1AM Issue 16 Let It Rock!

m a 1 3 201 L I PR

A CH/ R A M 16 E U S N IS O I H S N FA I T FIRS

let it

rock

!

welcome to 1AM ‘let it rock! from the early jazz clubs, through rock’n’roll, disco, punk, new wave, dance music, grunge and beyond, ‘the devils music’ was always considered a symbol of rebellion, the voice of the underground, embraced by youth over the decades as a way of defining themselves from the previous generation and for those on the fringe considered outsiders. but for most of us now, its just a part of life.

CONTENTS 1AM 16 MARCH/APRIL 2013 UPFRONT 12-20 1AM profiles 22 1AM too pretty for punk 32 1AM fly-by-nights FEATURES 42 1AM let it rock 62 1AM brooke candy 72 1AM grrlfriendz 90 1AM $noregazzzm 102 1AM michelle ang 108 1AM chelsea girls 130 1AM femme fatale 144 1AM come as you are 154 1AM snakefest 176 1AM waiting for the man 200 1AM@1.00AM laneway festival

KATESYLVESTER.COM

1AM ISSUE 16 COVER STAR ASHLEIGH GOOD PHOTOGRAPHED

BY KAREN INDERBITZEN-WALLER see story page 42

m 1a PUBLISHER/ CREATIVE DIRECTOR GLENN HUNT FASHION EDITORS GLENN HUNT KAREN INDERBITZENWALLER JONATHAN NICHOLLS IMOGEN WILSON YESHE DAWA NOELLE PARISI WRITERS BARNEY MCDONALD GLENN HUNT PEARL MCGLASHAN

SUBS CR to 1A IBE M

S R O T U B I R CONT PHOTOGRAPHERS

MAKEUP/HAIR

KAREN INDERBITZENWALLER GLENN HUNT KITTY RIDDELL STEPHEN TILLEY CARLOS NUNEZ ALEXANDER HOYLES FRANCES CARTER ANDREI BLIDAREAN LILY FRASER KRISTINA YENKO FLORENCE NOBLE

AMBER D SOPHY PHILLIPS BRIGHDE RIDDELL MICHELLE BRINDLE ANGIE PEEK ALIANA MOSS JESS CHAPMAN ROXANNE CAHILL INTERN EMMA HARRISON

www.beaucoops.com

1AM

O C S A P C I R CED

photo by GLENN HUNT CEDRIC @ N MODEL MANAGEMENT wears top

by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, shorts and studded hat both bought online, shoes by DEMONIA, bandana from $2 shop.

Who are you and What do you do?

I’m Cedric and I'm a model currently signed to N Model Management.

What's the most rebellious thing you've ever done? I smoked weed at school with a couple of mates and we got caught and suspended. I supplied the weed so I got in a bit more trouble.

Do you consider yourself an outsider and why? Yes! I'm the worst when it comes to making friends or fitting in. I mean, I love making new friends but I hate meeting people. I can't explain it. I just get really nervous and I don't know what to say or how to react to something someone says.

I get all shaky. It's weird. I really do try to converse with people though.

What most fucks you off at the moment? There's so many things that fuck me off right now that I could probably write a novel! But the number 1 thing that really makes me want to rip someone's head off is when people use other people to get somewhere or get something. I know it's common but I never realized how common it was until I got into modeling. I've never been used though, hopefully. Three things you couldn't live without?

My laptop, phone, and family. Poison of choice? Straight vodka! Best gig you've seen? I'm going to sound like a total dick but LADY GAGA. Probably the most generic pop music of all time but her shows are amazing. There's so much that goes into her performances.

Enlightening message for the world? Fuck what other people think.

Who are you and what do you do?

I'm Lily, I live for a living. For an interest I model, photograph, design and hustle my way through life best I can.

What's the most rebellious thing you've ever done? This would get me in trouble hahaha! I'm tinted with pyromania and the urge to go against what everyone says, so it's really a recipe for disaster. I'll leave that to your imagination.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? I don't label myself, but it's up to others what they think. I like looking in from the outside.

What most fucks you off at the moment? People, and their lack of integrity.

Three things you couldn't live without? Jared, designer items, and my graphic design setup (Laptop, monitor, Wacom tablet).

Poison of choice? Anything lethal.

Nothing legal.

Best gig you've played or seen?

In bed with one of my guitars, sleep rockin'.

Enlightening message for the world? Read 1am Magazine x FTP

D O R A J & Y L I L 1AM

photos by LILY FRASER @ CLYNE MODELS clothes by MOODIE TUESDAY

Who are you and what do you do?

Support Specialist for an NZ ISP, computer and network engineer.

What's the most rebellious thing you've ever done? Pulled the fingers at the cops whilst passing them in a 7 series BMW. At 240kmph.

Do you consider yourself an outsider and why? I love street racing, I love fucked up gigs and I love body mods, I think tattoo's and piercings should be the norm and forget its not normal to have coloured hair.

What most fucks you off at the moment/currently?

Shit talkers and betrayal.

Three things you couldn't live without? Close mates, Shincup Noodles, Music.

Poison of choice?

Pharmaceuticals.

Best gig you've seen? Either Peaches or Muse, can't decide, both were epic.

Enlightening message for the world? Drink Robotussin, it makes your life fucking way better.

1AM J

OEL FL YGER

photo by LILI SUMNER

Who are you and what do you do? I’m Joel and I play guitar and sing in POPSTRANGERS. Whats your best/biggest achievement to date?

Paying last months rent.

What's the most rebellious thing you've ever done? Sent a txt message while driving.

What most fucks you off most at the moment?

Perhaps people I know.

Three things you couldn't live without? Water, oxygen and sunlight.

Drink of choice? Whiskey.

Best gig you've played or seen? Carpark Records showcase in New York last year.

Kick ass plans for the future? Going overseas on tour.

click to see the video for POPSTRANGERS first single HEAVEN from their brand new album ANTIPODES out now.

WWW.WHITEBOXBOUTIQUE.COM CLICK TO SHOP ONLINE NOW Free Shipping Nationwide

1

G N A G M A

R U O OF F

photo by GLENN HUNT

Who are you and what do you do?

I’m SEB MCGIRRHUNT. I intern at Ciel PR and am a brand scout for Lab&Id Whats your biggest achievement to date? Victoria Beckham once said I was funny. What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done?

Once i got pulled over for speeding and i was wearing a top that said FTP - oops! 4: Do you consider yourself an outsider? Na I’m an inny thats just how my imbilical cord was cut. What most fucks you off at the moment?

Lint!!!!! Three things you couldn’t live without? Dizengoff cafe, my twitter and my blog - just joking that was me pretending that I’m fashion blogger - but im not so; pizza. Mom and a cuddle. Poison of choice?

Free stuff! Best gig you’ve seen?

Grimes was pretty cool cos we meet her and we were kissing her lolz! Kick ass plans for the future? Maybe a nice brunch on Saturday morning (LOL). Enlightening message for the world? Follow my Instagram for some englightening @sebmcgirrhunt Who are you and what do you do?

I’m DYLAN RICHARDS and for a living i stay fabulous. I also intern at Ciel PR. Whats your biggest achievement to date? Driving in my 8inch platforms. What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done?if i told u id be in trouble. Do you consider yourself an outsider?

Naa, others might - but haters gonna hate. What most fucks you off at the moment? Crap bloggers. Three things you couldn’t live without? iPhone, platforms, my car. Poison of choice? Cider. Best gig you’ve seen? Supervillians. Kick ass plans for the future? Badass clothes designed by yours truly. Enlightening message for the world? iPhone kissing Emoji.

Who are you and what do you do?

I’m HELEN PARKINSON. I work at a drycleaners and a part time stripper.

Whats your biggest achievement to date? Moving out of home and making lots of dollars. What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Stealing my Mums eftpos card and paying for my first tattoo when she was totally against it. Do you consider yourself an outsider? Not when I’m with my group but otherwise yes, in the way I dress and the things I say.

What most fucks you off at the moment? When people try to tell me what to do or when I’m telling someone what to do and they don’t do it right.

Three things you couldn’t live without? iPhone, cigarettes and my mum. Poison of choice? Alcohol of course. Best gig you’ve seen? Either Crystal Castles or Grimes. Kick ass plans for the future? Going to London and living with my Aunty and creating a life there. Enlightening message for the world? Dollaz over dicks xxx Who are you and what do you do?

I’m BENJAMIN ALEXANDER. I study fashion at Whitecliffe and make mother-fucking hot shit. Whats your biggest achievement to date?

Nothing compares to what I’m gonna do in the near future. What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done?

Started a bar fight. Do you consider yourself an outsider? Yes and no.

What most fucks you off at the moment? People take me both way too seriously and not seriously enough.

Three things you couldn’t live without? My clothes, iPhone and me Ma. Poison of choice? Rum. Best gig you’ve seen? Gags first time.

Kick ass plans for the future?

Couture Benjaminalexander!

Enlightening message for the world? Move over cunts, I’m coming!

left to right: SEB wears jumper by BENJAMIN ALEXANDER, ADIDAS skirt over ADIDAS pants; DYLAN wears leather harness by BLUE BLANK and all else op shop; HELEN and BEN both wear all opshop.

R E T N I W N E B

U R M 1A

photo by FRANCES CARTER

Who are you and what do you do?

I'm Reuben, I make music under the name TOTEMS. I'm also a part of CAROLES, GOTENKS and the KCB family. I've been in a bunch of other bands too.

Whats your biggest achievement to date? I guess playing the BDO/ Opening for DEERHOOF/HEALTH in 2010. But I'm also opening for LUNICE and GOLD PANDA in the next month or so, which is pretty surreal.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? I dunno, I used to smoke pot every day in my room for a

while when I was 14?

Do you consider yourself an outsider and why? I guess I’m an outsider, in the sense that I’m into a lot of weird shit that not many other people are and I’ve never really had that many close friends. With that being said, I get along with most people quite well.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Music, Weed and the Internet.

Poison of choice? Whiskey+Ginger Ale or Sizzurp Best gig you’ve played or seen?

KING BROTHERS when I was 12 and

it ripped my mind open. Very close second is the last 2 DEERHOOF shows in NZ. Kick ass plans for the future?

I'm hopefully going to tour the west coast of the US in Sept/Oct/Nov, which should be pretty fucking tight.

Enlightening message for the world? Everyone please chill the fuck out and smoke more weed. I feel like a lot of people take everything too seriously and get way to caught up in their extremely materialistic lives, which is funny ‘cos in the end all of that shit is super meaningless.

I'M A PHOTO WALL

HIRE ME, i'm REALLY CHEAP, & really easy

(possibly the Cheapest thrill you'll find on krd) 155B KRD, AKLD

photography by KRISTINA YENKO fashion by NOELLE PARISI model LAURA @ VIVIENS MODELS makeup by JESS CHAPMAN hair by ROXANNE CAHILL

1AM TOO PRETTY FOR

shirt by GLASSONS, jacket by GUESS, dress stylist’s own, nose ring stylist’s own, choker COLETTE

BY COLETTE HAYMAN.

