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Breaking news  Thee Oh Sees have will be heading to NZ in January for three shows. Auckland, Wellington and Wanganui audiences will be treated to what will definitely be three jawdropping shows.

Announcements Six60 Summer

 Dragon has been announced to open for the one-off Roxette show in February next year.  The Jim Beam Homegrown festival has added another 17 acts to the line-up.  Raggamuffin has added Sly & Robbie, Arrested Development and J Boog to their line-up.

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 The Village People have announced a four date tour in March.  French hip-hop beatmaker Onra has announced one show next week in Auckland.  A fundraiser track for Haiti. ‘Kenbe La (Never Give Up)’ is a collab single recorded by Minuit’s Paul Dodge, MC Luke Epapara, Lisa Tomlins of Fly My Pretties, mixed by Minuit’s Ryan Beehre and is available from kenbela. bandcamp.com.

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There’s an all-ages gig going down at Auckland’s Mt Eden Scout Hall later this month. The Scout Hall Massacre will feature Rackets, Ghost Wave, Beach Pigs, Nevernudes, High Society, Mean Girls and Sex Pest for this one-off jam that will start sometime in the afternoon and carry on into the night. We’ve heard talk of a barbeque as well. Tickets will be $10 on the door for this show on Saturday 26 November.

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Rumours have been floating but now it’s official: Guitar Wolf will be heading our way in December to play five shows around the country. Accompanied

by Transistors, the kings of Japanese rock’n’roll are a sight to see live. Not since the King Brothers shows several years ago have we been this excited to see some classic jet-style rock goodness. Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Hamilton will be treated to the live spectacular that only the actors-slashrockers can perform. There’s even a free show down in Christchurch.

04/11 Toro! Toro!

Ash and the Matadors are celebrating their debut album An Evening Echo with a south island tour. Following their 2010 EP The Mansion Tapes, the band are releasing their 11-track LP this month and taking their new songs on the road for two weeks as they hit the likes of Milford Sound, Greymouth, Dunedin and plenty more.

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Six 60 and Mt Eden have announced a bunch of shows throughout December and January. The two bands will be hitting the more regional areas over the summer break while they both celebrate the well deserved international attention they’ve received this year. Kicking the tour off on Boxing Day, the team-up will hit the Mangawhai Tavern, the Waihi Beach Hotel, the Coroglen Tavern, the Opononi Hotel, Mt Maunganui, Butlers Reef, Lower Hutt and the Riwaka Tavern.

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Dan Deacon is no stranger to New Zealand shores.

The man can’t keep away, and next time he’s bringing his five piece backing band Ensemble along for the ride. A Low Hum is bringing the electronica whizz in February with support from Golden Axe. The bands will play at Auckland’s Whammy, San Fran Bath House in Wellington, the Playhouse in Nelson, Christchurch’s Dux De Lux and Chicks Hotel in Dunedin.

11/11 Dark Arts

Everything has been set in stone for this year’s Art in the Dark. The weekend festival of art, performance and everything in between is all go for Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November at Western Park in Ponsonby. Last year saw everything from interactive performances to flashmobs, with the illuminating backdrop of the Auckland City skyline.

We were lucky enough to get a sneak peek at what’s involved this year at the weekend-long night show, and it’s well worth your time.

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Creendence Clearwater Revisited (formerly Creedence Clearwater Revival) will be heading to New Zealand shores for six shows throughout January and February. Appropriately the band will be playing at winery and whatnot venues in Tauranga, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington and Queenstown. Tickets are on sale now from Ticketek, Ticket Direct and Ticket Master.

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Celebrating his latest album The View Is Worth The Climb, Tim Finn will be playing four shows around the country with support from The Sami Sisters later this year. Auckland’s Mercury Theatre, the Clarence St Theatre in Hamilton, Bodega in Wellington and the Rangiora Town Hall in Christchurch will all play host to Finn and the Samis from Wednesday 30 November.

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The 2012 Classic Hits Winery Tour has been announced. Now in its sixth year, the 2012 incarnation will include 16 shows at 14 venues nationwide.

Auckland, Matakana Tutukaka, Tauranga, Gisborne, Havelock North, Martinborough, New Plymouth, Hamilton, Upper Motuere, Waipara, Dunedin and Cromwell are all on the bill and will host Gin Wigmore, Avalanche City and reformed Kiwi legends The Muttonbirds.

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FAVourites Marlon Williams The Unfaithful Ways

Sam L. Jackson is officially the highest grossing actor ever. Mister L. Jackson has appeared in over 100 movies which have cumulatively raked in over US$7.4 billion.

Amy Winehouse died from a vodka binge according to a coroner’s report. After a brief stint of life in the sober lane, the singer apparently drank herself to death and slipped into a coma due to alcohol poisoning.

Damon Albarn, Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers and drummer Tony Allen have been working together on a mostly instrumental collab for several years, and now the project has a name. Rocketjuice and the Moon is what the band are calling themselves, for some reason.

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are teaming up with DOOM on a yet-to-be-released-or-even-produced track for the upcoming Lex Records 10 year

anniversary compilation album.

A new campaign has been started for a new student radio frequency for Hamilton. The country’s fourth largest city has effectively been without a high powered student radio station for more than a decade, and now the Independent Broadcasting Community (Hamilton) (Inc) (IBC), who have run the student radio station Contact FM on a low powered frequency since 2004, are spearheading the campaign to have a high powered student frequency allocated for the city.

Lars, Lou and Lulu Favourite drink?

Sixteen-year-old old Lagavulin, straight.

Any vices?

Everything seems to turn itself into a vice for me.

First gig played? When and where?

Lyttelton Main Primary School Talent Quest, 2002, played ‘A Tisket, A Tasket’ on trumpet.

Poorly.

First gig in attendance?

Anika Moa with CSO at Christchurch Town Hall in roughly 2003.

First album?

A John Travolta greatest hits album. Thank god it wasn’t the last.

Favourite current album?

John Grant’s (of The Czars) Queen Of Denmark.

Such a beautiful album of understated defeat.

When I grow up I wanna be?

Middle-aged, old, then dead.

First job?

Dairy in Lyttelton (still employed at said place of work).

Guilty pleasures?

Japanese mayonnaise!

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WOMAD Line-Up Announced Next year sees the 30th anniversary of the World of Music and Dance festival, more commonly known as WOMAD. Over the years the event has brought many diverse acts to our shores, and next year is no different.

Artistic director Drew James was of course very excited to be a part of the 30th incarnation, saying, “Once again we have managed to secure a brilliant line-up for WOMAD New Zealand with a particularly strong African contingent... with another 15 countries represented, alongside a strong New Zealand flavour, WOMAD New Zealand 2012 will bring new sounds and experiences from all over the world.”

Adam Page, Amiria Grenell and band, Anda Union, Batucada Sound Machine, Bombay Royale, Chapelier Fou, Diego Guerrero y El Solar de Artistas, Dobet Gnahore, Groundation, Gurrumul Yunupingu, Le Trio Joubran, Lo’ Jo, Mad Professor, Mahala Rai Banda, Mama Kin, Master Drummers of Burundi, Minuit vs. Gamelan Taniwha Jaya, Narasirato Pan Pipers, Pascals, Paul Ubana Jones, Sharon Shannon Big Band, Shivkumar Sharma, Sivouplait, Staff Benda Bilili, Te Matarae i Orehu, The Black Seeds, The Yoots, The Nukes, Pajama Club and more have all been announced to play.

It’s been months in the works and is probably the biggest album release of the week. The collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica was one that not many ever thought about, let alone asked for. But when two of the biggest acts in the last forty years come together, it’s at least worth checking out, right?

There are many ways to talk about Lulu, but in any descriptive case you’re looking at the words “concept album”. The instrumentals of Metallica in this collaboration cover their range of styles over a 30 year career.

