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Editor’s Note// Hats off to you, Parklife organisers you really hit the spot with your headliner this year. No, I’m not talking about those Depeche Mode revisionists The Presets – it’s Sweden’s super-powered pop elf Robyn who truly reigned at Sunday’s event.

Playing at the same time and on the same stage fellow Swede and former collaborator Lykke Li headlined last year, Robyn proved just why former touring partners Katy Perry and Madonna are in awe of her; not only does she kick serious live arse, she’s maintained her integrity by resolutely playing by her own rules.

What separates Robyn from the instant pop fixes of most chart hits is the fact she’s distilled such depth into the tracks on her eponymous album and the Body Talk EP series. Despite maintaining a cocky demeanour, her finest tracks are rife with doubt and sadness, condensing the pain of break-ups and the fear of loneliness into three-minute Scando gems. While many in her crowd on Sunday night might have been oblivious to the emotional exposés of songs such as Dancing On My Own, Be Mine! and Call Your Girlfriend. Robyn’s majestic balance of staying indomitably cool while offering heartbreaking lyrical disclosures make her peerless. Maybe it was just a little sunscreen in my eye, but I think a tiny tear even formed when Robyn unleashed a stellar With Every Heartbeat to cap off her performance. Robyn remains the queen of queen bees.

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Witness the hard rockin’ Melbourne culprits when they launch new single, Culprits, at Enigma Bar on Sat Oct 13 with help from Squeaker, Four Kings Loud and The Angels Of Gung-Ho.

Catch the local singer songwriter when he launches his latest album, Long Road Home, on Sat Oct 13 at Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel with Luker + 1 and Canberra’s Juliet Ward.

Experience the American thrash metal act when they play Enigma Bar on Fri Oct 12 with Adelaide’s Truth Corroded.

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See Alex Gow and his band when they launch uptempo new album, Deep Heat, at the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Oct 11 with Brisbane’s Millions.

Head along to Fowler’s Live on Fri Oct 12 to experience the energetic US punk band with Sydney’s Endless Heights.

Traipsing down from NSW’s central coast to launch Chasing You, a new EP of their charismatic pop folk ditties, at the Grace Emily on Sat Oct 13.

Speeding along this week...

BRITISH INDIA – catch the Melbourne indie rockers when they launch a new single, I Can Make You Love Me, at the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Oct 12.

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HUSKY – back from overseas with a signing to legendary US label Sub Pop and popping into Adelaide Uni Bar on Sun Oct 14 as part of their Tidal Wave tour.

MUMFORD & SONS – see the UK folk rockers with US acts Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Willy Mason at Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre on Mon Oct 15.

HANSEL – experience the Sydney shock rockers at North Tce’s Cavern Club on Sat Oct 13 with locals Generation Swine, Lovecream and Laced In Lust.

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Who: Claude Hay / Where: The Glenelg Surf Club / When: Sun Nov 11 / Tickets: Free

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Who: Amanda Palmer / Where: Thebarton Theatre / When: Sun Feb 17 / Tickets: venuetix.com.au

Theatre Is Evil A lot of words get said about Amanda Palmer.

And she makes a lot of words herself. Then there are her famously crazy loyal fans writing all kinds of stuff about her… it’s a worldwide

web word fest. She’s just as intense in real life, so get ready for the punk cabaret pioneer playing her latest offering Theatre Is Evil in Australia early next year. Her first studio album in four years, it debuted at number 10 in the US charts and features The Grand Theft Orchestra with Michael McQuilken, Chad Raines and Jherek Bischoff.

Swampy rock stomping blues man Claude Hay has a special lady in his life, a guitar he built especially to record his new album I Love Hate You. The DIY master’s recording is all about the things Hay loves, hates and loves to hate – luckily cigar box-style guitar Stella falls into the love category.

“She’s a resonator type guitar I guess made from a $7 baking tray, scrap bits of metal off broken washing machines, left over timber from my deck and bits of guitars I have in my ‘guitar graveyard’, the place where bad experiments go,” Hay says. “She’s got a unique sound, somewhere in the sound of a resonator crossed with a banjo of course, with a bass string with separate outs. Sounds weird, but I love her.”

Sad Summer Hits lyrical themes from songs such as The Merry Blues and I Love You Like I Love This Black Eye. “I think it’s a fairly big departure from anything we’ve done previously,” Dougherty says. “It’s a bigger record, it’s more ambitious.

Musically and sonically we wanted a nostalgic feel – old electric sounds and equipment. It’s not what we thought it would be, but these things never are. It became its own thing, not something that could’ve been planned.”

SIREN TOWER promise to be a distinctly and unmistakably Australian band, telling stories of the country’s indigenous, convict and immigrant history alike. Led by Grant McCulloch, they play Enigma on Sat Nov 17. Tickets: oztix.com.au and moshtix.com.au.

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P!nk Returns P!nk snuck into the country last week to play a quick promo tour, lighting the Forum Theatre in Melbourne up in pink (surprise) to play for a few lucky fans. The show was a touch more low-key than her 2009 Funhouse Tour, one of the biggest Australian tours ever.

Starting off as a 20-show run, she ended up staying for three months and playing a huge 58 sold-out shows to more than 670,000 fans around the country. Madness! It’s all kicking off again next year with The Truth About Love tour, which comes to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Mon Jul 1 and Tue Jul 2. Get tickets fast for this one!

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Who: Texas Tea and band with Carla Lippis and special guests / Where: Grace Emily / When: Sun Oct 21 / Tickets: $12 on the door

Take vintage country pop, conceptualise it a little further with tongue firmly in cheek and a combination of retro country, blues and ‘50s pop and add some sparkle dust and you have Texas Tea. The Brisbane indie folk-cumcountry soul duo of Benjamin P Dougherty and Kate Jacobson have been hard at work on their third album Sad Summer Hits. Expect suggestive doo-wop, simplistic anarchy, husky vocals and gruntbucket guitar alongside witty

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The SideTracked Fiasco might not be so good at spelling, getting Supergroove wrong on the pictured band homage hat, but they are good at playing funkcore. They like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, Faith No More, System Of A Down and Mammal – hear their combination of the rhythm and feel of funk and early hip hop, the urgency and speed of punk and the experimentation of progressive rock at the Squatters Arms on Thu Nov 22 and the World’s End on Fri Nov 23.

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Who: Blondie, The Stranglers & The Saints / Where: AEC Theatre / When: Tue Dec 4 / Tickets: ticketek.com.au

Harry = Hot Debbie Harry – major hottie, frontwoman for Blondie and living punk icon. Not that long ago photographers chased her around the streets mistaking her for Lindsay Lohan (WTF?). Check Vice online for an interview

in which she recently discussed all that and more – including how she feels about ageing.

“In my world, in the entertainment world, in the visible world there’s a tremendous amount of pressure put on men and women about their viability or desirability. Are you still fuckable? That’s the big deal. I think when I was younger I worried about it more than I do now.”

When Jack Steadman of Bombay Bicycle Club played a festival on stage with Peter Hook recently it went something like this. Peter Hook: “Right, I’m following you.” Steadman: “This is your song!”

That’s how Steadman told the story on Twitter, along with tales of being peed on by kittens the band rescued from dumpsters, catching sunrise in Istanbul and playing Damon Albarn’s magical mystery tour of the UK, Africa Express.

After all that the past NME Best New Band winners, Ivor Novello Award nominees and UK top 10 act are bringing their infectious tunes to Australia – see them on Thu Jan 3 at Thebarton Theatre for an all-ages show. Tickets: venuetix. com.au.

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War And Peace As The Civil Wars, Joy Williams and John Paul White made a bunch of Best Of 2011 album lists last year with their debut Barton Hollow.

Everyone from Time Magazine to The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone loved their melodic chamber folk and pop. For a little bit of war and a little bit of peace, their beautiful melodies, harmonies, acoustic guitar and piano mesh meet at Flinders St Church on Thu Mar 14. Tickets: ticketek.com.au.

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Is GEORGE MICHAEL ever gonna dance again? After battling through serious health issues and “major anxiety” he has cancelled his Australian tour scheduled to hit Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Tue Nov 13 and Wed Nov 14.

George, Where Did Your Heart Go?

Once upon a time - 1994 or so - Reckoning and The Undecided were close, close pals. They played gigs together. They had parties together.

Various members shared houses together. It was a glorious time. Now, almost 20 years on, the voices of those bands – Seamus “Reckoning” Anthony and Andrew “The Undecided” P “Career Girls” Street – are grasping at past glories with a big homecoming show. With Seamus now a resident in Melbourne and APS ensconced in Sydney, it’s not something that’s likely to happen often. They’ll be doing songs old and new and dragging old friends and ex-bandmates up to awkwardly strum through songs they haven’t played in years. It’s totally free, and it’s at the kid-friendly hour of 5pm at the Grace Emily on Sun Oct 14. Because when you get to their age, that sort of thing counts.

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This Mess We’re In Lisa Mitchell, the mousey ingénue behind 2009’s debut Wonder, is bringing sexy back. While early singles such as Coin Laundry and Neopolitan Dreams captured all the sweetness of a daydreaming schoolgirl, the video accompanying the new single Bless This Mess features the 22-year-old dancing about in her Bonds and delighting in a fresh musical - and sexual - confidence.

It’s definitely a new side of myself that’s fun to play around with,” Mitchell says. “I think a lot changes between the ages of 17 and 22 and so when you’re going from girlhood to womanhood there’s a heightened awareness of your sexuality. You have more confidence in your sexuality and that might become more a part of your personality. It’s a definite theme of the album, even if it’s not spoken about in that context. Womanhood is definitely a big theme of the album.”

Mitchell’s growth from timid teenage waif to assured songwriter is one of the biggest thrills of second album Bless This Mess.

The dozen songs affirm Mitchell’s growing conviction in her musical direction.

“I think the songs on Wonder are a lot more introverted, but there’s a full band feeling to a lot of the Bless This Mess songs. The content called for it – Bless This Mess was a song about breaking away from fear and embracing the void of the unknown. You have to fill that space with enjoyment rather than insecurities. A song like that with such deep, inner energy really called for everyone to play their instruments with force and goodwill. I think that’s where that full, victorious sound is coming from.”

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Sitting in the Melbourne sun, Mitchell frequently uses a long, friendly ‘yeah’ to punctuate her answers. She seems warm and at ease now, but the early stages of creating Bless This Mess weren’t as effortless. With the touring and promotional cycle of Wonder spanning two years, the former Australian Idol competitor says she was psychologically unprepared when it came to penning a follow-up.

“I was exhausted from touring for a couple of years straight. It was an incredible rollercoaster of a ride, but it was really emotionally and mentally exhausting. When I got home to Melbourne I was excited to be a ‘normal’ person again with a vegetable patch and a local coffee shop. I definitely noticed my creativity creeping into other areas, such as my gardening, cooking and drawing. I found that was interesting, since I was avoiding my music.”

Within a few years of releasing the quaint and softly-hued debut EP Said One To The Other, Mitchell’s folk memoirs had grown into a profitable commodity. The realisation unbalanced her.

“My songs were like a diary but I experienced that shift when something goes from being your hobby to knowing that it has the potential to be used in a public situation.

It took a long time for my subconscious to digest the confusion of that and my innerchild was a bit heartbroken: ‘What happened to my hobby?’. That was a little heartbreaking, but I’ve now worked out a way of taking the pressure off new songs having to be ‘good’.

That was a pressure I never used to have, but there was a part of me when I look at a guitar or piano I would think, ‘Oh my gosh – I have to write a really good song’. That’s horrible – if there’s one way to kill creativity then that’s it, so I’ve had to train [that feeling] to go back into its little hole.”

Despite being raised an atheist, Mitchell suggests her search to overcome songwriting hurdles led her down something of a spiritual path.

The Sensual World “I had something of a spiritual awakening.

My songwriting process just wasn’t working any more, so I had to dig deep and ask big questions about why I feel the need to express myself and create. There’s a book by Julia Cameron called The Artist’s Way which really helped me - she’s really good at talking about the confusing space of having your hobby become your job. I think you have to be psychologically aware and constantly check in with yourself, since if I’m feeling blocked creatively then I can’t express myself and

“I was exhausted from touring Wonder for a couple of years straight. When I got home to Melbourne I was excited to be a ‘normal’ person again with a vegetable patch and a local coffee shop.” that’s torture. That was a really big part of me getting my freedom again when writing.

“I didn’t grow up in a religious household at all – my parents are both doctors and sciencebased people – but Julia’s book mentions the idea of God and I definitely feel like I’ve always been open to exploring spirituality and philosophies like Buddhism, yoga, Taoism and so many eastern philosophies. They really intrigue me and I feel very supported by them, so I think that’s definitely come through on the album.”

Taking part in the Nick Cave tribute concerts Straight To You in 2011 alongside artists including Tim Rogers, Paul Kelly and Dan Sultan similarly helped Mitchell rediscover the joy of creating music, as

Fellow Melbourne musician Clare Bowditch blames Lisa Mitchell for signing her up to attend a sensual and spiritual tantric singing workshop last month. Mitchell laughs at the fact she evaded attending the event herself.

“I’m always on the lookout for workshops that explore the voice and nurture its power and this amazing woman called Peruquois was doing a workshop in Melbourne. I felt we all had to go as it was all about honouring your voice and I told Clare all about it. I booked in as well, but then I realised I was going to be in Sydney.

So Clare got dragged into it, but I’m sure she loved it. She said it was pretty eyeopening, which I found funny.”

did the Heavenly Sounds tour earlier this year. Performing to hushed audiences in candlelit churches across Australia gave the Canterbury-born songwriter a new insight into her privileged position.

“A church is a sacred place and in the scheme of things playing sacrilegious music in a church is a very recent thing. I felt that weird feeling that it wasn’t that long ago that there was a lot of controversy about women expressing themselves in general, let alone singing songs with sexual connotations in a church - society has come so far. I felt it was quite a big deal – imagine if those women could see me now. That realisation was pretty epic. The Heavenly Sounds audiences were very quiet and respectful, so it was a lovely experience. Now I’m looking forward to playing in Adelaide again – it’s very exciting.”

