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Editor’s Note// “The culture had changed since my last record,” Santi ‘Santigold’ White mourns. “Music journalism has become so tabloid and celebrity gossip focussed.” Gulp. Suddenly Rip It Up’s multiple questions for White about writing with Christina Aguilera for her 2010 album Bionic, recording with Julian Casablancas for a Converse promotion and hating on LMFAO earlier in 2012 have been ripped asunder. White has undertaken very few interviews in the promotion of her awesome second album Master Of My Make-Believe this year, so if the gal doesn’t want to talk about the TMZ side of things, we’re not going to be the ones to rile her. Speaking from a soggy New York a few days after surviving Hurricane Sandy, White is, in fact, an engaging interviewee. Firm yet considered, a 10-minute chat with the former Epic Records A&R rep proves she exudes the same cheeky chutzpah as her best songs. Although she performed at last year’s Parklife, this week’s Santigold show marks the colourful performer’s first headline gig in Adelaide. With her shows matching absurd dance moves and wild outfits with kick-arse tunes, 2008 single LES Artistes’ line ‘Suddenly I found myself an innovator’ has a prophetic ring to it. Of all the Harvest sideshows Adelaide’s been bestowed in 2012, Santigold’s will surely be the most colourful and jubilant. Go for ‘Gold.

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The Mixtape//

Rip It Up’s random weekly compilation.

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Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

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Taking place at Fowler’s Live on Sat Nov 10 as an all-ages gig featuring Melbourne’s Be’Lakor (pictured) alongside Truth Corroded, Se Bon Ki Ra and so many, many more.

In town to launch his new album, I Love Hate You, at Glenelg Surf Lifesaving Club with help from Al Parkinson and Nick Saxon from 3pm on Sun Nov 11.

See the much-feted US country songstress and her band, Red Dirt Boys, at Thebarton Theatre on Thu Nov 8 along with special guest Ben Abraham from Melbourne.

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Heading to town alongside Melbourne’s Courtney Barnett to launch their split seven-inch single at Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sat Nov 10.

Catch the rather quirky Californian songstress with her drone metal folk offerings along with Heirs, the Melbourne-based post-metal exponents, on Sun Nov 11 at Fowler’s Live.

Coming down from Brisbane town with Silas Palmer to play McLaren Vale’s Lazy Ballerina boutique winery from 2pm on Sun Nov 11.

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TOUCHÉ AMORÉ – catch the US hardcore act at Enigma Bar on Sun Nov 11 from around 7.30pm along with some special guests including fellow US hardcore outfit Make Do & Mend.

CAKE – have your cake and hear them too when the US cult band play HQ on Tue Nov 12 as a delicious Harvest Festival sideshow.

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Who: The Selecter / Where: The Governor Hindmarsh / When: Thu Nov 29

Too Much Pressure Making dancing the only way to walk has been ska revival pioneers The Selecter’s raison d’être for more than 30 years. In 2010 rude girl Pauline Black reunited with the band’s co-singer Gaps Hendrickson, known for his incisive toasting on the mic, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut album Too Much Pressure. A series of

break-ups, make-ups and a little argy bargy about the use of The Selecter band name have passed by the way since that release – now the pair has brought together a revitalised eight-piece line-up that aims to bring the same energy and passion to their performances as they did way back when. Two-Tone originals.

Spend A Night With Bryce Dessner’s Buddies If you like The National you might just love Adelaide Festival’s 2013 music program, which brings together a series of shows from Brassland, Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National and Alec Hanley Bemis’ New Yorkbased musical community. Forget the eastern states – for once Adelaide gets the Australian exclusive on a string of shows featuring Bryce

Dessner, other artists from the Brassland label and some of their special friends. The program is huge, with a variety of performances from Mon Mar 4 through to Thu Mar 7 featuring intriguing combinations of Dessner affiliates. Start sleeping now, you’ll need the rest. Tickets and details: adelaidefestival.com.au.

Thee Real Thing Thee Oh Sees are the kind of band that your most intelligent and worldly friend is into. They’re loud, smart and energetic, have been described by Pitchfork as being “propulsive, careening and at time openly dangerous… like the house band for a runaway train”, have released 14 albums and play hectic live shows that have brought them to Australia many a time. The garage rock dominators are in the country to play ATP next year – see them on Fri Feb 1 at Jive.

It’s 4122 forever for Mansfield, Brisbane’s finest VIOLENT SOHO, but they’re leaving that post code behind to play songs from their double A-side Tinderbox/Neighbour Neighbour this month. See them with fellow Brisbanites Dune Rats and locals Sincerely, Grizzly for one huge party at Rocket on Fri Nov 16. Tickets: moshtix.com.au.

Miller’s Draft Lover’s Lane If Dr John met The Band at Bruce Springsteen’s house, the resulting party might sound a bit like Scottie ‘Bones’ Miller, a singer songwriter and pianist who plays a combination of blues, soul, funk and jazz. You might have seen him performing with Ruthie Foster & The Family Band – now see him launch his own new album Rise Up at the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Nov 22 with local blues combo The Streamliners.

There’s so much stuff coming out of Perth right now – like the stoner/sludge two-piece GOAT, playing songs from their debut EP Sign Of The Dead at the Metro on Sun Nov 11 with help from local doom lords Space Bong and Poisonous Viper Gang.

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Jordie Lane has admitted he’s a hapless Romeo, releasing the psych-folk rambling single Fool For Love last month. With a West Coast bass-line, trash can drums and The Eagle Rock Gospel Choir all featuring on the tune, Lane might just get your pheromones pumping on Fri Nov 16 at Trinity Sessions, Clarence Park.

Dream no more, hardcore fans – the Movember Mayhem tour is bringing Melbourne six-piece DREAM ON DREAMER, Perth metallers Make Them Suffer, San Diego post-hardcore band In Fear & Faith and melodic hardcore newcomers Saviour to Fowler’s Live on Sat Nov 24.

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New Gold Dream If Santi ‘Santigold’ White’s strong and independent voice on her two studio albums Santogold and Master Of My Make-Believe hadn’t already marked out the performer as a New Yorker not to be messed with, US TV host Stephen Colbert recently fortified the 36-year-old’s arse-kicking armoury. I was on The Colbert Report a couple of months ago and Stephen Colbert gifted me a real sword,” White explains. “It was pretty cool and I wasn’t expecting it – he had it sent to my house afterwards. What an interesting gift - a box from Stephen Colbert containing a sword. Wow!” Despite Colbert’s gift, Santigold’s pen is mightier than the sword. One of the best albums of 2012, Master Of My Make-Believe finds White coming out swinging after a debilitating period of writer’s block. The punchy denunciation of fakes on Go! (featuring fellow New York powerhouse Karen O), Look At These Hoes and Big Mouth suggest White’s ire has grown in the years since 2008’s Santigold. “Well I have to totally disagree with you,” White counters. “I think with my last record I was in a much angrier place, since it was right after my father died and there was a lot of disillusion and emotion in that record. The theme of the record isn’t anger and discontent, it’s about taking responsibility for the world around you and knowing you have the power to create your own reality. A lot of the songs I do that are more fun are typical of the brag and boast styles of rhyme. They’re playful and tongue-in-cheek. Big Mouth is about being able to walk the talk – don’t just claim you are something and talk all this shit

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from behind a computer screen. I get what you’re saying, but I think it’s more playful.” It’s not the first time this year White has fought misinterpretation. When the music clip for Big Mouth was released in January as a prelude to Master Of My Make-Believe, gossip sites ruminated on its intent. As well as its pointed lyrics, cartoon elements of the accompanying video featured a none-toosubtle dig at fellow New Yorker Lady Gaga. White hosed down accusations of being a Gaga-hater in a subsequent interview with Pitchfork, but retains a somewhat dismissive attitude to the Lower East Side artiste. The New Yorkers both released their debuts in 2008, but White says she never crossed paths with Gaga during the fledgling years of their musical careers.

“Stephen Colbert gifted me a real sword. What an interesting gift - a box from Stephen Colbert containing a sword. Wow!” “No, actually we didn’t. She kind of came out of nowhere despite supposedly being in New York a lot. I’d never heard of her. The whole Big Mouth thing with people saying it was about Lady Gaga or whoever else, I found it was an interesting testament to how culture had changed since my last record. All of a sudden it was tabloid reporting. Instead of people saying, ‘This is an interesting record and it sounds like this...’ it was more about, ‘Ooooh! Santi said this about someone famous!’. As with everything, music journalism has become so tabloid and celebrity gossip focussed.”

White’s relationship with the mainstream has always been rather enigmatic. The headstrong songwriter predominantly operates outside the commercial orbit, yet past collaborators including Christina Aguilera (on her widely panned Bionic album of 2010) and Kanye West (on the 2009 NASA track Gifted). The ripples of Santogold’s influence could be felt in watered-down top 40 appropriations long after the artist herself had slightly altered her moniker and moved off in search of new stimuli. With a course of transcendental meditation halting her writer’s block, Master Of My Make-Believe has emerged as a fearsome and confident successor to Santogold. Despite working with producers including Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, P!nk) and long-time associates Diplo (MIA, Major Lazer) and Switch (Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé), White suggests her main directives came from within. “The title Master Of My Make-Believe is all about being ruler of your creation, ruler of your reality. A lot of the time in the process of making the record, that was the theme I had to draw upon, since I was alone in the process a lot of the time. Even though I worked with so many different producers, I was the only constant and so I had to trust myself and trust my vision. It was about stepping into a mind-space where you take on a role within yourself to be able to get through different situations.” The eye-catching cover art for Master Of My Make-Believe takes White’s role-playing one step further. The sleeve depicts three divergent Santigold avatars: the ruthless and sharply besuited business tycoon, the strong yet feminine Amazon and the noble Napoleonic warrior. So which of these three sides of her personality does White find it the hardest to sustain? “I think they are equally hard. Being in the studio working with different producers, you have to take on qualities that aren’t traditionally seen as feminine qualities. Women are supposed to be compromising and try to make everything better, but instead I have to role-play as the director, the producer,

Barbie & The Rockers As a collaborator on the Beastie Boys’ 2011 album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Santi White was memorialised as a Barbie doll in the accompanying Spike Jonzedirected video. So did she get to take home the Santigold doll? “No, I didn’t get to keep the Barbie! There was a lot of back-and-forth about the haircut and what the Barbie should wear though, so it was a lot of fun. I love that video – it’s one of my favourites I’ve been involved in and I thought they did an amazing job.”

the boss. On the cover it was the same thing as the creative process, where you have to play characters. Sometimes you have to be like the ladies in the sexy gold outfits who are also the scary protectors of the man. It was a lot of roleplay and they were all equally a stretch.” The costumery for White’s upcoming Adelaide show will no doubt be as colourful and visually enticing as her album cover. Past stage outfits have included billowing white suits with tiger motifs and Harajuku-inspired smocks, with the performer suggesting her attire puts her in the mood for a lively show. “What we do on stage is a world of its own, so once I get on stage I get sucked into that world. It’s perfect – it puts you in the perfect frame of mind to create the magical world of Master Of My Make-Believe. It’s a world of creation, so it’s fun for us. I try to make the show a bit of a spectacle as I believe shows should be worth going to see. Costumes, choreography and props – we like to make it a fun carnival on stage.”

WHO: Santigold WHAT: Master Of My Make-Believe (Atlantic/ Warner) WHERE: HQ (with Crazy P) WHEN: Mon Nov 12

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Interviews// Sk8er Boi Beirut’s sometimes reserved, sometimes otherworldly singer songwriter Zach Condon is on the phone from New York just after the big storm has hit, and is happily reminiscing about an unlikely lost relationship. hen you hear the acoustic, jangly, horn and accordion-led soundscapes, it’s easy to assume he spent his formative years in a commune or under a blanket listening to three chords and the truth. But no, there is a skeleton in that closet. “I skated for seven years,” Condon admits. “Actually, before I smashed my arm to bits, my dream was to be a professional skater. And I still follow the culture very closely, very closely, and

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Bass Chemistry Beirut mastermind Zach Condon might garner most of the accolades, but bassist Paul Collins explains how the rest of the band adds their two cents to the mix. “The main thing about being a bass player is not being noticed too much - holding back is a huge part of it. The central idea [of Beirut] is Zach’s songwriting and his voice. Zach has such a strong sense of aesthetic. You need to know when is the right time to bring forward an idea, and if you hold back until it’s really good, then it’s like, ‘Now is the time for me to step forward’.”

skating was that in some weird way there was a self discipline that bordered on impulse more than it bordered on discipline, if that makes sense? So when I got home at night, I would spend the time that I was otherwise focusing on learning some [skate] tricks, for example, on trying to make music sound a certain way, trying to get a certain instrument to sound a certain way for example. And like I say it’s impulse rather than discipline; it came out of nowhere, you don’t even realise you’re doing it until it’s done.” Describing someone’s artistic (or athletic) prowess as an impulse rather than a discipline is curious, but also comforting. It shows that Beirut’s strange and almost indefinable music perhaps comes as much of a surprise to Condon as it does his listeners. On the flip side, Condon compares his approach to music to that of Beirut bass player Paul Collins. “I’m jealous of his record collection, to be honest. Paul spends his days going to record stores and I don’t. And I should. Here’s the thing: having Paul in the band is a constant reminder that what you’re doing is a gift. Like I said, he spends all his time off going to record stores here in New York and on tour, and so when we get home it’s basically like, ‘Paul, what’s the playlist? What are we listening to, please? Burn me a CD, do something.’ He’s constantly fascinated and by proxy, so am I.” When asked about said collection, Collins explains it a bit less scholastically. “Basically, I go on tour around the world and I get very tired of drinking all the time, so I wake up in the morning and I’m like, ‘Okay, I need to go and see these record stores’, and that’s the way I kind of calm down. I collect a bit of everything, but mainly world music and rock and all that stuff. Actually, one of my big finds that I was really excited about was in Australia. Do you know who Scott Walker is? He’s awesome. He’s an American who moved to London and he just made all these really strange records. One of his records is called Nite Flights and his band The Walker Brothers made it in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s... Anyway, I found that record in a store in Australia for like 10 bucks, which was a steal. So Australia has added to my bounty.” WHO: Beirut WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Mon Nov 12

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The Magnificent Seven Melbourne rockers The Living End are about to attempt one of Australian music’s biggest undertakings: playing seven nights in a row in each capital city, playing a different Living End album in its entirety each night. Frontman Chris Cheney talks more about the upcoming tour.

