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Editor’s Note// In late 1992, Rage Against The Machine released an album with one of the most contentiously breathtaking covers of all time. Taken in 1963, the black and white photograph of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk self-immolating while sitting motionless in the lotus position won photographer Malcolm Browne a Pulitzer Prize. Thich Quang Duc’s sacrificial and silent cry for help highlighted the Vietnamese political tyranny of the time, with even US President JFK being drawn to act on the chilling image of bravery.

“The country murdered and enslaved millions in South East Asia,” RATM frontman Zach De La Rocha suggested in 1997. “We drew from the people who resisted.” Despite RATM using the provocative photograph to highlight how suffering and sacrifice can lead to change, the band were chastised for exploiting or capitalising on Thich Quang Duc’s death by pundits who hadn’t done their research.

Two decades later, Aussies The Amity Affliction have copped a similar amount of flak thanks to the album sleeve for Chasing Ghosts depicting a hanging suicide. It’s a shocking image despite neither blood nor graphic violence being depicted, but those who suggest it’s irresponsible need to dig deeper. With lyrics vehemently opposing suicide and proactively rallying fans to push through personal pains, frontman Joel Birch is a fighter with his followers’ interests at heart.

If his lyrics have saved even one life, surely that’s more of a rewarding feeling than a Pulitzer Prize could ever bring.

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See Tex Perkins (pictured) and Rachael Kidd along with their stellar band in a tribute to Johnny Cash at Her Majesty’s Theatre until Sat Sep 15.

Rockin’ into Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Fri Sep 14 with all the usual suspects along with some surprise special guests.

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Now with Dave Gleeson at the helm, hear them pump out new songs and vintage hits at Norwood Hotel’s Norwood Live on Wed Sep 19 to launch a brand new album, Take It To The Streets.

Launching Hypnotised, their Casey Rice-produced second album, at the Grace Emily on Thu Sep 13.

Experience the veteran UK punk band at Thebarton’s Forresters & Squatters Arms Hotel on Sun Sep 16 with Perdition, Vaginors and Suburban Standoff.

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EARTH – witness the mostly instrumental and quite experimental Seattle band and friends of Nirvana at Fowler’s Live on Fri Sep 14.

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Just Swell The Mitch Is Back After the success of her Heavenly Sounds tour in cathedrals across the nation earlier this year, honey-voiced songstress Lisa Mitchell will hit Adelaide again this October to launch her brand new album Bless This Mess, released on Fri Oct 12.

Mitchell will be aided by a full six-piece band on the tour alongside special guests Alpine and Danco, the new musical project of Evermore’s Dann Hume. Catch the little wonder at HQ on Sun Oct 28. Tickets: moshtix.com.au and venuetix.com.au.

Some bands call themselves blue-collar punk rockers. Flint, Michigan band The Swellers definitely are. They come from the town where General Motors began, they’ve been touring non-stop for the past four years with Less Than Jake, Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong and A Wilhelm Scream and in 2011 they released their third album Good For Me. That’s some hard work right there. See them at Fowler’s Live on Fri Oct 12. Tickets: moshtix.com.au and venuetix.com.au.

Going Down Down ‘Going Down Down’ has never been so profitable, as Status Quo would know. Their 2013 Australian tour has been sponsored by the supermarket giant that loves big red foam hands and old English rock bands. Don’t forget the milk when they play Thebarton Theatre on Tue Apr 2. Tickets: venuetix.com.au.

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High school house parties. No parents + boys + girls + stuff you’re not supposed to drink/smoke/do = memories. Sydney band Glass Towers have taken inspiration from high school house parties for their new single Tonight. On the musical front the band’s inspirations range from the literary genius of Jack Kerouac to the madcap mind of Syd Barrett and effortless cool of Lou Reed; from a childhood raised on a somewhat oddball mixture of Neil Diamond, Roxy Music and Simon & Garfunkel, to the paintings of JMW Turner and photographs of Robert Doisneau. Hear how it all works together when Glass Towers play songs from their new EP Collarbone Jungle on Fri Sep 21 at Cats at Rocket.

Bad English Never heard of John Waite? Maybe you were born after 1955. The English singer songwriter was the frontman for groups The Babys and Bad English, wrote the track Missing You (later covered by Rod Stewart and Tina Turner), did a whole lot of solo stuff, toured as a vocalist for Ringo Starr and his All-Star Band and co-wrote his latest album Rough And Tumble with Kyle Cook of Matchbox Twenty. He plays with American hard rock guitarist Keri Kelli – who has worked alongside Alice Cooper and was part of Slash’s Snakepit back in 2000 – at the Governor Hindmarsh on Sun Nov 25.

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infectious swing and melody of Django Reinhardt. He’s playing his new album Into The Blues on Sat Sep 22 at Guthries at the South Australian Folk Centre, Prospect Rd. Details (including a guitar workshop): folkfederation.com.

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They’re releasing their second album in 12 months, heading out on the road again (last time they sold out and added shows in Brisbane, Sydney and four dates in Melbourne) and enjoying a bit of love from the ARIA top 20 Australian singles chart. The Brisbane five-piece will play their current single Cherry Lips and a whole lot of new stuff on Tue Nov 20 at the Governor Hindmarsh. Tickets: moshtix.com.au.

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Ghost Protocol It’s been a while since an album cover’s artwork caused as much controversy as The Amity Affliction’s depiction of a body hanging from a tree on new record Chasing Ghosts. Nevertheless, as frontman Joel Birch points out, all publicity is good publicity, despite the fact that those offended by the album cover “must be pretty ignorant” and completely oblivious to the band’s first album artwork depicting “a guy dragging a dead body…”

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ot that any of this fuss matters to the lead singer, who claims he’d spent six straight hours drinking whiskey as the public outrage

went viral.

“The only controversy is from ignorance,” Birch states. “If anything, it’s been good for us because it’s made a lot more people look into the band - people who wouldn’t have taken the time of day to do that otherwise.

I think those people would find that we’ve been preaching nothing but anti-suicide songs for six years – we’ve always been about that. We had the need to put it out there and we did that with the artwork and people got upset. I find it pretty ridiculous considering that on Severed Ties [2008] we had a dude in a balaclava dragging a dead body behind him… I think that’s a little more confronting.

I guess this time it’s got a response because we’re a bit bigger. Honestly, we weren’t too worried about it when it went all over the internet – and it blew up over the internet – because we knew what the real meaning

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behind it was. On top of that, I’d been drinking straight Jameson for six hours so I definitely didn’t care at that point.”

Hard-partying, straight-talking – that’s what you get in a nutshell from this Queensland post-hardcore four-piece, who only care about the simple things in life: surfing in Mexico, drinking with mates and writing songs that delve into the darker side of the everyday existence. When the band’s 2010 sophomore Youngbloods debuted at number six on the national charts and received an ARIA award nomination, Birch claims it may as well have not even happened…

“I couldn’t care less about that shit!” he announces. “The stupid fucking industry charts don’t faze me at all, it doesn’t mean much. Half the people on that board wouldn’t even know who we are. So what? You’re number six one week then next week you’re number 20 and the week after that you’re not even on the chart anymore… Doing a show is what counts. Making a record is what counts.

Chart numbers don’t mean much to me.”

“The stupid fucking industry charts don’t faze me at all, it doesn’t mean much. Half the people on that board wouldn’t even know who we are.”

At the same time, Birch won’t deny that pre-album release jitters and at least some anxiety are a reality, even for a band like Amity Affliction – though, for different reasons than you’d think…

“We do care what the fans think,” Birch admits. “There is always that underlying anxiety that comes with not knowing if the people that like your band are going to like your new record. It’s just a normal part of being in a band. You’ve got to deal with that stress. Our live shows are where it’s at for us, so of course you care whether people are going to like the new songs. With this album, I’m really confident that the songs are better than on the last. I think it’s the best thing we’ve ever done, by far. I think we’ve moved forward with every album and we’ve never stagnated, which has got to count for something.”

For Birch, Chasing Ghosts makes for an extremely personal record, but also a very unique one in terms of its approach to the touchy subject of suicide. There’s a great deal to be said in the wake of a person’s passing – both from the perspective of those left behind as well as the deceased themselves, according to the singer.

“I wrote a lot of the songs to try and give a voice to other people,” Birch says. “There are songs that are very personal but it’s not all just my own personal issues. The songs are just as much for the people who often aren’t spoken for when something like this happens. There is much to be said about the impact on those left behind when someone kills themselves. It’s not just about the person that’s passed on, but it’s also about those who are affected by what’s happened. Most of all, I just wanted to get the finality of suicide across on this record – once you’re gone, that’s it. I hope that kids get a positive message out of this. I think there is a lot of absolute fucking nonsense getting thrown around in lyrics these days and I don’t want to be a part of that. It means a lot to me to be able to write a song that resonates, or even better, actually helps someone.”

This is in big part why Birch claims The Amity Affliction refused to let anyone –

High Flying Turds After sharing stages with the ever-humble Noel Gallagher at this year’s Big Day Out festival, the exOasis guitarist described The Amity Affliction as sounding akin to “a dead turd”. How did frontman Joel Birch’s react to the verbal attack?

“Well, what do you say to that? He wrote Wonderwall – he can say whatever he wants at this point in his career. To be honest, we found it more hilarious than offensive. I think it angered our fans and other people outside the band more than us – we just thought it was funny.”

including acclaimed producer Michael Baskette – meddle in the songwriting process of Chasing Ghosts.

“I knew that he writes a lot of material for some bands – he’s known for being involved heavily in the writing process,” Birch claims.

“But we didn’t let him do that. He’s an amazing engineer too, so we decided to take advantage of that instead. Actually, he was totally shocked when we walked into the studio because we went in there with a full record. He didn’t need to really even provide any input. All he did was shuffle a few things around and he wrote nothing. We wanted the music to be our own and we figured if he could make that even better, then that’s great! We had an idea of how this album was going to sound and that’s exactly how it ended up sounding.”

WHO: The Amity Affliction WHAT: Chasing Ghosts (Roadrunner/ Warner) WHERE: Thebarton Theatre WHEN: Sat Oct 6

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Setting You Free Barry Adamson, a former member of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, says that playing bass with re-formed UK postpunk band Magazine made him start playing the instrument again in earnest.

It has also informed the uptempo sound of his latest work, I Will Set You Free, with which he’s currently touring the country.

It’s funny because I Will Set You Free started off as something completely different,” Adamson says from the UK prior to his Australian jaunt.

“It was another album altogether, but after I’d written six or seven songs I thought to myself that it wasn’t really working. And I also started to see a formula about the way I worked which I didn’t like at all.

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“And then I went out on tour with Magazine, which took me back to the place I was in when I was a lot younger,” he continues. “Being that kind of band, it took me back to the days of a more bassand guitar-based sound. So that tour with Magazine really inspired the new album. And I don’t think any of the six or seven songs I’d written survived. Actually, the last track on the album, Stand In, was one that I kept going back to because it was quite quirky. And it seemed a good song to close an album with.”

Adamson was born in Manchester, UK, and became acquainted with art, music and film from an early age. By the late ’70s he was playing bass with former Buzzcock Howard Devoto in Magazine as well as Luxuria, Devoto’s later band, and also Visage.

Adamson, very briefly in Buzzcocks, then joined Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and played and toured with that outfit until the release of Your Funeral... My Trial.

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Music Therapist Barry Adamson was last in Australia earlier this year when he presented his directorial film debut, Therapist, in the eastern states and followed it with solo performances.

“They were just little showcase gigs really,” he says. “I was just doing the songs acoustically from the new album so it’s great to now be coming back with the band and playing them like how they sound on I Will Set You Free. And it’s a band I’ve had now for quite some time. It’s Nick Plytas on keyboards, who has been with me for about six years.

“Nick’s pretty much played on all my solo work,” Adamson then says of the musician who has worked with everyone from Joan Armatrading through to British Electric Foundation and Tina Turner. “And I have a guitar player called Bobby Williams and a drummer called Ian Ross who used to play bass. But I’m on bass now.”

Adamson, who hasn’t ventured to Adelaide since he last played here with The Bad Seeds in the ’80s, has been a solo artist since that time as well as undertaking assorted soundtrack work for films such as Natural Born Killers and Lost Highway. He has also remixed Grinderman and Depeche Mode material.

The musician also helms Central Control International, from which he releases his own work and albums by New York-based jazz combo Mantana Roberts Quartet along with films and assorted poetry books.

“It’s going okay, but it’s a tough call these days running an independent thing,” Adamson notes.

“Sometimes we get back what we put in and other times we get a little bit more which keeps us going.

We keep it in-house as much as we can and it’s nice being able to put out stuff whenever we want. We don’t have to wait around for a record company to make a decision about releasing stuff.

“And then we get out and promote the shows as much as we can,” he adds.

In some ways it’s much like the do it yourself approach of the ’70s punk era.

“You know what, it is like that,” Adamson laughs.

“But I always had that mentality about music and art. As a kid and then as a teenager when jobs were scarce, I always thought along the lines of, ‘Why don’t I employ myself whenever I can?’. It’s good if you can be your own boss.

“And it’s the same today. I made I Will Set You Free at home. Okay, I have some experience and I now know how to get certain sounds quite quickly with my box of tools and tricks, but it’s not really that difficult. If you can make all that work for yourself, it can be done by following the punk ethic.

And there’s now a whole community bashing away on laptops making records.

“You just have to get your stuff heard by people,” he laughs, “but it’s always been like that really.”

WHO: Barry Adamson WHAT: I Will Set You Free (Central Control) WHERE: The Promethean WHEN: Fri Sep 14

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Get Carter In line with Rufus Wainwright’s tendency to keep esteemed company (as noted with the appearance of childhood friend Sean Lennon along with members of The Dap-Kings, Wilco, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Miike Snow on the new album), Helena Bonham Carter lip-syncs along as a stuffy librarian who almost winds up bearing all in the promo clip accompanying Out Of The Game’s release.

