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Breaking news  Incubus has announced two New Zealand shows next year. This will be the bands fourth time touring as they celebrate the release of their new album If Not Now, When?.

Auckland and Wellington audiences will be treated to shows in January and February.  Tiny Ruins has had to cancel her upcoming tour. The singer, real name Hollie Fullbrook, was involved in a motorcycle accident in Zanzibar.

While the accident wasn’t lifethreatening, Hollie will be taking the next couple of months to recuperate.  Ladi6 has announced a regional tour over the New Year. December and January will see the singer play with Trinity Roots in Lower Hutt and New Plymouth, The Black Seeds in Mangawhai and Kora in Waihi and Mt. Maunganui.  Last week saw the release of recording software Pro Tools 10. Over 50 new features have been added to the upgraded software such as Avid channel strip, mixed file formats up to 32-bit, connections to SoundCloud, iTunes and other digital distribution avenues, an extended disk cache and plenty more.

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Mix up some Latin dancing with cabaret and burlesque, throw in some jazz and fuse it with funk, while collecting musicians from back-up bands of the likes of Joe Satriani, Jeff Beck, Peter Frampton, Heart, AC/DC, Tina Turner and more. Combine all these ingredients and stir briskly to get Vortex Tribe — a fusion band with members Deborah Yates, Jon Mulvey, Jerry Marotta, and Prairie Prince on the bill. The lesser-known band will be heading to New Zealand for six shows in November.

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Luckless and Bond Street Bridge will be embarking on a nationwide tour from November through to December, performing twelve shows in two weeks.

Starting off in Auckland with support from Mellow Grave, Glass Owls and more, the bands will continue hitting eleven more stops that will see them arriving in Leigh, Raglan, Napier, Wellington, Westport, Fox Glacier, Franz Josef, Dunedin, Oamaru, Christchurch and finally winding up in Picton.

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Following her successful nationwide sell-out tour last year after the release of her number one album Humour & The Misfortune Of Others, Hollie Smith has announced shows for Auckland and Wellington in November. Celebrating the joint album between herself and Mara TK Jr Band of Brothers Vol. 1, the songstress will be joined by her band and supported

by Grand Rapids and The Nok for a show at Auckland’s Sale St on Thursday 17 November and at Bodega in Wellington on Friday 18 November.

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They’re blasting the alt radio waves heavily with a mix of country and everything alt-girl rock. Dum Dum Girls will be bringing their surprisingly unique sound to Auckland’s Kings Arms on Friday 06 January with support from The Transistors and Roy Irwin. Tickets are available now from Under The Radar and Real Groovy. Chalk that up to another great international act for the amazing looking first half of January.

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Mel Parsons has announced that due to unforeseen circumstances, the last three shows of her nationwide tour have been cancelled. The shows in Coromandel, Gisborne and Napier originally slated for the beginning of November have now been pulled, however the songstress still has four shows this week.

Winding up the extensive tour, Parsons will play New Plymouth’s Little Treasure on Wednesday, the YOT Club in Raglan on Thursday, Auckland’s Bacco Room on Friday and the Sawmill Cafe in Leigh on Saturday.

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Lisa Crawley is celebrating the release of her debut album Everything That I Have Seen with a five-stop tour around the country in November. The songstress will play Auckland’s Montecristo Room with Panther And The Zoo, Wellington’s San Fran Bath House with City Oh Sigh and Rosy Tin Teacaddy, Dunedin’s Chicks Hotel with Delgirl, a free show in Christchurch at the Brewery with Marlon Williams and finishes up grand at the Sawmill Cafe in Leigh with Panther And The Zoo and Grand Rapids.

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Six60 have been having a good ride at the top of the pops. Last week the band hit the number one spot on the New Zealand album chart with their debut, and have announced a second Auckland show at the Powerstation following their album release tour with support from Supervillains. The original show on Friday 11 November has sold out, so one last show on Saturday 12 November has been added before the band heads overseas for their Australian tour.

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Brooklyn r’n’b up-and-comer Tom Krell AKA How To Dress Well has announced one show in Auckland in December. The hyped star began his rise to critical favourite after releasing his tracks digitally through his blog back in 2009, and found more fame with his debut album Love Remains last year. Krell hits Auckland’s Third & Social on Saturday 08 December.

Open Courting

The new Court Theatre in Christchurch will officially be opening in December. The theatre in Addington will open its doors with A Short Cut to Happiness by Roger Hall being the first production to grace the stage. The re-opening takes place on Saturday 10 December.

Shit Worth Knowing

PLAYING In Brief...

FAVourites Mo Kheir from aotearoha - next big things

Favourite drink: Ginger beer Favourite restaurant/café: Burger Fuel

The Stone Roses have announced they will embark on a world tour next year, celebrating their reformation and release of new material with the original line-up of Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Mani and drummer Reni. No word yet on where the band will be playing apart from two shows in their hometown of Heaton Park in Manchester, but Brown said at a press conference last week, “This is a live resurrection and you’re invited, so you’d better be there.”

Morrissey has grounds to go sue NME according to reports from The Guardian. Back in 2007, the former frontman for The Smiths was quoted in an interview as saying, “The gates of England are flooded. The country’s been thrown away...

I don’t have anything against people from other countries, [but] the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.”

Morrissey threatened legal action soon after said article went to print, and subsequently donated £28,000 to the charity Love Music, Hate Racism.

The singer said that his reputation had been tarnished ever since the interview.

Several months ago, Pitchfork reported that there was looming legal trouble on the horizon for Kanye West and Jay-Z due to hiccups regarding the sampling of soul singer Syl Johnson’s ‘Different Strokes’ on the Yeezy and Jay-Z track ‘The Joy’. Now Billboard is reporting that Johnson filed a lawsuit against the rappers for sampling his

song and releasing it on Watch the Throne. This isn’t Johnson’s first time talking about copyright issues – he’s previously taken the likes of Michael Jackson and Cypress Hill to court over alleged sampling without permission and has had varying results in terms of settlement.

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Favourite takeaway: Burger Fuel Favourite colour: Blue Favourite classic film: Shawshank Redemption… Not exactly a “black and white” classic film, but its leading actors are black and white if that counts?

Favourite childhood memory: My Grandfather teaching me how to draw Favourite party food: Fruit mix Favourite vice: Caramel Mocha Coffees which are embarrassing to order in public...

Favourite meal: Chicken Don Favourite cause: Cancer related causes – it’s so common these days and I’m just really afraid of having a family member or close friend get any sort of cancer Favourite label to put on your relationship: confusing Favourite ‘90s TV show: Fresh Prince of Bel Air Favourite word: Touché Favourite album: Thriller - Michael Jackson Favourite body part on you: Head Favourite body part on someone else: Eyes Favourite venue: Madison Square Garden Favourite lyric: “I’m coming up only to hold you under” – Band of Horses Favourite candy bar: Snickers Favourite current TV show: How To Make It In America

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Courtney Love has pulled out of Soundwave.

A week after the official line-up was announced, the Hole singer kicked up a fuss after she found out her band would be opening for Limp Bizkit.

Soundwave organiser AJ Maddah said that he would “wait to talk to her dipshit agent” before confirming that the ‘90s band had officially dropped out of the line-up, but eventually said that the only excuse offered by Love’s management was that Hole did not want to share the stage/open for Fred Durst’s crew.

Maddah understandably said that he was “really mad” but added that Soundwave management was relieved that they “got the moody old cow off the bill”. Love responded to all of this as many musicians do these days by taking to twitter to vent her frustration in a public forum, saying that she would love to play the festival but questioned “what bloody flight of crazed fancy made you think we’d open for limp dude?”.

Announcement Spectacular Late last week saw huge announcements of bands heading to our shores next year. So in chronological order: UK punk rockers The Damned will play one show in Auckland on Wednesday 25 January at the Powerstation; Californian alt/funk heads Incubus will be playing at Auckland’s Vector Arena on Tuesday 31 January and Wellington’s TSB Bank Arena on Wednesday 01 February; following their cancelled show earlier this year, The Sisters Of Mercy have announced a rescheduled show for Wednesday 22 February at Auckland’s Powerstation; raucous new garage sensations Black Lips play at Auckland’s Powerstation for one show only on Tuesday 28 February; and finally ex-psych-rocker and current Okerville River collaborator Roky Erickson will play one show at Auckland’s Powerstation on Wednesday 07 March.

Looks like the beginning of the year will be a busy one for the iconic Eden Terrace venue in Auckland.

Shit Worth Knowing

I’m Super, Thanks for asking What the hell is going on with all of these “superheroes”? Ever since Mark Millar’s comic book Kick-Ass came out followed by the film adaptation, real-life people have been asking themselves why people don’t go out dressed up in costume and fight for truth and justice the attention-seeking way.

One of the most infamous “supes” is Detroit masked-man Phoenix Jones. You may have seen the street-level beat-worker on YouTube spraying pepper spray into the eyes of those he deems as having done unjust actions. But life isn’t a comic book and when you attack people on the street there are legal repercussions. So what do superheroes do? What would the likes of Batman, Spider-Man or Wolverine do when faced with legal action?

They sure as hell wouldn’t call for a sanctioning body to represent the men behind the masks. And that’s the difference between real life and comic books. The website reallifesuperheroes.org is throwing around the idea of a representing body/council for the growing movement of crime-fighters.

