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Craig and Simone are playing at the Berwick and District Folk Club on 15th
July.
On the Saturday Craig will run a Workshop from 11am to 1pm in Berwick. Contact
Edward for Bookings on 03 9702 1223 to reserve your place.
Cost $20.00

Creative Guitar by Craig Dawson

This workshop examines some “less known” techniques of the acoustic guitar
including open tunings, capos, slides and tricks and tips. It is designed for
participants with an intermediate level of guitar skills, though it could also
benefit beginners to some degree.Specifically, the “around” 2 hour workshop will
cover the following topics:

1. Using the capo effectively - some tricks and chord shapes which give an open
tuning sound. This looks at using more than one capo at a time and partial
capoing.

2. Open tunings:
- Dropped D
- Open D,
- Open D minor
- Open G
- Open A
We will look at chords and structures for these tunings and also using slides.

3. Alternate tunings:
- definition and some examples including Bob Dylan’s “Buckets of Rain” and also
briefly some songs by Nick Drake.

4. Ki Ho’alu (Hawaiian slack key) techniques.
An introduction to this style using two of the main slack key tunings.

5. Open question and answer session.

The course will include handouts outlining the main sections covered.

Badfolk - Bringing together people with a love for acoustic music.
See www.badfolk.org

Applications are now open for performers for the 2006 Fairbridge
Festival, April 21-23 2006, Pinjarra (1 hour south of Perth), WA.

You can find application forms and tips for applicants on the website at
www.fairbridgefestival.com. Applications close on Sept 30th.

The theme for the 2006 Festival is “Family Bands”, and several of the
country’s finest family bands are already lined up to perform. Bands
with two or more blood relatives are encouraged to apply, although all
the normal criteria will still hold.

We recommend that interstate applicants read the “tips from applicants”
carefully.

Steve Barnes
Artistic Director
Fairbridge Festival
www.fairbridgefestival.com

Josh Owen launched his excellent new CD The Josh Owen Band Live at the Evelyn Hotel last Sunday to a full house and has added more excellent gigs to his schedule.

GIG LIST

Friday 8 July at the Espy Front Bar
St Kilda,, free entry 8.30 pm with Hotel Diablo and Jaimi Faulkner

Saturday 9 July at the Cornish Arms
163A Sydney Rd Brunswick, $5 entry from 9 pm

1 Brighton Rd St Kilda. Ph: 9534 4189
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WINTER WARMERS
- open fire place
- food now available
- Fame Trivia every Tues nite from 8pm, free.
- Open Mic Arvo 1st Sun of the month, 3pm, free.

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Wed 29 June

Bandroom: Jager Uprising w Spyhunter, Ambassador 77 + Dr Rocket
SPYHUNTER’s songs showcase the band’s ability to mix many styles in an effort to create one new and original sound. Combining elements of punk and rock and hard.core whilst still retaining their pop sensibilities, SPYHUNTER can appeal to many audiences.

AMBASSADOR 77 have been performing their thumping live show to audiences far and wide, since 2002. The band released their debut EP “Transaction Approved” in March 2003. The disc featured 4 punchy rock tracks and was produced by David Carr (Antiskeptic). AMBASSADOR 77 ’s sound is defined by soaring guitar riffs and a pounding rhythm section. An acoustic backbone compliments their creative yet catchy melodies.

DR. ROCKETT is a four piece consisting of three former members of Melbourne’s own funk/rock outfit That’s What She Said. Adam (vocals), Tim (drums) & Jason (bass), now combine with long time friend and noted blues guitarist Dion, who has been playing solo & in bands around Melbourne. Together now for a year, Dr Rockett is pushing to create a new movement. And with a ‘no rules’ attitude they are pioneering a new stylistic flavour. From 8pm, free.

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Thur 30 June
Public Bar: The Vagrants

The Vagrants finish up their month of residency gigs tonite. Getting compared to Ben Harper, Black Crows, The Allman Brothers, Baby Animals, The Stones and Jack Johnson says a lot about how hard it is to categorize the music - but one thing’s for sure - it’s been going down a treat.

James Spitfire is the rhythm of The Vagrants. Renate Ludwig is the voice. Steve Cookie Iorio is lead guitarist and main songwriter. Gentleman Jim Rintoul on bass is the lead foot on the gas pedal. Peter G is the primal beat of The Vagrants. 9.30pm, free.

Bandroom: Brass Bed, Problem + The Kathematics

The BRASS BED began life in 1997 as a brass/bass-focussed group, brain-child of Stu Thomas (Kim Salmon & the Surrealists, Dave Graney, The Scientists, etc etc etc…) suurrounded by a floating international line-up of players.

