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AS their name suggests, Nor-weigan electro rock out t Da-tarock are an eclectic bunch, with seemingly more in� u-ences than actual songs.

“We take our inspira-tion from all sorts of places,” Fredrik Saroea said from his hometown of Bergen, Nor-way.

“We don’t take a scientist approach, we just do what-ever.

“We are just music fans.

For the rst 500 shows we didn’t really regard ourselves as musicians. Datarock was like a cover band who made their own cover songs.”

The novices made good, with the slightly warped blue-print, keep a laundry list of in-� uences. They emerged from Bergen’s alternative house scene, where clear divisions existed between traditional guitar rock and electronica– two schools Datarock would successfully mesh.

With their DNA rooted in the late 1980s Manches-ter scene, they took lashings of Devo, Talking Heads and Blondie, and mixed it with

“90s alternative house stu� ”, of the Royksopp ilk.

The nished product caused quite the stir when it reached Australian radio-waves in 2005, through the unique, “electro clash” in-spired, Computer Camp Love.

The song Saroea scrib-bled on the back of a nap-kin, drunk in a bar one night, captured Aussie hearts and moved feet.

He owes a debt of grati-tude to Aussie listeners; after visiting our shores twice in 2006, their music went viral.

“It really kickstarted our international career,” he said.

Their fondness for fetch-

ing jump suits in their music videos also endeared them to the music fan looking for something a little left of cen-tre.

“We always wear them. Actually no, they always wear us,” he laughed.

Today, Saroea has just stepped o� the plane from a month-long tour of 20 shows in seven countries, from the US, France to Argentina. Kind of like music’s answer to The Amazing Race.

The highpoint of the tour was Santiago, Chile, which hosted festival juggernaut Lollapalooza for the rst time in Latin America.

“Everywhere we go in Latin America, we have a audience of approximately a thousand in club venues. So it was crazy,” he said.

It was a wild, disorientat-ing jaunt for Saroea and his cohorts.

“It was really weird, some of the guys thought we were in Singapore but we were in Santiago,” he laughed.

Their latest release is Cali-fornia, a place Saroea is fasci-nated by.

An EP, California is a slight compromise in size, at a time when bands across the world are ghting for attention from others, either dead or

alive. “In this day and age

you’re not only competing against your peers, you com-pete against everything ever released,” he said.

“I don’t think our fans care about albums, most of them care about songs.

“I don’t like basing my entire career on songs, even though I sort of have to, so an EP is the perfect middle ground for us.

“It’s sad there are many songs on albums nobody re-ally cared to get to know.”

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JUDGING from the packed house and level of energy at Dudley House last Friday night, this year’s Raw Arts Awards were a hit.

As I walked in little men were running around in suits all dressed up for the occasion; photographers snapped away furiously, posing young artists in front of their work.

People were crowding around artworks fervently debating their meaning.

Unfortunately I just missed Cr James Reade announcing the win-ners, but I didn’t miss the excite-ment – nor the amazing array of art in the space.

Fortunately I did bump straight into local artist Hugh Waller, who turned out to be the Visual Art judge for this year.

He also happened to be stand-ing underneath the winning work, Public Liberty, a lino-cut triptych by 16 year-old Catholic College art stu-dent, Morgan McCormick.

I went straight into grill mode with Hugh. Why did it win? What did you like about it? What does it say to you? Was it a big job?

With his usual good-natured humour and grinning broadly, Hugh did his best to answer my bar-rage of questions.

“Look it just really worked,” he said about Morgan’s three beautiful red-and-black works, mounted high

on the walls of Dudley House. “It was well put together and

very dynamic. The layers worked well, and you can really see the po-tential of the artist.”

For the Visual Art Acquisitive Award – Morgan’s winning piece will be bought by Bendigo Council on top of her $1000 cash scholar-ship prize – Hugh had to select the winning entry.

He also selected the Highly Commended runner-up, Stephanie Rigney for Dreaming of a Blue Dress, who won $250.

