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Shit worth announcing

Breaking news  Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti have announced two shows in March for Auckland and Wellington.

Announcements

 Regurgitator have announced one side-show while they’re over here for next year’s Big Day Out, playing at Wellington’s San Fran Bath House with Disasteradio on Wed 18 Jan.  Chart-toppers Seether have announced one NZ show next year at Auckland’s Studio on Fri 10 Feb.

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 The Jezabels have announced another show next month at Wellington’s Bodega on Sat 10 Dec.

Golden Autumn

 Another Menopause: The Musical string of shows have been announced. April and May next year will see the musical travel around the country with 18 performances.

Wellington four-piece The Golden Awesome will be playing four shows next month in celebration of their upcoming debut album Autumn, which is being released digitally this year followed by a CD release in January. The band will play in Wellington with Glass Vaults and Terror of the Deep, Christchurch with T54, Dunedin with Heka and in Auckland with Wilberforces and Autumn Splendour.

 The collision of street and theatre Random Acts is returning to Auckland’s Aotea Square in December.  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has become the best-selling videogame launch of all time, taking in over $775 million within five days.

02/12 R&V Update

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Deep breaths as we look at the complete line-up for Rhythm & Vines: Pendulum, Grandmaster Flash, Yuksek, Architecture in Helsinki, Zowie, Danny Byrd, Dick Johnson, The Ruby Suns, Die! Die! Die!, Nick D, Sampology, 1814, Ethnic Roots, Urulu, Chaos in The CBD, Philippa, Frank Booker, Grayson Gilmore, Brazil Beat Sound System, Calvin Harris, Erick Morillo, Cut Copy, A.Skillz, Six 60, Foreign Beggars, DJ Zinc, Busy P, 12th Planet, She’s So Rad, JStar, Homebrew, Eddie Numbers, Julien Dyne, Aural Trash, Scratch 22, Earl Gateshead, Jesse Sheehan, Jeremy Toy, Example, DJ Wire, Skream, Benga, Youngman, Tiga, Netsky, Beardyman, The Jordan Luck Band, Jack Beats, Kids of 88, Electric Wire Hustle, David Dallas, Ruby Frost, Recloose, Jillionaire, People of Paris, Pikachunes, The Thomas Oliver Band, Antix, Our:House DJs, Tim Richards, Thomas Sahs and Blackbird. A new stage has also been announced, along with plenty of campsite and other helpful info. Head to rhythmandvines.co.nz for more.

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Best of Nun

Nunvember is nearly over and the label is celebrating with a limited edition two-disc compilation set featuring The Clean – ‘Tally Ho!’; The Verlaines – ‘Death and The Maiden’; The Chills - ‘Heavenly Pop Hit’; Sneaky Feelings – ‘Husband House’; Look Blue Go Purple – ‘Cactus Cat’; Bird Nest Roys – ‘Alien’; The Bats – ‘North

by North’; The Great Unwashed – ‘Can’t Find Water’; Straitjacket Fits – ‘She Speeds’; Able Tasmans – ‘Fault In The Frog’; Fetus Productions – ‘What’s Going On?’; Jean-Paul Sartre Experience – ‘Breathe’; Garageland – ‘Pop Cigar’; Bressa Creeting Cake – ‘A Chip That Sells Millions’; Chris Knox – ‘Not Given Lightly’; Headless Chickens – ‘George’; The Mint Chicks – ‘Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!’; Phoenix Foundation – ‘40 Years’; Robert Scott – ‘Too Early’; Grayson Gilmour – ‘I Am A Light!’; The Pin Group – ‘Ambivalence’; The Gordons – ‘Machine Song’; The Stones – ‘Down and Around’; Children’s Hour – ‘Looking For The Sun’; Doublehappys – ‘Needles and Plastic’; Tall Dwarfs – ‘The Brain That Wouldn’t Die’; Snapper – ‘Buddy’; The 3Ds – ‘Outer Space’; Shayne Carter & Peter Jefferies – ‘Randolph’s Going Home’; Bailter Space – ‘Fish Eye’; Dead C – ‘I Was Here’; Skeptics – ‘And We Bake’; Solid Gold Hell – ‘Bitter Nest’; Dimmer – ‘Pacer’; Loves Ugly Children – ‘Space Suit’; High Dependency Unit – ‘Schallblüte’; Ghost Club – ‘Ghost Club Theme Song’; The Subliminals – ‘United State’; Shocking Pinks – ‘This Aching Deal’; F in Math – ‘Don’t Look Down’.

Swedish beauties First Aid Kit have been announced to perform in New Zealand next year as part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival. The sister duo will return to the country to play one show at the TelstraClear Festival Club in Odin’s Plaza on Thursday 08 March. In the meantime we’ll be getting ready to see what the Swedes have planned for their second album The Lion’s Roar being released in January.

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Our pick

The Axemen Cometh

Their original conception was during the 1981 Springboks protests, and 2009 saw some re-releases of their works and a USA tour with Times New Viking. Now The Axemen have announced four shows in December before heading to Australia as they celebrate the release of their limited edition 7” Nutsack/Nutsack Redemption Song. The band will play in Christchurch, Lyttleton, Wellington and Auckland. Dark Matter, Lo-Liners, Cranks, Terror Of The Deep, The Fetals and I.C.U will be on support at specific shows.

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Chicago rockers and Tarantino favourites Urge Overkill have announced one show in Auckland next year. The ‘90s indie-faves reunited for their album Rock & Roll Submarine released earlier this year, and will be heading to New Zealand shores in March for a show at the Powerstation. Whether you’re a die-hard fan or you just know that song that was on Pulp Fiction, there’s something in this show for everyone. Tickets go on sale over at Ticketmaster this Friday.

09/03 Dirty Thirty

An extensive nationwide tour kicks off in March next year for one of the country’s most iconic bands. The Exponents will be touring over two months from the main centres to the most regional of regions, playing 28 shows from Friday 09 March through to Tuesday 10 April. The massive tour is to celebrate thirty years of sing-alongs at bars and intermittent chorus stings at rugby games after a try has been scored.

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Shit Worth Knowing

PLAYING Google Music FAVourites WITH IVY ROSSITER OF LUCKLESS

Because it’s not running the world enough, Google has now launched its own online music store to battle the likes of iTunes and Amazon’s MP3 store, Google Music (only in service in the US currently).

This follows the launch of Google’s Music Beta which started up roughly six months ago.

The online shop is a part of the Android market and runs sharing through Google+. The service allows independent artists to sell directly to customers, potentially further making life harder for labels both major and indie.

Apparently Warner Music Group hasn’t yet

reached an agreement with the Google Music heads, but there are still around 13 million tracks on offer.

A key difference between Google Music and other online purchase services is that users are able to store their music collections online for free and access them from any computer.

Could this be the kick that Android needs to make it big in the smartphone and tablet world? Is iTunes time coming to an end?

John Key’s sweet raps?

Favourite drink?

Single malt whiskey, neat. At the moment my favourite is Highland Park 15 year, but I’m always open to suggestions.

Favourite restaurant/café?

Really love El Camino at the moment. Good Mexican is hard to find in this city.

Favourite takeaway?

New Flavour dumplings! they’re only $8 for 20 and they’re open til 4am!

Favourite classic film?

Chinatown – I watched it for the first time in New York City and it had a profound effect on me.

Favourite childhood memory?

I really liked the library at my primary school.

Every time I find one of the books I read there with the same cover I feel compelled to buy it.

Favourite vice?

Eating when I’m already full.

Favourite cause?

There are so many things to change in the world, I couldn’t pick just one. I wish people would be more thoughtful in the way they treat each other.

Favourite label to put on your relationship?

I never like to label a relationship; it makes it look like a pickle bottle.

Favourite 90’s TV show?

Twin Peaks, hands down.

Favourite word? loquacious.

Favourite type of groupie?

I’m a big fan of Pamela Des Barres’ book – so whatever she was I guess.

Favourite body part on someone else?

Hands – they’re always so different and unique.

Favourite venue?

The Wine Cellar is like my second home.

Favourite current TV show?

It’s an even tie between Downton Abbey and Game Of Thrones… although with Mad Men coming back who knows?

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“A lot of people don’t seem to realise that I’m still Johnny from the block. I’m not saying it’s a rags to riches story, but I’ve got a story to tell and I think the best way to do it is through my music.”

John Key’s rap debut is set to hit stores early next year. The album, entitled Nothin’ But A Key Thang, is due to be released in January. Key says that some of his biggest influences are Run DMC, A Tribe Call Quest and Vanilla Ice. “People give the Ice-Man a hard time, but look at what he’s accomplished. I can respect that.”

This will not be Key’s first foray into the music world. In 1997 Key wrote and produced his first pop ballad inspired by Celine Dion called ‘The Key To Your Heart’. The song was a financial and critical flop, but can be found in most Karaoke bars.

In the early 2000s Key started an indie pop four-piece, The Right-Honourables. Jim Anderton (drums), Tariana Turia (bass) and Don Brash (rhythm guitar) were also in the band, but due to constant bickering behind the scenes the troupe only managed to play three live shows and never got around to putting out an album.

“That was a hard time. We tried to compromise when it came to the band’s sound, but everyone was after different stuff.

I wanted it to be more rap, Jim wanted more jazzy percussion, Tariana wanted to be more involved in vocals, and Don was always just messy. One day he turned up to the studio covered in mud and dirt. He never told us why.”

