LIVE WIRE – Sydney Live Music Guide April 12th

This Thursday April 12th you can catch experimental jazz group The Java Quartet. Featuring ARIA winning table virtuoso Bobby Singh and Aussie hip hop producer Morganics, the group explores east and west as the groups’ modal jazz excursions take them through hip-hop, dance floor electronica and traditional Hindustani music. That’s happening at venue 505. For heavy music lovers, Melbourne three piece Sub Atari Live will be playing at The Square. The group features members from hard hitters Mammal, electronic rock group MM9 and live jungle/drum n bass outfit K-Oscillate. The three piece are building a rep for having a mammoth stage sound and unbridled live energy. They’re supported by Beggars Orchestra, Geminine and The Wire.

On Friday April 13th indie pop, rock, hip-hop, everything group Blue Juice will be playing tunes from their latest and most well received album to date Company. The group have hit their stride on this third album and they’ve always been known for their energetic and often sweaty live performances. This is going down at the Metro Theatre and supports are Loon Lake (Melb) and The Cairos (Bris). Over at Good God Small Club you can catch indie art-rock dance group My Disco. For those not in the know, their sound is a wall of jagged guitar stabs, punk vocals, disco drum beats and pumping bass in odd times signatures yet all the while remaining very danceable. They’re supported by Guerre.

Saturday April 14th experimental supergroup The Tango Saloon will be playing their exciting brand of tango, rock, gypsy, jazz mayhem at the Factory Theatre. The nine piece group consists of members from Mr Bungle, Monsieur Camembert, Darth Vegas, Hermitude and they’ve worked with esteemed guests such as Elana Stone and Faith No More/Mr Bungle frontman Mike Patton. Classic 90s psychedelic grunge band Tumbleweed are back together and playing a whole host of festivals and club shows. The group was part of the same generation of rockers as Powderfinger and Spiderbait and they’ve been admired by groups such as Kyuss, Swervedriver and even Nirvana. Not bad for a band of mates from Wollongong. Tumbleweed will be previewing material from their latest album at the Annandale Hotel alongside Cabins and The Treatment. Over at the Beach Rd Hotel you can get an earful of some of Sydney’s hottest musicians playing rocksteady and reggae music as seasoned one-drop stalwarts King Tide are joined by Inner West based psychedelic reggae rock fiends Sticky Fingers.

Finally on Wednesday April 18th Aya Larkin– frontman of now defunct Aussie urban funk group Skunkhour- is back and he’s got an album full of wonderfully catchy and soulful pop music. The single Too Late To Turn Away Tonight is a great example of what we can look forward to from an artist who’s been in hiding for way too long, with its lounge laid back groove and an uplifting melodic hook for a chorus that’s perfectly suited to Larkin’s smooth vocals.