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The Naked and Famous Go Gold

The Naked and Famous have struck gold in the USA with the announcement that the single ‘Young Blood’ from the album Passive Me, Aggressive You has racked up 500,000 stateside sales. This certified gold sales achievement follows The Naked and Famous reaching platinum in NZ (with 15,000 sales) and Australia (70,000 sales) as well as gold in Canada (40,000 sales). The second single from the aforementioned debut studio album (released in 2010) ‘Punching In A Dream’ has also reached gold here in NZ as well as Australia.

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Spoon-feeding kiwi audiences this October…

Disney’s Mary Poppins musical is heading to New Zealand in October following the sell-out season in Australia. Worldwide the production has grossed over (US)$679 million and has won 44 industry awards from the Tonys to the Helpmanns. While no dates have been announced just yet, eager punters can sign up to the waiting list for pre-sales at marypoppinsthemusical.co.nz. General sales open on sale Thursday 21 June, and considering the show played to sell-out audiences in Australia for nine months it’s a fair call that tickets will sell like hot cakes.

Madonna got a boob out. On purpose. As if naming her album what is basically a misspelling of a drug (controversial puns and provocative wordplay is all the rage), the singer has upset right wing French political leader Marine Le Pen who is threatening to sue Madge over the use swastika imagery imposed on the leaders face. Now the singer has displayed a bad case of the boobs at a concert in Istanbul where she flopped out one of her rather buff nipples. Lady Gaga’s final Born This Way Ball show at Auckland’s Vector Arena was a headbanger. Literally. Gaga took a hit to the noggin mid performance during one of the clearly complex ‘Judas’ dance routines, and subsequently suffered from a concussion. “I want to apologize,” Gaga said to the audience. “I did hit my head and I think I may have a concussion but don’t you worry I will finish this show.”

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Two Good To Be True

Frankie and The Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys finishes in Auckland this week, but if you’re jonesing for some more ‘60s delights then good news. Direct from Las Vegas, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons musical tribute show Oh What A Night is heading to New Zealand in August and running through to September for 10 shows around the country in Auckland, Rotorua, Hamilton, Napier, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, Invercargill and Christchurch. Tickets go on sale Thursday 14 June and can be found through ohwhatanight.co.nz.

Matariki 2012

Next week sees the Matariki ’12 Festival take place around the country. Celebrating the Maori new year, the Matariki festivities kick off on Thursday 21 June around the country and run through to Saturday 21 July. A variety of productions, plays, dance performances, workshops, concerts, installations and much more will be presented throughout the month-long celebrations at multiple venues around Auckland and Wellington as well as the rest of New Zealand. More information can be found at matarikifestival.org.nz.

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Brooklynites Grizzly Bear have announced two shows in New Zealand in November – the first time the quartet have toured the country. Ahead of their much-anticipated and as-yet untitled fourth studio album, the highly-praised band will play at The Opera House in Wellington on Tuesday 20 November and at the Bruce Mason Centre on Auckland’s North Shore on Wednesday 21 November. Tickets are available now through Ticketek for the Wellington show and through Ticket Master for the Auckland show.

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Favourite drink? Water. Favourite restaurant/café? Freemans in Lyttelton. Favourite takeaway? Otto Woo, Ponsonby. Favourite colour? Sunset orange with a faint light blue in the mix. Favourite classic film? Shadowlands starring Anthony Hopkins and Deborah Winger. Favourite childhood memory? Being thrown off the 3-meter diving board by my older brother. Favourite party food? Lime and Jalapeño dip with roasted chestnuts.

You may have heard the term “IPv6” floating around over the past few weeks. If you haven’t we’ll give you a brief rundown – it’s basically the new innernets Yep, the innernets has run out. Someone broke it by linking too many pictures of cats to their tweetums and emailing funny videos of people getting hit in the dick to each other. That’s a slight simplification, but it’s the gist of it. IPv6 is the next generation Internet protocol. The most widely used protocol at present is IPv4 which is 32bit. IPv6 is 128 bit which allows for a practically unlimited number of IP addresses. Think of every desktop, laptop, mobile phone, iPad, smartphone and all other devices that connect to the Internet. Now realise the fact that the Internet is a limited – it actually doesn’t go on forever and there’s only so much trawling that the computer fairies can carry from Santa’s workshop to your iPhone. IPv4 provided 4.2 billion addresses, and that seemed like a lot when the Internet was created roughly four decades ago and launched about three decades ago. Now, IPv6 provides approximately 340 undecillion addresses. That’s a number that we got from the New Zealand IPv6 task force, and we’re

not sure if it’s a real number or what. But it’s 3.4×10^38, or 360 trillion trillion trillion. That’s heaps. A gradual adoption of IPv6 over 10 to 15 years is expected, and IPv4 infrastructure will exist beyond that timeframe. Over time new services will be available on IPv6 which will not be available using IPv4. If you’re wondering where IPv5 went, you don’t get to know. It was an experiment and the common folk can’t use it. It’s probably in Area 51. Vint Cerf, the Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and a founding father of the Internet summed it all up very well. “There are already 5.5 billion mobiles in the world. If they all had Internet addresses it would exhaust [IPv4, the current Internet system we run on], so 16 years later… we’re compelled to implement a new one so we can continue to grow the network.” The launch has officially happened and IPv6 is turned on. It will take many years for the transition to happen, but the powers that be are assuring us that we don’t have to worry and we don’t need to do anything to prepare. For more information go to ipv6.org. nz or google.com/intl/en/ipv6.

Favourite vice? Champagne with the wife. Favourite song? ‘Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen’ – Gustav Mahler Favourite meal? Swiss Zuri schnattlets with truffles and rosti. Favourite cause? The abolition of war/ hunger/loneliness. Favourite label to put on your relationship? 30 years of bliss!

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Thursday 14 Ruby Frost

The Raw Nerves

Flow

Mighty Mighty

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8pm, $10, undertheradar.co.nz

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The pink-haired candy-punk chick celebrates the release of her debut full-length album Volition as she tours around the country with her merry band of ice maidens. See the brand new material you can expect from the new album in all of its sensational electronic glory.

One of our favourite garage acts are taking their show around the country as they celebrate their muchanticipated album release. The first show of the fivestop tour is in Wellington this Friday with Las Tetas and No Aloha, followed by a show at Space Monster in Wanganui on Saturday 16 July with Las Tetas and Caves.

Bitches N Shit

Goodshirt

Racket Bar

Dux Live 8.30pm, $30, eventfinder.co.nz

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As the Auckland four-piece celebrate their return to the New Zealand music scene with Skinny Mirror, Goodshirt are still playing shows around the country to crowds suffering from a bad case of the nostalgias as well as newer fans who may not be as familiar with the yesteryear hits ‘Green’, ‘Sophie’ and ‘Buck It Up’.

Girl Tiger and MayaVanya play at Auckland’s Racket Bar for Bitches N Shit. Is that taking back feminism? Or is it just calling a themed night a name that has the word “bitch” in it? There’s no promise that all of you poonhounds will end up getting laid, so don’t think this is some kind of orgy night. It’s not.