When asked what he is listening to now, Key says that Dangerdoom is often rotating on his playlist, along with underground rap outfit Homebrew and Oakland based genredefying band Why?.

“I really wanted to see Doom when he came here, but I had some work s**t on. Couldn’t get out of it, which was a real bummer. I did get to see Why? when they came here in ’09 though, and me and Yoni [Wolf, lead singer] had a great chat about possible collaborations. I’m really into his lyrical style, even though I think he talks about masturbation too much.”

Key describes the album as having lo-fi production, with minimal samples but a heavy emphasis on basic beats.

“If you could imagine Sleigh Bells but with

me rapping over it? Yeah, kinda like that. It’ll be dope, totally underground.”

While underground, back to basics rap may be what he is after, Key says that he doesn’t want to start any “beef” with other crews.

“I’m aware that Phil Goff is letting out an album sometime next year as well. I wish him all the best. I don’t want any beef – there are enough problems with beef in this country as it is.”

Key’s own label, MNP records (My Neat Productions), which he runs out of a studio in his house, will be putting out the album.

“I was hoping to get [U.S. President Barack] Obama to help with the production, but he said he was busy which was a bit of a down buzz.”

Instead, Key sought Rodney Hide to assist with the production of the album.

“Rodney didn’t do all of it, but he helped.

We all know he’s got rhythm, right?”

Key didn’t give us a demo track, but we did get a look at some of his lyrics.

“I roll up to the party like a VIP / My beamer rollin’ on 40s ‘cause I’m MMP / I ain’t no tourist, girl come stand next to me / We gon’ do this thang in the Key of me.”

NB – this story is 100% false. As far as Groove Guide is aware, John Key nor any other politicians mentioned above are planning on starting a music career.

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Releases This Week

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Nickelback’s Here and Now; Flying Nun compilation Tally-Ho; Seal’s Soul 2; Chris Cornell’s Songbook; Rihanna’s Talk That Talk; Rolling Stones’ Some Girls; Stan Walker’s Let the Music Play; Various artists on Gospel God: Sounds for Your Soul; Jay Sean’s Freeze Time.

EARTHTONZ MUSIC FESTIVAL HUGE PRIZE

AUCKLAND Arts Series Next week will see The Arts Foundation launch New Zealand’s first arts awards.

The Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards and Arts Foundation have announced that they will be donating $360,000 to artists of all genres as they recognise the more creative outlets and avenues.

The red carpet ordeal will go down on Tuesday 29 November at the Viaduct Event Centre on Auckland’s waterfront. Ten New Zealand artists will receive awards for excellence including five $50,000 Laureate Awards, three $25,000 New Generation Awards, the $25,000 Marti Friedlander Photographic Award and the inaugural $10,000 Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award.

As well as the ceremony, the Auckland waterfront will host a series of free public events including the Wynyard Quarter Art Series, a film series, concerts, artist talks, installations and more. These will run from Friday 25 November to Sunday 11 December, kicking off with Arts Foundation Laureate Alastair Galbraith’s Wires project, in which a wire will be attached to a large silo at the western end of Wynyard Quarter turning it into a sound chamber.

For more information about the Art Awards or the waterfront series visit thearts.co.nz.

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Film News Ice Cube and New Line want to make another Friday film – the fourth in total. Word is Chris Tucker may even return to the franchise if it’s a go. Would you be ready for another one?

NBC has announced that the company is benching Community. It’s not cancelled; it just hasn’t been renewed for another season at this stage. Instead, the broadcaster has picked up a new show Legends.

Principal photography has wrapped for The Dark Knight Rises. That means everything is on track for Chris Nolan’s third and final instalment in the Batman franchise.

Considering the surprise hit The Dark Knight turned out to be with audiences everywhere, is there any possible way the third flick can live up to its predecessor?

Kristen Stewart is in talks to star in a leading role in the live-action version of the classic anime flick Akira. For or against?

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Shit worth doing

Thursday 24 The Clean

Hayley Westenra

The Kings Arms

Regent Theatre

7.30pm, $75-85, ticketdirect.co.nz

8pm , $32 , undertheradar.co.nz

The Clean play with The Subliminals and Surf Friends at the first of their four shows this week.

Whether you’re in your 50s and wanting some nostalgia, in your 20s and think you know all about the Nun bands or freshly 18 and the name Kilgour rings a bell, it’s well worth your time.

“You know why Hayley Westenra and Downton Abbey are exactly the same?” “No, why?” “Because they’re both crack for old people.” “What?” “Yeah.

They’re both things that old people love.” “How is that like crack?” “Okay, maybe not crack. But still.”

Arthur Christmas

Submarine

General Release

Selected Cinemas

Right, so your kids will love this. Your niece, your nephew, your little brother and/or sister, and maybe your nana too. James McAvoy, Bill Nighy, Hugh Laurie and other familiar British voices star in this animated Christmas tale about kids getting presents and efficient bureaucracy and protocols of the Santas.

The directorial debut of Richard Ayoade (more commonly known as Moss from The IT Crowd) is a goody. Fifteen-year-old Welsh boy Oliver thinks smart is cool but is socially inept, has a sad and melancholic family life at home and wants to get laid. Now doesn’t that just tick all the right coming-of-age-flick boxes?

#Eavesdropping4Lyfe

The Whistleblower

Charlotte Johansen

When A City Falls

Selected Cinemas

Bacco Room

Selected Cinemas 7.30pm, $15-30, eventfinder.co.nz

No matter who you are or what you’re into, you’d have to be a damn fool to pass up anything that Rachel Weisz is involved in. Except for The Mummy, maybe.

This true(ish) story follows an American policewoman who discovers US military involvement in child sex slavery and human trafficking in war torn Bosnia.

Somehow this songstress with an amazing name has flown relatively under the radar. This Thursday Charlotte Johansen celebrates the release of her third album Upon Waking...Dream.

Everyone remembers where they were. This documentary about the earthquakes that broke New Zealand looks from a grass roots angle at the day of devastation, going beyond the television footage we’ve all seen.

Friday 25 Flying Nun Parties

Our:House

The Kings Arms, Sfbh, CPSA

Ellerslie Racecourse

$17-22, undertheradar.co.nz

9pm, $50-60, iticket.co.nz

Fetus Productions and X Features play at The Kings Arms in Auckland; The Clean and The Subliminals continue their shows down at the Bathy in Wellington; and Delaney Davidson, Planet of Tapes, The Undercurrents, The Dance Asthmatics, Ipswich, Anthesiac and Miniatures play at the CPSA Building in Christchurch.

This thing again. The night where all of you ravers and dancers and legal-highs-while-you-can takers and not-so-legal-high droppers all come together to dance and wear crazy outfits. Maybe that’s making a gross generalisation. Avicii, Crookers, Pretty Lights, Optimus Gryme, Tim Phin, Dick ‘Magik’ Johnson and more all come together for this night of house.

Mulatu Astatke

Luckless / Bond St Bridge

Paua

Powerstation

Happy

Altitude bar

8pm, $68, ticketmaster.co.nz

The man commonly referred to as the father of Ethiojazz combining Latin, jazz, soul, funk and Ethiopian harmony plays with The Black Jesus Experience in his first ever New Zealand show. A vibraphone veteran with a penchant for percussion, Mulatu Astatke has found a new generation of fans, and this is your one chance to see why.

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8pm, $10, undertheradar.co.nz

Luckless and Bond Street Bridge continue their pilgrimage around the country as they take their mix of folk & rock to audiences everywhere between Dunedin and Auckland.

Friday sees them play in Wellington with support from Timothy Blackman.

7pm, $25, eventfinder.co.nz

It will be reggae central down at Hamilton’s Altitude Bar this Friday as Paua return to the Waikato. After a sell-out album release gig, Paua will be supported by local acts The Spiritz, One Drop Natives, Empire State, and Phul Ama.

Shit worth doing

Saturday 26 Vote Your Local Polling Booth

gig OF THE WEEK

Flying Nun Parties Mighty Mighty, CPSA

EVERYWHERE

$17-22, undertheradar.co.nz

“If you don’t vote you can’t complain” / “If you don’t vote then it means you’re happy with Government” / “Your grandparents died for the right to vote” / etc, etc. Whatever reason you’re told, it’s all true, even if it is overused. It’s you having your influential say as to who you think should run the country.

Things start to wind down on the Nun front this weekend, but Wellington’s Mighty Mighty is holding an election party with The Sharpie Crows, and The Clean along with The Subliminals take their tour down to Christchurch to play at the new venue of the CPSA Building, with the support reins held by T54.

International Tattoo Convention

Lisa Crawley

ASB Showgrounds

The Brewery

7pm, FREE

9am-9pm, $20-30, Door sales

The songstress gets closer to winding up her fivestop tour around the country this weekend as she arrives in Christchurch. After solo, cameo and group performances and recordings with the likes of Panther and the Zoo to Andrew Keoghan, Lisa Crawley is demonstrating the chops she’s got with her latest album Everything I Have Seen.

Whether you’ve just got the butterfly or tribal above your arse, the outline of New Zealand on your inner arm, your favourite pop culture reference on your forearm, a homage to your family on your shoulder or that drunken one saying that your best friend is a real star, there’s a place to go and celebrate everything inked, and maybe add a few more.