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onsidering there are six cracking Living End albums (including their barnstorming self-titled 1998 debut, which the band will play twice at each stop), the tour has to be The Living End’s biggest of this magnitude. “I think it kind of is!” Cheney agrees. “What I’m finding is that it is a different sort of workload. It’s one thing to say we’re going to go out on tour and take pyrotechnics, back-up dancers and singers - not that we’ve ever had that - but that’s on a different scale. This is grand on a whole other level; having to learn 80 songs and the fact that we’re playing seven nights in a row. It’s enormous, but there’s something enormously exciting about it for us.” It must be great to have so much love from the fans to support this concept? “We’re still a little way out but the whole tour has sold incredibly well. There are some nights that have sold better than others and the initial idea was to celebrate our first record. Then the idea came along to do all our records, but then we wondered if anyone would come to the State Of Emergency or Modern Artillery nights. We thought they probably would as each album has done well on its merit, with successful radio singles off each album. The tour has sold really well and different generations of fans were around for different albums, which is an amazing thing the way it is unfolding.” Cheney laughs when it’s suggested he might go spare spending a week in Adelaide. “I don’t think I’ve ever spent a week in Adelaide but I’m looking forward to it. I know you guys cop a bit of stick down there but I’ve always been very partial to playing in Adelaide. Ever since we were first out of high school we played little gigs there and we’ve always gone down well there. Having a South Australian in the band [Andy Strachan, drums], it has always been one those consistent places for us. It sounds like I’m trying to sell it, but I can assure you I’m not - I’m legit and Adelaide is a special place for the band.” Are you planning to get out and about or sit back and count the cash? “Counting the cash shouldn’t take too long! Andy has friends and relatives there and I have a lot of friends and relatives there too so it will be nice to go out and see them. Normally it is a quick beer after the show and keep moving.” Where do you go after a tour of this size - will it be hard to reel it back in next time? “We haven’t put a great deal of thought into it as it has been such a massive exercise already. This tour takes us right up to Christmas and then we’ll do our own thing before regrouping at some point. I can’t see any reason why we wouldn’t make another album. I can see how it may smell like a final lap around the country, but this is something we’ve felt like doing and the right time to do it now. After the last album I didn’t feel like there was any lack of ideas and there is the hunger to do another – [it’s] not the notion we better do another album. I feel we’re still on the same path and have a point to prove with each album.” Will there be a live recording or DVD release to commemorate this tour? “As far as I know we’re going to try and document the whole thing. We’re going to film and record it like we have done in the past but we’ve never wanted to approve it, as the three of us cringe our way through an entire set and say, ‘Nah, fuck it - put in on the shelf. I can’t handle listening to this!’”

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Is there a possibility of The Living End’s frontman Chris Cheney releasing a solo project in the coming years? “I’d very much like to think so. I have a heap of tunes lying around and a lot of ideas. This band is allconsuming and so full-on that it is hard to think about other things. It has been in the back of my mind for a while now and having done things like [He Will Have His Way’s Crowded House cover] Distant Sun and The Wrights was a good diversion I suppose. I’m not ruling it out!”

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Feast Festival, an inclusive event celebrating gay and lesbian cultu re which is taking place fro Nov 25, is celebr m Sat Nov 10 until Sun at With a theme of ing its 16th year in 2012. Coming Of Age, the 16-day festival will boas t ever through to comed ything from theatre y, dance, visual arts, film and music al special events su ong with a host of ch as The Pride March and Picnic In Th e Park. The festival has also found a de dicated home in recent years with Light Square becoming The Fe ast ANZ Hub, bo an array of perfo asting rmance spaces, including The Ballroom, al ong with restaura nt qual meals and awar d winning coffee. ity For more inform ation, visit feast.org.au.

“It’s okay to call her my newfound inner woman but at this point in my life I think ‘old-found inner drag queen MILF’ is more accurate,” Clinton Leupp says of his cabaret alter-ego Coco Peru, the US drag legend, monologist, television and film actor and world saviour.

mother to and I completely agree. Having said that, I’m not sure if it’s because people want to share the gift of Coco with their mothers or if it’s their way of saying, ‘Mum, you may not be happy with my being gay, but it could’ve been worse - a lot worse!’. “I’m not one of those drag queens who picks on the audience because I am way too self-absorbed to waste my time giving other people attention! In fact, my show is like a group therapy session, only it’s my turn to talk.” Is there anything that Coco hasn’t done that she would add to her bucket list? “Yes! Joe Manganiello, the Spanish Soccer League and one of your very own, Alex O’Loughlin. Oh, and Eric Bana!” WHAT: Miss Coco Peru Is Present WHERE: The Ballroom WHEN: Thu Nov 22 until Sat Nov 24 from 8.30pm

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Although this will be Leupp’s third trip to Australia, it will be his first Feast Festival. “Both times I loved it and especially loved how friendly everyone was,” Leupp says. “And I’m excited to discover another part of Australia on this trip.” After making your start in cabaret over 20 years ago, did you ever expect world domination? “I would hardly call what I’ve done

world domination, but I have been very lucky. I’m not opposed to world domination; the world would be a lot prettier if I were dominating it!” Tell us about Miss Coco Peru Is Present. “All my shows are autobiographical stories but this show is basically the story of my life, an effeminate gay boy who grows up and survives the Bronx and a dysfunctional family and becomes a low-end celebrity drag queen on a quest for world domination! You know, I actually do like the ring of that! “Anyway, I figured since this is my first time in Adelaide, this show would be a really good way of getting to know me. Plus, I sing a few Barry Manilow songs! And if that alone doesn’t get people in seats, I don’t know what else will. Barry fucking Manilow! “It’s been said that Coco Peru is a drag show that you can take your

In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play State Theatre Company are presenting their final play of the year, American playwright Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play, as part of this year’s Feast Festival. Set in Victorian times, the comedy, to be directed by Catherine Fitzgerald, is about the passionless, buttoned-up Dr Givings and his sexually frustrated wife as he experiments with making a vibrator using electricity to treat women for hysteria. The play boasts a fine ensemble cast of Lizzy Falkland, Katherine Fyffe, Cameron Goodall, Pamela Jikiemi, Amber McMahon, Renato Musolino and Brendan Rock and we speak to Fyffe, who plays Dr Givings’ assistant and a mid-wife, about the play and she

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begins by saying that rehearsals have been a lot of fun. “We’ve actually just finished up in the rehearsal room and now we move onto the stage for a technical run through it, but it has been a lot of fun,” Fyffe says. “But I would expect any play dealing with the invention of electricity and the vibrator to be fun. There are some pretty awesome machines up on the stage. “And, as the mid-wife, I get to spend a lot of time in the surgery, or the operating theatre as we call it, so I’ve been learning how to switch the machines on and off. And the play also deals with the new invention of electricity and how it’s changing people’s lives. “Part of my role is also helping the women dress and undress, so I’ve been learning about the many layers of costumes. It was the era of the bustle so there are layers of petticoats

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that make up the costumes. “But while there are a lot of laughs in it, there are also some more serious issues going on underneath. And while I don’t want to give too much away, it’s a play that deals with relationships and what marriages were like in Victorian times and what was acceptable behaviour and what wasn’t in public. So there are a lot of interesting things going on. “But it’s a really witty play with lots of great characters that the audience will really want to follow and care about in the last half of the play. “It’s a top notch play in that way.” WHAT: In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play WHERE: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Until Sat Nov 24

Beccy Cole’s A Country Outing Multi-award winning singer songwriter Beccy Cole has been at the forefront of Australian country music for more than 20 years and has performed with some of the country’s finest artists. Celebrating the release of her seventh studio album, Songs And Pictures, we speak with Cole about her first Feast Festival appearance. “Although I’m a very patriotic South Australian I’ve never been in Adelaide during a Feast Festival so I’m very much looking forward to it.” Your show title seems to have a double meaning. Would you agree? “The shows that are predominantly gay and lesbian events we’re calling A Country Outing because now I’m more motivated to give the stories behind the songs,” Cole explains. “There are some funny stories leading up to and post my coming out on Australian Story, so I guess it does add a twist to the normal shows people are used to seeing from me.” Was it a hard decision? “I’d always planned to tell the world who I am – because of the conflict I was having within myself – although I didn’t know I was going to do it on Australian Story,” she chuckles. “I’ve never really liked the term

‘coming out’ but I guess it does say everything. I’ve always been honest in my lyrics and how I present myself as a person and an artist, so hiding that part of me didn’t feel right. “I also wanted to show my 13-year-old son that we can be who we are after he had a friend coming for a sleep-over and he told me to not worry because his friend didn’t know,” Cole reveals. “I didn’t want him keeping his mum’s secrets, and I had no idea what I was afraid of, so I did it for him and for people who might need someone like me to be a voice. Mostly I did it for myself; the relief and peace of mind that I now feel, I can honestly say I’ve never been happier!” How much of your show will be storytelling? “I tend not to harp on too much because people come to hear the music, but the stories are an important part of it. It’s not me in a big chair telling stories like Benita from Play School or anything,” she jests, “but now I can finally tell people that the love-gone-wrong and a-little-bit-right songs were not actually written about men!”

WHAT: Beccy Cole’s A Country Outing WHERE: The Ballroom WHEN: Tue Nov 20 from 6pm

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INCOMING WHO: KERRI CHANDLER WHERE: SUGAR WHEN: MON DEC 31

WHO: ALLDAY WHERE: ED CASTLE WHEN: SAT NOV 10

MIA NAMES UPCOMING ALBUM MATANGI Speaking at New York’s Museum Of Modern Art last weekend, MIA announced the title of her new album and revealed some details about what fans can expect in the follow-up to 2010’s Maya. The rapper claimed the album’s title, Matangi, refers to her own birth name – Mathangi – which is also the name of a Hindu wisdom goddess. MIA explained how she “was searching for parrots on Google and I found Matangi, who is parrot

green”. According to Spin, the singer/rapper refused to discuss the actual content of the record but was willing to share a ‘mood board’ with her fans, which displayed two green parrots. The new album was originally set for release this December, but has now been pushed back to 2013 so that MIA could go to India “to add more stuff to it”, she said. Earlier in the year MIA claimed the new album would sound like Paul Simon “on acid”.

Hailing from Blackwood, Adelaide, Allday is fast establishing a reputation as one of Oz hip hop’s stand-out rappers thanks to his fresh perspective, smooth melodies and lyrical flow. With influences ranging from soul, indie rock and classic hip hop, the young rapper first started rhyming at just 10, recording his first track as a teenager and taking out numerous local battles which led him to release his first EP Noue Yesue. The EP quickly captured the attention of Triple J and its national audiences thanks to the stand-out track Girls In Jeans, with his mixtape Soon I’ll Be In Cali upping the ante once again thanks to the sublime track This Charade. Following his relocation to Melbourne, Allday hooked up with producer C1, with the single So Good being the next track to be added to Triple J rotation. With big things coming up for the young rapper, catch him at the Ed Castle with support from Terracotta Palace, Faith & Gasoline, as well as DJs Rad Bad, Chino, Poi Toi Vs Chilli Philli and Bigheads.

One of deep house music’s innovators, Kerri Chandler, is finally set to tour Australia – landing in Adelaide for a New Year’s Eve celebration. As an ambassador of the 4/4, Chandler’s influences trace back to New Jersey where he grew up in a family of jazz musos, his father being a respected DJ and exposing him to the origins of soul, disco and New York garage. At just 13 years old, Chandler first began to play records at the Rally Record Club in East Orange, NJ, and it wasn’t long before he found himself dabbling in production, his first single SuperLover/Get It Off leading to a signing by Atlantic Records in 1991. Since the early ‘90s, Chandler has gone on to establish himself as one of the most respect house producers in the world, managing to redfine the genre at every turn. Never straying from his roots, though, Chandler has remained loyal to the underground movement by producing contemporary classics like Bar-aThym and Back To The Raw – so don’t miss this chance to welcome in the New Year with a living legend.

ONELOVE SONIC BOOM BOX 2013 ALBUM GIVEAWAY In a year where the EDM explosion has truly captured the world’s attention, Avicii (the producer behind Levels and one of DJ Mag’s top voted DJs in the world) and Aussie duo Feenixpawl have been at the forefront of the action in 2012. While Avicii has become a worldwide phenomenon, recently appearing at every music festival under the sun, he now takes on remixing duties on Disc 1 of OneLove Sonic Boom Box, this being his first ever Australian DJ mixed compilation (featuring Fade

WHO: JLO WHAT: DANCE AGAIN TOUR WHERE: ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE WHEN: SUN DEC 9

Into Darkness, Superlove (Featuring Lenny Kravitz) and Silhouette, as well as some of the festival world’s biggest tunes). Disc 2 sees 2012 ARIA-nominees Feenixpawl delivering a blistering mix of the freshest anthem and club hits, featuring tracks from Alesso (Years), Kaskade Feat Skylar Grey (Room For Happiness) and Jacques Lu Cont (In The Night), as well as heaps more. For your chance to win one of the four copies up for grabs, head to onion.com.au and enter your details in the comp.

