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Breaking news  Canon have introduced themselves into the film industry with the launch of the Cinema EOS System, spanning the lens, digital video camcorder and SLR camera product categories.

Announcements Steppin’ Our Way

 Grammy award-winning singer Melissa Etheridge has announced two shows in New Zealand for July next year in Auckland and Wellington.  Tell your gammy – Coronation St is returning to the 7:30pm time slot.

Thursdays and Fridays are the new home to all things Coro.

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 Experimental guitarist Keith Rowe will be playing four shows this month as part of The Audio Foundation’s Altmusic programme. Rowe will be the final international act to come to our shores this year in the 2011 Altmusic series.  Audio-visual artists Pitch Black have announced a one-off show at Wellington’s Sandwiches on Sat 26 Nov.

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With summer on the way the sporting festivals get into full swing, and the folks behind the Heineken Open Baseline After Party have announced The Phoenix Foundation and Barnaby Weir as the headline acts. Can tennis be the new rugby? It’s a whole different kind of excitement, plus it happens in summer. Bonus. The Heineken Open itself starts on Friday 05 January and runs through to Saturday 14 January.

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Stink Magnetic’s 13th birthday brings a stinkin’ good time to Christchurch in December. The three day festival Stink Fest 13 sees Golden Axe, Boss Christ, Ritchie Venus, Double Ya D, Delaney Davidson, Commander Robot!, Planet of the Tapes, I Drink Your Blood, Andrew Tolley’s The Bloody Souls, The Grand Chancellors, T.A Maracas and Mono Sonic play at The Darkroom and Dux Live from Thursday 15 December through to Saturday 17 December. All these bands over three days for a measly $10 means anyone not in Christchurch can probably afford the air fare down there for this weekend festival.

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San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees are coming to New Zealand in January for three shows. Auckland’s Whammy, Mighty Mighty and Wellington and the ARC Theatre in Wanganui are all playing host to John Dwyer and crew as they head down under. The good folks from The High Seas are bringing the band over, and while the shows in Wellington and Wanganui will be door sales, Auckland tickets are a measly $10 + booking fee. That’s crazy cheap for such a great band coming all the way over to our little pocket of the world.

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Farmageddon goes down at Waipu Cove this year on Saturday 03 December. The 2011 line-up sees the likes of Electric Wire Hustle, David Dallas, Bulletproof, P Money, Home Brew, The A.R.C, MayaVanya, Nick D, Chaos in the CBD and more join the festivities. For ticket, accommodation and transport info head to farmageddon.co.nz.

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 Over 300 artists have been announced for the NZ International Arts Festival in Wellington next year.

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Psych/surf-pop heads Sun Araw AKA Cameron Stallones will be returning to New Zealand next year in February for two North Island shows. Following his time here last year, Sun Araw will play Wellington’s Mighty Mighty and Auckland’s Whammy in celebration of his new album Ancient Romans, being released through Drag City. The folks over at Rose Quartz are bringing Stallones back, and if there’s one thing they know it’s good music. Absolute Boys are announced as the support act, with more to be confirmed.

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Australian singer/songwriter Jordie Lane is celebrating the release of his sophomore album Blood Thinner with a 14-stop tour around the country with support from Matt Langley and Mel Parsons in November.

Lane has supported the likes of Cat Power, Neko Case, Gotye, Old Crow Medicine Show and more, as well as being nominated at the Australian Independent Music Awards. Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Picton, Dunedin, Timaru, Christchurch and plenty of other towns will host the Australian on his NZ tour.

Our pick

06/03 No Cardinal Effort

Ryan Adams will be playing two New Zealand shows in March as he celebrates the release of this new album Ashes & Fire. These won’t be his first shows in the country, but they will be his first solo performances that we’ve seen. Usually accompanied

by The Cardinals, Adams will be playing all on his lonesome at his Dunedin show at the Regent Theatre on Tuesday 06 March and at the Civic Theatre in Auckland on Thursday 08 March. Both shows are all ages.

18/04 A Breath of fresh fire

The How To Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular will be coming our way next year, bringing with it a crazy amount of what you could maybe class as extreme puppetry. The performance has over 20 dragons on show that will be one of those for-thekids-but-grown-ups-enjoy-it-too sort of deals. Wednesday 18 April through to Sunday 22 April will be the dates of the eight shows. Think Walking with Dinosaurs, except flying with dragons.

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The New Zealand International Arts Festival always brings a varied range of talent, and next year’s event in the capital sees Bon Iver arrive on our shores. The critically acclaimed star will play two shows in February at the Wellington Town Hall. Tickets are on sale now from Ticketek and are available for anywhere between $40 and $90 for these very select shows.

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groove file VODAFONE MUSIC AWARDS Orange Guy Electoral Commission

Relationship status?

I’m married to my job!

Favourite drink?

Orange juice is usually my tipple of choice as it’s chock-full of vitamin Democra-C. I am however partial to an intoxicating cocktail of youthful exuberance and democratic participation. Mmmm… tasty!

Any vices?

Ad-vice? I’m big on that and you can’t shut me up when it comes to answering questions about enrolling and voting.

First gig played? When and where?

27 July 2002, in polling booths all over New Zealand. Two million people turned up for my very first gig, which was pretty cool.

First gig in attendance?

Well they don’t let me out much to be honest…

First album?

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Still Squeaky After All These Years. What can I say? I was young, it came with a free T-shirt and we have the same animators.

Favourite current album?

Any box set and I’m happy. Ballot boxes especially.

When I grow up I wanna be?

Redundant, retired, hanging out on a beach somewhere because everyone in New Zealand doesn’t need me to remind them to enrol or vote – they just do it because it’s the best way to have your say in how this place is run.

First job?

This one! I tried out as a Rugby World Cup mascot but they couldn’t find a team in my colour.

Guilty pleasures?

Private fist pumps any time someone aged 18-24 enrolls to vote.

Last week saw the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards razzle and dazzle the musical glitterati at Auckland’s Vector Arena. The big winners of the night were The Naked and Famous, Ladi6, Tiki Taane and Brooke Fraser, each of which taking away the recognition they’ve all been working towards both nationally and internationally throughout the past year.

• Russian Standard Vodka Album of The Year: The Naked and Famous for Passive Me, Aggressive You • Vodafone Single of The Year: The Naked and Famous for ‘Young Blood’ • FOUR Best Group: The Naked and Famous • Best Male Solo Artist: Tiki Taane • Best Female Solo Artist: Ladi6 • Pacific Blue Breakthrough Artist of The Year: The Naked and Famous • PPNZ Best Rock Album: Shihad for Ignite • The Edge Best Pop Album: Brooke Fraser for Flags • Best Alternative Album: The Naked and Famous for Passive Me, Aggressive You • Serato Best Urban / Hip Hop Album: Ladi6 for The Liberation Of • Best Roots Album: TrinityRoots for Music is Choice • NZ On Air Best Music Video: Special Problems for The Naked and Famous’ ‘Punching In A Dream’ • Best Electronica Album: Tiki Taane for In the World of Light • Best Maori Album: Tiki Taane for In the World of Light • Best Gospel / Christian Album: Parachute Band for Love Without Measure • Best Classical Album: New Zealand String Quartet for Notes from a Journey • Vodafone People’s Choice Award: Brooke Fraser • Highest Selling NZ Single: Brooke Fraser for ‘Something In The Water’ • Highest Selling NZ Album: Brooke Fraser for Flags • NZ on Air Radio Airplay Record of the Year: Stan Walker for Choose You • International Achievement Award: Brooke Fraser • New Zealand Herald Legacy Award: Dragon • 2011 Gravity Coffee Critics’ Choice Prize: Kimbra • Best Album Cover: Nick Keller for Beastwars selftitled album • MAINZ Best Engineer: Thom Powers, Aaron Short & Olly Harmer for The Naked and Famous’ Passive Me, Aggressive You • MAINZ Best Producer: Thom Powers and Aaron Short for The Naked and Famous’ Passive Me, Aggressive You

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This week EMI has released two new deluxe packages of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. The Immersion and Experience editions are the second phase of the label’s re-releases with tracks personally chosen by David Gilmour, Roger Waters and drummer Nick Mason, who tells us a little bit about the release.

On why the catalogue is being released: It’s a chance to issue and reissue material with all its packaging... it’s one of the things that I think is really missing at the moment from downloads, I think long term there probably will be added value in downloading, and there’ll be video and all sorts of other interesting things, but at the moment a download is a fairly ephemeral thing compared to the concept of the album.

On the evolution of Pink Floyd’s sound: We changed with the times. I think we were heavily influenced by all sorts of other things... I think the R&B bands all started heading off into other territory. Cream might be the best example of that, where they went off into using the R&B structure, but into the very extended solos, which of course were never part of the original concept.