Scout Hall Massacre

Electrified

The Moody Blues

Rose Festival

Mt Eden Scout Hall

Studio

Michael Fowler Centre

Lady Norwood Rose Garden

9pm, $15, iticketexpress.co.nz

$10, Door sales only, 4pm

10am, FREE

8pm, $135, ticketek.co.nz

See what over four decades of rock can do. It’s more than a night of geriatrock as Justin Hayward, John Lodge and Graeme Edge continue their legacy with their first New Zealand tour in six years and their first ever show in Auckland.

Roses. They’re apologies plantonified.

They smell like similes. They’re super pretty. They come in loads of different colours. Some have thorns, but that’s probably poetic. Even better, they’re all on show at the Wellington Botanic Garden Rose Festival this Saturday.

Jordie Lane

OMG Comedy Show

Bic Runga

The Wine Cellar

Aurora Centre

Cathedral of St Paul

You know how sometimes when it’s a sunny day you go to a park and think “Man, there should be a gig with sweet bands and a barbecue or some shit here”, but you don’t have the initiative to ever do it? Well, some genius does.

The Electric Dynasty are throwing The Electrified North Island Tour this Saturday with big internationals Drumsound and Bassline Smith, Tali, Phaeleh and Mutated Forms all on the roster. WAUPs and DOOFs ensue at K Road’s Studio.

TUESDAY 29

7.30pm, $25, eventfinder.co.nz

8pm, $20, undertheradar.co.nz

Rolling Stone love him. He’s opened for the likes of Cat Power, Neko Case, Gotye, and Old Crow Medicine Show. Now Australia’s Jordie Lane is touring New Zealand in support of his sophomore album Blood Thinner, with Mel Parsons and Matt Langley on the roster as he kicks off his first show.

Ewen Gilmour, Jamie Bowen, Justine Smith, Urzila Carlson and Rhys Mathewson with MC Simon McKinney all come together for this one-off show at the Aurora Centre for Performing Arts. Why is it called OMG? Sometimes mystery is good in life.

Vortex Tribe

7pm, $65, 09 887 1004

Bic Runga plays the first of two nights at Wellington’s Cathedral of St Paul this Tuesday. If you thought a church tour might sound like an odd concept, know that the songstresses first church tour was back in 2004.

Fun fact.

auckland

art and culture

hamilton

daytime event

wellington

live music

dunedin

all ages

christchurch

film/tv

8pm, $45-70, ticketek.co.nz

If you were a beatnik type living in San Francisco and calling it Frisco and you snapped your fingers instead of clapping your hands and you called people “cat” and you had sunglasses that were circular and you listened to Latin-funk-jazz-swing-fusion, you’d go apeshit over Vortex Tribe. In a cool, hepcat way.

Key

Clarence St Theatre

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It ’s been 10 years since we first came to know the band that wasn’ t a band, Gorillaz. Was their conception a stab at the ‘90s marketing music mayhem? Was it ever meant to be more than that? And what of the band now? Were they ever really there?

2001 was a terrible year for music. The explosive growth in ideas and styles that had driven popular music throughout the ‘90s hit a very large and very heavy brick wall as the millenium finally ticked over. There was no Facebook, no Twitter, not even that lame old mare MySpace, but there was Limp Bizkit. Atomic Kitten. Westlife.

Until one day when Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett thought if people wanted unreal pop groups, why not give them a really good unreal pop group? One made up of wildly clichéd pop star types and manufactured to a superlative degree? Thus Gorillaz were born.

The make-up of the fictitious band was perfectly weighted. The blank, vacant, gorgeous pop star pin-up vocalist (2D); the solid but narcoleptic hip-hop drummer and musical heartbeat (Russell); the Zen-like, silent and impish Japanese girl guitar prodigy (Noodle); and, of course, the unhinged, scheming, alcoholic, Satanist bassist (Murdoc).

Gorillaz were a children’s cartoon idea of a pop group that took every wanton cliché and pushed it so far it became new again. But their influences were as diverse as their made-up band members. They were concept pop.

Of course, a virtual band needs a virtual world. Gorillaz created website Kong Studios (the cathedral of crap) and filled it with life.

The site itself was a whole new dimension of innovation. There were corridors to walk down and corners to hide in, games to play, tracks to remix and adventures to follow. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered around it, developing real relationships with both a band that didn’t exist and people they’d never meet. At Kong, fans were free to create and share their own version of Gorillaz, light years ahead of the digital pack. The take-up was staggering. For a while there, Gorillaz.com had more hits than all of EMI’s other artist websites put together.

The collision was immaculate.

When Gorillaz released ‘Clint Eastwood’, celebrated Pixar director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) reached out to thank them

for “saving” 2D animation. The very first awards from the Jim Henson Company honoured Gorillaz for the “revolutionary” way the band was created.

The Gorillaz’ way of serving up the goods meant other traditions were challenged. Received wisdom has it that if a band wants to break the US, they have to play every toilet venue in every hick town in every state before the American public will take them to their collective bosom. A year or two of trawling their animated asses round the live circuit? No need. The fresh and vibrant execution of Gorillaz was so right that 10 weeks after the debut album was released, 1 million copies were sold. All this before the ‘band’ had played a single concert.

When they did get round to a live show – not an easy ride for a bunch of drawings – it began with the four characters appearing on screens while a live band played in their shadows and silhouettes. As time moved progressed, so did the interactive performances. The 2002 Brit Awards saw the characters become 12-foot high computer-generated beings. At the 2005 MTV Awards they gave a holographic performance where the band was projected onto transparent screens.

They didn’t need that physical product either, becoming the first band to chart on downloads alone back in the dark ages of 2005. Eventually, there was only one way for this made up band to go. The live band and their legions of collaborators were now simply too many and too colourful themselves to be stuck behind a screen this time. Ten years on, their world was now so deep and full that the Plastic Beach world tour found the virtual characters being subsumed by the people who created and gave voice to them; their up-front positions usurped by the real live members, and their animated personas relegated to looming over the proceedings from a screen high above the stage.

Behind all the tricky conceits, the accusations of subterfuge or the perceived coldness of the digital delivery lay a very human endeavor.

It was the cartoon conceit that had actually allowed these artists to step away from their own egos and reveal the humanity, the creative spirit and the downright sense of fun within these performers and their audiences worldwide.

The circle was completed and pop regurgitated itself. So what, if anything, comes next for Gorillaz? Who can say. Once again the four fictitious characters have seemingly disappeared, wandering off on their separate ways back into the ether. Only time will tell if they’ll ever return. But does it matter? No, of course not. They were never really here in the first place, were they?

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One of matador records’ men of the moment, kurt vile walks a fine line between zeitgeist and disarray. courtney sanders discovers the rocker Says it best when saying nothing at all.

“I’M SORRY I’M just really tired”, notes Kurt Vile down the line in a hazy, vague tone that suggests he didn’t really listen to the question.

It’s the kind of tone that also cements his statement; dude really does seem tired, and it’s hardly surprising. “We toured from Philadelphia to Chicago for Pitchfork Festival with my friends Woods and then after Pitchfork we met up with Thurston Moore and toured down the West Coast. Then we toured back up as our own headliners and then we went to Europe for a month, and now I’m back home. There’s been a lot insanity but it’s ultimately been really good”.

Vile has been slowly courting attention since he began releasing solo material in 2008, but it was his second album on Matador Records (the first was critically acclaimed Childish Prodigy) Smoke Rings for my Halo – earlier this year - that has got him to name checking Thurston Moore and Animal Collective as touring buddies. “I also toured with J Mascis and he’d play every night just solo with his guitar. He just blew me away with these heartbreaker-type songs. It was all very Neil Young-esque and I’d just be backstage playing guitar along to his set. I’ve definitely had a lot of my wish list fulfilled this year.”

It’s an image fitting a man continually compared to Young, not so much for style as integrity. Vile is both ambiguous and ambitious, and doesn’t sweat the detail if the meaning is there. “I think a big part of that kind of heartfelt thing appeals to me, not even in a conscious way, I guess it just strikes a chord with me. I feel like every song I have written has a little bit of prettiness in it. Even like ‘Hunchback’ which is kind of a hammy song has something in there; I wrote it on acoustic guitar and if you hear certain guitar parts you’d be like ‘Oh yeah, that’s pretty’, even though the whole thing sounds edgier than those guitar parts. Which I think is a good thing”.

It’s hard to separate the man from the music, too. Polite and philosophising, his answers are never head on, winding around their subject until a mirage of an answer forms. His unkempt curls fall across the collar of a vintage t-shirt in

the unruly way both his life and thoughts seem to be organized. Remove the shambles however and Vile’s locks are quite lush; wavy over ratty, enviable even. Which, not to make an irrelevant metaphor - hair has always been the talisman of the rock star, no? – is kind of where Smoke Rings for my Halo fits into his back catalogue. “It was my first real quoteunquote “professionally” produced record for a label. I made my first record for Matador before they signed me; while I was making it was just all my own. I definitely felt pressure on myself before I started making the record because I had no idea how the songs would come out, and I knew that if I was going to make any kind of statement with my music this would be the record to do it with. I like Childish Prodigy - it caused a buzz in the underground and I’m totally proud of it - but as far as mass appeal this was the one I had to do it with because if I didn’t who knows where I’d be right now”.

He needn’t have worried. In ‘Baby’s Arms’ a watery, sundrenched melody wraps itself around Vile’s earnest romance, and two lovers fool around in a room sepia-toned bedroom among Penguin Classics, baseball caps and basketball singlets. It’s both clichéd and utterly genuine; Kurt Vile is tapping the zeitgeist at source. “I think this record just captured the way I sound when I’m just playing guitar on my couch.

