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dB Magazine 11 January 2012

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PUFF &

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Yes, it’s now 2012. Which means that we can finally look forward to another Adelaide International Guitar Festival this year. To kick off their preparation, the Festival is calling for applications to their International Classical Guitar Competition, open until Wed 29 Feb. There’s $31,000 in prizes on offer, and the calibre of competitors is world class. To get involved, head to the Festival website – www.adelaideguitarfetsival.com.au.

The full Festival program will be made available in April.

overwhelming support, which may translate to a good crowd at Enigma on Fri 20 Jan.

There’s been plenty of international touring news announced while Puff was on holiday, so let’s try to bring you up to speed. To begin, Justin Townes Earle has announced a peculiar Bluesfest side show at Estonian House on Fri 13 Apr, so it doesn’t look like he’ll be playing with his father in Adelaide; classic ska-punk heavyweights Sublime are bringing their reworked line up Sublime With Rome to HQ on Tue 10 Apr with support offered

by KI Music Fest headliner Mat McHugh; JD Samson of Le Tigre fame will be performing with his Brooklyn based art/ performance collective MEN in Adelaide for a free performance at Barrio on Sun 4 Mar as part of the Adelaide Festival; Peruvian born Immortal Technique is coming to Australia for the first time ever with Akir and Poison Pen supporting him at HQ on Sun 15 Jan; while AQUA, a band that our Managing Editor Alex still wears a t-shirt in support of, are touring to HQ on Sun 11 Mar.

Meanwhile, after fracturing vertebrae in his neck during a recent accident, Jason DeRulo has been forced to cancel his Australian tour.

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Turning to national tours now, it would seem that the Bodyjar reunion shows are all pretty well sold out, except for Adelaide’s gig at The Gov on Sun 1 Apr; Hermitude will be back this year with a new album in February, closely followed by a show at Rocket Bar on Sat 24 Mar; troubadour Carus Thompson is back in Adelaide again for a ‘Church Concert’ at Trinity Sessions on Fri 20 Jan, supported

by Laura Hill; prog-music champions Bird’s Rope Collective are bringing SLEEPMAKEWAKES to the Crown & Anchor on Thu 23 Feb; and Casey Donovan is our pick of the Sessions acts which we haven’t already covered at dB, presenting a show of tributes befitting her amazing voice at The Space Theatre on Fri 20 Jan.

and The Sun & The Sky. Chasing the slot with INXS, Vanessa Amarosi and Mark Seymour are: Dexter Jones, Heston Drop, Lyla, Raider and The Rules.

And finally, chasing the support with The Living End, Spiderbait and Sneaky Sound System are: Curses, Hawks Of Alba, Lady Strangelove, Quiet Child and Ride Into The Sun. Good luck to all involved!

Then we come to the local stage of Heatwave, where we find Lady Strangelove, Stolen Youth, Jack The Giant Killer, Far West Battlefront, Graveyards, Riot Runners, Burn Collect, Bombs Away, Gravity Ponds, The Killbot Factory, Psychonauts, Stuff Box, Full Frontal Lobotomy, Lake Nyos, Jozef & Blaze, Mastacraft, HBK, Lil’ Criszzy, Ice On Mercury, Mayweather, Machete, The Green Mile and All Year Round joining in with Kid Cudi, D12 and Chamillionaire from 12-15 Jan at Middleton.

And finally, the finalists for the Alleyway Band Competition are Archie, Old Mate, Big Richard Insect, Steering

By Stars and dB Magazine’s pick for the competition, The Amcats. The live final will happen at the Ed Castle on Wed 25 Jan, with doors open from 9pm and the winner to play Laneway on Sat 11 Feb. Of course, we hope The Amcats make everyone else cry with their brilliant performance!

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Maybe the most interesting touring news is that Chinese prog/psych band Proximity Butterfly will be at Rocket Bar on Sat 14 Jan, with some great local support from the likes of Irie Knights, These Wild Animals and Monster Of Society.

There is also word that a phenomenal French singer and guitarist by the name of Youri Blow will be at the Wheatsheaf on Fri 3 Feb for one show only.

US band Lydia (frontman Leighton Antelman is pictured) have reformed to release ‘Paint It Golden’ due to

Meanwhile, this summer’s touring festivals are doing their best to really engage with the local scene here, starting with Big Day Out who have named Coerce, Dangerous!, Leader Cheetah, Paper Arms, Gold Bloom, Ben David & The Banned, Ride Into The Sun, Mase N Mattic, Koolta, Stubanga, Bollocks Deejays, Nosweet, The Rules, Rad Bad, Love Cream and The Honey Pies to their line up (we may have been clued into that last one already).

We also have a shortlist for Band’s On Track, an admittedly lamely named competition offering the chance to perform at the Clipsal 500. Competing on Thu 12 Jan at Fowlers for a slot with Wynter Gordon, The Potbelleez and Zoe Badwi are: Jayne Anne Power, Mase N Mattic, Squeaker, The Belle-Phonics

To a bit of industry news now, where David Williams has stepped down as CEO of Shock Entertainment after 24 years in the role. One of the original founders of the company, he will be replaced by Scott Crawford who many of us in the Adelaide industry pretty damn quite well. Congrats to Scott for his appointment!

The Falls Music & Arts Festival released a statement last week after reports that their Marion Bay event wouldn’t return in 2012. It’s seems the main issue is a lack of funding allocated from the Tasmanian Government, which Falls highlighted as having been a major

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supporter of the Festival in the past, while also expressing a hope that something can be worked out to keep Marion Bay viable.

Looks like we’ll have to wait and see for this one.

Big Day Out also made headlines when they announced a partnership with C3 Presents, the promotion company of Lollapalooza and the Austin City Limits Music Festival. No doubt this will help consolidate the BDO’s international reputation and broaden their relationship ties within the US industry. A very good move indeed.

And closer to home, our Music Editor Ryan Winter is off to Radio Adelaide.

This will be his last edition after close to two years with dB. Just in case you hadn’t already heard about this, David Guetta has been announced as the headline act for Planet Cream in Adelaide on Fri 27 Apr. Above & Beyond, Alesso, Dirty South and a whole host more will join him for the event which is hosted at the Ent Centre.

Tickets are on sale now.

Tickets have also now gone on sale for those interested in attending the industry conference component of the FUSE Festival on Thu 23 and Fri 24 Feb. Artists workshop tickets for Wed 22 Feb are also available. Register your interest now at www.fusefestival.com if you haven’t already.

Now to the local scene where we begin with a massive plug for Ben Cameron, who has been tirelessly putting the finishing touched upon the Lost City Festival, a genius concept which a lot of us can relate to in Adelaide, no doubt.

This multi-genre music and visual art festival will be held over the weekend of 4-5 Feb at the Queen’s Theatre, and will be headlined by Prince Rama, who have changed their Adelaide show plans especially for the event. Love Of Diagrams, Elliot, Kangaroo Skull, Ghost Gums and Joel Stern & Cured Pink make up the interstate contingent, while Doe, Gold Bloom, Xango!, Sculpt, Oisima, Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity, Hal Bird, Guilt Free, Steering By Stars, Slamagotchi and Mondo Phase Band add some local flavor. Day 1 will be a grand affair, before Day 2 is a stripped back reworking of the opening day, matching the Sunday vibe while also adding a few more bands.

Also locally, the first residents of the year have already made themselves at home at the Grace Emily. I speak, of

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Night Girls alongside up and comers Mammoth Logic and electro-rock stalwarts The Killgirls as the event debut’s at Jive on Fri 3 Dec. Fourwords DJs will round out the evening with tickets just $12. Be prepared to see this series become a regular part of the 2011 live scene. Bands such as British India, The Temper Trap, Sparkadia and Children Collide have been a part of these events in the past.

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After two shows already this year, Candy Q will be performing at The Duke on Wed 18 Jan, continuing her busy start to this year.

Also, on a sadder note (especially for Dougie Arnott), the 20th Century Graduates have called it a day. Best of luck to all the members after two years of great music, and best of luck to Dougie for when ttCorby] Quiet In The Lab! perform with Ride Into at the Jade Monkey on Sat 21 In The Grass are Splendour of Sun anisersThe Jan.

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We finish this edition of Puff with an obituary for James Freud.

Freud commenced his music career at the age of 17 as a member of the Teenage Radio Stars who had their first Australian hit with ‘I Wanna Be Your Baby’. He signed with Michael Gudinski’s Mushroom Records label and had a successful solo career with the hit ‘Modern Girl’ from the album ‘Breaking Silence’ in 1980. James joined The Models in 1982 and wrote their smash hits ‘Barbados’, ‘and ‘Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight’ from their hugely successful ‘Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight’ album.

His two books on his recovery from alcoholism were bestsellers, however, he unfortunately succumbed to his disease and took his own life on Busker (1,1) Thu 4 Nov. Former sons members of Sumi now make and Freud is survived by his wife Sally12. up local act The ___ Exes (1,1) Harrison and Jackson. Rest In Peace.13. UK act �������������� Faithless released the single

to Enigma on Fri 14 Jan. It’s a while away, but we thought it would be best to give y’all a heads up.

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Melbourne psychedelic band The Magic Bones have informed us that they’ll be on their way over soon to assist Ride Into The Sun and The Amcats at Jive on Sat 20 Nov.

North Byron Parklands. They’ve got an online petition running currently for punters who wish to support this idea. If you’re one of those people, head to bringsplendourhome.com and leave your details.

After many years in Melbourne, the Jim Beam Bootleg series has gone national for the first time.

The Adelaide leg sees Red Apparition and All Night Girls alongside up and comers Mammoth Logic and electro-rock stalwarts The Killgirls as the event debut’s at Jive on Fri 3 Dec. Fourwords DJs will round out the evening with tickets just $12. Be prepared to see this series become a regular part of the 2011 live scene. Bands such as British India, The Temper Trap, Sparkadia and Children Collide have been a part of these events in the past.

Gov on Fri 26 Nov. Remember to bring your raincoat and umbrella, because the weather is going to turn Cosmic!”

The aforementioned quote can be attributed to the band Cosmic Storm, who have formulated this Oscar Wilde style play on words to announce their next show at The Gov on Fri 26 Nov. Darren Wotton and No Friends For Rolland Romanny will be in support that evening, with fans of Ironhorse sure to recognise John Yacka and Kevin Perks on stage that night.

A certain Matt Corby has just released his latest EP ‘Transition To Colour’ which has seen him become bedfellows with Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett’s UK indie label, Communion. It’s slightly sickening for Puff to think that a 19 year old is that good a musician, but envy aside, we’ll still want his autograph when he comes to The Wheatsheaf on Fri 3 Dec. We’ll probably want his rider as well.

We finish this edition of Puff with an obituary for James Freud.

Freud commenced his music career at the age of 17 as a member of the Teenage Radio Stars who had their first Australian hit with ‘I Wanna Be Your Baby’. He signed with Michael Gudinski’s Mushroom Records label and had a successful solo career with the hit ‘Modern Girl’ from the album ‘Breaking Silence’ in 1980. James joined The Models in 1982 and wrote their smash hits ‘Barbados’, ‘and ‘Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight’ from their hugely successful ‘Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight’ album.

His two books on his recovery from alcoholism were bestsellers, however, he unfortunately succumbed to his disease and took his own life on Thu 4 Nov. Freud is survived by his wife Sally and sons Harrison and Jackson. Rest In Peace.

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Also heading over from Melbourne are The Weekend People, who will be launching their debut album at The Rhino Room on Sat 13 Nov. Doors open at 8pm that night. The band asks punters to prepare for some melancholy as well as some happier tunes that evening.

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On a heavier note, Whyalla based band Goathanger are on their way to The Cavern on Sat 4 Feb to perform with Octanic, The Killbot Factory, Sever Hill and Lacerated Soul. Also coming up are Almost Human at The Gov on Fri 3 Feb, Raven Black Knight at Enigma on Sat 21 Jan, and Classic Rock Sunday 2 will be at The Gov on Sun 22 Jan with Big Tom’s Blues Band the main attraction, featuring members of The Loving Tongue.

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CAVALERA CONSPIRACY “Especially since it is the first time with Cavalera Conspiracy it makes it all the more special. We have been performing all around the world except for Australia and New Zealand for years now, so it’s great to finally bring our show there. I have not been to Australia with Igor (Cavalera, brother and drummer) since 1994 which is many years ago now which makes it even more extraordinary,” Max Cavalera enthuses.

It may be a concern that it has in fact taken Cavalera Conspiracy so long to tour our fine nation, but it is not without reason.

To call Max Cavalera a busy man would be an insulting understatement – it’s a surprise he has time to sleep. Not only is he a part of the Cavelera Conspiracy, but he is also the head of tribal metal icons Soulfly, a father and husband as well as common collaborator, while also spreading his talents to production as well.

