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A TRIBUTE TO ELVIS IN CONCERTTony Franks, Melbourne musician and producer, has brilliantly recreated the performance of one of the worlds greatest entertainers of the 20th Century in this full scale theatrical event of 2013. Rapid City 1977 was one of Elvis last public appearances before his evident decline in health and of course disappearing from the spotlight of his adoring fans. The productions driving force is reliving the magic that this incredible man brought to millions of people worldwide during his lifetime and in particular on this very occasion in South Dakota. Backed by an incredible 16 piece orchestra, ten backup singers and ensemble, and of course Elvis very own dynamic eight piece band. This production will entirely re-create that night in Rapid City down to the finest detail and of course all of his remarkable music. You will experience an absolutely unforgettable evening of Elvis. A not to be missed event of 2013 A Tribute to Elvis in Concert at Dallas Brooks Hall will be an absolute sell-out success as soon as tickets are on sale. It hits Dallas Brooks Hall on Friday August 23 for eight shows only. Visit facebook.com/bluestonepresentselvis more for information.

MACHINE GUN KELLYOhios own Machine Gun Kelly will be bringing his hip hop skills to Australian shores this September. MGK was awarded the honour of MTVs Hottest Breakthrough MC in 2011. Just 23 years of age, he already has an enviable back catalogue after releasing his first mixtape Stamp of Approval at 16. Since then he has released a further seven mixtapes, an EP and his debut studio albumLace Up was released through Diddys Bad Boy label last year. Hell be hitting the stage at The Hi-Fi on Thursday September 5.

MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Dont have the cash to make it to Meredith this year? Never fear - you can apply to be a volunteer and in exchange receive a free ticket. Volunteers are an integral part of the Meredith Music Festival, so in exchange for eight hours of work you can receive a ticket to the festival. So far disco don Nile Rodgers alongside Chic and Melvins have been revealed to be playing at the 2013 incarnation. Head to the Meredith websitefor more information and to apply to be a 2013 volunteer.

THE HOLIDAYS The Holidays are taking an east coast vacation this September in celebration of their new single Voices Drifting. Since its release last week, the song has already won fans around the globe with over 35,000 plays on Soundcloud. The group has been painstakingly working on their latest album in apartments, studios and hotel rooms across the world and it is set for release next year. Their debut LP Post Paradise won them many accolades including the coveted Red Bull Award for Best Debut as part of the 2011s Australian Music Prize and The Ages annual EG Award for Best Album in 2010. Catch The Holidays at the Northcote Social Club on Thursday October 3.

FAT FREDDYS DROP Fat Freddys Drop are returning to Australia with their latest album Blackbird in tow and have added another Melbourne show. Blackbird is a fusion of Ethio-jazz, Detroit techno, blues and soul, with the lead single Clean The House currently receiving critical acclaim around the globe. Fat Freddys Drop will play The Forum on Saturday August 31, Sunday September 1 and Sunday September 8 (new show).

BIG DAY OUT The Big Day Out has revealed the lineup for its 2014 incarnation. The bill has an exceptional amount of hype to live up to, with promoters stating that the 2014 event would havethe Big Day Out line-up to end all Big DayOut line-ups and the claims from Ken West thatI was hoping for one White Whale, managed to get two and ended up with three. Beat can officially confirm that the 2014 Big Day Out will be headlined by the almighty Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder and Co. were booked to headline the Big Day Out in 2001, but cancelled from the tragic death of nine fans from a crowd surge that happened during their set at the Roskilde Festival. They were last on our shores in 2009 which saw them play to sold out stadiums withBen Harper and Liam Finn. Next on the bill is Blur in what will be their first visit to Australia since 1997, alongside the Arcade Fire, who last toured Australia on the 2008 Big Day Out tour withBjrk and Rage Against The Machine. Who else is jumping on board the festival juggernaut for the ride?Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion will be lighting up stages nationwide, while headlining the Boiler Room will beMajor Lazer, Steve Angello and Flume. The first announcement is rounded out byThe Lumineers, Tame Impala, Dillon Francis, Mac Miller, Ghost, Grouplove, Flosstradamus, Portugal. The Man, Toro Y Moi, Diiv, The Naked And Famous, Big Gigantic, Pez, Mudhoney, Cosmic Psychos, Northlane, The 1975, Loon Lake, Kingswood, Bo Ningen, The Algorithm, DZ Deathrays, Peking Duk, Ben Morris and RFS. The 2014 Melbourne Big Day out will take place on Friday January 24 at the Flemington Racecourse. For ticketing and more information visit bigdayout.com

TULLY ON TULLYMelbourne band Tully on Tully will be hitting the road to celebrate the release of their debut EP Weightless. The group are renowned for their impressive live performances and have played support slots for the likes of Whitley, The Temper Trap, Neon Trees and Nada Surf. The lead single Stay from the new EP is currently 22nd most played track on triple j Unearthed. Catch the up and coming Tully and Tully at the Toff in Town on Saturday September 7.

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THE PHOEBE FESTIVAL The Phoebe Foundation Inc. has just announced that tickets are now available for its first annual fundraising event, The Phoebe Festival. The Phoebe Festival is a weekend of great live music and fundraising on Friday October 4 and Saturday October 5 at Kilmore Trackside and will feature well known acts including Tim Rogers, Cola Wars and Calling All Cars. All proceeds from The Phoebe Festival will go to establish a new music and expanded play therapy program for children undergoing treatment for serious heart related illnesses at The Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne. Head to thephoebefoundation.com.au for more information.

LEONARD COHEN The legendary Leonard Cohen will return to Australia this November. Cohen - along with his incredible nine-piece band featuring the likes of Sharon Robinson, the infamous Webb Sisters and musical director Roscoe Beck - will be embarking on a gigantic national tour that includes stop overs in both major cities and regional areas. Cohen will hit Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday November 20 and play at A Day On The Green on Saturday December 7 atthe Hill Winery, Geelong.

QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL If you thought the first Queencliff Music Festivallineup was great, their second announcement will delight you. This year, Wild Things indie-pop prodigies San Cisco will make their debut at the festival. Joining them will be Pez, Melody Pool, The Murlocs, Siskin River, Fraser A Gorman & Big Harvest, Baby et Lulu, The Ray Mann Three, Genevieve Chadwick, Jack Carty, Microwave Jenny, Lachy Doley, Sweethearts, Dallas Frasca, Hussy Hicks, Twin Beats (formerly The Toot Toot Toots), Imogen Brough, Murdena, The Kite Machine, Tom Thum and The Tiny Giants.These artists will be joining headliners The Living End, The Grates, John Butler Trio and Spiderbait.Queenscliff Music Festival will hit Queenscliff from Friday November 22 SundayNovember24.