The other ones were recorded on little digital eight tracks with cheap effects which was cool but I’m playing all the time now, getting better at guitar. I’m not working a day job anymore and I have time to think about being a musician, which I’ve always been but now I can really think about it and truly be one; full time thinking about it, so I’m finetuning now.” Let’s just hope not too fine because with Kurt Vile the disarray is half the point.

Courtney Sanders is a freelance writer at under the radar and alwayssometimesanyime.com SEE HIM LIVE: KURT VILE THU 01 DEC KINGS ARMS, AUCKLAND

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Having found notoriety with his character Moss from The IT Crowd, Richard Ayoade’s stunning fourth wall breaker and directorial debut Submarine could be the coming-of-age film that matures the genre itself.

The category of coming-of-age films is filled to the brim with misfits, precocity and wearisome cliché. Fortunately the filmic bildungsroman is not dead yet. Even in this well-mined territory, Richard Ayoade’s Submarine was able to wrap a belt around my bicep and tap a fresh vein. It’s funny; it’s sweet and bound to resonate with boys of a certain age, as well as the girls forced to interact with them.

Submarine is Ayoade’s directorial debut and his interview manner, shy and painfully humble, belies the confidence and charm of this career kickoff. Ayoade also wrote the screenplay, adapting it from the novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. On both fronts of direction and dialogue, Ayoade exercises a pragmatic efficiency. Every shot counts and brevity is favoured. Even so, the economy of Ayoade’s style is far from clinical or suffocating. The story is told with an abundance of playfulness and joy.

Submarine’s anti-hero protagonist Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is the product of 15 years as an only child. He’s precocious, socially stunted and living a fictional narrative of his own invention. In Oliver’s head, his life is his biopic and he is the auteur. Unfortunately for Oliver, this production soon becomes occupied by other bodies with their own characters and plot lines, not all of whom act in his favour. Oliver sets his sights on Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige), his motive that of any teenage boy under the thumb of peer pressure: get laid as soon as possible. As with most relationships, the romantic ideal of simplicity does not last very long. The anguish of a first love is compounded by the angst of what Oliver begins to see as a foregone conclusion – his parent’s separation.

The Tates, Lloyd (Noah Taylor) and Jill (Sally Hawkins) are archetypal parents of an only child. Jill worries and frets over the wellbeing of her only baby, while Lloyd pulls double duty – father and girl-orienteering older brother. As the story unfolds, Oliver becomes increasingly aware of the audience’s voyeurism but lets us watch anyway, all the while attempting to guide our perceptions of his actions.

There are no weak spots in the casting. The young stars grasp their roles with vigour. Craig Roberts’ sense of timing is well suited to Ayoade’s comedic sensibility. Yasmin Paige is able to embody the impish Jordana without stripping away likability.

Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins function somewhat like a comedy duo in their roles as the Tate parents. The points at which they burst from the expectations set by their clearly defined personalities provide some of the funniest and most touching moments in the film. Paddy Carsidine’s turn as the self-help guru who has recently moved in next door to the Tate’s is a delight. He manages to take a personality so unreal and make it perfectly believable.

Ultimately the movie hinges on the scripted inner-life that Oliver lives. It helps him intellectually justify his often mean, self-interested behaviour. It also underpins one of the reasons this movie is so successful; a genuine coming together of form and content. Submarine is a great example of reflexivity within a genre, much like Wes Craven’s 1996 outing Scream. When you settle into your seat with a box of popcorn to watch a scary movie and see Drew Barrymore making popcorn while she gets ready to watch a scary movie, you know something is up. The film is aware of itself and aware that you’re aware. Submarine is Scream, if you trade unapologetic violence for awkward teenage hormones. It’s a coming-of-age film in which the person coming-of-age is well aware that he’s doing so, and often actively seeking ways to avoid the unavoidable pitfalls of that transitional teenage period. Ayoade is able to play with Oliver’s egoistic belief that his life is a film with a sense of pithy joy. The first shot, a panoramic view of Oliver’s room and an introduction to his narration – which makes for the bulk of his dialogue – ends with a broken fourth wall. Within the first 30 seconds Ayoade establishes the playful tone that pervades the entire film, even through its darker moments.

Beyond this though, Submarine yields an emotional connection to its characters by way of relatable experiences. Having been an introverted social failure at 15, I knew exactly what Oliver was going through at certain points. Despite being borderline unlikable, I was still able to sympathise with his teenage naïveté. Going so far as to feel a lump in the throat at one point.

While markedly different in detail, there are definitely broad similarities between Submarine and Rushmore, which is by no means a condemnation of the film. It’s clear Ayoade and Wes Anderson have a common quality – talent. More specifically, the ability to make a coming-of-age film that doesn’t make you hate teenagers more than you already do.

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events

WELLINGTON gig guide Wed 23 good Luck bar

Wednesday Rice & Shine w/ Yinface & Samu: Free

Happy

OTHER w/ Roses & Orchids + Ben: 9pm: Koha

Matterhorn

The Session: 10pm: Free

Mighty Mighty

Flip Grater: 9:30pm: $20

San Fran Bath House The All Seeing Hand Album Release Tour: 9pm

Southern Cross

San Fran Bath House Lisa Crawley album tour: 7:30pm: $15o

Fri 25 Good Luck bar

Stir Friday w/ Kev Fresh & DJ Ruckus: 4pm: Free

Happy

Vinyl Friday: The Flying Nun Special: 5:30pm: Free / Luckless & Bond Street Bridge w/ Timothy Blackman: 8pm: $10

Meow

Astro Empire w/ Alley Tricks & I Am The Light: 9pm: $10

Kroon for your Kai w/ Monty Bevins: Free

Mighty Mighty

Thu 24

sandwiches

Sleepy Age, the Grand Saloon & TV Disko: 10pm: $5 State of Mind: 11pm: $20 + BF

Sat 26 Bar Medusa

Cripple Mr Onion w/ Golias & Crash-Scan: 8pm: $10

Good Luck bar

Phar Gon w/ K+Lab, Micah & El Pasko: 4pm: Free Sunbird7 w/ Monica Yeoman & My Dear Watson: 8pm: $10

Mighty Mighty

Election Party/Wake: 8:30pm: $5

Sandwiches

Pitch Black - Full Live Video Mapping Show: 11pm: $20 + BF

Southern Cross

The Lido Cafe

The Boptet: 7pm: Free

Southern Cross

Sun 27

Mighty Mighty

The Opera House

Spook the Horses & Polter: 10:30pm: $5

Newtown Rocksteady: 9:30pm: Free Vortex Tribe: 8pm

Sunday Night Live Jazz w/ The Troubles: 8:30pm: Free

Meow Cafe

Hollywoodfun Downstairs, The Medicine Dogs & The Shadow Blasters: 9:30pm: $5

Happy

The Clean & The Subliminals: 8pm: $32 + BF

Happy

Recovery Sessions w/ Wallace Gollan: 3pm / The Arvo Show ft. the Philanderers: 4pm / Urban Tramper: 9:30pm: Free

San Fran Bath House

Thursday Best Fortune: 4pm: Free

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Darren Watson & The Real Deal Blues Band: 8:30pm: Free

Good Luck bar

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Good Luck bar

Sunday Satisfaction w/ Harry Hospo: 4pm: Free

Acoustic Routes concert ft. Lava: 7:30pm: $15

The Lido Cafe

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CHRISTCHURCH gig guide Wed 23 Aurora Centre for the Performing Arts

Voices of Aotearoa: 6:30pm: $50

Riccarton House & Bush Christchurch Farmers’ Mid Week Market: 4pm

Thu 24 Becks Southern Alehouse The Black Velvet Band

CPIT

Still Lives

Pierside Cafe

Karaoke w/ DJ Chick

The Brougham Tavern Burlesque Cabaret - Thru the Ages: 8pm: $20

Theatre Royal

A Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life: 7:30pm

Salvation Army Sydenham Corps Afternoon Delights Sweet Adelines: 5pm

Sat 26

Irish Society Hall Kim Potter

The Brewery

Lisa Crawley: 7:30pm: Free

CPIT

Mon 28

Fri 25

Darkroom

Ferrymead Speights Ale House

Ola-abaza w/ Lucid: 9:30pm: Free

Quiz Night: 7pm: Free

Becks Southern Alehouse

Ferrymead Speights Ale House

Pierside Cafe and Bar

Retrosonic: 9pm: Free

Ctrl-Alt-Rock

CBS Arena

Pierside Cafe and Bar

Fight For Christchurch: 6pm

The Shameless Few

CPIT

Theatre Royal (Timaru)

Still Lives

Vortex Tribe: 7pm

Ferrymead Speights Ale House

Villa Maria College

Hollywood 3 Cinema 2011 Chinese Film Festival

Still Lives

Captain Jack

Pierside Cafe

Beach Breaks w/ DJ Dmand

The Venue-Musicbar Burlesque Cabaret - Thru The Ages: 8pm: $20

Canterbury Philharmonia Orchestra: 7:30pm

Nuttin Trivial Quiz Night: 7pm: Free

Tue 29 Aurora Centre for the Performing Arts The OMG Comedy Show: 7:30pm: $25

Becks Southern Alehouse

Sun 27

Quiz Night: 7pm: Free

CPIT

Texas Holdem Poker: 7pm: Free

Pierside Cafe and Bar

Still Lives

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auckland gig guide Wed 23

New Brew

Florrie McGreals

1885 Basement

Northern Steamship Trading Co

Flying Moa

Creative Jazz Club: Nathan Haines Fourtet: 8pm: $10

Juice Bar at the Windsor Castle

SAE Social Club Presents: IN THE MIX: 7:30pm: Free

Khuja

Unplugged Sessions: 8pm: $5

Kings Arms

Invasion Of Piracy, Halo Of Ashes, San Pedro & guests: 8pm

Mexican Cafe

Chris Cope: 5:30pm:

