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Editor’s Note// Little by little, The Presets have been unveiling their long-awaited gem (and much-anticipated follow up to the ARIA Awarad winning Apocalypso) – and finally, this week, Pacifica is here in full.

So is the Sydney duo’s return to the 2012 Parklife stages just one month later. As keyboardist Julian Hamilton tells Rip It Up in this issue, while fans have been kept waiting a couple of years for The Presets to return, it won’t be long before they’ll most likely be complaining about over-saturation yet again. Or maybe not.

Fans of the pair are well advised to soak up every bit of the live Presets experience this October as Hamilton and Kim Moyes trek around the nation as part of the Parklife Festival – because it’s going to be a while before we see them again.

Back to their jet-setting ways, Hamilton reveals that following Pacifica’s official release date this Fri Sep 7, the pair are off to spread the word in the US and Europe, with a full Australian album tour not as yet locked in... Still – getting a glimpse of Pacifica live is better than nothing and, as anyone who’s ever seen a Presets show will attest to, it’s where the true magic happens.

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Experience the UK synth popper when he presents his first two albums, 1984’s Human’s Lib and 1985’s Dream Into Action, in their entirely at the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Sep 6.

Catch the former Batrider when she launches a solo album at Format on Fri Sep 7.

Heading to the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Sep 7 with Clubfeet and Georgie Kay to launch the sextet’s new, arrhythmic pop album, A Is For Alpine.

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See colourful Sydneysider Tobias Priddle when he brings his box and plays with Melbourne’s Kingswood and Sun & The Sky at Currie St’s Ed Castle.

Catch two, locally-written short plays, Filling In by David Paul Jobling an d Godfrey by Lucy Campbell, at Angas St’s Bakehouse Theatre until Sat Sep 15.

Dance, dance, dance when Blackchords launch their new single, Dance Dance Dance, at Jive on Sat Sep 8 with Banjo Jackson and Immerman 1.1.

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GORELAPSE, CYCLOSA, HIDDEN INTENT, GOREBOTTLE, EXISTENTIAL DECEPTION

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SYDONIA, BEGGARS ORCHESTRA, AMBERFADE, LACONICA

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RESTORATIONS (USA) GRENADIERS, JAMIE HAY, WEIGHTLESS

Who: Voltaire Twins / Where: Plus One at Ed Castle / When: Sat Sep 8

Voltaire Twins Do Apollo Boy, Voltaire Twins sure do have a lot of lead in their pencils. Ask the Perth indie synth poppers a few questions via email and Jaymes Voltaire comes back quick smart with an essay complete with gossip about their new Apollo EP, getting nude and rubbed down with baby oil and banned from YouTube and how touring mates San Cisco are so popular that they can get massive Kit Kats on their riders. See the whole interview online at ripitup.com.au, but here’s a sneak peek…

Tell us about the Solaris video…

“The Solaris video has turned into a little beast of its own on the interwebs. To summarise the content: it features Tegan and I getting undressed by a tribe of painted semi-nude people, who make out with us and each other. Then the baby oil comes out and... well, shit gets real. We had

so much fun making it, and the people who volunteered to be the ‘tribe’ were really brave. By the end of the day, the atmosphere in the studio was getting so intense, members of the crew started stripping off, painting themselves up and jumping into the group!”

How do you feel about it getting banned from YouTube?

“We weren’t really thinking that it would be controversial or particularly ‘adult’ or anything until it was being edited. Then we started worrying about whether we’d be allowed to put it on YouTube and, of course, once it went up, it was swiftly banned.

At first we were gutted, but then after we put it on Vimeo it started getting shared everywhere, which was awesome! I guess when someone says ‘you can’t see this’everyone wants to see it.”

Kate Fight The internet says scientists are simplifying genetic codes to look back in time, making sleep learning possible (yessszz) and learning how the western boxelder bug tans to fight off germs. Why wouldn’t you want to Leave Your Soul To Science? That’s what Something For Kate have called their new album. The album’s first single Survival Expert gives an indication of the adventurous and eclectic nature of the album, which the band recently previewed to a lucky few hundred fans at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney and Northcote Social Club in Melbourne. Both shows sold out within minutes, so you’d better get in fast when the band embark upon their first national tour in five years. They’re coming to the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Oct 26 with Ben Salter from The Gin Club in solo mode. Details: somethingforkate.com.

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THE TOASTERS (USA) THE RESIGNATORS, SON OF DAD

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DELAWARE WOLVES, MARA JADE, SECONDS BEFORE SUNRISE, CHANGE ATLANTIC, AMID THE VAST, LIKE WOLVES (ALL AGES)

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RIVAL SCHOOLS (USA) TOY BOATS, WEIGHTLESS

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Evermore’s Jon Hume Talks Follow The Sun “I’d always had this idea to take a mobile studio to inspiring places around the world and record the results, so that’s exactly what we did. We went to LA, Buenos Aires, Paris, Jerusalem, Spain and Morocco. It was an amazing trip, so many experiences I’ll never forget… getting patted down for weapons by cops on the side of the freeway outside Los Angeles after we ran out of gas, getting completely lost in the maze of ancient streets and incredible food that is Marrakech.

The trip added musical richness to the album and

songs but ultimately we wrote more of the songs at home at our own studio, the Stables.

“This album is all about connection. The things we have in common between the three of us as brothers and friends. The common threads of life that everyone experiences… love, loss and friendship. I think finding the love of my life and getting married last year has been a big influence on my writing. We travelled around the world looking for inspiration but ended up finding the most compelling songs in the closest places to home.”

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Jeff Lang keeps cropping up like a welcome friend, like finding $20 in the jacket you wore last week, like discovering a forgotten tasty treat in the desk drawer at 3pm, like finally getting to the 10th free bánh mi on your loyalty card. He’s playing a string of shows for Backwater Blues & Roots Festival, at Mt Gambier Gaol on Thu Oct 25, the Left Hand Club, Whyalla, on Thu Oct 26, the Juke Joint, Adelaide, on Fri Oct 27 and Fox Creek Winery, McLaren Vale, on Sat Oct 28.

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AT FATES MERCY (CD LAUNCH) Who: Tinpan Orange / Where: Jive / When: Fri Nov 16

Orange County Triple J Unearthed winners Tinpan Orange have stepped away from their folk beginnings on their new album Over The Sun. The ambitious record transplants them into a sound they describe as “the middle of some lost opera, third act, high drama all around, orchestra in flight, the drums of war rumbling”. Written at home

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in Melbourne when singer Emily Lubitz was pregnant and later in the back of a Winnebago as the band travelled across Canada with a fourmonth-old baby in tow, Over The Sun moves from free-wheeling abandon to high romance and even into madness.

“The album portrays a housewife who casts her mind back,” Lubitz says. “Over the sun, through past loves, past lives and all the crazy and foolish and wonderful things that people do, back to some original, ancient pain... the housewife goes mad.”

OCT 27

“NECROMANCY” (HALLOWEEN BALL) Post-hardcore aerobics? It’s sweaty and weird and maybe just a little bit sexy and TOTALLY UNICORN have it down pat. Catch them in Lycra onesies (maybe) with Coerce at the Crown & Anchor on Fri Oct 12. Tickets on the door.

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A New Tide Presets fans, here’s a word of warning – Pacifica is in no way another Apocalypso, nor is it a sequel to that 2008 three-time ARIA Award winning sophomore album. Instead, it’s a record of a period in time when the duo of Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton underwent some life-altering changes both personally and musically, according to the keyboardist/singer.

The last thing we wanted to do was write another My People all over again,” Hamilton states. “Actually, we even did write a couple of tracks that were along the same lines as My People...

And they just felt shit! We just didn’t feel the same spark with them as we did five years ago.

At the time My People came out very honestly and naturally, which just goes to show you that we’ve moved on from that in a significant way. I mean, you always want people to like your music, but if you’re feeling anxiety and uncertainty about what you’re putting out there, then if it flops you’re going to feel a hundred times worse than you would had you just released what felt right in your heart and gut. Four, five years ago, that’s how Apocalypso felt for us. I listen to that album now and I hear the hunger, the energy – I can hear we were on the cusp of something special.”

Pacifica marks the start of a new chapter for The Presets. Following the release of their last album, Hamilton and Moyes spent an exhaustive two years out on the road, barely stopping for a break until 2010. Then, two years ago, both became first-time fathers within just three months of one another – a coincidence that Hamilton considers a lucky one.

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big at the same time. Having a kid – it’s probably the biggest and most important thing you can achieve as a person. Whether you’re a muso or a plumber, a lawyer, a taxi driver... It’s just a big shift in life, no matter who you are. I definitely feel it’s made me richer as a human being but hopefully it makes the music richer too. That doesn’t mean that this album is entirely about fatherhood or anything like that! At the same time, though, because it’s come from us, it is going to reflect experiences that we’ve been through and fatherhood is one of them.”

It’s autobiographical but it avoids revealing too much detail about Hamilton and Moyes’ lives... In some ways, as the keyboardist reasons, Pacifica is quite a bit of a contradiction.

“Having a kid – it’s probably the biggest and most important thing you can achieve as a person. Whether you’re a muso or a plumber, a lawyer, a taxi driver... It’s just a big shift in life, no matter who you are. It’s made me richer as a human being but hopefully it makes the music richer too.”

“The album is not totally autobiographical and yet it comes from an important time in our lives,” Moyes laughs. “It sounds like a contradiction. For example, a song like AO – it’s autobiographical but we could have written that at any stage of our career, probably even at the very beginning. It’s a song that’s all about our hometown, Sydney. But then there are

songs like Ghosts, which is autobiographical, but which we couldn’t have written at any other point in our lives. It’s a song about a guy who travels overseas and experiences all these amazing, wild, interesting and new things – he meets incredible people, has many late nights and gets wiser having to go through all that.

That kind of song is something we couldn’t have possibly written at the beginning of our career – it took years of touring for something like that to happen.”

Whereas Apocalypso took a grand total of only a few months to piece together, Hamilton claims Pacifica roughly unfolded over the space of a year and a half. Because of this, The Presets were able to experiment with beats and sounds they hadn’t explored before – an approach that Hamilton compares to that of a “painter”.

“The nice thing is that we were able to go back and write this album slowly,” he says.

“We weren’t about to rush it, we wanted to experiment with it. Having the chance to experiment with beats also meant that we knew that we’d end up with material that nobody would end up hearing! For the first time in a long time, it’s like we were able to practice before releasing songs. It was almost like meditation. You’re free to play with sounds and create songs knowing that they’re not necessarily going to go on the record. Some of the songs will stay in our heads, some of the songs will just stay in the studio, some will be released... It’s almost like an artist or a painter who will have a series of paintings he hangs on his wall – all these different little sketches and drafts and mockups and versions. We did the same with our beats – we let ourselves train ourselves.”

Both classically trained musicians, Hamilton and Moyes first crossed paths in 1995 at the Sydney Conservatorium Of Music where the two bonded over their love of ‘80s pop.

Officially coming together as The Presets in 2003, Hamilton looks back over the duo’s prior classical training and insists it went a long way in contributing to the duo’s overall sound.

“You realise as you go along just how much it’s been helpful in so many ways,” Hamilton

Home Is Where The Stage Is While all ears are currently on The Presets’ new album Pacifica, Hamilton claims it’s actually the stage which the duo consider to be their natural habitat. As the headliners of this year’s Parklife Festival, Hamilton says he’s looking forward to returning to his ‘spiritual home’. “We’ve been working hard on putting the show together too,” he says. “It’s going to be a huge party and a lighting extravaganza.

The place where we feel at home the most is on a stage, in front of a crowd of sweaty people jumping around. After Parklife we won’t be seeing much of Australia for a while, though, because we’re off to the States, Europe and New Zealand. But we’ll be back next year so don’t worry, we are going to be annoying the hell out of everyone again soon.”

claims. “It’s very hard to articulate. For example, when you’re a kid, in your mind you’re just playing your little piano, doing your recital on music night, you’re just excited about putting on a good show. After a while that cements itself in your head, entertaining people and playing properly becomes ingrained in you. It was instilled at me as a kid and it’s stayed with me with The Presets. The Conservatorium teaches you to arrange music for orchestras but when we’re making synth techno tunes, you still can’t help but arrange them in the back of your mind as through you’re arranging music for an orchestra. Actually, you don’t really even think about it on a conscious level, it’s just in you.

It’s a weird, dangerous thing – once you learn Mozart, it sticks in your head forever.”

WHO: The Presets WHAT: Pacifica (Modular) WHERE: Parklife WHEN: Sun Oct 7

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Interviews// Bush Medicine Cairns four-piece The Medics never expected things to turn out quite like they have. Coming from Cairns, a city not instantly recognised for its musical depth, there is much to like about the efforts of this young group. And their persistence has certainly paid off, evident in the critical acclaim heaped on debut album Foundations upon its release. ip It Up speaks to drummer Jhindu Lawrie, clearly still on a high following the band’s success at the recent National Indigenous Music Awards held in Darwin.

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Lawrie says.

The band won three NIMA awards on the night – Song Of The Year for Griffin, along with Album Of The Year and Best New Talent. But judging by Lawrie’s reaction, it seemed the band were more than happy just to be a part of the occasion.

“We were amazed to have won the awards we did. It was a great thing to be part of, as we also played with Thelma Plum and others there. It feels amazing to be recognised for playing music the way you play it.”

Debut album Foundations had seemed like a long time coming, given the band’s success with early singles like Beggars and Joseph.

And, as Lawrie explains, releasing the album lifted a massive mental weight off the band’s shoulders.

“Foundations has a lot of emotional songs on it and they all mean something to all of us. So we just really wanted it down on a CD and done. And the response we’re getting so far is pretty instant and more than I could’ve imagined from it, so I’m really happy. And it’s still going with the tour coming up.”

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It’s often hard to take a band’s name literally, but for The Medics, there is some level of plausibility in their choice. Well, according to drummer Jhindu Lawrie, it at least has potential.

“We haven’t been forced into performing any medical procedures on stage as yet. But Andy [Thomson, guitarist], although he doesn’t have the time at the moment, really does want to become a paramedic, which is kind of ironic.”

The Grass festival saw The Medics exposed to their biggest audience yet. But from Lawrie’s recollections, it appeared as though the band were far more interested in checking out the surrounds.

“This was my first time at Byron Bay. It was weird being backstage this time, but I also got to see many of the bands I wanted to. I was actually more in front of the stage than backstage, so I got to roam around in all the mud and sludge, which was a bit of a downer from the festival. Other than that it was a good experience for us.”