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LIGHTNING BOLT Lightning Bolt have become infamous for Brian Chippendales explosive and intense drumming combined with Brian Gibsons earth crushing and complex bass techniques, which propels them in a fury of volatile noise and orgiastic tribalism. Emerging from Providence, Rhode Island in 95 as an art project, Lightning Bolt soon became known for destroying the conventional idea of live performances; with their guerrilla style shows typically playing in the middle of their crowd. Lightning Bolt will hit the Corner Hotel on Wednesday October 30.

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RFS S ydney indie-dance outfit RFS have announced a national tour as they get ready for the release of their debut album, ATLAS, this month. Following their own DIY tradition, the record was written, produced and recorded by the band between two self-built studios. One in a remote farmhouse on the NSW South Coast and the second in a hollowed out water tank under one of their parents houses. Catch a piece of the action at the Corner Hotel on Friday September 27.

UK SUBSOne of the most successful punk bands of all the time, the UK Subs, have announced they will be making their final trip Down Under this September. Led by front man Charlie Harper, the band has been playing punk since the scene was born in Britain in the early 70s. This year they released their 24th albumXXIV, continuing their quest to be the first band ever to release all its official albums alphabetically from A to Z. Dont miss your final chance to see the punk icons when they play at The Bendigo on Thursday September 26.

SIETTA Sietta have returned with a bold new single Let It Go and will be playing a series of tour dates to celebrate. Out through Elefant Traks, the new song promises to be their most stunning to date. It weaves James Mangohigs ethereal harps and tribal percussion, with the Caiti Bakers unique vocals. It will be available via iTunes on Friday August 16. Catch Sietta at The Workers Club on Saturday September 7.

100 BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIMEThe 100 Best Albums of All Time names the best albums of the last 50 years from across the globe. Buy a copy of Toby Creswell and Craig Mathiesons highly debatable argument for The 100 Best Albums of All Time from any Readings shop or online at readings.com.au and go in the draw to win all 100 albums on CD (valued at $2000). In store customers will need to complete an entry form and attach a receipt as proof of purchase, and all online customers will be automatically entered into the draw. Competition closes Saturday August 31.

ARTIST PROOF Melbourne operatic rockers Artist Proof are hitting the road, supporting the sensational Bill Parton Trio on their national tour. In the lead up to their tour, Artist Proof are welcoming film makers and animators to create a film for their latest single, Change on The Wind, with $1500 in cash prizes up for grabs for finalists. The winning clip will be voted by the audience and will become the official clip for the new single. Check out their recently launched website artistsforartistsproof.net showcasing the recent and upcoming artistic collaborations.

WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE Melbournes Minister for Tourism and Major Events, Louise Asher, has announced that White Night Melbourne will return in 2014 and has picked a date. From dusk to dawn on Saturday February 22, White Night Melbourne will again see major cultural institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, State Library of Victoria, Arts Centre Melbourne and Melbourne Museum open their doors all night with a range of innovative programs and activities. More than 300,000 people attended this years event which was awarded a Helpmann for Best Special Event of 2013. Artists, performers and organisations can register an interest in participating in White Night Melbourne from mid-August. Keep an eye on the website for more details.

T.I AND AKON T.I. and Akon will be hitting the same stage in a huge night of music at Planetrocs inaugural Episode One event this October. Its the first time that T.I. will grace Australian fans with his presence. T.I. aka T.I.P. aka The Rubberband Man established himself as one of raps most successful MCs in the early 2000s. He has released eight studio albums which have included collaborations with big names like Kanye West, Jay Z, Lil Wayne and Justin Timberlake. Joining T.I. will be five time grammy nominated recording artist and producer Akon. Aside from releasing chart dominating singles like Smack That and I Wanna Love You, Akon has made over 300 guest appearances with music icons like Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani, Lil Wayne, R.Kelly and Eminem and has sold over 12 million albums worldwide. T.I. and Akon will be joined by up and coming rapper French Montana when they play at Festival Hall on Thursday October 10. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster.

MATT CORBY Matt Corby will celebrate the release of his new EP The Resolution by spending October playing shows in cities across the country. The title track from the EP was released worldwide as a single in July and has already been certified platinum, with sales in excess of 100,000 copies. It has reached the top ten on iTunes charts in the UK, Sweden and New Zealand and reached #2 in Australia. The EP was recorded with producers Charlie Andrew (Alt-J) and Mocky (Feist, Peaches) as well as Corbys live band. It also features new tracks Lay You Down and The Evangelist and is out now. Catch Corby with special guests Bears Den at Festival Hall on Friday October 18. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Thursday August 8.


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Earlier this year, Amanda Palmer delivered the performance that her entire career had been building towards. No, it wasn't her attack on The Daily Mail (but we'll get to that), and it certainly wasn't her poem for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (but we'll get to that, too) it was her TED talk.

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Palmer's presentation for the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference spanned her life's work, from her time spent busking as a living statue and sleeping on fans couches to her game-changing, record-breaking Kickstarter project for her acclaimed Theatre Is Evil LP. Between TED.com and YouTube, the erstwhile Dresden Dolls February speech, The Art Of Asking, has already attracted over four million views, and served as a watershed moment in the crowd sourcing debate.The big thing that inspired the TED talk, Palmer says, was a need to really deeply explain myself after feeling that I'd been heavily misunderstood when I came under fire for crowd sourcing things. In my community, that's such a natural way of doing stuff, and I was so caught off guard when I was criticised for it.I really felt like I was standing up, not just for me, but for all the artists I know who do a lot of crowd sourcing and exchange a lot, creatively, with their fans and their friends. The culture is shifting, especially in America right now, and a lot of artists are coming under fire for how they do things. I felt like it was an important talk to give, to remind people that it really is the artist's prerogative how they want to interact and exchange with their fans and their friends.Followers of Palmer (and keen observers of internet shitstorms) will be aware that when she talks about coming under fire, she's mostly referring to the criticism she received when she attempted to crowd source professional-ish horns and strings musicians to play with her Grand Theft Orchestra last year in return for beers, high fives and free merch. Palmer had raised $1.2 million from 24,883 backers for her Theatre Is Evil LP, but claimed she could not afford the $35,000 to pay these additional musicians.Legendary producer Steve Albini called Palmer an idiot for making the request (he later apologised for using that word, but stood by his sentiment that it was just plain rude for Palmer to ask fans to play in her backing band for free). American Federation of Musicians president Raymond M Hair Jr joined in the chorus: If theres a need for the musician to be on the stage, he said, then there ought to be compensation for it.Palmer eventually caved to public pressure and agreed to pay the volunteers; I ask her why she relented and if she regrets not standing her ground. It was the easiest way to get back to work, she counters. That's the easiest answer. It wasn't like I reversed my principles. My principles stayed steady.