TLC’S LISA ‘LEFT-EYE’ LOPES TO PERFORM AS A HOLOGRAM

Dusting her hands of American Idol judging duties, Jennifer Lopez will now turn her energies to the live stage as she tours Australia for the first time ever this December. Jenny from the block, now 43, will be promoting her most recent album Dance Again … The Hits as part of her Dance Again world tour, a career retrospective record that includes guest appearances from artists like Pitbull and Flo Rida. Speaking of Ridas, Lopez has been known to request extensive backstage riders including a hotel room temperature of 26C and a 40 foot trailer entirely furnished in white. C’arn Jenny. Her Australian tour includes dates in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and the JLO Dance Again world tour tickets are now available through Ticketek.

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Following on from the incredible (and even somewhat eerie) holographic Tupac appearance at this year’s Coachella, the remaining members of TLC have announced they are looking into touring with a hologram of the late Lisa ‘Left-Eye’ Lopes. Lopes died in a car accident on April 25 back in 2002 in Honduras, at age 30. Speaking to British newspaper Metro, singer Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas said, “The hologram is something we talked about and thought about years ago, obviously timing is everything but we’re definitely talking about it.” And although Thomas admitted the experience would no doubt be at least somewhat “spooky”, she said that fans would be keen to see Lopes return in hologram form. “I think we would probably pass out and all of our fans would break down but it’s amazing how real the hologram looks, it’s almost like you can touch the person.” This year marks the 10th anniversary of Lopes’ death. A biopic on the hip hop trio is expected to be released sometime in 2013.

9/11: Nina Las Vegas (Rocket Bar) 10/11: Gene Farris (Queen’s Theatre) 10/11: Allday (Ed Castle) 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: Kerri Chandler (Sugar) 31/12: Theo Parrish (Rocket Rooftop) 26/1/2013: Above & Beyond (Entertainment Centre) 11/3: Future Music Festival (Ellis Pk)

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TRANSATLANTICS FIND MY WAY HOME

THE COUP

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (ANTI)

(MECCA)

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA

ELLIE GOULDING

(POLYDOR)

(INTERSCOPE)

UNTIL NOW

HALCYON

Every time these cats come up in conversation I get little wells of ADL pride bubbling up from deep inside. This can be put down to the simple fact that The Transatlantics’ sound is very authentic and, given they are not just trying to emulate a popular moment in the musical landscape, anyone who has leanings towards soulful, funk-based sounds would find what they do hard to fault. What they’ve done here is produce an album of sounds that draw heavily from the Motown sound of the late ‘50s/’60s. Given the song titles, (I’m Losing You, Need A Little Help, Tired Of Waiting) you quickly get the idea that this record is largely made up of ‘my man done me wrong’ sentiments. Tara Lynch’s voice sounds velvety when velvet is required (Did I Call) or very Diana Ross-like on closer, Stop, Hold My Hand. These cats defy the notion of epidemiology determining appropriateness in music output. Hell, they destroy it; and prove it’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.

When it comes to hip hop of the higher order, The Coup have always been supreme in what they do – existing in the same echelon as The Roots with their focus on politics and illuminating the fucked-up social order that still exists in America. Previous albums have been a dope blend of angry, humour-laced observations over bumping beats and rump-shakin’ grooves that have been widely praised (Dusted called Steal This Album “the best hip-hop album of the 1990s”), but low sales have kept them an underground phenomenon. Their latest record Sorry To Bother You sees the fervour and lyrical intensity being maintained, but with a distinct shift toward the rockier end of the scale. Sorry To Bother You is a concept based on lyricist Boots Riley’s time as a telemarketer and, in short; rocks like a motherfucker. Joints like opener The Magic Clap bounce with fuzzy guitars and an infectious hook. And the fun kazoo-led stomp of Your Parent’s Cocaine is hard to resist. The quietest moment on the album is the mellow We’ve Got A Lot To Teach You, Cassius Green, where Boots’ trademark ability to write biting, provocative prose blazes. Far from a hip hop album, this will still give the heads what they come to The Coup for; something to get ramped-up and ready to rumble for.

As a final farewell before their hiatus, Until Now is a commemoration of the influence Swedish House Mafia have had on house and electronic dance music over the last four years. The compilation accompanies their muchanticipated farewell tour, featuring tracks that bring together a blend of all-star remixes, re-tweaked old hits and some new content. The first single Don’t You Worry Child is sure to become a nightclub anthem and a standing legacy to the trio, with John Martin’s poignant vocals blending seamlessly with Swedish House Mafia’s signature four-to-the-floor beats. Trying to encompass music of all tastes, Coldplay make two appearances with remixes of Paradise and Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall as well as Florence + The Machine’s You’ve Got The Love, which stand strong against dance classics like Tinie Tempah and Wynter Gordon. For those who like their house filthy, the middle of the album delivers the most solid assault of drops and headbangs with tracks by Pendulum, Steve Aoki and Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello & Third Party. The end result is a well-mixed compilation that will ensure that Swedish House Mafia will be missed.

How does one sum up the sound of Ellie Goulding? The words ‘angelic’ and ‘heavenly’ definitely come to mind in term of vocals, but lyrically, there’s something pretty dark going on here – ‘I think of dying all the time’ (Joy), ‘I just don’t know what’s wrong’ (Hanging On), ‘I’m just saving myself from a ruin’ (I Know You Care)... Really, you just wanna give the poor girl a hug. Still, sonically, Halcyon is deceptive in that it sounds like the perfect piece of uplifting folktronica that’s full of euphoric and crystalline hooks, quirky vocal loops and sometimes even significant hints of dubstep (Figure 8). Goulding’s breakthrough single Lights also wraps things up nicely at the end, but despite the said track’s previously huge success, the standouts on Halcyon are the brand new songs, which include the thunderous opener Don’t Say A Word, the bouncy Anything Could Happen and the gorgeous Explosions. A sophomore well worth your time.

SLOUCH-CROTCH PANTS

OCTAVIUS RAPSTALLION

LACHLAN AIRD

SIMONE KEENAN

with Nina Bertok

INTERVIEWS VITAL STATISTICS.

CHANCE WATERS IT’S TAKEN CHANCE WATERS OVER A YEAR TO DELIVER NEW ALBUM INFINITY. MATT O’NEILL SPOKE TO THE SYDNEY MC ABOUT WHY. For a brief period, it almost seemed like Chance Waters was at risk of turning into Australian hip hop’s Axl Rose. Following up his promising debut album Inkstains [released under his old moniker Phatchance in 2009], the MC just seemed to be reaching for a particularly dangerous and obsessive kind of perfection. Still, after a series of increasingly ambitious singles and minor delays, he’s finally managed to deliver Infinity. “It’s taken a long time, yeah,” Waters laughs. “Ironically, it’s taken less time than my debut album Inkstains but people have been hassling me way more about how long it’s taken. I basically just wanted to get things absolutely right. I spent such a long time improving at my art and learning the process that I wanted to use when I constructed songs and getting my writing to where I wanted it to be.” “There was a lot of stuff that was cut from the album that didn’t make the final copy and there was a lot of stuff that went through a lot of re-envisaging and multiple re-records just to get it where I wanted,” the MC explains. “So, yeah, it’s been a very long and complicated process but, at the same time, I think it’s taken just the right amount of time. The long run-up has let a lot of interest build and people seem genuinely excited for it.” To his credit, it’s everything he hoped it would be. A far cry from the more straightlaced hip hop of his debut album, and even the experimentation of his 2011 acoustic EPs, Infinity is a polished and eclectic work as expansive and all-encompassing as its namesake – effortlessly blending in elements

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of folk, pop, rock and singer-songwriter aesthetics into his hip hop sound. “I feel like hip hop, especially in Australia, is no longer in a genre hole. If you actually look at what’s going on, there’s an exceptionally broad variety of genres involved,” Waters reflects. “For me, I’m not necessarily trying to be a rapper. Rap just happens to be what I’m probably best at out of all the stuff that I do. For me, what I’m really trying to be is a songwriter. That’s really my focus.” Waters isn’t too keen on the idea of sticking a square peg in a round hole and, if he believes a song works particularly well with a hip hop feel, he claims he’ll usually take it in another direction. “[But] then I just won’t make it sound particularly hip hop,” he adds. “Inkstains, I was definitely still in that hip hop vein but, with this album... You know, there are songs on this album that barely even have any drums. I’ve realised you can take anything and turn it into a nice song.” In a particularly inspiring turn of events, Waters‘ ambitions seem to have paid off. The slew of singles drawn from Infinity have all been well-received both commercially and critically (the Bertie Blackman collaboration Young And Dumb was recently the highest charting Australian hip hop song on iTunes) and he’s just been nominated for a Triple J Unearthed J Award. “Yeah, I’ve been having this thing where every day I just keep getting amazing news. You know, for three years, I didn’t really get any amazing news at all – and now, every single day, somebody calls me with some new thing that has never happened to me before,” the MC laughs. “So, yeah, I’m pretty sure I’m in a coma somewhere and this is all just some vague dream I’m having in a hospital bed.”

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NINA LAS VEGAS RADIO HOST AND PRODUCER, DIRECTOR OF A NONPROFIT ORGANISATION, DJ EXTRAORDINAIRE AND RENOWNED PARTY GIRL – NINA LAS VEGAS IS ALL OF THESE AND MORE. AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT TAKES, ACCORDING TO THE TRIPLE J FAMILY MEMBER, IF YOU’RE SERIOUS ABOUT MAKING YOUR MARK ON AUSTRALIA’S MUSIC SCENE, THAT IS. “I think people focus too much on DJing in Australia – you need to have some other element to what you do. It’s great if you’re an amazing performer, but you should be active in all sorts of areas. You should be putting out mixes all the time, you should try and have a blog and try and do a bit of radio, maybe have an internet site – that’s where the emphasis should be, doing as much as possible. The good thing is that Australia is so small in terms of our population that you’re usually in a position where you can do that, there isn’t as much competition as there would be overseas and it’s not as hard to get a reputation. You should be practicing music, you should be researching it, you should be completely immersed in it – and we have the type of scene where, if you make a good EP and get even a couple of DJs to play your tracks,

you’ll have a good chance of being successful.” According to Las Vegas, the reason is that while Australia has a healthy – even enviable – amount of talent when it comes to singer songwriters and bands, in the dance realm it’s a different story. “There just aren’t that many people making fresh, interesting club music,” she states. “In Australia we have a shortage of that, especially with female DJs and producers. I’m all for getting behind the girls, but to be honest, I can’t even count 10 of them that I can say they’re amazing or interesting. That’s not to say that it won’t get better. EDM is huge at the moment, people want to push it and that’s a great thing – but what is really important is to be making it as well, not just playing tracks.” Which is something Las Vegas reveals she is planning to do in the very near future – if a busy touring schedule permits – maybe even as soon as early next year. “I have a definite goal to do an artist album but it will have to happen when I have some free time,” she announces. “At the moment, I’m on Triple J five days a week, I’m also touring at the moment, I’m releasing some remixes soon towards the end of the year and I’m spending a lot of time in the role of curator and encouraging other artists to be their best. I believe if you want to make something like an artist album, you should spend months perfecting your

art, it’s a big deal. I know as a radio producer, something like that would take a lot of time to get it right.” In the meantime, Las Vegas is spending most of her time out on the road. Following on from her very recent House Party tour – a jaunt that incredibly sold out in less than 24 hours – she’s about to set off on the appropriately-titled Almost Summer Tour, a nice practice run in the lead up to her stint at the 2013 Big Day Out. As Las Vegas points out, “it’s all happening!” “Big Day Out is an institution, so that’s very cool. I’ve only ever played the Sydney Boiler Room, which was amazing, but in terms of big Australian festival tour, I’ve never done anything like this, though I’d love to play Stereosonic. I really try and mix up my sets, but it never fails to blow me away how much people are loving Australian music at the moment. You play something like Hermitude and it just goes off! I’m trying to push that, of course, but I’m also pushing a real UK jack-y vibe as well, some Major Lazer in there, Hudson Mohawke... It’s really an epic set, when I think about it, I do squeeze in a lot.”