PUNK

t-shirt and dress stylist’s own, boots WINDSOR SMITH, earring stylist’s own.

shirt and pants COOPER

by TRELISE, shoes WINDSOR SMITH, bowtie

by DOCTOR DENIM, necklace and ring COLETTE BY COLETTE HAYMAN.

coat COOPER by TRELISE, shoes WINDSOR SMITH, choker: choker COLETTE

BY COLETTE HAYMAN.

dress GIA by GUESS, boots WINDSOR SMITH, headband COLETTE BY COLETTE HAYMAN.

vest and shorts by GLASSONS, shoes WINDSOR SMITH, belt and collar stylist’s own, cuffs COLETTE BY COLETTE HAYMAN.

click on items to SHOP NOW >

jumper by MISSGUIDED, skirt

by GLASSONS, suspenders stylist’s own, cuff COLETTE

BY COLETTE HAYMAN.

click on item to SHOP THIS NOW >

MINK PINK

the latest craze in crazy frames ain’t about being cool - it’s about looking fly!! photographed at the legendary CASSETTE 9 wednesday club night TEENAGE KICKS by GLENN HUNT and FLORENCE NOBLE

A

F M

B LY

N Y

KAREN WALKER EYEWEAR

S T H

G I N

LE SPEC’S

MODELS OWN

HOUSE OF HOLLAND

HOUSE OF HOLLAND

MIU MIU

click on item to SHOP THIS NOW >

SABRE

MODELS OWN

HOUSE OF HOLLAND

HOUSE OF HOLLAND

KAREN WALKER

click on item to SHOP THIS NOW >

KSUBI

HOUSE OF HOLLAND

click on item to SHOP THIS NOW >

ZAMBESI

Photography & styling Karen Inderbitzen-Waller & Delphine Avril Planqueel model Jay @ Clyne models

CLICK WATC TO VIDEO H SHOO OF 1AM T ON TV

NZ SUPERMODEL ASHLEIGH GOOD ROCKS THE DECADES OF MUSIC HERE IN THIS A/W 2013 FASHION PREVIEW...

PHOTOGRAPHY & FASHION BY KAREN INDERBITZEN-WALLER MODEL ASHLEIGH GOOD @ RPD MAKEUP BY AMBER D FOR M.A.C HAIR BY SOPHY PHILLIPS FOR STEPHEN MARR LIGHTING, DIGITAL & SET DESIGN BY DELPHINE AVRIL PLANQUEEL

1AM R O LETIT

OCK!

ROCKIN THE ‘50S polo top by MARNI at SCOTTIES, bustier dress by ZAMBESI.

ROCKIN THE ‘50S pink angora sweater

by KAREN WALKER, dress by PHILIP LIM at PLAYPARK, vintage MARC JACOBS shoes stylists own.

ROCKIN THE ‘60S: sweater by MARTIN GRANT at SCOTTIES, vintage earrings.

ROCKIN THE ‘60S: dress by KAREN WALKER, loafers by BEAU COOPS for KAREN WALKER, hosiery and earrings stylists own.

ROCKIN THE ‘70S: shirt and velvet scarf

by ZAMBESI.

ROCKIN THE ‘70S: jacquard jacket and trousers by KATE SYLVESTER, shirt by YOHJI YAMMAMOTO at SCOTTIES, socks by COMME DES GARCONS at SCOTTIES, vintage shoes stylists own.

ROCKIN THE ‘80S: metallic leather jacket by KATE SYLVESTER, vintage earrings stylists own

ROCKIN THE ‘80S: collar and skirt by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, jacket by AUT Rookie SANGHO HA, lace bra by ZAMBESI, heels by KATE SYLVESTER, vintage hosiery and choker stylists own.

ROCKIN THE ‘90S: leather dress

by AUT Rookie CHARLOTTE EASSON, bomber by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, vintage choker stylists own.

ROCKIN THE ‘90S: dress by ANN DEMEULEMEESTER at SCOTTIES, sneakers by ADIDAS x JEREMY SCOTT, vintage HELMUT LANG tank and choker stylists own. thanks to KINGSIZE STUDIOS and ROSE PACKARD DUBE.

DESCRIBED AS ‘THE POST-APOCALYPTIC LIL’ KIM, FASHION ICON BROOKE CANDY IS A REBELLIOUS SCARY - BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID! 1AM EXCLU BROOKE PHOTOGRAPHED IN L.A BY CARLOS NUNEZ FASHION BY JONATHAN NICHOLLS

1 AM E K O O BRCAN DY

STRIPPER TURNED RAPPER, PUNK PRINCESS AND S NEW BREED OF SUPERSTAR: SEXY, STRONG & USIVE COVER STORY BY BERNARD D MCDONALD.

“BROOKE CANDY IS LIKE A STRIPPER RAPPER. SHE’S SO AWESOME. ONE OF THE REASONS I WENT TO LA TO SHOOT THE OBLIVION VIDEO WAS BECAUSE I SAW HER AT A PARTY AND SHE WAS LIKE THE CRAZIEST PERSON I’D SEEN IN MY LIFE. I WANTED TO MAKE A VIDEO OF JUST HER. I HAVE PROJECTIONS IN MY LIVE SHOW THAT ARE OUTTAKES OF HOURS OF HER DOING CRAZY SHIT THAT I COULDN’T USE IN MY VIDEO. SHE’S KIND OF AN ARTSY STRIPPER. I DON’T THINK SHE WORKS IN A TYPICAL STRIP CLUB. IT’S MORE PERFORMANCE ART THAN STRIPPING. WHEN YOU SEE HER PERFORM IT’S PRETTY VIOLENT AND AGGRESSIVE. BROOKE ISN’T ABOUT BEING A RANDOM HOT GIRL. SHE’S INTO INTIMIDATING PEOPLE. THE REASON I REALLY WANTED TO WORK WITH HER IS THAT SHE’S REALLY INTO RECONTEXTUALISING THINGS LIKE PORNOGRAPHY AND RECLAIMING THAT KIND OF IMAGERY THAT’S USED TO DEMEAN WOMEN. I’VE ALWAYS HAD A FASCINATION WITH THINGS THAT BORDER ON THAT KIND OF VAGUELY PORNOGRAPHIC THING BUT ARE EITHER NOT SEXUAL OR ARE BEING USED FOR SOME OTHER PURPOSE. I THINK BROOKE EMBODIES THAT.” GRIMES ON BROOKE

HAIR BY ANGIE PEEK

MAKE UP BY ALIANA MOSS

STYLIST ASSISTANT SARAH JANE RUGG

this page and previous spreads: BROOKE wears W.I.A Collections tee and leggings, customised Adidas Superstar, jewellery her’s and stylist’s own.

BROOKE wears bra her own, jewellery her’s and stylist’s own

“DOESN’ T FUCK YO MATTER IF Y OU’RE A U ONE S ECOND A ND

A CHICK O R PUNCH Y A DUDE, I’LL OU OUT STILL THE NEX T”

Brooke wears vintage fur coat, bra her own, jewellery her’s and stylist’s own

WHO IS BROOKE CANDY? I’m an LA-based rapper/warrior princess speaking my truth and battling oppression on all levels. Helping free women of sexual stigmas and letting the world know FagMob is taking over Was it a long journey for you to reach the release of your debut single Das Me? Well, it’s taken my whole life to gain the life experiences that influenced the sentiments expressed in Das Me. I had to experience the double standards and figure out who I am as a woman to spit the way I do in the single.

Whos Asian toddler is that on a leash in the video?

The stylist pulled him for me. Asian toddlers are really big for winter and I think they’ll last all the way through spring 2013 Did you get some extreme comments or reactions when people saw you?

I’ve been getting extreme reactions my whole life, the only difference is now a lot more of them are documented in misspelled user comments for the world to see.

What’s the most outrageous thing you’ve done?

Depends on what you consider outrageous. I mean, a threesome with identical twins is pretty kooky, but I’m a freaky bitch so outrageous is in a whole different context for me Where does porn fit in to your world?

I respect everybody’s hustle and everyone’s freedom, but I wouldn’t consider my art to be a part of the porn industry. But keep doing it, babes. I’m a big fan.

How did you get into stripping? Are you still working?

I got started as sort of a way of diving head first into the performance waters.

If I can show my pussy to 40 sweaty dudes licking their lips and throwing crumpled singles, then I can definitely rap for thousands of legitimate music fans there to appreciate me for exactly who I am. My performance and recording schedule doesn’t allow me to strip anymore, but I’m not against going back and doing a pole dance cameo.

Is it hard to shock people now?

Probably. I don’t really set out to shock anyone. I just do me and express myself in a way that I feel hasn’t been

done before. And if it doesn’t fit into the perfect mold of what you think an artist should be doing, then it’s not for you.

Are you & your friends inspired by the New York club kids from the 80s, and folk like Leigh Bowery?

My close friends and I don’t really pull from the club kids, that Party Monster scene. We’re definitely more inspired by the memorable looks of Lil’ Kim, Cam’Ron, Christina Aguilera and the others who made a splash by doing something different at events where most celebrities are encouraged to play it safe.

You’ve been described as “the postapocalyptic Lil’ Kim”? Is that a pretty accurate description?

That’s an honour. Every new artist is going to be immediately compared to someone before them, so for me to be compared to Kim is an honour. I’m huge fan.

How important is it to have close friends involved in what you’re doing?

I’m very fortunate that my best friends are so talented and capable of helping me achieve my vision. They’re the people I love and trust the most and they have understood my vision long before I had the platform to portray it.

We have similar reference points so it makes the creative process a lot easier than trying to explain a reference to someone you’re not close with.

What do you guys like to do most?

I like to surround myself with talented and driven people, so the thing we really like to do most is create and bring our visions to life, whether it be recording or conceptualising a video or look. We love to put our ideas into action. And of course we like to be passing a blunt throughout the entire process.

Who made your silver body armour for the Grimes video?

The silver body armour and all my robotic sexy warrior looks were created

by LA-based designer Seth Pratt, who happens to be one of my best friends.

Many of the looks that you’ve seen me in are collaborative designs between he and I. What’s been your best look?

Each look I do is better than the last.

I’m pretty excited for you all to see my new video, Everybody Does. A lot of those looks are what I’d consider to be

the next level for me. My looks are only getting better, dawg.

You can look very intimidating in your pictures & videos, but are you really a pussycat?

Depends which side of me needs to come out. I’m a really loving passionate person who loves to cuddle, but I’ll get crazy on a motherfucker so really don’t cross me.

And you like cats too, huh?

Pussy run errthang.

You’ve been quoted as saying you’re a lover and a fighter. Have you always been bisexual?

I’ve always been attracted to both genders, just depends on the person.

And I really don’t discriminate with my crazy ass ways. Doesn’t matter if you’re a chick or a dude, I’ll still fuck you one second and punch you out the next.

Do your mum or dad get what you’re about?

They sort of know what I do but don’t keep up with everything, I really don’t do this for them though.

What did your father do “behind the scenes” for Hustler magazine?

I’d tell you but I’d have to kill you.

Are you ambitious?

I’m really ambitious. I came from nothing and now you’re interviewing me for your magazine. I know with my ambition, vision and work ethic there’s no limit for me. This time next year I’ll run the world. Watch.

How important to your profile was Grimes’ Genesis video?

Shout out to Grimes. That’s my bitch.

She understood my vision from the beginning. I know a lot of people saw me from that video that probably wouldn’t have seen me otherwise, so I’ll always be grateful that she gave me that opportunity.

What are your impressions of Claire and her work as Grimes?

She’s the shit. I know her hustle and respect her vision and how much creative control she maintains over her whole project as it continues to grow into this monster career. I have mad love and respect for her.

CLICK ATCHTO GRRW LF R LIVE IENDZ 1AM ON TV

GRRLFRIE 1AM

PLAYING A PROLIFIC ROUND OF HOUSE PARTIES AND SUPPO ‘TOY LOVE TRIBUTE’ DAY PERFORMANCE, WITH A SET OF S THREE YOUNG POP-PUNK PRETTIES – ANNABEL DONALD ( AND SOPHIA LAWLER-DORMER (DRUMS) – ARE FAST BECO COME HANG AND CHAT WITH THE GRRLFRIENDZ IN THIS

ENDZ

ORT GIGS SINCE THEIR BREAKOUT REAL GROOVY RECORDS SASSY SONGS AND A STAGE PRESENCE TO BOOT, THESE (GUITAR/BACKING VOCALS), TOYAH WEBB (LEAD VOCALS) OMING THE DARLINGS OF THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC SCENE. S 1AM EXCLUSIVE, SHOT HERE IN SOPHIA’S BEDROOM...