“We finished the new Soulfly record just recently; it’s very exciting and extreme. We have a new drummer called David Kinkade who used to play in a death metal band from Norway called Borknagar, and he is an extreme player and a very powerful drummer. He made the sound of the record quite different and it’s easily the most extreme Soulfly record so far. There are a lot of double bass parts, extreme metal and blast beats on it and it’s just killer. We also have some guests on it too including: Dez Fafara from Devil Driver, Travis Ryan from Cattle Decapitation who did amazing jobs on the record and are some of my favourite heavy bands and I also did a song with three of my kids. Zyon plays drums, Igor plays guitar and sings and Richie sings which was really fun. Some of the riffs are some of my sons’ and it’s a really cool sounding song. They are forming their own band now, they are young like 17 and 18, but I have given them as much help, advice and back-up as I can so they can follow in my footsteps, if they want. I leave it to them, I just wish for them to have fun with it and enjoy it because music is a great thing, it should be done with the heart and can take you to a lot of places.”

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he history of metal music is a diverse and prolific one. Throughout it’s more than fifty years riddled with controversies, strange fashions, stigmas and countless sub-genres, there have been few leaders who have left their imprint and essentially paved a historic pathway for thousands to follow. One such iconic man whose impact upon this music culture is practically immeasurable is Max Cavalera, whose band Cavalera Conspiracy featuring his brother Igor on drums, will be making their way to Australia as part of the Big Day Out.

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BY WILL OAKESHOTT Upon one listen of Cavalera Conspiracy’s new record ‘Blunt Force Trauma’, the listener is quickly made aware that this is a band with more than a wealth of experience pushing their personal musical envelopes as far as they can. Amongst its aggression and faster thrash parts is an interjection of variance which justifies the brilliance of this outfit, and as the rule goes, it will have to be seen to be believed.

“The direction for the album came about really naturally,” Cavalera explains. “The only thing I did when we entered the studio to make ‘Blunt Force Trauma’ is I wanted to make sure that this album was going to be heavier and more aggressive than ‘Inflikted’ (debut album). So the first songs we wrote were the faster thrash tracks like Torture, Target, Blunt Force, Trauma and Warlord. But then some of the other stuff which came out later like Killing Inside, Genghis Khan, Rasputin and I Speak Hate showed the variety, which combined the thrash and hardcore stuff with the other sounds. Like Killing Inside, for example, has nearly an industrial sound. It all made the album very surprising and cool with more depth. We achieved what we set out to do, it is heavier and more aggressive but it also has something new to it which ‘Inflikted’ didn’t have, and I think that’s what makes this album special, it’s new stuff with the thrash stuff and it makes it all exciting.”

Cavalera Conspiracy will perform at Big Day Out on Fri 3 Feb at the Adelaide Showgrounds.

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BY MATEO SZLAPEK-SEWILLO

he impression I have of Cameron Stallones from having interviewed him once before, when he visited Australia 15 months ago, is of a guy who thinks very deeply and very clearly about music – and not merely his own creations as Sun Araw.

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The impression I got this time, with the additional scope granted by talking to him over the phone and not just through email, is that not only is he capable of discussing the metaphysics of music while driving down a Californian highway, he's also unflappable when being cajoled by his friends in the background. So over the din of his friends alternately yelling 'Facebook', 'Google' and them ordering fast food, we chatted about his music, his new artistic phase, and the thrill of being appreciated in other parts of the world.

“It was a blast last time, it was really cool... it was a little intense with all the flying, but even with that, the shows were all really good. It was a great time.” Stallones gushes about his most recent Australian tour, where his dense, sprawling exercises in sound benefited from the sweltering claustrophobia of the Format basement. He is also overjoyed to think that there is sufficient interest in his music to warrant a follow-up tour so soon after his last visit.

Given that, as mentioned before, Stallones is a thinker – as you will read, he is no Liam or Noel Gallagher. So I was interested in the mental space he occupies when approaching collaborative or side projects of his. In addition to Sun Araw, Stallones records as Magic Lantern, and his discography includes a slew of collaborative

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“It’s honestly the outcome from the four us in a room together; we started the band to have fun and write catchy punk rock songs, which was as far ahead as we thought. Slowly, as we started jamming and bouncing ideas off each other the broader musical influences shone through.

We’ve always thought music shouldn’t have restrictions. There’s never any idea too silly and that makes it comfortable to challenge ourselves and try creating new things. It’s not so much about finding direction when we jam together, it’s more about creating vibes and having fun,” bassist Jason Illman describes.

Guitarist Reuben Davis adds: “We’ve definitely had ideas that were too silly!! But even if only one person in the band likes an idea we try it out. Some of the best riffs we’ve written aren't really liked initially, but after a couple of goes they start to sound awesome.”

What the four-piece have crafted as a result of this adventurous endeavour is their debut album ‘Ishi Prende’. With an array of different genres shining through on their punk recipe including reggae and surfrock amongst others, it’s certainly a record which is worth celebrating. Best of all is that Hightime decided to take each genre to its full conclusion, which meant that even trumpets and bongos were a necessity when the song called for it.

“From when we first started the band we loved the idea of having our mates jump in on songs, so we asked the horn section from Son Of Dad if they'd be keen to come down one day for a jam. They did

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wanted. It really feels like we’ve found ourselves on this record and we needed someone to push us in that direction.”

‘Paradise’ is a record showcasing the band’s lovely duel-harmonies, purposeful ideas and clever folk-pop arrangements that is sure to place Slow Club at the forefront of boy-girl duos to arrive from England. Though she admits she has “never been concerned with the aesthetics of the band,” but more-so “the incredible song-writing partnership we have going at the moment.”

Slow Club arrive in Australia soon enough and aside from visiting the ‘Neighbours’ set and bronzing their pale British skin by our sunny beaches, Taylor’s enthusiasm is fuelled directly by the prospect of performing ‘Paradise’ on our shores. Be sure to catch a glimpse of the band on the back of what is truly a gorgeous album.

and we loved it! We’d been doing Plug Your Feet with them for ages, but Loan Shark we all worked out in the studio and they just ripped it.” Davis explains.

With the available for the public now through the highly regarded Pee Records label, the next step is to show the nation how well the songs that make up ‘Ishi Prende’ translate live. The launch is literally days away, but the important question is, what comes next for Hightime?

“Now the album is out we’re just going to get on the road and play our tunes to as many people as possible. Now that people are more familiar with our songs, it’s going to be great to take it out on the road and have some fun. We’ve started writing new tracks also, which is something that comes pretty quickly and naturally, there’s talk of a split 7-inch with our good friends The Bennies also, so stay tuned! But for now, let’s party together!” Illman enthuses.

Hightime will launch ‘Ishi Prende’ at the Unibar on Sat 28 Jan. The album is out now through Pee Records

BY ASHLEY PRIGENT

f all the sweet and irresistible - almost twee - folk bands to rise from the United Kingdom in the past decade, boy-girl duo Slow Club would have to be the most dynamic. After the momentous arrival of their debut ‘Yeah, So’ in 2009, the Sheffield band have found themselves not just producing a Mark II of such but rather a more defined, congruent collection of songs that is ‘Paradise’ – the duo’s second LP and no doubt the record that sees Slow Club find their place in England’s musical landscape.

Opening track and single Two Cousins epitomises what vocalist/guitarist/drummer Rebecca Taylor had hoped to achieve with their latest record: “I wanted to make something that you could put on and go to bed to; something that would flow from start to finish. I had always hoped ‘Paradise’ would be something that people can make out to,” she giggles. “I think we’ve achieved that.

“The first album was really loud and poppy.

I’m so proud of what we made, I think it really did showcase the ideas we have as a band but perhaps not as clearly as me might have hoped,” Taylor explains. With experienced producer Luke Smith (Foals – Total Life Forever) taking the reins on ‘Paradise’, Taylor insists she and her counterpart Charles Watson have truly defined their style. “Luke was just so helpful in directing us toward the sound we always

Sun Araw will perform at Format on Thu 19 Jan. To read the full interview with Sun Araw, head to dbmagazine.com.au

BY WILL OAKESHOTT

ne of the best things about music is that it has no limitations or boundaries.

Trying to restrict this freedom ultimately depreciates the artist and their creation, but this is not the case for local quartet Hightime.

Their distinctive version of punk-rock incorporates an abundance of other genres within the formula, which without doubt construct a sound which is very memorable.

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vinyl and cassette releases. Is there, for him, any hierarchy or preferencing that he establishes among his various ventures? “When it's just me, I focus totally on being present within that space.

But when it's a collaborative effort, there are other people who are obviously present too. So we're each pushing in a direction, and hopefully the harmony that comes from that is really open... so it's not at all like when I'm the only person present and it becomes this crazily fierce space of my own design. For certain projects there are certain focuses [sic] and different energies. It manifests itself, like... a pumpkin.” He lost me with that final analogy (I think it perhaps has to do with organic growth?), but I think that by then he was clearly operating on a separate intellectual plane.

Slow Club play at Ed Castle on Sat 3 March.

‘Paradise’ is out now through Pop Frenzy.

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BY LOUIS RANKIN

THE RED PAINTINGS

BY LUKE CARLINO here has always been a great debate about what justifies art, artistic merits, the rights and wrongs and if there should even be right and wrongs in art. These days a new debate is forming – whether or not true artists even exist anymore, or if they have all been watered down by technology and social expectations when compared with the artists in the days of old?

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When speaking to Trash, the creative force behind The Red Paintings, you get the feeling that there is still hope, that there are still some artists out there who create for the right reasons. The band are classified as an orchestral art-rock act that put a twist on their live performances, which we will get to in a second. First, the current status of The Red Painting’s: “The album is finished, it took me five years, recording bits and pieces all over the world,” Trash says.

Whilst the band can be difficult to class, the roots of the music lie in rock n’ roll, albeit with plenty of other flavours to catch you off guard.

The group are currently touring the country in support of their new single Streets Fell Into My Window, a song that was influenced by the tsunami tragedies that took place last year. “I just had this image in my head during that time, the destruction, where the streets were literally coming through the windows,” Trash continues. “Everything I write is very personal and influenced from whatever is happening to or affecting my life at that time.”

As eccentric and unique as the band’s music may sound, it is their live shows that set them apart from the hordes of other rock acts touring the country. During the live performance, a range of artists will paint along with the music, usually letting the sound influence their design, giving the music a visual. “To me I have always seen music in colours, so this really makes sense,” explains the front man who goes on to describe how the group commission local artists from wherever they happen to be playing to come and create during the shows, with the works being posted on the band’s website afterwards in place of performance photos or a blog.

All kinds of artists are encouraged to contact the band who hand pick the people they chose to work

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as Racist aren't your average Hip hop group. Comprised of Himanshu Suri (aka Heems), Victor Vazquez (aka Kool A.D), and Ashok Kondabolu (aka Dap), last year was huge for the New York trio.

Originally meeting at college, they first gained notoriety in late 2008 with their Taco Bell song.

Since then, they've released two mixtapes and an LP, all of which have received generally good reviews. ‘Relax’, their debut full-length, was released in September of last year and supported by a nation wide US tour. Their profile continued to increase in the remaining months of the year, culminating with an appearance on Conan O'Brien's late television show. The performance included a Michael Jackson impersonator, a somewhat sensitive topic at the time - the late pop star's doctor was on trial at the time for wrongful death. Vazquez and Suri both brush this off however, laughing "Americans have very short attention spans - they loved it!."

Despite praise from sites like Pitchfork, the group still remain outsiders amongst the traditional hip-hop media, which seems to have them unfazed.

"We're relatively ignored by Rap media," muses Vazquez. "They love us!" laughs Suri, and whilst the former is more accurate, the latter probably illustrates their attitude better. Das Racist are

just a few guys having fun. They're not hugely concerned about being accepted by the hip-hop world – outwardly anyway. They are good friends with Danny Brown though, one of hip hop's rising stars, who cemented his status last year as a master wordsmith. What did they have to say about the Detroit rapper? "Danny is a good dude. He dances backstage when he's bent." recalls Kondabolu, with Suri adding, "Danny's the best."

So what to expect from a Das Racist live show?

Well, as you have probably worked out by now – don’t expect anything overly serious. Instead, be ready for anything, but most importantly, go with an open mind - you'll probably need it.

Das Racist will perform their Big Day Out sideshow at The Gov on Wed 1 Feb.

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with in their live shows, so make sure you head along to see The Red Paintings and experience the creation of art in its truest form.

The Red Paintings will perform with Quiet Child at Fowler’s Live on Sat 14 Jan.

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INDUSTRY NEWS SO FRENCHY SO CHIC LIVE!