Hey, if you want to do some good for the community – go for it.

Help out. If you see someone in trouble, call the cops. Do what you can to help in day-to-day life. But don’t go martyring yourself after pepper spraying someone. You’re looking for a fight, and that’s just a dick move.

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Smashing News

The Smashing Pumpkins are getting some nostalgic reissues.

Gish (1991) and Siamese Dream (1993) are the iconic band’s first two albums, and EMI is launching an extensive re-release campaign in December across multi formats. The CD, deluxe, vinyl and digital editions are all of course remastered.

EMI announced that they will also be issuing a collection of B-sides from 1991-2000, saying “The pivotal group’s many hits defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio, influencing a whole new generation.”

In even further Smashing news, early next year the band will be releasing Oceania after their American and European tour. Described as “an album within an album”, Oceania is a part of the band’s in-progress 44-song work Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, and will feature 13 new songs.

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Film News An actress who has not been named is suing film website IMDB for revealing her age and real name. The subsidiary of Amazon.com is suffering legal action on the basis that the actress’ information was acquired by unlawful means and has subsequently been damaging to “Jane Doe’s” career in the youth-orientated town of tinsel.

A Zombieland sequel has been in the works since the film won over audiences and received the critical acclaim it deserved.

Now, however, it’s looking like the sequel has developed into a television series. This was the original idea behind the project before it was turned into a feature, so we could be looking at a new zombie series for 2012-2013.

You may remember the DVD release of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth earlier this year. The film won over critics and was criticised at the same time for its dark and taboo tones. Now Lanthimos is returning with Alps, which has been picked up for distribution in America. There’s no word of the film reaching our shores yet, but we’re hoping the unique filmmaking style of Lanthimos impresses audiences enough for Alps to at least make it over for next year’s NZ Film Fest.

Occupy Wall Street has two notable film directors thinking.

One (unsurprisingly) is Michael Moore, who is inspired to make another documentary. The other, much more out of left field, is Chris Nolan who is considering shooting the occupation as part of The Dark Knight Rises.

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Thursday 27 In Time

The Inbetweeners

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There’s a credit crunch on and everyone is tightening their purse strings. So much so that money becomes irrelevant and people start trading goods and services for time. As in, you’re born, and you get time, then you work, and you get time, but you spend, and you lose time. It’s a weird concept, but kind of interesting.

It’s a bummer being a teenager. Especially when you’re a British teenager on a television show, because things always seem so hard. You’re always awkward with girls and your friends are idiots.

Until you get your movie deal and you’re basically in an elongated episode, yet the storyline is still really funny.

RA. One

Reel Brazil Film Festival

Selected Cinemas

Rialto Cinemas

Imagine Iron Man meets Tron in high-budget Bollywood and you’ve got yourself RA. One. This film looks like it’s either absolute garbage or a verified hilarious riot. The trailer sells it when mister RA. One jumps on a moving/crashing car and a scared lady touches his face through the broken windscreen.

Verified hilarious riot.

Here’s a fact: City of God is not the only Brazilian film that’s really, really good. There are a bunch of films coming out of South America that deserve your attention and there’s no better time (or way) to check them out than going to the Reel Brazil Film Festival which kicks off this Thursday and runs through to next Wednesday.

Fright Night

Suffragette City

General Release

The Basement

Colin Farrell is dark and brooding. He’s smarmy, dashing and finely chiseled. So it was only a matter of time before he ended up playing a vampire. This remake of the horror/comedy original also stars our favourite McLover Christopher Mintz-Plasse as the geek-friend of Anton Yelchin, the kid who has to fight a vampire.

Celebrate the Halloween weekend a little early at The Basement this Thursday. Ruby Frost, Glass Owls, Salvi Stone and DJ Andrew Tidball all pay tribute to everyone’s favourite man in makeup, David Bowie.

A mix of Bowie songs and original material will be belted out of The Basement where you get a free cocktail upon entry.

6.30- 10.30pm, $10-$35, rialto.co.nz

9pm- 12.15am, $10, Door sales only

Friday 28 Armageddon ASB Showgrounds

gig OF THE WEEK

$10-$60, 10am-5pm, iticket.co.nz

It’s that time of the year again: geeks and nerds and dorks and dweebs and all the other underculture degenerates come together and have a good old fashioned geek out. Sci-fi, anime, comics, gaming, fantasy, collectibles, wrestling, appearances by television and film stars, cosplay... it’s all go this weekend from Friday through to Monday. Undoubtedly, Armageddon is the country’s biggest pop-culture entertainment event. And what makes it even better is that most everything on sale there is cheaper than it usually is. So get your act together, dress up like Boba Fett, Batman, Jean Grey or some steampunk notable and getchur geek on.

King Of The Ring Max

AotearoHA

ASB Stadium

SkyCity Theatre

6.30pm-11.45pm, $30-$35, iticketexpress.co.nz

Sometimes it’s hard to wind down on a Friday. But it could be worse. You could be beaten half to death by a bunch of ultimate fighters. So why not mix the good with the bad and go watch that happen to someone else.

Ben Hurley hosts the seventh installment in the AotearoHA series this Friday. Next Big Things features up-and-coming talent with performances from Mo Kheir, Urzila Carson, Guy Williams and Tom Furniss and will be filmed live for TV3.

Midnight Youth

The Sleeping Beauty

Powerstation

St James Theatre 8pm, $20, ticketmaster.co.nz

Midnight Youth have been on a relentless gig schedule in Aussie and the US. They play one show and one show only this month at Auckland’s Powerstation before planning their next move. Young Lyre take the support reigns for the evening.

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8pm, $30, ticketek.co.nz

7.30pm-9.30pm, $37, ticketek.co.nz

The Royal New Zealand Ballet premieres its grandest production to date with The Sleeping Beauty. Set to Tchaikovsky’s soaring score, American Ballet Theatre soloist Stella plays the lead role of Aurora in this combined effort with WETA Workshop.

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Saturday 29 Tommy Ill

Meat Loaf

Mighty Mighty

Vector Arena

8pm, $10 , undertheradar.co.nz

7pm-11pm, $106-$135, ticketmaster

Tommy Ill and crew get right at home at Mighty Mighty as he winds up the mini tour celebrating his latest single ‘Birdbath’. Considering how costumey the Ill gang is anyway, it’s pretty much a Halloween party special with robots, soup cans and everything in between.

As we go to print, the Auckland show is the only Meat Loaf performance that isn’t sold out. There’s a good chance that will change before Saturday, so if you want to see the meat behind the loaf and you’re not in the 09 then you’ll have to venture up to Auckland for this final show at Vector Arena.

95bfm Zombie Prom

The Fetish Ball

Vic Park Tunnel Open Day

Hell On The Harbour

Powerstation

Studio

Victoria Park Tunnel

Edgar Centre

7.30pm-12am, $15-$25, ticketmaster.co.nz

9pm-4am, $120-$160, thefetishball.com

9.30am- 2.30pm, Free

95bFM hosts another get-together this Saturday with a little help from NO Magazine and Lonely Hearts. The Drab Doo-Riffs, Mothers of Darkness, 1995, Evil Twins, O’Lovely and Mellow Grave all hold the entertainment reigns for this dress-up do.

The Fetish Ball celebrates the seven deadly sins this Saturday in the very appropriate area of K Road. It’s very Halloween and it’s very, very themed – but it’s not for the faint of heart. Go with an open mind and see how the other half lives.

Finally, Auckland has a cool tunnel.

Not just an overpass, but an actual tunnel. Some people haven’t been able to wait and have snuck in at 3am on Saturday morning, but that’s illegal. Going to check it out on open day is not.

It’s the first bout of the Dunedin Derby. The Gallow Lasses take on the Otautahi Allstars in the South Island’s first ever inter-league bout.

Roller derby is growing in popularity and it’s easy to see why when you’re guaranteed some whipping action.

UP FM Club Tour

Beastwars

Zakir Hussain

Zombie Walk

InkCoherent

Space Monster, Wanganui

Town Hall

Village Green, rotorua

10pm-6am, $10-$15, Door sales only

Starboy Music has put together the UP FM 2011 club tour, and phase three features Aural Trash, Greg Churchill, Angela Fisken, Kyle Bourke, Nick Collings, Claudiga and Andy Bukshot on the bill. Plus, every attendee goes into the draw to win a 32GB iPad.

9pm-12am, $10, undertheradar.co.nz

Beastwars carry on their last tour of 2011 before recording their second album. They’ll be taking their limited edition beer on the road – the Hallertau Beastwars India Pale Ale, specially made to celebrate the band’s performance this year.

SUNDAY 30

7.30pm-10.30pm, $49$139, the-edge.co.nz

One of the best percussionists in the world, Zakir Hussain may not be a household name but is worth the whole household attending. Along with his Masters of Percussion, the Grammy-award-winner plays a very special one-off show this Saturday.

5pm-7pm, Free

Do what zombies do best this Halloween and just take a little stroll.

Flash mobs can’t be beat, and there’s no flash mob like a pack of zombies.

Practise your best monotonic “urgh” before heading to Teazar for the official Dance of the Dead afterparty.

