OzProg Newsletter #007 - September 2008 WELCOME Well well well, here we are with lucky newsletter number seven! This month we welcome two new contributors into our midst: Perth's own David Dovey (so now you Westerners finally have some local representation on the OzProg staff!), and Melbourne's Gary Dickson. A hearty welcome to them both! Hot off the presses we have an interview with James Ing of Melbourne rockers Calling All Cars. Chances are if you've been to an gig in the past year or so, Calling All Cars were one of the support acts, having played with Birds of Tokyo, Gyroscope, The Hot Lies, Kisschasy, at Come Together... the list goes on and on. Ing chatted with Gary Dickson about moving to Melbourne, recording their EP Animal and much more. In other news, as you may have heard, Opeth's all-ages show planned for The Arena in Brisbane last week was disrupted when Queensland's liquor licensing authority revoked the all-ages designation given to the show. As a result, dozens of people under 18—some of whom had traveled hundreds of kilometers and paid for accomodation—were barred from entering the show and seeing Opeth. Obviously this is a mess, not to mention totally unacceptable in a world where all-ages shows are painfully hard to come by on a good day anyway. OzProg's Brisbane representatives are trying to get to the bottom of what happened, but in the meantime if you'd like to join the discussion you can do so on the OzProg forum. All-ages shows are so monumentally important to the survival of live gigs and, more generally, music itself that to put them in jeapordy for no good reason threatens more than just the ability of some under-18s to have a good time. To complain about the Opeth situation directly to Liquor Licensing Queensland, check out the contact information on the liquor.qld.gov.au website. FEATURED ARTIST - TANGLED THOUGHTS OF LEAVING Our first featured artist from the fertile musical breeding ground that is Perth, Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving create a delicious blend of prog, rock and jazz into a fusion not often heard in Australia. As our review of their EP Tiny Fragments says: "They've created an EP that takes metal, funk, jazz, post rock, prog rock/metal, moments of electronica and mixes it all up in a way that really finds each part complimenting the next." Read our review of Tiny Fragments Listen to Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving on MySpace WANT TO WRITE FOR OZPROG? We're ramping up our efforts to source high-quality contributors for our website as it continues to grow, so if YOU would like to be involved, please get in touch with us through OzProg.com! Keep in mind that OzProg is not FasterLouder (as much as we love FL!), and we do have quality and style requirements. If you're capable of stringing some words together and would like free access to some great CDs and gigs, send us a sample of your work and you could be jet-setting around the country in OzProg's private jet! (And by that I mean writing articles for us.) Until next time, Bradley Dixon RECENT NEWS · VARLIIBA announce EP launch · MUSHROOM GIANT announce comeback show · BRISMETAL.COM RECORDS compilation nearing release · PELICAN and THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES to release split CD · First PYRAMID ROCK FESTIVAL acts revealed · 'NEATH reveal title and tracks for new album · MARILLION post album update · THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT announce national tour · NE OBLIVISCARIS announce comeback show · COG extend Sharing Space tour RECENT REVIEWS · Laura - Yes Maybe No (6.5/10) · Chaos Divine @ Railway Hotel, Fremantle · Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving - Tiny Fragments (8/10) · Sargent Sapphire - The Ants Go Marching (6/10) · Nucleus - Circumvolution (8/10) · A State of Flux @ Revolver Upstairs, Melbourne · The Rex Wicked - The World Could Turn Around (7.5/10) · Opeth - Watershed (9/10) · Disturbed - Indestructible (7.5/10) OZPROG ELSEWHERE · Check out our MySpace profile. · Become a fan of OzProg on Facebook! You have been sent this email because you signed up for the OzProg Newsletter. To unsubscribe, please visit www.ozprog.com/newsletter and enter your email address.