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When it was announced that the much-loved music quiz show Spicks and Specks would return to our screens this year, I could barely contain my excitement. Yes, I’m one of those self-professed music buffs who yells out the answers smugly and with gusto – much to the disdain of my family. I’m even more excited about this week’s cover star Adam Hills, who talks about the return of the show and shooting it during lockdown. This is also my last edition as editor for a while, as I’m heading off on maternity leave – but the team will keep bringing you the best of Melbourne in my absence. ●

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Comedian Adam Hills on coming home and returning to our screens with a new series of an old favourite.

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ike everyone, we had no idea what was coming. Last time I spoke to comedian and presenter Adam Hills, in February 2020, he was stepping out of a London cab, excited about returning home to Yarraville to see his wife and two young daughters, while putting the finishing touches on his new stand-up show about to hit the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Hills joked about living in Crouch End, a northLondon suburb best known for 1990s Bob Dylan sightings and providing the setting for a Stephen King horror story. He talked about his showbiz neighbours, including three Doctors Who: David Tennant, Peter Capaldi and the latest regeneration, Jodie Whittaker, whom he got to know at their daughters’ dance class.

He talked about Brexit, the UK’s protracted, hand-wringing departure from the European Union, and how politically polarised people had

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beloved ABC music quiz show Spicks and Specks, which returns to screens on April 18.

Recorded in September, in the darkest days of the Melbourne lockdown, the episodes reflect a time in our city’s life that many of us are still processing.

There was no live audience and, due to travel restrictions, regular team captains Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough were joined by Melbourne-based musicians and comedians only. The first time a band (The Teskey Brothers, Hills thinks it was) played live in the studio for a rehearsal was emotional for everybody, he says.

“Everyone had tears in their eyes. I’m choking up talking about it now. Because we realised that none of us had seen live music for six, eight months. And, these [musicians] hadn’t been out of the house in that long. And, I mean, I don’t know how they rehearsed because they weren’t able to get into a room together.”

to show off new Indigenous talent to Australia was a real treat. It felt a real honour to be part of that.”

Later this year, Hills is heading back to London where he will likely cover the Tokyo Paralympics.

He’ll also be busy as an official ambassador for the Rugby League World Cup, which kicks off in October (Hills, who was born without a right foot and wears a prosthesis, has been a long-time, passionate player with the Warrington Wolves in the English Physical Disability Rugby League).

He is labouring on the third draft of his first children’s book, a story about a couple of teenage rock-star detectives, inspired by the career dreams of one of his daughters. “I’m so clueless about writing a book that I think that’s why I’ve got so much work to do on draft three. I think I sent in draft one and they went, ‘Oh, my God, this guy doesn’t know what he’s doing!’ Basically, there’s a nice story there that needs some serious polishing.”

“To be able to show off new Indigenous talent to Australia was a real treat. It felt a real honour to be part of that.” become. He talked about the ill-timed television commercial he did with Kylie Minogue spruiking Australia to the Brits that was pulled on Boxing Day as 19 million hectares of the country burned in unprecedented wildfire.

But then the pandemic hit. The comedy festival was cancelled, and the world turned upside down.

“I was incredibly lucky,” says Hills, now. Speaking to me by phone just a few days away from completing two weeks in Melbourne hotel quarantine, he explains how he was able to record the season finale of his long-running, late-night comedy television show The Last Leg before things took a turn for the worse. “I flew out on March 21 and London went into lockdown on March 23. I got out just in time.”

Hills spent seven months at home, enduring most of the Melbourne lockdown and recording five episodes of The Last Leg live from his garage.

“I ended up having to stay up all night on a Friday and rehearse at three in the morning until 5am, and then do the show from seven. It kind of killed me.”

Before returning to London in October, though, Hills was able to record 10 episodes as host of the

In fact, each time the show had live music on set was special, says Hills. “You could feel the hair stand up, or the goosebumps. Live music is such an emotional and visceral and physical thing that you kind of forget about it. You battle on without it. I hope that comes across on screen, because people will watch it in April and the world’s kind of gone back to some semi-normal. But if you are watching, just imagine that every musician was in the middle of a really strict Melbourne lockdown, and was just so happy to be out of the house and performing.”

