. GAMJEE + MORE Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm.
HANNY J (SOLO) - FEAT: CC GOONS Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 2pm.
Hip Hop & R&B ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Co., Southbank. 9pm. KHOKOLAT SATURDAYS - FEAT: DAMION DE SILVA + DURMY + MORE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.
LAUNDRY SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm.
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk
BEN JANSZ Royal Oak Hotel, Fitzroy North.
8:30pm.
Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 8pm. $7.
AUSTRALIAN BON JOVI SHOW FEAT: DARYL JAMES + POISON'US THE AUSTRALIAN POISON TRIBUTE SHOW Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20. BJ MORRISZONKLE Bar Open, Fitzroy.
Collingwood. 3pm. $31.65.
STAND ATLANTIC + THE DEAD LOVE + BUKOWKSI Northcote Social Club, Northcote.
ACHTUNG BABY Yarraville Club, Yarraville.
8pm. $22.
Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm.
Hotel, Coburg. 8:30pm.
8pm.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers
ZEDSIX The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11pm. $10.
Cbd. 10pm. $10.
SOUTH OF THE CITY PRESENTS FEAT: ROSELLA + SHIT BITC + EARL GREY’S BREAKFAST TEA Espy, St Kilda.
STEVE TYSSEN + YES YES WHATEVER Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3pm. STORM THE SKY + ABURDEN + TERRA Stay Gold, Brunswick. 6:30pm. SUKKA PUNCH + THE HALF PINTS + I HAVE A GOAT + THE COSMONAUTS
$10.
Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 6pm. $15.
SUPERSMALL - FEAT: SHORT ROUND + KURT COLEMAN La Di Da, Melbourne
POSTMAN KILLED MY SCOOTER + THE ONE TWO'S + THE MÉNAGE
KEITH HARKIN The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm.
MORNING MAXWELL + SWOOP++
Bombay Rock, Brunswick. 8pm.
10pm.
KATE WADEY Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne
Hugo Race + Michelangelo Russo
NUMIDIA + BORRACHERRO + COSMOS + A GAZILLION ANGRY MEXICANS + DJ RORY FANG IT
TAKING BACK SATURDAY - EMO & POP PUNK NIGHT - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Stay Gold, Brunswick. 11pm. $10. TEX PERKINS & THE FAT RUBBER BAND + SIME NUGENT + JIMMY KYLE Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $33. THE CROOKEDS + MORE Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $10.
THE GOLDEN RAIL + THE FAVOURITE GAME + THE PLASTIC CROWNS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1pm. $10.
THE GURDIES Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 2am. TROPICO Max Watt's, Melbourne. 8pm. $78.05. VENUS - QUEER CHIC PARTY - FEAT: DJ LILLY STREET + DJ LA DRAMA Woody's Attic Dive, Collingwood. 8:30pm.
WEDDING RING BELLS VINYL FUNDRAISER - FEAT: MONNONE ALONE + WRB LISTENING PARTY + CULTE + WRB ALL STAR BAND
AARONB + RACHAEL LIA Post Office BACKSLIDERS Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 8pm. $35.
6pm.
CRAIG WOODWARD & FRIENDS Miss
Moses, Brunswick. 2pm.
DAN & PADDY Compass Pizza, Brunswick East.
8pm.
GEORGE EZRA + EVES KARYDAS Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne. 8pm.
HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE IN CONCERT - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 1pm. $125.
HUGO RACE & MICHELANGELO RUSSO + MORE Swamplands Bar, Thornbury.
8pm.
IRISH MYTHEN Spotted Mallard, Brunswick.
9pm. $28.89.
JOHN DOWLER'S VANITY PROJECT Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9:30pm.
MARC DEAZ + TINKS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm. $5.
OLIVER CLARKE East Brunswick Hotel, East Brunswick. 9pm.
PAT MCKERNAN The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. 9pm.
ROLLER ONE Fitzroy Pinnacle, Fitzroy North.
5pm.