GRRLFRIENDZ INTERVIEWED BY PEARL MCGLASHAN PHOTOGRAPHED BY KITTY RIDDELL FASHION BY IMOGEN WILSON HAIR AND MAKEUP BRIGHDE RIDDELL

SO, HOW DID YOU ALL MEET? Toyah: Um. It was like January (2012) and Sophia and I were at a party. We’d known each other since intermediate school and kind of reunited, and in one of Sophia’s drunken rambles, we decided to start a girl band. Then, well, I didn’t really know Annabel but she was a mutual friend kind of, and someone told me she was a really good guitarist. So Sophia got in touch and then Annabel like showed up at my house in her school uniform and was like, “I’ve come to jam with you!”

Annabel: Yeah and then me and Toyah jammed.

Toyah: Yeah but from what I remember it was kind of like, folk… country?

Sorta?

So it was just a vocals and guitar jam?

T: Well it was just kinda my introduction to Annabel S: Yeah but I was set on having a punk band, so I was just like, “Yup, this is what we’re doing.”

And starting the band came from an idea at a party?

A: It came from Sophia and a bottle of whiskey.

S: Me and a bottle of whiskey can come up with a lot…

T: But we had all been in previous bands.

S: Toyah was in a proper band.

T: that I then dropped out of to be in this band.

Toyah, you just came out of a year ar art school and Sophia and Annabel, you just finished high school - so other than making music, what do you all do?

S: Im just looking for a new full-time job And what did you do?

S: Ahem, I was a hair dressers assistant, and I washed out dyes, and uh, chatted with middle aged women about their stupid fucking husbands and their bloody dumbass lives, and, and their children in their private schools.

A: Hey! S: Oh yeah sorry.

T: And you wonder why you can’t find a new job.

I heard someone make the comment that you all came from private schools is that the case?

S: No way. Me… in a private school… would be, hilarious.

T: I went to a semi-private – didn’t work out. Dropped out.

A: I went to a private school for my last year of school, but what does that even say about a person? It says my parents are slightly controlling, and wanted me to go to a private school. Didn’t do anything, evidently.

T: Annabel has been working at vintage stores on K-Rd but now has a job at Glassons!

T: and I work at Greenpeace, which is really cool.

What do you do at Greenpeace?

T: mostly telefundraising, occasionally going out onto the street, very occasionally, doing things like going to events like Christmas in the park to get signatures on petitions and things like that.

Do you go to protests?

T: I went to the recent protest against the TPPA before it turned nasty, but that wasn’t actually a Greenpeace organized event.

Back to your music - so how have been getting your gigs, have you been going out and asking people or has it all sort of fallen into your laps?

S: People just email us! It’s kind of crazy.

A: they’re just like, “wanna play a gig?” and we’re like, “Yup”. The Die!Die!Die! one was a really big surprise.

Do you say yes to everything?

A: Most things, but not everything.

We are starting to have to be more selective.

T: Either just because we’re so busy or its not our style..

A: But so far they’ve all been really good gigs, like we haven’t been offered anything that we didn’t want to play. If something came up and we didn’t want to play it we’d say no, but we’re getting offered to play with established bands like Die!Die!Die!, Rackets, and Beach

Pigs.. and all those bands are so much fun we don’t want to say no!

And Annabel, you’ve said to me that the members of those bands are some of the people you most look up to and admire from the Auckland music scene.

S: Yeah because they have such high energy all the time.

T: and they make you feel good A: and they played the gigs we always went to before we played in a band T: when I first started going to gigs and stuff it was always them that you’d go to watch, they’re such big draw cards.

S: But yeah, often we get gigs by playing gigs, and then people see us, and they like us, and then they’ll ask us if we want to play an upcoming show they’re organizing.

A: just people seeing us and liking what we do, and asking us to play.

S: Yeah that’s how we met John Baker from Real Groove, he saw us and liked our set. you mentioned Bob Frisbee (Frisbee Studios) was giving you some help to do some recording, how’s that going?

S: Yeah we’ve been in the studio recording the first half of our album.

What are your musical influences?

T: Bikini Kill.

S: Hole.

A: Red Aunts.

S: The Donnas. The Donnas was like our first cover, kind of got this little place in our hearts for them, I think.

A: The runaways…

T: and influences other than music; Sophia has this book called Japanese Fruits [a book based on a Japanese fashion magazine] and we always look at it. Because we’re all friends, band practice always turns into hanging out.

A: yeah… we hardly ever practice…

What sort of movies/TV shows do you watch?

S: Toyah really wants to cover the song from Romeo and Juliet; T: the Baz Lurhman one. Okay it sounds so cliché, because everyone fucking loves it now, but that is my favourite movie. > pg 88

previous page, left to right: Annabel wears bra

by JIMMY D underneath jacket by BLUE BLANK, jewellery her own; TOYA wears jacket by BLUE BLANK, jewellery her own; SOPHIA wears jacket by BLUE BLANK.

TOYA wears t-shirt by LONELY HEARTS, jeans

by ONE TEASPOON.

D S E H T O L C Y C O N D A F R A R C U O S Y Y “ D D A D R YOU

, E M O T T I H S , E N A M E M O T T ’ T N DO ME AN SHI ON’T

ANNABEL wears t-shirt

by LEE, Jeans by ONE TEASPOON, rings

by MEADOWLARK.

YOUR ROLEX W HIGH SCHOOL ATCH DON’T DEGREE D

T MEAN SHIT T O ME, YOUR DON’T MEAN SHIT TO ME,

H T , S E N O B K E E H C T PERFEC O Y , S N A O M S D N E I GIRLFR

SOPHIA wears vintage t-shirt stylists own, jeans

by ONE TEASPOON, boots by DR MARTEN.

R U O Y , S E N O H P T S E HE LAT S S E L D N I M A H C U S OU’RE

DRONE... I’D R ATHER BE A Which song from the movie?

S: The garbage song T: The one that goes, “I would die for you” I don’t know it I’ll have to look it up.

A: Well anyway, we’re gonna cover it soon.

T: I love it, it’s like the prefect mix between really mellow and kind of chick-grunge but also quite pop-py, almost like The Cardigans like in the chorus… it’s awesome.

How do you feel about the part you play, both yourselves, and the three of you as a band, in issues facing the world right now, be they environmental or otherwise. Toyah, you work for Greenpeace so that’s obviously a factor?

S: I feel like we’re way too little to make a difference.

T: (sarcastically) Every person can make a difference. (All laugh) A: You’ve just got to make sure you’re leading by example. It’s all very well yelling about it but..

T: It’s not even about being political [in your music] and offending anyone, but my issue and the world’s I think at the moment is the environment, and from a purely environmental stance it doesn’t have to be a political thing. Like, I mean, a lot of people that are fucking it up are politicians sure, but it’s everyone, like every person who doesn’t recycle… like it’s everyone’s responsibility.

A: and as far as our band goes in contributing to future environmental successes we’ve just got to make sure we’re doing all the right things that we can and that hopefully our friends and the people close to us are doing the same thing.

And I imagine all of you would be open to playing fundraising shows/protests like the TPPA one?

S: Oh fuck yeah.

T: I would love that. I would be so honoured.

A: That would be amazing.

S: We’d maybe dial down our set a little bit (laughs).

Okay, so even though you’ve only been around for a short while, there has already been controversy surrounding one of your songs, which has lead to a big discussion happening in the Auckland music scene about the band.

My theory on this is that you all know why you offended some people, but it wasn’t your intention, and essentially, you just want to play music and have fun. True?

S: That’s exactly it.

T: The whole feminist thing can be really confusing, but we have no political stance on the issue. We are just playing music.

T: Someone’s always going to be offended by something, even if it’s totally unintentional.

A: The person running this venue where we played last night, she was chatting to us about it, and said “it’s just fucking ridiculous, just cause you’re a bunch of young girls they feel like they need to attack you guys”. I mean, is there still controversy over it?

Apparently, yes.

A: Wow. S: Well it’s not like we’re not trying to make up for it. I still like the song, our interview for UTR was just bad on our behalf, we should of just gotten across how meaningless the song was.

Instead we tried to make up some dumb hidden meaning kind of as a joke but hadn’t really thought about what we were actually saying. This girl gave me Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy that I’m reading at the moment.

It’s really good. Its so interesting and opened up lots of views that I’d never thought about.

A: we are not a “feminist” band. But of course we believe in equality.

T: But all the stuff you read on social media, in books or see in films are all

people’s opinions. We should have the right to learn for ourselves and formulate our own. It’s not as clear as right and wrong, there are in-betweens and different perspectives and I think that’s where the stuff in that interview got misinterpreted and confused.

So you agree it’s important to have the conversation, and look into why people got offended, rather than thinking just ‘fuck you’?

S: Yes, of course, it was a bad joke which could have been taken literally as ‘slut shaming’ which was never our intention, I mean; Toyah. When you were writing that song…

T: Yeah I was just sitting in my class at school, and I was bored and the words just happened to rhyme, and Annabel started playing guitar later and I said “Hey that would fit with this song I wrote”. We respect feminist views and the Riot Grrl movement.

A: But that’s not our message.

T: Basically just found out the boredom and whoredom rhyme and based a song around it.

A: We loved playing that song because the crowd always got into it, and it was really fun at the time. When Toyah wrote it, I even joked that it might be about me.

But now its all been taken too literally.

Glad we cleared that up! So you guys played the recent Snakepit farewell show, Snakefest (see page 154) you said you can’t really remember playing but how did you find the overall experience of the night?

T: Yeah the set was a blur but the..

S: The set was fun, it was so fun, but we played early on and we kinda just wanted to get it out of the way so we could enjoy all the other amazing bands.

T: I thought the performance art that Hana Aoke did was amazing.

A: the whole experience, the inflatable pool downstairs, all the bands…

S: it was such a great feeling, to be surrounded by all these different artists

LONE” BUBBLE

making all this different art, and being asked to be a part of it.

T: A lot of artistic people in the same spot, appreciating and encouraging each other, no one was being negative.

A: I’m really sad Snakepit’s gone.

S: Snakepit was like our home. Our second gig ever was at Snakepit and that was cool cult’s EP release. We were on the floor screaming with excitement when we got asked to play that show, which is funny, now when we get gigs, like it’s still awesome, but nothing compared to the excitement of being asked to play those first few shows.

T: it was like the place to go, and it was always funny when the cops showed up, trying to arrest people drinking on the street. It just had a buzz about it.

Important because it was an all ages venue?

A: I think ‘all ages’ venues are so important because just because you’re not 18 yet, like you should still have the right to listen to music, I mean that’s what it’s all about.

S: I think UFO (Powertool Records gig

space in New Lynn) is a good spot for those [all ages] gigs.

T: there’s this band we know called The Whodunits, they’re like 15-16, and we met them at UFO. S: they’re really cool and so young but they’re talented as fuck.

T: they’re really rock and roll, so high energy.

A: they have this song called Fuck you Jacob and it’s so great.

S: and it sucks that they can’t play at so many venues in Auckland because of their age.

T: I think UFO has a good chance to like take over from Snakepit.

S: But it hard to get out there.

T: Not really, you just hop on the train.

What are your plans for next year? PostHigh school?

S: Me and Toyah are working to save up so we can travel together to South-East Asia. All I’ve ever wanted to do in my life is travel.

T: and Annabel is hopefully going to be able to come and meet up with us in Japan. We’re going to see if we

can land any gigs in the punk scene while we’re there cause that’d be really fucking cool.

A: I’m studying and traveling.

S: Annabel’s studying Medicine.

