STACK #143 Sept 2016

NEWS MUSIC

A DAY ON THE GREEN W ine and music go together like peas and carrots, except they're a far more entertaining pair. The brilliant A Day On The Green series is back, in which quality local and international acts perform in all of Australia's major wine-growing regions over the summer months, offering a spectacular environment in which to enjoy your picnic and a boogie.

I t's Big Sound time dollypops, and that means an absolute cavalcade of

new music; we take a feature-fied look at the artists for which we are going to elbow our way to the front. There're also interviews with Harts, Cass McCombs, Angel Olsen, Drapht, Glass Animals, Mike Noga and more, and meanwhile reviews are falling out of the sky: L.A. Salami, Wilco, Opeth, De La Soul, Big Scary, Venus II, Kishi Bashi and Roy & HG's This Sporting Life are among the downpour. Be good! Zo ë Radas (Music Editor) NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

L.A. Salami

Quite aside from the surroundings, you are seriously spoilt for choice amongst the line- ups organisers Roundhouse Entertainment have concocted in this, their 16th season: Simple Minds and the B-52's on one bill; Garbage and The Temper Trap on another; You Am I, Something For Kate and Spiderbait on a third; a collection of legends including Richard Clapton, Ross Wilson and Wendy Matthews on the Cassic Hits All Day bill; and the one and only Sugar Man himself, Rodriguez.

"W hat happens when an event occurs that is so catastrophic that you just change?” asks Nick Cave in the trailer for his impending film One More Time With Feeling . “You change from the known person to an unknown person. So that when you look at yourself in the mirror, you recognize the person that you were, but the person inside the skin is a different person.” The adored Australian icon and his band The Bad Seeds are releasing the enormously anticipated new album Skeleton Tree this month, along with the accompanying film, which is playing in very select cinemas around the country on Septmeber 8 (one day before the album arrives). Directed by

Andrew Dominik ( Chopper , Killing Them Softly ), One More Time With Feeling was originally conceived as a performance- based feature, but evolved into something very different after Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur died in a tragic accident in July last year, having fallen from a cliff in Ovingdean, Brighton (where the Cave family relocated in 1980). Skeleton Tree and One More Time With Feeling promise to be gripping explorations of Cave’s grief, sifted through the inimitable sieve of his musical talents. Stay tuned next month for our discussion of the album and film from this most perspicacious and beloved of Australian artists.

Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is out September 9 via Bad Seed Ltd/Kobalt. One More Time With Feeling is out Septmeber 8.

The venues include All Saints Estate, Mitchelton Wines and Rochford Wines (pictured above) in Victoria; Leconfield Wines, Peter Lehmann Wines and Annie's Lane in South Australia, Petersons Winery and Robert Oatley Vineyards in New South Wales; and others in Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia. Head to adayonthegreen.com.au to see full details.

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