Soundlounge ft. James Kahu: 6:30pm

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

Ponsonby Social Club

Occupational Therapy ft. Bobby Brazuka & Isaac Aesili: 7:30pm

Racket Bar

Cian & Isaac Aesili: 6pm: Free

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

Rakinos

Neighbourhood Brew Bar

Sale St

Acoustic Wednesday w/ Eli: 7:30pm

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

Racket Bar

T-Rice: 6pm: Free

Rakinos

Playing Up: Free

The Drop: 8pm: Free Selecta Sam & DeeWhy: 6pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club

Taye Williams: 6pm: Free

The Deck - SKYCITY

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

The Wine Cellar

Mara & the Bushkas: 8pm: $10

Sale St

Jason Eli: 6pm: Free

The Britomart Country Club Junior: 6pm: Free

UFO

The Neo-Kalashnikovs, Swampy Tonk, Bio Robots & Slug Hugger: 8:30pm: $5

Thu 24 1885 Basement

North Shore Pony Club: 11pm: Free

1885 Britomart

Franko: 9pm

Brew On Quay

Phil Stoodley Duo: 8:30pm

Cassette Nine

The Magician (BE): 10pm: $5 / $10

Khuja

Coda Lounge

Kings Arms

Flying Nun 30th Anniversary ft. The Clean w/ The Subliminals: 8pm: $32

Neighbourhood Brew Bar DJ Toni Cooper: 7:30pm

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Sinate, Heathen Eyes & special guests: 6pm: $15

CrossRoads Bar

Habana Noches (Havana Nights) w/ Cuban Accent: 8pm: Free

De Post

Brett Polley: 7:30pm

Ellerslie Racecourse

Our:House: 9pm: From $49.95 + BF

The Crib

The Tall Poppies: 10pm: Free

Kings Arms

The Elephant Wrestler

Flying Nun 30th Anniversary w/ Fetus Productions & X Features: 8pm: 20

La Zeppa

DJ Selecta Sam: 7pm

Leigh Sawmill

Mara & the Bushkas: 8pm: $10

Mexican Cafe Auckland

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

DJ Chris Cox & Percussionist Partido: 8pm: Free Pat 4 President: 9pm

The Powerstation

Mulatu Astake w/ The Black Jesus Experience: 8pm: $67.50 + BF

Trench Bar

Fridays at Trench Bar: 4pm: Free

twentyone

DJ Big Pun & DJ Grant Marshall: 8:30pm: Free

UFO

Mortons Bar & Restaurant

Hunting Bears ‘Eye Contact w/ Strangers’ EP Tour: 8pm: $10 w/free CD

Neighbourhood Brew Bar

Sat 26

Chris Cope: 8pm

DJ Lo Key & DJ Coolhandsluke: 5:30pm

New Brew

Nuffield Street Trading Co. Brewbar DJ Roastie: 6:30pm

Onewhero Society of Performing Arts Theatre

Cian & Andy Jv: 8:30pm

Backbeat Bar

Solly & Randomplay: 5pm: Free

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4:20

Sonic Altar: 8pm: $15

The Britomart Country Club

Very Tall Stories ft. Tido, Blud Brovaz Ev Lover & Haz’ Beats: 11pm: 10

Carolina Moon: 8pm

MUM Club ft. The Good Fun & Tied On Teeth: 10pm: $5

Capital M ‘What Makes Me Album’ Release Party ft Dj Omen P,Vinny Veccetti,Kay Poeta,Ayze One,Mic G,Image & Dj MAC: 8:30pm: $10

Khuja

Preferential Treatment: TDK & MayaVanya: 8pm: $10

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1885 Britomart

Charlotte Johansen Album Release Party: 7:30pm: $15

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Fri 25

2Five9 Jazz Trio: 10pm: Free

Bacco Room

The Cover Up: 8:30pm

VHF Duo: 8:30pm

Victoria Girling-Butcher & Lindon Puffin: 7:30pm: $15

T-Rice: 8pm: Free

Dean Te Paa: 9:30pm

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

Racket Bar

Manuel Bundy & Arash: 6pm: Free

Rakinos

Base FM’s Radiowaves: 9pm: $5

Sale St

Page3, Mixtape Kidz, DeeWhy: 5pm: Free

Shadows Bar

Jackal live w/ Catalyst, Asinine & Sun Bear: 8pm: $5

smith.

DJ John Holmes: 8pm

Snapdragon Friday Night: 6pm

Tabac

REKKIT presents: TOURETTES w/ Heart Attack Alley, DJ Paydirt & more: 9pm: $10

1885 Basement

Onny Kaulima: 11pm: Free

1885 Britomart

BACK II LIFE: 10pm: $10

ASB Showgrounds

Auckland International Tattoo Convention: $20 single pass, $30 double, Under 12-years free

Black Salt

Andrew Mockler Duo: 8pm

Brew On Quay

Pat 4 President: 9:30pm

Cassette Nine

Sick Disco Deejays: 10pm: $10

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auckland gig guide CrossRoads Bar

Ponsonby Social Club

The Toolshed

The Deck - SKYCITY

De Post

Quay St Clubrooms

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The Kings Arms

Racket Bar

Western Lights

The Marina

Sun 27

Tue 29

barrio

CrossRoads Bar

CrossRoads Bar

Empire Tavern

The Bikini World Cup 2011 Heat 2: 8pm: Free Lee Gray: 8:30pm

Florrie McGreals David Shanhun: 9:30pm

Khuja

Julien Dyne Future Funk Band w/ DJ Lo Key: 8:30pm Acoustic Sessions w/ Jonny Love: 7pm

Gene Rivers & Jerm: 8pm: Free

Upper Hutt Posse ‘Declaration of Resistance Tour’ ft. Dam Native, Envioso, NRG Rising: 10pm

Rakinos

Kings Arms

Sale St

Death & Damnation Tour 2011: 8pm: $10

La Zeppa

Motor City Family Funk: 10pm: $10 Grant Marshall, Dean Campbell: 7pm: Free

The Snake Pit

Hunting Bears Eye Contact with Strangers EP Tour: 7pm: $5 DJ Karn Hall & DJ Jarrod Phillips: 9:30pm: Free

SHINE LADY FUNDRAISER: 9:30pm: $20

Snapdragon

Blend: 4pm

Neighbourhood Brew Bar

St Barnabas Scout Hall, Mt Eden

DJ Submarainer & DJ Normski: 3pm

New Brew

Goody 2 Shoes: 8:30pm

Northern Steamship Trading Co DJ Toni Cooper: 6:30pm

O’Carrolls

Sex Badger: 11pm

Saturday Night: 6pm

Scout Hall Massacre: 4pm: $10

Riqi Harawera: 1pm

Taco Truck: 2pm: Free The Hospo Sessions: 3pm: Free

LEIGH SAWMILL CAFE

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

VHF: 9pm

The All Seeing Hand Album Release Tour: 9pm

DJ Chris Cox: 8pm

DJ Nyntee & Saxophonist Lewis McCallum: 5pm: Free

Garage Daze: 8pm: Free Empire Million Dollar Trivia Show: 6:30pm: Free

Goode Brothers

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Tuesday Open Mic: 6:30pm: Free

Ponsonby Social Club

Ponsonby Social Club

Conch Sunday Grill: 8:30pm

Beats, Eats & CO: 6:30pm

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

Rakinos

Rakinos

The Kings Arms

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Sale St

The Windsor Castle

The Studio

The Britomart Country Club

The Wine Cellar

The Electrified Tour: 9pm: $15, $25, $30

We Love Vinyl: 2pm: Free

Subculture (Queenstown)

Subculture (Queenstown)

The Britomart Country Club

Ben Wah, Lewis Tennant & Chip Matthews: 2pm: Free DJ Ned Roy & Percussionist Majic Hands: 8pm: Free

Acoustic: 5:30pm: Free

All The Way Live: 6:30pm: Free

Kings Arms Quiz: 7:15pm: Free

Taye Williams, DeeWhy: 1pm: Free

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

Jordie Lane, Matt Langley & Mel Parsons: 8pm: $20

OTAGO gig guide Wed 23 Fairfield House (Nelson) Alex & BB: 8pm: $15

Otago Boys High School (Dunedin)

The SubStation (DnB): 9pm: Free

St Lee’s Restaurant & Cafe (Dunedin)

Katharticus, The Tommy Gunners & guests: 7pm: Free

Sun 27

DJ Downtown Brown (Sunshine Sound System) & Turbohag: 9pm: $5

Cook Saddle Cafe (Fox Glacier) Luckless & Bond Street Bridge: 8pm: $10

The Good Oil (Dunedin)

Acoustic Fridays w/ Matt Langley

Subculture (Queenstown)

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

Thu 24

Fri 25

Sat 26

Chicks Hotel (Dunedin)

Civic Theatre (Invercargill)

Lisa Crawley: 7:30pm: $15

Forsyth Barr Stadium (Dunedin) Elton John: 7:30pm

Franks Cafe & Bar (Greymouth)