Lawrie also admits the celebrity factor and a final day slot on the line-up ensured more relaxation than most of the other bands performing at Byron Bay. “I noticed a few celebs there but I didn’t want to get in their way too much. We played on the Sunday, so we had to go every day and not use too much energy and conserve what we had for the gig.

We got there on the Friday and that was just hectic.

But we all tried to enjoy the festival as much as possible.”

It is clear from the success of The Middle East collective and now The Medics that music in far north Queensland is beginning to thrive. Lawrie states the closeness of the music scene in places like Cairns and Townsville as a major positive in the area.

“There are not a lot of venues up in north Queensland and towns like Cairns, so it’s hard for some artists to play and get heard. But I like to think of it as a gold mine that’s just waiting to be found.”

The dark undertones of tracks like Finegan and Griffin found on Foundations demonstrate a high level of maturity from a band so early in their career. This is a result of some life-changing experiences, as Lawrie explains.

“A lot of it is from stories about Kahl [Wallace, lead singer and cousin of Lawrie], and just a lot of sad times in our lives. As a result of those experiences there are a number of sad songs on the album, so it does mean a lot to have these songs out.”

And as the band’s biggest touring schedule yet looms, it seems a good thing the band have built such a strong rapport with each other. Or is it?

“Touring is quite fun,” Lawrie says. “But we all know our limits. Sometimes we can get at each other a bit, like friends do. It’s just normal.”

WHO: The Medics WHAT: Foundations (Footstomp/Warner) WHERE: Jive WHEN: Fri Sep 7

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The annual OzAsia Festival, which has won a slew of awards during its past five years, comes to the various Adelaide Festival Centre venues and Her Majesty’s Theatre from Fri Sep 14. It continues until Sun Sep 30 with the free entry, family friendly event Moon Lantern Festival in Elder Pk. With a focus this year on India, the festival, which also boasts a film and visual arts program, will have highlights such as Ben Walsh & The Orkestra Of The Underground presenting the world premiere of Fearless Nadia, Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s reinterpretation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, takio drum companies Kodo and TaikOz, as well as comedian Anh Do along with composer Tan Dun, of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame, conducting Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for Martial Arts Trilogy.

Kailash Kher

Indian music mega star Kailash Kher, who has been involved in so many Bollywood films that he has lost count, is looking forward to bringing his band to Adelaide for the final weekend of OzAsia.

Fearless Nadia

Ben Walsh & The Orkestra Of The Underground enjoyed much success at last Year’s OZAsia Festival when they teamed up with illustrator Shaun Tan to present The Arrival.

For the 2012 festival they will mount Fearless Nadia during which the ensemble will play music during screenings of the work of Indian filmmaker JBH Wadia who catapulted Mary Evans, a blonde, blue-eyed Perth girl, to fame as a kind of female Zorro in a series of films in the early part of last century, giving birth to Bollywood.

We speak to Roy Wadia, grandson of JBH Wadia, about how the project came about.

“Ben [Walsh] had talked to OzAsia about doing something again for this year’s festival and the story of Fearless Nadia came up. So Ben and I met up and we watched some of my grandfather’s old Hindu movies from the ’30s.

He also watched a documentary about Mary Evans my late brother, Riyad, had made in 1993 using our grandfather’s film footage as well as interviews with Mary just before she passed away. So it all came together that way.

“Ben also read a German biography by Dorothee Wenner about my grandfather which had been translated to English.

He then became even more enthused about the project.

“I’m pleased that my grandfather’s films are now coming to life again and can be enjoyed and appreciated by a whole new generation,” he adds.

Not too many would be aware of Mary Ann Evans’ amazing story.

“That’s one of the wonderful things about Fearless Nadia because it’s a surreal story about how a young girl from Australia became such a star of early Indian films,” Wadia remarks. “It’s the kind of story you couldn’t make up if you tried as it’s a case of life being stranger than fiction.”

Wadia, who suggests that interested parties should have a look at wadiamovietone.com, is looking forward to coming to OzAsia for the world premiere of the work.

“I’ve been kindly asked,” he laughs, “so I’m looking forward to it as I’ve only ever been to Australia once and that was for my cousin’s wedding in Brisbane.

“And I’ll be there for the entire festival and will also be involved in a Q&A session [following the 7.30pm performance on Sat Sep 15] about Fearless Nadia,” Wadia concludes.

WHAT: Fearless Nadia WHERE: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Fri Sep 14 and Sat Sep 15 at 7.30pm.

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Kher blends sufi chants, Punjabid dance and gypsy rhythm, fused with electric guitar and contemporary beats and has been a featured vocalist on more than 200 Bollywood fim soundtracks. He is also one of India’s most popular artists and plays regularly to audiences of more than 30,000 people.

“We’ve performed in many countries,” Kher says over the telephone, “but when we heard about Adelaide and OzAsia we got very excited. We’ve been checking it out on the internet and it looks like a beautiful place. We have performed in Australia before, in Melbourne and Sydney, so we have some idea of what to expect.

“I am bringing nine musicians,” he then says of his band, Kailasa, “and a few stage technicians. The sound we present is an international one that appeals to everyone.”

Kher struggled in the early days of his career.

“When you say to your parents you want to be a musician, they say, ‘Just do it as a hobby but study law or something’. I think they worry too much and I really didn’t want that kind of life so I had to be rebellious and leave home. But that has made me what I am today.”

An early influence was the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

“I first heard Nusrat when I was in my early teens,” Kher says. “But my music has lots of influences. It also has the language of emotion. It’s not about how many people you are singing for. I can be singing for 20 people with the very same passion and spirit I use when I play to thousands. All real performers and artists do that.”

Over a span of eight years, Kher and his band have done many concerts.

“We have played all around the world and done something like 800 concerts,” he says proudly. “We have been everywhere from Africa through to Europe, the UK, the US and Canada.”

Kher, who sings in 18 different Indian languages and (lists each one for us), was a judge on Indian Idol.

“It was good because Mumbai is a hub of so many talented singers,” he reveals. “But when I was singing in my early days, I never imagined I’d be appearing on television. I never, ever imagined that. And now I am a judge on Indian Idol. And I’ve also been a judge on many other Indian talent shows.

“And you learn a lot being a judge too. I like that part.”

The singer now has his own studio in Mumbai.

“So we go there when we are not travelling, we go there and record.”

He concludes by saying that one day he would like to set up a university in Mumbai for music students.

“You can’t always keep taking water from the well,” he says, “because you have to give back. I’d like to set up a school where young musicians can go and learn not only the music but the values of the classical tradition. When people follow you and believe in you, then is the time to set up something fruitful like that for the next generation.”

Would the Indian government be likely to also support such an endeavour?

“Maybe,” Kher says unconvincingly. “They may say, ‘If you want to do something like that, we may want to be part of it’.”

WHO: Kailesh Kher WHERE: Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Sat Sep 29 at 8pm

Cambodiag Sun Risin Young performers from Sunrise Children’s Village in Cambodia, an orphanage set up by Geraldine Cox of the Australia Cambodia Foundation in the early ’90s, are heading to town to present Cambodia Sun Rising, which will have them showcasing traditional dance along with contemporary western dance and music.

We speak to Cate Fowler who, along with Ninian Donald, is the show’s co-director.

“It all started in 2007 when I left Windmill Theatre Company and met Geraldine by chance, who asked if I would come and work with ‘her’ kids in Cambodia,” Fowler begins.

“I don’t normally work with children as, with Windmill, it was more a case of working with artists who were creating work for children. But I went to Sunrise with [dancer] Ninian Donald, who I’d previously done a lot of work with, and we just went initially to see what it was like.

“But the kids there were fantastic,” she adds. “They were quite extraordinarily skilled in Khmer dance but they were also desperate to learn hip hop and western music and dance.”

Cox had set up Sunrise to educate Cambodian orphans but soon began to include dance and music.

“Up until that point they had been quite restless,” Fowler explains. “But when Geraldine got them involved in the arts, they blossomed. She also found an old Cambodian man who had played in the Cambodian National Orchestra and who’d somehow survived Pol Pot. Geraldine also got in another older man and a woman whose mother had been the director of the Cambodian Ballet who had walked out of Phnom Phen in 1975 but died a week later.

“But her daughter had learnt ballet since she was six and had been a professional for many years,” she adds. “So she was just the perfect person to be involved with Sunrise. So the orphanage now has an amazing blend of the arts along with its education program.”

Fowler stresses that Cambodia Sun Rising will not be like a school concert.

“We certainly didn’t want to do that,” she says. “Once we started work with the children and their traditional dance, we soon worked out how we could blend contemporary western dance with their own culture. It’s an amazing culture – just so rich – which, prior to my visit to the orphanage, I knew very little about.

“When I was speaking to Jacinta Thompson [artistic director of OzAsia] about it early in 2011, she was really keen to get a show at the 2012 festival that specifically targeted a family audience. And it’s going to be really interesting as Cambodia Sun Rising tells the whole story of Cambodia from the glory days of Angkor Wat through to what’s happening there today. It’s been a wonderful exchange of ideas and these children are really the legacy of what happened with Pol Pot. About two million people of a population of 11 million were wiped out during his reign.

“The show is coming together really well – it’s shaping up really, really well – and the set, which Mark Thompson has done, will be fantastic and there will also be projections of some historical footage. About 30 kids, aged between six and 14, will be coming down from Cambodia to OzAsia to perform.

“They are also really looking forward to taking part in the Moon Lantern parade,” Fowler says.

She is also hopeful that the work, which involves DJ BboyPeanut and is suitable for those aged over seven, may be performed elsewhere.

“Now that the structure is there, it will probably be quite easy to tour,” Fowler says in conclusion. “And as it evolves, we can gradually introduce new performers. And the time is ripe for Cambodia to tell its story after so many years.”

WHAT: Cambodia Sun Rising WHERE: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Thu Sep 27 at 7pm and Fri Sep 28 at 11am and 7pm

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INCOMING WHAT: IT’S LIKE THAT (WITH DELTA, MOTION, STAEN1) WHERE: PT NOARLUNGA ART CENTRE WHEN: FRI SEP 14 It’s Like That – an event that is a part of the Southern Collective Response To Youth Binge Drinking (SCRYBD) Initiative – is a youth-led and inspired showcase which will combine the four elements of hip hop in one event next Friday. SCRYBD is a collaboration of services in the south empowering young people to be active citizens, driving social and cultural change to delay the onset of drinking and reduce binge drinking. It’s Like That will feature guests including Delta, Motion, Staen1 as well as supports from Til The Break, Akademix, Playn N Dams as well as the Aerosol Shop paint comp and breakers. This is an all-ages drug and alcohol-free event, with $10 at the door.

WHO: MONKEY SAFARI WHERE: WHITE RABBIT WHEN: FRI OCT 12

KOOLTA JOINS PARKLIFE 2012 LINE-UP Adelaide MC Koolta has just been announced as the latest addition to this year’s Parklife Festival bill. Having released his debut album The Extraordinary Average Joe in July, Koolta has been named as one of the five Triple J Unearthed artists to be added to the Parklife bill. While Koolta will join the Adelaide leg of the event, other additions will include The

Griswolds in Sydney, The Belligerents in Brisbane, Willow Beats in Melbourne and Bastian’s Happy Flight in Perth.

Koolta will be joining headliners including The Presets, Nero, Passion Pit and heaps more when Parklife hits Adelaide on Sunday October 7 at Botanic Park. Tickets are on sale now through Parklife’s website.

Over the last seven years, East Germany’s Monkey Safari have been making beats with influences including African rhythms, hip hop, funk and midget house. Merging different genres and styles from all over the globe, Monkey Safari’s sound is sometimes soft and melodic, sometimes deep and conscious and other times just down and dirty. As owners of labels What!What! Records since 2008 (along with studio partner Mike Okay) and the Mambo imprint since 2011, the two DJs (and brothers) are bringing their tropical underground sound to White Rabbit this October during their whirlwind three-date Australian tour. Check out this cool black and white video for Those Dancing Days shot in Berlin’s underground tube network and featuring the city’s buskers...

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WHO: OCTAVE ONE WHERE: ELECTRIC CIRCUS WHEN: FRI SEP 21 Straight out of Detroit, USA, one of the world’s most innovative and exciting techno acts, Octave One, is heading to Adelaide. First making their mark on the electronic scene in 1990 with I Believe, featured on the monumental Techno 2: The Next Generation compilation, it was the 2000 single Blackwater that saw Octave One release their biggest hit – the track which went on to appear on over 30 compilation albums worldwide (with sales exceeding one million collectively). The track has also been a classic on the decks of some of the world’s best-known DJs including Little Louie Vega, Danny Tenaglia, Jeff Mills, Derrick May and Laurent Garnier. Last year the duo released their Octave One retrospective compilation Revisited: Here, There And Beyond which marked Octave One’s 20 years on the scene, and featured classics reworked by some of the pair’s favourite producers like Luke Slater, Sandwell District, Ken Ishii, Vince Watson and Alter Ego.

Drop The Lime adds ‘songwriter, guitarist and vocalist’ to his credits on his debut artist album Enter The Night. Written and recorded while on the move from Brooklyn to London to New Orleans, the album evokes a bit of an outlaw spirit thanks to the swagger of tracks like Ennio Morricone, the techno grandeur of Underworld, and the story-telling prowess of Johnny Cash. Also featuring the first official single Bandit Blues, Onion is giving away four copies of Enter The Night – just head to onion. com.au and enter your details in the comp.

WHO: REBECCA & FIONA WHERE: HQ WHEN: SUN SEP 30

CALENDAR 6/9: Timmy Trumpet (Apple Bar) 6/9: Todd Terry (Garage Bar) 8/9: Grant Smilie & Shock One (HQ) 14/9: Zombie Disco Squad (White Rabbit) 18/9: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 20/9: Tommie Sunshine (Apple Bar) 20/9: Sidney Samson (Electric Circus) 21/9: Octave One (Electric Circus) 28/9: Paul Oakenfold (HQ) 29/9: Kyle Hall (Cuckoo Bar) 29/9: MOS feat Goodwill & Chardy (HQ)

29/9: Das EFX, Black Sheep, Tony Touch (Higher Ground) 30/9: Rebecca & Fiona (HQ) 30/9: Funkagenda (White Rabbit) 30/9: Bombs Away! (HQ) 1/10: Ferrry Corsten (HQ) 12/10: Monkey Safari (White Rabbit) 13/10: Seth Sentry (Fowler’s) 9/12: JLO (Entertainment Centre) 31/12: Mathew Jonson (Cuckoo Bar)

REVIEWS MR GREVIS THE SAMPLER

(NRA RECORDS/ OBESE) Mr Grevis has been bumping around the Perth scene for a minute now and has garnered the respect of scene heavyweights – four tracks produced

by Downsyde lynchpin Dazastah – all the while gathering tales of parties and regret that help formulate The Sampler. This release was a grower on me in a big way.