To make up for a lack of interstate and international guests the producers looked locally for talent, which Hills says turned out to be a boon for the show.

“We kind of were going through a period in Melbourne and in Australia, and we still are, of really strong Indigenous talent. So, we ended up with people like Mitch Tambo, Isaiah Firebrace, Alice Skye and Scott Darlow all making appearances and it felt like a real moment. And that’s what’s so great about Spicks and Specks: just showing off new music to Australia. And, to be able

Back in Melbourne, comedy’s “Mr Nice Guy” is relishing returning to the comedy festival stage with his stand-up show Shoes Half Full. He’s also mindful that the pandemic has affected comedians disproportionately, noting that those who were established like himself almost welcomed a year off from touring and the opportunity to spend more time with family.

“But for the-up-and-comers, the people who are just finding their feet, they’re the ones that have really struggled over the last year,” he says. “So, I would say, more than ever, if [you’re] going to the comedy festival, take a chance on an up-and-comer.

Because you’re not just giving them 20 bucks in the hope that they’re going to be funny. It’s almost like a back payment for what they’ve just gone through for the past 12 months.” ● SHOES HALF FULL \ Adam Hills’ stand-up show is on at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival until April 18. Spicks and Specks returns to ABC Television on the same day. ● comedyfestival.com.au

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In character Kate Jenkinson, who never planned an acting career, is making an impact.

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ustralian actress Kate Jenkinson swaps prison cells in Wentworth for birthing suites in a new TV drama, Amazing Grace, which also stars Sigrid Thornton and Alex Dimitriades.

The 39-year-old, who lives in Melbourne with her partner Nathan Harding, watched YouTube clips of mothers giving birth and dived deep into the Australian version of the reality show One Born Every Minute to prepare for the title role of midwife Grace, who runs a birthing suite at a hospital.

“We started filming in the middle of a pandemic last year, so access to hospitals, maternity wards or any kind of human interaction was off the cards,” Jenkinson explains.“I came to understand the role of the midwives. They make everything seem normal, are masters of calm, and I would definitely want one in a time of crisis.”

The drama that unfolds in Amazing Grace extends beyond childbirth; it also delves into maternity care while complex layers of maternal instinct come to the fore in more ways than the obvious. Jenkinson’s character Grace is navigating a messy marital split, all while meeting the child she gave up for adoption 17 years previously, who appears at her workplace one day.

“It wasn’t the emotional holiday from prison I was expecting,” Jenkinson says.

“But having said that, it was a beautiful story to help tell, and I felt lucky to be a part of it. There is so much hidden tragedy in the world of giving birth that I wasn’t really expecting.”

She is reunited on the set with Wentworth’s Thornton, who plays her mother.

“Our characters never aligned on Wentworth, so to be able to work with Sigrid on Amazing Grace and have a relationship with her on and off the screen was amazing,” she says.

Born in Perth, Jenkinson graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2004. She never planned a career as an actress, but she recalls mimicking those she saw on TV, memorising lines and acting them out in front of the mirror as a kid.

Jenkinson moved to Sydney, then Melbourne after graduating. Known for roles in Doctor, Doctor and other Australian shows House Husbands, Offspring and Shaun Micallef ’s comedy series The Ex-PM, she has also tried her luck in Los Angeles.

Jenkinson was living in LA when the offer for Wentworth saw her return to Australia.

“Good television gets made everywhere and anywhere, and if you want to audition for roles, you can do it from your iPhone,” she says. ● AMAZING GRACE \ Airs until April 21 on Channel 9 and streams on 9Now.

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ttica Summer Camp is not Attica. The only things it has in common with chef Ben Shewry’s three-hatted restaurant in Ripponlea is playfulness, relaxed service and difficulty booking. Dinner in Ripponlea is $320 a head before drinks, but you can order the entire Summer Camp menu (excluding kids’ dishes and dessert) for $445.

Along with partner Kylie Staddon, Shewry revived Lilydale Estate winery in Seville from the ground up, water-blasting walls, painting and even building a friesling (frozen riesling) bar. The vast, undercover outdoor area boasts vineyard vistas and a giant reproduction of Daniel Johnston's “Hi, How

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hot-smoked on-site and a velvety chilled pea and herb soup sprinkled with acidic green tomato and vegetable salsa, produce courtesy of nearby Ramarro Farm.