But with so many people screaming, and with a job to do this was literally happening during the first few weeks of our tour, while we were driving from show to show and working with these musicians every night I didn't really feel like it was the correct time for a political battle. It was time to play music for people.What I really did need to do was just shut everybody up and change the agenda back to the tour and away from being at the centre of yet another internet shitstorm. That was the most expedient way of doing it. But it did really suck, because it made the entire tour incredibly awkward with all of these musicians who had just happily volunteered to come up on stage with us and all of a sudden felt like they were under some sort of cultural fire. I felt badly for them that they got stuck in the middle of this stupid situation. In Palmers defence, it hardly seems unfair to ask fans to volunteer their services in a time when music streaming services like Spotify have legitimised their ability to enjoy her work without compensating her fairly. Add outright piracy to the mix, and its never been easier for fans to take without giving.

Well, yeah, Palmer agrees, and this is the grand irony of it all. You can look at it as theft; you can look at it critically. The world is the way it is, and things are constantly changing, and we can look at things negatively and pessimistically or we can look at them optimistically and say, okay, digital music is here to stay. How are we going to take care of each other in a culture like this, without yelling at each other and without punishing each other? And that goes both ways, for the artist and for the audience. I don't like it when artists punish the audience, either! I don't like seeing anyone greedily demanding that the system be some way that it organically does not want to be.I have absolutely no desire to go hunting down and punishing someone who's torrented my music. I think [torrenting is] a totally obvious, natural thing to do, especially if you're just 13, you're on your computer and you're interested in my music. I think we're at a

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really volatile cultural point right now and I think the most important thing is to have a discussion about what our relationship to each other is. How we think about each other, how we treat each other, and how we want to take care of each other, instead of just trying to take advantage of each other and drain each other's energy. Because hopefully, at the end of the day, it isn't about money. Hopefully, at the end of the day, it's about art and helping each other survive, whether it's with money or with the kind of music that makes us want to survive and get out of bed in the morning. If that's the agenda we can talk about, we're talking about the right stuff. If artists and fans are screaming at each other about Spotify and digital downloads, I think we're screaming about the wrong things. The crowd sourcing debate wasn't the only controversy Palmer found herself embroiled in over the past 12 months. She also wrote 'A Poem For Dzhokhar', a stream-of-consciousness work that appeared to take a sympathetic view of alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.My views about this are probably continually controversial, she shrugs, but I think human beings should feel empathy towards everybody. When I say 'everybody', I mean absolutely everybody. It doesn't work if it's selective. That means young, old, violent, non-violent, black, white, you name it. If we're selectively empathetic, we're just not doing it right. That being said, it's a lot easier to feel empathy for a five-year-old than it is for a 37-year-old suicide bomber, but that doesn't mean it's not possible.Most recently, Palmer attracted more positive press for her skewering of The Daily Mail. The British tabloid wrote a bizarre review of Palmer's Glastonbury performance that made no mention of her music, focussing instead on a minor wardrobe malfunction; in response, Palmer threw off her kimono at her next show and performed a new song, 'Dear Daily Mail', entirely nude.When I saw that Daily Mail article, she remembers, my first reaction was to laugh. I really thought it was so fucking funny that The Daily Mail thought I would be embarrassed that someone could see a quarter centimetre of my nipple. Someone at The Daily Mail obviously didn't Google my name. I just thought that was so funny, but also so telling about how culture is built, because they're functioning on a planet where a female artist is fundamentally supposed to be embarrassed by something like that.As a female performance artist, nudity is definitely a powerful tool... especially if you use it with humour. That can be a really powerful statement because often, female performance art and nudity gets stuck in a box of ultra serious, highly academic feminist bullshit. Sometimes it's just really funny to rip your clothes off and do something hilarious.

AMANDA PALMER AND THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA play the Forum Theatre on Friday September 20.

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World-renowned master of marionettes, Ronnie Burkett, returns to The Melbourne this August with Penny Plain. Inspired by the oral tradition of storytelling, Penny Plain follows the tale of an octogenarian woman who is blind. Though she never leaves her lodgings, many people stay there and Penny quickly learns about the imminent apocalypse through travellers stories that use her lodge house. Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes is one of Canadas most prestigious puppet theatre companies. Found in 1986, the theatre has established a reputation for their elaboration and provocative puppetry that has entertained adults for years. Penny Plain will be performed at the Arts Centre from Thursday August 8 Sunday August 18.

Off the Kerb Gallery, in conjunction with the City of Yarra, will host a special exhibition that delves into the complexities of psychology and society. Entitled I : I : I : I, the exhibition will feature the works of four visual artists/photographers, including German photographer Oliver Parzer, Melbourne visual artist Nikki Lam, Tristan Davies and Kimberley Liddle, who is known for her unique plaster compositions that incorporate photography and sculpture. I : I : I : I will use these four artists skills to illustrate the translucent nature of identity, self-interpretation and how this aff ects a humans ability to change and experience life. I : I : I : I will be on exhibition at Off the Kerb Gallery from Friday August 9 Friday August 23. Admission is free.

Playwright Lally Katz thought she might be cursed. She visited a series of psychics and mediums in New York and various other places to fi nd out for sure and, naturally, wrote a play about it. Was there a curse? There were many and none, Katz says, laughing. Its more of a personal mythology. Its all the show.

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Considered the largest exhibition of acclaimed Polish artist Monika Sosnowska in the Southern Hemisphere, Regional Modernities will open at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art this August. Sosnowka is a contemporary artist who is known for creating large-scale works that surprise, perplex and connect. Hosted across all four ACCA galleries, Regional Modernities will off er an architectural perspective into how our reality inhibits us, from her famous narrow institutional corridors which can vaguely resemble distance, and her twisting urban structures that morph into bunkers and an architectural landscape of Warsaw. Regional Modernities will open on Saturday August 10 and close on Sunday September 29. Admission is free.