Considering Rufus Wainwright’s ambivalence towards all things mainstream and an upbringing that had him touring as a teenager with the family band alongside sister Martha, one can never quite tell what form the precocious Canadian artist might explore next.

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his year the form of Wainwright’s choosing is an out-and-out pop collaboration with celebrated producer Mark Ronson titled Out Of The Game, an exercise in lightening up.

“I’ve had over the last three years the most dramatic and devastating and also fulfilling time of my life,” Wainwright says. “Between my mother’s death [folk performer Kate McGarrigle] and the birth of my daughter and writing an opera and being engaged and so forth, I’ve really run the gamut in terms of what the human experience has to offer. My work kind of reflected that for a while, whether it was [sixth album All Days Are Nights:] Songs For Lulu or putting Shakespeare sonnets to music or whatever, so I was doing a lot of work in that very deep end of the pool of existence.

For this album, I needed a break – I needed to just lighten up a bit and have fun and enjoy the moment a little bit more without this kind of frame of intensity. Nonetheless, I think there’s still some fairly intense moments on my new record – I’ve never been totally able to shed the romantic Rufus – but the goal was to lighten up a bit.”

The title track of Out Of The Game does precisely that, as Wainwright builds repetitive cries of ‘Look at you’ before launching into the triumphant, chorus-backed insult ‘Suckers!’.

“It’s definitely sharp, you know,” he chuckles, typically wry. “At the beginning the suckers are like other younger people that just haven’t had the experience and perhaps the failures that I have had and that we all have in life as we all get older, and so they just have this kind of naivety; it’s not about charming naivety, it’s about idiotic naivety and so they’re just rolling around in that fashion. But then by the end of the song, I’m the sucker! ‘Cause I’m the one who’s getting kind of wrapped up in that whole question in general.”

Though Out Of The Game more than hints at Wainwright’s general distaste of viewing younger generations through the wisdom of his 39 years, it’s by no means a suggestion that he is ready to give up the music game.

“I don’t plan on ending my career until I pass away – I’m in it for the long haul, but I would say that there are these other avenues which have really opened up for me, be it in the opera, in the theatre or writing music for films. And now with the record industry collapsing and people not really buying CDs that much and the whole kind of mechanism shifting gears, I am gonna have to get out of some kind of game in order to just survive. I think it’s not about leaving necessarily but it is about making some sort of statement and finding where you’re needed and where you will prosper. The music business right now is very treacherous and not an easy sell, as they say.”

Given the personal events in Wainwright’s life of recent years, he has become more focused on figuring out exactly where he is needed particularly outside of music and, despite giving off the air of a life-long suffer-for-your-art type, he is surprisingly pragmatic when it comes to getting the job done.

“I just go in and complete whatever the work is at hand. I dunno, a lot of it has to do with not thinking so much and kind of just viscerally responding to this energy around you. And I’ve completed a lot of projects in my life; I’ve made seven albums, I did the Judy [Garland] tribute, I wrote an opera, I wrote a musical – all this stuff, so it seems to be a good system to not really think about it. Just do it!”

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“She’s an old friend of mine,” Wainwright explains. “I’ve known her for many years. She’s always game, what can I say! And she’s also endlessly talented so you’re not only dealing with an enthusiastic nincompoop, you’re dealing with a genius!”

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This Is Greatness At a recent show in Darwin, Tim Rogers had an epiphany: “I’m living the dream – this is what I dreamed it would be like”.

Most would probably agree with the Aussie rock’n’roll icon – this year alone has seen Rogers collaborating with funk outfit The Bamboos on Medicine Man, working in both theatre and film, and issuing his most recent solo album Rogers Sings Rogerstein (a project with an enigmatic, perhaps imaginary, US performer by the name of Shel Rogerstein) last month.

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ight now, Rogers is on tour – “thinking, drinking, dancing and generally making a mess of my life”.

“I went up to Darwin recently and met up with some old friends,” he recalls. “I went to see a young footy team playing up there. Did a show too. The first show we did there was…

Well, sort of a shambles – it was so loose that everyone woke up the next morning going, ‘That was either completely shit or totally amazing, not sure’. The next night we played this great, intense, emotional but tender kind of show which is still stuck in my mind. The next day I had to quickly pack everything up and race to the airport. As I was waiting for the plane to take off, I thought, ‘This is it. This is what I dreamed it would be like. I’m living the dream.’”

And yet, despite this revelation, Rogers laments that the journey’s been pretty damn bittersweet. While on the one hand he’s established himself as one of Australia’s greatest musical treasures, he claims he’s often paid the price with his personal life.

And you can hear all about it on Rogers Sings Rogerstein, he suggests.

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Dirty Deeds Currently featured as the face of the 2012 Toyota Finals Series advert, This Is Greatness, Tim Rogers explains the reasoning behind his decision to get involved in the AFL campaign.

“I needed the money. Straight out. I actually really like footy, but more at the grassroots level, which is about community, mental health, the love of playing. I also thought it was fantastic they took a chance on an ugly bloke rather than getting a model to do it. Good on them, they’re learning – because there are some things about the AFL that I despise. It was a simple decision and, yes, what I got paid is more or less what people think and, no, I had no hesitation about saying yes. I sent them an invoice the next day – I’ve got no problem with it. So what? The job was fun, I got to stand at the MCG in the middle of the night and I had creative input in the script.”

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“This is about 85 percent of me and about 15 percent of Shel lyrically. One of the reasons I did it that way was because he doesn’t want to tour too much, so I knew I would be the one taking it on the road because I’m on tour all the time anyway. That wasn’t going to stop me working with him, because I wanted to celebrate our friendship. Mostly, it was important for me to get some things across to the people that I love. I wanted to make this music for the people in my life to let them know how much I love them, just in case there is ever any doubt. And I do love them and I miss them and I don’t want to leave any stone unturned in terms of that.”

Produced by Shane O’Mara and featuring Peter Lawler and Ben Hendry from Rogers’ outfit The Temperance Union, as well as Melanie Robinson (who previously worked with Rogers on The Luxury Of Hysteria), Rogers Sings Rogerstein is a raw offering both lyrically and sonically, as the singer explains.

“There is always a temptation to make a very coherent, linear record. To go back to Los Angeles and make a record with a producer who is going to teach me how to write songs in a more coherent way and put gloss all over it. I’m just so glad that I keep resisting the temptation to do that. I can understand if people are starting to get frustrated with trying to follow what I’m doing. I understand if it’s getting hard to follow my genre-hopping…

But I’m just being honest.”

Despite his tendency to “genre-hop”, as Rogers puts it, at his very core you’ll still find rock’n’roll.

“It’s the single most vital nutrient for me,” he insists. “Sometimes I feel like I’ve abandoned rock’n’roll, doing all this other stuff… But that just makes me appreciate and love rock’n’roll even more.

One thing that I don’t ever want to be is that guy at the end of the bar going, ‘I could have tried this or that, I could have been bigger’ – I want to be the guy at the end of the bar who really wants nothing but the best for everybody.”

WHO: Tim Rogers WHAT: Rogers Sings Rogerstein (UMA/ABC) WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh (with Catherine Britt) WHEN: Thu Sep 20

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INCOMING WHO: DJS BRENDON, GEORGE VAGAS, MPK, MR S, C4, MADNESS, FILTHY RICH, JAYSE & SCOTT S + MORE WHAT: FLASHBACK LTL LE ROX REUNION WHERE: FOWLER’S LIVE, NEXUS, THE COURTYARD WHEN: SUN SEP 30

LEAH MENCEL CROWNED ‘SHE CAN DJ’ WINNER After battling it out with the Top 10 at Sydney last week for the chance to win a global EMI music recording contract, Adelaide’s own Leah Mencel has walked away as the 2012 winner of the She Can DJ competition. Along with securing a global EMI Music recording contract, Leah Mencel will become the latest addition to Southern Cross Austereo’s radio show, playing a weekly set for the next 12 months to over 600,000 listeners nationally. Leah will also embark on a European networking trip, where she will rub shoulders with some of the most influential names in dance music and join the line-up at Stereosonic this November alongside the likes of Tiesto and Calvin Harris.

WHO: MATHEW JONSON WHAT: NEW YEAR’S EVE WHERE: CUCKOO BAR WHEN: MON DEC 31

OCTAVE ONE TICKET GIVEAWAY & VENUE CHANGE First making their mark on the electronic scene in 1990 with I Believe, it was the 2000 single Blackwater that saw Detroit’s Octave One release their biggest hit. It’s been a classic on the decks of some of the world’s best-known DJs, including Little Louie Vega, Danny Tenaglia, Derrick May and Laurent Garnier. With the news that Octave One will be previewing some new material at their upcoming Adelaide show on Fri Sep 21 at the new venue Mr Kim’s (next door to Electric Circus), Onion is offering you a chance to be there by entering our comp and winning one of two double passes which are up for grabs thanks to TechPhonics. Just head to onion.com.au.

A musical prodigy from a young age, Mathew Jonson has gone on to record on internationally renowned labels like Sub Static, Minus, Perlon, Kompakt, Itiswhatitis, Arbutus and his own imprint Wagon Repair. Responsible for some of the most influential tracks to come out in recent years – including Decompression, Alpine Rocket (with Luciano), Marionette, Folding Space, Typerope and Return Of The Zombie Bikers, Jonson’s recordings have earned themselves a place on the top 10 lists of the likes of Gilles Peterson, Richie Hawtin, Tiga, Sven Vath and Laurent Garnier.

Jonson was also proclaimed Best Producer Of 2004

by Groove magazine, not surprising considering he’s become notorious for his live shows which focus on analogue equipment and real-time play as opposed to mere playback. Forging influences from techno, jazz, house and D&B, Jonson is also known for his involvement with groups like the Modern Deep Left Quartet and Cobblestone Jazz – don’t miss him in this rare, intimate setting at Cuckoo Bar this New Year’s Eve.

30/9: Funkagenda (White Rabbit) 30/9: Bombs Away! (HQ) 1/10: Ferrry Corsten (HQ) 7/10: Parklife (Botanic Pk) 12/10: Monkey Safari (White Rabbit) 13/10: Seth Sentry (Fowler’s) 16/11: Boyz II Men (Thebarton Theatre) 27/11: Nicki Minaj (Entertainment Centre) 9/12: JLO (Entertainment Centre) 31/12: Mathew Jonson (Cuckoo Bar)

REVIEWS ONEMAN

FABRICLIVE 64 (FABRIC) Rinse FM star Oneman is one of those rare breeds in international clubbing – he’s a DJ. Not a producer/ DJ or a producer-cum-DJ but just a fucking DJ – hallelujah! Like another Fabric endorsed pure DJ before him, Jackmaster, Oneman brings the party with a mix of genres, styles and tempos for a fantastic journey through the UK underground. Mixing grime, UKfunky, dubstep and two-step, Oneman bookends the mix with ambient goodness (Mark Pritchard’s ? and Burial’s Etched Headplate) but in-between the ambience is a mixture of booming bass goodness (MikeQ’s Tha Hard Dub Rewerk’d) house flavours and post dubstep delights (Joy Orbison’s beautiful The Shrew). Oneman also throws in some reworked classics such as the Steve Gurley remix of Basement Jaxx’s Red Alert and Tuff Jam’s Classic Garage mix of Ce Ce Peniston’s Somebody Else’s Guy. FabricLive 64 shows why there is still a place for the pure DJs on the international circuit. Thrilling mix.

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WHO: BOYZ II MEN WHERE: THEBARTON THEATRE WHEN: FRI NOV 16 Legendary R&B group Boyz II Men have announced that they will be making love to you the way you want them to as part of an Australian tour this November. The band, who have sold over 60 million records with hit singles like I’ll Make Love To You and End Of The Road and recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, will hit Adelaide, Geelong, Melbourne, Newcastle, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Canberra, Penrith and Sydney this summer in celebration of their 20th anniversary album Twenty. The album contains the group’s first original material in nearly a decade as well as a dozen remastered classics. Boyz II Men will perform in Adelaide at Thebarton Theatre on Fri Nov 16. Tickets will be available from Venuetix.

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WHO: FUNKAGENDA WHERE: WHITE RABBIT WHEN: SUN SEP 30 Championed as ‘the producer’s producer’ and known as one of the key members behind the iconic Toolroom Records, Funkagenda is heading back to Australia for a five-date tour over September and October. DJ Mag has proclaimed him as a vanguard of the “tough but melodic big room house sound” and he’s a firmly fixed name across global music charts, having regularly achieved number one positions on Beatport over the years. With a critically acclaimed mix album behind him (released on Toolroom Records in October 2009), Funkagenda has also successfully remixed for the likes of Basement Jaxx, Nero, Moby, Mark Knight, Fatboy Slim and Dirty Vegas, with his production contributions to the Black Eyed Peas’ album The END helping the group win a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.

CALENDAR 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)

Fancy taking a trip down memory lane, to a time when dance music was young, before there were clubs like HQ, Heaven and Planet and massive festivals like Parklife and Stereosonic didn’t exist?

Back then, there was a club called Le Rox – far ahead of its time and featuring DJs who played cutting edge dance music. On Sun Sep 30 you’ll have a chance to step back in time when Flashback LTL Le Roc Reunion Party presents a collection of the finest old school DJs including Brendon, George Vagas, MPK, Mr S, C4, Madness, Filthy Rich, PHD, Jayse and Scott S (plus a couple of new ones, Damien E and Justin O), as well as MCs Tim, Rudeboy, Barney B, MC Dee and lots more. The event will be spread out across three huge arenas – the Rave Arena, House Heaven and the Courtyard, with pumping sound systems, multiple lasers, fashion dancers and photo boards from the early years of Adelaide clubbing history.