It has been home to a string of talented performers, who pursue their own passions in Australia & elsewhere….Over time, the band has gravitated from being purely song-based to performing & recording soundtracks for underground film & art events….

The Bed have put out a few records (an EP, 2 LP’s, 3 single, 3 Picture Discs..) and have a DVD and a new LP in the pipeline, that crosses the boundary between trash and tango.
Where are we stylistically? Good question….Let’s imagine a 50’s ‘Crime Scene’ sound driven by a filthy lead bass. Add to the cocktail a jazz-punk/circus feel, double crossed with futuristic surf-gypsy-tango overtones & performed with a New Orleans funeral band mindset, and you’re getting close….

Problem sound like a cross between Celibate Rifles and The Pixies with Tom Waits on acid doing vocals. A 5 piece from Melbourne who formed in 2001 Problem released The Sweet Sound of Success in 2001, and have since featured on 2 other compilation albums.

Kathematics are back on the live scene and have been impressing audiences with their infectious pop teamed with an energetic live show. From 8.30pm, free.

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Fri 1 July
Bandroom: Synthetic Breed, 7 Minute Metal, Resistika + Clagg
7 MINUTEMETAL is a Death Power-Groove band based in Melbourne. With gut wrenching brutality and a groove that you can’t stop moving too,they will shock and amaze..

Joined with the mighty CLAGG - Slugg-Doom Masters that never fail too impress. Black Metal outfit RESISTICA,will blow your mind! This is one band not too miss. SYNTHETIC BREED - with pulsing poly-rhythms and psychotic blasts of biomechanical fury.these are the signature sound’s of synthetic breed. Entry is $6, 8.30

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Sat 2 July
Public Bar: Mother

CATHY RUTTEN Lead Vocals, JOSIE JASON Guitar/Vocals, CHRISTINE CARLEY Bass/Vocals and TANYA CAVANAGH Drums/Vocals combine to make up the MOTHER we all wish we had.

Mother have a unique way of performing rock covers that is highly refreshing and entertaining. Whether you enjoy the music of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zepelin, Ozzie Osbourne & Status Quo or not, you will find this show very, very enjoyable. ….Oh, and another thing……THEY ROCK! Free, 9.30pm.

Bandroom: The Drag Show.
Divas, Disco, Glitter + Glorious Gowns $8, 8pm.

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Sun 3 July THE BEST SUNDAY IN TOWN!

Public Bar: OPEN MIC ARVO - 3pm
COUNTRY CAPERS w Harddrive Bluegrass Band

The Hardrive Blue Grass Band is Australia’s most traditional bluegrass band. Featuring high-lonesome vocals and great instrumentals from a traditional line-up that features banjo, fiddle/mandolin, guitar and double bass, their live performance and recent CD recording will give you a genuine taste of traditional bluegrass with an Australian theme. 5pm, free

Bandroom: KAOS COMEDY 6 pm

MC Wayne Deakin
Damir Hasic
Dave Thornton
Dave Evans
Terry North
Joanne Brookfield +
Lawrence Mooney

Entry $10/$7 conc. 2 for $10 with flyer (available around St Kilda)

KOOKY KARAOKE with Fred Negro, Steve Prictor. Free from 8.30pm.

Happy Happy Hours 5.30 - 7.30pm

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Tue 5 July
Public Bar: FAME Trivia Night - win prizes, free entry from 8pm.

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Wed 6 July
Bandroom: Jager Uprising w Tokenview, Supercede + Upstream

TOKENVIEW is a 4-piece Sydney band going somewhere - and fast. They’ve shared bills with many profile Australian acts incl. Evermore, The Devoted Few, The Camels, The Tremors & Bluebottle Kiss. Tokenview have received national airplay on Triple J for the track Tug the Cape. They’ve been main support for Foo Fighters at their recent Sydney Metro show as a result of a personal invitation from Dave Grohl, who had heard their mini-album.

“Ok… did anyone see that f#*kin chick that was playing drums before me? I didn’t want to get up and play tonight…” Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) to Metro audience, 01/06/05.

SUPERCEDE released their debut EP, Burning Both Ends in December. Since then drummer Dootch, guitarist/vocalist Bradd Day and guitarist Paul Stanway have been joined by new bass player Stuart MacDonald

With the lineup secure again and the response to Burning Both Ends overwhelmingly positive, Supercede are bursting back onto the live scene with a handful of new songs to add to the set and a couple of months rest under their belts.