So you’re going to keep writing music and playing shows in 2013 even though, Annabel you’ll be studying and the two of you will be working and saving to travel?

S: Definitely. We’re working on new material and practicing loads.

A: That’s the thing I’ll do apart from study, I’d miss these guys and playing way too much otherwise.

T: Yeah I don’t really go out so I only really see these guys when we play gigs (laughs).

Anything else you guys want to say about the band?

A: We just want to make music.

T: And just because we happen to be young girls doing so doesn’t mean shit.

A: Hardout.

MORE GRRLFRIENDZ: bandcamp

1 AM M Z Z Z A G E R O N $

FROM UPPER QUEEN ST AUCKLAND CITY TO SHAMBA TOUR OF THE MIND AND MUSINGS OF HER FRIEND DOCTOR, ENVIRONMENTALIST, PHILOSOPHER & MUSIC HIS RECENT ALBUM JUNGLEWAVE INTO THE UNKNOWN T SPIRIT/HELL/BEINGS. READ ON IF YOU DARE!

ALLAH, PEARL MCGLASHAN TAKES AS ON A MYSTICAL & FLATMATE LISANDRU GRIGORUT - COSMIC WITCHCAL SHAMEN $NOREGAZZZM - CHARTING A PATH FROM TERRITORITY OF HIS FORTHCOMING CONCEPT PROJECT

SO THAT SONG THAT YOU JUST played me, is it finished yet?

No, I’ve heaps more to record. I’m going to do lots more vocals. A lot of the vocals on what I just played you are drafts, just so I know what I’m doing and then I’m going to re-record them So you kind of sketch over your beats with vocal melodies?

Yeah. And I just wanted to kind of build this song around the vocals so I added heaps of stuff around it Is that what you normally do?

Yeah, that’s generally my process.

Unless I’ve got a song that I’ve played live before, and in that case, when I go to record the vocals I’m usually okay with them on the first few takes. But songs like this and songs for my new album which I haven’t played live that much, my process is more like I record some vocals, see what’s wrong with different parts, single them out and just keep doing over and over again until I get them right.

That sounds meticulous and time consuming.

It is, but it’s worth it. I think it’s worth it, but you can over-do it. Cause I don’t want the vocals to be so… like perfect, processed, pop music, you know? I think having this whole D.I.Y, real sound is a really important part of my music. It’s not Rihanna or anything, it’s not Kanye West shit. It’s real music from a real soul.

This particular song is actually a commission of sorts though right?

Yeah, it’s for Rosie Thomas of the clothing label ‘Nymphets’. I did it because she talked to me about making a song for a campaign video of hers in November last year, and I “okay, I’ll write something.” And I came up with this little steel drum melody [plays me the synth line], cause she said it was going to be quite aquatic, tropical sounding…

That sounds up your alley.

Yeah, yeah, exactly – well, that’s why she asked me to do it. She said she was going to call it ‘Underwater Apocalypse’. So I just played around with that steel drum melody, brought

some stuff up around it, built up a beat. It’s got two kick drums in it. One keeps the beat and the other a sort of tribal beat over the top of it. I was just jamming with that and then put my Gameboy into the mix - then I decided to make a bit where I would be singing, and there would be a little chorus-y thing but not too factoryfarm, pop music chorus? So like a break but not like a dance music drop either, somewhere kind of in between.

I started thinking about this song and the whole holiday theme and stuff and then I came up with the whole “weekend escape” thing, and from that I thought about how I could relate this to other stuff? And I thought, Escapism! Then I came up with using the image of the escape button on your computer keyboard as a metaphor, because I used to have these dreams when I was younger. They were nightmares where I’d be sitting playing a scary computer game but then all of sudden I’d be trapped and I wouldn’t be able to get out. I’d be able to

“ALTHOUGH PEOPLE ARE CONTENT WITH THEIR LIVES, THEIR DAILY GRIND OR WHATEVER, THEY’RE STILL ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ESCAPE” press the escape key over and over again, but it just didn’t work, nothing happened, I was trapped.

How old were you when you were having those dreams?

From ages 5-12 maybe? That’s when I started playing video games.

Those nightmares are still vivid for me I can still really remember them.

I’m kind of trying to tie those feelings into, as wanky as this sounds, my disillusionment with society - and the fact that although people are content with their lives, their daily grind or whatever, they’re still always looking for ways to escape. The song outlines that, that’s it. That’s the chase.

You were involved in the video for the song also, what did you have to do?

Yeah I was (laughs). I made-out really intensely with my fiancée.

In a pool?

Not IN the pool, no. I’m actually really afraid of water, and I can’t swim. It was really funny though, they had all these hanging out bits because they had a green screen, with decorations and stuff and there were people hanging out doing stuff. Then there was this scene we shot which was just me and her, her and I, making out really intensely. It was so weird because the camera was up really close and everyone else was in the pool all staring at us, like “Woah. Lisandru’s making out with someone.”

I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen you make out with someone. I don’t think I have. Moving on, is that song going to be on your new album, or is it completely unrelated.

I wrote it exclusively for Rosie. I think Rosie’s a really awesome, talented girl and I thought she deserved a song specifically for the video. The album is completely separate and has it’s own concept.

So what is the story/concept behind this new album your planning SPIRIT/ HELL/BEINGS? Basically it’s a mid-concept, a medium concept. It’s like an… ice, nature, science fiction, and apocalyptic thing.

Okay, where do I start?

It’s the year 2014, a group of people break off from the rest of society and go to Antarctica to start a community there, based on science. But then they end up becoming really spiritual because they discover this ancient ice magic underneath the ground. They build a society underneath the ground, and it’s paradise.

Why have they chosen to leave the rest of the world and go to Antarctica?

The world is fucked. They’re just like, “look we can’t deal with this anymore, and this planet is going to be completely fucked.” And that was the last place they could go. So they go to Antarctica, and they discover this ancient ice magic that no one knew about and they use that to protect themselves, remaining content and separate to the rest of the world for a hundred years. So a hundred years passes and the Earth has gotten completely fucked and last resort for the whole world, or what’s left of it, was to combine into one nation. They have this really strong military that goes to try and take over Antarctica. But the society on Antarctica has the ice magic, and the ice magic trumps the military power, naturally.

THERE’S THIS PROPHECY that the Antarctic society had, that was foretold by a prophet when the ice magic was released, that there was going to be an evil coming, but it would be stopped. They thought that was the military, and that they had stopped it.

But there’s this dude from the military who infiltrates and becomes part of the culture of the peaceful society and their magic, and it turns out he can control the magic really well, much better than the others. They thought that he was the one to save them from the “evil”, but he actually gets possessed by the power. So he enslaves everyone.

Then the ice people and the military have to work together to find what can stop the evil. They use all of their best prophets, and hook them up to

machines because the ice people have magic but they were initially scientists so they still use machines. They pretty much perform routine magic which is the concept that anything that could be considered out of the ordinary to someone can be considered magic, for instance; I could send a message to someone across the world and say, “do you believe in magic?” and they’d say no, and I’d be like, “I just sent you a message across the world, somehow, through a screen, I pressed some buttons and there it is?” So it’s that, the magic is there, but they use the machines to implement it. Anyway their best prophets and machines determine that nature is the only thing that can save them. They have to find the person who was born of nature, a sorcerer that can summon nature spirits etc - the type of person I actually originally developed for my last album Junglewave. After they find this person it takes them a while to convince them that you know, “it’s for the greater good to fight this guy because if you don’t all your home will be destroyed.” So the dude’s just like, “Well, I have no choice.” So he comes to Antarctica, fights the other dude, there’s a huge battle, then everything dies.

Wow. Okay, so right off the bat, that’s a pretty big story to tell. You’ve said to me you want to make it a multimedia thing, right? Working with other art forms/artists?

Definitely a multimedia project.

Who are you going to get involved, and how are you planning to do this?

It’s still very early stages right now.

I’m going finish a lot of the music first, but not completely, just an outline and work on it in bits throughout the year.

As far as the visuals go I’m working with Tawa Butt who’s going to do some animating for me, as well as Fraser [Chatham], he’s going to do some art for it.. Also Grant Stone is going to help me with filming live action stuff on green screen that I want to combine with the animation. I’ll have friends and actors doing dialogue – a lot of it will be

“WHENEVER PEOPLE SAY, WE MUSTN’T BE SENTIMENTAL, YOU CAN TAKE IT THEY ARE ABOUT TO DO SOMETHING CRUEL” internal monologue, and some of that will come off as music as well I think. So it’ll be the album, and all the videos and the video soundtracks will be separate, but all go together, so you can mix and match it yourself like a puzzle. Because the concept’s not going to be that obvious, it’s there for you to figure it out yourself. I think the beauty of that is you can make up any story you like. I’ve got this one story in my head, you know, but I put all this stuff out and someone else listens to it, they might think of something different. The point is that at the beginning everything’s a bit fucked, and then everything gets more fucked and there’s nothing, but at the end it begins again. Kind of like a re-birthing cycle.

So its not like all the songs will be based around or strictly adhering to just one concept?

Exactly, that’s what I meant by “medium concept”. Not totally loose but not just sticking to one subject either - kind of like all these different aspects of things interrelating to everything else as a whole.

Like when you were talking about the Nymphets song before; you started with one thing but it became about so much more as you went along.

Yeah, it’s good because it just gives people an opportunity to think about it and piece something together for themselves. I’m supportive of people thinking for themselves rather than just what they’re told. Like telling people, “Oh yeah blah, blah, blah, we’re gonna go out and get drunk and fuck people, and oh there’s a naked girl in our video!” That doesn’t mean anything. That’s not art to me. It can be fun, whatever, but it just doesn’t mean anything. I want to make something really meaningful. And if it disillusions a few people along the way, then there’s not much harm because at least they’re thinking about something.

So the themes that are apparent in JUNGLEWAVE, of disillusionment, of

falling in love, being lost and afraid, scared of your thoughts, and being trapped inside yourself; are those going to carry on into SPIRIT/HELL/BEINGS? Kind of, not as intensely. SPIRIT/ HELL/BEINGS is probably going to be more manic and tense. Everything’s going to tense up a lot and build and build until everything just explodes.

The themes from the JUNGLEWAVE, particularly the loss themes will carry over into the first bit, but it will be like, “Oh now I know where I am” then “Oh, shit, I’m possessed by a demon, but that’s okay”. A lot of the songs I think will sound quite happy, but almost too much? Like sketchy, manic brain feelings. Which I can relate to, and that’s why I create shit like that, because I can relate to those feelings. Also I want there to be under tones of the message “Don’t be a dick, try and be compassionate to the people and world around you, or else you’ll have a shitty life”.

Conservation?

Oh yeah definitely with the whole Antarctica thing. I came up with that concept thinking about how, in the future, are people just going to go there and just fuck it up? And then all the earth will just die? Which is a possibility.

Definitely.

Because nowadays if someone said they wanted to go to Antarctica and fuck it up, people would be outraged, but if you just slowly seep that idea into people’s in 30 years or whatever there’ll be no other alternative - it will be too late. That’s the problem. People just don’t think there’s an alternative.

Whatever anyone decides to do, whatever corporations decide to do, whatever the government decides to do is because there’s “no alternative”.

Really they just want to make profits for themselves until everything just runs out. That’s what I think. You meet people and you talk to them, and sometimes you talk about how fucked up shit is, and they say, “Oh it’s not that

bad.” That’s what they say. They don’t say it’s good, they just say it’s not that bad, implying that it is bad, but it could be worse. But if you feed people that idea, and it just gets worse and worse and worse, it’s still always just “Not that bad”. It’s never good. It can be, but for them, ‘realistically’, you know, all those words that people throw around, fuck, I read this quote the other day that goes; “Whenever people say, we mustn’t be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel”. And if they add, “We must be realistic”, they mean they’re going to make money out of it. People know though. People know that they’re being taken advantage of, but at the same time, they’re being so oblivious.