On the unreleased material included in the catalogue: We had been opposed to a lot of stuff coming out before because what we’ve now been able to do is do a lot of repair work, so the quality has been improved enormously

with different ways of cleaning things up... That simply wasn’t available to us ten years ago, but it is now, so I think that’s another reason why some of this has actually come around to being released.

On his favourite releases in the catalogue: The record that I really still have great affection for is Saucerful Of Secrets. I think that was the beginning of finding different ways of doing things, I think the title track was important because it borders on not being rock music at all, it borders on being something else, but it is still in the genre. ‘Set The Controls’ is still one of my favourite tracks of all time, I like the playing on it and I like the song and the atmosphere of it is fantastic.

On what it would be like if Pink Floyd started now: I think the problem is that bands are very much of their time. I think first of all we’d have been laughed off The X Factor, we’d have failed for Britain’s Got Talent, we’d have been a disaster... we’d have ended up on Big Brother, I suspect.

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Film news The big-screen remake of 21 Jump Street has a trailer. And what’s surprising is that Channing Tatum doesn’t look like a total dickhead. Jonah Hill seems to carry most of the comedy which turns out representing the film as an actioncomedy Superbad.

A trailer is out for Wanderlust – the new film starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Anniston. What might otherwise seem like a rom-com crock of cheesy piss, the film has some good names behind it. Directed by David Wain (Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, Childrens Hospital) and costarring Malin Akerman, Justin Theroux, Joe Lo Truglio and Alan Alda, the trailer doesn’t sell it in the best way but we’ve got faith in the actors.

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WEDNESDAY 09

THURSDAY 10

Eddie Izzard

Mighty Mighty Quiz

Contagion

The Civic

Mighty Mighty

General Release

The funnyman kicks off his first of three shows in Auckland this Wednesday following his performances in Wellington. There’s a good chance that tickets will sell out before we go to print, so if you’ve got one – well, lucky you.

Pub quizzes are great. Truth be told, there are really about 100 other pub quizzes around the country today. But if you’re in Wellington and you’re free on Wednesday, then quiz out with the MM gang.

When stars like Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard, Elliott Gould and Demetri Martin all get together for a thriller about a potential worldwide plague in a movie by Steven Soderbergh, you may as well start racking up the Oscars.

Tartuffe

The Sleeping Beauty

Show Me Shorts

Q Theatre

Civic Theatre, Invercargill

Selected Cinemas

8pm, $90, the-edge.co.nz

6.30pm, $40, ticketdirect.co.nz

8pm, $30-55, patronbase.co.nz

Mix stabs at the Orakei rich with conartists and life coaches and you’ll get something like the newest comedy on the Auckland theatrical block, Tartuffe. The production is playing at Q Theatre from Fri 04 Nov through to Sat 26 Nov.

The Royal New Zealand Ballet finishes up the second and final night of The Sleeping Beauty down in Invercargill. It’s not the Disney version, and it’s not exactly the dark, horror-esque indie-house film version. It’s the ballet version.

The Show Me Shorts festival is in full swing around the country. Auckland’s Capitol, Brideway and Waiheke cinemas are all playing the selected shorts, along with Wellington’s Paramount, the Hollywood Cinema in Christchurch and Rialto in Dunedin which all kick off this Thursday.

Friday 11 The Checks

Circulation Festival

Zeal / Bodega

Whare Flat

12pm, $50-130, cosmicticketing.co.nz

8pm, $25, 1-night.co.nz

Over 100 international and local bands, DJs and performers get together to the Circulation Festival down in Dunedin. Running for five days, the festival has plenty to feast your eyeholes and earballs on with art, live music, performance and more exciting junk that we’ll class under “miscellaneous”. Oh, mysterious.

The Checks kick off their nationwide tour as they celebrate their newest album Deadly Summer Sway.

Wellington audiences are treated to two shows this Friday – first off at Zeal where the band will be playing an all ages gig before heading to Bodega to play for all the grownups.

Flying Nun Parties

The Pole Room

Burlesque Revue

Golden Dawn, Sfbh, Urban Factory

The Fringe Bar

Longroom

$17-22, undertheradar.co.nz

The Fringe Bar hosts a night for the love of pole. Can you spin on it?

Can you swing on it? Can you hang upside down with your legs crossed, squeezing tighter than your shoe fillers have ever squeezed before?

The Longroom’s night of burlesque has mixed things up and moved to Friday. The likes of Miss Cherry Lashes, Foxie French, Trixxie Vixen, Honey Dazzle and Miss V will be keeping your eyes fixed.

Onra

Birds of Paradise

Six60

Khuja

Sawmill Cafe, Leigh

Powerstation

French beatmaker Onra heads to Auckland for a one off show at Khuja. The sound magician’s live performance will be recorded live for Red Bull Music Academy Radio with a number of bombshells on the support bill such as Julien Dyne, Funkommunity, Side Steps Quintet and more.

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8.30pm, $25-30, eventfinder.co.nz

Another weekend, another nunloading of good quality gigs. F In Math and Alphabethead play at Golden Dawn in Auckland; HDU with guests Glass Vaults and Bevan Smith play at San Fran Bath House in the capital; and down south The Bats celebrate their Free All The Monsters EP release in Dunedin.

10pm, $20, Door sales only

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8pm, $15-25, eventfinder.co.nz

9pm , $33-43, eventfinder.co.nz

Dating is hard. There’s a lot of awkwardness in unnecessary situations. But hey, at least you’ve got opposable thumbs. Birds don’t. This production shows how courting goes down in the ornithological world.

8pm, $40, ticketmaster.co.nz

Six60 has added another gig to their Auckland shows before heading overseas. The band play Friday and Saturday at the Powerstation – their last shows before doing the regional New Years rounds.

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Saturday 12 Art in the Dark

Berlin Burlesque

gig OF THE WEEK

Western Park

Sammy’s

8pm, FREE

8pm, $39, ticketdirect.co.nz

Usually a lot of burlesque goes down in Auckland and Wellington, so when a week of it turns up in Dunedin it’s a nice little treat. The Loons Circus Theatre is putting on Berlin Burlesque at Sammy’s, running through from Wednesday through to Sunday. Sexy circus dancing on a Saturday? There’s worse ways to roll.

It’s cool to have lights and a place to chill, but there’s something missing. Like culture. Enter Art in the Dark.

The second year of the event promises a bunch of family friendly entertainment using the landscape of the park. We’re rapt to see a contemporary light festival deliver across so many fronts.

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The Kings Arms, Mighty Mighty, Dux Live

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The Flying Nun parties continue with HDU and The Verlaines playing at The Kings Arms in Auckland; F In Math and Alphabethead finish off their shows at Wellington’s Mighty Mighty; and The Bats continue their EP release by celebrating down in Christchurch at Dux Live with The Puddle and Dear Times Waste.

Watercolours plays at the ninth issue launch party of Presence Magazine. Starting around 5pm, head along to Golden Dawn in Ponsonby before crossing the road to Art in the Dark. It’s kind of the best night Ponsonby’s seen since that time Dan Carter was dining in public and you got that sweet photo with him.

Heath Franklin’s Chopper

The Big Night In

The Opera House

Forsyth Barr Stadium

3pm , FREE

7.30pm, $35-40, ticketek.co.nz

Whether he’s mouthing off on 7 Days or working the right mix of abusive and cheeky, you’ll know the ‘stache and the aviators. Famous for being someone else famous, Heath Franklin is bringing his most popular character Chopper to New Zealand big cities and small towns, and takes the stage in the capital this Saturday.

Julia Deans

Beastwars

The Garden Club

Bodega

The fiery redhead songstress has had a big 2011. She’s been on the road with Anna Coddington, found critical acclaim with The Adults album and performances around the country and has been gigging solo everywhere from the farmiest of small towns to the skyscrapiest of cities. Julia Deans wraps up her mini showcase of gigs down in Wellington this Saturday.

auckland

SUNDAY 13 9pm, $10, undertheradar.co.nz

8.30pm, $20, undertheradar.co.nz

The Otago Daily Times is lighting up the Forsyth Barr Stadium this Saturday afternoon onwards. They’re calling it Coca Cola Christmas in the Park on speed, only without the carols. A wide array of performers from Dunedin and elsewhere are on the bill, as well as ensemble performances and an impressively large dance troupe.

It’s Beastwars’ last show before they head back to the studio. This year has been a big one for the band with plenty of awards and praise thrown their way, and no doubt they’ll be going down in style at Wellington’s home of rock. Make sure that you get your hands on some of that specially brewed Hallertau Beastwars India Pale Ale before it becomes nothing but a pale memory.

art and culture

Auckland Retro Fair Alexandra Park Raceway

10am , $5, Door sales only

Retro fairs are great. It’s basically like an afternoon festival of op-shops and craftmarkets. So when you see that there’s one going down at Auckland’s Alexandra Park Raceway with genuine retro goodies from the ‘50s to ‘70s with over 30 stalls selling the likes of furniture, china, jewellery, fabric, records, collectables and whatnot, it’s worth checking out.