Big Day Out Partners With Lollapalooza

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Big Day Out founder Ken West’s new partner is C3 Presents, Texas-based promoters of Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits Music Festival. C3 also books and promotes more than 1,000 concerts in arenas, theaters, casinos, and clubs across the US. An obvious benefit is that Big Day Out accesses C3’s contacts to get acts without getting into bidding wars. They will collaborate on “the union of talent development, creative execution and production, commercial excellence and innovation.” Said West, “I could not have found more creatively sympathetic, commercially dynamic and like-minded partners than the guys at C3.” Added C3 partner Charlie Walker, “C3 is thrilled to be entering this creative partnership with Big Day Out and are honored to become a part of the outstanding 20 year legacy that the festival has created.”

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Two Initiatives From Laneway The St Jerome's Laneways Festival set up two initiatives to help emerging artists. It will donate a portion of every ticket sold at the Adelaide leg of the festival to Music SA to support grass roots music industry and artist development. Laneway also announced the ‘Alleyway’ competition where a SA act can perform at the festival and another plays a sideshow. Laneway teamed with five media outlets — including dB — to select a band each for a grand final at The Ed Castle on Wed 25 Jan.

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Ryan Winter, our Music/Games/DVD Editor, is leaving this parish as from this issue. He’ll take over as the Music Resources Coordinator at Radio Adelaide. “It’s a new position that will allow me to further explore my interest in media,” Ryan said. He’ll still be editing for FasterLouder and will be contacted at adelaide@staff. fasterlouder.com.au.

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ARIA declared Adele’s ‘21’ platinum x 11 in Oz and a total of 23 weeks at top spot — top selling album of last year in Australia. But chart historian Ed Nimmervoll did a survey of all her chart activity (singles and albums) and announced that Adele is also the biggest charting act here in the last 20 years.

Runner-up is Delta Goodrem (who was biggest chart act of 2003), followed by Mariah Carey (1994), Black Eyes Peas (2009), Eric Clapton (1993), Aqua (1998), Celine Dion (1995), Missy Higgins (2005) and Pink (2006).

Williams Steps Down As Shock CEO Shock co-founder David Williams has stepped down as CEO after 24 years. “After a successful couple of years of rebuilding the business, it is the perfect time to hand the reins over to the next generation of music, TV and film enthusiasts,” he said. Executive GM Scot Crawford now heads the business.

Gaga Top Earning Rock Chick Lady Gaga was the top earning woman in music, says ‘Forbes’ magazine. Her record sales, touring and endorsement brought in US$90 million between May 2010 and 2011. Taylor Swift was at #2 with $45 million and Katy Perry with $44 million. Also in the Top 10 were Beyonce ($35 million), Rihanna ($29 million), Pink ($22 million), Carrie Underwood ($20 million), Celine Dion ($19 million) Adele at $18 million (this was before ‘21’ became best seller of 2010).

U2 Most Traded In! U2’s ‘The Joshua Tree’ (1987) was the most unwanted CD over Christmas in Britain. Online marketplace Music Magpie revealed 24,958 copies were exchanged for cash or vouchers on Dec 25 and 26.

Lady Gaga’s ‘Fame Monster’ hit its use-by date with 20,054 fans who traded the album in.

Things We Hear Plans by the Big Four (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax) to make it to Australia this year have been nixed, says Slayer guitarist Kerry King who admits it’ll take too much organizing to pull together.

Meantime, NZ’s Midnight Youth say they’ll play Australia before dates in the US and England.

The Sydney leg of Soundwave has sold out, following Melbourne and Brisbane. The last tickets for the Feb 26 show went on Christmas Day. It was the festival’s “first year of complete sell out prior to the event,” organizers said. dB Magazine 11 January 2012

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BY CHRISTIE ELIEZER

Boy & Bear switched management to Gregg Donovan and Stuart MacQueen’s Wonderlick, joining Grinspoon, Airbourne, Marvin Priest and Josh Pyke.

They were four years with Rowan Brand and Guy Morrow.

British record producer Steve Lillywhite was named a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in The Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. It is the third highest honour given, although Lillywhite will not be able to use the title Sir. Lillywhite twiddled the knobs for U2, Peter Gabriel, Crowded House, Matchbox Twenty and Dave Matthews among many others.

Falls Festival might be forced to scrap its Tasmanian event after failing a grant application to get $150,000 for the next three years from the state government.

Foxtel has launched “factual entertainment” network A&E in Australia.

World music icon Youssou Ndour plans to run in the West African country of Senegal's presidential election next month, challenging 85-year old Abdoulaye Wade whose announcement he will seek a third term sparked violent protests. Ndour uses his radio station and newspaper to condemn Wade’s policies and corruption in his 11 years of rule.

Coldplay pocketed a cool £1.5 million for playing to 20,000 on New Years Eve in Abu Dhabi … Stevie Wonder got US $1 million to sing at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas that night … Red Hot Chili Peppers played at Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s $7.8 million party for 300 guests at his estate on the Caribbean island of St Barts but it’s not known how much they were paid.

Goyte’s Somebody That I Used To Know hit #1 in Germany following that feat in Belgium and Netherlands, and has broken into the US and Canadian charts. It has now scored 28.5 million views on YouTube, reports Noise 11.

Metallica's James Hetfield threw rocks at photographers in Punta del Este, Uruguay, after they chased him as he and his son Castor went mopedriding.

Richard Wilkins’ ‘Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms’ was the best selling title last year for New Holland Publishers. Meantime, America’s NPR which syndicates programs to college radio, rated former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans’ ‘Dirty Deeds’ one of the music books of 2010.

APRA’S Brett Cottle To Keynote At Fuse Brett Cottle, CEO of APRA/AMCOS, will make one of the keynote speeches at Adelaide’s Fuse Festival (Feb 22 to 24). Fuse also announced this week that its first round of international speakers are Jon McIldowie of the UK’s The Great Escape festival, Alicen Catron Schneider (head of TV Music at NBC Universal Television) and Ariel Hyatt, who founded social media PR firm Ariel Publicity and wrote the book ‘Music Success In Nine Weeks’.

Australian-based speakers and workshop participants announced are David Vodicka (Rubber Records, AIR), Philip Mortlock (Alberts), Jaddan Comerford (UNFD), Ashley Gay (Xelon Entertainment), Natalie Bell (Casa Del Disco Records, Twenty Two Publicity), Basil Cook (ABC Music), David Williams (Shock Entertainment), Andrew Walker (Jazzhead Records), Glenn Wright (Vitamin Records), Maria Amato (Media Arts Lawyers), Darren Sanicki (Sanicki Lawyers), Ben Strong (Sanicki Lawyers), Chris Johnson (AMRAP), Christie Eliezer (‘The Music Network’, ‘Pollstar’), Michael Szumowski (Alberts),Vicki Gordon (VGMedia), Alec Doomadgee (Gadigal Music Label), Cath Haridy, Tom Harris, Keith Welsh and Greg Carey. For more info and to register head to http://www.fusefestival.com.

Guitar Festival Calls For Entries The 2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival will run over four days from August 9 – 12. The second International Classical Guitar Competition has opened for applications and closes at the end of February.

Emerging players compete for a share of total prizes to the value of $31,000 (including a guitar built by local luthier Jim Redgate) and adjudicated by a panel of established players and teachers. Further info from www.adelaideguitarfestival.com.au.

15 Finalists Announced For ‘Bands On Track’ ‘Bands On Tracks’ named 15 finalists from the 131 SA bands which applied to play on the Clipsal 500 Concert Stage. There will be heats at Fowlers Live through this month. Three will be chosen — one to open for Wynter Gordon and The Potbelleez on Fri 2 March, INXS on Sat 3 March, or The Living End on Sun 4 March. ‘Bands On Track’ is an initiative of Music SA and the SA Motor Sport Board. “Music SA is thrilled by the public’s response to the very first Bands On Track competition,” said its GM Daniel Randell.

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The Cleveland-based metal band, which has been experiencing a lot of problems hanging onto members during the last twelve months or so, has revealed that the guitarists’ slots in the group which were vacated at the end of last year by long time members Rob Arnold and Matt DeVries, have been filled by Dååth’s Jeremy Creamer and Emil Werstler. While Creamer is a new addition to the Chimaira, Werstler has already been playing bass for them for a number of months. A third member of Dååth, Sean Zatorsky, is on keyboards while Bleed The Sky’s Austin D’Amond is involved in drum duties. Original vocalist Mark Hunter will be continuing in that role, and is now the only member of the band to have been a part of it before 2011.

In another overseas news story that should illustrate just how good fans of extreme and alternative music have it here, more than sixty punks in the Indonesian province of Aceh (a place that has become infamous for the heavy-handed rule of its conservative Islamic government) found themselves detained after police raided a punk rock concert being held in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh. Not only did the punks find themselves having their mohawks shaved off and ‘disgusting’ clothes removed, but they were then shipped off to the province’s State Police School for ‘re-education’. “What is this education?” said Evi Narti Zain, the executive director of a local humans right group, and critic of the authorities’ actions. “The police’s action is inconsistent because the punks did nothing wrong. Punk music is their way of expressing themselves. It is normal and is found all around the world. It’s their right to express their freedom. There’s nothing wrong with punk kids.”

A female death metal vocalist by the name of Shanna Spalding was recently found guilty of the armed robberies of two high-end New York City boutiques, and faces the prospect of spending up to fifteen years in prison. The front-woman of a group called Divine Infamy (which still appears to be active though without a replacement vocalist as yet), the 29 year-old singer (who those with long memories may remember me mentioning in this column back in 2010) performed under the stage name of Purgatory, but became more widely known as the “cat woman robber” thanks to a cat mask she wore as a disguise while carrying out her first heist. She performed her second robbery the very next day disguised in a burka and speaking in a fake Arabic accent, and was eventually caught while attempting another robbery some two months later. Although she claimed that she’d been coerced into performing that last robbery by

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ront man Michael Starr, along with his explicit, outrageous and genuinely endearing metal band Steel Panther, are setting gender equality back to the decades from which their pastiche was born. Having just woke up at 3.30pm in his Hollywood Hills bed, when I ask what he’s been most pleased about since the release of their third studio album ‘Balls Out’ in late October 2011, he’s pretty straight up.

“Since ‘Balls Out’, I’ve got more pussy than I even got from the first two records. Maybe that’s not a big deal to anybody else, but for me, it’s how I mark my level of success. Because money comes and goes, but chicks are always going to be there and the more chicks you have the more success you have. And usually girls will only get together with the singer and the guitarist in a band, but our bassist and drummer are even enjoying our success. Chicks will buy us stuff, and care for us and handle shit. So that, since the record has come out, I haven’t done my laundry in two months.”

Drummer Stixx was of course the leak when Soundwave Counter Revolution initially got cancelled, but Starr explains that the band had never meant to breach any confidentiality with the promoter. Stixx was just off his face at the time the initial tweet surfaced.

“The cancellation of Soundwave Revolution was actually a blessing in disguise for us because we had more time to finish ‘Balls Out’, and it also allowed Stixx to go through a full rehab program.

He’d been up for about two weeks before the tweet; he was just wired, and as soon as he got the news he just put it online and we were like “what are you doing man?!” and he was all like “I don’t know!” He put his drum tracks down, he went into rehab and it worked out. I’m really sorry that it got cancelled in the first place because it was sad for all the bands, not just us.”

Starr is philosophical about the contrasting line up between Revolution, which was to feature Van Halen and Alice Cooper, to Soundwave which will be headlined by Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, System Of A Down and Limp Bizkit.

“The festival are really fun, because I get to meet guys that I’d never want to hang around,” he begins. “I mean, I don’t want to meet Fred Durst,

but maybe I’ll get an idea of why he plays that kind of music. When you’re in that environment for everybody you all have a mutual respect, but when you get on the stage, fuck their band. We’re going to tear it up, kick ass and represent. And when we’re back stage, so long as they don’t fuck with any of the chicks we rustle up, then it’s cool.”

Now with two full albums of original material Steel Panther have shaken once their coveted title of ‘Best Cover Band In The World’, emerging in their own right as a metal force. In the years since the band began touring internationally, I ask what their biggest lesson has been? Starr’s response is sincere.

“You don’t build a touring entourage. That’s called a rookie move right there. That ends up in marriage or babies and I don’t want to do that, and you really get an idea of what the chick is like. Most kind of relationships, you want to keep them quick, fast, easy, light-hearted and move on. It’s good for both sides because the chicks are enamored with your position in society; they want to hang out with you more than you do, so you have to stop that. It’s a lot of work for me.

You have to just fuck them then kick them to the curb, and call them up maybe next time around if they’re not married by then.”

a mysterious abductor named Angel Martinez, police failed to find any evidence that that individual even existed.