Stories I Want To Tell You in Person, two years in the making, is essentially an account of how love and creativity might be at odds with each other, at war in Katzs psychology. Its like Id made a deal with myself that I had to put writing before love, she says. Every time I would try to have love, one or the other would get messed up. I thought if I had love, my writing would suff er; if I found love, it would swallow up my heart. Added to that, Katz says her subconscious led her into some strange relationships. The fi rst time I went to a psychic she told me everything I wanted could be mine, as long as she got rid of a curse. For a fee, of course. Circumstances were against her and Katz didnt actually get the curse removed that night; later she found herself wondering about it. When a relationship ended I wondered, if Id paid, would that have happened? I found myself heading back to the psychic.

In Stories I Want to Tell You in Person Katz takes to the stage herself to perform the one-woman show, which has had a happy run at Sydneys Belvoir Theatre: reviews have highlighted how funny she is. Im thrilled, Katz says. I didnt know what I would be like. Learning how to breathe and talk at the same time. I worry about losing my voice; Ive got quite a loud voice but I lose it easily. Performance takes a lot of energy. Stories I Want to Tell You in Person includes the sorts of things she would normally only tell groups of friends: is it diffi cult to reveal herself in public to such a degree? Katz reckons shes inclined to self-disclosure at the best of times. I tell people everything, she admits. I always want peoples advice. I give them a big confessional story. Im missing a fi lter. I had a burning desire to do it; Ive wanted to do this for a few years. I had to think about what was going to make this interesting for other people.

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Katz fi nds that the more specifi c she gets with details in her stories, the more people relate to them. Can you have work and love? she muses. Its something a lot of women worry about. Men seem to have other stuff they worry about. Katz visited a range of psychics and mediums in her search for answers, including a ten day trip to Mississippi where she visited a spiritualist church. I grew up without any religion but if I go into a church I feel spirit. As a writer, she says, shes always in search of characters, always half-in, half-out of life.

I met a taxi driver in Mississippi who believes in Atlantis. She wanted to move her family to be by the sea, so that when Atlanta rises theyd be the fi rst to be taken by the sea! But does Katz actually believe in any of the things the psychics told her? I believe in magic, she says. I am superstitious. I was brought up in a secular household, I dont believe in God but Ive always found religion interesting. Im not an atheist. I replace it in other ways, with rituals, with ways of being and understanding. As a child Id make deals with the universe. It comes from having quite an active imagination. Katz is Jewish on her fathers side and wonders if her fascination in the spiritual side of life might be in her DNA. Does she have any writing rituals? Im a terrible procrastinator; I pretty much have to clean the whole house before I start to write. I have all sorts of practical rituals which help me get into the zone, like listening to one song over and over. Katz says she wouldnt want to cross any of the psychics she went to see. Shes since had any number of curses lifted and psychic top-ups but curiously, the plays run was delayed in Sydney when Katz fell seriously ill on opening night. Thats too big a coincidence to be a coincidence! But whatever the experience, theres inevitably something of creative value in it for a writer. Life just always throws you crazy curve balls.

PROMPTERSomething has been broken in the world of PROMPTER by instantaneous news reporting. Journalists and their audience are caught in a game of guess-what-is-happening-while-it-streams-right-into-your-home. And as this real-time event unfolds the gaze of the audience feeds a storm of converging narratives. PROMPTER takes place in a surreal newsroom studio and explores how the boundaries of news practice

Stories I Want to Tell You in Person will play at the Malthouse Theatre from Friday August 9 until Sunday August 25.

is slipping away via new technology and driven by the rapacious appetites of media consumers. PROMPTER incorporates broadcast, theatre, dance and performance art; and interrogates the ethics and confl icts of todays media environment, journalism practice and digital culture. We have some double passes to giveaway.

FLOOREDThis August, dance artist and choreographer Victoria Chiu (Jezabel Velvet, Alignment) will adopt Dancehouse studio, Sylvia Staehli Theatre, as the performance venue for her latest dance composition, Floored. Hosted over four days,

Floored will be an explosion of artistic expression that explores the comfort and complacency of life. Split into three parts, the choreography will be timed to the electronic percussion and classical scores provided by composer Roland Cox (The Infi dels, The Ballad of Herbie Cox). Chius partner in dance and in real life; Amelia McQueen (Soft Landing) will be Chius dance partner for Floored. Floored will be performed at Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse and we have some double passes to giveaway.

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In 1991, a young Jeff Buckley rehearses for his public singing debut at a Brooklyn tribute show for his father, the late folk singer Tim Buckley. Struggling with the legacy of a man he barely knew, Jeff forms a friendship with an enigmatic young woman working at the show and begins to discover the powerful potential of his own musical voice. Greetings from Tim Buckley is fi lled with stirring musical performances and the memorable songs of a father and son who were each among the most beloved singer/songwriters of their respective generations. Its currently playing at Cinema Nova.

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LA SYLPHIDEThe Australian Ballet will recapture the magnifi cence of the Romantic period this month with two classic masterpieces, La Sylphide and Paquita. Translated to sylph (a slim, graceful woman or girl, or a class of imaginary beings whose element is air), La Sylphide details the story of a man who becomes enamoured by a sylph the night before his wedding. Deluded by desire, the man consults a deceitful witch who teaches him the downfall of obsession. Paquita is one of the many ballets created by French-Russian dancer, teacher and choreographer Marius Petipa (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker). Petipas work is known for its grandeur, capturing the ethereal aspect of ballet through pointe, meticulous footwork and spectacular leaps. La Sylphide and Paquita is a classical ballet bill that will be performed at the State Theatre from Thursday August 29 Saturday September 7.

DREAMWORKS ANIMATIONDreamWorks Animation will be coming to Melbourne next year with their exhibition, DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition. Hosted at ACMI, the exclusive exhibition will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the LA-based studio. It will present the development process including storyboards, exclusive behind-the-scenes interviews, concept artworks, illustrations and models made for the movies behind blockbuster feature-fi lms such as Shrek (2001), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Madagascar (2005) and earlier hand-drawn fi lms, such as The Prince of Egypt (1998) and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002). DreamWorks Animation is a must see for all animation and children movie enthusiasts, before the exhibition hits the road internationally.DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition premieres at ACMI on Thusday April 10 and close on Sunday October 26, 2014. More information will be announced soon.

STRAIGHTLast month, Red Stitch Actors Theatre opened their second season of 2013 with Foxfi nder, a dystopian play baring a remarkable similarity to Arthur Millers The Crucible. To succeed the harrowing Foxfi nder, Red Stitch will be opening comedy/drama Straight at the end of this month. Written by DC Moore and based on Humpday (2009), Straight illustrates the tale of Lewis and Morgan, a married couple trying to conceive despite a miniscule fl at and their conservative lifestyle. When Lewis best friend moves in, accompanied by an amateur porn star, harmony unravels and the couple are forced to re-evaluate their lives and morals. Straight will run at Red Stitch Theatre from Friday August 30 Saturday September 28.