Tickets are $45 from theflashbackteam@gmail.com.

THIS WAS TOMORROW

With the official release of Diafrix’s follow-up to debut Concrete Jungle set for release at the end of this month, the timing couldn’t possibly be more perfect.

Comprised of smooth, soulful vocals, intelligent rhymes, and a musical blend of funk, R&B and hip hop, this is the ultimate soundtrack to your summer. Featuring a long line of guest producers and vocalists (which is by now pretty much the norm in the Oz hip hop genre), Pocket Full Of Dreams sees the hip hop crew tone down the bogan references and focus more on thoughtful lyrics and slick sounds, making for an album that is unexpectedly radiofriendly this time around. Lead track Running It is equally uplifting and thought provoking and features one of the most memorable hooks heard in quite some time, while Simple Man (also featuring Daniel Merriweather) has (not surprisingly) already earned Diafrix some major buzz...

Got the barbie cranking on a hot arvo? These are the beats you should be listening to.

If The Waitress Song is still the first thing that enters your mind at the mention of Seth Sentry’s name, that’s all about to change with This Was Tomorrow. The word ‘mature’ gets thrown around a lot every time an artist releases new material, but in Sentry’s case this actually happens to be true. Although songs like Dear Science (“where’s my hoverboard?... I just wanna let you know you let me down”) are perhaps the exception, the atmospheric slow-burner Langoliers Banquet is about as introspective and honest as Sentry gets on this debut album, coming to the conclusion that “nothing ever happens in the past”. Overall, it’s certainly an ambitious effort, not so much focused on hip hop beats but taking on a synth-laden, more rocky approach instead. This Was Tomorrow is probably not what you expect.

SIMONE KEENAN

SIMONE KEENAN

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ELECTROSPECTIVE: ELECTRONIC MUSIC SINCE 1958 (EMI) EMI’s decision to launch the global Electrospective campaign is a no-brainer, with electronic music currently destroying the charts all over the world. What makes the decision a particularly good one, however, is the fact that Electrospective serves as a bit of a quick introduction to its diversity and beginnings (1958 to present day) chronicling the development of the genre, the technology and the culture. Tracks from Pet Shop Boys (West End Girls), Daft Punk (Around The World) and Depeche Mode (Enjoy The Silence) may be personal standouts but it’s a hard call to make overall when you consider what a mixed bag this is, covering synth pop, trance, art rock and techno among other genres. If you’re after something akin to a slide-show or a quick lesson in the range and growth of electronic music over the last 50 decades, then this is probably a good place to start.

SIMONE KEENAN

with Nina Bertok

INTERVIEWS JERU THE DAMAJA HIP HOP VETERANS ARE FINDING A NEW APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE IN AUSTRALIA, WITH KRS-ONE RECENTLY GREETED LIKE ROYALTY. BROOKLYN’S JERU THE DAMAJA (AKA KENDRICK JERU DAVIS), SPECIALISING IN “HARDCORE CONSCIOUS” HIP HOP, FIRST TOURED WITH THE BEATNUTS IN 2008, RECALLING THE EXPERIENCE AS “EXCELLENT”.

“I love Australia,” he says. “I had a great time. I thought it was great. I thought the people were great.

I’m really looking forward to coming back.”

Davis made an impact as a guest MC on Gang Starr’s 1992 Daily Operations with the joint I’m The Man. Two years on, he himself dropped the cult DJ Premier-produced The Sun Rises In The East, home to Come Clean. Though the PolyGram signing led rap’s east coast resurgence, he was soon beefing with the Fugees. Davis castigated ‘sell-out’ hip hoppers like Puff Daddy on 1996’s The Wrath Of The Math (Puff’s cohort The Notorious BIG retaliated). By 1999, he was happily indie.

Davis, his last foray 2007’s Still Risin’, has sustained an incredible run as an underground MC. Many a cred rapper has succumbed to airing flossy radio hits, or what RZA called ‘R&Bullshit’, but Davis resisted.

“All my records were actually commercial successes,” he insists, MTV programming his videos. “A lot of people think that ‘underground’ means that you don’t sell records, but I just never went the route of the poppy stuff. I like my music a certain way – I can’t go fluffy, that’s all.”

Not that there hasn’t been pressure.

“The pressure and the temptation is always there, but it depends on why you make music. I make music because I love it – if it sells records, then that’s great, I don’t have to change. I’m not looking for any other validation from other places. As long as I make money and I’m doing what I love, I’m cool.”

Davis has embraced hip hop’s evolution into a global force. He collaborated with a Polish group, Slums Attack, on Oddalbym – a platinum (and

YouTube) hit. The widely travelled MC is now cutting an LP with Slums Attack and other Polish hip hoppers. (The MC has also laid down vocals for Perth producer Kid Tsu.) Earlier, Davis appeared on Suntoucher off Groove Armada’s Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub).

“Those guys are some of the best guys who I’ve met in my career as far as music people,” he says effusively. “I love those guys.”

Contemporary commercial hip hop sounds indistinguishable from EDM, yet Davis has no problem with this, reasoning that electro has long been a part of the culture. What dismays him is “a lack” of skill.

“A lot of today’s hip hop is not my style because a lot of rappers suck!,” he laughs. “It’s not even because it’s commercial or not – because you have to remember that groups like Run-DMC, Whodini, Lords Of The Underground [and] Big Daddy Kane were all platinum. They would always have commercial hits and all of that, but they just did what they did and they were good MCs.” The lyricist attributes the absence of political hip hop amid the GFC to (US) MCs’ dearth of empathy.

“People have become complacent,” he rues.

“Everybody is happy and they don’t care about what’s going on around them, so there’s no need to speak about things that are going on.”

Aside from the east European project, Davis is prepping a solo comeback, Premier reportedly on board.

“I’m just getting ready to re-attack society with good hip hop.”

He may have had his differences with Gang Starr, but the late Guru remains a constant inspiration – his kindred spirit in rap. “The way I remember him is I just rock the mic – and every time I rock the mic Guru is rocking the mic with me. It’s no separation.”

So what can we expect from Davis in Australia?

“Dope hip hop, dope mic-rocking, good times! I’m really a people person, so I like to hang out with the people. I don’t like to stay backstage, I like to come out into the club and party with everybody and have fun.”

Party, no bullshit.

CYCLONE

VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: JERU THE DAMAJA WHERE: ROCKET BAR WHEN: SAT SEP 15

OCTAVE ONE AS ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED LIVE ACTS IN CLUB MUSIC, DETROIT OUTFIT OCTAVE ONE HAVE MORE THAN 20 YEARS’ WORTH OF MATERIAL TO DRAW FROM FOR THEIR UPCOMING ADELAIDE DATE.

Made up of brothers Lawrence and Lenny Burden (at times the outfit contains five Burden brothers), Octave One burst onto the scene with the 1990 classic I Believe. The Detroit second wavers are best known for their 2000 hit Blackwater, which featured Ann Saunderson on vocals and is the noughties version of Strings Of Life, as it was embraced by the techno and house scenes and contains one of the most celebrated hooks in clubland. They hit Australia with a soon-to-be hit in the form on New Life, which has a classic techno and house feel to it.

“It came together by working on tracks that we wanted to develop for our live performances,” Lawrence explains about their latest single. “We’re always trying to develop new things for our fans, so we started with a bare track, kind of jack track, and just kept developing it, literally on stage, from gig to gig. We would either do something new each show on it or alter parts that we either thought worked well or didn’t work at all with our fans ‘till we finally ended up with the song, as it is completed today.”

Remixes come from Dave Clarke’s brilliantly titled new project Unsubscribe and Claude Young with Takasi Nakajimi. Lawrence says Dave Clarke “sort of” found them for the remix.

“When we were putting together our past remix album [Revisited] we had really wanted Dave to do a mix for us. We’ve known him for so long now and have

SPIT SYNDICATE

HAVING SPENT MOST OF 2012 IN “TOTAL STUDIO-MODE” MEANS THAT YOU CAN EXPECT PLENTY OF NEW MATERIAL FROM SYDNEY DUO SPIT SYNDICATE IN THE COMING MONTHS. WITH PLANS TO RELEASE A BRAND NEW SINGLE THIS OCTOBER, AS WELL AS ALBUM NUMBER THREE IN EARLY 2013, ONE-HALF OF THE DUO, NICK LUPI, LOOKS BACK ON THE INCREDIBLE SUCCESS HE AND FELLOW MC JIMMY NICE HAVE EXPERIENCED SO FAR.

VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: SPIT SYNDICATE WHAT: BEAUTY IN THE BRICKS IS OUT IN OCTOBER THROUGH OBESE

“For most of this year we’ve been in studiomode, working on the new album,” Lupi says.

“We actually share a studio with Horrorshow so we’ve got Adit doing most of the beats and production, as well as M-Phazes and Styalz Fuego. The only way to describe it at this point is that it’s a step up in production and the rhymes are much better and more advanced because we know how to use our voices now and record vocals properly. There is some dabbling in interesting directions on the album too – some of the songs we’ve done, I just feel that style hasn’t really been done in Australian hip hop yet. Especially working with Adit –

because it’s been three years since Horrorshow released an album – he’s been playing around with lots of different sounds productionwise. We’re also pretty keen on using more instrumentation, like guitars and keyboards and synths, and a bit less sampling.”

Lacking an official producer has been both an advantage and a disadvantage in the scheme of things, according to Lupi. While on the one hand it’s meant that the duo have been able to collaborate with a vast amount of Australia’s top beat-makers, it’s also meant that the pair have often found themselves at the mercy of people’s busy schedules…

“I think if we had just one, permanent producer in Spit Syndicate it would dramatically impact the output – and I’m not sure if that would be a good or a bad thing,” Lupi claims.

“At this stage we like having the option of being able to go out and work with different producers and not being tied down to any particular sound. We’ve been able to work with lots of different producers and that’s also led to friendships and strong relationships with people in the industry. On the other hand, it can mean that we don’t always have a steady supply of beats like some other crews do.”

Nevertheless, Spit Syndicate have still managed to release an ARIA-nominated album

VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: OCTAVE ONE WHEN: MR KIM’S WHERE: FRI SEP 21

really admired and respected his work for years but he was just too busy to do a remix for us and we were so upset that he couldn’t do it. One day out of the blue we were either having dinner together or talking at a gig and he told us he was ready to do the remix now. And things just fell in place as we had just put the finishing touches on New Life and were just starting to think of who we might approach to do some remixes. His timing could not have been any better!”

Recently Octave One relocated from Detroit to another American city full of musical history, Atlanta.

While we won’t expect any southern funk or crunk to creep into the sound of Octave One, has the city influenced the sound of the 20-year veterans?

“We don’t think you can live anywhere and not be influenced in some way, shape or form in what goes on around you. Although, we haven’t really noticed too much of an influence on how we create or what we like to hear in a track when we create. We have, however, noticed that there is a noticeable influence on what we hear as being a complete production or quality of a production. In Atlanta a lot of the tracks are clean and very big sounding because of the influence of commercial music. So we’ve noticed that this [New Life] is the biggest sounding production we’ve produced since Blackwater.”

New Life is also the first taste of a new artist album for Octave One (“Yeah, it is! But let’s not say that too loudly”) from which they’ll be playing some exclusive jams in Australia as part of their celebrated live show.

“We will definitely be playing some new material as well. We’re actually trying to put the finishing touches on some things before we leave now.”

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despite such set-backs. Four years on, Lupi describes the experience as “shocking”.

“That album was written and made entirely by two 18-year-old kids! And you can really tell now, if you listen back to it. It really wasn’t even a high degree of quality control, which made it even more of a surprise... Even though we didn’t take too much from it and we still don’t really feel like we ever got that nomination – it was a nice feeling and a good night at the ARIAs! It’s so funny, you actually know who’s going to win by looking at the seating arrangements when you show up.”

Lupi adds that fans can also expect the official release of Spit Syndicate’s first single, the Adit-produced Beauty In The Bricks, sometime next month.

“The album comes out in February so we’re already trying to get into that ‘album release’ mode. We made our first album when we were really young, we made the second one when we were still fairly young, and even though we’re still young now, I think we’ve progressed a lot – having such big time-gaps between albums, you wouldn’t expect anything less, anyway. Even though we never set out to live off music, it would be pretty amazing to be able to do that one day. I know that it’s only a small minority of people who manage to eat off their music, and I have the most respect for them, but it’s not easy. Music may not pay our bills, but we’re incredibly passionate and very committed to it despite everything.”

NINA BERTOK

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Tour Guide/ THU SEP 13

TUE OCT 9

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

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

FRI SEP 14 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), LAKYN & RUBY FROST @ Governor Hindmarsh ROCKWIZ (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre LANEWAY (Qld) & LOREN KATE @ Wheatsheaf Hotel

SAT SEP 15 RED PAINTINGS (Bris) @ Crown & Anchor STICKY FINGERS (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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 LOGIC (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf Hotel

WED SEP 19 THE ANGELS (Syd/SA) @ Norwood Live

THU SEP 20 TIM ROGERS (Vic) & CATHERINE BRITT (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh NEWTON FAULKNER (US) @ Fowler’s Live MNOZIL BRASS (Austria) @ Adelaide Town Hall

FRI SEP 21 CLARE BOWDITCH (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh GREENTHIEF (Bris) @ Ed Castle REGULAR JOHN (Syd), HORROR MY FRIEND & GLASS SKIES @ Enigma SPENCER P JONES (Vic) @ Tuxedo Cat

SAT SEP 22 XAVIER RUDD (Vic) @ Thebarton Theatre SPENCER P JONES (Vic) @ Forresters & Squatters Arms

TUE SEP 25 FAR EAST MOVEMENT (US) @ HQ - Cancelled

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 BRIDIE (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

FRI OCT 5 MARTIKA (US) @ HQ HEY GERONIMO (Bris) @ Jive

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

SUN OCT 7 PARKLIFE: THE PRESETS, NERO LIVE, PASSION PIT, PLAN B and many more @ Botanic Pk

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THU OCT 11 OH MERCY (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI OCT 12 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

SAT OCT 13 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

SUN OCT 14 HUSKY (Syd) @ Adelaide Uni Bar

MON OCT 15 MUMFORD & SONS (UK), EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS & WILLY MASON @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre

WED OCT 17 GOMEZ (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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

FRI OCT 19 – SUN OCT 28 BACKWATER BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL: JEFF LANG (Vic), MIA DYSON (Vic), DALLAS FRASCA (Vic) and more @ Queen’s Theatre

FRI OCT 19 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 REFUSED (US) @ Thebarton Theatre

FRI OCT 26 – SUN OCT 28 FLEURIEU FOLK FESTIVAL: THE GO SET (Vic), SENOR CABRALES (Syd), THE STETSON FAMILY (Vic) and many more @ Willunga

Check out the clip for Forever from Kiwi rockers Six60 and you’ll see some 15,000 fans going ballistic at a Wellington festival called Homegrown that exclusively celebrates local acts.