Accompany that with Lou Reed’s spoken word inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wedekind (telling the story of a young abused dancer’s life and relationships) makes for some strange and interesting lyrics. But that’s why Metallica is on board. To take such abstract lyrics to a different level.

Don’t go into the album looking for anything familiar, but look for the familiarity and maybe you’ll find it (in the role of a dewdrock “YEORGH” here and there). Any Lou Reed and/or Metallica fan will appreciate this collaboration, even if the populace finds it aggressive.

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The Rhythm & Vines line-up has been confirmed and the dates set. Last week organisers released the timetable and more info concerning the three day New Year’s Eve festival. Thursday 29 December sees Pendulum, Grandmaster Flash, Yuksek, Architecture in Helsinki, Zowie, Danny Byrd, Dick Johnson, The Ruby Suns, Nick D, Chaos in The CBD and Phillipa; Friday 30 December continues with Calvin Harris, Erick Morillo, Cut Copy, A.Skillz, Six60, Foreign Beggars, DJ Zinc, Busy P, 12th Planet, Homebrew, Aural Trash, Scratch 22 and Earl Gateshead; and Saturday 31 December rounds off with Example and DJ Wire, Skream and Benga, Tiga, Netsky, Jack Beats, Kids of 88, Electric Wire Hustle, David Dallas, Ruby Frost, Recloose, Jillionaire, Pikachunes, The Thomas Oliver Band, Antix, Tim Richards and more.

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Film News Any Indiana Jones fans out there want some closure?

Well then open up your eyeholes and earballs for this one. While talking to Empire about the possibility of a fifth installment, Steven Spielberg fronted up about number four, saying “George is in charge of breaking the stories. He’s done it on all four movies. Whether I like the stories or not... I didn’t want these things to be either aliens or inter-dimensional beings. But I am loyal to my best friend. When he writes a story he believes in – even if I don’t believe in it – I’m going to shoot the movie the way George envisaged it.” So Spielberg is a good friend but still didn’t admit fully that Indy IV was abysmal. No real surprise, but that’s as much closure as you’ll ever get.

Eddie Murphy told Rolling Stone that a fourth Beverly Hills Cop won’t happen, but he’s trying to get a television series in the works instead. That’s kind of meh news, but what’s really nice to hear is that he’s done with crappy family-friendly sequels. He says he wants to focus on more “edgy” flicks (following Hong Kong Phooey), otherwise he’s content to “play my guitar all day”.

After two episodes of The Walking Dead’s second season, AMC has committed to producing a third season.

Peter Jackson has said that after The Hobbit, he will direct the second Tintin film following the first incarnation of the franchise.

Mark Hamill is most famous for his career defining (and ruining?) role as Luke Skywalker. His second most popular role would have undoubtedly been as the voice actor for most appearances of The Joker in any given Batman cartoon or game. That’s over now as well, as Hamill has hung up the purple suit. In saying that, he recently said he would return given the opportunity to voice the character if Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke was produced.

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Thursday 03 Drive

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Ah, Gosling. This year has seen America’s next top dreamhunk grow in popularity thanks to some good films (Blue Valentine), some great memes (Hey Girl) and some interesting web clips (stopping a street fight literally singlehandedly). Gosling’s latest hit Drive was the big winner at Cannes this year and deserves your attention.

Apparently William Shakespeare was a hack. He couldn’t write and some other guy gave him some scripts to work with. And Shakespeare went along with it because he was a fame-grabber. Side fact – this is the first major full-length motion picture to be shot with a specific HD camera. That’s why it’s weird-looking.

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Sarah Jessica Parker stars as a woman who puts business first and relationships second. A charming guy comes along and she starts second-guessing her life, thinking maybe she’s too busy with her work and needs to change her ways. Actually, that’s just a guess synopsis going by the title. What’s the bet it’s accurate?

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic, filmed at London’s Royal Albert Hall in HD, is one of the most classic pieces of cinematic opera lucky enough to celebrate its record-breaking 25th year in production.

The Show Me Shorts festival hits Auckland this week at Capitol Cinemas, Bridgeway and Waiheke Community Cinema all screen this week as well as Matakana Cinema and The Internationalist in Rothesay Bay.

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The Room

Flying Nun 30th Anniversary

Academy Cinemas / Rialto Cinemas

The Kings Arms / Dux De Lux

One of the accidentally funniest films ever to grace the screen has two viewings around the country this week. Tommy Wiseau’s infamous flick The Room has to be one of the most cringeworthy pieces of crap ever. Luckily, both of these venues sell beers. Probably.

Don’t get drunk, we don’t condone that. You can’t prove anything.

The Flying Nun anniversary celebrations kick off this weekend. Auckland’s Kings Arms sees New Nun Night with Popstrangers, Grayson Gilmour, T54, Surf Friends and Badd Energy, while down in Christchurch, F In Math and Alphabethead play at the Dux De Lux with support from Psych Tigers. It’s all looking pretty great for an opening night.

gig OF THE WEEK

The Naked and Famous

Festival for the Future

Town Hall

The Film Archive

The biggest band the country has managed to export plays one show for the original audiences this week.

The Naked and Famous did some big things at some big festivals while on their whirlwind worldwide tour, and no doubt they’ve picked up some performance antics and tricks. As high school drama teachers would say, “stage presence”.

The Festival for the Future kicks off this Friday and aims to bring together young creatives, entrepreneurs and inspiring young Kiwis and get them using their talents in a way that betters their communities and mankind instead of using their powers for evil. The symposium runs through to Sunday at the NZ Film Archive & NZ Film School.

The Business

Steely Dan

The Blue Onesies

Bodega

Vector Arena

Chicks Hotel

UK oi! rockers The Business play four shows this week, and Friday sees them wind up in the capital after their Wednesday show in Dunedin and Thursday’s show in Christchurch. See the punk gems still crank out the crazy before their final show at Auckland’s Kings Arms on Saturday.

Most people will know Steely Dan as the kings of jazz-rock. Fewer people will know Steely Dan from The Brak Show where Dad calls a robot who wants to fight Thundercleese Steely Dan. Which are you?

Psych-rockers The Blue Onesies head to Dunedin for a gig with Brown and The Something Quartet before playing in Christchurch on Saturday at Darkroom with The Grand Chancellors and Ed Muzik.

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Beastwars

Waiheke Island

4:20

“What kind of trick are these guys trying to pull here?

You can’t just have guided walks and call it a festival. A festival has bands and people on unicycles breathing fire. This isn’t a walking festival. It’s just old people walking. Three geriatrics walking does not a festival make.” (Overheard on the Waiheke ferry.)

It’s the second-to-last show of the last tour of the year for the metallers of the year. The specially-made Hallertau Beastwars India Pale Ale goes on the road with the band as they play at 4:20 on K Rd before winding up the tour next week in Wellington and heading back into the studio.

Flying Nun 30th Anniversary

The Mighty Mighty Market

San Fran Bath House / Chicks Hotel

Mighty Mighty

The New Nun Night makes its way down to Wellington’s San Fran Bath House with the line-up of Popstrangers, Grayson Gilmour, T54, Surf Friends and Badd Energy on the bill. Down in Dunedin at the Chicks Hotel F in Math, Alphabethead, Two Cartoons, Idiot Prayer, Killmore Girls and Murderbike play the Tribute Night presented by A Low Hum.

Markets are a great way to spend a Saturday. Especially niche markets, because there’s less chance of running into your aunt while you’re really hung over (and still kind of buzzed) and with some random stranger who you clearly slept with last night. That kind of scenario is fine at a place like The Mighty Mighty Market.