While early on Grevis sounded a lot like Drapht to me through some of his delivery, by second and third listen I was taking him in as his own artist. Largely Mr Grevis makes the tale of his life, So High, Monster, Sunday Struggle Song, perfect examples of the party and the aftermath. He digs deeper as the record progresses and makes use of some quality beats from the previously mentioned Dazastah, Rob Shaker and Paulie P. Closing track The Refugee shows that there is definitely a lot more depth inside Grevis as an MC, The Sampler doing as the title suggests, giving a sample of a deeper talent that I’ll continue to check for.

SHANE SCOTT

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OBESECITY 2

After releasing their first single Luminary Ones a couple of years ago, Rebecca & Fiona have exploded onto the world stage, direct from their native Sweden.

In 2010 Luminary Ones became one of the most played tracks on Swedish national radio P3, with Rebecca & Fiona ending up as supports for the likes of some big names like Robyn on her European tour.

2011 was an even bigger year after they released their double platinum selling single Bullets, the double a side If She Was Away/ Hard and the smash single Jane Doe. Their debut album I Love You, Man was released in November of that year, as well as the hit collab with Kaskade, Turn It Down. With over a hundred shows completed globally last year (alongside heavyweights like Tiesto, Kaskade, Axwell and Steve Angello), Rebecca & Fiona are keeping up the momentum by coming to Australia at the end of the month.

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THE CALL

PACIFICA

(OBESE) The importance of the original Obesecity should not be underestimated, alongside the Culture Of Kings releases, it helped unite and grow the scene like few other albums. The original which dropped 10 years ago put the likes of Muph & Plutonic, the Hilltop Hoods, Bias B and Hunter alongside up-and-comers like Art Of War, creating an album that a decade on would define an era. Volume 2 sees more of the same – scene heavyweights, alongside stars of the moment and those who should be considered the ‘next wave’. The music stays strictly underground from start to end, no aims at chart success, just beats, rhymes and cuts, hip hop music for hip hop heads, if you will. Disc one sees standouts from Goatmob, Ciecmate & Maggot Mouf, Tommy Illfigga, Spit & Mac, Dialect & Despair, Purpose, Maundz, Mortar and Tornts and is definitely the pick of the two. Over on disc two those demanding repeats are Lazy Grey & Jake Biz, Fluent Form, One Sixth, Raven, Dwizofoz and DVS. The release is the best compilation in years and gives a great snapshot of where this country is musically right now.

SHANE SCOTT

It’s been two years since the Spitzer brothers (Damien and Matthieu) delivered their debut EP, Roller Coaster, on Agoria’s InFine imprint but has the wait been worth it for their inaugural album? While combining a variety of styles (minimal, experimental, Kraut influences, et cetera) the album doesn’t feel connected and, to top it off, there are no real standouts bar one. It opens with a pedestrian Gui Boratto-like minimal opener before an Ennio Morricone sounding minimal spaghetti track, Madigan, comes in. Ennio as an electronic influence has been done plenty of times before and better. Then there is the punk energy of Clunker, which is the perfect title, as the ‘80s no wave track doesn’t reach the heights of, say Public Image Ltd. The album’s saving grace is Too Hard To Breathe featuring Kid A, which sounds like Bjork collaborating with Trentemoller.

The Call has some nice ideas but those ideas aren’t executed in a way that is exciting or fresh.

If you’ve been holding your breath hoping for another Apocalypso in the last four years, The Presets don’t deliver.

This is not a bad thing – rather than rehashing and sticking to the ARIA-Award-winning formula that worked in 2008, Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton are back on Pacifica with a sound that can only be described as a ‘contradiction’. Eccentric and experimental on the one hand and catchy and poppy on the other, The Presets pull off what some would consider a difficult feat – an album that will equally appeal to the party-going Parklife crowd come next month (see Push and Fall) just as much as the more pure among the techno heads (see opening track Youth In Trouble). Pacifica is a darker beast than anything that came before it, with influences including Depeche Mode, New Order and even some Pet Shop Boys making themselves quite obvious very early on. It’s bold, at times odd and, most of all, progressive.

JEFF SPICOLI

SIMONE KEENAN

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INTERVIEWS

VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: DIALECT & DESPAIR WHAT: NEW TESTAMENT IS OUT MON SEP 10 THROUGH iTUNES

FUTURE CLASSIC DJS IT SEEMS LIKE FLUME CANNOT PUT A FOOT WRONG RIGHT NOW, ACCORDING TO CHAD GILLARD OF SYDNEY IMPRINT FUTURE CLASSIC. AT THE TENDER AGE OF JUST 20, THE SYDNEY BEAT-MAKER IS GAINING SOME SERIOUS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION – BUT HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE. THE TRIO BEHIND THE LABEL – CONSISTING OF GILLARD, NATHAN MCLAY AND JAMES MCINNES – ARE ABOUT TO SHOW THE WORLD JUST WHAT THEY’RE MADE OF, TOO.

“This is not our first compilation, but it’s the first compilation we’ve done as DJs,” Gillard says of the upcoming Future Classic DJs compilation. “We released a compilation about eight years ago but it was pretty different to this. Doing one as DJs just seemed like a natural step because the label gets sent so much music. A lot of it we really loved, so we wanted to put it together as DJs, but it also coincided with Nathan recording a live mix at Beatport in Berlin this year. Beatport launched this new model which is laid out so you can buy an individual track or an individual mix, but the artist is getting something back from it in the end apart from just promotion.

Many people put mixes up online but the artist never ends up getting any money out of it, so this is quite a new model that Beatport has done.”

According to Gillard, Future Classic DJs sees the trio showcasing unique material, ranging from previously unreleased tracks exclusive to the compilation, to specially-created originals and remixes from artist including Flume, Softwar, Danny Daze, DJ T, Tigerskin, Worst Friends, Slow Hands, Pharao, Soul

Clap and loads more… Not that Future Classic serves as just a music label, as Gillard points out.

“Actually, I think some people may not even know we operate the music side of things! Future Classic does a lot of different things like radio [Sunset on FBI Radio], fashion, exhibitions, photography – it’s become more of a ‘brand’ instead of just a label, though first and foremost, it is a label. Our responsibilities are with the artists that we work with, but we also love being DJs and we like mixing things up when we can, so it’s about keeping a balance at all times. Even though we’ve done this compilation, Future Classic DJs can’t overtake the stuff that we normally do.”

When it comes to the label roster, Gillard notes that – aside from Flume – artists like Mitzi and Panama have also been drawing significant attention. So, while it is a “trip in itself” to be involved with such a respected label, it’s even more exciting to be able to support music that’s capturing audiences as far away as the US and Germany.

“As I said, Flume is probably an obvious one. He’s getting a lot of international buzz, he’s playing at CMJ in New York in October and he’s getting a lot of great press from magazines in Germany. We’ve just set up his international team and publicists in the UK, America and in Europe, so it’s very cool that he’s becoming that prolific at just 20 years old. It means quite a lot when you’re passionate about the artist who’s doing so well. Future Classic doesn’t have any plans for world domination or anything like that – we’re still fairly independent – but we are very proud that we’re getting a bit more recognition at the moment and that people are becoming more aware of the brand.”

NINA BERTOK

VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: FUTURE CLASSIC DJS WHAT: FUTURE CLASSIC DJS IS OUT ON MON SEP 10 THROUGH FUTURE CLASSIC

ACID JACKS

MELBOURNE DJ/PRODUCER ACID JACKS, AKA ANTONIO CELESTINO, HAS BEEN ON TWITTER DEPLORING HIS FLOODED STUDIO. BUT HE’S BRAVELY GOING AHEAD WITH INTERVIEWS TO PLUG A HOT ONELOVE MIX-CD, MOBILE DISCO 2012, HIS CO-HEADLINERS THIS TIME SCOTTISH PROGRESSIVE ELECTRO TITAN CHRIS LAKE AND NATIONAL TREASURE JOHN COURSE.

“Oh my God – it’s like the roof collapsed and water’s come down on my mixer, arghhh,” he half laughs. The dripping is audible down the line.

The Stereosonic-bound Celestino is a new era techno rebel, infamous for his unorthodox approach. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that of the three Mobile Disco 2012 mixes, his is the most cred – and directional.

“I just try to get the songs that I really like and put them on a CD – and try to represent the best of particular sounds, whether it’s an underground sound, whether it’s something teetering on the overground, whether it’s something left or right, or whatever it is...,” he says. “The first bunch of tracks that were cleared for this, I think I had 20 deep house tracks, just because there’s so much quality in

that scene at the moment. I love all those tracks – and I DJ them. I don’t DJ them in the context of how maybe other DJs might DJ them, I do them more my style. So, when I put them into a mix with some of the other stuff that I like, they made sense and they actually worked. But I end the CD with a dubstep track by Benga – hey!”

Acid Jacks was originally a duo with Celestino, a sometime graphic artist, and David Haberfeld (Honeysmack). However, Haberfeld has long moved on, allowing Celestino to come into his own. Today Celestino presides over Idiot House Records. He’s likewise released music on such labels as Drop The Lime’s Trouble & Bass Recordings. MSTRKRFT remixed his Tommie Sunshine-signed Awake Since 78. In fact, Celestino, who has eight handles, is producing everything from techhouse to “bouncy house” to bass.

The DJ is also touring heavily abroad. This year Celestino has already travelled to the US (he thinks) three or four times – though he seems more excited about Spain. Stateside, the amorphous EDM, a reboot of ‘90s electronica, is massive.

“The thing about ‘EDM’ is it’s a very American term – and it’s actually a great way to describe the Americans’ idea of what it is. Because to them it is something which is very specific.

I guess it’s their way of saying ‘commercial mainstream dance pop music’.”

DIALECT & DESPAIR WHEN SEEKING TO BE INSPIRED BY HIP HOP, THERE’S ONLY ONE DESTINATION YOU OUGHT TO BE HITTING – NEW YORK CITY: THE SPIRITUAL HOME OF THE GENRE AND CULTURE. AND WHILE DIALECT & DESPAIR’S ORIGINAL PLANS FOR A SOJOURN TO THE BIG APPLE GOT POSTPONED IN 2011, THIS YEAR THE PLANETS ALIGNED PERFECTLY AND ALLOWED FOR A RECORDING TRIP (AND EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME) THAT THE ADELAIDE HIP HOP DUO DESCRIBE IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS: “SENSORY OVERLOAD”.

“Even just flying over New York the first time – that was crazy in itself,” MC Dialect [Nelson Hedditch] enthuses. “Seeing this city from so high up above and picking up on all the references you’ve listened to on albums over the years – all of a sudden, it all makes sense. We visited places like the Bronx, Brooklyn, that was full-on. The craziest thing, though, was going to HeadQcourterz because that’s Premier’s studio.

You walk into the foyer and the vibe is unbelievable…

You’re looking around and you realise this is where all the classic ‘90s albums were recorded! On the walls, they’ve got Jay-Z’s, Biggie’s, Big L’s plaques…”

DJ/producer Despair [Nick Sinodinos] adds, “It’s a sensory overload, it’s fantastic for getting inspiration.”

Which was the initial aim of the whole trip. Getting the opportunity to work with a long list of respected hip hop names the duo have both admired for years was something only dreams are made of, according to Hedditch and Sinodinos. And while the final result will be officially unveiled in all its glory later in the year, a first taste of the pair’s experience is about to be revealed in a matter of days… Fans of The Vortex: get ready for the next level.

“The first single we’re releasing is called New Testament [featuring Total Eclipse of The X-Ecutioners],” Sinodinos announces. “We’re putting that stamp back out there that this is who we are, this is what we’re about. It definitely has an epic feel – it’s a bigger song than a lot of the stuff on The Vortex. Our sound has changed, we’re trying a more mature approach. We haven’t left anything behind

Celestino finds aspects of the US scene peculiar.

“I don’t wanna sound cynical about it and I hope it doesn’t come across as cynical, but it’s very Las Vegas.”

Punters sit down at tables in nightclubs and order drinks as they might at a revue. But, happily, that isn’t universal across the US, Celestino says.

“On the flip side, it has such a huge population, that if you go to an American music festival, you go to Ultra or something like that, it’s incredible. You can’t help but feel like this is something else when you’ve seen that many people going crazy. So it’s a good time to be in EDM and to be part of this because it is very fresh and it is very fun. Even if it’s not definable by our standards, or by that aficionado point of view or producer/DJ type of stance, it’s a great time to be involved in it because everyone’s having fun and enjoying themselves.”

Still, Celestino has no intention of upping sticks for Los Angeles like so many DJs. “A lot of people are moving to LA because it’s the place to go and relaunch yourself or just have that opportunity...

People are making a lot of money. But I like Australia, I like living here – it’s my home. Australia’s great, Australia’s awesome.”

CYCLONE

necessarily but, as artists, we’re trying to show people that we’ve grown, our tastes have developed, though we’re still about hardcore hip hop.”

Hedditch continues, “The fact that people are still tripping about The Vortex – thank you, but I can’t wait for you to hear the new stuff because I am so much more happier with it. It’s a step-up in production, Nick as an engineer is amazing, the cuts we’ve picked and the lyrics… It’s such a more mature record. I’m still definitely doing the classic battle rap lyricism stuff, but I’m touching on some new subjects too. For the people that loved The Vortex, I’m so excited for them to hear this and I can’t wait for the new single to come out. Someone commented the new stuff sounds a bit darker, but that’s not intentional – it’s just what you get as you have more life experiences along the way, especially as you get to know this industry and try to get through it as an independent artist.”

At this point in their music career, Dialect & Despair have firmly established a reputation based on intense passion for hip hop and undeniable talent, just as much as dedication and good ol’ fashioned hard work… The end result? Well, it’s Self Evident.