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Call It A Comeback Dave Hughes is a radio host, AFL and rugby supporter, self-confessed Twitter addict and TV personality on Channel Ten’s Before The Game and The Project. But first and foremost – next to being a dad – he’s a stand-up comedian; one that has been away from the stage for far too long. That’s all about to change with Hughes’ latest live offering The Comeback Tour. ack in 2006, the Dave Hughes Live DVD was filmed at Thebarton Theatre over three consecutive nights as part of the Adelaide Fringe. Alerting him at the time to the fact that he would need to wear the same shirt for all three recordings, six years later Rip It Up asks how he ended up sorted his dilemma of

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“I didn’t! I think I was just very stinky by the final show,” Hughes recalls. “I remember when I first started doing long seasons, I felt like I had to wear the same shirt every night. I wore the same shirt for 22 nights in a row of the Melbourne Comedy Festival – without washing it. I reckon the stage crew were not very impressed.

“I guess personal hygiene is not at the top of my list of personal attributes,” he adds, “but my wife thinks my sweat smells good so I’m fine with it all.”

Women can be very primal when it comes to their man’s smell.

“There was a story in the paper recently saying that men’s deodorant could be making women choose the wrong life partner. What you smell is what you get with me; no doubt about it!”

So, I guess that means that once you find someone, you can’t change your deodorant for the rest of your life?

“You could be right. But if you’re in there

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Audacity Of Hughes While co-hosting the 2007 Logie Awards with Adam Hills and Fifi Box, Dave Hughes labelled radio shock-jock Kyle Sandilands a “massive dickhead”, with the audience response including much laughter and applause. When later interviewed on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope, Sandilands proclaimed that he hated Hughes and would punch him in the throat the next time he saw him. In response, Hughes released an official apology stating in part that he was sincerely and deeply sorry that Sandilands was a massive dickhead and that massive dickheads have the same rights as normal people!

with the Lynx Effect, then it’s best you stick with it,” Dave laughs.

Doing a comeback tour has opened Hughes up to many John Farnham comparisons.

“Look, if the association correlates to ticket sales, I’d be pretty happy,” he jokes. “I’m not selling out Rod Laver Arena 50 times but I am basically happy to do any gigs anywhere.”

Obviously he’s been kept busy with TV and radio commitments, not to mention parenting, but has he missed the live scene?

“The most joy I get in comedy is being on stage, so I just had to get back there. I got to the point where I figured that if I didn’t do it now it might just fade away, so it was definitely the right time for me get back up on stage again. I’m rapt to be touring and performing in these weekend shows!

I’ve just done Sydney – which went really well – and I can’t wait to get to Adelaide. Apart from my everyday thrill of family life, I absolutely love doing stand-up comedy!”

Having children can change virtually every part of a person’s life. Has it changed your comedy?

“Ah, I’m still self-centred – in my comedy at least – but I guess it has broadened things a bit; family is something we can all relate to so it certainly gives me a lot more material. I also think family makes you think less about yourself because you need to be more relaxed and in the moment with kids.

Once I’m home I no longer care if a joke didn’t work on stage because I’m too busy trying to stop my daughter from jumping off the kitchen table or something like that,” he chuckles.

“We actually have a third baby on the way – due in January,” Hughes happily adds. “We already have a boy and a girl so we’re keeping the third as a surprise for on the day.”

Ross Noble once said that your child could take your most prized possession, smear it with Vegemite and drop it on the floor where they stand, but the second they hug your leg and look up at you and say ‘I love you Daddy’ you just want to give them more Vegemite to destroy things with!

“Absolutely!” Hughes laughs. “It’s funny really because I’ve started saying that when you have children you finally have something that you’re prepared to die for – but often you want that day to be today!”

WHAT: Dave Hughes – The Comeback Tour WHERE: Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Theatre WHEN: Sat Oct 13

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Killing Them Softly

Chop Shop Andrew Dominik says he’s flattered that Killing Them Softly star Brad Pitt was a big fan of his 2000 directorial debut, Chopper. The film brought the young New Zealand director to the attention of many industry heavyweights.

First teaming up with writer/director Andrew Dominik in 2007 for The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Brad Pitt is back working with the New Zealand director on his new film, Killing Them Softly.

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ominik’s films are critically acclaimed, but there have been unusually long gaps between them, including seven years between Chopper and The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.

“It’s because I come up with a lot of ideas that are financially irresponsible,” he explains. “It’s certainly not through choice, as I would rather make movie after movie, but a lot of the subjects that I’m interested in are hard to find finance for… I was actually working on another picture altogether when the possibility of this one came good.”

Killing Them Softly is drawn from a novel

by George V Higgins, and Dominik is rather surprised when I dig up the only other filming of one of his books: the rather forgotten The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973).

“I don’t think that that one set the world on fire, which is why we haven’t heard much from Higgins in the cinema… But this film, from start to finish, was pretty fast: I read the book in August, I had it set up by October and we went into pre-production on it in January [this year, it seems]. The turnaround was quick, but that was just the nature of the thing: a 15-million dollar heist movie with Brad Pitt is a good idea, economically speaking.”

In regards to Dominik’s association with Pitt, is it correct the A-lister saw Chopper and then sought him out personally?

“That’s exactly how it started, yes. Brad’s the kind of person who is very interested in cinema and is always forging relationships with emerging talent. He saw Chopper, he was a fan of it and he did seek me out.”

Dominik describes the complexity of staging Killing Them Softly’s violence.

“You know the beating [of Ray Liotta]? That was brutal, and it was brutal to film. It was filmed over two nights, and the rain machines are so loud and heavy that you can’t hear each other and you have to scream at each other. It was really just horrible…

Some of the other scenes that involve a shooting, you know, those scenes are rather simpler and are simpler to shoot.”

But the violence in Dominik’s film is also quite uncomfortably funny at times, and he goes into detail about how tough it can be to get the pitch of black comedy right.

“Tone is always really hard to achieve. I was actually trying for something that was a little more ‘screwball’ with it… But we went all over the place with it, and in the end we wound up with a style that was a little bit more like naturalism. When the actors came in and screen-tested, and we had Ben [Mendelsohn] and Scoot [McNairy] and Vinnie Curatola, who plays Amato, I actually took all their screen tests and cut them all together… And it gave the scenes a weirdly ‘screwball’ tone, which I really wanted to duplicate again on the set, but I couldn’t quite. It gives me a lot of admiration for a director like Baz Luhrmann, who can create this amazing pantomime acting style, which is really tough to do.”

Dominik mentions the next project he’s working on.

“I now want to make a movie called Blonde, which is about Marilyn Monroe. It’s my dream film and I’ve been working on it for about five years.”

Does it worry you that My Week With Marilyn, with Michelle Williams, was much acclaimed earlier this year?

“No. Why would it? Mine’s going to be like a horror film… Darker and nastier. And Kennedy [as in JFK] does figure in it, but it doesn’t have him murder her or anything like that. But she does die in the end… I might be able to do it next year, and if I can work out how to do it for the money then I’m going to.”

Do you have anyone in mind to play Marilyn, perhaps?

“No, no… In fact, I think that I’ve said way too much about it already!”

“The whole response to Chopper was pretty flattering. It was a film that got a lot of attention in Hollywood… Brad really loves cinema, and he’s a filmmaker and he’s dedicated himself to making films that normally wouldn’t have otherwise happened.

He wants to make good movies.”

Andrew Dominik

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Interviews// Mind Control Despite 15 years on the music circuit, and with a huge amount of accreditation and awards to their name, much-loved British indie band Gomez are showing no signs of slowing down. As with pretty much every other release, last year’s Whatever’s On Your Mind saw Gomez enamour new fans while keeping the old guard happy. inger and guitarist Ben Ottewell sounds chuffed with how things have panned out.

“Yeah, we’re really happy with how it turned out,” Ottewell enthuses. “I mean, we’ve been doing this for a while now,

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so it can be pretty easy to be sceptical of how an album’s gonna do. But we’re always very pleasantly surprised by the reactions we get.”

Gomez have always had a big and devoted fanbase in Australia. When they announced a series of shows on the east coast following what was an incredibly demanding international tour for Whatever’s On Your Mind’s release, the call went up from Western Australian and South Australian fans to get them to include extra dates. As we all know, it’s not always easy for acts to make the great leap from the eastern states.

“It’s really good we announced those shows as well, it’s quite full-on. There were so many calls for us to come over and play, and we were like, ‘Yeah, why don’t we play?’ - that’s who we are. We love to bash around.”

Following a huge tour that took them across the US, Europe and the UK, Australia offers the first leg of touring following a welldeserved, if relatively brief, holiday.

“We haven’t been out for a couple of months now, so I’ve just been enjoying my summer,” Ottewell states. “Lately our gigs have seen us reconnecting with places we

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“When we used to tour, it used to be all of us jammed into a bloody van and sleeping on the floor of hotel rooms. Now we have our own rooms when we’re touring. Honestly, as much as I love the other guys and I love playing music with them, you just get bloody sick of each other sometimes. But it all works.”

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haven’t been to for a while, like we went to Italy and played a couple of great shows down there, and we played a few shows in Germany. The stretch we did in the States went for five weeks without stopping.

And that seems like a lot, but you just get into the groove of it, really. You just get better the more you play, and that’s coming from someone who’s been slogging around for ages.”

Gomez have been able to consistently and with great success operate as a band, with little more than a brief gap between tours. So what keeps them going?

“I think it’s very important that you keep a clear mindset and have goals. I think if you look back at the interviews we did [on the release of debut LP Bring It On in 1998], we were very clear and we had our mindset on wanting to do this for a long time. We knew back then that it wasn’t just a fad; we knew we weren’t a one-trick pony. We knew that when we played in the States that there would only be about 50 people watching us, but we didn’t let it bother us. We kept a level head, because we just really enjoyed making music together, and we still do. That’s what’s kept us going, I think.”

Of course, they do live their own lives as well outside of the band. Though the line-up has not changed one iota since their formation, Ottewell, Tom Gray (vocals, guitars, keyboards) and Paul Blackburn (bass) still reside in the UK, while Ian Ball (vocals, guitar) and Olly Peacock (drums, synths) call Los Angeles and Brooklyn home, respectively. But hey, it’s the century of technology; bridging the gap is much simpler for Gomez than it might’ve been in the past.

“Email, basically,” Ottewell states matterof-factly. “We have spent a lot of time together, probably too much. It’s just nice to have a bit of space between us. And we all have our own things – families, other projects [Ball and Peacock both worked on Operation Aloha, a Hawaii-themed concept album, in 2009] and all this other stuff.

We’ve reached a point where we’re comfortable with our songwriting, we’re comfortable with knowing that we’re all able musicians. We find that that space has become an important point of the band. You know, with so much writing in the band, we can still bounce ideas off each other, but we don’t feel so constrained. We feel more free to do what we want.”

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Lake Superior Sydney quintet Dappled Cities have come a long, long way since their 2004 single Peach. Since then they have moved on from their Dappled Cities Fly moniker, travelled the world and added ‘menswear models’ to their CV thanks to a Ben Sherman advertising campaign, all in between crafting some adventurous pop gems over their four albums. They’re now a decade in, and guitarist and vocalist Tim Derricourt admits that it’s been a wild ride.

100 percent, I can testify that it’s been such an enjoyable experience,” Derricourt states. “We’d love to sell a bunch of records and comfortably live off being in a band, but you have to accept that it’s lucky that you can even do it at all, so that’s why you keep doing it.”

After the success of their last record Zounds in 2009, the boys relocated to London, where they did a lot of travelling but also a lot of soul searching. The experience had a profound effect on them, yet in a more indirect way.

“It inspired us to make a record that could travel outside our immediate circle,” Derricourt concedes. “We were hanging out and playing with people that were into completely different styles of music, who would hang out with all these weird Europop people in Paris, and you become a little less precious about your music. When you travel you can discard that. I think in the past we’ve been very protective of our own indie style of music previously, and I think that we’ve loosened up a little bit and can expand into other genres and other sounds.”

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The good times roll on, and on their fourth long-player Lake Air the five-piece sound more in control of their destiny than ever before. There’s been a sonic shift from some of the more eclectic fare that earlier releases were renowned for towards a stronger emphasis on pop aesthetics, something Derricourt admits they worked very hard on.

“After Zounds, which was a very denselylayered, epic thing, we wanted to go even more epic; do something that was so wild that it would blow your ears if you listened to it with headphones. So tracks like Run With The Wind and The Leopard came out of that, something severely challenging for the ears. And then as the year went on, we had a nice time overseas and relaxed, and started writing more songs about, ‘What does it mean to be in a band?’, ‘What does it mean to enjoy yourself and be a happy person?’ and a reduced style came out of that. So when we came to make the record, we ended up doing the opposite and tried to take all the layers out of the music so you could really focus on the lyrics and the chords and the rhythm.”

The result is an album that revels in overt pop eccentricities, showcasing not only the band’s musical prowess but also their positive mindset. As the band prepares to tour Lake Air, it’s at that stage of their career that Dappled Cities are oft-described as “staples of the Sydney music scene”, a concept that seems incongruous to the band’s unique musical focus and the city’s ever-shifting landcsape due to venue closures and exoduses south of the border. But rather than such a tag being a lazy geographical categorisation, Derricourt muses that being a band from Sydney is as much about when you play as it is what you play.

“I would say that being called a Sydney band would mean not playing that much, because there aren’t effectively that many

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places to play, so you put all your creative efforts into one or two shows here and there.

Whereas if you are a Melbourne band, or a New York band, you can focus on putting on many different shows in your hometown. All I know is that when we decide to play, we want it to be special. We want everyone there to have the best time they are ever going to have, and that’s all you can wish for.”

WHO: Dappled Cities WHAT: Lake Air (Inertia) WHERE: Adelaide Uni Bar WHEN: Sat Oct 13

Fresh Air Dappled Cities vocalist Tim Derricourt admits that a wave of contentment altered Lake Air’s initial direction.

“I don’t know what happened to us, but we became incredibly happy,” Derricourt laughs. “It’s funny, because you start out wanting to make a record that challenges people and fucks them up, but then you end up saying, ‘That’s not how I’m feeling at the moment’. You can’t force yourself to write an album that you think people will like. We pretty much jumped off the cliff and stuck to what we were writing, and I literally put that record on every day right now, so I couldn’t be more in love.”

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PARKLIFE BOTANIC PK, SUN OCT 7 REVIEW BY SCOTT MCLENNAN

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Party-pooping meteorologists might try to dispute it with cold hard sciency facts, but there are more than 10,000 people at Botanic Pk today who’ll tell you that summer kicks off with the annual Parklife shebang.