Fortune Theatre (Dunedin)

The Roots Bar (Takaka)

NBS Theatre (Westport)

Alex & BB: 8pm: Free

Freaky Meat Delicatessen National Tour: 8pm: Door Sales: $10

Regent Theatre (Dunedin)

Hayley Westenra: 7:30pm: $75+

The Church (Dunedin) Alex & BB: 7:30pm: $10

Strings Possessed

Late Night Improv

Alex & BB: 8pm: $15

Regent Theatre (Dunedin) Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life: 7:30pm

Tue 29 Blue Ice Cafe (Franz Josef)

Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life: 7:30pm

Star Tavern (Westport)

Luckless & Bond Street Bridge: 8pm: $10

Luckless & Bond Street Bridge w/ Flip Grater in Westport: 8pm: $10

The Riverhouse (Wanaka) Alex & BB: 8pm

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hamilton gig guide Wed 23

Thu 24

Te Aroha Racecourse

Mon 28

Cubbyhole

Cambridge Municipal Band Rooms

Cambridge & Districts Pipe Band

Sat 26

BAYCOURT COMMUNITY ARTS THEATRE (Bay Of Plenty)

Cubbyhole

Rotorua Civic Theatre (Rotorua)

Cubbyoke Night

The Yot Club (Raglan) Luckless & Bond Street Bridge: 8pm: $10

Muso Jam Night

The Yot Club (Raglan) The Sami Sisters: 8pm: $15

Fri 25 Altitude Bar Paua: 7pm: $25

Burlesque Cabaret: 6:30pm

Vortex Tribe: 8pm

New Zealand Country Music Awards 2011: 7pm: Adults $35 / Children $15

Tue 29

Te Aroha Racecourse

Cock & Bull

Burlesque Cabaret: 6:30pm

Static

Live @ Static - Powertool Records presents Vorn - Down For It Record Release Party + Come Down Kid: 9pm: $5

Tuesday Trivia

Clarence Street Theatre Vortex Tribe: 8pm

Clarence St Theatre Katy - The Katy Perry Tribute: 7pm

Flow

The Checks: 8pm: $25

Static

Live @ Static - God Bows To Math + Viking Weed: 9pm: $5

The Dinsdale Office (TDO)

Brendan: 7:30: Free

Sun 27 Te Rapa Racecourse Jazz on a Sunday Evening: 5:30pm

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Upcoming tours & events Alex and BB

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

The All Seeing Hand

Wed 23 Nov San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 25 Nov The ARC Theatre, Whanganui Sat 26 Nov The Snake Pit, Auckland

Auckland International Tattoo Convention Sat 26 Nov ASB Showgrounds, Auckland

The Axemen

Thu 01 Dec Darkroom, Christchurch Fri 02 Dec Naval Point Yacht Club, Lyttelton Sat 03 Dec Mighty Mighty, Wellington Wed 07 Dec Whammy Bar, Auckland

Beirut (US)

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

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears (US)

Wed 07 Dec Powersation, Auckland

Sat 31 Dec Trentham Racecourse, Upper Hutt

Bic Runga

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

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

The Damned (UK) 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

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

Chopper

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

Classic Hits Winery Tour 2012

Beyond The Black NYE

Creedence Clearwater Revisited (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

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

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

Deerhoof (US)

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

The Dresden Dolls (US)

Fri 30 Mar Civic, Rotorua Sat 31 Mar Municipal Theatre, Napier Sun 01 Apr Hawke’s Bay Opera House, Hastings Mon 02 Apr Memorial Hall, Gisborne Tue 03 Apr De Luxe Theatre, Opotoki Wed 04 Apr Whakatane Hotel, Whakatane Thu 05 Apr Papamoa Tavern, Papamoa Sat 07 Apr Coroglen Tavern, Coroglen Sun 08 Apr Mangawhai Tavern, Mangawhai Mon 09 Apr Brownzy, Browns Bay Tue 10 Apr Forum North, Whangarei

Farmageddon

Sat 03 Dec Waipu Cove, Waipu

The Feelers

Sat 17 Dec Albany Pub, Auckland Sat 31 Dec Papamoa Tavern, Papamoa Sat 14 Jan Waihi Beach Hotel, Waihi Sat 28 Jan Mangawhai Tavern, Mangawhai Sun 29 Jan Coroglen Tavern, Whitianga Sat 04 Feb Butlers Reef, New Plymouth

First Aid Kit (SW) Thu 08 Mar TelstraClear Festival Club, Wellington

Fri 27 Jan Powerstation, Auckland Sat 28 Jan The Opera House, Wellington

Dum Dum Girls (US)

Fri 06 Jan The Kings Arms, Auckland

EarthTonz NYE

Sat 31 Dec Gibbston Valley Station, Queenstown

Explosions In The Sky (US) Thu 15 Dec San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 16 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

Fleet Foxes (US)

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

Flip Grater The Exponents

Fri 09 Mar Theatre Royal, Timaru Sat 10 Mar Regent Theatre, Dunedin Sun 11 Mar St James, Gore Mon 12 Mar Civic, Invercargill Tue 13 Mar Municipal Theatre, Queenstown Thu 15 Mar Opera House, Oamaru Fri 16 Mar CBS Canterbury Arena, Christchurch Sat 17 Mar Trafalgar Centre, Nelson Tue 20 Mar Opera House, Wellington Wed 21 Mar Opera House, Wanganui Thu 22 Mar TSB Showplace, New Plymouth Fri 23 Mar Regent on Broadway, Palmerston North Sat 24 Mar Station Village Complex, Lower Hutt Sun 25 Mar Bodega, Wellington Tue 27 Mar Bruce Mason Theatre, Takapuna Wed 28 Mar Founders Theatre, Hamilton Thu 29 Mar Baycourt Theatre, Tauranga

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

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Upcoming tours & events Incubus (US)

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

Flying Nun 30th Anniversary

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

The Jezabels (AU)

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

Sat 24 Mar Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Sun 25 Mar Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland

Tue 13 Dec Western Springs, Auckland

Freaky Meat

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 Golden Awesome

Fri 02 San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 09 Dec Darkroom, Christchurch Sat 10 Dec Chicks Hotel, Dunedin Sat 17 Dec Whammy Bar, Auckland

Golden Axe

Fri 09 Dec Audio Foundation HQ, Auckland Sat 10 Dec Mighty Mighty, Wellington Fri 16 Dec The Darkroom, Christchurch

Fri 09 Dec Cassette Nine, Auckland Sat 10 Dec Bodega, Wellington

Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Steve Luthaker (US)

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

Kaikoura Roots Festival

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

Kurt Vile (US)

Thu 01 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

La De Da Festival Thu 22 Dec The Kings Arms, Auckland

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

GROOVEMAN SPOT (JP)

Ladi6

Goodshirt

Fri 02 Dec Bacco Room, Auckland

Guitar Wolf (JP)

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

Hall & Oates (US)

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

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

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Fri 25 Nov Chicks Hotel, Dunedin Sat 26 Nov The Brewery, Christchurch Fri 09 Dec Sawmill Cafe, Leigh

Luckless & Bond Street Bridge

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 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

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

Mangawhai NYE Party Sat 31 Dec Mangawhai Tavern, Mangawhai

Mara and the Bushkas

Thu 24 Nov The Wine Cellar, Auckland Fri 25 Nov Leigh Sawmill, Leigh Thu 01 Dec The New Dowse, Ashburton Sat 03 Dec Havana bar, Wellington

The Moody Blues (UK)

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

More FM Summer Vineyard Tour

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

Pink Floyd Double Feature

Tue 13 Dec Stardome Observatory & Planetarium, Auckland

Raggamuffin 2012

Sat 28 Jan Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua

Rhythm & Alps

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

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

Roots Festival

Sat 03 Dec Town Hall, Auckland

Roxette (SE)

Sat 11 Feb Vector Arena, Auckland

Fri 25 Nov Powerstation, Auckland

Northern Lights Festival Fri 30 Dec - Mon 02 Jan Pakiri Beach, Pakiri

NZ Stonerfest

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

Royce Da 5’9

Thu 08 Dec Studio, Auckland

Ryan Adams (US)

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

Seether (US)

Fri 10 Feb Studio, Auckland

Selective Sounds

Tue 27 Dec TBC, Mangawhai

Shapeshifter

Laneway Festival 2012 Mon 30 Jan Silo Park, Auckland

Lamb Of God (US)

Wed 07 Mar Studio, Auckland

Thu 24 Nov San Fran Bath House, Wellington

Sat 03 Dec Wine & Food Festival, Christchurch

Mulatu Astatke (ET)

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

Lisa Crawley

Phoenix Foundation

Pajama Club

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

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

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Upcoming tours & events Six60

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

Sun Araw (US)

TOYS

Taylor Swift (US)

Tuborg Summer Sunday

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

Stomping Nick & His Blues Grenade

tUnE-yArDs (US)

The Unfaithful Ways

Thu 08 Dec St Peter’s Hall, Paikakariki Fri 09 Dec Mighty Mighty, Wellington

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

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

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

Sun 29 Jan Matakana Music Mountain, Matakana

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

Thu 12 Jan The Kings Arms, Auckland

Splore 2012

Stink Fest 13

Vortex Tribe (US)

Wed 07 Dec - Sat 17 Dec BATS Theatre, Wellington

Thee Oh Sees (US)

WOMAD

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

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

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

Tim Finn

Wed 30 Nov Mercury Theatre, Auckland Thu 01 Dec Clarence St Theatre, Hamilton Fri 02 Dec Bodega, Wellington Sun 04 Dec Rangiora Town Hall, Christchurch

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 Tue 06Page Mar Powerstation, Auckland Ferry, Wellington DISTURBED-HPHGG-18-11_11_DISTURBED-HPHGG-18-11_11 18/11/2011 15:05 1

Urge Overkill (US)

Their first ever

B-sides

Album

Out Now

collection,

Hell plus a new track Mine featuring

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GAMING Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Game Review Right. This game just broke all entertainment records by pulling in $775 million in five days. That in itself is incredible, and I have to say the game lives up to the hype.