Coco Solid

Auckland Jazz Orchestra

These Automatic Changers

1885 Britomart

Masonic Tavern

Krazy Jacks, Tauranga

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7.30pm, $10, Door Sales Only

The weekly showcase put on by 1885 Britomart and The New Zealand Music Commission has the genrecrossing Coco Solid taking the floor this week. As per usual, the night will be hosted by Sweet Mix Kids and also features the Velvet Sound Society.

If jazz was an animal it would be bear. But a real smooth bear. Remember that bear from Angry Beavers? Barry was his name. He was like Barry White. He was smooth and people just loved to hear him. The Auckland Jazz Orchestra is like him in a suit.

Waots

Hanzel Und Gretyl

Wunderbar, Lyttelton

Mighty Mighty

Bar Medusa

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Nadia Reid returns to her acoustic roots joined by fiddle player Flora Knight from The Eastern, and the two continue on their whirlwind tour around the country. Tiny Lies and Aldous Harding play support at the always popular Wunderbar.

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Waots, Fauxhound, $noregazZzm, Glasgow and Old Grey Wolf come together for one night of insane casiotronica or whatever it is that you want to call it. They say “electric tweek wizards show how to really play Nintendo”, which is spot on.

“Hanzel und Gretyl is an Intergalactik Fairytale stompin’ through the Evil Black Forest Galaxy spillin’ beer, destroying sound waves and keeping all things uber!” They also look like two BDSM fans tripping on some kind of candy-flipping ketamine mash-up who are about to strip off and start rodeo-doeing.

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These Automatic Changers are touring in celebration of their single ‘One Fifty Six’ on the Sell Your Soul For Rock ‘N’ Roll tour. With a sound that’s nothing shy of international stadium rock, the four-piece will be wowing crowds in Tauranga this Friday – followed by their final show of the tour at The YOT Club in Raglan on Saturday.

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Wellington eight-piece reggae/dance hall beatists Tomorrow People are taking to Hamilton for the first time for the official release party for their new album One. Support comes from H-town locals One Drop N8tives and DJ Hemz with MC Mahuru Robinson MC Pango Winterburn.

8.30pm, $2, Door Sales Only

Labrador Van, The Kief and Rhiain McGrath might not be the most familiar of names just yet, but from what we’ve heard the collective of post-punk lo-fi heartachers have the chops to make it to the airwaves and your record collection.


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Saturday 16

Sigur Rós

Sick Disco

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Valtari

Cassette Nine 7pm, $12-15, 1-night.co.nz

This week Sick Disco hosts Sampology’s Super Visual Apocalypse – the international tour encouraging audiences to party like there’s no tomorrow in an audio visual celebration mash-up. It promises to be a night of mixed, mashed messiness for both your earballs and eyeholes.

Blacklistt San Fran Bath House 8pm, $30, eventfinder.co.nz

Blacklistt have (unsurprisingly) brought in audiences reaching the thousands on their tour so far, and there’s little doubt that the rest of the shows will be just as insane. Blindspott fans have been waiting for a tour like this for years, and audience reaction has proved that Blacklistt are not here to disappoint.

Smokefree Rockquest Jack Mann Auditorium 6.30pm, $20, ticketdirect.co.nz

The Canterbury finals of the 2012 Smokefree Rockquest arrive at the Jack Mann Auditorium on Saturday and will carry through to Sunday. Twentyfour high-school bands come together to have fun but also beat each other and prove that there can be only one. It’s a really placid battle between teenagers with instrument weapons.

The Unfaithful Ways

Dirtyloud

Bodega

Be Club 8pm, $15, undertheradar

Christchurch country collective The Unfaithful Ways truly are a sight to see live. If you’re thinking country and your head is going to Willie Nelson, think more along the lines of Justin Townes Earle or even Fleet Foxes and you’ve got The Unfaithful Ways.

10pm, $10, Door Sales Only

Brazilian dubstep dup Dirtyloud are the main attraction at Be Club’s Awesomesauce! Saturday night spectacular. The night of electronica gets better with support acts Jaycen A’mour, Beat Mafia, Wade Marriner, Ohbee and Staple announced.

SUNDAY 17 Paul Ubana Jones

EKKO PARK

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7pm, $35, downstage.co.nz

This very special one-off show sees guitar master Paul Ubana Jones perform everything he’s learned from nearly 40 years of touring internationally, from Nigerian folk to the guitar heroes of the ‘60s, jazz maestros and blues legends.

5pm

It’s the single release show for Ekko Park’s latest release ‘Simpatico’ from the as of yet untitled forthcoming debut album that the four-piece Auckland rock act are putting out. What else are you going to do on Sunday, drink by yourself? Loser.

On paper, Sigur Rós shouldn’t be globally popular, much less have had a song on the soundtrack of a Tom Cruise movie (Vanilla Sky). For one, they once recorded an album, ( ), consisting entirely of untitled tracks sung in a constructed language called Hopelandic. And their frontman sings in falsetto. Yet their soundscapes of stubborn, resonant beauty have found a place in the public consciousness, so much so that “Sigur Rós” has become as much a descriptor as the name of a band. Say it. You know what it means: A slow-panning camera over windswept ice. The colour blue. Slow motion flight. Chimes. Drones. Ambience. Bows on strings. Valtari is all these things, a return to a purer Sigur Rós sound after the band’s adventures in uptempo pop on Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust. This album moves slowly – very slowly – and it is appreciated slowly. Valtari means “steamroller” in Icelandic, and this is music that rolls, not races, to its point. Opening track ‘Ég Anda’ spends a good two minutes steadily turning up the volume on rhythmic breathing, backed by something akin to the string section of an orchestra tuning pre-performance. You expect it all to rise to a melody, but first comes a detour into

dissonant chiming before the singing finally kicks in, only to be subsumed by a heartbeat made from feedback and what sounds like pounding artillery guns. The unhurried pace makes room for this; textbook Sigur Rós tinged with revelations. ‘Varúð’ soars into a crescendo that is almost punk in its sensibility, then serenely glides in for a landing, spent. ‘Rembihnútur’ treads on the thin ice of Enya territory, as their music sometimes does, but a spot of Reznor-industrial noise arrives just in time and makes it all okay. The standout track on the album, though, may be the simplest. ‘Fjögur Píanó’ is a sparse mingling of piano and violin melodies that not so much ends the album as sets it carefully down. In contrast to the “Sigur Rós-ness” that comes before it, its beauty is not overt. Despite the occasional surprise, it is to that “Sigur Rósness” that Valtari is loyal. This is their sound, delivered languidly, yes, but utterly recognisable. It is not a manifesto. It changes little. Rather, it serves as a gentle unfurling of what this band does best. WRITTEN BY LAURA WILLIAMSON ALBUM OUT NOW: VALTARI

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Emmett Skilton

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Founders theatre 7.30pm, ticketek.co.nz Tour: WED 13 jun – MON 02 Jul

Bret’s won an Oscar and is now in cahoots with other Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit, while Jemaine has been appearing in films left, right and centre. Now New Zealand’s fourth-most popular parody folk duo are home and the nationwide tour can begin.