ROOTS COMBO, BROTHERS BLUEGRASS ALL STARS + ROOTS COMBO + BROTHERS BLUEGRASS ALL STARS The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy.
Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8:30pm. $12.75.
3:30pm.
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights
Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8pm. $18.
DUST BUNNIES - RECOMPRESSION PARTY - FEAT: CALY JANDRO + SOMERSAULT + JUNIOR + WISER + MORE 24 Moons, Northcote. 10pm. $10. EAT THE BEAT - FEAT: ETWAS + MATTEO FREYRIE + CHRISS MATTO + FELL REIS + OLLY DAVIS + GAV WHITEHOUSE + MORE New Guernica,
SAM BUCKINGHAM + MADELENA SHANTILY CLAD Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm. $10.
TAYLOR HENDERSON + MORE Chapel
Off Chapel, Prahran. 8pm. $35.
THE FLYING SO HIGH-OS + NOTHING REALLY + APPREHENSIVE + LAURA & JAMIE Reverence Hotel, Footscray.
8pm. $10.
YASIN LEFLEF & FRIENDS Charles Weston
HERESIARCH + IGNIVOMOUS + CONTAMINATED + ESKHATON + CARCINOID Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm.
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $10.
HORACE BONES + HIDEOUS SUN DEMON + MORE Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. JESS RIBEIRO Geddes Lane Ballroom,
Sunday 3 Feb
JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne
Brunswick. 10pm.
Hip Hop & R&B
Cbd. 11:45pm.
ANY RHYTHM SUNDAY 6 - FEAT: ALLYSHA JOY + N'FA JONES + CHICKEN WISHBONE + DJ CLEGS
$15.
Melbourne. 8pm. $21.39.
KILL DIRTY YOUTH + HANNY J + RATHEAD + JACK HARLON & THE DEAD CROWS Last Chance Rock And Roll
Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm.
LIME CORDIALE + HANNAH KATE + LUPINE Espy, St Kilda. 7pm. LUCA BRASI Workers Club (geelong), Geelong. 8pm. $28.60.
MADI LEEDS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 5pm.
MAJOR BUMMER + THE GEMS + DEL BOCA VISTA Retreat Hotel, Brunswick.
3pm.
MALCOLM YOUNG TRIBUTE - FEAT: ROB RILEY + JIMI HOCKING + PAUL WOSEEN + DARIO BORTOLIN + PETER ROBINSON + NAT ALLISON + MORE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. $45. NAKHANE + ELIZABETH + STANI GOMA Howler, Brunswick. 8pm. $34.49.
FREE DOPE - FEAT: MORPH + LA-TO + MONKEE + QONTENT Rubix Warehouse,
LOW TON - FEAT: C.FRIM + KÖDA + HVNCOQ + MISS PREDDIE + SAL + CACHE ONE Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 4pm. LUBOKU + UPSIDEDOWNHEAD + MOSES CARRDOORS Workers Club, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $15.
LUCY NEVILLE + QUALIA + LUNA MAY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. $14.97. MURDER HE WROTE + RANSOM + BIMMA + EXIT 99 + MORE Revolver
Upstairs, Prahran. 6pm. $20.
NUDE - FEAT: CITIPOWER + NORACHI + BEX Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 11:30pm.
SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ KISTA + DJ BETH GRACE + DJ DEMIZE + VARIOUS DJS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd.
Hotel, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 3pm.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers AFTER BURNER + DEFENESTRATION Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 2:30pm.
AMBER MIC PRESENTS - FEAT: LITTLE ARCHIVE + SAPPHIRE STREET + WARDENS + THE SIERRAS Workers
Club, Fitzroy. 1pm. $10.
DAVE LESLIE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $60.20.
8pm.
EMMA RUSSACK & LACHLAN DENTON + GUY BLACKMAN Yarra Hotel,
& Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 10pm.
FOR KING & COUNTRY Palais Theatre, St
SNACK ATTACK (WITH DJ 2P) Elephant
SOOKI SATURDAYS - FEAT:
Abbotsford. 4pm. $10. Kilda. 7pm. $55.10.