“Ed Sheeran can’t be here because he’s having a mass orgy with Prince Harry or something,” the UK’s fun-boy duo Rizzle Kicks tell the Sahara crowd as they kick into their remix of You Need Me, I Don’t Need You, setting the tone for their enjoyable set that hits a peak with their massive hit Down With The Trumpets. Although not yet enjoying the radio ubiquity of her fellow Brits, Charli XCX is winning over fans at the Atoll Stage. Dressed like Marina & The Diamonds’ Goth little sister and wearing stacked shoes as high as the topless guys prancing in the audience, Charli bounces through her set like she’s in an invisible jumping castle. Performing in front of a keyboard and drum rig decorated in streamers of VHS tape and plastic roses, Charli belts out Set Me Free, Lock You Up, a punchy Nuclear Seasons and a moody cover of Echo & The Bunnymen’s The Killing Moon to a modest-sized crowd. Ignoring a lust-struck fan’s gentlemanly “Can you fuck me?” request, Charli instead precedes Grins by telling the audience to “do something weird – pull your pants down or take your top off or something”.

Even without Charli XCX’s encouragement, there’s a lot of flesh on display among the 10,000 punters enjoying the sunny day. Side-boob has rocketed to the top of the questionable style chart, although bum-eating cut-offs and needless shirtlessness remain inevitable favourites. Many offenders are at the Sahara stage when Chiddy Bang kick of their set, although the darker, aggressive flow of Breakfast is somewhat at odds with the radio hits Opposite Of Adults and Ray Charles which have lured many to their performance.

Fremantle Dockers fans Tame Impala are spotted kicking their footy around backstage while Plan B brashly introduces himself to the locals with the soul groove of She Said. He’s soon dropping in lyrics from Seal’s Kiss From A Rose, although by the time he arrives at the aggressive, gritty sounds of Ill Manors’ title track there are some opting for the lighter relief of Chairlift on the Atoll stage instead.

Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly have far brighter weather for today’s performance than their Laneway Festival set in February. Whereas Bruises was performed in rain during their Fowler’s Courtyard appearance, today it’s lapped up by a crowd blessed with blue skies and sun. The duo appear to be enjoying the day as much as their fans: not only do they deliver an unexpected Japanese version of second album Something’s track I Belong In Your Arms, Caroline also duets with new pals Tame Impala on Half Full Glass Of Wine.

Over at Sahara, Jacques Lu Cont must be considering sacking his PR team. Despite having worked with big names including U2, Madonna, Scissor Sisters and Coldplay, his multiple productions under a variety of aliases haven’t lured a large number away from Wiley. Pulling out his acclaimed yet aged remixes of Starsailor’s Four To The Floor and The Killers’ Mr Brightside seems like the move of a desperate man. Wiley’s getting a better response at Atoll with hits such as Wearing My Rolex, although Too Many Man’s sentiment ‘We need some more girls in here’ indicates he also needs a better optometrist.

If walking equidistant between Madam Sing’s Junk Stage and Forest Stage (and taking in what seems like a Star Wars laser battle recreated with dubstep music) wasn’t enough of a trip, Passion Pit’s vague approximation of Toto on opening track Take A Walk will certainly flip you out. Frontman Michael Angelakos cuts a chipper figure at odds with the bipolar sufferer presented in many of the interviews for Passion Pit’s recent second album Gossamer – his music is just as joyously layered as Brian Wilson at his best, but his personality appears far less brittle.

Cannons of streamers explode during Sleepyhead; who knew coloured paper could send an alreadyexuberant crowd into a near paroxysmal state?

With her white lab-coated musicians taking their places to the sounds of Minnie Ripperton’s Lovin’ You, Robyn arrives on stage with the calculated robotic chants of We Dance To The Beat and Don’t Fucking Tell Me What To Do. Always the epitome of cool-headed poise, Robyn is sent into an atypically flustered state after kicking off Fembot with the shoutout “How you doing, Melbourne?”. Red-faced, she instantly apologises with “I can’t believe I just did that!” and attempts to win Adelaide back for the rest of her hour-long set. She needn’t worry so much – the tiny Swede has the crowd in awe as she dances her way around a fluid Cobrastyle, sashays through the lyrically-potent Call Your Girlfriend and relives the break-up pangs of Indestructible.

If it’s all getting a little too heavy, Dancing On My Own finds the 33-year-old rubbing her licked fingers on her cookie jar and miming a sexual eruption all

over the front row. Whether gliding across the stage, swirling around or flirtingly flicking her red skirt up to reveal green bike shorts, Robyn’s stage presence is mesmerising. Her encore of None Of Dem seems like a strangely sterile finale, but With Every Heartbeat has already left everybody swooning at this Swede’s smart pop potency. Robyn truly is the bomb didi bomb.

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FUNK D’VOID WHO: THEO PARRISH WHERE: ROCKET ROOFTOP WHEN: MON DEC 31 Rip It Up and Rocket Rooftop will present one of Adelaide’s biggest New Year’s Eve parties featuring Detroit house legend, Theo Parrish. Born in Washington, DC, Parrish grew up in Chicago listening to jazz musos like Miles Davis, Nina Simone and George Gershwin, also citing Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder and Bob Marley as his early influences. Meanwhile, Chicago’s radio influences and house artists such as Ron Hardy, Larry Heard, Lil Louis, Mike Dunn and Frankie Knuckles all helped spawn Parrish’s career early on. After graduating from the Chicago Academy of the Arts, he went on to study at the Kansas City Art Institute where he concentrated on sound sculpture, creating sonic pieces by combining live instruments, human voices and looped recordings. Once he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1994, Parrish moved to Michigan to focus on musical projects and became heavily involved in Detroit’s underground music scene, producing music and delivering his unique and dynamic sets in venues throughout the Detroit and surrounding areas, as well abroad. Supports on the night are HMC AKA Late Nite Tuff Guy, Tbot, Medhi and Eric The Falcon. This is a strictly pre-sold event with tickets available from Moshtix.

WHO: SANTIGOLD, CRAZY P WHAT: HARVEST SIDESHOW WHERE: HQ WHEN: MON NOV 12 Two major Harvest Festival acts, Santigold and Crazy P, will headline one massive sideshow at HQ on Mon Nov 12. After Santigold’s debut album, Santogold, was released in 2008, NME declared her Best Breakthrough Artist of that year and Pop Music Vanguard by ASCAP in 2009. Over the next four years, the music world was left hanging in anticipation while the Philadelphian worked on her sophomore effort, Master Of My Make-Believe, making a successful return with an album full of dub, rock, new wave, punk and pop. Joining Santigold in Adelaide will be UK live performance legends, Crazy P, who originated back in 1996 during the era of Ataris, Akais and bedroom studios, with James Baron and Chris Todd first coming together through their love of bending and reshaping old records. With six albums under their collective belt, in 2002 Crazy P added bassist Tim Davies, percussionist May Kendricks and vocalist Dannielle Moore to the line-up, and have cemented a reputation for being one of the most revered live dance acts around.

DEEP TECHNO AUTEUR FUNK D’VOID (AKA LARS SANDBERG) MAY LIVE WITH HIS FAMILY IN BARCELONA, THE CITY ROCKED BY PROTESTS AGAINST AUSTERITY MEASURES AND FOR CATALONIAN INDEPENDENCE, BUT HE’S STAYING PUT. “The Spanish are really quite vibrant when it comes to protesting,” Sandberg says laconically. “They’re always doing these kinda things.”

Nevertheless, one rally outside the DJ/ producer’s house was “crazy”, with bins set on fire.

“The austerity cuts in Spain aren’t going down too well, that’s for sure.”

Sandberg, cerebrated for 2001’s classic Diabla, is a true multinational. His Australian pianist mother left Warrnambool, on Victoria’s coast, for London when young and met Sandberg’s Swedish dad. Lars then grew up in Glasgow.

Here, he launched his own music career – as a hip hop turntablist. Sandberg subsequently discovered Chicago house and Detroit techno, introducing his George Clinton-inspired moniker Funk D’Void with Jack Me Off on Slam’s Soma in 1995.

He’s since aired three ‘artist’ albums and developed another handle in Francois Dubois. He also worked in a record store for a decade. Barcelona has been Sandberg’s home for 15 years.

“I love Barcelona,” he rhapsodises. “It’s probably my favourite city in the world.”

There’s much to commend it, weather included.

“The only bad thing I could say really is the club scene is not consistently good,” Sandberg notes, who at one stage threw parties with fellow expat Andy Cato of Groove Armada. The city’s promoters favour “trend-based” music. Only during Sónar do the clubs embrace the underground.

“We’re ahead of the curve for one week

of the year.”

Still, young Spaniards, of whom over 50 percent are now unemployed, reportedly can’t afford bars or clubs and so drink in public areas. Yet Sandberg attributes this to a Mediterranean culture, not the GFC. He lives next to Barcelona’s biggest gay club – and on weekends the “madness” starts at 5am. People party in front of his pad.

“I’ve actually had to throw eggs at people on one occasion.” Sandberg has to consider his kids.

“Maybe 10 years ago I would have been joining them!” he laughs.

Sandberg’s latest project is Balance 022, encompassing Psycatron’s remix of Diabla.

The DJ did “investigate” past volumes of the cred brand but worried about being overly influenced by them.

“I just wanted to go in with a clean slate and offer something that was 100 percent genuinely me, not trying to better [the others] or trying to succumb to what I think people would want from the series.”

Sandberg cares little for fashions. He’s all about “honesty”. And, for this reason, he believes that his two previous comps have had longevity. Nor is Sandberg complacent.

“I always question myself and my talent and everything – as an artist, I think you have to do that all the time.”

He appreciates his music appealing to those “from all walks of life”, even the odd air steward.

“But I never get bigheaded about it.”

Sandberg is doing music “for the right reasons” – “for the love”. Indeed, he prefers to play “sweaty” small clubs to big festivals.

Sandberg has a wealth of new product coming from his Outpost Recordings, established in 2010. But he’s a selective A&R. Many of the demos he’s received recently haven’t had “the right sound”.

“I’m still keeping on that mantra of underground club music that you hear at five in the morning – and slightly weird, hypnotic and surprising.” Sandberg has signed an Australian, the mysterious Child, whose Interplanetary Jazz bears that “goosebump

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factor”. He’ll be remixing it himself.

If Sandberg has a “gripe” with contemporary electronica, it’s that young producers “rush” out their efforts. He hears an abundance of “mediocre” or “throwaway” material. Again, he’d value more “honesty”.

“People are so fast and trying to get to the top too quickly. There’s so much noise out there, it’s really hard to get heard – I understand that completely. But I think in the long term, it’s best if you wait for the really, really, really jaw-dropping stuff if you’re a producer.”

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THE ORB BRITISH AMBI-HOUSE PIONEERS THE ORB HAVE MADE A SYMBOLIC ALBUM, THE ORBSERVER IN THE STAR HOUSE, WITH DUB-REGGAE GODFATHER LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY FOR THE DUBSTEP GENERATION.

WHO: NICK CURLY WHERE: MR KIM’S WHEN: FRI NOV 2 TechPhonics has announced an upcoming show for ‘man of the moment’ Nick Curly, in his first ever visit to Adelaide for a special Halloween party at Mr Kim’s.

Hailing from Mannheim in Germany, Curly is responsible for spawning a distinct house sound of the same name that has proliferated around the world. A relentless and unstoppable Curly came off the back of 2011 and rocketed straight into 2012 with the launch of his new artist album, Between The Lines, and the subsequent album tour. That tour, which was originally scheduled to visit Adelaide in March, had to be postponed at the last minute due to sudden illness. Since then, Curly has had an incredibly successful Ibiza season, with his Kekahuma brand pairing with Richie Hawtin’s Enter concept, to be a highlight of the island’s festivities. Curly’s label Cecille and 8 Bit Recordings have both continued their growth in 2012 with strong releases respectively.

Don’t miss Curly’s rescheduled tour next month.

WHO: THE PRODIGY, DIZZEE RASCAL, BOYS NOIZE, AZEALIA BANKS, RITA ORA, STEVE AOKI, DJ FRESH, A-TRAK (LIVE), ZEDS DEAD, ZANE LOWE + MORE WHAT: FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL WHERE: ELLIS PARK WHEN: MON MAR 11 Rip It Up and Future Music Entertainment have teamed up to present next year’s Future Music Festival, which has just dropped its highlyanticipated line-up this week. Headliners including the Prodigy, The Stone Roses, Bloc Party, Dizzee Rascal, Boys Noize, Azealia Banks, Rita Ora, The Temper Trap, Madeon, Fun, Gypsy & The Cat, Steve Aoki, DJ Fresh, Rudimental, A-Track (live), Zeds Dead, Zane Lowe and lots more acts (head to onion.com.au for the full-line up). As one of the last festivals of the warmer season, the Future Music Festival bill never disappoints, with this year’s artists including New Order, The Rapture, Friendly Fires and Aphex Twin.

The Orb’s founder ‘Dr’ Alex Paterson and his Swiss cohort Thomas Fehlmann bunkered down with the eccentric Perry in a remote studio some 200 kilometres north-east of Berlin.

“It was a long time trying to get it together,” Paterson says of the LP, admitting he’s “a bit tonguetied” from successive interviews. “[But] when we got it together, suddenly we had lots of tracks... We actually wrote 18 tracks over a period of six days.”

In this day and age many such collaborative projects are recorded long distance – over the internet. The idea horrifies Paterson.

“I’m not big on file-sharing. It’s much easier being the human internet and [to] just go there yourself. I never even thought of it like that, to be honest! It’s something that would be essential to do. We even got [Pink Floyd’s] Dave Gilmour to come in and do some guitar – we didn’t get him to send his files over!”

The Orb, famous for 1992’s extended hit single Blue Room, has always had a fluid line-up, albeit centred on Paterson. The London DJ/producer has at points teamed with Jimmy Cauty (of the KLF), Martin ‘Youth’ Glover (Paterson was once a roadie for his punk band Killing Joke) and Fehlmann (active in Berlin’s techno scene) – all “already good mates”.

The template for THE ORBSERVER... is somewhat unusual. In 1998 the Orb contributed a reworking of I Started A Joke with Robbie Williams to the Bee Gees tribute album Gotta Get A Message To You. “We turned it into a reggae tune, which I used to drop into my reggae sets in the middle of Mad Professor gigs or Earl Sixteen gigs or South London reggae scene gigs,” Paterson divulges. “No one would know that we were playing a Bee Gees tune, but turned into a mad reggae tune – and the vocals were done by none other than Robbie Williams, singing like Prince Far! Quite bizarre.” It was one of the earliest occasions the Orb cut original vocals.

VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: THE ORB WHAT: THE ORBSERVER IN THE STAR HOUSE IS OUT THROUGH SHOCK

Perry is a living legend – and, at 76, he doesn’t waste time.

“He gets down to business, really. He likes to get down on the mic. He’s got maybe four or five hours a night of doing vocals. The rest of it is getting himself geared up to it and then chilling out afterwards and just having sandwiches, watching films, going out for walks, going out to the lakes, [and] having a fire every night out in the yard, so you can sit ‘round and you can have hot chocolate – that’s his favourite... We’re both vegetarians, so I kinda bonded with him on that level, watching all the meat-eaters in Germany being really confused about how to cook vegetarian food.

That was quite amusing.”

Today Perry lives in Switzerland. The single Golden Clouds suggests a nostalgia for Jamaica, but Paterson insists that Perry returns often to the Caribbean.

“He goes there every winter – he’s got a house there.”

Swiss air is beneficial for him, he adds.

Paterson presents a weekly radio show, fancying himself as a new John Peel with his eclecticism. Ironically, aside from reggae, it’s not dubstep that currently intrigues him but underground hip hop like J Dilla.

“I find Madlib is the hip hop equivalent to what the Orb is for house music. He uses those samples in such a brilliant way. I’d like to think that we have manipulated the world with many brilliant samples that nobody even knows about.”

Paterson says that “there’s a very big chance” the Orb and Perry will tour behind THE ORBSERVER... in Australia this summer.

“I can’t confirm anything just yet, but I know that we’re looking into it,” he reveals. “It’s high on the priority list to get gigs, that’s for sure.”

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Tour Guide/ THU OCT 11

FRI NOV 2

OH MERCY (Vic) & MILLIONS (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh

ROOTS NIGHT FIVE: LACHEY DOLEY (Syd), ZKYE & THE BAKERS DIGEST @ Governor Hindmarsh JACKSON FIREBIRD (Vic) @ Jive

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 AINSLIE WILLS (Vic) @ Hotel Metro BEC LAUGHTON (Bris) @ Higher Ground DRUNK MUMS (Vic) @ Rocket Bar

SAT OCT 13 SETH SENTRY (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live SOURSOB BOB, LUKER + 1 & JULIET WARD (ACT) @ Wheatsheaf DAPPLED CITIES (Vic) & JAPE (Sweden) @ Adelaide Uni Bar BELLUSIRA (Vic), SQUEAKER, FOUR KINGS LOUD & THE ANGELS OF GUNG-HO @ Enigma HANSEL (Syd), GENERATION SWINE, LOVECREAM & LACED IN LUST @ Cavern Club MICROWAVE JENNY (Central Coast) @ Grace Emily

SUN OCT 14 HUSKY (Syd) @ Adelaide Uni Bar SEAMUS ANTHONY (Vic) & ANDREW P STREET (Syd) @ Grace Emily

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

WED OCT 17 GOMEZ (UK) & EAGLE & THE WORM (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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

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 DAMN TERRAN (Vic) & BAD/ DREEMS @ Rocket Bar HORSELL COMMON (Vic) @ Black Market IN HEARTS AWAKE (Byron), SIENNA SKIES (Syd), SHINTO KATANA (Syd) & HALLOWER (Vic) @ Fowler’s 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 ADAM PAGE (NZ/Aus) @ Steam Exchange (Goolwa)

SUN OCT 21 TEXAS TEA (Bris) & CARLA LIPPIS @ Grace Emily

THU OCT 25 MAMA KIN (Vic) @ VORN DOOLETTE @ Jive

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

FRI OCT 26 SOMETHING FOR KATE (Vic) & BEN SALTER (Qld) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT OCT 27 LAST DINOSAURS (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh SHELLAC (US) & PIKELET @ Fowler’s Live LIONHEIR (NSW) @ Wheatsheaf

SUN OCT 28 LISA MITCHELL (Syd), ALPINE (Syd) & DANCO @ HQ LIONHEIR (NSW) @ Glenelg Surf Club

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 GYPSY & THE CAT (Vic) & NEW GODS @ HQ)

SAT NOV 3 THE TREWS (Can) @ Jive

SUN NOV 4 CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES (US), LUCKY SEVEN & THE SATELLITES @ 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

SAT NOV 10 HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY (Bris) @ Jive

SUN NOV 11 THE LIVING END (Vic), AREA 7 (Vic) & THE BEARDS DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh CHELSEA WOLFE (US) & HEIRS (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live CLAUDE HAY (NSW) @ Glenelg Surf Club

MON NOV 12 THE LIVING END (Vic), AREA 7 (Vic) & THE BEARDS DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh BEIRUT (US) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

TUE NOV 13 THE LIVING END (Vic), AREA 7 (Vic) & THE BEARDS DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh CAKE (US) @ HQ

WED NOV 14 THE LIVING END (Vic), CITY RIOTS & DANGEROUS! DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU NOV 15 SIGUR RÓS (Ice) @ Thebarton Theatre THE LIVING END (Vic), CITY RIOTS & DANGEROUS! DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh SILVERSUN PICKUPS (US) & THE DANDY WARHOLS (US) @ HQ GAY PARIS (Vic), SILENT DUCK & KEMPSEY @ Jive

FRI NOV 16 TINPAN ORANGE (Vic) @ Jive THE LIVING END (Vic), CITY RIOTS & DANGEROUS! DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh BEN FOLDS FIVE (US) @ Thebarton Theatre SUZANNAH ESPIE (Vic), LIZ STRINGER (Vic) & CHRIS ALTMANN (Can/Aus) @ Wheatsheaf JORDIE LANE (Vic) @ Trinity Sessions EAGLE & THE WORM (Vic) @ Ed Castle BLEEDING KNEES CLUB (UK) & STEP-PANTHER @ Fowler’s Live

With a convoluted and ludicrous name like King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, it would be easy to assume that the Melbourne-based collective don’t take themselves seriously. However, everyone else should, as the release of debut record 12 Bar Bruise is an exercise in garage shambolics that focuses on fun but doesn’t skimp on the hooks.

Since being Unearthed by Triple J, they have wasted no time in obliterating venues and punter expectations alike, combining with their energetic tales encompassing personal misdemeanours with garish noise and cheeky wit, something that bassist Lucas Skinner admits comes naturally.

“We have been heavily inspired by Australian punk and garage from the past 20 years, even further back than that,” Skinner

enthuses. “And the scene is really healthy; we are all feeding off each other. Most of our music is tongue-in-cheek and never meant to be taken too seriously. We started out as mates in other bands, hanging out, and we came up with songs that we could all jam on. Then things started to snowball and the band became more serious, no longer on the sidelines, but it’s always retained that core of having a good time with your friends, as lame as that may sound!”

With songs that range from a substancefuelled error in judgement (Uh Oh, I Called Mum) and a roll call of their favourite AFL players (Footy Footy) it’s clear from the outset that King Gizzard is an outfit fuelled by mates mucking around, yet it’s the accessibility of 12 Bar Bruise that belies the potential novelty of it all. Having seven members all going crazy makes for a live experience, but Skinner admits that it’s a recipe that has taken a lot of deliberation and finesse.

“We have only really rehearsed twice as a full band; it ends up being too much noise.

We have tried to write as a seven-piece before, and it’s just completely ridiculous. There are too many cooks and we end up getting frustrated with each other. So we break things down; Stu [Mackenzie – vocals/guitar] writes most of the songs, we do a demo with the drum machine, then me, Cavs [Michael Cavanagh – drums] and Stu will flesh that out then record as a three-piece. Everyone adds their bits over the top. We then have to learn these songs as a seven-piece. We have a production line going now, it’s pretty sweet.”

It’s a visceral, no-holds-barred experience.

“Our shows are loud, hey,” Skinner laughs.

“We have tightened it a bit, but it’s still about going full-on. We create organised chaos.”

holds little in common with the punky Coerce of four years ago.

“You’re right - the name is all that remains from 2008. I never want to write and release the same stuff, ever - what’s the point being boring and predictable? Being drunk and frantic is fun, but I guess we all turn 30 at some point!”

Deslandes says Coerce were drawn to record the follow-up to the ARIA-nominated Ethereal Surrogate Saviour at the Trades Hall in Carlton due to its rich political history.

“Personally the history was the draw card,” the frontman says. “To be within the walls of such an important place in the development of this state and our country through the working class caused many excited rants. I think sonically it certainly influenced the music.”

“The biggest influence was just being in this great big bloody hall where the acoustics became a major part of the sound on this record,” Adey agrees, “which was always our intention.”

Although once naming influential hardcore band Refused as a Coerce influence, Deslandes

and Adey now appear somewhat split over the no-nonsense Swedish group’s reunion.

“They were a great part of our formative years as musicians but they are quite irrelevant to our sound these days,” Adey says. “You still can’t help feeling a little nostalgic at the thought of hearing their songs live, but I didn’t purchase a ticket.”

“They better not fuck it up,” Deslandes spits. “I hate re-formations. I did however buy a ticket and I will always believe in their relevance to rock‘n’roll, hardcore or whatever the Nike/McDonald’s kids call it these days.

Their politics died upon this re-formation…

I’ll stop here but yeah, I’ll be at a show and am happy about that.”

WHO: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard WHAT: 12 Bar Bruise (Flightless/Fuse) WHERE: The Ed Castle WHEN: Fri Oct 12

COMING UP SAT NOV 17 THE LIVING END (Vic), CITY RIOTS & DANGEROUS! DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh REFUSED (US) @ Thebarton Theatre SIREN TOWER @ Enigma TUE NOV 20 NICKELBACK (Can) & JACKSON FIREBIRD (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre BALL PARK MUSIC (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh THU NOV 22 DEEP SEA ARCADE & PREATURES @ Adelaide Uni Bar SCOTTIE MILLER (US) & THE STREAMLINERS @ Governor Hindmarsh MOJO JUJU (Syd) @ Grace Emily THE SIDETRACKED FIASCO (Syd) @ Forresters & Squatters Arms FRI NOV 23 JEFF MARTIN (Can/WA) @ Jive THE SIDETRACKED FIASCO (Syd) @ Worldsend SAT NOV 24 GORGEOUS FESTIVAL: MISSY HIGGINS (Vic), DAN SULTAN (Vic) and more @ McLaren Vale MAHALIA BARNES (Syd) & PRINNIE STEVENS (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE SIDETRACKED FIASCO (Syd) @ Glenelg Jetty Bar SUN NOV 25 JOHN WAITE (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh PAUL DIANNO (UK), BLAZE BAYLEY (UK), OCTANIC & MATTERHORN @ Fowler’s Live TUE NOV 27 BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE (US) & THE RESIGNATORS (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh WED NOV 28 ANGUS STONE (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON (NSW) & HARRY HOOKEY @ Her Majesty’s Theatre THU NOV 29 THE SELECTOR (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh FRI NOV 30 POUR HABIT (US), HIGHTIME & UNICORN @ Adelaide Uni Bar THE AUDREYS @ Elder Hall

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by Scott Mc

Matt Adey and Mike Deslandes say the relocation of Coerce from Adelaide to Melbourne has been a little strange, but it’s perhaps not as unexpected as the growth in the band’s sound over the last few years. The ominous, calculated pulse of new 10” Genome is a long way from the eponymous debut EP of 2008.

“This process has been a weird one to say the least,” Adey suggests. “The trials and tribulations of adapting to a different city, I feel, pour out of the music on this record. It’s a place that offers a certain urgency, but out of this urgency we have found a composed restraint to the angst we have displayed on our earlier releases.”

“In all it’s just more exciting,” Deslandes adds. “We’ve never had a regular rehearsal, so just being able to play weekly is awesome.”

Deslandes confirms that the Coerce of 2012

WHO: Coerce WHAT: Genome (MGM) WHERE: The Crown & Anchor (with Totally Unicorn and Damned Men) WHEN: Fri Oct 12

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ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – 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 CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Dougie Destructor, The Trials and Satan’s Cheerleaders. Front Bar: Paul Gurry CUCKOO BAR – 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 (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Sean Desmond with Jon & Tony GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with Leo’s Lucky Dip Band GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Oh Mercy GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Rosie Catalano with The Danvers GRAND BAR – OMG GUTHRIES – Club 5082 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 CULTURAL CENTRE – Open Mic Cabaret Café (6.30pm) 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

ADELAIDE CASINO – Oasis Bar: Dino Jag Duo (9pm) 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 – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Jason Crago (6pm) Triplescore Duo (10pm) Tavern Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Big Cheese (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BARKER HOTEL – DJ Trix (9pm) BAR ON GOUGER – solo artists (5.30pm) DJ (9pm) BELAIR HOTEL – Iguana Bros BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ – DJ Trent Slater BEERGARDEN: BRICKWORKS – Musos Jam with the Good Ol’ Boys Band (8.30pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Fusion – The Perfect Blend karaoke and DJ (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Iris BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Envy North BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Tom Williams CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DJ Adam (1am) Band Room: Coerce, Damned Men and Totally Unicorn DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Steve Simon 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 – Matterhorn ESPLANADE HOTEL – Theo EXETER HOTEL – Acoustica EXETER ON RUNDLE – Encarta FINDON HOTEL – karaoke

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 THE CUMBERLAND – Look At You with local DJs THE ELEPHANT – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Clearway WEST ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia (7.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – MAIN ROOM: KAMIKAZE, COCK, PERDITION AND FEAR & LOATHING. BISTRO: SICK SAD WORLD, DEATH CULT JOCK, TRASH, GOONSKULLS AND DEATHMOB FOWLER’S LIVE – The Swellers GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – Alternative Music Night with multiple bands (9pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: British India. Front Bar: Trav George

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ride Into The Sun GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Colin Heinjus (6pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Rockin’ Karaoke with Acca Dacca Mick (8pm) HEAVEN – Surreal Lounge: Funk’d Friday (10pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs K & Krispy HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – Emily Smith Duo HOPGOOD THEATRE: NOARLUNGA – Steady Eddy (8pm) HOTEL ELLIOT – Beej HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ DB HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs Pony Boy, Bunyip and Hands Solo (8pm) HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL – Bill Parton Trio (9.30pm) JIVE – Bali 10 Year Anniversary Fundraiser with Foreshore and Galleon LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (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 – Gary Isaacs (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – The Royals NEXUS CABARET – Midnight Special: Shine A Light On Me with Chris Finnen and Cal Williams Jr NORWOOD LIVE – McAlister Kemp with Chelsea Basham OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Mascara ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf (4.30pm) Michael Venner Duo (8pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Redline PIER HOTEL: PT LINCOLN – Junior Bowles PJ O’BRIENS – Frenzy PORT DOCK BREWERY – Justin Parker (6pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan REX HOTEL – Paul Stubbings (7pm) karaoke (8.30pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Two For The Road (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) SEATON HOTEL – Transit SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Harmonics with Jesse Dean Freeman

SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Gerry O 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 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 TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) 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 ELEPHANT – Triple X and DJ G-Rillz 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 (8pm) THE SOUL BOX – Lazy Eye (8pm) 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 – Hurricanes and Carla Lippis & The Martial Hearts (8.30pm) WHITEHORSE INN – karaoke with Ally & Co WHITMORE HOTEL – Jesse Dean Freeman & The Rhythm Aces WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – East WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Dusk, Ryley and Gumshoe ZOOTZ – DJs Kym and guests

Saturday 13th ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm)

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The Guide // ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Dimitra (6pm) DJ Chris James (9.30pm) Tavern Bar: India Hooi (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) AUSTRAL – Funktasm with DJs Anzac, Osyris and Batch (8pm) BAR ON GOUGER – DJs Mark & Ozzie plus guests (9pm) BELGIAN BEER CAFÉ – DJ Carlos BENTLEY’S CLARE – DJ Rush BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke BROADWAY HOTEL – DJs Bocky and Jordz BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ Steve Reece CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Rockweiler CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: She’s The Band, Sick Sad World, PDM and Poisonous Viper Gang then DJ Azz 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 – George Harvey and Robert Pearson ENIGMA – Bellusira, Squeaker, 4 Kings Loud and The Angels Of Gung Ho (8.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Matt Stillert and guests

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – APOCALYPTIC CITY, HELLONOIA, TO THE SLAUGHTER, ALDA SKY, DARK FRACTION, WORSHIP THE FALLEN AND BALLS DEEP FOWLER’S LIVE – Seth Sentry GARAGE BAR – DJs Steve Daly, GTB, Bob Trott, J Tech, Jon E and Jason Lee (10pm) GEPPS CROSS HOTEL – karaoke disco with Craig Anthony GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Mark (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Salvadors album launch. Front Bar: Junior Bowles GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Microwave Jenny 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 Animal House HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Soundflex

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RED SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan REX HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Remedy ROB ROY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stereo Saturdays with DJ Electric T (8pm) ROCKET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; requests with DJs SANTIAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hussyboy (8.30pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; acoustic sessions SEAFORD HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Seaford Live featuring Full Circle SEBEL PLAYFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustically Raw SETTLERS TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Lunchcutters SHOTZ BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Chris Pike SKYBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Spin Dokta and DJ Demize SLUG â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clearway STAG â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Upstairs: DJs Huddy and Jase with urban and dance.

Downstairs: DJ Kieran and David James SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing retro and requests TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Kieran TEQUILA REA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE CUMBERLAND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Launch Pad featuring local DJs THE ELEPHANT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tubesteaks and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Dante and interactive games night (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Marcus and friends THE GRIFFINS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing house tunes THE KINGS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clever Cuts with Andrew Barker, Alley Oop and Adriaan Van Der Ploeg (8pm) THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Escapades

Wed Oct 17 The Gov Gomez TORRENS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dino Jag Acoustic (8.30pm) TOWER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paul Stubbings UNION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (weekly prizes) WALKERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Soursob Bob CD launch with Juliet Ward, Luker and 1 (8.30pm) WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jump â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jive WOODCROFT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm) ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; High Heels DJs: Terrence, Scott Holder, Hemilove and Gumshoe ZOOTZ â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Kym and guests

Sunday 14th ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday School with The Idle Saints ARKABA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday BBQ Beats with DJ Troy J Been (12pm) AUSTRAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Basically Maate! with DJ Staplehead (8pm) BEERGARDEN: BRICKWORKS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Musos Jam with the Good Olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Boys Band (2pm) every first and third Sunday of the month BENJAMIN ON FRANKLIN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Courtyard: DJ Mule (4pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Zepporama BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Whiskey Harbour with Daniel Chicarello CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all ages show DOCKSIDE TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Emily Smith Duo DOG & DUCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; No Use For A DJ Name (9pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nuf Said ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Incredibles (5pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fractal EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Magnetic Garden GASLIGHT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Get Back, Rock & Roll (2pm) GENERAL HAVELOCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; La Mar Sundays GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Hushes GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Andrew P Street (Undecided/Career Girls) Vs Seamus Anthony (Reckoning) HIGHLANDER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tim Bos DJ and Sax HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NPL Poker (6.30pm) JAM THE BISTRO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Tango LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Travis Wellington Hedge and Pembo

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The Guide // MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Southern Sundays featuring Acoustic 4-Play (3pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Viotar OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Dino Jag Acoustic ORIENTAL – Redline PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Troy Harrison PORT DOCK BREWERY – Lady Voo Doo & The Rituals

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Heath Solo SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Ben Lees Acoustic Duo and Kopy Catz SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Junior Bowles (WA) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions TEARO ESTATE: BAROSSA VALLEY – Decks On The Deck featuring Bill Fragos (1pm) THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) THE MAID – acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Ella & Friends (2pm) VIRGINIA NURSERY – Gerry O WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Beggars (4pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Old Dogs Can ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Scott Holder and Krispy ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)

Monday 15th 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 – Zoe Behan with Lucas Keeley EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Dunes

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – OPEN MIC NIGHT GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Tanzania Education For Life Gala Night 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 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 (8pm)

Tuesday 16th ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide Comedy with Corrine Grant (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CAVAN HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Industry Night with DJs Stevie & Duncan. Band Room: Cranker Comedy DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Thunderclaw DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Uke Night for beginners GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Kino Adelaide 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 17th ADELAIDE UNI – Barr Smith Lawns: Sounds & Senses with Ciaram Granger 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 CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBACLL CLUB – Complete Trivia CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – 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 GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Gomez GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sean Desmond plus These Blessed HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HOLDFAST HOTEL – Nonstop Dance Party with DJs Mike Wills & VIP HQ – Flashdance JETTY BAR – karaoke LA BOHEME – The New Cabal (9pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – DJs (9pm) MANSIONS – live band karaoke MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy featuring Corinne Grant (8pm) MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Open mic (7.30pm) PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) ROSEWATER S/S CLUB – karaoke (7pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE GOODY – Kickstart DJs THE KINGS BAR – DJ Yusef Wilson THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Hump De Bump retro requests 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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Coming up: Pig on the spit for Octoberfest with Werner the one man band, Sun Oct 14 from 1pm.

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Films / Food / Fashion / Art / Reviews

State Theatre’s 2013 Season State Theatre Company Of South Australia recently announced an exciting program of eight plays and some extra treats for 2013. It also marks the first for incoming artistic director Geordie Brookman and new CEO and producer Rob Brookman. tate’s 2013 season will begin in late February with Sydney actor Barry Otto in Sue Smith’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata as part of next year’s Adelaide Festival.

“It’s a new, one-hander by Sue Smith based on Tolstoy’s novella which follows a narrator who meets someone on a train who seems to be a bit mad,” Geordie Brookman says. “We slowly discover that not only has he murdered his wife but has been acquitted. Tolstoy wrote it late in life so it’s an amazing look at the male psyche and the desire to dominate and own, which Tolstoy had very strong ideas about. So it’s been fantastic material for Sue, the television writer who wrote Mabo and Remote Area Nurse, to adapt it in a modern way. She also has a precise knack of being able to look at the nasty sides of men in a way in which us men probably can’t.

“And Barry Otto was top of the list for it. In fact, if we couldn’t get him here we were going to have to think twice about staging Kreutzer

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because Barry is such an amazing performer who has a real connection to his audience.

And he hasn’t stepped onto an Adelaide stage in over a decade, so the company is making a bit of a statement by bringing him here and putting this play on.

“And to make even more of a statement and bring the audience to the heart of what we do, we are creating a venue in the workshop.

So it’ll be very intimate and will have a large audio visual element to it that Geoff Cobham is creating. And [pianist] Gabriella Smart is organising the music which will give the audience a real connection to the play.”

Brookman, formerly the company’s associate director and very thrilled with his new role, will then direct Alison Bell alongside Terence Crawford, Cameron Goodall and Nathan O’Keefe in a new adaptation by Joanna Murray-Smith of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play Hedda Gabler in April.

Local actor Nathan O’Keefe (pictured above) will also be taking to the stage in June for Shakespeare’s Comedy Of Errors which State Theatre is mounting in conjunction with Sydney’s famed Bell Shakespeare Company, making its first trip to Adelaide in eight years.

“And that’s a long time for a national company,” Brookman indicates. “And we are going to build and rehearse Comedy Of Errors here before putting it on in Adelaide and then it will tour just about everywhere.

“And that’s great for the local actors [such as O’Keefe, Elena Carapetis and Jude

Henshall] because normally we can only offer them work for a couple of months.

And someone like Nathan is on the verge of breaking out. The dangerous thing is we might not get him back although the funny thing is that Bell Shakespeare Company weren’t aware of his talents. But Nathan is definitely one of the best comedic actors in the country so to be able to introduce him to Bell was just fantastic.

“And we are also using a young and very exciting director for Comedy Of Errors. So it will be great to introduce Imara Savage to Adelaide who was Bell’s resident director last year.

“And for Comedy Of Errors, easily Shakespeare’s most farcical play, Imara has come up with this great idea of treating the port where it’s set as a mad, multicultural meeting place.”

Brookman then goes on to say that Rita Kalnejais’ Babyteeth is one of the best new plays he’s come across.

“Babyteeth is only Rita’s second play but it premiered successfully at Belvoir St last year so we’re doing a new production with Chris Drummond [artistic director of Brink Productions] directing. And it’ll be a wonderful match between Chris and Rita because her work is very quirky and highly inventive and she sees the world in a way quite unlike anyone else.

“And it’s a play about a young person with a terminal illness and how her family deals with the deep impact and the effects of

Knee High To A Puppet Geordie Brookman is pleased that State Theatre is collaborating with Bell Shakespeare Company for Comedy Of Errors, Sydney Theatre Company for John Doyle’s Vere (Faith) and with Cornwall-based puppet company Kneehigh Theatre for their version of Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter.

“Hopefully, for State Theatre, it’s the first big step in creating some really meaningful relationships with overseas companies as well as ones here in Australia,” he says.

“And Kneehigh is a company unlike any other and some may remember when they were last here with The Red Shoes. So when an opportunity to partner them for Brief Encounter came up, we grabbed it.

“It also gives Adelaide audiences a chance to experience Kneehigh again because they are a company that should be touring Australia on a regular basis,” Brookman adds.

that,” Brookman says. “And while it’s a play essentially about death, it’s also enormously life-affirming.”

For more information about State Theatre’s season for 2013, check out statetheatrecompany.com.au.

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Mental (MA) Semi-autobiographical in tone (rather surprisingly), writer/director PJ Hogan’s first film with Toni Collette since Muriel’s Wedding 18 years ago is darker and even more troubled than that one and, while he’s claimed that the tone of this newie isn’t intended as anti-Australian, it’s just a bit too poisonous to fully believe him. In the fictional town of Dolphin Heads, Queensland, the five Moochmore girls (played by a quintet of impressive young newcomers) are always ready to cover up any freak-out from their psychologically fragile mum Shirley (Rebecca Gibney), while the local pollie dad (Anthony LaPaglia as Barry) they barely know is hardly at home. When Shirley finally loses it and is institutionalised (or goes “on holidays in Wollongong”), Barry is left to tend to his offspring, all of whom insist that they’re in some way ‘mental’, and he’s, on a whim, driven to pick up

a complete stranger, hitchhiker Shaz (Collette), who becomes the girls’ livein nanny, persecutes their neighbours (including prim Caroline Goodall and nasty Kerry Fox), introduces everyone to her flighty friend Sandra (fabulous Deborah Mailman) and ropes in a slightly barking subplot, which involves shark hunter Trevor, as played

by American actor Liev Schreiber in a wonderfully scary and funny performance.

Like Muriel’s, PJ’s film has a compassion for the underdog and the crapped-upon, and yet there’s a chaotic and rather vicious edge here that’s sometimes exhilarating - and occasionally rather annoying. And Collette is, under the direction of her old pal, frighteningly uninhibited yet superbly restrained, even as the movie that surrounds her goes off its bloody brain.

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Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2012 Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

At the Palace Nova until Sun Oct 28.

Details: italianfilmfestival.com.au and palacecinemas.com.au.

Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas and Event Cinemas Marion

This filming of the one-night-only re-formation of Led Zeppelin in 2007 is on for one night only at the Palace Nova’s ExiMax and Event Cinemas Marion on Wed Oct 17. Details: palacecinemas. com.au and eventcinemas.com.au.

Opening But Unrated Killing Them Softly (MA), a violent gangster drama from Aussie writer/ director Andrew Dominik, stars Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn and even Sam Shepard.

Lawless (MA), adapted (from Matt Bondurant’s novel) for the screen by Nick Cave and directed by John (The Road) Hillcoat, features Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Gary Oldman and Noah Taylor.

Searching For Sugar Man (M) Director Malik Bendjelloul’s documentary is a very hard one to discuss, as too much information will detract from the pleasure of watching one of the strangest true stories of the year. Rodriguez was a Detroit singer who only properly released one completed album (Cold Fact) in 1970 that, despite fabulous reviews (many of which heralded him as the new Bob Dylan), wasn’t a major hit in the States, and he seemingly completely vanished thereafter, leaving many questions tantalisingly unanswered. Who exactly was this mysterious figure? Why did he never record again? And did he really commit suicide by shooting or burning himself alive onstage? Bendjelloul and a series of other self-appointed detectives were on the Rodriguez trail for decades, especially when it became clear that he had been hugely successful in South Africa during the time of Apartheid in the ‘70s, where his quiet, soulful songs had been interpreted as revolutionary ballads all about the fight for freedom (and even inspired an entire music scene), as well as later, when their passionate quest hit cyberspace in the earliest days of the ‘90s internet.

While you can probably guess what will, and did, eventually happen, Bendjelloul’s cinematic chronicle is nevertheless fascinating, and reminds us again of the power of online communication, of the all-consuming passion of being a true fan and of the strange nature of any kind of art, and how once it’s out there, and public property, it can be taken to mean almost anything to anyone at any time.

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Taken 2 (M)

Dangerous Liaisons (M)

The surprise success of Taken four years ago meant that a sequel was always a given, and so here a sour-looking Liam Neeson returns for another round of baddie-bashing, although, given the queasily racist edge to these pics, maybe ‘ethnic cleansing’ is a better term for it.