Barry Clayton, the man who delivered the famous spoken-word intro to the equally famous Iron Maiden song, The Number Of The Beast, has passed away at the age of 80. A resident of the Greater London suburb of Islington for half his life, Clayton was a pioneer of black television and radio programming (despite being white himself), and also read ghost stories on the radio, which was how he came to the attention of Iron Maiden when they were looking for someone to narrate the aforementioned intro. (Although the band had originally hoped to have famous American horror actor Vincent Price do the job, the high fee he demanded – £25,000 – compelled them to look for somebody else.) Despite apparently having no interest in the group, Clayton agreed to narrate the song intro for them, even obliging them when they asked him to “put on a Vincent Price kind of voice”.

James Brazel iranon@optusnet.com.au

Steel Panther will perform at Soundwave at Bonython Park on Sat 3 March

METAL NEWS On Sat 14 Jan, Melbourne’s Frankenbok will be doing the Adelaide launch of their new album ‘The End of All You Know’ at the Enigma Bar, with support from locals Truth Corroded, Universum and Beyond The Oblivion, as well as Strathalbyn band Alkira. Doors open at 8:30pm for the 18+ show. ‘The End of All You Know’ can be purchased from the band’s website at www. frankenbok.com.

On Sat 21 Jan, Raven Black Night will be doing a show at the Enigma Bar, with support from fellow locals Manifesto, Hobart-based power metal outfit Tebarah (making their Adelaide debut), and Broken Hill’s Soulforge, another power metal band

featuring former members of Dungeon and Fury.

Doors open at 8pm.

Locals Truth Corroded will soon be embarking upon their first European tour, the band having secured the main support slot on ‘The Sounds of Extreme Tour 2012’. Lasting approximately three weeks, the tour will see the group play nineteen shows in ten countries, and share the stage with famed extreme metal acts Krisiun, Malevolent Creation and Vital Remains. The band plan to use the tour as an opportunity to promote their latest album, ‘Worship The Bled’, which had its European release last September.

Chimaira have unveiled their line up for 2012.

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THE UNNATURAL CONGRESS OF STILL BEATING HEARTS

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t’s seems that Sydney chanteuse Catherine Traicos has a lot of heart to give. Her 2011 album ‘Gloriosa’ was an impassioned, often raw listening experience, brought to a rapturous and fully realised conclusion with the help of her band The Starry Night. Traicos recalled it as an exhausting personal experience, but at the same time she was writing ‘Gloriosa’, she was also working alongside Perth clarinettist Philip Everall, bringing to life music which didn’t fit into the album song cycle in a new project dubbed The Unnatural Congress Of Still Beating Hearts.

“Philip and I had been having many conversations in pubs about music and had spoken drunkenly and earnestly about collaborating at some point,” Traicos explains of the seed for their collaboration. “When the songs came along I instantly thought of him. I didn’t develop them too much because I was well aware that he would bring something quite unique to the project. For me, this project is an opportunity to really stretch my comfort zone and perform pieces that are based on very deep and

private emotions. For Philip I believe it is an opportunity to really bring a classical/ art music aesthetic to contemporary music, with little to no restraints.”

The Festival Centres’ summer ‘Sessions’ series presented the pair with a wonderful opportunity to debut this new body of work, with sneak previews having been released online indicating a very stripped back approach. Potentially, Traicos’ emotional intensity in the setting could be quite confronting, but more likely it

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yourself lyrically in a song is how you then try to disguise everything with music. I would definitely prefer for people to lose themselves in the music rather than the story. Philip might be the other way around.”

At this stage, the ‘Sessions’ performance and subsequent tour of The Unnatural Congress Of Still Beating Hearts appears the only concrete dates set for the pair, signalling this is

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Yuck, a London quartet who formed in 2009 and released their self-titled debut in 2011 to quite a bit of fanfare, have a pre-disclosed history. Both Daniel Blumberg and Max Bloom were once part of indie chancers Cajun Dance Party, who had a brief flirtation with hyperbole before they moved on to Yuck.

That experience of having been in a band was, Blumberg believes, vital in how Yuck presented themselves and the music that they play.

“Everything had an effect on how Yuck came to be,” he muses. “I think Cajun Dance Party did, and I think everything that’s happened to the band since then has had an effect on what we do as Yuck – we spent four years or so in Cajun Dance Party and that was really important in terms of us teaching us about the industry.”

The sound of Yuck is a mile away from that of the band formed whilst the members were still in high school – Yuck is a real old-fashioned throwback to the pre-grunge era alternative guitar squall of acts like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. “The sound that we’re making is that of Max and I writing together, which we’d never done before – it sounded so different to what we’d done in the past, and it sounds different to what I did on my own and what Max was doing on his own at the time. Then we tried doing it together and it sounded completely

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different to anything that we’d done before, and that’s pretty much how Yuck formed, which was when we started writing together.”

There was no deliberate mindset to make music that harkened back to a particular time-period, but it just happened to sound like that when it came out.

“It really came together when we started playing it live – when we were writing together it was really just a case of experimenting,” Blumberg outlines. “The songs that we were writing were quite different. There wasn’t really a focussed time period of writing; we were just sort of jumping around.”

Yuck’s busy 2011 schedule kicked off when Fat Possum released their debut album in February, and has been a non-stop touring whirlwind since. Now, with a year of touring behind their debut under their belt, the focus inevitably turns to its follow-up.

“We’re going to make another album but we still feel like a new band,” Blumberg says. “The live thing we’re really confident with now, and apart from a few things (in 2012) like the Australian tour we’re really going to be focussing on writing songs – I guess we started playing shows when we hadn’t had a period of just writing songs, and now that’s something that we really have to do.”

It’s certainly going to be different

FÉFÉ

to be deceived. Maybe people in Melbourne in Sydney are not like in Adelaide?”

What really struck me about Féfé is how genuinely he spoke, especially of his personal relationships.

Holding his family at an arms length for most of his career has been a difficult aspect touring for him, but he’s more than happy to explain the reason for this private-professional boundary.

“I don't like to mix family and work much because for me, my family is my relief. When I go back home my wife tells me to go and do the dishes. It's very simple and I feel good about that. When I'm on tour, I say I'm in the bubble and people don't react to me in the same way as

us about the song cycle and that will essentially guide the next step. We have discussed recording and have lots of cool ideas but that might not happen for a while as we both have many other musical commitments.

“I don’t think art is ever concluded and often logic is best kept at bay.”

BY ANDREW WEAVER the second time around; technically the core songwriters in the group have made two albums already, albeit very stylistically different ones – the second Yuck album will certainly be anticipated and have expectations upon it given the way that their selftitled debut has been received with open arms and enthusiastic response.

“It’s weird,” he admits, “but I don’t know if it’s good or bad. I haven’t completely got across the board for a lot of things – I haven’t interacted with that side of things. Practically, playing loads of shows, you’re not as excited as when you play your first show. But in terms of other people reacting to what we’re doing…I don’t know what type of pressure that is, because we just wrote one album and when we do the next one it’ll be exciting.”

Perhaps it’s a chance to subvert the paradigm – throw those who have lumped Yuck into the grunge revival tag for a loop by releasing an electronic concept album. Stranger things have, indeed, happened.

Yuck’s self-titled debut album is out now. They’ll be playing Laneway on Fri 10 Feb. BY RYAN WINTER

ne of the wonderful things about WOMADelaide is that it highlights just how Adelaide audiences embrace true artistry, far more so than any ‘open minded’ east coast trendies. Parisian native and founding member of French Hip-Hop collective Saian Supa Crew, Féfé was one of the brightest acts to emerge from the 2011 festival line up, having arrived with little more than a UK club gig under his belt to an English speaking audience since going solo 2009.

“It was more than I expected, a really good surprise. I wasn't sure of anything, you know?” says the modest Frenchman, speaking from his home studio. Drawing from his experience with the Saian Supa Crew, Féfé believes that by projecting the flow of each song, the rhythm and the energy of the notes themselves, he was able to circumvent the language barrier in Adelaide, and he now hopes that the rest of the country will be as receptive. “I know that before coming to WOMAD I was really scared because people might not understand, but on stage I just let it out and it worked somehow.

This time, I'm trying not to picture that though, because I don't want

perhaps the only opportunity for Adelaide to see Traicos’ and Everall’s together on stage.

Equally, this run of shows will test the water in some respects, with the pair eager to see how things turn out, but not commit to a definitive future.

“At this stage we are just going to see where the work takes us,” Traicos concludes.

“We are going to play the songs live and see what that teaches

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The Unnatural Congress Of Still Beating Hearts will perform at the Space Theatre on Wed 18 Jan.

should prove utterly captivating.

“These songs however deal with quite deep, old emotions that then formed rather negative behavioural patterns.

I constantly observe myself and try to make sense of why I am the way I am. I will also add that I was coming off antidepressants when I wrote these songs and I was experiencing a sense of heightened reality. So there is a bit of drama in there,” Traicos explains, adding a real sense of back story to the work.

“An amusing part of revealing

an a band literally “burst” into the greater music consciousness? “Burst” tends to mean explosion, but even when a band suddenly develops popularity beyond in their wildest dreams, it’s rare that they’ve come from nowhere. Every artist has a history, hidden or otherwise.

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my day-to-day relations. So I don't try and bring my family into it too much because I don't want them to think that the bubble is real.”

Building personal relationships is also strong part of Féfé’s artistic manifesto, which is why he is so excited to be back in Australia with fellow French artist Asa. “Asa, we really connect,” he says warmly. “I know she lives in Paris too, but in Australia we met for the first time. And since then we've had a real connection, and she's is inspiring. She comes from Nigeria, my friends too, and she has huge fans around the world, and she gives me advice, so of course she's wonderful.”

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to the Asa- Féfé double bill featured as part of the Sessions series at the Festival Theatre. Of course, we’re all hoping for an on stage collaboration, something Féfé has thought about as well.

“There's a temptation,” he concedes. “I'm tempted to collaborate with many artists. It's just getting the right time to write the songs. Being solo made me more eager to collaborate with others, because when I was with my group I didn't see other artists outside of it. We had everything within ourselves so I wasn't really interested at the time.”

Féfé will perform with Asa at the Space Theatre on Thu 19 Jan.

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KATCHAFIRE

BY LOUISE HEINRICH album, ‘Say What You’re Thinking’, writing songs for ‘On The Road Again’ was a shared process within the eight performers. There are five independent songwriters, each with unique styles and different levels of musicianship.

Bell deems creating songs while touring as a way to keep the music fresh for the band.

‘On The Road Again’ is an accomplished album, which embraces a tapestry of new wave synth, reggae pop, smooth r’n’b, and a West Coast flavour straight from the US. Katchafire has mastered being on the road together, despite being away from home for months on end. “We do so much touring,” says an enthusiastic Bell. “We have a family dynamic. I’ve got a couple of brothers already in the band, and the rest are all pretty much relatives. It’s our strength – being together is our greatest achievement.”

The band of brothers brings this natural rapport to the stage, their smiling camaraderie making it easy for the audience to step into a state of reggae-soaked euphoria.

Despite moving solidly within a genre that’s been around for almost fifty years, Bell is confident that they’ll bring their unique reggae blend to audiences for a number of years yet. “Reggae is definitely universal.

We’ve got fans in many countries – Europe, New Caledonia, Brazil. We’re best received in Hawaii, because our music suits the lifestyle there.”

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he goodwill of reggae – this is the heart of New Zealand classic roots band Katchafire. For ten years, the band has been sharing their distinctive roots style in countries all over the world. After releasing their fourth studio album ‘On The Road Again’ in June 2011, the band are now bringing their organic Aotearoa reggae to Adelaide for the first time.

Logan Bell, lead vocalist and guitarist, reveals that most of the members hail from different parts of New Zealand, and this brings a unique Maori touch to the Rasta sound. “We’ve almost got every one of the tribes in the band, and we see ourselves as an example to our people. Taking our culture with us on tour has been received with respect from all of our fans.”

Maori culture has also had a role in keeping the Katchafire boys connected to their spirituality. “I can really feel it at a large gig. I close my eyes when onstage, and feel it, the Spirit, or the vibe, whatever you want to call it. When everyone’s rocking, we’re all in our own place of meditation. I know a couple of the other guys in the band do it too. We connect with the Spirit.”

Bell admits that Aroha, a Maori conception of unconditional love and respect, influences a lot of the songs that Katchafire creates. “It affects how we conduct ourselves. I reckon all the boys are very humble about what they’ve been given, and this sense of goodwill seeps into our music.”

