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WELCOME How to make a life in music, movies and games: it’s a dream that more and more people are turning into reality, and the unofficial theme of this jam-packed edition of The Red Bulletin. Exclusive interviews with Jessie Ware and Lenny Kravitz (she’s just done her second album; he’s just done his 10th) reveal what it’s really like to make music in 2014. Meanwhile, up (and down) a slope somewhere, filming the most ambitious full-length mountain-bike movie, is Brandon Semenuk. Can he really turn YouTube views into a career behind the camera? Plus, we’ve got the incredible story of four men who went from game to racetrack: Gran Turismo tournament wins gave them careers as racing drivers. Plus, a ton of other stuff: sport, new tech and more. Enjoy the issue. THE RED BULLETIN
“I still get starstruck, like when Russell Crowe turns up backstage” JESSIE WARE, PAGE 36
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He’s conquered rock ’n’ roll, now he’s in blockbuster movies and still incredibly cool after all these years
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BEST PICS Jaw-dropping images
BULLEVARD 18 OUTDOORS SPECIAL Get some fresh air. Plus: naked mountaineering
FEATURES 28 On the record
How can you still be cool after all these years? This man knows how
36 Jessie Ware
Following up her smash-hit first album has been an amazing ride
44 Beardyman
Beatbox champ and musical genius
60 CONSOLE TO COCKPIT
Four video gamers turned play skills into a career. At this year’s Le Mans 24-hour race they lined up against each another
Mountain-bike movie-making tips
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B-Boy and Red Bull BC One champion Hong 10 gets ripped without weights and makes like a snake to stay strong
44 82 ‘I’M LIKE A TARANTINO MOVIE’ The hyper-energetic, super-talented Beardyman explains how he’s invented the EDM machine of the future 06
SHOTS IN THE DARK
One man has devoted his nightlife to documenting the Parisian party scene: this is a rare, exclusive look in his archive
60 Gran Turismo v Le Mans Driving game champions take to the track for real: their incredible story
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The themes of ruin and redemption run concurrently in the movies of American director Robert Rodriguez, so it should come as no surprise that he’s decorated the conference room
REINVENTING THE PHOTO PART TWO OF OUR LOOK AT THE IMPORTANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 175 YEARS LATER.
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The French photographer has amassed thousands of photos documenting Parisian nightlife, a selection of which appear in this edition of The Red Bulletin. For Fabien, it’s as much about socialising as it is about making great images. “I go out a lot because I love electronic music,” he says. “Dressed in black, you can go anywhere in Paris at night – you can dance to trap music at the Social Club, enjoy a cocktail at the Silencio and end up at the Baron next to Jean Dujardin.” Enter la nuit Parisienne on page 82.
The Austrian snapper racks up air miles, shooting everywhere from New York to Paris, working for magazines such as Wallpaper and Elle and brands like Swarovski. For this month’s issue, she flew from Vienna to London to shoot singer Jessie Ware in a warehouse studio, an experience both parties seemed to enjoy. “Once Maria and Jessie got settled into the shoot,” says writer Ruth Morgan, “they were chatting and laughing together between shots.” The story begins on page 36.
For our feature on the epic new mountain bike film RAD Company, directed by the Canadian rider Brandon Semenuk, we couldn’t have assigned a better man than Hauser. Originally from Vienna, He moved to the US in 2001 to launch Flow, the first mountain bike freeride magazine. Later, he settled in the mountain bike paradise (and Semenuk’s hometown) of Whistler. “Brandon is a true mountain bike hero” Hauser says, “and his film is a love letter to his sport.” See page 48.
The Red Bulletin is published in 11 countries. On the cover of the latest Swiss edition is ice hockey star Nino Niederreiter.
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Photoshoot of the month by Mark Seliger When Lenny Kravitz arrived at Mark Seliger’s photography studio in New York, he knew exactly how he wanted the shoot to go. “He kept stepping out to debate the images with Seliger, who he’s known for years,” says Brandon Perkins, who interviewed Kravitz for The Red Bulletin. See page 28.
We’re going his way: Lenny Kravitz during his shoot for The Red Bulletin
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TICKET TO RIDE Sea, spray, dodging kitesurfers: it’s all part of a normal day for Russian windsurf champion Olya Raskina. After swapping her landlocked hometown of Moscow for a base in Dahab, Egypt, the 30-year-old spends five months of the year in SA. It’s where she can imagine her post-competition life. “There are lots of possibilities,” she says, “and one is opening a guest house in Cape Town.” Retirement is a way off, as Raskina is in the form of her life. She only narrowly missed out on becoming the 2014 PWA Freestyle World Champion, happy, for now, with a career-best second place. facebook.com/olya.raskina1 Photo: Kirill Umrikhin/Red Bull Content Pool
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SKATE STYLE CJ Rench is most aptly named: a sculptor and designer who specialises in large-scale metalwork which can be seen all over America. His latest project is the Red Bull Skatespace in Seattle’s Jefferson Park. Top skater Torey Pudwill had significant input into the design; Rench and his team studied T-Puds as he skated on mock-ups and parts of the sculpture. “There’s a very artistic side to the skateboard scene,” says Rench, but this is “first and foremost a work of art, and then something skateboardable.” The skaters, including Tom Schaar, seen here, love it. redbull.com/skatespace Photo: Mike Blabac/Red Bull Content Pool
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Recent adventures for trials rider Danny MacAskill include bike-based acrobatics in a deserted Argentinian city and cruising above bunnies’ heads at the Playboy Mansion. But the Scot got back on home rock, 25 miles from where he grew up, to do what in his world counts as keeping it simple: conquering the formidable Cuillin Ridge and everything on the way up. MacAskill’s time out of the saddle, which included daily four-hour hikes, proved the toughest part of the trip. “Being on the bike is natural,” he says. “At a certain height you hit autopilot – you’ve just got to hang on.” redbull.com/bike Photo: Andy McCandlish
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DAVID L AMA
Summit or nothing
Aged 16, he won a sport climbing world cup gold, then four years later, in 2011, retired so he could tackle the great peaks. He’s since looked down from the summit of Chogolisa in Pakistan and Cerro Torre in Patagonia. Next is Masherbrum, like K2 and Chogolisa, in the Karakoram mountain range. “Its north-east face is like the north face of the Eiger with a Cerro Torre on top,” says Lama. Impossible to the rest of us.
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The Austrian laughs at the idea that something is impossible, then goes out to prove otherwise
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LANGTANG LIRUNG 7,227m, Nepal/China
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LENIN PEAK 7,134m, Tajikistan
QUNGMOGANGZE 7,048m, Tibet
CRUNCH THIS DATA? Combined, these stats prove what has long been suspected: people wearing cool outdoor clothes on public transport aren’t always on their way to the nearest mountain.
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Where: Amazonian Brazil How long: 254km Terrain: jungle Temperature: 40°C Record: 32h 18m Humidity: 99 per cent Risks: leeches, anacondas, piranhas.
Where: Canada, from Nunavut to the magnetic North Pole How long: 650km Terrain: snow and ice Temperature: -50°C Record: 10d 9h 45m Risks: at 50 below, it’s not just the liquids you take on that freeze.
Where: in the Moroccan Sahara desert, route changing annually How long: about 250km over six days Terrain: desert sand Temperature: at night 0°C, by day 40°C Record: 16h 27m Water required: nine litres daily Risks: disorientation. In 1994, one lost entrant was found alive – just – nine days later.
Where: up and up from Mt Everest base camp in Nepal How long: 42.195km Terrain: Himalayan Temperature: 10°C Record: 3h 28m 27s Highest point: 5,364m Risks: yeti sightings brought on by severe lack of oxygen.
BARE IN RARE AIR
The freest climbing there is Nudists are taking over the mountains. We’re cool with that, but wearing shoes isn’t 100 per cent commitment
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Some say it’s the ultimate nature experience: heading towards a summit wearing nothing but a rucksack and hiking boots. And a hat. But apart from that, everything is left swinging in the mountain breeze. Naked hiking is now so widespread in Switzerland that they have come up with a sign prohibiting it. A graphic designer originally devised it as a joke, only then to receive a lot of orders from concerned municipal authorities. Other sports that would be better in the buff: Naked sprinting Back to our roots, like in the good old days of ancient Olympia. Naked football Shirt-tugging? Pull the other one. Naked swimming Men would never stray from their lane thanks to the additional rudder.
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Three robust adventurers who have turned man-v-nature into a nice little earner BEAR GRYLLS Real men drink elephant wee and eat live cockchafer grubs. At least this former SAS reservist does. Other things he has tucked into include yaks’ eyes, goats’ testicles and scorpions; all organic. Enjoy your dinner.
Watch him on: Discovery Channel
RÜDIGER NEHBERG Trained as a pastry chef, but earned his bread journeying up jungle rivers and campaigned for indigenous peoples’ rights. The 78-yearold now wanders the Brazilian rainforest in regular trousers and a T-shirt.
Read him in: one of his dozen books
LES STROUD Is there anything this guy can’t do? He can tick off successful musician, filmmaker and survivalist. Now he doesn’t employ a film crew, instead shooting all footage himself. But he does always carry his harmonica.
Listen to him on: latest album Wonderful Things
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Alex Supertramp has had enough of his suburban life, goes hiking around the USA. His final stop is the Denali National Park in Alaska.