Cesar Millan

Key

Claudelands Arena hamilton

daytime event

wellington

live music

dunedin

all ages

christchurch

film/tv

1pm , $45-145, ticketek.co.nz

Oh man. Cesar Millan. That guy just walks into a room and controls the bitches. He’s the leader of the pack.

He tells the craziest dog in the world to be quiet, and it does. He’s got a smile that warms middle-aged divorced women’s hearts. He trained Cartman into being a good boy. He truly is the dog whisperer.

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Australia’s favourite potty-mouth criminal parody is coming to a town near you this November… and he’s bringing a mate.

Chopper doesn’t like journalists; we’re on his list of people who can get fucked. When you’re told you’ve got interview time with him a few things go through your head, like that he is going to eat you alive and then tell you to harden the fuck up. I was almost as nervous as that time I shouted “west side” out in Whakatane. So when out-of-character Heath Franklin answered the phone it was somewhat of a relief. No fucks, no bloodies and no shits, suspiciously polite Franklin’s grasp of the English language was a lot more tame than his alter ego.

When you peel off the squiggly line tattoos and take off the handlebar mo, you get a rather anonymous Franklin. In Auckland for a brief stay before doing the comedy laps in Queensland and coming back here for a fifteen-stop tour, the “regular dude,” Franklin told us about the man behind the crassness and how the international ambassador of hard was born. ”I used to do a Chopper sketch at (Macquarie) Uni and took it to a Melbourne comedy festival,” he recalls.

Franklin says from that point, the TV executives leapt on it and gave him the opportunity needed to make the hard ass we all know. Everyone has that mate that does that odd thing when they go out. “I used to be that guy running around as Chopper at parties,” he laughs. The idea for Franklin came from watching the Eric Bana film “far too many times”. With the ‘real’ Chopper not giving too much away in reference material, the inspiration for Franklin’s alter ego grew from a mixture of frustration and attention. Early on in Chopper’s ‘career’ working at The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Franklin found himself ignored by the backroom TV folk. When he pulled out Chopper to speak up they all laughed and applauded, and listened. “People listen to Chopper,” Franklin says. “You get away with more than you usually would. Chopper is the best way to get an immediate reaction.”

Franklin met the real Chopper about six years ago and recalls it as being awkward. “It was pretty weird. He’s a hard guy to get along with – I think that’s the way he likes it.”

Having an alter ego as a full time job can get a little confusing at times.

Franklin says he finds himself and others dropping the f-bomb after shows. He also said there was one time where Chopper made his way into his head. “I had this dream that I was Chopper. It was pretty weird, walking round as him in my own head.” Franklin also likes taking a break from Chopper and hanging and talking serious (yeah I’ve seen him on TV too and thought that was shocking).

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Chopper has been to the UK but Franklin tends to keep him to Australia and New Zealand. “I found it was a really long way to fly to do a show for Australians,” he jokes. Franklin is looking forward to touring New Zealand; we are a little less disruptive than our Australian cousins.

Occasionally, he says, there’s a guy or two who sit there and yell at the stage. He’s also quite looking forward to taking some down time to see the country – although he’s been here before, his schedule’s usually too demanding to get out and look around.

This tour is Chopper’s A Hard Bastard’s Guide To Life and brings Man Vs. Wild’s Bear Grylls to New Zealand (in alter ego form). Franklin has brought him out to shows in Melbourne and Western Australia and says they went real well. The tour looks anti-establishment with the fucking around that has induced a “self-congratulatory, bargain-priced, capitalist-induced anxiety wank-storm,” in its sights. It’s a 60 minute blow-by-blow guide on how to punch life in the guts, and it should be well worth a visit to the provincial theatres for something other than the local high school’s annual interpretation of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

BYO moustache.

WRITTEN BY JUSTIN FOWLER SEE HIM LIVE: CHOPPER 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 CENTRE, CHRISTCHUCH FRI 19 NOV SKYCITY THEATRE, AUCKLAND SAT 19 NOV HAWKES BAY OPERA HOUSE, HASTINGS SUN 20 NOV WAR MEMORIAL THEATRE, 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

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Katherine Patrick is the operations manager for Art in the Dark – a weekend-long installation of contemporary art held in Ponsonby’s Western Park in Auckland. Patrick told Groove Guide about how Art in the Dark came about, and what ’s in store for the event happening this weekend.

Like most great things, Art in the Dark was born out of a drunken conversation. I met Celia Harrison, then a student of spatial design at AUT and now Art in the Dark’s Creative Director, back in the days when I still thought it was OK to wear fake glasses to house parties in Grey Lynn.

Celia wanted to run an event as her final graduate project and in all my faux-near-sighted earnestness I nodded on, impressed as she explained her research on catalysing community through participatory event practice. (Or I was soon to understand a little better once sober; making sure, rather than just looking on, the public can get involved and go beyond spectator status.) Adjusting my pointless spectacles, I mumbled a whisky-ed rhyme involving the words ‘park’ ‘dark’ and ‘art’ (which I probably pronounced ‘ark’ for continuity’s sake).

I quickly learnt that Celia is the kind of person who gets stuff done.

One meeting later and all the clichés of cogs and wheels in motion applied. A committee was gathered: Adelle Rodda as Environmental Consultant (babe), Hannah Cooke as Media Manager (babe), Xanthe Harrison as Graphic Designer (babe), I became the Operations Manager (admirer of babes) and Celia was the enormous brain behind it all as Creative Director (and of course, babe).

The event took shape. We wanted it to be local and so elected Western Park as the host space. We then set the challenge of projects that had to be eco-friendly and be stunningly illuminated at night, wanting to attract a broad spectrum of artists from different disciplines. The formula worked. We made our way through the successful inaugural event last October by never having time to argue, being gratuitous with high fives, making sure there were always snacks at meetings and throwing plenty of launch parties.

It was a success and we were exhausted. Overwhelmed by local support, we watched thousands of people potter through Western Park. Incredible illuminated pieces were much admired as picnics were munched on the embankments, kids ran happily riot and residents rediscovered a space they’d forgotten. Projects ranged from a tiny, intricate city built into the water fountain, to a giant glowing chandelier made of recycled milk bottles suspended between trees, to sound installations that reverberated through the park’s ideally cavernous middle.

Celia’s genius prevailed and the committee has reformed to bring Art in the Dark back to Western Park on 11 & 12 November. We want it to be bigger and better and so the team has expanded to include such grown-

up positions as a Sponsorship Manager – Joy Ramirez (babe) and a PR person – Ella Mizrahi (babe). We’ve got a sexy new website, a volunteer programme and all that amazing support all over again.

There are returning artists from last year as well as a few fresh faces, and I’m once again simultaneously in awe and a bit jealous of the creative minds Art in the Dark attracts. (I’m reassured by Celia that how good I am at filling in health and safety forms more than makes up for the fact I’m so bad at art I can barely make a stickperson’s gender clear.)

The best thing about being part of Art in the Dark is that it is crucially collaborative. When great minds don’t think alike but find a common ground they are passionate about, very good things happen. (Still. If there was a competition for filling out health and safety forms, I would win. Just saying.) 2011’s line-up is already looking pretty flash. Here’s a cryptic taster: we’ve got giant light-boxes, sea-mapping, live video gaming, an acoustic western, glowing knitting, smoky rainbows and zooming wings to obscurely name a few.

I’ve realised New Zealand is a decent place to get things off the ground.

There is a unique enthusiasm here that is hard to beat. Considering that all we started out with were a few bits of paper, big smiles and a promise that we could make it happen, faith in us was maintained by everyone and we were given a real chance. Now we’re part of an event that will be sticking around for a while and eventually, we hope, evolve to be as celebrated as similar happenings worldwide. This country is full of creative talent that deserves to be showcased and celebrated, and Art in the Dark really likes doing just that.

Written by Katherine Patrick PHOTOGRAPHY BY LIA KENT Art in the Dark Fri 11 Nov - Sat 12 Nov Western Park, Auckland

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Director Steven Soderbergh talks about the frightening truths that went into his latest action-thriller about a viral outbreak, Contagion.

There have been other movies about viral outbreaks. Did you feel that the timing was right to make a movie like Contagion?

Well, I guess we’re going to see. The only thing that might indicate that the timing might be good was my reaction to Scott [Z. Burns, screenwriter] proposing this, the reaction on the part of the Participant [Media] when we went then to float the idea of developing it, and the reaction from Warner Bros. when we presented them the script. Everyone felt there was a place for an ultra-realistic film about this subject. Nobody hesitated. It all happened very quickly, uncharacteristically quickly, actually, considering what the business is like now for adult dramas. So that made me feel like maybe we were on to something.

