PBS 106.7 FM • Member Magazine DECEMBER 2014 EMPAT LIMA IN INDONESIA 25 YEARS OF GLOBAL VILLAGE LISTEN PROJECT SIX DECADES OF JAZZ CC DISCO RECORD PEEKING ROR AUSTRALIA’S MOST UNIQUE MUSIC EXPERIENCE Gift Vouchers Available! BOOK NOW THROUGH ticketek.com.au / 132 849 WWW.THEBLUESTRAIN.COM.AU A Note from the General Manager This year is a year of milestones with PBS Tape), Grace Kindellan (Bangin’ Radio) and commencing full-time broadcasting on 21 Izabel Caligiore (Lullabies for Insomniacs). It’s December 1979 – that’s thirty-five years ago. not all sad news, though, as we welcome to the PBS VESPA HANDOVER - CAM, STANI AND VESPA WINNER FRANCA Wow! 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To find out more, please email [email protected] Con Kalamaras, Costa Gromov, Fully Sick Film Bequest enquiries: Adrian Basso Clips, Michael Ward, Jon Osborne. [email protected] WWW.THEBLUESTRAIN.COM.AU Magazine proofed by Joel Cotterell. EASEY content may contain coarse language. Opinions expressed in EASEY are not necessarily those of the publishers or PBS. No material 3 may be reprinted in part or whole without written authorisation. PBS will not be liable for incorrect use of the information published. Photo by Robby Wahyudi Onggo How to make a tour in Indonesia By Empat Lima As we found out, there’s no really great way of planning a neat little tour itinerary of Indonesia. Why? Mainly because Indonesia flies by the seat of its pants, and has the resourcefulness and initiative to make things happen out of thin air and within no time at all. No one can tell you whether they can book in a particular date in three months’ time (except in Jakarta, where people are more stressed out and organised), because who the hell knows what is going to happen in the next hour, let alone that far down the track? 4 That said, through various random avenues (friends who knew someone, mainly) Empat Lima managed to piece together a bunch of dates for a two-week tour across the island of Java. Six cities, four train rides and two flights. Pretty stoked. We chose to do an Indonesian tour not only because it’s damn cheap, but because of the band’s connection to our Indonesian girl-band heroes from the sixties, Dara Puspita. These girls were not only pioneers for females during an oppressive era in Indonesian history but were also the first Indonesian group ever to tour Europe and experience global recognition (Empat Lima means 4-5; our band is named after a Dara Puspita song about the 1945 battle of independence). women were involved with groups - weekly drawing “One young scruffy-looking punk The first gig we played in Jakarta was the groups, online girl punk groups, crafters’ groups. wildest. We hooked up with the contemporary pipes up, ‘The wind carries love, They were really keen to get involved with WANITA arts collective, Ruangrupa, who engineer a range and collaborate with some Australian artists, so of diverse and experimental projects, mostly off because... the wind is love’”. they all joined up during the course of the day. their own back. They put us on the bill at The Jaya Pub, the oldest pub in Jakarta, which was like The Jakartan workshop culminated in works based walking into an Indo version of The Old Bar. on Dara Puspita, which will be collated into the first WANITA zine. At the end of the day the space Indonesians are obsessed with social media, at Ruangrupa morphed into a ladies’ night market so despite our trepidation the place was packed and everyone sold their wares and danced the and literally honking thanks to the squeeze horns sweaty night away. hanging from the ceiling, presumably so you could vocalise your enthusiasm like a goose. The crowd From the megalopolis of Jakarta to the butt end was pumped with anticipation and when we played of nowhere. Next we travelled to a place called Dara Puspita covers (singing in Indonesian) they Jatiwangi. We’d heard so many good things about were cheering so loud the roof came off.