PLANE CARRYING A RUGBY TEAM CRASHES IN THE ANDES. THE SURVIVORS HAVE NO FOOD, APART, THAT IS, FROM ONE ANOTHER.
Documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog retraces the steps of Timothy Treadwell, who hopes to live in harmony with grizzly bears.
MOUNTAINEER TRAPPED BY HIS ARM IN A CREVICE. BUT FOR HOW LONG?
WHAT GOES WRONG?
NO MAP. NO CLUE. NO CHANCE.
How bad do things have to get before you’ll eat your friends? Pretty damn awful, so it would seem.
Treadwell should have asked himself: “Do the bears want to live in harmony with me too?”
Imagine convincing yourself to cut off your own arm, and then it turns out your knife is blunt.
HERO’S OUTCOME?
LEGEND TO SOME, BAD EXAMPLE TO OTHERS.
N A N D O PA R R A D O, P L AY E D BY E T H A N H AW K E , N OW G I V E S M O T I VAT I O N A L S P E EC H E S AT $ 75,000 A T I M E .
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ARON RALSTON, PLAYED BY JAMES FRANCO, STILL CLIMBS MOUNTAINS. WITH HIS – SPOILER ALERT! – PROSTHETIC ARM.
I S T H AT W I L D HERB EDIBLE OR POISONOUS?
FEAR OF FLYING SAVES LIVES.
T RY L I V I N G W I T H H U M A N S F I R S T.
When solo climbing, tell someone where you’re going and take a sharp knife.
WHERE AM I A N D W H E R E ’S THE CLOSEST TOILET? Navigation wasn’t always via an app: how help finding your way has changed
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STARS Even in the Stone Age, people looked out for Ursa Major and the North Star.
COMPASS Pointing south for the directionally curious in China for a millennium.
SEXTANT Invented over 250 years ago, its mirror-and-scope method is still used at sea.
GPS Since 1995, 24 satellites have pinpointed you, as long as your battery isn’t flat.
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Your next holiday: a treehouse Mankind came from trees and now we’re returning to them Gone are the days when boltholes in treetops were for children only. Now tourists holidaying in forests will find tailor-timbered restaurants and designer hotels in the branches of huge trees. It makes for a very special vacation experience, but as with most other types of holiday, treehousing can also be enjoyed at a budget level where you carry the accommodation on your back.
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The Redwoods Treehouse in Warkworth has space, and cocktailhour facilities, for up to 50 guests.
California
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This treehouse in Venice Beach is very open to the open air and the creatures who dwell therein.
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The Tentsile Tree Tent hovers between trees and makes you feel like you’re sleeping in a UFO. tentsile.com
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A ‘delicious’ coffee replacement. Wash roots of soil; roast until they are dark brown; boil for 15 about minutes. They contain eight times the vitamin C of lettuce.
You won’t die, but your kidneys will suffer. In 1994, Mauro Prosperi got lost in the desert on the Marathon des Sables and survived after eight days of self-hydration.
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The soft bit under the bark of many trees – types of pine, maple and spruce, for example – can be boiled until soft, then scoffed. Contains sugar, starch and trace minerals.
All snakes are edible and taste like chicken. Trap one by the head with a two-pronged stick. Then cut its head off. Remove the skin, season and then roast over a fire. Easy.
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THIS IS HOW IT IS FOR LENNY KRAVITZ: JUST TURNED 50, 10TH ALBUM READY TO GO, WINNING PARTS IN HOLLYWOOD HITS. IT HASN’T BEEN EASY, BUT HE’S FOUND THE SECRET TO BEING COOL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK SELIGER PRODUCER: JOSEF SIEGLE WORDS: BRANDON PERKINS
Kravitz is the only musician to have won the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance Grammy four years running
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L “I GO TO THE BAHAMAS ON A QUIET ISLAND AND MAKE MY MUSIC IN THE BUSHES”
enny Kravitz’s music has been pumped into shopping malls and played on MOR radio for two-and-a-half decades. While it’s been a financial boon for the long-time rocker, the forced and repeated listenings have had another, less pleasant impact. His music has been so omnipresent for so long that it almost devalues his success. Even though some of Kravitz’s songs have become ubiquitous, he is still one of the great rock ’n’ roll artists of the his era. Many of his biggest hits were released at a time when hip-hop was taking off and when people were lining up to sound the death knell of rock music, but Kravitz has defied the critics, releasing an album roughly every three years and selling in the region of 40 million records in the process. Kravitz has staying power; he’s a larger-than-life iconic presence front of stage riffing on his Gibson Flying V guitar, and his look – first with those dreads, then that ’fro; those tats – has always been the epitome of rock ’n’ roll cool. The musical landscape has changed significantly since the release of his debut album, Let Love Rule, in 1989. Yet his process has stayed much the same. He recorded Strut, his 10th full-length LP, in just two weeks, mostly by himself. “I tend to go away. I go to the Bahamas on a quiet island and make my music in the bushes,” he says sitting in a rooftop 31
lounge in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Sliding glass doors keep the stifling summer heat at bay, haze and condensation blocking a stunning view of the Hudson River. “I did fly down string players and there’s three background singers on the album, as well, and my horn players. But otherwise it’s just me playing guitar, bass, drums and keyboard, plus my guitarist Craig Ross, who’s been with me for years. For the most part, it’s just the two of us in the studio.” The Bahamas is where those catchy power chords from Fly Away came to Kravitz, driving his Jeep one day in the late 1990s. Many of his songs just come to him like that. The classic Are You Gonna Go My Way was written by him and Ross “in five minutes”, while Again was a Kravitz-only quick composition, a song which led him to win the third of a record four consecutive Grammy awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1999. (The other Grammies came in 1998, 1999 and 2000 for Fly Away, American Woman and Dig In, respectively.) Kravitz got the title of his latest album from something his grandmother was fond of saying: “Strut your stuff, baby, you look great” was shortened to become Strut. Strutting is what Kravitz is doing a lot of during his photoshoot for The Red Bulletin. After each round of shots, he steps out from in front of the lens – paying no attention to the stylist picking at his hair – to glance at the mobile monitor and debates the images with acclaimed photographer Mark Seliger. But although it would be easy to dismiss Kravitz’s need to approve every photo as a narcissistic by-product of fame, looks do matter when you’re as big a name in rock as he is. Kravitz sounds like a true pro during his conversations with Seliger. Words like “composition” and “contrast”, “movement” and “pop” pepper the dialogue. It’s not showy empty rhetoric. Kravitz really knows his stuff. The two have been friends for years and have worked together on many photoshoots. They also collaborated on a 2001 photo book showing Kravitz on the road and with his family as well as in posed settings. More recently, another book has been the focus of Kravitz’s attention. He has been working on Lenny Kravitz, a career-spanning coffee table book that showcases his work with some of the top names in fashion and art photography, plus an extra feature in which Kravitz is interviewed by Pharrell Williams. 32
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o a modern celebrity, the cultivation of an appropriate image is an ongoing battle, and one that Kravitz takes seriously. “I want to look decent in a photo, of course, but for me, when the composition – or as I like to call it, the architecture of the photograph – is right, that’s what gets me excited,” he says. “You can take 100 pictures of someone standing there and it’s just boring. I want to see movement. I want to see design.” Kravitz’s renaissance man status has also seen him establish a successful acting career. Apart from playing himself in films like Zoolander, his recent credits include a role in the Oscarwinning movie Precious, a recurring role in the billion-dollar-earning Hunger Games series and The Butler, a movie which made Barack Obama “tear up”. That’s not a bad run of films. In The Butler, Kravitz appeared alongside a long list of actors, including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr, Alan Rickman, Mariah Carey, John Cusack and Robin Williams. He admits that working with a large team on a movie set provides a refreshing break from the smaller scale approach he takes when recording an album in a studio. “When I’m in the recording studio, it’s just me. It’s my thing, my music, my production, whatever I want to do is me,
me, me, me, me,” says Kravitz. “That’s the way it is, but then to be able to get together with a group of different people and serve somebody else, serve a character, serve a director – I like that a lot. It just takes me away from myself.” It’s clear that Kravitz has got a good idea about what works and doesn’t work from a visual perspective. In 2003 he established his interior design company, Kravitz Design Inc, which now includes Swarovski Crystal among its list of high-profile clients. He isn’t afraid to take a risk in his core business endeavours, and recently decided to go it alone in the music industry after spending much of his career putting out records under major record labels. Strut will be released on Kravitz’s own label, named Roxie Records after his late mother, actress Roxie Roker. The label is an imprint of Kobalt Label Services (KLS), which has set itself apart from the major players by adopting a simple model that allows artists to retain the rights to their music. Basically, KLS will just distribute the music and then issue the royalties. Kravitz was never clueless to the details that comprised the currency around his art, but after 20 years with Virgin Records, his last album, 2011’s Black And White America, was released through Atlantic Records, and heightened his involvement with the nuts and bolts of selling music. His frustration over the situation is still palatable three years later. “That was the biggest mistake of my musical life,” he says. “It was horrible. They just f––ked me. It was bad. They don’t have the money they used to have, everybody’s job is on the line. One day this person is running it; two weeks later it’s someone else, but they let me down. They led me to believe things were a certain way and they weren’t.” That Kravitz was able to take control of his career is as much to do with those 40 million records sold than anything else. How different his life would have been without that breakthrough hit 23 years ago.