UPSTREAM is an original 4 piece hard rock band from Melbourne Australia who have been together for 2 years & in their current line up, have recently recorded our Demo/E.P. Over the past 9 months they have been performing at various venues throughout Melbourne & surrounding suburbs. Free, 8pm.

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Thur 7 July
Public Bar: Deco. 9.30pm, free.

Deco singer/songwriter Andrew Kentler is known for his work with the highly revered Glide and for playing bass in the Gamma Rays. In Deco, Kentler is joined by a slick live band performing an excellent set Australian rock’n’roll - check them out.

Bandroom: Canyon Aero + guests. 8pm.

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Coming Soon
* Backbone - 8/7
* P-Tex - 9/7
* Kaos Comedy - CJ Fortuna, Chris Franklin, Em O’Loughlin, Steve Lee, Tym Jeffrey,Clare Turner, Ky Tier + Jason Carstens - 10/7
* Swedish Magazines - 15/7

“Her debut proves tough to second guess, it’s acoustic guitar and piano-led folk,rock and country… soothing,
strident or Joplin-raw by turns, her voice pilots unchained melodies. This is special, multi-layered stuff.
The Wainwright musical dynasty is Godzilla-like, Tokyo will be crushed.”
Mojo Magazine

Martha Wainwright, wildly original songwriter and chanteuse extraordinaire hits Australia forher first national concert tour in September 2005. With growing international acclaim from music media and warm endorsement from fellow New York songstress Norah Jones, Martha’s shows are destined to be a series of special evenings.

Martha’s well publicised musical heritage includes wunderkind brother Rufus, mother and aunt folk legends Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and much loved songwriter father Loudon Wainwright III. As such, she certainly had her work cut out for her.

But with a wonderful and startling debut album under her belt, Martha has exceeded any associated expectations. She is a breath of fresh air as she meshes her bold, adventurous and blazingly honest songwriting with her signature emphatic, fierce vocal performances. Martha clearly walks her own path ­ a path that courts the timeless serenity and grace of folk music while spiking it with a decidedly contemporary intensity.

The self title album,Martha Wainwright, released via Rounder/Zoe Records and through Shock inAustralia, is a welcome revelation, as enchanting as it is thrilling.As Bernard Zuel from the Sydney Morning Herald illustrates, “This album is not short of songs which have big pop hooks and melodies to lodge with you.”These Flowers”, “Don’t Forget” positively ache, “The Maker” (with brother Rufus on harmony) shimmers and if you can listen to “Factory” and not sigh contentedly, you clearly have shut down your ears and heart.”

And the accolades keep on coming. Rolling Stone described “songs of drone rock and wailing folk and confessional cabaret. (Asking) the next shit-hot songwriter?” The Guardian said, “She has avoided emulating either her parents or bro Rufus, and manages to elude most of the clichés of female singer-songwriterhood. Her songs are tough and earthy, hating mere prettiness when fieriness or forcefulness are required.”

So don’t delay ­ secure your tickets before it’s too late. And in case you were wondering whether Martha Wainwright’s songs translate to the stage, here’s what UK music bible the NME had to say about a recent live
performance. “Demanding whiskey, cigarettes and nothing less than rapture from the audience, her feline voice runs through the lovingly sweet “Factory” to the heady feminism of “Don’t Forget” with kitten purrs and lion roars.”

www.marthawainwright.com

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES

AUGUST
Saturday 27
Northcote Social Club Melbourne

Sunday 28
The Basement Sydney

Wednesday 31
The Tivoli Brisbane

SEPTEMBER
Thursday 01
A&I Hall Bangalow

Friday 02
@Newtown Sydney

Saturday 03
@Newtown Sydney

Tuesday 06
Tilley’s Devine Café Canberra

Wednesday 07
The Corner Melbourne

Friday 09
The Gov Adelaide

All tickets for the Australian tour go on sale Monday, June 27, 2005

TURN ON, TUNE IN & WIN.

Thursday June 30 - Thursday July 14

Launch Date - Thursday 23rd June
with a live broadcast from Transport Bar @ Federation Square 6am - midnite

Live performances from BOB Log III, Chris Wilson + Mick Thomas plus lots of guests

Melbourne’s iconic PBS-FM has been a beacon of independent, freeform, passionate, real and unpretentious radio for 25 years. PBS is a champion of specialist and under-represented music, with a strong emphasis on promoting Australian music, and is proudly non-corporate.