The Brown Show The Fringe Bar 7pm, $12, eventfinder.co.nz Every Thursday

Comedian and satirist Jez Brown hosts this live political variety show, joined by experts from every field to “debate the issues and laugh out loud at how silly they are”. You like satire because it makes you think that you’re clever because you get the jokes and references. Go feel good about yourself.

Some explicit Polaroids Basement Theatre 8pm, $20-25 Season: Thu 14-Sat 23 Jun

Failed assassination attempts; strippers; Russian gogo boys; corporate anarchists; AIDS cocktails; horny ghosts; business execs on the rampage, and lots and lots of E. With a set-up like that, we’re pretty sure Some Explicit Polaroids will be nothing short of a collection of hilarious misunderstandings.

FRIDAY 15 Your Disposable 4 Cross St 7pm

In House Creative Projects are putting on their last event for a couple of months with a night reminiscent of how you decorated your walls when you were a 14-year-old girl. Amateur and familiar photographers have all contributed disposable camera photos in this collection of snapshots for the arty and the party.

SATURDAY 16 La Petite Four

Hootchy Kootchy Girls

Atticus

Playhouse Theatre

The aesthetics of alluring food is sexy. And the exotic voyeuristic tease of burlesque is tasty. La Petite Four combine these sexy, tasty elements and come up a menu for your belly and your eyes. It’s tantalising tastiness in titillating flavour.

7.30pm, $18, eventfinder.co.nz

The Hootchy Kootchy Girls specialise in a conservative burlesque form based on vintage cabaret, vaudeville and the burlesque scene of America in the ‘40s and ‘50s. It’s like when Bart Simpson ended up working at that cat house. That was a good episode.

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Who’s in the dead supergroup for your dream hologram show? John Lennon. Acoustic. What’s an upcoming film you’re jazzed about? Gangster Squad and Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby. Where can your stalkers find you during the weekend? Anywhere but my apartment in central Auckland. What happens when you mix Coca Cola and Pepsi? A law suit? Your fantasy spirit animal is… Falcor the giant flying dog from the NeverEnding Story series. Your signature “I’m an amazing cook” dish is… I don’t cook a lot but I can make a nice phone call to our local Japanese restaurant ‘Japadeli’ for delivery... The best TV show around at the moment is… Madmen/The New Girl/Sons of Anarchy/Modern Family. Very hard to pick just one.

The best place for a date night is… Sean Connelly’s The Grill restaurant underneath the Sky Tower. Beautiful food, great intimate atmosphere and just damn good service. People say you look like… Louis Thereoux or the guy from Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. Five celebs on your ‘f**ket list’? Kirsten Dunst, the blonde chick off The Inbetweeners movie, Zooey Deschanel, Emma Stone and Bella from Shortland St. Kittens or puppies? Puppies. Staffy puppies to be exact. What generic current affair has your blood boiled? Animal abuse. It needs to stop and there need to be much tougher laws against it. SEE HIM PERFORM: EMMETT SKILTON IN TRIBES FRI 08 JUN - SAT 30 JUN MAIDMENT THEATRE, AUCKLAND TICKETS: MAIDMENT.AUCKLAND.AC.NZ

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Coicent/Five Numbers A Review by Harlequin Jones Coicent is a short anime film about this boy called Shinichi who is on a school trip to the city, when a crazy white deer grabs his bag and he’s chasing it round and you know, drama. Meanwhile a girl who is some kind of robot or some shit, I dunno, she escapes from the place she is being held, or maybe it’s where she was created. Anyway she escapes and Shinichi meets her while chasing this deer. He helps her avoid these cray cray people who are trying to catch her. Super cute characters especially the deer. Five Numbers is the second part of the DVD and the animation is sort of 3D. These people all wake up in a spaceship prison type thing and can’t figure out how the fuck to get out of it. There’s some old man on board who knows why they are all stuck there, etc etc. It manages to tell a pretty good story for a 25 minute film.

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DOUBLE FEATURE Tuesday 12th June − 8pm

$35

Re-live two of the greatest rock albums of all time, ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘The Wall’, with surround sound and imagery in the planetarium theatre.

LED ZEPPELIN & SPACE PARK

Tuesday 19th June − 8pm

$35

Enjoy two immersive shows in Stardome’s planetarium theatre: Led Zeppelin’s music show and Space Park’s roller coaster experience. These events are adults only, and include wine and nibbles.

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THURSDAY 14 Rock Of Ages

JOEL LITTLE

General Release

There are two ways to take a film like Rock Of Ages. Is it star-studded Tom Cruise hype that looks like it’s trying to combine This Is Spinal Tap! with some kind of pseudo-drama a la Almost Famous? Or is it something that if you set your preconceived ideas aside it could actually end up being entertaining?

Breaking Bad Four, 10:30pm

Try to talk to someone about Breaking Bad without them chewing your ear off about how amazing it is. Anyone who doesn’t think this show isn’t one of the most entertaining and enthralling dramas ever to grace the box all of your furniture is pointed at is forever alone.

FRIDAY 15 The Breakfast Club Silo Park

Most every time you watch The Breakfast Club you and fellow watchers decide who of your circle of friends is who in The Breakfast Club. Most people want to be the bad kids, but in reality we’re all Anthony Michael Hall. Best John Hughes film next to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Street Fighter Four, 8:30pm

Having not seen this film for 13 years or so means it’s pretty hard to really remember. But Jean-Claude Van Damme used to be the king of action, so base your theories of what the film adaptation of the infamous video game is like on your preconceptions of him. On that note, remember the Mario Brothers movie?

SATURDAY 16

What’s the V Motion Project all about? The V Motion Project is a bunch of really talented people and myself who have teamed up to try and create a piece of music using only the movement of the body. Did you think it was possible at the start to make music using only motion? I knew about theremins and that sort of thing, where you can control the one sound using your hands, but I also knew that we wanted to push the boundaries and do things on a much larger scale, so there’s always been that element of “are we actually going to be able to pull this off?” What are the tactics you are using to make this happen? Basically we’ve got all these different geniuses involved from various disciplines – technical engineers, motion graphics artists, dancers etc – and we’re combining our powers to build and play this “instrument” of ours, which uses two Xbox Kinects and the Ableton music software to create and manipulate music. Tell us about how you’ve used the Kinect and Ableton tech in the project. The tech guys have managed to hack in to both the Kinect software and the Ableton software and combine the two together, so that when you stand in front of the Kinects they pick up your body’s movement and you can control basically anything you want within Ableton. So, for example, you could be using your right hand

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to mess with a filter while your left hand is triggering samples and your foot is playing a bass line. What are some of the hiccups you’ve come across so far? In the beginning there was quite a bit of delay between when you hit a note and when the sound would play, which made it pretty much impossible to perform any sort of track. But the tech guys managed to rewrite some code or do some other clever shit and now it’s fully playable. The next challenge was actually learning how to play the instrument, because just like any other instrument it takes a while to get your head around. So that’s where our dancer Josh Cesan came in. He’s the guy who will actually be controlling it and performing the final track. When is the team hoping to lock the project down? All going well, in the next couple of weeks. What could the future for this kind of technology? We’ve got it to a point now where it’s pretty versatile and you could use it to play basically any track you wish, if you’ve got enough limbs to pull it off. It’s just a really different way of approaching music and performance. You can get pretty creative and imaginative with it, so as it gets streamlined further things could get pretty exciting. v.co.nz/the-motion-project