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is career-defining song is It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over. It is also notable for revealing a very specific moment in Kravitz’s personal life. He wrote it as his marriage to Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet was falling apart. It’s a song he wrote about the reluctant eradication of young love, one that just happened to play out in the public eye. While the celebrity machine was nowhere near the feeding frenzy of today, the couple’s break-up was indeed played out in the tabloids. When Kravitz sings “So many tears I’ve cried/So much pain inside,” it’s hard not to picture the young couple – Lenny with his shoulder-length dreads, Lisa in her flat-topped hat – sitting on a couch at 3am exhausted from their efforts to make their love work. “It was truly the most definitive song when dealing with my break-up at that time – yet it was up, it was hopeful,” he explains. “It’s one of those songs that in your career, you get certain ones that are just like – ka-blam. That’s one of them… and I knew it when I wrote it.”
It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over was a hit worldwide and still features highly on radio playlists today. It’s such a monumental track that many people assume it’s a cover from Smokey Robinson’s day. “What that’s saying is that they thought it was a classic,” Kravitz says, delivering his biggest smile of the day, “it just happens to be my classic.” The Chamber, lead single from Strut, is another catchy combination of upbeat funk and bluesy rock ’n’ roll. There’s a little disco in there, complete with a Heart Of Glass reference. But as an older man who’s been through the wringer a few times, Kravitz better balances the muses in his life with a quieter existence. While the lyrics of The Chamber feel specific to a particular love gone awry, this time around, there is no pretty face to pin the problem on. However, even as he’s better prepared to keep his personal life out of the public sphere than during the days of young love with Bonet or a decade later when he was engaged to Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima, he still wakes up as Lenny Kravitz – inspiring lustful awe in millions of women. “I’m always taken aback by that whole thing,” says Kravitz. “I don’t think about it at all. I’m just trying to get up and get going and deal with my life. I think about the thing – the art – not the effect of me being out in the public eye. We’re all freaks. Nobody is normal. Embrace who you are and live it.” By that Kravitz is actually embracing his grandmother’s sentiment which inspired the title of his new record. Strut your stuff, baby. Go behind the scenes of our photoshoot with Kravitz at redbulletin.com Grooming: Lorraine Abeles. Production: Ruth Levy. Location: Mark Seliger Studio, New York City
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Against the law: “I tried journalism for a bit, then I worked at a solicitors’ in Peckham,” says Jessie Ware. “But I really just loved singing on stage”
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loves to sing. She’s in full flow before she’s even sat down on a large leather sofa, her chatter peppered with words your grandmother wouldn’t like, and a warm, melodic laugh which hints at the soulful vocal that’s made Red Bull Studios London something of a second home. Ware recorded her debut album, Devotion, here in 2012, a collection of sophisticated, down-tempo soul-pop. It was her first solo offering after hitting the mainstream in 2011 with vocals on EDM hits for SBTRKT and Sampha, and its accessible mix of love songs with a dance aesthetic made Ware an instant hit with public and critics. Mercury Prize and Brit nominations followed, and A-list fans including Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Beyoncé’s little sister, Solange. Not bad for a south Londoner who never planned on being a pop star. “I was going to be either a social worker, a journalist or a family solicitor,” says Ware, now curled up in a corner of the sofa, head resting on a pillow like she’s in her living room. “I tried journalism for a bit, then I worked at a solicitors’ in Peckham.” These were perhaps logical callings given that Ware was born to a social worker mother and a BBC Panorama reporter father. But she was the child who dreamt of normality and got stardom. Her break came via singer Jack Peñate, when they both attended the pro-arts independent school Alleyn’s, a launch pad for talent including Jude Law and Florence Welch. “I’d never had the guts to make a go of singing on my own,” says Ware. “But when Jack asked if I’d sing backing vocals for him on his tour, I said yes straight away. I didn’t have that
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hunger for it to be ‘me, me, me’, I really just loved singing on stage. It was when I was singing these big belty bits in songs with Man Like Me, my friends from London and people were cheering me and enjoying it, that I thought, ‘Maybe if I had my own song…’ That was when I started to think it could be possible to make it as a solo artist. It’s bizarre how it happened, and that it’s happened a bit later in life.” While fellow Londoners Adele and Welch were music biz aficionados in their teens, 29-year-old Ware has the excitable air of someone still surprised by the furnishings of fame. “I still get massively starstruck, like when Russell Crowe tweets me to say he loves my songs, and then turns up backstage at my Sydney gig,” she says, widening her brown eyes for emphasis. “Or when Katy Perry came to a US gig, it’s like ‘Woah’, it’s so weird that she knows about me, let alone her coming to give me a hug at the end of the night.” 40
This down-to-earth attitude makes it easy to like Ware. She’s part effortlessly cool music star and part everywoman, worrying about her outfits and pinching herself to make sure all this is real. She’s also able to make constant self-deprecation very funny, in a way only someone as gorgeous as her, with her big, perfectly groomed eyebrows and infectious smile, can get away with. “I think I’ve got foot-in-mouth syndrome,” she says. “Verbal diarrhoea. Whenever I meet someone well-known I make an absolute fool out of myself one way or another. I met Chance The Rapper, who I’d actually love to work with. I was watching Sam Smith from the side of the stage, wolf-whistling. Chance leaned over and introduced himself, and went to shake my hand. I went, ‘Don’t touch that hand because it’s got loads of spit on it.’ He just looked at me like, ‘Who is this girl, and why does she have a spitty hand?’
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Stage presence: Ware loves musicals like Guys And Dolls, and would love to do a big band musical album, “though I don’t think my manager will let me do it until I’m about 40”
Grand voice: Ware’s talent was handed down, one generation skipped. “Neither of my parents sang, but my granddad did. He was a really good opera singer, so maybe I got it from him”
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he new album doesn’t depart drastically from Ware’s signature sound, but on title track and first single Tough Love, a beautiful Prince-esque BenZel production, she pushes the vocal out of her comfort zone. “I haven’t done any of the performing yet,” she says. “I’m really excited about it, but a bit scared too, as I’ve chosen a few songs that are very high. Tough Love is quite impossible to sing. On a good day I can manage it in the shower. I blatantly won’t perform it live in the same octave. It will still be high, but I’ll sound more like a seal than a dolphin. I won’t feel bad, because Michael Jackson didn’t do all his live stuff in the same octave, and neither did Hanson. Though that was because their voices broke.” When Ware isn’t touring, recording or travelling, she’s home at the ground-floor flat in Herne Hill she shares with husband Sam, a school teacher. They met at primary school, started dating aged 18 and got married on a Greek island in August. He is a big part of the reason, Ware says, she won’t become a diva. “I’ve had moments where I’ve been a bit of a madam,” she says, “but I like to think I’m pretty grounded. Sam doesn’t really know what I’m doing day-to-day. He’s 42
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not that interested. He’s proud of me, but he does his thing and I do mine. He’ll be like, ‘Shall we go to Chicken Shop on Sunday? And I’m like, ‘Well no, because I’m going to LA, I told you.’ His mum listens to Radio 1 and will call him up saying, ‘Annie Mac played Tough Love!’ I think he finds it all quite funny.” Another grounding factor is that Ware isn’t the only famous sibling in her family. Ware’s sister Hannah, 22 months her senior, was first to set the trend of planning on a normal career that ends up in the limelight. She had wanted to become an architect, but is now a successful actress in the US, working on primetime TV series and taking movie parts. Hannah and her sister are close despite their now long-distance relationship. “But when we were young she was horrible to me,” says Ware. “We still bicker today.” What they argue about has changed. A recent spat
involved Hannah announcing Ware’s engagement on live TV. “She was on the Jimmy Kimmel show and told him about it.” Ware still looks incredulous months after the occasion. “What’s worse is she got it all wrong and said we were having a nautical theme! We had words after that. It still feels a bit crazy that she’s an actress and I’m a singer. We’d never have imagined it.” While fame may still seem like a strange new world, there’s no doubt Ware is starting to enjoy the unexpected perks of her job. “Last time I was in the US I couldn’t find any Marmite,” she says, “so I put out a tweet asking if anyone could find me some. Then every show after that someone bought me Marmite. I had so much of the stuff! When I realised how well that worked, I started saying ‘ooh I fancy a really good Californian red’ so got a few of those too! It’s funny what you can do. Maybe next time I’ll ask for a pug.”
