There will be All Tomorrow’s Parties events in Victoria (probably Mt Buller as was rumoured), Brisbane and Sydney from Jan 9-18. Full details to be announced midnight on September 30, keep an eye on this site.

It’s that time of year when the summer festival rumours start appearing. The highlight for me is the rumour that the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival will come to Australia. Rumour has it that Nick Cave will curate and it will be at Mt Buller in Victoria on January 9-11.

At the end of January, as usual there will be the Big Day Out, and it appears that Neil Young could be headlining.

In early February the Laneway Festival will be returning to Adelaide, no word on who might be playing but there should be an announcement within the next few weeks.

My big hope is that the Silver Jews will be in one of the festival lineups. They have been touring extensively, and their latest album had an Australian release on Spunk records.

Other news this week is that Ninetynine are touring. They are one of my favourite Australian bands, their last show in Adelaide was fantastic and I’ve been looking forward to their return. I highly recommend their last album Worlds of Space, Worlds of Population, Worlds of Robots.

Here is some of their stuff on Youtube

and a really old one

Now for the upcoming gigs:
SEPTEMBER

• 27th Parklife Festival with Diplo, Dizzee Rascal, Blackalicious and lots more.
• 29th Black Francis at HQ.

OCTOBER

• 9th Joan As Policewoman at Jive.
• 10th The New Pornographers at the Gov.
• 11th No Through Road at the Metro.
• 12th The Tallest Man on Earth at the Grace Emily.
• 17th Clue to Kalo with Swords, Megafauna and My Disco at the Ed Castle.
• 19th Grand Salvo will be supporting Sophie Koh at Fowlers.

NOVEMBER

• 3rd Howe Gelb at the Jade Monkey.
• 7th Clue to Kalo at Rocket Bar.
• 22nd Ninetynine at the Metro.

FEBRUARY

• 17th Chick Corea and John McLaughlin at Her Majesty’s Theatre.

On the Stereo

• Talk Talk – Laughing Stock cd (Polydor)
• Various – Impact! cd (Soul Jazz)
• Various - More Pressure Vol.1: Straight to the Head cd (Pressure Sounds)
• Skream – Skreamizm Vol.4 2×12″ (Tempa)
• Venetian Snares – Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding cd (Planet Mu)
• Burning Star Core – Challenger cd (Hospital Productions)
• Satan’s Cheerleaders – Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea cd (no label)
• Kris Wanders Unit – On the Edges of Silence cd (Newmarket)
• Peter Brötzmann & Shoji Hano – Funny Rat cd (Improvised Music from Japan)
• Taste of Teeth - s/t cd (no label)

(descriptions care of Token Gesture)
Token Gesture Presents:

Hano/Wanders/Akai Trio

Shoji Hano (Japan) – Drums
Kris Wanders (Netherlands/Melbourne) – Tenor Saxophone
Yusuke Akai (Japan/Brisbane) – Electric Guitar

plus solo sets from Hano and Akai
supported by Like Leaves and Lonnie Universe

Jade Monkey
Saturday September 13
9PM
$12

Shoji Hano is one of the premier free jazz drummers in Japan. Since the mid 70s, the drummer/martial artist has simultaneously pummelled and caressed the skins in the classic 60s free jazz style alongside his country’s and the world’s most ferocious free players, noisemakers and psychedelic speed freaks including Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Peter Brotzmann, Kaoru Abe, Toshinori Kondo, William Parker, Eugene Chadbourne and PSF metal punks High Rise.

Kris Wanders cut his teeth in the mid 60s with the powerful European free jazz bigband Globe Unity Orchestra. Living in Melbourne since 1979, Wanders is one of the all-time biggest blowers/brawlers in the biz with an elephant-killing sax tone that sounds like a jet taking off. Name a European free jazz/outsider great and Wanders has sprayed them with his monstrous foghorning (Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Peter Brotzmann, Peter Kowald, Han Bennink, Mani Neumeier, Ludo Mich) Nowadays he plays in the free jazz/black metal/noise/grind quartet Embers and continues to tour the world.

Yusuke Akai, although half the age of his bandmates, is one of the fiercest post-free jazz guitarists in the country. The Japanese-Australian echoes all the greats, from jazz and improv kings Derek Bailey and Sonny Sharrock to no-wave and noise form-destroyers Rudolph Grey, Donald Miller, and Keiji Haino. Akai has played with Kazuo Imai, Wadada Leo Smith, and Damo Suzuki, and is a member of Sun of the Seventh Sister and Taste of Teeth.

Needless to say, these guys are gonna tear the roof off! Those that are into free jazz, primitive punk and black metal, noise, and outsider thinking are best advised to get themselves to the Jade Monkey for a earwax-rattling experience.

Support comes from the psychedelic free rock power trio Like Leaves (first show in months!) and loner spirit Lonnie Universe.