The band’s music-making method is somewhat byzantine. Similar to the preceding

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Grace Emily Hotel – Grand Bar – ‘Grand Bar Fridays’ Glow In the Dark weekend w DJ Matty B, Nova’s Jarrod Walsh + Sam Liguoro Hilton Hotel (Hilton) – ‘Boogie Nights in MyBar’: DJ Capital D, MC DV8 Holdfast Hotel – Wasabi Hyatt Regency Adelaide – Waves Nightclub: Miami Nights Kings Head – In House: DJs Lachlan Pender, D-Lux & VIP Marion Hotel – Dino Jag Acoustic Mick O’Shea’s Irish Pub – The Royals Oriental – DJ Audio Porn Pier One Bar – DJ Skot Holder Producers Bar – Miami Nights Ramsgate Hotel – Live Bands Rhino Room – Comedy feat Greg Fleet + Sputnik (9pm) & Crash (10pm) Rob Roy Hotel – Robin George Robin Hood Hotel – ‘Friday Night’s The Pianoman’: with Denis Ferraro at the piano Royal Oak Hotel – Groovy Lounge with DJ Derek Lang & friends Savvy – Groovy DJs Seaford Hotel – ‘Party Hard’: DJ DMH Semaphore Workers Club – Steve Brown Band Stamford Plaza – Swish: ‘Nothing But

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Arkaba Hotel – Tavern: DJ Hugo Salcedo; Top Room: Salsa Dance Classes Avoca Hotel – Live Sessions & DJ DMH Bar On Gouger – Lounge Night Bombay Bicycle Club – Sean Robertson Colonel Light Hotel – DJ Chombo Coopers Alehouse @ The Earl – Darren & Carmen Crown & Sceptre Hotel – Hear No Evil with DJs Nixon & Bunyip Cumberland Arms – d’n’b with DJs Swift and Stryke Daniel O’Connell Hotel – Open Mic The Duke of York – Acoustic Wednesday: Lipsmack w Heston Drop + Projected Twin Electric Light Hotel – DJs AliX & Ocky Elysium Lounge – Chilled Beats Empire Pool Lounge – DJ Orbe Exeter Hotel - Curtis Forresters and Squatters Arms Hotel – Big Al’s Krazy Karaoke Fowlers Live – Combichrist Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – The Dresden Dolls Grace Emily Hotel – Pub Art “Click” Grand Bar – Wasabi + DJ Marek Heaven – Dirty Harry HQ – ‘Flashdance’ Jive Bar – The Beards Film Clip Live Recording Kings Head – DJ Driller Mars Bar – DJK Experience Mick O’Shea’s Irish Pub – Celtic Connection Seaford Hotel – Karaoke with Suzanne Ford S-Bar – Complete Trivia with Des Supermild – Corey, DJ EFTPOS & guests The Goody Hotel – DJ Mike, MC Paul Curran Worldsend – Free Acoustic Music

Thurs 12 Jan Alma Tavern – DJ Abe Arkaba Hotel – Tavern: DJ Hugo Salcedo; Top Room: Salsa Dance Classes Bar On Gouger – Lounge Night Bombay Bicycle Club – DJ Contact Crown & Sceptre Hotel – Aural Elixir with DJ Bos + live sax Cumberland Arms Hotel – RnB with DJ Well Edinburgh Hotel – DJs Ben James, Marty & Rashi Electric Light Hotel – Ill Street Blues: DJs Antdigger, Delta & guests Elysium Lounge – Guest DJs Empire Pool Lounge – DJ Orbe Exeter Hotel – Jay Hoad Finn MacCool’s – Open Mic Night Fowlers Live – Bands On Track Round 1

Gaslight Tavern – Jam with The Gaslight House Band Gilbert Street Hotel – Brenton Manser Duo Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – Coops & The Bird Grand Bar – ‘OMG!’ w DJ Isaac + Sam Liguoro Heaven – Shag!

Thursdays Henley Sandbar – DJ Matt McLaughlin Higher Ground – Character Jam's Stinkin’ Hot Love Highlander Hotel – Hilife DJs Jade Monkey – Weightless & Sepia Jive Bar – Deerhoof Mars Bar – Naughty/ Nice with DJ Astro Palais (Semaphore) – Sound Mechanics: Sax & DJ Duo Portland Hotel (Pt Adelaide) – DJs Brendan & Dynamic: House & r’n’b Prince Albert Hotel – Dusty & Billy Bob Red Square – Roadhouse: DJ Mark C Rhino Room – Comedy hosted by Greg Fleet Royal Oak Hotel – Funk & Soul with DJ Ant Williams S-Bar – Ladies Night with MC Cosi Seacliff Beach Hotel – Sean Robertson Stirling Hotel – Resident NRG & Trance DJs Supermild – Helter Skelter: DJ Jesse and guests The Goody Hotel – Shine Village Taverner – Club Village DJs Worldsend – Free Live Music

Fri 13 Jan Alma Tavern – ‘Rock Out With Your C*ck Out’: Sienna w Point05 + DJ Hollywood Archer Hotel – Downstairs: DJ Huddy; Upstairs: DJ Reelax Arkaba Hotel – Harvest Bar On Gouger – Random Hero Boho Bar – DJ Patty + Roving Magician Bushman Hotel – New Year Stoplight Singles Party: DJ Nathan Harrison Chichi – DJs Smooth Trax & GBH Cooper’s Alehouse @ The Earl – DJ Semtex Crown & Anchor Hotel – Luminari Crown & Sceptre Hotel – Electric Light Hotel – Syke Night Elysium Lounge – Soul & Funk: Kubrik, DJs Hemilove & deNorthwode Enigma Bar – Bar 2: Squeaker CD Launch w Imogen Brave, The Greeting Method + The Irresponsibles; Bar 3: DJ JONA (IKTPQ/ BMTH) w Bloodsport + Deceiver Fowlers Live – Feed Her To The Sharks Garage – DJs Filthy Rich & Matt Pearce Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – Roots Night: The Yearlings, The Huckleberry Swedes + The Streamliners 14

90s’ with DJ V + MC Timmy Pine Stockade Hotel – Fuel: DJ Nathan Sunnyside Hotel Motel – Idle Saints Supermild – DJ Gumshoe & guests Tassie Tavern (Port Augusta) – Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers The Goody Hotel – DJ Isaac The Stockade – Foxxy G Topaz Bar (Findon Hotel) – DJ Demize Trinity Sessions – Andrew Wilson (WA) + Major Chord (VIC) Warradale Hotel – Stone's Throw Watermark Hotel – E'nuf Said Wheatsheaf Hotel – Life Like + Black Dot Winstons Bar (Pirie St) – Professor X, DJ Jamie, ATB, Stevie & Michael Fraser

Sat 14 Jan Alma Tavern – ‘MetroRetro’: DJ Isaac + MC Craig Egan Apothecary – Deep House with Bensun & Bundi Archer Hotel – DJs David James & Jaki J Arkaba Hotel – Tavern Bar: The Incredibles; Top Room: XMAS Dinner & Show Bar On Gouger – Random Hero Boho Bar – DJ Pauly + Flavella the Snake Dancer Bushman Hotel – ‘I Love Retro!’ w DJ V

Chichi – DJs Smooth Trax & GBH Club 199 – House, Retro Dance Electric Circus – DJs Paul Glenn & D Lux Electric Light Hotel – DJs Hank & Osk, DJ Suckerpunch, DJ Hixxwa, deNorthwode Elysium Lounge – House with DJs Kaelee, Seamless, Sven, Juddo Empire Pool Lounge – Matt Decker, Orb & Tonez Enigma Bar – Frankenbok w Truth Corroded, Universum, Octanic + Alkira Exeter Hotel – Fowlers Live – The Red Paintings Garage – DJ Luke Lombe German Arms – DJ Semtex Gilbert Street Hotel – DJ Marky Polo Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – Katchafire + Renegade Creation Grace Emily Hotel – Liam Gerner Grand Bar – ‘Grand Bar Saturdays’: Glow in The Dark weekend! w DJ Trim, DJ Trix, MC Jazz + Sam Liguoro Grays Inn (Mt Barker) – DJ Dynamic & DJ Biz Grosvenor Hotel – Riley Solo Acoustic Hahndorf Inn – DJ Abe & MC Craig Egan Henley Sandbar – DJ Matt McLaughlin Highlander Hotel – Highlander Saturdays Hilton Hotel (Hilton) – ‘Retro Saturdays @

MyBar’: DJ V + MC Timmy Pine Jive Bar – Hawksley Workman Kings Head – Smik Saturdays: Wade C, VIP & Madness London Tavern – DJ Dynamic Marion Hotel – Acoustica Mick O’Shea’s Irish Pub – Tomboy Norwood Hotel – DJs Sam & Glen Oriental – Dynasty Pier One Bar – DJ Skot Holder Quiet Waters – Belly Dancing with Shamira Ramsgate Hotel – Acoustic Sessions Rhino Room – Fourwords Salt – Funky Jazz & House by Sound Mechanics Savvy – Professor X, Wade C, VIP, Henry Hains Seacliff Beach Hotel – The Swedes Seaford Hotel – Seaford Live: Stamford Plaza – Swish: DJ Dylan Manov, DJ Little Jimmy + MC Paul Curran Stockade Tavern – Fuel Bar: DJ Dynamic The Duck Inn – Enuf Said The Goody Hotel – DJ Ahmeed The Stag – DJ Huddy Victoria Hotel (O’Halloran Hill) – DJ Spoonylove Wheatsheaf Hotel – Luke Legs & The Midnight Specials w Johnny McIntyre + Laura Hill

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Hotel – Irish Sessions Duke Of York Hotel – Pub Flicks Edinburgh Hotel – DJs Ben, James, Marty + Rashi Electric Light Hotel – Indie Ipod Elephant British Pub – The Jam Night with Core Exeter Hotel – Joel + Nathan Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – Uke Night Grace Emily Hotel – Yours Truly w John McCall Oxford Hotel – E’Nuf Said Royal Oak Hotel – Lucifer’s Lounge S-Bar – Bingo & Funky House with Ben James The Oxford Hotel – Lucifers Lounge The Tonsley – Drive: DJs DMH & Adam Daze Worldsend – Free Live Music

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Thurs 19 Jan Bar On Gouger – Lounge Night Boho Bar – DJ Paulie Bombay Bicycle Club – DJ Contact Broadway Hotel – Riley Solo Acoustic Crown & Sceptre Hotel – Aural Elixir: DJ Bos + live sax Cumberland Arms Hotel – RnB with DJ Well Daniel O’Connell Hotel – Trivia night Edinburgh Hotel

– DJs Ben James, Marty & Rashi Electric Light Hotel – Ill Street Blues: DJs Ant Digger, Delta & guests Elysium Lounge – Guest DJs Empire Pool Lounge – DJ Orbe Finn MacCool’s – Open Mic Night Fowlers Live – Bands On Track Round 2 Gilbert Street Hotel – Nikko + Snooks Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – Front Bar: Polamine Grace Emily Hotel – The Sundance Kids Grand Bar – ‘OMG!’: DJ Isaac + Sam Liguoro Heaven – Shag!

Thursdays Henley Sandbar – DJ Matt McLaughlin Highlander Hotel – Hilife DJs Mick O’Shea’s Irish Pub – Disco Revival Night Oriental – Dynasty: DJ Ryley Palais (Semaphore) – Sound Mechanics: Sax & DJ Duo Portland Hotel (Pt Adelaide) – DJs Brendan & Dynamic: House & r’n’b Prince Albert Hotel – Dusty & Billy Bob Rhino Room – Comedy hosted by Karl Chandler Royal Oak Hotel – Funk & Soul with DJ Ant Williams S-Bar – Ladies Night with MC Cosi Stirling Hotel – Resident NRG & Trance DJs Supermild – Helter Skelter: DJ Jesse & guests The Goody Hotel – Shine Wheatsheaf Hotel – Moments of Peace in Urbania (Photographs by Emily Trott & Rachel Harris) Worldsend – Free Live Music

Fri 20 Jan Archer Hotel – Downstairs: DJ Huddy; Upstairs: DJ Reelax Boho Bar – DJ Paulie & Guests Bushman Hotel – Retro Night: DJ Nathan Harrison Chichi – DJs Smooth Trax & GBH Cooper’s Alehouse @ The Earl – DJ Semtex Cumberland Arms Hotel – Funky Lounge with DJ Boss Duke Of York Hotel – Cherry Grind + Grace Electric Light Hotel – Syke Night Elysium Lounge – Soul and Funk: Kubrik, DJs Hemilove & deNorthwode Enigma Bar – Bar 2: Lydia w The Sunset Horrors, Canidae, Something To Rescue, Ben David + The Banned; Bar 3: This Side Of The Massacre w To The Slaughter + Exerthur Excelsior Hotel (Brompton) – Mick Kidd Garage – DJs Filthy Rich & Matt Pearce Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – Jay Hoad w Babylon Burning + The Fleurieu Rhythm

