Perth Music

Anti-Flag’s forthcoming Australian tour has been bolstered by the confirmation that Californian punk-rockers Jackson United will join the bill at all Australian shows.

Last here in May, supporting the release of their sophomore record Harmony & Dissidence, Jackson United thrilled fans in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney with their explosive live performances.

This time around fans across the nation will have an opportunity to witness the boys in action as they take to stages in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sydney.

Featuring Foo Fighters’ and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes’ guitarist Chris Shiflett and Joe Kid from the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jackson United have cultivated a strong fan base during their five years together.

Anti-Flag return to Australia in support of their politically charged release The Bright Lights of America – their most comprehensive and revered work to date. Jackson United join the already announced support of A Death In The Family, who will kick off proceedings each night.

Tickets are on sale now and selling fast. The addition of Jackson United to the already stellar line up will ensure remaining tickets do not last long.

Tour Dates:
Fri 5th December - The Hi-Fi, Melbourne 18+
Sat 6th December - The Hi-Fi, Melbourne U18
Sun 7th December - HQ Complex, Adelaide All Ages
Tue 9th December - Capitol, Perth 18+
Thur 11th December - The Tivoli, Brisbane All Ages
Fri 12th December - Coolangatta Hotel 18+
Sat 13th December - UNSW Roundhouse, Sydney All Ages

The Frontier Touring Company regret to inform that Simple Plan’s forthcoming show at Metro City in Perth has been cancelled.

Simple Plan were due to kick off their Australian tour in Perth on October 14, but a scheduling conflict has arisen that prevents the band from starting the tour on that date. Simple Plan’s Australian tour will now commence on October 16 at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre.

All patrons holding tickets to the October 14 show are able to obtain a full refund. All credit card bookings will be automatically refunded. Patrons who purchased via cash or EFTPOS will need to return their tickets to the Burswood Agency or mail them directly to:
Burswood Ticketek Agency
Att: Simple Plan Refunds
PO Box 210
Burswood WA 6100

Simple Plan hope to return to Perth in the near future.

Encompassing the far reaches of rural and outback Victoria, Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and South Australia, Melbourne trio The Basics are donning their immaculately tailored suits and heading off the rock and roll beaten track, daring to visit territories many bands rarely tread.As part of the government’s Contemporary Music Touring Program, The Basics will be taking their harmonious pop melodies to High Schools around the country as well as playing some of the most rural and remote areas outback Australia has to offer. The Contemporary Music Touring Program aims to give all Australians, wherever they live, better access to some of the country’s best live contemporary music.

For an exclusive audience of teachers and students, all Basics High School shows are in support of national counselling organisation Lifeline and are free; however a gold coin donation upon entry is encouraged to help this invaluable support service. Lifeline is a national 24 hour, seven day a week counselling hotline and is staffed by teams of dedicated volunteers.

The Basics are doing their best to ensure that no-one misses out on the chance to party. Located over 1,750 kms from Darwin, Haast’s Bluff, Papunya and Mount Liebig are remote Aboriginal communities located on Aboriginal land where permits are required to visit.

The Basics are proud to announce that local Haast’s Bluff act The Sunshine Reggae Band will support them throughout the rural communities, before taking the band on to support them in Darwin where The Sunshine Reggae Band will play their first-ever Darwin show.

Playing a whopping 22 shows from the Maribyrnong Detention Centre in Victoria, to the Papunya Community Centre in the Northern Territory to Mt Isa Catholic High in Queensland and every conceivable school and town in between, The Basics are kicking into overdrive on a tour which will literally set their odometer spinning.

