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Editor’s Note// While Harvest haven’t yet brought their whole festival shebang to South Australia, the organisers (who also manage to pull off the consistently excellent Soundwave Festival) continue to throw Adelaide a bone. They blessed us with some amazing festival side-shows in 2011 including a Thebarton Theatre trifecta of The Flaming Lips (**** - Rip It Up), The National (**** Rip It Up) and a Portishead and Mercury Rev double-header (**** - Rip It Up), now they’re providing us with an even bigger taste of their 2012 line-up. With Santigold, Beirut, Cake, Silversun Pickups, The Dandy Warhols, Sigur Ros and our cover stars Ben Folds Five all trekking westward, Adelaide has been bestowed with a majority of Harvest’s top tier drawcards.

Coming here! Playing full sets! For us!

While pundits might whine that it’s a lot cheaper to see all these cats on the one bill, how much better will it be to witness them in reliable venues such as Thebarton Theatre, HQ and Her Majesty’s Theatre rather than dodging vom in a dusty field filled with shirtless cocks talking loudly into their iPhones about how wasted they are (possibly to a friend standing just two metres away)? Bliss.

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Experience a tribute to the late Joe Strummer of The Clash with The Tearaways (pictured), Sweet Teens, Ben David & The Banned and Hightime at Crown & Anchor on Sat Oct 27.

Coming to Grote St’s Her Majesty’s Theatre on Fri Oct 26 as a burlesque-style Star Wars musical extravaganza.

Touring her new album, Bless This Mess, and playing the Governor Hindmarsh on Sun Oct 28 with Alpine and Danco.

Thurston Moore

Fleurieu Folk Festival

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Get Goo-ey at the sight of the Sonic Youth legend at the Governor Hindmarsh on Mon Oct 29.

Happening from Fri Oct 26 until Sun Oct 28 on the Fleurieu Peninsula with The Go Set, Stetson Family, Senor Cabrales (pictured) and so many more.

Droppin’ in to treat patrons of Jive to some rootsy tunes on Thu Oct 25 with special guest Vorn Doolette.

Speeding along this week...

BACKWATER BLUES FESTIVAL – happening mostly at Queen’s Theatre in the city, but also various other venues around town until Sun Oct 28.

JAMES HENRY – catch Jimmy Little’s grandson when he plays with local trio The Yearlings at Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel from 4pm on Sun Oct 28.

SHELLAC – don’t miss the legendary Steve Albini’s noisy US band when they play Fowler’s Live on Sat Oct 27 with Pikelet.

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Who: Deep Sea Arcade / Where: Adelaide Uni Bar / When: Thu Nov 22 / Tickets: $18 + BF at moshtix.com.au

Rolling In The Deep

Who: The Floors / Where: Grace Emily / When: Sat Oct 27

The Floors: Dead Beats?

Four days to record an album called Dead Beat and a year to release it? Dirty fuzz punk blues three-piece The Floors have some explaining to do. The Perth band’s members have been kind of busy, playing with compatriots Kill Devil Hills, Timothy Nelson & The Infidels and Will Stoker & The Embers. And, in the words of guitarist and vocalist Luke Dux: “Yeah, we just decided to go off touring instead”.

How did The Floors begin?

“From the moment we could hold a guitar our parents took us down to the local pub to jam. Then as soon as we got our first job doing the paper rounds they sent us on tour around Australia. Hard work and no sleep. With our other bands we spend a lot more time writing and refining our parts, with The Floors we just pick up our guitars and that’s what comes out. Loud.”

Your guitars look pretty special…

“Yeah, we’re definitely gear heads, we’d

probably be sitting on a gold mine with everything we own. Unfortunately none of it works. Well sorta. I play early ‘70s Gibson SG I bought off this crazy American scientist living in the hills of Perth. Most people who play it tell me it’s a dog but it works for me.

It’s been glued together so many times it looks like a puzzle.”

Why record Dead Beat in Poons Head Studio with Rob Grant?

“The Kill Devil Hills had just recorded an album there which Ryan played on and we liked the laid-back, start late, work late work vibe of Rob and the studio. So we set up in a circle, in a room that doubles as a kitchen, turned our amps up and jammed. It took us four days. Two amplifiers died. We wanted it to be as loud and loose as our live show and we recorded straight to two inch tape with everything in the red. It’s safe to say we weren’t going for perfection.”

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bluegrass style? The Pigs can put the pork on your fork. Known for their original songs and stupidly good fun covers, The Pigs have banjos and they know how to use them. Hear these swines’ pearls at the Wheatsheaf on Thu Dec 13.

How awkward would it be to miss out on tickets to SAN CISCO’s Wild Things tour?

The Fremantle outfit are sure to sell out fast, especially given that their show at the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Dec 6 with The Preatures and The Belligerents is all ages. Wild! Tickets: moshtix.com.au and venuetix.com.au.

Deep Sea Arcade stepped off a plane from their UK and Europe Outlands album tour with a little more swagger in their step after playing a sold-out headline show in Brixton at the Windmill and to a capacity crowd at Reeperbahn Festival in Germany. And that was before they found out they had been nominated for the Australian Music Prize. Swagger!

What happens in Europe stays on the internet, so keep an eye out for a Granite City film clip shot in the French countryside and just do a little search to see photos of the band’s obsession with Bum Bum and German porn.

Christmas Hanlon The Delivery Man Once upon a time the wildly hairsprayed Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth said that critics loved Elvis Costello because they all looked like him. Roth also insured his sperm and walked the streets in a leotard so make of that what you will – either way, Costello and his thick-framed glasses return for A Day On The Green at Leconfield Wines, McLaren Vale, on Sun Jan 27. In his first South Australian appearance since A Day On The Green in 2004, Costello will play with his trusty Imposters: keyboardist Steve Nieve, drummer Pete Thomas and bassist Davey Faragher. Expect a Costello refresher course and a super support line-up including Sunnyboys returning to the stage for their first national tour in more than 20 years, Joe Camilleri re-assembling Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Tex Perkins with the Dark Horses and a rare concert appearance from ex-Sports frontman Stephen Cummings. Details: adayonthegreen.com.au.

This Little Piggy Played Banjo Do you want to hear Beyonce’s Single Ladies played like you’re at a shotgun wedding getting crazy on moonshine? How about Kanye West’s Gold Digger, LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem or Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough done in foot-stomping

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Things just got even more P!NK, with the announcement that she’s playing even more shows next year – see her at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Mon Jul 1, Tue Jul 2, Thu Jul 4 and Fri Jul 5.

Now that he’s split up with his wife Danielle, Russell Crowe is going back on the road in his role as “Darren Hanlon”.

Nah, really, Crowe and Hanlon might look alike but the latter is more of a local indie scene treasure than a phone thrower.

Hanlon has had a different year, operating an underground speakeasy venue in a bookshop in Melbourne, living in a bread truck in Portland and touring Europe and America.

Now it’s time for one of Hanlon’s trademark Christmas shows playing stripped back versions of his own songs with a little help from a few surprise guests. Don’t miss it on Thu Dec 20 at Church Of The Trinity in Clarence Pk. Tickets: flippinyeah.com.

Moody and delicately beautiful, defining and unsettling, unpolluted and sincere – SARAH BLASKO’s I Awake album has inspired a lot of nice words from critics. Things are about to get even nicer for her fans, as she’s bringing the album to life at the Adelaide Festival Centre on Fri Feb 1 with help from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Tickets: bass.net.au.

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We Are The Famous Five What’s the weirdest part about reuniting with your band after 12 long years? Just one thing, actually – how old everyone looks, according to Ben Folds Five frontman and exAdelaidean, Ben Folds. And that goes for the fans, too, he jokes.

We’ve done some touring already and it’s going great,” the songwriter says.

“Really, when you get us together we’re just a bunch of music nerds, so when we’re around each other it makes for pretty horrible dinner conversation to anyone around us. The musical chemistry is still very good – it’s awesome, actually – and the only difference I have noticed is, like, ‘Wow, we look different’. Compared to the last time I saw them, they just look... different! It’s really weird to look out into the crowd and see the people who were into the band back in the day looking conspicuously older too.

Maybe what’s even more weird is noticing the 18-year-olds who come out to see us and realising they were, like, five years old when we came out.”

Which is a good thing, according to Folds, who claims that it’s unfortunate that many – if not most – of his contemporaries are not very well distributed among the younger generation. Himself a father of teenagers, Folds says it’s worrying many young people don’t even know who Beck is...

“I’ve got kids at 13 and I’ve noticed that lots of artists who are sort of from my era just aren’t really known among children. They can tell you about Nirvana, though, and some of the acts from the ‘90s, but it depends on what gets captured by popular culture. I’m still around, but I don’t think they’ll be busting out my solo catalogue any time soon.”

Actually, Folds claims even he’s surprised

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at the significant number of fans who never realised he even had a solo career since Ben Folds Five split back in 2000. To them, the band’s new album The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind is the first fix they’ve had in over a decade...

“It’s true. I believe I’ve written some good stuff and made some good albums during my solo career, but you’d be surprised how many people have been like, ‘Where have you been the past 13 years? I didn’t know you were making music!’ Now that we’re doing band stuff again, maybe they’ll go back and have a listen. I don’t know what will happen to the solo stuff, though. It will fall where it’s gonna fall. Most people seem to be happy about the band thing. I’m happy that we’re mature enough to see now that the good is always more important than the bad and that the chemistry is still there. I acknowledge that I can be a bit of a creative bull, even though I don’t run around forcing my will on people, but with making music, I can be pretty manipulative in order to get the artistic result that I want.”

“Adelaide has an abysmal record for ticket sales. I can walk down the street in Adelaide and know everyone – but then the show doesn’t sell well that night! I don’t get it. Still, shout out to Gouger St!” Being older and more mature 13 years on, Folds says the trio have learned to see the “forest from the trees” and to deal with heated situations in a much more productive way.

“OK, so Robert [Sledge, bassist] can be

moody, Darren [ Jessee, drummer] can be resistant... It’s cool. These days we can say, ‘Alright, I’m being a jackass, let’s take a break then come back and knock it out’. We believe in the strength of the music more than anything. Our album made a debut in the top 10 of the US album Billboard charts, which was a highlight for us, and the single and the video are getting great acclaim and doing well on American radio. I’ve never done something I didn’t work hard on, even if it was done quickly. We’ve given this album the kind of attention that makes it hard to have a perspective on it from the inside, but I think it stands up next to anything we’ve ever done, or pretty damn close, at least. The three of us are pretty brutally honest musically – we stopped making music at a lucrative time in our career because we just didn’t feel like our output or enjoyment of music was worthy of any kind of income.”

Strangely enough, Folds confesses his two favourite songs on the new album weren’t even written by the frontman himself. With drummer Jessee penning the track Sky High, it’s the album’s title track, The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind – written in collaboration with author Nick Hornby – that stands out for Folds the most.

“The reason I was drawn to that one is because, for artists at least, on some level we’re escapists, and I think that’s what that song is about. Or you could ask Nick and he might tell you it’s about something completely else. When you’re a kid and you’re not down with what’s happening around you – I mean, your parents don’t have to necessarily beat you or anything, you can just have a feeling of uneasiness – you just want to get away. That song is about a kid who has to escape into art and I’ve always related to that idea. My job is to beat the shit out of a piano, so that’s all good, but if I was kissing ass and crunching numbers all day, I’d find life a little more difficult.”

A Fixture Down Rundle Mall Ben Folds put our city on the map while living in Adelaide after he married local girl (and his third wife) Frally Hynes in 1999, and even went as far as to write a song about his new home.

During that time, Folds lived in North Adelaide, Kent Town and Port Willunga, and had told The Advertiser in an interview that he ended up becoming a “weird spokesperson” for the city. “The top question from people in other cities is, ‘Why did you choose Adelaide?’, because it seems to be a running joke for the rest of Australia. I can see it’s got a real oldmoney, conservative-church thing going on and has this serial killer thing, but every place has its weirdness. There are a lot of artists here, a lot of people who are excellent at what they do.”

And when Folds returns to his former hometown of Adelaide, he expects you to come and see him beat the shit out of said piano. Seriously, he means it.

“Adelaide is one of my favourite cities in the world. It’s an amazing place to live and some of the most artistic people live in that town. The standard of living is great, whether you’re poor or rich... But it has an abysmal record for ticket sales. Bands do not like to play in Adelaide because of ticket sales - it’s embarrassing. I mean, I can’t walk down the street in Adelaide without talking to people and I know everyone – but then the show doesn’t sell well that night! I don’t get it. Still, shout out to Gouger St!” WHO: Ben Folds Five WHAT: The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind (Sony) WHERE: Thebarton Theatre WHEN: Fri Nov 16

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Interviews// Turn On The Bright Lights One thing that Australian rock music can pride itself on is the acceptance of those who put in the hard yards, and Adelaide’s City Riots easily fall into this category. Four years on from their initial leap into the music world, lead singer Ricky Kradolfer speaks with Rip It Up ahead of the band’s debut album launch, explaining the rocky roads that led to Sea Of Bright Lights. fter breaking through in 2008 with an appearance at Britain’s Great Escape festival, Adelaide’s City Riots found themselves on a whirlwind touring schedule. With debut album Sea Of Bright Lights finally ready to enter the world, Kradolfer says the long and winding road makes this release all the more special.

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“To be honest there’s been so much happening,” Kradolfer says. “I’ve just been so busy that I haven’t had a lot of time to reflect on things too much. One of my bad traits is that I never have enough time to sit and enjoy the moment - we’re always so busy moving on to the next phase. But I’m definitely excited, besides being a little bit worn out and tired. I think it’s going to be a special day. It’s something that any band really looks forward to, having their first album out.”

Sea Of Bright Lights marks a major change in direction for the four-piece. Kradolfer says they are keen to play the album from start to finish at their Promethean launch.

“Closer is my favourite track on there and I’m really looking forward to playing that live. I’ve got a couple of friends that are going to join us on stage to try and re-create that stuff. With Adelaide being our hometown we wanted to do a few special things. I

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The States Of Play The wisdom of Billy Corgan certainly rubbed off on Ricky Kradolfer, particularly at the end of the band’s Australian tour with a reincarnated Smashing Pumpkins last year.

“Billy asked, ‘How are things going over in the US?’, and I said, ‘Yeah, we’re working hard’.