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arren Foreman, aka Beardyman, is standing in the kitchen of his London flat, barefoot, sporting the requisite facial hair even in the stifling heat of July. He’s talking quickly and animatedly about different subjects in quick succession, following tangents, finding new paths. “Sorry, I’m skipping around all over the place,” he says. “I’m like a Tarantino movie.” Foreman’s chat is like his music: unplanned, fast, entertaining. He’s one of the world’s best beatboxers, sound mimickers and most
prolific music-makers, and he’s at home today to prepare for a string of summer festivals, where he’ll showcase his new invention: the BEARDYTRON_5000mkIII. It’s a system that allows him to improvise and produce complicated, sublime and often hilarious studio-quality music completely live. It’s a device that has been years in the making, and moved him on from the beatboxing world to the forefront of musical innovation. “It’s really interesting to me how technology and music can intertwine,” he says, in a London accent at the wellspoken end of the scale. “I wanted to create dance music in real time, so I set off on a mission.” At 32, Foreman’s mission has lead him to perform for Russian oligarchs, British prime ministers and American billionaires. He’s opened for Kasabian and Groove Armada, played the world’s biggest festivals, spoken at TED and done his thing for Al Gore and Matt Groening. Foreman’s latest project, using the Beardytron, employs famous fan-friends, including Tim Minchin, Jack Black and Samuel L Jackson as guest producers on One Album Per Hour, an upcoming web series for YouTube. It allows Foreman to indulge his biggest love, improvisation, 45
creating complex live tracks inspired by audience song title suggestions, in genres ranging from bhangra to drum and bass. Foreman has an uncanny ability to instantly combine beatbox skills, musical improvisation and genuinely funny, off-the-cuff lyrics, creating tracks you want to hear again. “It’s a great laugh,” he says. “But it’s about really good music, which I buzz off making live and people buzz off hearing.” Foreman’s introduction to the verbal arts came long before he could grow a beard, and it didn’t come courtesy of ‘that guy’ from Police Academy, as his Wikipedia page states. It started with a stutter, which he developed at the age of three. Foreman had to relearn to talk, becoming a tiny linguist, analysing every sound in the English language. “I was always strange,” he says. “I remember trying to consciously reverse-engineer my mouth. I just always made lots of noises, practised and played with them.” He was brought up in a musical household, learning the viola, piano and guitar, but it was this phonic selfeducation that first inspired him. As he grew older, he’d sit in his bedroom in north-west London for hours each day, incessantly beatboxing to a soundtrack in his head. He didn’t know the term for what he was doing – in 1980s Stanmore no one did. “My parents taught me to think it was an embarrassing habit,” he says. “So I kept it to myself until I got to uni, where I eventually did in public it for a laugh. Suddenly I was the coolest kid at the party.” Lots of gigging and wins at the National Beatbox Championships in 2006 and 2007 followed. “I felt like it was my destiny to win these battles, he says, “having sublimated this bizarre skill set for years.” But when beatboxing wasn’t enough to satisfy Foreman’s ambitions, he turned to tech. “Twelve years ago I started with a little loop pedal,” he says. “I’d beatbox a loop, then sing, vocal-scratch or rap over it. It was enough for a while, but I constantly got bored of the limitations of whatever I was using and dreamed bigger.” The ultimate dream was live, studioquality improvised music production. It’s guided the last eight years of Foreman’s life. Today, he’s still in north London, and still spending a lot of time alone in his room, but now it’s a small studio in the basement of the Acton flat he shares with his wife and son. He’s down there, among the acoustic foam tiles and piles of wires, standing behind his newly completed Beardytron, which has taken
sic live, u m d o o g y ll a e r g in k “I get a buzz off ma g gigs with no restrictions” doing freewheelin thousands of pounds and hours to create. It comprises four iPads, two MacBook Pros running bespoke software at full capacity, a specially designed synth, a whole lot more wires and pedals and an almost inconceivable number of buttons. In part, the Beardytron is thousands of carefully defined musical moulds waiting for Foreman’s voice or synth to fill them. These are then easily manipulated, enabling him to build up complex intertwined loops, beats and effects almost instantly. “Software makers
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design for people making music in their bedroom, who can go the long way around,” he says. “I want to be staring at the crowd, just making music and pressing a button to get the result I want.” Foreman’s nodding his head to the rich bass of the hard-house track he’s creating, lifting a mic to his mouth to input new loops. His fingers skip over brightly lit buttons, his eyes dancing over hundreds of tiny option buttons on the screens in front of him. There are no pre-recorded samples in the entire rig, making it a complex arsenal of effects. It even intimidates its creator. “Every time I come in here to practise I’m like, ‘Aw sh–t, so many buttons,’” he says. “It takes practice.” Foreman’s already had many strange adventures: making an enemy of MC Hammer after urging him to do the dance at a YouTube event; impersonating a German scientist at a Google conference for guests including Al Gore when the financial collapse hit. Last year he flew to
the US to take part in a TED talk. “I was flabbergasted to be invited,” he says. “Every attendee is at least a millionaire, tickets cost $7,000. I haven’t cured a disease, but there I was chilling out with Matt Groening.” His most unexpected performance was for a tiny audience that included Bill Gates and Tony Blair. “I was asking for song title suggestions,” he says, “and Tony just blurted out ‘I desire you’. I had great fun with that. It was an entire song about us copulating. Then I thanked him for Iraq. I expected a red laser dot to appear on my chest for days after that.” Now the Beardytron is complete, there will be more. “I want to work with rappers,” he says, his face uplit by iPad screens, “and improvise live with an orchestra, I want freewheeling, rolling gigs with no restrictions. I feel like I’m finally ready to do the shows I want.” Watch episodes of One Album Per Hour at YouTube.com/user/beardyman from mid September
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Brandon Semenuk comes from Whistler in British Columbia, Canada, a world capital of action sports. He first rode a cross-country mountain bike when he was six years old and soon discovered the delights of downhill and freestyle. He puts his reputation as a child prodigy down to his revolutionary riding style. In 2008, when still just a 17-year-old rookie, he took victory at Red Bull Rampage, a prestigious event on the international big mountain freeriding calendar that unfolds in the unforgiving terrain of Virgin, Utah, USA. Since then, he has regularly won more coveted dirt jump, slopestyle and freeride titles. After the success of his YouTube series, Life Behind Bars, he spent a year making an ambitious full-length mountain biking film, Brandon Semenuk’s Rad Company.
U TA H , U S A Rad Company showcases the talents of a group of remarkably skilled riders, including Cam Zink, Cameron McCaul and Stevie Smith. They’re notable for their array of competition wins and the incredible manoeuvres they pull off. One of Zink’s records is for the biggest backflip, which included a 26m drop. Semenuk matched each rider with the most suitable location for his talents. In Utah, he showed what he was made of.
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Semenuk’s ability on the bike is matched by his way with a mountain bike course. A standard slopestyle track prepared for competition has dirt jumps, ramps and drops. After the Rad Company crew roll in, such a place ends up looking like a junkyard. Stunts become XXL in scale; approaches and landings are perfect; unusual components, such as old logging equipment, become integral to the course – and the resulting footage shot there. Riders were given a week to practise on Semenuk’s creations. Filming would turn out to be as tough as anything they had experienced. No one came away unscathed.
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NA DI, F I J I The production team had an arsenal of highend cameras that would not be out of place on a Hollywood film set. Not a single moment was missed; every move was captured from multiple perspectives. Drones, Steadicams and cable cams – remote-controlled cameras strung on steel cable systems – were also employed. The crowning glory was the use of an HD camera system installed on a helicopter, to get incredible aerial shots.
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“THIS FILM WAS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK IN AN INCREDIBLY INTENSE YEAR. BUT WHEN YOU SEE THE RESULTS, IT WAS WORTH IT”
FROM CONSOLE Jann Mardenborough: from video-game whizz to pro racing driver
TO COCKPIT FOUR RACING DRIVERS WHO GOT THEIR BREAK WINNING A GRAN TURISMO CONTEST FOUND THEMSELVES ON OPPOSING TEAMS AT THIS YEAR’S LE MANS 24-HOUR RACE: FROM UP ALL NIGHT GAMING TO UP ALL NIGHT AT ONE OF THE TOUGHEST CHALLENGES IN MOTORSPORT Words: PIERRE-HENRI CAMY Photography: GREG FUNNELL
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an intensive driving programme under the watchful eye of Nismo, Nissan’s performance motorsport division. After that it would be competitive motorsport, in the GP3 category, for example, where Mardenborough is currently competing; Shulzhitskiy, Ordonez and Reip also race professionally. A dazzling transition from the virtual to the real world. As the Englishman prepares to take part in the drivers’ parade through the streets of the city of Le Mans on the eve of the 24 Hours, he recalls his former life. “I got into GT Academy in February 2011. THE RED BULLETIN
THESE FORMER GAMERS ARE NOW PART OF MOTORSPORT'S ELITE Fast Belgian: Wolfgang Reip
Oak Racing’s car hits the circuit. The driver is only the final piece of the jigsaw: no car can race without a team of top engineers
Alex Brundle (left) is the son of former F1 driver Martin Brundle, but his co-drivers come from a world of virtual motorsport
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I was an average student at the time. My mates were travelling to Australia, to the States. I was at home playing my PlayStation and I was happy. I started competing online because I had nothing better to do.”
SPACESHIP At 3pm, Ordonez’s teammate, Wolfie Reip, is starting his first Le Mans at the wheel of the ZEOD RC. This vehicle, which would be at home in a 1970s book about the future, is taking its time to come back past the stands opposite the pit wall, where some spectators have put up hammocks. Unfortunately, those fans will not have long to watch this spaceship of a car in action before it has to be retired with gearbox failure just 25 minutes into the race. But Le Mans was still an achievement for the ZEOD RC, as it clocked 300kph in qualifying. During the warm-up, Reip drove one complete lap with the car in full, silent electric mode. Ordonez remains positive, despite being deprived of a race, and is proud of his co-driver. “Wolfie made history by driving a complete lap with the car in electric mode. That’s great news for everyone in the team, the mechanics... Ooh! Did you see that?! That guy almost killed himself!” The Spaniard is talking without taking his eyes off the broadcast screens; the circuit is suddenly struck by heavy rainfall and one car almost leaves the track while attempting to overtake another. Crashes and retirements are common when the rain hits Le Mans. In the Oak Racing garage, there is no such disappointment, but as the lap counter ticks over, the pressure on the mechanics increases. There are only rare moments of downtime during the 1,440 minutes of the race. It’s all about waiting, then bursts of action, then more waiting, and yet more bursts of action. Despite this, or because of it, the men who work in the shadows are doing a fine job. They act with precision every time there is a change of driver or tyre or every time they refuel. Russia’s Mark The car impresses with its consistency lap after lap.