“Since The Vortex, Nick and I have developed our friendship and partnership. It’s very different now to the first time we met. Now we’ve had experiences together like putting out music, we’ve been out on tour together, we’ve had our arguments. Now, it’s much more of a ‘union’ of the two of us creating music together. In a lot of ways that also explains why the album is called Self Evident, it’s become obvious that we’re one unit, like a ‘self’.”

Sinodinos offers, “Even our scene in Australia, compared to New York, there is so much more unity here in a weird way… Apart from having such an amazing history, in New York they’re struggling more than we are in terms of every guy is out for himself, everyone is hustling. Of course, New York is awesome, but after a while you start to miss your friends and family, you realise Adelaide is still home. New York is always going to be there anyway, the people that we connected with, they’re like family now. We just wanted to bring some of that energy and spark back to Adelaide, we just wanted some inspiration for this new album – and we got that and more.”

NINA BERTOK

VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: ACID JACKS WHAT: MOBILE DISCO 2012 IS OUT THROUGH ONELOVE WHERE: ELECTRIC CIRCUS WHEN: SAT SEP 8

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FRI OCT 5

BOY IN A BOX (Syd), KINGSWOOD (Vic) & SUN & THE SKY @ Ed Castle TODD TERRY (US) @ Garage Bar & Dining DAMIEN LEITH (Syd) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre HOWARD JONES (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh

MARTIKA (US) @ HQ HEY GERONIMO (Bris) @ Jive

FRI SEP 7 THE MEDICS (Cairns) @ Jive ALPINE (Syd), CLUBFEET & GEORGI KAY @ Governor Hindmarsh SARAH MARY CHADWICK (NZ/ Syd) @ Format

SAT SEP 8 SHANNON NOLL (NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh DREAM ON DREAMER (Vic), LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES (US), HAND OF MERCY & IN HEARTS WAKE @ Adelaide Uni Bar BLACKCHORDS (Vic) @ Jive SYDONIA (Syd) @ Enigma VOLTAIRE TWINS (WA) @ Ed Castle RENÈE GEYER (Vic) @ Norwood Live

SAT OCT 6 REGURGITATOR (QLD) & SENYAWA (Indonesia) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE AMITY AFFLICTION (Qld), THE GHOST INSIDE, ARCHITECTS & BURIED IN VERONA @ Thebarton Theatre PROGFEST: NE OBLIVISCARIS (Vic), RED PAINTINGS (Bris), QUIET CHILD, THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING and many more @ Enigma

PARKLIFE: THE PRESETS, NERO LIVE, PASSION PIT, PLAN B and many more @ Botanic Pk

TUE OCT 9 STEEL PANTHER (US) @ Thebarton Theatre JOE BONAMASSA (US) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

THU OCT 11 OH MERCY (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

RESTORATIONS (US), JAMIE HAY (Vic), GRENADIERS & WEIGHTLESS @ Enigma

FRI OCT 12

HANSON (US) @ HQ THE TOASTERS (New York) & THE RESIGNATORS (Vic) @ Enigma Bar KATCHAFIRE (NZ) @ Governor Hindmarsh PONY FACE (Vic) @ Grace Emily

WARBRINGER (US) @ Enigma THE SWELLERS (US) & ENDLESS HEIGHTS (Syd) @ Fowler’s Live BRITISH INDIA (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD (Vic) @ Ed Castle COERCE (Vic) @ Crown & Anchor

FRI SEP 14

SAT OCT 13

BARRY ADAMSON (UK) @ The Promethean EARTH (US) @ Fowler’s Live CARTEL (US) & WE ROB BANKS (Vic) @ Higher Ground SIX60 (NZ) @ Fowler’s Live EVERMORE (NZ/Aus) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SETH SENTRY (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live DAPPLED CITIES (Vic) & JAPE (Sweden) @ Adelaide Uni Bar BELLUSIRA (Vic), SQUEAKER, FOUR KINGS LOUD & THE ANGELS OF GUNG-HO @ Enigma

SAT SEP 15

SUN OCT 14

RED PAINTINGS (Bris) @ Crown & Anchor STICKY FINGERS (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

HUSKY (Syd) @ Adelaide Uni Bar

SUN SEP 16 SUBHUMANS (UK), PERDITION, VAGINORS & SUBURBAN STANDOFF @ Forresters & Squatters Arms RIVAL SCHOOLS (US) & TOY BOATS @ Enigma MATT WALKER (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf

MON SEP 17 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT (Can) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

MUMFORD & SONS (UK), EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS & WILLY MASON @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre

THU OCT 18 THE PAPER KITES (Vic), ART OF SLEEPING & BATTLESHIPS @ Fowler’s Live

FRI OCT 19 – SUN OCT 28

THE ANGELS (Syd/SA) @ Norwood Live

THU SEP 20

FRI OCT 19

TIM ROGERS (Vic) & CATHERINE BRITT (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh NEWTON FAULKNER (US) @ Fowler’s Live

FRI SEP 21 CLARE BOWDITCH (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh GREENTHIEF (Bris) @ Ed Castle REGULAR JOHN (Syd) @ Enigma

SAT SEP 22 XAVIER RUDD (Vic) @ Thebarton Theatre

TUE SEP 25 FAR EAST MOVEMENT (US) @ HQ

WED SEP 26 DEFEATER (US) @ Fowler’s Live

THU SEP 27 EIFFEL 65 & N-TRANCE @ HQ EL GAN COMBO DE PUERTO RICO (Puerto Rico) @ Thebarton Theatre SHIHAD (NZ/Vic) & MONEY FOR ROPE (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI SEP 28 – MON OCT 1 SEMAPHORE MUSIC FESTIVAL: DAVID BRIDE (Vic), CHARLES JENKINS & THE ZHIVAGOS (Vic), FRANK YAMMA and many more @ various Semaphore venues

FRI SEP 28 FRENZAL RHOMB (Vic), STOLEN YOUTH & STUFF BOX @ Adelaide Uni Bar WINTER PEOPLE (Vic) @ Rocket Bar SASKWATCH (Vic) @ Jive

SAT SEP 29 RUSSIAN CIRCLES (US) & EAGLE TWIN (US) @ Fowler’s Live FEAR FACTORY (US) @ Adelaide Uni Bar JERRICO (Vic) & CIRCLES @ Enigma EMMY BRYCE (Vic) @ La Boheme THE RUBENS (NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SUN SEP 30 JULIA STONE (Syd) @ Bird In Hand Winery (Woodside)

THU OCT 4 CANNIBAL CORPSE (US) DISENTOMB & ENTRAILS ERADICATED @ Fowler’s Live THE EASTERN (NZ) @ Wheatsheaf ROSS WILSON (Vic) @ Norwood Live

“It was epic mate!” lead vocalist and guitarist Logan Bell begins, describing the band’s last US tour. “We’re really enjoying touring at the moment, doing sold out shows at all sorts of venues, and we’ve got to play with some really big acts out of Jamaica. The Californian reggae scene is blowing up hugely as well, so it’s good

times! We’re usually always on the road by ourselves and hardly ever have support acts, so we had good fun teaming up with other bands and getting up to mischief. We’ve been going over to the US for the last seven years, going over twice a year for a few months of the year.

We’ve got a huge Filipino fan base as well, and there’s a lot of Filipinos at our shows in the States, and it’s definitely a good mix.”

As the band’s last album name, On The Road Again, suggests, Katchafire have a full-on touring schedule and do much of their writing on the road.

“Well, we don’t have any other choice, mate!” Bell chuckles. “Our touring schedule is too ridiculous, so we kind of have to do it that way! We believe that a live show is the best way to lead into that.”

Bell says they’ve even managed to work on some new material.

“We’ve already started our fifth studio

album, so it’s underway. I think we’ve got six songs started, and it’s still early days – there’s no theme or anything coming through yet, but what we’ve got already is pretty exciting.

There are five songwriters in the band now, and we’re all evolving and keeping it sharp, and it’s good times in the camp at the moment. We get to spend a month at home before we take off again and come to you guys there, so we’re looking to get into the studio and get our creative on.”

And we may even get to hear some of the material when Katchafire play here.

“I think we could definitely play a couple of the six that are down already, and play those on the fly, so it’s on the cards!” Bell concludes.

WHO: Katchafire WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Thu Sep 13

MNEMIC (Denmark) @ Enigma Bar CARMEN SMITH & DIANA ROUVAS @ Norwood Live

SAT OCT 20 BASTARDFEST 2012: FUCK… I’M DEAD (Vic), AVERSIONS CROWN (Qld), DISENTOMB (Qld) & A MURDER OF CROWS @ Fowler’s Live CARMEN SMITH & DIANA ROUVAS @ Goolwa Aquatic Club

COMING UP FRI OCT 26 – SUN OCT 28 FLEURIEU FOLK FESTIVAL: THE GO SET (Vic), SENOR CABRALES (Syd), THE STETSON FAMILY (Vic) and many more @ Willunga FRI OCT 26 SOMETHING FOR KATE (Vic) & BEN SALTER (Qld) @ Governor Hindmarsh SAT OCT 27 LAST DINOSAURS (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh SHELLAC (US) & PIKELET @ Fowler’s Live MON OCT 29 THURSTON MOORE (NY) @ Governor Hindmarsh TUE OCT 30 THE BLACK KEYS (US) & ROYAL HEADACHE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre HOT CHELLE RAE (US) & CHER LLOYD @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre BILLY BRAGG (Barking) @ Adelaide Town Hall THU NOV 1 MARK SEYMOUR (Vic) @ Norwood Live SUN NOV 4 CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh TUE NOV 6 CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh THU NOV 8 EMMYLOU HARRIS & HER RED DIRT BOYS (US) @ Thebarton Theatre MATCHBOX TWENTY (US) & INXS (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SUN NOV 11 THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh CHELSEA WOLFE (US) & HEIRS (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live MON NOV 12 THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh TUE NOV 13 GEORGE MICHAEL (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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Since the release of their last album On The Road Again back at the end of 2010, things have continued to go from strength to strength for New Zealand reggae band Katchafire.

Recently returning from another US tour, the band have crammed in some studio time in NZ before hitting our fair shores to give us another taste of their awesome reggae sounds.

MON OCT 15

BACKWATER BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL: JEFF LANG (Vic), MIA DYSON (Vic), DALLAS FRASCA (Vic) and more @ Queen’s Theatre

WED SEP 19

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Hanson Lennan

by Scott Mc

If Hanson’s global smash MMMBop feels like half a lifetime ago, for the brothers behind the hit it actually is.

Eldest sibling Isaac Hanson says the 1997 tune is a peculiar, unimaginable blip in the discography - albeit one that went to number one in 27 countries and assisted their major label debut Middle Of Nowhere sell 10 million copies.

“I would never have known that MMMBop would have the success it would have,” Hanson admits from the band’s Tulsa studio.

“MMMBop was a unique scenario for us – it would have been a unique situation for any band. To have a song successful around the world is a unique thing and we do not take that for granted by any means.”

Although they’ve been absent from the Aussie charts for a decade, Hanson have been far from idle. As well as touring eighth

studio album Shout It Out, the band made a high profile appearance in Katy Perry’s 2011 Last Friday Night (TGIF) music video as the backyard party band.

“We were there for a whole day – we showed up around 11 in the morning and were there until after midnight. It was a lot of fun, we had a great time and Katy was very friendly. We found ourselves literally being the band, so we really weren’t faking anything. We were up there and they brought some electricity over so that between takes we were actually able to plug in and play for people. We were just jamming and doing our own rendition of Last Friday Night live, which was interesting.”

There’s a jarring undertone to Perry’s video, with the implication being the nerdy teen protagonist only learns how to enjoy herself when she gets her boobs out, drinks underage and – possibly – has sex with guys. Since Hanson have always publicly held clean-cut Christian values, how did the storyline sit with them?

“I don’t have any issue with the video,” Hanson laughs. “I don’t know what to say

beyond the fact we don’t have boobs, so we don’t get to show them off in our videos.”

Despite being millionaires since their teens, Hanson suggests the brothers have always been careful with their money.

“I have never been an extravagant spender – I’ve got the same car as I had when I was 18 years old and it’s not even a fancy car. It’s incredibly cool to have a nice house and a decent car – those are incredible privileges to have – but beyond that we’ve just reinvested in ourselves and bought instruments, amplifiers and recording gear.

“My one weakness is Peterson tobacco pipes,” he admits. “They’re really nice. I’m a little bit of a bourbon, whisky and pipe guy.

I have been for a long time – it’s my inner grandfather coming out.”

WHO: Hanson WHAT: Shout It Out (3GC) WHERE: HQ WHEN: Thu Sep 13

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Thursday 6th ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) AUSTRAL – Bunka: F*** Me It’s Thursday with DJs BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVAN HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy & Margie (8.30pm) CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Ellis Demon and The Systemaddicts. Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – Steve Simon Potocnik DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJ Gumshoe EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – poker night (9.30pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke heat and karaoke chance presented by MJay (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Tom West Band FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – Stanislav, Rusty Chains, Lord Stompy, Wendy Torbet and Gorilla Porn GASLIGHT TAVERN – Front Bar: Groove Thursdays with Leo’s Lucky Dip Band GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Billy Bob & Snooks (7pm) GOLDEN GROVE TAVERN – Dino Jag Trio (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Howard Jones – The Human’s Lib and Dream Into Action Tour GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sarah McLeod GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – Escapades JETTY BAR – No Use For A DJ Name (8pm) LA BOHEME – French Connection with DJ Zooma (9pm) MARBLE BAR – Ladies Night with Dylan Sanders, VIP, Rupheo, Mike Wills, Ben Earle and Acid Please!

MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) NORTHERN SOUND SYSTEM – Mega Sonic underage dance party (7pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night ORIENTAL HOTEL – Blues & Roots Night PARADISE HOTEL – Complete Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Dylan PORTLAND HOTEL – DJs Cold One and Rabbit (9.30pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango RAMSGATE HOTEL – Keith Jeffereys ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests SUPERMILD – Revenge THE CUMBERLAND – Look At You with local DJs THE ELEPHANT – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Zkye & The Guys TONSLEY HOTEL – Red House (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Friday 7th ADELAIDE UNI BAR – Telstra Road To Discovery SA Heat featuring guest host Ella Hooper and a performance by Tim Rogers (5pm)

ALMA TAVERN – Rock Out With Your C*ck Out AMBASSADORS HOTEL – Ambar Lounge: Souled Out Cocktail Sessions with DJ Jason Lee (5.30pm) ARCHER HOTEL – acoustic solos plus Jaki J (9pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Mark Usher (6pm) The Incredibles (10pm) Top Room: Viva Latino (8.30pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BACCHUS BAR – The Sheriffs (8.30pm) BARKER HOTEL – DJ Trix (9pm) BAR ON GOUGER – solo artists (5.30pm) DJ (9pm) BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ – DJ Trent Slater BEERGARDEN: BRICKWORKS – Musos Jam with the Good Ol’ Boys Band (8.30pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Fusion – The Perfect Blend karaoke and DJ (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Wild Card BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Envy North BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (8.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DJ Adam (1am) Band Room: Hydromedusa, Swamp Lung and Big Richard Insect DOG & DUCK – DTF with D Foe, Krunk, Dom P, Ryley, Kid P and MC Jon-E DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K DUBLIN HOTEL – Saba’s Friday (9pm) ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJ Denorthwood and Hemilove EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) EMU HOTEL – Rock The Boss (8pm) EXCELSIOR HOTEL – Alex Tomlin’s Mojo Magic (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Wormwood and guests

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – THE CONNIVING SLUT COUGAR BANG FEST FEATURING IRON WORZAL, THE FIX, THE FUCK MACHINE, THE TOSS, THE SCABS AND HELLBOUND & PROUD GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – Rockin’ Fridays with Heavy Load (9pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Alpine with Clubfeet and Georgi Kay GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Encarta GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Rockin’ Karaoke with Acca Dacca Mick (8pm) HEAVEN – Surreal Lounge: Funk’d Friday (10pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs Clarke & Krispy HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – Area 51 HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ DB HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs Pony Boy, Bunyip and Hands Solo (8pm)

HQ – Main Room: Optiv.

Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL – Bill Parton Trio (9.30pm) JADE MONKEY – OneDogOneBone with Stomp The Orange JIVE – The Medics, Sincerely Grizzly and I A Man LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm) LAVISH – DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – Acoustic Jam with Jelly and friends LIMBO – resident DJs Japeye, Alley Oop and She Said LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee LOUISIANA TAVERN – Dirty Harry MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs Junior, Hank and Osk (9pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Troy Harrison (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Mojo Duo ORIENTAL – live music PORT DOCK BREWERY – karaoke with Dazza PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke (10.30pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan REX HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Tush (6pm) DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs SANDBAR – DJs Cold One, Rabbit, D’Amour and Skippy SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Gumbo Ya-Ya SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke SOUTHWARK HOTEL – Don Morrison STAG – Upstairs: DJ Huddy and T-Bone with urban and dance.

Downstairs: DJ Joey C with retro SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SUPERMILD – live funk and DJs SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Pat Spins Out – A Vinyl Recollection (8pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJ V and MC Timmy Pine TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – DJ Kieran TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) TEQUILA REA – Rude Not To! playing funky beats THE COVE TAVERN – Stiff William THE CUMBERLAND – A Little Bit Different featuring local acoustics and late night DJ THE DELI: THEBARTON – Pat The Rat (7pm) THE GOODY – DJ Gex (9pm) THE GRIFFINS – DJ Seamless (7.30pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus THE KINGS BAR – Friday On Your Mind with DJs plus Gentlemen’s Record Club first Friday of the month THE LION HOTEL – The Attack (8pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Shannon Lloyd (4.45pm) Dave Freeman (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Jest (9.30pm)

UNION HOTEL – DJ Pauly ‘80s and ‘90s VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs Marek and Michael Constant plus MC Kris WAKEFIELD HOTEL – DJ Electric T and guests WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Emily Davis and special guests (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Gartlony Rats WOODCROFT TAVERN – Big Tom’s Rock ‘n’ Blues WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Terrence, Gumshoe and Ryley ZOOTZ – DJs Kym and guests

Saturday 8th ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J and The Bongo Man (10pm) Downstairs: Mark C (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Dimitra (6pm) DJ Chris James (9.30pm) AUSTRAL – Funktasm with DJs Anzac, Osyris and Batch (8pm) BACCHUS BAR – Plush (8.30pm) BAR ON GOUGER – DJs Mark & Ozzie plus guests (9pm) BENTLEY’S CLARE – DJ Rush BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – ABBA Gold BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Zepporama BROADWAY HOTEL – DJs Bocky and Jordz BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ Steve Reece CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Eleven with Pat Smith CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Ride Into The Sun, The Sunbirds, Dunes and The Amcats. Front Bar: DJ Azz from Lady Strangelove (1am) CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DOG & DUCK – The Dog with Brebsie, Robbie Spags, Harts, ONS, Lazy B, MC Jon-E and guests DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs Seamless, Juddo and Asterix EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ Orbe EMU HOTEL – Three Star General (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Hawking and guests

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The Guide // FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – APOCALYPTIC CITY FEATURING DJ DEATHSTRIKE, RAVEN BLACK NIGHT, BLACK SPEECH AND SECRET OF DECEIT

Top Girls.

Starring a power-packed female cast, Top Girls by the State Theatre Company of South Australia takes you back to the 1980s when power suits and giant shoulder pads were all the rage. Set in England during Margaret Thatcher’s reign, the story reveals the sacrifices that high-flying women had to make to reach the top.

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Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year Hamish Blake, from Australia’s favourite scallywag duo, Hamish & Andy, has survived another matureage gap year, this time travelling across Europe. The comedian chats with Rip It Up about the pair’s ill-fated trip from Europe to Africa, how his adventures differ to the usual and why he thought the world owed him another gap year. amish Blake calls in from London after completing the hosting of the live segment of the secondto-last episode of Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year with partner-in-crime Andy Lee, just two days before it was aired in Australia.

“Well we’ve already done everything and edited it, so by the time it gets to the live night it’s just a bit of ‘Hi, how’s everyone going?’ it’s not too difficult,” Blake assures.

During the conversion, Blake, in his usual manner Australian audiences have grown to love, answers questions with tangent-filled banter and plenty of LOLs. One thing Blake constantly refers back to, however, is an event fresh in his mind from the episode he just hosted, listing it as both the highlight and most stupid decision from the entire trip. The

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event – naturally – was the pair’s attempt to ride an aqua trike across the Gibraltar Strait from the bottom of Europe to the top of Africa, which can now be relived on the series’ DVD release.

“Had I known it would exceed 10 hours as a trip things may have been different,” Blake admits, “we went to Cambridge and got their opinion on it and they said, ‘Look, don’t go you probably won’t make it’. For some reason we ignored their advice, even though these guys are from Cambridge, and between Andy and I we attempted five university degrees and finished one… That’s a sell to Andy by the way – I’m glad one of us got one done.”

Getting back to the aqua trike, Blake continues with his recollection of the adventure.

“Looking back on it I wasn’t even sure if this thing would float. We bought it from China and put it together with an Allen key.

We were in the bottom of Spain and couldn’t find anywhere for breakfast. So yeah, we did feel a bit dumb putting that thing in the water in Spain, knowing the next time we set foot on land we will be in a different continent in Africa. That was a silly moment.”

Silly moments have become Hamish & Andy’s bread and butter. After the antics from their American gap year series last year, audiences expected even more outrageousness. They delivered. While there

are no official plans for a third gap year, it is not ruled out completely as they “do salute the notion of continued learning”.

For Blake though, he is simply making up for lost time after missing out on a traditional gap year.

“My first year out of school was 2000 and I lived in Sydney for a bit, worked in a skate shop and mucked around a lot. It was the Olympics in Sydney so I tried to sneak into the beach volleyball a fair bit. I went to Canada for a couple of weeks but that was about it. I feel like I was owed a gap year by the world.”

By the world, of course, Blake means his current employer, Channel Nine.

“I remember thinking at the time, ‘Channel Nine should pay for a gap year for me’. When I rang them in 2000 they weren’t interested, so I just had to bide my time.”

Blake is aware though that his Gap Year travel destinations and activities are a little out of the ordinary, so he isn’t sure if Lee and his antics should be used as an example.

“I don’t know if anyone would buy our travel guide, even though I’m blown away with what we’ve been able to see. I think a lot of people go on Contiki as a trip to learn a bit, travel a bit, have seven or eight carefree romances and get drunk a lot. Pile them on a bus and be like, ‘Guess what, guys! We’re going on a 10-hour aqua trike ride!’ and

Travel Advice With Hamish Blake Most useful item while travelling?

“The TomTom, obviously. However, you’ve got to take a TomTom from an Englishspeaking country. I’m usually the navigator and I have made the mistake a few times of firing up the TomTom and it’s all in German or French. That is, as they say, ‘le mistake’.”

Best travel destination?

“Germany cannot be underestimated for its weirdness. If you’re up for a little bit of weird, hit Germany. I wouldn’t have thought of them as having the world’s greatest sense of humour.”

they’ll probably ask for their money back.

“That has been our goal though as mature age gap year students, to go see parts of the world we wouldn’t otherwise see, get off the beaten track… into the water it turns out – that’s how far off the beaten track we were.”

WHO: Hamish & Andy WHAT: Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year DVD out through Roadshow

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AICE Israeli Film Festival 2012 Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

The AICE Israeli Film Festival continues at the Palace Nova until Sun Sep 9, with a selection of the best of Israeli cinema of the past 12 months. Diverse, complex, inspirational and turbulent, the films screening hold up a mirror to Israeli society, exploring the myriad of stories from one of the most diverse and multiracial countries in the world, so for more details check out palacecinemas.com.au.

Chinese Take-Away (M) Writer/director Sebastián Borensztein’s modest character piece might have familiar themes (unlikely friendships, confronting the past), and yet the unusual detail and lovely playing make it special, despite the lame English title (surely in Spanish ‘Un Cuento Chino’ means ‘A Chinese Yarn’ or ‘A Chinese Tall Story’?). Roberto (Ricardo Darín), a middleaged Buenos Aires hardware shopkeeper, is a grumpy, stand-offish sort whose daily routine revolves around arguing about nail deliveries, fighting off his attraction to Mari (Muriel Santa Ana) and cutting bizarre and macabre stories out of newspapers as, he believes, life is “a ball of nonsense”. When he grudgingly turns good Samaritan and tries to help Jun (Ignacio Huang), a young Chinese man looking for his

only living relative despite not speaking any Spanish, Roberto turns to others for advice, but when he discovers that the cops want to lock Jun up and the Chinese Embassy is populated with pompous fools, he finds that he must do the right thing and (gasp!) get personally involved.

Unsentimental enough to have the two main characters understand not a word the other says until about an hour in, Borensztein’s film features fine performances from Huang and Ana and yet this is really Darín’s show, with this esteemed Argentinian actor (the star of the internationally popular The Secret In Their Eyes) managing to make the potentially unlikeable Roberto very appealing indeed, as he peers at the cruel world through eyes as baggy as Jean Réno’s.

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Cinémathèque 2012 Mercury Cinema

My Destination: Unknown - Eighties Sci-Fi is at the Mercury from Thu Sep 6 until Mon Sep 17, with ET, Aliens, Akira and the underrated The Quiet Earth all screening. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Opening But Unrated Hit And Run (MA) is an action-stuffed road movie with Bradley Cooper, Kristen Bell and screenwriter/co-director Dax Shepard.

Wunderkinder (M)

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The Expendables 2 (MA)

It was a deliberate choice on the part of co-writer/director Markus Rosenmüller that his WWII drama showcase the least amount of onscreen violence and bloodshed in order that it could be viewed by kids (after all, this one is dedicated to the 1.5 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust), and yet that doesn’t diminish its overall power or compromise the sense of dread. In 1941, a pair of Jewish Ukrainian child prodigies, violinist Abrascha (Elin Kolev) and pianist Larissa (Imogen Burrell), are heralded by lovers of classical music and play at Russia’s great concert halls (and even to Stalin himself ), and when, along the way, they meet Hanna Reich (Mathilda Adamik), another violinist, they’re initially cautious but later form a strong friendship when encouraged by music teacher Irina Salmonova (Gudrun Landgrebe). When German forces invade the Soviet Union, the two Jewish families try to protect the Reichs, Hanna’s dad Max (Kai Wiesinger) dangerously attempts to save as many others as he can, and Rosenmüller expertly depicts the ‘round-up’ as if we’re watching it through a child’s perplexed eyes.

With strong playing throughout, this is truly distinguished by the performances of the wunderkinder themselves, and there’s extra realism here as Kolev is a genuine offscreen teen prodigy, played every note here himself and can act. A shame, therefore, that the final framing narrative fudges things a little, and we end on a bit of a bum note.

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Writer/director Philippe Falardeau’s film looks like it might be yet another ‘inspirational teacher’ drama (like everything from To Sir, With Love and Stand And Deliver to Dead Poets Society and Dangerous Minds), and yet this is a rather darker tale than many of those classics, and one without easy answers. When a class of fourth graders in French-speaking Montreal are traumatised by the suicide of their teacher and, it’s believed, no one will step in to take over, an Algerian immigrant named Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag, or just ‘Fellag’ here) volunteers his services and becomes the kids’ teacher, sometime psychologist and friend, although PC and school procedure complicate everything. He especially gets through to Alice (Sophie Nélisse) and Simon (Émilien Néron), despite demons of his own which, sure enough, will have some effect later on, as the dead of winter becomes steamy summer and the children try hard to move on.

Falardeau’s offering might well be called Monsieur Lazhar with the main plot primarily focusing upon Fellag’s character, a decent man trying to do the right thing in an impossible situation (actually several impossible situations), and yet this is also notable for featuring some wonderful performances by the unknown, untested child actors, with Nélisse’s Sophie heartbreaking in her quiet despair and Néron’s Simon actingout in his rage and misery, and managing some of the most raw and moving scenes of any movie this year.

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The original cast of The Expendables make a cameo alongside Chuck Norris when Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and his rabid team of mercenaries, who all believe one life is worth a hundred if there’s a pay-cheque at the end, are called on by Bruce Willis’ Church to repay him for the fallout of their last encounter. Sent to Bulgaria to retrieve something from a crashed plane, the team fall afoul of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career revival (as the succinctly named Jean Villain) and, obviously, all hell breaks loose.

The plot is much easier to follow here than in the first film, although it’s still thin and loses out to crazy fights and OTT explosions at every turn, but let’s face it: the audience isn’t there for the storyline, and a lot of exposition would be lost when half the cast speak entirely in vowels anyway.

Described by Van Damme himself as “The Avengers with more testosterone”, the Expendables films are as much a piss-take caricature of the classic films the cast are known for as they are a tribute, and the ability Stallone et al have to laugh at themselves while shooting everything in sight is both admirable and entertaining.