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SHIT WORTH DOING

AUCKLAND gig guide Wed 13 A Shortcut To Happiness Skycity Theatre

Bitchin’ Bingo Cassette Nine

Brett Polley

9PM, Shakespeare Bar

Creative Jazz Club: Brian Smith / Peter Barwick Quintet 8PM, 1885 Basement, $10

Dan Aux Selectah 10PM, Racket Bar

Industry night 8PM, twentyone, Free

Jersey Boys The Civic

Karaoke Marcus 9PM, QF Tavern

Kirk James

6PM, The Britomart Country Club, Free

Private Lives Dolphin Theatre

Pub Quiz

Masonic Tavern

Retro Wednesday 5PM, Sale St

Rigoletto Aotea Centre

Rock The Ballet Bruce Mason Centre

Bitches N Shit ft. Girl Tiger

6PM, Racket Bar, Free

DJ James Ashwin 9PM, twentyone, Free

Jersey Boys The Civic

(THE LAST) MEAN AS THURSDAY 7PM, Zeal, $2

The Winter’s Tale Stables Theatre

Thu 14 1885 Live: Coco Solid 9PM, 1885 Britomart, Free

A Shortcut To Happiness Skycity Theatre

Acoustic Thursday w/ Eli 7PM, Neighbourhood

Acoustic Thursday w/ Phil Stoodley 5PM, Northern Steam Ship

Acoustic Thursdays w/ Waylon 7PM, Nuffield St.

Submariner, Spooky

David Shanhun

Teknik, Pakage, Hakomi & Subverse

9PM, Florrie McGreals 8PM, De Post

Dean Te Paa 8PM, GBS Bar

DJ Karn Hall & DJ General Lee 8PM, twentyone, Free

7PM, Everybodys

10PM, Rising Sun, $10

Tido

6PM, Racket Bar, Free

The Library Sessions 7PM, The Library Bar

DJ Trainer & DJ Darnell

The Mad Crept

Francis Jakeman

Tribes

Gene Rivers

The Winter’s Tale

Graduate Party 2012

Zirka Crcus

Hollow Chambers, Shoutin Preachin & Guests

Sat 16

6PM, The Britomart Country Club, Free

Jason Kyle & Adam O

A Shortcut To Happiness

Some Explicit Polaroids

Jersey Boys

Nathan Haines 6PM, Imperial Lane

Pat 4 President 9PM, QF Tavern

Private Lives Dolphin Theatre

Rock The Ballet Bruce Mason Centre

The Get Down 6PM, Sale St

Slave

The Basement, $25

Tribes

Maidment Theatre

Vann Dizon & Guests The Kings Arms

The Winter’s Tale Stables Theatre

Zirka Crcus

Bruce Pulman Park

Tribes

Maidment Theatre

Brett Polley

6PM, The Deck, Free 9PM, Basalt

6PM, Imperial Lane Juice Bar, $20

10PM, Khuja Lounge, $5

7PM, Northern Steam Ship The Civic

Junior

6PM, The Britomart Country Club, Free

Labrador Van, The Kief & Rhiain McGrath Lucha Lounge

Stables Theatre

Bruce Pulman Park

Skycity Theatre

Acoustic Sessions w/ Jonny Woods 8PM, Quay St Club Rooms

Alex M.O.R.P.H 4:20

An Evening Of Beautiful Music 8PM, The Wine Cellar

Anthony Stretch

Le Petit Four: World Tour

Awesomesauce! ft. Dirtyloud (BR)

Mark Tronson Duo

Burlesque Tea Party with Pin Up Hair

The Wine Cellar

Atticus

A Shortcut To Happiness

8PM, The Patriot

Acoustic Sessions w/ Eli Guttenbiel

Maidment Theatre

The Late Pages Garage Party

Fri 15 Skycity Theatre

8PM, Back Beat, Free

Private Lives Dolphin Theatre

8PM, De Post

10PM, Be Club, $10

Live & Let Dye Salon

Chris Cope Duo 9PM, The Patriot

RATSMAGIC UKIAH BROWN

DJ Karn Hall & DJ Alex Q

Rhythm and Style

DJ Tainer

Rock The Ballet

Dylan C

Ark In the Park Concert for The Birds

Selecta Sam

Empty, Aldo & Ben Wash

Advocates

Silo Cinema: The Breakfast Club

7PM, Quay St Club Rooms

Andy JV

6PM, Snapdragon

Anthony/Pete 9PM, Merchant Bar

Playhouse Theatre

8PM, The Kings Arms

Ben Wah

8PM, 1885 Britomart, Free

Bobby Brazuka

11PM, 1885 Basement, Free

8PM, Tabac Bar, $5 6PM, Sale St

Bruce Mason Centre 6PM, Nuffield St.

Silo Park

Solly & Empty

5PM, Neighbourhood

Some Explicit Polaroids The Basement, $25

9PM, twentyone, Free 7PM, The Deck, Free 5PM, The Britomart Country Club, Free 6PM, Snapdragon

Flight of the Conchords Town Hall

Gene Rivers

8PM, Racket Bar, Free

Granduo

9PM, Florrie McGreals


SHIT WORTH DOING

auckland gig guide Hanzel Und Gretyl (GE)

Sinful Saturdays

Jason Eli

Slave & Empty

Jason Smith Duo

Some Explicit Polaroids

Kings Arms

8PM, La Zeppa Kitchen 8PM, Black Salt

Jersey Boys The Civic

King Kapisi

Ponsonby Social Club

Le Petit Four: World Tour Atticus

Mark Tronson 8PM, Moretons Bar and Restaurant

Module

9PM, Leigh Sawmill Cafe, $15

Private Lives Dolphin Theatre

Raggamuffin & The Music Agency Present; Soljah, Sonz of Zion & Tomorrow People 8PM, Ballroom, $25

