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…tons of cool music about this weekend.  Why don’t all the muso places of Freo keep their sites updated? I’ve noticed a lot of great looking gig flyers and posters around town this week but can’t find much online. Ho hum.

So Tijuana Cartel on Sunday at Mojo’s will no doubt be brilliant (they are also on tonight at Fly By Night), but also worth checking out tonight are Shooting from the Hip, and tomorrow night Boom Bam Pow, to raise awareness of domestic violence.

There’s also live music every night this w/e at Creatures Loft and the CD launch of the DomNicks at Clancy’s. Unfortunately I’ll be somewhere between City Beach and the city taking my sister’s clan to the aeroport. Oh, in another scoop for Metropolis Fremantle, Jarivs Cocker is coming here in December: he is the chap who famously (perhaps) ran up on stage and bared his arse to Michael Jackson. But he’s also a great singer/songwriter and once front man of 90s indie(ish) band Pulp. Get tickets now, you won’t be disappointed.

MJ wasn't impressed by his butt.

Love these guys! Check them out at the Fly tonight or at Mojo’s on Sunday.

So it’s going to be a scorcher this weekend, and not before time. I have the fan on in the house for the first time this summer, I’m wearing shorts and have plans for some minor sunburn later today. As a complete Friday bonus, the sea breeze hasn’t blown, meaning a late arvo swim will also be an option. And there are some good things going on in Freo this weekend… just to make a change

Friday night, 16th October

• Mojo’s – Abbe May plays tonight at Mojo’s, supported by Horny Pony & The Joe Kings. You can check out Abbe’s myspace for more details. From 8pm. Tickets $20 on the door.
• Clancy’s Fish Pub – Natalie Gillespie and Dave Brewer Band. Singer/songwriter and Blues guitar man.
• Fly By Night - Motown and Northern Soul. Tickets $10 from 8pm.
• Kulcha – The Whistling Dogs are an acoustic trio with an eclectic sound, making use of a variety of instruments like the charango, saxophone, singing saw and keyboards. Tickets $15 on the door.
• Norfolk Basement – The Witness and Hand Stands for Ants. The Basement’s myspace is a bit out of date, so have no info on these guys.
• Newport Hotel – Paper, Scissors, Rock. From 8pm.
• Moondyne Joe’s – Dave Gillam Trio. This place has some good acts in a friendly atmosphere.

Saturday night, 17thOctober

• Mojos’s – Sunshine Brothers A dub/reggae/soul combo via some sort of DJ set. $10 from 8pm.
• Clancy’s Fish Pub – Matt Gresham! From 9pm.
• Kulcha – Paul Gioia Trio. A night of hot Blues, Gospel and Jazz. Tix $18 on the door. From 8pm.
• Norfolk Basement – Kevin Smith & The Seven Story Jumpers. 8pm.
• Moondyne Joe’s - Murdermouse Blues

Sunday daytime.  The Fishing Fleet Festival.

This festival is part of Freo lore, and has ancient origins from Molfetta and Capo d’Orlando in Italy (which also give their names to the harbour wall roads in Freo).  The festival is a procession from St Patrick’s Basilica through Freo, to Fishing Boat Harbour.  A great one for the kids, finishing off with a huge fireworks display. I like fireworks.

Monday onwards. Clancy’s 21st Birthday Festival Week. More on this to follow.  Oh, and we’ll have a new mayor too.

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Having plain forgotten to offer any sort of guide to things going on over the holiday weekend, I hope this little round-up of this weekend’s activities will be handy for some, although not for the Blonde, who has been hanging out in Ibiza with Pete Tong and Eric Prydz

Friday night, 18th September

• Mojo’s – Fisherman’s Style. Not so fishy, more of the reggae beats from the likes of DJ Sorted and DJ Deruki. You know the ones. From 8pm. Tickets $10 on the door.
• Moondyne Joe’s - This place has changed a bit and some of their acts are brilliant. Tonight, the Gerard Maunick Trio.
• Little Creatures Loft – Ghost Hotel and Wolves At The Door. From 8pm.
• Seaview Tavern – Indie and Old School Rock, featuring DJ Samuels. Every week from 8pm. Click here for the poster.
• Newport Hotel – FELIX & DEGRAAF DJs play some rock and poptastic beats. From 8pm. Free.
• Clancy’s Fish Pub – Funkerellos. From 9pm.
• Fly By Night - CANCELLED.  Uh oh, The Jamie T gig has been cancelled for ‘medical reasons’. Speedy recovery please.

