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Contents
8 Contents
10-13 News
16 Arts Guide
18 Beat Eats, Punk,
Electronic
19 Ghost
20 Nine reasons Download
Festival is a must
22 Halestorm, Hell’s
Kitchen
23 Stella Donnelly,
Five underrated
Brunswick Music
Festival artists
24 Melanie, Chain
25 Emma Donovan & The
Putbacks, Port Phillip
Mussel & Jazz Festival
26 Melbourne Ukelele
Festival, Live at
Warrawee
27 The Jesus & Mary
Chain, Cactus Room
25
28 Album of the Week,
Emma Donovan & The Putbacks Singles
Interview
29 Albums
30-33 Gig Guide

Editor’s note
With There goes another month and despite the goodbyes of summer, the clutch of life’s hottest season Find us on Instagram @beatmagazine
Tom Parker won’t relent quite yet. March is always perforated by a hangover that brings joy to some and
continued irritation to others. We’ll still get 20s for a few weeks now so don’t pack away your
speedos and board shorts just yet.
As we march into the third month of the year, Brunswick Music Festival is rearing its head.
The Sydney Road Street Party went off with a bang and now it’s onto the bands and venues to
bring this storied neighbourhood to life. As the first weekend of the extravaganza concludes,
summer’s closing festival run fires up as Download Festival, Golden Plains, Pitch Music & Arts,
among others, bring joy to the reveller. The former of the three is festooned with a frantic lineup,
featuring the likes of Slayer (playing their final-ever shows), Judas Priest, Alice in Chains, Ghost
and more. The latter of the four adorn this week’s cover in all their ghoulish glory. /beatTV /BeatMag
On top of that, we’ve welcomed Stella Donnelly, Melanie, The Jesus & Mary Chain and
@beatmagazine @BeatMagazine
Phil Manning’s Chain onto the Beat premises before they perform their forthcoming slots across
Victoria. Most notable is Melanie, the eminent singer-songwriter who played at Woodstock and
will be paying tribute to the cultural behemoth at Port Fairy Folk Festival, 50 years on. Dive in
folks, don’t forget your goggles.

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News
The Saboteurs
Announce their first ever
Australian shows
Thursday 7 March 7PM After eight years out of the limelight, The
Saboteurs (aka The Raconteurs outside of
Open Mic Night Australia) have announced their first ever
Australian headline shows. Led by Jack
Friday 8 March 7.30PM White, the Midwest supergroup carry a
Blackfella Whitefella hefty rock pedigree, featuring old friends
FRIDAY acoustic sessions Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence (also
seen in The Dead Weather), and Patrick
Sunday 10 march 7PM Keeler (The Greenhornes). Last December
the band unveiled ‘Sunday Driver’ and
Borderline Sundays ‘Now That You’re Gone’, which were their
w/ DJ’s Matt Selector + first new tracks in ten years. They’ve also
Hawk I + Leggo announced an upcoming album, Consolers of
the Lonely, which is set for release sometime
Friday 15 March 7.30PM this year through Third Man Records.
Catch The Saboteurs play the Regent
Blackfella Whitefella Theatre on Thursday April 18. Tickets
FRIDAY acoustic sessions available through Ticketmaster.

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Jungle Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Announce show at The Espy Release new single, announce tour dates
St Kilda’s legendary Hotel Esplanade, known affectionately as The After a massive 2018, Melbourne five-piece Rolling Blackouts C.F
Espy, has focused heavily on Australian music since reopening in have dropped a brand new single ‘In the Capital’, plus a handful of
November last year, but now they’ve scored their first big international Australian tour dates. The track will feature on a limited edition 7”
Wednesday 6th 8.00pm act in UK soul collective, Jungle. The group are touring off the back alongside a second, currently unreleased A-side single, titled ‘Read
‘LOMONDACOUSTICA’ of last year’s sophomore effort For Ever, a maturing of their tropical My Mind’. Fran Keaney says the track was inspired by “transience
sound that ruminated on the realities of the so-called “Californian and water and death and big cities and fishing towns and moon
MICHAEL BRINKWORTH,
Dream”. This is their first visit to Australia since 2014, when they river”. The band play Melbourne’s Croxton Bandroom on Saturday
THOMAS HUGH, TOM BOLTON were here for Splendour in the Grass. Jungle will hit The Espy’s May 4. Tickets via Oztix.
Gershwin Room Saturday April 27. Tickets available via Moshtix.
Thursday 7th 8.30pm

‘SING OUT SISTER’

WITH ALANNA & ALICIA EGAN,
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Friday 8th 9.30pm

THE FONDUE SET

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SHANTY TOWN
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Sunday 10th 5.30pm

THE PHEASANTRY Black Cab Big Thief

(Plucky country) Release ‘Take It’, announce single launch at Sign to 4AD, announce new album
The Corner Rootsy folk is rarely done better in a modern framework than by
Tuesday 12th 9.00pm
Melbourne electro-kraut group Black Cab have released their latest Brooklyn quartet, Big Thief. The band are gaining momentum
IRISH SESSION single ‘Take It’, returning to a sound based around live instruments. after signing to iconic American label 4AD (home of the Pixies)
(Fancy fiddlin’) The band will launch the single at the Corner Hotel on Saturday and announcing their latest record U.F.O.F. The alien detachment
May 11, with a fifth record and reissues promised for the rest of of their eponymous first single is one of their best yet, pondering
ALL GIGS ARE FREE 2019. Black Cab have attracted plenty of European attention from
their previous records, while Call Signs was shortlisted for the 2009
alien abduction over pitter-patter drums and stuttering arpeggiated
guitar. The album was recorded in rural western Washington at Bear
225 NICHOLSON STREET, BRUNSWICK EAST. Australian Music Prize. Tickets to the Corner Hotel are selling fast, Creek Studios, with some songs reportedly written hours before
PH 9380 1752 and are available through Eventbrite. tracking. U.F.O.F. is slated for a Friday May 3 release via 4AD.

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Download Festival
Drop 2019 set times
Download Festival, 2019’s biggest
Australian heavy festival, has dropped its
Melbourne set times. After Ozzy Osbourne
dropped out last week due to illness, thrash
WEDNESDAY 6TH MARCH metal progenitors Slayer have secured the
WHISKY WEDNESDAYS headline slot on their last ever Australian
ACOUSTIC SESSIONS tour, promising a 90-minute set. Judas Priest
$7 Basic, $9 Premium, $12 Cocktails.
7PM, Free. and Alice in Chains will play consecutively
beforehand with extended 75-minute sets
THURSDAY 7TH MARCH on the Black and Red Stages respectively.
FACTORY SESSIONS @ Elsewhere, Code Orange, The Amity
THE SWAMP feat REUBEN Affliction and Frenzal Rhomb overlap mid-
LEWIS, SULO & more Student afternoon, Luca Brasi open the Black Stage
Special! $14 jugs of beer/cider with and Anthrax have a surprisingly early slot of
current student card. 8PM, Free.
3:20pm. The Melbourne leg of Download
FRIDAY 8TH MARCH Festival goes down Labour Day, Monday
March 11 at Flemington Racecourse, with
TK REEVE/JB EMMETT all set times on the festival website. Tickets
BLOOZE BAND 6.30PM Free
ACID JUNK TECHNO PUNK can be snatched up via Ticketmaster.
feat: Replikator, Lee Harvey, DJ
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Scott Alien, Mark Hogan, Lani G
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Josh Wolf Halcyon Drive

Announces Australian tour Reveal new single, tour dates, album release
US comedian Josh Wolf, perhaps best known on screen as Josh in Melbourne indie rock trio Halcyon Drive have returned with
My Name as Earl, has announced a stand up tour of Australia. Wolf ‘Reach’ and announced tour dates for their forthcoming record
has written for a myriad of US sitcoms over his career including Elephant Bones. Filled with dreamy percussion and lyricism about
FRIDAY 8 MARCH 7PM / FREE the aforementioned My Name is Earl, All of Us and Cuts, as well as connectivity, ‘Reach’ laments the idea of staying connected to loved
SYSTEM UNKNOWN PRESENTS launching his very own eponymous talk show in 2015. Wolf hits ones even when you’re physically far away. It’s a taste of what we
WAX POETS VINYL SESSION Melbourne’s Comics Lounge on Wednesday May 22, with tickets might expect to hear from the trio when they release their debut
SAM STACKA, MAJOR DELAY via Live Nation. album on Friday March 8. You can catch Halcyon Drive when they
rock Yah Yah’s on Friday April 5. Head to Eventbrite for tickets.
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Signed by Wild Thing Presents Boomerang Festival
Ballarat prog-rockers Ebonivory have been signed by Wild Thing
THE BONE FOLDERS, Presents. The band’s music combines the softer shades of post-
Indigenous acts play main stage
KARIN, GIANT MOTHS rock with the harder edged technicality of alternative metal. The Alongside their sister First Nations focused event, Boomerang
AND THE TAYLOR PROJECT five-piece formed in 2014, led by composer, multi-instrumentalist Festival, Byron Bay Blues Festival has announced eight Indigenous
and lead vocalist, Charlie Powlett. The band’s debut LP The Only acts will play the main stages. Baker Boy, Archie Roach, Mojo Juju,
MORE GIGS & TICKET INFO Constant was released in 2016 and caught the attention of Wild and more will grace both festival’s stages over the Easter Weekend,
redbetty.com.au Thing Presents Director Eli Chamravi last year. Ebonivory support while Malu Kiai Mura Buai, Rako and Tenzin Choegyal will also
Behind 859 Sydney Road, Brunswick Dead Letter Circus in Melbourne at Stay Gold on Saturday March rock Boomerang Festival. Byron Bay Blues Festival goes down from
(enter via Cozens St). 30, tickets available via the Wild Things Presents website. Thursday April 18 to Monday April 22 at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm.
Head to the festival website for tickets and the full lineup.

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Release 2019 set times
The Southern Gippsland hills are ready to
come to life, as The Hills Are Alive have
released their jam-packed three day set times
for the live music and comedy extravaganza.
Melbourne rockers Kingswood take the
11.40pm headline slot on Friday March 29
while singer-songwriter Vera Blue heads up
Saturday March 30. RAAVE Tapes, Didirri
and Genesis Owusu among many others
will feature on Saturday, while Press Club,
Kwame and Arno Faraji hit the stage on
Friday. Local groups Fossil Fuels, DJ Safety,
Baby Tones, Jack Botts and Congrats have
also been added to the fray. The Hills
Are Alive goes down at The Farm, Friday
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available via the festival website.

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Hatchie NSW Music Festivals

Announces debut album, new single and Take action against the state government
tour dates Multiple New South Wales music festivals classified as ‘high risk’ by
Hatchie has attracted plenty of overseas attention as of late and the NSW government have commenced legal action in retaliation,
now the Brisbane singer-songwriter has finally announced her arguing that they are victims of unfair and prejudiced treatment.
debut record Keepsake. ‘Without a Blush’ is the first single, described Organisers from Days Like This and Lost Paradise, in addition
by Hatchie as the “perfect introduction to the feelings and sounds to music agencies Division, Novel and Finely Tuned, say premier
on the rest of the record”. The record is slated for a Friday June 21 Gladys Berejiklian has “chosen to vilify 14 individual festivals
release, but you’ll be able to catch her before this when she embarks without any discussion”, calling the state government response
on her single tour in May. Catch Hatchie at the Northcote Social a “knee-jerk reaction”. Other festivals affected by the new music
Club on Friday May 17, with tickets via Eventbrite. festival licensing scheme include Laneway, FOMO and Ultra.

Ayleen O’Hanlon

Merpire The Drunken Poet

Reveals new single, announces festival Celebrating International Women’s Day
appearances International Women’s Day is coming up, and the Drunken Poet
It’s been less than a year since indie pop maven Merpire released her are celebrating with a night led by female artists. Funny-woman
debut EP, and she’s already flooding us with new tunes. Her latest duo The Tuckshop Ladies will be kicking things off, comprised of
single ‘Lately’ is more of that fuzzy, synth laden sound she’s become Sam Lohs and Rosie Burgess. The pair play ukulele driven musical
known for, with a dreamy, pastel drenched film clip to match. If comedy, performing a selection of riotous songs that were birthed
you haven’t managed to catch her live yet, you’ll have the chance on in the back of a tour van. They’ll be followed by Ayleen O’Hanlon,
Friday March 15 for Brunswick Music Festival, at Bambra’s By The somewhat shifting the mood with her country and blues tunes. You
303 Sydney Rd Brunswick
Meadow, or Bendigo’s Autumn Music festival. Head to her website can catch the free show at the Drunken Poet on Friday March 8
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Hotel Mumbai
Most will remember the attacks that occurred in Mumbai
back in 2008. A group of terrorists carried out 12 coordinated
shootings and bombings across the city, leaving 174 people dead
and over 300 wounded. Among the locations targeted was the
luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Normally a retreat for the
wealthy, the lavish hotel was transformed into a battleground as
terrorists ripped through the building, executing guests and staff
while police and officials scrambled to organise a raid.
Based on the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai, first-
time feature director Anthony Maras (along with co-writer
John Collee) have brought the harrowing tale of heroism and
terror to life with Hotel Mumbai. The film focuses, for the most

Rone’s Empire part, on the hotel staff as they risk their lives to keep the guests
safe from the attackers.
Takes over Sherbrooke’s Burnham Beeches Mansion Boasting a massive cast, Maras attempts to show as many
points of view as possible, shifting his focus from the wealthier
Australian artist Rone has transformed the walls of a decaying manor in the Dandenong Ranges into a multi-room masterpiece
guests to the poorer Aussie backpackers, to the heroic staff, and
with his latest work, Empire. The massive artwork combines sound design, virtual reality and augmented reality experiences.
the terrorists themselves. The film manages to always keep fear
Rooms of the building are centred around seasons, and have been decked out with more than 500 individual antique pieces.
at the forefront, giving us a glimpse into people’s rationale and
The exhibition runs between Wednesday March 6 and Monday April 22. For more information, head to the artist’s website.
how they deal with what’s happening around them.
The main driving force behind the film is Dev Patel’s waiter
Arjun, a Sikh, who risks his life to help keep the guests safe. This
narrative helps the film avoid being nothing more than a two-
hour long bloodbath, presenting an inspiring tale of heroism,
honour and an overwhelming sense of duty.
The supporting cast help pad out the film, bolstering the
underlying message with individual instances of bravery and
compassion. The always solid Armie Hammer gives a somewhat
out of place performance as an American engineer, married to
a local woman (Nazanin Boniadi), risking his life to keep his
newborn baby safe. Jason Isaacs plays an over-the-top Russian
sleazeball who transitions from coked up businessman to
grounded hero once the attacks begin.
International Women’s People Suck: A Musical While these Hollywood story tropes might feel a little tacky,
they come as a welcome reprieve from the stream of violence
Day at ACMI Airing of Grievances presented on screen. Maras doesn’t shy away from the atrocities
committed, instead allowing them to exist in an almost matter-
Serious talks, serious dancing Come have a whine at The Butterfly Club of-fact manner.
In celebration of International Women’s Day on Friday If you’ve ever needed to express your anger towards humankind, While Hotel Mumbai does have a few missteps along the
March 8, ACMI has put together an evening of listening, this is the comedy show for you. People Suck: A Musical Airing way, its message is ultimately an inspiring one, brought to life
thinking, dancing and discovering. Kicking off at 7pm is of Grievances is exactly that a musical celebration of the with vivid direction and well-rounded performances. The film is
a panel discussion, reflecting on one year of the #MeToo people who annoy the hell out of you. In addition to shaming an engaging, albeit confronting at times, depicting of the bravery
movement and what feminism has achieved, while also others, the show is a not-very-subtle way of reminding the people exhibit when faced with extraordinary circumstances.
considering where we go from here. The panel is followed audience to not be dickheads. The musical runs between Hotel Mumbai is out in Australian cinemas on Thursday
by a vogue dance performance and workshop, and a lineup Monday March 11 and Saturday March 16 at the Butterfly March 14.
of DJs to take you into the next day. For more information, Club. Tickets through their website.
head to ACMI’s website. BY CHRIS SWAN