Rigoletto Aotea Centre

Sandon James

11PM, 1885 Basement, Free

7PM, the Library Bar

7PM, Neighbourhood

The Basement, $25

THE SPO

8PM, Shakespeare Bar

Tribes

Maidment Theatre

VHF Duo

9PM, Merchant Bar

We Own The Night 10PM, 1885 Britomart, $10

The Winter’s Tale Stables Theatre

Zirka Crcus

Bruce Pulman Park

NXT Winter Fashion Show The Winchester

Rigoletto Aotea Centre

Rock The Ballet

United Youth Orchestra Winter Concert

Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, Hamilton

Wed 13 Nadia Reid & Flora Knight

8PM, Harbour Street Theatrette, Oamaru, Koha

Ruby Frost

8PM, Major Toms, Mount Maunganui, $10

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The Basement, $25

Tribes

Maidment Theatre

TVNZ 7’s The Big Idea The Cloud

Bruce Mason Centre

School Of Rock MidYear Xmas Party the Kings Arms

Some Explicit Polaroids The Basement, $25

Sunday at Sale St 2PM, Sale St

Tue 19 A Shortcut To Happiness Skycity Theatre

Beats, Eats & Co Ponsonby Social Club

The Kings Arms Pub Quiz

TVNZ 7’s The Big Idea

A Shortcut To Happiness

The Cloud

Led Zeppelin & Space Park Double Feature

Skycity Theatre

Zirka Crcus

Bruce Pulman Park

Blend

2PM, Merchant Bar and Restaurant Ponsonby Social Club

9PM, Elephant Wrester

Ewen Gilmour The Pony Club

Jersey Boys The Civic

Fri 15 Blacklistt

7PM, The Mayfair, New Plymouth, $30

Nadia Reid & Flora Knight

Stardome Observatory & Planetarium

Open Mic Night The Windsor Castle

Mon 18 The Kings Arms Monday Music Quiz 7PM, The

Quiz Night

7PM, Northern Steam Ship

Some Explicit Polaroids The Basement, $25

Tribes

Maidment Theatre

TVNZ 7’s The Big Idea The Cloud

Quiz Night

7PM, Nuffield St

REGIONAL gig guide Sun 17

Some Explicit Polaroids

Sun 17

David Shanhun

7PM, Cassette Nine, $15

1PM, Leigh Sawmill Cafe, Koha

Town Hall

7PM, The Kings Arms

The Shakespeare Hollywood Ball Sampology’s Supervisual Apocalypse

Module

Sergey Malov, Michael Houstoun & Ashley Brown

Chapel Bar & Bistro

Conch Sunday Grill

The Shakespeare

5PM, The Wine Cellar, $5

Sunday Session

Saturday at Sale St 7PM, Sale St

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

These Automatic Changers

Krazy Jacks Bar, Tauranga

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Sat 16 Fuelset

The Raw Nerves

Brewers Bar, Mt Maunganui

Space Monster, Wanganui

Sergey Malov & Michael Houstoun

Ian McKellen

Sarah Brown

Hawke’s Bay Opera House, Hastings

The Cabana, Napier

Smokefree Rockquest 2012 Regional Final

Left Or Right

Strawberry Tree, Kaikoura

Sun 17

Nadia Reid & Flora Knight

Flight Of The Conchords

8PM, Dharma Bums Club, Wairau Valley, Koha

Nelson School of Music, Nelson

Civic Theatre, Rotorua

8PM, The Freehouse, Nelson, Free

TSB Showplace, New Plymouth


t SHIT WORTH DOING

WELLINGTON gig guide Wed 13

Micah, B-Lo & Kev Fresh

Standstill

Sun 17

Body Language

The Brown Show

Stir Friday w/ KNOCK KNOCK

All About Kids Expo

8pm, Bats Theatre, $18

Footnote Dance: Made in New Zealand The Opera House

Hollywoodfun Downstairs, The Dead Scene & The Joint Chiefs

8PM, San Fran Bath House, Free

The Improv Lounge The Fringe Bar

Lizardfolk, Please the Trees & Stretch to Mould 8PM, Bar Medusa, Free

The Mighty Mighty Quiz Mighty Mighty

The Nark Collective Bettys

Bettys

The Fringe Bar

Roadside Theory

The Session Matterhorn

Stand-up Comedy Meow

Sum Tram Tigers & Psychic Maps

10PM, Mighty Mighty, Free

Standstill

Astro Empire

BATS Theatre, $20

9PM, Southern Cross, Free

Satisfaction Sunday w/ Allen and Matt

Waots, Fauxhound, SnoregazZzm & Glasgow

Blacklistt

10PM, Mighty Mighty, $10

Body Language

8pm, Bats Theatre, $18

Chris Bryant

7PM, San Fran Bath House, $30 + BF

Body Language

8pm, Bats Theatre, $18

7PM, Downstage, $35

1PM, Good Luck Bar, Free

The Improvisors: Theatresports Circa Theatre

The Boptet The Lido Cafe

Fri 15

Capital Bass

Band of Thousands

Comedy Boil-Up

Public Bar & Eatery

8PM, Meow, $15

Te Papa

Body Language

Darren Watson & The Real Deal Blues Band

Mon 11

Ex.d and Good Luck present: Easy Tiger

Nerd Nite 11: Angry Birds, Medical Words & Science Hipsters

8pm, Bats Theatre, $18 10PM, Southern Cross, Free Sandwiches

Fish n Chip Friday w/ JoHanna and the Mystery

6PM, Evil Genius records, Koha

Ginger Brown

8PM, San Fran Bath House, Free

Sandwiches

The Lido Cafe

The Sunday Jazz Club

10PM, Good Luck Bar, Free

6PM, Hotel Bristol, Free

FFD presents Just Friends

Raw Meat Comedy The Fringe Bar

8PM, Bodega (Burgundy Room), $20

Jennifer Zea & The Antipodean Collective Matterhorn

Tue 12 Flight of the Conchords w/ Arj Barker

Hanzel und Gretyl

Miles Calder

Marek, B-Lo & Kev Fresh

The Latin Soul Jennifer Zea

Live Music

Ruby Frost w/ Little Bark

Outward Bound 50th Anniversary Film & Fundraiser Night

Bar Medusa Bettys

Mark de CliveLowe Live Matterhorn, $5

Thu 14

Circa Theatre

Paul Ubana Jones

Famous Fridays

Town Hall

All My Sons

Sat 16

Te Papa

Rice and Shine w/ Mike Ruckus Sergey Malov, Michael Houstoun & Ashley Brown

TSB Bank Arena

Seven Brothers

Earfood

9PM, Good Luck Bar, Free

10PM, Good Luck Bar, Free

8PM, San Fran Bath House, $5

Passages: Reading around the Transit Adam Art Gallery

BATS Theatre, $20

Raw Nerves w/ Las Tetas & No Aloha 10PM, Mighty Mighty, $5

Stairway to Pole Heaven The Fringe Bar

El Horno

4PM, Southern Cross, Free

11PM, Matterhorn, Free

10PM, Mighty Mighty, $10

Standstill

BATS Theatre, $20

The Unfaithful Ways Bodega

Whanau Shorts Te Papa

Michael Fowler Centre The Library

The Film Archive

Standstill

BATS Theatre, $20

Sunset Road Circa Theatre

Try This

BATS Theatre

CHRISTCHURCH gig guide Wed 13

Karaoke

Sandridge Hotel

Thu 14

Kids for Kids

Adam McGarth

Kids for Kids

The Black Velvet Band

Ashburton Trust Event Centre

Becks Southern Alehouse

Nadia Reid & Flora Knight

Quiz Night

Karaoke w/ DJ Chick

8PM, Wunderbar

I Am You w/ The Laon & Rockhouse 8PM, Dux Live

Jam Session

Phoenix Bar

Pierside Cafe and Bar

Kate Anastasiou

Ashburton Trust Event Centre

8PM, Wunderbar, $10

Salsa On Thursdays Salsa Latina Dance Studio

8PM, Clink

Becks Southern Alehouse

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SHIT WORTH DOING

CHRISTCHURCH gig guide Sisters Of Sound Dux Live

The Shameless Two Phoenix Bar

Goodshirt w/Thomas Coffey and the Grinders &Sleepy Age Dux Live

Iron Cobra

Pierside Cafe and Bar