THE GATSBY SPRING SOIREThis August, Malvern Town Hall will follow up the success of their Winter Soire with The Gatsby Spring Soire, a night dedicated to jazz music, fl apper dresses and clean-cut suits. Hosted by David Howell, The Gatsby Spring Soire will feature vintage cars, swing dancing, competitions, big band music and much, much more. New Orleans Pelican Brass Band will open the night with their snazzy professionalism that has earned them spots at major jazz festivals, and will be directed by revered jazz conductor Barry Wratten. Michael McQuiad will recapture the pop music of the period, while Andrew Nolte and His Orchestra will close the night with their contagious brand of jazz. The Gatsby Spring Soire will be held at the Malvern Town Hall on Saturday August 24 at 8pm. Tickets are available through Oztix.

MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL Melbourne Fringe Festival is the longest running arts and culture festival in Melbourne, therefore it is no surprise there is so much hype surrounding it. Particularly its program, which will be released tonight. This year will see the festival add digital media to its program, including a special presentation of works by animators, video artists and fi lmmakers in Fitzroy, and features its usual highlights of gallery exhibitions, theatre production and public arts performances. Another highlight of this year will be Fringe Furniture, the festivals much-loved event showcasing innovation and creativity within art, furniture and design. The full Melbourne Fringe program will be unveiled tonight at melbournefringe.com.au. The 2013 Melbourne Fringe Festival will run from Wednesday September 18 Sunday October 6.

MELBOURNE ART TRAMS Melbourne Festival have fi nally announced the eight artists whose artworks will be featured on eight Yarra Trams this year as part of Melbourne Art Trams, a program dedicated to transporting art throughout the city. The winning artists out of 117 entrants are Rose Nolan, surrealist David Wadelton, Luke Cornish, Bindi Cole, pop-painter Jon Campbell, Brooke Andrew, emerging artist Freya Pitt and collaboration project Joining Forces (Zashra Zainal, Brendan Ninness, Jeff rey Phillips, Gemma Flack, Rhiannon Thomas and Sebastian Berto). Melbourne Art Trams is a project, similar to the Transporting Art project from 1978 1993, run by Melbourne Festival in conjunction with Arts Victoria and Yarra Trams to exhibit Australian artists on a moving platform. The trams will be unveiled during Melbourne Festival, which will run from Friday October 11 Sunday October 27. More information can be found online.

HEY! YEAH! ITS MOLLYS TRAVELLING WORM SHOW!As part of their Helium season, the Malthouse Theatre will be presenting a new production called Hey! Yeah! Its Mollys Travelling Worm Show! Inspired by Melita Rowstons own experiences as working as a corporate high-fl yer, Mollys Travelling Worm Show! follows protagonist Molly, a woman who will show people the crappiest tourist destination in the world a giant worm puppet festival. In particular, Molly will fi nd Karmai, the worlds biggest worm. Mollys journey is surreal; featuring a talking tree, a wild, mangy ostrich and a country town that reveres worm puppetry. Hey! Yeah! Its Mollys Travelling Worm Show! will be performed at the Malthouse from Tuesday August 13 Saturday August 24.

THE COMIC STRIP

LOL COMEDYAt LOL Comedy tonight at the Portland Hotel they have comedy music duo in their fi rst Australian shows for the ages: Luke & Wyatt with Tegan Higginbotham. Next week at the Local in Port Melbourne on Tuesday August 13 its the outrageously talented Justin Hamilton as well as Dilruk Jayasinha and the deadly funny Kevin Kropinyeri. Tickets from lolcomedy.com.au

COMMEDIA DELL PARTE: COLLINGWOODRob Hunter makes his Commedia Dell Parte hosting debut on Thursday August 8 at Agent 284. With Michael Chamberlin headlining and also featuring Wizard Sandwiches, Geraldine Hickey, Andy Mathews, Xavier Toby and Nellie White its going to be a great show. Tickets at the door for just $10.

COMMEDIA DELL PARTE: ST KILDA Commedia Dell Parte is still running every Thursday in St Kilda. This week Liam Ryan hosts a great line up of comics including Jonathan Schuster, Steele Saunders, Sonia Di Iorio, Murphy McLachlan, Martin Dunlop and Ad Al Shakhly. The room runs on a pay as you like basis, so come along and have a great laugh, then pay what you believe the show is worth on the way out. Commedia Dell Parte runs every Thursday from 8.30pm at the George Lane Bar, St Kilda.

FIVE BOROUGHS COMEDYLehmo headlines this Thursday. One of the great blokes of comedy comes down to rock another full house at Five Boroughs Comedy. Plus theyve got Khaled Khalafalla, Jack Druce and heaps more. Its gonna be another big one this Thursday August 8 at 8.30pm for only $12 at Five Boroughs (upstairs), 68 Hardware Lane, CBD.

LIVE ON BOWENCome be part of the fun and excitement as they fi lm Australias best live comedy variety show Live On Bowen. Featuring comedians Michael Connell, Dilruk Jaysingha, Hayman Kent and Aaron McCarthy, the show is an hour of madcap entertainment that includes a lot of unscripted hilarity that you cant see on TV. As well as skits from the regular cast youll see performances from some of Melbournes best stand-up comedians and hottest musical acts. Tickets are free but you must book online at liveonbowen.com as seating is strictly limited. Book your tickets now and come along at 8pm this Friday August 9 to the RMITV studios at RMIT University. Youre guaranteed a great night of comedy, music, celebrities, free chocolates and you might even get your face on the telly.

COMEDY AT SPLEENThis Monday, its yet another cracking lineup down at your old mate Comedy at Spleen. Theyve got Oliver Clark, Matthew Klein, Gerard McCulloch, Karl Woodberry, Dave Warneke and heaps and heaps more. Its this Monday August 12, 41 Bourke St in the city, at 8.30pm. It may be free, but we appreciate a good gold coin donation at the door.

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9pm FreeFacty Fact Game Show After sellout shows at the Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne Comedy Festival, Facty Fact returns for a special MIFF edition. Join special MIFF guests and captains Geraldine Quinn and Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall. Hosted by Dave Warneke.