Spring Break

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Pettigrew Green Arena, Napier

Chopper Baycourt Community Theatre, Tauranga

Katchafire, Kids of 88, Ladi6, Salmonella Dub, DJ Mikel, Optimus Gryme, House of Shem, The Thomas Oliver Band, Tomorrow People, Phil Edwards Band, Sweet Mix Kids, DJ Huntah, One2, Spindo, Jordan Vandermade and plenty more take to Napier’s Pettigrew Arena for the huge day of Spring Break.

Insert ambiguous reference: “Say goodbye to these, Michael. Spring break! Weow!”

Heath Franklin brings his Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life tour to New Zealand. Kicking off this Tuesday down in Tauranga, the comedian will go on to perform in Taupo, Wellington, New Plymouth, Rotorua, Hamilton, Christchurch, Auckland, Hastings, Gisborne, Nelson, Blenheim, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill throughout the rest of the month.

The Laughing Samoans

Pink Floyd Double Feature

Bruce Mason Theatre

Stardome Observatory

The Laughing Samoans bring their Greatest Hits showcase to Auckland’s North Shore this weekend.

Taking the most popular skits that the comedy duo of Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepulea’i have performed since they started nearly a decade ago, The Greatest Hits has been a room-filler internationally and probably will be again.

When stardomes and/or planetariums have a Pink Floyd laser light show, it usually means one thing.

Fun. Completely sober fun. Not narcotics-induced fun. Because we all know that nobody gets high and goes to listen to Pink Floyd and watch a laser light show. That scenario has never been referenced in movies and television shows.

Gin Wigmore

Our favourite tattooed blonde popstress with that love-it-or-hate-it voice finishes off her tour this weekend down in Tauranga. Celebrating her new album Gravel & Wine which hits stores Monday 07 November, Gin has been playing around the country to more intimate crowds as well as packed audiences for the rugby. Check her out this weekend.

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not now, forever IT’S MID-AFTERNOON CALIFORNIAN time when I put in a call to Jose Pasillas, percussionist and founding member of the multi-platinum selling alt/funk rockers Incubus. They’ve just returned from a full on two months around States and are repacking for another 30 days in Europe before heading Down Under. The band, formed in 1991 and hitting out with tracks like ‘Drive’, ‘Pardon Me’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘Are You In?’, and ‘Dig’ are planning gigs in New Zealand this coming summer in support of their latest studio effort If Not Now, When?. The album, released in July and featuring the single ‘Promises, Promises’, is their first collective effort in nearly five years, though lead singer Brandon Boyd made a solo album whilst studying and the others turned their efforts to family and social duties. According to Boyd, the album’s title stems from his constant reassessment of life and he references his addiction to the news and the constant bombardment of “important, catastrophic and beautiful events” constantly hitting the headlines. The title also refers to a quote from Hillel, the rabbi of the Mishnah, who declared, “If I am not for myself, who will be? And when I am for myself, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?”

“That third question,” notes Pasillas, “is like an admonition not to postpone any duties – to take responsibility for yourself and others.”

Pressing further he adds, “It’s an appropriate name (for the album).

We’ve been in the mood for taking risk, making a leap and taking chances… so this album is a little darker and slower than the others. But there’s plenty of variety, different styles and eclectic elements.”

It’s that eclecticism that’s contributed to the energy and variety of the band’s live shows. “We like to mix it up,” says Pasillas. “We also try not to duplicate what we do in the studio on stage too closely, add a little improvisation here and there.”

The USA leg of their current tour kicked off with a sell-out show at the famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the location of their 2004 Live DVD. “Definitely one of the more fun shows,” says Pasillas when asked if it was one of their most memorable. “Great audience vibe. We love the natural outdoor setting, it’s a beautiful location. [Although] the best place to date was The Gorge [a 20,000 seat outdoor venue, located above the Columbia River in George, Washington]. It has an amazing canyon backdrop. We love playing out in the natural surroundings, out of the cities.”

Speaking of locations, Incubus will play Auckland and Wellington in Jan/Feb next year, their fourth tour here. Pasillas reminds me that they’re great surfing fans and hope to find a little time for “a couple of curls”. They’ve also jumped off the Sky Tower twice. But pressed for details of the most insane extracurricular activity they’ve undertaken on this tour, he illustrates a stint last week in Vegas flying small fibrolite acrobatic planes. “Three of us went up and we flew over the desert with an instructor,” he says, “but then we took control and started shooting at each other. It’s like laser tag with micros. When you hit someone there’s fake smoke billowing out of the tail or wings.

“It’s full on dog fights, with barrel rolls and other maneuvers. Some people would get like sick, woozy. It was pretty cool, though.”

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Flying Nun turns 30 Roger Shepherd was a Christchurch record shop manager who happened to be so passionate about the local alternative music scene that he decided to start his own small label to give up and coming bands a means to get themselves heard.

Shepherd had been to see the Enemy a few years earlier – fronted by Chris Knox – and recalls, “it was the first time I’d ever been to Dunedin, and I drove down in my Morris 1100, which was not a car built to do that sort of trip... it was a whole group of us, we drove to Dunedin because we’d heard how bloody amazing this band was, and we saw them in the Beneficiaries Hall and The Clean supported them... they were the real deal!”

The Enemy were not to last much longer – morphing into Toy Love and then disbanding after an unhappy foray across the ditch – but The Clean, together with Chris Knox and Doug Hood (an Enemy/Toy Love roadie) were to become an integral and essential part of Shepherd’s early efforts. “The thing with the Clean was... the fact they were so creative and dynamic... they were really primitive, really rough, but very interesting.”

Shepherd remembers clearly the excitement of the times. The Clean embarked on a North Island tour, and determined to record them, he did something purely on impulse: “I thought I’d come up to Auckland, I’d do this really extravagant thing, buy an airline ticket, come up and see them, because... they were that good.” He successfully persuaded the band to cut a single for his new label. “When they came back down they recorded ‘Tally Ho’ at Arnie’s [Arnold van Bussell, Nightshift studios] for fifty dollars, and I discovered that when you pay fifty dollars for something it means they use the tape again a couple of weeks later for something else!”

Against all predictions, ‘Tally Ho’ spent seven weeks in the charts, and the new label was up and running. The Clean ventured north again in September of 1981 and this time Knox and Hood were lying in wait with a recently acquired TEAC four-track. In an old hall in Bond St, one of New Zealand’s classic recordings was made: The Clean’s Boodle, Boodle, Boodle EP, which all up cost $750 to make, and as if to decry its humble beginnings spent the next six months in the charts.

“The Clean changed the original idea behind the whole label,” Shepherd recalls. “Everything before that was selling records, trying to sell three hundred records just to make enough to keep recording, and then we had this situation on our hands where we could barely keep up

with the sales. Things were happening on quite a commercial level.”

From there the label became home to some of the most influential and idiosyncratic bands this country has ever seen, all with one thing in common: the desire to create and record original music with uncompromising artistic values – subject, of course, to the everfluctuating vagaries of Flying Nun finances. The lo-fi approach to recording worked superbly well for the raw, early music – in Shepherd’s words, “it really suited where the bands were at”. What some of us would regard as landmark recordings – The Dunedin Double EP, The Clean’s Great Sounds Great EP, Louis Likes his Daily Dip by the Tall Dwarfs, The Chill’s Rolling Moon EP, and Beatin Hearts by the Bilders – were all recorded on the TEAC four-track in people’s houses rather than in a professional studio. After all this time, the results still speak for themselves. Following in their wake came a procession of many of New Zealand’s best and most original bands in any generation: The Skeptics, High Dependency Unit, The Able Tasmans, The Bats, Bird Nest Roys, The 3Ds, The Verlaines, JPSE, Straightjacket Fits, Headless Chickens, Bailter Space and many many more.