FOR THE FULL GIG GUIDE HEAD TO BEAT.COM.AU/GIG-GUIDE
Kilda. 4pm.
FANTANA + TIFF CORNISH + MARK SCHOTT + MORE Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers
Fitzroy. 3pm.
ROOFTOP SUMMER SERIES - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS The Emerson, South Yarra.
COMPETITION TEAM Old Bar, Fitzroy.
FOR KING & COUNTRY Palais Theatre, St GREY WHISTLE TEST + NATASHA JOHANNA + ELLIOTT BRAIN Old Bar,
12am. $25.
JESSE JAMES + DRIFT + 1/6 + DJ DENNO Musicland, Fawkner. 3pm. $20. LAZERLIPS + LEMONDAZE + HUMAN=GARBAGE + CREEPY FLAVOUR Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 6pm. $10. LIME CORDIALE + HANNAH KATE + LUPINE Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 7pm. $29.60. LUCERO + THE RECHORDS Corner
12pm.
OPEN/MIC JAM NIGHTS Musicland,
1pm.
Hotel, Richmond. 8pm. $55. Fawkner. 7pm.
RED CITY RADIO + FOXTROT + DENTAL PLAN Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $30. REDRO REDRIGUEZ & HIS INNER DEMONS + PRINCESS FIST + UPTOWN ACE Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
4:30pm.
RIFLEBIRDS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4pm. SHORELINES + HOMEFRONT Wrangler Studios, Footscray. 1pm. $13.80.
SIMON FAZIO + MOONCUP Tramway Hotel, North Fitzroy. 3:30pm.
SLOWCOACHING + LONI RAE THOMSON Compass Pizza, Brunswick East.
6:30pm.
STEPHEN CUMMINGS + SAM LEMANN Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East.
7pm. $23.
STONED TO DEATH + THE CLINCH + ROGUES + DJ LEOPARD HEAD Bombay
Rock, Brunswick. 8pm.
STRUM TO SKATE - FEAT: ANTONIA + LINCOLN LE FEVRE + BEC STEVENS + DONNIE DUREAU + MORE Reverence Hotel, Footscray. 3pm. SUNDAY SERIES - FEAT: DIANA RADAR + SOAKED OATS + DEAD EYES Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 4:30pm. SUNKISSED FEST - FEAT: DRMNGNOW + DIANAS + JUNE JONES + LALIC + CYANIDE THORNTON + MORE Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm.
THE BADLOVES Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $29.
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music AVENIDA SOL Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. 4pm.
HOT POTATO BAND Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $25.
SKYSCRAPER STAN + MONCOEUR The B.east, Brunswick East. 4pm.
SID BERRY + JADE CALLAN + LOST IN PEACE + KAYBOKU Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
SUNDAY BEATS IN THE BEER GARDEN - FEAT: DJ MALPRACTICE Inkerman Hotel, Balaclava. 2pm.
SUNDAY SPIN OUTS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy.
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Folk ACOUSTIC SUNDAYS - FEAT: MICHELLE GARDINER + PAIGE SPIERS + PAIGE SMITH Customs House
Hotel, Williamstown. 2pm.
ALICE COTTON Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick.
$17.64.
BENNY PETERS & THE MISTREATERS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 3pm.
CASSANDRA Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $50.
DANIEL SHAE East Brunswick Hotel, East
Brunswick. 5pm.
DEVIL GOAT FAMILY STRING BAND Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6pm.
GREG CHAMPION & THE USEFUL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 5:30pm.
GREG STEPS + BEC SYKES + BRENDAN LLOYD Open Studio, Northcote. 2pm. $5.
HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE IN CONCERT - FEAT: MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Hamer Hall (arts Centre Melbourne), Southbank. 1pm. $125.
8pm. $20.