He goes, ‘You know, even at my age we’ve still gotta work hard. You know what? You think you can sell out LA and New York, but let me tell you something. You don’t mean shit if you can’t sell out Iowa.’”

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wanted it to be something slightly more intimate, more relaxed, but also something that feels like more of a party rather than just a gig.”

Away from the theatres, studios and touring vans, the band decided to escape last year, penning 40 new songs while holed up at a family shack on the Murray.

“It provided a place that I could go and just escape the distractions of the city, and especially over summer time it’s just a really nice place to hang out and leave the recording gear set up there. And we could just jam and not be distracted by anything.”

These sessions drummed up a relationship with Melbourne producer Woody Annison, who helped refine the band’s sound, beginning with last year’s Matchsticks EP. “He really understood how we wanted to sound and what we were trying to do. Woody’s very much a straight shooter. He’ll say if something’s good or if it’s not going to work. That’s the thing with any producer; you’ve got to learn to trust them.”

Aside from tours in the US and UK and appearances at SXSW and CMJ festivals, the band found themselves recording in the presence of Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan.

“From the day the Pumpkins started, Billy would record his own bootlegs and just put them all in storage.

So our producer was part of putting all this stuff together as well. Before we knew it we were waiting for this place called ‘Pumpkinland 2’ to be built. He wanted to build something outside of Chicago because the other one had problems with fans trying to break in all the time and take memorabilia.

“He spent a shitload of money getting the best gear you can imagine to build one of the best studios I think has ever existed. He even bought the desk from Abbey Road that The Beatles recorded on. The deal was we could stay there as long as we wanted to record, but we had to help finish it off.”

Kradolfer and the band understand what is most important is their progression.

“A lot of bands are misled into thinking going to SXSW to play a show will define your career, and you’re destined to get a record deal, and you’ll be swimming in coconut milk. It just doesn’t work that way. You do it to write the best songs you can, and hopefully someone gets excited about a certain song or lyric or melody and it makes them feel a certain way. That’s all we can hope for.”

WHO: City Riots WHAT: Sea Of Bright Lights (Inertia) WHERE & WHEN: The Promethean on Fri Oct 23 and Jive on Sat Dec 8

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Interviews// The Fall Guy It’s a cold, miserable August day on Phillip Island but the mood is jovial inside the Mill, the spacious studio in which Paul Kelly is putting the finishing touches on his 19th studio album, Spring And Fall. Kelly is in his sixth day of mixing with the studio’s owner, Andy Stewart, and Machine Translations’ Greg J Walker when this writer makes the 120-kilometre trek south-east of Melbourne for a progress report. pon our arrival we find a chirpy Kelly sweeping up shards of broken glass, after an unconventional (and overenthusiastic) attempt to add percussion to a track using drinking glasses has gone awry.

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“It’s been fun,” Kelly explains during a break in mixing. “I haven’t been down this way that much, but I always found the geography quite confusing. It’s a big area – coast beaches to coal mines and farmland.”

Spring And Fall comes five years after Kelly’s previous studio record, Stolen Apples. In that time – his longest break between albums – Kelly took part in the new biographical documentary Stories Of Me and wrote a memoir, the acclaimed How To Make Gravy. To promote the book, he revived his A-Z tour concept, in which the singer, joined by his nephew Dan, played an alphabetically ordered set-list.

“Dan and I started from the premise that [Spring And Fall] was going to be an intimate, sparse record,” Kelly explains. “We’ve sort of developed this sound; [Dan’s] great at blending the intimate and the spacious I guess, he can go sort of ambient and kind of orchestral and lots of echoes and delays and stuff, or he can just sit up nice and close and play George Harrisonstyle. I thought it’d be good to do a record starting from this sound, with this aesthetic.”

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Don’t Start Me Talking Stories Of Me director Ian Darling explains the logic behind his new Paul Kelly documentary.

“Paul Kelly’s been speaking to me for over 30 years. His cassettes accompanied me on every single road trip and were in my Walkman on each backpacking holiday, whether in the outback of Australia or walking in the Indian Himalayas. Paul Kelly has managed to sing to me in a way that no other poet, storyteller or musician has done. And I needed to know the reasons why. I was equally curious as to why he spoke not only to me, but to audiences across Australia of all ages and gender.

Ultimately our objective for the documentary was to match the style and rhythm of the film with the style and rhythm of our subject – unconventional, a tad elusive, intelligent, curious, ambitious, uncompromising, professional, lean, engaging and rewarding. Hopefully we succeeded.”

a possible producer; he was keen and available, and suggested the hall “20 minutes up in the hills from Leongatha”as a potential recording location. Despite Kelly’s initial reluctance – he thought the building may be too big to effectively capture the “intimate, singer songwritery” vibe he was after – Walker talked him round.

“The great thing about Greg is he can engineer and produce, arrange and he’s a beautiful musician as well; he plays guitar, dobro, double bass, piano, strings, he can play violin – so we ended up becoming… I was saying all along, it’s not gonna be a band record, but you end up becoming this little band, a little trio.

The Kellys would use the drive down to Gippsland to get in the musical zone: Nico’s Chelsea Girl, John Cale’s Paris 1919 and Van Morrison’s Veedon Fleece were all on high rotation.

“I think [Veedon Fleece is] a record that’s been a bit overlooked because of [Morrison’s more acclaimed album] Astral Weeks. It has similarities to Astral Weeks in that it’s lots of double bass… it’s a fantastic record.

And of course our record doesn’t sound anything like that because I don’t sound anything like Van, but we’ve got lots of double bass on the record.”

Spring And Fall is a song cycle, telling a love story from “start to finish”, with the idea inspired by Kelly’s work with composer James Ledger and the Australian National Academy Of Music (ANAM) on Conversations With Ghosts, an original song cycle based on the acclaimed international poems. Kelly says the Conversations With Ghosts project helped him get the songwriting wheels turning after emerging from his book-writing period “quite rusty”.

“I was feeling kind of, ‘I don’t know if I can sit down and write a song, let alone a song cycle’, so I actually started looking at poems and started picking out poems I liked, trying to put them to music and sing them. [To] actually start with finished words – like a Yeats poem, a Les Murray poem, things like that – then just sing them, it sort of shifted something a little and I started writing some songs of my own as well.”

WHO: Paul Kelly WHAT: Spring And Fall (UMA) WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre (Stories Of Me screening and appearance) WHEN: Thu Oct 25

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Sherpa Of Heartbreak Twenty years have now passed since UK singer songwriter Billy Bragg was approached by Woody Guthrie’s daughter Nora about writing some music to accompany the vast collection of completed Guthrie lyrics that she had in her possession following his passing in the late-‘60s. Bragg tackled this task with passion and vigour, dragging in US alt-country outfit Wilco to help him craft what would eventually amount to three volumes of the Mermaid Avenue project.

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ith 2012 marking a century since the folk legend’s birth, Bragg has spent a lot of time this year helping to fan the flickering

Guthrie flames. As he prepares to head down to Australia to continue the celebration, he admits he’s been enjoying the experience.

“It’s been really, really good,” he enthuses.

“People loved that Mermaid Avenue album anyway – particularly in Australia, it’s the one place where I got a gold record for it – so this year with the re-release of The Complete Sessions I wanted to do gigs celebrating Woody, because this year’s also the centenary of his birth, but it seemed a shame to come all of the way down to Australia and not play any Billy Bragg songs. So I’ve developed a set where the first hour is Mermaid Avenue stuff and I’m talking about Woody, and the second hour is Billy Bragg stuff and I’m talking about me. I did it in North America and at some of festivals here in the UK: it’s more of a theatre show than a stand-up, crash and bang kind of show but it works really well I think.

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Love And War Billy Bragg recently admitted that he wrote about “things that make you angry – whether it be the government or a girl”, which put his hitherto divided realms of political and personal writing in a new light.

“People try and draw a line between my political songs and my love songs, but really they come from that same place. They come from that same place of frustration and anger and disappointment – whether it be about the Tory Government, the Labour Government, about the war, about my relationships, about myself, about my own behaviour, it’s not really that different a place where they come from, although obviously they all turn out differently. I think that’s the point that I was trying to make: rather than be labelled a political songwriter I should be labelled an ‘angry songwriter’. I’m trying to deal with difficult situations and difficult emotions and difficult events, they’re the things I want to address.”

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with the Woody stuff I’m sitting down and playing with an acoustic guitar, I’m talking about Woody and trying to put him and his music into a bit of context, because not everybody knows who he is.

By the second half I’m well into my stride, and in some ways the two [halves] work together really well. I think if anything it allows the shows to be a little more personal, a bit more intimate.”

Bragg’s last studio album proper was 2008’s Mr Love And Justice, although since then he’s written songs for the politically-charged play Pressure Drop and also released Fight Songs (2011), a collection of contemporary protest songs. Although renowned for his fiery political polemic, true Bragg fans realise that it’s in the realm of the love song where he truly shines, which makes his admission that this is where his writing has been taking him recently really special.

“I’m going to make a new Billy Bragg album for next year and I think I might load it with love songs – that’s my feeling,” he reveals. “I think I need to remind people that I write love songs. Not that there won’t be any songs about issues on there, but I think these last couple of years have been political with Fight Songs and before that Pressure Drop, so I think I might need to remind people that I also write good love songs.

“I think there’s plenty of people out there now trying to write songs that engage with what’s going on in the world. It’s not all politics. Somebody tweeted last year and I just happened to see it because my name was in the tweet, and they were talking about getting over a break-up and they were listening to Billy Bragg, ‘the sherpa of heartbreak’ – I was helping them carry the load of heartbreak!

I liked that, and I thought that I need to remind people that I am the sherpa of heartbreak – that’s as important as changing the world I think, helping them get over their heartbreak. In my book, anyway.”

WHO: Billy Bragg WHAT: Mermaid Avenue – The Complete Sessions (Nonesuch/Warner) WHERE: Adelaide Town Hall WHEN: Wed Oct 31

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Safety Not Guaranteed

Plaza Sweet Aubrey Plaza, star of Safety Not Guaranteed and a deadpan fave as April Ludgate in the US TV series Parks And Recreation, could well be a big star soon, and already has a legion of fans in Australia. Check out her previous roles in the excellent Scott Pilgrim Vs The World and the dire Funny People (if you can stomach it), and wait for a whole shebang of pics featuring her and due out soon, including the intriguingly-titled A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful For You.

In the country to talk up director Colin Trevorrow’s winningly melancholy comedic drama Safety Not Guaranteed, which he co-produced and starred in, actor Mark Duplass is quick to point out that he wasn’t initially going to act in the thing at all, but, in the end, he was won over by Derek Connolly’s script.

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The film was brought to me in my role as a producer first,” he says. “Jay [Mark’s brother and frequent professional filmmaking partner] and I really are, for better or worse, known as the guys who can get your movie made cheaply, if you can’t get the big money to make it the way that you might have originally wanted to. Then, as Colin and I discussed who would be right for the role, we both saw the character the exact same way, and it just sort of evolved organically from there.

Also, I put a gun to his head. Just kidding. Not really. Okay, I’m kidding.”

Rather surprisingly, what audiences have been responding to in this idiosyncratic character piece the sweet romance that seems to develop as a jaded journalist (Aubrey Plaza) investigates a mysterious mess of a man (Duplass) who claims that he will soon be able to travel through time (safety not guaranteed, of course) - wasn’t necessarily a big part of the script at first, and really only shone through later into the pre-production process.

“We had a ‘table read’ two days before we started the shooting and the romance angle really started to come out between Kenneth [Mark] and Darius [Aubrey]. It was unexpected for everyone, because it was there on the page but not as big a storyline as it turned out to be in the finished film. I can’t say that we actually created it or worked on it like that: it was just something that we lucked into.”

And while Plaza has quite a following here for her part in the acclaimed mockumentary-type series Parks And Recreation, Duplass also has nice things to say about other members of the cast too, especially Jake Johnson and Karan Soni as Darius’ workmates.

“I love those guys and they had such a cool rapport with each other on the set. It was also Karan’s first movie ever, so the mentor relationship between them in the film was very much happening off the screen as well. Basically, there was an on-set bromance going on.”

Duplass might be recognisable to some as Jack in the recently-released Your Sister’s Sister (which he also helped produce), while he and Jay also codirected the curiously troubled and touching Jeff, Who Lives At Home, which went straight to DVD a few weeks back, and the more emotional aspects of those films lead me to ask if Duplass is, in fact, a sad sort of guy in person.

“I think that it’s just my taste, because I don’t actively seek that feeling out in the films that I work on. To me, the most interesting stuff in my own life is the stuff that makes me cry at first, and then makes me laugh at myself for crying at it like that. That blend of ‘funny sad’ is just something that I’ve always really loved.”

He also loves the filmmaking process as a whole and wouldn’t want to choose between acting, writing, directing or producing (or even singing, which he does rather sweetly in Safety Not Guaranteed).

“I love doing them all. Maybe I’m an egomaniac?

Not sure. But they all fulfil different creative desires. Writing and directing is so stressful and difficult, but ultimately the most rewarding, while acting is like camp: make friends for a few weeks and then go home!”

And, finally, he’s very proud of director Kathryn Bigelow’s soon-to-be-released, sure-to-becontroversial Zero Dark Thirty, a follow-up to her The Hurt Locker that this time chronicles the hunt for Osama bin Laden, in which he has a prominent acting role.

“I did do that part for Kathryn, and it was great.

And I’m currently working on season four of a TV show that I act in called The League… And I’m writing a few things with Jay - and also producing a whole slate of small, interesting films.”

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INCOMING WHO: GTRONIC WHERE: ELECTRIC CIRCUS WHEN: FRI DEC 21 Belgian electro-house/trash-electro producer has been doing some big things across the underground electro scene over the last few years, and he’ll be returning to Australia for the third time, marking his first ever Adelaide show in December. Known for his heavy bass tunes and stage antics similar to Steve Aoki (think crowd-surfing in a blow-up boat), Gtronic has been making party punters around the world go crazy and developing a compulsive following all the way to our shores. Enthused by the dark, rough electro scene from a young age, he’s gone on to boast a number of original tracks, including the legendary Iron Man and Sucker Punch, along with a number of hard hitting remixes and since 2007 he has collaborated with labels including OneLove, Dim Mak Records and Ultra Records, just to name a few. Don’t miss his Adelaide debut.