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COLUMNS

Beat Eats Punk Electronic

WITH GENEVIEVE PHELAN WITH MORGAN MANGAN WITH MICHAEL CUSACK

Wax Chattels Sven Vath

Tokyo Tina

You know Melbourne’s gastronomy scene like the back Occasionally I will completely pass on a band because It’s Labour Day weekend, and that means it’s Pitch Music
of your hand. You’ve found a slew of bars that sling great of the name. Sometimes it’s when the name is obviously & Arts Festival time, one of Australia’s biggest electronic
espresso martinis, you can recommend where to snag a late terrible or unappealing, but other times it’s merely a music festivals, featuring a lineup that could rival some
Friday night bite and your backlog of ‘Places to Brunch judgement I make without reason. Wax Chattels was a of the most famous European festivals. This year sees
At’ is verging on ridiculous. But what about when your band mentioned to me on several occasions and more than internationals Sven Vath, Four Tet, Perc, Charlotte De
dining posse accumulates a few extra plus one’s than usual, once in the context of, “best thing I saw at BIGSOUND Witte, Dr. Rubinstein, Dixon, Avalon Emerson, Ame,
or you’ve been put in charge of planning a night for the this year” (not a selling point). I don’t know what a chattel DJ Harvey, Daniel Avery and plenty more playing
ages? We’ve wandered up winding staircases and flung is and I still don’t understand after trying to Google alongside locals like Toni Yotzi, Mall Grab, Banoffee and
open elusive back-of-house doors to find Melbourne’s the definition, but I was under the impression that Wax Merve. It goes down in a stunning location at the foot
most-hushed dining function spaces, all with panache and Chattels made that nothing-special sort of indie rock of the Grampians National Park this Friday March 8 to
the promise of a good time. music. Cut to a tired and reluctant Monday Night Mass Monday March 11. Tickets are still available through the
Just when you thought your favourite Chapel Street attendee on February 25 and I can say Wax Chattels are festival website.
cocktail and bao trove couldn’t get better. At the back of definitely not an indie rock band.
Tokyo Tina awaits a compact karaoke vault room, tucked To my surprise and confusion, the band came on
away from the clamour of the main suite and boasting stage all dressed in black, with large LEDs at their feet, Confidence Man
just enough space for you and your mates to pull off a a minimalistic drum kit, and an organ with heaps of
rehearsed rendition of ‘Spice Up Your Life’. Fit for six to pedals and bass. I then experienced a solid 40 minutes of
ten people, bookings made here mean signing up for TT’s complete noise; the most satisfying kind.
All In menu, so you can graze on a curated selection of pan Immediately after seeing the band I purchased the
asian fare while belting out ‘Mr Brightside’. record and went straight home to listen.
They weren’t even the last band to play that night, but
I had to get out of there. Upon listening, I learned that
Citrico Cocina their opening track of the night ‘Concrete’ was also the
opening track of their 2018 self-titled album. Both live
and recorded it’s an intense build up of loud stops and
starts, setting the pace for the whole offering and my
Also this weekend is another much-loved festival
new perception of who Wax Chattels are. Each song they
that boasts some serious talent, Golden Plains. A more
played was intense, and in my mind, the recipe for hardcore
musically varied weekend in comparison to Pitch, the
loud, fast, tense and slightly angry. As a band, they were
sister festival to Meredith Music Festival always puts on
so tight and metronomic while also being aggressive and
a weekend that runs the gauntlet of music genres, from
chaotic, making them amazing to both watch and listen to.
folk to funk, punk to post rock, pop to techno. Highlights
I was hanging onto every organ key, every crash and every
of the electronic programming include Chicago house
fat bass line. I was experiencing hints of Sonic Youth, with
music pioneer Hieroglyphic Being, London disco punk
bassist Amanda Cheng having that similar Kim Gordon
DJ Harvey, Four Tet, Confidence Man, New York don
vibe, as her vocals went from deep, dark and haunting, to
Danny Krivit and Melbourne’s very own Millú & Pjenné
intense confident yells.
doing the famed festival closing set as the sun rises. It goes
Tailor your soirée, boozy brunch or fairy-lit courtyard down from Saturday March 9 to Monday March 11.
dinner at Torpe Café. This Armadale gem spans two
hidden, totally technicolour rooms that your entourage
Kyla Matsuura-Miller
will swoon over. The Pink Room comfortably seats 20,
whereas the Blue Room maxes out at 15. Think bold,
block-colour walls, adorned by antique ephemera in this
avant-garde foray into the Melbourne dining arena.
For a flurry of South American cuisine, bypass the
airport and get Chile-bound in North Fitzroy at Citrico
Cocina. Custom made tables, bentwood chairs, pendant
lighting, Latin-inspired artwork and undulating natural
light are the hallmarks of the upstairs dining house.
Imbibe Pisco Sours and devour golden empanadas in this
exotic microcosm of all things fiesta, just a flight of stairs
up from CC’s cosy base camp.
If festivals aren’t your bag, here’s something a little
If neon signage, a potent drinks menu and Instagram- I have since learned that the band all met at jazz
different. Series six of Play On is set to commence this
worthy backdrops are your thing, your next shindig should school. From what I could tell at the time, there was no
Friday, a series of gigs exploring the intersection of
kick off at Neo Lemonade. Elevated from the main hint of jazz in their sound. Upon listening back several
classical and electronic music, held in an underground
restaurant below, this glamorous dining mezzanine is the times and recounting the show, the jazz school may have
carpark in Collingwood. The first night features violinist
ideal space to start your night out in style, with a side of come out in how tightly and well timed the band played,
Kyla Matsuura-Miller and her quartet, with DJ Babicka
squid-ink fettuccine. with nothing messy or confusing about it. Three extremely
to follow. They’ll be exploring the music of American
For the larger gatherings, the almighty 21sts and the talented musicians who seemed to know exactly what they
composer Steve Reich, famed for pioneering minimalist
grandiose wedding after parties, Black Rock’s True South wanted out of their sound.
music in the ‘60s and his mind bending experiments
has to be the most quintessentially Bayside spot to throw a Still unsure of what exactly their genre is, it was like
with phasing tape loops and then phasing performance,
big one. Offering not one, not two, but three epic function nothing I’ve ever heard or experienced. Something of an
featuring two musicians performing the same piece of
spaces, you can knock back a few cold ones while presiding argument with my friend after the gig left me debating its
music but falling in and out of sync with one another.
over panoramic vistas of the bay. Upstairs, there’s a dance punk versus post-punk elements. My friend finished the
Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
floor and balcony to watch the sunset, while The Dining discussion with a perfectly put sentiment, saying; “Well.
Room and The Cellar were made for cocktail parties. That’s what post-punk should sound like.”

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 COVER STORY

Ghost
A phantom hovering over Download Festival

WRITTEN BY ANNA ROSE | PHOTO BY MIKAEL ERIKSSON

What’s the correct form of address here? Tobias, Cardinal Copia, or Your Ghostliness? “Tobias, never Cardinal. He
doesn’t do interviews,” Ghost frontman and mastermind Tobias Forge says of his alter ego.

Indeed. And yet since the great revelation of

April 2017, when the world was introduced to
he says, chuckling. “However, I don’t think I will
ever personally overshadow or be in the same light
things I want to achieve is based on the idea that
promoters believe Ghost to be a big thing and
“The problem
the true face of the ever-changing characters at as all the media attention Ghost has had.” we’re able to deliver. is from an
the helm of Swedish metal-drama outfit, Ghost, “I’m not merely as interesting as Ghost is,” “Personally having gone from being
the perception by mainstream media hasn’t altered Forge explains. “The amount of photographs “anonymous”, I’ve had to relearn and think a lot
entertainment
Forge’s conduct. “No,” he says bluntly. “The change for one and the footage of Ghost, I will never about what I’ve been doing. I did a radio show [perspective],
for me personally has been relatively subtle. personally be able to compete with that.” here in Sweden, a monologue, the first time I’d
“Within the realms of our fan base and the Forge’s primary interest is the success and ever introduced myself to the world with my you’re not
epicentre of our career, it didn’t go from one renown of Ghost and indeed, imagery is only one [true] name, that was a gruelling experience in doing media
unknown to a completely different scenario.” huge cog in the giant operation. It’s debatable terms of, ‘[have] I done something that might
Forge is one who speaks carefully, slowly, that many people don’t understand the Ghost alter everything I’ve ever done with Ghost?’ But I for the fans …
almost with calculation, of himself and Ghost. objective. From a media point, Forge agrees. had no choice, I had to do that.” and the things I
Whether that’s a preconceived action or his “Even though there’s not a distinction between In some ways, Forge’s actions left him and
natural way of conversing, perhaps we’ll never underground and overground media, in that one the band vulnerable, with public and internal want to achieve
know. What we do know is that Ghost’s elevation of them understands and the other does not, debates about whether or not Ghost’s success, is based on
into one of heavy music’s most intriguing bands there’ve been several peddlers who have been have surrounded a lack of public insight. “I do
couldn’t have come about without the trust Forge extremely supportive and aiding in terms of believe one reason why we’re talking today is that the idea that
has in his fans. It’s the fans, despite knowing
Forge’s identity from having seen him after shows,
educating media.
“There are a lot of journalists working within
we did things in the beginning of our career that
were highly unmodern at the time,” says Forge.
promoters
who never revealed the truth. metal media, so [that] at several points in my “Every band [at the time] with the intention of believe Ghost
“That was very humbling for me,” says Forge. career I’ve had to have a conversation with music establishing themselves within the music scene,
“If there was one thing I felt a bit torn about media who are saying, ‘Why are we buying into filled every channel available to them with as
to be a big
was potentially betraying that trust. I’ve always this charade one more time?’ And you have to go much content as possible. My idea with Ghost thing and we’re
said the goal with Ghost was never to remain back again and sell the idea ‘Well, rock‘n’roll is was to do the exact opposite.
anonymous the idea was for the band to always about imagination.’” “The whole thing was fuelled by the idea that able to deliver.”
remain masked. There’s a big difference, but people Without the understanding and support of I wanted people to find Ghost the same way I
don’t listen, they don’t understand that.” the fans, Ghost wouldn’t be four studio albums found bands when I was a teenager you knew
In any medium over which Forge has control, in. “Absolutely,” Forge says firmly. “I’m not going nothing, you knew very little. That spurred a lot of Ghost come to Flemington
you won’t see his face. Wherever you do see his to contradict or do anything but praise the fan’s imagination. And going public, for lack of a better Racecourse for Download
Festival on Monday
face is where others are calling the shots that’s undying devotion because without them we would word, would contradict that tide.” March 11. They’ll be hitting
the distinction. Otherwise, Ghost remains be nothing, of course. the Avalanche Stage at
uniformly masked. “It was just a matter of time. “The problem is from an entertainment 8.55pm. Head to the
It would have defied all logic and sense that the [perspective], you’re not doing media for the festival website for tickets.
band was getting bigger and more recognised and fans. It’s part of the political world of trying to
I would personally not follow a similar trajectory,” achieve the things you want to achieve, and the

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SPECIAL FEATURE

Nine reasons Download

Festival is an absolute must
BY DAVID JAMES YOUNG

After making its mark with a stunning debut in late March 2018, Download Festival has returned for a second year to
Flemington Racecourse with an even bigger lineup. Although we’ll sadly not be seeing the Prince of Darkness on this run
(wishing Ozzy a speedy recovery), there is still more than enough to occupy yourself with at this year’s Download. Let
Beat be your guide to the must-sees and must-dos this coming Monday.

Outright

Slayer Rise Against

The metal veterans One shot, one opportunity The Aussie (not Ozzy) contingent
With Ozzy out of the picture, the end of the night belongs to Download have scored a slew of massive names to perform Sure, there’s boundless plains to share for those who’ve come
two of the most influential, entertaining heavy metal bands at the festival this year, and if you happen to be a fan then across the seas, but don’t count out any of the top national artists
of all time, Judas Priest and Slayer. The former are powering there’s a handful who you won’t be able to see live in any that are part of Download. Take Melbourne’s own Outright, for
back Down Under with a brand-new album in their arsenal, other place. The politically-charged Rise Against, the skate- instance, who have been tearing up stages for nearly a decade
plus all the classics for good measure. The latter, meanwhile, punk legends Pennywise and hard rockers Halestorm are just with their revolutionary politics and chugging guitars. Throw in
are headlining on a bittersweet note; This will mark Slayer’s some of the bands that will only be playing Download while Tassie legends Luca Brasi, veteran miscreants Frenzal Rhomb
last-ever shows in Australia, as the thrash-metal kings in Australia this week. If you didn’t have enough incentive to and mane-thrashing heavy heroes High Tension, and you’ve got
undertake their final world tour. Whether you’re breaking head along previously, it’s almost certain one of Download’s a row of talent that could go toe-to-toe and pound-for-pound
the law or spending seasons in the abyss, both are unmissable. exclusive bands will seal the deal. with any of the international heavyweights.

War On Women

FEVER 333 make their first voyage Feast your eyes on Download’s feast The early bird catches the worm
Two years ago, letlive. was abruptly called to an end. Its Never ones to do things by halves, Download have called It’s easy to slide into the festival sometime later in the
leader, Jason Aalon Butler, soon revealed that he had teamed upon some of the top chefs around to bring you Hell’s afternoon after everything has already kicked off proper, but
up with two friends The Chariot’s Stephen Harrison and Kitchen. Whatever you’re looking to grab a bite of between where’s the fun in that? If you really want to get your money’s
Night Verses’ Aric Improta to form an all-new band. bands, the crew will have you covered. Curated by Jake and worth, get there as soon as the gates open and make a point
FEVER 333 has all the ferocity and intensity of letlive., only Kenny from Sydney’s Mary’s, there will be burgers, chicken of checking out some of the bands playing early in the day.
this time it’s with the volume cranked to 11 and a hell-bent and wine as far as the eye can see. If that wasn’t enough, there Highlights from the timetable include the keytar-wielding
political conviction to its message. Download will mark the will also be plenty of trusted vendors peddling their wares all West Australians, Voyager who are celebrating 20 years as
band’s maiden voyage to Australia. As far as live shows go, across the festival, from Taco Truck to the brilliantly-titled a band in 2019 and the outspoken, uplifting, incendiary
theirs is the one to beat. Ryan Gozleme. Let’s eat. Baltimore punks, War On Women.

Sum 41

A full day of sing-alongs The chaos of Code Orange The inter-generational crossover
From Frenzal’s ‘Never Had So Much Fun’ right up to “do- Arguably the heaviest band on the bill, Code Orange make Gen X? Gen Y? Raised on metal? Turned out a punk?
doo-doo”-ing along to Slayer’s iconic ‘Raining Blood’, you’ll a relentless brand of metallic hardcore that is designed for None of that matters. You’re spoken for at Download.
have next to no time to rest your voice across the entire absolute spin-kicking chaos. They are a full-body experience You’re present and accounted for. You’ve got plenty to get
day. There’s the real simple ones Pennywise giving you when they perform, and no matter where you’re standing you through an awesome day of music both with your old
an elongated “woah” for ‘Bro Hymn’ and then there’s the you’re going to get involved. Riding high off the back of their faithfuls, and maybe a dash of new blood that you wouldn’t
slightly trickier, like the rap verses of Sum 41’s ‘Fat Lip’. killer 2017 album Forever, the five-piece are not coming to have endeavoured to check out normally. To all races,
Whatever your poison, you’re guaranteed a damn good time Download to make friends. They’re expecting movement, and genders and creeds with a taste for the alternative; For ten
as you and 30,000 of your closest mates join your favourite plenty of it. If you’re looking for the hardest, toughest music hours on Labour Day 2019, Flemington Racecourse is your
band on backing vocals. of the day, make sure you’re at the Avalanche Stage at 4.30pm. playground. Go be with your people.