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1.30pm TicketedLet Them Eat Cake! A High Tea Afternoon with MIFF, featuring a string trio, glass of sparkling or tea and coffee and sumptuous finger food.

Spotify CompetitionFollow MIFF on Spotify and share your MIFF playlists with us. You could win prizes! Each night in the Festival Lounge well feature your playlists.

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TAVIS WORLDWriter, blogger, editor of Rookie Magazine, actress and spokesperson Tavi Gevinson, is setting the world on fire with her unique brand of feminism and personal style, and all at the age of 17. Discover teenagers finding their voice and gain an insight into Tavis world.

Brought to you by Wesley College. Presented by the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Sydney Opera House WHEN FRI 23 AUG, 6pm WHERE Athenaeum Theatre TICKETS $40/30

LINER NOTESMelbournes best-loved spoken word event, Liner Notes, pays poetic tribute to The Doors classic album L.A. Woman, song by song. Take a psychedelic road trip with the ghost of Jim Morrison to scatter the ashes of the 60s, on an unforgettable night of literary cabaret and music.

Featuring Ophira Eisenberg (USA), Doug Johnstone (UK), Jane Caro, Andy Griffiths, Emilie Zoey Baker, and more led by MC Michael Nolan and a live band.WHEN FRI 23 AUG, 9pm, doors open at 8.30pm WHERE Regal Ballroom, Northcote TICKETS $25

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THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHERJoin Dave Graney in an intimate evening of musical show and tell as he delves into the creative mind of The Bedroom Philosopher. Discover the stories behind the songs, the words behind the man, and the random encounters that trigger the unlikeliest of ideas. Kick back for a unique afternoon of conversation, music, lyrics and laughter. For one day only, doors open 3.30pm.

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FRIDAY NIGHT LIVEStart your second Festival weekend with Friday Night Live! Grab a wine from the pop-up bar and join comic icon Wendy Harmer, for our Letterman meets-Jon Stewart late-night talk show, with Festival guests Andrew OHagan, Shereen El Feki, Michelle Dicinoski, Bike Snob NYC, comedian Sammy J, and The Blackeyed Susans.WHEN FRI 30 AUG, 9pm WHERE Deakin Edge, Fed Square TICKETS: $25

MUSIC APPRECIATION 101New York music writer Chris Ruen, London-based rock critic Andrew Mueller and Victorian writer and broadcaster Elmo Keep talk contemporary music criticism in What Difference Does it Make? Chris Ruen teams up with Triple RRRs Byte Into It host Vanessa Toholka to discusses the impact of free file sharing on the music industry in Freeloading. In Retromania, music historian Simon Reynolds asks: is pop musics addiction to its own past killing innovation?

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The human element of this film is so central to Broinowskis story and her experience. The North Korean film industry may be hilariously dated and chained to the demands of the Dear Leader but artists are artists, no matter where they live. Their films are funded by the state, theres no money raising producer, so of course youre only a filmmaker in North Korea for as long as you make films that the regime approves of, she says. At the end of the day though, the filmmakers are still artists. They are required to put in propaganda messages but when I met some of the better directors over there they are still just storytellers and some of those stories are really quite good.Another integral part of Broinowskis journey was to remind western audiences that we are all victims of propaganda in one way or another. Sure, North Korean propaganda may have all the obvious characteristics of an Orwellian dictatorship but we are not, ourselves, immune. The kind of propaganda that we live under is capitalist propaganda, she says. Were treated as consumers who are lead to believe we are free to choose and yet are barraged with

products that as good consumers and good citizens, expected to buy. All systems use propaganda to keep citizens in check and I think what really struck me was how serene and refreshing it was for someone who lives in the western world in Sydney to go to a country for three and a half weeks and not see a single billboard, no ads making you feel like youre somehow inferior because you dont have this or that product, and instead in place of that there are hand painted murals on bus stops and stunning 1930s-style propaganda art. For a jaded westerner it was a true materialism detox. I think what Im trying to say is, well Im not trying to say that North Korea doesnt have a great deal of oppression, Im just trying to say to audiences Look, before we judge the North Koreans for using their form of propaganda, lets think about ours.

AIM HIGH IN CREATIONBY KRISSI WEISS

Sydney-based filmmaker Anna Broinowski set herself an amazingly difficult task and she has managed to pull it off amazingly well. Seeking permission to enter North Korea is in itself a difficult task but to go there with the express purpose of making a short film - essentially a film-within-a-film with the core story a propaganda tale of heroic workers overthrowing an evil Coal Seam Gas mining company that is encased with a truly unique insight into North Korean filmmaking - is a mammoth assignment.Getting that film completed and approved by the regime (even simply getting out of said regime in one piece) would seem to be an impossibility somehow, she and her crew did it.Aim High In Creation was first inspired by Broinowskis introduction to the Kim Jong Il filmmaking manifesto The Cinema and Directing and rather than simply letting the humour spew forth in a tide of mockery, Broinowski does her best to tell a story, a story with a human heart.Obviously with the film we didnt want to mock the North Koreans at all but at the same time their world is so completely different and their filmmaker methodology is stuck in a time warp in a way, Broinowski says. Theyve shut themselves off from all aspects of the outside world so that includes technology and filmmaking technology since 1953. The film-within-a-film is a North Korean propaganda film that I make with them. It would have been so easy to have made that a total piss-take because the North Koreans are very fond of things like, well every single film whether its a military epic or a serious bio-pic; they always have people bursting into song at random moments - even on battlefields. They have strange 70s tracking shots that we havent seen in 30 years and it was almost tempting to do a send up but it

wouldve been a cheap shot.That challenge was met and overcome and while Aim High In Creation has some of its creative license shackled by diplomatic obligation and cultural sensitivity, you will go a long way to ever see anything like it again. The North Korean filmmakers were so

generous to us, they made our project their own and were just so sweet and sincere, so our challenge was to take what was best about North Korean movie making and to try and make it work in our short film made by Western cast and crew. I dont know if we succeeded or not; I know the North Koreans watched it and they liked it, she says.The screening in North Korea was a closed-door showing. The film wont be receiving an official public release but it was approved, and that is a relief for all involved. Yeah in a way it was [a relief] I guess, but probably more so for the guy who took it in than for us, she says with a reluctant and relieved chuckle. If they were gonna punish anyone it was gonna be him I guess. But no, they felt that I had

followed their rules properly and they were OK with the short film. Theres a line in the film thats just a little bit critical of China and we were worried they wouldnt like that but even that was OK.

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CHOOSE AND YET ARE BARRAGED WITH PRODUCTS THAT AS GOOD CONSUMERS

AND GOOD CITIZENS, EXPECTED TO BUY.

