Some things you cant DIY. Use those white-coated, backroom devils like Adam Rhodes and Casey Rice and Simon Grounds! They have skills and knowledge of arcane gadgets and mics. They know how shit works.

I am doing all of the promotion myself, it’s pretty much all self-generated. So I am up against it. It’s very hard. I have to try to spread the word in other ways and that’s how I came up with the idea of using the films

The life of a full-time touring musician can be quite bittersweet, as Jack Carty has discovered. But it’s all grist to the creative mill, he tells Michael Smith.

Some people hate the new direction Ceremony have taken, says frontman Ross Farrar, but there’s no way this band is changing for anyone.

Funk educationalist Grant Saunders – aka Sonic Nomad – from hip hop crew Whitehouse, talks to Tony McMahon about his band’s album, A Funky Intervention and its new single, The 26th.

They’ve just won the coveted triple j Unearthed Splendour In The Grass competition, and Melbourne indie rockers Kingswood are now heading to Queensland to promote their EP, Change Of Heart. Tony McMahon talks to drummer Justin Debrincat.

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Business/Position: Band booker

Local country/folk/indie kids The Flower Drums have gone far in a relatively short time, but Cam Findlay discovers from Leigh Craft and Aden Senycia that they still rely on Perth for inspiration – and specifically, one very special house.

Shameem are just about to head on tour. We caught up with them for a few questions.

We welcome back Daniel Susnjar and his Afro-Peruvian Jazz Group with a couple of questions!

It’s been a long wait for The Joe Kings debut album, and to launch Strange Individuals, they’re hitting the road for a SPA-presented tour.

An evening of quiet music with Davey Craddock.

Get to know Scalphunter a little more.

Get Your Shorts On is now in its tenth year.

A sneak peek into the Revelation Perth International Film Festival!

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Little Alex won a scholarship to the Durham Cathedral Choir School in North East England (its former pupils include Rowan “Mr Bean” Atkinson and Tony Blair!).

“In a way no one has a 100 per cent original sound because everyone is influenced from some other music. But instead of copying music you like, take ideas, be influenced by it and turn it into your own thing.”

“It was like I was hatching an ostrich egg. I’ve got turtle metabolism, but we finally got it out there.

I think the appeal I suppose is that it’s fairly fresh. I’ve heard a few people say there’s not too much else like us in Perth at the moment.

The last thing you want to do is ask what he thinks of the “drill‘n’bass” tag journalists and musos applied to him in his career’s formative days. “It’s just more static, window dressing, polishing, waffling, missing the point,” he dismisses. “Fundamentally, why the fuck would anyone concern themselves with that boring shit if they were able to thrive and enjoy making music themselves? But why??

I’d always been interested in maternity, and, reading this book, it was such a profound portrait of maternity, of how it feels to be a pregnant woman, to give birth, to be a mother,”

“We didn’t actually mind being lumped in with all of those acts back in the old days. We’re all on Modular and, when you’re signed to Modular, you’re very much a part of a family – so it’s not that surprising that people lump us in with those acts."

The burlesque star takes us inside her Bloody Thursdays.