While some of the jokes are older than the cast and a suspension of disbelief is mandatory, Nic Cage is on board for number three, Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford are in talks and the core team are still going strong. It seems Schwarzenegger isn’t the only one who’ll be back.

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Kath And Kimderella (M), the inevitable big-screen treatment of the small-screen Oz series, features Jane Turner, Gina Riley, Magda Szubanski, Glenn Robbins and Peter Rowsthorn alongside Richard E Grant.

Your Sister’s Sister (M), writer/director Lynn Shelton’s wry dramatic/comedic character piece, stars Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass and, of course, Emily Blunt.

OzAsia On Screen Mercury Cinema

The cinematic side of OzAsia is at the Mercury from Wed Sep 12 until Sun Sep 30. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Seniors On Screen Mercury Cinema

Joseph Cedar’s Footnote (M) is this week’s SOS offering.

Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Food //

with Miranda Freeman

Email miranda@ripitup.com.au

Cooking With Dennis Leslie Executive Chef The Brasserie

Here’s one more filling recipe for the tarts before we move onto some spring savouries. This time around it’s the alwaysdelicious lemon curd.

Lemon Curd Tarts / Makes 8 Tarts Large bowl of ice water One recipe sweet short crust pastry (baked into tart shells)

Photo by Jun Pang

110gr unsalted butter (chopped) 125ml lemon juice 5 lemon zest 5 egg yolks 100g caster sugar

The Loose Caboose What’s cooler than being cool, OutKast?

A cafe inside a train station! After lengthy restoration efforts to rejuvenate and maintain the heritage-listed Bowden Train Station, the Loose Caboose, situated right on the train line, is the west end’s newest and most exciting cafe that’s already bustling at capacity on weekends. There are lots of lunch and breakfast options to choose from, but some of the meals include breakfast staples like poached eggs with sides alongside heartier feeds like chicken goujons with salsa verde dipping sauce and salad, chorizo and chicken burgers and pastrami sandwiches.

Then there’s the water system, ermagherd.

While you might not think keeping your fluids up in a cafe is something to get excited

about, one of the highlights in the cafe is definitely the fact that you can fill up water in a bath. At the front of the cafe near the entrance you’ll see a huge porcelain sink with two beer pull taps – one for sparkling and one for still – which you can use to fill up jugs. Personally I spent a good 10 minutes admiring this feature and testing the taps, much to the onlooking concern of the staff.

Head to the Loose Caboose soon if, for nothing else, to look at all the things.

Method 1. Melt the butter in a small saucepan then add lemon juice and lemon zest. Set aside.

2. Whisk egg yolks and sugar until the sugar is dissolved in a large mixing bowl.

3. Add the melted butter and lemon juice to the egg mix and whisk through.

4. Place the mixing bowl on top of simmering water and stir with a rubber spatula continuously until it thickens, about 8 minutes.

5. Cool over ice water whilst stirring continuously.

6. Strain into jars.

7.Put into short crust pastry and bake.

WHAT: The Loose Caboose WHERE: 21 First St, Hindmarsh WHEN: Mon – Sun from 7am – 4pm CONTACT: theloosecaboose.com.au

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Burger Theory Unveils Artburger Hey Jupiter Among the family of shops on Ebenezer Place a tiny, hole-in-the-wall cafe has quietly opened up within the past fortnight adjacent to Nano and Sad Cafe. It’s called Hey Jupiter.

Owned by recently relocated Melburnians Jacqui and Christoph, Hey Jupiter is a quaint little place with lush, green ferns hanging from the roof, antique mirrors adorning the walls and polished, rustic furniture. It’s the kind of place you like to be sitting in. Foodwise they’ve got a list of breakfast and lunch

options, pastries delivered from Hutt St’s Au Matin Calme bakery and a pretty slick coffee machine. On my visit I had the felafel, spinach, tzatziki and pine nut panini and a latte, and both were delicious. I will definitely be back to feast my way through the menu with a good book in tow.

WHAT: Hey Jupiter WHEN: Mon – Fri 7am – 4pm and Sat 8am – 3pm WHERE: 11 Ebenezer Place, Adelaide CONTACT: 0416 050 721

If you want Dennis to recreate your favourite dish, let him know by posting on our Facebook page facebook.com/ripitupmag

Over the next 12 weeks everyone’s favourite van food proprietors, Burger Theory, will join forces with five local artists to bring Adelaide crowds ‘Artburger’. Every two weeks a limited edition burger will be released at the Burger Theory truck alongside a limited edition, hand-screened burger-inspired art print, thanks to screen printer extraordinaire Tristan Kerr. That means over the next few months you can request a number three burger, which is unheard of! The first ‘Artburger’ dropped last week, entitled the ‘Be Friendly’ burger with chunky apple slaw, smoky chipotle mayo, American cheese and Black Pig Berkshire sugar-cured belly bacon. Good lord... well, it goes without saying we can’t wait for the next one on Wed Sep 12. For more information head to facebook.com/burgertheory.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 Changes are unexpected, they are in the very midst of relationships and there’s a good chance that they’ll be intense. The big question is whether they will be intensely bad or intensely good. Thankfully you have some say in the answer to that. Go for intensely good.

Since you are fired up, all your spark plugs are ablaze with energy and your famous passion is nearly driving you nuts, it’s best that you move with it. There’s not one single reason for holding back. You are grounded enough and smart enough to stay on track. Trust it.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 There’s no point in pushing ahead with your plans for expansion if life isn’t supporting them. Your strategy may well be right but the timing has got to be right too. It could be that this is just a minor impasse. Don’t let your hopes be dented. Wait out the storm, then move.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 Life will be adding lots of checks and balances for some time, to make sure you don’t get stuck in meaningless orthodoxy. Learn to breath in the wisdom and delights of insecurity.

They are an important part of the landscape. In the meantime, relax and tune into nature.

Leo 23.07/22.08 Your mind keeps giving you brilliant ideas you are busting your boiler to put into action. But life keeps adding a big fog to the mix. When there’s a fog, Neptune is involved. Though this frustration seems unfathomable, it’s to open you up to a bigger vision.

Slow down.

Life Cycles Life Cycles is the solo exhibition of Alexander Carletti exploring the metaphysical aspects of birth, death and spirit through mystical, anatomical, religious and occult symbolism and iconography inspired by the ‘Samsara Samadhi’, the Tibetan meaning for ‘continuous flow’. You can watch a trailer of the work in the Living Spirit video at alexcarletti.com WHAT: Greenhill Galleries WHERE: 140 Barton Tce, North Adelaide WHEN: Sat Sep 9 – Tue Oct 2 OPENING: Sat Sep 9 from 11.30am

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 Life is leaving you alone, to get on with your own devices. There is a full Moon but it’s not throwing you off track. There are odd influences and some strange circumstances but they are functioning as a creative, rather than destructive, friction. Master what you do.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 It’s a full Moon. As with every full Moon, it’s about integrating opposites. Claim that part of you which often lives in the shadows.

It’s poetic, anything but organised and completely lacks pragmatism.

Give your habitual self-conception a break. Be broad. Be vast.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 The Moon is as full as a boot and it’s in Pisces. If you aren’t out there dancing around the maypole then there’s something wrong.

Celebration is the flavour of this moment. Whatever is there, whatever is going on – celebrate it. Yours is a crazy, wise, beautiful movie.

Urban Cow Studio

JamFactory

11 Frome St, Adelaide Long Distance Phone Call Thu Sep 6 – Sat Sep 29

19 Morphett St, Adelaide Hyperclay: Contemporary Ceramics Fri Sep 7 – Sat Oct 20

Emerging visual artist Holly Kraehe uses interactive installations to portray the balance between natural and artificial means of communication. Her latest exhibition Long Distance Phone Call aims to “make invisible lines of contact visible and the untouchable touchable”, inspired

by Kraehe gifting a long-term friend who departed for America with a tin telephone.

Hyperclay investigates contemporary ceramics in the 21st century. Featuring Walter Auer, Roderick Bamford, Stephen Bird, Jacqueline Clayton, Andrea Hylands, Addison Marshall, Pip McManus and Paul Wood, the works will be displayed alongside a collection of 35 short videos including interviews with the artists, scholars and JamFactory teachers.

ASIAN ART AFTER DARK Friday 14 September, 6 – 9.30 pm Indulge your senses in the art, music and food of Asia. s

Exclusive after-hours access to the Art Gallery’s OzAsia Festival displays

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Talk by special guest Lee Lin Chin (SBS TV)

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Balinese dancer Putu Suta

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Adelaide’s Sekar Laras 12 piece gamelan group

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Indonesian food stalls

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DJ Henri (WOMADelaide Club, Adelaide Festival’s Barrio)

$35 | $30 DEPARTURE and Festival Centre GreenRoom Members Ticket includes a complimentary drink on arrival, entertainment and Art Gallery admission Book now at BASS on 131 246 or www.bass.net.au Installation view: Teeth of the rice plant, featuring the embroideries of Eko Nugroho

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with Miranda Freeman

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

Cancer 22.06/22.07 Venus is filling you with the promise of delight – but Saturn is putting the brakes on her. You are being asked to add plenty of wisdom to your loving. It’s not enough to feed on honey – you must add some fruit and vegetables. Don’t rush it. Start simply – with friendliness.

Email miranda@ripitup.com.au

The universe of the heart is healthy when there’s no clinging, no attachment. The moment we try to possess what we love, we take the life out of it – or them. We also drift from our own capacity to feel. Life is insisting on an expansive, deeper version of love. Go with it.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 You want to fly and life insists on keeping you grounded and acutely sensitive. This could be a formula for frustration if you let it. Don’t you let it! Take all the cues and hints that are offered, without resisting or reacting. Be sensitive. Be grounded.

See where it leads.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05 It’s a good time to be mellow and grounded. Mellow and grounded is one of your favourite states. Take it as deep as you know how. The door is open here to feeling sensitive places on the inside that are as sweet as honey. If you get prickly or defensive, drop it in an instant.

with Sudhir

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with Lachie Aird

The Loft Upstairs Hidden away on the balcony level of Adelaide Arcade, The Loft Upstairs offers a sanctuary for pre-loved and vintage fashion in the heart of the city. The fashion represented spans almost every era you can think of and every colour, texture and style you can think of, so if you find yourself at a loss for something to truly make a statement, be sure to check this place out. Having recently participated in the SALA Festival to showcase vintage fabrics and already making a presence at vintage fairs around town, The Loft Upstairs should be on your radar for an authentic retreat into the past.

The Loft Upstairs is located at Shop 123, First Floor, Adelaide Arcade. theloftupstairs.com

UpLofting Looks Proving that outfits selected from vintage and pre-loved fashion aren’t just for crazy cat ladies, this look at The Loft Upstairs’ recent photoshoot depicts how effortlessly you can breathe new life into old clothes.

If you like what you see here, make sure you check out The Loft Upstairs for more treasures like these ones to complete your look.

RatBags Ever heard how the supermarket is one of the best places to pick up? Yep. It is. And the local thinkers at RatBags have done all the hard work for you. By leisurely carrying around these social media-inspired cheeky shopping companions, you’ll be able to hone in on a victim, or alert a predator, much more efficiently. Whether you like boys, girls, both or just want a comment, RatBags calico bags offer the perfect platform to cut out the small talk and start sealing the deal (hence the KY Jelly and champagne in the bags). Or, for your entertainment, carry the ‘Likes Boys’ bag one day, and the ‘Likes Girls’ the next.

Road-testing these bad boys through the Central Market was an absolute joy. Oh, and they’re environmentally friendly and you’ll help save the world. That too.

The RatBags range cost $7 each and are available from ratbags.com.au.

Store Vox Pop Aisia from The Loft Upstairs Favourite brand: French Kitty.

Personal style in one word: Can’t pick one – but I love pinstripes, polka-dots and frilly things!

Wouldn’t be caught dead without: A book.

Must-have item for the season: Thermals.

Best fashion tip: Match colours to your emotions.

Fashion faux-pas: Jeggings!

I see fashion as: Art you can wear.

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Culture

DVD Reviews

Win Competitions

Hardware Wars: Wish You Were Here Big Easy Express 30th Anniversary Special Edition DVD Australian actor Kieran Darcy-Smith Ever had the strong urge to poke your beak Hopscotch / MA / 90 Mins

Woodshed Films / M / 67 mins

turns co-writer/director with this dark, chronologically askew psychodrama which features four fine lead performances, although many out there won’t be seeing them that way, as the flawed people these actors are portraying frequently prove irritatingly real and really irritating. A chummy quartet that includes Dave ( Joel Edgerton), his wife Alice (co-writer Felicity Price), Alice’s sister Steph (Teresa Palmer) and Steph’s boyfriend Jeremy (Antony Starr) share a South East Asian holiday, glimpsed in the sunny opening scene and then, with varying degrees of revelation, in flashbacks thereafter, but only three return to Sydney after Jeremy’s disappearance. The plot then focuses upon Dave and Alice, who puzzle over the mystery, and Steph later joins them after a fruitless search in Cambodia, inflaming the situation and prompting scary questions as Dave, in particular, starts feeling that his life and his family might be in danger.

Director Darcy-Smith offers a paranoid, off-kilter view of Sydney rarely attempted in modern Aussie cinema. There are many rich themes here, but this primarily plays like an Ocker variation on Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, as it turns into a study of the fragile nature of ‘The Truth’ that keeps pulling the rug from beneath you.

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behind the tour curtain of your favourite band? Assuming your favourite bands are Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show then you’re in luck. Climb aboard the Big Easy Express for a miraculous journey across the plains of the United States. As this old school tour train ventures from California to New Orleans, share the good vibes with these musician folk, where both beers and jam sessions never stop. Expertly shot, Emmet Malloy takes a different approach as he documents these cats on their adventures.

Take a gander at some of the special features on this bad boy: catch an interview with the director Emmet Malloy or become engrossed in his stunning world of photography with the photo gallery. You even receive joyous little postcards from their time on the road - lovely.

Highlights include seeing how much of a space-cadet Alexander Ebert, lead singer of Edward Shape & The Magnetic Zeros, is. His childlike energy and spontaneity of character will keep you captivated for hours on end.

This gorgeous little film will make you want to pack your bags and run away with crazy tour folk – and possibly never return again.