Shulzhitskiy conquered this year's Le Mans. Two years earlier he was a student Eight hours into the race, night falls and everything and had never changes. Drivers have to be twice as cautious, but raced a car excitement increases in the campsites around the
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" W HEN YOU CAN DO 300KPH ON THE MULSANNE STRAIGHT AT NIGHT WITH NO CARS AHEAD OR BEHIND YOU, THAT'S REALLY COOL" JANN MARDENBOROUGH circuit. Some tents are pitched next to Ferraris and muscle cars. At the Alain Prost turn, what looks like a customised removals truck is open at the sides, allowing its occupants to follow the race from bunk beds, 30m from the track wall. At night, cars tend to scrape against the wall more than they do in the daylight. Another peculiarity of the race is that it welcomes ‘gentlemen drivers’ or amateurs. The actor Patrick Dempsey and singer-songwriter David Hallyday are some of the better-known gentlemen. Mark Shulzhitskiy has an eye out for them. “You have to avoid trouble at Le Mans,” he says, “because there are drivers here who aren’t as experienced as the professionals, and they can do crazy things. You have to drive a solid race without making any stupid mistakes and you have to stay consistent.” The Russian is as good as his word, helping Oak Racing stay in the top three in the LMP2 category for most of the race. The race is into its 23rd hour and the black-andorange Oak car is now further down the field. There’s a council of war back in the pits. The car comes in, for a long stop. Spark plugs and an ignition coil need to be replaced. Mardenborough, Shulzhitskiy and Alex Brundle have given it their all, but are fifth in their category and ninth overall when the chequered flag flaps in the humid air of Le Mans.
REALLY COOL Audi’s excited fans invade the track and the pit lane to celebrate the German team securing the two top spots on the podium. Shulzhitskiy, the last man to drive the Oak Racing car, walks to the pits to meet with his mechanics and engineers. They are his first line of support, and together they have collaborated closely, defied the clock, bad weather and technology to survive Le Mans. Mardenborough says his favourite memory of the race is “when you can do 300kph on the Mulsanne Straight at night, when there are no cars ahead of or behind you. That’s really cool.” Nismo announces that their Nissan GT-R LM will be put forward for Le Mans in 2015. Will Mardenborough be behind the wheel? “I have to keep on working hard in GP3 and remain focused on that,” says the talented 23-year-old. His dream, not unrealistic now, is of a career in Formula One. A far cry from pressing Start on a video game. gran-turismo.com
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MASTERED MOUNTAINS, BEATEN BUNGEE AND SUSSED SKYDIVING? TRY MOTHER NATURE’S MOST EXTREME CHALLENGE AT RODEO SCHOOL IN CANADA
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NOT SO WILD WEST ONTARIO OUTSIDE THE BULL RING
FALL If watching natural strength from afar appeals after a close encounter with a bull, witnessing the Niagara Falls is one to tick off the bucket list. niagarafalls tourism.com
BULL RIDING UNPREDICTABLE, THRILLING, ONE TONNE OF NERVE-SHREDDING FUN: RODEO IS NOT JUST FOR COWBOYS
The first thing you need to ride a rodeo bull is bravery. “Bull riding is the most dangerous sport in the world,” says Brandon Moore, a third-generation cowboy who’s been riding professionally for 23 years and who owns Bramer’s Rodeo training school in Ontario, Canada. “I’ve broken my pelvis, I got my face stepped on and broke my eye socket, pulled my shoulder out, broken both ankles. Injury is inevitable, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” Once you gain the courage, Moore can teach you the skills and get you on the back of the beast. “I honestly didn’t know what I was getting myself into,” says Chris Toledo, 23, a medical student and, since his bull-riding experience, a rodeo medic, a task he describes as like working in an emergency room. He went on a two-day riding course with Moore in May this year. “After learning the ground rules, we went on a mechanical bull to get a feel,” he says. “Four hours after walking in there, I was getting onto my first bull! “I was only on that bull for four seconds, but they felt like an eternity. It was just me and the bull. Until I got thrown off, then I was suddenly back. There was so much adrenalin pumping, and I saw the bull running towards me. He started attacking my A two-day course legs until someone grabbed me and costs Can$300 / threw me back into the chutes. Then US$270 (£160 / I was just grinning. I’d had the most €200) bramersrodeo.com killer thrill. I knew I was hooked.” 70
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CRAWL Crawl and climb through a world of caves 25m below the surface of Collingwood. Follow the sound of water to find the freshwater spring. adventureseeker tours.com
ADVICE FROM THE INSIDE CORE VALUES “You don’t have to have a lot of strength to do this,” says Brandon Moore. “It’s balance and technique over strength, as no matter how strong you are you’ll never be able to out-muscle a bull. Finesse and a lot of heart are what will keep you on top.”
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“If you’re not used to riding an animal with a mind of it’s own, have a few horse-riding lessons before tackling a bull,” says Chris Toledo. “It will psychologically prepare you. You have to accept that you’ll never be totally in control.”
ENTHRAL The Thousand Islands region, an archipelago of 1,864 islands near Lake Ontario, is a SCUBA-diving Mecca, with something for every level of underwaterman. exploco.com
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Down cold: Hong 10 performs his signature Freeze move
Feline good: catinspired Kim HongYeol, alias Hong 10
Animal instinct BREAKDANCING B-BOY CHAMP HONG 10 GETS RIPPED WITHOUT HEAVY WEIGHTS AND MAKES LIKE A SNAKE TO STAY STRONG
Hong 10 works daily to improve the flexibility of his spine and his sense of balance: two sets of 50 reps each of the cat and cobra yoga poses
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“The only weights I use are 0.5kg and 1kg to strengthen my wrists, which come under strain,” says Hong 10. “If you want to take a tip from me, work out daily. You should have attainable goals and don’t put yourself under too much pressure. That’s the best way to avoid injuries.”
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“I started dancing when I was 14,” says Kim Hong-Yeol, alias Hong 10. Each of the South Korean’s muscles looks defined and yet he claims that he’s “never lifted any heavy weights in my whole life”. The two-time Red Bull BC One champion (2006, 2013) prefers bodyweight training to develop the strength and power he needs, not least for his signature move, the Hong 10 Freeze; look for it on YouTube. The 29-year-old starts his daily one-hour workout with press-ups, followed by squats and sit-ups: two sets of 50 reps for each. Then comes work with light dumbbells (see below). He finishes with what he considers to be the most important element: yoga. “The cat and cobra are the best way to strengthen the lumbar column [lower spine], which we breakdancers put under enormous pressure.”
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OMEGA SEAMASTER Very simple, fiveminute start display mode using the Regatta Indicator on the minute sub-dial
Against the clock
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REGATTA WATCHES FOR YACHTSMEN, CHOOSING THE RIGHT ONE IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VICTORY AND DEFEAT The most important time at every sailing regatta is the last five minutes before the start. During pre-race seconds. During those this countdown, a battle rages moments, a sailor has to be able on the water between the skippers to read precisely how long is left as they vie for a strategically perfect position to cross the to the start at first glance, even if starting line exactly where the seas are rough. The watch they want. It’s a superneeds to be light and condensed version accurate, waterproof of the battle for and shock-resistant. pole position in Many sailors Formula One. think the best So it’s hardly regatta watch surprising that currently is made competitive by Panerai, the sailors are 47mm Luminor uncompromising 1950 Regatta when it comes to 3 Days Chrono Flyback No other choosing a regatta Titanio. INSIDE THE LUMINOR watch combines ease watch, a tool on which Its regatta countdown of use so well with they rely the most function was devised in-house at Panerai readability. The length during those 300 THE RED BULLETIN
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of countdown can be set simply and flexibly and, equally importantly, it can also show the time left until the final fiveminute countdown at various regattas. A touch of the orange push-start at four o’clock is all you need to set the countdown. Once that time is up, the chronograph just carries on, thus becoming the stopwatch for the race itself. To stop timing, press the push-start at eight o’clock to reset both chronograph hands to zero. If pressed while the hands are still moving, it automatically activates a function known as Flyback, which allows you to set a new time interval without having to use the stop or reset buttons.