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 MONDAY 11 MARCH
FLEMINGTON RACECOURCE
12PM 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00

BLACK 12:30 - 1:10 1:50 - 2:35 3:20 - 4:05 4:50 - 5:50 7:05 - 8:20

STAGE LUCA BRASI AIRBOURNE ANTHRAX RISE AGAINST JUDAS PRIEST

RED 12:00 - 12:30 1:10 - 1:50 2:35 - 3:20

4:05 - 4:50
5:50 - 7:05 8:20 - 9:50
VOYAGER I PREVAIL BEHEMOTH THE AMITY ALICE IN CHAINS SLAYER
STAGE AFFLICTION

AVALANCHE 12:05 - 12:35

1:05 - 1:35 2:05 - 2:40
3:10 - 4:00
4:30 - 5:10
NEW ME FIRST 5:40 - 6:40 7:10 - 8:10 8:55 - 9:55
STAGE YEARS
SLAVES FEVER
AND THE
CODE
PENNYWISE SUM 41 GHOST
HOSTED BY 333 ORANGE
DAY GIMME GIMMES

1:20 - 1:50 2:20 - 2:50 4:30 - 5:10 6:50 - 7:20 7:50 - 8:30
DOGTOOTH 12:20 - 12:50
WAR ON HIGH 3:20 - 4:00
FRENZAL 5:40 - 6:20
THY ART TWELVE 9:00 - 10:00
RUINS CONVERGE POLARIS HALESTORM
STAGE WOMEN TENSION RHOMB IS MURDER FOOT NINJA

1:45 - 2:15 7:45 - 8:15

2:45 - 3:15 3:45 - 4:15 4:45 - 5:15
ASCENSION 12:45 - 1:15 THE EAT YOUR AVERSIONS ALIEN
5:45 - 6:15 6:45 - 7:15 JUSTICE
WNDWAKER BEAUTIFUL OUTRIGHT DEVILSKIN FOR THE
STAGE MONUMENT
HEART OUT CROWN WEAPONRY
DAMNED

12PM 1:00 :00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00

SITE MAP
MONDAY 11 MARCH
FLEMINGTON
RACECOURSE

KEY
TOILETS RARE RECORDS

FOOD FIRST AID

MARKETS CHILL OUT ZONE
BAR TICKET BOX
MERCHANDISE WATER STATION

FOOD TRUCKS CLOAK ROOM

INFO BOOTH DISABLED PATRON
FACILITIES
PHONE CHARGE HELLS KITCHEN
FOOD
ATM EMERGENCY EXIT

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Halestorm “We wanted
to do a newer
Halestorm are undoubtedly
version of
hard workers. The Pennsylvania
rockers have played more Halestorm but
than 2,500 shows since their [still] very us –
inception in 1998. how do you not
But it’s taken a toll, surfacing as self-doubt and make the same
depression in their fourth studio album, Vicious, thing over and
which is easily their most personal and unassuming
work to date. over again? We
They have a reputation for being the hardest
touring band in rock‘n’roll, but as personal and
didn’t know if
professional clouds hung over them ahead of we could do it
writing Vicious, such a precedent could have been
the reason problems culminated on the LP. “We’re
anymore.”
hard on ourselves, for sure,” says guitarist, Joe in a big way we all did but I just love some of the show, we just put it all out there, especially with
Hottinger. “Going into the record we had written themes she’s talking about, getting truly personal a festival.
a bunch of songs and we weren’t excited about and intimate at times. Heart breaking as well [in] “There’s four of us on stage and we throw this Halestorm will play
them. It felt like we were rehashing what we had ‘Heart Of Novocaine’, ‘Black Vultures’, what it’s energy out at a big group of people and you get Download Festival’s
already done. like to be told all the time. it back ten thousand fold. It’s exciting, and it’s big Dogtooth Stage at 9pm
on Monday March 11.
“It was disheartening. We wanted to do a “Like the last record [Into the Wild Life, fun. Head to the festival
newer version of Halestorm but [still] very us 2015], there’s people around here saying we made “It’s kind of a preview because we’re coming website for the full lineup.
how do you not make the same thing over and over a country record I wouldn’t know how to play back this year again because we like Australia and
again? We didn’t know if we could do it anymore.” country or write a country song if I had a gun to we agreed to do some more stuff I don’t know if
The material they had wasn’t the version of my head but everyone’s waiting for us to fail, and that’s been announced yet but it will be soon so,
Halestorm the band wanted to be. Prompted by she just started addressing that.” screw it”
their producer, Nick Raskulinecz, Hottinger says Tangents, like the one Hottinger is on, are With so many songs not used on Vicious,
they took it back to their roots, just jamming a riff good; on Vicious we’re seeing the real side. And Hottinger says the next album is well on the way to
to start with that would eventually become the Australia’s opportunity to witness this completely completion. “An album is a sonic snapshot at any
album’s lead single, ‘Uncomfortable’. honest version of Halestorm presents itself in given month or year we’re working on it,” he says.
The magic was there the whole time, a very short burst of shows, with Halestorm “Lzzy and I have already been writing a bunch
Halestorm just had to take a step back to be able performing at Download Festival in Sydney and because we’ve had a little time off between tours.
to tap into it. “Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest Melbourne this month. “We head to Australia then we’re pretty much
for the trees,” says Hottinger. Sentiment won’t be stripped away by the out [on tour] the rest of the year so it’s pretty nice
Through all the emotive power of Vicious, limits of time, however. “It doesn’t really matter to get a month to kinda like, ‘What’s life again?
there’s a vulnerability, passion and rawness that the length of a set,” says Hottinger, “Every time we Oh yeah!’”
is new for the outfit. “Lzzy especially,” Hottinger finish up it feels like we did a whole show, whether
begins of vocalist, Lzzy Hale. “She stepped forward it’s a half hour festival set or two-hour headline BY ANNA ROSE

Hell’s Kitchen “The best

kind of festival
heats up food is cooked

Download to order
but fucking
What makes a memorable
fast – no one
festival experience? Most people
you speak to will say the artist wants to be
lineup, the crowd or what goes standing in a
down at the campsite are the line waiting
highlights you tell your mates foodie to those who love an everyday gozleme. Easy to please festival-goers can expect rock for a half hour-
about. “Hell’s Kitchen has such a killer Melbourne solid regular food vendors including Messina,
lineup Phil Wood, Aaron Turner and Jo Barrett, Taco Truck, Bluebonnet BBQ, Leonard’s House old burger
Though, there is something missing in the story, who are all proper amazing chefs who are equally of Love, Harley & Rose and even the classic HSP while Slayer is
something we all enjoy, that can often make or amazing to party with, offering a menu that has dotted throughout the site to cater to your post-
break a festival experience t he food. made us very, very hungry.” mosh stomach rumbles. playing.”
With this in mind, this year’s Download Download attendees can expect to be fed by In addition to serving up some of Sydney’s
Festival are stepping up their game to bring Hell’s the Mary’s crew, Phil Wood of lauded Laura at best burger and pub experiences, Smyth and
Kitchen to the table; a mouth-watering offering of Point Leo Estate, Aaron Turner from Geelong Graham are set to transform former Sydney jazz
Hell’s Kitchen takes over
gastronomic delights served up by a handful of the fine diner IGNI and Jo Barrett from Yarra Valley’s venue, The Basement, which closed in March Download Festival when
country’s most talented chefs. Oakridge Wines, who boasts a deep knowledge 2018 after 45 years of live music. it welcomes the likes of
After a massive debut in 2018, festival punters of Melbourne food culture and a talent for pastry Considered champions for supporting the Slayer, Judas Priest and
can expect a raucous menu thanks to Sydney food and baking bread. live music in Sydney, this exciting announcement Ghost to Flemington
Racecourse on Monday
legends, Jake Smyth and Kenny Graham. “[Festival] punters have embraced Mary’s at is part of their mission to bring back party vibes to March 11. Head to the
“Festival food has come a long way since the every turn, and we don’t imagine that adding a a city often restricted by lockout laws. festival website for
years of flaccid fries and potato on a stick, and buttload of killer chefs to our little tent is going to “Mary’s Underground will be opening in May tickets.
largely it has been driven by the punters,” say send them packing.” 2019, with a focus on smashing together two of
Smyth and Graham. Though delectable dishes crafted by renowned our great loves music and food,” Smyth and
“The best kind of festival food is cooked cooks wouldn’t typically seem the fit for fans of Graham revealed.
to order but fucking fast no one wants to be Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer or Judas Priest, Smyth and “Cold gin, fancy wine, good lighting, face
standing in a line waiting for a half hour-old Graham say music fans alike are all onboard with ripping tunes all the while supporting young and
burger while Slayer is playing. Quick, delicious the rise of fancy food and booze at festivals. From emerging musicians and producers.”
and hot is all we want.” Download to Splendour in the Grass, good food Those who aren’t keen on a foodie feast or
Smyth and Graham are most well-known for is a universal language. undecided on what to eat can enjoy the festival’s
running cult burger joint Mary’s, The Lansdowne “At its core, we get what people want; fast and Download markets; which has your band merch,
Hotel and The Unicorn Hotel in Sydney, with a delicious. We tweak things to keep it interesting vinyl, streetwear and paraphernalia needs sorted.
newly acquired location in Circular Quay in the for us and the punter, but the tenets of a good
works. The duo say there will be something for festival menu remain, regardless of the genre of BY JULIA SANSONE
everyone at Download 2019 from the high-end music.”

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 FEATURE

Stella
Donnelly “I will
continue
“Confused and hungry?
Confused and excited? ... I
to say what
don’t know ... I’m in a bit of a I feel and
whirlwind … I don’t really know continue to
how to define myself right try to start a
now.”
conversation
For those of you who haven’t had Stella Donnelly until I feel I
pop up in your feed, the 26-year-old from Perth
has been piling accolades since the release of her
don’t need to
lyrically confronting (and explicit) EP Thrush any more.”
Metal. Now she arrives with her 13-track debut
album Beware of the Dogs. songs to go and play it on the road for two years. “It’s about my appreciation of missing home
‘Punk without the punk’, is the best way to I’m still as immature as those songs are.” and being grateful of what I’m doing, but wanting Stella Donnelly’s debut
describe Donnelly’s signature style of folk with Donnelly hasn’t shied away from speaking to show my love for the people who have been there album Beware of the
hard-hitting lyricism. her mind, and her critically acclaimed single ‘Boys for me for so long and continue to be there for me. Dogs is due for release
“It’s funny because I’ve got my favourite type Will Be Boys’, addressed sexual assault without a [When touring] you’ve got to put up these guards Friday March 8th. She
plays at Estonian House
of music, which is just kind of ‘nice sounding’ filter. Her theme of protest continues in Beware of to travel like that. Then when you get home, It can
for Brunswick Music
things. I really love hearing pretty chords in that the Dogs, but at a cost. take a bit of time to let those guards back down and Festival on Saturday March
way, [but] I also really like punk music and I’ve “When I first got backlash for ‘Boys Will come back to that space for the people you love.” 9 at 2pm (All Ages) and
played in punk bands before,” Donnelly says with Be Boys’, I had to make a decision to either hide Unfettered joy erupts out of Donnelly with the 7.30pm. Grab your tickets
passion. “I think if I’m going to swear and say the and never write music again, or go for it and mention of ‘Lunch’. via the festival website.
things that I want to say and get to as many people continue to write like me. I’m white, I’m lucky and “That song’s my favourite song. It’s part of me
as possible, I’m going to have to create a sort of I’m privileged, and I don’t go through a tenth of as well, I’m not just someone who writes protest
juxtaposition between those lyrics and the sort of what other people in this country go through ... songs. I’m not just someone who writes break up
music that I write.” So I went, ‘yeah it’s hard’, the trolls are hard, death songs. I’m a whole human that has happy days and
Beware of the Dogs, produced by Dean Tuza threats and getting rape threats and people stalking hungry days and sad days.”
(The Rubens, Kim Churchill, Thelma Plum) was me and stuff. But at the same time, I’m still here, The release of her debut album is a cause for
recorded in Fremantle last year. I’m alive. I guess I just have to make that choice celebration, something which Donnelly will share
“I guess the theme is ‘sad diary’, it’s just me to give them my middle finger and continue to with all of those around her.
and what’s happening, how I feel about certain use that privilege. I will continue to say what I feel “I’m ready to celebrate with a team, which will
issues, but also what I feel about personal things and continue to try to start a conversation until I be really, really nice, because the EP was just me
in my life. I kind of wrote the album as I was feel I don’t need to, or I feel like it’s not my place and ‘champagne alone’ doesn’t really have the same
recording it, most of the songs on the record are anymore.” kind of fun to it.”
brand new, it still feels relevant to me. I still feel Standing against her topical lyricism sits
in time with it, it’s not as if I’m bringing out old ‘Lunch’, a wholesome mix of imagery and emotion. BY SCOTT HUDSON

Five underrated
Brunswick Music “808s and
Greatest Hits
Festival acts place listeners
After giving a teasing taste of in a surreal
the killer lineup last November dream as
with Snail Mail’s announcement, they meander
Brunswick Music Festival has
through mellow,
delivered a high calibre of local
artists. melodic,
Sophiegrophy Bad Bangs
bedroom pop.”
Sprawling over 15 days and set to take over some
of the suburbs most iconic and unconventional songs that are refreshing and catchy, as she pulls debut EP Juicy last December, with songs led by
venues, we’ve put together a guide of some of the you in with her charismatic flair. Since then, she the vocals of the four mamas: Sugar Mama, Spicy
Brunswick Music Festival
festival’s hidden musical gems to help you navigate has released singles ‘Caution’ and ‘Bag’ last year, Mama, Saucy Mama and Smoky Mama. Move goes down from now
your way through the inimitable extravaganza. securing her as an artist to continue to watch out along to their insatiably cool, full-bodied groove until Sunday March 17.
for. See her shake things up on Saturday March 9 and style as they play alongside Jazz Party and For more information,
Bad Bangs at Brunswick Mechanics Institute. FERLA at the festival’s very first masquerade venues and full lineup,
head to the festival’s
Full of punch and emitting lo-fi garage grit, Bad ball at Moreland Hotel on Saturday March 16.
website.
Bangs are an essential addition to any BMF 808s and Greatest Hits Prepare for some tantalising funk with a side of
attendee’s list. Comprised of Shelby De Fazio (vocals As the recording project of Melbourne-based, attitude and sass.
and guitar), Ben Leahy (bass and harmonica) and multi-instrumentalist and producer Skube
Tim Ryles (drums), the band released their debut, Burnell, 808s and Greatest Hits place listeners in DJ Butch le Butch
six-track EP Grow It Out late last year, as follow a surreal dream as they meander through mellow, Remixing and re-editing all forms of disco and
ups to their two singles ‘Hearts’ and ‘Swimming’ melodic, bedroom pop. Burnell’s work has been electronicia is DJ Butch le Butch. As the resident
dropped back in 2017. Opening track on the EP, mixed by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s DJ at Honcho Disko, Butch le Butch produces
‘Time’, became an instant favourite between fans, Stu Mackenzie and mastered by Total Control’s tracks that will have you grooving the night away
as the Melbourne based trio incorporated soulful, Mikey Young, bringing a collective oeuvre of a to all your favourite and forgotten disco tracks.
stripped back vocals into their garage rock. Catch debut record and a series of follow up singles, most From Madonna to Crown Heights Affair, DJ
them at the Moreland Hotel on Sunday March 17. recent being glowing lo-fi track ‘Goodbye’. Check Butch le Butch is set to play the festival’s Deep
out the Brunswick Mechanics Institute on Sunday Fried Disco, a party extravaganza thrown by new-
Sophiegrophy March 10 and be swept into the world of 808s and wave DJ and creative director Tanzer. Put on your
For a fierce dose of electronic hip hop, look no Greatest Hits. boogie shoes and get down on it when Deep Fried
further than towards Sophiegrophy. The Nigerian- Disco takes over Brunswick Mechanics Institute
born, New Zealand-raised artist made her mark The Mamas on Sunday March 17
on Australia in 2016 with the release of her Heating things up is fem-hop outfit The Mamas.
independent, debut mixtape Purpularity, producing The eight-piece soul and R&B band released their BY GABRIELLA BEAUMONT