The band decided live footage better represented their performance than a storyboarded video; the audience members singing along genuinely know all the words.

Considering they’ve had no airplay and no label backing, it’s testament to the power of social media that Six60 hit the NZ commercial singles charts with two double platinum-selling singles, Rise Up 2.0 and Don’t Forget Your Roots, one platinum-selling single Only To Be, plus a triple-platinum number one self-titled debut album.

Not bad for a band that had met as students at university in Dunedin in 2008 and hadn’t

actually thought to record in the first place.

“We’re five completely different people,” Six60’s singer and guitarist Matiu Walters admits, “with different upbringings and tastes in music, so it’s a miracle that we met each other and that all our influences turned into songs and it didn’t sound crap – you know what I mean? When we first set off, we were pretty much a cover band and we pretty much played for a beer contra or something like that.

“The songwriting probably came like a year after we got together, when we decided we really wanted to put a memento together for the time we had at university, with no intention of going anywhere. But we made a Facebook page because everyone was doing that at the time and word got around. It’s pretty crazy the way things have gone the last couple of years.”

The physical version of their debut album is a beautifully crafted gatefold black-lined gold card artefact with no information about what’s on the two discs inside.

“I had the privilege of working with a local New Zealand artist,” Walters explains,

“to create something different since this generation, no one’s buying CDs so we wanted to make something pretty special and entice people into buying the physical.”

It’s a pretty diverse collection of tunes - a reflection, again, of the musical tastes within the band.

“By no means was it an intention of ours to make something so diverse. It would seem to be just a natural progression for us. But in saying that, when I listen to my iPod, or when anyone listens to their iPod or their music, they don’t really listen to one genre in particular.

“Or maybe they do, but they’re probably really boring people,” he laughs. “As much as people told us that we should have, we didn’t want to be a band that just wrote the same shit over and over again and perform the same stuff – and for some reason it seemed to work for us.”

WHO: Six60 WHAT: Six60 (MGM) WHERE: Adelaide Uni Bar WHEN: Sat Sep 15

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

COMING UP 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 WED NOV 14 THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh THU NOV 15 SIGUR RÓS (Ice) @ Thebarton Theatre THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh FRI NOV 16 THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh SAT NOV 17 TINPAN ORANGE (Vic) @ Jive THE LIVING END (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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Anthony Jeselnik

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by Callum T

With a carved jaw line, blue eyes and impeccably level hair, Anthony Jeselnik could be modeling a thousand dollar sweater in a ridiculous black and white photograph for a brand you or me could never afford. He doesn’t. At least, not yet. He makes comedy instead. Bleak comedy.

Comedy that has proven so popular, in fact, that he was invited by Comedy Central to publicly humiliate no less than Donald Trump, Charlie Sheen and David Hassellhoff in live television roasts.

“Oh boy, Donald Trump? He was my favourite roast,” Jeselnik confesses, sounding immensely satisfied. “There’s no way you can hurt Donald Trump - he was just a machine that you could… peel layers off. You knew he was going home to a beautiful wife and a giant pile of money.”

It’s quite an evolution for a man who graduated high school wanting to be a writer

and studied classical Shakespeare. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jeselnik majored in English Literature at Tulane University, where he shed his earlier literary ambitions and discovered comedy.

“Oh, I’ve always loved Shakespeare. I’m a big reader,” he explains, in a more restrained tone.

“I feel like if I’d been born 50 years ago, I’d be a writer. I feel like the novel’s almost gone away, it doesn’t pay like it used to. I studied a lot of Shakespeare in college and high school.

I worked shitty jobs to help pay the rent while I worked on stuff. The comedy started up like that, a way to write and pay rent.”

Jeselnik’s succinct and brutal comedy has just earned him his own, hour-long show on Comedy Central.

“Every joke I have, something awful is happening,” Jeselnik rationalizes. “I’ve jokes about suicide, child molestation, abortion: every terrible thing. Every joke offends someone in my act. If I have a joke about something horrible, that builds the tension up, so the laugh is bigger. In essence, I’m making

people laugh at the worst things in the world.”

Do people resent him for his brutality?

“If people get upset, I’ll sometimes get emails, where people say ‘That crossed the line for me, my uncle went through this…’ [or] ‘My mom had breast cancer, she went through this’ and I say to them, I’m a comedian. I’m not causing these things, I’m helping people laugh at them. If that doesn’t make you happy, I have no problem with that.”

Jeselnik’s personal circle of friends and family are spared in his material.

“They all know it’s an act,” Jeselnik explains, keen to emphasise the distinction. “Nothing in my show is autobiographical. My family’s actually relieved when my dad hears a joke about him being a heroin addict who cheated on my mom. He’s relieved that I’m not telling a story about family Christmas.”

WHO: Anthony Jeselnik WHERE: The Arkaba WHEN: Thu Sep 13

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Thursday 13th ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Anthony Jeselnik. Tavern Bar: Franky F (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: Zoe Behan Band and special guests. 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 – Only The Sky and Fleur Green

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – EXPRESS THYSELF, JOHN CROUCH, SIMON PETER, SEAN DESMOND, BEC LYON, BRETT PARISH AND DICK WILLY JOHNSON GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with Rob Ernst’s All Star Band GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers (7pm) GOLDEN GROVE TAVERN – Dino Jag Trio (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Katchafire GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pony Face GRAND BAR – OMG GUTHRIES – Club 5082 HIGHWAY – Escapades HQ – Main Room: Hanson 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 – Clearway (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Sundy Mantis (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Friday 14th 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: Nat Pike (6pm) Little Wing (10pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BACCHUS BAR – Muddy Road 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) BLACKSMITHS INN – Lily & The Drum (8pm) 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 – Care Factor (8pm) 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 CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DJ Adam (1am) Band Room: Indiago, Zen Stella, San Marcos and Tabula Rasa 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 – High Voltage (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Athletic Teenage Joggers and Iridescent FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Steve Simon (7pm)

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – COUNTER ATTACK, BLOCKADE, TRASH AND GUANTANAMO BAY CITY ROLLERS

GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm)

GASLIGHT TAVERN – CHAPMAN ST, COLOURVISION AND CAVIAR (9PM) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Evermore. Front Bar: Heath Solo GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Encarta GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Nick Longford 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 Lumiere HOPE INN – Acoustic Blonde HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ DB HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs Pony Boy, Bunyip and Hands Solo (8pm) HQ – Gabrielle’s: Friction. Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL – Bill Parton Trio (9.30pm) JADE MONKEY – Aphelion, Unset and guests LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm) LADY DALY HOTEL – SideFX (9pm) LAVISH – DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – Acoustic Jam with Jelly & 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 MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs Junior, Hank and Osk (9pm) MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Michael Venner Duo ORIENTAL – live music PORT DOCK BREWERY – Annie Under The Table 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 – Dangerfield (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 – The Dirty Roots Band SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke

SOUTHWARK HOTEL – STEPHEN O’MALLEY (8.30PM) 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 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 – Zkye & The Guys TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Paul Smith (4.45pm) Acoustic Reign (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Triplescore (9.30pm) TRINITY SESSIONS – Fiona Boyes with Jesse DeaneFreeman 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 – Laneway and Loren Kate (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Hoy-Hoy! WOODCROFT TAVERN – Full Circle WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Ryley, Scott Holder and Bottle Rockets ZOOTZ – DJs Kym and guests

Saturday 15th ADELAIDE UNI BAR – Six60 ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: DJ Jaki J and The Bongo Man (10pm) Downstairs: Mark C (10pm)

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The Guide // ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: India Hooi (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Dimitra (6pm) DJ Andy M (9.30pm) AUSTRAL – Funktasm with DJs Anzac, Osyris and Batch (8pm) BACCHUS BAR – Steve Brown Band BAR ON GOUGER – DJs Mark & Ozzie plus guests (9pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Matterhorn BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ – DJ Carlos BENTLEY’S CLARE – DJ Rush BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BROADWAY HOTEL – DJs Bocky and Jordz BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ Steve Reece CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CAVAN HOTEL – Flight 69 CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: The Red Paintings with special guests. 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 – Carefactor (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Vulturelight and guests

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – DEE DEE RAMONE TRIBUTE SHOW WITH SHANNON THE CANNON GARAGE BAR – DJs Steve Daly, GTB, Bob Trott, J Tech, Jon E and Jason Lee (10pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – karaoke with Mel featuring Singing Bar Bitch & Mr Average (8.30pm) GEPPS CROSS HOTEL – karaoke disco with Craig Anthony GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Mark (8pm)

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – MAIN ROOM: STICKY FINGERS. FRONT BAR: SPEAK UP FUNDRAISER AND ROB MCDADE GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Molting Vultures with Ride Into The Sun GRAND BAR – Grand Bar Saturdays with DJ DMH and DJ Rupheo HACKNEY HOTEL – DJ

HEAVEN – Clubland: 4 rooms of dance, electro, house, funk, R&B and pop (9pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Live & Loud presents HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Soundflex HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Acoustic Reign (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – The Mash Up with DJ Paul Gurry (9pm) HQ – DJ Kronic & Seany B JIVE – Traveler & Fortune, Alphabette and Harmless Hunter KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LA BOHEME – DJ Tr!p and DJ Anthony alternate (9pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (9pm) LIMBO – resident DJs Delux, The Swiss DJs and Paul Glen LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) LOUISIANA TAVERN – Platinum DJs MARBLE BAR – I <3 MB: Rupheo, VIP, Kindred, Acid Please and Ben Earle plus national and international guests MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL – Franky F (5.30pm) Two Hard Basket (8.30pm) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Point 05 OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: DJ Justice, DJ Skot Holder and MC Mischief

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DIRTY HARRY

The Girl Who Was 100 Girls.

What would you do if your shadow was your only friend? Urban Myth Theatre’s new show, The Girl Who Was 100 Girls is a dark, clever and provocative story about five women from different times and places who are all connected by one thing. They’re all inspired by Elpis. Who’s Elpis? See the show to find out!

It’s on at the Goodwood Institute from September 12 - 22 and Fringe Benefits members can get tix for just $10. See fringebenefits.com.au for more.

Not a Fringe Benefits member?

If you’re aged 18 – 30 visit fringebenefits.com.au to join. It’s free!

RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan ROB ROY HOTEL – Stereo Saturdays with DJ Electric T (8pm) ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR – requests with DJs SANTIAGO – Hussyboy (8.30pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SEAFORD HOTEL – Seaford Live SETTLERS TAVERN – Electric Funeral SHOTZ BAR – DJ Chris Pike SKYBAR – DJ Spin Dokta and DJ Demize STAG – Upstairs: DJs Huddy and Jase with urban and dance.

Downstairs: DJ Kieran and David James SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SUPERMILD – Treasure Island DJs SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – DJ Kieran TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE CUMBERLAND – Launch Pad featuring local DJs THE GOODY – DJ Dante and interactive games night (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus and friends THE GRIFFINS – DJ playing house tunes THE KINGS BAR – Clever Cuts with Andrew Barker, Alley Oop and Adriaan Van Der Ploeg (8pm) THE LION HOTEL – Wasabi TONSLEY HOTEL – Boris Loves To Boogie (8.30pm)

Sat Sep 15 Zhivago High Heel DJs (Hemilove, Bottle Rockets, Osyris & Gumshoe) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Paul Smith Duo (9.30pm) UNION HOTEL – DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN – karaoke (weekly prizes) WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Hemilove, Bottle Rockets, Osyris and Gumshoe ZOOTZ – DJs Kym and guests

Sunday 16th ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School with The Idle Saints ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: DJ Dave Collins – Beat & 3 Veg (1.30pm) Top Room: Adelaide’s Next Superstar (7pm) AUSTRAL – Basically Maate! with DJ Staplehead (8pm) BACCHUS BAR – Dino Jag Duo (4pm) BEERGARDEN: BRICKWORKS – Musos Jam with the Good Ol’ Boys Band (2pm) every first and third Sunday of the month BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN – Courtyard: DJ Mule (4pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Zepporama BRIDGEWATER INN – Lily & The Drum CROWN & ANCHOR – Meg Bellew DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL – No Use For A DJ Name (9pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Harvest ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – Behind Bars (5pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Matt & Naomi

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SUBHUMANS, PERDITION, VAGINORS AND SUBURBAN STAND OFF GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Gaslight Tavern Presents: Sebastian Scott & Friends plus Fiona Boyes, James Rattray and Enrico Morena (2pm) GENERAL HAVELOCK – Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Let’s Play For RUOK? Day. Day Show: Club Cool GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Brillig HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – Tim Bos DJ and Sax

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The Guide // HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) JAM THE BISTRO – DJ Tango LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – The Party Cats LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – The Rustlers MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said PORT DOCK BREWERY – The Rustlers

RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) S-BAR – karaoke SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen TOWER HOTEL – Complete Trivia WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – COMA Spring Sessions with Andrew Wiering Percussive Pictures and Logic (8pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM)

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ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – The Harmonics (7.30pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Hoy-Hoy! SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) THE MAID – acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Matt Walker album launch with Lucie Thorn (4pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Gumshoe and Capital D ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)

Monday 17th AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia AVOCA HOTEL – Schnitty & Trivia Night (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Complete Trivia BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO – Complete Trivia BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Complete Trivia BULL & BEAR – Muso’s Jam (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Pynchon Unplugged EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Lucas Keeley and guests

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIC NIGHT GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Table Tennis Comp.

Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy Harmoniclub GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake (8pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia

ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Trav Nash (8pm) BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CAVAN HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Cranker Comedy. Front Bar: Industry Night with DJs Stevie & Duncan DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – J & Nathan GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Uke Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Kino HQ – Bone Thugs N Harmony MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PARADISE HOTEL – Memory Lane Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE COVE TAVERN – Complete Trivia THE GOODY – Complete Trivia THE GRIFFINS – fresh, funky and progressive tunes THE KINGS BAR – Old Skool Funk with Nixon and Penfold.

Back Bar: APL poker THE LION HOTEL – Zkye & Damo (7.30pm) THE PORT CLUB – Complete Trivia TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Tuesday (7pm) VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Wednesday 19th ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide’s Next Superstar (7pm) BAR ON GOUGER – Acoustic After Dark BOTANIC BAR – Gemma BROADWAY HOTEL – It’s Like A House Party with DJ Sneaky Beats CALEDONIAN HOTEL – Salsa Underground (8pm) CAMBRIDGE BALCONY BAR – Triplescore Lite CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia

COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Ben David & The Banned, The Secondhand Squad and Derryn Lunch Mob. Front Bar: Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) DOM POLSKI CENTRE – salsa lessons (6.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!)

EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Complete Trivia

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SUNNYBOY AL’S KRAZY KARAOKE GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Front Bar: Open Mic Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Guilty Pleasures pub cabaret presented by Adelaide College Of The Arts HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room featuring Mary Webb HOLDFAST HOTEL – Nonstop Dance Party with DJs Mike Wills & VIP HQ – Flashdance Frat Party JETTY BAR – karaoke LA BOHEME – The New Cabal (9pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – DJs (9pm) MANSIONS – live band karaoke MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy featuring Trav Nash (8pm) MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection NORWOOD LIVE – Mr Damage presents The Angels with Dave Gleeson (7.30pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Open mic (7.30pm) ORIENTAL – DJ SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas SUPERMILD – It’s Wednesday Now! with local bands THE GOODY – Kickstart DJs THE KINGS BAR – DJ Yusef Wilson THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Quiz Night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Hump De Bump with Jaki J (8pm) TOWER HOTEL – Uni Night with DJ Dom P TOWER TAVERN: RENMARK – Complete Trivia UNION HOTEL – Eddie Trainor WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – Creating Styles Karaoke (9pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

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Name: Katie Venue: Hotel Wright Street, 88 Wright St. Come here if you like: To enjoy a cider under the cider tree.

Have to try: Our delicious breakfasts, every Sunday 8am until noon.

My drink: Portergaff (stout and lemonade).

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Benh Zeitlin

by MDB

Beasts Of The Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin, co-writer and director of Beasts Of The Southern Wild (and proud co-composer of its memorable music score), was recently in the country for the Sydney Film Festival, and begins the following interview by discussing how his remarkable feature début was funded, which proves rather surprising given that it looks so damn expensive.

It all arose from a short film that I made a few years ago. This very brave young production company saw this short through the film festival circuit and pretty much just called me up out of the blue and asked me what I wanted to do next. They said that as long as the film was low-budget they would finance it, and that it would be the first film that they would ever finance. There were really a lot of people taking humungous chances and jumping in at the deep end without lifejackets - but that’s really how things were with everything to do with the film!

“I began to get this idea about making a film about the town down at the end of the road,” he continues, “and the themes that are in the movie about land laws are real: there is a part of the bottom of Louisiana that is falling

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into the sea. I wondered what some of these final towns that are remaining are like, and so I started driving to the end of every road, and when I got to the town where we actually shot the film, or set of towns, they were all facing annihilation - but, at the same time, they were still so vibrant and still holding strong… This was combined with a play that a friend of mine [Lucy Alibar] wrote called Juicy And Delicious, and that was combined with an emotional thread about a girl who was losing her father... I took this broad story of this community and then showed it through the eyes of this little girl, and then the rest was a result of collaboration with the actors, and months and months of living down in these towns, hearing stories, incorporating other people’s stories, working on the language and the dialogue… You know, it was a very, very collaborative way of making a movie.”

Zeitlin is careful to call his large and unknown cast “non-professionals” rather than “non-actors”.

“Everyone had never acted before in their lives, and everyone was local where we shot in Louisiana, although they weren’t just getting up onscreen and playing themselves, as everyone was completely different to the characters they were playing.”

Quvenzhané (pronounced ‘Kuh-venn-juhnay’) Wallis, who plays chief protagonist and narrator Hushpuppy, was even younger than her six-year-old character during filming.

“She didn’t lie about her age in the auditions: she gave up the game and said that she was five. When we first put up flyers in the community, in the schools and the churches and everywhere, we originally said that the age range we were looking for was between six and nine, but she was five and, in her mind, she was sneaking in.”

But how do you direct a five-year-old, let alone coax such an amazing performance out of one?

“Our five-year-old star Quvenzhané Wallis is just extraordinary: we looked at 4000 kids and there was no one remotely with her sense of focus and her concentration. It was like dealing with someone who had been acting for 20 years.”

“You tailor everything in the shoot around her being five years old… We knew that her performance was the film and that nothing was as important as that. You schedule breaks so that she can shoot for an hour and then play for an hour; you have the crew be completely prepared for the very second that she steps

onto the set, and be flexible; and you allow yourself to turn shooting into a game instead of the high-pressure situation that it usually is. Every little thing becomes about carefully managing her experience… I mean, we knew that the set couldn’t feel like it was dangerous or scary: it had to be fun. You’re always in a state of panic and stress, but she has to feel like it’s all just a game… But you also have to remember that she’s just an extraordinary person: we looked at 4000 kids over nine months and there was no one remotely with her sense of focus and her concentration, and it was like dealing with someone who had been acting for 20 years. So yes, it was a case of really hard work on our part - and a completely incredible discovery too.”

There are many other elements of Zeitlin’s film that we could be discussing - how the wondrous sequences involving the hurricane and the flooding were achieved, the FX work behind the apparent beasts of the title (or are they?), and more, but time’s running out and maybe those mysteries are best left just that: mysteries.

“Yes, you might have a point,” Zeitlin laughs.

WHAT: Beasts Of The Southern Wild WHERE: Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas WHEN: Now screening

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Beasts Of The Southern Wild (M) Co-writer/director/ co-composer Benh Zeitlin (co-adapting the script from Lucy Alibar’s play Juicy And Delicious) has stated that this low-budget, startlingly original and often out-ofcontrol work was a collective effort, and certainly something this ambitious (and nutty) can’t be the work of just one guy. In what might be a post-Apocalyptic landscape but proves, instead, to be Bathtub, a southern Delta swampland community, six-year-old narrator Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis, barely that age during filming) lives with her obviously ill dad Wink (Dwight Henry, better-known as a local baker) and relates her story, and how she and her friends and neighbours keep dangerously refusing to move on despite the approach of both a hurricane and, sooner than they know it, a planned flooding of the

area. Disconnected from and mistrusting of modern life (and reality too, it seems), Hushpuppy must also eventually face her father’s illness and even see what life is like beyond the levee, as monstrous and enraged aurochs are freed (or are they?) from their prehistoric prisons and rampage across the countryside in sequences that impress despite some cheap model work.

A true original, if one that’s a little too chaotic, all up, Zeitlin and co’s sometimes extraordinary work is still worth seeing, and on the big-screen too, as this is a brilliantly visual experience (especially considering that it was made for a mere million or so US dollars). And Wallis’ performance is something to behold: mature and knowing, brave and passionate, and, here and there, completely crazy.

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Opening But Unrated Director Chi-Leung Lo’s The Bullet Vanishes (MA) is a Mandarin/ Cantonese-language costumer with Nicholas Tse and Ching Wan Lau. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (G) features the returning vocal cast (Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen) along with larynxes including Frances McDormand’s and Bryan Cranston’s.

Resident Evil: Retribution (MA), the fifth (!) in the series, offers 3D action, Milla Jovovich and the rest.

And the rudely comedic sci-fi-er The Watch (MA) stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade and Rosemarie DeWitt.

OzAsia On Screen Mercury Cinema

The cinematic side of OzAsia’s at the Merc until Sun Sep 30. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Reel Anime 2012 Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

Your Sister’s Sister (M) Kath And Kimderella (PG) Hit And Run (MA) While Lynn Shelton directed and ‘wrote’ this minimalist character study, it was, in fact, heavily improvised by the three leads, who never once look like they’re straining for something to say - although, reportedly, they were. A year after the death of his brother, Jack (Mark Duplass, daringly looking like hell) hasn’t recovered, and his bestie Iris (Emily Blunt) - who’s also, naturally, the deceased’s former partner - advises that he spend a week at her dad’s cabin on an island in Puget Sound, stare at the sea and finally confront his emotions. However, and of course, when Jack gets there he discovers that Iris’ sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt, a last-minute replacement for Rachel Weisz) has also just arrived, having recently broken up with her long-term same-sex partner, and the two have a boozy night of darkly funny soul-baring before doing something silly and then desperately trying to cover it up when Iris comes calling the next day, ready to make the subtle themes at play here even more uncomfortably, and amusingly, complex.

Despite the underlying and perhaps iffy aspect to some of the plotting, there’s nevertheless much that’s lovely here, from Blunt and DeWitt’s winning performances to the characters’ off-the-cuff humourous banter to the tricky final act, and while Duplass has been criticised, he’s not bad at all ( Jack’s just a bit hopeless and looks like a doofus alongside the ladies). And wow: who would have thought that sex, sexuality and relationships could be so complicated?

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Co-writers/co-producers/multiple-personastars/creators Jane Turner and Gina Riley’s appallingly Aussie characters were always a shoo-in for the big-screen, and here they are in all their grotesque glory, giving the world an uncensored view of what true-blue contemporary Australia looks like (horrible, isn’t it?). Turner’s Kath Day-Knight kicks things off by narrating a quick montage of who’s who (for those who never watched the series, and there must be a couple) and what everyone’s been up to of late: how her marriage to the Snuggie-wearing Kel (Glenn Robbins) has hit a MasterChef-influenced snag; how the abrasive Kim (Riley) wants to divorce long-suffering hubby Brett (Peter Rowsthorn); and how Sharon (Magda Szubanski made to look heavy again) is still the closeted whipping-girl.

When Kath wins a holiday to Papilloma and the ladies leave their spouses behind, an elaborately ludicrous plot kicks in, where corrupt King Javier (Rob Sitch looking like Fabio) mistakes them for royalty and his son Juleo (Erin Mullally), a Phantom Of The Opera-type, thinks he’ll marry ‘Princess’ Kim as, all the while, page Alain (Richard E Grant!) sneers in the best Richard E Grant fashion.

A tawdry TV-movie through and through, this will nevertheless be adored by fans, who will delight in some surprises (including Prue and Trude’s true coming-out as monstrous Liberal voters), cameos by Dame Edna and awful small-screen stars, Turner’s low-key overacting and Riley’s full-throttle overacting (and amazing willingness to look terrible).

And everyone else should stay well away and, while they’re at it, emigrate!

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Charles Bronson loves Annie Bean as much as Dax Shepard loves Kristen Bell.

In fact, he loves her so much, he is willing to drive Annie to Los Angeles for a job interview, despite having fled the big city under Witness Protection four years earlier, after his testimony landed his best friend (Bradley Cooper) in prison for armed robbery.

Obviously, his old friends catch wind of Charles’, AKA Yul’s, impending arrival and rush to meet him.

Reteaming with his Brother’s Justice co-director, David Palmer, Dax Shepard certainly isn’t lacking in self-efficacy as he once again writes, co-directs and stars in this crime/romance/road trip/comedy, as well as using several cars from his own collection and performing much of the stunt driving himself.

This is clearly a passion project for Shepard, but he’s unfortunately working with the adolescent notion that a film only needs guns and fast cars to be super cool, and while we get the idea during the first round of car-chasey, there are many repetitive runarounds to come, and no amount of chemistry from Shepard and Bell or psychopathy from Cooper is going to relieve the tedium.

It may occasionally prove true that a job interview is worth leaving Witness Protection for, and sometimes the best way to shake a tail may well be to drive around in circles, but really, there are only so many heartfelt mantras and screeching handbrake turns one can handle before credibility starts to slip.

Same goes for the clutch.

Kat McCarthy

Reel Anime’s at the PN until Wed Sep 26, with From Up On Poppy Hill (G), Wolf Children (PG), Berserk: The Egg Of The King (MA) and Children Who Chase Lost Voices (M). Details: palacecinemas. com.au.

Hotel Transylvania Preview Screenings Selected Cinemas

Previews of Hotel Transylvania (PG) this Sun Sep 16 help raise funds for Sony Foundation Australia.

This Is Roller Derby Premiere Regal Theatre

Tickets might be still available for the premiere of This Is Roller Derby at the Regal Theatre on Fri Sep 21 at 7pm.

Details: titanview.com.

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Cooking With Dennis Leslie Executive Chef The Brasserie

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by Paul Woo

Twin sisters are the best. Especially when they get up early, cook you breakfast and wait on your every need. Am I right?