Makers Grace Emily Hotel – Van Cleef w Rich Davies (Melb) + Subtract-S Grand Bar – ‘Flashback Fridays’: One Hit Wonders Party w DJ Matty B + Sam Liguoro + Nova’s Jarrod Walsh Hampshire Hotel – DJ Fusion, DJ Josh Henley Sandbar – DJ Matt Hilton Hotel (Hilton) – ‘Boogie Nights in MyBar’: DJ Capital D + MC DV8 Hyatt Regency Adelaide – Waves Nightclub: Miami Nights Largs Pier – Sound Mechanics: Funky, Motown & Old School Lockleys Hotel – DJ Toopie Marion Hotel – Audio Zoo Oriental – DJ Audio Porn Pier One Bar – DJ Skot Holder Red Square – ‘Gloss Fridays’: Red Square Reverse Decker, DJ Brendon, Junior, MC Jazz, Stoop Kid Rhino Room – Comedy feat Karl Chandler + Itchycoo (9:30pm) Rob Roy – Boehoffer Robin Hood Hotel – ‘Friday Night’s The Pianoman’: Denis Ferraro at the piano Royal Oak Hotel – Groovy Lounge with DJ Derek Lang & friends Savvy – Groovy DJs Seaford Hotel – ‘Party Hard’: DJ DMH Semaphore Workers Club – The Streamliners Southern Hotel Gawler – Club S: DJ Deelite & Sandra Stamford Plaza – Swish: 90s Dance Night w DJ Rmac, DJ V + MC Timmy Pine Stockade Hotel – Fuel: DJ Nathan Supermild – DJ Gumshoe & guests Tea Tree Gully Hotel – DJ Michael Constant, MC Kris The Church of the Trinity – Trinity Sessions: Carus Thompson + Laura Hill The Goody Hotel – DJ Isaac The Stockade – Foxxy G Topaz Bar (Findon Hotel) – DJ Demize Wheatsheaf Hotel – Tara Carragher + Deb Tapfield

– DJs Hank & Osk, DJ Suckerpunch, DJ Hixxwa, deNorthwode Elysium Lounge – House with DJs Kaelee, Seamless, Sven, Juddo Enigma Bar – Raven Black Night w Tebarah, Soulforge + Manifesto Empire Pool Lounge – Matt Decker, Orb & Tonez Exeter Hotel - Barn Garage – DJ Luke Lombe German Arms – DJ Semtex Gilbert Street Hotel – DJ Marky Polo Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – Beth Orton + special guests Grand Bar – ‘Grand Bar Saturdays’: DJ Trim, DJ Trix, MC Jazz + Sam Liguoro Grays Inn (Mt Barker) – DJ Dynamic & DJ Biz Hahndorf Inn – DJ Abe & MC Craig Egan Henley Sandbar – DJ Matt McLaughlin Highlander Hotel – Highlander Saturdays: Hilton Hotel (Hilton) – ‘REVIVE @ MyBar’: DJ Nick Ford, MC Paul Curran Iso Bar – Sound Mechanics: r’n’b & urban with DJ Krisp, DJ Sok & Jo Castell Jade Monkey – The 20th Century Graduates w Ride Into The Sun + Quiet in the Lab! Jive Bar – Thee Oh Sees Kings Head – Smik Saturdays: Wade C, VIP & Madness London Tavern – DJ

Dynamic Marion Hotel – One Planet Mick O’Shea’s Irish Pub – Chill Norwood Hotel – DJs Sam & Glen Pier One Bar – DJ Skot Holder Rhino Room – Squareone Salt – Funky Jazz & House by Sound Mechanics Seaford Hotel – Seaford Live Stamford Plaza – ‘Swish Saturdays’: DJ Dylan Manov, DJ Little Jimmy + MC Paul Curran Stockade Tavern – Fuel Bar: DJ Dynamic Tea Tree Gully Hotel – DJ V The Seaford Tavern – Dirty Harry The Stag – DJ Huddy Village Tavern – Club XS DJs Wheatsheaf Hotel – Anthony D’Antonio + Cal Williams Jr

Sun 22 Jan Alma Tavern – Sunday School: The Idle Saints, DJ Ryley + Loose Marjon DJs Bar On Gouger – Lounge Night Boho Bar – Groove Elation Forresters and Squatters Arms Hotel – Movie Massacre Fowlers Live – Got Beef Hip Hop Battle w Kerser, Immaculate + many more Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – Classic Rock Sunday II w Live Evil,

Toast + Big Tom’s Blues Band Grand Bar – ‘Grand Bar Sundays’: Guest DJ Brendon w One Planet, DJ Dylan Manov, DJ Matty B, DJ Michael Constant + MC Paul Curran Hilton Hotel MyBar – Tim Bos DJ & Sax Henley Sandbar – DJ Mark McLaughlan HQ – ‘Garden Grooves’: Jazzy James, Professor X, Damage Mick O’Shea’s Irish Pub – Jambo Pier One Bar – DJs Jayse & Scott Ramada Pier Hotel – DJs Justice, Capital D + more Salt – Funky Jazz & House by Sound Mechanics 4pm Savvy – Sunset: Henry Hains & Sanjii Semaphore Workers Club – Hoy-Hoy The Goody Hotel – ‘Sunday Sessions’: Kylena VIgus Wellington Hotel – Mick Kidd West Thebarton Hotel – Karaoke Wheatsheaf Hotel – Old South Bluegrass + Andy & Marta

Mon 23 Jan Archer Hotel – DJ Ocky Bar On Gouger – Lounge Night Crown & Anchor Hotel – Front Bar: Ben David Exeter Hotel – James Meston Grace Emily Hotel – Billy Bob's BBQ Grand Bar – Industrie Night: DJ Rupheo

Oaks Embassy (North Tce) – Karaoke with Annie & Shaggy Red Square – Chill: DJ Semler Rhino Room – RAW comedy heats Sugar – driLLer, Stephen King Worldsend – S-Fools I-Puddle

Tues 24 Jan Bar On Gouger – Lounge Night Coopers Ale House – Crikey! An Aussie Night Out Crown & Sceptre Hotel – Eclectric with DJ Tr!p Daniel O'Connell Hotel – Irish Sessions Duke Of York Hotel – Pub Flicks Edinburgh Hotel – DJs Ben, James, Marty + Rashi Electric Light Hotel – Indie Ipod Exeter Hotel – Like Leaves DJs Governor Hindmarsh Hotel – Front Bar: Uke Night Grace Emily Hotel – Pub Cinema Oxford Hotel – E’Nuf Said Royal Oak Hotel – Lucifer’s Lounge S-Bar – Bingo & Funky House with Ben James The Oxford Hotel – Lucifers Lounge Worldsend – Free Live Music

Sat 21 Jan Alma Tavern – ‘MetroRetro’: DJ Isaac + MC Craig Egan Apothecary – Deep House with Bensun & Bundi Archer Hotel – DJs David James & Jaki J Arkaba Hotel – Tavern: DJ Hugo Salcedo; Top Room: Salsa Dance Classes Bar On Gouger – Random Hero Boho Bar – DJ Paulie & Guests Bushman Hotel – ‘I Love Retro!’: DJ Silver Chichi – DJs Smooth Trax & GBH Club 199 – House, Retro Dance Electric Circus – DJs Paul Glenn & D Lux Electric Light Hotel 15

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ALBUM REVIEWS WE LIKED IT

AND YOU WILL TOO

Owls Of The Swamp The Black Keys El Camino Nonesuch Long a critical darling, the Black Keys have transcended their formative base of support to become mainstream stars – the unassuming faces of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney adorned the covers of music magazines the world over as ‘El Camino’ was released in a bizarre case of happenstance; how, exactly, did two blues dudes from Akron, Ohio, become the hottest rock band in the world?

The Black Keys don’t make music for commercial reasons, even if part of their popularity seems to stem from their ability to sync their music to advertisements around the world. ‘El Camino’ is more brazenly up-tempo than the soul-inflected ‘Brothers’, delivering the supple rock ‘n roll crunch that many wished Queens of the Stone Age would come up with in the wake of ‘Songs For The Deaf ’ – it’s a wicked amalgam of stomp and groove with a plethora of melody bringing it altogether. Only the acoustic beginnings of Little Black Submarines stretch a tune beyond the four minute mark as it pulverises with Zeppelin-esque flourish for its finale.

It’s always been about ‘the song’ for the Black Keys, and Auerbach’s ability with an earworm has never been more pronounced than it is on the opening cut Lonely Boy, a delightfully taut composition that the duo and collaborator Danger Mouse manage to make sound entirely effortless in execution. It paves the way for what will come on ‘El Camino’, with the Black Keys never slowing down for the duration of its sub-40 minute length, instead delivering one of the best rock ‘n roll records of 2011 right at the end of the year.

It’s an album that rockets along with a strength of belief in what it is that they are doing that can’t help but be an absolute blast.

Andrew Weaver

Wackley.

That success was built around the EPs ‘Date With A Vampyre’ and ‘Top Of The Town’ and subsequent album ‘Bones & Flowers’, all of which have now been remastered and reissued with a bunch of bonus material on two separate CDs by Melbourne’s Grown Up Wrong Records.

‘Date With A Vampyre’ was released in 1985.

Through the angular, driving guitar rock of Ice, 2 Blind Mice and the title track there was a clear nod towards Masuak’s former bands, but also a strong sense of melody that would continue to be exposed in the following year’s ‘Top Of The Town’. Here jangly ‘sixties flavoured pop harmonies were added to the garage rock template with great success in songs such as You Better Run and Dreaming Of You, balanced by the menacing No Chance and the trippy Middle-Eastern vibe of Infidel.

The full-length ‘Bones And Flowers’ album was released towards the end of 1987, comprising ten tracks of pristine, paisley-coated power pop.

Girl Of My Dreams, I’ve Got A Feeling and the mellow Our Time At Last are every bit as good as anything released by their more celebrated peers the Hoodoo Gurus, while Casualty Of Love and She Said hark back to earlier times. One of the few let-downs on the album was the re-recorded version of Igloo, a great song certainly but the album version sounds strangely flat. (the original version can be found on the excellent ‘Do The Pop’ compilation of Australian Garage Rock) The ‘Date With A Vampyre/Top Of The Town’ CD also includes a number of live and demo cover versions of songs by artists as diverse as The Easybeats, The Dictators, Television and Roky Ericksen, all of which provide an insight into the Tribesmen’s varied influences. ‘Bones & Flowers’ also includes live and demo extras and both releases are packaged up with extensive liner notes and plenty of photos.

After touring the U.S. and achieving some success in college and independent charts there, the band imploded leaving Medew to soldier on with various line-ups for several more years with limited success. Another tale of what might have been maybe, but these high quality releases certainly do justice to what was a fine band from a dynamic period in Australian music history.

Screaming Tribesmen Date With A Vampyre / Top Of The Town / Bones & Flowers Grown Up Wrong Originally formed in Brisbane in 1981 before relocating to Sydney, the Screaming Tribesmen were one of the more successful products of a fertile Australian garage rock scene in the early to mid ‘eighties. The band was founded by singer/ guitarist Mick Medew who was the one constant throughout their rather turbulent history, however, the line-up with which the band achieved most of their success included former Radio Birdman/ Hitmen guitarist Chris Masuak, drummer Warwick Fraser (ex-Hoi Polloi) and bassist Bob dB Magazine 11 January 2012

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Go With The River Independent Owls Of The Swamp is the musical project of Melbourne's self-described dream-folk troubadour Pete Uhlenbruch, who appears on the front of his second album looking something like Nick Drake might if he was donning Leonard Cohen's signature black fedora, with a searching gaze turned up towards the sky. The inner sleeve then features a beautifully textured canvas painting of the singer in rich, earthy colours, partly recreated on the disc itself.

I mention these images only because they perfectly capture the blend of organic beauty and transcendent mystery contained on this record's series of twelve gentle songs.

Uhlenbruch's music has been compared with the likes of fellow introspective, modern folk artists like Iron & Wine, Bon Iver and, of course, Drake. But while stylistic influences are certainly discernible, it is the underlying sense of a search for meaning that gives this album its coherence.

In this, Uhlenbruch manages to cast a wider net of lyrical images than many of his musical peers, informed by a fascination with otherworldly folklore that was also the subject of his début offering 'Smoky Bay' in 2007.

Beginning with the melodic finger plucking of minute-long instrumental 43, which evokes summer fields seen through shimmering lens flare, this album is an experience that spans deserts, forests, cities and oceans, always looking for something that often remains “so far away”, as Uhlenbruch sings in the record's first single.

Skywaters is a definite highlight, a touching lament to former love in which Uhlenbruch sings along with guest vocalist Aluka, “did you know that this was the first time / that I ever sat next to the moon / and your glow cast a spell over mine / but you left just an hour too soon”.

The record finishes with a slow building chorus involving numerous guest vocals that provides a fittingly dreamlike close. A slow burner that requires several listens to fully appreciate, it manages to strike the right balance of sadness, melancholy and enigmatic imagery to achieve a well-rounded whole.