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Melanie Photo by Maddy Miller “I had been

there the
Melanie has stories to tell,
whole day,
too many stories to do her
42-year career justice in one expecting
interview. to play after
Richie Havens
But because the lauded singer-songwriter is
performing at this year’s Port Fairy Festival, one – the set
that pays tribute to the historical Woodstock kept getting
Festival on its 50th anniversary, Melanie has
some beans to spill on that fateful summer. “It’s pushed back
fortunate I lasted this long, right?” laughs the
72-year-old.
and pushed
It is fortunate but also quite wonderful. For back. Finally
those of us not around in 1969, Melanie says it’s
important Woodstock is commemorated. “It’s at this particular moment to celebrate a new age.” there wasn’t such a term as singer-songwriter
I played after
important for reasons that are important to me And of course, that descent on that field that they called me “the female Bob Dylan” because I Ravi Shankar.”
still, in that it commemorates a sort of awakening day was the springboard for Melanie’s success. wrote songs, if they mentioned it at all.
of humanity. It was a time that was a near “The catalyst, for sure,” she agrees. An industry “Mostly I was pretty, probably too pretty to
renaissance on earth. buzz, as she describes it. “When I was there [at be considered relevant. [There were] so many
Melanie performs at Port
“Music and art were thriving and that for me Woodstock] 500,000 people got to see me. dynamics going on at the point with being a
Fairy Folk Festival which
means culture and society are doing well. When “I had been there the whole day, expecting woman this was a whole other area, I could write comes to the beachside
music and art start deteriorating, it’s usually not to play after Richie Havens the set kept getting a book about this. town from Friday March 8
a good sign. pushed back and pushed back. Finally I played “From this vantage point, it’s so different to to Monday March 11. Head
“It’s important to remember what it was after Ravi Shankar. It had started to rain.” the way it was. I didn’t think of it as unfair or to the festival website for
tickets.
that awakened, and it was the music it was a Relatively unknown in America and indeed, terrible, it was just the way it was.”
symbol of awakening. It wasn’t planned, this was to the people to whom she performed that night, Port Fairy Folk Festival’s Woodstock tribute
the amazing thing. I’m so fortunate I was there Melanie was one of only three female performers will see Melanie joined by the likes of Front
because I got to have my memories of it.” on the bill, Joan Baez and Janis Joplin the others. Country, Suzanne Heft and The Naked Waiters
A purist by her own measure, Melanie in “I didn’t really think of it as anything,” she says. in performing some memorable classics from
1969 was a vegetarian, had never taken or smoked “I just knew that was the playing field they the 1959 incarnation. Jimi Hendrix, The Who,
anything she shouldn’t have. “I waited till later,” were playing one female an hour. I was an artist, Jefferson Airplane and The Band are just some
she jokes. “Back then I was very unaltered, there wasn’t much distinction between whether of the names that will be remembered for the
terrified, even, that there was nothing between me the artist was male or female, it didn’t matter. occasion. Don’t be surprised if seminal tracks,
and this harsh reality. Me, a girl, a woman, alone. As I’ve looked back from this vantage point, it’s ‘Voodoo Child’, ‘My Generation’, ‘White Rabbit’
No one was with me, and nobody had any idea pretty remarkable I was able to flourish in such a or ‘Ophelia’ are given new life.
what this [festival] would become. suppressive scene, really.
“Almost like a calling, it was like a silent “Women were the pretty girls, usually the BY ANNA ROSE
signal that everyone had to descend on this field singers. Nobody talked about me being a writer,

Chain “We’d get

together to
The Aussie music industry, play at midday
while a diverse and exciting
hub of creative production,
and practice all
has an unarguably rapid self- afternoon, and
replenishment cycle. then go to a gig,
Bands come and go and there are few that have and then come
lasted the brutal test of time, one of which are back after the
blues pioneers, Chain.
Having celebrated their 50th anniversary last gig, smoke a
year, the Aussie four-piece are teaming up to bring couple of joints
their signature sound to The Yarraville Club on
Saturday March 9. When asked about the secret and play some
behind the band’s solidity, founding member and “A lot of the chemistry side of it started Nowadays, Manning attempts to spend at more.”
guitarist Phil Manning explores and occasionally very early on, because we just lived and breathed least a few hours writing or playing his guitar,
laments the changes experienced by both the music back in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Some of us lived whether that be for his own solo project, for
veteran members and the music industry. together, so we’d get together to play at midday Chain, or simply for the love of the craft.
“In recent years, we don’t tour as much and we and practice all afternoon, and then go to a gig, “I’ve got a habit of leaving my little studio at Chain come to The
Yarraville Club on
just get together to do short runs. This is quite nice, and then come back after the gig, smoke a couple the end of the day, sitting down with a Coopers Saturday March 9. Head
because I don’t think I’d want to be on the road for of joints and play some more. and playing guitar. I don’t think of it as practice, I to the venue website for
twelve weeks at this stage. “We just played constantly, and as a result just think of it as having fun.” tickets.
“The band’s evolved like everything else. When we got to know each others’ quirks and how to fit Manning brings this unadulterated
I first started playing as a professional musician, together, and most importantly how to respond to enthusiasm for the time-resistant blues-rock
which was 52 years ago, there was no alcohol at each other onstage.” straight into whatever show or project Chain
gigs. You could get a coke or a milkshake. Manning himself comes from a lineage of engages with, which may be a new album that
“Within a few years, we saw the whole pub musicians, which goes some way to explaining his Manning believes they are “well overdue to
rock thing happen and then the poker machines wealth of knowledge, his vast connections, and create”. Having organised only three upcoming
came, and really threw the live music industry his (for lack of a better word) innocent love of shows in Victoria, Manning promises that the
under the bus. That’s only recently fixed itself. jamming. Namely, his grandfather, Lou Coventry, boys will stick with the only setting Chain has.
I supposed because we’ve been around for this was a member of the Latrobe Federal Band for the “Chain have got one setting: that’s ‘go for it’.
period of time, we’ve seen these changes and better part of a century, as a brass musician who We laugh about it, because we’re getting old now
somehow managed to adapt.” specialised in the cornet. and once we’ve done a few gigs, it takes it right
One of Chain’s defining characteristics, beside “He was in the band for 20 years, and then he out of us. But we’re not compromising anything;
their meaty fusion of guitar, harmonica and searing became the leader for 46 years, and then he semi- it’s going to be the classic Chain that people know,
vocals, is the chemistry that is shared between each retired and became the band leader emeritus, so and have known for years.”
member every time they step onstage. Though like an advisor. He was in the one band for 76
they’ve had over half a century to hone this skill, years,” laughs Manning. It seems unbelievable BY LEXI HERBERT
Manning explains that it was always a strength. tenures is in his blood.

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Emma “We’ve started

writing our
Donovan & second album

The Putbacks … it’s sort of

hard to predict
The Melbourne Jazz scene which way
has a new date to add to their we’ll go but it’ll
calendar with the recently
be elements
established Jazz Roots Festival
about to launch its inaugural of funk music
extravaganza. definitely. It’ll
still be heavily
Presented by Melbourne’s own Paris Cat Jazz everyone from the band got quality time with have grown more as a band. We released our own
Club, the festivities will bring together established Emma, but it’s much different now.” album at the end of last year so it’s sort of hard to groove based.”
and up-and-coming artists to celebrate great It’s clear that the collaboration has something predict which way we’ll go but it’ll be elements of
Australian talent and of course all things jazz. truly special going on, especially when Donovan funk music definitely. It’ll still be heavily groove
Ahead of the festival’s inaugural chapter we takes centre stage. based.”
Jazz Roots Festival comes
spoke to Mick Meagher of Emma Donovan & “I think when Emma sings, she treats [the Adding to the funk and groove, Meagher says to The Coopers Malthouse
The Putbacks, who will be bringing their heartfelt songs] as a soul singer, she doesn’t do anything the partnership is looking to explore some new Theatre Courtyard on
blend of funk and soul to the main stage. half-arsed,” he explains. “We’re essentially just sounds this time around. Sunday April 28. You can
“Melbourne has a scene you know, Melbourne backing her up. I guess what’s great about being “I know Emma’s got such a big influence of get your tickets via the
festival’s website.
is great for live music … there’s so many high in the band behind Emma is that you know she’s country music and she’s wanting to revisit some
calibre musicians. Definitely [Melbourne’s jazz going to bring it 100 percent.” music that her grandparents wrote. She also has
scene] should be celebrated and we’re happy Meagher also assures us that there is plenty of a big interest in gospel music as well and some
to be a part of it,” Meagher says of the festival’s new music on the way for audiences, combining of the music that was written by her family. Not
celebrations. both their much-loved previous endeavours with necessarily drawing from American gospel music
The group initially teamed up with acclaimed some new music and possibly a few tributes. as such but that kind of plays in it and informs us
soul singer Emma Donovan on 2014 album “Hopefully we’ll play some new songs. We’ve of her lyrical material.”
Dawn. After releasing their debut album, the got some songs that are kind of forming and we’re Performing at Jazz Roots Festival’s first
band toured extensively, picking up gigs across the hoping to play them live. We’ve got a few shows instalment, Emma Donovan & The Putbacks will
country which fine tuned their performances as a coming up including one at Adelaide Festival a be joined by the likes of Black Jesus Experience,
group. Ruby Hunter tribute where Emma will feature The Meltdown, Toshi Clinch Big Band and many
“We got to tour that album for a couple of songs acknowledging Hunter and Archie Roach.” more to keep you grooving throughout the day.
years, we were pretty lucky,” Meagher explains. Outside of that there’s plenty of new music “There’s lots of good stuff on and Emma’s
“We got some good supports and some good on the horizon with The Putbacks preparing their the star of the show, she deserves to be in the
festivals, so playing live after the release of Dawn next LP. spotlight.”
helped us grow as a unit … whereas prior to “We’ve started writing our second album,”
that we hadn’t done a whole lot of gigs and not says Meagher. “Musically I guess The Putbacks BY ELIZA BOOTH

Port Phillip Photo by Jesse Marlow Photography “The thing about

jazz is that it
Mussel & Jazz means so many
Festival things to so many
different people
Chelsea Wilson knows a thing or … A lot of people
two about finding inspiration. might think, ‘Oh,
The Melbourne-based jazz musician and guest I don’t really like
selector of this year’s Port Phillip Mussel & Jazz jazz’ or ‘I don’t
Festival has developed a unique insight into the
nuances of the industry. For Wilson, finding really understand
influence is about more than just notes on a stave. jazz’, but they
“I have so many different role models in music like jazz’ or ‘I don’t really understand jazz’, but they thought, ‘Oh, that’s exactly what I’m trying to do’.
and all for different reasons,” she says. “I really like a probably listen to some jazz anyway. I’m kind of thinking of it as disco with depth. probably listen
quote that Nina Simone said about artists reflecting “I think just getting amongst it, going to some “I also wrote a song on there called ‘Take Back to some jazz
on the time that they’re in, so I guess for me I always local gigs, going to some local festivals, listening the Night’, which is partly inspired by the Reclaim
find music very inspiring, regardless of the genre or to local radio tune into PBS 106.7FM, I’d listen the Night rally, but also about Jill Meagher. It’s anyway.”
the artist, when they’re saying something that has to Black Wax with Adam Rudegeair or Jazz on around when I was living in Brunswick and my
real meaning people that create music that comes Saturday that’s a really good way to get acquainted partner at the time didn’t want me walking home
from the heart.” with such an amazing discography.” from the tram stop by myself, and just how angry
Catch Chelsea
Such authenticity will be on show when the Port Wilson is set to contribute to that discography that made me, that I should have to be scared just
Wilson with the
Phillip Mussel & Jazz Festival returns this week for with the upcoming release of her sophomore to walk around.” Adam Rudegeair Trio
a two-day seafood celebration, soundtracked by the record, Chasing Gold. The new album pairs party Ahead of the release of Chasing Gold, Wilson at the Port Phillip
likes of Brazilian jazz and bossa nova experts Duo vibes with political undertones, with songs touching will take centre stage at the Mussel & Jazz Festival Mussel & Jazz Festival
Novo, bebop masterminds BopStretch, and the on events such as the 2016 shooting at Pulse to team up with long-term collaborator Adam from Saturday March
9 to Sunday March 10
afro-funk stylings of The Senegambian Jazz Band. nightclub, plus an especially notable track called Rudegeair, for a performance that will pay tribute at South Melbourne
While it’s an easy must-see for jazz aficionados, ‘Take Back the Night’. to jazz greats through a series of covers. As one of Market. Entry is free.
the festival also presents a unique opportunity for “Chasing Gold is a really special project for me the last chances to enjoy some quality live music in
listeners looking for an introduction to the world and was an amazing album to make,” says Wilson. an outdoor setting this summer, Wilson agrees that
of jazz. “It’s quite conceptual; it is a really disco-influenced, this festival is one you don’t want to miss.
“I would say come to the Mussel & Jazz Festival rare-groove album. I really wanted it to be the album “I can’t really think of a better way to spend
at South Melbourne Market as a great place to start that you put on while you’re getting ready to go out. your weekend than delicious food, great drinks, free
to see some live jazz,” says Wilson. “The thing about “I remember reading Nile Rodgers’ biography festival I mean, what more do you want in life?
jazz is that it means so many things to so many and he was talking about, with the Chic repertoire, Good jazz and good wine pretty much sums it up
different people. It’s quite an umbrella term; there how it was really fun, dance party music, but they for me.”
are so many different genres that have come from always had some lyrical message or undertone to
jazz. A lot of people might think, ‘Oh, I don’t really it that was a lot deeper. And when I read that, I BY JESSICA OVER

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Melbourne Mr Silla
“We’ve been
really lucky
Ukulele that a lot of our

Festival headline artists

are the kind of
Since 2009, the Melbourne dudes that like
Ukulele Festival has seen the to hang around
streets and venues of Northcote
during the rest
given over to celebrations of the
humble uke. of the fest,
they’re not the
Between the suburb’s pop up bars, cafes and street “There’s something about seeing a solo “It’s a great bar, you can hear everything from
food stalls, something as quirky as a two day performer on stage with a uke, in this massive world music to experimental jazz to metal; you kind to show
ukulele-specific event makes perfect sense; a DIY, space, that just didn’t feel right; the space seemed name it, it goes on at 303.” up, do their
labour of love festival in an area which counts to dwarf the instrument, the performer, the This playfulness with genre is something also
independent businesses as its beating heart. performance. The festival felt like it reached a very applicable to the festival, despite its focus on show and then
Over a cup of tea and some crackling early ska
recordings, festival director Dean Denham muses
point of being too big quite naturally and after
our biggest fest in 2016, it started to scale itself
one instrument, and Dean’s eyes light up when
talk turns to the range of bands he has booked.
disappear.”
on how both the location and its closely nestled down rather than getting 90 applications we’d “The kind of acts you wouldn’t necessarily
venues play into the festival’s vibe. be getting 60.” think you were going to see at a ukulele festival,
“We’re working several venues simultaneously, A leaner, easier to manage MUF meant they’re the ones I get excited about putting on.” Melbourne Ukulele Festival
you can tell it’s on because there will be people a decrease in both red tape and in the costs With regards to the upcoming festival, that takes over Northcote Social
Club, Open Studio, Wesley
walking around with ukuleles on their backs necessary when hiring larger venues and security. itch is scratched by a number of acts including Anne, Bar 303 and the
everywhere,” Denham explains. “They’re sitting This ensured the continuation of one of the Someone Else’s Wedding Band; “They’ve got a Northcote Uniting Church
outside the cafes playing, meeting new people, festival’s core values. “We make a point of paying really interesting experimental rock approach to from Saturday March 16 to
having spontaneous jams. We’ve been really lucky everyone that plays. That isn’t necessarily the way things, noisy and abstract”, and music visionary Sunday March 17. Check out
it goes at other festivals, particularly with uke the festival website for ticket
that a lot of our headline artists are the kind of Luke Seymoup “His material sounds fantastic,
information.
dudes that like to hang around during the rest groups … If you’re a small group travelling to something I’ve never heard before, but at the same
of the fest, they’re not the kind to show up, do Cannes or something, paying all your own way time quite accessible and not too abstract.”
their show and then disappear. They’re meeting and not getting paid for the gig, I always think Moving onto the booking of international
the other ukers, it’s got that real communal aspect that’s a little rough.” artists, the billing of Iceland’s Mr Silla stands as a
to it. We have an open stage, so people can say, ‘I While previous years’ venues have included huge coup for the festival and as talk turns to 2020
went to the Melbourne Uke Festival (MUF) and such lofty spaces as Northcote Town Hall, MUF with the prospect of the festival’s next incarnation,
played’.” 2019 sees a return to a venue which Dean calls the Denham replies that the email folder is already set
Over the course of a decade, the festival’s festival’s ancestral home Bar 303, home to the up. “2020 is just a great sounding year to have a
size has waxed and waned, eventually settling on Melbourne Ukulele Collective’s open mic nights ukulele festival, isn’t it?”
a manageable size which befits the instrument’s for 13 years and also the central point for their
lo-fi charm. very first festival. BY JONO COOTE