Tuesday 01

Kraftbomb

Lazy Sunday Jazz

The Melbourne Cup

Grey Lynn Community Centre

Puhoi Valley Cafe, Puhoi

The Nation’s Clubrooms

One of our favourite craft markets hits Auckland for the monthly Kraftbomb experience. Jewellery, toys, art, illustrations, postcards and anything and everything else will be on display at this veritable cutefest.

World class jazz artists take to the Puhoi Valley Cafe. Those with more mature pallets can enjoy cheese and wine tasting while those who are more into candy and Ben10 can play in the playground.

Watch the Melbourne Cup race action live on the big screens across SKYCITY. The odds are on The Nation’s Clubrooms and Red Hummingbird as the places to be to watch the race. Plus there’ll be food and beverage offers, live entertainment and TAB on-site. No young’uns allowed – the venue is strictly R20. Don’t be a dick, and make sure you game responsibly.

MONDAY 31 John Waters 8pm, $70-$76, ticketek.co.nz

The auteur of everything sick and twisted in the most beautiful way. The brains behind Hairspray, Cry Baby, Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Serial Mom and more... ladies and gentlemen, there is simply no one quite like John Waters. The pencil-lipped genius brings his Filthy World to Wellington this Monday.

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Florence + The Machine helmer Florence Welch has had enormous success with her debut record, and as she prepares to release her follow-up Ceremonials, Groove Guide tries to uncover just how she got here.

JUST OVER TWO years ago, enigmatic hit-making and soul-breaking magazine NME spun a story about Florence Welch. She was pinned as a waif, a delinquent, and a wayward soul, decked head-to-toe in flowery, flouncy dresses, bangles and all the rest. Her verbatim addressed everything but the music for which she was fast becoming noted for, focussing instead on skipping college, wearing leopard-print platforms, inhaling, and falling out of trees on Hampstead Heath.

A story on scuzzy, London-based, Velvet Underground-adoring duo The Big Pink a few months later detailed a house party in Shoreditch – Ms Welch herself running up and down stairs to change LPs whilst members of Klaxons looked on.

It seems that Welch, in her own way, was always a fixture.

Fast forward to late 2010 and Flo is mid-way through her tour to support her debut album Lungs. She needn’t have though, because as she jet-setted across Europe on the strength of ‘Dog Days’, battle plans were being drawn for her invasion Stateside. Within months she’d performed at the VMAs and the Grammys, on Saturday Night Live and The Colbert Report. Time magazine ranked her as a very important person.

Lungs charted in the Top Ten in a lot of countries. Joan Rivers mocked her on Fashion Police.

It seems a far cry from the early successes of the frantic ‘Kiss With A Fist’ and the haunting ‘Girl With One Eye’, both tracks existing and thriving on the strength of Welch’s voice which, thanks to raw and unadulterated production, shone through.

Lungs expanded on that heavily percussive format, indie go-to guy Paul Epworth unlocking any proverbial door he could find. His production turned already soulful songs into skyscraping anthems.

Let’s not forget, though, artists the world over struggle for decades to get half of Welch’s success with double the talent, and now that entirely indistinct voice has become a vehicle for lumpy big-wigs to make some serious cash.

She proclaims that her upcoming record Ceremonials is “a group of songs that paint a unified picture of where I am in my life right now”.

Strange thing is: she’s never done that before.

If ‘Girl With One Eye’ was an accurate representation of her life up to that point (“I took a knife and cut out her eye/ I took it home and watched it wither and die”) then surely we should all be increasingly worried by the means by which she’s achieved her fame to date.

Read any interview with Welch in support of Ceremonials and you’ll get the same spool of misrepresentation.

Any journalist worth their salt can pick up on the endless buzzwordcoaching she’s been given over the last few years, and it doesn’t take much investigating to find quotes riddled with pauses as she desperately tries to explain her own view on a topic that isn’t her perceived and enforced faux-eccentricity. Her biography proclaims her to be an art college “dropout” – as if somehow that’s something to aspire to.

Of course, with any major success comes that enormous portion of budding hacks dying to make their big break, and so Welch becomes merely another tool for their supposed trade. Various publications discuss her ADHD, insomnia, anorexia and dysmetria in depth whilst identifying her musical career to date with two slivers of transcript intended to shoehorn some context in to the mix: this is Florence Welch, she makes music occasionally, but she’s mental most of the time.

Regardless of any internal struggle (which Epworth seems to smother in reverb, irrespective of the sentiment), Florence Welch still walks the red carpet with the rest of them; she still parties with Anna Wintour, she still gets followed by the hounding British tabloids and not the credible music press, and she still stands to make an enormous pile of cash should the ensuing PR campaign for Ceremonials pay off.

Politics aside, leading single ‘What The Water Gave Me’ is a monster tune – it rises, crests, and falls before exploding outwards, and there certainly will be more to come. So simply remember this: if you can ignore that plastic fascination and flashing photography in favour of her impressive canon of work, then you can truly appreciate Florence and her marvellous machine.

WRITTEN BY JAMES A. ROBINS

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Fly My Pretties are back, adopting Hayley King – AKA Flox – as the go-to girl for the visual accompaniment that has become such an integral part of recent tours...

FLY MY PRETTIES have become something of a New Zealand institution. Formed in 2004, debuting with the brilliant Live At Bats and fermented over another seven years, the revolving collective of musicians has morphed and transformed over the duration of each tour, providing the heady sense of theatre and spectacle that is lacking from many other regular touring bands and collectives.

This year’s line-up calls upon the core cast, most of who were present through the previous three tours, including L.A. Mitchell, Anna Coddington and Age Pryor, whilst expanding to accommodate the wealth of new music emanating from these shores. Alongside members of The Nudge, Cairo Knife Fight, Kora and even Flip Grater herself, visual artist Hayley King – under the guise of Flox – has joined the ranks as one of the few non-musical contributors.

But that doesn’t mean her gifts to the service will be any less integral to the overall presentation of the show.

King’s illustrations seem like a perfect fit for something as organic as Fly My Pretties, her works often incorporating native birds and bustling natural surrounds, from sparser prints to expansive and intricate murals splashed on to the walls of public buildings.

As a former collaborator with the excellent street art co-op Cut Collective, King is used to the intense pressure that regular deadlines bring.

“For me, I’ve been doing this for so long now, so I feel I am a confident artist in my own right,” she says. “But it’s daunting in regard to working with some really amazing musicians which I’ve never done before, and going on tour with them, which is crazy, crazy stuff. I’ve been on tour with Cut Collective – we used to do group shows together which is a bit like being in a band because we were always fighting and all the rest, but it’s a different kind of creative field altogether.”

King was first approached by ringmasters Barnaby Weir and Mikee Tucker. “They both came in to my studio one day and basically pinned me down,” she laughs, “and said they wanted me to be a part of it all.”

She was set to work attacking the enormous scope that a show of Fly My Pretties’ calibre demands.

“I have to illustrate all 15 tracks which each need to work as a poster, so when you walk in to the gig there’ll be an exhibition of 15 posters, one for every track, available in limited edition prints,” says King.

“Also, it has to translate certain elements, somehow from that poster or vice versa, into something that can be brought to life or somehow animated, so a lot of the imagery is going to be used in the backdrop behind the musicians on stage in various forms, that’s the new part for me. I’m not doing any of the animation, but I have to think of the images in that way and how they can be interesting for people to look at and how they can evolve, I guess, and basically how they can be brought to life.”

Although working in and around a medium she’s unfamiliar with, Flox isn’t daunted by the responsibility that comes with marrying visual accompaniment to musical expression.

“I definitely feel responsible,” she says. “I have to come up with something that works as a 2D illustration and also as some sort of 3D working element, and the artist has to be happy with it as well and it has to reflect who they are and what the song is about, to a certain degree, so there’s lots of boxes to tick if you like.”

As usual, the tour will be filmed in all the major centers of the tour to be released as a live DVD, displaying all of King’s talents in highdefinition glory. There should be no doubt that she will approach her duties in Fly My Pretties with anything less than the aplomb we should expect from a world-class artist.

WRITTEN BY JAMES A. ROBINS

SEE THEM LIVE: SAT 29 OCT THE REGENT, DUNEDIN SUN 30 OCT GEO DOME, CHRISTCHURCH MON 31 OCT GEO DOME, CHRISTCHURCH THU 10 NOV MERCURY THEATRE, AUCKLAND FRI 11 NOV MERCURY THEATRE, AUCKLAND SAT 19 NOV ST JAMES THEATRE, WELLINGTON

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Youth in Revolt Midnight Youth are unashamed in announcing what they are: a band. A rock’n’rolling band with real instruments. They have been relatively quiet on the home front since enjoying the success of their debut. That’s largely due to their youthful song quota, but now with another 10 to add to the set list, Jeremy Redmore says the band is eyeing up a pub tour of New Zealand. Those 10 new songs are what we’re interested in so here goes…

IT’S BEEN FIVE years since Midnight Youth began to lay the foundations for their freshman effort The Brave Don’t Run, and those five years have made the difference. Redmore says their first was introverted, but World Comes Calling is a different story.

“It’s an extroverted album,” he muses. “We aren’t singing about ourselves. It’s things we’ve seen.” This new outward view offers listeners a moodier, more observational Midnight Youth with attitude. “It’s a definition of where we’re at. A snapshot of us right now.”