Saturday night, 19th September

• Mojos’s – the Stems! The first of their farewell shows, supported by The Early Hours (hooray) and others. Tix in advance from Heatseeker, may be some on the door.
• Clancy’s Fish Pub – Sneaky Weasel Gang. Blues, funk, reggae and rock combo. Super.  And they’re from sunny Mandurah. From 9pm.
• Kulcha – Comme Un Accord. An acoustic duo from some tiny island near Canada, folky music, meant to be v good. Tix $25 on the door. From 8pm.
• Norfolk Basement – Boom Bap Pow! Trashy doo-wop-pop is their mission. Sounds marvellous to me. 8pm, probably $10.
• Metropolis – Hi NRG. Of course what else. Don’t forget your kebab afterwards.
• Moondyne Joe’s - Murdermouse Blues

So I’m going to call a few of these places and get some more info if possible. Adios

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Not always easy to find a neat summary of decent gigs going on at the weekend in Freo. So we’ll give it a stab.

Friday night, 18th September

• Mojo’s – DM3 headline Mojos Bar for a night of old school Power Pop. From 8pm. Tickets $15 on the door.
• Little Creatures Loft – One Tiger Down. Sounds like cool music. From 8pm. Ticket price unknown, possibly free.
• Seaview Tavern – Ben Francis Band. Independent singer/songwriter, might be worth checking out.  From 8.30pm. Free (I think).
• Kulcha – BRASILINTIME is a filmic map that connects the world of Rio de Janeiro to the South Bronx. 8pm.  $10 on the door.
• Newport Hotel – FELIX & DEGRAAF DJs play some rock and poptastic beats. From 8pm. Free
• Clancy’s Fish Pub – Dilip and the Davs. Just spoke to Clancy’s and this gig is on; should be great. From 9pm. You can eat fish too.
• Fly By Night - South West Souls’ four resident DJ’s will have you dancing your socks off all night with an across the board mix of Motown, Northern Soul & Modern Soul. 8pm $10.

Saturday night, 19th September

• Mojos’s – Roger That plus quite a few other people. From 8pm. $15 on the door.
• Kulcha – The Lazy Railway… a young man with an old soul of gold. 8pm. $15 on the door.
• Clancy’s – CBC Jazz Orchestra. That’s as much info as I have.
• Norfolk Basement -Those International Playboys of Pleasure return…..OATS SUPPLY with guests. 8pm, probably $10.
• Metropolis – Hurray for Metropolis. Join the young ‘uns for Lady Penelope while downing vodka red-bulls. Classy.

Let me know if I’ve missed something that shouldn’t be.

I spotted a couple of naked ladies around town recently, the first graffito on Cantonment Street in the small alley beside the dive shop:

Coy Naked Lady

The second in the toilets at Mojo’s of North Fremantle:

Not So Coy Naked Lady

We like independent music radio. Go RTRFM!

Saturday 27 June 2009 @ The Railway Hotel (7pm–1am ) and Mojos (8pm–1am)

Here some more info from the RTR website:

RTRFM’s Fremantle Winter Music Festival returns for ’09 and hits the port city on Saturday June 27. This year we are taking over Mojos Bar and The Railway Hotel in North Fremantle for a night full of rockin’ tunes and sweet beats sure to warm a wintry WA night.

We have assembled a bunch of great bands at The Railway Hotel including the beautiful dark folk rock of Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke, the groove laden rock of The Harlequin League, Perth indie rock legends Adam Said Galore, meaty riffmeisters The Scotch of St James, the post rock bliss of Apricot Rail and the proto goth folk of Stereoflower.

In addition to this we have a whole stack of great solo acts at the The Railway in the shape of Fremantle pop stalwart Steve Parkin, quirky folk songstress Gosia Basinska, RTRFM favourite Benedict Moleta, the soul drenched blues of Hayley Beth and the post modern guitarscapes of Andrew Weir.