ROLEX YACHT-MASTER Aligning the bezel, the push-start at four o’clock and the crown sets a countdown of up to 10 minutes
ALPINA YACHT TIMER A 10-minute countdown is preset; the word ‘start’ is illuminated in bright red in the final 60 seconds
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Is this the world’s most laid-back city? BARCELONA MOTORBIKE ACE DANI PEDROSA GETS REVVED UP BY HIS FAVOURITE CITY “What is it that makes Barcelona different from other cities? People here just don’t seem to get hectic,” says Spanish MotoGP star Dani Pedrosa, a man in a long-term love affair with the Catalan capital. “People even stay calm and relaxed when the traffic gets really bad. The same goes for the day-to-day: little shops shut down for a three-hour siesta in the afternoon and no one has dinner before 10pm. And while we’re on the subject of food, try the small, inconspicuous places that locals go to. The paella will be cheaper and just as good as on the beachfront at Barceloneta. One tip for drivers and motorbike riders: for the most part, the streets are laid out in a grid system, so there’s no problem getting from A to B. This place isn’t just relaxed. It’s user-friendly, too.”
Its surrounding mountains are mountain-bike paradise. Fantastic forest trails lead down from the top of the tallest, Tibidabo, back toward the city. singletracks.com
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1 W BARCELONA Plaça de la Rosa dels Vents, 1 “A five-star hotel with the stylish Eclipse Bar on the 26th floor. As well as the excellent array of cocktails, there’s also a great view of Barceloneta. But be warned: there’s a dress code.”
2 LA RAMBLA PROMENADE Plaça de Catalunya to the port “Maddest place in the city. Mime artists, acrobats and performers everywhere. You can watch all the hustle and bustle in peace from the restaurant La Poma.” 3 CINEMA COLISEUM Gran Via d.l.C. Catalanes 595 “This cinema dates back to the 1920s. Its single screen
has three levels of seating and it can accommodate roughly 1,700 filmgoers. Non-Spanish speakers like it here because it shows a lot of foreign films with subtitles.”
4 SANTA EULALIA Passeig de Gràcia, 93 “This is my favourite shop. It’s where I have my suits made. It’s absolutely huge, and full of the latest stuff by big-name international designers. Have a coffee on their terrace once you’re done shopping.”
CIRCUIT DE BARCELONACATALUNYA Put your foot to the floor where professional racers do the same by booking a session in a car or on a bike at one of the great F1 and MotoGP arenas. circuitcat.com
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5 BLING BLING Carrer de Tuset, 8 “For dancing after 2am in Barcelona, this is the place to go. The legendary lightshows are really popular with the locals, but don’t worry, tourists are welcome too.”
Own long trousers, sturdy shoes and a valid driving licence? You can hire a 250cc quad bike and thrash it through the Catalan countryside. lifestylebarcelona.com
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SAMURAI WARRIORS 4 For PlayStations 3, 4 and Vita, a slice of hack-and-slash action, with a history-rich story mode and a lot of character customisation. koeitecmo america.com
Vive la révolution: the game is set in 18th-century France
Improving with age
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ASSASSIN’S CREED UNITY NEW MODES AND NEW MISSIONS AS AN OLD FAVOURITE OPENS UP FEUDAL FRANCE
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The first rule of Driveclub is that you don’t call it a Gran Turismo wannabe. Despite the amazingly detailed supercars handling realistically, Driveclub is a road-race only driving game with a difference. As the name suggests, you can team up with friends to race other teams, and by doing so you unlock more of the game. Out October 7.
Rip up roads and fields in southern France and Italy in the second spin-off of the Forza Motorsport series. Horizon differs in that it has more arcade-y experience – racing planes and trains, for example. There’s also a big social element in which you can team up to race, or just talk torque with other petrolheads. Out September 30.
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You know you’ve got a hot video game series on your hands when the movie adaptation is due to be produced by and stars Michael Fassbender. “Assassin’s, I’m so happy with,” said the Irish actor in April. (Production is yet to begin.) But though it’s nice for Hollywood to come calling, a game franchise is only ever really as good as its latest title. Thankfully, Assassin’s Creed Unity is looking very, very, very good indeed. This seventh game in the sneak-’em-up series takes place in Paris just as guillotine blades are set to drop and help set off the French Revolution. As is usual in the series, there is also a modern-day set-up (and, it might be safely guessed, denouement) that drives the lead character, Arno Dorian, back 230 years into the mind and body of a French assassin, pickpocket, puzzle solver, urban explorer and street fighter. With each game, Assassin’s Creed game world becomes even more expansive and visually impressive, but this has always been matched by a ramp-up of the play mechanic. Making Unity more involving is a co-operative mode: take Arno into an inn and you can join with up to three other players to solve missions together. Side missions and main objectives are now more seamlessly integrated, making your overall quest less disjointed. Out in October
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THE EVIL WITHIN Survival horror led by a murder cop marooned in a gruesome, limbolike world. Dexter Of The Dead, if you will. On PC, PS and Xbox. theevilwithin.com
SUPER SMASH BROS Pit Pikachu against Pac-Man and make Mario maul MegaMan in the WiiU and 3Ds update of Nintendo’s cute but not-too-cute beat-’em-up. Arcade style: Forza Horizon 2 ramps down the realism
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London’s Village Underground: new beats, old warehouse
SUP STORIES HOW FAMOUS COCKTAILS GOT THEIR NAMES
DAIQUIRI American mining engineer Jennings Cox ran out of gin while entertaining guests at home in Cuba, so he improvised. His cocktail of rum, fruit and sugar was a hit, and in 1905 he named it after a nearby village.
God is a DJ V ILLAGE UNDERGROUND, LONDON IT MAY NOT BE A CHURCH, BUT THIS IS STILL A PLACE OF WORSHIP
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IMBIBE Before heading to the club, check out RedRum on Shoreditch High Street. This intimate little bar has a cocktail genius who makes an amazing pineapple and sage margarita. REVIVE After rolling out of Village Underground, you should definitely go to the bagel shops on Brick Lane. There’s cheesecake for 70p a slice or bagels for £1.50. TUNE IN Local radio station Hoxton FM is the perfect way to warm up for a night out. I do a house and techno show, but there’s a broad range of stuff from ’50s to folk in the week.
BLOODY MARY Its most likely origin relates to Parisian barman Fernand Petiot, who is said to have made the drink in 1920 for vodka heir Vladimir Smirnov, whose name was mispronounced by a drunken patron.
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“We’re pretty busy here every day,” says Village Underground’s electronic music programmer Jorge Nieto. “One night we’ll have reggae and the next a 12-hour rave.” Nieto is seated in one of four Jubilee Line tube carriages that have been transformed into offices overlooking Shoreditch, on top of the club itself. He’s perusing the ecclesiastical section of an insurance website ahead of a techno night called Superstition, which will be lit solely by candles. The venue is a huge Victorian warehouse rather than a church, but its imposing brick walls have the same feel – and insurance requirements. “There’s a history of good nights here,” says Nieto. “It was a massage parlour, a music hall, then an 18th-century theatre.” With sound baffles and a massive new sound system, it’s now a club for the modern age. “When it’s rammed inside,” Nieto says, “an amazing track drops in and the crowd roars, everything clicks. In that moment, it really can feel religious.”
BELLINI When Venetian barman Giuseppe Cipriani mixed Prosecco with fresh peach and raspberry juice, the resulting pink drink reminded him of a toga in a Giovanni Bellini painting. Hence the name. (Now it’s not pink.)
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SUMMER SOUNDS Top hat, mane of curly hair, sunglasses. Slash has remained true to his trademark look, even though it’s 18 years since he left Guns N’ Roses. He and Axl Rose and the other ones sold more than 100 million albums together and Slash lived strictly according to three commandments: sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. He’s put all those vices behind him now. Eight years ago, he even gave up drinking and smoking. “But the guitar is the love of my life,” says the 49-year-old, born Saul Hudson. His third solo album, World on Fire, is proof of that: 17 throbbing rock songs, featuring incredible solos by a guitar god. The snake-lover tells us the tracks that hold deep meaning in his life and career.
He’ll save every one of us: Slash! Aa-ah!
‘ Like sex only much better’
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PLAYLIST LEGENDARY AXESLINGER SLASH HAS THESE FIVE SONGS TO THANK FOR HIS APPETITE FOR SEDUCTION AND HOW HE’LL KNOCK ON HEAVEN’S DOOR
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“When this song came out, in 1980, I’d only just started playing the guitar. I first heard it at the actor Seymour Cassel’s house. He’s also the person who gave me my nickname, Slash [because he was full of energy]. Back In Black has this killer rhythm. It’s sexy and sleazy. For me it’s like sex, only much better.”
“I heard the song when I was a teenager from a girl I wanted to get into bed. She put this single on and we eventually sat on her bed. I got so wrapped up in the song that I completely lost interest in making out. I played the record over and over again and ignored the girl until she ended up throwing me out.”
“In the early 1980s I was up in the Hollywood Hills on the estate that used to be Errol Flynn’s property. It was frequented by teenagers who did acid. I remember being there, in the middle of the night, looking at the stars. One night someone played Iron Man and it blew my mind. It was a life-changing experience that stuck with me to this day.”
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“This was my mother’s favourite song. It’s about this kid from the country, getting his big opportunity to move to the city and falling into a drug situation. My new song, 30 Years To Life, deals with a similar fate. It shows what happens when you live too recklessly. Of course, I set out to be a complete drug addict myself...”
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“Satie is a French composer who’s not rock ’n’ roll at all, but he had a big influence on me. My father always used to put on his music when he’d had a bottle of wine or two too many. Then he’d paint to it. That’s why I’m still very drawn to it to this day. I could even imagine having this played at my funeral.”