Roger Shepherd sold a shareholding in the company to Mushroom Records in the mid ‘90s, and then in 1999 handed over completely when he went to live in England. Upon his return, he was asked to work on compiling a back catalogue for Flying Nun, and in doing so discovered music he’d near forgotten about. The task was lengthy, but reacquainting himself with the material got him thinking. “The process was good, it reacquainted me with all sorts of things actually – good memories, a lot of people, faces, just really reconnecting with the label and the whole musical history, really,” he says. “Then I just started running into the people that were in those bands, and I guess reconnecting with old friends… and then I started thinking about trying to buy it back.

“Really I underestimated the amount of work that needed to go into it to sort the whole thing out. But it was the right thing to do and it’s gotta be done… it’s gotta be done.”

But he’s realistic about the demands of a new generation: “It can’t just be a reissue thing. An important part will always be that, but the thing that drives it forward is signing new artists, making new recordings and finding the best way of selling those.”

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no love lost “IT SEEMS THEY’RE on the cusp of bigger things — perhaps one of NZ’s best kept musical secrets within the rock genre.” That’s what Groove Guide had to say when Decortica first came through the press and they’re sure to remind you of it. Two years of relentless self-promotion has certainly changed their best-kept secret status. The prog-rock band were recently hunted down by EMI who signed their second album Love Hotel, and are about to embark on a tour of Japan.

Matthew Bosher originally started Decortica with his brother. “It was really forged out of the guitar and percussive-oriented rock that was pretty prevalent in the ‘90s and so on,” he says. “That’s when I learnt to play guitar actually, and also started writing songs in that vein, and I’ve always enjoyed the dynamics of a three-piece. This year has seen a lot of development for the Decortica enterprise, if you like, and we’re now signed to Mushroom Music Publishing and EMI.” The band is fascinated by Japan, a source of inspiration for their recent album. Bosher says, “Love Hotel is a concept based against the backdrop of Tokyo or Japanese urban nightlife. Love hotels themselves are pay-by-the-half-hour fantastical dens where people can have sexual encounters in weird and wonderful ways.”

The band was intrigued by the interesting social function of the love hotel. “It became a really interesting theatre stage on which to place some interesting characters and to write a rock album about,” says Bosher.

“And now to be touring and playing those songs in Japan – it’s exciting. A thematic homecoming perhaps?”

Asked further about the theatrical aspects, Bosher said Decortica are fairly transparent. “People get a good insight into the thoughts and feelings of the band and around touring and recording,” he says. “We created a blog around the time that we recorded Love Hotel so people

could get an insight into what it all meant. That said, the lyrics themself, like the music, are fairly dense but entirely observational. There’s no sort of didactic message whatsoever – it’s just a sense of theatre really, a narrative, lots of interesting characters coming and going – very much just a collage of the weird and wonderful activities in that setting. We try and show people what we’re all about, but at the same time people can take what they will.”

Decortica are a sonically edgy act with a dark atmosphere about them. Bassist Antoinette Lee says, “I don’t think we set out to be dark and heavy, we go about writing music that we like to play and that we ourselves would like to listen to. Each time we start writing more tracks or when we start working on the next album, it’ll be more about exploring new tones and textures and seeing what else we can do with what we know.”

Drummer Tory Staples adds, “It’s about challenging ourselves as well.

Just watching Matt work – he’ll come up with a riff, then he’ll rethink what he’s just played and then strip it back and put it back together. So it’s a challenge, sort of stepping up, every time.”

Bosher says the most important thing for Decortica is to be interesting.

“I think that’s our goal more than anything,” he says. “So whether that takes us down a darker route or whether it will be more uplifting, it’s neither here nor there. That’s the guiding.”

Decortica’s explorative structures make them an accessible band for anyone who lends their own ears to rock. Their album is out now so be sure to get in on NZ’s best kept prog-rock secret before Japan snaps it all up.

WRITTEN BY JUSTIN FOWLER ALBUM OUT NOW: DECORTICA – LOVE HOTEL

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events

WELLINGTON gig guide Wed 02

Fri 04

Bodega

Bar Medusa

Paperscissors Rock Show: 9pm: $5

Mighty Mighty

Stone Fish AKA Mongo Skato & MCMF plus guests: 9:30pm: Free

TSB Arena

Steely Dan & Steve Winwood

The Flying Burrito Brothers Carlos Navae Sol Sessions

The Tin Hut

The Alda Rezende Quintet

Bettys function house & bar

The Digital Sisco: 10pm: Free

Bodega

The Single Gentlemen: 9pm: Gold Coin

Happy Bar

Nadia Reid ‘Letters I Wrote & Never Sent’ EP Release Tour: 9pm: $5

Rodrigo brothers & Martin Andrews

HUMAN - Bringing the grind to old Wellington town: 9:30pm: $10

Mighty Mighty

Bodega

Parade Cafe

The Business (UK): 8:30pm: $32

Happy Bar

Anthesiac EP release show w/ shocking & stunning, mono sonic: 9pm: $5

Happy Bar

Nadia Reid ‘Letters I Wrote & Never Sent’ EP Release Tour: 9pm: $5

Meow

Thu 03

Meow

Wreck on the Highway #5 - Ease on Down the Road: 7:30pm: $5

Mighty Mighty

Wilberforces, Nervous System & guests: 10:30pm: $5

Dia de los Muertos: 8:30pm: $5 All In Day & Night: 6pm

San Fran Bath House

Southern Cross Kem & Nica FuimaonoSamuels: 9pm: Free

The Garden Club

Sandwiches

Icicle (Shogun Audio / UK): 11pm: $15 + BF

Southern Cross

Kroon for your Kai ft. Harvey Knows a Killer: 7pm: Free / Battleska Gallactica: 9:30pm: free

The Garden Club The Lido Cafe

The X-Ray Catz: 8:30pm: Free

Sun 06

Molly Malones

Happy

Southern Cross

San Fran Bath House

Matterhorn

In Like Flynn

Kia Ora Gaza Fundraising Show: 9pm: $5 minimum donation

Balkan Brothers Explosion

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

The Melancholy Babes w/ Eric Boeren: 8pm

Public Bar & Eatery

Sunken Seas Single/ Video Release: 8pm: $5

Tue 08

Happy

Sat 05

Mighty Mighty

The Boptet: 7pm: Free

Bodega

Michael Fowler Centre

Kokomo

The Lido Cafe

New Nun Night

John The Baptist: The Great Mountain Haul EP Release: 9pm: $5, $10 w/ EP

Hotel Bristol

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San Fran Bath House Summer Nights of Reggae

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Air Force Proms: Central Band of the Royal NZ Air Force The Sunday Jazz Club

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Recovery Sessions w/ Pavlova: Free

Glass Vaults Into Clear EP Release Show: 11pm: Free

The Library

Fri 04

Tillermans (Invercargill)

Sunday Live Music

Otago gig guide Wed 02 Dunedin Musicians Club (Dunedin)

The Business (UK): 7:30pm: $32

ReFuel (Dunedin)

The World Bar (Queenstown)

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: 10pm: $10 + BF

Pint Night w/ Ink Mathematics, Cult Disney & Idiot Prayer: 9pm: Free

Chicks Hotel (Dunedin)

Subculture (Queenstown)

Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin)

Dread Bass Wednesdays Ping Pong Comp: 9pm: $5

Thu 03 Subculture (Queenstown)

The Blue Onesies, Brown, The Something Quartet: 9pm

The Melancholy Babes w/ Eric Boeren: 8pm

St Paul’s Cathedral (Dunedin)

North American Welsh Choir

The Good Oil (Dunedin)

Ash & The Matadors Album Release Tour w/ Jo Little: 8:30pm: $5

Sun 06 Camp Mauritangi (Invercargill) BRIFEST 5: $30

Sat 05 Debajo (Queenstown) Class In Session

Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin)