WHO: OISIMA WHAT: GODDESS EP LAUNCH WHERE: CUCKOO BAR WHEN: FRI OCT 26

DJ MAG REVEALS TOP 100 DJS OF 2012 Armin van Buuren has topped DJ Mag’s annual Top 100 DJs poll for 2012 for the fifth time. According to the biggest music poll of its kind in the world (votes came from over 170 countries), the Dutchman has now set a new record, having won consecutively between 2007 and 2010, though he lost last year to David Guetta. Nevertheless, van Buuren

is back on top in 2012, followed closely by trance king Tiesto at number two, Avicii at number three, David Guetta now at number four and Deadmau5 at number five. Knife Party, Nervo, Tommy Trash and Dirty South make up some of the Aussie names that made it onto the list this year, and for a full list of the top 100 head to onion.com.au.

XZIBIT ALBUM GIVEAWAY Hip hop icon Xzibit’s brand new album Napalm has marked his grand return to the rap game this year, featuring Wiz Khalifa, Dr Dre, David Banner, E-40, Crooked I, Prodigy, The Game and more. The 18-track album has already debuted on the Billboard 200, featuring the lead singles (and title track) Napalm (with Travis Barker) and Up Out The Way (with E-40), and captures the events in Xzibit’s life over the most recent years.

Onion has three copies to giveaway so head to onion.com.au and enter your details for a chance to win one.

CALENDAR 26/10: Snap! (HQ) 26/10: Oisima (Cuckoo Bar) 26/10: Spit Syndicate (Rhino Room) 2/11: Nick Curly (Mr Kim’s) 4/11: Delano Smith (Sugar) 9/11: Nina Las Vegas (Rocket Bar) 12/11: Santigold, Crazy P (HQ) 16/11: Boyz II Men (Thebarton Theatre) 17/11: Hiatus Kaiyote (Rocket Bar) 17/11: Chance Waters (Ed Castle) 23/11: Brother Ali, Sean Price (HQ)

27/11: Nicki Minaj (Entertainment Centre) 30/11: Todd Terje (Sugar) 1/12: Stereosonic (Bonython Pk) 7/12: Evil Eddie (Ed Castle) 9/12: JLO (Entertainment Centre) 21/12: Gtronic (Electric Circus) 31/12: Mathew Jonson (Cuckoo Bar) 31/12: Theo Parrish (Rocket Rooftop) 26/1/2013: Above & Beyond (Entertainment Centre) 11/3: Future Music Festival (Ellis Pk)

REVIEWS

The eagerly-awaited follow up to Oisima’s debut EP Dusk Til Dawn is finally here and the Adelaide beatmaker will launch the Goddess EP at Cuckoo Bar on Fri Oct 26. The EP is set to be the fourth release on Australia’s newest indie label Pilot Records, with Oisima fast becoming recognised in the electronic music scene as ‘the next big thing’. Goddess stays true to form with the head boppin’ grooves and lush tones typical to Oisima’s previous production, with additional sampling and vocal lines being included into the mix this time around, giving the EP a more refined and catchy quality. Having played with a host of national and international acts including Ras G (Brainfeeder), Tokimonsta (Brainfeeder), Julien Dyne (BBE Records) and Oliver Tank (Yes Please Records), Oisima’s EP launch will also feature special guests Andras Fox (Melbourne), Slamagotchi, How Green, as well as DJ Bunyip and Pilot DJs.

WHO: NINA LAS VEGAS WHAT: ALMOST SUMMER TOUR WHERE: ROCKET BAR WHEN: FRI NOV 9 Triple J’s renowned party girl and DJ, Nina Las Vegas, is taking off on yet another tour just a couple of months after her recent and huge House Party tour.

She’ll be back at the same venue in Adelaide when she brings her new Almost Summer Tour on Fri Nov 9 for a show that’s not to be missed. Nina’s last fivedate jaunt was a sell-out, the DJ becoming a regular not only on the festival circuit but also every week on the Triple J airwaves. As host of the station’s House Party show and the Mix Up, she knows exactly which tracks are guaranteed to get the people moving.

Expect a massive party set and get your tickets from Moshtix.

WHO: DELANO SMITH WHERE: SUGAR WHEN: SUN NOV 4 Delano Smith is making his Australian debut next month which will include an Adelaide show at Sugar.

Born in Chicago, Smith has been a cornerstone of the Detroit house scene since beginning to DJ in the late ‘70s under the guidance of Ken Collier. While he underwent a hiatus during the ‘90s, Smith reemerged when he took on production which resulted in his first 12” in 2002 and has since reemerged into the spotlight as one of Detroit’s most well-known purveyors of house music. Releasing records on his own Mixmode imprint as well as Still Music, Undertones and Third Ear, Smith’s debut album An Odyssey has prompted a boost in touring which will see him in Australia in early November, including a Sunday evening set at Sugar on Sun Nov 4.

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Serious techno mixes by grim-looking boffins usually bore the bejesus out of me, as their relentless pounding of industrial, vacant techno has a tendency to exclude the funk and the fun. Norman Nodge is a serious, grim-looking techno boffin. But his mix isn’t as stern as his cover suggests. The German lawyer by day, and Berghain’s resident ‘teacher’ by night, mixes a cascade of pounding techno, ambience and housier elementswith superb grace and class. Not one selection misses a beat as ambience leads into industrial noise before Patrick Graser’s driving mechanical piece of Berlin madness (From Foreign Territories, complete with a hook you’ll never forget) hits to seduce. Some Jeff Millsinspired techno (including a track by The Wiz himself) keeps you entertained before the funky mechanics strut with DJ T-100’s Metra, Planetary Assault Systems’ spectacularly intense remix of The Nighttripper’sTone Exploitation and Architectural’s space age groove of Looking Ahead. Sublime. Pounding.

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‘High energy’ sums up Robbie Rivera’s full-length Dance Or Die, the title actually being quite apt after hearing this baby from start to finish. Kicking things off with the Beatport-charting Wynter Gordon electro-house collab In The Morning, the album progresses through to hard-hitting electro on Dance Your Ass Off featuring Mr Eyez (also the cheesiest track on here), and even covers some pop territory with the sweet and seductive Turn It Around (featuring guest vocalist JES). There’s loads of power and rough bass throughout and some unexpected remixes of Muse’s Starlight as well as a take on Forever Young, but the one nugget worth multiple repeats sits firmly at the more spaced out, softer Been So Long, featuring the reggae vocals of Gawan Seiler (AKA Jaba), taking the album down a bit of a different (and refreshing) route compared to the rest of what’s on Dance On Die.

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INFINITY

Formerly known as Phatchance, Chance Waters gets deep, introspective and very emo on his sophomore album Infinity. With the exception of a couple of tracks, it’s hard to define his new record as ‘hip hop’, as the only thing even slightly resembling the genre anymore is the fact that Waters raps throughout while the sound itself is chilled out, stripped back and quite atmospheric most of the time, with plenty of instrumentation. That said, the Sydney up-and-comer has definitely found his niche on round two, the album relying heavily on its lyrical strength and contemplations on life (sometimes even bordering on depressing). Title track Infinity is a beautiful gem, while Wedding Ring and Neverland are where you’ll find the catchiest hooks on the entire record. There are plenty of featured guests including Bertie Blackman on Young And Dumb and Paris Wells on Successful, but even without the collaborations Infinity is a quality record that would very well stand up on its own.

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(COOKING VINYL/ SHOCK) The Orb join forces with dub legend and one of their biggest influences, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, on this collaboration album that ends up sounding about 90 percent dub and about 10 percent house. Backed by spacey, down-tempo electronic beats, Perry basically chants, rambles and ponders over the top of it all in his own, unique and very authentic Jamaican style, the whole concept apparently coming together during Alex Paterson’s DJ set over which Perry MC-ed. Golden Clouds is definitely the standout, featuring samples from The Orb’s Little Fluffy Clouds and making for a track you’ll probably go back to at least a couple of times, at the very least due to the familiarity factor. Overall, The Orb and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry make for a successful alliance on this collaborative effort.

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THE BRITISH DANCE BAND CRAZY P ARE RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA TO PLAY HARVEST FESTIVAL – AND A SPECIAL SIDE-SHOW WITH SANTIGOLD IN ADELAIDE. IT’S AN INSPIRED PAIRING, THE TWO ACTS BOTH HAVING FOUND THEIR PLACE OUTSIDE OF POPDOM. NONETHELESS, SAYS CRAZY P’S JAMES J ‘ IM’ BARON, THEIR PATHS HAVEN’T CROSSED BEFORE. “We’ve been on the same festival bill, but that’s no marker for really hanging out with anybody.”

Baron and fellow club DJ Chris Todd, who met at Nottingham University, devised Crazy Penis, as it was then known, in the mid ‘90s. The duo issued the sample-heavy album A Nice Hot Bath With... on Manchester’s Paper Recordings. Crazy P would enjoy a (novelty) crossover hit with There’s A Better Place, borrowing from Gene Wilder’s Pure Imagination (Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory!). Singer Danielle Moore joined as Crazy P evolved into a live entity – and she featured on their breakthrough The Wicked Is Music, entailing You Started Something.

Just over a year ago Crazy P, aligned with Ralph Lawson’s 20:20 Vision, released their sixth – and most adventurous – album, When We On, comparable to Groove Armada.

“The response has been universally really good, actually,” Baron says. “We got iTunes’ Dance Album Of The Year here in the UK, which is a real big thing for us. It was a conscious decision to develop our sound stylistically and take it away a little bit from the funk and the soul and try to reach out to new areas. The recording of that album for all of us personally was quite an interesting time – and that’s sort of reflected in the album. I think it came out quite different to previous albums and people have really got hold of that and embraced that change. It’s definitely been another step up for us. It’s gone really well.”

Crazy P have outlasted many marriages – with no significant personnel changes. “It’s been a long journey, but it’s been a real great one as well,” Baron says. The three core members have been able to grow with each other.

“There’s no egos – there’s nobody running the show,” Baron declares. He can recall no “musical differences”.

“We all read from the same hymn sheet.” Crazy P will carry on for as long as they dig it – and people want to hear them. “We’re still vibing.”

Indeed, they’re already at work on another LP. “We started it yesterday,” Baron laughs. “We had a really good day yesterday. We got some new bits of hardware equipment we’re just getting our heads around for this stem of the project. So yesterday half of it was spent pushing buttons and trying to get things to work. The second half of it was actually very creative. We came out [at] half past nine last night with almost a completely formed song – so not a bad first day. We’re looking forward to it.

Everyone’s very excited. This creative period of the job is by far the best bit. You can’t wait to get out of bed in the morning when you’re just gonna be making music all day!”

So enthusiastic about music-making are Baron and Todd that both have solo outlets – Ron Basejam and Hot Toddy, respectively.

Santigold has been critical of the commercial dictates in today’s (pop) music industry – dictates Crazy P have negotiated sagely.

“All the people who were making money in that side of things and making pop music, they’ve just gone and done it and we’ve been allowed to flourish through this culture of festivals and people who like alternative music and people who want something a bit different,” Baron says. “I think that’s really allowed us to separate ourselves from that side of things.

Consequently, it’s been a really good thing for us – and it’s given us a wonderful loyal audience.”

Crazy P will perform songs off When We On in their upcoming Aussie shows, but there will be “a mix” of new and old material, Baron assures.

“We certainly won’t diss the favourites.”

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VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: CRAZY P WHAT: HARVEST SIDESHOW WHERE: HQ WHEN: MON NOV 12

DELILAH

NEED A BREAK FROM ADELE? A FRESH WAVE OF BRITISH FEMALE SINGERS LIKE EMELI SANDÉ, JESSIE WARE AND DELILAH ARE BEGUILING MUSIC CRITICS AND FANS. DELILAH, PREMIERING LOCALLY WITH THE AMBI-SOUL FROM THE ROOTS UP, EVEN HAS A PATRON IN PRINCE.

VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: DELILAH WHAT: FROM THE ROOTS UP IS OUT THROUGH WARNER

As with Sandé (first name Adele!), Delilah has assumed a substitute stage handle, being born Paloma Stoecker (Ms Faith beat her to it).

“The only time I ever remember that there’s two names is when someone like my Nan calls me ‘Delilah’ – that seems a bit weird sometimes – but, other than that, it feels quite normal,” the Londoner says. “I guess I get called Delilah more often now than I get called Paloma, so I have got used to it.”

Australian audiences were introduced to Stoecker when she opened for Prince in May. “It was really insane!” she recalls. “I know it was great, but I can’t verbalise it. It’s one of those nutty things that doesn’t feel like it happened.”

Stoecker was astonished to be contacted personally by the elusive music icon.

WHO: JODY WISTERNOFF WHAT: TRAILS WE BLAZE IS OUT THROUGH ANJUNADEEP/BALANCE

JODY WISTERNOFF JODY WISTERNOFF ENTERED THE MUSIC BIZ IN THE MID ‘80S, FINDING FAME WITH WAY OUT WEST (WOW) OVER THE NEXT DECADE, BUT NOW HE’S FINALLY PRESENTED AN ARTIST ALBUM, TRAILS WE BLAZE, UNDER HIS OWN NAME.

The Brit DJ/producer laboured on his debut for two years.

“You kinda spend a little bit of time underground and then you pop out again and just smash it – but the key is to keep the ball rolling.”

Indeed, so worried are dance types about maintaining their visibility in the social media age that many are abandoning the time-consuming album enterprise entirely, preferring to air successive singles or EPs. Otherwise DJ bookings drop off.

“People have very short attention spans,” Wisternoff rues.

Still, he’s unconvinced that a single is sufficient to create buzz.

“You don’t really tour a single, do you? Unless it’s a massive one!”

Much has altered since the Bristolian fell into the rave scene. At 13 the budding turntablist was competing in the DMC World DJ Championships.

Wisternoff teamed up with future Reprazent stalwart DJ Die to cut hip house (Tru Funk), then jungle (Sub Love), before embracing house and forming WOW with Massive Attack tour DJ Nick Warren. The duo, who crossed over in the UK with their anthem The Gift, pre-empted the hybridisation so prevalent today, traversing house, progressive, techno, ambient and breakbeat.

Wisternoff is a cheerful character, laughing often, yet a few years ago he had a rough patch.

He developed severe tinnitus. The family man took time out from music and experienced depression.

However, his enthusiasm for dance music hasn’t wavered.