Only a short time after the events of the first film, we open with LN’s uneasily-retired CIA agent Bryan Mills separated from Lenore (Famke Janssen) and still obsessing over the safety of daughter Kim (Maggie Grace), as plot mechanics grind away in order to get the three of ‘em to Istanbul in order that an Albanian villain clique headed by Murad Krasniqi (all-purpose Eastern European nasty Rade Sherbedgia) can wreak revenge for Bryan’s killing of the chief scumbag from the first film.

This they do by trying to ‘take’ all three of the Millses, but they (duh!) hadn’t counted on the resourcefulness and all-Irish-American ruthlessness of Bryan, who’s (spoilers…?) soon bashing, shooting, slashing and car-chasing away with a slightly less sadistic vengeance.

A bit ho-hum under the direction, this time out, of the deceptively-named Olivier Megaton, this makes two major miscalculations: 1) the irksome Kim is promoted to minor bad-ass, a ludicrous decision on the part of co-writer/coproducer/one-man-film-industry Luc Besson, and 2) the infamous violence has been toned down (from an MA to an M rating), which makes the whole thing rather pointless, and leaves you longing for the good old days when Liam clobbered, hacked, blew away, electrocuted and defenestrated anyone and everyone he could get his paws upon. Ah, sweet memories…

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It’s a centuries old story that earned a cult following after 1999’s Cruel Intentions, and now the 13th (official) adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ scandalous 18th century novel gets a touch of Oriental charm at the hands of Korean director Jin-Ho Hur. Here the cad Vicomte de Valmont takes the form of Xie Yifan, a respected man in 1930s Shanghai, and a serial philanderer. The one woman he can’t have is the equally powerful and calculating Mo Jeiyu, who, scorned by her lover for an innocent schoolgirl, enlists Xie to tarnish the naïve young girl’s reputation.

Already focused on his next conquest, the virtuous widow Du Fenyu (Ziyi Zhang of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Xie declines Mo’s request, but believing he has no chance with the widow, Mo proposes a wager, offering herself as the prize if he succeeds.

Although the story is familiar, the journey remains inspired in this new version, which has both a modern and a vintage feel thanks to the ‘30s setting - more recent than the original book’s timeline, but still dated by today’s standards - and also a cross-cultural tone, with the combination of English and Mandarin dialogue and a heavy western influence on clothing, cars and décor, while the sub-plot surrounding the plight of refugees nods back to Laclos’ own musings on the looming French Revolution.

A well-performed, unique approach to a frequently used cautionary tale, there may be many more versions to come, but Jin-Ho Hur’s offering should hold its own for some time.

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Director James Marsh’s ‘90s-Belfastset IRA-flashback drama Shadow Dancer (MA) has Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough and Gillian Anderson.

Co-writers/co-directors/bit-players Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal’s literary drama The Words (M) showcases Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Zoë Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Ben Barnes and Olivia Wilde.

And co-adaptor/director Andrea Arnold’s new take on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (M) has unknown James Howson as Heathcliff and Brit TV star Kaya Scodelario as Cathy.

World Of Women Film Fest Mercury Cinema

Part one of this celebration of women and film happens at the Merc on Sat Oct 13 at 7.30pm, and part one on Sun Oct 14 at 2.30pm. Details: mercurycinema. org.au.

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Good Food & Wine Show This weekend the annual Good Food & Wine Show will return to Adelaide’s Wayville Showground in celebration of some of our best produce and food makers. The three-day event will start on Friday featuring established and budding connoisseurs of wine, cheese, pastry and meats from brands like BD Farm Paris Creek, Barossa Find Foods, Majella wineries and more, with cooking classes with celebrity chefs also on offer from George Calombaris, Manu Feildel and Maggie Beer. MasterChef judge and chef Matt Moran will be scrubbing his apron up at Hilton Adelaide for a fivecourse dinner on Fri Oct 12, of which tickets are available from 8237 0688. Tickets to the Wayville Showground are $20 and will include one pass to one of the celebrity chef classes, so head down with a clean palate and get ready to eat all the eats.

The Howling Owl New east end cafe The Howling Owl has officially taken flight with the opening of its beer, wine and cocktail service on Friday and Saturday nights. As well as being a nice little nook to get coffees and gourmet rolls during the daylight hours, at night The Howling Owl will stand as Adelaide’s first speciality gin bar, serving a range of cocktails tailored to their expansive range of local, interstate and international gins. The KIS gin from Kangaroo Island goes down a treat in the ‘Sylvan Berry Gin Fizz’ with local sylvan berry jam, muddled basil leaves and soda whereas a cucumber, cracked black pepper and lime gimlet with botanical-rich Hendrick’s also goes down a treat. Make sure to poke your head in one weekend to see the Owl in its new nocturnal habitat.

WHAT: The Howling Owl WHERE: 11 – 13 Frome St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Thu 8.30am – 5pm, Friday 8.30am – 12am, Saturday 12pm – 12am and Sunday 12pm – 4pm CONTACT: thehowlingowl.com.au

WHAT: Good Food & Wine Show WHERE: Wayville Showground WHEN: Fri Oct 12 – Sun Oct 14 from 10am – 5pm CONTACT: goodfoodshow.com.au

Booze Clues with Louis Schofield

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Patrick is a fresh face in Chablis. Born in Canada, he was bitten by the wine bug at a very young age and is living his dream of making wine in France.

Despite not owning any vineyards of his own (yet) he makes wine with a serious focus on terroir.

He shows this by naming vineyards on his labels even when they are from the broader appellations of Chablis and Petit Chablis.

Hand-picked, sustainably grown fruit is fermented and aged in stainless tank only, so this is pure and mineral with enough flesh to make it work on its own.

Beautiful, expressive, classic Chablis at a very reasonable price, this is an excellent way to approach the style for inexperienced drinkers.

All beverages featured in Booze Clues are available from East End Cellars at 22-26 Vardon Ave, Adelaide.

Craft Beer & Cider Festival The annual Craft Beer & Cider Festival will return to the Arkaba Hotel on Sun Oct 21 featuring a range of small batch beers and ciders from Australia and all over the world.

From 11am – 4pm attendees will have the opportunity to taste over 60 beers and ciders both locally and internationally produced, including Vale Ale, Dark and IPA, Erdinger Wheat Beer, Dr Pilkington’s Miracle Cider, Two Elk Traditional Swedish Cider and Three Oaks Cinnamon and Vanilla Cider. The first 100 ticket holders will also receive a limited edition stubbie holder. Tickets are currently on sale for $25 pre-sale from the Arkaba or will be on sale from the door on the day for $35.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04

Frustration could easily slip in. The sun is making its way through Libra, the land of endless deliberation. The forces of nature are set up so that if you push against the prevailing winds, you’ll find a brick wall. This is an interesting time for building relationships.

Libra 23.09/23.10

The sun is adding power to your determination to get out there and forge relationships where there are none.

Not everyone wants to play on first attempt. It will take all your legendary charm to make music from the noise.

By remaining light, curious and playful, you will.

Taurus 21.04/20.05

The moment you recognise situations for what they are, forging a path becomes easy. If you get caught in expectations that aren’t realistic, the path mysteriously becomes tangled and impenetrable. Drop pre-conceived notions and flow with what is given.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

Saturn has arrived. That means it’s time to either get wise, or get frustrated – which will help you get wise. Saturn is much maligned but really he just wants us to know our own deepest intelligence, rather than be ruled by what others insist we learn. Be a sage.

Gemini 21.05/21.06

Curiosity on its own is not enough. Your curiosity is now being driven by the rather large motor of desperation for the truth. This will either take you to foreign destinations, in search of the exotic, the distant and the different, or it will take you on a hunt deep inside.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

Take a deep breath. Some of the pressure is off. There’s a gap here for dancing lightly and viewing the roses.

Mars will be visiting soon. Before he arrives, do cartwheels, tumble down grassy slopes and generally give your inner kid permission to roll and play.

Cancer 22.06/22.07

It’s going to take all your might to stay true to your intuition when all and sundry, quoting science, are insisting that you listen to the evidence. Do you trust your pragmatic defence-oriented shell? Or do you trust your soft, sensitive, feeling centre? It’s your call.

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Help Curate The Art Gallery Of SA The Art Gallery Of South Australia wants your vote to help determine the pieces that will go into the ultimate people’s choice exhibition commencing Thu Nov 29. The exhibition invites lovers of art and the art gallery to vote for and comment on works of art they want to see on display. Each week there is a different curatorial theme from which punters can choose their favourite artwork from 20 preselected works, including ‘A Is For Animal’, ‘After Dark’ and ‘Journeys’. Head to artgallery.sa.gov.au to cast your vote for the final two themes or listen to ABC 891 on Mondays at 2.30pm.

WHAT: Your Gallery WHERE: Art Gallery Of South Australia WHEN: From Thu Nov 29

It’s very much up to you to decide if you want to lock horns with life, with all the trouble that entails, or float lightly and gently through uncharted waters. This means responsibility. The clues for easiness are nourishment and communication. Take them to heart.

Aquarius 20.01/18.02

The planets are set up in such a way that you could be tempted to get a bit jumpy in relationship. While others are reaching out for harmony and agreement, you simply want decisive action. Endless diplomacy doesn’t suit that end. Be straight with sweet talkers.

Virgo 23.08/22.09

Venus is travelling through your sign, which is unnerving the part of you that likes to keep it together. Venus is altogether too capricious and untamed to be held within any such constraints.

This is an interesting time for Virgos.

Tap into your vague and dreamy side.

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Capricorn 22.12/19.01

Leo 23.07/22.08

Enjoy community. With the sun in Libra, life is generally harmonious in your part of town. Sharing hopes, ideas and wild ideas, is proving to be a highly creative pastime. Keep it light, without letting it get fluffy. If you sense the need to lock horns, back away.

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Pisces 19.02/20.03

Take it slowly – and do all that you can to be responsive.. This is the healing way. Be clear. Be strong. Flex your spine.

Drifting off now will invite negative reactions. Others need you to hold your position. Crystallise the knowing you have and use it without faltering.

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Thu Oct 18 – Sat Nov 3

Wish You Were Here features the works of over 80 local artists, some very established and some quite new to the fore, in one of ACSA’s most expansive and varying portraiture and painting exhibitions. Each work is priced at $75 and signed verso, the artist responsible for the work to remain anonymous until the exhibition concludes. If your walls could do with some decorating, have a peruse of the online catalogue at acsa.sa.edu.au/ gallery/wishyouwerehere.htm.

Hill Smith Gallery resident Melinda Brodde will unveil her most recent series of work in Curl Ribbon Around The Pieces Of My Heart. Driven by the death of her father, Brodde has employed an intricate use of symmetry, patterns and effeminate items and affixes them to representations death in gnarled and beautiful ‘bouquets’. Soft, pastel ribbons and orchid flowers can be seen gently coiled around goat skulls, which are associated with unexpected tragedy, in Brodde’s decoupage-inspired pieces.

Our outback oasis awaits you at DEPARTURE: Infinite horizons. Get set for a night of Australian art and live entertainment under a desert sky. Unwind with classic beats and all-inclusive food and drink.

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‘Aztec Contrast’ shirt

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To whet yo ur appetite for what’s in store th is weekend, he re is a look at some of th e latest arriv als to Westfield M arion’s repe rtoire.

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Belted dress by Temt, $29.95

Westfield Marion Festival To celebrate the arrival of summer collections to their stores, Westfield Marion are offering their entire fashion and beauty arsenal to shoppers this weekend. Fashion events will be running throughout the weekend on the Centre Stage, with Westfield stylists and beauty experts providing advice, style inspiration and guidance for the summer trends. For personal shopping and styling advice, the exclusive Style Bar will also be offered. As well as the fashion, entertainment on offer includes live entertainment from Prinnie and Mahalia from The Voice on the Opening Night launch on Thu Oct 11 at 6pm and a

Stereosonic-sponsored silent disco at 2.30pm Sun Oct 14. So before you blow your budget this weekend getting prepared for summer, do your research, ask some questions and ensure your summer is the best one yet.

WHAT: Westfield Marion Festival WHERE: Westfield Marion - events take place on Centre Stage WHEN: Thu Oct 11 – Sun Oct 14 INFO: For more info and the full list of events visit westfield.com/marion

Diesel Gets Oversized Diesel have it cracked. Oversized, masculine watches on women complment them as it makes their wrists look more slender and, therefore, more effeminate… Even though it is essentially a manly watch. Yes, it all seems rather psychological, but Diesel seemed to have nailed the balance between a lady’s and man’s watch while still looking classic and cool. As a bonus, if you are constantly squinting to see the time, have no fear: with these bad boys you could see the time from space.

These three timeframes are part of the Summer 2012 Holiday Range from Atomic Watch + Style, Lower Level, Adelaide Central Plaza, 8223 4541. Prices between $379 and $399.

Beaded wrap cuff by Lovisa, $19.99

‘Titan’ sandals by Novo, $59.95

Casper&Pearl Pink Shorts For National Breast Cancer Foundation Up-and-coming fashion label casper&pearl are endeavouring to make a difference in both the fashion world and for those affected by cancer. The label has already gathered a cult following within the last year, with over 4700 Facebook followers and 9200 followers on Instagram, and are using this leverage to bring awareness for cancer research. They have now released their ‘Pink Shorts’: a fit-every-shapeand-size pair of shorts that are designed to be accessible and versatile for every woman. After sending the shorts to bloggers across the world to simulate a Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pantslike campaign, the shorts are now for sale, with proceeds going towards the National Breast Cancer Foundation. With the label’s creator, Stacey Hendrickson, having her mother battle cancer for more than 10 years and her father die of cancer two weeks before her grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer, this is a cause truly designed from the heart. casper&pearl ‘Pink Shorts’ are $60 and available from casperandpearl.com.

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The Way

Bel Ami

Hick

Umbrella Entertainment / PG / 116 Mins

Hopscotch / MA / 102 Mins

Paramount Transmission / MA / 96 Mins

Director/script adaptor/producer/costar Emilio Estevez based this sadly sweet drama on Jack Hitt’s book-long recounting of a journey down ‘El Camino de Santiago’ (or ‘Way of St James’), and cast his dad Martin Sheen in the lead and, however uncomfortably, himself as the wayward son.