Puppets and Percussion: Gamelan and Shadow Puppets

Mon 07 The Blue Duck, Milford Sound (Queenstown) Ash & The Matadors Album Release Tour w/ Jo Little: 8:30pm: $5

St Peter’s Church (Queenstown)

North American Welsh Choir

Acoustic Fridays

The SubStation DnB: 9pm: Free

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auckland gig guide Wed 02

New Brew

Masonic Tavern

1885 Basement

Northern Steamship Trading Co

Mexican Cafe

Dean Te Paa: 5:30pm

Creative Jazz Club: Carolina Moon: 8pm: $10 (General Admission) / $7 (CJC Members) / $5 (CJC Student Members)

Cassette Nine

Bitchin’ Bingo: 7:30pm: $7

Creative Jazz Club Aotearoa

Carolina Moon: 8pm: $8 - $12

Kenneth Myers Centre Student Performance Concerts: Year 3 Performance Assessments: 6:30pm: Free

Mexican Cafe

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

Neighbourhood Brew Bar Acoustic Wednesday w/ Eli: 7:30pm

Racket Bar

Benn Morrison: 6pm: Free

Sale St

Jason Eli: 6:30pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club Baby Steps Sound System: 6pm: Free

The Altered States, Kasium & Fictional Response: 8pm: $5

Mortons Bar & Restaurant

Racket Bar

Neighbourhood Brew Bar

Khuja

Northern Steamship Trading Co

La Zeppa

Acoustic Thursdays w/ Waylon: 7:30pm

Nyntee & Flex: 6pm: Free

Sale St

Selecta Sam & DeeWhy: 6pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club Randomplay & Joe McAlpine: 6pm: Free

The Crib

Heidi’s Return EP release party: 8pm: Free

The Kings Arms

Riqi Harawera: 8pm

DJ Lo Key followed by DJ Killamanraro: 5:30pm

DJ Normski: 8pm

Nuffield Street Trading Co. Brewbar DJ Josh on Decks: 6:30pm

Quay St Clubrooms Acoustic Sessions w/ Eli Guttenbiel: 7pm:

Interconnector, The Twitch & Thee Rum Coves: 8pm

Racket Bar

Whammy Bar

Roasted Addiqtion

Parents, Sex Pest & Badd Energy Free Show: 9:30pm: Free

Fri 04

Tido & Insomniac: 6pm: Free

shooters saloon

4:20

The Britomart Country Club

Thu 03 Kenneth Myers Centre

Brew On Quay

Eddie Manukau: 9pm Phil Stoodley Duo: 8:30pm

Cassette Nine

Curvy Big Beautiful Women 1st Summer Party: 8pm: $20 Friday Night: 6pm

Solly & Lokey: 5pm: Free

The Elephant Wrestler Pat 4 President: 9pm

The Kings Arms

Flying Nun 30th Anniversary Launch Party: 8pm: Pre-sale: $13

Kings Arms

MUM Presents: Frankie, The Cavemen & Thunder Dykes: 10pm: $5 on the door, $2 w/ bCard

The Powerstation

Neighbourhood Brew Bar

De Post

The Supper Club

Florrie McGreals

Trench Bar

David Shanhun: 7:30pm Lee Gray: 9:30pm

Dragon & Hello Sailor: 8pm: $59.40 Underground Stylz w/ Dubby24 ft. DJ Kana: 11:45pm: Free Fridays at Trench Bar: 4pm: Free

Flying Moa

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Evolution: 8:30pm

GBS Bar

Franks Frank: 8:30pm

Glen Eden RSA Double Vision: 8pm

La Zeppa

DJ Selecta Sam: 7pm

Las Vegas Stip Club

Dreams of the Dead: 8pm: $10

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Dean Te Paa: 9:30pm

Welfare Mothers, Beach Pigs, Drop Dead Redhead, New Natives: 10pm: $5 DJ Jason Kyle: 8pm

Masonic Tavern

Julia Deans: 8:30pm: $20

Neighbourhood Brew Bar DJ Andy JV followed DJ Normski: 3pm

New Brew

Pat 4 President: 8:30pm

Northern Steamship Trading Co

Whitewash: 11pm

Page3, Mixtape Kidz, Dee Why: 5pm: Free

The Wine Cellar

Basalt

Florrie McGreals

Sale St

Snapdragon

Icicle (UK) $15 - $25

Mitch French: 8:30pm

DJ Lo Key: 8pm

1885 Britomart

Ben Wah & Arash: 8pm: Free

De Post

Jocee Tuck, Oliver Carle & Lamplight: 7pm: $5

Nyntee w/ Lewis McCallum & Dylan C: 10pm: Free

DJ Andy JV: 7:30pm

Jason Smith Duo: 9:30pm

Nuffield Street Trading Co. Brewbar

1885 Basement

Neilstock Pre-Party: 8pm: $10

Brew On Quay

Salsa Party w/ DJ King Salsa: 11pm: Free

Global Battle Of the Bands GBOB: 8pm: $15

Student Performance Concerts: Year 3 Performance Assessments: Free

David Shanhun Duo: 8pm

Soundlounge ft. James Kahu: 6:30pm

The Kings Arms

Julian Temple - Three Country Tour: 9pm

Black Salt

Sat 05 1885 Basement

Onny Kaulima: 10pm: Free

1885 Britomart Jerm: 12am: $10

Audio Foundation HQ Stella Corkery exhibition - on the way to being silver: 5:30pm

O’Carrolls

Quay St Clubrooms Acoustic Sessions w/ Jade Pritchard: 7pm

Racket Bar

TDK & Sweet Mix Kids: 8pm: Free

Sale St

Grant Marshall, Dean Campbell: 7pm: Free

smith.

Hey Ladies: 8pm

Snapdragon

Saturday Night: 6pm

events

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The Britomart Country Club

Sun 06

The Marina

Racket Bar

Corelli’s Cafe & Bar

The Windsor Castle

The Britomart Country Club

Sandpaper Tango: 6pm: Free

Murray Cammick, Manuel Bundy & Aroha: 2pm: Free

Goode Brothers

The Crib

LEIGH SAWMILL CAFE

Blend: 4pm

Blues on Sunday: 4pm: Free

OUTER BASE: 3pm: free

The Kings Arms

Sale St

The Business (UK): 8pm: $32

Western Lights Ruff Gray: 9pm

Shae Snell, Selecta Sam: 1pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club