Tour Dates:
Mon 13th October - Maribyrnong Detention Centre, Maribyrnong VIC
Thur 16th October - Perth Modern High School, Subiaco WA
Fri 17th October - Crown Hotel, Collie WA
Sat 18th October - Rocket Room, Perth WA
Sun 19th October - Mojos, North Fremantle WA
Mon 20th October - Parade College, Bundoora VIC
Tue 21st October - Sandringham Secondary College, Sandringham VIC
Wed 22nd October - Castlemaine Secondary, Castlemaine VIC
Thur 23rd October - Weeroona College, Bendigo VIC
Fri 24th October - Princes Hill Secondary, Princes Hill VIC
Thur 30th October - Mount Liebig Community, Mount Liebig NT
Fri 31st October - Papunya Community, Papunya NT
Sat 1st November - Haast’s Bluff Community, Haast’s Bluff NT
Fri 7th November - Happy Yess, Darwin NT
Sat 8th November - Monsoons, Darwin NT
Mon 10th November - Katherine High, Katherine NT
Tue 11th November - Tennant Creek High, NT
Thur 13th November - Mt Isa Catholic High, Mt Isa QLD
Mon 17th November - Winton State School, Winton QLD
Tue 18th November - Longreach State School, Longreach QLD
Wed 26th November - All Hallows, Brisbane QLD
Tue 2nd December - Brighton Secondary, North Brighton SA

With their debut album Eon out now, Sydney electronic-rock trio Grafton Primary announce a sequel to the stage-invading adventures of their national album launch tour!Happening throughout October/November, the ‘Eon Tour’ Part 2 will take in Fremantle, Mandurah, Perth, Newcastle, Ballarat, Moorooduc, Launceston, and Hobart. These cities and towns get the chance to rock out to the dance floor experience of a Grafton Primary live show in September, while lucky cities Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra get to party with these electro-maestros a second time. Indie-whiz The E.L.F. (aka Darren Cross from Gerling) will be supporting the band nationally.

Grafton Primary’s immense debut album Eon, which came out on September 13, debuted at #1 on the iTunes Dance/Electronic Chart and #7 iTunes on the main chart. Eon is an album that plays on the themes of time and timelessness. The album explores past, present and future love with stunning lyrics and commanding synth lines that build layers of aural bliss and showcase Grafton Primary at their compelling best.

The first single ‘She Knows It’ is now available on iTunes with three remixes by Swiss duo Cryptonites (Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay), New York programming wunderkind Kap10kurt (Dave Gahan, The Bravery, Moby) and Grafton Primary (Faker, Dukes Of Windsor) themselves!

Thur 16th October - Newport Hotel, Fremantle
Fri 17th October - Players Bar, Mandurah
Sat 18th October - Death Disco @ The Capitol, Perth
Sat 1st November - Mona Vale Hotel, Sydney
Sun 2nd November - Fat As Butter Festival, Newcastle
Thur 6th November - Karova Lounge, Ballarat
Fri 7th November - Peninsula Lounge, Moorooduc
Sat 8th November - WOW! Streetparty @ Inflation Nightclub, Melbourne
Fri 14th November - Republic Bar, Hobart
Sat 15th November - James Hotel, Launceston
Sat 22nd November - Trackside Festival, Canberra

Following the overwhelming success of the inaugural reggae festival Raggamuffin, fans will be delighted to hear it’s happening all over again with Raggamuffin 2009 announced today. 

Ziggy Marley, Eddy Grant, Stephen Marley, Shaggy, Arrested Development, Inner Circle and Bonjah will perform at six events nationally and one in New Zealand, kicking off on January 24 in Perth.

Raggamuffin played to more than 70,000 ecstatic fans through February this year, emphatically proving that reggae is alive and well! This year’s event again offers a six hour musical feast of the world’s best reggae artists, with a healthy dose of funk, dub, hip hop and soul. It will be the first ever visit to Australia by both Eddy Grant and Stephen Marley.

