22 October 2015
We’ll give this a bigger run next issue, but for now we want to quickly bring your attention to next month’s Suttons Birthday Weekend Festival. Set to take place from November 12 through November 15, the birthday bash will welcome the likes of Paige Duggan, Ultrafox, Pugsley Buzzard, Patrick McCabe, Mark with the Sea, The Virginia Slims and Uptown Brown to Ballarat’s Suttons. More through suttonshouseofmusic.com.au.
21 October 2015
“What a life” were the words Chrissy Amphlett concluded a Facebook post with, revealing her battle with MS. The news came on the eve of a 2007 tour. Driven by the power of music and an unreal strength, she would perform every show with a fiery disposition. She would collapse once the applause had settled, but she owned the stage – such was her way. A breast cancer diagnosis would come three years later.
21 October 2015
Driven by the likes of Justin Sullivan (New Model Army), Mike Scott (The Waterboys), Peter Perrett (The Only Ones) and Kate Bush, Phil Dean formed Zeptepi in 2001 after being convicted of stealing a loaf of bread in his motherland and sent to Australia.
21 October 2015
Showing what ‘DIY’ is all about, Claude Hay is a fiercely independent artist whose blend of stomping traditional blues, hard rock and booty-shaking funk has won him no shortage of fans the world-over. He’s a man who builds his own gear: you have ‘Betty’, his double-necked guitar made from a kitchen benchtop and ‘Stella’, a ‘Cigar Box’ guitar that started life as a six-dollar baking tin.
20 October 2015
Let the good times roll with The Paper Kites, who are off and running on their first tour of the year. Their lateness to the touring game in 2015 is due to the fact they have been busy with album number two, twelvefour.
20 October 2015
According to the postman, the positive psychological properties of the colour orange include physical comfort, food, warmth, security, sensuality, passion, abundance and fun. The negative, meanwhile, include deprivation, frustration, frivolity and immaturity.
20 October 2015
With their sophomore album Gracetown travelling along nicely, San Cisco are off and running on a regional adventure. The album, named after a small town in WA, saw the band once again team with Steve Schram. I guess this means that bass player Nick Gardner is feeling a little better these days.
20 October 2015
It may be sold out (we’re sure you can still get your hands on some tickets somewhere/somehow) but the Lorne Falls Festival just got 28 new additions to the line up. You could say the line up is lookin’ as fine as Dame Edna in one of her sparkly getups.
19 October 2015
If you have been perusing In the Loop, you would have come across a blurb on Warrnambool’s Aus Music Festival. We also want to make special mention of the halfday forum which will run as part of this fantastic event.
19 October 2015
What happens when the two guitarists/vocalists from seminal Melbourne stoner doom band Downriver (who also both spent the ’90s playing grind and hardcore together in the Melbourne gig-machine W.A.R.) listen to a heap of duelling-guitar-NWOBHM, old school ’80s metal and dabble with the icy grasp of blasting old school black metal over a few beers and backyard bonfires?
19 October 2015
Laughing is good right? Wrong, laughing is the best thing you could ever do. The much loved UK comedian, Danny Bhoy, returns to Australia is 2016 with his brand new show Please Untick This Box, and better yet, Geelong is worth the visit.
18 October 2015
The John Steel Singers, Money for Rope, Immigrant Union, East Brunswick All Girls Choir, The Harlots, Cove, Forever Sun, Brother James, Karl S. Williams, Crossfire Hurricane, Spiral Arm, Blackwood Jack, Sheriff, Rough River, TSUN, ORB and Mangelwurzel are the dear darlings that make up the Kennedys Creek Music Festival, which arrives a touch later in the month across October 24 & October 25.
17 October 2015
Influenced by the likes of ’90s folk/rock outfits such as Bright Eyes, Neutral Milk Hotel and Modest Mouse, Melbourne’s Tiny Little Houses began life as the bedroom musings of Caleb Karvountzis. These days Caleb is joined by Sean Mullins (guitar), Clancy Bond (drums) and Al Yamin (bass).
16 October 2015
Joyfully remembering making bad decisions, falling in love and getting lost, ‘Good Times’ is the new single from hard-working, hard-playing seven-piece folk revivalists The Bon Scotts.
16 October 2015
Taking place this Saturday, October 17, at Geelong’s Barwon Club, the Mane Event is a musical festival that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues.
16 October 2015
Loads of fun stuff is happening this fortnight with some pretty great weather too. If there’s one gig you’re going to switch Netflix off and put your pants on for, it’s the Wolveschildren annual Halloween CREEPSHOW on the 31st.
15 October 2015
Marlon Williams (along with his band the Yarra Benders) has a date with Geelong’s Workers Club on December 10. The New Zealand crooner, who is currently based in Melbourne, is having a dream run at the moment.
15 October 2015
Did you know that American singer-songwriter JD McPherson is heading to Theatre Royal, Castlemaine on February 20, 2016? We know it’s a while off, but four out of five dentists suggest that people like plenty of time to make decisions.
15 October 2015
Born Lion hits The Loft, Warrnambool tomorrow night, October 16. Pete Murray has a date with the Torquay Hotel, Torquay on October 17, while The Hunted Crows make Bendigo’s Music Man their home on October 17.
15 October 2015
The 10th birthday celebrations continue for Golden Plains with the line up officially announced for the 2016 festival. Eddy Current Suppression Ring were already announced to perform a special anniversary celebration for GP after not playing for six years. The band were also on the very first line up for festival numero uno, so it’s celebrations all round.
15 October 2015
Jeez, it must be pretty okay living in Geelong. Next month we see the introduction of Streetlife, Geelong’s first laneway festival, and it’s looking like being a ripping new addition to the festival family.
14 October 2015
Melbourne-based singer songwriter Fatai Veamatahau came to our attention in the first season of The Voice, placing as a semi-finalist. Penning a deal with Mercury Records Australia, she spent the next two-and-a-half years under their guidance before deciding her future looked brighter as an independent artist.
14 October 2015
Things are changing in the food scene in Geelong, and it’s all for the better. The newest venue to open is Centra, previously known as the Carrington Hotel, the newly renovated space has a rustic Italian menu and a modern ‘urban ruin’ design.
14 October 2015
Dallas Frasca and her musical brothers Jeff Curran and Josh Eales are soon to hit the road with those beautifully hair-rich men known as The Beards, but once that run of shows wraps up they will soldier on for some headliners. And among these headliner dates are ones on Forte turf – Torquay Hotel, Torquay on November 6 and The Loft, Warrnambool on November 14.