How did your involvement with this project change your behaviour?

I don’t know that my behaviour’s changed. I’m just really aware of it now. I was handed some lip balm by one of the makeup people, which I took a Kleenex and cleaned off, but who knows if that worked. So, don’t get near my mouth. Having gone through it, I’m always going to be conscious of it now. It was fun during the previews to watch the lights come up and 400 people realize that they’re next to a bunch of strangers and that they’ve touched everything. You could tell they weren’t happy.

Were there any conventions of the thriller genre that you were consciously avoiding with this film?

Yeah, the one rule that we had was we can’t go anywhere one of our characters hasn’t been. We can’t cut to a city or to a group of extras that we’ve never been to, that we don’t know personally. That was our rule.

And that’s a pretty significant rule to adhere to in a movie in which you’re trying to give a sense of something that’s happening on a large scale. But we felt that all of the elements that we had issues with prior, when we see any kind of disaster film, we’re sort of centred around that idea – that suddenly you cut to Paris, where you’ve never been, and something happens. And it’s a bunch of people that you don’t have any emotional engagement with. So, we were trying to have it be epic and also intimate at the same time. That was rule number one.

Can you talk about shooting the movie in terms of the balance that you got between the big spectacle and the most intimate moments?

I was just trying to keep it very, very simple. That meant the entire film’s shot with two lenses, basically. And when I would look at a scene, I would try to figure out how few shots I needed, as opposed to how many.

I really wanted it to be, in terms of style, one of the simplest movies that I’ve ever made. Often that can require more than just walking in and saying, “I’m just going to cover the hell out of this and I’ll figure it out later.” My approach was, “I really want to keep this simple and want every shot to have a purpose and want every cut to have a purpose. I don’t want any waste.” If you pulled one shot out, it meant something would be diminished. So, that was really it – eye-level, no crane shots, no throwing the camera around.

One of the reasons that you cast Jennifer [Ehle] was because you had seen her work that did not make it into the movie she was in.

Can you talk about that?

I’d known who Jennifer was for a long time. And this didn’t take a lot of thought, honestly. I have a somewhat long list of people that I’ve seen over the course of my career that I’ve thought, “Wow, they would be great to work with.” So I’m just glad that worked out.

Did you know she would be able to handle the technical work that her character does?

I knew by her saying yes that she was willing to take a run at some very complex language. One of the most difficult scenes in terms of the language in the movie, is the explanation when she says, “Okay, look, we know what it is now. The green part is this and the red part is that.” At one point we were shooting a scene and Ian [Lipkin, a consultant on set] said, “Well, she should say that it’s morphologically-pathoneumonic.”

And I said, “I can’t ask another human being to say that.” There’s just no way. But I was amazed that not only could she say it, she could say it as though she truly understood it, which, as a writer – and I’m sure everybody else up here feels the same way – when you have somebody who can do that, it means that your script can live.

Contagion opens in cinemas Thu 10 Nov

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WELLINGTON gig guide Wed 09

Good Luck bar

Bodega

Hotel Bristol

Throw it to the Fire w/ The Placid Saints & Glass Eye & the Carnies: 8:30pm: $5

El Horno Chris Bryant

Good Luck bar

Wednesday Rice & Shine w/ Yinface & Samu: Free

Matterhorn

Thursday Best Fortune: 4pm: free Kokomo

Mighty Mighty iiii Festival: 8pm: $10

Molly Malones In Like Flynn

Bodega

BeastWars: 9pm: $10

Good Luck bar

Good Luck Saturdays w/ HypeasGus B2B Kev Fresh: 4pm: Free

Matterhorn

Funkommunity Album Release Party: 11pm: Free

Fri 11

MIGHTY MIGHTY TURNS 5: 4pm: $5 or free w/ costume

Sandwiches

Wake Less: 7:30pm: $20 / $15

What Happened to the Techno: 11pm: Free

TV PARTY #3 w/ Shock Futuro: 8pm: Free

Bodega

Southern Cross

Mighty Mighty

Good Luck bar

Meow

Azphodel: 9:30pm: Free

San Fran Bath House The Dauntless LAST SHOW: 9pm: Free

Southern Cross Kroon for your Kai ft.

Danny Moon: 7pm: free

The Flying Burrito Brothers Carlos Navae Sol Sessions

The Checks: $25

Arvo Show featuring Reptet: 4pm: Free

Easy Tiger w/ Ralphhimself, Izz The Wizz & HypeasGus: 4pm: free

The Garden Club

Mighty Mighty

The Lido Cafe

MIGHTY MIGHTY TURNS 5: 4pm: $5 or free w/ costume

Sandwiches

Broken Soul ft. Tokyo Prose: 11pm: $10

Southern Cross

Julia Deans: 8:30pm: $20 Darren Watson & The Real Deal Blues Band: 8:30pm: Free

The Opera House

Heath Franklin’s Chopper in A Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life: 7:30pm

Amalagamatez: 9:30pm: Free

Thu 10

Sat 12

Bettys function house & bar

BATS Theatre

The Digital Sisco: 10pm: Free

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BATS Theatre

The Session: 10pm: Free

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Southern Cross

Recovery Sessions w/ the Dreamers: 3pm: Free

The Library

Sunday Live Music

The Lido Cafe

The Boptet: 7pm: Free

Tue 15 BATS Theatre

Wake Less: 7:30pm: $20 / $15

Sun 13 Public Bar & Eatery The Sunday Jazz Club

Bodega

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

Good Luck bar

Cheerful Tuesdays: Free

Wake Less: 7:30pm: $20 / $15

Otago gig guide Wed 09

Thu 10

The Good Oil (Dunedin)

Cadrona Hotel (Wanaka)

Opium Bar (Wanaka)

Whare Flat (Dunedin)

Wattie’s Cans Film Festival

Hoyts Cinema (Dunedin)

Wattie’s Cans Film Festival

Reading Cinema (Queenstown)

Wattie’s Cans Film Festival

Red Rock (Wanaka)

ASH & THE MATADORS - AN EVENING ECHO Album Release Tour w/ Jo Little: 8pm: Free

Rialto Cinemas (Dunedin)

Wattie’s Cans Film Festival

Subculture (Queenstown)

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

ASH & THE MATADORS - AN EVENING ECHO Album Release Tour w/ Jo Little: 8pm: Free

Rialto Cinemas (Dunedin)

Show Me Shorts Film Festival

Subculture (Queenstown)

The SubStation: 9pm: Free

Acoustic Fridays

Whare Flat (Dunedin) Circulation Festival: $140 + BF

Circulation Festival: $140 + BF

Sun 13

Sat 12

PLAYHOUSE THEATRE (Dunedin)

Debajo (Queenstown) Class In Session

Forsyth Barr Stadium (Dunedin)

DANCES ABOUT LOVE: 7pm: $15, $10

Whare Flat (Dunedin) Circulation Festival: $140 + BF

The Big Night Inn

Fri 11

PLAYHOUSE THEATRE (Dunedin)

Fortune Theatre (Dunedin)

DANCES ABOUT LOVE: 9pm: $15

Subculture (Queenstown)

RNZB Presents: The Sleeping Beauty

Late Night Improv

DJ Downtown Brown (Sunshine Sound System) & Turbohag: 9pm: Free

Regent Theatre (Dunedin) Subculture (Queenstown)

Angel Delites: 9pm: Free

Mon 14 Whare Flat (Dunedin) Circulation Festival: $140 + BF

Tue 15 Whare Flat (Dunedin) Circulation Festival: $140 + BF

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auckland gig guide Wed 09

Racket Bar

Florrie McGreals

1885 Basement

Rakinos

GBS Bar

Rising Sun

Glen Eden RSA

Creative Jazz Club: Reuben Bradley: 8pm: $10

Kings Arms

Bic Runga & Guests: 8pm: $30 w/ b Card

Mexican Cafe

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

Ponsonby Social Club The Circling Sun Band: 10:30pm

Racket Bar

Cian & Isaac Aesili: 6pm: Free The Drop: 8pm: Free Freaky Meat ‘Delicatessen’ National Tour: 8pm: $10

Sale St

Selecta Sam, DeeWhy: 6pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club

Taye Williams: 6pm: Free

The Deck - SKYCITY

Benn Morrison: 6pm: Free

DJ Manual Bundy & Guitarist Dixon Nacey: 6pm: Free

Rakinos

The Kings Arms

Playing Up: 9pm: Free

Sale St

Jason Eli: 6:30pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club Lokey: Free