“The passion’s always been strong – nothing’s really changed. It’s just like a constant kinda thing, really.”

“I think he discovered me online,” she says.

Stoecker grew up in a multi-ethnic music biz family, nearly becoming a DJ. The accidental pop star, signed to Atlantic Records at 17, enjoyed her inaugural hit featuring on Chase & Status’ Time – cowritten with Plan B. Late in 2011 she aired the solo Go, masterminded by Balistiq and sampling Rufus & Chaka Khan’s ‘80s Ain’t Nobody. (Khan raved about it.)

Similarly to Ware, Stoecker has conspicuously not worked with the same pool of songwriter/ producers as every other aspiring urban star (yo, Rita Ora!), preferring to seek out cutting-edge talent.

And she’s involved in the writing (Stoecker plays piano). However, she had to fight “a little bit” for that freedom. Initially, Stoecker pursued a conventional route, liaising with studio veterans, such as the admittedly “amazing” Rick Nowels (Belinda Carlisle, Lana Del Rey). But it wasn’t right.

“It just felt like I was losing my identity a little bit,” Stoecker says. “So we scrapped it all and went back to basics and got some real unknown producers and just tried to create something a little bit different and a bit new.” These “unknown” players included the American Reggie “Syience” Perry (Frank Ocean).

Stoecker’s pal – and labelmate – Plan B co-wrote the upbeat R&B Only You. “He’s an amazing talent and has always really supported my music.”

Still, trialing a Nowels or Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams) was educative.

Trails..., revisiting old hits like Cold Drink, Hot Girl and Starstrings and entailing recent (vocal) singles How You Make Me Smile and Just One More, is grounded in club music – it’s not ‘chill-out’.

“The intention was to make an album that’s kind of a DJ set – almost like it feels like a mix comp.”

Intriguingly, Trails... has been released by Anjunadeep, an offshoot of Above & Beyond’s Anjunabeats. A&B are generally equated with Euro trance and Wisternoff with its cooler relative progressive house (he calls it just “good quality house music”) – and, of A&B’s output, the DJ admits, “it’s not personally my style” while he can “fully appreciate what’s going on there”.

Nevertheless, Anjunadeep, also sometime home to Aussie DJ Jaytech, is about house.

And the Anjunabeats A&R crew were “really, really hands on” with Trails... – surprising, considering Wisternoff’s expertise.

“It’s a good thing to have A&R because otherwise you just end up going up your own arse.”

Wisternoff freely acknowledges that they suggested changes. It was Anjunabeats who advised him to bring the album closer to his DJ sets (and podcasts), “because the initial version was a bit more peaktime”.

“I actually rewrote six of the tracks and cut a few of them out and did some new ones,” Wisternoff says, “’cause it was sounding a little bit too dated, a little bit old school proggy... So we thought, ‘right, let’s go back, let’s get it sounding a bit more housey, a bit sexier’.”

Crucially, he valued the input, veteran or not.

Wisternoff isn’t forsaking WOW. Already the pair, who’ve played Glastonbury, have commenced their fifth album, with around four tracks in the can.

“It’s sounding good, actually,” Wisternoff reveals. The challenge as usual is for them to schedule studio time as Warren, too, has a busy solo career.

“But,” assures Wisternoff, “there’s no reason to stop the WOW thing. It’s bubbling on.”

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“Everyone has their way of writing things, or their formula, and I kind of observed their formula and decided I was gonna create my own one. I didn’t fit naturally into that pop formula of writing. I felt like I had to do something that was true to myself.

[From...] was a little bit quirky. It was experimental – and the first record I think should be an experiment, that’s the whole point of a first album.”

From... is more “personal” than “conceptual”, Stoecker says. “It was about my life and everything that I’d been through.” She is especially attached to Tabitha, Mummy And Me, penned after her father’s passing. There’s also an arresting rendition of Minnie Riperton’s “kinky” Inside My Love.

The post-dubstep atmospherics of From... have been likened to The xx. “I’m a huge fan of them, so that’s a big compliment,” Stoecker responds. “They did something innovative and new and dark.” Invariably, breakthrough artists are compared to the old – and Stoecker has encountered a range of curious references.

“I get Fiona Apple, I get Björk, I get the Amys, the Adeles, the Aaliyahs... I think anyone with a pair of boobs – well, The xx kinda nullifies that statement – or [anyone] into a little bit of a sub-bass I get compared to.”

All going well, Stoecker will return to Oz next year.

Before then, she’ll again hook up with Prince.

“We’ve got a date booked in the studio for December, so I’m excited about it.”

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SUN NOV 4

FRI NOV 16

WED NOV 28

TUE DEC 11

MAMA KIN (Vic) @ VORN DOOLETTE @ Jive

ANGUS STONE (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON (NSW) & HARRY HOOKEY @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

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

TUE NOV 6

FRI OCT 26 – SUN OCT 28

CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE BAND (US) & THE DIRTY ROOTS BAND @ Governor Hindmarsh

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 BOB EVANS (WA) @ Rhino Room THY ART IS MURDER (Syd/Bris) & RESIST THE THOUGHT @ Enigma

TAME IMPALA (WA) @ HQ

FRI OCT 26

CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES (US), LUCKY SEVEN & THE SATELLITES @ Governor Hindmarsh SHAUN KIRK (Vic) @ Glenelg Surf Club

SAT NOV 17

IWRESTLEDABEARONCE (US), IN HEARTS WAKE & STORM THE SKY @ Fowler’s Live BENJALU (NSW) @ Grace Emily A DAY ON THE GREEN: HOODOO GURUS (Syd), BABY ANIMALS (Syd), THE ANGELS, JAMES REYNE (Vic) & BOOM CRASH OPERA (Vic) @ Peter Lehmann Wines DEEP SOUTH: FIONA BOYES (Syd), THE YEARLINGS, HUCKLEBERRY SWEDES, THE TIMBERS, LAURA HILL & THE TUESDAY BANDITS and so many more @ Governor Hindmarsh THE TIGER & ME (Vic) @ Jive

BACKWATER BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL: JEFF LANG (Vic), MIA DYSON (Vic) and more @ Queen’s Theatre and various other venues FLEURIEU FOLK FESTIVAL: THE GO SET (Vic), SENOR CABRALES (Syd), THE STETSON FAMILY (Vic) and many more @ Willunga

THU NOV 8 EMMYLOU HARRIS & HER RED DIRT BOYS (US) @ Thebarton Theatre MATCHBOX TWENTY (US) & INXS (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SHAUN KIRK (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf Hotel MELISSA MANCHESTER (US) & JOE LONGTHORNE @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

FRI NOV 9 JEN CLOHER (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf

SAT NOV 10 HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY (Bris) @ Jive SUZIE STAPLETON (Vic) & THE VILLENETTES @ Exeter

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

SUN NOV 11 SAT OCT 27 LAST DINOSAURS (Bris), THE JUNGLE GIANTS & TWINSY @ Governor Hindmarsh SHELLAC (US) & PIKELET @ Fowler’s Live LIONHEIR (NSW) @ Wheatsheaf THE FLOORS (WA) @ Grace Emily

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

THURSTON MOORE (NY) @ Governor Hindmarsh

TUE OCT 30

MON NOV 12

THE BLACK KEYS (US) & ROYAL HEADACHE @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre HOT CHELLE RAE (US) & CHER LLOYD @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre

FRI NOV 23

THE LIVING END (Vic), AREA 7 (Vic) & THE BEARDS DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh BEIRUT (US) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre SANTIGOLD (US) & CRAZY P (UK) @ HQ

JEFF MARTIN (Can/WA) @ Jive THE SIDETRACKED FIASCO (Syd) @ Worldsend OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ (US) @ Fowler’s Live

WED OCT 31

TUE NOV 13

BILLY BRAGG (Barking) & JORDIE LANE (Vic) @ Adelaide Town Hall

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

THU DEC 6

SUN DEC 16 REGINA SPEKTOR (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre SUICIDAL TENDENCIES (US) & UNWRITTEN LAW (US) @ Fowler’s Live

MON DEC 17 HUMAN NATURE (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU DEC 20 PARKWAY DRIVE (Byron), I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN, NORTHLANE & SURVIVAL @ Thebarton Theatre LOST ANGELS (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh DARREN HANLON (Syd) @ Church Of The Trinity

SAN CISCO (Freo) @ Governor Hindmarsh APES (Vic) @ Exeter

FRI JAN 4

FRI DEC 7

THU JAN 10

LAGWAGON (US) & THE SMITH STREET BAND (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS (US) @ Black Market

PETER MURPHY (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh

COSMO JARVIS (UK) @ Crown & Anchor

FRI JAN 18

SAT DEC 8

NIGHTWISH (Finland), EYEFEAR & BLACK MAJESTY @ HQ

GOTYE (Vic) & BERTIE BLACKMAN (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre AFTER THE FALL (NSW) @ Adelaide Uni Bar

WED JAN 23

SAT NOV 24

ALESTORM (US) @ Fowler’s Live

THU JAN 24

WED NOV 14

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

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

SUN NOV 25

BIG DAY OUT: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (US), THE KILLERS (US), YEAH YEAH YEAHS (US), BAND OF HORSES (US) and so many more @ Adelaide Showgrounds

FRI NOV 2

THU NOV 15

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

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

THE TREWS (Can) @ Jive COMMON ROOTS FESTIVAL: JUNIOR BOWLES (WA), THE TWOKS (Vic), THE TIMBERS, LOREN KATE and more @ Montacute

SAT DEC 1

TUE DEC 4

THU NOV 22

MON OCT 29

SAT NOV 3

HARD-ONS (Vic) @ Enigma

POUR HABIT (US), HIGHTIME & UNICORN @ Adelaide Uni Bar THE AUDREYS @ Elder Hall

BLONDIE (US), THE STRANGLERS (UK) & THE SAINTS (Bris) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre REEL BIG FISH (US), GOLDFINGER (US) & ZEBRAHEAD (US) @ HQ REECE MASTIN, JUSTICE CREW & THE JANOSKIANS @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

LISA MITCHELL (Syd), ALPINE (Syd) & DANCO @ Governor Hindmarsh LIONHEIR (NSW) @ Glenelg Surf Club JAMES HENRY (Syd) & THE YEARLINGS @ Wheatsheaf KEITH HALL & PAT DOW (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

MARK SEYMOUR (Vic) @ Norwood Live GYPSY & THE CAT (Vic) & NEW GODS @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT DEC 15

FRI NOV 30

BENJALU (NSW) @ Glenelg Surf Lifesaving Club DEVO (US), SIMPLE MINDS (Scot) & THE CHURCH (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

SUN OCT 28

THU NOV 1

THE SELECTOR (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SUN DEC 2

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

THU DEC 13 PIGEON (Bris) @ Rocket Bar THE PIGS (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf

THU NOV 29

WOODS (US) @ Format BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre

FRI JAN 25

PAUL DIANNO (UK), BLAZE BAYLEY (UK), OCTANIC & MATTERHORN @ Fowler’s Live NIGEL WEARNE (Vic) & THE HUSHES @ Wheatsheaf Hotel

SUN JAN 27

TUE NOV 27 BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE (US) & THE RESIGNATORS (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SUN DEC 9 PRIMAL SCREAM (UK) @ HQ

A DAY ON THE GREEN: ELVIS COSTELLO (UK), SUNNYBOYS (Syd), JO JO ZEP & THE FALCONS (Vic), TEX PERKINS & THE DARK HORSES & STEPHEN CUMMINGS @ Leconfield Wines (McLaren Vale)

In The Next Room or the vibrator play.

State Theatre Company’s Red Carpet is back with a stimulating final shindig for 2012. A quick-witted comedy that’ll have you in stitches, Sarah Ruhl’s IN THE NEXT ROOM or the vibrator play takes you back to a time when showing your ankle was raunchy, following inventor and “hysteria” specialist Dr. Givings and his passionseeking wife Catherine.

Fringe Benefits members can check out the performance on November 9, followed by an aftershow Red Carpet Party including drinks, nibbles and entertainment – all for just $39.

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WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Franky F (6pm) AUSTRAL – Bunka: 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: Gypsy By Night. Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry 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) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Walter Marsh, The Bok Choy Boys and The James McMann Orchestra

Friday 26th

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – PROMISE OF AN EMPTY SKY AND GUESTS GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with Peter Harris Rhythm Cats GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Peter Combe 18+ show GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Mark Wilkinson GRAND BAR – OMG HIGHWAY – Escapade Thursdays JETTY BAR – No Use For A DJ Name (8pm) LA BOHEME – French Connection with DJ Zooma (9pm) MARBLE BAR – Ladies Night with Dylan Sanders, VIP, Rupheo, Mike Wills, Ben Earle and Acid Please!

MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night OFFICE ON PIRIE – Lily & The Drum (5.30pm) 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 ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests THE ELEPHANT – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Brad Iverson WEST ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia (7.30pm)

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 – Tavern Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Nak Pike (6pm) Chasing Cars (10pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Paul Curtis AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BELAIR HOTEL – Michael Venner BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Fusion – The Perfect Blend karaoke and DJ (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Wild Card BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Heath Solo COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Keith Hall & Pat Dow CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DJ Adam (1am) Band Room: Hightime, Irie Knights, Up & Atom, Darryn Lynch Mob and Beaver DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Rustlers 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 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 – DJs EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Tom Williams EXETER HOTEL – Slyde EXETER ON RUNDLE – Tom West & Band FINDON HOTEL – karaoke

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – FEAR & LOATHING’S 31ST BIRTHDAY PARTY FEATURING FEAR & LOATHING, GRONG GRONG, SPACE BONG, LEATHER MESSIAH AND SCOTT KENNEDY

FOWLER’S LIVE – Welcome To The Jungle: Autism Vs Doddy and more GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – Primevia, Asylum Butchery, Pillage and Cyclosa (8.30pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Something For Kate. Front Bar: James Abberley GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ride Into The Sun GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Simon Betts HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Overtake (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs K & Krispy HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – Melody Feeder Duo (8pm) HOTEL ELLIOT – Gerry O HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL – Bill Parton Trio (9.30pm) KOMODO CAFÉ – Nikko & Snooks (7pm) 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 MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Mingle Live Acoustic Music (5pm) MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said NEXUS CABARET – Voyage OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Unknown To Man ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf and Lochy Neale PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – The Scribes PJ O’BRIENS – Full Circle

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan REX HOTEL – karaoke and Troy Harrison ROB ROY HOTEL – Zkye & Damo (6pm) DJ Smiley (9pm)

ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs SANDY CREEK HOTEL – Cosmic Storm with Lily & The Drum (8pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEATON HOTEL – Streaker SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Dead Lucky (8pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Justin Parker STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play 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) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) TEQUILA REA – Rude Not To! playing funky beats THE COVE TAVERN – UK Blitz THE CUMBERLAND – A Little Bit Different featuring local acoustics and late night DJ THE ELEPHANT – Mr Buzzy and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – DJ Gex (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus THE LION HOTEL – Wasabi (8pm) THE PROMETHEAN – City Riots album launch with special guests (7.30pm) TONSLEY HOTEL –Tavern Bar: Katrina Caton (4.45pm) Flaming Sambucas (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Stolen Apples (9.30pm) UNION HOTEL – DJ Pauly plays ‘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 – Brendan Gallagher and Chris Finnen (8.30pm) WHITEHORSE INN – karaoke with Ally & Co WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm)

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The Guide // WOODCROFT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rockweiler WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Skream Voodoo Halloween Party DJs: Finn, Bottle Rockets and Scott Holder

Saturday 27th ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tavern Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Dimitra (6pm) Andy M (9.30pm) AUCHENDARROCH HOUSE/WALLIS TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Troy Harrison BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke BRIDGEWAY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Flight 69 BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Steve Reece CAMEO BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tom Jones Show CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Band Room: The Joe Strummer Foundation Presents Revolution Rock with The Tearaways, Hightime, Sweet Teens and Ben David & The Banned.

Upstairs: Ding Dong. Front Bar: DJ Azz (1am) CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Filthy Lucre & The Amcats FINDON HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clearway

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; KLAYS HALLOWEENY WITH SCABS, PURPLE JOHNSON BLIMP SITUATION, EXPLODING CACTUS, STRENGTH OF BEAR, HORROR FLICKS AND MORE FOWLERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shellac GARAGE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs (10pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Mel featuring Singing Bar Bitch & Mr Average (8.30pm) GEPPS CROSS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke disco with Craig Anthony

GILBERT STREET HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: Last Dinosaurs with Jungle Giants and DJ Thrupence. Front Bar: Psychodelicacy GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Floors GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Grand Bar Saturdays with DJ DMH and DJ Rupheo HACKNEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ HIGHLANDER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Live & Loud presents HIGHWAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Griff (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Soundflex HOPE INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Black Fedora Jazz HOTEL TIVOLI â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Mash Up with DJ Paul Gurry (9pm) JIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lady Strangelove EP launch with Angles Of Gung Ho, Oisima, Glass Skies and Fox Faerhmann KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke LA BOHEME â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Tr!p and DJ Anthony alternate (9pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Triplescore Duo LAND OF PROMISE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Azzorra, Stone Cap, Cortisol, Slap Granny and guests (9pm) LIMBO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; resident DJs Delux, The Swiss DJs and Paul Glen LONDON TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) MARBLE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I <3 MB with DJs and MCs plus national and international guests MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Franky F (5.30pm) Two Hard Basket (8.30pm) MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Highlights ORIENTAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustica PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After Five PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Road Runners PJ Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BRIENS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Alien8 PORT DOCK BREWERY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Halloween Fright Night PORT NOARLUNGA FOOTBALL CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Bearded Clams, Kamikaze, Burnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Collect and Macondo Blowout QUEENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S THEATRE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Backsliders, Jeff Lang, Collard, Greens & Gravy, Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyer, Mick Kidd and more

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SANDBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; requests with DJs SANTIAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hussyboy (8.30pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; acoustic sessions SEBEL PLAYFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustically Raw SLUG â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Big Fish 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 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; Triple X 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 LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Attack (9pm) TONSLEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Katatonic TORRENS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Reign (8.30pm) TOWER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Craig James UNION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke WALKERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lionheir album launch (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wild Ones 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 Potion Halloween Party DJs: Chaps, Scott Holder, Track Team and Ryley

Sunday 28th ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sportys Bar + Arena: Sunday BBQ Beats with DJ Bentley Rhane (3pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Baba Looey COAST FM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; East Texas (12pm) CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Scarlett Cook EP launch DOCKSIDE TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mick Kidd & Friends Open Mic Session 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; Shannon ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 Up Duo EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Brad Cameron Presents GASLIGHT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Big Easy Sunday featuring Travis Wellington Hedge and special guest Pembo (2pm)

Mon Oct 29 The Gov Thurston Moore GENERAL HAVELOCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; La Mar Sundays present: Daniel Champagne and Lionheir (3pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: Next Superstar (day show) Lisa Mitchell with Alpine and Pat Dow & Keith Hall GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stu Larsen HIGHLANDER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HIGHWAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Arvos with Wasabi 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 LAKE BREEZE WINERY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dino Jag Trio (12pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I Mike & The Pods LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lucifers Lounge MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Seth & Andrew (3pm) MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJK classic video hits MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fig Jam Duo OAKS PLAZA PIER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pier One Bar: Redline ORIENTAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Roger & Regan PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paul Stubbings PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Slyde PORT DOCK BREWERY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Halloween Fright Night Dinner

RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Proton Pill (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Theo SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Frenzy and Ben Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Acoustic Duo SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Lonely Cosmonauts (4pm) SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior

The Guide // (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) THE MAID – acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Stuff & Nonsense (2pm) VIRGINIA NURSERY – Angelo 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 – Last Sunday Sessions featuring The Yearlings and James Henry (4pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry Psycho Clown Party DJs: Anthony, Gumshoe and Ryley ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)

Monday 29th 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 Angel & The Badman EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Dunes

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SCOTT KENNEDY OPEN MIC GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Thurston Moore.

Front Bar: Harmoniclub – group jamming sessions 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

Tuesday 30th ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Golden Phung Comedy Show featuring Mad Dog Malcolm Cummings (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CAVAN HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Industry Night with DJs Stevie & Duncan DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Thunderclaw DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Cinema 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 31st BOTANIC BAR – Gemma 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) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ellis Demon, Slingshot Dragster and Causing HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room with Jay Hoad 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 – Golden Phung Comedy Show featuring Mad Dog Malcolm Cummings (8pm) MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) 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 TONSLEY HOTEL – Quiz Night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Hump De Bump In The Night Halloween Party with Jaki J TOWER HOTEL – Uni Night with DJ Dom P TOWER TAVERN: RENMARK – Complete Trivia WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – Creating Styles Karaoke (9pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

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Anthony Harkin

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Jersey Boys When four Italian-American blue-collar boys from Newark, New Jersey formed a band in the early 1960s they never could have predicted the world-wide phenomenon to come. Penning all their own songs, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons went on to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990, the Vocal Group Hall Of Fame in 1999 and have sold 175 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling musical groups of all time. ritten by Marshal Brickman and Rick Elice and incorporating the combined musical talents of Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe, the multi-award winning Jersey Boys – The Story of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons reveals the true stories behind the band’s seemingly squeaky-clean exterior and their global success.

Dion Bilios plays frontman Frankie Valli, Glaston Toft as Nick Massi and Bob Gaudio is performed by Declan Egan, but Rip It Up speaks with Anthony Harkin who plays ‘bad

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boy’ Tommy DeVito.

“Tommy started the group,” he begins, “and was instrumental in getting Frankie and songwriter Bob Gaudio involved. Tommy was also the guy in charge of the financial side of things, but his gambling problems got him into huge debt to the value of almost a million dollars. In the end the Mafia had to step in and bail them out. Tommy was forcibly removed and sent to live in Las Vegas, where he still is today.

“Tommy’s a pretty interesting character who does get called the bad guy, but I think he was just a little misguided,” Harkin muses.

“They all had very tough lives when growing up and Tommy was in and out of jail for many years for doing petty crimes; it was just the world that they moved in and I think Tommy did what he needed to do to get through.”

How deep does the story go into the lives of each character?

“The show starts back when Frankie is 16 years old and goes through to their Hall Of Fame induction, so it runs through many decades. Each of the four boys narrates a section of the show, starting with me. As the night goes on, you start to learn more and more about these people. Tommy gives his version of the truth as does Bob, Nick and Frankie.

“Pieces of the puzzle slowly get revealed,” Harkin explains, “including things that Tommy wouldn’t really want the audience to know about him. But it happens with all of them so it’s interesting that, in a very clever way, it gives you four different versions of the same story but in more depth than what you would get in a linear narrative.

“They don’t shy away from the controversy either,” he adds, “showing both ups and downs; the debt, the Mafia involvement, when Frankie’s daughter died of a drug overdose. It is quite dark in places but then it’s also a really moving story.”

What do the original band members think of Jersey Boys?

“Bob and Frankie remain very involved with the show. They take part in the casting process all around the world; giving the final tick of approval on who plays them! Nick Massi is the only member not still alive, having died in 1996. When the other three came to write the show they had to interview the people who knew Nick and create his character from that.”

Of the 20 hits songs featured in the show, what’s your favourite?

“It changes but at the moment it’s Beggin’,” Harkin replies. “It comes just before the part of the show when everything starts to be revealed. It’s an exciting part of the night for me so I really enjoy singing that one.”

Anything else you’d like to add?

“I think what sets this show apart from others,

Changing Seasons In 1962, The Four Seasons released their debut album featuring their first number one hit song Sherry, the first of several hits released under the guidance of producer and songwriter Bob Crewe.

Their second and third chart toppers were Big Girls Don’t Cry and Walk Like A Man respectively. Originally written about the 1933 repeal of Prohibition, December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) was rewritten as a nostalgic recollection of a young man’s first time with a woman. In Jersey Boys, the song accompanies the Bob Gaudio character being set up with a prostitute, courtesy of the record label, in order to lose his virginity.

beside the pure entertainment, is that it’s driven by four male leads and consequently Jersey Boys has become one that guys are bringing their wives to, not the other way around. There’s a really interesting story that appeals to both men and women and a great bunch of songs that everyone knows and loves.”

WHAT: Jersey Boys WHERE: Adelaide Festival Theatre WHEN: Fri Oct 26 until Sun Dec 2

Stars // You like action but you never spotted it coming from this direction. With the sun going into Scorpio, the adventure will move to transforming those sore spots in your psyche into gold. This is about feminine and feeling. Courage will work – but any lack of sensitivity won’t.

Taurus 21.04/20.05 With the sun going into Scorpio, you are directly challenged to face all that is opposite to your personality.

Where you like simplicity and stability, life now asks you to consider instability and complication. Streams of feeling are breaking up the rocks inside. Go with it.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 Mercury is in Scorpio. This means that the appropriate means of perception at the moment is feeling. What your gut is telling you is probably right. Thinking yourself round in circles isn’t going to alter the truth of it. Weave the intelligence of your body and mind into one.

Cancer 22.06/22.07 There’s a lovely optimism mounting in your being. Ride it as it rises and it will lead you to the appropriate practical measures you need to take.

Decision becomes possible the more you become confident standing on your own feet.

Don’t hold your tongue. Speak!

Leo 23.07/22.08 The sun shifts from Libra to Scorpio over the next few days. This shifts all of us from thinking nice thoughts of peace into actually confronting the various tracks of feeling that prevent us from living peacefully. Deep awakening is required, not just romantic ideals. Get to it.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 No matter what changes are happening elsewhere, Venus continues to light up your part of the sky. Where others tend to baulk at the challenges of emotional revolution, you are more than happy to get in there and get the job done. Thinking about it is not enough.

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Ben Quilty

Libra 23.09/23.10

Leading contemporary artist and Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty will be bringing his engrossing, poignant series of painting portraiture to Adelaide for his first ever solo showcase at Khai Liew.

Sponsored by Brisbane gallery Jan Murphy, the exhibition My Brothers And Other Paintings, to be opened by the director of the Art Gallery Of South Australia, will feature Quilty’s latest offerings of paintings exploring the human psyche inspired by a recent trip to Fiji and Afghanistan.

The sun leaves Libra over the next few days. This is an annual shift that leads you from the sunlit peaks of daring to dream to a more silent contemplative phase, where you face what needs to be faced to make your dreams come true. Enter this introspection willingly.

WHO: Ben Quilty WHAT: My Brothers And Other Paintings WHERE: Khai Liew, 166 Magill Rd, Norwood WHEN: Daily 11am – 6pm

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 The sun arrives in your part of the sky this week. Being one who likes to dwell in hidden places, you are no great fan of the sun. Still, its presence is important. It brings all the great work you do by being you to light. Maybe your biggest secret is that you like to be seen.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Mars continues to drive your show. He is a powerful presence whose wilfulness is likely to rub off on you.

Though the currents are changing underneath you, he helps to keep you on track, no matter what. Keep galloping in the direction that means most.

Don’t be put off.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 Finding freedom is turning out to be a bigger ask than you imagined. Clearly it’s not a matter of walking out the front door and not turning back.

The big wide world has its own challenges – and wherever you go, it’s still you that you find. Make the deeper changes required.

Image: Ben Quilty, Brother (Simon), 2012

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Aquarius 20.01/18.02 The sun shifts from Libra to Scorpio – from air to water – from ideas to emotions. It is when emotions are stirring that we get to see where we’re really at. Consider any waves of emotions as a timely reality check. Own up to what you feel. Be honest about your inner state.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 As the sun dips into Scorpio, so you feel like you are taken by the gulf-stream and propelled upward and onward at warp speed. This is existential empathy. Life is behind you.

You are connected - not a stranger in a strange land. Use this time to prosper in all ways.

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The Light Gallery

Point A Warehouse, 20 Gunson St, Adelaide Tenby Ten Fri Oct 26 – Sun Oct 28

138 Richmond Rd, Marleston Pam Kleemann: Skinned Fri Oct 26 – Fri Nov 30

TenbyTen is an exhibition that will feature the works of 100 artists selling for $100 each. While each of the artists are incredibly diverse in style and technique, each of them have been tasked to craft an artwork taking inspiration from a chosen piece of cinema on a canvas 10 by 10 inches in size. There will be complimentary wine, beer and punch on the opening night thanks to Jacob’s Creek.

Opening: Fri Oct 26 from 6pm

Skinned is the latest exhibition by Melbourne conceptual photographer and artist Pam Kleemann.