Garden City Turf War Roller Derby Pioneer Leisure Centre

Karaoke

Sandridge Hotel

Left Or Right

Total Control Phoenix Bar

Viva Las Burlesque CPSA

Voodoo

Becks Southern Alehouse

Fri 15

Kate Anastasiou

anthesiac & ipswich

Kindred Soundsystem

RDU 98.5FM RounDUp Final

Sun 17

Sign of the Firebird

Reckless Duo

Cross Dressing Sunday

Sergey Malov & Michael Houstoun

Dr Sanchez

9PM, Wunderbar, $5

Campsite Comedy Lincoln Event Centre

Dialogues & Fantasies for Flute and Piano St Augustine Anglican Church

DJ Mike T

5PM, Astro Lounge

11PM, The Brewery

Becks Southern Alehouse

Sat 16

The Strawberry Tree, Kaikoura

9PM, Dux Live, Free Phoenix Bar

Middleton Grange School

6PM, Wunderbar

2PM, Astro Lounge

Wishful Thinking Irish Society Hall

Ctrl Alt Rock

Shiver

DJ Mike T

Smashbox

Wed 13

Fri 15

Matariki Celebration Pioneer Hall

Sun 17

Nadia Reid & Flora Knight

Nick Knox & Jono Heyes

Soundboy Tom

Peter Kesha

The Brewery

The Fox and Ferret, Riccarton The Monday Room

Pierside Cafe and Bar Ferrymead Speights Ale House

DUNEDIN gig guide

Harbour St Theatrette, Oamaru

9PM, Mou Very, Free

Puaka Matariki Festival Launch

Thu 14

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Art Seminar w/ Sam Mann

Sat 16

Dunedin School of Art

Copa Bar

The Topp Twins & Southern Sinfonia Regent Theatre

The Oxo Cubans: Fortune Theatre Concert Series

4PM, Careys Bay Hotel, Free

Mon 18 Square Eye Pair Fortune Theatre

Fortune Theatre

Hootchy Kootchy Girls Burlesque Amateur Night

Tue 19

Playhouse Theatre

Square Eye Pair Fortune Theatre

WAIKaTO gig guide Wed 13 Dad’s Army

Riverlea Theatre, Hamilton

Latin Dancing Rhythms

Flight of the Conchords

Lisa Crawley & Hayden Booth

New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays

New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays

Founders Theatre, Hamilton

Cock & Bull, Hamilton

SKYCITY Hamilton

Mystery Creek Events Centre, Hamilton

New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays

Quiz Night

Rural to Runway

Ruby Frost

Tomorrow People

Mystery Creek Events Centre, Hamilton

Zinc Cafe, Hamilton FLOW, Hamilton

Thu 14 Coral by Lamplight

Fri 15

Dad’s Army

Dad’s Army

6PM, The Londoner

Riverlea Theatre, Hamilton

Riverlea Theatre, Hamilton

Mystery Creek Events Centre, Hamilton

Wintec Campus, Hamilton Altitude Bar, Hamilton

Young Farmers Fight Night Fundraiser

Don Rowlands Centre, Cambridge

Sat 16 Dad’s Army

Riverlea Theatre, Hamilton

Emmeline

8PM, Biddy Mulligans, Hamilton, Free

Lisa Crawley & Hayden Booth

Cock & Bull, Hamilton

New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays Mystery Creek Events Centre, Hamilton

These Automatic Changers - One Fifty Six Tour YOT Club, Raglan


shit worth drinking

Even The Help Needs To Relax

Grand Central 126 Ponsonby Road, Auckland

Situated in the heart of Ponsonby, this unique little bar has plenty to offer every day of the week with live music Monday to Thursday and DJs Friday to Sunday. Now stocking a wide range of craft beers on tap and by bottle this lively venue will cater to whatever your taste may be. Check out our Facebook page for up to date gig guide and drink specials at facebook. com/GrandCentralBar. Grand Central – better than any other GC.

The Claddagh 372-376 Broadway, Newmarket, Auckland

There’s something to do every night of the week at The Claddagh. Monday pool nights, darts competitions on Tuesdays, pub quiz Wednesdays, karaoke Thursdays and fresh, live music every Friday and Saturday. Come Sunday there’s no better place for a roast meal for you and your friends or that stranger you took home who you think you’ve got at least one more round with.

Hating your job puts the hospital in hospitality. Sometimes you get a little crazy. Sometimes you go postal. Sometimes you make bad choices. Sometimes you leave one of the greatest unknown comedy shows ever made and go sing with a bunch of high school kids. Sometimes you really do need a break.

Wunderbar 19 London Street, Lyttelton

The Lyttelton favourite is back in business. And by favourite, we mean favourite. Ask just about any band or solo act that has performed at the venue and odds are they’ll say that it’s their favourite place to play. Whether it’s the intimacy, the general vibe or all of the magical pixie dust that’s structurally holding the place together, there’s something about the place that always makes it worth your while.

Cassette Nine 9 VULCAN LANE, AUCKLAND

Whether you prefer Panic Tuesdays to get your twisting shoes scrunching the dance floor; Teenage Kicks on Wednesdays to help you relive your indie yoof; DJ favourites at Cassette Allstars on Thursdays; the always popular MUM clubnights every Friday; or some of the finest talent the Cassette crew can muster every Saturday for the Sick Disco line-ups, Cassette’s got you covered when you need some party shelter.


tours & events

Upcoming tours & events Flight Of The Conchords

Bill Bailey

Fri 28 Sep Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Mon 01 Oct CBS Canterbury Arena, Christchurch Wed 03 Oct ASB Theatre, Auckland

BlacklistT

Fri 15 Jun The Mayfair, New Plymouth Sat 16 Jun San Fran Bath House, Wellington Fri 22 Jun Altitude Bar, Hamilton Sat 23 Jun Powerstation, Auckland

Black Keys

Sat 03 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland Mon 05 Nov TSB Bank Arena, Wellington

Coldplay

Sat 10 Nov Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland

Wed 13 Jun Hawkes Bay Opera House, Hastings Thu 14 Jun Founders Theatre, Hamilton Sat 16 Jun Town Hall, Auckland Sun 17 Jun TSB Showplace, New Plymouth Tue 19 Jun Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Wed 20 Jun Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Sat 23 Jun Regent Theatre, Dunedin Sun 24 Jun Event Centre, Queenstown Tue 26 Jun CBS Canterbury Arena, Christchurch Wed 27 Jun Trafalgar Centre, Nelson Fri 29 Jun Vector Arena, Auckland Mon 02 Jul Bank Arena, Wellington

Left Or Right

Sat 16 Jun Strawberry Tree, Kaikoura Fri 22 Jun Subculture, Queenstown Sat 23 Jun Mint Bar, Wanaka Fri 29 Jun Blue Pub, Methven Sat 30 Jun Dux Live, Christchurch

NZ International Film Festival Sun 19 Jul - Sun 05 Aug Multiple Venues, Auckland Fri 27 Jul - Sun 12 Aug Multiple Venues, Wellington Fri 27 Jul - Sun 12 Aug Multiple Venues, Dunedin Thu 09 Aug - Sun 26 Aug Hoyts Northlands, Christchurch