Redmore says the band even toyed with the idea of self-titling the record. But they didn’t. It was a struggle to name World Comes Calling, so they lifted the name straight off of what is now the title track. “It’s a little bit of magic,” Redmore says on their choice of moniker. “It affects you. I don’t quite know how.” He’s right though; the name has that niggle that makes you sit up and listen.

Growing up gives you grown up aspirations. Midnight Youth want to be a live band, and even go so far as to say they see themselves suiting the live festival circuit. Redmore has a vision of them as a nighttime rock set at Glastonbury. The majority of the songs on World Comes Calling are written for live performance, and even the song descriptions encapsulate this desire.

The band recently spent a year living and touring together in Sydney, which allowed for them to try and throw away songs; their songwriting

technique has been to test live. Living together also allowed for them grow tighter. “We’re like a family. It’s a cool vibe,” says Redmore. “We’d go out every weekend.” He says that it was a handy situational thing because when he gets song ideas, Simon’s right there with him. “It’s like a gang feel. It’s a unique thing.”

Redmore expects touring details to be out soon, and stayed tightlipped when asked if there are any festival dates looming with the summer festivals drawing closer. “Summer is up in the air,” was all he would let on. However, he did mention that he’d like for the band to play somewhere like Rhythm & Vines and Big Day Out. “We feel we’ve done the band justice,” says Redmore. “We’re doing what the people we look up to do.”

Watch this space, because although those sights are set on stages halfway across the world, Midnight Youth know where their fan base is.

“We want to give New Zealand our best shot,” says Redmore.

WRITTEN BY JUSTIN FOWLER ALBUM OUT NOW: MIDNIGHT YOUTHWORLD COMES CALLING SEE THEM LIVE: FRI 28 OCT POWERSTATION, AUCKLAND WIN: 2 X ALBUM AND DOUBLE PASS PACK

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WELLINGTON gig guide Wed 26

Fri 28

FOXGLOVE

BETTYS

BODEGA

Frenzal Rhomb

THE GARDEN CLUB

The Nark

Bodega

FOXGLOVE

Melting Faces North Island Tour Shimmy: 8pm: $5

DJ B-Lo

CHOW TORY ST

Mikki Dee: 6pm

Good As Gold, Arcade AK & Chow Dwn pres Boweezy Wellington

THE GARDEN CLUB Vine Time

GOOD LUCK

Wednesday Rice & Shine w/ Yinface & Samu

HAPPY

Timothy Blackman Album Release Show

Mighty Mighty

Video Mix Night w/ Mikki Dee: 10pm: Free

SAN FRAN BATH HOUSE

The Boxcar Rattle, The Shocking & Stunning & Red Sky Blues

Thu 27 FOXGLOVE

Live Jazz with Twinset

THE GARDEN CLUB Deep Wire

GOOD LUCK

Thursday Best Fortune

Mighty Mighty Jump St + Jump St All Night DJs: 10pm: $5

SANDWICHES Dubstate

FOXTAIL

THE GARDEN CLUB Carousel Cabaret

GOOD LUCK

Stir Friday w/ Kev Fresh & DJ Ruckus

MATTERHORN

DJ Kev Fresh

Carousel Cabaret

GOOD LUCK

Phar Gon w/ K+Lab, Micah & El Pasko

HAVANA

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Pickle ft. Don Luchito, Kenese & guests: 9pm: Free

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Hot Cafe - Gypsy Jazz

MATTERHORN The Eggs

MEOW

GAG.MEOW.VICE.Halloween party

Mon 31

Terror Of The Deep Permanent Weekend Album Launch Show: 10pm: $5

Mighty Mighty

SAN FRAN BATH HOUSE

Tommy Ill ‘Birdbath’ Single Release Tour: 8pm: $10

Gin Wigmore - Gravel & Wine Tour

SAN FRAN BATH HOUSE

NEWTOWN COMMUNITY & CULTURAL CENTRE

Tue 01

Latinaotearoa at Matterhorn

Mighty Mighty

Disasteradio

SANDWICHES

5 Years Of Bassweight ft. The Others (UK): 11pm: $25 + BF

French for Rabbits Aotearoa 2011 Tour

SANDWICHES

Sandwiches Halloween ft. Evil Nine (UK): 11pm: $20 + BF

Sat 29 Bettys function house & bar

SMIRNOFF BLACK Presents MI CASA SU CASA ft. Schille.M (GE), Jamie Christer (UK) & Bex: 10pm: Free

Bodega

Bodega presents Melting Faces: 9pm

EVIL GENIUS

Sun 30 Bodega

Green For The Pink: 2pm: $5

GOOD LUCK

Sunday Satisfaction w/ Harry Hospo & Kev Fresh

BODEGA

Tuesday Night Speakeasy Swing Dance Evening: 7:30pm: Free

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Sunday Jazz w/ The Troubles

Evil Genius: Records, Design, Coffee

The Lido Cafe

Subculture (Qtwn)

COPA

The Others (UK)

Sun 30

Edgar Centre

Otago Museum

The Boptet: 7pm: Free

dunedin gig guide Wed 26

The SubStation: 9pm: Free

REFUEL

Wednesday Social Night

Rialto Cinemas

Dove Pink at the Pictures

Subculture (Qtwn) Dread Bass Wednesdays Ping Pong Comp: 9pm: $5

Thu 27 Refuel

Mountaineater & Anthesiac: 9pm: $10

Fri 28 12 BELOW

Shotgun Alley Album Release

Saints & Sinners (Inv)

Anthesiac & Anarchy Rat: 8pm: $5

Sat 29

Hell On the Harbour

Otago Women’s Pioneer Hall

Nadia Reid - Letters I Wrote & Never Sent EP Release Tour: 7:30pm: $5

Regent Theatre

Linda Munro: 5pm

Tue 01 Mou Very

Julian Temple: 9pm: Free

Fly My Pretties IV Adult (Age 15+): $82 + BF / Student w/ ID: $67 + BF

The Church

Blues Night: 8pm: $10

12 Below

Mokonui Launch Party: 9pm: $10 or $15 w/ an EP

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Fri 28

Sat 29

1885 Basement

1885 Basement

1885 Britomart

1885 Britomart

519 Events Centre

Creative Jazz Club: The Melancholy Babes: 8pm: $10

Ginger Minx

Rewind: 7pm: Free

Kings Arms

Tido: 11pm: Free

Ben Wah & Jerm: 8pm: Free

4:20

Halo Of Ashes, The Rotti, San Pedro & more: 8pm

Auckland Town Hall

Mexican Cafe

Bacco Room

Be Club

Racket Bar

Be Club

The Britomart Country Club

Cassette Nine

DJ Pups: 6pm: Free

Tommy Ill ëBirdbathí Single Release Tour: 8pm: $10

The Kingslander

Celsius

Salsa Night: 8pm: Free

DJ Steve Dean: 10pm: Free

The Wine Cellar

Ginger Minx

T-Rice: 6pm: Free

SCRATCH New Writing Night: 8pm: $8

Mel Parsons Red Grey Blue Album Release Tour: 7:30pm Be Free Fridays: 10pm: Free

Dick Johnson: 9pm: Free

Goode Brothers Live DJ: 8pm: Free

Thu 27

Juice Bar at the Windsor Castle

From Scratch: 8pm: Free

Hootchy Kootchy Girls Burlesque - Special Selection: 8:30pm: Seated $30/GA $20

1885 Britomart

Racket Bar

1885 Basement

Sweet Mix Kids: 9pm: Free

Cassette Nine

Cassette Allstars: 10pm: Free

Ginger Minx

Jim & Mooch: 7pm: Free

Khuja

The Live n’ Loud Sessions Present Albi, Shark Jump Thief & Dick Dynamite w/ DJ Wild Stallion: 9pm: $5

Racket Bar

Conch w/ Cian & Flex: 6pm: Free

Tabac

Wilberforces, Nevernudes & Beach Pigs: 8pm: $5

The Basement

Suffragette City: Bowie night w/ Ruby Frost, Glass Owls, Salvi Stone & Andrew Tidball: 9pm: $10 w/ free 42Below cocktail on entry

The Britomart Country Club T-Rice: 6pm: Free

The Elephant Wrestler Live DJ: 9pm: Free

The Kings Arms

5 Metal band $5: 8pm: $5

The Thirsty Dog

Macombee & the Absolute Truth - Truly Spectacular Caberlesque: 8pm: $10

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Noize Control Halloween: 9pm: $30

Proud Mary Club - Janine & The Mixtape, Quay St Social Club & Tom Tom: 10pm: $10

Live Latin & Brazilian Music: 8:30pm: Free

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Manuel Bundy & Arash: 6pm: Free

Rakinos

Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion: 7:30pm: $49 - $139 Be Saturdays: 10pm: $5

Cassette Nine

Sick Disco w/North Shore Pony Club Soundsystem, Paydirt, Jerm, Diamond Cutters & Dirty Bastards: 10pm: $10

Celsius

DJ bMan: 10pm: Free

Crystal lounge bar Halloween Party: 9pm: $15

UFO

CRAFTY: 8:30pm: $10

Sun 30 Ginger Minx

Daniel Farley: 5pm: Free

Goode Brothers Live Music: 4pm: Free

Puhoi Valley Cafe Lazy Sunday Jazz Sessions: 12pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club