Ben Adams

Jordie Lane Blood Thinner Vitamin Recorded in the US on a Tascam 4 track Porta-Studio Cassette Machine (very old school recording style kids), with all instruments including guitar, banjo, kitchen utensils, wine glasses, boxes and even Tupperware played by Lane, ‘Blood Thinner’ could have either ended up being a train wreck or as it turned out, a masterpiece. This is no doubt due to the coproduction and mixing by Tom Biller he who has produced Beck, Kanye West and Fiona Apple amongst others. So this might all sound pretty

ALBUM REVIEWS weird on paper, but stick the headphones on and there is some wonderful magic to be enjoyed.

The opener Diamond Ring is chock-a-block with guitar, banjo, (box?) drums and a distinctive voice that sounds like its owner has had his heart ripped out not once but twice or thrice. Annabelle Marie is a plaintive call, over guitar and subtle brush work on boxes, for something more substantial than what could have been an encounter on tour. Thin My Blood though starts with an up tempo banjo riff, almost 4/4 time, Lane telling the listener not to tell me how to feel. See the pattern here? ‘Blood Thinner’ is about love in all its melancholic forms, and not once does Lane hold back on his thoughts.

Side A finishes with Room 8, a brief recording of the sounds one hears in the room that his hero Gram Parsons died in, Lane staying and recording in the same said room.

Side B opens with the alt/country feel of Old Time Spell, a track that would not have been out of place on any of Parsons’ work. Lane’s love of the West Coast is writ in spades on Hollywood’s Got A Hold where he sings. “There’s so many hopes, and dreams on the table”. Of interest is his cover of Parsons’ I Just Can’t Take It Anymore, a choice guaranteed to have the listener wondering where Lane is emotionally at.

Simply put ‘Blood Thinner’ is how records used to be made and should still be made, as it uses the bare minimum of instruments, was recorded simply and easily and most important of all contains material that will stand the test of time.

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between ‘Soul Punk’ and the vocal performance on FOB’s last release ‘Folie A Deux,’ meaning that this is probably Stump’s natural progression.

Let’s just hope he find his feet and refines things on the next one as the king of pop crown is a little far off just yet.

track; “And we’ll get further if we stay, underneath the radar” – so simple yet so elegant and truthful.

The lap steel driven The Low Road suggests that the low road is not that bad when Walker opens with “Heaven is nothingness, but we all been convinced otherwise, it ain’t nothing but dreams for the blind.”

The quick-step influenced The Singing Detective is all about lovelorn spies and guaranteed to have all up and dancing if you still have a homely parlour to hold Saturday night entertainment.

Walker’s voice is a pleasant cross of his genres; through the sadness of The Last Record Store, the rock on the aforementioned Down To Earth, the pathos on Old Joe and with some Dylan overtones on Prisoner’s Blues. And be impressed with the Tom Waits attempt on Timbuktu, a sparse piano led track that oozes melancholy by the bucket-load.

Luke Carlino

Mark Liebelt

Turbowolf Turbowolf Hassle Records / Shock

The Drums Portamento Universal It’s hard to know what to say about The Drums latest record ‘Portamento’. They continue to release infectious upbeat pop tunes but things have changed a little. ‘Portamento’ is still laden with melodic hooks and relatable lyrics about relationship struggles, but Jonny Pierce shares more personally than on their self-titled debut. The Drums have again provided some prime songs for dancing around your living room too, but ‘Portamento’ doesn’t quite have the consistent pop power of their first record and instead they seem to have squeezed all the best songs onto the first half of the album.

The single Money is an urgent and catchy as hell pop song that could be timely considering the cultural critique brought to the fore in the Occupy Movement. I Don’t Know How To Love finds a catchy chorus and repeats it till its embedded into your skull and then the bass drum kick in double time to bring the song to a grand pop climax. The low point of the record is the Kraftwerk-lite of Searching For Heaven which acts as an intermission (which Down By The Water did on their debut) but Pierce’s vocals sound awful on this track. The flat vocals and limp melodies continue in Please Don’t Leave and In The Cold which really cuts at the quality of the album as a whole.

The opener, Book Of Revelations shimmies along with true anglophile pop style whilst being under girded by Pierce’s rebellion against his classic American Christian upbringing. The chorus could serve as a tribute to Christopher Hitchens, singing with great sincerity “I’ve seen the world, and there’s no heaven and there’s no hell” and later “I believe that when we die, we die. So let me love you tonight”. Of course the album concludes with How It Ended that brings ‘Portamento’ to a fitting end with possibly the strongest 50’s influence, think Let’s Go Surfing minus the whistling.

The Drums remain an amazing indie band who can write some golden pop but ‘Portamento’ demonstrates that some of the shine has worn off.

Mark Liebelt

Patrick Stump Soul Punk Island Records

Van Walker Underneath The Radar 2008-2010 Fuse Group Van Walker impressively has Mick Thomas extolling his virtues on the front cover of this retrospective of his first five albums. It suggests Walker should be a far more critically acclaimed artist, but sadly I’d never heard of him, prior to this release.

This superb 15 tracker covers a broad smattering of styles. The opening is a live recording of Wildgrass (about drunk rabbits no less!), very much in a bluegrass vein with its banjo driven riffs.

This is followed by the lovely rock of Down To Earth with its chugging electric guitar melodies.

Bluegrass pops up again on Ride, sounding like it was recorded in one take, with fiddle, banjo and layers of acoustic guitar.

All of this assortment of folk, rock, bluegrass, alt-country et al is matched to well written and presented lyrics. Consider this gem from the title

One thing is clear on ‘Soul Punk’ – Patrick Stump wants to be Michael Jackson. After deciding he was finished with the world of pop punk, the Fall Out Boy front man has released his debut solo record ‘Soul Punk.’ Fifteen, yes fifteen, tracks of synth drenched pop music driven by the man's amazing vocal talents, which unfortunately will fall a little short of many people’s expectations.

Stump is an undeniably talented man, having written and played every single note on this record. However, the lack of variance between the songs make the fifteen tracks a little hard to get through. Whilst the music is without a doubt pop, it lacks the elements that make pop music so good, namely the devilishly tasty hooks. Every now and then Stump finds some, mainly in the first single This City which will no doubt blow up radio stations and clubs alike, but for the most part ‘Soul Punk’ misses the mark. Strange considering we know he is capable of the hooks – see any Fall Out Boy song for example. Some tracks are a bit confused, especially the over eight minute Run Dry (X Heart X Fingers), which seems like a variety of songs cut and pasted together poorly.

Production wise the album is not as crisp as expected, not only for pop music, but also for a man with Stump’s studio prowess and access. It’s not all bad news as solace can be found in the warm glow of that soothing voice, which saturates the album, even if he is trying a little too hard to mirror MJ’s various trademarks. The harmonies are all spot on and comparisons can be seen

If dirty and experimental stoner rock is your kind of thing, then ignore the fact that there is yet another band with a stupid lupine-influenced name and go check out Turbowolf. They will probably quickly become your new favorite band with their balls-out swagger.

On their furious self titled album the Bristol based rockers seem to have domination set well in their sights, and with their accessible grooveheavy riffs and the occasional appearance of kooky keyboards, they are bound to set dance floors and mosh pits everywhere alight with their energetic vibe.

As soon as the guitar feedback introduces opening track, it is clear that this album, if nothing else, will deliver a blistering rock album whilst playing homage to their predecessors of days gone by. Ancient Snake and Bag O’ Bones show heavy metal influences in spades whilst remaining catchy as hell. As the record progresses later tracks such as Read And Write present a melancholy-fuelled electro exploration, demonstrating that they are a young act unafraid to tackle a wide range of styles whilst retaining their intended direction.

Fans of experimental rock acts such as At The Drive In, Kyuss and Death From Above 1979 should find this garage influenced assault their soundtrack to a steamy summer as the distorted blues and keyboard hooks stuck into their heads. It will be very interesting to see where Turbowolf go from here.

Luke Collins

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CINEMA to be weirdly temperamental about Margaret’s career.

The supporting cast is, unsurprisingly, of an incredibly high calibre, and in particular Harry Lloyd (TV’s ‘Game Of Thrones’), Anthony Head (TV’s ‘Buffy’), and Nicholas Farrell (‘Chariots Of Fire’) give fine performances. A lot of the rest of the cast, particularly Jim Broadbent (‘Hot Fuzz’, ‘Harry Potter’), felt somehow underused or too far underplayed and just seemed to blend in to the background.

All in all, this film is very interesting, but could have been so much more. Streep has done a marvellous job characterising Thatcher, but not enough of her struggles made it in to the film to make people who did not personally experience the events care about her.

Banderas plays Ledgard with panache and charisma akin to a Spanish Bela Lugosi and looks more at home with Almodovar and in his own language than he has ever looked in Hollywood. Anaya is a voluptuous ‘monster’ and Paredes hams it up delightfully as the type of character Cloris Leachman parodies in ‘Young Frankenstein’.

The look of the film could be described as Almodovar Gothic and the direction and cinematography are impeccable. It’s a relief to see that the cheeky Spanish upstart refuses to mellow and that predicting what’s coming next is still impossible.

Mal Byrne

We Bought A Zoo Director: Cameron Crowe Rated: PG Now screening

Alastair Collins

The Skin I Live In Director: Pedro Almodovar Rated: MA15+ Nova Cinema Now screening

The Iron Lady Director: Phyllida Lloyd Rated: M Now screening It’s difficult to surmise the awareness that Generation Y has of Margaret Thatcher.

We’re certainly aware of her as a historical figure, and even experienced some of the popular culture surrounding her, but even those of us on the extreme older edge of the age scale would be hard pressed to actually tell you anything about her time as Britain’s first (and currently, only) female Prime Minister. So, it was with no small amount of interest that I watched director Phyllida Lloyd’s Thatcher bio-pic, ‘The Iron Lady’.

Immediately, it should be noted that this is not your typical presentation of the story.

Instead of delivering a straight depiction of Thatcher’s rise to power and time in office, the film is presented as a retrospective centred on modern day Maggie, who is struggling to cope with the many years-previous death of her husband, Denis. I can’t say I’m a big fan of the choice to do this, for reasons I’ll go in to shortly, but it does afford Meryl Streep, as the titular ‘Iron Lady’ Thatcher herself, to show off her skills a bit more than would otherwise been available.

The primary reason I don’t think the retrospective point of view works for ‘The Iron Lady’ is that, for people like myself who didn’t experience the times depicted, it’s difficult for us to come to grips with the setting in the frequent, but relatively brief, flashbacks. This puts a dampener on a film which is supposed to display significant political and social tensions, because it simply isn’t shown.

The IRA attacks certainly occur in the film, but nothing else of Ireland is really mentioned so if you don’t know about the IRA already, they’ll seem a little unnecessary, The union clashes are never covered enough for the connection between them and the picket lines to be established, and the fall of the Soviet Union is so completely underwhelming in its depiction that it could barely be said to be in the film at all.

Another drawback is that the story is trying to communicate that Thatcher sacrificed a lot of her personal and family life in her struggle to do what was best for Britain, but there’s no room for the sub-plots to be explored, so the times when the family tensions are shown feel very shoe-horned in and make the family out

Cameron Crowe’s latest film, the inanelytitled ‘We Bought A Zoo’, is hardly a return to form after the disappointing ‘Elizabethtown’, but it succeeds in a small way at crafting a simple and endearing family-friendly film that offers an alternative from the barrage of sequels, remakes and adaptations this holiday season. Based on the memoirs of Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon), ‘We Bought A Zoo’ tells the true story of a widowed father and his two young children who, sensing the need for a new direction, decide to purchase and restore a dilapidated zoo back to inspection standards before reopening it to the public.

Despite the inherent charm of a cast of animals and an endearing central performance from a rather chubby and oldlooking Matt Damon, the story is a fairly run-of-the-mill tale about overcoming grief and adversity to realise a personal goal and bring happiness to oneself and to others.

Not that there is anything wrong with this – and the story is very touching – but there never seems to be any real drama in the obstacles that Mee faces along the way or in the arbitrary romantic subplots. It all wraps up in a neat and tidy fashion and, whilst Crowe’s sentimentality may walk the right side of saccharine for most of the film, some might find it unbearable as it tugs at your heartstrings toward the end.

Performances all-round are certainly very fine, particularly Thomas Haden Church as Mee’s disapproving brother and Scarlett Johansson (even if slightly miscast) as the head zookeeper, but the film undoubtedly hangs on Damon’s charismatic performance as the only particularly active character amidst the caricatured supporting ensemble.

The lack of dramatic plot-points is somewhat covered by Crowe’s ever-reliable soundtrack selections and an original score by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, that appropriately captures the magic and wonder of bringing the zoo back to life. The soundtrack, in fact, is the only remnant of Crowe’s mercurial authorship that graced ‘Almost Famous’ and ‘Jerry Maguire’, as ‘We Bought A Zoo’ takes on a bland, anonymous veneer that is ultimately as thin as its one-dimensional title suggests.