Aim High In Creation is screening as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival at the Forum Theatre on Wednesday August 7 and at the Greater Union Cinema 4 on Sunday August 11.


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2013 MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL REVIEWSA HIJACKING

BY MITCHELL ALEXANDER

Even in a world of hyper-connected, always-on communication, everyone does not see every detail of a tense situation. Sure, the NSA might be watching Americas every movement, monitoring every tiny communication, but the majority of us rarely ever see more than parts of the whole. Hollywood blockbusters are compelled to explain every small detail to an audience, but experts in sweaty-palmed suspense know that some parts are better left to the audience to dwell on.In the latest film written and directed by Denmarks Tobias Lindholm (previously of The Hunt and TVs Borgen), even the titular hijacking of a cargo vessel happens offscreen. The CEO of the shipping company (played by The Killings Sren Malling) is quickly plunged into unknown territory with Somali pirates, with the ships cook (Johan Philip

Asbk, also from Borgen) used by both parties as an intermediary/bargaining tool/chess piece. Hes at home negotiating the best deal with other companies, but the stakes can no longer be defined on a spreadsheet.Lindholm exquisitely captures the sense of dread and shared loss of freedom as days stretch into weeks into months. Conditions on the ship spiral, while the cramped boardroom - where negotiations take place via patchy satellite phone calls - becomes just as much a prison, with Mallings CEO increasingly unhinged. And expect your heart rate to increase every time the action moves to the ship, for fear of something increasingly terrible inflicted upon the cook and his six crew members. The film doesnt get into geopolitical messaging territory, nor is the crew saved by some heroic act from Vin Diesel on a jet ski. This is the prisoners dilemma separated by an ocean, and another must-see effort from Lindholm.

THE CRASH REEL

BY JESSICA LAWSON

Kevin Pearce was young, handsome, kind and talented. He was a snowboarding champion and an obvious challenger for the 2010 Winter Olympics. That was until he stacked a practice cab double cork in Utah, landing face first into the ice, violently striking his head and left eye.The Crash Reel follows Kevins incredible real life journey from the bright lights of stardom to the inexhaustible recovery of an acquired brain injury. At its core is an intimate family portrait detailing the intricacies and delicacies of the beauty within tragedy. Pearces family are modest, hard working, folk that love their boys. Pearce stars as the

antagonist of his own documentary as his family struggle to understand his ache to return to the sport that almost destroyed him, especially Dave. Dave Pearce is Kevins younger brother and was born with down syndrome and is perhaps the most interesting and loveable character in this documentary. The film is comprised of footage captured over Pearces sporting career by journalists and his friends as well as the private footage captured of his family life. Walker weaves Kevins story into an emotionally blinding piece of art. The Crash Reel transcends sport clichs of champion and macho laden heroics and asks some humourless and sobering questions about extreme sports, the worth of that unobtainable thrill and the feeling of chasing it.

GOOD VIBRATIONS

BY SAM WILSON

Nothing beats a rocknroll film - fromA Hard Days Night toWaynes World, films about the music that has shaped us cant help but get the heart rate up and the sweat pumping.Good Vibrationsplot is by-the-numbers, but the location itself sets up a rich proposition, where buying records meant risking the streets of Belfast at the height of The Troubles.Terri Hooley is the charismatic centre of this story about a music-obsessed beatnik who opens a record shop smack bang in the middle of riots and bombs. At first a member of the reggae-obsessed remnants of seventies socialists, everything changes when Hooley discovers punk, and among them The

Undertones. Everyone loves stories about a mad bastard, and everyone loves the song Teenage Kicksanyone who says otherwise has never heard it before or is an arseholeand you know this film hits the mark when you find yourself fighting back tears the legendary moment when, lifting the stylus and setting it back to the start of the 7 single, John Peel announces on his radio show that the aforementioned song is so wonderful hes going to play it again.Good Vibrationsis a warm, heartfelt, brutally honest film about a time in the not so recent past when a part of the world was tearing itself apart. Its got wonderful performances, and just enough artistry in the direction to make this a worthy music biopic.

PEARBLOSSOM HWY

BY SEAN GLEESON

In the follow-up to Littlerock, director Mike Ott shows the Spike Jonze road from music videos to indie films is fraught with self-indulgent danger. Reprising his role from Otts last feature, small town 20-something Cory stops huffing nitrous bulbs for long enough to begin the quest to find the man who may or may not be his father. Joining him are his overbearing brother Jeff, recently discharged from the military, and his best friend Atsuko, who occasionally prostitutes herself out in a squalid motel room to finance a visit to her dying grandmother. Nothing, utterly nothing, ensues.Every vaguely interesting trope in this film is abandoned to make room for Corys endless monologues each of which would win third prize at a LiveJournal-themed open mic night, but only because the judging panel worried that there would be an incident if the contestant went home

empty-handed. Presumably Ott wanted a means to demonstrate his subjects insularity from Atsukos sufferings, which would be fine if her character development went beyond borrowing a few pedestrian stylistic quirks from Japanese cinema.The entire emotional tenor of this film is incoherent from start to finish. Ott cant seem to decide whether he wants his aesthetic to match the anaemic lives of his subjects or to play around with the aperture on his digicam. To call this film undergraduate would be an insult to preening, Nietzsche-quoting undergraduates everywhere. Student union election campaigns have more candour, campus environment collectives have more charisma, than this overwrought, exploitative cringefest masquerading as social commentary. How fitting that the third act is set in San Francisco: this could convincingly pass for Tommy Wiseaus stab at mumblecore, only without a shred of potential for retrospective cult status.

DRINKING BUDDIES

BY CALLUM FITZPATRICK

In his 14th feature Joe Swanberg introduces us to Luke (Jake Johnson) and Kate (Olivia Wilde), two colleagues who sometimes work, but mainly just flirt, at a microbrewery. Although theyre both in existing relationships Luke with Jill (Anna Kendrick) and Kate with Chris (Ron Livingstone), the tension betweenthe two cant be denied, and its here from which the story develops.When the four embark on a trip to a beach house, things start to get particularly exciting Luke finds himself alone with Kate, and Chris with Jill. Soon enough, it becomes apparent that although Luke and Kate may be the more natural couple, frustratingly, their current situation doesnt allow for this to be fully explored. Whats more, Jills constant probing questions about marriage to Luke start to complicate matters even more and are pretty

annoying. Although the plot essentially builds upon this very simple framework, Swanbergs trademark improv-heavy dialogue is where the movie excels. It allows the actors to reveal more of their personality than a script ever could - at times, an ordinarily-mundane scene, flourishes as something believable and real.If taken literally, Drinking Buddies is a fairly misleading title. Its not a film about boozing although beer is consumed in almost every scene of the movie. Rather, drinking is the common interest between the couples and its influence allows for scenarios to develop in a way they otherwise wouldnt. What were really presented with is a very clever observational comedy, scattered with the awkward silences, conversational blunders and little frustrations that make social interaction what it is. Its the sum of all these parts that makesDrinking Buddiescomical, raw and true.