Unpacking the
pop rock party
in Melbourne’s
south-east
Oakleigh is considered a cultural
hub of south-eastern Melbourne,
and the City of Monash has
stepped up once again to put Mornington Peninsula band Grey Horizon and Rotunda at the park between 4pm and 7pm, and let
triple j Unearthed hit IV DANTE rounding out the Guru Dudu take you on a dancing adventure. You
together an all-Australian lineup bill. It’s an all killer, no filler Australian music lineup. can expect lots of fun and commentary along the way. Live at Warrawee will
that you won’t believe is free. Melbourne artist Carla O’Brien will also be be held on Saturday
When is it and where am I going? there showing off her skills and setting up a neon March 16, from 4pm-
9pm at Warrawee
Not only will there be some killer acts on, but you can Mark Saturday March 16 in your calendar, and block light installation. Her work has been featured during Park in Oakleigh.
expect to be fed by some high-quality food trucks, out the afternoon. It’s all going down from 4pm to White Night, both in Melbourne and Ballarat, and Head to the City of
check out a world-class neon light installation, and 9pm at Warrawee Park in Oakleigh. To get there, at various A Day On The Green concerts across Monash website for
even take part in a silent disco. take a train to Oakleigh using the Cranbourne, Victoria, so you may have encountered her before. more details.
Pakenham and Dandenong lines, and then it’s just
What is it? a two-minute stroll to the park. You’ll want to get What’s the food sitch?
Live at Warrawee aims to celebrate what makes there early, too, as the first act, IV DANTE, are on No matter what you’re feeling like having for
Oakleigh great, bringing together family and friends. at 4.15pm. dinner, or even just craving a snack, they’ve got
Speaking about the event, Mayor Shane McCluskey you covered. Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL will be
says, “We are proud to be supporting Aussie music What to bring providing the drinks to keep the night going,
and providing the opportunity for people to come There’s plenty of shade around, but you’ll still want while Curly Spuds, Cris’ BBQ and Yasou Street
together in the heart of Oakleigh.” to be covered in sunscreen. A picnic blanket will help Food will be providing the food with Miss Molly’s
It’s one of the highlights of the Monash calendar, you guard your spot from those around you (and with Cakes and Cool Bananas providing the sweets.
and this year’s iteration is set to be another smash hit. a lineup as stacked as this one, you’ll want to keep However, if you’re feeling like exploring the rest
a good spot safe), and water to keep you hydrated. of Oakleigh, Eaton Mall is just around the corner,
Music lineup However, you’ll want a back-up plan (you never and has got something for everyone!
The party is set to be headlined by Australian band know with Melbourne’s weather) so keeping a rain
Taxiride, who are marking their 20th year as a group jacket and umbrella on hand isn’t the worst idea at all. Beat’s top picks
in 2019, as well as celebrating their return to touring. Most importantly, don’t forget your dancing shoes. Early Gem: IV DANTE 4.15pm
With hits like ‘Get Set’, ‘Everywhere You Go’ and Middle maestro: Emily Williams 6pm
more, the park will be pumping with their presence. Don’t miss the Silent Disco and Not-to-be-missed: Taxiride 8pm
Past X Factor winner Reece Mastin will grace the Neon Light Installation
stage, Australian Idol runner-up and member of Live at Warrawee will be hosting a disco, but not just BY BEN MADDEN
Young Divas, Emily Williams is also playing, with any disco, rather an epic silent disco. Simply find the

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The Jesus and “As long as

we liked it …
Mary Chain I want to be
Released in March 2017, able to stand
Damage and Joy was the Jesus by that record
and Mary Chain’s first album in and say, yeah,
19 years. whether you
Led by brothers Jim and William Reid, the band like it or not,
entered a state of extreme dysfunction while we believe in
recording their sixth LP, Munki, in 1998. The
Reids could barely tolerate each other in the it. That’s the
studio and tensions considerably worsened on the
subsequent album tour. that was quite a painful experience. I was not really with that. It’s not the end of the world,” he says.
main concern,
After officially calling it quits in 1999, looking forward to getting back in a recording “As long as we liked it. That’s always been the everything
William adopted the solo moniker Lazycame and studio. William was quite keen, but the band was base when we make a record. I want to be able to
Jim formed Freeheat with former Mary Chain ticking along quite well live and I thought, well, stand by that record and say, yeah, whether you
else is gravy.”
guitarist Ben Lurie. But while separation was getting in the studio’s a whole different ball game. like it or not, we believe in it. That’s the main
essential for the Reids’ health and sanity, they were I thought maybe that could just be the thing that concern, everything else is gravy.”
unable to generate comparable artistic potency fucks it all up.” Despite arriving 32 years after the band’s The Jesus and Mary Chain
outside of the Mary Chain. The Jesus and Mary Chain made an debut, Damage and Joy is distinctly the work of come to The Forum on
Jim and William reunited in 2007 and The immediate impact with their 1985 debut, The Jesus and Mary Chain. The band’s taken a Tuesday March 12 and The
Croxton on Thursday March
Jesus and Mary Chain have been touring regularly Psychocandy, showcasing an acute melodic few unexpected turns in their history cleaning 14. Head to the respective
ever since. But it took ten years for a new album sensibility and preference for haystacks of guitar up on Darklands and adopting a more stripped venue websites for tickets.
to surface. feedback. Psychocandy is often seen as a paragon back sound on 1994’s Stoned & Dethroned but They’ll also play Golden
“Those songs that were on Damage and Joy of shoegaze music, while its deliberately cleaner the Reids’ predilection for filthy noise and classic Plains (sold out) which
takes over the Meredith
were knocking about anyway,” says Jim. “We’re follow-up, Darklands, magnified the brothers’ pop song structures still shines through.
Supernatural Amphitheatre
always writing songs. It’s what we do, so whether songwriting prowess. “I think the things you get into as a kid stay from Saturday March 9 to
they make it onto record or whether we play them The Mary Chain’s commercial fortunes with you,” says Jim. “The first records that we Monday March 11.
live, at any given moment we’re sitting chugging blossomed with their next record, Automatic, and bought we still have. I still play ‘Hellraiser’ by
away with our guitars writing songs. The creative all three releases have claimed canonical status. It’s Sweet. That was the first single I ever bought.
process is always happening whether it appears to a lot to live up to, but Jim says the band’s past glory I bought that and William bought ‘Drive-In
be or not.” wasn’t a factor in the making of Damage and Joy. Saturday’ by David Bowie with a couple of record
Their creative drive might’ve never ceased, but “We felt pretty good. We knew the songs. tokens that my auntie gave us. A cousin lent us
Jim certainly wasn’t hungering to get back in the Even before the record’s recorded you have it in loads of Beatles and Bob Dylan albums. Those
studio. mind how it’s going to come out and it’s usually sort of things you never forget. You never forget
“We didn’t do an album right away for various in the ball park. So we felt pretty good about what the first things that get you into music.”
reasons really. That was more to do with the fact we knew we had. And truth be told, had we put
that having recorded Munki so many years before, the record out and everybody hated it, we can live BY AUGUSTUS WELBY

Cactus Room “I guess when

we were
For Queensland natives Dave doing it we
Houston and Neil Smith, starting were wanting
Cactus Room meant taking a leap
a DIY, punk
into the abyss.
garage-y vibe
Inspired by a Death By Audio documentary, … We wanted
the duo gave away their 12-hour-a-day jobs and
began their expedition for a space suited to not a DIY party
just rehearsals, but gigs and evening frolic. In space rather
2017, the pair stumbled upon a former recording
studio of 15 years, tucked away in the mellow than a pub
domain of Thornbury.
“I was looking for anything,” Houston
with a stage in
confesses. “We were looking as far as Footscray the corner.”
all the way up to Preston/Reservoir area and this playing in small sort of random venues and parties a week and is also able to exhibit art installations
place popped up. Apparently originally, it was like where we played on the floor, and everyone’s on alongside music. Part of the allure for a band
a button factory or a belt factory. We called the the floor with you. It seems more fun to not be making this pioneering musical pad their regular
Cactus Room is
real estate agent to check if sound proofing was separated by a stage where everyone’s standing 15 rehearsal spot, is to get a glimpse into Cactus located at 614 High
all in place still and they said, ‘oh we’ll rip that metres back. We wanted a DIY party space rather Records, the room’s own emerging independent Street, Thornbury.
out for you’ and we said no that’s what we want, than a pub with a stage in the corner.” music label. Houston’s band Black Bats dropped Head to the Cactus
keep it in”. Houston’s passion lies in hosting gigs that their debut self-titled LP on Friday March 1 and Room website to
book out a space
By October, they had fully converted the are really focused on the music and achieves this are the first act to release a record through the label.
or check out the
building into a three-room rehearsal space and through the physical layout at Cactus Room. The “[Cactus Records] is just gonna be friends upcoming events.
performance venue, boasting a charming beer performance room is intimate with everyone’s and bands that we’re really into. We’ll still mainly
garden and bar. Cactus Room has been a steady, attention on the band in front of them, and focus on gigs and rehearsals and let the record label
familiar home to a myriad of bands and has the atmosphere is loose and casual. Cactus is a develop more naturally and organically.”
hosted many nights of cracking laidback gigs bit further north from the typical hub of gigs in Looking towards the future, Houston hopes
on the weekend from the likes of local punks Melbourne, which results in a cosier crowd. that Cactus will one day be able to offer recording
Moody Beaches, to their annual Halloween party “It’s sort of off the beaten track, so we find that services, having tested the waters a little in the
‘Cacoween’ as well as The Shabbab’s final hurrah when people have a gig here, they tend to be more past with Black Bats. In terms of shows to look
in 2018. like album launches or single launches and it’ll be a forward to, he reveals, “I was talking to The Black
With the arrival of a new year, Houston bit more like their crew.” Heart Death Cult about a mid-winter one or
reflects on what his initial visions of Cactus Room The overall feel of a typical gig at Cactus is two-day kinda psych garage fest, but it’s in early
looked like, and how they’ve shaped up over a year not unlike a low-key house party, but instead the development at the moment.”
since the space opened. presence of booze is thanks to their fully functioning
“I guess when we were doing it we were bar and not a bathtub of ice and tinnies. BY JESS ZANONI
wanting a DIY, punk garage-y vibe,” Houston In addition to anchoring these musical
says. “A lot of the time when I played gigs, we were shebangs, Cactus is a rehearsal space seven days

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Album of the Week

Singles

(Warner Bros. Records)

WITH AUGUSTUS WELBY

KH (Text Records/Ministry of Sound)

Only Human
KH is Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet. ‘Only Human’ is
centred on a Nelly Furtado vocal sample. A veteran
remixer, Hebden grabs the four-line hook from Furtado’s
Timbaland-produced ‘Afraid’, speeding it up, sticking
it on loop and surrounding it with muscular dancefloor
percussion. Despite the compound pseudonyms and likely
rigmarole of gaining sample clearance, ‘Only Human’ is
nimble and joyously refreshing.

Merpire (Independent)

Lately
There’s a mid ‘90s FM radio vibe to Merpire’s ‘Lately’.
Loud-quiet-loud is the formula and it goes down a
treat. The lean verses place Merpire’s unmasked vocals
over a lightly jangling electric guitar. It’s mid-tempo
and reflective, not quite Alanis Morissette but not a
million miles away. A firm squelch bolsters the chorus;
the dynamic shift is like upgrading from a Razor scooter
to a Vespa.

Big Thief (4AD)

UFOF
Confusion and withdrawal symptoms accompany the wait
between Big Thief releases, but ‘UFOF’ the title track 9
from the band’s forthcoming third LP delivers a full body
fix. The vast electric guitars that featured on 2017’s Capacity Foals
are absent, replaced by picking acoustic orchestration that
recalls Radiohead via Minnie Riperton. Adrianne Lenker’s Everything Not Saved Will
vocals skate above the surface, performing pirouettes and
triple axels with unflinching ease. Be Lost – Part 1 Opening track ‘Moonlight’ is poignant yet over-bloated and indulgent, but
it was this same over-bloated and indulgent formula that thrust Foals into
Everything Not Saved
Harvey Sutherland (Clarity Recordings/Caroline) the limelight back in 2010, with their track ‘Spanish Sahara’.
Will Be Lost – Part 1, the Enter track two of the record, ‘Exits’ which sees the group at their
Something in the Water fifth studio album from absolute best so far. The song is driven by a crisp, dancefloor-oriented drum
beat reminiscent of their 2013 banger ‘My Number’, providing the perfect
After planting himself in neo-jazz land with last year’s British four-piece Foals is a structure for Yannis Philippakis to drape his vocals across. Despite the song’s
‘Amethyst’ and ‘I Can See’ releases, Harvey Sutherland peerless sonic document long run time of almost six minutes, at no point does the energy wane.
teams up with fellow Melburnian Jace XL for a brightly
coloured party jam. Released in the middle of an that is truly reflective of Don’t feel out of touch if you still associate Foals with nu-rave, a la a
the zeitgeist. The record warehouse party in 2012 full of hipsters wearing non-prescription reading
unforgiving heatwave, ‘Something in the Water’ isn’t utter
glasses who all brag about being a contributor for Vice. The reality is
escapism. “Governments ignore the signs, thinking about makes a strong case for that back then these were Foals’ people. The band toured endlessly with
the bottom line,” sings XL, an unambiguous rebuke of
consensus that Foals are an electronic acts and the wiley Philippakis, sensing a buck to be made, was
climate change inaction. But built around a compelling
Latin funk groove, the track still conveys optimism. era defining rock band. always popping up for Foals DJ sets.
Then there were the endless remixes of ‘Spanish Sahara’, a powerful
cultural impression conspiring to implant a persistent notion in the mind
of music fans that came to the following conclusion; nu-rave is associated
with Foals, therefore they must produce that style of music.
But follow this belief at your peril because Foals in every sense if the
word except for the geological sense rock.

BY DAN WATT

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Albums

(Island Records Australia)

(Warner Bros. Records)

(Saddle Creek/Milk! Records)

Broods Gary Clark Jr. Hand Habits
7 8 8
Don’t Feed The Pop This Land placeholder
Monster With the current climate in America, artists have been able On Hand Habits’ second album, we hear Meg Duffy
to express themselves in extravagant and creative ways. As for honing in on their project’s sound, embracing a new level of
Three years since the release of their underwhelming sophomore
Gary Clark Jr.’s latest release, This Land, let’s just say that angry assertiveness that mixes in fluidly with the flowing emotion
album, Conscious, New Zealand duo Broods return with the
is an understatement. of the record.
invigorating Don’t Feed The Pop Monster.
For fans of Clark Jr., his trademark fuzzy guitar and Built through intricate layers of instrumentation,
Released to little fanfare last month, Broods’ third full-
soulful voice remain intact on this album. His comfortability placeholder somehow manages to feel subtle and grandiose at
length record is a welcoming mix of upbeat electronica and
blending genres is also a mainstay, incorporating hip-hop, the same time. With a humble rhythm section as a backdrop,
synth-heavy pop delights. Siblings Georgia and Caleb Nott have
R&B and soul elements into his bluesy foundational sound. acoustic and electric guitars meld together with swelling
demonstrated a knack for writing effervescent pop melodies over
‘Pearl Cadillac’ is a stand out track in this sense, sounding like pianos to create soundscapes that bloom open, while Duffy’s
the years and Don’t Feed The Pop Monster is chock full of them.
classic Clark Jr. with his sweet voice and guitars taking charge. voice is up close and personal, making each yearning vocal
First single ‘Peach’ is a verified pop banger, with Georgia’s
However, Clark Jr.’s tone has shifted from his first two feel overwhelmingly intimate.
lush vocals floating over the pulsating electronic production.
albums, reflecting and reacting to the changes in America Sprawling guitars on the title track create this mood, and
‘Everything Goes (Wow)’ is a sonically pleasing synth
he’s been witnessing. “Everybody saying, what about us?” it refuses to disappear. It carries on from the driving groove
construction, while ‘Why Do You Believe Me?’ is a soothing
is repeated multiple times in the track ‘What About Us?’, and expansive chords of ‘can’t calm down’, to the poignantly
ditty detailing how the duo handle fame. Caleb even takes lead
showing us an alarm in the social-economic tide. Even the tender ‘yr heart [reprise]’, through to the closing moments
vocals for the first time on the synth-rock ‘Too Proud’, doing
more rap oriented and direct ‘This Land’, delivers an in-your- of ‘the book on how to change part II’, when the hazy
a commendable job, even though the track sounds a bit like
face approach to his frustrated thoughts, cleverly echoing psychedelia bursts into a glorious saxophone finale.
Imagine Dragons.
Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land Is Your Land’. It’s in these blurry moments that placeholder succeeds
This is a polished record, with Georgia’s enchanting vocals
It feels surprising and freeing to hear Clark Jr. bare these most. It somehow manages to feel unenthused yet
set against a backdrop of uplifting electronica and dance floor
sentiments to his audience, but he still does everything to exhaustingly emotional, making it an immensely compelling
ready beats. Well worth a few spins before a Saturday night on
bring the album back home to the blues. album, with each moment more striking than the last.
the town.
BY RHYS MCKENZIE BY JAMES LYNCH
BY TOBIAS HANDKE
(Fat Possum/Inertia)

(Roolette Records)
(Universal Music Australia)