They say variety is the spice of life, and I think that’s the strongest point of COD:MW3.

Just when missions are starting to get samey, the developers switch it up by getting you to do random other tasks. A favourite was fighting whilst the Russian Presidential plane is in free fall creating a zero gravity effect.

Couple this with inevitable super slo-mo mode and you end up with 100% awesome.

Again I had to suffer my flat mate occasionally looking up from his book to remark how

shit I was and how many times I seemed to be dying. However after once again curbing my run in all guns blazing attitude, I channeled my inner James Bond and ended up like Austin Powers feeling sorry for all the widows of the henchmen I was creating.

Now geography has never been one of my strongest suits, but the locations in this game are outstanding.

Fighting through London and Paris were highlights for me, and you get the feeling that the streets are 100% accurate to what they actually look like. I know that Westminster was just how I remember running around last year. The gameplay reigns supreme

accompanied by a good story to back up campaign mode.

Multiplayer is sensational. I love getting upgrades for multiple kill streaks and setting up remote turrets and air strikes to

annihilate the enemy.

Seriously, where did this vicious streak in me come from? Who cares, this game is great and I love it.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception

Game Review

Game Review

I can’t believe that I’ve been playing Halo for 10 years and I still love it. Apparently I’m not the only one with 40 million sales over its life span.

It’s great to return to the start of it all and relive the original maps that we as flat mates at uni all loved, however the new special abilities added give the map a different feel. Personal highlights have to be flying around the map in a jet pack, causing all kinds of carnage from above.

In campaign mode, it’s almost unbelievable to use the feature to switch it back to the original non-HD graphics. It honestly makes you feel like you’re playing in the original Tron movie.

Everything is blocky and details

are glossed over. Switch back to HD and I imagine what it’s like to see again after you’ve had your eyes lasered. Add to this the re-mastered audio and it’s a great experience. You also don’t feel so bad nailing aliens as you do other humans, so you can blast away to your heart’s content.

Multiplayer really is where Halo shines. If you’re not online and playing, you should be. Many an argument should be decided over a Halo deathmatch.

While the game isn’t neccessarily anything new, the additions and improvement on a classic is a must for any fan and worth checking out if you haven’t dabbled in it before.

Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception is Playstation’s big title of the year, selling 3.8 million copies on its first day of release. It’s my first foray into this series, and I was not left disappointed.

It’s almost like you’re controlling a movie. Half of this can be put down to the stunning graphics, but there’s an undeniable amount of familiarity that many players will have picked up on.

Imagine an adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with you playing as Nate Drake (a distant relative of Sir Francis) and Sean Connery being replaced by father figure Sulli. The script is fantastic, and the theatrical sequences

really suck you in. Throughout the game the banter between the characters is amusing and natural, which only adds to the entertainment.

Some really interesting camera angles are used in the game to further enhance what is in essence is quite simple gameplay. But that’s the strength of this game. It’s enjoyable, captivating and easy to play, using simplicity in an effective way.

Take the recommendation from myself as well as the other 3.8 million gamers who waited in line on U3:DD first day of sale.

Written by Jon Snow

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There’s a difference between a ‘best of’ and a ‘greatest hits’ package, thus the omission of the likes of ‘Stations’, ‘Gimme Gimme’, and ‘Bullitproof’ on the standard version of Shihad’s long-awaited cream-of-the-crop compilation. You will find those tracks sprinkled among some choice album cuts on a two-CD, 38-track deluxe edition, though still no room for ‘Leo Song’ or ‘Factory’. However, my mate Pete has a staffie, drives a ute, works on a building site, and listens to The Rock all day, and all he’s gonna care about is, quite literally, The Meanest Hits. They are: ‘Home INCLUDING HOME AGAIN I RUN I THE GENERAL ELECTRIC I YOU AGAIN I MY MINDS SEDATE COMFORT ME I ONE WILL HEAR THE OTHER I PACIFIER I IGNITE I BEAUTIFUL MACHINE WAIT AND SEE I DEBS NIGHT OUT I EVERYTHING I SLEEPEATER I LA LA LAND ALL THE YOUNG FASCISTS I BITTER I ALIVE I I ONLY SAID I IT

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GOD BOWS TO MATH

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK Again’, ‘Run’, ‘The General Electric’, ‘You Again’ (meanest riff ever), ‘My Mind’s Sedate’ (second meanest riff ever), ‘Comfort Me’, ‘One Will Hear the Other’, ‘Pacifier’, ‘Ignite’, ‘Beautiful Machine’, ‘Wait and See’, ‘Debs Night Out’, ‘Everything’, ‘Sleepeater’, ‘La La Land’, ‘All the Young Fascists’, Bitter’, ‘Alive’, ‘I Only Said’, and ‘It’. What more do you need to know?

WRITTEN BY CHRIS POLE

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Kele

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The Concept is a remix side project for Mitchell, an experimental reworking of her music into new shapes and forms. A recent conversation with producer George Duncan (D:UNK) hinted at a fastidious attention to detail during the sessions, held over a nine month period at Wellington’s School of Music. She’s a charming and accurate performer, very clear about her goals, and that shows on wax too. This series poses risks and an interesting juxtaposition given Mitchell’s jazz training and D:UNK’s DIY approach. As the EP progresses, the tracks become more adventurous. ‘You Know Now’ and ‘My Baby and I’ stay pretty close to Mitchell’s favoured Hall and Oates template, but ‘When It’s All Too Much’ and ‘All for Nothing’ show some breaking away with a good layering of dark chords. ‘The Ease’ finishes a very strong run with hook laden power pop. All in all, it seems working in this way has given Mitchell the wings she needs to soar.

Maintaining the divide between Bloc Party alt-rock and his personal electro/ dance inclinations, The Hunter continues on from where The Boxer left off. Produced by XXXChange (as with the previous album), this release is littered with house influences and even sports a hint of dubstep in several songs.

Tackling similar subjects of loneliness and love denied, tracks like ‘Goodbye Horses’ and ‘Cable’s Goodbye’ already hint to their thematic content. ‘Release Me’ is undeniably catchy, but the sonic elements do feel somewhat antiquated. The cover of Q Lazzarus’ ‘Goodbye Horses’ is certainly worth a listen if you’re into old-school electronica though.

Kele and his penchant for dance music is now more prominent than ever, leaving fans to realise that the sounds of Silent Alarm may never again be heard. Granted, a new Bloc Party album is in the works, so we’ll see about that.

WRITTEN BY TIM GRUAR

WRITTEN BY JOSH LING

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This is the real stuff. Cobra Khan come back for a triumphant sophomore album that’s laced with the visceral attack of metal’s best, regardless of country or scene. These seasoned NZ vets have layered each song with an urgency that has been sorely missed – and it’s presented here in full force with the first single.

‘Borderlands’ boasts a dirgelike guitar intro that emanates a long lost Down riff, before giving way to a speaker-splitting drum march that doesn’t let go until the starved vocals of Milon Williams come to a halt.

‘Strung By Staves’ and ‘Mercy Blitz’ beg to be witnessed live. It’s all here – bleakness traded in for the grandiose, repetitiveness bludgeoned by angular melodies. Given the name of the album, Cobra Khan have overcome the obstacles and proved themselves in the NZ metal elite – all you have to do is let this album overcome you.

WRITTEN BY JAKE EBDALE

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God bows to math make dusty, noisy music for our disturbing modern times. This is evident right away when listening to their long-awaited album. The powerful ‘Slow Decline’ leaps out of the gate as it churns violently under a blanket of abrasive post punk noise. The Auckland trio waste no time in setting the scene and showing off their impressive diversity.

‘Paper Trails’ is angular and agitated, ‘Small Victories’ is creepy and subdued, and ‘Smile & Nod’ threatens to swallow you whole. There is something for everyone on this album, as long as you like your music with a side order of strange. It’s packed full of piercing noise and cut-throat bass lines that make you feel downright filthy.

God bows to math may be the most dangerous band making the rounds on the New Zealand tour circuit, so miss out at your own risk.

WRITTEN BY RICARDO KERR

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Further info directed by JAMES MARSH

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“They fuck you up, your mum and dad” appears to be the underlying message of Mike Mills’ Beginners, a tragicomedy that also suggests the parents aren’t entirely to blame.

Through the intimate portrayal of two love stories emerges a bigger picture of society’s expectations, a reminder of the consequences of repressed homosexuality.

Mills, a graphic designer in his other life, paints, rather than points, a finger. He’s an inventive storyteller, his distinctive visual voice affording his characters silence if they require it, communicating his many themes through the use of motifs, twee advertising imagery, and metaphor.

waiting for the action to kick in, but when it does you’ll never want it to stop. Lucky for you, then, that the central face-off comprises almost half the film’s running time and encapsulates all sorts of malevolent sword play, captured with a constantly shifting camera and kinetic editing that only adds to the excitement.