Dave & Dan Present: Jurassic Park + Lewis Tennant & Dylan C: 2pm: Free

The Elephant Wrestler Live Music: 2pm: Free

The Kings Arms

Empire Tavern

Southern Fried Sunday w/ The Grifters & special guests: 5pm: $10

Juice Bar at the Windsor Castle

Tue 01

Empire Halloween Party: 8pm: Free

Reel Brazil Fiesta: 10pm: Free

Khuja

ZU, Mikey Rockwell, Shoutin’ Preachin’, DJ Oh Aye & More: 10pm: $5

Leigh Sawmill Cafe

BaseFMíS Radiowaves: 9pm: $5

Mel Parsons Red Grey Blue Album Release Tour: 7:30pm

Stampede Bar & Grill

Racket Bar

Empire Tavern

Empire Million Dollar Trivia Show: 6:30pm

Kings Arms

Gin Wigmore w/ Dick Dynamite & the Dopplegangers: 8pm: $48.50 Presale

one2one

Tuesday Open Mic: 6:30pm: Free

Sleepy Hollow ft. DJ Manchoo & Justin Sane: 9pm: $15

Page 3 & Katana: 8pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club

A Night With: $10

Huffey Street Sound System: 6pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club

The Kings Arms

Lewis Tennant & Chip Matthews: 5pm: Free

The Crib

The Tall Poppies: 10pm: Free

The Elephant Wrestler Live Music: 9pm: Free

The Flying Moa

Rakinos

Nyntee & Chip Matthews: 5pm: Free

The Elephant Wrestler Live DJ: 9pm: Free

The Kings Arms

Sugarbang: 8:30pm: Free

Frenzal Rhomb (AU) w/ The Tearaways (AU) & Shitripper: 8pm

The Kings Arms

The Library Bar

Bonjah w/ guests: 8pm

The Powerstation Midnight Youth: 8pm: $20

Halloween - Day of the Dead: 9pm: Free

The Lucha Lounge

Trench Bar

Fridays at Trench Bar: 4pm: Free

The Connoisseur Club presents A Nightmare On York Street: 9pm: $5

UFO

The Powerstation

Whammy Bar & Wine Cellar

The Studio

CRAFTY: 8:30pm: $10

Mothra, Rule of Thieves & Gang Violins: 9:30pm: $10

Zombie Prom: 7:30pm: $25 + BF or $15 w/ bCard

Seven Deadly Sins Halloween Ball: 9pm: $60 GA - $120 VIP

Racket Bar

Kings Arms Quiz: 7:15pm: Free

The Windsor Castle Open Mic Night w/ Kiwi FM: 9pm: Free

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Fri 28

CPIT CPSA BUILDING

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Canterbury Poets Collective (CPC) Spring Season

THE BREWERY

The Eastern Family

Thu 27 CANTERBURY BOWLING CLUB

Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School - El Dia De Los Muertos

CIBURB BAR

Unlimited Speed Zone

CLUB 22 Maestro B

THE DARKROOM (ARCHIVE)

Insidious Halloween Rave

WINNIES FERRYMEAD Superfish 14th Anniversary Hard Dance Pirate Party w/ Captain Tinrib.

JRB Trio

Gin Wigmore - The Gravel & Wine Tour

Sat 29

THE BEDROCK BAR

THE BEDROCK BAR

Lincoln Drive

Antix

CASINO - CANTERBURY LOUNGE

THE CARLTON COUNTRY CLUB

Black Velvert

Dr Sanchez Latin Guitar

CIBURB BAR

CIBURB BAR

Good Company

Branded

Mon 31

CLUB 22

CLUB 22

THE GEO DOME

DJ Nick T

DJ Mike T

Fly My Pretties IV: 7pm: $90 + BF

CPIT CPSA BUILDING

THE DARKROOM (ARCHIVE)

PIERSIDE CAFE

FUEL BAR

Tue 01

Pitch Model Auditions

FUEL BAR

FUEL BAR

PHILLIPSTOWN YOUTH CENTRE

PIERSIDE CAFE

Tealight Acoustics

The Shameless Few

PIERSIDE CAFE

PIERSIDE CAFE

THE BREWERY

Karaoke DJ Chick

Beach Breaks w/ DJ Dmand

Shaft & The Transistors

POMEROY’S

THE VENUE-MUSICBAR

THE NUT POINT CENTRE

The House of Capricorn: 9pm: $10

SALSA LATINA STUDIOS

THE GEO DOME

Fly My Pretties IV: 7pm: $90 + BF

POMEROY’S

Bongo From the Congo

WINNIES FERRYMEAD Dr Sanchez - Latin Guitar

Nuttin Trivial - Quiz Night

Planet of the Tapes

Fuel Bar presents: Tommy D, Danny Ill & Infrared

Lindon Puffin

CIBURB BAR

AURORA CENTRE

Nadia Reid Ep Release w/ Happiness Stan: 8:30pm: Free Fuel Bar presents: Tommy D, Danny Ill & Infrared

Sun 30

Fuel Bar presents: Tommy D, Danny Ill & Infrared

Black Orpheus Concert No 3 of the Jazz 2011

BEALEY ALE HOUSE

Jamming with the Jamesons

CPIT CPSA BUILDING

NMC Presents Jazz Slam 2011

POMEROY’S

The Eastern Family

THE VENUE-MUSICBAR

Salsa Night on Thursdays

Shotgun Alley Album Release w/ The Valves & Flying Solo

hamilton gig guide Wed 26

Fri 28

Cubbyhole

Altitude

EVENT Cinemas

Biddy Muligan’s Irish Pub Crossroads Duo

Debbie Shepard’s 139 Concert Release Tour

Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Cock & Bull

Cathedral Anniversary Concert

Gerry

Live @ Static - Melting Faces & Blind Side: 9pm: $5

Cock & Bull

Static

Waikato Museum

Dinsdale Office Bar & Restaurant

Cubbyoke Night Cove Pink at the Cinemas

Thu 27 Static

Musical Feast

The Meteor

Flagons & Foxtrots

The YOT Club

Mel Parsons: 7:30pm: $25

Rise Up w/ Box Juice, TastyBrown & Zion Hill

Hayden Booth

Acoustics w/ Bendan

Static

Void

VOID

Sat 29

Tue 01

Agora Cafe

Cock & Bull

Hardcore Still Live

Live @ Static: Viking Weed + Wizz Kids Halloween Splatter Fest: 9pm: $5

Tuesday Trivia

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Sun 30

Live @ Static: The Changing Same CD Launch w/ Strayhound & Conway: 9pm: $5

Founders Theatre

Telecom Playhouse

Te Rapa Racecourse

Silent Night

Dream On Dreamer: 3pm: $10

A Festival of Russian Ballet Jazz on a Sunday evening / Jan Preston’s Beat Out the Boogie

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Regional gig guide Gore

Raglan

Sat 29

Wed 26

Thu 27

Pacific Crystal Palace

The Little Theatre

The Yot Club

Mel Parsons Red Grey Blue Album Release Tour: 7:30pm

Thu 27 Traffers

Rocktober 2011

Mel Parsons Red Grey Blue Album Release Tour: 7:30pm

Tauranga Wed 26 Pacific Crystal Palace Bellbirds: 8:30pm: $40

Oamaru Sat 29

Fri 28

Penguin Entertainers Club

Krazy Jacks

Ash & The Matadors w/ Made In China Vice Album Release: 8:30pm: $10

Ruff, Rugged, Raw: 10:30pm: Koha

Tahuna Breaks: 8:30pm: $40

Timaru Sat 29 No. 8 Wired

The House of Capricorn Album Release Show: 9pm: $10

Whangarei THU 27 Butterbank Shotgun Alley

Pacific Crystal Palace Storehouse: 10:45pm $10

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Upcoming tours & events 95bFM Zombie Prom

Sat 29 Oct Powerstation, Auckland

BaseFM’s Radiowaves Fri 30 Oct Rakinos, Auckland

Beastwars

Fri 28 Oct The Royal, Palmerston North Sat 29 Oct Space Monster, Whanganui Fri 04 Nov Biddy Mulligan’s, Hamilton Sat 05 Nov 4:20, Auckland Sat 12 Nov Bodega, Wellington

Beirut (US)

The Checks

Fri 11 Nov Zeal, Wellington (all ages) Fri 11 Nov Bodega, Wellington Sat 12 Nov The Royal, Palmerston North Thu 17 Nov Cabana, Napier Fri 18 Nov Butlers Reef, New Plymouth Sat 19 Nov The Shed, Rotorua Fri 25 Nov Flow Bar, Hamilton Sat 26 Nov Powerstation, Auckland Thu 01 Dec PBC, Gisborne Fri 02 Dec Illuminati, Tauranga Sat 03 Dec Onewhero Rugby Club, Onewhero Sat 07 Dec YOT Club, Raglan

Sat 14 Jan San Fran Bath House, Wellington Mon 16 Jan Powerstation, Auckland

Eddie Izzard (UK)

Mon 07 Nov St James Theatre, Wellington Tue 08 Nov St James Theatre, Wellington Wed 09 Nov The Civic, Auckland Thu 10 Nov The Civic, Auckland Fri 11 Nov The Civic, Auckland

Explosions In The Sky (US)