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VITAL STATISTICS. WHO: NINA LAS VEGAS WHAT: ALMOST SUMMER TOUR WHERE: ROCKET BAR WHEN: FRI NOV 9

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

JEFF MARTIN (Can/WA) @ Jive THE SIDETRACKED FIASCO (Syd) @ Worldsend OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ (US) @ Fowler’s Live JOEY CAPE (US) & WILL WAGNER (Vic) @ Black Market MARTIN ATKINS (UK) @ Enigma

FRI NOV 9 JEN CLOHER (Vic) & COURTNEY BARNETT (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf NUN (Vic) @ Hotel Metro

SAT NOV 10 HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY (Bris) @ Jive SUZIE STAPLETON (Vic) & THE VILLENETTES @ Exeter ELI WOLFE (Syd) @ The Singing Gallery (McLaren Vale) BILL CHAMBERS (NSW) & RYAN CORNISH @ Wheatsheaf THE NEW DEAD ALL-AGES METALFEST 3: BE’LAKOR (Vic), TRUTH CORRODED, LYNCHMADA (Qld), ROME (Qld, DEPRIVATION (NSW), SE BON KI RA, ELYSIAN (Vic), ART IN EXILE, OATH OF DAMNATION, SEVER HILL and more @ Fowler’s Live

SUN NOV 11 THE LIVING END (Vic), AREA 7 (Vic) & THE BEARDS DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh CHELSEA WOLFE (US) & HEIRS (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live CLAUDE HAY (NSW), AL PARKINSON & NICK SAXON @ Glenelg Surf Club JEFF LANG (Vic) & ELI WOLFE (Syd) @ Rockford Wines (Barossa Valley) GOAT (WA), SPACE BONG & POISONOUS VIPER GANG @ Hotel Metro WOMEN IN DOCS (Bris) @ Lazy Ballerina (McLaren Vale from 2pm) TOUCHÉ AMORÉ (US) & MAKE DO & MEND (US) @ Enigma

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

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

WED NOV 14 THE LIVING END (Vic), CITY RIOTS & DANGEROUS! DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh USELESS EATERS (US), RULE OF THIRDS & BIG RICHARD INSECT @ Hotel Metro

THU NOV 15 SIGUR RÓS (Ice) @ Thebarton Theatre THE LIVING END (Vic), CITY RIOTS & DANGEROUS! DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh SILVERSUN PICKUPS (US) & THE DANDY WARHOLS (US) @ HQ JON STEVENS (Syd) @ Norwood Live

FRI NOV 16 TINPAN ORANGE (Vic) @ Jive THE LIVING END (Vic), CITY RIOTS & DANGEROUS! DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh BEN FOLDS FIVE (US) @ Thebarton Theatre SUZANNAH ESPIE (Vic), LIZ STRINGER (Vic) & CHRIS ALTMANN (Can/Aus) @ Wheatsheaf JORDIE LANE (Vic) & JACKSON MCLAREN (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 VIOLENT SOHO (Bris) & SINCERELY, GRIZZLY @ Rocket Bar JON STEVENS (Syd) @ Coopers Alehouse (Wallaroo)

SAT NOV 17 THE LIVING END (Vic), CITY RIOTS & DANGEROUS! DJS @ Governor Hindmarsh REFUSED (US) @ Thebarton Theatre THE SIREN TOWER @ Enigma REDCOATS (Vic) @ Jive JON STEVENS (Syd) @ Goolwa Aquatic Club

TUE NOV 20 NICKELBACK (Can) & JACKSON FIREBIRD (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre BALL PARK MUSIC (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh

THU NOV 22 DEEP SEA ARCADE & PREATURES @ Adelaide Uni Bar SCOTTIE MILLER (US) & THE STREAMLINERS @ Governor Hindmarsh MOJO JUJU (Syd) @ Grace Emily THE SIDETRACKED FIASCO (Syd) @ Forresters & Squatters Arms

SAT NOV 24 GORGEOUS FESTIVAL: MISSY HIGGINS (Vic), DAN SULTAN (Vic) and more @ McLaren Vale MAHALIA BARNES (Syd) & PRINNIE STEVENS (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE SIDETRACKED FIASCO (Syd) @ Glenelg Jetty Bar DREAM ON DREAMER (Vic), MAKE THEM SUFFER (WA), IN FEAR AND FAITH (US) & SAVIOUR @ Fowler’s Live BRAZEN BULL (Bris) @ Forresters & Squatters Arms

SUN NOV 25 PAUL DIANNO (UK), BLAZE BAYLEY (UK), OCTANIC & MATTERHORN @ Fowler’s Live NIGEL WEARNE (Vic) & THE HUSHES @ Wheatsheaf Hotel

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

WED NOV 28 ANGUS STONE (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON (NSW) & HARRY HOOKEY @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

THU NOV 29 THE SELECTOR (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh SARAH HUMPHREYS (NSW) & LOREN KATE @ Grace Emily

Right at the start of Rip It Up’s conversation, Silversun Pickups’ Brian Aubert gives a mysterious chuckle as he recalls the last time the LA band were in Australia.

FRI NOV 30 POUR HABIT (US), HIGHTIME & UNICORN @ Adelaide Uni Bar THE AUDREYS @ Elder Hall

SAT DEC 1 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

“We toured with Birds Of Tokyo,” the frontman reminisces. “I think one of our crew is still swimming in the ocean naked. I haven’t seen him since, but I hope he’s okay – when we get back to Perth we’re gonna go try and find him. The last time I saw him, he was on the floor of a Tiki bar. He had two giant cocktails in each arm. I just thought he was really thirsty.” Since the release of their third album Neck Of The Woods this year, Silversun Pickups have spent almost all of their time touring. “Pretty much, it was kind of weird, I don’t know when the album came out in Australia but

here it came out in the middle of May. Nikki [Monninger, bass] and I were flying around doing a lot of promo all over the country and Canada, and we were doing all these radio specials and one-offs, so a lot of stuff. We always find ourselves back at home for a couple of days, but to be honest, it was hard. “Now Nikki’s having twins, so she’s tried to hold on as long as she could. When she found out we were going to Australia, she started to figure out ways to squeeze the kids in so they wouldn’t come out, but... Yeah, she was definitely doing all these leg exercises,” Aubert laughs. Monninger’s pregnancy threw a spanner in the works for the tour (in a happy sense, mind), forcing her to stay in their hometown of LA while the band went on ahead. With their appearances at the various Harvest Festivals and side-shows looming, the band were forced to do something that they hadn’t ever done in their 10-year history: find a

replacement. “Our good friend, Sarah [Negahdari] put her hand up. We’ve known her for a long time, she is in a great band called Happy Hollows here in Los Angeles. Nikki was working with her for three months on and off, getting her geared up for this and now that she’s been with us on tour, it’s great, crazy. And again, she actually knows about the band in another way, she hears about what people might say about us - and hears our music - in a different context. “We’re always like, ‘Why do people like us?’,” Auber chuckles. “So having her in the band is a very refreshing experience.”

The songs My Cons Are Making A Cripple Out Of Me and Song Of The Artesian Water from Obladi Diablo feature Gareth Skinner, a noted filmmaker who also plays with The Holy Sea, on cello. “The lyrics to Song Of The Artesian Water were written by Banjo Patterson and came about when a friend asked me to be part of a Fringe show where six songwriters did interpretations of Banjo Patterson’s poems,” Stapleton reveals. “So I recorded that in my bedroom as a radio promo for the Fringe show but desperately wanted a cello on it. And I’d met Gareth at a gig through a friend of a friend but wondered if he’d remember me. But he did. “And for the new EP, we used that basic radio promo track and just added bass and a new vocal. “I actually found it quite easy setting music to someone else’s words,” the chanteuse continues. “It was a really fast process because I had the freedom of not having to

concentrate on lyrics.” “Ah, it’s a bit of both,” Stapleton then says when asked whether she sits down to consciously pen a new song or just makes a note of random phrases for future use. “At the moment I have written anything for a while due to all the touring. But I have to get started again soon so there’ll be elements where I’m jotting down phrases that come up – that happens all the time – before I sit down and start to piece them all together. “But once the ball starts rolling, things will come together and then I’ll do a full-length album which I’ll put out next year.”

WHO: Silversun Pickups WHAT: Neck Of The Woods (Warner) WHERE: HQ (with The Dandy Warhols) WHEN: Thu Nov 15

SUN DEC 2 BENJALU (NSW) @ Glenelg Surf Lifesaving Club DEVO (US), SIMPLE MINDS (Scot) & THE CHURCH (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

TUE DEC 4 REEL BIG FISH (US), GOLDFINGER (US) & ZEBRAHEAD (US) @ HQ REECE MASTIN, JUSTICE CREW & THE JANOSKIANS @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU DEC 6 SAN CISCO (Freo) @ Governor Hindmarsh APES (Vic) @ Exeter

FRI DEC 7 LAGWAGON (US) & THE SMITH STREET BAND (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS (US) @ Black Market

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SAT DEC 8 GOTYE (Vic) & BERTIE BLACKMAN (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre AFTER THE FALL (NSW) @ Adelaide Uni Bar YESYOU (Bris) @ Ed Castle KRISTA POLVERE (US/Syd) @ The Promethean

SUN DEC 9 PRIMAL SCREAM (UK) @ HQ

TUE DEC 11 TAME IMPALA (WA) @ HQ

COMING UP THU DEC 13 PIGEON (Bris) @ Rocket Bar THE PIGS (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf FRI DEC 14 CUB SCOUTS (Bris) @ Rocket Bar SAT DEC 15 HARD-ONS (Vic) @ Enigma GAY PARIS (Vic), SILENT DUCK & KEMPSEY @ Jive 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

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It’s been over 18 months since Melbourne songstress Suzie Stapleton last played Adelaide, but she’s now returning armed with her latest EP, Obladi Diablo. The trip will also mark the Adelaide debut of her new band, drummer Craig Williamson and bass player Leif van den Dungen, and follows Stapleton’s solo European tour during which she opened for Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds. “That was in July and August,” Stapleton says. “I did 12 shows and played in Germany, Spain and England as well as doing a festival [Binic Folk Festival] in France which was an amazing way to end the trip. “But because I was just finishing off the new EP before I left, I only had a few sneaky copies to hand out,” she adds.

WHO: Suzie Stapleton WHAT: Obladi Diablo (Independent) WHERE: Exeter Hotel (with The Villenettes) WHEN: Sat Nov 10

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Thursday 8th ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind 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: Amy Cook Presents. Front Bar: 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) EMU HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Chapman Street and Colourvision

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – BUTCHER ASYLUM AND GUESTS GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with Leo’s Lucky Dip Band GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers (7pm) GOLDEN GROVE TAVERN – Dino Jag Trio and guests (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Alex Hosking CD launch. Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sour Sob Bob 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! 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 G-Rillz 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 WEST ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Shaun Kirk and Halfway To Forth (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Friday 9th 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) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Emily Smith Duo AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BELAIR HOTEL – The Peter Jenkins Duo BLACKSMITHS INN – One Tree Hill (8pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Fusion – The Perfect Blend karaoke and DJ (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Am I Ever (Angels tribute) 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 – Gerry O COOPERS ALEHOUSE: WALLAROO – Men In Black CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DJ Adam (1am) Band Room: Five Day Click, She’s The Band, Patriarchal Death Machine and Fresh Kills DOCKSIDE TAVERN – The Bluff 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) EMU HOTEL – UK Blitz (8pm) ENIGMA – Silent Psychosis, Cyclosa, Second To Fire, Day Of Wrath and Primevia (8.30pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Wire & Wood EXETER HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Wormwood FINDON HOTEL – karaoke

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – PSYCHONAUTS, BASTARD SONS OF RUINATION, PENNY DREADFULS AND EVIL ELVIS GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Goldstein GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Hills & Trains with Carla Lippis and Steve Pedersen GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Dale Roberts HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Rockin’ Karaoke with Acca Dacca Mick (8pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs K & Krispy HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – Steve Simon HOTEL ELLIOT – Tom J Williams HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – bands HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) JIVE – Paper Arms album launch with Dick Wolf, Manhattan Jinx and 1.1 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 Weeklyy (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic musicc MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Killkenny Duo NEXUS CABARET – Wouter Kellerman OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Clearway ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf (4.30pm) Happy Leonards (8pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Redline PJ O’BRIENS – Animal House

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan REGENCY TAVERN – Wild Card REX HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) Slyde ROB ROY HOTEL – London Calling (6pm) DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Streamliners SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Heath Solo 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 CUMBERLAND – A Little Bit Different featuring local acoustics and late night DJ THE ELEPHANT – Kinetik and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – DJ Gex (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment 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 – Jen Cloher and Courtney Barnett (8.30pm) WHITEHORSE INN – karaoke with Ally & Co WHITMORE HOTEL – The Gartlony Rats WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Three Humped Camel WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – closed for birthday renovations

Saturday 10th ADELAIDE CASINO – Oasis Bar: Dino Jag Duo (9pm) ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm) AUSTRAL – Paco Erhard (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Whiskey Harbour BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ Steve Reece CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests

CAVERN CLUB – THE BABES, LOVE CREAM, THE CLAUSE AND JUNGLE CITY (8PM) CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Planet Square CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Redline CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Kelshy, The Prophets Of Impending Doom, Satan’s Cheerleaders and Pumpometer. Front Bar: DJ Azz (1am) CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL – ABBA Gold Tribute Show presented by Flaming Sambuccas ESPLANADE HOTEL – Bonz EXETER ON RUNDLE – Susie Stapleton and The Villenettes FINDON HOTEL – Harvest

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – APOCALYPTIC CITY, POISONOUS VIPER GANG, D-TURMOIL, IRON WORZAL AND DEBACLE FOWLER’S LIVE – The New Dead #3 Metalfest GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)

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The Guide // GASLIGHT TAVERN – karaoke with Mel featuring Singing Bar Bitch and Mr Average (8.30pm) GEPPS CROSS HOTEL – karaoke disco with Craig Anthony GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Latino Summer Carnival. Front Bar: Lord Stompy and Pub Scrabble GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Four Kings Loud GRAND BAR – Grand Bar Saturdays with DJ DMH and DJ Rupheo HACKNEY HOTEL – DJ HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Live & Loud presents HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Soundflex HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – poker HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) JIVE – Hungry Kids Of Hungary and Gung Ho KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LA BOHEME – DJ Tr!p and DJ Anthony alternate (9pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Troy Harrison LIMBO – resident DJs Delux, The Swiss DJs and Paul Glen LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) MARBLE BAR – I <3 MB with DJs and MCs plus national and international guests MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro

MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Highlights ORIENTAL – 2 Up Duo PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Harry & The Hitmen PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Dance On PJ O’BRIENS – Kopy Catz

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ADELAIDE’S BEST COVER BANDS RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan RHINO ROOM – Deep Crossing, VoiceRom and Matchless Gift/LKR (9.30pm) ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR – requests with DJs SANTIAGO – Hussyboy (8.30pm) SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic sessions SEAFORD HOTEL – Full Circle SEBEL PLAYFORD – Black Magic SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Triplescore STAG – Upstairs: DJs Huddy and Jase with urban and dance. Downstairs: DJ Kieran and David James SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle

TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – Wild Card TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE CUMBERLAND – Launch Pad featuring local DJs THE ELEPHANT – Rockweiler and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – DJ Dante and interactive games night (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus and friends THE GRIFFINS – DJ playing house tunes THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TOWER HOTEL – Heath Solo UNION HOTEL – DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN – karaoke WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Bill Chambers and Ryan Cornish (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – The Blokes and Sun Theory WINDSOR HOTEL – Jump N Jive WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm) ZHIVAGO – closed for birthday renovations