Californian widower Tom (Martin) learns of the death of his estranged lad Daniel (Emilio, seen in flashbacks and fantasy glimpses) and, quietly grieving, comes to Spain to collect his remains, where a police captain (Tchéky Karyo) spurs him on into walking the Camino, despite Tom’s inadequate preparation and age. And what follows is a sometimes episodic but enjoyable semiroad-movie, wherein Tom takes in gorgeous scenery, struggles with guilt and joins a trio of other ‘pilgrims’: traumatised Canadian Sarah (Deborah Kara Unger), blocked Irish writer Jack ( James Nesbitt) and a chunky Dutchman named Joost, who’s supposedly attempting to lose weight (he’s amusingly portrayed by Yorick van Wageningen). While there are vague problems here, there’s also much heart, sumptuous Spanish and French locales, a Wizard Of Oz subtext and, from Sheen, a committed performance as a 60somethinger taking the long, long road to redemption. The disc featureds commentary by Sheen, Estevez and producer David Alexanian, and more.

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The dreaded Robert Pattinson’s scarcely a great actor and yet he has a curious interest in risky roles, and here he has the right combination of sullen and smarmy cheese to make the part nearly work. Drawn from Guy de Maupassant’s novel and co-directed

by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, this casts R-Patz as Georges Duroy, a hopeless former soldier in 1890s Paris who meets Charles Forestier (Philip Glenister), a onetime army chum who invites him to dinner and, later, gets him involved in the newspaper La Vie Parisienne, where, despite his lack of writing skills, he excels as he knows, and beds, all the right women. And the three key female roles here are what give Bel Ami life and heart, while also making the childish and misogynist Georges look even worse: there’s a long-unseen Uma Thurman as Forestier’s wife Madeleine; Kristin Scott Thomas as the randy missus of newspaper editor Rousset (Colm Meaney); and the also-rarely-spotted Christina Ricci in a sweet performance as the married Clotilde de Marelle, the first of Georges’ conquests and, as she’s not vampiriclooking for a change, arguably the loveliest of the ladies to be treated like dirt by our protagonist. Extras here include interviews and more.

Mad Dog

Director Derick Martini’s filming of Andrea Portes’ novel and screenplay is a ramblingly episodic road movie that can’t quite work out what it’s meant to be on about and eventually settles down into psychodrama territory, and has also proved notable as it apparently offended Nebraskan audiences and features an uncomfortably sexualised performance by the underage Chloë Grace Moretz (also rather inappropriately raunchedup in Kick-Ass, Let Me In, Dark Shadows and so on). Her Luli McMullen is increasingly tired of her hopeless mom ( Juliette Lewis) and her trailer-trashy life in general, and after hitting the road to Las Vegas with little else but a concealed gun, she’s soon friendly with the cool Glenda (Blake Lively), who’s the one here mainly responsible for providing the second half of the plot, where Luli becomes the object of sweaty obsession for nutty wannabe-cowboy Eddie Kreezer (Eddie Redmaybe, who’s convincing, creepy and really annoying all at the same time).

Well-cast (Alec Baldwin, who was also in this director’s equally-unknown Lymelife, turns up in a strong small part) but rather perplexing, this is mostly worth it for Moretz’s committed performance, as the camera ogles her just a little more than is surely healthy.

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Caitlin Moran / Random House / 358pp / $29.95

Bookshelf

Moranthology

UK journalist Caitlin Moran’s charmingly cheeky compendium of columns for The Times makes for a cracking package. Her intellectual stealth and dangerously insightful perspectives are often cloaked by pop culture meditations on Kevin Costner’s filmography, The Cure’s Close To Me clip and David Bowie’s ball-bag in Labyrinth, but her columns are as short, snappy and huggable as a bone-diseased midget. As at home with marvellous turns of phrase and classy descriptors (Benedict Cumberbatch has a “voice like someone smoking a cigar inside a grand piano”) as crass, guffaw-worthy dismissals (“Sex And The City? I hate that show like bum plague”), high profile assignments find Moran passing out stoned during a Radiohead interview and waking to find herself sprawled out on an entomological blanket of dead wasps, as well as witnessing Lady Gaga pissing through her fishnets in a German sex club. Subliminally cerebral, yet unafraid to use the term ass-hat a dozen times in a single column, Moranthology makes me giggle like a schoolgirl who’s just been texted a pic of Harry Styles naked.

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Frank Turner Frank Turner’s latest release – Last Minutes And Lost Evenings – packs 15 songs selected by Frank himself from both album tracks and rarities, and features a DVD of his Wembley show. Thanks to Warner Music we’ve got five copies up for grabs, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Oct 18.

Something For Kate After taking a hiatus while frontman Paul Dempsey released his highly successful and acclaimed solo album, Something For Kate return with album number six – Leave Your Soul To Science. Log onto ripitup.com. au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies. Competition closes at midday on Thu Oct 18.

The Mousetrap Stage

An Australian production of The Mousetrap, the classic murder mystery suspense from the pen of British crime writer Agatha Christie, is currently running in Adelaide as part of an extensive Australian tour to celebrate the work’s diamond (60year) anniversary.

It features a strong cast of actors (Robert Alexander, Travis Cotton, Gus Murray, Justin Smith, Christy Sullivan, Linda Cropper and Jacinta John) with Major Metcalf being played by Nicholas Hope (pictured standing).

Hope, who was born in Manchester, UK, but raised in Whyalla in South Australia, says that when he was approached about The Mousetrap he didn’t know quite what to expect of the play.

“I knew it had been running for 60 years so I knew that it had longevity but when I read it, I was actually surprised by how funny it was, especially the first half,” he says.

The Mousetrap, which began life as a radio play in 1947 before taking to the London stage in 1952 where it has run continuously for the last 60 years, is a classic murder mystery with an intricate plot.

“It’s also very clearly of its time – the early ’50s – and it’s also very much Agatha Christie,” Hope reveals. “Reading the play for the first time and not knowing who the murderer was, I was surprised because there’s quite a twist which comes as a shock.

“And we’ve now played a few cities

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and each night there’s an audible gasp from the audience when the murderer is revealed.

Christie set the play up so that everyone is a suspect. From the information available, anyone could be the killer. But, even so, it’s a real surprise when you find out who it is.

“It’s a fabulous murder mystery in that way so I can now see why it’s lasted so long and feel quite fortunate to be involved,” he adds. “And it’s been going really well and audiences have been loving it. As actors we are also constantly looking for new ways to colour our characters, so the show is really well run-in now.”

Surprisingly, Hope had only ever worked with cast member Linda Cropper before.

“And that was in a telemovie about 15 years ago,” he says. “So the acting industry is a curious one in that regard because I think only three of the actors in The Mousetrap have worked together in the past.”

Hope has enjoyed a long career as an actor

with a string of credits – perhaps his most famous being his award winning lead role in the cult feature film Bad Boy Bubby – to his name.

“Oh, it looks like a lot on paper,” he laughs, “but over the course of a career, it can be difficult to make ends meet. Sometimes there is just no work around although I have been quite lucky. And it’s so wonderful to be involved in the arts.

“I had a very boring office job before I went into acting,” Hope concludes. “I was actually becoming quite deeply depressed until I took up acting.”

WHAT: The Mousetrap WHERE: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Until Sun Oct 20

Your guide to the student experience.

For those of you who have recollected yourself from the day of mischief that was Parklife, congrats for making your way back to Fast Times. This week I’ve been impressed yet again by the different types of competitions being offered to young people studying in the field of their choice.

It’s a warming feeling to think that the industry that you love also loves you back, by kindly donating their time and effort to launch a platform for you to show them what you’re made of. That’s exactly what the participants of the following events have done and, as you’ll read, they totally kicked arse along the way. Film and music are difficult industries to get a break, and winning an award, equipment, recording time, national title or simply the recognition of industry peers (and potential employers) makes the hard work all worth it. The good news is that all these opportunities will be around again in no time – so watch this space for your chance to crush the competition and take home sweet prizes.

And remember, if you have any student info, an event or any deals I should know about, email fasttimes@ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook.com/fasttimesripitupmag or Tweet @FastTimesRIU and I’ll pass it on.

Peace, Lachie.

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Guru: GreenRoom Short Film Competition Winner, Pardesi On Tue Sep 18 in front of a full house at the Mercury Cinema, Danielle Tinker swept GreenRoom’s ‘Guru’-themed short film competition by taking out first prize and the People’s Choice with her film Pardesi.

Tinker walked away with a 5D Mark II DSLR camera and $1000 from ANZ, impressing judges by being able to teach the value of cultural understanding within Australia.

To check out Pardesi for yourself – type tiny.cc/pardesi into your browser and voilà!

Channelling my inner Margaret & David, I caught up with Tinker to find out more about her filmmaking process.

Tell us a bit about your film, Pardesi?

Pardesi is a comedy about two young Australian men who gain insight into Indian culture when they attempt to sell a car to an Indian man for an exorbitant price.

What was the most challenging thing about filming?

Getting the shoot done in two days, as we had limited time due to my working full-time.

At one point we had a small window to film a particular scene outdoors and it started sprinkling. I will be forever grateful to the extras and crew who all ran out to do a few takes despite the fact they got soaked!

How does Pardesi fit into the ‘Guru’ theme?

I was hoping that Pardesi would convey two layers of the theme. I wanted the lead Indian character, Mr Dkhar, to be a teacher in some

way, guiding the boys to open their hearts to what other cultures can offer. As he says in the film: “Tim… roll with it!”

But also, I wanted Mr Dkhar to surprise the boys, by being a ‘Guru’ (in the westernised sense of the word) when it came to the subject of cars: an area they felt was their own turf.

What can we expect from you in the future?

I have at least three films in the pipeline at the moment. The first I’m producing is called Dandelion and is about an Iranian woman.

Another I am co-writing is about a Saudi Arabian exchange student and the third I am writing is about an Afghani storekeeper.

I love seeing how immigrants deal with living in another culture, how they adapt and also what they still hold onto. So I guess you can expect short films with cultural themes!

Music SA “Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do”… Poor John Oates. Maybe he needed a Certificate IV in Music Business from Music SA to guide him on the correct path. Students from this particular course and the bands they manage will be showcasing their year of hard work at the free gig Platform One, being held at the Wheatsheaf Hotel on Tue Oct 23. The bands on offer are Harmless Hunters, a band of quirky acoustic brothers; Stock Exchange, a four-piece indie band who incorporate catchy melodies with a dark sound; and All Year Round, a five-piece

pop punk band with a dynamic stage presence. Three very different sounds will present the variety and versatility of the Music SA degree, so if you think you have what it takes to prove John Oates wrong and swim upstream in the music business Music SA is the place you need to start.

WHAT: Platform One with Harmless Hunter, Stock Exchange and All Year Round WHERE: Wheatsheaf Hotel WHEN: Tue Oct 23 from 6pm COST: Free INFO: musicsa.com.au

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The National Campus Band Competition wrapped up on Fri Sep 28 with the national final held at Fowler’s Live. Local five-piece band Walking With Thieves took the home-ground advantage for all its worth, ‘stealing’ (get it?) the major title from the other six state finalists. The band took away a recording package at Chapel Lane Studios and $1000 cash, being awarded as the best campus band from the 252 original entrants from 37 institutes all over Australia.

To win the privilege, they had to impress music industry representatives from Chapel Lane Entertainment, Northern Sound System, Radio Adelaide and the Adelaide Festival. All the bands on the night will also receive a YouTubeready clip of the first song in their set, so be sure to keep a look-out on your internet for these up-and-coming Aussie bands. aaca.net.au/ncbc.html

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Reviews // Katy Perry Hummingbird Heartbeat (EMI)

The lovely Katy Perry might be nine singles deep on her Teenage Dream – The Ultimate Confection journey, but this is a dishy last serve from the saucepot. A little hum-dinger.

CD Reviews

Who wants to read my opinions all day? This week you can choose your own position from a list of options!

Culture

CD Of The Week

Scottie’s Singles

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When pneumatic tigress KP opines ‘The taste of your honey is so sweet’ here, you know it’s not just her wings she’s beating. Two scoops of vanilla on my hot tart, thanks.

The Flaming Lips

What sound is more shudder-inducing - the desperate barrel scrape as EMI serves up one last single from the record-breaking Teenage Dream, or John Mayer’s lips smacking with drool as he tells Katy Perry her body is a wonderland?

The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends (Warner)

Michael Jackson Bad (Afrojack Feat Pitbull Remix) (Sony)

Just as Junkie XL brought a new generation of fans to Elvis Presley via a remix of A Little Less Conversation, this finds Afrojack fiddling with The King’s former son-in-law. It’s Bad, not awful.

Jacko might have sang ‘Your butt is mine’, but this remix delivers more arse-waft than even Jarvis Cocker inflicted upon the King Of Pop. The bafflingly popular Pitbull smearing his Muttley chuckle all over a bona fide pop classic? This is the most disastrous MJ move since Jordie Chandler slipped between the Neverland sheets.

Ke$ha Die Young (Sony)

It’s vapid brat pop fun, but when did Ke$ha ever suggest she was selling The Female Eunuch in three-minute serial form?

Ke$ha once revealed that her love of sparkly cosmetics ensures “there’s glitter in my piss”.

It’s a shame that this track is five percent twinkle, 95 percent tinkle.

Producer Dr Luke’s touch is turning from silver lining to golden slumber, with his formula changing little between Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream, Flo Rida’s Good Feeling and even Ke$ha’s own We R Who We R. Die Young’s stuck with the comatose bleeps and beats of a life support machine.

The Killers Battle Born (UMA)

Four years since the misjudged Day And Age, Battle Born finds The Killers stoically returning to what they do best: chest-thumping, heart-pumping, browbeating, dust-kicking electro pop.

With opener Flesh And Bone kicking off with a sound akin to an air traffic control beacon, it’s soon obvious Captain

Nicki Minaj Va Va Voom (UMA)

The upcoming Pink Friday salvage mission seems akin to giving a sunken galleon a paint job, but at least Nicki Minaj’s latest single will have you inanely nodding like a bobblehead on a bucking bronco.

Her ass is a spaceship I want to ride.

Oh dear. As forgettable as Clare ‘Chk Chk Boom’ Werbeloff and less inviting than a party at Bernard Finnegan’s place.

One Direction Live While We’re Young (Sony)

Shit.

Funkin’ shit.

Utter funkin’ shit.

Mostly A: You’re probably a prick, but your vague attempt at positivity suggests you’re still an outside change for rehabilitation.

Mostly B: You’re a bona fide sex pest. The chip inside this issue has sent an alert to authorities. They will be walking through your door shortly.