Edito
r ’s
Pick

Townes Van Zandt Hilltop Hoods culte

7.5
Sky Blue 8
The Great Expanse Goodnight
Townes Van Zandt is a cornerstone of American folk music. Now on their eighth studio record, the Hilltop Hoods have The dreamy lo-fi pop explorations of culte have finally eventuated
The fingerpicking guitarist has been deceased for a decade, pushed themselves well outside their comfort zone. They’ve into a longer-form compendium. With Yura Iwama’s live shows
however his legacy is as deep as that of Johnny Cash. This taken the opportunity to challenge their well established whetting listeners’ appetites, trickles of singles and demo releases
compilation of collected recordings on Sky Blue have been creative formula, making an album that’s redefined the trio’s from as early as 2014 emerged on Bandcamp, bolstering the
lovingly picked by his family members. musical output. curiosity around the project. What started as largely a bedroom
Rather than reaching for the famous songs, this is not the The Great Expanse, on first listen, has the trademarks project from one creative has since gained legs and now carries
perfunctory selection that it could have been. ‘Rex’s Blues’, of Hoods’ albums that have come before it; a good balance four members, all adjacent to the ideas of Iwama.
‘The Hills Of Roane County’ and other tunes are edgy, but between hip hop and glistening pop orchestration, not to Goodnight comes through Roolette Records, the local indie
exhibit the pulse of blood in their emotive loneliness. The mention the well honed vocal dynamic between Pressure’s that put out Girl Germs’ fantastic debut EP just weeks ago.
latter track, for example, traverses themes of love, marriage, rough growls and Suffa’s slick flow. A couple of listens in Endearing with her effervescent vocals, Iwama makes even more
murder and the chain gang in a matter of mere minutes. however, and we begin to notice the different influences that of an impression with her flippant lyricism, exploring everything
Van Zandt’s voice is mournful and plaintive, with songs have made their way onto the Hoods’ latest. from social battles to secret crushes and personal grudges.
to match. His writing style seems to borrow cues from Phil For one, the guest list is more extensive on this album Replete with divine pop sensibilities, the first side of
Ochs, with the lyricism being authoritatively centre stage. than on any other Hilltop Hoods record, with Ecca Vandal, the record comes in the form of ‘Lachlan’, ‘Goodnight’ and
Forlorn and bitter, his music also has an air of wistful misery. Nyassa, Illy, Ruel, Adrian Eagle and Timberwolf all making ‘Christiane’, three short songs emanating relatively constant
Even the positive sounding ‘Forever, For Always, For Certain’ an appearance. The Great Expanse in result, is representative guitar rhythms and regular verse structures. It then swells with
is full of contemporary neurosis and paranoia. of possibly the freshest Hilltop Hoods sound and aesthetic yet. ‘Southside’ and ‘Darts’, the two longest and most melodically
With just 11 songs, this is hardly the complete selection, Hip hop in Australia is no longer about the nosebleed intrepid tracks on the album, before rounding out with the
but with the achingly sad laments of ‘Pancho & Lefty’, Van sections and chasing that feeling of days gone by. One could staunch ‘I Don’t Wanna’.
Zandt remains in perfect deadpan control. A glimmer of ask, after nine ARIA wins and years of acclaim behind them, For a band that have only taken their first steps out of the
charisma pervades all his recordings and despite often being what is left for an act like the Hoods to do? bedroom, culte’s debut EP is a fantastic effort that can only
harrowing, this is a focused victory for the downbeat. Well, look no further than The Great Expanse to answer strengthen the intrigue around Iwama and her songwriting
that question. capability.
BY BRONIUS ZUMERIS
BY SOSE FUAMOLI BY TOM PARKER

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ROYAL OAK ANDREW PORTELLI Matthew Flinders Hotel, Punk & Covers Club Nights
Chadstone. 10am. $15.
Celebrating the release of his new ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE BIZARRO - FEAT: ADI TOOHEY + BEN
PUBCHOIR Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8pm.
album Skeleton Leaves, Hugh MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. + EMPAT FESTER + COP ENVY Section 8, Melbourne
REDRO REDRIGUEZ & HIS INNER
McGinlay comes to the Royal LIMA John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $35. Cbd. 6pm.
DEMONS + TWO HEADED DOG Cherry
Oak on Thursday March 7 for a Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. AM RERUNS + BATHHOUSE + TYPICAL CIVIC + SMARTS Globe Alley, Melbourne. 8pm.
residency session. Things kick off RUBY SOHO & BAND + NICHOLAS Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. DAVID AUGUST + MORE Max Watt's,
at 6pm for two hours of free tunes. Melbourne. 8pm. $45.40.
LEMBO + MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE BLACK STONE FROM THE SUN +
GUERNS - FEAT: DJ KITI + INGRID
CHAT Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm. GOING SWIMMING Gasometer Hotel,
Collingwood. 8pm. $12.75. + SRIRACHA + BREAD & JAM +
Maja + Joyce TOM CARTOONIST + IMMY OUSU +
CHASE CITY + VIC PARK + CLEAN CUT QUANTUM MECHANICS + DAWN
TIM WOODZ Old Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $8.
Prescher VENUES 3056 - FEAT: MORGAN BAIN
SOCIETY + THE JIVES Workers Club, Fitzroy. AGAIN New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.
7:30pm. $10. HANS DC + EL MADERA + ANYO +
COMPASS PIZZA + A.D.K.O.B + CHELA Howler, Brunswick. 7pm. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Hamer Hall, YANNI ARSENAKIS + BEN LAWRENCE
This coming International VENUES 3056 - FEAT: TERRIBLE Southbank. 7:30pm. $79.
Women’s Day, Compass Pizza DENISE LE MENICE + JARROW + + MORE Onesixone, Prahran. 8pm.
TRUTHS + PRIMO + ERICA & STEPH
will be hosting an intimate night GEORGIA SMITH Last Chance Rock And Roll MAARJA NUUT & RUUM + APHIR Howler,
Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 8:30pm. Brunswick. 8pm. $34.49.
Bar, North Melbourne. 8pm. $10.
of music from 8pm onwards. Join MUSICIANS 4 HEARING - EARSHOT
DEPARTMENT + VACANT SMILES Espy,
soul, funk and blues artist Maja House, Electro, Trance & St Kilda. 8pm. LAUNCH - FEAT: JANNAH QUILL +
and listen to the mesmerising Club Nights EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR ANNA SEYMOUR Melbourne Recital Centre,
lyrics of Joyce Prescher as both + PORPOISE SPIT + HOUSE DEPOSIT Southbank. 8pm. $30.
explore womanhood and growing KASSETTE - FEAT: MZRIZK + SLIPPERY
Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7:30pm. $12.75.
up. Entry is free. SLOPES + KAM + RUDI Carlton Club,
ELIZA JOAN & THE RENEGADES +
Hip Hop & R&B
Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
MASCO SOUND SYSTEM Gasometer Hotel, TYRANTS + OLIVIA MEG Grace Darling GREETINGS FROM LAUNDRY - FEAT:
Collingwood. 8pm. $10. Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
WEBBY + LUI + NEEZY + J. LOVE +
MESSY MAMMALS + BASTARD AMBER JAMIE-LEE DIMES + ERIN WILL BE
ANDRE JEMAL + BLACK ORCHIDS +
+ LAY THE MYSTIC Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. MAD + NATASHA JOHANNA Tote Hotel,
$10. Collingwood. 8pm. $10. SILAS GAYE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm.
NEW KIDS - FEAT: SHMÜ LA FLEUR + KIM PETRAS + MORE Northcote Social Club, HIP HOP KARAOKE - FEAT: VARIOUS
Northcote. 8pm. $40. ARTISTS Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
SHELL LEY Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
MATT BRADSHAW Elephant & Wheelbarrow, LAUNDRY THURSDAYS - FEAT:

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VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 10pm. VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7pm. KOLLAPS + V + PTERYGIUM Bendigo Hotel,
Collingwood. 7pm. $10.
RHYE + YOUR SMITH Melbourne Recital LEFAG & GROT - FEAT: COURTESY +
Centre, Southbank. 7:30pm. $59.
BORIS + GAVIN RAYNA RUSSOM + ODIUSEMBOWEL + PUTRESCENT
THROWBAX THURSDAYS - FEAT: DJ MORE Yours & Mine, Carlton. 10pm. $30. SEEPAGE + SEAFORD MONSTER + NO
ANYA + CITIZEN.COM + FLIP3000 + CASH + VEXATION Tote Hotel, Collingwood.
OLIVER HUNTEMANN + MORE Brown 8pm. $10.
TEE DUBYA + DJ SENSI + SISTA SARA Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $20.
+ LOTUS MOONCHILD + MORE Little Jax, QUEENS OF THE 90 S - FEAT: ORION HAZE Yah Yah's, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10.
Melbourne. 6pm. POPROCKS + DR PHIL Toff In Town,
QUASHANI BAHD + LADY ERICA Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
+ AYNA + MUMA DOESA + TRIXIE QUEEN FOREVER Chelsea Heights Hotel,
Acoustic/Country/Blues/ DARKO + SISTA ITATIONS + MORE Night Chelsea Heights. 8pm. $39.80.
Folk Cat, Fitzroy. 9pm. SCRATCH MATCH + MAGPIE + SHOP
QURZFK FRIDAYS - MISFIT MANSION TALK Old Bar, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10.
ANDREW SWANN Transit, Melbourne Cbd. The Jackson Four
6pm. - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Rubix Warehouse, SHANNON & THE CLAMS + LOOSE
Brunswick. 9pm. $12.
BUSBY MAROU + COLIN LILLIE Sooki RELAXATIVE Fox Hotel (collingwood), TOOTH + THE STROPPIES Gasometer Hotel,
Lounge, Belgrave. 7:30pm. $44.90. Collingwood. 8pm. $37.75.
FRANK RAYMOND & THE
Collingwood. 8pm.
SHE Rah Bar, South Yarra. 7pm. $25. The Jackson Four
SKATEPAL FUNDRAISER - FEAT: JASPER’S JAZZ CLUB
SILHOUETTES Fad Gallery, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Centred around the sound and
FRONT COUNTRY Memo Music Hall, St Kilda. SLEEP DECADE + KAIPORA + PASCAL
7:30pm. $20. Punk & Covers BABARE Bar Open, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. look of the classic Hammond B3
FRONT PORCH Charles Weston Hotel, A NIGHT OF ROCK PUNK & ACOUSTIC SNAIL MAIL + MAJOR LEAGUES + Organ, The Jackson Four ensemble
Brunswick. 6:30pm.
MUSIC - FEAT: SARAH EIDA + SHAAD Estonian House, Brunswick West. 6pm. are set to deliver their ‘50s and ‘60s
GABY MORENO The Fyrefly, St Kilda. 7pm.
$39.80. CROOKED THIEVES + MOONLIGHT SOCIAL ON THE VERANDA + INKLINES jazz, blues and swing tunes. They’ll
GERRY HALE The Brothers Public House, Fitzroy. BROADCAST + MADDIE LEE + OMEGA + WISHFUL CREATURES Catfish, Fitzroy. 8pm. take to Jasper’s on Friday March 8
8pm.
+ I HAVE A GOAT + SOUTHBOUND +
$13.30. from 9.30pm, all for $10.
GRETA STANLEY + MORE Retreat Hotel, SPITFIRE Stay Gold, Brunswick. 7pm.
Brunswick. 8pm. FRANK BELL 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.
THE CURRENCY + SFORZANDO +
IAN COLLARD Spotted Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm. ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE
ROWAN BLACKMORE Retreat Hotel,
Henry James & Ali MC
JOHN PRINE + TYLER CHILDERS Palais MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. + CONSTANT Brunswick. 8pm. THE MERRI CLAN
Theatre, St Kilda. 8pm. $98.94. MONGREL John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 8pm. $35. THE KATO ARMY + THE BEGGARS This Friday March 8, The Merri
MATT WALKER Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. ACTION SAM Elephant & Wheelbarrow,
8:30pm. WAY + SAVI BOMB + COMMISSIONER Clan welcomes Henry James and
Melbourne. 11pm.
MIKE HERRERA + MORE Stay Gold, BOURBON Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10. Ali MC for their resident acoustic
ANAAL NATHRAKH + HYBRID
Brunswick. 7:30pm. $58.88. THE MÉNAGE - FEAT: THE MENAGE + session, Black Fella/White Fella.
NIGHTMARES Max Watt's, Melbourne. 7:30pm.
MORNING MELODIES - FEAT: ARNIE $56.65. POSTMAN KILLED MY SCOOTER + THE Both playing soulful originals
GRIVES Ferntree Gully Hotel, Ferntree Gully. ARBES + SAULT + IMOGEN CYGLER FACULTY Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8pm. $5. and covers, this is a gig not to be
10:30am. $17.
Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 7pm. $10. YEAH BAD? + THE MEESEEKS + missed. Doors are from 7pm and
NICK O MARA + GEORGIA KNIGHT Post
Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm. AUTO-MASH DJS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9pm. ZANDATA + OUT OF CHARACTER Whole entry is free.
Lotta Love, Brunswick East. 7:30pm. $10.
OPEN MIC NIGHT Drunken Poet, West BEACH HOUSE + ELIZABETH Forum
Melbourne. 7pm. Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm.
REMEMBERING CHRIS MANN - FEAT: BUDDY HOLLY 60TH ANNIVERSARY Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & Wax Poets
VARIOUS ARTISTS Wesley Anne, Northcote. - FEAT: SKYSCRAPER STAN + DANNY World Music RED BETTY
8pm. $5. MCDONALD + LUCY DWYER + System Unknown will be
RHEA CALDWELL & ALI DUGUID Fitzroy AFRO MOSES Bar Oussou, Brunswick. 9pm. presenting the bi-monthly, vinyl
Pinnacle, Fitzroy North. 8pm.
J M S HARRISON + DJ MADDY
MACFARLANE Corner Hotel, Richmond. 8:30pm. ALINTA & THE JAZZ EMPERORS Paris Cat only session of Wax Poets come
SING OUT SISTER - FEAT: ALANNA & Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $30.
$20. Friday March 8. DJs Sam Stacka,
ALICIA EGAN + KAVISHA MAZZELLA + BUGS + THE LAZY SUSANS + GO GET ALYSON MURRAY Melbourne Recital Centre,
Southbank. 8pm. $30. Major Delay, Rocket and Johnny
SUZETTE HERFT Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East. MUM Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8:30pm. $15.
8:30pm. CUPCAKE Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12. El P will be spinning a variety of
CAPTAIN SPALDING BAND Customs House ELISSA RODGER Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne musical genres and hidden gems
SKERRYVORE + RICH DAVIES Spotted Hotel, Williamstown. 8pm.
Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm. $28.89. Cbd. 8pm. $30. from 7pm. Better yet, it’s all for free.
CARAVÃNA SUN - FEAT: CARAVANA HARTS Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $25.
STEPH FISCHER IVANSCY Hume Blues Club,
Coburg. 7:30pm. SUN + LABRASSBANDA Stay Gold, Brunswick. INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY AT
7pm. $30.
THE EVELYN - FEAT: WILSN + LITTLE Wardens + more
CHAPEL STREET SOCIAL CLUB - FEAT:
BAR 303
Friday 8 Mar PHATO A MANO + NAMN + MATT QUIRKS + EMILEE SOUTH + CHITRA
Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. Get fired up for a killer Saturday
RADOVICH Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
JOJO SMITH BAND The Jazzlab, Brunswick. night with a lineup of cracking
House, Electro, Trance & CHEER UP! SKA & PUNK PARTY - FEAT: 8pm. $35. bands. Kicking things off will be
VARIOUS DJS Stay Gold, Brunswick. 11pm.
Club Nights LIONEL COLE (WITH FREDDY COLE S heavy rockers, KURU LUMA,
CLEWS + JAGUAR JONZE + RYA PARK BAND) Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $30. followed by four-piece outfit
ACID JUNK TECHNO PUNK - FEAT: Workers Club, Fitzroy. 8pm. $15. MAJA + JOYCE PRESCHER Compass Pizza, Skelter. Headlining act are indie
SCOTT ALIEN + MARK HOGAN + LANI COLOUR & SHADE + THE CITY + NO! Brunswick East. 8pm.
punk rock band Wardens, so head
G VS KLINKÈ + REPLIKATOR + LEE NOT THE BEES + STRANGER + FUTURE SISTERS OF SOUL - CELEBRATING
on down from 7.30pm on Saturday
HARVEY + LEIGH GILMOUR + NEKO STATIC Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North INTERNATIONAL WOMEN S DAY
Melbourne. 7:30pm. $10. March 9. Entry is $10 on the door.
DEVYN Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 8pm. $15. 2019 - FEAT: ANDREA MARR + NARDIA
BANOFFEE + LUPA J + YOUR SMITH + COOL SOUNDS + DJ ANTHONY ROSE + ISEULA + RAT CHILD Geddes Lane
QT Howler, Brunswick. 8pm. $24.19. CAREW Noisy Ritual, Brunswick East. 5pm. Ballroom, Melbourne. 8pm. $32.59.
The Cover Council
COSMIC KAHUNA + THE DAGGAR Espy, TAMARA KULDIN QUARTET Lido Jazz
CAMP - FEAT: MATTYLONGLEGS + St Kilda. 8pm. Room, Hawthorn. 8pm. $25. QUARRY HOTEL
JACK HARDMËN + MITTENS & FINN DARYL BRAITHWAITE Grand Hotel TAYLOR & SILK Arkibar, South Melbourne. From classic to contemporary,
OD New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. Mornington, Mornington. 8pm. $35. 4:30pm. The Cover Council play energetic
CHILADELPHIA FRIDAYS - FEAT: DEXY OSCILLATOR Last Chance Rock And Roll THE ALMA ZYGIER QUARTET Classic covers to get any night up and
Bar, North Melbourne. 6pm. Southside, Elsternwick. 8pm. $25.
VARIOUS DJS New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. happening. The four-piece outfit
4pm. ECHOES OF PINK FLOYD - 40 YEARS THE FLAMING MONGRELS Post Office
Hotel, Coburg. 9pm. will be playing Brunswick East’s
DARREN STYLES + MORE 170 Russell, OF THE WALL IN CONCERT The Palms, Quarry Hotel this Saturday March
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. Southbank. 7:30pm. $65. THE JACKSON FOUR Jasper's Jazz Bar,
DJ MAKDOUS + FRIDAY YOUNG + GED EL COLOSSO + THE BALLS + THE
Melbourne. 9:30pm. $10. 9 for free. Get ready for some
THE PO BOYS + THE CB3 The B.east, singalongs.
Ferdydurke, Melbourne Cbd. 7pm. MIDNIGHT RIGS + LAMASSU Bombay Rock, Brunswick East. 9pm.
Brunswick. 7pm.
ECLAIR FIFI + ELOYSE + MIRA BORU THE SAM KEEVERS QUARTET Uptown Jazz
FANDANGO Gem Bar, Collingwood. 8:30pm. Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
+ INTERSTELLAR FUGITIVES Boney,
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $10. FUN FUN FUN - THE MUSIC OF THE THE SKA VENDORS Transit, Melbourne Cbd. Dan Krochmal
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Carlton Club, BEACH BOYS Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. WESLEY ANNE
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. 6:30pm. $25. WASTELANDS Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. 6pm. Singer-songwriter Dan Krochmal
FORMATION - FEAT: DONNY + MORE HEART OF GLASS - INTERNATIONAL WAX POETS - FEAT: SAM STACKA + will play two sets of his indie
Lucky Coq, Windsor. 9pm. WOMEN S DAY - FEAT: LEAH COLLINS MAJOR DELAY + ROCKET + JOHNNY rock and soul blend this Saturday
FORMATION - INTERNATIONAL + TALIA CAIN + BEC MITCHELL + EL P Red Betty, Brunswick. 7pm. March 9. He’ll be accompanied
WOMEN S DAY - FEAT: AUCUN ALIAS CASSIE MCDONALD Gasometer Hotel,
Collingwood. 10pm. $15. by Hannah Wilson on the night,
+ COOKIE + JADE ZOE + DJ SEZZO
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN S DAY
Hip Hop & R&B sharing her soulful R&B sound.
+ SMALL FRY + SOJUGANG Section 8,
Melbourne Cbd. 5pm. AT THE GRACE DARLING - FEAT: AFTER HOURS - FEAT: NASA + DJ Entry is free with things kicking
FRIDAYS - FEAT: AYNA + FALO + SHRIMPWITCH + SAD + HEARTS & SPELL Horse Bazaar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. off from 8pm.
HARLEY JAMES + CLIFTONIA + BEN & ROCKETS + CRY CLUB + RACERAGE + FAVELA FUNK - FEAT: MAXX R +
LIL + CITIZEN.COM Carlton Club, Melbourne GIRL GERMS + UVA URSI + PACKAGED WALLA C + LIXXXTRADO Royal Melbourne
Cbd. 5pm. Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $5.
GOODS + MORE Grace Darling Hotel,
I FEEL LOVE - MELBOURNE MARDI Collingwood. 7:30pm. $10. HAVANA FRIDAYS - FEAT: MC SEBA +
GRAS PARTY - FEAT: SIMONETTI + THE INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - MORE Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.
D WORD + SOUTH BRISBANE SPIN HER SOUND HER STORY SCREENING JILLIONAIRE + MAI + DJ SMILEZ +
COUNCIL + DJ DADDY Loop, Melbourne Cbd. - FEAT: VARIOUS ARTISTS Some Velvet LARRIE Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm. $20.
8pm. Morning, Clifton Hill. 5pm. $10.
LAUNDRY FRIDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS
LABOUR DAY WEEKEND - FEAT: IRON STEEL Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.