Carrots, charred and softened in the smoker and drizzled with thin honey, stand up against meat dishes such as souvlaki lamb marinated in black pepper and native thyme. Eyes bulge to the size of the grilled pork scotch egg as it hits the table; a saucy meteorite that elicits audible moans of delight and nostalgia.

If you ever doubted that dessert occupies a second stomach, the rattan trolley wheeled out by pastry chef Rosemary Andrews is proof. “Ben & Shewry’s” rainforest cherry-ripe ice cream with dark chocolate curls is a 500-millilitre tub commitment, yet we still manage a wedge of zesty citrus tart, another of uber-rich baked cheesecake and a take on a Tim Tam made with Four Pillars’ negroni marmalade. We don't have room for dinner, but when I look at the clock, I realise dinnertime has passed, anyway. ●

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Are You” frog mural, first painted in Austin. It’s an appropriate nod to mental health, given the idea for Summer Camp was conceived in lockdown when restaurants were struggling the most.

The menu promotes a hearty dose of refined retro, starting with devilled egg dip, king salmon that’s

What’s nearby?

Brumfield Winery is seven minutes in the car from Summer Camp. This lesser-known winery makes smallbatch wines from estate-grown vines and has a brewery (SLAQ Brewing) and sourdough bakery (Frog n’ Duck) onsite. Swing by between Friday to Sunday and say hello to the family, David, Anda and Li Crothers.

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A full-length, wrap-around balcony provides abundant light, northern views and al fresco entertaining options on this top-floor apartment in a boutique complex. Inside, the kitchen comes with a full suite of Miele appliances – coffee machine, oven, induction cooktop, integrated dishwasher – plus a plumbed ice-dispensing fridge and a Vintec wine cooler, while the Caesarstone island benchtop overlooks the generous living and dining zone. There are two double bedrooms with robes, and a third space offers the flexibility to be a study, media room or another bedroom. Adding to these are a concealed laundry and three basement car spaces, each with a storage cage. The Edwardian charm of the famed Maling Street village is only a short stroll away. ● JOANNE BROOKFIELD

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With its horizontal lines and concrete-block walls, at first glance you could think this is a renovated 1970s gem.

However, this three-bedroom home was designed by Phillip Schemnitz, the architect responsible for Melbourne hospo institutions Cookie, The Toff in Town and Revolver, and is on the market for the first time since it was built in 1995.

Clerestory windows and a vaulted ceiling bathe the interiors in light; these, in turn, flow seamlessly into tranquil gardens and a large entertaining deck. Sizeable bedrooms, hydronic heating, Euro laundry with drying cabinet and external storage are among the many highlights. ● JOANNE BROOKFIELD

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Created with distinction and timeless appeal, this luxurious apartment is a stylish sanctuary at the doorstep to Camberwell Junction. With quiet double glazing and northerly light, the home provides a vast open plan domain, striking kitchen with butler’s pantry, entertainer’s terrace, and two basement car spaces.

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One of a kind in an exclusive address opposite Princes Park, this rejuvenated Victorian (c.1877) will inspire for another 100 years.

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1-3/1 Moonee Street Ascot Vale This retreat is impressive with its long list of features including European Oak floors, seamless stone kitchen with Miele appliances and a Fisher & Paykel integrated fridge/freezer, high ceilings, sun-drenched alfresco courtyard and basement double garage. Ideally located for lifestyle, moments to cafes, supermarkets, Ascot Vale train station, Flemington Racecourse, Moonee Valley Racecourse and the Melbourne Showgrounds, zoned for Ascot Vale Primary School and Mount Alexander College.

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73 Holmes Road Moonee Ponds This Landmark Boom-style Victorian property that is rich in period charm and comfort. On a 1077sqm garden allotment in a coveted address, “Rosherville” (c.1888) has an inner beauty far beyond its majestic facade. Surrounded by lawns and gardens ready to be enjoyed this classic home has it all. Consisting of large versatile living spaces, chic kitchen, home office within the grounds, ROW access, hydronic heating, wine cellar and cctv security to complete this impressive package.

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