He chose from what was a highly competitive selection of 53 works. It was a big show by anyone’s standards, � lled with visual art of all description – paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography. Not an easy task.

Raw Arts has run since 1997, and presented by the City of Greater Bendigo via their Yo Bendigo youth

website. Entrants ranged from 9 to 25.

Prizes were also presented for Performing Arts (winner James Earl, Music); Literature (winner Emily Tatti for her story “In The Heat”) and Digital Media (Tobias Mambwe for Building All Is Love).

I managed to � nd Morgan who was in the midst of being congratu-lated by all and sundry, just after accepting her award. She was £ ab-bergasted.

“What was your reaction when you won?”, I asked.

“No words came out – I was just shocked!” she laughed, still gob-smacked, and coming o¥ the end of a long, sustained blush.

“This is the � rst real art competi-tion I’ve entered – and I won it!”

Drawing since she was little, Morgan learned the linocut tech-nique – a handmade printmaking technique, rarer in these days of

digital image-making – at Catholic College. Looking at her dystopian triptych, I immediately thought it was a response to 9/11.

“No, it’s meant to represent the man-made world,” she explained.

“We had an art project – to cre-ate a piece of work that represented either the natural world or man-made.” The idea to represent the lat-ter “just clicked straight away”, she said. Clearly it was a winner.

Morgan has great plans for her prize money. “I’m going to buy a caravan with it so I can put it in our backyard and have it as a studio. That way I won’t have to clean it up after I make something!”

A readymade studio. Perfect for a young artist about to come into her own.

‘A Best of Raw’ display is scheduled for early May at Shop 7, Allans Walk, commu-nity exhibition space.

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BEING spoilt for choice is generally not some-thing that people from regional areas can come to expect, especially not when it comes to live music o¥ erings.

However, this month is absolutely jam-packed with sensational gigs and it is making it incredibly di§ cult to de-cide which bands to go and see.

Groovin The Moo is just around the cor-ner, not to mention the awesome follow-up Jam With Toast morning-after-concert in The Civic Gardens.

Visiting The Music-man Megastore on April 27 are two sensational Christian metal groups from the USA known as Oh Sleeper and The Chariot. Judging by the footage I’ve seen, the chaotic performances will be nothing short of incredible.

This weekend in particular is also packed full of musical o¥ erings, with a host of talent making the trip up from Melbourne to get in on our Easter festivities and play us some music.

The music kicks o¥ this Friday night with Grand Perceptor, Rowan Blackmore and Aimee V playing The Newmarket Hotel while Eddie Amiet

and The Tides play The Basement Bar.

Saturday is a mas-sive day of music, start-ing o¥ with Downtown Bendigo’s Rock and Blues festival taking place live on Bull Street in the afternoon.

Acoustic singer TJ opens the event at 2pm ahead of infectious Melbourne soul group Cold Snap, phenomenal multi-instrumentalist Bones Blackwood and the sensational rock trio that is the Andrew Higgs Band.

From there, Cold Snap head to the Gold Dust Lounge, Bones makes his way to the Basement Bar and An-drew Higgs gears up for another set at The Golden Vine Hotel, each giving punters another chance to get amongst some great live music.

Saturday night also sees The Newmarket Hotel play host to an all-star host of Bendigo mu-sicians known as Band of Cloud.

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SIMON: You’ve got a massive Australian tour, including � ve Groovin The Moo shows coming up. What kind of work goes into a tour of this scale?

ESO: We try to amp it up everytime, not just to keep it fresh for the audience but to keep it fresh for ourselves. This puppy’s de� nitely got some legs let me tell you. We’ve got an incredible light show, it’s like an extravaganza, I’m scared of getting blind out there. It’ll be one of the longest sets we’ve ever done with a lot more underground tracks that we normally don’t do live at festivals. It’s going to be all balls out. We’ve got super support acts like Horror-show who are absolutely killing it at the moment.