Because ignorance is bliss.

Yeah, exactly. They still have kids, they still have kids in this world that is getting fucked up. I was watching this interview with David Attenborough, and he had a point about over-population; there’s a lot of human over-population nowadays, and you see a lot of it in third world countries, where there’s little or no access to birth control and women don’t have rights to their bodies. That’s a fucked up thing!

There’s basically just a bunch of fucked up things, and I want to make an album that doesn’t blatantly outline all of those problems, but will make you think about them, and then you kind of go on your own train of thought, rather than just being told something. Because when you try and tell people things that they don’t agree with or can’t see, they could just be really stubborn, but if you give them a little bit of fodder, then they might think about it. It’s a seed. I want to make people think. It’s what I want to do, it’s my goal. It’s my mission.

MORE $NOREGAZZZM: bandcamp tumblr soundcloud

1 AM E L L E H C MIANG

IN CONTRAST TO HER STARRING ROLE AS SOPHIA SW AS NEW ZEALAND ACTOR MICHELLE ANG REVEALS THINGS IN HER PERSONAL LIFE AND CAREER COULD

MICHELLE PHOTOGRAPHED IN AUCKLAND BY KITTY RIDDELL FASHION BY GLENN HUNT HAIR AND MAKEUP BY BRIGHDE RIDDELL

MICHELLE wears sweater and leather shor ts by KATE SYLVESTER.

WANSON IN THE NEW MTV DRAMA UNDEREMPLOYED, IN THIS 1AM EXCLUSIVE BY BERNARD MCDONALD, DN’T HAVE BEEN MORE DIFFERENT.

MICHELLE wears ‘ram two’ top and wool shorts by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB (click on item to shop now), boots and ring her own.

< click on item to SHOP THIS NOW

CHRISTCHURCH-BORN Malaysian actress Michelle Ang started her acting career in a tribe, experienced some outrageous fortune after rubbing shoulders with a warrior princess, went to Australia to hang with some neighbours, kept her wedding a secret before going to the United States where she was underemployed with a beaver and big momma. Confused? You won’t be after reading what Michelle has to say about herself and her life. She’s particularly excited about her role as Sophia Swanson in new MTV drama Underemployed, a series revolving round five graduates trying to make their way in the world. After getting her start on New Zealand TV in McDonalds Young Entertainers at the tender age of 17, she knows all about the trials and tribulations of life and how to live it.

Background? “I’m constantly asked about my background. It’s endlessly strange to me that when I say I’m a New Zealander people look at me with an expression that dictates they want more.

But that’s what I am. I was born here, it’s my home, and it’s the only place I relate to culturally. I feel a strong affinity to this beautiful country. I believe the lifestyle breeds a certain kind of laidback creativity that gives us artists an interesting flavour when offered to the global scene.

Acting? Acting is something I sort of happened upon and actively strove to put one foot in front of the other to continue to do. It’s definitely a passion, but I have many passions. I don’t think I’m like those actors who wouldn’t know what to do with themselves if they couldn’t be in front of the camera or audience. Sometimes I think my curiosity about wider life and people is what enables me to act. I’m an observer of human behaviour.

Roles? I never want to be typecast or pigeon-holed for roles. And I think I’m enough of a weirdo to have a really broad personality to draw character inspirations from. I’ve been fortunate enough to have played some pretty different characters, from an ancient Japanese ghost princess in Xena, to a sexually promiscuous business woman in Outrageous Fortune, a geek in My Wedding And Other Secrets, a frustrated college grad

working in a donut store in Chicago in Underemployed, and a Thai mother suffering a nervous breakdown in Top Of The Lake. I love the challenge of embodying any role that stretches me.

Underemployed? “Underemployed is a hopeful exploration into what it’s like to be a young grad looking for employment in today’s stretched economy. My character has the last line of the first episode: ‘If life is about making money, then we’re all screwed.

But if life is about living, then none of my friends are underemployed’. That kind of summarises the vibe of the show. It’s written with the view that five friends share the belief that the reason for living is to love and create. But fear drives them to make mistakes. The creator, Craig Wright, is a genius and is quoted as saying, ‘The answer to the problems of our age is not money, it is purpose’.

It’s really ballsy to be that optimistic in a climate where the self-aware irony of HBO’s Girls is considered cool. I guess we’re terribly uncool but it’s a message that really resonated with me. And I loved being a part of that. Shooting in the beautiful city of Chicago was pretty dream too.

Aspirations? “I aspire to be a better person, to give more, to know and understand more. To make interesting contributions to society. To push myself creatively and take risks. To enjoy every moment and find time to stand still. And most importantly, to effect the change I want to see. I also really want to work on a heartachingly beautiful film this year and sink my teeth into a meaty drama role.

Passions? I’m a foodie and love finding some exciting new dish or place to eat. I love smells a lot. You’ll find me in any apothecary, cataloguing smells in my brain. One day I’d like to make my own perfume line. I’ve done some organic perfumery courses. I love to get out in nature and go for a hike in the wilderness. I love photography and the use of images to evoke emotions. I have a real desire to understand the true environmental impact of all that we do.

Information should be readily available to consumers about what goes into fueling our demand for products and our consumption habits. It’s scary how easy it is for us to pretend nothing is wrong with the way we’re living.

Los Angeles “Los Angeles is a weird place for me. I’ve been here several times in the last few years and it’s never been a comfy fit. Most often it seems to have coincided with emotional chaos in my life and that’s inked an unfair memory sense to this place. I find the driving and the urban sprawl depressing. And I actually think the desert isn’t my place. I miss the lushness of home. Also, I find it weird that most of the city is involved in the entertainment business. I love the claustrophobia of New York City.

The jam packed adrenalin of jumping on public transport and striking up a conversation with a street bum or a Wall Street banker. The chance of serendipitous meetings. The rough and ready character of separate areas. I’ll find my feet in L.A. eventually but it’s not a first choice for me.

Jane Campion? “Working with Jane Campion was an incredible experience.

Knowing her work and having heard rumours about how she liked to work, I was terrified of her. I was able to do a rehearsal session with her and it was uncanny how much she strove to seek the true essence of the scene.

She would improvise a scene and talk through what was happening as the actors took on board the direction and improvised the lines our character may have said. She was never negative or critical but somehow encouraged us to keep pushing till we’d found a true state. My work in her project was highly emotional and challenging, and as a director she really looked after me and made sure I was paced to deliver the best performance. It was a real honour.

Experiences? Experiences are the stuff of life really, aren’t they? Collecting them seems to be what life is about. I often forget how offbeat my life has been. I’ve worked all over the world and met all kinds of people. I’ve had to shoot guns, drown, put on accents, dress up. No two days are ever the same. But on the flipside, I’m lucky to have maintained a normalcy. I like grocery shopping, cooking and talking to my friends who work as doctors and nurses. I’m just at home in a tiny tent with a gas cooker as I am in L.A. at a fancy restaurant. All I hope is that I can keep surprising myself with new experiences and continue to be grateful for all of them.

MICHELLE wears shirt and pants by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, body suit and jewellery all her own.

click on item to SHOP THIS NOW >

PHOTOGRAPHY & FASHION BY GLENN HUNT MODELS GWEN FAGAN, JEMIMAH PEACOCKE & FRANCES CARTER SPECIAL THANKS TO WHAMMY BAR

1 AM A E S L E H C GIRLS

this page and previous, left to right: FRANCES wears sleeveless top by JAMIE FAME, star print stockings

by VAUGHN GEESON; GWEN wears jumper and skirt by COMPANY OF STRANGERS; JEMIMAH wears jumper

by MAURIE & EVE, shoes by SOL SANA.

GWEN wears jumper and skirt by COMPANY OF STRANGERS.

JEMIMAH wears jumper

by MAURIE & EVE.

this page and opposite: FRANCES wears metallic silver jacket by JAMIE FAME, pencil skirt by KATE SYLVESTER; GWEN wears flokati coat

by JAMIE FAME.

click on item to SHOP THIS NOW >

FRANCES black dress

by SOMETHING ELSE, hooded snakeskin print cape by ONE TEASPOON.

this page and opposite: GWEN wears white sweater-dress

by JAMIE FAME; JEMIMAH wears black mesh top by RIDDLE ME THIS, jeans by KSUBI.

JEMIMAH wears black mesh top by RIDDLE ME THIS.

this page and opposite: GWEN wears bra and knickers by KATE SYLVESTER; FRANCES wears dress

by COMPANY OF STRANGERS, studded leather dog collar by SABEN.

GWEN wears bra and knickers by KATE SYLVESTER; FRANCES wears dress

by COMPANY OF STRANGERS, studded leather dog collar by SABEN; JEMIMAH wears sweater dress

by MAURIE & EVE, shoes by SOL SANA, knickers models own.

< click on item to SHOP THIS NOW

FRANCES wears black shirt by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, pants by KATE SYLVESTER.

GWEN wears dress

by MAURIE & EVE.

FRANCES wears black shirt by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, pants by KATE SYLVESTER; GWEN wears long print dress

by MAURIE & EVE; JEMIMAH wears raffia knit dress by JAMIE FAME, belt as tie by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB.

MM E

1 AM

FE

FA TA LE

IN A BAND, FROM A BAND OR BANDING ‘EM TOGETHER...

MEET THE GALS MAKING THE LOCAL MUSIC SCENE ROCK! ALL GIRLS PHOTOGRAPHED IN AUCKLAND BY ALEXANDER HOYLES

REBECCA MASON MELROSE Who are you and what do you do?

I’m Rebecca, I sing in SAL VALENTINE AND THE BABYSHAKES, and I make lots of music.

Whats your biggest achievement to date?

Miss universe 2008.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? That depends but generally no. I am secretly painfully shy though.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve done? I’ve done more stupid things than rebellious. I got suspended from school for three days.

Three things you couldn’t live without.

Wonderful friends, wine, cat.

What do you drink? A lot.

What most fucks you off at the moment?

That Lucky Strikes are $18.50 and on the rise.

Best gig you’ve played? And seen? Every show with the Babyshakes is like Christmas. Also, Neil Young made cry. Sshh dont tell anyone.

Kick ass plans for the future? To roll in diamonds.

Enlightening message for the world? Diet soft drinks as mixer get you drunk faster! And on a more serious note, always remember to tell the people you love that you love them.

ANNABEL DONALD Who are you and what do you do? I’m Annabel and I’m the guitarist for GRRLFRIENDZ. Whats your biggest achievement to date?

Having my Excellence endorsement in all three years of NCEA. Do you consider yourself an outsider? I don’t often consider myself. Plus, its all relative.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Starting a punk band to the shock of my conservative family members.

Three things you couldn’t live without.

Google maps, my band members, and the colour pink.

What do you drink? Fruit juice (my mom banned it in my house).

What most fucks you off at the moment?

The way humans are abusing the earths resources and thus are completely unprepared for the future.

Best gig you’ve played? The second UFO gig out west, someone fucked with my guitar as a joke and a got so mad I’ve never performed so well in my life.

Kick ass plans for the future? Become a brain surgeon/musician ^-^ Enlightening message for the world? Look after our earth motherfuckers!!

CLAIRE DUNCAN Who are you and what do you do?

I’m Claire and I sing in a band called DEAR TIMES WASTE. Whats your biggest achievement to date? Leaving a paper trail in my wake.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? Yes, but we are all alone together.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Defining my own success.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Cocteau Twins, movies, hot running water.

Drink of choice? Scotch on the rocks.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Exorbitant excess baggage charges and airplane cankles.

Best gig you’ve played or seen? In recent memory, Portishead in 2012 Kick ass plans for the future?

Soundtracks, study, a nu-metal covers project.