The Neighbourhood Brewbar Acoustic Wednesday w/ Eli: 7:30pm

The Thirsty Dog

World Famous Pub Quiz w/ Sandy: Free

Soloman & Special Guests: 8pm: Free

The Mercury Theatre

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

The Neighbourhood Brewbar DJ Isaac Aesili: 7:30pm

The Thirsty Dog Thirsty Dub, Ska & Reggae: 7pm: Free

The Wine Cellar

Fri 11

CrossRoads Bar

1885 Basement

New Brew

Maria Flaherty Duo: 5:30pm

Northern Steamship Trading Co Soundlounge ft. Eli Guttenbiel: 6:30pm

Nuffield Street Trading Co. Brewbar Acoustic Thursdays w/ Waylon: 7:30pm

Ponsonby Social Club

Occupational Therapy ft. Bobby Brazuka & TDK: 7:30pm

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Ink & Coherent

Evil 9 (UK) Timmy Schumacher, Page3, Phillipa & Soane: 10pm: $10

Juice Bar at the Windsor Castle

Rock for Starship w/ Blam Blam Blam & special guests: 7:30pm: $25

Khuja

Shadowmovement: 10pm: Free

Khuja

#Jusayin Presents: Onra: 10pm: $20

La Zeppa

DJ Selecta Sam

Tabac

REKKIT presents: Pikachunes, She’s So Rad, $noregazZzm & Heavenly Creatures: 9pm: $10

The Britomart Country Club

Latin Aotearoa: 6pm: Free

The Crib

The Tall Poppies: Free

The Deck - SKYCITY

DJ Thane Kirby & Percussionist Joe Box: 8pm: Free

The Elephant Wrestler Lee Gray Duo: 9pm

The Mercury Theatre

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

The Supper Club

Underground Stylz w/ Dubby24 ft. Vitamin K: 11:45pm: Free

The Thirsty Dog Trench Bar

Andy JV: Free

Birds of Paradise: 9pm: $42.

Greg Churchill, Angela Fisken & Aaron Pony Club: 11pm: $10

Friday Night

Lucha Lounge

1885 Britomart

Leigh Sawmill Cafe

Ink

Snapdragon

Union Post Brew Bar Vector Arena

2Five9 Jazz Trio: 10pm: Free

Shanalog Nature EP Release: 8pm: $10

Kara Gordon: 8pm

DJ John Holmes: 8pm

The Brood & The Monotonics: 8pm: Koha

Portishead: 7pm: $100

Khuja

Glen Eden RSA

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Birds of Paradise: 9pm: $42.50

1885 Basement

Derty Sesh: 9pm: $10

Eddie Manukau: 8pm

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

Leigh Sawmill Cafe

Thu 10

Juice Bar at the Windsor Castle

Dean Te Paa: 8:30pm

Sales St

Bleeding View, Nomadic Snails & Poor You Poor Me: 8pm: $5 Acoustic Guitar: 9pm: Free

Singer/Songwriter Comp: 8pm: Free

Franko: 9:30pm

Chip Matthews & Tido: 10pm: Free

1885 Britomart

Preferential Treatment: Nyntee & Andy JV: 8pm: $10

Earl Grey, Kadet & Lamplight: 8pm: $5

Mexican Cafe

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

Neighbourhood Brew Bar DJ Lo Key & DJ Killamanraro: 5:30pm Allegro: 8:30pm

Basalt

Brew On Quay

Nuffield Street Trading Co. Brewbar

Phil Stoodley Duo: 8:30pm

Canfly Studios

The Canfly Sessions: 7pm: $15

Cassette Nine

MUM Club ft. Dictaphone Blues & Beach Pigs: 10pm: $5 / $2 w/ b-card

DJ Normski: 8pm

DJ Tony Tunes: 6:30pm

Ponsonby Social Club BPlus & Zane Tee

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

Coherent

Racket Bar

CrossRoads Bar

Rakinos

Bulletproof, Teknik, Pakage & Incognito: 11pm: $10 Habana Noches w/ Cuban Accent: 8pm: Free

De Post

Brett Polley: 7:30pm

twentyone

DJ Karn Hall & DJ Sample Gee: 8:30pm: Free

U.F.O

Live@UFO: 9pm: $10

Western Park

Art in the Dark 2011: 8pm: Free

New Brew

Northern Steamship Trading Co

Jason Smith: 9pm

Fridays at Trench Bar: Free

Murray Sweetpants & Sweet Mix Kids: 6pm: Free KANO: 10pm: $10

Rising Sun

Anthesiac, Lion eyes, Grass Cannons: 8:30pm: $10

Sat 12

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auckland gig guide 1885 Basement

Racket Bar

Western Lights

The Marina

1885 Britomart

Rakinos

Western Park

The Windsor Castle

Bobby Brazuka: 11pm: Free We Own The Night: 10pm: $10

Black Salt

Franko & James: 8pm

Brew On Quay

Jason Skelton Duo: 9:30pm

CrossRoads Bar Dirty Blues: 8pm: Free

De Post

Mark Tronson: 8:30pm

Florrie McGreals David Shanhun: 9:30pm

golden dawn

Presence Magazine Issue #9 Launch ft.

Watercolours: 5pm: Free

Herald Theatre

Cabaret Askew: 5:30pm: $28-$30

Khuja

DJ Sam E & Jerm: 8pm: Free POWER: The Battlecry After Party: 10pm: $10

Rising Sun

Kara Gordon Band: 9pm Art in the Dark 2011: 8pm: Free Ricky Bobby & Reality Check Split Tour: 11pm: $10

Sale St

Wine Cellar

Salvation Kitchen

Andy Gibson, Ashley Noel Hinton, Brendan Turner & Callum Gentleman: 8:30pm: $10

Jackal w/ The 7th Bed Chemical, Halo of Ashes & Kittyhawk: 8pm: $5

Snapdragon

Saturday Night: 6pm

The Britomart Country Club Cian, Lewis Tennant, RIA: 2pm: Free

Sun 13 Corelli’s Cafe & Bar Sandpaper Tango: 6pm: Free

CrossRoads Bar

The Hospo Sessions : 3pm: Free

Garrisons Public House

Andrew Mockler: 1pm

The Crib

Goode Brothers

Split Second: 10pm: Free

David Shanhun: 4pm

La Zeppa

The Deck - SKYCITY

Khuja

1 OUT 2 VS 2 BATTLE TOURNAMENT: 3pm: 10

Neighbourhood Brew Bar

DJ Jason Eli & Percussionist John Ellis: 8pm: Free

The Kings Arms

Ponsonby Social Club

NICK BARRATT, MOUGUI & MAVS, TELEPATHY COUNCIL: 8pm: $5 DJ Laura Lush: 8pm

DJ Andy JV DJ Normski: 3pm

New Brew

Lee Gray Duo: 8:30pm

Northern Steamship Trading Co DJ Jason Kyle: 8pm

Flying Nun 30th anniversary w/ HDU & The Verlaines: 8pm: Pre-sales $22

The Mercury Theatre

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

The Thirsty Dog

Point View School

iSwap Clothing Swap: 10am

Retro Vixens III w/ The Hollow Grinders, The Stray Hearts, Wild Bill & The Chronic Sideburn: 9pm

Quay St Clubrooms

twentyone

Acoustic Sessions w/ Jonny Love: 7pm

DJ Sample Gee & DJ General Lee: 9:30pm: Free

Tue 15 1885 Basement

Creative Jazz Club International: Cor Fuhler: 8pm: $10

CrossRoads Bar

Retro Vixens 3-By Day: 1pm: Free

Shadows Bar

Starlight Sundays: 5pm: Free

Whammy Bar

Ritual 001: 10pm: $10 DeeWhy, Dean Campbell: 7pm: Free

Riqi Harawera: 1pm

Conch Sunday Grill: 5:30pm

Garage Daze: 9pm: Free

Empire Tavern

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

one2one

Tuesday Open Mic: 6:30pm: Free

Ponsonby Social Club Beats, Eats & Co: 6:30pm

Racket Bar

Code 107: 6pm: Free

Rakinos

Acoustic: 5:30pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club

Laura Lush: 6pm: Free

The Kings Arms

Rakinos

All The Way Live: 6:30pm: Free

Kings Arms Quiz: 7:15pm: Free / MAINZ: KICK OUT THE JAMS TOUR 2011: 8pm: Free

Sale St

The Windsor Castle

Taye Williams, Selecta Sam: 1pm: Free

Open Mic Night w/ Kiwi FM: 9pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club

Lokey, Dylan C: 2pm: Free

The Deck - SKYCITY

DJ Nyntee & Saxophonist Lewis McCallum: 5pm: Free

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hamilton gig guide Wed 09

Cubbyhole

Cubbyhole

Great Lake Centre (Taupo)

Cubbyoke Night

Event Cinemas

Wattie’s Cans Film Festival

Hoyts Cinema (Te Awa) Wattie’s Cans Film Festival

Muso Jam Night

Heath Franklin’s Chopper in A Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life: 7:30pm