Before we start throwing around words like sexism or bigotry, I am talking of course about sister cafes The Pantry On Egmont in Hawthorn and Ginger’s Coffee Studio in Goodwood. The Pantry quietly slipped into the suburbs some time ago and has been consistent in serving awesome dishes since, and as word began to spread about this cool little vintage-infused café the line-up for weekend breakfast did too. Enter Ginger’s Coffee Studio just in the nick of time.

A little closer to town in the busy strip at the start of Goodwood Rd, this is a great little café with a cheeky retro style. Perhaps it is in the name, but Ginger’s is definitely the sister who gets vintage style just a little better. Where the pantry would be wearing a comfortable suit with flared pants, Ginger’s is more likely wearing something with a cinched waist, inappropriate hemline and a wink-anda-smile attitude. With original retro furniture and fittings and shelves filled with a quirky array of coloured glassware and kitchenware straight out of your grandma’s kitchen, the only thing that would make this place more retro would be roller skating waitresses. In their place are some pretty cool guys behind the counter, pumping out some fantastic coffee and delightful fruit juice smoothies.

The food is also just so delicious and wholesome. Classic breakfasts include

Dolce & Co Joining Adelaide’s ever-growing list of dessert bars is Dolce & Co on Gilbert St, a place that surely wins the prize for the most geometric and artfully-crafted sweets. Boasting three glossy fridges full of saccharine treats, this relatively new eatery has quietly appeared in the city’s southern end but is already luring in those with a sweet tooth far and wide. There’s ample desserts to choose from alongside coffee, but some of the highlights include the ‘Pina Colada’ with coconut dacquoise, pineapple

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Pan Seared Snapper With Braised Witlof / Serves 4 4x150g fillet steaks of snapper 4 witlof (halved) ½ bunch Frizee lettuce (washed and pulled off the stem)

100g butter (cut into 8 long, even strips) ¼ cup of walnuts ¼ cup of olive oil Sea salt Black pepper

Photo by Jun Pang

Ginger’s Coffee Studio

Fish simply fired until the skin goes really crisp is such a wonderful thing! I grew up with fish and the way I love it cooked is fried until crispy. My grandmother would fry it so well that even the head was crispy and tasty and nothing would be left except for the back bone! Try it with just plain steamed rice and a few cut tomatoes, fabulous stuff!

Check in next week for a recipe for caper berry salsa to dress the fish.

porridge, Ginger’s ‘Big Breakfast’ and some pretty amazing French toast served with apple and blueberry compote, maple syrup and cinnamon cream cheese. Add a side of bacon to this and you have something from each food group, which is obviously the perfect way to start your day out right. If you’re more of an eat-and-run diner get stuck into the breakfast burger. All of the usual breakfast suspects, squashed into a toasted bun topped with a homemade tomato chutney your great aunt would be jealous of. Ginger’s is one of those places where it’s breakfast until you decide it’s not, and it’s perfectly acceptable for you to order the porcini omelette while your date eats the herb crusted chicken foccacia from the lunch menu.

As lunch menus go the options are limited, but I can certainly recommend the huon smoked salmon served with a citrus, watercress and potato salad. The flavours are crisp, almost

confit and coconut crème with a sweet liquour pipette on the side for finish and the orange and poppy seed cakes with Cointreau syrup, blood orange cream, orange gel and caramel mousse. Given how beautifully constructed the cakes are, it only makes it more enticing to devour them. Cavity-inducing goodness!

WHAT: Dolce & Co WHERE:45 Gilbert St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Fri 8am – 4pm and Sat 8.30am – 2pm CONTACT: 8410 3633

to the point of being refreshing and the acid in the grapefruit and orange segments really works well with the dill and caper dressing. I’ve heard that the Ginger’s burger is pretty special and saw a couple of them floating past while we dined. Lucky for me (and for Ginger’s) there will definitely be a next time. Right after my next date with her sister.

WHAT: Ginger’s Coffee Studio WHERE: 109a Goodwood Rd, Goodwood WHEN: Mon – Fri 7am – 4.30pm and Sat – Sun 8am – 4pm CONTACT: 7073 2361

Paul Wood is the local foodie behind the 12 Tables dinner party concept. Visit facebook.com/paulwoodsa for more info.

Method 1. Pre-heat the oven at 180C. 2. Place the witlof cut side up and place the butter strips on each half, season with salt and pepper and bake until wilted and slightly browned.

3. Place the remaining ingredients for the salad in a mixing bowl and season with sea salt and pepper to taste, drizzle olive oil on top.

4. Heat up a frying pan of medium high heat for one minute.

5. Add oil, season the skin side of the fish with sea salt and pepper.

6. Place the fish in the pan and cook it skin side down on medium heat for three to five minutes or until the colour turns white at least half way up the side of the fish then turn over.

7. Cook for a further two to three minutes until cooked through.

8. Place two halves of the witlof on a plate.

9. Place the fish on top of the witlof then dress with the salsa dressing.

10. Place a little of the salad on top.

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

Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 The world tipped on its axis for a moment there – but you have made the adjustments required to get back into your running game. The present requirement is that you have both feet on the ground and a fair degree of sensitivity. The lesson of malleability is going in.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 The waning moon passes through and asks you to reconsider a few things. Your version of what expansion means might not be in line with what life, in the form of Jupiter, is suggesting. Appraise your actions. Shift direction if you need to. Be quick on your feet.

Leo 23.07/22.08 Venus has opened the door and charged into your house. Are you ready for her? She will become a lioness in your presence. That means that in all the places you experience delight, the volume is likely to go up. Don’t just be a consumer; feast with fun, love and awareness.

Virgo 23.08/22.09

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The desire to be special so often gets in the way of simply doing what we love for the sheer joy of it.

Saturn is not going to let you get away with any major ego trips. He will pull you back to your original intent. Get back to the unadorned beauty of your primary delights.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 Mars is well and truly in the thick of Scorpio now. He’s gone through his adjustment phase. You are getting used to having a few extra horsepower. Now it’s down to business. There’s not much point in having a big engine with no driver or direction. Where are you going?

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 The North Node of the moon has backed out of your sign, after having traversed it for what seems like years. This allows you to be a little less focussed on the flowers to be created one day.

Instead, immerse yourself in the joy of process, minus any heavy expectations.

Cancer 22.06/22.07 Venus has left, which leaves you a little flat – but also a little relieved.

There’s a few moments here to recuperate. One has to digest after one has feasted. Even steel gets tired after an extended period of tension. Take a break. Allow yourself the natural luxury of down time.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05 Suddenly, out of nowhere, a roar comes out of your belly. It isn’t a bull’s bellow, it’s a lion’s roar.

At a certain point, resilience and stoicism aren’t enough; one has to say what needs to be said.

Though feathers are ruffled, your self-respect inspires the respect of others.

with Sudhir

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 There’s more of the nature-spirit in you than you think. Pan was a sprite – and he was a goat. Get those feet of yours out of the prison of shoes and onto the delightful pleasures of mother earth. Come back to what means the most to you, unencumbered by self-image.

Coopers Life After Dark Mural After much hype Adelaide has finally unveiled its own Coopers ‘Life After Dark’ mural courtesy of noted street artist Pose.

Situated atop the alleyway next to the Dog & Duck off Hindley St, the mural, painted with special UV paints, transforms from a plain white background to a stunning blue and black street art montage under the shroud of darkness and purple lamps. Go and check it out one evening when you’re in the area.

For more information head to lifeafterdark.com.au.

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 Love is the way to go. Venus is calling you. Trouble is saying, “Stay away from me”. Go where there is lightness and light. If there is too much gravity and gravitas in the air, excuse yourself and go for a long walk in the fresh air. Air is your element after all. Breathe it up.

Pisces 19.02/20.03

The moon casts a curly shadow over you, for a day or so. She tries to On a good day you are indeed the make you go where you don’t want sensible one. There’s been a lot of to go. Don’t take her too seriously. rash decisions lately. It’s time to Her influence will wane as quickly put the brakes on and untangle any as it came. Stick to the depth attendant messes. This is intense. and intensity that is serving your Frustration levels go up. It is also creative senses best. important. Your will is crystallised in a new and more potent way.

The Reading Room

These Walls Don’t Lie

153 Hindley St, Adelaide Ladyscape Until Fri Sep 21

Rear, 8 Unley Rd, Unley Clusterfuck Thu Sep 13 – Sun Sep 30

Young emerging artists Kat Clarke and Angelica Harris-Faull explore the human figure through patterns, cellular forms, tattoo imagery and a twist on the notion of the 1940s pin-up girl in The Reading Room’s Ladyscape.

The exhibition will serve as a dream-like and illogical reimagining of the physical and realist structures of the body through paper-based and sculptural works.

Clusterfuck is a split show between two artists presenting “a copious coital collection of cream, crust and crack”. Featuring Adelaide-based artist Dom Sargent and American-based Duncan Berg, both creatives will bring together their contrasting styles – one loose, fluid and sloppy in paint, the other rigid and precise in pen – for works that evoke both creepiness and humour.

Information Night for Prospective Students

Adelaide Central School of Art Meet staff and hear from our graduates:

Wednesday 19 Sept, 5 –7pm 45 Osmond Terrace Norwood www.acsa.sa.edu.au

Roy Ananda, Rebecca Hastings, Sally Parnis All welcome!

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Shirts With Karma A Night Of Fashion At The Art Gallery There’s not long to go until the inaugural Honda Presents A Night Of Fashion At The Art Gallery event is underway. This means you have a few days to purchase your ticket to see the 112-year-old Elder Wing host its first ever fashion parade. Presented by Honda with Attitude Magazine, your ticket will include pre-show Chambord cocktails in the gallery gardens before the Finesse and Pride Models take to the stage wearing the fashion of leading Australian and local designers, including Carla Zampatti, Bianca Spender,

Scanlan & Theodore, Willow, Jaimie Sortino, Couture + Love + Madness and Paolo Sebastian. Following the parade, an after-party with supplied McLaren Vale Beer Company beer, Adelaide Hills Cider ciders, Fox Creek wines, Chambord cocktails, Schweppes mixers and a dessert and coffee cart by Cibo Espresso will kick the night on with Parklife DJs. Local artist Lisa King will be painting live art and everyone will take home a goody bag including products by the likes of Evo, Nail Rock and Le Tan. It’s both

the fashion and art event of the year – and a guaranteed party-and-a-half. See you there?

See you there!

WHAT: Honda Presents A Night Of Fashion At The Art Gallery WHEN: Sat Sep 22 from 8pm WHERE: The Art Gallery Of South Australia, North Tce TICKETS: $95 seated, $80 standing via bass.net.au

MJ The Face Of The AFF With the 2012 Adelaide Fashion Festival fast approaching, it’s fitting that Melissa Johanssen (MJ) - who in our opinion is Adelaide’s own supermodel - takes centrestage as the face of the festival. You may recognise MJ, who is regarded as one of Australia’s top 20 models, as she has appeared in magazines such as Australian Vogue (four times!), Marie Claire, Men’s Style, Grazia and Australian Women’s Weekly as well as walking the catwalk for the world’s leading designers in New York, Paris, London, Milan, Sydney and Melbourne. MJ will be headlining some of the 16 events that consist of the 2012 Adelaide Fashion Festival. MJ’s management, Finesse Models, will also be providing all the models for the festival’s events, that will range from lingerie shows to parades in Rundle Mall to bridal shows, as well as new additions to the festival with a movie night and op-shop style tour.

The 2012 Adelaide Fashion Festival will be held from Fri Oct 19 – Sat Oct 27. For more information on events and for tickets visit adelaidefashionfestival.com.au.

Skullcandy Aviator Dr Dre isn’t the only rap artist redefining the way we listen to music. Jay-Z’s ROC Nation has teamed up with Skullcandy to create the Skullcandy Aviator, which takes inspiration for its style from a traditional pair of aviator sunglasses. The result focuses on the highest performance in music, fashion and performance, and look more classic and a little less cartoonish than some other headphones on the market. Available in five different metallic colours, it would appear they would team perfectly with a pair of good ol’ Ray Ban Aviators for upcoming summer days… Funny that.

Skullcandy headphones RRP $249.95 and stockists are au.skullcandy.com.

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We all have – or girls know of guys who have - pre-loved work shirts that have teetered into the inappropriate corner of the public acceptability zone. An upgrade is certainly the only viable option to save yourself from public scrutiny and potential loss of employment. Instead of discarding your old shirt, however, be sure to donate it to The Butterfly Movement, who will re-gift your shirt to someone disadvantaged so they can have a hand-up in the workforce. To thank you for your generosity, Elzinga Suits are offering a trade for your old shirt for a new one. Elzinga Suits will fit you on the spot for a custom-made shirt for only $79 (normally $89-$169) so you can be sure your shirt’s replacement is up to scratch. This way both you – and the person who receives your pre-loved shirt – can be winners.

Donate your pre-loved work shirt to The Butterfly Movement at 131 Goodwood Rd between Thu Sep 13 and Sat Sep 29. Shirt upgrades are limited to one per person and for men only. To see the range of Elzinga Suit shirts visit elzingasuits.com.

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The Art Of Love

Delicacy

Paramount Transmission / M / 83 Mins

Paramount Transmission / M / 105 Mins

Writer/director/co-star Emmanuel Mouret (of the also rather irritating Shall We Kiss?) handles this all-French-star multi-character/ intermingling-narrative comedy with such a light touch that it barely registers at all.