Kleemann’s works pushes the boundaries of photography with alternative presentations and installation of her works, and Skinned is no exception, exploring controversial themes and close-ups of skin imperfections nuanced with familiar objects. An artist talk will take place on Sat Oct 27 from 1pm after the opening.

Opening: Fri Oct 26 from 6pm – 8pm

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Quick Flicks

Paranormal Activity 4 (M) Strictly speaking, part four of any cinematic series should suck, and yet this now-annual offering is still creepy, despite the old ‘diminishing returns’ problem and the way that these films tie themselves in suffocating knots as they attempt to keep the messy chronology going.

In November 2011 (this therefore comes after the first film, as PA2 was set before that and PA3 before that), a Nevada family take in a weird local kid (Brady Allen) when his mom is hospitalised, and we watch as increasingly scared teen Alex (Kathryn Newton) chronicles what happens next with the help of her would-be boyfriend (Matt Shively), endless cameras and what is obviously Skype (although it’s only referred to as ‘Video Chat’).

And this one’s supernatural stunts almost feel like a ‘Greatest Hits’ package: mysterious shadows linger;

seemingly sleepwalking characters wander in the dead of night; cutlery flies around (as do cast members sorry, spoilers!); and, eventually, we descend into CG FX that clash with the lower-key, in-camera tricks of the rest of the film, and indeed the series.

Directed by PA3 (and Catfish) veterans Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, who know how to make silence and stillness unnerving, perhaps the biggest surprise here isn’t actually the final revelation, but that well after the credits (and the title card that never appeared at the beginning), we’re offered about 30 seconds of something which might be a prologue to Paranormal Activity 5, a tie-in to some clue seen beforehand, a clip from a Mexican PA remake (as has been suggested) or, in fact, none of the above.

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19th Greek Film Festival 2012 Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

At the PN from Thu Nov 1 until Sun Nov 4. Details: palacecinemas.com.au.

Crossfire Hurricane Event Cinemas Marion and Hoyts Tea Tree Plaza

For one night only, Sun Oct 28, the new Rolling Stones-studying doco Crossfire Hurricane is at Event Cinemas Marion and Hoyts TTP. Details: eventcinemas.com.au and hoyts.com.au.

Iranian Film Festival Mercury Cinema

At the Mercury from Thu Oct 25 until Sun Oct 28. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Opening But Unrated Argo (M), topliner/director/coproducer Ben Affleck’s tall true story, offers Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Tate Donovan, Victor Garber, Scoot McNairy, Adrienne Barbeau and many others.

Director Pete Travis’ dystopian 3D epic Dredd (MA) has Karl Urban never taking his helmet off, Olivia Thirlby and villainous Lena Headey.

To Rome With Love (M)

Savages (MA)

Writer/director/star Woody Allen’s latest is his fourth recent film set in a European capital, and while, of course, it isn’t great, there’s still fun to be had here, no matter how dubious (or pervy) things get. Four not-quite-interconnecting stories are followed: Jerry (Woody), a retired opera director, visits Rome with his psychologist missus Phyllis ( Judy Davis in her fifth Allen pic) so that daughter Hayley (Alison Pill) can introduce her fiancé Michelangelo (Flavio Parenti), but Jerry instead becomes obsessed with Michelangelo’s dad’s singing, even after it’s revealed he can only croon in the shower; Jack ( Jesse Eisenberg), an American architect living with girlfriend Sally (Greta Gerwig), finds himself adoring her ‘irresistible’ friend Monica (Ellen Page), as an older ‘sellout’ (Alec Baldwin) moves in and out of the action with weirdly ‘magically realistic’ ease; Antonio and Milly (Alessandro Tiberian and Alessandra Mastronardi) are dopy newlyweds separated by circumstance, leading to her seduction by filmmaking (and more) and his experiences with a (here it comes…) prostitute (Penélope Cruz); and, finally, the silliest thread has a mild businessman (Roberto Benigni) who suddenly gets famous for no reason, as Benigni reminds us why he’s been forbidden from making movies in the US for so long.

While nothing here is especially profound or cutting (this isn’t another Midnight In Paris), fans of The Man Of Wood should nevertheless enjoy it anyway, even if it’s time that this pushing-80 filmmaker returned to New York, shacked up with Diane Keaton once again, and stopped ogling his lady cast members’ boobs.

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Director Oliver Stone’s bombastic blockbusters used to be controversial cultural events (think Platoon, Wall Street and Natural Born Killers), and yet his recent outings (Alexander, World Trade Center and W) have proven less than Earth-shattering, and this overlong newie (co-adapted by him from Don Winslow’s book) is, in the end, a bit dumb.

O (Blake Lively) narrates the plot, irksomely suggests that she might not survive until the end, and then we’re fully into this overheated, would-be-trippy story of the threesome she enjoys with dope-dealing big-time buddies Chon (Taylor Kitsch as the shell-shocked one) and Ben (Aaron Johnson as the hippie-dippy one), in initial sequences that have a leering aspect absent from other Stone epics. When a video featuring Mexican drug lords having their heads chainsawed off (no, really) is emailed to the trio, and it becomes clear they’re being menaced by the feared Elena (Salma Hayek) and her dim gardener-cum-killer henchman Lado (Benicio Del Toro), Chon and Ben push their luck, let O go shopping (bad idea) and get into loads of cyber-payback, as Stone includes oodles of shootings, burnings, bashings and whippings but little excitement, and John Travolta pops in and out as a possibly corrupt DEA agent named Dennis, who manages a few vaguely funny and curiously camp gags.

Some have suggested that this is a film free of Ollie’s trademark political grandstanding, and yet there are pseudo ‘themes’ at work here: burning tyres are dangerous; Latinos are certainly not to be trusted; anti-Americanism is cool (and drugs aren’t bad either); and sharing Blake Lively with your bestie is also sweet.

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Safety Not Guaranteed (M) “Wanted: Someone to travel back in time with me. This is not a joke. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.”

When this ad appears in a local paper, magazine writer Jeff (Jake Johnson from New Girl) absconds with two interns, the shy Arnau (Karan Soni) and the funkless Darius (Aubrey Plaza from Parks And Recreation), to a small town in Washington where they encounter Kenneth (Mark Duplass from Your Sister’s Sister), the peculiar grocery store clerk who placed the ad in question. Identifying a kindred spirit in Kenneth, Darius volunteers to be his timetravel buddy to get the story, but she soon reveals her own reasons for hoping he’s the real deal, and meanwhile Jeff has an ulterior motive for the trip; a chance to get reacquainted with an old girlfriend.

Although still playing the depressed loner, Aubrey Plaza gets to show more than the monotonous emo stereotype she’s become vaguely known for, Derek Connolly having written the character of Darius specifically for her. Connolly’s script is somewhat K-Paxian in its ambiguity over Kenneth’s ability to timetravel, but the parallel story of Jeff ’s second chance to put things right in his present life is unique and subtly profound against Darius and Kenneth’s intentions to rewind theirs.

Inspired by an actual classified ad appearing in 1997, time-travel might be the hook here, but the conclusion is incidental. What you really have here is a quirky, non-preachy journey of personal growth, with a nice dose of geeky sci-fi thrown in for good measure.

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Tim Burton’s expansion of his animated short, Frankenweenie (M), has all his favourite chum-voicers, including Martin Landau, Winona Ryder and Christopher Lee (who else?).

The Intouchables (M), co-writers/ co-directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s human drama (and big European hit), features François Cluzet and Omar Sy. Co-writer/director Dong-Hoon Choi’s Korean The Thieves (Dodookdeul) (TBC) showcases more action-packed criminality.

Save Your Legs!

Adelaide Oval

A preview of Save Your Legs! will be held at Adelaide Oval on Sun Oct 28, with gates opening at 7pm, the film at 7.45pm, food and drinks available, and director Boyd Hicklin and star Damon Gameau there in person. Details: adelaidefilmfestival.org.au.

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Rockefeller Cafe & Kitchen Keep driving past Port Adelaide and you’ll hit Rockefeller Cafe & Kitchen, a new joint bringing a much-needed contemporary vibe to the suburban dwellings of Largs Bay. Owned by a trio of two sisters and their mother, Rockefeller’s retro decor and beaming service is quickly making it a popular place to get a tasty, quick eat. The interior is spacious and there are lots of places to sit and read a magazine while you peruse the chalkboard menu. The breakfast dishes are a certain highlight with some of the meals including the breakfast pizza, chocolate toast with peach compote and the ‘Brats’ bagel. There’s also a handful of scrumptious lunch items like homemade chicken and leek pot pie and pasticcio (traditional Greek pasta bake with spiced lame and béchamel). Sure, it’s a bit of a drive, but the views on the way are scenic, the meals will leave you happily satiated and the staff are adorable. It’s worth it!

WHAT: Rockefeller Cafe & Kitchen WHERE: Shop 5, 245 Fletcher Rd, Largs Bay WHEN: Wed – Sun from 7.30am – 4pm CONTACT: 8449 1070

Cooking With Dennis Leslie Executive Chef The Brasserie

This recipe teaches you to make cooking easy but tasty. Use this recipe and I’ll show you what you can do with the leftovers in the coming editions - stay tuned next week for a recipe for salsa and guacamole tortillas you can fill with your homemade chilli.

Chilli Con Carne / Serves 8 2kg lean beef mince 100ml vegetable oil 2 brown onions (finely diced) 1 bulb of garlic (finely chopped) 5 large red chillies (finely sliced) 3Tblsp ground cumin 4Tblsp chilli flakes

2Tblsp chilli powder 1Tblsp smoked paprika 2 x 140g tinned tomato puree 2 x 800g tinned chopped tomatoes Sea salt (to taste) Ground white pepper (to taste)

McLaren Vale winery Alpha Box & Dice has finally unveiled their very long-awaited 2011 Dead Winemaker’s Society Dolcetto. After one of the most challenging growing seasons leading up to the 2011 harvest, the season washed out by the most summer rain since 1974, the amazing Dolcetto is now available packed with low tannins, crisp purity and soft, round fruit flavours. Only 135 cases were made, so secure yourself one for the dinner table for $30 from alphaboxdice.com.au.

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There’s one festival more exciting than Splendour In The Grass, Big Day Out and Harvest Festival combined – the annual CheeseFest in Adelaide’s Rymill Pk. This year the wafty event will return, featuring a record 19 cheese-makers, winemakers and local brewers from our regions alongside Talk N Cheese sessions with chefs Simon Bryant, Andre Ursini and Callum Hann, artisan bread demonstrations and bocconcini and spoon races. More importantly, there will be cheese for purchase and cheese tastings. Tickets will be available from the gate for $15. You’ll be able to find us over the weekend next to all the cheese.

WHAT: CheeseFest WHERE: Rymill Pk, Adelaide WHEN: Sat Oct 27 from 12.30pm – 7pm & Sun Oct 28 from 11am – 5pm

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Alpha Box & Dice 2011 Dolcetto

Method 1. Heat up a large pot on high heat for one minute, then add a third of the vegetable oil.

2. Place half the minced meat into the pot, seal and lightly brown the meat, set aside. Repeat with the remaining meat.

3. Heat the pot once again on high for 30 seconds and add the remaining vegetable oil.

4. Add the onions and sauté, continuously stirring for one minute then add garlic and sauté for another minute.

5. Add the chopped fresh red chillies and sauté for another minute.

6. Add the cumin and stir through then chilli flakes, chilli powder and smoked paprika and stir through.

7. Add the tomato paste and cook whilst stirring for another minute, cook out the puree.

8. Add the tomatoes and bring to a boil then once at simmer, add the sealed meat and stir through.

9. Cook for one hour on really low, making sure to stir it every five minutes or so and season to taste.

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AFF Event Reminders

Just a last minu te reminder to ma ke sure you don’t miss out on ticke ts to two of the premium events the AFF that co for ncludes this we ekend. First up Metropolis, the there’s TAFE SA 2012 Fashion Gradua Parade sponso te red at 7.30pm on Fri Oct 26 at the Light Square UP ark, with tickets available from TAFE SA on 82 07 8480. Then on Sat Oct 27 at there’s the AFF 8pm finale with the Ad vantage SA Youn Designers Show g case. Held at th e Adelaide Railw Station Concou ay rse from 8pm, th e anticipation surrounding the new collections from Adelaide’s young emerging has been the bu zz of the festiva so far. For ticke l ts, including VIP packages, visit adelaidefash ionfestival.com.a u.

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The Dictator

Iron Sky

Paramount / MA / 79/83 Mins

Universal/Sony / M / 89 Mins

Co-writer/co-producer/star Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest is a straight narrative like Ali G Indahouse that lacks the mock-doco stunts of Borat and Brüno, and it loses something as, unlike those three strangely innocent characters, he’s playing a wannabe-ruthless dickhead here. His General Admiral Aladeen rules the African nation of Wadiya with an ignorant fist, orders endless unfortunates to be slain and is oblivious to the fact that righthand man Tahir (Ben Kingsley!) is plotting to overthrow him and bring peace. Tahir encourages Aladeen to address the UN in NY but, when they get there, Aladeen’s captured by a racist security guard ( John C Reilly), and must join forces with Zoey (Anna Faris), a PC free trade store owner, as he attempts to stop Tahir and Aladeen’s double too, who, in keeping with this sort of silliness, is also played by Cohen, but with extra dumbness.

And while there are jokes that work here, and Cohen, his co-writers and director Larry Charles manage a wonderful climactic UN scene, there’s also much ludicrous ugliness, and such a desperate need to offend that it gets rather tedious, even at only 80ish minutes. The ‘Triple Play’ DVD features deleted and extended scenes, and more.

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What you’ve heard about this one is true: it’s a fan-funded German/Finnish/Australian production, co-written/directed by black metaller Timo Vuorensola, and featuring Nazis on the moon and much hysterical satire. In 2018 a space mission created as part of the US President’s re-election campaign (the unnamed prez is played by Stephanie Paul and obviously Sarah Palin) lands on the lunar surface only to find Fourth Reich forces that have been preparing to conquer Earth since setting up shop at the end of WWII. Space-suited soldiers kill the actual astronaut and leave only model James Washington (Christopher Kirby), who’s there simply to look good and finds himself ‘albinised’, as ‘Bad Nazi’ Klaus Adler (Götz Otto) and idealistic Renate Richter ( Julia Dietze) attempt to ally themselves with the President and she, in turn, sees the chance to use ‘peaceful’ Nazis as a tool to improve her flagging popularity.