It is our hope that PBS is a joyous, adventurous and educational experience that turns you on to music that’s eternally cool, and provides a real alternative to manufactured notions of what’s “hip” in the increasingly corporate musical mainstream. PBS 106.7FM doesnt play hits… we make hits. Turn on, tune in, open your ears, your mind and your heart to the wonderful wide world of music.

Our annual radio festival is here again, kicking off with a live broadcast from 6am to midnight on Thursday 23rd June @ Transport Bar - Federation Square (details below). The radio festival is designed to promote PBS FM to the people of Melbourne, encouraging them to try some new food for the soul, music for the ears and ideas for the heart. We hope the people of Melbourne will be inspired to join the PBS Family.

The radio festival is also designed to celebrate our listeners, with prizes galore being up for grabs to all our subscribers - new and old. Check out our prize list below - it’s getting bigger and better every year.

As a public broadcaster, PBS doesn’t make money from advertisers, and relies instead on people who are passionate about their music and their community. So come along to the launch, or turn on, tune in (to 106.7FM) and join our community - you’ll be made very welcome.

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RADIO FESTIVAL LAUNCH + VIP PARTY
Thurs 23 June - 6am til 12 midnight
Transport Bar, Federation Square

We’re very excited by our launch. It’s the first time PBS have broadcast live from Federation Square, and we’ll be up with the birds from 6am. Special guests Bob Log III, Chris Wilson, Mick Thomas will all perform live, and so much more. Come on down - turn on, tune in, try us on for size and join the fun.

From 7pm that night the PBS FM VIP Party will feature an exclusive Studio 5 Live performance from Joe Camilleri & Bakelight Radio, followed by DJ Lisa Palermo and Systa BB.

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REAL RADIO FESTIVAL

The PBS FM Radio Festival will kick into gear from Thursday June 30 - Thursday July 14, with all of our shows featuring festival surpries, including special guests, themes and prizes to be won. Check out our website www.pbsfm.org.au or listen in for more details @ 106.7 fm.

TURN ON, TUNE IN & WIN.

2005 Subscriber Prizes - more to be announced
Major Prize: A new car from Holden - value $15 000
Main Prize 1: Harvey World Travel Voucher - value $1500
Main Prize 2: Encel Stereo Voucher - value TBA
Rotel Electronic Entertainment System - value $2000
Main Prize 3: 10 x Weekend Tickets to Queenscliff Festival - value $2000

We also have prizes up for grabs across all our different music categories:

Electronic Category
Main Prize 1: Numark Battle Pak (turntable, mixer + headphones) - value $2000

Blues & Roots Category
Main Prize 1: 10 x Single Tickets to Blues Train - value $650

Jazz Category
Main Prize 1: Audiophile Stereo System - value $4000
Main Prize 2: Cruise Package - value $1000

Rock Category
Main Prize 1: The Tote or The Union 12 month pass - value in excess $500

Breakfast & Drive Category
Main Prize 1: Cinema Nova 12 month double pass - value TBA

Kiddies Prize
Main Prize 1: Casio Keyboard - value $250

Band Prize
Main Prize 1: Full On - CD Release Package - value $3500
(Salt Studio EP Package, Fox Audio Mastering & Guardian Media CD Manufacturing)

Lucky Dip / Instant Prizes:
Main Prize 1: MP3s - value $65 a pop

NEW ON CHANNEL 31 - PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY PBS FM

Introducing Australias first Reality/Sitcom/Music show!

How you ask? You get three real people living the music life with their own music show. As well as getting an invite to go on a few crazy journey’s in their behind the scenes world. Add it with a splash of sitcom, and those normal everyday dramas we all love, and you have ON THE COUCH. With the TV set part of the show located at Melbournes very own PBS FM, you can see segments such as “Out & About”/ “A Day in the Life”/ “Random Bullshit” /”Filmclips” /”The Schtik” (The music gossip and who’s hot segment) and “Industry Guest”. And then wrapping it all up live in Studio 5.

On the Couch show cases no less than 5 of the best Aussie acts per show, spread out amoungst the segments. Soooo do not miss a thing with Steph, Katey T and Sebastian.

Up and coming shows feature:
Gyroscope, End Of Fashion, Daughter Boys Jao, Morning After Girls, Epicure, Mia Dyson, The Mess Hall, After The Fall, The Kits, Fire Underground and many many more. Either in Out and About, Live in Studio 5 or some silly situation with A day in the life..

ON THE COUCH - From Thurs July 7 on Channel 31 at 9pm and Sat at 11.30pm!! There is a live launch for On The Couch @ The Stage in Smith St from 7pm. Guests include Daughter Boy Jao, Fire Underground + The Inches. Watch the show live on the big screen!