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FEATURED GIGS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm. 8pm. $15. Moons, Northcote. 10pm. $5.
NO BORDERS HIP HOP SHOWCASE MUSCLE CAR + BASTARD NORTH + BARRIO BEATS - FEAT: DJ CHAR
- FEAT: DJ VILLS + DISTORTION + DON BERZERK Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, LOOPS + DJ JOHN SALAZAR Section 8,
North Melbourne. 8pm. Melbourne Cbd. 5pm.
RENNAN + AFTERLIFE + TRIGZ +
NO SCRUBS - 90S & EARLY 00S NIGHT CODE - FEAT: JOEL FLETCHER +
VELVET SAND + CLUE Grumpy's Green,
Fitzroy. 8pm. $10. - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Stay Gold, Brunswick. ORKESTRATED Royal Melbourne Hotel,
11pm. Melbourne Cbd. 10pm.
R&B AT EMPIRE - FEAT: SHAGGZ +
NO SOUP 4 YOU Piping Hot Chicken & Burger EAT THE BEAT - FEAT: MANUEL DE LA
CRUNK + J FRESH + ROBIE NYLE + Grill, Ocean Grove. 7:45pm. $15.
MARE + MATTEO FREYRIE + ETWAS +
COLLINS + MATT CROSS + RIDGE B + PATRIZIA & THE GROOVE St Andrews Hotel,
St Andrews. 8:30pm. CHRISS MATTO + GAV WHITEHOUSE +
SHADOWZ Empire, Narre Warren. 9pm.
PEEPING TOM + A BASKET OF MORE New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $25.
RNB FRIDAYS CLUB - FEAT: VARIOUS
MAMMOTHS Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 9pm. GENE ON EARTH + BEX + DJ CAMOV
DJS Co., Southbank. 9:30pm.
PINK TILES + STEPH BRETT Tramway Hotel, + HAMISH COX + JACK NELSON Boney,
North Fitzroy. 3:30pm. Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $10.
BOADZ Acoustic/Country/Blues/ RESIST - FEAT: SLIKNITA + HEART FEST 3 - FEAT: STRAY + JIMMY
Folk MONASTERE + SECTAPE + ARROM + NEPTUNE + JINKS & COVERT + BRAIDZ
+ BILLY JAX + JACK VIE + VELVET
BOADZ C.W. STONEKING + FREYA JOSEPHINE SLACK ATTACK Whole Lotta Love, Brunswick
East. 7pm. $10. SAND + MORE Grumpy's Green, Fitzroy. 7pm. $5.
CLIFTON HILL BREWPUB HOLLICK Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8pm.
SATURDAY SIXPACK 2019 - FEAT: JANK FACQUES Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd.
This is going to be one rocking ALEXANDER WILLIAM Wesley Anne, 11:45pm.
Northcote. 6pm. MUSHROOM GIANT + BORRACHERO
Sunday sesh. Listen to Dale Boaden, + LAEDJ + THE VALLEY ENDS + LABOUR DAY WEEKEND - FEAT:
AYLEEN O’HANLON Drunken Poet, West
as he plays songs about everyone’s Melbourne. 10pm. TERRESTRIALS + COPSE Bendigo Hotel, VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7pm.
favourite yellow cartoon family. BRIAN CADD Basement Discs, Melbourne Cbd. Collingwood. 7pm. $15. LASER HIGHWAY - FEAT: SOL
You guessed it The Simpsons. 12:45pm. TEAM VOM + CRANES AGAINST FLARE + DJ SHE-RA + HYSTERIC +
Be transported to Springfield BRIAN CADD + FENN WILSON Spotted CLOUDS + A RIOTING MIND + PIXY ZEROTONINE Loop, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
Mallard, Brunswick. 8:45pm. $40.39.
on Sunday March 10 from 4pm STYX Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10. LOW TON - FEAT: 3K + BARO +
CHAIN Caravan Music Club, Bentleigh East. 8pm.
onwards. Entry is free. $28. THE BLACKTIDES + KATANA CARTEL CACHE ONEE + C.FRIM + DJ SEZZO
GABY MORENO The Fyrefly, St Kilda. 7pm. + IRONSTONE + NOBODY S HOME + HVNCOQ + SAL + $AVAGETHEGIRL
$39.80. Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $10.
Twilight in Tulsa GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV + HARRISON
Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
THE CAP GUN KILLS + GOOD GRIEF MYTHOLOGY - FEAT: DJ KITI + ANT
EDINBURGH CASTLE STORM The Croxton, Thornbury. 7:30pm. $59.90. + MANHATTAN LEAVES EARTH Grace J STEEP + ELLIOT DEMARCO + EMILY
Share a gig this long weekend with HEY GRINGO Pirates Tavern, Williamstown. 8pm. Darling Hotel, Collingwood. 9pm. $10.
ROSEMAN Boney, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm.
honky-tonk, old-style country, MARLON WILLIAMS + LAURA JEAN THE PADDY CAKES + TWISTED
PAWN SATURDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS
five-piece outfit Twilight in Tulsa. Melbourne Zoo, Parkville. 5:30pm. $68.60. WILLOWS + MERAKI MINDS Workers Club,
Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. ARTISTS Pawn & Co, South Yarra. 8pm.
Join them for a dance and a beer SHAUNA TONY AND CO The Brothers Public
TOPNOVIL + AUSTRALIAN SATURDAYS - FEAT: DJ KISTA + DJ
on Sunday March 10 from 4pm in House, Fitzroy. 8pm.
THE FONDUE SET Lomond Hotel, Brunswick KINGSWOOD FACTORY + BLACK BETH GRACE + DJ DEMIZE + VARIOUS
Edinburgh Castle’s beer garden for
East. 9:30pm. MONROE + EIGHT COUNT Young Street DJS Carlton Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
free.
THE FOUR SCOOPS Bar Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. Supper Club, Frankston. 8pm. SISTERS OF THE MOON DISCO - FEAT:
THE TUCKSHOP LADIES Drunken Poet, West TRYST Royal Hotel, Essendon. 10pm. ROXANNE ROLL + SMOOTH SAILING
Shaky Stills Melbourne. 8:30pm. UNBROKEN EXPANSE + HYPERTRON Night Cat, Fitzroy. 10pm. $25.
TK REEVE/JB EMMETT BLOOZE BAND COLLIDESCOPE + STAMP Bar Open, Fitzroy.
SWAMPLANDS SNACK ATTACK (WITH DJ 2P) Elephant &
Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 6:30pm. 8:30pm. $10. Wheelbarrow, Melbourne. 10pm.
Country western and Americana
TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION UVA URSI + MORE Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford. 8pm. SOOKI SATURDAYS - FEAT: LUKE
band the Shaky Stills will deliver
Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. 6pm. WARDENS + SKELTER + KURU LUMA VECCHIO + JAVI MORELY + MORE Sooki
their steel driving rhythms at Lounge, Belgrave. 6pm. $15.
their local favourite, Swamplands. TRUDIE Bad Shepherd Brewing Co., Cheltenham. 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. $10.
7:30pm. SUPERSMALL - FEAT: YROR? La Di Da,
Playing a few sets early in the Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $10.
evening, head on down from 5pm
ZERAFINA ZARA & ALLEGED Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & THE PRESETS + DJ JNETT Melbourne Zoo,
ASSOCIATES TRIO Smokehouse 101, Maidstone. World Music Parkville. 5:30pm.
on Sunday March 10 and listen to 7pm.
their unmistakeable sound and style. TOFF CLUB - FEAT: LORD HANS DC Toff
AFRO LATIN SOUNDS PARTY - FEAT: In Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm.
Entry is free.
Saturday 9 Mar
TANIA BOSAK + PURO BILONGO Open WILL SPARKS + ORKESTRAED +
Studio, Northcote. 8pm. $10.
JOHNNY CANNIK + YROR? + AMINOS
ALÁRÌÍYÁ - FEAT: ALARIIYA Penny Black,
KH + AURORA + MORE Platform One,
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, Brunswick. 9:30pm.
Melbourne. 10pm. $35.
BILLY JOEL - IN A JAZZ STATE OF
Punk & Covers MIND - FEAT: CRAIG SMITH QUINTET
WILL SPARKS Co., Southbank. 10pm. $30.

