WarpWarp ISSUE 1 FEBRUARY 2011 GarEth liddiard a NoT-so sTraNge TourisT Cut Copy There’s No Place like home Enola Fall Mona FoMa wrap up Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Darwin, Auckland. !!! OPPORTUNITY !!! Bands/Acts Local & Touring to play @ SCoRCHeR Apply online www.scorcherfest.com.au st Fri 1 APRIL PUT THIS in Ya Diary! 15 Bands, 2 Stages PLUS screening of “The SCoRCHeR FeST Story”1 MaSSiVe PaRTY Brisbane Hotel LIVE MUSIC 7 days a week Josh Durno + Joel Stiddard Tue, February 15 Chocolate Bedrock Wed, February 16 Dean Stevenson Thu, February 17 Australian Made Fri, February 18 Pink Day Out Sat, February 19 Cake Walking Babies Sun, February 20 G B Balding Mon, February 21 LaVista Showcase Tue, February 22 Loren Wed, February 23 Old Man River & Passenger Thu, February 24 Sugartrain Fri, February 25 Melbourne Rock Showcase Sat, February 26 Gipsy.cz (Gypsy Hip Hop, Czech Republic) Sun, February 27 Quiz Night Mon, February 28 Peter Hicks & The Blues Licks Tue, March 1 Dunn D Fri, March 4 Donavon Frankenreiter (USA) Sat, March 5 Bo Jenkins Sun, March 6 Ozi Batla Fri, March 11 Holly Throsby Fri, March 18 The Holidays Fri, April 8 AWARD WINNING FOOD 299 ELIZABETH ST NORTH HOBART 6234 6954 WWW.REPUBLICBAR.COM WarpWarp For all information on gigs CONTACT US NOW visit us on Facebook [email protected] [email protected] / club [email protected] / art The Brisbane Hotel Patrons Society [email protected] / music [email protected] / advertising [email protected] / gig guide [email protected] / news www.warpmagazine.com.au NEWS | 6 NEWS | 7 NEWS CoNtENtS WARP MAgAzInE lAUnchES thIS FEbRUARy ARchItEctURE In hElSInkI SIgn WIth ModUlAR bREAk EVEn hEAd to hobARt FoR 2 ShoWS thIS MARch Launching in February 2011, Warp Magazine will feature Pop mavericks Architecture In Helsinki have returned the best music, arts, club and youth culture that the state with Moment Bends. Perth party punks Break Even are performing two shows has on offer. Whether it be local, national or international in Hobart this March. Since releasing their breakthrough features. Recorded over 2 years the band’s studio space, debut album in mid 2009, Break Even have catapulted Issue 1 songwriter Cameron Bird says “Moment Bends was all into the forefront of the Australian heavy music 08 With regular columnists and a host of editors and writers about being at one with our ideas, obsessed with popular community with their melodic brand of punk/hardcore. on hand, Warp will endeavour to cover what we find music and falling in love with our hometown. We wanted This is the first time the band has been to Tasmania since 10 interesting. to build a record to get lost in.‚Äù the album’s release, so these are two shows not to be missed. Catch Break Even at Brisbane Hotel on Friday GARETH LIDDIARD 08 All our contacts can be viewed to your left, so few free to Moment Bends marks the first Architecture In Helsinki the 11th of March (18+) and an All ages show at the same make contact and pass on your opinions and ideas. release on Modular Recordings. venue the next day, Saturday the 12th. CUT Copy 10 MY Black Son 11 Modular will release Moment Bends on April 8 for Australia. ENOLA FALL 12 AMPlIFIEd ShoWcASIng gRAnt PRogRAM MAtt SonIc And thE hIgh tIMES REtURn to noW oPEn. lAUncESton. LOREN 13 12 19 OZI Batla 14 Amplified is an annual State Government initiative to nEW clUb PlAn b to oPEn thIS Month Matt sonic and the hightimes are returning to promote Tasmanian contemporary music, delivered by Launceston for one Tassie only show for the release of OLD MAN RIVER V Passenger 15 Arts Tasmania‚Äôs industry development arm, arts@ Located above Syrup Nightclub, PLAN B is completely their new single “Break Free your mind”. They will be work. removed from the regular Syrup nightclub. This new club playing at the Royal Oak Hotel on the 25th of Febuary LIOR 16 night on the Salamanca strip is a no compromise affair with rockin local supports Guthrie and The Little Cubas. Illy 18 Showcasing grants are available for activities and events for serious underground dance music enthusiasts. Matt Sonic and the Hightimes are fresh from their that best promote and showcase the work of Tasmanian apperance at the Big Day Out just to name one of many 13 THE GIBSON LES PAUL Story 19 musicians during the week of Amplified, which will be With the 10,000 watt soundsystem pumping only the recent festival apperances. Warp magazine held from 15-21 August 2011. crispest underground sounds, and our intelligent lighting THE Waifs 20 system, PLAN B will give your Aural and Visual senses Plutonic LAB 21 ------------------------------------------------------------ Grants of up to $3 000 are available with applications the highest of highs. 