Tue 13 Dec Western Springs, Auckland

The Fetish Ball

Thu 10 Nov Rising Sun, Auckland Thu 17 Nov The Pig and Whistle Historic Pub, Rotorua Fri 18 Nov Perrett’s Corner Cafe and Bar, Wellington Sat 19 Nov Baby G’s, Nelson Sat 19 Nov Interislander Ferry, Wellington-Picton Wed 23 Nov Playhouse Cafe, Mapua Thu 24 Nov The Roots Bar, Takaka, Nelson Fri 25 Nov Le Cafe, Picton Sat 26 Nov Interislander Ferry, Picton-Wellington

Fleet Foxes (US)

Fri 13 Jan The Hunter Lounge, Wellington Sat 14 Jan Auckland Town Hall, Auckland

Sat 31 Dec Trentham Racecourse, Upper Hutt

Bic Runga

Thu 17 Nov Central Baptist Church, Whangarei Fri 18 Nov Holy Trinity, Tauranga Sat 18 Nov Chapel Of Christ The King, Hamilton Mon 21 Nov Franklin Baptist Church, Pukekohe Tue 22 Nov Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland Wed 23 Nov Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland Fri 25 Nov St John’s Cathedral, Napier Sat 26 Nov All Saints Church, Palmerston North Mon 28 Nov St Matthew’s Anglican Church Tue 29 Nov Wellington Cathedral, Wellington Wed 30 Nov Wellington Cathedral, Wellington Fri 02 Dec St Michael & All Angels, Christchurch Sat 03 Dec St Michael & All Angels, Christchurch Mon 05 Dec St Mary’s Church, Timaru Tue 06 Dec Knox Church, Dunedin Wed 07 Dec Knox Church, Dunedin Thu 08 Dec First Presbyterian Church, Invercargill

Big Day Out 2012

Coromandel Gold

Fri 30 Dec Ohuka Farm, Coromandel Sat 31 Dec Ohuka Farm, Coromandel

Deerhoof (US)

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Defamer (AU)

The Business (UK)

Wed 02 Nov Dunedin Musicians Club, Dunedin Thu 03 Nov The Venue, Christchurch Fri 04 Nov Bodega, Wellington Sat 05 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland

Camp A Low Hum

Thu 09 Feb - Mon 13 Feb 203 Coast Road, RD 1, Wainuiomata

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Fri 02 Dec TSB Arena, Wellington Sat 03 Dec Vector Arena, Auckland

Fri 20 Jan Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland

Wed 07 Nov Powersation, Auckland

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Sat 07 Jan Whammy Bar, Auckland Sun 08 Jan Bodega, Wellington

Fri 18 Nov The Basement, Auckland

Disasteradio

Fri 28 Oct San Fran Bath House, Wellington

Dum Dum Girls (US)

Fri 06 Jan The Kings Arms, Auckland

EarthTonz NYE

Sat 31 Dec Gibbston Valley Station, Queenstown

Freaky Meat

Frenzal Rhomb (AU)

Chopper

Tue 08 Nov Baycourt Community Arts Theatre, Tauranga Thu 10 Nov Great Lake Centre, Taupo Sat 12 Nov The Opera House, Wellington Sun 13 Nov TSB Showplace, New Plymouth Tue 15 Nov Civic Theatre, Rotorua Wed 16 Nov Founders Theatre, Hamilton Thu 17 Nov Aurora Theatre, Christchurch Fri 18 Nov SKYCITY Theatre, Auckland Sat 19 Nov Hawkes Bay Opera House, Hastings Sun 20 Nov War Memorial Centre, Gisborne Tue 22 Nov Nelson School Of Music, Nelson Wed 23 Nov Marlborough Civic Theatre, Blenheim Thu 24 Nov Theatre Royal, Timaru Fri 25 Nov Regent Theatre, Dunedin Sat 26 Nov Civic Theatre, Invercargill

Foo Fighters (US) w/ Tenacious D (US)

Thu 15 Dec San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 16 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

Sat 29 Oct Studio, Auckland Sat 12 Nov The Venue, Christchurch

Beyond The Black NYE

Wed 23 Nov Sammy’s, Dunedin Thu 24 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Fri 25 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Fri 25 Nov San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 25 Nov Dux Live, Christchurch Sat 26 Nov Dux De Lux, Christchurch

Fri 28 Oct Bodega, Wellington Sat 29 Oct The Kings Arms, Auckland

Flip Grater

Wed 23 Nov Mighty Mighty, Wellington Fri 25 Nov The Boat House, Nelson Sat 26 Nov Star Tavern, Westport Thu 01 Dec Penguin Club, Oamaru Fri 02 Dec Chicks Hotel, Dudedin Sat 03 Dec Food & Wine Festival, Christchurch Wed 07 Dec Tabac, Auckland Thu 08 Dec The YOT Club, Raglan Sat 10 Dec Sawmill Cafe, Leigh

Fly My Pretties

Sat 29 Oct The Regent, Dunedin Sun 30 Oct Geo Dome, Christchurch Mon 31 Oct Geo Dome, Christchurch Thu 10 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Fri 11 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Sat 12 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Sat 19 Nov St James Theatre, Wellington

Flying Nun 30th Anniverary

Fri 04 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Fri 04 Nov Dux De Lux, Christchurch Sat 05 Nov San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sat 05 Nov Chicks Hotel, Dunedin Sun 06 Nov The Roastery, Lyttleton Fri 11 Nov Golden Dawn, Auckland Fri 11 Nov Urban Factory, Dunedin Fri 11 Nov San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sat 12 Nov Mighty Mighty, Wellington Sat 12 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Sat 12 Nov Dux Live, Christchurch Wed 16 Nov San Fran Bath House, Wellington Thu 17 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Fri 18 Nov Dux De Lux, Christchurch Fri 18 Nov Sammy’s, Dunedin Fri 18 Nov San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sat 19 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Sat 19 Nov Dux De Lux, Christchurch Sat 19 Nov San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sat 19 Nov Sammy’s, Dunedin

The Gaslamp Killer (US) Fri 18 Nov Be Club, Auckland Sat 19 Nov Sandwiches, Wellington

Gin Wigmore

Fri 28 Oct Aurora Centre, Christchurch Sat 29 Oct Theatre Royal, Nelson Mon 31 Oct San Fran Bath House, Wellington Tue 01 Nov The Kings Arms, Auckland Sat 05 Nov Brewers Bar, Tauranga

GROOVEMAN SPOT (JP)

Fri 02 Dec Bacco Room, Auckland

Hall & Oates (US)

Sat 28 Jan Church Road Winery, Napier Sun 29 Jan Villa Maria Estate, Auckland

Hollie Smith

Thu 17 Nov Sale St, Auckland Fri 18 Nov Bodega, Wellington

The House of Capricorn Fri 28 Oct The Venue, Christchurch Sat 29 Oct No. 8 Wired, Timaru

How To Dress Well (US) Sat 08 Dec Third & Social, Auckland

John Waters (US): This Filthy World Mon 31 Oct The Opera House, Wellington Wed 02 Nov The Civic, Auckland

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Sat 05 Nov Masonic Tavern, Auckland Sat 12 Nov The Garden Club, Wellington

Julian Temple

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Wed 26 Oct TSB Bank Arena, Wellington Fri 28 Oct Bay Park Arena, Tauranga Sat 29 Oct Vector Arena, Auckland

Tue 01 Nov Mou Very, Dunedin Wed 02 Nov The Wine Cellar, Auckland

Sat 14 Jan Old Beach Road, Kaikoura Sun 15 Jan Old Beach Road, Kaikoura

Thu 01 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

La De Da Festival

Fri 30 Dec Dry River Road, Martinborough Sat 31 Dec Dry River Road, Martinborough

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Mon 26 Dec The Station Village Complex, Lower Hutt Wed 28 Dec Butlers Reef, Mangawhai Mon 02 Jan Waihi Beach Hotel, Waihi Tue 03 Jan Brewers Field, Mt Maunganui

Laneway Festival 2012 Mon 30 Jan Silo Park, Auckland

Lamb Of God (US)

Wed 07 Mar Studio, Auckland

Lisa Crawley

Thu 17 Nov Montecristo Room, Auckland Thu 24 Nov San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 25 Nov Chicks Hotel, Dunedin Sat 26 Nov The Brewery, Christchurch Fri 09 Dec Sawmill Cafe, Leigh

Luckless & Bond Street Bridge

Sat 19 Nov Leigh Sawmill, Leigh Wed 23 Nov The Yot Club, Raglan Thu 24 Nov Cabana Bar, Napier Fri 25 Nov Happy, Wellington Sat 26 Nov Star Tavern, Westport Sun 27 Nov Cook Saddle Cafe, Fox Glacier Tue 29 Nov Blue Ice Cafe, Franz Josef Wed 30 Nov Chicks Hotel, Dunedin Thu 01 Dec The Penguin Club, Oamaru Fri 02 Dec The Brewery, Christchurch

Made In China

Sat 29 Oct Penguin Entertainers Club, Oamaru

Madeleine Peyroux (US) Tue 06 Mar Town Hall, Auckland

Mangawhai NYE Party Sat 31 Dec Mangawhai Tavern, Mangawhai

Portishead (UK)