Tour Dates:
Sat 24th January - Supreme Court Gardens, Perth
Mon 26th January - Red Devil Park, Byron Bay (Australia Day)
Fri 30th January - The Riverstage, Brisbane
Sat 31st January - Lindemans Winery, Hunter Valley
Sun 1st February - Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
Tue 3rd February - Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
Sat 7th February - Rotorua International Stadium, New Zealand

For more info visit www.ragamuffin.com.au

Fatboy Slim, The Presets, The Roots, Deadmau5, Sam Sparro, Roni Size Reprazent, Chromeo, Stanton Warriors, The Potbelleez, Kid Kenobi & MC, Shureshock, Mickey Slim, Yelle, Wale, The Cuban Brothers, Rico Tubbs, Mike Relm, Master Of Ceremonies: Supernatural

Sat 14th February - Centennial Park, Sydney
Sun 15th February - The Nursery, Flemington Racecourse Melbourne
Sat 21st February - Parklands Showgrounds, Gold Coast
Sun 22nd February - Heirisson Island, Perth

More informations and Tickets available from www.goodvibrationsfestival.com.au

During the 90’s Supergrass were a group of cheeky youngsters who typified the upbeat and positive mood of a nation who just a damn good party. With their mad hair, massive sideburns and wild, crazy, running-along-the-beach-without-a-care-in-the-world antics, Supergrass were the band of choice for the kids. Fast forward to 2008, the kids have grown up, and so have Supergrass.

Diamond Hoo-Ha is Supergrass‘ 6th studio album and is the band at their exuberant best. To celebrate their new album the band is touring Australia and will be playing at Metropolis Fremantle on Wednesday 8th October with special guests The Panda Band.

We have 3 double passes to give away!! Just email perthmusic@gmail.com with Supergrass in the subject line along with your name, age and why you deserve free tickets more than anyone else.

Competition ends Monday 6th October.

Sat 21st February - RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane
Sun 22nd February - TBC, Sydney
Fri 27th February - Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne
Sat 28th February - Bonython Park, Adelaide
Mon 2nd March - Steel Blue Oval, Perth

Nine Inch Nails, Alice In Chains, Bloodhound Gang, Scars On Broadway, Lamb Of God, Alkaline Trio, Billy Talent, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Face To Face, In Flames, Rival Schools, Anberlin, The Subways, Every Time I Die, Devil Driver, Funeral For A Friend, Less Than Jake, Poison The Well, Medina Lake, New Found Glory, From First To Last, Bedouin Soundclash, Hellogoodbye, Finch, Goldfinger, Say Anything, Chiodos, Silverstein, Saves The Day, Lacuna Coil, 36 Crazy Fists, Straylight Run, Evergreen Terrace, Minus The Bear, Moneen, Ace Enders, Jaguar Love, Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster, Unearth, Bayside, Emery, Houston Calls, The Audition, Attack In Black, Innerpartsystem, Valencia, In This Moment, Riverboat Gamblers, Alesana, Horse The Band, I Am The Avalanche.

Limited Pre-sale tickets will be available from the following dates. These tickets are only available to purchase if you have pre-registered on www.soundwavefestival.com.

On sale dates are as follows:
Brisbane - Thur 11th October @ 9am
Sydney - Fri 12 October @ 9am
Melbourne - Sat 13 October @ 9am
Adelaide - Sun 14 October @ 9am
Perth - Sun 14 October @ 9am

After a very successful few years which has included ARIA nominations, national and international tours Holly Throsby has recently released her third album A Loud Call to the waiting public. She is also in the middle of The Loud Call Tour which started in Alice Springs and winds up in Cairns in mid-October, taking in 20 cities and towns along the way. Holly has been joined by her long time band Bree van Reyk and Jens Birchall. The three piece play eleven instruments between them. Holly is fresh from a string of solo shows in the UK & Ireland with the iconic Paul Kelly, as well as two dates in London supporting Australian sweetheart Tim Rogers. Holly spoke to Justin Middleton for this exclusive interview.

Click here to download the podcast of the entire interview. (13:55 - 1.6Mb)

A Loud Call was recorded in Nashville with engineer and producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Will Oldham). It includes guest performances by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and members of Lambchop and Silver Jews. It also includes Holly’s latest single ‘A Heart Divided’ and the title track from last years’ One of You for Me EP. I asked Holly if she was happy with the reception that A Loud Call has received so far. “I was really pleased, it’s always nice to get good reviews and things like that. We’ve been on tour and it’s been nice to play new songs to people and have people come buy the record after the show.”