23 EdITOR closing on 18 February 2011. Application tool kits are Tamar VAllEy bEER FESt DANIEL LEE Kendall 22 [email protected] available from www.arts.tas.gov.au/amplified. Resident DJs Adam Turner, Billy Green, Corney, Gillie, 14 ------------------------------------------------------------ ART VS SCIENCE 23 LOCAl MUSIc Grant Peters, Kir and Lids create music from dirty Organised alongside the oldest running Australian Stuart Warren Electro to brutal Dubstep, upfront House and the brewery, J Boag and Son, it includes local, national and YOU’RE AN ARSEHOLE 24 [email protected] slammin’est Drum n Bass. Plan B will provide your international Beer and Cider Tastings and sales. ------------------------------------------------------------ dInoSAUR JR’S J MAScIS to RElEASE Solo AlbUM weekly dose of illicit sounds. Club / Electronic 25 clUb / ElECTRonIc thIS MARch Friday, 25 March - Williams Street near Boags. Ainsley White 16 ARTS 29 [email protected] The creator of some of this era‚Äôs signature songs, ANDREW ON ART 30 ------------------------------------------------------------ frontman Dinosaur Jr, J Mascis, will release his latest Gareth lIddIARd Solo ShoW In hobARt thIS ARt Alison McCrindle solo studio record this March. ‚ÄúSeveral Shades of MARch donavon FRAnkEnREItER AnnoUncES ALBUM REVIEWS 31 Why‚Äù, an album of incredible beauty, will be released hobARt ShoW [email protected] LIVE REVIEWS 35 ------------------------------------------------------------ on Seattle label Subpop, through Inertia. Gareth Liddiard will be on tour nationally through dESIgn March and April 2011 taking his solo show to Hobart The mustafa wearing troubadour heads back to the MONA FOMA WRAP UP 36 Miu Heath ‚ÄúSeveral Shades Of Why‚Äù is nearly all acoustic and and Canberra for the first time, and revisiting the cities Republic Bar on Sat, March 5. Donavon returns in 36 [email protected] was created with the help of Kurt Vile, Sophie Trudeau, he played on his last tour. Guest support Dan Kelly will support of his fourth full length release ‘Glow’. GIG GUIDE 38 ------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt Fedora, Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), Ben perform from ‘Dan Kelly’s Dream’. AdVERtISIng Bridwell (Band of Horses), Paulo Zappoli (Black Heart [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------ Procession), Matt Valentine (The Golden Road), and These two singer-songwriters, raw and stripped back, gIg gUIdE Suzanne Thorpe (Wounded Knees). will perform for one night in your town/ city (two if you Submit your events to [email protected] live in Melbourne). ------------------------------------------------------------ J Mascis’ “Several Shades Of Why” is out Friday, 4 March nEWS through Inertia. Submit your press releases plus publicity images through to the appropriate editor for consideration. thE gRAtES loSE dRUMMER, ------------------------------------------------------------ AnnoUncE AlbUM dEtAIlS www.warpmagazine.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------ ozI bAtlA hEAdS to Tas thIS MARch The Grates have been based in Brooklyn for the last year- Saturday the 12th of February Elefant Trak’s stalwart and prolific recording artist Ozi writing and recording their forthcoming album. ’The Bro-lesque Cabaret’ Batla had a massive 2010, with the release of his Wild A night of cabaret, drag and comedy from the ’fellas’ (but don’t look too closely). Colonial LP landing nominations for AIR and SMAC (FBi With drummer Alana Skyring pursuing culinary arts, 8pm / $8 ALL SUBMISSIONS REMAIN THE PROPERTY OF Radio) Awards, and the Sydney Morning Herald listing The Grates have become a two-piece band, recruiting WARP MAGAZINE. ALL CONTENT IS COPYRIGHT TO him in their Best Hip Hop of 2010. The year 2011 will talented renegades along the way for recording and live Sunday the 13th of February WARP MAGAZINE AND CANNOT BE REPRODUCED IN see Ozi get a little more intimate with audiences as he performances. ’Freshly Breaked Beats Fiesta’ WHOLE OR PART WITHOUT WRITTEN AUTHORISATION OF THE PUBLISHERS. WARP MAGAZINE makes no embarks on the “An Evening with Ozi Batla” tour. On guarantees, warranties or representations of any Friday, March 11th at The Republic Bar, Hobart will have Patience and John Patterson spent some time Saturday the 5th of March kind, whether express or implied, as to the accuracy, its only chance to get up close and personal with a solo experimenting with new sounds and lyrical depths but Monthly ’Future Shorts screenings reliability, or completeness of the information provided. Ozi Batla in 2011 as he farewells his latest project. there were gaps in drums and bass. http://www.futureshorts.com WARP MAGAZINE will not be liable for incorrect use 8pm / $5 of the information and will assume no responsibility The Grates then recruited Brooklyn drummer Ben for consequences that may result from the use of the Marshall. They hit upon the right mix with bassist and information. WARP MAGAZINE is not responsible of any producer Gus van Go, also bringing in Werner F to help kind arising out of use, reference to, or reliance on such information. with production duties.