Goodshirt

Fri 15 Jun Dux Live, Christchurch Fri 22 Jun San Francisco Bath House, Wellington Fri 06 Jul The Bacco Room, Auckland

Lenny Henry (UK)

Sun 24 Jun ASB Theatre, Auckland Wed 27 Jun Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Lil’ Band O’ Gold

Grizzly Bear

Tue 20 Nov The Opera House, Wellington Wed 21 Nov Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland

Opossom

Fri 29 Jun Darkroom, Christchurch Sat 30 Jun Wunderbar, Lyttelton

Wed 04 Jul Opera House, Wellington Thu 05 Jul Municipal Theatre, Napier Fri 06 Jul Clarence St Theatre, Hamilton Sat 07 Jul Powerstation, Auckland

Paul Ubana Jones

LUCKLESS & BOND STREET BRIDGE

Radiohead (UK)

Sun 17 Jun Downstage Theatre, Wellington

Tue 06 Nov Vector Arena, Auckland

Fri 22 Jun The Moorings, Wellington Sat 23 Jun The Free House, Nelson Sun 24 Jun The Dharma Bums Club, Wairau Valley Mon 25 Jun Donovan’s Store, Okarito Tue 26 Jun Cooks Saddle, Fox Glacier Wed 27 Jun Theatrette, Oamaru Thu 28 Jun The National, Dunedin Fri 29 Jun The Brewery, Christchurch Sat 30 Jun Darkroom, Christchurch

The Raw Nerves

Fri 15 Jun Mighty Mighty, Wellington Sat 16 Jun Space Monster, Wanganui Fri 22 Jun Wunderbar, Lyttleton Thu 28 Jun Static, Hamilton Fri 29 Jun Whammy Bar, Auckland

Smashing Pumpkins

Sat 04 Aug Vector Arena, Auckland

Mark Gardener Dame Edna Everage

Sat 11 Aug The Civic, Auckland Sun 12 Aug The Civic, Auckland Mon 13 Aug The Civic, Auckland Tue 14 Aug The Civic, Auckland

dDub

Fri 29 Jun Players Entertainment Venue, Invercargill Sat 30 Jun Mint Bar, Wanaka Sun 01 Jul Winter Festival Mardigra, Queenstown

The English Beat

Thu 23 Aug Powerstation, Auckland

Jeff Dunham

Thu 09 Aug Mighty Mighty, Wellington Fri 10 Aug The Kings Arms, Auckland Sat 11 Aug Wunderbar, Lyttelton

Sun 19 Aug Vector Arena, Auckland

The Unfaithful Ways Sat 16 Jun Bodega, Wellington

Ladyhawke

Wed 11 Jul Union Hall, Dunedin Thu 12 July UCSA Events Centre, Christchurch Fri 13 Jul San Fran Bath House, Wellington Sat 14 Jul Studio, Auckland

Lawrence Arabia

Fri 13 Jul St Michaels and All Angels, Christchurch Sat 14 Jul Sammy’s, Dunedin Fri 20 Jul Town Hall, Auckland Sat 21 Jul Opera House, Wellington

Terror

Tue 17 Jul Void, Hamilton Wed 18 Jul The Kings Arms, Auckland

Nasum (SE)

Thu 28 Aug The Kings Arms, Auckland




Ice Queen WRITTEN BY LAURA WEASER

After years of straining under the weight of HER creativity, Ruby Frost emerges from the cold with an album that ’s a truly personal journey.

It’s been a long time coming – from writing her first book when she was seven years old, to writing music with some of Australia and New Zealand’s best, Jane de Jong, aka Ruby Frost, has finally developed her debut album, Volition.

“I don’t think my music sounds like Elemeno P or Evermore,” Ruby Frost laughs. “But it was interesting working with these different people. I looked at them as really good creative writing exercises. It really solidified for me the sound that I want to have.”

Her talent for writing in expressive and conceptual ways is the cornerstone of her sound. Beyond her entrancing voice, which caught mainstream attention with her debut single ‘Moonlight’ and her latest single ‘Water to Ice’, Ruby Frost’s music explores the deeply personal using the very unusual.

As she admits she is not one to pour her heart out, Ruby Frost found the process intimidating yet fundamental for the abstract nature of Volition.

Volition is no different. She describes the concept album as a journey through an “awful breakup” – the music was a way to work through the torment she felt. “I felt my confidence had been rocked,” she explains. “I felt like I had lost my identity. The songs move from being depressed to angry and then the final track – the title track – is one of empowerment, not being defined by what happened. It’s my feisty song,” she says with a laugh. “I’ve had relationships before, but this hit hard. I had to write it out to draw a line in the sand and move on. I’m not good about talking about my feelings, so I’m lucky to have therapy through music.” But don’t expect the songs to be exploding with clichés and pop-angst: Ruby Frost describes the songs as “abstract and strange”, using images of magicians and orbs of light. Each song is in order of her emotions she felt and accompanied by a collection of short stories. The album itself has been a physical journey for Ruby Frost as well. Beginning at the start of 2010, she was sent on a bunch of co-writing trips beyond New Zealand through her label to work with everyone from Dann Hume (drummer of Evermore) to Paul Mac (who has produced George Michael’s work) and Justyn Pilbrow from Elemeno P.

“I found myself pushing for more obscure lyrics when I was writing with these artists,” she says. “Maybe because I didn’t want to go into my life story with these strangers. I would write about my emotions in a roundabout way, with a filter or lens over them, and from there I realised I liked the abstract nature. It was a really weird experience,” she laughs. It’s not just her sound that takes on the abstract. Known for her colourful costumes and wild hair colours, the character of Ruby Frost was an extension of her hiding behind the sound and the words. “It started from a Katherine Mansfield short story writing competition in high school,” Ruby Frost recalls. “You needed a pseudonym, and my teacher had entered me so quickly I had to come up with one on the spot. Since then I kept using it for creative projects.” At 25 years old, Ruby Frost has experienced the typical twenties “age crisis”, admitting she is “no spring chicken anymore” with a giggle. She says the character of Ruby remains, but has now reached a point that she is not afraid to put Jane out there a little more. “[The costumes] are the creative side of my brain. I needed a space to put all of that and I put it all under that name, but I think it’s still just me and I have come to accept that.” ALBUM OUT NOW: VOLITION

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Neil Young

Justin Bieber

For the best part of 50 years, rock maven and musical icon Neil Young has been building one of the most impressive discographies in the history of popular music.

“Bie-lieb” it or not – global teen sensation Justin Bieber is coming back to New Zealand. The ‘Boyfriend’ hit-maker has confirmed his trip later this month via Twitter.

He has released 34 solo albums, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, and has influenced generation upon generation of younger artists. You can count Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth and Bob Dylan among his dearest fans.

Bieber is due to touch down in New Zealand on July 18 for a promotional visit, and will be here until July 20 – which doesn’t give us enough time to prepare!