Pauly Who & Dylan C: 2pm: Free

Franko: 1pm

Starlight Sundays: 5pm: Free

Western Lights Andrew Mockler: 9pm

Rob Hill: 6pm: Free

Murray Cammick: 6pm: Free

The Kings Arms

Kings Arms Quiz: 7:15pm: Free

Tue 08

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

Empire Tavern

Empire Million Dollar Trivia Show: 6:30pm: Free

one2one

one2one Tuesday Open Mic: 6:30pm: Free

Christchurch gig guide The Venue Music Bar

Pierside Cafe And Bar

Parklands Tavern

Fri 04

Sat 05

Sun 06

Beck Southern Alehouse

Christ’s College

Melton Estate

The Middlemen

The Feelers & Christchurch Cathedral Choir: 7:30pm

Dux Live

Darkroom @ Archive

Mon 07

Ctrl-Alt-Rock

Christchurch Casino

Irish Society Hall

Smashbox

Allan Johnston

Wed 02

Fri 04

Sat 05

Tue 08

Cubbyhole

Biddy Muligans

Hamilton Gardens

Baycourt Community Theatre Arts Centre

Brewers Bar

Neilstock

Wed 03 Wunderbar

The Melancholy Babes w/ Eric Boeren: 8pm

Thu 03 Becks Southern Alehouse The Black velvet Band

Pierside Cafe and Bar

The Business (UK): 7:30pm: 32

F In Math & Alphabethead: 8pm

The Fox And Ferret

Karaoke w/ DJ Chick

Beach Breaks w/ DJ Nomad

The Blue Onesies, The Grand Chancellors, Ed Muzik: 9pm: Free

Ctrl-Alt-Rock

Ali Harper

hamilton gig guide

Cubbyoke Night

Beastwars: 8pm

Thu 03

The Debut: 8pm: $12

Cambridge Municipal Band Rooms

Hayden Booth: 6pm

Cubbyhole

Marilyn Kingi & Friends

Cambridge & Districts Pipe Band Muso Jam Night

Huntly and District Workingmen’s Club Huntly Jam Club

Static

Live @ Static: 9pm

Waikato Museum Musical Feast

The Meteor

Cock & Bull

Hamilton Workingmen’s Club Monkey Feather Night Club

New Blood club night: 10pm: free

Ngaruawahia RSA Traffic Jam

Redoubt Bar

John McGough DJ/Trumpeter

Drum Circle

Neilstock 2011 Festival w/ Yebiisu, Fleur Jack & The Jandals, Calle Latina, The Twitch, Adrian Ashdown, Superturtle, This Flight Tonight, Interconnector, The Nowhere Effect, Invader Cain, Cellar & more: 11am: $40

Heath Franklin’s Chopper: A Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life

Cock & Bull Tuesday Trivia

Orca Restaurant and Bar Unknown Peace

Mole & Chicken Restaurant

Ukulele Jammin’ w/ Pumice Valley Whoopee Band

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Power House Karapiro Celtic Music Session

Flagons & Foxtrots

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tours & events

Upcoming tours & events Ash & The Matadors

Fri 04 Nov Tillermans, Invercargill Mon 07 Nov The Blue Duck, Milford Sound Tue 08 Nov Redcliff Cafe & Bar, Ashburton Wed 09 Nov Red Rock, Wanaka Thu 10 Nov Opium Bar, Wanaka Fri 11 Nov Cook Saddle Safe & Saloon, Fox Glacier Sat 12 Nov Franks Cafe & Bar, Greymouth Mon 14 Nov Karamea Village Hotel, Greymouth Wed 16 Nov Liquid NZ Bar, Nelson Thu 17 Nov The Strawberry Tree, Kaikoura Sat 19 Nov XII Below, Dunedin

Deerhoof (US)

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

Defamer (AU)

Fri 18 Nov The Basement, Auckland

Big Day Out 2012

Circulation Festival

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Classic Hits Winery Tour

Fri 20 Jan Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland

Wed 09 Nov Powersation, Auckland

Black Lips (US)

Tue 28 Feb Powerstation, Auckland

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

Auckland International Tattoo Convention Sat 26 Nov ASB Showgrounds, Auckland

Beastwars

Fri 04 Nov Biddy Mulligan’s, Hamilton Sat 05 Nov 4:20, Auckland Sat 12 Nov Bodega, Wellington

Beirut (US)

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

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

Beyond The Black NYE Bic Runga

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Fri 03 Feb Ascension Wine Estate, Matakana Sat 04 Feb Ascension Wine Estate, Matakana Sun 05 Feb Marina Reserve, Tutukaka Tutukaka Fri 10 Feb Wharepai Domain, Tauranga Sat 11 Feb Brunton Road, Gisborne Sun 12 Feb Black Barn Vineyards, Havelock North Thu 16 Feb Neudorf Vineyards, Upper Moutere Fri 17 Feb Neudorf Vineyards, Upper Moutere Sat 18 Feb The Mud House Winery & Cafe, Waipara Sun 19 Feb Logan Park, Dunedin Tue 21 Feb Olssenís Vineyard, Cromwell Thu 23 Feb Villa Maria Estate, Blenheim Sat 25 Feb Alana Estate, Martinborough Sun 26 Feb Sentry Hill Estate, New Plymouth Fri 02 Mar Vilagrad Winery, Hamilton Sat 03 Mar Villa Maria Estate, Auckland

Cold Chisel (AU)

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

Coromandel Gold

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

Creedence Clearwater Revisited (US)

Sat 31 Dec Trentham Racecourse, Upper Hutt

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

Fri 11 Nov Whare Flat, Dunedin

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

Sat 28 Jan Mills Reef Winery, Tauranga Sun 29 Jan Mills Reef Winery, Tauranga Mon 30 Jan Ellerslie Racecourse, Auckland Wed 01 Feb Bowl of Brooklands, New Plymouth Fri 03 Feb Trentham Racecourse, Wellington Sun 05 Feb Queenstown Events Centre, Queenstown

Dum Dum Girls (US)

Fri 06 Jan The Kings Arms, Auckland

EarthTonz NYE

Sat 31 Dec Gibbston Valley Station, Queenstown

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

The Fetish Ball

Sat 12 Nov The Venue, Christchurch

Fleet Foxes (US)

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

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

The Damned (UK)

Wed 25 Jan Powerstation, Auckland

Flying Nun 30th Anniverary Dan Deacon (US)

Fri 03 Feb Whammy Bar, Auckland Sat 04 Feb San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sun 05 Feb Playhouse, Nelson Mon 06 Feb Dux Live, Christchurch Tue 07 Feb Chicks Hotel, Dunedin

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

tours & events

Upcoming tours & events 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 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

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

Tue 13 Dec Western Springs, Auckland

Freaky Meat

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

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

Gin Wigmore

Sat 05 Nov Brewers Bar, Tauranga

GROOVEMAN SPOT (JP) & THE TURNAROUND Fri 02 Dec Bacco Room, Auckland

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

Incubus (US)

Tue 31 Jan Vector Arena, Auckland Wed 01 Feb TSB Bank Arena, Wellington

John Waters (US): This Filthy World Wed 02 Nov The Civic, Auckland

Julia Deans

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

Mangawhai NYE Party Sat 31 Dec Mangawhai Tavern, Mangawhai

The Moody Blues (UK)

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

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

Thu 01 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

Mon 30 Jan Silo Park, Auckland

Lamb Of God (US)

Wed 07 Mar Studio, 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

Fri 25 Nov Powerstation, Auckland

Nadia Reid

The Naked And Famous Mon 12 Dec Dux De Lux, Christchurch Tue 13 Dec TBA, Dunedin Wed 14 Dec Bodega, Wellington at Bodega Thu 15 Dec Static, Hamilton at Static Fri 16 Dec Cassette Nine, Auckland

Fri 04 Nov Town Hall, 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

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

Northern Lights Festival 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, Raglan Thu 24 Nov Cabana Bar, Napier

Rhythm & Alps

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

Sat 18 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Mon 20 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Wed 22 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland Thu 23 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland

Roky Erickson (US)

Wed 07 Mar Powerstation, Auckland

Mulatu Astatke (ET)

Thu 03 Nov Happy Bar, Wellington Fri 04 Nov Happy Bar, Wellington

Guitar Wolf (JP)

Sat 28 Jan Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua

Roger Waters: The Wall (US)

Kurt Vile (US)

Laneway Festival 2012

Raggamuffin 2012

Sat 04 Feb Rippon Vineyard, Lake Wanaka

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

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

Thu 10 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland

Rippon Festival

Kaikoura Roots Festival

Ladi6

Portishead (UK)

Thu 29 Dec - Sat 31 Dec Waiohika Estate, Gisborne

Wed 02 Nov The Wine Cellar, Auckland

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

Tue 08 Nov Stardome Observatory & Planetarium, Auckland Tue 22 Nov Stardome Observatory & Planetarium, Auckland Tue 13 Dec Stardome Observatory & Planetarium, Auckland

Rhythm & Vines 2011-2012

Julian Temple

La De Da Festival

Pink Floyd Double Feature

Roots Festival

Sat 03 Dec Town Hall, Auckland

Roxette (SE)

Sat 11 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland

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Fri 30 Dec - Mon 02 Jan Pakiri Beach, Pakiri

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

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

Phoenix Foundation Sat 03 Dec Wine & Food Festival, Christchurch

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Fri 04 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland

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

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Thu 12 Jan The Kings Arms, Auckland

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Thee Oh Sees (US)

Fri 27 Jan Whammy Bar, Auckland Sat 28 Jan Mighty Mighty, Wellington Sun 29 Jan ARC Theatre, Wanganui

Tim Finn

Splore 2012

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

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GAMING

PLAYSTATION SHOWCASE a look at upcoming goodies for sony’s ps3 Attending the Playstation event last week was also a good excuse to get to see the Puma Social Club before it was dismantled. I’m glad (and not surprised) to say that both did not disappoint.