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DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE! At Sonar in Barcelona, the duo mixed traditional Peruvian sounds with hard electronic beats. Quirky, but it grows on you.
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MANNIE FRESH The star producer served up the ultimate party mix at Bonnaroo in the US: a hard, sweaty set of rap classics, trap hits and hiphouse grenades.
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These wireless waterproof in-ear earbuds play music either via Bluetooth from your phone/player or from the 4GB of internal storage. They also work as a fitness computer and have passive noise isolation, so you don’t shut off on your run. Highly impressive. bragi.com
LAURENT GARNIER & MCDE Giants of house collide across generations: pioneer Laurent Garnier shared the decks at Nuits Sonores in Paris with newcomer MCDE.
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As one of the breakout stars of HBO’s political comedy Veep, Timothy Simons has made his name playing a creepy presidential aide by the name of Jonah Ryan. Now he’s doing funny on the big screen opposite Seth Rogen and James Franco in the TV-show satire, The Interview. Words: Geoff Berkshire
the red bulletin: What’s the secret to playing a douchebag politician? timothy simons: I’m certainly not method with it. I try to be nice to people on set – I think I err on the side of trying to be too nice. The thing I do that gets me close enough to him is that when we’re rehearsing or shooting, I think about the worst thing you could say to someone or the worst way you could say one of the lines, if it’s improv or scripted, what’s the attitude or delivery that’s the most selfish and horrible? And then I go from there. Between seasons two and three of Veep you filmed The Interview with James Franco and Seth Rogen. Tell us about the role… I play the associate producer of the show with James as the on-air personality and Seth as the producer. The guy I play cares immensely about the show and thinks this show that’s basically just celebrity interviews is the most important thing ever. You’re a very active user of Twitter and you’ve even shared a notebook you kept as a teenager with a list of the greatest films of all time. Your top pick was 1986 78
“ For my character I think, what’s the worst thing you could say” BMX movie, Rad. Why did you rate that movie above everything else? One of the things that makes Rad so amazing is the way it’s a uniquely American movie. It’s about a small town kid who rides a BMX and takes a big risk skipping his exams to try to qualify for Helltrack, a national BMX race that’s going to be held
in this small town. He has a big conversation with his mom, who wants him to get out there and make something of himself, but he just wants to ride bikes. He says, ‘I can take those SAT exams any time, but this is the only chance I’ll have at this!’ And you know what? He wins. Twitter: @timothycsimons The Interview is out in December
If you’re looking for someone to play a man turning into a demon, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe may not be the first name that comes to mind. But French director Alexandre Aja was seeking the right star to carry his adaptation of Horns, a fantasy horror novel by Joe Hill and turned to Radcliffe. Why? “Daniel has that amazing power to carry the audience by the hand into a twisted world, but never lose them. He represents something that’s kind, accessible and familiar for so many millions of people around the world. He will bring that relatability: if Daniel Radcliffe/ Harry Potter can turn into the devil, I can see myself going through the same journey.” Horns is out in October
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Clash of the titans: soundsystems battle for supremacy at Red Bull Culture Clash
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SEE The International Ocean Film Festival at the Empire Theatre in Inverness is the closest you can get to exploring the wonders of the world’s seas without getting your feet wet.
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London calling the Clash Red Bull Culture Clash, the world’s biggest musical battle, is back with a heavy-hitting head-to-head at Earl’s Court in London. Four stages, four competing soundsystems: A$AP Mob; reigning champs Boy Better Know; hitmakers Rebel Sound: Chase & Status, David Rodigan and Shy FX; and reggae greats Stone Love. Each will be out to win over the crowd with irresistible tunes, fighting talk and special guests. redbullcultureclash.com
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim have joined forces to create Here Lies Love, a musical based on their concept album about Imelda Marcos. The audience will join in the dancing. nationaltheatre. org.uk
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September 27-28
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The Ryder Cup returns to its Scottish roots at Gleneagles, where the tournament first took place in 1921. Since 1979, when the USA’s opponents grew from GB and Ireland to become Europe, the score is 9-7 to Europe, with one tie. USA captain Tom Watson will know his team haven’t won away from home since 1993. rydercup2014.com
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Female downhill mountain bikers who think they can beat world champion Rachel Atherton will gather in Edinburgh for Red Bull Foxhunt this month. In the first girls-only event of it’s kind, the ‘hounds’ are released down the hill seconds before the fox, Atherton, who will then try to overtake as many of them as possible on a testing, purpose-built course. redbull.co.uk/foxhunt
LAUGH Following sold-out New York and London shows, comedian Simon Amstell takes new touring show To Be Free to Brighton’s Dome Theatre, to discuss life, love and awkwardness. simonamstell.co.uk
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Rally round This year, the historic Wales Rally, annual finale of the World Rally Championship, is taking place across even more of north Wales. Drivers and co-drivers will have to battle unpredictable weather and slippery surfaces. Young driver Elfyn Evans, doing well in his first WRC season, will have the home advantage as he lives only a few miles from the racing area. wrc.com
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Go north Since 1998, Red Bull Music Academy has been pairing industry legends and emerging musicians in cities such as Berlin, Seattle, Cape Town and New York. Now it’s set to bring its Weekender to Belfast for the first time. The city has earned a reputation as a new-music hub, and the Weekender will make use of local talent alongside friends from further afield for one-off club nights and inspiring seminars. See website for line-up. redbullmusicacademy.com
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Think Elvis, think the Welsh town of Porthcawl. No? Well, you should. It’s the unlikely setting for what organisers claim is the largest Elvis festival of its kind in the world. Every year bequiffed impersonators and fans don white jumpsuits and invade the sleepy seaside town, for three days of celebrating The King. elvies.co.uk
From Tralee to Killarney, the Kerry Film Festival takes over the Irish county for a week packed with short films, from up-and-coming directors and old masters alike. The stories told come from the four corners of the world and span the genres, making this a truly international cinematic event. kerryfilmfestival.com
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THE DARK Photographer Fabien ‘Keffer’ Hebert has a permanent VIP pass – free entry, free drinks, free reign – and an archive of images from parties and clubs in one of the world’s great nocturnal cities. This is Paris at night
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“I STARTED SETTING OFF MY FLASH INSTINCTIVELY, WITHOUT EVER LOOKING INTO MY VIEWFINDER”
BACKSTAGE PASS DJ Panteros666 behind fellow DJ Sam Tiba. This is the Silencio, a super-selective club conceived by filmmaker and creative genius David Lynch. Naturally, it has a cinema.
Paris after dark isn’t just about clubs. There’s also a buzzing scene of afterparties in private homes. Here’s Celine hosting one.
TEMPERATURE’S RISING A$AP Rocky at the Social Club, his first date in France. A crazy crowd goes wild for his newschool rap. The Harlem MC signed a US$3 million contract with Sony just days after his Paris show.
TRANSFORMATION The Dèmonia party is the place to go for SM and fetish fans. It’s probably a bank manager under there.
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LADIES OF PARIS French popstrel Margaux Avril (left). Myd and Sam Tiba (above), DJs and producers with the Bromance label, can hardly believe their eyes.
FAR OUT – AND BEYOND Parisians on tour: hip photographer Julot Bandit (right) woos a strange dwarf on a quick night out at the Cannes Film Festival.
SHOOTING A SCENE French photographer Keffer explains how he went from enjoying nights out in Paris to taking pictures of them
SUPERSTAR DJS Paris is big on electronic music. Whether international (Boys Noize from Berlin, above) or local names (Brodinski, right), the best artists perform here all the time.
Keffer, 30, has been documenting Parisian nightlife for years, between shooting for magazines (Complex, GQ, Grazia) and global brands (Sony, Ubisoft, Apple). His party images are collected in the project The Night Day.
PARIS BY NIGHT Nocturnal Paris has a great many faces: chic, wild, arty or trashy, Keffer, with full VIP privileges at all the clubs, finds the beating hearts of the scene.
WARM-UP MODE With Andrew Claristidge from electronic duo Acid Washed. This night began with a mixing session at the Red Bull Studio.