Sunday 11th AGATHA’S CAFÉ – Rob McDade (1.30pm) ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt

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Hungry Kids Of Hungary BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Overtake CROWN & ANCHOR – all ages show CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – Lily & The Drum (7pm) DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Steve Gower DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL – No Use For A DJ Name (9pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Shannon ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – E’nuf Said (3pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (4pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Magnetic Garden GASLIGHT TAVERN – Get Back, Wound Up Rock & Roll (2pm) GENERAL HAVELOCK – Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Mary Webb (2pm)

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The Guide // GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays featuring Claude Hay, Nick Saxon and Al Parkinson GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Living End (Roll On) Front Bar: Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art Class GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Echo & The Empress and Sean Desmond HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HIGHWAY – Wasabi HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – Tim Bos DJ and Sax HOTEL METRO – Goat with Space Bong and Poisonous Viper Gang JAM THE BISTRO – DJ Tango LAKES RESORT HOTEL – I Mike & The Pods LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Pembo’s Radio Show Band MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Fig Jam Duo OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: 2 Up Duo ORIENTAL – Tom J Williams PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Andy Gray PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – True Colours

BARTLEY TAVERN – Complete Trivia BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO – Complete Trivia BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Complete Trivia BULL & BEAR – Muso’s Jam (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Life In Letters EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Zoe Behan Band GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Living End (self-titled) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Complete Trivia OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake (8pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) S-BAR – karaoke SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen TOWER HOTEL – Complete Trivia WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – COMA Spring Sessions featuring Magnet (8pm)

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

Tuesday 13th

FOWLER’S LIVE – Between The Buried & Me with Animals As Leaders GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Living End (White Noise) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Coops & The Bird HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room featuring Alicia Vega 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 MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection ORIENTAL – DJ 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 TOWER HOTEL – Uni Night with DJ Dom P TOWER TAVERN: RENMARK – Complete Trivia WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – Creating Styles Karaoke (9pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

SAILMASTER TAVERN – Mitch SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – acoustic soloists SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Decking: Frenzy and Fractal. Main Bar: Ben Lees Acoustic Duo SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Hoy-Hoy! 25th Anniversary Show with special guests SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) THE MAID – acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm) 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 – The Satellites (4pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – The Haggards (4pm) ZHIVAGO – closed for birthday renovations ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)

Monday 12th AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia AUSTRAL HOTEL – Paco Erhard (7.30pm) AVOCA HOTEL – Schnitty & Trivia Night (7pm)

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 – Like Leaves DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Living End (self-titled) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Cinema 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 – Acoustic Sessions THE PORT CLUB – Complete Trivia VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Complete Trivia CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) DOM POLSKI CENTRE – salsa lessons (6.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!) EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Complete Trivia

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Supanova Voice actor John DiMaggio – best known for his wise-guy role as Futurama’s Bender - is impressed by what he’s been told about Rip It Up prior to this phone interview, and begins by mentioning how cool this publication sounds: “It’s ‘Adelaide’s most comprehensive music and entertainment guide’, isn’t it?”. iMaggio kicks off by discussing what title best summarises his own expansive CV of performances. “I think that I’m an actor, first and foremost, but I specialise in voice acting. That’s what we call it here: I mean, ‘vocal artist’ makes it sound like I’m going to start doing Bobby McFerrin shows!… ‘Voice actor’ is what we predominantly call ourselves, and we work in movies, TV and computer games. We bring the voice to the character.” But if you drop the ‘artist’ part of the profession’s title then you lose the ‘art’ part and surely it is an art? “There’s a real art to it, yes. And some of us have been doing it for years, like Frank Welker, who does the voice of Nibbler,

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Leela’s pet and a sort of Supreme Being, in Futurama… He’s been around since the late ‘50s and ‘60s, and he did Elvis movies and original Scooby-Doo cartoons!” But how exactly do you become a ‘voice actor’? “I’ve always been a mimic and I’ve always been musically-inclined. I think that a lot of voice actors are musically-inclined, as they hear rhythm and melody in voices. It’s a special talent… And you have to be a natural performer and be outgoing, and be willing to fall flat on your face... I used to do standup comedy in New York, and I used a lot of voices in my act. And then someone in my management company came in, saw me and asked if I wanted to try voice acting, and I had this friend who was into voice acting and I talked to him… And then within a week I had a voice agent and I had booked my first gig: a radio ad. And the rest is history: I moved from New York to Los Angeles, and I went from a lot of radio work to a lot of animation work. And then Futurama came along.” Was it a nerve-wracking process being cast as the voice of Bender? “The same people cast Mad TV as Futurama, and I went in for Mad TV but wound up auditioning for Futurama, and out of the 250 auditioning for the role of Bender I lucked out and got it. I had not met [creator] Matt Groening before, but then I did and it was pretty wild: I mean, I couldn’t believe that I was making the guy who created The Simpsons laugh! That was cool, and I always

knew that if I could go on for the rest of the show making him laugh then I’d be in the right place.” Bender can be outrageous, but when I use that word DiMaggio points out that the character is kept from being too alienatingly outrageous by the quality of the writing. “That’s all to do with the scripts. We’ve won a lot of awards for our scripts, and our writing staff is the most overqualified in Hollywood! And all the math and all the science that’s in the show is carefully discussed by them, and it’s deep! It’s hard to debunk some of the stuff that they come up with, and there’s always some nerd out there who goes, ‘Oh my God! That’s right!’ Our writers will discuss math and science jokes for three hours, and it’s all for our dedicated viewers.” And the last word on Bender? DiMaggio loves the role. “It certainly is one of my favourite… It’s opened so many doors for me, so it’s the most important job that I’ve ever done. I mean, I’ve had great gigs before, and since, but Futurama is special.” DiMaggio is excited to be coming to Adelaide with Supanova. “I’m totally looking forward to it, man! I’ve never been to Adelaide before, so it’s going to be great, and I always love hanging out with the fans and having a good time. And I want to have one of your ‘blue steaks’! I’m wondering about a place there that I can order one, as we don’t have them ‘blue’ here, just rare.”

Going Supanova The Supanova guest list is damn huge, so get along and meet stars new (Harry Potter foe Tom Felton, True Blood’s Nelsan Ellis) and older (Bond villain Richard Kiel, Elvira Mistress Of The Dark), John DiMaggio and Futurama pal Billy ‘Fry’ West, James ‘Spike’ Marsters, author John Birmingham, Cosby Show stalwart Malcolm Jamal-Warner and original 90210 main-man Luke Perry, and many others from Doctor Who and Torchwood to Homeland and even Dragonball Z! Check out all you need to know at supanova. com.au and don’t miss out, as such an eclectic bunch won’t be in Adelaide again for a long time!

So there you go: if you meet John DiMaggio at Supanova, be sure that you know the address of the best restaurant in town for a rarest of rare steak. Who knows? Maybe you can join him, and other fans, on a (ahem) blue steak bender? WHO: John DiMaggio WHAT: Supanova Pop Culture Expo WHERE: Adelaide Event and Exhibition Centre, Adelaide Showground, Fri Nov 16 Sun Nov 18

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Seven Psychopaths (MA) Playwright-turned-writer/director Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to his In Bruges is vastly different, a giddily violent, Hollywood-set, multi-character black comedy built upon stories within stories, few of which can be trusted, and a sense that this is both a loopy psychodrama with existential leanings and a meta-fiction (sorry about that!) detailing McDonagh’s own attempts to top his previous pic (got all that?). Colin Farrell (this director’s muse) is our protagonist Marty, a boozy screenwriter with a fed-up girlfriend (Abbie Cornish) who’s struggling to write a commercial ‘Buddhist thriller’ called Seven Psychopaths, but the words aren’t flowing, even though the people around him are suitably nutty: his goofy mate Billy (Sam Rockwell) is running a dog-napping racket with cravat-friendly pal Hans (Christopher Walken), and this all goes wrong when they make off with Bonny, beloved shih tzu of idiosyncratic gangster Charlie (Woody

Harrelson, a splendid replacement for Mickey Rourke). But this doesn’t take into account everything else that’s going on here: at least two serial killers are involved, one of whom is trickily linked to a bunny-loving weirdo named Zachariah (Tom Waits), there’s a flashback involving a vengeful Quaker (Harry Dean Stanton) - and, somehow, a mock-climax is brilliantly staged before the actual, daringly Zen climax. With cameo players aplenty (Gabourey ‘Precious’ Sidibe, ‘Bond Girl’ Olga Kurylenko, an ill-fated Michael Pitt) and seven-or-so psychopaths cheekily freeze-framed whenever they decide to pop up, McDonagh’s next trick is a little all over the place and somewhat wigs out before Farrell, Rockwell and Walken hit the peyote, and yet it’s so gamely-played and mercilessly funny that it scarcely matters. Like crazy, man! Mad Dog Bradley

Hola Mexican Film Festival Mercury Cinema

At the Merc until Sun Nov 18. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

Jesus Christ Superstar: 25th Anniversary Concert Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera, now featuring Ben Forster, Mel(anie) C, Chris Moyles and Aussie Tim Minchin, is screening at the PN from Thu Oct 8 for one week only. Details: palacecinemas.com.au.

Opening But Unrated Director Rob Cohen’s serial-killer/actioner Alex Cross (MA) offers Matthew Fox, Tyler Perry, Edward Burns and Jean Réno. Cold War (TBC) is more Cantoneselanguage action, this time co-written and co-directed by Lok Man Leung and Kim-ching Luk.

End Of Watch (MA)

Bachelorette (MA)

Kathmandu Lullaby (M)

Street Kings director David Ayer wrote, directed and co-produced this tense police drama, and it’s no stylised, James Ellroytype tale but an episodic, occasionally viciously violent outing, with ‘found footage’/ mockumentary-type tricks sometimes genuinely making you feel like what you’re watching is real. LA cops Brian Taylor ( Jake Gyllenhaal) and Mike Zavala (Michael Peña) are shown doing what they do day and night, as Brian videos what happens on and off the job for a potential doco (although the way that his colleagues freak out when they realise they’re being filmed makes you wonder how he gets away with it). They break up a scary gangsta party; they chase down suspicious vehicles; they rescue abused kids (a very shocking scene) and, later, others in a house fire; back home, Brian gets closer to his girlfriend Janet (Anna Kendrick), and they socialise with Mike and his pregnant missus Gabby (Natalie Martinez); and, as they make things difficult for a major drug cartel (and the perspective starts changing, making this more like a ‘movie movie’), the tone gets scarier and nastier, with one sequence really pushing that MA rating to the limit. There’s no doubt that Ayer’s pic has a somewhat odd structure (with the third act properly set into motion well after other directors would have dared), but Gyllenhaal and Peña are excellent as dedicated officers who rarely bend the rules - which is a bit of a relief after one too many irksome bent-cop sagas. And the ‘mocko’ aspect does mostly work well, making this almost seem like it should have been subtitled Policeman Activity. Mad Dog Bradley

Writer/director/uncredited bit-player Leslye Headland’s hen’s night character comedy (apparently drawn from her play) touches all the raunchy, foul-mouthed, drug-addled bases, and yet there’s something more at work here, an extra bite as we watch our three chief protagonists painfully realise that they’re not nice people. Regan (Kirsten Dunst), a former high school legend who’s now an unhappy 30something, discovers that one-time classmate Becky (last-minute casting choice Rebel Wilson) is about to be married and contacts Gena (Lizzy Caplan) and Katie (Isla Fisher) so that the three can serve as bridesmaids, and also wonder, as a group, why none of them seem as loved as the ‘friend’ that they so mocked at school. And the evening before the ceremony is an eventful one, as the drunken trio keep stumbling into the ‘best men’ (headed by ever-grinning James Marsden) while attempting to fix Becky’s ripped wedding dress, Regan comes to terms with her controlling and unforgiving nature, Gena confronts her depressed side and tries not to reconcile with her ex Clyde (Adam Scott), and Fisher (sweet in an infuriating sort of way) finally admits that she’s secretly (or maybe not) a bit of an idiot. A touch awkward in Headland’s hands, and at times not quite sure what to do with its own venom, this is nevertheless strongly and daringly-played by Dunst, Caplan, Fisher and Wilson (who could really do with finding an American movie project in which her weight isn’t a major plot point - but anyway). Mad Dog Bradley

It’s another of those inspiring, ‘carpe diem’ teacher stories, this time set in an impoverished village in Kathmandu, where Laia, an idealistic young Catalan teacher (Penélope Cruz lookalike Veronica Echegui), is running from her past and determined to build a better future for the young people she has come to teach. Entering into a marriage of convenience with a young Nepalese man in order to stay in the country, Laia and assistant teacher Sharmila work to set up a school for underprivileged children, but as she unexpectedly falls in love with her convenient husband, and a young girl needs protection as well as an education, Laia finds herself torn between the work she has devoted her life to and the man who helped her get there. Inspired by Victoria Subirana’s autobiographical novel, flashbacks to certain points in Laia’s own life help to shape the person we see on screen, while her outsider’s perspective highlights the plights of young children and women in Kathmandu, specifically gender inequality, child labour and child prostitution, as well as the ongoing cycle of poverty. Treading the line between social commentary and personal discovery, this unwavering story lays out practices and principles that may seem unthinkable to a Western audience, and combines them with easily recognisable human ideals. Kathmandu Lullaby may feel like a 100+ minute World Vision ad at times, but it should leave every Australian with a greater appreciation for who we are and where we live. Kat McCarthy

Writer/director/producer Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (M), a pseudoScientology-parodying (or maybe not) drama, stars his favourite actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and others. And Aussie writer/director/producer Ben Lewin’s The Sessions (MA) is an intimate drama toplining John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H Macy.