ACDSHE + SWEET DEATH MACHINE Paris Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $32.50.
Hip Hop & R&B
Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. $13. DJ MAMA DISQUO Edinburgh Castle,
Brunswick. 9pm. DRUMS OF WAR + MVP + CLR Toff In
ADORE + THE DERRYS + DOROTH Old
Bar, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $10. EUGENE HAMILTON & THE MONEY Town, Melbourne Cbd. 7:30pm. $15.
ANGRY SEAS + DENTAL PLAN + Royal Hotel, Mornington. 8pm. ELECTRIC DREAMS - FEAT: VARIOUS
RUBEN UNKOVICH S DEATH ATTACK JUSTIN FERMINO TRIO Brunswick Green, ARTISTS Co., Southbank. 9pm.
Brunswick. 4pm. KHOKOLAT SATURDAYS - FEAT:
+ SHITSTORM + DJ KELLIN Bombay Rock,
Shannon & The Clams Brunswick. 8pm. LADY BE GOOD - THE SONGS OF ELLA DAMION DE SILVA + DURMY + MORE
CAPTIVES + HAMMERS + OCEANS FITZGERALD - FEAT: NINA FERRO Paris Khokolat Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.
Cat Jazz Club, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm.
INSIDE + LAZY SIDEKICK Stay Gold, LAUNDRY SATURDAYS - FEAT:
Brunswick. 8pm. $15. LEIGH BARKER BAND The Jazzlab, Brunswick.
VARIOUS DJS Laundry Bar, Fitzroy. 9pm.
Shannon & The Clams CHILD Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd. 2pm.
8pm. $30.
LIONEL COLE (WITH FREDDY COLE S MICKEY AVALON, DIRT NASTY +
JOHN CURTIN HOTEL CLEAN CUT SOCIETY + FRANJAPAN +
BAND) Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $30. MICKEY AVALON + DIRT NASTY +
If you didn’t make it to the ‘Sup CARLA RUSSO Espy, St Kilda. 8pm.
LOUIS KING TRIO The Jazzlab, Brunswick. 11pm. SLIPPERY SURF + MORE Max Watt's,
this weekend, do not fear. Golden CLOVE + ELK LOCKER + EAGLEMONT $10. Melbourne. 8pm. $56.65.
Plains’ opening act Shannon & the + EXCUSE FOR AN EXIT Grace Darling Hotel, MORE FIRE - FEAT: DERAJAH + MISSING NIN + REALNAME + NOTAXI
Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
Clams will play their garage, doo- CHANT DOWN SOUND + JAH TUNG + + YOUNG MIDGE Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
DAN KROCHMAL Wesley Anne, Northcote. 8pm. $5.
wop, punk, rock, rhythm and soul at $15. SISTA SARA + VERSE@ILLE + JUNIOR
The Curtin on Monday March 11. DJ STEELY ANN Edinburgh Castle, Brunswick. JUPP Woody's Attic Dive, Collingwood. 10pm.
Tickets are $38.50 with doors at 9pm. NARDIA ROSE BAND Transit, Melbourne Cbd.
Acoustic/Country/Blues/
7pm. EARTHLESS + ROT TV + PSYCHOBABEL 9pm. Folk
Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $49.90. PANORAMA BRASIL Paris Cat Jazz Club,
Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $32.50. ALCHEMY - FEAT: ANDREW BLANCH
ECHOES OF PINK FLOYD - 40 YEARS
Trevor Bryan Cotton’s OF THE WALL IN CONCERT The Palms,
PAVLOVA Wesley Anne, Northcote. 6pm. & ARIEL NURHADI Wyselaskie Auditorium,
Parkville. 7pm.
Wilco World Southbank. 7:30pm. $65. SHANTY TOWN Lomond Hotel, Brunswick East.
9:30pm. ALISTER TURRILL Charles Weston Hotel,
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Palais Theatre, Brunswick. 6:30pm.
THE DRUNKEN POET St Kilda. 8pm. $110.15. THE FEM BELLING BAND Lido Jazz Room,
As part of the Poet’s Tuesday Hawthorn. 8pm. $25. ANDREA ROBERTSON Drunken Poet, West
HAPPY MONDAYS + THE LULU RAES Melbourne. 9pm.
Tribute series, Trevor Bryan Cotton THE MARK FITZGIBBON TRIO (WITH
Forum Theatre, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm. ANDREW SWANN Transit, Melbourne Cbd.
has put together a selection of NICHAUD FITZGIBBON) Classic Southside,
HIPPO CAMPUS + THE VANNS The Elsternwick. 8pm. $25.
5pm.
songs from American rock band, Croxton, Thornbury. 8pm. $49.90. AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG
THE PAUL WILLIAMSON HAMMOND
Wilco. Coinciding with the 25th ICECREAM HANDS + THE ORCHESTRA 2019 Melbourne Recital Centre,
COMBO Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy. 8:30pm.
anniversary of the band’s formation, WELLINGTON DUO Northcote Social Club, Southbank. 7pm. $30.
Northcote. 7pm. WORLD ON FIRE COLLECTIVE + ROSE BUSBY MAROU + COLIN LILLIE Memo
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12 from 8pm for free. Musicland, Fawkner. 7:30pm. $20. Open Studio, Northcote. 5:30pm. $10. CHAIN Yarraville Club, Yarraville. 8pm. $30.
KRUL + WICKED CITY + THE DORKS GARY EASTWOOD Clifton Hill Brew Pub,
Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 5pm. House, Electro, Trance & Clifton Hill. 9pm.
HUSSY HICKS The Fyrefly, St Kilda. 7pm. $28.60.
MODERN LIFE IS WAR + HOMESICK + Club Nights JETHRO PICKETT & TOMORROWS Gem
PRIVATE FUNCTION Corner Hotel, Richmond. Bar, Collingwood. 9pm.
8:30pm. $35. AMBIT X TGS - FEAT: ANGUS GREEN +
PAT MCKERNAN The Brothers Public House,
MOSQUITO COAST + MANTELL + NEMEAN + TREATS + DECIBEL + THE Fitzroy. 9pm.
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QUARRY ROAD Ascot Vale Hotel, Ascot Vale. THE BURNT SAUSAGES The B.east, Brunswick BACKYARD BREW Royal Hotel, Mornington.
East. 8:30pm. 3pm. Music Bowl March 13
8pm.
THE RIGHT BROTHERS Young Street Supper BOADZ Clifton Hill Brew Pub, Clifton Hill. 4pm. KHRUANGBIN The Croxton
ROOTS COMBO + BROTHERS Club, Frankston. 7:30pm.
CATE TAYLOR & GREG HAMILTON + March 13
BLUEGRASS ALL STARS The Brothers Public THE STONE ROZES + DUMB WHALES
House, Fitzroy. 3:30pm. NINA ROSE Open Studio, Northcote. 2:30pm. $10. LUKE COMBS Palais Theatre
John Curtin Hotel, Carlton. 7pm. $12. March 13
SAY NOTHING Drunken Poet, West Melbourne. HEINOUS HOUND Cherry Bar, Melbourne Cbd.
3pm. THEM HIGH SPIRITS + RHIANNON 3pm. A. SWAYZE & THE GHOSTS
THE DAVE HOLMES GANG Edinburgh SIMPSON + THE BROKEN HIDDEN IN THE HILLS - OPEN MIC Sooki Brunswick Mechanics Institute
Castle, Brunswick. 5pm. Lounge, Belgrave. 2pm.
SWEETHEARTS Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, March 13
THE MERIDIAN SUNS + AIDAN ROLFE North Melbourne. 8pm. $10. JOYCE PRESCHER Charles Weston Hotel,
Brunswick. 4pm. TOMATO TOMATO Spotted
Open Studio, Northcote. 2:30pm. $10. THIRSTY MERC Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 8pm.
$34.70. JUKEBOY EMMETT Catfish, Fitzroy. 5pm. Mallard March 13
THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS Bar
Open, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. TIM HAMPSHIRE + HANNY J + JOE KELLY AUTY + THE MELBOURNE J MASCIS Howler March 13,
THE SEPTEMBERS + TENDERLOINS Old GUITON Last Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North BLUES COLLECTIVE Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 14, 15
Bar, Fitzroy. 3pm. Melbourne. 2pm. 4pm. TASH SULTANA Sidney Myer
THE TWOKS Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy. 9:30pm. TWILIGHT IN TULSA Edinburgh Castle, MOTOV8ORS + BONNIE LOVE Retreat Music Bowl March 14
Brunswick. 4pm. Hotel, Brunswick. 8pm.
THE WOODLAND HUNTERS + LUCY S THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
LOCKETT Retreat Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm. V + BITUMEN + OV PAIN + ROSE DE LA MONTAÑA + SOPHIE
INFRAGHOSTS + DJ SPUNKGUNK Tote MARCHEFF Open Studio, Northcote. 12pm. $10. The Croxton March 14
WHOOPIE CAT + WINTER MOON + Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10. JULIA JACKLIN The Forum
THE DEADLIPS + DARK TEMPLE Spotted SAY NOTHING Drunken Poet, West Melbourne.
WAZ E JAMES Standard Hotel, Fitzroy. 7pm. 6:30pm. March 14
Mallard, Brunswick. 8pm. $12.53.
SHAKY STILLS Swamplands Bar, Thornbury. 5pm. THE MURLOCS Moreland
House, Electro, Trance & SUNDAY SINGALONG - FEAT: Hotel March 14, 15
Sunday 10 Mar Club Nights VARIOUS ARTISTS The Brothers Public House,
Fitzroy. 6:30pm.
C.W. STONEKING The
Gasometer March 14, The
ANGEL HEART - FEAT: SPACEY + THE PHEASANTRY Lomond Hotel, Brunswick
Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & SUNSHINE & DISCO FAITH CHOIR +
East. 5:30pm. Corner March 15, The Espy
March 16
World Music ORKESTRATED + KIDS TABLE 170 Russell,
THE SUBLIMINALS Drunken Poet, West
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $28.63.
Melbourne. 4pm. SLUMBERJACK 170 Russell
A NIGHT OF DIZZY GILLESPIE - FEAT: WALL OF PUNK - FEAT: HANNY J + TIM March 15
BOLLYWOOD CLUB - FEAT: VARIOUS
THE PARIS CAT BIG BAND Paris Cat Jazz HAMPSHIRE + BOOM! CIVIL WAR Last FRACTURES Geddes Lane
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 6:30pm. $30. ARTISTS Co., Southbank. 9pm. Chance Rock And Roll Bar, North Melbourne. 2pm.
DAYDREAMS - FEAT: MARKFREE.DJ + Ballroom March 15
AMP FIDDLER Espy, St Kilda. 8pm. $27.50. WINESHANK San Remo Hotel-motel, San Remo.
MAXWELL S Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood. 12pm. 3pm. PRESS CLUB The Old Bar
AUSECUMA BEATS Bar Oussou, Brunswick.
9pm. DIRTY DAYS - LABOUR DAY EVE - March 15
ELLA TRINIDAD Night Cat, Fitzroy. 8:30pm. $10. FEAT: ORKESTRATED + LOCKDOWN RVG Brunswick Mechanics
FERMANIS/DAVIS/ANNING TRIO + KALUS + T-REK + STEVE BLEAS Monday 11 Mar Institute March 15
Brunswick Green, Brunswick. 4pm. + HOLMES JOHN + TRAVLOS + KARATE BOOGALOO The
JOSE PINCHEIRA & FRIENDS Open Studio, MORNING MAXWELL + MORE Brown Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin & Gasometer March 15
Northcote. 8pm. Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $25.
World Music FAT FREDDY’S DROP The
LIONEL COLE (WITH FREDDY COLE S DJ SHORTKUT + SPELL + Forum March 15, 16, 17
BAND) Bird's Basement, Melbourne. 7:45pm. $30. GHOSTNOTES + SENSI Some Velvet Morning, AMJAD ALI KHAN Melbourne Recital Centre, THE BLOODY BEETROOTS
Clifton Hill. 9pm. $15. Southbank. 7:30pm. $59.
NAT BARTSCH S LULLABY PROJECT + Prince Bandroom March 16
ENOLA GAY + KETTOKAI + BURNING BONGEZIWE MABANDLA + ALLYSHA
MELVILLE/FRATER/MACDONALD The DIED PRETTY The Croxton
Jazzlab, Brunswick. 8pm. $20. ROSE DJS Hub301 Records, Melbourne. 3pm. JOY Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 1pm. $20.
March 16
PEPPERCORN JAZZ BAND Open Studio, HEAD HUNTERS OF MELBOURNE - BRUNSWICK MUSIC FESTIVAL -
Northcote. 5:30pm. CLOWNS Cherry Bar March 16
FEAT: ZEITGEIST FREEDOM ENERGY COMMUNITY SQUARE - FEAT: THE
ROSARIO DE MARCO Wesley Anne, Northcote. EVEN The Gasometer March
EXCHANGE + UNCOMFORTABLE SENEGAMBIAN JAZZ BAND + SUI
6pm. 16
SKINK HILL GANG + MERC N QUIM + SCIENCE + BEATNIK COLLECTIVE ZHEN + MINDY MENG WANG + MIO
JAZZ PARTY Moreland Hotel
Section 8, Melbourne Cbd. 6pm. + JULIEN WILSON + FIA FIELL Siteworks,
UNCLE RUDY Old Bar, Fitzroy. 3pm. Brunswick. 12:30pm. $15. March 16
SNAJ 303, Northcote. 7:30pm. $5. HOT TROPIC - FEAT: HARLEY JAMES +
FLORA CARBO TRIO The Jazzlab, Brunswick. AUNTIE LEO & THE
SUNDAY JAM - FEAT: BARTON FINK ANYO + THE MILKMAN POOKS Carlton 8pm. $15.
Club, Melbourne Cbd. 3pm. BACKSTABBERS Oh Jean!
HOUSE BAND Barton Fink, Thornbury. 5pm. SHANNON & THE CLAMS John Curtin Hotel, Records March 16
INNA GROOVE - FEAT: MICKEY Carlton. 8pm. $35.
TAYLOR & SILK Central Club Hotel, North CASH SAVAGE AND THE
Melbourne. 3pm. EDWARDS + GUS E BOI + 2FUDDHA THE SKELLINGTONS + MARGIE LOU
Penny Black, Brunswick. 2pm. DYER Open Studio, Northcote. 8:30pm. $12. LAST DRINKS Moreland Hotel
THE BORNSTEIN ULTIMATUM Pause Bar,
Balaclava. 4:30pm. LABOUR DAY ROOFTOP DAY PARTY March 17
THE CHRIS MAUNDERS TRIO Brunswick
Green, Brunswick. 7pm. $5.
- QUEER SUNDAY SESH - FEAT: MIRA Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, MOODY BEACHES The Old
Bar March 17
MIRA + DIVISION 1 + EBONY WILLIS + Punk & Covers
SAKURA + OH Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 2pm. MOTOR ACE 170 Russell
Indie, Rock, Pop, Metal, DOWNLOAD 2019 - FEAT: OZZY April 12
LABOUR DAY WEEKEND - FEAT:
Punk & Covers VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7pm. OSBOURNE + SLAYER + JUDAS PRIEST BRING ME THE HORIZON Rod
MOTHERSHIP - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Co., + ALICE IN CHAINS + GHOST + MORE Laver Arena April 13
AN ARVO OF ROCKIN CHICKS - FEAT:
KATIE BATES + ALISON FERRIER +
Southbank. 9:30pm. Flemington Racecourse, Flemington. 12am. $189. BLUESFEST ft Jack Johnson,
PARTYSHIRTS THOMPSON & FRIENDS ERIC NAM 170 Russell, Melbourne Cbd. 8pm. Ben Harper & The Innocent
LUCIE THORNE + TRACY MCNEIL & $86.91.
THE GOODLIFE + SUZANNAH ESPIE
Sooki Lounge, Belgrave. 9pm. Criminals, more April 18-22
RFLXN - FEAT: MONTY + SAFIRE Boney, JJ LIN Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. 8pm.
Union Hotel, Brunswick. 3pm. KEB MO’ Melbourne Recital
Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. $15. LIZ PHAIR + ALI BARTER The Croxton,
DARCY FOX + SABRINA SALVATORE + Thornbury. 8pm. $56. Centre April 15
SADDLE CLUB - FEAT: SILVERSIX
AARON POLLOCK Workers Club, Fitzroy. 1pm. MONDAY NIGHT MASS - FEAT: DEAD I’M WITH HER Melbourne
+ ROB LEWIS + PROSDO + RYAN
$10. + SHALLOW. FRAG + INTRINSIC LIGHT Recital Centre April 18
HAYNES + JUN LEE + ANDREW
DUMB PUNTS + SKIDS Tramway Hotel, North Northcote Social Club, Northcote. 8pm. TREVOR HALL The Corner
Fitzroy. 3:30pm. REEVES + CAM MILESI + CRYSTAL
NIEUW MONDAYS - FEAT: VARIOUS April 18
GOOD GRIEF + FLOSS + 6 FOOT INCH D CUNHA + DANIEL MORANO + JAKE
DJS Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7pm. $3. NAHKO AND MEDICINE
Workers Club, Fitzroy. 7:30pm. $7. PULS + MORE New Guernica, Melbourne Cbd.
10pm. $15. FOR THE PEOPLE 170 Russell
HUGO RACE & MICHELANGELO
RUSSO Post Office Hotel, Coburg. 4:30pm.
SVEN VÄTH Brown Alley, Melbourne Cbd. 10pm. House, Electro, Trance & April 21
$40. KURT VILE The Forum April 22
MIGHTIEST OF GUNS + THESE THINGS THE BUMP - FEAT: LADY ERICA + GING
Club Nights
ARLO GUTHRIE Melbourne
Tote Hotel, Collingwood. 4pm. + ALASKA + NG + SKOMEZEE Boney, DRUM N BASS MONDAYS - FEAT: Recital Centre April 23
MOODY BEACHES + WORLD SICK + Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. $20.
VARIOUS ARTISTS Radio Bar, Fitzroy. 6pm. LARKIN POE Howler April 24
WAY SHIT Old Bar, Fitzroy. 6:30pm. $10. THIS IS EMPIRE CARNIVALE - FEAT:
LABOUR DAY WEEKEND - FEAT: THE CALIFORNIA
OPEN/MIC JAM NIGHTS Musicland, ANDY MURPHY + VS BUTTERS + MORE
Fawkner. 5pm.
VARIOUS ARTISTS Lucky Coq, Windsor. 7pm. HONEYDROPS The Corner
Empire, Narre Warren. 9pm.
PLASTIC - FEAT: SURFACING + RAY STRUGGLE - FEAT: VARIOUS DJS Lucky April 24
Coq, Windsor. 9pm.
RAMONES + AUSSIE AUSBORNE Royal Hip Hop & R&B BENDIGO AUTUMN MUSIC
VARIOUS DJS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm.
Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne Cbd. 9pm. April 25-28
PLASTIC SECTION + THE RED FLOHIO + YUNG BADDIE + SERENITY GEORGE CLINTON &
MOTORS + THEE CHA CHA CHAS Tote UKI Howler, Brunswick. 8pm. $39.64.
Hip Hop & R&B
PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC
Hotel, Collingwood. 8pm. $10.
LABOUR DAY EVE - FEAT: DAMION TRESILLO S FIRST BIRTHDAY - FEAT: The Forum April 25
POPCHOPS TAKEOVER - FEAT: ANDY DE SILVA + DURMY + MORE Khokolat Bar, DJ JERRY C + 007BADASS + DAWS VINTAGE TROUBLE The
+ SIMON + SABRINA BABYSLUT Toff In Melbourne Cbd. 9:30pm.
Town, Melbourne Cbd. 11pm. + KÖDA + DJ CRYSTAL CARTIER + Corner April 25
HVNCOQ + DJ SMILEZ Gasometer Hotel, RAY LAMONTAGNE Palais
ROYALTY NOISE + WALLA C + Acoustic/Country/Blues/ Collingwood. 4pm. $20.
VARIOUS ARTISTS Evelyn Hotel, Fitzroy. 8pm. Theatre April 27
$10. Folk JUNGLE The Forum April 28
SCOTTY BAKER Gem Bar, Collingwood. 7:30pm. Acoustic/Country/Blues/
ACOUSTIC SUNDAYS - FEAT:
SOLO PUNX - FEAT: JUSTIN KEENAN + MICHELLE GARDINER + PAIGE SPIERS
Folk
GRACE DRUMMOND + LINDSEY BUSH
+ PAIGE SMITH Customs House Hotel, BASIA BULAT + GRACE TURBO Toff In
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