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Shock / PG / 63 Mins

Possibly the most profitable short ever, Ernie Fosselius’ 13-minuter from 1978 was the original Star Wars parody and, despite its ludicrously lo-fi look, is funnier than anything in the ghastly prequels. An extended ad for an imaginary movie (therefore predating such faux-trailers as Italian Spiderman and those in Grindhouse), this has Paul Frees narrating the story of Fluke Starbucker, who travels with Augie ‘Ben’ Doggie (of the Red Eye Knights) and droids 4-Q-2 (looking like the Tin Man from The Wizard Of Oz with sunglasses) and Artie Deco (played by a vacuum cleaner), via a ‘70s dune-buggy, to help save Princess Anne-Droid (who has bagels in her hair) from a Darth Vader imitation (wearing a welding mask), along the way hooking up with Ham Salad and Chew-Chilla, a Cookie Monster-wannabe with Fosselius’ hand up its arse. With toasters, egg-whisks and other appliances filling in for spaceships, and with the fishing-line holding them up proudly unconcealed, it’s awfully silly and sloppily-made but good-natured stuff worth a watch for those who think that SW jokes only began in the age of computers. And maybe search for the same filmmaker’s Porklips Now, which certainly has more laughs than Apocalypse Now. MDB

David Shrigley / Allen & Unwin / $35

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The Essential David Shrigley

British mixed-media graphic artist Shrigley’s work is highlypraised (by figures including author Will Self, who offers the rather gas-bagging introduction here), but it’s hard to see why, as this jumbo collection of his work, including photographic pieces, paintings and lots of crude drawings (many complete with possibly deliberate errors, like the book’s cover), is nastily cynical and ugly in tone. ‘Money’ and ‘Reason’ are the qualities lacking in most lives; a stuffed cat holds up a sign saying ‘I’m Dead’ (and later another has seemingly had its head removed); love, art, beauty and, yes indeed, women are mercilessly mocked; all matters sexual are a major source of grim humour (especially weird, pointy-looking penises); and a Beatrix Potter-like blue squirrel named Timmy is revealed to have rogered a number of pigeons, one of whom is named ‘Little Miss TurdEater’.

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Resident Evil: Retribution The wildly successful film franchise adaptation Resident Evil, returns in its highly anticipated fifth instalment, Resident Evil: Retribution in state-of-the-art 3D. We have 10 double in-season passes up for grabs so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Sep 13.

Fresh Meat A group of six students - public school boy JP, charming and crushingly insecure Kingsley, Josie who’s seeking new experiences, socially-awkward Howard, hard-living Vod and desperate to be cool Oregon – are about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university! Away from home for the first time, on the brink of adult life, they are about to discover who they really are. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of Fresh Meat on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Sep 13.

See! Stage

ARIA winner Holly Throsby, one third of Seeker Lover Keeper with Sally Seltmann and Sarah Blasko, released an album for kids, See!, a while back but it’s only in recent times that she has toured it.

The Tony Dupe-produced album featured guests such as Darren Hanlon, J Walker and Jack Ladder along with Throsby’s mum, ABC FM presenter Margaret Throsby.

The younger Throsby is now heading to Adelaide with a band, The Hello Tigers, to present songs from See! as part of Adelaide Festival Centre’s popular Something On Saturdays childrens’ program.

“I never thought I’d tour See!,” Throsby says, “because it was never the plan to do any live shows. I thought it would all be too daunting. But earlier this year I was asked to do it at the Sydney Festival and then in Melbourne, Darwin and Brisbane for other festivals.

“And now I’ve been invited to play in Adelaide and it’s something I couldn’t knock back because it’s really hard to tour an album for kids. And it’s been really lovely and a lot of fun. It’s really heart-warming because playing to kids is like playing to a microcosm of society in miniature form.

“There are some kids who just sit there and others who want to dance around and others want to really interact. And we end up getting a mosh pit of toddlers in the middle of the room which is just adorable.”

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animal protection institute Voiceless, says the idea for an album for children came about when, as a godmother, she was subjected to a few such albums.

“I thought a lot of them were very patronising,” she sighs. “And they can drive you nuts. And the music is often so dumbeddown. It’s like, ‘Here’s a punk song, now here’s a country song and here’s a rock song’, but they all sound like Muzak.

“But kids are so much smarter than that, so I felt I wanted to make something that kids would like and that parents wouldn’t find too irritating,” Throsby announces before adding that she found much inspiration for See! in Harry Nillson’s The Point, his soundtrack for a fantasy film for children.

“I heard a lot of classical music as a kid, but in adult life what charmed me in every way

was The Point because of the production. I loved all the sound effects and the fact that it was a kids’ fantasy for grown ups.”

Throsby has no immediate plans but has definite intentions of recording another album for children in the future. She is also in the midst of penning new songs for another album although she’s unsure if there will be another Lover Seeker Keeper offering.

“I’m having dinner with Sarah and Sally tonight so I’m sure the subject will come up,” she concludes with a laugh.

WHAT: Holly Throsby’s See! WHERE: Banquet Room, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Sat Sep 8 at 11am and 1pm

Your guide to the student experience.

While writing Fast Times this week I was pretty chuffed to see a great mix of institutions putting on different events for students to participate in. While I can’t say I often run around Adelaide Uni (even when ridiculously late for class), I think it’s awesome that spirited contests such as the Vice-Chancellor’s Cup are alive and well on campus. And then there’s Carclew, offering more money to aspiring artists again, AC Arts putting on Little Shop Of Horrors that showcases the entire facility’s talents and UniSA showing off their students’ film-making prowess with a free film festival. The thing I enjoy most about all these different things is that they aren’t necessarily moneymaking ventures for the institutions, but rather a way to promote what the students at their uni, TAFE or education institution can accomplish to the wider audiences. It’s definitely a warming feeling. I love my job.

And remember, if you have any student info, an upcoming campus event, any deals I should know about, email fasttimes@ripitupcom.au, poke facebook.com/fasttimesripitupmag or follow @FastTimesRIU and I’ll spread the word.

Peace, Lachie.

Hey! s are in a flurry AC Arts students flurry perfecting their latest major performance, Little Shop Of Horrors. Fast Times caught up with one of the students working on different areas of the production to get a preview of what we might expect from the production.

Carclew Project & Development Grants Like that classic episode of The Simpsons where Grandpa Simpson listens to the townspeople to see who deserves his bequeathed fortune, Carclew are open to hearing about why you deserve a share in $50,000 in project and development grants. The grants are open to all young artists aged 26 and under who plan to use the money to create a tangible outcome to help pursue their career and development opportunities. Whatever your creative poison – dance, film, video, music, creative writing, theatre, visual art or a combination of the

Vice-Chancellor’s Cup think it would be more interesting if it was for extra funding. Be sure you make it to the Barr Smith Lawns at 1.15pm this Friday to cheer for your team and hiss at your enemies. And considering the reigning champions are from the Faculty Of Engineering, Computer & Mathematical Sciences, I suppose anything’s possible. Bet Lindsay wishes she stuck with the Mathletes now…

Jessica Heuch

above – a project and development grant could help you pay for overseas study, tuition or materials to get started on projects occurring from Tue Jan 1 until Sun Jun 30, 2013. For many young aspiring artists, it’s not the talent that’s in short supply, but the cash. Don’t waste this chance to get it while you can!

Applications for Carclew’s project and development grants close 5pm on Sat Sep 15. For more information, application forms and guidelines visit carclew.com.au.

NT E D U T S OF L A E D EEK W E TH

If you thought that academic scores and career success were the only way to judge which division of a university performs the best, then you are simply unAustralian. Of course, sporting prowess has a major part to do with it. The Vice-Chancellor’s Cup sees a battle between the five faculties and University Services & Resources division of the University Of Adelaide by running a relay race around the university grounds. One male and female staff member and student from each faculty run 800m around the campus to vie for glory – but I

with Lachlan Aird

The student lifestyle is largely impoverished and opportunistic.

Getting something for less than others is - in my view - a basic human right. As a key believer in defending human rights, I have found these student deals to help sustain life while also sustaining the bank balance.

Costume Designer I study... A diploma of Costume For Performance at Adelaide College Of The Arts.

But in my spare time I... Love to read and plan overseas holidays that I can’t actually afford to go on.

My dream job is... To be part of the touring wardrobe crew for a Cirque Du Soleil show, or to work on a big Broadway musical.

My role in Little Shop Of Horrors is...

Wardrobe Supervisor.

The best part about what I do is... Taking a drawing of someone’s ideas and turning it into a reality. Having a designer say “That looks just how I imagined it” is one of the most satisfying things.

The most challenging thing I have encountered so far is... Working within a strict budget. There’s always one little thing that you forget to allow money for.

People who come to see Little Shop Of Horrors can expect... To be thoroughly entertained and to want to come back and see it again and again!

When the show closes I am going to...

Probably have all the songs from the show stuck in my head for days afterwards!

WHAT: Little Shop Of Horrors WHEN: Wed Sep 5 – Sat Sep 15 WHERE: AC Arts TICKETS: $20 adults, $10 concession through VenueTix

WHAT: The Vice-Chancellor’s Cup WHERE: Barr Smith Lawns WHEN: 1.15pm, Fri Sep 7

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No, not quite that Twilight. This one is less gag-worthy and has many pleasing aspects that make for an excellent free night for students. Firstly, by having an outdoor film festival, it must mean that spring is here and the cruelty of winter is over for another year. Secondly, there’s the promise of free food and popcorn is delicious. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly (depending on how much you like warm weather and popcorn), the night will showcase a selection of short films from gifted Adelaide students. UniSA Media Arts students and some high school students will present their work on the night. For the competitors, the best news is that they will be up for some major prizes, including

PhotoCo Camera House vouchers, MRC memberships, Mercury Cinema passes, equipment hire and $3000 worth of cash in the UniSA Filmmaker and Aspiring Filmmaker Award categories. So grab some popcorn, grab a blanket and cheer on spring (and some aspiring filmmakers, of course).

WHAT: UniSA Magill@Twilight Short Film Festival WHERE: In front of the Amy Wheaton building, UniSA Magill Campus WHEN: 6.30pm-8pm, Wed Sep 12 Entry and food is free.

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Culture

CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

Scottie’s Singles

New War

Listen Now:

New War (Sensory Projects)

Muse Madness (Warner)

In 1987 Goldie Hawn starred in some ridiculously over-the-top bunch of hooey called Overboard, where a smack on the head leaves her spoilt and deliriously rich character thinking she’s somebody else completely. Perhaps Goldie’s cashed-up son-in-law Matt Bellamy has also developed an odd bout of amnesia, since Madness finds him thinking he’s Freddie Mercury writing Zooropa. The first official single from The 2nd Law has been as effective as the Versailles Treaty in causing division. With its wonky I Want To Break Free guitar solo, farty digital doddering and the finale’s dubious guide vocals aping Bono at his most operatically portentous, online haters have been quick to launch vitriol like warm bottles of piss. Get off your high horses, you silly Knights Of Sardonia; there’s something deliriously cosy about these Devon hams going as mental as anything after Mercury poisoning.

Vorsprung durch schnauzbart.

Listen Later:

Taylor Swift

Japandroids Celebration Rock (Inertia)

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (UMA)

After writing third album Speak Now entirely solo, Swifty has made the interesting move of hooking up with her pal Katy Perry’s songwriting sidekick Max Martin for the first single off October’s fourth album Red, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. Like a naked porn star on all fours, it’s hard to know how to take it.

T-Swizzle has achieved the impossible in the past, but now it’s for all the wrong reasons: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together manages the aggravating combo of being simultaneously dumbed down and smart-arse. Martin’s got a chest full of pop medals, but all he’s managed here is splicing the teen sneer of Avril Lavigne’s Complicated with the slipping beats of Hot Chelle Rae’s I Like It Like That. Swift’s summer romance with Conor Kennedy might see her end up as part of the Kennedy clan, but like Uncle Jack she’s lost her head with this hit.

Carrie Underwood Blown Away (Sony)

Have you heard the awesome storm that southern star Carrie’s brewed up here, Ms Swift?

In case you’ve forgotten, this is what passes as quality country pop. That’s the way I loved you.

Julia Stone Justine (EMI)

‘Justine rings like a bell through the night and wouldn’t you love to love her…’

Nah, sorry Jules – it just doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, no matter how many flowing Stevie Nicks skirts you filter this west coast production through. Fleetwood Malk?

Die Antwoord Xpensive Shit (UMA)

Dollar balls, y’all.

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Canadian duo Japandroids will win plenty of hearts and minds with Celebration Rock, the follow-up album to 2009’s debut Post Nothing. Fans who have been following this hot prospect must be rubbing their hands together, because it seems like they’re picking straight up

from where they left off.

What works well for Celebration Rock is the fact that it was recorded live to tape, which unleashes a certain raw energy and a whole new level of excitement.

The album starts off in rocking fashion with the single The House That Heaven Built, with the band creating an almighty ruckus. The riffs in Evil’s Sway are choice and the rockabilly vibe of For The Love Of Ivy gets two thumbs up. Eight tracks is all that’s on offer on the standard release of Celebration Rock, but it gives those who are curious a real taste of Japandroids’ chops, especially considering the quality of Continuous Thunder and The Night Of Wine And Roses. The Australian release contains an extra seven tracks, including covers such as Sex And Dying In High Society by American punk band X, Shame

by PJ Harvey and Jack The Ripper by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. This additional haul makes for one hell of a listening experience.

This is one of those albums that will leave you saying, ‘Fuck! That was good!’

We can only hope that these guys appear on the bill for Laneway Festival in 2013.

Rob Lyon

If every album released this year was as brutal as New War’s self-titled debut, we could probably start to believe those end of the world rumours. Any pre-conceptions about this album should come with a warning – expect the unexpected. That said, having Lindsay Gravina on production duties (someone who has worked with the likes of Rowland S Howard and HTRK in recent times, to name but a few), may be indicative as to the path New War follows.

Using those bands as a template, New War take the darkest elements of their predecessors and make them their own.

The sound is droning, but never negating.

Chris Pugmire’s lyrics convey the sound of a disconnected lover; their over-thetop metaphors and relationships perfectly reflect humanity’s instinct to over-think situations of love and loss. Ghostwalking’s questioning reveals a new aspect of humans, bees and the ocean. In contrast, there are some quite scathing lyrical takes on Krautrock number Slim Dandy and eight-minute album closer Josef ’s Hands.

New War documents Pugmire’s constant yearning for something better, whether that be a deeper vocal, a darker lyric or more dramatic atmospheres. New War have made it clear that they don’t rely on repetition, but rather unsettling, yet admirable, walls of sound. Now let’s hope they don’t invoke the zombies.