Enlightening message for the world? “The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.’ -Italo Calvino

KATIE EVERINGHAM Who are you and what do you do?

I’m Katie and I play drums in LION EYES and do guitar and vocals in a side project called VEINS. What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? I stopped being a rebel when I was like 14, so my rebellious heyday is a little hard to remember but I do remember lighting some fires in the sinks in the science room and swearing at teachers.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? I think it depends who im around, I don’t really feel like an outsider because i guess like most people i surround myself with people who i have at least a little bit in common with. i guess i wouldn’t be surprised if other people perceive me as odd. That’s probably the case for most people though.

What most fucks you off at the moment? At the moment I’m so tired from uni/work etc that almost everything is fucking me off, Three things you couldn’t live without. Coffee, computer, maybe drums. I feel like I’d get a little depressed if I never got to play them again.

Drink of choice? Mojito! Or beer. And coffee.

Best gig you’ve played or seen?

Fleetwood mac. Easy. Tears in my eyes when they opened with chains.

Kick ass plans for the future? Record our next EP, hopefully play some shows around the country and potentially Australia in the near future.

Enlightening message for the world?

Everyone, just be nice to eachother. Or even just dont be shit to each other.

Not a particularly creative message but everything would be way more chill if people just did it.

CHELSEA JADE METCALF Who are you and what do you do?

I’m Chelsea from WATERCOLOURS, the musical tear jerk.

Whats your biggest achievement to date? Dropping out of art school.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Winked at a horse while it sneezed on my mother.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? I’m a co-founder of the Official Auckland Gilmore Girls Appreciation Society (OAGGAS). Take from that what you will.

What most fucks you off at the moment? The volume of my vocabulary slowly disintegrating.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Silence, a moderate din, voluminous resonance.

Drink of choice? Butterbeer, in concept.

Whats your biggest achievement to date? Dropping out of art school.

Best gig you’ve played or seen?

The Dirty Projectors hopscotched over anything I’d ever seen. The best gig I’ve played is every Boycrush gig I get to participate in.

Kick ass plans for the future?

Go quiet ‘til an album comes out.

Enlightening message for the world? Try.

fashion by YESHE DAWA makeup by MICHELLE BRINDLE for M.A.C left: Chelsea wears own clothes, stacker rings by MEADOWLARK; right: Princess Chelsea wear archive JIMMY D dress, skull necklace by MEADOWLARK.

PRINCESS CHELSEA Who are you and what do you do?

I’m PRINCESS CHELSEA and I’m a musician.

Whats your biggest achievement to date? Recording an album that I like.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? I stopped going to church.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? It really depends who I am around - at the supermarket yes, in the company of friends, no.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Aaron Carter’s Twitter.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Ajax spray n wipe, semi permanent black hair dye, Angostura bitters.

Drink of choice? Whiskey old fashioned (Makers Mark bourbon, a sugar cube, Angostura bitters, lots of ice, ten minutes and some orange rind).

Best gig you’ve played or seen?

Sharpie Crows played a great vinyl release show at Whammy Bar recently, which reminds me I still need to buy a copy! I think they are the most interesting live band around at the moment.

Kick ass plans for the future?

Finishing a trilogy of concept albums, all of them good - possibly killing off my character near the end of part three.

Enlightening message for the world?

Get off the internet.

ALETHEIA ELDER Who are you and what do you do?

I’m Aletheia and I sing and write songs for an Auckland Band POOR YOU POOR ME. What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Climbed over some grannies to get to Rick Stein.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Air, water, sunshine Drink of choice? Ramune drink also known as marble drink.

Whats your biggest achievement to date? Taking opportunities when they come.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? No I am part of a community.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Being broke.

Best gig you’ve seen? Modest Mouse was pretty rad.

Kick ass plans for the future? Make more music and food Enlightening message for the world?

Nothing lasts forever

ALLESANDRA BANAL see SNAKEFEST page 171 >

CHLOE LANGLEY Who are you and what do you do?

I’m Chloe I play drums and sing in a garage rock’n’roll band called FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL. What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Snuck into a half built house in central Greece (Meteora) to sit on the roof and drink wine. It had a better view of these crazy massive rocks with monasteries on them.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? Being a girl musician you can like an outsider sometimes but I just play it up and pretend i cant lift heavy things so morally i win.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Early mornings and running out of coffee.

Three things you couldn’t live without? My new sparkly drum kit, Bettie Davis (my cat) and Music.

Drink of choice? Whiskey Mac. Kick ass plans for the future? Finish studying, finish the album, tour more.

Enlightening message for the world? Dont look back, your not going that way.

fashion by YESHE DAWA makeup by MICHELLE BRINDLE for M.A.C left: Chloe wears own dress, jewellery by MEADOWLARK; right: Zina wears dress by

ZINA LILLY Who are you and what do you do?

I’m Zina, I play in a band, CAT VENOM, and sell clothes!

Whats your biggest achievement to date? Starting a band was pretty cool.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Haha!!! Not telling!!

Getting on rooftops of the main street of shops in Dunedin was pretty fun, until I got my foot stuck through the roof!

Do you consider yourself an outsider? Not sure, I guess its easy to blend in, but you can still feel alone and be surrounded by people sometimes.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Well, lots but, people getting angry about our current government who didnt bother to vote in the election - lame.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Family, Friends, Cigarettes.

Drink of choice? Sakura Daiquiri from Ebisu or Vodka Lime soda Best gig you’ve seen? Watching the Cure / Radiohead Kick ass plans for the future?

Kicking lots of ass! Obviously!

Enlightening message for the world? Maeve often tells me, “Remember, Everything is made up, and nothing really matters.” I find that nice sometimes.

fashion by YESHE DAWA makeup by MICHELLE BRINDLE for M.A.C left: Lucy wears own dress & necklaces, vintage top; right: Manon wears dress by RUBY dress, necklace stylists own.

LUCY BEELER Who are you and what do you do? I’m Lucy. I dance and I also have two music projects. One is my solo project LTTLE PHNX, where I make electronic love songs.

The other project is a band called AO OLM that I play keyboard and sing alongside my friends James and Georgie who battle it out on the drums.

Whats your biggest achievement?

Becoming myself. But this is a process and I like the idea of achieving something big every day.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? I don’t really consider anything.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? The other day some friends and I went to a cafe and ditched it to go to Carl’s Junior instead. Risky Business.

What most fucks you off at the moment?

Bitter and resentful customer service representatives?

Three things you couldn’t live without? Blood money power.

What do you drink? Beer.

Best gig you've played or seen? I remember it was 2008. I had just graduated college and the air was sweet with the promise of summer. On the eve, my best friend and I serendipitously ended up at an Of Montreal concert at the San Francisco Bath House. It was a magical night. The End. Kick ass plans for the future? I'm planning on touring NZ and the hopefully the US with the band and my project and then also finding my way to Taiwan to "kick it" with my bf.

Enlightening message for the world? *posi*productive*vibez*

MANON REVUELTA Who are you and what do you do?

I’m Manon. I play and sing in a band called SPACE VENTURA. Whats your biggest achievement?

Learning how to sing better.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Stealing garlic from the supermarket.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

Not really Three things you couldn’t live without? Sleep, fresh air, fruit.

Drink of choice? Gin and juice.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Flies.

Best gig you’ve played or seen?

My Bloody Valentine.

Kick ass plans for the future? Recording an EP. Enlightening message for the world?

Go vege... you won’t have a choice by 2050 anyway.

MARIA ROBINSON Who are you and what do you do? I’m Maria and I’m the publicist for MUSHROOM GROUP PROMOTIONS - Liberation Music record label, FRONTIER TOURING concert promoter and a day on the GREEN WINERY CONCERTS in NZ. Whats your biggest achievement to date? That it’s my 10 year anniversary at my job in March!

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Spent fraudulent cash on smokes and booze.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? I would say I’m an outsider who knows how to be a team player.

What most fucks you off at the moment Popular/commercial music that lacks any substance.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

Music, mates and a little bit of mayhem!

Drink of choice? Vodka, lime and soda.

Best gig you’ve seen? Whoa!Dead Moon, AC/DC, Al Green, Justin Timberlake, Suzy Quatro, Leonard Cohen, The Pretenders, Slayer, Kyuss, DEVO, The Strokes, Marianne Faithfull, Sticky Filty more recently.... Lots of amazing shows for many different reasons.

Kick ass plans for the future? To work hard and ensure some personal goals come to life in the not too distant future. I feel like if I tell you what those are I will jinx myself so it’s a secret for now.

Enlightening message for the world?

Leave it to Bob Marley “Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny”. Cheese I know, but I love Bob Marley and you can’t really argue with that.

COURTNEY SANDERS Who are you and what do you do? I’m Courtney, staff writer at UNDERTHERADAR and ALWAYSSSOMETIMESANYTIME. Booker of bands at CASSETTE NINE. Whats your biggest achievement to date? Um, I don’t think I’ve really achieved anything particularly special but maybe starting Always Sometimes Anytime. It’s amazing to work on a project with a bunch of talented people and see it come full circle together: from concept to a real, working, ongoing thing.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? I’m actually a total nerd these days so the most rebellious thing I’ve done would have involved alcohol and my 16-year-old self. High school rebel.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

Considering the innumerable niches modern technology has allowed for, I don’t really think anyone is an outsider these days. If you’re into something you’re going to be able to find someone else who’s into it too - regardless of how creepy-weirdoutside of the ‘norm’ it is.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Vapid, irrelevant content on new media outlets.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Aside from the things that I literally couldn’t live without (you know, water et al), and the metaphorical things that most celebrities answer this question with (liberty, freedom, clichés) I’m pretty easy to please: friends, music, books (Jonathan Franzen for life).

Drink of choice? Red wine.

Best gig you’ve seen? Swooniest: Jarvis Cocker at the Wellington Town Hall. Dance moves for ever and ever. Most memorable: Liars at a festival in Monterrey, Mexico in the middle of the night during their ‘Sisterworld’ tour. Like being in ‘The Blair Witch Project’ or something.

Kick ass plans for the future? I wish I could be like “in one year I will be here, and in five years I will be there” but I don’t really have a plan. Like at all. Somebody give me one OK thanks.

Enlightening message for the world? Ira Glass has something much more profound to say than I do: click here to see.

1 AM

E M O C AS U O Y ARE PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREI BLIDAREAN FASHION BY ISAAC SILVA LOOKER MODELS ISAAC SILVA LOOKER @ N MODELS, JOS VAN BEEK & WILL YOUNG STUDIO COURTESY OF CO.SPACE AUCKLAND

ISAAC wears animal head ring by I AM WORM, stylists own jewellery.Â

this page and opposite: JOS wears black singlet

by ALEXANDER BALFOUR, umbilical cords by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, animal head ring

by I AM WORM, bonez necklace by $ATAN LOVE$ $LUTZ, wreath skull ring & serpent cocktail ring both by MEADOWLARK; this page ISAAC wears reloaded + give me leggings by BERNHARD WILLHELM, sweatshirt

by THISTLE BROWN, http ring by I AM WORM, shoes & necklaces stylists own; WILL wears ‘gorilla nymph’ hoodie by NYMPHETS, stylists own jewellery.

this page and opposite: JOS wears sweatshirt

by THISTLE BROWN, denim track jeans by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, wreath skull ring & serpent cocktail ring both by MEADOWLARK, bonez necklace by $ATAN LOVE$ $LUTZ; this page ISAAC wears ‘money’ shirt by NYMPHETS.

this page and opposite: WILL wears ‘eternal’ shirt by NYMPHETS, shirt by ALEXANDER BALFOUR, pants by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, http ring by I AM WORM, jewellery stylists own, shoes models own; this page JOS wears track pants by ALEXANDER BALFOUR, animal head ring & skull ring by I AM WORM, shirt by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, necklaces & arm warmers stylists own.