If you’re not expecting too much, Crowe’s film is certainly charming enough to please most. It will provoke laughter and tears in appropriate quantities and, despite its linear predictability, its heart is ultimately in the right place. Maybe the simplicity of its story is its greatest flaw but one cannot help feel that Crowe has missed an opportunity here to truly wring the life out of such a heartwarming story.

When I think of adjectives to describe the films of Pedro Almodovar, the words that come to mind are more usually associated with desserts - words like ‘rich’, ‘sinful’, ‘fattening’ and ‘delicious’. His films are treats.

You are seduced instantly and can’t stop at one of them. You just keep devouring them until your stomach hurts. Almodovar films also have his unique sexy stamp; they are kinky but intelligently so. His latest project, ‘The Skin I Live In’, is a horror film - a genre piece that celebrates some of Hollywood’s finest suspense and horror films, but it’s still tattooed with his individual brand.

Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) is a pre-eminent plastic surgeon who has developed a new type of artificial skin from human DNA and pig’s blood in contravention of ethical standards. He is also a widower who has lost both his wife and daughter to suicide. Ledgard lives in a modern secluded mansion where we soon learn that he is keeping a beautiful patient (Elena Anaya) locked in a downstairs room under constant video surveillance and supervision of housekeeper Marilia (Marisa Paredes). The patient also wears a body stocking and it’s clear that Ledgard has created her using his new skin, but who is she? How did she get there?

‘The Skin I Live In’ is another fine addition to the canon. It’s a horror film and doesn’t have the emotional depth of Almodovar’s best films, but it’s still a master work. The plot is a pastiche of Hollywood classics including ‘Rebecca’ (new love haunted by the ghost of the man’s dead wife as well as a sprinkle of Mrs Danvers in Marilia), ‘Vertigo’ (man obsessed with recreating a dead former love), and ‘Jane Eyre’ (mad woman in the attic) and of course, Universal Studio’s Frankenstein’s monster franchise. Nevertheless, the denouement is pure Almodovar-kink and I couldn’t help but chuckle at his audacity.

There is a subtext about identity, appearance, and sexuality, but one has to dig harder than usual to find it. An Almodovar film wouldn’t be complete without splashes of his warped humour. Marilia’s criminal son arrives at her doorstep dressed in a cat suit for Mardi Gras and has to show his birthmark on his butt cheek to identify himself. After taking advantage of Ledgard’s daughter, the offender (a window dresser) restores carefully the unconscious girl’s clothing to its original order before fleeing.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Director: Tomas Alfredson Rated: M Palace Nova Now screening As a teenager I devoured John Le Carre’s novels. As an insider, Le Carre lifted the veil on the world of international espionage - not the James Bond world of sexy women, flamboyant villains, outrageous gadgets, and Shirley Bassey, but a dour, icy world of long boring hours analysing and decoding cables, and of internal politics. Le Carre’s novels reeked of authenticity. The terminology was eccentric and addictive - ‘The Circus’, ‘Control’, ‘Lotus Eaters’, ‘Scaremongers’.

The detail was exhaustive and unwoven meticulously, and you just couldn’t put down his books. The 1979 seven hour BBC television series starring Alec Guinness as the agent’s agent George Smiley was brilliant, and so is Tomas Alfredson’s feature film.

It’s 1973 Cold War Britain. When ‘Control’ (John Hurt), the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, suspects that his Russian opposite Karla has embedded a mole within his ranks, he sends agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) to Budapest to meet an informer who can identify the mole.

When the mission goes awry and Prideaux is shot and captured, Control and his right hand man George Smiley (Gary Oldman) are fired. However, when the leaks continue, the Minister brings in Smiley to find him.

When Smiley investigates with assistant Peter Guilliam (Benedict Cumberbatch), he finds that Control suspects five people codenamed Tinker (Toby Jones), Tailor (Colin Firth), Soldier (Ciaran Hinds), Poor Man (David Dencik) and Beggar Man (Smiley himself).

Like the book and the miniseries, the film is a riveting jigsaw puzzle that you can’t abandon. Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan’s screenplay is a finely stitched quilt, painstakingly assembled piece by piece moving seamlessly between flashbacks and the present. The film exposes the ruthless ignoble manner in which a spy deals with counter-spy in a world where loyalty is fluid, for sale and where no one can be fully trusted.

It’s also a man’s world where women are nothing more than quasi- prostitutes and are treated accordingly. Indeed, like the novel, the film is a damning examination of Cold War paranoia and the damage that it did to national psyches.

While Guinness’ impassive measured performance as Smiley was memorable, Oldman’s Smiley is truer to the book. He is a consummate professional, but also an emotionally stunted man damaged by the breakdown of his marriage. The four suspects aren’t as well fleshed out here, but something had to give in order to condense seven hours into two. Hurt and Strong fare much better and Tom Hardy is terrific as a rogue agent on the run from his superiors. Le Carre himself appears in a crowd scene. Given that Karla also has a cameo, I’m confident that the book’s sequel ‘Smiley’s People’ will be hitting our screens in 2013.

While the ending perhaps doesn’t pack a wallop to match the buildup (although I’d read the book and remembered the mole’s identity), Alfredson and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema give a memorable grey cinematic stamp to the stuff of closed rooms and smoky corridors.

Mal Byrne

Aaron Nash

THEATRE A Chorus Line TML Enterprises/AFCT Original Director/Choreographer: Michael Bennett Restaged Original Direction/ Choreography: Baayork Lee Festival Theatre Tues 3 Jan Until Sat 28 Jan dB Magazine 11 January 2012

for limited spots, a wage, in a chorus line requiring they subdue themselves to a uniformity denying who they are, but which is driven by who they are nonetheless.

Apropos Peter Brook’s ‘The Empty Space’, it’s so true all great performance art needs is space and light. A few mirrors don’t hurt either. They naturally manipulate space, just as the casting director manipulates auditioning hopefuls on the floor’s sense of self, ability and approach. This is the essence of ‘A Chorus Line’ as directed by Baayork Lee on a black stage, as Zach (Joshua Horner) pushes 17 dancers not only through their

‘A Chorus Line’s 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama succinctly sums up why this musical, in 1975, pulled in nine Tony Awards. James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante’s book for the work articulates something deeply profound, vividly real about the vicious, manipulative, seductive, desperate and needy business of being an artist, of making art. ‘A Chorus Line’ strips away the end product showbiz glamour audiences see, revealing a world of professional artists in a raw state of need, competition, shared sense of uniqueness fighting to be recognised as especial. Fighting 18

paces on the floor, but their very lives for the sake of eight spots.

If life is a cabaret, then in ‘A Chorus Line’, life is an inquisition of forced soul searching.

Each character willingly or not, gives up to Zach what makes them tick amidst alternating group ‘six, seven, eight’ floor work dance routines taut with nervous, energy, high adrenalin and passion thick in the air.

At the line up, we are offered one by one, stories of individual characters. Why do they dance, they are quizzed. Ego versus vulnerability is the game played. It is here that the meld of Edward Kleban’s lyrics and

Marvin Hamlisch’s music alongside Natasha Katz’s adaption of Tharon Musser’s original lighting come into play. Lee skilfully knits phrases of light and dance accentuating the interior world of each character. We get a great sense of peppy Mike’s (James Maxfield) childhood discovery he could dance (I Can Do That).

We segue into the hardened but beautifully brittle Sheila’s (Debora Krizak) romantic memories of ballet soothing a loveless childhood (At The Ballet), to the humour of gutsy Bronx girl Kristine (Sian Johnson) fighting through her tone deafness when it comes to singing (Sing!) and Cassie’s (Anita Louise Combe) intense solo expressing her need to perform, even at the bottom ranks (The Music And The Mirror).

The hard work in this piece lies in the balancing act of delivering what is raw and true, alongside the innately expected and desired razzle and dazzle without pushing it too hard. This applies as much to characterisation as the production overall. Baayork Lee’s realisation of Michael Bennett’s work is a great show. It hits the right notes, misses none, choreographically especially is flawless, but is lacking in temper. There is too great a sense of preciousness; a walking on eggshells spirit of not taking chances with the innate truth of the work, in fear of breaking the mould it was made in.

This does not serve the gutsy rage at the heart of ‘A Chorus Line’ well, no matter how technically pristine and executed the production is.

David O’Brien artists and models will be in and around the Bay Discovery Centre and Moseley Square from 2-7pm on Wednesday 11 Jan and you can also view a body painting exhibition by award-winning face and body artist Wendy Fantasia entitled ‘Ducks & Nonsense’ at the centre’s Mezzanine Gallery until 5 Feb. What a great opportunity to view some indredibly unconventional yet inspiring artwork down at the Bay.

PUFFIO Like every year, the Adelaide International Guitar Festival will arrive in August, showcasing some of the most talented and prestigious guitarists from around Australia and the globe. Running over four days from 9 – 12 Aug, the Festival will also play host to the International Classical Guitar Competition which offers emerging young guitar players to compete for a share of prizes to the value of $31,000, including a Jim Redgate guitar as first prize! Local luthier Jim Redgate has been building world-class guitars for over two decades now and this opportunity to win one of his fantastic instruments should not be missed by any promising guitarist. The competition also provides an opportunity for emerging artists to gain exposure on the international stage with entrance open to competitors of all ages and the winners to be announced at an award presentation in the Dunstan Playhouse on the final day of the Festival. Applications are open NOW and will run until 29 Feb. Further information on this exciting competition is available at the Festival website: www. adelaideguitarfestival.com.au.

the study of others. Be sure to check out the first of many awe-inspiring exhibitions hosted by the Adelaide Central Gallery this year. More information on the exhibition can be found at the Adelaide Central School of Art website at: www.acsa.sa.edu.au.

Urban Cow Studio plays host to another exciting exhibition ‘A Curious Creature’ opening this Wed 11 Jan and presenting the works of some of Adelaide’s most exuberant and talented local artists.

Presented in a range of artistic mediums, ‘A Curious Creature’ will provide the opportunity to marvel at the work of Cameron Brideoake, Pat Cassar, Donovon Christie, Lucas Croall, Katie Johnson, Chantel Lee, Cat Leonard, Meg Lloyg, Mercedes Magnall, Steve O’Connor, Sean Powell and Emmaline Zanelli, set in one of Adelaide’s most sought-after galleries.

Here’s an excerpt to entice your appetite “The Rhinoceros goes, by the frame of his nose. A creature hardly fit for prose, But what’s in a name, When your nose is the game, and he never quite knows, just who’s to blame.” Be sure to wander down Frome St this week and check out Urban Cow Studio to learn more.

Tomich Wines are set to present internationally acclaimed performers ‘The Ten Tenors’ in their only Adelaide performance on Saturday 28 Jan at the Tomich Hill Vineyard at Woodside. In what will be the first of their summer concert series, Tomich Hill are understandably excited to bring ‘The Ten Tenors’ to the Adelaide Hills region for one night only.

Don’t miss your chance to see the operatic singers who have taken the world by storm in what will surely be a unique and memorable performance.

Adelaide Central Gallery will open its doors in January with its first exhibition for 2012 ‘nVisage’, presenting contemporary portraiture by Daryl Austin, Deidre Husaim, Sophie Hann, Chelsea Lehmann, Jess Mara, Lucy Turnbull and several other established local and interstate portrait artists. Opening on Friday 20 Jan from 6pm in the Adelaide Central Gallery, Norwood, ‘nVisage’ explores the power portraiture has in encouraging self-reflection and also

Red Cross stores around Australia are in urgent need of donations of clothing and homewares for their recycle stores around

Adelaide Festival Centre presents ‘White’, a playful and magical show for very young children (aged 2-4) and their families, hosted at the Space Theatre from 31 Jan - 11 Feb. A performance for the young and the very young at heart, ‘White’ premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012 where it won 3 awards – a Fringe First, Herald Angel and Total Theatre Award – and will arrive in Adelaide as part of it’s first international tour. ‘White’ is the imaginative story of two friends, Wrinkle and Cotton, who look after bird houses and keep their eggs safe. In a vibrant world that gleams with white, the friends watch as eventually some colourful surprises begin to appear with an abundance of visual surprises. Young families should not miss this fantastic opportunity to experience the world of theatre.

the country, launching a campaign called ‘Don’t ditch it, re-gift it’ to encourage all of us to donate unwanted items to Red Cross stores so that they might find an appreciable home and also support the Red Cross’ humanitarian work which seeks to improve the lives of vulnerable and disadvantages people in Australia and overseas. The need for donations is paramount and what better time of year than to unload your unwanted Holiday gifts to a cause that would see profits put toward a deserving cause. Visit a local Red Cross Store now to show your support.

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The Bay Discovery Centre will host some of SA’s most established and emerging body artists in ‘Painting Outside the Square – Body Paint Display’. A group of 12 body 19

dB Magazine 11 January 2012