“Most of the recording was done in the U.S. I was writing it when I was finishing up the touring for Under The Town and then in the month following that. By the time I had enough songs we went to the U.S and made the record with this guy called Mark Nevers in Nashville who I was very keen to work with. We made the whole album there and a few extra songs that didn’t make it to the record. After we finished that process I came back to Australia and I thought about it for a little while and when I was in Nashville I really missed Tony Dupe who made my first two albums. The only reason I left Tony was that both Tony and I felt that it was the right thing to do at the time because I had done everything I had ever done with him and I didn’t really know anything else. So I got Tony to do some arrangements when I got back to Australia…and he really completed some of the songs for me” Holly explained.

I asked Holly how she found Nashville and if she had ever been there before. “I had actually been there before for a couple of days when I was living in Texas a few years ago. I did a big drive up to Nashville with some friends and then we went back to New Orleans and this time I went back to Austin as well. It is a fun, kinda weird, scary, southern drive and we actually ran out of petrol on the side of the road. It’s an interesting city and quite pretty and doesn’t feel that big even though it is quite large. It’s circled by those big highways like those American cities are surrounded by on and off exits. It feels relatively small in terms of the scene there because I guess America is quite segregated, and I don’t mean racially I mean more stylistically, like if you are certain kind of person you go to certain places, the same kind of bars and the same cafes. So we kept running into the same type of people there and feeling like we were part of this cool little community which was nice.”

I also asked Holly if she tried a different approach to songwriting on this album compared to he previous two albums. “Nope. I never really approach song writing differently, I certainly approach the recording and arrangements differently but the song writing always seems to come from the same spot for me. Actually in one way I did because the drummer in my band actually wrote a couple of the guitar parts and the introductory guitar riff to A Heart Divided which I ended up making a song out of. So that was kinda co-written, I got a little piece of music and added a chorus and the words and that was actually nice to do that and gave me an idea about the possibility of collaboration. I’ve always been a very solitary songwriter in the alone in the bedroom way, sitting on my own in the light of a candle, listening for people that aren’t there.”

With many of Holly’s songs sounding part beautiful song, part poem I asked her if she sometimes writes poems that don’t become songs. “I doubt if I write any poetry separate to music but I do certainly think a lot about words and I am very interested in words and how they go together and how they sound together. I am a big fan of poetry and I do read quite a lot of it but although I feel that I write quite quickly sometimes, it is something that is quite considered for me. I always write the music first but I do tend to find that with most of the songs I write they come out with words attached to the music for some reason. As soon as I start humming a melody I find that words and sometimes whole phrases come out and the song is always based around those initial words.”

Holly was also just announced as an ARIA nominee for 2008 in the Best Female Artist category. “It was actually a really big surprise this year. I was very pleasantly surprised. This year there were lots of big stars and stuff and I thought I was a little on the small scale. It was very nice to get nominated.”

A Loud Call is out now.

Bob Evans has returned from recording in Nashville filled with inspiration to hit the road for a national tour this November and December ahead of the April/May release of his third album ‘Goodnight, Bull Creek!’.

The Blind Faith Tour will showcase songs from the new album giving you an insight into what they to expect when ‘Goodnight, Bull Creek!’ comes out next year.

Joining Bob on stage to help perform the songs in intimate duo mode will be Malcolm Clark (ex The Sleepy Jackson). Lucky Melbourne and Perth fans at the Northcote gig and the Kings Park gig will also get to hear the dynamic new band play the first of many gigs to come.

Bob says, “Blind faith - I know it well. It’s driven me to recording a new album that does not attempt to recreate the songs of my past and it will be the magic potion I drink as I present these new songs to live audiences for the first time in a format that I’ve never toured before. How many instruments can two men play at the same time? Will members of the audience, upon being given instruments of percussion, be able to play in time with the music? Will any celebrity musician friends agree to join us onstage? These are just some of the questions we will be seeking answers to as we wind our way around the country throughout November on the “Blind Faith Tour” of 2008.”

For tickets visit www.bobevans.com.au
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