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights COQ MAGIC - FEAT: INGRID + PASCAL + PABLO MANN + POST PERCY + MORE Lucky Coq, Windsor. 4pm. DAYDREAMS - FEAT: MARKFREE.DJ + MAXWELL S Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 12pm.
LUNAR NEW YEAR 2019 - FEAT: HANS DC + JADE ZOE + JENNIFER LOVELESS + JPS + NAM + SAL + SHELLEY + DJ SLICK P + SMALL FRY + 20N Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 1pm. MAGIC I Classic Southside, Elsternwick. 5pm.
$15.
PIKNIC ÉLECTRONIK - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Sidney Myer Music Bowl,
Melbourne. 2pm. $20.
REVOLVER SUNDAYS - FEAT: BOOGS + SPACEY SPACE + BRIAN
GRETA VAN FLEET + THE STRUTS Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
GREWSUM TEWSUM Old Bar, Fitzroy.
7pm. $8.
LOUISE TERRA + ANNA VORTEX + SABINA MASELLI + SISSYSOCKS Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10.
ROSELLA + FACADES Cherry Bar,
Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
UNBROKEN EXPANSE + HYPERTRON COLLIDESCOPE + ISAAC THOMAS Workers Club, Fitzroy.
8:30pm. $10.
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music
7:30pm. $10.
FREUDIAN SLEEP The Jazzlab, Brunswick.
RYAN EDMOND + SIMON PHILLIPS + EVA MCGOWAN Workers Club, Fitzroy. Some Velvet Morning, Clifton Hill. 5:30pm.
SUNDAY SINGALONG - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS The Brothers Public THE CHRIS COMMERFORD BAND
$15.
Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
8pm. $20.
I HOLD THE LION'S PAW Brunswick
Green, Brunswick. 8:30pm.
KAITLYN SECKER'S ALLBON QUARTET Open Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $10. NOW. HERE. THIS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Toff In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
Catfish, Fitzroy. 5pm.
$10.
$10.
Acoustic/Country/ Blues/Folk
THE PHEASANTRY Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 4pm. WENDY RULE + RACHEL SAMUEL + TIMOTHY VAN DIEST 303, Northcote. 3pm.
YONI GIRAFFE Classic Southside, Elsternwick.
Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
Collingwood. 3pm.
ROB PATTON + GORDON HOLLAND + DAVID COSMA Bendigo Hotel,
TONY GOULD'S 79TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. Arts Centre, Melbourne. 5pm.
BLACK SNAKE WHIP + NIPPLE CHAFFES + LE PINE Gasometer Hotel,
MASEGO + MILAN RING 170 Russell,
THE GOB-IRON STRING BAND Drunken
UMI NO UZU - FEAT: SHOEB AHMAD
Music Hall, St Kilda. 7:30pm. $18.
Hotel, Brunswick. 4pm.
ROADSIDE HOLIDAY Charles Weston
THE SLIPDIXIES Open Studio, Northcote.
$20.
7:30pm. $10.
SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE - FEAT: RUBY GILL + GRIM FAWKNER + KERRYN FIELDS + DION HIRINI Memo
DUMPLINGS 'N' MASSAGE - FEAT: DJ MZRIZK Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm.
THE LOWDOWN BIG BAND Swamplands 5:30pm.
PENNY & MOSES Open Studio, Northcote.
6pm.
JOYCE PRESCHER Wesley Anne, Northcote.
THE FRET DRIFTERS + THE ELECTRIC YETI + MARK MCCORD 303, Northcote. 7pm.
Bar, Thornbury. 5pm.
CHARLES JENKINS Retreat Hotel,
Brunswick. 8pm.
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Punk & Covers
House, Fitzroy. 6:30pm.
Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $20.
Acoustic/Country/ Blues/Folk
Open, Fitzroy. 3pm. $10.
BELLE MINERS + TANYA RANSOM + LOTTIE LIAMS + KERRYN FIELDS + GREAT AUNT Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 3pm.
THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause THE JONATHAN COOPER QUINTET
NIEUW MONDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7pm. $3.