Paul Kelly: Stories Of Me Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

At the PN from Thu Nov 8. Details: palacecinemas.com.au.

Shorts Outback Wilpena Pound Resort

This Shorts event, to be held at the Wilpena Pound Resort on Sat Nov 18 and Sun Nov 19, can be investigated at shortsfilmfestival.com.

Special Q+A Screenings Of Pure Sounds: The Gyuto Monks Of Tibet Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

At the Palace from Sun Nov 11, with screenings of the Toni Collette-narrated documentary accompanied by live performances by the monks and Q+As with director John Doggett-Williams. Details: palacecinemas.com.au.

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Torrens Arms With a recently renovated dining room and the addition of a new, very funky courtyard, the Torrens Arms in Kingswood is a step above your average suburban hotel. Just a stone’s throw away from the Mitcham shopping and cinema complex, this neighbourhood pub is a great place to start the night with dinner. You can even buy cheap tickets to the movies and they invite you to come back afterwards to grab a free drink on presentation of your ticket stub. The kitchen focuses on using regional and seasonal ingredients to produce some top-notch pub favourites with a spattering of Asian and Mediterranean influence. We ordered the duck salad with salad greens and crusty vegetables tossed in a sesame and orange glaze ($19.50), which was a tasty little dish, and also the ricotta and roast vegetable layered pie wrapped in a crispy filo pastry ($17.50). It’s good to see a vegetarian dish given just as much attention as the rest of the menu; full to the brim with a mix of vegetables and ricotta, this is a meal in itself. Of course you can always judge a good pub by the quality of the schnitzel and the TA have got their chicken version spot on, with a generous splash of mushroom gravy and side of crunchy chips and garden salad ($18). There are separate menus for the restaurant and the front bar and courtyard areas, but if you ask nicely they are more than happy for you to choose from the restaurant menu if you prefer to eat in the sun-filled outdoor space. These feature a bunch of other delicious sounding options that we will definitely need to try next time, including a duck

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and trio of mushroom risotto ($22.50) and a barbecue kangaroo fillet served with caramelised sweet potato and a red currant glaze. The TA knows how to get your night started, with the ‘Lucky 7’s Happy Hour’ featuring two for one spirits from 7pm daily. They also put on a free barbecue on Friday nights with $5 pints of beer in the courtyard, and if you’re there for a session to wrap up your weekend you’re in luck – every Sunday you’ll be treated with $15 jugs of cider from 2pm-6pm. If you needed a good excuse for a trip to the inner southern suburbs, this one is as good as any.

WHAT: Torrens Arms Hotel WHERE: 95 Belair Rd, Kingswood WHEN: Mon – Thu 9am – 1am, Fri – Sat 9am – 2am and Sun 10am – 12am CONTACT: tahotel.com.au

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The House Of Donkey on the outskirts of Adelaide’s CBD is just shy of a month old, but the vegetarian eatery is already seeing its sunny courtyard bustling with hungry customers. Owned by the three lovely ladies who live upstairs, the joint is essentially a townhouse that’s been transformed into a cafe and as such has a vibe that’s a bit like being at your friend’s for a pot of tea and a quick bite – cushioned couches lining the window sill, native flowers in jars, potted succulents nestled into wall nooks and Cat Power softly warbling through the speakers. In fact, the only object reminding you this place is an actual storefront and that you shouldn’t kick your shoes off is the presence of its fancy coffee machine. Breakfast is until 11am, with some of the menu items including eggs baked in homemade tomato salsa with sourdough

($12) and homemade toasted muesli with goji berries, cacao nibs and fresh fruit ($7.50), whereas the lunch menu boasts some heartier dishes. The nachos with cheesy bean salad and guacamole go for $12, or there’s the Mediterranean rice salad in small or large sizes. Most dishes have the options of being vegan or gluten free too, so if you’re prone to an upset tum from yeastier foods this place is your new best friend. Take a right from Whitemore Square and keep walking to find yourself a meal that’s tasty as(s). WHAT: The House Of Donley WHERE: 188 Sturt St, Adelaide WHEN: Wed – Fri 8am – 5pm and Sat – Sun 9am – 3pm CONTACT: thehouseofdonkey@yahoo.com

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 Some of the feeling of stuckness has lifted, but there are still plenty of irons in the cosmic fire. Venus is shining a steadying light on you, making sure you remember to take other’s delight into account. Be aware of the many original ways you can inspire joy and laughter.

Saturn is easing off a little bit. He is still slowing you down and making things real, but he’s not in your face like he was last week. The presence of the sun is a chance to centre the wheel of your psyche. Create some order. Get your general sense of vitality in order.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Mercury is brightening your perspective. He is making you chirpy, in the middle of whatever nerve-wracking transformations the Scorpio sun is brewing up around you. Take aim at all the distractions that are inhabiting your brain. Put them in their place. Get focussed.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 In the midst of an ambience that could be seen as dour, you are sparked up by a wonderfully counter-intuitive optimism. You sense that the cobwebs are being blown away - and that this is a good thing. Brush off the dust. Expose your desire for a broadening of horizons.

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Hot Chocolate Hot Chocolate is an exhibition of contemporary art looking into metaphors and practices of relating visual art with chocolate. Curated by Troy-Anthony Baylis and Frances Wyld, the showcase

will feature as part of this year’s Feast Festival boasting a range of works from artists including Bianca Beetson, Pamela CroftWarcon, Cary Leibowitz and Nat Paton.

WHAT: Hot Chocolate WHERE: SASA Gallery, Kaurna Bulding, City West Campus, UniSA WHEN: Until Thu Nov 29

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 As long as you stay in tune with your feelings and the feelings of those around you, you will be a very happy goat. If you buy into conflict in any way, it will leave you feeling like you’ve head-butted a wall of clay and got your horns stuck. Simple message: keep it light.

Leo 23.07/22.08 When the sun is in Scorpio, as he is for the next few weeks, none are more befuddled than Lions. You are all about being out in the open, showing it off and being seen. Scorpio is all about hiding in the shadows, being deep and mysterious. You will have to shift to be in tune.

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Scorpio 24.10/21.11

Cancer 22.06/22.07 Though there’s nothing spectacular on the astrological horizon, there’s a good clear path ahead, should you want to take it. There’s no waving of flags or general razzmatazz. Opportunity is almost so ordinary and natural it would be easy to miss it. Trust your feelings.

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Venus has taken up residence. She brings delight. She is smoothing some of the feathers that the Scorpio sun has ruffled. Life’s deepest agenda is beautiful beyond belief and often lost in the fog of apparent disaster. Something in you knows it. Now is a time for remembering.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 The moon begins her week in Gemini. She lights up the deeper strands of your being, the ones that want to instigate some kind of transformation designed to get you back on track. We are here to be who we are. We all forget - and we all have to keep hitting the refresh button.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05 Life is asking you to have a good look at how old patterns are getting in the way of the dance you deserve to be performing on the stage of relationship. You do have positive experiences that contradict your habitual account of events. Reinforce the positive – in a real way.

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Aquarius 20.01/18.02 Venus is tempering your desire to do every single thing in your life, in a way that nobody else does. Originality has to be matched with other sensitivities at certain times. In fact, sometimes going counter to the current is not original. Create - with a pulsing open heart.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 The sun’s presence in Scorpio is suiting you well. Whereas others are rocked by deeper emotional currents, you surf them. There’s a lot of willpower and resilience under the image of sensitivity that fish-persons have. Dive deep in your journey of self-exploration.

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26 High St, Strathalbyn Claire Foord: Ephemere Sun Nov 11 – Sun Dec 9

19 Morphett St, Adelaide SA Emerging Designer Award Until Sat Dec 8

After an eventful year abroad in Los Angeles and Montreal, local artist Claire Foord is back in South Australia with her latest exhibition Ephemere. To be held at the brand new space of Q Gallery in Strathalbyn, the showcase will focus on Foord’s provocative, architecturally-inspired works depicting various French influenced cityscapes in Quebec with a keen eye for form, history and language. Opening: Sun Nov 11 from 3pm – 5pm

JamFactory has partnered up with UniSA’s School Of Art, Architecture & Design to present the South Australian Emerging Designer Award. Focusing on our traditions of great food and wine, the winning showcase demonstrates a number of three-dimensional works from selected finalists including grass-inspired shot glasses, plastic sushi containers and chopsticks and geometric, paneled bowls.

Bald Clanger Prize Pretty good with a paintbrush? The Grace Emily’s infamous Bald Clanger Prize is returning this November and seeks your best artistic skills. The prize, which raises money for Cystic Fibrosis SA, encourages locals to submit portraits of a man or woman distinguished in Grace Emily culture for the chance to win a keg of Coopers fine ale. Mediums to choose from are oil, watercolour of mixed media, and canvases are available for $10 from the bar with a tasty free beer for your troubles. All entries must be submitted by Sun Nov 18 with the opening night kicking off from 6pm on Tue Nov 20.

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Boutique@HS Harris Scarfe are adding to their new profile as a stylish and affordable brand with another offering, Boutique@HS. The 28-piece collection is described as modern, edited and luxe, aiming to work in any woman’s wardrobe with its elegant and classic designs for both day and eveningwear. To bolster the luxury element of the brand, model/presenter Kyly Clarke (wife to cricketer Michael) is on board

as the face of the label. Clarke admires the affordable quality of the sleek styles that can be teamed together or with designer items. To welcome Boutique@HS to Adelaide, a pop-up store has been brought to King William Rd, Hyde Park. At the store, the entire collection will be on sale at 30 percent off and has prices ranging between $69.95 - $99.95.The pop-up store is open until Sat Nov 10.

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Weekend Markets This weekend Adelaide is spoilt for choice with two different markets happening. Adelaide is becoming quite the destination for variety in markets, so you unfortunately can’t kill two birds with one stone here and will have to take the time to visit both to enjoy all they have to offer. Bowerbird Design Market Fri Nov 9 – Sun Nov 11, Stirling Angas Pavillion, Adelaide Showground

Photos by Sia Duff

Shop early. Shop Australian. Shop handmade. Three things that will make your silly season less silly for you and your gifts that little bit more meaningful. Bowerbird this time around has over 100 stalls of stacked with furniture, lighting, stationery, ceramics, glassware, visual art, textiles, accessories, clothing and homewares all produced in SA or interstate. Vintage Fox Parade & Market Sat Nov 10, Lady Daly Hotel

Style Lab

Vintage Fox is a bit special in that it’s the vintage boutique that comes to you (think vintage fashion Tupperware parties), rather than having its own store. Therefore, it’s super special in that Vintage Fox is putting on both a fashion parade and market at the Lady Daly Hotel. The market stall will be set up from 7pm and the parade at 8.30pm. With promises of streetwear, nightwear, swimwear and yet-to-be-seen stock from Sydney, you’ll be desperate to become the lucky person to win the $50 gift voucher.

Incorporating Wildchild’s presence in fashion into your entire lifestyle, Carolyn Foord has opened Style Lab. Style Lab is set to become a destination to truly outfit every aspect of your life stylishly, with handpicked furniture, fashion, art, shoes, jewellery, flowers and homewares. Also on offer is fashion akin to the Wildchild stores along with the opportunity to relax in this converted warehouse space with a glass of wine or coffee. Style Lab is at 18 Chapel St, Norwood. Call 8362 1432.

Style Lab Opening Night / Photos by Jonathan VDK

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Culture

DVD Reviews

What To Expect When You’re Expecting

Win Competitions

The Cabin In The Woods

Using Heidi Murkoff ’s popular self-help books as a leaping-off point, director Kirk Jones’ all-star pregnancy pic has some wry comedy that almost works and moderately effective tragic elements, and yet it all feels a bit unsurprisingly phony. Five couples’ plights intertwine: TV fitness guru Jules (Cameron Diaz) and TV dance star Evan (Matthew Morrison) clash after she’s knocked up; baby-friendly author Wendy (Elizabeth Banks) gets a taste of her own medicine, while her husband Gary (Ben Falcone) argues with his super-competitive, former Formula One driver dad (Dennis Quaid in unusually mugging form), whose young trophy wife (Brooklyn Decker) is also recently with child; politicised photographer Holly ( Jennifer Lopez) and her spouse Alex (Rodrigo Santoro) plan to adopt a Third World orphan in the plot thread that feels both the most ambitious and the most dubious (especially when Alex is driven to spend time with a local dad network in scenes that aren’t funny enough, despite the presence of Chris Rock and other comic players); and Rosie (Anna Kendrick) and Marco (Chace Crawford) get pregnant before the terms of their relationship are clear in what proves the most (only?) moving storyline here. The standard, Blu-ray and ‘Double Play’ options feature a few featurettes. MDB

Bookshelf

Barney Hoskyns / Faber & Faber / 572pp / $32.99

Author of excellent Tom Waits tome Lowside Of The Road Barney Hoskyns delivers a similarly thorough memoir with Trampled Under Foot, a Led Zeppelin biography tracking the successes and excesses and good times/bad times of hard rock’s most pivotal titans. Via a narrative created through the quotes of the band and associates, the global success of their initial albums makes way for a far darker scene by the mid-‘70s, with “bad seed” guitarist Jimmy Page hooked on the occult, 14-year-old groupies and heroin (thanks, Keith Richards); “loathsome” drummer John Bonham (“Keith Moon with all the dynamite and none of the charm”) routinely dressing as a Clockwork Orange droog and beating his drum tech for fun; and cocaine-bingeing manager Peter Grant running Zep’s label Swan Song like a Fascist regime with half the discipline but twice the mind control and physical intimidation. Besides running off with his wife’s sister, preening frontman Robert Plant comes off best in this ghoulish carnival of violence, madness and amorality, with the death of Bonham in 1980 fast-tracking their disillusioned conclusion. Hats off to Hoskyns. Scott McLennan