Even after so many years, the one thing you can count on is that Neil Young is still a restless artist at heart, moving from one project to the next with the vigour of someone a third his age. In his canon you can find amplified hard rock, acoustic country rock, experimental guitar noise, political diatribe, commanding electro-acoustic performances, and even an album inspired by his customised Lincoln Continental in the form of Fork In The Road. Obviously it hasn’t all been accolades and spring roses. By the late ‘70s, many had dismissed Young as a relic of the past – only to be proven wrong with the release of Rust Never Sleeps, one of the most critically acclaimed live albums of all time. It has become apparent that you should never count this crazy horse out. Then there’s his famously gruff sense of humour. Upon the release of Chrome Dreams II in 2007, he nominated the 18-minute-plus epic ‘Ordinary People’ to be the radio single despite protests from the DJs. But behind the curmudgeonly artist, there is the virulent philanthropist. In 1985, Young co-founded the annual Farm Aid benefit concert alongside Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp to help out struggling farmers in America facing foreclosure. The following year he had his part in setting up the Bridge School, an educational organisation for children with severe physical and verbal disabilities. Young’s latest release, Americana, is an eclectic collection of American folk standards given the fearless treatment we have come to expect. Even better is the fact that his legendary backing band, Crazy Horse, have come along for the ride for the first time in nine years. With renditions of ‘Clementine’ – as made famous by the cartoon Huckleberry Hound – and Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land Is Your Land’, Americana promises to be one of his most controversial and talked about records yet. It seems that, like rust, mad genius never sleeps.

When he was first here in April 2010, he caused overcrowding, fainting and partial deafness in tweens with just a flick of his boyish locks. So now, 18 years old and back with a smoother, dare I say sexier sound, what should New Zealand expect? Since he has been away, the singer has had some growing up to do. He’s had a haircut, got himself a girlfriend (and rumour has it, lost a girlfriend) and has shed his cute pop roots to show us he’s not that little boy anymore. He’s also an incredibly financially stable young man: Forbes named him third most powerful celebrity in the world, worth $55 million(USD). To date he has sold over a million records. His new album, Believe, is also the biggest shift for the young singer. The hip-hop lover not only raps on the opening of his debut single, but rap elders including Kanye West and Drake feature on many of the tracks. His debut single was also co-written by Mike Posner, not to mention a sprinkle of Timberland’s magic on the production of the some of the beats and his main man Usher as executive producer. Touching on his dance-heavy tracks such as his collaboration with Chris Brown for ‘Next To You’ and the more recent collaboration with Far East Movement on ‘Live My Life’, Justin is making a clear statement that he’s not a lovesick teen: he is a man, with wants, needs and a sense of what make good music. Justin is aware of his “love him, loath him” status, and hopes with his new album, he can finally make his music a universal love for all ages. “I feel like it’s my responsibility to be the greatest I can be,” he said recently. “If I go out there and start making terrible music, I don’t expect people to like me. If I’m making great music and there’s no reason for people to not like me, that’s when it’s going to make me upset. “People just need to take a chance and listen. If they don’t want to take a chance, then I don’t know. That’s going to be the biggest problem, to make them feel like it’s cool for them to like my music.” No doubt sold-out shows will follow him to our shores, as well as a harem of screaming teenage fans.

WRITTEN BY RICARDO KERR ALBUM OUT NOW: AMERICANA

WRITTEN BY LAURA WEASER ALBUM OUT NOW: BELIEVE

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The DiRT series began with a stunning array of rallying, with a sprinkling of gymkhana and rallycross. Over the years the ratio has been flipped upside down, to this latest version where point-to-point rallying is completely gone. However, it does provide something rather rare on current generation consoles, namely real crash and bash racing. DiRT Showdown is all about the thrills and spills – the bright lights, the demolition derby, the tricks and finesse in gymkhana, and more importantly, the intense competition. DiRT Showdown transports you into a series of tour events, with a range of challenges to choose from: demolition, gymkhana and racing. What becomes clear the minute you launch into your first event is that DiRT Showdown is not a title that takes itself too seriously… it’s out to have fun. The game looks and feels great, but there’s nothing very realistic about it. That said, it’s still a pleasure to throw the car into a drift, or into a donut and then exit tidily. The graphics look great, particularly when there are fireworks and explosions going off around the track. Furthermore the damage model is well implemented, with bits of the car flying off, doors hanging loose and bumpers crumpling. Each part of the car is destructible, and the cars as a whole have a total amount of damage they can take before they reset (a nice nod to the title’s arcade roots). The multiplayer is a real highlight – mainly because it’s more fun smashing up player controlled cars than it is getting one up on the AI. Online you have access to the same modes as offline, but some extras are thrown in; one real gem is the “capture the flag” type mode. Naturally all hell breaks loose as you try to keep away from other players in an exciting arena. DiRT Showdown does a great job of bringing an action-packed racing experience to the living room, but it won’t appeal to gamers looking for that rallying sim. Additionally it isn’t focused on a racing career, such as the previous titles have been. But if that still sounds appealing, you won’t be disappointed… give it a try. WRITTEN BY JOEL LAUTERBACH


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FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Unless you’ve been holidaying in Uzbekistan, you’ll be aware that this year’s most anticipated national tour has been confirmed. It’s only New Zealand’s fourth most popular parody folk duo – and they’ve only just about sold out every date in every theatre in the country. There is the slimmest chance that the Foxton Beach RSA may have a few seats, but that’s an unsubstantiated, unqualified rumour that can’t be confirmed or denied. Following the mega success of their HBO hit TV series, Men In Black star Jemaine Clement (also aka Hiphopopotamus) and former Black Seed, Oscar winner and manMuppet Brett McKenzie (who also checks in as Rhymenoceros) have sold-out tours across the United States and Europe, performing at all the landmark venues like the Hollywood Bowl, New York’s Radio City Music Hall and London’s Wembley Arena. And, at last, they’ve finally cleared the diary to bring it all home. Shows sold like warm pavlovas – with pre-sales online breaking servers, inducing long queues outside ticket offices, and causing overnight camp-outs. 30

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Extra shows have had to be added for several of the main centres, including the duo’s hometown, Wellington. “It’s going to be great to play New Zealand again. I can’t wait to perform where people can understand our accents,” says McKenzie. “We’re looking forward to our very first New Zealand national tour.” “This will be by far the most convenient tour we’ve ever done,” adds Clement. He’s looking forward to nipping home to his mums’s to get the washing done between performances. And with US stand-up comedian Arj Barker (Dave, the pawn shop guy from the TV show) joining them as support act, it’s safe to say lucky New Zealand ticketholders have a lot to look forward to.

they’ve appeared in a Simpsons episode, Hollywood movie roles and they’ve met David Bowie (actually that was just a dream!).

Their story is well-known. Like many Kiwi acts, they were originally shunned by the big local corporates. TVNZ turned them down and it was left to American cable network HBO to pick up their concept, which included elements of their highly popular stand-up shows, road-tested at events like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Since then it’s been Emmy nominations, Brett’s scooped a Grammy,

So finally, for us New Zealanders, the wait is over. This June, it’s finally business time.

The duo started in Wellington playing to small clubs. Having the usual Kiwi low self esteem they booked the Aro St Video Shop for a 15-minute set in 2008 – over a 100 people turned up. After that the venues got bigger as they gathered a full head steam internationally. A prototype of their HBO was developed for a BBC radio show and also included Rhys Darby as Murray, their good natured but witless manager. It also broke in Neil Finn to the international comedy world, as Murrary’s reluctant business confidante.

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