Cambridge Municipal Band Rooms

Cambridge & Districts Pipe Band

Flagons & Foxtrots

Celtic Music Session

Cock & Bull

Fri 11

Hamilton Workingmen’s Club

Sierra Cafe (Taupo)

Static

Marilyn Kingi & Friends

Waikato Museum Musical Feast

John McGough DJ/Trumpeter

Fri 11 Hayden Booth: 6pm

‘Live @ Static’ - MAINZ Kick Out The Jams Tour: 8pm: Free

Redoubt Bar

Power House Karapiro

Huntly and District Workingmen’s Club Huntly Jam Club

Thu 10

The Meteor

monkey feather night club

New Blood club night: 10pm: free

The Nulkes

Static

Freaky Meat ‘Delicatessen’ National Tour: 9pm: Door Sales: $10

Ngaruawahia RSA Traffic Jam

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hamilton gig guide

Christchurch gig guide

Sat 12

Tue 15

Wed 09

Darkroom

Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts

Claudelands Arena

Ashburton Trust Event Centre

Hollywood 3 Cinemas

Diwali Night: 9pm: Free

Hayley Westenra: 7:30pm: $59.90 - $85

Hamilton Gardens

Cock & Bull

Canterbury Agricultural Park

Fri 11

Hoyts Northland

Beck Southern Alehouse

Wattie’s Cans Film Festival

Retrosonic

Hoyts Riccarton

Canterbury Agricultural Park

A Festival of Russian Ballet

Tuesday Trivia

Drum Circle

Canterbury A&P Show

Mole & Chicken Restaurant

Ukulele Jammin’ w/ Pumice Valley Whoopee Band

Orca Restaurant and Bar

Wattie’s Cans Film Festival

Regent Ashburton

Unknown Peace

Wattie’s Cans Film Festival

Static

‘Live @ Static’ - Frankie, Nick Raven + Ghosts of Electricity: 9pm

Thu 10

Magic Eye

Show Me Shorts Film Festival

Canterbury A&P Show / Smashbox

Pierside Cafe And Bar Beach Breaks w/ DJ Dmand

Sat 12

Sun 13

Aurora Centre

A Festival of Russian Ballet

Darkroom

Claudelands Arena

Becks Southern Alehouse

Pierside Cafe And Bar

Cesar Millan: $45 - $145

The Black velvet Band

Canterbury Agricultural Park

Canterbury A&P Show / Smashbox

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Fri 18 Nov Wellington Bluegrass Society, Wellington Sat 19 Nov The Bent Horseshoe Cafe, Palmerston North Sun 20 Nov Koitiata Community Hall, Wanganui Wed 23 Nov Fairfield House, Nelson Thu 24 Nov Franks Cafe and Bar, Greymouth Fri 25 Nov NBS Theatre, Westport Sat 26 Nov The Riverhouse, Wanaka Wed 30 Nov The Mussel Inn, Nelson Thu 01 Dec Le Cafe, Picton Fri 02 Dec Wanganui Musicians Club, Wanganui Sat 03 Dec Hastings Operatic Theatre, Hastings Fri 09 Dec Community Arts Centre, Whangarei Sun 11 Dec The Bunker, Auckland

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

Assassins 88 (AU)

Fri 18 Nov Tabac, Auckland

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

Fri 20 Jan Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears (US)

Wed 07 Dec Powersation, Auckland

Black Lips (US)

Tue 28 Feb Powerstation, Auckland

Bon Iver (US)

Mon 27 Feb Town Hall, Wellington Tue 28 Feb Town Hall, Wellington

Camp A Low Hum

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

The Checks

Auckland International Tattoo Convention Sat 26 Nov ASB Showgrounds, Auckland

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

Beastwars

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

Berlin Burlesque Beyond The Black NYE Sat 31 Dec Trentham Racecourse, Upper Hutt

Chopper

Thu 10 Nov Great Lake Centre, Taupo Sat 12 Nov The Opera House, Wellington Sun 13 Nov TSB Showplace, New Plymouth

Wed 25 Jan Powerstation, Auckland

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

Thu 17 Nov Golden Dawn, Auckland

Deerhoof (US) Circulation Festival

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

Fri 11 Nov - Tue 15 Nov Whare Flat, Dunedin

Defamer (AU)

Classic Hits Winery Tour 2012

Dum Dum Girls (US)

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 & Café, Waipara Sun 19 Feb Logan Park, Dunedin Tue 21 Feb Olssen’s 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

Creedence Clearwater Revisited (US)

Beirut (US)

The Damned (UK)

Danger Beach (AU)

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

Sat 12 Nov Bodega, Wellington

Wed 09 Nov - Sun 13 Nov Sammy’s, Dunedin

Tue 15 Nov Civic Theatre, Rotorua Wed 16 Nov Founders Theatre, Hamilton Thu 17 Nov Auroroa 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

Fri 18 Nov The Basement, Auckland

Fri 06 Jan The Kings Arms, Auckland

EarthTonz NYE

Sat 31 Dec Gobbston Valley Station, Queenstown

Eddie Izzard (UK)

Wed 09 Nov The Civic, Auckland Thu 10 Nov The Civic, Auckland Fri 11 Nov The Civic, Auckland

Explosions In The Sky

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

Farmageddon

Sat 03 Dec Waipu Cove, Waipu

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

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Upcoming tours & events Flying Nun 30th Anniverary

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 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 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

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

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Jordie Lane (AU)

Tue 29 Nov The Wine Cellar, Auckland Wed 30 Nov Biddy Mulligans, Hamilton Thu 01 Dec Happy, Wellington Fri 02 Dec Fairfield House, Nelson Sat 03 Dec Le Café, Picton Sun 04 Dec Nor’Wester Café, Amberley Tue 06 Dec The Church Café, Dunedin Wed 07 Dec Arthur St Café, Timaru Thu 08 Dec The Brewery, Christchurch Fri 09 Dec St Peter’s Hall, Paekakariki Sat 10 Dec Eggsentric Café, Whitianga Sun 11 Dec Tabac, Auckland

Julia Deans

Sat 12 Nov The Garden Club, Wellington

Kaikoura Roots Festival

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

Kate Bush Saved My Life

Wed 16 Nov Golden Dawn, Auckland Wed 16 Nov The Third and Social, Auckland Sat 19 Nov Golden Dawn, Auckland

Kurt Vile (US)

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

Ladi6

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

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

Incubus (US)

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

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Madeleine Peyroux (US)

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

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

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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

Nick Raven

Fri 11 Nov UFO, Auckland Sat 12 Nov Static, Hamilton Tue 15 Nov Crossroads Bar, Auckland Sat 19 Nov One2one Cafe, Auckland Tue 22 Nov Crossroads Bar, Auckland Fri 25 Nov Mangawhai Tavern, Mangawhai Fri 09 Dec The Pit, Wellington

Northern Lights Festival Fri 30 Dec - Mon 2 Jan Pakiri Beach, Pakiri

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

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 Fri 25 Nov Happy, Wellington Sat 26 Nov Star Tavern, Westport

Rhythm & Alps

Rhythm & Vines 2011-2012 Thu 29 Dec - Sat 31 Dec Waiohika Estate, Gisborne

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

Roky Erickson (US)

Wed 07 Mar Powerstation, Auckland

Fri 25 Nov Powerstation, Auckland

Pajama Club Lisa Crawley

Sat 28 Jan Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua

Mulatu Astatke (ET)

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

Guitar Wolf (JP)

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

Raggamuffin 2012

NZ Stonerfest

Fri 02 Dec Bacco Room, Auckland

Hall & Oates (US)

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

Phoenix Foundation

Roots Festival

Sat 03 Dec Town Hall, Auckland

Roxette (SE)

Sat 11 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland

Ryan Adams (US)

Tue 06 Mar Regent Theatre, Dunedin Thu 08 Mar Civic Theatre, Auckland

Selective Sounds

Tue 27 Dec TBC, Mangawhai

Shapeshifter

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

The Sisters Of Mercy (UK) Wed 22 Feb Powerstation, Auckland

Sat 03 Dec Wine & Food Festival, Christchurch

Pink Floyd Double Feature

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

Portishead (UK)

Thu 10 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland

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Fri 11 Nov Powerstation, Auckland Sat 12 Nov Powerstation, Auckland Mon 26 Dec Outdoor Marquee, Mangawhai Tavern Tue 27 Dec Outdoor Marquee, Waihi Beach Hotel Wed 28 Dec Outdoor Marquee, Coroglen Tavern Mon 02 Jan Opononi Hotel, Opononi Wed 04 Jan Brewers Field, Mt Maunganui Thu 05 Jan Outdoor Marquee, Butlers Reef Fri 06 Jan Station Village Complex, Lower Hutt Sat 07 Jan Outdoor Marquee, Riwaka Tavern

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Thu 15 Dec The Darkroom, Christchurch Fri 16 Dec The Darkroom, Christchurch Sat 17 Dec Dux Live, Christchurch