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Hopscotch / MA / 111 Mins

Roadshow / MA / 91/95 Mins

Roadshow / M / 120/137 Mins

Trampled Under Foot: The Power And Excess Of Led Zeppelin

Take This Waltz

Co-writer/director Drew Goddard handled this wonderfully ambitious, bizarrely ‘deconstructionist’, horror movie (for want of a better label) with help from co-writer/ co-producer Joss Whedon, and the result’s a film that can barely be discussed without giving the genre-busting game away. Five young ‘uns, including ‘bad’ Jules (Anna Hutchison), ‘tough’ Curt (Whedon’s Thor Chris Hemsworth), ‘nice’ Dana (Kristen Connolly), bespectacled Holden ( Jesse Williams) and stoner Marty (Fran Kranz), get away to (surprise!) a cabin in the woods, and the stage seems set for a parody of the slasher-cum-Evil Dead-scare-fest. However, there’s more going on, with the trailer for this one making clear that they’re isolated, under observation and soon to be attacked - but what isn’t revealed is what Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford have to do with it, what’s truly at stake and how the fabulous final act should have diehard fans whooping with delight. Not a film with twists, this instead starts with a daring framing narrative and then adds to it, resulting in a script that’s less about plot quirks than revelations (think about it…). And, as with many pics that playfully push conventions and sneakily subvert expectations, this has its haters - and it’s their loss! The standard DVD has a featurette; the Blu-ray/‘Double Play’ editions have three. MDB

Writer/director Sarah Polley’s follow-up to her wise and moving Away From Her is a study of love, desire and relationships that wanders around and doesn’t quite manage to click - much like love, desire and relationships some of the time. The actors save it, however, with Michelle Williams shining as Margot, a freelance writer in her late 20s enjoying a hot Toronto summer with her husband of five years Lou (Seth Rogen in strong, serious mode), and while she seems to do little work he’s busy with a chicken-specialising cookbook and she socialises frequently with his reformed alcoholic sister Geraldine (Sarah Silverman, another performer best known for comedy). When Margot meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), an artist and rickshaw driver up the street, their chemistry is immediate and intense, and soon they’re discussing hot sex and inching closer and closer to having some, as the oblivious Lou concentrates on his chicken - and the agonising begins. Too long and ultimately not quite going anywhere truly remarkable, this nevertheless has elements to recommend it, including Williams’ expert performance, some scarily realistic argument scenes between her and Rogen, and, it must be said, her surprising nude scenes (although they’ll be less so now you’ve read that). However, an actual point never quite comes, resulting in a vague, unsatisfying resolution and the niggling feeling that you’ve just spent two hours watching a selfish woman behave badly. MDB

Potted Potter – The Unauthorized Harry Experience

L!fe Happens is a comedy centred on two best friends, Kim and Deena, who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after Kim gets pregnant and has a baby. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of L!fe Happens on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Nov 15.

Elder Unplugged The ever–popular and ARIA Award winning The Audreys will headline Adelaide’s newest live music experience, Elder Unplugged this November. To be held in Adelaide’s iconic and acoustically stunning Elder Hall on Fri Nov 30, The Audreys will perform a special stripped back duo set. The evening is set to feature the best in local music and summer al fresco culture on Adelaide University’s Goodman Crescent Lawns. We’ve got two double passes up for grabs, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Nov 15.

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In a show that began in 2005 as a five-minute skit to entertain the massive queue of fans lining up for the sixth Harry Potter book, Potted Potter has grown and gone on to play in front of sell-out crowds around the world. Created by Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, Potted Potter will take you through all seven books in an amazing 70 minutes with two guys and host of Potter characters. Rip It Up speaks to Gary Trainor and Jesse Briton (who, incidentally, wrote Bound, the award-winning UK theatre hit of the 2012 Adelaide Fringe). “Because Dan and Jeff were unable to do the Australian, NZ and South African leg of the tour,”Trainor begins, “they held auditions and looked for two people who already knew each other and could strike a chord on stage. So far, I think we’re doing alright.” How many characters do you get through each show? “Gary plays Harry Potter and I play all the other characters,” Briton replies. “There are about 360 of them in the book and we make a good effort to get through most of them! The nature of the show means that you don’t have to be a huge Harry Potter fan to enjoy the fun, although Potter fans may spot the variations in our character interpretations.” Who’s your favourite? “I kinda like playing Hermione because she’s always a particular highlight for me,

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especially because I know that I’m going up against Emma Watson’s interpretation – which is the only other Hermione that people will have in their mind, but I accept that challenge whole-heartedly!” How many costume changes? “Lots,” Briton exclaims. “Some are so quick that it gets confusing for me and I’ve been known more than once to come on as the wrong character.” You must crack each other up with the costume mistakes and the like? “Constantly,” Trainor enthuses. “The nature of the show is quite free-flowing in places so if we do muck up – being the epic task that the show actually is – it’s quite funny for us to muddle our way through until we get it back on the rails again.” “There are certain bits that are entirely improvised,” Briton adds. “We play a massive

live Quidditch game in the audience – which can get quite competitive – and is pretty much me trying to keep a hand on things, so anything could happen in those moments really. Essentially we split the audience into two houses - Gryffindor and Slytherin. Each team competes using an inflatable Quaffle [beach ball] to score points. We have cheering squads and also bring Seekers up on stage to hunt down and catch the Golden Snitch. It gets quite rowdy and vibrant.” “Each night really is incredibly exciting and unique for us,”Trainor concludes. “The audience shapes the show as much as what we do so every show is completely fresh and different from the last!” WHAT: Potted Potter – The Unauthorized Harry Experience WHERE: Her Majesty’s Theatre WHEN: Tue Nov 13 until Sun Nov 18

Hopefully you haven’t spent the last precious moments of SWOTVAC wallowing in self-pity and eating a jar of Nutella, but are all geared and ready to go. And hopefully you haven’t scored yourself the worst thing possible in academic life – a Saturday exam. Like exams weren’t bad enough already, let’s up the week-ruining torment and have it on a Saturday. First of all, it’s cruel enough to have exams. Writing with our hands and remembering knowledge? That’s not for our generation, thanks. We type with 10 fingers and concede that any information not provided on Wikipedia is most likely a lie or not worth knowing. There’s something overtly Orwellian about the entire examination process that seems barbaric and outdated. This includes the hand cramps, no food, no electric appliances and a personal escort to the bathroom. Then we factor in the fact that they hold exams on a Saturday. So not okay. Mainly, as many students need to work on Saturdays, you are both denied an important day of income, and annoys both you and your bosses. Then, as soon as exams are over, you’re poorer than usual and can’t celebrate with adequate amounts of filth. Let’s put it this way: when choosing my electives at uni my friends and I always went for a topic that didn’t have an exam over one that did, even if the course content was clearly inferior. Please, make the pain stop. Especially on Saturdays. And remember, if you have any student info, an upcoming event or a deal I should know about, email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au, Tweet @FastTimesRIU or Poke facebook.com/ fasttimesripitupmag and I’ll do the rest. Peace, Lachie (PS: Good luck!)

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– Atlas II Image: Dan Mansutti

Your guide to the student experience.

Student Exchange Lower Prices Student exchanges – always sound awesome in theory. But actually trying to organise one can be a bitch. Luckily, in 2013 Student Exchange Australia New Zealand are reducing their prices, extending application deadlines and increasing early bird discounts. This means you can be that little bit poorer and that little bit less organised and still be on your way. Considering you’re reading a free magazine and are not spending the time it takes to read this studying, you’ll probably be able to relate to this. As a discount sceptic myself, finding out prices were reduced by $1000 for 10- to 12-month programs, $500 for five- to seven-month choices and $250 for two- to three-month escapes, it makes the idea of becoming a perpetual student seriously appealing. For those who scoff at a widespread price reduction and want something a little bit more exclusive, there are 12 scholarships offered ranging between $2500-$10,800 for those bright sparks between 15-18 years of age. Get an education, check off the locations on the World Monopoly board and have spare cash while doing so. Bon voyage. The deadline for Early Bird Discounts and Scholarship Applications is Fri Nov 30 for programs departing April through to September 2013. For more info visit studentexchange.org.au.

x: Fast Times SoapboA Dan Mansutti – AC rts Who said stencilling was the easy way out? AC Arts Visual Arts third year student Dan Mansutti experimented with the humble spray-painted stencil art and found himself as a finalist for the 2012 Australian Stencil Art Prize. Mansutti’s abstract work, Atlas II, was created using several layers of spray-painted stencils, as he tries to take the predominantly static medium of the stencils and applies it in a way that gives them movement. His competition for the major prize included Australian artists Fletch Cuts and Remi Picheta. With this commendation behind him, expect a solo exhibition of Mansutti’s work in Adelaide early next year. Acknowledging stencil art’s growing popularity as a form of street art by the likes of Banksy and Shepherd Fairey, it’s clearly no longer an art form for those who struggled to colour inside the lines as a kid (ie me).

Snap Your City, Your Place I always find these ‘take-a-photo-of-whatAdelaide-means-to-you’ competitions a rather brave enterprise, but perhaps not everyone subscribes to South Australia + Adelaide Memes page on Facebook… While our city is good for a LOL, it’s also got some great inner and outer beauty that should be appreciated. This is now your job. While the brief asks for participants to capture “a familiar place in an unusual way or a hidden space that we rarely see”, I think what the Adelaide City Council and its panel of esteemed industry judges are looking for is an image that appreciates the vibrancy of Adelaide in a way that is unique, creative and (hopefully) inoffensive. For

your efforts you could win yourself a handy $4000 worth of camera equipment and Photographic Wholesalers Gold Pass for 2013, with 19 finalists also being exhibited in an outdoor gallery in town. Whether you see the world in terms of aperture and shutter speed settings or just really love Instagram, there’s no reason you can’t point your lens away from your lunch (or yourself) and show Adelaide some love. Snap Your City, Your Place closes on Mon Nov 19. For info and entry details visit adelaidecitycouncil.com/ snapyourcity.

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CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

Scottie’s Singles

Taylor Swift

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Red (UMA)

Bat For Lashes All Your Gold (EMI)

Ain’t that Natasha Khan a gosh-darn heartbreaker? Like Braveheart’s disembowelment scene, The Haunted Man’s latest single All Your Gold finds Bat For Lashes painfully torn. She loves her current beau for everything he offers her, but she’s constantly, inexplicably drawn back to thoughts of a former lover. Avoiding a descent into Days Of Our Lives territory, All Your Gold is exquisite despite the pain at its core. If that’s all sounding a bit bleak for you, the accompanying monochrome beach video looks like a kooky calisthenics class delivered by Kate Bush and The Urban Cookie Collective. Feels like heaven.

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Traveller & Fortune Little Plastic People (Independent)

It’s a shame that the influx of banjo purchases in recent years wasn’t able to prevent Allan’s from snuffing it. When it comes to post-Mumford plucking, locals Traveller & Fortune’s new track Little Plastic People folks up the joint with an added dusting of charming female vox. Traveller & Fortune’s line-up has changed a bit in the last few years (are ex-members known as The Chicks That Tom West Rejects?), but if West can stay away from inane lyrics such as drearily reeling off a road trip itinerary on B-side Flying then Traveller & Fortune will stay more Neil Young than Cliff Young.

Divine Fits A Thing Called Divine Fits (EMI)

All you native Australians really have no idea how lucky you are. Gripe all you want about Triple J, but a national radio station that actually plays (mostly) decent music? Growing up in America, the closest thing I ever got to an alternative

Willy Mason

music station was one that played the same early ‘90s grunge songs all the time. Thank God for the internet and iTunes, because without them I would’ve been one of those suburban middle class white kids who blasted Big Tymers when I rolled up to a stop sign. Back in the early 2000s, Spoon were one of those underground indie bands whose catchy, high energy tunes led me towards the light and away from the gaping anus that Americans call the Billboard Hot 100, so I have a soft spot for them. A Thing Called Divine Fits is the collaboration of Spoon’s Brit Daniel and Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner. The album isn’t perfect, but it is perfectly executed; a masterful blend of Daniel’s and Boeckner’s styles. Jittery jangles of the guitar providing the roadmap for slick synth drones make me hope this Laneway-bound partnership isn’t a one-time deal. And who cares if the best song on the album is a cover? I bet that chick who reworked Skinny Love isn’t complaining. Ryan Lynch

A formidable music figure with formidable music figures, we are in the midst of Taylor Swift’s success making musical history. The youngest artist to win Album Of The Year at both the Grammys and the Country Music Awards, ranked high on Forbes’ Most Powerful People In Entertainment list and number one on Billboard’s 2011 Top Moneymakers poll, she’s also closing in on 100 officiallyreleased, self-penned songs in just six years. It’s therefore interesting to note The Lucky One’s Joni Mitchell idolatry indicates this 22-year-old Tennessee sweatheart is also plotting a withdrawal from the industry she’s altered. Given Swift’s penchant for numerology and hidden message cyphers, putting this track at her lucky number 13 on the tracklist is more than mere coincidence. In the meantime, Red finds SwiFt taking mOre calculated risks than a merchant bankeR – if she hadn’t alrEady utilised it, Fearless would haVe bEen a peRfect album name. The title track transForms Sparks Fly into a Nashville Nero, but the dubstep drop sounds dynamic rather than desperate. State Of Grace has the scale of a Kings Of Leon stadium sweller, while the addition of Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody on The Last Time brings together the king and queen of swelling string finales. With Red OctobEr mAking way foR a November reign, fans wilL be crossing fingErs that Swift’s premeditated retreat iS still Some distance off. Scott McLennan

I Got Gold (UMA)

He’s Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan’s favourite songwriter with a country tint, but with an opening line like ‘I haven’t got a pick-up truck to take me into town’ this is as Hokey as a Harry Potter house-elf. If clichés are worth their weight in riches, no wonder Willy Mason’s struck gold.