Thu 10 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland

Wed 26 Oct The Little Theatre, Wellington Thu 27 Oct The Yot Club, Raglan Fri 28 Oct Bacco Room, Auckland Sat 29 Oct Sawmill Cafe, Leigh

The Moody Blues (UK)

Sat 26 Nov Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Sun 27 Nov The Civic Theatre, Auckland

More FM Summer Vineyard Tour

Fri 03 Feb Sileni Estates, Hawkes Bay Sat 04 Feb Brooklands Lawn, New Plymouth Sun 05 Feb Daisy Bank Farm, Martinborough Mon 06 Feb Claudelands Green, Hamilton Wed 08 Feb Trafalgar Park, Nelson Thu 09 Feb Peregrine Winery, Queenstown Fri 10 Feb Pegasus Town, Christchurch Sat 11 Feb Turanga Creek, Auckland

Mulatu Astatke (ET)

Fri 25 Nov Powerstation, Auckland

Rhythm & Alps

Tuborg Summer Sunday

Rippon Festival

Sat 04 Feb Rippon Vineyard, Lake Wanaka

Roger Waters: The Wall (US) Sat 18 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Mon 20 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Wed 22 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Thu 23 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland

Roxette (SE)

Fri 04 Nov The Hunter Lounge, Wellington

Fri 16 Dec San Fran Bath House, Auckland Sat 17 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

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Vortex Tribe (US)

Thu 29 Dec Ascension Wine Estate, Matakana Mon 02 Jan Riwaka Hotel, Motueka Fri 06 Jan Brewers Field, Tauranga Sat 07 Jan Waihi Beach Hotel, Coromandel

Phoenix Foundation Sat 03 Dec Wine & Food Festival, Christchurch

Pink Floyd Double Feature

Tue 08 Nov Stardome Observatory & Planetarium, Auckland Tue 22 Nov Stardome Observatory & Planetarium, Auckland

Mon 21 Nov Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland Fri 25 Nov Opera House, Wellington Sat 26 Nov Theatre Royal, New Plymouth Sun 27 Nov Opera House, Hastings Mon 28 Nov Baycourt, Tauranga Tue 28 Nov Clarence St, Hamilton

Wake Less

Fri 11 Nov - Sat 19 Nov BATS Theatre, Wellington

We Came As Romans (US) Sat 29 Oct Zeal, Auckland

Northern Lights Festival

Sat 03 Dec San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sun 04 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

Thu 12 Jan The Kings Arms, Auckland

Salmonella Dub

Fri 04 Nov Town Hall, Auckland

Pajama Club

tUnE-yArDs (US)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Sat 11 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland

The Naked And Famous

Sat 03 Dec Whammy Bar & Wine Cellar, Auckland Sat 10 Dec The Venue, Christchurch

Sun 29 Jan Matakana Music Mountain, Matakana

Thu 29 Dec - Sat 31 Dec Waiohika Estate, Gisborne

Sat 29 Oct Otago Women’s Pioneer Hall, Dunedin Thu 03 Nov Happy Bar, Wellington Fri 04 Nov Happy Bar, Wellington

NZ Stonerfest

Fri 28 Oct Cassette Nine, Auckland Sat 29 Oct Mighty Mighty, Wellington

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Nadia Reid

Fri 30 Dec - Mon 2 Jan Pakiri Beach, Pakiri

Fri 16 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland Sat 17 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland Sun 18 Mar Vector Arena, Auckland

Tommy Ill

Wed 28 Dec Terrance Downs, Mt Hutt Thu 29 Dec Terrance Downs, Mt Hutt

Mel Parsons

Taylor Swift (US)

Raggamuffin 2012

Sat 28 Jan Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua

Kaikoura Roots Festival Kurt Vile (US)

Tue 13 Dec Stardome Observatory & Planetarium, Auckland

Shotgun Alley

Thu 27 Oct Butterbank Bar, Whangarei Fri 28 Oct Refuel, Dunedin Sat 29 Oct The Venue, Christchurch

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Fri 11 Nov Powerstation, Auckland Sat 12 Nov Powerstation, Auckland

Splore 2012

Fri 17 Feb - Sun 19 Feb Tapapakanga Regional Park, Auckland

Spring Break

Thu 05 Nov The Pettigrew Green Arena, Napier

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Last week I was lucky enough to head down to the flash Wynyard Quarter to enter a big bubble that I happened to rightly assume was the HP Winter Garden. Luckily for me it was a hands-on event that didn’t land me with a slap, courtesy of Xbox. The gaming giants were previewing their latest and greatest, and here’s a quick summary.

If you loved the first Halo then you’ll have a blast re-living it with Halo Combat Evolved: Anniversary, which is the exact same game but in HD. It also has a nifty feature where you can switch the graphics back to non-HD which essentially makes you feel like you’ve taken your glasses off or had one too many pints before playing.

I’ve loved the Xbox Kinect for having mates around and playing games that you could class under funnier than interesting. It’s a piece of social hardware that gets you and your mates into what would otherwise be a stupid game, but the competitiveness of the Kinect makes the mundane become playable. The game that caught my attention more than most was Kinect Star Wars.

Everyone has wanted to wield a light saber whilst throwing your enemies through a glass window using the force, and now you can. Jump over your enemies, slash them with your light saber, force blast them backwards or pull them towards you all without leaving the spot.

Now this is fun. It’s great to see that companies are starting to figure out interesting ways to use the Kinect.

Gears of War 3 is another addition to the game that for me stands out more than most

for its forward thinking of the original version to really make the most of co-op mode. Good to know that this carries on with solo, split screen or four-way (via Xbox Live) modes are available.

Once again, the graphics are great and gameplay seems to be as enjoyable as it always has been. Unfortunately I didn’t get a long time on this one, but what I played I enjoyed and I’m sure it’ll be as a big a seller as its predecessors.

I loved experiencing Forza with three screens, seat, pedals and paddles for gears. However if you’re like me and you’re not Donald Trump, then the game itself is also available on Kinect and 360. The Kinect version I wasn’t sold on, as you have to hold your arms up like you’re driving, but without anything to hold onto, your arms get heavy surprisingly quickly. The game itself is great though – more tracks, more cars and overall it has the same realistic gameplay that most love.

All in all a good staple of games for Christmas from Xbox as well as stuff in the pipeline.

There were other games on show, but these were the stand outs for me.

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album reviews Noel Gallagher Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds llll

In hearing Noel Gallagher’s solo debut I was relieved, but more importantly,impressed. For this guy that’s saying something: in the past decade there have only been sporadic flashes of the former brilliance he exuded in the nineties. And while Noel may not possess that raw Manc fever that Liam’s voice had, it’s evident that he’s relished in the solo vocal opportunity – High Flying Birds is 10 laid back, content tracks that play to his classic songwriter strengths. On ‘If I Had a Gun’, the balladry is at a 10-year high – his best since ‘Stop Crying Your Eyes Out’. ‘AKA... What a Life’

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is invigorating in that it actually has a groove you can dance to.

‘The Good Rebel’ shines as a La’s tribute – in fact the only dragging points are when his Kinks/ Smiths infatuation becomes too overbearing. Not Oasis without the voice: this is a second shot at greatness.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK

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J.Cole

Layers

The Years

I Love You…

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Sinsin is Geordie McCullum’s (Motocade’s guitarist) latest project. It’s a step into the postpunk lo-fi production values of shoegaze, though given its contemporary existence, it’s nugaze. Layers is a five track debut EP writhing in the former and with dabblings of industrial and psychedelic. The title track starts things off instrumentally, mixing pot tapping and machine noises together to create climbing rhythmic intensity. It is also the acoustic height of the EP, but that’s in no way a downfall.

The EP masters atmosphere; an aura of tension creeps throughout all five tracks. The middle three tracks have lyrics, playing more with psychedelia.

The vocals are mournful and ‘Blinded By Your Eyes’ is particularly haunting.

However, there is nothing catchy and nothing happy which makes Layers really exciting. Sinsin could have easily slipped into London twenty years ago and looked the real deal. A fascinating new addition to the Kiwi alter register.

Cream of the blogging crop, this pair were. Now they’re the cream of the major independent label crop. Evan Abeele (he makes most of the music) and Denise Nouvion (she makes the nice lady-noises) released The Years way back in 2010 when it was trés cool to pump out an EP’s worth of acid-washed, hazy electronica before disappearing back into telemarketing. Well, these cats must have something particularly special about them if they managed to sign to Sub Pop, right? Oh yeah, good tunes. Alongside the dense artwork and smoky textures are five gentle odes to... well, something. It all just sounds really nice. ‘Lately’ takes a pretty big slice from Jon Brion’s Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind soundtrack, whilst opener ‘Sleep Patterns’ is marked with the sort of haunting and emotive precedent that is sadly lacking from most flash-in-the-pan blog favourites. If The Years has been remastered for Sub Pop then it is very subtle indeed, but then again, it’s a record to get lost in.

Another set of inspired choices from the only ukulele orchestra that matters. For I Love You… leader Age Pryor and co. have drawn together seven songs that show the diversity of their influences, while adding their own Wellingtonian uke spin – and once the set has zipped past your ears, you definitely find yourself wanting more. The constant wink/nudge of the WUO prevails here: whether it’s the playful AC ditty ‘Afternoon Delight’ (I still can’t get Ron Burgundy out of my head when hearing this) or the lovelorn Steve Jessup singing drunkenly about ‘Raylene’, it’s the sense of summer playfulness that shines through the most. That the two best covers here are by The Smiths and Cyndi Lauper also shows the WUO have a particular knack for resurrecting semi-forgotten ‘80s classics.