Coy chapter titles, cheesy voice-overs and a Woody Allen-wannabe jazzy soundtrack try hard to make the storylines sweet, as a gaggle of types agonise prettily about relationships: there’s Isabelle ( Julie Dépardieu), who hasn’t had sex in a year and whose friend Zoé (Pascale Arbillot) offers her the chance to borrow her boring husband; Amélie (no, really, and played by Judith Godréche), who improbably deceives her smitten pal Boris (Laurent Stocker); the older Achille (the amusing enough François Cluzet), who falls for his new neighbour (Frédérique Bel) despite her over-intellectualised concerns that everything’s a bit contrived (and yes, indeed it is); a young couple (Elodie Navarre and Gaspard Ulliel) dully considering infidelity (sort of ); and the middle-aged Emmanuelle (Ariane Ascaride) who, after she tries to leave her spouse, is made an offer she can’t refuse: flirt and sleep with whoever she wants out there and then tell him all about it (a sort of would-be-‘charming’ variation upon Lars von Trier’s Breaking The Waves). And, well, how French can you get?

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Audrey Tautou toplines this trying French drama, and while the role’s darker than usual for her she’s hopelessly upstaged by a sneaky co-star. Her Nathalie is a career woman who’s happy with her husband François (Pio Marmaï) but finds her life turned upsidedown when he dies in an accident and she’s forced to endure a contrived period of mourning that involves moping in designer sleepwear, various soul-barings and, finally, a dissociative state during which she snogs a co-worker, the Swedish-French Markus (François Damiens). And it’s here, at 35 minutes in, that co-directors David and Stéphane Foenkinos’ film (drawn from David’s novel and screenplay) jarringly switches gears, strikes up T-Rex’s Get It On and decides that it’s actually about Markus, whom no one thinks could win Nathalie’s heart, as he’s hulking, balding, a dumpy dresser and a bit of a doofus - but hey, this is a French lerve story, and they specialise in pairing gorgeous women with ugly blokes.

And yet Damiens’ Markus is an appealing character anyway, and he more than survives the grinding plot mechanics that set him up as Nathalie’s suitor, and also manages to upstage Tautou in what is now, despite everything, an oh-so-‘Tautouesque’ performance that seems like Amélie with a hangover.

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Dirk Gently: Series One Roadshow/ABC / PG / 229 Mins

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Abbey Road: The Best Studio In The World

Alistair Lawrence / Bloomsbury / 303pp / $79.99

The studio so famous they named an album after it gets its own coffee table book with this gorgeously glossy volume, complete with an introduction by George Martin - although this isn’t merely about those Beatles, as Lawrence offers a history of the premises and indeed music in the 20th century and beyond. Investigating the beginning of recording, offering images of the studio’s 1931 opening and providing exhaustive depictions of what went on before the Fab Four (everyone from Paul Robeson to Maurice Chevalier to Spike Milligan worked there), this gets to The Beatles midway before proceeding into the trippy ‘70s (cue Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon-ing), the awesome ‘80s (Duran Duran!) and further, as well as chronicling non-pop/rock labours like the scores for Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings trilogy (and the then-chubby PJ is seen tapping Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore’s head like a xylophone).

Yep, there’s just Something about the place.

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Ephemera Stains Angas St’s Bakehouse Theatre is currently presenting Ephemera Stains as a season of two short plays by local writers David Jobling and Lucy Campbell. Jobling’s latest work, Filling In, follows a long career in local theatre but Campbell’s Godfrey marks her debut.

“I’ve never seen anything I’ve written being played out on stage,” Campbell says. “And it’s a busy time because I’m also working as a backstage volunteer for Adelaide Rep who have Arthur Miller’s All My Sons on at the moment. So I’m running between plays although, luckily, the Arts Theatre and Bakehouse are both on the same street so I can just hop on my bike.”

Campbell, who also plays in Adelaide band The Aves, was approached about staging Godfrey.

“I’ve been doing a professional writing course at TAFE for a number of years now and just finishing my diploma. I was approached by my lecturer, Terry Crawford, who told me David Jobling was looking for some local plays to put on. I’m more of a writer of novels and film scripts but I just happened to have written a play - although it was a long, slow process because the first draft was really terrible.

“Embarrassingly so, but my mentor Chris Tugwell was kind enough to work with me on a second draft and then we did a read-through at TAFE with Terry

Based on the books by the late lamented Douglas Adams and pushed into production

by Howard Overman (of the culty UK smallscreener Misfits), this might sometimes spiral into silliness and feature mysteries that no one in this reality could possibly crack, but it’s held nicely in check by cool casting and charming character comedy. Dirk Gently (Stephen Mangan of Green Wing and Episodes) is the perpetually broke, somewhat unethical, totally infuriating but surely brilliant guy behind Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, where conundrums are solved via an unerring belief in the notion that everything in the universe fits together and has an influence upon everything else, and after meeting an old school friend (dependably dopey Darren Boyd as MacDuff ), the cases start coming: a missing cat leads to two murders and a flight of impossible fancy; a slew of conspiracy theories are true(ish), but not in the way they first seem; a robot, the life’s work of Dirk’s mentor (Bill Paterson), vanishes under headspinning circumstances; and former Gently clients are being murdered for reasons we can’t fathom but the man himself can (hopefully).

Maybe too eccentric to warrant a second season, and yet one’s apparently on the way and thus nature balances itself.

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The Amity Affliction Revved up rhythms, soaring melodies, blistering breakdowns and hilariously subversive non-sequitur song titles are the stock-in-trade of the hard-partying mischief-makers in The Amity Affliction. Yet cloaked beneath the mayhem lie the stark realities of humankind’s dark struggle with mortality. Simply put, these four Australians have found reasons to smile even as they confront some of the harder truths of life.

Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of The Amity Affliction’s new album Chasing Ghosts. Competition closes at midday on Thu Sep 20.

P!nk P!nk is back with her highly anticipated sixth studio album, The Truth About Love.

If the success of her first single Blow Me (One Last Kiss) is anything to go by, The Truth About Love will go straight to the top of the charts. The album is P!nk’s unique take on the different shades of love – the dark, the light, the happy and the sad. For your chance to win one of five copies of The Truth About Love, log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details. Competition closes at midday on Thu Sep 20.

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and some acting students. I got some good feedback so I re-drafted it again and then David Jobling picked it up, although it has since gone through another few drafts.”

Godfrey, which Jobling is directing, tells the tale of two men meeting at random at a bus stop and has Jobling working alongside Jamie Jewell (pictured).

“It’s about a guy [ Jewell] waiting at a bus stop who is approached by a crazy older guy [ Jobling] as can only happen in Adelaide.

“And Jamie has been terrific because he’s also super busy at the moment because he’s a contestant on that television reality show I Will Survive.

“And staging Godfrey has been a real learning curve, although I’m very thankful of the opportunity. Will I write another one? Maybe, because as stressful as it is, it’s also really exciting.”

Campbell goes on to say that the two plays work well together.

“And David’s play, Filling In, which Jamie is also in, is much more improvised than Godfrey and varies from performance to performance.”

Campbell’s band, The Aves, have also just returned from an overseas trip.

“We did Canada and America three weeks ago. And we recorded while we were in Brooklyn so we’re going to put a single out sometime soon.

We just have to get the money together.

“And the band have been very nice about letting me do my own thing with Godfrey,” Campbell adds. “Especially since I wrote a song for the play – it’s right at the beginning and again at the end – rather than give it to the band.”

WHAT: Ephemera Stains WHERE: Bakehouse Theatre WHEN: Until Sat Sep 15

Your guide to the student experience.

Hopefully as Adelaide University were preparing to knuckle down for the shitstorm that is mid-term crunch-time they still had the time to vote in their student elections. While sometimes passion can overcome some candidates as an excuse to invade the peacefulness of others’ walk across the campus, student elections are still important. They ensure that students have a say in how the university is run and that (more to the point) that cool shit still happens at uni. And for all their hard work, these students will be rewarded with gold stars for their CVs. In the end, for all the campaigning hassle the result is win/win, so I hope the candidates weren’t avoided completely… I look forward to hearing the results of the real-life example of democracy in motion. And for those who voted, I hope you spent your 10 percent off voucher at the General wisely.

Democracy matters, yes - but vouchers also matter (when you’re a poor student).

And remember, is you have any student info, a campus event coming up or any deals students should know about, email fasttimes@ripitup.com.au, Tweet @ FastTimesRIU or Poke facebook.com/ fasttimesripitupmag and I’ll do the hard work for you.

Peace, Lachie

Little Shop Of Horrors Review Reel Anime Whether you think Studio Ghibli should be renamed Universe Ghibli, are vaguely aware that Totoro is your neighbour or just want to see what all the fuss is about, the Reel Anime festival returns to the Palace Nova. The festival will see cutting-edge and highly-anticipated anime films From Up On Poppy Hill, Wolf Children, Beserk: The Egg Of The King and Children Who Chase Lost Voices brought fresh from Tokyo to Adelaide.

Japanese animation purists will be glad to see that the films will feature original Japanese soundtracks with English subtitles (Alas, no Fanning sister dubbings for these films…). With everything from cute-as-can-be love stories to all medieval gore-fest and fantasy adventures, there will be something for everyone to ዲࡁat this year’s Reel Anime.

Reel Anime is being held at the Palace Nova East End cinemas from Thu Sep 13 to Wed Sep 26. For session times and film info visit reelanime.com.

Greenroom: OzAsia With OzAsia upon us this week, GreenRoom are once again offering their members exclusive offers to events where they can meet and learn from the festival’s artists.

The two events on offer are a percussion workshop with Ben Walsh and a panel discussion on The Life Of A Young Composer. Considering musician Ben Walsh has worked with the likes of The Bird, Circle The Rhythm, Tom Tom Crew and Orkestra Of The Underground and returns to OzAsia with his new production, Fearless Nadia, Walsh will surely be able to give a tip or two to budding percussionists.

The Life Of A Young Composer discussion panel will give attendees the opportunity to pick the brains of OzAsia’s resident composers,

with Lachlan Aird

including Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Tristn Coelho and Christopher Larkin, about all kinds of composition, including film, comedy, dance, symphonies or even video games, which can prove invaluable for those wishing to make their own mark in the industry.

To register for an event email thegreenroom@adelaidefestivalcentre. com.au. Percussion Workshop with Ben Walsh will be held at 1pm on Sun Sep 16 at the Space Theatre.

The Life Of A Young Composer – Panel Discussion will be held at 6pm on Thu Sep 20 in the John Bishop Room.

Both events are free for GreenRoom members.

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Man-eating singing alien plants. It happened. AC Arts have tackled the cult favourite musical, Little Shop Of Horrors, and have exceeded expectations in doing so. From the sassy New York Skid Row accents to manipulating the multiple man-eating puppets, the fact that students from all departments of the production managed to execute a seamless performance just goes to show how professional the skills taught in the AC Arts courses are. If seeing some of Adelaide’s finest young creative talent being eaten by a giant Triffid-like plant that almost reaches the ceiling of the AC Arts theatre is something you’d like to see (yeah, you will) be sure to make it to the final performances. Also, those familiar with the 1986 film may be in for a surprise as the ending takes a slightly different turn (although faithful to the original story). The rest of you will probably pick up the origin of multiple Family Guy spoofs…

Little Shop Of Horrors continues until Sat Sep 15 at 7.30pm in the AC Arts Main Theatre, 39 Light Square. Tickets are $20 adult, $10 concession via Venuetix.

T N E D U ST F O L A DE EK E W THE 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.

The Exeter Hotel’s Curry Night Perhaps drawing comparisons between certain Biblical figures and the Exeter is somewhat exaggerated, but maybe not so. They both unite the masses and promote peace on earth. Whether you’re a wanderer, yuppie, family or impoverished student (hoorays!) every Wednesday and Thursday evening, The Ex’s balcony offers the best curry night in town. The menu constantly changes, meaning you

won’t get sick of the same thing, and can be as adventurous or safe as you like (in both flavour and spice level). An old favourite for a mid-week feed, and something that has kept generations of students powering on for years. Experience it.

Curry Night happens every Wednesday and Thursday night at the Exeter Hotel, 246 Rundle St. theexeter.com.au

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CD Of The Week

Scottie’s Singles

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Listen Now:

Frightened Rabbit

Here (Community/Vagrant)

State Hospital EP (Atlantic/Warner)

In 1814, a huge vat of beer ruptured on London’s Tottenham Court Rd, spilling more than a million litres of the brown fluid into the streets and drowning eight people. A ninth died of alcohol poisoning. What a way to go, eh?

As enticing as a tidal wave of free beer – and sounding just as sozzled - is Frightened Rabbit’s new EP. The Scottish band’s five-tracker not only features champion pub poet Aidan Moffat, it also matches smart production with rich lyricism.

Thick with weary despair, title track State Hospital mixes Irvine Welsh grit with John Keats beauty; dolled up girls don ‘Saturday’s uniform for the fuck-me parade’, while a dead-end, tedious life is ‘a screaming anchor for nothing in particular’.

Frontman Scott Hutchison sometimes sounds like Selkirk’s answer to Sad Kermit, but his focus on the pain translates into poetry as heavy as Tennent’s Super.

Listen Later:

Texas Tea Heart Says Yes (Head Says No)

Purity Ring Shrines (4AD)

(Mere Noise)

With its Dream Lover style of fingerpicking and simple production taking it straight back to 1960, Texas Tea’s strutting new single sounds like Buddy Holly and Bobby Darin borrowing Dad’s Plymouth and taking Annette Funicello and Connie Stevens on a double date to Chuck Berry’s diner. Just be careful of perverts when you go to the bathroom, girls.

Since Purity Ring released their first single Ungirthed early last year, Corin Roddick and Megan James have been faced with the challenge of living up to massive musical expectations. A number of singles later and their debut album, Shrines, is justifiably worth the wait.

Bob Dylan Duquesne Whistle

Combining deep hip hop beats and electronic atmospheres doesn’t immediately sound aurally refreshing, but it just is. There is nothing to compare Shrines with. Tension and weird turns of phrase characterise the vocal of James, whose initial musical ventures in rock sounds seem a distant memory.