The highly anticipated Unchartered 3 fronted the showcase. I managed to get a fair bit of time on the PS3 version, equipped with my fancy 3D glasses. The new technology of this device assists the game in achieving some stunning visuals (but more on that later). With or without the glasses, there’s little doubt that this game will continue the fine tradition of the Unchartered franchise and be a star for Sony.

Many other games were on offer, as well as music from Che Fu, King Kapisi and Annah Mac, beers from Burger Fuel and copious other drinks. But there were two showstoppers for me at the event that look sure to lead the way in personal gaming.

Firstly, arise the PS Vita taking the crown from the PSP. With front and rear touchpads, a high-res OLED screen, SIXAXIS motion sensor technology, dual analog sticks and front and rear cameras which can incorporate augmented reality gaming, this neat little package has set the bar. It scores bonus points for coming in your choice of Wifi or 3G/Wifi models, for being lighter than an iPhone and for having a bigger screen. Mega bonus point for the simple idea of being able to remotely save

your game. Without a doubt it will be a small matter of time until smartphone technology is bundled in with it as well.

The other out-there experience was the HMZ-T1 Personal 3D viewer. This is a headset that reminded me of the virtual reality ones of old, but rolling with the high demands of modern day gamers (such as having your own adjustable straps and headphones built in). When it hits the market, it will be able to offer 3D home cinema experiences as well as 3D games.

While I tried out a 3D game on offer and ended up grinning like a little kid, that same little kid was bummed that no one else could see that I just came first.

But the pros of this device certainly round it off so that virtual reality is greater than my childlike ego.

Another cool demo was the dual-view 3D. This gives you the possibility of playing a game on the same TV and seeing different images without having to do split screen. I’d only heard about this technology before, and now having experienced it it’s safe to say that it has the potential to redefine how we play against each other on the same screen.

These new interactive products aren’t on the shelves yet, but they’re definitely things we’ll be talking more about when they hit stores in February.

Written by Jon Snow © 2011 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision, Call Of Duty and Modern Warfare are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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album reviews Lou Reed & Metallica Lulu

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Lou Reed and Metallica collaborating isn’t something you’d expect, ever. Lulu is the musical love child of Metallica and Reed’s performance of Velvet Underground tracks back at the 25th anniversary of the Rock ‘n’ Roll hall of fame in 2009. Reed took a walk on the wild side and I really want to like it.

There is a lot that goes in the album’s favour; to start with, Reed’s song writing is always elaborate and poetic.

It’s layered with aggressive spoken word vocals intertwined with Metallica’s filthy sound, making for interesting listening.

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Jane’s Addiction

Ryan Adams

Gravel & Wine

Sillhouette

Fire and Ashes

The Great Escape

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New Zealand’s Miss duet and nudie-airplane-ads of 2009 Gin Wigmore returns with second album Gravel & Wine. Written in the States, this album is an exploration of vice, naughtiness and difference pretty awesome really. It’s an upbeat fusion of blues and motown. ‘Kill Of The Night’ gets the bass thumping, with particularly frightful lyrics about man hunting and blood-tasting. Catchy hooks and stompy beats characterise most of this album; fun drips from it everywhere. Wigmore shows a softer, more emotional side in motowny piano-led ballad ‘If Only’ and violin tearjerker ‘Saturday Smile’. That husky voice is as strong as ever and you just know a hatchback full of girls is going to drive past in the near future with ‘Dirty Love’ breaking the speakers while they “sing” like her. ‘Sweet Hell’ reeks of Edward Sharpe’s ‘Home’.

It’s a genuinely likeable album — can’t really argue with that.

Hard-working Auckland noisemongers Rule of Thieves freshly released EP Silhouette has been highly anticipated.

The first thing that hits you is the sheer presence of their sonic assault. Multi-layered guitars howl and scratch an erratic rhythm as singer Rory Hart does some howling of his own. Over the course of this four-track EP, chunky menacing riffs are stacked haphazardly on top of each other threatening to spill over. First song ‘Champagne’ hits hard like Deftones at their heavy best while ‘Dead Awake’ taps into a more ethereal vein.

‘Paper Envy’ stands on the precipice of full-blown screamo before retreating back into serenity. The album is heavy but carefree like so many great hard rock acts of the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Rule Of Thieves have come a long way from their humble bedroom beginnings, and Silhouette is likely only a taste of grander things to come.

I’ve always liked Jane’s Addiction. Their artsy take on punk rock was fresh once and they were cool. This album is Jane’s Addiction through and through. Your ears prick up in the first ten seconds of ‘Underground’ with an “okay, cool, I’ve heard this before,” reaction. That’s the rap sheet right there really — they still sound the same. A lot of established bands get a bit of flak from their more protective fans for change and I’d be surprised if that crowd draws rapiers here. The only new thing is the addition of TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, which on reflection occasionally shows through in a stronger rhythm.

The Great Escape slips nicely into the back catalogue, much nicer than Farrell and Navarro’s shenanigans in the last few years do at any rate. A fantastic metaphysics-bending floaty trip to space out to after a rough night at the cloudy mind circus.

WRITTEN BY JUSTIN FOWLER

WRIITEN BY RICARDO KERR

There’s tons of press already out on this, yet few seem to have made the connection on the title: this is clearly Adam’s “phoenix rising”. The obsessive-compulsive composer quit The Cardinals, and indeed all music in 2009 due to complications with Ménière’s disease (a disorder of the inner ear affecting hearing and balance).

But with encouragement from his new wife Mandy Moore, he’s begun a steady recovery.

Previously, his best work focused on the post-break-up blues, but here Adams seems more content to play with the inner workings of a living relationship, as evident on the tender ode to loyalty ‘Come Back Home’ (ft.

Moore and Norah Jones on BV), and the soulful ‘Kindness’. ‘Chains Of Love’ inspects the ties that keep couples connected through the rough patches. This album proves that love is suiting Adams well; it’s the kind of focused masterpiece that we all hold out for, unplugged treasures to play over and over, forever. Amen.

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The testosterone overload is regulated by first person female song characters, most notably in the opener ‘Brandenburg Gate’. At times, though, Reed overburdens himself by trying to carry his voice along with the riot that is Metallica.

It’s a quirky and dark amble into Reed’s always shocking mindmystery, and it just so happens Metallica came along for the ride.

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on screen The Inbetweeners FILM lll

British TV comedies have a disappointing pedigree when stretched to big-screen length.

Harry Enfield’s Kevin & Perry Go Large was 90 minutes too large, Rik Mayall’s much-loved Bottom became flabby beyond belief, and Ali G Indahouse really should have stayed there.

Sitcoms rely on simple, claustrophobic situations,

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Further info directed by Craig Gillespie

Starring Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown and Christopher Nicholas Smith

Starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher and Mintz-Plasse

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advancing years are a highlight, and kudos to Theo Barklem-Biggs for nearly stealing the show as a brain-fried club casualty.