Stomping Nick & His Blues Grenade

Fri 02 Dec Bodega, Wellington Sun 04 Dec Rangiora Town Hall, Christchurch

Tuborg Summer Sunday Sun 29 Jan Matakana Music Mountain, Matakana

Thu 01 Dec Interislander Ferry, Picton Fri 02 Dec Meow, Wellington Sat 03 Dec Space Monster, Wanganui Sun 04 Dec Evil Genius, Wellington Fri 09 Dec Wine Cellar, Auckland Sun 11 Dec Interislander Ferry, Wellington

Fri 11 Nov - Sat 19 Nov BATS Theatre, Wellington

WOMAD

Fri 16 Mar - Sun 18 Mar TSB Bowl of Brooklands, New Plymouth

Fri 03 Feb Mighty Mighty, Wellington Sat 04 Feb Whammy Bar, Auckland

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

Thee Oh Sees (US)

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

Splore 2012

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

Tim Finn

Wed 30 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Thu 01 Dec Clarence St Theatre, Hamilton

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

Sun Araw (US)

Taylor Swift (US)

Vortex Tribe (US)

tUnE-yArDs (US)

Thu 12 Jan The Kings Arms, Auckland

TV Colours (AU)

Wed 16 Nov Third and Social, Auckland Fri 18 Nov Tabac, Auckland

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

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

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The official Playstation 3 7.1 wireless headphones make all the difference when you’re gaming with your games, watching your fancy Blu-Rays or ignoring your annoying livein on-and-off girlfriend. A good sound is equal to good graphics, and Sony has picked up on that.

This device is everything you want in gaming headphones.

You hear sound better and clearer, meaning that you pick up on more. If you’re playing a shoot-em-up, you can hear enemy footsteps and snipe that Nazi-zombie dead.

Obviously you’re going to want wireless, because cords are for the ‘90s and freshly born babies. The biggest letdown with these headphones however

is that they run off a USB stick as opposed to Bluetooth audio. Yes, Bluetooth audio sounds like a robot from the future according to a 1950s movie mixed with the annoyance of a dial-up modem, so the loss of a USB port in order to use these is probably better than that pain in the arse sound.

The microphone works well enough, buta needless problem is the volume control tucked all the way behind your ear.

All in all these are a solid pair of next-gen surround sound headphones that deliver exactly what you want out of a third gen console audio system. Bummer is they’re only available in the US at the moment, but if you can’t wait then check out your importer of choice.

Temple Run Smartphone Game Review You’d think that with any new smartphone game, the one thing the producers are aiming for would be to be the next Angry Birds. It’s a phenomenon that no other smartphone game has truly come close to – next on the list would have to be Doodle Jump, perhaps followed by Robot Unicorn Attack.

What some gaming studios do is let out a free version of their game. Not a lite or practice version, but more of a beta version.

Enter the time I found my new favourite smartphone game, Temple Run. Like the other runaway hit games, the addictiveness lies in the simplicity. Our little hero runs forward, and you swipe left or right to make him turn, swipe

up to make him jump and down to make him slide. He dodges obstacles and collects coins. The more coins collected, the more bonuses/speedups you can get along the way. If you don’t quite make a jump or accidentally side swipe a wall, then the monsters will get you. Because there are monsters chasing you.

It’s a very familiar game in one way – it’s basically that scene from Indiana Jones.

You know the one.

The one where he’s running. If your old Sega Megsystem II had an Indiana Jones game it would be this.

Have a search on the app store for Temple Run, and decide for yourself if this could be one of the next big ones to close in on the ever-popular Angry Birds.

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No doubt they were the most influential band after the Stones and The Beatles.

But for years, CD retailers were starved of their back catalogue and it was difficult to find anything that wasn’t a concert, box set or compilation.

Finally, under the ‘Why Pink Floyd?’ banner, EMI has stepped up with their own concept albums: A digitally remastered release of all originals as Discovery albums, a two CD Experience concept, including recording from the 1974 Wembley dates, and for those with

a Platinum Card, the five-disc all-singing, all-dancing Immersion CD/DVD box sets with more paraphernalia than you can shake an inflatable pig at.

First off the block was Dark Side of the Moon. And now, just in time for Christmas is Wish You Were Here, their second head-on meld of Hypnosis’ incredible concept art with Waters/Mason/Gilmours’ expeditionary compositions. Worth the trek on the Exploration CD is Stephane Grappelli’s violin solo on ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’, a honey-sweet alternative to Gilmour’s leads.

Plus there’s Water’s live-wire paranoia and a haunting bass on ‘Raving And Drooling’ and a slightly funky version of ‘You’ve Got To Be Crazy’. Still, the entirely pedestrian live version of “Have a Cigar’ seems like a little too much fluff in the pillow, and, to quote, like “riding the gravy train”.

Ever since A Collection of Great Dance Songs, I’ve thought that creating a ‘best of’ compilation of Pink Floyd was a bad idea. Taking songs out of both context and concept is like removing the cannon from the

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On the rear cover of Free Rein is an image of a quake-damaged building on Tuam Street in Christchurch. But rather than electioneering, or forcing an idea upon us, the thoughts it provokes are strangely reverential.

And so it is with the way this Garden City-bred four-piece approach their craft and their heroes – a brand of country music that rests within themes and general construction rather than sticking to uncompromising principles and the expectation that surrounds artists of the same ilk.

Lead songwriter Marlon Williams often evokes his hero, Mr Van Zandt, though at times he’s left crooning like Charlie Fink used to. It’s no criticism, though, as his talent for spinning words together over meat’n’potatoes-style instrumentation is incredibly entrancing, verses spilling graciously over into heady choruses. There’s nothing too fancy here, just simple and blindingly effective chord changes and the occasional vocal harmony. But my oh my, how genius it is.

While ever-popular Tool tour the world selling out arenas, singer Maynard James Keenan has a more subversive musical outlet up his sleeve: Puscifer. Conditions Of My Parole is the second album under this pseudonym and it is miles beyond their jokey but cool debut.

It is a masterful mix of electronic soundscapes, multilayered vocals and synthesizers, with some tongue in cheek rockers on the side. ‘Toma’ bristles with bad mojo while the fantastic title track revels in its tale of law breakers who can’t catch a break. Songs like ‘Horizons’, ‘The Weaver’ and the gorgeous ‘Green Valley’ are powerful emotive songs that reveal the heart of a true artist beating under Keenan’s famously rocky exterior.

With every release Puscifer evolves and strengthens its status as a fully formed musical ensemble rather than just some side project.

This is the soundtrack to the world’s strangest nightclub and you’re invited.

Tom Waits is a well-respected but crusty oddball, but to many he is practically invisible.

In 2011, 38 years into his career as both a musician and actor, he has released Bad As Me, his 17th album. What you find inside is wonky, gutbucket blues frequently howled at top volume. ‘Chicago’ shuffles and jives like vintage r’n’b caked in grime.

The fevered ramblings of ‘Hell Broke Luce’ terrify as Waits rails against horrors of combat.

But it’s not all hellfire and carnival tricks.

The slower, sweeter songs work their way under your skin and into your heart. ‘New Years Eve’ is a whiskey-breathed lament and ‘Talking At The Same Time’ plays a surf guitar waltz over a sandpaper falsetto.

Tom Waits is a larger than life character who is part pied piper and part devil’s advocate. His albums are brimming with brilliant, demented imagery and we would not have it any other way.

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1812 overture; you need the whole package to truly get it. But if you’re one of the three people in the universe who haven’t heard Floyd, then this is the best starter. A Foot in the Door is a fair career retrospective for one of rock’s most innovative and progressive outfits. That said, the selection predictably downplays the psychedelic days in favour of these best moments from Dark Side, Wish and The Wall. There are obvious omissions: ‘Arnold Layne’ and ‘Careful with that Axe Eugene’ to boot. But time constraints and a need to stay in the middle of the road probably played a role here. Longtime collaborator Storm Thorgerson adds his new, kind of groovy cover, although in these days of Photoshop, his approach does seems a little less dazzling. Naturally, the sound on all these recordings surpasses anything possible at Abbey Road or elsewhere.

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About half-way through Drive, Bernie Rose, the mid-level LA mobster character played

by Albert Brooks, is talking about his past as a producer of action movies in the ‘80s.

“Some people described them as…‘European’…” he says. Both times I’ve seen Drive, this line elicited a mild murmur of recognition from the audience,

as he is essentially describing the movie he is in.

On paper, Drive sounds pretty generic and at one point was destined to be a stockstandard action movie with Hugh Jackman in the lead role.

