that’s ENTERTAINMENT
Ready to have a ball
STEP back to the roaring ’20s at the Hot Society Bootleg Ball, held in Wonderdome at Newcastle’s Foreshore Park on Friday, January 27. Featuring Newcastle blues phenomenon Half Nelson,
pictured, cabaret acts, gaming tables and a vintage cocktail bar by the Clarendon Hotel, this event is hosted by non other than Mad Matt McFarlane of Bombshell Burlesque fame.
A mandatory “prohibition-era” costume dress code (gangsters, fl appers, dapper gentlemen, etc) will be in place
for the evening. Featured as the cabaret venue at the recent Peats Ridge
Music Festival, Wonderdome is the largest and strongest event dome in Australia. This portable geodesic dome big-top is owned and
operated by local company the Geodesic Gentlemen – a collaboration between circus school Circus Avalon, avant garde entertainment troupe Phantasia and actor Ben Tranter. Tickets are available from Ticketek.
short ‘n’SWEET Let’s get this show on the road
WITH an impeccable roster of up-and-coming Australian talent, independent label Broken Stone Records is hitting the road next month for a roadshow extravaganza. With a suitcase full of great
artists, the touring showcase of music and mixed-media art will feature performances by Sister Jane, Magnetic Heads (pictured), Caitlin Park and the Maple Trail. The bands’ performances will be
accompanied by live footage, VJ-ing and projections of their fi lm clips. An exciting display of artworks created as part of Broken Stone’s releases (including sculptural work used in fi lm clips, photographs from live shows, and illustrative cover art) will also be on show.
Roadhouse blues and tangled rock and roll dreamers
Sister Jane hail from the Blue Mountains. After the release of their debut full-length Mercy in 2011, the band will be rereleasing the set on 12-inch vinyl in 2012. This reissue will feature a limited edition alternative cover and a free download. Long-listed for the 2011 Australian Music Prize, Caitlin Park’s debut album Milk Annual has been widely received
as a very impressive fi rst eff ort. A singer and songwriter from Sydney, Park is not your average neo-folk musician and has single-handedly taken this genre and pulled it to the left with her abstract composition, electro-acoustic stylings and fi lm nostalgia. Park spent some time in the UK in late 2011 and will be returning to release her second album and tour in May 2012. After two widely acclaimed EPs,
there is much anticipation for the debut album from Sydney based four-piece Magnetic Heads. The band (which has been compared
to the Go Betweens, the Talking Heads and Echo and the Bunnymen) has spent the bright Australian summer writing and will be recording their fi rst full-length in March for release in September. The Maple Trail will release their latest album Cable
Mount Warning in March. With Cable Mount Warning, the Maple Trail charges forth in a calamitous chorus of epic, introspective, yet summery folk songs that take you down a dark winding path before throwing you into the light. The Broken Stone Records Roadshow swings into town at the Lass O’Gowrie Hotel on Wednesday, February 22.
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