“BLACK-AND-WHITE PICTURES REFLECT HOW I SEE NIGHTS OUT: WASHED OUT, ROUGH, RAW”
the red bulletin: When did you start shooting your nights out and decide to launch The Night Day? keffer: I was already a photographer and one night I took my camera out with me. It was about the time that house music was on the wane and we were moving on to the era of Ed Banger Records musicians and it was before people were being tagged on Facebook. I started setting off my flash instinctively, without ever looking into my viewfinder. I never go out with the intention of taking photos. I go out to have fun myself because I love electronic music. I always have my camera with me, but I only use it when I get a sense of something, a good feeling. How do you get people to open up for you on camera? When I started making photos backstage in clubs, the girls would really let themselves go. I wouldn’t often take photos of this sort at afterhour parties in private homes, while people were still finishing their night out. So I got to document this kind of public erotic downfall, which they were completely cool with. Why are the pics black-and-white? It reflects the way I see my nights out: washed out, rough, raw. thenightday.com
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PURE ADRENALIN Sony AS100V The ultimate companion for all those who love shooting action. This camcorder weighs a mere 160g, including its protective housing, and is waterproof, dustproof and shock-resistant. The Carl Zeiss ultra-wideangle lens and the SteadyShot function make for razor-sharp, full-HD pictures. sony.com
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H A N DY Canon Legria Mini X This might be an unusual shape for a camcorder, but the 82 x 30 x 109mm fullHD camera fits easily in your hand and should thus be of interest to any blogger, musician or fan of
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The flexible gooseneck, 20.3cm long, can be attached to any GoPro mount with a quickrelease base (eg the Suction Cup or Jaws mounts) or simply be used as an adjustable
grip. This is perfect for shooting subjects that are hard to reach and for recording videos round corners or from behind an obstacle. Another good thing: for greater range, you can join a number of them together. gopro.com
V I S UA L LY STUNNING LG 65LB730V A 3D OLED smart TV with a huge screen with a 800Hz refresh rate and Wi-Fi connectivity. Its well-designed and user-friendly webOS interface came in for particular praise at the 2014 CES international consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. lg.com
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AUDIO C I N E M AT I C Bose CineMate 1 SR Surround sound with only two speakers? Yes you can. Just put the Bose CineMate speakers anywhere you want in a room. They work out the rest automatically through a calibration
system which analyses the size of the room and sets the system accordingly. The small sound-bar has five speakers which create frequency variation. The 150W, wireless Acoustimass subwoofer module provides the bass. bose.com
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I N D I V I D UA L Sonos Wireless HiFi Play your music library anywhere in the home through these wireless speakers. Tunes are displayed on an app which can be run through your device of choice, be that a smartphone or tablet. sonos.com
THERE’S NO PERFECT MUSIC WITHOUT PERFECT SOUND. WITH THE L ATEST KIT, YO U C A N H AV E E A S I LY, P O R TA B LY A N D S T Y L I S H LY O P T I M A L SURROUND SOUND
TRENDSETTER Beats by Dre Solo² This has long been the favourite accessory of many a sports star and actor, regardless of whether they’re listening to classical, rock or heavy metal. The soft ear-pads fit snug to your ears and cut out external noise. beatsbydre.com
ARMOURED SPEAKER The Big Turtle Shell This wireless Bluetooth speaker is waterproof and shock-resistant so you can use it at the beach, round a campfire or by the pool. Fully charged, it will run for more than 16 hours. You can also use the Big Turtle Shell to charge other devices. outdoortechnology.com
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OUTDOOR WHAT’S THE USE OF DOING SOMETHING AMAZING WITHOUT K N OW I N G E X AC T LY W H AT WENT DOWN? SHOW OFF TO YOUR MATES WITH THIS TECH
D E E P WAT E R SEACAM silver An underwater camera case made out of a salt water-resistant light metal alloy which is double hardened and anodised. The curves and buttons are double-
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BEAR-LIKE STRENGTH Grizzly GP5600 If there’s no power supply nearby, this shock-resistant, humidity- and dustproof outdoor power bank with hard rubber housing will charge smartphones, MP3 players and most tablets. It can hold
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enough juice to fully charge your iPhone 5 at least three times. Other handy features include an LED torch and a laser pen. wow-products.de
I N G R E AT S H A P E Garmin Vivofit This fitness tracker shows you the distance you’ve covered, the number of calories you’ve burned and tells the time. The Garmin online community will motivate you/shame you into doing more activities. Available in six colours. garmin.com
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GETtheGEAR Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports review six of this Autumn’s newest pieces of outdoor gear for climbers, mountaineers and adventure seekers. Suunto Ambit3 Peak Sapphire (HR) £499.99 The flagship model of Suunto’s new Ambit3 family, this is the must have GPS watch for serious adventurers and athletes who also appreciate a bit of style as well as function. Featuring Bluetooth Smart compatibility and loaded with advanced features, the Ambit3 Peak Sapphire allows you to enrich, relive and share your adventures and sports moments. • Wireless connectivity • Up to 50 hour battery life with GPS • Fully featured GPS with navigation features • Highly accurate altitude with barometer assisted GPS • Altimeter/Barometer • 3D compass • Advanced heart rate monitoring • Highly responsive speed/pace with accelerometer assisted GPS
Black Diamond Men’s Cold Forge Hoody £259.99 Robust, warm yet also compact, the Cold Forge hoody is sure to become a winter classic. An outstanding belay jacket it offers packable warmth for cold conditions, and can easily be layered underneath a waterproof to give comfortable shelter on alpine epics. • 70% down, 30% PrimaLoft blend insulation • PrimaLoft is compressible and works when wet • Down is weather-treated and warm • Pertex Microlight outer is strong and light • DWR finish repels moisture • Featherweight Pertex Quantum lining • Adjustable helmet compatible hood • Two large internal stow pockets • Zipped hand pockets • Weight 610g Colour: Ted
Icebreaker Women’s Oasis 200 Hoody £84.99 This slim-fitting, lightweight hoody is an incredibly versatile baselayer for year-round use. The 200 weight merino wool is excellent for cool conditions while the shaped hood provides an added boost of warmth when needed. • 100% merino wool • 200gm jersey for cool conditions • Shaped hood helps to trap heat • Zip neck allows for easy venting • Comfortable offset shoulder seams • Side seams tailored to prevent chafing • Elliptical hem • Slim fit Colour: Metro/Vino
Black Diamond Vapor Helmet £119.99 The next generation of highly ventilated, mega comfortable helmet has arrived! The incredible Vapor uses Kevlar and carbon layers sandwiched between EPS foam and a polycarbonate shell to help push the weight below 200g. • Kevlar and carbon layers • Co-moulded EPS/polycarbonate shell • Open-air design optimises airflow • Ratchet adjuster with moulded push buttons • Internal foam pads boost comfort • Headlamp clips are removable • Tuck-away suspension for compact storage • Weight 199g Colour: Fire Red
Osprey Mutant 38 £99.99 With an all new design and feature set the Mutant 38 is perfect for year-round climbing use. Load it up, with storage for ropes, ice axes and more; or strip it down by removing the lid and frame to make it ideal for fast and light ascents. • Vented die-cut foam back panel • Removable HDPE frame sheet • Sewn in hipbelt, reverse wrap stowable • Removable top lid with dual compartments • FlapJacket cover for use when lid is removed • Integrated helmet and rope carry systems • Abrasion resistant PU texture on front panel • Dual ToolLock for ice axe attachment • Weight 1.19kg (0.81kg stripped weight) Capacity: 38L
Patagonia Women’s Nano Puff Vest £109.99 Efficiently warm, weather resistant and supremely adaptable across different conditions, this vest is designed to beat the early morning chill whether you’re waking up in a tent at base camp or bivying on an alpine epic. • Superlight 22 denier ripstop outer • DWR water repellent finish • 60g PrimaLoft Gold synthetic insulation • Efficient heat retention even when wet • Unique quilt pattern holds insulation in place • Zipped hand warmer pockets • Internal chest pocket (vest stows into this) • Hem drawcord • Weight 210g Colour: Cobalt Blue
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INDESTRUCTIBLE XPlore XC6 M2 This has got to be the most rugged tablet on the market. You can use it in temperatures as cold as -50ºC up to as hot as 70°C. It uses an Intel Core i5 processor and has a multi-layer magnesium frame. You can read the screen even when it’s in direct sunlight. xploretech.com
FINGER ON THE PULSE Samsung Galaxy S5 With a 5.1in super AMOLED display, a 2.5GHz quad-core processor and a 16megapixel camera, this smartphone has it all. It also has a fingerprint scanner that can take your pulse to sync with health apps. samsung.com
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Pebble Steel This smartwatch looks better than other models. It works with iOS and Android smartphones, and gives convenient email, SMS and social media notifications. The battery will last for up to seven days, thanks to its efficient e-paper display. getpebble.com
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O N T H E M OV E Xbox 360 Kinect The ultimate in gaming without a controller. There are now more than 200 games available for Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect, and some of them, like Nike+
Kinect Training, Kinect Sports 2, UFC Personal Trainer and My Body Coach 3, offer a serious workout as well as providing gaming fun for all the family, so you can jump, hit or step your way to a decent level of fitness. xbox.com
P E R S P EC T I V E Nvidia 3D Vision 2 The latest Nvidia 3D glasses have a 20 per cent larger field of vision than many other models and come with an innovative ambient light adjustment feature, both of which
makes the PC gaming experience more immersive on a 1080p full-HD display. They’re also very comfortable, which is a must for longer sessions, and the battery only needs to be recharged every 60 hours. nvidia.com
G E T O N T R AC K Carrera Digital 132 Ever wondered what it’s like to race around Austria’s Red Bull Ring in Sebastian Vettel’s world championshipwinning car? You can with this. Thrilling overtaking manoeuvres have been programmed into the 11.4m track. carrera-toys.com
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GOO D V I B E S KOR-FX-Gaming-Weste This virtual reality gaming vest is set to hit stores later this year after its inventors completed a successful crowdfunding campaign. Slip it on and hook it up to a sound source and you’ll soon be enjoying the rough and tumble of gaming with a series of realistic sounds and vibrations. korfx.com
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“ It is an incredible feeling to control my own clone” Mislav Mironovic, mountain bike magician TOMISLAV MOZE/RED BULL CONTENT POOL
When it’s said that Mislav Mironovic does amazing bike tricks, you think of big air and ramps and high fives. But the Croatian ups the stakes with optical illusions (he also does the air-ramp-fives thing really well). How does he do it? And what exactly is he doing? Find out on our website: redbulletin.com
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