Far East Movement Feat Flo Rida Change Your Life (UMA)

Like a Scientology flyer thrust into your palm by a crisply-suited replicant, Far East Movement and Flo Rida are advocating that they too can ‘Change Your Life’. Just like Battlefield Earth, it all goes pear-shaped pretty quickly. Unless you enjoy auditing thetans, clearing engrams or know how to use an E-meter, it’s probably best to avoid this like a free personality test.

Local Natives Breakers (Liberator)

This is the Local Natives track that left Triple J’s Richard Kingsmill in a flustered mess after he back-announced Breakers was “a taste of come” from the Los Angeles band’s forthcoming album, Hummingbird. The jangly indie chaps should make the most of this brief notoriety - an accidental semen slip hasn’t offered this much musical opportunism since Live Through This.

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The Black Keys Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Tue Oct 30

Live Review

Review by Sam Reynolds Pics by Andreas Heuer

Four years have passed by very quickly for Akron duo The Black Keys. Having last arrived on our shores in late 2008 following the release of fifth album Attack And Release, the group has since put forth two more albums, grown their fan-base exponentially and found themselves headlining festivals like Coachella, as you do. Not bad for a two-piece blues rock group. Last year’s breakout album, El Camino, saw guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney adopt a far more stadium-friendly sound, introducing a newfound pop sensibility and level of instrumentation that far outweighed the pounding drums and fuzzed-out guitar of its predecessors. On this account, it was clear that stadiums were to become a natural arena for The Black Keys. With another pop show happening in the AEC Theatre, the crowd outside was mixed, making it hard to tell who was being drawn in to The Black Keys’ realm this evening. Once inside, it was clear the band had attracted the headbangers, the kids and a very healthy proportion of older audience members. A clear sign of the band’s disparate back catalogue. Kicking off with Howlin’ For You, the duo waste no time getting stuck into the hits

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Quick Ones

Green Day ¡Uno! (Reprise/Warner)

Two Door Cinema Club Beacon

Tori Amos Gold Dust (UMA)

No Trust The Trust Issues (Independent)

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After two rock operas and a Broadway musical, it initially seems Green Day have retreated from such bombast with ¡Uno!: there’s no concept album storyline, no epic songs with multiple movements and little instrumentation beyond the guitars, bass and drums of the core quartet (having officially expanded to include long-time collaborator Jason White). That said, ¡Uno! is the first album in a trilogy to be released by December, so frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s hardly feeling unambitious. But the ballads have been banished in favour of threeminute nuggets that reclaim the band’s punk pop roots. Nuclear Family is a solid opener, while Let Yourself Go and Loss Of Control are both suitably unrestrained and ‘60s-inspired Troublemaker is infectious (despite sounding more like Green Day side-project Foxboro Hot Tubs). However, several tracks seem like rehashes of earlier Green Day songs – and, just like Kill The DJ never really capitalises on its sub-ska riff, overall the album struggles to get out of second gear, with competent but unexceptional songs like Stay The Night and Fell For You. But perhaps that’s the plan. According to Armstrong, “With the first album you’re getting in the mood to party. On the second one, you’re at the party. And the third album you’re cleaning up the mess.” Let’s hope ¡Dos! delivers. Owen Heitmann

that have paid the bills over the past two years. Gold On The Ceiling is the most evident introduction to the duo’s band form, backed by a bassist and organ player. Everything sounds clearer and more advanced, but no less authentic. Other El Camino tracks, like Dead And Gone and Run Right Back, introduce backing vocals with success. Ultimately, these songs are not working with a new formula, just a new instrumental range. Working through the back catalogue slowly, Auerbach and Carney’s decision to play a few tracks without additional band members in tow is to the crowd’s delight. Although there is not a high level of appreciation from the Entertainment Centre audience, Auerbach’s wailing guitar and interactions with the front row provide plenty to be excited about. A grand finale of Strange Times, Tighten Up and Lonely Boy leads into an even grander encore. Two giant disco balls rise out of the abyss for Everlasting Light, providing a fittingly spectacular visual experience. Closer I Got Mine removes the disco balls and includes a fiery-lit banner worded ‘The Black Keys’, just in case you weren’t sure who was on stage. Carney and Auerbach leave Adelaide having provided an incredibly professional showing to old and new fans alike. With so much music around in the 21st century, it is sometimes hard to think about who we may be remembering 50 years down the track. But mark my words, not many will forget The Black Keys.

If Beacon was meant to show Two Door Cinema Club’s more experimental side, then it completely missed the mark. With all expectations aside, it’s worth remembering that two years ago these guys reached the top of the popularity tree with some of the catchiest melodies around. Had they not found such recognition, they may have been brushed aside and forgotten among other like-minded bands. So why have they gained such a following? For starters, Two Door have never pretended to be anyone they’re not. Sincerity is an endearing trait. It worked on Tourist History, and it works on Beacon. However, as the first album maintained a consistent level throughout (whether you liked it or not), Beacon is full of mood killers. There is a constant counteraction of the great elements of this album with those that just never reach the heights they would have two years ago. The brashness is also gone and, by refining their sound, the trio have made themselves prone to being easily forgotten. Hopefully though, this is not the case. Sticking by this album will provide you with sincere gems like Settle, Next Year and Sun, all of which stay true to what is great about this band. However, there is a chance that Two Door Cinema Club are setting themselves up to play in front of those who only want to hear the “old stuff ”. Sam Reynolds

Past projects such as American Doll Posse and Strange Little Girls have seen Cornwall-based musician Tori Amos creating multiple personalities to filter her music through, but Gold Dust is the 49-year-old’s first studio album where her ‘girls’ from different eras mingle together like a surreal family reunion. Recorded live with the Metropole Orkest, the orchestration of back catalogue tracks close to her heart results in the suicidal Marianne socialising with the rejected teen of Silent All These Years and the Gaia figure of Flavor. For such a fearless artist, many of Gold Dust’s symphonic readings differ surprisingly little from their classic renditions – the original beauty of Winter, Jackie’s Strength and Cloud On My Tongue remain in tact, with production subtleties and slight vocal nuances the main twists. Gold Dust’s Yes, Anastasia is the victim of a ferocious edit that cuts out the first half of Under The Pink’s original opus, but the cantering Precious Things still crackles with barely restrained anger, Cloud On My Tongue draws at you like a musical rip and title track Gold Dust still glows with nostalgia. Two decades since solo debut Little Earthquakes announced a magical new talent, Gold Dust dresses some of Amos’ most beloved girls in an elegant new guise. A Siren all these years. Scott McLennan

Brisbane-based four-piece No Trust’s debut six-track EP is nothing if not succinct, with no song longer than two minutes. Gruff-voiced, fast-paced punk rock is the order of the day, and my initial reaction was that the shred-tastic songs were entertaining enough while sounding like a dozen other punk bands playing small back rooms every weekend. But then What’s Your Band Called? grabbed my attention with a great breakdown, the following Neck Deep upped the catchiness a fraction and they converted me. There’s no doubt that The Trust Issues captures a whole lot of energy and the no-frills production fits their visceral sound, but the recording could benefit from a bit more depth and separation. Still, as their first professional recording it’s a solid start. Owen Heitmann

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Is it just me or is Jason Collett one of the most boring musicians around? Don’t get me wrong, I respect folks with God-given musical talent, but yeesh, every song on this album is a boring ballad to snoozytown. Reckon is Collett’s sixth (!) album. The guy has had a solo career spanning more than a decade yet I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who has identified him or herself as a fan. Collett has always been kind of preachy, imagining himself as some sort of social shaman bringing the struggles of the everyman to the forefront. This album is no different, with some of the songs being inspired by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. In case you forgot, that was when a bunch of whiny hippies started squatting in public parks instead of occupying jobs like everyone else. Ryan Lynch

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ht The Weig ter by Ryan Win Regardless of what genre of artist you listen to, you can always tell when an album has had a lot of consideration, sweat and heart put into it just by holding it. The Weight’s debut album Prisoners Of The Flock makes this sort of immediate impression. From Nick Yap’s excellent artwork (which looks great on the physical CD case but truly looks amazing on the limited edition vinyl) throughout the aggressive, remonstrative lyrics and exemplified by its outstanding recording quality – the craftsmanship of Prisoners won’t only speak to fans of the hardcore, metal and punk genres but to all music purists. Chatting with Rip It Up, vocalist Ben Juett reveals his hopes that this album can reach a different sort of fan. “I’d like to tap

into a few of the other different sub-genres. There are so many names for different styles these days. In Adelaide you’ve got a metalcore scene and a punk scene, ska and thrash. This music is definitely metal influenced hardcore, but I wouldn’t necessarily call it metalcore or a pure hardcore record. It’s different and if anyone from those categories would listen to it, I hope they’d be able to hear things they like and get into what we’re playing.” It would appear the band’s DIY roots, which run strong throughout the local hardcore scene, account for the feeling of craft Prisoners is able to convey. “DIY is something we try to stay true to,” Juett explains. “A lot of us are in other bands and do our own thing outside of music, but we try to stay true to it, because if you write your own songs you might as well do your own artwork, book your own shows and that sort of thing. It gives you a more hands-on feel for what you’re doing and I think it feels

more personal at the receiving end. The people that are experiencing your music, they can level with it because they’ve played in or followed other bands and they know what it’s like, how hard it is to get your name out there all on your own and when you don’t have the money behind you to do it.” Funding was initially sought to assist with touring the album upon release, but as it wasn’t forthcoming, the result is a staggered national run of dates. “It’s a weekend warrior style of travel. We’re also trying to work this around our work lives and our other bands, which is kind of tough and a juggling act in some respects. We will get to every state eventually.” WHO: The Weight, Night Hag, II, Armoury & Impasse WHAT: Prisoners Of The Flock LP launch WHERE: Animal House WHEN: Sat Nov 10

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Adelaide hip hop expat Allday flies back to headline at the Ed Castle this Sat Nov 10 and will be joined by an assemblage of local indie acts providing sparkling, upbeat tunes in between. From 9pm percussive rockers Terracotta Palace (pictured) and indie foursome The Paper Sails will hit the stage, while the front bar will host local DJs Rad Bad, Poi Toi vs Chilli Philli, Chino and Bigheads. Tickets are available at the door on the night.

The Adelaide Vinyl Fair will take place again this Sat Nov 17 and Sun Nov 18 at the Estonian Hall in North Adelaide. With a new and improved cafe and wider selection of eclectic records, the fair this time around will feature inches upon inches of blues, jazz, funk, soul, old school R&B, heavy metal, rock, hip hop and music memorabilia and vintage items. There will be live DJs spinning tunes throughout the day and it kicks off at 11am. Entry is $5 at the door.

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This Fri Nov 9 at the Promethean, Lion, AKA Thom Phillips, will launch his new EP The Minimalist alongside accompanying folk rock cats like Little Hefty and Banjo Jackson. Over the months Lion has slowly established himself as an intriguing and compelling songwriter, drawing from narrative elements and past experiences, even the bad ones. “Like, [from] situations that were bad, ‘cause I was in the gutter at the time but they were brilliant after a couple months because I started writing some of the best songs I’d ever written,” he tells Rip It Up.

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New folk lad on the block Thom Lion is the kind of artist whose music sends whispers of warmth down your spinal discs. From backyard acoustic dabblings to venue stages, this big cat is quickly becoming a name on the lips of the people of Adelaide.

Hard-hitting progressive trio Sincerely, Grizzly have been confirmed as supports for Violent Soho’s upcoming show at Cats at Rocket. Having just returned from an extensive national tour promoting their new EP Doom And Gloom, the Grizzlys will now add another notch to their belts by joining the Brisbane buzz band onstage on Fri Nov 16 at Rocket Bar alongside Dune Rats.

Lion also quite enjoys the odd vocal exercise, even if it’s at his own expense. “I have these little CDs as I’m always trying to improve my voice,” he explains. “The other day I was driving along and there is a warmup where you have to make a baby noise like waaaaaa,” he mimics. “I was at the traffic lights doing it quite loudly. I just noticed in the corner of my eye someone was looking at me. I looked back at this girl and she had this look in her eyes like, ‘You are one sick man’.” Lion has been gradually spreading his sounds through the contours of Adelaide over the past year, jumping into as many gigs as he can. This includes his appearance at Adelaide’s latest musical jaunt, The Jam Room’s café series, which he absolutely loved. “That was fucking amazing, I like it when people are listening to me,” he chuckles. “It’s quite intense being so intimate, you feel people breathing on your kneecaps, but it was awesome and people laughed at my jokes.”

Thom Lion is undoubtedly a fascinating band moniker, and of course there’s a fascinating story to follow. It comes down to his favourite animal as a child and openminded parents. “I had quite free-spirited parents and they left my middle name open. So when I was four years old we were on our way to the naming place and I was quite into lions, so that’s what I chose,” he offers. “When other kids were playing with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I was just a bit special, crawling around pretending to be a lion, eating crayons and shit,” he laughs. “It’s convenient now ‘cause I can use it as a stage name, but I was spewing when Snoop Dogg changed his name to Snoop Lion!” WHO: Thom Lion, Banjo Jackson & Little Hefty WHAT: The Minimalist EP launch WHERE: The Promethean WHEN: Fri Nov 9

Fowler’s Live Music Awards The winners have been announced for the inaugural Fowler’s Live Music Awards, with some of South Australia’s freshest up-and-comers and seasoned heavyweights all honoured with shiny trophies. Congratulations to The Audreys, Leader Cheetah, The Beards, Truth Corroded, The Killgirls, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! Carla Lippis, Shaolin Afronauts and many more. Check out the full list of winners on our website.

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