Mostly C: You’re as dark and nasty as a Nicki Minaj alter ego. Ever considered writing a cruel-hearted, misanthropic and routinely offensive Singles column?

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Brandon Flowers and his crew are ready for take-off. Interim side-projects (including drummer Ronnie Vannucci’s rather marvellous Big Talk album and Flowers’ rejuvenating Flamingo) set the scene for Battle Born, with nods to trend-dodging radio staples such as Dire Straits, Tom Petty and Bob Seger on the touching power ballad Here With Me and the country stomp of From Here On Out. Playing to well-established strengths, Dave Keuning’s guitar lines on Miss Atomic Bomb are direct descendants of Mr Brightside, with Flowers’ lyrics full of wistful nostalgia. The influence of old heroes remains strong on Battle Born; there’s the spectre of Spector haunting A Matter Of Time’s humble drum beat and tambourine shake, Heart Of A Girl’s bassline joins Lou Reed for a walk on the dirty boulevard and Runaways has the feel of Jessie’s Girl recorded by Cheap Trick for a revised stage version of Tommy.

Forget Axl Rose’s incongruous residency at the Hard Rock Hotel – The Killers remain Las Vegas’ only rock band that matter. Battle Born isn’t immediate, but thankfully it’s not intermediate either.

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After doing some production work after 2009’s Embryonic, Wayne Coyne and the rest of The Flaming Lips hit the road to collaborate with an array of sonic weirdos including, but certainly not limited to, Bon Iver, Yoko Ono, Nick Cave and Ke$ha.

At this point you’re probably most familiar with the controversy that has surrounded the track recorded with Erykah Badu. The cover of Roberta Flack’s The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face spawned a NSFW video depicting a naked Badu and her sister in bathtubs full of what appears to be glitter, blood and finally semen.

Badu claimed the video was exploitative, sparking a rather juvenile Twit-war. Coyne has recently re-recorded the song and reshot the video with Amanda Palmer. It’s a shame because the collaboration with Badu is easily the album’s standout.

As a studio album, the record is a bit hit and miss due to the motley crew of guests and genre spinning antics on display.

Despite its flaws, ...And Heady Fwends is full of the bold experimental tinkering that we’ve come to expect from The Flaming Lips and when things click, it is impressive.

Ryan Lynch

Regurgitator, Senyawa & Hedgehog The Governor Hindmarsh, Sat Oct 6 Review by Rob Lyon Pics by Andreas Heuer

Regurgitator hit the Governor Hindmarsh to perform their two most successful albums, Tu Plang and Unit, back to back in all their splendour, playing to a full house of die-hard fans. Rarely have Regurgitator disappointed their loyal fans and tonight was no different. The vibe in the room was awesome and the night got off to a good start with Indonesia’s Senyawa and Beijing’s Hedgehog offering something unique and adding an international flavour to the evening.

It was pretty late by the time Regurgitator took to the stage to a massive rock star welcome.

Decked out in the very unique Regurgitator bikie jackets (selling for a handsome price at the merch desk complete with Bruce Springsteen styled headbands), frontman Quan Yeomans proclaimed Tu Plang was recorded “well before a lot of you were born” as the band kicked off with the anthemic I Sucked A Lot Of Cock To Get Where I Am, before taking it up another notch with Kong Foo Sing. The video projections added something to each song, giving a trademark Regurgitator tongue-in-cheek spin. Tu Plang isn’t a straight-forward album to take in and for me sounds even better live; the tracks seem to

Reviews // Quick Ones

Loon Lake

Josh Ritter

Thirty Three

So Runs The World Away

(Independent)

(Warner)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Peaking Lights

12 Bar Bruise

(Hardly Art)

(Flightless/Fuse)

I must admit, upon first hearing Loon Lake’s 2011 single In The Summer, I was worried that the return of The Strokes may have prompted a bunch of newcomers to believe they could find success with the same formula. The song is just so annoyingly catchy that, after a while, you just have to accept it’s there. But upon the release of the band’s second EP, Thirty Three, I’m a little more convinced these guys are the real deal.

A more refined sound has allowed the five-piece to become more cool-cat than copy-cat. And backed up by some very clever lyricism from lead singer Sam Nolan, there is much to like about Thirty Three. Lead single Cherry Lips is simply a brilliant pop song; if you don’t find your shoulders shaking along, it might be a good time to check yourself into the physio. Along with Bad To Me, these songs perfectly depict the ideals of romance in a cheeky and easily relatable way.

Thirty Three is nothing more than a good EP should be, showcasing the pop sensibilities Loon Lake possess, while displaying strokes of genius that show what the band may be capable of when given more disc space.

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hang together quite well despite the album’s obscure moments. Quan and bassist Ben Ely seemed just as proud now to be still playing them as they were back in 1996. The politically-fused G7 Dick Electro Boogie was great, with occasional keyboardist Seja Vogel adding some extra bite to the live sound.

What a treat to also hear the likes of Miffy’s Simplicity, Social Disaster, Pop Porn and Blubber Boy resurrected.

With a brief intermission to reload and change costume, Unit got a touch-up. The ironic I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your Stuff was terrific, despite being restarted at Ely’s request. Really, the set-list should be no surprise for anyone – especially those on their phones following the track order on Wikipedia. Everyday Formula, ! (The Song Formerly Known As) and Black Bugs lifted the roof off the joint. Ely asked the crowd if they were ready to go off, which seemed odd as the crowd were going off all night; the crowd surfing even included members of the support acts getting in on the action. I Will Lick Your Arsehole is as popular as ever, with Modern Life and Polyester Girl keeping the energy in the room alive.

The encore saw the band taking their shirts off and sporting wigs covering their faces (just like at the Big Day Out) with Nothing To Say being an epic moment to top off an awesome night. The only disappointment was there was no Devo cover like during previous shows on tour.

Josh Ritter is putting on the ritz with this record. Not really, I just wanted to use that turn of phrase. It’s actually the complete opposite; So Runs The World Away is a series of stripped back sounds, kicking it raw and vulnerable.

This is a good one for spring evenings with your man or lady friend - or even your dog friend if things are getting desperate.

Along with this release, Joshy has popped in a cheeky EP in addition titled Bringing In The Darlings - and he is bringing in several darlings with these little tunes. As a lyricist he is every bit as compelling as he is creative, writing with such insightful astuteness, sailing through melodic sessions with each track.

Ritter’s sound grows on you like a highly contagious rash - I mean that in the best way possible. To top it off nicely, Joshy is kicking absolute goals with the cover presentation, with the whole collaboration weaved together with intriguing graphics and things that look pretty. I kind of want to set up camp in the album cover - care to join?

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Melbourne’s ‘seven headed beast’ (’cos there’s seven of them, right?) King Gizzard are best known as primal noise maestros who have been riding the wave of Victorian garage revival for the last year. Their fuzzy guitar scream has been reverberating through Australia, with the emphasis on party noise, blood and guts.

At its heart it’s bullish, noisy, punky stuff and makes no excuses for pillaging every ‘70s pub rock group’s back catalogue and regularly descending into beer-soaked stage battles.

12 Bar Bruise is about as visceral as it gets and sounds deliberately live, enthusiastically volunteering atmosphere over production value. What it lacks in subtlety it makes up in sheer bloodymindedness. Yes, every song is more or less the same. Yes, gang vocals are the mainstay. Yes, it sounds like it was recorded for 10 bucks in a crack den. But it’s kinda fun. Probably not as fun as their live show, but fun enough to feel battered and bruised by album closer.

Final track throwaway Footy Footy, sounds like Bluejuice reading out a ‘90s AFL draft list, but it also neatly encapsulates King Gizzard - a bunch of drunk dudes shouting out whatever they can think of, pounding twangy guitars, battering cymbals and kicking one another in the head.

Lucy Campbell

Lucifer

Lucifer is the third album from Peaking Lights, the finest poster children for intra-band lovemaking since Fleetwood Mac. Aaron Doyles and Indra Dunis offer a soundtrack for the whimsical time spent between the sheets when we are at our most vacant and impressionable.

The sultry Lucifer wafts through listeners’ ear canals and meanders in the brain, making perfect bedroom jams. Airy rhythms carry soft electronic flourishes that anchor themselves to our pleasure centres, sparking immediate infatuation.

Sadly, as with any drug that alters one’s mood, Lucifer starts off strong but its potency fades. It epitomises carnal nonchalance. It feels like the score of some ritualistic orgy where everyone wears Venetian masks and is on hard drugs, but it’s okay since they’re all rich, upstanding members of society. Despite their trysts with sexual depravity and substance abuse, of course.

Ryan Lynch

Smoke Fairies Blood Speaks (Shock/V2)

The duo of Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire (AKA Smoke Fairies) offer just the right balance of old school and new school on their latest album, Blood Speaks. I asked my blood to speak to me, but it gave me absolute donuts, so I’m guessing it’s a metaphor.

These little Smokey fairies from Britain are conveying a progressive Joni Mitchell vibe, with those aching voices crying out to be heard. The album is borderline an invitation to get on the express to Unhappy Town, with tunes seemingly wallowing in a bottomless pit of self-pity. It’s just all a bit sad for me. But hey, have a cheeky listen and make up your own mind. Who knows, maybe your blood might even speak upon listening to these sounds. Ooooh!

Creepy.

Sharni Honor

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Local News

Hurricanes EP Launch New Adelaide outfit Hurricanes will launch their debut new music alongside Carla Lippis & The Martial Hearts at the Wheatsheaf this Fri Oct 12. Comprised of members of The Transatlantics, The Shaolin Afronauts, The Atlantic Street Band and fronted by Tara Lynch, Hurricanes is a hybrid of rock, soul, indie and country that blends timeless influences with heartfelt songwriting. The doors open at 8pm.

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Indie pop is something of a revolving door nowadays, one band replaced by the next in just a few months. But then there’s Adelaide outfit The Salvadors, who’ve been kicking around longer than most of these acts and have a pretty serious following to boot. And there’s no better time to show your loyalty than now, as this weekend the band’s two years of efforts will culminate in the release of their gloriously upbeat debut album Holy Drunken Fisherman.

Joined by a superb roll-call of local indie bands including The Shiny Brights and East End Villains on the night, Rip It Up chatted to frontman Tom Opie ahead of the launch about the band’s lengthy journey in putting forward their first studio-produced long-player.

“We went to One Movement Festival in 2010 and their advice to us is that if you have a bit of hype with a single you should hold onto it,” Opie divulges on the two years it took to create a full-length album. “And we were happy to do that for a while. So we did Wilson, and Triple J were keen on that one, and then Eliza Jane. From there I think the writing [for the album] was pretty quick, but it was the recording in Melbourne and coming back and going again that made us

realise that we needed more time than we expected. Towards the end the vibe of the band was just really crawling over the finish line. But now that’s it’s done we’re pumped.”

Recorded with Jeremy Giddings at Hot House Studio, Opie describes how the gear at hand allowed for the album to be recorded with a “vintage” element to it, which was perfectly apt for their vibe.

“The studio had a really old sound desk, which was excellent to get a more vintage sound for the drums and what-not. It worked well because the record is that way, a bit ‘60s Beach Boys. And they had a huge guitar selection so we were able to use all these vintage Fender Jaguars, and I think the main part of The Salvadors is the guitar lines. So it was great to have all them at our disposal when we went there. If we went somewhere else we probably wouldn’t have had that sound.”

Last week the band unveiled their latest music video Alleyway, an 8-bit clip inspired by a 1987 computer game called California Games. The music video, and the sparkling pop that accompanies it, serves as an astute summary of the band.

“The penny didn’t really drop for me until someone commented, ‘Jeez, the kids won’t understand this’ but for our bracket it’s very relevant,” he remarks. “I guess [the video] came about at the time because we were thinking about going to the States. We’d had a bit of radio play over there and there was a small little following in California, and a

few people who’d reviewed us had thought we had a Californian sound. We thought it would be cool to play on something we think is very Californian and a bit tongue-incheek. Then we thought it’d be pretty funny to have a washed up, former video game child star, sort of thing.”

It’s not the first time The Salvadors have delved into impressive video projects. Their last clip Santa Monica, shot by noted US filmographer Cameron Ford, saw the band wading in a freezing swimming pool in the dead of winter underneath a tarp. To avoid hypothermia, the members had to emerge every 30 minutes to huddle around a fire and drink cups of tea. Dedication much?

“It was pretty scary and bloody cold, but we were just doing it in short little spurts to avoid hypothermia. It actually looks like we were quite deep into the pool but we were actually in the shallow end, and we’d worked out a few safety measures to get out,” he jests. “It was quite funny, Cam [Ford, director] had never worn a wetsuit or fins before and just wasn’t a water person at all.

And he was just flopping around in the pool with this camera all day.”

WHO: The Salvadors, The Shiny Brights, East End Villains & Jesse Davidson WHAT: Holy Drunken Fisherman (Independent) WHEN: Sat Oct 13 WHERE: The Gov

Richard Batsford At The Wheaty South Australia’s newest import and resident Richard Batsford will perform his first Adelaide performance at the Wheatsheaf on Mon Oct 15 as part of local event COMA. As an established pianist and singer with a resume that includes gigs at Edinburgh and Melbourne Fringes, it’s sure to be a good show. Tickets will be at the door from 8pm.

Holographic Charizard EP Launch Adelaide’s favourite Pokeball-touting weirdo Holographic Charizard is back after an interstate tour and this time with a brand new EP in tow. Blue, his latest studio release, will be launched at the Worldsend Hotel on Sat Oct 13 supported by Star Wars enthusiasts Kessel Run and Tram Spaghetti.

Releases entitled Silver and Gold are sure to come in the months to follow...

Archers EP Launch After a tasty music video with Capital Waste for their single Seven Skies, allround nice guys Archers will be launching their highly anticipated EP What Birds Think at Jive next week on Sat Oct 20.

They’ll be joined on the night by local support acts Wild Oats and Miss Fellows.

Tickets will be made available at the door on for $12, so get involved.

WHO: Archers, Wild Oats & Miss Fellows WHAT: What Birds Think EP Launch WHERE: Jive WHEN: Sat Oct 20

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The Lizards At The Brighton Bar On Fri Oct 19 western suburbs-based The Lizards will emerge from under their rocks to perform at the The Brighton Bar at the Brighton Football Club. With a reputation for impromptu backyard and house party performances, the band now have their sights set on an EP release for later in the year. Before that though they’ll join Cortisol, Walk The Plank and Requiem for an all-ages show.

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