On top of all that live action we have great pleasure in presenting a DJ line up par excellence at Mojo’s Bar for this year’s Fremantle Winter Music Festival.

Get your dancing shoes on for the multi award winning drum n bass producer/DJ Shock One, Tuesday Full Frequency techmeister Massiv Trav, Community beat freak Diger Rokwell, Down Undeground dub deviant Sibilance and the chest shaking sub sonic production of Ylem.

Plus in the beer garden at Mojos there is another whole stack of DJs including Perth’s first sister of soul Mama Cass, the battle for Sousides supremacy between Claude Mono and Graceberg Slim, Black and Blue legend Paul Gamblin, Sunday Morning’s stalwart Lorraine Clifford, and El Ritmo groover Jade Nobbs.

Playing Times
Railway Main Stage
12.15 – 12.55am – Felicity Groom And The Black Black Smoke
11.15 – 11.55pm – Harlequin League
10.15 – 10.55pm – Adam Said Galore
9.15 – 9.55pm – The Scotch Of St James
8.20pm – 8.55pm – Apricot Rail
7.30 – 8pm – Stereoflower

Railway Solo Stage
11.55 – 12.15 – Steve Parkin
10.55 – 11.15 – Gosia Basinska
9.55 – 10.15 – Benedict Moleta
8.55 – 9.15 – Hayley Beth
8-8.20 – Andrew Weir

Mojos Main Stage
12pm – Shock One
11pm – Massiv Trav
10pm – Diger Rokwell
9pm – Sibilance Vs Ylem
8pm – Sibilance Vs Ylem

Beer Garden
Midnight – Mama Cass
11pm – Claude Mono Vs Graceberg
10pm – Paul Gamblin
9pm – Lorraine Clifford
8pm – Jade Nobbs

Presale tickets will be available this week. Subscribers can buy them for $15 here at RTRFM Events or at the offices of RTRFM on Beaufort St, Mt Lawley.

General Admission Tickets can be bought from Mills Record Bar and 78 Records for $20 plus booking fee and at Planet Video, online at RTRFM Events and the offices of RTRFM for $20. There will be limited door sales for more on the night.

The chatter in the Lady’s toilet at Mojo’s was nothing short of frenzied excitement as the prospect of seeing The Early Hours back on the stage had the girls digging a bit further for that lash extending mascara.

The bar had been a steady buzz of activity all night, although most of that buzz came from out the back, as the first few acts played to a thinly spread crowd who were wandering in and out with drinks. Unfortunate because the first acts didn’t get the applause they deserved for some great music and for fulfilling the often ignominious task of, in this case, being the warm up.

The Crowd

The Drinks

As H-hour approached things changed at pace: the smoking crowd slowly drifted into the main room filling it in no time. The girly groupies came in last, looking resplendent in their make-up and high heels, if slightly novel for the dingy music-bar surrounds of this timeless venue. Then the band snaked through and up onto the stage, met with a cheers from most, screams from some, they picked up their instruments and blasted straight in with Willing and Able, a crowd pleasing up-front rock-n-rolly rock number that brought the drinkers in closer and set the night off to a great start.

This was the Early Hours’ first gig in a long old while, and this comeback was obviously being looked forward to by more than just the usual crowd at Mojo’s. In fact, it was perhaps the most eclectic audience that I’ve seen in this compact music joint: a merry gang of lawyers to support their colleague Chet, an equally merry gang of those girly-groupies (largely here for Chet as well I gather), a few improbably large blokes who had made the drive down from Perenjori (where Kirk has been living for a few years), the usual Mojo’s suspects and of course, us.

The blonde was sporting her new hair-do and I was drinking my way through a seven hour jet-lag. The band’s set was well received, and it flew by, leaving us wanting more. The Early Hours obliged with another extended version of Willing and Able, before finally braving the crowd and leaving the stage for some well earned drinks.

The Early Hours are playing their next gig at the Fly By Night club in Fremantle next Saturday 9th May, as part of the Perth Pop Festival. Go and see them!!

The Early Hours

A strange man lurks in the ladies toilets at Mojo’s.

Ladies Toilet Door at Mojo's