Sam Reynolds

Slash Live Review

Thebarton Theatre, Tue Aug 28 Review by Scott McLennan Pics by Andreas Heuer

Iconic LA guitarist Slash might keep his performances gimmick-free, but he knows a thing or two about branding. Not only does the buff 47-yearold arrive on-stage donning the patent leather top hat, the headwear imagery extends to the cartoon design on his black singlet and the shapely silver silhouettes embossed on his Marshall stacks. Slash also values his audience enough to give them a taste of his past, although the Guns N’ Roses discography recap ends at four Appetite For Destruction crackers.

The respect for the past is balanced by Slash’s obvious enthusiasm for his new album, Apocalyptic Love. The new disc’s Halo kicks off proceedings like the Inspector Gadget theme raised on punk and Led Zeppelin, while the classical backbone of Anastasia is a highpoint later in the show.

Performing under a giant canvas version of the album’s cover (featuring buxom Coop-style maidens oozing all the sexual subtleties of a Whitesnake album sleeve), the bass drum’s inscription reads like a rock’n’roll eye chart; Slash is written in large white letters and vocalist mate Myles Kennedy’s name is etched in smaller letters below, while backing band The Conspirators make do with the retina-straining final tier.

If Slash’s fretwork across the highest notes of his E string weren’t jaw-dropping enough, Kennedy’s vocal shape-shifting remains astounding. Not only

Reviews // Quick Ones

Patti Smith Anti-Flag

Jaill

Hudson Arc

The General Strike

Traps

In An Ocean of Sacrifice

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(Hazy Cosmic Jive)

The General Strike’s blistering 20-second opening blast Controlled Opposition shows that Pittsburgh punks Anti-Flag continue to distance themselves from the expansive rock anthems that they flirted with on their final major label release, 2008’s The Bright Lights of America. The remainder of this new studio album (their ninth) isn’t quite as full throttle (although the thrashy Bullshit Opportunist and Resist come close), but it’s still clear that there’s no longer any room in their sound for experimentation with orchestral bells or any other extracurricular instruments.

However, neither is their second album on SideOneDummy a return to their roots: these 12 tracks are all strident, impassioned and overtly political, but largely lack the immediate hooks of their early work. One notable exception is the infectious The Ranks Of The Masses Rising, but for most of the album their punk is among the most frenzied they’ve ever laid to tape. That said, there is just enough melody to keep listeners coming back for more – although the four-piece can’t be accused of sugar-coating their bitter leftist lyrical diatribes with poppy choruses this time around. The General Strike finds AntiFlag striking a blow, not striking out.

Owen Heitmann

I had the pleasure of seeing Jaill play live when I was living in the United States. The Milwaukee band’s songs were catchy, fun and easy to dance to, which is really saying something if you’ve ever seen me dance.

My hips gyrate like I’m trying to hump my own thigh. Seriously, it’s gross.

Despite genuinely enjoying their tunes, Jaill kind of disappeared from my radar.

I don’t own any of their albums and not a single one of their songs resides in my iTunes. Because of this, I wasn’t expecting much when I saw Jaill’s latest album, Traps, sitting in my cubbyhole at Rip It Up. To my surprise, even though my friends were absent and I wasn’t completely inebriated, Traps is a pretty good record.

It’s got this surfy-desperado vibe going for it… sort of like it could be the soundtrack for a reimagining of some spaghetti western film. Instead of sporting a duster jacket and double-fisting revolvers, the outlaw Josey Wales could sport a leather motorcycle jacket and wear black hornrimmed glasses.

Ryan Lynch

can he move in a clean and controlled manner from rough gravel pit notes up to ultrasonic pitches that have bats falling from the sky, it never devolves into karaoke lithographs of Axl Rose, Scott Weiland or whichever former Slash acquaintance originally helmed the tune. Kennedy’s skill is reinforced when bassist Todd Kerns takes lead vocals on paintpeeling versions of You’re Crazy and Doctor Alibi – they’re serviceable renditions, but lack Kennedy’s magnetism.

“I can’t hear you Adelaide!” Kennedy shouts at one stage, but I’m damn sure he can smell us. There’s a noxious whiff to the crowd – perhaps it’s down to the leather jackets and Appetite For Destruction T-shirts resurrected from a musty drawer, perhaps it’s bourbon’s muscle relaxant effects on 45-year-old colons. Not quite packing the same danger as a 1986 Gunners gig at the Roxy, then.

Just as an elongated musical interlude that resembles Gary Moore fronting Pink Floyd risks turning into an indulgent soundtrack for Top Gun II, the gig’s pulled back from a chasm of boredom via Sweet Child O’ Mine. Three decades ago it was a glimpse into Axl Rose’s fragile psyche, now it’s become a surreal, arm-waving moment. You’re A Lie, Velvet Revolver’s Fall To Pieces and the party-popping punch of Paradise City wrap up the night, with Slash adding backing vocals to his rock standard finale.

“Had a great time tonight,” Slash tweets after the show. “Thebarton Theater (sic) has that real personal, intimate type of vibe. Love it when there is that connection.”

Don’t we all, Mr Hudson, don’t we all.

I think I’d like to marry a pirate, for a year or two, just to see what it’s like. Now just when you think yet another standard album of caramelised folk has tickled your ear holes, midway through Hudson Arc’s first track, Prologue, the sound erupts into a battle of the Pirates Of The Caribbean. I just wanna poke and prod my silver sword around, shoot down a few Wendy Birds and go on a swashbuckling hunt with The Lost Boys.

It appears as though Hudson Arc have prepared the perfect soundtrack for Peter Pan and Tiger Lily’s wedding, like a pirate ballroom. The vocals have a very distinct punk feel, but being placed against hectic banjo and fingerpicked guitar riffs allows the sounds to somehow complement one another. Then, just as you think you’ve understood the workings of their sound, these bizarre moments of didgeridoo and electronic business get thrown into the mix, just to shake it up a bit. Even more bizarre is the fact that this actually works!

These kids have created an entirely new genre on their own – let’s call it Pirate Punk Folk – which takes your standard folk and goes all pirate on its arse. Shiver me timbers.

Sharni Honor

Banga (Sony/Columbia)

I know that Patti Smith is a musical icon and this symbol of the modern artist, but the more I listen to her 11th album, Banga, the more disinterested I become. There are striking poetic moments but they’re little sparkles teasing at a greater reward which, sadly, never comes.

I know some readers will scowl at my intolerance, ravenously calling for my head due to my blasphemous remarks about such a pillar of popular music. With songs lamenting the death of Amy Winehouse and being chummy with Johnny Depp, Banga is trite and often boring.

I’ll admit that it takes talent to write an entire song about Amerigo Vespucci (the guy from whom America gets its name), but it doesn’t guarantee that a song about a sailor from 1497 will be any good. Smith has forgotten that just because something can be done, doesn’t always mean that it should be done.

Ryan Lynch

2:54 2:54 (Fiction)

UK sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow taught themselves how to play the guitar when they were teenagers. They’ve since recorded a bunch of songs under a name that may or may not mean anything.

Maybe 2:54 was the exact time that they decided coming up with a proper band name was too hard and just said, “Fuck it”.

After a flurry of praise for their Scarlet EP, the Thurlow sisters’ self-titled debut is brooding, dark, dreamy, haunting. These are the words I am using to describe this album because writing music reviews is hard. Fuck it.

Ryan Lynch

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No Through Road At Ocean Graves

It seems those kids in The Shaolin Afronauts and The Transatlantics can never quite put down their instruments, as they’re at it again with another musical venture called Hurricanes. This time headlined by vocalist Tara Lynch, the classicallytrained musicians have traded complex arrangements for something a little more stripped-back. Rip It Up speaks to the songstress about what we can expect in the future from Hurricanes.

Tell us a bit about the Oh Hurricanes EP. “I guess it’s the aural beginning of a new project which features five of my long-time collaborators and dear friends! It is a step in a completely different direction to The Transatlantics, so it’s pretty exciting for me.”

Your Transatlantics bandmate Ross McHenry produced this record. Is it a really natural process for you two to work musically together nowadays?

“It’s a very natural process to work with Ross because he has a very intrinsic sense of sound and is a really musical person. Having worked with him for nearly a decade now, he has a very strong sense of my voice and I think as a producer he brings the best of that out in the studio. I guess that is the role of the producer! Working with a community of musicians who are also old friends, we not only know each other as people but we also know each other’s strengths as musicians.

The process seems easier to me because we know each other musically. I guess that’s why I often choose to work with people involved in this collective of musicians, we just get each other and, also, it’s just fun to hang out in the

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Peter Combe Quirky Berserky (The Turkey From Turkey) (MGM)

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studio!”

The musical arrangements seem to be a lot simpler this time. For example, Hard To Tell has just one guitar riff leading the way and is later fleshed out with bass and drums. How was it recording this time around without six or more musicians?

“The music is in a way simpler in arrangement and definitely in orchestration to music I have been involved in the past.

The focus is much more upon the narrative or the sentiment of the song rather than bold sounds. I think there is something really intriguing about restraint within music. So in terms of the arrangements, Ross and I have tried to be subtle and considered rather than bold. Stylistically, this makes more sense. Getting into the studio with six musicians as opposed to 10 (as with The Transatlantics), obviously the main difference is logistics. It’s simply easier to pull less people together. In regard to the actual recording process, it’s a bit different as there was more of a focus on layering sounds rather than playing full takes all together in the same room. Having a commitment to that warm analogue sound, we still recorded to tape but just took more time to layer guitars, synthesisers and vocals.”

How did you enjoy being at the reins of the musical arrangements this time?

“It doesn’t really feel very different because of the fact that I’m working with musicians that I have worked with for such a long time.

I guess there is a little more pressure to make things happen because it’s primarily my focus, but as I said before, I work within a very supportive and collaborative collective of musical people so I don’t necessarily feel like I’m ‘at the reins’. It kind of just feels like a new musical journey that I get to share with a group of really great people!”

You also seem to have a really different vocal style in Hurricanes as opposed

He’s enjoyed singing food-related songs such as Toffee Apple, Spaghetti Bolognaise and Chops And Sausages, but in previous Rip It Up interviews it’s seemed Peter Combe’s also got a chip on his shoulder. Whether it’s brooding about the success of others (“I hate groups that put kids down by thinking any old thing will do… I could write a new album in a week if I wanted to, but it wouldn’t be any good.”) or grumbling about his field’s lack of recognition (“Children’s music has no status at all. No one ever reviews albums and you don’t get any airplay on radio.”), the attitude is at odds with the fun and eccentric songs the much-loved entertainer has been performing for 30 years.

Complaints aside, with Combe’s songs such as Mr Clicketty Cane, O Little One and Newspaper Mama having been primary school staples since the ‘80s, the

to your packing-a-punch voice in The Transatlantics, you sound a bit more relaxed and gentler. How was it stripping things back this time?

“It’s amazing! Recording vocals for The Transatlantics is hard, hard work! It takes a long time and it’s physically taxing, but I love it! The process of recording vocals with Hurricanes felt so incredibly easy in comparison. The vocals probably sound more relaxed because the music felt very natural to me. It was also really fun to create beautiful vocal harmonies with the other vocalist involved in Hurricanes, Laura Knowling.

Rather than aiming for that powerhouse tone, it was interesting to pull things back and try to create really beautiful, airy sounds.”

Say You’re Mine seems to edge into the indie pop genre with glockenspiel and punchy guitar riffs. What music influences you on your days off?

“Yeah I think it does too! It’s kind of hard to define what influences this project because I am inspired by so many artists.

Obviously, soul music is a huge part of my background as a performer but stylistically Hurricanes is probably influenced by artists such as Feist, Joan As Police Woman and Bon Iver. In terms of the songwriting, I think we often look to artists who are really wonderful storytellers like Bob Dylan or even Ryan Adams. With the project being so incredibly new, it’s actually really exciting to be a little less limited by genre or style.

I’m super excited to get stuck into a fulllength album with this project and to see how our sound progresses with time.”

This Sat Sep 8 an epic night of local music will be making its way to the Jade Monkey and Two Ships for one of the very last times for Ocean Graves Part Two. After the success of the first Ocean Graves night featuring Damo Suzuki, the second instalment of the event is now here with one of the best local line-ups going around.

Featuring a one-off reunion show from the legendary No Through Road, other acts on the night include the Avant Gardeners, Central Deli Band, The Dream Boats, Old Mate, Sparkspitter, Major Crimes, Doe and eight local DJs. It’s gonna be crazy fun shit. Presale tickets are available now through Clarity Records for $20 or $25 on the door on the night.

The Informers EP Launch Local lads The Informers will be launching their new EP Unknown Believer at the Promethean on Fri Sep 7 alongside support acts Dan White, The Viennas and The Solar City. Doors will open at 8pm and tickets are available for $15, which includes the EP.

WHO: Hurricanes and Carla Lippis & The Martial Hearts WHAT: Oh Hurricanes (available from ohhurricanes.bandcamp.com) WHERE: The Wheatsheaf Hotel WHEN: Fri Oct 12

old trouper’s formula remains durable.

Beyond the title track and Never No Never NoNever, Quirky Berserky features less John Lennon-esque voyages into the surreal than past hits (who could forget former Goonish absurdities such as crocodiles in the post and bellyflops in a pizza?), but the backing vocals from various kidlets add an inclusive air to proceedings and diverse musical arrangements ensure it’s never bland (Bluegrass Ifs features local banjo identity Trevor Warner, Not Zee (Grandissimo) adds a touch of the Baroque and Rock This Little Baby gets close to a Steely Dan groove).

Combe’s gaggle of nutty voices will inevitably send dads around the bend, but if Swiper’s stolen your Dora The Explorer DVD and the kids are sick of that annoying guy on ABC2’s Mister Maker, give Quirky Berserky a gobble.

Scott McLennan

Barn Dance At Nexus!

Yeehaw! Kicking off the Nexus Multicultural Art Centre’s World Music Series on Fri Sep 7 will be Barn Dance, a night of country music with a twist of folk featuring Max Savage & the False Idols, the Bakers Digest and Carla Lippis & the Martial Hearts. But let’s not forget that no hoedown would be complete without a southern style barbecue, which is why there’ll be pulled pork and brisket available to chow down throughout the night.

Tickets for the event and the full World Music Series program will be available from nexusworldmusic.com.

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