It’s worth going out of your way to see the aforementioned battle scenes on the big screen, as such a visual spectacle more than makes up for the film’s other weaknesses and won’t be nearly as impressive on DVD.

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Japanese director Takashi Miike is (in)famous amongst cinephiles for his bizarre, violent reworkings of genre cinema – in this case, samurai movies. He may be mellowing in his old age, as 13 Assassins plays it remarkably straight by the standards of his own back catalogue. This has allowed him to create a wildly entertaining blockbuster that should appeal outside the extreme Asian cinema niche market.

There would appear to be a sizable budget bankrolling this production, as the costumes and sets look fantastic from the get go. Some of the more basic story elements are a touch weak and you may find yourself getting antsy

Like his irreverent film Thumbsucker, Mills tackles dark territory, but never strays too far into melancholia. That’s also thanks to a wonderfully charming cast playing offbeat, damaged characters. McGregor is sensitive and restrained, as is Melanie Laurent as the vulnerable Anna, Christopher Plummer as a newly-outed man discovering life at 75, and Mary Page Keller as Oliver’s bored and lonely mother, prone to eccentric public displays. One quibble: the central love story’s climax is underdeveloped, and plot-wise, there are few surprises.

But Beginners is still a heartfelt and whimsical gem.

WRITTEN BY REBECCA BARRY HILL, Flicks.co.nz

With its heady mix of compelling true-life story, eccentric characters and dramatic tension, writerdirector James Marsh mines yet another long-forgotten slice of ‘70s madness. Those who saw his excellent Man on Wire know exactly what to expect – plenty of talking heads, conflicting stories and betrayal at every turn, but Nim doesn’t pack the same punch. Here we are appalled but ultimately unsurprised that such an unusual experiment went pearshaped, not because the chimp wasn’t up to it but because the human’s motivations were flawed at best, dodgy at worst.

Central in this was psychologist Herbert Terrace, who the film gradually reveals

was motivated more by a certain part of his anatomy than any scientific notions.

Likewise, the woman who agreed to take Nim in had bizarre ideas, failing to tell her six kids or husband her new hairy baby was about to arrive.

Timing-wise the film has also suffered, having its thunder stolen by two recent releases. Tabloid is a far more compelling scandal-and-sexlaced doco, while Rise of the Planet of the Apes details with far more drive and verve what happens when primate science goes awry. So whilst the footage gathered is fascinating, this tale of sex, drugs and lies ultimately feels like a VH1 Behind the Music Special.

WRITTEN BY JAMES CROOT, Flicks.co.nz

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MUSIC VIDEOS GRADED FOR YOUR ENJOMENT LEVELS

A+

DJ Shadow

A+

Man Man

Scale It Back

Pirahnas Club

No surprise that DJ Shadow has a great video. What starts off as some guy talking about his pneumonic devices when it comes to memory becomes literal and you see his train of thought. Featuring Chun-Li. Then he explains it! Awesome.

After a minute of no music and some dumb kid doing nothing, we’re treated to seeing a scene from Cry Baby. Hot damn, this little kid and his friends are gonna be drapes! How awesome is that? Stand By Me meets rockabilly? Then all the kids steal beers! Nice touch.

Rammstein

Die Antwoord

A

Black Lips

B+

B

Los Campesinos!

B

Mein Land

Raw Meat

Fok Julle Naaiers

Hello Sadness

Rammstein take on The Beach Boys. The only other band that could possibly do such a good job as this is Weezer. Everything is done right from the cheesy smiles to the surfin’ font, all touched off with some of the twist for good measure. Until it gets utterly metal at night and they all start breathing fire.

I don’t like that I like Black Lips.

I bet they’re dicks in real life. So when a video comes out that has them acting like corrupt, bratty, reckless dickhead cops that hang out with really sexy prostitutes, I feel like it’s a really good analogy for my feelings about that I can’t actually explain. Damn, they’re cool.

Where do you stand on these guys? They’re so hardcore. They cover themselves in tarantulas and scorpions. They carry guns and look scary. They half take the piss and they would fuck me up for hassling them.

Supposedly this is the video that got them dropped from their label. Hardcore..?

Another case of low-budget quirk mixed with quick shots and props that tell no story, but people might decide to be wankers and say “you’re not reading into it”. Fortunately this doesn’t look too into itself and ends up just being shots of stupid nothingness. In a good way.

Wu Lyf

The Rapture

The Sandwiches

Ladytron

B-

C+

C-

F

We Bros

Sail Away

In The Garden

Mirage

Imagine if a Sigur Rós video (something with kids running to a harmonic, angelic rising beat) made whoopee with a Nike ad (something with heaps of people running, striving to be athletic) and then throw in some symbolism of escaping.

Except the symbolism is literal.

Surprisingly, it’s not bad.

There are enough nice touches in this to keep it somewhat entertaining. Giant sea shell instruments, weird mirror-wave effects, hovering trash, etc.

But overused trash in the wind metaphors mixed with fixed close up shots of repetition and too many quick cuts make Jack a dull boy.

You’d think a video that combines burlesque and trannies would at least be somewhat exciting. But when you feature 20 seconds of silence followed by a half-assed effort in what must be the Tuesday morning slump of a cross-dressing cabaret, everyone comes out a loser.

This is what I imagine coked-up producers in the ‘80s pitched to their artists as a good idea. A stupid fake Egyptian princess with some sparkling eye sticker shit posing on a beach with synchronised dancers in robes featuring fire and wind and a Stonehenge rip-off, praising the ocean. What utter crap.

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ADD A TOUCH OF GLAM TO A LAID BACK LOOK WITH FLIRTY PATTERNS, PRINTS AND COLOURS. KEEPS YOU LOOKING “FRESHTADEF” FOR ANY OCCASION.

This oversized cropped t-shirt with elbow length sleeves is made from an exclusive fabric print by artist Karl Maughan and is paired here with Gothic Denim shorts.

RRP $60 WWW.SPERRYTOPSIDER.COM

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The Short Straw

By Marek Haiduk

Summer is defiantly around the corner. Red noses and checks are not sexy. It ’s best you protect yourself and look good at the same time. barkersonline.co.nz

Heroes Print

By Marek Haiduk Illustrator Marek makes a strong visual statement using black and white fifties and sixties advertising photography with bright contesting colours in a collage paste-up style. marekhaiduk.de

This woman’s shirt and nostalgia trousers have style and sophistication; give vibes of “I look so good all the time, even when I am comfortable.” misscrabb.com

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Listophile Juice TV’s Alternative Broadcast.

1. Horse Song Bernie Griffen & The Grifters

2. What Else Could They Do Popstrangers

3. Think I’m Insane X- Ray Fiends

4. Listen To Us (ft. Tourettes) Home Brew

5. Cigarette

1. Audio Video Disco Justice

2. Mein Land Rammstein

3. Black Sheep Gin Wigmore

4. The Walk Mayer Hawthorne

5. Shake it Out Florence and the Machine

Beach Pigs

6. Secrets and Lies

6. Smash it

I Break Horses

9. Cola Elixir Opossum

10. Leave Myself Behind Toy

Breaking Dawn Part 1

2. Contagion 3. Drive 4. In Time 5. The Inbetweeners 6. The Debt

7. Lucky Now

7. Beginners

Badd Energy

8. Wired

1. The Twilight Saga:

Zowie

Street Chant

7. 3rd Eye

Independent Top 10 Movie Chart

Ryan Adams

8. Blink and You’ll Miss

A Revolution Cut Copy

9. Trouble I’m in The Unfaithful Ways

8. The Orator 9. Midnight in Paris 10. One Day

10. The Power & the Glory White Lies

Quotes from K’ Road

10 Lists

Eavesdropping on a Saturday night

We think we’ll do in the future

1. “Tribals are just tramp

1. Alternative Therapies

stamps for dudes.”

2. “That girl’s so hot she gave

my balls a boner.”

3. “Her legs are like a bad ‘90s

porn film.”

4. “Let’s go find someone with

an orange hat and pick on them.”

5. “I wouldn’t mind some

drugs, should we go to Family?”

6. “Did you see that girl get

punched by the transvestite?”

7. “She’s got an ass that quit.”

8. “Mobil, Subway or Kebab?”

9. “DOC, DOC, GOOSE!” 10. “Fuck that, I’d rather sleep at

Supper Club.”

2. Forgotten Stereotypes

10 “Topical” Questions 1. Aren’t you sick of criminals watching porn, jacking off and breaking into your house?

2. What’s the best pun about a storm in a teacup?

3. Mistakes People in Their

3. Has Auckland bar Cassette utilised this with their teapots?

4. Careers for BFA Graduates

4. After that massive pill raid last week did you enjoy that dance party as much?

Twenties Make

5. Auckland Coolmans You

Haven’t Met Yet

6. Bands Named After

Vegetables

7. Genres that Didn’t Work 8. Failed Self Help

Methodologies

9. Things Men Can’t do After 30 10. Interests You Should Keep

Hidden

5. Ninety per cent of the Auckland ecstasy market? How many even is that?

6. How were porn and Facebook not intertwined earlier?

7. If you’re being honest, you don’t really understand the US economy, do you?

8. Could Europe revert back to medieval times once it all goes to shit?

9. Does Berlusconi know something we don’t?

10. Were the Mayans right, except 2012 will be the economic end of the world?

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