J.Cole’s much hyped debut on Jay-Z’s RocNation imprint shows an awkward transition from lyrical mixtape MC to commercial pop-rapper.

Cole World lacks the raw energy of his digital releases, instead focusing on bland r’n’b tracks with tween star Trey Songz, and tepid dubstep with a tired Hova.

But it’s not all bad.

Jermaine sprinkles a few genius lines on each track, which are worth listening to despite sub-par choruses. ‘Dollar And A Dream III’, ‘Lights Please’ and ‘Sideline Story’ are rapped with enough conviction to satisfy hungry fans.

The North Carolina native also touches on some interesting subjects, speaking from the viewpoint of a pregnant woman during ‘Lost Ones’ and about daddy issues on ‘Breakdown’. Cole World isn’t another example of major labels crushing young talent to conform, but you can still pick up traces of their poison touch.

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on screen Midnight In Paris FILM lll

Like his main character Gil, it’s clear Woody Allen loves Paris and would have liked to have lived there during the 1920s.

This is his ode to the city’s cobbled streets, the river and garden landscapes that inspired Monet, filmed through the lovestruck lens of cinematographer Darius Khondji. Paris is probably the strongest character here.

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and amused. Some of the dialogue feels contrived, too – the characters coming out with lines as though they were written purely to identify their flaws, particularly the onedimensional Inez. Somehow though, Gil – and in turn Allen – emerges as charming, neurotic and witty. Despite its flaws, Midnight in Paris will leave a smile on your face, and a yearning to visit the Paris of yesteryear.

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The Three Musketeers

This latest take on Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers desperately, and very expensively, wants to be fun.

All the elements are there for it to be a jaunty romp of an adventure. But while the filmmakers clearly hoped that ritzy bombast would substitute for excitement, the film is charmless, obvious and predictable.

Much of the film’s lack of charm is do with main character D’Artagnan, played here by Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson).

He starts as he means to go on – arrogant, annoying and smug. The movie’s saving grace is the easy camaraderie Ray Stevenson, Matthew Macfadyen and Luke Evans bring to the titular heroes. With a humorous

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As for at least half of the others, well, Allen didn’t exactly write them. Without the likes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, Gertrude Stein, (Kathy Bates) and Salvador Dali (Adrien Brody) appearing as part of writer Gil’s imagination (or not), the story would have been lightweight indeed. Instead it

has a quality that teeters between magical and ridiculous as Gil time travels between his shallow fiancée Inez (Rachel McAdams) to his surreal romance with Picasso’s mistress Adriana (Marion Cotillard).

Don’t count on Gil (a perfectly befuddled Owen Wilson) to hold many illuminating conversations with his idols; the point of this whimsical Allen confection is to muse on the nature of the grass always being greener.

But with little conflict in Gil’s fantasy world (everyone appears to him as idealised versions of themselves), Midnight in Paris floats along like the dream sequence it is, leaving the viewer feeling simultaneously cheated

and likeable rapport, all three flesh out the individual identity of their respective musketeer while still adhering to the fabled group dynamic of the characters. They’re so good that you can’t help but think that a movie all about them would really be a winner. Here, they’re relegated to D’Artagnan’s support crew and the movie suffers for it.

The acting is appropriately hammy for this type of picture, and the newly added steampunk elements are pretty cool. But despite almighty levels of trying, The Three Musketeers just isn’t as much fun as it thinks it is or anywhere near as much fun as it wants to be.

WRITTEN BY KARL PUSCHMANN, Flicks.co.nz

If Hollywood had stuck closer to Bass’s novel, this would have been a Shirley Valentine-sequel tale starring Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman. Instead we have a polo scene inspired by the former’s Pretty Woman, and the Aussie star is solely on producing duties for this The Princess Diaries meets The Lizzie Maguire Movie slice of tween wish fulfillment.

Sure, the characters may all be over 18, but the near squeaky clean and chaste mix of Euro hunks, serious bling and shoe porn is clearly aimed at those yet to fully embrace high school.

Following in the footsteps of fellow Disney alumni Lohan, Duff and Cyrus, Gomez, in her first adult role, has a certain sweet onscreen charm but

seems destined to play 18 for the next decade.

Writer-director Bezucha seems less concerned about plot and more about hiding the fact most of the film was shot in Hungary, showcasing costumes, and hammering home life lessons – Gomez’s character quotes Gandhi twice, even though the movie seems to be saying to the kids that it’s okay to impersonate someone for your own personal gain.

More than a little predictable, this so-so effort is also hampered by one of the oddest scores in recent history that sounds like it’s been lifted from The Love Boat. Michael Giacchino clearly lost his way on this one.

WRITTEN BY JAMES CROOT, Flicks.co.nz

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ON SCREEN SoHo Sets The Bar CHANNEL PREVIEW

We couldn’t be more excited to see the launch of Sky’s new channel SoHo this Monday. The programming takes the best of HBO, AMC and independents to bring together some of the best Emmy-award winning shows of the past ten years. So let’s sneak a peek at all of the shows screening on the launch day, and let the excitement speak for itself.

The channel starts broadcasting its programmes from 3pm on Monday 31 October. We kick off with the very first episode of the very first season of the iconic gangster television series The Sopranos.

One of the greatest crime shows ever, The Sopranos set the bar for the likes of Boardwalk Empire and The Wire.

At 4pm we get a behindthe-scenes of Game Of Thrones – but more on that later.

Six Feet Under kicks off from the beginning at 4:30pm. The multi-award winning dark comedy series comes from the mind of Alan Ball whose name you may recognise as the writer of American Beauty and creator of True Blood. It’s not easy to intertwine death and comedy, but Six Feet Under manages to maintain its place near the top of the list for grim American dramas in that vein.

Entourage screens at 6pm.

Following the final season

wrapping up in the US, Kiwi audiences are treated to the entire series starting from the first episode. The show, often referred to as Sex and the City for guys, shows a bunch of buds who have made it in Hollywood and start enjoying the ride. The complete series’ unique mix of comedy first with drama second will be missed, but here’s your chance to see it in full.

In saying that, the minds behind Entourage have a new show which coincidentally enough follows the SoHo premiere. Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg’s How to Make It in America draws many comparisons to their former creation. Swap Hollywood for New York, acting for fashion and twinkletown elite for designers and you’re on the right track.

The goodness keeps on coming with True Blood screening at 7pm. See where the cult phenomenon all began with yet another series that starts from the beginning. Vampires have never been as bad to the bone as they are in this underdog awardwinning series.

Finally, 8:30pm brings one of the biggest draw cards of them all. The New Zealand premiere of Game Of Thrones screens with episodes one and two creating what is basically a feature-length Monday night presentation. The insanely popular series based on George R.R. Martin’s book

series A Song of Ice & Fire has thrown audiences’ expectations of what primetime viewing can be. Who knew they were so enthralled by a fantasy world?

The cast, the production, the writing, the direction – Game Of Thrones has it all and could go on to be the greatest fantasy show ever produced.

The highest grade of quality programming continues

after Monday with shows such as Boardwalk Empire, Treme, The Wire, The Hour, The Killing, Dexter, In Treatment, Weeds, Mad Men and more as well as documentaries and films all lined up to blow the competition away.

It’s taken a while, but New Zealand could very well have found the best television channel to date.

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Listophile Juice TV’s Alternative Broadcast.

1. Buddy

1. Smash It

Evil Twins

Zowie

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2. A Long Time

The Checks

3. No Work Beach Pigs

4. Blinding O’Lovely

5. Two Cousins Slow Club

6. The Ballard of State Fabulous/ Arabia

7. How They Want Me To Be

Mayer Hawthorne

3. What The Water Gave Me

4. The Power & The Glory

4. The Orator

White Lies

5. The Origin of Slaves Cairo Knife FIght

6. Crystalline Bjork

8. Terra Ingognita

Death Cab For Cutie

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pussy out and only wear a t-shirt)

3. Steve Irwin (still too soon?)

4. A Dracula (every vampire is called Dracula)

5. Cowboy Dracula (not every cowboy is called Dracula)

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8. The Ring (2002)

9. Sputnik (people will think you’re space-doodie)

10. A Bride (it’s like a really pretty fancy ghost)

8. The Three Musketeers 9. The Lion King 3D 10. Monte Carlo

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7. Real Steel

The Getaway Plan

7. Poltergeist (1982)

8. Santa Claus (people are more

6. Johnny English Reborn

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1. Did you ever think you’d be THAT into the rugby?

2. What’s that little kid from

Malcom in the Middle doing now?

3. For that matter, what’s

anyone but Bryan Cranston doing now?

4. Why are these people

snapping and but somehow telling each other words?

5. Doesn’t Tom Waits look

surprisingly like a gorilla?

6. Did they really need to make a Smurfs movie? Really?

9. The Sixth Senses (1999) 10. Stir of Echoes (1999)

7. What’s everybody doing for New Years?

8. Now that the Rugby’s over,

will places still charge $8 for a coffee?

9. Did Bjork deliver with

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