Will wears ‘bud pants’

by NYMPHETS, ‘HTTP’ ring by I AM WORM, stylists own vest and jewellery, shoes models own.

JOS wears shirt by STOLEN GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, rings by I AM WORM, all other jewellery stylists own.

CLICK WATC TO SNAK H LIVEEFEST 1AM ON TV

1 AM T S E F E K A N S

THE END OF LAST YEAR SAW THE END OF AUKLAND CITYS MOST CELEBRATED UNDERGROUND MUSIC VENUE AND CREATIVE SPACE, SNAKE PIT. 1AM WAS THERE ALONG WITH THE CREAM OF THE LOCAL MUSIC SCENE FOR THE FINAL SEND OFF - SNAKEFEST. DOCUMENTED HERE BY GLENN HUNT & FILMED FOR 1AMTV BY ALEXANDER HOYLES

ROZY THOMAS What do you do and what are you doing here? I’m Rozy, i’m the designer for clothing brand NYMPHETS, and the organiser of SnakeFest.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Pee’d in the shower.

Do you consider yourself an outsider and why? Yeah, paranoia or reasonable suspicion.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Counter productive questions, Three things you couldn’t live without? I don’t understand this question.

Poison of choice? Humbert Humbert.

Best gig you’ve seen? The ones where they play harmonica.

Enlightening message for the world? Lie lots, its Bokonist.

HDSPNS

HANA AOAKE

What do you do and what are you doing here? We are 4 friends playing music together at the final cha-hoo for one of the best venues in Auckland.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Ashed on a baby.

Do you consider yourselves outsiders? No, we are part of a big family.

What most fucks you off at the moment? The TPPA. Three things you couldn’t live without? Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis.

Poison of choice? Rich Boy. Best gig you’ve played or seen? SZO SZO MODERN Enlightening message for the world?

D.I.T.

What do you do and what are you doing here? I’m Hana and I’m a performance and installation artist. At Snakefest I did the second part of my ‘Blocks’ series, which was based on the disruption between the audience and the performer, the possibility of failure and to ‘dance not in the space, but to dance the space.’

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done?

I broke out of the girl’s dormitories at boarding school to drink vodka and go skinny-dipping.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? I think so, by the mere fact that I’m a part Maori, female performance artist. Being a performance artist means that my art is classified as a being a secondary art in comparison to say more ‘high art’ mediums, such as painting or traditional means of sculpture.

What most fucks you off at the moment? At the moment I am particularly pissed off with the

www.facebook.com/HDSPNS headspins.bandcamp.com/

inequalities between male and female artists. When you look through art historical documents from the 20th century the female contribution to modern art isn’t visible and even now male artists are somehow seen to be better artists, because they have a penis. Three things you couldn’t live without?,My friends, family and books Poison of choice? I can’t give up smoking cigarettes? I don’t really have many other poisons, though I do like mulled wine.

Best gig you’ve played or seen?

Probably Die Antwoord at Big Day Out. They were amazing.

Enlightening message for the world? “History is as light as individual life, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.” –Milan Kundera, The Unbearable lightness of being. bellaandmadeline.blogspot.co.nz

opposite page: HDSPNS; this page: HANA AOAKE

GRRLFRIENDZ Annabel, Toyah & Sophia

TOYAH WEBB

SOPHIA LAWLER

What do you do and what are you doing here? I sing for GRRLFRIENDZ and i'm here to play and see some cool bands send off Snakepit.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? I really cant think of anything on the spot, I went through my 'rebellious teen' phase but nothing major.

Do you consider yourself an outsider and why? Not particularly, I dont party as hard as Sophia or Annabel though!

What most fucks you off at the moment? Patronizing fuckers.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

FRUIT. Just fruit Poison of choice? I’m a bitch so diggin cocktails right now.

Best gig you’ve played? The first gig we ever played at Scout Hall with our friends metal band haha.

Enlightening message for the world?

Just dont stress out about stuff too much.

What do you do and what are you doing here? Playing the drums for GRRLFRIENDZ. What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Stole a $ pack from the local dairy, had nightmares of going to jail for weeks.

Do you consider yourself an outsider and why? No, only in Levin.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Mosquitos, sand in your bed, bees, being broke, John Key. Three things you couldn’t live without?

Planet Lesley (my bed), socks, my dog.

Poison of choice? Hmm snakes are cool - venom.

Best gig you’ve played or seen?

Portishead or Radiohead - hehe head.

Played? Old folks with Funhouse, Cavemen, Ralph and Sexpest - drums fell apart in the last songs but it was the most raw energy i think we have ever played.

Enlightening message for the world?

Do what you want when you want. Don’t let anyone else affect that.

ZAK ARNOLD & MARTIN SELMAN What do you do and what are you doing here? We were both here to perform as MEAN GIRLS and mourn the loss of Snakepit.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? ZA - Breathe. MS Not answering that.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

ZA - No, I browse the internet like everyone else. MS - No, outside sucks, I fucking hate nature.

What most fucks you off at the moment? ZA - Nostalgia. MS - My cellphone is fucked.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

ZA - Whammy Bar, Lucha Lounge, Pizza.

MS - Fish fingers, mushy peas and a bread roll.

Poison of choice? ZA - 'South Syndicate'

by Rugged. MS - HP Sauce. Best gig you’ve seen? ZA - Trash Talk performing at Glasslands, New York.MS - Recently, Thee Oh Sees at Camp a Low Hum. Enlightening message for the world?

ZA - The more you drive, the less intelligent you are. MS - Fuck right off.

top: MEAN GIRLS Zak & Martin; below: MEAN GIRLS & GRRLFRIENDZ

BEVERLY LIM What do you do and what are you doing here? I am an Auckland University undergrad studying sociology. I am at Snakefest to celebrate an end of an era of the Auckland music scene and to listen to some great New Zealand music and hang with my friends. Oh and to see Totems.

Reuben is a genius. Trap music 2k13.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Jumped over a huge fence to make out with a boy in his friends pool house when I was 16. Gosh his friends mother was NOT impressed…

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

I think it’s time and space dependant. I’m quite a chameleon and can blend into most social situations. Some are stranger and more foreign than others.

Oscar Wilde once said, “We’re all the in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.” I like to think I’m one of the star gazers he is talking about.

What most fucks you off at the moment? The lack of empathy and compassion in the world. People that have to prove to others who they are and not knowing who they are themselves.

Rude and judgemental people that have nothing nice to say about anyone else.

People that gain happiness by putting others in misery.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Nail polish, my closet filled with awesome prints and my cellphone!

JO UGG What do you do and what are you doing here? We’re CAVEMEN and we spend our days playing Rock 'n' Roll and drinking beer, and loitering here together (minus our drummer) at Snakefest.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? When we played our first and only show in Wellington we got pass out drunk afterwards and awoke to find our hotel room trashed; the art had been defaced, a thick layer of vomit covered the floor.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

We're outsiders because our combined IQ is below the average persons due to spending our youth playing brick wars.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Everything...

Three things you couldn’t live without? Beer, Babes and Ciggies.

Poison of choice? Strychnine Best gig you’ve played or seen? We played some of our most fun and rockin' gigs at Snakepit and by far the best gig we've seen was Guitar Wolf.

Enlightening message for the world?

Make P, not war. www.facebook.com/thecavemennz thecavemennz.bandcamp.com/

this page: BEACH PIGS Dahnu Graham; opposite page: Suren & Dahnu

SUREN RAJ UNKA

DAHNU GRAHAM

What do you do and what are you doing here? I am the drummer of BEACH PIGS. We were performing at the last ever event at Snake Pit. also celebrating all the great moments we have had at there.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Driving after 10 pm on my restricted drivers license.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

Yeah i prefer to skip to the beat of my own drum What most fucks you off at the moment? DJs Three things you couldn’t live without?

Bagels, Synths, 50mm 1.4f Poison of choice? 1080 Best gig you’ve played or seen?

Definitely the xmas party in Mt Eden. it was one of the first shows i played with Beach Pigs. IT WAS CRAZY. I felt like the floor was going to break because people were moshing so hard.

Enlightening message for the world?

Peakkkkking \m/

What do you do and what are you doing here? I'm the singer in BEACH PIGS and we're all down here supporting friends at the Snake Pit send off.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? When I was little I killed my next door neighbors dog with rat poison.

Used to attack all the dogs and their owners on the beach (up north).

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

Na I'm always out and about smangin it somewhere.

What most fucks you off at the moment? No Work.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

Brother, Mum, Dad Poison of choice? Red Wine and Coke.

Best gig you've played or seen? Last show on the "Full Mango tour" at the kings arms. Complete tour footage out soon.

Enlightening message for the world?

Beach Pigs are coming out with an Album in late April!

Watch: ‘Catch Up In The Sun’ BEACHPIGS ‘Methadrone’ live on 1AMTV

JAMIE NEWMAN

MAYA TUREI

JOS VB

What do you do and what are you doing here? Producer/Electronics/Synth /Percussion for BRIGHT CHILD. Partying with the good people at Snakefest!

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Jumped on stage at Splore to deliver a demo to Talib Kweli (who was performing at the time) / Hitchhiked across Europe / Survived the Burning Man. Do you consider yourself an outsider?

Not really - just human – kinda inevitably an insider really.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Bigoted people, racism in New Zealand – c’mon people!

Three things you couldn’t live without?

Water, music, people Poison of choice? CSo many poisons..

Best gig you’ve played? Snakefest of course~ Enlightening message for the world?

We don’t know more than we know – people are awesome and have varied life experiences - keep listening.

What do you do and what are you doing here? I am a performance artist and poet. I was going to do a performance with my lovely friend Lisandru($noregazZzm), but things got a bit hectic and it didn't end up happening.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? I cut class once.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

I believe everyone is flesh and blood right, and on this primal level, we're all the same.

What most fucks you off at the moment? The idea that because I'm a young woman who makes performance art - whatever I make will never be as good as a male painter.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

My God, family and friends.

Poison of choice? Booze probably Chea.

Best gig you’ve played or seen? Hana Aoake's performance called SHELLS, that was performed in Dunedin at Glue Gallery.

Enlightening message for the world?

Everything is totally fine, even when it's not.

What do you do and what are you doing here? I'm here at Snakefest under the moniker of FAUXHOUND, pronounced "foxhound", it's, like, gameboy music and spoken word and stuff.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Voted Green.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

It depends on what you call an insider. I guess I'm an outsider cf. the rest of the world, I dunno really.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Money and the lack of Three things you couldn’t live without?

Food, drink, warmth/shelter Poison of choice? Victoria Bitter Best gig you’ve played or seen? I saw Lucky Dragons at the SOFA gallery in Christchurch, it was, seriously, amazing!

Enlightening message for the world?

Always remember, there is no spoon.

Download the debut single ‘Like It Better’

fauxhound.bandcamp.com soundcloud.com/fauxhound foxhoundmusic.blogspot

this page: MAYA TUREI & JOS VB; opposite page: BRIGHT CHILD

LOUIS FLINT What do you do and what are you doing here? Musician, writer, was observing the ghouls, and witnessing a friends band play.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Been born.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

If u new who my father was you know it was in my blood.

What most fucks you off at the moment? The indie music scene.

Three things you couldn’t live without? The sun? Water, food Poison of choice? Knowledge.

Best gig you’ve played or seen?

Haven't seen them yet but Stone Roses.

Enlightening message for the world?

Rise through the realm of humanityand walk the middle pillar.

JR CHILE What do you do and what are you doing here? Party with people in bands, a little musical inspiration, a little sending off this sick venue.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Gave a cop the finger when he wasn’t looking.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

People always ask me where i come from, but i come from HERE! What most fucks you off at the moment? How amazing the music scene is at the moment- i’m so spoilt and its bad for my character.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Internet, sounds and company.