SIMON: With the Groovin The Moo shows, are they going to be di� erent to the gigs you’ve been doing around the country?

ESO: Absolutely mate, absolutely. There will be people going to both shows, so we have to keep that in mind and keep it fresh for those crowds.

SIMON: You’ve done some US dates recently too?

ESO: It was a week-long festival (South by Southwest) in Austin, Texas where they shut down the town and it’s people busking on every corner, every pub has somebody playing in it. It’s an in-credible place for musicians all around the world to network and � nd out about each other, so we were de� nitely over there holding the � ag for Australian hip hop. It’s amazing, the festival is kind of open to the whole world. Wolfmother and The Temper Trap both played there, now they’re enjoying success in the states.

SIMON: Back to your new album, Running On Air, you had two massive features on it with Xzibit and RZA, how did you manage to get those guys on board?

ESO: We were like teenagers in the studio. Our management said there was a chance RZA might want to do a track . We know he wasn’t going to be over here to do it so we sent him a beat and he was basically like “Yep, this is my sh*t right here”. That was really cool, I’ve been a big Wu Tang Clan fan since Year Seven with my little Walkman on. Xzi-bit was di� erent, he was already over here doing a show in Adelaide. We called him up and asked him if he’d be interested. We knew him because we’d done some touring with him so we had that connection already. He said no worries and come out to the stu-dio in Mount Macedon and he stayed the night and we let him pick the beat. It was pretty surreal as I listened to these guys growing up. I remember as a kid wondering ‘Could you imagine if we worked with this person or that person?’ If you had told us

back then we’d end up working with RZA, I’d be like “Nah, you’re lying mate”. It’s very very humbling to get those kind of guys on the album.

SIMON: I guess it’s a good sign of where Aus-sie hip hop has gone on the map too.

ESO: For sure mate, let’s bridge the gap, let’s bridge the gap.

SIMON: I saw some footage the other day of Bliss working with M Phases. Has it always been that as soon as you � nish one album, you pretty much move on to the next one?

ESO: Mate we thrash hip hop. If I buy a new al-bum I thrash that puppy, so a month later I say to myself, “You know what, I may not put that on to-day”. That’s what it’s like with our music, we do so many live shows, we want to keep it fresh for our-selves and keep doing new things on stage. We’ve developed a really successful process for our pro-duction. When we’re writing for a track we’ll listen to the beat and think about the type of emotions we want to express. But for others we put the beat on and just freestyle to it so it’s not textbook stu� , we can be a little bit more open. Like my verse on Where The Wild Things Are was just a cool freestyle, I had nothing on a piece of paper. For Family A� air that chorus was a freestyle. The process allows for really intense writing but then we have a loose and free kind of thing.

Bliss N Eso play Groovin The Moo in Bendigo on April 30.

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BLISS N ESO are gunning for The Hilltop Hoods big time, holders of the throne as Aus-tralia’s number one hip hop act. And through hits like The Sea is Rising and Eye of the Storm, it seems like every local hip hop fan is partial to a bit of B & E. Simon Blake from Phoenix FM’s hip hop show, This Or That, caught up with one half of the duo, Eso aka Max “Tha Bizness” MacKinnon, before embarking on a huge national tour.

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cdreviewlight after darkArtist: Clare Maguire. Publisher: UniversalReview by Steve Kendall

I FIND it worrying when I am told about the next great voice. Funnily enough I like to decide for myself.Clare Maguire’s press has given her such an accolade. With Irish roots and now living in England, Clare has been a keen singer since she was a child and puts her heart and soul into this album, with great results.She has a great voice without a doubt, but I’m wondering if the pop style she presents is the right genre.There’s a depth of quality that’s lost in the pop production. There is Celtic soul and power there; maybe future albums will develop into a di� erent mould.Take a listen to the � nal track, “This is Not the End”, when you get the chance, that’s where I see her cast.That said Clare is a winner and the album is good. Give it a listen, and you can ignore me and decide for yourself.

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