With terrific FX, an international cast that includes kinky cult star Udo Kier, funny work from Kirby and a formidable (if eventually ludicrous) performance from Paul, and an ending you couldn’t possibly see coming, this is still most notable for its underlying message: Nazis are people too - and they ain’t as bad as the Yanks. Extras here include a Making-Of featurette and more.

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Once Upon A Time In Anatolia Madman / M / 158 Mins

Naomi Wolf / Virago / 400pp / $32.99

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Vagina: A New Biography

Wolf ’s The Beauty Myth is one of the most important feminist works, and this, a study of the vagina in terms historical, divine, cultural, anthropological, physiological, psychological, spiritual and personal, tries to be another classic but falls well short due to a tendency toward wild overstatement that’s often rather cringing. Compelled to write when a back injury led to ‘wiring’ problems and orgasm issues, Wolf first somewhat problematically discusses how the vagina is the key to a woman’s consciousness, then spins an interminable description of the vagina in everything from Chinese history to blues music, and finally goes into oodles of hypothetical ramblings regarding the sexualisation of modern society and representations of the ‘plasticised’ (?) vagina in pornography, as, all the while, she keeps returning to the many and varied abuses of the vagina and how we’re all variously implicated.

And who would have thought female sexuality was so damn complicated?

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Thurston Moore Co-writer/co-producer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s meanderingly epic Turkish-language drama is either slow or ‘deliberately paced’, depending upon your perspective, and while some will label it an overlong and tedious ‘critics’ movie’ there are, nevertheless, virtues here. On an Anatolian plain at twilight three cars are travelling down the dirt highway, and we’re introduced to the characters and begin to comprehend what’s going on (and just what that brief pre-credits sequence actually meant). Two suspects are in the custody of a dozen or so men, and they’re attempting to find the body of a man murdered by the pair, then buried and unsurprisingly lost in this endless and mostly empty - but awfully cinematic - countryside. And in for the night-long investigation are figures often referred to by their role and position rather than their name: there’s Commissar Naci (Yilmaz Erdogan); pensive Prosecutor Nusret (Taner Birsel); almost comedic driver Arab Ali (Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan); and others, all variously weary, concerned, angry, fed-up or professionally distanced. And the actual search for the corpse takes going-on-twohours, and Ceylan daringly makes you feel the passage of time - and, yes, this is the sort of thing that many will swear by, while others will be swearing at it.

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Key member of critically acclaimed art rock band Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore will tour Australia this October performing tracks from his latest record Demolished Thoughts and his solo back catalogue. Log onto ripitup. com.au and enter your chance to win one of two double passes to Thurston’s show at the Governor Hindmarsh on Mon Oct 29.

Competition closes at 4pm on Fri Oct 26.

Emmylou Harris Multiple Grammy winner Emmylou Harris has, in the last decade, gained admiration as much for her eloquently straightforward songwriting as for her incomparably expressive singing. On new album Hard Bargain she offers 11 original songs – three of them co-written with Grammy and Oscarwinning composer Will Jennings – that touch on the autobiographical while reaching for the universal. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of two double passes to Emmylou’s show at Thebarton Theatre on Thu Nov 8.

Competition closes at midday on Thu Nov 1.

Liberty For US Stage

Liberty For US is a political satire penned by local writer, stand-up comic and drama student Ross Vosvotekas that’s being staged just before the US presidential election.

It will boast a fine cast of local actors that includes Piri Eddy, Marcel Blanch de Wilt, Sophia Simmons, Jarrod Fitch, Peter Corissos and Nathan Porteus under Vosvotekas’ direction.

“I wrote Liberty For US a few years ago,” Vosvotekas explains. “I’ve written a few political satires over the years [including Queen and King Johnny which was about the 2007 Australian federal election contested by John Howard and Kevin Rudd] and I wrote Liberty For US when Obama was about to take office but there wasn’t an opportunity to stage it.

“So I’ve revised it to tie in with the upcoming US election,” he adds. “And I’ve been watching closely what’s happening in the US because it influences Australia’s political arena as well. If Obama gets elected again, I think that may help Julia Gillard’s cause but if Obama doesn’t get elected this time, then I think Julia will be in trouble.”

Vosvotekas, who also works around town as a stand-up comedian, suggests that he and the cast will constantly be tweaking the play before opening night.

“Because it’s an original work and my own play, we can constantly workshop it and add new things,” he says. “It’s pretty flexible in that way – and that’s how I usually work – so we are making the play as relevant as possible.

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“If something unusual happens in the US between Romney and Obama before we open, we’ll be adding snippets about what’s taken place. And the play also focuses on Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden for a Middle Eastern influence. And there will be mention of the Pussy Riot issue in Russia and the anti-Muslim video from the US that recently went viral.

“And because it’s a satire, it’s very funny although there are obviously some quite serious undertones,” Vosvotekas adds. “And I think theatre should always be relevant and a comment on modern society. It’s not like staging one of Shakespeare’s plays that everyone has seen 20 times or so. It’s a very relevant work, especially considering the current political climate.”

Liberty For US will be staged at The Soul

Box, an intimate and relatively new Hindley St venue.

“I run a variety show at Soul Box on Saturday nights,” Vosvotekas says, “and I’m also involved with that venue for Adelaide Fringe. So it was a natural choice to stage Liberty For US there.”

The director also says that the play can be called Liberty For US or Liberty For Us. “It’s a pun and can be taken either way,” Vosvoteka laughs. “That’s what I intended and I actually now find that Liberty For Us flows off the tongue much better than the other way.”

WHAT: Liberty For US WHERE: The Soul Box, 252 Hindley St WHEN: Thu Nov 1 until Sun Nov 4 at 7pm

Your guide to the student experience.

So there’s a lot of theories surrounding what Halloween is actually based on and what it actually symbolises, with the current trend of eating lollies in a room full of sluts in underwear wearing bunny ears taking the entire event out of context. Duh. People who therefore think that Halloween is an Americanised money-making venture and potential stranger-danger fiasco need to calm down. Halloween’s fun. Getting drunk and dancing to Ke$ha while dressed up as Ke$ha is fun. There are not too many more opportunities for fun between now and the end of term, so you need to make the most of it. Consider this a last hurrah before the total shit-storm starts.

Dress up, drink up and remember to post photos online for the rest of us to mock and admire.

And remember, if you have any student info, upcoming events or deals people should know about, email fasttimes@ ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook.com/ fasttimesripitupmag or Tweet @ FastTimesRIU and I’ll spread the word.

Adelaide Transitions Film Festival

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Adelaide Chocolate School Finally. A course where you will want to do your homework again and again, but will probably have massive regrets for studying too much… The Adelaide Chocolate School will open its new premises on Wed Oct 31 in North Adelaide, having run courses at its Gawler Place location since 2010. A course in chocolate will mean you are one step closer to finally becoming Willy Wonka, giving its students an understanding of how to work with chocolate. Whether this skill will be something to score yourself a second date, give George something to lick on MasterChef 2013 or as an

AUU Halloween Party

Awareness for climate change via film hasn’t stopped since An Inconvenient Truth. Next week from Thu Nov 1 to Sun Nov 4, Adelaide is about to host Australia’s largest solutionsfocused sustainability film festival. So instead of Al Gore telling us what we’re doing wrong to piss off Mother Nature (ie everything), this festival showcases powerful, inspiring and ground-breaking documentaries, such as the awesomely named Revenge Of The Electric Car. These films come from around the world and cover topics such as renewable energy, organics, permaculture, economic, design and consciousness to try and find a solution to create true environmental sustainability. Along with other experts from these industries, speakers at the panels and public forums that accompany the films include lecturers from the University Of Adelaide and the University Of South Australia, to give a local perspective to global problems. Whether you’re studying areas such as science, environment, sustainability, politics or business, or simply want a heads up how if/when/how the world will actually end, jump online and book your tickets now.

WHAT: Adelaide Transitions Film Festival WHEN: Thu Nov 1–Sun Nov 4 WHERE: Mercury Cinema and Higher Ground INFO AND TICKETS: transitionsfilmfestival.com

The Adelaide Chocolate School opens on Wed Oct 31 at 48 Melbourne St, North Adelaide. For more info on courses visit adelaidechocolateschool. com.au.

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Whether the theory is true that Halloween is the one day of the year where a girl can dress up like a total slut and no other girls can say anything else about it (look, it probably is) Halloween can be one of the best nights of the year – as long as you have a party to go to. Considering that friend who said that they would totally have a Halloween party this year probably has nothing organised, the AUU have delivered again with their free end of semester Halloween Party. Whether you accessorise your sneakers and jeans combo with a foam sword and call yourself a pirate or make yourself unrecognisably disfigured under a thick layer of prosthetics and blood, heading to the Uni Bar from 5pm-8pm on Fri Oct 26 will definitely be a good idea. Monsieur Swing and Transmission DJs will wake the dead, free face-painting from Face Painters Ink will authenticate your sloppy handiwork and you can remember it all the next day with a free photobooth from Posebooth. Slutty or scary? It’s Halloween. Go for both.

WHAT: AUU End Of Semester Halloween Party WHERE: Uni Bar WHEN: Fri Oct 26, 5pm-8pm ENTRY: Free

added skill when seeking employment in hospitality, the courses offered cater to students of all ages and skill levels.

The fact that kids’ birthday parties and hen’s nights are both on offer, it shows that either chocolate appreciation really is universal, or that kids’ birthday parties have seriously changed since the ‘90s.

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The clever kids at Carclew Youth Arts and GreenRoom have combined forces to organise a two-day forum for those wanting to cultivate their ideas to become a working artist in a collective environment. While the workshops have been snapped up early, there are still some spaces available for the two free panel discussions to help those who aim to pursue the arts professionally do so wisely. The first panel is For Love Or Money? – Valuing The Arts, which draws on key issues around the value of arts in today’s society – particularly regarding that nasty piece of advice “don’t give up your day job”. The Art Of Business will see small arts business owners giving insights into how they

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

got started, what keeps them operating and the highs, lows, compromises and challenges. For anyone looking at pursuing the arts professionally, attendance is a must.

Luckily you still have some time up your sleeve to roster yourself off that pesky non-arts-related job that pays those pesky bills. Urgh. Life.

Mon Oct 29 – For Love Or Money?, 6.30pm-7.30pm, Space Theatre. Tue Oct 30 – The Art Of Business, 6.30pm-7:30pm, Space Theatre. Both panels are free.

Register online at adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ greenroom.

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Scottie’s Singles

Rita Ora

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Ora (Roc Nation/Sony)

Lana Del Rey Ride (UMA)

From Born To Die to Born To Ride, Lana Del Rey’s latest single takes her mythical saga from Bouvier-Kennedy grace to HarleyDavidson grease. Ride’s accompanying short film monologues are gloriously overwrought, yet every sinful breath is as addictive as nicotine, Del Rey’s cadence as comforting as a pillow still sweet with a lover’s perfume. How fascinating to watch this chameleonic creature carefully develop her warped fantasy realm, where cheap hotels, sugar-daddy sleazebags and desert sweat form the improbable totems of a glamorous pop princess. Underneath Ride’s poised National Anthem-esque production, Del Rey’s storytelling is just as sinister and surreal as Natural Born Killers’ rattlesnakes scene, her lip-glossed desolation as potent as Patsy Cline drifting through a crackling transistor.

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Yeasayer Reagan’s Skeleton

Wild Nothing

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Nocturne

A new Elizabeth Taylor biography last week alleged former US President Ronald Reagan took the teenaged Cleopatra to bed when the young lassie was just 14. Speaking of presidential boning, Yeasayer’s new single Reagan’s Skeleton is perfect Halloween fodder, with bizarre lyrics about zombie armies, red eyes and burning flesh.

Part Thriller for Brooklyn hipsters, part anticonservative censorship, part loose Royksopp groove, Reagan’s Skeleton offers a funkier shake and grind than a salt and pepper set from Alessi.

(Captured Tracks/Spunk)

Lowlakes

The ‘80s provided some of the most definitive pop songs in musical history.

With keyboards finding broader audiences, songs became punchy and gained more meaning. Yet so too there was a certain distance in the songs of the time that remains hard to nail down.

Jack Tatum’s love of ‘80s pop music saw him gain critical acclaim on his inspired

debut album Gemini, under the guise of Wild Nothing. But like the introduction of keyboards all those years ago, he has become punchier, more driven and likely to reach a broader audience with Nocturne.

The 11 songs that make up Nocturne remain memorable in their own right for each finding a simplistic sounding riff and softly manipulating it. The brilliant production of Nicolas Hernhes (Spoon, Deerhunter) finds Tatum working in a far more reassuring atmosphere than on Gemini. There is an additional level of brightness on The Blue Dress, while songs like Through The Grass and Disappear Always possess a previously unseen level of confidence. Paradise provides an almost necessary cinematic stop-gap in Nocturne, with bird noises, synths and reverb-drenched guitars swirling around each other like they were caught in a sea breeze.

Album highlight Only Heather sums up Nocturne; the song’s happiness feels equally sad. It’s everything you want but can’t have. It’s realised completion without feeling complete. And it’s the most definitive summation of melancholy you’ll hear for a while.

Sam Reynolds

Genetically blessed to resemble Rihanna and Gwen Stefani’s little sister, 21-yearold Rita Ora is a UN melting pot. Born in Kosovo, raised in London and based in the US while her label head Jay-Z groomed her for global acclaim, Ora seems like a smarter, sexier and sassier alternative to laughably dense yelper Jessie J. With singles Hot Right Now, How We Do and RIP all hitting number one in the UK this year, Ora’s bright and breezy style confirms her as 2012’s breakout pop star.

Even better than her radio-friendly hits is snappy Roc The Life, which couples the streetwise cool of a New Yorker with the level-headed eye of a Londoner.

With Drake, Tinie Tempah and Will.I.Am on speed dial, Ora has a host of major players in her corner. It sometimes feels like a game of musical bukkake when it comes to young female performers being surrounded by a brood of backroom songwriters, but there are a few female helpers on hand here. Sia adds her inimitable penmanship to the sultry Radioactive, while The Ting Tings don’t stretch themselves with their very Ting Tingsy donation Uneasy.