Though it was hardly subtle to begin with, there was something alluringly intimate about the TV show that evaporates in the Malia sun. As a standalone six-pack flick The Inbetweeners movie is fine, but as the epilogue to one of the best British sitcoms ever it is, perhaps inevitably, a letdown.

Further info directed by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Paranormal Activity 3

Found-footage horrors tend to elicit groans from me, the allure to producers seemingly only due to low costs and misplaced ideas about their ‘coolness’. With Paranormal Activity 3, though, this stylistic conceit is a given, although shifting the setting to the ‘80s and replacing shitty digital cameras with VHS seemed at first to be an unnecessary stretch. Then again, this is a prequel and it actually ends up being a relief that we don’t have to spend another 90 minutes with the same small cast of actors. Not that there’s a hell of a lot of tinkering with the formula, with the bulk of the film taking place in a house with scary shit happening to a few key people.

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so when writers dream up outlandish, fish-out-of-water plots to fill time they’re more far-fetched and less funny. TVtrained directors, meanwhile, often try so hard to be ‘cinematic’ that they burst the bubble of believability.

Based on tales of schoolyard mortification and sexual misadventure in suburban

London, The Inbetweeners makes all of these mistakes and more in its expanded format, but scrapes by on past glories. A bubble-burstingly expensive helicopter/crane shot quickly introduces the gang – uptight Will (Bird), lovelorn Simon (Thomas), braggart Jay (Buckley) and dimwit Neil (Harrison) – before they’re whipped off to Malia, Crete, for some fish-out-of-water lads’ shenanigans.

Mostly this involves them incompetently romancing a group of inexplicably beguiled girls, slapdash plotting and endless shots of extras dancing, although there are enough cringe-making knob gags to hold the attention. Neil’s sexual encounters with a lady of

This time the directors of Catfish are calling the shots and do a great job of replicating the spatial awareness and repetition of its predecessors.

These are critical elements of all three films infusing an anxiety level that primes the audience for some pretty simple scares and heightens their impact.

Catfish showed that these guys can assemble a story from a bunch of ordinary-looking footage and here they do just that. Getting the simple things right each year is working for this franchise, rather than becoming ever more elaborate.

Unless you count bolting a camera to an oscillating fan base so it can pan left and right.

Nice one, MacGyver.

WRITTEN BY STEVE NEWALL, Flicks.co.nz

Neither a complete clanger nor a lost classic, Tom Holland’s 1985 vampire-next-door flick is the latest inexplicable entry on Hollywood’s recycling list. Set in a Las Vegas housing estate of such crushing uniformity it could use a little vamping up, Craig Gillespie’s snazzy 3D update begins with local kids going missing from school.

Charlie (Yelchin), his girlfriend, Amy (Poots), and nerdy tag-along Ed (Mintz-Plasse) suspect it’s something to do with Charlie’s neighbour, Jerry (Farrell). “That’s a terrible name for a vampire,” says Charlie sagely, but can he stop Mr Creepy from shagging his mum (Collette) – or worse?

First and foremost among Fright Night 2011’s assets are its talented players, most of

them foriegners pretending to be American. Yelchin (Russian) has an engaging outsider charm, Poots (English) has balls to spare and when Mintz-Plasse takes a (literal) early bath the film really misses him. Farrell (Irish), meanwhile, enjoys himself as a preening sex-pest gibbering on about how “ripe” Amy is. It’s not a scary performance, but you definitely wouldn’t want him dating your sister.

Although the murky visuals stop the 3D scenes zinging off the screen, there’s a whizzy car chase and some wellchoreographed kills – enough to complement the performances and put this among the more entertaining reworkings of recent years.

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ON SCREEN

Further info directed by Sam Liu and Lauren Montgomery Starring Bryan Cranston, Ben McKenzie, Eliza Dushku, Jon Polito, Alex Rocco

Finding The Cowl Batman: Year One review The geek-con that is Armageddon brings out the pale-faces and other unfair stereotypes that we give to the subculture of comic readers, gamers, cosplayers and other nerdy, geeky con-goers. The convention has its ups and downs every year. One of the ups of this year’s had to have been the premiere screening of Batman: Year One. The story is lifted pretty much directly from Frank Miller’s comic of the same name. Even the layman may recognise Miller’s name on the creator credits of Sin City or 300 as well as his directorial debut with The Spirit.

While some of those are hit and miss, the writer knows comics as a medium much better than anything else he’s dabbled in. He wasn’t the director of the animated adaptation of Batman: Year One, but his story is still there and has been lifted extremely well.

The premise of Year One is simple. Bruce Wayne has finished his years of training under Shaolin Monks and gurus and whatnot, and has returned to his home city of Gotham wondering what to do next. He doesn’t yet know he will take up the mantle of the bat, and he’s struggling to find his place in this dark world with all of the physical and mental talents he now possesses. It’s a fantastic insight to see him discover how he finds the cowl and instils fear in the hearts of criminals. Seeing

him get into fights before he dons the mask and cape is fun (especially when a very young prostitute stabs him). It’s also interesting to see another voice actor take up the role, as the infamous Kevin Conroy is absent in this flick.

But Year One is almost more of Jim Gordon’s story. A hero cop who has been transferred to Gotham, Lieutenant Jim Gordon has a baby on the way and can’t believe his luck when he’s stuck in the corrupt, criminal city. Voiced by none other than Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Jim shines as the hero and protagonist much more so than the titular character.

His is the struggle we follow. His fights are the ones we root for. His failures are the ones we forgive. With a running time of around 60 minutes, the storytelling has neither been squashed nor squandered.

It’s a mixed tale with a collective of short stories that make up everything that you would want to see in Batman’s first year discovering who he is. There’s no super-powered element – it’s just a crime story.

An original crime story that doubles as an origin story. Frank Miller’s comic was a hit, and it’s great to see that the animated version has delivered so well.

Best of all you don’t need to be familiar with the characters to enjoy the story, which is the make of any good film.

Written by Summer Thernomme

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Listophile Juice TV’s Alternative Broadcast.

1. Ready To Die The Checks

2. Cigarettes Beach Pigs

3. Buddy Evil Twins

4. Intro Feat. Zola Jesus M83

5. Two Cousins Slow Club

6. The Ballad of State Highway 1 Fabulous/Arabia

7. Ffunny Ffriends (The Naked

and Famous Remix) Unknown Mortal Orchestra

8. Terra Ingognita Atlas Sound

9. Flowers Teeth

10. You’re Not Invited Las Tetas

Independent Top 10 Movie Chart

1. Smash it Zowie

1. In Time

2. Shake it Out Florence and the Machine

2. The Inbetweeners

3. A Long Time Mayer Hawthorne

4. RA. One

4. Black Sheep Gin Wigmore

5. Midnight in Paris

5. Crystalline Bjork

6. Blink and You’ll Miss...

Cut Copy

7. The Origins of Slaves

8. The Orator

Cairo Knife Fight

8. The Power & the Glory White Lies Foster the People

10. The Reckoning The Getaway Plan

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2. Stone Walls And Steel Bars

4. Drew Anemia A lack of red blood cells

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1. 150 Von Klap The Stanley Brothers

3. Punch Fight F*ck Hank Williams III

4. Where The Boys Are Connie Francis

5. Lay Down In The Tall Grass Timber Tibre

6. I Don’t Remember A Thing Paul Kelly and Uncle Bill

7. I’m So Depressed Delaney Davidson

8. So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) Dillard and Clark

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4. Do you care?

5. Do you regret that tattoo you

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6. Thoughts on the new Walking Dead?

7. What was that ‘90s show that

was like Transformers but was different?

8. How did typing that into

Google end up finding Angela Anaconda?

Biggie Smalls/Bob Marley

10. Behold My Koolstyle Dam Native

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10. Space Cowboy or Cowboy Dracula?

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