THIS AINT NO MOUSE MUSIC!

BY CHRIS BRIGHT

Mouse Music is anything thats commonly commercially produced, forced or unnatural as described by this films subject, producer Chris Strachwitz.This is not so much a documentary about music but one mans passion for discovering musics hidden talent and exposing it to the world.Strachwitz travelled to southern America as a teenager from Germany during the war and from the first time he heard American radio, he has become obsessed with the sound of roots music.He has dedicated his life to travelling the Deep South, through California, Texas, Louisiana, Memphis and wherever his ears take him, searching for local legends and helping them share their

music with the world. This led to his label, Arhoolie Records. Instead of sticking to one genre, this film quickly browses through an entire catalogue of music, beginning with New Orleans jazz, roughneck blues, before taking a journey through Creole, Cajun, zydeco, Tex-Mex, Mexican-American norteo, folk and country.Due to the breadth of music history at play, the film runs for longer than it should and skips through some of the areas that are more interesting than others but its still an educational journey for music lovers and anyone who can appreciate passion to the point where its almost obsession.

HERITAGE FIGHT

BY STEPH IREDALE

The Western Australian Kimberly coastline is home to a virtual freeway of dinosaur footprints. Amongst them lies unique evidence of the 10-metre long carnivorous theropod, the only example of its kind in the region and perhaps the country. Tens of thousands of years before paleontologists made this astounding discovery, local Aboriginal groups connected other dinosaur prints to Dreamtime myths of a giant emu, Marrala, who walked the coast and gave law to his people. Heritage Fight documents the spectacular and triumphant battle to protect the rich cultural, environmental and historical resources of the Kimberly landscape and spotlights the deeply moving personal journey of indigenous activists in the fight for country.Its a fists-fully-clenched kind of documentary, as director Eugnie Dumont journeys through the multidimensional disasters that would cascade from the Woodside Petroleum industrial venture. WA Premier Colin Barnett, in full support of industrial

development and land exploitation, refuses to be so negligent as to walk away from the opportunities this venture would offer Western Australians and specifically indigenous locals.And so the gap widens. A gap between respect and power, between culture and venture. Teresa Roe, Aboriginal matriarch and devout activist on the Kimberly site, is a central figure in the indigenous narrative of determination despite disempowerment that Dumont continues to return to. The vivid colours and textures of the regions natural beauty are enriched through Roes sobering stories, made further impressive by her articulate and impassioned displays of public protest. Beside Roe, a cast of fearless indigenous activists tirelessly battle the discrimination and disrespect that has characterised the indigenous narrative for 100s of years.The gap in understanding between Woodside and Barnett and the deeply affecting customs, law and tradition of Aboriginal country is unambiguously infuriating, but the dedication of Teresa Roe, of her family, people and supporters, is a celebration of faith in the conservation of our immaculate landscape for 50,000 years or so. But only if we are willing to fight.

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The multi-talented, multi-genre-producing and many-project-undertaking Reshef Harari is on top of his game right now. Having conquered almost every corner of the globe with his multi-dimensional sound including at some of the biggest festivals like Burning Man and Atmosphere the man is getting ready to head back to Australia to deliver on his promise of a unique fusion of psychedelic progressive techno trance. In fact if you do your reading, youll discover that Reshef Harari has achieved more than his fair share over the years least of which is being credited with being the man behind the genre termed progressive transtep. If nothing else though, the progressive trance-head hailing from one of the true spiritual homes of trance Israel is upbeat about the happenings in his universe.Growing up in Israel was great, chimes Reshef. I actually lived in the countryside and coming from a farming family, I had an amazing childhood filled with nature and freedom! Of course though the tenuous relationship between the country and a number of its neighbors meant that finding an escape was a priority for much of the local youth and with that came the growth in electronic music that has permeated the country for many years now. Parties in our country were always a way for us to release tension and break away from things, he professes with pride. Once you got onto the dance floor as a kid and Ive been going to parties since I was 15 years old - nothing can move you away. For me, it went even further; I went deeper into trance while syncing my mind, body and soul.Indeed, he got into music originally from the inspiration provided by his brother, who was producing parties as far back as 1998. When I had the chance to listen to this music which at the time felt like a massive alien future sound of trance - I got hooked onto minimal trance. And since then, Ive been collecting and producing music. But it was really my brother that started me on this evolution.

Musically, he has had his finger in a number of different pies over the years but admits that right now, Captain Hook is his major focus. Yes, it is where my energy is going right now Im really liking the minimal tribal progressive trance music associated with

it. I also produce techno under the name Sheff and have played under this project at a number of different festivals over the times. In the past, I have also had a project called Quantize and had a partner within it - D Addiction. Otherwise, Im forming a band with Liquid Soul called Liquid Hook; as well as a band with Ace Ventura under the name Blockbusterz. So with influences ranging from trance, techno, bass music, hip hop, metal, classic rock, swing,

jazz - basically what he terms any good beat the Captain is kicking goals.In the studio, he also recounts some of the work he has on the go: Im working on a double remix album for all of my original releases so far, he says. This album will contain a wide range of electronic music such as glitch-hop, dubstep and techno-funk in the first CD; with more of a minimal, progressive, goa and psychedelic trance sound in the second. I hope that the album will give the listener an introduction to my musical world - as well as an opportunity to listen to remix works from fresh, new and old-time producers whom I love and respect. The album is due around October this year on Iboga Records.Finally, he adds a few words about his forthcoming gigs in Australia. I will be playing live at the Earthcore 20th Anniversary party which Im really looking forward to. Right now, my setup is a laptop, a soundcard with multi-channels connecting the analog mixer, Kaoss Pad, Ableton Live with some edits, as well as Pioneer DJM 800/900/2000 for everything from analog FX to echo, reverb, filtering and pitching. The sound this time will be more tribal and less breaks. I would say more flowing, mature and deeper than what I used to play. It will also be my third trip to Australia so I cant wait!

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