Tuesday 5 Feb
SEB SZABO + ISOBEL CALDWELL
Bar, Balaclava. 4:30pm.
Northcote. 8pm.
4pm.
ANNA SCIONTI Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7pm. AVI MISRA + LANEOUS + HA NA Bar
SUNDAY JAM - FEAT: BARTON FINK HOUSE BAND Barton Fink, Thornbury. 5pm. TAYLOR & SILK Central Club Hotel, Richmond.
3pm.
7:30pm. $8.
MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: LALIC + JONNY TELAFONE + MINOR FAUNA Northcote Social Club,
Poet, West Melbourne. 6:30pm.
$20.
IRISH SESSION Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. 9pm.
KEITH URBAN + JULIA MICHAELS Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 7pm. $132.25.
KLUB MUK 303, Northcote. 7pm. LUDOVICO’S BAND Melbourne Recital
Monday 4 Feb
Centre, Southbank. 6:30pm. $39.
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & World Music
Clifton Hill. 7pm.
303 YARRA BANKS JAM NIGHT 303, Northcote. 8pm.
ANDREA KELLER LEADS THE COMPOSERS CIRCLE The Jazzlab, Brunswick.
8pm. $15.
PIANO ATMOSFERIX Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm.
House, Electro, Trance & Club Nights BELLEVILLE SOUND EXCHANGE - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Globe Alley,
Melbourne. 6pm.
STRUGGLE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky
Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
VARIOUS DJS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm.
OLDTIME JAM TUESDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Some Velvet Morning, OPEN MIC NIGHT Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 6pm.
UPCOMING GIGS FEATURED GIGS
LILY ALLEN The Forum February 6 RAVYN LENAE Howler February 6 GRETA VAN FLEET Festival Hall February 6 JOHN BUTLER TRIO & MISSY HIGGINS Sidney Myer Music Bowl February 7 MITSKI Corner Hotel February 7 DUB FX The Night Cat February 7 COOL SOUNDS The Espy February 7 MAGPIE DIARIES The Old Bar February 7 PARTY IN THE PADDOCK White Hills Tasmania February 7-9 2019 RUDIMENTAL Margaret Court Arena February 8 YUNGBLUD The Croxton Bandroom February 8 TIA GOSTELOW Howler February 8 DAVID NANCE The Tote February February 8 DO RE MI Corner Hotel February 8 LANEWAY FESTIVAL ft Gang of Youths, Courtney Barnett, more Footscray Park February 9 FIVE + S CLUB 3 The Forum February 12 TEENAGE FANCLUB Corner Hotel February 12 MS. LAURYN HILL Sidney Myer Music Bowl February 13 THRICE 170 Russell February 15 EVES KARYDAS Corner Hotel February 16 COCKNEY REJECTS Corner Hotel February 21 MAROON 5 Rod Laver Arena February 22 PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH Northcote Social Club February 22 BETH HART The Forum February 23 HANSON Palais Theatre February 27 ORBITAL The Forum March 1 BELINDA CARLISLE Palais Theatre March 2 PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL March 8-11 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Palais Theatre March 9 DOWNLOAD Flemington Racecourse March 11 TASH SULTANA Sidney Myer Music Bowl March 14 FAT FREDDY’S DROP The Forum March 15, 16 MOTOR ACE 170 Russell April 12 BRING ME THE HORIZON Rod Laver Arena April 13 BLUESFEST ft Jack Johnson, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, more April 18-22 KEB MO’ Melbourne Recital Centre April 15 I’M WITH HER Melbourne Recital Centre April 18 TREVOR HALL The Corner April 18 NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE 170 Russell April 21 KURT VILE The Forum April 22 ARLO GUTHRIE Melbourne Recital Centre April 23 LARKIN POE Howler April 24 THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS The Corner April 24 BENDIGO AUTUMN MUSIC FESTIVAL April 25-28 GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC The Forum April 25 VINTAGE TROUBLE The Corner April 25 BEAT.COM.AU 29
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