Thankfully, Ryan Gosling and crazy Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Valhalla Rising) came on board and

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With the deaths this year of Bin Laden and Gaddafi, The Debt’s examination of how a narrative forms around the murky truths of assassination and espionage is timely. When that narrative is part of the developmental process of a nation, as the Mossad’s plan to hunt down Nazi war criminals was for Israel, it can take on a life of its own, whether true or not.

Set in both the 1960s and 1990s, the film tells the story of an Israeli operation to bring a war criminal to justice and the effect liberties with the truth threaten to have 30 years later. Helen Mirren’s character has managed to live with this until pushed to confront it and her subsequent investigations and arguments with a former

delivering scorching supporting performances. Only Carey Mulligan (An Education) as the love interest, seems a little bit out of place.

A firecracker up the backside of the bloated modern action movie, Drive shows just how emotive and poetic the genre can be.

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created a modern masterpiece of stylistic austerity and unfettered cool.

A neon and synth-laden ‘80s fever dream, Drive manages to hold back where similar films go over the top. The opening car chase is excruciatingly slow, creating a sustained air of uneasy tension that finds release in brief flashes of extreme violence.

Gosling commands the screen with the effortless cool of Newman or McQueen – he has very few lines, but his actions speak volumes. Refn infuses even the most minor characters with complex identities, with Brooks and Ron Pearlman both

colleague (Tom Wilkinson) are intercut with the mission itself.

With this star power it comes as a surprise that The Debt’s strongest moments stem from scenes with younger versions of these characters; Jessica Chastain (Tree Of Life) proving a compelling screen presence and our own Martin Csokas a magnificent creep.

But for all this acting power on display,The Debt comes off as less than the sum of its parts.

Perhaps that’s because the film is so performance-focused that the broader ramifications of its characters’ actions aren’t immediately obvious, but it doesn’t manage to sustain the sort of tension nor provide a satisfactory resolution.

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It should have been a match made in heaven. Teaming up the stars of two of the more avant-garde and risqué romantic movies for the past few years – Love and Other Drugs and Across the Universe – with a Danish director who had already made an acclaimed, period-set literary adaptation.

Unfortunately the end result is a half-baked, virtually humourless, pseudo-romantic muddle that doesn’t do the much-loved book justice.

A cross between When Harry Met Sally (can they ever really just be friends?) and 500 Days of Summer (a distillation of a relationship’s falls and rises), One Day lacks the former’s wit and the latter’s invention. Part of the problem is that there’s little

chemistry between the leads, and the story’s brief running time and episodic nature doesn’t help that. Sturgess can’t transcend the fact that Dexter is basically an upper-class prat, while Hathaway just struggles with the accent and a terribly underwritten character.

Scherfig tries to enliven proceedings with clever Teachers-esque titles and a soundtrack that includes everyone from Tracy Chapman to Tears for Fears and Del Amitri to Fat Boy Slim, but you can’t help feeling this dreary tale could have done with a bit of fancy editing or narrative reconstruction.

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On Paper The Boys Comic Review

If there’s one massive release happening this month in the comics world, it’s the ninth release of Garth Ennis’ runaway hit, The Boys.

A lot of comic readers don’t like reading mainstream books – the likes of The Avengers, X-Men, Justice League, etc. These people are more into their indie publications, whether you’re looking at the festival-like cultures and themes that come out of Fantagraphics Books or creator-owned series. The Boys can appeal to these people in more ways than one.

Garth has a vocal disdain for superheroes. The Boys is his love note (or more of a Dear John) to the superhero comics universe. Set in a world where superheroes exist as marketing dreams as well as personified government defence contracts, Garth looks at what that kind of power can do to the ego of any given person who considers them self to be invincible.

Enter a covert CIA-squad informally known as The Boys to monitor that superhero community. The group that keeps tabs on superheroes and keep them in line. If a “hero” is acting out, then The Boys take them down, and take them down hard.

The storyline can be filthy.

Consider the likes of a Bret Easton Ellis book, where those with money and power eventually search for anything sadistic and abnormal to still feel some kind of excitement out of life. These “superheroes” rely on their image in front of the public, but behind the scenes they are sexual deviants,

murderers and rapists. They are corrupted by their status as celebrities, and end up compromising the safety of the world they carelessly take advantage of and end up endangering.

When it comes to creating badass characters, Garth has to be one of the best in the business. The multi-layered storytelling is as thought out and as serial as one of the writer’s previous (and most popular) series, Preacher.

Everything is foreshadowed so meticulously that it truly becomes a struggle to put the book down.

This month the ninth trade paperback will hit comic stands.

A whopping twelve issues will be combined into this collection, and by now there have to be answers set up to the multitude of questions readers have been asking for over a year. In an interview last year, Garth said that The Boys would “outPreacher Preacher”, and that the series would wind up around issue 70. That point is getting closer, and it’s been a hell of a ride so far.

If you want a good metaphor for the elite’s psyche, read this comic. If you don’t like superheroes, read this comic.

If you want to get into comics, read this comic. Unless the idea of blood, violence, sex and egomania disturbs you, there is no good reason for not reading this comic.

Written by Summer Thernomme

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In 1977 Tony Alva modified the Classic Authentic by adding collar padding and a heel cap for support, making the first shoe specifically for skateboarding.

matina amanita rings

By Vans Era Pro

$120.00 patmenzies.rocketspark.co.nz

BETTER BOARDING

By matina amanita

These quirky rings are so sweet. The gold-plated Forevermore ring (love heart) has a variety of coloured stones, and it also opens up like a locket for your true love’s photo.

By Anderson Surf Boards

$99- $259.00

hand crafted by Pete who lives in Whangamata.

Pete has been making boards since 1983.

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Crinkle dress short

By Ruby

Summer is blooming upon us in full swing, and with it comes summer fashion.

This adorable little pink number shows that things don’t need to be taken seriously this time of year, and you can just as easily relax as you can look good. $249 rubyboutique.co.nz

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Shit worth counting

Listophile Juice TV’s Alternative Broadcast.

1. You’re Not Invited LAS TETAS

2. Ready To Die THE CHECKS

3. Cigarettes BEACH PIGS

4. 3rd Eye BADD ENERGY

5. Intro (ft. Zola Jesus) M83

6. Buddy EVIL TWINS

7. Ffunny Ffriends (The Naked and Famous Remix) UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA

8. Flowers TEETH

9. Sicily Sea MMDELAI

10. Act On Impulse WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS

1. Shake it Out Florence and the Machine

2. Smash it Zowie

3. In Time

4. A Long Time

4. The Debt

Mayer Hawthorne

5. Blink and You’ll Miss a Revolution Cut Copy

6. The Origins of Slaves Cairo Knife Fight

7. Sweet Dreams The Grates

8. The Power & the Glory White Lies

9. Helena Beat

5. The Inbetweeners 6. I Don’t Know How She Does It 7. The Thing 8. One Day 9. Midnight in Paris 10. The Orator

Foster the People

10. Go Outside Cults

Dec ’11 – Feb ’12 Playlist

1. Minutemeningitis

MAKE SURE YOU VOTE SAT 26 NOV

Celebrating the influx of bands for summer

An aggressive body odour resulting from obsessively attempting to play guitar as well as Link.

3. Common Coldplay

A disease that deadens the senses, making it impossible to tell when tastes and sounds are objectively bad.

4. Wooden Shjips Dysplasia A deformation of the hip joint exacerbated by standing at the back of a gig in a flannel shirt with your arms folded.

5. Rubella Fitzgerald

Redenning of the skin and throat inflammation caused by trying to sing a three octave range.

1. Not Many Scribe (how many dudes you know enrol like this?)

2. Stop Drop Enrol Mareko

3. I’m on a Vote The Lonely Island

4. This Is The Way We Enrol MC Hammer

5. Tick Tick Boom The Hives

6. O.G. Ice-T (wouldn’t show mum the lyrics though)

7. Orange Crush REM

8. Yellow Coldplay (sounds orange when you listen to it in the dark)

9. Tick-it to Ride The Beatles

10. We Who are About to Vote Salute You AC/DC

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2. Anonymous

3. Black Sheep Gin Wigmore

TOP TEN FAVes: ORANGE GUY

2. Stink Wray

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1. Drive

Illnesses to watch out for Bacteria on the brain and Double Nickels on the Dime.

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Independent Top 10 Movie Chart

1. Hark The Umpire Deerhoof

2. Gangsta tUnE-yArDs

3. Ffunny Ffriends Unknown Mortal Orchestra

4. Family Tree Black Lips

5. Freak Train Kurt Vile

6. Blood On The Deck Thee Oh Sees

7. Horse Steppin Sun Araw

8. Paddling Ghost Dan Deacon

9. Jail La La Dum Dum Girls

10. Invader Ace Guitar Wolf

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LAUNCH PARTY at The Golden Dawn - Tavern of Power on the 12th of November (Saturday) from 5pm -

WATERCOLOURS with DJs Emily Miller-Sharma and Tono on late

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