Ora is predominantly punchy and headnodding fun. Sadly like Gaga’s debut The Fame, the party fizzles out well before the record hits its run-out groove. Yugo, girl.

Scott McLennan

Cold Company (Kunsthaus)

The name of Lowlakes’ label might be the giveaway: it’s German for art house. With the haunted echo of Shearwater at their icy and isolated best, Cold Company captures a dry chill perfect for soundtracking a disorientating English horror film such as The Awakening or The Woman In Black. With a little coaxing, the musical spectrum of these Melbourne musicians may grow to include High Violet.

Palma Violets

Live Review

Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Willy Mason Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre, Mon Oct 15

Review by Sharni Honor Pics by Andreas Heuer

Best Of Friends (Remote Control/Rough Trade)

Snatched up by Rough Trade seemingly before they’d got past the phase of playing on tin cans in their cubbyhouse, Palma Violets make The Shaggs sound as polished and considered as Enya. Like a poorly recorded version The Vaccines covering The Velvet Underground And Nico on instruments made of macaroni, Best Of Friends sounds like it’s barely even in stereo. Mind you, it makes a nice change from random, misplaced spurts of dubstep on every second release.

N-Trigue Feat Snoop Dogg Roll Me Like A Dice (Central Station)

Recently seen in the credibility-sapping Hot Pockets advertisement peddling a distasteful rewrite of Drop It Like It’s Hot (now he eats the pigs rather than evades them), the big pimpin’ snack daddy has swaggered from Snoop pies to snake eyes in a single week. Rollin’ with the homies has never been so mired in Doggy do.

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By sundown, majestic sounds, powerhouse vocals, buzzing energy and a hell of a lot of banjos had erupted within the fairy-lit confines of the Entertainment Centre Theatre.

Willy Mason took the stage under a singular beam of light, brewing nothing but bluesy goodness throughout his opening set. With his deep voice came even deeper gratitude as Adelaide made him at home with howling cheers.

Off goes the solo man and on comes the travelling circus that is Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Alex Ebert has got to be one of the most intriguing men in music at the moment, throwing microphones into the crowd, starting a dance circle in the moshpit and prancing around on stage like a magical pixie horse. If he wasn’t entertaining enough, attention should be turned to the Magnetic Zeros who stood beside him, each grasping something weird and wonderful to contribute to the sound.

Marcus Mumford sauntered into the light and beckoned out sweet words from that oh-so-familiar and breathtaking voice of his. Over the top of the

Reviews // Quick Ones

Tim Hart Milling The Wind (Universal)

Chris Robinson Brotherhood Big Moon Ritual

Michael Jackson Bad 25 (Sony)

Various Artists Frankenweenie Unleashed (UMA/Disney)

(Silver Arrow/Warner)

For such a chirpy chap, it appears Mister Timothy Hart has been hiding some significant layers of darkness beneath his ginger follicles. The fast-paced folk selection, Milling The Wind, explores brooding tales from the complex mind of Timmy, who has temporarily cantered off from his Boy & Bear bandmates to kick it solo.

For a man who has bashed the drums ever since he can remember, his expertly frolicking finger-picked ditties expose a whole new shade of talent for the redheaded stallion. Between recording, album tours and festivals duties with Boy & Bear, Timbo has somehow found the time to create this expertly crafted selection of 13 tunes that flow together like little folk rivers, exploring a refreshingly honest and delicate sound.

Milling The Wind is a record that is not as accessible as some modern-day folk but this works in his favour – it makes his music more personal. This is an album that exists in its own right, it’s not trying to be something it’s not.

Chuck this one in your vinyl collection, slide it right between Simon & Garfunkel and let the sounds transport you to the old school. Tim Hart is milling the absolute shit out of the wind with this release.

Sharni Honor

bashing of the instruments Mumford still managed to maintain perfect pitch throughout the entire set - a voice box of pure gold. Along with the amplified sounds came the Sons; such talented contortionists swapping from one instrument to the next, I just wanted to lick their beards off. These lads would have to have fingertips of solid aluminum the way they feverishly strum those weapons. Throughout the set these four jolly folk men managed to host brilliant contrasts of old and new, with many tunes from the latest stunning release Babel as well as a journey back into yesteryear with Awake My Soul, Roll Away Your Stone and a gorgeous rendition of White Blank Page. Of course Little Lion Man, I Will Wait and The Cave weaved their way into the set, sending the crowd absolutely bonkers, but in between all the popular hype were some beautiful soft acoustic moments.

Pat yourselves on the scapulas Adelaide for giving these musical folk such a polite reception.

Keeping quiet in all the right places allowed for these guys to unplug the instruments and still manage to fill the room with harmonious talent, sending shivers dancing all over our spines. Some might say the epic two-hour set was a touch too long? I would say no, before throwing a freshly creamed vanilla sponge in their face.

It was three for the price of one on this glorious Monday evening, with a smorgasbord of epic talent performing right under the nostrils of the folk fans of Adelaide. With absolute footstomping madness theatre-wide, the crowd was sent sailing off on good vibes and dreaming of banjos all night long.

While little has happened in The Black Crowes’ hard rock camp since 2010, one half of the enigmatic Robinson siblings is alive and kicking and producing some amazing sounds. Enter Chris Robinson Brotherhood, a new outlet for Crowes singer Chris Robinson’s musical talents.

As the debut album Big Moon Ritual attests, Chris has certainly got plenty of talent to showcase!

On vocals and guitars with the Brotherhood, Chris has created a sound that would fit neatly within the framework of Black Crowes material, but is also uniquely distinct. That classic ’70s sound can be found throughout the album, but here Chris has more personal freedom to explore different realms; interludes include both the psychedelic and even folky flavours that would make a Led Zeppelin III fan smile. The album’s prefix Big is certainly apt too: there may be only seven tunes on the album, but every one of them is a minimum of seven minutes of epic rock beauty. While I listen, I’m tempted to put on an orange shirt, brown vest, flares, grow my shaggy hair and beard even longer and cruise across the countryside in my ’70s Chrysler. Needless to say, I’m pretty impressed! With a second album set to drop soon, I’m sure there’s plenty more in store from Chris Robinson Brotherhood!

Luke Balzan

Despite Man In The Mirror’s line ‘If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change’ being widely used in Michael Jackson eulogies in 2009, the track is Bad’s only hit single the iconic performer didn’t pen – the line is actually the work of songwriter Glen Ballard. Such revisionism doesn’t change the fact that Bad is, as a whole, a far more impressive and timeless album than its towering predecessor Thriller.

Bad’s highlights go far beyond the lyrically befuddling title track. The Way You Make Me Feel’s rubbery bass and trashcan thump tack neo-industrial punch to classic Quincy Jones production, Siedah Garrett replaces an unavailable Whitney Houston for the sugary duet I Just Can’t Stop Loving You and Dirty Diana adds a dark and nasty tint.

It isn’t perfect (the Stevie Wonder duet Just Good Friends, like most of Wonder’s cursed ‘80s collaborations, now sounds woeful), but the extra tracks on Bad 25 provide a new lure. The tantalising programmed beats of Song Groove (Abortion Papers), Smooth Criminal prototype Al Capone and Price Of Fame (which follows Billie Jean’s successful formula a little too closely) prove that even Jackson’s offcuts can still magnetise our dance muscles.

Go on, smell the glove.

Scott McLennan

The soundtrack to Tim Burton’s latest twisted tale of the undead finds the Gothic geek throwing many cool artists a bone. There’s a languid tropical feel to Karen O’s Theremin delight Strange Love, Plain White T’s deliver a goofily gratifying cover of The Ramones’ Pet Sematary and Grouplove’s contribution Underground hints at bigger, darker sounds to come.

Mark Foster showcases impeccably deranged classical motifs on Polartropic (You Don’t Understand Me) and Gothic dollybird Kerli, a veteran of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland soundtrack, reappears on Immortal, which sounds like Dolores O’Riordan and Hayley Williams fronting Evanescence.

Perhaps most disappointing of all the tricks and treats is Robert Smith’s novelty appearance on Witchcraft, a song as awkwardly wretched as 1996’s Cure monstrosity Wild Mood Swings.

Scott McLennan

Cher Lloyd Sticks And Stones (Sony)

She’s been victimised online and bottled at festivals, but gobby Brit teen Cher Lloyd’s got a bit of likeable sass and spirit beneath her crass cursive tattoos. Sticks And Stones proves Simon Cowell’s latest X-Factor graduate hasn’t had her personality completely polished out, poking and provoking haters like a Dickensian street urchin. Carolina Liar, 2008’s answer to Fun, re-emerge for the soaring ballad Beautiful People, Grow Up sounds like the grimey spawn of Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal and Playa Boi tactically samples Neneh Cherry’s street-smart 1988 hit Buffalo Stance. Best of all is Want U Back, where Lloyd’s affronted social climber throws a strop when the ex she ditched snares himself a hot new girl. It’s a perfect piece of grunty tantrum pop from a little brat with a lot of beat.

Scott McLennan

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Local News

Bearded Gypsy Band At Rocket Bar

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Armed with virtuosity and a van load of instruments, The Bearded Gypsy Band will join recent tour buddy Daniel Champagne at Rocket Bar on Sat Oct 27. Having toured the eastern states three months prior, the two musical outfits will once again unite on stage for an exciting and buoyant live show.

Tickets at the door from 9pm.

Sparkspitter Announce Single Tour Most youths embark on a couple of overseas trips, but instead of Contiki tours and stints at Balinese police stations, local alt-rock outfit The Aves are putting their travel bug to good use.

After recording a split demo in London in 2011, the four-piece have recently returned from Brooklyn off the back of their Canadian NXNE showcase with another studio effort – a three-tracked EP entitled Anywhere Else.

Rip It Up spoke to frontwoman Lucy Campbell about the new release.

“It’s a three-tracked EP that we recorded around July this year,” Campbell explains.

“It was a simple recording to make in comparison to our last EP (Panic, 2011), which was quite a long and hard process.

With this one we literally just walked into a studio and banged out the tracks.”

The EP was recorded at Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn with producer Mitch Rackin, a renowned underground studio that’s previously housed bands like Neko Case, The National and Julian Plenti (Paul Banks from Interpol). Campbell describes the joint as “kind of small and sweet”.

“It’s like this little Brooklyn studio, kind of small, sweet and full of lots of indie

The Amcats Calling It A Day Adelaide’s jangly, lo-fi rock duo The Amcats are calling it a day, but not before releasing their final double A-side Why Can’t You See Her?/Jam with a farewell show at the Hotel Metro. The last few years have seen the local two-piece pick up national and international airplay, release a string of 7” records and muster a number of international supports, their most impressive feat to date including a showcase at CMJ in New York last year.

Following the experience, the duo recorded the two new singles at Brooklyn’s Seaside Studio Lounge. Head along for one last hoorah and hear their latest, and last, material.

WHAT: The Amcats Goodbye Show WHO: The Amcats, Charlie Monsoon & The Baskervilles WHERE: Hotel Metro WHEN: Sat Nov 3 from 9pm

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guys running it that are really helpful,” she explains. “It was inexpensive and a lot of bands had gone through the studio on their way up. [Mitch Rackin] who recorded us had worked with Bloc Party and The New Pornographers, so he’d had lots of experience.

It was a nice little place, right around the corner from where we were staying. There was also a bagel place around the corner, so we’d eat bagels all the time.”

The lead single from the EP, In Vogue, even seems to encapsulate this New York ‘sound’.

With its hazy output and head nods to acts like The Velvet Underground, Rip It Up can’t help but wonder if the omnipresent vibe of New York’s music scene pervaded the new songs.

“The three songs on the EP we’d already written before we’d left for the States, but I think the way they sound does contain a few elements of New York in them,” Campbell agrees. “I think maybe because it wasn’t a stressful recording. It came out really easily, and I think a bit of that is reflective of Brooklyn. Everyone there is really laid back and hanging out on their stoops in the middle of summer and stuff, so I think a bit of that is in the songs.”

The recording experience came and the end of The Aves’ hectic northern schedule mid last year, in which they’d performed at Toronto’s North By North East music showcase. Given many young musicians slave over coffee machines to scrounge

up travel funds, how do The Aves keep managing to cart four band members over to these intercontinental live shows?

“I don’t know, I think Centrelink is good to us!” Campbell laughs. “I think we’re just good savers. We’ve always kind of done what we wanted to do. We went to London a couple of years back after only being together for about a year or something, just because we couldn’t get any gigs in Melbourne. That’s always been a part of our ethos, that kind of travelling circus mentality.”

After their EP launch this weekend The Aves will close the chapter on what has been formerly known as their jangly, scratchy brand of rock, the next step being returning to the drawing board to pen something fresh for their debut album.

“We’re rehearsing material for an album now and we’re starting from scratch with brand new material. We kind of want to explore how to make an album cohesive and interesting. When this EP comes out it’s sort of a full-stop for a certain part of what our sound is, and now we’re moving onto something new, hopefully.”

WHO: The Aves, The Villenettes And Woe WHAT: Anywhere Else EP launch WHERE: Worldsend Hotel WHEN: Sat Oct 27

Progressive leaders Sparkspitter will launch their new single Fearsplishing this October during a lengthy Australian and South East Asian tour. Fearsplishing signals a slight transformation in the band’s sound since their self-titled debut EP, the band currently working towards their debut album due for release in mid 2013. Catch them at the beginning of their tour leg at Hotel Metro on Fri Oct 26 joined by local supports Swimming and Psalm Trio.

Preloved Folk Album Launch Ten of Adelaide’s most popular folk musicians have handed over one of their most treasured songs to one another and given them freedom to reinvent the tune as their own. The result of this venture is Preloved Folk, a project album featuring acts like Cal Williams Jr, Emily Davis, The Yearlings, Anthony D’Antonio and The Timbers. Preloved Folk will be launched on Fri Nov 2 and Sun Nov 4 at the Wheatsheaf with tickets costing $20 at the door or $15 through Oztix.

Home Grown Music 2012 Home Grown Music will hit Osmond Tce Function Centre in Norwood this Fri Oct 26 with a brand new batch of original, unsigned artists. This year’s line-up includes The Crossing, Howie Sumner, Buffalo Boyfriend, Escapism (pictured), Carroll Karpany, Gartloney Rats, DaFish DJ and Guilt Free. Head along from 7pm and check out some of Adelaide’s newest upand-comers, tickets will be $22 at the door.

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