The sweet, child-like lyricism on Shuck and Saltkin are juxtaposed by the beats of Roddick, which never indicate a continuous rhythm and stay high in the mix to seem heavier than they really are.

Early singles Belispeak and Lofticries lose nothing with their addition on Shrines, while Obedear remains one of the alternative highlights of this year. The album possesses a sound that could not possibly be re-created by a band with the same authenticity, a sound that seems bigger than it really is. Based on their DIY background within the Alberta music scene, Purity Ring demonstrate that with a vision and will to succeed, two is perfect company.

Sam Reynolds

While their first record Up From Below was a wonderfully grandiose effort, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros’ sophomore album Here sees the band shed a layer to reveal something rawer. Tapping into a ‘60s vibe the second time around, the record’s low volumes, epic harmonies and analogue tinniness transports you to a campfire in the middle of a desert where the 12-piece ensemble are merrily playing stomp boxes and acoustic guitars.

The double vocal takes on songs from lead vocalists Alex Ebert and Jade Castrinos, while once madly in love but now performing on a more platonic level, works a treat, recreating a sort of contemporary Johnny Cash and June Carter dynamic on tracks like That’s What’s Up and Child.

There’s also some interesting spiritual references throughout the record – I Don’t Wanna Pray, one of the album’s highlights, draws upon Deep Southern blues but with a modern twist of hubris, Sharpe incanting, ‘I love my God, God made hate, but I don’t wanna pray to my maker’. The Simon & Garfunkel-inspired Dear Believer similarly comments on afterlife with padding guitar hooks, while Fiya Wata is the most saturated with reverence of them all. Other highlights include the gorgeous Mayla and lead single Man On Fire. While there’s a lot of talk of higher power throughout this record, you get the sense Alex Ebert isn’t trying to preach to you rather than offer a point of view. An album to get you thinking.

Miranda Freeman

(Sony)

Like Tom Waits singing the perennial National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation tune Mele Kalikimaka, the introductory bars of Bob Dylan’s new single feature the most misjudged Hawaiian influence since ABBA’s Arrival reject Happy Hawaii. From there, however, Duquesne Whistle’s revelry is a fun journey back to the 1920s, offering a snapshot of a buoyant speakeasy band playing away their prohibition woes. Dylan’s older than the discontinued locomotive route he’s drawing inspiration from here, but this energetic first taste of new album Tempest shows little sign of crud on the tracks.

David Guetta Feat Sia She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) (EMI)

Sadly not the mash-up of Shakira and Faith No More that the title suggests, the winning team behind the inescapable radio tedium Titanium are back for a monster sequel. Having sung a grammatically dubious line about ‘running with wolfs’ on Flo Rida’s massive hit Wild Ones earlier in the year, She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) finds Sia coming over all loopy lupine again.

It kicks off like Bonnie Tyler singing Clocks, but then the whole damn thing gets caught in a threshing machine being operated by Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Bound to be a radio staple until Christmas 2014, it has a few redeeming points… but then again so does a Shop-A-Docket.

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Alpine Live Review

The Governor Hindmarsh, Fri Sep 7 Review by Sam Reynolds Pics by Andreas Heuer

A venue synonymous with playing host to legendary artists in an intimate setting, the Governor Hindmarsh has lately provided opportunities for those not quite taking the world by storm, but most certainly on the brink of doing so. Opening up the space to these sorts of bands and lowering ticket prices invites a new crowd in, offering acts the opportunity to play in front of larger audiences than may otherwise have been possible. Case in point: Alpine.

The six-piece finally found a stage big enough for their stage presence and definitely made the most of the opportunity. Debut album A Is For Alpine allowed the band to expand on their bright form of electronicbased pop, by way of introducing new ideas and also showcasing their softer moments.

This translates perfectly on to the stage, where each part is expertly performed with full respect for the crowd.

Singers Lou James and Phoebe Baker are incredible to watch. At times they are mystical, interacting with each other both aurally and visually, while at others they show reckless abandon towards the space around them. James appears like a noir actress straight out of the

Reviews // Quick Ones

Fabulous Diamonds

The Tallest Man On Earth

Commercial Music

There’s No Leaving Now

(Chapter Music)

(Dead Oceans)

Nisa Venerosa and Jarrod Zlatic, the two halves of Fabulous Diamonds, have never necessarily been privy to the elements of commercial music. Having previously released music completely lacking song or record titles, the Melbourne duo have now attempted to embrace a more consumable style of production in the form of their third album, Commercial Music.

Fabulous Diamonds continue their adventure towards seeping electronic ambience and bellowing rhythms on Commercial Music. The repetition is at times eerie for those not familiar; in this sense it would be interesting to hear their music soundtrack a feature film.

Producer Mikey Young, of Eddy Current Suppression Ring fame, has always been one for finding perfection in imperfection, something that shows as little timing mistakes become irrelevant in the context of the songs. Tracks like John Song and 10-minute album closer Downhill appear subliminally elongated and drawn out, but provide reward with additional layering interspersed throughout.

Aside from Venerosa’s dreamy vocal on Wandering Eye, there is marginal room for listener connection on Commercial Music.

As a set of compositions though, this backs up the duo’s back catalogue fairly well. If you treat the record as a conscious background whisper, you’ll probably find joy.

Sam Reynolds

How tall is the actual tallest man on earth? Like seven feet, do you think? Don’t ponder too hard, I looked it up for you: eight feet and three inches high. Holy hell, that is one tall specimen of human, but not as tall as the talent of the real Tallest Man On Earth, Kristian Matsson. The Swede releases his third album, There’s No Leaving Now, by taking a different shape to his previous two records. It appears as though the lad has simmered down with this little number and has officially found his sound.

On There’s No Leaving Now Matsson shows his flexibility as a capable artist and proves to be more than just a clever instrumentalist, with the journey of his lyricism adding a whole different dimension to the record. From torsoswaying tunes to aching ballads where he pours his little heart out, this growth has enabled him to bare all with this album.

The intimate quiver to his voice makes you feel as though you can peek inside his soul.

I wonder what it’s like in there - let me know if you check it out.

The Tallest Man On Earth is officially the tallest man in the solar system with this release. Get involved.

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French Nouvelle Vague, while Baker’s fiery hair and facial glitter is consistently appealing.

And vocally, the two find harmonies that seem unattainable at first, but pull them off with ease.

Lovers 1-2 and Hands immediately have the audience moving. The girls ask the crowd to participate in what they call “Alpine zumba”, a form of dancing they have created as a result of not being able to work out while touring.

They then provide the crowd with a free lesson during Heartlove, and based on the response, the demonstration might be coming to your local video shop or late night TV shopping programs in the near future.

Their enthusiasm spreads through to drummer Phil Tucker, who moves between his drum kit and synthesised pads, bridging the gap between Alpine’s lighter and heavier moments. Album highlights In The Wild and All For One are welcome inclusions on the setlist, though throughout the hour-long show it becomes evident just how the band’s hits have translated through to the audience.

Singles Gasoline and Villages rounded off an engrossing performance, with a stage invasion during the latter taken in good spirit by both Baker and James, who dance outrageously with one over-zealous fan. And as the band returned for an encore of older track Icypoles, Baker took the reins of a red electric guitar, finishing the song with a great deal of aplomb. It perfectly demonstrated how Alpine have taken such a simplistic sound and made it grander than it rightfully should be. A is for Awesome.

Cosmo Jarvis Think Bigger

Hey Geronimo

(Creative Vibes)

Hey Geronimo EP (Independent)

Cosmo Jarvis is back, and he is thinking bigger - so big, in fact, that his little British Cosmo head may just tumble right off his neck. With his third album release, who knew what to expect with this unpredictable specimen? The opener This Love is a ripsnorter of a track, catching Triple J’s attention as a smooth indie pop number. The tune progresses quite nicely, with a catchy, silky blues undercurrent.

Oh how I wish the review could have wrapped up at this point, since if it had, it would have suggested this was an absolute cracker of an album. Sadly, what starts off as this straight-line indie pop contorts into a random and convulsing series of tracks weaving in and out of country and western. From this point it seems to meander gradually downhill for Cosmo.

That said, the young chap has proved himself as quite the gifted storyteller, with each track transporting you somewhere different.

You wouldn’t believe this record was by the same man, since he appears to have genre epilepsy, suffering seizures as he fades in and out of an array of weird and wonderful sounds. It’s a bit of a contrast to his 2011 Triple J Hottest 100 hit, Gay Pirates. There are definitely no gay pirates in the building with this release, much to my disappointment . . .

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For a musician, being featured in a major advertising campaign can either make or break a career.

It can be massively successful and open doors to new listeners, or be so annoying that no one wants to hear it again. Unfortunately, when Hey Geronimo ask Why Don’t We Do Something? on their lead single, asking AFL convert Israel Folau to complete a handball on the competition’s latest marketing move was probably not what the band had in mind.

Anyhow, the band’s debut selftitled EP is endemic of Brisbane’s harmony-deep pop scene circa 2012; the songs are consistently catchy, but never really captive. It feels like Hey Geronimo are slightly late to the party, like they arrived with a carton of beer when everyone had already passed out.

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John Maus A Collection Of Rarities And Previously Unreleased Material (Domino)

Working with underground cult figure Ariel Pink has certainly rubbed off on Minnesota journeyman John Maus. Presenting this compilation of rarities and unreleased material, Maus shows how being keyboard player for a stint with Pink’s Haunted Graffiti directly aligns with his own solo material, particularly in some of the demos produced around that time.

This collection is full of songs from Maus’ more successful period of the past decade, and contains two previously unreleased songs, Angel Of The Night and Lost, which are sure to ignite the true fans. As with any compilation, the majority of the songs featured on this release are demos, and thus lack the level of polish heard on past album material. But since when has Maus fallen back on polish before?

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The Transatlantics At Fourwords Fourwords returns to Rhino Room this weekend on Sat Sep 15 featuring everyone’s favourite soul music ensemble The Transatlantics. Kicking off from 9pm, other festivities throughout the night include two photography exhibitions in the beer garden and inside the venue by Jaya Suartika and Kat Schultz, DJs upstairs and downstairs and free shots at 10pm. $5 entry, get on it.

Having only formed a year ago, you could say young bloods Horror My Friend are springing into the commercial music atmosphere, with their new single Lifeblood currently reaping through the Top 10 on the Triple J Unearthed Charts and a host of impressive support stints already on their resumés.

After releasing their debut EP Shivers And Spines late last year which saw them clambering onto the tour bus with acts like DZ Deathrays, British India and Dune Rats, the alternative rock trio will now release a new double A-side at Rocket this weekend. Member Tom Gordon speaks to Rip It Up about the release and hinted at a more “developed” sound from the band in the new singles Lifeblood and Too Good For The Age To Be. “The whole thing with Lifeblood is that we always used to do something really quiet and then have a heavy chorus or something like that, but I suppose in this song we kept it at the same level for a lot of it which is

something we don’t normally do,” Gordon explains. “I suppose we just concentrated more on the vocal line to make it more interesting, and that seems to have gotten a pretty good response with Triple J and stuff like that. Too Good For The Age To Be is more like what we usually do, but I think it’s still a little bit less punk than what we usually do.”

Dithering between gentle, indie pop angles to heavy grunge detours, Horror My Friend have been influenced by a bevy of influences.

“We always used to listen to the really heavy grunge stuff, but I think the newest influences we’re listening to are melodic, ‘90s bands like My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr. And then there’s indie rock stuff like The Cribs and Bloc Party. We wanted to get away from this generic indie rock sound, we wanted to make ourselves sound a bit more unique. So we tried a lot harder to write the songs this time.”

Having warmed up under the glow of stage lights on plenty of occasions this year, Gordon lists a couple of support show highlights the band have experienced in 2012.

“Playing with British India was pretty cool, but that was a bit annoying because Kings Of Leon were playing across the road

when we were on. So there were like five people in the room,” Gordon laments. “But it was still really cool. I think playing with DZ Deathrays was awesome too, because we really like those guys.”

In other news, the band most recently teamed up with local film makers and producers Capital Waste for a video clip for single Lifeblood. From what we can tell from the teaser screen caps, it’s panning out to be a kooky piece of footage; ie members wearing slices of bread on their faces.

“We just wanted to have fun while making it and make it something enjoyable for people to watch, but the main thing was to make it a bit weird and interesting. It was supposed to come out a while ago but we’ve had a few delays with it, so it will be out either this week or next week,” Gordon offers.

You can download Lifeblood for free on Horror My Friend’s Facebook page.

No One Wants To Play With Us This Sat Sep 15 at the Hotel Metro local showcase No One Wants To Play With Us will celebrate its third birthday with a whole host of handpicked South Australian talent. From 9pm for just $8 catch sets from members of The Dead Beatnik’s Society, Menagerie, Doe, Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity, Middleman and more. Bring your friends!

WHO: Horror My Friend WHAT: Lifeblood/Too Good For The Age To Be (Independent) WHERE: Cats at Rocket Bar WHEN: Fri Sep 14

Brillig Recording Live At The Grace Brillig will be returning to the Grace Emily for a lazy Sunday on Sep 16 with a mission up their sleeves – a live recording of their newest tracks. While having only previewed their new material once or twice on the live stage, Brillig will be taking advantage of the Grace’s new digital sound desk in order to lay down the tunes onto fresh tape. They will be performing the full set of new tracks with aims to release one or two on a special Christmas CD in December, supported on the night by Mary Webb. Entry will be free.

Sparkspitter & Brokers Pilot Records Presents is back, this time re-launching at the Ed Castle this Fri Sep 14 with local acts Sparkspitter and Brokers.

Costing just a measly $7 at the door, the bands will start at 10.30pm with tunes provided in between sets from Pilot Records DJs.

New Releases WHO: Brillig & Mary Webb WHERE: The Grace Emily WHEN: Sun Sep 16 from 7pm

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