Poison of choice? Scrumpy X Rekordelig Best gig you’ve played or seen?

Leader to ruin @ the factory circa 2003.

Enlightening message for the world?

You are a part of a whole so stop being so damn self centred!

ANNA SISSON

SABINE

ANTHEA HAYLEY

What do you do and what are you doing here? I’m doing a BFA at the momento but really I dont do all that much, I went to snakefest because it was the last gig at snakepit and I had really engoyed all the gigs there so wanted to give it a good send off. it was a pretty awesome night.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? I’m not realy to sure what counts as rebellious, I stole a pen this one time.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

I guess so. i mean i have friend but i think that we are all a bit outside of the box.

What most fucks you off at the moment? PMS. Three things you couldn’t live without?

Art, music and drunken shenanigans Poison of choice? Rreally like that alcoholic ginger beer stuff.

Best gig you’ve seen? Maybe grimes, im a little bit in love with her and i got to kiss her that night so it was pretty amazing.

Enlightening message for the world?

Recycle.

What do you do and what are you doing here? Being sad 24/7 because snakepit is closing.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? I have no idea.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

Yes. What most fucks you off at the moment? Fruit flies.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

Wendys x3.

Poison of choice? Hydrochloric acid.

Best gig you’ve seen? Everyone @ Chrono.

Enlightening message for the world?

Cats can give you schizophrenia.

What do you do and what are you doing here? I am the creative director of ANTHEA. I was selling my wears in Luck/ House with Rose Thomas. I couldn’t miss this final tribute to the Snake Pit that was.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? The time I got blottoed watching the Hobbit, drinking straight vodka with my gay fiend Andy. Woke up later. Home, toilet, me a mess. Never again.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

I’m a dreamer. Being outside is subjective.

Does anyone really live inside?

What most fucks you off at the moment? When the durrie ends.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

My flat mates. Fashun. Styves’.

Poison of choice? Durries Best gig you’ve seen? SnakeFest.

Enlightening message for the world?

Just remember that time goes fast. The good things don’t last. And The sun never goes down. It’s just an illusion caused by the world going round.

JULIE FELIX What do you do and what are you doing here? I'm a freelance makeup artist & hair stylist and an art student. I am at Snakefest to see bands & friends play and get shmanged lol.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Watch 'Youth In Revolt' --> story of my life. lol jk.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

No, not really.

What most fucks you off at the moment? No air con, summer in Sydney is too hot.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

Interweb, interweb, INTERWEB (internet) Poison of choice? Belladonna. An extract from the belladonna plant was used in Renaissance times as a beauty product.

Applied to the eyes it dilated the pupils and gave women a wide-eyed appearance.

Best gig you’ve seen? The smashing pumpkins, totems Enlightening message for the world? “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” -Kate Moss

this page: Anthea & Julie; opposite page: Anna & Sabine

this page: Manon (see page 141) & Rikki; opposite page: Alessandra & GRASS CANNONS

RIKKI REDBEARD

ALESSANDRA BANAL

What do you do and what are you doing here? Playing guitar in the band SPACE VENTURA. What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Got a speeding ticket.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

No, I know too many people into the same shit as me to feel like an outsider.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Humidity Three things you couldn’t live without? Water, Oxygen, Food Poison of choice? Changbang.

Best gig you’ve played or seen? Just got back from camp a low hum which was pretty great for us and all the other bands.

Enlightening message for the world?

Love and peace.

What do you do and what are you doing here? I am the ex-drummer of GRASS CANNONS and now playing in a band with Anthony from ANTHONY DRENT AND THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT and Perry from SPACE VENTURA who are both playing. I came to see some of my favourite local bands and to celebrate the fact that snakepit existed.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done?

I kind of get really anxious about breaking rules, probably going to and playing at r18 shows when I was underage, once I had to hide from the cops in the toilet for an hour.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? I forget that I am because I usually only converse with weirdos and/or people who get how I am but then I flashback to the alienation I felt at highschool, so yes.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Mindless or ill-informed voting, the common misconception

that society has reached gender equality, people who say gay when they mean bad, having to wake up early, and being bored.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Food, socks, and my blankie.

Poison of choice? Coopers pale ale, sapporo or any japanese beer.

Best gig you’ve played or seen?

Can't say played cause i'm extremely self-critical and pessimistic but for seen maybe Xiu Xiu, both times i've seen them it's been amazing, last year was cool, he used mentos and a sling shot to hit a gong it was so badass, didn't even come off as a gimmick, seemed completely justified (it made a really good gong sound and it was out of arms reach).

Enlightening message for the world? Help me i'm bored.

PEARL MCGLASHAN

FRANCES CARTER

What do you do and what are you doing here? I’m an actress on Shortland Street and I’ve been writing for this issue of 1AM. I went to Snakefest to see cool bands and support my friends.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Stole a bra from farmers when i was 13.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

Yup, In the sense that all my friends are musicians and i work on a soap opera.

What most fucks you off at the moment? People who take advantage.

Three things you couldn’t live without? Avocado on toast, wine, good company.Poison of choice? Red wine Best gig you’ve seen? Mint chicks tunnel gig in Devonport 2010.

Enlightening message for the world?

Be kind

What do you do and what are you doing here? I take photos and I am taking photos.

What's the most rebellious thing you've ever done? Can I pass on that?

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

No because I don't want to be self indulgent.

What most fucks you off at the moment? Sexual assault.

Three things you couldn't live without? Music, toothbrush, Pearl McGlashan.

Poison of choice? Salt.

Best gig you've seen? Thee Oh Sees was pretty amazing... But best ever would be the Rackets double EP release at Scout Hall in 2010.

Enlightening message for the world?

Be nice, work hard, don't tell lies.

THISTLE BROWN What do you do and what are you doing here? Textile Designer - here to farewell the premises.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? ahhhhhhh????

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

I don’t really think to much of being an insider or outsider.

What most fucks you off at the moment? The superbowl performance could of been longer.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

My pug, good friends and good Coffee.

Poison of choice? Is this a perfume question or alcohol question?

Best gig you’ve seen? AC/DC western springs Enlightening message for the world?

Kiss the future, fuck the past.

this spread photos by FRANCES CARTER

this page: Tash; opposite page: Natalie & Tash

NATALIE TRUEMAN

TASH VAN SCHAARDENBURG

What do you do and what are you doing here? I do nothing. I wanted to take Tash to Snakepit before it closed.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? Hung out in a Catholic chapel in my underwear with my girlfriend and three other naked people.

Do you consider yourself an outsider? I spend a lot of time indoors, so not really.

What most fucks you off at the moment?

My parents won’t buy me chickens.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

Disney princesses, boobs and wonka nerds.

Poison of choice? Poison Ivy from Batman.

Best gig you’ve seen? I once saw the Saddle Club live in a mall.

Enlightening message for the world? Meat is murder.

What do you do and what are you doing here? I'm a Fine Arts student at Ilam in Christchurch and I just came along cause I heard it was gonna be a good time.

What’s the most rebellious thing you’ve ever done? When I was six I decided I wanted to model in the sandpit wearing nothing but at least thirty snails. It was pretty gnarly stuff.

Do you consider yourself an outsider?

I suppose, just because I have some very different priorities and concerns to a lot of my peers. Though that can be isolating, in other ways it grabs people's attention. I don't know if I'm being sucked in or drawing them out though.

What most fucks you off at the moment?

People who 'love' animals and eat them too.

Three things you couldn’t live without?

Scissors, good food and my vagina.

Poison of choice? Gin & lift.

Best gig you’ve played or seen? Every time we have a party with the local bands playing in the lounge.

Enlightening message for the world?

People are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness so stop acting like shitheads.

shirt by MAURIE & EVE, locket necklace KATE SYLVESTER ARCHIVE.

1A

M G N I T I A W FOR E H T MAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEPHEN TILLEY FASHION BY KAREN INDERBITZEN-WALLER HAIR AND MAKEUP BY AMIEE GRAHAM MODEL AMANDA SCHMIDT @ RED11

opposite page: shirt by PHILIP LIM at PLAYPARK, gold trousers by ZAMBESI, bra by LONELY HEARTS, HOSIERY BY H&M, locket necklace KATE SYLVESTER ARCHIVE; this page: shirt by MAURIE & EVE, locket necklace KATE SYLVESTER ARCHIVE.

sequin dress worn back to front by PHILIP LIM at PLAYPARK, trousers by KATE SYLVESTER, boots

by STELLA MCCARTNEY at RUNWAY, charm bracelets

by KAREN WALKER JEWELLERY, choker by DELPHINE PLANQUEEL, heart necklace by UNDERGROUND SUNDAE.

sequin dress worn back to front by PHILIP LIM at PLAYPARK, charm bracelets

by KAREN WALKER JEWELLERY, choker by DELPHINE PLANQUEEL, heart necklace by UNDERGROUND SUNDAE.

shirt by NOM-D, skirt worn over flares both by KSUBI, velvet scarf by ZAMBESI, heart necklace

by UNDERGROUND SUNDAE, choker by DELPHINE PLANQUEEL.

shirt by NOM-D, skirt worn over flares both

by KSUBI, velvet scarf

by ZAMBESI, boots

by BEAU COOPS FOR KAREN WALKER, charm bracelets by KAREN WALKER JEWELLERY, heart necklace by UNDERGROUND SUNDAE, choker by DELPHINE PLANQUEEL.

shirt, shorts and jacket all by KSUBI, hosiery stylists own, MARC by MARC JACOBS HEELS at WORKSHOP, choker by DELPHINE PLANQUEEL, heart necklace by UNDERGROUND SUNDAE

shirt and bomber both

by NOM-D, charm bracelets by KAREN WALKER JEWELLERY, pants by ZAMBESI, choker by DELPHINE PLANQUEEL, heart necklace by UNDERGROUND SUNDAE

blouse by KAREN WALKER, skirt by KSUBI, pants by ZAMBESI, hosiery stylists own, shoes

by GLASSONS, locket

by KATE SYLVESTER ARCHIVE, bracelet

by UNDERGROUND SUNDAE

silk slip by STELLA MCCARTNEY, pants

by ISOBEL MARANT at WORKSHOP, hosiery

by H&M, heels by KATE SYLVESTER, gold locket KATE SYLVESTER ARCHIVE, bracelet by UNDERGROUND SUNDAE, bag by DIANE VON FOSTENBURG at RUNWAY.

cross and heart necklaces by UNDERGROUND SUNDAE, bra by LONELY HEARTS, flared cords KAREN WALKER RUNAWAY ARCHIVE.

1AM L AN @1.0 E W 0 PM AY : FE S T

IVA

L

< c l i ck f or L E E o n In s t a gr

am

FAN S

blackboxboutique.com SPRING / SUMMER 2010 / 2011 now in store blackboxboutique.com SPRING SUMMER 2010 / 2011 nowStore, in store 35b Surrey Crescent, Grey Lynn & new store now/ open @ The Department 10 Northcroft Street, Takapuna, Auckland.

35b Surrey Crescent, Grey Lynn & new store now open @ The Department Store, 10 Northcroft Street, Takapuna, Auckland.

BLACKBOX BOUTIQUE BLACKBOX2011 BOUTIQUE AUTUMN/WINTER NOW IN STORE 2011 NOW IN 10 STORE 35b Surrey Cresent,AUTUMN/WINTER Grey Lynn + The Department Store, Northcroft St, Takapuna 35b Surrey Cresent, Grey LynnAuckland, + The Department Store, 10 Northcroft St, Takapuna New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand REMIX AD_SPRING 2010.indd 1

17/08/10 6:52 PM

REMIX AD_SPRING 2010.indd 1

17/08/10 6:52 PM

m a 1

let it

rock